{"text":"Hengl, Tomislav\nhttp:\/\/raumplan.iaus.ac.rs\/APP\/faces\/author.xhtml?author_id=orcid%3A%3A0000-0002-9921-5129&item_offset=0&project_offset=0&sort_by=dc.date.issued\nHengl, Tomislav (1)\nOdr\u017eivi razvoj i ure\u0111enje banjskih i turisti\u010dkih naselja u Srbiji\nMapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors\nBajat, Branislav; Hengl, Tomislav; Kilibarda, Milan; Kruni\u0107, Nikola\nAU  - Bajat, Branislav\nAU  - Hengl, Tomislav\nAU  - Kilibarda, Milan\nAU  - Kruni\u0107, Nikola\nUR  - https:\/\/raumplan.iaus.ac.rs\/handle\/123456789\/188\nAB  - Niche analysis methods developed within the biogeography community are routinely used for species distribution modeling of wildlife and endangered species. So far, such techniques have not been used to explain distribution of people in an area, nor to assess spatio-temporal dynamics of human populations. In this paper, the MaxEnt approach to species distribution modeling and publicly available gridded predictors were used to analyze the population dynamics in Southern Serbia (South Pomoravlje Region) for the period 1961-2027. Population values from the census administrative units were first downscaled to 200 m grid using a detailed map of populated places and dasymetric interpolation. In the second step, a point pattern representing the whole population (468,500 inhabitants in 2002) was simulated using the R package spatstat. MaxEnt was then used to derive habitat suitability index (HSI) as a function of gridded predictors: distance to roads, elevation, slope, topographic wetness index, enhanced vegetation index and land cover classes. HSI and environmental predictors were further used to explain spatial patterns in the population change index (PCI) through regression modeling. The results show that inhabiting preference for year 1961 is mainly a function of topography (TWI, elevation). The HSI for year 2027 shows that large portions of remote areas are becoming less preferred for inhabiting. The results of cross-validation in MaxEnt show that distribution of population is distinctly controlled by environmental factors (AUC > 0.84). Population decrease is particularly significant in areas >25 km distant from the main road network. The results of regression analysis show that 40% of variability in the PCI values can be explained with these environmental maps, distance to roads and urban areas being the main drivers of migration process. This approach allows precise mapping of demographic patterns that otherwise would not be visible from the census data alone.\nT2  - Computers Environment and Urban Systems\nT1  - Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors\nDO  - 10.1016\/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005\nUR  - Konv_272\nauthor = \"Bajat, Branislav and Hengl, Tomislav and Kilibarda, Milan and Kruni\u0107, Nikola\",\nabstract = \"Niche analysis methods developed within the biogeography community are routinely used for species distribution modeling of wildlife and endangered species. So far, such techniques have not been used to explain distribution of people in an area, nor to assess spatio-temporal dynamics of human populations. In this paper, the MaxEnt approach to species distribution modeling and publicly available gridded predictors were used to analyze the population dynamics in Southern Serbia (South Pomoravlje Region) for the period 1961-2027. Population values from the census administrative units were first downscaled to 200 m grid using a detailed map of populated places and dasymetric interpolation. In the second step, a point pattern representing the whole population (468,500 inhabitants in 2002) was simulated using the R package spatstat. MaxEnt was then used to derive habitat suitability index (HSI) as a function of gridded predictors: distance to roads, elevation, slope, topographic wetness index, enhanced vegetation index and land cover classes. HSI and environmental predictors were further used to explain spatial patterns in the population change index (PCI) through regression modeling. The results show that inhabiting preference for year 1961 is mainly a function of topography (TWI, elevation). The HSI for year 2027 shows that large portions of remote areas are becoming less preferred for inhabiting. The results of cross-validation in MaxEnt show that distribution of population is distinctly controlled by environmental factors (AUC > 0.84). Population decrease is particularly significant in areas >25 km distant from the main road network. The results of regression analysis show that 40% of variability in the PCI values can be explained with these environmental maps, distance to roads and urban areas being the main drivers of migration process. This approach allows precise mapping of demographic patterns that otherwise would not be visible from the census data alone.\",\njournal = \"Computers Environment and Urban Systems\",\ntitle = \"Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors\",\ndoi = \"10.1016\/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005\",\nurl = \"Konv_272\"\nBajat, B., Hengl, T., Kilibarda, M.,& Kruni\u0107, N.. (2011). Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors. in Computers Environment and Urban Systems\nElsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford., 35(1), 35-44.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005\nKonv_272\nBajat B, Hengl T, Kilibarda M, Kruni\u0107 N. Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors. in Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 2011;35(1):35-44.\ndoi:10.1016\/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005\nKonv_272 .\nBajat, Branislav, Hengl, Tomislav, Kilibarda, Milan, Kruni\u0107, Nikola, \"Mapping population change index in Southern Serbia (1961-2027) as a function of environmental factors\" in Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 35, no. 1 (2011):35-44,\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.005 .,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Front page - Fighting the U-boats - Allied Warship Commanders\nListing of officers\nCommander finder\nAllied Warship Commanders\nLionel William Lendon Argles DSC, RN\nBirth details unknown\nIf you can help with photo or any information on this Officer please\nuse our comment form.\n1 May 1932 S.Lt.\n1 Feb 1934 Lt.\n1 Feb 1942 Lt.Cdr.\n30 Jun 1946 Cdr.\n30 Jun 1952 Capt.\nRetired: 10 Jun 1961\n3 Apr 1942 Mentioned in Despatches (MID)\n21 Aug 1945 DSC\n18 Sep 1945 Mentioned in Despatches (MID)\n10 Jun 1961 CBE\nWarship Commands listed for Lionel William Lendon Argles, RN\nShip Rank Type From To\nHMS Chiddingfold (L 31) Lt. Escort destroyer 12 Aug 1941 Apr 1943\nHMS Vigilant (R 93) Lt.Cdr. Destroyer 22 Jul 1943 Jul 1945\nUpon his retirement from active service in 1961 he became Captain Superintendant of HMS Worcester, The Incorporated Thames Nautical College, at Greenhithe Kent. He was the last serving captain to 'Worcester' until the closure of the ship to cadets in 1968.\nEvents related to this officer\nDestroyer HMS Vigilant (R 93)\n16 May 1945 (position 4.49, 99.42)\nOn 9 May 1945 the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro and the Japanese destroyer Kamikaze (both offsite links) left Singapore for a transport run to the Andaman Islands. They were sighted the next day in Malakka Strait by the British submarines HMS Statesman (Lt. R.G.P. Bulkeley, RN) and HMS Subtle (Lt. B.J.B. Andrew, DSC, RN). To intercept the Japanese ships a task force made up of 2 battleships, 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers, 4 escort carriers and 8 destroyers left Trincomalee. Aircraft from the escort carriers attacked the Nicobar Islands on the 11th, forcing Haguro and Kamikaze to head back to Singapore.\nOn the 14th the Japanese ships again depart from Singapore for the Andaman Islands. They were spotted the next day north-east of Sabang by aircraft the British escort carrier HMS Shah (Capt. W.J. Yendell, RN). A few hours later they were attacked by aircraft from the British escort carrier HMS Emperor (Capt. Sir C. Madden, RN) causing light damaged to Haguro. In the meantime Japanese aircraft have sighted Allied destroyers closing in on Haguro and once again the Japanese ships reverse course.\nIn anticipation on the Japanese reversal of course the commander of the British 26th DF, Capt. M.L. Power, CBE, DSO with Bar, RN on board HMS Saumarez and the other British destroyers HMS Venus (Cdr. H.G.D. De Chair, DSC with Bar, RN), HMS Verulam (Lt.Cdr. D.H.R. Bromley, DSC, RN), HMS Vigilant (Lt.Cdr. L.W.L. Argles, DSC, RN) and HMS Virago (Lt.Cdr. A.J.R. White, DSC, RN) plotted a course to intercept the Japanese ships which they did shortly before midnight on the 15th. After careful manoeuvring the destroyers began attacking the Japanese ships from all sides shortly after one o'clock on the 16th. The Haguro was hit by torpedoed and gunfire and sank around 0230hours in position 04\u00b049'N, 99\u00b042'E but not before she hit the Saumarez with gunfire. The escorting Japanese destroyer Kamikaze escapes with only minor damage.\nYou can help improve officers Lionel William Lendon Argles's page\nClick here to Submit events\/comments\/updates for this officer.\nPlease use this if you spot mistakes or want to improve his page.\nAllied Commanders main page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Books \/ Books\nHow Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization\nby Franklin Foer\nSoccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It's a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world, with all its joys and sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the international economy, and just about everything in between. How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.\nHow Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization quantity\nTransit Maps of the World\nThe Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to the United States\nRuss & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built\nLove Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever\nAre You Smart Enough to Work at Google?\nJacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"IMDb may have just accidentally revealed that this MAJOR \"Game of Thrones\" character is coming BACK\nMeaghan Kirby\nUpdated Aug 08, 2017 @ 11:56 am\nThis post contains spoilers for Season 7 of Game of Thrones so if you haven't seen it or honestly don't want to know anything about upcoming episodes, row away as fast as you can!\nWe've been talking about this for weeks but it appears it's finally here: The long-awaited return of Gendry. The budding blacksmith and last remaining bastard of Robert Baratheon was last seen in season three, rowing away from Dragonstone after being rescued by Ser Davos. But now, he's finally rowing back into our lives during next week's episode \"Eastwatch\" \u2014 according to IMDb, that is.\nThe IMDb page for \"Eastwatch\" features Joe Dempsie in the cast listing for the first time since 2013:\nCredit: IMDb\nThat's right, wedged between Liam Cunningham and Peter Dinklage is one Joe Dempsie!\nThis guy:\nCredit: HelloGiggles \/ HBO\nMuch like IMDb announced Ed Sheeran's appearance in the Season 7 premiere, the entertainment website has revealed that we'll be meeting up with the beloved character in just a few days. Gendry's reappearance in the series has been speculated for years but Dempsie's appearance at the Season 7 premiere \u2014 not to mention being spotted in GoT's top filming site in Belfast \u2014 confirmed that we'd be seeing him again soon.\nWhile we have no idea where Gendry will be making his grand reappearance \u2014 he *did* tell Davos that he knew nothing about swimming nor boats before rowing away \u2014 chances are, he'll quickly stumble into some drama. We honestly hope he reemerges The Hound-style or runs into Hot Pie, who will give him the SparkNotes version of everything he's missed.\nRegardless, we have a feeling he'll find himself back in business as a blacksmith because Jon Snow will need one now that he's mining dragonglass. Seriously though, there's no way David Benioff and D.B. Weiss spent *that* much time telling us Gendry's an amazing blacksmith only to have him never forge anything again.\nCredit: HBO\nGendry's long been one of the most curious characters on the HBO series.\nDuring the first three seasons, he was an integral part of the drama over the Iron Throne before literally sailing off into the sunset (okay, rowing off in the middle of the night). That makes his return all the more interesting, seeing as most of the people who knew of his existence are either dead, or would assume he's long dead. But it seems the long absent character will return with a vengeance and once again become integral to the plot. In addition to being speculated as the blacksmith who will help Jon Snow forge his weapons to defeat the White Walkers, it's also been theorized that Gendry will revive the presumed dead House Baratheon.\nWhile everything surrounding Gendry's reappearance on the show is a mystery, we're so happy to finally have him back. Now can he PLEASE reunite with Arya?!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Watching nanofluids flow in 4D real-time (w\/video)\n(Nanowerk News) At the nanoscale, where objects are measured in billionths of meters and events transpire in trillionths of seconds, things do not always behave as our experiences with the macro-world might lead us to expect. Water, for example, seems to flow much faster within carbon nanotubes than classical physics says should be possible. Now imagine trying to capture movies of these almost imperceptibly small nanoscale movements.\nThis artistic rendering depicts fluid-filled nanotubes changing with time. Caltech researchers used four-dimensional electron microscopy to visualize and monitor the flow of molten lead within single zinc oxide nanotubes in real time and space. (Image: Caltech)\nResearchers at Caltech now have done just that by applying a new imaging technique called four-dimensional (4D) electron microscopy to the nanofluid dynamics problem. In a paper appearing in the June 27 issue of Science (\"Observing liquid flow in nanotubes by 4D electron microscopy\"), Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics, and Ulrich Lorenz, a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, describe how they visualized and monitored the flow of molten lead within a single zinc oxide nanotube in real time and space.\nThe 4D microscopy technique was developed in the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at Caltech, created and directed by Zewail to advance understanding of the fundamental physics of chemical and biological behavior.\nIn 4D microscopy, a stream of ultra-fast-moving electrons bombards a sample in a carefully timed manner. Each electron scatters off the sample, producing a still image that represents a single moment, just a femtosecond\u2014or a millionth of a billionth of a second\u2014in duration. Millions of the still images can then be stitched together to produce a digital movie of nanoscale motion.\nWhen this lead-filled zinc oxide nanotube was laser-heated, some of the molten lead squeezed out of the tube through a leak. This video shows the extrusion being reabsorbed once the tube cooled.\nIn the new work, Lorenz and Zewail used single laser pulses to melt the lead cores of individual zinc oxide nanotubes and then, using 4D microscopy, captured how the hot pressurized liquid moved within the tubes\u2014sometimes splitting into multiple segments, producing tiny droplets on the outside of the tube, or causing the tubes to break. Lorenz and Zewail also measured the friction experienced by the liquid in the nanotube.\n\"These observations are particularly significant because visualizing the behavior of fluids at the nanoscale is essential to our understanding of how materials and biological channels effectively transport liquids,\" says Zewail. In 1999, Zewail won the Nobel Prize for his development of femtosecond chemistry.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Candente Copper to Form a New Copper and Base Metals Exploration Company\nVancouver, British Columbia, May 17th, 2011. Candente Copper Corp. (TSX:DNT, BVL:DNT, US:CDOUF) (\"Candente Copper\") is very pleased to announce its Board of Directors have unanimously approved a proposal to undertake a spin-out transaction that would reorganize the business and capital structure of the Company into two separate public companies to allow Candente Copper to focus on the development of its flagship Ca\u00f1ariaco copper project.\nPursuant to the proposed transaction, Candente Copper will incorporate a new subsidiary, ExploreCo (\"ExploreCo\") to which it will transfer 100% of its indirect interest in all of its Peruvian exploration properties, other than the Ca\u00f1ariaco and Jehuamarca claims, which cover the Ca\u00f1ariaco Norte Deposit as well as the Ca\u00f1ariaco Sur and Quebrada Verde prospects by way of a Plan of Arrangement to be completed under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (the \"Proposed Arrangement\").\nIn addition to the transfer of the properties, Candente Copper also intends to subscribe for common shares of ExploreCo as part of the Proposed Arrangement in order to provide ExploreCo with approximately Cdn$6 million in working capital.\nCandente Copper intends to initially retain a position (approximately 15%) in ExploreCo and distribute the remaining common shares it receives of ExploreCo to its current shareholders on a pro-rata basis (expected to be 1 share of ExploreCo for every 5 shares of Candente Copper held) by way of a reduction of the capital of Candente Copper pursuant to the Proposed Arrangement.\nExploreCo will seek to list its common shares on either the Toronto Stock Exchange (\"TSX\") or the TSX Venture (\"TSX.V\") and the Bolsa de Valores de Lima (\"BVL \") stock exchanges.\nThe Proposed Arrangement remains conditional on the approval of final documentation by the Board of Directors of Candente Copper, the approval of the Proposed Arrangement and the listing of the shares of ExploreCo by the TSX or TSX.V (if applicable), the approval of the shareholders of Candente Copper and the approval of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, amongst other things.\nAdditional details of the Proposed Arrangement will follow upon completion of definitive documentation and will be described in detail in the information circular to be mailed to shareholders of Candente Copper in connection with the Company's annual general and special meeting at which approval by the Company's shareholders of the Proposed Arrangement will be sought.\nAbout Candente Copper\nCandente Copper Corp is a TSX and BVL listed mining company focused on exploration and development of base metal mining projects in Peru and Latin America. Candente Copper's flagship project is the 100% owned Ca\u00f1ariaco copper project located in northern Peru's prolific mining district.\nMr. Sean Waller, P.Eng., President of Candente Copper is a Qualified Persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the contents of this release, and is responsible for the information contained in this release.\nThis news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geotechnical assumptions, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles or permits, potential mineral recovery processes, the timing and structure of proposed transactions, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Candente relies upon litigation protection for forward-looking statements.\nCAUTIONARY NOTE TO U.S. INVESTORS\nWe advise U.S. investors of terms that are not recognized by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\"), including \"mineral resources\", \"measured resources\", \"indicated resources\" and \"inferred resources\". The estimation of measured and indicated resources involves greater uncertainty as to their existence and economic feasibility than the estimation of proven and probable reserves. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that mineral resources in these categories will be converted to reserves. The estimation of inferred resources involves far greater uncertainty as to their existence and economic viability than the estimation of other categories of resources. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that estimates of inferred mineral resources exist, are economically mineable, or will be upgraded into measured or indicated mineral resources. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that mineral resources in any of these categories will be converted into reserves.\nOn behalf of the Board of Candente Copper Corp.\n\"Sean Waller\" P.Eng.\nPresident & Director\nJohn Foulkes\nVP Corporate Development\ntoll free: 1 (877) 689-1964 ext 2\nManager, Investor Relations\nNataly Reategui\nInvestor Relations, Peru\nTel.: (511) 715-2001 ext 107\nnreategui@candente.com\nNR-023\nView previous (Apr 6, 2011)\nView next (Jun 6, 2011)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Headline: Hongkong Theatre: Old Land Office Building\nOn Apr 14, showing the thrilling serial, 11th and 12th episodes of 'Peg O' the Ring'; war graphic and Keystone comics; on Apr 18, continuation of 'Terence O' Rourke,' 4 & 6 episodes.\nOn Jun 5 at 5.15 pm, in aid of The Portuguese Red Cross Society, programme: War Graphic; Liberty (1st and 2nd episode); 'Foolshead Mistaken for Jim,' a Portuguese comic.\nWar Graphic; 'Two Mothers,' a beautiful Italian drama in 3 reels; 'The Child,' a sensational drama in 3 parts; also comics; don't forget on Jun 9, 'Liberty.'\nTwo great Italian dramas: 'An Ignored Mother' in 3 parts; 'The Outcast's Return' in 3 parts; War Graphic & comics; on Jun 15, string band night.\n4th and 5ht episodes of 'Liberty'; War Graphic and comics.\nTwo sensational dramas: 'The Song Which Grandmother Sang' in 3 parts; 'A Missionary Sister' [sic] in 3 parts; War Graphic and comics.\n6th episode of 'Liberty' entitled 'The Desert of Lost Souls'; a thrilling drama 'A Circus Heroine' in 3 parts; war graphic and 'Max on the Briny' (comic).\nTonight, the great Trans-Atlantic serial 'Liberty,' 7th and 8th episodes entitled 'Liberty's Sacrifice' and 'Clipped Wings'; war graphic; comics: 'Both in the Same Boat,' 'The Two Merry Tramps,' and 'Rosalie, Detective.'\nHeadline: Hongkong Theatre\nTonight, Florence Reed in 'The Eternal Sin' in 6 parts. At 7.15 p.m., 'Peg O' the Ring' episodes 1, 2 and 3.\nA real sensation, Herbert Brenon presents the great wonderful production 'The Eternal Sin' with the beautiful Florence Reed. A very sad story of tragedy.\nA very attractive programme is to be shown at the Hongkong Theatre for the week commencing this afternoon till Friday next, a drama 'Who Will Marry Me?' featuring the star Carmel Myers, is one of the first productions from the Universal Film Company. There is also a splendid picture\u2026\nThe China Mail (4)\nSouth China Morning Post (3)\nComic films (43)\nThe Diamond from the Sky (20)\nKeystone Comics (19)\nThe Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (19)\nThe Goddess (11)\nThe Trey o' Hearts (11)\nMysteries of the Grand Hotel (8)\nNew Screen Magazine (8)\nNeal of the Navy (6)\nThe Screaming Shadow (6)\nThe Woman in the Web (6)\nThe Iron Test (5)\nBorrowed Clothes (4)\nGaumont Graphic (4)\nThe Carter Case (4)\nThe New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke (4)\nThe Secret of the Submarine (4)\nLove Letters (3)\nNeptune's Daughter (3)\nThe Belle of New York (3)\nThe Cabaret Girl (3)\nThe Crucible of Fate (3)\nThe Fly Cop (3)\nThe Right to Happiness (3)\nWhat Happened to Mary (3)\nA Child of the Paris Streets (2)\nA Modern Enoch Arden (2)\nBack of the Man (2)\nBarbary Sheep (2)\nEasy Street (2)\nHis Naughty Thought (2)\nLost in Transit (2)\nMax Comes Across (2)\nOut of the Drifts (2)\nThe Double Standard (2)\nThe Immigrant (2)\nThe Judgement House (2)\nThe Return of Draw Egan (2)\nThe Scholar (2)\nThe Yankee Girl (2)\n(-) War graphics (8)\n(-) The Eternal Sin (2)\nBijou Theatre (16)\nThe Palace Picture House (2)\n(-) Hongkong Theatre (11)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"VIDEO: Bandits come back to beat Dragons, 4-2\nBROOKS, AB (January 6, 2018) \u2013 The Brooks Bandits (28-11-1) came back from a first period 1-0 deficit on Saturday night, downing the visiting Drumheller Dragons (20-18-2) by a 4-2 final score at the Centennial Regional Arena.\nAfter allowing an opening power play goal, the Bandits held Drumheller to just 10 shots for the rest of the game, scoring three times in the span of 4 minutes and 34 seconds in the second period to take the lead.\nThe win keeps the Bandits 7 points back of Okotoks for first place in the AJHL South, but extends their gap over Drumheller for second place to 15 points.\nDrumheller's first power play of the game led to the opening goal at the 9:12 mark when Alex Rotundo scored on a wrist shot from the slot. It was the third time in four meetings that the Dragons had opened the scoring against Brooks.\nBut after outshooting Drumheller by a narrow 11-8 margin in the first, the Bandits outshot their opponents 25-10 the rest of the way, seizing control of the game just over the halfway mark. Arnaud Vachon (Ajax, ON) got tangled up with a forechecking Dragon, with the two colliding into the half boards. As a Drumheller defender came over to challenge Vachon, Carter Wolski (Sexsmith, AB) took the puck and charged to the front of the net unopposed, sliding a shot five-hole on Hunter Virostek to make it 1-1 and extending his point streak to 6 games.\nLess than three minutes later, Nathan Plessis (Salmon Arm, B.C.) fired a pass along the blue line that Jakob LaPointe (Leduc, AB) drove a slap shot on; the puck glanced off a Drumheller stick and then off VIrtostek's glove and in to give Brooks its first lead. Plessis' assist also extended his point streak to 6 games.\nAt the 16:20 mark, Simon Boyko (Mississauga, ON) carried in along the left side, stopped up at the point, and fired a perfect pass across to Matt Cassidy (Medford, NJ) at the right circle. His one timer tipped off a Dragon stick and over Virostek's glove hand for the eventual game-winning goal.\nIn the third, the Bandits converted on their first and only power play when a Shane Bear (Calgary, AB) point shot was deflected in behind Virostek, where Plessis poked the puck over the goal line to make it 4-1. Drumheller got one back with 1:34 left in the game on a Bradley Stonnell power play point shot that went post and in.\nMitch Benson (Windsor, ON) made 16 saves on 18 shots for his league-leading 28th win, while Virostek had the loss with a 32-save performance on 36 shots against. The Bandits went 1 for 1 on the power play while the Dragons were 2 for 6.\nThe Bandits hit the road on Tuesday night for the first of consecutive games against Olds, first in the Grizzlys' barn at 7 PM before returning home to take them on Friday night at the CRA at 7 PM.\nPrevious PostBandits win streak snapped with 4-2 loss in OkotoksNext PostMakar wins Gold at World Juniors, named Tournament All-Star","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sweet Magnolias Season 2 Release Date, Synopsis and More\nBased on books of the same name by Sheryl Woods, Sweet Magnolias revolves around the lives of mainly three women from Serenity that share a unique and strong bond as they overcome challenges. Season 1 was a huge hit. And it ended with the kind of cliffhanger that makes you impatiently wait for more episodes. And hence, since then, viewers have been waiting for Sweet Magnolias Season 2.\nThere is no reason to believe that there won't be another season. We feel that there will probably be a season 3 as well. As there is enough content and the show has received a lot of appreciation.\nHere is everything about Sweet Magnolias Season 2!\nSweet Magnolias Season 2 Release Date\nThe show was renewed for another season in July 2020. At the time of renewal, Sheryl Anderson, the showrunner of the show, said:\n\"I'm thrilled and excited to come back with a cast and a crew that I love so much. It's such a valentine to everybody who worked so hard to make Serenity such a beautiful place. JoAnna, Brooke, and Heather and I were jumping up and down while texting each other, and we look forward to doing that over Zoom too.\"\nMoreover, an official release date hasn't been revealed yet. But it has been confirmed that sweet magnolias season 2 will be out in 2022. We are expecting a release date at the beginning of 2022 or mid-2022. If we get any more updates on the release date, we will share them with you.\nSweet Magnolias Season 2 Cast\nHere is a list of all the cast members that viewers can expect to watch in the much-awaited season:\nJoAnna Garcia Swisher as Maddie Townsend\nHeather Headley as Helen Decatur\nBrooke Elliott as Dana\nLogan Allen as Kyle Townsend\nChris Klein as Bill Townsend\nAnneliese Judge as Annie Sullivan\nCarson Rowland as Tyler Townsend\nJustin Bruening as Cal Maddox\nAl-Jaleel Knox as Gabe Weatherspoon\nDion Johnstone as Erik Whitley\nFrank Oakley III as Harlan Bixby\nJamie Lynn Spears as Noreen Fitzgibbons\nBrandon Quinn as Ronnie Sullivan\nChris Medlin as Isaac Downey\nBianca Berry Tarantino as Katie Townsend\nAllison Gabriel as Mary Vaughn Lewis\nBrittany L. Smith as Peggy Martin\nTracey Bonner as Pastor June Wilkes\nCharles Lawlor as Collins Littlefield\nHarlan Drum as CeCe Matney\nSam Ashby as Jackson Lewis\nHunter Burke as Trotter Vidhyarkorn\nMichael Shenefelt as Ryan Wingate\nMichael May as Simon Spry\nSweet Magnolias Season 2 Synopsis\nNo official plot details have been shared yet. But, we think that season 2 will open the door to mee mysteries and hopefully answer the mysteries of season 1.\nSeason 1 ended on a cliffhanger with Kyle in an accident. However, we still don't know who was with Kyle in that accident.\nOn the other hand, Maddie is perplexed as her ex-partner tries to get back in the picture. He has asked her for another chance and used their kids as a good reason for her to give him a chance. But, what does Maddie decide? Only season 2 can answer that!\nThen there is Helen, who just ended things with her on and off boyfriend. So what will she do now? As she wanted to have a child of her own.\nAdditionally, Dana is suffering to make ends meet with her business. Also, she has recently been brought face-to-face because her estranged son is working in her very own kitchen.\nSo, what are the women of Serenity going to do? How are they going to face their challenges? Will Kyle and the passenger with him survive? All of this and more will be happening in Sweet Magnolias Season 2.\nSweet Magnolias Season 2 Trailer\nA trailer for Sweet Magnolias Season 2 hasn't been released yet. And it will probably be a little more while until that happens. As the season won't be released until 2022.\nHow many episodes will be there in season 2?\nSeason 2 will probably have ten episodes 40 to 55 minutes long, just like season 1. A few titles of the episodes have also leaked. They are:\nEpisode 1 \u2013 Casseroles and Casualties\nEpisode 2- So Much To Say\nEpisode 3 \u2013 The More Things Change\nEpisode 4 \u2013 Walk of Faith\nHas filming for Sweet Magnolias Season 2 begin?\nYes, filming has not only begun, but it has also ended for the upcoming season. Initially, Sheryll Woods, the author of the books, informed everyone that filming would begin in 2021. Then, in February 2021, the production team was in Georgia to get the sets ready and map out the entire season.\nThe show is filmed in Georgia, Atlanta as there is no real town named Serenity in South Carolina. Serenity is an imaginative town where the story takes place.\nFilming finally began in early April as cast members posted pictures of back to filming on April 6, 2021.\nThen, filming finally ended in mid-july as JoAnna Garcia Swisher, one of the cast members, posted a video on Instagram. Here is what the text with the video said:\n\"Last day in the chair with my sister, @symartmakeup, as we wrap up season 2 of #sweetmagnoliasnetflix! Bittersweet feelings because I'm going to miss this group so much. But I'm so proud and EXCITED for all of you to see what we have been cooking up in Serenity and can't wait for this dream team of a cast and crew to (hopefully!) be reunited ASAP to continue the journey!\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Find the Best Office Space for your Business\nBegin your free quote below\nAre you currently in an office space?\nRequest Info It only takes a minute\nComplete a short form\nReceive a free quote from leading suppliers\nCompare prices and save\nHome > Where to start a business\n#22 Starting a business in Oxford\nBoasting business survival rates of 44%, Oxford is bursting with talent and business support. But is it the right location for your start-up?\nby Ryan Platt\nUpdated: Jan 7, 2021 Published: Aug 21, 2017\nBack#23\n#21Next\nTalent Support Funding Quality of life Case study\nWhy should you start a business in Oxford?\nOne of the oldest and most prestigious seats of learning in the world, Oxford continues to be at the forefront of cutting-edge developments in a variety of sectors. Businesses in knowledge-based industries like aerospace, engineering and life sciences choosing to locate here will find a wealth of expertise, infrastructure and collaboration opportunities in the city.\nThe world-class University of Oxford is closely connected with business activity in the city, and many successful start-ups begin as spin-outs from the institution. Notable alumni from the university include LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz.\nThe well-educated talent base in the city has also given rise to a burgeoning technology and creative cluster, earning Oxford recognition as one of the UK's top 10 creative \"hotspots\" (according to innovation charity Nesta).\nDespite its rather small size, Oxford has good transport links, with London Paddington just one hour away by train. Oxford Airport is located close by, but only serves regional destinations; for international links, the busy London Heathrow is around an hour's drive. The picturesque city is quiet and compact, and getting around it is a fairly simple process.\nAccess to talent in Oxford\n72,500: Working age population with NVQ Level 4 and above (2015)\n\u00a3589: Average full-time weekly earnings (2016)\n2: Universities\nThe University of Oxford almost needs no introduction. One of the oldest universities in the world, it is consistently ranked amongst the top five globally and enjoys a peerless reputation amongst employers. Local businesses looking to recruit will find more than 22,000 of the UK's best and brightest students and graduates right on their doorstep.\nThe University's technology transfer subsidiary, Oxford University Innovation \u2013 changed from Isis Innovation in 2016 \u2013 helps businesses and academics research and commercialise their ideas and technology through a three-pronged business model. It has helped to launch more than 110 companies in the last 25 years with the start-up incubator supporting over 40 entrepreneurial ventures thus far.\nNumber of new start-ups (2015): 685 \u2013 see how this compares with other cities\nOxford is also home to the modern Oxford Brookes University, located just outside the city centre. Whilst it lives in the shadow of its more prestigious neighbour, it is a well-regarded institution in its own right (ranked in the top 50 in the UK) with a particularly strong pedigree in architecture.\nThe universities' dominating presence in the city has unsurprisingly resulted in a highly educated and qualified population. 63.4% of the workforce have NVQ Level 4 qualifications or above, second only to Cambridge (66.5%). Additionally, almost a quarter of employment in the Science Vale cluster is in professional, scientific and technical activities, compared with a South East regional average of just 8%.\nWhile salaries are still considerably lower than London, the access to high numbers of skilled personnel has seen the weekly average increase, with Oxford now joint highest with Cambridge at \u00a3589 per week on average.\nAccess to business support in Oxford\n1: Accelerators\n3: Science parks\nBusiness support in the Oxfordshire LEP is centred around the Science Vale UK Enterprise Zone, one of the most well-regarded science park complexes in the UK. Located 20 minutes drive from central Oxford, the 92-hectare site offers world-leading science facilities and access to research, alongside an extensive range of options when it comes to laboratory and office space.\nScience businesses choosing to locate in Science Vale will be working alongside several leading science and technology companies including Infotec, Infineum, and Oxford Instruments, and will benefit from the usual range of incentives offered to Enterprise Zone businesses, including simplified planning, business rates discounts of up to \u00a3275,000, and superfast broadband.\nSurvival rates (2010-2015): 45%\nIn line with Oxford's reputation as an innovation centre, small businesses in the area can also access R&D tax credits of 225%. The Science Vale Enterprise Zone encompasses the two separate sites of Harwell Oxford and MEPC Milton Park \u2013 Harwell, in particular, is known for its work with the European Space Agency.\nScience and technology businesses looking for nurturing environments elsewhere are spoilt for choice in Oxfordshire. Culham Science Centre, owned by the UK Atomic Energy Authority, specialises in cutting-edge nuclear fusion research and plays host to a number of commercial technology organisations alongside smaller start-ups hosted in its Innovation Centre.\nOxford Science Park is another option \u2013 operated as a joint venture between the University's Magdalen College and Prudential, the site aims to become a \"centre of excellence\" for science, technology and business occupiers.\nMost of these complexes offer some forms of support, knowledge transfer and networking opportunities to start-ups. More intensive support is available for software business through the Isis Software Incubator, which supports nascent ventures in the development of products or services through its facility in Summertown (although it doesn't provide any direct investment).\nBusinesses in other sectors looking for office, lab or warehousing space have a good range of options. There are a number of commercial property parks in the surrounding Oxfordshire area, including Abingdon Business Park, Banbury, and Oxford Business Parks \u2013 a full list can be found here.\nOxford currently has a number of co-working facilities \u2013 WORKSPACE OXFORD, located a short walk from the city centre, The Old Music Hall, operated by Ethical Property and offering shared meeting rooms and a \"communal breakout space\" and HATCH, a co-work space and makervault (a converted vault set up for experimentation and prototyping, including a 3D printer and other tools).\nAccess to grants and funding in Oxford\nWhether you are a seed-stage start-up or a fast-growth business, Oxford offers a good number of options when it comes to funding. Straightforward grant funding for non-social enterprises is, however, thin on the ground.\nFor smaller businesses, the Oxfordshire LEP offers 'Innovation Support Vouchers' which allow small and medium-sized enterprises to claim 50% (up to a maximum of \u00a35,000 per voucher) of the cost of business training, mentoring, or access to specialised facilities which will drive the creation of jobs. This opportunity is currently closed, but future schemes will be announced on the website so it's worth checking back.\nAdditionally, if you are experiencing difficulty obtaining funding from traditional sources, the Fredericks Foundation could help; the charity offers business advice and loans to start-ups struggling to raise the finance they need elsewhere.\nNumber of business deaths (2015): 480\nOn the angel investment side, Oxford Early Investments provides backing of between \u00a325,000 and \u00a3250,000 to innovative early-stage companies through its network of investors. The network is not sector-specific, and backs companies in the early stages of technical and commercial development with high growth potential.\nFor larger companies, the Oxford Investment Opportunity Network typically invests larger amounts of between \u00a3200,000 and \u00a32m through its network. Whilst funding is, again, not sector specific, the organisation has a \"particular interest\" in companies with innovative or patented disruptive technologies.\nOxford's pedigree and network of support means that its start-up companies do especially well compared to the rest of the country and it has a start-up survival rate of 45% (businesses launched in 2010 and still trading in 2015), however this is markedly less than its rival Cambridge which boasts survival rates of 49%.\nQuality of life in Oxford\n\u00a3427,140: Property price average (September 2016)\n30.71: Crimes per 1,000 people (June 2015)\n22.5mbps: Average broadband speed (2014)\nOxford is one of the best known historic cities in the UK, and boasts an enviable array of cultural, historic and entertainment attractions for such a small city. As you might expect, the University's long presence here (the first colleges were established in the mid-1200s) provides the lynchpin of much of the city's employment and lifestyle. Many of the colleges themselves feature appealing historical architecture, and are tourist attractions in their own right.\nThe Ashmolean Museum is one of the world's most famous historic museums and contains artifacts and archaeological finds from across history, sourced from around the world. The stately home of Blenheim Palace, a stunning example of 18th century Baroque architecture, is another popular attraction. These are just some of many; the Visit Oxford site contains a more detailed index of the myriad diversions available.\nThe city has particularly impressive architecture, some of which dates back to the late Saxon period. The landmarks of Christ Church Cathedral, St. George's Tower, the Church of St Mary the Virgin and more contribute to Oxford's world-famous 'dreaming spires', and it is little wonder that the area continues to inspire authors, artists and filmmakers. The city is built around several rivers, most notably the River Isis (what the Thames is known as in Oxford) and the River Cherwell, famous for its punting and rowing.\nOxford's large student population also drives a lively nightlife and live music scene across the centre, so it is not all Inspector Morse and punting by any means.\nAs you might expect, the trade-off of living in such a prosperous, picturesque city is a high cost of living. The average house price in Oxfordshire stands at a steep \u00a3427,140 second only to rival university city Cambridge (\u00a3446,796). Crime, on the other hand, is at the opposite end of the spectrum, coming in at the lowest on our list.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome to Brock University\nResearch @ Brock\nBrock innovation\nTransdisciplinarity at Brock\nCareers @ Brock\nA\u2013Z directory\nStudent Email \/ 365\nmy.brocku.ca\nIsaak \/ Sakai\nBrock Sports\nThe Brock News\nEvents around campus\nFaculty and Staff Login\nBrock U Home\nBrock University logo The Brock News Logo\nTuesday, January 31, 2023 | Subscribe to The Brock News\nThe Brock News menu\nBrock's new Women's Choir preparing for inaugural concert\nFriday, November 23, 2018 | by Jaquelyn Bezaire\nThe Brock University Choirs rehearse for their upcoming performance on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Cairns Recital Hall of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.\nBrock University's new Women's Choir is joining forces with the established Chamber Choir to perform its first concert next month.\nAssistant Professor Rachel Rensink-Hoff will lead the Brock Choirs in Concert performance on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. It will take place at the Cairns Recital Hall of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in downtown St. Catharines.\nThe concert is part of the Department of Music's Viva Voce! Choral Series, which begins its season Saturday, Nov. 24 with a performance by the Avanti Chamber Singers. The Women's Choir and Chamber Choir are each comprised of about 30 members from Brock University and the wider Niagara community.\nRensink-Hoff believes the concert provides a great opportunity to bridge the gap between students and the community and showcase the breadth of talented singers from the region as a whole.\n\"It's a neat dynamic as the students get to know the community members and vice versa,\" she said. \"I've been trying to encourage interaction between the singers during breaks so that it feels as comfortable as possible and the singers can bond with each other.\"\nThe choirs will be joined on stage by the Walker String Quartet, which will also perform some solo pieces during the concert.\nThe Brock Choirs in Concert performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.\nTickets for the concert are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. There is also a $5 option available for eyeGo program members. 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{"text":"U11B NJ Stallions 06 Barcelona Take 2nd Place at 2016 BETHESDA PREMIER CUP\nThe U11B NJ Stallions 06 Barcelona EDP team traveled to Maryland in November to compete in the 2016 Bethesda Premer Cup, and finished as FINALISTS competing against top programs from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Over four games, the NJ Stallions boys finished with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. In game #1 they defeated the #3 Pennsylvania West ranked team, Beadling Boys 1-0, then in game #2 they fought hard to a 2-2 tie against a very talented Bethesda SC 06 Black team. In the semifinal game against Montgomery Academy Grey, they earned a 2-1 victory to get them into the Final where they eventually lost to SOCA Cville 06, a talented team from Virginia.\nCoach Antonio Meza had this to say about his team, \"The players showed great character competing and finding a way to get to the final. Coming back from losing 1-0 to turning it around in the semifinal to win 2-1 was great to watch. We will build on this when we train this winter and prepare for the Spring season\".\n\u00a9 NJ Stallions. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CERN bails on Facebook's Workplace, cites cost\nEditor's note: This story has been updated with new information about CERN's rationale for moving away from Facebook Workplace.\nResearch organization CERN will replace Facebook's Workplace with an open source alternative after deciding not to move to a new free version of the collaboration software that would eliminate enterprise management features.\nCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, first rolled out Workplace's free Standard version in 2016.\nThe organization has since been testing the premium version of the enterprise social network with staff, including CERN's HR and IT teams. About 1,000 staffers currently use Workplace, with around 150 active weekly users on the platform.\nFacebook initially waived the costs of Workplace Premium, but then unveiled new payment plans last July. CERN was told to either begin paying for the full service or move to the free \"Essential\" version of the app. That change would have ended access to single sign-on and other enterprise features, CERN said.\n\"Paying for such features, for a tool that was not part of our core offering for the CERN community and where the existing level of control of our data did not correspond to CERN's needs, was not suitable. Therefore, we will end the trial of this platform,\" the organization said in a blog post.\nCERN now plans to use Mattermost, an open-source tool, for instant messaging; it will join several other internal communications tools already available to staffers. It requested that all content hosted on Facebook's servers be removed.\nCERN had initially said it planned to ditch Workplace because moving to the Essential tier would result in the loss of control of its data, which it said would be sent to Facebook. That statement was changed on Friday, with that claim retracted.\nAccording to Facebook, a customer retains control over their data. \"A community admin manages the community and the company owns and controls the data. The community admin can modify, delete or export your data at any time.\"\nFacebook called CERN's fears about data control \"inaccurate\" and argued that cost was the primary reason CERN opted for Mattermost.\n\"Last year we announced an update to our pricing and packaging,\" a Facebook spokesperson said. \"As part of this we moved from two tier offerings (one free, one paid) to three (one free, two paid). CERN [was] originally on our Premium tier for free, and we asked them to either pay for the technology or downgrade to our free tier. They declined for cost reasons\u2026.\"\nAlongside the free tier, Workplace now has two paid plans: Workplace Enterprise, which costs $8 per user per month, and Workplace Advanced, at $4 per user per month. The latter has limits on certain features such as storage and the number of people who can join group calls.\nOn all three tiers, \"Facebook acts as the data processor, and our customers act as the data controller,\" the spokesperson said. \"Our customers retain all rights, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) to their data.\n\"CERN saying that they were given a choice to pay or lose their administrative and data rights to Workplace is not accurate. They could join Workplace today on our Essential tier, which would allow them to use Workplace for free and retain the same admin and data rights.\"\nCERN declined to discuss the move to replace Workplace in more detail.\nConcerns over Facebook's use of data\nThere are 3 million paid Workplace customers, according to the most recent data on the app. That number includes deployments at large enterprise such as Nestle and the Royal Bank of Scotland.\nHowever, concerns have arisen in the past about how controversies around handling of data in Facebook's consumer business might affect its enterprise operations. A survey by CCS Insight last year showed that 42% of employees felt their trust in Facebook had decreased in the last 12 months.\n\"\u2026This is something we've seen become an increasing issue over the last couple of years following the Cambridge Analytica scandal,\" Angela Ashenden, a principal analyst at CCS Insight, said before CERN changed its explanation for the move to Mattermost.\n\"Overall, the Workplace team has done well to manage the impact of this on its enterprise business, but it's inevitable that there will be some fallout as a result\u2026,\" she said.\nAshenden added that, while the Workplace free trial attracted a lot of interest from a range of companies and helped to kick-start its traction in the collaboration market, a move to a revenue model was inevitable, with most organizations accepting they have to pay for enterprise-grade security, governance and full control.\nRa\u00fal Casta\u00f1\u00f3n-Mart\u00ednez, senior analyst at 451 Research, said it's not unusual to see data management concerns among large organizations.\n\"This highlights that \u2026 SaaS services like Workplace might not be a good fit for every company; this is further reinforced by the fact that CERN stated they are relying on services like Mattermost, which does provide companies with full control of their data.\n\"It is also notable that several members publicly stated that they did not trust Facebook in terms of data privacy,\" he said. \"While Facebook has stated that its enterprise solution functions as a separate entity to their consumer services, they could benefit from expanding their efforts to address these concerns.\"\nThis story, \"CERN bails on Facebook's Workplace, cites cost\" was originally published by\nPrevious Article Security vs. innovation: IT's trickiest balancing act\nNext Article Who should lead the push for IoT security?\niHealth's wireless blood pressure monitor is just $30, an all-time low\n[ad_1] Whether you've had issues with blood pressure [\u2026]\nDemocracy: The Importance Of Public Debate With Climate Related Topics\n[ad_1] November 14th, 2018 by The Beam This [\u2026]\nNHS clinicians given free access to online health and care video library\n[ad_1] An online video library which covers a wide [\u2026]\nGP at Hand Tube poster banned by ASA\n[ad_1] A poster featured across London Underground for [\u2026]\nWTF, Microsoft?\n[ad_1] When things have gone wrong on standalone [\u2026]\nVersius robot used in minimal access surgery for the first time\n[ad_1] NHS surgeons have begun using the Versius robot [\u2026]\nHP's Envy photo printer is now just $50 on Amazon\n[ad_1] Printing your own high-quality photos at home [\u2026]\nRound up of the best reactions to Digital Health Summer Schools 2019\n[ad_1] After a packed two days of keynotes and [\u2026]\nSheffield Teaching Hospitals issues \u00a3400m tender for new EPR\n[ad_1] Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has issued a \u00a3400m [\u2026]\nSolar Sharing For The Future Generation\u200a: The Story Of Iitate Electric Power In Fukushima\nWhat They're Saying About The Green New Deal: O'Rourke, Warren, Waxman\n[ad_1] Clean Power Published on January 9th, 2019 | by [\u2026]\nJ.P. 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{"text":"Books, Events, Uncategorized\nV1 Editor, Fellow Elite Ogled at 'Donald'\nPosted by Nick Curley Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin dropped a megaton truth bomb yesterday with the release of Donald, their fictional imagining of Donald Rumsfeld undergoing GITMO-style hospitality. It's hot soup delivered by a ramshackle imprint of meth-addled high schoolers called McSweeney's, and the industry's best and brightest partied down last night in celebration of this lil' opus. Photographed in style among them? One Juliet Linderman! Vol. 1 Brooklyn editor extraordinaire, resident estrogen supplier, and scribe of our #1 hit single Dick Watching. [\u2026]\nConservative Blogger Confuses Antiwar Activists With Book Nerds\n\"Antiwar activists, remember? These people have issues, subscriptions, and complete print runs that have been specially bound. All self-published, of course: they're kind of market failures that walk, talk, and theoretically think.\" Via RedState blogger Moe Lane, discussing Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin's new book, Donald.\nCure Stephen Elliott's Weeps\nWe're conducting an independent survey to help cure Stephen Elliott's blues. How many Vol. 1 readers have read \"The Adderall Diaries\"? Raise your hand.\nTuesday Stuff: Liu Xiaobo's Prison Food, Solomon Burke, Coffee Wars, Free Andy Borowitz and More\nThe Atlantic remembers Solomon Burke. Celebrity treatment in a Chinese jail means that Xiaobo would be served individually served meals instead of \"a portion of food cooked in a large pot for many prisoners.\" Stephen Elliott on the San Francisco coffee wars. Andy Borowitz is doing two free live shows tonight. Here are the details from an e-mail he sent out: As a special thank-you to Borowitz Report readers, I've scheduled two last-minute free shows Tuesday night October 12 in [\u2026]\nBooks, Film\nHappy Stephen Elliott Day\nIt's a good day to be Stephen Elliott. According to the Observer, Perez Hilton (!?), and Elliott's Twitter, James Franco has optioned The Adderall Diaries. Not only that, but yesterday the book came out in paperback.\nBorders Manager Explains New Business Plan to Help Boost Sales\/Save Job\nOver that The Rumpus, a guy named Jason (great name) who is supposedly a Borders manager, explains how he plans to help his store sell even less books.\nPondering Underrated Writers\nWhat makes a writer \"underrated\"? I'm only asking, because apparently several writers I really like are underrated, and I'm not exactly sure what this means. I'm working with a few scenarios here, because I feel like the writers below could easily be classified as \"underrated,\" considering that people I think of as \"big names,\" like Deborah Eisenberg, Stephen Elliott, and Sam Lipsyte are on the list. Example: if say, fifty people buy The Instructions by Adam Levin (god forbid), but [\u2026]\nThe Black and White Literature of Chicago\nCriminal Class Review Vol. 3 is 175 pages of stories and poetry by familiar names like Stephen Elliott, Jim Goad, and a host of people who've appeared in numerous lit. journals and mags that I like. It's sparse black & white layout makes the claim that it's celebrating \"the art of noir fiction\" seem totally valid. Is it too late to submit this to The Faster Times literary magazine guide?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Indian Cricket Legend Sachin Tendulkar retires from one-day internationals\nIndia batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has reportedly announced his retirement from one-day internationals, although he still plans to play Test matches.\n\"I have decided to retire from the one-day format of the game,'' said Tendulkar, who will also continue to play in the Indian Premier League for Mumbai Indians.\n\"I feel blessed to have fulfilled the dream of being part of a World Cup-winning Indian team. The preparatory process to defend the World Cup in 2015 should begin early and in right earnest.\n\"I would like to wish the team all the very best for the future. I am eternally grateful to all my well-wishers for their unconditional support and love over the years.''\nTendulkar, the most-capped player in one-day internationals with 463 games and also the batsman with most runs (18,426) and centuries (49), made the announcement as national selectors were in the process of announcing the team for a limited-overs home series against Pakistan.\nFormer chief selector Krishnamachari Srikkanth said he was shocked at the timing.\n\"Sachin's announcement has come as a big surprise,'' said Srikkanth.\n\"I thought he would play in the one-day series against Pakistan.''\nTendulkar had been selective in playing one-day games over the past two years but completed an unprecedented 100 international centuries earlier this year during the Asia Cup in Bangladesh.\nThe Mumbai batsman had the knack of being among the runs in big international tournaments like the World Cup and his retirement brings an end to a golden generation of cricketers in the one-day format that included former captain Sourav Ganguly, Dravid and Anil Kumble.\nTendulkar scored the maximum runs in two editions of the World Cup - 673 to ensure India made the final in 2003 and 523 when India made the semi-finals in 1996. In 2011, he was the second top run-scorer (482) behind Sri Lanka's Tillekaratne Dilshan (500) but winning the tournament more than made up.\nHis absence had also been felt in the 1999 World Cup when India failed to advance from the Super Eights, losing a crucial game to Zimbabwe when Tendulkar had to go home due to his father's death. He returned to England and made a century against Kenya but India could not reach the knockouts.\n\"Winning the World Cup (in 2011) is the proudest moment of my life ... I couldn't control my tears of joy,'' Tendulkar said after attaining a long-time dream at his home ground Wankhede Stadium on April 2 last year.\nList of 100 Records of Sachin Tendulkar\nHappy New Year 2013 Wishes from Web Design Company...\nDownload New Year 2013 Wallpapers and 2013 Calenda...\nHappy Christmas Wishes from Web Design and SEO Com...\nIndian Cricket Legend Sachin Tendulkar retires fro...\nDownload Christmas Wallpapers for Desktop\/Laptop\nLatest Wallpapers Free Download for Desktops\/Lapto...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Building a community of believers who love God, love each other, and love the world\nUnited Methodist Church\nOur mission is to live and share the love of Jesus!\nMISSION, VISION, PRIORITIES\nDRAFT WORSHIP PLANS\nUMCOR KITS\nPromiseLand Daycare\nAfghanistan Refugee Resettlement\nRush Tidings Sign Up\nUPPER NEW YORK CONFERENCE\nRush UMC Facebook Page\nHigh School Senior Scholarship App\nGraduate Profile Form\nGENESEE VALLEY DISTRICT\nWednesday Prayers\nPosition: Director of Youth Ministries\nPastor Todd's Most Recent Sermons\n\"Anointed to Bring Good News\", Luke 4:14-21, January 23, 2022\n\"Word, Flesh, and Light\", John 1:1-18, January 2, 2022\n\"Connecting the Dots\", Luke 2:41-52, December 26, 2021\n\"Christmas Eve Homily\", Luke 2:1-20, December 24, 2021\n\"Prepare the Way of the Lord\", Luke 3:1-6, December 5, 2021\n\"Stand Up and Raise Your Heads\", Luke 21:25-36, November 28, 2021(First Sunday of Advent)\n\"Pilate's Five Questions\", John 18:33-38, November 21, 2021 (Christ the King)\n\"Not One Stone\", Mark 13:1-10, November 14, 2021\n\"Jesus Knows Better\", John 11:32-44, November 7, 2021\n\"The Second Reformation\", Mark 12:28-34, October 31, 2021\n\"Crying Out Loud\", Mark 10:46-52, October 24, 2021\n\"You Want Some of This?\", Mark 10:35-45, October 17, 2021\n\"Getting to 'Follow Me'\", Mark 10:17-31, October 10, 2021\n\"Divorce\", Mark 10:2-16, October 3, 2021\n\"Non Sequitur\", Mark 9:38-50, September 26, 2021\n\"Greatness on Jesus' Terms\", Mark 9:30-37, September 19, 2021\n\"From Mourning to Joy\", Two Meditations on Pandemic and Faith, Psalm 116:1-9 and Mark 8:27-38\n\"Faith Finds Access\", Mark 7:24-37, September 5, 2021\n\"From Within\", Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23, August 29, 2021\n\"We Sing Together\", John 6:51-58, Ephesians 5:15-20, August 22, 2022\n\"Many Turned Back\", John 6:56-69, August 15, 2021\n\"Getting Personal\", John 6:35, 41-51, August 8, 2021\n\"Christ Alone\", John 6:24-35, August 1, 2021\n\"More Than Sufficient\", John 6:1-21, July 25, 2021\n\"Driven By Desperation\", Mark 6:30-34, 53-56, July 18, 2021\n\"Searching for Good News\", Mark 6:14-29, July 11, 2021\n\"Soon I Will Be Done\", Mark 5:21-43, June 27, 2021\n\"Get In the Boat\", Mark 4:35-41, June 20, 2021\n\"Kingdom Parables\", Mark 4:26-34, June 13, 2021\n\"The Only Unforgivable Sin\", Mark 3:20-35, June 6, 2021\n\"Born of Water and Spirit\", John 3:1-17, May 30, 2021\n\"The Holy Spirit: Proving the World Wrong\", John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15, Pentecost! May 23, 2021\n\"Prayer for Unity: Prayer for Protection\", John 17:6-19, May 16, 2021\n\"Chosen Friend\", John 15:9-17, May 9, 2021\n\"I Am the True Vine\", John 15:1-8, May 2, 2021\n\"The Good Shepherd\", John 10:11-18, April 25, 2021\n\"Simply Be Peace\", Luke 24:36b-48, April 18, 2021\n\"Recognition\", John 20:19-31, April 11, 2021\n\"From Sorrow to Joy!\", John 20:1-18, EASTER! April 4, 2021\n\"Five Good Friday Meditations\", John 18:1-19:42, April 2, 2021\n\"Love One Another\", John 13:1-17, 31b-35, Maundy Thursday, April 1, 2021\n\"For This Reason I Have Come\", John 12:20-33, March 21, 2021\n\"The End of Condemnation\", John 3:14-21 and Numbers 21:4-9, March 14, 2021\n\"Where God Abides\", John 2:13-22, March 7, 2021\n\"Caesarea Philippi\", Mark 8:27-38, February 28, 2021\n\"With Wild Beasts\", Mark 1:9-15, February 21, 2021\n\"Approaching Inevitable Change\", Mark 9:2-9, Transfiguration of the Lord, February 14, 2021\n\"Living Like Jesus\", Mark 1:29-39, February 7, 2021\n\"Rescued from Impossible Bondage\", Mark 1:21-28, January 31, 2021\n\"The Price of Discipleship\", Mark 1:14-20, January 24, 2021\n\"Come and See\", John 1:43-51, January 17, 2021\n\"Stand Up, Step Up\", The Rev. 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May 31, 2020\n\"Honor, Proclaim, Pronounce, and Roll On the Power!\", Luke 24:44-53, May 24, 2020\n\"Love and Responsibility\", John 14:15-21, May 17, 2020\n\"Whatever You Ask\", John 14:1-14, May 10, 2020\n\"Life Abundant\", John 10:1-10, May 3, 2020\n\"Blind Spots\", Luke 24:13-35, April 26, 2020\n\"Finding Peace in the Storm\", John 20:19-31, April 19, 2020\n\"I Have Seen the Lord!\", John 20:1-18, Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020\nGood Friday Reflection, John 18-19, April 10, 2020\nMaundy Thursday Homily, John 13:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, John 13:31-35, April 9, 2020\n6 Lenten Reflections on Holy Communion, in the Middle of Pandemic\n\"Hosanna!\" Zechariah 9:9-10, Matthew 21:1-11, 26:1-5, Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020\n\"God's Been Here Before\" Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 11:1-45, March 29, 2020\n\"Ten Simple Things\" John 9:1-41, March 22, 2020\n\"A Woman's Witness\" John 4:4-42, March 15, 2020\n\"Nicodemus\" John 3:1-17, March 8, 2020\n\"Who Provides?\" Matthew 4:1-11, March 1, 2020\n\"A Transcendent Breakthrough\" Matthew 17:1-9, February 23, 2020\n\"Consider the Stakes Raised\" Matthew 5:21-37, February 16, 2020\n\"Salt and Light\" Isaiah 58:3-9a and Matthew 5:13-20, February 9, 2020\n\"Blessed\" Matthew 5:1-12, February 2, 2020\n\"Come and See\" John 1:29-42, January 19, 2020\n\"Renewal\" Isaiah 42:1-9 and Matthew 3:13-17, Baptism of the Lord, January 12, 2020\n\"When Time Stands Still\" John 1:1-18, January 5, 2020\nChristmas Eve Homily Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 2:1-20\n\"What Did You Expect?\" Matthew 11:2-11, December 15, 2019\n\"Preparing a Way\" Romans 15:4-13 and Matthew 3:1-12, December 8, 2019\n\"History, Mystery, Majesty\" Matthew 24:36-44, December 1, 2019\n\"This is My King!\" Luke 23:33-43, November 24, 2019\n\"An Opportunity to Testify\" Luke 21:5-19, November 17, 2019\n\"God of the Living\" Luke 20:27-40, November 10, 2019\n\"Great is Your Reward\" Luke 6:20-31, November 3, 2019\n\"The Upside Down World of Jesus\" Luke 18:9-14, October 27, 2019\n\"Lessons from People Who Wear You Out\" Luke 18:1-8, October 20, 2019\n\"Unlikely Gratitude\" Luke 17:11-19, October 13, 2019\n\"The Size of a Mustard Seed\" Luke 17:5-10, October 6, 2019\n\"Lazarus and the Rich Man\" Luke 16:19-31, September 29, 2019\n\"Jesus and Two Rascals\" Luke 16:1-13, September 22, 2019\n\"Sheer Joy!\" Luke 15:1-10, September 15, 2019\n\"Counting the Costs\" Luke 14:25-33, September 8, 2019\n\"An Invitation to the Table\" Luke 14:1, 7-14, September 1, 2019\n\"Set Free\" Luke 13:10-17, August 25, 2019\n\"Bringing Division? Oh, My!\" Luke 12:49-56, August 18, 2019\n\"Our Father's Good Pleasure\" Luke 12:32-40, August 11, 2019\n\"Foolish Abundance\" Luke 12:13-21, August 4, 2019\n\"Praying with Persistence\" Luke 11:1-13, July 28, 2019\n\"Only One Thing\" Luke 10:38-42, July 21, 2019\n\"Love God, Love Neighbor\" Luke 10:25-37, July 14, 2019\n\"The Harvest is Plentiful, but the Laborers are Few\" Luke 10:1-11, 16-20, July 7, 2019\n8:30AM and 10:45AM\nIn person and on YouTube Live and Facebook Watch\nHoly Communion celebrated weekly\n6200 Rush Lima Rd (Rt 15A)\nRush, NY 14543\nEffective 12\/13\/2021, Governor Kathy Hochul announced masks will be required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. Thank you for your compliance. Learn more ...\nUpper New York Conference Requirements: https:\/\/www.unyumc.org\/about\/church-covid-19-guidelines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kansas Swimming and Diving Adds Seven\nWomen's Swimming and Diving Signees\nName Hometown\nHannah Angell Overland Park, Kan.\nGraylyn Jones Marietta, Ga.\nLindsay Manning Spring, Texas\nAllison Merecka Cypress, Texas\nLeah Pfitzer Kingwood, Texas\nGretchen Pocisk Dayton, Ohio\nSammie Schurig Topeka, Kan.\nLAWRENCE, Kan. \u2013 Kansas swimming and diving has signed seven student athletes including Olympic Trials qualifier and Topeka, Kan. native, Sammie Schurig, to National Letters of Intent during the fall signing period.\nSchurig joins Hannah Angell, Lindsay Manning, Allison Merecka, Leah Pfitzer, Gretchen Pocisk and Graylyn Jones as student-athletes deciding to further their education and athletic careers at Kansas. The 2013 class spans four states, including two swimmers from Kansas, three from Texas, one from Ohio and a diver from Georgia.\n\"We are thrilled these seven athletes will be joining us next fall,\" Kansas head coach Clark Campbell said. \"Each has the capability to help us immediately and make us a better team. Coach (Jen) Fox and coach (Eric) Elliott worked hard on this class for some time and we look forward to their arrival next season.\"\nSchurig swam at Washburn Rural High School and for the Topeka Swim Association club team under head coach Barry Neville. She qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials, where she swam with three current Jayhawks, with a time of 2:19.51 in the 200-yard backstroke at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Jenks, Okla., last March. In addition to her specialty in the backstroke, Schurig will also compete in the individual medley and middle distance freestyle events at KU.\n\"We've had our eye on Sammie for a while,\" Campbell said. \"Of our signing class, Sammie was the lone 2012 Olympic Trial qualifier. Her local ties will create excitement in the swimming community as she develops her talents as a Jayhawk.\"\nAngell also has local ties; the Overland Park, Kan., native joins the Jayhawks as the other commitment from the state of Kansas for the 2013 signing class. Angell attended Blue Valley Southwest High School and swam for the Kansas City Blazers club team under head coach Gardner Howland. Angell was a Junior National qualifier and narrowly missed qualifying for the Olympic Trials last summer.\n\"Hannah is an athlete that we've watched for a while as one of the top Kansas swimmers in the class of 2013,\" Campbell said. \"She has improved a lot and we're excited to start working with her, as she has big goals and will make an immediate impact.\"\nManning joins the Jayhawks from Spring, Texas where she attended Oak Ridge High School and swam for the Magnolia Aquatic Club under head coach Scott MacFarland. She earned the distinction of Junior National Qualifier in several distance freestyle events, which is where Campbell sees her helping next year's team the most.\n\"Lindsay will play a major role for us in the distance group,\" Campbell said. \"She is fortunate working with Coach MacFarland, as he has a lot of experience developing athletes in her area of expertise. As one of the top distance swimmers in Texas, she will come in and help us as soon as she arrives in Lawrence.\"\nMerecka is from Cypress, Texas where she attended Cypress Woods High School and swam for the Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club (FLEET) under head coach Clayton Cagle and swam with current Jayhawks junior Morgan Sharp and freshman Chelsie Miller. Like Manning, Campbell hopes that Merecka will impact the Jayhawks distance freestyle events next year.\n\"Allison is our third athlete from the FLEET program in the last three years,\" Campbell said. \"She is a lot like Morgan (Sharp) and will help us in the middle-distance freestyle events. Our hope is that she develops into a Big 12-level miler as well.\"\nRounding out the Texas portion of the class, Pfitzer comes to Lawrence from Kingwood, Texas where she attended Kingwood High School and swam for Blue Tide Aquatics under head coach Charlie Fry. Pfitzer is also a Junior National Qualifier and will help the Jayhawks in the butterfly and sprint freestyle events.\n\"Leah rounds out our contingent from Houston,\" Campbell said. \"Leah will come in and help right away in the sprint free and fly events. We believe she will benefit from our strength program and develop into a high level sprinter.\"\nPocisk has KU ties through her grandfather, Riley Donald, who played basketball at KU under legendary coach Dr. Phog Allen from 1950-51. Pocisk attended Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio and swam for the Dayton Raiders club team under head coach Kevin Weldon. When Pocisk joins the Jayhawks, she will be looked upon to contribute in the breaststroke, the individual medley and the sprint freestyle.\n\"Gretchen continues her family's tradition within Kansas Athletics,\" Campbell said. \"She will help right away in her specialty, which is breaststroke. We are also looking forward to developing her sprint freestyle capabilities as well.\"\nJones joins the Jayhawks as the lone diving recruit for the 2013 class. Jones attended Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., and dove for the Metro Atlanta Divers club team under head coach Bill Humber. Jones picked up two top-15 finishes at the 2012 AAU Diving National Championships, finishing seventh in the one-meter (313.5) and 12th in the three-meter (307.7) event.\n\"I think she will be very good,\" diving coach Eric Elliott said. \"She is one of those 'diamond in the rough' types that come under the radar. She is an extremely hard worker and will do whatever you ask her to do and that is big. You want kids that want to work and want to improve.\"\nThe Jayhawks are currently training for their spring 2013 schedule, which begins on Saturday, Jan. 12, when they travel to Los Angeles, Calif., for a double dual against San Diego State and host UCLA at the Spieker Aquatics Center. KUAthletics.com: The official online source for Kansas Athletics, Williams Education Fund contributions, tickets, merchandise, multimedia, photos and much, much more.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category Archives: prisons\nWhile eyes are on Russia, Sessions dramatically reshapes the Justice Department\nThe Washington Post reports: For more than five hours, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sat in a hearing room on Capitol Hill this month, fending off inquiries on Washington's two favorite topics: President Trump and Russia.\nBut legislators spent little time asking Sessions about the dramatic and controversial changes in policy he has made since taking over the top law enforcement job in the United States nine months ago.\nFrom his crackdown on illegal immigration to his reversal of Obama administration policies on criminal justice and policing, Sessions is methodically reshaping the Justice Department to reflect his nationalist ideology and hard-line views \u2014 moves drawing comparatively less public scrutiny than the ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin.\nSessions has implemented a new charging and sentencing policy that calls for prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible, even if that might mean minority defendants face stiff, mandatory minimum penalties. He has defended the president's travel ban and tried to strip funding from cities with policies he considers too friendly toward undocumented immigrants.\nSessions has even adjusted the department's legal stances in cases involving voting rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in a way that advocates warn might disenfranchise poor minorities and give certain religious people a license to discriminate.\nSupporters and critics say the attorney general has been among the most effective of the Cabinet secretaries \u2014 implementing Trump's conservative policy agenda even as the president publicly and privately toys with firing him over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia case. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Department of Justice, Donald Trump, law enforcement, News, prisons on November 26, 2017 by News Sources.\nThe disturbing lessons of Trump's shameful Arpaio pardon\nScott Lemieux writes: During his very loosely hinged extemporaneous remarks in Phoenix on Tuesday, President Trump strongly hinted that he would pardon the infamous former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. On Friday evening, with a frightening hurricane descending on Texas, Trump made it official. The decision to issue his first pardon to a public official who made his reputation, such as it is, through race-baiting and a contempt for both legal restraints and basic human decency tells us a lot about Trump \u2014 and none of it is good.\nIt is highly relevant that Trump and Arpaio first became allies while Trump was rising to prominence within the Republican Party by pushing the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. The Arizona sheriff actually launched a farcical investigation into Obama's birth certificate, wasting taxpayer money to build his cred with his resentful white supporters. That Arpaio and Trump would become mutual admirers was inevitable.\nIt should go without saying that Arpaio is a terrible candidate for a pardon. If you have any doubts, read this chilling 2009 profile of Arpaio by William Finnegan in The New Yorker. Arpaio's first claim to local fame was to make the conditions of imprisonment for inmates under his jurisdiction as inhumane as possible \u2014 housing thousands of people in tents next to cites like dumps and waste disposal plants in the brutal Arizona heat. He fed inmates for 30 cents a meal, two meals a day, and then made the Food Network one of three channels available to prisoners. He put many people who were being held for trial and had not been convicted of any crime to work on chain gangs. Under his watch, guards were so consistently cruel to inmates that the county had amassed more than $40 million in civil damages from lawsuits. And he also engaged in egregious racial profiling when detaining people suspected of being illegal immigrants.\nArpaio's focus on abusing prisoners and arbitrarily detaining people of Latin American descent also made his \"tough on crime\" reputation grossly misleading. The resources wasted on his cruel publicity stunts took money away from law enforcement, slowing response times and leading to (among other problems) hundreds of botched or perfunctory sex crimes investigations. He did, however, find the time to file frivolous charges against two journalists who were looking into his suspicious property dealings, leading to another huge legal settlement for Maricopa County's taxpayers to pay off. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in 2016 President Election, Analysis, Donald Trump, immigration, law, law enforcement, News, prisons, racism on August 26, 2017 by News Sources.\nThe incarceration industry was having a tough time. Then Trump got elected\nJames Surowiecki writes: Going into Election Day, few industries seemed in worse shape than America's private prisons. Prison populations, which had been rising for decades, were falling. In 2014, Corrections Corporation of America, the biggest private-prison company in the U.S., lost its contract to run Idaho's largest prison, after lawsuits relating to understaffing and violence that had earned the place the nickname Gladiator School. There were press expos\u00e9s of shocking conditions in the industry and signs of a policy shift toward it. In April, Hillary Clinton said, \"We should end private prisons.\" In August, the Justice Department said that private federal prisons were less safe and less secure than government-run ones. The same month, the department announced that it would phase out the use of private prisons at the federal level. Although most of the private-prison industry operates on the state level (immigrant-detention centers are its other big business), the news sent C.C.A.'s stock down by thirty-five per cent.\nDonald Trump's victory changed all that: within days, C.C.A.'s stock had jumped forty-seven per cent. His faith in privatization is no secret, and prison companies aren't the only ones rubbing their hands. The stock price of for-profit schools has also rocketed. Still, the outlook for private prisons is particularly rosy, because many Trump policies work to their benefit. The Justice Department's plan to phase out private prisons will likely be scrapped, and a growing bipartisan movement for prison and sentencing reform is about to run up against a President who campaigned as a defender of \"law and order.\" Above all, Trump's hard-line position on immigration seems certain to fill detention centers, one of the biggest money spinners for private-prison operators. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, Donald Trump, prisons on November 28, 2016 by News Sources.\nPrivate prison companies ready to cash in on throwing out immigrants\nThe Daily Beast reports: When the children were released from the privately run immigration detention facility in Karnes City, Texas, they were immediately taken to the emergency room with pneumonia.\nOver the past few months, several children who fled from violence in South and Central America with their mothers have been hospitalized after leaving the facility run by GEO Group, a private prison company that saw its stocks jump following Election Day. The children's health problems were the result of poor medical care inside what is essentially a prison for mothers and their children, according to Amy Fischer of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.\nWith Donald Trump now president-elect, the Karnes City facility and a dozen more like it across the country are preparing to fill even more beds with immigrants and refugees. GEO Group and another private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America, are also preparing for more large, lucrative contracts with the federal government to run the detention centers.\nBoth companies saw their stock prices soar following Trump's historic and shocking win. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, immigration, prisons, Trump administration on November 18, 2016 by News Sources.\nRebecca Gordon: Arresting our way to 'justice'\nThe figures boggle the mind. Approximately 11 million Americans cycle through our jails and prisons each year (including a vast \"pre-trial population\" of those arrested and not convicted and those who simply can't make bail). At any moment, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, there are more than 2.3 million people in our \"1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories.\" In some parts of the country, there are more people in jail than at college.\nIf you want a partial explanation for this, keep in mind that there are cities in this country that register more arrests for minor infractions each year than inhabitants. Take Ferguson, Missouri, now mainly known as the home of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot and killed in 2014 by a town policeman. The Harvard Law Review reported that, in 2013, Ferguson had a population of 22,000. That same year \"its municipal court issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses,\" or almost one-and-a-half arrests per inhabitant.\nAnd then there are the conditions in which all those record\u2013breaking numbers of people live in our jails and prisons. At any given time, 80,000 to 100,000 inmates in state and federal prisons are held in \"restrictive housing\" (aka solitary confinement). And those numbers don't even include county jails, deportation centers, and juvenile justice institutions. Rikers Island, New York City's infamous jail complex in its East River, has 990 solitary cells. And keep in mind that solitary confinement \u2014 being stuck in a six-by-nine or eight-by-10-foot cell for 23 or 24 hours a day \u2014 is widely recognized as a form of psychosis-inducing torture.\nAnd that, of course, is just to begin to explore America's vast and ever-expanding prison universe. The fact is that it's hard to fathom even the basics of the American urge to lock people away in vast numbers, which is why today TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon focuses instead on what it might mean for justice in this country if we started to consider alternatives to prison. Tom Engelhardt\nThere oughta be a law\u2026\nShould prison really be the American way?\nBy Rebecca Gordon\nYou've heard of distracted driving? It causes quite a few auto accidents and it's illegal in a majority of states.\nWell, this year, a brave New Jersey state senator, a Democrat, took on the pernicious problem of distracted walking. Faced with the fact that some people can't tear themselves away from their smartphones long enough to get across a street in safety, Pamela Lampitt of Camden, New Jersey, proposed a law making it a crime to cross a street while texting. Violators would face a fine, and repeat violators up to 15 days in jail. Similar measures, says the Washington Post, have been proposed (though not passed) in Arkansas, Nevada, and New York. This May, a bill on the subject made it out of committee in Hawaii.\nThat's right. In several states around the country, one response to people being struck by cars in intersections is to consider preemptively sending some of those prospective accident victims to jail. This would be funny, if it weren't emblematic of something larger. We are living in a country where the solution to just about any social problem is to create a law against it, and then punish those who break it.\nThis entry was posted in prisons, TomDispatch, United States on September 26, 2016 by TomDispatch.\nThe U.S. is the largest jailer of children in the world\nLiz Ryan writes: The mass incarceration epidemic in the US has been getting much-deserved attention in recent years. What's less well known is that some of the worst atrocities in the prison system are being committed against children\u2014the US is the largest jailer of children in the world. With the looming presidential election putting prison reform in the spotlight, now is the time to reverse decades of bad policies.\nPutting children in prison has a devastating impact on their families and communities, as well as on young people themselves. There are many examples of these atrocities in action. The Lincoln Hills youth facility in Irma, Wisconsin, is one of the largest youth prisons in the US. In the past 18 months, the facility has been the subject of federal and state investigations stemming from allegations of physical and sexual abuse, as well as guards using intimidation tactics to discourage youth from reporting incidents of pepper spray use, strangulation, and suffocation. In one incident, a boy's toes were amputated after a staff member slammed a heavy door on his foot.\nFor the past several years, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, Connecticut's largest youth prison, has been under multiple investigations by the Office of the Child Advocate for excessive use of isolation, overuse of restraints, inadequate suicide prevention, lack of appropriate staff support and training, inadequate and harmful crisis management, and scant available information on quality, public safety outcomes, and oversight. Last year, the Child Advocate's office released video of staff members conducting face-down restraints on young people at the training school\u2014which are illegal in Connecticut schools and treatment centers. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, human rights, prisons, United States on September 1, 2016 by News Sources.\nThe secret U.S. prisons you've never heard of before\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, human rights, prisons, United States, US government on August 31, 2016 by News Sources.\nHate preachers to be held in separate prison units in England and Wales to curb radicalisation\nThe Guardian reports: Influential hate preachers will be held in separate prison units after an official inquiry found inmates were acting as \"self-styled emirs\" behind bars.\nA government-ordered review into radicalisation in jails has concluded that some charismatic prisoners exerted a \"radicalising influence\" over fellow Muslims. It also claimed that some have attempted to engineer segregation, encouraged aggressive conversions to Islam, and been involved in the intimidation of prison imams.\nThe claims have emerged in a review led by former prison governor Ian Acheson and commissioned last year by then justice secretary Michael Gove. Such concerns in Whitehall were disclosed by the Guardian in February.\nIts conclusions will overturn 50 years of dispersing the most dangerous prisoners across the prisons system. Critics have previously warned that such a move could also provide a focal point for public protests and claims of a \"British Guantanamo\". [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in ISIS, Islamic extremism, prisons, United Kingdom on August 22, 2016 by News Sources.\nHow safe is it to lock up Anjem Choudary in prison with Muslims he could radicalise?\nAndrew Neilson writes: The conviction of the cleric Anjem Choudary for inviting support for the Islamic State (Isil) brings into sharp focus a longstanding concern about prisons and radicalisation. The spectre is that jailed Islamist extremists \u2013 or indeed any other kind of political extremist \u2013 find that there is no better recruiting ground for their cause than prisons themselves.\nWe know, for example, that a number of extremists behind recent terror attacks in France associated with Isil had spent time in the French prison system and had been radicalised there. Now a man described as the \"most dangerous man in Britain\", who counter-terrorism chiefs have spent the best part of two decades pursuing on charges of radicalisation, will most likely be sent to prison for many years. What might he achieve in the potentially fertile recruiting ground of British prisons?\nAs it happens, and possibly with the looming conviction of Choudary in mind, the former Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove commissioned a review into Islamist extremists in prison. That review is yet to be published, and with the appointment of Elizabeth Truss to the Ministry of Justice its future is currently rather uncertain. We do know, however, that the review found that such extremism is a growing problem within prisons (although we do not know what data the review relied upon to reach this conclusion). The review also found the National Offender Management Service, which oversees the prison system, lacked a coherent strategy to deal with the problem. Some 69 recommendations were made for change. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, Islamic extremism, prisons on August 17, 2016 by News Sources.\n'Abu Ghraib'-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry\nThe Guardian reports: Australia's prime minister has launched a public inquiry following the broadcast of footage of children in detention being abused, hooded and bound in a manner likened to Abu Ghraib and Guant\u00e1namo Bay.\nMalcolm Turnbull announced a royal commission hours after the national broadcaster aired shocking footage showing children in detention at the Don Dale facility outside Darwin in the Northern Territory.\nFootage aired on the ABC's Four Corners program on Monday showed one youth being stripped and physically held down by guards.\nIn another scene that the program compared with images from Guant\u00e1namo Bay or the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, 17-year-old Dylan Voller was shown hooded and tied in a restraint chair for two hours. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Australia, News, prisons, torture on July 26, 2016 by News Sources.\nHow to stop prisons from turning criminals into terrorists\nCullen Thomas writes: Each time I learn of another terrorist who spent time in prison, I'm taken back to my own prison time. In 1994, I was caught smuggling hashish into South Korea and spent three and a half years imprisoned there. Since then I've struggled to understand the nature of confinement and its effects on the individual.\nIt's a striking and clear pattern that many of the most notorious terrorists of the modern era spent time in prison. Salah Abdeslam, the suspect behind the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, was imprisoned in Belgium with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who lead the Friday the 13th attacks in Paris last November.\nCh\u00e9rif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly, responsible for the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in Paris earlier in 2015, were imprisoned in France's massive Fleury-M\u00e9rogis, Europe's largest prison.\nAyman al-Zawahiri, before he became right-hand man to Osama bin Laden, was radicalised in Egyptian prisons. As Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11 (2006), put it, Zawahiri 'entered prison a surgeon. He came out of it a butcher.' [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Al Qaeda, Analysis, ISIS, prisons, terrorism on May 5, 2016 by News Sources.\nSolitary confinement is 'no touch' torture, and it must be abolished\nChelsea E Manning writes: Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time. Within two weeks, I was contemplating suicide.\nAfter a month on suicide watch, I was transferred back to US, to a tiny 6 x 8ft (roughly 2 x 2.5 meter) cell in a place that will haunt me for the rest of my life: the US Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Virginia. I was held there for roughly nine months as a \"prevention of injury\" prisoner, a designation the Marine Corps and the Navy used to place me in highly restrictive solitary conditions without a psychiatrist's approval.\nFor 17 hours a day, I sat directly in front of at least two Marine Corps guards seated behind a one-way mirror. I was not allowed to lay down. I was not allowed to lean my back against the cell wall. I was not allowed to exercise. Sometimes, to keep from going crazy, I would stand up, walk around, or dance, as \"dancing\" was not considered exercise by the Marine Corps.\nTo pass the time, I counted the hundreds of holes between the steel bars in a grid pattern at the front of my empty cell. My eyes traced the gaps between the bricks on the wall. I looked at the rough patterns and stains on the concrete floor \u2013 including one that looked like a caricature grey alien, with large black eyes and no mouth, that was popular in the 1990s. I could hear the \"drip drop drip\" of a leaky pipe somewhere down the hall. I listened to the faint buzz of the fluorescent lights.\nFor brief periods, every other day or so, I was escorted by a team of at least three guards to an empty basketball court-sized area. There, I was shackled and walked around in circles or figure-eights for 20 minutes. I was not allowed to stand still, otherwise they would take me back to my cell. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, Defense Department, human rights, Obama administration, prisons, torture on May 3, 2016 by News Sources.\nLittle evidence to show that prisons have become 'universities of terror'\nBy Sarah Marsden, Lancaster University\nFrom \"shoebomber\" Richard Reid, to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the attacks in Paris, there seem to be increasing examples of people becoming \"radicalised\" in jails. So how concerned should we be about the role of prisons in producing violent extremists?\nContrary to those who argue that jails are at risk of becoming \"universities of terror\" there is actually relatively little systematic evidence of a link between prison and involvement in terrorism.\nThat is not to say that apparently \"radical\" groups have not developed in prisons, or that there haven't been efforts to recruit people to militant Islamism in UK jails. Jamaal Uddin, who was convicted for assault and enforcing a \"Sharia-controlled zone\" in east London, boasted of his ability to \"radicalise\" people in the face of apparently powerless authorities. In the worst cases, such as in Iraq where several American-run detention facilities became pivotal in the development of what was to become Islamic State, prisons have been intimately implicated in terrorism.\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, ISIS, prisons on November 23, 2015 by News Sources.\nThe Kingdom of Silence: Literature from Tadmor prison\nLinah Alsaafin reports: \"When death is a daily occurrence, lurking in torture, random beatings, eye-gouging, broken limbs and crushed fingers\u2026 [When] death stares you in the face and is only avoided by sheer chance\u2026wouldn't you welcome the merciful release of a bullet?\"\nThis was taken from a report smuggled out in 1999 to Amnesty International by a group of former Syrian prisoners who had spent years in the infamous Tadmor (Arabic for Palmyra) prison, where unimaginable acts of torture took place against both dissidents and criminals alike.\nTadmor prison fell to the Islamic State group as it captured the city of Palmyra from government forces earlier this week, but the significance of its seizure has been overshadowed by widespread fears that IS could raze the UNESCO World Heritage site just south of the modern town. In fact the capture of the prison could be a much more important development, according to analysts and former inmates of the jail.\nThe prison, which used to be a French military barracks, is located in the desert in eastern province of Homs and is around 200 kilometres away from the capital Damascus. As previously reported by Middle East Eye, the massacre of hundreds of prisoners in 1980 after a foiled assassination attempt on then president Hafez al-Assad exacerbated the prison's symbolic status of repression.\nHuman rights reports were not the only medium to document what took place in what has been described as one of the worst prisons in the world.\nThe vicious reality of Tadmor, where the blood of those massacred in 1980 was not cleaned up resulting in the mass spread of gangrene amongst the rest of the inmates, created literary works written by survivors and former inmates that narrated their daily lives in stark detail. Whips were given human names, friendships were struck between prisoners and rats and cockroaches, and torture sessions were opportunities to experiment with excruciating devices.\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, prisons, Syria, torture on May 24, 2015 by News Sources.\nThis man came from Rome to show Americans why the death penalty is wrong\nCosimo Bizzarri writes: Today, 105 countries around the world have abolished the death penalty by law and 43 more have approved public or de facto moratoria against it. Among them are Gabon and Mongolia, Cambodia and Russia, Albania and Kyrgyzstan. In Cuba, death row is currently empty.\nWorldwide, only a few dozens countries still stick to the death penalty, opposing the 2007 UN resolution that called for a global moratorium on its use. Among them, the most prolific executioners are China, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States, which has killed more than 1,400 people since 1976. Currently, the US holds more than 3,000 people in death row, including recently-sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.\n\"Some US citizens, especially in the South, grew up with the idea that retributive justice is the only justice,\" explains Italian journalist and human right activist Mario Marazziti to Quartz. \"This opinion is sometimes based on a fundamentalist reading of the Old Testament.\"\nMarazziti, 62, is the spokeperson for the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Rome-based Catholic movement for peacemaking and human rights, and a co-founder of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. In the 1990s, Marazziti collected 3 million signatures in 157 countries calling for a worldwide moratorium against the death penalty. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, Ethics, prisons, United States on May 24, 2015 by News Sources.\nThe cruel and unusual execution of Clayton Lockett\nJeffrey E. Stern reports: On the morning of his execution, Clayton Lockett hid under the covers.\nBefore a team of correctional officers came to get him at 5:06 a.m., he fashioned a noose out of his sheets. He pulled the blade out of a safety razor and made half-inch-long cuts on his arms. He swallowed a handful of pills that he'd been hoarding. And on April 29, 2014, when the team of officers knocked on the door of his cell in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, Clayton Lockett \u2014 a 38-year-old convicted murderer \u2014 pulled a blanket over his head and refused to get up.\nThe officers left and asked for permission to tase him. While they were gone, Lockett tried to jam the door. They came back, forced their way in, tased him, and dragged him out.\nEleven hours later, at about 5:20 p.m., after a medical examination, X\u2011rays, eight hours in a holding cell, and a shower, Lockett was brought by a five-member strap-down team into the death chamber. It was a small, clinical-looking room with white walls and a polished floor that reflected the lights overhead. A gurney stood in the center of the room; above it hung a microphone for Lockett's final words. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, crime, Ethics, prisons, United States on May 15, 2015 by News Sources.\nThe use of force against the mentally ill incarcerated in America\nHuman Rights Watch: Jail and prison staff throughout the United States have used unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force against prisoners with mental disabilities, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today.\nThe 127-page report, \"Callous and Cruel: Use of Force against Inmates with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons,\" details incidents in which correctional staff have deluged prisoners with painful chemical sprays, shocked them with powerful electric stun weapons, and strapped them for days in restraining chairs or beds. Staff have broken prisoners' jaws, noses, ribs; left them with lacerations requiring stitches, second-degree burns, deep bruises, and damaged internal organs. In some cases, the force used has led to their death.\n\"Jails and prisons can be dangerous, damaging, and even deadly places for men and women with mental health problems,\" said Jamie Fellner, US program senior adviser at Human Rights Watch and the author of the report. \"Force is used against prisoners even when, because of their illness, they cannot understand or comply with staff orders.\"\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, News, prisons, United States on May 12, 2015 by News Sources.\nMass incarceration: The silence of the judges\nJed S. Rakoff writes: For too long, too many judges have been too quiet about an evil of which we are a part: the mass incarceration of people in the United States today. It is time that more of us spoke out.\nThe basic facts are not in dispute. More than 2.2 million people are currently incarcerated in US jails and prisons, a 500 percent increase over the past forty years. Although the United States accounts for about 5 percent of the world's population, it houses nearly 25 percent of the world's prison population. The per capita incarceration rate in the US is about one and a half times that of second-place Rwanda and third-place Russia, and more than six times the rate of neighboring Canada. Another 4.75 million Americans are subject to the state supervision imposed by probation or parole.\nMost of the increase in imprisonment has been for nonviolent offenses, such as drug possession. And even though crime rates in the United States have declined consistently for twenty-four years, the number of incarcerated persons has continued to rise over most of that period, both because more people are being sent to prison for offenses that once were punished with other measures and because the sentences are longer. For example, even though the number of violent crimes has steadily decreased over the past two decades, the number of prisoners serving life sentences has steadily increased, so that one in nine persons in prison is now serving a life sentence.\nAnd whom are we locking up? Mostly young men of color. Over 840,000, or nearly 40 percent, of the 2.2 million US prisoners are African-American males. Put another way, about one in nine African-American males between the ages of twenty and thirty-four is now in prison, and if current rates hold, one third of all black men will be imprisoned at some point in their lifetimes. Approximately 440,000, or 20 percent, of the 2.2 million US prisoners are Hispanic males. [Continue reading\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Analysis, crime, Department of Justice, inequality, law, prisons, racism on May 5, 2015 by News Sources.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Depression in Primary Care: Clinical Epidemiology & Clinical Decision Aalysis\nJanuary-June 2006 Volume 3(1)\nSpecial Article\nHaider Naqvi\nA clinical decision analysis (CDA) is a mathematical tool designed to facilitate complex clinical decisions in which many variables should be considered simultaneously. CDA is a feasible tool for multifaceted problem of management of depression in primary health care. It provides a systematic frame work for organizing all data relevant to the decision on recognition and management of depression. Clinical epidemiological perspective is used for assessing the validity of screening instrument. A decision matrix based on reported probabilities is also constructed. Chance nodes and decisions pertinent to comorbidities, illness severity and treatment options for depression are also presented.\nKey words: Clinical epidemiology, Clinical decision Analysis, Depressive disorder, primary care, Pakistan.\nNew millennium has witnessed an epidemiological transition with rise in burden of non-communicable diseases. According to 1993 World Bank Report Neuropsychiatric diseases (including self-inflicted injuries) contribute 8.1% to the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD). Subsequently this contribution to GBD has been reanalyzed and found to be 10.5%. This is projected to increase to 15% by the year 2020. The \"behavior related problems\" contribute an additional 34% to GBD1.\nPrevalence of common mental disorders is estimated to be 30 % to 50% in primary care settings of Pakistan. Most patients with mental disorders initially consult their general physicians (GP)2. Although CMD have been diagnosed in third of primary care attendees in developing Asian countries, primary care staff is generally reported to recognize only 10 % of the cases. Studies have shown that a substantial proportion of mental disorders in primary care are inadequately managed by the GPs3. There are many facets to this complex problem. Some issues are related to the physicians while other to the patients. Lack of time, awareness and general stigma related to mental illness poses a major problem for GPs4.\nPatients presenting in primary care are much different from psychiatric settings. Generally they have concurrent medical illness, which remains the major focus of management. Another common reason for this under recognition is somatisation, i.e., presentation of psychological distress as somatic symptoms, and poor awareness of this in health professionals5.\nA clinical decision analysis (CDA) appears to be a feasible tool for this multifaceted problem. CDA is a mathematical tool designed to facilitate complex clinical decisions in which many variables should be considered simultaneously. It provides a systematic frame work for organizing all data relevant to the decision. It also assigns a numerical value to various courses of actions, simplifying comparison among them6.\nThis is particularly relevant in the context of Pakistan, a South East Asian developing country. With the dearth of mental health professionals, management of common mental disorders is increasingly integrated in to primary health care. Complex clinical decisions are either delegated to clinical nurses or lady health workers. With explicit decision analysis, there is greater likelihood of adequate management of common mental disorders (depression and anxiety) in primary health care. CDA will also serve to promote informed consent as patients input can be taken in to account in evaluating outcomes.\nClinical Decision Analysis and Management of Depressive Disorder in Primary Health Care:\nMajor depression is a disorder characterized by persistent and pervasive low mood, anhedonia, impaired concentration, disturbed sleep, appetite and morbid death wishes. The point prevalence of major depression from community based studies is estimated to be between 25-66 % for females and 10-44% for males7,8. The prevalence estimates for MDD in primary care settings of Pakistan is estimated to be approximately 30% to 50%2. These are many times higher when compared with western countries. Additional problem is dearth of trained mental health professionals and scarcity of allocated resource.\nA clinical decision analysis and algorithm appears feasible in order to address the above needs and rectify potential problems in the management of depression in primary health care. A rough guide and skeleton of the decision analysis is presented in Figures 1 and 2. Probability estimates of certain outcomes and potential multidimensional utility is presented when and where objective literature on the subject was available.\nFig. 1: Clinical decision Analysis: Management of Depression in Primary care.\nCLINICAL DECISION ANALYSIS\nD1: Decision Node 1; multiple somatic symptoms of Unknown origin.\nC1: Chance node 1; Chance of Functional depressive illness (Pr 0.64)\nC2: Chance node 2; Chance of Depression secondary to Co morbid medical condition (Pr 0.36)\nC3: Chance node 3; Chances of no Thyroid abnormality (Pr 0.95).\nC4: Chance node 4; Chance of Sub clinical Thyroid abnormality (Pr 0.05).\nD2: Decision Node 2: Decision on severity of illness. C5: Chance node 5; Chance of mild-to-moderate depression (Pr 0.86; Detection rate 18.4%).\nC6: Chance node 6; Chance of severe depression (Pr .13; detection rate 73%)\nD3: Decision on Psychotherapy based on the severity (mild-to-moderate) and patient's preference.\nD4: Decision on Antidepressants Medication based on severity.\nD5: Decision to treat the underlying medical illness.\nFigure 2: Clinical decision Analysis: Management of Depression in Primary care\n(Final model after pruning the figure 1)\nC1: Chance node 1; Chance of Functional depressive illness (Pr 0.64).\nC2: Chance node 2; Chance of Depression secondary to Co morbid medical condition (Pr 0.36).\nD2: Decision Node 2: Decision on severity of illness.\nC5: Chance node 5; Chance of mild-to-moderate depression (Pr 0.86; Detection rate 18.4%).\nC6: Chance node 6; Chance of severe depression (Pr .13; detection rate 73%).\nD3: Decision on Psychotherapy based on the severity and patient's preference.\nSomatic symptoms and high index of suspicion for depression (Node \u2013 D-1):\nIn primary care setting the most common presentation of patients' with depression is with multiple somatic symptoms. This premise is based on the comparative studies carried out by Mumford et al looking specifically at the somatic manifestation of psychological symptoms in the context of Pakistan. The sample population was group of people in Lahore, Pakistan and Leeds, U.K9,10. The decision node D-1 pertains to maintaining high index of suspicion for depression when patients' present with multiple somatic symptoms of unexplained nature. There is no study from Pakistan looking specifically at the characteristics or out come of this atypical presentation in Primary care.\nThe chance node C-1 pertains to the probability of somatic symptoms, given that the patient has underlying depressive illness (Pr 0.64). The chance node C-2 pertains to having somatic symptoms given that patient has underlying medical co morbidity.\nAccording to studies carried out in the west, significant depressive symptoms are seen in 36% of medically ill patients11. Those with dementia, diabetes, stroke, hypercortisolism, asthma and renal impairment have especially high rates of co- morbid depression. Conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, exists at the interface of medicine and psychiatry and are associated with major depressive disorder12,13.\nDepression is also associated with use of medications. 3% of patients on high dose steroids report significant symptoms of depression. Calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers and digoxin are known to cause depression. Caffeine use may be associated with increased side effects and failure of some symptoms to improve (for e.g. anxiety and insomnia). Co morbid alcohol use and withdrawal from alcohol and stimulants are associated with depression14-16. Co morbid depression will require a similar treatment strategy as functional depression, besides the concurrent medical management.\nAmong these patients work up for thyroid abnormality should be carried out in order to rule out psychological symptoms secondary to thyroid abnormality (Node C-3). Thyroid abnormality typically mimics symptoms of depression and should be exclusively ruled out in the context of primary care. There are no studies from Pakistan on prevalence of abnormal thyroid hormones in the setting of primary care. However in clinical population (PC) from western countries it is estimated to be around 5 % (Node C4). In psychiatric subset with chronic treatment resistant depression, the prevalence of subthreshold thyroid abnormality is estimated to be much higher (around 50%)12.\nAfter ruling out secondary and co morbid depression it is pertinent to establish the diagnosis of depression. Use of screening test\/instrument is particularly relevant in the context primary care, where constraints of time and resources demands rapid assessment. It should be considered that any screening test, however robust it may be has its limitations. Result of screening instrument should be checked against a gold standard, measure of assessment. A brief discussion on the definition, process and limitations of screening is particularly relevant here, followed by issues pertaining to screening for depression in primary care setting.\nClinical decision analysis and disease screening:\nScreening has been defined as \"presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of test, examination, or procedure which can be applied rapidly to sort out apparently well person who probably have a disease from those who probably do not. A screening test is not intended to be diagnostic\" (commission on chronic illness; italics added for emphasis). The whole process of screening appears to be quite simple but there are several underlying complexities, alike the subject of clinical epidemiology. There are concerns regarding the cost of screening which may be apparent or hidden. Cost can be related to screening process\/instrument or treatment of additional cases however, identification of these subjects in the pre-clinical stage by astute screening instrument does make the early intervention possible. Thus screening can facilitate primary and secondary prevention.\nSuitable disease & screening:\nA variation among natural history of the diseases has an impact on the utility of early detection and treatment. A disease with long pre-clinical phase, like carcinoma of cervix, will definitely require early detection and screening, in order to modify its course. Besides the long latency period, severity of the illness also merits consideration while designing a screening program. A screening program for detection of upper respiratory tract infection will be less cost effective than screening program for breast cancer, solely based on the disease morbidity and mortality. In order to have effective screening program the disease under consideration should be an important health problem. The disease should be progressive with serious health consequences. An effective treatment at an earlier stage should be able to modify the natural history and course of illness17.\nMajor depressive disorder does full fill all these criteria. It is prevalent in community and primary health care setting, if undetected leads to progressive worsening with tragic loss of life by suicide. Long term vulnerability factors like loss of parent\/s during child hood by death or separation and current non confiding spousal relations does lead to sub threshold symptoms. Thus detection of this preclinical phase of illness by screening test helps in early intervention and subsequent modification in its natural history.\nSuitable test & instruments\nThere are certain consideration regarding the choice of screening test and instrument. Screening test should be inexpensive, easy to administer with minimal discomfort to the clients. Colonoscopy might be very effective in early detection of carcinoma of colon, but it has limited acceptability in routine use for apparently healthy subjects. Another important characteristic of good screening instrument is its ability to separate people with and without disease. A robust screening instrument should have high validity and reliability.\nValidity & Reliability (Precision)\nSimply stated, a test is said to be valid when it does what it is suppose to do. This is usually measured through its sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity can be described as the ability of the test to identify correctly those who have the disease. In conditional probability notation, sensitivity is written P (T+\/D+). Specificity of the test is its ability to identify correctly those who do not have the disease. In conditional probability notation, specificity is written P (T-\/D-). Sensitivity and specificity determined by comparing the result with a definitive diagnosis. It is important to note that sensitivity and specificity are reciprocal in nature18.\nConsistency and reproducibility of the test is said to be its reliability. It depends upon variation inherent in the method. The variation can be inter-observer or intraobserver. A same individual can rate the same observation differently on different occasions. Alternatively there can be a natural variation among two raters. In rounding off some raters have preference for higher values while others for lower values.\nDetermining performance of screening instrument (AKUADS) and assigning probabilities:\nWhile the specificity and sensitivity remain an important issue in considering the use of instrument for diagnostic and screening purposes, the psychometric measurement becomes an additional issue when an instrument is applied in a cultural setting which is different from the one in which it was originally developed. EMIC-instruments and questionnaires with cultural sensitive explanatory models are reported to be preferable over ETICinstruments (instruments developed in another cultural setting). But research findings of studies using EMICinstruments only, without established cross cultural validity are open to question.\nAga Khan University Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (AKUADS) is a 25 item screening instrument, developed indigenously in the primary health care and psychiatric setting of Pakistan, for screening depression and anxiety disorder. It incorporates culturally pertinent somatic metaphors of depressive disorder. It has an advantage over ETIC instruments, in assessing locally relevant idioms of distress in the primary health care settings in Pakistan. To assess the performance of a screening instrument i.e., AKUADS, we take a hypothetical population of 10000 and calculate the sensitivity, specificity based on the sensitivity and specificity found in the literature.\nSensitivity & Specificity of Aga Khan University Anxiety and depression scale (AKUADS) as a screening instrument*\nSummary of test performance characteristics (as stated in the published reports)4\nThese test characteristics can be used to generate 2 x 2 tables, or decision matrix, using an arbitrary sample size of 10000 patients (table 1). This can be used to assign probabilities to the branch node C-2, thus an accurate estimate of how the screening instrument is functioning.\nBayes' rule is a mathematical formula that can also be used to calculate unknown conditional probability, such as predictive value positive [P (D+ \/T+)] directly from the reported values for sensitivity [P (T+\/D+) = 0.66], specificity [P (T-\/D-) =0.79] and prior probability of major depressive disorder [prevalence, P (D+) = 0.30]19. Thus,\nIn above example 1-sensitivity will be interpreted as probability of test results as negative given the disease status to be positive. For any screening instrument false negative rate is a major concern. This is particularly so in the context of primary health care in Pakistan. FNR of 0.34 means that quarter of a patients attending primary health care will be misclassified, therefore, losing valuable opportunity of early recognition and intervention.\nIn this circumstances use of another screening instrument simultaneously or sequentially can serve to rectify this potential problem. Use of two screening instruments simultaneously will serve to increase the sensitivity while sequential use will increase specificity. The choice for either mode of screening depends upon the purpose of screening.\nWith a population to psychiatrist ratio of 1: 100,000, primary care in Pakistan serves as the sole care provider, unlike its filtering role in western countries20. Therefore high specificity is desirable in the contest of Pakistan. Thus sequential screening using AKUADS followed by another instrument\/tool might be more desirable. Diagnostic confirmation based on DSM-IV diagnostic criteria described by Reza H et al can be used sequentially with AKUADS, in the context of primary health setting in Pakistan21.\nDepression sub-typing: differences in primary care and psychiatry (Node D-2):\nThere are number of factors mentioned in literature regarding \"type\" of depressive disorder seen in primary care and psychiatry. Patients seen in the two settings may be quite different. Depression seen in primary care is less severe and less impairing. Evidence of this comes from Michigan Depression Project (MDP), a longterm study of depression in primary care that has provided valuable data regarding the similarities and differences between depressed patients in primary care and psychiatry and whether the same treatment is appropriate in both settings.\nIn its first phase, MDP screened 1928 adult patients from fifty family physicians practices in southeast Michigan and completed structured diagnostic interviews on 425 distressed primary care patients and 123 depressed psychiatric outpatients using the structured clinical interview for DSM-III-R (SCID). Clinicians were asked independently whether each of the patients was clinically depressed. The full sample received comprehensive assessment of stress, social support, overall health, health care utilization, and depression severity at intake and 4.5and 9 months after enrollment. Of the 425 depressed primary care patients, 13.5% were diagnosed with Major Depression, but over 40 % of those meeting the criteria for MDD were mildly depressed. Many of the primary care patients with mild or moderate depression were not diagnosed; family physician only diagnosed 35% with MDD and 28% patients with any depressive disorder22. However detection rate for severe depressive patients was significantly higher; 73% of severely depressed patients were selected compared with 18.4% of mildly depressed patients.\nIn case of functional depressive disorder severity of the illness has implication on detection rate (D-2). Detection rate for sever depressive disorder is 73 % while detection rates for mild-to-moderate depression is 18.4%. This is in the context when 80-to-86% of the Depressive disorders is mild-to-moderate in intensity. In primary health care mild-to-moderate depression is the most common presentation as compared to psychiatric setting23. The severity of illness has implications for treatment; as mild to moderate depression is best treated by psychotherapy. Sever depressive disorder will invariably require anti-depressants medication therapy. There are no studies on severity of illness and its subsequent detection rates in primary care setting from Pakistan. This is shown in chance node C-5 and C-6.\nTreatment option in primary care (Node D-3):\nThe third decision (D-3) is related to the available choice of therapies. General Physicians can prescribe short term (8-10 sessions) psychotherapy. Mild-to-Moderate depression is preferably treated with short term psychotherapy\/counseling, in the setting of primary health care. However, the option of psychotherapy needs to be discussed with the patient, with clear delineation of utility and outcome.\nIn a randomized control trial, Ali et al showed the effectiveness of psychotherapy when conducted by minimally trained therapist. Short term counseling was particularly effective in low income group and can be usefully delivered in primary health care setting24.\nChance nodes on remissions and relapses are given in the decision making tree. Unfortunately there is no literature on the long term outcome of specific treatments for depression from Pakistan. In cases of relapse of the illness it is advisable for the Primary care physician (health worker) to refer the patient to a psychiatrist.\nDecision node D-4 pertains to choice of psychotropic medication in cases of depressive disorder with moderate to sever intensity. There are no studies on the long term outcomes of depression in the context of Pakistan. Extrapolating findings from western literature, around 60 % patients with depressive disorder relapse with in a year. This is in the situation of successful response to psychotropic medications. However in the context of primary care setting in Pakistan, any recurrent and relapsing case should be referred to a psychiatrist. There may be complicating psychosocial determinants or co morbid psychiatric problems (personality disorders), that may be safely treatment by mental health physician.\nThere are certain limitations to this decision analysis. The data on outcomes and utilities is based on western literature; its generalizibility to the culturally unique setting of Pakistan needs to be considered carefully. Prospective data from primary care settings is required, in order to develop any robust model that serves decision making for management of depression in the context of primary care in Pakistan.\nThe author wishes to acknowledge Dr. Esfandiar Maram, for his inspirational teaching of Epidemiology & Biostatics. His keen interest in psychiatric epidemiology led to initiation of this work.\nAssuming 30 % prevalence rate of MDD in primary health care, in a hypothetical population size of 10,000 people, screened with AKUADS, with a sensitivity of 66% AKUHADS will correctly identify 2,070 individuals who has the disease. It will however fail to detect 930 individuals who have depressive disorder. Similarly with a specificity of 79 % it will detect their disease free status among 5,530 individuals out of 7,000. However it will misclassify 1470 disease free individuals as disease positive, thereby creating some, albeit transient anxiety among them.\n1. Murray CJ, Lopez AD. The Global Burden of Disease: A comprehensive assessment of Mortality and Disability from Disease, Injury and Risk Factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health, WHO and World Bank, 1996.\n2. Mirza I, Jenkins R. 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Subjective effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine in recreational users. Neuropsychopharmacology 1988; 1: 273-7.\n16. Kendler KS, Heath AC, Neale MC, Kessler RC. Alcoholism and major depression in women: a twin study of the causes of the Comorbidity. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1993; 50: 690-8.\n17. Gordis L. Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening test, In: Epidemiology Philadelphia, Elsevier Saunders 2004.\n18. Fletcher RH, Fletcher SW, Wagner EH. Clinical Epidemiology: The essentials. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1982.\n19. Feinstein AR. Clinical biostatistics. Clin Pahrmacol Ther 1979; 25:108-16.\n20. Naqvi H, Khan MM. Pathways to psychiatric care in Karachi. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 2006;16:438-9.\n21. Reza H, Khan MM. Depression: Diagnosis and management in general practice in Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc 2003; 53: 500-5.\n22. Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Kroenke K. 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{"text":"Home \u00bb Apprentice Storyteller \u00bb Ropes of Lightning\nRopes of Lightning\nBy Apprentice August 18, 2018 September 14, 2018 Apprentice Storyteller, Idea Pile, Story\nNOTE: This post is inspired by This Reddit Post and as such, the idea is entirely credited to u\/LeastCoordinatedJedi and his kid.\nCaptain's Log of the Vessel Wayward Cloud. Date unknown.\nNote about time and date: Date is unknown due to total lack of celestial objects. I do not know if the stars or sun and moon are even present, as candles don't even shed light here \u2013 they are only a dim point in the shape of a flame \u2013 though the air itself seems to be giving off some unnatural light. It confuses me when I try to think about it, and gives me a headache. It has probably been about 3 weeks since our vessel was lifted off the waves.\nNote about our ship: I would call our ship a Galleon, so we thought ourselves quite safe in these waters (what with a full compliment of crew to fight pirates or monsters). but we lost a mast, multiple spars, and many sails, so we are rigged almost like a schooner at this point. I do believe now that we will not be returning to port for repairs.\nEnough about the ship. It's no longer in the waves. This story is being entered in the ships logs and my personal diary in hopes that my logs will find their way back to civilized lands where monsters do not roam about uncontested. I hope that either a college of sorcery will be made aware that one of their member are attacking ships off the coast, or that the powers of the empire will be alerted and focused on those that have so treacherously preyed upon ships in the region.\nWe begin with the child that we found on flotsam \u2013 the partial wreckage of at least 2 ships. He had quite the story to tell, and I didn't believe him, until I saw it for myself.\nWe found young J-dai (he insisted with the enthusiasm that only 5-year olds can generate that his name was spelled exactly this way) clinging to flotsam of a merchant ship that was obviously attacked by pirates. Pretty ballsy of the pirates \u2013 this was an important shipping corridor, so the imperial patrol and even privateers like us were often found in these waters, and no-one takes kindly to black flags. We found him among the wreckage of 2 other ships, and he claimed that a third had been lifted to the sky. At first, we thought that J-dai was only mistaken as not nearly enough wreckage was available to be from 3 different ships, but then we found separate main masts still connected to badly bent straps and bolts that could only have been ripped apart from below the deck of 3 different ships.\nThe crew felt that we should have left with haste, but I disregarded their protests as silly superstition and thought that staying would be a good way to increase the reputation of professional privateers on these waters. I decided to look for further survivors to return to their loved ones and perhaps cargo that I might return to their rightful companies (and of course, claim for myself if no company brand was found). To my great shame, I led my poor crew and my beloved ship to cursed clouds of demon light and no lands, and I fell in to this trap while selfishly trying to improve the lot of privateer captains. If only we could have sunken under the waves with the first blast.\nWe found scattered foodstuffs and a few bales of cotton (details in the clerks log). All the other cargo seems to have been sunk or taken by the attackers. We found no other survivors, and we found no dead bodies. It was almost as if someone had scoured the sea for men, living and dead, and plucked them up with no regard for the other valuables in the salt. This was odd, as almost anyone attacking a ship will take whatever food they can find to bolster their own stores, and we found many barrels of brandy, apples, wheat, and other food.\nThe boy told me a quick version of his story while recovering with some hot food and a little wine in the captain's cabin, and told a long version of his story later to some sympathetic sailors before we were attacked. I was not present for the long version, but here is my best recollection of his short version:\nFirst off, I can tell is that he has no idea why they were on a ship. I did my best not to allow him to think that I thought his story was preposterous \u2013 young minds are very imaginative, but they often have the seed of truth to their stories. I realized quickly that I would not know where he embellished his imagination, but it turns out to be far less than I initially thought.\nIn his abbreviated version, he tells me that his father was a merchant company's ship captain and there being 2 other ships with him was quite notable \u2013 the little boy was very proud of his father for the promotion (his story kept changing the particular rank \u2013 captain, admiral, mate, etc.). It seems they had outrun a storm for nearly 2 days in the straights at the nearby islands and the crew was totally exhausted, so they dropped anchor to let the entire crew rest and eat well for a morning.\nJ-Dai says that when the sailors were getting ready to be under way, the cries went up that the storm had caught up to them again and the whole crew began desperately trying to get farther away from the rocky shore \u2013 the boy was very insistent that earlier there had been an argument between senior staff that they were too close to some rocks and \"150 paces is too close after that storm\" \u2013 and there was great confusion about which way to go. The boy said that a great wind came up as a dark cloud overtook them, and \"a huge red frog fell out of the sky \u2013 a frog sailor with black pants, standing on two legs.\" When the frog-sailor fell on his ship, it cracked the planks near the main mast. He watched as this invader then tied \"a piece of lightning\" to the mast, which was suddenly met by the sky as well \u2013 with a \"big giant noise\" \u2013 lightning came down from the newly formed clouds to join the piece tied to the mast, and while he was watching this from the captain's cabin, he heard more noises and saw the other ships suffer a similar fate.\nAfter this, his story gets even more confused, as the melee was joined in full \u2013 with apparently more monsters coming down the lightning to join the red frog sailor. He doesn't know when the masts were torn from their bolts, but his father threw him on a mast as it fell over, apparently to simply get his child off the doomed ship. The boy hid, terrified, under the sail on a spar and he heard a lot of things happening in the water, and then the sound like a waterfall \u2013 he peeked out at that point and saw the noise was from water falling off the hull of the last remaining ship being lifted by \"ropes of lightning twisted into a braid\" into a \"great purple hole in the clouds\" \u2013 and he saw a stone castle through the hole as well, swearing that a witch was watching the whole encounter while standing on the water. The witch apparently walked up in to the cloud as it was disappearing. He waited more than a day on the now-calm seas before we showed up.\nOnce his story was over, I let the senior crew know that we may have a pirate on our hands, and they may have a renegade sorcerer with them. I feel that I took warnings from young J-dai's story, but while correct, they were insufficient. Looking back, I was very prideful in thinking that our ship was impervious to a sorcerer-pirate. Even with a battle-tested crew, I should have taken the warning an weighed anchor immediately.\nThe boy ate voraciously \u2013 I did not doubt the time frames that he told us. After a few more hours of scouring the wreckage for salvage (it helped that the sea was very calm \u2013 more like a fishing-pond) I began to get uneasy after finding the third ship's mast \u2013 an experienced sailor could tell in only a few moments how many ships the discarded sails were from.\nAnd then it happened. A shadow came over the waters, further out to sea than ourselves. Cast by a great purple cloud, it was boiling and moving and glowing with an energy that is foreign to my eyes. This witch-cloud was growing and moving quickly from the sea towards shore, but it never got to the shore \u2013 it found my ship and stayed over it, blocking the sun from our search \u2013 making it almost like twilight, it was so wide. Cast by a great roiling purple cloud, I began to give the boy's story more credence \u2013 this must be the work of some powerful magic-user, as it could not be a typical storm. I immediately gave the order go regather the men from the boats in the water \u2013 we either needed them for the fight, or we needed the boats to flee upon.\nAs the first men got up from the sea to the main deck, I heard a sound that was loud like a clap of nearby cannon fire, but distant and rolling like thunder. The men were armed with saber, hook, and crossbow, and to their credit not a single one turned to give me shame for staying in those haunted waters \u2013 they each took up their battle positions and got the last of the men from the boats. We all stood ready, weapons in hand, for a few very long minutes.\nAlmost I ordered the anchor weighed or perhaps even the ship abandoned \u2013 but before the orders were given, the sound of some kind of foreign drum rolled over us. At the same moment, and the whole crew and I were enraptured as we saw a hole begin to open \u2013 a great circle whose edge was naught but roiling storm cloud and small splinters of lightning. The noise happened again and again, and I realized that the portal was opening ever-wider with each strike of the distant drumhead. And as we watched the spectacle, the true horror of what we were seeing came upon us. In the distance through that portal, we saw a great palace upon a hill of rock and boulders.\nThere was something not right about the way that we were looking at it. Almost like we were above it, but also like the front gates, all the pillars around the outside, and the roof were connected by a single acute angle instead of many obtuse ones. Perhaps it is best to describe it like we were within a trick mirror that was pointed at the fortress? Bah! I consider myself a man of letters but cannot fathom the words that should successfully describe how the hill and fortress were oriented to us.\nThe building glowed with sickly inner light and my mate held a spyglass and yelled that there were great crystals on all the ramparts, attended by some kind of monster, and that the sounds were made by these crystals.\nAs he watched, he reported with shock that creatures were climbing these magical devices by the dozen, and these stood waiting, looking to our ship, and then with a terrified scream he said that they were being launched off of the crystals toward us. I told the mate to keep his gaze upon the first ones that went in this way, and tell us when they would land on us. In a quick whisper he related \"Only a few moments! At least a dozen in the first volley!\" was his report, and then dropping the spyglass he roared \"BLADES READY!\"\nJust as he said this, there were the sounds that no sailor ever wants to hear \u2013 the cracking and splintering of the planks of the deck. As the splinters settled, we were able to see it clearly \u2013 a monster that was in the general shape of a giant man \u2013 all the sailors were too stunned to rush initially, so it stood up from it's landing crouch while we took in what we were seeing.\nIt's stance was like that of a great bear on two legs, but even less clear delineation between the skull and the muscles of the broad back, and no fur. It stood taller than any man I have ever seen \u2013 with sloped shoulders and great long arms. It stood on two legs and wore black pants. It's head was low to it's shoulders and wide, with eyes more on top than in front, and a great mouth that almost seemed to reach to the back to it's shoulders. It was colored a deep crimson, mottled with large brick-red spots on it's head and back. It was indeed exactly the beast from J-dai's story \u2013 somewhat frog-shaped in the face and wearing black pants. The invader was even holding a short length of chain that glowed bright like a blue sun. As we watched, it held one end of the chain in it's fist up to the mast; the way you might knock on a door while holding a tool in the same hand.\nAs he did this, the rest of the monsters were landing, also cracking boards with the force of impact. The noise shook us out of our astonishment and some men charged. The frog-men (who were made in various colors) had already rushed to defensive postures around this one, apparently so that he could finish his work.\nI stayed back for a moment longer, in order to perhaps find an opportunity to get past the monster's companions and engage with it more fully. The chain which initially appeared very short suddenly wrapped itself around the mast and the crimson beast let go, just as a great bolt of lightning streaked out of the sky with a huge thunder clap and joined the chain. All the men disengaged and took a few steps back. Unlike lightning, this thing maintained its presence \u2013 as soon as it hit it fell slack like a great rope made of vibrant blue-white light.\nAs I stood back, the other sailors and I realized that we were bested physically \u2013 the monsters didn't seem interested in a fight and kept simply catching our arms as we swung blades and maces, and pushing us back as their companions continued their work with the chains and lightning \u2013 some of the other monsters that landed also had the glowing chains. We got a few good hits, but none that were mortal.\nIt was in that moment of tense, industrious calm that I realized the true horror of what was happening. The ropes of lightning were losing their slack \u2013 whatever great wheel that had these devices mounted to it is turning and tightening the ropes. We were being lifted to that infernal castle. The weight was being put on the masts and anything that looked like it could bear the load. There were at least a dozen points the ropes of lightning were connected.\nSome of the points began to buckle \u2013 some were attached to rails, to spars, and some just to planks. The first of these to buckle shocked us out of our horror and I cried \"Kill the invaders! Your life is in your hands!\" and to my great pride, every single sailor rushed as one and we slew several of the frog-men in the initial rush. The invaders then began to take us seriously and truly fought back.\nThe larger invaders would cleave off a limb with a single swipe of their falchions, but we could not kill them without the concerted effort of a dozen of us. We could overwhelm a few more, but they only fought us until we could feel the ship -the entire ship- lifted from the water. We all felt it begin to spin, and the invaders immediately ran to the points where the ropes of lightning were attached, and they began to scramble up the blue lines. We got a few more of them, but our doom was sealed.\nOne by one, my sailors \u2013 my friends \u2013 turned from the spectacle above us to look to me for direction. When I realized they expected an order, I gave it. \"Abandon ship. She's been captured, but we need not be captured as well.\" Several men went to the life-boats, but then one man just dove off the side. He fell up into the purple hole in the clouds. His confused yell turning to terrified screaming will haunt the rest of my short days. We watched him float up through the purple air, and fell past the hill that the palace is on, and then we heard it \u2013 a great cackling.\nThere was laughter coming from the sea.\nThere was a woman. A woman standing on the sea, apparently still casting a spell in a circle of torches that floated about her.\nShe was in thick, black robes. Her auburn hair was flat around her shoulders \u2013 no wind seemed to touch her. She was standing in a circle of torches that were arranged on the water below us. I do not know what magic she used to stand there, but considering the sight above us, it did not seem unfeasible. She did not seem young or beautiful, but she also did not seem old or ugly. But as we caught sight of her, we felt the power of her.\nAs we breached the purple cloud, she seemed to be finished, and ascended past us by walking on the air. A few of my men fired crossbows at her, and one even hit. She did not seem to notice that a bolt was pinning her robe to her ribs. We lost all spirit of violence at that.\nWe suffered from extreme horror then. We were being pulled from our native waters to be prisoners in a world where frogs command high magic and even geometry did not seem to make sense. We thought initially that we would be pulled to the rocks and dashed before the palace. But his was not so. We were merely tethered. The men waited in silent anticipation for hours.\nAnd the terror passed.\nTerror turned to boredom.\nInitially, I kept the crew busy doing normal maintenance of the ship, and rigging her up as if we expected to be plopped back in the water any minute. There are a dozen or so other ships that we have been able to signal with flags and with oil lamps, but we cannot get close enough for real exchange of information. The crew is doing their best to stay entertained, but music doesn't seem to sound right, and both dice and cards seem silly when you will likely never see the use of money again.\nSo now we are waiting for the end. Some of my crewmates have hastened that for themselves \u2013 jumping off always seems to have them fall forever past the palace and the rocks. We do not know if they ever find a sea or land. Others tried to climb the ropes of lightning \u2013 but it feels to the touch like a greased pole of hot brass. The only distance you can go is determined by your initial jump, and you can't hold on for long, anyways.\nWe are beginning to come to the end of our food stores.\nSome crew have suggested a feast of the last of the rations, since there is no hope of rescue. Force the sea witch to deal with us or let us die.\nIn the end, I do think something will happen. As I write this, I see that one of our fellow tethered ships is throwing all it's cargo over the side, and I can see the palace responding \u2013 the frog-men are launching again to them. Whether to deal with them properly as prisoners and feed them, or simply to slaughter them for wasting wealth I do not know, but it would certainly be better than this incessant waiting in the purple air.\n\u00ab HELLO REDDIT\nGetting back to it. \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Abdominal Distension and Digestive Disorders\nMore in Irritable Bowel Syndrome\nCauses & Diagnosis\nSupport & Coping\nBarbara Bolen, PhD\nBarbara Bolen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and health coach. She has written multiple books focused on living with irritable bowel syndrome.\nMedically reviewed by Emmy Ludwig, MD on August 05, 2016\nEmmy Ludwig, MD, is board-certified in gastroenterology and hepatology. She practices at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.\nEmmy Ludwig, MD\nPeter Hince \/ Getty Images\nDistension is defined as something that is enlarged or stretched beyond its normal state, typically from within. Abdominal distension is a sense of increased abdominal pressure that involves an actual measurable change in the circumference of a person's abdomen.\nDistension can be measured through the use of a tape measure. Distension over the course of a day can be measured more reliably by a device known as ambulatory abdominal inductance plethysmography (AIP). Such a device would most likely only be used during the course of a research study.\nHow Is Distension Different than Bloating?\nWhen a person feels bloated, they experience a sense of increased pressure in their abdomen, but without any measurable change. With distension, there is an actual widening to the size and circumference of the abdomen. Many people, including doctors, will often use the two terms interchangeably.\nAlthough the causes of both bloating and distension have not yet been well-identified, there are some research indications that different (but related) mechanisms may be underlying each of the two problems.\nBloating and distension are symptoms that are most characteristic of a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGD), such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).\nHow many people who have IBS experience distension alongside bloating? Estimates range from 50 to 75%. These patients are more likely to report it as a highly bothersome symptom. Distension is more likely to be reported by patients who have constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) as opposed to diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D). Studies have shown that a slowing of the transit time of fecal matter through the gut is related to the experience of distension.\nTypically, patients will report that distension is more likely to occur after meals and will worsen as the day goes on, with a reduction in the symptom overnight.\nDistension that increases as the day wears on is most likely due to an FGD. Distension that occurs 24\/7 may be indicative of a more serious health problem.\nAlthough it seems like common sense to say that distension is related to excessive amounts of intestinal gas, this theory has not been fully supported by research. Rather, it may be that it is the way that the digestive systems of people who have IBS handle the gas that is the problem.\nAnother theory suggests that distension is related to a dysfunctional reflex of the muscles of the abdomen, triggered by the act of eating a meal. More research is needed to validate or discount this theory.\nThere are a variety of things that can cause abdominal distension (as well as bloating). Therefore there are no treatments identified that specifically target the symptom of distension. Instead, treatment focus on dealing with the symptoms of the overall digestive disorder.\nOne of the most challenging aspects of having IBS is trying to figure out what's safe to eat. Our recipe guide makes it easier. Sign up and get yours now!\nAgrawal, A. & Whorwell, P. \"Review Article: Abdominal Bloating and Distension in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders -- Epidemiology and Exploration of Possible Mechanisms\" Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2008 27:2-10.\nLea, R. & Whorwell, P. \"Expert Commentary \u2013 Bloating, Distension, and the Irritable Bowel Syndrome\" MedGenMed 2005 7:18.\nWhy Your IBS Causes You to Feel Bloated\nLearn the Biology Behind Your Awful IBS Pain\nThe Diagnostic Criteria that Your Doctor Uses to Diagnose Your IBS\nFind out What Causes Bloating and Get Tips to Help You Feel Better\nHow to Know If You Have IBS-D\nPain With Constipation May Be Constipation Predominant IBS\nSymptoms of Common Digestive Problems\nThe Best Probiotic Supplements for IBS\nWhat Is SIBO and What Does It Have to Do With IBS?\nWhen Your IBS Causes Both Constipation and Diarrhea\nWhat Tests Will Your Doctor Do If You Have too Much Gas?\nWhen IBS and Gallbladder Problems Happen at the Same Time\nHow to Suppress Your Gastrocolic Reflex for IBS Relief\nA Closer Look at Irritable Bowel Syndrome\nIs Holding in a Fart Bad for You?\nThe Health Problems That Might Cause You to Have Pain After Eating","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jack Allen's Kitchen 360 Is Now Open For Lunch, Dinner, And Brunch\nIt's Jack Gilmore's third restaurant.\nby Nadia Chaudhury Apr 15, 2015, 12:30pm CDT\nShare All sharing options for: Jack Allen's Kitchen 360 Is Now Open For Lunch, Dinner, And Brunch\nJack Allen's Kitchen 360\nThe Westlake location of Jack Allen's Kitchen is now officially open for lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch on Loop 360. The third restaurant is helmed by chef Jack Gilmore. The farm-focused kitchen will serve the same sort of Texan comfort food fare, with some additional new items to the menu and cocktail list. It's also the home of Jack Allen's first wood burning oven. Dinner tonight features fried quail legs, stewed red chile pork shoulder, and a strawberry rhubarb cobbler.\nThe space, designed by Mann & Mann Architects, includes canning jar chandeliers, plenty of reclaimed wood, and other vintage details. Outside, there is a patio with both a fireplace and television screen. 360 is open from Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m.-11 p.m.. Sunday brunch is served from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.\nThe new restaurant took over the former Trento space last spring. The restaurant opened for dinner service only last week.\nJack Allen's Kitchen [360]\n3600 N Capital of Texas Hwy Ste D, Austin, TX 78746\nTracking All of Austin's 2015 New Restaurant Openings\nPortland's Voodoo Doughnut is Now Soft Open in Austin\nSteampunk Saloon Will Take Over Former Opal Divine's On West Sixth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Health\/Veteran suicide: How to help military members with mental health, PTSD\nVeteran suicide: How to help military members with mental health, PTSD\nRandy McDonald once oversaw the manufacturing of precision-guided munitions and cluster bombs at Minot Air Force Base, sometimes working alongside some of the highest-ranking airmen. Now in his mid-40s, he had to make sure 10,000 items sat where they should on sprawling shelves at Home Depot: tools, thermostats, humidifiers, duct tape \u2014 you name it. He missed the camaraderie and brotherhood that had defined the first half of his life. Now, it felt like his sole goal was unloading enough retail from semi trucks to earn a bonus check.\nHe felt like a burden. He thought about ending his life and leaving behind his two daughters and his wife. Leaving behind the three-bedroom stucco house where they lived in Minot, North Dakota, and its brick-lined, arched front door. He came up with a plan. He knew the date, the time and the place, and how he was going to die by suicide. But then, a small deviation in his well-oiled journey snapped him out of his funk. \"What the hell are you doing?\" he thought.\nHe realized how close to the abyss he was teetering, and this realization set him out on a new journey. What if he could reach out to other veterans before it was too late, he wondered, even those in the far reaches of North Dakota?\nHe knew he was hardly the first veteran to think about suicide. Across remote areas of the country, from Pennsylvania to Montana, from Wyoming to Nevada, thousands are going through the same trepidations. They face a fragmented social fabric, a byzantine path to receiving health care and a pervasive stigma surrounding mental health. This, combined with a dearth of community resources, at-times crippling isolation and a gun-friendly culture, makes rural veterans 20% more likely to die by suicide than veterans as a whole. These former servicemen die by suicide at such a high rate, in fact, that they're driving overall self-inflicted deaths in rural counties.\nDeep in the Intermountain West, mental health researchers have developed a program they say could help stem this tide of veteran suicides. It hinges on a radical shift of paradigm: What if people like McDonald \u2014 not just mental health experts \u2014 were the first line of defense against suicide? What if it took a veteran to save a veteran?\nTwenty-two. The numerals appear in white font on black rubber band bracelets worn by veterans \u2014 the estimated number of veterans who die by suicide every day. That figure has fluctuated over the years and now probably stands at around 17. But this issue has afflicted the U.S. military at least since the 19th century.\nRural veterans are 20% more likely to die by suicide than veterans as a whole.\nWhile suicide was deemed morally repugnant at the time, many Civil War veterans traumatized by the war still took their own lives. Some of the soldiers who'd survived World War I didn't live much longer after the conflict ended: In 1921, a former colonel in the Army's Medical Corps testified in front of a Senate committee that 400 veterans had taken their lives in New York state just the previous year. And about 9,000 Vietnam War veterans are estimated to have died by suicide from the time of discharge through the 1980s.\nThe trauma associated with combat exposure has long been blamed for veteran suicide. It was once referred to as \"nostalgia,\" then as \"shell shock\" during World War I, and as PTSD after Vietnam.\nBy the time James Peake, an Army doctor who'd served in Vietnam, was appointed as the U.S. Army Surgeon General in 2000, the crisis was well documented. That's why when the U.S. invaded Iraq, Peake made sure to send mental health experts to the front lines to \"drive mental health (treatment) deeper into the units,\" he says.\nResearchers think veterans could hold the key to preventing suicides among their peers.\nGetty for the Deseret News\nThe experts found that not much had changed since the Civil War. A number of soldiers who went to Iraq and Afghanistan were diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder and reported heavy drinking, among other stresses and disorders. What was different was the avalanche of deaths the post 9\/11 era ushered in.\nOne Boston University study found that 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans have died by suicide on American soil since the Twin Towers fell, compared to 7,057 service members killed in war theaters. There's no one explanation for that escalation. Experts point to the growing military-civilian divide, society's scorn for interventions in the Middle East and the military's failure to adequately prepare its members for civilian life. Some suggest that armed forces now attract a certain profile of people more likely to have experienced psychological trauma before. And then there's the trauma many experience while serving, whether deployed or not, including sexual assaults and physical abuses.\nHere's something else that changed. For a long time veterans bore the responsibility for suicide, which was seen as a sign of moral weakness. But the onus is now on the government for failing to care for its veterans. When Peake, then VA secretary, was called in to testify before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs in 2008, lawmakers made clear something needed to be done. \"We should all be angry at what has gone on here,\" one admonished him. Veteran suicide has since become one of the few nonpartisan issues on Capitol Hill. The last three VA secretaries all made it their top clinical priority, and Congress in recent years considered at least five bills or initiatives aiming to tackle suicides.\nAnd yet, a rising number of veterans took their lives during the past decade, with the exception of a small dip between 2018 and 2019. Despite making up only 8.3% of adults, veterans today represent 14.3% of all suicides, according to the VA.\nNorth Dakota hasn't been immune to this national trend. Veterans now make up less than 6% of the state's population but accounted for 17% of suicides in 2020. McDonald came perilously close to being one of them.\nA burly man with kind eyes and a light brown beard, McDonald grew up in the college town of Morgantown, West Virginia, a Rust Belt community nestled in the Appalachian foothills, and the home of West Virginia University. It stands a few miles from the Pittsburgh coal seam and, at the height of the coal mining boom, men waiting to board buses for one of the 60 coal mines outside of town were a common sight. McDonald saw firsthand what mining will do to you. When his uncle died at 76, his lungs had soaked up about as much coal dust as tar from the three packs of cigarettes he smoked a day.\nMcDonald wasn't interested in suffering the same fate. He wasn't much interested in college, either, he says from a bakery in downtown Minot. He's brought lunch \u2014 a couple of turkey sandwiches and a bag of onion chips \u2014 but he barely touches it.\nHe says he did what many young men in rural areas do when faced with limited options. He walked into a military recruiting office and joined the Air Force. After training in San Antonio, he was put on the maintenance career track and was sent to Minot Air Force Base for three years. Now married, he was deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, where his first daughter was born. He went on to Virginia to work in a bomb shop at Langley Air Force Base, before spending a few more years in Minot, this time supervising one. With his wife, he bought a house a few blocks from the Souris River, which flows through Minot. After stints in Guam and Turkey, he retired from the Air Force in 2013. He'd seen the world and had had a rich career serving with men he admired. What else could he ask for?\nHe got a job at Nash Finch, a wholesale food distributor. It was an uneasy transition from manufacturing bombs, to say the least. He'd been managing 70 people in Minot Air Force base, having in effect the power of \"life and death\" over people in far-flung countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, often the bombs' final destinations. Now, he had to make sure grocery stores got their extra case of soda, or that the ice cream wasn't too soft. He grew agitated, seemingly unable to hold on to a job for more than a year or two.\nNone gave him the same pride and satisfaction he'd felt as an airman. He hit a new low when he found himself working the night shift at a Home Depot, missing out on evenings with friends. The long winters only compounded a growing sense of isolation. He all but gave up painting, a long-held passion, instead spending his days watching TV or reading books. \"Those are the times where you really start sinking down into your negative thoughts,\" McDonald says.\nOne memory especially sticks out. He sees himself walking down the street outside of Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, where he's been stationed for a few months. It's 1999 and Albanian refugees have been pouring from war-torn Kosovo. A group of children materializes, swarming McDonald and other airmen, looking to thumb-wrestle for a soda or peddle $1 pieces of gum. Suddenly, a Turkish teenager watching from a distance pounces on an Albanian child. Airmen aren't allowed to intervene, and McDonald, about 24 at the time, watches powerless as the teenager beats the child, dragging him behind a corner.\nHe enters the rabbit hole. What happened to the kid? Did he lose his vision? Did he have broken bones? Sometimes positive thoughts put up a fight against the bad ones. Perhaps a church person or a doctor found the child and treated him? But more often than not, the good thoughts lose.\nDue to the Air Force base, there's no shortage of veterans in Minot, where they make up nearly a tenth of the city's about 48,000 residents. The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and AMVETS all have chapters in town. But this doesn't necessarily translate into a tight-knit, multigenerational veteran community.\nAt Charlie's Main Street Cafe, you might see airmen in camouflage uniforms seated at one of the green upholstered booths, digging into a blueberry pie or wolfing down a hot beef sandwich. Veterans, on the other hand, don't wear uniforms, and many won't make their military history known.\nIn rural areas, 1 in 3 veterans isn't enrolled in VA health care, making it less likely they will be screened for depression as part of a routine checkup.\nThis means that former servicemen like McDonald can feel utterly isolated, even in a military town. The VA, of course, provides robust mental health services, including at the local clinic, a one-story building next door to a Little Caesars. But in rural areas, more than a third of all veterans aren't enrolled in VA health care, making it less likely they will be screened for depression as part of a routine checkup. For many who, like McDonald, suffered no service-related physical disabilities or injuries upon being discharged, receiving care through the VA isn't always the first option, especially if they have good private insurance.\n\"Once a service member leaves the service, there is nothing that overtly compels them to have contact with the VA,\" says Jeffrey Smith, an associate professor of history at the University of Hawaii Hilo who has studied military suicides. This makes it challenging for the VA to flag veterans who may be at risk. People sometimes think that \"there's some kind of magic list with all the veterans, and that if we called all of them they wouldn't kill themselves,\" says Carl LoFaro, a suicide prevention social worker at the VA. \"That's not really, unfortunately, how it works.\"\nHistorically, veterans clubs played a key role in suicide prevention, albeit not an explicitly defined one. Men sitting at the bar counter would suddenly spill out their guts in booze-fueled catharses, sharing harrowing war stories for the first time. But these days, mostly aging Vietnam veterans meet at vets clubs, a TV sometimes playing a black-and-white movie in the background. It can be hard for younger vets to feel welcome.\n\"We're having trouble recruiting new members,\" says Tammy VanWinkle, the head of the American Veterans' Minot chapter. This means that younger veterans, who research shows are more likely to commit suicide than older cohorts, aren't receiving the same informal peer support as their elders.\nIn this context, intervening before it's too late is akin to a crapshoot, especially in rural areas. Some groups like Forward Flag, a veteran nonprofit in New Mexico (it also has operations in Tennessee), have developed their own methods to ferret out former military members. There, volunteers drive a rusty Bluebird Wanderlodge bus deep into remote locales like the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, and, once there, set up on well-trafficked parking lots. If they're lucky, a veteran's inquisitive grandmother or aunt will stop by and, later on, return with the veteran, opening up the possibility volunteers may identify signs of depression and direct them to mental health services.\nIn Minot, McDonald couldn't find the kind of peer support that would pull him out of the rabbit hole. A call with the ND Cares Coalition in Bismarck, a state-sponsored initiative that seeks to improve veteran-related services, finally brought him fresh answers. Someone, it turns out, was working on developing the sort of help he desperately needed.\nThe VA has been trying something new to make a dent in veteran suicide \u2014 make veterans themselves the first line of defense.\nNathaniel Mohatt, a research psychologist, stood in a conference room in front of a dozen veterans in Kalispell, Montana. It was early 2018 and he'd just flown with a team of experts from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an interstate agency based in Boulder, Colorado. They had one goal: persuade the men to become the first line of defense against veteran suicide in northwest Montana.\nMohatt, a soft-spoken man with well-kept hair \u200b\u200band tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, knew a thing or two about rural veterans. In the 2010s, he'd worked on a mental health initiative targeting National Guardsmen in Kansas, and he'd studied ways rural primary care could better address suicide risks. In his years in the field, he'd noticed there weren't any structured, comprehensive programs in rural America. Rather, existing initiatives tended to be one-off, often led by counties' public health departments or by community behavioral health centers.\nThis observation led him and his colleagues at the VA-affiliated Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention to develop a new approach. What if veterans were the ones doing suicide prevention, as opposed to experts in lab coats? After all, it'd long been documented that veterans were more likely to open up to one of their own.\nBut to get the VA to fund the new initiative, called Together With Veterans, he would need to ground it in solid evidence. So, Mohatt set out to find successful programs for inspiration. After rummaging through the academic literature, he found three. The first one was in Arizona, where the White Mountain Apache Tribe trained law enforcement, EMTs and community leaders to recognize warning signs of suicide, put together awareness campaigns and taught coping skills to at-risk youths. It managed to cut suicide rates by more than 38%. Then there was the Air Force, which worked to normalize help-seeking and reduce stigma around suicide.\nBut even more promising was the third initiative, which targeted a broad slice of the population, and not just subsets. In Germany, the Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression had taught 2,000 priests, teachers, pharmacists, policemen and other community facilitators how to identify people with depression. It'd achieved a 24% reduction in suicide attempts and completed suicides, and inspired the European Alliance Against Depression, an international nonprofit that brought the model to Chile and Australia.\n\"It's worked with native populations, it's worked in Europe, it's worked with the Air Force,\" Mohatt thought. What if rural veterans could be trained to deliver the same kind of intervention in their communities?\nThe suicide prevention center contracted with the Western Interstate Commission to design a program drawing on these efforts. Now, the researchers needed to test out their idea. After scouring suicide and population data, Mohatt's team identified four communities to try it on. One of them was in the Kalispell region, whose high concentration of veterans and high suicide rates made it an ideal candidate.\nBut the veterans gathered in the conference room in northwest Montana weren't biting. They sat squarely in their chairs, their arms crossed as a lunch of sandwiches, chips and cookies arranged on a table laid untouched. \"It was like talking to a silent room,\" says Mohatt.\nAt the end of a 40-minute presentation, the team asked a simple question. \"Do you want this in your community?\" Suddenly, the atmosphere in the room changed. The veterans had been given a choice \u2014 this program wouldn't be imposed on them unless they wanted to participate. Slowly, the veterans started weighing in on Mohatt's idea. \"They started eating our food,\" he says.\nFor a year, Western Interstate Commission representatives flew in from Denver to craft a plan alongside the veterans. \"While we were rolling the wheel down the road, we were inventing it,\" says L.D. Gross, a veteran involved in the effort. They set the main goals for the grassroots organization: reduce the stigma attached to seeking help; promote gun safety; provide suicide prevention training \u2014 including to primary care providers; and link veterans to suicide hotlines and mental health centers. Now named the Veterans Coalition of Northwest Montana, the group would receive a $100,000 grant from the VA spread over three years. It would be on its own after that.\nOnce organized, the veterans moved fast. They put up two big billboards on either end of Kalispell, showing a casket draped with an American flag, the words \"NO MORE SUICIDE\" superimposed on it, as well as the phone number to a crisis helpline. They got trained to teach \"Question, Persuade, and Refer,\" a program focused on discerning warning signs of suicide. Invariably wearing military baseball caps, they became fixtures at local gun shows, giving away gun locks \u2014 firearms are the method of choice for veterans committing suicide \u2014 and leaflets.\nIt's too early to say whether these actions have made a dent in suicides, Mohatt says, in part because it takes two years for statistics on suicide deaths to trickle down to national databases. But there have been encouraging signs. Since 2019, the coalition has delivered QPR training to 432 people, including in vets homes and farming communities. It had 10,000 people attend its events and, crucially, helped 731 veterans access housing, receive food assistance or get health care. This is an important metric because veterans enrolled in the VA are less likely to commit suicide.\nSome benefits might not be easily measured but feel equally important. After Gross and two other veterans finished teaching a QPR course at an American Legion post on the Flathead Indian Reservation, two old farmers in overalls stood up to speak. They'd lost five family members to suicide, all veterans, they said, tears streaming down their faces. \"You can run into some pretty emotional stuff,\" Gross says. Soon after, the veterans got a call from the post. Could they organize another class?\nBack in Minot, McDonald hopped on a phone call in late 2020 with a consultant for Together With Veterans. The program was expanding to dozens of communities across the country. Maybe McDonald could start the first chapter in North Dakota?\nThe model made sense to McDonald. \"I've always noticed that veterans can talk to veterans easier than they can talk to anyone else,\" he says. So, in January last year, he started reaching out to local veteran groups and nonprofits, hoping to recruit volunteers to help him set up the nonprofit.\nBut things didn't go as planned. His efforts got little traction, which he chalks up in part to a perceived lack of legitimacy. \"I failed miserably,\" McDonald says. In the summer, however, he gave it another try, reaching out again. He'd quit his job at Home Depot and started a new position as an outreach specialist for disabled veterans, in addition to studying for a master's degree in mental health counseling. This time, he received positive feedback.\nHe joined forces with a female veteran who agreed to take on the paperwork, and in the fall, the chapter held its first meeting at the local post of Veteran of Foreign Wars. After reading about the event in the Minot Daily News, about 15 people showed up, most having no idea what the meeting was really about, McDonald remembers. \"That brought out a mixed crowd.\" One participant had lost her brother, a veteran, to suicide in another state two days before and couldn't immediately be with her family. The group was the only source of healing she could find at the time.\n\"I've always noticed that veterans can talk to veterans easier than they can talk to anyone else.\"\nMcDonald felt unsure about the initiative. How, for instance, would he go about reaching veterans removed from society, those who elect to live on farms surrounded by dirt roads, dozens of miles away from the nearest city? His plan was for the group to team up with a San Diego-based nonprofit to build bunk beds for kids. Perhaps a carpenter living in a rural area would hear about the workshops and get Bob, his veteran neighbor, to lend a hand and nail a few planks. Bob would show up and find a community ready to welcome him with open arms. Perhaps the dark thoughts would go away then. Perhaps his life would be saved.\nStill, McDonald had mixed feelings about being the face of this effort. How could he talk about saving veterans when he'd come so close to losing himself? \"This is my first time admitting this publicly,\" he wrote on the group's Facebook page in September 2021. \"I've kinda felt like a fraud putting together a non-profit that focuses on rural veteran suicide, knowing how close I was just a year ago.\" But, he continued, \"This organization matters to me, veterans' matter to me, YOUR LIFE MATTERS TO ME!!!!!\"\nA dozen people emerge from the biting cold and file into a spacious conference room inside the Ward County Administration Building in Minot, a rotund edifice with sleek glass panels. The emblems for the five military branches hang on a black wall, bathed in white light. The Minot chapter of Together With Veterans has been scrupulously following a 187-page toolkit developed by the VA for local groups. This evening, they're tackling phase two of a five-step plan: a SWOT analysis \u2014 the acronym stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats \u2014 of their community.\nTen fresh boxes of Papa John's pizza are stacked on a filing cabinet. The smell of hot, melted cheese fills the room. \"Through this process, you guys are helping shape what this organization looks like,\" McDonald, wearing a cornflower blue polo shirt and a beige baseball cap, tells participants in a pep talk. They're mostly men, veterans ranging in age from mid-30s to late 70s. Some, sporting druid-like gray beards, resolutely prop up their elbows on one of four tables arranged in a rectangle. Others sit at a distance, coats still on. Some won't open their mouth once during the two-hour meeting, as though worried they may break a vow of silence.\nSoon, among those willing to talk, the comments pour in. There are the long, depressing winters, says one. Surely that's a weakness. Old veterans have a hard time going grocery shopping, says another. A sexagenarian with a well-trimmed beard chimes in. \"Does everybody in the community know that there is a veteran suicide issue?\" An Iraq vet in a black hoodie emblazoned with an American flag holds up his smartphone and notes that there's no dedicated website for Together With Veterans. How is that for brand recognition? And by the way, how do we reach younger vets who don't read the local paper?\nA man in a green sports jacket and brown boots notes another hurdle: How do we reach veterans with PTSD, who may steer away from big events? How about we do it in an open space, suggests someone. Green Jacket remarks drily that this leaves the group a 60-day window in the summer to organize meets, referring to the interminable North Dakota winters.\nBy the time the meeting is over, it's apparent the chapter has a lot on its plate. The group isn't even sure about the scale of the issue. When I point out to McDonald that only one veteran committed suicide in the county last year, according to provisional data provided by the North Dakota Health Department, he smirks. This number, he says \"seems very, very low.\" But perhaps it doesn't matter if only one veteran in the whole county is saved. At the very least, veterans who didn't know each other six months ago have banded together, their eyes set on a larger goal than themselves, the despair they may experience at times receding in the depths.\nMcDonald knows what he's talking about. In the past months he has started meeting with a counselor, talking about his PTSD. Things are finally looking up. The sense of meaning that had eluded him all these years is slowly coming back, in no small part thanks to his involvement with the chapter. \"It's a little self-serving, building this nonprofit itself,\" he says. \"I get to accomplish what I need to accomplish for myself.\" Perhaps he's saved a life already.\nWhere to get help:\nThe Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a hotline for veterans in crisis that operates 24 hours a day.\nCall 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. Online, visit veteranscrisisline.net\/get-help\/chat, or send a text message to 838255.\nThis story appears in the May issue of Deseret Magazine. 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{"text":"Seymour, Indiana\nYour local movers in Seymour, IN\nIndiana\/\nSeymour, Indiana Moving Company\nAllied Van Lines: The Best of Seymour Moving Companies\nLooking for reliable movers in Seymour? Your search is over now that you've discovered Allied Van Lines. We work with trusted agents who hire conscientious, punctual movers dedicated to making your move as seamless as possible from start to finish. What sets our moving company apart from other moving companies in Seymour is a firm commitment to quality that's backed by more than 80 years of experience.\nSee for yourself why Allied Van Lines is among the leading moving companies in the nation. Contact us today to get started with a free moving quote!\nWhat a Move to Seymour Has to Offer\nSometimes referred to as \"The Crossroads of America\" due to a convergence of train tracks from all directions, Seymour is a city located in southeastern Indiana. Conveniently located about 60 miles from Indianapolis and 50 miles from Bloomington, Seymour offers an ideal mix of rural pleasures and easy access to thriving urban centers, making it a great place to live in the Hoosier State.\nMore than 17,500 residents call Seymour home, according to 2010 Census Bureau figures. With nearly 5,000 families living in the city, it's an excellent place to start or raise a family. While summers in Seymour tend to be hot and humid, as is characteristic for the region, winters tend to be cool and mild, offering many opportunities for year-round activities throughout the area.\nSeymour is home to many diverse attractions, including the Freeman Army Airfield Museum and the Whiteside Museum of Natural History, which traces the fossil history of the region as far back as 280 million years. The Southern Indiana Center for the Arts welcomes patrons of the arts of all ages with interactive lessons and unique exhibits. Celebrated roots rocker John Mellencamp and Olympic swimmer Pat Calhoun are some of the city's best-known residents.\nSoutheastern Indiana is any outdoor enthusiast's paradise. Easily accessible from I-65 or US 31, Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge includes a four-mile auto trail that takes you through the refuge to see collections of birds, butterflies and native animals in their natural habitats. The city also has more than 600 biking and hiking trails and family-friendly picnic areas at local parks. You can even play a few rounds of golf at the Shadowood Golf Course in Seymour or the nearby Oak Knoll Golf Course.\nAffordability, technology and quality are just some of the reasons why Allied Van Lines is a top choice among Seymour moving companies. As a trusted moving company with a solid reputation, we take pride in meeting and exceeding customer expectations with comprehensive assistance throughout every phase of your home or business moving process. As a full-service moving company, we also provide:\nPacking materials and boxes\nTemporary storage options\nAssistance with packing\nReady to start your move? Contact Allied Van Lines today to get a free moving quote!\nReviews from indiana Customers\nI like the quality of the packers and everyone else involved was excellentand conducted good service.\nIt was a short notice I gave them. The company had a driver ready forme and the process was very fast and quick. I also thought that the price was very reasonable.\nAllied did fine, except for the hauling away of the cartons & puttinga few things together as I was told they would.\nI definitely would recommend Allied Van lines but, everyone is different so it depends on what that family would need.\nEverybody was amazing, the move went really fast and it was a really good experience. Everything about the move was perfect.\nThe care the movers put in, in taking care of my items and the packingand the unpacking of the items.\nThe packing process took two days. I was told it would take a day and a half. Everything stuck to the schedule pretty well.\nThe care that was taken in handling my goods & the professionalism of the driver, packers, & crew members.\nThe people I worked with during the move was professional and very helpful. I did not like that the move was a additional four days late.\nMy rating was influenced by the overall professionalism and attitude in caring for my household equipment.\nTop Public Schools in seymour, indiana\nEmerson Elementary School\nSeymour Middle School\nSeymour Senior High School\nCost of Living in seymour, indiana\nCost of Living Index 0\nRestaurant Index 0\nCost of Living Plus Rent Index 0\nLocal Purchasing Power 0\nService Areas in indiana\nEast-Peoria","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Journal of Integrative Medicine \u203a\u203a 2019, Vol. 17 \u203a\u203a Issue (5): 338-343.doi: 10.1016\/j.joim.2019.04.007\nAssessing adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is a proven method to estimate the safety of medicines. The ADRs to herbal medicines in Australia (and by inference, the safety of herbal medicines in Australia) remain unknown. This study examines spontaneous ADR cases to four of the most popular herbs in Australia from 2000 to 2015: echinacea (Echinacea purpurea), valerian (Valeriana officinalis), black cohosh (Actaea racemosa) and ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba).\nADRs of echinacea, valerian, black cohosh and ginkgo reported to the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) between 2000 and 2015 were obtained from the TGA database. Data were collated and analysed according to age, sex, severity, type of ADR and body system affected. Statistics were calculated using GraphPad Prism software.\nMost ADRs were mild or moderate. However, every herbal medicine was associated with life-threatening ADRs. In each life-threatening case, the herbal medicine was taken concomitantly with prescription medications. Black cohosh was associated with a significant number of severe ADRs (30.3% of the total), with 39.4% of these ADRs being associated with abnormal hepatic function, hepatitis or hepatotoxicity.\nThis study highlights the lack of public awareness with regard to herb\u2013drug interactions, since most of the severe ADRs involved a herb\u2013drug interaction.\nKey words: Herbal medicine, Adverse drug reaction, Actaea racemosa, Echinacea purpurea, Ginkgo biloba, Valeriana officinalis\nClaire L. Hoban, Roger W. Byard, Ian F. Musgrave. Analysis of spontaneous adverse drug reactions to echinacea, valerian, black cohosh and ginkgo in Australia from 2000 to 2015. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2019, 17(5): 338-343.\nURL: http:\/\/www.jcimjournal.com\/EN\/10.1016\/j.joim.2019.04.007\n[1] Ming-min Xu, Pei Guo, Qing-yu Ma, Xuan Zhou, Yu-long Wei, Lu Wang, Yue Chen, Yu Guo. Can acupuncture enhance therapeutic effectiveness of antidepressants and reduce adverse drug reactions in patients with depression? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2022, 20(4): 305-320.\n[3] Tareq A. Wani, Zahoor A. Kaloo, Nisar A. Dangroo. Aconitum heterophyllum Wall. ex Royle: A critically endangered medicinal herb with rich potential for use in medicine. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2022, 20(2): 104-113.\n[5] Rakhi Chakraborty, Swarnendu Roy. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors from plants: A review of their diversity, modes of action, prospects, and concerns in the management of diabetes-centric complications. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2021, 19(6): 478-492.\n[6] Xin Yin, Shu-bin Cai, Lan-ting Tao, Lu-ming Chen, Zhong-de Zhang, Su-hong Xiao, Arthur Yin Fan, Xu Zou. Recovery of a patient with severe COVID-19 by acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine adjuvant to standard care. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2021, 19(5): 460-466.\n[7] Ruo-lan Li, Qing Zhang, Jia Liu, Li-ying He, Qin-wan Huang, Wei Peng, Chun-jie Wu. Processing methods and mechanisms for alkaloid-rich Chinese herbal medicines: A review. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2021, 19(2): 89-103.\n[8] Jie Wu, Shu-wei Duan, Hong-tao Yang, Yue-yi Deng, Wei Li, Ya-ni He, Zhao-hui Ni, Yong-li Zhan, Shan Lin, Zhi-yong Guo, Jun Zhu, Jing-ai Fang, Xu-sheng Liu, Li-hua Wang, Rong Wang, Nian-song Wang, Xiao-hong Cheng, Li-qun He, Ping Luo, Shi-ren Sun s, Ji-feng Sun, Ai-ping Yin, Geng-ru Jiang, Hong-yu Chen, Wen-hu Liu, Hong-li Lin, Meng Liang, Lu Ma, Ming Chen, Li-qun Song, Jian Chen, Qing Zhu, Chang-ying Xing, Yun Li, Ji-ning Gao, Rong-shan Li, Ying Li, Hao Zhang, Ying Lu, Qiao-ling Zhou, Jun-zhou Fu, Qiang He, Guang-yan Cai, Xiang-mei Chen. Efficacy and safety of Shenyankangfu Tablet, a Chinese patent medicine, for primary glomerulonephritis: A multicenter randomized controlled trial. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2021, 19(2): 111-119.\n[9] Ming-sheng Lyu, De-ying Li, Shao-zhong Zhou, Cheng-jun Ban, Jun Yan. Adult-onset Still's disease successfully treated with Chinese herbal medicine: A case report with 15-month follow-up. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(6): 530-534.\n[10] Qing-lan Wang, Yan-yan Tao, Hong-dong Xie, Cheng-hai Liu, Ping Liu. Fuzheng Huayu recipe, a traditional Chinese compound herbal medicine, attenuates renal interstitial fibrosis via targeting the miR-21\/PTEN\/AKT axis. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(6): 505-513.\n[11] Mu-yan Kong, Le-yan Li, Yan-mei Lou, Hong-yu Chi, Jin-jun Wu. Chinese herbal medicines for prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer: from molecular mechanisms to potential clinical applications. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(5): 369-384.\n[12] . External application of two unrestricted herbal medicines to treat costochondritis in a young collegiate athlete: A case report. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(5): 450-454.\n[13] Arthur Yin Fan, Sherman Gu, Sarah Faggert Alemi, Research Group for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine. Chinese herbal medicine for COVID-19: Current evidence with systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(5): 385-394.\n[14] Shuai Yan, Yin-zi Yue, Ming-ming Sun, Ben-sheng Wu, Xiao-peng Wang. Suppressive effect of Aurantii Fructus Immaturus and Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma on glutamic acid-induced autophagy of interstitial cells of Cajal. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(4): 334-343.\n[15] Bin Lan, Jin-wen Ge, Shao-wu Cheng, Xi-long Zheng, Jun Liao, Chao He, Zheng-qing Rao, Guo-zuo Wang. Extract of Naotaifang, a compound Chinese herbal medicine, protects neuron ferroptosis induced by acute cerebral ischemia in rats. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020, 18(4): 344-350.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"N.Y. \/ Region|No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway\nNo Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway\nBy DAVID W. DUNLAP MAY 24, 2009\nCrowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. Traffic was diverted to Seventh Avenue. Credit Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times\nPaul Ziemer and Pikkam So traveled to Times Square on Sunday from their home in Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, and allowed their 14-month-old son, Benjamin, to do what few New Yorkers have ever done:\nWalk safely right down the center of Broadway in the middle of the day.\nOn Sunday, the Bloomberg administration put a plan into effect to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown by closing two sections of Broadway to vehicles, from 47th to 42nd Streets and 35th to 33rd Streets. The idea is to eliminate the crosscurrents Broadway traffic creates on nearby avenues.\nHowever, rather than suddenly apply a single tourniquet to the great diagonal limb of Broadway, officials closed it piecemeal throughout the afternoon and into the evening, more or less coordinating the project with a street fair on Seventh Avenue. Department of Transportation crews painted lane markers, hung new signs and adjusted traffic signals from Herald Square to Duffy Square, while pedestrians mobbed the sidewalks around them.\nBecause Broadway \u2014 like nature \u2014 abhors a vacuum, it took no coaching whatsoever to encourage the crowds to spill off the sidewalks and into the newly empty traffic lanes.\nMr. Ziemer and Ms. So made a point of coming to see a vehicle-free Broadway. They did not sound disappointed. \"I've lived here for 15 years,\" Mr. Ziemer said, \"and this was only closed for New Year's Eve\" \u2014 not typically the best time for a stroll with a baby.\nMs. So said, \"I like the experience because now I don't feel like I'm competing with cars.\"\nOne block away, Lev Teshler, from Kew Gardens, Queens, also found himself drawn to the middle of the street. \"From my point of view, it's great,\" he said, \"because I don't have to drive here.\"\nAnd sure enough, a contrary opinion came from a cabdriver, Ben Stevens, who was caught in the vortex at Seventh Avenue and 45th Street. He did not mince words when asked his opinion of the closing.\nCrowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. At right, traffic is diverted to Eighth Avenue. Credit John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times\n\"Nobody likes it,\" he said. \"See the traffic? I hate it.\"\nIt is probably safe to say that the new traffic program, known formally as \"Green Light for Midtown,\" will not get its real test until Tuesday, the first business day after the Memorial Day weekend.\nJanette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, carefully noted the chance that some tinkering might result from that experience.\n\"It's an important first step to ease traffic and sidewalk congestion and create safe, attractive spaces that are good for business,\" she said. \"But it's a work in progress, and we'll be monitoring the area closely during the initial adjustment period.\"\nThough it sounds paradoxical to try to improve traffic flow by closing parts of a traffic artery, the transportation agency has its reasons. Vehicles are being banned where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue (downtown-bound) and Avenue of the Americas (uptown-bound), like tracks in a switchyard. The hope is that this will improve the traffic flow on both avenues.\nThe remnants of Broadway on the affected blocks will become pedestrian plazas.\nSeven bus lines that run downtown along Broadway \u2014 the M6, M7, M10, M20, M27, M30 and M104 \u2014 will be rerouted to Seventh Avenue on Monday. All of the crosstown streets will remain open.\nShortly before 8 p.m., the last vehicles passed down Broadway at 47th Street \u2014 a police van, a taxi and several pedicabs. City employees then placed eight orange barrels across Broadway, prompting a flurry of honking from vehicles and forceful whistling from the police officers who were waving traffic to the side.\n\"It's amazing how quickly people materialize on the streets when you close them off,\" said Ms. Sadik-Khan, as she watched pedestrians drift onto Broadway.\nThe sudden shift was a surprise to Alex Dzh, 23, a pedicab driver, who seemed bewildered by the orange barrels adorned with \"Do not enter\" signs. \"Ten minutes ago, it was open,\" he said. \"Now it's closed. I don't know what happened.\"\nA. G. Sulzberger contributed reporting.\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: No Vehicles, But Plenty Of People On Broadway. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe\nTimes Square via Broadway? Not Anymore. MAY 25, 2009","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Based On Manga Movies Collection\nDemon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)\nTanjir\u014d Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his...\nDragon Ball Z: Broly \u2013 The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993)\nWhile the Saiyan Paragus persuades Vegeta to rule a new planet, King Kai alerts Goku of the South Galaxy's destruction by an unknown Super Saiyan.\nJujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)\nYuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem\u2014his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and...\nGiven (2020)\nThe film centers on the love relationship among the band's bassist Haruki Nakayama, drummer Akihiko Kaji, and Akihiko's roommate and ex-boyfriend...\nDragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (1994)\nJaga Bada, Mr. Satan's old sparring partner, has invited Satan to his personal island to hold a grudge match. Trunks and Goten decide to come for the...\nStand by Me Doraemon (2014)\nIn the suburbs of Tokyo some time ago, there lived a clumsy boy about 10 years old. There appeared in front of him named Sewashi, Nobita's descendant...\nA Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)\nShouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class...\nDragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (1991)\nAfter defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother...\nDragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (1990)\nThe evil Dr. Kochin uses the dragon balls to resurrect his mentor, Dr. Wheelo, in an effort to take over the world. Dr. Wheelo, his body having been...\nAttack on Titan (2015)\n100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to...\nFall in Love at First Kiss (2019)\nAfter an earthquake destroys Xiang Qin's house, she and her father move in with the family of her father's college buddy. To her surprise, her new...\nDragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (1992)\nCooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.\nDragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995)\nThe Z Warriors discover an unopenable music box and are told to open it with the Dragon Balls. The contents turn out to be a warrior named Tapion who...\nTokyo Ghoul (2017)\nA Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a...\nDragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (1995)\nNot paying attention to his job, a young demon allows the evil cleansing machine to overflow and explode, turning the young demon into the infamous...\nAttack on Titan II: End of the World (2015)\nEren leaves to restore a break in the wall destroyed by a Titan. He comes under attack by the Titans and is cornered. Shikishima comes to his aid....\nMaquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)\nMaquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph who can live for hundreds of years. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being...\nFate\/kaleid liner Prisma\u2606Illya: Vow in the Snow (2017)\nAfter succumbing to an unenviable fate, Kiritsugu Emiya has left Shirou Emiya the duty to save mankind in his place. The world is dying and time is...\nSword Art Online: The Movie \u2013 Ordinal Scale (2017)\nIn 2026, four years after the infamous Sword Art Online incident, a revolutionary new form of technology has emerged: the Augma, a device that...\nOne Piece Film: GOLD (2016)\nThe Straw Hat Pirates are taking on Gild Tesoro, one of the richest men in the world.\nIn another world, ninja are the ultimate power, and in the Village Hidden in the Leaves live the stealthiest ninja in the land. Twelve years earlier,...\nWakana Gojo is a high school boy who wants to become a kashirashi--a master craftsman who makes traditional Japanese Hina dolls. Though he's gung-ho...\nIt is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make...\nYuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has...\nSaitama is a hero who only became a hero for fun. After three years of \"special\" training, though, he's become so strong that...\nSeveral hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour...\nTakemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that's reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had,...\nWhile martial arts champion Baki Hanma trains hard to surpass his legendary father, five violent death row inmates descend upon Tokyo to take him on.\nThe Idaten Deities Know Only Peace\nIt has been 800 years since the incredibly fast and powerful gods of battle known as the Idaten had sealed away the demons after an intense battle....\nFirst comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world! From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has been destined for...\nShe can see dead people\u2026she just chooses to ignore them. That's Miko's plan, anyway, with horrifying (and sometimes hilarious)...\nBefore eradicating humankind from the world, the gods give them one last chance to prove themselves worthy of survival. Let the Ragnarok battles...\nAs his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives...\nMushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation\n34-year-old virgin loser is kicked out of his home by his family and realized that his life is completely over. As he regrets wasting his life, a...\nKobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tohru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and...\nAt a high school full of unique characters, Tadano helps his shy and unsociable classmate Komi reach her goal of making friends with 100 people.\nYears ago, the fearsome pirate king Gol D. Roger was executed, leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous \"One Piece\" behind. Whoever claims the...\nFor as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Peyton Manning's Papa John's robbed during Broncos game\nBy Nina Mandell\nA Papa John's store that according to CBS Sports is owned by Peyton Manning was robbed while he led the Broncos to a win over Kansas City on Sunday night. According to Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson, the robbers brandished a gun and took money from the register. No one was injured in the incident.\nManning purchased 21 of the popular pizza franchises last year and has appeared in commercials for the restaurant.\nIt was not clear if the accused robbers knew that the timing of their stickup was during the middle of the football game, but Jackson said the suspects may have committed other robberies on Sunday night as well.\nThe suspects were described as wearing hoodies, gloves and masks during the robbery.\nA spokesman for Papa Johns did not immediately return requests for comment.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Accueil du site > Qui sommes-nous ?\nOverview of the CESSMA\nThe CESSMA \u2013 Centre d'\u00e9tudes en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, am\u00e9ricains et asiatiques (Centre for social sciences studies on the African, American and Asian worlds) \u2013 is a joint research unit. It was created in 2014 under the triple tutelage of : the University Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations) and the Institut de Recherche pour le D\u00e9veloppement (IRD) (the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development).\nOn 1 January 2018, the Centre comprised 56 academics and research fellows, and 80 doctoral students.\n1. The originality of the Centre's scientific project\nThe Centre was created with the aim to analyse the historical and spatial configurations of the dynamics of development and globalisation in the so-called countries of the \"South\". One of the key components of the project is a questioning of Worlds, the diversity, universality, or on the contrary, the specificity of development issues and the effects of globalisation. They are viewed as processes that are not only governed by economic logic but fully include its social, cultural and political aspects, and are hence historically constructed and situated processes.\nThe Centre capitalizes on its dual legacy of development studies (for researchers from the IRD and the former SEDET) and the tradition of area studies (INALCO).\nThe Centre's founding principles are :\nInterdisciplinarity. The following social science disciplines are represented : history, geography, anthropology, sociology, economics, urban studies and political science.\nFrequentation of four regional areas : the Africas, the Americas, the Maghreb and the Middle East, and the Asian worlds. All the researchers assiduously conduct fieldwork in the countries they are working on, speak the languages spoken in those countries, and dialogue with their scientific communities (including in the form of joint publications).\nComparitism. Scientific life is organized around four transversal thematic axes : 1) Norms, circulations, actors ; 2) Urban production, policies and practices ; 3) Work, finance and globalization ; 4) Construction and usage of knowledge. The CESSMA conducts interdisciplinary research programmes, which are deployed in a comparative manner throughout the countries of the South.\nThe CESSMA is the only research Centre in France to simultaneously :\nbe clearly focused on development studies (the Global South) ;\nadopt a generalist approach in terms of its research themes ;\nassociate international comparative research programmes with thorough area studies ;\nadopt an interdisciplinary approach, in particular by associating history with research on the present.\nPresentaci\u00f3n general del CESSMA\nLes familles malgaches transnationales en Europe et leurs rapports aux institutions sociales et scolaires\nSociologie des \u00e9lites \u00e9conomiques en Inde\nEtat, h\u00e9g\u00e9monie mon\u00e9taire et rupture du 'bloc historique' en Iran\n06-02 12:30: S\u00e9ance de l'Atelier CESSMA (f\u00e9vrier)\nDettes, \u00e9conomies familiales et intimes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"House and Senate Seek to Save Net Radio\nBy Sherwin Siy\nSenator Wyden, joined by Senator Brownback, today introduced a bill designed to nullify the Copyright Royalty Board's recent ruling, which raises music licensing fees precipitously and threatens to put a lot of webcasters out of business.\nThe bill, called the \"Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007,\" first throws out the Board's rulings from this year. Second, the bill changes the standard by which the Board sets fees, making it more like the standard used to set rates for satellite radio services. The bill then temporarily sets the rate at either a third of a cent per hour of music per listener, or 7.5% of the webcaster's revenue. That's the (much lower) rate that satellite radio pays. The Copyright Royalty Board will set rates under the new standard after 2010.\nThird, the bill lets noncommercial broadcasters pay lower rates for their webcasts of sound recordings. Currently, the law lets noncommercial broadcasters pay a statutory licensing fee to songwriters and visual artists, but not to record labels. A temporary fix was introduced in 2002, but expired in 2004. The proposed bill sets a temporary rate for these sound recordings at a 5% increase over the 2004 levels, applied retroactively to 2005 and lasting through until 2012. If noncommercial webcasters have already paid the labels more than they would have under this fee in the meantime, that money is credited against future payments.\nLast week, Representatives Inslee and Manzullo introduced a similar bill in the House. The current incarnation of the House bill also requires a reports from three different bodies (the NTIA, the FCC, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) on how Internet radio licensing fees affect the marketplace.\nThe resources mentioned by Alex do a good job of explaining this in further detail.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jerry Seinfeld Regrets Romantic Undertone in 'Bee Movie'\nJessica Marchese\nOn Jimmy Fallon's \"The Tonight Show,\" Jerry Seinfeld reflected on and apologized for the seemingly romantic relationship between a bee and a woman.\nNot kidding. The comedian straight up said the suggestive nature of the relationship between Barry B. Benson and Vanessa was \"inappropriate for children.\" Interesting, considering how even the film itself points out the absurdity of their dynamic.\nThe movie has been widely memed since its release in 2007, and t-shirts made with the entire script printed on the front. But the weird fantasies Barry has in the movie including Vanessa hint towards something more than just friendship.\n\"The bee seems to have a thing for the girl, and we don't really want to pursue that as an idea in children's entertainment.\" Jerry Seinfeld\nIt also doesn't help that Barry comes between Vanessa and her boyfriend, making him paranoid that she's leaving him for a bee. Not sure what was going on in the writer's room that day. And from this past weekend's interview, neither does Seinfeld.\nThe comment raises questions about the film's cult popularity. The movie's premise is weird to begin with. But even writer Spike Feresten noted that \"an interspecies love affair\" isn't something they wanted to sell to prison. Yet, I'm sure most kids don't know who Ray Liotta is and he's in the movie for some reason.\nPerhaps it was difficult for the writer's to create a platonic friendship between Barry and Vanessa on paper. It speaks more to the fact that most times, screenwriters only put women in positions to be desired or sought after.\nThough Vanessa own hers own business, it does cater to Barry's interests and his main purpose of pollinating. She is what grounds Barry, as a friend should, but there's no distinct line she draws to derail Barry's delusions.\nI think this is why the writers got \"carried away\" with their team-up. Ultimately they decided on what would make the story even more absurd and whimsical. Unfortunately, under the scrutiny of modern critics, the dynamic did not age well.\nIn this article:Bee Movie, Featured, Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld\nBring the Whole Seinfeld Cast To The MCU\nYeah, you read that title right. I want the entire cast of Seinfeld in the MCU. If you watched \"The Falcon and The Winter...\nPaul Marano10\/05\/2021\nThe Sheer Number of Movie References in 'Seinfeld' Is Insane\nIt just so happens that \"Seinfeld\" is hitting Netflix come October 1st, so you could imagine my glee at seeing this video pop up...\nHappy Festivus: 'Seinfeld' Coming to Netflix\nNetflix streamers are in for a bountiful Festivus this year as the hit '90s sitcom drops all 180 Constanza filled episodes on the streaming...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"British PM Johnson warns England not to relax after coronavirus lockdown ends\nPedestrians walk near a billboard displaying a Manchester City Council message about the national lockdown restrictions, on Nov 26, 2020. PHOTO: AFP\nhttps:\/\/str.sg\/JbVR\nLONDON (BLOOMBERG) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned of \"long months ahead\" in the fight against coronavirus, as his government put most of England into the highest two tiers of new restrictions when a lockdown lifts next week.\nLondon will be placed in tier 2, avoiding the toughest rules from Dec 2 and allowing pubs, restaurants and bars to open - but restricting alcohol to being served as part of a meal.\nCities including Birmingham and Manchester were placed in the toughest tier 3, in which pubs and restaurants must close except for takeaway. Households will not be allowed to mix indoors in either tier.\n\"What we want to avoid is relaxing now too much, you know, taking our foot off the throat of the beast now,\" Johnson said in a televised press conference Thursday (Nov 26). \"There is a substantial relaxation across all tiers but we're not abandoning the fight yet, of course not, because we still, as I say, have long months ahead.\"\nThe regional three-tier system is tougher than before England entered a four-week partial lockdown this month. Ministers want to make sure they have some control of the virus's spread before people are allowed a further five-day relaxation of the rules during the Christmas holidays.\nChristmas risks\nAnd even then, Johnson's scientific advisers warned people not to take risks and to avoid endangering their elderly relatives.\n\"Would I encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? No, I would not,\" England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said at the press conference. Don't hug a relative \"if you want them to survive to be hugged again,\" he warned.\nJohnson's government is trying to balance the risks of the virus again getting out of control with the need to support an economy going through its worst slump in 300 years.\nVirus cases have surged across the UK in the fall, and the prime minister's scientific advisers are trying to chart a course that prevents the state-run National Health Service from being overwhelmed.\nBut the premier also faces a looming rebellion from members of his own Conservative Party angry about the restrictions imposed on their districts.\nInfluential Tory MP Graham Brady said he will oppose the new measures when they are put to a vote in Parliament next week.\n'Too authoritarian'\n\"The policies have been far too authoritarian,\" he told the BBC on Thursday. \"There has got to be a real danger that if these restrictions aren't lifted very, very soon there will be a lot of businesses that simply won't reopen.\"\nSome 41% of England - or 23 million people - will be in tier 3, including large swathes of the northeast, northwest, and the Midlands. Bristol, in the southwest, and the southeast county of Kent are also included.\nLondon to be placed in second highest Covid-19 risk category\nEngland will end Covid-19 lockdown with stricter tiered system\nAnother 57% of England, or 32 million people, will be in tier 2, including much of southern England and the northwest region of Liverpool which has pioneered mass testing. Only Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly are in the lowest tier 1.\nJohnson said he wants other parts of the country to \"replicate\" Liverpool's success with testing, pledging to roll out the system to all tier 3 areas as fast as possible. He also suggested the goal is a system that allows people more freedom if they can show they don't have coronavirus.\n'Untried'\n\"Testing on this scale is untried, but in due course if it works, where people test negative it also may be possible for families and communities to be released from certain restrictions,\" he said.\nUnder the new rules, the general requirement for people to stay home will end, and shops, gyms and hairdressers will reopen. But in all areas, people will be urged to continue to work from home if they can.\nThe announcement triggered an immediate push back from the hospitality industry, 98% of which is covered by the top two tiers in England, according to trade body UKHospitality. That will wipe out an estimated \u00a37.8 billion of trading compared to last year if the restrictions last all of December, it said.\n\"We still have not seen any evidence that hospitality venues -- which have invested great time effort and money to making their spaces Covid-secure -- are a problem,\"\nUKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said in a statement. The new system is a \"huge blow\" and \"it seems unfair and arbitrary that hospitality is being dealt such a harsh hand,\" she said.\n'Destroying lives'\nThe threat to business angered Tory MPs who had lobbied ministers to keep their areas out of the highest tiers.\nThe coronavirus restrictions are \"destroying lives and livelihoods,\" Conservative MP Richard Drax said in a statement. \"We need a new strategy based on common sense, not fear and more fear.\"\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the government will review which region is in each tier on Dec 16, based on infection rates and pressures on the National Health Service, and then every week after that.\nJohnson said he's \"convinced\" that with a vaccine on the way, \"by April things genuinely will be much much better.\" But Chief Scientific Officer Patrick Vallance injected a note of caution, warning that while three different vaccines have recently revealed positive trial results, they still need regulatory approval.\n\"This is going to take months into spring, before we start to get significant degrees of vaccination to create protection,\" he said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Pitt News \u2022 February 14, 2021 \u2022 https:\/\/pittnews.com\/article\/163419\/blogs\/the-pitt-prescription-my-experience-getting-the-moderna-covid-19-vaccine\/\nThe Pitt Prescription | My experience getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine\nThe Pitt Prescription is a biweekly blog where student pharmacist and senior staff writer Elizabeth Donnelly provides tips on how to stay healthy in college. This edition was reviewed by Karen S. Pater, Pharm.D, CDCES, BCACP.\nShruti Talekar | Contributing Editor\nThe Pitt Prescription\nBy Elizabeth Donnelly, Senior Staff Writer\nAt the end of December, I received an email telling me that it was my turn to get vaccinated. I work as a pharmacy intern at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and we were the first hospital in the City to get and administer the COVID-19 vaccine.\nI remember feeling incredibly grateful that I was one of the lucky health care workers who would receive the vaccine that early. I jumped at this opportunity and got my first dose scheduled for the following day \u2014 Dec. 29, 2020. I received the Moderna vaccine, which was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 18, 2020.\n[Read more about the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines here.]\nI kept a detailed record of any sort of side effects I experienced and how I felt once I received my injection. I am one of the lucky people who didn't experience any intense side effects, which goes to show that the vaccine has a variable effect on different people's bodies. For any side effects experienced after vaccination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that provides individualized health check-ins and allows you to report any side effects you experienced.\nI received the vaccine at 3:15 p.m. at the clinic at Children's Hospital. It was a quick process, taking about five minutes total from check-in to injection. Then, I was moved to the monitoring station, where chairs were set out 6 feet apart for those who received the vaccine. I got monitored for 15 minutes and then I was free to go. It is recommended to monitor everyone getting the vaccine for at least 15 minutes, just in case they experience any immediate adverse reactions. Anybody with a history of allergic reactions to vaccines should be monitored for 30 minutes to ensure their safety.\nAfter receiving my vaccine and leaving the monitoring station, my arm was a bit sore at the injection site, but this went away after 30 minutes. Overall I felt fine the day of my vaccine, but my arm started to develop some soreness toward the evening, right before I went to sleep.\nThe next day, I woke up with very severe muscle soreness \u2014 worse than I had experienced with any other vaccination before. I took ibuprofen, which helped alleviate the soreness significantly. Later that same day, I started to experience a mild headache and my arm soreness returned. My arm also started to show a bit of an injection-site reaction, with redness, swelling and soreness. I felt pretty tired overall and took several naps throughout the day.\nTwo days after receiving the vaccine, my arm was still sore, but it was improving. Additionally, the redness at the injection site spread a little bit and my arm felt hard to the touch, as if there were something under my skin (there wasn't anything there, it was just the muscle hardening). I didn't experience any more headaches, but I still felt a bit more tired than usual throughout the day. None of these symptoms stopped me from functioning as I normally did.\nOn the third day after receiving the vaccine, all of my symptoms cleared up. My arm soreness, the redness and swelling at the injection site and the fatigue all went away, and I felt like I was completely back to normal. I didn't experience any other side effects for several days.\nOn Jan. 7, about a week after getting the vaccine, the redness and swelling at the injection site returned. It was more significant this time and it also itched \u2014 however, there was no pain. This stayed for about 24 hours and then disappeared again, and it never returned after this instance.\nI have heard several people tell me they experienced something similar after getting the Moderna vaccine \u2014 a delayed immune response about a week after that included this redness, swelling and itchiness at the injection site. I spoke with my doctor and he told me that it was a normal immune response and nothing to be worried about. This redness is not considered a \"rash\" \u2014 it is considered a localized injection-site reaction. The difference between this type of reaction and a rash is that rashes often cover a larger portion of the body and would not be localized to where you received your vaccination. With vaccines, rashes are typically considered allergic reactions, whereas injection-site reactions are not.\nIt's important to note that side effects, like injection-site reactions, nausea, vomiting, etc. are not the same thing as allergic reactions, which usually consist of anaphylaxis. The CDC recommends that patients who are allergic to any ingredients in the vaccine or who had an allergic reaction to their first vaccine dose should not get the vaccine \u2014 or second dose \u2014 unless told otherwise by a doctor. If you experience side effects, that doesn't preclude you from getting the second dose of the vaccine.\nMany people confuse their severe side effects with allergic reactions, but it is important that you understand the differences between the two so that you follow the vaccine dosing that is right for you.\nI experienced pretty minor side effects with my first dose, but was told to be prepared for a worse reaction after my second immunization. It is theorized that people experience more\/worse side effects after their second dose because there is an increased immune response after the second dose of the vaccine. Anecdotally, many of my peers have experienced chills, fever, headaches, body aches and extreme fatigue after their second doses. I, on the other hand, experienced not a single side effect my second time around other than a sore arm and some fatigue the day after my shot.\nI received my second dose of the Moderna vaccine in the clinic at Children's Hospital on Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. I was prepared for the worst, but I really only had muscle soreness and fatigue the day after my shot. After getting a good night's sleep, I felt completely fine, and it's now been almost two weeks since I got that shot (at the time of writing), and I haven't experienced any other side effects, including the injection-site reactions I had the first time around.\nIt takes about two weeks after the second dose of either EUA COVID-19 vaccine for the vaccine to exert its maximum effects. Once you are vaccinated, it does not mean it's a free-for-all and that things can return back to normal. I know this is not what people want to hear, myself included, but the CDC recommends continuing to wear masks and social distancing even after you are fully vaccinated. With all of the new variants and the ever-evolving state of the virus, the CDC says experts need to understand more about the protection offered by the COVID-19 vaccines before they can recommend that people stop wearing masks or socially distancing.\nAdditionally, it remains unknown if getting vaccinated will prevent you from spreading the virus to other people, which means that even if you don't get sick yourself, you may still potentially give it to someone else and cause them to get sick. At the time of publication, the CDC is still recommending that everyone, including fully vaccinated individuals, wear a mask over their nose and mouth, keep a distance of at least 6 feet between themselves and others, avoid crowds, avoid poorly ventilated spaces and wash their hands often.\nAs we approach the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, I understand the frustration with having to continue to take these precautions. However, as of right now, they are the only way we can curb the spread of the virus and keep as many people alive and healthy as possible. I am fully vaccinated and I am extremely grateful, but I will continue to wear a mask and act in a safe manner.\nElizabeth writes primarily about self-care and pharmacological topics. You can reach her at [email protected].","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2018-19 Men's Lacrosse News\n2018-19 YEAR IN REVIEW: Men's Lacrosse\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team concluded the 2019 season with its eighth straight season of 10 wins or more. Additionally, seven were selected as All-Conference selections.\nSAA Announces Winter\/Spring 2019 All-Sportsmanship Teams\nATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced Friday the 2019 SAA Winter\/Spring All-Sportsmanship Teams.\n119 Student-Athletes Earn SAA Winter\/Spring Academic Honor Roll Honors\nATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) has announced the Winter\/Spring 2019 Academic Honor Roll. 119 student-athletes earned the honor at The University of the South for the Easter Semester.\nStubits Garners All-Region Honorable Mention Nod with IMLCA\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - Announced this week by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA), face off specialist Ryan Stubits was selected as an All-South Region Honorable Mention after a career-breaking senior campaign.\nStubits Earns All-American Honor; Named to 2019 USILA Senior All Star Game\nBALTIMORE - Announced by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), Sewanee face off specialist Ryan Stubits has been honored as an All-American for NCAA Division III. In addition, he will play in the 2019 USILA Senior All Star Game on Friday evening.\nSewanee Athletics Celebrate Year-End Banquet\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - In partnership with the Sewanee Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Sewanee Department of Athletics, the 2019 annual year-end banquet was held on Tuesday night inside the Fowler Center Fieldhouse.\nSeason Ends in SAA Semifinals for Men's Lacrosse\nMEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team saw its season come to an end in the semifinals of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Tournament against the regular season champions in Rhodes, 13-7, Friday afternoon from Crain Field.\nMen's Lacrosse Heads to Memphis for SAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team, after taking down Birmingham-Southern, 13-12, on April 20 at home in the first round game of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Tournament, will look to advance to its seventh straight SAA Tournament Championship game, but they will need to knock off the regular season Champions in Rhodes Friday night in Memphis.\nSeven Men's Lacrosse Student-Athletes Selected to All-SAA Team\nATLANTA - Announced on Tuesday by the Southern Athletic Association, seven men's lacrosse student-athletes were selected to the All-SAA Men's Lacrosse Team.\nSAA Spring Championships Sites, Brackets Announced\nATLANTA - Championship Week is upon us in the Southern Athletic Association. With the exception of baseball, who will garner a winner next weekend, nine sports will be hoisting conference tournament championships at the end of the week.\nMen's Lacrosse Survives Upset Attempt in SAA First Round, Advances to Semifinals\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team, for the second straight game against Birmingham-Southern, needed overtime to secure the victory over the Panthers, 13-12, Saturday afternoon in a first round play-in game from historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.\nMen's Lacrosse Begins SAA Tourney Run Saturday\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team enters the 2019 SAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament as the number four seed, and they will play in a first round game on Saturday afternoon versus Birmingham-Southern.\nMen's Lacrosse Drops Regular Season Finale, Will Host First Round Game\nMEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team was unable to keep a first half lead, as the Tigers were downed by the Lynx of Rhodes College, 12-7, Sunday afternoon.\nMen's Lacrosse Keeps Tourney Top Seed Chances Alive with Win at Hendrix\nCONWAY, Ark. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team spoiled Senior Night at Hendrix with a 19-12 victory over the Warriors of Hendrix College Friday night at Young-Wise Memorial Stadium.\nLate Goals by Vikings Spoil Attempted Comeback Bid for Men's Lacrosse\nMOUNT BERRY, Ga. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team overcame a 12-6 halftime deficit by taking a 15-14 lead with 5:37 left in regulation, but two goals by Berry were enough to hold off the Tigers with a 16-15 loss, Saturday afternoon at Vahalia Stadium.\nThomas Lynde Selected as SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week\nATLANTA - Announced on Monday by the Southern Athletic Association, Sewanee attacker Thomas Lynde has been chosen as the SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week after his performance last week.\nSenior Day Comeback Complete for Men's Lacrosse, Rallies to Overtime Win Over BSC\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used a seven-goal fourth quarter to rally from a 9-6 halftime deficit to defeat Birmingham-Southern, 15-14, in overtime Sunday afternoon at Historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.\nMen's Lacrosse Upended by Transylvania\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team saw its six-game winning streak come to an end on Friday evening at Historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium, as the Tigers were defeated by the Pioneers of Transylvania, 9-7.\nHayden Hunt Chosen as SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week\nATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced that Sewanee attacker Hayden Hunt has been chosen at the SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week, the conference office announced on Monday.\nMen's Lacrosse Returns to SAA Play with 20-4 Rout of Oglethorpe\nATLANTA - 10 different Tigers scored and 11 recorded points on the day as the Sewanee men's lacrosse team cruised to a 20-4 victory over Oglethorpe Saturday afternoon.\nPratt's Overtime Goal Lifts Men's Lacrosse to Sweep in Colorado\nCOLORADO SPRINGS - The Sewanee men's lacrosse, for the second straight game, edged an opponent, but this time, the Tigers had to play overtime to win the contest. The Tigers defeated the Pride of Springfield College, 12-11, Thursday afternoon in a neutral-site game on the campus of Colorado College.\nMen's Lacrosse Fends Off Colorado College in Offensive Explosion\nCOLORADO SPRINGS - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team recorded a 16-15 victory over the Colorado College Tigers in an offensive clinic between the two former Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) schools on Tuesday afternoon at Washburn Field.\nSecond Half Rally by Men's Lacrosse Leads to 11-6 Win in SAA Opener\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team overcame a first half deficit to defeat the Colonels of Centre College, 11-6, Saturday afternoon from historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.\nRyan Stubits Selected SAA Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week\nATLANTA - Announced by the Southern Athletic Association on Monday afternoon, senior midfielder Ryan Stubits was named the SAA Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week after his performance in Sewanee's two wins this past week.\nMen's Lacrosse Holds On for 9-8 Win Over Scranton in Sunday Matinee\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - As the clocks sprung forward on Sunday morning, the weather also took a turn from freezing temperatures and many inches of rain to a 60-degree, spring-like day on the Cumberland Plateau for Sewanee men's lacrosse at historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium. The Royals, despite a goal with 7:07 left in regulation, turned the ball over twice in the final minute to give the Tigers a 9-8 win.\nStrong Second Half Lifts Men's Lacrosse to Win Versus Piedmont\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used a 9-2 second half to take down the Lions of Piedmont, 16-5, Wednesday night inside historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.\nFourth Quarter Charge by Kenyon Dooms Men's Lacrosse on the Road\nGAMBIER, Ohio - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team suffered a 12-9 setback to the Lords of Kenyon College Sunday afternoon from McBride Field.\nWatters Wins 100th Game, Men's Lacrosse Takes Care of Augustana in Home Opener\nSEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team captured its first win of the 2019 season with a 16-5 victory over Augustana (Ill.) Wednesday night inside historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium. With the win, head men's lacrosse coach Marty Watters won his 100th game with the program.\nMen's Lacrosse Falters at Guilford\nGREENSBORO, N.C. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team dropped a 13-8 decision to Guilford College on Sunday afternoon.\nMen's Lacrosse Tripped Up in Season Opener at No. 13 Roanoke\nSALEM, Va. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team opened the season with No. 13 Roanoke on Friday. The Maroons took the contest, 17-7, from Kerr Stadium.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted on March 30, 2017 May 5, 2017 by Earl Hill\n\"Panda\" is the debut single by American rapper Desiigner. The song premiered on 15 December 2015. It was released for digital download on the iTunes Store as a single. Before being re-released on 23 February 2016. The song was written by Desiigner and its producer Menace. \"Panda\" was heavily sampled by Desiigner's fellow GOOD Music label-mate and founder Kanye West. For \"Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 2\", a song on West's seventh studio album The Life of Pablo. It inspired a number of remixes. The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 at the end of April 2016. An official video was released on 10 May 2016. The song has been nominated for best hip-hop video at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.\nSidney Royel Selby III (born 3 May 1997). Known professionally as Desiigner. Is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn, New York. He rose to prominence after the release of his debut single \"Panda\". Which later reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. In February 2016, rapper and producer Kanye West (who sampled \"Panda\" for his seventh album The Life of Pablo). Announced Desiigner's signing to his GOOD Music imprint, under the aegis of Def Jam Recordings.\nOn May 5, 2016, producer Mike Dean announced that he would be serving as the executive producer for Desiigner's upcoming debut studio album. On May 24, Desiigner announced that the title to his upcoming debut album would be called The Life of Desiigner. In June 2016, XXL magazine revealed their annual \"Freshmen Class\" for 2016, and Desiigner was included on the list with nine other new artists. In June 2016, \"Champions\" was released as the lead single from the GOOD Music's upcoming compilation album, Cruel Winter. Desiigner made a guest appearance on this track, alongside his label-mate Kanye West, and other rappers such as Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti and Quavo.\nIn the same month, Desiigner made his US television debut, when he performed his single, \"Panda\" at the 2016's BET Awards. On 26 June 2016, Desiigner released his first full-length mixtape, titled New English on Tidal, following a live premiere of the mixtape on 22 June. In July 2016, American pop singer Demi Lovato brought out Desiigner at her concert in New York. On 21 July 2016, Desiigner premiered the track, called \"Tiimmy Turner\", which was released as a single on iTunes the next day. Desiigner appeared as a special guest on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World.\nArtist: Desiigner\nTitle: Panda (Explicit)\nAlbum: New English\nTitle: Zombie Walk\nStudio album\nThe Life of Desiigner (Release date TBA, Label: GOOD, Def Jam).\nNew English (2016 Label: GOOD, Def Jam).\nAs lead artist\n\"Outlet\" (2017 Album: N\/A), \"Tiimmy Turner\" (2016). \"Champions\" (with Kanye West, Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti and Quavo) (2016) and \"Panda\" (2015).\n\"Strapped & Ready\" (Rah Smooth, Money and Loopy) (2016 Non-album single). \"Finesse\" (Jim Jones featuring Rich Homie Quan, ASAP Ferg) (2016 Album The Kitchen). \"On the Low\" (Phresher) (2016 Non-album single). \"Danny DeVito\" (Phresher featuring Rowdy Rebel) (2016 Non-album single). \"Gucci Snakes\" (Tyga) (2016 Album TBA). \"Circles\" (Pusha T featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Desiigner) (2016 Album King Push).\n\"Pt. 2\" Kanye West (2016 Album The Life of Pablo). \"Freestyle 4\" Kanye West (2016 Album The Life of Pablo). \"Back in My Ways\" Young King & Mekado (2016 non-album single) and \"The Difference\" Meek Mill & Quavo (2016 Album DC4).\n(2017) Grammy Awards \u2013 Best Rap Performance (\"Panda\") Nominated. (2016) WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards \u2013 WatsUp TV Viewers Choice Award (\"Panda\") Won. (2016) Teen Choice Awards \u2013 Choice Music: R&B\/Hip-Hop Song \u2013 (\"Panda\") Nominated. (2016) MTV Video Music Awards \u2013 Best New Artist & Best Hip-Hop Video (Himself) Nominated. (2016) BET Hip Hop Awards \u2013 Best Hip Hop Video (\"Panda\"). People's Champ Award (\"Panda\") and Best New Hip Hop Artist (Himself) Nominated. (2016) MTV Video Music Awards Japan \u2013 Best Hip Hop Video (\"Panda\") Nominated. (2016) American Music Awards \u2013 Video of the Year (\"Panda\") & Favorite Rap\/Hip-Hop Song (\"Panda\") Nominated.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SocialMyndz\niPhone 13 Date and Price Leak\nSamsung Unpack Event \u2013 Galaxy Z Fold 3 Devices\nElectric Planes Coming Sooner Than You Think\nMost Accurate Sci-Fi Movies Made\nTesla Model S 2021 Refresh\nWhat Are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)\nUsing Fiverr to Generate Over $300k\nFeds Give $25,000 Down Payment on Your First House\nGetting More Money With Child Tax Credit\nWhy Do Credit Bureaus Exist Anyway?\nGlobal Chip Shortage\nBitcoin Blockchain Vulnerable to Quantum Computers\nApple WWDC 2021 Expectations Beyond Software\nM1 iMac Unboxing and Review\nDogecoin On Track to Hit One Dollar\nGet Free Cryptocurrencies with Coinbase Earn\nDogecoin Takes Off\u2014How High Can it Go?\nCoronavirus Information Brain Overload\nSimple Tips For Living a Happier Life\nStaying Sane When The Kids Are Home in Quarantine\nCommunication During Cell Phone and Internet Outage\nAs we head into August, the long-awaited release of the brand new iPhone 13 is on the horizon.\nAnthony Hill\nAs we head into August, the long-awaited release of the brand new iPhone 13 is on the horizon. While the global chip shortage is still causing manufacturing challenges for many companies across industries, Apple still seems to be un-phased and is expected to announce new smartphones in September.\nSo what's the big hype about the new iPhone 13?\nLTPO displays with 120Hz refresh rates for Pro model displays\nImproved 5G modem\nFaster A15 Bionic chip\nImproved ultrawide lens on the Pro models\nTouch ID in the display\nSmaller notch\nNote: 120Hz LTPO displays are the next generation of LCD screens. They have been implemented in digital devices like gaming consoles and televisions for years now. This means that the iPhone 13 will be able to display a higher refresh rate with less ghosting than ever before.\nIn general, these displays have a higher contrast ratio because they are more capable of displaying deep blacks and whites without distortion or compromise. This means that the user experience is much more immersive than it would be on a standard LCD screen.\nWill the new iPhone 13 be more expensive?\nSome analysts predict that the iPhone 13 might be a little more expensive than the previous generation, but overall, we think Apple will keep the existing price range of $699, $799, $999, and $1,099, respectively.\nThere is a really good video from Matt Talks Tech which summarizes all the new features and release date worth checking out. See video above.\nRelated Topics:AppleEntertainmentiPhone 13iPhone 13 Pro Max\nSamsung had their Unpacked Event today, and several new devices were announced. Check them out!\nSamsung had their Unpacked Event today, and several new devices were announced and demoed. The highlighted gadgets were the Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Z Flip 3, Galaxy Buds 2, Galaxy Watch 4, and new S Pens specifically designed for the Z Fold 3.\nNo, we did not attend the event in person. However, we did watch the keynote presentation. The overall event was pretty good, but, some parts were underwhelming. I guess that's to be expected nowadays with virtual events?\nThe guys over at Unbox Therapy did an awesome job showcasing the new devices they received for review. Check out the video above if you want an unbiased unboxing of all Samsung devices unveiled today.\nElectric planes were once thought to be a futuristic pipe-dream, however, they will become part of mainstream air travel sooner than you think.\nAirlines have always been so dependent on the price of oil, but if we switch to electric planes, they will be less susceptible to changes in fuel prices. Electric planes have been in development for more than a decade now, but they're finally reaching an age where they could be practical for commercial use.\nWhat is an Electric Plane?\nElectric planes are not to be confused with their gas-powered counterparts and are instead powered by batteries or fuel cells that power the electric motors. They offer a variety of benefits over gas-powered planes, such as reduced noise pollution, zero emissions at take-off and landing, and much longer flight times.\nBenefits of Electric Planes\nElectric planes have several advantages over gas-powered planes such as:\nThey're quieter and much cheaper to operate, with no need for oil changes or fickle jet engine parts.\nSince electric planes are powered by electricity, the engines are quieter and they don't produce greenhouse gases as traditional aircraft do. They also don't use a propeller which means less noise pollution for the environment in general.\nTraditional aircraft create so much turbulence that it causes them to have an unpleasant ride for passengers. However, electric planes produce very little turbulence which means it gives passengers a smoother ride and a better experience overall.\nAirports will also be able to take advantage of this technology because it will lower their operating costs due to electric planes being more efficient in terms of fuel consumption.\nThe only downside for the passengers is that the battery life in these planes would be much shorter than traditional planes. However, that may not be a downside at all since it could mean cheaper and more frequent flights for passengers.\nCurrently, research is being undertaken into what it would take to make them mainstream, including estimates of when the first flight may occur.\nWendover created a very interesting video making the case for electric planes to go mainstream. Definitely worth check it out above!\nCheck out some of the most accurate Sci-Fi movies ever made that could become part of our world in the near or distant future.\nTheo Quarters\nIn the genre of science fiction, there are a lot of films that were made over the years all claiming to be the best. Not many were scientifically accurate if you understand the basic laws of physics.\nI know most of us aren't physicists like Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. However, I'm sure, while we were being entertained we could not help but wonder, \"This looks cool and all, but, can this happen?\" There are certain things you see in a Sci-fi movie and are amazed and wish it was real. Then there are other things you truly hope you're not alive to even witness.\nJoe Scott compiled some of the most accurate Sci-Fi movies made that could become part of our world in the near or distant future. Here's the list:\nWhile some of us are still waiting for the day when some of these technological developments come true, I'm sure we can all agree Sci-Fi movies capture the human imagination in ways that were once thought to be magic.\nSo which movies are your favorite and the most accurate? If you're in the mood for something interesting to watch should definitely check out some of these sci-fi movies if you haven't already!\nCommunications2 years ago\ncryptocurrency7 months ago\nBlack Widow Motivation in Life\nCovid-191 year ago\nCopyright \u00a9 2019-2021 SocialMyndz. A Nexfaktor Media Production. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Horoscopes with Saturn in Scorpio\nYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Saturn in Scorpio.\nBorn: Thursday, February 24, 1955\nSun: 5\u00b045' Pisces AS: 22\u00b017' Virgo\nMoon: 7\u00b045' Aries MC: 21\u00b019' Gemini\nDominants: Aries, Virgo, Aquarius\nMercury, Mars, Jupiter\nChinese Astrology: Wood Goat\nHeight: Steve Jobs is 6' 2\" (1m88) tall\nBiography of Steve Jobs (excerpt)\nSteven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 (source: his birth certificate) \u2013 October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.\nBorn: Thursday, October 25, 1984\nIn: Santa Barbara (CA) (United States)\nSun: 2\u00b023' Scorpio AS: 10\u00b047' Scorpio\nMoon: 17\u00b057' Scorpio MC: 16\u00b032' Leo\nDominants: Scorpio, Capricorn, Sagittarius\nHouses 1, 12, 2 \/ Water, Fire \/ Fixed\nHeight: Katy Perry is 5' 8\" (1m73) tall\nBiography of Katy Perry (excerpt)\nKatheryn Elizabeth \"Katy\" Hudson (born October 25, 1984 (source for her birth time: Craft, Astrodatabank, BC)), better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.\nSun: 0\u00b022' Sagittarius AS: 1\u00b008' Sagittarius\nMoon: 24\u00b012' Scorpio MC: 16\u00b035' Virgo\nDominants: Sagittarius, Scorpio, Capricorn\nSun, Jupiter, Moon\nHeight: Scarlett Johansson is 5' 3\" (1m60) tall\nBiography of Scarlett Johansson (excerpt)\nScarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is an American actress and singer. The world's highest-paid actress since 2018, she has made multiple appearances in the Forbes Celebrity 100. Her films have grossed over $14.\nBorn: Friday, January 28, 1955\nSun: 8\u00b011' Aquarius AS: 26\u00b006' Virgo\nDominants: Aquarius, Aries, Virgo\nMercury, Venus, Mars\nHeight: Nicolas Sarkozy is 5' 5\u00bd\" (1m67) tall\nBiography of Nicolas Sarkozy (excerpt)\nNicolas Sarkozy, born Nicolas Paul St\u00e9phane Sark\u00f6zy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He has served since 16 May 2007 and is set to step down on 17 May 2012 to make way for Fran\u00e7ois Hollande.\nSun: 0\u00b024' Cancer AS: 15\u00b028' Scorpio\nMoon: 10\u00b034' Leo MC: 25\u00b028' Leo\nDominants: Scorpio, Cancer, Leo\nVenus, Pluto, Saturn\nHeight: Lana Del Rey is 5' 6\u00bd\" (1m69) tall\nBiography of Lana Del Rey (excerpt)\nElizabeth Grant (born June 21, 1985 (birth time source: her Twitter account https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanaDelRey\/status\/1136755314890383360 . Before, her official Instagram account https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/zbWLxCFnmR\/ copy of the screen: http:\/\/www.astrotheme.fr\/images\/Lana_Del_Rey_time_of_birth.jpg displayed antother time of birth), better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, poet, model, and music video director.\nIn: Seattle (WA) (United States)\nSun: 5\u00b002' Scorpio AS: 26\u00b058' Cancer\nMoon: 8\u00b015' Aries MC: 4\u00b052' Aries\nDominants: Aries, Libra, Leo\nMoon, Mars, Uranus\nHouses 4, 10, 2 \/ Fire, Water \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Bill Gates is 5' 9\u00bd\" (1m77) tall\nBiography of Bill Gates (excerpt)\nWilliam Henry \"Bill\" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.\nBorn: Wednesday, December 8, 1982\nIn: Saint James, Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)\nSun: 16\u00b008' Sagittarius AS: 0\u00b034' Aquarius\nMoon: 27\u00b021' Virgo MC: 9\u00b006' Scorpio\nMars, Pluto, Saturn\nHouses 11, 9, 1 \/ Fire, Earth \/ Mutable\nChinese Astrology: Water Dog\nHeight: Nicki Minaj is 5' 2\" (1m57) tall\nBiography of Nicki Minaj (excerpt)\nOnika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982 (birth time source: http:\/\/www.librarising.com\/astrology\/celebs\/nickiminaj.html no given source)), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian rapper and singer-songwriter. In August 2009, Minaj signed to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown.\nIn: Funchal, Madeira (Portugal)\nSun: 16\u00b022' Aquarius AS: 3\u00b015' Capricorn\nMoon: 10\u00b051' Leo MC: 21\u00b016' Libra\nDominants: Capricorn, Aries, Aquarius\nNeptune, Pluto, Saturn\nHouses 1, 3, 8 \/ Fire, Earth \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Cristiano Ronaldo is 6' 1\" (1m85) tall\nBiography of Cristiano Ronaldo (excerpt)\nCristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH, (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born 5 February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (source for his birth time: Astrodatabank, accuracy in question)), commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team.\nPrince Harry, Duke of Sussex\nBorn: Saturday, September 15, 1984\nIn: Paddington, London (United Kingdom)\nSun: 22\u00b057' Virgo AS: 11\u00b025' Capricorn\nMoon: 21\u00b020' Taurus MC: 17\u00b004' Scorpio\nDominants: Scorpio, Capricorn, Virgo\nSaturn, Moon, Mercury\nHeight: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is 6' 1\" (1m86) tall\nBiography of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (excerpt)\nPrince Henry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984), more commonly known as Prince Harry, is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne.\nIn: Kosciusko (MS) (United States)\nSun: 9\u00b000' Aquarius AS: 29\u00b041' Sagittarius\nMoon: 4\u00b032' Sagittarius MC: 17\u00b025' Libra\nDominants: Aquarius, Sagittarius, Libra\nVenus, Jupiter, Neptune\nHouses 2, 11, 10 \/ Air, Fire \/ Fixed\nHeight: Oprah Winfrey is 5' 6\u00bd\" (1m69) tall\nBiography of Oprah Winfrey (excerpt)\nOprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah, January 29, 1954 (born January 29, 1954 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, from memory)) is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago.\nBorn: Monday, May 14, 1984\nIn: Dobbs Ferry (NY) (United States)\nSun: 24\u00b008' Taurus AS: 20\u00b058' Virgo\nMoon: 18\u00b044' Scorpio MC: 19\u00b030' Gemini\nDominants: Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo\nHeight: Mark Zuckerberg is 5' 9\" (1m75) tall\nBiography of Mark Zuckerberg (excerpt)\nMark Zuckerberg, (born May 14, 1984 (birth time source, a rectification from http:\/\/laurendelsack.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/birth-time-rectification-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg\/)) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook, a site popular among students worldwide, with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.\nIn: Mayfair, London (United Kingdom)\nSun: 0\u00b012' Taurus AS: 21\u00b024' Capricorn\nMoon: 12\u00b007' Leo MC: 25\u00b034' Scorpio\nDominants: Scorpio, Leo, Capricorn\nSaturn, Pluto, Neptune\nHouses 1, 10, 7 \/ Water, Earth \/ Fixed\nHeight: Elizabeth II is 5' 4\" (1m63) tall\nBiography of Elizabeth II (excerpt)\nElizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926 (birth time source: Fagan quotes official announcement, birth certificate)) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. When her father died in February 1952, she became head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon.\nIn: Omaha (United States)\nSun: 14\u00b009' Aries AS: 3\u00b044' Sagittarius\nMoon: 13\u00b005' Aries MC: 20\u00b032' Virgo\nDominants: Aries, Sagittarius, Taurus\nJupiter, Uranus, Venus\nHeight: Marlon Brando is 5' 10\" (1m78) tall\nBiography of Marlon Brando (excerpt)\nMarlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate) \u2013 July 1, 2004) was a two-time Academy Award-winning iconic actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. Brando is best known for his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, and his Academy-Award winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather and as Colonel Walter E.\nBorn: Saturday, March 19, 1955\nIn: Idar-Oberstein (Germany)\nSun: 28\u00b020' Pisces AS: 27\u00b042' Virgo\nMoon: 2\u00b031' Aquarius MC: 27\u00b004' Gemini\nDominants: Pisces, Aquarius, Virgo\nSun, Mercury, Neptune\nHeight: Bruce Willis is 6' (1m83) tall\nBiography of Bruce Willis (excerpt)\nWalter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor, producer and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s, most notably as David Addison in Moonlighting (1985\u201389).\nIn: Los Angeles Cedars Sinai Hospital (CA) (United States)\nSun: 6\u00b043' Cancer AS: 25\u00b040' Aquarius\nMoon: 25\u00b019' Gemini MC: 8\u00b037' Sagittarius\nDominants: Cancer, Sagittarius, Aquarius\nUranus, Jupiter, Venus\nHouses 5, 10, 4 \/ Water, Air \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Khloe Kardashian is 5' 9\u00bd\" (1m77) tall\nBiography of Khloe Kardashian (excerpt)\nKhloe Alexandra Kardashian (born June 27, 1984 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodadabank, BC. Previsouly, Kylie Jenner on Instagram https:\/\/instagram.com\/kyliejenner\/, copy of the informations: http:\/\/www.astrotheme.fr\/images\/Kendall%20Jenner_Kylie_Jenner_Khloe%20Kardashian_birth_time.jpg) which was not correct) is an American television personality, celebutante, socialite, model, and businesswoman. She is best known for her appearances on the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.\nBorn: Monday, July 9, 1956\nIn: Concord (CA) (United States)\nSun: 17\u00b029' Cancer AS: 21\u00b045' Virgo\nMoon: 9\u00b052' Leo MC: 20\u00b041' Gemini\nVenus, Mercury, Mars\nHouses 10, 6, 11 \/ Water, Air \/ Mutable\nChinese Astrology: Fire Monkey\nHeight: Tom Hanks is 6' (1m83) tall\nBiography of Tom Hanks (excerpt)\nThomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956 (birth time source: birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.\nBorn: Thursday, September 27, 1984\nIn: Belleville, Ontario (Canada)\nSun: 4\u00b033' Libra AS: 13\u00b039' Libra\nMoon: 7\u00b058' Scorpio MC: 16\u00b026' Cancer\nDominants: Scorpio, Libra, Sagittarius\nVenus, Pluto, Neptune\nHeight: Avril Lavigne is 5' 1\" (1m55) tall\nBiography of Avril Lavigne (excerpt)\nAvril Ramona Lavigne (pronunciation: \/\u02c8\u00e6vr\u0268l l\u0259\u02c8vi\u02d0n\/; AV-ril l\u0259-VEEN; born 27 September 1984 (birth time source: P. Petitallot, Astrodatabank, original source unknown))) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but spent most of her youth in the small town of Napanee.\nBorn: Tuesday, January 3, 1956\nIn: Peekskill (NY) (United States)\nSun: 12\u00b030' Capricorn AS: 14\u00b059' Cancer\nMoon: 0\u00b001' Libra MC: 24\u00b022' Pisces\nDominants: Capricorn, Scorpio, Libra\nMoon, Sun, Neptune\nHeight: Mel Gibson is 5' 9\u00bd\" (1m77) tall\nBiography of Mel Gibson (excerpt)\nMelvin Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956 (birth time source: British Entertainers, Franck C. Clifford)) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart.\nIn: Jersey (United Kingdom)\nSun: 14\u00b001' Taurus AS: 11\u00b038' Aquarius\nMoon: 13\u00b005' Aquarius MC: 7\u00b005' Sagittarius\nDominants: Sagittarius, Aquarius, Taurus\nUranus, Jupiter, Moon\nHouses 10, 3, 1 \/ Fire, Air \/ Fixed\nHeight: Henry Cavill is 6' 1\" (1m85) tall\nBiography of Henry Cavill (excerpt)\nHenry William Dalgliesh Cavill (born 5 May 1983 (birth time source: interview in 2004, by email)) is a British actor. Early life Cavill was born in Jersey and was educated at St. Michael's Preparatory School on the Island, before attending Stowe School, a boarding school, where he acted in many plays.\nBorn: Thursday, March 4, 1954\nIn: Le Mans (72) (France)\nSun: 13\u00b043' Pisces AS: 11\u00b046' Libra\nMoon: 9\u00b042' Pisces MC: 14\u00b044' Cancer\nDominants: Pisces, Libra, Cancer\nUranus, Venus, Moon\nHeight: Fran\u00e7ois Fillon is 5' 9\u00bd\" (1m76) tall\nBiography of Fran\u00e7ois Fillon (excerpt)\nFran\u00e7ois Charles Amand Fillon (French pronunciation: \u200b; born 4 March 1954 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 17 May 2007 to 16 May 2012. He was appointed by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 May 2007.\nBorn: Saturday, July 17, 1954\nIn: Hamburg (Germany)\nSun: 24\u00b034' Cancer AS: 16\u00b031' Sagittarius\nMoon: 15\u00b027' Aquarius MC: 21\u00b037' Libra\nDominants: Cancer, Sagittarius, Libra\nNeptune, Jupiter, Mars\nHeight: Angela Merkel is 5' 5\" (1m65) tall\nBiography of Angela Merkel (excerpt)\nAngela Dorothea Merkel (pronounced ( listen); n\u00e9e Kasner; born 17 July 1954 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is a German politician and former research scientist who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005, and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000.\nBorn: Tuesday, March 26, 1985\nIn: Teddington, Middlesex (United Kingdom)\nSun: 5\u00b047' Aries\nMoon: 29\u00b059' Taurus\nDominants: Aries, Taurus, Scorpio\nFire, Earth \/ Fixed\nHeight: Keira Knightley is 5' 7\" (1m70) tall\nBiography of Keira Knightley (excerpt)\nKeira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985 (source: http:\/\/www.librarising.com\/astrology\/celebs\/keiraknightley.html)) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international fame in 2003, after major roles in the films Bend It Like Beckham and the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.\nIn: San Diego (CA) (United States)\nSun: 12\u00b015' Scorpio AS: 28\u00b043' Virgo\nMoon: 23\u00b012' Cancer MC: 28\u00b037' Gemini\nDominants: Libra, Scorpio, Virgo\nHouses 2, 11, 10 \/ Water, Air \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Kris Jenner is 5' 6\" (1m68) tall\nBiography of Kris Jenner (excerpt)\nKristen Mary \"Kris\" Jenner (n\u00e9e Houghton, previously Kardashian; born November 5, 1955 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate))) is an American television personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She is also the manager for all of her family members including Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian.\nIn: Englewood (NJ) (United States)\nSun: 29\u00b038' Aquarius AS: 29\u00b006' Cancer\nMoon: 11\u00b011' Virgo MC: 13\u00b036' Aries\nDominants: Cancer, Pisces, Virgo\nMoon, Uranus, Venus\nHeight: John Travolta is 6' 2\" (1m88) tall\nBiography of John Travolta (excerpt)\nJohn Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954 (birth time source: Eugene Moore, Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as, Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction.\nSun: 4\u00b035' Cancer AS: 14\u00b015' Aries\nMoon: 3\u00b045' Libra MC: 6\u00b006' Capricorn\nDominants: Cancer, Libra, Gemini\nSun, Moon, Mars\nHouses 3, 6, 7 \/ Air, Water \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Isabelle Adjani is 5' 4\" (1m63) tall\nBiography of Isabelle Adjani (excerpt)\nIsabelle Adjani (born Isabelle Yasmina Adjani on 27 June 1955 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French film actress and singer. She is a five-time C\u00e9sar Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee. After success in the Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise, Adjani gained further fame in 1975 for her lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H.\nBorn: Tuesday, October 8, 1985\nIn: Waikiki, Honolulu (HI) (United States)\nSun: 15\u00b043' Libra AS: 2\u00b042' Pisces\nMoon: 7\u00b050' Leo MC: 10\u00b025' Sagittarius\nDominants: Sagittarius, Libra, Pisces\nUranus, Neptune, Pluto\nHouses 8, 10, 7 \/ Fire, Water \/ Mutable\nHeight: Bruno Mars is 5' 7\" (1m70) tall\nBiography of Bruno Mars (excerpt)\nPeter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985 birth time sources: http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/What_time_was_Bruno_mars_born and http:\/\/twittywatch.com\/mycity.php\/Honolulu-Hawaii\/1307559600\/17)), better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age.\nNicolas Hulot\nBorn: Saturday, April 30, 1955\nIn: Lille (59) (France)\nSun: 9\u00b012' Taurus AS: 8\u00b041' Cancer\nMoon: 23\u00b023' Leo MC: 6\u00b016' Pisces\nDominants: Cancer, Leo, Taurus\nMoon, Neptune, Jupiter\nHeight: Nicolas Hulot is 5' 8\u00bd\" (1m74) tall\nBiography of Nicolas Hulot (excerpt)\nNicolas Hulot (born 30 April 1955 in Lille, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) \u2013 officier de la L\u00e9gion d'honneur, chevalier des Arts et Lettres) is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the Fondation Nicolas Hulot, an environmental group established in 1990.\nBorn: Thursday, November 7, 1867\nIn: Warsaw (Poland)\nSun: 14\u00b035' Scorpio AS: 12\u00b002' Capricorn\nMoon: 16\u00b029' Pisces MC: 18\u00b037' Scorpio\nDominants: Scorpio, Capricorn, Cancer\nSaturn, Sun, Uranus\nHouses 10, 9, 2 \/ Water, Earth \/ Fixed\nHeight: Marie Curie is 5' (1m53) tall\nBiography of Marie Curie (excerpt)\nMaria Sk\u0142odowska-Curie (born Maria Sk\u0142odowska; known in France and most other countries as Marie Curie; November 7, 1867 (birth time source: Dariuxz Proskurnicki, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) \u2013 July 4, 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first twice-honored Nobel laureate (and still today the only laureate in two different sciences), and the first female professor at the Sorbonne.\nBorn: Tuesday, December 28, 1954\nIn: Mount Vernon, Westchester County (NY) (United States)\nSun: 5\u00b056' Capricorn AS: 7\u00b034' Libra\nMoon: 9\u00b002' Aquarius MC: 8\u00b047' Cancer\nDominants: Capricorn, Cancer, Libra\nHouses 3, 2, 10 \/ Water, Air \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Denzel Washington is 6' 1\" (1m85) tall\nBiography of Denzel Washington (excerpt)\nDenzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank, BC)) is an American actor and filmmaker. Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (in the 1987 film Cry Freedom), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X (in the 1992 film Malcolm X), boxer Rubin \"Hurricane\" Carter (in the 1999 film The Hurricane), football coach Herman Boone (in the 2000 film Remember the Titans), poet and educator Melvin B.\nBorn: Tuesday, October 13, 1925\nIn: Grantham (United Kingdom)\nSun: 19\u00b030' Libra AS: 15\u00b016' Scorpio\nMoon: 28\u00b038' Leo MC: 3\u00b051' Virgo\nDominants: Scorpio, Leo, Libra\nSaturn, Moon, Pluto\nHeight: Margaret Thatcher is 5' 5\u00bd\" (1m67) tall\nBiography of Margaret Thatcher (excerpt)\nMargaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, n\u00e9e Roberts (13 October 1925 (birth time source: Charles Harvey, Astrodatabank) \u2013 8 April 2013), was a British politician, the longest-serving (1979\u20131990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post.\nSun: 6\u00b002' Aquarius AS: 13\u00b004' Capricorn\nMoon: 1\u00b039' Pisces MC: 8\u00b025' Scorpio\nDominants: Capricorn, Scorpio, Pisces\nSaturn, Mercury, Pluto\nHeight: Paul Newman is 5' 9\u00bd\" (1m77) tall\nBiography of Paul Newman (excerpt)\nPaul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) \u2013 September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Oscar for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others.\nBorn: Friday, November 15, 1985\nIn: Artesia (CA) (United States)\nSun: 23\u00b017' Scorpio AS: 27\u00b002' Sagittarius\nMoon: 6\u00b051' Capricorn MC: 14\u00b049' Libra\nDominants: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Libra\nMars, Neptune, Jupiter\nHouses 1, 10, 11 \/ Air, Water \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Jeffree Star is 6' 1\" (1m85) tall\nBiography of Jeffree Star (excerpt)\nJeffree Star (born Jeffrey Lynn Steininger on November 15, 1985 (birth time source: Viktor E., birth certificate, Astrodatabank)) is an American entrepreneur, make up artist, YouTuber and singer, and the founder and owner of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. In 2009, Star released his first and only studio album, Beauty Killer, which included songs such as \"Lollipop Luxury\" featuring Nicki Minaj.\nBorn: Sunday, May 12, 1895\nIn: Madanapalle (India)\nMoon: 25\u00b022' Sagittarius MC: 29\u00b002' Scorpio\nDominants: Taurus, Scorpio, Gemini\nUranus, Mercury, Sun\nHouses 5, 4, 9 \/ Water, Air \/ Fixed\nBiography of Jiddu Krishnamurti (excerpt)\nJiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, biography)\u2013February 17, 1986) was a well-known writer and speaker on fundamental philosophical and spiritual subjects. For nearly sixty years he traveled all over the world, pointing out to people the need to transform themselves through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings in daily life.\nIn: Pyongyang (Korea, North)\nSun: 17\u00b001' Capricorn\nMoon: 11\u00b005' Pisces\nDominants: Sagittarius, Capricorn, Scorpio\nPluto, Jupiter, Neptune\nWater, Fire \/ Mutable\nHeight: Kim Jong-un is 5' 7\" (1m70) tall\nBiography of Kim Jong-un (excerpt)\nKim Jong-un (Chos\u014fn'g\u016dl: \uae40\uc815\uc740; Korean: ; born 8 January 1984 (source: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/27\/aunt-of-north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-un-runs-dry-cleaners-in-ne\/ but other sources give 1983, like https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/10\/world\/asia\/rodman-gives-details-on-trip-to-north-korea.html)) is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea.\nIn: Lynwood (CA) (United States)\nSun: 28\u00b022' Capricorn AS: 25\u00b028' Virgo\nMoon: 4\u00b016' Sagittarius MC: 25\u00b004' Gemini\nDominants: Sagittarius, Virgo, Cancer\nHouses 5, 3, 10 \/ Fire, Earth \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Kevin Costner is 6' 1\" (1m85) tall\nBiography of Kevin Costner (excerpt)\nKevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate)) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.\nCiara (singer)\nIn: Austin (TX) (United States)\nSun: 2\u00b014' Scorpio\nDominants: Scorpio, Pisces, Libra\nPluto, Neptune, Venus\nWater, Air \/ Fixed\nHeight: Ciara (singer) is 5' 8\" (1m73) tall\nBiography of Ciara (singer) (excerpt)\nCiara (born Ciara Princess Harris on October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the Billboard number-one single \"Goodies\". The album Goodies was released the fourth quarter of 2004 and first quarter of 2005.\nBorn: Tuesday, December 8, 1953\nIn: Athens (GA) (United States)\nMoon: 12\u00b050' Capricorn MC: 27\u00b002' Scorpio\nDominants: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius\nHouses 10, 8, 6 \/ Water, Air \/ Fixed\nHeight: Kim Basinger is 5' 7\u00bd\" (1m71) tall\nBiography of Kim Basinger (excerpt)\nKimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. Early life Basinger (pronounced (bay-sing-er), often mispronounced ) was born in Athens, Georgia. Her father, Don Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager who landed in Normandy during D-Day.\nIn: Omaha (NE) (United States)\nSun: 28\u00b038' Taurus AS: 4\u00b056' Capricorn\nMoon: 29\u00b051' Aries MC: 29\u00b043' Libra\nDominants: Taurus, Cancer, Capricorn\nHouses 4, 5, 7 \/ Earth, Water \/ Cardinal\nHeight: Malcolm X is 6' 3\u00bd\" (1m92) tall\nBiography of Malcolm X (excerpt)\nMalcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 \u2013 February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a Black Muslim Minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.\nBorn: Friday, August 13, 1926\nIn: Biran (Cuba)\nMoon: 11\u00b013' Libra MC: 19\u00b011' Pisces\nDominants: Leo, Gemini, Pisces\nHouses 3, 2, 4 \/ Fire, Water \/ Fixed\nHeight: Fidel Castro is 6' 3\" (1m91) tall\nBiography of Fidel Castro (excerpt)\nFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, conflicting\/unverified sources), died on November 25, 2016) is the current President of Cuba. On July 31, 2006, Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery for diverticulitis, transferred his responsibilities to the First Vice-President, his younger brother Ra\u00fal Castro.\nSun: 3\u00b054' Cancer AS: 11\u00b030' Leo\nMoon: 28\u00b036' Capricorn MC: 0\u00b029' Taurus\nNeptune, Sun, Venus\nHeight: Anthony Bourdain is 6' 4\" (1m93) tall\nBiography of Anthony Bourdain (excerpt)\nAnthony Michael Bourdain (June 25, 1956 (birth time source: Astrodatabanlk. In the Noel Tyl discussion forum a member derived the time 8:35 from a vedic chart on a computer screen in an online video, where Bourdain had his chart read by an Indian astrologer in Jaipur, the chart has been confirmed by Pamela Young) \u2013 June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition.\nSun: 4\u00b018' Pisces\nMoon: 10\u00b030' Cancer\nDominants: Sagittarius, Pisces, Cancer\nMoon, Jupiter, Neptune\nHeight: Emily Blunt is 5' 7\u00bd\" (1m71) tall\nBiography of Emily Blunt (excerpt)\nEmily Olivia L. Blunt (born February 23, 1983) is a Golden Globe Award-winning English actress known for her work in the film My Summer of Love and her appearance as Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada. At the 2007 Golden Globes Ceremony, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for the BBC TV film, Gideon's Daughter, and was also nominated for The Devil Wears Prada.\nBorn: Friday, April 9, 1926\nSun: 19\u00b018' Aries AS: 25\u00b053' Virgo\nMoon: 13\u00b037' Pisces MC: 25\u00b011' Gemini\nDominants: Pisces, Aries, Virgo\nMercury, Uranus, Neptune\nHeight: Hugh Hefner is 5' 9\" (1m75) tall\nBiography of Hugh Hefner (excerpt)\nHugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 (birth time source: the Wilsons, Astrodatabank, birth certificate) \u2013 September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher, editor, businessman, and playboy. He was best known as the editor-in-chief and publisher of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Aangirfan\nCHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - WESTMINSTER AND BEYOND\nThe editor of the Daily Mail with Ghislaine Maxwell\nThe \u00a3118m child sex abuse probe finds no evidence of Westminster paedophile network\nCHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART ONE\nIt is believed that Sir Jimmy Savile was an agent of the security services.\nJIMMY SAVILE; HORACE MANN; ROY COHN; THE CIA\nThe blog Fighting Back has a child abuse Timeline\nHere are extracts and some additions:\n1950 - Eisenhower, Hoover, Edward Teller, and Ernest Lawrence attended the Bohemian Grove in California.\nReportedly, Bohemian Grove is where the top people meet to carry out child sacrifice.\nBOHEMIAN GROVE AND THE US MILITARY\nEisenhower at Bohemian Grove 1950.\n1953 - The US government sanctioned Project MKUltra, the CIA's programme to produce mind-controlled people, including sex slaves.\nExperiments are carried out on large numbers of children taken from children's care homes, such as Boys Town.\nA child victim of the CIA's MK ULTRA\nThe MK ULTRA scientists, working in around 80 institutions, include Nazi war criminals.\nDonald Ewen Cameron worked on the programme in Canada and William Sargant worked on the programme in London.\nThe MK ULTRA scientists made use of torture.\nRoger Dean Kiser-Founder of \"The Whitehouse Boys\", the boys of the Arthur G Dozier School. (http:\/\/www.thewhitehouseboys.com\/)\n1950s 1960s - The Arthur G Dozier School, in Marianna in Florida, was a home for boys.\nExcavators have discovered 50 bodies buried in the grounds of the school, which was shut in 2011.\nIn 2008, the Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, was forced to launch an investigation into the \"hundreds of unmarked graves located at the school\".\nMarianna and Marianna Army Air Field.\nRape, torture and murder took place at this school in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.\nDon Stratton says \"I witnessed them killing a boy, OK. They beat him to death.\"\nDick Colon said he was forced to lie face-down on a blood-soaked pillow that had small pieces of lip, tongue and skin from the previous boy's beating.\nColon recalls looking through the steamed-up window of a tumble-drier in the school laundry and seeing a black boy inside, churning round and round.\n1950s and 1960s In Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom, there was 'Nazi-style' abuse of children in children's care homes.\nOne former resident says that \"he was in a chain gang polishing floors, bathed in detergent as punishment and sexually assaulted by a woman when he was aged five or six.\nThe Sisters of Nazareth order of nuns oversaw St Joseph's Home in Termonbacca in Londonderry and used to bath the children in Jeyes fluid.\nThe witness claimed: \"It was kind of like a Zyklon B gas chamber.\"\nChurch-run 'hell hole' homes were 'like Nazi concentration camps' \/ Children Forced To 'Eat Their Own Vomit' In Church-Run 'Hell Hole' \/ Children's homes 'like Auschwitz'\nNazareth Lodge\n1955 - Earliest recorded instance of child abuse by Jimmy Savile, in Manchester when running dance hall.\nLate 1950's - Savile (suspected of working for the security services) visits Moscow.\nMid 1950s - The charity Colonia Dignidad was set up in Chile by a 'Jewish Nazi' called Paul Sch\u00e4fer Schneider.\nReportedly, the CIA, Mossad and the West German secret service used Colonia Dignidad for experiments involving the torture and mind control of kidnapped children.\n\"It was known since 1964 that the members of the commune were being subjected to torture; it was known since 1977 that political prisoners were tortured there; and the child abuse was known about since the 1970s.\"\nChild abuse charity, CIA child torture, Colonia Dignidad\nColonia Dignidad, which became Villa Baviera.\n\"Germans in the colony knew how to keep a person alive for several days or weeks while putting him or her through the most terrible agony and humiliation...\"\nColonia Dignidad is said to have links to a large number of Nazis linked to Operation Paperclip, MK ULTRA brainwashing, satanic ritual abuse, AmeriCares, the Knights of Malta and the Vatican.\nGerman authorities investigated charges that from thirty to forty children reported missing from the Bonn and Cologne areas wound up at Colonia Dignidad.\nMichael Townley - \"the primary liaison between Colonia Dignidad and the Pinochet regime was an American CIA agent named Michael Townley who also served as a member of the Chilean secret police in addition to helping plan the military coup that ousted Allende. Latin American Cults Part I\n1956 - John Ross led a fact-finding committee investigating Australian children's homes to which British children had been sent.\nHe wants 26 institutions blacklisted.\nHis report is ignored by the government.\nIt later transpires that large numbers of children have been tortured and raped in children's care homes in Australia.\nBoys' home horror recalled.\nOften the police have been involved in the abuse.\nTwo journalists from Australia's Sun-Herald claimed see evidence of the satanic ritual abuse of children.\nThey interviewed six mothers whose children had disclosed experiences of SRA and organised abuse in New South Wales.\nLAND OF CHILD ABUSING CLERGY, POLITICIANS..\nCathy O'Brien\n1957 - Cathy O'Brien is born. She becomes a child victim of the mind control government project named Project Monarch, part of MK ULTRA\nShe recalls that as a child she was sexually abused by international pedophile rings, drug barons and satanists.\nTHE BUSH FAMILY.\nMoira.\n11-year-old Moira Anderson is last seen boarding a bus in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, Scotland.\nAccording to The Sunday Times (Pressure on police to release paedophile dossier), 23 April 2006, Strathclyde Police have a dossier listing members of a child-abuse ring.\nThe dossier is said to implicate senior public figures, including senior police officers and members of the Crown Office and former Scottish Office.\nThe Bexley Boys Home in Australia - opened in 1915 and closed in 1979.\n1960s 1970s - Boys are being 'rented out' for abuse at a Salvation Army boys' home in Australia.\nAt several salvation army homes for boys in Australia, boys are being beaten and sexually abused.\n\"A man named FV told police that in 1974 the Superintendent of the Bexley home, Captain Lawrence Wilson, introduced him to a woman in Salvation Army uniform who was accompanied by a man.\n\"FV said they took him back to their home and sexually abused him.\"\n1960 - In his book 'As It Happens', Savile describes this as the year he visits Elvis Presley in California.\nHarvey Proctor.\n1961, 1st January - Conservative Monday Club founded by Ian Greig, Paul Bristol, Cedric Gunner and Anthony Maclaren.\nSome members that appear on the Elm Guest house (boy brothel) list are: Harvey Proctor, John Rowe, Peter Campbell, Richard Miles, Peter Glencross (editor of newsletter), Charles Irving and Stan Mathews (not footballer).\nJohn Wetterer\n1963 - War in Vietnam. AmeriCares began in Vietnam when Robert Macauley helped a 'child-abusing' American soldier, John Wetterer, set up the Shoeshine Boys Foundation.\nAllegedly, the Shoeshine Boys was a pedophile ring serving the American military.\nukpaedos-exposed.com.\n1963 - 1968 - abuse at Kincora boys home, Belfast (believed to be run as a boy brothel by MI5)\n1963 - Male victim comes forward to claim Savile raped him in Cheshire but is told by police to \"forget about it\".\nKray Twins, possible victims of mind control.\n1963 - Lord Boothby introduced to the Kray twins (gangsters who reportedly supplied young boys to the elite).\n1964 - William Combes says he witnessed \"the abduction of ten fellow residential school children by the Queen of England and her husband in October, 1964 at the Catholic school in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.\"\nReportedly, around 50,000 aboriginal (native Indian) children died in residential schools in Canada\n1965 - 1988 - Savile volunteer porter and fundraiser at Stoke Mandeville hospital. Also had his own quarters there. Satanic abuse alleged.\n1965 - Greystone Heath, approved school for boys in Warrington, being used by child abuse ring.\nhttp:\/\/www.nickdavies.net\/1998\/04\/01...se-in-britain\/\n1966 - Mountbatten introduces Savile to Prince Philip.\n1966 - Jimmy Savile awarded honorary green beret by the Royal Marines.\n1966 - Michael Trestrail (linked to the Elm guest house boy brothel) becomes the Duke of Edinburgh's \"personal police officer\".\n1967 - Prince Edward begins service as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of Freemasonry in England and Wales.\nGuy Marsden\n1967 - 13 year old Guy Marsden, Jimmy Savile's nephew, frequently taken to wealthy celebrities houses in London with his friends, where men sexually abused girls and boys as young as 10, with Savile present.\n1969 - Savile visits the child abuse island of Jersey.\n1969, 10th December - Savile records 'Christmas Songs of Praise' for the BBC from Calder High School.\nWarwick Spinks, who was caught on secret camera offering to supply a video in which a 10 year old boy was killed and one featuring the horrific abuse of a young boy\nEarly 1970's - soldier John Peters, who takes part in 'Bjorn tape' video of horrific sex assault on 8 yr old boy, goes absent without leave.\nPEDOPHILE RING IN PRIME MINISTER'S HOME?\n70's - 80's - abuse in Islington's children's homes under the watch of Margaret Hodge. Abuse in childrens homes nationally during this period an epidemic.\n1970's - Savile becomes a regular visitor to Haut de La Garenne on the child abuse island of Jersey.\n1970 - The Spartacus International Gay Guide published, annually. It lists child brothels worldwide.\n1970 - first recorded instance of abuse by Savile at Duncroft school in Surrey.\nSavile and Heath\n1970, June 19th - Edward Heath, a frequent visitor to the child abuse island of Jersey, becomes Prime Minister.\n1971, March 29th - Claire McAlpine, who had been a young dancer on BBC TV,commits suicide at 15. In her diary she named showbusiness personalities who she claims \"used\" her.\nThe allegations were dismissed both within and outside the BBC, and Jimmy Savile denied having known her.\nFather Bruce Ritter mixing with the teenage boy prostitutes of New York.\n1972 - Father Ritter, a vice president of Americares, set up a charity called Covenant House, 'as a cover for a pedophile ring'.\nCia's 'Christian' faction; AmeriCares, pedophile rings.\n1973 - Michael Trestrail (linked to Elm Guest House) becomes the Queen's bodyguard.\n1973 - 1982 - Children from Grafton Close Children's Home being abused at Elm guest house by top people.\nPEDOPHILE RINGS; NAYPIC.\nRight - Sir peter Morrison with Thatcher. Left - North Wales children's care home used as a boy brothel. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.\n1974 - 1990 - Child abuse occurs at various North Wales children's homes.\nMargaret Thatcher's close friend Sir Peter Morrison, and a McAlpine, are reportedly involved.\nmid 1970's - P.I.E. campaign to legalise sex with children over 4.\n1975 - Prince Edward serves as President of The Scout Association.\nA large number of child celebrities are reported to be victims of the CIA's MK ULTRA mind-control.\n1975 - Project MKUltra is brought to public attention by the Church Committee of the U.S. Congress.\n1975 - Jimmy Savile 10 day 'state visit' to Israel. He meets President Ephraim Katzir and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, and was organised by John Levy of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust.\n1975 - Savile reportedly beat and raped girl at Stoke Mandeville hospital as part of a satanic ritual with other adults in the hospital basement. He chanted 'Hail Satan' in Latin. Girl first spoke out in 1992.\nhttp:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/370...f-satanic-ring\n1970s onwards - Boys being sexually abused at Boys Town.\nLarry King got children for his Franklin child abuse ring from Boys Town, Omaha.\nChild victims said that King took part in the satanic ritual murder of children. (Franklin Credit Union Child-Sex Scandal)\nThe \"Washington Post\", \"New York Times\", \"Village Voice\" and \"National Law Journal\" referred to the accusations.\nKing was linked to Iran-Contra.\nKing was said to have provided the CIA with information gained from the users of the child sex ring.\nBOYS TOWN AND THE POPE \/ OMAHA IS FAMOUS.\nSavile and Thatcher\n1975, 30 October - 1980, 17 Nov- The Yorkshire Ripper murder spree.\nSavile later viewed as a suspect in Ripper murders and questioned by West Yorkshire Police. Moulds taken of teeth.\n1976 - Jimmy Savile at Haut de La Garenne sexually abuses ''John'' who is aged 10 at time of assault. Two top police officers officers claim that Jersey's the Haut de la Garenne care home was at the heart of a ''well-protected paedophile ring''.\nVictims of the Oakland county child killer.\n1975 - 1976 - Francis D Shelden owned North Fox Island, in Lake Michigan. The island was a major centre of child abuse activity. Shelden was also reportedly Frank Torey editor of PAN and of Spartacus with Stamford.\nhttp:\/\/catherinebroad.wordpress.com\/...circa-1975-76\/\n1976 and 1977 - Oakland county child killer, unidentified serial killer responsible for the murders of\nfour or more children, two girls and two boys, in Oakland County, Michigan, USA. Frank Shelden\/Torey?\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland...y_Child_Killer\n1976 - Savile in Belfast, site of the Kincora Boy's Home (reportedly used as a boy brothel by MI5).\nGuatemalan children with the Toybox charity which has links to the 'CIA front' organisation World Vision.\n1976 - John Hugh Wetterer, a Vietnam War veteran founds an orphanage in Guatemala City called Mi Casa. According to reports, it becomes a centre of child abuse.\nJOHN WETTERER, GEORGE BUSH, CHILD ABUSE IN Guatemala.\n1977 - victim, aged 11, abused by Peter Righton and other members of P.I.E. in London until 16. Cyril Smith and other vips allegedly involved.\nhttp:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news...ophile-1815932\n1977, February 5th - Ripper victim number 3 - ROUNDHAY murder of Irene Richardson. Savile living at his penthouse flat overlooking the park at this time and some time before, yards from the murder. Savile viewed as a suspect and questioned by West Yorkshire Police. Moulds taken of teeth. David Wilson calls for inquiry.\n1978, July - Savile thrown off luxury cruise liner SS Canberra after an assault claim on a 14 yr old and being quizzed by the Captain. (But he will back on board 15 yrs later in 1993.)\n1979 - 81 - Vincent, abused in Elm Guest house age 11 and house next to church in Sea Rd, Bexhill.\n1979, 4th May - Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister.\nMartin Allen\n1979, 5th November - Martin Allen, 15, disappears. Last seen by a friend at King's Cross Tube station as he made his way home from school.\nMan and boy seen acting suspiciously at Earl's Court, just a few miles from Elm Guest House. Photofit bears remarkable resemblance to Harvey Proctor.\nhttp:\/\/ukpaedos-exposed.com\/cold-cas...n-london-1979\/\nCHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART SIX\nCHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FIVE\nCHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART FOUR\nCHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART THREE\nCHILD ABUSE TIMELINE - PART TWO\nCHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART ONE\nBodybuilders Word por Kurt Stallaert.\nCertain documents explain how child abuse networks are protected.\nThe following is from: The Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics\nThe first document was a death bed testimony from an old woman named Jacqueline Smolders.\n(Schaarbeek Police, Jacqueline Smolders interview, March 18, 1997)\nSmolders started out by saying:\n\"I want to testify in relation to the murdered and missing children, the investigation of which is ongoing at the District Attorney's Office and the examining magistrate in Neufchateau.\"\n(Neufch\u00e2teau, Belgium )\nphoto.huanqiu.com.\nSmolders spoke about Le Stanley, a club in Brussels that organized sex orgies.\nIt existed from the 1960s until1972.\nSmolders was a member at the time and knew the owner, Marcel Hofmans.\nMembers of the club included Belgian executives of U.S. corporations including IBM and Union Carbide.\nThe Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics\nMichel Nihoul (left)\nAt the club was a young black girl that Smolders thought could well have been Virginie Baranyanka, the lawyer of Michel Nihoul who was part of the Dutroux child kidnap and murder scandal in Belgium.\nSmolders suspected that at least several members of club Le Stanley must have known Nihoul.\nLoubna Benaissa\nSmolders was virtually certain that the father of the murderer of Loubna Benaissa (Dutroux Affair) had been a member of Le Stanley.\nSmolders testified: \"In the club was a member whom I didn't know by name but who was in the possession of a private airplane.\n\"He flew to Switzerland to get these films for Le Stanley.\n\"I know these films were flown from Sweden to Switzerland where the member in question went to pick them up.\"\nBelgian parents.\n\"One day, in 1969, this plane crashed over the province of Namur with all the pornographic material onboard.\n\"The police intervened and all the pornographic material was confiscated.\nlookheretech.blogspot.com.\n\"That evening, however, Marcel Hofmans had all the the movies in his possession, because of the intervention of apparently influential persons in the judicial sphere of Namur...\n\"I don't know the names of the persons who constantly protected him.\n\"I do know that it always involved very important persons, by their background, their wealth or social position.\n\"I'm talking about politicians, top-level army and police officers, judges and district attorneys.\"\n(Schaarbeek Police, Jacqueline Smolders interview - March 18, 1997)\nnewsletter.tour-taxis.com.\nMary Porsont, who used to work at La Piscine, one of the clubs owned by Marcel Hofmans in the early 1990s, has also given a testimony that appears in the Dutroux files.\nIn the 1993-1994 period she worked for the labour union SETca (Syndicat des employ\u00e9s, techniciens et cadres) and the Socialist Party.\nAmong the people she got to know was a certain Richard de Groot.\nDe Groot soon introduced her to Roger Labarbe, the national chairman of the SETCa.\nThey offered her to come with them to sexual orgies, for which she would get a considerable compensation (she needed money).\nGuy Co\u00ebme. Le Parti Sataniste (PS)\nThe three of them subsequently went to the swing club Hoeve Bornedries, which, according to de Groot and Labarbe, belonged to former defense minister Guy Coeme, who got burnt in the Agusta scandal (ELIO DI RUPO).\nwww.absoluteartgallery.com.\nMore frequently they would go to the private club La Lune des Pirates, which was later renamed La Piscine.\nPorsont eventually ended up working at La Piscine.\nAbout La Piscine Porsont testified:\n\"In the club I met magistrates, lawyers from the Court of Assisen, gendarmes, police officers, officers from the District Attorney's police, but also surgeons and other people with money...\nIn Belgium, Member of Parliament Laurent Louis publicised a list of names that an 'anonymous' group sent to all parliamentarians in Belgium. The list was of all the people ALLEGEDLY involved in the Dutroux affair. Among the names listed: US General Michael Aquino (who has had an important role in military psychological warfare; involved in \"Monarch\" brainwashing; Councillor for Western Europe Chiefs of Staff) Paul Bonacci, victim of Monarch brainwashing, Willy Claes Secretary General of NATO in 1994 and 95, Elio di Rupo currently Belgian Prime Minister, Andr\u00e9 Cools , assassinated Belgian government minister... http:\/\/jeugdzorg-darkhorse. blogspot.nl\/2013\/03\/no-faith-in-dutch-family-law.html\n\"In the half year I worked at La Piscine I did not see any pedophile activity.\n\"But I did hear enough about the bizarre sexual preferences of so called higher ups and that there were possibilities to organize orgies with children.\n\"A certain Eric and Nina asked me to approach those higher ups who came to us at La Piscine and left their phone number with offers of special evenings.\n\"Especially Nottebaert ('a socialist politician who liked Sadism and Masochism') but also quite a few ministers turned out to be very interested in those kind of evenings.\n\"At the union and the Socialist Party I learned a lot about their sexual preferences.\nElio di Rupo\nPorsont testified:\n\"Elio di Rupo (currently prime minister of Belgium), for example, who had a relationship with Spitaels's son.\"\n(Guy Spitaels was a top politician in Belgium.\nAccording to the declaration of Dany Lefrant to the Belgian Judiciary: \"Pink Ballets (orgies with underaged children) took placee with ... SPITAELS Guy, at bar Le Cancan\".\nLe Cancan was the bar where Elio Di Rupo, according to Cancan's owners, went to pick up boys).\n(ISGP - Belgian X-Dossiers)\nBhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Charlotte, North Carolina\nMarcel Hofmans reportely set up a Belgian branch of the (reportedly CIA-linked) Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Cult which shared headquarters with La Piscine.\n(HEADLEY AND CIA LINKED TO RAJNEESH CULT) (Parquet du Procureur du Roi, Brussels, PJ 301, No. 37117 - September 2, 1996)\nThe Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult (later called Osho) practiced free sexual relations.\nThe CIA and its friends are believed to be heavily involved with sex cults, new age groups, child abuse, satanic ritual abuse and mind control.\nIn April 1994, the address of this Bhagwan sect was changed to the Kammenstraat 29, 2000 Antwerp.\nOn November 27, 1995, police conducted a search at this very same address.\nThey were looking for Eric Mattheeussen, who had been accused of taking illegal photographs at a morgue in the aftermath of a tragic traffic accident.\nMattheussen used this building as a storage or working place.\nIn this building, the police found many boxes.\n\"In these boxes we find amongst other things thousands of photos of children...\n\"We find hundreds of pictures of corpses of children, often in the most hideous poses.\n\"Many of the pictures have been made by himself; other pictures were made on order by other photographers. ...\n\"In several boxes we find child pornography... penetrations of often very young children by grown ups, and also some very unusual pedophile fantasies. ... Pictures of deceased children in concentration camps... newspaper clippings of prominent disappearances.\"\n(Gendarmerie, Antwerp Brigade, PV 113181\/95 - November 27, 1995)\nBoy from Charleroi in Belgium, near the home of Marc Dutroux, who allegedly worked for the security services. ( the world's worst ...)\nFormer Charleroi mayor and Walloon prime minister Jean-Claude van Cauwenbergh (who followed Elio di Rupo in this last position) reportedly has ties to child abuse networks.\nThe following is a 2004 letter written by Hans Laroes, editor in chief of the NOS News (one of the most respected news programs in the Netherlands), to the Council for Journalism:\n\"Already in 2000 top public official Joris Demmink attracted the attention of the research office of the [NOS] News.\n\"In march that year we did an investigation with the question if the Belgian Marc Dutroux Affair had tentacles in the Netherlands.\n\"It was the time that the Zandvoort child porn case had relit and the media was laying in front of the door of the Belgian Morkhoven workgroup.\n\"The name Joris Demmink had been given to me in conversations with detectives.\n\"These spoke about a 1998 investigation, ran from a very secret location in Utrecht: an investigation into a network of top public officials, two district attorneys (19 in total at the time in the Netherlands), a former minister, a former attorney of the Queen and a single professor who would have sex with underaged boys.\n\"The investigation had begun at the direction of the College of Prosecuter-Generals - instigated by the district attorney of Amsterdam, Vrakking.\n\"Demmink played an important role in that investigation. Detectives had suspected that this top public official had given information to one of the main suspects, the Amsterdam professor Van R., with whom he was friends. Because of that, the professor avoided prosecution, the detectives stated.\"\n(January 1, 2004, Hans Laroes, editor in chief of the NOS News, to the Council for Journalism.)\nThe letter recalled how in October 2003 both the Gay Krant and Panorama magazines had published an article about Demmink (not giving his name), who was Holland's secretary-general of justice, and his apparent involvement in child abuse...\nCHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART TWO .\nCHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART THREE .\nLabels: Child Abuse, networks\nposted by Anon @ 01:27 35 Comments\nAt 25 February 2020 at 10:44 , Anonymous said...\nHow much can one lie?\nhttps:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/02\/donald-trump-harvey-weinstein-1202867737\/\nEnorme scandale en Belgique : Les Anonymous publient une liste de personnalit\u00e9s impliqu\u00e9es dans le r\u00e9seau de l'affaire Dutroux. (Article+Vid\u00e9os)\nhttp:\/\/openyoureyes.over-blog.ch\/article-enorme-scandale-en-belgique-les-anonymous-publient-une-liste-de-personnalites-impliquees-dans-le-r-105554633.html\n@BBCNewsnight:\n\"In August 2015 I made it clear that there was no Westminster VIP paedophile ring. I was castigated for saying that.\"\n\"The inquiry, today, has justified fully what I have been saying.\"\n- Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNewsnight\/status\/1232437542391287809?s=20\n@BarbaraMHughes:\n\"Get that fucker Harvey Proctor off your programme. Wtf is he doing on there. #Newsnight\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/BarbaraMHughes\/status\/1232437367715201026?s=20\nEx Jersey Senator Stuart Syvret\n@StuartSyvret:\n\"Don't think for one moment @InquiryCSA #IICSA is 'The-Word' on British child-abuse cover-ups\n\"#IICSA is every bit as corrupt - and intellectually indefensible - as the UK tax-haven Jersey island fake 'public-inquiry'\n\"Some of the same people worked in both.\n\"We got your number\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/StuartSyvret\/status\/1232465046107635717?s=20\n@craftymuvva:\n\"Yep, KINCORA is a blight on our history and it's a disgrace it was not investigated by iiCSA.\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/craftymuvva\/status\/1232404420111085569?s=20\nDon Hale OBE @perryscope21:\n\"Nothing changes after IICSA cover up ...\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/perryscope21\/status\/1232374025856442369?s=20\n@cheeriowatson:\n\"Soon-to-be Baroness Alexis Jay paid \u00a3185k in 2015\/16, over \u00a3190k in 2018\/19 & probably more this financial year for chairing IICSA, with an extra \u00a340k in expenses.\n\"So for \u00a3230k she has refused to speak to the media.\n\"Where is she?\n\"A lakeside retreat in Sweden perhaps?\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/cheeriowatson\/status\/1232364448612003840?s=20\n@financialeyes:\n\"Has Jay has turned a blinder eye to paedophilia than David Steel?\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/financialeyes\/status\/1232537998182490112?s=20\n@ProtestUrban:\n\"... 'no proof of Westminster vip paedo ring'\n\"You. Are. Having. A. Laugh.\n\"Warren Spinks made it totally clear EXACTLY a ring operated in Westminster, drunk, the night he raped me.\n\"Perhaps the inquiry didn't ask the right qs?\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ProtestUrban\/status\/1232428547995820032?s=20\n@richardtgarland:\n\"Still nobody has offered a valid explanation as to why Kincora was not included in the CSA, leaving the HIA without the power to compel documents and witnesses. Instead we were given verbal assurances, and an Inquiry that victimised whistleblowers.\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/richardtgarland\/status\/1232296269504241667?s=20\n@SobukiRa:\n\"... Not just Kincora. KENDALL HOUSE was also excluded, despite overwhelming evidence that children were raped and drugged by care home staff there.\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/SobukiRa\/status\/1232296955495297024?s=20\n@AllyFogg:\n\"While we're rightly horrified at David Steel, don't forget during the same period MI5, the Northern Ireland Office & both Labour & Tory governments were turning a blind eye to - and probably actively instigating - systematic child abuse at Kincora Boys' Home.\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AllyFogg\/status\/1232380964116074498?s=20\nIslington Survivors Network\n@theIslingtonSN:\n\"Islington survivors were taken by abusive childrens home managers from Grosvenor Ave and Gisburne House in 70s to HAUT DE LA GARENNE JERSEY - we have photographs ...\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/theIslingtonSN\/status\/1232410329029709830?s=20\nCyril Smith accuser calls for David Steel to be prosecuted\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/25\/cyril-smith-accuser-calls-for-david-steel-to-be-stripped-of-peerage\nAt 25 February 2020 at 23:20 , Anon said...\nIn Tel Aviv a plaque on a wall commemorates the life of jimmy Saville and his \" service\" to israel. In grove rd walthamstow was a boys club in the 1960s. It was run behind the scenes by the Krays, the Krays were run by seniour mossad operative mrs silverstein.\nIn the UK she ran youth clubs to find useful \" proteges\"\nFrom web forum thread on current Julian Assange events\nMeme photo of Julian with this text:\nCIA Mossad & MI5-MI6 congratulate their agent faker & hoaxer\non a decade of success scamming & duping sheeple around the world!\n'Without your lead I couldn't have scammed the whole world too!'\n- Eddie 'Snowman' Snowden\n'Hope you can fake die too, and then join me in Israel!'\n- Jeffrey 'videoman' Epstein\nhttps:\/\/i.ibb.co\/PjkRxng\/Julian-Assange-super-hoaxer.jpg\nCIA-Mossad celebrate fake UK 'trial' of agent Assange Mr Super Fake\nSheeple luv 'muh hero' Julian Assange, ignore proof Wikileaks was always fraud & so is this week's UK 'extradition trial'\nCIA-Mossad-MI5-MI6 laugh how sheeple will ignore proof Assange is hoax even if in their faces\n- Sheeple ate up hoax re 'years living in Ecuador embassy' - just there for photos meetings\n- Sheeple ignore how Assange luvs Israel n says 9-11 truthers, Israel critics are stupid loons\n- Netanyahu long ago told Israeli media Assange was their asset\n- CIA Brzezinski admitted on TV Wikileaks are from intel\n- Assange a Rothschild boy, Wikileaked to destroy Rothschild rival bank Julius Baer, shared lawyer with Rothschilds, Rothschild sister-in-law posted his bail HA\n- Assange lawyers serve MI5-MI6 Doughty Chambers, tho one John Jones was thrown under a train and killed, can't have people expose Julian is hoax\n- Peter W Smith dead after contacting Wikileaks, Assange chuckles he never got the files HA\nAt 29 February 2020 at 03:30 , Julien romanovsky said...\nhttp:\/\/alcuinbramerton.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/madeleine-mccann-held-on-private-orders.html\nhttps:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-488654\/Why-Portugal-haven-paedophiles--disturbing-backcloth-Madeleine-case.html\n\"Behind the abduction of four-year-old Madeleine McCann from the Ocean Club Resort, Praia da Luz, Portugal, on Thursday 3rd May 2007, was a shadowy German organisation called the Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD) and the Portuguese politician Jose Manuel Durao Barosso, the 12th President of the European Commission.\"\nhttps:\/\/hnewswire.com\/ruling-elites-pedophile-bloodlust-for-children-from-antiquity-to-today\/\nAt 2 March 2020 at 11:33 , Julien romanovsky said...\nhttps:\/\/www.place4free.com\/Downloads\/Books\/Interesting\/ORANJES.pdf\nMore orderly version of the \"Dutch Pedo Files\" of Anemary van Blijenburgh aka as the Supergetuige, the Superwitness.\nIn Dutch only, use the translation machine to get a global view.\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWEw4nfhMVM (clear audio)\nhttps:\/\/www.ecaglobal.org\/deaf-survivors-to-pope-francis-you-knew-and-you-did-not-act\/\nPope Francis and Argentina's 'disappeared'\n- By Mark Dowd BBC News 11 April 2013\nhttps:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/romes-subculture-gay-priests-rocks-vatican-74397\nby Barbie Nadeau 7\/27\/10\nhttps:\/\/humansarefree.com\/2017\/07\/largest-catholic-church-pedophile-bust-in-history-unprecedented-amount-of-child-porn-discovered-in-the-vatican.html\n\"The paradox is this: The catholic church defends to the last the right of the unborn child, and yet the right of the born child they seem to compromise on their own effort.\"\nvid 4.40:\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=292&v=xkt_vBMWHKE&feature=emb_logo\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pdfy-jE87IzV9MFhV07FV\/page\/n11\/mode\/2up\nKennedy - Lucifer's Lodge - Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church (2004).pdf\nhttps:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/894528\/Bernard-Law-Boston-archbishop-child-abuse-Spotlight-Catholic-Church-Boston-Globe\nhttps:\/\/eu.ydr.com\/story\/news\/2019\/09\/04\/list-abusive-priests-other-clergy-every-state-since-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report\/2139297001\/\nList: Every abusive Catholic church priest, clergy member named in every state in past year (dec. 2019)\nhttps:\/\/katc.com\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/13\/john-anthony-mary-engbers\/\nhttps:\/\/rapevictimsofthecatholicchurch.wordpress.com\/category\/bishop-david-zubik\/\nhttps:\/\/rapevictimsofthecatholicchurch.wordpress.com\/category\/bishop-christopher-coyne\/\n\" In his trip to the United States in the fall, Francis told victims that \"words cannot fully express my sorrow for the abuse you suffered.\" Yet his initiative to establish a Vatican tribunal to judge bishops who enabled or ignored pedophile priests has come to naught. Not a single bishop has been called to account by the tribunal, which itself remains more notional than real.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2019\/12\/23\/legionaries-christ-report-chain-abuse-victims-went-abuse-others\nThe report:\"The vast majority of the victims were boys between the ages of 11 and 16... 111 of the 175 victims -- more than 63% -- \"were either victims of Father Maciel or were victims of his victims.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/scandal-secrecy\n\"In 2003, plaintiffs' attorneys Daniel J. Shea and Carmen Durso sent a copy of this newly uncovered \"secret\" Vatican document to the U.S. Attorney in Boston, alleging that Crimen provided proof that the Vatican had orchestrated a worldwide cover-up of clergy sexual abuse of children. Shea said that Crimen was \"not just a smoking gun but a nuclear bombshell.\" The story made headlines around the world.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/vatican-purchases-23m-building-that-houses-europes-biggest-gay-sauna-29123076.html\n\"If you can't go to the gay sauna for fear of being seen what do you do if you have millions of Euros stolen from Italians? You buy the apartment block with the sauna inside.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XoulaehrD_I\nHow the Catholic Church Hid Away Hundreds of Irish Children | Times Documentaries--- NYT\nhttps:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/v3\/celebrities\/2018\/2475508.html\nBishops Disown Vatican for Child Rape, Sacrifices, Trafficking\nFriday, September 28 2018\n\"Pope Francis made a direct order to conceal a mass grave of 400 dismembered baby corpses (believed to be ritually abused) - by the care taking nuns, jr - in a Tuam, Ireland Catholic Nun septic tank.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_fbB0dvVJUM\n\"Ex-catholic nun, whistleblower Kerry Burnor - part 1 of 4\nPrejudicing Catholics is clearly not the goal of the interview but is for efforts for exposing truth to effect reformation.\" A MUST WATCH - Part 1 of an Incredible - Each Part gets more intense - Believe me ! This is a 3 1\/2 hour interview with Ex Catholic Nun Sister Keri Burnor. She gives us background of how she became a Nun, the sexual deviance that goes on in the church and how she became a targeted individual attacked by military grade Nano Technology.\"\nAt 11 March 2020 at 07:07 , Julien romanovsky said...\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=2&v=GwUQXUiqYcU&feature=emb_logo\nUploaded by DefendingTheFaith. Why Is The Papal Audience Hall Shaped Like A Giant Reptile?\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E2BMDEtwer0&app=desktop\nUploaded by a former Catholic altar boy.\n00.30 : \"I am not knocking the Catholic faith or anything like that but it is my duty to follow the breadcrums no matter where they go, even if I don\u00b4t like what I see...\"\nhttp:\/\/robscholtemuseum.nl\/neon-revolt-the-blood-on-bergoglios-head-argentinas-ghosts\/\nAt 3 September 2020 at 03:34 , Anonymous said...\nJORIS DEMMINK DUTCH PEDOPHILE MINISTER OF JUSTICE STILL NOT ARRESTED . WHY ?????\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/XM4tWW3bMy0\nGreetings by @rogowskibubba on twitter\nName: Anon\nNISARGADATTA - ALL COMES FROM WITHIN\nJAMES RHODES - CHILD ABUSE REFORM IN SPAIN\nST PAUL'S BOMB PLOT\nSURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, DELHI RIOTS, TURKEY\/SYRIA...\nDR. RAUNI KILDE\nWEINSTEIN, TRIDENT, ROLLIE QUAID,\nBUTTIGIEG, TRUMP, INDIA, MALAYSIA, HANAU, GAY FILM...\nJANNER, DAVID STEEL, UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM, STOWE,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Prime Proposal Group Founder: 'It's About Delivering Results'\nTammye Brownlee, founder of Prime Proposal Group, shares how implementing a \"less is more\" strategy and building a team of financial advisors has helped her business along the path to success.\nBy: Sheryl Nance-Nash , Contributor\nTammye Brownlee, Founder of Prime Proposal Group, shares the ways in which her business has adjusted to recent struggles and the business tactics from which she's gleaned success. \u2014 Prime Proposal Group\nTammye Brownlee loves winning. \"When my clients win, I win,\" said the owner of Prime Proposal Group.\nSince 2019, her company has helped small and minority-owned businesses bid on federal, state, and local contracts, achieve certifications, get grants, and assisted with strategic planning, website design, brand development, and more.\nBrownlee worked in universities, corporations and nonprofits in events and partnership management, corporate development, and strategic alliances. But for 25 years she also wrote grants and requests for proposal (RFPs). \"My side hustle overshadowed my job. I had so much demand that it got to the point where the side hustle could sustain me. I can make in one month what some make in a year. So, I took the leap,\" said Brownlee, who is also a recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Coalition to Back Black Businesses (CBBB) 2022 Enhancement Grant.\nIn her short time in business, she has worked with some 400 clients\u2014and she has seen results. From January through June of this year, she helped clients close more than $30 million in awards. But while business is booming, that's not to say there haven't been challenges.\nBe ready to pivot\nThe evil twins of the pandemic and rising inflation hit her client base. Some of them have suffered revenue losses and others, particularly her transportation clients, have been affected by rising gas prices and have had to lay off staff.\nAs a result, she adjusted. \"I put some clients on payment plans,\" said Brownlee.\nPre-pandemic conferences were also a way for her to network and get new business. When conferences stopped because of the pandemic, she responded by bolstering the company's digital presence, and increased the use of email marketing.\nFocus on quality, not quantity\nLike most entrepreneurs, Brownlee has experienced growing pains.\nWhen she started her company, she had three vice presidents and about 15 independent contractors. \"The focus was on volume. I thought I needed a lot of people to get the revenue I wanted. But quality went down,\" says Brownlee.\nShe then switched to a \"less is more\" strategy. Brownlee now has three design assistants and one federal grant review panelist who reviews grant applications for accuracy and completeness, and she does all the writing to maintain writing integrity. \"The shift to quality and a boutique model is serving us well, allowing us to focus more on quality over quantity. We now handpick the right firms to work with to develop and implement growth opportunities in a sustainable and profitable way.\"\nGet a team of advisors to help keep you compliant and afloat financially.\nTammye Brownlee, Founder, Prime Proposal Group\nBuild a team of advisors\nBrownlee has learned some things the hard way, like taxes. \"You're making a lot of money, say you brought in $1 million, but there's this tax bill for like $300,000 that you weren't expecting,\" says Brownlee. After her first year in business, she got an accountant and other advisors. That's one piece of advice she has for other entrepreneurs: \"Get a team of advisors to help keep you compliant and afloat financially.\"\nKeep seeking new opportunities\nRight now, though, she's looking forward to relaunching her nonprofit to teach youth and POC entrepreneurship and eyeing expansion of her Miami business, that has many Midwest and Southeast clients, to include the West Coast and specifically Silicon Valley. \"My research says there are a lot of POC business owners there [who] need support. I want to see how we can help bring their vision alive.\"\nThat's what she does. \"It's about delivering results, winning.\"\nFollow us on Instagram for more expert tips & business owners' stories.\nFor more business strategies\n5 Small Businesses Leveraging the Mocktail Trend to Grow Their Businesses\nHow to Ensure Your Business Website Is SEO-Optimized\nWhat Is a Debt Collection Agency and How Do They Get Paid?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"More natural gas vital to Queensland's electricity generation mix\nQueensland's Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham has reportedly told a conference on the Gold Coast that gas-fired power provided the \"perfect co-existence model\" alongside renewable energy sources such as solar, hydro and wind.\n\"The Minister has described gas as a \"fuel of the future\". All credible analysts agree with him,\" said APPEA Chief Executive Dr Malcolm Roberts.\n\"This is refreshing honesty in an often polarised energy debate. Queensland needs a mix of energy technologies to deliver reliable, affordable and cleaner electricity. No single technology can meet all these needs.\"\nQueensland Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham Gas has called gas \"a fuel of the future\".\nThe use of gas should be expanded as the use of renewables expands, because gas can be rapidly switched on or off to meet falls in output from intermittent wind and solar.\nFailing to increase use of gas in step with expanding renewables will undermine emissions reductions as well as energy security.\n\"Gas-fired generation is unique in our energy mix,\" Dr Roberts said.\n\"It alone can supply electricity within minutes to meet spikes in demand or falls in output from other generators. It is ideal for supporting intermittent renewable energy because of this rapid response.\n\"The International Energy Agency has modelled how the world's use of energy will change to meet the challenge of cutting emissions. The IEA forecasts that, in a carbon-constrained world, the global use of natural gas will increase to 2040.\n\"The same point has been made for Australia. The most recent modelling for the Climate Change Authority indicates that we will need to more than triple output from gas-fired plants to meet our 2030 emissions targets.\n\"The Minister's comments are welcome. Gas should be playing a greater role in Queensland's future energy mix because it is cleaner burning, reliable, affordable and perfectly complements renewables,\" Dr Roberts said.\n\u00ab NT fracking inquiry must consider benefits of gas development CSG boosts farmers' water security \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'I felt a sense of relief' | North Carolina opens vaccine appointments to front-line essential workers\nGov. Roy Cooper announced North Carolina will open COVID-19 vaccine appointments for all essential front-line workers starting Wednesday, March 3.\nAuthor: Chloe Leshner (WCNC), Richard DeVayne, Hank Lee\nPublished: 5:25 AM EST March 3, 2021\nUpdated: 6:05 PM EST March 3, 2021\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 One year after North Carolina reported its first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19, all essential front-line workers are eligible to get vaccinated against the disease.\nThey're the employees who have not been able to work from home or slow down, so that some aspects of life could remain business as usual.\nSome have witnessed first hand the hardships local families have faced because of the pandemic.\n\"In 2020 with almost no volunteers we fed 120,000 people,\" said Paige Stryker, IT director for Loaves and Fishes. She can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.\nWorking for Loaves and Fishes makes her an essential frontline worker. Wednesday morning, she scheduled a vaccine appointment for later in the week.\n\"I'm just so excited to move forward and kind of be able to escape what we've all been dealing with for the past year. I felt a sense of relief that finally there's an answer, there's a solution for the pain and hurt this illness has caused a lot of Americans,\" she said.\nGov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that the state was opening vaccine appointments to the remainder of Group 3 one week ahead of the previously announced date of March 10. Now, pharmacies across North Carolina, in stores like Walgreens and Harris Teeter, have some appointments available, including some this week.\n\"The state and our providers continue to work extremely hard to get people vaccinated in a way that's fast and fair,\" Cooper said. \"The third vaccine and improving vaccine supply will help us get more people vaccinated more quickly. Our essential front-line workers have remained on the job throughout this pandemic and I am grateful for their work.\"\nGroup 3 includes first responders and emergency personnel such as police and firefighters, people who work in-person in manufacturing, food and agriculture, grocery stores, government workers, and clergy, among others. The state will begin Group 4 vaccinations on March 24.\n\"They're ready to feel like they have some protection. Our clerks are required to wait on customers even without masks, and they have these plastic shields up but that doesn't protect everything,\" said Miriam Bell, a Charlotte-area USPS worker and president of the local APWU chapter.\nPostal workers are among those that became eligible to get vaccinated on Wednesday.\n\"While I might get COVID and I'm okay, you could get covid and you could suffer debilitating illness from it or even lose your life. I think its important that people who can be vaccinated are,\" said Bell.\nAllowing more people to get the vaccine is good news and shows vaccine distribution is gaining momentum. But, getting an appointment will be more competitive until the supply grows.\n\"While we're going to move into group 3, if the amount of vaccine allocation remains the same our efforts can't really be expanded,\" Dr. Jerome Williams with Novant Health said.\nAnd until there's enough vaccine for everyone who wants it, those working on the front lines will be better protected.\n\"It's going to help us feel safer when we're in the community providing these necessary services and it's also going to help us provide more services because we'll be able to be better available in different pockets in the community,\" said Stryker.\nRead more details about North Carolina's Vaccination Group 3 and Group 4.\nCooper received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose on Wednesday. He is eligible under group 3 because he is an elected official.\nClick here to sign up for the daily Wake Up Charlotte newsletter\nAs the race to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible continues, tens of thousands of doses of the recently approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine will arrive in North Carolina Wednesday. State health leaders are expecting more than 80,000 doses, with 10,000 of them going to Mecklenburg County's health department. Those 10,000 shots will be shared with Atrium Health and Novant Health, the area's two largest health care providers.\n\"When you've been vaccinated you are incredibly well protected from covid. And as more and more people in our communities are vaccinated, we can get back to life,\" said Dr. David Priest with Novant Health.\nThe Mecklenburg County Health Department will begin booking appointments from March 10-31 starting at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 4.\n\"I think the main point here is that this is a fluid process as we learn more about what vaccine is available, and I think all of us are working as hard as we can to get those folks who need to be vaccinated,\" Health Director Gibbie Harris said.\nState officials say people who can work from home should wait to get vaccinated with Group 4 if they qualify then or later.\nRELATED: Enough COVID vaccine for every US adult by end of May, Biden says\nRELATED: Mecklenburg County to open more COVID-19 vaccine appointments Thursday\nHave a relative or friend in another state and want to know when they can get vaccinated? Visit NBC News' Plan Your Vaccine site to find out about each state's vaccine rollout plan.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sequim mastodon creates mystery about the first humans here\nThe death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.\nDaniel Jack Chasan\nClovis spear points\nWho killed the mastodon? Now we know, as we had long suspected, that the beast probably didn't die of natural causes. Somebody stuck a spear into it. The bone point remained in its ribs. For 13,800 years.\nThe basic story has been well-covered recently: In 1977, Emanuel Manis was using a backhoe to dig a pond on his property in Sequim, when he unearthed the remains of a mastodon, one of the big, hairy elephant-like critters that inhabited much of North America during the Ice Age. Manis called in Washington State University archaeologists to look at the remains. WSU's Carl Gustafson found a piece of sharpened bone embedded in one of the mastodon's ribs. He concluded that the bone was a projectile point, that some early hunter had used it to do the mastodon in, and that this had all happened some 13,800 years ago.\nAt the time of Manis's find, people figured that the continent's earliest inhabitants had belonged to the Clovis culture, whose craftsmen made fluted stone points. Clovis people had obviously killed and butchered mastodons and mammoths \u2014 their distinctive points have been found with the bones \u2014 and they had obviously lived all over what is now the United States. But they had appeared in America \u2014 which is to say, their earliest spear points had been dated to \u2014 only \u2014 only! \u2014 13,000 years ago. When Manis scooped those dark, curving tusks out of the mud, the archaeological mantra was \"Clovis first.\"\nIf Gustafson was right that the mastodon had been killed by people rather than dying of other causes, Clovis wasn't first. In fact, someone had beaten the Clovis culture to the Northwest by 800 years.\nUntil the latest developments, most scientists were skeptical that there were any peoples in the area before the Clovis culture. \"That Clovis-first model really took root into the psyche of archaeologists,\" says archaeologist Michael Waters. The mastodon tusks and bones were displayed at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Gustafson retired. The Manis find became a kind of footnote to regional history.\nWaters, who directs the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, and colleagues took a new look at the evidence. They ran the rib through a powerful CAT scan. They sampled DNA from both the rib and the point embedded in it. They dated protein from the rib. Their conclusion: Gustafson was right all along. Someone really had speared the mastodon. And it really had happened 13,800 years old.\nThat conclusion seems less revolutionary now than it did in 1977. Evidence of pre-Clovis people had been around since the 1950s and '60s, Waters explains, but most archaeologists didn't want to believe it, and they always found a plausible reason not to. Then came Monte Verde: Papers published in the late 1980s suggested that people had lived at a site in Chile at least 14,800 years ago.\n\"Monte Verde was really the big turning point for a lot of us,\" Waters says. \"But it wasn't the turning point for a lot of people.\" After all, \"it was only one site.\" But Monte Verde no longer stands alone.\nArchaeologists keep finding new evidence of pre-Clovis people. Waters himself has excavated a site in central Texas that may date back 15,500 years. There's another pre-Clovis site in Wisconsin, others in Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere, and one in the Paisley caves of central Oregon where coprolites \u2014 mummified turds \u2014 have yielded human DNA dating back 14,500 years, the oldest human DNA found on this continent. Earlier this year, archaeologists identified delicate points found on California's Channel Islands as artifacts of a non-Clovis people who may have both preceded and coexisted with Clovis culture. \"Clovis first\" seems on its way to join such historic slogans as \"Nixon's the one\" and \"all the way with LBJ.\"\nWhich begs the question of who these guys were, if not Clovis. At this point, no one knows.\nDid small groups of Ice Age guys with bone- or stone-tipped spears wipe out whole species of megafauna? Probably not. At least not single-handedly. The Ice Age was over. Nicholas Wade wrote in The New York Times two years ago, \"Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared.\" One could evoke climate change and other explanations, but \"circumstantial evidence from the fossil record suggests that people's first accomplishment upon reaching new territory was to hunt all its all large animals to death.\"\nSediment cores from old bogs have shown that spores of fungi that grow on the dung of large mammals were abundant 15,000 years ago. The number of spores and presumably of animals started dropping 14,800 years ago. They became gradually less abundant for 1,000 years. Then, about 13,800 years ago, spore numbers dropped sharply. By 12,700 years ago \u2014 about the time the mastodons and mammoths go extinct \u2014 they were gone. What happened 13,800 years ago to the critters whose dung nourished the fungi that produced spores? The Manis mastodon offers a clue: People with bone points and atlatls started killing them.\nOr did they? In writing about the implications of the dwindling spores, The Times' Wade suggested that on the other hand, it isn't \"clear that the pre-Clovis people had the technology to take down large game like mammoths.\"\nWell, evidently the Manis site makes it clear. Those pre-Clovis people out in Sequim evidently made a habit of taking down large game. Not only did somebody kill the Manis mastodon, Waters and colleagues also found that somebody had killed it with a point made of mastodon bone. And, Waters explains, old mastodon bone would be too brittle; any pre-Clovis toolmaker would have used fresh bone.\nBut could those pre-Clovis guys really have driven even a nice, fresh mastodon-bone point into a mastodon rib? Waters doesn't see why not. For one thing, he says, the point itself, thin, tapered, shaped much like a bullet, penetrates extremely well. \"Bone projectile points are really durable weapons and really lethal weapons,\" he explains.\nFor another, those early hunters must have used atlatls or spear throwers, which extended the length and therefore the leverage of a human arm. Waters says that some people have built and experimented with such weapons. Not surprisingly, the researchers have found that those old tool makers knew what they were doing. \"I saw a fellow take one of these spears,\" Waters says, \"and launch it with an atlatl, and it went through quarter-inch plywood.\"\nHe recalls that there was \"an old car out there in the field, and he shot it at the old car, and it went right through the door.\" These guys weren't primitive. Clovis points, while they had more cutting power, wouldn't have penetrated a mastodon as well, Waters says.\nMaybe the hunter threw his spear in a long arc that came down into the animal's side, Waters speculates. Or maybe this mastodon was on its last legs, and the hunter launched his spear close up. Either way, would a single hunter have taken on a beast that large? \"I don't think anybody would have gone alone,\" Waters laughs. He envisions those late-Ice-Age hunters working in groups, the way African hunters have worked to bring down elephants: A lot of people drive spears into the animal, then they follow it until it finally bleeds out.\nThe hit men had arrived. But who were they? Clearly, they weren't Clovis ... yet. Perhaps, eventually, they became Clovis. Why not? Someone did. We don't know much about the Clovis people, but they evidently didn't bring their fluted stone point technology down from Alaska. Fluted points found in Alaska are 1000 years younger than those found in the Lower 48, which suggests that the culture spread south to north. \"Pretty clearly,\" Waters says, \"Clovis did not come from Alaska.\" But you don't have to imagine that culture arriving from somewhere else.\n\"All the antecedent technologies that could become Clovis are present in North America\" before Clovis appears, he says. University of Oregon archaeologist Jon Erlandson, co-leader of the project that found and dated the spear points on the Channel Islands, hypothesizes that maybe the seafaring people who left the points there continued down the coast to the Isthmus of Panama, from where some continued south and others turned north, eventually making their way to the interior United States, where they developed the Clovis culture.\n'It makes logical sense that the people who were here before Clovis became Clovis,\" Waters theorizes. \"Now the big question is why? ... Why did Clovis all of a sudden appear on the landscape? How did Clovis spread? ... What was the spark?\"\nHow one Yakama Nation fisherman inherited the fight for salmon\nAfter 150 years of broken treaties and declining salmon populations, Randy Settler worries there won't be enough fish for future Indigenous generations.\nTony Schick &\n\/ January 5\nStudy reveals internet access inequities in Seattle and Portland\nCenturyLink offers some poorer neighborhoods with more residents of color slower internet for higher prices, an analysis found.\nKaylee Tornay\nDaniel Jack Chasan is an author, attorney, and writer of many articles about Northwest environmental issues.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Five Minutes with a| Gaz Regan\nby Jack Robertiello |\nOct 20, 2009 12:25pm\nGaz Regan, the bartender formerly known as Gary, just released his latest book, The Bartender's Gin Compendium (Xlibris Corporation, August 2009). He graciously offered to sit still for an interview for our inaugural issue.\nNCB Mix: Why The Bartender's Gin Compendium?\nRegan: I was trying to clean up my computer to make it easier for me to find stuff, and I noticed that I had lots of material about gin. I like gin. I thought, \"Wait a minute, I bet if I did a lot of copying and pasting, I'd have a book in no time at all.\"\nThat's not how the book came together, though. I started to do more research and one thing led to another, and before I knew it two years had passed. Books have a long gestation period, you know.\nNCB Mix: Here's where you make your sales pitch: Why should any bartender or industry pro buy this book?\nRegan: If you have a question about gin, the answer is in this book. It covers all styles of gin, describes how each is made, goes into the history of all gins, and I peppered the thing with barroom tales, quotations, trivia and hundreds of cocktail recipes old and new.\nNCB Mix: Why is gin so hot now among bartenders?\nRegan: It's been hot for a few years among bartenders. The big news is that it's hot among consumers right now, so bartenders need to know this category inside out.\nNCB Mix: Can you define the various types of gin for us?\nRegan: Four: Dry, Genever, Old Tom and Plymouth.\nDry gin can be broken into four styles: Compound gin, made by adding oils and essences to vodka; distilled dry gin, made by re-distilling vodka with various botanicals, juniper among them; New Western dry gin; and London dry gin.\nLondon dry gin has just been re-defined by the European Union. Here's an excerpt from the book that will, hopefully, explain.\n\"The powers that be in the European Community saw fit, in 2008, to redefine gin, and they didn't do a bad job of it, but they weren't bloody wizards when it came to gin, either \u2026 I think it's necessary to point out one aspect of these mandated guidelines that threw a spanner in the works when it comes to that beautiful style of gin that we've lovingly known as London Dry Gin for over a century.\n\"London Dry Gin, as a category, probably needed some tightening up, since it used to refer to any distilled gin that was made 'in the style of' London Dry\u2014a pretty vague definition. One of the aspects of these new regulations has made it necessary for some gins to take the word 'London' off their labels. Since these new regulations went into effect, you see, in order to use the phrase 'London Dry,' the gin must be made by having all its botanicals distilled into it in one fell swoop \u2014 and that's not easy.\n\"The temperature at which gin distillers run their stills makes a massive difference to the end product, mainly because, in lay terms, some botanicals release their flavors better at different temperatures than others. It might be desirable, therefore, to distill the botanicals separately, each one at the appropriate temperature, and then marry the resultant distillates to make gin. Or perhaps the botanicals can be distilled in, say, three different batches, each at a different temperature, before the three 'flavored vodkas' are united in a gin bottle. This sort of stuff can make quite a huge difference to the finished product.\n\"There are quite a few styles of Genever, but it's fairly safe to say that in order to make this style of gin, a mash of grains (basically beer) is distilled into a whisky-like spirit known as malt wine. The malt wine is then married to another spirit that's essentially a dry gin, made by distilling botanicals, including juniper, into neutral grain spirits. The percentage of malt wine in any bottling of Genever will drastically alter the flavor of the spirit, of course, and if Genever is aged, then this, too, has an effect on the product.\n\"Old Tom was probably a euphemism for gin in the 1700s, and at some point in the early 1800s, when distillers started adding sugar to their gins, probably to disguise their badly made spirits, Old Tom became a term that used to describe sweetened gins. These gins could have been Genever, or Genever-style gins that might have been aged, or could have spent time in wood when they were transported, thus getting just a little age on them. By the end of the 1800s it's more than likely that most bottlings of Old Tom gin were sweetened dry gins.\n\"In defining Plymouth gin as a category, it's possible only to say that Plymouth is a gin that's made in Plymouth. But we can say that Plymouth gin has less juniper up front than traditional London dry gins, and because more sweet root botanicals and fewer bitter botanicals are used in its production, Plymouth gin certainly has a style all its own. Call it a somewhat gentler gin than London Dry, but a gin with tons of character all the same. And strangely enough, because of the newly written E.U. regulations that define styles of gin, Plymouth gin could legally be called a London dry gin, since all the botanicals are distilled into the gin in one fell swoop.\"\nNCB Mix: You also mention New Western Gin \u2014 what's that?\nRegan: Ryan Magarian, one of the producers of Aviation Gin, wrote a definition for me (it's in the book):\n\"This designation seems to have evolved over the past nine years, as a result of efforts from both large brand houses and regional distillers in Europe and in the United States. In taking a good hard look at today's rather loose definition of dry gin, these distillers realized a greater opportunity for artistic 'flavor' freedom in this great spirit and are creating gins with a shift away from the usually overabundant focus on juniper, to the supporting botanicals, allowing them to almost share center stage. And while the juniper must remain dominant in all dry gins, these gins are most certainly defined, not by the juniper itself, but by the careful inclusion and balance of the supporting flavors, creating what many experts believe to be an entirely new designation of dry gin that deserves individual recognition.\"\nNCB Mix: How do you tell quality gin from those that are poorly made?\nRegan: Bad gins are lacking in complexity, and they usually bear a glycerine oiliness, too. They are pretty easy to spot.\nNCB Mix: What's your favorite gin cocktail?\nRegan: The East Ender, which is my creation; though it's actually just a Sweet Martini circa 1900, with a lot of bitters, unless you want to call it a gin-based Manhattan.\nThe East Ender\n3 ounces London dry gin\n1 ounce sweet vermouth\n3 to 5 dashes Angostura Bitters\nServe on the rocks or straight up with an orange twist garnish (optional).\nNCB Mix: Anything you'd like to share about the book that we haven't touched on?\nRegan: I need to sell tens of thousands of these babies if I'm gonna make the rent this month.\nSpirits Bartenders Cocktail ideas Beverage trends\nJack Robertiello\nFounder - Drinks Ink","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"F.Supp.\n655 F.Supp.\n655 F.Supp. 933\nEWELL v. PETRO PROCESSORS OF LOUISIANA, INC.\nCiv. A. No. 86-693-B.\nFrom F.2d, Reporter Series\n508 F.2d 920 - WATKINS v. GROVER, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.\n667 F.2d 1385 - ARMSTRONG v. ALABAMA POWER CO., United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.\n676 F.2d 152 - IMFC PROFESSIONAL, ETC. v. LATIN AM. HOME HEALTH, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B\n737 F.2d 435 - SPENCER v. NEW ORLEANS LEVEE BD., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.\nFrom So.2d, Reporter Series\n298 So.2d 848 - COX v. W. M. HEROMAN & CO., INC., Supreme Court of Louisiana.\n376 So.2d 340 - GOAD v. MAY, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.\n370 So.2d 521 - LOTT v. HALEY, Supreme Court of Louisiana.\nFrom U.S., Reporter Series\n305 U.S. 382 - MINNESOTA v. UNITED STATES, Supreme Court of United States.\n355 U.S. 41 - CONLEY v. GIBSON, Supreme Court of United States.\n461 U.S. 273 - BLOCK v. NORTH DAKOTA EX REL. BOARD OF UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL LANDS, Supreme Court of United States.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pavesi Ringo Vanilla Cream Cookies, 1...\nPavesi Ringo Vanilla Cream Cookies, 11.6 oz (330 g)\nPavesiSKU: IT-2949\nPavesi Ringo cookies are one of the most beloved treats in Italy. Famed for their lusciously sweet flavor and crunchiness, these vanilla cream-filled cookies provide a perfect harmony of soft and crumbly texture. Made with no palm oil, this pack of Ringo contains 6 cookies enriched with fragrant vanilla filling.\nSandwich biscuit is a type of treat that consists of two cookies and a smooth, creamy filling that varies from chocolate and vanilla to cream cheese, peanut butter, caramel, and many other options. Hydrox, the original sandwich cookie, had its debut in 1908. Although it wasn't a huge success (as you might have guessed from the odd name), it became a total game-changer on the market, inspiring cookies like Oreo (chocolate sandwich cookies with a creamy white filling) and Italian Ringo (with both chocolate and vanilla cookies in response to the Oreo's). To discover more of Italy's favorite treats, including sandwich cookies, wafers, traditional Cantuccini, amaretti, ladyfingers, and more, check out our wide selection of Italian cookies!\nPavesi is an authentic Italian cookies manufacturer famed for its two-tone filled Ringo cookies. Founded in 1937 by Mario Pavesi, this brand began making biscuits in a small oven in the capital city of Piedmont - Novara. These cookies were an instant success that turned into an industrial scale production after only 3 years. Their biggest hit, Ringo cookies, was launched in 1967 and became the cookie of new generations with the name reminiscent of the famous drummer of The Beatles - Ringo Starr. With an iconic tube-shaped packaging, these irresistible cream-filled cookies became an absolute banger that you can find in our wide assortment of Italian grocery items along with many other unique as well as popular Italian products.\nRingo vanilla cream cookies by Pavesi are bound to become your favorite pantry snacks ready to be enjoyed at any time of the day. Whether you'd like to pair them with a cuppa or munch on them as-is, Ringo vanilla biscuits will make for a perfect way to add an Italian character to your dessert sessions.\nIngredients: Wheat flour, vegetable oils (sunflower oil, canola oil, shea oil), sugar, wheat starch, dextrose, whey powder, low fat cocoa, glucose syrup, salt, leavening agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate), vanillin: an artificial flavor. Contains wheat, shea nuts, and milk. May contain peanuts, other tree nuts, soy, and eggs.\nProduct Weight: 11.6 oz (330 g)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rita Wilson to perform at BMI event at Sundance festival\nNEW YORK (AP) - Rita Wilson is known for her acting chops, but she will be singing at the Sundance Film Festival.\nPerforming rights organization BMI said Tuesday that Wilson, singer-songwriter Craig Wedren and pop singer Morgan Saint will perform at its 16th annual Snowball on January 23 at The Shop at Park City, Utah.\nBMI will also hold its 20th annual composer\/director roundtable, dubbed \"Music & Film: The Creative Process,\" on January 21 during the festival. Panelists include Emmy-winning composers Jeff Beal and Dustin O'Halloran; Emmy-winning filmmaker Lauren Greenfield; and Peter Golub, director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program.\nFILE - In this Jan. 7, 2018 file photo, actress and singer Rita Wilson attends the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Performing rights organization BMI said Tuesday, Jan. 9, that Wilson, singer-songwriter Craig Wedren and pop singer Morgan Saint will perform at its 16th annual Snowball on Jan. 23 at The Shop at Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP, File)\nWilson has appeared in several films, TV shows and on Broadway. She has released two albums.\nThe 2018 Sundance Film Festival will be held January 18-28.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Reno Convention Authority CEO Phil DeLone Resigns, Misconduct Allegations Arise\nPosted on: February 20, 2020, 11:57h.\nLast updated on: February 20, 2020, 12:07h.\nPhil DeLone, CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority (RSCVA), has resigned amid misconduct allegations, though he cited medical reasons for his departure.\nPhil DeLone is out as CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority. (Image: RGJ)\nThe Reno Gazette Journal broke the news earlier this month that DeLone was under investigation by the RSCVA.\nThough the authority declined to provide specifics as to what alleged misconduct was committed by the chief executive, the media outlet learned from sources close to the matter that it involved improper sexual behavior. The Reno-based convention and visitors bureau confirmed his departure yesterday.\n\"In accordance with the terms of his Employment Agreement, Mr. DeLone has tendered his resignation as the President\/CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, citing medical reasons,\" a RSCVA statement explained. \"Mr. DeLone's resignation will be addressed at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the RSCVA Board of Directors.\"\nThe authority added, \"The RSCVA wishes Mr. DeLone well as he addresses his medical needs.\"\nThe RSCVA is tasked with attracting overnight visitors to the Reno Tahoe area. The Washoe County Reno market reported gross gaming revenue win of $626.8 million last year \u2013 a 1.59 percent decline compared with 2018.\nReno Too\nAccording to the Reno Gazette Journal, DeLone has a long track record of being accused of sexual misconduct \u2013 long before the #MeToo movement changed the social climate regarding bringing such allegations to light.\nThe paper reached out to a woman who accused him in the 1990s of such misconduct while he was the executive director of Safari Club International. Dianne Jurica claims DeLone fostered a male-dominant culture, and that, per his leadership, \"several board members just condoned the environment.\"\nWhen Phil came in, it just seemed to bring the worst out in some of the board members and their attitudes toward the women and staff,\" Jurica stated. \"(DeLone) was like a facilitator, really.\"\nThe RGJ says DeLone has been accused of misconduct in three of his last four job stops.\nDeLone was hired as RSCVA CEO in November of 2016. He came to the authority from the Safari Club, where he also served as chief executive. DeLone holds a degree in hotel administration from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.\nLast August, DeLone received a $110,000 bonus and a five percent pay increase to bring his annual compensation to nearly $400,000.\nTourism Scandals\nThe Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority is the second-largest tourism board in the state behind its Las Vegas counterpart. And similarly to the RSCVA, the authority in Sin City has recently been engulfed in scandal.\nRossi Ralenkotter, the former CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), is charged with improperly using $90,000 worth of Southwest Airlines gift cards. An investigation found that Ralenkotter and others allegedly devised a scheme to make the gift cards appear to be promotional credits given to LVCVA executives.\nIn reality, however, the cards were said to be purchased with LVCVA funds. The case is ongoing, and set to continue in May when a judge will determine whether a trial is warranted.\nFormer Reno-Sparks CEO Allegedly Called Mayor 'C-Word,' Harassed Female Employees\nReno Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Phil DeLone Under Investigation of Alleged Misconduct\nNevada Gaming Control Board Says Wynn Resorts Executives Knew of Alleged Sexual Misconduct\nSteve Wynn Investigation Littered with Confidentiality Issues, New WSJ Report Claims\nExperian Study Says Online Gamblers' Attention Span Is Four Minutes\nDevin O'Connor \u2014 June 10, 2020\nDevin O'Connor \u2014 February 4, 2020\nPhilip Conneller \u2014 June 18, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Shaping Young Minds: Meet Kezia Stegemoeller\nThe executive director of the Friends of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy is proud of the successes of the school's students.\nThe school will graduate its fifth class of seniors this year, and so far it has an enviable record\u2014a 100 percent graduation rate and college attendance rate.\nby Nicholas Sakelaris \u2022 May 3, 2019\nKezia Stegemoeller, executive director of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy\nIt doesn't take long for Kezia Stegemoeller's passion to show through. Just get her talking about the students at the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Dallas\u2014currently numbering 460\u2014and the many successes they've had.\nShe calls them \"big smile moments.\"\nStegemoeller is the executive director for the Friends of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy, a nonprofit that raises money for the Dallas Independent School District magnet school.\nHer wide-ranging efforts may entail securing a grant to send students on a college visit, giving them the chance to study abroad, or funding full-time college advisers to help students stay on track for graduation and college.\n\"There are so many parts of my job that I'm incredibly proud of,\" she says. \"Exposure is so important for any young person, but especially from communities where their parents and family members may not have access or relationships to make that happen.\"\n\"Without the natural curiosity and interest, my job wouldn't be possible,\" Stegemoeller says. \"I bet so much on our young men because I believe in them so much. They work so hard and they try so hard.\"\nNo matter what she's doing, these youngsters are on her mind.\nIn 2018, she participated in the Dallas Regional Chamber's Leadership Dallas program. This class, and the alumni group she participated in afterward, gave her a direct pipeline to Dallas' business elite, the perfect role models for the students at the school.\n\"There are so many corporations here. Being part of the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC) allows me to be a bridge,\" Stegemoeller said. \"I formed relationships with presidents of banks, vice presidents, and architecture firms. More than half of my [leadership] class visited the campus throughout the last year.\" She adds that she's had dinner or breakfast with nearly everyone in her DRC leadership class to talk about what she does.\nShe and the business leaders did some valuable community service during that class. Their project was remodeling a shed at the Promise House, a homeless shelter for youth in Dallas. They made it a functional space for the children and spent time playing games with them.\nStegemoeller also works with the Junior League of Dallas, an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, which gives her a welcome chance to join in the energy of other women. One of their recent projects was helping Our Friends Place, a Dallas-area organization that, among other things, helps young women who age out of foster care.\nThis falls right in line with her passion to help local underserved youth.\nShe believes the work she does at Friends of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy, the DRC, and the Junior League will bring benefits far beyond the people she's directly helped.\n\"There's a ripple effect to philanthropy. There's a ripple effect to love, and there's a ripple effect to care,\" she says. \"I'm doing my part as best I can to make Dallas better for everyone. I want people to understand that when we strengthen communities that are disenfranchised, we strengthen everyone.\"\nThe academy's first alumni are now graduating from college, and Stegemoeller has an active interest in tracking their progress.\n\"I am eager to find out where our alumni are going and what they're going to do to change the world,\" she says. \"I'm happy to have played a very, very small part in changing their trajectory and that of their families.\"\nLeadership Dallas, the flagship program of the Dallas Regional Chamber for leadership development, is aimed at increasing the leadership pool for community activities in the Dallas area.\nThis story first appeared in the Dallas-Fort Worth Real Estate Review.\nMeet the Young Dallasite Who Wants to Fulfill the 'Long Forgotten Promise of Intercity Travel'\n22-year-old Dallas native Kush Singh launched Hitch at UT Austin to provide an affordable rideshare in the 50-350 mile range. Now, Hitch looks to expand beyond Texas and become a national household name post-pandemic.\nDenton Nonprofit to Open Bob's House of Hope, a Safe House for Young Men Exploited by Sex Trafficking\nRanch Hands Rescue is expanding its animal-assisted counseling services to help young men who are victims of sex trafficking.\nThe DEC Network's State of Entrepreneurship Event Has a Confirmed Speaker Lineup and a New Title Sponsor\nThe State of Entrepreneurship will celebrate the people behind North Texas' thriving startup ecosystem on May 5. Title sponsor Dallas Incorporated helps take innovations from idea to market in 30 days. This year, attendees can enter to win $100,00 of startup support. Here's how, along with the just-announced lineup of speakers.\nBarack Obama Male Leadership Academy\nKezia Stegemoeller\nEducation Nonprofit Big Thought Names New Chief Operating Officer\nOpportunities for North Texas Innovators Education Nonprofit Big Thought Names New Chief Operating Officer Girl Power: Girls Inc.'s Mission To Empower The Next Generation Of Strong, Smart, And Bold Girls UNT HSC at Fort Worth Offers Free Health Care to Performing Artists Through Late April","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Latest \u00bb UN chief to address Afghan moot in Islamabad, to visit Gurdwara in Kartarpur\nUN chief to address Afghan moot in Islamabad, to visit Gurdwara in Kartarpur\nIn Lahore, Antonio Guterres will meet students; to attend an event on polio vaccination campaign\nby Muhsen Ali\nin Latest, thePage\nPrime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate two-day international conference on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in Pakistan.\nUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will pay a three-day visit to Pakistan from February 16 and will address an international conference on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in the key South Asian country.\nThe two-day conference, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan, is being organized in Islamabad by the Pakistan government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Although Antonio Guterres has been to Pakistan several times as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, this will be his first visit as the UN secretary-general.\nAntonio Guterres will address an international conference in Islamabad along with High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi\nUN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said that the secretary-general would speak at the international conference, along with High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and would participate in a high-level panel discussion and other events at that conference. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Antonio Guterres and Filippo Grandi would also speak to the press, he said.\nIntellectual diplomacy and Saudi Arabia's relations with Pakistan under the era of testing.\nLahore Restaurants Unity announces march towards PM House\nForeign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said in Islamabad that the two-day conference, inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan, will be attended by ministers and senior officials from around 20 countries, who have been supporting the refugees across the globe. She said that this conference is taking place at a critical juncture when efforts at consolidating peace in Afghanistan are making progress.\nOfficials said that the meeting in Islamabad will provide an opportunity to highlight the exemplary compassion, generosity, and hospitality exhibited by Pakistan, in hosting one of the largest refugee populations in the world. The participants would also identify key developments and milestones in the 40-year-long evolution of the refugee situation, identify challenges, and discuss solutions for dignified repatriation of the refugees to Afghanistan.\nPakistan is confident that the participants will reinforce efforts as agreed at the UN Global Compact on Refugees and Global Refugee Forum to bring about a renewed focus on the refugees. Aisha Farooqui said that it will help in building a positive narrative on refugees, especially at a time when borders are being closed on them and millions are being made stateless under nationalistic and ideological pretense.\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Kartarpur to visit Gurdwara before returning to New York.\nDuring his stay, the UN chief will also meet President Arif Alvi on Monday. The secretary-general would be in Lahore on February 18, where he would meet students and attend an event on Pakistan's polio vaccination campaign. The UN chief will also travel to Kartarpur to visit Gurdwara before returning to New York on February 19.\nLate last year, UN High Commission for Refugees Deputy Representative Iain Hall said that Pakistan is not only a key partner as far as services to refugees are concerned where it has been rendering valuable services for the past 40-years for more than 1.5 million Afghan refugees but also for peacekeeping around the world.\nA total of 6.3 million Afghan refugees were hosted in Pakistan and Iran by 1990, he said. By 2013, Afghanistan was the largest refugee-producing country in the world, a title it held for 32 years. At the moment, Iain Hall said that Afghans are the second-largest refugee group after Syrians. The majority of Afghan refugees (95%) are located in Pakistan and Iran, he said.\nTags: Afghan conferenceAntonio GuterresFilippo GrandiGurdwaraIslamabadKartarpurLahorepolio vaccinationShah Mahmood QureshiThe WalletUN chiefUNHCR\nMuhsen Ali\nMuhsen Ali is a co-founder and senior journalist at The Wallet.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RCHME Inventory Volumes\nAn Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 2, West London\nAn Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 2, West London. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1925.\nThis free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. All rights reserved.\n9. KENSINGTON.\n(O.S. 6 in. London, Sheet J.)\nThe borough of Kensington is generally conterminous with the civil parish of the same name, but includes a portion of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. The principal monuments are Kensington Palace and Holland House. The former, built by William of Orange, became the normal residence of the princes of the House of Hanover and the birthplace of Queen Victoria. Holland House, a great Jacobean mansion, passed from Sir Walter Cope, the builder, to the Riches, Earls of Holland and Warwick, and from them, by descent, to the Earls of Ilchester. It was here that Addison died.\n(1) Parish Church of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, was entirely rebuilt in 1869\u201372, but contains from the old church the following:\u2014\nFittings\u2014Coffin-lid: In churchyard\u2014immediately S.W. of W. doorway, upper half of marble (? Bethersden) coffin-shaped slab, with remains of brass rivets, probably late 13th-century. Monuments and Floor-slabs. Monuments: In organ-chapel\u2014on W. wall above arcade, (1) to Lionel, only son of William Ducket, 1693, (he married Martha Ash), plain white marble tablet with cartouche-of-arms. In vestibule to vestry\u2014S. wall, (2) to Henry Frohock, A.M., 1692, white marble tablet with flowers and palmborder, oval form, with shield-of-arms. In S. transept\u2014on W. wall, (3) to John Dickens, 1694, and Catherine, his widow, 1702, white marble draped tablet with two cherubs. In N. aisle\u2014 on N. wall, (4) to Laud D'Oyley, eldest son of Robert D'Oyley, 1709, white marble tablet with drapery, cherub-head, and shield. In S. aisle\u2014 on S. wall, (5) to Colin Campbell, 3rd son of John, 1st Earl of 'Bread Albany' and Holland, and Mary (Campbell), Countess Dowager of Caithness, his second wife, 1708, white marble tablet with cherubs, fruit, drapery and cartouche-of-arms; (6) to Thomas Henshaw, 1700, Gentleman in ordinary of the Privy Chamber to Charles II and James II, etc., and Anne (Kipping), his wife, 1671, five sons and one daughter, black and white marble tablet with cornucopias and drapery: achievement-of-arms at top; (7) to Aaron Mico, merchant, 1658 (he married Joanna Methold), black and white marble tablet with segmental pediment, moulded sill and achievement-of-arms. On W. respond of S. arcade, S. side, (8) to Anthony Carnaby, 1678, and Mary, daughter of Anthony Carnaby, 1705, black marble tablet with plain white marble frame. In porch \u2014on W. wall, (9) to William Courtens, 1702 (?), freestone tablet with cherubs and shield-of-arms. In churchyard\u2014in passage N. of tower, (10) to Henry Dawson, M.P., alderman and twice mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1653, freestone tablet with side pilasters and scrolled pediment, two shields-of-arms. Floor-slabs: In churchyard\u2014W. of church, (1) to Dr. Thomas Hodges [1672], and Margaret, his wife, 1696, top part missing; (2) to Moses Giraudeau, 1712, born at Fontenay, and others of the same family added 1722 and later; (3) to Christopher Bea(l ?)e, 1675, with shield-of-arms; (4) to Mark Gray, 1710; (5) to Isabella, wife of John [Hartstonge], Bishop of Ossory, 1713. Plate: includes cup of 1683; a cup of 1769, with a foot of 1683; a flagon, silver-gilt, of 1619, embossed with fruit, flowers, etc., and with panels of dolphins, a winged cherub-head on top of handle; a seal-topped strainer - spoon of 1657. The rest of the old plate (Plate 104) is now lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum and includes: (a) a standing-cup embossed with scallop-shells and with a baluster stem, 1599, silver-gilt; (b) a large plain flagon of 1684, inscribed \"This Flaggon was bought in ye year of Our Lord 1685\u2014John Dickins, William Munden, churchwardens\"; (c) standing-cup of 1697, with baluster stem, inscribed \"Christiana Verney,\" with shield-of-arms and crest; (d) paten of 1697, with crest of Verney; (e) a plate of 1697, inscribed \"The gift of Eliz. Knightley to Kensington Church April 98\", with the Knightley arms; (f) circular rosewater dish, possibly of 1537, ornamented with fruit, etc. Pulpit: hexagonal, with moulded foot, panelled stem and moulded base enriched with flutings; angles enriched with foliage, moulded and carved cornice. Each side with panel with carved border enclosing inlaid work, with the monogram of William and Mary, variously designed, accompanied by crown, Tudor rose, star, etc., and on one panel the date 1697; painted and grained, stairs modern. Miscellanea: In vestry\u2014fragment in stone or plaster, gilt, of irradiated triangle with Hebrew word Jehovah, late 17th or early 18th-century.\nCondition\u2014Rebuilt, present condition good.\n(2) Kensington Palace, house, outbuildings, orangery, etc., stands at the W. end of Kensington Gardens, about 300 yards N. of Kensington Road. The walls are of brick and the roofs are covered with slates and tiles. In 1661 Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards first Earl of Nottingham, bought from his younger brother a house which stood on the site and appears to have rebuilt it. In 1689 Nottingham House was purchased by William III and renamed Kensington House. Work was begun at once on the new palace of which the building accounts have been preserved. From these it would appear that Nottingham House stood on the N. side of Clock Court, and was altered and transformed into lodgings. The new buildings begun in 1689 consisted of the main block at the E. end of Clock Court, called \"the five new pavilions\" (referring to the central and four angle blocks of which it consisted), the S. range of Clock Court called the \"Long Gallery Range\" and the W. range of the same court called the \"building next the road.\" The portico on the road was completed in 1690. The Queen's Gallery, being the range running N. from the main block, was finished in 1691. In 1695 the large new block at the E. end of the S. front was begun and with it the existing great staircase at the back; the latter impinging on one of the angle pavilions of the building of 1689. The architect for the whole of this work was Sir Christopher Wren. Between 1718 and 1726 the palace was considerably altered; the main block E. of Clock Court was rebuilt, its angle pavilions refaced or rebuilt, and the great staircase refaced. Nottingham House with Prince of Wales' Court at the back was entirely reconstructed. Other additions included buildings of one or more storeys built against the N., E. and S. sides of the Princesses' Court. The group of buildings to the W. of the old S.W. corner of the palace are also modern, though they incorporate some fragments of the older projecting W. wing. The roofs, more particularly those to the State Apartments, are for the greater part modern.\nThe building is of interest as having been mainly built as a Royal Palace, but the elevations, except for those to the King's Gallery block at the S.E. corner of the building, are of a character found in the smaller domestic building of the period, and the interior has been much altered in the 18th century and later times.\nKensington Palace, Plan of the Second Floor\nThe S. elevation (Plate 105) has at the E. end the King's Gallery wing. This wing is of three storeys, with attics to the middle part, and is of rubbed brick with some stone dressings and is covered with a hipped roof of slates; it is in eleven bays with plain pilasters at the angles and to the three middle bays; at the first-floor level is a plain stone band, moulded across the three middle bays and projecting round the pilasters as does also the entablature below the eaves; the frieze is enriched with acanthus brackets; above the three middle bays is an attic with plain pilaster strips superimposed over the main pilasters, plain raised brick panels between and a plastered dentilled cornice and four ornamental stone vases. All the windows are square-headed with small roll-mouldings at the angles, and on the string above each of the three middle windows on the ground-floor are three key-stones, the middle one carved with a classical head. The W. end of the S. front, together with the projecting S.W. wing, is of two storeys with basement and attics. At the first-floor level is a projecting brick band, and at the eaves a modillioned cornice; the basement windows are segmental-headed, and those above have flat arches; the dormers and chimney-stacks are modern, and the E. end of the wall has been considerably rebuilt and the first-floor windows enlarged. There are several rain-water pipes with the crowned W and M monogram. The E. elevation of the return front of the King's Gallery block is similar to the S. elevation of that wing. The remaining walls on the E. and return front of the S.E. block have been rebuilt. The S. end of the wall running N. from this block is of somewhat earlier date than the remaining wall and has a lower roof. The windows are squareheaded and at the floor-levels are projecting bands of rubbed brick. The remaining block is of two storeys with attics and basement, and has square-headed windows, projecting brick bands at the ground and first-floor levels, and a modillioned eaves-cornice of wood. Brick pilasters accentuate the staircase-block at the N. end of this wing, and there are two similar pilasters towards the S. end of the wall. The lower part of the wall to the basement has been refaced, and the first-floor windows appear to have had aprons which have since been removed, the walls having been refaced with modern brick. The entrance doorway (Plates 99, 100) to the Queen's Staircase at the N. end of the front is square-headed, and is flanked by panelled pilasters with fluted consoles supporting a curved pediment enclosing in the tympanum carved swags of fruit and flowers and a foliated cartouche ensigned with the royal monogram of William and Mary; the doorway is of wood but rests on a stone plinth; the door itself is modern. Above the doorway, between the first-floor windows, is a round-headed niche, semi-circular on plan, of rubbed brick; the lower part is filled with a panelled pedestal with a carved scroll-bracket projecting from the front which supports an urn. There are four square rain-water pipes on this front with W and M monograms on the junction bands. The W. elevation has modern additions built against the southernmost end, and the buildings N. of the Clock Court are the work of Kent and his successors. The remaining buildings, with the exception of the Clock Tower (Plate 106), which forms a central feature to the entrance to the Court, are of two storeys with attics and basements. At the first-floor level is a projecting brick band and at the eaves is a wooden modillioned cornice; the windows are square-headed and the attics are lighted by flat-topped dormers. To the S. of the entrance to the Court the lower walling has been refaced, and two windows to the basement have been inserted; N. of the entrance the wall has a plain plinth of brick. The Clock Tower is of three storeys, with a concave-sided roof surmounted by a cupola or bell-turret; in the ground-stage is the entrance-archway of rusticated masonry, with a three-centred arch, moulded imposts and a scrolled key-stone surmounted by a moulded string at the first-floor level; the archway is flanked by brick pilasters which rise to the modillioned cornice at the attic-floor level; the cornice is carried across the front of the tower and is surmounted by a pediment; in the second storey, above the archway, is a square-headed window uniform with those in the wings on either side; the attic-storey has brick pilasters at the angles, and is finished with a modillioned cornice of wood; in the W. front is an oval window; the bell-turret has in the lower part a modern clock-face, above which, on each side, is a round-headed opening with moulded archivolt and plain key and impost blocks; each opening is flanked by plain pilasters with moulded caps and surmounted by a moulded cornice and pediment; the bell-turret is finished with a square lead-covered dome with a weather-vane of the William and Mary monogram. The bell in the turret is by William and Philip Wightman, 1690. S. of the Clock Tower, and at right angles to the main W. range, is a projecting onestoreyed wing terminating at the W. end in a colonnaded portico; the wing has been largely rebuilt, but the lower part of the shafts to the columns and the moulded bases are old and of Portland stone. The N. elevation is at the E. end similar to the return wall of the E. front, but has a modern doorway and some of the basement windows blocked, while the W. end is the work of Kent and his successors.\nClock Court (Plate 65)\u2014The elevations to the S. and W. ranges are generally similar to the respective external elevations of these wings; in the tympanum of the pediment over the entrance-archway in the W. range is an oval-shaped shield of the royal arms of William and Mary within a garter, with supporters surmounted by a crown. Towards the E. end of the S. side the wall projects slightly to form a bay over which the cornice is carried in a pointed pediment; the entrance-porch to the ground-floor of the bay is modern, but the windows on this front retain their original wood frames, each window being divided into two lights by a solid mullion and transom; the roof is tiled and the dormer-windows are original and have moulded cornices and pediments. The elevation to the E. block is mostly the work of Kent, but the block in the N.E. corner is of 17th-century origin with a modern second floor; the lower parts of the walls are plastered and the entrance porch is modern. The elevation to the N. range E. of the break towards the middle of the court is of 17th-century date, and is similar in character to the S. and W. ranges; the windows, however, have double hung sashes. The western half of the elevation is of 18th-century date.\nPrincesses' Court (Plates 107, 108)\u2014The N. range is of three storeys, but has the lower part covered by a modern arched passage; at the first and second-floor levels are projecting brick bands, and at the eaves a wooden modillioned cornice; to the first floor is a range of five segmental-headed windows and to the floor above five flat-headed windows, one of which is blocked, while two retain their original frames and sashes. The E. range has had modern additions built against the whole of its length, of one and two storeys at the S. end, and of three storeys at the N. end; that part of the original wall which is visible has a projecting band of brick at the second-floor level, a wooden modillioned cornice at the eaves and three segmental-headed windows to the second floor. The W. range from the N.W. corner of the courtyard to the break in the wall is modern; the middle part of the front is mainly of c. 1690, and has an original panelled door at the N. end and a flat projecting band of brick at the first-floor level. The S. end of the wall has a projecting brick plinth, a flat projecting band at the first-floor level and four gabled dormers to the attics; two rain-water pipes have the W and M monogram on the bands. The S. range is of three storeys with attic and basement at the E. end and one storey lower at the W. end; against the ground-floor has been built a modern passage; the eastern part of the elevation has a projecting brick band at the second-floor level and a wooden modillioned cornice at the eaves, as has also the W. end of the wall; one of the first-floor windows in the W. end, though now blocked, retains its original frame.\nInterior. Those parts of the palace which are now used as private residences have been extensively modernised, and little of the original work remains.\nMain S.E. block\u2014On the first floor the King's Gallery (96 ft. by 21\u00bd ft.) is the principal room (Plate 110); it has a dado with bolection-moulded panels with moulded rail and skirting and a moulded and enriched cornice, but the painted ceiling above is modern; in the S. wall are nine windows with panelled shutters; the doorways (Plate 100) have moulded and enriched architraves, carved friezes, and enriched cornices, and the doors are panelled and have enriched mouldings; one of the doors in the E. wall is a dummy, and there are similar dummy doors in the N. and W. walls. Above the modern fireplace (Plate 111), within a square frame with enriched gilt mouldings, is a map of N.W. Europe, by Robert Norden, 1694; the map is surrounded by a circular band marked with the compass-points, and the spandrels are painted; in the centre of the map is a pointer showing the direction of the wind and working in conjunction with the weather-vane which still exists above the roof.\nThe Presence Chamber (26\u00be ft. by 26\u00be ft.) has a low panelled dado and a richly carved and moulded cornice; the fireplace (Plate 111), though now blocked, has a bolection-moulded marble surround, and the overmantel has applied carving of drapery, festoons and swags, with carved fruit, flowers, birds, cherub-heads, etc.; it is arranged round a panel for a picture, and is the work of Grinling Gibbons. The King's Grand Staircase (Plates 109, 113), in the S.E. angle of Clock Court, has had the walls, as built by Wren, refaced by Kent, who also inserted an arcade of two arches on the S. side supporting a gallery above; the steps themselves are of black Irish marble, and each of the three landings is laid out in squares of black and white marble; the balustrading is of open wrought-iron work, with panels of scroll-design and a moulded wood handrail. The projecting block in the N.E. corner of Clock Court on the first floor has a room with a panelled dado and moulded and enriched cornice and a fireplace with a moulded surround.\nClock Court\u2014In the W. range, part of the early staircase to the Tower remains; it has a moulded string and handrail and twisted balusters. In the S.W. angle is a staircase of similar type which is said to have been removed (except the treads) from the S.E. corner of the Princesses' Court. The S. range has towards the E. end an original staircase with twisted balusters, moulded string and handrail and shaped newel-posts and, above, rising to the attics, is another staircase with twisted balusters. The gallery on the first floor has two fireplaces with moulded surrounds, now covered with paint but probably original; a few old panelled doors remain. The N. end has, at the junction of the original building with Kent's later wing, an original staircase with square balusters and newels, moulded string and handrail. The walls of the hall and main staircase are panelled and the latter has moulded string and handrail, turned balusters and square newels with moulded cappings and ball-finials. On the first floor is a powder-closet with original panelling and cornice, and one room at the E. end of this range is also lined with panelling and has a fireplace with a moulded surround of marble and two original panelled doors. The attics above are lined with panelling, and the dormer-windows retain their old sashes.\nPrincesses' Court\u2014Queen Mary's Gallery (84 ft. by 21\u00bd ft.) occupies the greater part of the E. range on the first floor (Plate 112). It is lined with bolection-moulded panelling divided into two heights by a moulded dado-rail, and has a moulded skirting and moulded and enriched modillioned cornice; the doorways have bolection-moulded architraves, friezes carved with acanthus leaves and enriched cornices; the northernmost fireplace in the W. wall has a bolection-moulded surround of coloured marble, but the S. fireplace is modern; above each fireplace is a gilded overmantel with Vauxhall mirror-plates divided by moulded glazing bars, and all within a frame of carved drapery and scroll-work; they are the work of Gerard Johnson and Robert Streeter, executed 1689\u201391. The windows in the E. wall have two window-seats and panelled shutters. The Queen's Closet (23 ft. by 12 ft.), which adjoins the Gallery on the S., has been considerably altered, but the windows have moulded architraves and panelled shutters. Queen Anne's Dining Room (17\u00bd ft. by 14 ft.) has a panelled dado with moulded rail and skirting, moulded and enriched cornice, moulded architraves to the doorways and a fireplace similar to that in the Gallery. Queen Mary's Privy Chamber (25\u00bd ft. by 16 ft.) has a panelled dado and an enriched cornice carved with acanthus leaves alternating with the W and M monogram surmounted by a crown. The staircase to the W. of the Queen's Closet has the original treads, but the balusters have been removed to the staircase by the S.W. corner of the Clock Court. The Queen's Staircase (Plate 113) at the N. end of the range rises from the ground to the first floor in three flights; the walls are lined with bolection-moulded panelling, and have a moulded dado-rail and skirting; the doors to the staircase-hall are panelled, and have moulded architraves; all the windows have panelled shutters, and those on the first floor have moulded architraves and window-seats with moulded edges; the first-floor windows on the E. side have original sashes; the stairs have turned balusters, square newels, moulded handrail and moulded treads returned round the outer face of each step; the steps are of bracket-form and supported on a plain string, and the soffit below the third flight is panelled. The N. range has an early 18th-century staircase with moulded string and handrail, twisted balusters and square newel-posts; the walls have a panelled dado and are partly panelled above; some of the old doors and doorways remain, and at the N.W. corner of the Court is a staircase (Plate 7) taken from some other part of the palace and reconstructed; it has a heavy moulded string and handrail, turned balusters and square newel-posts with panelled sides. The W. wing has, in the older part, an early 18th-century staircase with moulded string and handrail and twisted balusters, and a fireplace with moulded stone surround.\nOutbuildings, etc.\u2014Two cottages, a few yards N. of the palace are each of one storey with attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are covered with tiles and slates. They are of early 18th-century date but have been much altered. The Stables stand to the S.W. of the palace and are of two storeys with attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are tiled. They form a long rectangular block facing the N., with gabled crosswings at either end projecting slightly towards the S.; through the middle of the building is a passage. At the eaves is a moulded wood cornice, and at the first-floor level a projecting brick band. The central passage on both floors is entered through an elliptical arched opening with plain stone imposts; the windows and doorways have rubbed brick dressings and are square-headed except those to the ground-floor on the S. front, which have segmental arches. There are flat dormer-windows lighting the attics at either end of the building and some of the window-frames at the back are original. There are two old panelled doors hung on strap-hinges and one lead rainwaterpipe has the W and M monogram. Inside, the building has been much altered, but a little old panelling and one old panelled door in the attics remain.\nAt the E. end of the main stables is a brick building, probably the coach-house. The N. front has pilasters at the corners with Doric capitals, and both N. and S. wall have moulded cornices and pediments of wood; the lower part of the S. wall has been cut away and has had modern doors inserted.\nN. of the cottages are two gate-posts, probably the work of Wren. They are square and built of brick with rubbed brick angles, stone plinth and moulded stone cornice; above the cornice each pier has a large stone acorn with acanthus-leaf base.\nThe Orangery stands about 100 yards N. of the palace. It faces the S., and is a symmetrically designed building of one storey; the walls are of brick with rubbed brick and Portland - stone dressings, and the roof is covered with slates; in front of the building is a raised terrace of Portland stone. It was built from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren in 1704 and, internally, consists of one long rectangular compartment with circular pavilions at either end. The S., or principal, front (Plate 114) has a central feature, marking the entrance to the main compartment, and slightly projecting features at either end; the central feature is of three bays with attached Doric columns of rusticated brickwork flanking the middle bay and corresponding square piers flanking the side bays; both columns and piers have plain stone bases and moulded capitals and support an entablature which is recessed over the middle bay; the entablature is partly of cement but the cornice is of wood and continued along the whole front at the eaves-level; above the cornice is a stone blocking course, and over the middle bay is a semi-circular window flanked by brick piers above the columns with moulded caps and a curved pediment; above the side bays are carved stone trusses flanking the piers to the pediment; the lower part of the entrance has panelled doors, and above is a sash-window; there are sash-windows to the bays on either side, and between the heads of the windows and the entablature are wood panels. The end features are each of three bays; the middle bay projects slightly and has a large sash-window set between rusticated brick piers, recessed back with concave jambs to the windows and having plain stone bases, moulded imposts and a semi-circular arch with a carved mask key-stone; the tympanum above the window is of wood with radiating panels, and above the cornice is an attic recessed back in the middle in a curve and supported on either side by carved stone trusses; the side bays have each a semi-circular niche with a round head and, above, a shallow round-headed recess with stone sill and brick apron. The walls between the central and end features are each pierced by a range of four large square-headed windows with moulded stone sills and plain triple key-stones.\nKensington Palace, The Orangery\nThe E. and W. elevations have slightly projecting brick pilasters at either end round which the main cornice is returned and forming a base for the pediment of the gable. In the middle of each front is a large sash-window with panelled doors below and a semi-circular tympanum above with radiating panels; the jambs are of rusticated brickwork with plain stone bases, and the semi-circular arch is also rusticated with a plain keystone and stone impost mouldings; on either side are shallow round-headed recesses with squareheaded recesses above having stone sills and brick aprons; above the window in the gable is a shallow round-headed recess.\nThe N. elevation has in the middle a plain semi-circular projection, and the walls on either side have each six plain brick panels.\nInterior (Plate 115).\u2014The E. and W. ends of the main hall are similar; each has a central round-headed opening of two orders; the inner has a panelled soffit and springs from responds panelled on the inner faces and with moulded and enriched imposts, and the outer is panelled and springs from panelled pilasters with enriched imposts and moulded bases; above the archway are carved festoons of flowers with a central cherub-head, and the archway is flanked on either side by a round-headed, semi-circular niche with moulded archivolt, enriched imposts and seats. Below the ceiling is an enriched modillioned cornice which is continued round the side walls. The N. wall is panelled to more than half its height, the panelling having an enriched cornice; in the middle is a central feature divided and flanked by fluted Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature; in the middle bay is a square-headed doorway with enriched architrave, entablature and pediment; the door is in two leaves with raised panels; the side bays have each a round-headed niche similar to those in the end walls. The S. wall has in the middle a central feature of three bays generally corresponding to that in the N. wall; the windows have moulded and enriched architraves and windowseats, and between the four windows on either side of the central feature are bolection-moulded panels. The end blocks are internally circular on plan; in the S. and external side walls are combined doors and windows; in the N. walls squareheaded recesses and in the wall adjoining the main hall round-headed openings; between these features are round-headed niches similar to those in the main hall and flanked by attached and fluted Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature. The semi-circular chamber at the back of the main hall has a semi-circular niche and a blocked window.\nThe Terrace is approached by two flights of steps, one at each end, and also one from the middle of the front; the front of the terrace has a plain projecting base and moulded capping.\nW. of the N. wall are two gate-posts flanking the path leading to the N. end of the garden; they are of brick with moulded stone bases and cappings, and are each surmounted by a carved stone vase; they do not appear to be in situ.\nThe lower part of the garden-wall running W. from these posts still remains, and there is also some original brickwork to the wall running S. The stables at the W. end of the N. garden-wall have been considerably rebuilt but the greater part of the E. wall still remains.\nHolland House, Kensington\nThe Alcove, at entrance to the gardens S. of the S.W. wing, is for the greater part modern, but incorporates, in the attic surmounting the entablature, three panels probably of plastered wood and of late 17th-century date. The middle panel is the largest, and has a cartouche surmounted by a crown supported by two amorini who are sitting astride branches of foliage; the side panels have vases and conventional foliage.\n(3) Holland House stands nearly \u00bd m. W. of the parish church. The central portion is of three storeys with basement and attics, the E. wing is of three storeys, and the W. wing of two storeys and basement. The walls are of red brick with stone dressings; the roofs are covered with tiles or slates. It was built for Sir Walter Cope, of Kensington, early in the 17th century, and an original plan (now in the Soane Museum) shows the side wings drawn in different ink to the main block and bears a note by John Thorpe that it was \" perfected \" by him. The central block was begun in 1605 and completed in 1607, and the side wings, including the towers, were designed and perhaps added soon after. Surviving building-accounts of 1638\u201340 relate to an extensive addition to the house and to the erection of new stables, etc. It is uncertain if the addition referred to was a large wing formerly projecting to the W. of the house and destroyed in 1704, or to the existing E. wing. In any case the existing E. front appears to be of about the date of the accounts. These works were done for Henry Rich, K.G., first Earl of Holland and son-inlaw to the original owner, to whom the decoration of the Gilt Room, the fireplace and chimney-piece in the China Room, and the panelling in the White Parlour may be attributed. The house was repaired in 1748 and 1796, and during the 19th century a large addition was made adjoining the W. wing, and both wings were altered and much repaired.\nThough 18th-century and modern additions and repairs have to a great extent destroyed the original character of the building it yet remains a good example of the larger type of Jacobean mansion. To-day (1925) it is the finest remaining example of the country-house in the county of London. The main staircase, the Gilt Room, the White Parlour and the chimney-piece in the China Room are noteworthy.\nElevations\u2014The elevations throughout have been greatly restored; many of the walls have been almost entirely refaced, others patched and in places renewed, and the whole of the stone dressings completely renewed or restored in cement. The windows throughout,unless otherwise described, are square-headed with moulded jambs, heads and mullions; the larger ones are divided by transoms; those in the gables are modern.\nThe S. Front (Plate 116) is symmetrical; in the middle is a projecting block of three bays with a central semi-hexagonal feature of three storeys surmounted by an ogee-shaped roof and flanked on either side on the ground and first floor by bay-windows, each of four lights with four-centred heads on the front and one similar light on the return. The semi-hexagonal bay forms a porch on the ground-floor and has at the angles enriched Doric, Ionic and terminal pilasters standing on panelled or enriched pedestals and supporting entablatures which are continued across the bay-windows of the two lower floors; the porch has round arches, enriched key-stones and oval panels; the first floor has round-headed windows and the top floor an enriched blind balustrade below the windows. All the dressings below the first-floor level are of cement, and, above, of modern stone, but probably reproducing the original design. The walls on either side of the projecting bay are carried up in shaped gables in which are windows to the attics, and the return walls have pointed gables. In the angles between the central projecting block and the main building are small bays which stop below the second-floor level. The walls behind are carried up in shaped gables and have, on the first floor, bay-windows surmounted by cresting. Above the staircase-blocks at either end of the main building are square towers having pyramidal roofs with concave sides covered with modern slates. The S. fronts of the side wings have each a three-sided stone bay with enriched Ionic pilasters at the angles and pierced cresting to the two upper floors; on the ground-floor in the middle of the bay is a round-headed arch with moulded imposts; the bay to the top storey is of less projection than to the floors below; it is of brick from the floor to sill-level. Flanking the central block and returned along the side wings is an open loggia with round-headed arches carried on enriched Doric piers and pedestals; the arches have shaped key-blocks, and, above, is a frieze surmounted by an entablature with pierced cresting of large attached fleurs-de-lis; the arches at the S. ends of the side arcades have on either side enriched Doric pilasters rising the full height, and there is a similar pilaster on the return faces of the southern angle piers. The whole work has been thoroughly restored in cement, though it probably reproduces the original detail. The walls within the arcade are cemented, and below the ceiling on the W. wall of the E. wing is a corbelled cornice of arcaded form, possibly of 17th-century date. The paving in the arcade next the E. wing is possibly original and of stone flags set diagonally with small squares at the corners; against the W. wall of the E. wing is a portion of a 17th-century bench with shaped front and turned legs.\nThe E. Front is of three storeys; it is divided into eight bays by enriched Doric, Ionic and Corinthian pilasters, superimposed, which stand on pedestals and support continuous entablatures at the floor-levels; above the top cornice each bay is carried up in a shaped gable, one dated 1888. With the exception of the southernmost, each bay on the ground-floor has a round-headed opening with ' jewelled' key-blocks, moulded archivolts and panelled imposts.\nThe W. Front, in consequence of later restorations and additions, has practically no original work visible.\nThe N. Front (Plate 117) is of three storeys, with attics to the central portion and with the projecting side wings of two storeys each; the storeys are divided by moulded string-courses, and the walls are finished with stone copings and have shaped gables to each of the projecting bays and two similar gables over the recessed central portion. The bay-windows to the end wings and adjoining blocks are each of two storeys; that to the E. wing on the ground-floor has been rebuilt square on plan; those to the projecting ends of the central block are surmounted by Jacobean cresting. There are six lead rainwater-heads of various shapes and possibly all of early 17th-century date; one bears the date 1607, and another the initials W.D.\nInterior. The Breakfast Room (41 ft. by 18\u00bd ft.), formerly the Entrance Hall (Plate 118), has an ornamented plaster ceiling with intersecting quatrefoils of flat bands of ' strapwork ', and scroll-enrichment in low relief; in the middle of the alternate quatrefoils are pierced pendants and square panels containing the letter H and a coronet. The doorways have semi-circular heads with moulded archivolts divided into sections by square, panelled blocks and console-shaped key-blocks; the jambs have long and short raised panels. The doorways (Plate 119) in the side walls are filled with elaborate wooden screens having in the middle a round-headed door with carved arabesque head, fluted jambs, archivolt with carved key-block and spandrels filled with arabesque carving; the door is flanked by coupled and fluted Doric pilasters standing on panelled pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature; the frieze is carved with arabesque ornament and the tympanum above the cornice is filled with carved strapwork. The doorway (Plate 119) into the Journal Room is round-headed and has applied decoration in the form of an enriched arch, flanking pilasters, enriched entablature and cresting. In the window-recesses are portions of original benches with segmental-headed arched fronts and half-turned baluster legs. The Journal Room contains no original work. The China Room (24 ft. by 13 ft.) has an original oak chimney-piece (Plate 120), refixed in its present position in the 19th century; the stone fireplace is modern; it is flanked by tapering Ionic pilasters; above the fireplace is an arabesque frieze surmounted by a fluted cornice with lion-head masks; the overmantel is divided into three bays by coupled Doric columns standing on panelled pedestals, each carved with a mask and supporting an entablature with arabesque frieze and dentilled cornice; between the columns the middle bay has an elaborate panel enclosed within a carved frame and having in the centre an inlaid H; the side bays have each an enriched round-headed niche containing carved figures representing Peace and Plenty. The E. doorway is round-headed with architrave and archivolt similar to that on the side to the Breakfast Room; the door on the inside is plain and is flanked by pairs of enriched Doric pilasters supporting an architrave and frieze with triglyphs; the tympanum above is filled with radiating fluting with carved half rose in the centre. The White Parlour (28 ft. by 20 ft.) is lined with panelling for three quarters of its height (Plate 121); it is divided into bays by fluted Doric pilasters standing on pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature with arabesque frieze and dentilled cornice, and in the middle of each bay is an architectural composition enclosing the letter H. The doors are of similar character to the panelling, and over the doorway to the staircase is a convex shelf with strapwork surmounted by small pedestals with vases. The fireplace has a black marble surround with moulded head and jambs; it is flanked by tapering Doric pilasters; they stand on panelled pedestals and are enriched with arabesque work and support a continuous entablature with enriched straps. The overmantel is in three bays, the middle one similar to a bay of the wall-panelling; the side bays are narrow and have pairs of enriched Ionic columns standing on carved and shaped pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature with a dentilled cornice, and enriched frieze; beneath the columns are shallow niches and round recesses containing vases. The bay on the E. side of the room is lined with modern panelling. The Staircase Hall has on the N. and W. sides remains of continuous seating with arched fronts and turned legs; it is now set close to the walls and forms a base to the panelling above; this is in two heights, the lower rectangular, the upper with semi-circular arches and 'jewelled' imposts; it is divided into bays by Doric pilasters carrying a continuous entablature. The door-frame to the White Parlour has a moulded head, jambs and stops.\nBasement. The Servants' Hall has panelling similar to that in the Staircase Hall. In the W. wall is a round-headed alcove (Plate 119) of black marble; it is set within a rectangular surround of rusticated slabs and has a semi-domed head; in the alcove is a fountain-jet of white stone carved in the form of a lion's head. In the opposite wall is a wide semi-circular arched opening with jambs and head of similar rusticated blocks.\nFirst Floor. The Gilt Room (41\u00bd ft. by 22 ft.) is lined with panelling in four heights with fluted Ionic pilasters at intervals standing on panelled pedestals and supporting a continuous entablature (Plate 122); the panels have cut and shaped borders, and in the middle of each are quatrefoils charged alternately with crosslets (from the arms of Rich) and fleurs-de-lis (from the arms of Cope); each quatrefoil is set within two palm-branches surmounted by a coronet; the main cornice is enriched with triglyphs and the frieze between them with ornamental panels in relief; the doors in the E. and W. walls are formed out of the panelling and are without architraves; the doors in the N. wall are in two leaves each of six panels similar to those lining the walls; the semi-circular arch has the soffit painted with scroll-work panels with female figures, the spandrels have painted angels, and in the tympanum is a fan of radiating fluting; the opening to the recess opposite is of similar character; the two chimney-pieces in the N. wall are of slightly different design; the W. fireplace is flanked by attached and coupled Doric columns, standing on pedestals and supporting a shelf of convex section ornamented with cross palm-branches and cartouches enclosing painted female figures; the overmantel is in two bays with attached coupled Doric columns at either end and two single columns in the middle flanking a narrow rounded-headed panel with painted enrichment surrounding the letter H; in each of the side bays is a round-headed panel with the painted figure of a woman (probably Peace and Justice) seated on a pedestal; the pedestals below the columns are painted with female figures and a group of dancers; the enriched panels between the pedestals are painted and have in the middle of each a small medallion painted with the heads of James I and Charles I; the painting on the E. fireplace differs slightly from those on the western one; in the angle of the room, on the middle of the side walls and above the N. doorway, are carved cartouches, surmounted by coronets and painted with the following shields-of-arms, etc.\u2014(a) Rich impaling Cope, (b) Rich quartering Baldry, (c) the wyvern crest of Rich, surrounded by a garter, (d) Rich, (e) Rich impaling Cope, (f) the motto \" DITIOR EST QUI SE\", and (g) Cope. The room is painted a creamy stone colour, blue and gilt, and the decoration is attributed to Francis Clein.\nLady Holland's Sitting Room, in the E. wing, has a fireplace of early 17th-century date, but apparently much restored.\nThe Long Gallery (100\u00bd ft. by 17\u00bd ft.), now the Library (Plate 123), has in the W. wall two original chimney-pieces alike in design and detail; the surround to the fireplace is enriched and the lintel carved with arabesque work; it is flanked by enriched and tapering Doric pilasters on either side which support an entablature with a convex corniceshelf; on the shelf are two medallions painted with cherubs; the overmantel is divided into two bays by fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature enriched with strapwork and arabesque ornament; between the columns are four panels enclosing an elliptical cartouche painted with a female figure. In the passage next to the Library are two panels made up of fragments of glass including two shields-of-arms, a fleur-de-lis, two quarries with badges, a round box or trunk, and a wheatsheaf, two Dutch inscriptions and fragments; all 16th-century and of English work except the inscriptions. On the second floor one of the bedrooms is lined with early 17th-century panelling with two original doors, and in the attic is another door of the same date.\nThe Principal Staircase (Plate 124) is in three flights from floor to floor and rises from the ground to the second floor; the strings and handrail are moulded, the newels are square and rusticated and have shaped and pierced pendants and the balusters are in the form of rusticated piers with raking capitals and bases and support small arches with shaped key-blocks; the newels were originally surmounted by finials, but only one, on the second floor, remains. On the first-floor landing, the doorway to the Gilt Room has a moulded frame and is flanked by Ionic pilasters, standing on pedestals and supporting an ornamental entablature; the doorway on the N. side is similar but has no pilasters.\nThe Gate Piers (Plate 125) in the garden near the E. side of the house are of Portland stone, and were built from the designs of Inigo Jones by Nicholas Stone in 1629; each pier has on the S. side two attached Doric columns, standing on panelled pedestals and supporting an entablature and pediment; between the columns is a semi-circular niche surmounted by a plain recessed panel and a carved cartouche and coronet; above each pediment is a pedestal with a carved griffin, the one holding a shield of the arms of Rich impaling Cope and the other Rich quartering Cope, and the cartouches above the niches are carved with the same shields; the N. sides of the piers are similar to the S. sides but have pilasters in place of columns.\nAt the W. end of the formal garden, to the W. of the house, is a range of round brick arches, partly of the 17th century, but much repaired with modern brick. They formed part of the old stables, probably those built in 1638\u201340.\nCondition\u2014Good, much altered.\n(4) Kensington Square. Houses, Nos. 11 and 12, at E. end of S. side of the square, 300 yards S.S.E. of the parish church, are of three storeys with attics and basements; the walls are of brick and the roofs are tiled. They were built in 1700, each on a rectangular plan with small blocks projecting on the S. The front wall of each house has been covered with stucco up to the level of the first floor and the windows have modern stucco architraves; between the storeys are projecting bands and, at the eaves, is an enriched modillioned cornice; the attics are lighted by dormer-windows with moulded cornices and pediments; the doorway to No. 11 has an enriched coved hood supported on carved brackets. Inside the building many of the rooms are panelled and retain their original coved or moulded cornices. The staircase to No. 11 is original and has moulded string and handrail, square newels and turned balusters, and the staircase to No. 12 is similar, but the ends of the steps of the lower flights have carved brackets.\nCondition\u2014Good.\nSome of the other houses in the square are probably of about the same date but, with the exception of those described above, they have been so extensively altered both internally and externally as to present no original features.\n(5) Houses, Nos. 10 and 12, Holland Street, on N. side of road, 100 yards N. of the parish church, are of three storeys with cellars. They were built early in the 18th century but have since been altered and the ground-floors have been converted into modern shops. The front elevation has a projecting brick band at the level of the second floor and a brick parapet; the groundfloors have modern shop-fronts, but, above, the windows have flat brick arches and No. 10 retains its old flush frames. Inside the buildings many of the rooms retain their original panelling. No. 10 has an early 18th-century staircase with moulded string and handrail, turned balusters, and newels in the form of small Doric columns.\n(6) Row of Five Cottages, Nos. 8\u201312, King Street, on W. side of road, 200 yards S. of the parish church, are of two storeys with cellars; the walls are of brick and the roofs are tiled. They were built early in the 18th century but have since been restored and altered. The front windows to Nos. 8\u201312 have segmental-heads and those to Nos. 11 and 12 have flat arches; some of the windows retain their old frames.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PALI By-Laws\nThis Association was formed to promote and maintain the highest standards and practices for licensed investigators, to foster and perpetuate among its members a spirit of cooperation, and establish mutual trust, good will and fellowship, among licensed investigators, private security personnel, persons engaged in law enforcement, and with all the citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Association shall also provide for the continuing education of its members.\nARTICLE I \u2013 NAME\nSection 1. The name of the Association shall be Pennsylvania Association of Licensed Investigators. The abbreviated version of the Association name shall be PALI.\nSection 1. The objectives and purpose of this Association shall be to promote professionalism and ethical standards within the licensed investigators' industry and to promote the principles and policies set forth in the foregoing preamble to this Constitution and Bylaws. This is meant to include continuing education as a means to promote professionalism. The use of the term \"investigator is synonymous with the term, \"detective\u2020for these purposes. The Association is also to provide a collective voice for the private investigation industry in the Commonwealth.\nARTICLE III \u2013 LOCATION, EMBLEM, SEAL\nSection 1. This Association shall be incorporated as a nonprofit entity in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.\nSection 2. The location of the principal office of PALI shall be the address as directed by the President. The Board of Directors may authorize the President to hire an Executive Secretary who would serve as a focal point for the group and a Corporate Consul for legal advice.\nSection 3. The official emblem of the Association shall consist of an outline of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in a circle with the name in the circle. The word PALI shall be scribed in the middle of the Commonwealth outline.\nSection 4. The official emblem of the Association shall be used for official business only. Use of the official emblem or Association name by members in personal advertising matter or on business cards or stationery to infer sanction is prohibited, except that members may indicate membership in the Association.\nSection 5. The corporate seal of the Association shall be in such form and design as the membership may select, and shall bear the name of the corporation and the year and state of its incorporation. The corporate seal of the Association shall be maintained by, and held in the custody of the Association Secretary.\nSection 1. Full membership is open to all persons who meet the eligibility requirements set forth by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are licensed. Membership applications are subject to review and recommendation by the Membership Committee. Applicants' names are to be published and voted upon by the Board. A simple majority shall be sufficient to approve an applicant for membership. Membership is a privilege, not a right and applications for any type of membership may be denied. Existing members maybe expelled by a majority vote of the PALI board.\nSection 2. Associate membership is open to any individual residing outside of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and who is qualified to operate as a private investigator under the respective laws and regulations existing in that person's jurisdiction.\nSection 3. Affiliate membership is open to all persons engaged in the profession of private investigations, or private security services, or who exhibit and express an interest in furthering the standards and objectives in the preamble and Article II of this Constitution and Bylaws. Affiliate members shall be eligible to serve on appointive committees but shall not be eligible to hold office nor to vote. An example of an affiliate member would be an investigative employee of a licensee, a corporation or law firm or other entity not requiring licensing under the Pennsylvania Private Detective Act.\nSection 4. Service and Industry membership is open to any individual or corporation that provides services or products relating to the private investigative industry and has an interest in furthering the standards and objectives in the Preamble, Article II of this Constitution and Bylaws.\nSection 5. Retirement membership is open to any individual that has retired from the active practice of investigations and\/or security services who wishes to retain all the privileges of membership except the right to vote. Retirement membership is open to any former PALI member who has relinquished his or her private investigators license to the issuing county, has completed the closure of his\/her private investigative business, and is no longer employed by any investigative or security agency. Any Retired member who is found to have re-entered the active practice of investigations or security services shall be liable for dues payments for all years in which he\/she enjoyed Retired member status whether active or retired. Any Retired member is welcome to rejoin PALI as a Full member if he\/she should resume his\/her business.\nSection 6. All full members in good standing of the Association as described in Section 1 above shall be equal with respect to voting privileges and eligibility to hold office.\nSection 7. Application for membership shall be made on an application form approved by the Association, accompanied by the appropriate membership fee.\nSection 8. The membership year shall begin on the first day of January and end on the last day of December.\nSection 9. Continued membership in the Association shall be granted after membership dues have been paid in full for the new membership year.\nSection 10. Membership shall only be granted to applicants who are recommended by the Membership Committee after the investigation outlined in Article VIII, Section 7 of these Bylaws. Membership shall be denied to anyone who is denied a private investigator's license, loses their license during their membership term, or upon recommendation of the Membership and Ethics Committees.\nARTICLE V \u2013 DUES\nAnnual dues for all members of the Association will be set by the Board of Directors to meet the needs of the organization. The dues policy of any given year shall be stated in an Addendum to these By-Laws, which is attached hereto and incorporated by reference.\nARTICLE VI \u2013 OFFICERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, ELECTIONS\nSection 1. Any full member in good standing may hold elective office in the Association.\nSection 2. Elected officers of the Association shall consist of President, First Vice President, Second Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chairman of the Board, six (6) Regional Directors, and three (3) Directors at Large. The President shall not hold that elected office for more than two (2) consecutive terms.\nSection 3. Officers shall be elected by secret ballot for a term of two (2) years by a majority vote of a letter vote or E-mail ballot of the membership.\nSection 4. The President shall be the chief administrative officer of the Association. The President shall exercise general supervision over the business affairs, interest and welfare of the Association, shall appoint all standing committee chairmen and such special committees as deemed necessary. The President shall be an ex officio member of all committees and shall perform such other duties as may be approved by the membership. The President shall serve without compensation. Also, the President shall hire and supervise the Executive Secretary who will handle the general administration function of the Association.\nSection 5. The Vice Presidents shall assist the President in the exercise of the duties of that office, shall preside in the absence of the President and shall perform any and all duties specifically delegated by the President. The Vice Presidents shall serve without compensation.\nSection 6. The Secretary shall ensure that an accurate account of the minutes of all meetings and votes of the Board of Directors of the Association are kept; receive and answer all communications addressed to that office or that may be submitted to that office for this purpose by officers of the Association; supply and issue applications for membership and receive such applications when executed and forward them to the Membership Committee Chairman for appropriate action; and perform such other duties as may be required. The Secretary shall serve without compensation. Some of these duties may be delegated to the Executive Secretary, the headquarters staff person.\nSection 7. The Treasurer shall collect and record all money due to the association from the Executive Secretary and in other means, deposit the funds in the Association bank account and pay all valid bills upon presentation of a suitable invoice. A report will be given to the Board at any meeting or at any time as specified by the President. The Treasurer shall serve without compensation.\nSection 8. The President of the Association shall assume the post of Chairman of the Board when the term of President is over. The Chairman of the Board shall serve as the meeting chairperson in the absence of the President. This individual shall preside at all Board Meetings, according to Robert Rules.\nSection 9. The elected officers and directors of the Association may be removed by a majority vote of the Board of Directors.\nSection 10. The Regional Directors are elected to actively participate in the management process by recruiting new members, maintain contact with existing members, assist in the resolution of problems, coordinate regional meetings for networking purposes and other duties as specified by the President and Board of Directors. They should also work with the District Attorney's and Court Clerk's office in developing and maintaining the mandatory list of licensed investigators in their regions.\nARTICLE VII \u2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS\nSection 1. The Board of Directors shall be composed of the Chairman of the Board, President, First Vice President, Second Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, six (6) Regional Directors, and three (3) Directors at Large. All standing committee Chairpersons and the Legal Counsel are non voting members of the Board.\nSection 2. The Board of Directors shall be recognized as the governing body of the Association, subject to the Constitution and Bylaws.\nSection 3. The Board of Directors shall act in an executive capacity and will vote on any relevant issues and matters which would require action prior to or at any Annual, Regular or Special Meeting of the Association. The position of Legal Counsel and Affiliate Representative are non-voting positions.\nSection 4. A majority vote of the Board of Directors voting shall be binding on the Association.\nSection 5. All members of the Board shall have one vote each.\nSection 6. The Chairman shall make a report to the membership at the annual meeting of the Association.\nSection 7. The Board shall perform all duties and functions as set forth in the Constitution and Bylaws.\nSection 8. The Board shall establish policy governing the conduct of its own affairs and shall alter its procedures in its sole discretion.\nSection 9. A majority of the Board members in good standing shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Board.\nSection 10. The Board shall have the authority to remove from office, any officer or Board member who fails to perform his or her duties. The Board shall also have the authority to appoint a replacement for any unfilled Board or Officer vacancy.\nSection 11. Board Members may remain on the Board of Directors until the end of their elected position until the expiration of their elected term, even after a voluntary non renewal of their license.\nSection 12. The President may appoint members or non members as special advisors at his\/her discretion.\nARTICLE VIII \u2013 APPOINTMENTS, COMMITTEES AND DUTIES\nSection 1. The President may appoint a Chairman and Co-Chairman for each standing committee, to serve for the term of his or her office. The President may also appoint affiliate members to serve the Association in various capacities as he or she sees fit. The President may also remove any committee member for any good reason.\nSection 2. Standing committee appointments shall be published at the earliest possible time on the PALI web site, or in such publication as the President may select.\nSection 3. The President shall establish other committees and make appointments as necessary.\nSection 4. The Constitution and Bylaws Committee shall examine the Constitution and Bylaws of the Association when necessary and will recommend proposed amendments and\/or revisions.\nSection 5. The Education and Training Committee shall coordinate and schedule speakers, seminars and any other activities related to education and training as offered by the Association.\nSection 6. The Legislative Committee shall study, draft and prepare bills, ordinances and resolutions representing the Association's position on issues for local, state and federal legislative and\/or regulatory governmental agencies charged with the administration of matters of interest to the Association; further, the Legislative Committee shall be responsible for informing members and\/or other committees of proposed industry regulations or legislative matters of interest.\nSection 7. The Membership Committee shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the procurement of new members and shall thoroughly investigate all applicants for membership; further, the Membership Committee shall maintain records of member participation and shall have the power to recommend revocation or denial of membership as appropriate for just cause after providing the applicant or member with notice of the reasons for the revocation or denial and an opportunity to be heard thereon.\nSection 8. The Publications Committee shall be responsible for the preparation, editing and publication of all official publications of the Association. The Publications Committee shall be responsible for the timely publication of all notices pertaining to proposed membership in the Association and to membership renewal. The newsletter Editor shall be either the Chairman or Co-Chairman of the Publications Committee.\nSection 9. The Steering Committee shall provide the Board with guidance on matters of revenue, organization, membership, continuing education or other issues that may be requested by the President.\nSection 10. The Ethics Committee shall provide guidance to the Board in regard to the ethical behavior of the members and advise the Chairman of any instance where a member may have violated generally accepted behavior of those in the profession. The Board shall be asked to decide what action, if any shall be accomplished by the organization.\nSection 11. The Arbitration Board shall be appointed by the President and the members of this Board will be held in confidence by the President. The Board will investigate disputes between members and any association member may request a board hearing but the rulings of the board will be binding to the affected members. Board members will remain anonymous from the membership and each other and will act in the best interest of the PALI organization. The operating details shall be the responsibility of the President based on the circumstances involved.\nARTICLE IX \u2013 QUORUM\nSection 1. Ten (10) members in good standing including two (2) members of the Board of Directors, one of whom should be the President or Chairman of the Board, shall constitute a quorum to transact business at any regular or special meeting. Meetings need not be of a personal nature and teleconferences may be used to expedite the issues. Votes on issues other than for the annual elections may be made by email.\nSection 2. No person shall take active part in any meeting unless such person is a member in good standing.\nSection 3. The President or Chairman of the Board must recognize motions that would change the operations or Bylaws before a Board vote may be conducted. After this recognition, the President or Chairman of the Board will call for the appropriate discussion and vote and the Secretary shall duly record the vote and disseminate the results to the membership.\nARTICLE X \u2013 S\nSection 1. Regular business meetings of the Association shall be held at least once a year, at a time and place to be determined by the President and announced in a timely manner in the newsletter and on the web site. Email to the membership may also be used to communicate with the membership and hold Board meetings. The Annual meeting for the election of officers shall be held in September, October, or November in time for the officers to assume their duties on the first day of January.\nSection 2. Special meetings of the Association may be called by the President or Chairman to transact any business deemed appropriate, providing, timely notification to all members in good standing is made specifying the time, place and purpose of the meeting.\nSection 3. Any three officers of the Association may call a special meeting of the Association to transact business deemed appropriate, providing, timely notification to all members in good standing is made, specifying the time, place and purpose of the meeting.\nSection 4. The President shall schedule a special meeting of the Association upon a written request of twenty percent (20%) of the members in good standing, who shall state the time, place and purpose of the request.\nARTICLE XI \u2013 AMENDMENTS OR REVISIONS\nSection 1. This Constitution and Bylaws may be amended or revised by a two-thirds (2\/3) majority vote of the Board of Directors, provided that the proposed amendments or revisions shall have been communicated to the members of the Board , either by United States mail or electronic mail dated at least fifteen (15) days prior to the vote. Amendments maybe offered for consideration on a timely basis.\nSection 2. All amendments or revisions to this Constitution and Bylaws shall become effective immediately following an affirmative vote of the membership.\nARTICLE XII \u2013 PROCEEDINGS\nSection 1. Robert's Rules of Order, on all points not specifically provided for in this Constitution and Bylaws, shall govern all proceedings of the Association.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"20 Best Online Schools Bachelor's in History\nMethodology Get Ranking Seal\nIn case you are searching for an online Bachelor's in a History degree program, you are in the right place.\nWe are offering you a list of 20 best educational institution in this field which deliver an education that allows students to examine historical data and utilize them in addressing certain requirements in today's public, business, and organizational settings while at the same time can organize his\/her schedule according to his\/her private obligations.\nBachelor of Arts in History Online Degree Program\nThe University of Central Florida features an online Bachelor of Arts in History program.\nThe curriculum is designed so as to prepare students to find a promising career in international affairs, public policy, law, and more.\nBesides developing students' analytical skills and critical-thinking skills, the program triggers the students' appreciation for the historical and cultural events that impact the world.\nCoursework allows the students to organize their studies according to their interests in emphasizing a specific geographic region namely Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America & North America, and the Middle East.\nSo as to graduate, students need to earn 120 credit hours.\nUniversity of Maryland-University College\nB.A. in History Programs Online Degree\nThe University of Maryland-University College is located in Adelphi, Maryland and has an online Bachelor of Arts in History.\nStudents who graduate will get a solid foundation of critical thinking skills needed to pursue graduate studies or build a rewarding career.\nSome of the topics are related to geographic areas and historical eras and throughout the coursework, students will conduct research and writing assignments suitable for presentation and publication.\nThis is a 120-credit hour program and students learn how to apply historical patterns to contemporary life.\nCore history coursework includes Historical Methods, World History I and II, Historical Writing, History of the United States to 1865, and Senior Thesis in History.\nOnline Bachelor of Arts in History Online\nThe University of Memphis is established in Memphis, Tennessee, and it boasts an online Bachelor of Arts in History.\nSome of the subjects that the curriculum is focused on are Women, Gender and History, U.S. History, Medieval Europe, and Western Civilization to name a few.\nWhat students will learn at this university is how to analyze primary historical sources, conduct research work and present a clear and well-written historical discovery.\nObligatory coursework includes World Civilization I and II, Ancient World, Traditional East Asia, Medieval\/Renaissance Europe, and Modern Europe.\nBachelor of Arts in History Online (B.A.)\nNicholls State University is proud to offer the online Bachelor of Arts in History which is designed for students interested in studying Asia, Europe, and modern America.\nThe education is provided by experienced and highly knowledgeable faculty staff through a range of courses.\nThey are provided with the necessary ability to develop their critical-thinking skills, write research works and identify significant issues influencing the modern world.\nThis is 120-credit hour online program which is divided into four main requirements and those are University Requirement (UR), Oral Communication Requirement (OCR), General Education Requirement (GER), and Computer Literacy Requirement (CLR).\nOnline Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in History\nOregon State University is located in Corvallis, Oregon has an online Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in History that is led by OSU's College of Liberal Arts.\nThis college is on the top of the list of online liberal arts colleges, and this is thanks to its researched-focused online program designed to prepare students for successful careers.\nThe students at this university will be equipped with essential skills such as writing, documentation, argumentation, and critical-thinking skills necessary for a promising career.\nUnlike other similar programs at other educational institutions, this is 180-credit hour program which has six (6) themes and those are Science & Society, Gender & Sexuality, The American West & Environmental History, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern History, Armed Conflict, Genocide & Society, and Race, Diaspora & Politics in the Atlantic World.\nMount Mary University\nBachelor of Arts in History Degree Program Online-B.A.\nMount Mary University is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where students can attend regular on-campus and an online Bachelor of Arts in History program.\nThe students will learn how to explore not only men but also women and underrepresented historical accounts.\nSome of the skills they will get after graduation are how to think critically, communicate effectively, analyze problems, and interpret a series of events.\nWhat students find great is that Mount Mary provides them with the opportunity to travel to a United Nations conference through the Model United Nations course every other year.\nAll history students are required to complete an internship program or a cooperative study project and earn 128 credits to get this degree.\nOnline Degree-B.A. in History\nThe University of North Dakota features an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.\nWhat the students will get there is the knowledge related to how to explore different discoveries, answering big questions, conduct investigative research, and explain the past.\nFurthermore, this is an online history program that has a variety of topics covered in their course works such as World History, North America, Europe, and Asian studies.\nThe graduates will be able to look for careers in public or digital history, government services, business and teaching, and law but only once they earn 126-credit hours.\nCore history courses such as Western Civilization I and II, World Civilization I and II, European History, North American History, and The Historian's Craft have to be taken and a research capstone is required to earn this degree.\nBachelor of Science in History Degree Program Online\nKing University, which is located in Bristol, Tennessee boasts its an online Bachelor of Science in History program that was created for those students who are interested in learning Western history, historical research, and non-Western history, but look for a more flexible way of reaching that educational goal.\nJust like the on-campus program, this one is based on several areas of study including the Reformation, the Holocaust, Colonialism in Africa, and medieval Europe.\nCore requirements include An American Nation: Beginnings to 1877, Professional Historian: Methods and Historiography, Cultures in Contact: The Middle Ages and The Atlantic World, Europe, and the Great Wars, and The Civil War to name a few.\nSo as to get a degree, students are required to obtain a total of 124 credit hours and once they finish this program, they will be equipped with knowledge that will enable them to pursue careers and vocations in law, church ministries, educational institution, historic preservation, and museum curacy.\nOnline Degree Program-Bachelor of Science in History\nLiberty University is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and besides its on-campus program, it boasts an online Bachelor of Science in History degree.\nWhat students will develop throughout the studies here is an in-depth investigation of historical events of the human society and past events, which is designed so as to equip students to discover motivations of figures and peoples, and employ these facts to improve the future.\nStudents will learn a variety of core skills and will be equipped with analytical, critical thinking, research skills, an extensive understanding of historical events, figures, and places.\nCore history courses include Geography, History of Western Civilization, Survey of American History, and Historical Methodology and students are required to earn a total of 120 credit hours so as to get the degree.\nBachelor of Arts in History Online-B.A. Program\nSouthern New Hampshire University is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, and boasts an online Bachelor of Arts in History program.\nActually, this is a program made for distance learners who want to get liberal arts education with an emphasis on the linkages between modern societies, and ancient civilizations, but are not able to attend regular classes.\nWhat students will learn are critical-thinking and analytical skills which will help them improve their communication skills.\nThis is an online history degree program which has four concentrations \u2013 Military History, Middle Eastern History, European History, and American History.\nThose people who graduate from SNHU's BA in History can look for a rewarding career in law, history, education, and other fields where research, analysis, and communication skills are highly appreciated.\nThis is a 120-credit online program that consists of mandatory core courses such as United States History I and II, World Civilizations: Prehistory-1500, World Civilizations: 1500-Present, and History Research Seminar.\nUniversity of Illinois Springfield\nBachelor of Arts Online in History\nThe University of Illinois Springfield has to offer an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.\nThis program and its training provide students with communication skills, analytical skills, and research capabilities, while at the same time preparing them for a variety of career pathways.\nGraduates can search for a career in administration, business, history, journalism, government, politics, and writing.\nThe curriculum consists of unique mandatory courses such as Game of Thrones, Women in the Middle East, The Historical Jesus, Gods and Heroes of Early Europe, Animals in Antiquity, and History of Russia: Peter I to Putin.\nWestfield State University\nOnline Bachelor of Arts in History Degree Program\nWestfield State University is another educational institution that offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree for both new and transfer students from any college or university.\nIts History program is designed so that students attend a wide range of classes in Africa and Asia, World History in Latin America, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East while getting a complete understanding of the past.\nGraduates will be developing the analytical skills that enable them to deal with a different range of problems.\nCore required courses include U.S. History to 1865, U.S. History since 1865, Western Experience I and II, and Introduction to Historical Research and Analysis.\nFurthermore, there are electives offered in three categories \u2013 European & World History, Latin American History, and the United States History.\nUniversity of Nebraska Kearney\nOnline Bachelor of Arts in History\nThe University of Nebraska Kearney is one of many schools that offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.\nActually, this educational institution provides students with outstanding knowledge of events, ideas, peoples, and values from a historical point of view and after they finish studies, they will be able to comprehend both past and modern societies.\nWhat they will get there are the skills of critical thinking, writing and reading so that they can start their successful careers in the fields such as the business world, public history, education, or law.\nCore history requirements include American History I and II, Introduction to Latin America, Western Civilization I and II, and Non-Western World History, while there are some electives divided into three major categories \u2013 U.S. History, European History, and Non-Western History.\nBachelor of Arts in History-B.A. Online\nGranite State College, located in Concord, New Hampshire, is an outstanding educational institution that offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.\nThe curriculum is designed so that it helps students discover trends and patterns from the pre-history to the present circumstances, to do some research related to specific periods of historical events, explore world history and be able to link it with current happenings.\nThis is a 120-credit hour program that consists of mandatory core courses \u2013 Great Civilizations, Historical Methods, European History: 19th and 20th Centuries or History of World War II, History of New England or Vietnam War: A Historical Perspective, and Expository Writing to mention just a few.\nUniversity of Louisiana Monroe\nBachelor of Arts in History Online Program\nThe University of Louisiana Monroe is located in Monroe, Louisiana, and features an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree which is designed so as to provide essential arts and sciences education integrated with U.S. and Non-U.S. related studies.\nThis online History major program is ideal for students who are looking for flexibility in the process of their education while at the same time want to be prepared for a career in a variety of fields such as counseling, education, foreign affairs, journalism, law, publishing, public relations, and the state or federal civil services.\nStudents will learn skills in historical research and analysis, and develop in-depth learning of past events.\nThey are required to earn 120 credit hours to achieve this degree.\nBachelor of Arts in History\nMoscow, Idaho is home to the University of Idaho.\nThis educational institution provides two online degrees in History and those are Bachelor of Arts in History and Bachelor of Science in History.\nBoth of them have curriculums based on a rich historical perspective and strong research fundamentals, analytical skills, writing skills, and critical-thinking skills.\nThis 121-credit hour online program will help prepare students for successful careers as historians, curators, regulatory affairs managers, archivists, or history teachers.\nThe BA degree requires a 20-credit language minor, while both degrees require a capstone seminar or a research project for graduation.\nBachelor of Arts in History Online B.A. Degree\nThe University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and besides offering a regular on-campus program, it also offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.\nThe program teaches students to study past events and historical events as remembered and recorded, as well as to write well-documented research work.\nThroughout the studies, students will improve their analytical skills and logical skills.\nFurthermore, students have the opportunity to choose from a different set of courses that explore the history of Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.\nBy the end of their studies, students need to conduct research work or complete a capstone project in their chosen geographic area.\nThomas Edison State University\nB.A. Online Degree in History\nThomas Edison State University offers an online Bachelor of Arts in History degree.\nThis program is made so that it prepares adults for a career shift, graduate education as students are exposed to the discipline of data gathering and weighing pieces of evidence and they are trained to be able to evaluate great events and significant personalities in the history of mankind.\nWhat students will learn during the program is how to apply methodologies, and conceptual theories within the fields of history.\nThis is a 120-credit hour online History program that includes core required courses such as Western Civilization I and II, American History I and II, Non-Western History, and World History I and II to name a few.\nLast, but not least, a Liberal Arts Capstone is mandatory for graduation.\nBachelor of Science in History Online Programs-Online Degree\nExcelsior College is located in Albany, New York, and among its numerous programs, it has to offer an online Bachelor of Science in History degree.\nThroughout this program, students will be thought to understand how and why events in the past happened and will be able to interpret discoveries and pieces of evidence about those significant events.\nExcelsior's BA in History degree holders will improve critical-thinking capabilities, and written analysis and will learn how to evaluate, process, and relocate pieces of information from the past.\nMandatory core History courses are United States History I and II, World History I and II, European Renaissance, Revolutionary America, and Global Popular Culture Since 1945.\nBachelor of Arts in History Online Degree B.S. Programs\nArizona State University features an online Bachelor of Arts in History program which is created so as to give students an understanding of the history of human society as well as the economic, cultural, political, and social aspects that influence the modern world.\nThis online History program will teach students how to analyze objects that were left behind by ancient people such as bones, constitutions, diaries, land deeds, and guns.\nThe graduates will know how to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis and present their discoveries.\nObligatory courses include United States History, Methods of Historical Inquiry, Studies in Asian History, and History in the Wild and a total of 120 credit hours is required to earn this degree.\nQ. What kind of people are considered suitable for the enrollment in an online Bachelor's in History degree program?\nNot everyone is suitable to enroll in an online bachelor's degree in History and this is the science that demands time and effort in conducting research work.\nSo as to be considered appropriate, an applicant has to possess skills in analyzing and debating, considering and composing facts and theories, and deal with some of the most controversial topics ever dealt with mankind.\nThis degree program is considered perfect for people who have a deep passion for historical events and past events that have a strong influence on today's society.\nAlso, people who love to improve their critical-thinking abilities through in-depth analysis of data gathering or evidence and interpret and write documentation are also highly encouraged to enroll in this program.\nTo conclude, an online bachelor's degree in History is for people who are genuinely curious about past events.\nQ. What kind of jobs can graduates of Bachelor's in History look for?\nOnce you graduate from an online bachelor's degree in History program, you will be ready to starts a successful career in a variety of fields.\nYou might look for jobs in business, education, and government.\nFurthermore, some people find their career as a museum technician, being that they have studied and have been trained to answer profound questions asked by museum visitors.\nAlso, they are able to provide assistance to curators to prepare museum collections.\nThose professionals with additional education and training can look for jobs in corporate communications, information management, and historic preservation fields.\nOthers can become writers, editors, and authors of history books and other publications, archivists, curators, journalists, lobbyists, researchers, educators, and political campaign workers.\nQ. How much money do Bachelor's in History degree holders earn?\nAn online history degree prepares students for a variety of careers and how much they will learn depends on the places where they find jobs.\nEmployment opportunities in the fields of business, education, politics, international relations, and law are numerous and the amount of work performed can also affect their salaries.\nCommon careers for graduates with an online degree in History include Historians that earn a median annual salary of $59,120.\nProfessors have an average yearly salary of $59,170, while museum curators have $47,360.\nThe online Bachelor's in History degree programs offer its students a chance to achieve valuable skills, including in-depth analysis, research, and writing.\nAnd once you get a degree in an online Bachelor's in History program, you will be able to choose from various and numerous future career options.\nCategorized as: Rankings","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home >> Bands >> Archiv >> Anguish\nMagna Est Vis Suignah\nHigh Roller Records\nAlmost ten years into their career, Swedish Doomsters ANGUISH are back! And to celebrate this first decade, they will finally release their third full-length album via High Roller Records. 'Magna est vis Siugnah' is not only the long-awaited follow-up to their 2014 masterpiece 'Mountain', but also a kind of a \"back to the roots\" perspective, a look back in time, not letting the ultimate goal be forgotten. As vocalist J.Dee recalls: \"A while back I thought I lost it, lost her. But I found the source again. (...)The core of creativity, and that is the true meaning of 'Magna est vis Siugnah'.\" Looking back on the time since the band was founded, it feels very natural to come up with a new record at this very point. Time also takes its toll and line-up changes and creative draughts could not have been fully avoided. But after a few years of modelling new songs, new ideas and a new lyrical scenery came about and ANGUISH reformed into a four-piece.\nLyrically speaking 'Magna Est Vis Siugnah' is also a step back, back to the roots. This was a necessity for the band since deity of chaos still is present. \"It has always been about her, and this time it is related to her return. Might be confusing, but for me it is as clear as clean water. It's a collection of stories from a diverse timeline, with no beginning nor end. Still it is about Death and the life after, and about pain and anguish. Siugnah is showing the world that she will not let herself fade away. To find peace inside, you must get eternal - Life Eternal, Mayhem.\"\nThe mastering of 'Magna Est Vis Siugnah' was done by Patrick W. Engel (Candlemass, Pentagram and Trouble) at Temple of Disharmony in Bamberg, Germany. Recording and mixing was done by Johan Ericson at Dead Dog Farm Studio in S\u00e4ffle, Sweden between May 18th and June 4th 2017. The guest guitar solo on 'Blessed Be the Beast', played by Hasse (Third Storm, former Die Hard) was recorded by guitarist David in his barn in the forest outside of Uppsala. For the cover artwork of 'Magna Est Vis Siugnah' the band got in touch with Czech artist Vojt\u011bch Doubek at Moonroot art. Instead of any details on how they wanted it to be, the band provided him with the lyrics and the demo tracks and gave him a free hand. Vojta has been following ANGUISH since the 2012 debut \"Through the Archdemon's Head\" and knows their concept better than anyone else. A perfect match for 'Magna est vis Siugnah'.\n1. Blessed Be The Beast\n2. Magna Est Vis Suignah\n3. Of The Once Ravenous\n4. Requiescat In Pace\n5. Elysian Fields Of Fire\n6. Our Daughters Banner\nJ.Dee - Vocals & Bass\nDavid - Guitar\nLinus - Guitar\nRasmus - Drums","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Ben Sasse talks Kavanaugh, Trump, history and Cornhusker football in Iowa City\nZach Berg\nU.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) discussed President Donald Trump, defended his vote to approve U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and gave an American history lesson in Iowa City on Thursday night.\nSasse spoke in front of around 200 people in the University of Iowa's Memorial Union ballroom as a part of UI's Lecture Committee's series of fall speakers.\nWith the audience about as quiet and attentive as a UI lecture hall filled with students, the Republican senator tried to woo a seemingly liberal crowd.\nThe only time the audience reacted with even remote vociferousness came after his 40-minute lecture on why the U.S. should remain a leader on the global stage.\nIowa Public Radio host Ben Kieffer read audience questions to Sasse, one of which asked why the senator regularly chastises Trump but often ends up voting for policies the president supports, including voting to approve Kavanaugh.\nAfter the room erupted into applause, Sasse responded.\n\"The Senate Judiciary Committee doesn't work,\" Sasse said, pointing to increasing partisan rhetoric and battles that inflame many judiciary approvals, not just Kavanaugh's. \"The whole process is ugly.\"\nHe criticized Democrats on the committee, chaired by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), for not using confidential means to report Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh.\nSasse has been rumored as a potential rival to Trump in a Republican primary ahead of the 2020 election. Though he has said in the past the odds of him running are low, he's done things past presidential hopefuls do before running: visiting Iowa and promoting a new book, \"Them: Why We Hate Each Other \u2014 and How to Heal,\" which was released last week.\nSasse criticized much of Trump's rhetoric during his hour-long Iowa City event, but had little negative to say about his policies.\nKieffer asked Sasse if Trump's regular use of derogatory comments toward his Democratic rivals and the media may of created an atmosphere that provoked the mailing of several explosive devices to the Obamas, the Clintons, CNN and other Trump critics on Wednesday.\n\"There is no place in America for a phrase like 'the press is the enemy of the people,'\" Sasse said, garnering loud applause from the audience. He added that any American, including Trump, has the right to question or debate news stories, but that Trump calling the press an enemy was absolutely wrong.\nThe senator switched between dissenting and approving of the Commander in Chief, from the beginning of his lecture, which he opened by saying \"this speech is not about Donald Trump.\"\n\"I think President Trump is far more right than the national foreign policy establishment,\" he said, adding \"We need a conversation about what the purpose of our foreign policy is. One of the virtues of Trump disruptive campaign in 2016 is he sort of forced us to rethink and ask some fundamental questions.\"\nSasse then shifted gears and chided his own party and leadership.\n\"Acknowledging that we need disruption in our conversation to sort of rethink and reshape our fundamental principles about what the U.S. role is in the world, that's an important truth, but it's insufficient to say we've been sort of rudderless for a couple decades on the global stage,\" he said. \"I think I'm in a party right now that doesn't have much of an actual plan,\" he said, adding that he could criticize Democrats for the same.\nSasse's lecture style is decidedly professorial, which makes sense as he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He also served as the president of Midland University from 2009 to 2014, when he was elected to the Senate.\n\"We need a clearly shared vision of America's role in the world,\" Sasse said, stressing that the country has lost its way as a global leader.\nHe discussed the last 100 years of U.S. history, dividing it into three parts: post-World War I, post-World War II and post-Cold War.\nArguing that the country's isolationism after WWI helped allow the rise of the fascist powers America fought in WWII, he stated that the U.S. needs to stand firmly at the front of global affairs.\n\"Will we retreat in the face of a rising China and obstructionist Russia?\" he asked the crowd. \"If America pulls back from the world, bad actors will undoubtedly step into our place.\"\nMaybe the warmest reaction Sasse received in Iowa City was when he talked about the struggling University of Nebraska-Lincoln football team, a rival of UI's Hawkeyes.\n\"I lost a bet,\" Sasse said. \"Iowa has been successful for awhile, but Nebraska, the most-winning college football team of the last 50 years, has had a bumpy couple of years here.\"\nIowa has beaten Nebraska each of their last three Big Ten Conference contests. With Nebraska being 1-6 and Iowa 6-1, fate seems to favor the Hawkeyes once again this year.\nTo pay off the bet, Sasse said he handed out giant turkey legs in front of Kinnick Stadium before his lecture. At the end to the lecture, he handed the last two turkey legs he had to people sitting in the front row of the IMU ballroom.\nReach Zach Berg at 319-887-5412, zberg@press-citizen.com or follow him on Twitter at @ZacharyBerg.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS) formed at historic conference\nStatement of UK trade union delegation to Palestine, 17-22 April 2011 \u2192\nStudents, labour, academics: Growing Canadian solidarity with Palestine\nBy David Heap\nThis article was published on rabble.ca on May 19, 2011.\nEvents across Canada underline the growing concern on and around Canadian campuses for issues relating to Palestine and in particular, around Palestinian academics and labour unions.\nFrom May 18 to June 2, Dr. Amjad Barham, president of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE), will be touring Canada and Qu\u00e9bec to speak and meet with academics and other members of the labour movement.\nThe speaking tour, entitled \"Building Solidarity from South Africa to Palestine.\" (see below for details), includes Barham representing the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) as well as Tahir Sema from the South African Municipal Workers' Union (SAMWU), an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).\nOfficials from the Canadian Association of University Teachers will meet Dr. Barham when the tour reaches Ottawa. CAUT already has a collegial relationship with PFUUPE: last year the two organizations signed a reciprocal membership agreement, and CAUT is assisting the PFUUPE in its application for membership in Education International. Last November's CAUT Council adopted a general motion from the floor to investigate and report back on ways to support academic colleagues in Palestine.\n\"Dr. Barhams's visit to Canada will allow us to explore further ways we can work with PFUUPE to develop its capacity to defend the academic and professional rights of staff in the West Bank and Gaza.,\" says CAUT President Penni Stewart.\nThis speaking tour will be an important opportunity for debate and discussion on the question of how we as academics and trade unionists can stand in solidarity with Palestinians. The tour will be an occasion for questions and debate around issues such as: Why are trade unionists around the world increasingly comparing the situation in Palestine with that of South African apartheid? What is the situation of Palestinian academics, students and workers today? Why has there been a call by Palestinian trade unions for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) modeled on the solidarity movement against South African apartheid? What is the role of trade union activists in what is happening in Palestine and South Africa today?\nThis solidarity tour is aimed at fostering relationships between Palestinian, South African, Canadian and Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois trade unionists in the hopes of building on the already considerable work of Canadian and Qu\u00e9bec solidarity campaigns. It is also an important opportunity for public education on the experiences of workers and trade unionists in Palestine and South Africa.\n\"Faculty for Palestine is very excited to hear that Dr. Amjad Barham, will be touring Canada as part of an important labour solidarity tour which will also feature a South African trade unionist.\" says Alan Sears, a sociologist at Ryerson University who is active with Faculty for Palestine, a network of more than 450 Canadian faculty at more than 40 universities and 15 colleges across the country, which organizes primarily around the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (including academic boycott), the right to education under occupation and building ties with Palestinian colleagues, students and staff, and defending freedom of expression on Canadian campuses around Palestinian solidarity. In Qu\u00e9bec, similar work is being done by a group called CUWU (College and University Workers United).\nSears continues: \"Dr. Barham is the President of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees and a strong supporter of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions. In a context in Canada in which student-led divestment campaigns against investment in Israeli apartheid are shaking up many of our university campuses and challenging with Israeli institutions, the tour promises to be an excellent space for strategic debate, analysis of apartheids, and further organizing.\"\nAs was the case in the struggle for divestment from apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, student groups on a growing number of campuses have been taking leadership positions in the movement for divestment from companies involved in violations of Palestinian human rights and the occupation of Palestine. Students Against Israeli Apartheid at the University of Toronto, York University and Carleton University correctly point out that these \"complicit companies create military technologies used in the murder of civilians, the destruction of infrastructure and the daily humiliation of Palestinians.\" As the growing educational campaigns during Israeli Apartheid Week spread to more campuses each year, they stimulate increased discussion and debate around these issues which lasts much longer than just a week.\nAt the campus where I work, a student group (Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights) joined with other community groups to help support the Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative (canadaboatgaza.org), a civil society campaign to challenge the blockade of Gaza. While not directly an academic or labour union issue, the illegal blockade of Gaza of course affects students and university staff along with everyone else. Despite marginal improvements since last summer`s flotilla, aid deliveries to Gaza are still a fraction of what was needed before the blockade was imposed in 2007. As my colleague, Ziad Medoukh (head of French and director of the Peace Centre at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza) notes, schools supplies, computer equipment and books are still among the goods which are severely restricted and only sporadically available under the blockade of Gaza. Despite high levels of participation in primary-secondary education and healthy enrolments at the five universities in Gaza, the hopes and aspirations of a whole generation in Gaza are being needlessly stunted due to senseless restrictions which have nothing to do with anyone's \"security\". Those who finish their studies and earn scholarships abroad are often caught by restrictions on human mobility which cruelly curtail travel for academic, medical, commercial or family purposes. While there is now hope that the Rafah border with Egypt will open (and stay open) for people and goods, Palestinians also have the right to free ship traffic through the port of Gaza \u2013 the only Mediterranean port which is closed to shipping \u2013 and to the use of their own territorial waters.\nZiad Medoukh adds that the Palestinians of Gaza are left with \"a hope in international civil society solidarity which is organizing throughout the world in order to try, through peaceful actions, to break this blockade, in particular with, the 'French Boat for Gaza', 'Canadian Boat for Gaza', an 'International Boat for Gaza' campaign \u2013 a whole flotilla for Gaza. We in Gaza, given our current situation, are impatiently awaiting the arrival of this international freedom flotilla\u2026 with one clear message: the blockade of Gaza must and will be lifted.\"\nMore and more Canadians, on campus and in our communities, are heeding this sort of call from Palestinians, be they in Gaza or from the West Bank. Whether it is by working on civil society campaigns like the Canadian Boat to Gaza, by joining student-led initiatives on campus for boycott, divestment and sanctions, or simply by showing up and listening what our academic colleagues and fellow trade unionists from Palestine have to say, the growing involvement of Canadian faculty for Palestine is a cause in which we can all participate.\nLabour tour: Building solidarity from South Africa to Palestine\nThe speaking tour will begin at the Convention of the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) in Montreal (May 15-19), then travel through Ontario, to Regina and Vancouver. CAUT members and affiliates will be welcome as part of the discussion at the different solidarity tour venues across the country.\nTORONTO: Saturday May 21, 6:30p.m.-9:30p.m., Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Bathurst subway). Thursday May 26, 7p.m.-10p.m., CUPE Ontario Convention, Sheraton Hotel, 123 Queen St. West\nWINDSOR: Sunday May 22, 2p.m.-5p.m., Oak Room, Vanier Hall, University of Windsor.\nHAMILTON: Tuesday May 24, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., McMaster University.\nLONDON: Wednesday May 25, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Tolpuddle room, 380 Adelaide St. North (at King)\nREGINA: Thursday May 27. 7:30 p.m., Regina Union Centre, 2709 12th Ave\nVANCOUVER: Sunday May 29, 6p.m., Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver (Victoria and Triumph, two blocks north of Hastings St.)\nMONTREAL: Wednesday June 1, 7 p.m., Centre St. Pierre, 1212, rue Panet (metro Beaudry)\nOTTAWA: Thursday June 2 7pm. CUPW National Office, 377 Bank St.\nWays you can support this important tour:\nSponsor the tour, host the trade unionists, organize members to come out to the event in your community, donate funds, publicize the tour or write about it in your newsletter or website.\nTo Sponsor, Donate or Participate in the Tour, please contact: SAtoPalestine@yahoo.com.\nMore information about the tour can be found here.\nThis entry was posted in BDS, International Labor. Bookmark the permalink.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Private equity giant Blackstone Group has signed up with listed developer Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd to buy up to 50% stake in two commercial properties in Gurugram. In a stock-exchange filing, Indiabulls Real Estate said that it was parting with the stake at a...\nResidential launches and inventories fall across top metros\nResidential real estate launches and inventories saw downward trend even as sales inched across top metro cities in the country, according to Kotak Institutional equities. New launches were at 37.2 million sq ft in Q2 FY19, which are significantly lower than 62.1...\nStressing on the need to build quality, safe and affordable houses for all, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has termed \"affordable housing\" as an essential requirement in the time to come. \"The state government approved 100 town planning schemes in 2018. 400 TP...\nEssex India to expand operations to more cities\nEssex India, a Hyderabad-based prop-tech company aiming to disrupt home-buying and selling process in residential real estate market, plans to expand its operations to four cities in next six months. Essex, incubated out of Way2online, a leading marketing technology...\nNotification to acquire land for Pune airport not expected soon: MADC\nThe notification for land acquisition for the new Pune airport in Purandar is not expected anytime soon, Maharashtra Airport Development Company Limited (MADC) has said. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had earlier stated that the land acquisition for the project...\nDrones to track illegal construction\nThe Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to come down heavily on encroachments onto city green spaces and lakes as well as illegal constructions using drones, ET Realty reported. The corporation's directorate of enforcement, vigilance and...\nPost the revival of the Indian real estate sector through a series of initiatives by the government, the confidence of the homebuyers has increased with a clear understanding of the market, says Madhusudhan G, Chairman and MD, Sumadhura Group. The developers, on the...\nCompletion Certificate requirement to hit real estate sales \u2013 analyst\nThe recent announcement of the Union Finance Ministry that GST exemption is available only for properties with completion certificate is likely to hit real estate developers, a prominent consultancy firm has said. The ministry said that buyers have to pay Goods &...\nWhy Indian real estate is turning attractive for NRIs\nThe depreciated rupee value is prompting a large number of NRIs to invest in the Indian realty market, writes Navneet Dubey. With rupee witnessing a major fall against the dollar in recent months, non-resident Indians (NRIs) have begun scouting for property buys in...\nMaking mini fortune by investing in flats\nWe all know somebody who has made a mini fortune by investing in a flat or residential plot at the right time, writes Ashwini Kumar Sharma. Despite the usual ups and downs, there exists a deep rooted sense among Indian investors that residential property is a...\nRegulated market key for real estate growth\nA well-regulated real estate market will spur the world's biggest asset managers to look at India more seriously over the long-term, reports Mint newspaper. Compared with most other big businesses, real estate remains one of the best to put your money into. At its...\nRealty gets boost under Haryana Chief Minister Khattar\nThe four-year report card of Haryana's Manohar Lal Khattar-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is marked by significant developments in housing, particularly affordable housing. But the pace of infrastructure development leaves much to be desired, reports...\nThe Indian real estate is set to see important changes in the aftermath of the general elections in 2019. Although a series of reforms measures taken by the Modi government has catalysed growth impulses, investors are waiting to see the political changes in the coming...\nNCR, Mumbai builders are battling tepid demand and unsold inventory\nThe National Capital Region (NCR) remains the worst impacted among major real estate markets in the country, with home sales declining in each of the last four quarters, reports Mint newspaper. In the September quarter, sales dropped by 12% to 13,820 units, making NCR...\nHousing prices to rise at half the rate of inflation in 2019\nIndia house prices will rise at half the rate of consumer price inflation next year, hit by dwindling credit supply, according to a Reuters poll of housing market experts who said Delhi will be hit hardest. House prices have risen at almost double-digit rates for over...\nFunds crunch, occupancy certificate hit housing market\nOutstanding credit to real estate developers given by Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) and Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) has increased four times from Rs 640 billion in 2011-12 to about Rs 2,600 billion till 2017-18. At a time when NBFCs\/HFCs were a major...\nBoost in construction ups demand for skills training\nAmid the rising demand emanating from the real estate sector, the government has stepped up efforts to create a reservoir of technically skilled people to meeting demand of the construction and allied sectors. It has been decided that it is important that most fresh...\nLike Hyderabad, Bengaluru goes for drones\nAfter a pilot survey of the Jayanagar ward using drones, the Bengaluru revenue department is expanding the drone-based project to all wards in Bengaluru. This is one more step towards implementing the ambitious Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) project, which...\n3D Printing construction technology launched\nA group of alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) and the faculty of Civil Engineering have come together to launch India's first 3D printing construction technology. The company that is collaborating with IIT-M in this venture is Tvasta...\nSteel city becomes smarter with IoT\nThe industrial city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, while not on the official list of cities under the central government's Smart Cities Mission, is witnessing several internet of things (IoT) applications designed to make the lives of its 1-million-plus residents better....\nNokia, Zain bring project to S. Arabia\nSaudi mobile telephony operator Zain KSA and Finnish vendor Nokia have signed a MoU to collaborate on a Smart City initiative in Jeddah. The two companies will apply advanced networking technologies in Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing to connect and...\nMore Trends\nShillong selected 100th after evaluation\nShillong has been selected as the 100th city to receive funding under the Centre's flagship Smart Cities Mission after evaluation of the proposal submitted by it, the Housing and Urban Affairs ministry. The ministry had, till now, kept on hold the final slot for the...\nModi government's thrust to develop 100 Smart Cities is fuelling demand in the real estate sector with even small towns becoming attractive investment destinations. Real estate developments are mostly confined to metro cities but they have now...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Synaxarion of the Holy Martyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios, and Dorymedon\nOn the nineteenth of this month [September], we commemorate the Holy Martyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios and Dorymedon.\nTo Trophimos and Dorymedon\nInspired Dorymedon and Trophimos,\nAccepted the sword and the end of their lives.\nTo Sabbatios\nScraped with sharp iron Sabbatios the Martyr,\nAttains the divine sabbath rest.\nOn the nineteenth Trophimos with his two fellow athletes were cut asunder.\nDuring the reign of Emperor Probus (276-282), and Atticus the succeeding vicarius, namely the locum tenens of Antioch, in the year 278, Saints Trophimos and Sabbatios came to Antioch from a foreign land. When they saw all the inhabitants there in a frenzy and out of their minds for the festival of the false god Apollo in Daphne of Antioch, for this reason they were grieved in their souls. Therefore they cried out to God with sighing hearts for the salvation of the city, and by this they revealed that they were Christians. So they were brought before the vicarius, who first interrogated Saint Trophimos. He boldly confessed his faith in Christ, and for this reason he was stripped and stretched out from the four parts of his body. After being cruelly beaten like this, to the point where the entire ground was red with blood, he was then hung up and had his sides scraped. Then he was imprisoned and stretched out to the four holes of the torturous and punishing wood.\nAfter this Sabbatios stood before the vicarius, and because he boldly confessed Christ he was struck in the chin, and his sides were torn at with iron claws. This exposed his bones and joints, so that they were stripped of any meat, and his stomach and innards were entirely visible. Being taken down from the stake, shortly after the thrice-blessed one delivered his spirit into the hands of God, and he received the crown of the contest.\nTrophimos was sent to Synnada, the chief city of Phrygia, to Governor Perennius of Phrygia Salutaris, wearing shoes pierced with sharp iron nails. Standing before him, he boldly confessed his faith in Christ. Therefore he was the four parts of his body were stretched out, and he was beaten cruelly with the sinews of an ox. And being bound to a stake, he was was scraped without mercy for many hours. Then vinegar and salt was poured out over his wounds. With his flesh entirely torn apart, they cast him into prison, and sealed his feet in the punishing wood.\nThen Dorymedon, who was a chief senator, went to the prison to attend to the Martyr. Because he was not present with the governor at the sacrifice to the idols, he was asked for, and he boldly confessed his faith in Christ. For this he was sent to prison. The next day, because he rebuked the tyrant, his sides were pierced with iron skewers. He was then hung up and mercilessly scraped at in his sides and face. They then removed his teeth by the root, and entirely removed with cruelty the hairs of his head and beard. Like this they laid him out over a fire.\nAfter this Saint Trophimos was once again brought for trial, and he showed even more boldness than before. He was hung up once again, and with burning skewers his eyes were removed. Then they again threw him into prison. Afterwards, Trophimos and Dorymedon were brought before the governor, and they were given as food to a wild and hungry bear. Then they were given as food to a lion, which was urged by its keeper to tear the Saints apart, however it instead turned against him and tore him apart. Because the Saints remained unharmed after such fierce torments, for this reason they were beheaded. In this way they completed the struggle of their martyrdom.*\n* A reliquary in the form of a sarcophagus containing some of the bones of Trophimos was discovered at Schifout Kassaba (Synnada) in 1907, and transported to the museum at Bursa; this monument may date back to the third century.\nApolytikion in the Third Tone\nAdorned with the might of the Trinity you cut off the thorns of error, blessed Trophimos delight of the Church, wise Sabbatios adornment of athletes, and Dorymedon glory of the faithful. We praise you with hymns.\nAnother Apolytikion in Plagal of the Fourth Tone\nGod praised in Trinity has glorified a trinity of martyrs: Trophimos, Sabbatios, and Dorymedon. By their faith, they overthrew the adversary. Through their prayers, O Christ our God, have mercy on us.\nKontakion in the Fourth Tone\nMartyrs Trophimos, Sabbatios and Dorymedon, you were a river flowing with the gifts of the Spirit, and now you water the world with miracles.\nKontakion in Plagal of the Fourth Tone\nAs the foundation of athletes and the confirmation of piety the Church honors and glorifies your brilliant suffering, wise and glorious Trophimos, ever-praised and blessed athlete. Together with your fellow sufferers, ask cleansing for those who hymn you, for you are invincible.\nPosted by John Sanidopoulos at 12:03:00 PM\nLabels: Early Christian Martyrs, Saints of September, Saints of Syria","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Our Bhagavan-Stories\nAuthor Topic: Our Bhagavan-Stories (Read 379923 times)\nSubramanian.R\nRe: Our Bhagavan-Stories\nAt the Feet of Bhagavan - T.K. Sundaresa Iyer.\nSri Ramana Gives Rama Darsan:\nIt was in 1908, I first contacted Sri Ramana Maharshi, then in the Virupaksha Cave, when I was a boy of twelve. Had you seen\nHim in those days, you would hardly have taken Him for a mere human being. His figure was a statue of burnished gold.\nHe simply sat and sat and rarely spoke. The words He spoke on any day could be easily counted. He was an enchanting\npersonality, who shed a captivating lustre on all, and a life giving current flowed from Him, changing all those nearby, while\nHis sparkling eyes irrigated those around Him with the nectar of His Being.\nPeace, peace, peace. Now you have lost your individuality in Him. He absorbs you, is your all, is the All. I remember how well!\nI remember, how well! The first song I sang before Him at that time - it was the famous Namasivya Padigam, commencing\n'maRRupaRRenakkkinRi', the gift of the great Saint Sundarmurti Swamigal. From then on He had me linked inseparably to\nHimself. I know one and only one thing, and that is He alone exists, as the Divine, and all else has only the appearance of\nexistence, but in reality is not.\nI never had to leave Tiruvannamalai after my nineteenth year. Sri Kavyakanta Ganapati Muni was at that time in Tiruvannamalai.\nHis Vaidika Sabha Society was very active, and he gave a series of discourses on the Vedas. His magnetic personality and\nexposition of the greatness of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi so deeply impressed me that I decided to study the Vedas at his\nfeet, and was gladly accepted as a student. He was then living in the Mango Tree Cave below the Virupaksha Cave on the Hill.\nEight years I studied the Scriptures under him. Daily we visited the Maharshi together and enjoyed the benefit of His Presence.\nAfter the Maharshi's Mother, Azhagammal, passed away, Sri Maharshi came down the Hill, and the present Asramam came into\nbeing. Sri Kavyakanta Ganapati and his pupils would come down to the Maharshi's abode, when there would be memorable\nand scintillating discussions. When the Muni was in the Hall, Sri Maharshi could be seen in the full bloom of His Being. The discussions\nranged over various schools of thought and philosophy, and it was a period of great literary activity at the Asramam.\ncontd.,\nArunachala Siva.\nSilent Power: Prof. B.L. Atreya:\nA Saint is as great a necessity for human society as is a great scientist, a great thinker and a great leader, nay the necessity is\neven greater. For a scientist discovers the secrets of life and of the universe, a thinker tries to understand the meaning and\npurpose of existence, and a leader tries to shape and transform humanity or a portion of it according to his own notions of what\nit ought to be.\nA saint is one who makes a whole hearted effort to realize in himself, in his own life, the highest and furthest possibilities of\nhuman life, which is a natural course of evolution may take centuries to actualize.\nA saint is a man perfected, a fulfilled hope of humanity, a successful experiment in human sublimation, and a source of inspiration\nand guidance to travelers on the path to perfection. He is the embodiment of the highest values of humanity, an indubitable\nindication that ideals can be made real, that man can be what he ought to be, here and now.\nHis life is a measure of man's manhood, when it is lived in the midst of humanity and not in sanctified seclusion. It is a practical\nsolution of the various puzzles of life, provided it is a comprehensive one. Considered from various points of view, a saint is\nthe greatest asset to human society. A perfected being, he is the eternal beacon to sadhakas the world over.\nI have read the biographies of many a saint, seen a number of them and have come into contact with some. I have had the\nprivilege of being at the Asramam of Sri Ramana Maharshi for a short time in March 1940, and since then in correspondence with\nHe made a deep impression upon my mind, a mid that has been moulded by a study scientific and philosophic writings of the\neast as well as the west. The greatest peculiarity and merit of Sri Ramana Maharshi's life is that although He has molded and\nperfected His personality on the lines of Advaita Vedanta, a purely Indian way of Self Realization, He is highly appreciated and\nresorted to by by western seekers and by those Indians who have been educated on the western lines.\nOne of the reasons for this fact may be that some English and French writers happened to praise Him highly in their books.\nBut the fact remains to be explained why these western seekers were themselves so impressed by the Maharshi. Mere\npublicity does not in the least establish the greatness of saints, although it may make them known as in the case of Jesus\nChrist to a wider public.\nSilent Power - Prof. B.L. Atreya:\ncontinues....\nMaharshi's greatness is more deeply founded. It is based on His actual living by the creed of Advaita Vedanta which holds that\nReality is One without a second, that everything in this universe is but the reality which is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.\nTrue to His creed, He regards nothing as alien, none as other, no event as undesirable. For Him the ideal is the real and the\nreal is the ideal. He has no other relation with anyone but that of love. He thinks as much of others as He thinks of Himself.\nLove, affection, kindness, mercy etc., which are the expressions of one and the same thing, and the feeling of unity with all,\never flow from Him. This is the secret of the Maharshi's unique greatness and consequent popularity. The whole of humanity\nowes its homage to this great Sage amidst us.\nJnana is like Akasa. The supreme Self which is to be known through the Sadhana is also like the ether. The various objects\nwe see in the world as well as as the souls are like ether. Therefore who is to know which? What is to be known by what?\nThe supreme realization is that there is no plurality. True knowledge is distinctionless. That knowledge is the Self, the light\ndivine. That knowledge is Bhagavan Ramana.\nMay we offer our obeisance to this supreme Lord who came to save the world and who still abides and will ever abide with\nus in order to make us perfect.\nMay, we on this auspicious occasion, renew our faith in our Bhagavan and pay homage to Him so that no only we, but the\nentire world may be saved.\nAt the Feet of Bhagavan - T.K. Sundaresa Iyer:\nRamana Gives Rama Darsan:\nBesides Kavyakanta, Kapali Sastri, Muruganar, Lakshmana Sarma, Arunachala Sastriar of the Madras Gita fame, Munagala\nVenkataramiah, Sivaprakasam Pillai, and a host of others used to be in the Hall, which was open all through the hours of\nday and night. It was then the World of Freedom of Sri Ramana, our Lord, Guru and very Self. Our lives were based and\nturned upon that one central Personality. Nothing gave us greater joy than to be in His Presence as often as possible\nand to do His bidding.\nThus did time pass till 1929, when on leaving Tiruvannamalai for good, Sri Kavyakanta made me over to the care of Sri\nMaharshi, and in the very first letter he wrote, he asked Bhagavan to take particular care of me. I was at school when\nthe letter was received and the Maharshi tucked it under His cushion. He pulled it out, read it to me when I returned\nfrom school, and said, 'Look here, you must not run away from here. I am answerable to Nayana; he may come at anytime\nand claim you from me.'\nOur happiness in the presence of Sri Bhagavan was comparable to the joy of the hosts of Siva on Mount Kailasa. Sri\nBhagavan used to say, 'Kailasa is the abode of Siva; Arunachala is Siva Himself. Even in Kailasa things are as they are\nwith us here. Devotees go to Siva, worship Him, serve Him and hear from Him the interpretation of the Vedas, and Vedanta\nday in and day out. ' So it was Kailasa at the foot of Arunachala Hill and Arunachala Paramatman in human form was Bhagavan\nSri Ramana Maharshi.\nIn May 1933, on my 36th birthday, after the usual bath and prayers, I sat in Sri Bhagavan's presence in a pensive mood.\nI addressed a prayer in Tamizh viruttam style to Sri Bhagavan, complaining: Oh, Bhagavan! I have completed three and a half\ndecades, and yet have not had the experience of the real You. Pray let me have this day the touch of Your Grace.'\nHanding over this slip of paper, I prostrated to Him.\nBhagavan bade me sit down and gazed steadily at me. I was still in a pensive and meditative mood. All of a sudden I lost\nbody-consciousness, and was absorbed in Sri Maharshi. I was turned inward, and the voice of Bhagavan bade me see whatever\nI desired, I felt that if I could have darsan of Sri Rama my life would have been fruitful, as I was much devoted to Sri Rama. I then\nhad immediately a darsan of Sri Rama, with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Satrughna and Hanuman.\nThe ecstasy of the vision defied description. I simply sat on, with Maharshi perhaps gazing on me without my being aware\nof His gaze. Two hours thus passed in pin drop silence, lost in the vision, until it vanished. I prostrated at the feet of Sri\nMaharshi with tears of ecstasy in my eyes and my hair standing on end. To Bhagavan's inquiry I replied, that of course, I had\nseen dear Sri Rama.\nBhagavan asked me to fetch the book Dakshinamurti Ashtottara, which I had not read, and opening a page therein, He gave\nit to me to read. 'The fifth name from the last read, 'Om Sri Yoga Pattabhiramaya Namaha.' Bhagavan said: \" Sri Rama is\nDakshinamurti and Dakshinamurti is Sri Rama. Do you know where Ayodhya is? The Vedas say it is in the Sun, and describe it\nas ashtachakra navdhwara devanam Purayodhya (the Gods' city is Ayodhya with eight corners and nine gates). Arunachala\nis also Ashta chakra puri (eight cornered city). and Lord Arunachala is 'Sri Rama as well as Sri Dakshinamurti. One has no\nneed to go to the Sun to see Ayodhya or Sri Rama, but one may see them here and now.\"\nAt the Feet of Bhagavan: T.K.Sundaresa Iyer:\nTHE MAHARSHI'S GREATNESS:\nBhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's greatness needs no recapitulation here. He was a Knower (Jnani) by birth, like Suka and\nVamadeva. In his teens He woke up to the reality of the Self not apart from the Divine (Brahman) -- the Fourth State - turiya;\nthe shock of death brought it about. The Grace of Meenakshi and Arunachala were there and showed Him that State. He was\ndrawn to Arunachala, the Hill-magnet attracting souls to It. There He shone as Sri Dakshinamrti, by explanations through Silence\nproclaiming the Divine Reality. He shone as the One Self that projects from Himself both Maya and the world. In His Presence,\npeace and the experience of nectar were enjoyed by all beings, including birds and beasts. For almost forty years, His soothing\nvoice, silvery radiance and golden touch were the solace of thousands of devotees and visitors from East and West.\nHe shed His physical presence in 1950, but He Himself ever IS -- in His transcendental state. Even though we can no longer\nhear that voice or see that shining face, we find even more as the long years roll by that He is still with us, in out midst, still\nable to guide His devotees who come to Him from distant places to the Light of true and eternal wisdom. There is nought that is\nnot He. Let us put aside the ego, or surrender to Him, and He will fill us with His Being and sweeten our lives, helping us to be\nHe Himself.\nSilent Power - K. Lakshmana Sarma:\nAn inevitable consequence of Bhagavan's state as a jivanmukta, permanently established in the egoless state, was that He\ncould not claim any rights, even the right to choose what shall be done or not done to His body, because from His point of\nview, that body was not His. Also, He was so full of compassion, that He could not bear to hurt anyone's feelings. Anyone\nthat came to Him offering edibles or medicine was sure of its being accepted, though He did not want it. Once He said,\n'Nature cure is right. But.... ' And He did not complete the sentence.\nYet He showed His real view of drugs by implication. When a quantity of a drug had to be taken for a certain period, He would\ntake only one dose and would never take a second. That is, He would not follow the prescription as one who believed in the\ngoodness of the drug would do, as to benefit by it.\nThe same was the case when an operation was proposed. He submitted to the operation only to please the person who\nwanted to do Him good.\nOn the last occasion, when a number of doctors and surgeons who came from Madras, wanted to operate on Him to remove\nthe cancer He was having, He first very gently suggested that it was not necessary. He did that because He knew the future,\nthat the end was near. The doctors did not take the hint. They insisted on operating and hence Sri Bhagavan submitted to\nthe operation without an anaesthetic. The operation lasted for nearly three hours and produced a severe shock, from which\nthe body never recovered.\nWhen all these medical efforts had failed, a number of devotees came to Him and prayed to Him to use His spiritual powers\nto heal the disease. Bhagavan replied, 'I did not want any treatment. It was you who wanted it.' After a brief pause, He\nadded, 'In two more days it will become alright.' What He meant was that the end would come then. And it came exactly\nas He said.\nCrumbs from His Table - Swami Ramananda Swarnagiri:\nOBSTACLES AND HATHA YOGA:\nDevotee: People practicing meditation etc., are said to get new diseases; at any rate, I feel some pain in the neck and front of\nthe chest. This is stated to be a test by God. Will Bhagavan explain this and say if it is true?\nBhagavan: There is no Bhagavan outside you and no test is therefore instituted. What you believe to a test or a new disease\nresulting from spiritual practices is really the strain that is now brought to play upon your nerves and the five senses. The mind\nwhich was hitherto operating through nadis to sense external objects and thus maintaining a link between itself and the organs\nof perception is now required to withdraw from the link and this action of withdrawal naturally causes a strain, a sprain or a snap\nattendant with pain, which people term disease and perhaps tests by God. All these would go, if you would but continue your\nmeditation bestowing your thought solely on understanding your Self or on Self Realization. There is no greater remedy than this\ncontinuous yoga or union with God or Atman. There cannot but be pain as a result of your discarding your long acquired vasanas.\nDevotee: Hatha Yoga practices are said to banish diseases effectively and are therefore advocated as necessary preliminaries to\nJnana Yoga.\nBhagavan: Let those who advocate them use them. It has not been the expereince here. All diseases would be effectively\nannihilated by continuous Self Inquiry.\nDevotee: What about pranayama?\nBhagavan: What about it? While I do not speak about it in term of the well known phraseology of purakam, rechakam, and\nkumbhakam and their matras (units of time), I have said that it can be used. Mind and Life breath spring from the same source;\nif you stop the course of one, you have automatically stopped the course of the other. Control of mind is easier than control of\nbreath. The latter resembles the forcible milking of the cow and the former, the cajoling of the cow by a feed of grass and caressing\nit by gently patting its back.\nSri Bhagavan one day had told an anecdote from the Life of Prabhulinga while speaking on the subject of Hatha Yoga etc.,\nSilent Power - Lucia Osborne:\nARUNACHALA:\n\"Arunachala ! Thou are the inner Self who dances in the Heart as \"I\" . Heart is Thy Name, O Lord!\" (Arunachala Pancharatnam, V.2)\nIn the Puranas Arunachala is referred to as the oldest Hill on the earth and is regarded as the Heart of the Universe. Scientists\nhave also pointed out that the eastern ghats of the Deccan Plateau as the oldest land. Arunachala has many names: Arunagiri,\nSonagiri, Sudarsana Giri, Annamalai, to mention but a few and is also referred to as the Tejolingam - the lingam of effulgence -\nwhich is the formless emblem of Siva.\nThe form of the Hill is said to resemble Sri Chakra, the emblem of the Cosmos, with its substratum, and Shaktas regard this\nHill as Sri Chakra itself. Bhagavan took an active part in the installation of Sri Chakra in the temple dedicated to the Mother.\nDevotees of Siva consider this divine Hill as the form of Siva, who appeared in the midst of Brahma and Vishnu as a column of\nfire, without beginning or end, in order to dispel their ignorance. Both failed to realize His Presence by their physical efforts.\nThis signifies the inability of mind or intellect to go beyond itself. Arunachala is traditionally identified with Sudarsana, ( a form\nof Chakra or discus of Vishnu). In the form of a deity, Sudarsana appears in a fierce aspect, armed with weapons of destruction.\nWhen a seeker penetrates beyond the semblance of the terrible, while struggling to overcome what seems terrible for himself\n--- namely, the dark downward propensities of his own psyche -- grace reveals itself as love and compassion. This, according to\nDr. Mees, an authority on symbolism, is the etymology of Sudarsana which aims at the destruction of these propensities, so as to\nreveal love and beauty.\nMany saints and sages have sung and composed songs in praise of Arunachala and its import, and some have attained enlightenment\nhere. Sri Sankara also seems to have visited Arunachala. In one of his compositions he calls this Hill 'Meru' and says, like\nBhagavan, that Siddha Purushas are found here. Saint Guhai Namasivaya lived in one of the caves, which is still called by his\nname. His disciple has written the well known Annamalai Venba, a hymn in praise of Arunachala. Another well known Saiva\nSaint, Virupaksha, also lived in a cave higher up on the slope. It is said to be in the shape of OM - and some devotees have\nheard there, the sound of OM in silent meditation. The saint's tomb is also there, and this cave bears his name. Bhagavan\nSri Ramana spent seventeen years in it and later moved up to Skandasramam, where a trickle of water changed overnight to\na perennial stream whose water, like that of Ganga, does not deteriorate with time. Arunagiri Nathar another notable saint\nis also a celebrated for his songs of praise after he received illumination through the grace of Muruga, the son of Siva, in the\nArunachaleswara Temple\nCrumbs from His Table - Swami Ramanananda Swarnagiri:\nThe Third Visit:\nThe writer used to have always two conflicting desires, one to visit Sri Bhagavan as frequently as possible, the other to postpone\nit as long as he could till he felt he had some tangible evidence of progress. In the meanwhile, however, through some agency\nor other, he was pushed before Him, obviously through His Grace. The first time it was through his immediate superior, the second\nwas through the telepathic command, confirmed on the same day by a letter from one of His long standing devotees, and this time\nit was again an officer in government service, who suggested that he would feel it a pleasure to visit the Asramam in his company,\nor rather, an indirect suggestion to him that he had better place himself before Sri Bhagavan at an early date.\nThis time, he took leave for fifteen days and stayed with Sri Bhagavan. Conscious of his own retrogression and want of steadfastness in his yama and niyama, he did not sit or stand before Sri Bhagavan this time, as continuously as he used to do on former occasions.\nSri Bhagavan would however peep into his room in His casual rounds at about 10 am. and 3.30 pm. and make various inquiries.\nDuring this time, he was living on coffee and rice cakes in the morning, one or two handfuls of plain cooked vegetables in the afternoon\nand a cup of milk at night. About ten days after his arrival, one fine morning, the writer was accosted by Sri Bhagavan with the\nfollowing query: \"Is coffee and iddli all you need in the morning?\", the obvious meaning of this remark being that there was no\nneed for such austerity on the part of His devotees, i.e. for those who had taken to Vichara. For further enlightenment of aspirants\nit might be stated here that Sri Bhagavan has often remarked that all that is required is that aspirants should take, in very moderate\nquantities of whatever food comes their way and not stipulate, discriminate or pick and choose in the matter of diet. That, in contrast\nto the claim of hatha yogis that yoga practice is necessary to ward off disease from the physical body and make it pure and healthy\nto help concentration etc., The inquiry method, if followed strictly as directed, with absolute one pointedness of mind, is capable of\ndevouring all the germs of disease wherever and whenever they arise. He would appear also to be of the view, that for such an\ninquirer, yama and niyama will automatically come, as in His own case. He said that when He was staying in Gurumurtham for\n18 months, His diet was only a cup of milk-mixture for the whole day. His insistence is on continuous one pointed inquiry, like the\nunbroken flow of oil, would automatically ensure a steady asana, freedom from hunger and thirst and freedom from disease; only\na beginner cannot easily obtain this state, and has to contend with his vacillating tendencies.\nDuring this visit the writer had another surprise from Sri Bhagavan. A well educated unemployed youth was regularly attending\nthe Asramam. He was so steady in his meditative posture and so continuous for hours together that some, if not all, appeared\nalmost envious of his rapid progress. Perhaps to set our doubts at rest, Sri Bhagavan was heard to remark one day that the boy\nwas not meditating upon God or Self but praying to Him for His grace to get a job and added that worldly people desirous of\nobtaining fulfillment of their desires, should seek them where they were available and that He could not do anything for his\nemployment. 'Do I give jobs to people here? I am a sannyasi without any possession or work.' The youth who had heard most\nof the conversation, though appeared outwardly oblivious to what was going on around him, acknowledged later that what\nSri Bhagavan said was absolutely correct.\nAt the end of his stay, the writer took a trip to Tirupati, Kalahasti etc., and Sri Bhagavan, who did not appear to look with favor\non such tours b one who, for all purposes, appeared to be convinced of the efficacy of the Who am I? inquiry method, and of the\nsecondary value of worship of images, japas, mantras etc,, dismissed him with a simple 'yes, yes,' when he took leave.\nThis unspoken but well understood disapproval and he loftiness of His own teaching haunted the writer's mind all through his\ntour of Seven Hills, the Papavinasam Falls, Kalahasti, Sri Vyasa Ashram, Yerpedu, the Kailasanatha Konai (Water falls), the\nNagari Buggi temple, and waterfalls, the Tiruttani Temple and so on. Therefore, when on his way home he was again standing\nbefore Sri Bhagavan, he was quaking. But fortunately, a smiling countenance and a remark from Sri Bhagavan, that they were just\nthen talking about him and found him in the precincts and soon after the close of the talk, consoled him not a little.\nT.K. Sundaresa Iyer: At the Feet of Bhagavan:\nA Voice from the Hill of the Holy Beacon:\nA certain Mysorean, well built and short in stature, presents himself before Sri Bhagavan and puts a question on a familiar\nyet enigmatic subject. He asks: What is this thing they call Guru Kripa'? All the devotees sitting there are expectantly\nwatchful for the answer that will come the statue like figure on the divan, utterly unswayed by the happenings around Him,\nwith His eyes gazing into somewhere -- the depths of which we know not -- with an expression whose simple placidity catches\neven those with a superior air of their own. Unassuming He is, yet His authority tells; naked in every sense of the word, yet\nHe is clothed in all that is wholly divine; poor, yet possessing and claiming by right all the Cosmos as His own; simple, yet a\nproblem and a marvel for all who come to study Him. He is the One Man to whom real India, nurtured on her glorious traditions\nof the great past, looks for light and life.\nThis Sage of Arunagiri was one who burned His boats even at the age of seventeen, while He was a student in Madurai.\nThis was so that He might be drowned in the Ocean of Arunachala and dissolved in It, so that there might be no trace of His\nlittle 'self' and He be only the One Self that is, was, and shall ever be. This is to Him 'Arunachala' -- the one resplendent and\nimmutable Truth, which is the Substratum of all that is, was, and shall be. For aruna means red, radiant and achalam, the\nchangeless rock bottom of Truth. To Him life in the wakeful stage is as good as a moment of dream. According to Him, the one\nproblem of life is how to wake from this perennial dream. For when we awaken from life's dream, aware of the One Seer and\nall of that passes before His gaze, painful and pleasurable, we shall abide ever as the unaffected witness, immortal and infinite.\nWhat is Guru's Grace? Well, this is exactly the word that awakens us from this dream of life of ours, to which we cling so hard\nuntil the tiger of death pounces on us and proves that it is ephemeral and unreal.\ncontinues...\nWhen mention was made one day of the tank adjoining the Asramam, being called Agasthya Tirtham, the Maharshi was asked\nif that sage ever visited the Hill. Bhagavan remarked, 'Yes, of course, everyone must come here eventually,' meaning that every\none must eventually return to the Source - Arunachala.\nSages have said that one can attain salvation of being born in Tiruvarur, by dying in Kasi, by worshipping Chidambaram, and\nby merely thinking of Arunachala. 'So worship Arunachala of shining golden lustre for mere remembrance of Him ensures\ndeliverence,' Bhagavan also affirms.\nBhagavan said that the Hill is one of light. Sometimes one can see manifestation of lights on the Hill. In the early years, a\nFrench devotee, Sujata Sen, once spent the night on the Hill in protest against an order of the management not allowing\nwomen devotees to remain in the Asramam after dark. This was the most wonderful time for many devotees when Bhagavan\nused to sit with them for an hour or so in radiant silence. Sujata dwelt on her grievance one pointedly. Next morning, she told that she was taken inside the Hill and found a whole world in it, which she described. Strangely enough many years later, in 1970, to be\nprecise, another devotee, Mr. S.N. Tandon, had a similar experience which he described in detail in the April 1970 issue of the\nMountain Path in 1970, that year. It is reminiscent of Dante's inferno, leading by stages to light, in which all manifestation disappears\nin the feeling of pure I-am-ness.\nSri Visvanatha Swami, who from his adolescence spent many years with Bhagavan, shares with us the following account. Bhagavan\nsaid to him one day, in the early twenties, 'Innumerable are the visions I have had of this Hill, Arunachala. I have seen beautiful\ngroves of trees, and fine palaces inside it. Once I saw a large tank and a big congreagation of Rishis and yogis seated on a wide\nplain around it. Every face was familiar and so were the surroundings. A dais was there and I went up and sat on it with my right\nhand held up in Chinmudra. It seemed my usual place and my usual pose.' Chinmudra is a pose in which the right hand is held up\nwith the thumb and forefinger joined and the three remaining fingers straight up. It is the pose of Sri Dakshinamurti. It denotes\nthe unity of the individual with Brahman, the transcendental Reality beyond three gunas.\nIt is said in the Puranas that a Siddha Purusha, the ancient teacher in the form of an eternal youth, is present higher up on one\nof the slopes seated under an enormous banyan tree, diffusing his spiritual radiance in silence.\nIn the early days Bhagavan used to roam a good deal on the Hill. One day, He found, in a dried up watercourse, a banyan leaf\nof such enormous size that it set him wondering what tree could produce such a leaf. Proceeding further He saw from a distance\na huge banyan tree growing on what looked like sheer rock. Going closer, Bhagavan inadvertently put His foot in a hornet's nest\nand did not withdraw it until the hornets appeased their anger for being disturbed, by badly stinging His leg.\nBhagavan did not go near the tree but returned to His abode. Subsequently He firmly discouraged devotees from trying to find\nthe place saying that it was inaccessible and not advisable for them to do so. 'It is impossible. I know it!' He told them. 'for there\nshall no man see Me and live.' (Exodus 33,20)\nDeceptive Appearances\nOne afternoon in 1944, when devotees were conversing about sundry matters in Bhagavan's presence, the topic of deceptive appearances and talks came up for discussion. Addressing Bhagavan, a devotee said, \"Some people put on all sorts of false appearances to deceive the world.\ufffd\nBhagavan said, \"Yes. Not some, but many. What of that? If people put on false appearances, it is their own minds that get troubled ultimately. They begin to be afraid of what others would think of them and so their minds become their own enemies. If people think of deceiving others by putting on false appearances they themselves get deceived ultimately. They think, 'We have planned and have deceived others and thereby have shown great cleverness.' With pride they practice more and more deceptions. The consequences of their actions will be realized only when the deceptions are discovered. When the time comes, they will collapse as a result of their own deceits.\ufffd\nWhile all were wondering whom Bhagavan had in mind, Rama Yogi said, \"Swami, this reminds me of an incident. I remember to have read somewhere that Bhagavan had once put on Panganamam (distinctive caste mark of a Vaishnavaite). Is it true?\ufffd\nBhagavan replied as follows: \"Yes. That was during the early days of my life on the hill. At that time some Vaishnavaites used to come to me, and at their pressing request I used to put on the namam, having nothing to lose thereby. Not only that. Do you know what I did once?\nThose were the days when a Kalyana Mandapam was constructed in Arunachaleshwara temple. It was Navaratri time (Dasara Festival). A bhajana troupe had arranged in the temple a display of dolls for worship. They pressed me to go with them to see the display. As I was afraid that somebody might recognize me and start doing all sort of services, I put on a dhoti of Palaniswami and covered my body with another cloth, put on a namam like a Vaishnavaite and went with them. The administrators of the temple knew me well. I wanted to avoid them. They however, recognized me at the gate itself, and came after me saying, 'Swami! Swami! You also have come here to see the Swami? You yourself are a Swami, aren't you?' What to do? I felt I was deceiving myself. I somehow managed to evade them and get inside but I felt that everyone was looking at me only. I did not see the Mandapam nor could I see anything else. I turned back intending to return home unnoticed but the chief amongst the Archakas caught me again at the gate. \"Swami! Swami! You have come in this dress? Aha! How nice it is, Swami! Please wait.\ufffd\nSo saying he stopped me; and addressing his assistants, he said, 'You fellow! Bring a garland of flowers. Bring sandal paste. Bring prasadam. Our Brahmanaswami has come here putting on the dress of Lord Sri Krishna. It is our great luck.' So saying, they began to shower temple honors on me. I somehow managed to escape their attentions and went away. Later on, I tried a number of times to hoodwink them and somehow go to the temple but invariably they used to recognize me and give me all the temple honors. Thereupon I gave up all further attempts and stopped going to the temple altogether. It is the same with everything. You can stay anywhere without fear, if you are in your real form. If you put on a dress to deceive others, you will be afraid every minute that someone might catch you at your deception and so your mind becomes your own enemy and troubles you,\ufffd said Bhagavan.\nSuri Nagamma\nRecollections of Sri Ramanasramam\nOm Namo Bagavathe Sri Ramanaya\nEchammal's Visit to Sri Bhagavan:\nEchammal repeated her visits to the Asramam day after day, and in a few days\nshe could talk of her departed children and recall facts associated with them without being overwhelmed by tears\nand without even a bitter pang in her heart. How the dense cloud of sorrow, the whirlwind of grief\ngave place to a comparative calm in her breast, she could not understand.\nIt was all his grace, the kindness of the Maharshi on the Hill.\nsanjaya_ganesh\n22nd December, 1948\n(211) PACHAIAMMA -- DURGA\nToday is Tuesday, my (Suri Nagamma) Giri Pradakshina day. Hence, I obtained Sri Bhagavan's permission yesterday evening itself and started going round the Holy Hill, early morning at 3.30. By the time I reached \"Pachaiamma Temple \", the Sun had just risen. As the day was not yet advanced, I thought of going from there along the foot of the Hill and through the forest, so that I could see the \"Tortoise Rock\", where Sri Bhagavan had once rested when His Heart stopped, and from there reach the Ashram by the same route. So, I went to the tank opposite the temple where a man was taking his bath and asked him whether the Shrine was open for worship.\n\"I am the priest. I will open the doors presently,\" he said. As I had heard that Sri Bhagavan used to stay in the Temple,now and then, in His earlier days, I have gone there several times to see the place, with great enthusiasm, but had not been able to see it, because the priests were not there and the doors were closed. I was therefore overjoyed at this opportunity of seeing the place and went inside with the priest. I saw the Goddess surrounded by Sage Gauthama and other rishis, worshipped the Goddess Pachaiamma, received the Prasad of holy ashes (vibhuti) and vermilion powder (kumkum) and walked along the hill path to see the 'Tortoise Rock'. I could not however identify it. I came back to the Ashram by that path. As soon as I got up after prostrating before Sri Bhagavan, He noticed the small packets in my hand and asked me what they were. I related to Him the story of my journey.\nLooking at T.K.Sundaresa Iyer who was close by, Sri Bhagavan said, \"It seems that that is the prasad of Mother Pachaiamma. Bring it here.\" So saying, He took it and smearing it on His forehead, said, \"There are two rooms to its right, newly built. Have you seen them ?\" I replied, \"Yes. I have seen them. Some one had arranged a fireplace for cooking.\" \"Yes, yes. That is it,\" said Sri Bhagavan. \"They were built specially for cooking. When they were newly built, we thought of going round the Hill and, on the way, camp at Pachaiamma Temple. The authorities who were working there, were very pleased at our arrival and requested us to grace the new buildings with our stay and enjoy a feast by cooking there. That is just what we wanted, and we did the house-warming ceremony. When Nayana and myself had been living there, those rooms had not yet been built and so we used to do everything in the presence of the Mother (i.e., the Idol of Goddess Pachaiamma).\"\n\"How did She get the name 'Pachaiamma' ?\" I asked. Sri Bhagavan said, \" 'Pachai' means emarald colour. When Mother Parvati came to Gautama Ashram to perform austerities to appease Lord Shiva, Her form was of emerald colour and She performed austerities at that place. Then, it is said, that She went round the Hill in pradakshina, stayed at several places at different times continuing Her austeities, and finally merged into Lord Shiva as half of His body and came to be known as 'Apita Kuchamba'. \"\n\"How was it that that Goddess was given the name of 'Durga' ?\" asked one devotee. \"It is said that the Goddess killed a demon called 'Durgama' and so from that name was derived the name 'Durga',\" replied Sri Bhagavan. The devotee again asked, \"In the Durga Temple in this place, there is the tank (tirtha) known as the 'Khadga Tirtha'. What was its origin ?\"\nSri Bhagavan, \"It is said that the Goddess started from here for killing the demon, 'Mahishasura'. On killing the demon, the Idol of Lord Shiva ('Shiva Linga') which was tied round his neck, was caught in Her hand and could not be removed. She came here for a bath but there was no water anywhere. She thereupon dug the ground ( a monolith, rock)with Her sword and water gushed forth there. She took Her bath in the water, released the Idol of Shiva from Her hand, installed it on the bank of the tank, worshipped it with the water of that tank and then discarded the fiery spirit She had assumed to kill the demon. After that, She stayed on in the place to bestow boons on Her devotees. That tank has a perennial supply of water. However great the scarcity of water experienced here, that tank will always have water.\"\nDedvotee, \"We hear that Sri Bhagavan repaired the 'Sri Chakra' (a tantric symbol of worship) of that temple when it got damaged.\"\nSri Bhagavan, \"Yes. When I was in the Virupaksha Cave, the 'Maha Kumbhabhisheka' of that Durga Temple was performed. Before that festival, they brought the 'Sri Chakra' to me saying it was damaged slightly and wanted me to repair it. I acceded to their request.\"\nSo saying, Sri Bhagavan became silent.\n---from \" LETTERS FROM SRI RAMANASRAMAM \", pp.488--490\nSalutations to Bhagawan\nAnother interesting incident Masthan Swami relates is about Bhagavan and a large golden colored mongoose. That it was golden colored itself was unusual considering these shy creatures are grey in color. It was the Karthikai Deepam festival time. Hundreds of people were climbing up the hill. Running through the crowds, this mongoose went into Virupaksha cave. It began searching every nook and corner of the cave. At that time Palani Swami, an attendant of Bhagavan, was not there and was taking a bath in a stream nearby. Not finding Bhagavan inside, the mongoose went outside and licked Palani Swami's feet. Then it started climbing up further toward Skandashram where Bhagavan was. On reaching Skandashram, the mongoose royally jumped onto his lap and sat gazing at Bhagavan.\nBhagavan caressed it and looked at it, pouring his grace. Though the Ashram was crowded with people, the attendant present was Masthan Swami. He took care that this creature didn't get hurt and didn't hurt the peacocks there. Wherever the mongoose went, he followed it, unnoticed, and after a while it disappeared. When the Ashram manager, Perumal Swami returned, Masthan Swami related what happened. Perumal Swami said, \u2015You should have caught that mongoose and kept it tied down here!\u2016 Bhagavan smiled at them, \u2015Can you catch him? Can you tie him down? He is a Siddha Purusha. Arunachala is home to so many Siddha Purushas. One of them wanted to come and spend some time with me. He came here. Can you ever think of catching him and tying him down here?\"\n-- From Human Gospel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ABC News Publishes, Then Quickly Removes Lefty Mother Jones Article on GOP 'Redefining Rape'\nBy Scott Whitlock | January 31, 2011 11:18 AM EST\nABCNews.com on Monday republished, then removed an article from Mother Jones magazine on Republicans \"redefining rape.\" The piece briefly appeared on the network's website with no explanation that it was by the associate editor of the liberal magazine.\nThe article, by Nick Baumann, featured both the incendiary headline from Mother Jones, \"The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape\" and the nasty sub-headline: \"Drugged, raped, and pregnant? Too bad. Republicans are pushing to limit rape and incest cases eligible for government abortion funding.\"\nUnlike CBSNews.com, which has an opinion and analysis section, this article received no label. One could easily assume Baumann was simply an ABC News journalist.\nIn the piece, Baumann, attacked the \"anti-choice\" Republicans:\nRape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.\nFor years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the \"No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,\" a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.\nThe only experts cited in the article are those attacking congressional Republicans, including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. That would be fine, of course, had the article not been featured on ABCNews.com (or had it been identified as commentary).\nNational Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez created a screenshot of the (now gone) ABC News article and the Mother Jones original:\n\u2014 Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.\nMedia Bias Debate ABC\nScott Whitlock is the associate editor for the Media Research Center's NewsBusters.org site.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man wounded by police has filed multi-million dollar suit against city, officers\nPosted: 12:41 PM, Jun 04, 2019\nBy: Action 10 News\nA man who was mistakenly shot by police who were looking for a robbery suspect has now filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against those officers and the City of Corpus Christi.\nThe suit, filed in federal court on behalf of Richard Salazar , alleges excessive force on the part of the two officers involved.\nThe suit also claims Salazar's civil rights were violated and says the officers were not properly trained.\nSalazar was shot several times back in March by officers looking for two robbery suspects.\nThe officers said Salazar matched the description of one of the suspects.\nThe suit asks for just more than $12 million in damages.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Canon EOS R with RF 24-105mm f\/4L IS USM Lens Without R Adapter\nQuick Overview The EOS R pairs a redeveloped lens mount and an updated full-frame image sensor for a unique and sophisticated multimedia camera system. Revolving around the new RF lens mount, the...\nThe EOS R pairs a redeveloped lens mount and an updated full-frame image sensor for a unique and sophisticated multimedia camera system. Revolving around the new RF lens mount, the EOS R is poised to be the means from which to make the most of a new series of lenses and optical technologies. The combination of these technologies offers a wide sensitivity range up a native ISO 40000, fast continuous shooting to 8 fps, and UHD 4K30 video recording. In addition to imaging, the sensor also facilitates an advanced Dual Pixel CMOS AF system, which uses 5655 selectable points for quickly and accurately acquiring focus. Also catering to the tactile cravings is a Multi-Function bar, which is customizable for intuitively adjusting shooting settings. And as a camera built to withstand the toughest environments, the magnesium alloy body is dust and moisture-sealed. The mount also incorporates a 12-pin electronic contact system for more sophisticated autofocus and image stabilization capabilities. When paired with the DIGIC 8 image processor, the EOS R affords a native sensitivity range of ISO 100-40000, which can be expanded to ISO 50-102400 for working in a variety of lighting conditions. When working with still imagery, this focusing system works to acquire focus quickly and accurately, making it ideally suited to shooting and tracking moving subjects so that critical focus is attained with each shot. When shooting video, a Movie Servo AF mode offers smooth and natural focusing when changing from different subjects or different distances within the scene, as well as the ability to specify tracking sensitivity, AF speed, and Face Tracking priority when recording in-camera, 4K video has 4:2:2 sampling and 8-bit color depth, a 4:2:2 10-bit clean output in ITU-R CT.2020 is possible when using an external recorder. These adjustments include focus fine-tuning that can help you ever-so-slightly adjust the focus point to bring out extra details, shift bokeh around for improved composition, and reduce the impact of ghosting on your photos. This requires the use of Canon's Digital Photo Professional software. It can be used to adjust ISO or white balance, to check focus\/display focus info or AF modes, change to movie shooting modes, uses flexible-priority AE, or be customized for other functions. the camera body is the versatile RF 24-105mm f\/4L IS USM lens; a standard zoom covering wide-angle to portrait-length focal lengths. Its f\/4 constant maximum aperture maintains consistent performance throughout the zoom range and suits working in a variety of lighting conditions. Digital Lens Optimizer helps to minimize the appearance of various optical aberrations in-camera, including diffraction, for cleaner image quality. Images can be saved as Compact Raw files, which offer smaller file sizes for faster post-processing.\nCanon EOS R Specs\nAspect Ratio 1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9\nImage File Format JPEG, Raw\nImage Stabilization Digital, 5-Axis (Video Only)\nISO Sensitivity Auto, 100 to 40000 (Extended: 50 to 102400)\nShutter Speed Electronic Front Curtain Shutter\nBulb Mode\nMetering Method Center-Weighted Average, Evaluative, Partial\nExposure Modes Aperture Priority, Manual, Shutter Priority\nContinuous Shooting Up to 8 fps at 30.3 MP for up to 47 Frames (Raw) \/ 100 Frames (JPEG)\nUp to 3 fps at 30.3 MP for up to 47 Frames (Raw) \/ 100 Frames (JPEG)\nUp to 2.2 fps at 30.3 MP for up to 47 Frames (Raw) \/ 100 Frames (JPEG)\nRecording Modes MP4\/H.264\nUHD 4K (3840 x 2160) at 23.976p\/24.00p\/25p\/29.97p\nFull HD (1920 x 1080) at 23.976p\/24.00p\/25p\/29.97p\/50p\/59.94p\nHD (1280 x 720) at 25p\/29.97p\/50p\/59.94p\/100p\/119.88p\nUHD 4K (3840 x 2160)\nAudio File Format AAC, Linear PCM (Stereo)\nAutofocus Sensitivity -6 to +18 EV\nMonitor Size 3.15\"\nMonitor Type Articulating Touchscreen LCD\nFlash Modes Flash On, Slow Sync\nMemory Card Slot Single Slot: SD\/SDHC\/SDXC (UHS-II)\nConnectivity 3.5mm Microphone, HDMI C (Mini), USB Type-C (USB 3.0)\nBattery 1 x LP-E6N Rechargeable Lithium-Ion, 7.2 VDC, 1865 mAh\nDimensions (W x H x D) 5.3 x 3.9 x 3.3\" \/ 135.8 x 98.3 x 84.4 mm\nWeight 1.45 lb \/ 660 g\nKit Lens\nAngle of View 84\u00b0 to 23\u00b0 20'\nMinimum Focus Distance 1.48' \/ 45 cm\nDimensions (\u00f8 x L) 3.3 x 4.2\" \/ 83.5 x 107.3 mm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"6 British TV shows and film locations you can visit for free!\nby Lisa | Aug 11, 2019 | England | 54 comments\nA location tour of your favorite British TV shows and films\n1. Poldark\nWhere to find the best British TV shows and film locations\n2. Downton Abbey\n3. Doctor Who\n4. Harry Potter\n5. Bridget Jones Diary\n6. James Bond\n(Updated October 2020)\nDo you have a favorite British TV show or movie? Are you passionate about Poldark or prefer the delights of Downton Abbey? Whatever your preference, I want to take you on a tour of the best TV shows and film locations in the UK.\nFilm locations in the UK\nI'm always amazed by how many questions I receive from readers about the period TV drama Poldark. It's a series set in the 18th century, based on the novels from author Winston Graham. The story revolves around Ross Poldark, a British army officer who has returned to his home in Cornwall.\nIt's a show bursting with romance, drama and chivalry, and is a bit hit worldwide. However, as popular as the show \u2014 and its main front runner \u2014 is, the locations are also worthy of a mention.\nWhere is Poldark filmed?\nCornwall in the south-west of England takes center stage for most of the filming locations in Poldark. It follows the setting of the books, featuring the rugged cliffs, sandy beaches and hidden coves of the area.\nThe following places are some of the locations where they filmed Poldark. See which of these you recognize from the show.\nPorthcothan Beach\nCornwall is known for its magnificent sandy beaches and wide-open bays. Near the town of Newquay is Porthcothan beach, a location that features frequently in Poldark. It was used as Nampara Cove, the land of the Poldark estate.\nHere, you'll find soft white sand, high cliffs and simply one of the prettiest coves in Cornwall.\nRelated post \u2013 3 days in the Lake District \u2013 the complete weekend itinerary\nFilm locations in the UK \u2014 Bodmin Moor\nSpeaking of the Poldark home, the family cottage you see in the show is set on Bodmin Moor. The wild and rugged landscape is also the setting for many horseback scenes.\nTrue fans of the show will also recognize Bodmin Moor as the place where Ross meets his future love interest Demelza.\nA perfect setting for Poldark: Porthcothan Beach in Cornwall\nBotallack and Levant \u2014 filming locations in the UK\nBotallack and Levant are not just filming locations in Poldark; they're also 2 important sites of interest in Cornwall. Both portray the area's rich mining heritage \u2014 something which features often in the Poldark story.\nBotallack is the setting of Poldark's Wheal Leisure mines, while Levant Mine acts as the fictional Tressiders Rolling Mill.\nAt Botallack, the old engine houses sit on the cliff tops overlooking the dramatic Tin Coast. It's also the scene of several clifftop encounters in Poldark.\nBotallack and Levant are part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site and are both managed by The National Trust.\nWhat else is there to do at Botallack and Levant?\nOther activities you can do at Botallack include exploring the mines and visiting Botallack Count House Workshop. It was once a stable, workshop and classroom for Penzance School of Mines. Today, it's a place where you can find out about Cornish mining over a slice of cake and tea.\nFrom Levant, choose from one of several coastal walks. You'll get to explore the glorious stretch of land \u2014 and splendid scenery \u2014 along the Tin Coast.\nSt Agnes Head\nThe last UK filming location I want to share on the Poldark tour is St Agnes Head. A location with engine houses on the cliff's edge, it features as Nampara Valley in the show. St Agnes Head is also the place where many horse-riding scenes have been filmed.\nBest boutique hotels to stay in Cornwall\nTalland Bay Hotel, Talland\nTalland Bay Hotel is one of those hotels you instantly fall for. There are 2, award-winning restaurants on site, and sea views to admire from your room.\nRooms are individually styled \u2014 as you'd expect from a boutique hotel, and the coastal path is minutes away. Check availability for your upcoming stay.\nBoskerris Hotel, St Ives\nCheck into the fabulous Boskerris Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall, with modern styled rooms and fantastic views. It's 70m from Carbis Bay and a great setting for your Poldark tour trip.\nThe Botallack mine in Poldark \u2013 film locations to visit in the UK\n\"However, as popular as the show \u2014 and its main front runner \u2014 is, the locations are also worthy of a mention.\"\nNo-one does period drama better than the British, as shown by the hugely successful TV series Downton Abbey. In case you're unfamiliar with the show, the story revolves around the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family.\nIt's set between 1912 and 1926, following the lives of the family upstairs, and their servants downstairs, on their Yorkshire estate.\nFilm locations in the UK \u2014 where is the castle in Downton Abbey?\nThe real-life stately home featured in Downton Abbey is actually Highclere Castle near the town of Newbury. It's easy to reach from London and is also an ideal day trip to see the famous castle.\nOnce here, you can take a tour of the lavish state rooms, the gardens and woodlands. Explore the gorgeous Secret Garden with its curving green borders, and wander the Wood of Goodwill, with its 38 native British trees.\nHow can I reach Highclere Castle?\nThe most straightforward way to visit Highclere Castle is by car. They advise not to use your GPS when near the castle, as it will take you to the wrong entrance. Instead, enter this postcode, RG20 9LE, and follow the brown tourist signs to the main entrance.\nAnother way to reach Highclere Castle from London is by train. There are hourly trains from London Paddington station to Newbury. From here, it's about a 14-minute taxi ride to reach the castle.\nThe last way to get to Highclere Castle is by joining a tour. From London, there are several options that also include transportation to and from the venue.\nRelated post \u2013 10 reasons why you'll fall in love with the Lake District\nThe grand Highclere Castle from Downton Abbey\nWhere is the village in Downton Abbey?\nThe real-life location of the village featured in Downton Abbey is called Bampton. It's sits in a green, leafy region of England called The Cotswolds, and is the classic chocolate-box English village.\nBampton is the location for many scenes, including:\nBranson teaching Lady Edith to drive, and\nLord Grantham, Lady Mary and Tom walking across Shill Brook.\nSt Mary's Church in Bampton dates back to the 12th century, and features as the entrance to the cottage hospital. It's one of the oldest towns in England, and lies in the county of Oxfordshire.\nWhere to stay in Newbury, UK?\nTreat yourself to a 5-star spa hotel experience at The Vineyard. With beautifully styled bedrooms, it's an ideal location to reach Highclere Castle (12.9km), and Newbury Racecourse (8km).\nThe attraction of Bampton: St Mary's Church a.k.a. the entrance to the cottage hospital in Downton Abbey\nThe British BBC TV show, Doctor Who, has gained a legion of devoted fans since it began in 1963. It follows the adventures of a time lord, who travels the universe in a time-traveling spaceship called the TARDIS. He typically has a trusty sidekick who helps him in his battle against the Daleks and cybermen.\nFilming locations of Doctor Who have usually been in the UK. However, season 12 was filmed in South Africa.\nFilm locations in the UK \u2014 Doctor Who filming locations in London\nDoctor Who has been filmed against the backdrop of many London top attractions. Cybermen have marched down the steps from St Paul's Cathedral, and the Doctor met Shakespeare himself inside the Globe Theatre.\nAvid fans of the show may be interested to take a Doctor Who London walking tour. It's your chance to follow in the footsteps of the much-loved protagonist, and with like-minded people that share your interests.\nUK filming locations: The Globe Theatre in London features in Doctor Who\nDoctor Who filming locations in Wales\nThe more recent series of the show has mainly been filmed in the studios in Cardiff in Wales. However, you'll be happy to read that there are also some outdoor locations they use in the show. See how many of these you recognize.\n2 Welsh castles in Doctor Who \u2014 film locations in the UK\nThere are not 1, but 2 castles in and near to Cardiff, which feature in Doctor Who. Cardiff Castle is right in the capital city center, meaning there's no excuse not to visit. The castle was built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders, and is dripping in history.\nCardiff Castle has been the backdrop for several Doctor Who episodes, as well as the spin-off show, Torchwood.\nCaerphilly is a short drive (29 minutes) from Cardiff, and is home to Caerphilly Castle.\nThe largest castle in Wales was built by the English in the 13th century, with massive walls, towers and gateways. It has its own leaning tower similar to the one in Pisa, and has featured many times in Doctor Who.\nThere's also the option to visit inside the castle, but at a small cost.\nCardiff Castle in the Welsh capital is one of many UK filming locations\nFilm locations in the UK \u2014 the secret alleyway in Doctor Who\nTransport yourself back to series 9, where viewers are introduced to the mysterious Diagon Alley. The Doctor and his sidekick come across the hidden entrance to the secret alleyway.\nAs it turns out, it's not so secret, as you can find this along Westgate Street in Cardiff. Take caution, as you never know where it may lead!\nSoutherndown Beach in Doctor Who\nDie-hard Doctor Who fans will instantly recognize this beach from one of the most popular episodes of the series.\nA beautiful backdrop for a tearjerker ending, Southerndown Beach is where the Doctor bids farewell to his traveling companion Rose.\nIf you'd like to visit this memorable setting, there are several ways to visit from Cardiff. By car, it's around 46 minutes, while train is 27 minutes from Cardiff Central to Bridgend. Afterwards, it's a short taxi ride (9 minutes) to get to the beach.\nThe third option's by bus. Look for the X2 bus and get off at the stop called Corntown, The Paddocks. From here, you'll also need to get a taxi.\nThe stunning Southerndown Beach in Wales \u2013 the scene of the sad finale in Doctor Who\nBoutique hotels in Cardiff\nExtend your Doctor Who tour by spending a night or 2 in one of these sublime boutique hotels.\nJolyon's Boutique Hotel\nBoutique by name \u2014 and by nature, Jolyon's Boutique Hotel is a striking townhouse in the docklands area of Cardiff.\nBooking into this hotel also gives you a chance to stay in the same place as Doctor Who himself. Actor Chris Eccleston played the ninth doctor in the show and stayed at the hotel saying, 'it's much better than the tardis!'\nHotel Indigo \u2014 boutique hotels in Cardiff\nJust 300m from Cardiff Castle is Hotel Indigo. With charming and colorful rooms, Indigo Hotel is not only a comfortable choice, it's centrally located too.\nThere's a terrace, fitness center and an all-round lovely hotel for an excellent price. Other nearby attractions include the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff and Principality Stadium.\nCaerphilly Castle is another Doctor Who historic film location in the UK\nNo post about the best British film locations to visit would be complete without mentioning Harry Potter. The story of the lovable boy (and later teenage) wizard and his friends has captured a mass fan base worldwide.\nAlnwick Castle, Alnwick\nYou may recognize Alnwick Castle from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets. The castle was used as the exterior of Hogwarts \u2014 the school of magic in the movie.\nUnlike many uninhabited castles around the UK, the dukes of Northumberland live at Alnwick Castle.\nThe castle is in the town of Alnwick in the county of Northumberland, north-east England. While it's probably easier to drive, there are also buses that can take you there.\nIf traveling from London, you can take the train from London to Edinburgh and get off at Alnmouth. From here, take a taxi or a bus to Alnwick Castle.\nThere's an entrance fee to visit the castle, the garden, and the castle and garden. However, you can choose to explore the exterior and keep the experience totally free.\nAlnwick Castle in the north of England \u2013 Do you recognize it in Harry Potter?\nMalham Cove \u2014 Harry Potter UK filming locations\nIn Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Harry and Hermione hide from Voldemort behind a unique rock formation.\nIt's called Malham Cove, and you can visit this limestone rock camp for yourself near the village of Malham. The unique shape was made by the river that once ran over it, and it's totally free to explore.\nGargrave is the nearest train station to Malham Cove and it's about 7 miles. If you're arriving by car, prepare for the narrow country lanes from Gargrave to Malham. While exploring Malham Cove is free, I can't say the same for the parking.\nHarry Potter film locations \u2014 Ashridge Wood\nWhile Ashridge Wood is known for its diverse variety of flowers, plants and trees, it's also famous for something else. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ashridge Wood is where the Quidditch World Cup takes place.\nThe woods are ideal for Harry Potter fans and nature lovers alike. It's a colorful setting for a fall or spring walk and makes for a great family day trip. The visitor center is open from 10am to 4pm and costs nothing to enter.\nThere are different options to get to Ashridge Wood. By train, you can travel from Newbury and get either a bus or taxi. By car, it's about 1 hour and 30 minutes from London.\nMalham Cove \u2013 the mysterious rock formation in Harry Potter \u00a9George Hodan\nHarry Potter filming locations in Scotland\nGlenfinnan \u2014 film locations in the UK\nSeveral of the Harry Potter movies were filmed against the glorious backdrop of Scotland. The magnificent Glenfinnan Viaduct features in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Goblet of Fire.\nFans of the franchise will recognize the Glenfinnan Viaduct as the bridge upon which the Hogwarts Express makes its journey.\nTo make the same ride across the iconic bridge, you can take a train from Glenfinnan. There are daily train services running between Fort William and Glenfinnan, which will take you across the famous viaduct.\nLoch Etive \u2014 where did they film Harry Potter in Scotland?\nThe incredible Loch Etive features in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. It's located in Argyll and Bute, towards the west coast of Scotland. You may recognize the location as the setting where Harry, Hermione and Ron had their camping trip.\nTaynuilt is the closest town to Loch Etive. It's about 87 miles north of Glasgow, but worth visiting if you love the movies and the outdoors too.\nBy train, you need to take the route from Glasgow Queen Street station and get off at Taynuilt. The ride is approximately 2 hours and 36 minutes.\nWhere can you stay in Glenfinnan?\nExtend your break in the inspiring Scottish Highlands and take a look at these cozy and chic accommodation choices.\nThe Armoury, Glenfinnan\nBook a night, or 2, at a traditional Scottish villa-style home with lake and mountain views. The Armoury has all the amenities you need for a comfortable stay, and is just 200m from the Glenfinnan Viaduct.\nCamas Tana\nHow does a Scottish style lodge with lake views and a roaring fire sound? Camas Tana is a unique property that lets you connect with nature, and is just a few steps from Glenfinnan Station Museum.\nJump on board and experience the wondrous Glenfinnan Viaduct for yourself\nFilm locations in the UK \u2014 Harry Potter London film locations\nThe UK capital features across all the Harry Potter movies, and they're also all free to visit. King's Cross Station is probably the most visited of all the film sites in London. It's where you'll find the famous platform 9 \u00be: the stop for the Hogwarts Express.\nIt's easy to find the hidden access to platform 9 \u00be. You'll spot it instantly once you see the luggage cart halfway into the wall. Take home a souvenir of your visit, and take a photo near the suitcase complete with a Gryffindor scarf.\nGo all out on your London Harry Potter experience and book a studio tour. Transport is included in the ticket price and it's a great day out for fans and families too.\nSt Pancras Renaissance Hotel\nAlong with having a fabulous luxury spa, the 5-star St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is also known for its grand exterior. The hotel features as the entrance to King's Cross station in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.\nMillennium Bridge \u2013 Harry Potter London filming locations\nCast your mind back to the opening of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, and the collapse of the Millennium Bridge. Today, the bridge still very much exists, and connects Bankside to the City of London. It was once known as the 'wobbly bridge' because it moved as pedestrians crossed it on first opening.\nMillennium Bridge was closed soon after for 2 years to correct structural issues. It was re-opened to the public in 2002. The closest tube station to see Millennium Bridge is Blackfriars, and of course it's absolutely free to visit.\nMillennium Bridge in London \u2013 Harry Potter London filming locations\nFree film locations in London\nIt'd be criminal of me to leave off some much-loved British films that were filmed in London. I'm guilty of watching the following movies several times, and enjoy recognizing the places in the capital.\nHow many of these have you seen?\nI've watched all 3 (maybe there will be a fourth) in the franchise of the hapless yet lovable protagonist. While chick flicks aren't usually my thing, I've read the books, watched the movies and smiled throughout.\nThere are several places you can visit in London (for free) that feature in the film series.\n8 Bedale Street \u2014 where does Bridget Jones live?\nBridget's home is located above a pub called The Globe Tavern. It's very close to London Bridge tube station and is also right by Borough Market.\nThe door that's her home in the movie is a real door \u2014 and most likely to someone's home. Just don't go knocking on it!\nBridget Jones fight scene. The hilarious fight scene between Mark and Daniel takes place outside a Greek restaurant near Bridget's home. In real life, the restaurant's a wine shop called Bedales, named after the street.\nWhen Bridget does a TV interview. Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Bridget conducts an interview for a landmark legal case. The nearest tube station to the courthouse is Chancery Lane, which is on the Central (red) line.\nThe last scene. We all love a happy ending, and in the first movie, Bridget makes hers in her underwear. When she finally chases down Mark, they share their romantic exchange, and kiss, at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. It's easy to find as it's near the grand Bank of England, right by Bank tube station.\nBedale Street in London Bridge \u2013 the home of hapless romantic Bridget Jones\nWhen you're in the mood for a good spy film, you can do no wrong with James Bond. And though the English spy travels frequently to fight off the bad guys, he always returns to his London base.\nAnd so, it's only right that the capital features often throughout the entire Bond franchise. However, rather than me list every London location in the James Bond catalogue, here are some landmarks that frequently appear.\nMI6 building: the headquarters of the British intelligence is a regular in many of the films. From Dr No and From Russia with Love, to Skyfall and Casino Royale, you can't miss this iconic building.\nIn real life, you can find the MI6 building in Vauxhall, immediately south of the river. The nearest tube station is Vauxhall, which is on the Victoria (light blue) line. A word of caution: be careful about how many photos you take of MI6; someone may be watching you!\nThe MI6 building in Vauxhall, London\nHouses of Parliament \u2014 James Bond film locations in the UK\nIn Skyfall, the iconic Houses of Parliament feature in the smash movie. Big Ben (still under construction at the time of writing), and the house is free to visit. However, if you'd like to take a peek inside, you may want to consider taking a tour. It's an interesting, and educational, way to learn more about the history of the British Parliament, and see the incredible interiors.\nWestminster is the nearest tube station, and sits on the Circle (yellow), District (green) and Jubilee lines.\nFilm locations in the UK \u2014 National Gallery\nOne of my favorite, and free, places to visit in London, also features in James Bond. During a scene in Skyfall, Bond meets up with Q in one of the rooms in the gallery.\nIf you visit London, do yourself a big favor and visit the National Gallery. It's one of many free museums to visit in the city, and an incredible building to wander around. The National Gallery is near another great landmark, Trafalgar Square, and is close to Charing Cross tube and train station.\nThe National Gallery in Charing Cross is a must-see in London \u2013 free film locations in the UK\nBest boutique hotels in London\nYou're spoiled for choice with boutique hotels in London, so it can over-whelming knowing where to start.\nFlemings Mayfair\nFlemings Mayfair is a chic and central luxury boutique hotel in the upmarket area of London. The neighborhood's close to Hyde Park, and about 7 minutes' walk to Piccadilly Circus.\nNo two rooms are the same at Flemings Mayfair, and the sizes are also generous for central London. There's also an excellent restaurant and cocktail bar on site, plus the chance to have a traditional afternoon tea.\nThe closest tube station is Green Park, which is on the Piccadilly (dark blue) and Victoria (light blue) lines.\nHip, uniquely styled and in the heart of the action is how I'd describe Dean Street Townhouse. Part of the SoHo House group, non-members are more than welcome to book at this SoHo-based boutique. A standing bathtub is the star attraction in the room, adding an elegant and almost retro feel to the look.\nAs the name suggests, Dean Street Townhouse is in Dean Street, which is in the SoHo area of London. While it's a hotspot for nightlife outside, especially on the weekend, inside, you won't hear a thing.\nWhat did you think of this list? Were there any British shows or films that I missed that you'd like to know its locations? Let me know in the comments below.\nSign up and get 2 20-item weekend packing lists\nPlus 3 extra gifts in your inbox!\nAmar singh on August 28, 2019 at 4:13 am\nA great post if you are a U.K. production buff and would like to visit some of those amazing locations that these were filmed in. Living in london I have visited some of these and always love to find out about more and this post does help me. My favourite are the bond movie locations and I always remember Bond driving past the Mi 6 buildings always. Harry Potter studio seems to be a great one to if you are a fan of the series like myself. Thanks for sharing the top U.K. locations from movies and serials\nLisa on August 28, 2019 at 6:08 pm\nYou're welcome! The Bond locations are good fun to visit\nYukti on August 24, 2019 at 2:11 pm\nWow so many locations of some of my favorite films. I thought some of the castles are just set and never existed mostly just Harry Potter ones. Would now plan for these places when I plan for UK. It is great you tipped us that not to use GPS for Highclere castle as it takes to wrong entrance.\nYou're so welcome! Yes, many people make the same mistake and then end up at the wrong place!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"France is the only country that has such a wide range of cheese. Exported all over the world for decades, this heritage was built up over time. Set off and explore this unique diversity of products and expertise.\nFrance is the only country that has such a wide range of cheese. Exported all over the world for decades, this heritage was built up over time. Set...\nFrom Alsace to Normandy, Brittany to the Pyrenees, from Provence to Corsica, each part of France has delicious products. In France, every cheese reveals a terroir. Behind every cheese is a dairy tradition. In addition, behind every cheese family is a special process. The cheese making technique, the weight, the shape, and finally, the maturation where its flavour is perfected, all depend on the particular quality of the milk and expertise.\nWhat is cheese?\nCheese is a fermented product produced by coagulating certain milk proteins (caseins). Cheese can be fresh or matured, more or less rich in fat. A smooth Camembert, a strong Pont-l'\u00c9v\u00eaque, a tender Saint-Nectaire, a fruity Beaufort\u2026 There's a cheese to suit everyone's tastes and the food and cooking habits of different continents!\nThe strengths of French cheeses\nDiversity of products\nInimitable taste\n1200 varieties of cheese and seven families\nThere is a wide variety of cheeses. This is due to the different cultural practices of the people who make them. But it can also be explained by the many different types of milk there are (cow's, ewe's, goat's, buffalo's - there are lots of dairy breeds). Finally, the production technology used, and whether the milk is raw or pasteurised, means that there is a variety of around ten families. Between authentic cheeses with a strong character which are enjoyed every day, to fondue or spreadable cheese, there are many ways to navigate through this vast family.\nWhat are the different cheese families?\nCheese has played an important role in commercial transactions, the payment of taxes to lords and farm rent. With Pasteur's discovery of fermentation microorganisms, the emergence of industrial refrigeration and finally, the development of transport, the art of cheesemaking experienced considerable growth from the 19th century.\nDiscover the history of French cheeses\nAn enjoyable and healthy food\nCheese is essential from a nutritional perspective: it is a source of energy (45-450 kcal\/100g cheese), proteins and minerals (including calcium and phosphorus, particularly for cooked pressed cheeses). To varying degrees, it is also high in vitamins A, D and B (present in the mould of veined cheeses and the soft centres of cheeses with bloomy rinds).\nMore information about nutritional benefits","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Salt Lake Chamber Statement on State Correctional Facility Relocation Decision\nLane Beattie, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber, issued the following statement following the Prison Relocation Commission's recommendation of the I-80\/7200 West Salt Lake City site as the location for a new State Prison:\n\"As the voice of business, representing over 8,000 Utah businesses, I want to commend the Prison Relocation Commission for their recommendation to relocate the prison to the I-80\/7200 West Salt Lake City site. This is a complex issue. Today's recommendation is the culmination of a thoughtful and methodical process including dozens of studies and countless hours by those involved.\n\"A new state-of-the-art correctional facility will support the Legislature's criminal justice reform effort, which protect the taxpayer and reduces recidivism. It is also clear that if done wisely, there is substantial opportunity for our state's economy in the redevelopment of the current Draper location. Every Utahn has an interest in the future of this property. As a business community, we will actively engage to ensure this generational opportunity is not squandered.\n\"Leadership requires making hard decisions with a strong vision for our state's future. We encourage the entire Legislature to thoughtfully consider and support this recommendation.\"\nBy MBomis|2017-03-07T15:06:51-07:00August 12th, 2015|Blog, News & Press, Statements|0 Comments\nSpeaking on Business: Summit Sotheby's International\nSpeaking on Business: UAEC Pathways\nSalt Lake Chamber Introduces 2021 Legislative Priorities at Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit\nPaycheck Protection Program and Stimulus Programs Update\nHatch Center Highlights State and Federal Solutions to Address Suicide Crisis\nCBRE Announces Sale of the Milagro Apartments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Reviews\tXbox 360\nFable III Review\nHome \/ Fable III Review\nby Andrew Giese | Reviews Xbox 360 | 1 Comment | 03 Nov 2010\nThe original Fable almost never released, but was one of the best selling games on the original Xbox, and stood at the top of the charts at Major Nelson's blog as one of the most played games until the original Xbox servers were taken offline. Now Fable is in its third iteration, but has the series finally delivered on any of its lofty goals?\nWhat's It About?\nFable III is set fifty years after the end of Fable II, which was set a few hundred years after the end of Fable I. You are the son or daughter of the hero from Fable II, and your older brother is currently king. You are exposed to the extent of your brother's tyranny in an opening quest that sets your resolve on revenge. Accordingly, you escape the castle at night with your mentor Sir Walter Beck and personal butler Jasper.\nYou soon discover that you are a Hero like your father and those legendary people of old. As a Hero, you are visited by Theresa the blind seer and set upon a quest to take the throne from your despotic sibling.\nFable has this fantastic way of leading you along, making you push to do just one more quest before you turn it off, and before you know it, it's 2:00 am and you have to be at work by 8. Fable III continues that trend with some notable quests, deep characters, and great exploration.\nThere is one rule that all adventure games should live by and that is to reward the player for exploring. Crammed into every nook and cranny of Fable III's rather large yet dense, world are worthwhile prizes for exploring. If you wander just off the beaten path you'll find treasure chests, keys, tattoos, and more.\nThe developers have taken a new, minimalist approach to the UI, getting rid of menus wherever they could. Instead of your traditional menus when you press Start, you're teleported to the Sanctuary, where your character must physically travel to rooms to change weapons, put on different outfits, and view statistics. The effect is some aesthetic enhancement at the expense of convenience, and I personally didn't have a problem with it.\nThe combat hasn't changed much from Fable II. It's still one-button combat, but with the addition of a glut of flourishes, it manages to stay fresh. Everything has been tweaked only slightly to make it a little more streamlined.\nEarning money is always a huge draw in RPGs, and Fable II really lacked any money sinks. So while it was fun to get to a couple million dollars, the novelty grew old after you realized you had nothing to spend it on. In Fable III, there are a few notable money sinks; those being investing in more realty, paying upkeep to houses you already own, and keeping the kingdom's treasury full after you've become the monarch.\nHowever, not everything is absolutely perfect. The minimalist UI can feel really inadequate sometimes, and it's often quite a pain to have to teleport to your \"sanctuary\", then walk up to the map just so you can see your available quests. The quests themselves are great, but quest management is really a flop. Buying houses may be fun, but paying upkeep is tiresome and tedious. A \"Repair all\" option would have both accomplished the minimal feel Lionhead was going for while simultaneously allowing you to spend less time in menus and more time playing.\nAnother issue is that of frame rate. The game really struggles to keep up sometimes, and for me actually flat out froze a few times. A quick Google search will tell you that my case is not the exception here. Luckily the game auto-saves so it's hard to lose much progress.\nFinally, a Fable III review wouldn't be complete without mentioning the Co-Op. This time around co-op is actually a joyous, not joy-less, experience. Your friend can drop into your game with his character, and you two can embark on quests and even romance together. Players connected to Xbox Live will see their stats compared to their friends', which is a physically small yet psychologically huge feature that keeps you playing in an effort to 1-up your buddies.\nIn summation, the reasons to care about Fable III are numerous: a compelling story, diverse characters, a breadth of things to do, new and unique controls, and genuinely satisfying cooperation.\nWhy Is It Worth My Time And Money?\nThe second Fable was a good game, but felt incomplete. Fable III feels like the game the developers meant to make. Fable III is basically Fable 2.5; there's nothing really new here. That doesn't mean Fable III is not worth your money; if you can get over the fact that despite its \"Start a Revolution\" tag, Fable III doesn't change many game mechanics from former iterations, then you'll find that all the things that made Fable II good are still intact.\nAdditionally, one almost doesn't need to be reminded of the star power delivering the dialogue in Fable III's story. With a cast including Simon Pegg (Star Trek, Shaun of the Dead), John Cleese (Life of Brian, Monty Python's Flying Circus), Ben Kingsley (Shutter Island, Prince of Persia), and more you can bet on a story that is alternatively profound and humorous. All this is complemented by yet another fantastic score.\nAt the most superficial level if you want to compare value by time played, then you won't be disappointed there either. While the intrepid hero may be able to sprint through the story in eight hours or so, it's nearly impossible to avoid getting sidetracked chasing hidden treasures. A moderate amount of time spent playing this game is well over twenty hours.\nIn the end, Fable III is an easy recommendation. With an endearing, dynamic world and pure unadulterated adventuring, it will leave you with fond memories and a sense of accomplishment.\nFable III\nESRB Rating:\nThe original Fable almost never released, but was one of the best selling games on the original Xbox, and stood at the top of the charts at Major Nelson's blog as one of the most played games until the original\u2026\nWritten by: Andrew Giese\nSmashPad\nSP_Patrick\nOffline 571\nDay 0 Update #241 \u2013 Emulation Just Changed\nLet's Weekend #178 \u2013 Big Beef\nDay 0 Update #240 \u2013 Questionably Canadian\nLet's Weekend #177 \u2013 Post-Gluttony Edition\nDay 0 Update #239 \u2013 Too Many Great Games!\nSite Thingies\n\u00a9 2019 Smashpad \u00a9 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apple updates iOS Security Guide with Face ID, Apple Pay Cash & more\nChristian Zibreg \u2219 January 12, 2018\nApple's detailed iOS Security Guide has been revised with fresh new information related to Face ID, Apple Pay Cash, CloudKit end-to-end encryption and other new technologies.\nLast refreshed in July of 2017 following the release of iOS 10.3, the updated document is available as a PDF download via Apple's website. Dated January 2018, it underscores the fact that iPhone X facial data is stored in an encrypted form in the Secure Enclave, a cryptographic coprocessor that's embedded into the main chip and has its own encrypted memory.\nThe same info is provided in an earlier support doc, titled \"About Face ID advanced technology.\"\n\"Touch ID and Face ID don't replace your passcode, but provide easy access to your device within thoughtful boundaries and time constraints,\" says Apple. \"This is important because a strong passcode forms the foundation of your iOS device's cryptographic protection.\"\nThe probability of a false match with Face ID, the document notes, is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, \"because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed.\"\nAs for Apple Pay Cash, the document reveals that transaction data is actually stored by Apple Payments Inc. for troubleshooting, fraud prevention and regulatory purposes once a transaction is completed.\nFor privacy reasons, Apple Payments Inc. is separate from Apple Inc.\n\"The rest of Apple doesn't know who you sent money to, received money from or where you made a purchase with your Apple Pay Cash card.\"\niOS Security Guide is a fascinating read for anyone looking to delve deep into the inner workings of how Apple's in-house designed chips and software work tightly together to protect the privacy and strengthen the security of its customers.\nAside from the Face ID and Apple Pay Cash sections for iOS 11.2, the revised document contains the following updates for iOS 11.1: Security Certifications and Programs, Touch ID, Face ID, Shared Notes, CloudKit end-to-end encryption, TLS, Apple Pay, Paying with Apple Pay on the web, Siri Suggestions and Shared iPad.\nIf you're interested to learn why iOS is the most secure mobile operating system in the world, and understand the basics of encryption, you're wholeheartedly recommended to add this informative guide to your reading list.\nImage: iOS Security Guide in Readdle's PDF Expert for Mac\nTags Apple Apple Pay Apple Pay Cash Face ID iOS iPad iPhone","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dan Gearino\nClean Economy Reporter, Midwest, National Environment Reporting Network\nDan Gearino covers the U.S. Midwest, part of ICN's National Environment Reporting Network. His coverage deals with the business side of the clean-energy transition and he writes ICN's Clean Economy Weekly newsletter. He came to ICN in 2018 after a nine-year tenure at The Columbus Dispatch, where he covered the business of energy and won state and national awards for his work, including from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the National Headliner Awards. Before that, he covered politics and business in his native Iowa and in New Hampshire, working as a newspaper reporter and an occasional radio correspondent. He grew up in Warren County, Iowa, just south of Des Moines, and is an alumnus of Macalester College in St. Paul. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and two daughters. Reach Dan at dan.gearino@insideclimatenews.org.\nArticles by Dan Gearino\nEnergy Regulator's 2-1 Vote Could Boost Coal Over Renewables\nAs Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Cultural Identity, Cities Test Ways to Adapt\nUnfamiliar Ground: Bracing for Climate Impacts in the American Midwest\nCoal Giant Murray Energy Files for Bankruptcy Despite Trump's Support\nUtilities Are Promising Net Zero Carbon Emissions, But Don't Expect Big Changes Soon\nMore by Dan Gearino","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ms. Alma White\nFuneral services for Ms. Alma White of Americus, Georgia will be held on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. at Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church with Pastor Curtis Frazier officiating. Burial will follow at the Eastview Cemetery.\nMs. Alma White, affectionately known as \"Dunnie\" to those who loved her, was born May 27, 1934 to the late Charles and Tassie Lee White. At an early age she joined Friendship Baptist Church in DeSoto, GA. She lived a great portion of her adult life in Detroit Michigan surrounded by family. She later moved to Americus, GA to become a faithful caregiver for her oldest sister whom she preceded in death. She took care of Ozella until her own health failed. She was a quiet peaceful spirit with a big heart for her family. On March 27, 2017 God needed an Angel and he called her home. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Mr. Virgil White and Mr. Curtis White; one sister, Mrs. Margaret (Johnny) Mercer.\nShe leaves to mourn her passing two sisters, Ms. Ozella (Belle) White and Mrs. Leila Mae White Josey, Americus, GA; devoted nieces, Ms. Deborah Josey Burks, Byron, GA, Mrs. Alice (Eddie) Mercer, and Mrs. Brenda (Allison) Harris, Americus, GA; devoted nephews, Mr. Clarence Josey III, Mr. Ronald Josey, Mr. Ernest Josey, Mr. Johnny Josey, Mr. Johnny Mercer, Jr., Mr. Darryl Mercer, and Mr. Michael Mercer; devoted cousins whom she loved like sisters, Ms. Leila-Clifford Meadows, Cusseta, GA, Ms. Estella Meadows Campbell, Detroit Michigan and Ms. Ozella (Maximo) Cobb, Columbus, GA; great nieces: Mrs. Amber (Tavares) Caldwell, Ms. Leila-Chassity Jones, Ms. Rayven Josey Burks; Ms. LaToya Raven Williams, Ms. Alyson Janee Harris; Ms. Marquita Clark; Ms. Erica Mercer; Ms. Michala Mercer; great nephews: Mr. Christopher Raven, Mr. Arthur Raven, Mr. Eddie Mercer, Jr., Mr. Darrell Mercer, Jr., Mr. Nicholas Mercer and Mr. Johnny Mercer III; a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins\nGuestbook Signatures (3) -\nSARA CLEMONS\nDEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS,\nIT IS NEVER EASY TO LOSE A LOVED ONE.MAY YOU FIND COMFORT IN GOD'S\nPROMISE AT (JOHN 6:40) WHICH TELLS US,\"FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF MY FATHER,\nTHAT EVERYONE WHO RECOGNIZES THE SON AND EXERCISES FAITH IN HIM SHOULD HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE ,AND I WILL RESURRECT HIM ON THE LAST DAY.\"\nYOUR PAIN MAY LAST A LIFETIME,BUT SO WILL THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES.\nO Castleberry\n4\/1\/2017 7:23:07 AM #\nI extend my condolences to you all for the loss of your dear loved one. May Jehovah the God of tender mercies and comfort provide you all support throughout your grief. 2 Corinthians 1:3,4\nMy condolences to the family. I am so sorry for your loss but the almighty god jehovah gives us a resurrection hope at john 5:28 and 29,at that time we have the opportunity to see our love ones again. This is a comfort that we can look forward to.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About a dozen rifles stolen from south Tulsa gun store\nThe Associated Press - November 10, 2017 12:37 pm\nTULSA, Okla. (AP) \u2013 Police in Tulsa say about a dozen assault-style rifles were stolen from a gun store by men who used a sport utility vehicle to smash into the building.\nCpl. Chris Butterfield says the SUV was driven into the wall of a south Tulsa shopping center about 4 a.m. Friday, through two offices, then through the wall of Action Arms.\nPolice say the men then took 12 to 15 AR-15 rifles and drove out of the building.\nButterfield says the SUV was found a few blocks away and had been reported stolen.\nButterfield says it's believed the men transferred the weapons into another vehicle and drove away.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Community encouraged to dig deep for SA Bushfire Appeal\nThe State Government has expanded its SA Bushfire Appeal to raise much-needed funds for South Australians directly affected by recent devastating bushfires on Kangaroo Island \u2013 and everyone is encouraged to give generously.\nAn additional $1 million has been pledged by the Marshall Government to help the Kangaroo Island community rebuild, on top of the $1 million already committed for those affected by the Cudlee Creek bushfire.\nThe SA Bushfire Appeal will be the primary appeal for South Australia's emergency relief effort, raising money for the SA Emergency Relief Fund.\nPremier Steven Marshall said the entire community stands shoulder to shoulder with the community affected by the state's devastating bushfires.\n\"The outpouring of support for South Australians in their hour of need has been an inspiration, with every dollar raised going directly to the families and communities who need it most,\" said Mr Marshall.\n\"We have all been shocked and saddened by the scale of destruction on Kangaroo Island, coming on top of the devastating losses in the Adelaide Hills.\n\"Not only has there been tragic loss of life, families have lost homes and properties, people have lost businesses, vineyards, livestock and \u2013 for some \u2013 their livelihoods.\n\"At this difficult time, we're encouraging South Australians to continue to dig deep and donate what they can to the SA Bushfire Appeal, to help their fellow South Australians rebuild in the weeks, months and years ahead.\n\"South Australians have already given very generously, with more than $1,041,881 raised so far from 3316 donors.\n\"Every dollar donated to the SA Bushfire Appeal will go to South Australians who are doing it tough and every dollar makes a difference.\"\nAfter donating, people are being encouraged to 'like and share' the SA Bushfire Appeal Facebook page to help spread the word around the world.\nAll donations over $2 to the SA Bushfire Appeal are tax deductible. Donations can be made online, in person or by post:\n* Electronic funds transfer to the SA Bushfire Appeal, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, BSB 065 266, Account 10020160, description should state 'SA donation'\n* Credit card \u2013 visit the SA Bushfire Appeal BPoint payment website at www.bpoint.com.au\/payments\/serf or dial 1300 276 468 (1300 BPOINT) and enter biller code 1002359\n* Cash \u2013 go into any branch of the Commonwealth Bank and donate over the counter giving the details: BSB 065 266, Account 10020160\n* Cheque \u2013 mail to SA Bushfire Appeal, Donations, QA Finance, GPO Box 292, Adelaide SA 5001\nFor more information or to donate to the SA Bushfire Appeal go to sa.gov.au\/bushfireappeal\nTo stay up to date on all the latest relief and recovery measures for the current SA bushfires, visit dhs.sa.gov.au\/recovery. People directly affected by the fires can phone the Recovery Hotline on 1800 302 787.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Highlighted Year: Raymond Berry, 1957\nOffensive End, Baltimore Colts\n3rd season in pro football & with Colts\nCollege: Southern Methodist\nBerry didn't have much opportunity to show off his pass receiving skills in college, catching just 33 passes and scoring one touchdown, but he was chosen as a future pick by the Colts in the 20th round of the 1954 NFL draft. He joined the team in '55 and caught 13 passes as a rookie and, with the arrival of QB Johnny Unitas, improved to 37 receptions for 601 yards (16.2 avg.) in 1956. What he lacked in speed and heft he made up for with reliable hands and an excellent work ethic.\nMost receptions, game \u2013 12 (for 224 yds.) at Washington\nMost yards, game \u2013 224 (on 12 catches) at Washington\nAverage gain \u2013 17.0 [17]\nTDs \u2013 6 [3, tied with Ray Renfro, Elroy Hirsch & Billy Wilson]\n200-yard receiving games \u2013 1\nTDs \u2013 6 [9, tied with ten others]\nPoints \u2013 36 [19, tied with ten others]\n1st team All-NFL: Sporting News\n2nd team All-NFL: AP\nColts went 7-5 to finish third in the NFL Western Conference while leading the league in passing yards (2388) and touchdowns (41).\nBerry followed up by leading the NFL in pass receiving in each of the next three seasons, in pass receiving touchdowns in 1958 and '59, and pass receiving yards in 1959 and '60, despite being hindered by a leg injury in the latter year. He was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection after all three years and also had an outstanding performance in the 1958 NFL Championship overtime win over the Giants (12 catches, 178 yards, 1 TD). While he didn't lead the league and missed two games due to injury in 1961, the steady Berry had a career-high 75 catches and was chosen to a fourth straight Pro Bowl. He went on to play a total of 13 seasons, all with the Colts, and retired as the career pass receiving leader at the time with 631, for 9275 yards (14.7 avg.) and 68 TDs. Berry was a consensus first-team All-NFL selection three times, received some first- or second-team honors after two other seasons, and was named to the Pro Bowl six times. He was selected to the 50th and 75th-year all-time NFL teams. The Colts retired his #82 and Berry was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 1973. Berry went on to a coaching career and was head coach of the New England Patriots when they won the AFC Championship in 1985.\nLabels: 1957 NFL season, Baltimore Colts, Highlighted Years, Indianapolis Colts, Pass Receiving Yardage Leaders, Player Profiles, Raymond Berry","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chinese Courses\nKorean Courses\nYou are here: Home \u00bb Students \u00bb Studying English In Hong Kong \u2013 An Interview With Two Q Language Students\nQuick English\nQuick Mandarin\nStudying English In Hong Kong \u2013 An Interview With Two Q Language Students\nPosted on December 4, 2012inQ-AdmininStudents\nQ Language, A Very Different Hong Kong Language School\nOne aspect that makes language study at Q Language so special is the fact that our students join us here from all over the world. We are one of the only language schools in Hong Kong that can say this and it is one of the reasons that make our language school the popular choice for so many language students who come to Hong Kong.\nThe multi-national mix creates a great learning environment for both students and teachers alike. As Byron, one of our best English teachers says,\nMy favourite thing about teaching at Q Language is the background of all the students. They come from almost every continent, so they have a lot of different perspectives and stories to bring to the classroom so we have really interesting classroom discussions.\"\nAnd one of our ex-teachers, Anneka, once said,\nAt Q Language, I mainly teach small groups of students from lots of different countries and that's what I enjoy most about teaching here. There are students from all over the world: from South America, from Europe, from Asia, (for example) and it's nice to have a mix of lots of different students in the class.\"\nOne of our newer and already very popular English teachers, Marika, recently interviewed two of her students to find out what motivated them to come to Hong Kong and why they had decided to study English. They were also asked why in particular they chose to study at Q Language. As you will read, both students had a similar reason for coming to Hong Kong but different motivation for studying English. Here's what Marika learned about the students' respective stories and how their English language levels have developed whilst at Q Language:\nThe Interview With Cenk Gunay & Huriko Ku\nHiroko Ku & Cenk Gunay\nFirstly, a few words to introduce the students: Cenk Gunay, who comes from Turkey, has been in Hong Kong for almost a full year, out of which he has studied English for seven months. He plans to continue on his English course for about two months more. He was placed in an intermediate level English class even though he admitted,\nThe level was too high for me at that time, but I wanted to have a challenge.\"\nThe second student who kindly agreed to share their experience with us was Hiroko Ku, who comes from Tokyo, Japan. She has been in Hong Kong for about two years, out of which she has spent ten months studying English. She started at beginner level but worked hard and finished her studies at end of October this year at intermediate level. Hiroko reminisced,\nI chose to start with the lowest level, because I couldn't speak at all.\"\nBoth Cenk and Hiroko, like many other expatriates, followed their partners to Hong Kong and it conveniently gave them a good opportunity to start studying English.\nIt is my first experience in Asia and I have enjoyed it so much!\"\nCenk said with a big smile on his face. He continued,\nHong Kong is such a modern city with many opportunities for shopping and for tasting interesting cuisines from all over Asia\".\nHiroko added,\n\"I've been lucky to find many good opportunities in Hong Kong as well as meeting people from many different countries\".\nThey both agreed that the people here are friendly and that the atmosphere in Hong Kong is quite pleasant. In fact, Hiroko laughed as she said,\nI'm enjoying my time here so much that I would prefer to stay in Hong Kong.\"\nCenk Gunay, studying hard with his classmates.\nEven though they had similar reasons for coming to Hong Kong, their motivation for studying English was quite different. Cenk chose to learn English to further his career as he had worked for an international company in Turkey and he knew that being able to communicate well in English would have boosted his career prospects.\nHiroko, on the other hand, wanted to make friends with people from other countries and be able to travel independently or with her friends.\nCenk and Hiroko both agreed that the main reason for choosing Q Language over other language schools was the relatively flexible class schedules available. Cenk explained that he was able to build a schedule which easily matched his personal needs.\nNote: Q Language students can choose an Intensive schedule with morning and afternoon lessons up to 24 hours per week with group and private lessons or a more relaxed schedule with only a few classes per week. See all English courses and schedules by following the links here.\nCenk pointed out,\nWhen I started with the Intensive English Program, I had five different teachers who came from either England, Australia or North America. This gave me a great opportunity to learn different accents and some colloquial vocabulary.\"\nI especially appreciated the fact that I could choose my lessons according to my learning targets and this allowed me to concentrate on my weaknesses, which were speaking and reading. I also managed to adjust my work schedule to fit in with my English studies.\"\nHiroko with her classmates.\nCenk's also pointed out that Q Language was easy to find on the Internet and that the website had all the necessary information he needed.\nHiroko, on the other hand, got a recommendation from her friend whose English had improved a lot after taking an English course at Q Language.\nFor many language students, the most important goal is to improve their speaking skills, and Hiroko and Cenk agreed that this was especially important for them.\nThey both also said that their English course at Q language has been very effective as they can feel that their understanding and speaking has improved dramatically. Neither student had the confidence to speak in English before they started. Cenk recalled,\nAt the beginning, I just smiled.\"\nThey both agreed that they had learned more than just the language. They said,\nWe have learned so much more than just the language, too. We learned about other cultures and countries,\"\nAnd Hiroko added, enthusiastically,\nI didn't have opportunities to speak with people from other countries in Japan, so I'm very happy to be in Hong Kong and studying English.\"\nAs an additional benefit, Cenk felt that he has learnt how to study English and how to use the Internet to support his studies. He also noted,\nI have really found a passion for languages whilst studying here at Q language.\"\nHe was quite content, too, that he didn't have to sit any exams!\nThe only negative point that the students came up with was that this experience has to come to an end. As a result, when that day comes, both of them plan to continue studying by reading books and newspapers as well as listening to English radio or watching English films and TV programs.\nIt has been a pleasure to follow Hiroko and Cenk on their journey. From the start, both of them worked hard and both were highly motivated. Consequently, they have gained a lot more confidence and a real passion for learning English.\nThanks, Hiroko & Cenk! \ud83d\ude42\nFor everyday situations, this means that Cenk and Hiroko are able to express themselves better and they no longer shy away from any situation when it comes to English.\nWe would like to send a big thank you to Cenk Gunay and Hiroko Ku for sharing their experience of studying English with us and thank them, too, for choosing Q Language. 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{"text":"News from Cumbria and the North West\nDownhill all the way at Ambleside film premiere\nThe first film premiere I went to was in Leeds for the comedy, A Private Function. My friend Eileen played the farmer's wife and I sat one row behind the scriptwriter, a chap called Alan Bennett.\nIt's been downhill all the way since then, ending at Zeffirelli's in Ambleside tonight for the premiere of Downhill, an endearingly funny road movie about four guys who avoid all the roads and attempt to walk the Coast to Coast path. They covered \u2013 and drank \u2013 192 miles of glorious northern countryside and glorious northern hospitality, apart from the B&B where the mushrooms got mixed up with the baked beans.\nSuch detail never bothered Alfred Wainwright whose description of the route inspires thousands every year to make the pilgrimage from St Bees in the west to Robin Hood's Bay in the east. And inspired writer Torben Betts to tackle a comedy full of errors, directed by James Rouse, and produced by Benji Howell.\nThey call it a testament to the tragically incompatible, a blow-by-blow account of the highs and lows of decades-long friendships. Their actors \u2013 Richard Lumsden, Karl Theobald, Jeremy Swift and Ned Dennehy \u2013 were calling it torture after the first day. But they survived \u2013 at least, most of them \u2013 to make the crossing intact, with only one drop-out, one cheat (a small misdemeanour) and one gay outing.\nIt's filmed as a spoof documentary, with the invisible cameraman revealed briefly as the son of one of the characters (who steps from behind the lens and to his dad's defence. And there's a bit of the plot revealed briefly.) The technique works very well indeed, as do the closely-studied shots of the landscape, revealing the slate and the stone of the Lake District and North Yorkshire more dramatically than the leaf and the lane.\nThe early stages are my home territory, the end of the route sentimentally familiar. My running club, Clayton le Moors Harriers, once tackled the Coast to Coast as a relay event and I ran the last 19 miles from Glaisdale to Robin Hood's Bay carrying the baton \u2013 a pebble picked from St Bees' beach. I can still taste the fish and chips that the Downhill wanderers relished at the end of their journey.\nSand in their shoes, stars in their eyes, they asked guests at the premiere to turn up in evening dress and hiking boots. Or wellies, like the main star of the night, Dorothy Smith, manager of Zeffirelli's, who hosted a gala night with a difference. We had champagne, we had canap\u00e9s, we had a jazz band. We had a green carpet, and sheep on the pavement outside.\nZeffs is the cultural centre of the Lake District, a five-screen cinema which hosts live music, a caf\u00e9 bar by day, a packed restaurant by night, and an artistic sibling in the next street, Fellini's. Dorothy and her team rise to all sorts of occasions, and won a customer service award at a recent ceremony. They served stars and guests as if they hosted the Oscars every week, and they handed over a cheque for \u00a3900 to the local mountain rescue team at the end of the evening. It was night to remember, even if it was Downhill all the way.\nDownhill is on general release from Friday, opening in London at the Empire, Leicester Square.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2014 by Stagey Lady.\nPortrait of Dorothy Wordsworth returns to the family home\nA rare portrait of Dorothy Wordsworth as a young woman has been bought by Rydal Mount, her home near Ambleside that she shared with brother William and his wife, Mary.\nThe unsigned and unattributed miniature was given by Dorothy's niece Dora to Maria Jewsbury who, at the age of 24, had presented a collection of her poems to William Wordsworth.\nIt was sold for an undisclosed sum by auctioneers Bonhams of London to members of the Wordsworth family, who still own the house where the poet lived for most of his life. Curator of Rydal Mount, Peter Elkington, said he was thrilled at this acquisition.\n\"Dorothy lived a long time, and most of the representations of her show her as a placid, middle aged woman. But she was known to be enigmatic in her youth, and the essayist Thomas de Quincy described her wild eyes and impulsive nature. This comes much closer to that notion of her.\"\nMaria Jewsbury was invited to stay with the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount where she became a great admirer of Dorothy and firm friends with Dora and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter, Sara.\nIn 1831Maria married a missionary and on departing for India she offered the portrait to Dora \u2013 who turned it down because she didn't like it. Maria died in India in 1833 \u2013 of cholera \u2013 and the painting was given to Henry Coleridge, Sara's husband and cousin. It was one of a number of items relating to Coleridge the writer which were sold by Bonhams.\nNow it has come home, to hang in the drawing room at Rydal Mount alongside the more famous portrait of Dorothy as a mature woman. Said Peter Elkington: \"It's a really significant addition to our collection and sheds more light on the life and nature of this influential woman.\"\nShare your photos of remarkable Lakes exhibition Reflective Moments\nVisitors to the Lake District's most unusual art exhibition are being invited to share their own photos of the events and installations on social media.\nReflective Moments opens this weekend and runs for a week at a number of venues from Dunmail Raise and Allan Bank in the north of the Windermere catchment to Fell Foot Park. It is organised by environmental campaigners Windermere Reflections.\nVisitors will be invited to peer through a viewing tunnel, step inside a giant kaleidoscope, and experience the landscape through a camera obscura. On the Windermere ferry they will be encouraged to create poetry on giant \"fridge magnet\" boards.\nAnd at each site they will find details of how they can upload their own photos to share their creative moments.\nReflective Moments sets out to show not just the grandeur of the landscape but how it has been viewed through history, particularly at the time of the picturesque and Romantic eras.\nThe viewing tunnel is at Allan Bank near Grasmere, once the home of William Wordsworth. The kaleidoscope is at the head of Windermere near Ambleside, and the camera obscura at a wartime pillbox on Dunmail Raise.\nVisitors will also experience sensory exhibits at Claife on the west shore of Windermere, try Chinese landscape painting, and create poetry on the cross-lake ferry.\nThe events mark the final months the Windermere Reflections programme, which was tasked with informing and educating residents, businesses, landowners and visitors of the need for diligence to maintain good water quality in the lake.\nAlongside the workshops, the temporary art installations created by Cumbria-based artist Steve Messam celebrate the work of Windermere Reflections while highlighting the significant contribution of the Lakeland fells to international culture and heritage.\n\"The fells have influenced the way we perceive and appreciate landscape,\" said Windermere Reflections' programme manager Liz Davey. \"Windermere's water flows from Dunmail down through the catchment past historic landscape vantage points of Roman and modern British warfare, to those of the picturesque and Romanticism movements.\"\nVisitors' photographs can be uploaded to the Windermere Reflections' Facebook page https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WindermereReflections, and also shared via Flickr.\nLead artist Steve Messam said: \"We are encouraging people to look at the landscape in a different way and to share their own creative moments. It's going to be one big photo opportunity.\"\nReflective Moments will comprise the following:\nDunmail Raise viewing box \u2013 the WW2 pillbox beside the Grasmere to Keswick Road will be transformed into a Camera Obscura \u2013 a fitted lens in one of the windows projects the view over Grasmere on to the opposite wall, while the outside will be clad in 2,000 silver balls, reflecting the surrounding landscape and making it shimmer in sunlight. From May 23.\nAt Allan Bank in Grasmere, once home of William Wordsworth and a key location in the development of the Romantic movement, visitors will be able to send their cameras 1,000ft into the air beneath weather balloons to take stunning aerial photographs in a drop-in workshop with artist Bryony Purvis. They can also visit the Victorian viewing tunnel in the grounds. May 24\/25\nRydal Hall: Cumbrian artist Irene Sanderson will host free workshops in Chinese landscape painting in the viewing \"grotto\". The oldest purpose-built viewing station in the UK, it was refurbished in 2005 and overlooks a waterfall.(Rydal Hall is one mile north of Ambleside.) May 24\/25\nBorrans Park at Waterhead will see the installation of a giant kaleidoscope, three metres high and five metres long, which will look out down Windermere and fragment the view while people silhouetted on the lakeshore become moving patterns.\nWindermere car ferry \u2013 Foot passenger can create their own Lakeland verse with giant magnetic poetry. From May 24 for a week.\nClaife viewing station: the 'Sound Mirror' is a collection of unheard sounds of water and the lake emanating from the rocks and trees. The sounds of trees drinking and crayfish walking are part of the audible treasure hunt. May 30\/31 and June 1.\nFell Foot park will host 'Drop', Messam's giant reflective installation based on a raindrop \u2013 the building blocks of the Lakes \u2013 and standing the height of a three-storey building. There will be another chance to take aerial photos with Bryony Purvis. From May 30.\nThe project is part of Heritage Lottery funded Windermere Reflections to mark three years of campaigning to improve the water quality in the Windermere catchment area. Liz Davey said: \"As with all our work this has been a true partnership initiative from start to finish and in selecting the sites for this work we are grateful for the support of the National Trust and their tenant farmers, South Lakes District Council, Cumbria County Council and Windermere Ferry, and Rydal Hall.\"\nShe added: \"Through our work we've enjoyed using art as a way of introducing environmental issues and connecting people to their landscape.\"\nArtist Steve Messam added: \"This is a way to facilitate opportunities for people to share what they see, and to share their understanding of the landscape. The way that the project finishes at the foot of Windermere, with the possibility of following the water's onward journey out to sea with aerial photos, truly connects key areas through the catchment and th\nTea and cake help charity in Windermere\nTwo days of feasting on tea and cake in Windermere raised more than \u00a3800 for charity.\nA tea party at Windermere preparatory school was followed by an afternoon tea at the Cedar Manor hotel, both events organised by the hotel's owner, Caroline Kaye.\nThe money raised is going to fund research into the causes and possible cures for lupus, a condition suffered by Caroline's 21 year old daughter, Natalie.\nCaroline is also in training for the Great North Run to raise further funds for the cause.\nThe school tea party raised more than \u00a3400 thanks to the generosity of the parents, teachers and friends, many of whom donated cakes.\nThe baking for the hotel afternoon tea was done by sous chef Michael Vango, along with friends of Caroline and her husband Jonathan, and visitors there raised almost another \u00a3400.\nLupus is a chronic and presently-incurable illness of the immune system, a condition in which the body's defence mechanism begins to attack itself through an excess of antibodies in the blood stream.\nIt causes inflammation and damage in the joints, muscles and other organs. Caroline said: \"Natalie was diagnosed when she was 15, but it had taken two years to identify from when she first showed symptoms.\n\"That's not unusual as the condition is very difficult to identify. We are helping the charity in their attempts to research the causes, and possible treatments, for Lupus.\"\nNatalie is a beauty advisor and make-up artist for Estee Lauder at Selfridges in London. Younger sister Elizabeth, 8, a pupil at Windermere School, is playing her part by helping Caroline's training efforts \u2013 she goes alongside on her bicycle when mum goes for a run.\nCaroline has done just two races so far, 10k trail events at Coniston and Derwentwater. After surgery for a knee problem last year, she's back in training and confident of achieving her goal at the famous north east race\nShe said: \"Local people, and our visitors, have been very generous. I know that there are many demands on people's kindness. We have raised money, and just as importantly, we have raised awareness about the condition.\"\nCaroline can be sponsored at http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/CarolineKaye\nFalling in love with the Cedar Manor\nFalling in love with the Lake District \u2013 the story of Cedar Manor hotel\n(As published in Lancashire Life)\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged cedar manor hotel, Lake District, Windermere on May 7, 2014 by Stagey Lady.\nNeighbours, everybody needs good neighbours, in Windermere\nResidents of a road in Windermere are proving what it really means to be neighbourly, while protecting their local environment.\nThe voluntary efforts of people living on Victoria Road North have taken community action to new heights, from woodland management to the planting of a communal orchard.\nThey are being supported by green campaigners Windermere Reflections as part of their Windermere Footprint project. But the residents themselves have led the way.\n\"We wanted to see how our community could work together to live more sustainably and increase neighbourliness,\" said Barry Butler, one of the residents.\nFollowing a survey to find out what local people wanted to do, the group began in style with a new year party hosted by one of the residents. Since then they have been improving their area, and helping to clean up the environment.\nThe group won support from South Lakes District Council to fund a woodland management plan for School Knott Community Woodland, and organised woodland management and woodcrafts events for local people.\nWindermere and Bowness Civic Society agreed to 'adopt' the woodland group to help support its work, and community orchard was planted with the help of the Wood Education Programme and the Windermere Food Group. One resident is making bird and bat boxes for the woodland area.\nAll the residents received a Windermere Reflections Property Pack with tips on cutting carbon and pollution. And they have booked a training session with a wildflower expert and a bird expert in order to understand how to attract more wildlife to the woodland, with support from Windermere Reflections.\n\"We have done several community litter picks to remove the disintegrating plastic rabbit guards from the trees. One person has spent a lot of time doing this and has collected 35 bags of guards,\" said Barry.\n\"People have been interested in different elements of the project, but it's the idea of helping to look after and make improvements in the woodland which has been the most popular part. Being involved has certainly got some people talking and having fun when they didn't know each other before.\"\nWindermere Reflections' programme manager Liz Davey said: \"These people are truly local heroes. They have sought advice and support, and then got on with it themselves, improving their own environment. We could all learn a great deal from their example, and we are thrilled with what they have achieved.\"\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Windermere, Windermere Reflections on May 2, 2014 by Stagey Lady.\nHandy decoration from the fells brightens up health centre\nAuthor wins Lake District competition\nLakes hotelier joins the national judges\nCumbrian film festival awards top movie\nA friendly Lakes sheep and a running shoe join forces to support international races\nTop actor heading for Ambleside film festival\nPractical help for small business in Cumbria\nBownessie set to make a new appearance\nArchives Select Month January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 July 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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During the 2017 awards program on Nov. 15, Tri-City Medical Center's clinical manager overseeing its acute care services and outpatient infusions program, Diane Sikora, was honored as one of the exceptional women who have made a difference in San Diego's business, cultural and civic scene this year.\nNominations were judged on their innovation, entrepreneurship, professional accomplishment and community leadership.\nSikora manages a team of 230 nurses caring for Tri-City Medical Center's orthopedic, cancer and stroke recovery patients as well as its outpatient chemotherapy infusion centers. Drawing upon her 10 years of experience in her current role, her master's in nursing education and her business skills, Sikora has produced several successful programs and initiatives for Tri-City Medical Center: she led and implemented its Quiet Time initiative that measurably improved patient satisfaction, developed a Core Staffing Productivity Tool to better manage nursing staffing levels and productivity, oversaw the acquisition of two outpatient chemotherapy infusion centers and merged their operations with the hospital's, implemented a new Bariatric Surgery Program and led the hospital's palliative care program resulting in a major drop in 30-day readmissions for people suffering from chronic conditions.\n\"Diane is an excellent example of the high caliber and commitment of our people at Tri-City Medical Center,\" said Steve Dietlin, CEO. \"She has had a tremendous positive effect on staff members' and patients' lives by upholding the highest standards for quality and safety at Tri-City Medical Center, and we are proud to see her efforts recognized regionally.\"\nThe San Diego Business Journal's Business Women of the Year awards program was held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront and is widely recognized as one of the biggest awards program of the year honoring the region's most successful, dynamic women.\nAbout Tri-City Medical Center\nTri-City Medical Center has served its community for over 50 years and is a 388-bed full service, acute-care hospital in Oceanside, Calif. with a primary care clinic and over 700 physicians practicing in 60 specialties. 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{"text":"There's many way's to describe what this UFO looks like because it's got the typical Cigar shape and the Dart shape.\nBut for arguments sake let's add in the possibility that it's a man made aerial vehicle and just like that it goes from being a UFO and it becomes a rocket.\nCredit: UFO Planet YouTube\/UFO Sightings Footage\/UFO News\/Canva.\nIs this a new type of rocket maybe that utilises it's own power supply but in a much better way? The fuel could be revolutionary and a new type. Rocket's tend to fly in one direction which is 9 time's out of ten, upwards. This is flying sideways so it's kinda straying into missile territory but it's definitely not a missile as far as I can tell.\nIf it is a missile then it's a brand new kind of missile. Something in the order of \"Top Secret\" maybe...\nLee Lewis UFO SIGHTINGS FOOTAGE.\nThe YouTube channel Alien Planet has this UFO video on it's uploads list and it's got no information with it whatsoever. Everyone in Ufology focuses primarily on the UFOs which have an intriguing back story or is legendary in their own right or at least they can say where it was filmed. But nobody really focuses on the UFOs without information. I'm going with what's right and even though it's got nothing much to say, I'm so grateful that the person who reported it anonymously did so, thank you.\nThe Clearest UFO Cluster Probably Ever Seen\nIt absolutely looks like this crazy thing could have been filmed from the inside of a cockpit with a copilot making the video? It's almost as if it could be a testing of a secret weapon or a secret aerial vehicle \"scaled down testing\" because that 100 percent happens in many private and public sectors. Scaled down testing always happens in research and development departments looking for specific information on how aerodynamics etc work on specific designs. I mean it would probably answer this question perfectly?\nIt's still the history of Ufology, it's got to be, no it must be looked into, it's still got to be ruled in or ruled out one way or another.\nAnd it's still got a story about it no matter what, even if it's just a UFO video. Some people need the story to write the story if you know what I mean? It's like on one hand a UFO has been reported to MUFON and it's got a ton of information supplied by the eye witness. But on the other hand, there's a UFO sighting reported to MUFON but without any coordinates, no date, no name, nothing to tell which year it was filmed - but yet it looks more realistic than the latter.\nI'm going to choose the one that I like, I'm standing behind the UFO that appeals to me and the UFO which I fully believe needs to be told. To be honest with you guy's, I'm actually going to be writing about them all! Every single UFO sighting must be sorted, put into piles of possible and feasible and probable.\nThe next step is to open up the UFO videos, photos etc to a wider audience and let them decide because although I'm good, I'm not that good at single handedly bringing all the UFO report's to a wider audience. So, I'd like it if you guy's could share it with as many people as possible so we can all be educated together on what is, in my own view is the best kept secret in history, that we aren't alone in the universe.\nI fully believe this and I fully understand what the implications of this mean.\nAnd it's not a negative attitude, it's one of hope, learning, evolving, progressing and travelling. The stars the limit just remember that. The UFO in this video definitely could be a man made craft, I'm not sure how big it is, how fast it's going and where it's going? There's nothing to gauge the size and speed of the craft against.\nHere's the full UFO video:\nPlease share your thoughts on what you think about this UFO video, if you can share this post as well I'd appreciate it, cheers.\nLabels: cigar shaped ufo, cylinder UFO, metallic silver, silver metal craft, tube ufo, ufo cigar, UFO missile, ufo video\nGremlin30 Wednesday, August 25, 2021 6:43:00 pm\nInteresting... If the object is traveling fast how was the camera aircraft able to film it broadside and keep up with it ??","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Daniel Powter Live at The Bee 29 June 2019\nKuala Lumpur | Live Music\nJason Cheah 10th Jun 2019\n[Postponed]\nSpecial announcement to all Daniel Powter\u202c fans \u2013 we've just got word that the 'Bad Day' singer is currently working on some hot new stuff which is gonna hit the charts in a big way. With that in mind, we will be postponing his showcase to a later date so that fans get first dibs on his new material.\nThose who have already bought tickets will automatically receive a full refund from airasiaredtix.com and you will be the first to get dibs on tickets before we release the ticket sales.\nWe'll announce the new date as soon as we can. Stay tuned!\nIn 2005, radio stations all over the world were playing this song as music lovers mouthed the lyrics in unison anytime it hit the soundwaves. This 29 June, 2019, punters of pop rock and alternative rock will be able to catch Canadian musician, Daniel Powter live in Kuala Lumpur at The Bee, Publika, Solaris Dutamas, KL and sing along, up close and personal, to his self-penned hit song Bad Day.\nCharting at #1 in over 40 countries around the world, Bad Day was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts for five consecutive weeks and sold over 15 million copies, making it the best-selling digital single of all time in the United States. The hit was also recently certified as the second biggest radio hit in history around the world. Daniel won Juno awards and was nominated for Grammy and Brit awards for Bad Day and the debut album. Bad Day and Free Loop, another hit single from Daniel's debut album, both received massive airplay in Greater China.\nThe man himself refers to his music as a little 'different from the norm'. Sure, songs like Bad Day don't sound that different when you listen casually at first. If anything, it sounds like well-crafted, edgy pop, boasting infectious rhythm, rock-solid chords and hooks that dig into your brain and don't let go. But listen again and you'll find that dark lyrics thread through those happy melodies, some of which he sings with a hint of sarcasm and anger tightening the quiver in his falsetto. He is an artiste that focuses on everyday life, though he doesn't miss the dirt swept under society's rug.\nIn 2017, After a four year hiatus, Daniel released a single in the form of a rather funky pop tune Delicious. The song sees Powter using his fantastic, trademark vocal style but with a rather more synth-driven sound behind it and fans were more than excited to have him back.\nIn December of last year, Powter released his album Giants combining eight of his most recent singles in one juicy EP. Songs in the album include Perfect for Me, Survivor, Delicious, re-recordings of Bad Day, Free Loop and Tell Them Who You Are with altered lyrics and tunes. A remixed version of Do You Want to Get Lucky is also included featuring extra bells and no vocal reverb.\nTo commemorate Giants, Powter returns to Asia on tour with his band, performing his songs, both new and old. In Daniel's words, \"Playing shows and having an audience engage and sing back to me the songs that I wrote are all the awards I would ever want. Meeting new people and traveling, and staying humble and grateful, rewards your soul.\"\nTHE BEE, PUBLIKA: 36B, Block C, Level G2, Publika, Solaris Dutamas, Jalan Dutamas 1, KL. Early bird tickets are priced at: RM88, Advanced are priced at RM118 and VIP tickets are going for RM288. Tickets for the show are now on sale through: https:\/\/airasiaredtix.com\/danielpowter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"874 F. 2d 647 - United States v. Ayarza\n874 F2d 647 United States v. Ayarza\nMiguel Gabriel AYARZA, Defendant-Appellant.\nArgued Jan. 10, 1989.\nSubmitted April 21, 1989.\nDecided May 9, 1989.\nJoseph W. Bottini, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiff-appellee.\nNancy Shaw, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant-appellant.\nAppeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.\nBefore WRIGHT, TANG and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.\nWIGGINS, Circuit Judge:\nAppellant Miguel G. Ayarza appeals his conviction of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a)(1) (1982), and his sentence of 78 months imprisonment, four years of supervised release, and a $3500 fine. Appellant entered a conditional plea of guilty, reserving his right to challenge the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized by Alaska State Troopers after they exposed his carry-on luggage to trained narcotics detection dogs. Further, Appellant challenges the propriety of his sentence, which the district court imposed according to the terms of the Sentencing Guidelines. The district court had jurisdiction of this case under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3231 (1982). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 (1982). We affirm.\nOne month prior to arresting Appellant, Trooper Al Storey had observed him conversing with United Airlines ticketing agents. Trooper Storey's attention had been drawn to Appellant because the agents had denied him access to a flight bound for New York, believing him to be under the influence of a controlled substance. One month later Trooper Storey's attention was again drawn to Appellant after ticketing agents told Trooper Storey that Appellant had returned and was again bound for New York, but that his ground time would be less than eight hours. Trooper Storey did not see Appellant board the aircraft, but the agents at the gate described Appellant and told him that Appellant's luggage consisted only of a small carry-on bag.\nThrough the use of airline reservation computers Trooper Storey was able to determine that Appellant arrived in, and departed from, New York according to his itinerary. Trooper Storey was able to determine further that Appellant's flight arrived in Seattle, Washington too late for him to catch his connecting flight to Anchorage, but that Appellant had been reassigned a seat in row eleven of a flight that would arrive in Anchorage the following afternoon. Trooper Storey was waiting at the gate when Appellant was the first passenger to disembark from this flight.\nTrooper Storey followed Appellant as he walked quickly through the concourse, leaving the other passengers far behind. Trooper Storey noticed that slung over Appellant's shoulder was a large garment bag that he believed did not match the description of the small carry-on bag that Appellant had with him when he departed from Anchorage. Trooper Storey further observed that Appellant's pace quickened as he walked through a glassed-in hallway, and that Appellant repeatedly glanced at the window, which by that time of day reflected the interior of the concourse. Trooper Storey also observed Appellant walk to the far left of the exit area where the airport's security monitor was posted.\nAppellant proceeded to the first available exit on the upper level of the terminal and, as he passed through the door, he looked over his shoulder to see that Trooper Storey was following him. Appellant stopped at the curbside and looked to his left as though expecting somebody to pick him up. Trooper Storey approached Appellant at that time, identified himself as a law enforcement officer, and asked Appellant if he could speak to him. Appellant gave an affirmative response. Trooper Storey advised Appellant that he was not under arrest and that he could leave without saying anything more. Appellant declined to leave.\nTrooper Storey first asked appellant if he could see some identification. Trooper Storey observed Appellant sort through various documents in his billfold, including what appeared to be an Alaska identification, before extracting a California driver's license. Trooper Storey asked Appellant where he had traveled from and Appellant replied that he had come from Seattle. Trooper Storey then asked Appellant the purpose of his visit and Appellant replied that he had visited a sick aunt. When Trooper Storey asked Appellant if his aunt lived in Seattle, Appellant replied that his aunt lived in New York and had recently had an operation for the removal of corns on her feet. Appellant explained that he had gone for two days. Trooper Storey noticed that Appellant's nervousness heightened when, in response to Appellant's query, Trooper Storey explained that he was conducting a drug investigation. Appellant then explained to Trooper Storey that he had come directly outside of the terminal in order to catch a cab. Trooper Storey knew, however, that cabs usually pick up passengers at the lower level of the terminal.\nAt this point Trooper Storey asked Appellant if he would allow his bag to be exposed to a scent detection canine. Appellant hesitated, replying that he wanted to contact his attorney. Trooper Storey allowed him to make a phone call, but required him to position the garment bag so that it was not concealed from Trooper Storey's view. When Appellant returned he told Trooper Storey that his attorney advised him not to allow the search unless he was placed under arrest. Trooper Storey then told Appellant that he was free to go, but that he was going to detain the garment bag and expose it to a scent detection canine. He further explained that Appellant could accompany him and that at most the procedure would take thirty to forty minutes. When Appellant declined, Trooper Storey advised Appellant that the bag would be returned immediately if the dog did not alert to its contents. Trooper Storey offered Appellant a receipt for the bag, but Appellant declined to accept one.\nTrooper Storey took possession of the bag and a few minutes later exposed it to \"Irma,\" who alerted positively to the odor of a controlled substance contained in the bag. Trooper Bowman, who had joined Trooper Storey toward the end of his conversation with Appellant, then exposed the garment bag to \"Meik,\" who also alerted positively to the odor of a controlled substance contained in the bag. The Troopers then obtained a search warrant, opened the bag, and found a large, rectangular object rolled up in some clothing items. White crystalline powder found inside the object field-tested positive for the presence of cocaine. A subsequent analysis confirmed that 1005.7 grams of cocaine were contained in Appellant's garment bag.\nAppellant filed a motion in the district court to suppress the evidence of cocaine on the grounds that Trooper Storey's conduct in detaining Appellant's garment bag amounted to an unreasonable search and seizure, contravening the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution. The district court referred the matter to a magistrate who, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, recommended that the motion be denied. The magistrate reasoned that Trooper Storey had reasonable, articulable suspicion to believe that criminal conduct was in progress, and that many of the so-called \"drug courier profile\" factors supported this suspicion. Over Appellant's objection the district court adopted the magistrate's recommendation.\nBefore receiving his sentence Appellant filed a motion challenging the constitutionality of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. The district court ruled that the Act was constitutional, and therefore denied Appellant's motion. Appellant also filed a motion for a downward adjustment of the sentence required by the Sentencing Guidelines, arguing that his cooperation with the authorities warranted an exemption. Over Appellant's due process objection, the district court ruled that the exemption could not be made except by motion of the Government. Pursuant to his conditional plea of guilty, Appellant appeals the district court's denial of each of these motions.\n* We review de novo to determine whether under the stated facts1 Trooper Storey had reasonable and articulable suspicion for detaining appellant's garment bag. United States v. Erwin, 803 F.2d 1505, 1509-10 (9th Cir.1986). At bottom, this issue involves \"balancing the amount of intrusion upon individual privacy,\" Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 515, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1333, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983) (Blackmun, J., dissenting), against the public's \"compelling interest in detecting those who would traffic in deadly drugs for personal profit,\" United States v. Mendenhall, 446 U.S. 544, 561, 100 S.Ct. 1870, 1881, 64 L.Ed.2d 497 (1980) (opinion of Powell, J.). The problem is best illustrated by envisioning a three-tier structure, at the bottom of which lies the government's authority to stop and question any individual, for any reason, \"[a]s long as the person to whom questions are put remains free to disregard the questions and walk away.\" Mendenhall, 446 U.S. at 554, 100 S.Ct. at 1877 (opinion of Stewart, J.). At the top of the structure lies the government's authority to effectuate an arrest, but only for \"probable cause.\" Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 91, 85 S.Ct. 223, 225-26, 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964). And in between these two extremes lies the government's authority to detain an individual or his possessions for purposes of furthering a valid investigation, the scope of which is circumscribed by the officer's reasonable and articulable suspicion. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 21, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 1879-80, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968); United States v. Place, 462 U.S. 696, 706, 103 S.Ct. 2637, 2644, 77 L.Ed.2d 110 (1983).\nEach of these three tiers may be implicated in a single sequence. For example, an officer may initiate a conversation with an individual who has every reason to believe that he is free to leave. See, e.g., Mendenhall, 446 U.S. at 555, 100 S.Ct. at 1878 (opinion of Stewart, J.) (\"nothing in the record suggests that respondent had any objective reason to believe that she was not free to end the conversation in the concourse and proceed on her way, and for that reason we conclude that the agents' initial approach to her was not a seizure\"). Nevertheless, this conversation may evolve into a situation where the individual's ability to leave dissipates. If the officer restrains an individual's ability to leave or limits his freedom to control his property, he is justified in doing so only by the presence of reasonable suspicion. See, e.g., Florida v. Rodriguez, 469 U.S. 1, 6, 105 S.Ct. 308, 311, 83 L.Ed.2d 165 (1984) (per curiam) (\"Assuming, without deciding, that after respondent agreed to talk with the police, moved over to where his cohorts and the other detectives were standing, and ultimately granted permission to search his baggage, there was a 'seizure' for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, we hold that any such seizure was justified by 'articulable suspicion.' \"). Even if this requirement is met, however, the circumstance may escalate into what essentially constitutes an arrest. Unless the officer has \"probable cause\" by this point, the arrest violates the fourth amendment. See, e.g., Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 503, 507, 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1329, 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983) (opinion of White, J.) (\"As a practical matter, Royer was under arrest\" by the time officers questioned him in an interrogation room, and under the circumstances the prosecution could not justify his \"custody by proving probable cause.\").\nApplying these principles to the circumstances at hand, we conclude that a reasonable person in Appellant's position would have believed himself free to ignore Trooper Storey's initial questioning. Cf. United States v. $25,000 U.S. Currency, 853 F.2d 1501, 1505 (9th Cir.1988) (suspect \"was not seized for purposes of the fourth amendment at the time of the initial encounter nor at the time he was asked for his airline ticket and identification\"); Erwin, 803 F.2d at 1508 (\"a reasonable person in Erwin's position [who had been stopped in an airport parking lot and asked for identification and plane tickets] would have considered himself free to leave\"). By the time Trooper Storey told Appellant that he would have to detain his luggage, however, the situation had evolved into one where Trooper Storey needed reasonable suspicion. Cf. id. at 1509 (\"the seizure of Erwin's day pack required only reasonable suspicion, not probable cause\"). Assuming for the moment that this prerequisite was satisfied, Trooper Storey's exposure of Appellant's garment bag to a canine sniff test, conducted promptly after inviting Appellant to observe, was within the permissible scope of the investigatory stop. Id.; cf. Place, 462 U.S. at 710, 103 S.Ct. at 2646 (90-minute detention of Place's luggage deemed unreasonable, especially because agents failed to inform Place of the details of the procedure or how he could recover his luggage in the event the investigation dispelled the officers' suspicion). Moreover, the positive result of this test supplied probable cause to obtain a search warrant for the full search of the garment bag. See id. at 701, 103 S.Ct. at 2641 (law enforcement officers who have probable cause to believe a container holds contraband, but who have not obtained a warrant, may seize the container until a warrant is properly issued). In short, the seizure of the cocaine from Appellant's garment bag was lawful unless, upon further analysis, we conclude as a matter of law that Trooper Storey did not have reasonable and articulable suspicion--at the time he asked Appellant to consent to a canine sniff test--that Appellant's garment bag contained narcotics.\nThe government argues that Trooper Storey had reasonable and articulable suspicion to believe that Appellant was transporting narcotics based on his knowledge that Appellant's conduct matched various factors of the \"drug courier profile,\" including: (1) Appellant scheduled a two-day trip to a known drug source city with a ground time of only eight hours; (2) he deplaned first even though he was seated in the eleventh row of the aircraft; (3) he carried only carry-on luggage and returned with a bag different than the one he carried on the date he departed; (4) he appeared nervous and walked at a rapid pace through the terminal; (5) he repeatedly glanced at the reflection in the concourse window in an effort to detect surveillance; (6) he exited the terminal at the top level even though taxi service was generally available at the bottom level; (7) he avoided revealing that his trip was to New York; (8) he produced a California identification even though Trooper Storey saw him pass over an Alaska identification; and (9) he offered an implausible excuse for traveling so far for so little time.\nThe government relies mainly on our decision in United States v. Erwin, 803 F.2d 1505, 1509-10 (9th Cir.1986), to support its argument that these factors, viewed collectively, establish the requisite reasonable suspicion needed to detain Appellant's luggage. In Erwin we concluded that enforcement officers had reasonable suspicion to detain luggage based on Erwin's long distance trip for only a brief time period; he traveled alone and carried only a day pack; he scanned the passenger area after deplaning; he walked erratically through the terminal at a quick pace; he backtracked through the baggage claim area without picking up any luggage; he appeared nervous when questioned; and he offered an implausible excuse for his conduct. See id. at 1506-07. The government argues that the nearly identical circumstances of Erwin warrants a conclusion that Trooper Storey's detention of Appellant's luggage was supported by reasonable suspicion.\nAppellant, on the other hand, distinguishes Erwin from the facts of this case because, unlike here, Erwin took a circuitous route through the airport in an effort to evade detection. According to Appellant, this factor is persuasive evidence of an \"ongoing\" criminal enterprise that is needed before a conclusion of reasonable suspicion can be found. Appellant thus argues that this case is controlled by our decision in United States v. Sokolow, 831 F.2d 1413 (9th Cir.1987), rev'd, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1581, 104 L.Ed.2d 1 (1989), in which we held that \"reasonable suspicion may be founded upon evidence of ongoing criminal behavior,\" which may only then be \"supplemented by other aspects of the [drug courier] profile that would not by themselves create reasonable suspicion.\" Id. at 1421. Appellant's counsel conceded at oral argument, however, that the proper course in this case was to postpone consideration of this contention until the Supreme Court had the opportunity independently to consider the rule announced in Sokolow.\nThe Supreme Court has now issued its ruling in that case, which clearly disapproves segmenting the evidence into that which indicates \"ongoing\" criminal activity and that which does not. United States v. Sokolow, --- U.S. ----, ----, 109 S.Ct. 1581, 1586, 104 L.Ed.2d ---- (1989). Such a rigid formula, according to the Court, seems only \"to draw a sharp line between types of evidence, the value of which varies only in degree.\" Id. Because \"reasonable suspicion\" cannot be \" 'readily, or even usefully, reduced to a neat set of rules,' \" the Court reiterated its oft expressed belief that the ultimate determination depends solely on the \" 'totality of the circumstances.' \" Id. (quoting Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 232, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 2329, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983), and United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 417, 101 S.Ct. 690, 66 L.Ed.2d 621 (1981)). Our disposition of this case is controlled by the Court's reasoning. Therefore, we need not dispute counsel's argument that each factor known to Trooper Storey, if viewed alone, was consistent with wholly innocent activity. Cf. Reid v. Georgia, 448 U.S. 438, 441, 100 S.Ct. 2752, 2754, 65 L.Ed.2d 890 (1980) (three drug profile characteristics described \"a very large category of presumably innocent travelers,\" and a fourth factor was insufficient on the facts of that case to establish reasonable suspicion). We conclude instead that these factors, viewed collectively, support a finding that Trooper Storey had reasonable suspicion to believe that Appellant was transporting narcotics. See Sokolow, --- U.S. at ----, 109 S.Ct. at ---- (although none of the factors \"by itself [is] proof of any illegal conduct,\" \"taken together they amount to reasonable suspicion\").\nImportant to our decision is the district court's finding that Trooper Storey was able to track Appellant through the airline reservation system and confirm that his ground time in a known drug source city was very short compared to his flight time. Cf. id. (\"surely few residents of Honolulu travel from that city for 20 hours to spend 48 hours in Miami during the month of July\"). Also important is the fact that Appellant offered an implausible excuse when asked about his travel arrangements. Cf. Erwin, 803 F.2d at 1510-11 (explanation for weaving through airport implausible); see also Florida v. Rodriguez, 469 U.S. 1, 6, 105 S.Ct. 308, 311, 83 L.Ed.2d 165 (1984) (per curiam) (suspects contradicted themselves when questioned about their identities). These two factors, combined with the others, leaves us with the impression that Trooper Storey reasonably suspected that Appellant's conduct was inconsistent with innocent activity. We therefore find unconvincing Appellant's argument that Trooper Storey lacked reasonable suspicion simply because he neither traveled under an alias nor avoided detection by walking on a circuitous route through the airport terminal. Cf. United States v. Mendenhall, 446 U.S. 544, 563-66, 100 S.Ct. 1870, 1882-83, 64 L.Ed.2d 497 (1980) (opinion of Powell, J.) (inter alia, suspect deplaned last on a flight arriving from a known drug source city and appeared nervous as she scanned the concourse). We hold that the district court properly rejected Appellant's motion to suppress evidence because Trooper Storey had reasonable suspicion, under the totality of the circumstances, to detain Appellant's garment bag and subject it to a canine sniff test.\nThe district court rejected Appellant's challenge to the constitutionality of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. On appeal Appellant relies on our decision in Gubiensio-Ortiz v. Kanahele, 857 F.2d 1245 (9th Cir.1988), vacated, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 859, 102 L.Ed.2d 984 (1989), on remand, 871 F.2d 104 (9th Cir.1989) (per curiam), to argue that the district court's decision was erroneous and therefore his case should be remanded for resentencing. Our decision in Gubiensio is no longer valid law, see 871 F.2d at 104; Mistretta v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 647, 102 L.Ed.2d 714 (1989), and therefore we cannot accept Appellant's contention. Appellant argues alternatively that the district court erred in rejecting his motion for a downward adjustment to the sentence based on his \"substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another,\" as permitted in section 5K1.1 of the Sentencing Guidelines and also in section 3553(e) of Title 18. Each of these provisions, however, explicitly conditions such a downward adjustment \"upon motion of the government\"--a prerequisite that is not met here.\nAppellant argues nonetheless that this prerequisite violates the doctrine of separation of powers by delegating to prosecutors the unbridled discretion to decide who is entitled to a sentencing reduction.2 A similar argument was considered and rejected in United States v. Severich, 676 F.Supp. 1209 (S.D.Fla.1988), aff'd, 872 F.2d 434 (11th Cir.1989). The district court there adopted the magistrate's reasoning that the sentencing process is not inherently judicial and that, even if it were, the government's authority to recommend a reduced sentence was not impermissibly obtrusive. Id. at 1212-13. To the same effect is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Musser, 856 F.2d 1484 (11th Cir.1988), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1145, 103 L.Ed.2d 205 (1989), in which the court noted that there is no \"constitutional right\" to the availability of a substantial assistance provision, \"and hence no grounds upon which to challenge Congress' manner of enacting it.\" Id. at 1487. We find the reasoning of these decisions persuasive.\nAppellant also argues that section 3553 and section 5K1.1 violate his constitutional right to due process. Again, this argument was considered and rejected in Severich because, according to the magistrate's reasoning, the defendant's liberty interests under Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165, 72 S.Ct. 205, 96 L.Ed. 183 (1952), and Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 58 S.Ct. 149, 82 L.Ed. 288 (1937), gave way \"to the antidrug abuse strategies advanced by Congress.\" Severich, 676 F.Supp. at 1214. The magistrate believed, as the Government argues here, that it is rational for Congress to lodge some sentencing discretion in the prosecutor, the only individual who knows whether a defendant's cooperation has been helpful. See also Musser, 856 F.2d at 1487. We agree. Therefore we hold that section 3553 and section 5K1.1 are not unconstitutional insofar as they allow only the Government to seek a departure from the minimum mandatory sentence to reflect a defendant's \"substantial assistance.\"\nThe district court did not err in denying Appellant's motion to suppress evidence, and it correctly rejected Appellant's motion for a downward adjustment of his sentence. Accordingly his conviction and sentence are AFFIRMED.\nNeither party contests the district court's findings of fact, and therefore we assume that the stated facts are not clearly erroneous. Cf. United States v. Sokolow, 831 F.2d 1413, 1417 & n. 3 (9th Cir.1987), rev'd on other grounds, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1581, 104 L.Ed.2d 1 (1989)\nAppellant also suggests that section 5K1.1 is an invalid exercise of the Sentencing Commission's delegated authority because 28 U.S.C. Sec. 994(n) (Supp. III 1985), which empowers the Sentencing Commission to provide for downward adjustments to account for a defendant's \"substantial assistance,\" does not limit the district court's sentencing discretion to motions brought by the government. We believe that the Sentencing Commission did not exceed its authority in drafting such a requirement in view of the fact that Congress itself drafted section 3553 the same way","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Knowledge News Events\nCommunity Our Team\nUbuntoo position on biodegradable plastics\nThe term \"biodegradable\" has been used over the past few years, to describe plastics or packaging that could potentially be metabolized by microorganisms in nature, with complete breakdown to CO2\/Methane, water and biomass. However, there is significant confusion and controversy surrounding biodegradable plastics since many suppliers have used the term to loosely describe their material\/packaging without specifying the conditions under which the material would degrade in nature. For instance, some plastics (like PLA) will only degrade under industrial composting conditions, while some others (like PHA) can break down under a wider range of conditions and environments (industrial, backyard, marine). Given this widespread confusion and the misuse of the \"biodegradable\" term, many global government and industry organizations have issued guidelines to restrict or eliminate the unqualified use of biodegradable as a descriptor of plastics or packaging. These include the European Commission guidelines (European Plastics Strategy) and the Federal Trade Commission Green Guides in the US.\nIn line with such guidelines, Ubuntoo's recommends that companies providing biodegradable materials, products or packaging:\n1.Avoid unqualified use of the term \"biodegradable\" to describe their products\n2.Any claim of biodegradability should be accompanied by a description of specific conditions and environments under which the material or product will undergo degradation in nature\n3.It is strongly recommended that companies provide globally accepted certifications or testing for various biodegradability claims (such as the BPA certification for industrial composting)\nFurther in line with the position articulated by the European Commission as well as major CPG companies, Ubuntoo recommends that \"biodegradable\" plastics should not be considered a solution for littering (or worse a license to litter). Appropriate collection and end-of-life solutions (such as industrial composting or home composting) need to be put into place to avoid biodegradable plastics ending up as litter in the environment.\nHey, Changemaker!\nThank you for your interest in Ubuntoo. We're excited that you're here! You will need premium membership with us to access this GreenHouse. To continue, please upgrade your membership or contact us at support@ubuntoo.com for monthly subscription options for this premium GreenHouse. To continue, you'll need an account with us.\nVisit our FAQs or Contact Us for any questions\nThank you for your interest in Ubuntoo.\nPlease Susbscribe to get free access to our newsletter, solutions database, knowledge resources and more.\nOr click below to sign up with your email\nPlease enable your cookies to explore our website\nYou have a pending invitation. Accept it to finish your account creation process. You can find invitation in your inbox or sometimes in your spam folder.\nIn case you are not able to find it, you can click on below link and we will resend the invitation.\nResend Invitation\nFederico Respini on Unsplash\nNENU2PHAR\n39 page views 0 follows\nDeveloping competitive value chains for PHA bioplastics\nNENU2PHAR is an ongoing research project that aims to use Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) to develop competitive value chains of bioplastics for high-volume consumer goods industries. The project is being completed by a 16-member consortium led by Commissariat \u00e0 l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (France).\nDue to the environmental impact of plastics there is creating a growing demand for sustainable alternatives. There is a need to focus on bioplastics based on bacteria, fungi, and algae which have a smaller carbon footprint and are also suitable for sustainable waste management options like composting.\nThe project aims to develop a new route of production of PHAs using micro-algae biomass and a selection of bacteria strains. It will develop eight products with end-of-life scenarios. It will formulate and functionalise polymers for masterbatching and compounding. This will ensure that the material is processable and can meet the needs of manufacturers.\nProcesses to ensure that the materials achieve properties at least as good as fossil-fuel plastics will be developed along with prototypes of eco-designed PHA-biobased products. The project will use material selection, design and process definition to reduce waste.\nIt will explore end-of-life scenarios such as composting, recycling and re-manufacturing. Eventually the project has a goal to establish a range of cross-sectoral connections between biopolymer extraction, compounding, product plastic manufacturers, recycling and remanufacturing industries.\nThe project includes 16 partners:\n4 large industrials: DANONE (France), KAJ PLASTICS (Poland), SOFRADIM PRODUCTION (France), IFG EXELTO (Belgium)\n6 SMEs: ELIXANCE (France), CELABOR (Belgium), BIO-MI Ltd (Croatia), BIOTREND (Portugal), LOMARTOV S.L. Applied Innovation Engineering (Spain), ZERO EMISSIONS ENGINEERING B.V. (The Netherlands)\n4 RTOs: CEA (France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), Innovation Plasturgie Composites (France), ITENE (Spain), CENTEXBEL (Belgium)\n1 academic: Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne Sud \u2013 Institut de recherche Dupuy de L\u00f4me (France)\n1 innovative cluster: IAR, the French Bioeconomy Cluster (France)\nThe project started on September 1st, 2020 with a total budget of \u20ac6.39 million that includes a grant of \u20ac4.98 million from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU). It is expected to end in February 2024.\nNo related news items found\nParis, France, Europe\nTRL 1- Research\nValue Chain Impact\nMaterials, Recycle, Waste Management\nPackaging, Plastics\nExpertise, Grants\nResearcher Microalgae Processes & Technologies at CEA\nWe use cookies to give you the best experience on our site. 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{"text":"Choose the Simplest Git Workflow For Your Team\nPhoto by Yancy Min on Unsplash\nGit has become the ubiquitous source code management since its introduction in 2005. Along the way, a number of branching strategies (\"workflows\") have evolved. As with anything in software architecture, there is no one right way to do anything; it all depends on context. In this post I'll describe three common workflows to help you choose the simplest Git workflow for your team.\nBasic Workflow\nIn this workflow there is only one branch \u2013 master. Everyone commits and pushes their changes to master. All team members can readily see all the changes to the code base. Your build server is easier to configure because it only needs to respond to changes on master. As a result, the team gets faster feedback because everyone is working on the same branch. This workflow is suitable for when the pace of development is slow, and the team can complete all the features planned for the coming release.\nWhere the Basic Workflow becomes a problem is when the development pace is faster than the release cadence. In other words, when the team decides to take a release through QA testing and production deployment while simultaneously working on features for the next release. You can overcome this by using feature flags to hide new features from the current release. But the code needs to be clean and modular in order for feature flags to be useful. Spaghetti code and bad designs won't work with feature flags.\nFeature Branch Workflow\nSimilar to the Basic Workflow in that there is only one permanent branch \u2013 master. But each new feature has its own temporary branch, known as a feature branch. A developer creates a feature branch from the head of master, and makes all their changes on that feature branch. When they are done, they merge it back in to master, and delete the feature branch. Many teams have the developer issue a pull request (PR) before merging so the lead developer or other team members can review the changes. Once approved or up-voted, someone merges the feature branch back into master.\nIt's important that each developer frequently merge changes from develop into their feature branch. This should be done at least once a day so that they incorporate other team members' work into theirs. It also avoids merge conflicts and breaking builds since everyone can keep their local copies up to date.\nThis workflow is handy for tracking the code changes for a particular feature. When the team names their feature branches after the feature name, tracking is simple. In fact, Atlassian's Jira makes this easy. Another is the use of PRs promotes learning by having other team members review the code changes. It also helps a lead developer or architect monitor the evolving design of the software.\nOne drawback is not everyone sees the changes to the code base. If you are on master, you won't see a developer's feature branch until it is merged back in. Another drawback is if your build server (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) is configured to look at just one branch (master), there is a delay in feedback until the feature branch is merged into master.\nGitflow Workflow\nIn the Gitflow workflow there are two permanent branches \u2013 master and develop. The master branch reflects what is in or on its way to Production. Feature branches are taken off develop and merged back in. When the time comes to make a release, the team merges develop into master.\nThis workflow is great for when the pace of development exceeds the release cadence. When the team decides to make a release, they merge develop into master so the latter now has all the features planned for the upcoming release. Work on the next release continues on develop, with feature branches created off it and merged back into it.\nThe Gitflow Workflow handles production hot fixes quite nicely too. These are critical fixes that cannot wait for the next scheduled release. Take a branch off master to work on the hot fix. When complete, merge the hotbox branch into both master and develop.\nWhich Workflow Do We Use?\nSo there you have three of the most common Git workflows. But how do you choose? My advice is to choose the simplest Git workflow for your team. Start with the Basic Workflow. If that works for your team, great! If you realize you need the capabilities of one of the other workflows, and you can live with its drawbacks, then adopt it. Conversely, if one of these workflows turns out to be overkill for your team, you can fall back to a simpler once master and develop are aligned.\nCategories Software\nGet Organized With a Simple Development Approach\nMake Your Code More Readable With Functional Programming","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TNW at IBC: GoPro cameras for extreme filmmakers have 'vomit-proof' housings\nby Jamillah Knowles \u2014 in Video\nThe Next Web has been in Amsterdam at International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), livestreaming interviews from the event with the help of LiveU.\nIf you missed the streaming live, our interviews are on site so you can find out what the future of broadcast looks like. You can find more of our video coverage and catch up with the future of broadcasting from IBC here.\nGoPro, the camera company known for products that can be used extreme conditions, in the trickiest places were at the convention and Kash Shaikh, director of global communications at the company came to chat with us about the development of 'the little grey box that could'.\nGoPro was founded in California by a surfer who wanted to capture images of surfers in the barrel of a wave. At the time there was no way for people to capture an event while experiencing it.\nAnywhere, anytime filming\nInitially GoPro cameras were created to be worn on the wrist and now the unit can be worn in most places and used in multiple ways.\n\"The most magical thing we could do was put our camera in the hands of creative people who are showing us new ways to use it that we couldn't have imagined. Now people in film, entertainment, music and even science are using our cameras, even NASA is sending our cameras into space,\" explains Shaikh.\nBut it's not only the extreme sportsmen and women who are using the GoPro cameras. \"We really consider our camera to be a lifestyle camera, says Shaikh. \"People attach them to their dog's collar or to the handlebars of their little girl's bike as she learns to ride for the first time, they can capture her expression. People are using it in their daily lives in ways they were not able to before.\"\nShaikh has some big plans ahead, including work with a US fighter-jet team where the GoPros will be mounted to the jets. He'll be sitting in the jets as they perform free-dives, a stomach flipping exercise for most people, but Shaikh assures us, \"These camera housings are vomit-proof so we should be good.\"\nCheck out the video to find out what he will be up to in the skies.\nRead next: TNW at IBC: Irdeto on tracking global piracy habits across the Web","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"14 Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Still Love To See\nAs soon as the Switch was revealed, attention swiftly turned to \"ooh, do you think this and that game will be on it, I want to play that one while riding in a hot air balloon \/ sitting in a park \/ on the loo\". Since that day dreams have been fulfilled as some iconic games have been available in portable form, with the most recent announcement (at the time of writing) being Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection.\nOver the winter holidays we generally run an annual list of games we'd be ecstatically pleased to (re)play on Switch, and the announcement of Assassin's Creed II \u2014 one of our very favourite games in that series \u2014 finally coming to Switch had us reminiscing about the games we've dared to dream might get a Switch port in the past. Our hybrid wishlists have been fulfilled from right across the industry, from major triple-A titles like The Witcher 3, Dark Souls and Bioshock: The Collection through to Indie classics beyond count. The little system has even answered the ultimate gamers' question \u2014 can it run Crysis? Yes, yes it can.\nBut, we always want more.\nBelow we've consolidated a bunch of games we'd still love to see make their way onto Switch in an update to a previous article that collects more titles, old and new, into a single ongoing list that we'll keep updated in the future. There are a few remaining Wii U games that haven't come to Switch which we've excluded from the running, but each and every one below would be gratefully received on Nintendo's console should a publisher deign to make it happen. We're open to adding more \u2014 and hopefully subtracting some, too \u2014 so feel free to suggest worthy additions in the comments.\nWallets open, money ready. Come on, it's there for the takin'\u2026\nTomb Raider: Survivor Trilogy\nThat title refers to the recent-ish compilation release of Tomb Raider (2013), Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the trilogy developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montr\u00e9al. They're rather good games (with the original being a real stand-out late in the PS3 \/ Xbox 360 era) that tell the origin story of the iconic character, and they all have a flair for cinematic action and some occasional tomb raiding. Not all diehard fans of the IP approve of the games, but we reckon they're a fun time.\nLow-ish, we'd say. This is an anniversary year for the franchise and would have been the ideal time, but Square Enix instead announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris for Switch, due this year. Still, it's better than nothing.\nInscryption is a deckbuilding roguelike psychological horror puzzler and various other bits thrown into a piece of software that's been the talk of the internet for the last few months and also graced many a multiplatform GOTY list. Even if the word 'roguelike' has you rolling your eyes into infinity, this is one you'll want to put aside your preconceived notions for.\nDevolver Digital like the Switch. The game looks like a perfect fit for the platform. If we had to put our money on any game from this list coming to Switch, it would be this one.\nThen again we said Persona 5 was a dead cert years ago. Speaking of which\u2026\nWe hate to keep harping on\u2026 but we're gonna.\nPersona 5, a game that \u2014 lest we forget \u2014 released on PS3 back in 2016, is still not available on a Nintendo system. Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers was pleasant enough, but it's not Persona 5.\nWho can say when Atlus and Sega are concerned. They're leaving a sizeable wad of cash on the table as far as we're concerned, but perhaps Sony has the exclusivity rights tied up for something. If it was going to happen, it surely would have happened by now \u2014 but we're optimists at heart. It's never too late, Atlus.\nBatman: Arkham Collection\nIt sometimes feels like the Rocksteady developed 'main' Arkham games have been done a disservice. Not only was the 'Return to Arkham' PS4 \/ Xbox One collection a technical disappointment, but the newest entry (Arkham Knight) has gone unloved and hasn't had any upgrades for the latest hardware. The trilogy, nevertheless, is comprised of three excellent games (in this scribe's humble opinion) that would be awesome to play on Switch.\nIt should be technically possible, though the third entry would be rather demanding to port across. The first two games should be do-able however, and let's not forget that we had Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition and Batman: Arkham Origins on Wii U, and even Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate on 3DS (later in its HD form on Wii U). The precedent is there.\nWill it actually happen? Considering the haphazard treatment of the games over the years probably not. Still, you never know\u2026\nGOTY Winner at The Game Awards, It Takes Two relies on co-operation via splitscreen local (or online) play, and seems like it would be a perfect fit for Switch.\nThe game was developed by Hazelight Studios and founder Josef Fares' Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is available on Switch. The studios previous game, A Way Out, is only available on other platforms, though, and with EA on publishing duties, it's tough to predict whether or not Nintendo gamers will see this critically acclaimed title, however good a fit it would seem to be. Bringing it over might present an unappealing technical challenge, too.\nNieR: Automata \/ NieR Replicant Ver. 1.224etc\u2026\nWe've mentioned this one a lot in previous lists, so we might as well do it again \u2014 Platinum Games' award-winning NieR: Automata wouldn't be an easy port, but that doesn't mean it would be an impossible one. We now also have NieR Replicant 1.224EtcEtc on the market for other systems, which is an excellent remaster of one version of the original (its release origins, like the lore, are complicated).\nGiven the effort that would be needed to make solid Switch ports, we like to think that Platinum and other companies sitting on unwieldy but classic games are just waiting for some new Nintendo hardware \u2014 something slightly more powerful that would take the developmental headaches out of ports thanks to extra grunt in the specs department. They're all there, just waiting for news of 'Switch 2' or 'Switch Pro' or whatever, waiting to pump out impressive ports of slightly older classics and give this hypothetical system the greatest launch of any console in video game history.\nThat's what we like to think, anyway. Or some magicians could get them going on Switch.\nFirst-person bug-hunter Bugsnax is still something we think would fit nicely on Switch. Nintendo gamers love ensnaring weird little monsters, after all, and we're eager to find out more after hearing strange murmurs over the last year concerning the exact nature of these ominously named entomological morsels.\nYoung Horses' game was a PS launch exclusive on consoles, and the developer has said \"we'd love to bring the game to other platforms\". Performance was choppy on PS4, so a Switch version would be a challenge, but certainly possible.\nFirst-Ever Live Action NFT Series Casts Star of 'Hawkeye' & 'Van Helsing'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spread across a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Ethnically it is highly diverse, with more than 300 local languages. The people range from rural hunter-gatherers to a modern urban elite.\nSophisticated kingdoms existed before the arrival of the Dutch, who colonised the archipelago but gave in to an independence struggle in 1949. Indonesia has become one of the world's major emerging economies, but faces demands for independence in several provinces and increasing attacks by Islamist armed groups.\nCapital: Jakarta\nPopulation 261 million\nArea 1.9 million sq km (742,308 sq miles)\nMajor languages Indonesian, 300 regional languages\nMajor religion Islam\nLife expectancy 67 years (men), 71 years (women)\nCurrency Rupiah\nUN, World Bank\n(http:\/\/www.livinginindonesiaforum.org)\nAnda disini: Home International Student Living in Indonesia About Indonesia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rose Brand Gardens and Recycles\nMay 27, 2009 UncategorizedClean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Collective Expression, Communal Garden, Earth Day Celebrations, Efficient Lighting, Employee Volunteers, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Event Entertainment, Hartz Mountain Industries, Lighting And Sound, Lighting Systems, Occupancy Sensors, Perennial Herbs, Political Alignment, Rose BRand, Secaucus New Jersey, Sound America, Theatrical Fabrics\nReprinted from: Lighting and Sound America Online (20 April 2009), (6 April 2009)\nHartz Mountain Industries, owner of the building at 4 Emerson Lane, Secaucus, New Jersey, has given permission to its tenant, Rose Brand, the specialist in theatrical fabrics, fabrications and supplies for the event, entertainment, and display industries, to plant a communal garden in celebration of Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22nd.\nThe garden will occupy 360 sq. ft. on the west side of the building with planned crops including vegetables, perennial herbs, and some flowers. Rose Brand employee volunteers will care for the garden and ultimately benefit from the food and herbs grown. This year, over one billion people worldwide are anticipated in the 2009 Earth Day celebrations.\nRose Brand's corporate headquarters and warehouse in Secaucus is considered state-of-the-art in terms of energy conservation, the company reports. With highly efficient lighting systems, occupancy sensors, and careful monitoring Rose Brand is actively reducing its carbon footprint. Hartz Mountain Industries has cited this building as being the paradigm of retrofit energy usage and a star in its portfolio of millions of square feet of commercial space. Rose Brand's operations manager, Bob Bertrand, stated, \"This garden is an important milestone in our continuing education of our employees about environmental issues.\"\nEarth Day has achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from both secular and religious leaders, rich and poor, urban dwellers and farmers businesses and labor leaders. The first Earth Day in 1970 lead to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the passage of The Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Earth Day is widely celebrated around the world as a collective expression of public will to create a sustainable society.\nIn a continuing effort to reuse, reduce, and recycle, Rose Brand will be earning money to be donated to The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes by collecting empty printer cartridges and used cell phones and recycling them for cash credit at Funding Factory, a company based in Erie, Pennsylvania offering nationwide free recycling. The fundraiser continues Rose Brand's support of Behind the Scenes and the company's commitment to the environment.\nAs Josh Jacobstein, Rose Brand's sales director, said, \"We have a long-term relationship with the entertainment industry and the hard-working people who make it all happen. With our recycling efforts we will create a benefit to Behind the Scenes and that's a perfect way of continuing our ongoing support of the industry and people we work with.\"\nRose Brand's Deborah Sperry added, \"Rose Brand is on a journey to find the types of eco-friendly behaviors and activities that are genuine and sustainable. As the coordinator for Rose Brand's green journey I am pleased that our recycling of used toner cartridges and cell phones will result in a contribution to Behind the Scenes and our green goals.\"\nAll laser and inkjet cartridges and cell phones collected through this effort are sent to Funding Factory. Items are inspected and the value for each collected item in Rose Brand's account is then sent to The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes program.\nGo to the Green Theater Initiative\nGreenwashing Alert: Rose Brand Neo-Flex\nNovember 17, 2008 newscolortool, efficacy, efficiency, fiber optics, Flora Seris, Ian Garrett, LED, lighting, Linear ligt, Los Angeles, NeoFlex, Panorama Tour Edition, rope light, Rose BRand, Source Four\nI receive a lot of mail, electronic and other wise, that deals with the lighting industry. My personal artistic practice is heavily centered in the discipline of lighting design and it behooves me to keep up with what is happening in the industry.\nLighting design in theater is uses alot of resources. The amount of electricity needed to illuminate a show is staggering even on the lowest levels, as compared to your average home or office. And, since technology is not in a place where you can really design a show in a traditional sense, it will be a very hard transition to make headway in this sector of the performing arts. I won't go into it much here, but will refer you to my paper, The Ecological Sustainability of Theatrical Lighting, on the site here.\nThis morning I received an email for Rose Brand, a company that makes curtains, expendables and useful items for theater production, based in Los Angeles. It is promoting their NeoFlex product. It is a Flexible Linear Light, which may as well be called rope light. It uses LEDs and can come in different colors as well as an RGB color change model. It is diffused to look like a solid linear light and since it uses LEDs, it is extremely energy efficient, which is to say it is marketable as \"green.\"\nSo is it green?\nFor any application which it is suited, yes, it is a more \"green\" solution that others on the market. I won't say it's the greenest; I'm not going to do a side by side analysis of similar products. But if you need a linear lighting solution, sure, it is. If you're looking for an alternative to neon, it would be a good one. Neon, relative to an incandescent bulb, is pretty efficient, so the energy savings wouldn't be huge. But, it is safer since it is not breakable glass and doesn't require the high voltages that neon does. And it won't be as hot as neon. There are some design advantages too: it is flexible, reusable, doesn't need to be made to order and the color options are greater, especially the color changing RGB.\nWhat other applications does it have? You could use it for cove lighting\u2026 where you have a wash against a wall or the ceiling to provide indirect decorative lighting. You could use it for any light rope application as well. You'd probably only want to replace rope light that was decorative though because of the look of the NeoFlex as it is much more expensive. But, the point is that it is primarily decorative, not a particularly practical light source at all. As a designer, I'm more interested on what its applications are and what I can do with it. As a color changing, cool to the touch, flexible linear light source I'm interested in it. I like that it uses much less power, and my clients will like that it would save them money if they're looking for the effect that it produces versus an alternative.\nWhy? It doesn't solve a problem. It offers an interesting solution to a design problem, but not a constructive solution to a particularly unsustainable and existing solution to that design problem. It is a little more energy efficient than fiber optic solutions, but doesn't do anything that you can't already do with fiber optics. Furthermore, it uses more material and isn't as adaptable as fiber optic solutions as I have used it.\nThere is a lot of lighting products out there being green washed. LEDs aren't yet practical or cost effective in general use, but they are pretty, colorful and you can control their use pretty extensively, so they are used a lot in theatrical settings. For putting color on stage or anywhere for that matter where you would otherwise use a lot of incandescent or halogen sources, LEDS offer a great step in the right direction on energy used and heat generated. But, it seems that you stick an LED in something and it becomes green. It isn't as green washed as the source four, which is marketed as green because it has high efficacy and outputs with 575w for which other instruments require 1000w, but it's tiring.\nJust because something use an LED doesn't make it green, especially if you have developed it for the other benefits of LED use. It's lazy marketing and a paid forward pitch for the marketing of the application, be it show or club or what have you, to pitch that application as one which use green technology over alternatives.\nUsing more of something which is more efficient is still using more.\nAlso in the email, which you can see if you click here, are the Flora Series of fabric hanging flowers, Design Master Colortool\u00ae Spray Paint, 12 oz. Cans and Panorama Tour Edition. What the first and last have to do at all with being green I don't get and to call an aerosol paint \"eco\" because the can is partially recycled steel and it's non-toxic after it dries is a stretch (read the warnings on those labels folks). Be careful.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Winding down the year: Mellow rockers Ikebana released the beautiful \"When You Arrive There\" back in June. The duo will play a Flau Records showcase on Dec. Dec. 22 with labelmates Cuushe, Sparrows and more.\u2003| 22 WITH LABELMATES CUUSHE, SPARROWS AND MORE.\nCSS, Makoto Ozone and Shonen Knife get a round of shows in before New Year's\nby Shaun McKenna\nWith the year winding down and the holiday season approaching, the concert scene in Japan gets pretty quiet. Although there will be a few international acts headed here in the middle of December, your best shot for a live performance might be checking out local acts before they go into hibernation for New Year's holidays.\nOf the acts coming over, there still might be a few tickets left for Brazilian hipsters CSS, the always charming Elvis Costello and slightly mature boy band The Wanted.\nCSS will be playing Nagoya's Club Quattro on Dec. 11 (052-264-8211), Osaka's Umeda Club Quattro on Dec. 12 (06-6535-5569) and Ex Theater Roppongi in Tokyo on Dec. 14 (03-3444-6751). Tickets for all shows are \u00a56,000 in advance, and starting times are 7 p.m. for the Tokyo gig and 7:30 p.m. for the other two. Costello will have three gigs with his band The Imposters at Ex Theater Roppongi from Dec. 11 to Dec. 13 (7:30 p.m. start; \u00a58,000; 03-3444-6751) before heading to Namba Zepp in Osaka on Dec. 15 (6 p.m. start; \u00a57,500-\u00a58,5000; 06-6535-5569). Costello is touring in support his new album \"Wise Up Ghost,\" a collaborative effort with hip-hop outfit The Roots. The Wanted, meanwhile, will be playing Shin Kiba Studio Coast in Tokyo on Dec. 18 (03-3499-6669) and Morinomiya Piloti Hall (06-7732-8888). Both shows will be \u00a56,000 and start at 7 p.m.\nA few indie shows in Tokyo next month will showcase some of the country's best up-and-coming acts from 2013. First off, check out Flau Night in Tokyo, happening at Vacant in Harajuku on Dec. 22 (4:30 p.m. start; \u00a53,000 in advance; 03-6459-2962). Vacant is a great spot to hold this event, which will feature Ikebana, Cuushe, Sparrows, Twigs & Yarn and Black Elk. Cuushe did well overseas this year after releasing her album \"Butterfly Case.\" Due to popular demand, Flau will be releasing a vinyl version of it in early 2014. Ikebana did fairly well overseas, too. The female duo rarely speak to the press but still managed to get on the radar of music journalists at Spin magazine in the States.\nAlso playing shows next month will be indie group Boys Age. The alt-rock act will perform at Ruby Room in Tokyo on Dec. 7 (7:30 p.m. start; \u00a51,000) and Lights Out Rec in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 15 (3 p.m.; \u00a51,500). There will also be a show at Force in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 11 but details haven't been confirmed yet. The band will release a new album, \"Epstein Orkestar,\" on Dec. 7 and will also feature on a 51-artist compilation being put out by Sauna Cool on Dec. 25.\nShonen Knife are doing a \"Space Christmas Tour\" next month, but before that happens the band will play a gig with Sebadoh at Metro in Kyoto on Dec. 1 (6:30 p.m.; \u00a54,500 in adv.; 075-752-4765). Keiichi Sokabe and Shinsei Kamattechan will also be on this bill, Sebadoh will be coming straight from an appearance at the Hostess Club Weekender in Tokyo they day before. Then, Shonen Knife sets out on a Christmas tour. The group. who made a splash overseas in the 1990s, will hit Osaka's Shinsaibashi Conpass on Dec. 15 (06-6535-5569), Tokyo's Shin Daita Fever on Dec. 21 (03-3444-6751) and Nagoya's Club Upset on Dec. 22 (052-936-6041). All shows cost \u00a53,000 and start at 6 p.m.\nIf pop and rock isn't your thing, an interesting event titled Drums and Voices is happening at Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 18 (7 p.m. start; \u00a55,000; 03-3477-9111). To celebrate 40 years of ASEAN-Japan relations, a pan-Asian smorgasbord of musicians from various southeast Asian countries will play alongside drummer Tsubasa Hori and shakuhachi player Dozan Fujiwara. The concert has toured other parts of Asia since October and the music is being curated by Michiru Oshima.\nAlso playing Bunkamura next month will be jazz artist Makoto Ozone, who will be gigging with Branford Marsalis there on Dec. 12 (7 p.m.; \u00a56,500-\u00a57,500; 03-3477-3244). The pair will also play at Hitachi Civic Center in Ibaraki Prefecture on Dec. 5 (6:30 p.m.; \u00a54,000 for adults; 0294-24-7720), Shunan City Cultural Center in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 6 (7 p.m.; \u00a54,000-\u00a56,000; 0834-22-8787), Blue Note in Nagoya on Dec. 7 and 8 (5 p.m., 8 p.m. starts; \u00a58,900; 052-961-6311) and Sankei Hall Breeze in Osaka on Dec. 10 (7 p.m.; \u00a57,000-\u00a58,000; 06-6341-8888). Ozone will end the year in Sendai for a New Year's Eve show at Denryoku Hall (7 p.m.; \u00a56,000; 022-268-2174).\nKeeping on the jazz tip, while there should be many options for New Year's Eve entertainment at clubs in most cities across the country, Mado Lounge at the top of Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower in Tokyo will feature jazz singers Karen Aoki and Akiko along with some DJs (8 p.m. start; \u00a55,000 in adv.; 03-3470-0052). The singers' lounge style will be a lovely soundtrack for a view over the entire city as the countdown to 2014 commences.\nWhen it comes to countdowns, though, music magazine Rockin' On's four-day event will be tough to beat. The festival takes place at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba from Dec. 28 to Dec. 31. The first three days will start at 1 p.m. and end around 9:30 p.m. Shows on the final day, though, start at 3 p.m. and end at 5 a.m. The lineup doesn't change much from year to year, headliners include Quruli, Sakanaction, Rip Slyme and Man With a Mission (who will play during the countdown). (Shaun McKenna)\nElvis Costello, ikebana, Flau, Shonen Knife, Cuushe, CSS, The Wanted, Boys Age, Drums and Voices, Michiru Oshima, Makoto Ozone, Branford Marsalis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Did you forget about COPPA? Here are 170 million reasons to remember it.\nA deep dive into the circumstances and motivations behind Google's $170M COPPA settlement and why they signal a new era in privacy concerns for game publishers\nSince I started blogging here in 2014, I've discussed how COPPA (and later, GDPR) are going to change the mobile gaming world. To some degree, I was the guy saying \"The sky is going to fall\". And for a long time, not much happened.\nThe FTC appeared to be unwilling to enforce COPPA, even when faced with an extremely egregious violation in the form of the 2015 Vtech data breach, which exposed all sorts of private information of millions of children \u2013 probably the worst imaginable COPPA infraction. Three years later, the FTC fined Vtech just $650,000.\nToday, a lot has changed; GDPR has been in force over a year and is finally beginning to be enforced, with Google breaking the ice with a \u20ac50M fine, followed by a \u20ac183M fine to British Airways and \u20ac99M to Marriott, both for data breaches. Unrelated to GDPR, in July the FTC fined Facebook $5 Billion for violating a 2010 consent decree, and many privacy advocates declared the fine too low. Because the US has no general federal privacy law, many U.S. states have been passing their own privacy regulations based on GDPR, with California, Nevada and Maine laws going into effect in just a few weeks.\nAnd this week, following a year-long investigation, the FTC and State of New York announced a mammoth $170M COPPA fine against Google for improperly handling children's privacy on its YouTube platform.\nEven though this fine is 30 times larger than any previous COPPA fine, many have pointed out that with Google's $130+ Billion annual sales, this fine equates to a few hours worth of revenues, hardly a deterrent. I'm not here to debate the size of the fine.\nSo what is my point?\nI think game publishers need to understand the megatrends that are running behind these recent actions, with an eye toward where things are going in the next couple of years. I've referred to this megatrend as the \"Privacy Tsunami\" many times and I still think the name is very apt.\nGDPR represents the tip of a spear representing a global backlash to the massive amount of privacy surveillance, tracking and outright data theft that characterized the first 20 years of the Internet age. Regulations are finally catching up with technology. The number and severity of backlash regulations have increased, and I feel comfortable saying that within a few years, every market that you care about will have a stiff privacy regulation in place.\nWith virtually no COPPA enforcement since 2014, when COPPA was updated, you may wonder why the FTC is suddenly fining Oath $5M, TikTok $5.7M and then Google $170M, just in the last 9 months.\nHere's my take. It's political. In the US, we do not have a single federal privacy regulation, just a patchwork of balkanized departmental privacy regs, of which COPPA is just one. HIPAA is another. As the privacy tsunami has come ashore over the past few years, pressure has been mounting for Congress to create a comprehensive federal privacy law similar to GDPR. Unfortunately, Washington has been beset by partisan gridlock since 2012, and other than press releases about Privacy, very little was done.\nThe vacuum was filled in an odd way. In 2017 a California real estate developer named Alistair MacTaggart was dismayed at the amount of private information and tracking was being done on the web and in apps and devoted several million dollars into gathering signatures and creating a proposition that California voters could vote into law.\nThe regulation he proposed easily gained enough signatures to become California law. The tech cabal in Silicon Valley realized their days of blissful surveillance and data capture were coming to an end. Rather than let MacTaggart's proposal come to a vote (and instantly go into effect if approved), the Tech lobby made a last-minute deal with MacTaggart, and used their political power to rush a watered-down bill through both California state houses. And that's how the California Consumer Protection Act became law - as a jumbled, self conflicting patchwork, literally thrown together in a few days.\nWith many similarities to GDPR, CCPA will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Many other states have their own GDPR-like regulations pending, or passed (in the case of Maine and Nevada). In short, we are heading for a world where most states have their own privacy regulation, fines and enforcement agency \u2013 an example of the states gaining power and the federal government losing it due to its gridlock.\nSo, lacking any ability to pass new privacy laws, what was left for Washington to do? Wait, we have this old child privacy regulation that's been in on the books for 19 years! Let's enforce that so we look like we're being an effective part of the global privacy tsunami!\nSo that is why COPPA is now a red hot topic, and you can expect many more COPPA fines in the coming months. This is also why the FTC has agreed to advance its 10 year scheduled COPPA review by 4 years and is currently seeking comments on ways to improve COPPA.\nBased on the Google settlement and several other investigations of which I am aware, I'm here to tell you that COPPA isn't going to be a joke for game publishers anymore. With EU regulators now aggressively enforcing GDPR, the California attorney general enforcing CCPA starting January 1, Nevada's attorney general enforcing SB220 on October 1, and a revitalized and motivated FTC focused on COPPA, I'm strongly suggesting that game publishers \"get your privacy act together\".\nMobileConsoleExtended Reality","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Climate change website\nscience \/ aasCorals: threatened by global warmingscience \/ aas\nA virtual database about climate change has been launched by the British Embassy in Brazil, by the British Council and by the Child Rights News Agency (Andi). With material in Portuguese the web address is www.mudancasclimaticas.andi.org.br. The site has videos, recordings of statements, photographs, interviews and articles as well as a glossary of terms on the subject. The decision to launch the website, the goal of which is to improve the debate about climate change in Brazil, was taken after Andi and the British Council launched a study about coverage of the subject in 50 Brazilian press vehicles between 2005 and 2007. The analysis identified a series of problems, such as overstating the impact of global warming in detriment to the causes of it, or the scant emphasis given to the implications of the phenomenon for the economic development agenda. \"The site reinforces the need identified in the survey for the theme to be put into context better\", observes the executive director of Andi, Veet Vivarta.\n<br><p>This work first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/\">Pesquisa FAPESP<\/a> under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\">CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license<\/a>. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/2009\/02\/04\/climate-change-website\/\" target=\"_blank\">original here<\/a>.<\/p><script>var img = new Image(); img.src='https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/republicacao_frame?id=146263&referer=' + window.location.href;<\/script>\nscience \/ aasCorals: threatened by global warmingscience \/ aas A virtual database about climate change has been launched by the British Embassy in Brazil, by the British Council and by the Child Rights News Agency (Andi). With material in Portuguese the web address is www.mudancasclimaticas.andi.org.br. The site has videos, recordings of statements, photographs, interviews and articles as well as a glossary of terms on the subject. The decision to launch the website, the goal of which is to improve the debate about climate change in Brazil, was taken after Andi and the British Council launched a study about coverage of the subject in 50 Brazilian press vehicles between 2005 and 2007. The analysis identified a series of problems, such as overstating the impact of global warming in detriment to the causes of it, or the scant emphasis given to the implications of the phenomenon for the economic development agenda. \"The site reinforces the need identified in the survey for the theme to be put into context better\", observes the executive director of Andi, Veet Vivarta.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kate Middleton Brings Her Royal Style Signatures to Zoom\nBy Christian Allaire\nPhoto: Courtesy of Kensington Palace\nYesterday, Kate Middleton and Prince William took a moment to acknowledge the many teachers across the U.K. who are keeping schools open for the children of key workers and vulnerable children. To amplify that message, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video chatted via Zoom with staff and students at the Casterton Primary Academy in Burnley, one such school remaining open for those in need. During the call, students shared their Easter-themed arts and crafts projects. Afterwards, the couple then chatted with some of the teachers providing care for the students.\n\"We just want to say a huge thank you to you guys for keeping it all going,\" said Prince William to the teachers over video. \"Please pass on many messages of support to all of the staff and volunteers; they are doing a great job.\" Middleton also added, \"For all of the parents who are key workers, to know that normality is there for their children, and that they've got the structure and a safe place to be\u2026 it's fantastic.\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/KensingtonRoyal\/status\/1247992637367468033\nAdmittedly, the video conference call is a highly unusual medium for official royal appearances of this kind, even still Middleton brought forward her signature regal polish. The Duchess chose a high-impact top, a bright orange crewneck sweater by Zara, for the occasion, an easy way to make a stylish impression on the app. She accessorized it with a sleek pair of gold dangly earrings, giving her at-home ensemble an even dressier finish. Prince William, meanwhile, went for a business-causal look in a classic blue button-up shirt.\nThe couple's joint appearance hit an appropriately pulled-together note, underscoring the message of gratitude to educational workers at this time. With the U.K. and many parts of the world under lockdown for the foreseeable future, there will likely be more royal Zoom appearances in this celebratory and stylish spirit to come.\nTopicsKate Middleton","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: The Americans\nBrain Dump: The Americans, Coco, The Split\nA few brief comments on television and movies coming at you in this edition of a brain dump. I'll talk about The Americans , Coco , and The Split . Continue reading \"Brain Dump: The Americans, Coco, The Split\"\nAuthor Virginia DeBoltPosted on June 4, 2018 Categories Movies, TV seriesTags Abi Morgan, Annabel Scholey, Anthony Head, brain dump, Coco, Deborah Findlay, Fiona Button, Holly Taylor, Jessica Hobbs, Keidrich Sellati, Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Nicola Walker, Noah Emmerich, The Americans1 Comment on Brain Dump: The Americans, Coco, The Split\nLois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica\nLast week in the \"Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep\" episode of The Americans , Lois Smith was a guest star. It was an important episode of The Americans because it showed the Russian spy, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) as she begins to grasp the horror of what she does as a spy. Continue reading \"Lois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica\"\nAuthor Virginia DeBoltPosted on April 3, 2015 February 27, 2016 Categories TV series, Web SeriesTags elders rock, Keri Russell, Lois Smith, Maura Tierney, Michael C. Hall, Philip Baker Hall, Ruth & Erica, Steven Weber, The Americans, WIGSLeave a comment on Lois Smith in The Americans and in Ruth & Erica\nBrain Dump: House of Cards, Empire, The Americans, The Fosters\nIt's a brain dump day. Just a little bit of one thing or another in disconnected ramblings.\nKevin Spacey and Robin Wright in House of Cards\nWhen Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) finally has all the power in the world in his hands, he becomes a tyrant and a bigger ass than he ever was. And when Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) has a chance, she chooses to do the right thing. Unlike dear Frank.\nHouse of Cards is more about the relationship between Frank and Claire than it is about political intrigue and power. Season 3 really brings that home, especially the final moments.\nFavorite scenes: 1. When Claire shamed the Russian President on Russian TV. 2. When Frank caused Jesus to go all to pieces. 3. When Claire \u2013 aw, shucks, that's too big of a spoiler to share.\nTaraji P. Henson and Terrance Howard in Empire\nI'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying Empire . I know I'm a sucker for any show with music, but I thought this one would be different because I don't enjoy rap. I get tired of all those male voices in rap. But the music on this show is good, with only an occasional bit of rap and with plenty of women performers in the mix.\nI'm also into the characters and the drama. Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyons and Terrance Howard as Lucious Lyons show off outstanding acting chops in every episode, with the rest of the cast doing just as well. I'm happy it keeps climbing in the ratings, because that means it will probably be back for another season.\nHolly Taylor in The Americans\nIn The Americans , Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) have agonized all season over when (or if) to explain to their oldest child Paige (Holly Taylor) that they are Russian spies. Phillip doesn't want to. Elizabeth wants to but can't bring herself to do it. It underscores everything that happens this season from what they do as spies to how they relate to each other and their daughter. It's fascinating to watch their lives and all their assumptions kind of unravel over this issue.\nCierra Ramirez in The Fosters\nI think we need more geeky young women on TV as role models. Well, we got one. Cierra Ramirez as Mariana on The Fosters turns out to be quite the hacker. I love Mariana the geek! More geeky girls, please.\nAuthor Virginia DeBoltPosted on March 6, 2015 Categories Streaming, TV seriesTags brain dump, Cierra Ramirez, Empire, Holly Taylor, House of Cards, Keri Russell, Kevin Spacey, Matthew Rhys, Robin Wright, Taraji P. Henson, Terrance Howard, The Americans, The FostersLeave a comment on Brain Dump: House of Cards, Empire, The Americans, The Fosters\nWatch This: Previews for Season 3 of The Americans\nThe Americans will start season 3 on FX on January 28. I've been watching this drama about Soviet spies in the U.S. during the Cold War in the 1980s since the first season. As unlikely as it sounds to say that I like a show about Soviet spies, I am saying it here.\nThis married couple are not what they seem\nMuch of the reason this show is so good are the outstanding performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys. They are brilliant in their parts as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two KGB officers who pose as a married couple living near Washington, D.C. They have two children, played by Holly Taylor and Keidrich Sellati. Their neighbor Stan (Noah Emmerich) is an FBI counter-intelligence agent who spends his days trying to catch people like them, and his evenings exchanging small talk with them over barbecue.\nThe spies have a \"handler.\" For a while their handler was played by Margo Martindale, an actress I simply love. This year Frank Langella is stepping into the role of handler. Richard Thomas is also a regular, playing another FBI agent.\nThere are recognizable events in the story, real characters and real happenings from the period, but ultimately \u2013 at least for me \u2013 the story is about Elizabeth and Philip: their relationship, their marriage, their family.\nHow about it? Are there any other fans of The Americans among readers?\nPhotos \u00a9 Copyright FX Network\nAuthor Virginia DeBoltPosted on December 17, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Frank Langella, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Richard Thomas, season 3, The Americans, trailersLeave a comment on Watch This: Previews for Season 3 of The Americans\nBrain Dump from a Teeming TV Filled Mind\nRandom thoughts and observations on this and that as seen on my teevee.\nDid you see the episode of The Walking Dead called \"The Grove?\" Brighton Sharbino and Kyla Kenedy as the two young girls were fantastic. Brighton, in particular, was 100% convincing. Very impressed to see such outstanding acting from two young actors.\nI'm loving what they've done with The Walking Dead this season: splitting everyone up and charting their journeys to find each other again. (Assuming that they will be reunited at Terminus.) It's given them a way to let characters develop with full episodes devoted almost exclusively to just one or two characters.\nBrittany and Santana kiss on Glee\nWhat about this kiss in the episode \"100\" of Glee . Glee has never been about grown up sex. Yes, there have been relationships but they are immature high school kinds of things. Even the teachers have immature relationships on Glee .\nBut in the episode called \"100\" (as in the 100th episode) we see a grown up Brittany, (Heather Morris) dragged into adulthood by numbers and a failure of joy.\nBrittany evolved. Who'd a thunk that?\nCouple that with a sort-of-grown-up Santana (Naya Rivera). I say sort of grown up because Santana still has a mouth on her that needs to embrace tolerance and forgiveness \u2013 mature ideas she hasn't mastered yet. Nevertheless, Brittany and Santana exchange a kiss that is the first grown up, adult looking kiss I've seen on Glee .\nA whole episode of Person of Interest was built around Root (Amy Acker). The episode was called \"Root Path.\" Most of the time, Root is only on the screen for a few seconds. Even then she's the most interesting thing in the show \u2013 mysterious, powerful, illusive. You know what would make me really happy? An episode that featured only Sarah Shahi and Amy Acker together for a whole show.\nIs Castle getting better this season? It seems like the writing has improved. The stories are flat out good. Last year Castle frequently put me to sleep, but there is none of that this year.\nThe crazy adjustable bed that Stef's mom gave Stef and Lena as a wedding gift on The Fosters is keeping them apart. I say we start a Kickstarter campaign to get Stef and Lena a new bed. A nice flat one. Or, as they put it on OITNB,\nCome be my little spoon. #OITNB pic.twitter.com\/yaZ0QmiWPF\n\u2014 Orange Is the New\u2026 (@OITNB) November 15, 2013\nThis show gets more fascinating each week with all kinds of complicated loyalty questions and emotional issues. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys impress me in a new way in every episode. Keri Russell's character slamming that guy's arm over and over again with a trunk lid was really intense and surely will make her face the fact that she's cracking. Plus Margo Martindale was back this week, which is guaranteed to make me happy.\nStill ahead this week are Grey's Anatomy and Scandal . Must dump brain before then!\nWhat is burning in your brain from this week's TV?\nAuthor Virginia DeBoltPosted on March 20, 2014 August 8, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Amy Acker, brain dump, Brighton Sharbino, Castle, Glee, Heather Morris, Keri Russell, Kyla Kenedy, Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Naya Rivera, OITNB, Orange is the New Black, Person of Interest, Sarah Shahi, The Americans, The Fosters, The Walking DeadLeave a comment on Brain Dump from a Teeming TV Filled Mind\nRandom Thoughts from a Teeming TV Filled Brain\nThe TV is brewing a brain full of random ideas in me this week. It's a mish-mash.\nThe Americans season 2 started last night on FX and it's extra good. Don't ask me why I care so much about Russian spies, but Kari Russell and Matthew Rhys make me care. The stakes are so high in this show, the situations so tense, and the drama so tight. I can't tell from the first episode if Margo Martindale will be back in season 2, but they were talking about her as if she won't. She's off on another show now, and I'll miss her here.\nWith so many shows, I have to record a bunch of them. When I play them back I fast forward through the ads. I really appreciate the shows that have a second or two of something recognizable before each new segment starts. That brief cue lets me stop in time to get the beginning of the action. For example, Person of Interest often shows cityscapes and camera locations just before the action starts. Could all shows please do something like this? Thank you.\nWhy do actresses decide to have a baby while they are on a hit show? Jennifer Beals and Lauren Holloman both did it on The L Word . Anna Silk did it on Lost Girl . Kerry Washington is having a baby soon with Scandal in the middle of astronomical popularity. There has to be some logic to this, but what is it?\nWow! Did Naya Rivera ever knock \"Don't Rain on My Parade\" out off the ballpark on Glee this week! The Barbara Streisand franchise on Glee up to now belonged to Lea Michelle \u2013 as well it should, she's got it locked \u2013 but Naya can belt, too. Indeed.\nCan you tell Lady Mary's (Michelle Dockery) two suitors apart on Downton Abbey ? Me either.\nImage Credit: Still from The Americans by Craig Blankenhorn via IMDB\nAuthor Virginia DeBoltPosted on February 27, 2014 November 21, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Anna Silk, Barbara Streisand, brain dump, Downton Abbey, Glee, Jennifer Beals, Keri Russell, Kerry Washington, Lauren Holloman, Lea Michelle, Lost Girl, Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Michelle Dockery, Naya Rivera, Person of Interest, Scandal, The Americans, The L WordLeave a comment on Random Thoughts from a Teeming TV Filled Brain","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"at-cop26,-governments-and-businesses-turned-a-new-leaf-on-protecting-nature-to-halt-climate-change Corporate \/esg\/insights\/at-cop26-governments-and-businesses-turned-a-new-leaf-on-protecting-nature-to-halt-climate-change content esgSubNav\nYou're one step closer to unlocking our suite of comprehensive and robust tools.\nRecent awards include:\nBest Credit Risk Management Product\nBest Research Provider\nBest Low-Latency Data Feed Provider\nIf your company has a current subscription with S&P Global Market Intelligence, you can register as a new user for access to the platform(s) covered by your license at S&P Capital IQ Pro or S&P Capital IQ.\nClicking 'Request' means you agree to the Terms and have read and understood the Privacy Policy\nInvestor Relations Home\n\u4e2d\u6587\u7f51\u7ad9\nCompany Analytics & Reporting\nSustainable Financing Opinions\nData Delivery & Workflow Tools\nESG Performance\nNet Zero & Carbon Neutrality\nSustainable Financing\nSustainable1 Replays\nAt COP26, governments and businesses turned a new leaf on protecting nature to halt climate change\nAuthor Gautam Naik\nTheme ESGBiodiversity & NatureClimate Risk & Resilience\nAt the U.N. conference, asset managers, governments and companies aligned on the use of nature-based tools to tackle climate change.\nNearly $20 billion in public and private funding was pledged to halt deforestation.\nThere was widening support for blue bonds, which allow ocean-dependent economies to use the proceeds for marine conservation.\nCalls to slash energy-related greenhouse gas emissions have been a common refrain at the U.N.'s annual climate summits, and COP26 was no different. At this year's meeting in Glasgow, however, many asset managers, corporations and policymakers embraced a much broader theme: Preserving and harnessing nature to fight climate change.\nOne reason delegates gave for the sharp focus on nature is the continuing impact of COVID-19. The disease, caused by a virus that possibly emerged from the natural world, has upended lives, stock portfolios and entire economies. And at a higher level, governments and businesses are realizing they cannot fix the climate problem unless they halt the decline of natural systems.\nDirect emissions and the destruction of nature are continuously reinforcing each other. Biodiversity loss, for example, affects the climate by changing carbon, nitrogen and water cycles. Destroying forests to clear land for agriculture and urban development also releases a vast amount of previously stored CO2, further heating the air, land and oceans. If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in CO2 emissions behind China and the U.S., based on data from a 2016 study cited by the World Resources Institute.\nGlobal warming, in turn, triggers more droughts and wildfires, killing plants and animals. Warmer seas hurt corals and other marine life. Restoring nature is therefore indispensable to tackling the climate problem \u2014 a strategy that risk managers and corporate boards are increasingly starting to accept.\n\"At this conference, nature has come alongside energy [emissions reduction] as being one of the great solutions to the climate change problem and keeping our planet safe,\" Andrew Mitchell, a co-founder of the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, or TNFD, said at a panel discussion held during COP26 and moderated by S&P Global Sustainable1.\nDeforestation's carbon impact\nThe idea is that by regrowing forests, restoring coastal wetlands and making agriculture more sustainable, a large quantity of CO2 can be captured from the air and sequestered in plants, soil and sediments. According to an estimate published in the science journal Nature in May 2021, ramping up nature-based solutions quickly could avoid the emission of 10 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent per year \u2014 more than what's emitted by the entire global transportation sector.\nThe momentum behind nature-based strategies has accelerated in recent months. The TNFD launched in June and aims to deliver in 2023 a framework for companies and other organizations \"to report and act on evolving nature-related risks.\" In October, at the first phase of a U.N. biodiversity conference in Kunming, China, more than 100 countries committed to putting biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030. Although that declaration wasn't a binding agreement, it was a spur for new commitments unveiled at COP26.\nThe long-term challenge is persuading companies to eliminate deforestation completely from their supply chains, while eventually putting a price on nature's bounty that they currently use free of charge.\nA Nov. 8 report from S&P Global Ratings noted that although the Amazon rainforest helps regulate the earth's climate, extensive deforestation \u2014 mainly to clear land to raise cattle for beef \u2014 had turned parts of it into a net source of carbon instead of a sink. Beef producers have not priced in the flora, fauna or climate-stabilizing effects that were lost.\n\"Had the cost of nature loss been incorporated as a cost of production it would have represented around 12% of these companies' revenues in 2020,\" or about $4 billion, the report said. \"In other words, for every US$100 sale of beef-related products in Brazil there is potentially an additional unpriced cost of US$12.\"\nCombatting deforestation in South America was the focus of another private sector financial commitment at COP26. The U.N.-backed Innovative Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco initiative, or IFACC, announced that several large companies were investing $3 billion to shift commodity production in the region to more sustainable models. The group is aiming to disburse at least $200 million by 2022.\nForest pledges and blue bonds\nPolicymakers and businesses have taken some initial steps to redress nature's plight, though a lot more needs to be done.\nAt COP26, on Nov. 2, countries including Canada, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia and the Republic of the Congo, which together encompass 85% of the world's forests, agreed to reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. The pledge was supported by $12 billion of public finance from 12 countries, including the U.K., for the 2021 to 2025 period. The money will help developing countries restore degraded land, tackle wildfires and support indigenous communities.\nPrivate investors stepped in with a further $7.2 billion. More than 30 financial institutions with over $8.7 trillion of global assets also promised to phase out deforestation from their commodity portfolios by 2025. The commitments target products that are closely linked to deforestation, including beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper.\nThe deforestation pledges are projected to deliver a 3.5 gigatonne annual reduction of CO2, one of the largest components of the overall 9 gigatonne CO2 reduction promised by governments at the meeting, according to the Energy Transitions Commission.\n\"That commitment is a huge step forward; delivering it [is] a crucial priority,\" said Adair Turner, chair of the commission, in comments made at COP26.\nOther announcements followed. On Nov. 6, the U.K. said it would provide \u00a3500 million to support the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade Roadmap in which 28 countries are working together to protect forests while promoting development and trade. A further \u00a365 million will support a \"Just Rural Transition\" to help developing countries, the U.K. said. About 100 companies also pledged to become \"nature positive.\" Sainsbury's, on behalf of the big five U.K. supermarkets, said it would halve the environmental impact of the average U.K. shopping basket by 2030.\nThe oceans got some attention, too. On Nov. 1, the first day of COP26, Ecuador said it would significantly extend the marine reserve around the Galapagos Islands in partnership with Colombia and Costa Rica, with a goal of reaching 30% marine protection by 2030.\nA few days later, Belize, in partnership with Credit Suisse, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and the Nature Conservancy, said it had closed on a $364 million blue bond and would use the proceeds to help protect 30% of its ocean. On Nov. 10, Fiji said it would issue its first sovereign blue bond in the summer of 2022. The proceeds will go toward marine conservation.\nAt the Glasgow summit, IDB Invest, the private sector institution of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, also said it had issued a 50 million Australian dollar, 10-year fixed rate bond \u2014 the first blue bond in Latin America and the Caribbean. James Scriven, CEO of IDB Invest, which manages $13.1 billion in assets, said IDB had taken on the task of making such opportunities more attractive to overseas asset managers.\nMany international investors \"have a threshold of investment grade below which they do not or cannot invest,\" said Scriven, at the Nov. 3 panel hosted by Sustainable1. \"So when [a project in a developing country] is already up and running, and the risk is no longer there, we are able to crowd in international investors that are looking for that ESG investment.\"\nThis piece was published by S&P Global Sustainable1 and not by S&P Global Ratings, which is a separately managed division of S&P Global.\nNet zero.Now what?\nGautam Naik\nESGBiodiversity & NatureClimate Risk & Resilience\nOur Purpose & Values","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Earth Freedom From Fracking\nEarth, Health, History, Music, Planet Sanctuary\nFreedom From Fracking\nBy Naphtali Ziff September 10, 2021 September 10, 2021\nThe Costs of Fracking\nBy Rege Behe\nAbout eleven years ago, Rusted Root's Michael Glabicki met with a group of Pittsburghers concerned about plans to introduce fracking within the city's limits. Since then, he's become increasingly concerned about the procedure's effects.\n\"I hear from fans whose drinking water has been devastated in their towns and others who have started experiencing earthquakes in their community from fracking,\" Glabicki says. \"People are scared. I am scared.\"\nGlabicki and Rusted Root will headlined \"Freedom From Fracking: A Benefit for the Friends of the Harmed\" May 16, 2015 at Mr. Small's in Millvale. Mike Stout & the Human Union, Kellee Maize & Friends, Liz Berlin, UJAMAA, Anne Feeney, Smokestack Lightning, DJ Paul Dang, Gene Stovall, Jasiri X, Palermo Stone, Vanessa German, the Benevolent Sneaky Mike and Tom Breiding also are scheduled to perform.\nProceeds will benefit The Friends of the Harmed, which assists families who have been harmed from fracking related activities in the region, via The Thomas Merton Center.\nThe US Energy Information Administration estimates that there are 2.119 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 25.2 billion barrels of crude oil available in the US via fracking. Fracking is responsible for 90 percent of oil and gas production in the United States, according to National Parks Conservation Organization.\nBut at what cost?\nFood & Water Watch, a public interest organization based in Washington, DC, states that communities in proximity to fracking activities are subject to increased crime, decreased property values, and losses in tourism and agriculture.\nFracking also is exempt from major environmental laws including the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the process uses approximately five million gallons per well. The waste water from fracking can pollute streams, lakes and rivers, and the water supply\n\"The New York Times just came out with an article citing a new study showing that high levels of Butoxyethanol are showing up in Pennsylvania's drinking water from fracking,\" Glabicki says. \"This stuff is irreversible. I went up to Dimock, (in Susquehanna County) and sat in the living rooms of several families listening to their horror stories. Many had no drinking water and had to ship it in. Many of the children were sick for months before figuring out it was from fracking. I can go on and on. There are so many wells around Pittsburgh and it is just a matter of time before a major disaster happens here.\"\nGlabicki met a former worker in the fracking industry who said he'd dumped truckloads of contaminated water on the side of the road near Dimock. The worker was fearful he'd lose his job if he didn't dump the water.\nBut contaminated drinking water may be just one consequence of fracking.\n\"There are so many other issues that we don't know the full extent of yet,\" Glabicki says. \"We just added earthquakes to the list! They are happening in Michigan and West Virginia as well as other areas. Who know what this might turn into? There is much we don't know about the dangers of fracking. Oil companies are going full steam with it, trying to make as much money as they can, before we can figure it out.\"\nAuthor: Naphtali Ziff\nMr. Pirchesky's spirit has been an entrepreneurial one, and in 2006, he founded the internet business, One World Blue, LLC, with the establishment of the first online site. The long term and overall goal for One World Blue has been to create a social media platform that will be a place for Social and Planetary Healing. The One World Blue Network is a platform to spotlight the good individuals have done to transform the world, celebrate and appreciate cultural diversity, showcase the beauty of the Earth in Planet Sanctuary, and to act as a catalyst for conflict resolution thru the Overture to Peace module. In 2010, the plan was begun to build the social media platform which was given the name Blupela, The One World Blue Social Good Network. After over three years of research, development and investment into this transformative network, Blupela.com now offers this unique social networking experience as it provides a dynamic and comprehensive service by utilizing innovative tools to connect people and ideas with the goal of improving the world one good deed at a time. As the progression of The One World Blue Network has evolved, in December 2014 Mr. Pirchesky completed his Master's program at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his Master's in Public Policy and Management, with a focus in International Development, and graduated Summa Cum Laude.\nView all posts by Naphtali Ziff \u2192\nBlupela in the Himalyas\nWe Need to Talk\nRelated Spotlights\n8 Billion Trees\nOne World Blue's Imagine by Baila Pirchesky, Linda Divincemoore, and Nuftali JP Ziff Pirchesky\nKyoto Zen Rock Garden","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bTetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030\nBy: 3BL Media: Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy and Health News\nSOURCE: Tetra Pak\nJune 6, 2016 \/3BL Media\/ - Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20% today to 100% across all global operations by 2030. The announcement was made at the Clean Energy Ministerial forum\u200b yesterday in San Francisco, US.\nCharles Brand, Executive Vice President, Product Management and Commercial Operations at Tetra Pak said: \"Signing up to RE100 reflects our on-going commitment to minimising our climate impact and increasing our use of renewable resources.\n\"We have set an ambitious target to ensure carbon emissions across our value chain are capped at 2010 levels through to 2020, and we are making excellent progress. In 2015 emissions were down 15% from the 2010 baseline, despite a 16% increase in production.\n\"Since setting our climate goal we have maximized our efforts to reduce energy consumption; committing to a renewable electricity target is a natural next step. By joining RE100 we will benefit from expert guidance and peer-to-peer learning on renewable electricity options in different markets.\"\nMark Kenber, CEO of The Climate Group, said at the forum, \"The demand push from corporates is as important as supportive government policy \u2013 bold action by businesses, cities and governments sends a strong market signal and means we can hold global warming below two degrees far more quickly.\n\"The Clean Energy Ministerial is shining the spotlight on RE100 as a model of best practice in galvanizing the switch to renewable energy, and the leadership of influential companies \u2013 such as Tetra Pak, which is joining RE100 today \u2013 shows the business case for 100% renewables is as strong as ever.\"\nRE100 is a global, collaborative business initiative led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP to drive demand for, and delivery of, renewable power.\n\u200bTetra Pak's decision to join RE100 once again underscores its commitment to tackle climate change, and comes just six months after the company joined the Paris Pledge for Action at COP21.\nTweet me: Proud to be announced a member of @theRE100 at the Clean Energy Ministerial http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Uji4hG #RE100\nCarol Yang\n+41-217292ext. 303\nKEYWORDS: Environment and Climate Change, Tetra Pak, RE100, renewable energy, renewable electricity, Clean Energy, climate impact, renewable resources, Carbon Emissions, the climate group","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A respite from the streets\nWhen Scott was a child, he found a Hawaiian lei adorned with miniature alcohol bottles in his parents' basement. Scott sampled from the bottles and got drunk for the first time.\nHe was five years old.\nIt was a foreshadowing of things to come. By the time Scott was in high school, he was drinking a fifth of schnapps per day and had begun to dabble in cocaine.\nAs an adult, he became a diesel mechanic and a dad, but he never stopped drinking and doing drugs.\nNow 53, Scott's lifestyle has taken its toll. He uses a walker and a wheelchair and has a host of chronic medical conditions that recently required hospitalization. Scott is also homeless and currently sleeping at Harbor Light Center, a shelter in downtown Minneapolis.\nBut Harbor Light's medical respite program is helping him make the best of a bad situation.\nof death in\nhomeless cohorts\nAcross the country, there's been a proliferation of medical respite programs for homeless adults. The National Health Care for the Homeless Council, which keeps a directory, counted 78 in 2016. Harbor Light's medical respite program, which is operated by Hennepin County Public Health, is one of three medical respite programs for homeless adults in Minnesota.\nThese programs are designed for people with an acute illness or injury who are too sick to recover on the streets (without risking complications or re-hospitalization) but who aren't sick enough to stay in a hospital.\nAlthough their services vary, medical respite programs generally offer clients a shelter bed, meals, case management, and onsite medical care.\nThe programs aim to improve the health of homeless adults, a demographic that tends to be sicker than the general population. (The 2015 Minnesota Homeless Survey found that 51 percent have a chronic health condition, 60 percent have a serious mental illness, and 21 percent have a substance use disorder.)\nHealth professionals also hope that the programs will lower health care costs by reducing the number of times that homeless adults access emergency rooms and hospital inpatient facilities (or by avoiding these visits all together).\nprograms for\nhomeless adults\nin America,\nIn 2016, Scott was sleeping in the cab of his truck.\nHe was also becoming increasingly sick.\nWithout proper medical care, it's likely he would have died inside his vehicle, but a concerned citizen called the police, and the police brought Scott to the hospital.\nAfter his hospitalization, Scott was set to be discharged to the streets. He would have gone back to living inside his vehicle, and it's likely that he would have suffered from complications or been re-hospitalized in short order. But a social worker intervened and connected him with Harbor Light Center's medical respite program, instead.\nMost of the dorm rooms at Harbor Light are lined with bunk beds. But in the medical respite wing, it's medical beds that angle up or down, allowing a person to elevate his legs or head or both.\nFor Scott, who has trouble breathing, it's meant a more restful night's sleep.\nScott also has reduced mobility and alcohol-induced neuropathy (numbness) in his arms and legs. The more spacious respite wing (12 people versus 24) makes it easier for him to access the bathroom, his locker, and other parts of the shelter like the onsite Health Care for the Homeless clinic.\nScott receives much of his medical care at the Health Care for the Homeless clinic (when he has an offsite appointment, he'll take a cab there from the shelter). At Harbor Light, he also attends Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.\nIn addition to accessible health care, Scott appreciates the shelter's social connectedness and says it's helped him maintain his sobriety. \"For me, spending too much time alone -- I used to spend a lot of time alone -- makes me want to do things I shouldn't be necessarily doing,\" Scott explains, admitting that without the presence of other people, he'd likely be drinking.\nAverage percent\nHarbor Light\n(per enrollee-month)\nafter placement\nin medical respite\nCurrently, Harbor Light is one of five medical respite programs in the country that are participating in the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's medical respite innovation project. The multi-year project receives funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is tracking metrics like emergency room and hospital admissions.\nSince Harbor Light began participating in the project, 132 patients have used the shelter's medical respite services.\nTo date, the average rate of hospital readmissions (per enrollee-month) after placement in medical respite has decreased 39 percent, the average rate of emergency department visits (per enrollee) has decreased 20 percent, and the average rate of hospital observational stays (per enrollee) has decreased nine percent.\nLearn more about the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.\nvisits (per enrollee)\nAlthough Scott faces many challenges, his situation could be worse. Because of the medical respite program, he's not living in his truck, and he hasn't had any complications since his hospitalization or been re-hospitalized. He's also receiving regular health care and has managed to maintain his sobriety.\nA caseworker is trying to help him find permanent housing.\nSusannah King, a senior clinical social worker at Health Care for the Homeless, says the medical respite program gives staff the flexibility to meet clients like Scott \"where they're at.\"\n\"Where they're at\" may not be a desirable place, but it's a place from which staff can help clients become more stable and self-sufficient.\nThe project described was supported by Grant Number 1C1CMS331336 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any of its agencies.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Leech Lake Tribal College Names Dr. Donald Day as its Next President\nCass Lake, MN-The Board of Trustees of Leech Lake Tribal College has announced that Dr. Donald Day, Director of the American Indian Resource Center at Bemidji State University, has been selected as the next President of the College, effective August 13. He will succeed Dr. Ginny Carney, who is retiring in August after more than a decade of service at LLTC.\nIn announcing the appointment of Day, Rose Robinson, Chair of the Leech Lake Tribal College Board of Trustees, stated \"On behalf of the LLTC Board of Trustees, I extend a warm welcome to Dr. Day. We are all looking forward to working with Don as he steps into this leadership role at an entity that is so important to our community.\"\nDay's career in education spans more than 35 years, and has covered a wide range of roles including academic counseling, teaching, research, student services, curriculum development, and administration, including a successful stint as president of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. Day mentioned that one of his proudest accomplishments was gaining approval from the Higher Learning Commission for FDLTCC to offer its first ever four-year degree program \u2013 a big leap forward for any community college.\n\"Leech Lake Tribal College is an awesome institution with strong academic programs that are grounded in Anishinaabeg values\" Day said. \"I look forward to working for my people again and expanding the already impressive services and outreach efforts in which the college faculty and staff are now engaged.\"\nDr. Carney will stay on board at LLTC until August 15, and then plans to return to southeast Tennessee to spend time with family and friends. \"My 11 years at Leech Lake Tribal College have been some of the most rewarding and fulfilling years of my life, and I am confident that Dr. Day will be given the same warmth and respect that I have received,\" said Carney. \"I offer my congratulations to Don and wish him all the best as he assumes his role as President of LLTC.\"\nFounded in 1990, Leech Lake Tribal College is a public, 2-year college that provides higher education grounded in Anishinaabe values. For more information about the college, visit www.lltc.edu or call 218-335-4200","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Genomics\nThe Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) invites applications for a 9-month tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Evolutionary Genomics starting July 1, 2020. Candidates should address key evolutionary questions using genomic data at the scale of populations, species or above, or questions involving evolution of the genome itself. Candidates proficient in the application of advanced statistical methods to genomic data are particularly encouraged.\nThe successful candidate will join a vibrant community of researchers in the EEOB Department, and in such graduate programs as EEOB, and GGB (Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics), both of which involve outstanding interdepartmental groups of faculty. Other collaborative research groups on campus include the Center for Conservation Biology, the Center for Invasive Species Research, the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, and the Environmental Dynamics and GeoEcology (EDGE) Institute. The successful candidate will also have access to modern campus facilities including a genomics and proteomics core, a high-performance computing cluster, and the Center for Advanced Microscopy, and to the UC Natural Reserve System (UCNRS.org), an outstanding network of field stations in diverse California ecosystems. Consult eeob.ucr.edu for further details.\nA Ph.D. in evolutionary genomics or a related discipline, at least one year of postdoctoral training, and demonstrated excellence in research are required. The successful candidate must be willing and able to pursue extramurally funded research in order to develop a creative research program, and contribute to teaching in our undergraduate and graduate core curricula in physiology and related areas within the department.\nApplications must be submitted through: aprecruit.ucr.edu\/apply\/JPF01192, including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, separate statements of research and teaching interests, and up to three selected publication reprints. A statement addressing the candidate's past and potential future contributions to promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment is also required. This can be reflected through research, teaching, supervision, mentoring, community engagement, service, and any of the other varied activities that are a part of an academic career. In addition, applicants should request that three letters of recommendation be submitted through this site.\nEvaluation of applications will begin November 27, 2019, but the position will remain open until filled. For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to submit their applications prior to the above date. For more information about the position, please contact Dr. Leonard Nunney, Chair of the Search Committee, at nunney@ucr.edu. For inquiries regarding the application process, please contact Mary Stuart, Academic Personnel, at mary.stuart@ucr.edu.\nThe University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.\nAdvancement through the faculty ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input.\nThe University of California is an Equal Opportunity\/Affirmative Action\/ADA\/Veterans Employer.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Our Community & Neighbourhood Services aim to bring people together to build stronger communities where all people feel included and supported. Our three Neighbourhood Centres are safe and welcoming community hubs, open to everyone to use as a place to come and be heard, be supported, be connected and belong.\nCOMMUNITY ROOMS FOR GROUPS & EVENTS\nOur three Neighbourhood Centres in Katoomba, Lawson and Blaxland have rooms available for Community Groups and individuals looking to host community events and activities. Please contact us to discuss your needs. If we don't have a suitable space available for when you need it, we can help you find an alternative space somewhere else.\nVIRTUAL COMMUNITY GROUP ROOMS\nWe now have a Virtual Community Room on Zoom and via Teleconference that can be used by community groups at no cost, so we can continue to support you and help keep everyone more connected. Please contact us if you would like to join a local social or support group, or if you would like to consider holding your group in our Virtual Community Room.\nEMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF HAMPERS\nEmergency food hampers are available through our Neighbourhood Centres for anyone in need of a little extra support with pantry staples. Our food supplies are regular but limited, so please contact us so we can make sure we have a Hamper or other emergency supplies ready for you to pick-up or to be delivered, depending on your needs.\nSOCIAL, HEALTH & WELLBEING & SPECIAL INTEREST\nGROUPS, ACTIVITIES, WORKSHOPS & EVENTS\nBelong Blue Mountains hosts a wide range of groups, workshops, activities and events for people of all ages and interests including social groups and events, community cafe and lunches, health & wellbeing groups and classes, art, craft and music groups, children's activities, special interest groups, festivals and more.\nPlease see the What's On section on our home page for information about current events and activities. You can also follow us on Facebook for all of the latest info or contact us so we can help you find what you are looking for.\nFinding the right help and support can be a difficult and sometimes overwhelming process. If we don't have the support you need, we can provide you with information about other services and connect you with people who can help. Click on 'Community Contacts' below to see a list of some other community services that might be helpful. And please don't hesitate to give us a call or drop in for a chat about what you need.\nINFO & REFERRALS\nBelong Blue Mountains supports a Graffiti Removal Service run by an amazing team of volunteers who work to remove tags and other unlawful graffiti as quickly as possible to discourage repeat offenders and keep our mountains beautiful.\nA Blue-Mountains-wide alliance has been formed under volunteer coordinator Greg Birtles of the Hazelbrook Association with the Lower Mountains Volunteer Coordinator John Oakey. This service has the support of our local Police Force and the Blue Mountains City Council, and is funded by the NSW Department of Communities & Justice.\nPlease report any graffiti you see anywhere in the Blue Mountains as soon as possible to the\nGRAFFITI HOTLINE: 02 4759 2592.\nKATOOMBA NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE\nThe Katoomba Neighbourhood\nCentre was first opened at 10\nStation Street in 1979 to provide a\nmeeting place for neighbours and\nrun entirely by volunteers. Over 40\nyears later, it is now a busy hub of\nworkers, volunteers and community\nmembers with a wide range of\nservice and activities available.\nDrop-In: 9am to 4:00pm Weekdays\nCall: 9am to 4pm Weekdays\nAddress: 6-10 Station St. Katoomba\nEmail: kncadmin@belongbm.org.au\nMID MOUNTAINS NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE\nOur Mid-Mountains Neighbourhood\nCentre has its origins in a\nthat started in 1987. The\nCommunity Centre opened its doors\nin Lawson in 1992 and is now home\nfor a growing team of workers and\nvolunteers with a busy calendar of\ncommunity activity.\nDrop-In: 9:00am to 4:00pm Weekdays\nAddress: 9 New Street, Lawson\nPhone: (02) 47 592 592\nEmail: mmncadmin@belongbm.org.au\nLOWER MOUNTAINS NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE\nIn 1981, a group of community\nmembers got together to start the\nvolunteer-run Lower Mountains\nCommunity Aid Service. The service\ngrew to become a fully-fledged\nNeighbourhood Centre in 1992 and\nnow has a wide range of volunteer\nand funded services, groups,\nactivities, workshops and events.\nDrop-In: 9:00am to 4:00pm Tues-Friday\nAddress: 33 Hope Street, Blaxland\nEmail: lmncadmin@belongbm.org.au","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"w73 5\/15 pp. 306-312\nLeaving the City of Refuge Means Loss of Life\nThe Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom\u20141973\nBLOODGUILT THROUGH SHARING RESPONSIBILITY\nHOW TO FLEE TO TODAY'S REFUGE CITY\nREQUEST TO GOD FOR A CLEAN CONSCIENCE\nHOLDING FIRM DOWN TO THE END\nWHEN FREED FROM THE CITY OF REFUGE\nStay in the \"City of Refuge\" and Live!\nThe Way to Security\nKeeping Within the Bounds of Refuge\nAvoidance Inside the Cities of Refuge\n1. In what position like the Jews of Jesus' day does Christendom stand?\nTODAY bloodguilt rests heavily upon Christendom and upon all the world. Many sincere persons, because they have not personally killed a man or directly engaged in war, are unaware of their own personal share in the guilt. Nevertheless, they must share this responsibility with those represented in prophecy as having shed innocent blood. Christendom today stands in the same position as the Jews of Jesus' day, to whom Jesus said: \"Here I am sending forth to you prophets and wise men and public instructors. Some of them you will kill and impale, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her.\"\u200b\u2014Matt. 23:34-37.\n2. From what did Jerusalem's bloodstained record come, and what retribution did she receive?\n2 Jerusalem's bloodstained record came, not from engaging in theocratic warfare under the command of Jehovah God, but because she shed innocent blood and deliberately put to death many of God's prophets, even Jesus, God's Son, being condemned to death there. This was not done in innocence, for seven centuries earlier, in Jeremiah's day, Jehovah exposed Jerusalem's bloodguilt when he said through his prophet: \"Also, in your skirts there have been found the blood marks of the souls of the innocent poor ones. Not in the act of breaking in have I found them, but they are upon all these. But you say, 'I have remained innocent. Surely his anger has turned back from me.' Here I am entering into controversy with you on account of your saying, 'I have not sinned.'\" (Jer. 2:34, 35) Acting directly upon these words, in 607 B.C.E. Jehovah did express his anger against Jerusalem for her wanton bloodshed, and his Babylonian executioners poured out her blood upon the ground in an appalling destruction. So, too, Jerusalem came in for another bloodbath, in fulfillment of Jesus' words, and before it was finished in the summer of 70 C.E. 1,100,000 had died within the besieged city.\n3. Why did many perish who had not directly taken life?\n3 Let those in Christendom particularly take heed from this warning example. Not all the Jews killed by the Babylonians or by the Romans were guilty directly of killing God's prophets or otherwise taking human life, yet they perished with those who had willfully shed innocent blood. Why so? Because they upheld the record and traditions of Judaism and thus shared in this society responsibility for her bloodguilt.\n4. Why cannot Jehovah overlook Christendom's record?\n4 Christendom is truly a modern-day counterpart of Jerusalem and her realm of Judah. Christendom's record before God has been stained with blood unjustly shed from her beginning in the fourth century, in Constantine's day. This record cannot go unnoticed, for Jehovah, who does not change, stated to Noah: \"Your blood of your souls shall I ask back. From the hand of every living creature shall I ask it back; and from the hand of man, from the hand of each one who is his brother, shall I ask back the soul of man. Anyone shedding man's blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God's image he made man.\"\u200b\u2014Gen. 9:5, 6.\n5. (a) What acts of Christendom have established her record, and why can they not be justified? (b) Who share responsibility in Christendom's bloodguilt?\n5 Christendom's hundreds of wars besides religious inquisitions and crusades prior to 1914 have expended the lives of countless hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting persons, and the two world wars since 1914, for which Christendom must bear the major responsibility as to tens of millions of lives, have amassed a frightful blood debt, which she must settle according to God's covenant concerning blood. These wars cannot be claimed to be theocratic wars fought in God's name, although priests and clergymen of both sides in these controversies that were fought in Christendom have imparted blessings on their participants. This has not authorized anyone to kill his fellowman and stand without bloodguilt before Jehovah God. Coming under such priest's or clergyman's blessing was not a coming into the \"city of refuge\" of Jehovah's High Priest, Jesus Christ. Though fought sincerely by many in a religious or patriotic fervor, the calling of God's name on such conflicts has not relieved the participants of bloodguilt. Additionally, those who approve, aid or back up those persons that directly commit bloodshed, or engage in propaganda and such movements that lead to innocent spilling of blood, likewise come under a society responsibility as parties to the crime and must stand before the God of justice, who cannot and will not pass by such bloodguilt.\n6. Of what further act is Christendom guilty, and will she escape punishment for this?\n6 Of a far more serious nature, however, is Christendom's bloodguilt because of taking the lives of many of God's true servants. Babylon the Great, the worldwide empire of false religion, of which Christendom is the dominant part, is described in the book of Revelation as being \"drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.\" (Rev. 17:6) Just as surely as Christendom has failed to heed the warning of Jehovah, so Jehovah's judgment will soon be entered upon her as it was upon her prototype, Jerusalem and Judah, in 607 B.C.E. and 70 C.E. All persons found to be in association with her at that time will be sharers in her guilt and must also share in her destruction.\u200b\u2014Rev. 18:4.\n7. When will Jehovah's Avenger of blood strike, and where only is refuge to be found?\n7 Jehovah has mercifully held back his Avenger of blood, the Lord Jesus Christ, from striking out with his angelic hosts against Christendom and all those sharing in her bloodguilt, but soon the time limit will be ended. (Rev. 7:1-3) In the coming \"great tribulation\" the Avenger of human blood will strike. \"For, look! Jehovah is coming forth from his place to call to account the error of the inhabitant of the land against him, and the land will certainly expose her bloodshed and will no longer cover over her killed ones.\" (Isa. 26:21; Matt. 24:21, 22) When that time of decision comes, all mankind will be brought face-to-face with their joint responsibility, and this on a larger scale than Jerusalem and Jewry ever faced. All who have not found the place of safety will be made to pay the penalty. For all time the earth must be cleansed of the blood of those unrighteously slain. Atonement must be made in order that the covenant concerning the sanctity of blood made with Noah might be fulfilled. The only way to flee to safety is to find the road leading to Jehovah's antitypical \"city of refuge\" and abide there until the day of Jehovah's wrath is past and continue dwelling in it under the benefit of Jehovah's great High Priest, Jesus Christ. What, then, is the antitypical city of refuge?\n8. What is the antitypical city of refuge, and how is entrance made into it?\n8 In ancient Israel the manslayer must flee to one of the six cities especially designated, and, after establishing his innocence in regard to wanton slaying, he must abide in the city of refuge until the acting high priest died. (Num. 35:9-34) Thus the antitypical city of refuge must be Jehovah's provision to protect one from execution for violating God's covenant concerning the sanctity of blood. Entrance into that city is made by our coming and remaining under the benefits of the active service of his High Priest, Jesus Christ. Jesus' perfect human life, which he sacrificed on earth, was equivalent to that which the first man Adam enjoyed in the paradise of Eden. Jesus surrendered this sinless life in death and after his resurrection and ascension to the right hand of God in heaven he was able to present the value of the ransom sacrifice for the sake of Adam's dying descendants. Thus Jesus became mankind's Redeemer, our closest relative. The administration of the benefits of this ransom sacrifice therefore cleanses us of guilt and provides a reconciliation for mankind to God.\u200b\u2014Heb. 2:14; 10:12; Rom. 5:11; compare Acts 2:37-40.\n9. (a) In seeking God's forgiveness, what must be done by every violator of the divine covenant concerning the sanctity of blood? (b) How does Paul stand as an example?\n9 Every violator of the divine covenant concerning the sanctity of blood, whether willful or unintentional, must seek God's forgiveness and the cancellation of his sin through faith in this lifeblood of the High Priest, Jesus. He must show sincere repentance over having committed a violation by obediently remaining under the divine provision through Christ, trusting in the righteousness and the good offices of the High Priest. Paul, the apostle, who as Saul of Tarsus persecuted the Christian congregation, even approving of the murder of them, stands as an example of those violating the covenant concerning blood. \"Nevertheless,\" he says, \"I was shown mercy, because I was ignorant and acted with a lack of faith.\" (1 Tim. 1:13) Because Jehovah through Christ saw this repentant attitude in Saul, established later by many faithful works, the Avenger of blood, the resurrected Jesus Christ, did not put him to death later in the 'day of vengeance of our God.' (Isa. 61:2) When Jesus revealed himself to Saul and exposed Saul's persecution of the true church as persecution of Him, Saul repented, changed his course of action, and availed himself from then on of the benefits of the ransom sacrifice, as in a refuge city.\u200b\u2014Acts 9:1-19.\n10. How does one today seek to have a clean conscience before God?\n10 Coming into the ancient city of refuge on the part of the unintentional manslayer was not enough for his protection. Before he could remain in the city and receive the benefits the city had to offer he must prove that he had a clean conscience toward God in regard to the intentional spilling of blood. Today this clean conscience toward God can be obtained only by a sincere, honest request to God expressed in dedication of oneself to God through Christ and then baptism. This means that the person coming to God must recognize the sins that he has committed in violation of God's law and must change his course of action in regard to the doing of God's will. Thus, a full and unreserved dedication of his life must be made to Jehovah and then a presenting of himself for total immersion in water must take place in symbol of his dedication. Especially now as the world's end nears.\n11. What is the clean conscience that we request, and how is it maintained?\n11 The apostle Peter spoke of the saving power of baptism and its relation to the Christian conscience when he wrote at 1 Peter 3:20, 21: \"That which corresponds to this [that is, Noah and his family's passing through the flood in the ark in that end of the world] is also now saving you, namely, baptism, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request made to God for a good conscience,) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.\" The conscience that we request from God by complying with his baptismal arrangement is a conscience that is freed of any guilt toward God. It is an awareness of the provision of Jesus' atonement sacrifice that cleanses us of all sin, not like the animal sacrifices that had to be repeated every year. No, this good conscience that God gives us allows us to come into a clean relationship with Jehovah and stay that way by availing ourselves of the services of his great High Priest. Those coming into this condition must maintain that good conscience by continuing to perform the work assigned to them in this antitypical city of refuge. The conscience therefore plays an important part in our remaining in the city of refuge.\n12. How could we put ourselves in the dangerous position of leaving the modern-day city of refuge?\n12 Having come into the antitypical city through dedication and baptism under the provision of the atonement sacrifice of Christ Jesus, we leave behind all sense of guilt and we should continue on in the city with that same freedom. Should we, however, begin to harden our conscience against God and justify ourselves for even minor infractions of Jehovah's law for those refugees in the city, we are putting ourselves in the dangerous position of eventually leaving the city altogether. God's law is clearly defined for us in his Word and through the Bible publications that he has provided to understand his will and purpose for mankind in the time of the end. To ignore this clear direction of God's spirit is to ignore the direction of our Christian conscience. To ignore the conscience is in time to feel no pain or disturbance when it should prick us. Eventually, as Paul said, the conscience can become hardened like flesh seared with a branding iron. In this condition the conscience, like proud flesh, feels no pain, no sense of guilt. In time we could become complacent toward wrongdoing, and when wrong is called to our attention we will eventually just shrug it off as though to say: \"So what? Who cares?\" Such an indifferent attitude can lead only to a complete disregard for the provision under which we were permitted to enter the city, and if we are overtaken in this condition, this state of mind, we would have no protection from the Avenger of blood because we would be no longer in this city under the protective benefits of the High Priest during the coming \"day of vengeance.\"\n13. How does one leave the antitypical city of refuge, how can this be avoided, and what danger is faced by those who do leave?\n13 Since becoming self-reliant and losing faith in the High Priest's sacrifice and trusting no more in its covering of sins is to leave the city of refuge, thus exposing ourselves to destruction at Armageddon, we do well to heed the warning of the apostle Paul when he said: \"That is why it is necessary for us to pay more than the usual attention to the things heard by us, that we may never drift away.\" (Heb. 2:1) The time for Jehovah's Avenger to go into action is ever closer. Now is no time to be caught unawares, outside the city of refuge or in a dangerous position near the edge of the pasture grounds, which marked the limits of this sanctuary provided by Jehovah. We must never fall into the snare of thinking that we can deviate even just a little from the righteous requirements of Jehovah. Who of us can say at what point one becomes willful in ignoring Jehovah's provision and ceases to be one who is 'just using poor judgment'? Remember what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:4: \"For I am not conscious of anything against myself. Yet by this I am not proved righteous, but he that examines me is Jehovah.\" Can we say that we are putting our trust in Jehovah if we deliberately ignore or violate his commandments to us? To think of leaving the antitypical city of refuge even temporarily is to tempt God to save us from his Avenger of blood. Besides, if a person in such a condition had to face death right now from natural causes before the \"great tribulation,\" what share has he in the resurrection? Never should we neglect laying a sufficiently sound basis in faith, relying sufficiently on the great High Priest's services, for the Avenger of blood to remember us favorably when resurrection time comes. (Matt. 24:21, 22) Failure to do so in this \"time of the end\" can mean extinction for all time. One would not be privileged to survive the coming \"great tribulation.\" One is executed.\n14. How long must those now on earth with heavenly hopes stay within the antitypical city, and why until then?\n14 How long must the former bloodguilty ones stay inside the city of refuge? Until they no longer need the services of the High Priest. Paul wrote to the Hebrews: \"Consequently he is able also to save completely those who are approaching God through him, because he is always alive to plead for them. For such a high priest as this was suitable for us, loyal, guileless, undefiled, separated from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens.\" (Heb. 7:25, 26) Such services, then, are for those survivors of the \"great tribulation\" who are in human imperfection. As long as any bloodguilt continues, the services of the High Priest are necessary in order to maintain a right standing with God. Those who have been anointed by God's holy spirit to be spiritual sons, joint heirs with Christ, must keep within the antitypical city of refuge till they faithfully finish their earthly course in death, thereby forever sacrificing their human nature. Since Christ's sacrifice applies only to those having human nature, the High Priest \"dies\" to them in the sense that he no more needs to act in their behalf with the merit of his human sacrifice, for in the case of the \"little flock\" of \"joint heirs with Christ\" in the resurrection they are changed from human to spirit and reside henceforth in heaven as possessing a \"divine nature.\"\u200b\u2014Luke 12:32; Rom. 8:17; 2 Pet. 1:4.\n15. When are those with earthly hopes free to leave the antitypical city, and what accomplishes this for them?\n15 Those survivors of the \"great tribulation\" with hopes of earthly life, however, are not freed from the city of refuge when God's enemies have been destroyed at Armageddon and retribution has been meted out for the blood of those innocently slain throughout the generations of mankind. True, before the Avenger of blood acts as Jehovah's executioner, those of this \"great crowd\" must have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Still, the \"great tribulation\" does not remove their bloodguilt or rid them immediately of the sins inherited from Adam. Even though they have a clean conscience toward God, they must continue to maintain this clean conscience by staying within the bounds of the antitypical city of refuge until restored to human perfection, thereby no longer needing the services of the High Priest. When will this come? Only when they have attained to human perfection at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ and he yields them over in their perfection to Jehovah for a final test of their integrity on their own merit. When they come out from under this protection of the great High Priest, Jesus Christ, he, in effect, as High Priest dies to them, for he will no longer need to act in their behalf with the cleansing blood of his sacrifice.\n16. What position toward the antitypical city of refuge do those have who come forth in the resurrection to life on earth?\n16 What of those, then, who will be resurrected during Jesus' thousand-year reign? Must these, too, come within the city of refuge and remain there until the \"death of the high priest\"? No. For these have paid the penalty for their sinfulness by their own death. (Rom. 6:7) They have been acquitted of sin by going down into the common grave of all mankind. On coming forth from death, they are now standing on a road that leads, not into the antitypical city of refuge, but into life everlasting. Continuing on this highway of life they too will be aided by the High Priest to attain to human perfection. Their passing the final test after the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ will bring them also Jehovah's declaration of them righteous and a guarantee of endless life on earth. Failure, however, to meet the requirements of God that will apply to mankind in that day will bring upon them a final judgment of condemnation and they will be exterminated forever, just as those who were executed a thousand years earlier in the \"great tribulation.\"\n17. What questions arise as to the \"death\" of the High Priest?\n17 But, someone might ask, what of Paul's words to the Hebrews: \"This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and firm, and it enters in within the curtain, where a forerunner has entered in our behalf, Jesus who has become a high priest according to the manner of Melchizedek forever\"? (Heb. 6:19, 20) Why is it said that Jesus will be a High Priest forever if his services as High Priest are to end toward the world of mankind at the end of the thousand years? In what way does he continue as High Priest forever?\n18. What service of the great High Priest will come to an end, but why will this not put an end to all his relationship with mankind?\n18 In the Jewish type the high priest literally died, thus ending not only his services as high priest but his life as well. This is not so with the greater High Priest, Jesus Christ. True, his services end in this capacity when mankind is brought to a complete standing in righteousness before Jehovah, but Jesus at Jehovah's right hand continues forever. Cessation of his office as a mediating High Priest toward mankind does not end his life. The good effects of his service as King and High Priest over mankind will remain forever with mankind, and mankind will forever be indebted to him for having served as King and High Priest in their behalf. To all eternity they will bow the knee at the name of Jesus and confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:5-11) His services toward mankind will then no longer be necessary in the application of his atonement sacrifice toward them. But as Jehovah's great Administrator and Spokesman, he will unquestionably continue throughout all eternity as the preeminent One in magnifying Jehovah's praise and leading in worship that will unify the entire universe to Jehovah's glory and honor.\n19. What can now sustain us, and what should our earnest effort be?\n19 What a blessed privilege it will be to be among those happy creatures who have survived down to that time! How thankful we will be for the mercy of Jehovah that has made this marvelous provision possible! It is this hope now that can sustain us. May we cherish it as we treasure life itself, for remaining in Jehovah's refuge city now in this \"time of the end\" of the bloodguilty world does mean our life.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Weekday Features\nMondays with Mo\nWednesdays with Walton\nBen Fred Fridays\nHanging with Big Walt\nPucks with Bernie & Panger\nCardinals Game Day Updates\nTony Talk\nSLU Billikens\nMLS to St. Louis\nUnique Interviews\nVoices of the Game\nAbout Scoops\nAuthors & Hosts\nAfter Another Disappointing Loss, Mizzou Shifts Their Focus To Senior Night\nBy: Nate Smith\nTwitter: @NateSmithNBA\nThe Missouri Tigers suffered their fourth straight loss on Saturday when they fell to the 11th ranked Florida Gators. The 23-6 defeat dropped the Tigers to 2-4 in SEC play and 5-5 overall on the year. The Tigers' performance left something to be desired, as fans voiced their frustration on social media following the game.\nWith only two games remaining on the season, and the NCAA yet to make a ruling on the bowl ban, it's fair to wonder what the team's goals are as they round out the year. Speaking after the Florida game, many of the Missouri players referenced the upcoming senior night game against Tennessee. Quarterback Kelly Bryant said, \"we've gotta finish (the season) on the right note, at home for the seniors.\" Bryant and the rest of the Missouri offense struggled to get going on Saturday, as they were unable to find the end zone. A pair of Tucker McCann field goals provided the only points on the afternoon for the Tigers.\nLinebacker Nick Bolton talks about his near pick-six against Florida\nCornerback Jarvis Ware doubled down on Bryant's comments, saying \"our plan is to send the seniors out the right way.\" Ware, a Florida native, was very vocal on-field following the loss to the Gators, drawing some criticism for how he handled himself. Despite that, Ware remained very humble and transparent in his post-game media availability. \"We've all got to keep our heads up\u2026everybody takes losses but what really matters is how you bounce back from a loss. If everybody keeps their heads up, (and we keep putting the work in) and keep grinding\u2026we will come out successful.\"\nCornerback Jarvis Ware talks with media members following the tough loss\nCenter Trystan Colon-Castillo shared some insight from the coaches' post-game locker room message. \"Coach Odom told us all it's on them, it's on the coaches, which as players, we didn't think (that).\" Colon-Castillo also brought up senior punt returner Richaud Floyd, who addressed the team with a motivational message of his own, that was also centered around sending the seniors out on the proverbial right note.\nTrystan Colon-Castillo talks with media members following the game\nBolton and the Tigers will look to rebound next weekend against Tennessee, who will also enter the contest with a .500 record. Mizzou opened as four-point favorites before the line adjusted to -5.5 in favor of the Tigers. A win against the rival Volunteers wouldn't solve all of Missouri's problems, but it would be a step in the right direction for a talented, yet inconsistent team in desperate need of a confidence boost. The Tigers and Volunteers will kick-off from Faurot Field on Saturday at 6:30 PM. Mizzou fans are understandably discouraged by the turn the season has taken, but they can be at least somewhat encouraged by the positive strides that the defensive unit has continued to make. Star linebacker Nick Bolton has stepped up to help ease the burden caused by the injury to team leader Cale Garrett. Talking about his near pick-six against Florida that barely slipped out of his hands, Bolton said \"I've gotta make that play\u2026I consider myself a playmaker.\" Had Bolton secured the interception and returned it for a touchdown, it would've cut the Gator lead to 13-10 with just over nine minutes remaining in the third quarter. Bolton's playmaking has stood out this season, as the Tigers' linebacker already has one pick-six on his resume. While he wasn't able to repeat the feat against Florida, Bolton's attitude, on-field play, and leadership all speak volumes for a Missouri team going through a tumultuous season.\nApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroid\nWrite to the Mailbag!\nDesigned and Hosted by The Miller Group, St. Louis\n\u00a9 Scoops with Danny Mac","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trump's Re-Election Strategy\nWanda Eaves-Taylor\tPolitics\t September 13, 2020 September 13, 2020 12 Minutes\nWhat is Trump's strategy?\nBy David Leonhardt August 28, 2020 [ nytimes.com ]\nThe goal of this week's Republican convention wasn't always clear. At times, it presented President Trump \u2014 as a champion of immigrants, a promoter of racial justice and a defender of women \u2014 in ways that obviously conflicted with his entire time as a public figure.\nTrump's campaign doesn't really think it can reinvent him in the minds of most voters at this stage, does it? No, it doesn't. But it doesn't have to, either. And there was indeed a method to the through-the-looking-glass messages that the convention was offering this week.\nTrump's record on diversity and national unity \u2014 on race, immigration and gender \u2014 is a problem for him. It makes him anathema to many progressives, who would never vote for him, of course. But it also weighs on some swing voters and disaffected Republicans who haven't yet made up their minds, polls suggest. This group includes people who voted for Trump in 2016 and flipped to the Democrats in the 2018 midterms. It includes people who didn't used to express concern about racism but have begun doing so in recent months. It includes whites and a significant number of Latinos, among others.\nTo these voters, the question of Trump's racism or sexism isn't binary. They know he can be ugly \u2014 or \"unfiltered,\" as his daughter Ivanka Trump put it last night. But these swing voters have their limits. To vote for Trump in 2020, they want to believe that he is different from the worst version of himself.\nOne of the Republican Party's main goals of the past four nights was giving these voters permission to believe that.\nThat's why the convention included testimonials to his personal character \u2014 as well as a parade of female, Black and Latino speakers (unlike many recent White House meetings). \"I can tell you, he really cares,\" Ja'Ron Smith, the highest-ranking Black official in Trump's White House, said from the stage last night. For the same reason, the Trump campaign has already been aggressive in spending money on Spanish-language ads, especially in Arizona, Florida and North Carolina.\n\"What the Republicans know is they don't need to win a majority of our vote,\" Chuck Rocha, a Latino strategist and the author of \"T\u00edo Bernie,\" about Bernie Sanders's outreach efforts, told my colleague Ian Prasad Philbrick. Trump won about 30 percent of the Latino vote in 2016 and is trying to do slightly better this year. The main target, Rocha added, is \"Latino men who care a lot about law and order and keeping their families safe.\"\nTrump's overall campaign strategy came into focus this week. It looks like this:\nSand off the worst parts of his image with voters who haven't yet made up their minds.\nOffer a misleading defense of his records on the coronavirus. Remind people of the\ngrowing pre-virus economy. And define Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as politically\ncorrect establishment figures who will refuse to stand up to rioters or socialists.\n\"Your vote,\" Trump said in his speech closing the convention last night, \"will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans, or whether we give free rein to violent anarchists, agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens.\" This week, Republicans had the nation's political stage to make their case, just as Democrats had it the previous week to make theirs: against Trump as a lying, racist, corrupt, would-be authoritarian. The terms of the debate are set. The campaign has less than 10 weeks remaining.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nRepublican Convention: Best and Worst Moments From Trump's Big Night\nOur columnists and contributors give their rankings.\nThe New York Times Opinion Writers August 28, 2020\nIt is no secret that I am NOT a Trump supporter. I have nothing against the Republican Party, but I have no love for Trump \u2013 the kind of politician he is, the kind of ungodly man he is. So, I am biased in my opinion on that issue. This is MY post and I have no desire to occupy MY space with the \"best\" moments (in my opinion, there were none!) of the Republican National Convention. You can go to the Times and read it for yourself if you'd like. I have chosen to look at what the opinion writers have chosen as the Worst Moments :\nWajahat Ali With a straight face, Trump said he can modestly say he had done more for Black people than any other president since Lincoln. He said this after an entire evening of Republican speakers bashed Black Lives Matter, their supporters and millions of demonstrators who protested against police brutality. He said this as a birther. He said this as one of his supporters just killed two people in Kenosha and overnight became a right-wing hero.\nJamelle Bouie Trump's acceptance speech was long and intolerably boring, but what was offensive was the entire display in front of the White House. It was corrupt, but more than that it was a statement of contempt for the basic republican principle that the people are sovereign, not the leader they elect. The unmistakable message sent by erecting MAGA banners in front of the White House is that the government is Trump, and Trump is the government. For all the talk of \"heritage\" and \"history\" from this president and his allies, this is what it looks like to attack our founding values.\nLinda Chavez It was bad enough that Trump commandeered the White House for a what looked like a super-spreader party. His speech was not that of a successful incumbent, but a scared underdog whose only hope is to persuade voters the Democrats are socialists who want to burn down the country. Let's pray none of the maskless guests spread Covid-19 through the crowd.\nGail Collins Rudy Giuliani \u2014 like being stuck with your cranky Uncle Fred at the end of a really long cocktail party.\nRoss Douthat The inability of any speaker, civilian or politician, to resolve the tension between the usual incumbent claims that Things Have Never Been Better and the grim reality of the Covid-19 death rate and the unemployment rate. There were other tensions \u2014 blaming Biden for being too tough on crime in the 1990s and blaming him for being too lax on crime now; claiming Americans won't be safe in Biden's presidency by citing trends that have worsened under Trump. But the basic problem for this convention is that the Republicans were trying to sell an incumbent administration that failed to prevent a continuing crisis \u2014 evident in the very design of the convention itself \u2014 and nobody tonight, up to Trump himself, had any rhetorical solution save evasion.\nMichelle Goldberg Trump's speech was demagogic and full of filthy lies but at least it was extremely boring.\nNicole Hemmer With more than a thousand maskless people packed tightly on the South Lawn, Trump staged a campaign rally at the White House \u2014 a violation of both norms and possibly law. It's the perfect encapsulation of his presidency: obscene and corrupt, with little regard for human life.\nNicholas Kristof Rudy Giuliani was shameless in fear-mongering, painting New York City as a dangerous nightmare of Democratic rule. In fact, New York City has seen just over one murder a day on average so far this year; in the last two years of Giuliani's term as mayor, New York City's murder rate was much higher than it is now.\nMatt Labash Was wrestling over who should get my dry-cleaning bill after hearing so much ridiculousness that I kept spitting bourbon through my nose, thus ruining my MAGA sweater. But the prize goes to Dan Scavino, Trump's former golf caddy and current social media director, who had the cojones to actually say, \"I wish you could be at [Trump's] side with me to see his endless kindness to everyone he meets.\" This, of the guy who actually tweeted: \"Happy Thanksgiving to all \u2014 even the haters and losers!\" Tonight's R.N.C. prom theme was \"America, Land of Greatness.\" Good thing it wasn't \"Land of Self-Awareness.\"\nLiz Mair Ivanka taking the stage with her father, and Melania trying to greet her with a smile, but then immediately looking freaked out and very much not pleased to see her stepdaughter. Weird family vibes that the rest of the country didn't really need to be involved in.\nDaniel McCarthy Mitch McConnell had to be included in the convention, but he didn't have to go on the final night, when his dryness would be conspicuous. He was a reminder of how uninspiring the G.O.P. was before Trump.\nMelanye Price Trump saying that electing Joe Biden will give us health problems including heart attacks when he has failed to take any responsibility for the worst public health crisis in American history. It was particularly vulgar at an event on the White House lawn with unmasked attendees who were not socially distancing.\nBret Stephens Ivanka Trump. Yes, her speech was polished and effective and maybe she'll be the next governor of Florida. Till then, who elected her viceroy of these colonies?\nMimi Swartz Trump claiming that he's done more for Black Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln.\nH\u00e9ctor Tobar Satirists, comedians and surrealist poets all rejoiced at the absurd tableau of Trump's closing speech: a generalissimo with a comb-over, hovering over an audience of sycophants who were so deeply enthralled by his demagogy, they risked infection by a deadly virus to bask in his presence. I never imagined I'd see the White House this sullied by the weirdness of a cult of personality: sad.\nPeter Wehner Rudy Giuliani. He started the speech coiled with anger; by the end, he was uncoiled and enraged \u2014 sputtering, yelling into an empty auditorium, his voice cracking, his glasses slipping off his nose. Once \"America's Mayor,\" Giuliani long ago became a sad figure; he's now a pathetic one.\nWill Wilkinson Trump's use of the White House as a political prop to declare \"l'\u00e9tat, c'est moi\" \u2014 to undermine the distinctions between state and party, office and occupant \u2014 is a shocking betrayal of our nation's republican ideals. It was a crime against the meaning of America far greater than if he had ripped the flags gaudily arrayed around him from their poles, tossed them in a heap and burned them in a towering bonfire. Trump also betrayed his country by packing a crowd of partisans, maskless and undistanced, into the South Lawn. \"Four more years,\" they chanted. Thanks to Trump's failure, thousands of Americans won't be getting even one more year.\nWhat Else Mattered ?\nWajahat Ali Consistency should matter. Trump and Republicans spent the night painting a picture of America as a violent, dangerous hellscape where rioters and looters have taken control. Then Trump bragged and lied about all of his accomplishments in making this country great. That's not really an effective message for an incumbent, who's been the leader of the country for four years. Trump basically made the case to vote for Biden.\nJamelle Bouie What else mattered: Trump is the unambiguous underdog in this election. His tasks is to regain just enough lost ground to eke out an Electoral College victory. This speech was an opportunity to do just that, and he failed. If you were on the fence about Trump, nothing in this rote, laundry list of a speech will likely assuage your concerns. Trump could have reintroduced himself to the public, he could have shown his commitment to solving problems like the deadly pandemic killing a thousand Americans each day. He did neither, wasting an important chance to shift the ground of the campaign.\nLinda Chavez Using the White House as a backdrop for a political convention was a travesty, but so was filling the audience (amid a pandemic) with federal workers like the I.C.E. agents the president pointed to during the speech. The White House should not be a prop for a reality show president.\nGail Collins Trump announced his candidacy in an inappropriate place (White House lawn) to an audience that was way too squished for coronavirus summer. That was actually the only exciting part.\nRoss Douthat Well, the president gave a speech. It previewed some plausible lines of attack against Biden for the fall; it cited some genuine achievements; it had some predictable falsehoods and exaggerations \u2026 but mostly it just went on forever, in that singsong that Trump falls into when he's reading a teleprompter and finds the prepared text a little dull. Biden's speech a week ago was tighter and better; this one was by turns OK and tedious, neither a hectoring authoritarian balcony performance nor a successful populist stemwinder. Overall the Republican convention was a more impressive piece of entertainment than what the Democrats put together, but it ended with a fizzle and a yawn.\nMichelle Goldberg The night Donald Trump was elected, Rachel Maddow told her shellshocked audience, \"You're not dead and you haven't gone to hell.\" Rarely have I been less sure. To watch this hateful huckster brand the White House with banners bearing his name, turning it into a stage set for American caudillismo, was a low point in the history of the presidency. It was like something out of \"The Man In The High Castle.\" It was a defilement.\nNicole Hemmer Tonight revealed the central contradiction of Trump's campaign. After insisting Trump's presidency has been the most successful in history, speakers warned the nation was cracking apart, wracked by chaos and lawlessness. Even if you don't think that's Trump's fault (which: really?), he neither prevented nor fixed it. Not a great argument for a second term.\nNicholas Kristof With Covid-19 recently claiming about one American life every 80 seconds, President Trump should be modeling social distancing and the wearing of masks. Instead, masks were barely visible and chairs were close, spreading the worst kind of public health messaging to the American public.\nMatt Labash The R.N.C. was as dispiriting as the D.N.C. At a time of multiple crises, when we most need good, honest leadership, we instead get relentless dishonesty. Democrats lie about \"peaceful protests,\" as cities are torched and ransacked. Republicans lie about Covid-19, a virus we didn't even know existed 10 months ago, but which is now our third-leading killer, having taken nearly 185,000 American lives. These are the choices, folks: bunco men vs. flim-flammers. Bloods vs. Crips, engaged in gang warfare for its own sake. I, for one, will be voting my conscience, which dictates that I can't vote. Not this cycle. Why reward the bastards?\nLiz Mair Tom Cotton's speech was better than those from other potential 2024 contenders, including Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, but his delivery was far worse, more stilted and inauthentic sounding than what we got from Tim Scott and, yes, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. He sounded like a bog-standard career politician in a world where people have gotten used to someone leading the G.O.P. who sounds about as far away from that as is possible.\nDaniel McCarthy The night seemed too rote, too safe too often, with good messages deflated by lackluster or past-their-prime messengers like Rudy Giuliani.\nMelanye Price It's not clear yet whether they will pick up new supporters, but the Republicans did an excellent job of reminding supporters what's at stake in this fictional America, clarifying whom they should view as the enemy and fomenting hostility toward people who are different or just simply disagree with them.\nBret Stephens Trump's long speech, often demagogic and nasty, was also probably the most politically effective of his presidency. Biden needs to up his game, a lot, or he's going to be this year's version of other Senate war horses turned failed presidential candidates: John McCain, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale, George McGovern and John Kerry.\nMimi Swartz Another night of mass-spreading mendacity. Tom Cotton accuses Joe Biden of coddling dictators. Rudy Giuliani paints New York City as a chaotic, violent dystopia. Ivanka Trump says her dad is a champion of women and children. The president promises to end anarchy. Democrats who spent the last four nights watching Netflix aren't ready for what's coming.\nH\u00e9ctor Tobar In 2016, Trump's insurgent candidacy resonated with voters in \"heartland\" communities who felt unseen by the political establishment. This year, I spent the four days of the Republican convention driving across \"flyover\" America. I sensed a Trump fatigue setting in. The president's meanspirited reality show hasn't delivered the promised greatness \u2014 no matter how many convention speakers said it did.\nPeter Wehner The Trump campaign has settled on its theme, which is as subtle as a jackhammer. Trump is all that stands between \"the forgotten man\" and carnage: death, darkness, violence, riots, anarchy, mayhem, cultural revolution, the death of God. Democrats may be infuriated by this line of attack, but they'd be fools to ignore the danger it poses to them. NThe through line of this week was lies, the bolder the better. The purpose is to disorient Americans. Trump can win only if Americans enter his hall of mirrors. An awful lot hinges on them declining the offer.\nWill Wilkinson The Republican Party is all-in on the message that rioting, looting and violence have broken out in Democratic cities across the country on Donald Trump's watch, and he has been unable to do anything to rein it in \u2026 which is why Americans won't be safe if the other guy is elected. This is an incoherent position. But once you dial into Trump's authoritarian frequency, you grasp that the supposed root of the violent urban disorder of Republican fever dreams is that Democrats are allowed to have political authority at all. If Trump is re-elected, he might put an end to the perils of two-party rule for good.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nPrevious Post Christians and Trump\nNext Post Trump's Military Comments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeShootingArchery\nWhy Competition Archery Is a Must-Try Sport\nTaylor Walston 0\tNovember 30, 2021 5:32 pm\nArchery is a wonderfully accessible sport. It's attainable for aspiring athletes of any ability and any age. It has longevity, meaning tha\nA Hunter's First Trad Bow Buck\nYou Got Archery Equipment for Christmas. Now What?\nEaston Releases New Sonic 6.0 Hunting Arrow for 2022\nArchery is a wonderfully accessible sport. It's attainable for aspiring athletes of any ability and any age. It has longevity, meaning that an archer can enjoy competing for years. So, why not start now? Team USA archer Matthew Nofel confirmed to us that his love for the sport began at a young age. He was 8 years old when he asked his parents for a bow and arrows for Christmas. They started him with a toy set \u2014 you know, the kind with suction cup arrows \u2014 but he had bigger dreams. He asked his parents for a real bow, found a coach, joined the Junior Olympic Archery Development program and made it onto the Junior Dream Team.\n\"I fell in love with it,\" Nofel said. \"Once we found a club for me to shoot in, I made so many friends. It's a great community. I love the challenge, always being able to push myself, and it's very accessible, I think, physically.\"\nFast-forward to 2021 and he's a resident athlete with Team USA, with a recurve men's team silver medal from the Hyundai Archery World Championship on his resume. We spoke with him at that very same competition to ask him about why competition archery is something every archer should try.\nNofel cites the ability to push yourself to be better as one of the biggest reasons. \"You're shooting against your personal best,\" he said. \"If you're starting out and you've only shot out to 20 yards, you try to push yourself to 30 yards, 40 yards, trying to increase your score. A good measure of how you're doing is to compete against others, which is such a great challenge of the sport.\"\nSo, what is it, exactly, that makes competitive archery so exciting? What is it that keeps Nofel coming back to competition? \"The No. 1 thing is the feeling I get from competing, especially when I've done well; to know that I've put all the work in and been rewarded by it, it's just a great feeling,\" Nofel said. \"Then, the adrenaline you get on the line in a head-to-head match. Then, the team round. In the team round you have your team buddies you're shooting with. And then, coming to events, being around other teams. Socially it's a lot of fun and then competitively you get to get after it.\"\nNofel's advice for archers wanting to make the leap from recreational archery to competitive archery is much like a famous slogan: Just do it. \"You just gotta jump in,\" he said. \"I think even if you feel like you're not ready to do it, there's no reason not to go and do it, especially at a local level. You get signed up, you go, and the worst thing that can happen is that you have a great day of shooting with your friends and probably end up hooked like me.\"\nHe suggests looking into USA Archery's JOAD program, National Field Archery Association tournaments or 4-H competitions. You can always go to your local archery shop and ask around. They'll know what organizations are available in your area. \"If you have the ability to shoot arrows safely at a target, go and have fun and go from there,\" he said.\nOnce you've found a competition or tournament to participate in, how do you prepare? Nofel says it's all about consistency. \"You have to go in and shoot the same way you do in practice,\" he said. \"You practice all day long to get arrows close to the middle. And if you get to a competition and you try to do something different to shoot better, now you're shooting differently \u2014 and it probably will not be better. So even at the world championship level, I step up to the line and I run through my same checklist that I do in practice every day.\"\nA consistent shot process is the key to success in archery. Repetition is the name of the game. \"I go by the NTS shot process by Coach Lee,\" Nofel said. \"Every shot I'm running my process. So even if I step into a medal match or one-arrow shoot off or sudden death match, I get up and I do my process, I focus on myself and execute the best shot I can and the result is the result.\"\nIt's easy to get caught up in the fact that you're at a competition, but if you follow your process and stay focused, you'll shoot just as well as you do at home. \"Don't let stepping up to a bigger tournament freak you out,\" Nofel said. \"I started in JOAD and I learned OK, you go and you register and you get to the event, they tell you where you're shooting, and then you go do an equipment inspection and then you go and shoot. Then I got to a USAT tournament, a national tournament, and I registered for it, I went, they told me where to shoot, I had an equipment inspection and I went and shot. You start local, you learn how to do it, and after that everything else is getting bigger, but you're still stepping up and you're still shooting your same shot.\"\nCompeting in archery tournaments is a great way to take the skills you've been honing in your backyard or at a favorite range and test them against yourself and other archers. You'll make friends, better yourself as an athlete and become part of an entire network of people who are passionate about archery. Don't be afraid to step up to the line and nock your first arrow as a competitive archer.\nVisit our store locator to find a range near you and ask them what competitions are available in your area.\nArchery 43 Expert Advice 28 Shooting 80\nAUTHOR: Taylor Walston\nJames Brand Rolls out New Redstone Folder Collab\n[Q&A] Colter Hinchliffe introduces the completely redesigned Dalbello Krypton T.I.\nWe Knife Co. + Civivi Voted Best Overall Lineup 2021\nPresented by: Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpeners We [...]\n[Q&A] The making of FROM THE PASSENGER SEAT\nAll Images: Courtesy of F4D Studio Gary Wyman grew up in Clear Creek County in Colorado, just as snowboarding started to gain t [...]\nPok\u00e9mon cards, princess dresses and YouTube crappie\nI guess you could say I've already received my best gift. Because as most every pro angler will tell you, the 15 to 20 weeks we spend away from o [...]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By ArvigDecember 4, 2020December 9th, 2020News\nArvig Announces Purchase of Directories\nArvig today announced the acquisition of Statewide Directories of Kennewick, Wash. The purchase adds six new directories to the Arvig portfolio which is managed by the Arvig Media team.\nWith three directories that cover parts of Washington and Oregon and an additional three directories covering regions of Montana, the purchase represents an opportunity to expand Arvig Media's digital media products, including services such as websites development, internet advertising, search engine optimization and social media management, into these relatively untapped markets.\n\"Adding Statewide Directories to our portfolio maximizes the efficiencies of our processes and expertise of our core staff,\" said David Schornack, director of business development and sales. \"We're excited to welcome the team to Arvig and to embrace many of their successful strategies as we continue to grow our digital media business.\"\nThe directories are published in Walla Walla, Wash, La Grande Ore., the Tri Cities of Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, Wash., Bozeman, Mont., Helena, Mont., and Great Falls, Mont.\nAbout Arvig\nArvig is a Minnesota employee-owned and operated wired telecommunications company that provides high-speed cutting-edge telecommunications products and services, as well as directories and digital media services via the Arvig Media team. Arvig is located in Perham, Minnesota; it is committed to connecting its customers to the world with cutting-edge information technology. Founded in 1950 as a small family-owned telephone company, it has grown to the 39th largest independently owned and operated telecommunications provider. According to Minneapolis Star Tribune, Arvig is ranked as one best place to work in Minnesota. Visit www.arvigbusiness.com and www.arvigmedia.com for additional information.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Can Jazz or Mavericks catch the Lakers for the eighth seed?\nBy Kurt HelinMar 25, 2013, 12:33 PM EDT\nThe Los Angeles Lakers are back in a more familiar place \u2014 the team being chased rather than the team playing catch-up. Granted, the Lakers aren't really used to being chased for the eighth seed, but still it's better to be the team being chased than the other way around.\nBoth the Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz are two games back of the Lakers for the chance to face the Spurs in the first round.\nCan either of those teams catch the Lakers? Maybe. Dallas is playing well and Utah's schedule softens up, but both are going to need a lot more wins.\nDallas is 7-3 in its last 10 games and have pushed up the standings since he return of Dirk Nowitzki. While it seemed a long shot they could get back in the mix, the fall of the Jazz has put them just a couple steps behind the Lakers.\nThe reason we are talking about this at all is Utah has not looked like a playoff team lately \u2014 they have lost four games in a row and nine of their last 11. They were a playoff team that came back to the pack, let themselves get caught.\nPlayers in Utah are frustrated \u2014 Paul Millsap has complained about playing time \u2014 and coach Ty Corbin can't seem to find a rotation, a combination to turn this thing around. Two games is not going to be easy to make up on the Lakers, but it's impossible if they don't start winning. A lot.\nUtah's best hope is the schedule \u2014 theirs gets softer while the Lakers gets harder. Dallas has a tough stretch but could finish strong.\nUtah has 12 games left, eight at home where the Jazz are 24-9 on the season. Of those dozen games, only five are against playoff teams. The Jazz have the struggling 76ers and Suns to start the week in Utah \u2014 those are must wins that could start a little run for Utah.\nDallas has a dozen games left, seven at home and five on the road. They play seven of those 12 against playoff teams but five of those are their next five games (including at the Lakers April 2). If Dallas can get through those five games and still be close, they have a chance.\nThe Lakers have 12 games left also, split evenly between home and road (with a four-game road trip this week). The Lakers have seven playoff teams left on their schedule including four of their last six. The Lakers had a soft schedule last week of the Suns and Wizards and lost both, a missed opportunity they could regret.\nThe bottom line for the Lakers is they have a cushion, they have to just keep winning and they are in. (It's hard to see any of these teams closing a three game gap with the hot Rockets for the seven seed, or 3.5 with the Warriors at six.) But if the Lakers continue to stumble the schedule favors Utah \u2014 if Utah can keep tripping over it's own feet. And Dallas is in the mix as well.\nThis could be a very interesting three weeks at the bottom of the Western Conference.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Unitarian Universalist Church of Saco Biddeford\nSaco, Maine 04072\nuuchurch@gwi.net\nUU Church of Saco & Biddeford\n60 School Street, Saco, Maine 04072\nSUNDAY WORSHIP @ 9:00 AM\nCommittee on Ministries\nNewsletter (The Messenger)\nWeekly Update (Friday Flyer)\nReligious Exploration\nFaith in Action Team\nGreen Sanctuary\nBon Appetit Meal Program\nSaco Food Pantry\nEarthen Spiral Community Coven\nHarbour Singers\nAlphabet Soup (GLBT)\nCaring Connection\nWe gather together in spiritual community because we need constant reminders of what matters most in life. In a world of heartbreak and dehumanization, our congregations and communities call us to our better selves. We learn to live with more wisdom, more connection, and more compassion.\nOur Worship Services are weekly reflections that weave together our own thoughts and experiences with music, beauty, poetry, and words that both comfort and challenge. Our programs for all ages inspire us, and awaken us to our capacities to make a difference in our own lives and in the world.\nWe are inspired not just by religious sources but by the people with whom we journey: the diverse and spirited Unitarian Universalists.\nConnect with us to join in.\nFriday Flyer \u2013 January 17, 2020\nFriday Flyer \u2013 January 3, 2020\nJanuary Messenger\nFriday Flyer \u2013 December 27, 2019\nFriday Flyer\nI was raised in the flowing, golden prairies and rolling hills of central North Dakota. My parents were elementary school teachers, and my younger sister and I had what most would call a happy, normal childhood \u2013 privileged and protected, cradled in the embrace of our large German-Russian family and the Catholic Church.\nFrom a very early age, music was an essential part of my life, and given that Church was central to everything we did, it was only natural that the two became interwoven for me. I was fascinated by it all \u2013 the ritual, the music, the mystery, the awe. I was most especially interested in people's experiences of these things.\nI joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps after getting my BA in Psychology, and was sent to Tacoma, Washington, to work at Nativity House, a day shelter for the homeless and marginalized. From the moment I walked in the doors, I knew it was where I was supposed to be. My eyes and heart were opened wide to the realities of our society and the struggles of our marginalized peoples. It was at Nativity House that I first began to really name and explore my call to ministry. I also began to explore the feminine divine, pagan spirituality, and discovered how to use art, journaling, meditation, and nature as ways to connect with Spirit.\nMy decision to come out as a lesbian at age 29 was a monumental shift in my image of self and how I moved through the world. I spent the next ten years discovering all it meant to be queer in today's world \u2013 and in my world, with my family and friends and co-workers. As I lived more and more into this truth, my spirituality began to emerge in a deeper and fuller way.\nIn 2010, Spirit led me to two congregations at the exact same time \u2013 a UU Fellowship and a Unity church. I became the administrator of one and the pianist of the other and fell in lovewith both. My call to ministry came booming out of the wilderness loud and clear, and both congregations encouraged and nurtured me toward seminary.\nMy mom is my biggest supporter and will always hold a strong sense of home for me in the middle of North Dakota. I am deeply committed to my beloved partner, Diana, who is also a UU minister, and her 15 year old son, Aidan.\nI am a musician and composer, love animals and books, and am slowly improving my skills in both cooking and knitting.\nNature is an important source of renewal and inspiration, and I especially find comfort in trees, mountains, and the wind that sweeps across the prairie. I like to get out hiking and camping whenever I can - there's nothing better than a book and a hammock, gently swinging in the trees.\nFor more information about Rev. Shay please go to http:\/\/www.revshaymackay.com. You may contact her directly by email by clicking here.\n\u00a9 2020 UU Church of Saco & Biddeford","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Notes On Hope\nSuggested Reading November 12, 2018\nNovember 19, 2018 November 19, 2018 Linda Reimer\nHi everyone, here are our recommended titles for the week, for last week!\nApologies for the delay in posting; between vacation days and our charming inclement weather at the end of last week, this is my first chance to finish it.\nSo here are the suggested reads for last week and I'll post the recommended titles for this week on Wednesday.\nDigital Suggestions Of The Week For Last Week:\nThe Comedians, Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff (Format: eBook):\n\"Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you're a comedy nerd you'll love this book\" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider\nBased on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years.\nStarting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian\u2014an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian's primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy's part in the Civil Rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century.\n\"Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.\" \u2014Merrill Markoe, The Wall Street Journal\nDamsel by Elana K. Arnold (Format: eBook):\nA dark, twisted, unforgettable fairy tale from Elana K. Arnold, author of the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of.\nThe rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: When the king dies, his son the prince must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been.\nWhen Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon or what horrors she faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome young man, the story he tells of her rescue, and her destiny of sitting on a throne beside him. It's all like a dream, like something from a fairy tale.\nAs Ama follows Emory to the kingdom of Harding, however, she discovers that not all is as it seems. There is more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows, and the greatest threats may not be behind her, but around her, now, and closing in.\nJack Of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates (Format: eBook):\nAn exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness.\nAndrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: He has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies. Only Stephen King, one of the few mystery writers whose fame exceeds his own, is capable of inspiring a twinge of envy in Rush. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym \"Jack of Spades,\" he pens another string of novels\u2014noir thrillers that are violent, lurid, masochistic. These are novels that the upstanding Rush wouldn't be caught reading, let alone writing. When his daughter comes across a Jack of Spades novel he has carelessly left out, she picks it up and begins to ask questions. Meanwhile, Rush receives a court summons in the mail explaining that a local woman has accused him of plagiarizing her own self-published fiction. Before long, Rush's reputation, career, and family life all come under threat\u2014and in his mind he begins to hear the taunting voice of the Jack of Spades.\n\"Sleek and suspenseful . . . Readers are sure to be gripped and unsettled by [Oates's] depiction of a seemingly mild-mannered character whose psychopathology simmers frighteningly close to the surface.\" \u2014Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\"Just when you think you've got her all figured out, Joyce Carol Oates sneaks up behind and confounds you yet again. She does it with a wicked flourish in Jack of Spades.\" \u2014The New York Times Book Review\nThe Vineyard Victims, Wine Country Mystery Series, Book 8 written by Ellen Crosby & read by Christine Marshall (Format: Downloadable Audiobook):\nThe death of a former presidential candidate in a fiery car crash at her Virginia vineyard has ties to a thirty-year-old murder, as well as to Lucie Montgomery's own near-fatal accident ten years ago, as she searches for a killer who now may be stalking her.\nWhen Jamison Vaughn-billionaire real-estate mogul, Virginia vineyard owner, and unsuccessful US presidential candidate-drives his gold SUV into a stone pillar at the entrance to Montgomery Estate Vineyard, Lucie Montgomery is certain the crash was deliberate. But everyone else in Atoka, Virginia, is equally sure that Jamie must have lost control of his car on a rain-slicked country road. In spite of being saddled with massive campaign debts from the recent election, Jamie is seemingly the man with the perfect life. What possible reason could he have for committing suicide? Or was it murder?\nBefore long, Lucie uncovers a connection between Jamie and some of his old friends, an elite group of academics, and the brutal murder thirty years ago of a brilliant PhD student. Although a handyman is on death row for the crime, Lucie soon suspects someone else is guilty. But the investigation into the two deaths throws Lucie a curve ball when someone from her own past becomes involved, forcing her to confront old demons. Now the race to solve the mystery behind the two deaths becomes intensely personal as Lucie realizes someone wants her silenced-for good.\nWritten in Red, The Anna Hopkins Mysteries, Book 2 by Annie Dalton (Format: eBook):\nThe murder of a college professor uncovers long-buried Cold War secrets in this \"suspense-filled\" mystery in the Oxford Dogwalkers' series (Booklist).\nShortly before Christmas, Professor James Lowell is found brutally attacked in his rooms at Walsingham College, where dog-lover Anna Hopkins works as an administrator. Baffled as to why anyone would wish to harm such a gentle scholar, Anna discovers that her fellow dog walker, Isadora Salzman, knew Lowell as an undergraduate in the 1960s. They were both members of the so-called Oxford Six\u2014and it seems that Isadora has been keeping a surprising secret all these years. But someone else knows about Isadora's secret: someone who has sent her a threatening, frightening letter.\nCould the attack on Professor Lowell have its roots in a fifty-year-old murder? And who is targeting Isadora and the surviving members of the Oxford Six? Anna, Isadora, and Tansy, the dog walking detectives, make it their business to find out.\nThis mystery series for adult readers is an intriguing new departure for award-winning YA writer Annie Dalton. Dalton is the author of more than 30 novels for children and young adults, including the Agent Angel series. She has twice been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.\n\"This taut . . . nail-biter of a mystery is chock-full of surprises and will appeal to a wide range of mystery lovers.\" \u2014Booklist\n\"Dog lovers will enjoy the canine interludes.\" \u2014Publishers Weekly\nPrint Suggestions Of The Week For Last Week:\nAlmost Everything: Notes On Hope by Anne Lamott:\nFrom Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives.\n\"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen,\" Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest\u2013when we are, as she puts it, \"doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated\"\u2013the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. \"All truth is paradox,\" Lamott writes, \"and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change.\" That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but \"to do what Wendell Berry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'\"\nIn this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.\nCandid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.\nElevation by Stephen King:\nThe latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together\u2014a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.\nAlthough Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn't want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.\nIn the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King's most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade\u2014but escalating\u2014battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott's lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face\u2013including his own\u2014he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott's affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.\nFrom Stephen King, our \"most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work\" (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as \"It's a Wonderful Life.\"\nMerry And Bright by Debbie Macomber:\nMerry Knight is pretty busy these days. She's taking care of her family, baking cookies, decorating for the holidays, and hoping to stay out of the crosshairs of her stressed and by-the-book boss at the consulting firm where she temps. Her own social life is the last thing she has in mind, much less a man. Without her knowledge, Merry's well-meaning mom and brother create an online dating profile for her\u2014minus her photo\u2014and the matches start rolling in. Initially, Merry is incredulous, but she reluctantly decides to give it a whirl.\nSoon Merry finds herself chatting with a charming stranger, a man with similar interests and an unmistakably kind soul. Their online exchanges become the brightest part of her day. But meeting face-to-face is altogether different, and her special friend is the last person Merry expects\u2014or desires. Still, sometimes hearts can see what our eyes cannot. In this satisfying seasonal tale, unanticipated love is only a click away.\nPast Tense by Lee Child:\nFamily secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, \"a superb craftsman of suspense\" (Entertainment Weekly).\nJack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What's one extra day? He takes the detour.\nAt the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians had been on their way to New York City to sell a treasure. Now they're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. The owners seem almost too friendly. It's a strange place, but it's all there is.\nThe next morning, in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in town. He's always known his father left and never returned, but now Reacher wonders, Was he ever there in the first place?\nAs Reacher explores his father's life, and as the Canadians face lethal dangers, strands of different stories begin to merge. Then Reacher makes a shocking discovery: The present can be tough, but the past can be tense . . . and deadly.\n\"Superb . . . [Lee] Child's spare prose continues to set a very high bar.\"\u2014Publishers Weekly (boxed and starred review)\nYou Don't Own Me by Mary Higgins Clark:\nWhen we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former host, Alex Buckley. Since then, the two have been happily planning a summer wedding and honeymoon, preparing for Alex's confirmation to a federal judicial appointment, and searching for the perfect New York City home for their new life together.\nBut then Laurie is approached by Robert and Cynthia Bell, parents of Dr. Martin Bell, a famously charming and talented physician who was shot dead as he pulled into the driveway of his Greenwich Village carriage house five years ago. The Bells are sure that Martin's disgraced and erratic wife, Kendra, carried out the murder. Determined to prove Kendra's guilt and win custody over their grandchildren, they plead with Laurie to feature their son's case on \"Under Suspicion,\" ensuring her that Kendra is willing to cooperate.\nKendra has lived under a blanket of suspicion since Martin's death, with the tabloid media depicting her as a secretive, mentally unstable gold-digger. Laurie's show is a chance for her to clear her name. But unbeknownst to the Bells, Kendra has already refused once before to go forward with a re-investigation of her husband's murder, and her statements to the contrary only add to the appearance of guilt.\nBut once Laurie dives into the case, she learns that Martin wasn't the picture-perfect husband, father, and doctor he appeared to be and was carrying secrets of his own. And what does the web of lies ensnaring the Bell family have to do with a dangerous stranger, who gazes at Laurie from afar and thinks, She is actually quite a lovely girl, I'm sure she's going to be missed\u2026?\nYou Don't Own Me is the perfect, exhilarating follow up to the bestselling Every Breath You Take. The \"Queen of Suspense\" Mary Higgins Clark and her dazzling partner-in-crime Alafair Burke have devised another riveting page-turner.\nTagged Almost Everything, Anne Lamott, audio books, audiobooks, Corning, Corning NY, Debbie Macomber, Digital Catalog, e-books, ebooks, Elevation, Fiction, Lee Child, Mary Higgins Clark, Merry And Bright, Non-Fiction, Notes On Hope, OverDrive, Past Tense, public library, public library services., Southeast Steuben County Library, Southern Tier Library System, Stephen King, streaming videos, You Don't Own MeLeave a comment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[ARCHIVED] Kids, families coming together with Anaheim Ducks, city to design Anaheim's next playground\nANAHEIM, Calif. (July 13, 2022) \u2014 Residents are teaming up with the Anaheim Ducks, the city of Anaheim and nonprofit Kaboom! to design a new playground based on what local kids and families want to see in their neighborhood playspace.\nThe 4,300-square-foot playground will be built in one day on Sept. 16 and will be the first phase in the transformation of a grassy downtown field into Center Greens, a downtown park next to Anaheim City Hall and the Downtown Anaheim Community Center.\nThe 3.5-acre Center Greens will include a new basketball court, skate park, an obstacle course, a loop walking trail and more. The park is set to open in 2023.\nFriday, July 15, will mark the start of the playground design as 50-plus children and parents from the neighborhood, the Anaheim Family YMCA, Anaheim summer programs join with Anaheim Ducks Head Coach Dallas Eakins, future Ducks prospects players and the Ducks Street Team for the playground design day.\nSupporting the health and wellness of kids and families in the community, the design day celebration will include Ducks giveaways and outdoor sports and activities. Kids will join Anaheim Ducks prospects and Street Team members to play street hockey, cornhole, Connect 4 and Jenga. The design day starts at 3 p.m. and is set to conclude at 5:30 p.m.\nThe design day will be followed by two months of final playground planning by the city of Anaheim, the Anaheim Ducks and KABOOM!. The project will culminate with a Sept. 16 build day for the new playground, where the Anaheim Ducks and community volunteers will transform the space into a customized, kid and teen-designed playspace, which will open for play in the days after the build.\nThis will be the 15th KABOOM! playground in Anaheim and the first sponsored by the Anaheim Ducks, rallying neighbors around the common goal of improving communities for our kids.\nOther News in City News - Current\nBlack History Parade and street fair brings community pride and family fun to downtown\nLatest: Cannabis consultant in plea agreement; running timeline\nFormerly homeless residents start moving into converted motel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bees are taking over in OpenBet's video slot known as Beehive Bedlam. This slot comes with a unique reel set and many bonus features and even a progressive jackpot. Learn a bit more about this bee-inspired video slot in the review here.\nAbout the Slot Developer\nThis piece of jackpot slot is developed by a company that has been around in the casino gaming industry for quite some time now and is known for its wide range of products - CORE gaming. Core Gaming has produced some of the best online slots, table games and instant win games you see on online casinos. Moreover, it gets its license from the prestigious UK Gambling Commission and therefore its authenticity is never under question. The company has been in action all around the world and has associations with online casinos all around the globe. Some top games produced by the company, other than the Beehive Bedlam are Beez Kneez and Fruit Basket. Although this game doesn't have a wild symbol, it has produced other games that dons this feature like Butterflies.\nWe as a casino aim to provide a casino gambling experience that players don't forget even after leaving the casino premise and want to come back to it again. This marvellous slot game that has some of the most amazing visuals, simplest of designs and eye-pleasing symbols, also has a huge winning prize that we like to call 'Jackpot'.\nThe Honeycomb of the Jackpot Slot\nThe importance of bees should never be ignored, as suggested by the environmentalists. They play a vital role in maintaining the balance of our ecosystem. However, the same bees are also important for the jackpot slot game you are about to play. The bees live in a wooden beehive which is made up of a honeycomb of symbols. The symbols that you will see here are bees, a daisy, a purple flower, beekeeper, flowers of the colour pink, blue and red. The game doesn't have a wild symbol, but don't worry you won't feel its absence.\nThe honeycomb design of the slot game is 7-reels and you can win in a vertical, horizontal and cluster combination. To the left of your screen is the stake value, where you can select the value of your stake between 0.10 to 10.0. Remember, the higher is the value of your stake, the more money you are betting on each round. The right of your screen will be having a Play button and Menu button. You click on the play button to bring the game to action and you jump into the menu to learn how it pays and levels you have reached. Well, that is it. This is why it is called a simple but intriguing slot game to play.\nHow To Play Beehive Bedlam?\nBeehive Bedlam is played on a reel set which is made in the form of a beehive. There are a total of 7 vertical spots and 7 horizontal positions on this beehive. After placing your bets, you start off a game by clicking the \"Play\" button. You will earn a win when you land a minimum of 5 identical symbols on the beehive.\nThere is a meter by the right side of the beehive known as the \"Pollen Count\". Here your combo wins are recorded. On the beehive are theme-specific icons including; a purple coloured flower, a pink coloured flower, a red coloured flower, a be coloured flower and a daisy.\nOther symbols include; a beekeeper and a bee called Buzz. The slot does not come with a Wild icon. However, you can expect to land a free fall bonus symbol in this game.\nThe Free Falls Feature\nYou can activate the Free Falls feature when you land a minimum of three free falls bonus symbols. In this bonus feature, new symbols will fall from above to replace a winning combo of symbols which drops off. 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The more your stake in your previous world, the larger is the number of the multiplier.\nBee Crazy HD - This is a feature that when unlocked, stops the pollenised flowers from going down, creating an outright opportunity for you to get a winning combination.\nBee Land - The hive in this game is as alive as it could be in a slot game. The Queen bee produces honey as well as money. If you continue playing the game for a long time, the queen bee rewards you with bonus points. The maximum bonus you can win under this feature is set to 2400. The queen bee, just like the real world, owns a lot of power in the game and impressing her the most can be rewarding.\nAn Overview Table\nMinimum Line Bet Value\nMaximum Line Bet Value\nThe x-factor of Beehive Bedlam\nAs we were going through the gameplay of this exciting jackpot slot, we found out one major difference that most other slot games lack. It is the expectancy of winning. 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{"text":"One Reason to Nudge Your Co-workers Occasionally\nFrom the \"Birmingham Sunday Mercury\" (1\/7\/01):\nWorker dead at desk for 5 days\n\"Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for FIVE DAYS before anyone asked if he was feeling okay.\n\"George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proofreader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open plan office he shared with 23 other workers. He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was still working during the weekend.\n\"His boss, Elliot Wachiaski, said, 'George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself.'\n\"A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.\"\nYou may want to give your coworkers a nudge occasionally.\nLinda Druker","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"David Gordon White\nDavid Gordon White (born September 3, 1953) is an American Indologist.\n(1953-09-03) September 3, 1953 (age 69)\nhttp:\/\/www.religion.ucsb.edu\/people\/faculty\/david-white\/ http:\/\/www.modernyogaresearch.org\/people\/t-z\/prof-david-gordon-white\/\n1 Academic career\n2 Honors and distinctions\n3 Reception\n4.2 Articles\nAcademic careerEdit\nDavid Gordon White took his B.A. in South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1975. He obtained an M.A. in Religion at the University of Chicago in 1981 and his Ph.D. in the history of religions there in 1988; his dissertation was titled The Other Gives Rise to Self: Dog-Men on the Borders of Medieval Europe, India, and China.[1] He served as an assistant to Mircea Eliade.[2] He is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been teaching since 1996. He has written numerous academic books and papers on the history of yoga.[1]\nHonors and distinctionsEdit\nWhite won the CHOICE book selection in religion, and an honorable mention in the PROSE book awards, both for Sinister Yogis.[1]\nReceptionEdit\nBritish indologist James Mallinson, recognising that White's \"wide-ranging scholarship on tantra, yoga and alchemy has inspired many students and scholars to undertake research in those fields\", criticizes White in a piece entitled The Yog\u012bs' Latest Trick. Mallinson notes White ignores \"almost everything that argues against his position\" and \"where contradictions to his thesis are noted, they are dismissed with hubris.\"[2] Mallinson says that White conflates the practice of yoga with the siddhis that it produces. Mallinson further states \"As well as varying the criteria for what constitutes yoga to suit his thesis, White cherry-picks his evidence to do the same, citing passages that support his argument while ignoring those in the very same texts that would argue against it.\"[2] Mallinson says that White continues to argue that vajroli mudra is a part of r\u0101ja yoga in the text Amanaska verse 2.32, despite corrections from other scholars in the past. Mallinson criticizes White's competence in linguistics, dating of texts and conflating different ascetic traditions.[2]\nIn chapter 8 of the book Invading the Sacred, the Trinidadian Hindu priest[3] Pandita Indrani Rampersad accuses White of demolishing tantra.[4] She also accuses Wendy Doniger of preventing criticism of White.[4]\nIn his review of White's book Kiss of the Yogin\u012b: \"Tantric Sex\" in Its South Asian Contexts, the Indologist Gerald James Larson calls the book rich with citation, translations, illustrations, discussion of sex in rituals, and detailed ethnographic material that makes White's book a valuable secondary text on tantra.[5] Larson notes and then criticizes two of White's main theses, namely that \"neither Bhakti nor Vedanta were mainstream, rather Tantra was true 'mainstream' South Asian religiosity from 7th century CE to the beginning of the modern era\", and that there is a need for \"revisioning\" of scholarly views on the historic religious Hindu and Buddhist practice in South Asia.[5] Larson critiques these theories, stating that South Asia has been a \"mind bogglingly\" diverse, ancient and culturally rich region of the world, and claims of Tantra or any specific ideology being \"mainstream\" is neither persuasively presented by White nor reasonable. Further, adds Larson, the stated goal and call in White's book about the need for \"revisionism\" fails to properly appreciate the \"rich diversity of South Asian sprituality\", a persistent problem in Indology whether it be demands for revisionism from colonial, reformist, bhakti or another point of view. White is right, says Larson, in pulling Indology scholarship out of the \"Bhakti was mainstream\" trap, but then creates and trips into a new trap of \"Tantra was mainstream\".[5] Larson cautions about Freudian eroticism and transference issues, and states that Tantra is more than sex, sexuality is likely to be allegorical in Tantric text known only to the initiate, not literal as described in White's book.[5]\nWorksEdit\nMyths of the Dog-Man (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0226895093.\nThe Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0226894997.\nTantra in Practice (edited volume) (Princeton University Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0691057798.\nKiss of the Yogini: \"Tantric Sex\" in its South Asian Contexts (University of Chicago Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0226894843.\nSinister Yogis (University of Chicago Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0226895147.\nYoga in Practice (edited volume) (Princeton University Press, 2011). ISBN 978-0691140865.\nThe Yoga Sutra of Pata\u00f1jali. A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2014). ISBN 978-0691143774.\nArticlesEdit\n\"Dakini, Yogini, Pairika, Strix: Adventures in Comparative Demonology\", Southeast Review of Asian Studies 35 (2013), pp. 7\u201331.\n\"Yoga in Transformation\", in Debra Diamond, ed., Yoga, The Art of Transformation.\n\"Mercury & Immortality: The Hindu Alchemical Tradition\", in Aaron Cheak, ed., Alchemical Traditions. From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde (Melbourne: Numen Books, 2013): 207\u201328.(Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2013), pp. 35\u201345.\n\"Netra Tantra, at the Crossroads of the Demonological Cosmopolis\", Journal of Hindu Studies 5:2 (July 2012): 145\u201371.\n\"Rasayana\", Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden: Brill, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 489\u201399.\n\"Tantra\", Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden: Brill, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 574\u201388.\n\"On the Magnitude of the Yogic Body\", in Yogi Heroes and Poets: Histories and Legends of the Naths, ed. by David Lorenzen and Adrian Mu\u00f1oz (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011): 79\u201390.\n\"How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?\" in Knut Jacobsen, ed., Yoga Powers (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 61\u201376.\n\"Amulettes et lambeaux divines: superstition, vraie religion et science pure \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de la d\u00e9monologie hindoue\", Purusartha 27 (Paris: Editions de l'EHESS, 2009), pp. 135\u201362.\n\"Bhairava\", Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden, 2009).\n\"Yogini\", Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden, 2009).\n\"Digging Wells While Houses Burn? Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics\", History and Theory 45:4 (2006), pp. 104\u201331.\n^ a b c \"David White\". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 22 March 2019.\n^ a b c d Mallinson, James (2013). \"The Yog\u012bs' Latest Trick\". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 24 (1): 165\u2013180. doi:10.1017\/S1356186313000734.\n^ Ramoutar, Paras (February 1994). \"Criticism and Acclaim Greet Trinidad's First Woman Priest\". Hinduism Today. Retrieved 20 July 2019.\n^ a b Krishnan Ramaswamy; Antonio de Nicolas; Aditi Banerjee. \"Invading the Sacred\" (PDF). Rajiv Malhtora.com. pp. 73\u201395. Retrieved 2016-07-12.\n^ a b c d Gerald James Larson (2008). \"Reviewed Work: Kiss of the Yogin\u012b: \"Tantric Sex\" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White\". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128 (1 (Jan. - Mar., 2008)): 154\u2013157. JSTOR 25608318.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=David_Gordon_White&oldid=1092755606\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"if(Victors) \u00bb Refine Search\nA Sociocultural Analysis of Motivation for Learning the Japanese Language in Contemporary Hong Kong\nby Nomura, Kazuyuki, Ed.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong). 2016: 200 pages; 10644395.\nThe audience and the film: A reader-response analysis of Italian Neorealism\nby Piturro, Vincent, Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder. 2008: 216 pages; 3303881.\nBreakaway Nations: The use of sport and physical culture to create a cross class Catalan identity during the Second Republic\nby Stout, James Edward, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego. 2016: 454 pages; 10062357.\nAn Inquiry into Workplace Incivility: Perceptions of Working Graduate Students\nby Greene, Ashley E., Ed.D. Lindenwood University. 2012: 270 pages; 3510298.\nCulture in the tropics: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's theories of art and narrative\nby Rodriguez Navas, Ana Belen, Ph.D. Princeton University. 2011: 217 pages; 3480273.\nPainting between the lines: Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, Orientalism and other histories\nby Zieve, Karyn, Ph.D. New York University. 2009: 318 pages; 3380268.\nThe Silver Lining of Literature and Science: Spectral Reflections of Philosophy-Physics in Nineteenth-Century British Epistolary Novels\nby Farrar, Aileen Miyuki, Ph.D. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 2014: 216 pages; 3622934.\nText in context: Representing writing in medieval religious narrative\nby Leff, Amanda M., Ph.D. New York University. 2009: 227 pages; 3365705.\nGretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford: Elevating the Female Voice in American Musical Theater\nby Kerns, Nancy Jane, M.A. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. 2018: 233 pages; 13421232.\nNo Little Plans: Making and Breaking the 1992 Chicago World's Fair\nby Coletta, Sarah Louise, Ph.D. Montana State University. 2017: 241 pages; 10270445.\nChange, Monstrosity, and Hybridity in Medieval Iberian Literature\nby Rodr\u00edguez- Pereira, V\u00edctor, Ph.D. Indiana University. 2018: 256 pages; 10937457.\nThe end of the founding Zionist dream: Reflections in contemporary Israeli fiction\nby Levinson, Rose L., Ph.D. Union Institute and University. 2009: 224 pages; 3388402.\nThe Politicalization of the American Evangelical Press, 1960-1981: A Test of the Ideological Theory of Social Movement Mobilization\nby Farley, Jared A., Ph.D. Miami University. 2006: 285 pages; 10817948.\n'Very excellent': An historical approach to problems of state sponsored English education in Japan\nby Friedman, Jeffrey, Ph.D. New York University. 2013: 278 pages; 3599870.\nBetween bureaucracy and democracy: Regulating administrative discretion in Japan\nby Lebo, Franklin Barr, Ph.D. Kent State University. 2013: 260 pages; 3618878.\nThe Stereotypes and Biases That Plague Millennial Leaders: Best Practices and Strategies for Job Promotion\nby McKenzie, Linda M., Ed.D. Pepperdine University. 2017: 262 pages; 10615236.\nThe Relevance of Somatics and Somasophy to the Cultivation of Female Subjectivity\nby Beauchamp, Marcia D., Ph.D. California Institute of Integral Studies. 2012: 327 pages; 3508062.\nThe philosophy of scientific debate traditions\nby Rosenberger, Robert Joseph, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook. 2008: 284 pages; 3338165.\nHow superpowers go to war and why other states help them: The impact of asymmetric security interdependence on war coalition formation\nby Fritz, Alarik Morgan, Ph.D. Georgetown University. 2008: 417 pages; 3339336.\nCosmopolitan Suburbs: Race, Immigration, and the Politics of Development in the Silicon Valley\nby Lung Amam, Willow S., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. 2012: 169 pages; 3640552.\nProcessing Tongzhi Imaginaries: Chinese Queer Representation in the Global Mediascape\nby Chao, Shi-Yan, Ph.D. New York University. 2013: 511 pages; 3556981.\nThe hierarchies of help: South Asian service workers in New York City\nby Chatterji, Miabi, Ph.D. New York University. 2010: 263 pages; 3428036.\nThe games men play: How community college men use video games to construct masculinity\nby Niemi, Eric J., Ed.D. Northern Illinois University. 2014: 268 pages; 3681948.\nTalking turkey: Visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving\nby Roth, Luanne K., Ph.D. University of Missouri - Columbia. 2010: 300 pages; 3488936.\nDeconstructing Dionysus: Re-visioning Nietzsche's Writings as a Polytheistic Odyssey\nby Jensen, Erik Thomas, Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2018: 277 pages; 10936887.\nIndian Working Arrangements on the California Ranchos, 1821\u20131875\nby Curley, George, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside. 2018: 302 pages; 10979449.\nDis(curse)sive Discourses of Empire: Hinterland Gothics Decolonizing Contemporary Young Adult and New Adult Literature and Performance\nby Schoellman, Stephanie, Ph.D. The University of Texas at San Antonio. 2018: 259 pages; 10814117.\nDocumentary Theatre: Pedagogue and Healer With Their Voices Raised\nby Morris, Kathryn M., Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University. 2014: 320 pages; 3584895.\nAgent of change: A multiplicity of female tricksters in two decades (1990s and early 2000s to 2010) of postmodern American movies\nby Kiefer-Newman, Katherine, Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2011: 246 pages; 3519784.\nNegotiating achievements: Language and schooling experiences among African American preadolescents\nby Delfino, Jennifer B., Ph.D. American University. 2014: 264 pages; 3618405.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Home Page Front Page Watford boss Flores thrilled to be back after Arsenal draw\nWatford boss Flores thrilled to be back after Arsenal draw\nDate published: Sunday 15th September 2019 7:31\nQuique Sanchez Flores says he has missed the \"emotions\" of the Premier League after his Watford side came back from two goals down to draw in his return to Vicarage Road.\nA goal from Tom Cleverley and a penalty from Roberto Pereyra earned a 2-2 draw for Watford after a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang brace in the first half.\nFlores praised the energy of his players and is pleased to back managing in England's top flight.\nFlores told Sky Sports: \"Arsenal are a very good team so to get one point against them is really good.\n\"We played well in the first 20- 25 minutes. I said to the players at half-time to try and win the second half and see if we can make a difference.\n\"I think the reaction of the players was the most important thing. It's easy to be down when you are losing 2-0 to a team as good as Arsenal. But we never gave up and we tried to keep the energy. In the second half we played really well.\"\n\"Have I missed the Premier League? Yeah. I miss all these kind of emotions. I love it.\n\"I was really happy with the performance of the players. We have one point against a very tough team. It's good for our confidence. We are positive.\"\narsenal quique sanchez flores watford\nArsenal 'failed to put Blades to bed' \u2013 Wilder\n\"I don't think we were anywhere near our best today.\" You don't have to be to get a point from Arsenal.\nArteta 'very disappointed' with more dropped points for Arsenal\n\"I think the performance deserved three points and I think we lost two points.\"\nPearson thinks Watford delivered a 'performance' against Spurs\nNigel Pearson thought his Watford side created enough chances to win the game in a 0-0 draw against Tottenham.\nMourinho keen to avoid VAR talk as he reacts to Spurs draw\nJose Mourinho's side have now gone three league games without finding the net.\nTuchel deals big blow to Arsenal hopes of landing left-back target\nThere had been rumours that Arsenal were in 'advanced talks' to sign Layvin Kurzawa.\nArsenal 1-1 Sheffield United: Blades clinch a late point\nJohn Fleck struck late to cancel out Gabriel Martinelli's effort as Arsenal were held...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Pamphleteer's Press\nA SMALL PRESS WITH A WINDOW ON THE WORLD\nHiroshima's Shadow\nHIROSHIMA'S SHADOW REVIEWS\nWhy Bosnia: Writings on the Balkan War\nWHY BOSNIA REVIEWS\nAs Long As Sarajevo Exists\nAS LONG AS SARAJEVO EXISTS REVIEWS\nIndictment at the Hague\nINDICTMENT AT THE HAGUE REVIEWS\nThe Rational Option\nBordering on Treason\nWhy Bosnia\nNavigation Home About books Hiroshima's Shadow HIROSHIMA'S SHADOW REVIEWS Why Bosnia: Writings on the Balkan War WHY BOSNIA REVIEWS As Long As Sarajevo Exists AS LONG AS SARAJEVO EXISTS REVIEWS Indictment at the Hague INDICTMENT AT THE HAGUE REVIEWS The Rational Option Bordering on Treason Bookshop Hiroshima's Shadow As Long As Sarajevo Exists Indictment At The Hague The Rational Option Why Bosnia Bordering on Treason Contact\nFOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM\nBY JOHN CANHAM-CLYNE with STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D. and DAVID HIMMELSTEIN, M.D.\nINTRODUCTION by SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE\n\u2712\nSeveral national advocates of a single-payer system, including Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program, sat down with Hillary Clinton in February [1993]. She listened attentively, asked smart questions\u2026.It was evident Hillary [was] thinking a lot about politics. Can you realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry's lobbying and advertising budget? \"I said 'about 70% of the people in the US favor something like a single payer system,'\" Himmelstein recalls. \"'With presidential leadership that can be an overwhelming force.' She said, 'David, tell me something interesting.'\"\n\u2014THE NATION, April 26, 1993\nTHERE'S A BETTER WAY\nby Steffie Woolhandler, MD, and David Himmelstein, MD.\nThe New York Times , May 28, 2013\nOccupy Wall Street wasn't born in time for the 2009 health care debate. But that debate was a quintessential display of the power and privilege of the 1 percent.\nDrug and insurance firms dictated the terms of reform: \"do it our way or do nothing at all.\" The result was a lopsided bargain: the American people were allowed to expand Medicaid, ship a few scraps to community health centers and impose feeble insurance regulations. Insurers got hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and a mandate ordering the middle class to buy their defective products.\nDrug and insurance firms dictated the terms of reform. A reversal should stoke a social movement for real change.\nThe plan's demise would offer peril and possibility. The corporate-backed \"do nothing at all\" option would perpetuate disaster: about 50,000 annual deaths from the lack of insurance; about 800,000 medical bankruptcies each year, mostly among families with coverage; a continuing spiral of rising costs and shrinking coverage; and continuing assaults on Medicare. But we need not meekly acquiesce to the dictates of the 1 percent.\nContinued here...\nA DECADE AGO THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLINTON attempted and failed to introduce health care reforms that would give the American people a national health system providing universal coverage for all. It is a truism worth repeating that the United States, the richest country in history, is the only advanced state that does not provide health care to all its citizens, a hallmark of a civilised society. In 2013, President Barak Obama introduced the Affordable Heatlhcare Plan. It constituted progress in that it enabled more\u2014though not all\u2014of the uninsured to purchase health insurance on special health exchanges from private insurance companies. However, Obamacare\u2014as it is popularly known\u2014is still not the rational option. It is too cumbersome, too complicated, does not guarantee coverage to those who deserve it the most\u2014the poor\u2014and is hostage to the obstructionist policies of state governments controlled by the Republican Party. It is a pusillanimous half-step because the Obama administration has also balked at reducing the dominance of the insurance industry, which remains central to the operation and therefore to the inadequacies of Obamacare.\nThis work, published as a contribution to the health reform debate in the Clinton era, remains as relevant today as it was then. It presents a detailed description of national health program which every advanced industrial democracy has established in one form or another as an effective means of providing universal health coverage to all citizens. Known as the \"single-payer\" option, it provides the basis for the health systems in Canada and much of Europe.\nIn clear, concise language the authors of this work cut through the morass of the health care debate and set forth a rational program which will provide coverage for all of America's uninsured and guarantee freedom of choice in choosing one's physicians. It is a proposal which the Congressional Budget Office described as the most cost effective of all plans capable of covering every American with a comprehensive range of benefits.\nThe authors, physicians at the Harvard Medical School and founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, take aim at the Clinton Administration's flawed and ineffective approach to health care reform. They are critical of the tactical compromises the administration made to accommodate the opponents of universal coverage by mediating the reform through the private insurance industry. Single-payer advocates were categorically opposed to any compromise with a powerful interest group which\u2014governed by its profit maximisation imperatives\u2014had prevented the introduction of a national health program for Americans for two generations. In their view, an effective political strategy had to confront and defeat such interests in order to secure a rational system for all.\nThe Clinton effort in part of history. The Obama effort will be tested and, most likely, found wanting. For those who ask if another road was, and still is possible, this work is an essential text. The Rational Option is a book for today and for the future.\nJOHN CANHAM-CLYNE is a journalist who has written and reported for The Progressive, World Policy Journal, Pacifica Radio, and In These Times.\nSTEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, MD, MPH, and DAVID HIMMELSTEIN, MD, are internists and professors of public health at the City University of New York at Hunter College and visiting professors of medicine at Harvard Medical School. They are co-founders of the Physicians for a National Health Program .\nPhysicians for a National Health Program\nThis book presents the best argued case for why the United States should have followed Canada's example in the nations's recent round of health reform. Canada's universal insurance is comprehensive in scope, limited in its budget, straightforward and lean administratively, and modest about whether the quality of care can be usefully improved by those who pay the bill. For those who want to understand what happened to the Clinton reform, The Rational Option is a hard-hitting critique , unsparing in its assessment of the failed attempt. What's more, this doctor-journalist team provides an extraordinarily up-to-date account of the private re-forming now going on\u2014the unexpected legacy of the legislative stalemate and the American difficulty in learning either from [Canada] our northern neighbor or our own experience with Medicare.\nProfessor Ted Marmor, Yale University\nAuthor of Understanding Health Care Reform\nAmerica's health care and financing problems have not disappeared; they will grow more acute, and the health care reform debate will resume. We are fortunate that this volume will be available to those who want to understand the remarkable opportunity the nation has\u2026.The authors outline a strategy for American health care reform, a strategy that we must be certain is part of the debate if we are to have a more equitable, efficacious, and economic health care system.\nDr. Rashi Fein, Harvard University\nSTONY CREEK, CONNECTICUT, USA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2016-17PlayoffsGame 4\nApril 28, 2017 CET: 20:15\nLocal time: 21:15 ABDI IPEKCI ARENA\n#GameONSocial\nSpanoulis, Olympiacos, win in Istanbul, force Game 5\nOlympiacos Piraeus survived on the road to set up a deciding Game 5 on its home floor by rallying from an early double-digit deficit to defeat Anadolu Efes Istanbul 62-74 on Friday night at Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul. The Reds hits 12 three-pointers on the night, tying the series at 2-2 despite trailing 27-14 in the second quarter. But the visitors erased the deficit by halftime and then took the lead after the break by hitting 5 triples in the third quarter, before running away with victory with a defense that allowed only 4 points in the opening eight minutes of the fourth quarter. Vassilis Spanoulis paced Olympiacos and hit a number of clutch shots to finish the game with 18 points on 5-for-11 three-point shooting plus 4 assists. Georgios Printezis contributed 11 points and Erick Green netted 10. Jayson Granger scored 10 of his 17 points in the first quarter and was the only Efes scorer in double figures. Derick Brown added 9 points and Cedi Osman collected 8 points and 7 rebounds in defeat.\nEfes had a strong opening to the game. Granger scored 10 points driving to the hoop and sinking a three-pointer and Osman finished a pair of fast breaks with big dunks to open an 18-6 lead. Printezis snapped a 12-0 run from close range and Ioannis Papapetrou hit one from long range to get Reds back in the game at 18-14. Efes led 21-14 after 10 minutes and the hosts scored the first 6 points of the second quarter, with Alex Kirk's mid-range jumper making it 27-14. But Green and Kostas Papanikolaou gave Olympiacos a much-needed spark, feeling a 0-7 run during which Papanikolaou hit a triple. Each player added another basket before Green and Spanoulis hit back-to-back threes to cut the Olympiacos deficit to 36-35. Efes went into halftime up 38-35, but Olympiacos came out of locker rooms feeling it from long range. Vangelis Mantzaris, Spanoulis, Papanikolaou each hit a three-pointer to put Olympiacos in front 43-46. After Brown and Printezis traded threes, Spanoulis added another from downtown, his fourth, to open a 48-52 cushion. Heurtel scored a pair of layups, and Granger drove to the basket for Efes, too, but the visitors held a slim 54-55 lead going into the fourth quarter and never relinquished it. Papapetrou nailed a triple and Dominic Waters a jumper-plus-foul to make it 54-61. A put-back from DeShaun Thomas gave the hosts some hope, but Spanoulis drove to the basket for a layup with exactly five minutes to go, and after a timeout he hit his fifth triple to extend the margin to 57-68. Olympiacos did not allow a single point for more than four minutes and Green's corner triple made it 58-71 to secure the victory.\nReferees: RYZHYK, BORYS; GARCIA, JUAN CARLOS; BOLTAUZER, MATEJ\nAnadolu Efes Istanbul 21 17 16 8\nOlympiacos Piraeus 14 21 20 19\nAnadolu Efes Istanbul 21 38 54 62\nAnadolu Efes Istanbul\n1 THOMAS, DESHAUN 9:00 2 1\/2 0\/2 1 1 2 1 2 4\n2 HONEYCUTT, TYLER 19:58 4 1\/3 0\/1 2\/6 1 6 7 3 1 1 4 5\n4 BALBAY, DOGUS 13:49 3 0\/1 1\/1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1\n5 BROWN, DERRICK 28:16 9 3\/5 1\/4 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 6\n6 OSMAN, CEDI 26:02 8 3\/4 0\/4 2\/2 2 5 7 3 2 9\n9 GEYIK, SAMET DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n15 GRANGER, JAYSON 27:42 17 6\/11 1\/3 2\/3 2 6 8 2 1 3 1 4 5 17\n31 HEURTEL, THOMAS 23:23 6 3\/5 0\/3 5 1 2 2 1 4\n32 MUTAF, MAXIM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n33 PAUL, BRANDON 9:06 4 0\/1 4\/4 1 1 2 4 6\n42 DUNSTON, BRYANT 33:56 7 2\/9 3\/6 8 3 11 3 2 3 1 3 3 11\n53 KIRK, ALEX 8:48 2 1\/2 1 1 1 1 1 1\nHead coach: PERASOVIC, VELIMIR\n1 GREEN, ERICK 25:20 10 3\/5 1\/6 1\/1 1 1 2 3 4\n2 BIRCH, KHEM 24:05 9 4\/6 1\/2 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 11\n4 YOUNG, PATRIC 12:47 4 2\/3 1 6 7 2 1 2 9\n5 TOLIOPOULOS, VASSILIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n6 PAPAPETROU, IOANNIS 15:06 6 0\/2 2\/2 5 5 1 3 5\n7 SPANOULIS, VASSILIS 28:40 18 1\/2 5\/11 1\/3 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 7 17\n9 WATERS, DOMINIC 8:56 3 1\/3 1\/1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1\n10 AGRAVANIS, DIMITRIS 14:34 2 0\/1 2\/2 1 1 1 1 1 5\n11 MILUTINOV, NIKOLA 3:08 1 1 2 1 -1\n15 PRINTEZIS, GEORGIOS 25:26 11 3\/6 1\/2 2\/4 1 2 3 1 3 10\n16 PAPANIKOLAOU, KOSTAS 26:24 8 1\/2 2\/4 6 6 2 2 1 5 1 10\n17 MANTZARIS, VANGELIS 15:34 3 0\/1 1\/1 2 2 5 1 2 4 4\nTotals 200:00 74 15\/31 12\/26 8\/13 4 26 30 14 6 10 4 5 23 20 75\nHead coach: SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS\nPERASOVIC, VELIMIR\n\"Congratulations to Olympiacos, they deserved this victory. I think we started the game well, we had a good advantage, but they are a serious team and they caught up with us before halftime. I think the last quarter was when the game was decided. We played very bad on offense, without confidence, and after that, when you don't score, it is very difficult to play defense like we did in the beginning of the game. We put hustle and energy, but all the games we have played in this series we had bad three-point percentages. It is very difficult to beat Olympiacos like that. Olympiacos finally stayed inside, did not allow us easy baskets. We had many open shots, but we did not score them.\"\nSFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS\n\"It was a very important win for us. It was a game without tomorrow and I think we were very focused, determined to have a good game defensively and offensively. We did not lose our concentration in the crucial moment in the beginning of the game when Efes started really good, scored easy and with great rhythm, and got a 13-point lead. We reacted, and at halftime the difference was fair enough for both teams to continue to fight for the second half. In the second half, it was big fight, especially in the third quarter when both teams scored against each other, but in the fourth period I think with our great defense, we kept Efes in low scoring, allowing only 8 points, which was very important to dominate the game. With all this, I want to emphasize that series is at 2-2, and we still have one more game to play. To go to Final Four, you need three wins. Both teams will fight in Game 5, in our home court, and we need to continue to stay focused. In the last 48 hours our mental preparation was very important, to change the momentum from Game 3 to Game 4. \"\nSPANOULIS, VASSILIS\n\"It was a big win for our team. Last two games we did not play like we know how to play. We struggled a little bit defensively and offensively. Today we played really good, we showed character we played our game and got a big win. But nothing is finished, the series is tied 2-2, we need one more game. In all the years I played basketball, I always said that basketball is a team sport, the team wins, not the person. Everybody is important for our team, and especially in the series, you need all the players to be at a high level.\"\nREGULAR SEASON PLAYOFFS FINAL FOUR\nGame 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5\nDarussafaka Dogus Istanbul 78\nApril 28 18:30 CET LIVE FINAL","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Opinion\nThe fascination and frustration of Bordeaux\nPosted on\t28 de April del 2015\n\/Under\tThe Opinion\nBy Andrew Black\nBack in the late 1970s, looking for my first job, I sent a letter to several prominent London wine merchants, saying that I had a passion for wine. Could they help? One of them, Laurence Hayward, responded with a short but encouraging message. \"Anyone with a passion for wine\", he said, \"deserves an interview\". And so my career in wine began, but not quite in the way I imagined after receiving that letter. My interview was short and Mr Hayward was to the point. \"If you want to understand wine young man\", he insisted, \"go to Bordeaux. When you've understood Bordeaux, you can claim to know something about wine\". He didn't offer me a job, but he got me some work as a cellar hand at one of his Bordeaux suppliers and most importantly he had pointed me in the right direction.\nArriving in Bordeaux, I realised that I was just one of numerous young hopefuls who had over the years made that journey to the largest fine wine region on earth in search of a career in wine. In those days, Bordeaux had few rivals. On a typical restaurant wine list in the UK, only the wines of Burgundy and Germany competed with Bordeaux. Perhaps today, the advice I received in London would be a little different. I might be sent to another wine region instead, such as Australia, New Zealand, California or Argentina. Yet, though these wine regions have much to offer, they don't seem to provide such a complete experience as Bordeaux does. Witness the many Spanish winemakers who have lived and worked in Bordeaux and then returned to Spain transformed and with a clearer idea of what great wine is.\nSo what is it about Bordeaux that makes it so special? Surely, there are great wines made today in numerous regions. Certainly, Burgundy, the Rhone Valley, Italy, Spain and California have their own megastars that rival great Bordeaux. And it's not just the top wines. How many times have I drunk a Spanish wine at 10, 15 or 20 euros and wondered where in Bordeaux would I find such good value? Is it the mystique that attracts so many fine wine buyers from the USA, the UK, Russia and China, and investors such as banks, luxury groups and insurance companies, as well as aspiring technicians from competing markets who go there to learn?\nSome would say yes it is the mystique, and that history plays an important part in that mystique. Over the centuries, Bordeaux has certainly been lucky in that respect. It was conveniently close to the dynamic English market. The M\u00e9doc was ideally located for English ships to load barrels when Aquitaine was under English rule in the Middle Ages. Later in the 17th century, this same part of the Bordeaux vineyard provided the wines of Lafite and Margaux, together with Haut-Brion from the Graves, for the fashionable coffee houses of London. In the 18th and 19th centuries, investment poured into these areas of Bordeaux not just from Britain but from Holland, Scandinavia and Germany, and is still evident in names of Left Bank ch\u00e2teaux (Palmer, Cantenac Brown, Clarke, Smith Haut Lafitte, Dillon, Kirwan, Lynch Bages, L\u00e9oville Barton, Boyd Cantenac, Talbot and so on).\nBut it hasn't always been rosy. Bordeaux has endured setbacks, survived them and somehow gone on to greater things. When I began working in Bordeaux, the wine trade there had been in severe crisis. Several n\u00e9gociants were in court for trafficking and illegal blending, and one of the most prestigious figures of the Bordeaux n\u00e9goce, whose family business had been targeted by the government, threw himself off the Bordeaux suspension bridge. Prices of bulk wine crashed, and even the grands ch\u00e2teaux went through lean times, so much so that vineyards were neglected and foreign owners looked for an exit. Ch\u00e2teau Margaux was for sale and couldn't find a buyer \u2013at least a French one; and when an American firm looked like taking it over, the French government stepped in to stop the sale before a French buyer could eventually be found.\nCh\u00e2teau Margaux, Bordeaux\nA few months after I arrived, I drove a van out to Pauillac to collect a few cases of Ch\u00e2teau Pichon Lalande for shipment. A woman in a headscarf and rubber boots greeted me in the rain and insisted on loading the van herself. She was, I later realised, May-Eliane de Lenquesaing, the elegant, charismatic ex-owner of that property, who clearly had to do plenty of the menial work herself in those troubled times. Curiously, this depressed state of affairs had been exacerbated by Bordeaux's treasured primeurs market, a system in which Bordeaux's top ch\u00e2teaux offer their new wines at theoretically knock-down prices to the Bordeaux n\u00e9gociant market when they have only just been vinified and have had just a few weeks of barrel ageing.\nBefore explaining why the primeurs made matters worse during that 1970s crisis, let's look at what the primeurs market is more renowned for. Originally, this inspired system of selling, in a successful campaign, made money for everyone, from the ch\u00e2teau owners, who in return for offering a good opening price were paid at least one year in advance of the bottling, to the n\u00e9gociants, who together had exclusivity for the distribution of these sought-after wines, to the importers who made an easy profit on them, and to the final customer, who not only bought at an advantageous price but could also re-sell the wine at a profit, since great Bordeaux improved in bottle and increased in market value. In good times, everybody wanted a piece of the action.\nThis exciting marketing phenomenon has certainly contributed to the aura of Bordeaux. It has drawn special attention over the years and has succeeded in attracting not only international buyers but also speculators, entrepreneurs, as well as, more recently, a breed of specialised wine consultants who know how to get the primeurs samples showing at their best at the primeurs tastings in March each year. Without this unique tradition, Bordeaux would not be quite so special.\nOne of the idiosyncrasies of the system is that the ch\u00e2teau owners don't sell (or rather, don't distribute) their wine. That is the job of the n\u00e9gociant. Since in Bordeaux there are hundreds of n\u00e9gociants, allocations of one ch\u00e2teau wine are often given to several of them, theoretically to cover different markets. In reality, these n\u00e9gociants are in competition with each other and so are reluctant to divulge information about their clients, even to the ch\u00e2teaux. Imagine a top Spanish winery not knowing who buys its wine. It would be inconceivable: in Bordeaux, it's normal.\nThough top ch\u00e2teau owners are kept in the dark about where their wines are sold, they nevertheless have a strong hand to play in this game, because the n\u00e9gociants are obliged to take up their allocation of cases every year if they want to stay in the game for the following years. But how can the ch\u00e2teau owners, who have no contact with the outside market, have any idea of the right price to offer to the n\u00e9gociants in each vintage? In the past, n\u00e9gociants were accused of driving down opening prices in order to make fat profits. Nowadays, the owners are accused of coming out at ridiculously high prices, squeezing the n\u00e9gociants. The traditional answer to this tug of war is the \"courtier\", a cross between a broker and a notary, who is a go-between for both parties, and who should find the correct opening price for a successful primeurs campaign. For his trouble, the courtier generally receives a 2% commission on the sales.\nIn great years, n\u00e9gociants understandably take up their allocations with glee, particularly if the opening prices offered by the ch\u00e2teau owners are attractive. But who can really be sure of the quality of a vintage at such an early stage of its life? Isn't there a huge risk in committing big money to an uncertain commodity? This is where history comes into play in Bordeaux. When buyers make an investment in a wine that was only vinified some six months earlier, they need more than a favourable tasting of the new wine; they also need the reassurance of the ch\u00e2teau's track record. The top growths are like blue-chip stocks. Back in 1855 many of Bordeaux's wines were officially classified on the basis of their track record. This is still a useful guide, but how relevant is that ranking today? And how many of these ch\u00e2teaux, apart from the First Growths, have a good enough track record to incite buyers to risk their money in a lesser vintage?\nThis element of risk has always existed, and that is why good \"en primeur\" tasters are essential for those ch\u00e2teaux that don't have a track record. It's also why since the 1980s, Robert Parker, renowned as a good taster of primeur wines, has been so important to Bordeaux. Prior to the 1980s, most wine writers were also businessmen working for wine merchants. Nobody really said to wine consumers \"don't buy that vintage\" or \"that ch\u00e2teau performed badly this year\". The onus was on the buyers to taste carefully and select well for their markets.\nWith Robert Parker disappearing from the Bordeaux primeurs scene this year, the future of the system suddenly looks less certain. Cynics might claim that the primeurs tastings anyway are a sham, and that barrel samples today are not always representative of the wine that will be bottled. Others may complain that primeurs week is far too early to judge the quality of a wine. My personal view is that competent primeurs tasters (and these are very few according to many Bordeaux growers) see enough to form a considered opinion. In any case, the issue today is not so much quality, since today's vintages are better than ever, but the opening prices, which are a source of resentment in traditional Bordeaux markets. And this takes me back to my experience of Bordeaux at the end of the 1970s.\nBack in those gloomy Bordeaux years, the primeurs system spun out of control. The 1960s had not been a good decade for Bordeaux vintages. About half of them were poor years, some of them disastrous. When a very good Bordeaux vintage came along in 1970, buyers rushed into the market. This was followed by another promising vintage in 1971, and money continued to pour in; and then the vine cycle of 1972 promised another fine year. Bordeaux was on a roll, and prices were skyrocketing from increasing demand. Apparently, money was even paid for crops of the 1972 that hadn't yet been harvested. Speculation was rife. And then the inevitable happened: the 1972 vintage turned out to be a poor one. The bottom of the market fell out. Boom quickly turned to bust. N\u00e9gociants were stuck with their allocations of the 1972 vintage and couldn't offload them. Some houses disappeared; others soldiered on waiting for the next wave of good vintages to keep them afloat. I was perhaps one of the few to benefit from this sad state of affairs. At the end of the decade, the 1972 classified growths were still retailing at less than their opening prices. Even with my modest starting salary I could afford to buy these wines, many of which I had never tasted before.\nI imagined that this chastening experience would serve as a lesson to Bordeaux. Indeed, nobody buys grapes today before they are picked -as far as I know it is now illegal. But the system carries on much as before, with prices yo-yoing from one year to the next. Bordeaux continues to be lucky; each time a market deserts it because prices have gone over the top, a new one arrives -the USA, Asia, Russia, the City of London, or China. And then the \"vintage of the century\" arrives, and everyone is back on board. But the last \"vintage of the century\", the 2010, by many accounts is still largely in n\u00e9gociants' cellars, unsold because of its high opening price.\nFor weeks now, talk here is about the pressure on the 2014 opening prices. Will Bordeaux drop to the levels of the 2008, as the market is demanding? Probably not, and this is making Bordeaux n\u00e9gociants particularly nervous. Some have said that this is Bordeaux's make-or-break vintage, and that the primeurs system is in serious danger. Maybe it is, or maybe another boom is just around the corner. That is the glorious unpredictability of Bordeaux and why many of us are both fascinated and frustrated by it. Have I understood Bordeaux yet? Who cares? I never meant to go back anyway!\nAndrew Black\nBorn in the UK and a graduate of the University of Sheffield (Modern Languages), Andrew Black began his professional career at a Bordeaux n\u00e9gociant house becoming export manager for English-speaking markets. Since 1993, he has run a successful business training wine professionals in English. Offering courses both in Bordeaux and Spain he has clients at some of Bordeaux's most prestigious ch\u00e2teaux (P\u00e9trus, Cheval Blanc, Margaux, Ausone, Ang\u00e9lus\u2026) and at numerous bodegas in Spain, as well as at Consejos Reguladores and Camaras de Comercio). Since 2006 he has run a specialised newsletter, Premiere Presse, which enables top producers in France and Spain to communicate directly in English with international wine critics and importers. He recently set up a wine tourism project in Bordeaux and Spain, and in his spare time he tends a small vineyard in his garden, from which he produces one barrel of wine a year.\nBordeaux 2019: How Covid boosted sales\nBride Valley Vineyard and the future of English\u2026\nTuscany and Sicily 2017 by Andrea Franchetti\n2017 Vintage : how terribly meager yields can give\u2026\nBordeaux 2018 by Bordeaux Vins S\u00e9lection\nWines treasured under the sea\nHave we fallen out of love with Bordeaux?\nRobert Parker, the most significant phenomenon in the fine wine trade for the past 50 years\nSimonit & Sirch, the pioneers of pruning for the well-being of the vine plant\nPicasso's Kitchen\nAnd if 2019 was the Dream? The Year?\nMan, Evolution, Intervention, Energy and Wine\nvilaviniteca\n@vilaviniteca\nFundada en 1932 en Barcelona. Venta y distribuci\u00f3n de vinos, gastronom\u00eda y destilados. Catas y club de vinos. Los tweets de Quim Vila van firmados con -QV\nCoquetto Bar -QV https:\/\/t.co\/NVKKYDPCTW 07:02PM - 17 Jan 2021\nMuy contentos de salir este mes en @Forbes_es. Entrevista completa de Emilio Molines a Quim Vila en\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/PFr7KKrw52 05:26PM - 17 Jan 2021\nEl pr\u00f3ximo mes de febrero en #elclubvv: seis vinos con los que viajar a seis islas del mundo https:\/\/t.co\/8fk3KCQrjp https:\/\/t.co\/GyvPgWaEch 12:37PM - 17 Jan 2021\nL'H\u00eatre es una de las propiedades de Jacques Thienpont (Ch\u00e2teau Le Pin y L'If) en Castillon C\u00f4tes de Bordeaux. La a\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/nZrgwT4eM8 07:57AM - 17 Jan 2021\nUn paisaje id\u00edlico. La vi\u00f1a de Clos Sainte Hune en Trimbach cubierta de nieve. https:\/\/t.co\/HSGKDJ4qFs 05:08PM - 16 Jan 2021\n2014 aging amontillado Andrea Franchetti avanzadas a\u00f1ada 2017 bordeaux bordeus bourgogne burdeos calatayud cava cellar champagne charme Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape ch\u00e2teaux Dirk Niepoort En primeur En primeur 2015 Hermitage history Jacques Thienpont Jerez Master of Wine montrachet niepoort n\u00e9gociant opini\u00f3n pomerol priorat quality Quinta rh\u00f4ne Robert Parker saint emilion Spain Tenuta di Trinoro terroir the opinion vigneron Vins Selection vintage vintage 2016 wine\nVila Viniteca, Agullers, 7, 08003 Barcelona Tel. 902 327 777 - \u00a9 Vila Viniteca 1997-2014.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"StartseiteInformierenAktuellesUNICEF Photo of the Year AwardContest 2017Honorable MentionsAna Palacios\nAna Palacios, Spain\nTanzania: Stronger than the sun\nTime and again, photographers have reported on the fate of albinos in Africa \u2013 and on the danger these white-skinned children live in due to the horrible superstition that their body parts have supernatural properties and can bring good luck.\nBild 1 von 15 \u00a9 Ana Palacios, Spain (Free Lance Photographer)\nBild 10 von 15 \u00a9 Ana Palacios, Spain (Free Lance Photographer)\nSpanish photojournalist Ana Palacios, born in 1984, not only raised the alarm on the issue but also went looking for official help for albinos. She found it in the Tanzanian city of Kabanga, where albino children are protected against an even greater threat: the sun. As people with albinism have a lack of melanin (pigment) in their skin, they are at increased risk of sunburn and developing skin cancer before the age of thirty if not properly protected.\nPalacios' photos, such as the one of Kelen, who loves to dance in the half-built rooms of the Kabanga Refuge Center, capture the vitality and happiness of children who get the chance to feel protected. Ana Palacios aims to bring light into the dark corners of our world. That's why her main focus lies on human rights issues such as child enslavement. Palacios' work is regularly published in major international magazines; she was honored with numerous exhibitions and awards and, as a movie production coordinator, worked with the likes of Milos Forman, Jim Jarmusch and Ridley Scott.\nCurriculum Vitae: Ana Palacios (Free Lance Photographer)\n\u00a9 Ana Palacios\nAna Palacios is a Spanish photojournalist interested in human rights issues focusing in Sub-Saharan Africa territories.\nSince 2010 she divides her time between international film production and documentary photography, shining a light on post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding projects.\nShe graduated in Journalism in University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain), followed by film and photography studies in University of California in Los Angeles (U.S.A.), where she lived for several years.\nPROFFESIONAL BACKGROUND\nShe worked as a journalist for the newsroom at Antena 3 Televisi\u00f3n, she has run communications departments, and for more than fifteen years she has been working as a film production coordinator, particularly on international co-productions. She has worked with directors such as Ridley Scott, Milos Forman, Tony Kaye, Michael Radford, Jim Jarmusch and Roman Polanski. PUBLICATIONS - Represented by Espacio Foto, her work on cooperation in development has been published worldwide in media such as 6 Mois, Stern, Al Jazeera, Stern, New Internationalist, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Days Japan, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Papel, XL Semanal, El Pa\u00eds, Tiempo, etc.\nShe has received international awards such as the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA). Photo Essay Category. Gold medal; the Visa de l'ANI 2016. French Picture Editors Association (ANI). Bronze medal; the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris. Press People Category. Gold medal; the Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA). People Category. Silver medal; the Neutral Density Awards (ND). Photo Essay \/ Story Category. Silver medal. BOOKS - She has published two books: Albino: about the pledge of the albinos in Tanzania and Art in Movement: about the art as a social change in Uganda. EXHIBITIONS - Her work has been exhibited in different art centers around the world such as the French Alliance in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Les Temps Libres Rennes (France), Hotel Mandarin (Kuala Lumpur), ACCI Gallery, Berkeley (USA). She currently lives in Madrid. More info: www.ana-palacios.com September, 2017.\nMore information on the competition and the UNICEF Photo of the Year 2017 reportages.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Obama on family and work policy - if France can, why can't we?\nUS President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Summit on Working Families on June 23, 2014 at a hotel in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama on Monday lamented that America was on its \"lonesome\" as the only developed nation not to offer paid maternity leave, as he called for a new family-friendly 21st Century workplace. -- PHOTO: AFP\nJun 24, 2014, 6:25 am SGT\nhttp:\/\/str.sg\/ZwFF\nWASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Monday lamented that America was on its \"lonesome\" as the only developed nation not to offer paid maternity leave, as he called for a new family-friendly 21st Century workplace.\nMr Obama headlined a \"Working Families Summit\" in Washington and flexed his presidential powers to direct government agencies to adopt more flexible workplace practices to allow parents to manage home and professional commitments.\n\"Other countries know how to do this. If France can figure this out, we can figure it out,\" Mr Obama said, calling for a new approach to maternity and family leave, and early childhood education.\n\"There is only one developed country in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave,\" Mr Obama told a supportive crowd at a Washington hotel. \"That is us. And that is not the list you want to be on by your lonesome.\"\nConsistent with a presidency constrained by Republicans on Capitol Hill, Mr Obama complained that Congress was doing too little to help Americans in their everyday lives.\nHe called on lawmakers to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers to provide reasonable workplace flexibility for pregnant women who stay on the job close to their due dates.\nSpeaking with clear passion, Mr Obama said he was deeply committed to the issue, after being brought up by a single mother and a grandmother who put in long hours at work \u2013 and as a husband and father of two young girls.\n\"I take this personally because I'm the husband of a brilliant woman who's struggled to balance work and raising our girls when I was away, and I remember the stresses that were on Michelle,\" he said.\nMr Obama has often spoken of the strains imposed on his family when he was working away from their hometown of Chicago, first as a local lawmaker, then as a US senator and finally as a presidential candidate.\n\"I am the father of two unbelievable young ladies,\" he said, referring to daughters Malia and Sasha.\n\"I want them to be able to have families, and I want them to be able to have careers, and I want them to go as far as their dreams will take them. And I want a society that supports that.\"\nThe event was billed as the latest in a string of actions Mr Obama is taking with his executive powers to advance priorities reined in by Congress and to stave off the lame duck status that all second term presidents dread.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"First Radisson RED in Greece\nThe Radisson RED property will be located in Athens, it also marks the use of this lifestyle brand for a serviced apartment property.\nGreece Pays See destination fact sheet\nAfter Denmark (Aarhus), UK (London Heathrow & Greenwich), Belgium (Brussels), Scotland (Glasgow), UAE (Dubai) and South Africa (Cape Town) the brand arrives in Southern Europe. The 94 apartments property will be located in central Athens in the Plaka district.\nRadisson RED Mitropoleos Square Athens will feature a meeting room, a gym area. The F&B offer will welcome customers and neighbours at the ground floor and on the roof top with a view on the Acropolis.\nThe project have been developed in partnership with the Greek investment company Gnosis Investments which already owns 15 assets in Greece form hotels to residential. An office building will be transformed to welcome long stay customers.\nThe opening in 2023 will mark the 3rd property under Radisson Hotel Group's brand in Athens and the 8th in the country.\n\"We are proud to partner with Gnosis Investments in this first strategic signing together to bring our real- estate efficient, urban, Radisson RED brand to the historic heart of the Greek capital,\" declared Elie Milky, Vice President Development at Radisson Hotel Group.\nThe Radisson RED Hotel London has opened its doors\nOpening of the 2nd Radisson RED in Africa, in Rosebank, Johannesburg\nRadisson Red to open at Gatwick Airport in 2023\nThe many challenges of the private rental boom - Part 2\nHAF \"Can this supply growth still be supported by the different markets?\"\nRadisson Hotel Group Brussels View the company profile\nMoreInvestments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Last Call for the #1 Complete Trader Coaching Program! (One Final Slot Left!)\nWhy are people flying in all the way from China, Japan, Malaysia and even the UK to attend this coaching program?\nThe Most Comprehensive Coaching Program EVER!\nThis is a final call for those who want to join the March intake (5 & 6 March) and kickstart their trading journey with the most complete and comprehensive trader coaching program you will ever see!\nInstead of just theories, we have included monthly practical workshops, discussion forum and market chats, daily trade alerts, stock screener software, and a guaranteed fund trading opportunity at a fund!\nThe best part is, that you can get all these for just a ONE-TIME, NON-RECURRING fee, with NO UPSELLS. Just pay once, and we will coach you until you become profitable!\nPlease Save Me the Final Seat! (5 & 6 March 2016)\nRegister: https:\/\/synapsetrading.com\/the-synapse-program\/\nDo note that the last slot is strictly on a first-come, first-serve basis, and we will not be opening any more slots after that.\nCheers, and see you at the top! \ud83d\ude00\nhttps:\/\/i0.wp.com\/synapsetrading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fund-trading.png?fit=1125%2C775&ssl=1 775 1125 Spencer Li https:\/\/synapsetrading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logo.jpg Spencer Li2016-02-26 06:42:282018-09-05 03:31:05Last Call for the #1 Complete Trader Coaching Program! (One Final Slot Left!)\n3 Practical Tips for Early Financial Freedom\nWeekly Market Wrap: Review of 2022 & Outlook for 2023\nHow Sustainable is the Current Rally? What Caused it?\nThank You for the Overwhelming Response at NAC 2015!\nWeekly Market Wrap: Is this Finally a New Bull Market?\nTestimonial: \"I Will Be Able to Do Better in My Trading Going Forwards\"\nThank You Thomson Reuters for the Exclusive Media Invitation!\nTestimonials: \"Very Practical and Definitely Can Be Implemented\"...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Michigan Economy\nRetaining and Attracting Talent\nPreparing Talent\nMichigan Future Schools\nBlogHome \u00bb Transportation Drives Growth\nTransportation Drives Growth\nLou Glazer\nTerrific article by Christopher Leinberger in this month's Atlantic. It's about the increased consumer demand \u2013 in both cities and suburbs \u2013 for walkable neighborhoods linked by train. The article and his book the Option of Urbanism are worth reading.\nLeinberger is best in describing the changing patterns of consumer demand for housing and neighborhoods. As he would describe it from driveable suburbanism to walkable urbanism. He cites data that housing prices have fallen far more in outlying areas than near central cities in the current downturn. And that change in demand is likely to continue, probably accelerate.\nHe makes the case that rail transit is what makes these neighborhoods work. As he writes: Urban spaces of the kind that people want today feature mixed-use zoning and lots of stores and parks within walking distance. But most of all, they feature good public-transit options\u2014usually rail lines.\nRail transit is a key ingredient to creating the kind of walkable neighborhoods consumers are demanding. And it's those neighborhoods that are key to retaining and attracting talent that increasingly is the asset that matters most in growing a knowledge-based economy. In the article Leinberger has some interesting out-of the-box ideas on providing incentives to developers to pay for rail transit. Worth thinking about.\nBut so is a change in state transportation policy. Away from either letting our transportation system crumble (our current path) or more and more funding for new roads (the current proposals) and towards transit along with walking and biking. With an emphasis on rail. Hard to imagine our regrowing a prosperous Michigan without these kind of public investments.\nchristopher leingbergerdrivers of state economic growthhousing demandrail transitthe Atlanticwalkable urbanism\nLou Glazer is President and co-founder of Michigan Future, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit organization. Michigan Future's mission is to be a source of new ideas on how Michigan can succeed as a world class community in a knowledge-driven economy. Its work is funded by Michigan foundations.\nEmployers responding to skill shortages II\nAs we explored in our last post, in a market economy its employers, not the\u2026\nDevaluing a four year degree\nWorrisome survey results reported by the New York Times. Worth checking out and taking the\u2026\nCalifornia's growth explained\nLets take a look at the details of California's economic resurgence since the election of\u2026\nCory Johnston says:\nI'm new to this site and haven't yet read all the entries. This one interested me as I just wrote a policy opinion on the subject for an application to the Michigan Political Leadership Program. My search was for information on how cities developed in Michigan versus that of the Villages and Townships. While it has been argued many times before, it seems to come up whenever a city tries to annex or take over a Township. In my city, we are considering going the other way even though it has never been done in Michigan. The article on transportation brings up the often used discussion of improving our cities but other than providing rail transit, does not say much about why we still have a departure from the city to go live in the suburbs or beyond. The rail transportation that does exist is seldom used even along such well travelled corridors as Woodward from Detroit to Pontiac and beyond. This is a topic that needs to be explored further at a local, regional and state level.\nLou Glazer says:\nThanks for finding the site and commenting. A couple of suggested readings. The first is the Andy Basile letter I wrote about in my most recent post. And then there are reports on Young Talent in the Great Lakes and the New Agenda for a New Michigan which is our big picture take on the Michigan economy. Look under reports on our home page. All three make the case that vibrant central cities are essential to returning Michigan to prosperity.\nWhat do alumni of Detroit high schools struggle with in college?\nCreating places across Michigan where people want to live and work\nRegional Collaboration Matters: How Metro Minneapolis has forged one of the wealthiest and most livable metropolitan areas in the United States\nSharing prosperity with those not participating in the high-wage knowledge-based economy\nImproving student outcomes from education, birth to college\nA Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century state policy agenda\nState Policies Matter: How Minnesota's tax, spending and social policies help it achieve the best economy among the Great Lakes States\nOutsmarting the robots recommended media\nThe big picture: Michigan's core economic challenges\nFinland: capitalism and shared prosperity\nMichigan falling behind on wages and benefits\nReport from \"Outsmarting the Robots\": Part 2\nGoogle Economic Impact Report: What Does It Mean For Michigan?\nMichigan Future Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Semi-Gothic Debut Novelist: Hannah Tinti\nBy Katie Charles\nPhoto: Amanda Prunesti\nHow did you come to write a book about a one-handed orphan who gets roped into grave-robbing in antebellum New England?\nSomeone gave me the book Forgotten English, by Jeffrey Kacirk, and I came across the words resurrection man. I thought, That's such a cool description. When I read that it meant grave robber, I got excited about the moral murkiness. Ultimately what these men did was advancing science, but they were doing the most horrible thing you could do, desecrating graves.\nThis is a grisly book\u2014amputations, child abuse, people buried alive. Are you a morbid person?\nIt's funny. I grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. My friends all worked at the witch museum or the witch house. One of my first jobs was working at the witch dungeon, basically a basement filled with torture devices used on witches. So my book doesn't feel that morbid to me.\nOkay, but there are two different severed hands. Do you have a hand obsession?\nWhen I was about 5, my kindergarten was in a big church, and we would play in the graveyard during recess. I fell on this gravestone, and a shard of slate went through my left wrist. My parents were at a Red Sox game, so they couldn't be reached. Eventually, they operated. I still can't close my fingers all the way. But besides that, my hand function is fine.\nThe Good Thief\nThe Dial Press. August 26.\ntoday in eric adams 3:16 p.m.\nWhat If We Stopped Drivers From Killing People? Doing very little hasn't worked yet. What if we tried?\ndont dillydally 2:42 p.m.\npainless shopping 2:40 p.m.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Venezuela Accuses US of Sabotaging Election\nVenezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets the international observers for the May 20 election at the presidential palace in Caracas, May 18, 2018.\nCARACAS, VENEZUELA - Venezuela on Saturday accused the United States of using new sanctions against its government's top officials to sabotage a controversial presidential election on Sunday, which the country's opposition says has been rigged.\nThe U.S. ramped up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government on Friday, accusing him of profiting from illegal narcotics shipments and imposing sanctions against the No. 2 official in the ruling Socialist Party, Diosdado Cabello.\nThe United States has already imposed sanctions against Maduro for human rights abuses and blamed him for Venezuela's current economic and political crises. But Friday marked the first time that Washington publicly linked Maduro to the drug trade.\nIn a statement, Maduro's government called the sanctions part of \"a systematic campaign of aggression\" by President Donald Trump's administration and said they had no legal basis.\n\"It's not surprising that on the eve of a new vote, when the Venezuelan people will come out to defend their democracy against the imperialist aggressions that try to derail it, once again the U.S. regime tries to sabotage the elections,\" it said.\nThe U.S. Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions against Cabello; his wife, Marleny Josefina Contreras, who heads the country's tourism institute[ and his brother, Jose David.\nOpposition challenger\nMaduro is expected on Sunday to fend off a challenge from opposition candidate Henri Falcon, who is breaking the mainstream opposition coalition's boycott of the vote, which it says is rigged to assure Maduro wins a second term.\nThe hardline opposition party Popular Will on Saturday reiterated its call for Venezuelans to boycott the election and described it as an \"electoral sham that seeks to validate the dictatorship in Venezuela and the world.\"\nMaduro insists the election will be free and fair, and accuses the opposition of refusing to participate because it knows it cannot win.\nHowever, his government was forced to turn to observers from allied countries to monitor Sunday's vote. It had invited the United Nations and other international bodies to send observers, but the U.N. believes the conditions do not exist to guarantee a democratic process.\nThe United States, Canada, the European Union and several countries in Latin America said they would not recognize the results of the polls on the ground that they are not transparent or fair.\nIsolated Maduro Revels in Erdogan's Backing Ahead of Venezuela Vote\nVenezuela's diplomatically-isolated president received a show of support from Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday ahead of a weekend election boycotted by the opposition coalition and decried by Washington.The United States, the European Union and major Latin American countries have criticized Sunday's vote in which leftist President Nicolas Maduro is likely to win re-election to a six-year term.Critics say Maduro, a 55-year-old former bus driver who has\u2026\nWhat's at Stake in Venezuelan Presidential Vote\nVenezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is seeking a new six-year mandate \u2014 and despite crippling hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine, he is widely expected to win it. Leaders of the nation's beleaguered opposition called to boycott the vote in protest after key leaders were barred from running. Critics fear that even if an anti-government candidate wins, electoral officials will change the result. Still,\u2026\nUS Urges Venezuela to Release US Citizen After Prison Riot\nThe United States is worried about the safety of U.S. citizens held in Venezuela after a riot at a prison there on Wednesday and has appealed again for the release of Mormon missionary Joshua Holt, the State Department said on Thursday.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spend a Day in These Six Trendy Vancouver Neighborhoods\nTim McGurr\nThe Mission District. Williamsburg. SoHo. Sometimes, a city's neighborhoods take on a life and a notoriety of their own. Such is the case in Vancouver, where certain areas of the city have earned a reputation for being trendy, for their food and drink options, for their entertainment, or just for the quirky collection of people that live there.\nIf you want to get a feel for how Vancouver locals live, here are six trendy neighborhoods you should check out.\nDavie Street - Credit: Tourism Vancouver\/Michael Song\nDavie Village\/West End\nVancouver's LGBT community has found a welcoming home in Davie Village, part of the dense West End neighborhood in Downtown Vancouver. Walking the area's streets, you'll see rainbow flags on lampposts, in bars and restaurants, and hanging in people's windows.\nThe Davie Village is a part of the city you'll want to explore on foot. Grab brunch at one of the packed restaurants or cafes before spending the day browsing the many bookstores and quirky shops. Head down to English Bay Beach to watch the sunset, and then make your way to one of the nearby nightclubs for a night of dancing.\nVenture outside of the Davie Village and explore the rest of the West End \u2014 a collection of heritage buildings, high-rise apartments, parks, bars and restaurants (if you love ramen and Korean food, this is the neighborhood for you). Make sure to head up Robson Street for some of the best shopping in the city. The West End also sits on English Bay, and is adjacent to the famous Stanley Park, so rent a bike and head out onto the Seawall for a ride with truly incredible views.\nJericho Beach in Kitsilano\nLululemon. Yoga. Beaches. Patios. If these are a few of your favorite things, you'll feel right at home in Kitsilano. Once a hub for hippies, Kitsilano is now home to a mixture of trendy professionals and families, both of whom tend to enjoy an active lifestyle.\nAt the heart of Kitsilano lies West 4th Avenue, the main drag littered with stores, restaurants and bars that fill up on the weekend. In fact, the entire neighborhood is home to some of the best new restaurants in Canada, including AnnaLena and Mission.\nFrom West 4th, head down a few blocks to Kits beach, home to sandy shores, volleyball courts, a massive saltwater pool and all the green space you might want. If you're more of an indoor person, not too far from the beach is Vanier Park, where you'll find many of Vancouver's big cultural attractions. Spend a day jumping from the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, to the Museum of Vancouver, to the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Then, end your night with a show at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare festival.\nMeat and Bread Restaurant in Gastown\nThe oldest neighborhood in Vancouver is still very much full of life. It was from a Gastown tavern, founded in 1867, that Vancouver grew into a city. While the cobblestone streets and vintage stylings still remain, Gastown is at the head of the pack for food, fashion and fun.\nTake a walking tour to really get a sense of the history and incredible architecture of the neighborhood before setting off on your own. A bit of a style hub, if you want a new outfit you won't have trouble finding a clothing store in Gastown to match your tastes. There are also decor boutiques and First Nations galleries, where you can buy a souvenir worth taking home.\nAt night, the streets come alive with people heading to pubs and clubs. Whether you want to dance under bright lights to your favorite DJ or savor an expertly-crafted cocktail, Gastown is where you'll find the action when the sun goes down.\nThe Reef Restaurant on Commercial Drive - Credit: Tourism Vancouver\/The Reef Restaurant\nCommercial Drive is a growing neighborhood with a unique character, driven by the mixture of cultures and styles of its inhabitants.\nWhile it used to be called Little Italy, the Drive's Italian restaurants now share the street with Mexican, Caribbean, Belgian, Salvadoran, Tunisian, and Ethiopian food. In other words, your eating options are diverse and plentiful. The wide variety of cultural influence is also reflected in the neighborhood's stores. You can just as easily buy traditional art, wood carvings and bongo drums as you can clothes and shoes.\nOn a random weekend in this neighborhood, you'll probably stumble upon the farmers' market at John Hendry Park, filled with locally grown produce and baked goods. You'll see people picnicking or taking part in a casual softball game. Intrigued by a quirky storefront or the sounds of jazz blasting through an open door, you might stumble into a music bar, pub or tap house, all with plenty of local brews to choose from. Or, if you don't like to visit at random, plan your trip around one of the Drive's many events, which include Car Free Day, Italian Day, and the Eastside Culture Crawl.\nYaletown - Credit: Destination BC\/Albert Normandin\nIt's in Yaletown that you'll find many of the large glass towers that have become synonymous with the Vancouver skyline. In additional to state-of-the-art living spaces, this contemporary neighborhood is home to modern parks, designer shops, and high-end restaurants and bars that spill out onto the sidewalk.\nYaletown wasn't always a landmark for the trendy; it was once a warehouse district and the Western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. But today, many of those red brick buildings have been transformed into unique spaces to house restaurants and stores. The luxury lounge where you sip on a cocktail may have once been a textile factory.\nLike many of Vancouver's downtown neighborhoods, Yaletown also sits along the renowned Seawall. You can grab a bike or go for a run along this path with picturesque views of the beautiful skyline and False Creek to guide you.\nScience World - Credit: Tourism Vancouver\/Science World British Columbia\nMount Pleasant\/South Main\nNot unlike the Drive, South Main has undergone a serious revitalization in recent years. This area, actually part of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, is now a hipster haven, a place where you can close your eyes, throw a stone, and hit a cafe or brewery.\nSouth Main is home to boutique stores, barbershops, brunch joints, record stores and ethnic restaurants. It's also home to outdoor yoga, beer-filled picnics, bocce in the park and a number of annual street festivals. In other words, it's a young person's paradise.\nStarting on the north end of Main Street and heading south, within a few blocks east or west you'll come across the photographer's favorite Science World museum, the mouth-watering Earnest Ice Cream, the community-named \"Dude Chilling Park,\" and the 1950s-era Nat Bailey Stadium, home to the city's minor league baseball team. End your trek at Queen Elizabeth Park, the highest point in the city of Vancouver with the view that comes with it.\nThese are just a few of Vancouver's many diverse neighborhoods. Discover more on Destination Vancouver's website.\nVisit Destination Vancouver's website\nTop 10 Things to Do in Vancouver in the Fall\nYour Getaway Guide to Vancouver and Beyond\nLearn more on the Destination Vancouver website","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Forums > Basketball > NBA Dish >\n[ESPN] Offseason Report Cards: West\nDiscussion in 'NBA Dish' started by J.R., Aug 1, 2013.\nchandler parsons\ndaryl morey\ndonatas motiejunas\nphil jackson\nsummer league\nJ.R. Contributing Member\nOffseason grades for the West\nFor years, the Western Conference, as a whole, has been uniformly stronger than the East. That trend continued this summer.\nOn Wednesday we graded out the entire Eastern Conference. With just one \"A\" and one \"A-\" it's safe to say that there weren't a lot of teams in the East hitting home runs this summer.\nThe Western Conference, though, had a much more successful few months. We had one \"A+\", two \"A\"s and one \"A-\" in the West. The rich are, apparently, getting richer.\nThe grades take into account how each team in the league has performed so far in remaking itself, considering both the opportunities it had and the moves it has made. It takes into consideration the draft, free agency, trades, front office and coaching moves as well as positioning for future drafts and free-agent opportunities.\nThe grades are not a ranking of which are the best teams in the league, just a device to track which teams have improved or have placed themselves on the fast track to improve and which teams haven't -- both for the upcoming season and beyond.\nDALLAS MAVERICKS | GRADE: D+\nAdditions: Monta Ellis (FA), Jose Calderon (FA), Samuel Dalembert (FA), Brandan Wright (re-sign), Shane Larkin (draft), Ricky Ledo (draft), Devin Harris (FA), Wayne Ellington (FA), Gal Mekel (FA), DeJuan Blair (FA), Bernard James (re-sign)\nSubtractions: O.J. Mayo (Bucks), Chris Kaman (Lakers), Darren Collison (Clippers), Elton Brand (Hawks), Anthony Morrow (Pelicans), Josh Akognon (Grizzlies), Nick Calathes (Grizzlies)\nTwo years ago, Mark Cuban made the unorthodox decision to break up a title team so that the Mavs could dip into the free-agent pool a year later and grab a superstar or two.\nBut Deron Williams and Chris Paul both re-signed with their respective teams, and Dwight Howard chose the Rockets. So instead of giving Dirk Nowitzki a high-priced running mate, two years later, Dallas ended up with Monta Ellis and Jose Calderon.\nBest-laid plans, indeed.\nEllis is a high-volume scorer who can be electric getting to the basket, but lacks efficiency, basketball IQ or a well-rounded game. Like Ellis, Calderon's best days are behind him, and while he understands the game well, his ability to get by anyone or guard anyone has waned significantly. That the Mavs spent $54 million on these two speaks to how desperate they are to be relevant again.\nDalembert was their third big score, and frankly, he may be their best. The 32-year-old is still a force on the defensive end, and two years for $7.4 million was a bargain contract for a big man. The team also re-signed a key reserve in Wright, who shockingly didn't get bigger offers despite being 25 years old and coming off a season in which he had a player efficiency rating (PER) of 21.\nMekel is an NBA-ready prospect who intrigued several teams after a terrific season in Israel. Larkin is a great athlete who can really shoot the basketball (though his lack of size is a question mark). And Ledo has as much raw basketball talent as anyone they acquired, but he will need to make significant improvements in the maturity department if he's going to stick in the league; the Mavs should go find out what the Pacers did with Lance Stephenson and replicate it.\nDespite the flurry of deals, the Mavs should have significant cap space next summer assuming Nowitzki is willing to take a big pay cut on his next deal. Perhaps fortunes will turn in 12 months, and the Mavs will land the free-agent stud they've been looking for. If not, this is what they are left with.\nDENVER NUGGETS | GRADE: D+\nAdditions: J.J. Hickson (FA), Darrell Arthur (trade), Nate Robinson (FA), Randy Foye (S&T), Timofey Mozgov (re-sign), Tim Connelly (GM), Brian Shaw (coach)\nSubtractions: Andre Iguodala (Warriors), Kosta Koufos (Grizzlies), Corey Brewer (Timberwolves), Julyan Stone (Raptors), Masai Ujiri (GM), George Karl (coach)\nA quick first-round exit in the playoffs was just the opening salvo in the Nuggets' horrific summer. Ujiri, fresh off winning Executive of the Year, left for the Raptors after the Nuggets refused to match an offer. His right-hand man, Pete D'Alessandro, left a few weeks later to take the Kings' GM job. Head coach George Karl was fired. And their key summer acquisition of last season, Andre Iguodala, bolted for the Warriors.\nSo in the space of a few weeks, the Nuggets lost their key architect, their Hall of Fame head coach and their best player. Ugh.\nNew GM Tim Connelly has since tried to right the ship, but Denver's books have kept his hands relatively tied. So instead of trying to replace Iguodala's leadership, passing and defense, Connelly acquired talented backups in Arthur, Hickson and Robinson to take his minutes.\nThe Nuggets' best move came on the coaching front with the hiring of Shaw, who figures to become one of the top young coaches in the league. He has huge shoes to fill, but he has the talent to pull together this diverse, starless squad and keep them in the hunt for a playoff seed in the five to eight range.\nGOLDEN STATE WARRIORS | GRADE: A-\nAdditions: Andre Iguodala (S&T), Jermaine O'Neal (FA), Toney Douglas (FA), Marreese Speights (FA)\nSubtractions: Jarrett Jack (Cavaliers), Carl Landry (Kings), Andris Biedrins (Jazz), Richard Jefferson (Jazz), Brandon Rush (Jazz), Scott Machado\nThe Warriors continue to show what a difference smart ownership and management can make for a team. Golden State has been on a roll ever since owner Joe Lacob took over and revamped the team's front office, and this summer was no different.\nThrough a series of creative cap maneuvers -- primarily via getting the Jazz to swallow the final years of Biedrins, Jefferson and Rush in exchange for draft picks -- the Warriors were able to address their biggest weakness with the addition of Iguodala. With two gunners in the backcourt and talented scoring options in the frontcourt, Iguodala is the perfect glue guy to hold this team together. The move also strengthened their bench, as Harrison Barnes can now move to a sixth-man role.\nThe move came at a price, though. The Warriors couldn't afford to keep Jack and Landry, and they gave away two future first-rounders. But they're right in the title conversation now -- a remarkable feat for a team that was still stuck in the lottery last summer.\nHOUSTON ROCKETS | GRADE: A\nAdditions: Dwight Howard (FA), Aaron Brooks (re-sign), Isaiah Canaan (draft), Reggie Williams (FA), Marcus Camby (FA), Omri Casspi (FA), Francisco Garcia (re-signed), Robert Covington (FA), B.J. Young (FA), Kostas Papanikolaou (rights), Marko Todorovic (rights)\nSubtractions: Thomas Robinson (Blazers), Carlos Delfino (Bucks), Royce White (76ers), James Anderson (76ers), Tim Ohlbrecht (76ers)\nYou have to hand it to Les Alexander. Virtually every other owner in the league would've fired Darryl Morey and given up on his Celtics-inspired plan to stockpile middling assets in an effort to land a couple of star players via free agency or trade. For too many years, the Rockets looked like they would tread water forever.\nAnd then, pay dirt.\nThe Rockets first landed James Harden in a trade last October and then followed it up this summer by scoring Howard's signature. In about nine months, the Rockets went from milquetoast to one of the most dangerous teams in the NBA.\nSome of the Rockets' success had to do with luck. Had the Thunder not panicked about their looming luxury tax bill or had the Lakers hired Phil Jackson instead of Mike D'Antoni, Morey is probably looking for a job this summer. They easily could've been in the same predicament as the Mavericks.\nBut sometimes all it takes a little luck, and right now, the Rockets have it.\nNone of the rest of the acquisitions inspires much enthusiasm. Canaan was one of the steals of the draft, and I could see him cracking the rotation at some point this season. Williams and Garcia give the Rockets a couple of snipers, Casspi provides toughness off the bench and Camby will be largely serve as a mentor.\nThere are still holes. I'm not sold on Jeremy Lin as a championship-caliber point guard (though Mario Chalmers didn't stop the Heat), and they still have some question marks at the 4 (Omer Asik? Terrence Jones? Donatas Motiejunas?). But with Harden, Howard and Chandler Parsons leading the way, the Rockets should contend for the Western Conference crown for the next three to four seasons.\nLOS ANGELES CLIPPERS | GRADE: A+\nAdditions: Chris Paul (re-sign), J.J. Redick (S&T), Jared Dudley (trade), Darren Collison (FA), Matt Barnes (re-sign), Byron Mullens (FA), Reggie Bullock (draft), Ryan Hollins (re-sign), Doc Rivers (VP & Coach)\nSubtractions: Eric Bledsoe (Suns), Caron Butler (Suns), Grant Hill (retired), Chauncey Billups (Pistons), Ronny Turiaf (Timberwolves), DaJuan Summers, Vinny Del Negro (coach)\nMuch has been made of the Rockets landing Howard, but you could argue that the Clippers made the two biggest moves of the summer.\nFirst they somehow convinced Rivers to leave Boston. Say what you will about Rivers, bitter Celtics fans, but he can coach and knows how to fit alpha dogs into a cohesive whole. The Clippers needed a coaching upgrade if they were going to take the next leap, and the team landed the best one available.\nRivers' arrival also went a long way in convincing Paul to re-sign. The All-Star point guard was the best free agent on the market, and the Clippers found a way to keep him in L.A.\nThey weren't done there, though. The Clippers added Redick to shore up their shooting, Dudley to serve as an all-around glue guy, Collison to back-up Paul for just $1.9 million a year and a bouncy, face-the-basket big man in Byron Mullens.\nI even loved their draft pick, Reggie Bullock, who was one of the best shooters in this year's class and should be able to immediately step in and play minutes.\nThey did all of this without going over the luxury tax (for now) and lost just one first-round pick (in 2015).\nAs good as the summer was for the Rockets, I think the Clippers that were the NBA's biggest winners. Not only will they field a true title contender next season, but they are now well-positioned to be competitive for years to come.\nLOS ANGELES LAKERS | GRADE: C\nAdditions: Chris Kaman (FA), Nick Young (FA), Jordan Farmar (FA), Wesley Johnson (FA), Robert Sacre (re-sign), Ryan Kelly (draft), Elias Harris (FA)\nSubtractions: Dwight Howard (Rockets), Metta World Peace (Knicks), Earl Clark (Cavaliers), Andrew Goudelock (Russia), Chris Duhon\nIt was the best of times and the worst of times in Los Angeles this summer. And for once, it was the Clippers who were celebrating. While Donald Sterling's crew was landing Doc Rivers and re-signing Chris Paul, the Lakers stood by and watched their dynasty crumble.\nDwight Howard bolted and, with him, went any sense of future security for the Lakers. This upcoming season might not be a total disaster. Perhaps Kobe Bryant (if he can recover from his Achilles tear), Steve Nash and Pau Gasol will rally for one last postseason push. Kaman, Young and Farmar are three veterans who might be able to help them creak by the younger, more energetic upstarts in the West. Unlikely, but perhaps.\nBut after this season? The Lakers are facing the cleanest slate they've had in over a decade. Next season they figure to have just one significant contract on the books (Nash) and roughly $40 to $45 million in cap space.\nWhile I personally think they should've tried to move Gasol and Nash and then tried to bottom out for a high draft pick, at least they aren't trying to piece together a team of veterans for a two- to three-year run.\nIn 2014, the Lakers are going to look much, much different. Kobe will be back if he wants to be and is physically able to be, but the rest of the team is up for grabs. The Lakers are confident that they'll be at the front of the line for top talent like LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh. If they can land any of those guys, this summer will be a one-time setback in an otherwise super-bright future.\nMEMPHIS GRIZZLIES | GRADE: C\nAdditions: Tony Allen (re-sign), Kosta Koufos (trade), Mike Miller (FA), Jon Leuer (re-sign), Nick Calathes (trade), Jamaal Franklin (draft), Josh Akognon (waivers), Dave Joerger (coach)\nSubtractions: Darrell Arthur (Nuggets), Austin Daye (Raptors), Lionel Hollins (coach)\nThe Grizzlies made most of their major moves at the trade deadline and appear content to take another swing at a Western Conference title with their team largely intact.\nTheir biggest move was replacing Hollins with Joerger. Much has been written about the divergent worldviews of the Grizzlies' new front office and their now-former head coach. Hollins was a good coach, but clearly the team felt they needed a coach more aligned with their new philosophy. Joerger doesn't have much of a track record by which to judge him, but sources all around the league are confident he has the makings of a very good head coach.\nMemphis' big move, roster-wise, was to re-sign Allen, their defensive stopper, at a bargain price (four year, $20 million dollar). Otherwise, the Grizzlies focused on upgrading their bench. Koufos provides some much-needed depth behind Marc Gasol. Miller, if healthy, is still a lethal shooter and should provide a big boost coming off the bench behind Tayshaun Prince. Franklin, an uber-athletic wing who led San Diego State in points, rebounds, assists and steals as a junior, is the type of junkyard player who could earn minutes next season.\nAnd they might not be done yet. Sources say they continue to explore trades scenarios involving Zach Randolph, and they have shown interest in free-agent point guard Mo Williams.\nI don't think the Grizzlies are the favorites in the West. But if everything goes right for them? They could still run the table.\nMINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES | GRADE: C-\nAdditions: Kevin Martin (S&T), Chase Budinger (re-sign), Corey Brewer (FA), Shabazz Muhammad (draft), Gorgui Dieng (draft), Ronny Turiaf (FA), Lorenzo Brown (draft), Flip Saunders (GM)\nSubtractions: Andrei Kirilenko (Nets), Luke Ridnour (Bucks), Brandon Roy (retired), Greg Stiemsma (Pelicans), Malcolm Lee (Suns), David Kahn (GM)\nI'm tempted to give the Wolves an \"A\" here just for firing Kahn, but the rest of the summer was a mixed bag for new team president Flip Saunders.\nWe're assuming the Wolves will eventually reach a deal with Nikola Pekovic, a restricted free agent, since there isn't a team with cap room left that has interest, and the Wolves want to retain him.\nMinnesota has been looking for an answer at the 2 for years, and Martin gives them a veteran who can make an impact right away. But $27 million over four years is crazy for a player whose game is slowly starting to wane. Add in $15 million for three years of Budinger and $14 million for three years of Brewer, and the Wolves spent $56 million on role players. Maybe the team didn't fire Kahn after all.\nTheir other big addition was Muhammad, a player many scouts felt would be one of the top three players in the draft last July. However, an uneven year at UCLA exposed many of his flaws and his draft stock plummeted. Did the Wolves get a steal when they drafted him with the last pick of the lottery? If his Summer League performance gives any indication (and many times it doesn't), the answer is no. Dieng, meanwhile, gives them a big man who can block shots and really pass it. But he's still raw, especially for a 23-year-old.\nKirilenko was terrific last season, and losing him to the Nets, especially given the huge pay cut he took to do so, was painful.\nOverall, the Wolves have the pieces in place to compete for a seventh or eighth seed in the West if everyone stays healthy. But with this team still treading in the waters of mediocrity, Kevin Love's free-agent decision in the summer of 2015 begins to loom large.\nNEW ORLEANS PELICANS | GRADE: B-\nAdditions: Jrue Holiday (trade), Tyreke Evans (S&T), Al-Farouq Aminu (re-sign), Anthony Morrow (FA), Greg Stiemsma (FA), Jeff Withey (trade)\nSubtractions: Robin Lopez (Blazers), Greivis Vasquez (Kings), Lance Thomas, Terrel Harris (Blazers), Xavier Henry, Lou Amundson, Roger Mason Jr.\nI'm not sure any team had a more controversial summer than the Pelicans. Whether you took issue with naming a NBA team after a goofy bird, questioned their decision to trade away a guy who probably should've been the No. 1 pick in the draft along with a potential lottery pick in next year's loaded draft or you wondered aloud why they'd pay so much money to player who peaked as a rookie and won't even start, the Pelicans have given us plenty to talk about.\nContext, I believe, is in order. GM Dell Demps is under the same ownership edict that Bucks GM John Hammond is. His owner is old. He doesn't have time for a long rebuild. He wants to win now.\nSo Demps, given those constraints, gets a solid grade for the Holiday deal. His team needed a point guard, and Holiday made the All-Star team last season at the age of 22. While I can't find anyone who loves his game, New Orleans landed an above-average player at the cost of a young big man coming off ACL surgery, who does many of the things that Anthony Davis already does well and a pick that probably ends up in the late lottery to mid-first round. If the Pelicans were really trying to shore up their future, they stick with Noel, stay bad for another year and try to add another star. But if you're going to go for it, you can do a lot worse than Holiday.\nThe Evans decision is a little harder to wrap my arms around. The Pelicans needed a center and small forward. Evans is neither. But Demps saw talent that he thought he could steal. He believes that the culture they've built in New Orleans and a head coaching staff led by Monty Williams is far superior to what Evans was subjected to the past few seasons in Sacramento. Evans is just 23 years old, and if he can put it all together, they might still be able to turn Eric Gordon into a long-term solution at the 3 or 5.\nFor those that love true rebuilds, the Pelicans lost their patience and screwed this up. But on second glance, they are still young and still have assets and talent. While I'm not convinced the Pelicans crack the top eight in the West, they still have a strong foundation going forward.\nOKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER | GRADE: C-\nAdditions: Derek Fisher (re-sign), Steven Adams (draft), Andre Roberson (draft), Grant Jerrett (draft)\nSubtractions: Kevin Martin (Timberwolves)\nNot sure there was a team with a quieter offseason than the Thunder. With a payroll dangerously close to the luxury-tax threshold, they had to let sixth man Kevin Martin walk and signed only a minor role player in Fisher and their draft picks.\nAdams is a freak of nature -- a young, 19-year-old big man with an NBA body, strength, athleticism and motor. But he's relatively new to the game and has a lot of work to do to be ready for the pro game, especially on the offensive end. Despite being just 6-foot-7 and 206 pounds, Roberson was one of the best rebounders in college basketball last season. And they hit in the second round with Jerrett, a big stretch-4 who underachieved as a freshman at Arizona but who looked solid in summer league. All three have bright futures but will likely spend the season in the D-League.\nThe Thunder drafted well, but their window is now, and it's unclear whether Jeremy Lamb has the chops to replace Martin coming off the bench. So many teams have improved in the West, but the Thunder's lack of creative moves marks a second straight disappointing offseason.\nPHOENIX SUNS | GRADE: B\nAdditions: Eric Bledsoe (trade), Alex Len (draft), Archie Goodwin (draft), Caron Butler (trade), Gerald Green (trade), Miles Plumlee (trade), Malcolm Lee (trade), Ryan McDonough (GM), Jeff Hornacek (coach), Pacers' 2014 1st Rd draft pick\nSubtractions: Luis Scola (Pacers), Jared Dudley (Clippers), Wesley Johnson (Lakers), Jermaine O'Neal (Warriors), Hamed Haddadi, Lance Blanks (GM), Lindsey Hunter (coach)\nI've been throwing haymakers at the Suns in this forum for the past few years. Given their rapid descent, I think the criticisms have been fair. But for the first time in a while, I see a ray of hope in the Valley of the Sun.\nWith new GM Ryan McDonough at the helm, the Suns officially acknowledged what they should've accepted three years ago: they're rebuilding. And as a result, they have been aggressive in acquiring draft picks, have been conservative in using their cap room and are stocking up on young players with serious upside.\nLanding Bledsoe for the price of Dudley and a second-round pick may have been the steal of the summer. Reasonable minds can disagree about Bledsoe's future, but he's a 23-year-old young point guard who excelled while playing significant minutes on a playoff team. For a rebuilding one like the Suns, that's pure gold.\nThey also landed what they believe to be their center of the future in Len, who is huge, athletic and quite skilled for a player his age but is coming off surgery for a stress fracture in his ankle. I like Len, but the Suns should've taken Nerlens Noel ahead of him. Noel, to me, has more upside, and I worry a bit about Len's toughness.\nGoodwin, the second youngest player in the draft, struggled in his freshman season at Kentucky. But he's blessed with great speed and athleticism, and if he ever develops a jump shot, he could be a lethal scorer. He looked quite impressive at summer league, and if the Suns are patient, they could have their backcourt of the future in Bledsoe and Goodwin.\nThe rest of the acquisitions the Suns made were really throw-ins. They swallowed Green's contract to get a hold of the Pacers' first-round pick next year. Butler was a throw-in to get Bledsoe. The team does like Plumlee a bit.\nThey may not be done yet. There remains significant interest in Marcin Gortat and Goran Dragic, who they could deal for valuable asset.\nThe Suns will likely be awful again next season, perhaps awful enough to be the worst team in the West. But they are finally beginning to acquire young players to build around. Another high draft pick next year, combined with a load of cap space, and the Suns could be well on their way back up the standings.\nPORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS | GRADE: A\nAdditions: C.J. McCollum (draft), Thomas Robinson (trade), Robin Lopez (trade), Dorell Wright (FA), Allen Crabbe (draft), Earl Watson (FA), Terrel Harris (trade)\nSubtractions: J.J. Hickson (Nuggets), Eric Maynor (Wizards), Ronnie Price (Magic), Jared Jeffries, Sasha Pavlovic\nGM Neil Olshey has been quietly rebuilding the Blazers while keeping up appearances that this might be a playoff team. With the addition of two more lottery picks in McCollum and Robinson, the Blazers have somehow managed to inject new blood into the franchise without giving up any of their key core players.\nAfter hitting a home run with Damian Lillard last summer, the Blazers believe they may have done it again with McCollum. Like Lillard, McCollum is a super scorer who lit up opponents in a small conference. Like Lillard, he also possesses exceptional maturity and an unrelenting work ethic. Together, they could give the Blazers one of the most dynamic backcourts in the league.\nRobinson was a top-five pick in the 2012 draft, but he struggled as a rookie in stints with the Kings and Rockets. He has the requisite strength and athletic ability to be a beast on the boards. It's his basketball IQ on the offensive end that's in serious question now. While he may not have been worthy of his lofty draft position -- he went one spot ahead of Lillard -- Robinson has upside and could be an important fixture off the bench.\nThe team also upgraded in the middle, getting Lopez from the Pelicans. While Lopez is probably better suited coming off the bench, he had a very strong 2012-13 in which he posted an impressive 18.9 PER. He should battle second-year big man Meyers Leonard for the starting center position.\nWright and Crabbe were also important additions. They came cheap, and both players can really shoot the basketball.\nAll in all, Olshey has proven to be quite adept at sniffing out bargains in the market and pouncing on them. Not only do the Blazers have intriguing young players at every position on the floor, they also look talented enough to make a real run at the eighth seed in the West. In a few years, they may be far more dangerous than simply a team that you don't want to play in the first round.\nSACRAMENTO KINGS | GRADE: C+\nAdditions: Ben McLemore (draft), Carl Landry (FA), Greivis Vasquez (trade), Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (trade), Ray McCallum (draft), Vivek Randive (owner), Pete D'Alessandro (GM), Mike Malone (coach)\nSubtractions: Tyreke Evans (Pelicans), Toney Douglas (Warriors), Joe and Gavin Maloof (Owners), Geoff Petrie (GM), Keith Smart (coach)\nWhatever I write about the Kings will likely be irrelevant. Kings fans won in April when the NBA announced that the league would reject the Maloofs' proposal to sell the franchise to a Seattle-based ownership group.\nAnything else that happens is gravy. Basketball lives in Sacramento.\nTo that end, the gravy has been pretty thin at the moment. New owner Vivek Ranadive looks a bit green already, panicking and hiring head coach Mike Malone before finding a GM and then letting Malone dictate who he hired to run the team. Ranadive has said publicly on several occasions that he wants an experienced hand guiding his new team, but instead hired a young assistant GM who happens to be tight with the new head coach. I think D'Alessandro is a smart, talented man, but I'm not sure he was ready for the job. When coaches, especially rookies, are calling the shots, it rarely goes well.\nA case in point was the four-year, $26 million dollar deal they gave to Landry. He's a good player and a guy that coaches love, but he's not a terrific fit in the rebuilding curve of the Kings and seemed an odd choice to spend on. The same could be said for the decision to trade for Mbah a Moute. He was barely a solid rotation player on a quasi-playoff team like the Bucks, but his defensive reputation sold Malone on committing nearly $9 million of the Kings' money.\nIn the meantime, the Kings didn't really make much of an effort to get out and pursue younger players that could fit into the future. They didn't even explore moving DeMarcus Cousins, because the big man will help them win ball games next season. Not enough to be a playoff team, mind you, but enough to not be associated with the Suns or Sixers of the world.\nTheir best addition was McLemore. Based on talent alone, he was one of the two or three best players in the draft, but he slipped to the Kings because of questions about his maturity and his lack of aggression. He didn't quell any fears at summer league, where he looked awful. But his performance was mostly a result of not being in great shape and desperately trying to prove his willingness to shoot. Over his last few games in Las Vegas, he settled down, and the upside was evident. If Malone can give McLemore both structure and confidence, he will be a major building block for the Kings.\nAs for the rest of the team? Expect a finish somewhere between 12 and 14 in the West, a high draft pick next June and significant cap room next summer. The long-term future looks promising, but the short term is still going to be ugly.\nSAN ANTONIO SPURS | GRADE: B\nAdditions: Manu Ginobili (re-sign), Tiago Splitter (re-sign), Marco Belinelli (FA), Jeff Pendergraph (FA), Deshaun Thomas (draft)\nSubtractions: Gary Neal (Bucks), DeJuan Blair (Mavericks)\nThe Spurs came about as close as you can come to winning a NBA title without actually winning it. If a team ever deserved a trophy for coming in second place, it's them.\nTo that end, the team decided to bring back the same crew. They got the rapidly fading Manu to sign a reasonable, two-year, $14 million deal. Their offer to Splitter (four years, $36 million) was considerably larger, but it decreases each year, and there aren't 15 centers in the league better than he is.\nTheir other additions probably won't excite anyone, but maybe they should. Every year the Spurs pull a player of two from the proverbial NBA trash heap and turn them into valuable role players. This year, Belinelli and Pendergraph might be those guys. Belinelli can really shoot the basketball, and Pendergraph can rebound and score around the basket. Both have talent well-suited to the team's style of play and are better than the contracts they received -- a hallmark of Spurs summers.\nAnd don't sleep on Thomas, the Spurs' second-round draft prospect. He was one of the two or three best scorers in the draft this year, but slid because people questioned his work ethic and defense. He couldn't have landed on a better team than San Antonio or with a better coach than Gregg Popovich. If he's willing to do what Pop says, in two years everyone will be asking why in the world Thomas wasn't a lottery pick.\nUTAH JAZZ | GRADE: B\nAdditions: Trey Burke (draft), Rudy Gobert (draft), Andris Biedrins (trade), Richard Jefferson (trade), Brandon Rush (trade), John Lucas III (FA), Ian Clark (FA), Warriors' 2014 1st Rd draft pick\nSubtractions: Paul Millsap (Hawks), Al Jefferson (Bobcats), Mo Williams, Randy Foye (Nuggets), DeMarre Carroll (Hawks), Earl Watson (Blazers), Kevin Murphy (Warriors)\nAs long as I've known him, Kevin O'Connor has never been a fan of tanking. The reason being that a culture of losing starts forming and that playing meaningful basketball is as important to a player's development as playing lots of minutes.\nFor years, the Jazz have embodied that philosophy. This year, that's all changing.\nWith Dennis Lindsey now leading the team and the NBA landscape changing, the Jazz have joined the teams \"Riggin' for Wiggins.\" And somewhere, O'Connor's blood pressure is soaring.\nThe team is loaded with young talent already. Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter have been mentored for several seasons behind veterans, and both have the potential to be All-Stars someday. Ditto for Gordon Hayward. And lots of people on the team are high on Alec Burks as well. So deciding to let Milsap, Jefferson and Williams walk this summer was about more than just tanking -- it was about giving their young core a chance before difficult decisions have to be made in free agency.\nThe newest addition to that young core is Burke, who the Jazz traded up to get. While I was higher on a couple of other point guards in the draft, I understand that the Jazz need a leader for their young team and what Burke possesses in spades is moxy. His lack of size and elite athletic ability were exposed at summer league. But he's a tough player who plays with a chip on his shoulder and he should find a way to overcome his physical weaknesses.\nThe drafting of Gobert was also about upside. He's not ready to play in the NBA, but his 7-foot-9 wingspan and his work ethic were too much for the Jazz to pass on. Clark, the MVP of the championship game at the Las Vegas Summer League, also gives them a young player who can score from both positions in the backcourt.\nBiedrins, Jefferson and Rush were all throws-in so that the Jazz could get a hold of the Warriors' 2014 and 2016 first-round picks. Biedrins and Rush both have upside and could end up getting minutes this season, and perhaps even another contract in Utah.\nIf the Jazz are going to be bad, they only want to be bad for one year -- and they picked the right year to do it. The competition in the West was likely too stiff to make the playoffs anyway. Next year's draft is loaded, and a year of leadership experience for Hayward, Favors, Kanter, Burks and Burke is a good thing.\nFlush with cash next summer, the Jazz can re-sign who they want, add others via free agency and move right back into being contenders in 2014-15.\u200b\n#1 J.R., Aug 1, 2013\nmyco Contributing Member\nPretty backhanded compliment for the Rockets and really more of a dig at Morey.\n#2 myco, Aug 1, 2013\nplates300 Member\nI hate it how everyone plays it off as \"oh the Rockets got lucky.\" Well no sh*$, all teams have to get lucky to get the players they want. Definitely a back handed compliment but it's ESPN so it's expected. Honestly, if Morey didn't land Howard, I still think he's done a great job.\n#3 plates300, Aug 1, 2013\nCDrex Contributing Member\nJ.R. said: \u2191\nBut after this season? The Lakers are facing the cleanest slate they've had in over a decade. Next season they figure to have just one significant contract on the books (Nash) and roughly $40 to $45 million in cap space. The Lakers are confident that they'll be at the front of the line for top talent like LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh. If they can land any of those guys, this summer will be a one-time setback in an otherwise super-bright future.\nI'm a little offended by the Ford's lack of research here. He implies that even without jettisoning Nash, they'll have two max contracts to toss out and then they can resign Kobe. Obviously he didn't read this piece on their cap outlook, which reminds us that unless they renounce the rights to go over the cap to sign Kobe, Kobe's cap hold eats up nearly $32 million.\nAccounting for roster spot min salary charges, this gives them\na) about $14 million to spend if they plan to spend first, then resign Kobe over the cap, keeping Nash\nb) about $20 million to spend if they waive Nash with the stretch provision, spend, then resign Kobe over the cap\nc) about ($14 million + X) if Kobe signs first and take a pay cut of X dollars compared to his cap hold, keeping Nash\nd) about ($20 million + X) if Kobe signs first and take a pay cut of X dollars compared to his cap hold, stretching Nash\ne) goodbye Kobe! (like that's going to happen)\nBryant would have to accept at the very most $11 million a year to get max contracts to two guys from the class of '03. And he's said he doesn't plan to take a pay cut. So...yeah.\n#4 CDrex, Aug 1, 2013\nFyreball Contributing Member\nESPN continues to show their true colors by calling the Rockets lucky, and saying that this has a likelihood of being a short-term setback in a \"super-bright\" future for the Lakers. Really?? Super-bright? Because last time I checked, Kobe's cap-hold is massive, and LeBron is not leaving Miami. That to me is the polar opposite of \"super-bright.\"\n#5 Fyreball, Aug 1, 2013\nda_juice Member\nFyreball said: \u2191\nLakers always have a super bright future in the world of ESPN (something that is, unfortunately, historically rooted in reality).\n#6 da_juice, Aug 1, 2013\njim1961 Member\nResigning your own players is one of those things that if you do, your holding serve basically. But if you fail to do it, assuming that player is an important piece and someone you want to resign in the first place, then its a loss definitely.\nIn the case of the Clippers, I just cant elevate them to the top of the heap mostly based on resigning players.\nIf Miami merely resigns Lebron next year, I suppose in ESPN's way of thinking their off season will be a A+++++ while at the same time the team is not one iota better than before based on this move alone.\nSo what ESPN's offseason report REALLY should be called is \"Who had the best player to resign in the offseason\" report card.\n#7 jim1961, Aug 1, 2013\nROXTXIA Contributing Member\nFrom what I understand, Morey wanted to blow it up. He found the \"middle way\" listed above because Les insisted on rebuilding without sucking any harder than necessary.\nOtherwise, decent article, if a little heavy on the \"Rockets are more lucky than good\". How about, Sam Presti should be kicking himself right now?\n#8 ROXTXIA, Aug 1, 2013\nJimes Member\nThe writer also didn't get the memo that you're supposed to misspell Morey, not Daryl.\n#9 Jimes, Aug 1, 2013\ndaywalker02 Easter Egg Hunter - Tell me why? \u0646\u062d\u0646 \u0639\u0627\u0626\u0644\u0629\nIt's A+\nThey just don't know how to appreciate the loss of Royce White\nIt will guarantee us another spot to accommodate a quality player\n#10 daywalker02, Aug 1, 2013\nbenchmoochie Contributing Member\nonly contending for wc championship?\n#11 benchmoochie, Aug 1, 2013\nRedEyesKirby Member\nYou have to have skills to be lucky.\nIf you're not prepared, even when luck comes, you won't be able to do anything about it. (LAKERS)\n#12 RedEyesKirby, Aug 1, 2013\nivenovember Member\nWhy did they put Royce White (76ers) under \"Subtraction\"?\nThat is definitely an \"Addition\".\n#13 ivenovember, Aug 1, 2013\nroslolian Rockets Only Fan\nI have several issues with this, namely how the Warriors are supposed to be \"in the middle of contention\", the Lakers \"have a super bright future\", but the Rox should only \"contend for the WCF crown for the next 2-3 years\".\nLOL wtf? DH is only 27, Harden is 23 and Parsons is 24\nAlso why is Dudley, Reddick and Collison amazingly great while Camby, Garcia, Brooks, Cassipi and Canaan aren't impressive? It's not our fault we're already stacked, maybe Ford forgot that we have Harden and Parsons at both wing spots Why the hate on Lin, is De Andre Johnson a championship caliber C? lol\nI mean seriously, who wins in a 7 game series?\nCP3\/Griffin\/DJ\/Reddick\/Dudley\nor DH\/Harden\/Parsons\/Asik\/Lin with Beverly\/DMo\/Camby\/Garcia as the bench?\n#14 roslolian, Aug 1, 2013\nCometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine\nRather be lucky than good in free agency. The Harden trade wasn't luck, that was straight mobster taking advantage of the poor.\n#15 CometsWin, Aug 1, 2013\nBeardSanity Member\nThat article possed me off even tho they gave us an A.\nHe totally discounted moreys skills by basically calling him lucky to still have a job. Wow.\nAll good, I would hate to be overhyped all season anyways.\n#16 BeardSanity, Aug 2, 2013\nLosPollosHermanos Appropriate pronouns only please\nwhat is it with the clipps improving the most?\nThats a joke.\n#17 LosPollosHermanos, Aug 2, 2013\ncrash5179 Contributing Member\nI don't have really have much of a problem with the grades for the most part, but if I'm being critical then here is really my main issue with the article.\nThe author lays out the criteria for his grading system right here. Then he proceeds to give the Clippers an A+ largely based on the fact that they signed Chris Paul. My problem with that is that Chris Paul is not an addition for the Clippers, they already had him. By resigning Chris the Clippers did nothing in the form of Remaking the team. The team is essentially the exact same set of starters from last season.\nAre the Clippers substantially closer to winning a championship then they were in April? No. Doc probably gives them a better chance but does a coach suddenly make the pathetic play the Clippers have been getting out of DeAndre Jordan better? I doubt it.\nThe Clippers gave up a 1st round pick for Doc but completely blew their oppertunity to acquire Kevin Garnett because of how public them and the Celtics made it known that they were intending to make Doc and KG a package deal. Had they kept that quite and observed the rules of the CBA then the Clipps probably are able to acquire KG seperately from the Doc transaction with out too much interference from David Stern.\nBy Comparison:\n1. The Rockets clearly made the biggest jump by advancing the team into elite\/contender status.\n2. While the Clippers had to give up a 1st round pick to acquire Doc Rivers, the Rockets gave up nothing to acquire Dwight Howard.\n3. While the Clippers got high marks for not exceeding the Luxury Tax Threshold, the Rockets are paying more than 10 million a season less than the Clipps in total salary.\n4. While Keeping the all of the teams draft picks, the Rockets are in better position going forward than the Clippers, considering the additional 2nd round picks the Rockets are also loaded with.\n5. Not only do the Rockets field a true title contender this season but they are BETTER positioned than the Clipps because they have more 1st and 2nd round picks moving forward plus the Rockets salary cap situation is much better then the Clippers. According to Shamsports the Clippers are actually over the LT just not over the Apron. http:\/\/data.shamsports.com\/content\/pages\/data\/salaries\/clippers.jsp\n#18 crash5179, Aug 2, 2013\ntrueroxfan Member\ndaywalker02 said: \u2191\nIt will guarantee us another spot to accommodate a player\nI am surprised they gave us an A and the Clippers an A+. The Clippers kept all their guys and signed two quality role players. We kept our main guys and signed the best center in the league. How are 2 role players > 1 all star?\nI'm one of those who believes the loss of Dwight was a good thing for the Lakers. If they were going to continue that system of offense, and keep Gasol, Dwight was not a good fit, imo. This team is still a playoff team (bottom of the pack) IF Kobe is able to return by midseason. I don't know much about the heal time for Achilles injuries, but didn't Billups have the same injury, came back early, and got re injured? I think they'll be battling for the 8th seed, which isn't terrible considering they are essentially the poster team for AARP.\nNot sure how I feel about this team anymore. Rudy Gay isn't the player I thought he was going to develop into, and they got rid of Hollins, who I thought was a pretty good coach. I think this is a fair grade.\nI think the T Wolves had a pretty good offseason. K Mart fits perfect with that team, and if he can score 20+ again this season, and Love and Rubio come back strong, with a coach like Adelman...this team can be as good as a 5th seed. Not to mention they got some help at backup center, a steal with Shabazz, and a quality wing with Brewer. I think a B- is more appropriate.\nThey deserve an F- for the stupid name.\nThey essentially did NOTHING. How is Fisher still in the league?\nNot sure if they deserve an F for letting Scola go, or an A++ for letting him go to a contending team. JK, I am confused with their moves, why are they stacking up on starting point guards?\nNot a bad offseason, but I think they'll tear it down by the trade deadline.\nWhy did Landry sign with this team? Must have been to be back with Hayes! But seriously, he could have gone to a much better team.\nI like Belinelli, but I can't imagine Duncan will play as good as he did last year. This is their last chance.\nF the Jazz. They get a D for being tools.\n#19 trueroxfan, Aug 2, 2013","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Articles \/ Civil rights groups sue state officials over voter registrations\nCivil rights groups sue state officials over voter registrations\nAdam Jadhav \/\/ Published April 24, 2008 in ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH\nVoting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people stay active on the voter rolls.\nThe suit, filed in Kansas City by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, focuses on a 1993 federal law that requires voter registration to be offered at drivers license facilities and government assistance offices \u2014 those that offer aid such as food stamps, Medicaid and welfare. But although registering at drivers license offices is now commonplace, activists claim the Missouri Department of Social Services has shirked its obligations.\nACORN, represented by lawyers from national groups Project Vote, Demos and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, also says election authorities need to better instruct local public aid offices.\nThe lawsuit carries all the overtones of a traditional political brawl, pitting groups allied with minorities and the poor \u2014 who typically lean Democratic \u2014 against a key department of a Republican administration.\nSecretary of State Robin Carnahan, Missouri's highest authority on elections and a Democrat, is not named as a defendant. The plaintiffs say Carnahan has been helpful on the issue.\nMissouri is only the latest battleground for the voting groups, who have worked with Michigan, North Carolina and New Mexico. In 2006, Project Vote and others sued officials in Ohio.\nVoter registration applications from drivers license offices have remained steady in recent years. But registrations at public aid agencies around the country have fallen, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. In Missouri, those offices handled more 143,000 registration applications in the 1996 election cycle. By the 2006 cycle, that figure had decreased almost 90 percent to fewer than 16,000.\n\"Those people belong in the electoral process,\" said Brian Mellor, a lawyer with Project Vote. \"That was the point of the federal law \u2014 involve everybody.\"\nMissouri Social Services Director Deborah Scott, the top official named in the suit, maintains that the state's public aid offices were in compliance with federal rules. Scott's assistant Jan Carter suggested Wednesday that a successful registration campaign years ago led to the decrease now.\n\"Once you've fished in a pool and caught most of the fish, the remaining fish are going to be limited,\" Carter said.\nCarter also said aid offices see lower foot traffic today \u2014 and register fewer people \u2014 because clients can apply for services online and over the phone.\nMellor countered that the federal law didn't distinguish between public aid services offered in person or online. And activists say they spot-checked almost a dozen offices in the St. Louis and Kansas City area and found that none offered voter registration materials with applications for public aid. Three didn't even provide registration forms when asked, the activists said.\nThe lawsuit also contends that local election authorities should be stepping in. Jerry Wamser, an attorney for the St. Louis Elections Board, and Charles Renner, an attorney for the Kansas City board, both said they would review the suit but declined to comment further.\nCharlene Davis, the Republican elections director for Jackson County, argued that her office had no authority to oversee public aid agencies. \"Within their offices, we have no control,\" Davis said.\nShe said her office did conduct initial training sessions with social service workers, who resisted the federal requirements.\n\"There was a definite attitude problem,\" Davis said. \"They felt that they were doing our work.\"\nThe dispute goes back to 2006, when Project Vote lawyers and others first approached Carnahan, who followed up in meetings, phone calls and e-mails with the public aid agencies.\nIn response to the lawsuit, Carnahan spokesman Ryan Hobart issued a statement: \"It's disappointing that, despite the wide-ranging efforts we have taken, all eligible Missourians might not have been given their legally required opportunity to register to vote.\"\nAttorneys for the activists also wrote directly to Scott in August 2007 with their complaints, offering to meet with state officials. Alternatively, they warned they could file a lawsuit, according to letters provided to the Post-Dispatch.\nScott wrote back denying the allegations, defending the department and asking for more specifics; she also referred future contact to a state lawyer.\nCarter, Scott's assistant, suggested the lawsuit was an insincere way to achieve that goal. She also questioned ACORN's credibility, noting that several employees were indicted last year on allegations involving bogus registrations.\nMellor said ACORN shouldn't be held responsible for the misconduct of low-paid contractors.\nContact reporter at Adam.Jadhav@post-dispatch.com or 314-340-8255","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton Says She's 'Always Tried' to Tell the Truth\nBYBenjamin Snyder\nFebruary 19, 2016, 4:07 PM UTC\nPhotograph by Bloomberg via Getty Images\nFor Hillary Clinton, the truth sometimes sounds a lot more like \"truthiness.\"\nThe Democratic candidate for President said in an interview with CBS News that she's \"always tried to tell the truth\" when asked at her campaign office in Las Vegas.\n\"You know, in '76, Jimmy Carter famously said, 'I will not lie to you,'\" said CBS' Scott Pelley to the Democratic frontrunner. \"Well, I have to tell you I have tried in every way I know how literally from my years as a young lawyer all the way through my time as secretary of state to level with the American people,\" Clinton replied.\nThe comments come as Clinton has been struggling against her opponent Bernie Sanders in recent months. She lost in a landslide to Sanders in New Hampshire and didn't perform as well in Iowa.\nA poll from last year, meanwhile, found that the American public considers Clinton a liar, as Fortune reported.\nPelley pressed her further, asking, \"Have you always told the truth?\" And Clinton responded, \"I've always tried to. Always. Always.\"\n\"Well, but, you know, you're asking me to say, 'Have I ever?' I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have,\" Clinton, a former Senator in New York and Secretary of State, added. \"I don't believe I ever will. I'm gonna do the best I can to level with the American people.\"\nHere's a link to the interview:\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RKkTYGrUL5Q\nFortune has reached out to Clinton's campaign for comment, and we will update this story if we hear back.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fallacies of distributed computing\nThe fallacies of distributed computing are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.\n1 The fallacies\n2 The effects of the fallacies\nThe fallacies[edit]\nThe fallacies are:[1]\nThe network is reliable\nLatency is zero\nBandwidth is infinite\nThe network is secure\nTopology doesn't change\nThere is one administrator\nTransport cost is zero\nThe network is homogeneous\nThe effects of the fallacies[edit]\nSoftware applications are written with little error-handling on networking errors. During a network outage, such applications may stall or infinitely wait for an answer packet, permanently consuming memory or other resources. When the failed network becomes available, those applications may also fail to retry any stalled operations or require a (manual) restart.\nIgnorance of network latency, and of the packet loss it can cause, induces application- and transport-layer developers to allow unbounded traffic, greatly increasing dropped packets and wasting bandwidth.\nIgnorance of bandwidth limits on the part of traffic senders can result in bottlenecks.\nComplacency regarding network security results in being blindsided by malicious users and programs that continually adapt to security measures.[2]\nChanges in network topology can have effects on both bandwidth and latency issues, and therefore can have similar problems.\nMultiple administrators, as with subnets for rival companies, may institute conflicting policies of which senders of network traffic must be aware in order to complete their desired paths.\nThe \"hidden\" costs of building and maintaining a network or subnet are non-negligible and must consequently be noted in budgets to avoid vast shortfalls.\nIf a system assumes a homogeneous network, then it can lead to the same problems that result from the first three fallacies.\nThis section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.\nFind sources: \"Fallacies of distributed computing\" \u2013 news \u00b7 newspapers \u00b7 books \u00b7 scholar \u00b7 JSTOR (March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nThe list of fallacies generally[clarification needed] came about at Sun Microsystems. L. Peter Deutsch, one of the original Sun \"Fellows\", is credited[by whom?] with penning the first seven fallacies in 1994; however, Bill Joy and Tom Lyon had already identified the first four as \"The Fallacies of Networked Computing\"[3] (the article claims \"Dave Lyon\", but this is a mistake[why?]). Around 1997, James Gosling, another Sun Fellow and the inventor of Java, added the eighth fallacy.[3]\nCAP theorem\nPACELC theorem\nRISC vs CISC debate\nfine vs coarse grained SOA\n^ \"The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing - Tech Talk\". Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2017-06-18.\n^ \"Malware Defensive Techniques Will Evolve as Security Arms Race Continues\".\n^ a b \"Deutsch's Fallacies, 10 Years After\". Archived from the original on 2007-08-11. Retrieved 2005-12-03.\nThe Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing\nThe Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing at the Wayback Machine (archived September 9, 2016)\nFallacies of Distributed Computing Explained by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Fallacies_of_distributed_computing&oldid=916589690\"\nDistributed computing architecture\nDistributed computing problems\nWikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2015\nArticles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from July 2015\nWikipedia articles needing clarification from March 2017\nThis page was last edited on 19 September 2019, at 16:57 (UTC).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Two men BASE jump from Georgia cell tower, arrested\nOne of the men, Brian Sims, is from Savannah\nUpdated: 3:20 PM EST Jan 25, 2018\nWAGA-TV Atlanta SOURCE: WAGA-TV Atlanta\nACWORTH, Ga. (AP) - Two police officers were standing near a Georgia cellphone tower when they noticed a man falling from the sky.News outlets report Brian Sims, of Savannah, and Stephen Ahlquist, of Lilburn, were arrested Jan. 18 on trespassing charges for BASE jumping from a 300-foot (90-meter) cellphone tower in Acworth. BASE jumping refers to leaping from a building, among other fixed structures. An arrest warrant says officers initially only had the first jumper, Sims, in custody, as Ahlquist was still in the air. Officers had Sims call Ahlquist over so he could be arrested. Police say the two argued about whether Ahlquist should stay hidden until officers revealed they had a police dog. Sims' GoPro footage was taken as evidence. Both were released on bail. It's unclear whether they have lawyers.(Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)\nACWORTH, Ga. (AP) - Two police officers were standing near a Georgia cellphone tower when they noticed a man falling from the sky.\nNews outlets report Brian Sims, of Savannah, and Stephen Ahlquist, of Lilburn, were arrested Jan. 18 on trespassing charges for BASE jumping from a 300-foot (90-meter) cellphone tower in Acworth. BASE jumping refers to leaping from a building, among other fixed structures.\nAn arrest warrant says officers initially only had the first jumper, Sims, in custody, as Ahlquist was still in the air.\nOfficers had Sims call Ahlquist over so he could be arrested. Police say the two argued about whether Ahlquist should stay hidden until officers revealed they had a police dog.\nSims' GoPro footage was taken as evidence. Both were released on bail. It's unclear whether they have lawyers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Palermo to Mazara del Vallo bus\nOverview: Bus from Palermo to Mazara del Vallo\nAverage bus duration 1 h 25 min\nAverage bus ticket price $11 (\u20ac9)\nBus frequency 10 a day\nDirect bus Yes, there are 10 direct buses a day\nBus companies Autoservizi Salemi\nBuses from Palermo to Mazara del Vallo cover the 52 miles (84 km) long route taking on average 1 h 25 min with our travel partners like Autoservizi Salemi. Normally, there are 10 buses operating per day, including direct services available. You can get the cheapest bus tickets for this trip for as low as $11 (\u20ac9), but the average price of bus tickets is $11 (\u20ac9). Travelers depart most frequently from Palermo Centrale and arrive in Mazara del Vallo, Port.\nTravel Tips: Bus to Mazara del Vallo from Palermo\nTake the bus to Mazara del Vallo easily. 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{"text":"Good Content in Ochsner Journal Letters\nOchsner Journal received a number of excellent letters to the editor in 2016. In the latter part of the year, some writers used the letters column to share important and interesting cases.\nPhysicians from the State University of New York in Buffalo presented cases on \"Relapsing Pleural Effusion in a Patient on Automated Peritoneal Dialysis\" and \"A Delayed Diagnosis of Iatrogenic Guidewire Retention After Central Line Placement\" in the winter issue.\nThe Journal also published an important discussion entitled \"How Much Negative Pressure Are We Generating During Thoracentesis?\" and an alert about heat stroke in Pakistan, a public health crisis in some areas.\nFour physicians from Montefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation in New York contributed \"High-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator Flush in Donation-after-Cardiac-Death Donors May Mitigate Ischemic Biliary Strictures in Liver Transplantation\" to the spring issue, and a medical student from the United Kingdom commented on a previously published article, \"The Future of Medical Education: All About Being Connected.\"\nThe Journal welcomes letters to the editor. For guidelines, refer to our Instructions for Authors.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vengeful Nicole Kidman Clobbers Tom Cruise!\nNicole Kidman publicly humiliated her ex Tom Cruise by confessing her divorce from the pint-sized actor was one of the best things she's ever done!\nWhile on stage at London's Women in the World conference, the 48-year-old Australian told a stunned audience that her 2001 bust-up boosted her career \u2014 and helped her find true love with current hubby Keith Urban.\n\"I was running from my life at that time,\" said Nicole about splitting from Tom.\n\"I wasn't able to handle the reality of it, and as an actor you have this wonderful thing where you can go and get lost in somebody else's life.\n\"Out of my divorce came work that was applauded, so that was an interesting thing for me.\"\nAs reported by The ENQUIRER, Nicole's cruel jab at former husband Tom comes on top of Leah Remini's recent embarrassing expose of the Scientologist's bizarre secret life in her new book \"Troublemaker.\"\nThe ENQUIRER also recently revealed to the world how Nicole wasn't even invited to the recent wedding of her daughter Isabella \u2014 because Scientology demands that non-believer Nicole be banned as a \"Suppressive Person.\"\nNicole can still take some comfort in her 2003 win at the Academy Award for Best Actress \"The Hours.\"\nBut Nicole admitted that what should have been her most triumphant moment was actually the lowest point in her life.\n\"I was holding a gold statue and I was the loneliest I'd ever been,\" said Nicole.\nHer misery was finally ended when she met and married Keith in 2006.\nUnlike her time with Tom, the \"Moulin Rouge\" star reveals her marriage to Keith has been one of discovery.\nThey've grown together as they raise their daughters \u2014 Sunday Rose, 7, and 4-year-old Faith Margaret.\nNicole Kidman Tom Cruise","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Injury plagued Magic fall to Clippers\nBy | FoxSports\nORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Lou Williams scored 31 points, DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and 20 rebounds and the Los Angeles Clippers opened a four-game road trip with a 106-95 victory over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.\nThe Clippers shot 54 percent in the second half to win their third straight in a matchup of injury-riddled teams.\nJonathon Simmons scored 20 points for the Magic, who have lost 14 of 17. Mario Hezonja added 17 points and nine rebounds in his second start of the season.\nMaking only eight of their first 30 shots, the Clippers fell behind by 12 points midway through the second quarter. But Williams connected on three 3-pointers and Austin Rivers added one during a 14-0 run, and the Clippers (11-15) finished the first half by outscoring the Magic 24-7 to take a 45-40 lead.\nNikola Vucevic hit a mid-range jumper to put the Magic (11-18) up 55-54 midway through the third quarter, but Williams answered quickly with a basket to regain the lead for the Clippers permanently.\nThe shooting of Williams and Sam Dekker, both of whom came off the bench, helped the Clippers expand their lead to 16 points in the final minutes.\nDekker finished with 12 points and Williams had eight assists.\nRivers left the game in the final seconds of the first half after running into the elbow of Simmons, and did not return.\nClippers: F Danilo Gallinari is not on the road trip due to a left glute contusion. \u2026 F Blake Griffin missed his seventh straight game with a left MCL strain.\nMagic: With F Aaron Gordon (concussion) and G Arron Afflalo (back spasms) out, the active roster included four players from the G League's Lakeland Magic. One was rookie F Wes Iwundu, who made his first NBA start. \u2026 Rookie F Jonathan Isaac hopes to return to practice Thursday after missing 17 games with a sprained right ankle.\nClippers: Visit Washington on Friday.\nMagic: Hosts Portland on Friday.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"My Ox Is Broken\nReality TV News and Reviews\nOx Notes: January 20, 2009\nZap2It has a list of Inauguration Day events on TV, including a full night of coverage on ABC.\nIn other political news, Cindy McCain has been approached to compete on Dancing with the Stars 8.\nFOX announced its plans for next season, while SciFi announced its plans for spring, including a two-hour Battlestar: Galactica series finale on March 20.\nVariety's Brian Lowry writes that TV movies are making a minor comeback, thanks to cable networks like SciFi and Lifetime.\nMad Men creator Matthew Weiner finally signed a contract with AMC, which includes two more seasons of his hit show.\nRob Thomas said that his next writing project is a script for a Veronica Mars feature film.\nIf you're brave (or desperate) enough, you can enter a contest to let MySpace users plan your wedding.\nCheck out the Shaolin monks' performance from last night's episode of Superstars of Dance:\nThis entry was posted in Reality TV and tagged dancing with the stars, dwts on January 20, 2009 by Kathy.\n\u2190 Ox Notes: January 15, 2009 Ox Notes: January 21, 2009 \u2192\nMOIB's New Home\nTime for an Amazing Race Makeover\nOx Notes: March 4, 2010\nDancing with the Stars 10 Cast Announcement\nOx Notes: February 25, 2010","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Q&A with Hanya Yanagihara\nWith the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist on the horizon, we sat down with Hanya Yanagihara, author of longlisted novel A Little Life, to talk about the process of writing her dark second book and how visual artists inspire her fiction.\nA Little Life is often unflinchingly dark \u2013 was it difficult for you to consistently occupy this mental space during the 18 months it took you to write the book?\nNo, not really. There were passages that were more challenging than others to write, but overall, the experience was \u2014 while exhausting \u2014 also oddly joyful. There were great periods in the writing of this book when it felt that it was appearing to me in large, whole sections, and my job was to transcribe those sections. All writers know how rare this sensation is, and how, when you are lucky enough to experience it, you daren't do anything to disturb it. Also, I had a job to go to, which knocked me out of the life of this book for at least nine hours a day, and which was a necessary reprieve. What I didn't expect was the after-effect, which has been much longer and more difficult than I'd anticipated.\nYour second novel is extremely different in tone from your first \u2013 was this an intentional departure?\nYes. I admire authors whose every novel answers a single question or theme, but who do so in wildly different ways. I deliberately chose a different kind of style, something much more plainspoken and stripped-down than in my first book, and chose to write in what I call an intimate third-person omniscience, which I'd never tried before.\nIn many ways your book elevates friendship above romance \u2013 is this something you feel strongly about?\nI don't think it elevates friendship above all other types of relationships, but I hope it does make a compelling argument that friendship is a much more elemental, more necessary, and more sustaining relationship than we give it credit for being. The first friend we choose is our first announcement to the world of selfhood: This is my person, this is what it says about me.\nThe characters in the novel are so sharply drawn \u2013 are they inspired by real people in your life?\nThank you, but no. Of course, every author borrows from the people in her life \u2014 and every character borrows from the author herself \u2014 but there was very little conscious appropriating for this book. What I hope IS apparent on the page is how much I enjoyed creating them, how well I knew them, and how much I enjoyed spending time with them \u2014 all of them.\nAre there any authors' work which particularly influenced you when you wrote A Little Life?\nNo, not directly. I was much more influenced by different visual artists \u2014 Ryan McGinley, Felix Cid, Geoffrey Chadsey, Diane Arbus, Peter Hujar, Michael Borremans, Jan de Maesschalck, Todd Hido, Alec Soth, David Armstrong, Nicholas Nixon, and Nan Goldin among them \u2014 whose various works I turned to frequently.\nFind out more about our 2016 longlist here. Stay in the loop with this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction by following us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.\nA Q&A with Kate Atkinson\nA Q&A with Julia Rochester","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Can Insurance Companies Incentivize Their Customers to Be Healthier?\nAdrian Gore\nPeter Harmer\nMarc W. Pfitzer\nNina Jais\nBehavioral economists know well the power of instant gratification and over-optimism that too often lead to poor decisions \u2014 like reaching for an extra slice of cake or putting off the dreaded morning run. The behavioral biases play out in a simple paradox: People over-consume health care but under-consume prevention, and insurers or taxpayers are left with the bill. The same plays out with many lines of insurance, where the immediate benefits of poor choices outweigh the often-hidden cost of dealing with their consequences, such as reckless driving or failing to flood-proof infrastructure in highly exposed communities. Insurers have a unique opportunity to align their commercial interests with encouraging preventive behaviors. By employing a \"shared value\" model, insurers, along with public services, can directly \"monetize\" better individual behavior as healthier or safer individual outcomes, lower claims costs, and improve risk pools, which can be translated into lower-priced premiums and a competitive advantage in the marketplace.\nBehavioral economists know well the power of instant gratification and overoptimism that too often lead to poor decisions \u2014 like reaching for an extra slice of cake or putting off the dreaded morning run. The behavioral biases play out in a simple paradox: People overconsume health care but underconsume prevention, and insurers or taxpayers are left with the bill. The same plays out with many lines of insurance, where the immediate benefits of poor choices outweigh the often hidden cost of dealing with their consequences, such as reckless driving or failing to flood-proof infrastructure in highly exposed communities.\nOf all industries, insurance has a unique opportunity to align its commercial interests with preventive behaviors. Insurers, along with public services, can directly \"monetize\" better individual behavior as healthier or safer individual outcomes, lower claims costs, and improve risk pools, which can be translated into lower-priced premiums and a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry \u2014 one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model.\nWhat makes prevention today different from past efforts (e.g., fire prevention dating back centuries) is how it can be done. First, a wide range of new technologies and data analytics allow tracking who and what is changing, making it possible to establish individualized targets, remedies, and incentives. Second, a systems approach helps companies go beyond single interventions to engage the entire insurance value chain \u2014 including local businesses, communities, and government \u2014 in the pursuit of these prevention gains. Third, with measurement linking risk-reduction milestones to improved business results, customers can be rewarded dynamically, with behavior-based pricing that encourages positive behaviors and leads to a virtuous shared-value cycle between risk reduction and profit.\nConsider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. Vitality provides people with incentives to improve their health through gym memberships, discounts on healthy foods, and other awards based on the achievement of personal health goals, and then rewards members dynamically through lowered annual premiums, free travel, and perks.\nThe result is a structural transformation of insurance. Additional economic value is unlocked, creating benefits for the member (more years of healthy life), the insurer (reduced claims over time), and society (healthier, more productive citizens). Vitality members generate up to 30% lower hospitalization costs and live from 13 to 21 years longer than the rest of the insured population (up to 41 years longer than comparable uninsured populations).\nIn addition to using this shared-value approach in its wholly owned South African and UK businesses, Discovery has established a global network of insurance partners that employ it, including John Hancock Financial (U.S.), Manulife (Canada), Generali (Europe), AIA (Asia Pacific), and Ping An (China). Altogether, the model is employed in 15 markets, impacting over 5.5 million people.\nOther companies are applying similar models to other types of insurance. One example is IAG's comprehensive program in Australia to prevent car accidents. It is working with car manufacturers to improve vehicle security and safety standards and is offering customers reduced premiums for selecting safety features such as automatic emergency braking. IAG also uses its extensive geomapped motor vehicle claims data to identify dangerous crash zones, alerts customers when they are near these dangerous zones, and engages local governments to fix related infrastructure deficits. Pilot projects show that a single improved highway ramp can save lives and save IAG approximately $600,000 (AUD) per year.\nAnother example is Redwoods Group's program in the United States to help its 400 youth-serving customers protect children. It invests $3 million per year in consulting services that reduced drowning deaths and reported instances of child abuse by 85% and 65%, respectively, in less than 10 years. The reduction in drowning deaths alone saves the company $6 million in insurance claims per year. Redwoods underwrites $43 million in premiums per year in a market previously considered uninsurable and enjoys a 95% customer retention rate.\nSuch examples are featured in FSG's new research on shared value in the insurance sector, along with efforts by sector leaders to reach more underserved customers with insurance and better leverage their asset management side to create the context for prevention. Insurers that incorporate society's needs into their strategies, building on existing and new capabilities, are finding lasting competitive advantage. Both today and in the future, creating shared value is an imperative for insurers that aim to grow profitably and sincerely want to provide risk protection and prevention to customers.\nAdrian Gore is the founder and CEO of Discovery Limited.\nPeter Harmer is managing director and CEO of IAG.\nMarc W. Pfitzer is a managing director at FSG, a global social-impact consulting firm.\nNina Jais is an associate director at FSG, a global social-impact consulting firm.\nThis article is about SHARED VALUE","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jim Inhofe's new commercial may violate Hatch Act\nEarlier this week, Senator Senile released a new campaign ad touting his endorsement from the authoritarian ideologues at the Fraternal Order of Police.\nTitled \"Back,\" and narrated by Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado, the spot naturally goes after those pesky \"liberals\" and other \"socialists\" who are hell-bent on destroying the country and state they call home before it's all wiped out by global warming.\nI considered filing this under our \"Jim Inhofe Is An Idiot\" series, but then I remembered it's not very idiotic for an authoritarian nutjob politician who lives in a false reality to release an ad that not only reflects his views, but also panders to his scared and frightened base that lives in the same reality.\nHere's the description of the video on YouTube:\n\"Jim Inhofe is a life-long Oklahoma conservative. He has consistently fought for the values of greater freedoms, a strong national defense, a smaller federal government, and less government intrusion into the lives of the American people.\"\nYeah, that's right. Nothing says fights for \"greater freedoms\" and \"less government intrusion into lives\" than a political ad that shows a legion of cops taking a stand of solidarity behind you.\nOn that note, I have no clue if any of the cops in the video, outside of Sheriff Vic Regalado, are real-life cops, or just out-of-work state fair carnies who are looking to make money as extra during the pandemic. If they are real-life cops \u2013 and we'd love for you to let us know if they are \u2013 this may violate the Hatch Act.\nPassed in 1939 when Jim Inhofe was finishing up his first year in the Senate, the Hatch Act is the law that's supposed to prevent cops, members of the military, and other government employees who are vested with the public's trust from making political statements.\nThe FOP has an article on its website that actually touches on this issue. Here's what they say about cops appearing in TV ads:\nOkay, so they're saying it's okay for cops to appear in ads as long as they're not on duty, and not wearing a uniform, badge or insignia. You know, stuff like this:\nIf that's not wearing a uniform, badge and insignia, I don't know what it is. Then again, who really cares? It's not like they're on-duty. They're simply being used as props in a campaign ad! Plus, in Jim Inhofe's America, cops get to operate above the law. They're not expected to abide by it.\nPrevious post 7 ways to stop COVID-19 at college football games!\nNext post Vegans sue Oklahoma over new absurd labeling requirements\nMarkwayne Mullin is still an anti-masker\nStitt officiates maskless wedding for Ted Cruz's pollster\u2026\nLocal senator wants to ban transgender atheletes\nB\tBrian B. says:\nIf anybody wants to file a Hatch Act complaint (I might just go ahead and do it), here's how.\nhttps:\/\/osc.gov\/Services\/Pages\/HatchAct-FileComplaint.aspx\nA trump rally with loud trucks , obnoxious horns and of course flags , drove past this afternoon. One of the popular flags read \" blue lives matter\" and it made me wonder how did our country get to this place where people don't seem to understand each other at all?\nJ\tJust Another Okie says:\nPeople should use more targeted wording than \"defund the police.\" How about \"stop the militarization of police\", or \"stop police brutality\" instead? I would like to think wording like that would be way less decisive.\nPlus, Inhofe blatantly violated the Hatch Act, but those laws only apply to us ordinary folks.\nJ\tJoey says:\nYes, I'm sure all of the blodthirsty, rabidly pro-police, \"law and order\" types will agree if you can just find the perfect way to phrase your argument that doesn't make them feel bad.\nK\tKrakatoa says:\nIt'll still be opposed, but \"defund the police\" sounds so close to \"abolish the police\" that even people who want police reform take pause at hearing the statement. Better wording wouldn't fix everything, but it'd turn off fewer people.\nJay Gamble says:\nJim Inhofe is Iowan, not Oklahoman. Can Inhofe name the counties in Oklahoma he claims to serve? My 13 year old son learned them in school in about 2 weeks. For a Senator involved in OK politics for DECADES you'd think he could REMEMBER the counties? Counties do make up our state dont they? Abby Broyles for Senate!\nD\tDowntown okc says:\nAfter watching him ramble on another commercial I wondered how he has a medical clearance for flying .\nN\tNice day for it says:\nIt's time to stop, children \u2013 what's that sound?\nEverybody look what's going 'round.\nA\tApril says:\nAh Yes, ain't that fresh? Everybody wants to get down like that!\nOh, no, sweetie, we all want to be as cool as you.\nD\tDani says:\nThis old bastard knows what he's doing. He'll win by a landslide since all his competition is doing is talking about his age. Her campaign manager must be an Inhofe plant.\nG\tGraychin says:\nIt's not hard to run for office in Oklahoma as a Republican: simply be on the \"right\" side of God, guns, and gynecology. As an Oklahoma Democrat, how are you going to campaign against that? You can't, if you hope to win!\nPerhaps Inhofe's advanced age is his only point of vulnerability. He is one year younger than the late Justice Ginsberg. He would be 92 at the end of the coming six-year term. My Republican acquaintance with whom I sometime discuss politics never fails to comment that \"He (Inhofe) needs to retire.\" But she's going to vote for him anyway.\nOld Man Inhofe might even have TWO terms left in him. Sen. Strom Thurmond served past age 100 before the Good Lord retired him. Only the good die young.\nYou've got that right. What Inhofe accomplishes in pissing away a little of the millions in old donor cash, Broyles pisses away with meaningless bullshit we all have known for years.\nTake a chance Abby, put some Progressive policies out there that just might get some attention.\nWatch a few Kendra Horn ads, take a few notes. Please say something besides the obvious.\nF\tFrankenberry says:\nHis age and mental fitness would disqualify him in a state where people voted something other than party affiliation. Oklahomans can't wait to vote for Senator Senile and Dementia Donald. Tribalism is the only explanation because they are both so clearly unqualified to hold a position of authority.\nb\tbugs says:\nIn the immortal words of Kellyanne Conway about her own flagrant violations of the Hatch Act on behalf of her employer, the President:\n\"I don't really care. Blah blah blah.\"\nThat's the America in which our public officials live today. Who in this Administration is going to prosecute its allies for flagrant violations of Federal law? Barr's Justice Department?\nNot bloody likely. But if you've got dirt on Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden, Donald Trump Jr. has some immortal words about that:\n\"If it's what you say it is I love it, especially later in the summer.\"\nJ\tJay says:\nYou could do a service to Oklahoma by compiling a list of these \"cops\".\nD\tDewy Cheatem and Howe says:\nIt's not a violation as it doesn't involve federal funds.\nDoesn't the Tulsa County Sheriff's office accept federal funds?\nS\tSteve (the real one, pithy and insufferable) says:\nReading is hard. It's a Federal election. The Federal government provides funding for portions of the election including matching candidate funding up to a maximum amount. The Feds also provide funding to the states for election security; grants for voting machines and general election assistance.\nElection security assistance was funded for up to $425 million. LESS THAN 1% HAD BEEN EXPENDED AS OF MARCH 31. Of course, you could have looked this up yourself but that would spoil your lie.\nWho might be messing with election security? Mr. vote twice, Mr. I don't need US banks \u2013 I get all the funding I need from Russia, Mr. send me any dirt you can get on Hunter Biden?\nJ\tJoe says:\nThese so-called public servants want no accountability for their actions. Vote them out when they come up for election.\nMike Gray says:\nIf not for Socialism, Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado wouldn't have a job.\nv\tvonHugenstein says:\nSorry Mike- Public Services funded by tax payers, in a successful capitalist system, does not = socialism. Another socialist fallacy.\nSocialism is so broad and ill-defined that public services for everyone funded by tax payers (who are all taxed at different rates) does fit under a theory for it. That said, it also fits under the ideology of capitalism too. All socialism isn't communism and all capitalism isn't laissez-faire.\nThe US does have some socialist programs that are wildly popular and show that you can mix some socialist policies with a capitalistic system and be just fine as a society. Of course, most of the world shows that pretty well too.\nI still dislike a misinformation campaign that tells the cult that my own Payroll Tax dollars invested in Treasuries and returned back to me in 40 years or so is Socialism. I also resent trump with the full cooperation of the Fed Chairman driving interest rates to 0 in an attempt to starve taxpayers retirement and healthcare programs.\nThis is done daily by trump and quietly believed in by all top end GOPers.\nSimply not true. You overly broad definition of socialism is just the latest attempt by the current batch of leftist to say \"see, socialism isn't that bad\". There simply are no successful socialist states anywhere. Zero. In addition, communism is simply socialism's ugly sister. They walk hand in hand, with communism being the ultimate goal of socialism. In spite of what Ol' Major \u2013 Bernie Sanders says, the Nordic countries and Europe are not socialist sates. These are capitalist economies burdened by an oppressive tax system, in an attempt to fund their cradle to grave entitlements and redistribute wealth, which ultimately ends up limiting the economic mobility of their citizens. It's a failed concept and a failed system.\nhttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/02\/22\/we-danes-arent-living-american-dream-we-still-arent-socialist\/\nThe \"popular\" socialist programs of which you speak (social security) again, is not socialism. I can see how you could be easily fooled, as it does have several characteristics of a good socialist program. We are forced, under penalty of law and imprisonment, to participate. (like labor unions, if it's so great, why do I have to be forced to join?) It's a massive, wasteful bureaucracy, crushed under its own red tape and inefficiency, run by, well, bureaucrats. And finally, it's completely and utterly broke, the SS fund, as dusty and empty as an Al Gore lockbox. Politicians continually scrambling to find some kind of way to wring more $ out of taxpayers and employers, so they can keep their jobs. So yeah, I can see where you'd be mistaken. Fortunately, I'm still able to keep my private investments and pension, so I can have a safe, secure retirement. You want socialism? Medicare for all and eliminating private insurance. That's socialism.\nMmm, no. Not correct. Your response sounds good for the Reagonomics crowd, but it's so full of falsehoods that it shows a real lack of economic knowledge.\n\" There simply are no successful socialist states anywhere. Zero. In addition, communism is simply socialism's ugly sister. \"\nLet's start with this. There's a little country on the other side of the world called China. You may have heard of it. It's the second largest economy in the world. It likes to call itself a communistic country, but it's absolutely not. Communism's ultimate goal is defined by the abolition of things like state, money and social classes. China doesn't have any of those things, and will never have those things, but it has a very, very powerful state, money, and a super powerful economy. It got this way by moving away from pursuing communism (doing the exact opposite of what you said socialism's goal is) to simply pursuing socialism. They do this by embracing some capitalistic tendencies but still having a lot of controls by the state (what's called \"market socialism\" for those who never took an econ class in college).\nAnd thanks to the wonders of capitalism, it started kicking every capitalistic country's asses because it's socialistic tendencies actually made it very very competitive to becoming a manufacturing powerhouse, to the point where this socialist country is now the biggest boogeyman for the largest capitalistic country in the world, us. The state heavily protects their own industries while working to undercut the costs to produce goods that foreign countries have. It isn't truly a competitive market, which doesn't follow the tenets of capitalism at all, but it plays in a way that allows it to appear to be so that it can take advantage of capitalism and globalism to become a powerhouse.\nDoes that make China good? Hell no, China's a bad place for the people not in power, but your statement wasn't about the best place to live, it was about a socialist country being successful, and China is successful economically.\n\"These are capitalist economies burdened by an oppressive tax system, in an attempt to fund their cradle to grave entitlements and redistribute wealth, which ultimately ends up limiting the economic mobility of their citizens. It's a failed concept and a failed system.\"\nUpward mobility is measured by the ability of children to outearn their parents. All those failed Nordic systems actually have higher upward mobility potential (meaning that children are likely to achieve more than their parents) than the US does (https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/02_economic_mobility_sawhill_ch3.pdf). (https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/ranked-the-social-mobility-of-82-countries\/)\nThere's actual research on this, instead of an Op-ed and some campaign slogans. In the US, 42% of those born in the bottom fifth of earners will stay there, compared to 25% in Denmark, 28% in Finland and Norway, etc. That's because those oppressive taxes go more towards funding better public education (which is historically the best lead indicator for economic growth in a region), and those horrible cradle to grave safety nets that ensure that financial setbacks don't completely ruin the lives of people who have them.\nIf they're a failed system, then they sure seem to be failing in a way that actually helps it's citizens. Which is likely why none of these failed states actually stops any of these policies and goes more towards the US.\nYou are right about one thing, they are capitalistic economic systems. But, again, having a predominately capitalistic economic system doesn't mean that a government has completely eschewed all socialistic tendencies, because capitalism and socialism are a sliding scale, not a single point on a line.\n\"And finally, it's completely and utterly broke, the SS fund, as dusty and empty as an Al Gore lockbox.\"\nNope. In 2019, Social Security had a trust fund of $2.9 trillion (https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/policy\/trust-funds-summary.html#:~:text=A%202019%20annual%20surplus%20of,estimated%20annual%20expenditures%20for%202020.) The problem with social security is that we had a population boom after WW2 that is beginning to retire, and if we don't alter funding for that at all, then that surpluse will run out in 2035 and SS will only pay of 79% of scheduled payouts. There are lots of ways this could be fixed, but in general, it's not broke at all and isn't ever going to be truly broke.\n\"You want socialism? Medicare for all and eliminating private insurance. That's socialism.\"\nIt should be telling that there has yet to be a single country with socialized medicine that has voted to get rid of socialized medicine for the privatized model we have in the US.\nNow, don't get me wrong. Communism does not work in large societies. China proved that, the USSR proved that. Communism has to die for society to grow. And, quite frankly, I love capitalism. I love being able to earn money to provide for my family and fund my retirement. I've been pretty good at it for most of my life.\nBut definition of socialism isn't \"overly broad,\" it's correct and you're just wrong. We didn't grow because we have unfettered capitalism, we grew because workers started to make demands for some of the social contracts that we might see in a more socialistic economic system so that we don't have Pinkerton's murdering manufacturing employees anymore. Reaganites just want everyone to conveniently forget how we became an economic powerhouse because he was more in love with corporations than he was with people.\nGoddang, Krak, once again you have taken the time to full explain, in the most thoughtful language, why the kind of well-worn bullshit that vonH was spouting is just that. I doubt you'll get a response from him.\nOr we could just simply say we favor a more European form of Capitalism.\nGreat read. Thanks.\nNo totally socialist economy has ever succeeded. No totally capitalist economy has ever existed. Successful economies mix the two.\nLike most from his side of the spectrum, vonH defines \"socialism\" as whatever he doesn't like. The economic definition of socialism is \"public ownership of the means of production.\"\nWhat's the difference between \"public services\" and \"means of production\"? We need vonH to tell us, don't we?\nMany towns own their public utilities: water, sometimes gas and electric. There's the Grand River Dam Authority. Government owns most of our transportation infrastructure. \"Public services\" or \"means of production\"? Which, vonH?\nMedicare-for-all is not socialism as they have in England for health care. It's an insurance plan. VA health care is socialism.\nI get really sick of politicians railing against \"socialism\" without any contact to reality. But it's a good way to scare the sheep, so they do it.\nI should have known the folks who came up with the original concept just decided to place the word \"social\" in the name just to play with future gopers minds. Seems to have worked well.\nIt's really just a matter of choice. A supposed \"smart saver\" in the trump era is the guy who is all in with Trickle Down Economic Theory thus has boxed himself into his 401ks or IRAs which in truth sit near the very top of the \"Risk Pyramid\" just under commodities speculation and oil drilling.\nI think I might just want to keep my investment savvy to myself when I'm loaded up with stocks most of which are trading at insanely high P\/E ratios and you have no were else to stash cash and you've been on a 12 year bull run with depression era unemployment in the middle of a Pandemic with stocks fueled entirely by new trump forced govmt. debt while jacking up the Feds balance sheet to the stratosphere. The \"bull\" has to eat every single day but the \"bear\" only needs to eat occasionally to do very, very well.\nNo, in the long run most Americans can and should thank the Democrats for coming up with programs that will help them make it to the finish line with a sliver of dignity. We're not all as smart as you.\nYep that's it. As opposed to corporate socialism which is what we currently enjoy. Shall we look at the wonders that system has brought us? I can go on forever, but we no longer live in a society where evidence matters. What do you want to believe.\nJ\tJ>R> says:\nsocial programs do not a socialist nation make\u2026\nF\tFred Arthur says:\nThe Hatch Act applies to \"state and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs.\" Not sure it applies to all those good ol' boy lard asses.\nS\tSteve Hager says:\nThey all get federal funds. All of them.\nS\tSlowingDown Eddie says:\nInhofe's ads rail against those wanting to \"defund\" the police. The president whose boots this lackey licks is calling to defund police departments in cities where his hooligans are causing chaos. Just another instance of GOP hypocrisy.\nA\tAunt Ifa says:\n\"\u2026in cities where his hooligans are causing chaos.\"\nAuntie requests you submit proof to backup this claim. Looks like people are still very confused which side those who dawn black clothing are on.\n*Don.\nAuntie is still trying to figure out these high-tech gadgets.\nWhy do you refer to yourself in the third person? Or are there two of you?\nJust following your footsteps, Mr. Graychins. Looks like you're the subject matter expert around this blogs.\nwhy do you care???\nSo the rednecks in the 4wd pickups from God knows where, waving trump flags, spraying pepper spray, running over people, and toting ARs were what?\nObama had the same potential \"crazy time\" moment with Cliven Bundy's bunch at the bridge in Nevada I think. Obama and Biden were smart enough to back off even though the Government was clearly in the right and could have taken them out in less than 30 seconds. That's called Presidential restraint. We no longer have that.\nAuntie cut through all the bullshit. trump is President. stitt is governor. trump inherited a machine that was running pretty smoothly and has turned it into a stinking pile of dog shit with most people who aren't outright cultists having had just about enough.\nYou just can't take the guy who inherited relative peace and prosperity, turned it directly South, is a proven fraudster and attempt to turn him into MAGA man. That's real \"Sympathy for the Devil\" stuff and 4 years is all we can stand.\nAuntie recalls it was a guy who was \"100% antifa\" that murdered a Trump supporter in cold blood that day in Portland. Nice try, Me. last letter of the alphabet.\nI'm not sure you want to play the game of deriding a single deranged guy that hates fascists?\nI'll see your deranged fascist hating guy and raise you 5 indicted and convicted felons just in this administration.\nAnybody else you want to discuss?\nAuntie was talking about the \"protesters\". Did you see the news about that blm driver running people over yesterday? Very peaceful bunch, indeed.\nB\tBobby Merlot says:\nInhofe's idea of getting government out of personal lives: Make government force women to give up abortion as a personal health care decision. More freedom? Make government tell people who they can marry.\ntrump is working on the issue. I read must be a trump lover from the far east is washing out used condoms and reselling them, maybe at a discount.\nOne purely capitalistic idea that needs no socialistic assistance and most likely not one single American has thought of it. trump crews ears perked right up when they heard of the kickback potential in used rubbers.\nMAGA RUBBERS. Bannon could be CEO and CFO at the same time.\ndonald jr. II could oversee and fine tune the cleaning procedures.\nThat would be an appropriate job for that little cum stain Don Jr.\nE\tEdith says:\nInhofe wants to get rid of the abortion pill because it's not healthcare. Let's get rid of viagra. That's not healthcare either.\nK\tKD Selby says:\nHave you seen the new attack against Abby Brotles? Shows a pic of her on the KFOR set and describes her as a \"liberal\" reporter. There's also a current KFOR weather guy (John Rader) clearly shown in the pic. Imagine that\u2026KFOR depicted as a as a \"liberal\" news station\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\no\tovoritw says:\nWHEW! Recreational marijuana would have to be legalized by the pound in order for me to imagine any state television station as liberal. The Democrats could run HITLER and not win this election!\nDidn't get the memo? All news is fake, and liberal too. Mostly communists except for lumpy hannity.\n*Broyles\u2026hate you autocorrect\ud83d\ude16\nE\tEl Ojo says:\nWhat part of \"illegal\" don't they understand?\nC\tCarter says:\nNeed to continue reading the Act and the \"Who is not covered\" section.\nThe law also exempts certain specified employees from the prohibition on candidacy for elective office. These exemptions include:\n1) the governor or lieutenant governor of a state, or an individual authorized by law to act as governor;\n2) the mayor of a city;\n3) a duly elected head of an executive department of a state or municipality who is not classified under a state or municipal merit or civil service system; and\n4) an individual holding public elective office. The latter exemption applies only when the elective office is the position which would otherwise subject the employee to the restriction of the\n#4 applies to the Sheriff. Other state and municipal agency heads are not elected and cannot put political affiliation out there, but the Sheriff has to. Cannot comment on the others since unsure who they are and their agency. If they are any of the 76 remaining Oklahoma Sheriff's then it does.\nc\tctnorman says:\nBest ad for why they need to be defunded yet!\nC\tCarl says:\nNext cops will insist that Caller ID list a \"D\" or an \"R\" after the address so they will know how rapidly to respond to a 911 call from that number.\nA\tA.A. says:\nhttps:\/\/tulsaworld.com\/news\/local\/regalados-appearance-in-inhofe-ad-raises-eyebrows\/article_e012049e-ff56-11ea-8206-c7f95543b598.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest\nS\tSooner+Magic says:\nWell he seems 1000 times sharper than Sleepy China Joe, just sayin.\nHe's so sharp, he backs a president who thinks those killed in war are idiots. Inhofe is the chairman of the Defense Armed Services Committee so a response to trumps comments might be warranted.\nCould Abby B. ask him that?\nC\tCAP1015 says:\nOnce again your argument is not that Inhofe is qualified, has the better policies, would make a better senator, your argument is he is not as bad as someone running for president against another candidate.\nWhich means instead of supporting him and his record of achievement you support him because he not as bad as a completely irrelevant person not connected to this particular race. And to make it even worse, you really aren't even saying he's that good, just not as bad as someone you don't like, whom you think he is less incompetent than.\nE\tEverylastoneofus says:\n\"\u2026and less government intrusion into the lives of the American people.\" This should read \"\u2026and more government intrusion in the wombs of women.\"\nH\tHot Stuff says:\nSen. Asshole will win this election easily. As long as the ol' whore is still alive. On second thought, he might win deceased.\nC\tChris Hurtt says:\nWait a minute\u2026 i thought part of the cop A-hole persona, revolved around they are always on duty, even when they're not on the clock? No? \u2026\nA\tAF_Vet says:\nInhofe is 86. If re-elected, at the end of his term, he-ll be 92. Hatch Act notwithstanding, shouldn't he be too old to be in office? I mean, really.\nginsberg much????\nL\tLawman says:\nBad politics for a sheriff (or any other aw officer) to endorse a candidate in public. I would not do it. Period!\ns\tstrangerinastrangeland says:\nInhofe will keep running until he dies. When he dies in office, Republicans can fill vacancy with another R. That way no risk that a dem will ever get in.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Sport \/ The magic of the Sydney Olympics through the eyes of a child\nThe magic of the Sydney Olympics through the eyes of a child\nadmin August 29, 2020\tSport Comments Off on The magic of the Sydney Olympics through the eyes of a child 67 Views\nDad could very well have lost his driver's licence because of my hero, Ian Thorpe. Sitting in the back seat of a little blue Holden Barina, I used to hassle my old man to pretend our car was Thorpey. He knew exactly what I meant.\nOn the highway, we'd spot a vehicle ahead of us which, immediately in my seven-year-old mind, became Gary Hall jnr, the American freestyle champion.\nA few days earlier we had watched Thorpe, the 17-year-old whiz kid, mow down Hall in the 4x100m relay in the most spectacular fashion at the Sydney Olympics.\nDad, a PE teacher who secretly loved that he'd indoctrinated his eldest son into also living and breathing sport, hit the accelerator and the race call would begin.\nIan Thorpe comes to the wall ahead of Gary Hall jnr in the 4x100m freestyle relay. Credit:IOC\n\"They've got about 15 metres to swim,\" I'd yell. \"Thorpe is over Hall. Thorpe's in front\u2026\"\nYou can imagine the look on the other driver's face as we screamed past.\n\"Australia win,\" I exclaimed. \"New world record! The Australians have just broken the Americans' stranglehold on this race.\"\nDad chuckled the other day when I reminded him of our little game.\nThe Sydney Olympics had a major impact on my childhood and I'm sure the same could be said for thousands of other children born in the 1980s and early 1990s.\nCrowds at the Sydney Opera House watch the Olympic Rings light up the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Credit:Andrew Meares\nWhen my editors asked me to write a piece on the Sydney Olympics through the eyes of a child, the nostalgia hit home.\nAt that age, you don't remember much of general life, but my recollections of those glorious 16 days in September are vivid. Perhaps that says a lot about how big a deal it was for not only the country, but a kid from western Sydney with a plethora of new heroes.\nLike many others in 2000, I was completely hooked by the magic of the Olympics.\nEveryone has their own awesome stories about Sydney \u2013 where they were, what they remember, what memorabilia they still have.\nThe yarns should be told over and over for years to come. Send them in. I'm all ears.\nAt the age of seven, everything was new. There were countries you'd never heard of, sports you didn't know existed and Sydney 2000 was all anybody talked about.\nMum says the day I was born there was a big splash on the front page of the paper about the Olympics. Three and a half weeks later, Juan Antonio Samaranch made the announcement that sent Australia \u2013 and those on the streets in the early hours of the morning \u2013 into a state of euphoria.\nThe front page of The Sydney Morning Herald from September 24, 1993. Credit:Fairfax Archives\nThose of us who were still in nappies at the time can only hope the same occurs if Australia is awarded another Olympics, potentially in Brisbane in 2032.\nBy the time the Games of the XXVII Olympiad rolled around, our family, like no doubt thousands of others, opted to camp out in the lounge room with fold-out beds so we could absorb absolutely everything across the next 16 days.\nMy parents, both teachers, were off school and more than happy to give this wide-eyed kid a sporting education.\nWatching Australia's Michellie Jones get pipped for gold by Switzerland's Brigitte McMahon at the foot of the Sydney Opera House in the women's triathlon is my first sporting memory.\nWhile that was exciting, bigger and better things were to come that evening at the pool.\nAt my school, Kurmond Public at the foot of the Blue Mountains, we were encouraged to write diary entries during the Games after the Olympic torch had come to our school.\nMeanwhile, the Decent household was going ballistic when Thorpe beat Hall jnr given what I scribbled down.\n\"When it was the 4\u00d7100 metres evryone (sic) was screeming (sic) in the house,\" I wrote.\nMum also helped dig up this letter (in lead pencil, of course) to Cathy Freeman.\n\"Dear Cathy. Ceep (sic) up the good work,\" I wrote. \"I'll be watching you on telivision (sic). I hope you win a gold medal. When I grow up I want to win gold for Australia. I will win a gold medal in running, long jump, high jump, swimming and tennis. From Thomas Decent.\"\nA letter to Cathy Freeman.\nTalk about dreams!\nWriting about sport now for a living is a great privilege \u2013 with improved spelling \u2013 but the live matches can lose their glamour and blend into one after the other. Athletes become more industry colleague than messiah.\nYou do forget that in a crowd, there is very likely a child who is beside themselves with joy at being able watch sport for the first time.\nThat was me the day my sports-mad grandmother and grandfather, Dawn and Barry, took a kid with a bowl cut, buck teeth, big ears and a blue Sydney Olympics t-shirt to watch the tennis.\nMy grandmother, Dawn, and I before the tennis.\nWe caught the bus from Round Corner, near Dural, and I'll never know if it was funny or annoying for others in earshot to listen to me yelling: \"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi\".\nI got a photo 'holding' the Olympic flame and while I actually can't recall a single player there that day \u2013 I was a little disappointed Venus Williams wasn't in action \u2013 it was the greatest day of my life at that point.\nIt was not lost on me, even at that age, the buzz about Olympic Park and my poor grandparents say they had trouble keeping me in sight.\nTicket to the tennis\n\"In the holidays I went to the Olympic Games,\" I wrote in my school diary. \"I went to see the tennis with my Granny and Pa. We parked at a pre-school. A magpie pecked one of my hairs. I got two magnums. I liked watching the tennis. I loved eating lunch. My favourite thing was when I bort (sic) a huge tennis ball.\"\nMy Granny still laughs about the fact I was baffled because there wasn't any playground equipment at the 'Park'.\nEach day during the Games, Australia Post printed a limited edition of stamps commemorating our athletes who'd won a gold medal.\nOf course, I begged mum to race to the post office and bring them home for me. The full collection is still sitting around somewhere and could be worth a few bob now.\nI remember Grant Hackett beating another hero of mine, Kieren Perkins, in the 1500m.\nI remember crying like Jane Saville when she was disqualified in the dying stages of the women's walk.\nI remember watching our beach volleyballers win gold at Bondi while we were in a television shop.\nBut for some reason, I have no idea where I was for Freeman's race. I doubt I was in bed asleep but I would have watched that glorious run 100 times since and on very few occasions with a dry eye.\nBut my favourite memory of Sydney was Jai Taurima, the ciggie-smoking long-jumper who came from nowhere to pinch silver.\nJai Taurima won a silver medal in the men's long jump. Credit:Adam Pretty\nWhile American Carl Lewis was my track and field hero, I wanted to be like Taurima and represent Australia in long jump, as I'd made it clear to Cathy.\nA few state carnivals was as good as it got but I can thank Jai for the reason why the long jump is the first event I circle on the schedule.\nNo doubt there are hundreds and hundreds of Australian professional athletes out there now whose inspiration to become the best in the world came from someone who did something special in Sydney.\nThe 2000 Olympics well and truly ignited my love of sport, as well as a less-than-discreet crush on a 13-year-old Nikki Webster.\nMy parents bought me her CDWe'll Be One, which was one of the songs she performed at the Closing Ceremony.\nThat year for Christmas, instead of putting in a long list of things I wanted from Santa, the only thing I asked for was the Sydney 2000 Official Souvenir Book.\nI am not a religious person but it's the closest thing I've owned to a bible.\nWithin weeks, I'd show off to our family friends that I could recite every host city going back to Athens in 1896.\nThen someone in the family purchased '16 Days in September' on VHS. The intro music I can still hear crystal clear.\nThe Official Souvenir Program\nI have no doubt the Sydney Olympics planted the seed for me wanting to become a sports journalist.\nSince I can remember, covering an Olympics is all I've ever wanted to do.\nI got zero school work done during the Beijing Olympics and tried convincing mum to let me take two weeks off. I then covered London 2012 swimming races off the TV in the middle of the night for a start-up website while at university, before blogging the Rio Games for the Herald.\nWhen Australia once again hosts an Olympics, there will naturally be comparisons to Sydney, but there shouldn't be.\nIt was a moment in time, regardless of what stage of life you were in, that you wish you could bottle up forever.\nThey truly were the greatest ever.\nSports news, results and expert commentary delivered straight to your inbox each weekday. 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{"text":"If only walls could talk, what a tale the Maiden City would tell\nBy Eamon McCann\nJuly 16 2010 12:14 PM\nDerry isn't short of dividing Walls. There's one for each of the epochs we were out front in Europe.\nIt would be pushing it to pretend that the fate of Europe in the 17th century hung on the outcome of the Siege of Derry. It is of Aughrim that that might (just about) be said. But Derry grabbed the glory anyway. Typical, some would say.\nDerry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne were battles in the War of the Grand Alliance, fought between, on the one hand, (Holy Roman) Emperor Leopold I, Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy and William III and, on the other hand, Louis XIV of France, James II, and an assortment of sub-princelings.\nPope Alexander VIII weighed in on the side of the Alliance on account of Louis not treating the Church with the deference and donations the pontiff thought proper.\nHad the Alliance come a cropper, the idea of absolute monarchy would have been validated everywhere. Bourbon Absolutists would have been strengthened in rejection of even the mildest parliamentary restraint.\nThe war was, in its way, about civil rights.\nAnd, whatever about the continuing effect of the conflict on Ireland, in the broad sweep of European history the civil righters were inside the Walls.\nThe indomitable fervour of the citizens within wasn't entirely fuelled by righteous hostility to the Divine Right of Kings, but wasn't an atypical spasm either.\nPresbyterians in Derry who were up for sedition in 1798 took inspiration from the Siege. A great-grandson of one of the Derry 13 - the Boys who slammed the Gates in James's face - was Unitedman Oliver Cromwell Bond, named after the great English republican.\nI learned this from a top Apprentice Boy during the May Day rally held by Derry Trades Council in the Memorial Hall on the Walls in 1988. A talk on 'The Siege and '98' was followed by a discussion on the question 'Must we always walk like beasts of prey through fields our fathers stained with blood?' I cannot remember whether we arrived at a conclusion. But it was a great night.\nThe second period in which Derry was at the cutting edge of European history came in the late 1960s. As revolt ricocheted around the continent - London! Paris! Rome! Berlin! We shall fight and we shall win! A better chant might have been contrived had it been left to the Bogside - Derry once more rose to the occasion, and wrote its history on a Wall.\nOur horizons ranged even wider than Europe. The phrase 'You Are Now Entering Free Derry', first inscribed on a gable at Lecky Road in January 1969, was plagiarised from a slogan of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the time, at Berkeley College, California. It signified that revolt in Derry was to be understood in the context of what seemed at the time a global uprising against oppressive power.\nA quarter of a century after the initial inscription, I came across the now-celebrated artist Colin Darke one afternoon on a ladder with a paint brush coating the edifice in a warm shade of red and rendering the letters into luminous yellow.\nThe intention, I gathered, was to agitate ideas during a community festival just under way. The colours were the colours of the Viet Cong flag. Back in 1969, I noted to myself, that would have been obvious to almost everybody thronged around the gable.\nHowever, even as I savoured the deftness of the reference (and my own sharpness in spotting it), Colin explained that the paint had been given to the festival free by Carlin's on William Street and these were the colours Mr Carlin had handed out.\nStill, art works in mysterious ways. The point stands. What Walls mean can change over time, and be changed again.\nOne of a number of brilliant young artists in Derry these days, Paul Ruairi, has produced a series of representations of Free Derry Wall as a decrepit outcrop set in eerie, dull green light, its slogan smudged and faded, a weary icon overlaid with sour observation: 'Tourist Trap', 'Morbid Museum', 'Past Tense', 'Why Bother?'\nThere's no need to wait until 2013 to make Derry a cutting-edge European - never mind UK - city of culture again.\nWe could ask Colin Darke and Paul Ruairi and the many others of like ilk around town to paint the Wall and the Walls according to the colour-codes of their Derry imaginations, so that each might look at the other anew.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Products > Brands & Products > Jeep > Past Products > Compass\nShare Download Print\n2017 Jeep\u00ae Compass Fact Sheet\n2017 Jeep\u00ae Compass is the most capable compact SUV, providing style and exceptional performance in all weather conditions\n2017 Jeep Compass delivers legendary Jeep capability as well as fuel economy of up to 30 miles per gallon (mpg)\nUnsurpassed Jeep Trail Rated 4x4 capability with Freedom Drive II Off-road Package and exceptional ride and handling performance in all weather conditions\nJeep Compass offers more than 30 safety and security features\nThe 2017 Jeep Compass is available in three drivetrain configurations: 4x2, Freedom Drive I full-time active 4x4, and Freedom Drive II full-time active 4x4\n2017 Jeep Compass available powertrains include a Powertech six-speed automatic transmission, five-speed manual transmission or the continuously-variable transmission II (CVT2)\nThe Jeep Compass compact SUV delivers up to 2,000-lbs. towing capacity\nAugust 31, 2016 , Auburn Hills, Mich. - With unmatched Jeep capability in all weather conditions, fuel economy of up to 30 mpg, a distinctive design and features customers value, the 2017 Jeep Compass sets the standard in the compact-SUV segment. The Jeep Compass is built in the United States at the FCA US Belvidere (Ill.) Assembly Plant.\nThe 2017 Jeep Compass is powered by the 2.0-liter I-4 World Gas Engine, which produces 158 horsepower (117 kW) and 141 lb.-ft. (191 N\u2022m) of torque, mated to a five-speed manual transmission.\nThe 2017 Jeep Compass offers an optional 2.4-liter I-4 DOHC 16-valve dual variable-valve timing (VVT) engine, which produces 172 horsepower. Optional transmissions include the CVT2 transmission, the Powertech six-speed automatic transmission or the continuously-variable transaxle with low range (CVT2L) with the Freedom Drive II Off-road Package that delivers a 19:1 overall crawl ratio.\nJeep Compass is available in three drivetrain configurations \u2013 standard front-wheel drive, available Freedom Drive I and the Trail rated Freedom Drive II Off-road Package.\nJeep Freedom Drive I 4x4 is an available full-time, active four-wheel-drive system with lock mode designed to give drivers year-round assurance with the ability to handle rough weather and low-traction conditions. This active four-wheel-drive system is recommended for daily use, including slick conditions that come with rain and light snow. Freedom Drive I also features a lockable center coupling, giving drivers the ability to put the Jeep Compass in four-wheel-drive lock mode to handle deep snow, sand and other low-traction surfaces.\nThe Jeep Freedom Drive II 4x4 Off-road Package is an available four-wheel-drive system that delivers Jeep Trail Rated capability in Compass form. The Freedom Drive II Off-road Package includes a second-generation CVT2L that engages when the off-road mode is activated, 17-inch all-terrain tires and aluminum wheels, a one-inch raised ride height, a full-size spare tire, skid plates, tow hooks, fog lamps and manual seat height adjuster. The available Freedom Drive II Off-road Package is recommended for off-road situations that include steep grades, occasional wheel lift and rock or log climbing. The Freedom Drive II Off-road Package delivers a 19:1 overall crawl ratio.\nFor 2017, the Jeep Compass offers two models:\nBlack Clear Coat\nBright White Clear Coat\nDeep Cherry Red Crystal Pearl Coat\nGranite Crystal Metallic Clear Coat\nTrue Blue Pearl Coat\nMojave Sand\nLight Pebble Beige\nDark Slate Gray\nSaddle Tan\nPlease visit the Jeep Compass newsroom for additional product information, photography and videography.\nThe Jeep vehicle lineup consists of the Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, Renegade and Wrangler. To meet consumer demand around the world, all Jeep models sold outside North America are available in both left- and right-hand drive configurations and with gasoline and diesel powertrain options. Jeep is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider Stellantis. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STAL), please visit www.stellantis.com.\nFollow Jeep and company news and video on:\nCompany blog: http:\/\/blog.stellantisnorthamerica.com\nMedia website: http:\/\/media.stellantisnorthamerica.com\nJeep brand: www.jeep.com\nFacebook: www.facebook.com\/jeep\nInstagram: www.instagram.com\/jeep\nTwitter: www.twitter.com\/jeep\nYouTube: www.youtube.com\/thejeepchannel or https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/StellantisNA\nPlease login to view contact details.\nJordan Wasylyk\nTodd Goyer\n2017 Jeep Compass Specifications 2017 Jeep Compass Feature Availability Safety & Technology Overview and Glossary\nDownload Video Embed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Christian McBride Big Band: The Good Feeling\nArtikkelnr.: AMAC 1053\nMac Avenue - Audiophile Recording - Dobbel (2) 180g LP\nMer info fra plateselskapet\nMac Avenue\n180-gram double LP set\n2012 Grammy winner for Best Large Jazz Ensemble\nTHE GOOD FEELING\nArtist Charlie McBride Big Band\nTittel The Good Feeling\nSjanger Jazz\nFormat Vinyl - 180g\nPlateselskap Mack Avenue\nUtgivelsesdato 2012\nPlatenummer AMAC 1053\nIn a stellar career that continues to showcase his remarkable talents as a consummate musician, bassist Christian McBride reaches another milestone with the release of The Good Feeling, his first big band recording as a leader and newest release for Mack Avenue Records. For over 20 years, McBride has appeared in numerous musical settings with just about any musician imaginable in the jazz as well as R&B and pop worlds. From playing with the likes of Milt Jackson, Roy Haynes, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny; to playing with and\/or arranging for the likes of Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Lalah Hathaway, Sting and the legendary James Brown \u2014 what has always been unique about McBride is his versatility. In addition to his work in the neo-soul arena with The Roots, D\u00b4Angelo, Queen Latifah and others, the Philadelphia native has also led his own ensembles: The Christian McBride Band, A Christian McBride Situation and his most recent group, Inside Straight (fresh off their critically acclaimed 2009 effort, Kind of Brown). There are many sides to the musical persona of Christian McBride, and The Good Feeling has him realizing another one: As the leader, arranger and conductor of his big band.\n01 Shake'n Blake\n03 Brother Mister\n05 Science Fiction\n06 The Shade Of The Cedar Tree\n07 The More I See You\n08 I Should Care\n09 A Taste Of Honey\n10 Bluesin' In Alphabet City\n11 In A Hurry\nChristian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind Of Brown\nMack Avenue Records - Audiophile Recording - Dobbel (2) 210g LP\nChristian McBride Big Band: For Jimmy, Wes And Oliver\nMack Avenue Records - Audiophile Recording - 180g LP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Animal Resource\nHoliday Preparation CheckList\nSR Buprenorphine\nAnimal Billing\nAnimal Purchases\nAnimal Enrichment\nDivision of Comparative Medicine (DCM)\nResource Scheduler\nAnimal Welfare Concerns\nAnimal Resource COVID-19 Updates\nURMC \/ Animal Resource \/ Services \/ Vivarium \/ Policy on Obtaining Animals from Non-approved Sources\nPolicy on Obtaining Animals from Non-approved Sources\nAnimals arriving from facilities other than approved commercial sources may not meet the health standards that this facility sets. For this reason, animals must be obtained from approved commercial vendors if available from them. Investigators are asked to verify that the animals required cannot be obtained from an approved source before submitting a request to obtain them from a non-routine vendor. A list of approved vendors is available from the Animal Ordering and Receiving Clerk.\nRodents acquired from other universities or institutions may not have as comprehensive health histories and pathogen testing as performed by our approved vendors. Such rodents pose a potential threat to our specific pathogen free (SPF) colonies. Health information about animals requested from non-routine vendors will be evaluated by a DLAM veterinarian. Criteria for approval include the presence of a colony health surveillance program and a negative history of pathogens that are excluded from this institution. If pathogens have ever been detected in the room housing the requested animals, they must have been eliminated by the same means as an approved vendor would use (i.e., depopulation\/rederivation).\nNon-routine source animals that are destined for chronic housing at this university must undergo a quarantine period before coming in contact with established SPF colonies. Screening tests will be performed before the animals may be housed with resident populations. Rodents may be bred once during the quarantine period, but will not be released for experimental use until test results demonstrate that the health status of these animals equals that of the resident populations.\nAnimals requested for acute use may be accepted at this facility even if their health history does not match that from a commercial source. In this case, the animals will remain in a quarantine room throughout their stay here, which will be brief, usually less than two weeks. Their manipulation\/sacrifice must be done in a way that will not threaten the health of resident animal populations. The DLAM veterinarians will work with investigators to determine if\/how animals requested for acute use can be safely acquired and utilized.\nAnimal Husbandry Information\nThe Animal Resource\nis fully accredited by","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arkansas AD wants to talk to Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard, sources say\nBy: Bob Holt\nPublished: Thursday, April 4, 2019\nTexas Tech coach Chris Beard holds up the net after the team's win over Gonzaga in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Saturday, March 30, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. Texas Tech won 75-69. (AP Photo\/Marcio Jose Sanchez)\nFAYETTEVILLE -- The search for the University of Arkansas' next basketball coach likely could extend into next week.\nThat's because a top target is still coaching his team, and it's not NIT finalists Shaka Smart (Texas) or Casey Alexander (Lipscomb).\nArkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek wants to talk to Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard -- who has led the Red Raiders to their first NCAA Tournament Final Four appearance and a matchup against Michigan State on Saturday -- according to sources, but any conversation will have to wait until the team's season ends.\nIt's debatable if Beard would leave Texas Tech for Arkansas or any other job considering he has a 57-16 record the last two seasons with the Red Raiders.\nBut Arkansas officials hope to at least gauge Beard's interest and make him an offer to return to the state to coach the Razorbacks.\nBeard, 46, spent the 2015-16 season as the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's coach and led the Trojans to a 30-5 record, Sun Belt Conference regular-season and tournament championships and an NCAA Tournament appearance, where they beat Purdue before losing to Iowa State.\nDuring the Red Raiders' run to the Elite Eight last season, Beard signed a six-year, $19 million deal that is paying him $2.8 million this season with the contract gradually increasing to $3.3 million through the 2023-24 season\nThe contract has a current buyout of about $6 million if Beard were to leave after this season.\nTexas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt told the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday that he's ready to upgrade Beard's contract after this season.\n\"It would be my intention to be able to have that conversation Tuesday or Wednesday,\" Hocutt said. \"And Chris and I have talked about this.\"\nHocutt said discussions between he and Beard about a new contract began in late February.\n\"I would say out of our focus and Coach Beard's focus and commitment to this team and this season, we decided to hit the pause button until the season is over,\" Hocutt told the Morning News.\nTexas Tech has begun construction on a $30 million practice facility, and Hocutt said he believes in the school's ability to continue investing in its basketball program and keep Beard.\n\"I'm extremely confident that Texas Tech is a great basketball job,\" Hocutt said. \"I'm extremely confident that we have the right coach, one of the best coaches in the country leading our program right now.\"\nSports on 04\/04\/2019\nHogs' Chad Morris imploring get-tough psyche\nArkansas gymnasts face solid regional field\nThe power of three: Running backs a strength for Hogs if they can stay healthy\nHogs find no relief lately with bullpen\nBob Holt\nBob Holt is a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he is a member of the Football Writers Association of America, and a voter for the Heisman Trophy and AP Top 25 basketball poll. Holt has been awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year three times.\nEmail Bob | Twitter\nArkansas gives tailback Jackson a choice to make\nGeorgia prep tailback Ebony jackson (6-1, 210) visited Arkansas this weekend and ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"San Diego Free Press\nGrassroots News & Progressive Views\nWho's Winning the 'War on Christmas'?\nDecember 27, 2012 by Source\nWishing Everyone a Happy\/Merry\u2026\u2026?\nBy Beau Grosscup\nThe grocery cashier handed me my change and receipt. With a cherry voice and sparkle in her eye, she said: \"Merry Christmas.\"\n\"Happy Hanukah to you\" I sweetly replied. A frown crept across her brow.\n\"I'm not Jewish,' she said.\n\"I'm not Christian,\" I responded. I walked away leaving a slightly confused Christian cashier pondering what had just happened.\nI had no doubt what had occurred.\nFor over a decade of Decembers, the Christian Right, led by Bill O'Reilly of Fox News cable, has charged a War on Christmas (and thus Christianity) is under way. They claimed that secular and non-Christian groups and organizations were purposely discouraging or disallowing the celebration or mention of Christmas and its religious symbols and meaning. Their often-ferocious counter-attack has focused among other things on corporate policy that instructs employees to wish customers a multi-cultural\/religious neutral 'Happy Holiday.'\nFor his part, Mr. O'Reilly has highlighted government policies and political leaders who insist on the separation of church and state in public institutions (mainly schools) and public arenas. They, Mr. O'Reilly insists, are 'secular progressives' out to undermine, if not do away with 'traditional' America; a nation he and others claim was founded on Christianity.\nIn its recent December 17, 2012 issue, Newsweek declared the War on Christmas over and that Christmas (and Commander\u2013in-Chief Bill O'Reilly) had won.\nTo the amazement of many, a gleeful yet no less determined Mr. O'Reilly continues to lead his counter-attack against the War on Christmas. To understand why he and others continue to do battle requires exploring what the so-called War on Christmas was\/is about and what are its larger implications.\nIn short, it is not a war on Christianity or even Christmas per se. It is a struggle against the privileged position of Christianity (and thus Christmas) in a society based on the First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the separation of church and state.\nIt is this 'tradition' of privileging Christianity that Mr. O'Reilly and other anti-War on Christmas forces are determined to defend, indeed, restore. Most are not, Mr. O'Reilly included, out to undermine the First Amendment principles related to religion. They are however, determined to re-establish Christianity's traditional privileged position as 'first among religions.' After all, they claim, the United States was founded on Christian values (tolerance, love thy neighbor, etc.) what they label the 'philosophy of Christianity.'\nIn addition, from the Nation's very founding a majority of North Americans were and are now Christian. Is not, they ask, democracy based on majority rule? From their vantage point, all this was settled long ago, evidenced by the acceptance as 'normal' the tradition of Christian-based prayer in school, nativity scenes on public property or publicly funded, Christmas as a Federal holiday, Christian-based symbols (Christmas trees), the use of the Bible as swearing in ceremonies, etc.\nThe so-called War on Christmas challenges the primacy of these traditions. It does so armed with the principle of equal opportunity; the same weapon that challenged and eventually defeated other cherished 'traditions' such as slavery, Jim Crow, race\/gender\/class\/religion\/sexual preference employment and voting discrimination and on and on. Thus, while Newsweek, in claiming Christmas (Christianity) won the War on Christmas, can cite some small victories such as saying 'Merry Christmas,' and calling the symbolic tree a Christmas tree, a larger battle remains engaged on multiple fronts.\nBill O'Reilly and others know this, which is why he has purposely broadened his nightly counter-attack on the War on Christmas to a permanent battle against his self-anointed 'secular progressives' and their multi-cultural agenda. It is also why the political Right funds and conducts their multiple 'Wars:' a War on Women to re-establish the privileges of 'traditional' patriarchy, a racist War on Drugs to maintain the 'tradition' of institutional racism, a War on the Middle and Working Class (unions in particular) to enhance capitalist class privilege and power; a War on Voting Fraud to maintain the traditional privileges of White political power now facing the reality of shifting voter demographics; and of course a War on Terror aimed at securing and enhancing the privileges of imperial power.\nThus, despite Newsweek's proclamation, the War on Christmas is not over nor will it be for a long time. It is only one small piece of a much larger struggle that engages multiple forces in multiple venues as large as the global stage and as small as the grocery store check out counter. Yes, thanks to Bill O'Reilly and others, my cashier can confidently wish everyone a 'Merry Christmas' without fear of retribution or criticism. A small victory for their side I guess, my secular progressive self tells me. Still, her confused look at my Happy Hanukah greeting tells me a progressive chord may have been struck. Indeed, some learning may have even taken place. Next time, I think I will wish the Merry Christmas-maker a Happy Quanza and see where that takes us.\nBeau Grosscup is a Professor at California State University Chico.\nLatest posts by Source (see all)\nAnd Then They Came for the Vietnamese\u2026 - December 13, 2018\nAmazon's Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door - December 13, 2018\n140+ Arrested as Youth-Led Protests Demand Green New Deal on Capitol Hill - December 11, 2018\nFiled Under: Culture\n\u00ab Sex in San Diego: The Psychology of Pick-Up Lines\nThe Fright Wing: Why So-Called Conservatives Get So Wild and Crazy. \u00bb\nJim Bliesner says\nProbably the little grocery store clerk doesn't listen to Bill O'Riely. Probably he was just trying to be nice to you vs being a part of a larger conspiracy. I think it's OK if he says that and if you wish him a pleasant Hanukah back. We all have something to learn about other peoples faiths. Saying Happy Holiday is kind of\u2026.blah, washed out, uneventful, could be anywhere any time anybody? Could be any holiday not yours nor the clerks. I think we are a nation of diversity and I like that and it's OK to be different and to share one another s experiences and perspectives rather than hiding them under some neutral meaningless language and sentiment.\nWhen the kid said that he was sharing with you his experience.\nTo hell with O'Rielly's ratings campaign. Not necessary if we all just be who we are and not be embarrassed or intimidated or offended by differences. I hope Christmas day was restful and a respite from work or whatever routine and I hope, now that I know you are Jewish that Hanukah was inspirational and heartfelt for you and your family.\nGoatskull says\nFestivus for the rest of us.\nFrances O'Neill Zimmerman says\nI'm with Bliesner on this one, but less tolerant than he is. I miss having people say \"Merry Christmas\" to me and the fake \"Happy Holidays\" makes me feel irritable and impatient. When it's Christmastime, I like to say \"Merry Christmas\" to the Von's cashier (who where I live is usually Anglo and unlikely to be Muslim, Jewish or Buddhist.)\nI don't wish \"Merry Christmas\" to my Jewish friends or to the Muslim or Buddhist ones either. Once I'm over remembering the imprint of Christmases past, however, I can totally relate to the power of the winter solstice, darkness, fire and lights, so I hear you, Goatskull. Unfortunately, I don't know the pre-Christian words for \"Season's Greetings.\"\nBeau Grosscup says\nFrancis; please see my comment to Jim. Both of you are personalizing (being personally affronted by the semi-diminished tones of 'Merry Christmas') what is a large scale and ongoing societal power struggle. The fact that you take time to recognize the diversity of religions and their celebration among your friends and at the store counter is to be applauded. It is something the Christian Right fights hard against in both the private and public arena. They prefer we just assume Christians are nearly everywhere\/everybody and act accordingly in our daily lives for the sake of 'tradition.'\nFor my part Jim, you make two mistakes in your analysis. 1. Saying Happy Holidays is not meaningless nor neutral. It is a way to recognize the equality of celebrations around this time of the year and thus the diversity you so much desire. It is a way of not privileging any of those celebrations and recognizing all of them equally. It is the reason the Christian Right fights so hard against corporations and other institutions public and private from setting policy that privileges no one and include all. (These are the same folks who in every other venue vigorously support the private sector's right to set and enforce policy on employee behavior!). They demand the privileging of Christianity. The so-call War on Christmas doesn't prevent you from hearing or saying Merry Christmas. It is just alerting us to the community of celebrations ongoing at this time as is embodied in 'Happy Holidays.' 2. I am not Jewish.\nbob dorn says\nHappy New Year, everybody!!\nSan Diego Free Press Has Suspended Publication as of Dec. 14, 2018\nLet it be known that Frank Gormlie, Patty Jones, Doug Porter, Annie Lane, Brent Beltr\u00e1n, Anna Daniels, and Rich Kacmar did something necessary and beautiful together for 6 1\/2 years. Together, we advanced the cause of journalism by advancing the cause of justice. It has been a helluva ride. \"Sometimes a great notion...\" (Click here for more details)\nClick for the #ResistanceSD archives\nMake a Non-Tax-Deductible Donation\nA Twitter List by SDFreePressorg\nKNSJ 89.1 FM\nCommunity independent radio of the people, by the people, for the people\nClick here to listen to KNSJ live online\nAt the OB Rag: OB Rag\nWas 'Suspicious' Fire at Fletcher and Gonzalez Home an Act of Domestic Terrorism?\nKey Sierra Club Committee Unanimously Endorses Greenery Revisions to City's ADU Code\n'I've Been to the Mountaintop' : The Last Speech of Martin Luther King \u2013 The Full Text\n\u00a92010-2017 SanDiegoFreePress.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2027Taiwan News\nHome \/ Taiwan News\nFri, Jun 27, 2014 - Page 4 News List\nMedical tourism a profit ploy: groups\nNOT FOR SALE:Setting up for-profit medical centers in the pilot zones will aggravate problems such as staff shortages and high medical care costs, protesters said\nBy Stacy Hsu \/ Staff reporter\nMembers of healthcare reform groups protest outside the Taipei International Convention Center yesterday against the government's plan to set up profit-making international medical centers in the proposed free economic pilot zones.\nPhoto: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times\nSeveral healthcare reform groups yesterday panned the government's medical tourism plan, saying it was just a ploy for favoring big corporations by allowing them to set up profit-making medical centers in the proposed free economic pilot zones.\nDozens of representatives from the Doctors' Working Conditions Reform Task Force, the Taiwan Radical Nurses Union, the Taiwan Healthcare Reform Foundation, Covenants Watch, the Taiwan Association for Victims of Occupational Injuries and the Black Island National Youth Front staged a protest outside the Taipei International Convention Center, where the Asia segment of the annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress was being held.\nMore than 400 medical experts from a dozen countries are attending the two-day congress, the first time it is being held in Taiwan.\nThe opening ceremony yesterday morning was temporarily interrupted when a small group of protesters rushed toward the speaker's podium while chanting slogans and holding cardboard signs that read: \"Health is not for sale.\"\n\"The congress here may be branded as an 'academic seminar,' but it is in fact a platform for the Ministry [of Health and Welfare] to spread its propaganda on international medical centers and the free economic pilot zones,\" said Ellery Huang (\u9ec3\u81f4\u7ff0), a physician and member of the Doctors' Working Conditions Reform Task Force.\nHuang said the ministry should refrain from \"goofing around and pandering to deep-pocketed corporations,\" particularly at a time when the country's National Health Insurance program is heavily in debt and healthcare professionals face adverse conditions at work.\n\"We hereby demand that the ministry work to identify the root causes of the nation's collapsing healthcare system and stop promoting something that seeks only to satisfy the needs of big corporations and overseas patients,\" Huang said.\n\"We also urge the ministry to invest more resources to improve the employment environment of frontline medical personnel who have fallen victims to an 'M-shaped' healthcare system, instead of attempting to lure the country's talent into the for-profit medical centers in the [planned] pilot zones,\" Huang said.\nHuang also called on the ministry to endeavor to safeguard the public's right to healthcare and avoid its commodification, as well as to prevent financially disadvantaged patients from being marginalized because of some doctors' slavish pursuit of wealth.\nAccording to the government's preliminary plan, the proposed international medical centers will primarily provide high-end physical examination services and cosmetic surgeries, which will not be covered by the National Health Insurance program and must be paid by patients out of their own pockets.\nTaiwanese doctors will be allowed to take on part-time jobs at the centers and work a maximum of 20 hours per week.\nTaiwan Healthcare Reform Foundation researcher Chao Meng-chieh (\u8d99\u5b5f\u6377) identified three major problems in the government's plan to set up the centers.\n\"First, the nation already faces a severe shortage of healthcare personnel and the establishment of the centers would only aggravate the problem,\" Chao said.\nSecond, the ministry's relaxation of hospital regulations for the centers will only make under-the-table irregularities even harder to detect, Chao said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"books by Matthew R.R. Morrese\nBook: The Life and Lore of Winterstide (The Canticles Mythos Series Book 4) by Matthew R.R. Morrese\ncategories: Book, Mythology, Short Stories, Adventure, High Fantasy, Winter, Collections, Christmas, Religion, War, Original, Epic Fantasy\nMatthew R.R. Morrese\nabout this book: Canticles is for readers who are tired of rehashed fantasy worlds. There are no elves, no dragons, no dwarves. It is a brand new epic fantasy universe built from the ground up. I went back to the origin of human myths to build the Realms and its twelve races from the creation of their world on. Canticles is 4000 years of created history with its own origin mythology. And Canticles is more than just literature, though that is at its core. It is a family of creatives producing art, music and even film inspired by the literature I write.\nThe Life and Lore of Winterstide is technically the fourth anthology in the series, though it was published third. The other Mythos have continuing stories, whereas Winterstide stands alone, focusing on the traditions and rites of a world caught not only in the grip of Winter, but also between the Old and the New during the Age of Shadow. The myths and legends of the Realms of Aegis are brought to life in this beautiful, fully illustrated anthology to cool your mind and warm your heart. \"This is the New Face of High Fantasy.\"\nOther books by Matthew R.R. Morrese\n\u2022 Book Review: The First Sires (The Canticles Mythos Series Book 1) by Matthew R.R. Morrese\n\u2022 Book Review: The First Fallen (The Canticles Mythos Series Book 2) by Matthew R.R. Morrese","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UPS drivers may go on strike to demand better working conditions\nMonday, September 12, 2022 by: Belle Carter\nTags: Climate, delivery trucks, environment, Esteban Chavez Jr., exhaustion, extreme heat, extreme weather, freedom, freight drivers, high temperatures, human rights, labor union, Liberty, revolt, salary, Teamsters Union, transportation, uprising, UPS, welfare, worker strike\n(Natural News) Unionized United Parcel Service (UPS) drivers are expected to go on strike as they call for better working conditions.\nThe agreement between UPS and the Teamsters Union, which represents freight drivers and warehouse workers, is set to expire on July 31, 2023. Given this, a fresh round of negotiations is set to start in the spring between the company and the labor union.\nThe 350,000-strong Teamsters in UPS are demanding air conditioning in the back of their delivery trucks after extreme heat caused driver injuries and deaths. Aside from this, they are also demanding better pay packages and benefits.\nUPS drivers make around $95,000 annually on average, with an additional $50,000 in benefits for a total of $145,000. Semi-truck drivers make even more than that amount. According to Business Insider, the median salary at UPS amounts to $44,254.\nThis was not the first time UPS employees went on strike. An earlier demonstration from 1997 saw workers demand full-time positions and the union call for continued control over the pension fund. This 15-day strike affected 80 percent of shipments and costed UPS around $780 million.\nIn a statement, the company said it wishes to come to a peaceful conclusion that \"provides wins for our employees and that provides UPS the flexibility to stay competitive in a rapidly changing industry.\"\n\"UPS and the Teamsters have worked cooperatively for almost 100 years to meet the needs of employees, customers and the communities where we live and work. We believe we'll continue to find common ground with the Teamsters and reach an agreement that's good for everyone involved,\" the company stated.\nMeanwhile, Teamsters President Sean O'Brien reminded striking workers of a $300 million strike fund to cover their salaries. \"Whether or not there is a strike, that's totally up to the company. We are going to utilize as much leverage as we can to get our members the contract they deserve,\" he said. (Related: Union sues NYC to block termination of UNVAXXED detectives, citing rising crime rates.)\nBrutal summer heat shutting down UPS drivers\nOne of the battle cries of the impending UPS strike is the demand for air conditioning at the back of trucks, where heat can hit triple-digit temperatures in some parts of the country during the summer.\nAs UPS makes record profits of $12.89 billion and $6.8 billion for the first two quarters alone, their drivers report the grueling toll of making hundreds of stops a day in sweltering conditions. A typical crew is moving hundreds of pounds of cargo and organizing packages in the back of their brown truck. With shifts that can last up to 14 hours, workers are having a tough time.\nEarly in August, Teamsters demanded urgent details from UPS on the company's plans, training materials, and assessments on protecting workers from excessive heat.\n\"People are just dropping weekly here. It's not something where that one driver in Arizona is going viral,\" said Moe Nouhaili, a Las Vegas UPS driver. \"It's not just the way that UPS is treating workers, it is also how they are making us work, expecting us to meet these unrealistic productivity numbers even though the weather.\"\nIn early July, 24-year-old Esteban Chavez Jr. was delivering packages when he suddenly collapsed during his shift in California. His family believes he died due to high temperatures.\n\"Everyone knows, it is pretty hot out there, those trucks are a hot box,\" his father Esteban Chavez Sr. said. \"They have all these guys running around, delivering packages and trying to meet their quotas and do their jobs.\"\nTeamster 804 Brooklyn President Vinnie Perrone lamented that nothing was done about the heat-related incidents.\n\"They are just turning a deaf ear to it \u2013 a blind eye,\" Perrone said.\nWatch this video of a UPS employee walking like a zombie and passing out due to the intense heat.\nThis video is from the Alex Hammer channel on Brighteon.com.\nFedEx announced plans to go all-electric by 2040; promises to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, depriving food crops of nutrition.\nAmazon delivery drivers complain about being unfairly punished by AI cameras.\nFedEx delays are just the latest in a long string of supply chain disruptions blamed on Omicron (but really due to lockdowns).\nWalmart announces expansion of drone deliveries to 4 million households in 6 states.\nPrevious :States are emulating California's \"clean air\" mandate by BANNING gas-powered vehicles\nNext : CDC admits KILLER BATCHES of COVID-19 shots are still given to the public\nMore news on Climate\nU.S., Canada, Australia and many other nations controlled by \"green\" globalists all claim to be \"warming\" at a faster rate than everyone else\nUSDA data: America's cold-stored orange juice stockpiles down 43%, the lowest level since 1977\nNineteen states launch investigations into banks with climate cult ties\nU.S. urged to rethink green energy policies in light of disastrous outcome in Europe\nDo your favorite foods contain chitin, a substance derived from the exoskeletons of INSECTS?\nNZ farmers demand cancellation of PM Ardern's plans to tax the burps and farts of livestock\nAustralia's largest bank is now tracking the carbon emissions of its clients through their financial transactions\nBILLIONS being spent by government on \"Climate-Smart Commodities\" \u2013 does this mean more GMOs?\nMany Western countries are trying to ban NITROGEN (and thus meat)\nSchools in Dutch province serving INSECTS to students\nhttps:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2022-09-12-ups-drivers-protest-demand-better-working-conditions.html\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2022-09-12-ups-drivers-protest-demand-better-working-conditions.html\">UPS drivers may go on strike to demand better working conditions<\/a>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Three Understated Metrics For First Community Corporation (NASDAQ:FCCO) You Should Know\nPetra Goodwin\nSimply Wall St. September 3, 2018\nAs a small-cap bank stock with a market capitalisation of US$191.3m, First Community Corporation's (NASDAQ:FCCO) risk and profitability are largely determined by the underlying economic growth of the US regions in which it operates. Given that banks operate by reinvesting deposits in the form of loans, negative economic growth may lower the level of saving deposits and demand for loans, directly affecting those banks' levels of cash flows. Post-GFC recovery brought about a new set of reforms, Basel III, which was created to improve regulation, supervision and risk management in the financial services industry. Basel III target banking regulations to improve the sector's ability to absorb shocks resulting from economic stress which may expose financial institutions like First Community to vulnerabilities. Unpredictable macro events such as political instability could weaken its financial position which is why it is important to understand how well the bank manages its risk levels. Strong management of leverage and liquidity could place the bank in a protected position at the face of macro headwinds. We can gauge First Community's risk-taking behaviour by analysing three metrics for leverage and liquidity which I will take you through now.\nSee our latest analysis for First Community\nNasdaqCM:FCCO Historical Debt September 3rd 18\nWhy Does FCCO's Leverage Matter?\nA low level of leverage subjects a bank to less risk and enhances its ability to pay back its debtors. Leverage can be thought of as the amount of assets a bank owns relative to its shareholders' funds. While financial companies will always have some leverage for a sufficient capital buffer, First Community's leverage ratio of 10.21x is very safe and substantially below the maximum limit of 20x. With assets 10.21 times equity, the banks has maintained a prudent level of its own fund relative to borrowed fund which places it in a strong position to pay back its debt in times of adverse events. If the bank needs to increase its debt levels to firm up its capital cushion, there is plenty of headroom to do so without deteriorating its financial position.\nWhat Is FCCO's Level of Liquidity?\nHanding Money Transparent\nAs abovementioned, loans are quite illiquid so it is important to understand how much of these loans make up the bank's total assets. Usually, they should not be higher than 70% of total assets, which is consistent with First Community's state given its ratio of 62.1%. This means slightly over half of the bank's total assets are tied up in the form of illiquid loans, leading to a sensible balance between interest income and liquidity.\nWhat is FCCO's Liquidity Discrepancy?\nFCCO profits by lending out its customers' deposits as loans and charge an interest on the principle. These loans may be fixed term and often cannot be readily realized, yet customer deposits on the liability side must be paid on-demand and in short notice. This mismatch between illiquid loans and liquid deposits poses a risk for the bank if unusual events occur and requires it to immediately repay its depositors. Relative to the prudent industry loan to deposit level of 90%, First Community's ratio of over 72.7%is appropriately lower, which places the bank in a relatively safe liquidity position given it has not excessively lent out its deposits and has maintained a suitable level for compliance.\nFirst Community ticks all the boxes for operational prudency in terms of liquidity and leverage. These factors often sideline next to other fundamentals but are equally important to consider as part of the investment thesis. Its high liquidity and low leverage levels mean the bank is well-positioned to meet its financial obligations in the case of any adverse and unpredictable macro events. We've only touched on operational risks for FCCO in this article. But as a stock investment, there are other fundamentals you need to understand. Below, I've compiled three important aspects you should look at:\nFuture Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for FCCO's future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for FCCO's outlook.\nValuation: What is FCCO worth today? Has the future growth potential already been factored into the price? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether FCCO is currently mispriced by the market.\nGood news for Beyond Meat? 95% of people who buy vegan burgers when dining out are carnivores\nIf You Had Bought Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE:HIG) Shares Five Years Ago You'd Have Made 61%\nAmerican Express Earnings, Revenue Beat Amid 'Modest' Economic Growth\nThe MAG Silver (TSE:MAG) Share Price Is Up 54% And Shareholders Are Holding On","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rule Change Would Put 'Unsatisfactory' Carriers Out Of Service\nAugust 17, 1999 \u2022 by Staff\nThe Federal Highway Administration has asked for comments on a proposal to automatically shut down carriers that don't correct \"unsatisfactory\" safety ratings after 60 days.\nCurrently, motor carriers that receive an \"unsatisfactory\" rating following a regulatory compliance review are barred from transporting placardable quantities of hazardous materials in interstate commerce and cannot be used by federal agencies. The regulation gives them 45 days to correct problems contributing to the poor rating. The proposed new rules extends that prohibition to all types of freight but gives non-hazmat carriers 60 days to make necessary changes.\nFHWA is acting under authority granted by Congress last year but the proposal will likely rekindle debate regarding the entire safety rating system. Most trucking organizations argue that the current system is too complicated, too reliant on record keeping rather than performance, and gives too much leeway to inspectors. This change, therefore, simply gives more teeth to a flawed program. FHWA says it is considering changes to the process but, until then, must rely on what's currently in place to carry out the Congressional dictate.\nComments are due September 15. The proposal was published Aug. 16 in the Federal Register which can be accessed on the Internet at http:\/\/www.access.gpo.gov\/su_docs\/aces\/aces140.html.\nHow to Use Facebook to Retain Drivers\nDriving a truck can be a lonely, stressful job. But no driver has to be completely isolated in the age of social media. Facebook, in particular, can be a powerful tool in making drivers feel like they're part of a team and connected to family and friends even on the road.\nThe Art & Science of Mountain Driving\nA truck driver can drive down a mountain 100 times too slowly, but only once too fast. An inexperienced driver on a steep grade could spell disaster unless properly trained.\nQ&A: Talking ELDs with FMCSA's Top Compliance Expert\nWe spoke with Joe DeLorenzo, director of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Office of Enforcement and Compliance, to get an update on how the changeover from AOBRDs to ELDs is going.\nApp Helps Prevent Rollovers, Brake Fade on Grades\nHow do we keep drivers from driving too fast through curves or descending mountain slopes? By showing them precisely how fast they should be driving. A new app called Road-Aware can do just that.\nJ.J. Keller Develops Training Program to Fight Human Trafficking\nThe training will help drivers understand the importance and risk of human trafficking. It will teach them to respond accordingly when they suspect it's taking place.\nFuel-Efficient Drivers: Slow Down and Plan Ahead\nOne owner-operator shares his advice on how and why he maximizes his fuel efficiency while on the road. Part of our \"MPG Top Guns\" series.\nSteel Hauler Jump Starts Driver Training\nThe small steel-hauling fleet received a safety-related wake-up call that something needed to change. Documented driver training has made a difference.\nUber Freight Facility Insights Reinforce Need for Speed\nUber Freight published its first report delving into the results of its new Facility Ratings, reinforcing what we already knew -- keeping trucks and drivers waiting at facilities is the biggest mistake shippers make when it comes to being a \"shipper of choice.\"\nBarr-Nunn Offers Higher Pay for Team Drivers\nBarr-Nunn Transportation has announced higher pay and more options for home time for its team truck drivers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tags California Code of Regulations\nTag: California Code of Regulations\nWhat to the Black third striker is your Parole Board hearing?!...\nWith a crystal clear lens, Ronnie Winn sorts out the mumbo jumbo of CDCR and Board of Parole language to expose the bottom line realities for indeterminately sentenced non-violent third-strikers in CA prisons.\nGeorge Jackson, 50 years later\nIn this powerful writing of a revolutionary history, education as foundation becomes glaringly obvious and unequivocally key to achieving true freedom.\nParole threatened for organizing and writing for Bay View\nThe majority of employees at La Palma Correctional Center who work on Compound 3 fit the description of a Security Threat Group due to their unlawful conduct, but who investigates them or makes them answerable? Certainly not themselves. Yet I am being targeted for my work; a work that was created to build a constructive Humanity; while these prison officials are rewarded for work that assaults the very fabric that makes us human and seeks to destroy lives.\nCourt rules no punishment for California prison hunger striker\nIn the early days of the 2013 Prisoner Hunger Strike, Jorge Gomez refused up to 12 consecutive meals. The California Department of Corrections struck back by issuing him a Rules Violation Report. The same fate befell untold numbers of other prisoners who'd starved themselves to peacefully call attention to their torture. In an opinion filed on March 25, 2016, the California Court of Appeals ruled that Gomez was guilty of no rules violation for refusing meals during the strike.\nPrisoners, where is thy victory?\n\"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.\" \u2013 Gandhi. Corrections Corporation of America and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is the epitome of this quote, and it is not enough for those reading this to agree with the truths delineated herein.\nPrisoners report on San Quentin health crisis: Legionella outbreak prompts water...\nOn the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, government officials and first responders continue to lack the ability to plan for emergency situations. San Quentin State Prison, California's oldest prison, is still on a virtual lockdown \u2013 or \"modified program\" \u2013 as normal programs for all inmates have ceased since Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, after \"one confirmed case of Legionnaires' disease\" was discovered, Warden Ron Davis' Aug. 27 bulletin said.\nSHU-shifting: An update on and overview of the Ashker v. Brown...\nSome nine months after allowing certification of two classes in Ashker v. Brown, Judge Claudia Wilken issued her written order granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Leave to File a Supplementary Complaint on March 9, 2015. Pursuant to the order, a supplemental class of plaintiffs \u2013 those who've spent 10 years or more in Pelican Bay State Prison's SHU but have recently been transferred to other California SHUs \u2013 may proceed with their Eighth Amendment claims as class representatives.\nAmplify the voices these prisons try to silence: Fight censorship from...\nDepartments of corrections and state legislatures are putting into place chilling bans on free speech and expression by prisoners, formerly incarcerated persons, family members, friends, journalists, advocates and activists. Pack the courtroom for the hearing on Abu-Jamal v. Kane, challenging Prisoner Gag Law SB 508, on Thursday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m., in U.S. Courthouse, 228 Walnut St., Courtroom 2, Harrisburg, Penn.\nSolidarity had the might to move the mountain of prison torture...\nCDCR deliberately lied about their implementation of the Security Threat Group Step Down Program sanctioned by Gov. Jerry Brown. Gov. Brown and CDCr administrators are currently violating our United States constitutional rights, the California Code of Regulations and other rules, laws, policies and standards with the intent of breaking down and destroying men and women prisoners, family bonds and moral ethics here in California.\nCalifornia's most dangerous Security Threat Group\nThe comment period prior to formal adoption of the STG Pilot Program closes April 3, when a hearing will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at the East End Complex Auditorium, 1500 Capital Ave., Sacramento, CA 95811. Submit your comments before April 3 to CDCR, Regulation and Policy Management Branch, P.O. Box 942883, Sacramento CA 94283-0001, by fax to 916-324-6075 or by email. If you have questions, call branch chief Timothy Lockwood at 916-445-2269.\nSocial consciousness, prison struggle and perseverance: a personal account\nThere are hundreds of prisoners who have been falsely validated as members or associates of prison gangs that can viscerally relate to my experience, from living life as an outlaw in society to being prosecuted and convicted to prison, only to be persecuted while in prison, fundamentally for educating oneself by trying to heighten one's sense of cultural and social awareness.\nTreating us like slaves: an analysis of the Security Threat Group...\nFor the past two years we've heard the state claim it's reforming its long term segregation policies and practices by implementing a Security Threat Group (STG) Step Down Program (SDP). Officials claim the program is a significant move towards a more behavior-based system, yet they remain extraordinarily vague about the \"ultimate conclusion.\" What exactly is \"gang activity\"?\nInstitutionalized racism and censorship are relatives\nThe only defense that can protect the people is to assemble the power of the people. We are our only defense. We have suffered enough injustice at the hands of a very evil system \u2013 CDCr and PBSP \u2013 and it is time that we prisoners express that pain and suffering by all means at our disposal, because CDCr and PBSP are censoring SF Bay View in order to censor prisoners, because we are exposing cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners. We collectively commend and value the courage and commitment as well as the principled stand that the SF Bay View is taking to speak truth to power.\nPrisoners' peaceful protest to resume July 8 if demands are not...\nIn response to CDCR's failure to meet our 2011 Five Core Demands, the PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Representatives respectfully present this notice of, and basis for, our individualized, collectively agreed upon decision to resume our nonviolent peaceful protest action on July 8, 2013. The upcoming peaceful protest will be a combined hunger strike-work stoppage action. Once initiated, this protest will continue indefinitely \u2013 until all Five Core Demands are fully met.\nHow CDCr scams California taxpayers\nFor the past 40 years, prisoners have been removed off general population due to being validated as alleged prison gang members or associates. This is the sole reason for our placement: not behavior. CDCr started this indefinite lockup in the mid- to late 70s and soon realized that there was an economic incentive for labeling prisoners as a threat to the safety and security of the institution.\n12,000 California prisoners on hunger strike\nAs the renewed prisoner hunger strike enters its second week, the federal receiver's office reports that at least 12,000 prisoners were participating during the first week. Family members of striking SHU prisoners reported that their visits this weekend were denied by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which is threatening participants with disciplinary action and banning two lawyers who represent the strikers. \"Historically, prison officials have used extreme measures, including physical violence to break strikes,\" says Dorsey Nunn, a member of the mediation team working on behalf of the strikers.\nPelican Bay threatens hunger strikers\nIt is a historical truth that repression breeds resistance, which is why we prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison's SHU\/CMU units took the initiative to come together and go on a hunger strike in order to say to our oppressors that ...\nWho are the hunger strikers? How prisoners land in Pelican Bay's...\nSympathy for the prisoners on hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison is limited due to the widely held impression that these men \u2014 and indeed most supermax prisoners \u2014 are the \"worst of the worst.\" According to conventional wisdom, in order to land in the most secure units in the prison system, these men must have committed terrible crimes in the first place ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Testing Begins for Slinky Dog Dash Roller Coaster\nBy Stephen Porter - Project Manager\nwww.wdwinfo.com\nReportedly the Slinky Dog Dash coaster, which will be one of the major attractions in the upcoming Toy Story Land in Disney's Hollywood Studios, has begun its safety testing. The ride vehicle was spotted on the track, which seems to confirm that the ride is working through its operational acceptance testing.\nWhile there is clearly a lot of progress on Toy Story Land it still be some time until any guests get to ride this attraction. It was announced earlier this year at the D23 Expo that Toy Story Land will open next summer.\nCredit: Blog Mickey\nImage: Disney Parks Blog\nTags: Disney's Hollyood Studios, Slinky Dog Dash Roller Coaster, Toy Story Land, Walt Disney World\nNoticeable Changes at Walt Disney World Since My Last Vacation\nForky Has Recently Appeared in Toy Story Land \u2013 PHOTOS\nPixar Easter Eggs Hidden in Google Street View of Toy Story Land at Walt Disney World\nFirst Look at Bo Peep Character Coming to Disney Theme Parks this Summer\nA Review of Early Morning Magic in Toy Story Land with Toddlers\nNew Stinky Pete Interaction Element in Toy Story Land Added to Play Disney Parks App\nThe Top 5 Overrated Things at Walt Disney World\nNew Toy Story Mania! Merchandise Pop-Up Shop Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios\nNew Table Service Restaurant Coming to Toy Story Land in Disney's Hollywood Studios\nToy Story 4 Bo Peep Meet & Greet Coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World this Summer\nBe the first to know! Join our Disney mailing list to receive daily news and updates!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Return of the titans\nWall Street titans, who make the move to government after serving on the boards of our nation's largest corporations, may not have the public's best interest at heart. There are those who serve time in government, then move back to Wall Street. How reputable could we expect a powerful individual to be who has experience with both?\nJon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, served in the senate and as governor of New Jersey, before making his way back to Wall Street. His most infamous endeavor is likely his current one as CEO of MF Global. The company's recent collapse is under investigation by SEC and the FBI. In an attempt to save themselves, billions of dollars were transferred out of customer accounts. MF Global filed for Chapter 11 in October of 2011.\nCorzine was preceded by Henry Paulson as CEO of Goldman Sachs in 1999. Paulson later made the move to Treasury Secretary during the Bush administration. In 2008, the Paulson Plan was rolled out. His previous position as CEO of Goldman Sachs could be considered a conflict of interest. Some have accused him of being a Wall Street insider, as Goldman Sachs benefited the greatest from the AIG bailout. Alongside Ben Bernanke, Paulson had a great influence on the bailout of AIG.\nChris Christie preceded Corzine as governor of New Jersey. Christie has been accused of misusing his position when he awarded a \"no bid contract\" to a former US Attorney who investigated Christie's brother in a fraud case with Wall Street firm, Spear, Leads and Kellogg. One could assume the attorney had earned that contract by choosing not to prosecute Christie's brother.\nThese three powerful men certainly fit the original line up of the \"Clash of the titans\" American Carnage tour. \"Slayer\"\u2015Corzine, brought ruin to MF Global. \"Megadeath\" \u2015Paulson, who is familiar with dealing in units has seen to the death of millions of units. \"Anthrax\"\u2015Christie, not completely understood, but thousands of cells can fit into a single pinhead. Keep an eye on Wall Street and the return of the titans.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Don Kakulus Records welcomes new artistes\nA newly established record label, Don Kakulus Records, has signed on two artistes\u2015 Igere Ufuoma, aka UF, and Bodunde Joshua, better known as Fizydel. According to the label, both artistes have the skills and talent to compete with their counterparts in the music industry.\nSpeaking on the new signings, the Chief Executive Officer of the record label, Oluleke Olaiya, noted that the mission was to lead a lifestyle of entertainment while focusing on the development of the entertainment industry through the production and promotion of quality sounds.\nOlaiya added, \"These new artistes are different and unique in their own ways and I am confident the industry is not ready for the kind of vibe they are bringing. DKR is all about good music for everyone.\"\nOn what prompted his decision to float a record label, he said, \"Music inspired the label. Music has always been a part of my life from childhood. I was in the studio recording one day when a line came to my head and I recorded it. Few months later, I was brainstorming with my team on materialising the vision I had of a label and that was how DonKakulus was born.\"\nNigerians easily forget artistes no longer making waves \u2014 Tony Tetuila\nSocial media helping new artistes gain popularity \u2014 Danny Young\nNothing wrong with competition between artistes \u2013Seyi Shay\nI'm driven by urge to break records \u2014 MissKoko\nFocus Dance was initially rejected by many artistes \u2014 Ajimovoix\nAFRIMA: Why Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, may lose to younger artistes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ashley Callingbull signs prestigious contract with Next Models\n(ANNews) \u2013 Ashley Callingbull has been snapped up by a top modelling agency.\nThe fashion industry traditionally lacks representation of Indigenous people in fashion shows and magazines but in recent years there has been a push for representation of diversity across turtle island.\nAlberta's very own Cree beauty from Enoch Cree Nation is leading the way in representing Cree women in Canadian fashion.\nCallingbull recently signed a prestigious contract with Next Models. This new endeavor places her amongst the top brass of Canadian female models. The major Canadian agency represents top international models like Crista Cober, Jenna Earle, Kim Cloutier, and Yasmin Warsame.\nReferring to signing with NEXT modeling, former Mrs. Universe said, \"I never thought I would see it.\"\nCallingbull explained it was her 2021 September Cover for Fashion Magazine and the success that followed its release that got her the attention of Canada's top modeling agency.\nIn Fashion Magazine, Callingbull was able to shed light on the trauma caused by Canada's residential schools system on her Cree family and from her grandparent's perspective.\nThe overall photoshoot for Fashion Magazine showcased Indigenous representation, from featuring Ashley on the cover, right down to the outfits by Angela DeMontigny, a top Canadian fashion designer of Cree-M\u00e9tis heritage, and earrings by Warren Steven Scott, an Indigenous queer male from Nlaka'pamux.\n\"Because of the success, I ended up being signed by Next Models. It's such a huge organization to be a part of. I'm excited,\" said Callingbull.\n\"I've been modeling for a long time. I started way back in the day when we first met (referring to the author of this article) at Western Canada Fashion Week.\"\nCallingbull said those early experiences at Western Canada Fashion Week exposed her to the world of fashion.\nAccording to the WFCW website, \"they were established in 2003 and have developed into nationally recognized fashion and design events and the second largest fashion week in Canada.\"\nCallingbull has come a long way since those days at WCFW.\nShe shared a personal story about when she realized her star was rising in Canada. \"I did my first billboard which was for the Hillberg & Berk, a major Canadian jewelry company. I was driving in downtown Toronto with my sister, and she pointed out the billboard. My sister told me I looked powerful and strong. Hearing that from my younger sister meant a lot.\"\nShe explained Indigenous women \"are looking at my billboard in Toronto and seeing what's possible. This is why representation matters because it helps Indigenous youth dream of possibilities.\"\nCallingbull opened up about her battle with shyness and being insecure as an Indigenous youth. \"I used to be that insecure girl from the reserve,\" she said. \"When I was growing up there wasn't anyone who was chasing the things that I wanted to chase.\n\"I was this little insecure girl that didn't have dreams.\n\"I've grown, I've evolved; I've grown to love and respect myself for the way the Creator made me.\"\nHer advice to youth is that they should surround themselves with positivity. The people in your life do have an impact on whether you are successful or not.\n(2012) Canada's first and largest LGBTQ march called Hate to Hope. Callingbull came out to support her friend Chevi Rabbit. Photo Soko Fotohaus.\n\"Who you surround yourself with really determines where you're going to go in life,\" said Callingbull. \"I believe if you surround yourself with positive people that want to uplift you and who focus on what's best for you and they bring out the best in you as a person, they are your true friends,\" said Callingbull.\nShe said stay away from toxic people who only want to bring you down; try to use you; take you away from your goals or live for the moment. \"For example, stay away from people that say let's go party instead of focusing on school.\"\n\"Ask yourself how is that going to amplify my life? How is that going to better me as a person? \"Those are things that you need to think about in regards to your future,\" she added.\nCallingbull can't stress enough the importance of creating circles of friends who are supportive if you aim to be successful in this life.\nShe has been able to create a positive support team around her that pushes her to excel at her dreams and aspirations.\n\"I've completely changed, I've grown and I'm excited to see who I'm going to become in the future,\" said Callingbull.\nCallingbull is currently dating former professional hockey centre Wacey Rabbit, a member of the Blood Tribe.\nCheck out the full video interview with Ashley Callingbull on Facebook\/Alberta Native News.\nChevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News\nMeat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his \"Bat Out of Hell\" album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as \"Paradise by the Dashboard Light,\" \"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,\" and \"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That),\" has died. The singer born Marvin Lee Aday died Thursday, according to a family statement posted on his official Facebook page. \"Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight,\" the statement said.\nThe top diplomats of Russia and the United States are holding crucial talks on Friday as a weeks-long standoff over Ukraine teeters on the cusp of a pivotal and potentially violent phase, with rising concerns that Europe may again be beset by war. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are meeting in Geneva, once a key Cold War crossroads, trying to avert a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine amid Moscow's demands for concessions from NATO over its relationship with the former Soviet republic. Blinken on Thursday played down any prospects of an immediate fix in the Geneva talks, which are set to run about two hours, saying resolving the difficult issues \"won't happen quickly\" \u2013 and emphasizing that he doesn't expect a resolution on Friday.\nThe tranquil resort in Tonga sat behind a lagoon and reef break that was perfect for snorkelers and surfers alike. Guests who had never met before would sit together to eat delicious communal meals cooked by owner Moana Paea and her staff, or relax in rustic cabins tucked in the trees.\nTinder charges more for young gays, lesbians and the over-30s, says Which?\nDating app Tinder is charging young gay and lesbian users and people over 30 more for its premium service, suggesting possible discrimination and a breach of UK law, according to an investigation by watchdog Which? The investigation watchdog asked almost 200 mystery shoppers to create real profiles and make a note of prices quoted for Tinder Plus, a premium package with perks such as unlimited \"Likes\" and \"Rewinds\" and the ability to undo accidental selections.\nMeat Loaf: US 'Bat out of Hell' singer dies, aged 74\nUS singer Meat Loaf, whose hits included Bat Out of Hell, has died aged 74, a statement on his official Facebook page said. \"Bat Out of Hell\" remains one of the top 10 selling albums of all of all time. The star, born Michael Lee Aday, gained worldwide fame with his debut 1977 rock album, Bat Out of Hell.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Steve Helber\/AP Photo\nOpposing CDC Guidance, Ron Johnson Questions Need For Broad Vaccine Push\nRepublican Senator Says Vaccination Effort Should Have Been 'Limited' To Vulnerable\nBy Rob Mentzer\nFriday, April 23, 2021, 12:45pm\nRepublican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine should have been \"limited,\" undermining a national push to end the pandemic.\nJohnson made the comments to radio host Vicki McKenna, a vaccine skeptic who has been opposed to pandemic restrictions and has often cast doubt on the seriousness of COVID-19.\n\"We probably should have limited the distribution to the vulnerable,\" Johnson said in the radio interview. Referring to the fact that young people are less at risk from the disease, he said, \"I see no reason to be pushing vaccines on people.\"\nJohnson's comments go against the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as state and local health authorities. The national push to develop a safe, effective vaccine and make it available to virtually all adults started under former President Donald Trump and has continued under President Joe Biden.\nThe benefit of vaccinating broadly in the community is \"herd immunity,\" which is when so many people are immune from the virus that it cannot easily spread within communities. Scientists estimate that around 70 percent of the United States population will need to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity and end the pandemic.\nAs of Friday afternoon, 91.2 million people in the U.S., or 27.5 percent of the total population, have been fully vaccinated.\nJohnson, a former plastics company executive with no medical background, denied in the interview that vaccinating a broad swath of the population should be a priority.\n\"If you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?\" Johnson said. \"What is it to you?\"\nJohnson's comments come as Wisconsin has administered more than 4 million doses of vaccine, with about 30 percent of the population fully vaccinated. But there are signs that demand for vaccines is beginning to drop off, and public opinion polls have shown Republican men are the demographic group most likely to say they won't get vaccinated.\nIt's also the latest example of Johnson, who had COVID-19 in October, expressing skepticism about the national vaccination effort. In March, he told an interviewer that he had declined to get vaccinated because he had been infected. That goes against CDC recommendations. Earlier in the pandemic, he repeatedly expressed opposition to public health restrictions and federal economic responses.\nHis comments in the Thursday interview with McKenna were framed around his opposition to \"vaccine passports,\" or a document verifying a person's vaccination status. Many Republicans oppose the idea, and it has not gotten much traction nationally or at the state level. Johnson said he is \"highly suspicious of what's happening here\" and said he would \"vigorously resist\" the notion. Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin also sought to ban vaccine passports. Unlike some other Republican leaders, though, Johnson did not limit his remarks to the vaccine passports but went on to question the vaccination efforts themselves.\nJohnson is not the only Wisconsin Republican to court controversy by speaking against those efforts.\nAssembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, this week posted a message on Facebook that appeared to mock pro-vaccine messages. In March, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, said at a town hall meeting that he had encouraged his adult daughters not to get vaccinated.\nIn a statement Friday to WPR, Johnson repeated some of the comments he made to McKenna and said whether or not young and healthy people should be encouraged to be vaccinated was a \"legitimate question.\"\nIn response to Johnson's comments, the Wisconsin Democratic Party said Johnson \"is a conspiracy theorist who has proven time and again that he'll put his extremism over the people of Wisconsin.\"\nJohnson is up for reelection in 2022. The race has already attracted several Democratic candidates, including state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry and Outagamie County Executive Thomas Nelson. Johnson hasn't said whether he will run for a third term.\nGOP Men Are Most Likely To Say They'll Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine\nHealth Experts, Officials Slam Ron Johnson Over COVID-19 Vaccine Assertions\nJohnson: Hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients 'doesn't mean there's some massive crisis'\nWisconsin Congressman Tiffany Says He Advised His Adult Daughters Against Getting COVID-19 Vaccine\nEfforts To Step Up Vaccinations For Youth After 'Wave' Of Enthusiasm Dies Down","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lockdown Forever!\nChannel Migrant Crisis\nMajority of Greeks Unhappy with EU Response to Hagia Sofia Mosque Conversion\nismail bayar \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus\nA majority of Greeks have expressed dissatisfaction with the international response to the Turkish regime announcing it would be converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.\nA poll, released by the Thessaloniki-based Vergina television station, has revealed that 87 per cent of Greeks are disappointed in the European Union's reaction to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's move to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.\nThe majority, 53 per cent, also said the Greek government should have done more on the issue, while 77 per cent disapproved of Russia's stance on the matter, Proto Thema reports.\nRussia, like Greece, has a large Orthodox Church population and the Hagia Sophia, the largest church not just in Orthodoxy but in all Christendom until the violent conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) by the Ottoman Turks, has major religious and cultural significance.\nTurkish Islamic Conservatives Win: Hagia Sophia Cleared to Become a Mosque Again https:\/\/t.co\/I7DYeSPja9\n\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 10, 2020\nWhen it comes to how to respond to Erdogan's actions, 68 per cent of Greeks said financial sanctions would be appropriate, while 28 per cent said they felt nothing would stop the Islamist leader.\nMeanwhile, the poll found that 40 per cent of Greeks would be open to converting the house in Greece where Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, the founder of modern Turkey, into a museum of the \"Genocide of Hellenism\".\n55 per cent disagreed with such a move, however.\nThe Greek government expressed opposition to converting the Hagia Sophia earlier this month, with government spokesman Stelios Petsas saying the move would strain relations between Christians and Turkey.\nPope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic church, also came out against the conversion, saying \"My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained.\"\nHe also wrote a letter to Erdogan expressing \"grief and dismay.\"\nIsraeli Researchers: Turkey's Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians Destroyed by '30-year Genocide' https:\/\/t.co\/aRjCReVK4W\n\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 19, 2019\nFollow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com\nIsrael \/ Middle EastLondon \/ EuropePoliticsChristendomChristianityConstantinopleCulture ClashEUEuropean UnionGreeceGreek Orthodox ChurchHagia SophiaimperialismIslamIslamisationIslamismIstanbulOrthodox ChristianityOrthodox ChristiansRecep Tayyip ErdoganTurkey","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"JP6151700B2 - Method, apparatus and system for enabling managed remote access - Google Patents\nMethod, apparatus and system for enabling managed remote access Download PDF\nwtru\n\u30ef\u30c8\u30d5\u30a1 \u30de\u30fc\u30e0\u30fc\u30c9\n\u30a2\u30fc\u30de\u30c3\u30c9 \u30b5\u30fc\u30c9\n\u30a2\u30c9\u30b8\u30e3\u30af\u30d7\u30eb \u30d1\u30b9\u30ab\u30eb\n\u30aa\u30eb\u30d9\u30e9\u2212\u30d8\u30eb\u30ca\u30f3\u30c7\u30b9 \u30e6\u30ea\u30b7\u30fc\u30ba\n\u30a2\u30ae\u30ea \u30d9\u30ed\u30a6\u30ba\n\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30c7\u30a4\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb \u30d1\u30c6\u30f3\u30c8 \u30db\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30b9 \u30a4\u30f3\u30b3\u30fc\u30dd\u30ec\u30a4\u30c6\u30c3\u30c9\n2012-09-26 Application filed by \u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30c7\u30a4\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb \u30d1\u30c6\u30f3\u30c8 \u30db\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30b9 \u30a4\u30f3\u30b3\u30fc\u30dd\u30ec\u30a4\u30c6\u30c3\u30c9, \u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30c7\u30a4\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb \u30d1\u30c6\u30f3\u30c8 \u30db\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30b9 \u30a4\u30f3\u30b3\u30fc\u30dd\u30ec\u30a4\u30c6\u30c3\u30c9 filed Critical \u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30c7\u30a4\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb \u30d1\u30c6\u30f3\u30c8 \u30db\u30fc\u30eb\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30b9 \u30a4\u30f3\u30b3\u30fc\u30dd\u30ec\u30a4\u30c6\u30c3\u30c9\nH04W36\/0005\u2014Control or signalling for completing the hand-off\nH04W36\/0011\u2014Control or signalling for completing the hand-off for data session or connection\nH04W36\/0033\u2014Control or signalling for completing the hand-off for data session or connection with transfer of context information\nH04W36\/02\u2014Buffering or recovering information during reselection ; Modification of the traffic flow during hand-off\nH04W84\/00\u2014Network topologies\nH04W84\/02\u2014Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]\nH04W84\/04\u2014Large scale networks; Deep hierarchical networks\nH04W84\/042\u2014Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems\nH04W84\/045\u2014Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B\nThe field of the invention relates to wireless communications, and more particularly to methods, apparatus and systems that enable managed remote access.\nThis application claims priority from US Provisional Patent Application No. 61 \/ 541,825, filed September 30, 2011, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.\nLIPA (local IP access) establishes IP connectivity to a local network (LN) using wireless access of the home eNodeB and \/ or home NodeB (eg, referred to as H (e) NB). Can be provided.\nEmbodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods, apparatus and systems for handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between an LN and another network. The WTRU may have established a local IP access (LIPA) session at the LN via a first access point (AP). The method includes receiving a request to connect to another network by a second AP in the other network, and transitioning a LIPA session in the local IP network to a managed remote access (MRA) session in the other network. Can be included. The transition may include establishing a path between the first AP and the second AP via the gateway and notifying the gateway about the transition to the MRA session.\nA more detailed understanding may be had from the following detailed description, given by way of example in conjunction with the accompanying drawings hereof. The figures in such drawings are examples, as are the embodiments for carrying out the invention. Accordingly, the drawings and detailed description are not to be considered limiting, and other equally valid examples are possible and likely. Furthermore, the same number in a figure shows the same element.\nFIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary communication system in which one or more disclosed embodiments can be implemented. FIG. 1B illustrates an exemplary wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) that may be used within the communication system illustrated in FIG. 1A. 1B is a system diagram illustrating an exemplary radio access network and an exemplary core network that may be used within the communication system illustrated in FIG. 1A. FIG. 1B is a system diagram illustrating an exemplary radio access network and an exemplary core network that may be used within the communication system illustrated in FIG. 1A. FIG. 1B is a system diagram illustrating an exemplary radio access network and an exemplary core network that may be used within the communication system illustrated in FIG. 1A. FIG. 1D is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication system similar to the communication system of FIG. 1D. FIG. FIG. 2 illustrates another exemplary communication system that includes multiple local gateways (LGWs) each having a respective H (e) NB. FIG. 4 illustrates a portion of the exemplary communication system of FIG. 3 having a WTRU that travels along a travel path and connects to (eg, accesses the system through) different H (e) NBs. FIG. It is a figure which shows the selected IP traffic offload (SIPTO: selected IP Traffic Offload). FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating user data offload to the Internet via an LGW that can be connected to a HeNB subsystem. FIG. 2 shows an exemplary stand-alone LGW architecture for a HeNB subsystem in which the HeNB can interface with the HeNB GW via an S1-U interface. Another for HNB subsystem where HNB can interface with HNB GW via Iuhh interface, and HNB can interface with LGW via Sxx interface to Evolved Packet System (EPS) FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a typical standalone LGW architecture. Further representative standalone of HNB subsystem where HNB can interface with HNB GW via Iuh interface and HNB can interface with LGW via Sxx interface to Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) It is a figure which shows a LGW architecture. FIG. 2 shows an additional exemplary standalone LGW architecture for the HeNB subsystem where the HeNB can interface with the HeNB GW via the S1-U interface and the LGW is on the S1 path. FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary standalone LGW architecture for an HNB subsystem where the HNB can interface with the HNB GW via an Iuh interface to an evolved packet system (EPS) and the LGW is on the Iuh path. FIG. 2 illustrates a typical standalone LGW architecture for an HNB subsystem where the HNB can interface with the HNB GW via an Iuh interface to UMTS and the LGW is on the Iuh path. FIG. 6 shows a handover procedure including transition between a LIPA session and an MRA session using an eNB in a macro network. FIG. 6 shows a handover procedure including transitions between a LIPA session and an MRA session using a HeNB in another LN. FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary data path for the downlink for an MRA session. FIG. 5 illustrates a representative service request procedure. It is a figure which shows a typical access control scenario. FIG. 6 shows a WTRU moving out of LN while in idle mode. It is a flowchart which shows the typical handover method. It is a flowchart which shows the typical setup method. It is a flowchart which shows another typical handover method. It is a flowchart which shows the further typical handover method. It is a flowchart which shows the additional typical handover method. It is a flowchart which shows the typical end method. It is a flowchart which shows another typical handover method. It is a flowchart which shows the typical selection method. It is a flowchart which shows the typical setup method. It is a flowchart which shows the typical setup method. It is a flowchart which shows a typical method.\nAlthough detailed descriptions are set forth and described herein with reference to specific embodiments, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the details shown. Rather, various changes in detail may be made within the scope of the claims and their equivalents without departing from the invention.\nFIG. 1A is a diagram of an exemplary communication system 100 in which one or more disclosed embodiments may be implemented. The communication system 100 may be a multiple access system that provides content such as data, video, messaging, broadcast, etc. to multiple wireless users. The communication system 100 allows multiple users to access such content via sharing of system resources including wireless bandwidth. For example, communication system 100 may include one or more such as code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA), and single carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA). Multiple channel access methods may be employed.\nAs shown in FIG. 1A, a communication system 100 includes a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d, a radio access network (RAN) 104, a core network 106, a public switched telephone network (PSTN). 108, the Internet 110, and other networks 112 may be included, but it should be understood that the disclosed embodiments contemplate any number of WTRUs, base stations, networks, and \/ or network elements. Each of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d may be any type of device configured to operate and \/ or communicate in a wireless environment. For example, the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d may be configured to transmit and \/ or receive radio signals and user equipment (UE), mobile stations, fixed or mobile subscriber units, It may include a pager, a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a laptop, a netbook, a personal computer, a wireless sensor, and a home appliance.\nThe communication system 100 may also include a base station 114a and a base station 114b. Each of the base stations 114a, 114b wirelessly interfaces with at least one of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d to one or more communication networks such as the core network 106, the Internet 110, and \/ or the network 112. It may be any type of device configured to facilitate access. For example, the base stations 114a and 114b may be a radio base station (BTS), a NodeB, an eNodeB, a home NodeB, a home eNodeB, a site controller, an access point (AP), a wireless router, and the like. Although base stations 114a, 114b are each illustrated as a single element, it should be understood that base stations 114a, 114b may include any number of interconnected base stations and \/ or network elements. .\nThe base station 114a may be part of the RAN 104, which is a network element such as another base station and \/ or base station controller (BSC), radio network controller (RNC), and relay node (see FIG. (Not shown). Base station 114a and \/ or base station 114b may be configured to transmit and \/ or receive radio signals in a particular geographic area, which may be referred to as a cell (not shown). The cell may be further divided into cell sectors. For example, the cell associated with the base station 114a may be divided into three sectors. Thus, in one embodiment, base station 114a may include three transceivers, ie, one transceiver for each sector of the cell. In another embodiment, the base station 114a may employ multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology and thus may utilize multiple transceivers per sector of the cell.\nBase stations 114a, 114b may communicate with one or more of WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d over air interface 116, which may be connected to any suitable wireless communication link (eg, radio frequency ( RF), microwaves, infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), and visible light. The air interface 116 may be established using any suitable radio access technology (RAT).\nMore specifically, as described above, the communication system 100 may be a multiple access system and employs one or more channel access schemes such as CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, and SC-FDMA. May be. For example, the base station 114a and the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c in the RAN 104 may implement a radio technology such as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), which is a wideband CDMA (WCDMA (registration)). Trademark)) may be used to establish the air interface 116. WCDMA may include communication protocols such as high-speed packet access (HSPA) and \/ or evolved HSPA (HSPA +). HSPA may include high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) and \/ or high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA).\nIn another embodiment, the base station 114a and the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA), which is a long term evolution (LTE). ) And \/ or LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) may be used to establish the air interface 116.\nIn other embodiments, the base station 114a and the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c are IEEE 802.16 (ie, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX)), CDMA2000, CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 EV-DO, t1 ), Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), Interim Standard 856 (IS-856), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM (registered trademark)), Enhanced Data rates GED, GED, GED (GERAN) may implement a radio technology such as.\nThe base station 114b of FIG. 1A may be, for example, a wireless router, home NodeB, home eNodeB, or access point, facilitating wireless connectivity in localized areas such as the workplace, home, vehicle, and campus. Any suitable RAT may be used for this purpose. In one embodiment, base station 114b and WTRUs 102c, 102d may implement a radio technology such as IEEE 802.11 to establish a wireless local area network (WLAN). In another embodiment, the base station 114b and the WTRUs 102c, 102d may implement a wireless technology such as IEEE 802.15 to establish a wireless personal area network (WPAN). In another embodiment, the base station 114b and the WTRU 102c, 102d may utilize a cellular-based RAT (eg, WCDMA, CDMA2000, GSM, LTE, LTE-A, etc.) to establish a picocell or femtocell. Good. As shown in FIG. 1A, the base station 114b may have a direct connection to the Internet 110. Accordingly, the base station 114b may not be required to access the Internet 110 via the core network 106.\nThe RAN 104 may communicate with a core network 106 that provides voice, data, application, and \/ or voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services in one or more of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d. It may be any type of network configured to provide For example, the core network 106 provides call control, billing services, mobile location-based services, prepaid calling, Internet connectivity, video delivery, etc. and \/ or performs high-level security functions such as user authentication. Also good. Although not shown in FIG. 1A, it should be understood that the RAN 104 and \/ or the core network 106 may communicate directly or indirectly with other RANs that use the same RAT as the RAN 104 or a different RAT. For example, in addition to being connected to a RAN 104 that can utilize E-UTRA radio technology, the core network 106 may communicate with another RAN (not shown) that utilizes GSM radio technology. .\nThe core network 106 may also serve as a gateway for the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d to access the PSTN 108, the Internet 110, and \/ or other networks 112. The PSTN 108 may include a circuit switched telephone network that provides plain old telephone service (POTS). The Internet 110 is an interconnected computer network and devices that use common communication protocols such as TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and IP in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) \/ Internet Protocol (IP) Internet Protocol Suite. The global system may be included. The network 112 may include a wired or wireless communication network owned and \/ or operated by other service providers. For example, the network 112 may include another core network connected to one or more RANs that may employ the same RAT as the RAN 104 or a different RAT.\nSome or all of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d in the communication system 100 may include multi-mode capability, i.e., the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, 102d communicate with different wireless networks over different wireless links. May also include a transceiver. For example, the WTRU 102c shown in FIG. 1A may be configured to communicate with a base station 114a that may employ cellular-based radio technology and a base station 114b that may employ IEEE 802 radio technology. .\nFIG. 1B is a system diagram of a representative WTRU 102. As shown in FIG. 1B, the WTRU 102 includes a processor 118, a transceiver 120, a transceiver element 122, a speaker \/ microphone 124, a keypad 126, a display \/ touchpad 128, a non-removable memory 130, a removable memory 132, a power source. 134, global positioning system (GPS) chipset 136, and other peripheral devices 138. It should be understood that the WTRU 102 may include any sub-combination of the aforementioned elements while remaining consistent with the embodiment.\nThe processor 118 is a general purpose processor, special purpose processor, conventional processor, digital signal processor (DSP), multiple microprocessors, one or more microprocessors associated with the DSP core, controller, microcontroller, application specific integrated circuit. (ASIC), field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuit, any other type of integrated circuit (IC), state machine, etc. The processor 118 may perform signal coding, data processing, power control, input \/ output processing, and \/ or any other functionality that enables the WTRU 102 to operate in a wireless environment. The processor 118 may be coupled to the transceiver 120, which may be coupled to the transceiver element 122. 1B depicts the processor 118 and the transceiver 120 as separate components, it should be understood that the processor 118 and the transceiver 120 may be integrated together in an electronic package or chip.\nThe transmit \/ receive element 122 may be configured to transmit signals to or receive signals from a base station (eg, base station 114a) over the air interface 116. For example, in one embodiment, the transmit \/ receive element 122 may be an antenna configured to transmit and \/ or receive RF signals. In another embodiment, the transmit \/ receive element 122 may be an emitter \/ detector configured to transmit and \/ or receive IR, UV, or visible light signals, for example. In another embodiment, the transmit \/ receive element 122 may be configured to transmit and receive both RF and visible light signals. It should be appreciated that the transmit \/ receive element 122 may be configured to transmit and \/ or receive any combination of wireless signals.\nIn addition, although the transmit \/ receive element 122 is illustrated as a single element in FIG. 1B, the WTRU 102 may include any number of transmit \/ receive elements 122. More specifically, the WTRU 102 may employ MIMO technology. Thus, in one embodiment, the WTRU 102 may include multiple transmit \/ receive elements 122 (eg, multiple antennas) that transmit and receive wireless signals over the air interface 116.\nThe transceiver 120 may be configured to modulate the signal transmitted by the transceiver element 122 and demodulate the signal received by the transceiver element 122. As described above, the WTRU 102 may have multi-mode capability. Accordingly, transceiver 120 may include a plurality of transceivers that allow WTRU 102 to communicate via a plurality of RATs, such as, for example, UTRA and IEEE 802.11.\nThe processor 118 of the WTRU 102 may be coupled to a speaker \/ microphone 124, a keypad 126, and \/ or a display \/ touchpad 128 (eg, a liquid crystal display (LCD) display unit or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display unit), In addition, user input data may be received from these. The processor 118 may also output user data to the speaker \/ microphone 124, the keypad 126, and \/ or the display \/ touchpad 128. Further, processor 118 may access information from any type of suitable memory, such as non-removable memory 130 and \/ or removable memory 132, and store data in that memory. Non-removable memory 130 may include random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), a hard disk, or any other type of memory storage device. The removable memory 132 may include a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, a memory stick, a secure digital (SD) memory card, and the like. In other embodiments, the processor 118 may access information from and store data in memory that is not physically located on the WTRU 102, such as on a server or a home computer (not shown). Good.\nThe processor 118 may receive power from the power source 134 and may be configured to distribute and \/ or control power to other components in the WTRU 102. The power source 134 may be any suitable device that provides power to the WTRU 102. For example, power supply 134 may include one or more dry cells (eg, nickel-cadmium (NiCd), nickel-zinc (NiZn), nickel hydride (NiMH), and lithium ion (Li-ion)), solar cells, and fuel. A battery or the like may be included.\nThe processor 118 may also be coupled to the GPS chipset 136, which may be configured to provide location information (eg, longitude and latitude) regarding the current location of the WTRU 102. In addition to or instead of information from the GPS chipset 136, the WTRU 102 receives location information over the air interface 116 from a base station (eg, base stations 114a, 114b) and \/ or multiple neighboring base stations. The position may be determined based on the timing of the signal received from the station. It should be understood that the WTRU 102 may obtain location information by any suitable location determination method while remaining consistent with embodiments.\nThe processor 118 may further be coupled to other peripherals 138, which may include one or more software modules that provide additional features, functionality, and \/ or wired or wireless connectivity and A hardware module may be included. For example, the peripheral device 138 includes an accelerometer, an e-compass, a satellite transceiver, a digital camera (for photo or video), a universal serial bus (USB) port, a vibration device, a television transceiver, a hands-free headset, Bluetooth (registered) (Trademark) module, frequency modulation (FM) wireless unit, digital music player, media player, video game player module, Internet browser, and the like.\nFIG. 1C is a system diagram of the RAN 104 and the core network 106 according to an embodiment. As described above, the RAN 104 may employ UTRA radio technology to communicate with the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c over the air interface 116. The RAN 104 may also communicate with the core network 106. As shown in FIG. 1C, the RAN 104 may include NodeBs 140a, 140b, 140c, which communicate with one or more WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c over the air interface 116, respectively. A transceiver may be included. Each of the NodeBs 140a, 140b, 140c may be associated with a particular cell (not shown) in the RAN 104. The RAN 104 may also include RNCs 142a, 142b. It should be understood that the RAN 104 may include any number of NodeBs and RNCs consistent with embodiments.\nAs shown in FIG. 1C, NodeBs 140a, 140b may be in communication with RNC 142a. In addition, the NodeB 140c may be in communication with the RNC 142b. The NodeBs 140a, 140b, 140c may communicate with the respective RNCs 142a, 142b via the Iub interface. The RNCs 142a and 142b may communicate with each other via an Iur interface. Each of the RNCs 142a, 142b may be configured to control the respective NodeBs 140a, 140b, 140c to which it is connected. In addition, each of the RNCs 142a, 142b performs or supports other functionality such as outer loop power control, load control, admission control, packet scheduling, handover control, macro diversity, security functions, and data encryption. It may be configured to.\nThe core network 106 shown in FIG. 1C may include a media gateway (MGW) 144, a mobile switching center (MSC) 146, a serving GPRS support node (SGSN) 148, and \/ or a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) 150. . While each of the foregoing elements is shown as part of the core network 106, it is understood that any one of these elements may be owned and \/ or operated by entities other than the core network operator. I want to be.\nThe RNC 142a in the RAN 104 may be connected to the MSC 146 in the core network 106 via an IuCS interface. The MSC 146 may be connected to the MGW 144. MSC 146 and MGW 144 may provide access to circuit switched networks such as PSTN 108 to WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c to facilitate communication between WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c and conventional landline communication devices.\nThe RNC 142a in the RAN 104 may be connected to the SGSN 148 in the core network 106 via an IuPS interface. SGSN 148 may be connected to GGSN 150. SGSN 148 and GGSN 150 may provide WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c with access to a packet switched network such as the Internet 110 to facilitate communication between the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c and the IP enabled device.\nAs described above, the core network 106 may also be connected to the network 112, which may include other wired or wireless networks owned and \/ or operated by other service providers.\nFIG. 1D is a system diagram of the RAN 104 and the core network 106 according to another embodiment. As described above, the RAN 104 may employ E-UTRA radio technology to communicate with the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c over the air interface 116. The RAN 104 may also be in communication with the core network 106.\nAlthough the RAN 104 may include eNodeBs 160a, 160b, 160c, it should be understood that the RAN 104 may include any number of eNodeBs consistent with embodiments. Each eNodeB 160a, 160b, 160c may include one or more transceivers that communicate with the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c over the air interface 116. In one embodiment, the eNodeBs 160a, 160b, 160c may implement MIMO technology. Thus, for example, eNodeB 160a may use multiple antennas to transmit radio signals to and receive radio signals from WTRU 102a.\nEach of the eNodeBs 160a, 160b, and 160c may be associated with a particular cell (not shown) and handle radio resource management decisions, handover decisions, scheduling of users in the uplink and \/ or downlink, etc. It may be configured as follows. As shown in FIG. 1D, the eNodeBs 160a, 160b, 160c may communicate with each other via an X2 interface.\nThe core network 106 shown in FIG. 1D may include a mobility management gateway (MME) 162, a serving gateway (SGW) 164, and a packet data network (PDN) gateway (PGW) 166. Although each of the foregoing elements is shown as part of the core network 106, it should be understood that any one of these elements may be owned and \/ or operated by an entity other than the core network operator. .\nThe MME 162 may be connected to each of the eNodeBs 160a, 160b, 160c in the RAN 104 via the S1 interface, and may serve as a control node. For example, the MME 162 may be responsible for authenticating users of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, bearer activation \/ deactivation, and selecting a particular serving gateway during the initial attachment of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, and so forth. The MME 162 may also provide a control plane function for switching between the RAN 104 and other RANs (not shown) that employ other radio technologies such as GSM or WCDMA.\nThe serving gateway 164 may be connected to each of the eNode-Bs 160a, 160b, and 160c in the RAN 104 via the S1 interface. Serving gateway 164 generally routes and forwards user data packets to \/ from WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c. Serving gateway 164 provides user plane anchoring during inter-eNodeB handover, paging triggers when downlink data is available for WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, and context management and storage of WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c. Other functions may be performed.\nServing gateway 164 may be connected to PDN gateway 166, which provides WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c access to a packet-switched network such as the Internet 110 and is IP-enabled with WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c. Connections between devices may be facilitated.\nThe core network 106 may facilitate communication with other networks. For example, the core network 106 provides access to a circuit switched network such as the PSTN 108 to the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c to facilitate communication between the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c and a conventional landline communication device. Good. For example, the core network 106 may include or communicate with an IP gateway (eg, an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) server) that serves as an interface between the core network 106 and the PSTN 108. Additionally, the core network 106 may provide WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c with access to a network 112 that may include other wired or wireless networks owned and \/ or operated by other service providers.\nFIG. 1E is a system diagram illustrating the RAN 104 and the core network 106 according to an embodiment. The RAN 104 may be an ASN (Access Service Network) that employs IEEE 802.16 radio technology to communicate with the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c over the air interface 116. As discussed further below, communication links between WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c, RAN 104, and different functional entities of core network 106 may be defined as reference points.\nAs shown in FIG. 1E, the RAN 104 may include base stations 170a, 170b, 170c, and an ASN gateway 172, but the RAN 104 may include any number of base stations and ASN gateways consistent with embodiments. It should be understood that it may be included. Base stations 170a, 170b, and 170c may each be associated with a particular cell (not shown) in RAN 104, and base stations 170a, 170b, and 170c, respectively, on WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c on air interface 116, One or more transceivers may be included to communicate. In one embodiment, the base stations 170a, 170b, 170c may implement MIMO technology. Thus, for example, base station 170a may transmit radio signals to and receive radio signals from WTRU 102a using multiple antennas. Base stations 170a, 170b, 170c may provide mobility management functions such as handoff trigger, tunnel establishment, radio resource management, and traffic classification, quality of service (QoS) policy enforcement. The ASN gateway 172 may serve as a traffic aggregation point and may be responsible for paging, subscriber profile caching, routing to the core network 106, and the like.\nThe air interface 116 between the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c and the RAN 104 may be defined as an R1 reference point that implements the IEEE 802.16 specification. In addition, each of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c may establish a logical interface (not shown) with the core network 106. The logical interface between the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c and the core network 106 may be defined as an R2 reference point that can be used for authentication, authorization, IP host configuration management, and \/ or mobility management.\nThe communication link between each of base stations 170a, 170b, and 170c may be defined as an R8 reference point that includes a protocol that facilitates WTRU handover and transfer of data between base stations. The communication link between the base stations 170a, 170b, 170c and the ASN gateway 215 may be defined as the R6 reference point. The R6 reference point may include a protocol that facilitates mobility management based on mobility events associated with each of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 100c.\nAs shown in FIG. 1E, the RAN 104 may be connected to the core network 106. The communication link between the RAN 104 and the core network 106 may be defined as an R3 reference point that includes protocols that facilitate, for example, data transfer and mobility management capabilities. The core network 106 may include a mobile IP home agent (MIP-HA) 174, an authentication \/ authorization \/ accounting (AAA) server 176, and a gateway 178. Although each of the foregoing elements is shown as part of the core network 106, it should be understood that any one of these elements may be owned and \/ or operated by an entity other than the core network operator. .\nThe MIP-HA 174 may be responsible for IP address management and may allow the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c to roam between different ASNs and \/ or different core networks. The MIP-HA 174 may provide access to a packet switched network, such as the Internet 110, to the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c to facilitate communication between the WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c and the IP enabled device. AAA server 176 may be responsible for supporting user authentication and user services. The gateway 178 may facilitate interworking with other networks. For example, gateway 178 may provide WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c with access to a circuit switched network such as PSTN 108 to facilitate communication between WTRUs 102a, 102b, and 102c and conventional landline communication devices. . Further, gateway 178 may provide WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c with access to network 112, which may include other wired or wireless networks owned and \/ or operated by other service providers.\nAlthough not shown in FIG. 1E, it should be understood that the RAN 104 may be connected to other ASNs and the core network 106 may be connected to other core networks. A communication link between the RAN 104 and another ASN may be defined as an R4 reference point that may include a protocol that coordinates the mobility of the WTRUs 102a, 102b, 102c between the RAN 104 and the other ASN. A communication link between the core network 106 and another core network may be defined as an R5 standard that may include a protocol that facilitates interworking between the home core network and the visited core network.\nMobile users may select from a wide range of technologies that access the network, such as GPRS, EDGE, 3G, and \/ or 4G for wide area access, and \/ or WiFi for local area access. Mobile hosts are becoming increasingly multi-homed (eg, connected via multiple access technologies and \/ or multiple access points) and may own multiple disparate interfaces. Internet content is increasingly distributed (eg, on the \"cloud\") as content delivery becomes increasingly complex (eg, to get accurate content from the correct location).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, a multi-homed wireless device (eg, among other things, a mobile host, mobile device, netbook, and \/ or WTRU 102) is in content (eg, Internet-based content). It may be accessed or received (eg, accessed or received efficiently).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, a multi-homed mobile host can transmit content or receive content (eg, receive content efficiently) (eg, wireless and wireless). A subset or all of (or wired) may be used (eg, fully available).\nAlthough the receiver is described as a wireless terminal in FIGS. 1A-1E, it is contemplated that in some exemplary embodiments such a terminal may use a wired communication interface with a communication network. ing.\nFIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication system 200 similar to the communication system of FIG. 1D that can collocate an L-GW with a home evolved NodeB (HeNB).\nWith reference to FIG. 2, an exemplary communication system 200 may include, among other things, an evolved packet core (EPC) 210 (eg, a 3GPP evolved packet core), an IP backhaul 220, and \/ or a home network 230. The EPC 210 may include a PGW 212, an SGW 214, and an MME 216. The home network may include a local gateway LGW 232 and a home eNB 234. The security gateway (SeGW) may provide a security function and \/ or an authentication function between the EPC 210 and the home network 230, for example. The home router (HR) and \/ or network address translator (NAT) HR \/ NAT 250 may behave or operate as a router for packets traversing to or from the LGW 232 and \/ or HeNB 234. The HR \/ NAT 250 may, for example, hide the IP address space (eg, private IP address) of the home network behind a single IP address (or group of IP addresses) and LGW 232 And \/ or a network address table for routing to the private IP address of the HeNB 234 may be included.\nSeGW 260 may act or act as the first endpoint of tunnel 270 (eg, corresponding to the first IP address), as well as the home network (eg, HR \/ NAT 250 or other in home network 230). Device) may act or act as a second endpoint of tunnel 270 (eg, corresponding to a second IP address). The WTRU 102 may communicate with the HeNB 234 (eg, communicate wirelessly).\nThe PGW 212 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the SGW 214 via the S5 interface, and the SGW 214 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the MME 216 via the S11 interface. The MME 216 of the EPC 210 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the HeNB 234 via the SeGW 260 and the HR \/ NAT 250 via the S1-mme interface. The SGW 214 of the EPC 210 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the HeNB 234 via the SeGW 260 and the HR \/ NAT 250 via the S1-U interface, and the SeGW 260 and the HR \/ NAT 250 via the S5 interface. May be coupled to (eg, connected to) LGW 232.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, an access point (AP) (eg, inter alia HNB or HeNB) is selected for MRA and data travels (eg, traverses) through the selected AP. An MRA connection setup may be used.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the procedure has no radio resources to be activated and an AP (e.g., only that resource) to the SGW 214 and LGW 232 can be activated (e.g., only that resource). The context may be set up in HNB or HeNB).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, a handover (HO) may be initiated in either direction based on the movement of the WTRU 102 between the MRA and the LIPA. For LIPA to MRA, after HO, radio resources (eg, radio resources only) may be released at the source AP (eg, HNB or HeNB), while resources at LGW 232 and SGW 214 are maintained. Also good. The data path for MRA may be modified to proceed (eg, traverse) through SGW 214. Representative examples of triggers that can be used to initiate this change include, among other things, (1) MRA \/ LIPA transitions based on whether the WTRU 102 is executing a signaling procedure or a procedure associated with user data. It may include idle mode mobility, which may have different processing, and \/ or (2) MRA access check.\nAccess to the local IP network may be achieved through the use of an LGW that may have functionality similar to that of a PGW (or GGSN).\nHerein, HeNB is used to describe the AP, but other access point technologies such as HNB (UTRAN) may be used. The terms H (e) NB, HeNB, or HNB may be interchangeable throughout this specification and may define a home NodeB and \/ or a home eNodeB.\nThe LGW 232 may be collocated with the HeNB 234 or with the HeNB 234. Since the LGW 232 may be collocated with the HeNB 234, the LIPA connection may be deactivated when the WTRU 102 moves out of the coverage of the HeNB 234 (in either idle mode or connected mode). For a WTRU 102 in a connected mode that is about to perform a handover (HO) to another cell, the HeNB 234 may first notify the LGW 232 about the HO and later deactivate the LIPA PDN connection. . After the LIPA PDN connection is deactivated (eg, only later), the WTRU 102 may be handed over to another cell. If during the HO, the MME 216 determines that the LIPA bearer \/ PDN connection is not deactivated, the MME 216 may reject the HO.\nFIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating another exemplary communication system 300 that includes multiple LGWs 332 each having a respective HeNB 334. FIG. 4 shows a WTRU 102 (eg, WTRU 102 is connected to the same L-GW) that travels along the mobile path and connects to (eg, accesses the system through) different HeNB 334. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a portion of the exemplary communication system of FIG.\nReferring to FIG. 3, a typical communication system 300 includes a plurality of packet data networks 310A and 310B, and a plurality of local HeNBs connected to the plurality of packet data networks 310A and 310B via interfaces. Networks 320A and 320B may be included. Local HeNB network 320A may include LGW 332A and one or more HeNBs 334A, 334B, and 334C coupled to (eg, connected to) LGW 332A. Local HeNB network 320B may include LGW 332B and one or more HeNBs 334D and 334E coupled (eg, connected) to LGW 332B.\nReferring to FIG. 4, the WTRU 102 may move between the HeNBs 334A, 334B, and 334C along the movement path indicated by the arrows. To allow continuity of the LIPA PDN connection 350 when the WTRU 102 moves between HeNBs 334A, 334B, and 334C of the local HeNB network 320A, the LGW 332A may be remote from the HeNBs 334A, 334B, and 334C. Or may be separate. Multiple HeNBs may be connected to the same LGW so that a WTRU 102 having a LIPA PDN connection 350 moves across these HeNBs (referred to as HeNB subsystems) 334 while maintaining that LIPA PDN connection 350 May be.\nIf the WTRU 102 moves completely out of the HeNB subsystem 334 (eg, moves out of the coverage of all HeNBs 334A, 334B, and 334C connected to the LGW 332A), the WTRU's PDN connection 350 to LIPA is non- It may be activated.\nFIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating Selected IP Traffic Offload (SIPTO) using a representative communication system 500.\nWith reference to FIG. 5, an exemplary communication system 500 may include a core network (CN) 510 and a radio access network (RAN) 520. CN 510 may include MME 512 and PGW 514. The RAN 520 may include an AP 522 (eg, eNB or other AP). SGW 530 and local PGW (L-PGW) 540 may be located at RAN 520 (eg, operable locally at RAN 520 or in front of CN 510). The WTRU 102 may communicate with the AP 522.\nThe PGW 514 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the SGW 530 via the S5 interface, and the MME 512 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the SGW 530 via the S11 interface. SGW 530 may be coupled (eg, connected) to AP 522 via the S1-U interface, and may be coupled (eg, connected) to L-PGW 540 via the S5 interface.\nThe selected IP traffic offload (SIPTO) is generally such that the physical location or IP topological location of the WTRU preferably selects a PGW (eg, L-PGW 540) that is different from the CN 510's PGW 514. Refers to offloading where the network operator selects the PGW to offload traffic to the Internet. SIPTO may be achieved on top of RAN 520 (eg, or external to it), regardless of whether WTRU 102's wireless connection is obtained via AP 522 (eg, eNB, HeNB, or any other AP). Good. The selection of another PGW may not be notified to the WTRU 102 and offloading the WTRU 102's traffic to the L-PGW 540 may degrade the user's service experience. Two traffic streams, a SIPTO traffic stream 560 that may be routed through the SGW 530 to the L-PGW 540, and a CN traffic stream 570 that may be routed through the SGW 530 to the PGW 514 at the CN 510 are shown in FIG.\nThe eNB 522 may be a HeNB configured to perform SIPTO in the user's home network of the WTRU 102, and traffic may be offloaded locally to the user's home network. The home network may be an IP network connected to other devices such as printers, televisions, and \/ or personal computers, among others.\nSIPTO may include, among other things, single or multiple packet data network (PDN) connections and \/ or deployment behind network address translation (NAT).\nFor traffic going through the mobile operator's core network, the SGW 530 user plane functionality may be located in the CN 510. Mobility management signaling between the WTRU 102 and the network may be processed at the CN 510. Session management signaling such as bearer setup for SIPTO traffic and traffic via CN 510 may terminate at CN 510. WTRU offload point reselection for SIPTO traffic that is geographically or topologically close to WTRU 102 may occur during an idle mode mobility procedure.\nThe exemplary system 500 may include an L-PGW 540 that is close to the point of attachment of the WTRU to the RAN 520. L-PGW 540 may offload IP traffic 560 based on some policy or configuration, eg, based on, among other things, IP address destination and \/ or requested service (eg, video service and \/ or streaming service), among others. May be executed. IP traffic 560 may go through L-PGW 540 instead of operator's CN 510 (eg, via SGW 530 and PGW 514 or via SGSN and GGSN (not shown)).\nL-PGW 540 may have some functionality of PDW \/ GGSN. For example, the L-PGW 540 may (1) IP address assignment, (2) direct tunneling with the RAN 520 in connected mode, (3) policy-based packet filtering per WTRU, and \/ or (4) rate policing \/ shaping, etc. May include functionality. A PDN connection (eg, a suitable PDN connection) may be used to perform SIPTO and \/ or LIPA transfers to the LN or intranet. The WTRU 102 may set the access point name (APN) to a particular value when requesting a PDN connection or requesting establishment of a packet data protocol (PDP) context.\nFIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication system 600 configured for user data offload to the Internet via an LGW that may be connected to a HeNB subsystem.\nAs shown in FIG. 6, the exemplary communication system 600 may include a mobile operator network 610, an enterprise network 620, and an LTE macro network 630. Mobile operator network 610 may include MME 612, PGW 614, and SGW 616. Enterprise network 620 may include LGW 622, HeNB subsystem 624 (eg, including multiple HeNBs 624A, 624B, and 624C). The LTE macro network 630 may include one or more eNBs 632, for example.\nThe PGW 614 may be coupled (eg, connected) to the SGW 616 via an S5 interface, and the SGW 616 may be connected to an enterprise network 620 and \/ or an LTE macro network 630 AP (eg, among others) via an S1-U interface. HeNBs 624A, 624B, and 624C and \/ or eNB 632) may be coupled (eg, connected). MME 612 may be coupled (eg, connected to) AP (eg, among other things, HeNB 624A, 624B, 624C, and \/ or eNB 632) of enterprise network 620 and \/ or LTE macro network 630 via an S1-MME interface. ). LGW 622 may be coupled (eg, connected) to HeNBs 624A, 624B, 624C of HeNB subsystem 624 via other interfaces.\nThe WTRU 102 may communicate with one of the HeNBs 624B of the HeNB subsystem 624, among others: (1) movement of the WTRU 102, (2) signal strength of communication with the HeNBs 624B and 624C, (3) loading of the HeNB 624B, ( 4) may be handed over to HeNB 624C of HeNB subsystem 624 based on one or more criteria including WTRU 102 and \/ or HeNB 624B and 624C capabilities and \/ or (5) services required by WTRU 102.\nOffloading user data to the Internet may be provided via an LGW 622 coupled or connected to the HeNB subsystem 624. In this exemplary system 600 (eg, architecture), a local IP network (LIPA) and \/ or SIPTO may be used (eg, LGW 622 is used) to access LIPA and through the same LGW 622. It is also possible to offload WTRU data to the Internet. This system \/ architecture may enable both LIPA mobility and SIPTO service continuity.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, a PDN connection via HeNB 624B of HeNB subsystem 624 may be established to perform a LIPA transfer between WTRU 102 and the Internet. If a handover to the HeNB occurs to another HeNB 624C of the HeNB subsystem 624, the PDN connection is moved, forwarded and \/ or re-established at the HeNB 624C to continue \/ re-establish the PDN connection. May be.\n<Stand-alone logic LGW>\nFIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary standalone LGW architecture 700 of the HeNB subsystem that allows the HeNB 710 to interface with the HeNBGW 720 via the S1-U interface.\nReferring to FIG. 7, an exemplary standalone LGW architecture 700 includes one or more HeNBs 710 (collectively HeNB subsystems, not shown), HeNB gateway 720, LGW 730, SGW 740, MME 750, SeGW 760, and \/ or WTRU 102. May be included.\nLGW 730 is coupled (1) to a packet data network (PDN) or the Internet via an SGi interface, (2) to one or more HeNBs 710 via an Sxx interface, and \/ or (3) coupled to an SGW 740 via an S5 interface. (E.g., connected). The SGW 740 may be coupled (1) to the LGW via the S5 interface, (2) to one or more HeNBs 710 via the S1U interface, and \/ or (3) to the MME 750 via the S11 interface (eg, Connected). The MME 750 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the SGW 740 via the S11 interface and \/ or (2) one or more HeNBs 710 via the S1-MME interface. One or more HeNBs 710 may: (1) LGW 730 via Sxx interface, (2) SGW 740 via S1-U interface, (3) WTRU 102 via Uu interface, and \/ or (4) S1 It may be coupled (eg, connected) to the MME 750 via the MME interface. Each HeNB 710 of the HeNB subsystem may be coupled (eg, connected) to other HeNBs 710 of the HeNB subsystem via the X2 interface.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the HeNB gateway 720 may: (1) the S1-MME interface pathway between the MME 750 and the HeNB 710; and \/ or (2) the S1-U interface between the SGW 740 and the HeNB 710. May be included in the pathway.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, SeGW 760 may: (1) S5 interface pathway between LGW 730 and SGW 740, (2) S1-U interface pathway between SGW 740 and HeNB 710, and \/ or ( 3) It may be included in the S1-MME interface pathway between the MME 750 and the HeNB 710.\nFIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating another exemplary stand-alone LGW architecture 800 for the HNB subsystem, where the HNB can interface with the HNB GW via an Iuh interface for an evolved packet system (EPS).\nReferring to FIG. 8, an exemplary architecture 800 includes one or more home NodeB (HNB) 810 (collectively HNB subsystem, not shown), HNB gateway 820, LGW 830, SGW 840, S4-SGSN 850, SeGW 860, And \/ or WTRU 102 may be included.\nThe LGW 830 may be coupled (1) to a PDN or the Internet via an SGi interface, (2) to one or more HNBs 810 via an Sxx interface, and \/ or (3) to an SGW 840 via an S5 interface. (For example, connected). The SGW 840 may be coupled (1) to the LGW 830 via the S5 interface, (2) to the HNB GW 820 via the Iu-UP interface, and \/ or (3) to the S4 SGSN 850 via the S4 interface (eg, Connected). The S4-SGSN 850 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the SGW 840 via the S4 interface and \/ or (2) the HNB GW 820 via the Iu-CP interface. One or more HNBs 810 may be coupled (1) to the LGW 830 via the Sxx interface, (2) to the HNB GW 820 via the Iuh interface, and \/ or (3) to the WTRU 102 via the Uu interface ( For example, connected). Each HNB 810 of the HNB subsystem may be coupled (eg, connected) to other HNBs 810 of the HNB subsystem via the Iurh interface. The HNB GW 820 may be coupled to (1) the HNB 810 via the Iuh interface, (2) the SGW 840 via the Iu-UP interface, and \/ or (3) the S4-SGSN 850 via the Iu-CP interface. Good (eg connected).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, SeGW 860 is included in (1) the S5 interface pathway between LGW 830 and SGW 840 and \/ or (2) the Iuh interface pathway between HNB GW 820 and HNB 810. May be.\nFIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a further exemplary standalone LGW architecture 900 for the HNB subsystem, in which the HNB 910 can interface with the HNB GW 920 via an Iuh interface for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).\nWith reference to FIG. 9, an exemplary architecture 900 includes one or more home NodeB (HNB) 910 (collectively HNB subsystem, not shown), HNB gateway 920, LGW 930, SGSN 950, SeGW 960, and \/ or WTRU 102. May be included.\nThe LGW 930 may be coupled (1) to a PDN or the Internet via a Gi interface, (2) to one or more HNBs 910 via an Sxx interface, and \/ or (3) to an SGSN 950 via a Gn interface. (For example, connected). SGSN 950 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) LGW 930 via a Gn interface and \/ or (2) HNB GW 920 via an Iu interface. One or more HNBs 910 may be coupled to (1) the LGW 930 via the Sxx interface, (2) the HNB GW 920 via the Iuh interface, and \/ or (3) the WTRU 102 via the Uu interface ( For example, connected). Each HNB 910 in the HNB subsystem may be coupled (eg, connected) to other HNBs 910 in the HNB subsystem via the Iurh interface. The HNB GW 920 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the HNB 910 via the Iuh interface and \/ or (2) the SGSN 950 via the Iu interface.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, SeGW 960 is included in (1) the Gn interface pathway between LGW 930 and SGSN 950 and \/ or (2) the Iuh interface pathway between HNB GW 920 and HNB 910. May be.\nFIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an additional exemplary standalone LGW architecture 1000 for the HeNB subsystem where the HeNB 1010 can interface with the HeNB GW 1020 via the S1-U interface and the LGW 1030 is on the S1 path. .\nReferring to FIG. 10, an exemplary architecture 1000 includes one or more HeNBs 1010 (collectively HeNB subsystems, not shown), HeNB gateway 1020, LGW 1030, SGW 1040, MME 1050, SeGW 1060, and \/ or WTRU 102. But you can.\nThe LGW 1030 (1) to the PDN or the Internet via the SGi interface, (2) to one or more HeNBs 1010 via the S1-U interface and \/ or S1-MME interface, (3) via the S1-MME interface It may be coupled (eg, connected) to the MME 1050, (4) to the SGW 1040 via the S1-U interface, and \/ or (5) to the SGW 740 via the S5 interface. For example, the LGW 1030 may be placed in the path of the S1-U interface and \/ or the S1-MME interface.\nThe SGW 1040 is (1) coupled to the LGW 1030 via the S5 interface, (2) coupled to one or more HeNBs 1010 via the S1-U interface via the LGW 1030, and \/ or (3) coupled to the MME 1050 via the S11 interface. It may be (eg, connected). The MME 1050 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the SGW 1040 via the S11 interface and \/ or (2) one or more HeNBs 1010 via the S1-MME interface through the LGW 1030. The one or more HeNBs 1010 may be (1) via the SGW 1030 via the S1-U interface to the SGW 1040, (2) via the LGW 1030 via the S1-MME interface to the MME 1050, and \/ or (3) via the Uu interface. (Eg, connected). Each HeNB 1010 of the HeNB subsystem may be coupled (eg, connected) to other HeNBs 1010 of the HeNB subsystem via the X2 interface.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the HeNB GW 1020 may: (1) the S1-MME interface pathway between the MME 1050 and the LGW 1030; and \/ or (2) the S1-U interface between the SGW 1040 and the LGW 1030. It may be included in the pathway.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the SeGW 1060 may: (1) the S5 interface pathway between the LGW 1030 and the SGW 1040, (2) the S1-U interface pathway between the SGW 1040 and the LGW 1030, and \/ or ( 3) It may be included in the S1-MME interface pathway between MME 1050 and LGW 1030.\nFIG. 11 shows a representative standalone LGW architecture 1100 for an HNB subsystem where the HNB 1110 can interface with the HNB GW 1120 via an Iuh interface to an evolved packet system (EPS) and the LGW 1130 is on the Iuh path. FIG.\nReferring to FIG. 11, an exemplary architecture 1100 includes one or more home NodeB (HNB) 1110 (collectively HNB subsystem, not shown), HNB gateway 1120, LGW 1130, SGW 1140, S4-SGSN 1150, SeGW 1160, And \/ or WTRU 102 may be included.\nLGW 1130 may (1) PDN or the Internet via SGi interface, (2) one or more HNBs 1110 via Iuh interface, (3) HNB GW 1120 via Iuh interface, and \/ or (4) It may be coupled (eg, connected) to SGW 1140 via the S5 interface. For example, the LGW 1130 may be arranged in the path of the Iuh interface.\nThe SGW 1140 may be coupled (1) to the LGW 1130 via the S5 interface, (2) to the HNB GW 1120 via the Iu-UP interface, and \/ or (3) to the S4-SGSN 1150 via the S4 interface ( For example, connected). The S4-SGSN 1150 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the SGW 1140 via the S4 interface and \/ or (2) the HNB GW 1120 via the Iu-UP interface. One or more HNBs 1110 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the HNB GW 1120 via the Iuh interface through the LGW 1130 and \/ or (2) the WTRU 102 via the Uu interface. Each HNB 1110 in the HNB subsystem may be coupled (eg, connected) to other HNBs 1110 in the HNB subsystem via an Iurh interface.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, SeGW 1160 is included in (1) the S5 interface pathway between LGW 1130 and SGW 1140, and \/ or (2) the Iuh interface pathway between HNB GW 1120 and LGW 1130. May be.\nFIG. 12 shows a representative standalone LGW architecture 1200 for an HNB subsystem where the HNB 1210 can interface with the HNB GW 1220 via an Iuh interface for Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) and the LGW 1230 is on the Iuh path. FIG.\nReferring to FIG. 12, architecture 1200 may include one or more home NodeB (HNB) 1210 (collectively HNB subsystem, not shown), HNB gateway 1220, LGW 1230, SGSN 1250, SeGW 1260, and \/ or WTRU 102. Good.\nThe LGW 1230 can be (1) PDN or the Internet via a Gi interface, (2) one or more HNBs 1210 via an Iuh interface, (3) an HNB GW 1220 via an Iuh interface, and \/ or (4) It may be coupled (eg, connected) to SGSN 1250 via a Gn interface. For example, the LGW 1230 may be placed in the path of the Iuh interface.\nSGSN 1250 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) LGW 1230 via a Gn interface and \/ or (2) HNB GW 1220 via an Iuh interface. One or more HNBs 1210 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) HNB GW 1220 via an Iuh interface and \/ or (2) WTRU 102 via a Uu interface. Each HNB 1210 in the HNB subsystem may be coupled (eg, connected) to other HNBs 1210 in the HNB subsystem via the Iurh interface. The HNB GW 1220 may be coupled (eg, connected) to (1) the SGSN 1250 via an Iu interface and \/ or (2) the LGW 1230 via an Iuh interface.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the SeGW 1260 is included in (1) the Gn interface pathway between the LGW 1230 and the SGSN 1250 and \/ or (2) the Iuh interface pathway between the HNB GW 1220 and the LGW 1230. May be.\nManaged remote access (MRA) or remote LIPA (RIPA) generally refers to the continuity of a data session as a user moves between a local network \/ coverage and a macro network \/ coverage). For example, a user can connect to the LN via macro coverage (eg, a HeNB that is not part of a macro cell or LN).\nFIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a handover procedure including a transition between a LIPA session and an MRA session using an eNB in a macro network.\nWith reference to FIG. 13, an exemplary communication system 1300 may include a mobile operator core network 1310, an enterprise network (or LN) 1320, and \/ or a macro network 1330. Mobile operator core network 1310 may include one or more network entities 1312. The macro network 1330 may include one or more second APs (eg, one or more eNBs) 1332.\nThe enterprise network or LN 1320 may include one or more APs 1322 (eg, HNB, HeNB, HeNB subsystem, and \/ or HNB subsystem, among others). The WTRU 102 may be located in the coverage area of the LN 1320 and a connection may be provided via one or more APs 1322 in the LN 1320. LN 1320 may be configured for user data offload to the Internet or LN 1320 (eg, a local IP network via LN 1320). One or more APs 1322 of the LN 1320 may provide coverage to the WTRU 102 (eg, a LIPA session at the LN 1320, eg, to connect to the video server 1324, to the WTRU 102).\nAlthough video server 1324 is shown at LN 1320, it is contemplated that the connection may be to any type of server or other network resource internal or external to LN 1320.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the WTRU 102 includes, among other things, (1) WTRU 102 movement, (2) signal strength of communication with the APs 1322 and 1332, (3) loading of the APs 1322 and 1332, (4) WTRUs 102, AP1322 And \/ or may communicate with the AP 1322 of the LN 1320 based on one or more criteria including (5) the speed of the WTRU 102 and \/ or (5) the service requested by the WTRU 102 It may be handed over to the second AP 1332 of the network 1330.\nWhen a user (eg, WTRU 102) moves into the coverage area of macro network 1330, the LIPA session may be continued as an MRA session. In general, a session is referred to as an MRA session when the actual cell (macro or HeNB) is not connected to the LN 1320. For example, a WTRU 102 with a LIPA session may move to an eNB 1332 that is not part of the LN 1320, and the LIPA session may be continued as an MRA at the target eNB.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the WTRU 102 may communicate with a second AP 1332 of the macro network 1330 and may be handed over to the AP 1332 of the macro network 1330, eg, based on the criteria indicated above. Good.\nWhen a user (eg, WTRU 102) moves into the coverage area of LN 1320, the MRA session may be continued as a LIPA session. In some exemplary embodiments, the WTRU 102 may have an MRA session using an eNB 1332 that is not connected to the LN 1320, but the user moves into the coverage area of the LN 1320 and hands off to the AP 1322 of the LN 1320. Sometimes the MRA session may be continued as a LIPA session.\nFIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a handover procedure including a transition between a LIPA session and an MRA session using HeNB or HNB in another LN.\nReferring to FIG. 14, an exemplary communication system 1400 may include a mobile operator core network 1410, an enterprise network (or LN) 1420, and \/ or another LN 1430. Mobile operator core network 1410 may include one or more network entities 1412. An enterprise network or LN 1420 may include one or more APs 1422 (eg, HNB, HeNB, HeNB subsystem, and \/ or HNB subsystem, among others). The WTRU 102 may be located within the coverage area of the LN 1420 and may be provided with connectivity via one or more APs 1422 at the LN 1420. LN 1420 may be configured for user data offload to the Internet or LN 1420 (eg, a local IP network via LN 1420). One or more APs 1422 of the LN 1420 provide coverage to the WTRU 102 (eg, a LIPA session for the WTRU 102 to connect to a personal computer or another network resource 1424, eg, at the LN 1420 or outside the LN 1420 over the Internet). May be. Other LNs 1430 may include one or more second APs (eg, one or more HeNBs or HNBs) 1432.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the WTRU 102 may communicate with an AP 1422 of an LN 1420 and a second AP of another LN 1430 based on, for example, one or more criteria shown herein. You may hand over to 1432.\nWhen a user (eg, WTRU 102) moves into the coverage area of another LN 1430, the LIPA session may be continued as an MRA session. For example, a WTRU 102 having a LIPA session may move to the coverage area of a HeNB 1432 of another LN 1430 that is not part of the LN 1420, and the LIPA session may be continued as an MRA at the target HeNB or HNB 1432.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the WTRU 102 may communicate with a second AP 1432 of another LN 1430 and may be handed over to the AP 1422 of the LN 1420, eg, based on the criteria set forth herein. Good.\nWhen a user (eg, WTRU 102) moves into the coverage area of LN 1420, the MRA session may be continued as a LIPA session. In some exemplary embodiments, the WTRU 102 may have an MRA session at the HeNB or HNB 1432 that does not connect to the LN 1420, but the user moves into the coverage area of the LN 1420 and hands off to the AP 1422 of the LN 1420. Sometimes the MRA session may be continued as a LIPA session.\nThe examples described above relate to LIPA, but these may also apply to SIPTO. For example, SIPTO @ LN can occur as an MRA within LN or via macro coverage that is not part of local coverage (or via another LN using HeNB or HNB) .\nIn some exemplary embodiments, when the WTRU remains in the LN and connects to the LN's AP (eg, the WTRU has a LIPA session from a specific closed subscriber group (CSG)). \/ When not authorized to have service (eg due to subscriber information), a continuity procedure may be used.\nFIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a typical data path for the downlink.\nWith reference to FIG. 15, an exemplary communication system 1500 may include operator resources 1510, LN resources 1520, and \/ or other network resources 1530. Operator resources 1510 may include, for example, SGW 1512 and \/ or MME \/ SGSN 1514. SGW 1512 and MME \/ SGSN 1514 may each be part of the core network, or SGW 1512 may be located outside the core network. LN resource 1520 may include one or more APs (eg, one or more HeNBs or HNBs). Other LN resources 1530 may include one or more second APs (eg, one or more eNBs).\nThe data path (represented by arrows) for the MRA session may traverse (eg, go through) the HeNB or HNB 1522. In the downlink, the data path is from LGW 1540 to HeNB or HNB 1522, from HeNB or HNB 1522 to network entity or operator resource 1510 (which may be SGW 1512), and from operator resource 1510 (eg, SGW 1512) to the serving cell and Traverse to WTRU 102 (eg, proceed). The data path may be reversed on the uplink.\nA radio access network (RAN) generally refers to a network having radio access points such as, among others, eNBs, HeNBs, NBs, and \/ or HNBs. A core network (CN) generally refers to different types of networks including, for example, MME, SGSN, MSC \/ VLR, and \/ or SGW, among others.\nThe WTRU 102 may transition to connected mode (eg, using radio resource control (RRC)) and execute the procedure at the CN. When the WTRU 102 sends a NAS message received at the CN, the WTRU 102 may establish a NAS signaling connection. For example, in LTE, a WTRU 102 registered in idle mode (eg, RRC and NAS may be idle) may initiate a NAS service request procedure to transition from idle mode to connected mode. After establishing an RRC connection with the eNB 1532, the WTRU 102 is included (eg, piggybacked) with an RRC Connection Setup Complete message (eg, an RRC message that may include establishing an RRC connection). ) A NAS service request message may be sent. The eNB 1532 may send a NAS message to the CN over the S1 interface using an initial WTRU message. The eNB 1532 may include in the message an identifier that may be used by the MME \/ SGSN 1514 for communicating with eNB 1532 information (eg, any information) that may be related to the connection. The identifier may be a reference point for a particular WTRU 102 (eg, for any information that may be transmitted with a reference to this identifier). The eNB 1532 may map this information to the particular WTRU 102 being served. The identifier may be referred to as an eNB WTRU S1AP ID. The contents of the initial WTRU message sent by the eNB 1532 to transfer the initial layer 3 message to the MME \/ SGSN 1514 over the S1 interface are shown in Table 1 below.\nA typical response from the CN may be an Initial Context Setup Request message that can be used to notify the eNB 1532 to set up a context for each WTRU 102. The message may include an identifier assigned by MME 1514 that eNB 1532 can use when eNB 1532 wishes to communicate information about a particular WTRU 102 (eg, with MME \/ SGSN 1514). The identifier may be referred to as the MME WTRU S1AP ID and may be included in the initial context setup request (ICSR). The ICSR message may be sent by MME \/ SGSN 1514 to request WTRU 102 context setup and may include the contents shown in Table 2 below (eg, the first sent to MME \/ SGSN 1514). ENB WTRU S1AP ID, which may be provided by eNB 1532 in one message).\nFor each WTRU 102, in order to set up a context at eNB 1532, eNB 1532 may send a first uplink (UL) NAS message to CN, from which the CN (eg, MME \/ SGSN 1514) Context setup requests may be triggered. H (e) NB generally refers to HeNB, HNB, and \/ or CSG, among others. There may be no context setup request originating from the CN without triggering such as receiving an initial NAS message from the eNB.\nFIG. 16 is a drawing illustrating an exemplary service request procedure 1600 that can lead to context setup at an eNB 1532 for a particular WTRU 102.\nReferring to FIG. 16, at 1610, a NAS service request message may be sent from the WTRU 102 to the eNB 1532. At 1620, a NAS service request message may be sent from the eNB 1532 to the MME \/ SGSN 1514 or may be forwarded. At 1630, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may authenticate the WTRU 102 using, for example, a home subscriber server (HSS) 1602.\nAt 1640, an S1-AP initial context setup request message may be sent from the MME \/ SGSN 1514 to the eNB 1532. The initial context setup request message includes, among other things, (1) an E-RAB to be set up (eg, an E-RAB that can identify a radio bearer to be set up by the eNB) and \/ or each bearer. QoS parameters that can be associated, (2) WTRU security capabilities and \/ or security keys that can be used by eNB 1532 to establish secure communication with WTRU 102 over the air interface, and \/ or (3) other information. Any of the parameters of elements may be included.\nAt 1650, eNB 1532 may initiate radio bearer establishment (RBE) with WTRU 102. The RBE may include information such as bearer reference and QoS parameters. At 1660, uplink data may be provided by the WTRU 102 to the eNB 1532, SGW 1512, and \/ or PGW 1604, for example, to synchronize the uplink data between the WTRU 102, eNB 1532, SGW 1512, and \/ or PGW 1604. After the uplink data is received, an initial context setup complete message may be sent by the eNB 1532 to the MME \/ SGSN 1514 at 1670.\nAt 1675, a Modify Bearer Request message may be sent from the MME \/ SGSN 1514 to the SGW 1512, and at 1680, the modify bearer request message may be sent (or forwarded) from the SGW 1512 to the PGW 1604. May be)\nIn some exemplary embodiments, at 1685, an Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session initiated by a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) session. A modification message (Session Modification message) may be transmitted between the PGW 1604 and a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) 1606.\nAt 1690, a Modify Bearer Response may be sent from the PGW 1604 to the SGW 1512, and at 1695, a modify bearer response message may be sent (or forwarded) from the SGW 1512 to the MME \/ SGSN 1514. ).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, RRC integrity protection may be provided on the radio interface, and the eNB 1532 may configure the security procedure (security mode command) with the WTRU 102 before further RRC signaling. ) Or user data may be exchanged.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, a procedure may be used to set up a connection between LGW 1540 and HNB \/ HeNB 1522 where the data path is through HNB 1522 that is part of LN 1520, And \/ or the same or different procedures may be used to set up a connection between HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and SGW 1512. Usually, the context may be set up at the RAN node when a particular node forwards the initial NAS message to the CN.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, for MRA procedures, a context may be set up at the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that is not serving the WTRU 102 from a wireless perspective (eg, as an access point). The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may not be an entity that sends an initial NAS message to the CN and sets up the context at the HNB \/ HeNB 1522. In some exemplary embodiments, another cell (eg, another cell's eNB) may send an initial NAS message and may be part of the MRA data path and \/ or eNB 1532 and \/ or Context setup may be triggered at the HNB \/ HeNB 1522.\nThe HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may not service the WTRU 102 from a radio perspective, and the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 is set up to receive and respond to an initial context setup request message for the WTRU 102 not served by the HNB \/ HeNB 1522. May be. The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may be provided with an identifier (eg, eNB WTRU S1AP ID) to be used by the MME \/ SGSN 1514. The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may use security parameters and may interpret E-RABs that will be set up for WTRUs 102 that are not served at the radio level. In MRA mode, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may not forward data to the WTRU 102 (eg, may not forward directly), and the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may send data to entities or resources in the CN. And an indication (eg, MRA indicator) may be used to notify HNB \/ HeNB 1522 about its MRA procedure \/ behavior. The MRA indicator is used by the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 (and \/ or LGW 1540) to provide differentiated treatment, such as, among others, differentiated packet forwarding path and \/ or differentiated QoS As such, the MRA bearer \/ session may be differentiated from other bearers \/ sessions (eg, LIPA bearer \/ session, SIPTO bearer \/ session, and \/ or other bearer \/ session).\nTypically, the SGW 1512 has (eg, only has) one active S1 connection to each WTRU 102. If the MRA data path has to traverse (eg, traverse) HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and SGW 1512 for downlink traffic, then SGW 1512 may have multiple S1 connections activated simultaneously for each WTRU 102. The procedure or behavior in may be changed or modified.\nA local home network (LHN) may include multiple HNBs and \/ or HeNBs 1522 and multiple LGWs 1540. During MRA call establishment, a determination may be made as to whether any particular HNB and \/ or HeNB 1522 and LGW 1540 are used as entry points to the accessed LN. Timing between MRA session establishment and selection may be established as shown below.\nWhen the network supports an enhanced mobility procedure and there is an active MRA connection, the MRA service may be charged differently than the LIPA service. If the service starts as a LIPA service and deploys to an MRA service, the information may be CN so that the service is charged accordingly. During CN mobility, a transition from LIPA to MRA or from MRA to LIPA may be detected via a trigger, which may be reported to the CN.\nIn a typical handover (HO) procedure, after the HO is completed, the source cell may release resources (eg, all resources) that are used for each WTRU 102. Resources may include radio resources and \/ or S1 resources. In LIPA to MRA HO (LIPA to MRA HO), if the source HNB \/ HeNB 522 remains in the data path for MRA, the current resource release procedure will remove the resources established for LIPA (eg, all of the resources). Since it may clear, it may not be used. For MRA, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may forward the data to the SGW 1512 such that the procedure is used to indicate the MRA to the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 in the data path. Other procedures (eg, with similar methods \/ behavior) may be used for HNB \/ HeNB and LGW interfaces. The SGW 1512 may have one or more S1 connections for each WTRU 102 and the MRA functionality is enhanced to indicate to the SGW 1512 the ability of the WTRU to use multiple S1 connections for each WTRU 102. Procedure may be used.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MRA data path may be fixed (eg, always fixed). In some exemplary embodiments, the MRA data path may be dynamic (eg, changed based on a condition or trigger event). In some exemplary embodiments, the downlink and uplink paths may follow the same line or path, but may be reversed in direction. In some exemplary embodiments, the downlink path and uplink path may be different.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MRA procedure may enable idle mode mobility when either a LIPA session or an MRA session is active for the respective WTRU 102. For example, such a procedure may address problems that may otherwise arise.\nThe first problem is that the NAS EPS bearer (eg, PDN connection and associated bearer) remains active on the WTRU 102 (and CN) even when radio or CN resources are not used. It may include a WTRU 102 that may be in idle mode. For example, an idle mode WTRU 102 having a LIPA PDN connection may maintain a LIPA PDN connection and associated bearer that satisfies a condition for deactivating the PDN connection and \/ or LIPA bearer. As an example, when MME \/ SGSN 1514 informs that WTRU 102 has moved out of the HeNB or HNB (eg, the coverage area of HNB and \/ or HeNB 1522) where the LIPA session was activated, The established PDN connection may be deactivated. In an MRA procedure, WTRU mobility in idle mode may not cause PDN deactivation when the CN notifies that the WTRU has moved out of the LN (eg, mobility out). When the WTRU 102 moves out of the LN (while in idle mode or connected mode), the WTRU 102 is allowed (and \/ or configured to have) an MRA (eg, an MRA session). In some cases, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may not deactivate the LIPA PDN connection, and may resume the PDN connection as an MRA session. In some exemplary embodiments, a WTRU 102 that goes from idle mode to connected mode (eg, transitions) may enable signaling (eg, periodic updates) and \/ or to establish a user plane. You may do it. In some representative embodiments, when the WTRU 102 moves while in idle mode and sends a NAS message (eg, either for signaling or for sending user data, among others). In addition, a CN procedure may be implemented for LIPA PDN connections.\nSecond, the WTRU 102 is allowed to have an MRA from its current cell, the WTRU 102 is only performing signaling (eg, periodic tracking area update (TAU)), and the user plane MME \/ SGSN 1514 may take any action to change a LIPA session (eg, an existing LIPA session) to an MRA session, or may not take any action when not using .\nThird, if the WTRU 102 is signaling (eg, TAU) when the WTRU 102 is not allowed to have an MRA, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may identify the HNB and NBRU that the WTRU 102 may provide LIPA. Deactivate the LIPA PDN connection even if the WTRU 102 does not have a LIPA or MRA from its current location as it may return to the HeNB 1522 (eg, the coverage area of the HNB and \/ or the HeNB 1522) There are things that do not.\nAlthough exemplary embodiments are discussed using representative examples, representative procedures may apply to any LTE system and \/ or 3G \/ GERAN system.\n<MRA connection setup: HNB selection and resource setup>\nThe WTRU 102 is in a cell where LIPA is not allowed (eg, a macro cell or HNB cell that is not part of the LN, or a CSG cell that is part of the LN but is not allowed LIPA due to subscription). Also good. Some representative embodiments may apply to either a PDN connection procedure or a part of an attach procedure that may be standalone.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the selection of the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 for MRA session setup, the procedure used to set up the MRA context at the HNB \/ HeNB 1522, and the affected nodes, eg, HNB \/ HeNB 1522, LGW 1540, Signaling procedures used to set up resources between and \/ or SGW 1512 may be provided.\nFor example, when MME \/ SGSN 1514 receives a PDN connection request for MRA, MME \/ SGSN 1514 may have multiple user plane tunnels (eg, three extra user plane tunnels, eg, (1) in SGW 1512 and LHN. (2) between SGW 1512 and LGW 1540 and (3) between LGW 1540 and HNB \/ HeNB 1522 in LHN) may be set up with HNB \/ HeNB 1522.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, establishment of an S1-U tunnel between the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and the SGW 1512 may be performed by either the HeNB 1522 or the SGW 1512 in the LHN. The MME 1514 may send the CSR to the SGW 1512 in a create session request (CSR) message. The CSR message may include an address of HeNB 1522 and \/ or an address of LGW 1540 that may be used to establish a tunnel between HeNB 1522 and LGW 1540. The MME 1514 may inform the HeNB 1522 via any S1AP message (used for the S1-MME interface) that an S1-U tunnel can be created for the MRA PDN connection, thereby Is forwarded to the SGW (and may be achieved, for example, by the MME 1514 sending an indication to the HeNB 1522 while setting up the S1-U tunnel. S1-AP message (e.g., context setup request) or a new S1-AP message for MRA activation). When the HeNB 1522 receives a packet from the LGW 1540, the HeNB 1522 uses the indication (or based on this indication that may be stored at the HeNB as part of the WTRU context) to the SGW 1512. May be transmitted or forwarded. The LGW address that may be sent to the HeNB 1522 in any S1AP message is an indication to the HeNB 1522 that a tunnel is established for the MRA connection even if the WTRU 102 is not serviced by the HeNB from a radio perspective. May serve as a role.\nAfter the HeNB 1522 receives a request to create a session or connection with the SGW 1512 for the MRA connection \/ service (eg, in any S1AP message), the HeNB 1522 additionally adds a tunnel between itself and the LGW 1540. You may create it. The HeNB 1522 may receive the LGW address in a message from the SGW 1512 or the MME 1514. The HeNB 1522 may establish a connection with the LGW 1540 using this address. When the LGW 1540 is collocated with the HeNB 1522, the HeNB 1522 may not use this address, and this address may be discarded. The HeNB 1522 has a tunnel established for the MRA PDN connection and transmits the same indication that the HeNB 1522 receives from the MME 1514 or SGW 1512 or transmits a new type of indication. Indications may be sent to LGW 1540 indicating that it may be achieved.\nIn a case where the HeNB 1522 and the LGW 1540 cannot directly exchange control plane messages, the SGW 1512 may establish a user plane tunnel by transmitting a create bearer request (CBR) message to the LGW 1540. The CBR message may include the address of the HeNB 1522 and an indication that a connection has been established to the MRA. The CBR message may establish an S5 connection between the LGW 1540 and the SGW 1512. An indication that the connection is for an MRA connection and \/ or when the CBR is received by the LGW 1540 along with the HeNB address, the LGW 1540 will tunnel through the HeNB 1522 (via the interface connecting both entities together). And may notify the HeNB 1522 that the connection is an MRA connection. LGW 1540 may provide the SGW address that LGW 1540 received in the CBR message from SGW 1512.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, HeNB or HNB 1522 selection during MRA session setup may include:\n(1) The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may already be configured such that a particular HNB \/ HeNB 1522 is selected (eg, always selected) for MRA. HNB \/ HeNB 1522 selection and configuration at MME \/ SGSN 1514 may be based on operator policy. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may have a list of such HNB \/ HeNB 1522 in priority order that it can select. For example, if the session with the selected HNB \/ HeNB 1522 fails, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may retry with another selection of the HNB \/ HeNB 1522.\n(2) When the MME \/ SGSN 1514 receives a request to set up an MRA session \/ connection, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may select a CSG \/ HNB \/ HeNB that is allowed access by the WTRU 102. For example, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may perform a CSG access check for each WTRU 102 as if the WTRU 102 was accessing the cell from a wireless perspective. If the access check fails, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may reject the connection and may send a rejection cause to the WTRU 102 to notify the WTRU 102 about the reason for the rejection. The cause of refusal may be an existing cause or a new cause (eg, \"cause # 25-not in a change that causes the WTRU 102 to recognize that this is for a CSG that is not being accessed by the WTRU 102 from a wireless perspective). allowed on CSG \"). A new code may be defined to indicate that the reason for rejecting the MRA session (eg, PDN connection) may be due to a CSG subscription failure at the selected HNB \/ HeNB 1522. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may include a CSG ID for which the access check has failed. When the WTRU 102 receives a rejection cause, the WTRU 102 may remove the CSG ID from its white list (eg, receive a cause code while the WTRU 102 is in the radio coverage of an HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that has failed an access check. Even if you did not). When the WTRU 102 receives a rejection cause with an additional indication as to why the session has failed, the WTRU 102 may have a known or pre-configured time duration or a WTRU CSG list (eg, PDN connection (eg, identified by a well-known APN) may not be initiated until the allowed list and \/ or operator list) is changed.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may not reject the connection and may attempt to select another HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that the WTRU 102 may be a member of ( For example, try). The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may allow a selection at a resource at the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 (eg, a policy \/ rule allows), or a network operator may allow such a selection (eg, same, higher or different) HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that the WTRU 102 is not a member of may be selected. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may (1) select an HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that the WTRU 102 may be a member of, (2) select an HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that can operate in hybrid mode, and \/ or (3) be accessed by the WTRU 102. HNB \/ HeNB 1522 that is not allowed to be performed (eg, where such selection is permitted by dynamic or pre-established rules) may be prioritized. Prioritization may be in the order indicated above or in any other order indicated in the policies \/ rules for such prioritization.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MRA session setup may include:\n(1) When the MME \/ SGSN 1514 receives a request to set up an MRA PDN connection (session), the MME \/ SGSN 1514 allows the resource to set up such a connection, for example by using an explicit message. You may verify with HNB \/ HeNB1522. This message may be sent to the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 before setting up the PDN connection. When this message is received by the HNB \/ HeNB 1522, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 indicates that the resource allows such a connection (eg, a connection between the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and the LGW 1540). You may respond. In some exemplary embodiments, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may continue to process and set up connections. The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may refuse such a connection if resources are not available. The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may take into account the WTRU's CSG subscription information to determine or determine whether to allow or reject the connection. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may provide information in messages sent to the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 to set up an MRA connection (eg, all messages such as but not limited to S1AP messages). The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may: MRA when (1) the WTRU 102 is not a member of the HNB \/ HeNB 1522, (2) the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 is congested, and \/ or (3) the member WTRU 102 is accessing the cell Session resources may be released.\nDuring MRA connection setup, if resources are not available in HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and the request is signaled directly to MME \/ SGSN 1514 using, for example, an explicit new message or an existing message , HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may reject the request. In some exemplary embodiments, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may signal the rejection and cause of rejection to the LGW 1540 that may forward the indication to the MME \/ SGSN 1514. When the MME \/ SGSN 1514 receives an indication regarding a failure to set up an MRA session due to rejection (eg, for any reason) at the HNB \/ HeNB 1522, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may be selected or the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may provide an MRA session using an alternate path for data (eg, via SGW 1512). The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may be based on resource availability or network policy so that the data path may include the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 to the LN 1520 or the data path may not include the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 to the LN 1520 in one case. You may select a data path for.\nFor example, even if the RAN nodes (eg, any other RAN node such as HNB \/ HeNB 1522 or eNB, among others) are not serving WTRU 102 over the radio interface, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may It is contemplated to have a procedure that can be set up. The CN (eg, MME \/ SGSN 1514) uses a new or existing message on the S1 interface so that the message can contain an indication to context setup that may not be used for radio resource provisioning. The procedure may be enabled. New messages or enhanced existing messages (eg, initial context setup request message) are (1) resources on the S1AP interface and other interfaces (eg, Sxx interface between HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and LGW 1540) May include an indication to notify the RAN node (eg, HNB \/ HeNB) that it can be included. For example, a connection type may be defined to indicate \"MRA only\" or \"CN resource only\" and \/ or \"no radio resource\". With such indication, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may set up (eg, only set up) the appropriate context so that no radio resources are included and other radio related procedures are performed.\nAn identifier (eg, \"MME WTRU S1AP ID\") may be included by the MME \/ SGSN 1514 and may be unique. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may maintain a mapping between the identifier used with the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and other identifiers used with the serving cell where the WTRU 102 is being served in radio coverage (eg, below). (For example, hold).\nThe identification of LGW 1540 to which HNB \/ HeNB 1522 can connect may be included. At least one correlation ID may be provided.\nIf the MME \/ SGSN 1514 uses an existing message, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may perform the actions indicated above. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may not include parameters (eg, all parameters) used for operation on the air interface. For example, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 (or any equivalent CN node) may not include security parameters and \/ or E-RABs that are set up. The MME \/ SGSN 1514 may include a NAS identifier (eg, S-TMSI, etc.) assigned to this WTRU 102. The HeNB \/ HNB 1522 may store any NAS identifier received from the MME \/ SGSN 1514.\nWhen the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 receives a new message or an existing message with an indication to set up resources for the MRA session, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 is or will be processing the procedure. You may respond to the request to confirm.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the response may be sent after the procedure is executed. The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 uses the new indication to recognize or determine that the context is for (or in connection with) the MRA for a session that does not include the use of radio resources for the respective WTRU 102. May be. The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may assign an identifier to this WTRU 102 (eg, the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may assign an identifier (eg, \"eNB WTRU S1AP ID\") and that identifier in response to the CN. May be included). The HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may not set up radio resources with any of the existing WTRUs 102 in response to a new message or indicator, and may not treat the procedure as an erroneous procedure. The eNB 1532 may store all security parameters provided by the CN. In some exemplary embodiments, security procedures may not be performed with any WTRU 102. The eNB 1532 assigns a virtual C-RNTI (Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier) to the corresponding WTRU 102, and when the WTRU 102 is served by the eNB 1532, the C-RNTI is directly used to identify the WTRU 102 at the cell level. May be.\nThe HNB \/ HeNB 1522 may establish a data path with, for example, the LGW 1540 using a new or existing indicator (eg, correlation ID) with any provided LGW address.\nSome exemplary embodiments may apply to 3GPP Release 10 (eg, LGW that is collocated with HNB \/ HeNB 1522) and \/ or 3GPP Release 11 (eg, eg, stand-alone LGW) deployment scenarios.\nThe HeNB 1522 may establish an S1-U connection with the SGW 1512. The HeNB 1522 maps the S1-U bearer ID or tunnel end ID (TEID) with that at the LGW 1540 so that the mapping is mapped to the LGW 1540 (eg, associated and \/ or corresponding) TEID ( And \/ or bearer ID), all data received from SGW 1512 on a particular TEID or bearer will be forwarded to LGW 1540. Data from the LGW 1540 (eg, any data) may be verified against the TEID, and if this is mapped with that of the S1-U bearer, the HeNB 1522 forwards the data to the SGW 1512 Also good.\nExpected indications, IEs, and new messages (1) set up resources (eg, similar or equivalent to E-RAB setup request (SETUP REQUEST)) and (2) change resources (eg, E -RAB modification request (similar or equivalent to Modify Request) and \/ or (3) Release resources that are not involved in the radio interface (eg, or that have minor or slight involvement) (eg, E-RAB) It may be used for release indication (similar to or equivalent to Release Indication). For example, to set up many bearers for MRA, the CN may send a new message (which may be the same message or a new message, eg, having a new connection type, as described above) Or an E-RAB setup request message with the indications indicated above may be used. The HeNB 1522 may set up resources to the LGW 1540 and SGW 1512 as in the case for initial context setup.\nIt is contemplated that the same or similar procedure may apply to the WTRU 102 Context Modification Request, or a new message with the indications indicated above may be used. .\n<MRA to LIPA handover and LIPA to MRA handover>\nThe MRA to LIPA HO procedure confirms that the target HeNB 1522 has established a connection after establishing a path or connection (eg, a direct path) with the LGW 1540 (which may provide a LIPA session for each WTRU 102). Indications to MME 1514 may be included. In response to this indication, for example as a trigger, MME 1514 may have an active S1-U connection with one (eg, only one) HeNB 1522 and the session is now a LIPA session. You may notify SGW1512 that there may be. With this or similar indications, the SGW 1512 may not forward uplink MRA packets to the HeNB 1522, as in the case during an MRA session. The SGW 1512 may release its resources with the previous cell (the source cell from which the WTRU 102 received the MRA service). For example, the MME 1514 may send a modify bearer request message to the SGW 1512 with a session indication to the LIPA session. When the SGW 1512 receives the bearer request message, the SGW 1512 may notify the LGW 1540 that the MRA connection (eg, session) has been converted to a LIPA connection (eg, session). The SGW 1512 may release its resources established with the source cell. The MME 1514 may notify the SGW 1512 that the first downlink packet after the WTRU 102 changes from idle mode to connected mode, for example, will be transmitted to the target eNB 1532 in the neighboring cell. For a LIPA session, when the WTRU 102 moves from idle mode to connected mode, the SGW 1512 may forward the first packet to the HeNB 1522 at the LN 1520, and for the MRA session, the first downlink packet may be, for example, Will be sent to the target eNB 1532 (or any other AP in the neighboring cell) with the appropriate MRA session established. The indication may be included as part of a bearer change request message sent by the MME 1514 to the SGW 1512. The SGW 1512 may change the path for the first downlink packet to the target eNB 1532 using the indication.\nThe LIPA to MRA HO procedure may release (eg, release) radio resources after the source HeNB 1522 hands over the WTRU 102 to the target cell during the HO procedure when the LIPA session is continued as an MRA session. And can maintain an S1-U connection with the SGW 1512. HeNB 1522 may be received during HO or before HO (eg, during WTRU 102 context setup procedure, HeNB 1522 may be notified that a particular bearer has such behavior) (eg, This may be done due to any explicit indication (from MME 1514).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the HeNB 1522 may query the CN before HO to learn about bearers with such treatment. As an example, the HeNB 1522 may retain S1-U resources (eg, always, unless explicitly notified to release S1-U and \/ or S1-AP connections (eg, to the control plane)). Hold). For example, the HeNB 1522 may perform the current HO procedure using existing signaling. MME 1514 (if the LIPA session will be continued as an MRA session) releases radio resources (eg, release only) and maintains S1 connection (eg, both to the user plane and the control plane) In contrast, a message for notifying the HeNB 1522 may be transmitted. The signaling may be a new message or may be achieved via a change in a WTRU context release message or a WTRU context modification message. As another example, the HeNB 1522 may establish an S1 connection based on an indication from the target cell that the bearer is admitted or authorized and an indication to identify that the bearer is MRA related. May be maintained (eg, retained). When the source HeNB 1522 recognizes or determines that an S1 connection will be maintained, or when the WTRU 102 is handed over to another cell, the source HeNB 1522 may receive radio related resources and \/ or parameters. (Eg, all radio related resources and \/ or parameters) may be released.\nThe source HeNB 1522 may not release its direct data path connection with the established LGW 1540. Thus, the source HeNB 1522 may maintain its direct connection with the LGW 1540. The procedures described above (eg, for maintaining the S1 connection) may also be used to maintain a direct connection between the source HeNB 1522 and the LGW 1540. Similarly, the SGW 1512 may not release the S1 interface with the source HeNB 1522. The SGW 1512 may maintain the connection using an indication that the session will be continued as an MRA session, or the SGW 1512 may connect to a LIPA PDN connection that may be established (eg, any LIP PDN connection) may be maintained (eg, always maintained).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, SGW 1512 is notified to maintain a LIPA PDN connection during an initial PDN setup procedure with an indication that such treatment is used for a particular bearer. May be. The MME 1514 may provide such an indication to the SGW 1512. In some exemplary embodiments, the source HeNB 1522 may provide the indication to the SGW 1512. For example, if MME 1514 provides such an indication to SGW 1512, MME 1514 may include the indication in the modify bearer request. The SGW 1512 may use that indication to notify the LGW 1540 about the change of the LIPA session to the MRA session. The LGW 1540 may be notified regarding the path used for the MRA connection (eg, the LGW 1540 may be notified to maintain the path through the HeNB 1522 or to change the path through the SGW 1512). MME 1514 and \/ or SGW 1512 may provide this indication to LGW 1540. The MME 1514 may inform the SGW 1512 to establish a tunnel with the cell \/ eNB 1532 that is currently serving the WTRU 102 from the radio perspective (ie, in the cell where the WTRU 102 will receive the MRA service) (eg, , In the bearer modification request message).\nIn any exemplary procedure shown herein, maintaining an S1 connection may reuse an existing S1 connection with a given TEID, or a new TEID (eg, endpoint ID). May be reassigned. For example, after LIPA to MRA HO, the source HeNB 1522 may use the assigned SGW 1512 TEID for the uplink as the TEID used for MRA packets in the downlink direction. Even if the HeNB 1522 recognizes or determines the TEID for the SGW 1512 in the uplink data path (eg, for non-MRA), the HeNB 1522 may use this same to transmit the downlink MRA data packet. TEID may be used. The SGW 1512 may reuse the HeNB S1-U TEID as a tunnel for transmitting uplink MRA data.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, HeNB 1522 and SGW 1512 may maintain or maintain S1AP (eg, control plane) connections and may reassign TEIDs to the user plane. Such reassignment may be achieved, for example, by the MME 1514 providing a new TEID to the HeNB 1522 by including information in the message shown above to change the LIPA to the MRA context at the source HeNB 1522. The MME 1514 may request the SGW 1512 to reassign the TEID to the DL MRA packet during the bearer context modification procedure. This request may be passed to the HNB as shown herein. The HeNB 1522 may contact the SGW 1512 and \/ or reassign (eg, reassign directly) TEIDs for uplink MRA packets.\n<Different MRA data paths>\nThe MME 1514 may be configured at predetermined times, periodically, or based on trigger events such as 3GPP Release 11 deployment, LN loading, and \/ or serving cell loading (eg, specific or pre-established events). The data path may be changed at any time (based on the occurrence of For example, the MME 1514 may choose to have the MRA data path advanced (or established) via the HeNB 1522 in a 3GPP Release 10 deployment scenario, while the LGW 1540 can be standalone, etc. When deployed in a 3GPP Release 11 deployment scenario, the data path may be changed (or established) directly from LGW 1540 to SGW 1512 for the downlink (and vice versa for the uplink).\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MME 1514 may or may not have resources to be provided for the MRA session by the HeNB 1522 from the LGW 1540 (eg, directly from the LGW 1540) SGW 1512. You may choose to change the data path to proceed to.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MME 1514 may choose to change the data path or determine to change so that the HeNB 1522 is in the data path when the resource becomes available at the HeNB 1522. May be. For example, the path determination by the MME 1514 may be based on available resources.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, MRA packets may traverse or travel through HeNB 1522 for one direction (eg, either uplink or downlink direction) and others Traffic in this direction (eg, uplink direction) may not traverse or proceed through HeNB 1522. The uplink may be a path from the serving cell to SGW 1512 and from SGW 1512 to LGW 1540.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MRA data path may be directly from the HeNB 1522 to the serving cell using an X2 connection in an LTE system or using an Iurh connection to a 3G system.\n<MRA access control>\nIn some exemplary embodiments, access control may be provided by LGW 1540, MME 1514, and \/ or coordination between the two nodes. An HNB \/ HeNB 1522 (or eNB) that may provide coverage to the WTRU 102 may perform access control for MRA services (eg, in the case of direct interface mobility with an unrelated core network). Access control may be provided by a serving cell that may be an HNB \/ HeNB that is not part of the LN, or an HNB \/ HeNB that is part of the LN being remotely accessed. Access control may also be based on MRA access check results from the WTRU 102.\nFIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a typical access control scenario. Referring to FIG. 17, access control may be based on an access certification scenario, eg, in any of the listed combinations. Access control may be according to or based on user CSG subscription rights, LIPA subscription rights, MRA subscription rights, and \/ or their association to a particular APN configuration.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, access control may be based solely on the APN configuration. Access control may be based on attributes specific to, for example, the LHN being accessed remotely or the LGW 1540 being accessed remotely, in addition to or instead of the APN configuration. Such attributes may include, for example, LHN subscriber group membership information (particularly member, non-member, and \/ or LHN ID) or LGW subscriber group membership information (particularly member, non-member, and \/ or LGW ID). ).\nInformation used to perform access control may be stored in the HSS (or HLR), and by the MME \/ SGSN 1514 (and \/ or, among other things, the MSC) at the time of MRA PDN connectivity establishment, the HSS (or HLR). ). If another entity is responsible for performing access control, the MME \/ SGSN 1514 may provide information to the other entity during the PDN connectivity establishment procedure. For example, the information may be provided to the LGW 1540 by the MME \/ SGSN 1514 in a session creation request message. The information is accessed remotely in the HeNB providing coverage to the WTRU 102 or in a WTRU initial context setup request message (and \/ or any other message described herein) or a bearer setup request message. May be provided to the HeNB. The entity performing access control may be configured (eg, directly) with information about the WTRU 102 that is allowed access. The information may include a WTRU IMSI and \/ or MSISDN number.\nAccess control may be performed (1) upon MRA PDN connectivity establishment, (2) upon bearer establishment, and \/ or (3) when a LIPA session is deployed into an MRA session.\nFor example, when the WTRU 102 wishes to transition from a LIPA session to an MRA session in a CSG cell, the HeNB 1522 grants access to the CSG, LIPA, and MRA, and the remotely accessed HeNB is also CSG, LIPA , And when granting access to the MRA to the WTRU 102, the WTRU may allow transition to the MRA session. As a second example, when the WTRU 102 wishes to transition from a LIPA session to an MRA session in a CSG cell, the HeNB 1522 allows access to the CSG and LIPA, but does not allow access to the MRA, and remote If the HeNB being accessed also grants the WTRU 102 access to the CSG, LIPA, and MRA, the WTRU may allow the transition to the MRA session. As a third example, when a WTRU 102 wishes to transition from a LIPA session to an MRA session in a CSG cell, if the remotely accessed HeNB does not grant the WTRU 102 access to the MRA, the WTRU may Probably not allowed to transition to. As a fourth example, when the WTRU 102 wishes to transition from a LIPA session to an MRA session in a CSG cell, if the HeNB 1522 does not grant the WTRU 102 access to the LIPA, the WTRU may transition to the MRA session. Probably not allowed. The shaded matrix in FIG. 17 shows various combinations of access rights to the hosting party HeNB 1522 and the HeNB that may be remotely accessed (as a potential serving cell if an MRA session is allowed). And several combinations that can enable MRA session transitions.\n<MRA during idle mode mobility and mobility in CELL_FACH state>\nFIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a WTRU 102 that moves out of the LN (eg, outside the coverage area) while in idle mode.\nReferring to FIG. 18, when the WTRU 102 moves out of the LN in idle mode (eg, outside the coverage area), the WTRU 102 has established a LIPA PDN connection and is out of the LN in idle mode. You may move and move to another cell, and start the NAS procedure from this other cell. The WTRU 102 may not be allowed to have LIPA from the cell that initiates the NAS procedure. This scenario is discussed below.\nIn a first exemplary case, MRA may not be allowed for WTRU 102, and WTRU 102 initiates a NAS procedure with CN in a cell where LIPA is not allowed. If the network receives a NAS message for signaling, then the network (eg, only the network) will MRA connect the LIPA PDN connection if the user plane is not expected by the WTRU 102 (eg, even if the user plane is not expected). Actions may be taken to convert to a session. The actions performed by the network include procedures (eg, actions) that are the same or similar to the HO case when a LIPA session is resumed as an MRA session.\nIn the second exemplary case, the network may not change the LIPA PDN connection (and \/ or associated bearer) when MRA is granted (eg, even if) to WTRU 102. Or do not change. The network may subsequently resume the LIPA session as an MRA session when the WTRU 102 requests user plane resources or initiates a NAS procedure for user plane resources (eg, via a service request procedure). . If the network receives a TAU message with the active flag bit set to 1 (which may indicate that user plane resources are requested by the WTRU 102 via the TAU procedure), the network You may respond as if it were a procedure. Even if a network receives a TAU message, the network may respond as if a service request procedure is being processed and may resume the LIPA session as an MRA session.\nIn a third exemplary case, MRA may be currently authorized for WTRU 102, and WTRU 102 may initiate a NAS procedure with CN in a cell where LIPA is not allowed. Subsequent network procedures \/ actions may include one or more of the following.\n(1) If the network receives a NAS message for signaling (eg, signaling only), the network may not deactivate the LIPA PDN connection for each WTRU 102 (eg, whether MRA is allowed or not) Regardless). For example, the WTRU 102 may return to the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 with LIPA activated and may resume the LIPA PDN connection without having to re-establish the PDN connection.\n(2) If the network receives a NAS message for the user plane, the network may deactivate the LIPA PDN connection (eg, directly) if MRA is not allowed for the WTRU 102. The same network behavior is expected (eg, a TAU message with the active flag bit set to 1 (which may indicate that user plane resources are requested by the WTRU 102 via the TAU procedure) is received. In response to)).\n(3) The network may start a timer to start a guard period during which the WTRU 102 may return to the LN \/ HeNB where LIPA is allowed. If the WTRU 102 does not become serviced by a cell for which LIPA is allowed during the lifetime of the timer, the network may deactivate the LIPA PDN connection when the timer expires. If the WTRU 102 resumes LIPA service before the timer expires, the network may stop the timer. The network may also stop the timer if the WTRU 102 resumes the session as an MRA session from a cell where MRA is allowed. The WTRU 102 may start a timer as described above when the WTRU 102 leaves the cell or local network 1520 where the LIPA PDN connection is established. If this timer expires and the WTRU 102 does not return to the cell or local network 1520 where the LIPA session was established, the WTRU 102 may send a NAS message, eg, a TAU, to the MME 1514. The WTRU 102 may indicate that it has deactivated the LIPA PDN connection or the bearer associated with the LIPA PDN connection.\nThe same or similar network behavior is contemplated for the case where a WTRU 102 with a LIPA session performs cell reselection to a cell where MRA is allowed in a CELL_FACH state (eg, RRC connected mode in 3G systems). . When a CN (eg, SGSN) notifies that the WTRU 102 has moved to a new cell, the CN may verify that the MRA is authorized for each WTRU 102 (LIPA PDN connection established) When) If MRA is allowed, the network may perform the same actions as described for connection mode mobility and session setup to resume the LIPA session as an MRA session.\n<MRA activation during idle mode reselection between RATs>\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the MRA may be activated when the WTRU 102 reselects from LTE (eg, with the LIPA bearer active) to UTRAN. The MRA may, for example, (1) (i) maintain a LIPA connection and \/ or (ii) maintain the current local service and \/ or (2) reselect to a new cell. May be triggered by allowing a user request to pre-configure the WTRU 102 to request The new cell may be a UTRAN cell. If idle state signaling reduction (ISR) is active, and there is no signaling connection and the LIPA bearer is still active, the WTRU 102 may request a service request indicating MRA (or any other To maintain the service by sending a NAS message). The WTRU 102 itself may indicate which bearer is a LIPA bearer, or the MME 1514 may provide this information to the SGSN.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, MME 1514 may provide LIPA (or LIIP) bearer information to the SGSN during the context request \/ response procedure. Such information may, for example, allow the SGSN to trigger MRA connectivity for LIPA bearers, among other things, along with user requests and \/ or MRA subscription pre-configuration. The WTRU 102 may provide LIPA bearer information to the SGSN (eg, via an enhanced or new service request) indicating which bearers are LIPA bearers. The WTRU 102 may obtain this information from the MME 1514 through the PDN Connectivity Type. The WTRU 102 indicates whether the user wants to tear down, release, or deactivate the ILPA bearers, or whether the user wants to save or maintain them as MRA bearers. May be. The WTRU 102 may provide this information through a 3G enhanced service request message (eg, for an ISR case) or through an RAU message if the ISR is not active.\n<Other architecture alternative solutions for MRA>\nFor example, (a) Sxx, which can be the user plane (eg, only the user plane), (b) Sxx, which can be both the user plane and the control plane, and \/ or (c) on the S1 \/ Iuh path A representative architecture may be implemented that depends on or may be based on an LGW 1540 deployment architecture with a standalone LGW 1540.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, MRA may also be implemented with a core network that is bypassed in the user plane or both the user plane and the control plane. This may be the case for scenarios where a direct interface based procedure is used between a macro network and a femto network. Examples of user plane paths may include (1) for UMTS: LGW \u2192 HNB \u2192 HNB-GW \u2192 NB and reverse on DL for user plane only or both user plane and control plane The path may apply in the uplink direction: (2) For LTE: LGW \u2192 HeNB \u2192 HeNB-GW on DL for user plane (eg, user plane only) or both user plane and control plane \u2192 eNB (or LGW \u2192 HeNB \u2192 eNB) and reverse path may be applied in the uplink direction.\nAnother exemplary architecture is to bypass the HNB \/ HeNB 1522 and access the local home network directly to the direct interface through the LGW 1540 (eg (1) through the CN: DL MRA packet (and UL LGW \u2192 SGW \u2192 serving cell \u2192 WTRU for (reverse direction to packet) and \/ or (2) LGW \u2192 H (e) NB-GW \u2192 serving cell \u2192 WTRU for DL in the reverse direction to UL packet).\nIt is contemplated that all of the exemplary architectures may be implemented in the same or similar procedure as shown above to enable LIPA to MRA or MRA to LIPA session operation.\nFIG. 19 is a flowchart showing a typical handover method.\nReferring to FIG. 19, in an exemplary handover method 1900, a WTRU 102 may move, for example, between a local network 1320 and another network 1330, and the WTRU 102 may be a first access point (AP). A communication session may be established as a LIPA session in the local network 1320 via 1322. At block 1910, the first AP 1322 may hand over the communication session with the WTRU 102 to the second AP 1332, and a communication path is established between at least the first AP 1322 and the second AP 1332. Also good. At block 1920, the first AP 1322 may relay the packet associated with the communication session to the second AP 1332 via the established communication path.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the handover on the communication session is such that the first AP 1322 maintains at least one radio resource between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102 prior to the handover of the communication session. Suspending at least one radio resource between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102 after the handover.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, maintaining at least one radio resource prior to the handover of the communication session may include maintaining at least one radio bearer between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102. Well, and suspending at least one radio resource between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102 may include terminating at least one radio bearer between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the LIPA session between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102 may be transitioned to an MRA session using the second AP 1332.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, suspending radio resources between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102 may be based on completion of the transition of the LIPA session to the MRA session.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, suspending radio resources between the first AP 1322 and the WTRU 102 is (1) concurrent with suspending the LIPA session and (2) entering the MRA session based on a trigger condition. It may occur after the transition, or (3) at a predetermined time after the transition to the MRA session.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the communication path between the first AP 1322 and the second AP 1332 traverses at least one gateway 1312 located outside the local network 1320 and other networks 1330. May be established by setting a communication path.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the communication session handover may be performed while the first AP 1322 maintains a connection with at least one gateway 1312 located outside the local network 1320 and other networks 1330. Suspending at least one radio resource between one AP 1322 and the WTRU 102.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the first AP 1322 may relay a packet to the second AP 1332 or may receive a relay indication indicating whether to stop relaying.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the first AP 1322 may set up a context for managing the WTRU 102 that is being served by the second AP 1332 over the air and while the context is set up. May be prevented from allocating arbitrary radio resources to the WTRU 102.\nFIG. 20 is a flowchart showing a typical setup method.\nReferring to FIG. 20, in an exemplary setup method 2000 for setting up a communication path for an MRA session in a local network or another network, the WTRU 102 receives a LIPA session in the local network 1520 via a first access point (AP) 1522. As a communication session established. At block 2010, a network entity 1514 external to the local network 1520 may receive a request to set up an MRA session. At block 2020, the network entity 1514 may set up a communication path between at least the first AP 1522 and the second AP 1532 by sending one or more messages establishing multiple tunnels for the MRA session. .\nIn some exemplary embodiments, sending one or more messages sets up a first tunnel between gateway 1512 and first AP 1522 in local network 1520 and gateway 1512 and local network 1520. Or may include sending one or more messages to set up a second tunnel with a second AP 1532 in another network 1530.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, sending the one or more messages may include sending information or parameters to the first AP 1522, excluding information or parameters for the operation of the air interface.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity may determine the second AP 1532 that will be used for the MRA session, eg, according to one or more access criteria shown in the disclosure with respect to FIG. 17 above. Also good.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity 1514 determines that the first downlink packet will be sent to the second AP 1532 after transitioning from a particular WTRU 102 idle mode to connected mode. Information may be transmitted to the gateway 1512 which is at least one endpoint of the plurality of tunnels.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the established LIPA session may be continued as an MRA session by controlling the release of radio resources at the first AP 1522.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity 1514 may change the path (eg, communication path) used for data exchange by the WTRU 102 based on the configuration of the local gateway in the local network 1520.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity 1514 may be based on available resources, for example, at the first AP 1522, at the second AP 1532, or based on loading criteria, among others. The communication path used for the communication may be changed.\nFIG. 21 is a flowchart showing another typical handover method.\nReferring to FIG. 21, in an exemplary handover method 2100, the WTRU 102 may move between, for example, a local network 1520 and another network 1530, and the WTRU 102 is locally connected via a first AP 1522. A communication session can be established as a LIPA session in the network 1520. At block 2110, the network entity 1514 may determine whether other networks 1530 are allowed to be accessed by the WTRU 102 according to one or more criteria. At block 2120, the network entity 1514 may control establishment of a communication path between at least the first AP 1522 in the local network 1520 and the second AP 1530 in the other network 1530 in response to the determined result. Good. The control of the establishment includes (1) initiating a first tunnel having a first tunnel endpoint of the local gateway 1540 and a second tunnel endpoint of the first AP 1522; and (2) a first of the gateway 1512. Initiating a second tunnel with a second tunnel endpoint of the first AP 1522 and (3) via a gateway 1512 located outside the local network 1520 and other networks 1530 Setting a communication path to traverse the first tunnel and the second tunnel.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity 1514 may provide a downlink path from the local gateway to the WTRU 102 and an upload from the WTRU 102 to the local gateway 1540 such that at least a portion of the downlink and uplink paths are different. The link path may be changed.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the data path in the MRA session from the first AP 1522 to the serving cell 1532 (eg, the second AP) may use an X2 connection in the LTE system, or a 3G system An Iurh connection to may be used.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, access control may be performed when a LIPA session transitions to an MRA session.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, NAS procedures may be implemented in another network 1530 while the WTRU 102 is in idle mode.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, each connection in the local network 1520 may be maintained for at least a predetermined period, and the WTRU 102 may reverse the LIPA session before the predetermined period expires. You may make a transition.\nFIG. 22 is a flowchart showing a further representative handover method.\nReferring to FIG. 22, in an exemplary handover method 2200, a WTRU 102 may move, for example, between a local network 1520 and another network 1530, and the WTRU 102 is locally connected via a first AP 1522. A communication session can be established as a LIPA session in the network 1520. At block 2210, the second AP 1532 in the other network 1530 may receive a request from the WTRU 102 to connect to the other network 1530. At block 2220, the LIPA session in local network 1520 may be transitioned to an MRA session in other network 1530. For example, the transition may include establishing a communication path between the first AP 1522 and the second AP 1532 via the gateway 1512 and notifying the gateway 1512 of the transition to the MRA session.\nFIG. 23 is a flowchart showing an additional representative handover method.\nReferring to FIG. 23, in an exemplary handover method 2300, the WTRU 102 may move, for example, between a local network 1520 and another network 1530, and the WTRU 102 may be wireless to the first AP 1522 and the WTRU 102. The communication session may be established as an MRA session in another network 1530 using the established communication path with the second AP 1532 that serves the same. At block 2310, the first AP 1522 may relay the packet associated with the communication session to the second AP 1532 via the established communication path. At block 2320, the first AP 1522 may establish at least one radio bearer between the first AP 1522 and the WTRU 102. At block 2330, the first AP 1522 uses an MRA session between the second AP 1532 and the WTRU 102 in the other network 1530 using at least one radio bearer established between the first AP 1522 and the WTRU 102. Thus, a transition to the LIPA session in the local network 1520 may be made.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the transition of the MRA session to the LIPA session may include the first AP 1522 terminating relaying the packet associated with the communication session via the established communication path. Good.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, termination of packet relaying is based on a trigger condition after (1) transition of an MRA session to a LIPA session and (2) after transition to an MRA session based on a trigger condition. And \/ or (3) at a predetermined time after the transition of the MRA session to a LIPA session.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the established communication path between the first AP 1522 and the second AP 1532 is interrupted after establishment of at least one radio bearer between the first AP 1522 and the WTRU 102. May be.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the first AP 1522 may provide an MRA context for managing the WTRU 102 that is being served by the second AP 1532 over the air to the first AP 1522 for serving the WTRU 102 over the air. You may update to a 2nd context.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, data from the WTRU 102 during the LIPA session may be sent to the destination via the local gateway 1540 except for any of the core networks 1512 and 1514.\nFIG. 24 is a flowchart showing a typical end method.\nReferring to FIG. 24, an exemplary termination method 2400 is a communication for an MRA session in the local network 1520 or another network 1530 in response to a LIPA session being established in the local network 1520 via the first AP 1522. You may end the pass. At block 2410, a network entity 1514 external to the local network 1520 may receive a request to set up a LIPA session. In block 2420, the network entity 1514 at least between the gateway 1512 and the first AP 1522 in the local network 1520 and between the gateway 1512 and the second AP 1532 in the local network 1520 or other network 1530. One or more messages that interrupt the second tunnel may be transmitted.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the transmission of one or more messages may include information or parameters to the first AP 1522 that includes information or parameters for operation of a radio interface between the first AP 1522 and the WTRU 102. It may include transmitting.\nFIG. 25 is a flowchart illustrating yet another exemplary handover method 2500.\nReferring to FIG. 25, in an exemplary handover method 2500, the WTRU 102 may move between the local network 1520 and another network 1530, and the WTRU 102 establishes an MRA session via the first AP 1522. It can be established. At block 2510, a request to connect to a local network may be received. At block 2520, MRA sessions in other networks 1530 may be transitioned to LIPA sessions. For example, the transition may include interrupting the established communication path between the second AP 1532 and the local gateway 1540 and notifying the local gateway 1540 of the transition to the LIPA session.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, data may be transmitted from the WTRU 102 to the destination via the local gateway 1540 excluding any of the core networks 1512 and 1514 during the LIPA session.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity 1514 may pass to a second gateway 1512 located between the first AP 1522 and the second AP 1532 so as not to forward uplink packets to the local network 1520. A message to be notified may be transmitted.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the transition to the LIPA session may include continuing the LIPA session as an MRA session by establishing radio resources at the first AP 1522.\nIn some exemplary embodiments, the network entity includes at least one of (1) a mobility management entity 1514, (2) a local gateway 1540, or (3) an AP 1522 that does not serve the WTRU 102 directly. But you can.\nFIG. 26 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary selection method 2600.\nReferring to FIG. 26, in an exemplary selection method 2600, an AP 1522 may be selected to enable MRA for the WTRU 102. At block 2610, a network entity (eg, MME 1514) may receive a request (eg, a request for an MRA session from WTRU 102 or second AP 1532) via a transmit \/ receive unit. For example, the request may be while the WTRU 102 is in connected mode or after the WTRU 102 transitions back from idle mode to connected mode. At block 2620, a network entity (eg, MME 1514) may determine a first AP 1522 to be used for MRA for the WTRU 102 served wirelessly by the second AP 1532 via its processor. The determination may be based on the criteria described herein above. At block 2630, the network entity 1514 may send one or more messages to set up the first AP 1522.\nFIG. 27 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary setup method 2700.\nReferring to FIG. 27, in an exemplary setup method 2700, an MRA session for the WTRU 102 may be set up via a first AP 1522 and a second AP 1532. At block 2710, a gateway (eg, SGW 1512) receives a setup message (eg, for setting up multiple tunnels with a first AP 1522 and a second AP 1532) via its transmit \/ receive unit. Also good. At block 2720, the gateway (eg, SGW 1512) sends a first tunnel between the gateway 1512 and the first AP 1522 and a second between the gateway 1512 and the second AP 1532 via its processor. You may set up a tunnel.\nReferring to FIG. 28, in an exemplary setup method 2800, an MRA session for the WTRU 102 may be set up via the AP 1522. At block 2810, an AP 1522 (eg, HeNB or eNB) may receive a setup message (eg, indicating a context associated with a WTRU 102 that is not serviced wirelessly by the AP 1522) via its transmit \/ receive unit. Good. For example, the WTRU 102 may be served by an AP 1532 that has different contexts that may include radio resources for the WTRU 102. As another example, the AP 1522 may have resources (eg, do not have radio resources used to relay communication to the WTRU 102 but directly communicate with the WTRU 102). All resources (radio resources and \/ or non-radio resources) may be configured via context. At block 2820, the AP 1522 may set up the received context via its processor.\nFIG. 29 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary method 2900.\nReferring to FIG. 29, in an exemplary method 2900, a LIPA session for a WTRU 102 moving out of the local network 1520 in idle mode may be managed. At block 2910, a network entity (eg, MME 1514) may, via its transmit \/ receive unit, provide a first message (eg, NAS message associated with WTRU 102, eg, a tracking area update message or disclosed herein). Another message) may be received. At block 2920, the network entity 1514 may determine whether to maintain the LIPA session based on the received first message as a result of the determination via its processor. For example, the determination of whether to maintain a LIPA session is based on the type of message (eg, the type of NAS message, whether the message identifies a request, the timing of the message, and \/ or other criteria indicated above). Also good. At block 2930, the network entity may send a second message to maintain or terminate the LIPA session via its sending \/ receiving unit according to the determined result. For example, the LIPA session may be terminated, may be terminated after a predetermined time if the WTRU 102 does not return to the local network 1520, or may be maintained until terminated by an independent termination trigger event. A LIPA session may be maintained while the WTRU 102 is being served wirelessly by an AP 1532 external to the local network 1520.\nThroughout this disclosure, those skilled in the art will appreciate that some exemplary embodiments may be used in alternative or in combination with other exemplary embodiments.\nAlthough features and elements are described in the specific combinations above, those skilled in the art will appreciate that each feature or element can be used alone or in any combination with other features and elements. . Further, the methods described herein may be implemented with a computer program, software, or firmware embedded in a computer readable medium for execution by a computer or processor. Examples of non-transitory computer readable storage media include read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), registers, cache memory, semiconductor memory devices, magnetic media such as internal hard disks and removable disks, magneto-optical media, and CDs Including but not limited to optical media such as ROM discs and DVDs (Digital Versatile Discs). A processor associated with the software may be used to implement a radio frequency transceiver used in the WTRU, WTRU 102, terminal, base station, RNC, or any host computer.\nFurthermore, in the embodiments described above, reference is made to other devices including processing platforms, computing systems, controllers, and processors. These devices may include at least one central processing unit (\"CPU\") and memory. In accordance with practices of those skilled in the art of computer programming, references to behavior and actions or symbolic representations of instructions may be performed by various CPUs and memories. Such behavior and operations or instructions may be referred to as \"executed\", \"computer-executed\", or \"CPU-executed\".\nOne skilled in the art will understand that behavior and symbolically represented operations or instructions include manipulation of electrical signals by the CPU. The electronic system thereby transforms or transforms the result of the electrical signal and maintains data bits at memory locations in the memory system and other processing of the signal to reconfigure or otherwise modify the operation of the CPU Represents a data bit that can cause The memory location at which the data bit is maintained is a physical location having specific electrical, magnetic, optical, or organic characteristics that correspond to or represent the data bit.\nData bits can be read by a CPU, such as magnetic disks, optical disks, and any other volatile (eg, random access memory (\"RAM\")) or non-volatile (eg, read only memory (\"ROM\")) It may be maintained on a computer readable medium including a mass storage system. The computer-readable medium is an embedded or interconnected computer-readable medium that is distributed among a plurality of interconnected processing systems that reside exclusively on the processing system or can be local or remote to the processing system. May be included. It should be understood that the exemplary embodiments are not limited to the memory described above, and that other platforms and memories can support the described method.\nNo element, act, or instruction used in the description of this application should be construed as critical or essential to the invention unless explicitly described as such. Also, as used herein, the article \"a\" is intended to include one or more items. Where only one item is intended, the term \"one\" or similar language is used. Further, as used herein, the term \"any of\" followed by multiple items and \/ or multiple categories of items is intended to mean multiple items and \/ or categories of items \"any\", It is intended to include \"combination of\", \"any plurality\", and \/ or \"any combination of from\" individually or in relation to other items and \/ or other categories of items. ing. Further, as used herein, the term \"set\" is intended to include any number of items, including zero. Further, as used herein, the term \"number\" is intended to include any number including zero.\nFurthermore, the claims should not be construed as limited to the described order or elements unless stated to that effect. Further, use of the term \"means\" in any claim is intended to appeal to 35 USC 112, claim 6, and claims that do not include the word \"means\" do not include such intent. .\nSuitable processors include, for example, general purpose processors, special purpose processors, conventional processors, digital signal processors (DSPs), multiple microprocessors, one or more microprocessors associated with a DSP core, controllers, microcontrollers, specific applications Integrated Circuits (ASIC), Application Specific Standards (ASSP), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits, any other type of integrated circuit (IC), and \/ or state machine.\nUsing a processor associated with software, in a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU), user equipment (UE), terminal, base station, mobility management entity (MME) or evolved packet core (EPC), or in any host computer The radio frequency transceiver used in can be implemented. WTRU, software defined radio (SDR), camera, video camera module, video phone, speakerphone, vibrating device, speaker, microphone, television transceiver, handsfree headset, keyboard, Bluetooth module, frequency modulation (FM) wireless unit, near field communication (NFC) module, liquid crystal display (LCD) display unit, organic light emitting diode (OLED) display unit, digital music player, media player, video game player module, internet browser, and \/ or optional Hardware, including other components such as wireless local area network (WLAN) modules or ultra-wideband (UWB) modules Or in connection with the module that is implemented in software it can be used.\nAlthough the present invention has been described in terms of a communication system, it is contemplated that the system can be implemented in software on a microprocessor \/ general purpose computer (not shown). In some embodiments, one or more of the functions of the various components can be implemented in software that controls a general purpose computer.\nFurthermore, although the invention is illustrated and described herein with reference to specific embodiments, the invention is not intended to be limited to the details shown. Rather, various modifications may be made in the details within the scope of the equivalents of the claims and without departing from the invention.\n<Typical embodiment>\nIn at least one embodiment, a handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network or between a first access point (AP) and a second AP in the local network A method is disclosed for a WTRU that has established a communication session as a Local IP Access (LIPA) session in a local network via a first AP. The method hands over the communication session with the WTRU to the second AP by the first AP, wherein the communication path is established between at least the first AP and the second AP. And relaying a packet associated with the communication session by the first AP to the second AP via the established communication path.\nIn at least one embodiment, the communication session handover comprises maintaining, by the first AP, at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU prior to the communication session handover; Discontinuing at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU by the AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, maintaining at least one radio resource prior to handover of the communication session can include maintaining at least one radio bearer between the first AP and the WTRU; And suspending at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU comprises maintaining established resources with one or more gateways associated with the WTRU by the first AP; Deactivating at least one radio resource used for the WTRU.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise transitioning a LIPA session between the first AP and the WTRU to a managed remote access (MRA) session using the second AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the interruption of radio resources between the first AP and the WTRU may be based on the completion of the LIPA session transition to the MRA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the step of suspending radio resources between the first AP and the WTRU includes (1) simultaneously with suspending the LIPA session and (2) after transitioning to the MRA session based on a trigger condition. Or (3) can occur at a predetermined time after transition to an MRA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method includes a first AP and a second AP by setting a communication path to traverse at least one gateway located outside the local network and other networks. The method may further comprise establishing a communication path between them.\nIn at least one embodiment, the handover of the communication session is performed by the first AP and the WTRU by the first AP while maintaining a connection with at least one gateway located outside the local network and other networks. Suspending at least one radio resource in between.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise receiving a relay indication by the first AP indicating whether to relay the packet to the second AP or to stop relaying.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method comprises: at a first AP, setting a context for managing a WTRU that is being served by a second AP over the air; and while the context is being set, The AP may further comprise preventing allocation of radio resources with the WTRU.\nIn at least one embodiment, a managed remote access (MRA) session in a local network or another network in response to a local IP access (LIPA) session established in a local network via a first access point (AP) A method for setting up a communication path for is disclosed. The method receives a request to set up an MRA session by a network entity external to the local network, and sends one or more messages to establish a plurality of tunnels for the MRA session by the network entity, Setting up a communication path between the first AP and the second AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, sending the one or more messages sets up a first tunnel between the gateway and the first AP in the local network, and the gateway in the local network or other network Setting up a second tunnel with a second AP can include sending one or more messages.\nIn at least one embodiment, sending the one or more messages can include sending information or parameters to the first AP, excluding information or parameters for operation of the air interface.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise determining a second AP to be used for the MRA session according to one or more access criteria by the network entity.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise continuing the established LIPA session as an MRA session by controlling the release of radio resources at the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method further comprises the step of changing a path used for data exchange by a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) based on a configuration of a local gateway in the local network by a network entity. Can do.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method further comprises changing a communication path used by the network entity for the wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) based on resources available at the first AP. be able to.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between different networks is disclosed. The WTRU may have established a communication session as a local IP access (LIPA) session in a local network via a first access point (AP). The method determines by the network entity whether other networks are allowed to be accessed by the WTRU according to one or more criteria, and the first tunnel endpoint of the local gateway and the first AP of the first AP. Initiating a first tunnel having two tunnel endpoints, initiating a second tunnel having a first tunnel endpoint of the second gateway and a second tunnel endpoint of the first AP; and In response to the determined result, at least local by setting a communication path to traverse the first and second tunnels via a second gateway located outside the local network and other networks The first AP and other network in the network It may comprise the step of controlling the establishment of communication paths between the second AP in network.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise changing the downlink path from the local gateway to the wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) and the uplink path from the WTRU to the local gateway. At least some of the link path and the uplink path are different.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method comprises establishing a data path in an MRA session from a first AP to a serving cell using an X2 connection in an LTE system or using an Iurh connection to a 3G system. Furthermore, it can be provided.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may comprise performing access control when the LIPA session transitions to the MRA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise performing a NAS procedure in the other network while the WTRU is in idle mode.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise maintaining each connection in the local network for at least a predetermined period and transitioning back to a LIPA session before the predetermined period expires. .\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network is disclosed. The WTRU may have established a communication session as a local IP access (LIPA) session in a local network via a first access point (AP). A method for receiving a request to connect to another network by a second AP in the other network; establishing a communication path between the first AP and the second AP via the gateway; and Transitioning a LIPA session in a local network to an MRA session in another network by notifying the gateway of the transition to a managed remote access (MRA) session.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network is disclosed. The WTRU has established a communication session as a managed remote access (MRA) session in another network using an established communication path between the first AP and a second AP that serves the WTRU wirelessly. Can be. The method relays a packet associated with a communication session by a first AP to a second AP via an established communication path, and at least one radio between the first AP and the WTRU. Establishing a bearer and an MRA session between the second AP and the WTRU in the other network using the at least one radio bearer established between the first AP and the WTRU in the local network Transitioning to a local IP access (LIPA) session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the step of transitioning the MRA session to the LIPA session includes terminating the relay of the packet associated with the communication session via the established communication path by the first AP. it can.\nIn at least one embodiment, the step of terminating the relay of the packet is (1) simultaneously with the transition of the MRA session to the LIPA session, (2) after the transition to the MRA session based on the trigger condition, or (3 ) Can occur at a predetermined time after transition of MRA session to LIPA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method interrupts the established communication path between the first AP and the second AP after establishment of at least one radio bearer between the first AP and the WTRU. The step of performing can be further provided.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise receiving a relay indication that indicates by the first AP to relay the packet to the second AP or to stop relaying. .\nIn at least one embodiment, the method includes, at a first AP, an MRA context for managing a WTRU being served by a second AP over the air, a second for the first AP serving the WTRU over the air. Further updating to the context of\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise transmitting data from the WTRU to the destination via the local gateway except for any core network during the LIPA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, in response to a local IP access (LIPA) session being established in the local network via a first access point (AP), managed remote access (MRA) in the local network or another network. ) A method for terminating a communication path for a session is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to set up a LIPA session by a network entity external to the local network, sending one or more messages by the network entity to at least a gateway and a first AP in the local network. Suspending the first tunnel between the gateway and the second tunnel between the gateway and a second AP in the local network or other network.\nIn at least one embodiment, transmitting one or more messages comprises information or parameters including information or parameters for operation of a radio interface between the first AP and a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU). Can be transmitted to the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network is disclosed. The WTRU may have established a managed remote access (MRA) session via a first access point (AP). The method receives the request to connect to the local network, interrupts the established communication path between the second AP and the local gateway, and informs the local gateway of the transition to the LIPA session. Transitioning MRA sessions in other networks to local IP access (LIPA) sessions.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method may further comprise transmitting data from the WTRU to the destination during a LIPA session via a local gateway except for any core network.\nIn at least one embodiment, the method notifies the second gateway located between the first AP and the second AP not to forward uplink packets to the local network by the network entity. May be further included.\nIn at least one embodiment, transitioning to the LIPA session may include continuing the MRA session as a LIPA session by establishing radio resources at the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the network entity may include at least one of (1) a mobility management entity, (2) a local gateway, or (3) an AP that does not serve the WTRU directly.\nIn at least one embodiment, an access point (AP) for handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network is disclosed. The WTRU may have established a communication session as a local IP access (LIPA) session in a local network via an AP that serves the WTRU wirelessly. The AP is configured to transmit \/ receive a packet associated with the communication session to relay to the second AP via a communication path established at least between the first AP and the second AP. And a controller configured to hand over the communication session with the WTRU to the second AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller maintains at least one radio resource between the AP and the WTRU and interrupts at least one radio resource between the AP and the WTRU prior to the handover of the communication session. It may be configured to.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller maintains at least one radio bearer between the AP and the WTRU prior to the handover, and at least one between the first AP and the WTRU after the handover. It may be configured to terminate the radio bearer.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller may be configured to suspend radio resources between the AP and the WTRU based on completion of the handover.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller (1) contemporaneously with the interruption of the LIPA session, (2) after a transition to an MRA session based on a trigger condition, or (3) after a transition to an MRA session. May be configured to suspend radio resources between the AP and the WTRU.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller suspends at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU while maintaining a connection with at least one gateway located outside the local network. It may be configured.\nIn at least one embodiment, the transmit \/ receive unit may be configured to receive a relay indication that indicates whether to relay the packet to the second AP or stop relaying, and The controller may be configured to control relaying of the packet based on the received relay indication.\nIn at least one embodiment, the transmit \/ receive unit may be configured to receive an MRA context for managing a WTRU that is serviced wirelessly by a second AP, and the controller receives It may be configured to prevent WTRU radio resource allocation according to the MRA context.\nIn at least one embodiment, the network entity (NE) may be responsive to a local IP access (LIPA) session being established in the local network via a first access point (AP) The network may be configured to set up a communication path for a managed remote access (MRA) session. The NE determines a tunnel endpoint for the MRA session to send one or more messages according to one or more access criteria and a sending \/ receiving unit configured to receive a request to set up the MRA session And the transmitting \/ receiving unit transmits one or more messages establishing a tunnel for the MRA session, between at least the first AP and the second AP. May be configured to set up a communication path.\nIn at least one embodiment, the transmitting \/ receiving unit transmits information to a gateway that is at least one endpoint of the plurality of tunnels, so that the first after a specified WTRU transition from idle mode to connected mode May be configured to notify the gateway that the downlink packet will be transmitted to the second AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the NE may be configured to continue the established LIPA session as an MRA session by controlling the release of radio resources at the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the NE may be configured to change the path used for data exchange by the wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) based on the configuration of the local gateway in the local network.\nIn at least one embodiment, the NE may be configured to change the communication path used for the wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) based on the resources available at the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, a network entity (NE) may be configured to control handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) that moves between different networks. The WTRU may have established a communication session as a local IP access (LIPA) session in a local network via a first access point (AP) that serves the WTRU wirelessly. The NE determines whether other networks are allowed to be accessed by the WTRU according to one or more criteria, and in response to the determined result, at least a first AP and other networks in the local network Control the establishment of a communication path with a second AP at the start, thereby initiating a first tunnel having a first tunnel endpoint of the local gateway and a second tunnel endpoint of the first AP And a controller configured to cause a second tunnel having a first tunnel endpoint of the serving gateway and a second tunnel endpoint of the first AP to be initiated, The controller sends the first through at least one gateway Further configured to tunnel and second tunnel to set the communication path to traverse.\nIn at least one embodiment, an access point (AP) may be configured to hand over a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) that moves between a local network and another network. The WTRU may have established a communication session as a local IP access (LIPA) session in a local network via a first access point (AP) that serves the WTRU wirelessly. An AP establishes a communication path via a gateway between a transmission \/ reception unit configured to receive a request to connect to another network and a first AP and a second AP, and managed A controller configured to transition a LIPA session in a local network to an MRA session in another network by notifying the gateway of the transition to a remote access (MRA) session.\nIn at least one embodiment, an access point (AP) may be configured to hand over a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) that moves between a local network and another network. The WTRU has established a communication session as a managed remote access (MRA) session in another network via an established communication path between the first AP and a second AP that serves the WTRU wirelessly. can do. The AP has at least one radio bearer between the AP and the WTRU and a transmission \/ reception unit configured to relay packets associated with the communication session to the second AP via the established communication path. And establish an MRA session between the second AP and the WTRU in the other network using local IP access (LIPA) in the local network using at least one radio bearer established between the AP and the WTRU. And a controller configured to transition to a session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller may be configured to terminate relaying the packet associated with the communication session via the established communication path.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller may: (1) concurrently with transition of MRA session to LIPA session, (2) after transition to MRA session based on trigger condition and \/ or (3) to LIPA session It may be configured to terminate relaying the packet at a predetermined time after the transition of the current MRA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller interrupts the established communication path between the first AP and the second AP after establishment of at least one radio bearer between the first AP and the WTRU. It may be configured to.\nIn at least one embodiment, the transmitting \/ receiving unit may be configured to receive a relay indication indicating whether to relay the packet to the second AP or to stop relaying.\nIn at least one embodiment, the controller is configured to update the MRA context for managing the WTRU being served by the second AP over the air to a second context for the AP serving the WTRU over the air. Also good.\nIn at least one embodiment, the transmit \/ receive unit may be configured to transmit data from the WTRU to the destination via the local gateway except for any core network during the LIPA session.\nIn at least one embodiment, a network entity (NE) may be responsive to a local IP access (LIPA) session being established in the local network via a first access point (AP) or another network The network may be configured to terminate a communication path for a managed remote access (MRA) session. The NE receives a request to set up a LIPA session, and at least a first tunnel between the gateway and the first AP in the local network and a gateway and the second AP in the local network or other network A transmission \/ reception unit configured to transmit one or more messages to interrupt the second tunnel therebetween may be provided.\nIn at least one embodiment, the transmit \/ receive unit may be configured to transmit information or parameters to the first AP, including information or parameters for operation of the radio interface between the first AP and the WTRU. Good.\nIn at least one embodiment, the NE may include at least one of (1) a mobility management entity, (2) a local gateway, or (3) an AP that does not serve the WTRU directly.\nIn at least one embodiment, an access point (AP) that controls handover of a wireless transmitter \/ receiver unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network is disclosed. The WTRU may have established a managed remote access (MRA) session via the AP and a second AP that serves the WTRU wirelessly. The AP transmits \/ receives a packet associated with the MRA session to an established path between the first AP and the second AP, configured to receive a request to connect to the local network. To manage the disruption of the path between the first AP in the local network and the second AP in the other network and control the transmission of information to the local gateway to transition to the LIPA session And a controller configured to control transition of the MRA session to the LIPA session in the local network.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for setting up a communication path for a managed remote access (MRA) session in a local network or another network via a first access point (AP) is disclosed. The method receives a request to set up an MRA session by a network entity external to the local network, and sends one or more messages to establish a plurality of tunnels for the MRA session by the network entity, Setting up a communication path between the first AP and the second AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for terminating a communication path for a managed remote access (MRA) session in a local network or another network via a first access point (AP) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request by a network entity external to the local network, and by the network entity, at least a first tunnel between the gateway and a first AP in the local network, and the gateway and the local network or Sending one or more messages to interrupt a second tunnel with a second AP in another network.\nIn at least one embodiment, a network entity (NE) is configured to set up a communication path for a managed remote access (MRA) session in a local network or another network via a first access point (AP). . The NE determines a tunnel endpoint for the MRA session and transmits one or more messages according to a transmission \/ reception unit configured to receive a request to set up the MRA session and one or more access criteria. And the transmitting \/ receiving unit transmits one or more messages establishing a tunnel for the MRA session, between at least the first AP and the second AP. Configured to set up a communication path.\nIn at least one embodiment, a network entity (NE) is configured to terminate a communication path for a managed remote access (MRA) session in a local network or another network via a first access point (AP). . The NE receives the request and at least a first tunnel between the gateway and the first AP in the local network, and a second between the gateway and the second AP in the local network or other network. A transmission \/ reception unit configured to transmit one or more messages that interrupt the two tunnels may be provided.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for access point (AP) selection for managed remote access (MRA) of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request by a network entity, determining a first AP to be used for MRA for a WTRU over-the-air served by a second AP by the network entity; To send one or more messages to set up the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for managed remote access (MRA) setup for a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) via first and second access points (AP) is disclosed. The method receives a setup message by a gateway, and sets up a first tunnel between the gateway and the first AP and a second tunnel between the gateway and the second AP by the gateway. Can be provided.\nIn at least one embodiment, a network entity (NE) is configured to select an access point (AP) for managed remote access (MRA) of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU). The NE is configured to determine a transmit \/ receive unit configured to receive the request and a first AP that will be used for MRA for a WTRU that is serviced wirelessly by the second AP. And the transmit \/ receive unit is configured to transmit one or more messages that set up the first AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, the gateway is configured to set up managed remote access (MRA) of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) via first and second access points (AP). The gateway sets up a transmit \/ receive unit configured to receive the setup message, a first tunnel between the gateway and the first AP, and a second tunnel between the gateway and the second AP. And a processor configured to do so.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for managed remote access (MRA) setup for a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) via an access point (AP) is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving, by the AP, a setup message indicating a context for a WTRU that is not serviced wirelessly by the AP, and setting up the received context by the AP.\nIn at least one embodiment, an access point (AP) is configured to set up managed remote access (MRA) for a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU). The AP may comprise a transmit \/ receive unit configured to receive a setup message indicating a context for a WTRU that is not served wirelessly by the AP, and a processor configured to set up the received context. it can.\nIn at least one embodiment, a method for managing a local IP access (LIPA) session for a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) moving outside a local network in an idle mode is disclosed. The method receives a first message by a network entity and determines whether to maintain a LIPA session based on the received first message as a result determined by the network entity; Maintaining a LIPA session or sending a second message to terminate according to the determined result by the network entity.\nIn at least one embodiment, the network entity is configured to manage a local IP access (LIPA) session for a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) moving out of the local network in idle mode. The NE is configured to determine whether to maintain a LIPA session based on the received first message as a result of the transmission \/ reception unit configured to receive the first message and the determined message. And the sending \/ receiving unit is configured to send a second message to maintain or terminate the LIPA session according to the determined result.\nA method for handover of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) that moves between a local network and another network using a first and second access point (AP), the WTRU comprising: A communication session is established as a local IP access (LIPA) session in the local network via the first AP, and the established communication session is between the local gateway and the first AP. Sent on the first communication path,\nAn indication indicating whether the first AP will or will not provide radio resources for the established communication session from the network entity to the WTRU by the first AP. Receiving a setup message including:\nSetting up or updating a context for the WTRU by the first AP based on the included indication;\nReceiving, by the first AP, a packet associated with the established communication session via the first communication path;\nBased on the context by the first AP, the packet associated with the established communication path is (1) from the first AP to the WTRU via the second AP, Without using radio resources of the first AP via a second communication path, or (2) from the first AP towards the WTRU, the established communication session via a radio communication path Transmitting using the radio resources of the first AP for the radio communication path, wherein the radio communication path, the first communication path, and the second communication path are different from each other. A method characterized by.\nMaintaining at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU by the first AP prior to handover of the communication session;\nSuspending the at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU by the first AP to the second AP by the first AP. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of performing a handover.\nThe step of suspending the at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU includes (1) simultaneous with the suspending of the LIPA session and (2) a managed remote access (MRA) session based on a trigger condition The method of claim 2, wherein the method occurs at a predetermined time after transition to (3) or after the transition to the MRA session.\nAt least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU is maintained by the first AP while maintaining a connection with at least one gateway and other networks located outside the local network. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of handing over the communication session to the second AP by the first AP, including the step of interrupting.\nThe set-up message, The method of claim 1, wherein the WTRU, characterized in that it presents the context for the WTRU to not serviced by radio by the first AP.\nA method for handover of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) that moves between a local network and another network using a first and second access point (AP), the WTRU comprising: Establishing a communication session as a local IP access (LIPA) session in the local network via the first AP;\nHanding over the communication session with the WTRU to the second AP by the first AP, wherein at least a communication path is established between the first AP and the second AP; Step, and\nRelaying a packet associated with the communication session by the first AP toward the second AP via the established communication path based on the context ;\nThe step of handing over the communication session comprises:\nMaintaining at least one radio bearer between the first AP and the WTRU by the first AP prior to the handover of the communication session by the first AP and the WTRU; Maintaining the at least one radio resource between:\nMaintaining established resources with one or more gateways associated with the WTRU by the first AP and deactivating the at least one radio resource used for the WTRU; And c. Interrupting the at least one radio resource between the first AP and the WTRU by the first AP.\nIn the first AP, setting a context for managing the WTRU being served wirelessly by the second AP;\nPreventing the first AP from allocating radio resources of the first AP to the WTRU while the context is set by the first AP;\nRelaying a packet associated with the communication session to the second AP via the established communication path by the first AP.\nA method for handover of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network, the WTRU comprising a local gateway in the local network and a first access point in the local network A first communication path to (AP) and a second communication path between the first AP in the local network and a second AP in another network, And the second AP is serving the WTRU wirelessly as a managed remote access (MRA) session ,\nEstablishing at least one radio resource by the first AP between the first AP and the WTRU;\nReceiving, by the first AP, a packet associated with the established communication session from the local gateway via the first communication path;\nBased on the context, the received packet associated with the communication session is transmitted by the first AP to (1) the second AP from the first AP to the established MRA session. Without using radio resources of the first AP for the established communication session via the second communication path towards the WTRU via, or (2) a radio communication path from the first AP The first AP's radio resources for the established communication session via the second AP and the established MRA session between the second AP and the WTRU in the other network. The local to the WTRU to transition to an access (LIPA) session And transmitting using as an entry point to Ttowaku, the first communication path, said second communication path, and the wireless communication path is different from each other, characterized by comprising the steps Method.\nThe first AP terminates the transmission of the packet associated with the communication session via the second communication path, whereby the termination of the transmission of the packet is (1) the LIPA session At the same time as the transition of the MRA session to (2) after the transition to the LIPA session based on a trigger condition, or (3) after the transition of the MRA session to the LIPA session 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising transitioning the established MRA session to the LIPA session by occurring at a time.\nIn the first AP, updating the context includes providing an MRA context for managing the WTRU being served by the second AP over the air, and the first AP serving the WTRU over the air. 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising updating to a second context to do.\nAn access point (AP) for handover of a wireless transmit \/ receive unit (WTRU) moving between a local network and another network, wherein the WTRU identifies the AP serving the WTRU wirelessly A communication session is established as a local IP access (LIPA) session in the local network, and the established communication session is transmitted on a first communication path between a local gateway and the AP ,\nReceiving a setup message from a network entity including an indication indicating whether the AP will or will not provide radio resources for the established communication session to the WTRU;\nSet up or update context for the WTRU based on the included indications;\nReceiving a packet associated with the communication session via the first communication path; and\nBased on the context, the packet associated with the established communication session is: (1) the establishment via the second communication path from the AP to the WTRU via the second AP. Without using the AP's radio resources for the established communication session or (2) using the AP's radio resources for the established communication session towards the WTRU via the radio communication path The wireless communication path, the first communication path, and the second communication path are different from each other,\nA transmit \/ receive unit configured as:\nAn AP comprising: a controller configured to hand over the communication session with the WTRU to the second AP.\nThe controller simultaneously interrupts the LIPA session at a predetermined time after (2) a transition to a managed remote access (MRA) session based on a trigger condition or (3) after a transition to the MRA session 12. The AP of claim 11, wherein the AP is configured to suspend radio resources between the AP and the WTRU.\nThe controller is configured to suspend at least one radio resource between the AP and the WTRU while maintaining a connection with at least one gateway and other networks located outside the local network. 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{"text":"Karex Berhad First Quarter 2023 Earnings: EPS: RM0.002 (vs RM0.001 in 1Q 2022)\nKarex Berhad (KLSE:KAREX) First Quarter 2023 Results\nKey Financial Results\nRevenue: RM145.0m (up 51% from 1Q 2022).\nNet income: RM2.29m (up 198% from 1Q 2022).\nProfit margin: 1.6% (up from 0.8% in 1Q 2022). The increase in margin was driven by higher revenue.\nEPS: RM0.002 (up from RM0.001 in 1Q 2022).\nearnings-and-revenue-history\nAll figures shown in the chart above are for the trailing 12 month (TTM) period\nKarex Berhad Earnings Insights\nLooking ahead, revenue is forecast to grow 9.9% p.a. on average during the next 3 years, compared to a 9.6% growth forecast for the Personal Products industry in Asia.\nPerformance of the market in Malaysia.\nThe company's shares are up 3.7% from a week ago.\nBalance Sheet Analysis\nJust as investors must consider earnings, it is also important to take into account the strength of a company's balance sheet. See our latest analysis on Karex Berhad's balance sheet health.\nKatherine Ryan 'flattered' to be mistaken for Gemma Collins and Stacey Solomon on The Masked Singer\nMaldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party's (MDP) presidential primary election, the first time an incumbent has faced a primary challenge, according to preliminary results on Sunday. But his challenger, former President Mohamed Nasheed has not accepted the results reported by the party. Nasheed's supporters and representatives have alleged voter fraud and vote rigging in the contentious election in the archipelago off India and Sri Lanka.\nThe comedian was the surprise celebrity behind the Pigeon mask.\nTunisia opened polling stations on Sunday for run-offs in a parliamentary election that drew only 11% turnout in the first round last month, an outcome critics of the president said undermined his claims of public support for sweeping political change. With political parties boycotting the vote, most candidates are independents and attention is likely to focus on whether there will be higher participation than there was in December. \"I'm not interested in elections that do not concern me,\" said Nejib Sahli, 40, passing a polling station in the Hay Ettahrir district of Tunis shortly before voting was due to begin.\nTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) \u2014 Tunisia's president and its shaky, decade-long experiment with democracy are facing an important test Sunday as voters cast ballots in the second round of parliamentary elections. Turnout was just 11% in the first round of voting last month, as many disaffected Tunisians stayed away and the influential opposition Islamist party boycotted. The runoff elections Sunday are being watched around the Arab world. They're seen as a conclusive step in President Kais Saied's push to\nThe 100-day test for new leaders and why Rishi Sunak is flunking it\nHe promised an end to the degeneracy of the Johnson years, but the scandals keep coming and the prime minister seems too weak to deal with them\nExclusive: Prime minister tells people of Ukraine the 'hearts of the British people' are with them","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spokane, Washington\u2003Est. May 19, 1883 31\u00b0 Partly Cloudy\nNews > Features\nStage listings\nFri., Oct. 12, 2012\nJerry Sciarrio and Mark Pleasant in Spokane Civic Theatre's \"The Producers.\"\nHeartsongs from the Edge of the World - P.o.P. (People of the Promise) Ministries Ministries and HeartSongs From the Voiceless will continue their mission of creating relationships through play in the performing arts between people of affluence and those living in poverty through this concert. Today, Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. (509) 227-7638.\nWSU Student Recitals - Today, 3:10 p.m., Christine Rushton, flute; 4:10 p.m., Sara Kochanski, soprano; and Nathan J. Straub, tenor. Washington State University, Bryan Hall Theatre, Pullman. Free. (509) 335-4148.\nBeGin! - Live music, cocktails, gallery cruising and an afterhours party. Acoustic showcase featuring: Folkinception, Marshall McLean, Hey is For Horses! Mark Ward, and DJ Locke. Today, 6-8 p.m., Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. First Ave. Free, donations welcomes. (509) 363-5344.\nMagic of the Masters - Presented by Coeur d'Alene Symphony. Today, 7:30 p.m., North Idaho College, Schuler Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d'Alene. (208) 765-3833.\nThe Montana Piano Trio - Resident piano trio at he University of Montana, Missoula. Today, 7:30 p.m., Steinway Piano Gallery, 13418 E. Nora Ave., Spokane Valley. Free. (509) 327-4266.\nKarla Bonoff & Nina Gerber (CANCELED) - In concert, presented by High Moon Music. Today, Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave., Sandpoint. $20. (208) 263-9191.\nJazz Northwest - Music from the classic 1961 recording \"Blues and the Abstract Truth\" by Oliver Nelson will be performed by the WSU faculty ensemble. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the School of Music Scholarship Fund. Part of the WSU Faculty Artist Series. Today, 8 p.m., Washington State University, Kimbrough Concert Hall, Pullman. $10\/general, $5\/seniors and students. (509) 335-4148.\nSpokane Symphony: Mahler's Resurrection Symphony - Oct. 13-14. A tribute to Gonzaga University's 125th anniversary year featuring the Spokane Symphony Chorale in collaboration with GU. Eckart Preu, conductor. Performances Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m., Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. $14-$44. (509) 624-1200.\nCelebrating Opportunity Community Banquet - The church hosts will begin tours of the facility at 4 p.m. which was reconstructed and dedicated in May 2004. A four-course dinner, prepared by Shogun Restaurant will be served at 6 p.m. Entertainment will follow at 7:30 p.m. Open to the public for dinner, concert or both, featuring music by Celtic Nots. Reservations requested. Saturday, Opportunity Presbyterian Church, 202 N. Pines Road, Spokane Valley. $15\/dinner. (509) 924-9750.\nLive Music at Huckleberry's - Saturday: Andy Rumsey. 7-9 p.m., Huckleberry's Natural Market, 926 S. Monroe St. Free. (509) 624-1349.\nA Little Night Music - Benefits the Women's and Children's Free Restaurant with live music by the Sammy Eubanks band, live and silent auctions, culinary specialties created by chefs from Wild Sage, Manito Tap House, Clover, The Main Market Co-Op and Seasons of Coeur d'Alene. Saturday, 6 p.m., Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. $60\/person. (509) 324-1995.\nKaren Drucker Concert - Spiritual musician and comedienne. Sunday, 1-2 p.m., Unity Church of North Idaho, 4465 N. 15th St., Coeur d'Alene. $15. (208) 772-1795.\nOrganist Christopher Nelson - The featured work is J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 10, \"Meine Seel erhebt den Herren\" arranged for solo organ by Nelson in the style of Franz Liszt. Sunday, 4 p.m., St. John's Cathedral, 127 E. 12th Ave. $5. (509) 838-4277.\nUI Jazz Combo Series - Faculty recital. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., University of Idaho, Lionel Hampton School of Music, Haddock Performance Hall, 1010 Blake Ave., Moscow. $5\/adults, $3\/students and seniors. (208) 885-7251.\nPianist Jon Schmidt - BYU Management Society, Spokane Chapter, presents pianist Schmidt with cellist Steven Sharp Nelson. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. $12\/advance, $17\/day of show. (509) 624-1200.\nBeethoven: The Complete Works for Cello and Piano - Kevin Hekmatpanah, cello, from Gonzaga University; and Rajung Yang, piano, from University of Idaho. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., University of Idaho, Lionel Hampton School of Music, Haddock Performance Hall, 1010 Blake Ave., Moscow. $5\/adults, $3\/students and seniors. (208) 885-7212.\nUI Guest Recital - \"There's an App for That?\" by Linda Holzer, piano. Holzer's performance features selections by composers Manuel Ponce, Claude Debussy and Frederic Chopin. Thursday, 7:30 p.m., University of Idaho, Lionel Hampton School of Music, Haddock Performance Hall, 1010 Blake Ave., Moscow. $5\/adults, $3\/seniors and students. (208) 885-7212.\nBlack and White Ball - Dance to live spun techno by DJ Gaga and calling by Susan Dankovich. Silent films will be projected onto the walls. Dress is black and white semiformal with catered appetizers. Presented by Spokane Folklore Society. Contra lessons at 6:30 p.m. and dance starts at 7 p.m. Tickets available at Chairs Coffee, 113 W. Indiana Ave. Saturday, Hamilton Studio, Toad Hall, 1427 W. Dean Ave. $15\/general, $8\/ages 13-18, free\/age 12 and younger. (509) 747-2640.\nFree Beginning Belly Dance - Designed to provide basic belly dance skills and provide an active venue for all ages and all body sizes. Mondays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Colfax Library, 102 S. Main St., Colfax. Free. (509) 397-4366.\nModel T Square Dancing Lessons - For singles and couples. Wednesday. 7-9 p.m., North Spokane Dance Center, 7424 N. Freya St. $3\/lesson. (509) 768-3903.\nComedian Brian Regan - Saturday, 8 p.m., INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. $42.50-$47.50. (800) 325-SEAT.\nWhite Tie Improv - Presented by University of Idaho Theatre. Featuring short and long-form improv using audience suggestions from the University of Idaho's comedy Troupe. Open workshops to be part of the troupe will be held 4:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays in the Arena Theater on the first floor of UI Shoup Hall. Monday, 8 p.m., Kiva Theater, University of Idaho, 921 Campus Drive, Moscow. $2 show admission. (208) 885-6465.\nComedy Open Mike - Thursday. Sign up by 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m., Uncle D's Comedy Underground, 1429 E. Liberty Ave. Free.\n\"Malika Queen of the Cats\" Puppet Theater - Show from Tears of Joy puppet theater. The performance is based on an Arabian fairy tale told through puppets. The show is 50 minutes long and appropriate for all ages. There is also a puppet workshop with the puppeteers from the company at 4:30 p.m. prior to the 5:30 p.m. show. Today, Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center, 405 N. William St., Post Falls. $7\/show only, $15\/workshop and show. (208) 457-8950.\n\"Murder in Black & White\" - Mystery dinner theater series. Today and Saturday and Oct. 19-20 at 6:30 p.m. Reservations required. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St., Metaline Falls, Wash. $25. (509) 446-4108.\n\"The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon\"- Lake City High School's Troupe de Wolfe Productions presents this comedy about the untold stories of classic fairy tale characters. Shows today and Saturday and Thursday-Oct. 20 at 7 p.m., Lake City High School, 6101 N. Ramsey Road, Coeur d'Alene. $7\/general admission, $5\/students and seniors. (208) 769-0769.\n\"The Producers\" - Mel Brooks' Tony Award-winning musical presented by Spokane Civic Theatre. Directed by Marianne McLauglin. Shows Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Runs through Oct. 21. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard St. $22-$29. (509) 325-2507 or (800) 325-SEAT.\n\"Oklahoma\" - Lake City Playhouse presents Rogers and Hammerstein's \"great American musical.\" Shows today and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave., Coeur d'Alene. $13.75-$19.75. (208) 667-1323.\n\"Rumors\"- Ignite! Community Theatre presents Neil Simon's farce, directed by Barry Brathovde. Shows today and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m., Ignite! Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway Ave., Spokane Valley. $20. (509) 795-0004.\nFounders Tribute: \"The Male Animal\" for Bob and Joan Welch (CANCELED) - Sunday, 7 p.m., Interplayers Theatre, 174 S Howard St. All tickets $15. (509) 455-7529.\n\"Jersey Boys\" (DATE CHANGES) - Thursday-Oct. 28. Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Part of the 2012-'13 Best of Broadway series. Shows scheduled for Oct. 29-Nov. 3 have been canceled. All ticket holders who purchased tickets for performances between Oct. 29 - Nov. 3 may exchange tickets for another performance or request a refund. Those affected by the schedule change should call TicketsWest or visit the Spokane Arena box office. INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (800) 325-SEAT.\n\"HONK! A Musical Tale of The Ugly Duckling\" - Presented by Whitworth University Theatre Department. Anthony Drewe and George Stiles' musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story, \"The Ugly Duckling.\" Shows Thursday-Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. and matinees on Oct. 20-21 at 2 p.m., Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. $9\/adults, $7\/seniors and students. (509) 227-7404.\nA long-lost document sheds light on the case of Chief Spokane Garry's stolen land\nWhat to expect as the omicron variant rages in Spokane\nSchedule update: Gonzaga will entertain San Francisco on Thursday at 8 p.m.\n10 COVID-19 myth busters: Get the facts about vaccines\nThe importance of COVID vaccinations will be kept at the forefront of discussions as Washington state reopens after a long and challenging time.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Our teenagers think we're some sort of drug dealers' Two mums launch cannabis oil business worth around \u00a3125k from their kitchen table\nNow, their business is thriving, and they sell an array of CBD products costing from \u00a34.99 to \u00a357.99\nPA reporters\nVictoria Jones\nSamantha Day and Lorraine Clark with Hapi Hemp products (Image: Tim Steele Photography\/PA Real Life)\nTwo mums who made friends at the school gates joined forces to launch a cannabis oil business worth around \u00a3125,000 from their kitchen table.\nIt came after cannabidiol (CBD) oil made Samantha Day, 49, feel like the \"dark cloud\" marring her life had lifted, following breast cancer in 2017.\nShe then recommended it to her friend, Lorraine Clarke, 51, who had been struggling with her mental health.\nSince first trying it in 2018, the friends, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, have become such converts that they have joined forces to start their own CBD oil business Hapi Hemp - produced without the psychoactive agent THC that makes illegal cannabis users high.\n'Unlikely' Second World War spy Noor Inayat Khan honoured with Blue Plaque\nMum ditches veganism in favour of raw meat diet \u2013 wolfing down raw chicken, offal and eggs\nFormer PA Samantha, who has three children, Matthew, 19, Michael, 17, and Megan, 15, with her contracts manager husband Gareth, 49, said: \"People are shocked when we tell them we sell CBD oil. Our teenagers think we're some sort of drug dealers, but the benefits speak for themselves.\n\"For years, I experienced low moods and extreme tiredness, to the point where I could barely bring myself to get off the sofa.\n\"But within days of taking CBD, my energy levels were boosted, and my low moods disappeared \u2013 it felt like I had a rebirth. Neither Lorraine nor I have much business experience, but we both believe so passionately in CBD and want to help other people.\"\nSamantha Day and her husband (Image: PA Real Life)\nSamantha and Lorraine, who works in publishing and lives with her sons Oliver, 17, and William, 15, from a previous relationship, first became friends in 2014, after chatting at the school gates.\nLorraine, whose partner Allan Butler, 52, is an electrical wholesale manager, said: \"At first we just chatted about typical mum stuff. But then we got on to the subject of mental health and all that we'd been through and we started to confide in each other.\n\"It was wonderful to have Samantha to chat to because often you can feel alone. Our relationship blossomed and throughout the years we've supported each other before going on to become business partners.\"\nAt her wits' end, after a decade dogged by debilitating health problems, Samantha's difficulties began in her thirties, with endometriosis \u2013 a painful condition where tissue usually found in the lining of the womb grows in other parts of the body.\nLorraine Clark pictured with her two sons (Image: PA Real Life)\nShe said: \"I was in constant agony and feeling very depressed. My hormones were all over the place.\"\nAfter trying painkillers and other medication to treat her symptoms \u2013 all to no avail \u2013 she eventually made the difficult decision to have a full hysterectomy at Peterborough's Fitzwilliam Hospital, in June 2008, aged 37, during which surgeons removed her uterus and ovaries.\nInitially, her pain eased and her mood lifted, but her good health and elevated mood were short-lived, as 18 months later, she started feeling exhausted and miserable.\n\"I felt like I was walking around with my head in a fog,\" she said. \"I always felt run down, like I was about to get a virus \u2013 but the virus never came.\n\"I felt guilty, too, because I had a young family to take care of \u2013 but I felt constantly wiped out.\"\nMum gives strangers the chance to win a \u00a3125,000 house for just \u00a33 in a raffle\nAfter visiting her GP, Samantha was referred to a rheumatologist \u2013 a doctor that deals with musculoskeletal and autoimmune conditions \u2013 in mid-2011.\nAround six months later, after a series of blood and body functioning tests, she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia \u2013 a long-term condition that causes extreme tiredness, muscle stiffness, brain fog and pain all over the body.\nShe was also found to have sleep apnoea, which occurs when the airway becomes too narrow during sleep, causing breathing to stop and start. Samantha was given a CPAP machine \u2013 a special device designed to put pressure into your airways to keep them open \u2013 as well as medication to control her pain, but she continued to struggle.\nSamantha Day during chemo (Image: PA Real Life)\nShe said: \"At that point, I felt so physically and mentally exhausted I could barely get off the sofa \u2013 none of the medication seemed to work. My laptop was my lifesaver, as I started researching ways to help myself and came across CBD oil.\n\"But, much as the reviews were good, I was just a bit too scared to actually try it.\"\nThen, in another devastating blow, Samantha found a lump after waking in the middle of the night in late June 2017 with a pain in her right breast \u2013 which a biopsy at Peterborough City Hospital confirmed was stage three cancer.\nShe continued: \"I was devastated. I didn't want to die, I wanted to be there for my children. I was determined I was going to beat it.\"\nAfter eight rounds of aggressive chemotherapy, the 5cm tumour shrank and, in early 2018, Samantha had a lumpectomy \u2013 surgery to remove the remainder of the lump and its surrounding tissue \u2013 and four weeks of radiotherapy.\nSeeing a light at the end of the tunnel, when she was mid-way through radiotherapy, she became determined not to let her other health conditions rule her life.\nSamantha Day after cancer treatment (Image: PA Real Life)\nSo, remembering her earlier research, she decided she was ready to try CBD oil \u2013 which was made legal in the UK in 2018, provided it is properly labelled, has been tested and contains less than 0.2 per cent THC- although the NHS stresses there is no guarantee that all products claiming to be medical cannabis, such as CBD oil, will be good quality, or can provide health benefits.\n\"I'd had a serious brush with death, and it made me realise I needed to help myself,\" said Samantha. \"I didn't want to feel tired and sad all the time anymore \u2013 I wanted to do something about it.\n\"I started to take CBD oil drops every day and, within weeks, felt the benefits. It was incredible. I was like a new person. The dark cloud had finally been lifted.\"\nMrs Hinch fan becomes a 'cleanfluencer' with thousands of Instagram followers\nMum with incurable cancer surprises husband by turning her 40th birthday into a wedding vow renewal\nOnce her radiotherapy finished, Samantha was told by doctors that the cancer had gone.\nShe added: \"I never got the official all clear as such. I still have to go for yearly scans to make sure it's not come back.\"\nMeanwhile, Lorraine had been battling her own demons after enduring three tragic miscarriages and a still birth between 1999 and 2002 \u2013 sending her into a deep depression.\nShe recalled: \"I suffered three miscarriages and then, I got pregnant again for the fourth time and I was six months pregnant when I went for a scan, the midwife told me she could no longer feel the baby's heartbeat.\n\"The baby had passed and I had a stillbirth which was one of the worst days of my life. The doctors did some tests to find out what was wrong \u2013 but they didn't find a specific cause.\nSamantha Day after her cancer treatment finished (Image: PA Real Life)\n\"The experience triggered awful panic attacks. I'd be out walking and would suddenly have this horrific feeling that something terrible was going to happen.\"\nDespite taking a high dose of anti-depressants, Lorraine continued to struggle with her mental health.\nHer low mood was compounded by the fact that she also has premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) \u2013 a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), symptoms of which can include feelings of hopelessness, anxiety, anger and tension, difficulty concentrating, tearfulness, lack of energy and even suicidal thoughts.\n\"I was erratic,\" she said. \"One week I was hyper and happy and the next I would be in a really dark place.\"\nBy 2017, Lorraine had reached the end of her tether and, just like Samantha had done nine years earlier, decided to have a hysterectomy.\nBut sadly, while recovering, she contracted a viral infection which landed her back in hospital, bedbound for seven weeks.\nThe delay in returning to normality took its toll on her mental health and she became consumed by panic once again.\nHearing about her friend's plight, Samantha suggested she try CBD oil.\nAt first, Lorraine was sceptical, but eventually she agreed.\n\"It was something I'd researched and considered before \u2013 I'm a sucker for trying a new product \u2013 but I was a little sceptical,\" she said. \"Bit Samantha was just so passionate about it \u2013 it completely won me over. It didn't hit me straight away, but after a few months, I felt a lot calmer and was sleeping much better.\"\nDetermined to extol the virtues of CBD to others, in February 2019, the women joined forces and set up their own business, Hapi Hemp.\nTeen with lifelong fear of furry animals set to get a dog after hypnotherapy session 'cured' her\nTeen who revised for exams while having chemotherapy lands university spot to become doctor\nSamantha explained: \"We were just two mums sitting around the kitchen table chatting when we came up with the idea, but we were determined to bring it to life.\n\"We tapped up our friends, family and credit cards and managed to stump up \u00a35,000 each to invest. From there, we researched into CBD as we were determined to bring to life a product that was high quality, authentic and safe.\"\nShe added: \"We wanted to up the game within the CBD industry \u2013 because there can be a lot of cowboys \u2013 and make good quality products.\n(Image: Tim Steele Photograph\/PA Real Life)\n\"We didn't want to create just CBD oil \u2013 we wanted to create something with a more holistic approach, for women, that was more personal and made women, just like us, feel safe and happy to use.\"\nDespite being new to the world of business, Samantha and Lorraine wasted no time in researching CBD oil suppliers and even managed to secure an investment.\n\"With coronavirus it's been a bit tough \u2013 but we've built the business from nothing so we have the sheer grit and determination to make it work,\" Samantha.\nNow, their business is thriving, and they sell an array of CBD products costing from \u00a34.99 to \u00a357.99.\nLorraine said: \"We sell all sorts of CBD oils and teas, which are blended with rosemary, chamomile and lemon balm, making them even more calming. We've recently launched a new product \u2013 a CBD super food powder, which is mixed with turmeric.\"\nShe added: \"We would love to one day see our brand in high street retailers.\n\"CBD oil has given me a new lease of life and the fact we're now able to help other people is just brilliant. We're just two mums with an idea and a lot of passion, but we've totally transformed our lives and we hope we can do the same for other people.\"\nAnd Samantha echoes her pal's sentiments, claiming that the oil has helped her to move on from her health ordeal and focus on the future.\nShe said: \"Since I started taking CBD oil, people have stopped seeing me as a poorly person and started seeing me as a businesswoman.\n\"I couldn't have done any of this without Lorraine. We're total opposites, but we complement each other. She's supported me through some of my toughest times and been there as my confidante \u2013 now we're business partners.\n\"It's daunting to start a new business in your forties \u2013 but with Lorraine by my side, I always knew we'd make it work.\"\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of HereThe original cast of I'm A Celebrity 2002 - where are they nowIt's been two decades since the ITV reality show first hit our screens\nWhatsApp announces major change to service - and this is how you can get it first\nUK & World NewsYou will soon be able to do much more with your friends - and find out what they really think of what you have to say\nHull FCHighlights as Bradford Bulls prove too strong for inexperienced Hull FC The Black and Whites travel to West Yorkshire for their first outing of the year\nThe two food groups expert says you should cut out for fast weight loss\nNHSThe diet expert explained what foods you should and shouldn't be eating\nHull CityThe Tigers third straight league defeat leaves them without a win since November\nHapless Hull City underline need for takeover resolution as Tigers relegation worries grow\nHull CityThe Potters complete straightforward league double over the sorry Tigers as relegation worries continue","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"First Jerusalem Marathon hits City of Gold streets\nTwo days after bombing, more than 10,000 participants forecast for Friday's festivities in the Holyland capital.\nBy DANIEL BLAS\nnir barkat_311\n(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem)\nThe first-ever Jerusalem Marathon will go ahead as planned on Friday morning despite the terror attack that killed one woman and wounded 39 people on Wednesday afternoon when a bag exploded next to a bus stop across the street from the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Binyanei Ha'uma), near the capital's western entrance.\n\"Our answer to the murderous terrorists is that we will never stop running,\" Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat said at the Marathon's gala dinner on Wednesday night.\n\"Jerusalem doesn't stop and won't stop. The real Jerusalem will be showcased in the marathon. A peaceful, happy and healthy city which is more beautiful than ever.\"\nThe world's holiest \u2013 and maybe hilliest \u2013 city will play host to the first-ever Jerusalem Marathon on Friday.\nOver 10,000 runners from 40 countries worldwide will step off from the Knesset at seven o'clock in the morning, ending at Sacher Park.\nRunners competing in the half-marathon, the 10- and 4.2- kilometer races, and the 400-meter charity race for the Shalva organization begin an hour after the full marathon.\nJerusalem has hosted a halfmarathon for the past two decades. Mayor Barkat, a veteran of five marathons, saw advantages to bringing the 26.2 mile (42 kilometer) race to his city after running the New York Marathon last year.\n\"The marathon is an important economic driving force for the city and will bring many runners and spectators to the capital,\" he said.\nThe marathon is likely to boost tourism, which has been improving steadily.\nIn 2010, Israel's capital met 3.5 million tourists, 26 percent more than the previous year.\nThe Municipality of Jerusalem announced that hotels are booked to capacity with 4,000 runners and journalists from the international media staying locally over the weekend.\n\"The city is proud to be the hosts for this truly historic event,\" said Uri Menachem, Director of the Jerusalem Sports authority.\nRunning in Jerusalem is about more than just the race itself. The views of 5,000+ years of history are \"phenomenal\" and \"breathtaking,\" according to Barkat.\nThe race passes into the Old City and along its walls, Mount of Olives, Sultan's Pool, Ammunition Hill, and other sites.\nFor many runners, competing in the Holy City has a religious aspect as well.\n\"Running the marathon \u2013 whose origins lie in ancient Athens\u2013in Jerusalem poetically symbolizes Jewish survival in the face of Hellenism and many other cultures that have assailed it,\" said New Yorker Marshall Huebner, who is running to raise money as part of a Yad Vashem\/Blue Card joint team.\nThree participants \u2013 one Jew, one Muslim, and one Christian\u2013in the marathon will wear shirts that read \"Three religions; One God.\"\nFor other runners, religion is what will get them through the marathon.\nFriday's race will be the twentieth marathon for Lisa Jackson. The South African native who currently lives in London, England, runs in a summer dress and a flamingo hat as a form of entertainment for the crowd. She and her husband, Graham, are nervous about the course's difficulty.\n\"I'm going to need some help from above,\" Lisa said, pointing skyward.\n\"It's not as difficult as one would expect,\" Nir Barkat assured reporters at a dinner Wednesday night, stressing that his goal is to \"put Jerusalem on the international marathon map.\"\nBarkat plans to run the halfmarathon this year and hopes to run the full marathon next year, at the Second Jerusalem International Marathon on March 16th, 2012.\nThere was some worry in the wake of Wednesday's bombing, right across the street from where a pre-race Sports, Health and Leisure Exhibition was held.\nHowever, Barkat and other local government officials assured runners and reporters at the Mamilla Hotel that the race would go on, as an indication of Israel's resilience and unwillingness to feel threatened by terrorists.\nThe mayor finished his remarks by honoring guest of honor Rosa Mota, one of the world's best runners in the 20th century, and other elite runners.\nElite runners this year will compete for the $11,500 in total prize money, to be divided between the top five finishers, and bonuses for men breaking 2:22:00 and women breaking 2:40:18.\nThere is $5,000 at stake for half-marathoners and $3,000 on the line for those running the 10-kilometer race.\nOn Thursday night, runners gathered for a pasta party, the traditional pre-marathon meal high in carbohydrates. A portion of the dinner was held by candle-light to raise awareness of global warming.\nThe marathon will be broadcast live along the route on screens and on television by Sport 1, beginning at 6:45 a.m.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2015 \u2013 EHF Executive Board Meeting 20 August\n21 Aug, 2015 | Featured, Minutes\nMinutes of the Executive Board Meeting\nLondon & Partners Office\nMarijke Fleuren (President), Carola Meyer, Mika Rihtil\u00e4, Jorge Alcover, Leonardas Caikauskas, Inez Cooper, Bjorn Isberg, Walter Kapounek, Angus Kirkland, Simon Mason, Ludmila Pastorova, Gianni Rossi\nApologies for Absence:\nJane Brennan, Operations Manager\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nThe Minutes of the meetings held on the 19th & 20th June in Brussels, Belgium were signed by the President as a true record.\nPresident's Welcome:\nThe President welcomed the Executive Board to London, and thanked England Hockey, and London & Partners for arranging the wonderful location for the Executive Board meeting which provided beautiful views over iconic London landmarks.\nSince the last Board meeting several tournaments were successfully held around Europe:\nU18 Youth Championships took place in Santandar, with Championship II Men Boys in Calais, Girls in Mori, and Championship III Boys in Minsk, Girls in Sveti Ivan Zelina.\nThe President congratulated the winners in Santandar Germany (Boys) and the Netherlands (Girls), as well as all the teams earning promotion.\nChampionships II, III & IV\nChampionship II Men & Women took place in Prague, with other tournaments being held in Lisbon, Vilnius and Sveti Ivan Zelina again.\nThe President congratulated all teams who had earned promotion, in particular Poland & Austria men and Ireland and Czech Republic Women who will take part in the EuroHockey Championships in 2017\nFIH Report\nMarijke Fleuren reported on the most recent meeting of the FIH Executive Board\nThe President reported that it would shortly be announced that the FIH EB had accepted unanimously to revert back to 6 v 6 for Hockey Indoor. It was also apparent that other innovations would be considered on the coming months.\nThe President also reported that a presentation was received on the future Event Portfolio. It was clear a lot of work had been done but a lot more was needed to do. The President stressed that we, as Europe, could offer 30 days of top Hockey for TV broadcasters. It is important therefore that our top events continue to be an integral part of any new portfolio.\n27th General Assembly, London, England\nThe Director General reported on the EHF General Assembly.\nThe procedure and agenda for the 27th General Assembly due to take place on 21st August was discussed and agreed.\nThe President thanked the Board for their contributions and noted that she looked forward to an excellent General Assembly and EuroHockey Championships over the coming days.\nPreviousUnibet EuroHockey Championships \u2013 Women B Pool Overview\nNext27th EHF General Assembly, London, England\nEurosport 2 to cover 11 of the 16 EHL KO16 and Final 4 Games\nHC Bloemendaal to host EHL KO16\/FINAL 4\nEHF Indoor Competitions Committee meets in Brussels\nUDP 2014 Update: New group, graduation and great appointments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Northwest USA Malls & Shopping Centers\nHotels $$$\nMuseums and Culture\nRogue Valley Mall, Oregon\n1600 North Riverside Ave. - Medford, OR 97501\nhttp:\/\/www.rvm.com\nIt's time to make a trip to Rogue Valley Mall for the best in shopping, entertainment and dining! Whether you enjoy a relaxing dinner at one of the mall's restaurants or spend the day shopping at all your favorite stores, Rogue Valley Mall offers a complete entertainment experience.\nPlaza Mall, Alaska\n2417 Tongass Avenue - Ketchikan, AK 99901\nhttp:\/\/www.ketchikanplaza.com\/\n<iframe id='palyer2' width=\"300\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCOI1BwvQgc?rel=0&cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe id='palyer2'>\nThe Plaza is located in Ketchikan, Alaska, the first northbound port of call along Alaska's beautiful inside passage. Breathtaking scenery and authentic Native communities provide the base foundation for tourism to our historic city.\nSilver Lake Mall, Idaho\n200 W. Hanley Avenue - Coeur d' Alene, ID 83815\nhttp:\/\/www.silverlakemall.com\nIt's time to make a trip to Silver Lake Mall for the best in shopping, entertainment and dining! Whether you enjoy a relaxing dinner at one of the mall's restaurants or spend the day shopping at all your favorite stores, Silver Lake Mall offers a complete entertainment experience.\nHeritage Mall, Oregon\n1895 14th Ave SE - Albany, OR 97322\nhttp:\/\/www.heritagemall.com\nBridgeport Village, Oregon\n7455 SW Bridgeport Road Suite 205 - Tigard , OR 97224\nhttp:\/\/www.bridgeport-village.com\/\nBridgeport Village is the Pacific Northwest's preeminent fashion and lifestyle shopping center. Consisting of 500,000 sq.ft., the center offers an outstanding and enviable array of the regions first and exclusive one of a kind and internationally renowned stores and boutiques including Coach, Cole Haan, The Container Store, Crate & Barrel, Z-Gallerie, Eileen Fisher, Patrick James, MAC Cosmetics, Tommy Bahama, Under U 4 Men along with the first Coldwater Creek Spa and the largest Regal Cinema in the state-- now with an IMAX Theater. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\" target=\"new\">Source<\/a>\nColumbia Center, Washington\n1321 N. Columbia Center Blvd. - Kennewick, WA 99336\nhttp:\/\/www.simon.com\/mall\/default.aspx?ID=234\nAs Southeastern Washington's largest regional mall, Columbia Center provides the stores you love. Macy's, JCPenney, Sears and Toys 'R' Us anchor the center while Barnes & Noble, Azteca Mexican Restaurant and an 8-screen Regal Cinemas Theater create an exciting entertainment complex. You'll find plenty of great reasons to shop Columbia Center including Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, Pacific Sunwear and Wilson's The Leather Experts. Stop by soon because we've got the stores you love!\nThree Rivers Mall, Washington\n51 Three Rivers Drive - Kelso, WA 98626\nhttp:\/\/www.threeriversmall.com\nFind yourself here! Three Rivers Mall is conveniently located right off I-5 at exit 39. Shop from over 60 stores including Macy*s, Sears, JCPenney, Pier 1, Target, and Safeway. A pleasant atmosphere and friendly employees make your shopping experience enjoyable.\nSalem Center, Oregon\n401 Center Street NE - Salem, OR 97301\nhttp:\/\/www.salemcenter.com\nLocated in the heart of downtown Salem, Salem Center offers the best in shopping, entertainment and dining. Spend your day shopping in your favorite stores including Nordstrom, Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, Bath & Body Works, Hot Topic, Christopher & Banks, Gap and so much more. Need a break from shopping? Enjoy dinner at one of Salem Center's many dining options and then sit back at the movies while enjoying all the latest new releases. Imagine getting it all done!\nSouth Hill Mall, Washington\n3500 S. Meridan, Unit 494 - Puyallup, WA\nhttp:\/\/www.southhill-mall.com\nShop, dine and play at one of over 120 stores, five restaurants, health club and cinema! Your stores.\nFrontier Mall, Wyoming\n1400 DELL RANGE BOULEVARD - Cheyenne, WY\nhttp:\/\/www.frontiermall.com\n<iframe id='palyer10' width=\"300\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCOI1BwvQgc?rel=0&cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe id='palyer10'>\nShop the Mall! You'll find everything from fashion apparel to video games at your favorite shopping place. While you're shopping for you and your family, don't forget the gifts! We've got birthday, graduation, wedding and holiday gift ideas for everyone: clothing, jewelry, music and even Gift Cards valid at participating CBL Malls nationwide.\nPioneer Place, Oregon\n700 SW Fifth Avenue - Portland, OR 97204\nhttp:\/\/www.pioneerplace.com\nDowntown Portland is buzzing with activity. And it's not just the coffee. There is an energy here that charges every moment with fun and excitement. In the heart of downtown, you'll find Pioneer Place \u2013 four city blocks filled with shopping, dining and entertainment in Portland's retail core. In fact, it's all yours to explore. Add tax-free shopping, and you're certain to have the time of your life.\nRimrock Mall, Montana\n300 S 24th St W - Billings, MT 59102\nhttp:\/\/www.rimrockmall.com\nRimrock Mall, located in Billings, Montana, is Montana's largest shopping destination with over 100 specialty shops and five anchor stores: Dillard's Women's & Children's, Dillards Men's & Home, JCPenney, Herberger's and Scheel's All Sports. Rimrock Mall boasts the state's largest collection of national and local retailers including: Abercrombie & Fitch, Bath and Body Works, Eddie Bauer, Gap, Victoria's Secret, and many more! <br> Rimrock Mall recently opened many new stores including Talbots, Coldwater Creek, Chico's, Starbucks, Motherhood Maternity, and Aeropostale. The mall also includes a 10-screen state-of-the-art movie theater (Wynnsong 10). The mall celebrates its 30th Anniversary in the Billings community with new stores, store remodels and much more.\nEverett Mall, Washington\n1402 SE Everett Mall Way - Everett, WA 98208\nhttp:\/\/www.everettmall.org\nGrand Teton Mall, Idaho\n2300 East 17th Street - Idaho Falls, ID 83404\nhttp:\/\/www.grandtetonmall.com\nGrand Teton Mall recently completed a multi-million dollar renovation which included revitalizing the center's interior and adding all new family friendly amenities. A new color palate, tile flooring and additional lighting have brightened the centers feel and made this regional shopping center an outstanding centerpiece of the community. <br> The renovation project was completed with the addition of a 26,500 Barnes & Noble Bookseller featuring a Starbucks Caf\u00e9, Wi-Fi services, Barnes & Noble Jr. children's area with over 15,000 titles and the ability to listen to over 200,000 music titles with their RedDotNet technology.\nClackamas Town Center, Oregon\n12000 SE 82nd Avenue - Portland, OR 97266\nhttp:\/\/www.clackamastowncenter.com\nWith over 1.2 million square feet of retail space, Clackamas Town Center offers the best in shopping, entertainment and dining. Spend the day shopping at one of the 185 stores offered at Clackamas Town Center, or enjoy a relaxing meal at one of the restaurants. <br> Enjoy tax-free shopping at Oregon's only Meier & Frank Home Store, Nordstrom, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ann Taylor Loft, Bombay, Kitchen Kaboodle, Your Northwest and much more! You can bring the kids to The Children's Place and Gymboree, while your teens enjoy Hollister, Forever 21, Hot Topic and Aeropostale.\nAlderwood Mall, Washington\n3000 184th Street SW - Lynnwood, WA 98037\nhttp:\/\/www.alderwoodmall.com\nFind your signature style and personal trademarks at Nordstrom, Macy's, JCPenney, Sears and throughout our outstanding collection of more than 175 shops. <BR> Venture outdoors to The Village at Alderwood to experience upscale retailers like Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, REI, Borders, Eddie Bauer, Chico's, Apple, and Ann Taylor Loft. <BR> Satisfy your individual taste for food and fun at one of five full-service restaurants and the 16-screen Loews Theatres.\nSpokane Valley Mall, Washington\n14700 East Indiana Avenue - Spokane Valley, WA 99216\nhttp:\/\/www.spokanevalleymall.com\nIt's time to make a trip to Spokane Valley Mall for the best in shopping, entertainment and dining! Whether you enjoy a relaxing dinner at one of the mall's restaurants or spend the day shopping at all your favorite stores, Spokane Valley Mall offers a complete entertainment experience.\nLancaster Mall, Oregon\n831 Lancaster Dr. NE - Salem, OR 97301\nhttp:\/\/www.lancastermall.com\nLancaster Mall, Salem Oregon. With more than 100 stores including 17 eateries you will find what you are looking for at Lancaster Mall.\nCedar Hills Crossing, Oregon\n14288 Southwest Allen Boulevard - Beaverton, OR 9700\nhttp:\/\/www.cedarhillscrossing.com\nCedar Hills Crossing has been in operation since 1969, and is located approximately at the intersection of SW Cedar Hills Boulevard and Jenkins Road. An underground chemical release at the site was discovered in the 1980s. Considerable analysis of this release, along with other on site environmental factors, has been conducted to provide for safety of mall patrons and area residents. At least through the period 1970 to 1990 (the interval when the release occurred) the center functioned in compliance with most local governmental standards for environmental regulation. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\" target=\"new\">Source<\/a>\nHoliday Village Mall, Montana\n1200 10th Ave. South - Great Falls, MT 59405\nhttp:\/\/www.holidayvillagemall.com\nThe Great Falls market is a 14 county region in North Central Montana. Of those 14 counties, Cascade County is the largest, with a population of approximately 79,000 people. The secondary trade area includes 13 counties and southern Alberta, Canada. Population of those counties is approximately 152,000.\nBellevue Square, Washington\nNE 8th & Bellevue Way - Bellevue, WA\nhttp:\/\/www.bellevuesquare.com\nKemper Development Company is a fourth generation, family-owned real estate and development company best known for its development and management of Bellevue Square. This company has a continued focus on and interest in the growth and development of the Eastside. Kemper Development Company and its affiliates have continued to focus on development, ownership, management and leasing of its properties in the Eastside market.\nWestlake Center, Washington\n400 Pine Street - Seattle, WA 98101\nhttp:\/\/www.westlakecenter.com\nLocated in the heart of downtown Seattle, Westlake Center is a four-story, glass enclosed retail pavilion (with a Food Court on the Upper Level) offering a mix of national reputation retailers and a unique selection of the finest quality regional merchandise. The Center offers a high-energy, one-of-a-kind urban shopping environment.\nPony Village Mall, Oregon\n1611 Virginia Ave - North Bend, OR 97459\nhttp:\/\/www.ponyvillagemall.com\nSouthgate Mall, Montana\n2901 Brooks St - Missoula, MT 59801\nhttp:\/\/www.shopsouthgate.com\nVisit a place with endless skies and endless possibilities \u2013 experience Montana's premier shopping and dining destination \u2013 Southgate Mall. You'll find everything under the Big Sky, including more than 100 superb specialty stores and brand favorites, not to mention one-of-a-kind \"made in Montana\" items, casual and fine dining, plus a multitude of personal services.\nBoise Towne Square, Idaho\n350 North Milwaukee - Boise, ID 83704\nhttp:\/\/www.boisetownesquare.com\nIt's time to make a trip to Boise Towne Square for the best in shopping, entertainment and dining! Whether you enjoy a relaxing dinner at one of the mall's restaurants or spend the day shopping at all your favorite stores, Boise Towne Square offers a complete entertainment experience.\nKarcher Mall, Idaho\n1509 Caldwell Blvd - Nampa, ID 83651\nhttp:\/\/shopkarchermall.com\nKarcher Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in the city of Nampa, Idaho, USA. The mall, which is believed to be the first enclosed shopping mall in Idaho, opened in 1965 and has been redeveloped several times since. As of 2008, the mall comprises more than thirty stores, with Burlington Coat Factory, Macy's, Macy's Clearance Center, Ross Dress For Less, and Steve & Barry's as anchor stores. The mall is owned by Milan Properties, Inc. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\" target=\"new\">Source<\/a>\nBend River Mall, Oregon\n3188 North Highway 97 - Bend, OR 97701\nhttp:\/\/www.bendrivermall.com\nBend River Promenade brings you the latest in shopping fashions, home decor and products that make life better. We are dedicated to helping you and your family have an excellent shopping experience when you visit Bend River Promenade.\nSouthShore Mall, Washington\n1017 South Boone Street - Aberdeen, WA 98520\nhttp:\/\/www.southshoremall.com\nFeaturing JCPenney, Sears, a new state-of-the-art 10-screen theatre with stadium seating, over 50 specialty shops, restaurants and a play area for the kids, SouthShore Mall offers a terrific shopping, dining and entertainment experience for the whole family!\nWhite Mountain Mall, Wyoming\n2441 Foothill Blvd. - Rock Springs, WY 82901\nhttp:\/\/www.whitemountainmall.com\nOakway Center, Oregon\n2350 Oakmont Way # 204 - Eugene, OR 97401\nhttp:\/\/www.oakwaycenter.com\nJantzen Beach Mall, Oregon\n1405 Jantzen Beach Center - Portland, OR 97217\nhttp:\/\/www.jantzenbeachsupercenter.com\nJantzen Beach SuperCenter is a diverse retail center, which includes a 350,000 square foot enclosed mall surrounded by national big box tenants. Jantzen Beach SuperCenter greets our northern neighbors with Oregon's tax-free shopping, located on Hayden Island adjacent to Interstate 5, at the Oregon\/ Washington border.\nKalispell Center Mall, Montana\n20 N Main St - Kalispell, MT 59901\nhttp:\/\/www.kalispellcentermall.com\nCrossroads Bellevue, Washington\nNE 8th & 156th Ave. NE - Bellevue, WA\nhttp:\/\/www.crossroadsbellevue.com\nAt Crossroads Bellevue, we've got all the elements you need to get creative and express yourself. <br> Start digging in our 40 acre shopping district and you're sure to uncover a little bit of your personality. With everything from home furnishings to art and crafting supplies, books and music to shoes and unique fashion, you'll find just the thing to piece together a world uniquely yours.\nLakewood Town Center, Washington\n5731 Main Street SW - Lakewood , WA 98499\nhttp:\/\/www.shoplakewoodtownecenter.com\/Promotion\/Privacy\/Index.htm\nLakewood Town Center. While we make every attempt to ensure that prices are listed accurately, we assume no responsibility for accuracy of price information. To verify availability and pricing, please call the retailer directly. If you find pricing or availability errors, please let us know here\nPine Ridge Mall, Idaho\n4155 Yellowstone Highway - Chubbuck, ID 83202\nhttp:\/\/www.pineridgemall.com\nPine Ridge Mall offers your whole family a terrific shopping experience! Over 70 of your favorite stores, including Zumiez, Pac Sun, Red Lobster, Me-N'-Lous Family Restaurant, American Eagle, Buckle, JCPenney, Dillard's, Sears, Bon Macy, Idaho Unlimited, Waldenbooks, and Bath & Body Works.\nMagic Valley Mall, Idaho\n1485 East Pole Line Road - Twin Falls, ID 83301\nhttp:\/\/www.magicvalleymall.com\nMagic Valley Mall is a shopping mall located in Twin Falls, Idaho. The mall opened in 1986 and is named after the Magic Valley region of Idaho. The Magic Valley Mall soon supplanted the older Blue Lakes Mall as a major shopping location in southern Idaho. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\" target=\"new\">Source<\/a>\nGateway Mall, Oregon\n3000 Gateway Street - Springfield, OR 97477\nhttp:\/\/www.gatewaymall.com\nGateway Mall features great shopping at over 80 stores! Catch the latest blockbuster on one of the 29 theater screens, work out at the 24-hour fitness center or enjoy a meal at one of our 14 eateries. Family-friendly amenities include a nursing\/family lounge and an indoor play area, located near HomeTown Buffet.\nBellis Fair, Washington\nOne Bellis Fair Parkway - Bellingham, WA 98226\nhttp:\/\/www.bellisfair.com\nYou'd find all your favorite stores, a Children's Play Area, and a Family Lounge and Restroom. You'd stop by Bellis Fair Customer Service to pick up a Kids FunPack, complete with coloring sheet, crayons and other neat stuff. You'd get a special two for one pretzel deal from Auntie Anne's with every stroller rental. And then you'd realize that Bellis Fair is that place.\nSuperMall of the Great West, Washington\n1101 SuperMall Way - Auburn, WA 98001\nhttp:\/\/www.supermall.com\nAnchorage 5th Avenue Mall, Alaska\n320 West 5th Avenue - Anchorage, AK 99501\nMany of the mall's stores are exclusive to the center within the state of Alaska, including The Body Shop, Banana Republic, Eddie Bauer, Gymboree and Sullivan's Steakhouse. Don't forget Simon Gift Cards! They're now available in the Mall Office, Monday-Friday, 9:00am to 4:30pm. Use them anywhere Visa debit cards are accepted. Plan a visit to Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall today!\nNorthTown Mall, Washington\n4750 North Division - Spokane, WA 99207\nhttp:\/\/www.northtownmall.com\nIt's time to make a trip to NorthTown Mall for the best in shopping, entertainment and dining! Whether you enjoy a relaxing dinner at one of the mall's restaurants or spend the day shopping at all your favorite stores, NorthTown Mall offers a complete entertainment experience.\nEastridge Mall, Wyoming\n601 Southeast Wyoming Blvd. - Casper, WI 82609\nhttp:\/\/www.shopeastridge.com\nIt's time to take a trip to Eastridge Mall for the best in shopping, entertainment and dining! We have many exciting new stores to visit including: American Eagle, Hot Topic, Journeys, Motherhood Maternity, PacSun and Zumiez, as well as some of your favorite stores: Athlete's Foot, Bath & Body Works, Bradley Aveda Day Spa, Corral West, Flaming Wok, The Galilean and Merlin's Mystics.\nMarcSoft Computing, LLC All rights reserved. Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > News > The consumer contracts (Information, cancellation and additional charges) regulations 2013\nAlly Tow,\nSENIOR ASSOCIATE - CHARTERED LEGAL EXECUTIVE\nThe consumer contracts (Information, cancellation and additional charges) regulations 2013\nIf you are a trader who sells goods, services or digital content to a consumer then these Regulations will apply to you.\nThese Regulations come into effect on 13 June 2014 and apply to all contracts made on or after that date, save for a few specific exceptions such as gambling, financial services and the rental of residential premises. They replace the existing The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 and The Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc Regulations 2008 which will cease to apply as from that date.\nTraders' obligations\nThere are three types of agreement which a trader can enter into with a consumer. The type of contract and the traders' related obligations vary depending on whether the contract is signed at the traders' premises and\/or whether the trader and consumer are both physically present at the time the contract is concluded.\nThe key obligations for traders are as follows:\n(a) Before the consumer is bound by the contract, the trader must provide the consumer with certain information as set out in the Regulations together with a cancellation form, if applicable.\n(b) Within a reasonable period of time after the conclusion of the contract but in any event not later than the time of delivery of the goods\/before performance begins of any service supplied under the contract, the trader must give the consumer a copy of the signed contract or confirmation of the contract.\n(c) In distance contracts, where the contract is concluded by electronic means, if the contract places the consumer under an obligation to pay, the trader must provide additional information to the consumer as set out in the Regulations and make it explicitly clear that acknowledgment of the order imposes an obligation on the consumer to pay. Where placing an order entails activating a button or similar function, the trader must ensure that this is labelled in an easily legible manner making it clear that there is an obligation to pay.\n(d) In distance contracts, where the contract may be concluded by telephone, the trader must provide certain information to the consumer at the outset of the conversation and state the commercial reasons for the call.\nInformation to be provided by the trader\nThe information to be supplied varies depending on the type of contract. The key information to be supplied includes the following:\nThe main characteristics of the goods or services to be supplied\/provided.\nThe identity of the trader including address and contact details.\nThe total price for the goods\/services or, where the nature of the contract is such that the price cannot reasonably be calculated in advance, the manner in which the price is to be calculated.\nWhere applicable, any additional delivery charges.\nWhere applicable, the arrangements for payment, delivery, performance and the time by which the trader undertakes to deliver the goods or to perform the service.\nWhere applicable, the trader's complaints procedure.\nIn the case of a sales contract, a reminder that the trader is under a legal duty to supply goods that conform with the contract.\nWhere applicable, the existence and conditions of the after-sales services and commercial guarantees.\nWhere applicable, the duration of the contract or where the contract is of indeterminate duration or is to be extended automatically, the conditions for terminating the contract.\nWhere a right to cancel exists, the conditions, time limit and procedures for exercising that right together with details of any costs the consumer will have to bear if he chooses to ask the trader to proceed with the contract before the expiry of the cancellation period.\nWhere applicable, that the consumer will have to bear the cost of returning the goods in the case of cancellation and, for distance contracts, if the goods, by their nature, cannot normally be returned by post, the cost of returning the goods.\nWhere applicable, the existence of any relevant codes of conduct.\nWhere the consumer has a right to cancel, the trader must provide the consumer with a written form of cancellation notice. The relevant period for cancellation, the so-called \"cooling-off\" period\" is 14 days from the date when the contract was concluded. No reason has to be given by the consumer for his cancellation.\nIf the consumer does cancel the contract during the cooling-off period, the trader has to reimburse all payments received by the consumer including the costs of delivery, save for supplementary costs if the consumer chose a specific type of delivery over and above that offered as standard by the trader.\nThe trader may be able make a deduction from the sum reimbursed for loss in value of any goods supplied in certain circumstances. The reimbursement, which must be made using the same method of payment as the consumer used for the initial transaction, must not be unduly delayed. The Regulations go on to set out the latest date on which the reimbursement should be made which vary depending upon whether the contract is for the sale of goods or supply of services and whether the goods\/services have been delivered\/performed, the goods returned by the time of the cancellation and\/or if the goods are to be collected by the trader.\nAdditional payments\/help-line charges\nNo payment is payable in addition to that agreed for the trader's main obligation unless, before the consumer became bound by the contract, the trader obtained the consumer's express consent \u2013 a pre-ticked box on a website would not amount to having obtained the consumer's \"express consent\".\nAny telephone line operated by the trader for the purpose of allowing consumers to contact the trader in relation to contracts entered into with the trader must not result in a charge to the consumer which exceeds the basic rate telephone charges \u2013 premium rate telephone lines are now prohibited.\nIf the contract is a sales contract, unless the trader and consumer have otherwise, agreed, the contract is to be treated as including a term that the trader must deliver the goods to the consumer. Unless there is an agreed time or period, the contract is to be treated as including a term that the trader must deliver the goods without undue delay and in any event, not more than 30 days after the day on which the contract is concluded.\nFailure to comply\/offences\nIn most circumstances if a trader fails to comply with the Regulations, the consumer can normally treat the contract as being at an end and the trader will be obliged to reimburse any monies which the consumer has been paid. An officer, and\/or body corporate, who fails to comply with the obligations under the Regulations may be also guilty of an offence and may, upon conviction, be liable to a fine of up to \u00a35,000.00.\nFor further information, please contact our Dispute Resolution Team on 0118 952 7206 or submit an enquiry.\nConsistent with our policy when giving comment and advice on a non-specific basis, we cannot assume legal responsibility for the accuracy of any particular statement. 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{"text":"Venezuelan talks to resume in Oslo\nNorway's foreign ministry announced during the weekend that it will host new talks aimed at resolving the conflicts that have turned Venezuela into what some experts now consider a \"lawless country.\" Representatives for both sides later confirmed their presence.\nThe ministry, which already has hosted talks aimed at resolving the conflicts, announced that the main political players in Venezuela had \"decided to return to Oslo\" this week to continue the process facilitated by Norway.\n\"We reiterate our commitment to continue supporting the search for an agreed-upon solution between the parties in Venezuela,\" the ministry wrote. Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen S\u00f8reide repeated that Norway \"commends the parties for their efforts and appreciates their disposition.\"\nDisputed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has thanked Norway for its efforts to find a solution, while opposition leader Juan Guaido confirmed Sunday that he will be represented at the talks. Guaido has claimed that he's the rightful president of Venezuela.\n\"We will speak with both the Norwegian government and representaives for the regime,\" Guaido said in a prepared statement. He called the Norwegian initiative to seek peace \"one of many. The talks will once again be held at an as yet undisclosed location.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Whitey' The Kid: Bank Robber, Fugitive And Snitch In The '50s11:07\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"124\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.wbur.org\/news\/2012\/05\/30\/bulger-i\"><\/iframe>\nDavid BoeriTwitter\nFirst in a two-part series. (Update: Here's Part 2.)\nWe have known since the 1990s that James \"Whitey\" Bulger was a secret FBI informant going back to the '70s. But thanks to newly obtained government documents, we now know Bulger started snitching on fellow criminals back in the 1950s.\nBulger's career would culminate with the corruption of the FBI and alleged murders of criminal informants following tips from agents who protected him. In all, Bulger is charged with 19 murders, although former associates say Bulger claimed to have killed far more than that.\nAs the 82-year-old Bulger heads toward a trial set for November, we have made some surprising discoveries about Bulger at age 26.\n'Take My Hand, I'm A Stranger In Paradise...'\nBOSTON \u2014 You want to put the era in perspective? Tony Bennett was young. The song \"Stranger in Paradise\" was new. That year, 1955, was closer in time to the Spanish-American War than to this November's trial date. And \"Sonny\" Bulger, as some people still called him, was stealing from the backs of trucks.\n\"Whitey's in his mid-20s,\" said former Boston Globe reporter Dick Lehr. \"And tailgating is the stuff of teenagers.\"\nLehr and his fellow former Globe reporter Gerry O'Neill are writing the biography of James Bulger.\n\"He's got to move on to the new big thing, and at the time in the '50s, bank robbery was where the action was,\" Lehr said.\nStarting that May, Whitey and his accomplices robbed banks in Pawtucket, Melrose and Hammond, Ind. He jumped onto bank counters, never bothered with a disguise, and pointed two guns when ordering everyone to the floor.\n\"It was one night in 1955, the first time I ever ran into Whitey,\" recalled retired Boston Police Detective Eddie Walsh. In 1955 he was a rookie cop; he's 90 now.\n\"Him and Stevie [Flemmi], they were bad guys, you know,\" Walsh said. \"They were vicious guys, boy.\"\nBulger The Snitch\nSteel-hard, stand-up, contemptuous of weakness, the last person in the world to ever rat someone out. Bulger's persona was forged of this for decades, until the late 1990s, when federal Judge Mark Wolf blew the image to bits by exposing Bulger as a protected, secret FBI informant set loose in the '70s.\nBut FBI files and prison records recently obtained by Lehr and O'Neill reveal that Bulger began ratting people out in 1956. I showed the files to Kevin Weeks, Bulger's surrogate son.\n\"Does it surprise you,\" I asked him, \"that even back then he was ratting people out?\"\n\"You know, if you had asked me that prior to the indictments of '94, '95, I would have said 'never,' \" Weeks said.\nBut it's still news to Weeks that Bulger began snitching the same year Kevin was born. Weeks smiles at what the files reveal about the clever machinations of his former boss. They involve the young Bulger's Machiavellian use of his own girlfriend to get out of a jam.\nBulger had been a lady's man for a while, but now he was a bank robber and a lady's man, and he had a woman with him, a girlfriend two years older named Jacquie McAuliffe, who lived in Southie.\nBulger&#039;s former girlfriend, Jacquie Martin, died in 2010 (Courtesy)\nShe read the FBI description of her in a 1956 warrant for his arrest: \"Five foot, six inches, 118 pounds, blue eyes, platinum blonde hair, very attractive, model-type.\"\nWhen the usually tight-lipped FBI is moved to employ an adverb, as in \"very\" attractive, you know she was striking.\n\"They are believed to be riding in a 1951 Oldsmobile 98,\" the warrant continues.\nJacquie and Jim traveled as Mr. and Mrs. Bulger. Back in Southie her married name was Martin and she had a 6-year-old daughter. Out on the road as Mrs. Bulger, she acted as a lookout from the backseat, according to the FBI, while Bulger and an accomplice named Richard Barchard robbed the Hoosier State Bank in Hammond, Ind., in November 1955. The outlaws celebrated in Chicago, but by January the FBI had a warrant for Whitey's arrest.\n\"If located, hold car and occupants... James J. Bulger is considered to be armed and dangerous,\" states the warrant.\nJacquie was now riding shotgun to a fugitive. She wasn't exactly Bonnie to his Clyde, but soon she would be doing his dirty work.\nA good-looking, platinum blonde from Southie who loved dogs and a wanted man. Sound familiar? Forty years before dog-loving, attractive, platinum-blonde Catherine Greig of Southie rode off with Bulger on his second fugitive run, in 1996, there was Jacquie McAuliffe Martin.\nWeeks, who had long observed this same female fascination for his boss, laughs again.\n\"They make movies about things like that: girls being attracted to the bad boy \u2014 the flash, the lifestyle, the money,\" he said.\nIndeed, one of the enduring memories of Jacquie shared by a couple of Bulger's friends was of being called off their stoop in Southie one day in the mid-'50s and over to Bulger's car. In the backseat sat Jacquie draped in furs, the high-fashion flame of an uncaught bank robber who had a lot of disposable income.\nNow that he was wanted, Bulger's hair was dyed black, perhaps by Jacquie, who listed her occupation as a hairdresser. Jim burned up the blacktop across the country with his platinum \"paramour,\" as the bureau put it in the quaint language of the day.\nOn the car radio, they might have heard Tony Bennett singing, \"Somewhere in space I hang suspended,\" from his his song \"Stranger in Paradise.\"\nBulger's run to freedom that first time lasted just three months. In March 1956, FBI agents brought it to an end in Revere, where things often ended for mobsters. Jim went to jail and started snitching. Jacquie went to South Boston, but she would soon come back in a role as supportive as Catherine Greig would later play.\nCooperating With The FBI\n\"Bulger, after his apprehension, cooperated with this bureau,\" part of a written in an FBI report in July 1956.\nBulger admitted his own role and then told the bureau who his accomplices were in the two bank jobs that were still unsolved. But Bulger didn't want it on paper.\n\"He made these oral admissions but insisted that it not be put in writing,\" Lehr said.\n[sidebar title=\"From The Archives\" width=\"260\" align=\"right\"]\nDaily Boston Globe: FBI Seeking So. Boston Man In $12,000 Theft (1\/7\/56)\nDaily Boston Globe: Suspected Robber Of Two Banks Held In Bail Of $50,000 (3\/6\/56)\nDaily Boston Globe: Bank Robbers Sent To Prison (6\/22\/56)\nScribd: FBI report detailing Bulger's three bank robberies in 1955\n[\/sidebar]\nThe reason why is simple, said Weeks: \"So that way there was no written statement or signature by him.\"\n\"So nobody can say he's ratting people out?\" I asked.\n\"Correct,\" Weeks replied.\nYet Bulger made sure the FBI got the names of his accomplices on paper. And here's where Jacquie, the blond bombshell, comes back into the story: Whitey gives her up! That way she does the dirty work for him. After all, she had been along for the ride and she knows who Bulger's accomplices were. Weeks, who was Bulger's prize pupil, has it all figured out.\n\"The girl makes a written statement so nothing can be attributed to him,\" Weeks said. \"He still has his reputation. No one can prove he's the actual one who gave up the two other people. It looks like it was her.\"\nAccording to the FBI report of July 13, 1956, which would have been confidential, Bulger persuaded Jacquie \"to cooperate with the bureau. As a result of her cooperation, process was obtained for Bulger's accomplices.\"\n'I Thought We Were Friends'\nSoon the FBI grabbed them, too. One of them was named William L. O'Brien. The other was named Richard Barchard. O'Brien was murdered back in the '60s, but I tracked Barchard down on the Gulf. He was far away, but wishing he was even farther.\nFifty-six years after the fact, I broke the news to him. I put it this way: \"Would it surprise you if I told you she [Jacquie McAuliffe] was the one that gave you up to the FBI?\"\n\"I respected him. He respected me. I didn't think he would ever run his mouth, but I guess he did.\"\nRichard Barchard, ex-Bulger accomplice\n\"I don't know who gave me up,\" he replied. \"But I mean, it's so long ago that it doesn't matter really.\"\nI read Barchard the FBI report. He'd done 10 years in prison. He'd gone to the notorious penitentiary at Alcatraz \u2014 \"The Rock,\" \"Super Max\" \u2014 because Bulger used Jacquie to give him up.\nHe remembered Jacquie well. After all, she was in the car acting as a lookout with Barchard's wife, Dorothy, back in November 1955, when Whitey jumped atop the counter with two guns and Barchard jumped over the counter to collect the money.\nI tried to imagine Barchard hadn't ever figured out that Bulger ratted him out.\n\"Well I'm sorry to hear that,\" Barchard replied. \"Because he didn't give me the impression he was that type of guy.\n\"Whitey and I got along good,\" he continued. \"I respected him. He respected me. I didn't think he would ever run his mouth, but I guess he did.\"\nThat got a laugh from the 81-year-old, then a sad reflection.\n\"It's too bad, 'cause I thought we were friends.\"\nThat's a line a lot of people apparently didn't live to repeat. Bulger is charged with murdering 19 people, and Weeks told me Bulger claimed to have murdered twice that number.\nIt was 1956, and out on their cross-country run, or in prison, Bulger probably heard the Platters on the radio singing their Doo wop wonder, \"Oh yes, I'm the great pretender.\" It was a hit song and it could have been his. Whitey wasn't yet a star, but he was already a snitch. The pattern was set.\nFor the outlaw and girlfriend, it was sunset \u2014 \"Canadian Sunset,\" as another hit song would have serenaded them. They'd done New York, Miami, New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, Chicago and then California.\nHave you heard of that itinerary before? It was the same pattern Bulger would repeat with the Jacquie 2.0 \u2014 Catherine Greig, in 1995.\nEven sneaking back to Southie to pick up Catherine before hitting the fugitive road in 1995 was the sequel to picking up Jacquie for the same run in 1956. Only Jacquie was a white-haired grandmother now.\n\"Ever talk to the FBI?\" a cop on her doorstep asked the white-haired Jacquie when she was in her 80s. \"No, you're the first,\" she said. \"I've been expecting someone to show up.\"\nShe could have given the bureau some tips. She could have told them how much Bulger loved California. She could have played \"Where's Whitey\" with them. After all, she had been there with him at the start, half a century ago.\nAnd then Jacquie too was gone, more surely than any fugitive. She passed away in December 2010, when the world wondered if Whitey was dead or alive. By the time Bulger was cuffed, along with Catherine Greig in June 2011, Jacquie had joined most of those who were living when Whitey started making patterns in 1955.\nIn part 2, we look at newly uncovered documents that show that Bulger had connections to powerful Massachusetts political leaders in the 1950s, long before Bulger's brother, William, became politically prominent himself.\nThis program aired on May 30, 2012.\nWhitey Bulger\nDavid Boeri Twitter Senior Reporter\nNow retired, David Boeri was a senior reporter at WBUR.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Posts tagged \"Muslim Ban\"\nTag: Muslim Ban\nTrump reorders recidivist \"Muslim Ban\" and Denver activists redouble efforts to welcome all refugees to America.\nby Eric Verlo - March 6, 2017 March 6, 2017 1\nDIA, COLORADO- So banning Muslims from six countries instead of seven is supposed to ease legal concerns about religious discrimination?\nColo. US District Court judge enjoins DIA to limit restriction of free speech (grants our preliminary injunction!)\nby Eric Verlo - February 22, 2017 February 23, 2017 0\nDENVER, COLORADO- If your civil liberties have ever been violated by a cop, over your objections, only to have the officer say \"See you in court\", this victory is for YOU! On January 29 we were threatened with arrest for protesting the \"Muslim Ban\" at Denver International Airport. We argued that our conduct was protected speech and that they were violating our rights. They dismissed our complaints with, in essense: \"That's for a court to decide.\" And today IT HAS! On Feb 15 we summoned the cops to federal court and this morning, Feb 22, US District Court Judge William Martinez granted our preliminary injunction, severely triming DIA's protest permit process. In a nutshell: no restrictions on signs, size of assemblies or their location within the main terminal (so long as the airport's function is not impeded). Permits are still required but with 24 hours advance notice, not seven days. Below is Judge Martinez' 46-page court order in full: Document 29 Filed 02\/22\/17 USDC Colorado IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Judge William J. Mart\ufffdnez Civil Action No. 17-cv-0332-WJM-MJW NAZLI MCDONNELL, and ERIC VERLO, Plaintiffs, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER,? DENVER POLICE COMMANDER ANTONIO LOPEZ, in his individual and official capacity, and? DENVER POLICE SERGEANT VIRGINIA QUI\ufffdONES, in her individual and official capacity, Defendants. ________________________________________________________ ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IN PART ________________________________________________________ Plaintiffs Nazli McDonnell (\ufffdMcDonnell\ufffd) and Eric Verlo (\ufffdVerlo\ufffd) (together, \ufffdPlaintiffs\ufffd) sue the City and County of Denver (\ufffdDenver\ufffd), Denver Police Commander Antonio Lopez (\ufffdLopez\ufffd) and Denver Police Sergeant Virginia Qui\ufffdones (\ufffdQui\ufffdones\ufffd) (collectively, \ufffdDefendants\ufffd) for allegedly violating Plaintiffs\ufffd First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they prevented Plaintiffs from protesting without a permit in the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport (\ufffdAirport\ufffd or \ufffdDenver Airport\ufffd). (ECF No. 1.) Currently before the Court is Plaintiffs\ufffd Motion for Preliminary Injunction, which seeks to enjoin Denver from enforcing some of its policies regarding demonstrations and protests at the Airport. (ECF No. 2.) This motion has been fully briefed (see ECF Nos. 2, 20, 21, 23) and the Court held an evidentiary hearing on February 15, 2017 (\ufffdPreliminary Injunction Hearing\ufffd). For the reasons explained below, Plaintiffs\ufffd Motion is granted to the following limited extent: \ufffd\tDefendants must issue an expressive activity permit on twenty-four hours\ufffd notice in circumstances where an applicant, in good faith, seeks a permit for the purpose of communicating topical ideas reasonably relevant to the purposes and mission of the Airport, the immediate importance of which could not have been foreseen seven days or more in advance of the commencement of the activity for which the permit is sought, or when circumstances beyond the control of the permit applicant prevented timely filing of the application; ? \ufffd\tDefendants must make all reasonable efforts to accommodate the applicant\ufffds preferred demonstration location, whether inside or outside of the Jeppesen Terminal, so long as the location is a place where the unticketed public is normally allowed to be; ? \ufffd\tDefendants may not enforce Denver Airport Regulation 50.09\ufffds prohibition against \ufffdpicketing\ufffd (as that term is\nThousands rally in Denver against wall and Muslim Ban\nby Eric Verlo - February 5, 2017 February 5, 2017 0\nDENVER, COLORADO- Thousands streamed into Civic Center Park to spend Saturday afternoon listening to speeches against President Trump's MUSLIM BAN. Lots of families with kids so I kept my sign on the fringe pointed outward. I don't usually favor profanity but this slogan was spotted at New York's JFK airport last Satruday, then replicated across the country the same weekend. I spotted several at the Denver rally AND in Colorado Springs, because I think, NOT TODAY MOTHERFUCKER says it best. Racism, bigotry and wanton abuse of power is obscene.\nHow I nearly got arrested for holding a sign at Denver International Airport\nDIA, COLORADO- Last weekend I joined thousands across the country protesting Trump's executive order restricting entry visas from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Spontaneous demonstrations had erupted at international airports nationwide on Saturday January 27. Denver's airport was no exception but the lively gathering of sign holders was ultimately persuaded by police to leave the premises. Supposedly a permit was required to hold signs. Demonstrators the next day were quickly ushered outside, to rally instead between the terminal and adjacent lightrail station, where only a tiny fraction of travelers would see them. This much we knew as we monitored events online while we reconnoitered DIA from the short-term parking garage. We made our way swiftly to the International Arrivals doors at the north end of the main terminal WITH OUR SIGNS. International Arrivals The point was to reach immigrants, right? We walked to our intended protest spot unhindered and inconspicuous, because of course signs are not an unusual sight at an airport. Travelers who've been a long time away, in particular soldiers returning from deployment, are frequently greeted by family members holding signs. Often limo drivers have to page their corporate clients. We carried our placards with their message facing inward hoping they'd be mistaken for everyday signs. When we raised them above our heads we attracted immediate attention. They read \"#NO MUSLIM BAN #NO REGISTRY, END WHITE PATRIARCHY\" and \"FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE MUSLIMS AND WE SAID: NOT TODAY MOTHERFUCKER.\" Immediately a man with a \"DIA Operations\" cap informed us that we weren't allowed to hold signs. We assured him the opposite was true. He called for backup. We weren't alone in front of International Arrivals. In addition to the families awaiting loved ones, there were a couple dozen law firm employees holding signs which read \"Pro Bono Immigration Legal Services\". We surmised that their presence might have already been negotiated with DIA. Soon a couple of those lawyers approached us to announce loudly that the public protest was outside the building and that we could continue there unmolested. We thanked them for their assistance but urged that they also clarify publicly that we were within our rights to stay inside as well. I was upset that their gravitas, as lawyers, was seen as supportive of the authorities telling us to stop. Police officers arrived in short order, a first one filming us with a digital point-and-shoot, then a second filming with a cell phone, both surely streaming to a command center. After six officers assembled, a sergeant approached us flanked by two DIA employees. She gave us our formal warnings. We were given instructions to \"cease and desist\" while we countered that we knew our rights. After a second warning we were assured that a third would mean our immediate arrest. We held our signs higher, all the while asserting their order was unlawful. The immigration lawyers huddled as far away from us as they could. Sgt. Virginia Quinones then got on her phone to consult somebody. I","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Reviews & Opinions\nbiosights podcast\nPermissions & Licensing\nRockefeller University Press\nJGP\njcb Home \u00bb 2009 Archive \u00bb 5 October \u00bb 187 (1): 61\nGlyburide inhibits the Cryopyrin\/Nalp3 inflammasome\nMohamed Lamkanfi, James L. Mueller, Alberto C. Vitari, Shahram Misaghi, Anna Fedorova, Kurt Deshayes, Wyne P. Lee, Hal M. Hoffman, Vishva M. Dixit\nMohamed Lamkanfi\nJames L. Mueller\nAlberto C. Vitari\nShahram Misaghi\nAnna Fedorova\nKurt Deshayes\nWyne P. Lee\nHal M. Hoffman\nVishva M. Dixit\nDOI: 10.1083\/jcb.200903124 | Published October 5, 2009\nInflammasomes activate caspase-1 for processing and secretion of the cytokines interleukin-1\u03b2 (IL-1\u03b2) and IL-18. Cryopyrin\/NALP3\/NLRP3 is an essential component of inflammasomes triggered by microbial ligands, danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), and crystals. Inappropriate Cryopyrin activity has been incriminated in the pathogenesis of gouty arthritis, Alzheimer's, and silicosis. Therefore, inhibitors of the Nalp3 inflammasome offer considerable therapeutic promise. In this study, we show that the type 2 diabetes drug glyburide prevented activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome. Glyburide's cyclohexylurea group, which binds to adenosine triphosphatase (ATP)\u2013sensitive K+ (KATP) channels for insulin secretion, is dispensable for inflammasome inhibition. Macrophages lacking KATP subunits or ATP-binding cassette transporters also activate the Cryopyrin inflammasome normally. Glyburide analogues inhibit ATP- but not hypothermia-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion from human monocytes expressing familial cold-associated autoinflammatory syndrome\u2013associated Cryopyrin mutations, thus suggesting that inhibition occurs upstream of Cryopyrin. Concurrent with the role of Cryopyrin in endotoxemia, glyburide significantly delays lipopolysaccharide-induced lethality in mice. Therefore, glyburide is the first identified compound to prevent Cryopyrin activation and microbial ligand-, DAMP-, and crystal-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion.\nGlyburide is the most widely used sulfonylurea drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in the United States (Riddle, 2003). The drug works by inhibiting ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels in pancreatic \u03b2 cells (Ashcroft, 2005). KATP channels are octameric complexes of four Kir6.x (Kir6.1 or Kir6.2) and four sulfonylurea receptor (SUR; SUR1 or SUR2) subunits (Clement et al., 1997). The SUR subunits belong to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family (Aguilar-Bryan et al., 1995) and function as a regulatory subunit, endowing the Kir6.x channel with sensitivity to inhibition by sulfonylureas such as glyburide and glipizide (Ashcroft, 2005). In addition to KATP channels, the ABC transporter ABCA1 was proposed as a putative glyburide target (Hamon et al., 1997). Glyburide's pharmacological properties are summarized in Fig. S1 A.\nThe cystein protease caspase-1 mediates the proteolytic maturation of the cytokines interleukin-1\u03b2 (IL-1\u03b2) and IL-18 after its recruitment in protein complexes termed inflammasomes (Lamkanfi and Dixit, 2009). Cryopyrin\/NALP3\/NLRP3 is an essential component of inflammasomes triggered by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), and crystalline substances (Kanneganti et al., 2006, 2007; Mariathasan et al., 2006; Sutterwala et al., 2006; Lamkanfi and Dixit, 2009). Inappropriate Cryopyrin activity has been incriminated in the pathogenesis of several diseases, including gouty arthritis, Alzheimer's, and silicosis (Martinon et al., 2006; Cassel et al., 2008; Dostert et al., 2008; Halle et al., 2008; Hornung et al., 2008), so inhibitors of the Cryopyrin inflammasome offer considerable therapeutic promise.\nIn this study, we show that glyburide prevented activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome by a variety of stimuli. Concurrent with the role of Cryopyrin in endotoxemia, glyburide delayed lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced lethality in mice. Therefore, glyburide is the first compound identified to act upstream of Cryopyrin to prevent PAMP-, DAMP-, and crystal-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion.\nGlyburide inhibits LPS+ATP-induced caspase-1 activation, IL-1\u03b2 secretion, and macrophage death\nGlyburide prevents LPS+ATP-induced secretion of IL-1\u03b2 from human and murine macrophages (Hamon et al., 1997; Laliberte et al., 1999; Perregaux et al., 2001) and from murine Schwann cells (Marty et al., 2005). To determine whether caspase-1 activation is impaired by glyburide, LPS-primed bone marrow\u2013derived macrophages (BMDMs) were incubated with glyburide for 15 min before ATP was added for another 30 min. In contrast to the related sulfonylurea glipizide, glyburide inhibited caspase-1 processing in a dose-dependent fashion (Fig. 1 A), and this prevented secretion of the caspase-1\u2013dependent cytokines IL-1\u03b2 (Fig. 1 B) and IL-18 (Fig. 1 C). Secretion of IL-6 (Fig. 1 D) and TNF (Fig. 1 E) was not impaired by glyburide, ruling out a general defect in macrophage responsiveness. Inhibition was evident up to 3 h post-ATP (Fig. S1 B), indicating that glyburide did not merely delay caspase-1 activation.\nGlyburide inhibits LPS+ATP-induced caspase-1 activation, secretion of IL-1\u03b2 and IL-18, and macrophage cell death. (A\u2013E) LPS-primed BMDMs were treated with glyburide, glipizide, or DMSO for 15 min before 5 mM ATP was added for 30 min. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1 (A), and culture supernatants were analyzed for secreted IL-1\u03b2 (B), IL-18 (C), IL-6 (D), and TNF (E). Black arrowheads indicate procaspase-1, and white arrowheads mark the p20 subunit. (F) BMDMs were incubated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide, 200 \u00b5M glipizide, 200 \u00b5M DMSO, or 50 \u00b5M calmidazolium for 2 h before brightfield photographs were taken. (G) LPS-primed BMDMs were treated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide, glipizide, or DMSO for 15 min followed by 5 mM ATP for the indicated durations. Membrane damage was measured using Live\/Dead assay. Bars, 20 \u00b5m. (H) BMDMs were left untreated (CTRL), stimulated with 10 \u00b5g\/ml LPS for 3 h, treated with 5 mM ATP for 1 h, or treated with LPS and ATP. Membrane damage was measured using Live\/Dead assay. (I) LPS-primed BMDMs from wild-type (WT), P2X7\u2212\/\u2212, Cryopyrin\u2212\/\u2212, and caspase-1\u2212\/\u2212 mice were treated with 5 mM ATP for the indicated durations. Membrane damage was measured with Live\/Dead assay. Cytokine and cell death data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples from a single experiment, and all results are representative of at least three independent experiments.\nSignificantly, BMDMs cultured for 3 h in glyburide, glipizide, or DMSO looked morphologically normal (Fig. 1 F) and displayed no significant membrane damage (Fig. S1 C). As a positive control, macrophage death was induced with the calmodulin inhibitor calmidazolium (Fig. 1 F and Fig. S1 C). Inhibition of caspase-1 activation by glyburide was reversible because caspase-1 was activated if glyburide was removed from the culture medium before ATP addition (Fig. S1 D). Glyburide also blocked the rapid, caspase-1\u2013dependent cell death that occurs when BMDMs are treated with LPS and ATP (Fig. 1, G\u2013I). As expected, glipizide and DMSO did not prevent this death. Of note, neither LPS nor ATP alone affected BMDM viability (Fig. 1 H). Like caspase-1\u2212\/\u2212 BMDMs, cells lacking the P2X7 receptor or Cryopyrin were not killed by LPS+ATP (Fig. 1 I). These results demonstrate that the Cryopyrin inflammasome is essential for LPS+ATP-induced macrophage death and that glyburide inhibits LPS+ATP-induced caspase-1 activation, IL-1\u03b2 secretion, and macrophage death.\nGlyburide's sulfonyl and benzamido groups are required for optimal inhibition of the Cryopyrin inflammasome\nGlyburide inhibits KATP channels on pancreatic \u03b2 cells. Its cyclohexylurea group is necessary for high affinity binding to SUR1 (Meyer et al., 1999), which is the SUR subunit of these KATP channels. Interestingly, the cyclohexylurea group (Fig. 2 A, compound G1) was dispensable for inhibition of LPS+ATP-induced caspase-1 activation (Fig. 2 B) and IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Fig. 2 C). As expected, glyburide and compound G1 did not affect IL-6 secretion (Fig. 2 D). Glipizide also contains a cyclohexylurea group (Fig. 2 A) and inhibits SUR1-containing KATP channels, but it failed to inhibit caspase-1 activation (Fig. 2 B). These data suggest that inhibition of the Cryopyrin inflammasome is independent of SUR1-containing KATP channels.\nGlyburide's cyclohexylurea moiety is dispensable for inflammasome inhibition. (A) Chemical structure of glyburide, glipizide, and glyburide-derived analogues G1\u2013G4. (B\u2013G) LPS-primed BMDMs were treated with glyburide, glipizide, or analogues G1\u2013G4 for 15 min before 5 mM ATP was added for 30 min. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1 (B and E), and culture supernatants were analyzed for secreted IL-1\u03b2 (C and F) and IL-6 (D and G). Black arrowheads indicate procaspase-1, and white arrowheads mark the p20 subunit. Cytokine data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples from a single experiment, and all results are representative of at least three independent experiments.\nAdditional structure activity experiments demonstrated that both the benzamido and sulfonyl groups of glyburide (Fig. 2 A, compounds G2\u2013G4) were required for optimal inhibition. Analogue G2 comprising only the benzamido group (Fig. 2 A, compound G2) inhibited LPS+ATP-induced caspase-1 activation (Fig. 2 E) and IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Fig. 2 F), albeit less effectively than compound G1. Thus, the benzamido group contributes but is not sufficient for optimal inhibition. Indeed, a G1 analogue lacking the benzamido group (Fig. 2 A, compound G3) did not affect caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Fig. 2, E and F). In addition to the benzamido group, the sulfonyl moiety is required for optimal inhibition, as deletion of the sulfonyl group from compound G1 (Fig. 2 A, compound G4) was less effective at inhibiting caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Fig. 2, E and F). Like glyburide, compounds G1\u2013G4 permitted normal IL-6 secretion (Fig. 2 G), demonstrating the specificity of these results.\nGlyburide inhibits the Cryopyrin inflammasome downstream of the P2X7 receptor\nLike ATP, the cation ionophore nigericin engages the Cryopyrin inflammasome (Mariathasan et al., 2006), but nigericin signals independently of the P2X7 receptor (Fig. S1, E\u2013G; Solle et al., 2001). Glyburide potently blocked LPS+nigericin-induced caspase-1 activation (Fig. 3 A). As expected, glipizide and DMSO vehicle did not prevent LPS+nigericin-induced caspase-1 activation. Notably, substituting lipid A, lipoteichoic acid, peptidoglycan, or Pam3-CSK4 for LPS did not prevent glyburide from inhibiting caspase-1 activation (Fig. 3 B).\nGlyburide inhibits PAMP-, DAMP-, and crystal-induced activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome. (A) LPS-primed BMDMs were incubated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide, glipizide, or DMSO for 15 min before 20 \u00b5M nigericin was added for 30 min. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1. (B) BMDMs were stimulated with the indicated PAMPs for 3 h, incubated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide for 15 min, and stimulated with 20 \u00b5M nigericin for 30 min. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1. (C and D) LPS-primed BMDMs were incubated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide or DMSO for 15 min before 500 \u00b5g\/ml silica or1 mM of the lysosomotrophic peptide H-LL-OMe was added for 3 h. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1 (C), and culture supernatants were analyzed for secreted IL-1\u03b2 (D). (E) LPS-primed BMDMs were left untreated or incubated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide or 10 \u00b5M KN-62 for 15 min. 2 \u00b5M YoPro-1 was subsequently added, and its uptake was visualized before and after a 5-min ATP pulse. Bars, 50 \u00b5m. (F) BMDMs were left untreated (CTRL), transfected with DOTAP alone for 4 h, stimulated with 10 \u00b5g\/ml LPS for 3 h and subsequently with 5 mM ATP (LPS+ATP), or transfected with DOTAP and 30 \u00b5g\/ml LPS for 4 h (DOTAP+LPS) in the presence or absence of 200 \u00b5M glyburide, glipizide, or DMSO. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1. (G) Overview and mapping of inflammasome-activating stimuli and upstream signaling pathways. Black arrowheads indicate procaspase-1, and white arrowheads mark the p20 subunit. Cytokine data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples from a single experiment, and all results are representative of at least three independent experiments.\nIn agreement with previous studies (Cassel et al., 2008; Dostert et al., 2008; Hornung et al., 2008), silica and the lysosomotrophic molecule H-LL-OMe also promoted Cryopyrin-dependent caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion in LPS-primed BMDMs (Fig. S2, A and B). Caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion in response to these stimuli were independent of the P2X7 receptor (Fig. S2, C and D) but required TLR4 signaling (Fig. S2 E). Glyburide effectively blocked caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion by these stimuli too (Fig. 3, C and D). These data suggest that glyburide targets a signaling component downstream of the P2X7 receptor. We first considered the hemichannel pannexin-1, which was proposed to signal both LPS+ATP- and LPS+nigericin-induced caspase-1 activation (Pelegrin and Surprenant, 2006, 2007; Kanneganti et al., 2007). Pannexin-1 forms a nonselective pore for molecules <1 kD, such as the fluorescent dye YoPro-1, within seconds to minutes of P2X7 receptor stimulation (Pelegrin and Surprenant, 2006, 2007; Locovei et al., 2007). Unlike the P2X7 receptor inhibitor KN-62, glyburide did not prevent ATP-induced YoPro-1 uptake into LPS-primed macrophages (Fig. 3 E), suggesting that pannexin-1 is not inhibited by glyburide. Concurrently, glyburide inhibited caspase-1 activation by LPS+DOTAP (Fig. 3 F), a stimulus that engages the Cryopyrin inflammasome independently of the P2X7 receptor and pannexin-1 (Kanneganti et al., 2007). Collectively, these results indicate that glyburide inhibits engagement of the Cryopyrin inflammasome by diverse stimuli and that inhibition occurs downstream of the P2X7 receptor (Fig. 3 G).\nKATP channels and ABC transporters are dispensable for activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome\nThe structure\u2013activity relationship experiments (Fig. 2) suggest that glyburide inhibits the Cryopyrin inflammasome independently of SUR1-containing KATP channels. Certain tissues such as heart and muscle express SUR2 instead of SUR1 KATP channels. However, SUR2\u2212\/\u2212 BMDMs activated caspase-1 and secreted normal amounts of IL-1\u03b2 in response to LPS+ATP and LPS+nigericin (Fig. 4, A and B). In addition, BMDMs from Kir6.1\u2212\/\u2212 and Kir6.2\u2212\/\u2212 mice also demonstrated normal LPS+ATP- and LPS+nigericin-induced caspase-1 activation (Fig. 4 C) and IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Fig. 4 D). These results show that KATP channels are not required for activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome.\nKATP channels and ABC transporters are dispensable for activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome. (A\u2013E) BMDMs from wild-type (WT) and SUR2\u2212\/\u2212 (A and B), Kir6.1\u2212\/\u2212 and Kir6.2\u2212\/\u2212 (C and D), or abca1\u2212\/\u2212, abcg1\u2212\/\u2212, and abca1\u2212\/\u2212\/abcg1\u2212\/\u2212 (abca1\/g1\u2212\/\u2212) mice (E) were left untreated (CTRL), stimulated with 10 \u00b5g\/ml LPS for 3 h, treated with 5 mM ATP or 20 \u00b5M nigericin for 30 min, or stimulated with LPS and treated with ATP (LPS+ATP) or nigericin (LPS+nigericin). Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1 (A, C, and E), and culture supernatants were analyzed for secreted IL-1\u03b2 (B and D). (F\u2013H), LPS-primed BMDMs from abca1\u2212\/\u2212\/abcg1\u2212\/\u2212 (F), Kir6.1\u2212\/\u2212 (G), and Kir6.2\u2212\/\u2212 (H) mice were treated with 200 \u00b5M glyburide or DMSO for 15 min before 5 mM ATP or 20 \u00b5M nigericin was added for an additional 30 min. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1. Black arrowheads indicate procaspase-1, and white arrowheads mark the p20 subunit. Cytokine data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples from a single experiment, and all results are representative of three independent experiments.\nPrevious studies also suggested that glyburide and the ABC transporter inhibitor DIDS (4,4\u2032-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2\u2032-disulfonic acid disodium) target ABCA1 to inhibit LPS+ATP-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Hamon et al., 1997; Marty et al., 2005). We confirmed that DIDS inhibited LPS+ATP-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. S3 A). However, DIDS also inhibited P2X7 receptor-mediated currents (Ma et al., 2009) and caspase-1 activation (Fig. S3 B), suggesting that the drug prevents IL-1\u03b2 secretion by directly antagonizing the P2X7 receptor rather than ABCA1. Concurrently, BMDMs from mice lacking ABCA1 and\/or ABCG1 activated caspase-1 normally in response to LPS+ATP and LPS+nigericin (Fig. 4 E). Caspase-1 activation also was normal in macrophages lacking the glyburide receptor cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (unpublished data).\nTo complement these experiments, we analyzed whether glyburide prevented caspase-1 activation in macrophages lacking ABC transporters or KATP channels. As in wild-type macrophages (Fig. 1 A), glyburide abolished LPS+ATP- and LPS+nigericin-induced caspase-1 activation in macrophages lacking ABCA1 and ABCG1 (Fig. 4 F) or the KATP channel subunits Kir6.1 (Fig. 4 G) and Kir6.2 (Fig. 4 H). In summary, these experiments indicate that known targets of glyburide are dispensable for activation of the Cryopyrin inflammasome.\nInflammasome inhibition occurs upstream of Cryopyrin\nIpaf rather than Cryopyrin is critical for inflammasome assembly and caspase-1 activation by Salmonella typhimurium infection (Mariathasan et al., 2004). Interestingly, caspase-1 activation in S. typhimurium\u2013infected BMDMs was not affected by glyburide (Fig. 5 A). Furthermore, anthrax lethal toxin, which engages the NALP1b inflammasome (Boyden and Dietrich, 2006), also activated caspase-1 normally in the presence of glyburide (Fig. 5 B). Concurrently, glyburide did not affect caspase-1 activity in vitro (Fig. 5 C). These data suggest that glyburide works upstream of caspase-1 and ASC, the shared adaptor in the Cryopyrin, Ipaf, and NALP1b inflammasomes (Fig. 3 G).\nGlyburide inhibits the inflammasome upstream of Cryopyrin. (A and B) BMDMs from C57BL\/6 (A) or BALB\/c mice (B) were stimulated with 10 \u00b5g\/ml LPS for 3 h and treated with 5 mM ATP for 30 min (LPS+ATP), infected with S. typhimurium for 4 h, or treated with 10 \u00b5g\/ml anthrax lethal toxin (PA+LF) for 4 h in the presence or absence of 200 \u00b5M glyburide. Cell extracts were immunoblotted for caspase-1. Black arrowheads indicate procaspase-1, and white arrowheads mark the p20 subunit. (C) In vitro enzymatic activity of 1 IU mouse caspase-1 incubated with glyburide, glipizide, or the caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-YVAD-cmk. Data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples from one out of three independent experiments. (D and E) ATPase activity of purified recombinant Cryopyrin and control eluates in the presence of 100 \u00b5M glyburide, compound G1, or glipizide (D). (E) ATPase activity quantified by phosphoimaging. Data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples from one out of three independent experiments. (F) Adherent monocytes from FCAS patients (n = 3) were stimulated with 100 ng\/ml LPS (4 h) and treated with 5 mM ATP (30 min) in the presence of vehicle controls or 100 \u00b5M compound G1 or glipizide before IL-1\u03b2 levels in culture supernatants were determined. Data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples. (G) Adherent monocytes from FCAS patients (n = 3) were cultured at 32\u00b0C for 12 h in the presence of vehicle controls or 100 \u00b5M compound G1 or glipizide. IL-1\u03b2 levels were determined in culture supernatants. Data represent the mean \u00b1 SD of triplicate samples. (H) Protection against LPS-induced lethality in C57BL\/6 mice (n = 10) injected intraperitoneally bid daily with 500 mg\/kg glyburide or formulation vehicle. Results are representative of two independent experiments.\nWe next studied the affect of glyburide and compound G1 on the ATPase activity of Cryopyrin, which is required for caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion (Duncan et al., 2007). Neither glyburide nor compound G1 reduced the ATPase activity of recombinant Cryopyrin (Fig. 5, D and E; and Fig. S3, C and D), placing glyburide action upstream of Cryopyrin. We sought confirmatory evidence using human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from individuals afflicted with familial cold-associated autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), a disorder resulting from a temperature-sensitive (L353P) mutation within Cryopyrin (Hoffman et al., 2001). Similar to LPS+ATP at 37\u00b0C, cold-induced conformational changes in FCAS monocytes are presumed to assemble the Cryopyrin inflammasome at the permissive temperature of 32\u00b0C. It is worth noting that FCAS monocytes secreted a small amount of IL-1\u03b2 at 37\u00b0C in response to either ATP or LPS alone (Fig. S3 E), suggesting that FCAS monocytes are hyperresponsive. Compound G1 inhibited LPS+ATP-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion at 37 and 32\u00b0C (Fig. 5 F and not depicted) but did not prevent cold-induced IL-1\u03b2 secretion from FCAS PBMCs at 32\u00b0C (Fig. 5 G). Therefore, compound G1 and glyburide likely act upstream of Cryopyrin in inhibiting caspase-1 activation. We also assessed the affect of glyburide on LPS-induced lethality in mice based on the observation that Cryopyrin-deficient mice are resistant to LPS-induced lethality (Mariathasan et al., 2006; Sutterwala et al., 2006). Although 90% of vehicle-treated mice died within 20 h after LPS dosage, all mice in the glyburide-treated group were alive at this time point (Fig. 5 H). Mortality in the glyburide-treated arm was significantly delayed (P < 0.0001), but in line with glyburide's relatively short half-life in vivo (\u223c1 h; unpublished data), the mice eventually succumbed to endotoxic shock.\nCollectively, these results demonstrate that glyburide acts upstream of Cryopyrin and downstream of the P2X7 receptor to block Cryopyrin-dependent inflammasome activation by PAMPs, DAMPs, and crystalline substances. These results may have significant therapeutic ramifications for the treatment of gouty arthritis, silicosis, and Alzheimer's, in which excessive Cryopyrin-dependent IL-1\u03b2 production was proposed as a major cause of pathology (Cassel et al., 2008; Dostert et al., 2008; Halle et al., 2008; Hornung et al., 2008).\nMice and macrophages\nCryopyrin\u2212\/\u2212, caspase-1\u2212\/\u2212, Abca1\u2212\/\u2212, Abcg1\u2212\/\u2212, Abca1\u2212\/\u2212Abcg1\u2212\/\u2212, Kir6.1\u2212\/\u2212, Kir6.2\u2212\/\u2212, and SUR2\u2212\/\u2212 mice have been described previously (Miki et al., 1998, 2002; Schott et al., 2004; Mariathasan et al., 2006; Stoller et al., 2007; Yvan-Charvet et al., 2008). P2X7\u2212\/\u2212 mice were obtained from Lexicon Pharmaceuticals. Mice were housed in a pathogen-free facility. All experiments were conducted in compliance with the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Genentech. BMDMs were prepared as described previously (Lamkanfi et al., 2007). In brief, BMDMs were isolated from femurs of 6\u201312-wk-old mice and were cultured in Iscove's modified Dulbecco's medium containing 10% heat-inactivated FBS, 20% L cell\u2013conditioned medium, 100 U\/ml penicillin, and 100 mg\/ml streptomycin at 37\u00b0C in a humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO2. After 5\u20137 d of incubation, cells were collected and plated in 6- or 24-well plates in Iscove's modified Dulbecco's medium containing 10% heat-inactivated FBS and 100 mg\/ml thymidine and antibiotics. Macrophages were cultured for an additional 24 h before use.\nLPS-induced endotoxemia\n8-wk-old male C57BL\/6 mice (Charles River) were maintained in micro-isolator cages and received food and water ad libitum according to the American Association of Laboratory Animal Care guidelines. Mice were randomly divided into two groups (n = 10\/group). The mice were injected intraperitoneally bid daily with 500 mg\/kg glyburide or the formulation vehicle (DMSO\/10% HP-b-CD [2.5:97.5]) in 360 \u00b5l PBS. 4 h after the first dosing, endotoxic shock was induced by intraperitoneal injection of 18 mg\/kg LPS (Escherichia coli O111:B4; Sigma-Aldrich). Mice were monitored hourly for survival up to 36 h. Differences in group survival were analyzed with the Kaplan\u2013Meier test. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.\nThe University of California San Diego Human Research Protection Program Committee approved this study, and informed consent was obtained from all subjects. Three related patients with FCAS (L353P mutation) and five normal controls were included. The FCAS patients had a classical clinical presentation, met diagnostic criteria, and were being treated with Rilonacept, an IL-1\u03b2 inhibitor approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but held their dose for >2 wk before the experiment.\nPreparation of human adherent monocytes\nVenous blood was drawn into EDTA\/Vacutainer tubes (BD) early in the morning when FCAS patients are generally least symptomatic. PBMC fractions were collected and resuspended in serum-free media and transferred to 24-well plates at a concentration of 1 \u00d7 106\/ml. Cells were incubated for 4 h at 37\u00b0C, and nonadherent cells were removed leaving adherent monocytes as previously described (Rosengren et al., 2007).\nBacteria, ligands, and inhibitors\nS. enterica serovar typhimurium strain SL1344 was provided by D. Monack (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA). Single colonies were inoculated into 3 ml of brain-heart infusion medium and grown overnight at 30\u00b0C with shaking. Anthrax lethal factor and protective antigen (List Biological Laboratories) were used at 10 \u00b5g\/ml. Ultrapure LPS, lipid A, lipoteichoic acid, peptidoglycan, and Pam3-CSK4 (InvivoGen) were used at 10 \u00b5g\/ml. ATP (Roche) was used at 5 mM, and nigericin (Sigma-Aldrich) was used at a final concentration of 20 \u00b5M. Glyburide, glipizide, and calmidazolium were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich and used at the indicated concentrations. Compounds G1\u2013G4 were purchased from Ryan Scientific. DOTAP was obtained from Roche and used according to the manufacturer's instructions. Silicia (Min-U-Sil 5) was provided by US Silica, and H-LL-OMe was purchased from Chem-Impex International. Infection and stimulation of BMDMs were performed as described in Figs. 1\u20135.\nBright-field and fluorescence microscopy were performed in culture media at room temperature under a long-distance Plan Neofluar 20\u00d7\/0.4 Ph2 Korr objective (Carl Zeiss, Inc.) on a microscope (Axiovert 200M; Carl Zeiss, Inc.) equipped with a charge-coupled device digital camera (Axiocam; Carl Zeiss, Inc.) and AxioVision software (Rel.4.6; Carl Zeiss, Inc.). For dye uptake assays, 2 \u00b5M YoPro-1 (Invitrogen) was present 10 min before macrophages were stimulated with ATP for 5 min. Fluorescence signals in digital black and white fluorographs were artificially colored green with Photoshop (Adobe). Macrophage membrane damage was measured with a Live\/Dead assay (Invitrogen).\nCytokines, antibodies, and Western blotting\nHuman and mouse cytokines in culture supernatants were measured by enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (R&D Systems) and Luminex assay. Data were analyzed with Student's t test, and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The caspase-1 antibody used for Western blotting was raised against recombinant mouse caspase-1 and was used as described previously (Lamkanfi et al., 2007). In brief, immunoblots were incubated overnight with the caspase-1 antibody (1:1,000), and a goat anti\u2013rabbit secondary antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) was used to detect proteins by enhanced chemiluminescence (Thermo Fisher Scientific).\nIn vitro caspase-1 activity assay\nIn vitro caspase-1 activity was determined by incubating 1 IU recombinant mouse caspase-1 (BioVision) with 50 mM fluorogenic caspase-1 substrate peptide Ac-WEHD-amc in 200 ml CFS buffer (10 mM Hepes, pH 7.4, 220 mM mannitol, 68 mM sucrose, 2 mM NaCl, 2.5 mM KH2PO4, 0.5 mM EGTA, 2 mM MgCl2, 0.5 mM sodium pyruvate, 0.5 mM L-glutamine, and 10 mM DTT). The release of fluorescent 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin in the presence of the indicated concentrations of glyburide, glipizide, or the caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-YVAD-cmk was measured for 30 min at 1-min intervals by fluorometry (excitation at 360 nm and emission at 480 nm) on a Cytofluor (PerSeptive Biosystems), and the maximal rate of increase in fluorescence was calculated (\u0394F\/min).\nATPase assay\nATP hydrolysis was measured by visualizing the conversion of \u03b1-[32P]ATP to \u03b1-[32P]ADP using TLC. A total of 5 \u00b5l purified Cryopyrin-Flag was incubated with 0.1 \u00b5M \u03b1-[32P]ATP (3,000 Ci\/mmol; PerkinElmer) in a total volume of 20 \u00b5l reaction buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM DTT, 1 mM EDTA, and EDTA-free Complete protease inhibitor cocktail tablets) containing 100 \u00b5M glyburide, compound G1, glipizide, or vehicle control (DMSO) for 2 h. The reaction was quenched by adding an equal volume of TLC development solvent (1 M formic acid and 0.5 M LiCl). A total of 2 \u00b5l reaction mixture was spotted on a polyethyleneimine cellulose TLC plate and developed with 1 M formic acid with 0.5 M LiCl in a TLC chamber. The TLC plate was exposed to x-ray film or used for quantification with a phosphoimager (Typhoon Trio; GE Healthcare).\nOnline supplemental material\nFig. S1 shows that LPS+ATP-induced caspase-1 activation and macrophage death are glyburide sensitive and, unlike LPS+nigericin, require the P2X7 receptor. Fig. S2 shows that LPS+H-LL-OMe\u2013 and LPS+silica-induced caspase-1 activation and IL-1\u03b2 secretion require Cryopyrin and TLR4 but not the P2X7 receptor. Fig. S3 shows inhibition of caspase-1 activation by DIDS, immunopurification of recombinant Cryopyrin-Flag, and IL-1\u03b2 secretion from FCAS monocytes. Online supplemental material is available at http:\/\/www.jcb.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/jcb.200903124\/DC1.\nWe thank Andres Paler Martinez, Karen O'Rourke, Xingrong Liu, Yvonne Franke, Matt McGeough, and Carla Pena for technical support, Dr. Elizabeth McNally (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL) for SUR2\u2212\/\u2212 femurs, Dr. Alan Tall (Columbia University, New York, NY) for Abca1\u2212\/\u2212, Abcg1\u2212\/\u2212, and Abca1\u2212\/\u2212Abcg1\u2212\/\u2212 femurs, Dr. Andre Terzic (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) for Kir6.1\u2212\/\u2212 and Kir6.2\u2212\/\u2212 femurs, and Dr. Peter Vandenabeele (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium) for caspase-1 antibody.\nM. Lamkanfi, S. Misaghi, A.C. Vitari, A. Fedorova, K. Deshayes, W.P. Lee, and V.M. 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{"text":"LETTER: Midget hockey players earn respect of coach\nThis game is more than a game \u2013 it's a way of life, it's team camaraderie, it's discipline, says former coach\nThis year's midget hockey team has seen many changes: six players from last year have graduated or moved on to major midget and juvenile teams.\nSooke Minor Hockey's president has expressed that it is time for a change and a new direction with respect to coaching.\nDuring the last two years as head coach, I had the privilege of taking the boys to the provincial championship in Dawson Creek where we were up against the best in B.C. The players came together and brought home the bronze medal . Last season we made it to the finals, but fell short to a very strong Port Alberni team.\nI will miss the games, tournaments and even early morning practices. As a coach, the goal is to develop players as well as strong individuals.\nThese boys have enriched my life and taught me a lot about myself. I'd like to thank all the parents and players that have supported minor hockey.\nThis game is more than a game \u2013 it's a way of life, it's team camaraderie, it's discipline and, most importantly, it teaches players social skills and work ethic.\nAll the best for the upcoming season. Work hard boys!\nKevin Berger, Sooke\nLETTER: John Phillips Memorial Park a special place","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"usfws\nBlackwater National Wildlife Refuge \u2013 Nanticoke Unit Easements\nA partnership between the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Chesapeake Conservancy has led to the permanent protection of 155 acres of land as part of the Nanticoke Unit of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Funding was made possible \u2026 Continued\nbirds, blackwater national wildlife refuge, chesapeake conservancy, conservation, easements, iba, marshes, maryland, nanticoke river, national wildlife refuges, rivers, salt marshes, usfws, waterfowl, wetlands\nNFWF Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Grants 2018\nIn December, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $13.1 million in grants to support the restoration and conservation of the Chesapeake Bay watershed in six U.S. states and the \u2026 Continued\nagriculture, communities, delaware, District of Columbia, environment, EPA, farming, fish, funding, grants, habitat restoration, maryland, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, new york, nfwf, ngo, organizations, pennsylvania, runoff, usfws, virginia, water quality, watersheds, west virginia, wildlife\n2017 Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Grants\nIn September, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $12.6 million in grants to support the restoration and conservation of the Chesapeake Bay watershed in six states and the District \u2026 Continued\nbaltimore, EPA, grants, habitat restoration, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, nfwf, pollution, rivers, runoff, usfws, water quality, watersheds","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Former tourist mecca still draws those eager to sip or soak in its medicinal waters\nImage: Jennifer Nichols\nWater plays a starring role in Mineral Wells' history\u2014and its present, as well.\nVisitors to the small city about 50 miles west of Fort Worth can view tantalizing glimpses of its storied past as one of the country's premier spa resorts and explore the area's distant past at the bottom of an ancient sea.\nA stroll around downtown gives one a sense of the prosperity that sprang from the earth around the turn of the 20th century. A mineral-rich aquifer tapped by a well driller in the 1880s spurred the establishment of dozens of businesses that catered to thousands of tourists who arrived to drink or bathe in the water, which gained the reputation for curing ailments both physical and mental.\nRemnants of that water boom\u2014downtown streets lined with brick buildings that today house a few antique shops and a collection of Victorian-era homes\u2014remain. Looming over them all is the abandoned but still impressive Baker Hotel, a 450-room, 14-story edifice that opened in 1929 and closed in the 1970s. Gazing at the crumbling structure, it's easy to imagine the days when the once-grand hotel hosted political conventions and Hollywood stars.\nJust blocks from the hotel is the only remaining commercial source of the town's mineral water, the Famous Mineral Water Company. The company, founded in 1904, ships its Crazy Water to several states. It also has recently begun offering visitors the chance to soak. For $28, you get a bottle of their mineral water in one of four formulations to sip as you settle into a deep bathtub in a quiet room and relax in a warm bath.\nWater helped form another city attraction, with a history going back 300 million years. At the Mineral Wells Fossil Park, visitors can pick through sand and rocks at a former city quarry to find the remains of prehistoric creatures that lived there when that area of Texas was covered by a shallow sea.\nIn about an hour's worth of casual hunting, I collected a pocketful of interesting specimens, including mollusk shells and bits of crinoid, a type of seabed-dwelling animal. There is no charge to look for or to take home fossils for personal use, but commercial collecting is forbidden. To get to the park, follow the partially paved Indian Creek Road, just west of town off U.S. 180. Take plenty of water. If I went again, I'd bring a garden rake for easier sifting.\nWater plays a big role in a more colorful city attraction, this one about 3 miles east of town off U.S. 180. The Clark Gardens Botanical Park is a lush oasis in the middle of mesquite-dotted ranchland. Its 35 acres of carefully tended gardens, which began as the private garden of founders Max and Billie Clark, include hundreds of species of trees and plants in a variety of settings. Lakes, fountains, pavilions and statuary invite visitors to linger. One of my favorite features was an extensive model train layout that incorporated scenery and structures made of natural materials.\nAfter all that traipsing, a rest was in order. The Silk Stocking Row bed-and-breakfast, housed in a turn-of-the-century mansion a couple of blocks from the Famous Mineral Water Company, provided a comfortable and peaceful respite. Hosts Wilene and Chuck Manis offer five themed rooms and a hearty breakfast to start the day.\nWhether it's history, natural beauty or a peaceful day off, Mineral Wells lets you soak it all in.\nKevin Hargis is a staff copy editor.\nThis article appeared in the October 2013 issue","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Web site takes you way back in Internet history\nJOHN COOK, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER\nEver dream of floating back in time to the good old days of the Internet, when Amazon.com was just a tiny little online bookstore and WebCrawler was the best search engine around?\nWell, if you are feeling a bit nostalgic for 1996, it may be time to take a magical ride on The Wayback Machine.\nA digital time travel device of sorts, The Wayback Machine allows history buffs, journalists, social anthropologists, researchers and curious Web surfers to scroll the annals of Internet history by pulling up forgotten Web pages.\nWant to see Google's first Web site?\nCheck out Microsoft's home page from October 1996?\nOr see Al Gore's Web site from the 2000 election?\nIt's all right at your fingertips in The Wayback Machine, web.archive.org\/\nIn fact, The Wayback Machine is the largest known database in the world, with about 10 billion archived Web pages taking up 100 terabytes of data. That's enough information to put stresses and strains on the 300 computer servers powering the digital archive.\nBrewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat -- founders of the Amazon.com subsidiary Alexa Internet -- created the concept behind The Wayback Machine in 1996, compiling millions of Web sites for their Internet navigation service. Instead of discarding the old Web properties like other search engines, Kahle and Gilliat stored them in a digital library for a non-profit San Francisco organization known as The Internet Archive.\nThe digital library grew and grew and grew. But few people knew about it.\nInformation was kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers and scientists to tap into the clunky database.\nBut when the archive hit its five-year anniversary earlier this year, Kahle and the rest of the team decided to open it to the public. In a ceremony last week at the University of California-Berkeley, The Wayback Machine was unveiled.\nNow, for the first time in five years, all of the information is available free to the public.\nFor those who followed the birth of the Internet, The Wayback Machine is kind of like opening King Tut's tomb for the first time. It's a virtual treasure trove of information.\nSo far, it has been a smashing success, with more than 1 million visitors per day.\n\"People love to see their old Web sites. They are just thrilled to see the old pictures that they thought were long gone,\" Kahle said. \"And they are psyched about becoming a part of history.\"\nWith a good memory of Web-site addresses and a quick click of the \"Take Me Back!\" button, one can spend hours exploring the darkest corners of cyberspace.\nI checked out one of Amazon.com's early home pages, a primitive site that showed a grainy looking logo that boasted \"Earth's biggest bookstore.\" Comparing it with Amazon.com's site today -- with its multiple tabs, consumer reviews and colorful graphics -- shows just how far e-commerce has progressed in five years.\nI also explored Web sites of Seattle companies that are no longer with us such as HomeGrocer.com, Mercata, Rivals.com and FizzyLab. After typing in the names and waiting a few seconds, they all popped up.\nIn many cases, the links within the Web sites even worked -- allowing deeper exploration of news releases, management teams and investors.\nHidden gems are found all over.\nPI staff stories\nCoronavirus Seattle schools cancel classes, move online as COVID...\nSeattle Weather Puget Sound area finally in for a spell of mostly dry...\nPolitics State senator removed from Capitol after flouting virus...\nSeattle Weather Another atmospheric river is headed to Western Washington\nTravel Norwegian's Pride of America returns to Hawaii for island...\nTravel The most anticipated new cruise ships, itineraries for 2022\nFor example, check out this message from HomeGrocer.com dated Nov. 16, 1999:\n\"What if you didn't have to go to the grocery store? What if a truck drove up to your door, and a nice driver put the groceries on your kitchen counter? What if the groceries didn't cost more, and they were as good as or better than what you normally buy? Too good to be true? Well, we'll give you a 100 percent satisfaction money-back guarantee.\"\nBut The Wayback Machine doesn't always work. When I typed in MyLackey.com, the Seattle online errand service that went out of business last year, it returned 89 different Web pages from Jan. 25, 1998, to May 31, 2001. But none of them produced the familiar orange and blue Web site with Mr. Lackey wearing his top hat. A message appeared saying the Web site I requested was not in the archive, but it would be added to a list.\nStill, at 10 billion Web pages -- a database that Kahle says is bigger than those operated by Wal-Mart and American Express -- you can find some very interesting things.\nIn addition to the search function, The Wayback Machine has four special collections: Election 2000, United States Government, Web Pioneers and September 11th.\nStill in its early stages, Kahle says he hopes The Wayback Machine can be a useful research tool.\nKahle recalls a Wall Street Journal reporter who contacted him a few years ago to find out exactly when Microsoft changed strategies and decided to make the giant leap into the Internet business.\n\"He wanted the evidence,\" Kahle remembered. \"But I couldn't provide it because we didn't have a Wayback Machine.\"\nNow, he said, a reporter or researcher could jump on site, type in the Microsoft URL and search through early versions of the company's Web site for evidence.\nAnd that, Kahle said, is a valuable tool.\n\"Society needs objective views of the past,\" Kahle said. \"The Web ... is becoming an important part of our information ecology.\"\nThe Wayback Machine, which takes its name from an imaginary device in the 1960s cartoon \"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle,\" is backed by AT&T Research, Compaq Computer, Xerox PARC, the Library of Congress, the National Science Foundation and others.\nJOHN COOK","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"COVID-19 Cases Quadruple At Federal Migrant Detention Center In Arizona\nBy James E. Garcia Jun 18, 2020\nA worker at a Honeywell International Inc. factory works on N95 masks May 5, 2020, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)\nPHOENIX \u2013 The number of migrant detainees testing positive at a federal migrant detention center in Arizona has jumped more than 400 percent in the past five days, accounting for 50 percent of the growth in coronavirus cases among detained migrants nationwide.\nA spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told the Arizona Mirror that the increase is due to more testing. \"As a result of these increased efforts, more cases have been identified,\" said ICE spokesman Yasmeen Pitts O'keefe, who added that \"the Eloy Detention Center has also restricted intake for all new admissions to the facility to further protect those in custody.\"\nArizona is among several states in the Southwest that reported record increases this week in the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. On Tuesday, the state reported 2,392 new infections. It's been a month since Arizona's stay-at-home order expired.\nIn a recent press conference, Governor Doug Ducey told reporters \"this virus is something we need to learn to live with.\" But a growing chorus of state leaders, including Congressman Ruben Gallego, have called on Ducey to mandate that Arizonans wear masks to slow the spread of the disease.\nIn a lawsuit filed earlier this month, attorneys said detainees at the Eloy facility are \"trapped in what are essentially tinderboxes on the verge of explosion.\"\nMan Shot In Albuquerque As Protesters Try To Tear Down Statue Of Spanish Conquistador\nStephen Ray Baca, a 31-year-old former city council candidate was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after allegedly shooting a man who was with protesters trying to tear down the statue of a Spanish conquistador.\nCellphone video \"showed protesters hitting Baca with a skateboard, punching him and chasing him before he opened fire,\" according to the Associated Press.\nAlbuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said at a press conference that a separate video taken earlier in the day showed Baca \"agitating at the protest well before the shooting\" and throwing a woman to the ground. The woman was also pepper sprayed by Baca.\nThe statue was being guarded by a local militia group called \"The New Mexico Civil Guard.\" Police have not confirmed if Baca was a member of the group. Keller told reporters the New Mexico State Police are investigating the incident, adding that the statue would be removed and placed in storage for the time being.\nKRQE News 13 reported that multiple protesters had called police to the scene \"as tensions rose\" before the shooting, \"but police did not arrive until after the protester was shot.\"\nAccording to the AP, the man who was shot is named Scott Williams. He suffered several gunshot wounds to his torso. Authorities said he was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital.\nMy statement on the \"militia\" and violence in Albuquerque tonight: pic.twitter.com\/BZISvyau3k\n\u2014 Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) June 16, 2020\nIn a statement released by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Twitter, she condemned the violence, saying she was \"horrified and disgusted\" by the shooting. She criticized the militia group for showing up to \"menace the protesters \u2026 To menace people of New Mexico with weaponry.\"\nAmid COVID-19 Crisis, Trump Administration Targeting Immigrants On Multiple Fronts\nAs the nation continues to reel from the deadly effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Trump Administration has moved forward with several major policy initiatives aimed at curbing immigration to the United States.\nIn one of its latest moves, the administration has proposed making extensive changes to asylum law. Critics say \"the sweeping restrictions [such as penalizing asylum seekers for not paying taxes or being in the country undocumented for longer than a year] would make it easier for immigration judges to reject asylum requests out of hand.\"\nThe goal is to put rules in place that could be enforced long after the pandemic has ended.\nTens of thousands of migrants forced to remain in camps and shelters in Mexico at our southwest border have already been \"effectively blocked\" from seeking asylum, according to the New York Times, and an executive order has temporarily suspended the \"issuance of green cards to many outside the United States.\"\nIn April, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos barred undocumented immigrants, including recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), from receiving COVID-19 relief funds to help with emergency expenses, such as housing, food or health care. DACA recipients just received the news today that DACA will not be suspended after a decision from the Supreme Court rejected Trump's effort to end the program.\nIn the coming days, federal officials are expected to announce restrictions to student and work visas, as a follow up to limits to temporary work visas ordered in April. \"The White House has made it clear it's considering suspending H-1B visas for high-skilled workers; H-2B visas for seasonal workers and L-1 visas for employees transferring within a company to the U.S,\" according to the Associated Press.\nSupreme Court Declines To Hear White House Challenge To California 'Sanctuary Laws'\nThe U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to a lower court ruling that upheld California's right to \"limit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities,\" according to The Hill.\nThe Trump administration claimed the legislation interferes with federal immigration law enforcement. California's former Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Le\u00f3n, who proposed the law, cheered the justices' decision.\n\"We already have enough issues with law enforcement being weaponized against the communities that they were intended to protect,\" de Le\u00f3n told the Sacramento Bee. De Le\u00f3n was recently elected to the Los Angeles City Council.\nVanguardia America is a free weekly newsletter. To sign up, email Editor and Publisher James E. Garcia at [email protected]\nACLU Condemns Trump Administration's Restriction Of Asylum Process For Migrants At US-Mexico Border\nAs Latinos Are Among Hardest Hit By Pandemic, Leaders Expect Federal Census Undercount\nAmid Recession, Latinos Now Have The Highest Unemployment Rate In The Country","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"playa@easywayrentacar.com\n+1 877 640 3279 (USA & CA)\n+52 984 803 4171(Local)\nAv.10 Norte, \/ 2 & 4 Mza 7, Lote 7, Loc. 1, Centro,\nPlaya del Carmen, Q.R. Mexico, C.P. 77710\nSubscribe to receive discounts and offers\nSecure The Unexpected\nCheck our insurances\n{{ s.nombre }}\n{{ s.descripcion }}\nTGI (Tires and glass insurance)\nTGI eliminates all liability for damage to the glass, tires and rims of the rented vehicle. This coverage does not apply if the driver is under the influence of alcohol or drogs. Request this insurance at your arrival\nInsurances Guarantee\nCOMPACT $2000.00 USD $1000.00 USD $300.00 USD\nMIDSIZE $3000.00 USD $1400.00 USD $500.00 USD\nFULLSIZE $4000.00 USD $2000.00 USD $700.00 USD\nSUV $5000.00 USD $3000.00 USD $900.00 USD\nMINIVAN $8000.00 USD $4000.00 USD $1000.00 USD\nEXPRESS VAN $12000.00 USD $5000.00 USD $1500.00 USD\nDrop Off From Playa del Carmen To:\nCOMPACT $25.00 USD $60.00 USD $75.00 USD $100.00 USD $120.00 USD $150.00 USD $160.00 USD\nMIDSIZE $25.00 USD $60.00 USD $75.00 USD $100.00 USD $130.00 USD $160.00 USD $180.00 USD\nFULLSIZE $30.00 USD $60.00 USD $75.00 USD $100.00 USD $130.00 USD $160.00 USD $180.00 USD\nSUV $35.00 USD $70.00 USD $80.00 USD $120.00 USD $150.00 USD $170.00 USD $190.00 USD\nMINIVAN $40.00 USD $70.00 USD $80.00 USD $120.00 USD $160.00 USD $180.00 USD $200.00 USD\nEXPRESS VAN $50.00 USD $70.00 USD $80.00 USD $120.00 USD $170.00 USD $200.00 USD $220.00 USD\nThank you for joining the EasyWay family, you will receive updated information on offers, news and discounts to your email\nEasyWay Team\nEnter your email address to receive discount information, more special offers and news.\nWe are the best option to rent a car in Playa del Carmen. We make your trip through the Riviera Maya a unique experience. You can rent the car in Playa del Carmen and deliver it to our offices in Cancun, Merida and Tulum. We are at your disposal all the time to make you feel safe and supported throughout your journey.\n+52 984 803 4171 (Local)\n+1 877 640 3279 (Free USA & CA)\nEasy Way \u00a9 All Rights Reserved\nCheck our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Germany's Kroos relishing shot at redemption against Dutch, French\nAFP October 11, 2018 AFP No Comments\nBerlin (AFP) \u2013 Toni Kroos says Germany are relishing the chance for redemption following a woeful World Cup campaign as they prepare for crunch Nations League matches away to the Netherlands and France.\n\"Those games sound good to the ear and we hear the ringing of six points,\" quipped the Real Madrid midfielder.\n\"We're motivated, we want two wins.\"\nA goalless draw against France in Munich last month leaves Germany second in Group One of the Nations League, three points behind leaders France.\nHaving finished bottom of their group in Russia following a shock defeat to South Korea, victories over the Dutch in Amsterdam on Saturday and against the French next Tuesday in Paris would go a long way in helping coach Joachim Loew repair the damage to his hitherto unblemished reputation.\nKroos insists \"three games at the World Cup will not change what we've been building for years\", although claiming six points over the coming days should help ease the pressure on Loew, who has faced criticism in the German media.\nOn Thursday, former Germany star Michael Ballack said he was \"surprised\" the 58-year-old Loew had kept his job after the World Cup debacle.\n\"Maybe he wanted to take over\u2026,\" Kroos replied tongue-in-cheek to Ballack's comments as he jumped to Loew's defence ahead of the coach's 168th international in charge on Saturday.\n\"New stimuli can also come from a coach who has been involved for a long time,\" insisted Kroos, 28.\n\"He (Loew) asked himself after the World Cup whether he can still perform to his best.\n\"I think he deserves the chance and I think we will sort ourselves out with him.\"\nNevertheless, the away matches in Amsterdam and Paris present a huge challenge.\nAs assistant coach Marcus Sorg put it \"in the Nations League, you can't afford a defeat, then you don't have matters in your own hands any more.\n\"That is an incredibly high demand.\"\nManchester City winger Leroy Sane, a surprise omission from the World Cup squad, is set to start on the left flank with Loew's first-choice Marco Reus missing with a knee injury.\nInjuries elsewhere have forced Loew to make further changes. Kevin Trapp, Antonio Ruediger, Leon Goretzka, Kai Havertz and Reus have dropped out of the original 23-man squad and been replaced by Emre Can, Serge Gnabry and Bernd Leno.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How U.F.O.s 'Exploded' Into Public View\nIn the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. \"Casey\" Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport, when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit,\nBy Laura M. Holson\nand an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.\nThe controller told Captain Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Captain Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked \"like falling stars without tails,\" according to a newspaper report.\nThe sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, U.F.O.s have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist\nMY UFO EXPERIENCE: Eye Witness Recounts 1952 'Flying Saucer' Flap\n8 to 12 Saucers (UFOs) Appear Over Washington Again; U.S. Calls in Scientists\nAir Force Issues 'Shoot Down Orders' For Flying Saucers (UFOs)!\nMysterious Objects Over Washington Again Today!\nMY UFO EXPERIENCE | STORYTIME\nUFO Sighting in West Richland, Washington on\u2026\nUFO Sighting in Georgia on 1973-05-25 17:00:00 -\u2026\n'Oblate Spheroid Space Ships' From Older Planets,\u2026\nUFO Sighting in Bothell, Washington on 2019-05-07\u2026\nTagged with: exploded \u2022 public","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2023: Jega Disagrees With IBB Over Age Limit For President\nOlugbenga Ige\nFormer Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has disagreed with the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida on the age bracket of Nigeria's next president.\nRecall that in a televised interview, Babangida had said he already had in mind the ideal next president of Nigeria and that the candidate is in his 60s.\nThe former military dictator said the idea of a good Nigerian leader is someone who has a friend everywhere, must also be well-versed in economics, and be a good politician able to talk to Nigerians.\nBut in an interview on ARISE NEWS on Monday night, Jega said the next president should be the best choice of the people of Nigeria, adding that age should not matter.\nHe said: \"That is his (Babangida) personal opinion. But as far as I am concerned, the President of Nigeria should be the best choice of the people of Nigeria. Age may not matter.\n\"As a political scientist, I have read about Nigerian politics, I understand the challenges and I have also had the privilege for five years of relating relatively more loosely with Nigerian politicians, so, I have a clear appreciation of the serious challenges that Nigeria faces particularly, the dangerous trajectory, which many of our politicians are leading this country to and if we all sit and watch and allow this, in no time they would wreck this country.\"\nSpeaking on the electoral amendment bill before the National Assembly, Jega said that the bill should not be passed until certain critical elements are addressed.\nHe noted that if those elements are not attended to, it would create more problems than it intend to solve.\n\"The whole idea of the electoral amendment is to improve the legal framework. The 2010 Electoral Act as amended is certainly better than the 2006 Electoral Act, which preceded it. But there are still areas that need to be improved on. I have told you one area which since 2011 when I was there. After the election, we discovered how political parties were exploiting the legal framework to undermine the democratic process and INEC could do nothing about it, because the law really arm-strong its capacity to do it. Those are the things you expect that would improve.\n\"Before the 2019 election, at the last minute, something was done but it was never signed into law until after the election. And now we are expecting before 2023 that we can have a much remarkable; more improved Electoral legal framework. And I'm telling you from what we have seen from the draft bill under consideration by the Senate and yeah, House of Representatives, there are going to be serious remarkable constraints, rather than creating a better framework,\" he added.\nDownload NAIJA NEWS app:\nRelated Topics:2023 Presidency2023 Presidential Electionattahiru jegaIbrahim Babangida\nRotational Presidency Won't Solve Nigeria's Problem \u2013 Jega\nOsinbajo Reveals Why APC May Not Get Much Vote In 2023\n2023: Tinubu Does Not Have My Support \u2013 President Buhari's Aide\n2023: Trouble For Okorocha As APC Deny His Membership\nSecondary School Certificate Qualification Too Low To Become President Of Nigeria \u2013 Gbajabiamila\nGov Wike's Presidential Campaign Posters Emerge In Abuja\nIt'll Be Unfair Not To Zone 2023 Presidency To South East \u2013 Anyim\nCopyright \u00a9 2022 Naija News. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Developer Creates Holographic Window Using Microsoft's Kinect Sensor\nby Microsoft News\n@@msftnws\nMar 5, 2015 at 21:36 GMT 6 years ago\nValve's Portal game is known for it's gameplay where portals could be used to teleport between different locations. They are rendered as virtual windows into the connected location with the well-known orange and blue rings around them. A developer has now created a real life portal using Kinect sensors. Watch the video above.\nThe Kinect V2 is a sensor that can be used to record a 3D view of the world in real-time. It can also track users and can see what their body pose is. This can be used to perform head tracking and reconstruct a camera view into a 3D world as if looking through a virtual window. By using one Kinect for head tracking and another Kinect for reconstructing a 3D view, the virtual window effect of a portal can be created in reality. By using both Kinects for 3D world reconstruction and head tracking a two way portal effect can be achieved.\nRead more about it at Channel9.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Springdale Poverty\nSpringdale borough, Pennsylvania Welfare\nPoverty in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania\nWhat is the poverty rate in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania?\nThe poverty rate in Springdale is 9.5%. One out of every 10.5 residents of Springdale lives in poverty.\nHow many people in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania live in poverty?\n319 of 3,344 Springdale residents reported income levels below the poverty line in the last year.\nHow does the poverty rate in Springdale compare to the rest of Pennsylvania?\nThe Poverty Rate across the state of Pennsylvania is 13.1%, meaning Springdale has a significantly lower than average percentage of residents below the poverty line when compared to the rest of Pennsylvania.\nSpringdale borough, Pennsylvania Poverty Rate By Race\nWhat's the Poverty Rate in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania By Race?\n9.0% of White residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania live below the poverty line.\nThe Poverty Rate of white residents in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania is dramatically lower than the national average of 10.3%. 289 of 3,229 white Pennsylvanians live below the poverty line. Approximately 95.7% of the total population of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania are white.\nSpringdale borough, Pennsylvania Poverty Rate By Sex\nWhat is the poverty rate for men vs women living in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania?\nThe Poverty Rate for men who live in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania is 4.4%.\nThe Poverty Rate for women who live in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania is 13.8%.\nPoverty Rate Disparity for Male vs Female Residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania\nFemale residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania are dramatically(213%) more likely to live in poverty than males.\n66 of 1,517 males in Springdale live below the poverty line.\n253 of 1,827 females in Springdale live below the poverty line.\nSpringdale borough, Pennsylvania Poverty Rate By School Enrollment\nUnderstanding where poverty hits hardest in Springdale can be better understood by segmenting poverty by whether or not the resident is in school or not.\nEnrolled in School in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 12.1%.\nNot Enrolled in School in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 8.8%.\nPoverty for younger ages in Springdale is seen as the most undesirable for the future of the community.\nEnrolled in Nursery School in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 17.4%.\nEnrolled in Elementary School(Grades 1-4) in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 0.0%.\nPoverty for developing children and young adults in Springdale can have drastic impacts on graduation and college attendance rates.\nEnrolled in Middle School(Grade 5-8) in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 5.6%.\nEnrolled in High School (Grades 9-12) in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 26.0%.\nEnrolled in Undergraduate School in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 4.5%.\nEnrolled in Graduate or Professional School in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania have a Poverty Rate of 8.6%.\nSpringdale borough, Pennsylvania Poverty Rate By Age\nWhat's the Poverty Rate By Age in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania?\nBreakdown of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania Poverty Rate By Age\nSpringdale borough, Pennsylvania Poverty Rate By Place of Birth\nWhat is the poverty rate for residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania born US Citizens vs Foreign-Born?\nThe Poverty Rate for residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania who were born citizens of the United States is 9.7%.\nThe Poverty Rate for residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania who were born citizens of a country other than the US is 0.0%.\nPoverty Rate for residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania born US Citizens vs Foreign-Born\nResidents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania who were born as US Citizens have a higher poverty rate than those who were born citizens of a country outside of the United States.\nOf the 3,299 residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania who were born citizens of the United States, 319 (9.7%) had income levels below the poverty line within the past year.\nConversely, 0 (0.0%) of 45 residents of Springdale borough, Pennsylvania who were born citizens of a country other than the US reported income levels below the poverty line within the past year.\nPoverty Rate in Springdale borough, Pennsylvania\nThe poverty rate in Springdale is 9.5%.\nSpringdale is in Allegheny County.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Technology Trend\nIdeas Digital Forum 2018: Gallery Making & Re Making & Rozemin Keshvani\nWelcome, back to the ideas, digital, forum my, name is Lila Timmons and I'm the curator and manager of exhibitions. And collections here, at the Robert McLaughlin gallery. To. Begin I. Would. Just like to acknowledge that the Robert McLaughlin gallery, is situated, on the ancestral, in treaty lands of the Mississauga's, a school GOG Island first nation in the, traditional territory of the Mississauga nation. For. Me a territorial, acknowledgement, is an important reminder that, we are all treaty partners, and a, call to continue, to recognize our Co commitment, to, each other into this land that we're so lucky to work on as. A curator. I would also highly. Recommend, if you have not, seen. Our exhibitions, yesterday, to, please check out the two wonderful, shows that we have on as well as the show that you're situated in but. Public notice is curated, by Sonya Jones and a novel Wynne curated, by Danielle, print up shares. Some really beautiful and, important. Propositions, about treaty, and how to uphold these bonds so to encourage you to check it out I. Was thinking a lot this morning about yesterday's, proceedings and, I, just wanted to share how grateful I, am, for the tenacity and generosity of our artists presenters yesterday, I strongly. Believe that artists, are the reason why we're, all here and it's clear, that artists. Have been leading these conversations. On digital technologies, for a long time, and. It's important for institutions, to listen carefully when artists are sharing so generously, and to, be curious and open to what they're saying as. Thinking, about the simplicity of Steve Daniels message that, art, that is working is going to break, and. It's prescient and telling and what, I hear in that statement is that art this. Art and in this digital moment, it, demands. Collaboration. Not only to fix what is broken but, it also applies, more broadly to thinking about the larger solutions, and how, our institutions, can be adaptive to this change it. Also highlights. Importantly, the relationship, between artists. Institution. And our audiences, and. Requires us to think about these relationships, in new ways and it excitingly, it requires us to strengthen our networks between each other and to, shift where this authority lies it's. Challenging, work but it's vital work and it's really exciting for, us all to be discussing, it together. I. Would like to thank all the artists presenters from yesterday, and also to the ones that are speaking today, I, would also like to thank the important generosity, of our supporters EQ, Bank and surface impressive impressions. Sorry about that as well, as to recognize the Canada Council for the Arts and the digital strategy fund through. Which this event was made possible, I'm. I would now like to invite, senior, G. Executive. Director of a wag who will introduce our first session yes. A good morning everyone and Leila. Thank you and you, know late ISO right for. Us in our work in our business, the artist is the bottom line without, artists. There would be no art and there would be no reason for us to be here today to. Talk about that. Really, you know how do we show their work how do we engage with, them and the. Practices, in the, context, that we are in. Which. Actually. Is. At. This. Moment in time. Very, challenging, on many levels. Recently. I had, a, or, in this article or Canada's, municipal, art galleries, in crises in, Canadian. Art if you have not had time to look at it I'd welcome. You too and ask you to look at it one. Of the reasons is is that I. I. Think I've, learned so much over, my. Decades, of working, with municipalities I've. Worked with four different mayor's starting. With Gordon Campbell when, he was the mayor in Vancouver, and he founded the Vancouver Arts Initiative which really. Led to Vancouver's, first culture, plan this, is like I think, early, 90s, and went. On to work with others and with the most recent, being Hazel, McCallion who. Was mayor, for I, don't know hundred years at the City of Mississauga. Well. Fifty years, she's. 100 herself now, and. She started her career when she was 50 years old a very powerful, small. C mayor. Very. Anti. Cultural. What. Kind of mayor who was you know whose, task. Force that she pulled together demanded.\nThat She actually needed. To think about culture, given that it was Canada's. Six largest city anyway. There was an many, stories there but I won't get into those challenging. Environment, but. The reason that I bring this up is because today's. Presentations. Will at least have. Two. Presentations. To case studies coming, from municipalities. Now. Being. The IDI, of the O AG and working. With the membership, and the regional galleries, we, see increasingly. How difficult. A context. Ontario's. Municipal and. Regional galleries, are working in we, have now a very difficult provincial, government government that's come in that, can challenge us in all sorts of ways and and. Also, how municipalities. Are. Dealing, with you. Know there's more and more need. For galleries. To move away from their initial. Mandates. Their. Real mandates, and and act as sort of adjuncts, to, community. Community. Rec. And Parks you. Know offer dance, offer, yoga. For. Zumba you. Know. You. Take care of its citizens in particular kinds, of ways etc, so, and. I think today we're going to hear you know some very and on top of that now, we've. Got sort of this digital, arena coming, in but. I think what we'll also find out is that some of the smaller galleries, have, the ability to make things happen and, because. They're more nimble they're, not necessarily, in the case of the new media, gallery they, don't have a board for example you know etc. So. I. Think. It's going to be a very exciting. Session. Ahead, so. I'm now going to introduce. Rosemon. Kewanee who, is our first, presenter. And. We're. Delighted to have her lo Rosa has come in from the, London UK she's. An independent curator, and art critic, whose, practice, focuses, on excavating. And recreating, undiscovered. Contemporary, histories. She is guest lectured, in many places included, including. The said km center for arts and media the, Chelsea School of Art and the Henry Moore Institute, and has. Also curated, several research exhibitions. In, contemporary, spaces, I recently. Worked, with Roseman on the alga Khan's Diamond Jubilee international, art gallery where she, was invited, to, come in as a faculty member. And and, work with the community, there and. Very. Exciting, she, just finished hot, off the press. This. Amazing. This. Amazing, book and.\nIt's. Just come out it's it's art. Anarchy, a pasty. Counterculture. And the new avant-garde. Published. By coning books in London and she worked with Peter weeble and, Alex. Hal so. Congratulations, to you and. We. Look forward to hearing, what you have to say about the Whitechapel she's, welcome Roseman. Thanks. Everyone while, I'm really impressed that everyone is here this morning. First. Of all let, me thank the, Ontario. Association of art galleries and also. The, Robert McLaughlin gallery, who has done such a wonderful job, in organizing, this really. Exciting. And I, think very topical, and needed, conference, thank, you so much to the nob and. Jessica. And Lynn and Linda. I'm not sure where Linda's but Jessica, who's, behind here. Hyland. Jessica. Who's in the back who we don't see all the time but who's making this all possible on. The, electronic. And digital side, so. The topic of my conversation today. Is. Electronic. Superhighway. This was an exhibition that. Took place, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in. 2016. January, until I think it closed in about April, and. It's. A very, interesting, exhibition, because it actually began. From. That moment, when you walked into the gallery you were seeing work that was. Literally. Just completed. So from that moment of, January. 2016. And, the, exhibition actually. Involved. A reverse chronology so. You were walking backwards. In time. Let's. See if I can make this work there we are there's, a picture of the Whitechapel the Whitechapel is, a really. Amazing space, with a fantastic, history. It. Is. One. Of these areas in London which has become gentrified, and as everyone who works. In the art community knows, this is one of the one. Of the wonderful, things that, we can sell art, galleries, to. To. To, the business community. But. On the other hand is always a really difficult issue for artists, and the people who are living in those neighborhoods so this was traditionally, a very impoverished, neighborhood.\nIt Was a Jewish community, and, and. Then, more, recently a. Bangladeshi, community where, you can get some of the most amazing, Indian food and. Vegan. Friendly, neighborhood. For sure so, that is where, the exhibition. Happened. And as I said it charts a course backward, in time, examining. How artists, have pioneered little. Digital forms of art taking. As its backdrop the. Prevailing, context. Of the internet post. Internet, art of our networked, culture. I'm. Just gonna see if I can, uh-huh. Okay, and it's. Hard because I'm trying to do two things at the same time. So. The, conceptual starting, point according to the co-curator, America, live is a. 1974. Paper authored, by the korean-american. Artist, Nam June Paik it. Was called media planning for the post-industrial, society. The 21st century, is now, only. 26. Years away. Imagining. Television. As the technology, that would foster globalization. Pyke, used the term electronic. Superhighway. To, describe the emergence, of a high-speed, direct. Connectivity. Which, he presently, described. As a broadband. Communication. Network, or, electronic. Superhighway. Which. Would include not only television, and video but, audio cassettes, telex, data pooling. Continent. Oil satellites. Micro, fishes private, microwaves, and eventually. Fiber optics, on laser, frequencies. I think. It's really interesting to, note, that paper, and to note the starting, point well, in this case for the exhibition the end point but this, starting, point of. 1966-1967, this, paper was in a 1974. Paper but, just to have an understanding of how far. Back it, is, that. These ideas were actually in play and being explored. By. Artists. The. Pioneering, media, theorist, Marshall, McLuhan famously, wrote when. Faced with a totally, new situation. We. Tend always, to attach ourselves to, the objects. And to, the flavour of the recent pass we. Look at the present through, a rear view mirror, we, march. Backwards. Into, the future. Electronic. Superhighway, emulates, this prescription, taking. As its starting point it's then present moment in January, 2016. And looking backward, in time to. Reveal a picture, that is far more complex, interconnected. And. Potentially. Dangerous. Than. Is apparent in, our world where nearly all human relations. Activities. And decision making is increasingly. Regulated, functionalized. And distributed. In the form of vast interconnected, flows, of data governed. By algorithmic. Procedures. Featuring. Over a hundred, and fifty artworks. From 73. Artists, the, exhibition. Presented an ambitious, and dizzying. Survey, of work that, was nevertheless carefully. Choreographed to, imitate, the, seeming, anarchy, of the internet and seeking. To tell the story of a post internet art world it aimed, to trace a narrative conduct, connecting, today's generation. Of post Millennials, with, artists, of the previous generations. And that, is something that is really, important, and that, we often forget and is very earnest a challenge. For. Contemporary. Curators, is to find ways, first. Of all difficult. As it is for us to get our minds, around the, new work that is is being made by artists, and is being pioneered, and the. Collaborative, work and interdisciplinary. Work but, then to be able to trace that back to, things that were happening in fluxes, things that were happening in conceptual, art and yet, it's really. Really, important. That, we find, a way to. Embrace. That narrative, and Men and make those narratives clear. For audiences. And I, think also for the artists, who are working in, these, areas because. Often. It's. Not obvious, that. Your. Language, or your discourse, actually, has a history, especially when it seems to, be materially. So, distinct. And and. Well-defined and that's often, one of the issues, that any avant-garde. Actually. Faces. So. That's just another image that, gives you a sense of, you. Know how how, the exhibition. Was curated. Now. Someone raised this yesterday. So the, exhibition, takes us on a journey that's, completed, fifty years prior in 1966. With, the nascent collaborations. Between Robert. Rauschenberg, and the visionary. Engineer. Of Bell. Laboratories Billy, kluever, that, resulted. In experiments. In art and, technology. EA T an, organization. That would over the course of its ten years involve. Hundreds, of artists, and produce several landmark. Exhibitions. To suggest. That today's interdisciplinary. Approach in artistic practices. Can, be traced back to these early collaborations. Experiments. In art and technology, the first of which collaborations. Resulted. In the groundbreaking, nine evenings, theatre and engineering, was, held from the 13th of October, till, the 23rd of October. 1966. At the 25th, Street armory New York, participants. Included a who's who of the American, avant-garde most.\nNotably Composers. And performers who, had already come. Collaborated. At Black Mountain College John. Cage listened to childs Merce Cunningham, Alex. Hey Debra, hey Steve. Parkton. Paxton, sorry Robert, Rauschenberg, David shooter Robert, Wittman and the, Brazilian, Swedish, artists, Avant falls from. The. Diverse, use of electronics. As an artistic, medium for large performances. Was, explored, here in all its patent, so while. The second milestone, was Robert Breyers floats and Fujiko. Nakaya's. Excuse. Me for the poor pronunciation. Fog, installation. Of a manufactured. Clouds. At the 1970. Expo. Pavilion in Osaka. That was sponsored by Pepsi. When. Explaining, the rationale, for involving. Artists, in the development, of technologies. Billy, kluever, declared, as follows, we. All know and remember this is night in 1966. We. All know, technology. Has become a part of our lives, and now. We can see absolutely no reason why it should not become more so no. Sound has been heard from another culture to oppose Western, technology, the. Faster, the underdeveloped countries. Have it the, faster they want it on, the. Other end of the spectrum we now have systems, where we don't quite, know where the Machine ends, and the human being, begins I am. Thinking of the space system, which, has introduced, the new and maybe inhuman, objective, the, system, has to work no failures, are allowed no, personal, emotions, or mistakes may interfere with the success of the project. Laborious. Ly we, are translating, every, aspect, of human language into computer, language the. Engineers, are not visionaries. John. Cage has recently written a wonderful how, to improve, the world as a, blind engineer. One, of his observations, gave me a real, jolt. Cage. Points, out that, there exists. A system, of interaction. Between, human, beings that. Exists, without any police or power. Structure. Whatsoever. In fact. There. Are hundreds of agreements, between countries, that work, perfectly. Well, it, seems. Technology. Bleak breeds agreement. So. Of course what he's talking about here, is cybernetics. And the. Artists, who got so excited by, the cybernetic, movement, that had originally been written. About in the 40s and. It's. About this idea of systems, theory and being. Able to reach agreement tacitly. Without. Needing, any kind of outside, organizational. Structures, so. They're, they're. Incredibly. Excited, and they're, almost, I would say a kind of euphoric, optimism. About the possibilities. Of this which, maybe we're now pulling, back on a little, bit and reconsidering. And. So. That that statement. I think is something to, keep in mind. So. He says this to sum up first the artists have to create with technology, because technology is, becoming, inseparable from our lives today. Technology. Is the extension, of our. Nervous. System. McLuhan. Said. Second. Artists, should use technology because, because, technology. Needs, artists. The. Artists, work is much like that of a scientist, it is an investigation. And this. Is this is this, is quite telling it is an investigation, which may or may not yield, meaningful. Results. In, many cases, we will know only years, later what. I am suggesting is, that the use of the engineer, by. The artist, will, stimulate new, ways of looking at technology. And of, dealing with life in the future. You. Might find it interesting to hear, kluever. Say, technology.\nNeeds To be revealed, and undressed. Much. Like, we undress, a woman. There's. A lot that could be unpacked in these few statements for. The moment it's instructed, to footnote, both, the motivations, and collaborations. Which, have led to burgeoning. Interdisciplinary. Practices, using technology. And the, almost euphoric and. Unhesitating. Embrace of the, possibilities. Presented by technology. Urged. On, by an underlying, confidence. In the, apparent. Neutrality. Of the systems. Generated, through technology. Assumptions. Which are being exposed and challenged by contemporary, artists, whose practice is critically. Engaged, with, these technologies. And which, are manifest, and explored, throughout, this exhibition. So. Electronic, superhighway, takes its name from Nam, June Paik smaii mental sculptural, installation of. 1995. I'm. Sure everyone's, quite familiar, with this work it's part on which to the interlocking system, of Road transportation. That connected, all. Of the United States. That came, to be known as the interstate highway system it. Was begun by President Dwight. Eisenhower in. 1932. And, wasn't. Finally proclaimed, complete, until, 1992. The. Smithsonian, Institute who now owns this work and in fact owns much of the legacy of Nam June Paik, writes. That. When none June Paik came to the United States in 1964. The interstate, highway system was only nine years old and super. Highways offered everyone the freedom to see the USA, in your Chevrolet. Employing. Three three hundred and thirty six television, sets. 50. DVD, players 50, DVD, players. 37,000. Hundred fifty feet of cable and, 575. Feet. Of multicolored. Neon, tubing, this. Mammoth, work presents, an iconographic. Imagery. On 51, channels, positing, the construction, of a shared identity through. Television and there's, a fantastic. Clip, you can watch on the internet that, tells. You what, was involved, in the, conservation. And. Care. Of this, work and just, gives you an idea of what, it must what it must be to organize. 336. Televisions, and keep, them under way and deal with all the buses in the line etc. This. This. Is the work that was actually in the show not. Surprisingly. The. Electronic. Superhighway. That the name you know the name of the exhibition actually wasn't shown at the at. The, exhibition. Instead, this work was shown Internet, dream and I think that's, for, obvious reasons it was just too large of a work to transport. And to.\nActually. Show in the Whitechapel. However. The works established. Televisions, capacity. To alter geographies. And penetrate. Previously, static, and instrument, surmountable. Boundaries. And. This. Is what changes. This. Is the first thing that television, and these, kinds, of transmissions. And interconnections. Change they. Change your conception, of space. Suddenly. Everything, becomes interconnected. Distances. Are altered, distances. Cease to exist it, alters, our notion of geography, and, distance, is eliminated, and space. Becomes. Flattened. Unlike. Richard, Serra's darker. Narrative, on the power of television articulated. Nearly 20 years earlier in, television. Delivers people Pike, provides. An optimistic. Perhaps, as I've, said euphoric. View of televisions, power to unite and connect. Electronic. Superhighway, asserts a transformation. On our notion of space as distances. That once seemed dauntingly. Vast instantly. Disappear. The. Exhibition, itself unabashedly. Navigates. The cocoon, the. Cacophony of radical, anarchy that the web presents, us showing us the range of new media works which traverse, geographies. Of time distance. And, materialized. Work that was made for a computer, and making. Transparent. The relationship. Between the, analog, and the digital. Many. Of the works permit, viewers, a hand on playful. Interactive. Enticing. Engagement, with the work so. Petra court rights system, landscapes, and pixel paintings, reverses. The traditional, indexical. Relationship. Between reality. And image. Jacobi's. South awaits, 3d. Animations. Which, emerge from drawings made by his mother while suffering from mental illness. And. The. Paintings, of Celia Hampton, whose fragmentary. Flash works and you're only so long as she can hold a conversation in, a, chat room. All. Together. With. Thomas. And Craig heads. Strange, I don't know if you know this work it's really quite, amazing Thomas, and Craig had strange, karaoke, love songs none of which could exist without, the Internet and challenge our acceptance, of the status stasis, of art and the, authorial voice of the museum, which is what, we are of course all familiar with they. Also engaged, the viewer to consider, the relationship, between the virtual and the physical and, the relationship. Between old, and new media, and I'll tell you this was a very, interactive, exhibition. The downstairs, was. Full, of young people, it was, absolutely. Jam-packed all the time and it. Felt like walking into the the. Apple store not, not walking into a museum. So. Are, people familiar with the good. Morning mr. Orwell. So. Some of us are some. Of us might remember seeing it so. Yeah. Do you wanna. So. This, is the first time this is January. 1st 1984. Nam June Paik, creation. And it's, the first time that we had this kind of live. Satellite. Transmission, that connected, up so many different. People and locations. And was, available and was seen apparently, by 25 million people and. It's. Just to. Think that this was 1984. It's just absolutely, stunning, and of course, Pyke and all the artists, who worked on this and there were some, of the artists from the most, remote regions of, the avant-garde I know Allen Ginsberg, even has a piece on there. We're. Trying. To. Rebut. The. Proposition, in George, Orwell's book and, were, specifically. Telling. Encouraging. Us to look beyond 1984. And not to be afraid of, Big, Brother. I'm. Told that I have about, five minutes left, so. I'm going to. Quickly. Flash, through some of these. Gonna. So. I'm just gonna stop at John Latham's full stop which. John, Latham is a British, artist he. Died in 2010. And this is his work full stop 1961. Which, is a, single. Shot of, a spray gun on, a. Blank, canvas, and. At. Some point in the 1960s. We entered a new moment in heart history, the, artist John Latham, who used a spray gun to spray a black dot on a white canvas which, he called his one-second, paintings. Declared. That with Rauschenberg's. White canvases. The. Artist deconstruction. Of space, was, complete. Time. Would now become, the new medium. For the artist.\nNo. Longer confined to linear notions, traditional, understanding. Of history becomes, completely. Upended. Time. Simultaneous. History. Tele-audiology. The notion of progress our hag alien, understanding. Of history that has driven so much of what, art historians, have done gone. Finished say goodbye to it. I'm. Gonna skip a lot of these works which are the newer, pieces, surveillance. Is another big issue Gary. T marks which is a very. Important, surveillance, theorist, talks about what the maximum security society. Is he has six. Statements. About it it's a dossier, society, in which computerized. Records play, a major role an. Actuarial. Society, in which decisions, are, increasingly. Made on the basis of predictions, about future behavior, as, a result of membership, in and comparisons. To aggregate, categories. Ie. Big data a. Suspicious. Society, in which everyone, is suspected, and you. Know that the most amazing, thing about walking, through that barrier, when you're travelling. Now which, we all do quite a lot as soon as you go through that machine. You. You, never know if you're gonna get stopped it doesn't really matter what color you are what religion, you are what. You look like you. Inside. Of yourself, you're. Afraid am I gonna get stopped is someone gonna pull me aside and. And. It's, totally random so everyone. Is a suspect an engineered. Society, in which choices, are increasingly, limited and determined, by the physical and social environment a. Transparent. Society, in which the boundaries of time distance, darkness, and physical barriers that traditionally, protected. Information are, weakened, and a, self monitored society, in which auto surveillance, plays, a prominent role and we have been talking about all. The forms of auto surveillance, that we engage in these. Are some of the issues of course that come. Out of that. This. Is a artist. Artist group Zak black the blast who you probably know, of who uses a lot of, strategies. To, to. Infect, and intervene. In, marketplaces. And and. Transactions. Of capitalism. And get us to think about it so. I'll just close, by noting. Some of the issues, that we have we. Have curatorial, issues, we have practice knowledge issues, we've been talking about them over the last few days we. Have issues of conservation. And we, have ethical issues that we have to face - as some, as. Curators. And as workers. As. Part of the museum. Art. Industry. I'm. Just going to close by reading, something that, people, Peter vile wrote he. Has a very, important, exhibition, going on right now called, open. Coats and. The. Main. Theorem. Of open, coats is the, world is a field of data and. He. Asks, us to look at all the different ways in which that is the entire, world, is a field, of data today and he, says for, for. Museums, and, for. Art spaces and projects bases this really, creates a new, problem as. A. Thinking, space as co-working. Space as assembly. As a, new form of congregation. To, exchange and, acquire knowledge and a, new form of collaborating.\nCitizens. Educate, other citizens, an, unusual. Interactive. Mode, of engaging with art, introduces. Them to this new strategy of assembly, in, part. The. Exhibition, visitors themselves, Devine. A new, format, of exhibition, as a, preview. Of the future, self-confident. And self-aware. Life. That, is not non. Hegemonic. And. He. Uses that word I think, their. Engine used it yesterday. Which. Is oh. I. Have to use this hang on. This. Is what his, vision for the new, museum of the future is the, museum becomes the location, for civic education where, acquisition, of knowledge is not only worthwhile but also rewarded, for. The actual message of digital. Check digital, technology, digital change is. That, the society of tomorrow, will change, we'll, have to change into, the knowledge society and, we. Shall need culturally. Competent, citizens. In order, to defend democracy in, the future, because. Democracy, needs, thinkers. Thanks.\nInsight into edge to core data management and analytics | THR2375 2020-01-18 05:22\nIntegrating cloud technologies | MSI20 2020-01-15 21:25\nHow To Promote Digital Citizenship with K-12 Technology Integration 2019-12-23 08:43","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Call for Papers: African Journal of Disability (AJOD)\nThis is an open invitation to contribute your latest research towards this open access scholarly journal.\nThe African Journal of Disability, the official journal of CRS, AfriNEAD and CEDRES, introduce and discuss issues and experiences relating to and supporting the act of better understanding the interfaces between disability, poverty and practices of exclusion and marginalisation. Its articles yield new insight into established human development practices, evaluate new educational techniques and disability research, examine current cultural and social discrimination, and bring serious critical analysis to bear on problems shared across the African continent. Emphasis is on all aspects of disability particularity in the developing African context. This includes, amongst others:\ndisability studies as an emerging field of public health enquiry\nrehabilitation, including vocational and community-based rehabilitation\ncommunity development and medical issues related to disability and poverty\ndisability-related stigma and discrimination\nlegal, policy, human rights and advocacy issues related to disability\nthe role of arts and media in relation to disability\ndisability as part of global Sustainable Development Goals transformation agendas\ndisability and postcolonial issues\nglobalisation and cultural change in relation to disability\nenvironmental and climate-related issues linked to disability\ndisability, diversity and intersections of identity\ndisability and the promotion of human development.\nThe journal has a double-blinded peer review process. Manuscripts are initially examined by editorial staff and are sent by the Editor-in-Chief to two expert independent reviewers, either directly or by a Section Editor. Read our full peer review process.\nTo contribute your latest research findings towards this publication, please visit ajod.co.za\nPlease refer to the submissions procedure when submitting your original manuscripts. The author guidelines include information about the types of articles received for publication and preparing a manuscript for submission.\nOther relevant information about the journal's policies and the reviewing process can be found under the about section.\neCPD Healthcare eLearning Moodle LMS Scholarly Book Publishing Scholarly Journal Publishing\nOur new website, logo and vision are live!\n\u2190 Back to AOSIS News Centre We're excited to announce the launch of our new website and logo,...\nAs we reflect on 2020, we would like to acknowledge those who have helped us shape our...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Case studies > The Horse and Jockey\nThe Horse and Jockey\nTraditional English Village Public House\nWaddington, Lincolnshire\nWhat the seller wanted\nMr Tott had successfully ran the business with his partner for several years and was looking to retire and move aboard. He wanted to achieve a premium price for his successful business.\nWhat did Intelligent do?\nWe were approached by Mr Tott through recommendation and asked to carry out a valuation on their beautiful traditional village pub. With the business being so successful and being set in such a idyllic location we were very confident we would find a buyer promptly.\nUpon bringing the business onto market we extensively advertised the business through various websites and carried out an email marketing campaign targeting people that were interested in buying a pub, catering business or hotel style business. We received an excellent level of interest for this business, arranging several viewings for potential buyers and received an offer for the full asking price.\nUpon receiving the full sales particulars of the business, Mr Densham (buyer) was very keen to arrange a viewing and proved he had the funding in place. Following the viewing, Mr Densham carried out a detailed assessment of the trading account and made an offer for the full asking price.\nBoth Buyer and Seller were very pleased with the service and support provided by Intelligent Business Transfer.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Innovative carbon fiber wheelchair design garners $1 million from Toyota Mobility in prize money\nZac Palmer\nToyota Mobility announced a prize money winner in its international mobility competition that challenged people around the world to come up with solutions to improve the lives of folks with lower limb paralysis. Finalists from Japan, Italy, the U.K. and the U.S. were considered, but Phoenix Instinct from the U.K. ended up walking away with the $1 million prize money.\nThe winning product? An ultra-light carbon fiber wheelchair with some innovative features. It's called the Phoenix Instinct, and it aims to advance the generally stagnant wheelchair technology industry to make it easier and safer to use. The wheelchair uses a leveling system to automatically adjust its center of gravity and make it more stable\/easier to maneuver. A power assist feature is implemented on the front wheels in an effort to reduce vibrations through the body. Finally, it uses an intelligent power braking system that can automatically detect when you're going downhill, then adjust the wheelchair's speed and manage its descent.\nPhoenix's carbon fiber design got our attention, too. There's no exact weight quoted for the wheelchair, but its material choice surely helps minimize weight to make it competitive against what's on the market today. With this new funding from Toyota, Phoenix says it has the money to bring the wheelchair to the consumer market.\nIn case you were curious about the other finalists, Toyota provided renderings and short descriptions for all of them. You can see the photos and read short descriptions of the last four finalists listed below:\nThe Evowalk: A wearable device that goes below the knee to support your muscles at the right time by aiding in rehabilitating walking and preventing falls for people with foot drop.\nQolo: A standing or sitting device that integrates wheelchair and exoskeleton technologies into one.\nQuix: A powered exoskeleton that enables fast, stable and upright mobility.\nWheel-i: An electric rideshare mobility vehicle for wheelchair users that is both electric and semi-autonomous.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Constitutional Law (LAWS50028) \/\/ Further information\nPrescribed texts\nCommonwealth Constitution, available at www.comlaw.gov.au;\nConstitution Act 1975 (Vic), available at www.dpc.vic.gov.au;\nWinterton's Australian Federal Constitutional Law (4th Edition 2017);\nSpecialist materials will also be made available from Melbourne Law School.\nRelated Handbook entries\nThis subject contributes to the following:\nCourse Juris Doctor\nAvailable through the Community Access Program\nAbout the Community Access Program (CAP)\nThis subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.\nEntry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.\nAdditional information for this subject\nIf required, please contact law-admissions@unimelb.edu.au for subject coordinator approval.\nAvailable to Study Abroad and\/or Study Exchange Students\nThis subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.\nPrev: Dates and timesTimetable(opens in new window)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"China says crew information submitted by Cathay Pacific meets requirements\nPublished August 15, 2019, 5:57 PM\nby Martin Sadongdong & Antonio Colina\nBEIJING \u2013 China's aviation regulator said on Thursday that identification information submitted so far by Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd (0293.HK) for its crew meets requirements.\nA Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300ER plane lands at Hong Kong airport after it reopened following clashes between police and protesters, in Hong Kong, China August 14, 2019.\n(REUTERS \/ Thomas Peter \/ File Photo \/ MANILA BULLETIN)\nThe airline became embroiled in crosswinds between Beijing and pro-democracy groups in the Asian financial hub after some of its employees took part in the Hong Kong protests.\nOn Friday, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) ordered Cathay to provide identification information for its crew on mainland-bound flights and those using Chinese airspace, which include many flights to Europe and North America.\n\"Cathay Pacific submitted the identification information for its crew members on flights to and over mainland on time. After review, the identification information for its crew meets the requirements laid out in the safety warning,\" Gu Xiaohong, an official with the CAAC told a monthly briefing.\nCrew members that have not gained the authority's approval will not be allowed into its airspace, including on flights bound for other destinations.\nCathay said in a statement that it had submitted a report to CAAC on extra steps it was taking as was required. \"We strictly abide by the rules and regulations of all regulators that have jurisdiction over us,\" the airline said.\nCathay shares were trading up 4.7% at 0300 GMT, the second day of gains following earlier falls to 10-year lows.\nOn Wednesday, Cathay terminated the employment of two pilots over their involvement in protests in Hong Kong, after being ordered by the CAAC to suspend personnel who had engaged in illegal protests.\nCathay and its top shareholder and manager, Swire Pacific Ltd (0019.HK), placed advertisements on Wednesday in the Hong Kong Economic Journal in support of the Hong Kong government and its efforts to restore law and order.\nKakai Bautista has scathing message to youthful netizens\nHaving COVID-19 is 'like walking underwater'\nPark Shin-hye-Choi Tae-joon wedding photos revealed; EXO's D.O., Hongki sing at ceremony","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Non Prime\nPower Originator\nTop Originator Advice\nWholesale Update\nWhy Choice Matters\nResources Hub\nMPA TV\nMPA Talk\nTop Mortgage Workplaces\nSherry Cooper, Dominion Lending Centres (Canada)\nHome Rankings\nSherry Cooper is the chief economist of Dominion Lending Centres, tasked with helping Canadians understand the complexities of buying a home. She is also currently a principal at Sherry Cooper Associates and was a TMX industry professor at DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. She began her financial services career at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. in 1977, before joining Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as director of financial economics. Cooper was also previously chief economist and executive vice president of BMO Financial Group, where she was responsible for global economic and financial forecasting as well as country-risk and industry-risk analysis. She joined BMO Financial Group in 1994 when it acquired Burns Fry, where she had been chief economist, co-head of fixed income, and the first female director of a Bay Street investment firm. Cooper is also a writer, media commentator, and sought-after speaker. Her third book, The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future, was blockbuster bestseller. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.\nFrom Key Media, the world's #1 global mortgage business publisher.\nAustralian Broker\nMortgage Professional Australia\nWhich Mortgage\nYour Investment Property\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Key Media Pty Ltd","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This is the reason why drivers should avoid Eastern Road this weekend\nMillie Salkeld\nONGOING maintenance work is the reason drivers are being asked to avoid the Eastern Road this weekend while northbound lanes are closed.\nThe road will be closed northbound between Anchorage Road and the A27 from 7.30pm tonight until 3pm Sunday.\nEastern Road in Portsmouth with the Harvester pub and foreshore in the background. Picture: Google\nDiversions will be in place via Norway Road and London Road but motorists are being asked to plan journeys in advance, allow extra time and avoid the area if possible by using alternate routes such as the M275 to get out of the city.\nCyclists and pedestrians will be unaffected as the pavement and cycleway are open as usual.\nThe road closure is to enable ongoing essential maintenance work on the bridge that carries the Eastern Road over the creek.\nNormally as much maintenance work as possible is done at night but unfortunately, due to the time it takes for the work to be done and road surface restored, the road has to be closed during daytime.\nThe work has been scheduled to minimise disruption as much as possible by avoiding the school holidays and the closure will not begin until the roads have cleared from football traffic leaving Fratton Park.\nSteve White operations manager for Colas who manage the roads for Portsmouth City Council, said: 'This work is part of our ongoing maintenance for the bridge and, as always, we are doing everything we can to minimise disruption to residents and drivers.\n'During the work drivers should avoid the Eastern Road where possible and use other routes.\n'People should plan their journeys and expect some delays.\n'We are very sorry for the inconvenience and disruption this will cause people and grateful for their patience and co-operation.'\nPortsmouth weather forecast: This is when temperatures will soar in Portsmouth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Florence Lawrence: Automotive Inventor and the \"World's First Movie Star\"\nMarch 23, 2016 John Paul - Historic Vehicle Association\nIn honor of Women's History Month, we take a look at silent film star and pioneering automotive inventor, Florence Lawrence. Never heard of her? Lawrence invented the first mechanical turn signal AND mechanical brake light, yet she was almost penniless when she took her life in 1938. Check out the full story.\nHer exact birthdate, like the recognition for the woman herself, is seemingly lost in time. What is known is this: Florence Lawrence was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in either 1886 or 1890. Her father, George Bridgwood was a carriage builder. Her mother, Charlotte \"Lotta\" Bridgwood, was a vaudevillian actress so, naturally, Lawrence found herself drawn to acting from a young age.\nWorking under her mother\u2014known professionally as \"Lotta Lawrence,\" the leading lady and director of the Lawrence Dramatic Company\u2014young Florence made her motion picture debut in 1906. The next few years would see her rise to become what is generally regarded as the first movie star.\nThe Biograph Girl\nStarring in nearly 300 films throughout the course of her career, Florence found herself on the receiving end of the financial windfall that was the burgeoning movie industry. Earning around $500 a week from Biograph Studios\u2014a company that refused to put her name on the credits\u2014she nonetheless became a familiar face to fans, who dubbed her \"The Biograph Girl.\" With a constant flow of work, Lawrence was soon wealthy enough to purchase an automobile\u2014a somewhat extravagant rarity for women at the time. Finding a sense of freedom and enjoyment behind the wheel she'd never before experienced, Lawrence took to driving much as she had to acting.\nDelving headfirst into the world of the automobile, Florence sought to learn all she could about the vehicle's various mechanisms in between enthusiastic drives. She became so invested in the relationship between driver and car that at one point she reportedly described her vehicle as \"almost human\"\u2014something that, in her words, responded \"\"to kindness and understanding and care, just as people do.\" This love for the automobile lead Lawrence to explore additional safety measures to ensure the vehicle's continued practical use.\nFlorence Lawrence sits behind the wheel of a Lozier open touring car with 1912 Pennsylvania license plates. [photo credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research]\nThe Actor Turns Inventor\nIn 1914, after years of learning about and tinkering with automobiles, Lawrence devised a mechanism that served as a signaling arm for drivers wishing to turn. Through the simple push of a button, her simple invention raised and lowered a flag on the rear bumper of the automobile to inform other drivers where the car was headed next. Along with this, she developed an equally simplistic and ingenious device to alert fellow motorists of an upcoming stop. Upon depressing the brake, a small sign reading \"stop\" would pop up in the rear of the car. Though rudimentary in design, her inventions would ultimately prove invaluable on the road.\nUnfortunately for Lawrence, however, she failed to patent this creation or her next\u2014the first electric windshield wiper, which began selling in 1917 under the Bridgwood Manufacturing Company. Lawrence's mother would later try to remedy the oversight, but by then it was too late as other companies were quick to claim ownership and receive patents for similar designs.\nWhile she failed to claim the first patent and, some would argue, was not even the first to devise such a system (that honor going to a Percy Douglas-Hamilton in England), Lawrence's ingenuity and passion for the automobile was something of an anomaly at the time. The fact that she performed all her own mechanical work and devised these safety measures put Lawrence at the forefront of what could be viewed as an early form of women's liberation, one for which she's largely since been forgotten, but is by no means diminished in significance. Amazingly, it wouldn't be until 1925 that anything resembling Lawrence's design would see a patent, one turned in by the larger auto manufacturers.\nA Tragic Death\nAfter suffering severe burns in a studio fire in which she was attempting to save a fellow actor, Lawrence's work in films began to dry up. Despite plastic surgery to attempt to repair the damage, she found herself more and more relegated to work as an extra. And while she had accumulated a great deal of wealth during her days as \"The Biograph Girl,\" the majority of it was lost in the stock market crash of 1929.\nHer career at a standstill and her fortune having all but disappeared, Lawrence was left with little consolation. Adding insult to injury, she had also been married three times over the course of her life\u2014once to automotive salesman Charles Byrne Woodring\u2014and saw each relationship end in either death or divorce.\nAlone and with no children or family to comfort her, Lawrence took her life on December 28, 1938 after calling MGM to let them know that, due to illness, she would not be able to perform the extra work for which she had been cast that afternoon. The following year, Buick began installing turn signals as a standard feature.\nPrevious post Preservation Award For Cord L-29 Launches FIVA World Motoring Heritage Year Next post Pair of Presidential Cars Joins National Register, Will Be Featured as Cars at the Capital Returns to National Mall\nThe 80th Anniversary of The Boyle Special's First Indy 500 Win\nMay 30, 2019 Nick Williams\njsfury\nWhat an amazing woman. What a tragic ending. I do hope Florence is at peace, and who knows, maybe driving around in tinkering in her after life. God bless you Florence.\nMichael Grams\nA really good, informative article. Quite a lady and life also. I wonder why Biograph Studios wouldn't put her name in the credits?\nKdrama Angel\nThe writer of this article wrote that out of ignorance. NO actor or actress names were put in the credits in the earliest days of Biograph. Part of the reason was because the stage was seen as the legit theater in those days and films kind of embarrassing to do but a lot of the actors started to appear in them to make quick money. Even Mary Pickford didn't have her name on the Biograph credits, when fans wrote to her via Biograph Studios they would write on the envelope \"To The Girl With The Golden Curls\".\nAlan West\nSad. Another largely unsung pioneer died penniless. But she had fun, and fun is important. If she had patented everything, she would have been richer, but at the terrible price of having to attend meetings with dickheads.\nHer life serves to remind us that women CAN be both feminine AND skilful with the spanners. I suspect that she was self-taught like my brother and myself. Still, much mechanical fiddling is pretty logical.\nHow many of today's celeb ladies fix their own cars? I'll bet they keep quiet about it, if they do. Imagine some big dollar actress in an intimate interview speculating whether an old gudgeon pin that is right on tolerance will be alright in a rebuilt engine? How many men have faced this dilemma? (In case you are wondering, there were two of them, and they were).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BHMA Welcomes Peter Lucas as its New CEO\nPeter Lucas has been appointed chief executive officer of the Flight Centre Travel Group's (ASX: FLT) hotel management business, BHMA. Peter Lucas is a highly experienced hotelier who has an extensive track record of operating hotels across Asia. Before joining BHMA, he was Boutique Corporation's senior vice president of asset operations and oversaw hotel, serviced apartment and food and beverage portfolios.\nPrior to this, he was chief operating officer with Destination Properties, where he asset-managed hotels operated by Accor, Starwood, Hilton and Swissotel, as well as food and beverage operations for franchised restaurants such as Hard Rock Caf\u00e9.\nPeter has more than 35 years of comprehensive leadership experience in the hotel and serviced apartment industries. He has worked in a range of global markets, with experience in 7 countries.\nIn announcing the appointment, Flight Centre Travel Group Head of Global Hotel Network Kent Davidson said: \"Peter is an outstanding professional in his field and I am sure that BHMA will benefit enormously from his contribution. He has joined us at the perfect time to assist in building our various brands in order to achieve further expansion both within and beyond the regions where we are currently active.\"\n\"I am very proud to be given the opportunity to work with BHMA by the Flight Centre Travel Group.Said, Peter Lucas.\n\"It is an exciting time for the business with the new X2 Bali Breakers Resort and X2 Pattaya Oceanphere Residences properties opening in the next quarter. This is a company that has set new standards across Asia in recent years so I look forward to driving sales over the coming months and actively pursuing new opportunities to capitalize on our outstanding reputation for exceeding client expectations.\"\nFLT, which is based in Australia, is one of the world's largest travel operators and has about 3,000 leisure and corporate travel outlets in 23 countries.\nBHMA, which was acquired last year, is a key component of the company's Global Hotel Network, which specializes in delivering inspirational travel experiences.\nMore posts by Pressrelease.\nCentara to Open New Beachfront Hotel in Sriracha\nCentara Hotels & Resorts has launched a new seafront hotel in Sriracha. The newly built Centara Sonrisa Residences & Suites Sriracha is the first Centara hotel in Sriracha.The 145 units offer an array of accommodation options, beginning with Superior, Deluxe and Deluxe Seaview guestrooms, which are ideal for two\nKerzner International Announces New Strategic Leadership\nKerzner International Holdings, the owner of the iconic Atlantis Resort and Residences and ultra-luxury One&Only Resorts brands worldwide, has announced the promotion of two key executives. Philippe Zuber has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer and Brett Armitage has been promoted to the new role of Chief Commercial\nIHCL to Launch a Scholarship in Partnership with the ESSEC Business School\nThe Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) has today announced the launch of a scholarship in partnership with the ESSEC Business School in France as part of its continued commitment to bolstering learning and development for its employees. As part of the initiative two deserving IHCL employees each year would be\nWindsor Suites Hotel to Become Grand Mercure Windsor\nAccor has signed an agreement to manage the 456-room Windsor Suites Hotel. The hotel will be rebranded under Grand Mercure Windsor in 2021. Located along Sukhumvit's Soi 20, the 34-storey hotel boasts six dining outlets, a fitness centre, wellness spa, executive lounge and helipad on its rooftop.The hotel\nAccorInvest to Put one of Australia's Largest Hotel Portfolios for Sale\nOne of Australia's largest hotel portfolios will soon be placed on the market by AccorInvest. The AccorInvest Australian Hotel Portfolio (\"the Portfolio\") is made up of 23 real estate assets and lease interests located across Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth, together with several major regional cities. JLL Hotels\nThe Impossible Burger Launches at Hotel ICON\nThe Food Start-up, Impossible Foods which makes meatless burgers called 'Impossible Burgers' is now expanding outside of the US, Hotel ICON, Hong Kong is chosen to be its first location in Asia. The impossible burgers are made entirely from plants under a mission to create a truly sustainable food system","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Healthcare Quarterly 23(3) October 2020 : 3-4.doi:10.12927\/hcq.2020.26341\n2020 Ted Freedman Award\nThe Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education 2020\nAbout the Ted Freedman Award\nIn 2000, Ted Freedman was the surprised honoree of an annual award launched by Healthcare Quarterly in cooperation with Agilent Technologies.\nMr. Freedman was not only the president and chief executive officer of Mount Sinai Hospital but also an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Health Administration at the University of Toronto. He is a former chair of the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, the Change Foundation and the Ontario Health Research Alliance and vice chair of Mount Sinai Hospital and Saint Elizabeth Health Care, all organizations committed to research and education.\nThe award recognizes individuals who inspire, advocate and enable education in healthcare.\nPierrette Price Arsenault\nTricia Beath\nTasleen Adatia\nDr. Timothy Jackson\nLongwoods and our judges extend their congratulations to Ontario Health (Quality)'s Pierrette Price Arsenault, Tricia Beath, Tasleen Adatia, Lisa Bitonti-Bengert and Dr. Timothy Jackson \u2013 the 2020 recipients of the Ted Freedman Award \u2013 in recognition of their program \"The Ontario Surgical Quality Improvement Network Community of Practice \u2013 Improving Surgical Care in Ontario.\" This is a continuing professional development initiative that addresses clinical and practice challenges that Ontario's family physicians have identified as being overwhelming to them.\nThe program's goal is to improve surgical care in Ontario by accelerating quality improvement (QI) through a community of practice. Initiated by surgical leaders and driven by its members, the Ontario Surgical Quality Improvement Network (ON-SQIN) is a QI program consisting of 46 surgical teams that form a community of practice dedicated to improving surgical outcomes across Ontario.\nThe surgical network uses high-quality clinical data collected through the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) to spur surgical QI practices among participating hospitals. Outcomes measured include rates of unplanned intubation, postsurgical infection, hospital readmissions and post-surgery sepsis. These data help ON-SQIN hospitals identify areas for improvement.\nIn May 2017, NSQIP data showed that Ontario's postsurgical infection rates were above the international average rates. The ON-SQIN community had matured to the point where they were able to work toward implementing change provincially and launched a year-long campaign to reduce postsurgical infections by at least 20%. Members implemented a bundle of evidence-based changes to improve their chosen area of focus (surgical site infection [SSI], urinary tract infection [UTI] or pneumonia). After one year, the teams self-reported a 27% combined reduction in the rates of UTI, SSI and pneumonia.\nTo learn more about this program, please visit:\nhttps:\/\/www.hqontario.ca\/Quality-Improvement\/Quality-Improvement-in-Action\/Ontario-Surgical-Quality-Improvement-Network.\nHere are some other programs that we would like to mention.\nEmerging Leader Forum: A Community to Inspire and Support the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders\nThe healthcare ecosystem is segmented between many different verticals of work, including \u2013 but not limited to \u2013 virtual care, patient access, data management, clinical diagnostics, knowledge translation, social determinants and supply chain. Many of these segments are siloed, without much dialogue and knowledge sharing between professionals.\nThe Emerging Leader Forum (ELF) is a not-for-profit program that builds a community of healthcare professionals who come together to learn from each other and from experts in the healthcare industry. ELF meets the evolving needs of emerging professionals, has a network of 900-plus healthcare leaders who are in the first 10 years of their careers and has formed partnerships with consulting firms, innovation hubs and hospital networks. ELF brings together professionals from diverse backgrounds, including those with roles in consulting and clinical research, to challenge the \"status quo\" collaboration and create new norms for the health system.\nThrough thoughtfully curated events, networking and a formal mentorship program, ELF refines skills and cultivates ideas among the members on how to best transform and improve the healthcare system. Our program is based in Toronto, providing early- to mid-level healthcare professionals around the Greater Toronto Area with a venue for discussion, debate and education to help develop the next generation of healthcare leaders.\nhttps:\/\/emergingleaderforum.org\/ or e-mail emergingleaderforum@gmail.com.\nA Strategy for Health and Wellness in Ontario Communities: Innovation, Flexibility and Accessibility for All\nMcMaster University Continuing Education offers diverse and timely online credit and not-for-credit programs to professionals working in the health and social service sectors. Among others, these programs support flexible and evidence-based learning in response to an aging demographic, the realities of addiction and mental health in modern society and applied clinical research as a means of ensuring clinical excellence.\nThe Caregiving Essentials program is a no-cost open-access program for informal caregivers of older adults. Caregiving Essentials provides a superior educational experience to Ontario caregivers, one that they can access online. To date, the program has served more than 680 caregivers.\nProfessional Addiction Studies serves health and social service professionals and examines addiction and mental health realities at the national level. We are proud to have offered programming in this area for over 30 years.\nThe Science of Cannabis program is a direct response to the legalization of cannabis in Canada and the need for evidence-based information about how cannabis affects our health. This three-course program investigates cannabis from the following perspectives: its scientific foundations, therapeutic interventions and risks and harms.\nIn these days, quieting the mind is more important than ever. Mindfulness for Modern Society teaches us to find the required calm for our health and well-being.\nOur Applied Clinical Research program prepares health professionals in the clinical research field to use the highest quality of research to inform our healthcare decisions and practices to ensure health excellence.\nTo learn more about these programs, please visit:\nwww.mcmastercce.ca.\nSE Health Indigenous Program Promoting Culturally Safe Training and Care\nSE Health is answering an important call for help with its one-of-a-kind Indigenous Blended Delivery Personal Support Worker\/Health Care Aid (PSW\/HCA) program.\nFirst Nation (FN) communities across Canada are seeking education that is relevant, accessible and culturally safe to meet significant health and human resource shortages for PSWs\/HCAs and reclaim care for their respective communities.\nIn the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report, there was a call to action for all levels of government to increase the number of Indigenous health professionals working in the healthcare field. In 2018, the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs was flagged as critical because of the shortage of PSWs in FN communities.\nSE Health's program addresses the direct need for highly trained and certified PSWs in Indigenous communities. The program is designed to meet training needs in a culturally safe manner, offering a learning environment that is accepting and supportive of Indigenous culture. It is also designed to reduce students' time away from family and community, allowing them to continue providing care during their studies, minimizing impact on client care and ensuring student success and high completion rates.\nAs a not-for-profit social enterprise delivering exceptional care at home for over a century, SE Health knows the importance of community and working together to celebrate its diversity while nurturing the needs of its people and ensuring that care comes first. The program is positively impacting care for over 80,000 FN community members.\nhttps:\/\/fnim.sehc.com\/se-learning\/vocational-training.\nCatalyzing Digital Health Innovation in Ontario: The Role of an Academic Medical Centre\nLaura Desveaux, Leah T. Kelley, R. Sacha Bhatia and Trevor Jamieson\nReview of new models in healthcare.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welsh language chapel in centre of Caerdydd to get \u00a325,000 for repairs\nCapel y Bedyddwyr Cymraeg, Tabernacl, Caerdydd. No Swan So Fine (CC BY-SA 4.0)\nTabernacl Caerdydd is to receive \u00a325,000 in order to make repairs to their Grade II listed building.\nThe nonconformist chapel in Yr Ais in the centre of the capital will receive the money to\n\"repair their Grade II listed building including to the flat roof, stones repairs and roof lights.\"\nThe money is part of \u00a37m a year has been allocated to support Cymru's voluntary sector over the current Welsh Government's term, a commitment of over \u00a321m across the next three years.\nThe announcement follows the publication of the draft Budget by Finance Minister Rebecca Evans last week [Monday 20 December].\nThis is in addition to around \u00a37m provided every year by the Welsh Government's Community Facilities Programme, a grant scheme of up to \u00a3250,000 for the improvement of local community projects and facilities.\nThe \u00a37m of annual funding, beginning in 2022, will be provided to the Third Sector Support Wales. This partnership comprises of 20 organisations - 19 County Voluntary Councils supporting each county area and the national membership body for voluntary organisations, Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA).\nThese organisations provide an infrastructure to all of Cymru's voluntary sector organisations under four pillars of activity identified in partnership with Welsh Government: volunteering; good governance; sustainable funding; and engagement and influencing.\nAdditionally, the long-standing Community Facilties Programme will continue to provide small and large grants to well-used community projects to improve their sustainability and provide opportunities for local people to improve their day-to-day lives.\nAnnounced every 3 months and split into pots of under \u00a325,000 and up to \u00a3250,000, the latest Community Facilities Programme recipients are:\nUp to \u00a3250,000:\n\u00a3250,000 for Krishna Cymru, Caerdydd to refurbish and turn their Grade II-listed building into a cultural heritage site and well-being community centre for Tre-biwt, promoting physical and mental well-being through accessible training in yoga and meditation\n\u00a3250,000 for Llanrumney Hall Community Trust, Caerdydd to create a health and well-being centre\n\u00a3250,000 for Newport Mind to complete the next phase of their project creating a fit-for-purpose centre with consultation, training and group rooms plus a sanctuary space on the first floor\nUp to \u00a325,000:\n\u00a325,000 for Mentoring for All, Caerdydd to renovate and repair their roof, kitchen and toilet facilities and replace windows and doors\n\u00a325,000 for Ysgoldy Community Group, Ceredigion to provide a safe and sustainable off-road parking area, including planting native trees and hedgerows, creating an environment for local fauna and flora, enabling biodiversity and lessening their carbon footprint of the project\n\u00a325,000 for Clwb Rygbi Rhuthun, Sir Ddinbych to renovate their clubhouse by providing a larger seating area, new kitchen and upgrades to their toilet \/ changing room facilities for more suitable access for all\n\u00a320,000 for Abergavenny Community Trust, Sir Fynwy to install solar panels for their community centre as part of their net zero by 2030 plans\n\u00a325,000 for Llanelli Goods Shed, Sir G\u00e2r to create a community caf\u00e9 and heritage interpretation area\n\u00a325,000 for Tabernacl Caerdydd to repair their Grade II listed building including to the flat roof, stones repairs and roof lights\n\u00a38,000 for Bedwas Rugby 2011, Caerffili to provide a new, low-carbon, floodlighting system.\n\u00a325,000 for the Parish of Abercynon, RCT to install a professional kitchen to develop a social enterprise caf\u00e9","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"St Mary's School Nairobi: Where political bigwigs were nurtured\nCounty_RiftValley\nBy Silas Nyamweya\n| Mar. 13, 2022 | 3 min read\nAt one time during an alumni function, President Kenyatta, donning a blazer complete with the school logo and tie, joked of how the school dean who doubled up as the discipline master would always give him three strokes of the cane whenever he breached school rules [Courtesy]\nAlso known as Saints, St Mary's School is a prestigious private primary and secondary academy in Nairobi. The school, which is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church was founded in 1939. Other than the Kenyan primary and secondary educational curriculum, this school also offers International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) certification and International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. Despite being a boys learning institution, female students are only allowed to enrol for the IB Diploma Programme.\nThe school, which initially started with temporary structures, sits on 85 acres that belongs to St Austin's Mission in Muthangari. The current school structures, including the twin towers which stand at the school's quadrangle, were completed in 1954. The current staffroom, which is located between the twin towers, used to be the school's library.\nIn its early days, St Mary's School was the preferred learning institution for children of influential Kenyans, among them the first President Jomo Kenyatta, and his two successors, Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki.\nSt Mary's School has endeavoured to develop individuals who are all-rounded and confident by focusing on academic, spiritual and physical aspects. The school has also strived to promote high level discipline, self-expression and God centred living.\nStudents who pass through this institution are trained to be principled, effective communicators, caring and innovative. This explains why the school administers have nurtured strong clubs and associations including math club, rugby, Christian Union, charity club, drama and violin, among others, to nurture student's talents.\nThis school's administration makes sure that parents day is a memorable event for students and parents. For instance, matches between parents and students during parents' day are a common phenomenon. Some students recall an occasion when a parent got seriously injured and was rushed to the school's health facility after playing with an under 13 team. Instead of showing empathy, this became a laughing matter for many students who were unable to figure out how a youngster can injure an adult.\nIts notable alumni include some of the country's foremost political, business and healthcare leaders [Courtesy]\nThe school whose motto is \"Bonitas, Disciplina, Scientia\", a Latin phrase which stands for \"Goodness, Discipline, Knowledge,\"\nIts notable alumni include some of the country's foremost political, business and healthcare leaders.\nThey include President Uhuru Kenyatta, his brother Muhoho Kenyatta, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, the late Fidel Odinga, Veteran journalist Jeff Koinange, who was Uhuru's classmate, Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o, rally driver Ian Duncan, Baringo Senator Gideon Moi, popular musician Eric Wainaina, Businessman and politician Jimi Wanjigi, former anti-graft czar John Githongo and Owiso Odera, a former TV actor.\nAt one time during an alumni function, President Kenyatta, donning a blazer complete with the school logo and tie, joked of how the school dean who doubled up as the discipline master would always give him three strokes of the cane whenever he breached school rules.\n\"But it was not as bad as those taken by some of us. The likes of Tony Munene, who is smiling here, would get six of the best,\" he said amidst laughter from other alumni.\nOthers who wore white shirts, black trousers, grey pullovers and stripped ties include Tony Munene, a Thika businessman, Jimmy Kibaki, Mohammed Sheikh, a former Kenyan international cricketer and Dele Young, a Kenyan international tennis player.\nSt Mary's School Nairobi St Mary's School Nairobi notable alumni\nWomen risking it all for beauty\nAre 'probiotics' really helpful to health?\nHow to know you bought a bleaching cream\nCervical cancer: The one thing you can do to stop it\nKilifi residents: 'Modern contraceptives are killing our sex lives'\nCalls for new methods to contain cholera outbreak\nPomegranate boosts libido for men, women\nBig Sean, Jhene Aiko expecting first child together\nPoverty, education levels linked to Kenyans' lack of title deeds\nWhy tropical diseases still plague the poor in Kenya\nSchools affected in heads mass transfer as students resume class\nHow Covid-19 made way for big steps in health technology\nBank dollar market rate hits record Sh134 on high demand\nPlastic choking waterways despite existing policies\nKeeping one partner helps curb spread of cervical cancer\nKenyan chef who served Queen Elizabeth\nBy Mercy Kahenda\nEggs are good for your child's brain, experts say\nBy Sakwa Ongoma\nKienyeji topples broiler: Why men prefer the na\u00efve girl next door\nBy Pkemoi Ng'enoh\nConfessions of a married stripper\nBy Mactilda Mbenywe\nBy Gardy Chacha\nBy Nancy Nzau\nBy Ayoki Onyango\nBy Judie Kaberia\nBeware: Sex offenders using COVID-19 crisis to stalk children online\nBy Anyango Otieno\nStudy reveals trained dogs can sniff out coronavirus from saliva\nBy Standard Entertainment\nExclusive: Meet the 'Son of God'\nDays when retirees were sent off with a plough","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Blind Faith Lyrics Warrant\nVideo clip and lyrics I Can't Help Myself (Unreleased Demo) by Warrant. I can't help, just can't help myself It's got to be you I could never love anyone else.\nWarrant \u2013 Heaven (Letras y canci\u00f3n para escuchar) \u2013 I've got a picture of your house \/ And you're standing by the door \/ It's black and white and faded \/ And it's.\nThe 22-year old rapper was now fully established outside of NWA and his success emboldened his creativity; but it was his faith and focus that galvanized. Released Oct. 29, 1991, Death Certificate.\nHanna Herald \u2013 a place for remembering loved ones; a space for sharing memories, life stories, milestones, to express condolences, and celebrate life of your loved ones.\nSince September 2002, Phil McGraw has tackled tough issues along with guests and visiting professionals on his eponymous \"Dr. Phil Show.\" The widely ranging topics on the show include everything from alcoholism and other substance abuse to rebellious teenagers and bad parenting.\nV is a music studio album recording by SPOCK'S BEARD (Symphonic Prog\/Progressive Rock) released in 2000 on cd, lp \/ vinyl and\/or cassette. This page includes V's : cover picture, songs \/ tracks list, members\/musicians and line-up, different releases details, free MP3 download (stream), buy online links: ebay and amazon, ratings and detailled reviews by our experts, collaborators and members.\nBlind Faith. By Warrant. 1990 \u2022 1 song, 3:32. Play on Spotify. 1. Blind Faith. Listen to Warrant in full in the Spotify app. Play on Spotify. \u2117 1990, 1992, 2004 Sony.\nROCKSMITH 2014 EDITION SONG LIST. Includes over 50 songs, including some of the biggest hits yet from alternative, metal, and classic rock. Rocksmith 2014 Edition \u2013 Remastered, available now, will include six bonus songs:\nAug 15, 2011. Christmas morning and I unwrap my gift to find Warrant's Cherry Pie. and fell in love with \"Love In Stereo,\" \"Blind Faith,\" \"Mr. Rainmaker\" and \"You're The. At twelve years old, I had no clue what most of the lyrics meant, but I.\nCLS I Was Born This Way Carl Bean 1977 \"Say it loud,\" the lyrics might have read, \"I'm out and I'm proud.\" This disco stormer, the genre's first gay anthem, was given its definitive treatment in this.\nMar 3, 2019. 10 \u2013 Blind Faith. Warrant's fourth career ballad cracked the top 100 charts in the United States. Released on the album Cherry Pie , the acoustic.\nWarrant Hole In My Wall lyrics & video : Through the hole in my wall I see into your head A beggars day banquet on a four poster bed It's food for the eyes,\nSymbols Of Major World Religions Now, the political United Nations has a spiritual equivalent, a New World Order Religion, called \"United Religions\". The target date for full implementation is the same year as all other New World. The concepts of yin and yang are central to Chinese religion and philosophy as. Moreover, the symbol itself is familiar worldwide to many\nWhat are your thoughts on the matter? Do you think the head of Abstraction makes some good points about the current third-party troubles on the Switch? Do you sense particular companies have a lack of.\nTRACE ADKINS. 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Watch, like and share\nIslamic arts: Islamic arts, the literary, performing, and visual arts of the vast populations of the Middle East and elsewhere that adopted the Islamic faith from the 7th century onward. These adherents of the faith have created such an immense variety of literatures, performing arts, visual arts, and music that\nBy Rick Becker 24 January 2019 (Updated) At Boshoff is the lead pastor of Christian Revival Church (CRC) CRC has obviously succeeded in establishing a large movement \u2013 90 churches in South Africa, and 15 in other parts of the world. Unfortunately, this success can only be defined by numbers \u2013 which are never an indication of whether the whole counsel of God is being taught, or whether true.\nSummary Of The Gospel Of John The Gospel of John. The gospel of John is unique in its depiction of Jesus and his ministry. In this way, it differs significantly from the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. John is infused with theological perspective instead of biographical narrative. In this gospel, Jesus. Oct 9, 2001. Thompson provides sure-footed and wisely judged\nMy Mother's Prayer Lyrics Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Patire) By Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli Quando sono sola sogno all'orizzonte e mancan le parole, si lo so che non c'\u00e8 luce in Who Wrote The Synoptic Gospels Mar 25, 2017. The writer of the article does not know who wrote \"Matthew\" or even if St. Mark and\nBut negotiators are insisting the UK must be excluded from the European Arrest Warrant, criminal records sharing, the Galileo satellite project and other programmes.\nFOXTROT is nothing short of a masterpiece, and easily earns its place as one of my ten all-time favourite progressive rock albums. In fact, this is the disc that led me into the genre in the first place, gloriously expanding my musical tastes beyond the confines of \"hard\" rock.\nWarrant. Play on TIDAL or open in our Desktop app. Share. with Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Wanted Dead or Alive, Cherry Pie, And More \u00b7 Warrant. Blind Faith.\nFashion is her tool for communicating her world vision. In the same way that a poet's words or a musician's lyrics are a deeply personal reflection of the person who wrote them, a fashion designer's.\nThe Mystery Of Faith Prayer Oct 2, 2017. he also hosts the film series Symbolon: The Catholic Faith Explained. They' re praying the first joyful mystery and get three beads into it. Non Denominational Christian Churches In Austin Tx Jenna Ali Pollard Religion Christina Pollard starts teaching Aug. 14, UA spokesman Steve Voorhies said. 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The re-issue also includes a 12-page booklet with lyrics and a short bio.\nHe can be quick in the moment, an impressive tactician, and he is often fairly blind to the long arcs of strategy. with the headline \"Man Without a Country.\" Raffi Khatchadourian became a staff.\nWho Wrote The Synoptic Gospels Mar 25, 2017. The writer of the article does not know who wrote \"Matthew\" or even if St. Mark and Q are sources common to the two other synoptic gospels;. Originally published in Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, ed. Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans, Leiden: Brill, 1999, 83\u2013120.Reproduced by permission of the author. Looking\nThe most notable difference is that the latter, whose rules sharply limited how filmmakers could depict everything from sex to crime to faith to the flag, policed what was on the screen rather than.\nThe Book Of Taliesyn \u2013 1968 Tetragrammaton 6 (Mediocre) Best song: Listen, Learn, Read On. So apparently the band thought that their first album was good enough to warrant a \"concept\" album for their sophomore effort.What a bunch of morons. The \"concept\" is actually limited, more or less, to the opening track, which strangely turns out to be the most enjoyable thing here.\nGenerate professional song books from your MP3, MP3+G karaoke, or video files in just a few clicks! Song List Generator simply reads the music files right from your hard drive and creates a printable book of songs, sliced and diced any way you want (by Artist, Title, DiscID, multi-column, various font sizes, custom messages, custom paper and margin sizes).\nAPRIL 2011\/OCTOBER 2012\/JULY 2013 The Choir at Holy Mass \"Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend the truth is to suppress it\" \u2013 Pope St. Felix III.\nJethro Tull album reviews. STAND UP. Year Of Release: 1969 Record rating = 10 Overall rating = 13 The hardest, roughest, sincerest and clearest they ever got.\nPrevious Previous post: Who Wrote The Synoptic Gospels\nNext Next post: My Mother's Prayer Lyrics","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Charges against JCC executives officially dropped in Qatar court\nPeter Kovessy and Riham Sheble\nAl Jazeera Children's Channel executives.\nAfter spending more than two years on trial, three former television executives were formally cleared of charges of financial mismanagement in a Doha courtroom this morning.\nA judge said the court officially acknowledged that the prosecutor is withdrawing his lawsuit against former Al Jazeera Children's Channel (JCC) manager Mahmoud Bouneb, a Tunisian-Canadian, and his Moroccan wife, the station's former programming director Malika Alouane, as well as Palestinian expat Haitham Qudaih, the ex-cost controller.\n\"Finally, justice has triumphed,\" Bouneb told Doha News after the judge's ruling was read out.\nToday's hearing came more than two months after the prosecutor told the court that he was withdrawing the charges against the trio.\nLower criminal court in Doha\nHowever, the case could not be officially dropped without the official endorsement of the chairman of Al Jazeera Media Network, which acquired JCC from Qatar Foundation in 2013.\nAccording to Bouneb, the trio has also reached a settlement with Al Jazeera outside of court to receive some 3.5 years worth of payment in salaries that they would have earned, had they not been fired in September 2011.\nUnder the terms of the settlement, Bouneb said he had to promise not to speak negatively about Al Jazeera or QF.\nThey will also receive other financial dues, such as their end-of-service gratuity.\nBut they will not receive compensation for any of the emotional trauma they incurred during what Bouneb previously called a \"shameful\" prosecution.\n\"We have suffered for a long time without anyone paying attention to our ordeal,\" Qudaih told Doha News. \"I am pleased and relieved to see the end of this case.\"\nLegal saga\nThe three defendants were fired alongside approximately 30 other station employees in the fall 2011. They were subsequently accused of financial mismanagement and placed under a travel ban, but did not make their first court appearance until February 2013.\nCharges were formally presented in May of that year. Bouneb has said the three were accused of mismanaging approximately QR3.1 million (US$851,460) over eight years.\nPhoto for illustrative purposes only.\nDuring the proceedings, auditors from both the Qatar National Audit Bureau and accounting firm Ernst & Young said they found evidence of administrative transgressions, such as neglecting to obtain the necessary approvals for certain projects.\nHowever, witnesses testified that there was \"no way\" the defendants had \"committed any embezzlement crimes or harmed intentionally the Channel funds.\"\nNevertheless, the trial continued for another two years. Reports emerged in November that Tunisian diplomats had taken up the case with Qatari authorities and had received assurances that the case would be dropped and that the trio would receive the \"financial dues\" owed to them.\n\"Despite my anger for losing four years of my life for nothing, I have nothing against Qatar as a country, its leadership or people.\"\nThe prosecutor moved to drop the charges against them slightly more than a month later without explanation.\nBouneb said today that the trio's travel ban had been lifted in late December, but that they chose not to leave Qatar because they wanted to stay and clear their name. Additionally, leaving the country would have required an exit permit from their sponsor.\nAlouane said they did not want to submit an application to Al Jazeera until the trial had concluded.\nNone of the three executives would discuss their future plans in any detail, but Bouneb said he has not ruled out continuing his career in Qatar.\n\"Despite my anger for losing four years of my life for nothing, I have nothing against Qatar as a country, its leadership or people. And Qatar has no standing legal problems with me,\" he told Doha News.\n\"The most important thing for me right now is to rest and rehabilitate myself.\"\nPearl-Qatar to expand offerings with new entertainment center in 2015\nLesley Walker\nOwner of Maya La Chocolaterie severs franchise agreement with Doha firm\nShabina S. Khatri\nExperience Anatolian cuisine at R\u00fcya Restaurant in W Doha\nTailored home: people born and raised in Qatar reflect on their experiences\nLuLu promises 2 million QAR to lucky shoppers\n'I might leave the country': Education City graduates receive eviction notices ahead of FIFA World Cup\nAfter two lockdowns: people in Qatar look forward to an unrestricted Eid\nAn exported spring: Iranians in Qatar celebrate Nowruz\nYacine\nI like it when he says \"I have nothing against Qatar, its leadership and its people\". It shows in spite of all the sufferings he incurred for four years, he still has a positive attitude. I hope he finds now a normal life.\nengl3 br3\nReply to Yacine\nApparently you do.\nReply to engl3 br3\nMIMH\nHe has the say that! He wants his money and he wants to leave the country!\nA_qtr\nAt least they got 3.5 urs of back pay.. I'm suprised they got any sort of compensation ..\nReply to A_qtr\nThis can be understood as a way to say \"We've messed up and we have put you in jail for years for no reason. We are sorry and this is your money\" \ud83d\ude42\ndesertCard\nProbably more to BUY their silence.\nfullmoon07\nreally? Well, be surprised if they even re-offered them a job. The interesting thing, was more how the accusations were moved.\nI'm a bit surprised by that as well, I guess they decided it was worth it to shut them up.\nAhmed001\nThis is really sad! They got away with it.\nReply to Ahmed001\nit is really sad that someone so corrupted organized all this. It is very sad, that they were accused of stealing when 2 audits (one from the government) showed the contrary. It is very sad, that those who then took their places just ruined the channel. The JCC story is all over the city, with so many people who have worked and still work there. And the behind the scene is actually quite disgusting.\nI would love to be a mosquito to see the face of those horrible ones who made up all of this story.\nThose who took their positions did not last long, being incapables.\nIt seems that one of them is not even wanted in his new job else were, the other one who also who had taken advantage of such accusations is not wanted any longer in her new job. Mediocre people.\nDoha is small and people talk\u2026..and sometimes there is justice.\nMaybe Bounab will be also offered a job he won't be able to refuse, life is unpredictable\u2026..cin cin! Cheers! Salud!\nYet another trumped-up charge that in this case resulted in innocent people being unfairly imprisoned in the state of Qatar for years. Yet another damning indictment of employment law and the justice system of Qatar. Has Qatar never heard of \"bail\" where the accused forfeit a sum of money if they don't show up in court \u2013 it works pretty well in many justice systems. Innocent until proved guilty, but even if ultimately found innocent Qatar manages to violate peoples human rights before the decision falls.\nBahrain king wants to resolve pending issues with Qatar as analysts say isolation tactic 'failed'\nMexico most difficult: Messi breaks silence on World Cup\nBangladesh High Court seeks list of dead, injured workers at World Cup\nQatar condemns Pakistan mosque blast as death toll rises\nSaudi Arabia looks to step up tourism with Qatar with flynas expansion: reports","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Ryan Reynolds\n*As usual\u2026spoilers ahead\"\nOne of the most surprising and best films of 2016 so far is Deadpool. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld in 1991 and debuting in The New Mutants #98, this character has a long history and is one of the most popular in Marvel's line of mutant characters. In recent years the character has taken on a more adult sensibility and added large amounts of over the top humor to make the fans want a movie adaptation for some time.\nWe did get to see Wade Wilson\/Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and even though Ryan Reynolds showed us the potential for the character earlier in the film the ending dashed all hopes at the time (just watch the ending of the film to see why so many people abhor it). Despite all this Reynolds still wanted a Deadpool solo movie so he could do justice to the character and give us a much better interpretation of the 'Merc with a Mouth\".\n20th Century Fox seemed to have zero desire to greenlight this film based on the previous movie's reception, but that did not deter Reynolds. Test footage was leaked in 2014 that showed a hilarious, action packed scene that gave fans the Deadpool we all wanted to see. this caught the attention of Fox and the movie was finally greenlit and the world is better for it!\nWhat we got was a dirty, foul mouthed, action packed movie that broke all sorts of box-office records for an R-rated film and gave the audience the Deadpool we all wanted and deserved. The beginning of the money shows us the finalized scene of the test footage that went viral and was an amazing way to start the film. The violence, over the top humor, and amazing action got this movie off to the right start and let the audience know up front that they were in for a treat.\nRyan Reynolds has finally found the role of his career so far. He is simply hilarious and knows the character inside and out which gives us an incredible performance. There is no one that could of played this character any better.\nThe cast is solid overall, but the one who really sticks out is T.J. Miller as Weasel who is Wilson's best friend. He delivers some classic lines in his unique way that only adds to the humor of the movie and makes it that much better overall.\nI also enjoyed Deadpool's sidekicks Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus (Brianna Hildebrand and Stefan Kapicic respectively). Both performers played their roles perfectly and held their own despite the outstanding performance of Reynolds.\nEvery moment of this film is fun, exciting, and leaves you wanting more when the movie is done. The post credits scene is very memorable as well showing Deadpool's homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off while letting the audience know that there will be a sequel featuring Cable which we have seen in the comics as a hilarious duo.\nI cannot stress more that this is a very adult movie. With heavy violence and gore, very adult language, nudity and sex, this is a movie that young children should not see. I only stress this because I heard several stories about the movie's theatrical run with many an ignorant parent bringing their children to see the film because a \"superhero\" is in it only to complain over the content. FYI\u2026it is R-rated for a reason.\nIf you are not too sensitive to adult material and are looking for a fun movie with big laughs then go to the store and buy a copy on blu-ray. You will not be disappointed.\nMay 26, 2014 January 29, 2015 thegeekregistry\tLeave a comment\nGreen Lantern was a much maligned movie that I feel very strongly did not deserve the poor reviews it received. Was it a great movie? No. Was it bad like Ghost Rider? No. It was a very entertaining film that had more good moments than bad.\nI felt that Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan\/Green Lantern was a good fit. I do agree with a lot of people that Nathan Fillion would have been better, but with Reynolds they got a very well known actor who did a good job in the role.\nPeter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond was another strong point. You did feel sympathy for him regarding his strained relationship with his father, but he was a creepy villain that you definitely wanted to see get his behind kicked.\nPossibly the best part of the movie was Mark Strong as Sinestro. He is not yet the villain, but Strong did a masterful job of portraying a complex character and giving just the right amount of nuance to hint at his eventual turn in future movies.\nThe not so positive\u2026\nParallax\u2026the main issue is the CGI was just not up to par. He looked too cartoony at times. Also, he is a major villain who affects Hal Jordan in a major way in the comics and having been relegated to just a one-off in this first movie seemed a real waste. Parallax is a nemesis that should have been built up to in future movies for a much more dramatic final battle.\nBlake Lively as Carol Ferris was sort of eh..she was not terrible, but her portrayal of Ferris could have been much better especially since this a major character in the Green Lantern universe and goes though many interesting changes.\nThe most unfortunate situation with the mostly negative reaction to the movie is we will not get any sequels. Seeing Sinestro's full turn in a second movie would have been amazing, but we will have too settle for only a small scene in the credits. With a full-on, bad guy Sinestro, the second movie could have taken a huge leap forward in quality in many people's eyes. I really feel a second movie could have righted the ship for many people and perhaps made this a more viable franchise.\nWith Warner Bros.\/DC pushing ahead with a Justice League movie I really hope they include the character of Green Lantern. He is an important part of the League and whether they recast Hal Jordan or go with the John Stewart version, I sincerely hope they do not leave this character out due to the solo movie's negative reception.\nIt is a good movie that deserves a viewing no matter what you may have heard about it.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"China State Owned Media Says Will Fight Long Term Trade War\nby James DiGeorgia | 06\/17\/2019 12:28 PM\nChina state-run newspapers and journals are telling the Chinese people the Trump administration has underestimated their willingness to fight its trade war. Chinese media outlets are echoing Beijing's preparedness for a long economic battle.\nA commentary published late last week in one of the most widely read ideological journals Qiushi, which translates into \"Seeking Truth\" argues that China will not compromise on major principles in its negotiations with the United States on ending the dispute\u2026\n\"China will not be afraid of any threats or pressure the United States is making that may escalate economic and trade frictions. China has no choice, nor escape route, and will just have to fight it out till the end,\"\n\"No one, no force should underestimate and belittle the steel will of the Chinese people and its strength and tenacity to fight a war.\"\nHu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times newspaper tweeted regarding the commentary said it represented \"a further mobilization of Chinese society\" in the struggle against U.S. trade pressure.\nThe commentary in Qiushi went on to assert\u2026\n\"We must keep the initiative of innovation and development firmly in our hands, increase investment and research in key, core technology areas, pool together more high-value talents, enhance innovation and get rid of the core technology plight,\"\nIn an apparent response to President Donald Trump's top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow's claim that the economic burden of a trade war would shift to China the Qiushi commentary said\u2026\n\"As a result of the trade frictions, only a very few Americans will benefit, but the majority of Americans will suffer.\"\n\"U.S. consumers and businesses had reaped huge benefits from trade with China and warned that trade frictions would inevitably have a serious negative impact on the U.S. economy.\"\n\"In an era of economic globalization, trade protectionism is poison, not panacea higher tariffs would increase manufacturing costs for U.S. businesses and push up U.S. consumer inflation.\"\nIn the meantime the U.S. Trade Representative's Office will kick off seven days of testimony from U.S. retailers, manufacturers and other businesses Monday, about Trump's plan to hit another $300 billion worth of Chinese goods with tariffs. It's a preliminary step required by law before President Trump can impose these new tariffs.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"resources to help you understand your pay\nDownload our new infographic which helps staff understand the different resources that have been developed to explain the 2018 pay deal for Agenda for Change staff.\nDownload the infographic here\n*Credits NHS Employers\nSupporting line managers to foster engagement\nOur new briefing explores how employers can support and develop line managers to improve staff engagement. Written by the Institute for Employment Studies and commissioned by NHS Employers, the publication is based on issues raised by NHS line managers.\nDownload the briefing here\nNHS Health and Wellbeing Framework\nNHS England has released a framework to improve the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce. With a focus on effective line management, the framework provides guidance to help you support your staff to feel well, healthy and happy at work.\n\u200bRead more here\ntop tips for new managers\nNew team to manage? Or the first time you're leading a team? This opinion piece from Fast Company shares advice on how to hit the ground running, from that first team meeting, to the key questions to ask your staff.\nDo you know your AAC from your ACC? What's the difference between DBS and DBSs? The NHS acronym buster will guide you through more than 700 acronyms and abbreviations used in health and care.\n\u200bClick here for more information\nThe NHS at 70: What the NHS means to me\nSeven decades on from its creation and the NHS still holds the accolade of being one of the UK's most-loved institutions. We asked a range of people what the NHS means to them. Here's what they said...\n*Credits: NHS Confed\nHEE launches new animation on the ARCP process\nA new animation from Health Education England explains the annual review of competence progression (ARCP), which is used to assess the practice and progress of trainee doctors. The animation explains how the ARCP works and accompanies a written guide.\nSee the animation below and read more here\nGMC publishes new graduate outcomes guidance\nThe General Medical Council has updated their guidance Outcomes for Graduates, setting out the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours that UK medical graduates must know and be able to demonstrate.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Freedom Forum Institute > First Amendment Center > First Amendment FAQ\nFirst Amendment FAQ\nDoes it matter if a student uses the Internet as a tool for speech at school?\nYes, it does. If the student uses school computers to create his material, school officials have jurisdiction and more legal authority to regulate the expression. School officials would likely argue that they could censor such expression as long as they had a reasonable educational reason for doing so under the Supreme Court's 1988 ruling in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. When students use school computers, they are also subject to the school's acceptable-use Internet policy. Most schools have policies that set limits on students' Internet usage.\nDo schools have the power to control speech in the classroom?\nSchools have great latitude to control the speech that occurs in a classroom and, in that setting, can probably prohibit the distribution of student publications altogether. Similarly, schools may impose any reasonable constraint on student speech in a school-sponsored publication such as the school newspaper.\nWhich types of speech are not protected by the First Amendment?\nAlthough different scholars view unprotected speech in different ways, there are basically nine categories:\nDefamation (including libel and slander)\nIncitement to imminent lawless action\nTrue threats\nSolicitations to commit crimes\nSome experts also would add treason, if committed verbally, to that list. Plagiarism of copyrighted material is also not protected.\nCan public schools impose dress codes and uniforms?\nMany students are able to express themselves through what they wear to school; but, more and more teenagers are facing restrictions as school boards across the country adopt more stringent policies.\nSome states have passed laws empowering school boards to regulate student dress. For instance, Tennessee has a law allowing school boards to pass policies prohibiting the wearing of \"gang-related apparel.\" In 2001, Arkansas passed a law requiring school boards to create an \"advisory committee\" of parents and students to consider whether their local school district should require uniforms. Arizona has a law giving local school boards the power to adopt uniform policies. New Jersey passed a law saying that school boards may adopt a dress code or uniform policy if requested by the principal, staff and teachers, and \"if the board determines that the policy will enhance the school learning environment.\"\nMany courts have upheld dress-code and uniform policies as a reasonable way to instill discipline and create a positive educational environment. Federal appeals courts have recently upheld uniform policies in Texas and Louisiana. The courts determined that the policies were not imposed to suppress students' freedom of expression but to further reasonable educational objectives.\nThe Supreme Court has not decided a case involving a challenge to a dress-code or uniform policy.\nCan administrators remove controversial books from school library shelves?\nSchool officials cannot pull books off library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas in those books. In Board of Education v. Pico, the Supreme Court ruled that school officials in New York violated the First Amendment by removing several books from junior high school library shelves for being too controversial.\nThe Court said the First Amendment protects students' rights to receive information and ideas and that the principal place for such information is the library.\nHowever, in Pico, the Supreme Court also said that school officials could remove books from library shelves if they were \"pervasively vulgar.\" The Court noted that its decision did not involve school officials' control over the curriculum or even the acquisition of books for school libraries.\nWhat is freedom of expression?\nFreedom of expression refers to the ability of an individual or group of individuals to express their beliefs, thoughts, ideas, and emotions about different issues free from government censorship. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the rights of individuals to freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly. Some scholars group several of those freedoms under the general term \"freedom of expression.\"\nMost state constitutions also contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of expression. Some provide even greater protection than the First Amendment.\nFreedom of expression is essential to individual liberty and contributes to what the Supreme Court has called the marketplace of ideas. The First Amendment assumes that the speaker, not the government, should decide the value of speech.\nIs speech on the Internet entitled to as much protection as speech in more traditional media?\nYes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU (1997) that speech on the Internet receives the highest level of First Amendment protection. The Supreme Court explained that \"our cases provide no basis for qualifying the level of First Amendment scrutiny that should be applied to this medium.\"\nCan a student lead a prayer at graduation exercises?\nIt depends on the court and the context. If the student's speech is deemed to be school-sponsored or endorsed by the school, the student prayer would violate the establishment clause. Some courts have determined that purely student-initiated speech would not run afoul of the establishment clause.\nTwo federal appeals court decisions show how the courts are divided on this issue.\nIn October 2000, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a First Amendment challenge brought by students in California who were denied the right to make a religious speech at graduation. The court determined that school district officials reasonably prevented the student's religious speech to avoid violating the establishment clause. Additionally, in Cole v. Oroville Union High School, the court determined that even \"if the graduation ceremony was a public or limited public forum, the District's refusal to allow the students to deliver a sectarian speech or prayer as part of the graduation was necessary to avoid violating the Establishment Clause.\"\nHowever, in May 2001, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to strike down a Florida school district policy allowing an elected student to deliver an unrestricted message at graduation. The court in Adler v. Duval County School Board determined that \"it is impossible to say that \u2026 [the policy] on its face violates the Establishment Clause without effectively banning all religious speech at school graduations, no matter how private the message or how divorced the content of the message may be from any state review, let alone censorship.\"\nWhat rights to freedom of expression do students have?\nPublic school students possess a range of free-expression rights under the First Amendment. Students can speak, write articles, assemble to form groups and even petition school officials on issues. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that students \"do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.\"\nThere is a fundamental distinction between public and private school students under the First Amendment. The First Amendment and the other provisions of the Bill of Rights limit the government from infringing on an individual's rights. Public school officials act as part of the government and are called state actors. As such, they must act according to the principles in the Bill of Rights. Private schools, however, aren't arms of the government. Therefore, the First Amendment does not provide protection for students at private schools.\nThough public school students do possess First Amendment freedoms, the courts allow school officials to regulate certain types of student expression. For example, school officials may prohibit speech that substantially disrupts the school environment or that invades the rights of others. Many courts have held that school officials can restrict student speech that is lewd.\nMany state constitutions contain provisions safeguarding free expression. Some state Supreme Courts have interpreted their constitutions to provide greater protection than the federal Constitution. In addition, a few states have adopted laws providing greater protection for freedom of speech.\nWhat has the Supreme Court said about free expression?\nThe U.S. Supreme Court has decided several cases involving the First Amendment rights of public school students, but the most often cited are Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986) and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988).\nIn Tinker, the Supreme Court said that students \"do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.\" The court ruled that Iowa public school officials violated the First Amendment rights of several students by suspending them for wearing black armbands to school.\nThe court noted that the students' wearing of armbands to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam was a form of symbolic speech \"akin to pure speech.\" The school officials tried to justify their actions, saying that the armbands would disrupt the school environment.\nBut, the Supreme Court said that \"in our system, undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression.\" School officials cannot silence student speech simply because they dislike it or it is controversial or unpopular. Rather, according to the court, school officials must reasonably forecast that student speech will cause a \"substantial disruption\" or \"material interference\" with school activities or \"invade the rights of others\" before they can censor student expression. The Tinker case is considered the high-water mark for student First Amendment rights.\nIn the 1980s, a more conservative Supreme Court cut back on students' free-expression rights in Fraser and Hazelwood. In Fraser, school officials suspended a high school student for giving a lewd speech before the student assembly. Even though Matthew Fraser's speech was part of a student-government campaign, the high court distinguished the sexual nature of the address from the political speech in Tinker.\n\"Surely, it is a highly appropriate function of public school education to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive terms in public discourse,\" the court wrote in its 1986 decision. \"The undoubted freedom to advocate unpopular and controversial views in schools and classrooms must be balanced against the society's countervailing interest in teaching students the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior.\"\nTwo years later, the Supreme Court further restricted student free-expression rights in Hazelwood. In that 1988 decision, several students sued after a Missouri high school principal censored two articles in the school newspaper. The articles, written by students, dealt with divorce and teen pregnancy. The principal said he thought the subject matter was inappropriate for some of the younger students.\nThe students argued that the principal violated their First Amendment rights because he did not meet the Tinker standard \u2014 he did not show the articles would lead to a substantial disruption. Instead of examining the case under Tinker, however, the Supreme Court developed a new standard for what it termed school-sponsored speech.\nUnder this standard, school officials can regulate school-sponsored student expression, as long as the officials' actions \"are reasonably related to a legitimate pedagogical interest.\" In plain English, this means school officials must show that they have a reasonable educational reason for their actions. The court broadly defined the school's authority to regulate school-sponsored expression, writing that school officials could censor material which would \"associate the school with anything other than neutrality on matters of political controversy.\"\nCan a public school official legally censor a school-sponsored publication, like a newspaper or yearbook?\nIt depends. If the school has by policy or practice turned the school-sponsored publication into a public forum, or a place traditionally open to the free exchange of ideas, then the school has less authority to censor content. However, most school newspapers are not public forums, and because of a 1988 Supreme Court decision, school officials generally have broad leeway to censor school-sponsored publications.\nIn Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, the high court ruled that school officials can censor school-sponsored publications if their decision is \"reasonably related to a legitimate pedagogical purpose.\" This means school officials must show that they have a reasonable educational reason for censoring the material.\nThe high court gave several examples of material that could be censored based on a reasonable educational purpose, including material that is \"ungrammatical, poorly written, inadequately researched, biased or prejudiced, vulgar or profane, or unsuitable for immature audiences.\"\nThe court went so far as to say that under the Hazelwood standard, school officials could censor school-sponsored materials that would \"associate the school with anything other than neutrality on matters of political controversy.\"\nStudent advocates decried the Hazelwood decision as blatant censorship that would lead to a drastic reduction in students' First Amendment rights. For this reason, several states passed so-called \"anti-Hazelwood laws\" that grant student journalists more protection. Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Oregon passed such laws after the decision. (California already had a law protecting student journalists.)\nCan a public school legally censor an off-campus, \"underground\" student publication?\nGenerally, schools may not censor underground student newspapers, because those papers are not school-sponsored. If the underground paper is not distributed on campus, school officials have no legal authority to regulate it.\nEven if the papers are distributed on school grounds, the First Amendment imposes limitations on school officials' ability to censor these publications because of content. Public school officials, however, may impose reasonable time, place and manner restrictions on the distribution of underground newspapers.\nThere are exceptions to the general rule of \"no censorship.\" If school officials can show that the publication caused or would likely cause a substantial disruption of school activities, they may be able to limit or even stop distribution. Or if school officials could show that the publication contained true threats, they may be able to restrict distribution.\nA pressing issue regarding underground student newspapers is whether school officials have the power to require students to submit the papers for review before they can be distributed on school grounds. Courts are divided on whether such prior review policies violate students' First Amendment rights, and the Supreme Court has not considered the issue.\nIf I wear my hair long or dye it an unusual color, can I get in trouble at school?\nCourts are much divided on this issue. Among the federal appeals courts, the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th and 8th Circuits have seemed receptive to students' claims of free-expression rights concerning their hair. But the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th Circuits have seemed unreceptive.\nMany cases involving student hair today deal not with length but color. For example, a high school student from Virginia sued his school district in federal court after school officials suspended him for having blue hair. A federal judge reinstated the student, finding a violation of his constitutional rights.\nGenerally, courts that have found a constitutional issue have ruled along similar lines, claiming that a student's choice of hair color and style represents either a First Amendment free-expression issue or a 14th Amendment liberty or equal-protection interest. Some courts have even pointed out that regulating students' hair has a more permanent effect than regulating their dress, because outside of school, they can change their clothes more readily than their hairstyles or color.\nConversely, the courts that have sided with school districts have generally ruled that students' wearing of long hair \"does not rise to the dignity of a protectable constitutional issue.\"\nEither way, different courts have simply come to different legal conclusions. As a result, students' rights in this regard largely depend on where they live.\nWhat types of books are most subject to censorship?\nMany books have been subject to censorship, although most are targeted for (a) vulgar or sexually explicit language; (b) \"racist\" language; (c) gay and lesbian themes; and\/or (d) discussions of witchcraft and the occult.\nThe American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom keeps track of efforts to censor books and has published a list, \"The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.\" Books new and old make up the list, from the 19th century classic \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,\" to the critically acclaimed \"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,\" to the current-day best-selling Harry Potter series.\nMaya Angelou's \"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\" receives complaints for a rape scene and for being perceived by some as \"anti-white.\" Mark Twain's \"Huckleberry Finn\" has been subject to censorship for language deemed demeaning to African-Americans. J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series draws the ire of some who say it celebrates witchcraft.\nSchool districts should develop policies on how to handle challenges to books and how to ensure that decisions regarding removal of books from the library or the curriculum respect the Constitution and reflect sound educational policy. School officials must also ensure that a book is not removed simply because a concerned parent or special-interest group dislikes its content.\nCan a public school exclude certain student clubs or groups?\nNo, a public school may not pick and choose which student groups it wishes to allow. A school would violate the First Amendment if it censored certain student groups on the basis of their viewpoints.\nIn 1984, Congress passed the Equal Access Act to prohibit discrimination against certain student groups based on their speech. The act was passed to prevent discrimination against student religious groups.\nIn its 1990 decision Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens, the Supreme Court ruled that a Nebraska high school violated the Equal Access Act by denying recognition of a student Christian club when it allowed many other noncurriculum student clubs.\nThe Equal Access Act provides that a \"public secondary school has a limited open forum whenever such school grants an offering or an opportunity for one or more noncurriculum-related student groups to meet on school premises during noninstructional time.\"\nThe act forbids public secondary schools that receive federal funds from denying \"equal access\" to student groups based on the \"religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech.\" This means that, as the Mergens case demonstrated, a school cannot allow the formation of a chess club and at the same time deny the formation of a Bible club.\nUnfortunately, some school districts that do not wish to recognize certain student groups have taken drastic action in order to avoid violating the Equal Access Act. These districts have simply prohibited all student extracurricular groups. A school district in Utah banned all student groups to avoid recognizing a gay-and-lesbian group. Meanwhile, a school district in California banned all student groups in order to avoid recognizing a Christian group.\n(For more information on student clubs, see Religious clubs FAQs in the Religious liberty in public schools section.)\nAre public school students required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance?\nNo, public school students may not be compelled to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. In its 1943 decision West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the First Amendment protects a student's right not to engage in certain speech. The First Amendment generally prohibits the government from punishing people for engaging in certain speech. In Barnette, the high court extended the reach of the First Amendment to also prohibit the government from compelling speech.\nThe high court determined that a group of Jehovah's Witnesses, who objected to the flag salute and mandatory pledge recitation for religious reasons, could not be forced to participate.\nIn oft-quoted language, Justice Robert Jackson wrote: \"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.\"\nDo students have to stand and remove their hats during the Pledge?\nNo, you do not have to stand up and take off your hat during the Pledge of Allegiance. In the 1943 case West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, the Supreme Court said students who objected to the flag salute and mandatory Pledge recitation for religious reasons could not be forced to participate.\nAlthough Barnette pertains to reciting the Pledge, in the case Lipp v. Morris (1978) the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a New Jersey statute requiring a student to stand during the Pledge as unconstitutional.\nAs explored in Lipp and Barnette, a fundamental constitutional right is that no government official at any level can force conduct from any citizen regarding an expression of religion, politics, nationalism, or matter of opinion.\nCan students be forced to stand while other students recite the Pledge?\nNo, two courts have held that students cannot be forced to stand while other students recite the Pledge of Allegiance. In Goetz v. Ansell (1973) and Lipp v. Morris (1978), the 2nd and 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, respectively, ruled that public school students could not be forced to stand silently while other students recited the Pledge. The 2nd Circuit in Goetz explained: \"The alternative offered plaintiff of standing in silence is an act that cannot be compelled over his deeply held convictions. It can no more be required than the Pledge itself.\"\nAdditionally, the 11th Circuit in July 2008 (Frazier v. Winn) found that a \"standing at attention\" clause in Florida law violated the First Amendment. However, the panel left the rest of the state statute intact, refusing to strike down part of it that allows students to be excused from reciting the Ppledge only by written request of their parent. In October 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal in the case, as had the full 11th Circuit earlier.\nCan students pray or discuss religion in public schools?\nYes, students have the right to pray and discuss religion in school. Public misperception has persisted on this topic since the U.S. Supreme court struck down school-sponsored prayer in the early 1960s. In those decisions, the high court ruled that the establishment clause does prohibit schools from allowing or engaging in school-sponsored prayer or encouraging students to pray.\nBut the free-exercise clause protects the rights of students to pray on their own time. In fact, singling out student religious speech for punishment would indicate hostility toward religion and violate the basic First Amendment principle that the government may not punish a particular viewpoint.\nThis does not mean that students have an unfettered right to speak on religious subjects. Students can be punished for interrupting class time for any type of speech. Also, school officials can make sure that students are not speaking to a captive audience or harassing others by overzealously advocating their religious beliefs.\nDon't certain kinds of harsh or insensitive speech tend to silence others' free expression, thereby working against the free exchange of ideas?\nAn offended person's decision not to speak is hardly a reason to suppress the speech of others. Those who find an idea, epithet, literary work or other form of expression offensive can oppose, counteract and perhaps refute it with further speech \u2014 not by banning the speech deemed to be offensive.\nAs Justice Louis Brandeis said in a famous quote, \"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.\"\nWhat is academic freedom?\nAcademic freedom has an institutional and individual component. Academic freedom refers to the right of a university to determine its educational mission free from governmental intervention. This is institutional academic freedom. Academic freedom also refers to the right of an individual professor to teach her or his curriculum without undue interference from university officials. This is individual academic freedom.\nThe American Association of University Professors in its 1940 Statement of Principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure defined academic freedom as \"full freedom in research\" and \"freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject.\" The statement with regard to freedom in the classroom also states that teachers \"should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject.\"\nStill another aspect of academic freedom refers to the ability of university professors to be able to speak as private citizens without fear of reprisal from their universities or the government. The AAUP's statement provides: \"When they speak or write as citizens, they should be free from institutional censorship or discipline, but their special position in the community imposes special obligations.\"\nHow do schools resolve the tension between freedom of speech and the need for discipline and control?\nPreserving the speech rights of students and maintaining the integrity of public education are not mutually exclusive. Schools should model First Amendment principles by encouraging and supporting the rights of students to express their ideas in writing. On the other hand, students should not expect to have unfettered access to their classmates and should be prepared to abide by reasonable time, place and manner restrictions. Schools must continue to maintain order, discipline and the educational mission of the school as they seek to accommodate the rights of students.\nWhy shouldn't public colleges be allowed some say in the type of research done by their professors or the funding sources if a line of inquiry might negatively affect the school?\nTo allow colleges to restrict a field of research, either by censuring a professor or by limiting funding, would be to suggest that no academic advances should be made in that field. Such an attitude would seem to run contrary to the purpose of institutions of higher education. Where a college blocks a professor's efforts to research a particular issue, the implication is that the censors fear what might be found.\nAs government entities, public universities are just as precluded by West Virginia v. Barnette from deciding \"what shall be orthodox\" as Congress is. That means that although a school administration may question the methodology or classroom performance of a professor, it cannot prohibit a field of inquiry simply because the subject is controversial.\nAs long as they don't discriminate against certain speakers or messages, what's wrong with campus free-speech zones?\nFirst Amendment advocates say an entire campus should be a free-speech zone because the purpose of a public college or university is to allow and to explore all points of view. Free-speech supporters thus express suspicion that designating zones is a way of limiting and discouraging free speech.\nWhat about independent student newspapers or fliers? Can schools control their distribution?\nYes and no. Public universities may not completely prevent students from independently printing and distributing written materials on their campus, but they may impose reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on their distribution. For example, a school may establish certain places on campus as the proper locations for those wishing to pass out written materials, or they may prohibit distribution at times where it could reasonably block the passage of students to and from classes. But the open spaces of a college campus are generally presumed to be an open forum for the purpose of student expression, including written expression.\nWhat if other students try to prevent distribution of student publications that they find offensive?\nMany college campuses continue to deal with the problem of students' confiscating newspapers to prevent the circulation of stories or ideas that they find offensive. Every year, cases are reported where entire runs of a publication are stolen, depriving the campus of the opportunity to even consider what was published. Unfortunately, very few of these instances have resulted in meaningful punishment of the offenders.\nThe problem in punishing those who steal papers is twofold. From the legal perspective, it is difficult to successfully prosecute the perpetrators for theft, as the newspapers are distributed free to whoever chooses to pick one (or 1,000) up. Prosecutors in a handful of cases have used charges of criminal mischief and vandalism, in addition to the more conventional theft charges, to secure punishment for those responsible for stealing papers. But the vast majority of such incidents go unheard by courts of law. Some universities have been accused of downplaying the importance of mass newspaper thefts out of fear of further offending various groups.\nAre public colleges permitted to put any restrictions on the student groups that they will recognize? What if activities advocated by a group are illegal?\nThe Supreme Court spoke to this issue in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), in which it held that even those statements (or student groups, in this case) that advocate violation of the law are protected speech under the First Amendment unless they threaten \"imminent lawless action.\" This principle was tested recently by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Gay Lesbian Bisexual Alliance v. Pryor, where the state of Alabama passed a statute that prevented state universities from recognizing or distributing funds to student groups that promoted lifestyles prohibited under the state's sodomy laws. The court found that the GLBA did not promote \"imminent lawless action,\" and that any statute intended to restrict the group's otherwise-protected advocacy of a nontraditional lifestyle was inherently unconstitutional.\nCan a college student invoke his or her religious beliefs to avoid engaging in an objectionable type of artistic expression?\nSuppose a student is taking a drawing class. Part of it involves sketching a nude human body. If a student has a religious objection to observing or drawing unclothed models, he or she might ask to be exempted from that section of the class without damage to the course grade. Such an exemption may or may not be granted.\nIt stands to reason, under a doctrine established by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1943 decision West Virginia v. Barnette, that no one may be compelled by a government actor to do something that will violate their conscience. Accordingly, it would seem that the same could be said for students who find religious or moral objections to certain practices normally required in a course of study \u2014 that they should be allowed to take on comparable tasks, modified to meet the requirements of their worldview.\nA Mormon drama student at the University of Utah recently objected to \"taking the Lord's name in vain\" and using \"the f-word.\" When she asked that she be allowed to change the words in class exercises and plays to which she was assigned, she was informed that her grade would suffer if she did so. In the resulting court case, the federal district court found that she could not exempt herself from the requirements of her studies and that if she desired to avoid those requirements, she had the option of choosing another major. The case has been appealed.\nCan people who oppose a speaker's message use their 'freedom of speech' to drown out the offending words?\nThis is called a \"heckler's veto.\" The problem with it is that, far from advancing understanding, it inhibits it. Freedom of speech was guaranteed in the First Amendment so that a full range of ideas would be available on matters of public interest. The Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment as it pertains to public college campuses over the past 80-90 years is derived in part from J.S. Mill's essay, \"On Liberty,\" in which he asserted that:\n\"\u2026 the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.\"\nStudents are not allowed to drown out the lectures of a professor in the classroom without disciplinary action, because doing so disrupts the school's academic purpose. Guest speakers are allowed on campus in order to offer different and broader perspectives, thereby addressing the school's purpose. So, student speech that would drown out a controversial guest therefore can be prohibited.\nHowever, institutions ideally will not simply silence students wishing to protest against a campus speaker. They may restrict student protesters to an appropriate forum, thus allowing both exercises of free speech to occur.\nHave courts addressed whether clapping at public meetings is protected by the First Amendment?\nThe California Supreme Court addressed this issue in 1970 in the case of In Re Kay, 1 Cal.3d 930. \"Audience activities, such as heckling, interrupting, harsh questioning, and booing, even though they may be impolite and discourteous, can nonetheless advance the goals of the First Amendment. For many citizens such participation in public meetings, whether supportive or critical of the speaker, may constitute the only manner in which they can express their views to a large number of people.\"\nThe court continued: \"'Disturbances' of meetings arise in a wide variety of forms; the modern techniques of the 'politics of peaceful confrontation' frequently result in a clash of ideological expressions which may, in many senses, 'disturb' a meeting. Without doubt petitioners' conduct in the instant case, including clapping \u2026 was 'closely akin to \"pure speech\"'\" (quoting Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District).\nWhy would the news media want or need personal information about individual students or incidents?\nParticularly in situations involving illegal or unethical behavior, the press takes seriously its responsibility to keep the public informed. People want and need to know what is happening on public campuses, especially if they have children attending school or thinking of doing so. As with any important story, reporters will want to learn as much about the people involved or suspected of being involved so that they can assemble the uncontested facts into an accurate picture of the situation. This goal would be served by having access to some of the records protected by FERPA, because the information would help the reporters to understand that situation and the individuals who might be involved. Without access to the government-controlled educational records, pieces are left out of the puzzle.\nCould officials limit each speaker to one topic per meeting?\nSuch a regulation would probably be OK, as long as the government applied it evenhandedly. On its face, this requirement appears reasonable and does not discriminate against speech on the basis of content or viewpoint.\nWhat's the First Amendment issue with legislation against cyberstalking?\nIt has to do with distinguishing between protected freedom of speech and speech that is not protected. Most of the new laws passed by states require that for online communications to be considered \"stalking,\" they must constitute harassment of a person that places the person in reasonable fear for his or her safety. Courts have upheld stalking legislation that deals with threats because the First Amendment does not protect true threats. But some of the measures go beyond punishing true threats and proscribe \"annoying\" speech.\nWhat are \"gripe sites\" or \"cybergripers\"?\nGripe sites are websites providing consumer commentary criticizing the business practices of certain companies. Many cybergriper sites contain parodies of their corporate targets. For example, a consumer who believes that \"Business X\" engages in unfair business practices might establish a website with the domain name \"BusinessXsucks.com.\"\nDo \"gripe sites\" violate federal trademark laws?\nThe answer depends on several factors, including whether the gripe site is engaged in commercial use of the target's trademarked business name, or whether the gripe site owner has bad-faith intent to profit from his or her site.\nBusinesses targeted by gripe sites have sued under both the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1996 and the Anti-Cybersquatting Law of 1998. If the gripe site is consumer commentary of a noncommercial nature, it is less likely to be violation of these federal laws, particularly the Federal Trademark Dilution Act.\nMany commentators believe that gripe sites that do not engage in commerce are protected under the First Amendment. Some recent court decisions have upheld this viewpoint.\nFor example, in Taubman Co. v. Webfeats, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a gripe site was \"purely an exhibition of Free Speech, and the Lanham Act (the major federal trademark law) is not invoked.\" The appeals court explained: \"We find that the domain name is a type of public expression, not different in scope than a billboard or a pulpit, and [the gripe site owner] has a First Amendment right to express his opinion about Taubman, and as long as his speech is not commercially misleading, the Lanham Act cannot be summoned to prevent it.\"\nWhat is the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1996?\nThe law provides a cause of action for trademark owners if they can establish the following:\n1. They own a famous mark (determined by eight factors listed in the law).\n2. The defendant is making commercial use in interstate commerce of the plaintiff's mark or trade name.\n3. The defendant's use of plaintiff's mark occurred after the mark became famous.\n4. The defendant's use causes dilution of plaintiff's mark by lessening the capacity of a famous mark to identify and distinguish goods or services.\nThe law exempts noncommercial use of trademarks. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals explained in its 1998 decision in Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation v. Faber that \"commercial use is an essential element of any dilution claim.\"\nHowever, some courts appear to take a broad view of what constitutes commercial activity. For example, a federal district court in New York ruled in 1997 in Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Bucci that a radio host and anti-abortion activist who had a website with the domain name www.plannedparenthood.com engaged in commercial activity for several reasons. These include that fact that the radio host promoted his book on the site, solicited funds for his nonprofit political activism, and designed it to harm Planned Parenthood commercially. The court explained:\nFinally, defendant's use is commercial because of its effect on plaintiff's activities. First, defendant has appropriated plaintiff's mark in order to reach an audience of Internet users who want to reach plaintiff's services and viewpoint, intercepting them and misleading them in an attempt to offer his own political message. Second, defendant's appropriation not only provides Internet users with competing and directly opposing information, but also prevents those users from reaching plaintiff and its services and message. In that way, defendant's use is classically competitive: he has taken plaintiff's mark as his own in order to purvey his Internet services \u2014 his website \u2014 to an audience intending to access plaintiff's services.\nAre city councils and similar public bodies required to have periods for public comment at meetings?\nStates take different approaches to allocating time for public comments at public meetings, and courts across the country have provided some guidance on this issue. Most states do not expressly require, via statutes or legal precedent, time for public participation in public meetings, although it has become a customary practice to allow individuals to speak. Often in the case of school board meetings, members of the public are required to provide notice, or to register with the board well before the meeting, to be allowed to make a comment.\nThe Florida Supreme Court has recognized that public comments in open meetings are important in maintaining an open government. The court has stated that government bodies \"should not be allowed to deprive the public of this inalienable right to be present and to be heard at all deliberations wherein decisions affecting the public are being made.\" Board of Public Instruction of Broward County v. Doan, 224 So. 2d 693,699 (Fla. 1969). Furthermore, the Florida Code expressly provides that members of the public have a right to participate in local government meetings regarding land use, but the comment time can be regulated by the decision-making body. Fla. Stat. \u00a7 286.0115(2)(b).\nCalifornia has a statute that requires public bodies to allow for public comments at meetings. Cal. Gov. Code \u00a7 54954.3(a). A California case provides legal precedent for when a public meeting is continued to a later date for some reason. In Chaffee v. San Francisco Library Commission, 115 Cal. Rptr. 3d 336 (Cal. App. 2004), a public meeting was continued to a later date after the meeting body lost its quorum to continue. A California citizen brought suit alleging that the state sunshine laws (or open-meeting laws) required public comments at every meeting of a public body, not just a comment section on each agenda. The California Court of Appeals in the 1st Appellate District held in favor of the public body by holding that public comments are mandated only once per agenda, not once per body meeting. Allowing for public comments at each meeting regarding the same meeting would cause a \"surplusage,\" the court said.\nSome states, such as Wyoming, statutorily make it a right of a public body to prevent willful disruption of a meeting by removing anyone causing a disruption or by taking a recess. Wyo. Stat. \u00a7 16-4-406.\nWhat is the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999 and does it prohibit gripe sites?\nThe act provides a cause of action to a trademark holder when someone registers a domain name of a well-known trademark \u2014 or something very similar to it \u2014 and then attempts to profit from it by ransoming the domain name back to the trademark holder or by using the domain name to divert business from the trademark holder to the domain-name holder. Cybersquatters buy up the domain names of well-known companies in the hopes of profiting by selling the online \"real estate\" back to the trademark holder. Whether a cybergriper violates the anti-cybersquatting law depends on whether the griper has bad-faith intent to profit from the purchase of the domain name.\nHowever, there is no per se commercial-use requirement in the anti-cybersquatting law. As the 9th Circuit recently wrote in its 2005 decision Bosley Medical Institute, Inc. v. Kremer: \"Allowing a cybersquatter to register the domain name with bad faith intent to profit, but get around the law by making noncommercial use of the mark, would run counter to the purpose of the act.\"\nThe statute contains a list of nine factors that courts must consider to determine whether someone had bad faith intent to profit. One of the relevant factors is whether the domain name holder, the alleged cybersquatter, had a \"bonafide non-commercial or fair use of the mark in a site accessible under the domain name.\"\nMany commentators have criticized the use of the anti-cybersquatting law to cover true gripe sites developed not to profit but to release critical consumer commentary. For example, law professor Hannibal Travis writes in a 2005 article in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology that \"trademark rights should be limited to policing commercial competition, rather than non-commercial Internet speech.\"\nWhy is the concept of \"local community standards\" difficult to apply to the Internet?\nLocal community standards are difficult to apply on the global medium of the Internet because Web publishers cannot limit access to their sites based on the geographic location of Internet users. For this reason, several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed their discomfort with applying local standards in determining what material is harmful to minors under the now-defunct Child Online Protection Act (COPA) in Ashcroft v. ACLU (2002).\nJustice Sandra Day O'Connor, for example, advocated the adoption of a \"national standard for regulation for obscenity of the Internet.\" Justice Stephen Breyer reasoned that COPA should be read to include a national standard. Other justices expressed concern about the notion of local community standards, as well.\nInternet filters give librarians control in order to protect children from harmful material. What's the objection?\nThe U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged that the protection of minors is a compelling government interest. But, the Court has also ruled that protecting minors does not mean that the government has carte blanche to suppress the free-speech rights of adults and older minors. The problem with filters is that they block too much legitimate, constitutionally protected material. A federal court had ruled that less-restrictive alternatives to filtering exist, so that speech is not banned in such a broad swath. The Supreme Court, however, overturned that ruling.\nHaven't studies conclusively shown that violent images cause violence?\nNo, not conclusively. One scholar who analyzed about 200 recent studies of media violence said none provided support for the existence of a cause-and-effect relationship between violent imagery and actual violence. Japanese and Canadian TV programming is more violent than American TV, but those societies have much lower violent-crime rates than the United States.\nCan violence on television be legally regulated?\nCourts have generally said that it cannot be restricted without a violation of the First Amendment protection of free speech.\nFrom a First Amendment standpoint, what's wrong with voluntary rating or labeling systems?\nFree-speech advocates warn that \"voluntary\" programs may seem to come from willing industry participants, but compliance is usually due to significant pressure from lawmakers.\nCan an artist sue a private gallery that refuses to show her art?\nNo. Private galleries are private spaces, and gallery owners and curators can show what they like. An artist whose work is rejected by a private gallery cannot legally assert a First Amendment claim.\nWhat is the legal definition of obscenity?\nThe U.S. Supreme Court set up a test for obscenity in its 1973 decision Miller v. California. The Court provided three \"basic guidelines\":\nWhether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest\nWhether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law\nWhether the work, taken as whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value\nThese different guidelines are sometimes called the prurient-interest, patently offensive and serious-value prongs of the Miller test.\nWhat safeguards must a city licensing law have with respect to adult bookstores and related businesses?\nThe U.S. Supreme Court has indicated that city licensing laws must contain some procedural safeguards in order to guard against censorship. In its 1990 decision FW\/PBS v. City of Dallas, the high court said that a licensing scheme for adult businesses must contain two such safeguards:\nThe decision to issue or deny a license must be made within a \"specified and reasonable time period\nThere must be the possibility of prompt judicial review in the event that the license is erroneously denied\nWhat are the adverse secondary effects that are used to justify restrictions on adult businesses?\nThe most commonly mentioned secondary effects with respect to adult businesses are decreased property values and increased crime. Government officials often argue that adult businesses will reduce the property values of surrounding areas and lead to greater crime. Many courts give a high level of deference to municipal officials when it comes to secondary effects.\nHowever, some studies have actually contradicted the general assumptions that all adult businesses cause adverse secondary effects. For example, a study by the Fulton County (Ga.) police department showed fewer police calls made from adult businesses than from regular bars. Another city-commissioned study from Fulton County showed that property values increased around some so-called gentleman's clubs.\nCan a city completely prohibit adult-entertainment businesses from operating?\nNo. But a city may enact reasonable zoning measures that relegate adult businesses to a certain area or areas of town. Similarly, a city may zone adult businesses by dispersing them throughout a city.\nCities may also pass restrictions that regulate how live entertainment is performed. For example, courts have allowed cities to require nude dancers to wear at least some clothing during their performances.\nBut a city may not completely prohibit adult entertainment. In its 1981 decision Schad v. Borough of Mount Ephraim, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a town in New Jersey could not ban live adult performance dancing within its borders. \"By excluding live entertainment throughout the Borough, the Mount Ephraim ordinance prohibits a wide range of expression that has long been held to be within the protections of the First and Fourteenth Amendments,\" the high court wrote.\nThe Supreme Court distinguished between a zoning law that restricted the location of adult businesses and a law that completely prohibited certain types of expressive conduct.\nWould it be legal for a telemarketer to call me at 1 a.m., waking me up, to sell me something?\nNo, telemarketers cannot call consumers before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. Telemarketers who do call after these times have violated two federal laws that overlap somewhat \u2014 the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act. Both laws empower either state officials or individuals to sue for abusive telemarketing practices. Complaints can also be filed with the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.\nCan creditors and telemarketers use profanity over the telephone?\nGenerally, yes. However, many states have passed laws regarding telephone harassment. In Tennessee, for example, telephone harassment is committed by one \"who intentionally threatens by telephone \u2026 to take action known to be unlawful against any person, and by this action knowingly annoys or alarms the recipient\" (T.C.A. \u00a7 39-17-308(a)(1)). The elements for telephone harassment must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt by the state. While the elements vary slightly from state to state, the prosecution generally must prove that the defendant placed the calls anonymously, repetitiously or at an inconvenient hour; the defendant had no legitimate purpose for contacting the victim; and the defendant's action somehow alarmed or annoyed the victim.\nWhy does government regulation of news racks raise a First Amendment issue?\nWhen the government regulates news racks, it affects a fundamental delivery device by which publishers convey their informative products to the public. Many people purchase or pick up newspapers and commercial handbills from news racks. Racks provide an easy way for many people to obtain these publications. The U.S. Supreme Court has written that news racks \"continue to play a significant role in the dissemination of protected speech.\"\nWhy shouldn't the FDA have unfettered ability to regulate the content of labels on health products?\nThe FDA doesn't have absolute control because, as a federal agency, it is bound by the dictates of the Constitution and the First Amendment. Generally, the content of labels is considered to be at least a form of commercial speech that merits a degree of First Amendment protection.\nWhy do supporters favor a constitutional amendment prohibiting flag-burning?\nMany supporters feel that the flag is a unique symbol deserving of dignity and respect. To burn this object of veneration is akin to an \"inarticulate grunt or roar\" that is devoid of any meaningful speech, intended only to enrage others, and undeserving of free-speech protection. The supporters say that when so many other avenues exist for free expression, any burden on the First Amendment is too small to outweigh the desecration of the flag and the memories of the millions who have died for the liberty it represents.\nWhy do opponents reject a constitutional amendment prohibiting flag-burning?\nOpponents argue that the government may not prohibit free speech simply because the ideas expressed are objectionable. Cultural and social change would be strangled if protest were limited to issues with which the majority agreed. This principle is not dependent on the medium of expression. Burning the flag is a means of protected speech as surely as picketing, printing leaflets or shouting on a street corner.\nCan I sue someone for sending me junk faxes?\nIn 1991, Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Part of this act made it unlawful to send unsolicited advertisements to a fax machine without the recipient's prior permission. However, in 2005 the Junk Fax Prevention Act was signed into law. That act amended the TCPA to allow faxes to be sent to recipients, without prior consent, if there is an established business relationship.\nAn established business relationship is a prior or existing relationship formed by a voluntary two-way communication between the sender and the recipient. However, the JFPA also allows senders to fax those whose numbers they received from \"a directory, advertisement, or site on the Internet to which the recipient voluntarily agreed to make available its facsimile number for public distribution.\" There is no time limit on this exception. So, if a fax number appeared on such a list 10 years ago and a sender obtains that list, they can send faxes to that number without being penalized. If a fax owner never put his or her fax number on any type of list that could be available to the public and has no business relationship with a sender, he or she can sue the sender of the unsolicited fax.\nHowever, some states may have laws regulating faxes sent within their states that are more stringent than the JFPA.\nWhat is the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Act of 2002?\nThe law was passed by the House of Representatives on Feb. 14, 2002, and by the Senate on March 20, then signed into law by President George W. Bush on March 27. In its final stages before passage, it was also known as the McCain-Feingold bill, named after main sponsors Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis. Other key sponsors were Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and James Jeffords, I-Vermont. In the House, Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Martin Meehan, D-Mass., sponsored the legislation. The main provisions of the law, which took effect on Nov. 6, 2002, are (1) a ban on \"soft money\" donations to political parties by individuals, corporations and unions; (2) restrictions on \"electioneering communications\" \u2014 broadcast advertisements close to an election that mention specific candidates by name; and (3) an increase in the limits on donations individuals may make to candidates for federal office.\nWhat is soft money, and why is it being regulated?\nThe Federal Election Commission in 1979 issued a regulation allowing political parties to raise funds for \"party-building\" efforts \u2014 such as voter registration drives and TV advertising. This \"soft money\" remains outside the normal rules that require reporting the source and amount of donations. It was originally justified as a way for parties to remain viable as entities separate from their candidates. But over the years, soft-money donations from corporations and unions \u2014 otherwise barred from making donations \u2014 to political parties have skyrocketed. And the national parties have transferred much of the money to state party accounts that are used to influence specific elections. The growth of soft money was seen by reformers as thwarting the purpose of all campaign-finance regulations.\nWhat are the First Amendment concerns raised by the new campaign-finance law?\nBecause of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1976 ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, all regulations affecting the money used in campaigns must be evaluated with the First Amendment in mind. This is because money used in campaigns, especially the money spent by candidates, directly or indirectly supports the expression of political views. As the Supreme Court said in Buckley, \"Discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. The First Amendment affords the broadest protection to such political expression.\" Critics of the new law say it violates the First Amendment by sharply restricting the ability of political parties and other groups to convey their views about issues and candidates in elections.\nHow do campaign-finance law supporters respond to the First Amendment issues raised?\nThose who like the new law say it merely restores the political landscape to the way it was a decade ago, before the use of soft money and electioneering ads became so widespread. In a recent position paper, Brookings Institution scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein also insist that \"no speech is banned by the new law \u2014 not a single ad nor any word or combination of words would be muzzled.\" Only the source of the funds and the disclosure of the source are affected by the law, they say. In addition, supporters argue that the importance of curbing corruption in the political system outweighs any infringement on expression the law might impose.\nHow have the courts assessed the BCRA?\nThe law itself spelled out an expedited process for handling the inevitable legal challenges to the law. A three-judge panel in the District of Columbia held hearings at which evidence of the impact of campaign contributions was introduced. After months of deliberation, the panel issued its ruling in May 2003. The panel, comprised of appeals court Judge Karen Henderson and district Judges Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and Richard Leon, produced more than 1,600 pages of mix-and-match opinions that upheld some provisions of the law but struck down others. Commentators generally agreed that because of its fractured findings and conclusions, the ruling did little to help the Supreme Court as it undertook its own assessment of the law.\nHow did the Supreme Court handle the case?\nBecause the panel did not rule until May, the Supreme Court did not take up the issue until after its summer recess. Twelve separate appeals concerning the BCRA reached the Court, but they were consolidated and became known generally under the name McConnell v. Federal Election Commission. The justices, who traditionally do not begin their term until the first Monday in October, convened in early September to consider the case in a rare four-hour session. Some of the top First Amendment and constitutional lawyers in the nation argued in the cases \u2014 including Floyd Abrams, Kenneth Starr, Seth Waxman and the current solicitor general Theodore Olson. Following the arguments, the general view was that the justices would try to issue their ruling before the end of 2003, so that the uncertainty over the law would end before the 2004 presidential campaign got underway.\nHow did the Supreme Court rule on the BCRA?\nThe justices, like the court panel that first assessed the law, was sharply divided. But the five-justice majority did speak clearly and decisively in support of almost the entire law. Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the main opinion, and Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer were also in the majority. Citing extensive evidence of the influence of campaign money on legislation and elections, the majority gave deference to Congress in fashioning laws that would prevent companies, individuals and parties from circumventing earlier campaign laws. The majority gave less weight than it usually does to First Amendment concerns, prompting dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia to call it a \"sad day\" for freedom of speech. Also dissenting in most parts of the decision were Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. The only major provision of the law struck down was the ban on campaign donations by minors. The Court unanimously agreed that this section of the law unconstitutionally infringed on the speech rights of minors.\nDid the Supreme Court decide that there can be no book censorship in public school libraries?\nNot exactly. In the Pico case, the Court ruled that books could not be removed from a public school library unless they were educationally unsuitable or \"pervasively vulgar.\" The ruling did not extend to the acquisition of books \u2014 leaving schools to decide which books they would purchase.\nAre there laws prohibiting spam?\nNot at the federal level, though at least eight bills to regulate spam have been introduced in recent sessions of Congress. (See a list of federal bills.)\nMore than 20 states, however, have passed laws regulating spam. (See spamlaws.com for updated information on states that have anti-spam laws.)\nCan different rules about hair length apply in extracurricular activities and the regular school day?\nYes. In most cases, participation in extracurricular activities is considered to be a privilege, not a right. As such, participants may be subject to additional or different rules than regular students. Lower courts and the U.S. Supreme Court have noted that participants in extracurricular sports, by electing to participate, subject themselves to these rules. In 1995, the Supreme Court decided a case in which it upheld drug testing for student athletes. In its opinion, the Court noted: \"By choosing to 'go out for the team,' [student athletes] voluntarily subject themselves to a degree of regulation even higher than that imposed on students generally.\" Vernonia Sch. Dist. 47J v. Acton, U.S. 646, 657 (1995)\nOne fairly recent case highlighting this issue was decided in a U.S. District Court in Missouri. In Hurt v. Boonville R-1 School District Case, No. 02-4267-CV-C-SOW (W.D. Mo. 2002), a high school student was not allowed to play in a basketball game, because he wore his hair in a type of braid called cornrows. This style violated the team coach's grooming policy. Though calling the rule \"stupid and dumb,\" the judge deciding the case found no violation of constitutional or statutory rights and said that \"high school coaches have discretion and authority to impose additional requirements on student athletes.\"\nDoes a public school have the right to prohibit students from wearing hats in school?\nThough the courts have been divided over how to resolve dress-code disputes and have reached different results, there has not been a successful challenge to a hat regulation in public schools. So, a prohibition on wearing hats in school would probably be upheld.\nSchool boards have used a variety of reasons to support policies on uniforms and dress codes. They say standard attire helps lessen peer pressure aggravated by socioeconomic divisions, promote unity of spirit, identify trespassers on school grounds and prevent gang-related violence. These concerns would likely be among the reasons for prohibiting hats in schools, and such rationales have been upheld in many courts.\nThe one exception schools would probably make would be for religious headwear.\nCan students wear clothing with profanity?\nNo, public school officials can prohibit students from wearing shirts with profane messages. In its 1986 decision Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote: \"Surely, it is a highly appropriate function of public school education to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive terms in public discourse.\" The Court explained that \"schools must teach by example the shared values of a civilized social order.\"\nI work with a political committee. Am I required to put a disclaimer on emails or on our website?\nYes. Political committees that are registered with the Federal Election Commission are required to place disclaimers on their public websites. If you send out more than 500 substantially similar emails, each message must contain a disclaimer. (For specific disclaimer requirements, please see this FEC information.)\nCan I send an email to a friend about a political topic or federal election without worrying about a disclaimer?\nYes. Individuals are not subject to the rules and regulations concerning online campaign advertising. An individual may send unlimited personal emails on any political topic. There is no need even to identify yourself, and it is not necessary to state whether or not you have been authorized by a political party in sending the email.\nCan I create my own personal political blog? Can I post to another's political blog?\nAbsolutely, to both. Uncompensated blogging is exempted from any Federal Election Commission regulation in effect today.\nWhat if I pay to place a political ad on someone else's Web page? Would I be subject to any rules and regulations?\nYes. An ad placed on someone else's Web page for a fee would be considered to be a \"public communication\" under the regulations. To take this question one step further, paying to place an ad on another's website may result in a contribution or expenditure. All disclaimer requirements would also apply in this situation.\nThe company I work for provides commercial services online. May we provide our services to political committees and candidates?\nYes. You may provide your services to political candidates and committees, as long as you charge the normal and usual fees for your services.\nI work for a private employer and am told that it is against company policy to discuss politics or religion with customers. Does that violate my freedom of speech?\nNo, the First Amendment does not limit private employers. The Bill of Rights \u2014 and the First Amendment \u2014 limit only government actors, not private actors. This means that private employers can restrict employee speech in the workplace without running afoul of the First Amendment. Private employees would have to rely on other sources of law (e.g., contract law, tort law or state employment statutes) to seek relief in court.\nPublic employers also can set rules for employee behavior in the workplace. However, public employers are government actors and are subject to the limitations of the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment.\n\u2190 FAQ\nWho is \"the press\"?\nCourts have long struggled with this seemingly easy question. While no doubt exists that \"mainstream\" media, such as broadcast stations, newspapers and magazines enjoy the freedom of \"the press,\" the line gets blurrier in cases involving underground newspapers, freelance writers and pamphleteers. In general, however, courts have defined \"the press\" so as to include all publishers. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for example, has said that First Amendment protections extend to \"'every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.'\" von Bulow v. von Bulow, 811 F.2d 136, 144 (2d Cir.) (quoting Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U.S. 444, 452 (1938)), cert. denied, 481 U.S. 1015 (1987).\nDoes \"freedom of the press\" mean the news media can say or write anything they want?\nUnless restricted by a valid prior restraint (which is rare), the news media are free to publish any information or opinion they desire. This freedom, however, does not immunize them from liability for what they publish. A newspaper that publishes false information about a person, for example, can be sued for libel. A television station similarly can be sued if it broadcasts a story that unlawfully invades a person's privacy. Because such liability can be staggering, most journalists strive to exercise their freedom to publish in a responsible and ethical manner.\nIf a news gatherer is jailed for refusing to turn over subpoenaed information, how and when is he or she released?\nA jailed news gatherer can be released for many reasons. Occasionally, the news gatherer will \"purge\" the contempt by turning over the subpoenaed information. In other instances, an appellate court will uphold the privilege and overturn the contempt order. If the news gatherer demonstrates enough resolve to convince the judge that the information never will be provided and that further jail time is futile, some judges will release the news gatherer. News gatherers also often are released when the proceeding in which they were subpoenaed (the trial or grand jury session) ends, or when the information for which they were subpoenaed is obtained from another source.\nThe reporters and editors at my local newspaper are highly biased. Is there a federal regulator who should know about this?\nNo. Under the First Amendment, newspapers and magazines can publish information as they see fit, biased or not. If published information is libelous, the publication can be sued by the person claiming to be libeled. But the federal government does not and cannot regulate newspaper content.\nWhy is the status of a plaintiff so important in defamation law?\nThe status of the plaintiff (person bringing a lawsuit) in defamation law is important because there are different legal standards for different types of plaintiffs. The legal standard changes depending upon whether the defamation plaintiff is a private or public figure. Private figures must show that a defendant was negligent, or at fault, in order to prevail. But, so-called public figures or public officials who sue for defamation must meet a higher legal standard. They must show that a defendant acted with actual malice by clear and convincing evidence in order to recover. The courts have defined actual malice as knowing that a statement was false or acting in reckless disregard as to whether a statement was true or false.\nThis difference in legal standards shows why a significant amount of defamation litigation focuses on whether the plaintiff is a private or public figure. Defamation defendants will often argue that plaintiffs are public figures, while plaintiffs will often contend that they are private figures.\nWhat is a retraction statute?\nA retraction statute is a law that allows a defamation plaintiff to retract, or take back, a defamatory statement. Retraction statutes vary considerably from state to state in terms of their coverage and net effect. Under many statutes, a plaintiff has to request a retraction within a certain time frame. Then, the defendant must comply in a certain time frame. In many states, if a defendant issues a proper retraction, the defendant can reduce (but not eliminate) the damages they will have to pay. For example, in Tennessee, if a defendant issues a proper retraction, the defendant cannot be held liable for punitive damages. (Punitive damages are damages designed to punish the wrongdoer; they are controversial in some circles, because they go beyond compensatory damages, which are damages designed to compensate the plaintiff for wrongdoing.)\nIs truth a defense in libel lawsuits?\nTruth is an absolute defense to libel claims, because one of the elements that must be proven in a defamation suit is falsity of the statement. If a statement is true, it cannot be false, and therefore, there is no prima facie case of defamation. There are numerous jurisdictions (including Florida) that have adopted the substantial-truth doctrine, which offers protection to a defendant of a defamation claim, as long as the \"gist\" of the story is true.\nIn the 1964 ruling New York Times v. Sullivan, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects the publication of all statements regarding public officials unless the statement was made with actual malice \u2014 \"with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false.\" The Court set a new standard by requiring that a public-official defamation plaintiff show evidence of actual malice by clear and convincing evidence. If the plaintiff is a private person, then only negligence needs to be proven, assuming the defamatory statement was false. However, if the private person wants to recover punitive damages, she must show that actual malice existed, as well.\nWhen can an individual sue for public disclosure of private facts?\nGenerally, the material published must be private information that \"is not of legitimate concern to the public.\" Its disclosure must also be \"highly offensive to a reasonable person.\" Material private enough to trigger this tort claim could include disclosure of sexual orientation, medical history, or other personal, private facets of a person's life. The pressing question in public disclosure of private-facts cases is whether the information is newsworthy or of legitimate concern to the public. Newsworthiness is evaluated by an examination of several factors, including the social value of the disclosed material, the depth of intrusion into personal life, and the extent to which the person is already in public view. Even Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren, authors of a famous 1890 law review article, \"The Right To Privacy,\" wrote: \"The right to privacy does not prohibit any publication of matter which is of public or general interest.\"\nWhat types of conduct by the news media can lead to intrusion claims?\nMany different types of conduct can cause someone to file an intrusion\/invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. Common examples include trespassing on private property without the owner's consent; installing hidden cameras or other secret surveillance equipment to monitor someone's behavior; and harassing a person by continually following him.\nAn example of conduct that was held to be intrusive enough to warrant judicial relief was the case of paparazzi photographer Ron Galella. Galella was relentless in his pursuit of photographs of Jackie Onassis and her children. After a court injunction and appeal, Galella was prohibited from approaching within 25 feet of Jackie O., blocking her movement in any public place and engaging in \"any conduct which would reasonably be foreseen to harass, alarm or frighten the defendant.\"\nWhat is prior restraint?\nA prior restraint is a legal restraint on material before publication. It's an order that prevents publication.\nDoes the protection against prior restraint protect only the news media?\nIn theory, the protection against prior restraint applies to all speakers. Practically, however, fewer circumstances exist in which individuals can assert this protection. Moreover, in light of the balancing test suggested in Landmark Communications, a court might be more likely to find that the government's interest in preventing harmful speech outweighs an individual's interest in disseminating sensitive information.\nWhat types of restraints on speech do individuals face?\nAs most famously described by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States, \"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.\" Other types of speech by individuals also fall outside the protection against prior restraint, including fighting words and obscenity.\n\"There are two ways in which the government may attempt to restrain speech,\" wrote scholar Henry Cohen in \"Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment\" (Congressional Research Service, 2001). \"The more common is to make a particular category of speech, such as obscenity or defamation, subject to criminal prosecution or civil suit, and then, if someone engages in the proscribed category of speech, to hold a trial and impose sanctions if appropriate. The second way is by prior restraint, i.e., to issue a court injunction against engaging in particular speech,\" publishing the Pentagon Papers, for example.\"\nIf my employer tells me I can't say certain things or discuss certain matters, isn't that prior restraint?\nNot from a First Amendment standpoint. The First Amendment limits what government in its various forms can do to restrict speech. Many individuals are subject to employment or other contracts that limit their right to speak freely. That's a private matter.\nHow does the FCC define \"indecent\" speech?\nUnder FCC rules, broadcast indecency is \"language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.\" By \"contemporary community standards,\" the FCC means the standard \"of an average broadcast viewer or listener, and not the sensibilities of any individual complainant.\"\nHave there been attempts to apply \"equal time\" rules to newspapers?\nSome states passed \"right of reply\" statutes to require newspapers that criticized candidates to give those candidates space to respond. In Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974), the U.S. Supreme Court said such statutes violated the First Amendment, because the government cannot compel a newspaper to publish information. \"A responsible press is an undoubtedly desirable goal,\" the Court said, \"but press responsibility is not mandated by the Constitution, and like many other virtues, it cannot be legislated.\"\nDo television networks have access to courtroom trials?\nTelevision coverage is not allowed in federal courts. The state courts have been more receptive to allowing television coverage of trials, but none has recognized a right to broadcast a trial. The courts most receptive to cameras in the courtroom allow judges broad discretion in deciding whether to permit televised coverage.\nThe Radio-Television News Directors Association and its foundation closely monitor the federal and state rules governing cameras in the courtroom. The foundation posts a state-by-state guide of current law regarding cameras and microphones in courtrooms on its website.\nWhat campaign-finance rules apply to broadcasters?\nThe rules that apply to broadcasters are mainly bookkeeping rules. Broadcasters are required to keep publicly available records of politically related broadcasting requests.\nSo, as stated in the 2003 Supreme Court decision McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, any request to purchase air time \"made by or on behalf of\" any \"legally qualified candidate for public office\" that refers to a \"legally qualified candidate\" or \"any election to Federal office\" or a \"national legislative issue of public importance\" has to be recorded and made available to the public.\nHow can I find out if my state has a shield law or recognizes a news gatherer's privilege?\nThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press publishes \"The Reporter's Privilege Compendium,\" a state-by-state guide to the privilege. This updated guide is available online.\nYou can also obtain current information by researching state law in law libraries or through a number of online databases, including www.findlaw.com.\nHow have the circuit courts viewed the question of reporters' privilege?\nSee this compilation, Branzburg v. Hayes, reporters' privilege & circuit courts.\nHow common are gag orders?\nGag orders are increasingly common. A survey conducted by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press tracked 43 gag orders in 26 states and the District of Columbia between Feb. 1 and April 20, 2000. Among the Reporters Committee's findings were:\nMost of the orders were imposed, even though the trial judge did not conduct hearings to determine whether there were less-drastic means to ensure a fair trial.\nEighteen of the 43 orders were imposed in civil rather than criminal cases, including some in cases in which governmental entities were parties.\nA federal judge in Lubbock, Texas, entered gag orders in nearly all of his cases \u2014 a total of 219 cases in two years.\nHow can I find out the extent to which my state allows cameras in the courtroom?\nThe Radio-Television News Directors Association closely monitors the federal and state rules governing cameras in the courtroom. The foundation posts a state-by-state guide of current law regarding cameras and microphones in courtrooms on its website.\nDon't courts unfairly discriminate against television stations when they allow print reporters to use the tools of their trade but deny television reporters that same right?\nBroadcasters long have maintained that the tools of their trade \u2014 cameras and microphones \u2014 can be used to cover trials with no more disruption than the pens, notebooks, tape recorders and other materials used by print reporters and sketch artists. Most courts, however, have not been persuaded by this argument. In addition, most courts have taken the view that, as long as television reporters are allowed into the courtroom, they have the same access as print reporters.\nGiven that trials are presumed to be open, does the public have a First Amendment right to hear the discussions among the judge, the lawyers and the parties in sidebar conferences or in the judge's chambers?\nAssuming that sidebar conferences and meetings in chambers are not being used to circumvent hearings that should be held in open court, the right of access does not extend to such discussions. Courts that have considered this issue have denied access on the grounds that there is no historical tradition of access to these portions of a trial. These discussions, however, almost always are recorded by the court reporter, and many courts, if asked, will release transcripts of the discussions after the trial.\nAre there dangers in using anonymous juries?\nAnonymous juries were first used in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in trials of drug kingpins and other defendants who posed a special danger to jurors. In those cases and in cases in which there is a high risk of jury tampering, anonymous juries are necessary to protect both jurors and the integrity of the judicial system. Since the mid-1990s, however, judges often have empaneled anonymous juries in cases, including civil cases, in which the only \"risk\" to jurors is the possibility of being approached for press interviews after the case. Anonymous juries should not be used so lightly, however, particularly because being anonymous almost always suggests to jurors that the defendant is dangerous. An anonymous jury is also often beyond scrutiny, even by the parties in the case. One of the jurors in the anonymous jury seated to hear one of mobster John Gotti's trials, for example, was a man with ties to organized crime. Many believe this juror contacted Gotti's attorneys, arranged for a bribe and ensured Gotti's acquittal. Because of the jurors' anonymity, neither the prosecutors nor the news media were aware of this juror's background until after the trial.\nWhy would any state want to include protections for press freedom in its constitution? Doesn't the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution cover that?\nThe First Amendment provides only the minimum level of constitutional protection. The states are free to provide additional protection under their own state laws, including their state constitutions. This notion of \"dual federalism,\" envisioned by the Framers, thus provides citizens and others with two important levels of legal protection by which to safeguard our rights.\nHow does criminal libel differ from civil libel?\nIn criminal libel, the theory is that the damage is to the public rather than to a private individual. Therefore, the state becomes the prosecuting entity against an individual speaker. Presumably, the individual's libelous statement would have to be deemed serious enough to warrant removing the case from the civil realm. The defamation involved in criminal libel could be of another individual, a public official, a government entity, a group, or even a deceased person.\nDidn't New York Times Co. v. Sullivan eliminate the basis for criminal-libel suits?\nNo. In Sullivan (1964), as well as in Garrison v. Louisiana the same year, the Supreme Court extended some First Amendment protection to some false statements of fact leveled against public officials and public figures. But it did not find criminal libel unconstitutional.\nWhen are media \"ride-alongs\" with police allowed?\nMedia \"ride-alongs\" are allowed up to the point that law enforcement personnel enter a private residence. In Wilson v. Layne, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1999 held that police officers executing an arrest warrant violated the Fourth Amendment when they, without the homeowner's consent, invited a reporter and photographer inside a home to witness the search for a fugitive. While the Court recognized that the inclusion of media representatives in such cases might serve general law enforcement aims, it held that such goals were insufficient to overcome the privacy protections fundamental to the Fourth Amendment.\nWhat rights do journalists have at accident or disaster scenes?\nThe courts haven't recognized that the news media have any constitutional guarantee of access to any particular scene. However, there are statutory rights in a few states and case law in others that protect press access from unreasonable restriction.\nThe courts have generally stood behind journalists who act reasonably in trying to get information \u2014 but courts have not protected those who blatantly disregard police orders. Courts have recognized under the First Amendment a press privilege to be left alone by the police, so long as the media do not unreasonably interfere with or obstruct police activity or risk their own personal safety. In Connell v. Town of Hudson, for example, a 1990 case in New Hampshire, a federal judge found that a news photographer had a First Amendment right to be at a car accident scene.\nWhat is HIPAA?\nIt's the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, a federal health-privacy law that went into effect in 2003.\nDoes HIPAA mean journalists can't report on individuals' medical conditions?\nNo. HIPAA does not regulate what the press can report. But it does limit the kinds of information that hospitals and various government agencies can disclose.\nWhat if a reporter learns health-related information from a source not associated with an agency?\nHealth care information the news media obtains independently is not subject to HIPAA. It may be published or broadcast freely, subject to any newsroom policies limiting the publication of information about minors or the deceased.\nIf a crime or emergency occurs on the grounds of a medical facility, does HIPAA trump the news media's right to access the location while emergency responders are in charge of the scene?\nThere does not appear to be a case where HIPAA has been used to bar a journalist's access to a crime or emergency scene. The issue of trespass would be the bigger issue if the incident occurred on private property. (See the FAQ \"What rights do journalists have at accident or disaster scenes?\") Having said that, there have been cases of misinterpretation of HIPAA, and there have been instances of law enforcement and fire department personnel saying they can no longer release information once commonly disclosed. This may extend to denying access to a crime or emergency scene.\nDo court transcripts fall under FOI? Can they be withheld from litigants?\nThe Freedom of Information Act applies only to federal government agencies. Although all states have created their own FOI acts, these acts do not apply to the court systems. However, courts have tended to allow a right of access to court files and documents, including court transcripts. The problem that the courts have constantly faced is determining just how far the right of access reaches.\nThe general rule is that if the public has access to a legal proceeding, then it has the right to access the records of a proceeding, which include court transcripts.\nMany states' websites have instructions for ordering court transcripts. For example, see Connecticut's Judicial Branch site or Kansas's Judicial Branch.\nLitigants in a trial have the right of access to obtain court transcripts of the trial if the public also has access. However, judges do have the authority to withhold court transcripts from the public and litigants.\nAn Ohio Supreme Court decision held that the cost of obtaining a court transcript depends on who is making the request. In State ex. rel. Slagle v. Rogers, the state court held that parties to a court proceeding must pay the court reporter $2.50 per page for a transcript. Anyone who subsequently requests a court transcript must pay only 10 cents per page \u2014 the standard rate in Ohio for any public record.\nAre states making court records available electronically for the public?\nMany states have implemented procedures to allow for electronic access to court records. Most have come to the conclusion, through committee studies, that the public should be able to access court records, regardless of the medium in which they are stored.\nHowever, states have realized that there are additional privacy concerns when dealing with electronic access to court records. Many states respond to this issue by allowing electronic access only to nonconfidential court records, as long as certain types of sensitive, personal information are removed from the records. This would include Social Security, credit card and financial account numbers, etc.\nMost states have reached the conclusion that electronic access to court records should be provided in a way that is consistent with the fundamental right of public access to court records. States have further concluded that narrowly tailored exceptions to public access are acceptable, as long as states do not make broad categorical limitations as to what the public can request. Almost all states will deny the public's access to electronic records if the state has an interest in secrecy that outweighs the public's right of access to a particular document.\nSome state courts have also made digital audio recordings of courtroom proceedings publicly available online. The U.S. District Court in Nebraska and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina were the first to make such recordings available, and several other courts have joined that movement.\nIn 2007, the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press conducted a state-by-state analysis of online access to court records.\nA blog, or Web log, is generally described as an online journal or diary where individuals can post their thoughts on a subject for the world to see and read. Many, however, disagree over the definition of a blog. Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, stated in an interview with the First Amendment Center Online that there is no clear definition of \"blogging\": \"[The term] is worse than useless, because it is an empty vessel into which people can \u2014 and do \u2014 pour whatever meaning suits them at the time. \u2026 Blogging is writing.\"\nDoes blogging raise First Amendment issues?\nJust as with any medium of communication, blogging can implicate a variety of First Amendment interests. Some bloggers write material that others may claim is defamatory. There is also a debate as to whether bloggers qualify as journalists or reporters for purposes of reporter-shield legislation. Additionally, a looming question concerns the extent of free-speech protection held by public employees who post blogs on their free time. There is also a debate as to whether bloggers should be subject to campaign-disclosure legislation.\nCan public employees be disciplined for the content of their blogs?\nThat is a difficult question. Certainly, public employers have authority to prohibit employees from writing their blogs on employer time. The trickier question is whether a public employee can be disciplined for expression created on his or her own time. One theory is that since the expression was created off-duty, then the employer has no control over such content. A key factor could be whether the expression causes a disruption at the workplace. A few courts, for instance, have disciplined employees for racist comments they have made off-duty. This is a developing area of the law that merits close attention.\nCan a newspaper refuse to run a letter or advertisement?\nYes, newspapers do have a First Amendment right to refuse letters to the editor and ads. Since they are privately owned entities whose editors have editorial control, they are free to promote whatever political, social or economic view they wish.\nThe U.S. Supreme Court addressed the issue of editorial control and freedom of the press in 1974 in the case Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241. This case concerned a Florida political candidate who brought suit against The Miami Herald pursuant to the state's \"right-to-reply\" statute after the paper refused to print the candidate's reply to editorials critical of him. The statute in question required a newspaper to provide equal space to a political candidate to reply to any criticism of the candidate's personal character or official record printed by the newspaper. The Supreme Court found the statute to be unconstitutional in that it violated the First Amendment right to a free press.\nThe Court wrote:\n\"A newspaper is more than a passive receptacle or conduit for news, comment, and advertising. The choice of material to go into a newspaper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials \u2014 whether fair or unfair \u2014 constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment. It has yet to be demonstrated how governmental regulation of this crucial process can be exercised consistent with First Amendment guarantees of a free press as they have evolved to this time.\"\nThe First Amendment says nothing about \"separation of church and state\" or a \"wall of separation between church and state.\" Where did this idea come from? Is it really part of the law?\nAlthough the words \"separation of church and state\" do not appear in the First Amendment, the establishment clause was intended to separate church from state. When the First Amendment was adopted in 1791, the establishment clause applied only to the federal government, prohibiting the federal government from any involvement in religion. By 1833, all states had disestablished religion from government, providing protections for religious liberty in state constitutions. In the 20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court applied the establishment clause to the states through the 14th Amendment. Today, the establishment clause prohibits all levels of government from either advancing or inhibiting religion.\nThe establishment clause separates church from state, but not religion from politics or public life. Individual citizens are free to bring their religious convictions into the public arena. But the government is prohibited from favoring one religious view over another or even favoring religion over non-religion.\nOur nation's founders disagreed about the exact meaning of \"no establishment\" under the First Amendment; the argument continues to this day. But there was and is widespread agreement that preventing government from interfering with religion is an essential principle of religious liberty. All of the Framers understood that \"no establishment\" meant no national church and no government involvement in religion. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison believed that without separating church from state, there could be no real religious freedom.\nThe first use of the \"wall of separation\" metaphor was by Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island in 1635. He said an authentic Christian church would be possible only if there was \"a wall or hedge of separation\" between the \"wilderness of the world\" and \"the garden of the church.\" Any government involvement in the church, he believed, corrupts the church.\nThen in 1802, Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, wrote: \"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.\"\nThe Supreme Court has cited Jefferson's letter in key cases, beginning with a polygamy case in the 19th century. In the 1947 case Everson v. Board of Education, the Court cited a direct link between Jefferson's \"wall of separation\" concept and the First Amendment's establishment clause.\nIs it constitutional to teach about religion in a public school?\nYes. In the 1960s school-prayer cases that prompted rulings against state-sponsored school prayer and devotional Bible reading, the U.S. Supreme Court indicated that public school education may include teaching about religion. In Abington v. Schempp, Associate Justice Tom Clark wrote for the Court:\n\"[I]t might well be said that one's education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization. It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be affected consistently with the First Amendment.\"\nWhat general principles should public schools and religious communities follow when entering into a cooperative arrangement?\nIn these guidelines, a \"cooperative arrangement\" is defined as a shared participation in specific programs and activities in accordance with a written agreement. Before entering into a cooperative arrangement, public schools and religious communities should understand and accept the following principles:\nUnder the First Amendment, public schools must be neutral concerning religion in all of their activities. School officials must take the necessary steps to ensure that any cooperative activities that take place are wholly secular. Persons invited to address students during the school day shall be advised of this requirement and must agree to abide by it before being allowed access to students\nStudents have the right to engage in, or decline to engage in, religious activities at their own initiative, so long as they do not interfere with the rights of others. School districts are urged to adopt policies that reflect recent consensus statements on current law concerning religion in public schools. \"Religion in the Public Schools: A Joint Statement of Current Law,\" the U.S. Department of Education's guidelines on \"Religious Expression in Public Schools,\" and other consensus guidelines are available: Write to the First Amendment Center Online to request copies.\nCooperative programs between religious institutions and the public schools are permissible only if:\nParticipation in programs is not limited to religious groups. That is, schools must be open to participation by all responsible community groups. Qualifications should not be established which have the practical effect of including only religious groups. Eligibility shall be stated in writing\nA student's grades, class ranking or participation in any school program will not be affected by his or her willingness to participate or not participate in a cooperative program with a religious institution\nStudent participation in any cooperative program may not be conditioned on membership in any religious group, acceptance or rejection of any religious belief, or participation (or refusal to participate) in any religious activity.\nWhat is the 'Lemon test' for religious mottos and displays in public settings?\nIn its 1971 decision Lemon v. Kurtzman, the U.S. Supreme Court set forth a three-pronged inquiry commonly known as the Lemon test. To pass this test, thereby allowing the display or motto to remain, the government conduct (1) must have a secular purpose, (2) must have a principal or primary effect that does not advance or inhibit religion, and (3) cannot foster an excessive government entanglement with religion.\nHow should the Bible be included in the history curriculum?\nThe study of history offers a number of opportunities to study about the Bible. When studying the origins of Judaism, for example, students may learn different theories of how the Bible came to be. In a study of the history of the ancient world, students may learn how the content of the Bible sheds light on the history and beliefs of Jews and Christians \u2014 adherents of the religions that affirm the Bible as scripture. A study of the Reformation might include a discussion of how Protestants and Catholics differ in their interpretation and use of the Bible.\nIn U.S. history, there are natural opportunities for students to learn about the role of religion and the Bible in American life and society. For example, many historical documents \u2014 including many presidential addresses and congressional debates \u2014 contain biblical references. Throughout American history, the Bible has been invoked on various sides of many public-policy debates and in conjunction with social movements such as abolition, temperance and the civil rights movement. A government or civics course may include some discussion of the biblical sources for parts of our legal system.\nLearning about the history of the Bible, as well as the role of the Bible in history, are appropriate topics in a variety of courses in the social studies.\nWhat are the academic aims of a literature elective in the Bible?\nA literature elective in the Bible would focus on the Bible as a literary text. This might include the Bible as literature and the Bible in literature. A primary goal of the course would be basic biblical literacy \u2014 a grasp of the language, major narratives, symbols and characters of the Bible. The course might also explore the influence of the Bible in classic and contemporary poems, plays and novels.\nOf course, the Bible is not simply literature \u2014 for a number of religious traditions it is scripture. A \"Bible Literature\" course, therefore, could also include some discussion of how various religious traditions understand the text. This would require that literature teachers be adequately prepared to address in an academic and objective manner the relevant, major religious readings of the text.\nHow should the Bible be included in the literature curriculum?\nAcademic study of the Bible in a public secondary school may appropriately take place in literature courses. Students might study the Bible as literature. They would examine the Bible as they would other literature in terms of aesthetic categories, as an anthology of narratives and poetry, exploring its language, symbolism and motifs. Students might also study the Bible in literature, the ways in which later writers have used Bible literature, language and symbols. Much drama, poetry and fiction contains material from the Bible.\nHow should teachers of a Bible elective be selected and what preparation will they require?\nTeaching about the Bible, either in literature and history courses or in Bible electives, requires considerable preparation. School districts and universities should offer in-service workshops and summer institutes for teachers who are teaching about the Bible in literature and history courses.\nWhen selecting teachers to teach Bible electives, school districts should look for teachers who have some background in the academic study of religion. Unless they have already received academic preparation, teachers selected to teach a course about the Bible should receive substantive in-service training from qualified scholars before being permitted to teach such courses. Electives in biblical studies should only be offered if there are teachers academically competent to teach them.\nFor the future, we recommend changes in teacher education to help ensure that study about religion, including the Bible, is done well in public schools. Literature and history teachers should be encouraged, as part of their certification, to take at least one course in religious studies that prepares them to teach about religions in their subject. Teachers who wish to teach a Bible elective should have taken college-level courses in biblical studies. Eventually, religious studies should become a certifiable field, requiring at least an undergraduate minor. State departments of education will need to set certification requirements, review curricula, and adopt appropriate academic standards for electives in religious studies.\nWhich version of the Bible should be used?\nSelecting a Bible for use in literature, history or elective Bible courses is important, since there is no single Bible. There is a Jewish Bible (the Hebrew Scriptures, or Tanakh), and there are various Christian Bibles \u2014 such as Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox \u2014 some with additional books, arranged in a different order. These differences are significant. For example, Judaism does not include the Christian New Testament in its Bible, and the Catholic Old Testament has 46 books, while the Protestant has 39. There are also various English translations within each of these traditions.\nTo adopt any particular Bible \u2014 or translation \u2014 is likely to suggest to students that it is normative, the best Bible. One solution is to use a biblical sourcebook that includes the key texts of each of the major Bibles or an anthology of various translations.\nAt the outset and at crucial points in the course, teachers should remind students about the differences between the various Bibles and discuss some of the major views concerning authorship and compilation of the books of the Bible. Students should also understand the differences in translations, read from several translations, and reflect on the significance of these differences for the various traditions.\nPreserving the speech rights of students and maintaining the integrity of public education are not mutually exclusive. Schools should model First Amendment principles by encouraging and supporting the rights of students to express their ideas in writings. On the other hand, students should not expect to have unfettered access to their classmates and should be prepared to abide by reasonable time, place and manner restrictions.\nSchools must continue to maintain order, discipline and the educational mission of the school as they seek to accommodate the rights of the students. As a result, the free-speech rights of students are not coextensive with the rights of adults. Hate speech and sexually explicit speech, though protected for adults, are probably not protected in a public school.\nHave there been any rulings yet on RLUIPA's constitutionality?\nYes. So far, two federal district courts have considered the act's land-use provisions. (Additional courts have considered RLUIPA's institutionalized-persons provisions.) Both in Freedom Baptist Church v. Township of Middletown and Charles v. Verhagen, the courts found RLUIPA to be a constitutional exercise of congressional power. A number of other cases are currently pending, and it is likely that several will produce rulings from the various federal appellate courts. Once a case with convenient facts reaches the appropriate stage, the Supreme Court will almost certainly take the opportunity to rule definitively on RLUIPA's constitutionality.\nA public employee wishes to convert a fellow employee to his religion. Does he have a First Amendment right to proselytize?\nIndividuals do not forfeit First Amendment protections when they accept public-sector employment. Public employees also can speak about religious matters in the workplace to a certain degree, particularly if the speech is not communicated to the general public. However, the employer has a right to ensure that the employee's religious speech does not disrupt office work or otherwise become distracting to other employees to the extent that it hinders productivity. Furthermore, no employee has the right to engage in religious harassment or create a hostile work environment. If the fellow employee tells his religious-minded co-worker to stop proselytizing, the co-worker should desist from further conversations on the subject.\nMy faith forbids me to work on Sundays, but my workplace is open and I'm expected to be there. What are my rights?\nThe free-exercise clause of the First Amendment says the government may not prevent individuals from freely practicing their religious faith. Also, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the major federal anti-discrimination law that covers virtually all public and private employers with 15 or more full-time employees, generally prohibits an employer from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin or religion. Under Title VII, an employer must \"reasonably accommodate\" an employee's religious practice unless doing so would create an \"undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business.\"\nCongress didn't define \"reasonably accommodate\" and \"undue hardship,\" so that was left to the courts. In the 1977 ruling Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, the Supreme Court said requiring an employer \"to bear more than a de minimis (minimal) cost\" to accommodate an employee's religious practice is an undue hardship. In 1986, the Court ruled that an employer meets its obligation to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious practice when it demonstrates that it has offered a reasonable alternative to work requirements interfering with faith. See Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook.\nDo students have the right to form religious or political clubs below the secondary level?\nProbably not, but current law is unclear on this point. Although the Equal Access Act does not apply to public schools below the secondary level, some courts have held that the free-speech clause protects the right of middle school or elementary school students to form religious or political clubs on an equal footing with other student-initiated clubs. When the EAA was debated in Congress, many lawmakers expressed doubt that young children could form religious clubs that would be truly initiated and led by students. In addition, younger students are more likely to view religious clubs meeting at the school as \"school sponsored.\" For these and other reasons, Congress declined to apply equal access below the secondary level.\nCan administrators permit students to form religious or political clubs in middle schools, even if the law does not require that such clubs be allowed?\nAgain, current law is unclear on this point. If school officials decide to allow middle school students to form religious or political clubs, then at the very least the school should have in place a clear policy and ground rules for the clubs, consistent with the EAA, and explain that the student clubs are not school-sponsored (see Good News Club v. School Dist. of Ladue, 8th Cir. 1994).\nCan religious leaders or other outside adults attend the meetings of student clubs?\nYes, if the students invite these visitors and if the school does not have a policy barring all guest speakers or outside adults from extracurricular club meetings. However, the Equal Access Act states that the nonschool persons \"may not direct, conduct, control, or regularly attend activities of student groups.\"\nCan students form religious or political clubs in secondary public schools?\nYes, if the school allows other extracurricular (noncurriculum-related) groups. Although schools do not have to open or maintain a limited open forum, once they do, they may not discriminate against a student group because of the content of its speech.\nThe Equal Access Act (EAA), passed by Congress in 1984 and upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1990, makes it \"unlawful for any public secondary school that receives federal funds and which has a limited open forum to deny equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against, any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meetings.\"\nThe EAA covers student-initiated and student-led clubs in secondary schools with a limited open forum. According to the act, \"non-school persons may not direct, conduct, or regularly attend activities of student groups.\"\nA limited open forum is created whenever a public secondary school provides an opportunity for one or more \"noncurriculum related groups\" to meet on school premises during noninstructional time. The forum created is said to be \"limited\" because only the school's students can take advantage of it.\nAt my children's school around Christmas, outside speakers have come in to teach about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Does the school have to give equal time to another speaker who might want to discuss why Christians celebrate Christmas?\nschool is bringing speakers in to discuss holidays in December, it makes educational sense to include Christmas. All outside speakers should follow First Amendment guidelines for teaching about the holidays.\nWhat should schools do in December?\nDecisions about what to do in December should begin with the understanding that public schools may not sponsor religious devotions or celebrations; study about religious holidays does not extend to religious worship or practice.\nDoes this mean that all seasonal activities must be banned from the schools?\nProbably not, and in any event, such an effort would be unrealistic. The resolution would seem to lie in devising holiday programs that serve an educational purpose for all students \u2014 programs that make no students feel excluded or forcibly identified with a religion not their own.\nHoliday concerts in December may appropriately include music related to Christmas, Hanukkah, and other religious traditions, but religious music should not dominate. Any dramatic productions should emphasize the cultural aspects of the holidays. Conversely, Nativity pageants or plays portraying the Hanukkah miracle would not be appropriate in the public school setting.\nTeachers may also teach about religious holidays in the classroom, but they must be alert to the distinction between teaching about such holidays, which is permissible, and celebrating them, which is not. Guest speakers also can help teachers present the appropriate information, but only if they understand their role as informational, not devotional, in nature.\nIn short, while recognizing the holiday season, none of the school activities in December should have the purpose, or effect, of promoting or inhibiting religion.\nCan a teacher refuse to teach certain materials in class if he\/she feels the curriculum infringes on his\/her personal beliefs?\nGenerally, teachers must instruct their students in accordance with the established curriculum. For example, the 9th Circuit ruled in 1994 against a high school biology teacher who had challenged his school district's requirement that he teach evolution, as well as its order barring him from discussing his religious beliefs with students. In the words of the court, \"[A] school district's restriction on [a] teacher's right of free speech in prohibiting [the] teacher from talking with students about religion during the school day, including times when he was not actually teaching class, [is] justified by the school district's interest in avoiding [an] Establishment Clause violation.\" (Peloza v. Capistrano Unified School Dist., 9th Cir. 1994)\nAlso, a state appeals court ruled again that a high school teacher did not have a First Amendment right to refuse to teach evolution in a high school biology class (LeVake v. Independent School Dist. No. 656, Minn. App. 2001). The teacher had argued that the school district had reassigned him to another school and another course because it wanted to silence his criticism of evolution as a viable scientific theory. The state appeals court rejected that argument, pointing out that the teacher could not override the established curriculum.\nOther courts have similarly found that teachers do not have a First Amendment right to trump school district decisions regarding the curriculum (Clark v. Holmes, 7th Cir. 1972, Webster v. New Lenox School Dist. No. 122, 7th Cir. 1990). One court wrote: \"the First Amendment has never required school districts to abdicate control over public school curricula to the unfettered discretion of individual teachers.\" (Kirkland v. Northside Independent School Dist., 5th Cir. 1989)\nThe 4th Circuit ruled that a teacher had \"no First Amendment right to insist on the makeup of the curriculum.\" (Boring v. Buncombe County Bd. of Education, 1998)\nCan states be required to grant exemptions for business owners whose Sabbath requires them to close their business on another day?\nNo. In Braunfeld v. Brown (1961), the Supreme Court held that observance of a Sabbath was an individual's choice, and that a person was not discriminated against or disadvantaged by the state for its decision to require the closing of businesses on a day other than that individual's Sabbath. States may choose to allow exemptions for certain individuals, but they may not be required to do so.\nCan teachers wear religious jewelry in the classroom?\nMost experts agree that teachers are permitted to wear unobtrusive jewelry, such as a cross or a Star of David. But they should not wear clothing with a proselytizing message (e.g., a \"Jesus Saves\" T-shirt).\nCan teachers and administrators pray or otherwise express their faith while at school?\nAs employees of the government, public school teachers and administrators are subject to the establishment clause and thus required to be neutral concerning religion while carrying out their duties. That means, for example, that school officials do not have the right to pray with or in the presence of students during the school day.\nOf course, teachers and administrators \u2014 like students \u2014 bring their faith with them through the schoolhouse door each morning. Because of the First Amendment, however, school officials who wish to pray or engage in other religious activities \u2014 unless they are silent \u2014 should do so outside the presence of students.\nIf a group of teachers wishes to meet for prayer or scriptural study in the faculty lounge during free time in the school day or before or after school, most legal experts see no constitutional reason why they should not be permitted to do so, as long as the activity is outside the presence of students and does not interfere with their duties or the rights of other teachers.\nWhen not on duty, of course, educators are free like all other citizens to practice their faith. But school officials must refrain from using their position in the public school to promote their outside religious activities.\nThe U.S. Department of Education put it this way in its 2003 guidelines on prayer in public schools:\n\"When acting in their official capacities as representatives of the state, teachers, school administrators, and other school employees are prohibited by the Establishment Clause from encouraging or discouraging prayer, and from actively participating in such activity with students. Teachers may, however, take part in religious activities where the overall context makes clear that they are not participating in their official capacities. Before school or during lunch, for example, teachers may meet with other teachers for prayer or Bible study to the same extent that they may engage in other conversation or nonreligious activities. Similarly, teachers may participate in their personal capacities in privately sponsored baccalaureate ceremonies.\"\nAre state holidays constitutional when they are directly tied to some religious observance?\nThe Supreme Court has declined to address this issue, though the lower courts strongly favor the constitutionality of such holidays. The 9th Circuit in 1991 upheld legislation making Good Friday a state holiday in Cammack v. Waihee, reasoning that the absence of a major traditional holiday in the spring created a state interest in decreeing one, and that it made sense for the legislature to select a day that would already be used by the majority of citizens as a holiday. This decision set the stage for the 4th and 6th Circuits to issue similar rulings. The 7th Circuit disagreed in Metzl v. Leininger (1994), holding that because Good Friday is an exclusively Christian holiday that has in no way been secularized, as have Christmas and Easter, its elevation to the status of a state holiday was unconstitutional, because it sent a message of endorsement to the public, even if the practical result was neither to advance nor inhibit religion. The holding in Metzl did allow for a finding of constitutionality, however, if the legislature would merely make the effort to advance a secular reasoning for the case.\nHas the U.S. Supreme Court defined \"religion?\"\nAlthough it has attempted to create standards to differentiate religious beliefs and actions from similar nonreligious beliefs, the Supreme Court has never articulated a formal definition for religion. Given the diversity of Americans' religious experience since the Constitution was created, a single comprehensive definition has proved elusive.\nIn 1890, the Supreme Court in Davis v. Beason expressed religion in traditional theistic terms: \"[T]he term 'religion' has reference to one's views of his relations to his Creator, and to the obligations they impose of reverence for his being and character, and of obedience to his will.\"\nIn the 1960s, the Court expanded its view of religion. In its 1961 decision Torcaso v. Watkins, the Court stated that the establishment clause prevents government from aiding \"those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.\" In a footnote, the Court clarified that this principle extended to \"religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God \u2026 Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.\"\nIn its 1965 ruling United States v. Seeger, the Court sought to resolve disagreement between federal circuit courts over interpretation of the Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1948. The case involved denial of conscientious objector status to individuals who based their objections to war on sources other than a supreme being, as specifically required by the statute. The Court interpreted the statute as questioning \"[w]hether a given belief that is sincere and meaningful occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God of one who clearly qualifies for the exemption. Where such beliefs have parallel positions in the lives of their respective holders we cannot say that one is 'in relation to a Supreme Being' and the other is not.\"\nWelsh v. United States represented another conscientious-objector case under the same statute. The Court in this 1970 decision went one step further and essentially merged religion with deeply and sincerely held moral and ethical beliefs. The Court suggested individuals could be denied exemption only if \"those beliefs are not deeply held and those whose objection to war does not rest at all upon moral, ethical, or religious principle but instead rests solely upon consideration of policy, pragmatism, or expediency.\"\nFollowing the expansive view of religion expressed in Seeger and Welsh, the Court in its 1972 ruling involving the Amish and compulsory school attendance suggested a shift back, to a more exclusive definition. The majority opinion in Wisconsin v. Yoder indicated that the free-exercise clause applied only to \"a 'religious' belief or practice,\" and \"the very concept of ordered liberty precludes allowing every person to make his own standards on matters of conduct in which society as a whole has important interests.\"\nThe Court in its 1981 decision Thomas v. Review Board further expressed its reluctance to protect philosophical values. The Indiana Supreme Court had ruled that a decision by a Jehovah's Witness to quit his job after he was transferred to a weapons-making facility was a \"personal philosophical choice rather than a religious choice\" and did not \"rise to the level of a first amendment claim.\" In overturning the Indiana decision, Chief Justice Warren Burger cautiously stated, \"[o]nly beliefs rooted in religion are given special protection to the exercise of religion.\" The Court found the worker's actions to be motivated by his religious beliefs.\nFew have been satisfied by the Court's attempts to define religion. Many of the Court's definitions use the word \"religion\" to describe religion itself. In other cases, the Court's explanations seem to provide little useful guidance.\nWhat about distribution of fliers from religious groups about events or programs for youth?\nAlthough outside groups generally have no right to distribute religious materials on campus, flyers from religious groups may be another matter. If a school allows outside groups such as the Girl Scouts to send fliers home with students about programs for youth, some courts have ruled that schools may not deny that privilege to a religious group. *\n* See Hills v. Scottsdale S.D. County Pub. Schools, 9th Cir. 2003; Rusk v. Crestview Local School Dist., 6th Cir. 2004; Child Evangelism Fellowship v. Mont. Co. Public Schools, 4th Cir. 2004.\nCan public schools and religious communities enter into cooperative agreements to help students with such programs as tutoring?\nYes, but only if appropriate constitutional safeguards are in place. Remember, public schools must remain neutral among religions and between religion and nonreligion. For that reason, religious groups must refrain from proselytizing students during any cooperative programs with public schools. Participation or nonparticipation by students in such cooperative programs should not affect the student's academic ranking or ability to participate in other school activities. In addition, cooperative programs may not be limited to religious groups, but must be open to all responsible community groups.\nFor more detailed guidelines, see \"Public Schools and Religious Communities: A First Amendment Guide,\" published by the American Jewish Congress, Christian Legal Society, and First Amendment Center and co-signed by 12 additional educational and religious organizations (1999).\nCan public school facilities be used by outside community groups during nonschool hours?\nGenerally, yes. Although schools are not required to open their facilities to any community group, when they do, all groups \u2014 including those with a religious viewpoint \u2014 must be treated the same (see Good News Club v. Milford Central School Dist., 2001). In fact, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that schools may not discriminate on the basis of religious viewpoint when making their facilities available to community groups during nonschool hours (see Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist., 1993).\nSchools may, of course, impose reasonable, content-neutral restrictions on the use of their facilities. For example, schools may decide when meetings may be held, how long they may last, whether they may continue during weeks or months when school is not in session, what maintenance fee must be paid, and what insurance might be required.\nSome content-based restrictions may also be allowed. For example, schools may probably exclude for-profit, commercial businesses, even though community nonprofits are allowed to use school facilities after hours. They may also limit the use of the facilities to such things as \"educational purposes,\" but such distinctions may prove difficult to administer, as many groups may claim to meet the stipulated purpose.\nSchools should be aware that the imposition of content-based restrictions could raise difficult constitutional questions. For example, the Supreme Court has held in Good News v. Milford that in the case of the Good News Club, a content-based restriction excluding religious worship and instruction amounted to impermissible viewpoint discrimination. School districts should be especially mindful to consult with legal counsel if they decide to draft content-based restrictions.\nDo religious institutions have a free-exercise right to tax exemptions?\nThe Supreme Court has been clear that the simple act of taxation is not in and of itself a violation of either the First Amendment's free-exercise or establishment clauses. This does not mean, however, that it is impossible for a tax to violate either or both of the First Amendment's religion clauses. If a tax were targeted in discriminatory ways or became so oppressive that it substantially constrained a religious group's ability to function, then it could possibly violate the free-exercise clause. Likewise, the administrative details of enforcing a taxation scheme could become so intricate and require so much interaction between the state and a religious organization that a court would find sufficient entanglement to violate the establishment clause, as interpreted through the Lemon test.\nCan the government ever interfere with someone's religious practices?\nUnder current constitutional law, the government can impose restrictions on a religious belief or practice, as long as the law in question applies to everyone and does not target a specific religion or religious practice.\nCan a teacher wear religious garb to school, provided the teacher does not proselytize to the students?\nProbably not. It is likely that many courts would allow a school to prohibit teachers' religious garb in order to maintain religious neutrality. The courts may view such garb as creating a potential establishment-clause problem, particularly at the elementary school level.\nPennsylvania and Oregon have laws that prohibit teachers from wearing religious clothing to schools. Both laws have been upheld in court challenges brought under the First Amendment and Title VII, the major anti-discrimination employment law. The courts reasoned that the statutes furthered the states' goal of ensuring neutrality with respect to religion in the schools.\nIn the Pennsylvania case, U.S. v. Board of Education, the 3rd Circuit rejected the Title VII religious-discrimination claim of a Muslim teacher who was prevented from wearing her religious clothing to school. The school acted pursuant to a state law, called the \"Garb Statute,\" which provided: \"[N]o teacher in any public school shall wear in said school or while engaged in the performance of his duty as such teacher any dress, mark, emblem or insignia indicating the fact that such teacher is a member or adherent of any religious order, sect or denomination.\"\nThe teacher and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contended that the school should have allowed the teacher to wear her head scarf and long, loose dress as a \"reasonable accommodation\" of her religious faith. The appeals court disagreed, determining that \"the preservation of religious neutrality is a compelling state interest.\"\nIn its 1986 decision Cooper v. Eugene School District, the Oregon Supreme Court rejected the free-exercise challenge of a Sikh teacher suspended for wearing religious clothing \u2014 a white turban and white clothes \u2014 to her special education classes. The Oregon high court upheld the state law, which provided: \"No teacher in any public school shall wear any religious dress while engaged in the performance of duties as a teacher.\" The court wrote that \"the aim of maintaining the religious neutrality of the public schools furthers a constitutional obligation beyond an ordinary policy preference of the legislature.\"\nThe First Amendment Center's A Teacher's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools provides that \"teachers are permitted to wear non-obtrusive jewelry, such as a cross or Star of David. But teachers should not wear clothing with a proselytizing message (e.g. a 'Jesus Saves' T-shirt).\"\nIs it legal for students to pray in public schools?\nYes. Contrary to popular myth, the Supreme Court has never outlawed \"prayer in schools.\" Students are free to pray alone or in groups, as long as such prayers are not disruptive and do not infringe upon the rights of others. But this right \"to engage in voluntary prayer does not include the right to have a captive audience listen or to compel other students to participate.\" (This is the language supported by a broad range of civil liberties and religious groups in a joint statement of current law.)\nWhat the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down are state-sponsored or state-organized prayers in public schools.\nThe Supreme Court has made clear that prayers organized or sponsored by a public school \u2014 even when delivered by a student \u2014 violate the First Amendment, whether in a classroom, over the public address system, at a graduation exercise, or even at a high school football game. (Engel v. Vitale, 1962; School Dist. of Abington Township v. Schempp, 1963; Lee v. Weisman, 1992; Santa Fe Independent School. Dist. v. Doe, 2000)\nWhat is a \"noncurriculum-related student group\" under the Equal Access Act?\nIn the 1990 Supreme Court case of Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens, the Court interpreted a \"noncurriculum related student group\" to mean \"any student group [or club] that does not directly relate to the body of courses offered by the school.\"\nAccording to the Court, a student group directly relates to a school's curriculum only if (1) the subject matter of the group is actually taught, or will soon be taught, in a regularly offered course; (2) the subject matter of the group concerns the body of courses as a whole; or (3) participation in the group is required for a particular course or results in academic credit.\nAs examples, the Court identified three groups that were noncurriculum-related at the Westside schools: (1) a scuba club, (2) a chess club, and (3) a service club. The Court found these groups to be noncurriculum-related because they did not meet the criteria set forth above. Conversely, the French club was found to be curriculum-related since the school regularly offered French classes.\nSubject to review by the courts, local school authorities must determine whether a student group is curriculum related or not. Schools may not, however, substitute their own definition of \"noncurriculum related\" for the definition provided by the Court.\nIf the school violates the EAA, an aggrieved person may bring suit in U.S. district court to compel the school to observe the law. Although violations of equal access will not result in the loss of federal funds, the school could be liable for damages and the attorney's fees of a student group that successfully challenges a denial to meet under the act.\nCan students share their religious faith in public schools?\nYes. Students are free to share their faith with their peers, as long as the activity is not disruptive and does not infringe upon the rights of others.\nSchool officials possess substantial discretion to impose rules of order and other pedagogical restrictions on student activities. But they may not structure or administer such rules to discriminate against religious activity or speech.\nThis means that students have the same right to engage in individual or group prayer and religious discussion during the school day as they do to engage in other comparable activities. For example, students may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals, and pray before tests. Generally, students may share their faith or pray in a nondisruptive manner when not engaged in school activities or instruction, subject to the rules that normally pertain in the applicable setting. Specifically, students in informal settings, such as cafeterias and hallways, may pray and discuss their religious views with each other, subject to the same rules of order as applied to other student activities and speech. Students may also speak to and attempt to persuade their peers about religious topics just as they do with regard to political topics. School officials, however, should intercede if a student's speech begins to constitute harassment of a student or group of students.\nStudents may also participate in before- or after-school events with religious content, such as \"See You at the Pole\" gatherings, on the same terms as they may participate in other noncurriculum activities on school premises. School officials may neither discourage nor encourage participation in such an event. Keep in mind, however, that the right to engage in voluntary prayer or religious discussion free from discrimination does not necessarily include the right to preach to a \"captive audience,\" like an assembly, or to compel other students to participate. To that end, teachers and school administrators should work to ensure that no student is in any way coerced \u2014 either psychologically or physically \u2014 to participate in a religious activity (see Lee v. Weisman, 1992).\nCan students express their beliefs about religion in classroom assignments or at school-sponsored events?\nYes, within limits. Generally, if it is relevant to the subject under consideration and meets the requirements of the assignment, students should be allowed to express their religious or nonreligious views during a class discussion, as part of a written assignment, or as part of an art activity.\nThis does not mean, however, that students have the right to compel a captive audience to participate in prayer or listen to a proselytizing sermon. School officials should allow students to express their views about religion, but should draw the line when students wish to invite others to participate in religious practices or want to give a speech that is primarily proselytizing. There is no bright legal line that can be drawn between permissible and impermissible student religious expression in a classroom assignment or at a school-sponsored event. In recent lower court decisions, judges have deferred to the judgment of educators to determine where to draw the line. (C.H. v. Olivia, 2nd Cir. 2000)\nIs it constitutional for a public school to require a \"moment of silence\"?\nYes, if, and only if, the moment of silence is genuinely neutral. A neutral moment of silence that does not encourage prayer over any other quiet, contemplative activity will not be struck down, even though some students may choose to use the time for prayer. (See Bown v. Gwinnett County School Dist., 11th Cir. 1997)\nIf a moment of silence is used to promote prayer, it will be struck down by the courts. In Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) the Supreme Court struck down an Alabama \"moment of silence\" law because it was enacted for the express purpose of promoting prayer in public schools. At the same time, however, the Court indicated that a moment of silence would be constitutional if it is genuinely neutral. Many states and local school districts currently have moment-of-silence policies in place.\nCan a school board limit school activities on certain nights to accommodate a particular religious group?\nNo, not unless the school has a legitimate civil or secular purpose for limiting activities; it may not curtain programs only to accommodate a particular religious group. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled directly on this issue, causing some ambiguity, the Court has heard many cases concerning the First Amendment's establishment clause. From one of those cases came the Lemon test used by the courts to determine if a law runs contrary to the establishment clause. The secular-purpose standard mentioned above is one part of this test, which the Court developed in 1971 in deciding the case Lemon v. Kurtzman. The Lemon test has three parts; first, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion; third, the statute must not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion. So, for example, if school officials could show that there would be little or no participation in a school activity on a given night due to some religious observance or activity, causing the school to waste school funds, they would probably withstand a constitutional challenge.\nWhat about the power of schools to control student speech in the classroom?\nCan the government constitutionally place conditions on religious tax exemptions?\nYes. The Internal Revenue Service requires that 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations (a category that includes tax-exempt religious organizations) refrain from partisan politicking if they are to receive tax-exempt status. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held in Branch Ministries v. Rossotti (2000) that a religious institution had no affirmative right to a tax exemption and that the IRS was justified in conditioning a church's tax-exempt status on its willingness to abstain from political advocacy. In 1992, the church took out a newspaper ad to ask Christians to vote against then-governor Bill Clinton because of his political stances, also including a request for donations to the ministry. The court determined that this sort of political advocacy was not central to the church's religious practice, and therefore restraining from such speech was not a burden on its free-exercise rights.\nThe government may also condition tax exemptions on compliance with government policies. In the Supreme Court's 1983 decision in Bob Jones University v. United States, the university's tax-exempt status was revoked because the school enforced racially discriminatory policies. Questions remain as to whether legislatures or administrative agencies can condition exemptions on an organization's promise not to discriminate on the basis of religion or sexual orientation, aspects of which might legitimately relate to the organization's religious beliefs.\nAre religious organizations allowed to lobby for or against legislation?\nThey may engage in lobbying activities as long as the lobbying does not form a \"substantial part\" of their activities. According to the IRS, lobbying is \"attempting to influence legislation\" and \"an organization will be regarded as attempting to influence legislation if it contacts, or urges the public to contact, members or employees of a legislative body for the purpose of proposing, supporting, or opposing legislation, or if the organization advocates the adoption or rejection of legislation.\" The IRS says it \"considers a variety of factors, including the time devoted (by both compensated and volunteer workers) and the expenditures devoted by the organization to the activity, when determining whether the lobbying activity is substantial.\" According to the courts, devoting 5% of an organization's time and effort to political activity is not considered substantial within the meaning of the IRS Code. See Seasongood v. Commissioner.\nCan a non-custodial parent be told not to expose a child to a religion other than the religion practiced by the custodial parent?\nThe U.S. Supreme Court, in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, stated that \"in general it is appropriate for the federal courts to leave delicate issues of domestic relations to the state courts.\" Consequently, the question at hand has not been dealt with by the Supreme Court or the federal district courts.\nThe state courts that have handled this issue, for the most part, have not restricted the non-custodial parents from exposing their children to a different religion. The courts will generally steer clear of this issue \"except where there is a clear and affirmative showing that the conflicting religious beliefs affect the general welfare of the child\" (Munoz v. Munoz, 489 P.2d 1133, 1135 (WA., 1971)).\nThe ambiguous language from this Washington state case, one of the first to address this issue, has caused other states to interpret what \"affects the general welfare of the child\" in many different ways. When determining custody, the courts look at and weigh many different factors to determine what is in the child's best interest. Examples of these factors can include the emotional ties between the parent and the child, the physical and mental health of the parents and\/or the ability of the parents to provide for the child's material needs. Religion may be one of the factors considered, but is generally only considered if it has, or will have, a clear and substantial bearing on the welfare of the child. As various courts have stated, a showing of substantial harm must be demonstrated before a non-custodial parent's right to expose the child to his or her religion will be restricted.\nState courts have struggled to define what constitutes substantial harm. Very few have found demonstrated substantial harm in the cases they have heard. What courts have said, as in Khalsa v. Khalsa, 107 N.M. 31, 36 (Ct. App. 1988), is that \"a custodial parent's general testimony that the child is upset or confused because of the non-custodial parent's religious practice is insufficient to demonstrate harm [See Felton v. Felton, 383 Mass. 232 (1981); Munoz v. Munoz]. Further, general testimony that the child is upset because the parents practice conflicting religious beliefs is likewise insufficient.\" Thus a very strong showing of harm must be presented.\nAn example of this is the case of LeDoux v. LeDoux, 234 Neb. 479 (Neb. 1990) in which the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a trial court's decree ordering the father, a Jehovah's Witness, \"to refrain from exposing or permitting any other person to expose his minor children to any religious practices or teachings inconsistent with the Catholic religion.\" When they married and had their children, the LeDouxs were both Catholics. At the time of the divorce Edward Ledoux was a Jehovah's Witness and insisted that the children be involved in his religious activities. The mother, Diane LeDoux, presented testimony from a clinical psychologist who testified that one of the children was under serious stress and was having a maladjustment problem. The psychologist indicated \"that conflicts in the Catholic and Jehovah's Witnesses religions were an obvious contributing factor to the stress felt\" by the child.\nAfter weighing all the evidence, \"the trial court concluded that exposing the minor children to more than one religious practice would have a deleterious effect upon the minor children,\" and the Nebraska Supreme Court agreed. (Other examples: Funk v. Ossman, 150 Ariz. 578 (Ct. App. 1986), Kendall v. Kendall, 426 Mass. 238 (1997).)\nBecause a parent's constitutional right to practice his or her religion freely could potentially be restricted, a showing of substantial harm to the minor children is required. Substantial harm is a high standard and \"requires a clear showing that a parent's religious practices have been or are likely to be harmful to the child\" (Kirchner v. Caughey, 326 Md. 567, 576 (Ct. App. 1992)).\nCan my state pass a voucher program in which some vouchers are used at religious schools?\nIn 2002 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris that, under certain conditions, communities may create a voucher program for use at a variety of schools without violating the U.S. Constitution, even if some of the vouchers are redeemed at religious schools.\nCiting precedent, Chief Justice William Rehnquist's plurality opinion looked first at the purpose of a voucher program: It must exist for a valid secular purpose and not to promote any particular religion, he wrote.\nThe Court's analysis then focused on whether a voucher program advances religion. The justices agreed that a neutral benefit program could be constitutional, even if religious institutions received some of the funds. Arguments occurred over the specifics of what constitutes a neutral program, and whether the funds could go directly to a religious group or if they must pass first through a private individual who would decide how to allocate the resources.\nIn both the plurality and concurring opinions, a majority of the Court focused primarily on whether or not a government benefit program was neutral on its face in matters of religion. In his plurality opinion in Zelman, Rehnquist said:\n\"[Previous cases] make clear that where a government aid program is neutral with respect to religion, and provides assistance directly to a broad class of citizens who, in turn, direct government aid to religious schools wholly as a result of their own genuine and independent private choice, the program is not readily subject to challenge under the Establishment Clause.\"\nWhat does all of this mean? The Court indicates that communities must consider several factors when creating a voucher program:\n1. Is the proposed voucher program neutral with respect to religion? If the plan favors one religion over another, or non-religion over religion, then it will violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment.\n2. Will the vouchers be made available to students based on religiously neutral criteria? That would mean deciding who gets a voucher must be based on such non-religious bases as financial need or attendance at poorly performing school, etc. Also, the schools that are allowed or not allowed to receive vouchers must similarly be appraised on the basis of secular criteria, such as academic performance and ability to adhere to safety codes.\n3. The voucher must be awarded to an individual, not the religious institution, and the individual must, through private choice, make the decision as to where the voucher is to go. The government cannot influence this decision. This is necessary to demonstrate the government voucher is going to benefit the individual \u2014 as opposed to benefiting religion. This last element was by far the most contentious issue for the justices in the Zelman decision.\nWhile all of the above material focuses on whether a voucher program is legal under the federal establishment clause, states must also look at their state constitutions. Most states have their own constitutional prohibitions against providing public funds to religious entities. These restrictions are often more restrictive than the U.S. Constitution.\nThis issue has come to the forefront in Colorado, where, in May 2003, a group of taxpayers sued the state over a newly implemented voucher program. Many of the arguments are based on Colorado's constitutional prohibitions against allowing public money to go to religious entities.\nOther issues are also involved, many revolving around policy questions and political realities.\nDoes the Supreme Court's holding in Marsh mean that any plan for providing a legislature with a chaplain paid with public funds will be constitutional?\nNot necessarily. The Court's holding was based on the fact that Nebraska's practice did not seem likely to lead to an \"establishment of religion.\" Given a different set of facts, a majority of the justices might well have discerned such an unconstitutional establishment. For instance, courts are stricter in their application of the establishment clause when it comes to public schools, or other arenas where the government has the opportunity to influence a captive audience of impressionable youngsters. What seems clear from Marsh is that the Court is willing to defer to traditional practices that bear a religious element as long as they do not appear to coerce the unwilling or the highly impressionable into some form of religious participation or belief. The Marsh reliance on tradition and a failure to prove any establishing tendency could make a huge difference if the Supreme Court decides to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the national motto (\"In God We Trust\"), or the wording of the Pledge of Allegiance.\nCan students distribute religious literature in a public school?\nCourt decisions on the issue generally fall into two categories.\nMost courts hold that although schools may place some restrictions on distribution of religious materials by students, they may not ban them altogether. The courts base their decisions on the landmark case of Tinker v. Des Moines School District, which upheld the right of students to wear black armbands protesting the Vietnam War, even in a public school. Included in this right of free speech is not only the right to speak for oneself but also to distribute the writings (i.e., speech) of others. Thus, courts have generally upheld the rights of students to distribute non-school religious literature subject to the school's right to suppress such materials if they create substantial disruption, harm the rights of other students or infringe upon other compelling interests of the school. Again, the Mergens decision makes clear that the fear of a First Amendment violation is not sufficient justification to suppress a student distribution of material that happens to be religious. Some states, such as California, have incorporated the majority view into their own state education codes.\nA minority of decisions hold that schools can prohibit the distribution of any material that is not sponsored by the school. Of course, the ban must be applied even-handedly to all students. A school could not, for example, allow the distribution of political literature while barring religious publications. This is particularly evident in light of the Supreme Court's 1990 decision in Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens, upholding the federal Equal Access Act. Under this minority view, however, a blanket prohibition on all student distributions would be permissible.\nDoes the First Amendment apply to public schools?\nYes. The First Amendment applies to all levels of government, including public schools. Although the courts have permitted school officials to limit the rights of students under some circumstances, the courts have also recognized that students \u2014 like all citizens \u2014 are guaranteed the rights protected by the First Amendment.\nEarlier in our history, however, the First Amendment did not apply to the states \u2014 and thus not to public schools. When adopted in 1791, the First Amendment applied only to Congress and the federal government (\"Congress shall make no law \u2026\"). This meant that when public schools were founded in the mid-19th century, students could not make First Amendment claims against the actions of school officials.\nThe restrictions on student speech lasted into the 20th century. In 1908, for example, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that school officials could suspend two students for writing a poem ridiculing their teachers that was published in a local newspaper. The Wisconsin court reasoned, \"such power is essential to the preservation of order, decency, decorum, and good government in the public schools.\" And in 1915, the California Court of Appeals ruled that school officials could suspend a student for criticizing and \"slamming\" school officials in a student assembly speech.\nIn fact, despite the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868, which provides that \"no state shall \u2026 deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law,\" it was not until 1925, by way of the Supreme Court case of Gitlow v. New York, that the Supreme Court held that the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment is one of the \"liberties\" incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.\nIn subsequent cases, the Court has applied all of the freedoms of the First Amendment to the states \u2014 and thus to public schools \u2014 through the 14th Amendment. But not until 1943, in the flag-salute case of West Virginia v. Barnette, did the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly extend First Amendment protection to students attending public schools.\nThe Barnette case began when several students who were Jehovah's Witnesses refused to salute the flag for religious reasons. School officials punished the students and their parents. The students then sued, claiming a violation of their First Amendment rights.\nAt the time that the students sued, Supreme Court precedent painted a bleak picture for their chances. Just a few years earlier, the Court had ruled in favor of a similar compulsory flag-salute law in Minersville School District v. Gobitis. As the Court stated in that ruling, \"national unity is the basis of national security.\"\nHowever, the high court reversed itself in Barnette, holding that the free-speech and free exercise of religion provisions of the First Amendment guarantee the right of students to be excused from the flag salute on grounds of conscience.\nWriting for the majority, Justice Robert Jackson said that the Supreme Court must ensure \"scrupulous protection of constitutional freedoms of the individual, if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes.\" The Court then warned of the dangers of coercion by government in oft-cited, eloquent language:\n\"If there is any fixed star in our Constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.\"\nThe First Amendment says that the government may not \"establish\" religion. What does that mean in a public school?\nThe meaning of the establishment clause, often referred to as the \"separation of church and state,\" has been much debated throughout our history. Does it require, as described in Thomas Jefferson's famous 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, a high \"wall of separation\"? Or may government support religion as long as no one religion is favored over others? How can school officials determine when they are violating the establishment clause?\nIn the last several decades, the Supreme Court has crafted several tests to determine when state action becomes \"establishment\" of religion. No one test is currently favored by a majority of the Court. Nevertheless, no matter what test is used, it is fair to say that the Court has been stricter about applying the establishment clause in public schools than in other government settings. For example, the Court has upheld legislative prayer (Marsh v. Chambers, 1983), but struck down teacher-led prayer in public schools (Engel v. Vitale, 1962). The Court applies the establishment clause more rigorously in public schools, mostly for two reasons: (1) students are impressionable young people, and (2) they are a \"captive audience\" required by the state to attend school.\nWhen applying the establishment clause to public schools, the Court often emphasizes the importance of \"neutrality\" by school officials toward religion. This means that public schools may neither inculcate nor inhibit religion. They also may not prefer one religion over another \u2014 or religion over nonreligion.\nIf school officials are supposed to be 'neutral' toward religion under the establishment clause, does that mean they should keep religion out of public schools?\nNo. By \"neutrality\" the Supreme Court does not mean hostility to religion. Nor does it mean ignoring religion. Neutrality means protecting the religious-liberty rights of all students while simultaneously rejecting school endorsement or promotion of religion.\nIn 1995, 24 major religious and educational organizations defined religious liberty in public schools this way:\nPublic schools may not inculcate nor inhibit religion. They must be places where religion and religious conviction are treated with fairness and respect.\nPublic schools uphold the First Amendment when they protect the religious-liberty rights of students of all faiths or none. Schools demonstrate fairness when they ensure that the curriculum includes study about religion as an important part of a complete education.\nDoes the establishment clause apply to students in a public school?\nThe establishment clause speaks to what government may or may not do. It does not apply to the private speech of students. School officials should keep in mind the distinction between government (in this case \"school\") speech endorsing religion \u2014 which the establishment clause prohibits \u2014 and private (in this case \"student\") speech endorsing religion, which the free-speech and free-exercise clauses protect.\nStudent religious expression may, however, raise establishment clause concerns when such expression takes place before a captive audience in a classroom or at a school-sponsored event. Students have the right to pray alone or in groups or to discuss their faith with classmates, as long as they aren't disruptive or coercive. And they may express their religious views in class assignments or discussions, as long as it is relevant to the subject under consideration and meets the requirements of the assignment. But students don't have a right to force a captive audience to participate in religious exercises.\nIt isn't entirely clear under current law where teachers and administrators may draw a line limiting student religious expression before a captive audience in a classroom or school-sponsored event. In several recent cases, lower courts have deferred to the judgment of educators about when to limit the religious expression of students in a classroom or school setting. A general guide might be to allow students to express their religious views in a classroom or at a school event as long as they don't ask the audience to participate in a religious activity, use the opportunity to deliver a proselytizing sermon, or give the impression that their views are supported by or endorsed by the school.\nHow can school officials tell when a planned school action or activity might violate the establishment clause?\nHere are some questions that teachers and administrators should ask themselves when planning activities that may involve religious content (e.g., a holiday assembly in December):\nDo I have a distinct educational or civic purpose in mind? If so, what is it? (It may not be the purpose of the public school to promote or denigrate religion.)\nHave I done what I can to ensure that this activity is not designed in any way to either promote or inhibit religion?\nDoes this activity serve the educational mission of the school or the academic goals of the course?\nHave I done what I can to ensure that no student or parent may be made to feel like an outsider, and not a full member of the community, by this activity?\nIf I am teaching about religion, am I balanced, accurate, and academic in my approach?\nWhat does \"free exercise\" of religion mean under the First Amendment?\nThe free-exercise clause of the First Amendment states that the government \"shall make no law \u2026 prohibiting the free exercise of religion.\" Although the text sounds absolute, \"no law\" does not always mean \"no law.\" The Supreme Court has had to place some limits on the freedom to practice religion. To take an easy example cited by the Court in one of its landmark \"free-exercise\" cases (Reynolds v. U.S., 1878), the First Amendment would not protect the practice of human sacrifice even if some religion required it. In other words, while the freedom to believe is absolute, the freedom to act on those beliefs is not.\nBut where may government draw the line on the practice of religion? The courts have struggled with the answer to that question for much of our history. Over time, the Supreme Court developed a test to help judges determine the limits of free exercise. First fully articulated in the 1963 case of Sherbert v. Verner, this test is sometimes referred to as the Sherbert or \"compelling interest\" test. The test has four parts: two that apply to any person who claims that his freedom of religion has been violated, and two that apply to the government agency accused of violating those rights.\nFor the individual, the court must determine\nWhether the person has a claim involving a sincere religious belief, and\nWhether the government action places a substantial burden on the person's ability to act on that belief.\nIf these two elements are established, then the government must prove\nThat it is acting in furtherance of a \"compelling state interest,\" and\nThat it has pursued that interest in the manner least restrictive, or least burdensome, to religion.\nThe Supreme Court, however, curtailed the application of the Sherbert test in the 1990 case of Employment Division v. Smith. In that case, the Court held that a burden on free exercise no longer had to be justified by a compelling state interest if the burden was an unintended result of laws that are generally applicable.\nAfter Smith, only laws (or government actions) that (1) were intended to prohibit the free exercise of religion, or (2) violated other constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, were subject to the compelling-interest test. For example, a state could not pass a law stating that Native Americans are prohibited from using peyote, but it could accomplish the same result by prohibiting the use of peyote by everyone.\nIn the wake of Smith, many religious and civil liberties groups have worked to restore the Sherbert test \u2014 or compelling-interest test \u2014 through legislation. These efforts have been successful in some states. In other states, the courts have ruled that the compelling-interest test is applicable to religious claims by virtue of the state's own constitution. In many states, however, the level of protection for free-exercise claims is uncertain.\nHow should school officials determine when they must accommodate a religious-liberty claim under the free-exercise clause?\nThe application of the \"compelling interest\" test, established by the Supreme Court in 1963 in Sherbert v. Verner, was sharply curtailed by the 1990 Supreme Court decision Employment Division v. Smith. But some states \u2014 such as Florida, Texas and Connecticut \u2014 have passed laws requiring the use of a compelling-interest test in free-exercise cases. Moreover, since most cases involving public schools involve more than one constitutional right (e.g., the religion claim can be linked with a parental right or free-speech claim), some might argue that the compelling-interest test must be used even under Smith.\nRegardless of how this is eventually settled in the courts, public schools fulfill the spirit of the First Amendment when they use the Sherbert test to accommodate the religious claims of students and parents where feasible.\nCan a religious group that receives funds to administer a homeless shelter discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion or adherence to religious doctrines?\nYes. According to the White House, faith-based organizations that receive federal funds may discriminate in employment based on religion.\nCharitable-choice provisions found in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWOR) contain no prohibitions against religious discrimination in employment by religious service providers. Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964, otherwise known as Title VII, prohibits employment discrimination based on religion, it contains an exception for religious institutions. Writing for the Center for Public Justice, Carl Esbeck of the Christian Legal Society explained that such exemptions are necessary if faith-based organizations (FBOs) are to successfully participate in social service programs. According to Esbeck, \"[p]rotecting the autonomy of FBOs was done to enable them to succeed at what they do so well, namely help the poor and needy, and to get FBOs to participate in government programs, something FBOs are far less likely to do if they face compromising regulation.\"\nYet disagreement continues over both the constitutionality of such exemptions and the civic wisdom of such policies. This is easily seen in recent legislative battles between House and Senate bills over the CARE legislation, a bill broadening access to government funding of FBOs. The House passed the original version, supported by the White House, with an exemption allowing FBOs to discriminate in employment based on religion. The Senate version contained no such exemptions, or even any expansion of access, but instead provided greater tax breaks for charitable donations. Several lawsuits have also been filed over charitable choice and the employment-discrimination exemptions.\nWhile most agree that FBOs currently may discriminate on the basis of religion, the White House website provides the following caveat:\n\"[C]ertain Federal laws and regulations, as well as State and local laws, may place conditions on the receipt of government funds. For example, some employment laws may prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion. Or a State or local law may prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or require certain organizations to provide benefits to employees' unmarried domestic partners. Some of these laws may exempt religious organizations, while others may not. Organizations with further questions about this issue may wish to consult a lawyer to find out about the specific requirements that apply to your organization and any rights you may have under the Constitution or Federal laws.\"\nCan federally funded senior centers include religious activities as part of their programs or services?\nNot as part of their federally funded programs. According to Title 45, Part 87, Section 2, Subsection C of the Code of Federal Regulations, \"organizations that receive direct financial assistance from the [federal government] may not engage in inherently religious activities, such as worship, religious instruction, or proselytization, as part of the programs or services funded with direct financial assistance from the [government].\"\nHow, if at all, can federally funded senior centers provide religious activities to those who want to participate?\nTitle 45, Part 87, Section 2, Subsection C of the Code of Federal Regulations states that \"if an organization conducts such activities, the activities must be offered separately, in time or location, from the programs or services funded with direct financial assistance from the [government], and participation must be voluntary for beneficiaries of the programs or services funded with such assistance.\"\nCan federally funded senior centers use religious beliefs to discriminate in deciding to whom to provide services?\nNo. Title 45, Part 87, Section 2, Subsection E of the Code of Federal Regulations says that \"an organization that participates in programs funded by direct financial assistance from the [government] shall not, in providing services, discriminate against a program beneficiary or prospective program beneficiary on the basis of religion or religious belief.\"\nCan public schools offer a history course that focuses on the Bible?\nAn elective history course that focuses on the Bible is a difficult undertaking for public schools because of the complex scholarly and religious debates about the historicity of the Bible. Such a course would need to include non-biblical sources from a variety of scholarly perspectives. Students would study archeological findings and other historical evidence in order to understand the history and cultures of the ancient world. Teachers who may be assigned to teach a history course focused on the Bible need a great deal of preparation and sophistication.\nUnless schools are prepared to design a course that meets the above requirements, they will face legal and educational challenges. In view of these requirements, most public schools that have offered a Bible elective have found it safer and more age-appropriate to use the Bible literature approach discussed earlier in this guide.\nSchools must keep in mind that the Bible is seen by millions of Jews and Christians as scripture. For adherents of these faiths, the Bible makes sense of events in terms of God's purposes and actions. This means that the Bible may not be treated as a history textbook by public school teachers but must be studied by examining a variety of perspectives \u2014 religious and non-religious \u2014 on the meaning and significance of the biblical account.\nAs we have already noted, sorting out what is historical in the Bible is complicated and potentially controversial. Teachers who teach a history course focused on the Bible need to be sensitive to the differences between conventional secular history and the varieties of sacred history. Students must learn something about the contending ways of assessing the historicity of the Bible. They cannot be uncritically taught to accept the Bible as literally true, as history. Nor should they be uncritically taught to accept as historical only what secular historians find verifiable in the Bible.\nSometimes, in an attempt to make study about the Bible more \"acceptable\" in public schools, educators are willing to jettison accounts of miraculous events. But this too is problematic, for it radically distorts the meaning of the Bible. For those who accept the Bible as scripture, God is at work in history, and there is a religious meaning in the patterns of history. A Bible elective in a public school may examine all parts of the Bible, as long as the teacher understands how to teach about the religious content of the Bible from a variety of perspectives.\nWhat about the study of other religious traditions?\nGiven the importance and influence of religion, public schools should include study about religion in some depth on the secondary level. As already suggested, such study may include study about the Bible, where appropriate, in history and literature courses as well as in elective courses that deal with the Bible.\nHowever, a course that includes study about the Bible and its influence will not educate students about religion generally. Just as there is more to history than American history, so there is more to religion than the Bible, Judaism and Christianity.\nPublic schools should also include study about other religious faiths in the core curriculum and offer electives in world religions. Because religion plays a significant role in history and society, study about religion is essential to understanding both the nation and the world. Moreover, knowledge of the roles of religion in the past and present promotes crosscultural understanding in our increasingly diverse society.\nSome school districts require that high schools offering a Bible elective also offer an elective in world religions. There is considerable merit in this approach. This gives students an opportunity to learn about a variety of religions and conveys to students from faiths other than the biblical traditions that their religions are also worthy of study. It is important for public schools to convey the message that the curriculum is designed to offer a good education, and not to prefer any religious faith or group.\nHow should study about the Bible be handled in elementary education?\nThe study of family, community, various cultures, the nation and other themes and topics important in elementary education may involve some discussion of religion. Elementary students are introduced to the basic ideas and practices of the world's major religions in a number of textbooks and curriculums used in public schools. These discussions of religion focus on the generally agreed-upon meanings of religious faiths \u2014 the core beliefs and symbols, as well as important figures and events. Such discussions may include an introduction to biblical literature as students learn something about the various biblical faiths.\nThis early exposure to study about religion builds a foundation for later, more complex discussions in secondary school literature and history courses. Such teaching is introductory in nature; elementary education is not the place for in-depth treatment of religion. Stories drawn from various religious faiths may be included among the wide variety of stories read by students. But the material selected must always be presented in the context of learning about religion.\nOne court has permitted elective Bible courses at the elementary level (in Wiley v. Franklin, 468 F. Supp. 133 (E.D. Tenn. 1979)). But if such instruction is undertaken, it must be done academically and objectively by a qualified teacher. Children would need to understand that they are studying about what the people of a particular religious tradition believe and practice. Devotional books intended for faith formation or religious education may not be used in a public school classroom.\nAs in secondary schools, a balanced and fair curriculum in the elementary grades would not limit study about religion to Judaism and Christianity, but would include a variety of the world's major religious faiths.\nDo schools that permit the distribution of student religious literature give up all control over how it is done?\nNo. Just because schools may not prohibit the distribution of all student materials does not mean that schools have no control over what may be distributed on school premises. On the contrary, courts have repeatedly held that schools may place reasonable \"time, place and manner\" restrictions on all student materials distributed on campus. Thus, schools may specify when the distribution can occur (e.g., lunch hour or before or after classes begin), where it can occur (e.g., outside the school office) and how it can occur (e.g., from fixed locations as opposed to roving distribution). One recent decision upheld a policy confining the distribution of student literature to a table placed in a location designated by the principal and to the sidewalks adjacent to school property. Of course, any such restriction must be reasonable.\nIt is also likely that schools may insist on screening all student materials prior to distribution to ensure their appropriateness for a public school. Any such screening policy should provide for a speedy decision, a statement of reasons for rejecting the literature and a prompt appeals process. Because the speech rights of students are not coextensive with those of adults, schools may prohibit the distribution of some types of student literature altogether. Included in this category would be:\nMaterials that would be likely to cause substantial disruption of the operation of the school. Literature that uses fighting words or other inflammatory language about students or groups of students would be an example of this type of material. Student speech may not be prohibited simply because it is considered offensive by some (see Saxe v. State College Area School Dist., 3rd Cir. 2001).\nMaterial that violates the rights of others. Included in this category would be literature that is libelous, invades the privacy of others or infringes on a copyright.\nMaterials that are obscene, lewd or sexually explicit.\nCommercial materials that advertise products unsuitable for minors.\nMaterials that students would reasonably believe to be sponsored or endorsed by the school. One recent example of this category of speech was a religious newspaper that was formatted to look like the school newspaper.\nThough schools have considerable latitude in prohibiting the distribution of materials that conflict with their educational mission, schools generally may not ban materials solely on the basis of content. Similarly, schools should not allow a heckler's veto by prohibiting the distribution of only those materials that are unpopular or controversial. If Christian students are allowed to distribute their newsletters, then Buddhists, Muslims and even Wiccans must be given the same privilege.\nHow should religious holidays be treated in the classroom?\nTeachers must be alert to the distinction between teaching about religious holidays, which is permissible, and celebrating religious holidays, which is not. Recognition of and information about holidays may focus on how and when they are celebrated, their origins, histories and generally agreed-upon meanings. If the approach is objective and sensitive, neither promoting nor inhibiting religion, this study can foster understanding and mutual respect for differences in belief. Teachers may not, however, use the study of religious holidays as an opportunity to proselytize or otherwise inject their personal religious beliefs into the discussion.\nThe use of religious symbols is permissible as a teaching aid or resource, provided they are used only as examples of cultural or religious heritage. Religious symbols may be displayed only on a temporary basis as part of the academic lesson being studied. Students may choose to create artwork with religious symbols, but teachers should not assign or suggest such creations.\nGuest speakers also can help teachers present the appropriate information, but only if they understand their role as informational, not devotional, in nature.\nIn addition, the use of art, drama, music, or literature with religious themes is permissible if it serves a sound educational goal in the curriculum. Such themes should be included on the basis of their academic or aesthetic value, and not as a vehicle for promoting religious beliefs. For example, sacred music may be sung or played as part of the academic study of music. School concerts that present a variety of selections may include religious music. Concerts should, however, avoid programs dominated by religious music, especially when these coincide with a particular religious holiday.\nHow should religious objections to holidays be handled?\nStudents from certain religious traditions may ask to be excused from classroom discussions or activities related to particular holidays. For example, holidays such as Halloween and Valentine's Day, which are considered by many people to be secular, are viewed by others as having religious overtones.\nExcusal requests may be especially common in the elementary grades, where holidays are often marked by parties and similar nonacademic activities. Such requests should be routinely granted in the interest of creating good policy and upholding the religious-liberty principles of the First Amendment.\nIn addition, some parents and students may make requests for excusals from discussions of certain holidays, even when these holidays are treated from an academic perspective. If these requests are focused on a limited, specific discussion, administrators should grant such requests, in order to strike a balance between the student's religious freedom and the school's interest in providing a well-rounded education.\nAdministrators and teachers should understand, however, that a policy or practice of excusing students from a specific activity or discussion may not be used as a rationale for school sponsorship of religious celebration or worship for the remaining students.\nCan students be absent for religious holidays?\nSchools should have policies concerning absences that take into account the religious needs and requirements of students. Students should be allowed a reasonable number of excused absences, without penalties, to observe religious holidays within their traditions. Students may be asked to complete makeup assignments or tests in conjunction with such absences.\nDoes the First Amendment require that \"equal time\" be given to all faiths in the public school curriculum?\nNo. The grade level of the students and the academic requirements of the course should determine which religions to study and how much to discuss about religion.\nIn the elementary grades, the study of family, community, culture, history, literature, the nation, and other themes and topics should naturally involve some discussion of religion. Elementary students are introduced to the basic ideas and practices of the world's major religions by focusing on the generally agreed-upon meanings of religious faiths \u2014 the core beliefs and symbols as well as important figures and events. Stories drawn from various faiths may be included among the wide variety of stories read by students, but the material selected must always be presented in the context of learning about religion. On the secondary level, the social studies, literature, and the arts offer opportunities for the inclusion of study about religions, their ideas, and practices. The academic needs of the course should determine which religions are studied and how much time is required to provide an adequate understanding of the concepts and practices under consideration.\nIn a U.S. history course, for example, some faith communities may be given more time than others simply because of their predominant influence on the development of the nation. In world history, a variety of faiths must be studied, based on the regions of the world, in order to understand the various civilizations and cultures that have shaped history and society.\nFair and balanced study about religion on the secondary level includes critical thinking about historical events involving religious traditions. Religious beliefs have been at the heart of some of the best and worst developments in human history. The full historical record, and various interpretations of it, should be available for analysis and discussion. Using primary sources whenever possible allows students to work directly with the historical record.\nOf course, fairness and balance in U.S. or world history and literature is difficult to achieve, given the brief treatment of religious ideas and events in most textbooks and the limited time available in the course syllabus. Teachers will need scholarly supplemental resources that enable them to cover the required material within the allotted time, while enriching the discussion with study of religion. In fact, some schools now offer electives in religious studies to provide additional opportunities for students to study about the major faith communities in greater depth.\nOverall, the curriculum should include all major voices, and many minor ones, in an effort to provide the best possible education.\nCan religious scriptures be used in a public school classroom?\nStudy of history or literature would be incomplete without exposure to the scriptures of the world's major religious traditions. Some knowledge of biblical literature, for example, is necessary to comprehend much in the history, law, art and literature of Western civilization, just as exposure to the Quran is important for understanding Islamic civilization. In this sense, the classical religious texts are part of our study of history and culture.\nAt the same time, students need to recognize that, while scriptures tell us much about the history and cultures of humankind, they are considered sacred accounts by adherents to their respective traditions. Religious documents give students of history the opportunity to examine directly how religious traditions understand divine revelation and human values.\nIn a history class, selections from these accounts should always be treated with respect and used only in the appropriate historical and cultural context. Alert students to the fact that there are a variety of interpretations of scripture within each religious tradition.\nCan teachers use role-playing or simulations to teach about religion?\nRecreating religious practices or ceremonies through role-playing activities should not take place in a public school classroom for three reasons:\n1. Such reenactments run the risk of blurring the distinction between teaching about religion (which is constitutional) and school-sponsored practice of religion (which is unconstitutional).\n2. Role-playing religious practices or rituals may violate the religious liberty, or freedom of conscience, of the students in the classroom. Even if the students are all volunteers, many parents don't want their children participating in a religious activity of a faith not their own. The fact that the exercise is \"acting\" doesn't prevent potential problems.\n3. Simulations or role-playing, no matter how carefully planned or well-intentioned, risk trivializing, caricaturing or oversimplifying the religious tradition that is being studied. Teachers should use audiovisual resources and primary sources to introduce students to the ceremonies and rituals of the world's religions.\nIs it legal to invite guest speakers to help teach about religion?\nYes, if the school district policy allows guest speakers in the classroom.\nIf a guest speaker is invited, care should be taken to find someone with the academic background necessary for an objective and scholarly discussion of the historical period and the religion under consideration. Faculty from local colleges and universities often make excellent guest speakers, or they can recommend others who might be appropriate for working with students in a public school setting. Religious leaders in the community may also be a resource. Remember, however, that they have commitments to their own faith. Above all else, be certain that any guest speaker understands the First Amendment guidelines for teaching about religion in public education and is clear about the academic nature of the assignment.\nHow should teachers respond if students ask them about their religious beliefs?\nSome teachers prefer not to answer the question, believing that it is inappropriate for a teacher to inject personal beliefs into the classroom. Other teachers may choose to answer the question directly and succinctly in the interest of an open and honest classroom environment.\nBefore answering the question, however, teachers should consider the age of the students. Middle and high school students may be able to distinguish between a personal conviction and the official position of the school; very young children may not. In any case, the teacher may answer at most with a brief statement of personal belief \u2014 but may not turn the question into an opportunity to proselytize for or against religion. Teachers may neither reward nor punish students because they agree or disagree with the religious views of the teacher.\nCan religious leaders provide crisis counseling to students in public schools?\nIn times of sudden crisis (e.g., violent or accidental death of students or teachers), schools may call on a wide range of qualified counselors, including religious leaders, to assist school-employed counselors in helping children cope with the crisis at hand. Of course, religious leaders may not be the only grief counselors invited on campus during a crisis. Religious leaders may not otherwise be given routine access to students during the school day. Even when counseling to deal with a sudden crisis, religious leaders should remember that a public school is not a place for proselytizing or other overt religious activity.\nTo the extent that schools cooperate with adults who are important in a student's life (parents or other relatives, guardians, foster parents, social workers or neighbors) to help the child deal with school work, behavioral problems, or other issues, schools may also cooperate with an adult acknowledged by a student as his or her religious leader. However, a school may not in any way compel or coerce a student to speak to representatives of religious institutions.\nDo outside groups have the right to distribute material on campus?\nGenerally no. Adults from outside the school do not have an automatic right to distribute materials to students in a public school. May school officials allow them to do so? Although this area of the law is somewhat unclear, it is fair to say that schools should exercise great caution before giving an outside group access to students during the school day. Giving some groups access opens the door to others. Moreover, if a religious group is allowed to actively distribute religious literature to students on campus, that activity is likely to violate the establishment clause.\nAt least one lower court has upheld \"passive\" distribution of materials in a secondary school by religious and other community groups. Note that in this case the group left materials for students to browse through and take only if they wished. Also, a wide variety of community groups were given similar privileges, and the school posted a disclaimer explaining that the school did not endorse these materials. Under those conditions, this court allowed passive distribution, but only in the secondary-school setting (see Peck v. Upshur County, 4th Cir. 1998, although other federal courts have rejected this distinction).\nSchools may announce community events or meetings of groups \u2014 including religious groups \u2014 that work with students. All of these groups should be treated in the same way. The school should make clear that it does not sponsor these community groups (see Child Evangelism Fellowship v. Stafford Township, 3rd Cir. 2004).\nCan public schools cooperate with mentoring programs run by religious institutions?\nPublic schools may cooperate with mentoring projects run by religious institutions provided that:\nOther community organizations are given an equal opportunity and are subject to the same secular selection criteria to operate such programs in partnership with the schools.\nReferrals are made without regard to a student's religious beliefs or lack of them.\nParticipation in the program is not conditioned on mandatory participation, or refusal to participate, in religious programs operated by a religious institution.\nAt no time do school officials encourage or discourage student participation in the religious programs of religious institutions.\nCan religious institutions provide \"safe shelter\" opportunities to students?\nIn order to provide for the safety of students traveling to and from schools, the school district may ask local institutions (e.g., businesses, firehouses, religious institutions) to serve as temporary shelters for students who seek to avoid danger or threatening situations. The school shall provide signs indicating that the place is a shelter available for students.\nCan schools use facilities owned by religious institutions?\nPublic schools may arrange to use the facilities of private landholders, including churches, temples, mosques or other religious institutions. Of course, all such facilities must meet applicable health and safety codes. But if the arrangement involves the use of sanctuaries, playgrounds, libraries or other facilities owned by religious groups, then the following First Amendment guidelines must be followed:\n1. The schools must have a secular educational purpose for seeking to use the facilities, such as after-school recreation, extended day care, homework study hall, etc.\n2. Where schools lease space from religious institutions for use as regular public school classrooms, the leased space is in effect a public school facility. Religious symbols or messages may not be displayed in the leased areas.\n3. Cooperative programs using the facilities of religious institutions must not afford an actual opportunity for proselytizing by clergy, school employees, or adult volunteers of any school children during the school-affiliated program. (Of course, the law is not violated if a cooperative program's use of a religious facility coincidentally results in a student gaining an interest in attending worship services there. But the law prohibits clergy from leading devotions as part of the school program.)\n4. As stated above, religious symbols and messages may not be displayed in space leased from religious institutions for use as public-school classrooms. The rules are somewhat different for cooperative programs. A room bedecked with scriptural injunctions about repentance and salvation would not be appropriate for cooperative programs; a room with religious symbols or icons might well be.\n5. School officials may neither select nor reject the use of a private religious facility based on the popularity or unpopularity of its religious teachings. Religion-neutral criteria should be employed, e.g., proximity to the schools in question; suitability of the facility for the intended use; health and safety; comparative expenses (if any); accessibility for parent pickup or busing.\n6. The school's arrangement for use of a private religious facility should not involve or necessitate an ongoing administrative entanglement between the school district and the religious institution, in which one party ends up exerting influence over the content, scheduling or staffing of the other's activities.\nCan states choose only certain types of businesses to be closed on Sundays?\nYes. Where the state determines that a day of rest would be desirable in some kinds of businesses and not in others, they are permitted to restrict only those that they deem to be necessary. Likewise, the state may decide to forbid or limit the sale of certain items (such as alcohol) on any given day, so long as the decision is justified by some secular purpose instead of a religious one. In a 1999 decision, Harris County, Texas v. CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law that forbade car dealerships from being open on consecutive Saturdays and Sundays. Effectively this forced the business owners to choose one day or the other as a day of rest for their employees, though it did not dictate any particular preference as to which one should be adopted. The court denied that the law unfairly discriminated against car dealers or established any sort of preference for religion as opposed to no religion.\nCan a student pray at graduation exercises or at other school-sponsored events?\nThis is one of the most confusing and controversial areas of the current school-prayer debate. While the courts have not clarified all of the issues, some are clearer than others.\nFor instance, inviting outside adults to lead prayers at graduation ceremonies is clearly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court resolved this issue in the 1992 case Lee v. Weisman, which began when prayers were delivered by clergy at a middle school's commencement exercises in Providence, Rhode Island. The school designed the program, provided for the invocation, selected the clergy, and even supplied guidelines for the prayer.\nTherefore, the Supreme Court held that the practice violated the First Amendment's prohibition against laws \"respecting an establishment of religion.\" The majority based its decision on the fact that (1) it is not the business of schools to sponsor or organize religious activities, and (2) students who might have objected to the prayer were subtly coerced to participate. This psychological coercion was not resolved by the fact that attendance at the graduation was \"voluntary.\" In the Court's view, few students would want to miss the culminating event of their academic career.\nA murkier issue is student-initiated, student-led prayer at school-sponsored events. On one side of the debate are those who believe that student religious speech at graduation ceremonies or other school-sponsored events violates the establishment clause. They are bolstered by the 2000 Supreme Court case Santa Fe v. Doe, which involved the traditional practice of student-led prayers over the public-address system before high school football games.\nAccording to the district, students would vote each year on whether they would have prayers at home football games. If they decided to do so, they would then select a student to deliver the prayers. To ensure fairness, the school district said it required these prayers to be \"non-sectarian [and] non-proselytizing.\"\nA 6-to-3 majority of the Supreme Court still found the Santa Fe policy to be unconstitutional. The majority opinion first pointed out that constitutional rights are not subject to a vote. To the contrary, the judges said the purpose of the Bill of Rights was to place some rights beyond the reach of political majorities. Thus, the Constitution protects a person's right to freedom of speech, press, or religion even if no one else agrees with the ideas a person professes.\nIn addition, the Court found that having a student, as opposed to an adult, lead the prayer did not solve the constitutional dilemma. A football game is still a school-sponsored event, they held, and the school was still coercing the students, however subtly, to participate in a religious exercise.\nFinally, the Court ruled that the requirement that the prayer be \"non-sectarian\" and \"non-proselytizing\" not only failed to solve the problems addressed in Lee v. Weisman, it may have aggravated them. In other words, while some might like the idea of an inclusive, nonsectarian \"civil\" religion, others might not. To some people, the idea of nonsectarian prayer is offensive, as though a prayer were being addressed \"to whom it may concern.\" Moreover, the Supreme Court made clear in Lee v. Weisman that even nondenominational prayers or generic religiosity may not be established by the government at graduation exercises.\nAnother thorny part of this issue is determining whether a particular prayer tends to proselytize. Such determinations entangle school officials in religious matters in unconstitutional ways. In fact, one Texas school district was sued for discriminating against those who wished to offer more-sectarian prayers at graduation exercises.\nOn the other side of this debate are those who contend that not allowing students to express themselves religiously at school events violates the students' free exercise of religion and free speech.\nCase law indicates, however, that this may be true only in instances involving strictly student speech, and not when a student is conveying a message controlled or endorsed by the school. As the 11th Circuit case of Adler v. Duval County (2001) suggests, it would seem possible for a school to provide a forum for student speech within a graduation ceremony when prayer or religious speech might occur.\nFor example, a school might allow the valedictorian or class president an opportunity to speak during the ceremony. If such a student chose to express a religious viewpoint, it seems unlikely it would be found unconstitutional unless the school had suggested or otherwise encouraged the religious speech. (See Doe v. Madison School Dist., 9th Cir. 1998.) In effect, this means that in order to distance itself from the student's remarks, the school must create a limited open forum for student speech in the graduation program.\nAgain, there is a risk for school officials in this approach. By creating a limited open forum for student speech, the school may have to accept almost anything the student wishes to say. Although the school would not be required to allow speech that was profane, sexually explicit, defamatory, or disruptive, the speech could include political or religious views offensive to many, as well as speech critical of school officials.\nIf school officials feel a solemnizing event needs to occur at a graduation exercise, a neutral moment of silence might be the best option. This way, everyone could pray, meditate, or silently reflect on the previous year's efforts in her own way.\nCan teachers or other school employees participate in student religious clubs?\nNo. The Equal Access Act states that \"employees or agents of the school or government are present at religious meetings only in a nonparticipatory capacity.\"\nFor insurance purposes, or because of state law or local school policy, teachers or other school employees are commonly required to be present during student meetings. But if the student club is religious in nature, school employees may be present as monitors only. Such custodial supervision does not constitute sponsorship or endorsement of the group by the school.\nIf the Supreme Court struck down Congress' attempt to protect religious liberties in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, why wouldn't it just do the same thing with RLUIPA?\nCongress has different constitutional sources for its authority. If the Supreme Court denies it the power to create a law under one source, Congress may still be able to accomplish its goal using a different source. Congress justified its passage of RFRA under a section of the 14th Amendment that gives it the power to pass laws deemed necessary to protect the liberties ensured by that amendment, which would include the First Amendment's guarantee of \"free exercise of religion.\" The Court held that under that section Congress was only permitted to develop laws that would enforce the standard of protection deemed necessary by the Court itself, as opposed to the stricter general standard embodied in RFRA.\nRLUIPA's justification was rooted in Congress' power to regulate matters touching on interstate commerce. The Supreme Court has only rarely overturned congressional acts based on the interstate-commerce clause, so it is possible (though far from a certainty) that the Court would find a sufficient tie to interstate commerce to justify Congress in creating RLUIPA. It is important to note that even if the Court finds that Congress acted from the proper source of authority, the act might still be found to violate the establishment clause and therefore be unconstitutional.\nDo cities have the right to restrict the number of churches?\nCities have the right to zone specific areas for religious purposes, but they do not have the right to restrict the number of churches or religious institutions within their boundaries. Under RLUIPA, religious institutions are given some protection against zoning laws. Though the act does not completely exempt churches from zoning laws, officials must have a compelling interest in restricting a church or other religious institution from being built in a specific area.\nSome fear that allowing an overabundance of religious institutions in a city will damage the economy because religious organizations are exempt from property taxes. Chris Hoene, a research manager for the National League of Cities, said some cities had become inventive in devising ways to collect money from churches. For example, some cities have begun to tax religious organizations' profit-generating enterprises, including publishing and gift-shop sales.\nCan noncurriculum-related student groups use school media to advertise their meetings?\nYes. A student group may use school media \u2014 such as the public-address system, school paper, and school bulletin board \u2014 as long as other noncurriculum-related student groups are allowed to do so. Any policy concerning the use of school media must be applied to all noncurriculum-related student groups in a nondiscriminatory manner. Schools, however, may issue disclaimers indicating that extracurricular student groups are not school-sponsored or endor\nWhat control does the school retain over student meetings in a limited open forum?\nThe Equal Access Act does not take away a school's authority to establish reasonable time, place, and manner regulations for a limited open forum. For example, a school may establish for its student clubs a reasonable meeting time on any one school day, a combination of days, or all school days. It may assign the rooms in which student groups can meet. It may enforce order and discipline during the meetings. The key, however, is that the school's time, place, and manner regulations must be uniform, nondiscriminatory, and neutral in viewpoint.\nCan the school exclude any student extracurricular group?\nYes. According to guidelines endorsed by a broad coalition of educational and religious liberty organizations, \"student groups that are unlawful, or that materially and substantially interfere with the orderly conduct of educational activities, may be excluded. However, a student group cannot be denied equal access simply because its ideas are unpopular. Freedom of speech includes the ideas the majority may find repugnant.\" *\nMost schools require students to submit a statement outlining the purpose and nature of the proposed club. School officials do not have to allow meetings of groups that advocate violence or hate or engage in illegal activity. This does not mean, however, that schools may bar students from forming clubs to discuss controversial social and legal issues such as abortion or sexual orientation. Again, student-initiated clubs in a limited open forum may not be barred on the basis of the viewpoint of their speech. Some schools require parental permission for students to join an extracurricular club. Although this step is not required by the Equal Access Act, it has enabled schools to keep the forum open in communities where student clubs have sparked controversy.\n* \"The Equal Access Act: Questions and Answers,\" found in Haynes & Thomas, Finding Common Ground (2001).\nWhat can a school do to make it clear that it is not promoting, endorsing or otherwise sponsoring noncurriculum-related student groups?\nA school may issue a disclaimer that plainly states that in affording such student groups an opportunity to meet, it is merely making its facilities available, nothing more.\nAre religious displays on public property \u2014 such as Ten Commandments in historical-documents exhibits \u2014 legal?\nThe question of whether a religious display on government property is constitutional requires a multi-step analysis. First, one should ask, who is funding and erecting the display? If a private group wants to place a religious monument on public property, then a free-expression analysis should be conducted, looking into such things as the type of forum in question. If, as in this case, a government entity is attempting to post a religious document, then a separate line of questions must be raised.\nReligious displays on public property can be legal, but they must pass constitutional muster by not violating the First Amendment's establishment clause, which requires government \"neutrality\" towards religion. In deciding whether or not particular religious displays violate the establishment clause, courts look to two Supreme Court tests, the Lemon test and the endorsement test.\nThe Lemon test poses three questions: 1) Did the state actor have a secular purpose in posting the documents; 2) was the primary effect of the action to advance or promote religion; and 3) was there excessive entanglement between government and religion in the given activity? The government conduct must survive all three of these prongs if the action is to survive constitutional muster.\nA more recent test that has gained popularity in the courts is the endorsement test. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor first outlined this test in her concurring opinion in the 1983 decision Lynch v. Donnelly, which involved a city-owned holiday display containing religious elements in a Pawtucket, R.I., park. This approach examines the following questions: Did the state actor subjectively intend to promote religion through its actions, and would the reasonable observer interpret the actions of the state as an endorsement of religion?\nThe elements of both tests should be examined before a government representative posts any religious documents or engages in other forms of religious expression.\nTwo cases decided in June 2005 by the U.S. Supreme Court illustrate how even the high court can reach very different conclusions in ruling on seemingly similar religious-display cases. Both McCreary County v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry involved displays of the Ten Commandments on public property. In writing for the 5-4 majority in McCreary, Justice David Souter used the Lemon test and determined that the Ten Commandments displays in the two Kentucky courthouses conveyed a religious message to the public, failing to satisfy the first prong of the Lemon test that the display must have a secular purpose. Therefore, the Court majority found the displays in McCreary were unconstitutional.\nIn Van Orden, which was decided on the same day as McCreary, the high court ruled that a Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds was constitutional. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in writing the plurality opinion for the Court, was quick in dismissing the Lemon test as the appropriate way to evaluate the case. (The vote was 4-1-4.) Instead, Rehnquist focused on the nature and setting of the monument. The monument was part of a larger display containing 17 monuments and 21 historical markers celebrating the \"people, ideals, and events that compose Texan identity.\" In determining that the monument was of a secular purpose, and therefore constitutional, Justice Stephen Breyer in his concurring opinion noted that because the monument had been on display for 40 years before being challenged, it \"suggests more strongly than can any set of formulaic tests that few individuals, whatever their system of beliefs, are likely to have understood the monument amounting, in any significantly detrimental way, to a government effort to favor a particular religious sect.\"\nLater that same year, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in ACLU v. Mercer County that another Kentucky County courthouse Ten Commandments display was constitutional. In this case, a Mercer County resident had requested permission to hang a display titled \"Foundations of American Law and Government\" in the courthouse. The display included the Ten Commandments, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Magna Carta, Star-Spangled Banner, Bill of Rights and other historical documents. The 6th Circuit affirmed the lower court's ruling that because the Ten Commandments was part of an exhibit and was not, in any way, more prominently displayed than any of the other documents, the display had a secular purpose in educating the public rather than endorsing religion.\nAre religious holiday displays on public property constitutional?\nIt depends. Determining the constitutionality of religious holiday displays requires an analysis that is heavily \"fact-driven,\" meaning the slightest change in facts could completely change whether or not a holiday display is constitutional. Three U.S. Supreme Court cases deal specifically with this question. In Lynch v. Donnelly (1984) the Court held that a city-sponsored cr\u00e8che in a public park did not violate the establishment clause because the display included other \"secular\" symbols, such as a teddy bear, dancing elephant, Christmas tree, and Santa Claus house. In Allegheny v. ACLU (1989) the Court found that a Nativity scene in a county courthouse accompanied by a banner that read \"Gloria in Excelsis Deo\" (\"Glory to God in the Highest\"), was unconstitutional because it was \"indisputably religious,\" rather than secular, in nature. In 1995 in Capitol Square Review & Advisory Board v. Pinette the Court held that a private group of individuals (in this case the Ku Klux Klan) could erect a cross in the Ohio statehouse plaza during the holiday season. In reaching its decision, the Court heavily relied on the fact that the KKK had requested permission to display the cross in the same manner as any other private group was required to do, that the public park had often times been open to the public for various religious activities, and that the KKK expressly disclaimed any government endorsement of the cross with written language on the cross.\nDespite the Supreme Court's providing these baseline principles in religious holiday display cases, courts around the country have a difficult time in their application. For example, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a holiday display in a government building violated the establishment clause because the display lacked sufficient secular content. (Amancio v. Town of Somerset, 28 F. Supp. 2d 677 (D. Mass. 1998).) Included in the display was a Nativity scene, Christmas tree and Santa Claus. Contrast that decision with a ruling out of the 8th Circuit in which it was held that a holiday display that contained candy canes, Christmas tree, snowman, wrapped gifts and a cr\u00e8che was constitutional. (ACLU v. City of Florissant, 186 F.3d 1095 (8th Cir. 1999).) The 1st Circuit and 8th Circuit clearly are split, illustrated by these two decisions, in how to interpret Lynch and Allegheny.\nSome circuits, however, have applied the trio of cases with great consistency. For example, the 3rd Circuit has held that a display depicting a Hanukkah menorah, Christmas trees, Kwanzaa candles, a sled and Frosty the Snowman, among other things, was constitutional. (ACLU v. Schundler, 168 F.3d 92 (1999).) This court adhered strictly to the decisions in Lynch and Donnelly in reaching its decision. The 2nd Circuit also reached a similar decision in a holiday display case that included a cr\u00e8che, Christmas tree, Hanukkah menorah, and a posted sign that stated that the display was privately sponsored. (Elewski v. City of Syracuse, 123 F. 3d 51 (2nd Cir. 1997).)\nHow can an individual ensure that a religious holiday display that she erects is constitutional?\nFirst of all, any holiday display erected on private property is immune from any constitutional challenges. Secondly, if an individual or group of individuals decide to set up a holiday display on public property (i.e. parks, courthouses, town halls, etc) he should petition the appropriate authorities for authorization to erect such a display. If the site has been home to a variety of religious displays in the past, it is likely permission will be granted.\nIf a prisoner who practiced the Sikh religion asked to wear a kirpan (small dagger), saying he needed to wear the kirpan to express his religious faith, must prison officials grant the request?\nNo, it is likely that prison officials could refuse this request, even if motivated by sincere religious belief, because of legitimate safety concerns. The courts grant a good deal of discretion to prison officials when it comes to safety considerations. Safety is a paramount concern in prisons and is termed a legitimate penological interest.\nShould society care about inmates' religious rights?\nWhatever legal standard is used to resolve inmate freedom-of-religion lawsuits, some in society ask: \"Who cares?\" Many people believe that inmates forfeited their rights when they committed their crimes. But others believe society should try to encourage inmates to practice their religious faith.\n\"Let's face it. Most inmates do get out of prison at some point,\" says David Fahti, a prison expert. \"And the single best predictor of whether an inmate will do OK when they reenter society is whether they maintain community ties when they are in prison.\n\"There are many reasons why we should recognize the religious rights of inmates,\" Fahti says. \"Our country was founded on principles of religious freedom. Many people came to this country to flee religious persecution in other countries. As long as a prisoner's practice of religion does not interfere with prison security, there is simply no reason to deny an inmate's religious rights.\nAdds Keith Defasio, a prisoners'-rights advocate, \"Even though inmates are incarcerated for crimes, they should still be entitled to their constitutional dignities. Where are we as a democracy if we can give and take away constitutional rights?\"\nHas the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of religious exemptions to state-compelled vaccination?\nNo Supreme Court ruling explicitly establishes a position on religious exemptions to state-compelled vaccination. However, it is clear from the Court's establishment-clause rulings that it is unlikely for all such exemptions to be found in violation of the First Amendment. What is less clear is whether or not the Court would find the free-exercise clause to mandate the inclusion of religious exemptions. For this reason, the status of religious exemptions to state-compelled vaccinations is still very much unclear. What the Court has found, however, is that a state has the authority to require its citizens to receive certain inoculations. This authority was established in 1905 in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, where the Court ruled that Massachusetts had the authority to require its citizens to be inoculated against smallpox.\nWhich states require immunizations for public schoolchildren, and which offer religious exemptions?\nAll states currently require children to follow at least some form of standardized immunization schedule in order to be enrolled in public school. Vaccinations often required by this schedule include those against diphtheria, whooping cough, and the measles. Of the 50 states, all offer some exemptions for religious opposition to vaccination except Mississippi and West Virginia.\nHow are exemption requests evaluated?\nStates generally apply one of three standards for evaluating religious-exemption requests.\n1. Parents requesting the exemption must be a member of a recognized religious organization that is opposed to vaccination.\n2. Parents must demonstrate a sincere and genuinely held religious belief that opposes one or all vaccinations.\n3. Parents must simply sign a statement confirming that they are religiously opposed to vaccination and would like an exemption.\nAre religious exemptions the only way to opt out of mandatory vaccination?\nNo, all states include a medical exemption in their vaccination policy, and almost half of the states offer philosophical exemptions in addition to their medical and religious accommodations.\nFreedom to Petition\nWhat is \"petitioning\"?\nHistorically, a petition was a written request stating a grievance and requesting relief from a ruling authority such as a king. In modern America, petitioning embraces a range of expressive activities designed to influence public officials through legal, nonviolent means.\nWhat are the origins of the right to petition?\nThe right to petition reaches back at least to the Magna Carta in 1215. The English Declaration of Rights in 1689 confirmed that subjects were entitled to petition the king without fear of prosecution.\nWhat does the petition clause in the First Amendment guarantee?\nCourts seldom address the petition clause in isolation, instead grouping it with other rights to free association and collective speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has noted that the right to petition at least provides the opportunity to institute nonfrivolous lawsuits and mobilize popular support to change existing laws in a peaceful manner.\nCan government entities besides Congress restrict petitioning?\nNo. The U.S. Supreme Court has incorporated the petition clause of the First Amendment as part of the 14th Amendment's guarantees against the states. The petition clause applies equally to state and local governments and protects petitions directed to the judicial, executive and legislative branches.\nWhat must the government do in response to petitioning?\nThe First Amendment does not mandate that the government consider the public's petitions or actually provide any \"redress.\" At a minimum, the government must have a mechanism for receiving complaints and grievances from the public, even if only to file them without consideration. Of course, due process \u2014 the guarantee that justice will be administered fairly \u2014 would apply if a citizen's \"petition\" took the form of a court case.\nAre SLAPP suits illegal?\nNo, parties can attempt to file such suits, but the First Amendment's petition clause guarantees the right of all interested parties to attempt to enlist the government on their side of an issue or dispute. The vast majority of the case law and commentary \u2014 both popular and scholarly \u2014 supports that right, and suggests that the remedy for dissatisfaction with the statements of another party is more speech directed toward government, not more litigation.\nIs lobbying considered a form of petition?\nLobbyists try to persuade government officials either to support or oppose various policy issues. Therefore, lobbying can be considered a form of petitioning the government for redress of grievances, subject to protection under the First Amendment's petition clause. Although there has not been a great deal of judicial analysis on First Amendment protections afforded to lobbying, the courts have carved out several parameters. First, the petition clause does not grant a lobbyist the absolute right to speak to a government official, nor does it grant a lobbyist the right to a hearing based on his or her grievances. In addition, the clause does not create an obligation for a government official to take action in response to a grievance. Finally, any statement made while a lobbyist petitions a government official does not receive greater protection than any other expression protected by the First Amendment.\nDo anti-SLAPP laws apply to online libel suits?\nA libel suit, whether involving online or off-line speech, is one of the ways a SLAPP suit could be disguised; anti-SLAPP laws would apply. However, not all libel suits are SLAPP suits. Anti-SLAPP laws would apply only if it were found that a suit was filed in response to or in retaliation for citizen communications with government entities or employees, or for speech to bring attention to an issue of public interest or concern.\nIn 2001, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter determined that California's anti-SLAPP statute does apply to cyber-SLAPPs. (See Global Telemedia International Inc. v. Doe et al., 132 F. Supp. 2d 1261 (C.D. Cal. 2001))\nIn 2003, the Massachusetts Appeals Court cited that state's anti-SLAPP statute in throwing out a libel lawsuit against a website operator whose posted statements suggested a town official was a Nazi. (See MacDonald v. Paton, 57 Mass.App.Ct. 290 (2003) and \"State appeals court rules online libel suit was really SLAPP.\")\nOther state anti-SLAPP statutes may also apply to online libel suits. See \"Anti-SLAPP statutes: state summary\" for a state-by-state list.\nDo prisoners have access to law libraries and legal advisers as part of the freedom to petition?\nNo. The right to such legal resources in prison falls under due process.\nFreedom of Assembly\nIs there such a thing as \"guilt by association\"?\nSimply attending peaceful meetings of an organization will not make a person guilty, even if other members of that organization commit lawless acts. Guilt can be shared only if the organization and its members have a common plan to break the law.\nCan what a customer wears in a shopping mall be restricted?\nIn most cases, yes. Most states consider shopping malls to be the private property of the mall owner. Just as with any piece of private property, owners can make rules regarding that property, including what is appropriate attire. Think of \"No shirt, no shoes, no service.\"\nIn 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board. This case involved a group of labor union members who were picketing inside a privately owned mall. The union members filed suit claiming, in part, that their First Amendment free-speech rights had been violated after they were asked to leave the premises or be arrested for criminal trespass. The court looked at past cases and found that the First Amendment does not prevent a property owner from restricting the exercise of free speech on private property, in this instance, the shopping mall. So, for example, if a mall shopper were asked to cover a shirt that the mall owners found to be offensive, the shopper would have to comply or leave.\nNew Jersey and California have found their state constitutions to provide more freedoms than the U.S. Constitution \u2014 meaning that in these states constitutional rights to free speech can prevail over the private-property interests of mall owners. See Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980). However, most states that have addressed this issue have found in favor of property owners.\n0 Comments - Leave a Comment\nWhat is the difference between the freedom of assembly and the freedom of association?\nFreedom of assembly is explicitly guaranteed in the First Amendment, securing the right of people to meet for any purpose connected with government. Freedom of association protects the activities and composition of such meetings. This right is not explicitly set out in the Constitution but is instead derived from fundamental privacy interests and the rights of speech, petition and assembly.\nWhat kinds of associations are protected?\nAny and every group is allowed to meet to discuss ideas and peaceably promote its point of view, even if that message is distasteful to others. Whether through parades, peaceful protests, picketing or simply sharing ideas, an organization formed for expressive purposes may engage in \"group speech\" to advance its mission. Freedom of association also protects the gathering of people for personal, private purposes, such as the meeting of family members.\nWhen can the government restrict associations?\nGroups that wish to engage in public activism must abide by generally applicable laws, such as criminal trespass or prohibitions on litter, excess noise, crowd congestion and permit requirements. If the government seeks to intervene in the internal affairs of a group in a way that impairs its advocacy, the regulation must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest that outweighs any burden on the group's speech.\nHow broad is the freedom of association?\nThis freedom protects the right of people to meet and publicly support a cause or message. It also protects the right of people not to be affiliated with certain messages or ideas. For example, the government cannot force expressive associations to accept unwanted members who would impair the effectiveness of the group. Nor can the government force people to support undesirable causes through required fees or dues as part of belonging to a group.\nWhat role did the First Amendment play in the civil rights movement?\nThe movement drew upon several First Amendment freedoms \u2014 primarily speech, assembly and petition \u2014 to protest racial injustice and promote racial equality. In addition, the U.S. Supreme Court strengthened these First Amendment freedoms through its rulings in court cases arising out of the civil rights movement.\nWhy do legislatures and judges pass or approve of buffer zones around abortion clinics?\nIn some cases, anti-abortion demonstrators physically obstruct and\/or intimidate those entering and exiting abortion clinics. Legislatures and judges create and permit buffer zones to ensure that people can work safely at the clinics and that women have access to them.\nDo individuals have First Amendment rights on others' private property?\nGenerally, no. The Bill of Rights provides protection for individual liberty from actions by government officials. This is called the state-action doctrine. Private property is not government-owned. Restrictions on individuals' free-speech rights on private property do not involve state action.\nHowever, a few states have interpreted their own state constitutions to provide even greater free-speech protection than the federal Constitution offers. For example, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that individuals have free-speech rights at privately owned shopping malls. Most state supreme courts that have examined the issue have disagreed. In April 2002, the Iowa Supreme Court refused to extend its definition of public property to include large, privately owned shopping malls.\nHas the U.S. Supreme Court addressed any case involving funeral-protest legislation?\nA 2010 case, Snyder v. Phelps, involved whether a verdict assessing damages against the Westboro Baptist Church for a protest causing emotional distress to a soldier's family violates the First Amendment.\nIn a somewhat related case, the Court in Frisby v. Schultz (1988) upheld a Wisconsin city ordinance banning picketing in front of private residences. \"The type of picketers banned by the Brookfield ordinance generally do not seek to disseminate a message to the general public, but to intrude upon the targeted resident, and to do so in an especially offensive way,\" Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the Court. The Court has also decided a series of cases involving limitations on abortion protesters outside clinics. For example, in Hill v. Colorado (2001), a divided Court (6-3) upheld a Colorado law that imposed an 8-foot floating buffer zone between protesters and those entering and leaving abortion facilities.\nHow might a law banning protests at funerals discriminate on the basis of viewpoint?\nA law discriminates on the basis of viewpoint if it singles out a specific point of view for regulation. Consider a protest at a military funeral in which demonstrators denigrated the soldier and offended family members. If government officials punished that protest but allowed a demonstration praising the deceased, a serious charge of viewpoint discrimination could be leveled, because only protesters advocating a specific type of message were targeted.\nWhen and where can I protest without fear of being arrested?\nThe U.S. Supreme Court held on Feb. 28, 2006, in a case involving anti-abortion protests, that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations. Use of those laws against protesters also was opposed by unions and a variety of social activists. Many states currently are considering laws that would ban protests at funerals, but those bans would be based on different kinds of laws. The proposed state bans often set out time limits starting before and ending after funeral services, or map out physical distances to separate families from demonstrators.\nAs a general rule, the government cannot ban speech \u2014 including public protests \u2014 because of the protest's \"content,\" or subject matter. Government can restrict the time, place and manner of the speech in order to meet a higher need, such as public safety. What a demonstrator might say without challenge at noon in the public square likely would have First Amendment protection, while that same speech at midnight under an apartment building window likely would not.\nDo we have an unfettered right to protest on government property?\nNo. The government can limit such protests depending on several factors. First, violent protests are outlawed anywhere. The text of the First Amendment provides for \"the right of the people peaceably to assemble.\" The key word is \"peaceably\" \u2014 violent protesting is not allowed.\nSecond, not all government property is treated the same for First Amendment purposes. The U.S. Supreme Court has established the public-forum doctrine to examine whether certain types of public property are open to First Amendment expressive activity. These categories include traditional public forums, limited or designated public forums and nonpublic forums. Still other government property is not considered a forum at all.\nFirst Amendment rights apply the most in a traditional public forum, such as a public park. In its 1939 decision Hague v. C.I.O. the U.S. Supreme Court explained: \"Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions.\"\nThe general rule is that government officials may not impose content-based restrictions on speech in a public forum. This means that city officials must not treat different persons and groups of persons differently on the basis of the content (and viewpoint) of their messages. The government can justify content-based speech restrictions only by showing that it has a compelling state interest in imposing them (such as safety or security concerns), and that it has done so in a narrowly tailored way. Even in a public forum, the government may impose reasonable time, place and manner restrictions that are content-neutral, leave open ample, alternative ways for expression and are narrowly tailored. This means that city officials could limit protests to certain hours of the day and perhaps certain locations. Again, the key terms are \"reasonable\" and \"content-neutral.\"\nThe next category is a limited or designated public forum (though some lower courts distinguish between limited and designated \u2014 see discussion in Speaking at public meetings section).\nIn a limited public forum (such as a meeting room on a public college campus that is frequently used by outside groups), the government designates the certain types of subject matter that can be discussed at the location. After the government has created such a forum, setting boundaries on classes of speakers or topics, the government must meet the standards of a traditional public forum; namely, restrictions on speech must be reasonable and viewpoint-neutral. The theory is that when the government opens a forum up to the public, it shouldn't be able to skew discussions by over-regulating expression.\nStill another category is the nonpublic forum, a place where the government has greater leeway for control, as restrictions on expression must only be reasonable and viewpoint-neutral. What this means is that the right to protest is often affected by the location and purpose of the government property where the protest takes place. In United States v. Grace (1983), the U.S. Supreme Court wrote that the \"public sidewalks forming the perimeter of the Supreme Court grounds, in our view, are public forums and should be treated as such for First Amendment purposes.\" The same protest rights would not apply inside the Supreme Court building or on the steps right outside the Court. In U.S. v. Kokinda (1990), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that postal sidewalks were not public forums, writing that they do \"not have the characteristics of public sidewalks traditionally open to expressive activity.\" The Court clarified that \"the location and purpose of a publicly owned sidewalk is critical to determining whether such a sidewalk constitutes a public forum.\"\nIn sum, there is no unfettered right to protest on government property. Protests must be peaceable, and the government has the right to impose content-neutral, reasonable time, place and manner restrictions on expression. Furthermore, as the Supreme Court said in Kokinda, \"the government's ownership of property does not automatically open that property to the public.\"\nThe government has greater power to regulate expression when it acts as a proprietor controlling its internal operations than it does as a sovereign lawmaker. This means that government officials could limit protests inside a courthouse because the government has important operations to conduct. It must be able to control its operations to carry out its functions. The government must be able to carry on its own speech and expression free from interference. Contrast this with the public sidewalks two blocks from a courthouse. Here, the government cannot argue that it is conducting its own internal operations. 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{"text":"Star Ocean: The Last Hope review\nFinal frontier meets Final Fantasy once more, this time on the 360\nBy Will_Groves 2009-03-06T03:28:25.64Z Review\nReal-time combat and blindside attacks\nSwitching between all eight characters\nNice looks\nWhere are all the damn save spots?\nCut scenes and dungeons both too long\nCringe-worthy voice acting\nDespite the fact that Star Ocean: The Last Hope swaps the usual swords and dragons setting for spaceships and aliens (but keeps magic \u2013 go figure), the least typical thing about this sci-fi role-playing game is it's combat. Most Japanese RPGs stick with the tried-and-true turn-based system \u2013 or its close relative, the Active Time Battle system, in which each character takes turns waiting for his or her or its meter to fill up between actions. Star Ocean: The Last Hope instead delivers all-out, full-tilt, real-time battles.\nDon't go thinking that this focus on speed means that combat is dumbed down and you won't need strategy. It hasn't been \u2013 you just need to do everything faster. There are four characters to swap between at any time during battle (actually eight, if you count the fact that you can also switch characters in and out of your party on the fly as well) and a ton of skills and abilities to learn. Add in a special attack called a \"blindside\", in which you're given the chance to attack your enemy's vulnerable rear if you wait for the last possible second to counter, and you have an adrenalized battle system that really sets the game apart from most of its more relaxed, plodding contemporaries.\nIn most every other way, Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the prototypical, top-notch Japanese RPG. The detailed graphics look like Star Wars gone psychedelic, with crazily over the top outfits and more bright colors bouncing around than a disco party at a clown college. It has a young but gifted main character (named Edge Maverick, believe it or not) and a small battalion of seven customizable cohorts whose stiff, overly cartoon-y voice actors miss as much as they hit.\nIt sends this on a vast adventure built around an epic concept \u2013 you start off looking for a new home for humanity after World War III trashed our home planet, and things actually get bigger from there. It's decidedly, unabashedly cute despite this very serious premise and the fact that you kill nearly every living thing you encounter. There are side quests, many of which seem oddly unimportant considering the urgency of your main goal, but you do them first anyhow. And you can make things out of the various animal parts, plants, gems and debris you find.\nUnfortunately, SO:TLH even sticks to some annoying JRPG traditions we'd rather forget. It's so miserly with the save points (why do we even NEED save points these days?) you'd think the developers had to sacrifice a child everything they placed one. And it alternates between talking way too much, telling its story through excessively long-winded cut scenes, and grinding you into numbness with dungeons so big that exploring them sometimes switches from \"this is fun!\" to \"this is work.\"\nOf course, that's all part of being a Japanese RPG, so some fans will find the depth and challenge delightful. If you think you can sack up and deal with quick battles balanced by long, slow everything else, there's no doubt that Star Ocean: The Last Hope will deliver a ton of Japanese RPG goodness.\nDescription Mankind wanders the universe in Valykrie Profile developer tri-Ace's newest, a prequel to this long-running franchise.\nPlatform Xbox 360\nUS censor rating Teen\nUK censor rating Rating Pending\nAlternative names Star Ocean 4\nRelease date 24 February 2009 (US), (UK)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brandon West On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work\nIncreased focus on security.\nkarenmangia\nIncreased focus on security. More systems operating in the cloud, more code running, and more internet-enabled devices, there's just more surface area for potential attacks. Ransomware attacks doubled in 2021. More employees working remotely means more potential victims of phishing or smishing attacks. Security is definitely a market that will continue to expand.\nWhen it comes to designing the future of work, one size fits none. Discovering success isn't about a hybrid model or offering remote work options. Individuals and organizations are looking for more freedom. The freedom to choose the work model that makes the most sense. The freedom to choose their own values. And the freedom to pursue what matters most. We reached out to successful leaders and thought leaders across all industries to glean their insights and predictions about how to create a future that works.\nAs a part of our interview series called \"How Employers and Employees are Reworking Work Together,\" we had the pleasure to interview Brandon West.\nBrandon West is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Datadog (via acquisition of CoScreen), where he helps developers build apps with modern monitoring and security. Brandon has worked in tech as a software developer since 1999, with a focus on educating and empowering other developers in developer relations roles since 2011. He has built and led teams distributed teams as Senior Director of Community at SendGrid and as Senior Manager of Developer Relations for the Americas at AWS. Brandon and has travelled around the world speaking about software development, cloud computing, and devrel, and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.\nThank you for making time to visit with us about the topic of our time. Let's get to know you a bit\u200a\u2014\u200awhat are one or two life experiences that led you to where you are today (professionally and\/or personally).\nI was interested in video games and computers as a kid, so I was always playing around with things. Oddly enough, trading mp3s on Napster is kind of what led to me pursuing software development as a job. I've written about this on Twitter, but to summarize, I lucked into being an early user of Napster, became an admin, and had an ICQ chat with Shawn Fanning that inspired me to learn to write code professionally. So I did.\nThe other thing that has had a big impact on my life is playing music. Me and some friends were bored during the end of our time in high school, so we bought some music gear and started a thrash metal band. It was a lot of fun, and it was also a very humbling experience to get up on stage at bars where we weren't even old enough to drink and just absolutely suck for our first few shows. After that, I've never really been afraid to jump on stage at a conference or speak at an event. There's no way I can bomb harder than I've bombed before.\nLet's zoom out. What do you predict will be the same about work, the workforce and the workplace 10\u201315 years from now? What do you predict will be different?\nI don't believe any of the metaverse hype. It's the same dream I've been sold since the days of Sega VR in 1994 and Second Life again a decade later. In 15 years I think we'll be operating in more or less the same modes as we are today, whether remote or hybrid or fully on-site, just with different and better tools, such as CoScreen. Maybe there will be a meeting or event here or there where a virtual component might make sense, but I'm skeptical that we need an entirely new modality where we strap computers to our faces.\nThese last few years have seen a lot of job hopping and relatively short tenures, at least in tech. And rightfully so; the ground shifted under us and we all had a chance to re-evaluate what we wanted. On top of that, if you weren't open to offers even when employed, you were more likely than not leaving money on the table. I think that's going to cool off and we'll see longer tenures again. The attention that companies are now paying to culture and retention will bear fruit, as will some of the shift from equity-heavy compensation to higher base pay.\nWhat advice would you offer to employers who want to future-proof their organizations?\nEverything starts with building a strong culture and providing psychological safety to your team. Those things will always transcend trends and technological shifts, as long as you design resilient processes to evaluate and adjust as needed. It's never too early to start thinking about culture and reinforcing your values through how you conduct your meetings and organize your business.\nI also think it's important to have a practice of reviewing and adjusting recurring meetings on a regular cadence to make sure that the audience, content, and channel continue to fit the purpose of the meeting. If you're using Zoom for everything, you've probably got room for improvement.\nWhat do you predict will be the biggest gaps between what employers are willing to offer and what employees expect as we move forward? And what strategies would you offer about how to reconcile those gaps?\nMany companies are still in a transitional period when it comes to supporting remote work or hybrid work. Developing that muscle quickly is important so employees aren't left with questions that don't have good answers. I've seen some companies like GitLab create roles with titles like \"Head of Remote\" to focus on that gap. I think we'll see more of that, and it's probably a good idea. It's a critical thing to get right, but getting it right also largely depends on the context. Making remote culture an on-going point of emphasis with high visibility will pay dividends.\nWe simultaneously joined a global experiment together last year called \"Working From Home.\" How will this experience influence the future of work?\nI'm in the camp that makes a point to separate \"Working From Home '' and \"Working During a Pandemic,\" because I've worked from home before, and these last couple years have not been normal. Working from home doesn't mean schools are closed, or that you get anxiety about going to the grocery store, or that all the other adults in your home are also working from home, and that kind of thing. There have been a lot of folks exposed to some big downsides. I know plenty of people that can't wait to get back to the office.\nThe big, sustained cultural shift will come from the businesses that realized roles that they thought required being at an office actually didn't need to be managed that way. A lot of businesses have now made the investment in equipment and tools and services to support remote employees, and I expect most employers will continue to enable those things, at least to some degree.\nWe've all read the headlines about how the pandemic reshaped the workforce. What societal changes do you foresee as necessary to support a future of work that works for everyone?\nPeople need to be able to trust that they will be insured and have access to healthcare and medication regardless of their employment status. In the U.S., the negative economic impacts of the pandemic have disproportionately affected lower-wage workers (https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3828096). A future that exposes healthcare workers, teachers, delivery drivers, and other essential members of society to undue risk won't be sustainable.\nWhat is your greatest source of optimism about the future of work?\nI think decoupling where work is being done from the work itself is going to have a lot of benefits for a lot of different communities. Where a person is from will have less of an impact on their ability to get a job that pays well, and that creates opportunity.\nOur collective mental health and wellbeing are now considered collateral as we consider the future of work. What innovative strategies do you see employers offering to help improve and optimize their employee's mental health and wellbeing?\nThere are a lot of articles out there about four-day work weeks and wellness stipends and better mental health benefits. All of those things are great, but the truth is that a few zoom therapy sessions with a counselor from an online portal aren't going to be the difference maker in whether or not someone burns out. At one company that I worked at early in my career, the bosses bought a pool table for the break room after a grueling quarter. We played pool every day until someone made a comment that we were wasting time playing instead of working. Creating a good culture is an ongoing process that takes consistent practice. Many of the tried-and-true ways of improving employee wellbeing seem innovative now because they were ignored for a while.\nThings like not contacting employees after work hours unless there's an emergency take more discipline now due to the rise of emails and slack messages and smartphones, especially for those not used to working remotely. The companies that I think are doing the best do the hard work of caring about their employees, listening to their feedback, fostering psychological safety, and offering fair chances at promotions and raises relative to opportunities outside of the company. They create a culture that makes employees feel good and fairly valued, and lets them speak up when their needs aren't met.\nIt seems like there's a new headline every day. 'The Great Resignation'. 'The Great Reconfiguration'. And now the 'Great Reevaluation'. What are the most important messages leaders need to hear from these headlines? How do company cultures need to evolve?\nThe biggest thing that leaders should take away from these headlines is that employees have more choice and more power now than they did previously, so they're being more thoughtful about where they choose to work. Companies with strong cultures likely don't need to evolve very much, as these cultures tend to be responsive to change and introspective when needed. Those businesses should instead focus on fair compensation and keeping up with the increasing market rates.\nFor companies that are struggling, my advice is to focus on your meetings. Meetings are your company's values made manifest. The way they are structured, who gets to speak, the channel used, the level of transparency around operations, the types of accomplishments that are celebrated and so on all demonstrate what the business cares about more so than the values that are written in the company wiki. Be intentional about your meetings and how they are run. Make sure you have leaders that are modeling aspirational values during meetings. Pay attention to disconnects between the level of complexity of information being conveyed and the channel used to communicate it (this usually sounds like \"this could've been an email.\") These are chances to make things better. Meetings should be for generating new ideas, collaborating, or establishing a sense of rapport rather than just sharing information.\nLet's get more specific. What are your \"Top 5 Trends To Track In the Future of Work?\"\nContinued\/Accelerated cloud adoption\nIt seems strange to say, but we're still early in the grand scheme of cloud adoption. As more and more companies move their workloads to the cloud, the more experience they get operating things in the cloud, which leads them to build more things in the cloud. The flywheel will continue to spin. It's been said that every company is in some form a technology company these days, and while I don't believe that's true from an engineering perspective, it doesn't have to be true to mean that cloud adoption will continue to soar. Builders using no code tools are probably using tools hosted in the cloud.\nIncreased focus on security\nMore systems operating in the cloud, more code running, and more internet-enabled devices, there's just more surface area for potential attacks. Ransomware attacks doubled in 2021 (https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/business\/resources\/reports\/dbir\/2021\/results-and-analysis\/). More employees working remotely means more potential victims of phishing or smishing attacks. Security is definitely a market that will continue to expand.\nMore low code\/no code tools\nThere are already some very powerful platforms that let people without coding skills connect different services, transform data, trigger events, and automate complex workflows. I believe we'll see this particular market segment heat up a lot. It's a natural progression of abstraction and user experience improvements after the rise of services with public APIs. I've been a part of several developer relations teams that have tons of coding skills but still choose to build some workflows like event tracking or chat moderation using no code tools, especially for things that are likely to evolve. It's faster and less complex than coding and can be handed off to other teammates more easily without requiring a bunch of documentation and install scripts.\nLess Zoom, more apps for specific needs\nPeople are sick of being on camera all the time. Even Zoom's CEO got tired of video conferences. There's often a disconnect between the level of focus the content being discussed requires, and the level of attention it takes to be on camera. People become disengaged because they feel like they can't contribute.\nIn terms of remote work, we're still early on, and there are a lot of companies, like CoScreen, that are building new and interesting ways to collaborate that aren't just another video conference. As companies build their remote working muscles, we'll see them adopt some of these newer approaches.\nMore focus on developing junior talent\nWhen recruiting is difficult, having a way to turn potential into talent can be a big win in the long-term. Early on at SendGrid, we hired several extremely capable folks right out of university for our Developer Relations team, for two reasons: finding developer advocates in 2012 was very difficult because it was relatively nascent compared to today, and we were a startup with limited budget and funds. Hiring and developing talent enabled us to scale the team and find amazing teammates before someone else did. It takes a very deliberate approach to provide junior employees with structure and coaching to help them succeed. I expect more tech companies to create teams and programs for those that are earlier in their careers in order to supplement their talent pipeline and broaden the pool of candidates.\nI keep quotes on my desk and on scraps of paper to stay inspired. What's your favorite \"Life Lesson Quote\"? And how has this quote shaped your perspective?\nOne of my favorites is from Maya Angelou: \"[P]eople will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.\" Working in developer relations requires cultivating empathy whenever possible, and that means trying to think about how other people feel. The biggest wins in my career have been when people tell me years later that some advice I gave them had a meaningful impact, and the worst losses are when I've forgotten who someone is or confused their accomplishments and made them feel unimportant. I try my best to be kind and consider how my actions make others feel.\nIs there a person in the world with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch, and why?\nI'm going to go with Bill Murray or maybe Snoop Dogg, because they seem like they wouldn't mind the intrusion. If I were having a cup of coffee with some Nobel Prize winning author or an esteemed world leader, I'd feel a lot of pressure to ask interesting questions. I'd be worried that I was wasting their time with silly conversation when they should be busy saving the world or something. But I imagine sharing a breakfast burrito with Bill or Snoop would be cracking jokes and hanging out, which sounds nice.\nOur readers often like to continue the conversation with our featured interviewees. How can they best connect with you and stay current on what you're discovering?\nI'm most active on twitter, where I'm @bwest. I'm looking forward to more conversations!\nThank you for sharing your insights and predictions. We appreciate the gift of your time and wish you continued success and good health.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U.S. Martial Arts Network.com\nOfficial Website Of The\nUnited States - National Karate & Kung-Fu Union\nU.S. - N.K.K.U. Martial Arts Olympia Games\n_________________ and the _________________\nM.A.C. - Martial Arts Coalition\nDivisional, Regional, State & Tri-State National Events & Tournaments\n_________________ along with _________________\nS.G.O.K.A. - South Georgia Olympic Karate Academy,\nT.U.M.A.A. - Teach's Universal Martial Arts Association\n\" Click any Home page link below, and go to those pages of Information \"\nU.S. National Karate & Kung-Fu Union\n5960-L OGEECHEE ROAD\nph: 912 - 220 - 0046\nnkku@aol.com\nU.S. MARTIAL ARTS NETWORK\nU.S.- N.K.K.U. OLYMPIA Association's Information usmartialartsnetwork.com\nU.S.- N.K.K.U. OLYMPIA GAMES\nU.S.- N.K.K.U. OLYMPIA VIDEOS\nU.S.- N.K.K.U. OLYMPIA GAMES OLYMPIAN'S NAMES\nM.A.C. TRI-STATE NATIONAL TOURNAMENT'S\nFRAZIER ENTERPRISE INC. 1\nFRAZIER ENTERPRISE 2\nFRAZIER ENTERPRISE 3 - Poems\nT.U.M.A.A. ASSOCIATION Contact Us Page\n** T.U.M.A.A.**\nTeach's Universal Martial Arts Assoc.\nWe're looking forward to hearing from you.\nPHONE : ( 912 ) 220 -0046\nE-Mail : nkku@aol.com\n      \nReturn to T.U.M.A.A. Sub Home-Page\nReturn to T.U.M.A.A. Home Page\n  \nReturn To US Martial Arts Network.com Home Page\nReturn to the Website Home Page\n   \nThe Savannah, Georgia Headquarters of the Organizations listed above, is Located in the\nTeach's Universal Martial Arts Association\nU.S.A. Headquarters\n5960 - L Ogeechee Road \/ Hwy 17 South\nT.U.M.A.A. Visitors\nFeel Free to Contact Us when needed.\nPlease inform us of Appreciations or\ncomplaints needing to be corrected.\nVisitors we'll pay to you $200 for proof and conviction of any person(s), for advertizing any event, stating that their event, by pamphlet, flyer, books and \/ or internet website is a N.M.A.L., M.A.C., N.K.K.U., W.O.C., T.U.M.A.A., M.A.A.D. and \/ or F.E.I. or any of its entities as one of its events, that is not listed on usmartialartsnetwork.com's Web Site, that Sanctions, Events Sponsored by N.M.A.L. - M.A.C. and it was not listed as a N.M.A.L.-M.A.C. Star Rated, but you competed and did not receive points, due to that event's promoter(s), failure that he \/ she \/ they did not fulfill or fill out and send in the required forms and information!\ne-mail nkku@aol.com\nOffice 912 - 220 - 0046\n* Mobile Phone:\nWe Are Looking Forward To Hear From You About Your Concerns\nSchool \/ Dojo Name:\nDojo Instructors Name\nSubmit Your Message:\nCopyright of the\nusmartialartsnetwork.com, with N.K.K.U. - W.O.C. - N.M.A.L. M.A.C. - T.U.M.A.A. - M.A.A.D. and F.E.I.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"September 21, 2021 - 10:12am\nDr. LeAnn Starlin Nilsson joins the Sing Stark Board of Trustees\nWe are thrilled to welcome Dr. LeAnn Starlin Nilsson to the Sing Stark Board of Trustees. LeAnn serves as Asst. Dean of Recruitment and Retention for the College of the Arts, Kent State University. Outside of work, LeAnn ...\n1 in 6 Americans sings in a choir!\n1 in 6 Americans sings in a choir \u2014 and they're healthier for it!\nLaughter erupted as members of the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale warmed up their...\nNovember 22, 2019 - 3:30pm\nBy Stephen Raskauskas | July 23, 2018\nA new study conducted by O2, a company which owns some of United Kingdom's largest music venues, and Patrick Fagan claims that attending live concerts can help...\nWhether you sing professionally or as part of a community choir, you need to take care of your voice. Your vocal cords are delicate and unique, and singing your best means treating them...\nVox Audio Lights Up The Palace Stage\nThis weekend our 16 member a capella ensemble dazzeled audiences at this year's Canton Christmas Spectacular. Vox Audio joined the members of the Stardust Dinner Theater who performed the radio adaptation to the Christmas Classic \"It's...\nSINGSTARK! | Featured in About Magazine\nWritten By Alison Matas \/ November 7, 2019\nSingStark! has been making music in Stark County for 80 years, but now it's got a new name and a new sound.\nYou know SingStark! as VOCI, which was originally founded as the...\nNovember 3, 2019 - 4:34pm\nSing Stark welcomes Lou Poppovich to the Board of Trustees! Mr. Poppovich's longtime dedication to the arts in Stark County demonstrates a passion that will assist the organization as it pursues new choral initiatives.\nOfficial Press Release: VOCI is Rebranding!\nThe Voices of Canton Celebrating 80th Anniversary Season with a New Look\nThe Voices of Canton is celebrating its 80th Anniversary Season with a rebrand and new programs fostering the \"Joy of Singing...\nAugust 13, 2019 - 12:16pm\nVox Audio Auditions\nSing Stark announces auditions for the second season of VOX AUDIO, Canton's...\nThe performance of The Voyage postponed.\nThe performance of The Voyage by Bob Chicott has been postponed to a future season. For questions regarding ticketing, please call the box office at 330.452.4098.\nSenior Sing at Aultman Hospital\nSenior Sing gave an afternoon perfromance in the lobby of Aultman Hospital. In partnership with Aultman Generations and sponsored by Chapel Hill Retirement Community, Stark County seniors sing to garner the proven health and wellness benefits of singing in a choir. The next session begins March...\nThe community welcomes VOX AUDIO\nOn December 17th, VOX AUDIO gave their premiere performance to an audience of more than 800 patrons at the Glen Oak Performing Arts Center. Voices of Canton's newest ensemble, directed by Brian Kieffer, sang in the Holidays in a cappella style.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"University Rankings and Student Reviews\nrankings-reviews\nUniversity of Seville is ranked 401 in Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has an overall score of 3.9 stars, according to student reviews on Studyportals, the best place to find out how students rate their study and living experience at universities from all over the world.\nOn this page you can see how the university is ranked on international rankings and find out what students are saying about their study experience.\nView all 0 Masters from this university Find out more about this university\nUniversity World Rankings\nAcademic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University\nBest Global Universities Rankings by U.S. News & World Report\nQS World University Rankings by TopUniversities\nWorld University Rankings by Times Higher Education\nLatest positive review:\nLo que m\u00e1s me gusta de mi universidad es la buena relaci\u00f3n que hay entre alumnos y profesores, siempre dispuestos a negociar para el beneficio de todos.\nLatest critical review:\nMi experiencia educativa en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Sevilla es absolutamente deficiente y pat\u00e9tica. Nadie se preocupa porque los estudiantes aprendamos y lo \u00faltimo que le interesa al profesorado (especialmente el profesorado que es personal hospitalario) es mejorar la forma de impartir docencia.\nWhy are student reviews important?\nSpain attracts thousands of international students every year with its friendly and laid-back lifestyle. The weather is also excellent, allowing you to enjoy the warmth of the sun and relaxing beaches when you're not in class. Higher education institutions charge relatively low tuition fees and go head-to-head with other big-name institutions worldwide. Spanish universities are well known for their offer of prestigious Business studies. You'll also have the opportunity to learn Spanish, which is a great asset on any CV, especially if you want to start a career in Spain or at a multinational company.\nRead more about studying abroad in Spain\nUniversity of Seville is located in Sevilla, Spain and is featured in the best 1000 universities in the world, according to the most well-known international university rankings. Find out its position in each of these rankings or see what other universities made the ranking lists.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"President Laurie A. Carter speaks in front of Main Hall during a new student welcome event in September. Carter was named Lawrence's 17th president in March and began her tenure July 1. (Photo by Danny Damiani)\nMost-viewed Lawrence stories of 2021: Arrival of a new president leads the way\nFrom the early March announcement of a new president being named to Lawrentians doing amazing things on and off campus, there has been no shortage of Lawrence stories to tell in 2021.\nThe Lawrence community (and beyond) has been hungry to read about it every step of the way. We perused the analytics so we can share today the 20 most viewed stories of the year. The list includes new faces, creative approaches to the pandemic, and the brilliance of our students, faculty, and alumni.\nIf you missed a story earlier, take a look now. If you read it already, take another look as a reminder of the many reasons Lawrentians are brighter together.\n1. Laurie A. Carter named 17th president of Lawrence University; begins July 1\n\"As a sitting president, I am well aware of the challenges facing higher education, but I know the Lawrence community is ready to work together to continue the traditions of excellence while ensuring a bright future for the students, the university, and the community.\" \u2013 Laurie Carter\n2. 10 new tenure-track faculty join Lawrence University for 2021-22 academic year\n\"I am absolutely thrilled to be welcoming such a talented, dedicated group of scholars to the Lawrence faculty. Our new colleagues will fortify strengths in existing academic programs and help us develop new areas of focus.\" \u2013 Catherine Gunther Kodat\n3. Lawrence debuts new athletics logo; Viking ship gives nod to school history\n\"The ship is the perfect illustration of our great campus, and having the antelope, shield, and LU all part of the design connects every corner of our campus. This is a logo for all who love and support LU; I believe it represents all of us.\" \u2013 Tony Aker\n4. Lawrence places high in value, teaching, first-year experience in U.S. News rankings\n\"Lawrence's faculty are not only terrific scientists, artists, and scholars\u2014they are also first-rate teachers. It's extremely gratifying to see them receive this much-deserved national recognition for the extraordinary work they do with their students.\" \u2013 Catherine Gunther Kodat\n5. \"Impressive\" class welcomed to campus on busy opening day of student orientation\n\"This class has some of the strongest academic credentials we have seen in a long time. Considering that they have performed at such a high level while learning in the midst of a pandemic speaks volumes about the resilience and readiness of our newest Lawrentians. They are going to do great things.\" \u2013 Ken Anselment\n6. 17 things to know about No. 17: An introduction to President Laurie A. Carter\n\"I want to eat cheese curds; I want to do it all. Snowmobiling, too. I want to try that. I really just want to get a sense of the culture; the unique things about Wisconsin. I can't wait. I'm very excited.\" \u2013 Laurie A. Carter\n7. Kenyon's Robyn Bowers to join Lawrence as its new dean of admissions\n\"Lawrence's rich liberal arts tradition, commitment to the arts, emphasis on diversity and inclusion, and welcoming community create an extraordinary learning environment.\" \u2013 Robyn Bowers\n8. Mayes joins Lawrence as vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion\n\"To realize the unique value of a liberal arts education, you need to have an environment where people feel welcome, where people feel supported, where people can bring their authentic self to the classroom, to campus, and their presence and contributions are welcomed, valued, and celebrated.\" \u2013 Eric Mayes\n9. \"Dedicated and richly talented:\" 10 Lawrence University faculty earn tenure\n\"The breadth of ability and skill represented in this year's tenure 'class' is truly extraordinary, both in terms of individual achievement and in how those achievements support our broader efforts to expand and enhance our curriculum to support diversity, inclusion, and excellence.\" \u2013 Catherine Gunther Kodat\n10. Lawrence lands on The Princeton Review's 2022 list of best colleges in nation\n\"While being considered one of the best is great, we're even more excited that The Princeton Review continues to acknowledge the important work we do every day on behalf of our students, which is providing top-notch preparation for a meaningful life after college, and doing so in a way that families can afford.\" \u2013 Ken Anselment\n11. Five retiring Lawrence faculty members to be honored at 2021 Commencement\n\"What was true when I arrived in 1998 is still true today\u2014you have to ask the question 'why?' over and over, in every class you take. And that goes for the professors, too. The 'why?' question is the central one in critical thinking, which is the essence of the Lawrence experience.\" \u2013 Jerald Podair\n12. Great Midwest Trivia Contest carries on amid daunting obstacles, new rules\n\"It's very difficult to balance the needs of the contest with this year's restrictions, and, in some cases, we have had to make changes to trivia that go against tradition. Our main focus is making sure the contest happens this year and that it can be a positive experience for everyone.\" \u2013 Grace Krueger '21\n13. Class of 2021 celebrated for courage, resilience: \"You have shone brightly\"\n\"Your responses have made you stronger, have tested your resolve, and have tempered you so that you will turn future challenges into opportunities. And you have validated the Lawrence experience as formative and essential to who you are, and who you will be.\" \u2013 Dr. John Raymond\n14. Lawrence's beloved Rock is heading east, a gift to university's departing president\nOK, this one was a little bit of April's Fools fun with departing President Mark Burstein. We were excited that people enjoyed it (if they read to the very end).\n15. Pandemic canceled their sabbaticals; they channeled their rock star dreams instead\n\"The university stopped all travel. I was going to Scotland; Jake was going to Chicago. I also had a public art project that got canceled. My gallery shut down. The whole world shut down. That was the moment we realized, well, maybe we should record these tunes. We don't have anything else to do.\" \u2013 Rob Neilson\n16. Lighting the Way With \u2026 Tom Coben: When Kimmel calls and statues dance\n\"I had a lot of very cool opportunities at Lawrence and I can honestly say that I don't think I'd be doing what I am doing today if my professors hadn't given me the ability to pursue my interests with as much freedom as they did.\" \u2013 Tom Coben\n17. Sculpture adds visibility to journey of Indigenous people; brings new conversations, reflection\n\"I would hope the Indigenous community here on campus would see it as a place to gather, to have as a physical symbol that they are being acknowledged, and to open those conversations up about how land was acquired and who was Indigenous to it and how do we begin to reconcile that with one another.\" \u2013 Chris Cornelius\n18. Building community: A study guide to Lawrence's 2021-22 First-Year Studies\n\"I would like to suggest that our experience of the pandemic has thrown a new light on the works chosen for First-Year Studies. They continue to serve as an ambitious introduction to the liberal arts, but we can now see a strong sub-theme of community that runs throughout these works.\" \u2013 Martyn Smith\n19. \"Raft of Stars,\" Lawrence alumnus' debut novel, arrives amid growing buzz\n\"Without Lawrence, I wouldn't be writing, hands down. It was an interest of mine. I loved books; I always loved reading; I loved daydreaming. But it was at Lawrence where I thought, yes, I really want to try this. I got so much guidance from professors like David McGlynn and (former Lawrence professor) Faith Barrett and others that I couldn't have done it without those years. It was absolutely informative.\" \u2013 Andrew Graff\n20. Reframing of a music major adds greater flexibility for Lawrence students\n\"The beauty of this major is that it welcomes a much broader variety of music and music makers into the Conservatory, and that's great news and more great music for everyone.\" \u2013 Brian Pertl\nBonus story: NIH fellowship lets Lawrence alum take her neuroscience research to new levels\n\"It wasn't just my science course work at Lawrence that has deeply shaped my career as a scientist today. It was that experience of being in the double-degree program, having to constantly negotiate being in two different worlds.\" \u2013 Katherine Meckel (This story isn't in our 2021 top 20 yet, but it's been our most-viewed story during December and is definitely worth reading.)\nRead more: Best of 2021: We're highlighting 8 stories that speak to resilience, creativity at Lawrence","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00bbDisinformati...\nDisinformation and Elections to the European Parliament\nSWP Comment 2019\/C 16, March 2019, 8 Pages\ndoi:10.18449\/2019C16\nEuropean Union, EU institutions, Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), Digital Policy and Cyber, Cyber-security, Democracy promotion, State and society of a country \/ a region\n| 1.4 MB\nDownload (EPUB)\nDownload (Kindle\/ Mobi)\nElections to the European Parliament (EP) will take place in May 2019. Politicians and experts fear that the election process might be disrupted by disinformation cam\u00adpaigns and cyber attacks. In December 2018, the European Commission presented an action plan against disinformation. It provided 5 million euros for raising awareness amongst voters and policymakers about manipulation, and for increasing the cyber security of electoral systems and processes. The strategy relies on voluntary and non\u00adbinding approaches by Internet companies to fight disinformation. To protect the integrity of elections in the medium term, independent research into technical, legal and market-regulating reforms must be boosted. The objective should be to preserve the functionality of democracies and elections in the age of digitalisation.\nThe next European elections will be held in EU member states from 23 to 26 May 2019. Since right-wing nationalist and Euro-sceptic movements have gained in strength, there is already talk of a \"defining election\" that could decisively influence the future ori\u00adenta\u00adtion of the EU. Euro-sceptic parties already account for almost one-third of parliamentarians, a proportion that might rise following the elections.\nEP elections have thus far been seen as \"second-rank elections\" and therefore as a good opportunity by the electorate to teach the respective member state's government a lesson. This attitude fails to appreciate the mobilisation potential of the current debate on the pros and cons of European integration, the influence of third parties, and the growing importance of the EP. The elections are extremely significant for the strategic orientation of European integration. A suc\u00adcess for EU opponents could push the EU to the very limits of its capacity to act, for example through further exit demands along the lines of Brexit, or a blockade of the complex decision-making process. The elections not only decide the renewal of the EP, but also the inauguration of the new EU Commission for the 2019\u20132024 parliamentary term. The EP influences the appointment of the Commissioners and can force the entire Commission to resign with a two-thirds majority and realign the Multiannual Financial Framework.\nThe EU's structure and functions are not easy to understand. European issues are unfamiliar to many, and it is relatively simple to spread false information about the EU. Considering the upcoming election, the European Commissioner for the Secu\u00adrity Union, Sir Julian King, urged member states to \"take seriously the threat to demo\u00adcratic processes and institutions posed by cyber attacks and disinformation\" and to draw up \"national prevention plans\" to pre\u00advent \"state and non-state actors from under\u00admining our democratic systems and using them as weapons against us\". This specifi\u00adcally includes disinformation campaigns and cyber attacks on the electronic electoral infrastructure, which can affect the con\u00adfidentiality, availability and integrity of the electoral process.\nDisinformation already appears to have had an impact in Europe: researchers at Edin\u00adburgh University identified over 400 false accounts on social networks, operated by so-called trolls based in St Petersburg, which were used to influence the Brexit referendum. Security and defence policy defines disinformation and cyber attacks as elements of hybrid threats, i.e. covert actions by third parties aimed at destabilising Europe or the EU system. The term \"hybrid threats\" usually refers to a form of warfare that remains below the threshold of using military force. This ambiguity gen\u00ader\u00adally complicates a military response accord\u00ading to international humanitarian law.\nDisinformation Campaigns\nDisinformation is not a new phenomenon. In security research it is regarded as \"black\" propaganda, since it seeks to influence pub\u00adlic opinion from the shadows. It uses the same means as modern public relations (PR) and advertising campaigns.\nIn contrast to PR, however, disinfor\u00admation wants to destabilise the pillars of democ\u00adracy by attacking parties, elected politicians or the EU as a political system. Disinformation does not necessarily mean false information, since even true statements taken out of context can be misused for suggestive conclusions. Disinformation campaigns can be short-term, for example to influence an election result, or long-term, for instance to undermine confidence in the EU. Attempts can thus be made to dis\u00adcredit individual politicians so as to pre\u00advent them from being re-elected. For exam\u00adple, \"negative campaigning\" can uncover alleged scandals or make accusations of cor\u00adruption. During the last presidential elec\u00adtion campaign in the USA, automated com\u00adputer programmes known as Twitter bots, probably of Russian origin, spread predomi\u00adnantly negative reports about Hillary Clin\u00adton and relatively positive reports about Donald Trump. In the medium term, this promotes social division and the polarisation of public discourse.\nThe negotiation of political interests in social discourses is the key element \u2013 but also the Achilles heel \u2013 of democracies. Tac\u00adtics such as disseminating dubious claims (\"muddying the waters\") or constantly repeating large volumes of false information or conspiracy theories (\"firehose of falsehood\") are used to undermine political cer\u00adtainties and dissolve a socially shared con\u00adcept of truth. One example was the reaction to the downing of a Malaysian passenger plane in July 2014: on social networks, there were attempts to discredit the investi\u00adgation report which found that the Russian armed forces had caused the catastrophe.\nIT-Enabled Disinformation\nA distinction must be made between digital and IT-enabled disinformation: digital dis\u00adinformation encompasses the entire range of digital mechanisms for disseminating information. IT-enabled disinformation, on the other hand, includes hacking incidents or cyber attacks that compromise IT secu\u00adrity, namely confidentiality, availability and integrity of data or systems. The technical hack is only one of many means by which the confidentiality of information can be violated, for example by stealing sensitive information from the accounts of politicians, parties or officials and then publishing it with harmful intent (doxing). Well-known examples are the publication of e\u2011mails from the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) on the WikiLeaks plat\u00adform in 2016 and from the Emmanuel Macron campaign team in 2017.\nThe restriction of the availability of tech\u00adnical systems via cyber attacks can facilitate disinformation campaigns as well. Espe\u00adcially in authoritarian regimes, websites of opposition politicians, parties and services such as Twitter and Facebook are deliberately paralysed shortly before elections by \"distributed denial of service\" attacks, meaning the deliberate overload of the server concerned. Similarly, the digital voting infrastructure with its voting com\u00adputers and counting systems can be dis\u00adrupted and manipulated.\nDigital Disinformation\nDigital disinformation has the advantage of having low costs while having a high im\u00adpact: with few resources, a global audience can be reached with customised disinformation through digital technologies. Digital disinformation employs the legitimate means of the advertising industry to target users based on their individual behaviour profiles (so-called \"targeted ads\" and \"micro-targeting\").\nSocial networks such as Facebook were not developed for the purpose of democratic discourse, but to analyse and categorise their users' interests and behaviour, and sell this information to third parties for advertising purposes. According to their behaviour patterns, users will be shown content that other users of the same cat\u00adegory or with a similar behaviour profile also prefer. Algorithms thus ensure that users are shown more of the same so as to hold their attention and keep it on the platforms as long as possible. These so-called filter bubbles arise directly from the business model of online platforms to bring advertising to as many users as possible. If the same opinions are grouped together and, simultaneously, differing views are hidden, a self-referential \"echo chamber\" can develop. In online forums that bring together only like-minded users, the latter's perceptions tend to be strengthened be\u00adcause they do not experience any contra\u00addiction.\nDisinformation has a particularly polarising effect on already politicised groups with strong ideological stances. These can be de\u00adlib\u00aderately targeted with conspiracy theories that fit their worldview. One example is the campaign against alleged rape by asylum seekers, the so called Lisa case of 2016. Dur\u00ading the 2016 US election campaign, there were incidents where supporters of the right-wing Alternative Right movement and left-wing groups were separately invited via Facebook to take part in the same demonstration, in the hope of provoking a violent escalation.\nConspiracy theories and disinformation can quickly be shared worldwide over social networks. This can be accomplished using a mix of automated accounts (\"social bots\"), hybrid accounts (partly human, partly auto\u00admated) and so-called troll armies or 50-cent armies. Such \"armies\" consist of state actors or privately organised commentators who systematically disseminate certain narratives in social media or on news sites. Often volunteers also unknowingly spread dis\u00adinformation (\"unwitting agents\"). In the 2016 US election campaign, US citizens spread Kremlin propaganda without know\u00ading its source. But traditional media cover\u00adage is also involved, as it increasingly takes up trending topics from social networks. If these contain disinformation, and the media carries them unreflectively, they re\u00adinforce the narratives or false reports. Dis\u00adinfor\u00admation has a cumulative effect over longer periods of time.\nEU Counter-Strategies\nHolding EP elections is the responsibility of member states. Although they are doing much to protect the integrity of elections, mostly this is in the form of patchwork measures. There are concerns that the EP elections will be manipulated, disrupted or unlawfully influenced by opponents of the EU, whether during the election campaign, at the ballot box or during the counting of votes. According to a Eurobarometer survey, 83 percent of Europeans are worried about targeted disinformation on the Internet. The EU expects that targeted disinformation cam\u00adpaigns will be present during election cam\u00adpaigns.\nDisinformation Warfare\nSince 2015, the European Commission has been attempting to combat disinformation and technical influences using foreign and domestic policy measures. It has, inter alia, increased staffing and funding for the Euro\u00adpean Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and set up an East StratCom Task Force within the European External Action Service (EEAS). The Task Force docu\u00adments and regularly informs about disinfor\u00admation campaigns in the north-eastern member states. This was followed in 2016 by a Joint Communication and a Joint EU Framework for Countering Hybrid Threats. The Commission and the EEAS agree that such threats are increasingly causing trouble in the EU.\nThe EU defines hybrid threats as \"a mix\u00adture of military and civilian warfare by state and non-state actors such as covert military operations, intense propaganda and economic harassment\". These aggressions, it believes, not only cause direct damage and exploit vulnerabilities, but also destabilise societies and promote the divi\u00adsion of the EU \"through cover-ups\". Internal and external security must therefore be even more closely interlinked.\nCommission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in his speech on the state of the Union 2018, proposed a series of concrete measures to ensure that the May 2019 elec\u00adtions are free, fair and secure. Among other things, he called for more transparency in (often covert) political advertising on the Internet, and the possibility of sanctions if personal data are used illegally to influence the outcome of the European elections.\nNetworks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have agreed on a Code of Practice on Disinformation to combat disinforma\u00adtion and fake accounts on their platforms. In October 2018, this Code was signed by Facebook, Google, Twitter and Mozilla, as well as professional associations operating on\u00adline platforms and the advertising in\u00addustry.\nTwo months later, the Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy presented an action plan against disinformation. Both launched the creation of an early warning system for information about disinforma\u00adtion. Five million euros and 50 staff posi\u00adtions were approved for it. The system is meant to be able to identify campaigns in real time and raise awareness of the prob\u00adlem.\nSince the EU fears being misrepresented beyond its borders as well, other teams are monitoring the spread of misinformation in North Africa, the Middle East and the Bal\u00adkans. Furthermore, it has set up an elec\u00adtoral network, elaborated a guide to the application of EU data protection law in elections, and given guidance on cyber secu\u00adrity. As of February 2019, member states will be running a simulation of what would need to be done in the event of an attack. EU states rely on the exchange of experience. Further meetings are scheduled for spring 2019. In late January 2019, the Commission warned Internet companies that their transparency initiatives against covert advertising were not sufficient to protect the integrity of EP elections.\nCyber Security Measures\nWhat is the EU doing about IT-enabled dis\u00adinformation? Critical infrastructure protec\u00adtion has long been subject to EU regulation. However, member states were unable to agree on defining voting systems as critical infrastructure as part of the 2016 Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive. The IT security of voting technology was considered a purely national task. However, reports of alleged influence on the Brexit referendum and elections in France, Cata\u00adlonia and Belgium, have increased sensi\u00adtivity to the problem. In September 2017, the EU proposed a whole range of cyber-security measures, including a pan-Euro\u00adpean network of cooperation between data protection authorities, to share knowledge on how elections are influenced. Only in December 2018 did EU states agree on a cyber security law that will strengthen the cyber security agency ENISA, and for the first time create a certification framework for the protection of critical infrastructures.\nWhen, that same month, a hacker pub\u00adlished explosive data on Twitter under the pseudonym \"0rbit\", politicians demanded an \"emergency plan to be able to react with\u00adin a short time to the outflow of sen\u00adsitive data, digital industrial espionage or sabotage\". There are also calls for uniform minimum legal standards for the security of information technology equipment, which would mean replacing the voluntary cer\u00adtifi\u00adcation framework of the EU by a European regulation. This would apply, for example, to end-user devices such as mobile phones and laptops. Providers of online services and manufacturers of devices connected to the Internet would need to design their prod\u00aducts in such a way that users must choose strong passwords and update them regularly.\nAs well as making technical infrastructures more robust, the EU relies on opera\u00adtional cyber security measures. These in\u00adclude the development of better attribution capabilities for cyber attacks, an exchange of information, and a stronger role for Euro\u00adpol in the fight against cybercrime. If member states become the target of such attacks, they should be able to find out for themselves where the attacker came from, which security gaps were used, and which data was affected or extracted. The discus\u00adsion will focus on harsher penalties for cybercriminals and new criminal offences, such as the operation of criminal infrastructures. With principles such as \"security by design\", i.e. the development of hard\u00adware and software that seeks to avoid weak points and manipulations from the outset, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) contains a further building block for action against cyber attacks and disinformation. In January 2019, the EU also agreed on a relevant law that allows for fines to be imposed on political parties and founda\u00adtions that violate data protection rules in the European election campaign in order to influence voters. Parties can even lose all claims to EU party funding. The reason for this regulation was that Facebook had passed on user data to the British company Cambridge Analytica, which evaluated the data records of 220 million American Face\u00adbook users to create user profiles for tar\u00adgeted advertising.\nCyber Security in Elections\nWhat measures are being taken to ensure the confidentiality, availability and integ\u00adrity of electronic voting systems? Following reports alleging that the US elections were unlawfully influenced, the Council of Europe's Venice Commission has been in close contact with the electoral agencies of the 61 Council members. Electronic voting systems in member states vary widely. Elec\u00adtronic voting in the EU has so far only been used in Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia and France. In Belgium, Flemish municipalities in particular use voting machines. In Bul\u00adgaria, such machines will only be used in smaller polling stations in the 2019 EP elec\u00adtions. In France, the use of voting machines was suspended during the 2017 presidential election due to the alleged incidents in the US election. In other countries, such as Ger\u00admany or Austria, voting is exclusively by ballot paper, with information technology being used to determine the election result. The security of the IT systems is therefore essential when establishing the provisional election results. Estonia is the only country in the world that allows online voting via the Internet.\nOverarching assessments of the technical vulnerability of electronic voting systems are not possible, as EU countries use differ\u00adent voting computers and systems. How\u00adever, since all voting computers can be mani\u00adpu\u00adlated, experts recommend a physi\u00adcal paper printout for each individual vote. In July 2018, under Article 11 of the NIS Directive, representatives from 20 member states pre\u00adpared a compendium on the cyber security of elections. They called on member states to put in place specific security arrangements and contact points for an overarching Euro\u00adpean cooperation network.\nIf individual constituencies experience irregularities during the actual voting, or technical problems with the vote count, elections in individual countries could be held again at short notice without the need for the entire European Parliament to be re-elected. A cyber attack on a member state would mean that the allocation of seats in the EP could not be confirmed immediately. Targeted cyber attacks launched by third countries on individual elections can be sanctioned by the EU applying its Joint Diplomatic Response (Bendiek 2018). A comprehensive and serious attack on the EP elections would be seen as an attack on the EU. Under certain conditions this would allow the use of the solidarity clause under Article 222 TFEU or even the mutual assis\u00adtance clause under Article 42 para 7 TEU.\nPromoting Independent Research\nThe EP elections decide on the new com\u00adposition of the European Parliament, but election rules are a national responsibility. In many EU countries, local electoral author\u00adities are responsible for conducting the election. Although they are aware of the danger of disinformation and cyber attacks, they are not sufficiently technically prepared for them. The credibility of the EP elections and thus of the EU is at stake. European policy-makers prefer short-term and more technical measures in close co\u00adoperation with Internet companies to com\u00adbat disinformation and hold cyber-security exercises. Research on causes, however, is lacking. The findings of the various in\u00addependent interdisciplinary research pro\u00adgrammes on disinformation, cyber attacks and the conditions of democracy must there\u00adfore be taken into account more closely.\nHybrid Threats?\nThere is competition for responsibilities and resources between security and defence policy on the one hand, and domestic policy on the other. From the perspective of de\u00adfence policy, the phenomenon of dis\u00adinfor\u00admation belongs in the category of hybrid threats. But narrowing the subject in this way is not sufficient. In a 2017 congressional hearing, heads of American secret ser\u00advices rightly stated that disinformation rep\u00adresents a new normal. According to NATO and the European Commission, Russia leads the way in the targeted dissemination of false information, but more than 30 other countries are also involved. Governments man\u00addate think tanks and non-govern\u00admental organisations to provide analyses, so there is no shortage of relevant reports. The Ameri\u00adcan Alliance for Securing Democracy, for example, or the Digital Forensic Re\u00adsearch Lab, financed by the Atlantic Coun\u00adcil and Facebook, concentrate their work primarily on Russia and China. Think tanks and political foundations dealing with disinformation must identify clients and finan\u00adciers of their projects so as to avoid suspicions of partiality.\nHowever, false information does not only come from countries outside the EU, but is also disseminated within its member states. Political activism, especially from the anti-European spectrum; the pretence of a grass\u00adroots movement (\"astroturfing\"); and the role of the tabloid media are at least as signifi\u00adcant as external attempts at influence. Their impact on Brexit, for example, probably outweighed that of Twitter bots, which only has a user adoption of 17 per\u00adcent of the British population.\nThe effectiveness of digital disinformation has not been scientifically proven. Recent studies on the relevance of filter bubbles have come to diverging conclusions. Empirical data indicate that users deliberately choose certain formats and contents that differ from those of the estab\u00adlished media. Filter bubbles of dissent do not seem to arise because users are un\u00adaware that information can be one-sided or false. Rather, the explicit interest of users in divergent opinions seems to be the decisive factor, accompanied by a steady loss of trust within democratic societies in political and public institutions. The idea that filter bubbles are deliberately formed and con\u00adtrolled is reinforced by the fact that it seems to be small groups that spread \"alternative facts\", disinformation and manifestly false reports in a particularly vocal way. The fear that digital algorithms could largely destroy social communication is thus probably ex\u00adaggerated.\nThe EU's technical measures to combat dis\u00adinformation campaigns and cyber attacks are only a first step. Ideally, they will direct member states to try to improve protection for the EP elections during the election cam\u00adpaigns, the actual voting and the vote count. Constant exchange and regular cyber security exercises are necessary to minimise dangers. However, most member states have so far failed to consider elections as a criti\u00adcal infrastructure for democracy and to secure them at a high level. Manufacturers and suppliers of critical IT products there\u00adfore urgently need to be made more ac\u00adcount\u00adable. The problem of unsecured IT hard\u00adware and software in voting technology is still underestimated. In the long term, the EU must also be enabled to respond strategically, communicatively and with technical effectiveness to attempts at mani\u00adpulating elections, and must be provided with the necessary financial and human resources. Until this goal has been achieved, emergency teams can be deployed around the clock during the elections.\nThe Supremacy of Internet Companies\nIt is questionable, however, whether the weak\u00adnesses of European democracies as dis\u00adcussed above can be addressed effectively with short-term task forces and medium-term action plans. Linguistic research shows that mere fact checking is more likely to inadvertently reinforce false information. The effectiveness of automated artificial-intelligence systems in combating disinfor\u00admation is also overestimated. Obviously, it is unrealistic to hope to eliminate false information completely. Instead of tackling symptoms, it would be useful to promote independent research to analyse proposals for short-term technical and policy meas\u00adures. These should provide the blueprint for fundamental reforms in the data economy.\nGoogle's global market share of 80 per\u00adcent of all search queries and Facebook's and YouTube's market share of 70 percent in social networks are an expression of the unprecedented concentration processes with\u00adin communication infrastructure. Along\u00adside the growing importance of digi\u00adtal audiences, communication in society is shifting towards a market-orientated arena where every \"speech act\" or announcement has its price. Private companies provide spaces for public digital discourse; access to them is controlled. Only those who enter into a private contractual relationship and make their contribution either financially or in the form of commercially usable data have a say.\nThese social networks were developed for marketing purposes and do not cater for unconditional democratic participation based only on citizen status. They are com\u00adparable to a situation in which the parlia\u00adment building is owned by a private pro\u00advider, access to it is regulated according to economic criteria, and the loudspeaker volume and transmission of speeches to the outside world are assessed in line with mar\u00adket conditions. The EU's previous regulatory approaches, for example its insistence on voluntary commitments, do not do justice to this concentration of power. The Council and Commission were right to criticise the code of conduct currently in force. It con\u00adtained \"no common measures, no substantial obligations, no compliance or enforcement measures\". When the personal data of numerous German politicians were illegally published in December 2018, the online plat\u00adform Twitter dragged its feet despite its voluntary commitment under the code. Large platform providers have hardly any competition to fear in Europe, meaning that a fundamental reform of the antitrust legislation is the last resort. Previous pro\u00adcedures for the evaluation and control of monopolies have often been inadequate.\nA key problem is merger control. Large companies buy burgeoning smaller com\u00adpetitor start-ups before they can become a threat to their business model. A striking example of this is Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, and its merging of user data, against former promises not to do so. Election advertising on television and a stall on the high street are no longer what decides elections, but rather artificial-intel\u00adligence technologies such as microtargeting. These are used to specifically address voters who are willing to change their minds and who can often tip the scales. Only the EU, with its economic power as a whole, can fight the power of transnational digital cor\u00adporations. In this context, the EP elections are a historic turning point: European policy means tackling the major fundamental issues of the European communication order, such as the control of platform monopolies and excessive communicative power. During EP election campaigns, po\u00adlitical parties and organisations must com\u00admit themselves to bringing transparency to their campaign activities and to preventing the use of social bots.\nDr Annegret Bendiek is Senior Associate in the EU \/ Europe Division at SWP.\nDr Matthias Schulze is Associate in the International Security Division at SWP.\n\u00a9 Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2019\nThis Comment reflects the authors' views.\nSWP Comments are subject to internal peer review, fact-checking and copy-editing. For further information on our quality control pro\u00adcedures, please visit the SWP website: https:\/\/www.swp-berlin.org\/en\/about-swp\/ quality-management-for-swp-publications\/\nStiftung Wissenschaft und Politik\nGerman Institute for International and Security Affairs\nLudwigkirchplatz 3\u20134\nTelephone +49 30 880 07-0\nFax +49 30 880 07-100\nwww.swp-berlin.org\nswp@swp-berlin.org\ndoi: 10.18449\/2019C16\nTranslation by Tom Genrich\n(English version of SWP\u2011Aktuell 10\/2019)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Longfellow neighborhood\nBerkeley group opening Oakland spot Tap & Snack\nBy Kate Williams Nov. 2, 20153:30 p.m. November 2, 2015\nArthur Mac's Tap & Snack, a fast-casual restaurant with a beer garden, will be a part of a larger development on MLK Jr. Way and 40th Street next to the MacArthur BART station.\nSalsipuedes brings Baja cooking to North Oakland\nBy Alix Wall Aug. 12, 201511 a.m. January 11, 2017\nSalsipuedes is finally up and running in North Oakland's Longfellow neighborhood. Come along with NOSH as we take a first look at the menu.\nContinental Club, Wolfhound Bar, more\nBy Kate Williams April 3, 201510:26 a.m. January 6, 2017\nWest Oakland's Continental Club has a new owner, the Wolfhound Bar opens, and much more in this week's Bites.\nSalsipuedes owners launch new Oakland project\nBy Emilie Raguso May 13, 20143:34 p.m. July 21, 2014\nThe husband-and-wife team behind Salsipuedes has signed a lease to open another restaurant in a different part of Oakland first.\n1 1 Comment article\nSalsipuedes aims for 'heartfelt cooking' in Oakland\nBy Emilie Raguso Jan. 10, 201412:37 p.m. July 31, 2014\nWith Salsipuedes, Jay Porter hopes to bring the first farm-to-table restaurant to Oakland's Longfellow neighborhood.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MGibster said:\nOh, no. This means D&D is going to buy a sports car and start dating RPGS young enough to be its daughter.\nWorse - hair plugs\nReactions: grimslade, Joshua Randall, Henadic Theologian and 1 other person\nJ.Quondam said:\nInteresting point. That could partly explain the push to \"de-authorize\" OGL1.0, since it's existence might diminish the dollar value of the D&D IP, at least in the suits' lizard brains?\nI just don't believe suits even knew what the OGL really was before all this happened. Someone told them it was some minor obstacle to be swept aside, and then touched it and got severely electrocuted. They still don't understand it, they just understand that people are really mad and they don't seem to be getting less mad, and it's getting them a ton of almost-unprecedent negative press.\nReactions: JEB, Dausuul, JAMUMU and 7 others\nIt doesn't help that TTRPGs of movie\/comics IPs have, with rare exceptions, been extremely poorly chosen for people who want an experience akin to the movies\/comics.\nWEG D6 Star Wars would have been great as \"Andor Simulator\", but it was what, nearly 40 years before Andor? Weirdly very influential on later Star Wars stuff, but not through the rules.\nWotC's d20-based SW was just wildly inappropriate for anyone who liked SW. It was just D&D in low-rent cosplay.\nThe more recent SW game I haven't played, but the people I know who have thought it was a cool SF game, but not really a Star Wars game.\nMarvel actually did start out decently with FASERIP, which, for '80s Marvel made sense, but got completely abandoned by TSR, just as comics were starting to get big again. MSHAG arrived after comics got big, and was an innovative design, and before its time, but totally failed to lean into what made late '90s comics big. I love Cortex but the Cortext-based Marvel game that was more recent was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fancy for a general audience, conceptually, and the most recent Marvel game? It's explicitly not MCU (mistake, imo), and has a wildly overcomplicated and bizarre system.\nThere's been a persistent failure to engage with what people actually want out of games of those settings, I'd suggest. Marvel FASERIP was the only one that really got close, and was very much \"of its time\".\nReactions: MNblockhead, Parmandur and Citizen Mane\nJames Gunn is nuking the DCEU from space, over the next few years it'll be deader then the Arrowverse.\nA better comparison would have been MCU\/Spiderverse (they are connected now as I count them as one), Wizarding World, Avatar, Star Wars.\nI think DDCU could be competitive with early Phase 1 MCU, Star Trek, Transformers, DCU, and some others. If things go really well over a decade then maybe they can compete with the MCU Phase 3.\nSure but they only got him in to even nuke it because it's so valuable it's better nuked and reborn than left how it is. I hope he preserves The Batman somehow though, that was great.\nSure, all of which are a lot larger than D&D for now. I expect if JKR doesn't cease her idiocy D&D will eventually pass WWoHP - at this point WB have to be praying she gets eaten by a crocodile or something, because it would literally significantly increase the long-term value of that IP (by allowing new material and for it to be rehabilitated).\nI dunno. Some of those movies made incredible amounts of money, despite some of them being terrible. I think a lot rides on how much HAT makes, and it's kind of looking like might be a little tricky at the box office right then. Like the relevant movies I can see around it are:\nMarch 10 - Scream VI\nMarch 24 - John Wick 4\nMarch 31 - D&D:HAT\nApril 7 - Super Mario Bros\nSo D&D:HAT kind of only has at best a week where it's clear, even assuming people pick it over John Wick 4 (it does have a broader audience but still), because I think Super Mario Bros' audience is going to cross over extremely heavily with D&D:HAT's, and that won't favour D&D. And Super Mario is one of those movies where people will go even if the reviews are extremely negative, whereas D&D:HAT could be impaired by anything but very positive reviews.\nReactions: Parmandur, deganawida and jasper\n\"Say no more, boss.\"\nReactions: MNblockhead, Lyandelill and Ruin Explorer\nYeah, I think Hasbro is hoping that the synergy goes the other way, like with Marvel. Way more folks watch the movies than read the comics.\nReactions: EthanSental, UngainlyTitan and Haplo781\nMGibster\nYou can check out some of the sourcebooks from WEG's Star Wars and see how they still continue to influence the franchise today. They had an Imperial Sourcebook that outlined how the ISB worked and it would fit straight into Andor with no problem. I skipped the d20 Star Wars because, as you say, it was low-rent cosplay, but I did go with the FFG Star Wars. One of my major criticisms of FFG's Star Wars is that there are so many separate skills and ability trees that you can't really make a good pilot\/gun fighter like we see in the movies. The other is the obsession with equipment and upgrading them.\nReactions: ThrorII, Azzy, Parmandur and 2 others\nHogwarts Legacy is #1 on Steam and Playstation and #2 on XBox. For every person boycotting like 10 who aren't even Harry Potter fans buy the game.\nThe most effective tactic for dealing with her is to just ignore her if your unhappy with her, she feeds on your angry and profits from it. Don't let her use you as free advertising. Just friendly advice from a 3rd party observer whose not a Harry Potter fan who don't follow her on Twitter (I didn't buy the game, for my own reasons, not boycotting).\nReactions: Mirtek\nOne of my major criticisms of FFG's Star Wars is that there are so many separate skills and ability trees that you can't really make a good pilot\/gun fighter like we see in the movies. The other is the obsession with equipment and upgrading them.\nYeah that's the sort of thing I was hearing - both are completely at-odds with how the movies (or TV shows) portray the universe\/experience, and to me it's bizarre someone would think that was okay.\nI mean, dumber things have happened - c.f. Witcher 3 CRPG where Geralt, a man who literally never changes equipment except out of necessity, upgrades his gear 24\/7 like it's Diablo 3. But at least that was a video game so had more of an excuse.\n#2 behind FIFA23 on Steam actually at time of writing.\nAnd think how it would be doing if the HP legacy was unstained by naked bigotry and increasing general idiocy? (\"Wizards poop in a corner and use magic to clean it up\" lol for god's sake Rowling.)\nNot only would the boycotting people be buying it, but tons more would too. I don't buy that any significant number of people who \"aren't HP fans\" are pre-ordering it though. Not before reviews, that's just people lying about who they are if they're claiming that. It's just that there's an entire generation of HP fans who've never even seen an HP game that looked good lol. That's millions and millions and millions of people. It's not like it's up against heavy competition either - the new FIFA and Football Manager are literally the only other new games in the top 10. Honestly it's more shocking that Modern Warfare 2 is at #5 despite being months old and at full price.\nI take it you are not part of the minority she wants dead and gone? Ignoring don't work when she's already massively helped with turning England into TERF island.\nReactions: Azzy and Ruin Explorer\nI'm of the opinion that the cultural footprint of D&D shrinking would be better for the game as a whole.\nReactions: mamba, ThrorII, J.Quondam and 1 other person\nDioltach\nWait, is this what I have to look forward when I turn 50 next week?\nActually, this one's far more likely.\nReactions: Reef, Henadic Theologian and masdog\nAgreed. It's bizarre how much of the UK's TERF idiocy issue can be laid squarely at her doorstep, because she mainstreamed it, with the able help of the Tories and the BBC. It's also one of the most age-split issues in UK history, with basically no-one below 40-45 agreeing with the TERF nonsense, and relatively few people above 70 agreeing with it either, though they're mostly very confused by the whole thing. Just this weird core of mostly-Gen Xers who are maximum TERF. The Tories (and their minions the BBC - c.f. the BBC chairman \"loaning\" Boris \u00a3800k a few weeks before being appointed lol) tried to promote the issues in an attempt to split Labour (a tactic which worked on Brexit), but all they've managed to do is make Labour vaguely TERF-y as well, because most of its politicians are Gen Xers.\nIt's pretty relevant to D&D's current issues too, because it illustrates how quickly laws can change when the right people want them to. Less than 5 years ago we were looking at actively at long-overdue pro-Trans reforms. And our previous Prime Minister (well, two PMs ago, but the last one lasted like a month) was pro-Trans even a year into being PM. But as soon as it became a potential political tool, that all changed.\nReactions: ReshiIRE, Azzy and Lyandelill\nReynard said:\nI agree with this, but that ship has sailed. D&D has gotten too big, and Hasbro will do everything they can to squeeze every last dollar out of the property. We've all been reminded that, in the end, Hasbro is no different than any other corporation, and revenue\/profits is the bottom line, so everything they do will be towards that end.\nThat is the tragedy of D&D: it is the industry leader, but also the only game whose course is set entirely on corporate profits. Obviously all, especially bigger companies like Paizo, are directed by profits, but none--except Hasbro\/WotC--make their decisions entirely and only based on profits. Paizo et al still seem at least somewhat directed by love of the game itself.\nThis is why people should never, imo, be happy or impressed when WotC makes this or that statement about \"listening to the fans\" because, in the end, they only \"listen\" when they feel to do otherwise negatively impacts their revenue stream. It isn't unlike a habitual liar only admitting to lying when they are caught.\nFrozenNorth\nAgreed. It's bizarre how much of the UK's TERF idiocy issue can be laid squarely at her doorstep, because she mainstreamed it, with the able help of the Tories and the BBC.\nI'm conflicted. On the one hand, I agree with you. On the other, you called the Tories able and I think the last 3 years have demonstrated they are anything but.\nReactions: Cadence, Parmandur, Lyandelill and 1 other person\n\u2026but worse for the people who make a living from 3rd party adventures and products.\nFrozenNorth said:\nWorse than WotC burning that entire market segment to the ground?\nMod Note:\nPolitics. Please stop talking politics, folks.\nReactions: JEB, FrozenNorth and deganawida","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WAYNE MADSEN: The War Between Globalists And Populists\nGlobalists, EU banksters, \"elites,\" corporate criminals, \"mainstream media\" frauds are doomed as The People rise up\nWAYNE MADSEN REPORT\nBy Wayne Madsen\nAs much as the pro-globalism pundits and opinion makers, many of whom masquerade as journalists, hate to admit it, the neo-Cold War nurtured by Barack Obama, Francois Hollande, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, and Matteo Renzi \u2013 is now over. The new war is between the forces of globalism and populism.\nU..S. President-elect Donald Trump\nThe end game for the globalists is a unipolar world in which the decisions are formulated in Washington with the bureaucracies in Brussels, London, The Hague, and Berlin acting as the implementers. Although the corporate media has reluctantly re-branded them from \"far-right\" to \"populists,\" the political forces that are opposed to globalism are fighting for a multipolar world where national sovereignty, majority cultural and religious rights and customs, and domestic industrial protection rule the day.\nTwo elections on December 4, the Austrian presidential election and the Italian constitutional referendum, provided a degree of mixed results for both sovereigntists and globalists. Austrian nationalist presidential candidate Norbert Hofer lost to the chain-smoking Russo-Estonian immigrant Green candidate Alexander van der Bellen, not because Hofer was considered too right-wing, but because he began to waffle at the end of the campaign on core issues.\nHofer changed tack and began saying positive things about the European Union and Austria's continued membership in what has essentially become the \"mother of all bureaucracies.\" The Austrian election results did not reflect van der Bellen witnessing a sudden surge of support but because Hofer's most ardent supporters deciding to stay home after the Austrian Freedom Party (OVP) candidate began adopting a pro-Europe stance. Hofer originally said the following about the EU after the successful Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom to exit the union: \"If the answer to Brexit is a centralized European Union, where the national parliaments are disempowered and where the union is governed like a state, we would have to hold a referendum in Austria.\"\nHofer underestimated the opposition in Austria to the EU and its championing the free flow of migrants across European borders. After Hofer altered his position to claim that he was in favor of \"a stronger union,\" his anti-establishment supporters turned their backs on Hofer, believing him to be just another spineless politician. Hofer could only muster 46.7 percent of the vote to van der Bellen's 53.8 percent. In the first presidential election in May 2016, which was invalidated by court order because of vote counting irregularities, Hofer received 49.7 percent of the vote to 50.3 percent for van der Bellen. On December 4, Hofer saw his support drained in rural areas of Austria, where anti-EU and anti-open borders feelings are predominant. As in rural England and Wales and rural America, it is in the all-but-forgotten hinterlands where national sovereignty and cultural protection are key issues. The power elites ignore and ridicule rural and small town populations at their own peril.\nThe globalists wrongly saw Hofer's defeat as a rejection of populism. Their ill-informed opinions were somewhat dashed when the Italian electorate decisively rejected a plan to increase the powers of the prime minister, reduce the powers of the Senate and presidency, and return to the national government certain powers granted to regional governments.\nRejected: Renzi\nPrime Minister Matteo Renzi, an EU fan and a globalist poster boy, vowed to resign if the referendum failed and fail it did.\nRenzi announced his resignation as exit polls indicated that his referendum, which was spurred on by Eurocrats in Brussels, was faring badly.\nThe globalists, of course, claimed not too much should be read into the Italian results and that they were unconnected to the Brexit vote and the surprise election of Donald Trump in the United States.\nThe Italian \"No\" campaign received the support of young voters across Italy. The \"No\" coalition included left-wing members of Renzi's own Democratic party, the populist and anti-EU Five Star Movement (M5S), the nationalist Northern League, Forza Italia of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and former Communists who now gravitate to the Sinistra Italiana (SI) movement. Only European unionists and globalists with their heads buried in the sand failed to understand that what occurred in Italy is part of the same epic tide against global elites that shook Britain and the United States.\nEU now in irreversible death-spiral\nAustria was not part of the populist parade because Hofer chickened out on his opposition to the EU and, thus, sacrificed his populist credentials. The Austrian presidency is a ceremonial position that lacks any significant power. In the first half of 2017, when Austria is to see national parliamentary elections, the OVP leader Heinz-Christian Strache will not make the same mistake as his party's presidential standard bearer. Recent opinion polls show that Strache and his party is favored to win the parliamentary election with Strache favored to become Austria's next chancellor, succeeding the lackluster Social Democratic chancellor Christian Kern.\nMost Austrians continue to bristle over the overturning by an Austrian court of the conviction of a 20-year old Iraqi male refugee who raped a 10-year old Austrian boy in a swimming pool. In his defense, the Iraqi claimed he had a \"sexual emergency.\" Van der Bellen and his starry-eyed Green and Social Democratic supporters may have sympathy for the Iraqi rapist, but for Austrians who put country and faith over boutique social causes, the countenance by an Austrian court of such behavior was the final straw. Strache has not strayed from his demand that Austria's borders be controlled, unsuitable and illegal migrants be deported, and diktats from Brussels be ignored.\nThe pro-globalist news media, in advancing the notion that Brexit, the U.S. presidential election, and the Italian referendum were mere flukes and that the real story is the Austrian presidential victory for the pro-EU van der Bellen, conveniently omit two elections held between the U.S. election and the Austrian and Italian polling. On November 13, two pro-Russian presidential candidates defeated their pro-EU rivals in Bulgaria and Moldova. Because the victories of Rumen Radev in Bulgaria and Igor Dodon in Moldova did not fit into the globalist propaganda template, they are not considered as being part and parcel of the populist and sovereigntist wave sweeping through Europe.\nCNN, BBC pro-Remain frauds and purveyors of fake news will pay the ultimate price for their lies and bogus EU propaganda\nIn April and May of 2017, French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will square off against conservative pro-EU status quo enthusiast Francois Fillon, a former prime minister, and the current Socialist prime minister, Manuel Valls, an immigrant from Spain. Fillon and Valls are trying to advance their candidacies with an increasingly anti-EU and anti-immigrant French electorate. However, Fillon and Valls are late-comers to the cause of French sovereignty. The dalliance with the EU and global bankers by both Fillon and Valls are suspect, at the very least by the French electorate. Just as members of the working class Italian left voted against Renzi's referendum, a fair number of French working class labor unionists, who have, in the past, voted for the Communists, can be expected to opt for Le Pen over the two corporate candidates.\nIn other European countries, anti-EU parties are now part of the electoral makeup of national parliaments and delegations in the European Parliament. Hungary's Jobbik, which received 21 percent of the national vote; the Danish People's Party, which also saw a 21 percent share of the vote; and the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which saw an impressive 14 percent of the vote in the Berlin state election in September of this year, are forces to be reckoned with. German chancellor Angela Merkel, worried that her open-door policy on Muslim migrants may cost her dearly in next year's election, adopted a plank from the AfD in recently announcing that she favors a ban on the Muslim burqa and niqab in Germany.\nMerkel and her slave labor importation scheme are doomed\nMerkel, who addressed her Christian Democratic Union party congress in Essen, also said she would never again repeat her \"mistake\" of opening Germany to an influx of migrants. Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage commented on Twitter that Merkel's newly-adopted policy was \"Too late. The horse has bolted.\"\nToo late, indeed, for Merkel. The chancellor's feeble attempt to adopt a populist line comes after a 17-year old Afghan migrant, known only as \"Hussein K,\" raped and murdered 19-year old medical student Maria Ladenburger, whose father is a high-level EU official in Germany.\nGlobalist \"elites\" wave goodbye as they and their plan for world enslavement fades into oblivion along with them\nThe German people, just like other Europeans, as well as Americans, have had enough of such outrages and will not forget that many Germans, especially women, would never have been raped, or murdered by jihadists, as in the cases of Ladenburger and other Germans, had it not been for Merkel's welcome mat to crazed migrants from the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa.\nInvestigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues.\nAs a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports from Washington, D.C.\nPosted in: \"Mainstream Media\" Cover-Ups,\"Mainstream Media\" Lies,BBC Propaganda,CNN Frauds,Donald Trump,EU Collapse,EU Robber Barons,Wayne Madsen Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook\nWAYNE MADSEN: The War Between Globalists And Popul...\nThailand Pushes Back Against BBC Propaganda","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ News \/ Government & Politics \/ State Government\nIowa secretary of state expects voter fraud investigation results soon\nAug. 8, 2013 3:34 pm\nAfter a couple of \"hiccups\" getting started, a state investigation into voter fraud is \"moving in the right direction\" and Iowans will begin seeing results soon, according to Secretary of State Matt Schultz.\n\"We had a couple of setbacks, but we're doing the best we can,\" the first-term Republican said while in Coralville Wednesday.\nShortly after the investigation began, a Division of Criminal Investigation agent assigned to look into voter fraud allegations was called to active duty in the National Guard and a second agent had to be assigned to the cases.\n\"It's been like trying to use a shovel to move a mountain,\" he said. \"Quite frankly, we could use more resources, but I anticipate having answers soon.\"\nThe investigation has not been without detractors. Chief among them is Democrat Brad Anderson, who wants Schultz's job. Anderson, who worked for former Gov. Chet Culver and was state director of Barack Obama's re-election campaign, has called the investigation a waste.\n\"Look,\" Anderson said Thursday, \"any secretary of state should be diligent about going after voter fraud. But he should go about it without disenfranchising voters.\"\nAnderson prefers to detect voter fraud or other irregularities at the front end \u2013 when Iowans attempt to vote \u2013 through the use of expanded electronic poll books \"rather than spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax money after the fact.\"\nHe also noted that Schultz's investigation has yet to produce a single conviction.\n\"Trust me,\" Schultz said, \"I hate sitting back and not having results right now. But I'm confident in the DCI and its ability, and I'm confident that we will have results.\"\nResults Anderson would like to see are more Iowans voting. Rather than make voter fraud his sole focus, he said Schultz should spend more time and effort getting the 600,000 eligible voters who didn't participate in the 2012 election to the polls.\nAs to Schultz's suggestion that there is a \"mountain\" of voter fraud, \"I leave that up to him to prove,\" Anderson said.\n\"There're certainly a lot of potential cases,\" Schultz said, explaining that in 2010, there were 3,582 potential non-citizens registered with more than 1,000 of them casting ballots.\n\"I've always taken the approach that I don't want to accuse somebody who is a citizen of committing a crime,\" Schultz said. \"There were more 3,000 cases to look at, so I do believe that is a mountain.\"\nJohnson County Auditor Travis Weipert hasn't seen a mountain of voter fraud in his seven months in office. The key is the voter's intent \u2013 whether they meant to commit fraud.\n\"I'll be curious to see what his investigation provides us,\" Weipert said after meeting with Schultz Wednesday.\nIn Linn County, Auditor Joel Miller said that since the November 2012 election 100 election misconduct cases have investigated by the Sheriff's Office. So far, there is court action pending on four and three people have been convicted.\nHe's looking forward to the results of the DCI investigation so he can update his voter registration rolls.\n\"I don't think any auditor wants people who are not eligible to vote on their lists,\" Miller said. \"I don't see why anyone would think it's OK for a non-citizen to vote. My wife is from Ecuador and I'm pretty sure if I went to vote when we're down there I would end up in jail.\"\nReporter, The Gazette\nCovering politics and government in Eastern Iowa, and the Iowa Legislature. Subscribe to my podcast.\nKim Reynolds focused on legislative agenda, not campaign\nButchery grants awarded to 15 Iowa small-scale meat processors\nGovernor visits Cedar Rapids to promote tax cut plan\nHinson hears nothing encouraging in Biden's remarks\nLawmakers modify child care staffing ratio\nAll articles by James\nThe Gazette On Iowa Politics Jan. 21, 2022 5:12 pm\nJames Q. Lynch Campaigns & Elections Jan. 21, 2022 2:44 pm\nJames Q. Lynch State Government Jan. 21, 2022 7:41 am\nCampaigns & Elections Jan. 21, 2022 2:44 pm\nBusiness News Jan. 21, 2022 2:46 pm\nMeet the artist who's giving Iowa water towers a makeover\nState Government Jan. 21, 2022 9:53 am\nHealth Care and Medicine Jan. 21, 2022 6:59 pm\nA refresher about snow, ice removal rules in Iowa City\nLocal Government Jan. 21, 2022 6:00 am","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New SECR scheme \u2014 carbon reporting rules extended\nThe UK's current commitment to an 80% greenhouse gas emissions cut by 2050 includes corporate carbon. On 1 April 2019 reporting rules for quoted companies changed and now take in \"large\" unquoted businesses and LLPs. But SMEs are also encouraged to volunteer for the new best practice. Jon Herbert reports.\nThe Government's new Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) scheme is extending its reach around corporate carbon as global warming fears grow and politicians are accused of inaction.\nUK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 2.5% in 2018 compared to 3% in 2017 and 16% in 2016 \u2014 making a total of 43.5% since 1990. Theoretically at least, Britain is more than halfway towards its commitment of an 80% reduction by 2050. However, this has been the easy half.\nMore specifically, UK CO2 emissions fell by 2.4% to 364.1 million tonnes while global carbon releases reached a 2018 all-time high, rising by 4.7%, 2.5% and 6.3% in China, the US and India. But there is potentially bad UK carbon news on the horizon that does call for urgent action.\nHaving beaten its first and second carbon budgets by 36 MtCO2e and 384 MtCO2e respectively, with an 88 MtCO2e surplus predicted for the third from 2018 to 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) recognises that the UK is on course to breach its fourth and fifth budgets by 139 million and 245 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e).\nAiming at the corporate and private sector\nEmissions associated with business and industry make a major contribution. The question for policy-makers has been finding an effective tool to encourage greater efficiency and year-on-year reductions. Their choice is energy and carbon reporting.\nUntil recently, the rules only applied to large quoted companies. Now, they are being extended to \"large\" unquoted businesses through SECR, with the direction of travel pointing towards SMEs that are being encouraged to embrace the benefits of best practice voluntarily before being pushed.\nUnder SECR, qualifying organisations must include new energy and carbon reporting data within annual reports covering their next financial year starting in the 12-months leading up to 31 March 2020. For full details see www.gov.uk.\nSECR awareness not high\nThe Government has been accused of not promoting the new scheme effectively. This makes it all the more important for companies to understand any new responsibilities now.\nBEIS' communication focus has been via Companies House and the Financial Regulatory Council, Environment Agency newsletters (ESOS, CRC and Climate Change Agreements), business trusts and professional bodies, including the CBI, Make UK, Major Energy Users Council (MEUC), Retail Energy Forum, Emissions Trading Group \u2014 plus EMA and IEMA.\nHowever, because SECR will only apply to financial years that start after 1 April 2019, there is still time to get ready. The earliest reports will be submitted in April 2020, allowing companies to prepare systems and synchronise them with existing corporate reporting cycles.\nEvolution of corporate carbon reporting\nAs of October 2013, companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, in the European Economic Area, or on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, have had to measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using a robust independent standard that presents all data clearly and shows how it differs from information given in conventional consolidated financial statements.\nHowever, it was soon recognised that measuring, managing and reducing carbon emissions is an effective way for companies generally to identify their carbon footprints, raise efficiency, cut costs and set important environmental targets within their supply chains.\nThe result is SECR which BEIS estimates will affect some 11,900 organisations at this stage \u2014 including c. 1200 quoted companies.\nSECR builds on \u2014 but does not replace \u2014 existing requirements, such as Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (MGHG) reporting for quoted companies, the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), Climate Change Agreements (CCA) Scheme, EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and Climate Change Levy increase. It also coincides with the end of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme.\nWhat happened on 1 April 2019 is that under the Companies (Directors' Report) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Energy and Carbon Report) Regulations 2018, SECR has updated the rules and extended the requirements not only to quoted companies but also to unquoted companies or limited liability partnerships (LLPs) deemed \"large\" in the Companies Act 2006.\n\"Large\" is generally defined as meeting two of the three following criteria within a reporting period: \u2014 having more than 250 employees; an annual turnover greater than \u00a336 million; and\/or an annual balance sheet greater than \u00a318 million.\nSECR reporting requirements\nQuoted companies, according to the Carbon Trust, must continue to report their \"global scope 1 and 2\" (direct and indirect) GHG emissions in CO2-equivalent tonnes (all seven gases under the Kyoto Protocol) within their Directors' reports, plus at least one emissions \"intensity ratio\" for current and previous reporting periods.\nHowever, they must now also report their underlying global energy use split between the UK and offshore countries, again with previous year comparisons after the first SECR reporting period.\nUnquoted large companies and large LLPs now have to report at a minimum, their UK energy use from electricity, gas and transport fuels (in company vehicles, including reimbursement for employee business mileage, but not external air, rail or taxi journeys, or third party contractors), plus associated GHG emissions and at least one intensity metric \u2014 such as tonnes of CO2\/kWh for the energy sector, or tonnes of CO2\/m2 for the property sector\nIn all cases, reporting must include a description of steps taken to improve the businesses' energy efficiency in the relevant year, plus resulting energy savings if known. Where no measures are taken, this should also be reported.\nAlthough no specific methodology is prescribed, the methodology used must be shown and be robust, transparent and widely-accepted. Scope 3 \"corporate value chain\" indirect emissions should also be given with the voluntary disclosure of any additional sources of energy or GHG emissions.\nWhy would SMEs volunteer?\nBEIS points out that improving business energy efficiency can help to boost productivity and growth development while enhancing energy supply security and contributing to a decarbonised economy. By choosing to learn the SECR ropes early, SMEs can enjoy the benefits sooner rather than later.\nThere are exceptions. Local authorities, government departments and statutory agencies are not covered by SECR, but report carbon in their annual reports under other legislation. Devolved administrations have separate systems. Not-for-profit bodies \u2014 such as companies and LLPs owned by universities or NHS trusts \u2014 come under SECR rules.\nOne other area where clarification is important is the distinction between group and subsidiary level SECR reporting \u2014 the aim being to avoid duplication. Another sub-group is companies falling within the SECR definition that use no more than 40MWh. They must submit total energy calculations and also make a statement that they are low energy users.\nA further area for potential short-term exemptions is sensitive situations, such as takeovers, where releasing information could be prejudicial. Also, if certain data cannot be collected in a specific year, why this is so, the impact and how it will be provided in the future must be explained.\nThe Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) scheme began on 1 April 2019 and brings quoted companies, plus unquoted and LLPs meeting the Companies Act 2006 definition of \"large\", into the regime that could in future be extended towards SMEs.\nSECR aims to improve business energy efficiency, boost productivity and growth, enhance energy supply security and help decarbonise the economy. By choosing to join SECR voluntarily, SMEs may benefit early. Details are at www.gov.uk.\nControl of Emissions of Smoke, Dust and Grit\nCarbon Reduction, Footprinting and Reporting\nImpact of new emission rules on industry\nMoney available for low and zero emission vehicles\nBacking for fracking\nTime to get in touch with your inner Wiggins (or Trott)\nGrounds for energy optimism\nEnergy saving guide published by Carbon Trust\nReducing the impact of transport \u2013 low-carbon, and innovative business models\nExposure to diesel engine exhaust emissions at work\nIn the heat of the moment\nNet Zero \u2014 what does it mean for your business?\nNet zero: why does Scotland have a different target date?\nPassivhaus buildings and zero carbon houses \u2014 the differences\nTaking steps towards zero emissions\nPreparing a sustainability report\nClean Air Zones","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Opening Act\u2122 Competition Winner Opens for Coldplay, Maroon 5 and Doja Cat\nYoung in a Million won the 2021 Opening Act Competition, which allowed them to play in front of thousands of fans during Audacy's We Can Survive concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, October 23, 2021.\nThe online voting competition gives musicians the opportunity to compete for a $10,000 cash prize and the opening slot at Audacy's annual benefit concert, opening for major recording artists. While previous winner, RAINNE, opened for Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and more, Young In A Million performed ahead of Maroon 5, Coldplay, The Black Eyed Peas, Saweetie, Doja Cat, The Kid Laroi, and Shawn Mendes.\n\"Exactly two years and eight months ago, we played our first Young in a Million show. It was in a small house in Nashville with 50 people. Tonight, we will be playing our first ARENA show with 17,500 people. It's also with our favorite band of all time, Coldplay,\" said Young In A Million before performing at the sold-out event.\nThe duo says their music is meant \"to make you dream again, risk again, love again, and live again.\" With Alex's background in dance music and Kody's experience as a former hardcore singer, the pair managed to find a sweet spot in pop\/rock with a message of hope and transformation.\nOpening Act, LLC will donate a portion of the net proceeds from this year's competition to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, an organization dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide. AFSP is celebrating 30 years of service and has chapters in all 50 states.\nThose interested in learning more about Opening Act can visit theopenact.com for more details.\nSource: Opening Act, LLC\nEquipmentShare's T3 Technology Earns AutoTech Breakthrough Fleet Management Innovation Award\nVytalize Health Partners With Glucose Guards to Improve the Quality of Care for Patients While Reducing Healthcare Costs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PUBLPOL Business and Public Policy\nIT\/Electronics\nInternet Torts and Crimes\nLegal Aspects of Autonomous Driving\nIntellectual Property and Open Source\nPatent Case Management Judicial Guide by Peter S. Menell (Federal Judicial Center)\nPUBLPOL 195\n[ Regulatory & Policy ] Intellectual Property: IT\/Electronics\n[ Regulatory & Policy ] as a Relevant Course outside SLS for those interested in Public Policy : Any lawyer who represents business entities, and not just policy lawyers, should have some understanding of the different strategic actors involved in shaping policies and regulations that affect businesses. This course examines the relationships among business, government, and interest groups, and the strategies they employ in influencing government action.\nThe relationships among business, government, and interest groups as strategic actors in the non-market environment. How companies attempt to shape public policy through government processes and international politics, and interest groups through government processes and by influencing business. Politicians mediate conflicts among businesses and interest groups. Each relationship transcends the conventional view of a business as a market-focused entity that accepts government actions and ignores interest groups. Media and private collective action, business strategies in government arenas, international business and the non-market environment, and corporate responsibility and ethics. Prerequisites: ECON 1, POLISCI 2.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Language Line Services' Interpreter Demand Index(SM) Shows Rapid Growth in Arabic, Vietnamese Across Country\nLanguageTrak\u00ae Report from Language Line Services Reveals Demographic Shifts Years in Advance of Next U.S. Census\nLanguage Line Services\nMONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 13, 2011 \/PRNewswire\/ -- A report released today by Language Line Services, the global leader in interpretation and translation services, shows that while Spanish remains the most popular language nationwide behind English, demand for Arabic and Vietnamese grew strong across 20 major U.S. cities between Q2 2010 and Q2 2011.\n(Infographic of Language Trends Across the U.S.: http:\/\/bit.ly\/r8iFKD)\nThe report, titled the Language Line\u00ae LanguageTrak \"Interpreter Demand Index(SM)\" (IDI), uses proprietary data to rank the top 10 languages in each city by number of over-the-phone interpreter requests in the government and healthcare sectors. The LanguageTrak IDI(SM) also shows percentage growth in each language between Q2 2010 and Q2 2011.\n\"This real-time information addresses the ever-changing language needs of cities years before similar data is unveiled from the next U.S. Census,\" said Louis F. Provenzano, Jr., President & CEO of Language Line Services, which fields millions of interpreter-request calls each year. \"This allows local governments, court systems, healthcare agencies and emergency services to better anticipate critical needs in their communities and ensure access to essential services.\"\nAccording to the LanguageTrak IDI(SM), Spanish continues to be the most requested language in all 20 cities, supporting 2011 Pew Hispanic Center and 2010 U.S. Census data.\nInterpreter requests in Arabic are rapidly growing, however, with increases in 13 of the 20 cities. The highest increases are in Houston (45.8 percent), San Antonio (39.7 percent) and Philadelphia (37.4 percent). Arabic also is among the top-five most requested languages in 11 of the 20 cities.\nRequests for Vietnamese also increased in 13 of the 20 cities. The highest increases are in New York City (66.2 percent), Houston (45.9 percent) and Dallas (25.5 percent). Vietnamese is also among the top-five most requested languages in 14 of the 20 cities.\nIn addition to the report signaling Arabic and Vietnamese as rapidly emerging languages, Provenzano pointed to other surprising findings:\nHaitian Creole interpreter requests spiked 271.4 percent in Indianapolis -- the highest growth in Indiana for any language.\nSwahili was among the most requested languages throughout Texas, with significant interpreter increases in Houston (87.3 percent), Fort Worth (74.6 percent) and Austin (38.2 percent).\nArmenian was the third-most requested language in Los Angeles, where Armenian interpreter requests increased 13.7 percent.\nChicago saw interpreter requests increase in Gujarati (146.2 percent) and Russian (38.5 percent).\nSan Antonio saw major surges in requests for Cantonese (423 percent) and Spanish (141.3 percent). Cantonese was its fourth-most requested language.\nNepali was one of the most requested languages in Memphis (366.7 percent increase), Austin (128.6 percent increase) and Dallas (50.3 percent increase).\nDetroit saw significant interpreter request increases in Bengali (57.1 percent) and Hmong (37.1 percent). Bengali was the fourth-most requested language.\nKaren interpreter requests in Jacksonville grew 122.6 percent. Karen, spoken by 1.3 million in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is one of the fastest growing languages in the U.S.\nMemphis saw major interpreter request surges in Amharic (400 percent) and Somali (150 percent). Somali was the second-most requested language.\nBurmese interpreter requests in Charlotte increased 64.7 percent.\nInfographic of Language Trends Across the U.S.: http:\/\/bit.ly\/r8iFKD\nFor a copy of the complete report, contact [email protected] and type \"LanguageTrak\" in the subject field of your email.\nAbout Language Line Services\nLanguage Line Services, the global leader in telephone interpreting and language solutions, serves clients in government, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, utilities, insurance and many other industries by quickly connecting them to their customers, patients and sales prospects in more than 170 spoken languages as well as American Sign Language (ASL) and Mexican Sign Language (LSM). Language Line Services is recognized as a trusted partner to thousands of public and private organizations throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, providing easy access to the industry's fastest language interpreting service at highly competitive rates.\nFor more information about Language Line Services' suite of telephone, on-site and video interpreting, document translation, interpreter assessment and training programs, please call (800) 752-6096 or visit http:\/\/www.languageline.com.\nCarla Collado\nOlmstead Williams Communications\nhttp:\/\/www.olmsteadwilliams.com\nThis press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http:\/\/www.ereleases.com.\nSOURCE Language Line Services","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry v. His Subordinate Victoria Nuland, Regarding Ukraine\nBy Eric ZUESSE | Oriental Review | May 22, 2015\nU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on May 12th, responding to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's assertions that Ukraine will retake Crimea and will conquer Donbass:\n\"I have not had a chance \u2013 I have not read the speech. I haven't seen any context. I have simply heard about it in the course of today. But if indeed President Poroshenko is advocating an engagement in a forceful effort at this time, we would strongly urge him to think twice not to engage in that kind of activity, that that would put Minsk in serious jeopardy. And we would be very, very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may be.\"\nU.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European & Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, as communicated by the U.S. State Department's Press Office on May 15th, reiterating Poroshenko's view:\n\"Assistant Secretary Nuland's ongoing visit to Kyiv and her discussions with Prime Minister [Arseniy] Yatseniuk and President [Petro] Poroshenko reaffirm the United States' full and unbreakable support for Ukraine's government, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. We continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Ukraine and reiterate our deep commitment to a single Ukrainian nation, including Crimea, and all the other regions of Ukraine.\"\nWill John Kerry reprimand his subordinate for her contradicting what he, her boss, had said three days earlier? If not, then will President Barack Obama fire his Secretary of State John Kerry? If not, then will Victoria Nuland be fired? If not, then who is to trust anything that comes from the U.S. State Department, when the Secretary of State can be contradicted three days later by his subordinate, and both remain in their respective jobs?\nRepublicans are already preparing to weaken Kerry over this. The far-right news-site Frontpage Mag headlined on May 21st, John Kerry's Seven Hours of Weakness in Russia, and condemned the \"attempt by Kerry to re-set the 're-set' button [on U.S. policy toward Russia] first pushed by his predecessor, Hillary Clinton.\" The special subject of their ire: \"The promise of 'rolling back' the mild sanctions regime the West imposed on Russia on account of Putin's annexation of Crimea and support of separatist rebels was bandied about, if only Russia would behave in the future.\" But winning changes in behavior is what international diplomacy is supposed to be all about \u2014 otherwise the State Department wouldn't even be needed, and only the Pentagon would handle America's foreign relations.\nIf Victoria Nuland stays in her job, then John Kerry will be neutered even if he's not fired.\nThe only person with the power to fire Nuland is actually U.S. President Barack Obama. Perhaps the request for him to do that is already on his desk. If it's not, then Kerry's job is in jeopardy, because his diplomatic efforts can be obliterated by a subordinate and that subordinate will suffer no penalty for doing this. Nobody then would respect anything that the U.S. Secretary of State says, because it wouldn't necessarily represent the President's policies. If the Secretary of State isn't backed up by the President, then the Secretary of State has no real power at all.\nMay 22, 2015 - Posted by aletho | Aletho News | Cold War 2.0, John Kerry, Russia, Strategic Deterrence, Ukraine, United States, Victoria Nuland","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Strategic management and public service performance: The way ahead\nGeorge A. Boyne*, Richard M. Walker\nStrategic management is now prominent on the agenda of public administration scholars and practitioners. In this review, the authors outline why approaches based on strategy are suited to public agencies, noting the ways in which strategy varies across public organizations, seeks to match internal capacities to organizational environments, and shapes the impact of external and internal constraints on performance. Empirical evidence on the impact of strategy on performance is placed under the microscope, and while there are many positive relationships, the evidence base is limited in terms of its scope, data, methods, measures, and coverage. The authors trace out what needs to be done to move the field forward, noting in particular that theoretical enrichment, empirical variety, and explanations of causal complexity are likely to come from a synthesis of models of strategy and publicness.\nPublic Administration Review\nDive into the research topics of 'Strategic management and public service performance: The way ahead'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nStrategic Management Business & Economics 100%\nstrategic management Social Sciences 73%\nService Performance Business & Economics 66%\nPublic Services Business & Economics 56%\npublic service Social Sciences 51%\nperformance Social Sciences 27%\nPublic Agencies Business & Economics 18%\nOrganizational Environment Business & Economics 17%\nBoyne, G. A., & Walker, R. M. (2010). Strategic management and public service performance: The way ahead. Public Administration Review, 70(SUPPL. 1), 185-192. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-6210.2010.02271.x\nStrategic management and public service performance : The way ahead. \/ Boyne, George A.; Walker, Richard M.\nIn: Public Administration Review, Vol. 70, No. SUPPL. 1, 12.2010, p. 185-192.\nBoyne, GA & Walker, RM 2010, 'Strategic management and public service performance: The way ahead', Public Administration Review, vol. 70, no. SUPPL. 1, pp. 185-192. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-6210.2010.02271.x\nBoyne GA, Walker RM. Strategic management and public service performance: The way ahead. Public Administration Review. 2010 Dec;70(SUPPL. 1):185-192. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-6210.2010.02271.x\nBoyne, George A. ; Walker, Richard M. \/ Strategic management and public service performance : The way ahead. 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{"text":"Joe is a yellow tomato and a minor character in \"VeggieTales\".\nHis first appearance was in two VeggieTales books, \"Bob Lends a Helping Hand\" and \"Larry Learns to Listen\". His first appearances were from the episode version of the books, and then in \"God Loves You Very Much.\"\nOther then Bob, Joe is the only known tomato in the series.\nJoe is a small yellow tomato with a small yellow nose and eyelids, who wears a blue cap on his green leaves and stem. Joe is very similar to Bob, being a tomato. The only differences from Bob and Joe is that Joe is much smaller, he has a small nose, he is yellow and that he wears a cap. His skin is normally yellow as himself.\nWho is Joe?\nJoe Mama\nHimself in \"Larry Learns to Listen\"\nHimself in \"Bob Lends a Helping... Hand?\"\nHimself in \"God Loves You Very Much\"\nHimself in \"Celery Night Fever\" (cameo)\nHimself in \"Beauty and the Beet\" (cameo)\nIn Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas, his skin was red as Young Phillip (resembles to [the Tomato|Bob]).\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/veggietales.fandom.com\/wiki\/Joe?oldid=20858\"\n3 Larry the Cucumber","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Tech Roundup Investor group including Activision Blizzard kicking Myspace tires\nTech Roundup\nInvestor group including Activision Blizzard kicking Myspace tires\ncmarcucci\nThe investor group has emerged as a front-runner in negotiations with News Corp. to take control of Myspace, according to a WSJ (which News Corp. owns), as the media company rushes to complete a transaction by 6\/30\u2014the end of its fiscal year.\nHeadquartered in Santa Monica, CA, Activision Blizzard is a worldwide pure-play online and console game publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the interactive entertainment software industry. Activision Blizzard's portfolio includes video games such as Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and Tony Hawk, as well as Spider-Man, X-Men, Shrek, James Bond, World of Warcraft and more.\nWhile News Corp. continues to talk to several potential bidders, negotiations are now focused on a group that would take over the social-media site but leave News Corp. with about a 20% stake, the story said. At least two firms that were weighing a bid\u2014private-equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners in a partnership with Redscout Ventures and Criterion Capital Partners LLC \u2014are no longer considered serious contenders.\nBobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard Inc., said he had been approached about being part of the investor group but hasn't yet committed. Any investment by him would be personal and small, and Activision wouldn't be involved, he said.\nAs well, WSJ sources said Kotick wouldn't take an active management role. Another person cautioned that a deal between the investor group and News Corp. was a \"long shot.\"\nSince News Corp. started accepting bids for the struggling social-media site around April, a number of private-equity firms and other Internet start-ups have expressed interest. Increasingly, News Corp. has focused on deals in which it would retain an ownership stake in the business and hand over operational control.\nSome other suitors who have remained interested in recent weeks include private-equity firm Criterion Capital Partners LLC and social networks Tagged Inc. and myYearbook. Former Myspace CEO Chris DeWolfe and music-video site Vevo, a JV between major record labels, had also been in the mix, said WSJ. Talks with Vevo have been stalled for several weeks, though a deal between the two was long considered unlikely, in part because the companies were discussing a complicated arrangement that could have entailed Vevo collaborating with Fox's television arm to create new programming.\nTagged CEO Greg Tseng said in a statement that the company \"would be excited to take MySpace back to its original roots as a place to meet people.\"\nRBR-TVBR observation: It really sounds like there isn't that much interest from Activision Blizzard to run Myspace, but it might be a part of an investment group. At this point, the best route for Myspace\u2014whether it stays with News Corp., becomes a part of a JV with News Corp. and another group or company or gets bought outright\u2014is to rebrand itself with or as something unique. Perhaps a video chat functionality that works with multiple users \/ friend groups.\nPrevious articleMTV scrubs\nNext articleTrends in ad spend and effectiveness\nCarl has been with RBR-TVBR since 1997 and is currently Managing Director\/Senior Editor. Residing in Northern Virginia, he covers the business of broadcasting, advertising, programming, new media and engineering. He's also done a great deal of interviews for the company and handles our ever-growing stable of bylined columnists.\nThe InFOCUS Podcast: Kurt Heitman\nHD Radio Mod Monitors Ready For Market","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BOUTIQUE SPOTLIGHT: BELLE MONDE BOUTIQUE\nPhotos By Dick Arnspiger\nWhen a well-heeled PTA mom opens a boutique, you know you're going to get a well-organized shopping experience. At Belle Monde Boutique, you get more than that including designer labels for less, friendly service and plenty of wardrobe and styling advice.\nBy Kevin Broady\nNestled in the business area of St. Matthews, right off Shelbyville Road, is a quaint yet spacious consignment shop called Belle Monde Boutique. With its bright natural light, hardwood floors and multiple rooms of dresses, gowns, suits, separates and stunning hats and accessories, this shopping haven is a place where you can truly get immersed in a stress-free shopping experience where everything is as affordable as it is beautiful.\nThis welcoming addition to our local shopping scene is the creation of owner Nikki Knight, who knew from the beginning that she wanted to open a consignment shop with a legitimate \"wow\" factor, where women feel like they can dress to be the best version of themselves. \"I want to encourage and empower women to live a life of confidence, love, and intentionality,\" explains Nikki. \"Instead of fretting about our clothes or running late from one more 'wardrobe crises', my heartbeat is to help women identify their style, find the pieces that work for them, and cycle the ones that don't.\"\nNikki who was born and raised in Lexington, grew up loving shopping trips with friends and dressing up. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, she began her retail career as a department store manager and fashion director, where the norm was regular trips to New York, planning fashion shows and events. Later, marriage and motherhood led her and her husband to Louisville, where she devoted herself to spending sweet at-home time with their two children and, eventually, to becoming the classic, highly-organized, efficient and always-polished PTA mom. \"Now that both kids are grown and graduated from college, I'm returning to my retail roots,\" says Nikki. That's what led to the \"birth\" of her latest baby: Belle Monde boutique.\nBeside the impeccable customer service, fashion and styling advice, Belle Monde Boutique offers \"White Glove Service.\" They will come to your home and pick up your prepared pre-selected items for sale\u2014partnering with you so you can earn money and earn even more with referrals and high-ticket items. \"We get to share love, fashion and the beautiful world together. Let's find value in your closet, extend the life of those pieces and renew their possibilities,\" explains Nikki. To do that, she and her staff will do closet clean-outs, helping women edit and recycle their wardrobes and make money while empowering other women around the city.\nIt makes sense that a boutique run by a fashion guru with a heart would embody a concept that embraces women and their potential. Says Nikki, \"To me, that's fashioning the world beautifully, and that's what I'm all about.\"\nBelle Monde Boutique is located at 115 Fairfax Avenue. Call 502-403-3432 or visit their website at bellemonde.com for more information.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Solar Flares: 7\/8 The Phoenix Suns Courtship of King James, Bye-Bye Frye, Bledsoe Callers Comin'\nBy Keith M. Scheessele@BSUKeith Jul 8, 2014, 6:00am MST\nShare All sharing options for: Solar Flares: 7\/8 The Phoenix Suns Courtship of King James, Bye-Bye Frye, Bledsoe Callers Comin'\nIt's official like a referee with a whistle. The LeBron James sweepstakes is heating up. Unless of course, Robert Sarver, Lon Babby, and Ryan McDonough all happen to summer in Cleveland. At the same time.\nTo hear the Chuckster tell it, Phoenix isn't going to happen.\nThe Houston Rockets courtship of James seems to have ended before it started, with sights now set on Carmelo Anthony.\nOr Chris Bosh. A max contract seems to be a pretty good indicator of interest.\nIn any event, you should familiarize yourself with perhaps the most important person involved in this decision not named LeBron James.\nLBJ or not, Cleveland was quick to lock up the top asset they do have.\nSpeaking of summering, do the Suns have the most talented summer league roster? If you look solely at the surnames, definitely.\nWith so much noise about free agency, it's easy for the casual fan to lose sight of retaining the talent we do have. Eric Bledsoe is sure to have many suitors, including the Milwaukee Bucks, with their shiny #2 draft pick Jabari Parker and fancy new head coach, Jason Kidd.\nOn the other hand, teams seem to be a little shy about pulling the trigger on a P.J. Tucker deal.\nSome think that a team that won 48 games a season ago doesn't need to make a splash during the free agency period.\nMore on \"the waiting game.\"\nThings got a little more interesting Monday, with reports that Channing Frye is on his way to Orlando.\nNeed to add an epic tale to your summer reading list? Check out the full story of how Steve Nash got away from the Dallas Mavericks.\nFollowing in the footsteps of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, another former Phoenix Sun is throwing his hat into the political ring.\nGolden State's Steve Kerr has announced his coaching staff with the Warriors, and it features familiar Pacific Division names.\nRegardless of what ends up happening, there is something to be said for knowing when to quit, and going out on top.\nOh, and to wrap up the LeBron James coverage, we actually already know where he's going to end up.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BMW shows new X3 in Geneva\nThe BMW promoted a slight restyling of the utility X3 and took the Geneva Motor Show to display it. With the facelift, the model shall bear the same design language of the X5, with a little more bold and aggressive look.\nOther changes are new headlights, redesigned front grille, LED direction indicators redesigned, new bumpers, mildly improved interior trim and new standard features like integrated browser and heated seats.\nUnder the hood, the different versions of the X3 come with diesel engines that strive for efficiency in fuel consumption. The sDrive 18d block has 2.0 turbo 150 horsepower and 36.7 Nm of torque. In this case, the consumption is estimated at 20 km \/ l.\nSoaring version, the xDrive 20d has a reconfigured version of the same block, offering 190 hp and 40.8 Nm. Finally, the top line is the xDrive 35d, equipped with 3.0 turbo engine, delivering 313 bhp and 64.2 Nm. In this, the model accelerates from 0 to 100 km \/ h in 5.3 seconds, reaching top speed of 245 km \/ h.\nVolkswagen is not working on the successor of Eos, says magazine\nMercedes-Benz takes special editions of the SL and SLK Geneva\nDetails of BMW performance line \"input\"\nBMW M4 Convertible tests on snow\nFerrari announces the release date of 149M\nHonda CR-Z: The Best Hybrid Features\nOpel Combo: What You Ought To Know\nPeugeot 308: The Distinct Quality\nHyundai Verna: What You Ought To Know\nHyundai Veloster: Super Car\nMini Cooper: A Head Turning Car\nNissan Qashqai: Tough As Nails\nCitroen C8: The Problems You Should Know\nRenault Captur: An In Depth Review\nToyota Hybrid-R: It's For You To Ride","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LIBOR Media Advisory Note: Strictly Not For Publication\nFrom the Attorney General's Office:\nMedia Advisory Note: strictly not for publication\nCurrent LIBOR trials\nFormer Citigroup and UBS Trader Tom Hayes has been charged with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud. These charges arise from the on-going LIBOR investigation. A Plea and Case Management Hearing is listed for the 21st October at Southwark Crown Court. Two other defendants charged with LIBOR related offences, Terry Farr and James Gilmour, will also be appearing on that date.\nEditors and publishers are reminded of their responsibilities under the Contempt of Court Act 1981.The Attorney General is conscious that this case will be of particular interest to City and financial journalists who may be less familiar with the law of contempt then colleagues who more regularly report on the criminal courts. The Attorney General asks that editors and publishers take steps to ensure all online and hard copy editions of their publications avoid any commentary or reporting which may pose a risk of breaching the Contempt of Court Act.\nIn particular, the Attorney General draws attention to the risks in publishing material that asserts or assumes, expressly or implicitly, the guilt of an accused person or that otherwise interferes with the administration of justice in this case \u2013 such as by pre-empting the decision of the trial Judge or Judges as to the evidence to be called before the jury.\nEditors and publishers should take legal advice to ensure they are in a position to fully comply with the obligations they are subject to under the Contempt of Court Act 1981.\nIronically you can read the names that the Wall Street Journal were forced to pull from their website by a Court Order in the bastion of freedom that is China. They are in the print edition of the WSJ Asia Edition..\nmdi-tag-outline Freedom of the Press Media Guido WSJ\nmdi-timer October 18 2013 @ 11:11 mdi-share-variant mdi-twitter mdi-facebook mdi-whatsapp mdi-telegram mdi-linkedin mdi-email mdi-printer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BMW returns to Le Mans\nOctober 7, 2016 by: Glen Smale | Leave a Comment\nIn the pit garage before the start of the 2010 Le Mans 24-hour race \u2013 the #78 BMW M3 GT (BMW Motorsport) with drivers: J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller, Augusto Farfus and Uwe Alzen\nIt was announced last week that BMW's Board of Management has decided to 'strategically realign' its motorsport activities. The pillars on which their motorsport programme will rest, will include: DTM, the FIA WEC, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IWSC), FIA Formula E, customer race programmes in GT3 and GT4 categories, and the Dakar Rally. That is quite a wide-ranging set of racing platforms on which to be active, but those words \u2013 BMW returns to Le Mans \u2013 is what interests us.\nOn the grid before the start of the 2010 Le Mans 24-Hour race \u2013 the #79 BMW M3 GT with graphic design by Jeff Koons. The drivers were: Andy Priaulx, Dirk M\u00fcller and Dirk Werner\nThe plan is for BMW to enter the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018, the highlight of which is of course is the 24-hour race in Le Mans. BMW claimed overall victory there in 1999 with the open prototype BMW V12 LMR, but since then the company has only raced at Le Mans in 2010 and 2011. BMW's adventure to Le Mans in 2011 resulted in a third place finish for their M3 GT in the LM GTE class.\nThe #78 BMW M3 GT driven by J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller, Augusto Farfus and Uwe Alzen completes the first lap of the 2010 Le Mans 24-Hour race\n\"Starting with the 2018 season, we want to further expand our activities in GT racing and compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship, as well as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship,\" BMW Motorsport director Jens Marquardt said. \"This obviously also includes our return to Le Mans, which we are particularly looking forward to. The way the WEC has developed so well makes us confident that there is a big future for GT racing. This is also the motivation behind our further expansion in the customer racing sector. Our range is already spearheaded by a successful representative, in the form of the BMW M6 GT3. As of 2018, we will also be excellently represented by the BMW M4 GT4 in the GT4 class, which is currently experiencing something of a boom.\"\nThe #79 BMW M3 GT of Andy Priaulx, Dirk M\u00fcller and Dirk Werner unfortunately dropped out of the 2010 Le Mans 24-Hour race after just 53 laps\nAn uprated M6 GT LM is in action in the IMSA series with special permission from the race organisers and the other manufacturers. At this stage though, BMW is not saying anything more about the likely new WEC contender, but the GTE racer will be a replacement for the M6 GT3. The new racer will most likely be based on the common chassis platform shared by the 5-, 6-, and 7-Series cars, but the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show would be a good event to mark in your diaries, as we might get to see something in the metal.\nThe #15 BMW V12 LMR of Joachim Winkelhock, Pierluigi Martini and Yannick Dalmas finished the 1999 Le Mans 24-Hour race on the top step of the podium, this being BMW's only Le Mans victory\nBy way of a short (recent) history lesson, BMW competed at Le Mans in 1998 and 1999. In the first of those years, the 580bhp V12 LM Patrick Head-designed racer was entered by Schnitzer Motorsport. Piloted by the extremely experienced driver trios of Hans-Joachim Stuck\/Steve Soper\/Tom Kristensen and Pierluigi Martini\/Joachim Winkelhock\/Johnny Cecotto, great things were expected. Unfortunately, both cars were out inside the four-hour mark. The following year it was a bit different. In the hands of Joachim Winkelhock\/Pierluigi Martini\/Yannick Dalmas, the #15 BMW romped home the winner.\nBMW was back at Le Mans in 2011 with a two-car assault. Here the #55 BMW M3 GT of Augusto Farfus, J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Dirk Werner negotiates the Ford Chicane\nThe next time that BMW entered Le Mans was in 2010. The #78 car was driven by J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller\/Augusto Farfus\/Uwe Alzen and qualified in seventh place, while the #79 car in the hands of Andy Priaulx\/Dirk M\u00fcller\/Dirk Werner qualified in twelfth place. The #79 car was the latest in a line of BMW Art Cars with artist Jeff Koons designing the graphics. The #78 car finished sixth in class, while the #79 car dropped out after just 53 laps. This was the last year of the GT2 class, the following season would see the GTE PRO and AM classes replacing the GT2 class, while GT1 disappeared altogether.\nThe #56 BMW M3 GT driven by Andy Priaulx, Dirk M\u00fcller and Joey Hand approaches the Dunlop Chicane during the 2011 Le Mans 24-Hour race\nIn 2011 BMW announced its intentions in no uncertain terms, when the #55 and #56 cars qualified first and third in the GTE PRO class. In the race, the #56 car in the hands of Andy Priaulx\/Dirk M\u00fcller\/Joey Hand crossed the line third in class giving BMW a much-deserved podium place. The #55 car driven by Augusto Farfus\/J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller\/Dirk Werner posted a DNF, bowing out after 276 laps with driveshaft related damage.\nThe #55 BMW M3 GT of Augusto Farfus, J\u00f6rg M\u00fcller and Dirk Werner retired after 246 laps in the 2011 Le Mans 24-Hour race with mechanical problems\nShould any further news regarding the new WEC racer come our way in the interim, we will be sure to bring this to your attention.\nSecond time lucky for Andy Priaulx and Dirk M\u00fcller, as together with Joey Hand, they brought the #56 BMW M3 GT home in third place in the GTE PRO class in the 2011 Le Mans 24-Hour race\nWritten by: Glen Smale\nPhotos by: Virtual Motorpix\/Glen Smale and BMW Motorsport\nSave article as PDF\nCategories: Automotive Photography, Car Racing Tags: 24-Hour, BMW, Le Mans, M3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Angela Booker\na1booker@ucsd.edu\nYouth Civic and Political Participation; Learning in Informal Settings; Media and Technology for Learning; Mathematics in Context; Parent Advocacy; Anthropology and Education; Qualitative Research Methods\nAngela Booker is currently studying ways youth, families, and schools make use of media and technology for participation, learning, and community development. She is particularly concerned with addressing barriers that diminish access to public participation among underrepresented and disenfranchised communities. She uses ethnographic, qualitative, and design-based research methods to examine typical and emerging practices where youth and adults work together (and at times, in conflict). Collaborations with youth, community partners, educators, and scholars form the basis of her work.\nPh.D. in Education, Stanford University, 2007\nNu\u00f1ez-Janes, M., Thornburg, A., & Booker, A. (2017) Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.\nVossoughi, S. & Booker, A. (2017). \"Transcultural Prefigurations: Reflections on Dynamic Relations between Local Movements and Social Movements.\" Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 48(3), 225-228.\nBooker, A. (2017) \"Contingent authority and youth influence: When youth councils can wield influence in public institutions.\" Revista de Investigaci\u00f3n Educativa, 35(2).\nBooker, A. (2016). \"Ethical Commitments in Community-Based Research with Youth.\" Mind, Culture, and Activity. 23(1), 15-27.\nBooker, A. & Goldman, S. (2016) \"Participatory Design Research as a Practice for Systemic Repair: Doing Hand-in-Hand Math Research with Families.\" Cognition and Instruction, 34(3).\nPower and privilege in the learning sciences: Critical and sociocultural theories of learning. (2016) Eds. Booker, A., & Esmonde, I. Taylor & Francis.\nBooker, A., Montgomery-Block, K., Scott, Z., Reyes, b., & Onyewuenyi, A. (2011). \"Public scholarship within an urban school district: A community and university partnership approach to service-learning.\" Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 1, 67-87.\nBooker, A. (2010). \"Framing youth civic participation: Technical, pragmatic, and political learning.\" In L. Lin, H. Varenne, & E. W. Gordon, (Eds.) Educating comprehensively: Varieties of educational experiences (209-231). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.\nGoldman, S., & Booker, A. (2009). \"Making Math a Definition of the Situation: Families as Sites for Mathematical Practices.\" Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 40(4), 369-387.\nGoldman, S., Booker, A., & McDermott, M. (2007). \"Mixing the digital, social, and cultural: Learning, identity, and agency in youth participation.\" In D. Buckingham. (Ed.) Youth, identity, and digital media (185-206). MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning.\nGoldman, S., Mercier, E. M., & Booker, A. (2009). \"Partnering with K-12 educators in collaborative design of learning technology.\" In C. DiGiano, S. Goldman, & M. Chorost. (Eds.) Educating Learning Technology Designers (62-79). New York, NY: Routledge.\nBooker, A., Goldman, S., & Mercier, E. M. (2008). \"Interdisciplinarity in learning technology design courses.\" In C. DiGiano, S. Goldman, & M. Chorost. (Eds.) Educating learning technology designers (122-144). New York, NY: Routledge.\nJan Hawkins Early Career Award for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies, Division C \u2013 Learning and Instruction of the American Educational Research Association, 2013\nFellow, UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (2012)\nCouncil on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Presidential Fellow (2010)\nCouncil on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2009\nIBM Distinguished Student Research Award, 2003\nStanford University School of Education Nicoll Fellowship and Research Award, 2002\nMorana Ala\u010d\nBoatema Boateng\nLisa Cartwright\nMatilde C\u00f3rdoba Azc\u00e1rate\nZeinabu Davis\nAndrew deWaard\nFernando Dom\u00ednguez Rubio\nAlexander Fattal\nGary Fields\nBrian Goldfarb\nDaniel Hallin\nErin T. Hill\nRobert Horwitz\nLilly Irani\nCaroline Jack\nShawna Kidman\nDaniel Martinico\nCarol Padden\nThomas R. Schmidt\nDavid Serlin\nChristo Sims\nStefan Tanaka\nLillian Walkover\nElana Zilberg","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Zaratan | Dirty Factual Statements About Japanese Women Unveiled\nDirty Factual Statements About Japanese Women Unveiled\nThe most important job here is staying sincere and sincere with Vietnamese brides. Minato-ku joshi (\u6e2f\u533a\u5973\u5b50), is a word that seems to have gained momentum within the final year or so. These are ladies\u2014principally university students and people of their early 20s\u2014who love spending time in Minato Ward, some of the costly locations to reside in Japan. By Minato Ward, I mean the stylish neighborhoods of Roppongi, Azabu Juban, Nishi-Azabu and Aoyama, where the so-referred to as excessive spec guys\"\u2014properly-educated, good-looking males who earn lots, equivalent to enterprise owners, medical doctors or elite salarymen working at massive-name corporations\u2014stay, work and celebration night after night. Minato-ku joshi's sole goal in life is to be around these men, utilizing their youth, magnificence, and wit to get what they want\u2014be it free dinner at excessive-class restaurants, costly presents corresponding to designer handbags and jewellery, or connections with celebrities and other wealthy and famous guys.\nThey are usually very shy and well mannered, it is laborious for them to say no,\" however that does not imply that they are empty. The ladies there are not nearly as profession-oriented as Western ladies, but additionally they don't beauty to be their only benefit. So, if you're searching for a woman with a rich internal world, a Japanese bride could also be an ideal choice for you.\nOtsuka also writes that the lives the women built in America have been interrupted by World Warfare II, when over 100 thousand Japanese and Japanese People from the west coast were relocated into internment camps. Japanese women use quality broad-spectrum sunscreens to dam both UVA and UVB rays, and meticulously observe the use directions \u2014 placing on too little may very well be as unhealthy or worse than putting on too much.\nThree Critical Steps You've To Take Before Getting Japanese Woman\nRegardless that numerous animal species shed tears, emotional crying is a uniquely human activity Whatever the cause behind it, many individuals consider that expressing one's feelings in this means could be each cathartic and healthy. In Japan, entrepreneur Hiroki Terai has even adopted this perception as a enterprise strategy. He's the founding father of a bunch crying service that encourages individuals to cry collectively while a handsome weeping boy\" wipes their tears away.\nJapanese Image Brides at Angel Island in 1919. As breast most cancers rates in Japan creep nearer to Western, it is mutually beneficial that oncologists in Japan and the U.S. have a strong relationship. The Japanese are typically honest individuals. I am a Tokyo-based japan hot women journalist, former columnist for Barron's and Bloomberg and creator of Japanization: What the World Can Study from Japan's Lost A long time.\" My journalism awards include the 2010 Society of American Business Editors and Writers prize for commentary.\nFurthermore, it's best to verify if the person possesses been via any bridal ceremony. For instance , there are brides who've been by means of a bachelors and master's degree programs. You can even verify if the individual has went to an abroad college. Varied web sites give totally different services and products like Exhausting anodized cookware brides by way of Asia. The best part regarding trying to find Western brides is that there are various web sites that present totally free providers. It's important to examine intended for various websites.\nAfter carrying the shiromuku throughout the ceremony, brides change their all-white kimono for one that is called irouchikake. Each man looks for different features in a woman, and here it's all up to you. Japanese wives have good character traits that the majority males like and you'll be taught extra about every of them beneath.\nThe Heian interval of Japanese history marked the culmination of its classical period, when the huge imperial court docket established itself and its tradition in Heian-ky\u014d (fashionable Kyoto ). Heian society was organized by an elaborate system of rank , and the purpose of marriage was to provide kids who would inherit the best attainable rank from the perfect-placed lineage It was neither ceremonial nor necessarily permanent. 2 Essentially the most weddings had been in eto (Modern day tokyo).\nMarie Kondo is a Japanese creator who has impressed a movement with one thing round four million followers (primarily based on guide sales) for her KonMari\" technique of organizing and de-cluttering. The KonMari methodology encourages people to ask themselves if their belongings spark pleasure.\" She was declared considered one of TIME Magazine's one hundred Most Influential individuals\" in 2015.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: aluminum smelting\nTrimet Commissions New Casting Machine\nTrimet Aluminium SE expanded its production capacity for aluminum sows with the installation of a new casting machine at its smelter in Hamburg, Germany. The facility can now cast around 45,000 tonnes of the aluminum sows \u2014 almost doubling capacity. \"The new casting machine allows us to respond even more flexibly to our customers' needs [\u2026]\nAlcoa to Restart Aluminum Smelting Capacity in Australia and Brazil\nAlcoa Corporation plans to restart curtailed capacity at its smelters in Australia and Brazil. In addition to restarting capacity, the company is working to improve the sustainability of the sites by increasing the use of renewable energy. Portland, Australia Alcoa plans to restart 35,000 tonnes of capacity per year, which had been idled in 2009, [\u2026]\nElysis Moves Toward Commercial Demonstration of Its Carbon Free Aluminum Technology\nElysis, the joint venture between Rio Tinto and Alcoa, has successfully produced aluminum without any direct greenhouse emissions using its proprietary inert anode technology at its Industrial Research and Development Center in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. According to the company, this marks a significant milestone in moving toward a full industrial cell design at a size [\u2026]\nCentury Aluminum to Expand Low-Carbon Billet Production in Iceland\nCentury Aluminum Company started construction of a new low-carbon billet casthouse at its Nor\u00f0ur\u00e1l Grundartangi smelter in Iceland. The new $120 million value-added casthouse will be able to produce low-carbon Natur-Al\u2122 billet, as well as increase production of primary foundry alloys. \"We are very excited to bring billet production to Grundartangi and, beginning in 2024, [\u2026]\nRio Tinto and Carbfix Partner to Implement Carbon Capture and Storage\nRio Tinto signed an MOU with Carbfix through which the two companies will partner to implement a technology for capturing carbon and permanently storing it underground at the ISAL aluminum smelter in Iceland. Called the Coda Terminal, this will be the world's first carbon mineral storage hub \u2014 making ISAL the first smelter where carbon [\u2026]\nTrimet Commissions New Casting Machine at Its Voerde Smelter\nTrimet Aluminium SE commissioned a new casting machine for aluminum sows at its aluminum smelter in Voerde, Germany. Prior to this, the smelter delivered 99.9% pure aluminum in liquid form to its local customers and the Trimet foundry in Essen, Germany. Now, the site is able to produce its own block metal. \"The casting machine [\u2026]\nElysis Began Construction of Its Commercial-Scale Inert Anode Cells\nElysis, the joint venture company led by Alcoa and Rio Tinto, started construction on the first commercial-scale prototype cells using its proprietary inert anode technology. The demonstration cells are being installed at Rio Tinto's Alma smelter in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The new technology is said to eliminate all direct greenhouse gases from the aluminum smelting process. [\u2026]\nRusal to Transform into Two Separate Companies\nUC Rusal, a metals segment of EN+ Group, is pursuing a demerger of its higher carbon assets in order to form two businesses with separate strategies. The move is inline with the company's ambitious environmental goals and strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, while continuing to grow its share of value-added products (VAP). Rusal [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"I have said it a lot of times and I say again right now. Africa is not named after Scipio Africanus. Scipio Africanus was the Roman general who engineered the defeat of Carthage, which was in the country we now know as Tunisia. The name Scipio Africanus means \"conqueror of Africa.\" That alone implies that the term Africa was in use before his time. We should stop repeating such a foolish and inaccurate and insulting comment. Whatever the name Africa means and wherever the word comes from, it was not named after a Roman general. Runoko Rashidi","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Telemundo Finds Itself Out of Balance\nBy MRC Latino Staff | January 31, 2018 11:18 PM EST\nOnce upon a time, Telemundo sought to answer a need in the marketplace by taking a \"Just the News\" approach, to critical and ratings acclaim. But it appears that the network is eschewing that approach in favor of more one-sided coverage, especially when it comes to immigration.\nNYT Freaks: Says EPA Cuts Will Harm Defenseless States\nBy Clay Waters | April 12, 2017 9:03 AM EDT\nHiboko Tabuchi of the New York Times wrote a supposed news story lamenting the Trump administration's proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency. It was presented both in headline and tone as an editorial: \"What's at Stake in the Cuts Proposed for the E.P.A.\" The photo selection really rubbed in the emotional aspect of the administration's brutal (proposed) cuts: the large set of four pictures include one showing a man with a hard-hat that spells FLINT, his face downcast, holding a young girl on his shoulder, right above one of a fleet of black security cars for new EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. Poor vs. privileged?\nVIDEO Eco-Rioters Burn, Shoot and Throw Bombs; CBS Sees Only 'Activists'\nBy Scott Whitlock | October 28, 2016 12:28 PM EDT\nViolent rioters on Thursday burned a bridge, shot at police and threw bombs in order to stop the building of a pipeline in North Dakota. Yet, the journalists at CBS This Morning saw only \"activists\" and kept the focus on their plight. Reporter Barry Petersen interviewed four of the radical protesters, but just one representative attempting to stop the chaos. He also ignored the Molotov cocktails being hurled at law enforcement.\nEnvironmentalists Escalate Protest to 'Dangerous' Pipeline Tampering\nBy Julia A. Seymour | October 12, 2016 3:45 PM EDT\nWhile many activists fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline have been exposed and even arrested for trespassing on the property, Climate Direct Action turned to criminal eco-terrorism in \"solidarity\" on Oct. 11.\nClimate change activists disrupted crude oil flowing through multiple pipelines by tampering with pipelines in four states simultaneously, according to Reuters. Enbridge Inc. pipelines in Minnesota had to be temporarily shut down as well as Spectra Energy's Express Pipeline in Montana.\n'Supergirl' Finally Reveals What the 'S' Means (It's Not 'Super')\nBy Karen Townsend | November 3, 2015 1:06 AM EST\nDespite succumbing to the liberal mindset that crude oil is the enemy of the planet at the beginning of episode 2 \"Stronger Together,\" CBS' Supergirl offers an important lesson in teamwork.\nMaddow Won't Ask if Pipelines Safer Than Rail for Transporting Oil\nBy Jack Coleman | April 19, 2015 9:08 PM EDT\nSometimes the obvious eludes us. And all too often on MSNBC, the obvious appears deliberately avoided.\nCase in point -- Rachel Maddow devoted a significant portion of her show on Thursday, two full segments, to railway accidents involving crude oil. In the last year alone, Maddow pointed out, trains carrying oil have derailed in Galena, Ill., Mount Carbon, W.V., and Lynchburg, Va., igniting huge fires that burned for days and forcing evacuations of local residents. Amazingly, no one was killed in the three incidents she cited, but a derailment and oil fire in Quebec in July 2013 claimed 47 lives.\nAP, NYT AWOL on FCC's Newsroom Snooping Proposal\nBy Tom Blumer | February 21, 2014 11:59 PM EST\nOn Thursday, Kyle Drennen at NewsBusters noted that none of the three broadcast networks had covered the intent of the Federal Communications Commission, in the words of Byron York at the Washington Examiner, to \"send government contractors into the nation's newsrooms to determine whether journalists are producing articles, television reports, Internet content, and commentary that meets the public's 'critical information needs.'\"\nGiven that the nets take many of their new prioritization cues from the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, and to a lesser extent from the New York Times, it shouldn't surprise anyone that searches at the self-described \"essential global news network\" and at the Old Gray Lady indicate that neither outlet has covered it. The FCC has supposedly backtracked, but not really, as Katy Bachman at AdWeek noted yesterday (bolds are mine throughout this post):\nExxon Mobil-Hater Rachel Maddow Now Sponsored By...Exxon Mobil!\nBy Noel Sheppard | December 21, 2013 4:56 PM EST\nIt is quite possible that no American company has received more criticism from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow than Exxon Mobil.\nDespite this, at the beginning of a commercial break of her program Wednesday, an unidentified announcer said, \"The Rachel Maddow Show is brought to you by Exxon Mobil\" (video follows with commentary):\nCBS Report Mirrors Left-Wing Group's Pipeline Press Release\nBy Kristine Marsh | November 19, 2013 3:24 PM EST\nSince TransCanada proposed building the Keystone XL Pipeline in 2009, liberal actors, environmentalists, and the media have attacked the plan. Four years later, the media continue to work against the company that proposed building it, TransCanada and this time they had help.\nOn Nov.12, CBS \"Evening News\" did a segment on repairs being made by TransCanada to the recently built section of the Keystone Pipeline. That story was essentially a copycat summary of a report released that day from the anti-pipeline group, Public Citizen. CBS not only relied on the group as its only experts in the matter, but also interviewed the same farmer and former TransCanada employee cited in the group's report.\nNBC's Curry: U.S. to Blame for 'Toxic Legacy' of Oil Drilling in the Amazon\nBy Kyle Drennen | May 3, 2013 2:54 PM EDT\nPreviewing an upcoming story for NBC's Rock Center on Friday's Today, correspondent Ann Curry warned that tribes of the Amazon rain forest \"are sharpening their spears and preparing their blow guns to fight Ecuador's new plan to auction as much as 8 million acres of the rain forest for oil drilling.\" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]\nShe then cited Boston University biology professor Kelly Swing arguing that \"America, a top importer of oil from Ecuador, shares responsibility for this coming conflict....And the toxic legacy of past oil drilling in other parts of the rain forest.\" A sound bite played of Swing declaring: \"We're definitely guilty in this story.\"\nActress Rosario Dawson Argues Keystone Pipeline's for China, Not for the 'Benefit of the American People'\nBy Tim Graham | February 18, 2013 7:50 AM EST\nMRCTV's Joe Schoffstall caught up with liberal actress Rosario Dawson yesterday at the Washington rally against the Keystone XL pipeline. Dawson insisted President Obama \"could and should do more\" for green energy, and the old \"brown\" kind somehow doesn't create jobs.\n\"This pipeline is not for the benefit of the American people,\" she said. \"This pipeline is so that we can start selling to China and other places. Which they would say was about creating some jobs and it's about bringing in money, but most of that money isn't trickling down to anybody.\" She does favor hemp oil. (Video below)\nFact Checking the Fact-Challenged Obama Auto Bailout Czar\nBy Seton Motley | October 18, 2012 8:37 AM EDT\nEx-Barack Obama Administration $82 Billion Auto Bailout Czar Steve Rattner has a bit of a problem telling the truth.\nWhat Rattner does not have is a problem with the Jurassic Press Media calling him on his serial flights of factual fancy.\nNorah at Night: Incoming CBS Evening News Anchor's Most Lib Moments\nNBC, CBS Ignore Antifa's Attempt to Burn Down Migrant Detention Center\nDeutsch Wants Hot Talk of 'Fascist' Trump, Makes a Claim That's an LOL\nBozell & Graham Column: Colbert Cartoon Crumbles Truth\nCBS Somehow DOESN'T Call Tom Steyer Progressive or Liberal\nNewsBuster Picks\nTweets by NewsBusterPicks","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GS1 Hong Kong Launches Quality Food Scheme+ to Boost Traceability, Food Safety Control and Management for Local Food Industry\nHong Kong, 8 September, 2020 - GS1 Hong Kong launches a brand new \"Quality Food Scheme+\" programme to encourage food & beverage enterprises to adopt more stringent measures in accordance with internationally accredited standards in terms of management, control and traceability, for example identifying critical control points along the food supply chain, which helps to enhance food safety and instil trust in consumers.\nTriple Confidence Using a Trio of International Standards\nThe Centre for Food Safety has issued more than 75 food alerts and results of sample with irregularity since the start of this year. The foods not in compliance cover seafood, vegetables, sauce, etc., from Australia, China, England, France, Thailand, New Zealand and others. They were either stopped sale, removed from shelves or recalled by the traders. While food safety incidents happen regularly, citizens have been extra cautious as the COVID-19 persists.\nTo help enterprises cope with the new normal in the midst of epidemic, GS1 HK launches \"Quality Food Scheme+\" (the new Scheme) with SGS HK as the audit partner. Under the new Scheme, participating enterprises are assessed based on more comprehensive internationally accredited food safety standards, including GS1 Global Traceability Standard (GTS), ISO 22000 - Food Safety Management System Standard, as well as HACCP \u2013 Food Safety Control Standard.\nIn response to the latest infection, the new Scheme report will provide companies with disease prevention advice, including industry best practices and how food safety management and system is uplifted through proper technology adoption. For example, enterprise may be advised to use appropriate sensing and analysis technologies for real time monitoring of the food processing operation so as to strengthen the risk management control and enhance food safety.\n\"SGS Hong Kong is delighted to collaborate with GS1 Hong Kong to be the audit partner of the new 'Quality Food Scheme+'. We help food enterprises to engineer food source control, food operations and management in accordance with internationally accredited standards; identify and analyse the potential food safety hazards and risk, from raw materials to products, from manufacturing to handling process; establish control points and formulate monitoring system. It helps enterprises to reduce and control risk, ensure product quality and food safety, protect consumers' health, build and safeguard food organisation's market integrity, and ultimately enhance competitiveness.\" said Ben Tsang, Managing Director of SGS Hong Kong.\nEnhance Brand Image and Win Consumer Trust\nWhile the existing \"Quality Food Scheme\" adopts GTS (Global Traceability Standard) as the main criteria for assessment of food across the supply chain, which is particularly useful for product recall management; the new Scheme takes reference to additional global standards including ISO 22000 and HACCP on top of GTS, and provides participating enterprise with an all-rounded review to enhance its current system and practices.\nIndependent third parties, GS1 Hong Kong and SGS Hong Kong, will perform the audit for the participating enterprises, which help them to build brand image, reputation and win consumer trust. The enterprises will also receive a full report with recommendations for improvement, helping to develop a roadmap for better food safety management with its system and hence pursuing excellence. Please visit https:\/\/www.gs1hk.org\/quality-food-scheme for the details of the \"Quality Food Scheme\" and the \"Quality Food Scheme+\" for 2021.\nMay Chung, Chairperson of Hong Kong Food and Beverage Industry Advisory Board of GS1 HK, and General Manager of Nestl\u00e9 Hong Kong Ltd., is glad to see the launch of the new Scheme. \"The food and food services industry is facing many challenges, primarily the public trust in food safety. The launch of the new Scheme is a perfect opportunity for the industry to be appraised by 3 international standards, improve food traceability as well as enhance food safety management and control throughout the supply chain. When consumers see the new Scheme logo, they feel safer to buy and consume.\"\nGS1 HK has organised \"Quality Food Scheme\" for 5 years, and over 20 enterprises are recognised every year to commend their outstanding performance in food traceability, supporting food safety in Hong Kong. Please refer to Appendix 1 for the recognised company list this year.\nBeing recognised in \"Quality Food Scheme\" for 3 consecutive years, Tong Shun Hing Poultry (HK) Co. Ltd. also supports the launch of the new Scheme. Patrick Tong, General Manager of the company said, \"As a major importer of chilled poultry in Hong Kong and Macau with 10 siu mei restaurants, food safety has always been our focus. The Scheme not only recognised our efforts, but also inspired us to set higher goals, such as enhancing information transparency. We have decided to step up to join the new Scheme, to allow more extensive review on our food safety management and pre-monitoring system, which I believe will elevate our standard in that regard.\"\nAnna Lin, Chief Executive of GS1 HK, noted, \"It is a pleasure to see such tenacity in the food industry to uphold food safety in Hong Kong. In a difficult time like this, joining 'Quality Food Scheme+' not only helps companies comply to regulations, but also rebuilds consumer trust and motivates repeat purchase once the situation gets better. Apart from the 2 Schemes, we also offer food safety and traceability training, consultation and track-and-trace solutions. We strive to collaborate with the industry to raise the bar for food safety in Hong Kong, so consumers will come back with a peace of mind.\"\nRecognised Companies of Quality Food Traceability Scheme 2020 (in alphabetical order)\nDiamond Enterprise\nCaf\u00e9 de Coral Holdings Ltd.\nFrieslandCampina (Hong Kong) Limited\nHop Hing Oils & Fats (Hong Kong) Ltd.\nMaxim's Caterers Ltd.\nNestl\u00e9 Hong Kong Ltd.\nSims Trading Co. Ltd.\nSwire Coca-Cola HK Ltd.\nTong Shun Hing Poultry (HK) Co. Ltd.\nTsit Wing International Holdings Ltd.\nVitasoy International Holdings Ltd.\nWyeth Nutrition Hong Kong\nGold Enterprise\nAEON Stores (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd.\nDCH Food Mart\nDCH Logistics Co. Ltd.\nInternational Gourmet Foods Ltd.\nLorence & Company Ltd.\nTai Luen Coffee Company Ltd.\nSilver Enterprise\nAquaculture Technologies Asia Ltd.\nStarjet Trading Limited\nCorinna Fung\nEmail: corinnafung@gs1hk.org\nWill Ip\nEmail: willip@gs1hk.org\nAbout GS1 Hong Kong\nFounded by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 1989, GS1 Hong Kong is the local chapter of GS1\u00ae, a not-for-profit, standards organisation that develops and drives adoption of easy-to-implement global standards for business to uniquely identify, accurately capture and automatically share vital information about products, locations and assets. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, GS1 has over 110 national chapters in 150 countries.\nGS1 Hong Kong's mission is to empower business to grow and to improve efficiency, safety, authenticity and sustainability across multiple sectors and facilitates commerce connectivity through the provision of a full spectrum of platforms, solutions and services based on our global standards. We provide a trusted foundation for accurate, sharable, searchable and linkable data. Our EPC standard lays the foundation for IoT, powering a range of IoT-based services and applications. We are helping industry to meet the challenges of omni-channel commerce and create a seamless customer experience. By engaging with communities of trading partners, industry organisations, government, and technology providers, we are fostering a collaborative ecosystem and aiming for \"Smarter Business, Better Life\".\nCurrently, GS1 Hong Kong has around 8,000 corporate members covering close to 20 industries including retail consumer goods, food and food services, healthcare, apparel, logistics as well as information and technology.\nFor more information about GS1 Hong Kong, please visit www.gs1hk.org.\nmedia@gs1hk.org\nOne Code.Bridging the World of Business and Consumers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dynasty 18: The Abyss\nBy: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles\nNarrated by: Terry Wale\nSeries: Morland Dynasty, Book 18\nDynasty 1: The Founding\nNarrated by: Christopher Scott\nThis wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland and a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty and in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life, we follow their fortunes through war and peace, political upheaval and social revolution, times of pestilence and periods of plenty, and through the vicissitudes which afflict every family - love and passion, envy and betrayal, birth and death, great fortune and miserable penury.\nAddictive - and 19 books in the series... so far..\nBy Sceptical Shopper on 07-03-13\nGoodbye Piccadilly\nWar at Home, 1914\nNarrated by: Penelope Freeman\nIn 1914, Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, nineteen and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter.\nLovely Story - Superb Narrator\nBy Violet on 10-10-15\nThe Conquest\nBy: Elizabeth Chadwick\nNarrated by: Charlotte Strevens\nWhen a comet appears in the sky over England in 1066, Ailith, a young Saxon wife, feels sure that it can only bode well. Yet within a year, Ailith's joy turns to heartache as her husband and her child are taken from her and the conquering Normans advance. Ailith's grief turns to love for a brief period with a handsome Norman invader. She bears him one daughter, but in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings she discovers a betrayal she cannot forgive....\nThe Summer Queen\nEleanor of Aquitaine Trilogy, Book 1\nNarrated by: Katie Scarfe\nEleanor of Aquitaine's story is legendary. She is an icon who has fascinated readers for over 800 years. But the real Eleanor remains elusive - until now. Based on the most up-to-date research, best-selling novelist Elizabeth Chadwick brings Eleanor's magnificent story to life, as never before. Young, vibrant, privileged, Eleanor's future is golden as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, her childhood ends abruptly.\nBeautifully written & a joy to listen to.\nBy Diane on 26-07-13\nRoss Poldark\nPoldark, Book 1\nBy: Winston Graham\nNarrated by: Oliver J. Hembrough\nTired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict, and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin. But his sympathy for the destitute miners and farmers of the district leads him to rescue a half-starved urchin girl from a fairground brawl and take her home - an act which alters the whole course of his life....\nCan't tell...\nBy Amanda Isbell on 13-04-15\nThe Nightingale Girls\nBy: Donna Douglas\nThree very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora leaves her overcrowded, squalid working-class home for a better life. But has she got what it takes to keep up with other, better-educated girls? And will her hated stepfather ever let her go? Helen is born for the job; her brother is a doctor, her all-powerful mother a hospital trustee. But will Helen's secret misery be her downfall? An aristocratic rebel, Millie's carefree attitude will find her up in front of Matron again and again. Will she ever care enough to make a nurse? Or will she go back to the glamorous life she was born to?\nWhat a surprise!\nBy Enquiring Mind on 03-04-15\nIt is 1833. The industrial age is sweeping through England, and the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken: a railway line from Liverpool to London. At Morland Place, Nicholas had hoped that his brother, Benedict, had been banished forever, but railway fever has brought Benedict back to Yorkshire as an engineer on the Leeds & Selby line. It is a lonely life and he fears he will never be wealthy enough to marry his new love, Miss Fleetham.\nNicholas fears that Benedict is not only a threat to his inheritance but to Morland Place itself, as plans to bring the railway to York will desecrate the estate. The conflict between the brothers mirrors the nation's battle between the old and new, but the Morland feud seems certain to end in tragedy and no-one the victor.\n\u00a91995 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (P)2010 Isis Publishing Ltd.\nThe Straw Men\nNo Tears for the Lost\nDynasty 4: The Oak Apple\nBeautifully narrated, as always, and an excellent story. please don't stop - take us unto the 21st century.\nHollace\nGreat Series\nYes, I have already recommended this series to 2 friends. Well written, and great narration too.\nWhen do we get another Dynasty book release? I want more!!!\nClose to the best in the series\nThis was a really fun read, but they're all good.\nI am starting #19 and REALLY want to know WHERE the rest of the audio books in the series are or if they will be done!\nEngaging and exciting, I do love this series.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"16 Famous Writers And Their Cats\nWhat do Charles Bukowski, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allan Poe have in common? They love cats. Writers and cats go together like salt and pepper, and here are 16 of our favorite pairs.\n1. Ernest Hemingway\n\"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.\"\njfklibrary.org\nErnest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.\n\"One cat just leads to another.\"\n2. Charles Bukowski\nVia grandchild-of-bukowski.tumblr.com\n\"when I am feeling\nall I have to do is\nwatch my cats\nand my\nreturns.\nI study these\ncreatures.\nthey are my\nteachers.\"\n\u2014Charles Bukowski, \"My Cats\"\nVia yourcatwasdelicious.tumblr.com\n\"Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviors. The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.\"\n3. Joyce Carol Oates\nVia writersandkitties.tumblr.com\n\"I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.\"\n4. Neil Gaiman\njournal.neilgaiman.com\n\"'No,' said the cat. 'Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.'\"\n\u2014Neil Gaiman, Coraline\nneil-gaiman.tumblr.com\n\"'Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.' Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly.\"\n\u2014Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book\n5. Allen Ginsberg\n\"I learned a world from each\none whom I loved;\"\n\u2014Allen Ginsberg, \"I learned a world from each\"\n6. Ray Bradbury\nharpercollins.com\n\"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.\"\n\u2014Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing\nralphnelson.com\n7. Doris Lessing\nVia pt.wikinoticia.com\n\"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.\"\n\u2014Doris Lessing, On Cats\n8. Mark Twain\nVia dumpaday.com\n\"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.\"\n\u2014Mark Twain, Who Is Mark Twain?\nbancroft.berkeley.edu\n\"I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.\"\n9. Sylvia Plath\nVia weimarart.blogspot.com\n\"And I a smiling woman.\nI am only thirty.\nAnd like the cat I have nine times to die.\"\n\u2014Sylvia Plath, \"Lady Lazarus\"\n10. Aldous Huxley\n\"'My young friend,' I said, 'if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.'\"\n\u2014Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays\n11. William S. Burroughs\nVia lawrence.com\n\"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.\"\n\u2014William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside\n\"My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.\"\nVia culturalcat.com\n12. Edgar Allan Poe\nbridgemanart.com\nPoe at work under Catalina's eye (litho), Sheldon, Charles Mills (1866-1928) \/ Private Collection \/ \u00a9 Look and Learn \/ The Bridgeman Art Library\n\"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.\"\n13. Hermann Hesse\n\"How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way.\"\n\u2014Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf\n14. T. S. Eliot\neliotsociety.org.uk\n\"When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.\"\n15. Philip K. Dick\n\"Willis, my tomcat, strides silently over the pages of that book, being important as he is, with his long golden twitching tail. Make them understand, he says to me, that animals are really that important right now. He says this, and then eats up all the food we had been warming for our baby. Some cats are far too pushy. The next thing he'll want to do is write SF novels. I hope he does. None of them will sell.\"\nVia american-buddha.com\n16. Jorge Luis Borges\nVia imgur.com\n\"You belong to another time. You are lord\nof a place bounded like a dream.\"\n\u2014Jorge Luis Borges, \"To a Cat\"\nVia pasolininuc.blogspot.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Canada's superclusters meet with EU delegation for signing ceremony\nJune 6, 2019\tFood in Canada\nsupercluster\nThe Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) boosted Canada's trade with the world's second-largest market. Signed in October 2016, CETA entered into force in September 2017.\nNavdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, joined El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska, European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprises, to witness the signing of an administrative arrangement between Canada and the EU to facilitate trans-Atlantic cluster collaboration. Under the arrangement, Canada's five innovation superclusters will have more opportunities to form strategic business partnerships and linkages with cluster organizations and firms in the European Union.\nThe signing ceremony at Humber College in Toronto was held on the sidelines of an EU-Canada cluster matchmaking event. Representatives from all five of Canada's superclusters, Protein Industries, Ocean, Digital Technology, Advanced Manufacturing and SCALE.AI.\nCAFTA applauds Canada's signing of CETA\nFive superclusters will share $950 million\nCETA to come into force by spring 2017\nThermo Fisher Scientific latest metal detector\nStudy finds that majority of Canadians are motivated to reduce single-use plastic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Peanuts 70th Anniversary Exhibition Now Open in Sapporo\n15.August.2021 | ANIME&GAME \/ SPOT\n# Peanuts\n# sapporo\n# Snoopy\nBeginning at Seibu Ikebukuro in December 2019, the \"Snoopy Time Capsule Exhibition\" is celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip all over Japan. Sapporo is the sixth stop on this final tour, and the event will be open until August 23, 2021.\nThe immersive space is divided into time periods, displaying various Peanuts works from the 1950s until the 2000s. Guests can enjoy photo ops featuring beloved characters, and browse limited-time merchandise made especially for the exhibition.\nThe story behind the event is fitting: Snoopy finds a time capsule, and upon opening it, the contents fly out! Together with the Peanuts gang, it's up to visitors to help find each memory made over the past 70 years.\n\u00a9 2021 Peanuts Worldwide LLC www.snoopy.co.jp\nSpecial Exhibition Events\nThe entire Peanuts gang awaits visitors at the entrance, each with their own key.\nThe history of author Charles M. Schulz and the Peanuts characters are presented in a vividly-colored timeline.\nOne exhibit from the 1950s focuses on the unrequited love between Lucy and Schroder.\nAnother from the 1960s takes a look at the many occupations Snoopy has attempted.\nLearn more about Charles M. Schulz while browsing past Peanuts goods, books, and more.\nAnniversary Market\nSnoopy Plushie: \u00a53,850 (Tax Included, limit one per customer)\n70th Anniversary Pin Set: \u00a57,700 (Tax Included)\nAcrylic Key Holder: \u00a5715 Each (Tax Included)\nA4 Clear File (2 designs): \u00a5440 Each (Tax Included)\nSnoopy Plush Badge (2 designs): \u00a5880 Each (Tax Included)\nA6 Notepad (2 designs): \u00a5660 Each (Tax Included)\nMascot Keychain: \u00a51,980 Each (Tax Included, limit one per customer)\nEach ticket purchased for the exhibition includes a special key. By finding 5 pieces of art hidden throughout the venue and using this key, guests will receive a special comic illustration as a gift to take home.\nThe Final Tour is coming to an end soon, so don't miss it!\n\u00a9 2021 Peanuts Worldwide LLC(\u77ed\u7e2e\u5f62 \u00a9 2021 Peanuts)\nNext \u00bb Snow Miku Collaborates with Sanrio's Kuromi to Promote Hokkaido Tourism\nSnoopy Time Capsule Exhibition Final Tour\nRunning: Until August 23, 2021\nLocation: Daimaru Sapporo (7F Hall)\nHours of Admission: 10:00-19:30 (Until 16:30 on August 23)\nOfficial Site: https:\/\/www.snoopy.co.jp\/\n21.December.2022 | ANIME&GAME \/ SPOT\nSnow Miku has teamed up with Sanrio's popular character Kuromi to promote the beautiful prefecture of Hokkaido! A new collection of goods went on sale starting December 14, 2022.\nClear Folder\nPen with Clip\nMini Sign Board\nMini Towel (Set of 2)\nFramed Magnet with Stand\nAcrylic Stand\nAcrylic Keychain\nSilver Foil 2-Layer Magnet\nSnow Miku debuted during the Sapporo Snow Festival in 2010 when an incredible snow sculpture of Hatsune Miku was unveiled. Ever since then, Snow Miku festivals have popped up in Hokkaido each winter, and the character dons costumes designed by popular internet creators.\nKuromi is back this year, with Miku's outfit dyed black and tons of adorable art featuring the rock 'n roll character. The life-size version of Miku was designed by illustrator PiPi, and the chibi character was designed by illustrator Yoi. Between Miku's cute idol energy and Kuromi's edginess, this is the perfect collab for all audiences!\nThe items are available in two versions: Day, featuring Hokkaido's beautiful landscapes covered in snow, and Night, featuring twinkling winter lights.\nDon't miss out on these exclusive items!\nHokkaido Exclusive \u2013 Snow Miku x Kuromi Hokkaido\nAvailable: December 14, 2022\nOfficial Site: https:\/\/snowmiku.com\/\nSnoopy Museum to Open Tasty Exhibition Titled 'What's Your Favorite Food?'\nFollowing the conclusion of the current 'Little Best Friend Woodstock' exhibition, the Snoopy Museum will hold a food-centric event from January 14 until July 9, 2023!\nSelected Works on Display\nPeanuts Comic (January 20, 1991)\nPeanuts Comic (September 6, 1988)\nPeanuts Comic (February 7, 1988)\nPeanuts Comic (September 14, 1954)\nPeanuts Comic (March 27, 1986)\nPeanuts Reprint (Partial \/ January 13, 1973)\nGoods at a Glance\nApproximately 40 rare original drawings of Snoopy and his friends will appear at the exhibition, all focused on the character's favorite foods. Food features prominently in the Peanuts comic strip, whether it be friends eating breakfast or school lunch.\nThe exhibition features items from the collection at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.\nSnoopy loves to eat and loves doughnuts and marshmallows, but absolutely hates coconuts. Of course, the gang loves cookies, and eating lunch while chatting is the highlight of the day! Come enjoy this tasty event in 2023.\n(C) Peanuts Worldwide LLC\nSnoopy Museum Exhibition \u2013 What's Your Favorite Food? ~Food in PEANUTS~\nRunning: January 14 \u2013 July 9, 2023\nClosed on Tuesday, February 21 (Open every other day of the exhibition period)\nSnoopy Tea Brand SNOOTEA Launches Chocola Tea for the Holidays\n15.November.2022 | FASHION \/ FOOD\n# tea\nSince its start in 2007, the Snoopy tea brand SNOOTEA has remained popular with Peanuts fans and tea fans alike. Typically, the brand has sold black tea in cute tins featuring Snoopy and his friends.\nStarting November 7, fans can purchase a special Chocola tea made by tea blender Shuntarou Kumazaki. Blended to suit Japanese water and inspired by the world of Peanuts, it promises to be the perfect flavor for the holidays.\nMade with cacao nibs, the flavor of standard black tea is punctuated with a chocolate aroma. The tea leaves themselves come from India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya, and are blended together in a balanced way to create an appealing taste that will have tea lovers coming back again and again. This blend is also perfect for making milk tea, and fans can even add whipped cream and marshmallows. This tea also goes well with strawberries, oranges, bananas, and other fruits, as well as nuts!\nSnoopy and his friends dressed in winter attire will appear on each tin, adding to the festive holiday spirit. On the online store, customers can also find Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Apple Tea, and other varieties.\nSNOOTEA Chocola Tea\nPrice: \u00a5999 (Tax Included)\nDetails\/Purchase: https:\/\/feuillesbleues.com\/onlineshop\/snootea\n60th Anniversary Sanrio Exhibition: The Beginning of Kawaii to Open at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in February 2023\nThe word 'kawaii' is now commonly used around the world. Sanrio is largely to thank for this, and the beloved company has announced that the 60th Anniversary Sanrio Exhibition will open at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art from February 11 until April 2, 2023. Advance tickets will include a discount and will be available until November 14 online.\n\"Sanrio celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020, and the company continues to share Japan's character culture with fans around the world,\" Sanrio said in a comment. \"Kawaii is now a universal language, and this is very much thanks to the over 450 characters that are part of Sanrio's history, from Hello Kitty to My Melody.\nThis exhibition traces the history of Sanrio and guests can enjoy seeing rare materials including merchandise, publications, and early designs from the company's founding. We want to continue to grow and develop our characters while valuing communication with our fans, ensuring that our adorable characters are loved by generations to come.\"\nThe Sanrio exhibition is something that generations of fans can enjoy, so come immerse yourself in this kawaii world! For more details, visit the official website.\n60th Anniversary Sanrio Exhibition: The Beginning of Kawaii\nRunning: February 11 \u2013 April 2, 2023\nHours: 9:30 \u2013 17:00 (Last entry at 16:30)\nVenue: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (17-chome Kita 1 Jonishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido)\nOfficial Site: https:\/\/stv.jp\/event\/sanrio\nThe World of Peanuts to Take Over Grandberry Park this Winter\nThe limited-time Christmas event 'SNOOPY Merry Colorful Christmas' will be held at the Grandberry Park shopping mall from November 12 until December 25, 2022. The complex is directly connected to Manami-Machida Grandberry Park Station on the Den-en-toshi Line.\nThis year's event is the most colorful one yet, focusing on diversity and individuality. Fans of Snoopy and friends are in for a treat, as the area around Grandberry Park will be illuminated in beautiful colors and decorated with unique Christmas decorations that will excite the whole family.\nColorful Sculpture\nColorful Illuminations\nSnoopy Ice Rink\nSnoopy Happiness Float 2022\nDuring the event period, a giant 8-meter-tall Christmas tree decorated with Peanuts-inspired ornaments will be set up for guests to enjoy. A huge and very colorful sculpture measuring 6 meters across and over 2 meters tall will also welcome visitors to this Christmas wonderland. In addition, colorful lights will be scattered around the entirety of Grandberry Park, and a special Christmas menu filled with cakes and hors d'oeuvres is sure to delight.\nOn December 10, the Snoopy Ice Rink will open at Oasis Plaza, and the Snoopy Happiness Float 2022, a giant Snoopy that has traveled across Japan, will return for another year of fun.\nCome have a fun time this holiday season with Snoopy and friends! A series of events will be held over the next year to market the Colors of Peanuts marketing campaign throughout the country, so keep an eye out for more news!\n*Sample images only.\nSnoopy Merry Colorful Christmas\nRunning: November 12 \u2013 December 25, 2022\nVenue: Grandberry Park\nDetails: https:\/\/gbp.minamimachida-grandberrypark.com\/christmas2022\/\n13th BT21 Cafe to Open in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Sapporo\n29.October.2022 | FASHION \/ FOOD \/ SPOT\n# Oshiage\n# Shibuya\nThe 13th iteration of the BT21 Cafe will open at six venues in five cities around Japan. Fans in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Sapporo will want to visit this exclusive event titled ~MAGICAL TIME~. The first cafe opens in Shibuya on November 3. In celebration of BT21's 5th anniversary, this special cafe is filled with joy and excitement and aims to give fans the best possible experience.\nMagical Tea Time Set\nFood Plate\nFood Plate (7 varieties)\nDessert Plate (7 varieties)\nMagical Milk Tea\nIced Coffee \/ Hot Coffee\nOriginal Goods\nAcrylic Keychain (7 varieties, Random)\nAcrylic Clip (7 varieties, Random)\nSatin Sticker (7 varieties)\nClear Folder (2 varieties)\nHandkerchief (7 varieties)\nMasking Tape \/ Balloon on a Stick\nDolomite Coaster (2 varieties) \/ Mirror (2 varieties)\n[Online Store Exclusive] Acrylic Keychain (7 varieties, Random)\nThe cafe's new menu includes afternoon tea, perfect for warming the body and soul during the cold winter months. The colorful food items and desserts are sure to be a hit on social media, and fans will enjoy the Magical Milk Tea and other dishes inspired by the popular BT21 characters.\nIn addition to new merchandise and bonuses featuring newly-drawn art, a photo spot will welcome guests to the cafe and invite them to celebrate this five-year milestone.\nWhy not take a break from everyday life to enjoy a magical time with these cute characters?\nBT21 Cafe #13 ~MAGICAL TIME~\nVenue\/Dates\n\u25a0Shibuya, Tokyo:\nBOX cafe&space SHIBUYA109\nAddress: SHIBUYA109 B2F (2-29-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)\n\u25a0Oshiage, Tokyo:\nBOX cafe&space Tokyo Solamachi\nRunning: January 13 \u2013 February 19, 2023\nAddress: Tokyo Skytree Town, Solamachi 1F (1-1-2 Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)\n\u25a0Yokohama, Kanagawa:\nCollabo_Index Lumine Yokohama\nRunning: January 13 \u2013 February 5, 2023\nAddress: Lumine Yokohama 6F (2-16-1 Takashima, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa)\n\u25a0Nagoya, Aichi:\nBOX cafe&space Nagoya LACHIC #1\nRunning: December 2, 2022 \u2013 February 5, 2023\nAddress: LACHIC B1F (3-6-1 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi)\n\u25a0Shinsaibashi, Osaka:\nShinsaibashi contact\nAddress: 1-6-24 Kitahorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka\n\u25a0Sapporo, Hokkaido:\nCafe Interlude, Coach & Four Shinakawa\nAddress: 18-chome 3-jo, Kita-ku, Sapporo\nReservations: https:\/\/box-cafe.jp\/\nOpen: November 3, 11:00 \u2013 December 4, 23:59\nhttps:\/\/box-cafe.jp\/online_store\/\nUNIQLO's UT Sweatshirt Collection Features Everything from Pop Culture Icons to Contemporary Art\n19.August.2022 | FASHION\n# Spider-Man\n# UNIQLO\n# UT\nUNIQLO's graphic T-shirt brand UT has revealed some new pieces for its Fall\/Winter 2022 collection! Some new sweatshirts are hitting the market featuring everything from Peanuts and Disney characters to Museums of the World and classic Spider-Man art.\nFrom the world-famous Peanuts comic strip comes a collection of sweatshirts for children and adults! Be sure to grab these adorable designs featuring the daily life of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and friends.\nThe Philosophy of Andy Warhol\nUNIQLO has worked with Andy Warhol's pieces for a number of years, and the latest collection features the powerful messages the artist left through his works. While the words themselves are powerful, the designs are simple and easy to incorporate into any look.\nNew York Pop Icons\nKeith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf were pioneers of New York pop culture in the 1980s. These bold prints are sure to turn heads.\nMuseums of the World Collection\nThe Museums of the World collection of men's shirts features beloved museums like the Tate Modern, the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and more. This valuable collection was made possible by UNIQLO's continued art initiative, as the company has continued to work with museums around the world to share the wonders of art with as many people as possible.\nDisney Dearest Friends\nMany Disney films depict wholesome friendships born from fateful encounters. Keeping the theme of best friends in mind, these sweatshirts feature sweet terms and beautiful typography.\nThe collection is inspired by American college sweatshirts, adding motifs of Disney characters. The vintage-style design will make you feel wonderfully nostalgic.\nSpider-Man 60th Anniversary: Amazing Years\nSince his debut in 1962, Spider-Man has grown to become a huge figure in pop culture. This special collection uses some of the coolest comic book art of all time, perfect for today's superhero fans.\nThese sweatshirts are perfect for jazzing up your fall and winter wardrobe, so be sure to grab your favorites!\nUT Collection\nSpecial Site: https:\/\/www.uniqlo.com\/jp\/ja\/contents\/feature\/ut-graphic-tees\/\nTomakomai Mirai Fest 2022 Announces Second Round of Performers, Additional Details\n29.July.2022 | FES \/ MUSIC \/ SPOT\n# festival\n# Tomakomai\nNew performers and events have been announced ahead of the start of Tomakomai Mirai Fest 2022 in Tomakomai, Hokkaido on September 17 and 18. The event will be held in one of the most gorgeous towns on the island and excitement is building!\nThe purpose of this event is to promote the appeal of the Tomakomai region, not only to those living in Japan but to those living abroad. In addition to music, the event will also feature art, food, technology, and more content that can be enjoyed by kids, families, and people of all ages and genders.\nTomakomai Civic Hall, Large Hall\nIncredible live performances will be held in a futuristic setting. Along with Awesome City Club, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and Little Glee Monster, guests can look forward to seeing HY, Wednesday Campanella, Taichi Mukai, and Atarashii Gakko!\nTomakomai Civic Hall, Parking Lot\nDJ performances and food trucks will welcome guests to the futuristic area, and the illuminations are sure to impress!\nKirakira Park\nAn AR system accessible by smartphone will allow guests to take pictures of the Tomakomai Mirai Fest logo for a surprise. During the daytime, a food truck area will provide visitors with different types of gourmet offerings and a stage will showcase local dancers and musicians from Tomakomai. A family-friendly picnic area will allow guests to relax and enjoy good food and live music.\nAt night, in addition to impressive illuminations and a live stage showcasing Hokkaido's best talent, an island bar will amplify the mood.\nO-machi\/Nishiki-machi\nDuring the daytime, a gourmet area will feature Tomakomai's famous curry ramen, local craft beer, craft spices, and more. At night, visitors can enjoy restaurants in the O-machi and Nishiki-machi areas while still enjoying the vibe of the event.\nA stamp rally will be held during the event, and guests finding stamps at each location will be eligible to win fantastic prizes. A bus service is also planned.\nMore performers and details will be announced soon, so stay tuned!\nTomakomai Mirai Fest 2022\nDates: September 17 and 18, 2022\nTomakomai Civic Hall, Large Hall (Admission Fee Required)\nSeptember 17 \/ Doors Open 16:30, Event Starts 17:30\nTomakomai Civic Hall, Parking Lot \/ Kirakira Park \/ O-machi, Nishiki-machi (Free Entry)\nSeptember 17: Open at 12:00\n*May be earlier or later depending on the venue. Detailed event times will be announced at a later date.\nLocations: Tomakomai Civic Hall, Large Hall \/ Parking Lot \/ Kirakira Park \/ Around Omachi, Nishikimachi\nTicket Agency: Ticket Pia\n[1-day or 2-day Tickets Available]\nOfficial 2nd Advance Ticket Lottery: July 28, 12:00 \u2013 August 7, 23:59\nhttps:\/\/w.pia.jp\/t\/tomakomaimiraifest22\/\nOfficial Site: http:\/\/miraifest-tomakomai.jp\/\nTomakomai Mirai Fest 2022 to be Held in September\n29.June.2022 | FES \/ MUSIC\nOn September 17 and September 18, the Tomakomai Urban Renewal Project Committee will hold Tomakomai Mirai Fest 2022, inviting guests to celebrate the area around Tomakomai in Hokkaido.\nThe main venue of the event will be the Tomakomai Civic Hall. Musical acts announced so far include Awesome City Club, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and Little Glee Monster.\nIn the Tomakomai Civic Hall parking lot and the nearby Kirakira Park, guests can enjoy free DJ performances, mini-concerts, art and technology installations, food trucks, picnic areas, and more. In addition, the Nishikimachi and Omachi areas will be decorated with digital art, and food and beverages will be available.\nAdvanced 2-Day tickets are available now on Ticket Pia by lottery. More performers and additional content will be announced soon, so keep an eye on social media and the official website.\nVenue: Tomakomai Civic Hall, Large Hall\n*More detailed event times and locations will be announced at a later date.\nTickets: https:\/\/w.pia.jp\/t\/tomakomaimiraifest22\/\nHokkaido Information Base the Lodge to Open in 2023, Invites Guests to Learn More about the Area's Unique Attractions\nHokkaido Ballpark F Village, a commercial space coming in 2023 and located on the south side of ES CON Field Hokkaido, will feature a unique attraction. Visitors to Hokkaido won't want to miss checking out THE LODGE, an information center focusing on unique experiences and attractions that can only be found on Japan's northernmost island.\nTHE LODGE will be located in the center of F Village, connecting the ES CON Field to the waterfront area. Guests will be able to get valuable tips about local attractions and one-of-a-kind experiences.\nIn addition to a showroom where visitors can discover the charms of neighboring areas, the building will also serve as a tourism hub where tenants can enjoy outdoor activities and workshops. The location hopes to create a larger sense of community, and guests are encouraged to learn more about each unique and distinct area of Hokkaido.\nMaterials unique to Hokkaido (Hokkaido larch, local cedar wood, Ebetsu bricks) were used to create the space, and the roof was made to reflect the local mountain range. The creators are excited to welcome guests to this warm and inviting space next year!\nHokkaido Ballpark F Village Official Site: http:\/\/www.hkdballpark.com\nNAKED's Popular Night Walk Returns to Illuminate Jozankei Onsen in Hokkaido\n30.May.2022 | SPOT\n# naked\nThe JOZANKEI NATURE LUMINARIE -WATER LIGHT VALLEY- event is coming back in 2022! The event, which shows off the natural beauty of Jozankei's rivers, valleys, and forests, from June to October. Guests can enjoy an illuminated walk along the Toyohira River in the Jozankei area of Hokkaido and wander across the picturesque Futami Suspension Bridge.\nThis year, the park area at the entrance to the event has been redesigned with new lights. A 2.5-meter-high blue dome will welcome guests with an image of water, and the trees and wisteria trellises will be decorated with twinkling golden lights.\nWelcome Light Lake *Image from 2021\nRiver Road\nForest Water Ripple\nNature Projection\nFutami Valley\nVisitors will encounter a variety of unique light art as they stroll through the rich nature of Jozankei guided by the elusive kappa, known to be the guardian Gods of the region. As visitors approach, the river begins to glow while flowers bloom in this interactive art experience. By using projection mapping across the Futami Suspension Bridge and an all-encompassing light show within the canyon, the event hopes to remind visitors that nature is important and worth preserving.\nHow would you like to spend your summer deep in the illuminated nature of Hokkaido?\nJOZANKEI NATURE LUMINARIE \u2013 WATER LIGHT VALLEY\nAddress: Jozankei Futami Park \u2013 Futami Suspension Bridge\n(Jozankei Onsen Nishi 4-chome, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido)\nRunning: June 1 \u2013 October 23, 2022\nJune \u2013 August: 19:00-21:00\nSeptember \u2013 October: 18:00-21:00\n*Tickets available for guests of Jozankei Onsen only\nOfficial Site: https:\/\/jozankei.jp\/jozankei-nature-luminarie","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Introducing Gap Filling for Time Series Data in MongoDB 5.3\nTry MongoDB Atlas for Free Today\nJane Fine\nApril 6, 2022 | Updated: November 21, 2022\nAt MongoDB we are all about letting developers innovate with data. Time series is the fastest-growing data-intensive workload, and our native time series capabilities let you build applications faster and get more insight from time series data with less cognitive load.\nIt's common for time series data to have gaps, such as when an IoT sensor goes offline. But in order to perform analytics and ensure correct results, time series data needs to be continuous. You may also want to create histograms or correlate data sets to enable more complex operational analytics in the context of app development. Gap filling, now available in MongoDB 5.3 Rapid Release, in combination with the densification we introduced in MongoDB 5.1, helps you better handle missing data to easily create and surface valuable insight.\nThe two new aggregation stages create a simple, streamlined way to deal with missing data across time series and regular collections powering analytics for any use case. The $densify stage creates new documents to eliminate the gaps in the time or numeric domain at the required granularity level, and $fill sets values for the fields when a value is null or missing. Filling missing values can be done with a constant or using linear interpolation, carrying over the last observation or carrying backward the next observation.\nInput documents: tracking of temperature, motion, and inventory in a storage room\nThis function produces an hourly view of the metrics for each storage room. When temperature data is missing it should be interpolated linearly, motion should default to 0, and quantity of inventory should be carried over from the last known point.\nOutput: The second document was generated based on the two surrounding documents.\nPreviously these types of complex analytics were possible only in specialized systems such as dedicated time series databases or data warehouses. Architecturally, technology practitioners had to make the no-win trade-off between a niche, often immature technology dedicated solely to time series workloads and disconnected from systems of record containing the full complement of enterprise data and exporting time series data into data warehouses, thereby making it hard to operationalize insights. Both involve managing multiple data silos and fragile ETL pipelines driving up complexity and cost. Workarounds to these approaches often involve developers building complex data pipelines to fill in the gaps, potentially at the application layer, leading to poor query performance or limiting analytics to small data sets. With MongoDB 5.3, developers can build rich analytics on time series data in flight and deliver operational insight to their users as part of the application experience.\nMongoDB 5.3 is available now. If you are running Atlas Serverless instances or have opted in to receive Rapid Releases in your dedicated Atlas cluster, then your deployment will be automatically updated to 5.3 starting today. MongoDB 5.3 is also available as a Development Release for evaluation purposes only from the MongoDB Download Center. Consistent with the new release cadence announced last year, the functionality available in 5.3 and the subsequent Rapid Releases will roll up into MongoDB 6.0, our next Major Release scheduled for delivery later this year.\nFor a more in-depth explanation on gap filling for time series, check out our article on the MongoDB Developer Hub.\nThe development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. This information is merely intended to outline our general product direction, and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. Nor is this a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality.\nQVentures and MongoDB Partner to Support the Next Generation of B2B SaaS Founders\nNo matter the industry, every startup begins with the same thing \u2014 an idea. The challenge is taking that idea and manifesting it into the real world with real world customers. To build a highly scalable and successful venture you need the right funding partner. Every startup needs investment, but what founders must understand is that what is truly paramount to their future success is finding the right funding partner who will be a value add, and not just a capital injection. VC's such as QVentures fit that mold of being a value addition to the success of a startup's journey. QVentures is a venture capital firm that provides direct investment opportunities and fund management to take companies from Seed to Series B. Together, MongoDB for Startups and QVentures offer prospective companies their best path forward towards becoming successful. MongoDB's Startup Partnership Manager Julian Busch spoke with QVentures' Head of Origination Alex Cochand and Managing Partner Robert Walsh to discuss their company and its partnership with MongoDB for Startups. What is your overall mission at QVentures? Alex Cochand: Our mission is really twofold. From our perspective, one of the major reasons that businesses fail is through a lack of funding. And really that's a discovery problem. Those companies struggle to find interested, active, and supportive investors that buy into their mission. And we support that discovery. Robert Walsh: The mission of QVentures is to work very closely with our investors, who are family offices and UHNWIs, and bring them together with entrepreneurs and founders of businesses between the levels of seed to series B. We very much focus on looking at tech companies for the next generation of investments. The family offices we work very closely with are often the first generation investing into venture capital and are able to pass on their experience to support founders in ways outside of capital. Do you have an investment thesis when investing in startups? Walsh: Our thesis is to invest into enterprise SaaS, marketplaces, B2B enterprise SaaS, and B2B consumer tech businesses that are highly scalable with next generational founders. What advice would you give founders when thinking about fundraising with a VC? Cochand: Start fundraising early. Everyone thinks that it's going to be a very quick process, you're going to meet the investor of your dreams, and you'll have cash in your bank within a couple of weeks. The reality is that no matter who you are and no matter how great your business is, it always takes longer than you want. There's always more process. There are always hiccups. And you need to make sure that you have more than enough runway to make it through to the end of your fundraise. Are you seeing trends or frequent mistakes that founders make when engaging QVentures? Cochand: Selling the product rather than the business. You sell individual functionalities of the thing that you're building because that's what you're doing day-to-day. Your eyes are directly on building out the product that you want to take out to the market. Instead, when you're speaking to investors, you need to be pitching the mission, the business, and what the opportunity for scale and growth is. Walsh: Being a founder is very difficult. Mistakes are something that I don't think is a fair statement. I would say, we do see trends. We see people who have ideas that might not be good businesses to invest in and who can become very frustrated with that. More importantly, we look for is industry leaders, who are looking to bring technology into new markets. What value do corporate partnerships, like with MongoDB for Startups, bring to the founders in your portfolio? Cochand: We see a huge amount of value in partnerships. It allows us to take the value-add that we offer to our startups to a completely new level. We're very good at the fundraising piece, and that's where we offer our value to the startups that we work with. Through partnering with companies like MongoDB and others, we're able to take that to the 10x. Walsh: What surprised me about our initial partnership, is that companies at various stages in their growth journey are engaging with MongoDB. We've seen multiple companies from our Pre-Seed Fund find great value in MongoDB's services, as well as our portfolio companies who are at later stages. This shows that there's a value in this technology. So focusing again on startup founders, building companies from scratch, finding value in the MongoDB platform, what role does data play in that space? Walsh: Data is a very important piece of the puzzle when you're evaluating a company, because there isn't that much real IP in the idea. It's how you track it, and it's quite frankly execution, and what can you do to learn off of that data. A founder who doesn't use data is a founder who might miss something. Cochand: If we look at where the biggest technological changes are coming from, where the real value is being driven at the moment, a lot of that is coming through technologies, particularly in the ML and AI space. And what drives those, and what enables you to differentiate, is through proprietary access to data. And that's where the real value is with that. If you can mine it in a way that it's accessible and usable, and store in a way that you can then easily access and run your models off of, you're always going to be a step ahead of your competition. Where do you see QVentures in 10 years or do you predict any macro changes in the VC landscape? Walsh: QVentures in 10 years will probably have several billion of assets under management. And I also see the venture capital industry here changing tremendously due to the macro themes that are following the US, such as pension funds will start entering into macro. If you think of the amount of long duration and high yielding assets, I see venture capital following the private equity move of the 90s. So if you look at the KKR and Apollo or anything like that you're going to see QVentures as part of that next wave. Cochand: Where we want to take QVentures in the next 10 years is becoming a hub for access to the venture capital and the tech community for predominantly family offices and ultra high net worths. No matter how they want to invest, no matter how they want to interact with startups, they can come through QVentures for that. If they want to come through a fund structure, if they want to invest directly into singular businesses, or if they want to look at things like venture debt or managed accounts, we have a product offering that we can pass out to them. Title of the document table, th, td { padding: 10px; border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } Takeaways for Founders: Start fundraising early \"Everyone thinks that there's going to be a very quick process. You're going to meet the investor of your dreams, and you'll have cash in your bank within a couple of weeks,\" Cochand said. \"The reality is that no matter who you are and no matter how great your business is, it always takes longer than you want. There's always more process. There are always hiccups. And you just want to make sure that you have more than enough runway to make sure that you make it through to the end of your funding event.\" Do your own VC diligence prior to engaging Founders should always do their diligence prior to engaging VC's. Understand the investment thesis of a VC before reaching out. For example, as Robert stated, \"Our thesis is to invest into enterprise SaaS, marketplaces, B2B enterprise SaaS, and B2B consumer tech businesses that are highly scalable with next generational founders.\" If you are a CPG startup, QVentures would not be a likely investment target for you to engage with. Do not waste your valuable time or the VC's by reaching out even when they do not invest in your space. When pitching VC's, don't sell your product, sell your business \"Common mistakes that I see founders make when they come to fundraise is selling the product rather than the business,\" Cochand said. \"You sell individual functionalities of the thing that you're building because that's what you're doing day to day. Your eyes are directly on building out the product that you want to take out to the market. Instead, when you're speaking to investors, you need to be pitching the mission, the business, and what the opportunity for scale and growth is.\" Title of the document table, th, td { padding: 10px; border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } Takeaways for VC's: Build value add partnerships with corporations who can fill knowledge gaps in your team \"We see a huge amount of value in partnerships. It allows us to take the value-add that we offer to our startups to a completely new level,\" Cochand said. \"We're very good at the fundraising piece, and that's where we offer our value to the startups that we work with. Through partnering with companies like MongoDB and others, we're able to take that to the 10x.\" A prediction on the shifting VC Landscape: \"I also see the venture capital industry here changing tremendously due to the macro themes that are following the US, such as pension funds will start entering into macro,\" Walsh said. \"If you think of the amount of long duration and high yielding assets, I see venture capital following the private equity move of the 90s. So if you look at the KKR and Apollo or anything like that you're going to see QVentures as part of that next wave.\" When looking at potential investment opportunities, VC's should look for founders who understand and leverage data \"Data is a very important piece of the puzzle when you're evaluating a company,\" Walsh said. \"Because there isn't that much real IP in an idea. It's how you track it, and it's quite frankly execution, and what you do to learn off of that data. A founder who doesn't use data is a founder who might miss something.\" Don't be that founder not leveraging their data. Sign up for the MongoDB for Startups program today.\nNew Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor Debuts in MongoDB Compass\nThere's a reason why Compass is one of MongoDB's most-loved developer tools: because it provides an approachable and powerful visual user interface for interacting with data on MongoDB. As part of this, Compass's Aggregation Pipeline Builder abstracts away the finer points of MongoDB's Query API syntax and provides a guided experience for developing complex queries. But what about when you want less rather than more abstraction? That's where our new Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor comes in. Recently released on Compass, the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor allows users to write free-form aggregations. While users could previously write and edit pipelines through a guided and structured builder organized by aggregation stage, a text-based builder can be preferable for some users. This new pipeline editor makes it easy for users to: See the entire pipeline without having to excessively scroll through the UI Stay \"in the flow\" when writing aggregations if they are already familiar with MongoDB's Query API syntax Copy and paste aggregations built elsewhere (like in MongoDB's VS Code Extension ) into Compass Use built-in syntax formatting to make pipeline text \"pretty\" before copying it over from Compass to other tools The Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor in Compass. Notice how toward the top right you can click on \"stages\" to move back to the traditional stage-based Aggregation Pipeline Builder. Ultimately, the addition of the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor to Compass gives users more flexibility depending on how they want to build aggregations. For a more guided experience and to get result previews when adding each new stage, the existing Aggregation Pipeline Builder will work best for most users. But when writing free-form aggregations or copying and pasting aggregation text from other tools, the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor may be preferable. It also previews the final pipeline output, rather than the stage-by-stage preview that exists today. Users will be able to access either both the traditional Aggregation Pipeline Builder and the new Pipeline Text Editor from directly within the Aggregations tab in Compass and can switch between the two views without losing their work. To get access to the new Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor, make sure to download the latest version of Compass here . And as always, we welcome your continued feedback on how to improve Compass. If you have ideas for how to improve your experience with Compass you can submit them on our UserVoice platform here . We'll have even more great features coming in Compass soon. Keep checking back on our blog for the latest news!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dodgers and Gonsolin agree to 2-year, $6.65 million contract\nHome\/NBA\/Lakers don't call end of regulation, say foul is 'clear as day'\nLakers don't call end of regulation, say foul is 'clear as day'\nLOS ANGELES \u2014 A no call to the Dallas Mavericks' Tim Hardaway JrThe defense of Troy Brown JrThe 3-point attempt by . at the end of regulation left LA in a bad mood Thursday night at the eventual Lakers. 119-115 double overtime loss to the Mavs.\nThe Lakers rallied from a 19-point deficit in the first quarter to tie it in the fourth when lebron james found Brown on the right wing for a potential game-winning 3 at the buzzer. Hardaway took the shot and made contact with Brown's hand and the ball at the point of release, sending the shot well short of the basket.\nJames and Brown immediately expressed their frustration with the outcome of the play to referee Suyah Mehta, who was the referee closest to the action.\nCrew chief Josh Tiven, speaking to a reporter from the pool after the game, defended the no call.\n\"Hardaway Jr. gets a piece of the ball on the close and then makes high-five contact, which is legal and that play was not properly called,\" Tiven said.\nBrown was asked about the no-call in the locker room after the game and offered a diplomatic response.\n\"It is what it is,\" Brown said. \"That's not my job to referee, and I'm not going to sit here and decide who should have done what.\"\nWhen a reporter followed up to brief Brown on Tiven's explanation, James, sitting in front of his locker across the room, chimed in from 20 feet away.\n\"No, it's a fucking foul,\" James said forcefully for everyone in the room to hear. \"It's a foul. Whatever happens [Brown] he says, it's a fucking fault. This is egregious, and they should have said so.\"\nFifteen minutes later, in his postgame press conference in the hallway, James was more reserved in his response. When asked if he disagreed with the umpires' decision, he simply said, \"Obviously.\"\nLakers coach Darvin Ham also disagreed with the referees' assessment of the play.\n\"I'm not one to blame the referees, and I'm not going to start now. But it clearly looked like it was a foul,\" Ham said. \"Maybe I could be wrong. But we were still looking at it after the game, and it looked like a foul on his follow-up.\"\nLA was outscored 18-14 in the two overtime sessions, shooting a combined 5-for-17 from the field.\nJames finished with 24 points, 16 rebounds, nine assists and two steals in 47 minutes, but shot 9-for-28 overall and 0-for-7 from 3-point range, including 0-for-4 in overtime. .\nThe Lakers were not the only ones who had problems with the trade. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban tweeted during the game, agreeing with TNT analyst Stan Van Gundy that Luka Doncic I wasn't getting enough calls.\nStan van Gundy is absolutely right. The worst refereed match. Luka has no respect. unreal\n\u2014 Mark Cuban (@mcuban) January 13, 2023\nDoncic finished with 35 points, 14 rebounds and 13 assists, but was fouled five times and attempted just seven free throws.\n\"I didn't see it, I don't have Twitter,\" Doncic said with a wry smile when asked about Cuban's tweet.\nWhen asked again about the tweet, Doncic Euro took the question a step further.\n\"I have no comment on that,\" he said. \"I don't want to be fined.\"\nESPN's Tim MacMahon contributed to this report.\n#Lakers #dont #call #regulation #foul #clear #day\ncall clear day Dont foul Lakers regulation\nPhoto shows NBA's James Bouknight passed out in car with gun in lap\nLakers vs. Preview Cavs kickoff time tv schedule injury report\nNBA DFS: DraftKings and FanDuel daily fantasy basketball picks for January 26 include Kyrie Irving\nKnicks vs. Cavaliers \u2013 NBA Game Summary \u2013 October 30, 2022\nJames Harden dominates again, Sixers fall to 0-2 in loss to Bucks","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dances with the Dragons \u2013 First Impressions\nOn April 24, 2018 April 22, 2018 By AstralGeminiIn Spring 2018\nDances with the Dragons (not to be mistaken for A Dance with Dragons, that's Game of Thrones stuff\u2026 still a great book though) is a light novel series written by Labo Asai. With the Anime adaptation this spring, i've seen a bit of controversy going around, mainly due to the original novel's penchant for dark and gruesome content, and people wondering how much of it will get translated over into the Anime. I can gladly, and honestly say\u2026 quite a bit, actually.\nWhile I haven't read the LN series, the first few episodes of the anime have made me think that I kind of want to. With an interesting world setup and a pair of fun and intriguing leads to play with, the story is off to a great start. Combine that with the very dark setting and the awesome action scenes we get only a minute into the show, and you've got a very promising recipe.\nThe show looks great, with vibrant colors and smooth animation. The soundtrack is pretty good, but mostly remains in the background. As far as I can tell about the story, there are creatures like Dragons and stuff that constantly attack humanity. Practitioners of an art called Jushiki fight against these creatures to allow humans to survive and thrive in the world, and get paid bounties for their work. Gaius and Gigina are Jushikiists, as well as the main characters.\nSmooth operator here\nOne of the things that really stood out was the dynamic between the two leads. With each of them playing off each other quite well, they were interesting to watch, and with the great fantasy setting in the mix, this seems like a show that can far surpass Grancrest from last season. Only one way to find out, though.\nI'll let this one stick on my watchlist for a while, and I might even try to snag the LN if I can find it anywhere. My interest is piqued, and I want to know what happens next. Has anyone else picked up this show this season? If so, what are your thoughts on it, and are you going to stick around for more?\nAnimeDances with the DragonsDark FantasyFirst ImpressionReviewSeasonal AnimeSpring 2018\nYou Don't Know Gunma Yet \u2013 First Impressions\nLove To-LIE-Angle \u2013 First Impressions\n5 thoughts on \"Dances with the Dragons \u2013 First Impressions\"\nThis one I dropped during the second episode. While there were some interesting ideas, I found the anime dumped way too much exposition in these early episodes and I wasn't getting into the series at all.\nI haven't managed to get to the second episode yet, still playing catch-up with the rest of the season. But if they're still dropping exposition in episode 2 or even 3 i might drop it\nI think it's also a common problem with Anime that get adapted from Light Novels. They feel they have to explain the whole world with words, instead of letting the visual medium of Anime take over a lot of that storytelling. It's probably difficult because of the complex settings of so many Light Novels, but as Made in Abyss showed us, there's a better way to deliver information than just expositional dump in the first episode or two\nmagicconan14\nIt started out fairly well, but I ended up zoning out at the start of the 2nd episode so it had to go. I also kept comparing it to Concrete Revolutio for some reason, even though the two aren't very similar\u2026\nPingback: My Reasons Why \u2013 The Animanga Spellbook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Advocate taps Wilkins to cover West Baton Rouge\nPosted by Mariam Ahmed\nTerell Wilkins\nTerell Wilkins has joined The Advocate to cover happenings in West Baton Rouge and Louisiana State University. Previously, he was a news reporter, and has occasionally covered sports for The Spectrum and Desert Valley Times in St. George, Utah and Mesquite, Nevada for Gannett | USA Today Network.\nHe was also a sports correspondent at The News & Observer and was also a track and field beat writer at The State Press, ASU Student Media.\nWilkins has a B.A. in mass communication\/media studies from Arizona State University.\nJob changes, The Advocate, USA Today\nTalking Biz News Today \u2013 Jan. 27, 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Encinitas events this week (Aug. 2)\nAug. 2, 2018 8 AM PT\nFor more information and a complete list of events, visit the city's newsletter at https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ap6iF.\nTaste of Encinitas\nThe Encinitas 101 MainStreet Association recently announced that tickets are on sale for the 30th Annual Taste of Encinitas. This year's event will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 7 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. along Coast Hwy 101 in downtown Encinitas. With the purchase of a $45 ticket, participants will be able to enjoy tastes from a number of local restaurants, sample wine and beer at Sip Stops, and enjoy a variety of live music. Tickets can be purchased online at visitencinitas.org and at the Encinitas 101 office located at 818 S. Coast Hwy 101.\nSummer Concerts By the Sea: New Leaf\nThis summer, Encinitas Parks and Recreation brings more fun to the beach concert experience on Aug. 5 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Moonlight Beach, 400 B Street. Hear the greatest Reggae hits, past and present. Concerts are held right on the sand at beautiful Moonlight Beach. Bring blankets and beach chairs. No dogs, glass or alcohol. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ox4i0j.\nJefferson Jay Band concert\nThe Jefferson Jay Band will play in the Encinitas Library Community Room, 540 Cornish Drive, on Aug. 5 from 2 to 3 p.m. For more information, visit www.encinitaslibfriends.org.\nBook sale at Encinitas Library\nEncinitas Friends of the Library Bookstore holds a book sale Saturday, Aug. 4. Most books will be priced from 25 cents to $1, with CDs for 25 cents and DVDs typically $1. Books range from current fiction, children's selections, biography, self-help and spirituality to health, history, travel and science. The sale is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the general public and opens at 9 a.m. for members at the library, 540 Cornish Drive. Community members can join the Friends group at the door. Visit www.encinitaslibfriends.org.\nBook sale at Cardiff Library\nJoin The Friends of the Cardiff- by-the-Sea Library on Saturday, Aug. 4, from 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. to a $3 per bag or $.25 per book sale, the bag is provided. Held in the community room. A drawing entry for a Kindle with every $3 a bag purchase. Your memberships and purchases help support the Cardiff Library with books, programs and scholarships that benefit the community.\nFree admission to active duty, National Guard and Reserve members of the U.S. military and their families (card carrier plus 5 immediate family members) is available daily through Labor Day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2uZIQsL.\nAll Fired Up: Wheel Throwing\nLearn the essentials of creating functional ceramics on a potter's wheel on Fridays from Aug. 3 to Sept. 14 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Lux Art Institute, 1550 South El Camino Real. Whether you are new to ceramics or a professional artist looking to further your practice, visiting artist Ryan Gray will take an individualized approach to teaching all aspects of wheel throwing including form making, trimming, altering, assembling, and glazing. Studio time is included. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2LIuIP1.\nOvation Theatre: 'Crazy for You'\nFeaturing original Broadway choreography, Ovation Theatre will showcase the best singers and dancers North County has to offer in this zany rich-boy-meets-hometown-girl romantic comedy on Aug. 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. and on Aug. 5 at 2 p.m. at Brubeck Theater, 1140 West Mission Road in San Marcos. \"Crazy For You\" tells the story of young New York banker, Bobby Child, who is sent to foreclose on a rundown theatre. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M3bnEd.\nSurrealist Collage with Ellen Speert\nInspired by the work of Seen Frost, surrealist collage blends the intuitive choice of images with the careful construction of personal cards. This full-day intensive on Aug. 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Center for Creative Renewal, 1905 Crest Drive, is for those who have taken a Surrealist Collage or SoulCollage workshop in the past. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ox7mtl.\nGreen Living Tour\nSee sustainability in action as you explore worm bins, greywater systems, innovative compost projects, tool lending library, water-wise garden, and more on Aug. 4 from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Solana Center, 137 North El Camino Real. You'll leave one step further on your journey to living a sustainable lifestyle. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2LE7eu9.\nHealing Arts Class\nFor those recovering from brain injuries and\/or neurological challenges, enjoy self-expression through art, increase skills, improve eye\/hand coordination and enjoy the warmth and support of a facilitator, Denise McMurtrie, on Aug. 4 at 11 a.m. in Scripps Hospital's Brain Injury Treatment Room, 354 Santa Fe Drive. Supplies provided. For more information, email schwarb.andrea@scrippshealth.org.\nFamilies Make History\nJoin artist and musician Cici Artemisia every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. for arts, crafts and a sing-along at the Heritage Ranch, 450 Quail Gardens Drive. These fun make-and-take projects will inspire creativity in you and your family. For more details, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KaEio8.\nConcert: Kasondra Kazanjian\nThe gifted soloist will perform famous arias from operas ranging from La Boheme to Le Nozze di Figaro to La Rondine on Aug. 4 at 5 p.m. at the Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. She will also mix in jazz tunes, a Spanish song cycle with guitar and Armenian folk songs. Proceeds benefit Institute Edeline in Haiti. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2v4qg2r.\nTracks & Scat! Family Fun Day\nWho's been on the trail? Animals leave behind all kinds of clues. Learn about animal \ue816tracks through hands-on fun, craft making, tours and discovery stations on Aug. 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center, 2710 Manchester Avenue. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2M70BNl.\nBollywood dancing\nA fusion of Indian and Western dance styles every Sunday in August from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Performing Arts Workshop, 1465 Encinitas Boulevard. The session will also provide a cardio workout. All levels are welcome. Bollywood Steps is an established Indian dance company with locations all over San Diego County with instructor Payal Nanavati. For more information, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2mVRjc2.\nNow showing: The King, RBG, The Karate Kid and Rocky Horror Picture Show. 471 Coast Highway 101. For tickets and showtimes, visit https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KjUEek.\nArtists' reception at Off Track Gallery\nThe public is invited to an artists' reception at the Off Track Gallery Saturday, Aug. 11, from 4-7 p.m. featuring a cash award ceremony to Encinitas Friends of the Arts and also to three promising MiraCosta College Students \u2014 Rachel Greenstein, Priscilla Rivera, and Jonathan Broberg. Refreshments will be served at the reception. All artwork in the Gallery will be 10 percent off the entire day from 10 a.m. to closing. This event is free and open to the public.\nThe Off Track Gallery is owned and operated by the San Dieguito Art Guild, a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization made up of over 200 talented local artists. Off Track Gallery, 937 South Coast Highway 101, Suite C-103, Encinitas, 760-942-3636, pr@sandieguitoartguild.com, OffTrackGallery.com.\nMobile blood drive\nMagdalena Ecke Family YMCA will host a mobile blood drive Aug. 11 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 200 Saxony Road. Donors must be at least 17 years old (or 16 with parental consent), 114 pounds and in good health. It is recommended that donors consume an adequate meal and plenty of fluids prior to giving. A photo identification must be presented upon signing up to donate. Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment for their convenience but walk-ins are also welcome. To schedule an appointment, please call 1-800-4MY-SDBB (1-800-469-7322) or visit www.SanDiegoBloodBank.org.\nGreat music, chili and more at Race Track\nThe Del Mar Race Track's summer season is now in full swing! This week features a free performance by innovative reggae musician Matisyahu on Friday, Aug. 3, unlimited samples of award-winning chili during the Chili Challenge on Saturday, Aug. 4 and a Sunday dedicated to luxury during Ladies and Gents Day on Aug. 5. Guests can also participate some family fun during Del Mar's weekly Family Saturdays and enjoy foodie favorites with food and drink specials during the week, including Brigantine Wednesdays, Happy Hour Fridays and Taste of the Turf Club.\nRacing at Del Mar happens Wednesday through Sunday with the exception of Closing Day on Labor Day Monday (9\/3). First post is at 2 p.m. daily. First post on Fridays is at 4 p.m., with the exceptions of August 24 and 31 when first post is 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 858-755-1141 or visit www.delmarracing.com. You can follow Del Mar on Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat at @DelMarRacing or like us on Facebook at Facebook.com\/DelMarRaces.\nEncinitas and North Coast Democratic Club\nThe Encinitas and North Coast Democratic Club will meet on Saturday, Aug. 4, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Dove Library, Gowland Room, in Carlsbad. Howard Wayne, co-chair and founding board member of the San Diego Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, will speak on \" How Trump is Weaponizing the Courts with Judicial Picks that will Harm America for the Next 40 Years.\" There will also be a raffle and refreshments served. For more information, visit www.encdc.org.\nReading of 'An Ideal Husband' at NC Rep\nThe Oscar Wilde Society @NorthCoastRep will present a free reading of \"An Ideal Husband\" Sunday, Aug. 12 at 7:30 p.m. According to the North Coast Rep website, the Oscar Wilde Society @NorthCoastRep is being established as an auxiliary group for the LBGT supporters of North Coast Rep. To launch the Society, North Coast Rep will present \"An Ideal Husband\" by Oscar Wilde, directed by Richard Baird, featuring some of San Diego's top actors. Written in 1895, this comic play revolves around blackmail and political corruption and touches on public and private honor. Wilde was a leader in the effort to make plays accessible to the public. There will be a light social event after the reading. Suggested donation $25 to establish The Oscar Wilde Society. Visit northcoastrep.org\nMission Bay High School Class of '78 40th reunion\nThe Mission Bay High School Class of 1978 is planning its 40th reunion to be held on Saturday, Aug. 25, at Mission Bay Yacht Club from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Come join your classmates while overlooking the bay at the MBYC. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a photo booth and DJ with our very own Drew Miller. Find more details and tickets at mbhs1978.com\/details.html\nArt in the Village\nHeld on the second Sunday every August, the Carlsbad Village Association's Art in the Village will return Aug. 12 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., bringing 110 local and regional fine artists for a one-day, open-air art show. Address: 2907 State St., Carlsbad. More details at carlsbad-village.com\/art.\nArtWalk @ Liberty Station\nThe 13th Annual Fine Arts Festival, ArtWalk @ Liberty Station will return to Ingram Plaza on Saturday, Aug. 11 and Sunday, Aug. 12 in the Arts District at Liberty Station. The free event's 2018 theme \"Connecting Creative Communities\" embodies ArtWalk's mission to bring San Diego together to enjoy art and cultural expression all weekend long. In addition to thousands of works of art, attendees can also expect food, wine and beer, live entertainment and interactive art projects. Visit www.artwalksandiego.org\/libertystation.\nNorth Coast Women's Connection Luncheon\nNorth Coast Women's Connection Harvest Hoedown Luncheon will be held Sept. 11. The North Coast Women's Connection (NCWC) Harvest Hoedown will feature internationally-known watercolorist Chuck McPherson. John Reed, retired police officer, will speak on \"The Stages of Life.\" Event will be held at Lomas Santa Fe Country Club, 1505 Loma Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach from 11 a.m.\u2013 1 p.m. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. Please make reservations no later than Sept. 1. The luncheon is $25 per person. Walk-ins are Welcome at $30 per person.\nTo make reservations, send a check payable to NCWC. If you are bringing a guest(s), please provide their name(s). Mail your reservation payment to: Dorothy Cuchna, 654 East Circle Drive, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Please address any questions to: minscott11@gmail.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"If you are a Floridian and need Senator Rubio's help with a federal agency, please fill out a casework request form here. For information on COVID-19, click here.\nVisiting D.C.\nHelp with the Federal Government\nMobile Office Hours\nSpecial Recognitions\nFighting for Florida\nMiami Office\nJacksonville Office\nPalm Beach Office\nWashington, D.C. Office\nEmail Senator Rubio\nEmail Me En Espa\u00f1ol\nRubio: Many Questions, Scant Justice From Obama White House One Year After\nMany Questions, Scant Justice From Obama White House One Year After Benghazi Attacks\nBy Senator Marco Rubio\nhttp:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2013\/09\/11\/many-questions-scant-justice-from-obama-white-house-one-year-after-benghazi\/#ixzz2eZwfyalT\nOne year ago today, on September 11, 2012, we were reminded that despite our successes in the war on terror, Al Qaeda and its affiliates continue to threaten the United States and our personnel and facilities around the world.\nWe remember the lives and service of the four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, who were slain in Benghazi, Libya while trying to help bring peace and stability to a country going through a difficult transition.\nWe pray for their families who still mourn the loss of their loved ones.\nUnfortunately, a year later many questions remain about this tragedy.\nJust last month, Secretary of State John Kerry absolved the four State Department employees, who had previously been removed from their jobs, of any responsibility for the security failures that put Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues at risk.\nThis raises questions about the work of the Accountability Review Board and also means that no one at the State Department has been held accountable.\nKeep reading here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nuggets Archive\nHistory Nuggets\nJames Husband\nLituya Bay, 1958\nThe rumbling shook the sleeping boy's father from his fading half-sleep on the berth of their single-masted sailing boat. Bolting up and looking out the window, his eyes widened as he saw the still waters of the Alaskan inlet churn and rise into a monstrous, debris-strewn wave, easily fifty feet in height and heading straight toward their tiny craft. The father tossed a life preserver at the groggy boy and said, \"Son, start praying.\"\nThe Emu War\nAfter the 1918 armistice ended the fighting of World War I, the Australian government instituted a program to buy and provide farming land for its returning soldiers, in order to reintroduce them back into civilian life. In Western Australia, the government established 48 farming estates totaling almost 90,000 hectares, a little over 200,000 acres, in an area northeast of Perth, in the southwestern corner of the nation. Years later, the Great Depression of 1929 hit the area particularly hard, and when the land was invaded by a relentless and destructive pest, the Minister of Defense in Perth dispatched a machine gun crew, with less than stellar results.\nThe 19th Century\nJakob Walter's March Home\nBy 1812, Jakob Walter, although only 24 years of age, had already served in two campaigns as a foot soldier for the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Jakob and many other conscripts in the Grande Arm\u00e9e were ordered to undertake the famously ill-fated march on Moscow, after which the devastated remnants of Napoleon's fighting force were left to return to their homes on their own power. Jakob's meticulous diary tells a tale of survival and perseverance during this nightmarish march against staggering odds.\nThe Secret Surveyor of Tibet\nBy the early 1860s, the British and Russian Empires simultaneously attempted to spread their influence into Tibet, a region which was at the time still tenuously under the control of the fading Qing Empire in China. Tibetan leadership, in an attempt to forestall culture erosion and retain its connections with the Chinese, closed its borders to Europeans of all sorts on penalty of death. Captain Thomas G. Montgomerie of the Royal Engineers, tasked with the exploration and mapping of Tibet, developed a plan to use trained natives to surreptitiously take the measurements for which British agents, regardless of their talent or preparation, would be much more vulnerable to discovery. After being asked for recommendations of loyal and talented locals who could be taught techniques in infiltration and surveying, British Education Officer Edmund Smyth suggested to Montgomerie a 33-year-old local schoolteacher named Nain Singh.\nRun For Your Life, John Colter\nAware that they were essentially invading and poaching on enemy land, Corps of Discovery veterans John Colter and John Potts remained hidden during the day in order to escape detection, setting their traps at night and gathering up their proceeds as the following dawn broke. One morning, as the two men canoes up the Jefferson River, they heard a commotion above the elevated riverbank to the east. Colter claimed that the noise was caused by Indians, but Potts insisted it was just buffalo, so they persisted up the river, whereupon they came face-to-face with a party of approximately 800 Blackfoot.\nGeorge Palmer Ransom, American Patriot\nOn January 3, 1762, Samuel and Esther Ransom of Canaan, Connecticut, had a son, and they named him after Samuel's best friend and neighbor, George Palmer. In 1773, the family\u2014both parents and eight children, including 11-year-old George\u2014emigrated as part of a widespread migration of Connecticut settlers to what is now northeastern Pennsylvania, settling near the town of Wilkes-Barre in Wyoming Valley. In September 15, 1776, 14-year-old George enlisted with his father and brother-in-law into the 2nd Westmoreland (Wyoming) Independent Company to fight in the American Revolution. His first position there was to bury the dead.\nTagged: Biography, Pennsylvania, The United States\nThe Cannoneer's Wife\nDuring the American Revolution, a barber from Carlisle, Pennsylvania named John Hays joined the Patriot forces, becoming an artilleryman in Captain Francis Proctor's company of the Pennsylvania Artillery. His wife, Mary Ludwig Hays, accompanied him on the campaign with George Washington's Revolutionary Army, as did many military wives of the day. Mary, a 22-year-old daughter of German immigrants, soon became known as an illiterate, hard-drinking, tobacco-chewing woman who could curse with the best of the soldiers, and was popularly called Molly by the men. During the winter of 1777-1778, she stayed in the women's camp with Washington's army in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania after British forces had captured Philadelphia earlier that year.\nTagged: The United States, New Jersey, Women\nOn July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress fell one vote short of a unanimous decision to declare their independence. The motion to split from Great Britain was contingent on winning the vote of the tiny, coastal state Delaware to the south; if it voted in the affirmative, then the Congress would be able to formally adopt the Declaration of Independence and assert itself as an independent nation. Independence was tantamount to treason in the eyes of the British, so any delegate backing the motion placed himself at considerable risk.\nTagged: Delaware, The United States, The US Constitution","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thanewala Gumbad, New Delhi\nWhile reading about Delhi's monuments & heritage structures, I often come across details about structures taken over by the city's population, often demolished, at times occupied in its original state & at times renovated & turned into living quarters\/shops\/hospitals by changing the way the structure looked. The Red Fort was occupied by the British Army after the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny\/War of Independence & several structures within the complex were razed to ground to make way for their barracks. But that was in 1857, & except for the Red Fort (refer Pixelated Memories - Red Fort), I myself never saw any structure razed\/renovated. Until a few days ago that is. Some days ago, I visited the Thanewala Gumbad in South Delhi. The condition of the structure made me realize that this is what happens when the ever progressive tide of urbanization comes face to face with a structure struck somewhere in the medieval ages.\nThanewala Gumbad - First impressions\nTaken over on all sides by residential areas & shops, the structure lies surrounded by the spirit of commercialization in the middle of Shahpur Jat. A suburban village, Shahpur Jat, has suddenly found its way into the books of city's nouveau rich \u2013 once a village home to Jats (an ethnic group more common to nearby Haryana), today the new lifestyle hub boasts of designer boutiques & shops selling everything from expensive collectibles, clothes, & furniture. & of course, there was also a Bikanerwala close to the gumbad (I have observed that you can find a Bikanerwala in almost every neighborhood in Delhi. They specialize mostly in sweets, but you can gobble up their pakoras (deep-fried bread filled with potatoes & cottage cheese, coated in a layer of corn flour & again deep fried) with a bottle of coke if you feel hungry after running around the numerous heritage structures that Delhi boasts of. The food is hygienic too!!). The Thanewala Gumbad today survives in the form of a large, domed chamber with its back against the shorter side of the large rectangular courtyard that encloses it.\n\"Aerial View\"\nThe walls of the gumbad slightly slope towards the outside & are exceedingly unadorned. Nobody knows who built the structure, though it is accepted that the architecture is reminiscent of construction undertaken during the reign of the Khilji Dynasty (ruled 1290-1320 AD). The gumbad lacks ornamentation of any sort, a characteristic of Khilji & later Tughlaq-era buildings \u2013 both its interiors & exteriors are thread bare & the only concession to its simplicity are niches that line the bottom of the dome on the inside & the recessed, arched corners. Outside, the dome rests on an octagonal base (drum) decorated with a line of kanguras (battlement-like ornamentation work). The mihrab (the wall inside a mosque indicating the direction of Mecca, faced by Muslims while praying) is very simple, consisting of three arched recesses, the central one slightly larger than the ones flanking it.\nToo simple!!\nThe side opposite the mihrab has three arched entrances, while the other two sides have two small arched entrances each & a blocked arched recess in the place of the central entrance. A small arched window is provided high in the centre of each side to let in sunlight. The courtyard also bears indications that there were several other structures within the complex. Only the foundations remain of what must once have been pillars on either side of the existing domed chamber, indicating the presence of cloisters. It is now accepted that the gumbad was once a mosque. A gumbad is basically a tall, domed chamber with solid walls. Cloistered chambers on either side of the said \"gumbad\" would fit very well with the mosque theory. Also there is no grave inside the chamber which is further proof that this is not a tomb (as most gumbads are). I don't understand why isn't it referred to as a mosque instead of a gumbad if that might be the case. Perhaps some later historian bungled up when compiling a list of structures in Delhi.\nCloister remains to the left of the central chamber\nThe courtyard also shows signs of arched recesses along one of the longer sides. Perhaps these alcoves were used for lightning earthen lamps, though these appear pretty large. I am tempted to believe that these were part of rooms for the priests of the mosque, or perhaps there once existed a small Islamic seminary. If that would have been the case, the mosque might have been very similar to the Khair-ul-Manazil Mosque in another part of Delhi, but in a similar run-down condition (refer Pixelated Memories - Khair-ul-Manazil Mosque). The courtyard itself was filled with all sorts of rubbish & even construction material the day I visited the gumbad\/mosque. A large family picnicked in the courtyard, complete with food & even a hookah!! A washer man dried clothes nearby. Thorny bushes grew around garbage heaps. More than the interior, it is the exterior of the enclosing walls that is in dire need of protection. Along the shorter sides of the courtyard ran parallel streets. A small slum house made with bricks & corrugated iron sheets (next to the main road flanking the gumbad towards its back) used the wall as one of its sides. Towards one of the larger sides, an alley lead to a cluster of houses & showrooms. It was one of these houses that I climbed on to get an \"aerial\" view of the gumbad\/mosque & its surroundings. The walls of these houses maintained their distance from the gumbad's enclosure, though it seemed almost hopeless, given that Shahpur Jat is a hotchpotch of buildings jutting out of nowhere & giving way only to narrow streets & almost none vegetation. Not wishing to spare any space available in this urban jungle, a buzzing generator set sat next to the courtyard wall in this alley.\nEating into the structure - A shanty & a row of houses alongside the boundary wall\nBuildings on the other side were even worse, literally fusing together with the enclosure walls. One had to walk past those buildings into a side street (this one has the Bikanerwala!!) & then make a detour to reach the entrance of the gumbad\/mosque. It is a pretty precarious situation that the gumbad\/mosque finds itself in, surrounded by all these houses & shops, whatever happened to the Monument Notification Act (1958) that bans construction within 100 metres of a protected monument?? Perhaps the gumbad\/mosque isn't a protected monument, I did not see the characteristic blue board that Archaeological Survey of India (A.S.I.) places near protected monuments. The only worthwhile thing here was that more than encroachments, the place was taken over by kids running around, playing tag here. Many of them clambered around me in a bid to get photographed along with the ruins. They jumped within the gumbad & around it too, unmindful of the pillar stubs sticking out in an ordered progression. The huge chamber boomed with their laughter & echoed back their shouts.\nThese cloisters exist on the right side of the structure. Visible in the background are the remains of Siri Fort wall\nI would rather suggest that this surrounding courtyard be converted to a small park, similar to the park across the parking lot across the road that boasts of bastions & walls of the Siri Fort (another fortress city within Delhi, subject of another post). A gardener could be assigned here, at least this way the place would not give way to encroachments & hawkers, & even the kids would find a new spot within the congested city to run around. But then, is anyone listening??\nLocation: Shahpur Jat village\nNearest Metro Station: Green Park Station\nHow to Reach: From Green Park Metro Station, take a bus for Shahpur Jat village. Opposite the bus stop is a large park, beyond which lies a parking lot. Walk through the park & the parking lot & you will spot the dome of Thanewala Gumbad rising in the midst of shops. Navigate to find the entrance.\nEntrance Fee: Nil\nTime required for sightseeing: About 30 min\nRelevant Links -\nPixelated Memories - Khair-ul-Manazil Mosque\nPixelated Memories - Red Fort\nPosted by Pixelated Memories at 4:41 pm 6 comments:\nLabels: Cloisters, Designer Showrooms, Green Park, Gumbad, Kanguras, Mihrab, New Delhi, Pixelated Memories, Sahil Ahuja, Shahpur Jat, Shops, Siri Fort, Slum, Thanewala Gumbad\nUnmarked Ruins, Mehrauli, New Delhi\nIn a city as old as time itself, it isn't very difficult to come across remains of a world struck in a different time frame, one that is several centuries, if not millennia, behind. Delhi \u2013 \"a city of cities\" \u2013 was destroyed 7 times in the near medieval history & each time it was rebuilt, rising up like a phoenix from its own ashes. It has been claimed that Delhi is the city of djinns \u2013 the djinns do not like to see their city destroyed & therefore ensure that the city is revitalized after each bout of destruction. Yet unlike other places across the globe, Delhi never totally evolved into a modern mega-habitat, instead it lives on with its past \u2013 at times nurturing it to claim large swathes of land as well as popular perception. In almost every corner of the city one notices relics of the past \u2013 cultures practised as they were in the ancient past, trade taking place as it would have occurred in the court of some maharaja or sultan, & most importantly the ruins that seem to grow out of anywhere & everywhere in the city. While some parts of the city mutate into glass & cement megaliths, several still retain their medieval look & character.\nThis is what I spotted..\nHowever the concept of a \"City of cities\" needs a bit of explanation here \u2013 as a new fortress was built by a new dynasty\/ruler, the older fortress was abandoned but the city around it continued to live on. The court & the whos-who shifted with the ruler to his new abode, but the traders, merchants, artisans & craftsmen, peasants etc stayed back. The new city was referred to as \"Delhi\", while the older ones came to be known as \"Old Delhi\" (till the British formalized this system to name their Indian capital \"New Delhi\"). This way several separate fortress-citadel complexes continued to mushroom side by side, & today we have seven major citadels (Lal Kot, Siri, Tughlaqabad-Adilabad, Kotla Feroz Shah, Dinpanah, Shahjanabad, New Delhi) & a small capital (Kilokheri) still in existence. These constitute Delhi's history starting from somewhere even before 1000 BC when it was still ruled by Rajput Hindus, & the last is still the seat of power of Indian democracy.\nTold ya, these ruins come out of nowhere!!\nThe oldest of these settlements \u2013 the Lal Kot in modern-day Mehrauli \u2013 was the bastion of Tomar Rajputs who ruled from the fertile plains of Punjab to the arid regions of Rajasthan & Central India. Prithviraj Chauhan aka Rai Pithor, the hero celebrated in bard songs & popular lore, expanded Lal Kot to a mega-citadel & renamed it as Qila Rai Pithor (\"Rai Pithor's Fortress\"). Soon afterwards, in AD 1192 India was invaded by the Islamic armies of Muizuddin Muhammad bin Sam aka Muhammad Ghuri. Several generations down the line, Mehrauli was abandoned & Siri became the capital of \"New\" Delhi. Mehrauli was relegated to the status of \"Old\" Delhi, even though the city was abandoned, people from all streams of life kept settling in Mehrauli. Its abandonment did not stamp out its existence, it only lost its status of being the royal fortress. Till as late as late 19th century, Mehrauli buzzed with life \u2013 its inhabitants included not only peasants & merchants, but also courtiers, princes & army generals. The later Mughal rulers established their palaces & pleasure gardens & built their tombs in Mehrauli.\nBlossoming amidst ignorance\nIt was the war of 1857 that changed it all \u2013 the Indian sepoys in service of the British East India Company clashed with their superiors, great bloodshed accompanied by loss of life & livelihood on both sides followed. The British ran down the country, Delhi was laid to waste \u2013 after about a thousand years of its existence, Mehrauli was finally abandoned!! The palaces were ruined, the gardens destroyed, tombs & mosques were brought down &\/or taken over. People stopped settling in Mehrauli, residents left out in droves \u2013 the first city of Delhi soon turned into a graveyard of ruins, a mish-mash of temples, tombs & step-wells.\nThe Qibla Wall\nIt is no wonder that even though Mehrauli was abandoned 150 years back, it soon started repopulating after the British departed from the country & the heart-curdling partition of India to carve out Pakistan & Bangladesh brought in a new wave of refugees from the other side of the border. As Mehrauli grew again with the rest of Delhi, it still retained its ruins in its bosom, often hiding them behind thick vegetation, at times covering them over & over with a blanket of earth. Across the service lane that connects the precariously constructed tomb of Azim Khan (Refer Pixelated Memories - Azim Khan's Tomb) to the Gurgaon-Badarpur highway, exist several ruins that are yet to be excavated. There is perhaps no record of these ruins in Government documents, they are exposed eternally to the wrath of nature & the (at times greedy, at times needy) encroachment of man. The ruins make their presence known by appearing before seekers just like Delhi's resident djinns \u2013 I noticed them as I departed from Azim Khan's Tomb. Across a wire fence that itself was torn & discontinuous, rose a pillar that resembled a Kos Minar to some extent. The Kos Minar were milestones \u2013 tall conical structures topped by a roundish knob, some even 30 metres high \u2013 placed by the emperor Sher Shah Suri across the Grand Trunk Road that he built to connect Bengal to Peshawar (Pakistan). Around the pillar existed wall portions & chambers \u2013 broken, run-down & desolate.\nWhat fruit is this??\nAs I wandered into what looked like a dense forest in the middle of Delhi, I could clearly make out a Qibla wall that stretched from this pillar. A Qibla wall is an open structure, sort of like a wall existing independently, that indicates the direction of Mecca (West for Indians). The Muslims face the Qibla wall while offering their prayers. Thick trees rose like giants around the short wall & spread their arms to block out the sky, creepers hung down the branches to curtain the ruins, thorny bushes jutted out of the ground making passage extremely difficult. With birds, butterflies & huge mosquitoes for company I progressed to take in the entire scene \u2013 the Qibla wall & the said pillar, a few graves resting on the ground & a whole lot of vegetation hiding the rest of the view. Despite having stood ignored for centuries, the Qibla wall looked beautiful \u2013 its decorative indentations & alcoves preserved unnaturally. It must be centuries old, its architecture & ornamentation was simplistic (reminiscent of late-Tughlaq - early-Mughal architecture, but I am not qualified to date it) \u2013 a huge tree almost a 100 year old rose near its centre. The graves however were in a bad condition \u2013 their history forgotten, portions crumbling & tall grass growing out of them \u2013 they presented a sorry state of affairs.\nIn a \"grave\" situation\nA strange, in fact dreadful, howling woke me out of my photography bout. The source of the sound seemed so near, yet it was not visible. Was it a djinn warning me to return to the modern world?? Awake from my revelry, I decided to at least inquire about the source of the sound. Across swathes of thickly vegetated land & over a thin track that meandered deeper into the forest still, I came across a row of chambers, almost in their original condition, except of course for their blackened walls & spider silk-filled alcoves. Further still was a deep gorge \u2013 a dog reared to its puppies in a corner of the chasm. It was the dog growling, its barks muffled by the long distance & echoed by its underground residence. It ran away on noticing me \u2013 further inspection revealed that it was rearing its offspring in a chamber that had caved in & turned into a pit. The surroundings of the pit were high mounds of soil & I assume that there existed adjoining chambers too but they got buried over time. More such chambers were visible around, a few could be distinguished because the soil around them had eroded to reveal buried arches that formed part of the chamber's entrance. A few chambers could only be distinguished because parts of them had collapsed along with the debris & vegetation that covered them & the holes thus formed revealed their interiors.\nOne of the chambers, now buried under earth & vegetation\nAll of a sudden I felt I had been transported to a different era altogether \u2013 this was my discovery, my Harappa. & then it was time to leave behind my Harappa \u2013 it was uncharted territory & I was afraid to go further deep into the vegetation for fear that I might lose my way. Of course now I realize I was being stupid, I just had to trace the track & follow it to the end, but since I diverted away from the track so many times in order to photograph the structures & the vegetation, I felt I won't find it again. As I returned, I noticed the spider silk & the creepers that enveloped the trees & the surrounding chambers, & they assured me that they will hide my treasure from man's greed till the next time I could return to take full stock of their existence. I now wait for the next time..\nHiding a treasure\nLocation: Mehrauli\nNearest Metro Station: Saket\nHow to Reach: After getting down at Saket Station, one can walk to Lado Serai Bus Stop. Buses are available from different parts of the city for Mehrauli & one can alight from the bus at Lado Serai stop itself. The Lado Serai stop is situated at a crossroad & Azim Khan's Tomb is visible behind the trees & the traffic.Enter the service lane leading to Azim Khan's Tomb, the ruins are situated just a few metres before the tomb on the other side of the road.\nPixelated Memories - Azim Khan's Tomb\nPixelated Memories - Feroz Shah Kotla\nPixelated Memories - Tughlaqabad Fort\nLabels: Alcoves, Azim Khan's Tomb, Buried, Chambers, Destroyed, Graves, Lado Serai, Mehrauli, New Delhi, Pixelated Memories, Qibla Wall, Ruins, Sahil Ahuja, Saket, Tower, Trees\nJamali Kamali Complex, New Delhi\n\"Qabr mein aa ke neend aayi hai, Na uthaaye khuda kare koi\"\n(\"A blissful sleep I finally get in the grave, For God's sake, I hope no one wakes me from this\")\n\u2013 A verse penned by Sheikh Jamali and inscribed within the tomb\nPoetry in stone - Jamali-Kamali mosque\nIt is a universal fact that Sufis, followers of a very tolerant branch of Islam, are one of the most unprejudiced and compassionate people. They are known to open their hearts and hearths to people of all faiths, religions, gender and identity. One fine afternoon, I sat down to talk to two kind Sufi mendicants at the Chilla of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, the patron saint of Delhi and one of the most renowned Sufi saints in the country (refer Pixelated Memories - Chilla-Khanqah Nizamuddin). The two mendicants prayed for my well-being without any expectation of profit \u2013 monetary or otherwise \u2013 and one of them even contentedly offered me his meager share of lunch (which he carried in a small polythene bag) when he heard that I have been going around exploring monuments in Delhi since morning and did not eat or drink all day. So, given my attachment to Sufis, it is only natural that I am disheartened and inclined to disagree with the stories that have been doing the rounds about Jamali-Kamali complex, one of the foremost Sufi shrines in the city \u2013 that it is the residence of malicious, evil-natured djinns who have taken to terrifying disrespectful visitors. According to Islamic mythology, when Allah created the world, he fashioned humans out of clay and a similar species called djinns out of fire and smoke. These latter, invisible to all humans except those who have performed penances and are blessed with the power to talk to and at times control them, are powerful spirits \u2013 if benevolent, they could turn paupers to princes, bestow all boons and bring fertility to men and women; however, if malevolent, they are known to cause loss of property and at times even life too! We are all, of course, aware of one djinn \u2013 Aladdin's shape-shifting friend Genie in Arabian Nights. According to popular perception, the djinns at Jamali-Kamali are not so ferocious as to go to the extent of killing someone (it is accepted that they are malevolent spirits), but they have been known to appear as glowing apparitions, slap people, produce savage growling sounds, foul-smelling odours, sounds of laughter and make their presence known through the use of odd lights and\/or a combination of all of these; it is also claimed that these djinns' hands are pretty small and the marks of the slaps that they administer remain for several days. But the local villagers who are well aware of the complex's history never said a word about the resident djinns, even though many of them are regular visitors to the complex to implore the Sufi to intercede with Allah to grant their wishes. What is out of my grasp is that the people who believe in djinns and spirits keep on forgetting God and his\/her messiahs (I am an atheist yet I am repeatedly forced to invoke God! Oh India!) \u2013 after all, how can wicked spirits reside alongside kind-hearted Sufis? Unless of course hidden motives are at work here \u2013 several travel companies and paranormal societies have started offering night tours to the complex on the pretext of ghost-trails and are charging hefty fees from the patrons (Refer Hindustan Times article (dated Sep 10, 2012)). Smell something fishy?\nPreserved - Jamali-Kamali's mausoleum and the graves of high officials of Lodi and Mughal empires around it\nDerwesh Jamali was the pseudonym of Sheikh Jamal-ud-din Hamid bin Fazlu'llah Kamboh Dehlawi aka Sheikh Jalal Khan, a Sufi mystic poet-philosopher-scholar-traveller who came to India during the reign of Sultan Sikandar Lodi (ruled AD 1489-1517) and settled in Delhi. Why did he need a pen-name if he already had such an extensive name is something beyond my comprehension. The word \"Jamali\" has its roots in the Urdu word \"Jamal\" meaning beauty\/elegance, while Jalal Khan means \"the fiery one\". He belonged to an affluent Sunni merchant family and was the disciple and son-in-law of the Suhrawardiyya Sufi Sheikh Samauddin. Prior to settling in Delhi where he lived and preached for the rest of his life, he had travelled extensively through Middle East and Central Asia. The courtyard in what is today Jamali-Kamali's complex used to be his chilla once where he practiced severe penances and preached spirituality and universal brotherhood. His story is very similar to that of his contemporary Imam Zamin, another travelling priest, who too arrived in Delhi in the reign of Sikandar Lodi and lived to see the vanquishing and collapse of Lodi Dynasty and the reigns of Mughal Emperors Zahiruddin Babur (ruled AD 1526-30) and Nasiruddin Humayun (ruled AD 1530-40 and 1555-56). But while Zamin accumulated enough wealth for himself as the officiating priest of the majestic mosque in the colossal Qutb Complex to build himself a graceful tomb adjacent it (refer Pixelated Memories - Qutb Complex and Pixelated Memories - Imam Zamin's Tomb), Sheikh Jamali became the darling of the citizens of Delhi and was soon appointed as a court poet and tutor of Persian mysticism for Sikandar's son and successor, Ibrahim. It is said that Emperor Sikandar, himself a renowned poet, often had his works corrected by him. Sheikh Jamali is also credited with writing several important works about mysticism and religion and was unanimously bestowed with the title \"Khusro-e-Sani\" (\"Equal to Khusro\"). One of his finest works was \"Siyar-i-Arifin\" (\"The Mirror of Meanings\"), a classical hagiographic account of the notable Indian Sufis of the Chishti and Suhrawardy sects and the metaphysical symbolism used by them in divine poetry. Given his unparalleled credentials, he was retained in the royal court when Babur conquered India (AD 1556) and later he became one of the favorite poets of Humayun, Babur's son and successor, who possibly was the major financial contributor to the construction of this complex since the architecture, except for minor artistic differences, is exactly identical to that of Humayun's graceful magnum Qila-i-Kuhna Jami Masjid in his majestic citadel Dinpanah\/Old Fort (refer Pixelated Memories - Old Fort). It is interesting to note that while the mosque was built following the advent of Mughal rule in Delhi, the architecture largely follows the Lodi-style of construction since the Mughal rulers and administrators were still busy consolidating the empire instead of focusing on artistic-architectural and cultural developments.\n\"Jewel box\" - One of the highly ornamented squinches within the gorgeously bedecked tomb\nKamali's identity, however, remains shrouded in mystery. The word \"Kamali\" itself is derived from the Urdu word \"Kamal\" meaning \"miracle\/excellent\" which could apply to both male and female names and it has often been pointed that Kamali was possibly a contemporary Sufi of Jamali and they both were inseparable companions. Hearsay is that he\/she was Sheikh Jamali's wife\/friend\/servant \u2013 a recently published fictional book (\"Jamali-Kamali, A Tale of Passion in Mughal India\" by Karen Chase) also claims that Jamali and Kamali were homosexual partners in a very orthodox and unremitting age and country. Perhaps that would explain why Kamali chose to be referred by this name \u2013 it perfectly rhymes with Jamali and sort of completes it. Or maybe Jamali adopted the new name, he already had so many pen-names, perhaps he took up a new one to show his association with Kamali. Nobody knows. Another theory is that the person buried alongside Sheikh Jamali is his son Sheikh Abdur Rehman Gadai Kamboh (even though his name nowhere comes close to being shortened to Kamali, but then Jamali-Kamali could well be a later, easily remembered\/pronounced nomenclature. There are several similar examples scattered all over the city.), a prominent theologian and the \"Sadr-i-Sadur\" (\"Administrative General\/Lord Chief Justice\") in the court of Emperor Jalaluddin Akbar (ruled AD 1556-1605). Sheikh Gadai wielded immense power during Emperor Akbar's reign and was exempted from paying homage and courtesies to the latter; he also excelled in poetic compositions, Persian mysticism and organizing musical congregations.\nStepping within the vast Mehrauli Archaeological complex, one comes face to face with the beautifully decorated but very poorly maintained enclosure walls of Jamali-Kamali complex \u2013 these are being restored as part of a massive restoration-conservation project undertaken by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in collaboration with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). Gazing at the endearing floral and geometric patterns gracing the numerous skillfully carved alcoves lining the enclosure walls, one is forced to ponder if earthen lamps (\"diyas\") were once lit in these and how splendid such an ethereal scene would have been. Once visitors used a small octagonal water tank located in the center of the courtyard for purposes of ritualistic ablutions before offering praying in the mosque \u2013 the tank presently is parched and a black plastic water tank stands within it from which emerge several pipes to supply water to different parts of the large courtyard. Guards employed by ASI strolled around and inside the mosque, one had even parked his motorcycle within the courtyard.\nMore jewels!\nThe massive, soothingly serene mosque was constructed in AD 1528-29 by Sheikh Jamali himself and is composed of red sandstone sparsely, but very delicately, ornamented with white marble and grey quartzite highlights. The proportional, blackened single dome, hidden behind veils of foliage offered by the numerous ancient trees gracing the compound in front of the mosque, rests on an octagonal drum (base) and is surmounted by an inverted lotus finial. As mentioned earlier, the mosque is chronologically the earliest of this architectural layout and the same was improved upon and adopted in several mosques before finally culminating in the grandly unmatched Qila-i-Kuhna mosque in Humayun's capital (refer Pixelated Memories - Old Fort). The facade of the mosque is adorned with dexterously sculpted rosette medallions and rows of decorative alcoves while the central of the five arched entrances, each punched within arched niches, is set within a rectangular projection that is flanked by highly ornamental pillars (pilasters) on either side. These fluted pilasters possess alternate triangular and circular flutes and the individual levels are demarcated by exquisite floral bands. The utilization of impossibly hard grey quartzite for ornamentation, especially as panels focusing the exceptional symmetry of the structure, is exceedingly praiseworthy. A \"jharokha\" (ornamental protruding balcony) projects from above the central entrance \u2013 legend is that once lamps were lighted every evening in this window to act as a beacon to guide weary travellers to the mosque where they could rest from their fatiguing travails \u2013 alas, today the entire area has become so thickly forested and so hopelessly ignored that a lamp would not even be seen by passing visitors. But ancient Mehrauli then was a small settlement on the highway connecting Delhi to Central Asia. The jharokha, built in traditional Rajasthani style of architecture, along with the floral medallions, which are integral to Hindu artistic expression, are some of the common Hindu motifs that were later assimilated within Islamic constructions, such as mosques and tombs, and the Jamali-Kamali mosque is said to be the first to display a fusion of these distinctive architectural and artistic characteristics (the same are absent in other constructions predating the mosque). It is interesting to note that this integration occurred in a mosque commissioned by a prominent Sufi, a proponent of unity and co-habitation irrespective of fundamental religious differences.\nHaunted? I doubt\nThe gargantuan interiors of the mosque, visually appearing even more colossal because of the numerous arches and the play of shadows and light creeping in through the windows and entrances, possesses five intricately carved mihrabs (alcoves in the western wall of a mosque indicating the direction of Mecca, faced by Muslims while offering prayers), each uniquely sculpted, bordered by bands of calligraphy inscriptions and existing in symmetric combination with one of the entrances and therefore decreasing in size from the central (largest) to the extremes (smallest). Deftly carved and beautifully ornamented, these have at present become ideal spots for fearsome hornets, who tend to get dangerously irritated if one ventures close enough, to build nests and breed. On the inside, the dome rests on squinches (another architectural tradition that later become integral to Indo-Islamic constructions \u2013 beams extending across upper corners to convert a square structure into an octagonal one) supported by honeycomb brackets which are of course fairly commonplace in Islamic architecture. The central chamber of the mosque thus becomes octagonal towards its upper reaches and more squinches are further employed to convert this eight-sided figure into sixteen-sided figure and so on to form almost a complete circle towards the very top on which the massive dome finally rests. Octagonal corner towers exist along the backside of the mosque and a narrow gallery runs along the upper floor connecting the two, but entry to the upper floors of the towers is now prohibited. One can access the towers from narrow passages built in the corners adjacent the mihrabs and gaze at the small garden towards the back or at the exterior walls on the other side. I do not understand why entry to the garden is now prohibited \u2013 a locked iron gate keeps visitors from entering from the alternate entrance way that opens to the garden. The same also prevents me from understanding why from the tower windows located level with the mosque it appears as if the garden is set at a considerably lower topography compared to the rest of the complex. I failed to find an opening within the mosque or the towers themselves from where I could descend to the garden level. But for someone who is afraid of heights and even more of openings from where one can simply topple down if careless \u2013 it is better to avoid these towers!\nLines, arches and striking symmetry - Inside the colossal mosque\nThe vast courtyard in front of the mosque is divided in two by a wall with an opening. The second courtyard functions as the funerary zone \u2013 the small square-shaped mausoleum of Jamali-Kamali stands close to the further wall and there are several more unmarked and unadorned graves around it \u2013 Muslims believe that the tomb of a saint sanctifies the area around it and assures ascension to heaven to the people buried in its vicinity. Not that its presence makes much difference, a rectangular \"chattri\" (pavilion surmounted on slender pillars) located opposite the tomb shields a lone grave from the elements. Another entrance to the tomb courtyard exists near the chattri, but even it is gated and locked now. The walls surrounding the courtyard exhibit more ornately carved alcoves, much more intricate than the ones adorning the outer walls. The refined but small tomb, only 7.6 meter square in area and so unlike other magnificent mausoleums dotting the rest of the city, was also built in AD 1529 and Sheikh Jamali himself was its architect. Bands of brilliant blue designs mark the space between the brackets that support its eaves (\"chajja\"); a band resembling ornamental \"kanguras\" (battlement-like ornamentation) marks the roof of the tomb while the walls are carved with several small niches and arches. I am dismayed to note that the wooden gate leading within the simplistic small structure is locked as a precaution against vandals. Artists and workers struggle to restore the structure to its original state and I decide to ask them if there is any way to get within the tomb. The lady in-charge of the restoration work sat nearby listening to FM radio on her mobile phone and a quick chat revealed that she had read this blog (flattered!!) and quickly sent for the caretaker to bring the keys to the tomb. If anything, the presence of so many people here in early evening was further proof of the absence of the djinns. Just on the safe side, I did take off my shoes before entering the tomb. I had always heard of how handsome the tomb is from inside and was eager to see it with my own eyes, but as soon as I stepped within, I realized that it is not just stunning but exceptionally striking, perhaps the most gorgeously decorated tomb in entire Delhi!! Rightly has it been described as a \"jewel box\".\nPhotos do the handsome interiors no justice!\nUnbelievably beautiful stucco work (incised and painted plasterwork patterns) in blue, yellow and orange covers the arches and the alcoves while lattice work in marble (\"jaalis\") on two of the sides lets in shards of light. The western wall doesn't bear any openings but functions as a mihrab. Like the central chamber of the mosque, the tomb too makes use of squinches and the square chamber progressively becomes eight, sixteen and finally thirty-two sided towards the top. However no dome rests on the roof which is flat and decorated with copious amount of stucco and glazed tiles of numerous colors (red, several shades of blue, yellow, orange) and patterns. The tomb is the only example in Delhi where stucco and tiles are used in combination with each other rather than exclusive of each other as seen elsewhere. Again, as with the mosque, the tomb too became the inspiration for the Qila-i-Kuhna mosque which features an exceedingly marvelous use of stone inlay work instead of painted stucco\/tiles to generate an equally flamboyant and vivacious exterior facade. It is interesting to note that the tomb has survived almost 500 years against the ravages of time, nature and marauders exceptionally well. Since I know I would fail to describe the ornamentation if I tried, I'll rather let photographs do the talking. Further still, a thousand words might fall short of admiring these divine patterns hence I'm posting several photos here! The walls are inscribed with two of Jamali's own verses, perhaps he was immensely enamored with his own work to have it inscribed on his final resting place while he had it constructed. The first of the two verses has been revealed in the beginning of this article and the second, the more heart rendering, goes \u2013\n\"Rang hi rang, khushbu hi khushbu\nGardish-e-sagar-e-khayal hain hum\"\n(\"Colour everywhere, scent all pervasive\nA movement of thought, an imagination, I am\")\nOf the two marble-layered graves within that occupy most of the floor area of the delicate tomb, the one in the center is that of Sheikh Jamali who passed away in AD 1536 while accompanying Emperor Humayun in an expedition to Gujarat. The second grave, a later addition since it has been just about accommodated in the space between the central grave and the wall, should belong to Kamali who is said to have expired much later. Given the excessive ornamentation of the tomb's walls, the unparalleled explosion of multihued rococo patterns on the roof and the numerous visual compositions that can be generated as a combination of the two along with the streams of light creating patterns through the openings of the marble latticework, the narrow space that one is afforded within the small tomb proves to be a photographer's paradise and after a point one begins to feel that the graves are hampering one's movement and the ability to photograph\/observe these fascinating patterns! I could hear myself cursing for not coming here before!\nLight and colors\nAs with several of the mosques I wrote about in the past few days, the mosque of Jamali-Kamali too is being threatened by religious zealots \u2013 Muslims want the mosque to be thrown open for regular prayers (Notification of Monuments Act (1958) states that if a religious place of any denomination was abandoned by the local population for prayers at the time of Govt. takeover and subsequent designation as a national\/state-protected structure, no prayers would be allowed to be offered there any time in future) and have been staging impromptu and forced prayers in the premises. Hindus claim that Sheikh Jamali and Sheikh Gadai were extremely vitriolic and rabidly intolerant preacher-administrators and the mosque is actually built on their religious site and hence, as a means to correcting the injustices committed by then rulers, the area should be handed over to them (I do not know if it was actually a Hindu site or not, not that I care either). But the important fact is that it is a protected monument \u2013 where were these groups when the entire region had been forgotten and surrendered to an ignominious fate, taken over by vegetation and wildlife, and reduced to ruins? Now that the Government is restoring and renovating the place everyone wants a piece of it! Utter disrespect to the Sufis who blended the practices of the two religions to create one of the first architectural amalgams in the country \u2013 I wish the djinns would appear and slap these misguided souls out of their dreadful slumber and ignorance. On a calmer note, perhaps these verses penned by Karen in her book about Jamali-Kamali would aptly apply to these individuals who somehow conclude that religion is above the country and are content to raise issues against the secular nature of the new India we ought to build \u2013\n\"\u2026our hope is that you will pity our weeping.\nHow could your pardon be known, had we not shown ourselves guilty!\"\nDelicate - One of the mihrabs within the mosque\nLocation: Mehrauli Archaeological Park, just off Lado Serai crossing\nNearest Metro Station: Qutb Minar and Saket stations are both equidistant.\nHow to reach: Cross the road from Qutb Minar metro station and start walking towards Lado Serai \u2013 the official entrance of the archaeological complex is located midway between the two and can be identified through the slender red sandstone markers lining the periphery walls. Alternately, take a bus\/auto from Saket metro station to Lado Serai and access the complex through a small opening in the periphery walls along Mehrauli-Gurgaon road just a couple of meters after Lado Serai crossing. Parking facilities are available adjacent Jamali-Kamali complex if coming through the entrance near Qutb Minar metro station.\nNote \u2013 There are no facilities (toilets, food and drinking water) available within the Archaeological Park. While food and refreshments can be availed at one of the roadside eateries\/shops at Lado Serai opposite, you can only find toilets at Saket metro station, over two kilometers away, or the malls beyond it. It is better to be prepared.\nOther monuments within the archaeological complex -\nPixelated Memories - Balban's Tomb\nPixelated Memories - Chaumukh Darwaza\nPixelated Memories - Gandhak ki Baoli\nPixelated Memories - Khan Shahid's Tomb\nPixelated Memories - Lodi-era Canopy Tomb\nPixelated Memories - Metcalfe's Chattri\nPixelated Memories - Metcalfe's Ziggurats and Guardhouses\nPixelated Memories - Mughal tombs and Choti Masjid Bagh wali\nPixelated Memories - Quli Khan's Tomb\nPixelated Memories - Rajon ki Baoli\nPixelated Memories - Settlement ruins\nBlog.tehelka.com - Article \"Saanjha Chulha: The Jamali Kamali Mosque and Tomb\" (dated Nov 15, 2013) by Rana Safvi\nKarenchase.com - Book \"Jamali-Kamali - A tale of passion in Mughal India\"\nThehindu.com - Article \"The ghostly trail\" (dated Sep 24, 2012) by R.V. Smith\nWikipedia.org - Shaikh Gadai Kamboh\nLabels: Architecture, Art work, Djinns, Haunted, History, Interiors, Jamali Kamali Complex, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Mosque, Mughal, Paranormal activity, Sheikh Gadai Kamboh, Sikandar Lodi, Stucco, Sufi saint, Tomb\nRuins, Mehrauli Archaeological Park, New Delhi\nAs I mentioned in the post about Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban's Tomb (Refer Pixelated Memories - Balban's Tomb), a large settlement, now in ruins, surrounds the Sultan's Tomb. Built around 16th-17th century, the settlement boasts of a large central courtyard with surrounding houses & quarters. I wonder who used to live here. Soldiers maybe. Or general public, if they were allowed next to the tomb of one of the most powerful rulers in Indian history. Balban actually ruled from AD 1266-86, but most of the power was concentrated in his hands even 20 years before that, when his son-in-law Mahmud ruled over the vast swathes of the Sultanate. In these houses, one notices walls with alcoves for lighting diyas (earthen lamps lighted with cotton wicks dipped in oil), pillars & portions perhaps used for keeping small knick-knack. The rooms mostly survive as only the foundations, the walls have collapsed at most of the places. In a few portions, stairs too could be seen, however whatsoever used to be around these stairs is now gone & only the alcove below it survives.\nThese are the ruins.. (What were you thinking, eh??)\nAfter the mutiny of 1857, this area subsequently fell into disuse & was reclaimed by vegetation. While the rest of Mehrauli proper (part of Delhi where this settlement exists) grew at exponential phase & took rapid strides towards urbanization, this pocket was left behind & forgotten. This region is part of one of the oldest continuously inhabited region in the history of Delhi \u2013 only to be abandoned in recent past. It was as late as mid-20th century that this area was re-discovered & since India was in a turmoil then, with newly achieved independence & wars with Pakistan & China, it was left as it is, but with the tag of a heritage property under the aegis of the newly established Archaeological Survey of India (A.S.I.). It was only in the year 2001-02 that the excavation of these ruins & other structures nearby was started. The restoration work of some of the more famous & the better preserved monuments started only recently. Even now, most of these structures are in different stages of excavation.\nMore of the same.. (Visible in background on the left side are the remains of Balban's tomb)\nThe Archaeological Park actually resembles a tamed forest bereft of any wildlife, but with a trail running through it. The trail is very well marked though, there are red sandstone posts indicating clear directions to various monuments. These ruins cover a pretty extensive area, starting a few meters from the famous chattri that Thomas Metcalfe built to beautify the surrounding expanse, & are bound on one side by Balban's Tomb Complex & are cut off from the rest of the Park by the trail. Across the ruins stand the magnificent Tomb-Mosque complex of Jamali-Kamali.\nIt is quite easy to walk past these ruins, no proper road encompasses them, one has to get past thorny bushes & unlevelled, stony ground to view these properly. The Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage (INTACH) which is overseeing the excavation & upkeep of these fallen structures is yet to properly study them & convert this area & the park as a whole into a maintained tourist spot. But this is unquestionably one of those places where sitting down & observing things becomes the most natural thing to do. The lines of huge ants marching from here to there, & even climbing up the tumble-down stairs. The plants & creepers slowly, but gradually, overtaking the built structures. The thrill of discovering a beautiful flower. It all seems so natural here. Plastic bags, polythenes & other waste lies spread around, accumulated in this area as a result of general neglect & the gross misuse we Indians subject our heritage & forests to. This modern litter in stark contrast to this otherworldly litter of ruins that has been spread around here for so many centuries. One wonders what to photograph & what to leave. One wonders what is mighty \u2013 the rulers who left behind these colossal structures \u2013 now a mound of stones. Or the ants who simply overtook these & drilled their own palaces into these.\nAmidst desolation, springs beauty..\nOne is reminded of the ways covered with \"leaves no step had trodden black\" from Robert Frost's \"The Road Not Taken\".\nLocation: Mehrauli Archaeological Park\nNearest Metro Station: Saket Station\nHow to Reach: After getting down at Saket Station, one can walk to Lado Serai Bus Stop. Buses are available from different parts of the city for Mehrauli & one can alight from the bus at Lado Serai stop itself. The Lado Serai stop is situated at a crossroad & at one side, one can see a large domed-structure seated on a high hill (Azim Khan's Tomb) rising high behind the trees & the traffic. Walking towards this structure, one comes to a recreational park called Ahinsa Sthal (\"Abode of Non-Violence\"), marked with a large signboard (or simply ask for Ahinsa Sthal from the locals & shopkeepers, check if they are aware of its location - they weren't when I visited the area in December 2012). The unmarked entrance to Mehrauli Archaeological Park is through an iron gate opposite the Ahinsa Sthal.\nNote \u2013 There are no facilities (toilets, food & drinking water) available within the Archaeological Park. While you can avail food & refreshments at one of the restaurants at Lado Serai, you can only find toilets at the shopping malls close to Saket Metro Station, almost a kilometre away.\nPixelated Memories - Ahinsa Sthal\nPosted by Pixelated Memories at 10:33 pm No comments:\nLabels: Abandoned, Alcoves, Archaeological Park, Chambers, Isolation, Lado Serai, Mehrauli, New Delhi, Pixelated Memories, Ruins, Sahil Ahuja, Stairs\nAzim Khan's Tomb, New Delhi\nThough no one is exactly sure who Azim Khan was, most historians conjecture that he was a general in the army of Mughal emperor Akbar (ruled AD 1556-1605). Historical accounts state that when Akbar's valiant generals were leading his mighty armies to annex small kingdoms along the fringes of the great Mughal empire in order to further his expansionist policies, his foster brother & powerful general Adham Khan was busy satiating his own blood lust & carnal desires - he would enslave the women in the lands he captured for the Emperor & add them to his harem. His terrifying reputation preceded him - women in the conquered kingdoms preferred to commit suicide rather than face him. The kingdom of Malwa (Central India) had gained independence during the reign of Akbar's father, Emperor Humayun (ruled AD 1530-40 & 55-56). In 1561 AD, Akbar decided Malwa had enjoyed sovereignty for too long & decided to subdue it. He sent a large army led jointly by Adham Khan & General Pir Muhammad - Adham Khan invaded the kingdom under Akbar's banner but sullied the victory by refusing to send the spoils of the war to the emperor. He fell in love with Queen Roopmati, the wife of Baz Bahadur (literally \"Brave Hawk\"), the defeated king of Malwa. Baz Bahadur was defeated & fled the battle scene, but before Adham Khan could touch the queen, she committed suicide by jumping into a pyre (\"Jauhar\"). Adham Khan, in all his fury & in mood for vengeance, unleashed a pogrom - the historian Badauni who had accompanied the army to Malwa noted that the undisciplined soldiers displayed ruthlessness of an extreme order by killing captive enemy soldiers along with their wives & children - not even the Saiyyids (claiming descent from Prophet Muhammad) who had welcomed the Muslim armies were spared but burnt alive along with their holy books. Enraged, emperor Akbar himself decided to proceed to Malwa to subdue Adham Khan. This is where the lines between history & conjecture begin to blur - belief is that the emperor's massive force was led by none other than Azim Khan, the protagonist of our story. Adham was defeated, his powers curtailed for a period of time & he was ordered not to lead any military campaigns in the near future. However, strangely, most historical records & contemporary accounts are silent about the valour & the feats of Azim Khan. Following the victory, Azim was crowned with the title of \"Akbar\" (meaning magnificent) & rewarded by the emperor. Interestingly enough, Azim also means \"the magnificent one\", & I am not sure how he prefixed his name with this new title. \"The magnificent among magnificent, most magnificent one\"??\nThe Tomb of the \"Most Magnificent One\"\nIt is said that the Sufi Saint Salim Chishti met Emperor Akbar at a hill in the city of Agra & told him that if he prayed with true faith, the saint himself would come & stand next to him to ask God to grant the Emperor's wishes. Akbar's wives were finding it difficult to conceive & when a son was born to him, he considered it a blessing by the saint & named his newborn Salim after him. Touched by the saint's religious tolerance & policy of benevolence, the emperor went on to build the former's tomb (Fatehpur Sikri) near his newly envisaged capital at Agra. After Akbar's death, Azim was retained as a nobleman in Akbar's son & the new Emperor Jahangir Salim's court. Azim became a follower of Hazrat Nizamuddin who he said appeared in his dreams & urged him to give up his life of war & violence. Hazrat Nizamuddin resided in Delhi in early 14th century & belonged to the Chishtiyya order of Sufism (to which also belonged saint Salim Chishti). Following Nizamuddin's teachings, Azim started on the path of broad-minded religiosity & forbearance, giving up his earlier life as a soldier & starting in the direction of spirituality as a mendicant. After a course of some years, Azim came to be known far & wide for his penances & people started to revere him & came to him to ask for guidance as well as solutions to their problems. To prevent people from flocking to him & disturbing his peace of mind, somewhere in early 17th century Azim decided to build a residence-cum-tomb for himself atop a summit of a hill surrounded by pointed rocks & barren land. His decision to reside on the chosen hill was guided by the fact that it was accessible only to a select few because of its height & almost unscalable vertical walls, & also because it reminded him of the story of Akbar meeting Salim Chishti atop a similarly unscalable hill (the lore doesn't tell us how did Azim, Akbar & the Sufi used to climb these hills in the first place if they were so high & dangerous).\nHistory's Mysteries - Shrine of a General??\nCenturies later, when Britain converted India into one of her colonies & let its men amok on the face of the country, the British soldiers converted this tomb into a hill-top resort meant for late night partying. They would come here in groups, often with mistresses, bring along booze & servants, & make merry. Most of these parties were held at the end of the winters, before the Brits departed from Delhi to their summer capital in nearby hill city of Shimla. They took pride in displaying their climbing & physical skills to their friends & considered scaling the hill's sheer walls a mark of their strength & manhood.\nAfter the British departed from the country, along came the Archaeological Survey of India (A.S.I.), the agency entrusted with the upkeep, protection & beautification of monuments within the country, who after initially ignoring the tomb for decades, recently decided to build a staircase leading up the hill to reach the tomb. The staircase is complete now, its wide steps have been set so as to match with the surrounding hill sides & present a picture of harmony. But still the tomb lies deserted, ignored by passer-bys as well as tourists arriving at the nearby World Heritage Site of Qutb Complex. Perhaps people still find the steep climb daunting. Whatever might be the reason, Azim Khan's Tomb would have made even Count Dracula envious were he to visit Delhi. The Count's fortress in Transylvania, covered by a thick pal of fog & chill, invites no visitor. Azim's Tomb on the other hand lies unvisited despite being in open view & visible from a very busy highway on one side (the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road).\nInside Azim's Tomb - Too meager for Dracula??\nThe square tomb is pierced by entrances along its three sides, however these entrances lie perennially locked by grilles in a bid to keep out vandals\/scribblers who are so numerous throughout the city. The dome, topped by an inverted-lotus finial, rests on an octagonal base (drum). The tomb walls, as well as the drum, feature kanguras \u2013 ornamentations that resemble battlements, protruding vertically. Squirrels run around the tomb, feeding at rice & nuts left for them by the caretakers\/locals. An earthen bowl filled with water was kept nearby. Wild yet beautiful flowers grew on the hill side, often in tandem with thorny bushes & desert plants that inhabit such rocky & barren lands. When I visited the structure, I found the caretaker assigned by the A.S.I. asleep on one of the benches placed there for the tourists. Were he awake too, he wouldn't have been able to open the tomb for me since A.S.I. sealed off the iron-grilles barring its entrances with nuts & bolts - perhaps they felt that locks can be easily broken into. Clever chaps!! The tomb, plastered & cream-ish in colour, is now blackened because of the rains & vegetation, despite being restored just some time back by the A.S.I. The fear of the precipice surrounding the tomb ensures that not many people wander off to its rear sides, I did, & what I saw again put to shame the deeds of fellow Delhites. The walls of the tomb were defaced with graffiti & the love letters that wandering Romeos saw fit to emblazon here. I must have been there for only about 30 minutes, taking in the charm of the place, adoring the sights visible in the distance - the Qutb Minar, the tomb of Adham Khan, Mahavira statue atop Ahinsa Sthal etc, when there arrived a group of college kids with a bottle of alcohol & disposable glasses, & no marks for guessing where they decided to hang out \u2013 at the rear of the tomb!!\nI feel sorry for Kishor, a worthless bastard!!\nThe fourth wall of the tomb, the one overseeing the most dizzying cliff-face, does not have an opening & instead its interior functions as a mihrab (wall faced by Muslims while praying, indicating the direction of Mecca). Inside, beautiful patterns cover the ornamental arches, the dome rests on a layer of small, arched alcoves meant for decoration. While there is no sarcophagus inside the tomb, two graves lie outside - the larger of these two has calligraphic inscriptions along its sides - both of them however are in a run-down condition, broken, crumbling & exposed to the fury of nature. It has been claimed that the grave inside is buried deep within the hill right underneath the chamber, though this also remains mere speculation. Strategically placed stone benches flank the graves outside.\nLook what I found!!\nEven today, a lot of monuments that aren't so well known, or are not deemed that high in terms of heritage &\/or architectural value, are looked after by families & caretakers who live nearby (not on Govt.'s payroll). These people either consider themselves the blood family of the occupant\/builder of these tombs\/structures, or are religious followers & part-time priests. In the absence of Govt. funds & upkeep, these people often protect these structures from hoodlums & demolition. One such family looked after the tomb of Azim Khan but they were forced to migrate to Pakistan at the time of India's independence from British rule in 1947 & subsequent partition to create Muslim-dominated Pakistan & Bangladesh. Gone with them are all the records & the history of the inhabitant of the tomb, & no one is left to care for it & defend it from inebriated fellas & rowdy vandals. Perhaps they could have shed some light on the mysterious occupants & their lives. The tomb should have qualified as a religious spot since Azim too became a man of God later in his life, but even that is contested since the officials have not yet been able to ascertain if it is actually the tomb of Azim Khan or someone else. Perhaps it never will be found out for sure. No documentation exists for the tomb, & all the stories are actually passed down from elders to the subsequent generations in the nearby villages, & of course distortions & fantasies encapsulate the kernel of truth that these stories possess. Such is the sad state of affairs that so many heritage structures & buildings find themselves in the national capital!!\nPS: If time permits, do visit the nearby Ahinsa Sthal (\"Abode of Non-Violence\", refer Pixelated Memories - Ahinsa Sthal). The view of Azim Khan's Tomb from the heights of Ahinsa Sthal is simply breathtaking.\nThe view from Ahinsa Sthal\nLocation: Lado Serai, Mehrauli\nHow to Reach: After getting down at Saket Station, one can walk to Lado Serai Bus Stop. Buses are available from different parts of the city for Mehrauli & one can alight from the bus at Lado Serai stop itself. The Lado Serai stop is situated at a crossroad & Azim Khan's Tomb is visible behind the trees & the traffic.\nPixelated Memories - Qutb Complex\nPixelated Memories - Qutb Minar\nHindu.com - Article \"Renovation of mystery tomb\" (dated Jun 07, 2010) by R.V. Smith\nTimesofindia.indiatimes.com - Article \"Passage to past: ASI builds pathway to Mughal-era tomb\" (dated May 31, 2010) by Richi Verma\nTraveltravailsandheck.blogspot.in - the road above my street pt 38\nRe-edit - Jan 15, 2014\nPosted by Pixelated Memories at 6:27 pm 17 comments:\nLabels: Adham Khan, Ahinsa Sthal, Akbar, Army General, Azim Khan's Tomb, Baz Bahadur, British resort, Cliff, Graves, Hill, Mehrauli, Mihrab, Moinuddin Chishti, Mughal, New Delhi, Nizamuddin, Roopmati, Tomb\nAhinsa Sthal, New Delhi\nSome 800 years ago, when Islamic armies led by Shihab-ud-din Muhammad Muizuddin bin Sam (Muhammad Ghuri) first appeared at Indian borders threatening to conquer the country, the Hindu Rajput ruler Prithviraj Chauhan assembled a huge army to face this new challenge. Valiant & indefatigable, he defeated Muhammad's forces, administering them a crushing blow in the First Battle of Tarain (1191 AD) & even capturing Muhammad himself. Magnanimous in his victory, Prithviraj treated Muhammad with all respect due to a king, & against the advice of his foreseeing ministers freed him & gave him safe passage to return to his kingdom in Afghanistan. A year later, Muhammad again amassed an even mightier army & marched once again against Prithviraj. This time around, he vanquished & chased the army of Prithviraj & his 150 brethren Rajput rulers. Prithviraj himself was captured & later killed. One by one, all the provinces in India including Tibet, Bengal, Bihar & Deccan (Central India) fell to Muhammad's marauding army looking for loot & treasure. The entire country was ravaged, its wealth & women carried away by the Afghans, a large part of the population either killed or converted to slaves, its foundations demolished & rulers humiliated. Prithviraj himself was immortalized & lionized in folklore & bardic tradition. But the country he left behind bore the brunt of the war. After converting India into his fief, Muhammad retired to his kingdom leaving his favourite slave & army commander Qutbuddin Aibak in-charge of the unruly lands of India. A fanatic Muslim & a loyal slave, Qutbuddin decided to forward the name of his master & his religion in this new land by constructing mosques & felling temples that already existed here. He fell 27 Hindu & Jain temples in Mehrauli in South Delhi & established the gigantic mosque Quwwat-ul-Islam (\"the Might of Islam\"). 800 years later, though the scars of this temple destruction & religious bickering are yet to heal completely, most of the citizens of this holy land have accepted, although uneasily, a life of mutual understanding & co-existence. The Jains, believers in peace & non-violence, instead of demanding that the Quwwat mosque be fell to make way for a temple of their denomination like some Hindus did, built a temple for themselves nearby. The Ahinsa Sthal (\"Abode of Non-Violence\") was established in 1980 close to the Qutb Complex (where the Quwwat Mosque is situated).\nTo peace & tolerance..\nBoasting of a large statue of Mahavira (599-27 BC), the last Tirthankar (spiritual guide) of the Jain faith, seated atop a high hill & surrounded by landscaped gardens, Ahinsa Sthal comes as close to a peaceful & uninterrupted spot in Delhi as possible. The stone statue, 14 feet tall, seated on a lotus placed on a pedestal & flanked by statues of lions & ornaments-clad attendants, presents a glorious picture. Glimmering in the bright sunshine, Mahavira sits meditating about the human life & preaches a lesson of religious tolerance & universal brotherhood (Ironic after Qutbuddin's actions, right??). As one enters the compound, the guards motion one to take off their shoes & place them underneath any of the several benches placed within the garden complex. Though a notice board proclaimed that \"Photography is prohibited\", the guards said one can take photos as long as they do not disturb anyone else in the park. I wasn't there to disturb anyone!! Perambulating the lawns of this not-so-large garden, I noticed statues of apsaras (divine maidens) placed underneath trees & among bushes, many of them holding musical instruments, others offering tributes to Mahavira. Large painted boards, arranged alongside the larger trees along the walkways, threw light on Mahavira's life & teachings, & also the tenets & ethics of the Jain faith. I also noticed a few couples engrossed in talking to their partners seated close to the edge of the park, of course maintain their distance from each other. It is the first time I saw couples flocking to a religious spot in search of isolation & privacy. A few families, apparently in picnic mood, sat sprawled in the lawns, chatting & sharing light snacks. Eating & running about the lawns is prohibited. In the centre is the hill, visible from some distance outside the complex, but more or less hidden behind the surroundings. Of course, I saw the statue already from the heights of the adjacent tomb of Azim Khan. I climbed up the stone stairs, again marveling at the clever placement of the apsara statues (& a small, white marble cow too!!) to blend them with the flora.\nGoddess amongst the bushes\nThe green cover is very well maintained here \u2013 ancient Indians believed that the presence of holy men could induce fertility to everything around them & make even barren land & rocky plateaus lush with plants, many people still believe that it was the Mahavira statue that actually made the hill sides go green. On the first level of the hill, one faces a clearing, stairs projecting upwards on either side & the Jain flags visible fluttering towards the top. The portion towards the opposite side of the hill (behind the stairs) is forbidden for tourists. A large bell hung from a blue nylon rope in front of a cavity in the opposite wall where a huge stone monolith & a photograph of some man were placed. The man gazes sideways as people kept coming to ring the bell. Its loud sound actually hurts the ears if one stands as close as I did!!\nThe monolith was sculpted to show a lioness & a cow drinking from the same vessel, while the lioness fed its milk to a calf & the cow fed a lion cub. It must have been representing justice (the weak & the strong existing together & partaking the same resources) & equality (both feeding each other's kids) - again an irony in the country. Lions were also part of the insignia of the royal family to which Mahavira belonged. He took the pledge of a solitary existence & gave up his kingdom & all his comforts when he began on the path to seek enlightenment I climbed up the stairs to reach the summit where the Mahavira statue was kept. There wasn't much to do here \u2013 a few families sat on the mats placed near the statue, again chewing chips & snacks, a few Jain pilgrims prayed near the statue, a few lighted incense sticks. More lions in the form of stone statues, & a lion head carved out into the plinth over which the Mahavira idol rested. The plinth itself is carved with certain couplets describing Mahavira's ideology. The thing that certainly put me off were the names of the patrons who contributed financially for the erection of this statue inscribed on Mahavira's seat. Seriously, why do you have to be such a show-off??\nStunning, right??\nA guard looked bored sitting in the small compartment built near the rear of the level. I spent some time around, thinking what to do, photographing the statues, the people, the environs & of course standing near the railing & gazing down at the visitors coming & going. Nah, there wasn't anything much to do. I left, sort of bored & disappointed. This is a charming place no doubt, perfect for contemplation. The Jains were successful in creating a place, silent, tranquil & sacred, where meditation is possible despite the noise & fumes from the highway that passes next to it. But if you are not one up for meditation or sitting around idly, this isn't the place for you. It is more like a normal park where people go in the evenings for walk, except that there is a huge idol instead of the swings & the merry go-rounds. Off I go somewhere else then..\nIn service of the Lord..\nHow to Reach: After getting down at Saket Station, one can walk to Lado Serai Bus Stop. Buses are available from different parts of the city for Mehrauli & one can alight from the bus at Lado Serai stop itself. The Lado Serai stop is situated at a crossroad & at one side, one can see a large domed-structure seated on a high hill (Azim Khan's Tomb) rising high behind the trees & the traffic. Walk towards the tomb. Ahinsa Sthal is enroute & marked with large signboards & a huge gate.\nPixelated Memories - Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque\nPosted by Pixelated Memories at 7:33 pm No comments:\nLabels: Ahinsa Sthal, Apsara, Garden, Hill, Last Tirthankar, Mahavira, Mehrauli, New Delhi, Non-Violence, Park, Pixelated Memories, Qutb Complex, Quwwat-ul-Islam, Sahil Ahuja, Statue\nMohammad Wala Mosque, New Delhi","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vikings lose Cousins to COVID list before game vs. Packers\nin AP News, AP WI News Feed\nBy DAVE CAMPBELL\nAP Pro Football Writer\nThe Minnesota Vikings have placed quarterback Kirk Cousins on the COVID-19 reserve list. The big blow comes two days before their most important game of the season at Green Bay. Cousins is unvaccinated. Even if he's asymptomatic, he wouldn't be able to return in time to face the Packers. The NFL recently reduced the required quarantine period to five days. The Vikings are 7-8. They are one game out of the last wild-card spot in the NFC. Sean Mannion is in line to start for Minnesota on Sunday night at Lambeau Field.\nAP Top Sports News at 2:00 p.m. EST","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"More Features GAME OF THRONES \u2014 HOW THEY MAKE THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR SHOW\nDavid Benioff & D.B. Weiss\nBehind the Cover\nExclusive Photos\nEssential Episodes\nSeason 7 Theories\nGame of Thrones: How They Make the World's Most Popular Show\nBy Daniel D'Addario\/Belfast | Photographs by Miles Aldridge for TIME\nThe battle for Westeros may be won or lost on the back of a lime green mechanical bull.\nThat's what it looks like on a January Monday in Belfast, as Game of Thrones films its seventh season here. Certainly no one believes the dragons that have thrilled viewers of HBO's hit series exist in any real sense. And yet it's still somewhat surprising to see the British actor Emilia Clarke, who plays exiled queen Daenerys, straddling the \"buck\" on a soundstage at Titanic Studios, a film complex named after this city's other famously massive export.\nThe machine under Clarke looks like a big pommel horse and moves in sync with a computer animation of what will become a dragon. Clarke doesn't talk much between takes. Over and over, a wind gun blasts her with just enough force to make me worry about the integrity of her ash blond wig. (Its particular color is the result of 2\u00bd months' worth of testing and seven prototypes, according to the show's hair designer.) Over and over, Clarke stares down at a masking-tape mark on the floor the instant episode director Alan Taylor shouts, \"Now!\" Nearby, several visual-effects supervisors watch on monitors.\nClarke and I talk in her trailer before she heads to the soundstage, at the beginning of what is to be a long week inhabiting a now iconic character. Behind the scenes it's more toil than triumph, though. The show's first season ended with Daenerys' hatching three baby dragons, each the size of a Pomeranian. They've since grown to the size of a 747. \"I'm 5-ft.-nothing, I'm a little girl,\" she says. \"They're like, 'Emilia, climb those stairs, get on that huge thing, we'll harness you in, and then you'll go crazy.' And you're like, 'Hey, everybody! Now who's shorty?!'\"\nShe has reason to feel powerful. On July 16, Clarke and the rest of the cast will begin bringing Thrones in for a landing with the first of its final 13 episodes (seven to air this summer, six to come later). Thrones, a scrappy upstart launched by two TV novices in 2011, will finish its run as the biggest and most popular show in the world. An average of more than 23 million Americans watched each episode last season when platforms like streaming and video on demand are accounted for. And since it's the most pirated show ever, millions more watch it in ways unaccounted for. Thrones, which holds the record for most Emmys ever won by a prime-time series, airs in more than 170 countries. It's the farthest-reaching show out there\u2014not to mention the most obsessed-about.\nemilia clarke | daenerys targaryen\nPeople talk about living in a golden age of TV ushered in by hit dramas like The Sopranos, Mad Men and Breaking Bad. All had precisely honed insights about the nature of humanity and of evil that remade expectations of what TV could do. But that period ended around the time Breaking Bad went off the air in 2013. We're in what came next: an unprecedented glut of programming, with streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu jumping into an ever-more-crowded fray. Now, there's a prestige show for every conceivable viewer, which means smaller audiences and fewer truly original stories.\nExcept for Thrones, which merges the psychological complexity of the best TV with old-school Hollywood grandeur. You liked shows with one anti\u00adhero? Well, Thrones has five Tony Sopranos building their empires on blood, five Walter Whites discovering just how far they'll go to win, five Don Drapers unapologetic in their narcissism. Oh, and they're all living out their drama against the most breathtaking vistas not of this world.\nkit harington | jon snow\nThe phenomenon is fueled by a massive worldwide apparatus that, in a typical 10-episode season, generates the equivalent of five big-budget, feature-length movies. Even as the series has grown in every conceivable way over the years\u2014it shoots around the globe; each episode now boasts a budget of at least $10 million\u2014it remains animated by one simple question: Who will win the game in the end? And if Thrones has taught us anything, it's that every reign has to end sometime.\n1. the fiction\nIt all started with a book. In 1996, George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, the first novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. (Back then, he conceived of it as a trilogy. Today, five of the planned seven volumes have been published.) As a writer for shows like CBS's The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast in the late '80s, Martin had been frustrated by the limits of TV. He decided that turning to prose meant writing something \"as big as my imagination.\" Martin recalls telling himself, \"I'm going to have all the characters I want, and gigantic castles, and dragons, and dire wolves, and hundreds of years of history, and a really complex plot. And it's fine because it's a book. It's essentially unfilmable.\"\nPhoto-composite by Miles Aldridge for TIME\nThe books became a hit, especially after 1999's A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords a year later. Martin, who writes from his home in Santa Fe, N.M., was compared to The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien. Like Tolkien's Middle-earth, Martin's Westeros is a land with a distinctive set of rules. First, magic is real. Second, winter is coming. Seasons can last for years at a time, and as the series begins, a long summer is ending. Third, no one is safe. New religions are in conflict with the old, rival houses have designs on the capital's Iron Throne, and an undead army is pushing against the boundary of civilization, known as the Wall.\nThrones' vast number of clans includes the wealthy and louche Lannisters, including incestuous twins Cersei and Jaime. She is the queen by marriage; he helped ensure her ascendancy through violence. Their brother Tyrion, an \"imp\" of short stature, is perhaps the most astute student of power. Then there are the Starks, led by duty-bound Ned. His children Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, Rickon and \"bastard\" Jon Snow will be scattered throughout the realm's Seven Kingdoms. Daenerys is a Targaryen, an overthrown family that also\u2014surprise\u2014has a claim to the throne. Soon enough, Thrones devolves into an all-out melee that makes the Wars of the Roses look like Family Feud.\nlena headey | cersei lannister\nIn the wake of director Peter Jackson's early-2000s film trilogy of Tolkien's masterpiece, Martin was courted by producers to turn his books into \"the next Lord of the Rings franchise.\" But the Thrones story was too big, and would-be collaborators suggested cutting it to focus solely on Daenerys or Snow, for instance. Martin turned them all down. His story's expansiveness was the point.\nTwo middleweight novelists, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, had come to a similar conclusion and obtained Martin's blessing at what the author calls \"that famous lunch that turned into a dinner, because we were there for four or five hours\" in 2006. The two writers thought Thrones could only be made as a premium-cable drama, and they walked into HBO's office with an ambitious pitch to do so that year. \"They were talking about this series of books I'd never heard of,\" says Carolyn Strauss, head of HBO's entertainment division at the time. \"[I was] somebody who looked around the theater in Lord of the Rings, at all of those rapt faces, and I am just not on this particular ferry \u2026 I thought, This sounds interesting. Who knows? It could be a big show.\"\nHBO bought the idea and handed the reins to Benioff and Weiss, making them showrunners who'd never run a show before. Benioff was best known for having adapted his novel The 25th Hour into a screenplay directed by Spike Lee. Weiss had a novel to his credit too. The two had met in a literature program in Dublin in 1995 and later reconnected in the States. \"I decided I wanted to write a screenplay,\" Benioff told Vanity Fair in 2014. \"I'd never written a script before, and I didn't know how to do it, so I asked [Weiss] if he would write one with me, because he had written a bunch already.\" It never got made.\nThe Thrones pilot, shot in 2009, got off to a rocky start. Benioff and Weiss misjudged how much planning it would take to bring Martin's fantasy to life. To portray a White Walker\u2014mystic creatures from the North\u2014they simply stuck an actor in a green-screen getup and hoped to figure it out later. \"You can maybe do that if you're making Avatar,\" says Weiss. \"But we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.\" They also had trouble portraying Martin's nuanced characters. \"Our friends\u2014really smart, savvy writers\u2014didn't [realize] Jaime and Cersei were brother and sister,\" says Benioff of the ill-fated first cut. Ultimately, they reshot the pilot.\nnikolaj coster-waldau | jaime lannister\nWhen Benioff and Weiss look back at that first season, they see plenty to nitpick. Their fealty to Martin's text, for example, made Peter Dinklage's Tyrion \"Eminem blond,\" per Benioff. (His hair was later darkened.) Still, the elements that have made the show a monster success were there\u2014and audiences (3 million for Thrones' first season finale) picked up on them. Arguably the most ground\u00adbreaking element was a willingness to ruthlessly murder its stars. Ned Stark, the moral center of Season 1, portrayed by the show's then most famous cast member (Sean Bean, who starred in The Lord of the Rings), is shockingly beheaded in the second-to-last episode. By the third season's \"Red Wedding,\" a far more gruesome culling, the show had accrued enough fans to send the Internet into full on freak-out mode.\nThrones had by then become the pacesetter for all of TV in its willingness to forgo a simple happy ending in favor of delivering pleasure through brutality. Even if you don't watch, Thrones' characters and catchphrases have permeated the culture (the apparent death of Snow was an international trending topic all summer in 2015). Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and The Tonight Show have lampooned the show. And the recent South Korean presidential election was called on a national news network with depictions of the candidates duking it out for control of the Iron Throne.\n2. the production\nWandering around the Belfast set, the scope and the orderliness of the enterprise is staggering. The wights, zombie-like creatures with spookily pale faces and dressed in ragged furs, form a tidy line as they wait to grab breakfast burritos. Outside the stage door, a few smoke cigarettes, careful not to ash on their worn-in tunics. \"At first we had a season with one big event, then we had a season with two big events, now we have a season where every episode is a big event,\" says Joe Bauer, the show's VFX supervisor. Bauer and VFX producer Steve Kullback oversee a group of 14 FX shops from New Zealand to Germany that work on the show almost continuously.\nOne of those big events this season is a battle whose sheer scope, even before being cut together with the show's typical brio, dazzled me. In order to get on set, I agreed not to divulge the players or what's at stake. (Thrones has been promising this clash all along, and when the time comes, the Internet will melt.) It will be all the more impressive knowing that the cast and crew were shot through with a frigid North Atlantic wind that whipped everyone during filming and sent them all flying to the coffee cart during resets. (The cold, a prosthetic artist tells me, is at least good for keeping the makeup on.)\npeter d\u0131nklage | tyrion lannister\nThe setting is as grand as the action. The battle was filmed in what was once a Belfast quarry, drained, flattened out with 11,000 square meters of concrete and painted over with a camouflage effect\u2014all of which took six months and required special ecological surveys. This kind of mountain moving, or leveling, is par for the course for Thrones.\nEach season starts with producers Christopher Newman and Bernadette Caulfield circulating a plot outline on a color-coded spreadsheet, dictating what will be shot by the show's two simultaneous camera units, which can splinter into as many as four. It's perpetually subject to change, given the complications of a television show this ambitious\u2014over seven seasons they've shot in Croatia, Spain, Iceland, Malta, Morocco and Canada as well as locations around Northern Ireland. While I'm in Belfast, my plan to watch Jon Snow in action is canceled because of inclement weather (that same wind) that makes filming from a drone hazardous. At this point, Caulfield will grab onto any small comfort. \"Now the dragon doesn't get any bigger,\" she says, \"so we know that much.\"\nMore Game of Thrones\n13 Actors Who Were Almost Cast on Game of Thrones\nEvery Character Who Has Died on Game of Thrones\nWhat the 'Great War' Means for This Season of Game of Thrones\nThis Game of Thrones Quiz Will Prove Whether You're Ready for Season 7\nSee How Sansa Stark Has Changed Over Six Seasons of Game of Thrones\nAnother breakdown goes out to department heads, and a massive global triage begins. Costumer Michele Clapton, for example, begins figuring out if she'll have to dress any new characters or armies and then sets out on the most complex work. \"I know that Daenerys' dresses will take the longest,\" she says. Each look, no matter the character, may take as many as four craftspeople to bead, stitch and\u2014if there's meant to be wear and tear\u2014break down. Deborah Riley, the production designer, begins looking for references to new locations in the outline. Tommy Dunne, the weapons master, starts forging gear for the season's big battles. \"My big thing is the numbers,\" he says. \"I hope they won't frighten me.\" He made 200 shields and 250 spears for last season's epic Battle of the Bastards.\nsophie turner | sansa stark\nBenioff's and Weiss's jobs amount to maintaining constant conversation with numerous producers. The pair are usually in Belfast for about six months a year. Wherever in the world they happen to be, they get daily video from the shoots and field an endless stream of emails from staff on location. During my visit, wolves described in the script as \"skinny and mangy\" showed up to the shoot looking fluffy and lustrous. Around the world, new message notifications lit up smartphone screens.\nWhen Benioff and Weiss aren't shooting, they're writing. And when they aren't shooting or writing\u2014which happens rarely\u2014they're promoting. The two make a complementary pair. Benioff, who wears his hair in a Morrissey quiff, is the more sardonic one. Weiss, with silver rings in his ears, is nerdier and given to hyperbole. They say they're still having fun making Thrones, despite the stakes, and still regularly find themselves surprised by its scale. Weiss recalls seeing the buck Clarke rides to simulate Daenerys' dragons for the first time: \"We knew it would be a mechanical bull. We didn't know it would be 40 ft. in the air and six degrees of motion with cameras that swirl.\" Says Benioff: \"It's like the thing NASA built to train the astronauts.\"\nDespite nonstop production, Weiss says, \"There's still a kid-in-a-candy-shop feel. You're going to look at the armor, crazy-amazing dresses\u2014gowns Michele is making\u2014then you're going to look at the swords, then watch pre-vis cartoons of the scenes that will be shot and you're weighing in on shot selection. Every one of these things is something we've been fascinated with in our own way since we were kids.\"\n\"Especially dresses,\" cracks Benioff. Weiss adds, \"Especially the gowns.\"\n3. the players\nThe first few seasons' worth of swordplay and gowns turned the show's cast into recognizable stars. But it's the complexity of their characters, revealed over time, that made them into icons. \"My friends always say to me, 'It's like you're two different people. I see articles about you in BuzzFeed'\u2014but then they see my Facebook posts,\" says Maisie Williams, who plays the tomboy turned angel of vengeance Arya Stark. Williams was two days past her 14th birthday when the show debuted. There's TV-star famous, after all, and then there's some-percentage-of-23-million-people-has-been-actively-rooting-for-you-to-kill-off-your-co-stars-for-six-years famous.\nThrones' story doesn't ask its actors to break bad or good, and viewers stay tuned in large part because of the characters' moral mutability. Consider Cersei, played by Lena Headey, who is either a monster or a victim. The character has become more popular with fans even as she's wrought greater carnage, including blowing up a building full of people last season. \"At the beginning, people were like, 'Oh my God, you're such a bitch!'\" she says. \"What's moving is that people love her now and want to be on her team.\" That Headey, a Brit, uses an exaggerated American accent as she delivers the harsher interpretation of her work is revealing of nothing, or a lot.\nShe's thought through every element of her character, though, including the incestuous relationship with Jaime that provided the show its first narrative jolt. \"I love to talk about all of it,\" she says, citing her frequent emails to Benioff and Weiss. \"Cersei's always wanted to be him. Therefore, for her, that relationship is completion. There's been an envy, because he was born with privilege just for being a man. I think their love was built on respect.\"\nmaisie williams | arya stark\nNikolaj Coster-Waldau, the Danish actor who plays Jaime, is a bit less excited to discuss the subject. \"I've never really gone too deep into the whole sister-brother thing because I can't use that information. I have to look at her as the woman he loves and desires. Lena's a very good actress, and that's kind of what carries the whole thing.\" He adds, \"I have two older sisters. I do not want to go there. It's just too weird.\"\nEven a character like Jon Snow, as close to a pure hero as possible as Season 7 begins, has outgrown the box he originally came in. Snow, an illegitimate child never embraced by his father's wife, is a James Dean daydream of Sir Walter Scott. \"I made mistakes and felt that he wasn't interesting enough,\" says Kit Harington of the way he's played Snow. We're in a Belfast hotel bar, and Harington is squeezing in a coffee before he makes an evening showing of Manchester by the Sea. \"That sounds weird, but I've never been quite content with him. Maybe that's what makes him him. That angst.\" His character has been slowly absorbing lessons about duty and power\u2014and \"this year there is this huge seismic shift where all of what he's learned over the years, suddenly \u2026\" Harington trails off. \"He's still the same Jon, but he grows up.\"\nDinklage, too, found in Tyrion a character who surpassed his expectations. The actor says he'd never read fantasy beyond The Lord of the Rings. \"That's the part of the bookstore I don't really gravitate toward,\" he says. \"This was the first time in this genre that somebody my size was an actually multidimensional being, flesh and blood without the really long beard, without the pointy shoes, without the asexuality.\"\nThrones catapulted Dinklage, the only American in the main cast, from a well-regarded film and theater actor to among the most-recognized actors on earth in part because the asexuality is quite absent. Tyrion thirsts for wine, sex and, crucially, love and respect. As the offspring of a wealthy and powerful family, the first two are easy to come by. The latter not so much. \"He covers it up with alcohol, he covers it up with humor, he does his best to maintain a modicum of sanity and he perseveres,\" says Dinklage. \"He's still alive. Anyone who's still alive on our show is pretty smart.\"\nIndeed, with just 13 episodes left, everything is possible\u2014alliance, demise or coronation. \"Every season I go to the last page of the last episode and go backward,\" says Dinklage. \"I don't do that with books, but I can't crack open page one of Episode 1 not knowing if I'm dead or not.\"\n4. the drama\nThe size of Thrones' controversies have, at times, been as large as its following. Its reliance on female nudity, especially Daenerys', was an early flash point. \"I don't have any qualms saying to anyone it was not the most enjoyable experience. How could it be?\" says Clarke. \"I don't know how many actresses enjoy doing that part of it.\" That aspect of the role has faded as Daenerys found paths to power beyond her sexuality. This evolution from a passive na\u00eff into a holy terror who rules by the fealty of her subjects is what has earned Daenerys, according to Clarke, the audience's loyalty. \"People wouldn't give two sh-ts about Daenerys if you didn't see her suffer,\" she says.\nMore controversial still has been the prevalence of sexual violence. Many of the major female characters have been assaulted onscreen. In a 2015 sequence, Sansa, the Stark daughter played by Sophie Turner, was raped by her husband. According to the logic of the show, the plot gave her character a reason to seek revenge and power of her own. It nonetheless generated substantial blowback online and clearly turned some fans away from the series for good. \"This was the trending topic on Twitter, and it makes you wonder, when it happens in real life, why isn't it a trending topic every time?\" says Turner, who is 21. \"This was a fictional character, and I got to walk away from it unscathed \u2026 Let's take that discussion and that dialogue and use it to help people who are going through that in their everyday lives. Stop making it such a taboo, and make it a discussion.\"\nBenioff and Weiss claim to have seen no other possible outcome for a character stranded in a marriage to a psychopath, in a skewed version of feudal society. \"It might not be our world,\" says Benioff, \"but it's still the same basic power dynamic between men and women in this medieval world. This is what we believed was going to happen.\" Adds Weiss: \"We talked about, is there any other way she could possibly avoid this fate that doesn't seem fake, where she uses her pluck to save herself at the last? There was no version of that that didn't seem completely horrible.\"\nEven if Benioff and Weiss don't always admit it, the show has changed. Scenes in which exposition is delivered in one brothel or another, for example, have been pared back. It's at moments like these that the success of Thrones seems a precariously struck balance, thriving on a willingness to shock but always risking going too far.\n5. the end of the end\nBenioff and Weiss claim to have sworn off reading commentary about the show, good or bad. When I visit them in Los Angeles in March, they're writing the next and final season. I peek into a fridge in a lounge area in their offices, a room dominated by a Thrones-branded pinball machine Weiss proudly points out, to find three cases of beer with Westeros-themed labels, low-calorie ranch dressing and yellow mustard. At this point, they have full outlines of the final six episodes. In fact, they've been working on the very last episode, possibly the most anticipated finale since Hawkeye left Korea. \"We know what happens in each scene,\" says Weiss.\nThe fact that they know is remarkable considering the show will reach its conclusion long before the books. The last new Thrones novel came out in 2011, the year the show began. The author describes his next installment, the sixth of seven, as \"massively late.\" \"The journey is an adventure,\" says Martin, who, at 68, has fought criticism that he won't finish the books. \"There's always that process of discovery for me.\" But with young, and rapidly maturing, actors under contract and a community of artisans awaiting marching orders in Belfast, the show can't wait.\nBenioff and Weiss always knew this would happen. So they met with the novelist in 2013, between Seasons 2 and 3, to sketch out what Martin calls \"the ultimate developments\" after the books and show diverge. The upshot, they say, is that the two can co\u00adexist. \"Certain things that we learned from George way back then are going to happen on the show, but certain things won't,\" says Benioff. \"And there's certain things where George didn't know what was going to happen, so we're going to find them out for the first time too.\"\nd.b. weiss and david benioff | show-runners\nIn preparation for Season 7, Benioff and Weiss have gotten more possessive. That has further fueled fans' curiosity even as it has created security challenges. In the run-up to Season 6, paparazzi shots of Harington\u2014and his distinctive in-character hairdo\u2014in Belfast tipped the Internet off that Jon Snow wasn't, in fact, as dead as he'd seemed the season before. \"Look at how difficult it is to protect information in this age,\" says Benioff. \"The CIA can't do it. The NSA can't do it. What chance do we have?\"\nIt's also changed the on-set dynamic. Coster-Waldau says Benioff and Weiss have \"become much more protective over the story and script. I think they feel this is truly theirs now, and it's not to be tampered with. I've just sensed this last season that this is their baby: 'Just say the words as they're written, and shut up.'\"\nThen there's the end of the end, the finale likely to air next year or the year after. Benioff and Weiss are not writing the Thrones spin-off projects HBO revealed this year that could explore other parts of Westerosi history\u2014some, all or none of which may end up on air. In the meantime, they claim not to be worrying about the public's reaction to their ending. (Benioff says that when it comes to endgame stress, \"medication helps.\") Weiss says, \"I'm not saying we don't think about it.\" He pauses. \"The best way to go about it is to focus on what's on the desk in front of you, or what sword is being put in front of you, or the fight that is being choreographed in front of you.\"\nWhat's currently before them seems like plenty. When I first met Clarke in Belfast, she was shooting on the back of a dragon. When I leave a week later, she's still at it. \"Thirty seconds of screen time and she's been here for 16 days,\" the episode's director, Taylor, remarks at one point. Later on, I'd remember this moment of exhaustion when Weiss described seeing the buck for the first time. He went on to add, \"It probably feels a bit less amazing to Emilia, who sits on it for eight hours a day, six weeks in a row, getting blasted with water and fake snow and whatever else they decide to chuck at her through the fans.\" The table with the espresso machine\u2014just beyond Clarke's line of sight\u2014is well trafficked.\nClarke doesn't seem bothered, though, smiling and chatting with the crew from atop the buck. As the state-of-the-art hydraulics move her into position, her posture shifts from millennial slump to ramrod straight. In an instant, she converts herself into the ruler of the fictional space around her. On cue, she looks over her shoulder with a face of marble. She casts into an imagined world some emotion known only to her. She's gazing into a future that, in the flickering moments that the story remains a secret, only she can see.\nClarke: Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture gown and necklace, VV Rouleaux silk flowers, Simon Harrison earrings, Dolce & Gabbana ring; Coster-Waldau: Joshua Kane jacket, Burberry shirt, Richard James scarf; Headey: Giambattista Valli Haute Couture evening gown, Dolce & Gabbana earrings; Dinklage: John Varvatos suit and shirt, Linda Bee at Grays Antiques tie pin; Turner: Gucci dress; Weiss: Dries Van Noten suit, COS shirt, Hardy Amies tie; Benioff: Hardy Amies suit, COS shirt, Burberry tie; Williams: Valentino dress; Harington: Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY suit jacket and shirt\nOn the Cover: Harington, Coster-Waldau: Dolce & Gabbana suits; Clarke: Dolce & Gabbana dress and fine jewelry, Vicki Sarge choker, VV Rouleaux collar; Headey: Dilara Findikoglu dress, Garrard fine jewelry, Erdem boots; Dinklage: John Varvatos suit\nCorrection: The fashion credits accompanying the original version of this story misstated the jacket worn by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. 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{"text":"You've got to hear this!\nExclusive preview!\nThe artist's life\nStreaming concert\nGenticorum showcases its new lineup with new album\/tour\nElizabeth Szekeres\nPhoto by Louise Bichan.\nFor over eighteen years, audiences all over Canada and around the world have delighted in the music produced by this trio from southern Qu\u00e9bec. Genticorum has performed over a thousand concerts in fifteen different countries, presenting the exciting traditional music of Qu\u00e9bec, (which is considered to be \"world music\" everywhere else,) to a global diversity of audiences. The reviews are stellar everywhere they go, and listeners love the humour, charisma and boundless energy of their live shows.\nHeaded by fiddler Pascal Gemme, with accompanist Yann Falquet, the band has grown musically. Five years ago a shift in the Genticorum continuum saw long-time flute player Alex de Grosbois-Garand move on to other musical interests. Stepping in to more than capably fill those shoes is Nicholas Williams, who has brought new flavor to this musical smorgasbord of Qu\u00e9becois trad combined with what you might call \"new trad\" \u2013 fresh compositions in the traditional vein.\nPascal Gemme (fiddle, feet and voice) wanted to play music from the time he was a child at his fiddler grandfather's knee. But today, he doesn't just play those traditional tunes with verve, offering singularly effortless interpretations and great arrangements, he is also a marvelous composer, creating new tunes in the traditional vein. Yann Falquet (guitar, guimbarde, diatonic accordion, voice,) has not only developed a wholly unique and beautiful style of guitar accompaniment, but is also a lovely composer in his own right. Nicholas Williams (piano accordion, flutes, voice,) seems to be able to play anything you put in his hands, and he's also a terrific composer and vocalist.\nIt's taken four years for the new band to gel, to be comfortable enough that they could have an intuitive sense of how to play well together. Said Pascal: \"We wanted to have time to really lock in musically with Nicholas. We played a LOT together during those four years. \u2026 In some ways, putting together this album (the sixth for Genticorum,) was like it was a first album all over again.\"\nIt eventually took two years for Avant L'Orage to come to fruition.\n\"We wanted to have each musician contribute equally to the final arrangements,\" explained Pascal. \"We wanted to create a true fusion of our collective experiences as professional musicians and incorporate Nicholas' expertise in harmony singing and band arrangement into the collective.\"\nEach of the musicians brought tunes, songs and compositions to the group for consideration. They took their time, testing out the material in live performances, and then looking for the thread that bound the best ones together. From this process, the title Avant L'Orage \u2013 Before the Storm \u2013 emerged. It refers to the feeling of heaviness and tension in the air, Mother Nature holding her breath, waiting for the inevitable discharge of electrons. The idea and the feeling are replicated in the arrangements, full of nuances, tension and expectations. This intensity is captured fully in \"Reel Lenoir,\" a kaleidoscopic, trance-inducing composition \u2013 a collaboration from all three band members.\nThat tension carries through the song lyrics on the album. There are tales of peril and impending doom. A young woman is married against her will. Picking roses results in a broken leg, which can only be healed by a questionable medical practice. A couple in love perishes in a shipwreck. Another couple, walking on a mountain, is to be separated by a death, and a naughty buckwheat miller lures young maidens inexorably to their doom while the creaking sails turn in the wind. The band weaves as counterpoint intricate interplay among fiddle, accordion, flute, guimbarde and guitar and conjures colourful harmonies among their voices. It's beautiful listening, even if you don't understand the French lyrics.\nNow that Nicholas has joined Genticorum, the band's musical colours have grown to an entire rainbow, made possible by the addition of the two accordions as well as Nicholas' massive experience in singing harmony, performing world music, playing and arranging for contradance bands, and playing multiple kinds of flutes. Avant L'Orage is nothing short of wonderful listening. It's a testament to the talents of these gifted musicians that they've managed to again capture Genticorum's signature sound while at the same time broadening the colours and capturing the ethos afresh.\nwww.genticorum.com\nGenticorum in concert:\nJuly 6-9 \u2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival\nJuly 27-29 \u2013 Festival M\u00e9moire et Racines, Saint-Charles-Borrom\u00e9e, QC\nAug. 3 \u2013 Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival \u2013 St. John's, NL\nIf you are enjoying this content, please take a second to support Roots Music Canada on Patreon!\nTagsSt. John'sWinnipeg\nNational Indigenous Peoples Day: five artists ...\nSix queer Canadian roots heroes to be ...\nChris Antonik and Ashley Belmer take Northwood on the road\nBy Sarah French\nOysterband's founders are launching a Canadian tour next week!\nBy Bob Mersereau\nSupport Roots Music Canada on Patreon\nRoots Music Canada is your home on the web for Canadian roots music, founded on Nov. 17, 2009, Gordon Lightfoot's 71st birthday.\nManaging editor, Heather Kitching: Heather@rootsmusic.ca\nEditor, Gordy the Moose: Gordy@rootsmusic.ca\nClick here to access our submission form.\nRoots Music Canada is supported in part by:\nNew music in our mailbox!\nThe artist's life\nYou've got to hear this!\nCOPYRIGHT \u00a9 2018 ROOTS MUSIC CANADA.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New Study Suggests that AI Can Detect Loneliness by Your Voice with 94% Accuracy\nThere may be times when you may have said, \"Haha, that's so sad. Alexa, play Despacito,\" but ironically Artificial Intelligence can now detect if you're really sad or joking.\nAccording to a recently published paper by researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine used AI to analyze language patterns of adults to discern loneliness. The paper has been published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. It attempts to assess the breadth and depth of loneliness through voice.\nAuthor Dr. Ellen Lee, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine told Patch \"Most studies use either a direct question of \"How often do you feel lonely?\" which can lead to biased responses due to stigma associated with loneliness or the UCLA Loneliness Scale, which does not explicitly use the word lonely.\"\nThe study has used natural language processing or NLP which is an unbiased quantitative assessment of expressed emotion with the usual loneliness measurement tools.\nNLP encompasses a variety of processes and techniques that analyze large volumes of unstructured speech and text data. In recent years, the advancement of AI and machine learning systems have bought to light, several preliminary studies to suggest conditions such as PTSD, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and depression, all of which might be detected just by analyzing natural speech.\nVarsha Badal, a postdoctoral research fellow and author on the report, said \"NLP and machine learning allow us to systematically examine long interviews from many individuals and explore how subtle speech features like emotions may indicate loneliness. Similar emotion analyses by humans would be open to bias, lack consistency, and require extensive training to standardize.\"\nAlso Read: RapidAI Announces $25 Million Funding to Expand Cerebrovascular Imaging Globally\nReportedly, the AI system can predict the loneliness of a person with 94% accuracy.\nThe researchers concluded in the study \"Eventually, complex AI systems could intervene in real-time to help individuals to reduce their loneliness by adopting in positive cognitions, managing social anxiety, and engaging in meaningful social activities.\"\nHuawei Launches ADN Solution to Bring Intelligent Connectivity to Enterprises\nAdeya Listed in Hype Cycle Reports as a Sample Vendor\nFacebook Will Start Adding Labels To State-Controlled Post Under Its New Policy\nMarriott Faces London Lawsuit Over Vast Data Breach\nDiffblue Launches First AI-Powered Automated Java Unit Testing Solution\nZTE Launches New Smartwatch with Heart Rate and Blood-oxygen Sensors\nFinastra launches Next-Generation Fusion Data Cloud Platform for Financial Services","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"51% Believe A Home Is A Family's Best Investment - 98% Of Big Banksters Believe Home Equity is Easily Looted - Rasmussen Reports\u2122\n51% Believe A Home Is A Family's Best Investment - Rasmussen Reports\u2122\nPOVERTY IN THE BURBS\u2026you are next and an illegal is next in your job!\nOBAMAnomics at work: SOARING RICHES FOR THE 1%, SOARING UNEMPLOYMENT FOR AMERICANS (LEGALS), SOARING PROFITS and CRIMES FOR OBAMA'S BANKSTER DONORS and SOARING TAXES TO PAY FOR MEXICO'S WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!\nMuch of the rise in suburban poverty is due to the impoverishment of working families already living there. The decline in manufacturing, the Great Recession, and widespread foreclosures have left many longtime suburban families reeling\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/obamas-america-soaring-poverty.html\nMuch of the rise in suburban poverty is due to the impoverishment of working families already living there. The decline in manufacturing, the Great Recession, and widespread foreclosures have left many longtime suburban families reeling.\nPROFITS SOARED AS DID BANK CRIMES and FORECLOSURES.\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/obama-vows-to-banks-he-will-continue-to.html\n\"That McLaughlin's plan can be presented as \"left\" only underscores the fact that the Obama administration has done absolutely nothing to assist homebuyers. Its mortgage programs have been based on the banks voluntarily agreeing to restructure loans for small sections of the population, with no reduction in principal. The administration has worked closely with the banks to minimize their liability for their fraudulent and criminal practices that have already led millions to lose their homes.\"\nTHE WRECKING OF AMERICA: BARACK OBAMA and his LOOTING WALL STREET DONORS PILLAGE A NATION BUSH STYLE!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/the-wrecking-of-america-barack-obama.html\nIn 2008, candidate Obama preached: \"We need a president who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just their big campaign donors and corporate allies.\"\u2026 AND HE NEVER STOPPED LYING TO US OR LOOTING US ON BEHALF OF HIS WALL STREET BANSTERS.\nWARS FOR MUSLIMS, OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX AND UNLEASHED RAPE BY WALL STREET DONORS!\nthe figures are in on Obama's looting of America for Wall Street!\nSTAGGERING POVERTY IN AMERICA CAUSED BY OBAMA, HIS CRONIES AND WALL STREET DONORS\u2026AND THEN ILLEGALS GET THE JOBS!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/obamanomics-and-obamas-crony-capitalism.html\nAccording to a new report by University of California Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez, the gulf between the wealthy and the rest of society has sharply expanded under Obama. The richest one percent now monopolize more than 22 percent of all household income in America. The richest ten percent of the population now control more than half of the nation's income, 50.4 percent\u2014the highest proportion since the government began collecting income statistics in 1917.\nSince 2009, the richest one percent has captured a staggering 95 percent of all income gains. The class war policies of the government\u2014including bank bailouts, \"quantitative easing\" and an attack on wage and benefits for the working class\u2014have led to a 31.4 percent rise in income for the top one percent. The wealthy have more than recovered the losses that came from the Wall Street collapse of 2008.\nMeanwhile, the bottom 99 percent has seen a negligible 0.4 percent rise in income. Tens of millions of workers\u2014who never recovered from the record household income drop of 2007 to 2009\u2014continue to reel from the effects of mass job losses, falling wages, home foreclosures, indebtedness and social service cuts.\nPosted by The Mexican Invasion & Occupation at 12:28 PM No comments: Links to this post\nWELFARE FOR MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS IN LOS ANGELES ABOVE $600 MILLION PER YEAR - CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS VOWS TO DOUBLE IT AND PUT MORE ILLEGALS INTO AMERICAN JOBS\nSHE WAS APPOINTED BY HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA TO EASE MILLIONS OF MEXICANS INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS.\nDURING OBAMA'S FIRST TERM ALONE TWO-THIRDS OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL!\n\"Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza movement, announced the \"We Can Help\" project with great fanfare a few days ago.\"\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/hilda-solis-runs-for-los-angeles-county.html\nSHE IS A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST AND SUPPORTER OF MEXICAN FASCISM AND THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE in AMERICA \u2013 THEY ALREADY GET OUR VOTES.\nMexico endorses HILDA SOLIS for Los Angeles County Supervisor - Dedicated to expanding the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE in Mex-infested MEXIFORNIA\nFOOLS STILL THINK MEXICANS ARE NOT VOTING FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY. THEY VOTE IN DROVES FOR RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GIL CEDILLO!\nWHEN ILLEGALS ELECT MEXICANS, THAT LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CONSIDERS MEXICANS THEIR SOLE CONSTITUENCY, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGALS!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/gil-cedillo-la-raza-fascism-at-work-in.html\nBut that nickname diminishes Cedillo, who should be taken seriously. When it comes to representing the interests of illegal immigrants Gil Cedillo is a true believer.\nLA's own 'secretary of state' not looking after our interests\nBy Doug McIntyre, Los Angeles Daily News\nPosted: 08\/17\/13, 6:31 PM PDT | Updated: 11 secs ago\nOur secretary of state was one busy diplomat last week scrambling to get ahead of a mushrooming crisis.\nCOUNTY SUPERIVISOR CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS and the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA\nLA RAZA CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS for LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR VOWS TO EXPAND WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS and EASE MORE ILLEGALS INTO AMERICAN JOBS\nHILDA SOLIS RUNS FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR - CAN WE AFFORD ANOTHER LA RAZA SUPREMACIST AFTER GLORIA MOLINA?\n\"Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election.\"\nLaRaza Calls For Boycott Against Free Speech\nNo surprise here. Pulling the race\/hate card again and using political correctness La Raza goes after cable shows reporting on illegal immigration.\n\"Murgu\u00eda said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. \"Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs,\" she said. \"Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril.\"\nhttp:\/\/www.nclr.org\/content\/news\/detail\/50375\/\nFIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA \"THE RACE\" Obama-funded Mexican fascism in our borders!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/obamas-part-base-of-la-raza-15-things.html\nSOME HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA:\nON THE GROWIN POWER OF \"LA RAZA\" FASCISM FOR MEX SUPREMACY\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/history-of-mexican-fascist-party-of-la.html\nTonight Tuesday July 8, 2008\nSens. McCain and Obama are fiercely courting the Latino vote. Last month they spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; today it's the League of United Latin American Citizens' national convention; and this weekend they're set to address the National Council of La Raza, one of the most radical socio-ethnocentric interest groups in the country.\n\"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.\" --- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico\nSTATE by STATE\u2026 49 more mexifornias\nhas Obama promised Mexico, La Raza and employers of illegals open and undefended borders and 49 more easy to loot mexifornias?\nTHE BIGGEST MEXICAN DUMPSTER IN CA IS LOS ANGELES, GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AND MEXICO'S CENTER FOR ANCHOR BABY FACTORY FOR WELFARE.\nMEXIFORNIA: The Shattering of the American Dream\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/california-mexicos-looted-welfare-state.html\nMEXICO BANKRUPTS CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS - MEX CONSULATES URGE LOOTING OF LEGALS\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/mexico-bankrupts-california-hospitals.html\nJUDICIAL WATCH:\nWhile the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government.\nOBAMA HANDS TAX DOLLARS TO MEXICAN SUPREMACIST:\n(THE 2013 AMNESTY HOAX UPS AMERICAN TAX MONEY GOING TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA BY $150 MILLION! VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? WE ARE PAYING FOR IT!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/obama-first-hispandering-la-raza.html\nNow you sound off. Should the United States taxpayer be funding the National Council of La Raza? THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY\nBy Dave Gibson\n2006 \u2013 UNDER BARACK OBAMA, FUNDING FOR LA RAZA HAS SOARED.\nhttp:\/\/americandaily.com\/article\/15577\nIn 2005, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in U.S. federal grants.\nAmerican Taxpayers Being Forced To Support Latino Nazi Party\nBy Dave Gibson (09\/17\/06)\nIn 2005, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in U.S. federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in so-called 'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress passed and President Bush signed. Considering the racist agenda of La Raza, giving federal funds to this group is tantamount to the U.S. funding the Nazis in the 1930's.\nThe comparison to the Nazi Party is well deserved. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a portion of the United States (ethnic cleansing), they call for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico (the re-occupation of the Sudetanland), and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states (Adolf Hitler planned to called his utopia Germania).\nKarl Rove was one of the keynote speakers at this year's annual National Council of La Raza Conference. The event was held in Los Angeles (the eventual capital of Atzlan). Other speakers included Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and the virulent racist L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The fact that Karl Rove is the President's top political adviser and addressed the group with Bush's blessing, is a strong indicator that this nation is being subverted at the very highest levels.\nIf La Raza was a white supremacist group with equally deep pockets, the U.S. government would place them on a terrorist watch list, infiltrate them with undercover FBI agents, and subject them to constant harassment by the Internal Revenue Service. Eventually, the group's leaders would be jailed and the group itself would be rendered irrelevant. However, because La Raza is a Latino supremacist group, the Bush administration and most of Congress offer them financial support!\nOne of La Raza's biggest supporters is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). In 2001, Reid asked the Senate Appropriations Committee for $5 million to help further the racist goals of that organization. That same year, La Raza gave Sen. Reid their Capital Award for \"his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino community.\" Reid in turn praised La Raza by saying: \"La Raza is like the biblical David, fighting all these Goliaths.\"\nTaxpayer funds are also funneled to La Raza through the Department of Health and Human Services, The Environmental Protection Agency, and even NASA. Tax dollars are hidden in these government agencies, earmarked to be specifically given away to La Raza. Inside the halls of Congress, the practice is known as discretionary funding...In the real world it is known as money laundering!\nIn 2005, $7.9 million was stolen from the American taxpayers and given out to Latino-only charter schools in the form of U.S. Department of Education grants. The following is a list of a few of those schools:\n-La Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles)\n-Atzlan Academy (Tucson, AZ)\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/e-verify-obama-sabotages-to-put-his-la.html\nTHE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST MOVEMENT DEMANDS EXPANDED OBAMACARE for MEXICANS.\nACTUALLY LA RAZA SUPREMACIST ESQUELAS, MEXICAN EXPECT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO AIDE THEM IN LOOTING THE STUPID GRINGOS, BECAUSE THE ONLY THING MEXICO DOES FOR THEIR POOR, CRIMINALS AND ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS IS EXPORT THEM TO LOOT AMERICANS!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/mexico-la-raza-supremacy-party-and.html\n\"Latinos have an expectation that government will fulfill certain basic services and health care is one of them,\" Fernando Espuelas, who hosts a popular call-in radio show on Univision, tells me.\n\"WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!\"\u2026. THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/by-anchor-baby-breeding-illgals-voting.html\nOBAMA'S AGENDA OF BUYING THE LA RAZA \"THE RACE\" ILLEGALS' VOTES BY EASING THEM INTO OUR JOBS! THIS KEEPS WAGES DEPRESSED, AND THEREFORE OBAMA'S WALL ST. DONORS HAPPY AND GENEROUS!\nIf job creation is the goal, make E-Verify mandatory - TheHill.com\nOBAMA'S LA RAZA DEPT. of JUSTICE, WHEN NOT ARMING THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS, IS HARASSING AMERICAN STATES WITH LAWSUITS, FIGHTING AGAINST IDs TO EASE ILLEGALS INTO OUR VOTING BOOTHS, AND FIGHTING E-VERIFY!\nTHERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHERE HALF OR MORE JOBS GO TO ILLEGAL USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!\nTHE LA RAZA FACTION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW SIGNED BY LA RAZA DEM, GOV JERRY BROWN MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!!!\nLOS ANGELES IS THE MEX GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICAN, AND GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!\nVIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? IT'S WHAT OBAMA DOES EVERY DAY!\nDEMS ARE THE PARTY FOR ILLEGALS = DEPRESSED WAGES AND HAPPY DONORS!\nOBAMA PUT A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST IN AS SEC. OF LABOR TO ASSURE ILLEGALS GET OUR JOBS FIRST!\nIf job creation is the goal, make E-Verify mandatory\nBy Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) - 06\/14\/11 04:30 PM ET\nIn a speech delivered during a campaign fundraising trip to Texas last month, President Obama called for Congress to approve comprehensive immigration reform, also known as \"amnesty.\" Meanwhile, the president and his administration claim that putting unemployed Americans back to work is their No. 1 priority.\nBut these two goals cannot be met simultaneously. The president cannot say on one hand that he wants to create jobs and on the other that he wants to legalize millions of illegal immigrants.\nAmnesty prevents Americans from getting jobs, since millions of illegal immigrants will become eligible to work legally in the United States. The president's proposal to legalize millions of illegal immigrants means more competition for American workers who are in need of jobs.\nLook at history to see how amnesty has played out in the past. In 1986, Congress legalized about 3 million illegal immigrants. It didn't fix the problem; it only made it worse. Today, there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and 7 million people work here illegally. At the same time, 26 million Americans are unemployed or have given up looking for work.\nIt is inexcusable that Americans and legal workers have to compete with illegal immigrants for scarce jobs. Rather than reward lawbreakers, we should put American workers first.\nFortunately, there is a free, quick and easy tool available to preserve jobs for legal workers: E-Verify. But the program is currently voluntary. Congress has the opportunity to expand E-Verify so more job opportunities are made available to unemployed Americans. There is no other legislation that can be enacted that will create more jobs -- maybe millions more -- for American workers.\nCreated in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, E-Verify is a Web-based system that allows employers to electronically verify the work eligibility of newly hired employees.\nUnder E-Verify, the Social Security numbers of new hires are checked against Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security records to weed out fraudulent numbers and help ensure that new hires are legally authorized to work in the U.S.\nEven though E-Verify is not mandatory, more than 250,000 businesses willingly use E-Verify and 1,300 new businesses sign up each week. Individuals eligible to work receive immediate confirmation 99.5 percent of the time.\nUnlike amnesty, E-Verify has received overwhelming bipartisan support since its creation as a pilot program in 1996. It was extended in 2002, 2008 and 2010. In 2008, the House passed a standalone five-year extension of E-Verify by a vote of 407-2. And in 2009, the Senate passed a permanent E-Verify extension by voice vote.\nPart of the success of E-Verify is that participating employers are happy with the results. Outside evaluations have found that the vast majority of employers using E-Verify believe it to be an effective and reliable tool for checking the legal status of their employees.\nAnd E-Verify recently received an exceptionally high overall customer satisfaction score -- 82 out of 100 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index scale. That is well above the overall federal government satisfaction index of 69.\nThe American people also support E-Verify. A May 2011 Rasmussen poll found that 82 percent of likely voters think businesses should be required to use the federal government's E-Verify system to determine if a potential employee is in the country legally.\nAnd a 2010 Zogby poll of minorities commissioned by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 88 percent of likely minority voters polled support reducing the illegal immigrant population over time by enforcing existing immigration laws, such as requiring employers to verify the legal status of their workers.\nWith millions of citizens and legal workers looking for work, it is important that we promote policies that increase job opportunities for Americans and legal immigrants. Amnesty undermines this goal, but making E-Verify mandatory helps achieve it.\nAs long as opportunities for illegal employment exist, the incentive to enter the United States illegally or to overstay visas will continue.\nIf job creation is the president's priority, then he should push Congress to pass mandatory E-Verify legislation. We cannot sit and hope that businesses hire only legal workers; hope is not a strategy. E-Verify is our best tool for reducing the jobs magnet and creating more jobs for American workers.\nSmith is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.\nhttp:\/\/thehill.com\/special-reports\/immigration-june-2011\/166421-if-job-creation-is-the-goal-make-e-verify-mandatory\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/e-verify-obama-sabotages-our-laws.html\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html\nAN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS!\nTHE REASON OBAMA NOMINATED SOTOMAYER WAS BECAUSE SHE'S A \"WISE LATINA\" BITCH, AND HAD LONG HISTORY OF PANDERING FOR BIG BUSINESS INTERESTS, LIKE OBAMA! IT DIDN'T HURT THAT SOTOMAYER IS A MEMBER OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA \"THE RACE\", AS YOU DON'T WORK IN OBAMA'S ADMIN UNLESS YOU'RE LA RAZA OR BANKSTER CONNECTED!!!\nSonia Sotomayor opposes E-Verify requirement\nTrue to form, she said it was illegal to make employers e-verify citizen status of new hires.\nInteresting, she says a state cannot force employers to check if employees they are hiring are illegal. Thankfully the court ruled 5-3 supporting law. But now we know for sure just how extreme far left Obama's choice was. We cannot afford Obama to get another term, or you can bet this country will be overrun by illegals. I don't want this country to be poor and corrupt like Mexico, which it will if illegals overrun the country.\n\"PUNISH OUR ENEMIES\"\u2026 does that mean assault the legals of Arizona that must fend off the Mexican invasion, occupation, growing criminal and welfare state, as well as Mex Drug cartels???\nOBAMA TELLS ILLEGALS \"PUNISH OUR ENEMIES\"\nEach day new reports come in from across the nation that our movement is surging and more incumbents, mostly Democrats, are about to fall on Election Day. Obama's approval ratings are falling to new lows as he makes highly inappropriate statements to Spanish language audiences asking illegal alien supporters to help him \"punish our enemies.\"\nFROM JUDICIAL WATCH. org \u2013 get on their emails!\nLabor Dept. Helps Illegal Alien Workers\nLast Updated: Tue, 04\/06\/2010 - 11:04am\nThe Department of Labor has launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., referred to as \"vulnerable\" and \"underpaid\" by the presidential cabinet member who heads the agency.\nHundreds of new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees. Their message, in Spanish, is \"we can help\" bring workplace protections to the nation's most vulnerable and underpaid workers, including those who have no legal right to live in the Untied States.\n(THE OBAMA PLAN TO PUT ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS!)\nLabor Secretary Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza movement, announced the \"We Can Help\" project with great fanfare a few days ago. A total of 1,000 investigators from her agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.\n(WHO WORKS FOR THE RIGHTFUL JOBS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS? WHO ENFORCES THE LAWS THAT PROHIBIT THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS, EVEN IF THEY HAVE A STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER? NOT THE LA RAZA DEMS, OR HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA!)\nSolis told Latino workers that \"your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay, especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours.\" She assured illegal immigrants that \"if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.\"\nThe same day Solis publicly announced the Obama Administration's new project, a Labor Department investigator visited a day laborer center in northern California to promote it. The federal employee actually chatted warmly with the illegal immigrants about how to find jobs without being exploited, according to a local newspaper report. \"We're the feds but the good ones,\" he told the day laborers in Spanish. \"We're here to help workers.\"\nThe agency has also launched a Spanish television advertising campaign to spread the word and created a web site. Workers in industries from construction to food service are urged to contact the Labor Department of wage and hour violations. An investigator may be deployed to the work site or the employer may be taken to court.\nOBAMA COOKS THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS FOR HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS!\nDo a search for OBAMA and LA RAZA \u2013 \"THE RACE\" \u2013 The Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA.\nUnemployment Rate Falsified! (DC)\nJust as the Federal Reserve Bank of America is a private bank, the United States Department of Labor is a private company. It's important to note that they were both established in 1913! Why should unemployment figures given by a private company to the U.S. citizens be believed? Hilda Solis was appointed to be Secretary of the United States Department of Labor by Obama. Being that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation and no longer a republic, it is not a stretch of the imagination that Obama would order an employee in one department of the corporation of which he is the CEO, to falsify unemployment rates along with other data. The true unemployment rate is estimated to be about 21 %. Obama only hired Hilda Solis because she's half Mexican, half Nicaraguan and he could then sucker in the racist Hispanic votes.\nhttp:\/\/www.manta.com\/c\/mmcmlj6\/united-states-department-of-labor\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hilda_Solis\nhttp:\/\/www.republicoftheunitedstates.org\/what-is-the-republic\/history\/\nObama is surrounded by communists that he appointed to key positions in his administration. Hilda Solis may have questionable roots from Mexico (La Raza) and Nicaragua (communists) so she is not to be trusted! She's a liar just as everyone else in the administration, and real Americans know it! The brain dead zombies simply don't care.\nhttp:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/10\/05\/Suspicion-Falls-on-Labor-Secretary-Solis-as-Jobs-Numbers-Questioned\nWIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA'S OPEN BORDERS AGENDA\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html\nOBAMA'S AMERICA: Open & Undefended Borders!\n\"What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.\"\nTHE LA RAZA PRESIDENT'S SABOTAGE OF OUR COUNTRY'S BORDERS FOR ILLEGALS' VOTES!\n\"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling \"mules.\"\nIn Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. \"Blame America\" has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/obamas-hispanicazation-of-america-most.html\nObama's 'Hispanicazation' of America\nMonday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AM\nBy: James Walsh\nCasting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, \"undocumented immigrants\") with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.\nAs the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the \"Hispanicazation\" of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure.\nIncreasingly vicious foot soldiers of the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border, especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices 60 to 80 miles inland.\nThe U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas precious to the nation.\nIn reaction to public outrage over the signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with the following: Visitor Information Update\u2014Active Federal Law Enforcement Patrol Area.\nPerhaps she is basing this on the reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning Border Patrol agents inland.\nIn a recent New York Times article, Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language and suggested that \"Every child in the United States should learn Spanish.\" He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.\nFor decades, the liberal left has argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof states that Latin America \"is finally getting its act together\" but fails to mention the Obama administration's $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer money in 2009 to Brazil's Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC, until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.\nKristof suggests that one day Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with Spanish-speaking customers.\nHe fails to explain why these customers will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.\nPresident Barack Obama gives lip service to increasing border control resources with limited funding and personnel. Many officials, including the governors of Texas and Arizona, are skeptical regarding the Obama administration's resolve. They resent that the United States is being blamed for the killing fields on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border.\nFor instance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March 2009, during her first official visit to Mexico, placed the blame for the Mexican drug cartels' vicious murders on the United States.\nThe Obama administration's plan to resolve the immigration chaos is to offer amnesty to all comers. President Obama re-affirms his support of a \"pathway to citizenship\" (amnesty) for illegal aliens in 2011.\nThe administration, however, has announced no plans to control the influx of future waves of illegal aliens or their skyrocketing costs to the nation. The administration, which condones U.S. sanctuary cities and states, has no plans to file charges against them for violations of federal immigration law. Nor does the administration seem concerned about the environmental impact that illegal aliens have on the ecology of the United States.\nMany national forests, parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges \u2014 once the pride of the nation \u2014 are serving today as marijuana fields for illegal alien gangs.\nFormer Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly said to a gathering of illegal aliens in California in 2009 that U.S. immigration laws were \"un-American,\" suggesting that they need not be obeyed. Concerned citizens can only trust that the new speaker of the House, John Boehner, as part of congressional oversight of federal agencies, will demand enforcement of existing immigration laws.\nWhen will President Obama recognize that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos while still appeasing his Hispanic base?\nTo maintain his populist aura, the president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another.\nOne Obama apologist explained, \"Campaign rhetoric is one thing,\" suggesting that governing is another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block of votes is quite another.\nALIPAC EXPOSES OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE AMENSTY!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/alipac-obamas-pursuing-executive.html\nOBAMA QUIETLY PURSUING HIS BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY BY NON-ENFORCEMENT!\nALIPAC NOTE: The US Constitution does not allow the President to make policy out of legislation that has been defeated in Congress 8 times. These new authoritarian orders are not Constitutional and we are asking all of our supporters to be ready for emergency measures in defense of the American Republic in the coming weeks. This unlawful AMNESTY for ILLEGAL ALIENS will not stand!\nLA RAZA INVITED TO LOBBY FOR ILLEGALS IN WHITE HOUSE\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/cecilia-munoz-obamas-la-raza-infested.html\n\"Despite his solemn promise to the American people to keep lobbyists out of his Administration, two more have slipped in. The Hill reports:\nThe waivers were provided for Jocelyn Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of the First Lady, and Cecilia Munoz, director of intergovernmental affairs in the executive office of the president.\n. . . Munoz was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, where she supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels. Munoz was heavily involved in the immigration battles in Congress in recent years, and is now a principal liaison to the Hispanic community for the administration.\nThanks for all the lies, Obama!!\"\nLA RAZA PARTY MEMBER \"WISE LATINA\" SONIA SOTOMAYER\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/sonia-sotomayer-la-raza-party-member-on.html\nPUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS\nOBAMA AND HIS LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINSTRATION\nSonia Sotomayor opposes E-Verify requirement \u2013\nOBAMA'S SEC. of (illegal) LABOR, LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS:\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/jobs-obamas-dept-of-la-raza-illegal.html\nLA RAZA HILDA SOLIS - The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor\nPresident Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open--borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of \"American.\" At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, \"We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not.\" (BUT THE PROBLEM IS\u2026 ONLY MEXICANS GET THE JOBS!)\nThat's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws ---- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.\nFROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org\nLabor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers\nTwo months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don't pay them fairly.\nIn a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis assures that \"every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.\" Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new \"Podemos Ayudar\" (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid \"regardless of immigration status.\"\nIn the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it's a \"serious problem\" when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it's free and confidential. \"Podemos ayudar,\" (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.\nThe Labor Secretary's new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as \"vulnerable\" and \"underpaid.\" At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.\nFor a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that \"if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.\"\n\"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling \"mules.\"\nTwo-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama's four years\nResearchers say legals and illegals are more mobile than natives in America\nBy Stephen Dinan\nTwo-thirds of those who have found employment under President Obama are immigrants, both legal and illegal, according to an analysis that suggests immigration has soaked up a large portion of what little job growth there has been over the past three years.\nThe Center for Immigration Studies is releasing the study Thursday morning, a day ahead of the final Labor Department unemployment report of the campaign season, which is expected to show a sluggish job market more than three years into the economic recovery.\nThat slow market, combined with the immigration numbers, could explain why Mr. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney have struggled to find a winning jobs message in some of the country's hardest-hit postindustrial regions.\n\"It's extraordinary that most of the employment growth in the last four years has gone to the foreign-born, but what's even more extraordinary is the issue has not even come up during a presidential election that is so focused on jobs,\" said Steven A. Camarota, the center's research director, who wrote the report along with demographer Karen Zeigler.\nHis numbers are stark: Since the first quarter of 2009, the number of immigrants of working age (16 to 65) who are employed has risen 2 million, from 21.2 million to 23.2 million. During the same time, native-born employment has risen just 1 million, to reach 119.9 million.\nIt's a trend years in the making: Immigrants are working more, and native-born Americans are working less.\nIn 2000, 76 percent of natives aged 18 to 65 were employed, but that dropped steadily to 69 percent this September. By contrast, immigrants started the last decade at 71 percent employment and rose to a peak of 74 percent at the height of the George W. Bush-era economic boom. They since have slid down to 69 percent amid the sluggish economy.\nThe Center for Immigration Studies, which wants the government to impose stricter limits on immigration, based its numbers on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey.\nAlex Nowrasteh, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, which favors letting the markets rather than the government control the flow of immigration, said Mr. Camarota's numbers are \"making a mountain out of a molehill.\"\nHe said delving into specific numbers explains why immigrants have done better over the past four years: They generally gravitate toward parts of the economy that have picked up faster in the nascent recovery.\n\"Most of the areas of the U.S. economy that are hiring right now, like agriculture and high-tech industries, are those where immigrants have always been overly represented,\" Mr. Nowrasteh said.\nHe also said immigrants are quicker to jump into the rebounding job market while native-born Americans, who under federal law have more welfare options and access to unemployment benefits, are slower to find work.\nMr. Nowrasteh and Mr. Camarota said another factor could be immigrants' mobility.\nNatives have roots wherever they live, and it may take higher wages to get them to move for jobs, even if their homes are in depressed areas. Immigrants already have uprooted themselves and can more easily pick places where jobs are available.\nIndeed, Mr. Camarota's numbers show that most of the immigrant employment growth went to new arrivals, not to foreign-born residents already in the United States \u2014 a figure that suggests immigrants already settled here were having some of the same difficulties as the native-born.\nThere is some bright news: an uptick over the past year among native-born Americans accounting for two-thirds of all new employment growth.\nFull overhaul\nNet immigration \u2014 both legal and illegal \u2014 averaged more than 1.1 million in the 1990s and slightly less than 900,000 in the past decade.\nMr. Camarota said it didn't slow much despite the economic downturn.\n\"We have a situation where the job market \u2014 the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration relatively high without even a national debate,\" he said. \"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants.\"\nImmigration has been a touchy political issue for more than a decade, and while all sides agree that the system is broken, efforts to overhaul it in 2006 and 2007 fell short.\nThis campaign, Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama have talked about streamlining the legal immigration system to allow in more high-tech workers. Mr. Romney has said he wants to \"staple a green card\" to every advanced degree in science, mathematics or engineering earned by an immigrant.\nBeyond that, Mr. Obama has vowed to make legalizing illegal immigrants a major push in a second term \u2014 and has said if he wins re-election, he thinks Republicans will embrace that goal, realizing that otherwise, Hispanic voters will reject the GOP.\nMr. Romney has talked about legalizing a small number of illegal immigrants, though he has been studiously vague about his specific plans in an effort to try not to alienate voters on either side of the issue.\nMr. Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work in the United States.\nSome Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.\nMr. Romney has said he would not rescind any stays of deportation that Mr. Obama issues but wouldn't issue any new ones himself.\nThe current system doles out legal visas based on family ties or employment prospects or even a random lottery designed to increase the diversity of those coming to the United States.\nIn 2007, senators proposed scrapping the legal system and replacing it with a points-based system that would assign a desirability grade to would-be immigrants. Work skills would have gained under that system.\nBut that proposal, along with the rest of the bill, collapsed amid a bipartisan Senate filibuster.\nMr. Nowrasteh at the Cato Institute said those decisions shouldn't be left up to bureaucrats anyway.\n\"The government can't pick winners and losers when it comes to green-energy firms like Solyndra, so what makes you think it can pick winners and losers when it comes to immigration?\" he asked rhetorically.\nTwo-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama's four years - Washington Times http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/oct\/31\/two-thirds-of-jobs-go-to-immigrants\/print\/#ixzz2AysMQrGn\nWhy the new jobs go to immigrants\nBy David R. Francis\nWall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.\nBut it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.\nWhy the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration.\nIn the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs.\n\"There has been no net job gain for natives,\" says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.\nIn the US, President Bush calls for giving millions of illegal immigrants a kind of guest-worker status as a legal path to US citizenship. So far, no specific legislation to implement his suggestion has been put before Congress.\nMeanwhile, US border patrols spend millions of dollars a year trying to keep illegals out. And yet, they keep coming, evidently little discouraged by recession or the 9\/11 attacks. In the past four years alone, the number of immigrants ran some 2.5 million to 3 million, of which about half were illegal.\nThey come for jobs, of course. And the Bush administration makes barely any effort to enforce current law. In 2003, a total of 13 employers were fined for hiring undocumented employees.\nIn fact, neither Republicans nor Democrats have promoted enforcement of immigration law prohibiting the hiring of illegal immigrants, says Mr. Sum, head of Northeastern's Center for Labor Market Studies.\nWhat employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.\nMost Mexican Immigrants in New Study Gave Up Jobs to Take Their Chances in U.S.\nBy NINA BERNSTEIN New York Times\nA report about the work lives of recent Mexican immigrants in seven cities across the United States suggests that they typically traded jobs in Mexico for the prospect of work here, despite serious bouts of unemployment, job instability and poor wages.\nThe report, released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, was based on surveys of nearly 5,000 Mexicans, most of them here illegally.\nThose surveyed were seeking identity documents at Mexican consulates in New York, Atlanta and Raleigh, N.C., where recent arrivals have gravitated toward construction, hotel and restaurant jobs, and in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Fresno, Calif., where they have been more likely to work in agriculture and manufacturing.\nUnlike the stereotype of jobless Mexicans heading north, most of the immigrants had been employed in Mexico, the report found.\nOnce in the United States, they soon found that their illegal status was no barrier to being hired here. And though the jobs they landed, typically with help from relatives, were often unstable and their median earnings only $300 a week, that was enough to keep drawing newcomers because wages here far exceeded those in Mexico.\n\"We're getting a peek at a segment of the U.S. labor force that is large, that is growing by illegal migration, and that is bringing an entirely new set of issues into the U.S. labor market,\" said Rakesh Kochhar, associate director for research at the Pew Hispanic Center and author of the study.\nThe report suggested that policies intended to reduce migration pressures by improving the Mexican economy would have to look beyond employment to wages and perceptions of opportunity.\nThe survey found that the most recent to arrive were more likely to have worked in construction or commerce, rather than agriculture, in Mexico. Only 5 percent had been unemployed there; they were \"drawn not from the fringes, but from the heart of Mexico's labor force,\" the report said.\nAfter a difficult transition in their first six months in the United States - about 15 percent of the respondents said they did not work during that time - the rate of unemployment plummeted, to an average of 5 percent.\nBut in one of the most striking findings, 38 percent reported an unemployment spell lasting a month or more in the previous year, regardless of their location, legal status or length of time in the United States.\n\"These are workers with no safety net,\" Mr. Kochhar said. \"The long-run implication is a generation of workers without health or pension benefits, without any meaningful asset accumulation.\"\nOn the other hand, Mr. Kochhar and Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, said the flexibility of this work force was a boon to certain industries like home construction, an important part of the nation's economic growth since the last recession.\nAmong respondents to the survey, those who settled in Atlanta and Dallas were the best off, with 56 percent in each city receiving a weekly wage higher than the $300-a-week median. The worst off were in Fresno, where more than half of the survey respondents worked in agriculture and 60 percent reported earning less than $300 a week. The lowest wages were reported by women, people who spoke little or no English, and those without identification.\nTo some scholars of immigration, the report underlines the lack of incentives for employers to turn to a guest worker program like the one proposed by President Bush because their needs are met cheaply by illegal workers - and all without paperwork or long-term commitment.\nGuest workers might instead appeal to corporations like Wal-Mart, the scholars said, where service jobs are now the target of union organizing drives.\n\"You can't plausibly argue that immigrant-dominated sectors have a labor shortage,\" said Robert Courtney Smith, a sociologist and author of \"Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants.\" Instead, he said, the report and evidence of falling wages among Mexican immigrants over time point to an oversupply of vulnerable workers competing with each other.\nBut Brendan Flanagan, a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association, which supports a guest worker program, disagreed. \"In many places it is difficult to fill jobs with domestic workers,\" Mr. Flanagan said. \"We've seen a simple lack of applicants, regardless of what wage is offered.\"\nAlthough the survey, conducted from July 2004 to January 2005, was not random or weighted to represent all Mexican immigrants, it offers a close look at a usually elusive population.\nThose surveyed were not questioned directly about their immigration status, but they were asked whether they had any photo identification issued by a government agency in the United States. Slightly more than half over all, and 75 percent in New York, said they did not.\nThe migration is part of a historic restructuring of the Mexican economy comparable to America's industrial revolution, said Kathleen Newland, director of the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization based in Washington.\nThe institute released its own report on Tuesday, arguing that border enforcement efforts have failed. Workplace enforcement, which has been neglected, would be a crucial part of making a guest worker program successful.\nFor now, Mexicans keep arriving illegally.\n\"It doesn't matter if it's winter,\" said Ricardo Cortes, 23, a construction worker waiting for a friend outside the Mexican consulate in New York on Tuesday. \"People are still coming because there's no money over there.\"\nHERE'S HOW NO E-VERIFY BREAKS DOWN:\nJoe Legal vs. Jose Illegal\nCA MAKES E-VERIFY ILLEGAL! COURTESY THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA!\nHere is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California...\nYou have 2 families...\"Joe Legal\" and \"Jose Illegal\". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.\n\"Joe Legal\" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted....\"Jose Illegal\" also works in construction, has \"NO\" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash \"under the table\".\nJoe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year\nNow take 30% away for state and federal tax\nJoe Legal now has $31,231.00\nJose Illegal...$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year\nJose Illegal pays no taxes...\nJose Illegal now has $31,200.00\nJoe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage\n$1000.00 per month\nJose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year\nJose Illegal still has $31,200.00\nJoe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare\nJoe Legal pays for food\n$1,000.00 per month\nJoe Legal now has $ 7,231.00\nJose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare\nJoe Legal pays rent of\nJoe Legal is now in the hole... minus (-) $4,769.00\nJose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy\nJose Illegal pays rent\n$500.00 per month\n$6,000.00 per year\nJoe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.\nJose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.\nJoe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.\nJose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.\nJoe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.\nDon't vote\/support any politician that supports illegal aliens...\nIts WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!\nOBAMA and MEXICO ESTABLISH NEW GATEWAYS FOR THE LA RAZA HORDES TO INVADE BEFORE OBAMA'S AMNESTY:\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/crisis-mexico-is-pouring-over-our.html\nOBAMA AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BUILD THEIR RANKS WITH HEAVY BREEDING MEXICANS\nANCHOR BABY FACTORIES\u2026who pays?\nAMNESTY IT IS! OBAMA AND MEXICO ANNOUNCE EXPANDED ANCHOR BABY FACTORIES!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/amnesty-or-more-looting-obama-and.html\nTHE DEMOCRAT PARTY BEEDERS (AT GRINGO EXPENSE):\n\"Through love of having children, we are going to take over.\" AUGUSTIN CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY \u2013 OBAMA FUNDS LA RAZA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS AND IT OPERATES OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CECLIA MUNOZ \u2013 GOOGLE IT!\nmore at this link \u2013\nJUDICIALWATCH.org\nWhile the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government\nMEXICAN CONSULATES \u2013 HEADQUARTERS FOR THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA \"THE RACE\" INSTRUCTS CRIMINAL ILLEGALS ON LOOTING AMERICANS\u2026 but then it's by invitation of the DEMOCRAT PARTY! \u2026. these same illegals already get our jobs!\nhttp:\/\/mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/the-expansion-of-la-raza-mexican.html\nUSDA\/Mexico Spanish-language flyer: Get kids on food stamps without showing documents\n51% Believe A Home Is A Family's Best Investment -...\nWELFARE FOR MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS IN LOS AN...\nMexico endorses HILDA SOLIS for Los Angeles County...\nCOUNTY SUPERIVISOR CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS and the M...\nLA RAZA CANDIDATE HILDA SOLIS for LOS ANGELES COUN...\nHILDA SOLIS RUNS FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR...\nKim Basinger speaks out about animal abuse at Geor...\nOBAMA'S AMERICA: LAND OF SOARING POVERTY, OPEN BOR...\nASSAULT on the POOR in LA RAZA MEXICAN-OCCUPIED Lo...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DUPLEX, 96 SOLOMON STREET\n96 Solomon St Fremantle\nConstructed from 1904, Constructed from 1903\nDuplex, 96-98 Solomon Street, is a typical single storey limestone and iron duplex dating from 1903. The place has aesthetic value for its contribution to the streetscape and the surrounding area. It is representative of the typical building stock located within the residential areas of Fremantle. It is historically significant as a representation of typical workers' houses in the Fremantle area. The place is an example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture.\n96-98 Solomon Street is a single storey limestone and corrugated iron single faced attached pair constructed in the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture. The walls are limestone. The roof is gabled and clad with corrugated iron and the gable has decorative timber finials and features. There are two tall chimneys evident. The verandah is under a separate corrugated iron roof supported by cement pillars with masonry wall balustrade. The house is elevated from street level. The asymmetrical front fa\u00e7ade has double hung sash windows. There is a limestone and timber wall to the front boundary line with a timber gate.\nSolomon Street was originally known as Mary Street, gazetted in 1905. It changed its name in 1951\/52 to honour Elias Solomon, a Fremantle merchant and politician who built a house and lived in this street. Solomon was a Town Councillor 1878-1880, 1883-1886, Mayor in 1889-1891, 1896-98 and 1900-01. He was a state parliamentarian, MLA for the seat of South Fremantle 1892-1901, then transferred to Federal Politics with a seat in the House of Representatives from 1901-1903. Solomon was the first Member for Fremantle in the Federal Government. The duplex 96-98 Solomon Street used to be numbered 182-184 Mary St. Sewerage Diagram no.74 June 1908 shows a duplex pair at 182\/184 being of brick construction with a front verandah that wraps around one side of each and a small rear verandah on each. Each has a stone outbuilding and closet close to the house. The 1913-14 rate book shows 182\/184 as part 1 of 782 as a pair of cottages owned by Frank Biddles, occupied by David John Scott (182) and William Henry Carpenter (184). This place was identified by the Fremantle Society in 1979\/80 as being of cultural heritage significance. (Coded: Red: \"Significantly contributing to the unique character of Fremantle\")\nHigh degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). Medium degree of authenticity with some original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).\nOriginal Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence\nPresent Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence\nDEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home 4G Airtel First to Launch 'Ultra-Fast 4G' services in Andaman and Nicobar\nAirtel First to Launch 'Ultra-Fast 4G' services in Andaman and Nicobar\nBharti Airtel (\"Airtel\") has congratulated the Department of Telecommunications on the inauguration of the undersea optic fiber link between Chennai and Andaman and Nicobar by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.\nWith the commissioning of the fiber link, Airtel has become the first mobile operator to launch 'Ultra-Fast 4G' services in Andaman and Nicobar. The blazing fast speeds on Airtel's 4G network will deliver a world-class digital experience to customers on the islands.\nSunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel said: \"The new fiber link marks a major milestone in India's digital transformation journey as this critical infrastructure reaches the strategic archipelago. We are grateful to the Hon'ble Prime Minister for taking the time to launch this key digital infrastructure.\nThe fiber link will be a game changer for the region and unlock the true potential of 4G and even 5G in future for customers. Airtel remains fully committed to the Government's vision of Digital India. We hope the Department of Telecom will accelerate the deployment of USOF for building such infrastructure backbone to complement the efforts of telecom operators to bridge the digital divide.\"\nAirtel has been serving customers in Andaman and Nicobar since 2005. It was the first private operator to launch mobile services in the islands. With today's launch of 'Ultra-Fast 4G' network, Airtel looks forward to further strengthening its bond with customers on the islands.\nAbout Bharti Airtel Limited\nBharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G, 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had nearly 420 million customers across its operations at the end of June 2020.\n'Ultra-Fast 4G' services\nundersea cable\nPrevious articleSES Deploys Amdocs Service Orchestration Capabilities\nNext articleBoost Mobile unveils '5 under $50' Plans","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Matthew McConaughey-Starrer 'Gold' Keeps Awards Window But Moves Wide Release To January 27\nBy Mike Fleming Jr\nMike Fleming Jr\nCo-Editor-in-Chief, Film\n@DeadlineMike\nMore Stories By Mike\nAGBO Sets Author Lev Grossman's Original Sci-Fi Series Idea 'The Heavens' At Amazon\nUTA Buys Stake In Sports Powerhouse Agency Klutch Sports Group, Taking LeBron James' Talents To Agency\nApple Makes WW Deal For George Nolfi-Directed 'The Banker'; Anthony Mackie, Sam Jackson, Nic Hoult, Nia Long Star In Socially Conscious Jim Crow-Era Drama\nEXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company-Dimension will move the Stephen Gaghan-directed adventure film Gold to a January 27 opening, from its original plan to open wide on December 25. TWC-Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein said that the film will have the required limited screenings to qualify for Oscars and Golden Globes, but the move was made in recognition that the Christmas corridor is slammed with adult-themed films, and the film has much better commercial prospects opening a month later. That gives Gold its own lane to mine its considerable commercial potential. TWC will still aggressively push the film for Golden Globe and Oscar consideration \u2013its two-city qualifying dates will likely stay on December 25 \u2014 highlighting a performance by a shape-changing Matthew McConaughey that Weinstein called \"One of the best roles ever that he's played in his long career. We will open four days after the Academy nominations, and feel that we are taking advantage of both worlds,\" Weinstein said. \"The awards season is very important, but Gaghan did a great job here, directing a terrific adventure that's got twists and turns and is American Hustle meets The Wolf of Wall Street. The way it looks right now, all these adult films are going wide, and there will be more competition in the marketplace than we've seen, maybe ever. This seemed a perfect way to maximize the commercial and awards prospects for a film that exhibition is very high on.\"\nIn an adventure tale inspired by a true story, McConaughey plays Kenny Wells, a charismatic wildcatter who takes over his father's mineral mining company. Where his recently deceased old man could trip on the sidewalk and find oil, Kenny has a long dry run. He stakes everything he has left, teaming up with an equally luckless geologist (Edgar Ramirez) to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Bruce Greenwood and Stacy Keach round out the ensemble cast. Patrick Massett & John Zinman wrote the script and are producing with Black Bear's Teddy Schwarzman (The Imitation Game) and HWY 61's Michael Nozik (Syriana). Paul Haggis, Ben Stillman and Richard Middleton are the executive producers.\nLike several distributors, TWC finds itself with several films that are gaining Oscar buzz, the others including the Garth Davis-directed Lion with Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, and The Founder, the John Lee Hancock-directed drama that stars Michael Keaton as McDonald's impresario Ray Kroc.\nThis article was printed from\thttps:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/11\/matthew-mcconaughey-gold-january-27-date-shift-stephen-gaghan-awards-season-1201858215\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}