{"text":"The Increasing ADHD Drugging of Australia's Children\nIs There Any Science Behind ADHD ?\nADHD Drug Risks\nWithdrawal Syndrome\nIs ADHD a Brain Disorder?\nIs ADHD Like Diabetes ?\nEducation and Tutoring\nIn many parts of Australia, there are few families and teachers whose lives have not been interrupted by the prescription of mind-altering drugs to children. The information provided here has been drawn from many sources and is only a fraction of the available knowledge. It is provided so that parents, guardians and others can become more educated about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in order to make better informed decisions regarding their child's recommended treatment.\nChildren do experience emotional or behavioural problems, sometimes severe. Some have problems learning and sitting still; no one can dispute this.\nCommonly, a psychiatrist or psychologist tells parents that their child suffers from a Learning Disorder (LD) \u2013 also labelled Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or most often today, ADHD. \"Brain disease\" or a \"chemical imbalance\" of the brain may also be mentioned, but parents are usually told that this is a well-recognised \"medical problem\" demanding continuous, prescribed medication. Look, research and decide for yourself. Ask for the evidence that this is so and ask for tests to prove it. Unlike medicine, there is no scientific basis for any of these \"psychiatric disorders.\"\nThe diagnosis of ADD is entirely subjective\u2026.There is no test. It is just down to interpretation.1\nDr. Joe Kosterich, former Federal Chairman of the General Practitioners' Council of the Australian Medical Association.\nGoing down the 'diagnosis leads to medication pathway' is really dumbing down the whole process of understanding a child's behaviour.2\nDr Jon Jureidini, Child psychiatrist, University of Adelaide.\nImportant Note: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the assistance of a competent medical doctor. The information on this page is not a substitute for medical advice. It is not and should not be considered medical advice. Competent medical advice should always be sought.\nIs There Any Science Behind ADHD?\nThe high proportion of young people with ADHD could be influenced by diagnostic definitions and by rubbery diagnostic criteria\u2026 Many of these diagnostic conditions for ADHD are just part of the normal spectrum of childhood behaviour.3\nTrevor Parmenter Foundation Professor in Developmental Disability Studies in the Faculties of Education and Medicine Sydney University.\nIn October 2004, The Western Australian Government completed its Inquiry into ADHD. One of the findings stated: \"There are no tests that identify the existence of ADHD in a biological sense.\"4\nThe psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the primary reference used in the diagnosis of ADHD and other psychiatric labels in Australia. Experts agree that it lacks any scientific basis. In 1987, members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the publisher of DSM, simply \"voted\" on a list of behavioural symptoms, called this new \"disorder\" ADHD and inserted the symptoms into the DSM, which Australia has since adopted.\nWithin a year of its publication, 500,000 American children were diagnosed as ADHD sufferers.\nOur children's lives are being placed at risk by an alliance which works like this: The American Psychiatric Association invents disorders and adds them into the DSM. Drug companies then make drugs to match the new disorder and then apply to Australia's drug regulatory agency, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for authority to use them in Australia.\nIn some cases, a diagnosis from this manual is required to obtain psychiatric drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme as well as for some Medicare rebates for psychiatric treatment.\nThe DSM IV (1994) entry for ADHD states: \"There are no laboratory tests, neurological assessments or attentional assessments that have been established as diagnostic in the clinical assessment of Attention Deficit\/Hyperactivity Disorder.\" The latest edition of DSM which Australia has also adopted, DSM 5 (2013) states: \"No biological marker is diagnostic for ADHD.\"5\nDSM IV states: \"Signs of the disorder may be minimal or absent when the person is receiving frequent rewards for appropriate behaviour, is under close supervision, is in a novel setting, is engaged in especially interesting activities, or in a one to one situation (e.g., the clinician's office).\" DSM 5 states: virtually the same except with the addition of \"has consistent external stimuli (eg via electronic screens)\" as an additional reason why signs of the disorder may be minimal or absent.\nTherefore, the DSM, itself, says that there are no tests or biological markers to prove ADHD exists as a medical condition and signs of the \"disorder\" may be absent when the child is taken to the doctor (clinician's office). Cancer or diabetes do not \"disappear\" in one environment, while are evident in others.\nDespite the lack of objective proof of its existence, millions of children worldwide have been harmed because of the use of this diagnosis. In Australia over 62,000 children aged 2-16 years were taking mind-altering ADHD drugs in 2013, based on subjective and arbitrary \"expert\" opinion about their behaviour.6\nSince 1992\/93, a staggering 861,324 prescriptions for ADHD drugs for all ages were written on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (this does not include any private prescriptions).\nIf there is no valid test for ADHD, no data proving ADHD is a brain dysfunction, no long-term studies of the drugs' effects, and if the drugs do not improve academic performance or social skills and the drugs can cause compulsive and mood disorders and can lead to illicit drug use, why in the world are millions of children, teenagers and adults\u2026being labelled with ADHD and prescribed these drugs?\nDr Mary Anne Block, Author of No More ADHD.\nFurther, the \"Father\" of ADHD, Dr Leon Eisenberg, announced a few months before his death in 2009 that ADHD is a prime example of a \"fictitious disease.\" In fact, ADHD was merely a theory developed by Eisenberg and was never proven as a verifiable disease.7\nADHD is a stigmatising psychiatric label. Once labelled, a child is considered to have a psychiatric disorder\u2014to be mentally ill or diseased (euphemistically expressed as mentally disordered). This label can negatively affect a child's and others' perceptions of himself\/herself, both now and in the future.\nThere are many reasons why a child might be displaying behavioural or educational problems. Psychiatric drugging can mask the real cause.\nParental Rights Regarding ADHD Drugs\nIt's dangerous to believe medication is the only answer.\" Furthermore, \"The [ADHD] guidelines could push drugs on children before exploring what else could be wrong. The symptoms of ADHD are also the symptoms of many other childhood experiences and by putting drugs as the first line treatment you are going to increase the reliance on medication.8\nDr. Joe Tucci, President of the Australian Childhood Foundation.\nDr. Tucci is referring to Australia's Draft ADHD Guidelines, which were scrapped in December 2013 due to conflicts of interest, largely between the researchers cited and pharmaceutical companies that manufacturer ADHD drugs. This included the most cited psychiatrist in the guidelines having been under US Congressional investigation for financial conflicts.\nThe issue of forcing parents to drug their child in Australia came to the forefront in 2011, when Australia's ADHD Clinical Practice Points [ADHD CPPs- document used by psychiatrists and others to diagnose and drug ADHD] were being drafted. There was a proposal that if parents did not implement strategies to treat their child diagnosed with \"ADHD\" that Child Protective Services should be contacted\u2014potentially having the right to remove a child from parental custody if the parents refused to drug the child. There was a huge uproar from parents and the general public.9\nSubsequently, the new Australian ADHD CPPs, released in September 2012, specified that parents could not be forced to drug their child. (download the publications at the bottom of the webpage, see page 3 of the Health Advice and see also page 20 of the ADHD Clinical Practice Points) This was a considerable improvement protecting parents from being forced or pressured to administer potentially-damaging mind-altering ADHD drugs to their child.10 And, more importantly, this also protects the child.\nRather, \"Parents\/carers must be given information on the diagnosis and management plan, including any potential adverse effects of treatment in order to fully inform them and to have them make a decision regarding the treatment that is offered to their child,\" according to a key statement in the ADHD CPPs.11 Knowing this right, parents should insist upon this should their child be \"diagnosed\" with ADHD and drugs are recommended.\nThe key drugs prescribed to \"treat\" ADHD (control behaviour) are Ritalin, Concerta, Attenta (methylphenidate), dexamfetamine and lisdexamfetamine. They are Schedule 8 drugs in Australia; i.e. potential drugs of addiction or prone to abuse.\nTherefore, it is not surprising that researchers of the first long-term outcomes stimulant study in the world, the 2010 Raine Study, conducted by the Telethon Institute in Western Australia, found that children receiving stimulants had significantly greater diastolic blood pressure (the pressure between heart beats) than children who have never received medication.12 This side-effect can predispose children to the risk of heart attacks and stroke.\nNor do stimulant drugs improve the child's academic results; quite the opposite. The researchers found that \"stimulant medication use increased the odds of below-age-level academic achievement by a factor of 10 times\" which \"strongly suggests that medication may not result in any long term academic gains (as rated by a classroom teacher).\" 13\nA 2007 Oregon Health and Science University Evidence-Based Practice Centre review of 2,287 studies\u2014virtually every study ever conducted on ADHD drugs at that time\u2014determined that no trials had shown the effectiveness of stimulants and that there was a lack of evidence that they could affect \"academic performance, consequences of risky behaviours, social achievements, etc.\"14\nAnyone in Australia can report adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA):\nOn-line, log onto: https:\/\/www.ebs.tga.gov.au\/ebs\/ADRS\/ADRSRepo.nsf\nPhone to report to a pharmacist: 1300 134 237; or to speak to the TGA: 1800 044 114\nIn April 2006, Australian authorities launched an investigation into the safety of ADHD drugs following 400 adverse reactions reported to the TGA and the disclosure that a 5 year old on Ritalin had suffered a stroke and a 7 year old died suddenly while on Ritalin. As a result, warnings were strengthened for the ADHD drugs dexamphetamine and methylphenidate to warn of cardiac problems and psychiatric episodes connected with these drugs.\nFigures for Adverse Drug Reaction Reports (ADRs) linked to Ritalin and dexamphetamine as of mid-October 2016, show 9 more reports of suicidal ideation and behaviour since 2005 with 3 of those suicide attempts and 1 completed suicide.15\nStrattera is an antidepressant marketed as a \"non-stimulant ADHD\" drug with the strongest warning that can be placed on a drug in Australia, called a \"Boxed Warning,\" to warn of suicidal behaviour.16 Of the 146 adverse drug reaction reports received by the TGA by mid-2016, 41 were for suicidal ideation (28 were for children under 18), 4 suicide attempts and 3 completed suicides, one a child.17\nAstoundingly, Australian experts have stated that it is thought that only between 1 and 10% of all ADRs are even reported to the TGA.18 So the number of incidents of serious side effects is likely very much higher, putting tens of thousands of Australian children at potential risk.\nDespite this, ADHD drug use in Australia increased by 72.9% between 2000 and 2011. 19\nWithdrawal syndrome is a side effect rarely explained at time of prescribing. It can occur when someone stops a psychiatric drug, decreases the dose or switches from one psychiatric drug to another.\nDoing this without proper medical supervision can cause withdrawal syndrome. This is described as worsening of symptoms and\/or new symptoms not before experienced. This can be severe in some cases.\nThe Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued warnings for withdrawal syndrome and it is something known very well about by the psychiatric industry.\nFor this reason it is very important that no one stops taking a psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent medical doctor.\nClick here to learn more about withdrawal syndrome.\nIs ADHD a Brain Disorder? A Dutch Commission Finds Psychiatric Claim is False. ADHD is Not a Brain Disorder.\nThe Netherlands Advertisement Code Commission (Reclame Code Commissie) has ruled that the country's Brain Foundation cannot claim that ADHD is a neurobiological disease or brain dysfunction, as psychiatrists misleadingly tell parents and, indeed, paediatricians and family physicians. The Commission ordered the Foundation to cease making such false claims in their advertising.\nIn its decision handed down on 6th August 2002, the Advertisement Code Commission found that the Brain Foundation had falsely advertised and solicited funding by publishing ads in newspapers, magazines, flyers and on TV that stated ADHD is an \"inherent brain dysfunction.\"\nThe Advertisement Code Commission decision stated, \"The information that the defendant presented gives no grounds for the definitive statement that ADHD is an inherent brain dysfunction\u2026. Under the circumstances, the defendant has not been careful enough and the advertisement is misleading.\"20\nIs ADHD Like Diabetes?\nLet me clear this up right now. ADHD is not like diabetes and [the stimulant used for it] is not like insulin. Diabetes is a real medical condition that can be objectively diagnosed. ADHD is an invented label with no objective, valid means of identification. Insulin is a natural hormone produced by the body and it is essential for life. [This stimulant] is a chemically derived amphetamine-like drug that is not necessary for life. Diabetes is an insulin deficiency. Attention and behavioural problems are not a [stimulant] deficiency.\nDr. Mary Ann Block\nAuthor, No More ADHD\nPsychiatrists argue that ADHD requires \"medication\" in the same way that diabetes requires insulin treatment; they further argue that to deny children such \"medication\" would be like denying insulin to a diabetic. The analogy is false.\nPsychiatric drugs do not treat mental disorders in the same way as insulin treats diabetes. \"What is implied in this statement is that psychotherapeutic drugs correct known chemical deficiencies (or excesses, or other instances), in the same way that insulin does. This analogy is repeated over and over again, not only in promotional material\u2026 and in articles published in professional journals, but, judging from reports from patients, every day in offices of psychiatrists and other physicians,\" wrote Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., Biopsychologist and author of Blaming the Brain.\nAccording to Dr Linda Graham, Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Education and Social work at Sydney University, resources would be better spent on giving teachers the skills and support to deal with a variety of children's behaviour rather than singling out so-called disorders. A letter to the Education Minister by 14 researchers,21 including Dr Graham, criticised moves to instruct teachers to look out for ADHD, stating that this could cause teachers to miss signs indicating other difficulties at home or with learning. \"The diagnostic criteria for ADHD over the past 15 years has been expanding and it is now possible to diagnose one of my cats,\" 22 Dr Graham told The Australian.\nEducation has regressed with the introduction of psychological concepts into the curriculum. For example, in some areas phonics are ignored and children have been forced to memorise nearly every word without understanding the logical sequence of letters or their sounds. Over the years it has had different names: \"Look-Say\" in the 1940s and 50s, \"sight-word\" method in the mid- to late-1960s, to \"psycholinguistics\" and \"Whole Language\" or \"Whole Word\" in the 1980s.\nConsequently, students simply don't understand what they are being told to study.\nTherefore, educational basics and tutoring should be key tools to address \"challenging behaviour.\" If a child is behind in a subject, tutoring on that subject should also be considered.\nFurthermore, in many cases the child is inattentive in school because he is extremely talented and is bored. Former US President Bush's 14-year-old nephew, Pierce, is an example of this. In 2000, he appeared on the Larry King Live TV show in the United States, with his father, Neil, who explained how Pierce was told he was ADD and needed a stimulant, which the boy refused to take. Instead, Pierce was given 3 1\/2 days of assessment and was found to be a \"gifted and talented kid.\" 23\nThere is no question that at times children have problems and sometimes these problems can be severe and they need help. This is not in dispute. What care each and every child receives is what is important. The actual cause of the problem for each child needs to be found and the child then helped with addressing that cause, until it is rectified and they can live happy, normal lives again.\nParents are not being informed about the alternatives: that their children could suffer underlying physical problems manifesting as symptoms of \"ADHD,\" that the child may need to be assessed for special talents and gifts, or that exercise, communication, diet or discipline might be lacking or they may need tutoring if they are behind in school.\nChildren, indeed all of us, must be provided with proper and effective medical care. Sound medical attention, good nutrition and a healthy and safe environment can prevent the stigmatising and discriminatory effects of psychiatric labels and treatment.\nChildren have every youthful right to expect protection, care, love and the chance to reach their full potential in life. Psychiatry's labels and drugs deny these rights. There are non-psychiatric alternatives that do exist and do work.\nThat educational policy is implemented preventing psychiatric or psychological assessment of schoolchildren, especially based on any edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the \"Mental Disorders\" section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). That teachers and all school personnel's educational duties do not involve suggesting or being expected to coercing parents into placing their child on psychiatric drugs, as a requisite for their education. That teachers have the inherent right as educators to refuse to do this. Education policy must be devoid of any proposal or recommendation that \"teachers and other school personnel be trained to identify ADHD and other psychiatric disorders and to be able to contribute to the treatment which has been implemented\u2026.\" This is a parent's decision, not educators.\nThat government-funded information pamphlets be placed in all state and private schools, as well as issued to Parents and Teachers' Associations, providing parents and teachers with full information about the diverse and conflicting medical opinion about \"ADHD\" and \"learning\" or \"behavioural\" problems; that this opinion includes scientific evidence that allergies and toxic reactions, and sleeping problems, may manifest as so-called ADHD, for which a competent doctor should first conduct tests for. Additionally, a child may need educational basics\u2014acknowledging the value of the phonetic-based method of teaching reading, and thereby the value of defining key words\u2014and\/or tutoring.\nThat parents and\/or appointed representative or guardian are informed of all non-drug non-abusive therapies, to educate them, and thus ensure full informed consent. The information must include any so-called advantages, and very clearly, the disadvantages, the side effects and known risks, as well as available alternative treatments.\nThat on admission to a psychiatric unit, the child or youth must have the right to a full and thorough physical and pathological examination performed by competent personnel to determine whether or not the presenting symptoms are, in fact, due to an undiagnosed medical condition.\nThat strong criminal penalties be implemented for any psychiatrist prescribing stimulants or other psychotropic drugs to children or young people, without the full, informed consent of the age-appropriate young person and parent or appointed representative. Informed consent should include information about all alternatives.\nThat given the increasing youth drug abuse, Federal and State Governments review the funding of all mental health programs, studies, research costs in schools to ensure accountability as determined by results, or lack of. Review, also, how these funds could be re-appropriated towards proven non-psychological\/psychiatric teaching methods and extra teachers and tutors.\nDr DL Edmunds, They Say My Child Has 'adhd' Debunking the Bio-psychiatric Paradigm, presented at the 4th Annual Alternative Education Resources Conference June 2007, Russell Sage College Troy, NY, p.12.\nCathy O'Leary, \"Drugged kids, Surge in WA children given stimulants to combat ADHD,\" The West Australian, 10 Dec 2014, front page.\nJustine Ferrari, \"ADHD 'symptoms' normal behaviour,\" The Australian, 20 August 2008, p.3.\n\"Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Western Australia, Report No.8, 2004,\" Western Australia Legislative Assembly, Education and Health Standing Committee, October 2004, p 39. http:\/\/www.parliament.wa.gov.au\/parliament%5Ccommit.nsf\/(Report+Lookup+by+Com+ID)\/A8838813E981CEE948257831003E9611\/$file\/ADD+final+report+pdf+version.pdf\nDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision, DSM-IV-TR, American Psychiatric Association, pages 88 & 89; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association, p.61.\n\"Report for MI1687- 2 Sep 2014, Report 1 A for ADHD, Number of Unique Patients by Patient Age Group and Patient State for requested ADHD items supplied in calendar year 2013,\" Australian Government Department of Human Services, Run Date: 29 August 2014.\nPaul Fassa, \"Prominent psychiatrist admits he helped invent ADHD as a disease,\" Natural News, 2 August 2013. http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/041607_psychiatry_ADHD_fake_diseases.html\nKate Sikora, \"ADHD drugs pushed,\" Daily Telegraph, 12 July 2008, p.8; Anthony Deceglie & Elini Hale, \"New row on ADHD drug rule: Fears for children,\" The Sunday Times, 20 July 2008, p.3.\n\"Draft Clinical Practice Points on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents,\" Australian Government, National Health and Medical Research Council, 2011, p.15\n\"Health Advice on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):Questions and Answers; Clinical Practice Points on the Diagnosis, Assessment and Management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents (the CPPs), Australian Government, National Health and Medical Research Council, p.3. \"Clinical Practice Points on the Diagnosis, Assessment and Management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents,\" Australian Government, National Health and Medical Research Council, 2012, pages 8 & 20.\nClinical Practice Points on the Diagnosis, Assessment and Management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents,\" Australian Government, National Health and Medical Research Council, 2012, p.16.\n\"Raine ADHD study: Long term outcomes associated with stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD in children,\" Government of Western Australia Department of Health, Feb 2010, p.6. https:\/\/www.health.wa.gov.au\/publications\/documents\/MICADHD_Raine_ADHD_Study_report_022010.pdf\n\"Drug Class Review on Pharmacological Treatments for ADHD, Final Report,\" Oregon Health and Science University, Dec 2007, p.16.\nGenerate reports on TGA website for atomoxetine, methylphenidate, lisdexamfetamine and dexamfetamine at: https:\/\/www.tga.gov.au\/database-adverse-event-notifications-daen These reports were generated by CCHR on 8 August 2016; Freedom of Information Request Number 016-0506, Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, Therapeutic Goods Administration, 2006.\nMedicines Safety Update, Volume 4, Number 5, October 2013, \"Atomoxetine and suicidality in children and adolescents, Therapeutic Goods Administration, https:\/\/www.tga.gov.au\/publication-issue\/medicines-safety-update-volume-4-number-5-october-2013#atomoxetine\nGenerate a report on TGA website for atomoxetine at: https:\/\/www.tga.gov.au\/database-adverse-event-notifications-daen ; Medicines Safety Update, Volume 4, Number 5, October 2013, \"Atomoxetine and suicidality in children and adolescents,\" Therapeutic Goods Administration, https:\/\/www.tga.gov.au\/publication-issue\/medicines-safety-update-volume-4-number-5-october-2013#atomoxetine\nJon Jureidini, \"Systematic checks can avert crisis from adverse drug reactions,\" The Weekend Australian, 1-2 April 2006.\nChris P Stephnson, Emily Karanges and Ian S McGregor, \"Trends in the utilisation of psychotropic medications in Australia from 2000 to 2011,\" Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 6 December 2012. http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23144164\nKelly Patricia O'Meara & Zoli Simon, \"Netherlands Panel Rejects ADHD Diagnosis as a Mental Illness,\" Insight Magazine (Washington, D.C.), 9 Sept. 2002.\nhttp:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/news\/84.html?newsstoryid=2512\nJustine Ferrari, \"Alert over ADHD Guidelines,\" The Australian, 19 August 2008, p.11.\n\"Republican National Convention: George W Bush Cements Nomination, Cheney Accepts Vice Presidential Nod; Ford Hospitalized,\" Larry King Live, CNN.com transcripts, aired 2 August 2000.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OU Aviation Fall Kick-Off Highlights\nBanner Carrier Reflects on His Start in Crimina...\nSept. 12, 2017, 9:25 a.m.\nMSCJ Student Jamie Faulkenberry Named Jail Administrator of the Year\nMary Wuestewald\nThe OU College of Professional and Continuing Studies is known for graduating students of high caliber, and our alumni network is full of Sooners who have gone on to make a difference in their communities both at home and abroad. We are very proud to report that our current students are following in their footsteps by bringing home some pretty impressive titles of their own.\nJamie Faulkenberry, a criminal justice student pursuing her master's degree with PACS, was named the Jail Administrator of the Year by the Oklahoma Sheriff's Association this August. The award recognized her outstanding contributions and performance above and beyond the call of duty.\nSequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane nominated Faulkenberry for the award, praising her for her part in developing a new booking station and improvements to the inmate commissary system in the Sequoyah County Jail in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. The upgrades provided a more secure environment for booking officers, improved efficiency, and increased revenue by eliminating the need for outside vendor services.\n\"I am honored for the recognition by Sequoyah County Sheriff Larry Lane and the prestigious Oklahoma Sheriff's Association, and I hope I represent the esteem of this award with the integrity it deserves.\"\n\"Jamie has been a huge help to me utilizing her lengthy experience in dealing with employee issues as well as legal matters in the jail,\" Lane said.\nFaulkenberry has worked with the Sequoyah County Jail for 11 years, where she has served as jail administrator since 2009. Because the jail is a small facility, her responsibilities there are diverse. Her duties include payroll and accounting, employee training and development, managing contract services, researching statutes and legislation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and more.\n\"The coursework from the graduate studies I have received in Criminal Justice from OU has been a tremendous advantage for me at my job,\" she said. \"Oftentimes, the coursework directly relates with struggles I see on a day-to-day basis that deal with inmates, the effects of incarceration, effective policy implementation, incarcerating the mentally ill, recidivism and overcrowding. The education I have received has helped me by enhancing the strategic planning and critical thinking skills that I believe are essential for administrative tasks, such as drafting new policies and problem-solving in corrections.\nMary Wuestewald specializes in digital and content marketing at PACS. She is an editor and contributor for Insight magazine, the Insight blog and PACS social media efforts.\nOU Extended Campus Dean Receives Department of Defense Patrio...\nSummer Seminar Brings Online Students to Norman Campus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Associate Weddings\nJennifer Hyde\nSoon to be Hazzard's\nIn 2014 at Old Settlers Days, Alex and Mackenzie were with a big group of people and Alex happened to be standing next to Mackenzie in that group. They made just a little bit of small talk before Mackenzie left the concert with her friend Bryanna who she was with. When they went to leave, Bryanna looked at her and said \"I am calling this now, you two are going to get married someday because your a sucker for tall guys with pretty blue eyes.\" Mackenzie thought she was crazy since said only a couple of words to him. Alex and her didn't see or talk to each other for a couple of weeks until he messaged her on a Wednesday in July and by Saturday he was driving 3 hours to take her out on their first date in Iowa City where she went to college.\nAlex's first impression of his soon to be wife is that she was the tall, blue eyed cutie he was looking for. <3\nMackenzie says that her 1st impression was that Alex's eyes were the nicest eyes she had ever seen and she was immediately drawn to them. His personality of trying to be cool and easy going while obviously having a shy side was completely adorable.\nWhen you know they are the ONE, you just KNOW!\nWhile at her friend's friends wedding, Alex was the best man and she was a guest. She remember's looking at Alex standing at the altar in the church supporting his best friend, Joel, in a black tux and thinking, \"I want to marry him someday.\" It was completely out of the blue and scared her at first, but the more she thought about it, the more Mackenzie realized she couldn't live without him.\nAlex honestly had no idea when Mackenzie was the one. One day he just\nwoke up and wanted to go look at rings so that way he could ask her to marry him.\nI asked these 2 soon to be Husband and wife what their favorite memory of dating was, and I got some seriously cute answers!\nMackenzie says her favorite memory when they first started to date was one night when they went to their first wedding as a couple. After they left, Alex surprised her and brought candles, music, and blankets so him and her could sit under the stars in the back of his truck. They just laid there looking up at the stars and talking...it was like something from a movie!\nAlex says their very first date when Mackenzie was trying to show me around the\nIowa City campus and they ended up in a torrential down pour so had to sit on the landmark in Iowa City, The Old Capitol steps, for the 3 hours until it let up. They just sat\nthere where it was covered and talked while looking over the city\nI love hearing how couple's pop the big question! Here is how Alex asked Mackenzie! On September 22, Alex and Mackenzie were joining friends for a couples weekend in\nIowa City where the Hawkeyes played the Badgers in Football. While taking\npictures with everyone in front of Kinnick Stadium, Alex got down on one\nknee and asked her to marry him...She had NO IDEA this was coming and\nthought he was messing with her at first as we both talked that the next step was going to be awhile. Alex made it unbelievably special as they had friends and her cousins there to celebrate with while being in the town where we first started our journey together.\nI absolutely can not wait for these two to tie the knot! It is going to be an absolutely gorgeous day, I mean look at them! Like Dan and Shay sang, I feel I am gonna be speechless seeing this beautiful bride!!\nThank you for letting me be apart of your big day, I am incredibly honored to capture these stunning moments between you!\nBrittany & Steve\nKyle & Cynthia\nSoon to be Stoeckel's","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Jeremy Wariner Inspired By Hard Work Of Jermaine Gonzales\nJeremy Wariner believes Jamaica's Jermaine Gonzales will be the danger man in the men's 400 metres next season. The American also admits that the Caribbean star has put some life back into the way he will start to prepare for races.\nBy Gary Smith | Published on November 28, 2010\nWariner, a former world and Olympic champion and a man many believed would have eclipsed Michael Johnson's world record in the event, said he has been monitoring Gonzales' progression ever since he was a junior and revealed that his outing last season showed that he was on a mission.\n\"I've seen him (Gonzales) mature throughout the years,\" Wariner said in the Jamaica Observer on Sunday. \"He has, unfortunately, been injured a lot through his career and last year he was finally able to stay healthy and move up and start running consistently and anyone who runs consistent 44 like he was doing last season is a competitor.\"\nGonzales managed to shake off those injuries which set him back in the past to set a Jamaican record last term.\nTraining at the Racers Club under the watchful eye of likes of Bert Cameron and Glen Mills, the former Commonwealth Games bronze medal winner broke Roxbert Martin's 13-year-old Jamaican national record in July at the IAAF Monaco Diamond League meeting.\nHis time and personal best of 44.40 seconds was better than the 44.89 previous mark held by Martin and Wariner knew it was coming. The American also admits that Gonzales' work ethic will inspire him to train even harder.\n\"He's (Gonzales) going to come out there and give it all he has,\" Wariner said.\n\"Last year\u2026 he showed it every time he stepped on the track. He ran his hardest and was pretty much done at the end of the race and people like that is great for me because it makes me train even harder at practise\u2026 knowing that I have to step my game up to make sure I stay ahead of him,\" he added.\nGary Smith is one of the leading writers for World-Track.org. He has over 10 years of running experience, as well as 12-years of coaching while covering several events, from the international to college level. Smith, who has covered events for publications such as Caribbean Net News, Cayman Net News, AFP and Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), is also a frequent contributor of SportingAlert.com and TrackAlerts.com.\nAdams State Ranked No.1 Heading Into NCAA DII XC Champs\nFlorida State Announced 2011 Track and Field Schedule\nSheri-Ann Brooks at the double at Donovan Bailey Invitational, Blake wins 100m\nByGary Smith June 16, 2012\nRead More Sheri-Ann Brooks at the double at Donovan Bailey Invitational, Blake wins 100mContinue\nLagat \u2013 \"He did a good job to drop me like that\"\nByGary Smith July 18, 2009 December 19, 2016\nRead More Lagat \u2013 \"He did a good job to drop me like that\"Continue\nBBC Sports Commonwealth Games Men's Predictions\nByWorld Track September 27, 2010 September 27, 2010\nRead More BBC Sports Commonwealth Games Men's PredictionsContinue\nPowell happy for countryman Bolt after world record run\nByWorld-Track Report Member August 16, 2009\nRead More Powell happy for countryman Bolt after world record runContinue\nFeatured | Press Releases\nGebrselassie beats Radcliffe in the Vienna City Marathon challenge\nByWorld Track April 15, 2012 December 19, 2016\nRead More Gebrselassie beats Radcliffe in the Vienna City Marathon challengeContinue\nRudisha and Pearson lead fast times, Gatlin loses to Gay over 100m\nByGary Smith July 6, 2012 July 10, 2012\nRead More Rudisha and Pearson lead fast times, Gatlin loses to Gay over 100mContinue","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Acuity Brands Announces 2021 EarthLIGHT Report\nAchieves Carbon Neutrality in Operations, Targets 100 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Avoidance by 2030, and Shares EarthLIGHT Progress\nAtlanta, GA, Nov. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (\"Acuity\") a market-leading industrial technology company, today announced it has published its third annual EarthLIGHT Report, highlighting its Fiscal Year 2021 accomplishments and ongoing progress on its initiatives. EarthLIGHT\u2013a central tenet of Acuity's strategy\u2013reflects its comprehensive approach to manage, organize and report Environmental, Social, and Governance (\"ESG\") topics. Through EarthLIGHT, Acuity improves its performance, increases transparency, and better highlights results on its numerous ESG priorities.\n\"We are committed to lessening our carbon footprint and helping our customers do the same,\" said Neil M. Ashe, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Acuity Brands. \"We are reducing waste, lowering costs, minimizing carbon impacts, optimizing energy usage, and helping our customers reduce their energy use and carbon emissions to achieve their own goals and priorities.\"\nThe 2021 EarthLIGHT report includes Acuity's progress:\nReducing its Carbon Footprint:Acuity achieved carbon neutrality in its operations and targeted a goal of helping its customers avoid 100 Million Metric Tons of carbon emissions by replacing older technologies with LED luminaires, lighting controls, and building management systems. As part of these efforts, Acuity is offsetting emissions by investing in forestry and landfill gas-to-energy projects that reduce atmospheric carbon. The Company also released a 2020 EarthLIGHT Handprint report entitled Lighting the Way Toward Net-Zero, detailing its methodology.\nLaunching Acuity Anywhere: Acuity Anywhere, a hybrid work model, allows associates to contribute and achieve results whether they work on-site or remotely. This model helps Acuity attract and retain the best talent, reach its EarthLIGHT goals, and build on its foundation of productivity, collaboration, and innovation.\nEnhancing Governance:Acuity enhanced several governance practices to further emphasize long-term value creation. The Company created Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and ESG Councils, both including Senior Leadership, to ensure Company-wide alignment and impact. Acuity continued its Board refreshment to ensure a variety of perspectives and a mix of experience and tenure. The Company also made changes to compensation programs based on stakeholder input. The EarthLIGHT report also includes information on Acuity's enhanced data privacy and information security practices.\nFor more information and to download a copy of the 2021 EarthLIGHT report click here.\nAbout Acuity Brands\nAcuity Brands, Inc. is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces and light. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (\"ABL\") and the Intelligent Spaces Group (\"ISG\"), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make the world more brilliant, productive, and connected. We achieve growth through the development of innovative\nnew products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management systems, and location-aware applications.\nWe are based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia and are powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates.\nVisit us at www.acuitybrands.com.\nThis press release and the related EarthLIGHT report include \"forward-looking statements\" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which may be beyond our control. We caution you that the forward-looking information presented in this press release is not a guarantee of future events, and that actual events may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking information contained in this press release. In addition, forward-looking statements are statements other than those of historical fact and may include statements relating to goals, plans, market conditions and projections regarding Acuity Brands' strategy, and specifically include statements made in this press release regarding: 100 million metric tons of carbon emissions avoidance, reducing waste, lowering costs, minimizing carbon impacts, optimizing energy usage, and helping our customers reduce their energy use and carbon emissions to achieve their own goals and priorities, investments in forestry and landfill gas-to-energy projects that reduce atmospheric carbon, the benefits of Acuity Anywhere hybrid work model, and enhanced governance practices. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as \"may,\" \"plan,\" \"seek,\" \"comfortable with,\" \"will,\" \"expect,\" \"intend,\" \"estimate,\" \"anticipate,\" \"believe\" or \"continue\" or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. A number of important factors could cause actual events to differ materially from those contained in or implied by the forward-looking statements, including those factors discussed in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2021, filed on October 27, 2021 and those described from time to time in our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the \"SEC\"), which can be found at the SEC's website www.sec.gov.\nAny forward-looking information presented herein is made only as of the date of this press release, and we do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of events, or otherwise.\n2021 EarthLIGHT Report Cover\nInvestor Deadline Alert: Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP Reminds Investors of Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (MARA)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cimeti\u00e8re parisien de Thiais, Val-de-Marne (94), \u00cele-de-France #4: Joseph Roth\nLibell\u00e9s : France, \u00cele-de-France, Paris, Roth (Joseph), Thiais (Val-de-Marne), Val-de-Marne (94)\nOur search for the graves in Thiais which follow was greatly assisted by an extremely helpful man who wishes simply to be known as Mister H. Many thanks to you: you saved us a great deal of time!\n'JOSEPH ROTH\n\u00c9CRIVAIN AUTRICHIEN\nMORT \u00c0 PARIS EN EXIL\n2.9.1894 \u2013 27.5.1939'\nRoth's books \u2013 which were due to be destroyed by the Nazis \u2013 were marked by nostalgia for the Jewish past. Roth exiled himself as soon as Hitler took power in 1933, eventually settling in Paris. In 1939 he collapsed in front of his local \u2013 the Caf\u00e9 Tournon, above which he lived \u2013 and died four days later of alcohol-related illness.\nSome of his noted works are H\u00f4tel Savoy (1924), Le poids de la gr\u00e2ce (1930), La Marche de Radetzky (1932), and La Crypte des Capucins (1938).\nCimeti\u00e8re parisien de Thiais, Val-de-Marne (94), \u00cele-de-France #3: Marcel Thi\u00e9baut\nLibell\u00e9s : France, \u00cele-de-France, Thiais (Val-de-Marne), Thi\u00e9baut (Marcel), Val-de-Marne (94)\n'MARCEL THI\u00c9BAUT\n1897\u20131961'\nThi\u00e9baut was a literary critic who ran Revue de Paris almost on his own for some years. He also wrote plays, including Doris (1946), Le Prince d'Aquitaine (1947), and Les Bonnes cartes (1949).\nCimeti\u00e8re parisien de Thiais, Val-de-Marne (94), \u00cele-de-France #2: \u00c9tienne Hadju\nLibell\u00e9s : France, Hadju (\u00c9tienne), \u00cele-de-France, Thiais (Val-de-Marne), Val-de-Marne (94)\n'Je suis amoureux 1957\n\u00c9TIENNE HADJU 1907\u20131996'\nThese words, which of course translate as 'I'm in love', are in fact the title of this work of sculpture by \u00c9tienne Hadju, made in 1957, which forms Hadju's gravestone: the 'folds' presumably represent a couple under a sheet in a bed, and this is quite a remarkable sight.\nHadju was a sculptor of the nouvelle \u00c9cole de Paris persuasion. He was born in Romania of Hungarian parents and went to Paris in 1927, where he was for a brief time a student of Antoine Bourdelle, and then of Paul Niclausse. He then discovered Fernand L\u00e9ger and from 1930 he associated with Vieira da Silva \u00c1rp\u00e1d Szenes.\nCimeti\u00e8re parisien de Thiais, Val-de-Marne (94), \u00cele-de-France #1: Paul Celan\nLibell\u00e9s : Celan (Paul), France, Thiais (Val-de-Marne), Val-de-Marne (94)\n'PAUL CELAN\nThe large number of stones laid here in tribute are an indication of Paul Celan's fame. Celan (born Paul Pessach Antschel (or Ancel \u2013 an anagram of Celan)) was a Romanian poet who wrote in German.\nCelan's parents died in an internment camp during World War II, which deeply affected him throughout his life. He was sent to a work camp in Moldavia and freed by the Russians in 1944, changed his name and began earning his living as a translator in Romania. Moving to France, he became reader and translator of German at the ENS.\nIn 1970 he threw himself into the Seine.\nTwo important series of letters \u2013 the first to his wife Gis\u00e8le de Lestrange, the second to Ingeborg Bachmann \u2013 were published in 2001 and 2008 respectively.\nJean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the 14th arrondissement, Paris\nLibell\u00e9s : Beauvoir (Simone de), France, Montparnasse, Paris, Sartre (Jean-Paul)\nH\u00f4tel Mistral, 24 rue Cels, Montparnasse.\n'Dans cet h\u00f4tel ont habit\u00e9, entre 1937 et 1939, puis \u00e0 diverses reprises durant la guerre\n\"Je trichais quand je disais: on ne fait qu'un. Entre deux individus, l'harmonie n'est jamais donn\u00e9e, elle doit ind\u00e9finiment se conqu\u00e9rir.\"\n(S. de BEAUVOIR, La Force de l'\u00c2ge)'\n'I cheated when I said that we're one. Between two individuals, harmony is never a given, it must be achieved by great effort.'\n(As in Andr\u00e9 Malraux's famous quotation 'La culture ne s'h\u00e9rite pas; elle se conquiert', 'se conqu\u00e9rir' has often been lazily (and a little meaninglessly) translated literally, so I've avoided it above.)\n'JEAN-PAUL SARTRE\n\"Mais il est une chose qui ne change point, ni ne peut changer: c'est que quoi qu'il arrive et quoi que je devienne je le deviendrai avec vous.\"\n(J-P. SARTRE, Lettres au Castor)'\n'But there's one thing that never changes, nor can ever change: that is that whatever happens and whatever I become, I shall become it with you.' (Sartre's nickname for Beauvoir was of course \"The Beaver\".\n'Soucieux de pr\u00e9server leur libert\u00e9 mutuelle, ils occupaient \u00e0 l'h\u00f4tel deux chambres s\u00e9par\u00e9es dominant le cimeti\u00e8re du Montparnasse o\u00f9 la mort les a r\u00e9unis.'\n'Mindful of keeping their individual freedom, they occupied two separate rooms near Montparnasse cemetery, where death has reunited them.'\n'Association la M\u00e9moire des Lieux'\nOlivier Adam: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas (1999)\nLibell\u00e9s : Adam (Olivier), French Literature\nThis is Olivier Adam's first novel, and bears some of the hallmarks of the two other novels of his I've read (\u00c0 l'abri de rien and Les Lisi\u00e8res), but above all identity crisis.\nClaire (a name too ironic for its own good) is twenty-two and, in spite of her bac, works as a supermarket cashier with no ambition to 'better' her existence. This is no doubt because two years previously her brother Lo\u00efc, two years younger and evidently much brighter than Claire, just disappeared. Claire had been away at the time and her parents Paul and Ir\u00e8ne had to break the news to her.\nAnd this news comes out of the blue like, well, like any other clich\u00e9 you might want to attach to it. Claire was deeply attached to Lo\u00efc, a little like the twin brother the film version of this book (which I've not seen) depicts: they did so many things together, enjoyed the same things, and so on.\nClaire isn't, er, clear about the reason for Lo\u00efc's disappearance, and all she knows is that he had an argument with his father. She slips into depression and then a postcard comes from him to tell her, as the title of the book says, that he's fine and not to worry.\nClaire's work is monotonous, ok, but Adam over-emphasizes this by the constant repetition of consumer products bought: we get the message only too well, don't lay it on so heavily! But the message Lo\u00efc has recently sent Claire from Portbail in the Cotentin peninsula is enough to send her off in a hired car for a week's 'holiday' in search of her brother. She meets a guy there (who will later only add to her alienation, her sense of inferiority) but she also sees her father appear out of nowhere and post a letter.\nLoving parents? Well, perhaps, but also lying parents. It will take the mysterious Julien \u2013 who has discovered that Lo\u00efc didn't just 'disappear' in the English sense, but 'disappeared' in the French sense of died two year before \u2013 but the reader feels that here is a man who will know how to heal Claire, cut through her parents' lies.\nSome first novels are written by people who have everything to spell (or spill) out first time round, but this was obviously not the case with Olivier Adam. The book is on the surface a very easy read (which I think has slightly irritated some reviewers): short sentences, uncomplicated syntax and vocabulary, etc, and for me too many coincidences, but how much does all this actually reveal about what Olivier Adam is trying to say in this novel? Or are some things just supposed to be left as mysteries?\nMy other posts on Olivier Adam:\nOlivier Adam: Les Lisi\u00e8res\nOlivier Adam: Des vents contraires\nOlivier Adam: Le C\u0153ur r\u00e9gulier\nOlivier Adam: Falaises\nOlivier Adam: \u00c0 l'abri de rien\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #10: De Colins de Ham\nLibell\u00e9s : De Colins de Ham, France, French Literature, Montrouge, Paris\n'J. G. C. A. H.\nDE COLINS DE HAM\nPHILOSOPHE SOCIALISTE\n'L'ORDRE MORAL, C'EST L'HARMONIE\n\u00c9TERNELLE: ENTRE LA LIBERT\u00c9 DES\nACTIONS, ET LA FATALIT\u00c9 DES\n\u00c9V\u00c9NEMENTS'\nJean Guillaume C\u00e9sar Alexandre Hippolyte de Colins de Ham was one of the first theorists of socialism, his condemnation of bourgeois society having a profound effect.\nMany thanks to the employees of the Cimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge for being so helpful and making the job of finding the graves so much easier for us.\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #9: Joselia (aka Joseph Blanchard)\nLibell\u00e9s : Blanchard (Joseph), France, Joselia, Montrouge, Paris\n'JOSELIA\nLUIGIA\nSON \u00c9POUSE\nVery little appears to be known of Joselia, apart from the fact that Mir\u00e8io Doryan and Joseph Maurelle paid 'eloquent' homages to him.\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #8: Henri Queff\u00e9lec\nLibell\u00e9s : France, French Literature, Montrouge, Queff\u00e9lac (Henri)\n'Henri Queff\u00e9lec\nThe son of Yann Queff\u00e9lec who won the Goncourt in 1985 with Les Noces barbares, Henri was born in Brest and is seen as a great French writer of sea novels. He wrote over eighty books, many inspired by his native Brittany and the sea. His Un recteur de l'\u00cele de Sein was filmed as Dieu a besoin des hommes.\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #7: Coluche\nLibell\u00e9s : Coluche, France, Montrouge\nThis is by far the most visited grave in the Cimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge. The comedian Coluche (1944\u201386) \u2013 born Michel Colucci \u2013 was the son of a man born in a small Italian village, and adopted the name at the beginning of his career.\nHe delighted in attacking taboos, politics, and used risqu\u00e9 language. France is a country that seems to be proud of the many anarchists it has had, and Coluche was certainly an anarchist.\nAnarchists loved Coluche, and some even agreed with his running in the 1981 election, although of course he was never a serious contender, and (after death threats) withdrew from a course he no doubt never intended to pursue.\nIn 1985 Coluche founded Les Restaurants du c\u0153ur, a charity designed mainly to feed the poor, and which is better known as Les Restos du c\u0153ur. Unfortunately, Coluche died in a motorcycle accident the following year.\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #6: Mir\u00e8io Doryan\nLibell\u00e9s : Doryan (Mir\u00e8io), France, French Literature, Montrouge\nMir\u00e8io Doryan (1901\u201389) was a poet and essayist born Germaine Drilhe. Very little biographical information seems readily available on her, although Jean-Jacques Rabaud wrote a biography La Vie intense d'une femme-po\u00e8te about her in 1987. Her first (assumed) name inevitably leads me to think of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mistral's famous book of the same name, and I doubt if this is coincidental. She wrote a homage to the poet Joselia (real name Joseph Blanchard), also buried here in Montrouge.\n'Ici repose un po\u00e8te authentique\nque l'on nomma\nMir\u00e8io Doryan\net qui v\u00e9cut un grand r\u00eave lyrique'\n'Il est vrai qu'il faut bien recouvrir notre \u00e9corce\nEt ne jamis trembler de faiblesse et de peur,\nPour qu'ext\u00e9rieurement, le reflet du bonheur\nSoit pour tous un exemple et pour nous une force.\nExtrait de \"Le Pretexte de Psych\u00e9\"\n(po\u00e8me: \"La Vie\")'\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #5: Gustave Geffroy\nLibell\u00e9s : France, French Literature, Geffroy (Gustave), Montrouge\nThe currently rather hidden grave of Gustave Geffroy (1855\u20131926), who was a writer (novelist, journalist, art critic, etc) and one of the founder members of the Acad\u00e9mie Goncourt. His L'Enferm\u00e9 (1897) was about the revolutionary socialist Auguste Blanqui, and was originally published in serial form by F\u00e9lix Juven, who also published Alphonse Allais, Willy, Tristan Bernard, and so on. C\u00e9zanne did a portrait of Geffroy in 1895.\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #4: Ernest La Jeunesse\nLibell\u00e9s : France, French Literature, La jeunesse (Ernest), Montrouge\n'ERNEST LA JEUNESSE\nHOMMES DE LETTRES\nCHEVALIER DE LA L\u00c9GION D'HONNEUR\n1874 \u2013 1917'\nLa jeunesse was a novelist, caricaturist and literary critic. He wrote and drew for a number of newspapers and magazines, and was appreciated by Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul L\u00e9autaud and Jules Renard.\nHe was unkindly criticised for his high-pitched voice and his eccentric clothes, but supported by Octave Mirbeau, a defender of outsiders.\nIn Le For\u00e7at honoraire, roman immoral (1907), La Jeunesse attacked the popular crime litterature of the time.\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #3: Carlo Bourlet\nLibell\u00e9s : Bourlet (Carlo), France, French Literature, Montrouge\n'CI-G\u00ceT PARMI LES SIENS\nCARLO BOURLET\nMATH\u00c9MATICIEN D'EXCEPTION\nET PIONNIER DE L'ESPERANTO\nKORPO POLVI\u011cAS SED PLUVIAS\nTIES IDEARO'\nAlong with writing several works in Mathematics and having a great interest in Esperanto, Bourlet wrote several publications on bicycles, including Trait\u00e9 des bicycles et des bicyclettes, suivi d'une application \u00e0 la construction des v\u00e9lodromes (1895).\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #2: Albert Simonin\nLibell\u00e9s : France, French Literature, Montrouge, Paris, Simonin (Albert)\n'ALBERT SIMONIN\nCrime novelist Albert Simonin published a dictionary of slang in 1957 and used such expressions meticulously in his novels, paving the way for writers such as Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard and Jean Vautrin.\nHe was imprisoned for five years for collaborationist activities.\nSimonin's greatest success was Touchez pas au grisbi (1953), the first of a trilogy about the old criminal Max le Menteur. His autobiography was Confessions d'un enfant de la Chapelle (1977).\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #1: Ren\u00e9 Crevel\nLibell\u00e9s : Crevel (Ren\u00e9), France, French Literature, Montrouge, Paris\n'REN\u00c9\nCREVEL\nRen\u00e9 Crevel's father killed himself when his son was fourteen. He went to the lyc\u00e9e Janson-de-Sailly and then the Sorbonne, where he skipped his classes in law to read or to talk with artists. He met Andr\u00e9 Breton and joined the surrealists when he was twenty-one, initially creating a very strong impression, but later joined Tristan Tzara and the dadaists.\nSuffering from tuberculosis, he gassed himself in 1935. Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann and a close friend of Crevel's, wrote that he had killed himself because he feared madness, because he thought the world was mad.\nJean Aicard: Maurin des Maures (1908)\nLibell\u00e9s : Aicard (Jean), French Literature, Les Maures, Province\nA brief pause from the Paris posts as I just happened to be reading this book.\nThe poet, novelist and playwright Jean Aicard (1848\u20131921) is perhaps not a name readily associated with the literature of Provence today, as opposed to, say, Alphonse Daudet, Jean Giono, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mistral or Marcel Pagnol. In Fanton-Latour's famous painting Un coin de table (1872) of the 'Vilains Bonshommes', the concentration is always on Verlaine and Rimbaud in the foreground, not Aicard at the back.\nBut Aicard's novel Maurin des Maures was once a very famous novel that was adapted to film. Many of its qualities suit it to the cinema: the action, the scenery, the love interest, the sharply drawn characters, etc.\nMaurin des Maures is set in the massif des Maures in southern Provence, and the main character Maurin may be considered as a kind of rival in readers' affections to Alphonse Daudet's Tartarin de Tarascon.\nMaurin is a poacher who lives in a primitive home in Provence, but is more often away from it chasing game but not chasing women because they just have a habit of falling into his lap, although he never keeps them there long: he appears to believe that men are naturally polygamous.\nAlthough always in trouble with the police (particularly Sandri), Maurin always manages to escape from them: oddly, there's something of the Ars\u00e8ne Lupin in this illiterate son of Provence who has a great many friends, and whose reputation is known throughout the country.\nThere's a love interest too: Tonia the Corsican is (far from her own volition) engaged to Santi, although she becomes increasingly in love with Maurin, to the point of tumbling into bed with him and wanting to marry him. But Maurin is not for marriage, and anyway he refuses to stay faithful to a woman \u2013 it's not in his nature.\nThe story \u2013 which is in some respects a number of stories loosely held together within the main story, variations on folk tales (such as the flying donkey from Gonfaron), long episodic digressive passages, etc \u2013 seems to be leading to a convention conclusion: Tonia is increasingly in Maurin's thoughts, so surely he'll just change his ways and lead the young woman to the altar and stick with her?\nWell, at the end it seems otherwise, as Maurin has been shot dead. Or has he? Maybe not: there's a sequel called L'Ilustre Maurin.\nJean Aicard died in Paris but was buried in Toulon.\nJoachim du Bellay, \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9, 4th arrondissement, Paris\nLibell\u00e9s : Du Bellay (Joachim), France, French Literature, Paris\n\u00c9TAIT LA MAISON\nLE PO\u00c8TE\nJOACHIM DU BELLAY\nEST MORT\nAG\u00c9 DE TRENT-SEPT ANS\nLE PREMIER JANVIER 1560'\nThis plaque is on \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 on the corner of rue Massillon and rue Chanoinesse.\nF\u00e9lix Arvers on \u00cele Saint-Louis, 4th arrondissement, Paris\nLibell\u00e9s : Arvers (F\u00e9lix), France, French Literature, Paris\n'LE PO\u00c8TE F\u00c9LIX ARVERS\nest n\u00e9 dans cette maison le 23 JUILLET 1806'\nThis plaque is on 1 rue Bud\u00e9. Arvers died in 1850 and, although now virtually unknown even in the country of his birth, was very popular in the 19th century. The sonnet below was so well known that several pastiches were made of it:\n'Mon \u00e2me a son secret, ma vie a son myst\u00e8re :\nUn amour \u00e9ternel en un moment con\u00e7u.\nLe mal est sans espoir, aussi j'ai d\u00fb le taire,\nEt celle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.\nH\u00e9las ! j'aurai pass\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'elle inaper\u00e7u,\nToujours \u00e0 ses c\u00f4t\u00e9s, et pourtant solitaire,\nEt j'aurai jusqu'au bout fait mon temps sur la terre,\nN'osant rien demander et n'ayant rien re\u00e7u.\nPour elle, quoique Dieu l'ait faite douce et tendre,\nElle ira son chemin, distraite, et sans entendre\nCe murmure d'amour \u00e9lev\u00e9 sur ses pas ;\n\u00c0 l'aust\u00e8re devoir pieusement fid\u00e8le,\nElle dira, lisant ces vers tout remplis d'elle :\n\"Quelle est donc cette femme ?\" et ne comprendra pas.'\nLise Lamarre in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards #5\nLibell\u00e9s : France, \u00cele-de-France, Lamarre (Lise), Versailles (Yvelines), Yvelines (78)\nLise (or Louise) Lamarre was a poet and a journalist.\n'LISE LAMARRE\nDONT LA VIE FUT VOU\u00c9E\n\u00c0 L'ART ET \u00c0 L'AMITI\u00c9...\n15 JUIN 1951'\n'Esprit pur, je connais enfin la V\u00e9rit\u00e9.\nLa Lumi\u00e8re, l'Amour, et ma force sereine\nretrouve le but o\u00f9 tend l'humanit\u00e9\nLise Lamarre'\nLouise Bryant in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards #4\nLibell\u00e9s : Bryant (Louise), France, \u00cele-de-France, Versailles (Yvelines), Yvelines (78)\nLouise Bryant (1885\u20131936) was an American writer who espoused socialist and anarchist causes. Her first marriage was to John Reed \u2013 who died in 1920 \u2013 and she moved to Paris with her second husband, William Bullitt, in 1923. A few years later she was diagnosed with Dercum's disease. Bulitt divorced her due to her heavy drinking and her lesbian relationship with Gwen Le Gallienne, and Bryant died in in S\u00e8vres of a brain hemorrhage.\nThe film Reds (1980) is a representation of the Bryant and Reed story.\nRobert de Montesquiou-Fezensac in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards #3\nLibell\u00e9s : France, \u00cele-de-France, Montesquiou-Fezensac (Robert de), Versailles (Yvelines), Yvelines (78)\nA superb image of a dandy: the gay poet Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855\u20131921) was the model for Esseintes in Huysmans's \u00c0 Rebours (1884) and one of the models for the Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu.\nThe statue on this anonymous grave is the angel of silence is from Vitry-sur-Seine ch\u00e2teau. Montesquiou is buried next to his secretary and lover Gabriel Yturri (1860\u20131905).\nArmand Renaud in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards #2\nLibell\u00e9s : France, \u00cele-de-France, Renaud (Armand), Versailles (Yvelines), Yvelines (78)\nThe Renaud plot in the Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards includes a rather impressive bust of the poet Armand Renaud (1836\u201395).\nArmand Renaud was born in Versailles and was a civil servant, progressing to inspector of fine arts. He wrote a great deal of poetry, some influenced by Persian and Japanese literature, and some of which was put to music by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns (1835\u20131921).\nEdith Wharton in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards #1\nLibell\u00e9s : France, \u00cele-de-France, Lenox (MA), Versailles (Yvelines), Wharton (Edith), Yvelines (78)\n'EDITH WHARTON\nN\u00c9E EDITH NEWBOLD JONES\n24 JANVIER 1862 \u2013 11 AO\u00dbT 1937'\nEdith Wharton's grave in the Cimeti\u00e8re des Gonards, Versailles. Below is a link to a long earlier post I made on Wharton in the Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts, with many images of her home there:\nEdith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts\nCimeti\u00e8re parisien de Thiais, Val-de-Marne (94), \u00ce...\nJean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the 14t...\nCimeti\u00e8re de Montrouge #9: Joselia (aka Joseph Bla...\nJoachim du Bellay, \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9, 4th arrondissem...\nF\u00e9lix Arvers on \u00cele Saint-Louis, 4th arrondissemen...\nLise Lamarre in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti\u00e8...\nLouise Bryant in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti...\nRobert de Montesquiou-Fezensac in Versailles, Yvel...\nArmand Renaud in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti...\nEdith Wharton in Versailles, Yvelines (78): Cimeti...\nBenjamin Fondane and Ren\u00e9 Descartes in the 5th arr...\nRaymond Queneau in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne\nThe bouquinistes, Paris\nBernardin de Saint-Pierre, 5th arrondissement, Paris\nBoris Vian in Ville d'Avray, Hauts-de-Seine (92)\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #7: Ren\u00e9e Vivien\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #6: G\u00e9rard de Villiers\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #5: Haroun Tazieff\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #4: Henri Bernstein\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #3: Andr\u00e9 Siegfried\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #2: Francis de Croisset\nCimeti\u00e8re de Passy #1: Gordon Bennett\nRoger Martin du Gard in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines...\nArthur Koestler in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines (78)\nAndr\u00e9 Foulon de Vaulx, 7th arrondissement, Paris\nAlphonse Allais, 8th arrondissement, Paris\nGeorges Brassens, 14th arrondissement, Paris\nL\u00e9on Dierx, 17th arrondissement, Paris\nTristan Bernard in the 17th arrondissement, Paris\nLyc\u00e9e Janson-de-Sailly, 16th arrondissement, Paris\nGeorge Gissing in the 16th arrondissement, Paris\nMonique Proulx: Les Aurores montr\u00e9ales (1996)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Co-op Bank unveils new ethical policy that bans lending to tax-avoiding companies\nThe bank is trying to restore its ethical credentials with a new customer blacklist\nBy Marion Dakers 20 January 2015 \u2022 6:00am\nThe Co-op Bank is seeking to restore its reputation Credit: Photo: Getty Images\nThe Co-operative Bank has officially banned lending to companies involved in payday lending and those gambling and tax avoidance activities that it deems irresponsible as part of an effort to restore its ethical credentials.\nThe troubled bank, which last year gave majority control to its lenders as part of a \u00a3400m fundraising, has rewritten its ethical policies in response to a poll of 74,000 customers and staff.\nChief executive Niall Booker said the people surveyed had highlighted these types of borrowers as particular ethical worries. \"While they know we are not doing a large amount of business with these [corporate customers], they still said this was a big driver for them,\" he said.\nMr Booker said the Co-op Bank will take outside advice when it comes to setting the scope of tax avoidance that would bar a company from getting a loan from the bank. \"There's bona fide tax management and there's tax avoidance. Some of this will be factual, and some of this will be judgmental,\" he said.\nThe Telegraph understands that the bank will also introduce the living wage, currently set at \u00a39.15 an hour in London and \u00a37.85 in the rest of the UK, from its next pay review in April. This compares with the national minimum wage of \u00a36.50 an hour.\nThe Co-op Bank worked with the Institute of Public Policy Research and other bodies to consider its new ethical policy, which also encompasses the bank's existing priorities such as upholding human rights, protecting the environment and promoting animal welfare.\nThe company said it has turned down \u00a31.4bn in potential business since it first introduced an ethical policy in 1992.\nIn 2013, the bank unearthed a \u00a31.5bn black hole in its accounts that sparked more than a year of soul-searching for the wider Co-operative Group and brought about the resignation of two chief executives.\nEuan Sutherland, who quit in March 2014 after 10 months leading the Co-op Group, described the mutual as \"ungovernable\". The turmoil was compounded by a drugs scandal involving Paul Flowers, the reverend who chaired the Co-op Bank's board leading up to its financial problems.\nThe society has since overhauled its structure and introduced a council of up to 100 members to safeguard its principles. The Co-operative Group has owned just over 20pc of the bank since a fundraising last May that handed majority control to the hedge funds that own the bank's debts.\nLive Mark Drakeford refuses to name date for lifting restrictions in Wales\nHere's how to save your half-term family ski holiday\nBy Abigail Butcher 21 Jan 2022, 5:40pm\nLive Netflix share price collapses as subscriber growth stalls - live updates","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Making The Change: Graduation and Awards to Savage, Starbucks\nToday was a joyous day. We graduated our largest cohort of MCDM'ers at a beautiful open-air ceremony. Here's what I told all those who attended:\n\"To give you a sense of the strong personalities that populate our Master of Communication in Digital Media, one of our graduating students updated (Brook Ellingwood) his Facebook status with this today.\nToday, after years of struggle and hard work, I will at last achieve my lifelong dream: To wear clothes based on what priests wore in the 12th century.\nOur students appreciate and respect the institution that is granting them this well-earned accreditation today. But we also recognize the seismic changes that are occurring across every institution as technology continues to disrupt business models.\nIncluding the time-tested business model of the university. Maybe that's why I'm wearing a suit instead!\nThe MCDM is a rigorous master's degree for accomplished communication professionals who want to navigate this disruption and seek out the opportunities that are emerging every day. The graduating students who will walk across this stage represent the very best of their fields and have exerted true blood, sweat and tears to earn this degree.\nDuring their time in the program, they've produced social media strategies for non-profits like the United Way, video campaigns for the Pacific Science Center, strategic communication plans for startups. They've pushed themselves intellectually to understand where communication is going with regards to mobile platforms, gaming and in emerging markets. They are leaders in every sense of the word, and we applaud them wholeheartedly for their achievement today. Especially during this tumultuous time.\nIndeed, just today, we announced that we will recognize two Puget Sound-based initiatives of national impact that embody our philosophy of disrupting traditional communication models with innovative digital solutions. One is Starbucks, for its innovative new Digital Network, which is in essence a media outlet available to everyone who frequents their stores across the United States. The other is Dan Savage and Terry Miller for their groundbreaking \"It Gets Better\" Campaign on YouTube, as a beacon of hope to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teenagers.\nWe're granting each of these initiatives the Anthony Giffard \"Make The Change\" award. And that's exactly what our graduates have done by achieving this degree, and what they will do as they engage the world with their talent and vision. They will all, \"Make The Change.\"\nJoin me now as we recognize the largest graduating cohort in the history of the MCDM. My colleague Anita Verna Crofts will read the names. Scott Macklin will capture the digital media.\"\nTomorrow, at our Screen Summit event, we'll be honoring Dan Savage and Terry Miller for their \"It Gets Better\" campaign to support gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender teens (connecting to two of our Four Peaks of \"Community\" and \"Story\"). See our Flip The Media post with Savage last year.\nAnd after hosting Adam Brotman in our Strategic Research class last fall, we recognized the \"game-changing\" nature of his Starbucks Digital Network (representing our Peaks of \"Innovation,\" \"Entrepreneurship\").\nWe intend to seed our nominees earlier this coming year, and hope to engage our community in the process as we move ahead. Until then, join us in congratulating our award winners. GeekWire just published their story, and thanks to our relationship with Weber Shandwick, we've pushed out this press release throughout the state:\nSEATTLE, June 9, 2011 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 The University of Washington's Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) program has awarded two Seattle-based initiatives with its Anthony Giffard \"Make The Change\" Award for digital disruption in communication. The awardees are Dan Savage and Terry Miller for their \"It Gets Better\" campaign on YouTube, and the Starbucks Digital Network in partnership with Yahoo!\nThe Anthony Giffard \"Make The Change\" Award is given annually to a local individual or organization that disrupts traditional communication models with innovative digital solutions. The MCDM seeks to identify the seismic shifts occurring in media, and \"Make The Change\" Award signals where these types of shifts are having the most significant impact on society.\n\"Digital technology has dramatically leveled the playing field in communications, making it easier for change-making ideas to be recognized and shared with the world,\" said Hanson Hosein, Director of the University of Washington's Master of Communication in Digital Media program. \"With their passion and innovative work this past year, Dan Savage and Terry Miller and Starbucks have shown just how powerful a great idea can be in today's digital society.\"\nThe Stranger editorial director and columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller merely wanted to provide a beacon of hope to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens when they created their own video, \"It Gets Better.\" Within weeks, regular citizens, movie stars, musicians, mayors and heads of state were posting their own videos of support and sharing them on the YouTube channel (http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/itgetsbetterproject). The campaign has produced more than 20,000 videos and substantive policy change. \"It Gets Better\" exemplifies the ability of anyone to effect seismic social change at a near instantaneous pace \u2014 through the equalizing access of readily available digital platforms.\n\"I want to thank everyone for awarding us the Giffard 'Make the Change Award,'\" said Dan Savage. \"As Tony\nStarbucks created its own in-store media channel through the Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!. By curating premium content including news, sports, film and music for nearly 6800 company-operated stores, the coffee retailer has become a media brand in its own right, even as it provides dynamic opportunities for other brands. As a result, Starbucks has given customers more reason to frequent its stores, cultivated community and provided access to premium content.\n\"We are thankful and humbled by this recognition from the University of Washington's MCDM program,\" said Adam Brotman, Vice President for Starbucks Digital Ventures. \"We are fortunate that our customers have trusted us over the years to pick great content to offer up to them in our stores; and we are very excited about the opportunities that the Starbucks Digital Network opens up for us to not only enhance their in-store experience through great digital content, but also to engage with our customers on a personal and local level over time.\"\nThe \"Make The Change Award\" commemorates Professor Tony Giffard, the founder of the MCDM (a disruptive model to academia itself) and a renowned international journalist and scholar. Giffard challenged the social and legal circumstances in his native South Africa in the 1970s as a professional seeking change during the height of Apartheid. In collaboration with the MCDM leadership, Giffard will present the awards at the MCDM Screen Summit event on June 10th at the Portage Bay Cafe in South Lake Union, starting at 5:30 p.m. RSVP: http:\/\/mcdmscreensummit.eventbrite.com\/About the University of Washington's MCDM program\nAs an internationally-renowned graduate degree program in professional communication, the MCDM operates through the optic of the \"Four Peaks\" \u2013 Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Community and Story \u2013 core elements that all communicators must now draw upon if they wish to engage with trust and persuasion in this noisy, chaotic digital age. These Peaks imply the creation and curation of compelling stories in partnership with communities of interest, as we avail ourselves of connective technologies that by their very nature subvert our ability to entirely control the process.\nadminMaking The Change: Graduation and Awards to Savage, Starbucks 06.09.2011","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paloma Faith stars in new advert for \u0160KODA\n\u0160KODA has launched the next installment of its Driven by Something Different series, featuring British recording artist, Paloma Faith.\nMilton Keynes, 20 March 2018: \u0160KODA's latest creative is based on the brand's Driven by Something Different ethos that celebrates individual spirit, self-confidence and a desire to stand out from the crowd; attributes shared by its customers.\nTaking a starring role is \u0160KODA's latest partner, music artist Paloma Faith. The advert follows Paloma through a series of flashbacks as she fights to make it in the music industry. It depicts her struggling to fit in as a young child to performing to empty pubs, to an iconic moment early in her career where she rebukes a music executive for not listening to her sing. The flashbacks are juxtaposed with images of her now as she enjoys chart-topping success and a new period in her life as a mother.\nPaloma's forthright determination is eminently captured in the advert, which has also been turned into a feature-length music video for the ad's soundtrack, Make Your Own Kind Of Music, performed by the songstress.\nCreated by Fallon London, the advert was directed by acclaimed music video director, Georgia Hudson, who has recently worked with P!nk and Ellie Goulding. The multi-channel campaign kicks off on 24 March with the full 60 second version that will air during ITV's The Voice. The soundtrack, specially chosen by \u0160KODA to mirror its message of self-confident individuality is available to listen to via streaming services.\nSpeaking about the new advert, Paloma Faith said: \"It's been strangely emotional to see my life on screen and I think \u0160KODA has done a fantastic job capturing my journey. 'Make Your Own Kind of Music' is a song that really resonates with me. It's about a fearlessness of being who you are and it's a message that stands out strongly in the advert.\"\nKirsten Stagg, Head of Marketing, \u0160KODA UK, commented, \"Paloma is an inspirational person who champions confidence and individuality and she stood out as the perfect choice to take Driven by Something Different that one step further. Her new role as a working mum reflects the modern-day family pressures that a lot of our customers will identify with and she will be the face of our family-friendly SUV, the \u0160KODA KAROQ.\"\nPaloma Faith is also working with \u0160KODA for its Driver's Seat Initiative, in partnership with The Prince's Trust \u2013 a programme which aims to give young adults a platform to learn new skills in a discipline matched to their artistic interests; such as music, art and photography. The Driver's Seat Initiative is open to those aged between 16-25 who are not currently in employment, education or training and who exude a Driven by Something Different attitude.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Posts Tagged \"US Department of Education\"\nDr. Libby Doggett on the Importance of Early Childhood Education\nKay Randall\nLibby Doggett\nOn October 25, Dr. Libby Doggett visited the College of Education and spoke on the topic of \"Early Education in the Spotlight,\" explaining challenges and opportunities that policy makers and local governments encounter as they work to improve services for pre-K children. Doggett is Assistant Deputy Secretary for Early Childhood Education in the U.S. Department of Education and a three-time UT Austin alumna.\nDuring the event, early childhood education faculty members Jennifer Adair and Christopher Brown also announced the winners of the first-ever Early Childhood Education Awards. Susana Guzman-Ortega, a pre-K bilingual teacher at AISD's Pickle Elementary, was honored with the Mitchoff Family Teaching Excellence in Early Childhood Education Award and Manuel Martinez, a second grade teacher at AISD's Houston Elementary, won the Zezula Family Teaching Excellence in Early Childhood Education Award.\nWhat is your connection to UT Austin's College of Education?\nI received a Ph.D. in special education there, and I often draw on what I learned during those years: the values, focus on innovation, the incredibly smart thinking.\nDid you spend any time teaching?\nI did. In fact, I taught a first grade bilingual class at Ortega Elementary here in Austin. Teaching at Ortega gave me a passion I still retain for helping children.\nWhy is early childhood education (ECE) getting so much more attention these days?\nIt's because of the amount of great research that's being done in that area. For example, a fairly recent study showed that children from upper income families have heard 30 million more words than children from lower income backgrounds. To address this problem, the White House developed a program called Bridging the Word Gap, which works with low income families to increase the amount and quality of communication parents and other caretakers have with children from birth.\nHow do you sell the argument that putting more money into ECE is a good idea?\nIt's all about that great scientific research. Studies show that in states where it's a priority to offer quality care and education to the youngest children, more children grow up with better reading and math skills, graduate high school, get and keep jobs, and form stable families. There is a proven connection. And 75 percent of Americans who were surveyed want Congress to invest more in early childhood education this year or next year.\nAt the federal level, what's the main focus when it comes to addressing ECE?\nIn his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to expand access to high-quality preschool to every child in America, from birth to five years of age. As part of that effort, the President has proposed a series of new investments that will establish a continuum of high quality early learning for each child. The President wants to invest resources in an area where we know there will be a return on that investment: our preschool learners. The benefits include savings reflected in improved educational outcomes, increased job productivity, and lower crime rates.\nWhat's the biggest challenge the U.S. faces when it comes to improving early childhood education?\nIt's definitely funding. There are so many competing interests. Finding funds for reform is always difficult and, as you know, children don't have lobbyists. They can't go to the White House and make their needs known. They have to rely on adults who can act on their behalf. There are some bright spots, though. Health and Human Services has offered $500 million in grants to the states, and they've received 600 applications. There will be an announcement of the winners in December. Also, the Department of Education has $250 million available for preschool development grants, and that money will fund services in 12-15 states.\nHow does the level of funding for K-12 compare to funding for ECE?\nThere's a huge disparity, with much more put into K-12. Imagine what pre-K would look like if we put the same kind of money into it.\nHow are cities and states helping?\nStates and cities are stepping up, with more than 30 states increasing funding for preschools. North Carolina, Alabama and Oklahoma, for example, already are putting in extra money and operating some of the highest-quality preschool programs in the nation. As far as cities, San Antonio has done a wonderful job. They implemented a one-eighth of a cent sales tax and, with the extra money, were able to open four very beautiful new early childhood centers, which I recently visited.\nHow well is Texas serving its youngest learners?\nTexas is offering services to 52 percent of our four-year-olds, which is actually very good compared to the rest of the nation. About a third of the states are serving only around 10 percent of their four-year-olds. In Texas, spending per child is low, however, and although there's access to services, the quality of care often is quite poor.\nWhat does high quality preschool care and education look like?\nHigh quality standards include having a child-to-staff ratio of no more than 10:1 and a class size of no more than 20 students. A high quality program has early childhood teachers who are certified to teach, have training in ECE, and who are paid the same as K-12 certified teachers. Services include care for children with disabilities, and instruction is developmentally appropriate as well as culturally and linguistically relevant. Instruction is regularly evaluated, data are collected and assessed, and there's continuous quality improvement. There is also a high level of family engagement, as well as intensive parenting skills education, home visits, and evidence-based health and safety standards.\n-Photo by Christina S. Murrey\nAISDAlumniDecember 2014Early Childhood EducationNewsSpecial EducationUS Department of Education\nRedefining Education for the Digital Age \u2013 Reforms Gain Momentum\nOriginally published in May 2011\nDr. Paul Resta speaking at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Institute Think Tank on Educational Innovation and Technology, March 31 \u2013 April 2.\nIn December of 2009 a landmark national summit on redefining education for the digital age was held at The University of Texas at Austin, convened by Dr. Paul Resta and the College of Education's Learning Technology Center. One hundred leaders from state legislatures, state certification boards, education professional associations, teacher unions, teacher education institutions, public schools, the business community and federal government attended the event.\nDuring the three days of the invitational summit, education stakeholders held intensive discussions on the transformative policies and actions necessary to bring public education into the digital age. The aim was to address large issues and try to:\nIdentify the characteristics of a true 21st century educator\nDefine the critical elements of an educator preparation program that will produce this digital age educator\nIdentify the institutional, state, and national policy structures that support the creation of these programs\nDevelop a national coalition to reinvent teacher education for digital age learners to identify and resolve challenges to this transformation, and seize opportunities resulting from these challenges\nThe summit resulted in a major report that was delivered to Congress by Resta and National Commission on Teaching and America's Future president Dr. Tom Carroll in the summer of 2010. It contained detailed recommendations for the transformation of teacher education programs.\nNew Hampshire Takes the Lead\nTo make revolutionary, far-reaching changes in public education, there has to be buy-in from most, if not all, major stakeholders \u2013 from teachers, school administrators, communities and parents to policy makers, educators' professional organizations, and corporate supporters and partners. And from Washington, D.C., down to the local level.\nFewer than six months after the national summit hosted by The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education, New Hampshire held a state summit modeled on the national event, replicating the brainstorming, discussion and recommendations process.\nFred Bramante, a member of the New Hampshire State Board of Education and former Board chair, attended the Austin summit and is a passionate advocate for the recommendations in the summit report \u2013 he's one of the visionaries who's kick-started the progress in his state.\n\"There are specific changes that need to be made and then there's a general transformation of the whole concept of what education is, or should be,\" said Bramante, who at one time was a middle school science teacher. \"We're addressing both. It's 2011, but most schools around the nation are still using a 20th century model \u2013 considering educators to be 'content deliverers,' assuming that learning can only occur within the four walls of a particular classroom and using school calendars that have remained unchanged for roughly a century.\"\nBramante has led a major effort to review and revise state K-12 education policies in New Hampshire, with the focus being on the documented academic, physical and social progress of each student. One of the results of Bramante's hard work has been New Hampshire's Minimum Standards for Public School Approval, which call for:\nthe personalization of learning environments and strategies\nharnessing of untapped local resources that can yield partnerships which, ultimately, increase students' learning and career opportunities\nmore flexibility in developing a school calendar\nextended learning opportunities for credit toward graduation\ndistance learning and technology to access new learning opportunities and support the learning process\nmoving from a Carnegie Units-based system to a competency-based one\nThe standards were distributed to and accepted by the major education organizations that must review and implement such regulations.\n\"We've scheduled another state summit, which is being held this month, and in which we'll discuss additional reforms, like those needed in teacher education programs\" said Bramante. \"The language we use now to talk about education and learning reflects the direction in which we're headed. In our draft of higher education teacher training regulations, we've replaced every instance of 'classrooms' with 'learning environments,' replaced 'teacher' with 'educator' and 'instruction' with 'learning' or 'learning strategy.' Little by little there is progress and we don't want to stop until we've fulfilled our vision.\"\nAdditional states have begun to implement recommendations from the University of Texas at Austin summit as well, with California working on a transformation of their teacher education programs and Wisconsin instituting reforms in one part of the state with plans to scale the changes to the rest of the state in time.\nSuccess at the National Level\nOf the numerous national education leaders to attend the Austin digital age learners summit, Dr. Tom Carroll has been one of the most enthusiastic and vocal advocates for radical change. As well as being president of the NCTAF, he co-chaired the University of Texas at Austin summit along with Resta.\n\"Post-summit recommendations are really gaining traction at the state level,\" said Carroll, \"and that's excellent because both Congress and the U.S. Department of Education are putting leadership back at the state policy level. As far as our national recommendations, the most important thing is to establish national competency standards. I see that as the area on which we should focus most of our energy and resources right now. Ideally, there eventually will be shared international standards \u2013 we need to keep the international context in mind as we establish ours.\n\"As Congress reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, we need to get them to directly address the need for education that creates a 21st century, digital age workforce. To teach students who know how to work with new media and social network tools, we obviously must have teachers who have the necessary technology skills and knowledge. It's imperative that we help Congress understand that this must be part of the investment in education.\"\nKey national education leader Susan Patrick, who also participated in the Austin summit, concurs with Carroll regarding the urgent need for updated teacher training programs and teachers who are highly skilled in technology use. Patrick is president and CEO of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, which promotes access to a world-class education for all students by promoting online learning opportunities.\n\"Currently, there are few teacher education programs in the U.S. that offer training and pre-service practice in online and blended learning,\" said Patrick. \"One of the most significant outcomes of the summit was to highlight the need for this kind of teacher training. We're starting to see programs include instruction in online learning as part of their curricula.\n\"The summit recommendations also are having an impact Congress's reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Obama's plan includes standards on teacher preparation and professional development for 21st century skills and online instruction, so we're beginning to see some very significant effects on state and national policy.\"\nIn March of this year, Resta, who has been shepherding much of the progress and information dissemination following the Austin summit, was invited to Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Initiative think tank to speak about redefining teacher education. The think tank drew education stakeholders like IBM Foundation president Stanley S. Litow, who is a former deputy chancellor for New York City schools, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller.\n\"This Harvard event included an international group \u2013 since it was a webinar, 1000's of individuals worldwide were able to participate. Other countries are watching with great interest to see what we are going to do about issues such as the revamping of teacher education programs.\n\"During the three days of the summit, the clear and recurring theme was that we must change the ways that we're preparing teachers so that they can prepare today's students appropriately,\" said Resta. \"Most agreed that we need to build a 'collaborative atmosphere' around issues of reform so that there will be largescale buy-in at all levels and so that schools that are islands of excellence won't be such a rarity and remain un-replicated.\"\nIn April, Resta was in Washington, D.C., again, this time to update invited U.S. Department of Education leaders and Capitol staff on the impact that the Austin summit has had in the past year and a half and the reforms that are being adopted across the nation.\n\"It was very gratifying to be able to report that a great deal of progress has been made,\" said Resta, \"and share the message that the recommendations are gaining traction. Places like New Hampshire, Wisconsin and California are setting the stage for sweeping nationwide change.\"\nEducational AdministrationMarch 2014TechnologyUS Department of Education\nNew Study Says Schools Should Play Primary Role in Boosting Students' Physical Health\nOriginally published May 2013\nA new report issued today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and developed by two University of Texas at Austin professors, says schools should play a key role in ensuring all students have the opportunity to engage in at least 60 minutes of vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity each day.\nHarold W. Kohl III, a research professor in the College of Education's Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, was chair of the IOM committee that wrote the report, and Darla Castelli, an associate professor in kinesiology and health education, was a member of the committee.\nRecent estimates suggest that only about half of school-age children meet this evidence-based guideline for promoting better health and development. The report recommends that most daily physical activity occur during regular school hours in physical education classes, recess or breaks, and classroom exercises, with additional opportunities available through active commutes to and from school, before- and after-school programs, and participation in intramural or varsity sports.\n\"Schools are critical for the education and health of our children,\" said Kohl, who is also a professor of epidemiology and kinesiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health. \"They already provide key services such as health screenings, immunizations and nutritious meals. Daily physical activity is as important to children's health and development as these other health-related services, and providing opportunities for physical activity should be a priority for all schools, both through physical education and other options.\"\nThe report calls on the U.S. Department of Education to designate physical education as a core academic subject to draw attention and attract the resources necessary to enhance content, instruction and accountability. Although most states currently have laws addressing physical education requirements in schools, there are no consistent nationwide policies. The committee recommends that 30 minutes per day in elementary school and 45 minutes per day in middle and high schools be devoted to physical education, and students should spend at least half that time engaged in vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity. The report emphasizes that physical education cannot be the sole source of physical activity, and additional opportunities must exist throughout the school environment.\nSince the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, 44 percent of school administrators have reported cutting significant time from physical education and recess to devote more time to reading and mathematics in the classroom.\nA growing body of evidence, including several studies by Castelli, suggests that increasing physical activity and fitness may improve academic performance \u2014 especially in mathematics and reading \u2014 and that the benefits of engaging in physical activity during the school day outweigh the benefits of exclusive use of classroom time for academic learning.\nA variety of physical activities that include aerobic and resistance exercises, structured and unstructured activities, and both short and longer sessions will likely confer the greatest benefits, according to the report. For example, aerobic fitness is linked to brain structure and function related to working memory and problem solving, and single bursts of activity have been shown to increase time on task and improve focus. Recess provides students the chance to refine social skills and use their imaginations.\nThe report indicates that along with a minimum number of minutes spent in physical education classes, students should also receive frequent classroom breaks, and recess should not be taken away as punishment or replaced with additional academic instruction.\nAccording to the report, ensuring equity in access to physical activity and physical education will require support from federal and state governments as well as state, district and local education administrators, the report says. School systems at every level, together with city planners and parent-teacher organizations, should consider physical activity in all policy decisions related to the school environment.\nThe study was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council make up the National Academies.\nKinesiology and Health EducationMarch 2014Physical EducationUS Department of Education","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"First United Methodist Church of Bolivar, TN\nThe Mission of the United Methodist Church\nWhy does the church exist? According to Matthew's Gospel, the risen Christ made it clear: \"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you\" (28:19-20).\nBased on this \"Great Commission,\" our United Methodist Church has stated its purpose: \"The mission of the Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Local churches provide the most significant arena through which disciple-making occurs\"\nThe mission of our congregation is to make disciples. This is a four-fold task\u2026.We could abbreviate our mission as one of welcoming-worshiping-nurturing-sending.\nWe have a direct responsibility for people of the \"world\" around our church, the community in which we and others study, work, shop, play, and so forth. In this world are people with many hurts, doubts, and questions. There are some who are new in the community and feel a little lost, some who are proudly self-sufficient, and others who are in desperate circumstances. Our mission is to reach out to them, listen to them, accept them, share the gospel in word and deed, invite them into the family of faith, and joyfully receive all who will respond.\nRev. Rick Pinkston, Pastor Email\nPastor's Blog: A Somewhat Orderly Account\nBolivar First United Methodist Church\nBolivar, TN 38008\nDawn Cody, Office Admin. Email Paul Hickey, Facilities Manager\nRichard McAnulty, Director of Music\nJoe Cole, Treasurer\nBoyette Denton, Staff Parish Chairperson\nGem Mitchell, Finance Chairperson\nJerry Wilhite, Lay Leader\nDebbie DeBerry, Trustees Co-Chairperson\nHarold Wilhite, Trustees Co-Chairperson Frank Wilhite, Administrative Council Chair\n218 W Market St, Bolivar TN 38008 | (731) 658-5114 | Office Hours: Mon-Thur 8am-3pm\nCopyright 2016 Bolivar First United Methodist Church. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lahore, Christian woman dies after she was disfigured in acid attack for spurring Muslim man\nby Shafique Khokhar\nAsthma Yaqood was 25 and worked as a beautician. She rejected Rizwan Gujjar's marriage proposal, who also wanted her to convert to Islam. In recent months, there have been five acid attacks against members of minorities.\nSialkot (AsiaNews) \u2013 A 25-year-old Christian woman, Asma Yaqoob, died in Lahore after she was attacked and disfigured with acid.\nHer only fault was to have spurned a 30-year-old Muslim man named Rizwan Gujjar. From Sialkot, the young woman succumbed yesterday to her injuries, after two weeks of agony.\n\"Minority women face double discrimination, or if you like, various layers of prejudice,\" said Aila Gill, coordinator of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, speaking to AsiaNews.\n\"The government should take immediate notice of all these growing incidents of intolerance against minorities. Forced conversion of religious minorities should be criminalised and the Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Act should be enforced to prevent these crimes against women.\"\nAsma had been employed as a beautician for two years and was proud of her job. Her brother Nabeel, 23, works as a banner printer at Panaflex where he became a close friend of Rizwan, a Muslim.\nIn the past few months Rizwan became a regular visitor at the Yacoob house, and befriended Asma, and eventually fell in love with her.\nAbout three months ago he asked her to marry him and convert to Islam, but she refused both requests.\nIn order to avoid problems for her brother, she did not tell her family. But after the refusal, the young Muslim becomes aggressive and violent towards her. She tried to avoid him and ignore him whenever he visited the family.\nOn 10 April, Rizwan's anger and frustration boiled over. He went to Pak Pura town where Asma had gone to work on the hair of a number of women who were preparing for a wedding.\nClaiming to be her brother, Rizwan got Asma to come out to of the house where he attacked her, dousing her with acid and setting her on fire, before running away.\nAsma's screams attracted the relatives of the future bride, who rushed her to the nearest hospital. She was later transferred to the burn unit of the Mayo Hospital in Lahore. But the doctors could not save the young woman, who had burns over 90 per cent body.\nMs Gill noted that the aggression suffered by the young woman \"is the fifth episode of its kind against the minorities of Pakistan in recent months. We are witnessing a worrying increase in violence and incidents of intolerance and extremism in our country. It's so strange that a woman cannot say 'no' to a marriage proposal.\"\nacid attack\nasma yacoob\nrizwan gujjar\nmisoginy\nPunjab Christian manager killed with acid by a rival\nChristians pay tribute to Asma Jahangir at her funeral in Lahore\nHuma Younus's lawyer calls on Catholics around the world to support her\nSialkot, Muslim kidnaps 13 year old Christian girl and forces her to convert to Islam\nCatholic hospital in Sialkot provides free treatment to tuberculosis patients (Video)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"These topics are combined simply as they are impossible to separate from the inception of performance in the colonial days of North Pine State School. However, as we approach more modern times, they are distilled and separate from each other as music and performance are enhanced through curricular and extra-curricular learning.\nHowever, as music and performance has been taught informally through school concerts and the like, we have included all the evidence of musical and dramatic performance at North Pine\/Petrie State School here.\nRead More About Concerts\nRead More About Special Events\nSince the very early days of the school, music and performance was a source of entertainment, discipline, fundraising, fun and collective creativity for the entire community.\nThe biggest social events of the year generally revolved around the school concert where children, teachers and notable folk alike participated in an event the entire community could attend and enjoy \u2013 and hopefully donate some pounds for the prize fund or other various requirements.\nAs time passed, it's not clear how dominant music and performance was throughout the 1940s and 1950s, although we do know that following World War II the school children were called on to perform in public a couple of times.\nWith the exception of school concerts, by the 1950s it's possible that music was still not considered much of a school subject but more of a curiosity or talent that wasn't so much learned but possessed.\nAs the 1970s came around class singing was all there was and for 10 years a dedicated piano playing school mum dedicated time every week to visit the school. She would play the songs from Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) children's radio show as the children sang along en masse.\nThese songs were eventually collated by the ABC and produced as music books with accompanying audio tapes which many schools acquired as class sets in the 1980s. Classes would stop for an hour or so while children sat on the carpet and sang along to the tapes with books in hand.\nBy this time also, there were dedicated music lessons in class-time once a week for each class in the majority of larger Queensland schools. Part-time music teachers were employed at this time for this purpose, and possibly catered to more than one school.\nAny dramatic performances were not specifically part of the learning process, but rather at the whim of individual teachers to utilise as a teaching tool, or for end of year or class concerts.\nThere is the suggestion too, that the choir and vocal group were active throughout modern times \u2013 however this may have been intermittent.\nIn the 1980s trends in schooling at the time, and a renewed invigorated enthusiasm for extra-curricular musical training saw a push in many Queensland schools for the introduction of an Instrumental Music program. Students who exhibited passion and talent for music were given the opportunity to audition for the program, learn to play an instrument and be capable of performing in a band, small orchestra or strings ensemble.\nHowever, the school was required to provide the instruments themselves, a massive cost for a small community. At Petrie State School, for a number of years, the end of year concerts and spellathons and possibly other fundraisers were in aid of this goal. Eventually the school's own instrumental program was functioning. There is some evidence that the program started with a percussion ensemble before the rest of the program was funded, they would visit venues such as the Holy Spirit nursing home.\nIn 1997 full-time music teachers were appointed to each school to expand and concentrate on the musical curriculum requirements of each school. This was the first time that an arts discipline had formally been introduced and encouraged as an integral necessity for learning and creating an environment for naturally musical or talented children to discover their gifts.\n1881: PETRIE WOMEN SHINE WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CHOIR\nThe service of song \"Eva\" (correspondent informs us) was rendered on Tuesday evening last in the Stateschool at NorthPine, before a large and attentive audience. Mr T Petrie, J.P., occupied the chair. Mrs Petrie presided at the organ with marked efficiency, and the choir throughout Rang with a delicacy of expression which could only have been attained by much attention and practice. The readings were given by Mr B T Gowdy with the utmost feeling, and the service was gone through without a jar. Votes of thanks having been awarded to the choir, Mr Gowdy, the chairman, and specially to Miss Petrie, to whom, as the trainer of the choir, much of the success must be attributed, the proceedings concluded. The audience were then asked to remain while tea and refreshments were served round, after which the National Anthem was sung, and a pleasant and profitable evening terminated.\n1893: SING FOR YOUR LIBRARY\n31 August 1893 (Thursday)\nA concert in aid of the library funds of the State school, North Pine, was held on Monday evening, which was largely attended. The proceedings opened with a piano overture, \"Qui Vive\", played in capital style by Miss Cooper. The school children sang several songs, \"Lightly Go\", \"Away to Rio\", \"Indian Warrior's Grave\", \"The Cobbler\", \"Away we go\", and \"We part to meet again\", which were appreciated by the audience, and showed evidence of careful training by the head teacher (Mr F. W. Smith) and his assistants. Miss A. Petrie contributed two songs, \"The Garden of Sleep\" and \"Love's Old Sweet Song,\" in a very pleasing manner, her efforts being greeted with hearty applause. Other acceptable items on the programme consisted of comic song by Mr F. Smith, \"I Did It,\" and stump speech by Mr J. Orr on \"Woman's Rights\". The concert concluded with a negro farce, \"Fast and Slow\", well played by Messrs' J. Orr, J. A. Hayes, and O. Hale. The children of the North Pine School gave an exhibition of physical drill. Mr J. Duffield acted as chairman, 'and called on those present to record a vote of thanks to those who had assisted to make the concert a success'.\nSource: 1893 'DISEASES IN CATTLE.', The Brisbane Courier (Qld.: 1864 \u2013 1933), 31 August, p. 6, viewed 13 December, 2013, http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article3565340\n1905: CHILDREN'S CONTRIBUTIONS FIND GREATEST FAVOUR\nA very successful entertainment was given last Saturday evening by the pupils of the North Pine State School, assisted by a party of local friends. Mr Arthur Kaye was chiefly responsible for the training of the children, but credit is also due to Mr and Mrs R D Hunter and Master Barclay. The North Pine Harmonic Society made their first public appearance, and two very enjoyable items, \"Strike the Lyre\" and \"Sweet Spring, Hail\", gave evidence of careful training. An excellent little orchestra, also under the baton of Mr Kaye, materially assisted the vocalists. Mrs Hunter, by request, sang \"The Flight of Ages\", and was warmly applauded, Miss Joyner being equally successful in her song, \"Waiting\". Among the items contributed by the children, these accompanied by appropriate action or tableau effects found greatest favour, and the little boys and maidens were frequently recalled for their creditable performances. \"Johnny Schmoker\" and \"Oh, see that water melon\" were very funny, and to make the actions in the latter more complete a huge melon was suspended from the roof of the stage. Edwin Gordon made a fine \"Little Soldier\", and his little squad went through their movements with admirable precision. The manipulation of brightly-colour cords in the \"Rainbow Song\", and the pretty effects produced in \"Flowery Garlands\" round a smiling little central figure \u2013 Alice Leis \u2013 were much admired. Two pretty tableaux, \"Fairy Voices\" and \"Britannia\", concluded the entertainment. The dressing and grouping of the graceful little figures was very good, and the audience manifested their appreciation by hearty applause. The principal figures were: \u2014 Fairy queen, Lily Halliday; attendants, Doris Wyllie and Winnie Hunter; fairies, F MacLachlan, B Campbell, H McTaggart, S Leis, B Lear, J Patterson, A Campbell, L Leis, M Slater, I Houghton, E Lear, E Baile, D Herman, E McLachlan, P Halliday, I Houghton; Britannia, Lily Halliday; and grouped around her \u2014 L Bickle, F Ebert, G Coulthard, and many of the fairies in patriotic attire. Among the audience were \u2014 Mr, Mrs and Miss Robertson, Mr, Mrs, and Misses Wyllie, Mr and Mrs McKenzie, Mr and Miss Petrie, Mrs and Miss O'Loan, Mr and Mrs Leis, Mr and Mrs G Houghton, Mr and Mrs Herman, Mr and Mrs Ebert, Mr and Mrs McMullin, Messrs V and S Joyner and Miss Joyner, Mesdames White, Hay, Crawford, Hosier, Barron McGregor, Halliday, Tucker, McLachlan, Campbell, Young, Misses A Crawford, Todd, McGregor, Massey, Bulgin, Houghton, Tucker, Armstrong (2), Messrs Coe, and many others.\nSource: 1905 'ENTERTAINMENT AT NORTH PINE', The Brisbane Courier (Qld.: 1864 \u2013 1933), 21 June, p. 7, viewed 13 December, 2013, http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article19305388\n1908: HIGHLAND DANCING AND COMEDY\n18 December 1908 (Friday)\nThe breaking-up festivities and prize distribution in connection with the local State School were held on Friday evening in the School of Arts Hall. The building was packed to overflowing. The chief items were Highland dances by the Rankin family, comic selection by Mr McGladrigan, songs by Mrs Hunter, Miss Walrus, Messrs Baker and Best. Miss Bright made an efficient accompanist. The prizes were presented by Mr T N Bray (a member of the committee). Votes of thanks to the chairman, cheers for the head master (Mr R D Hunter), the teachers, the committee, and the performers closed an enjoyable gathering.\nSource: 1908 'NORTH PINE STATE SCHOOL.', The Brisbane Courier (Qld.: 1864 \u2013 1933), 18 December, p. 6, viewed 14 December, 2013, http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article19554877\n1955 \u2013 1963 (Ca.): TEACHER TAKES HIS VIOLIN VERY VERY SERIOUSLY\n\"Mr Faulkener used to take us for Music lessons but he played a violin, which we children found extremely funny. Mr Faulkener took his violin very seriously and took exception to our mirth. Peter Chester laughed and ridiculed on a bad day and I watched as Mr Faulkener told Peter to put his hand flat on the desk and the proceeded to crack him over the back of his knuckles with the sharp edge of the three rulers he had picked up and placed together. Kids sure have it easier these days.\"\n\u2013 Joyce Wagner (nee Cairns), 1999 \u2013 Past Student, Petrie State School, 1955 \u2013 1963\n1955 \u2013 1963 (Ca.): PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME DANCE WITH THOSE BOYS!\n\"Mr Robinson also introduced us to dance and once a week we would trudge down to the School of Arts Hall to learn to waltz etc. It was an unsettling experience being held in the arms of the boys that we had spent all our school days fighting with.\"\n1974: CENTENARY WEEK MARCH WITH RECORDER BAND AND PERCUSSION\n1974 Centenary Parade. Courtesy Leanne Klinger.\n1979: PIANO PLAYING MUM IS MUSIC TO KIDS' EARS FOR 10 YEARS\n\"In around 1979, Mrs Ruth Taylor was a Petrie Mum who played the piano. For ten years she would dedicate time to voluntarily to bring the songs from the ABC Radio music program of the era to the children as they sang along en masse.\"\n1980s: SING SING SING! MUSIC IN SCHOOL SAVED BY AUNTY ABC\n\"Remember \u2026 \"Let's Join In\" and \"Sing Sing Sing\" \u2013 Wendy Tunin and Lorelle Flanagan, 1999.\n[COMING SOON: IMAGES OF LET'S JOIN IN AND SING SING SING BOOKS]\n1985: PART-TIME MUSIC TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS\n\"This school has the services of a part-time Music Teacher. All classes benefit from this provision.\"\n1985: SPELL FOR INSTRUMENTS\n\"Spellathon conducted to raise funds for a future Instrumental Music Program.\"\n\"End of year Concert was planned to raise funds for future Instrumental Music Program.\"\n1985: SCHOOL CONCERT PROGRAM\n\"From my investigations, it seems the school has not produced a concert of this magnitude before, and it is certainly the first time in many years that a concert has involved more than a couple of classes.\"\n\"Special tribute is given in the Principals' message to the Pine Rivers Youth Orchestra.\"\nSource: School Concert Program, Petrie State School, From the Collection of Jean Charters\n1986: MORE CONCERTS FOR MUSIC\n\"End of year concert for Instrumental Music Program, coordinated by Judy Sawyers.\"\n1987: CONCERT FOR A CONCERT\n\"End of year concert for Instrumental Music Program.\"\nSource: 1987 School Concert Program, Petrie State School, From the Collection of Jean Charters.\n1988: PERCUSSION AND VOCAL GROUP PERFORM\n1 SEPTEMBER \u2013 PETRIE LOG 88\/15\nMUSIC \/ INSTRUMENTAL \/ CHOIR: The Percussion and Vocal Group performed at the Holy Spirit Home on Friday 9th September 1988.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 88\/15, 1 September 1988, Petrie State School, From the Collection of Jean Charters.\n1989: MUSIC IS STILL AT THIS SCHOOL\n\"This school has the services of a visiting Music Resource Teacher. All classes benefit from this provision.\"\n1989: NEARLY THERE \u2013 INSTRUMENTAL FUNDRAISING\n\"Held at Aspley State School.\"\n\"Comperes: Deanne Hall; Nathan Jakavicius; Kasey Kruse; and Glen Gallagher.\"\n\"Lighting and sound production provided by staff and students f Aspley State High School: \"certainly enhanced this evening's program. (Peter Boge, Principal 1983\u20131991)\"\n\"One backdrop was loaned by Aspley State High School, other props and backdrops were loaned by Lawnton State Primary School and were made by the year seven students during art lessons.\"\n\"Accompaniment by Melinda Sawers.\"\n\"Our first concert back in 1985 was held to raise funds for instruments to be provided by the School in a future Instrumental Music Program. Concerts have been held every second year with this goal in mind. While the School still is not participating in such a program, we are optimistic this will occur before too much longer. \u2013 Peter Boge, Principal 1983-1991)\"\nSource: 1989 School Concert Program, Petrie State School, From the Collection of Jean Charters\n\"Concert as Aspley SHS for Instrumental Music Program.\"\nCONCERTS: 15.12.1989 School Concert held at Aspley State High School.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 89\/14, 17 August 1989, Petrie State School, From the Collection of Jean Charters\n1989: PERCUSSION IS THE BASS\nINSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: There is evidence here that the Percussion Ensemble was formed before the Instrumental Program was funded. On the 8.9.1989 the Percussion Ensemble visited the Holy Spirit Home.\n1990: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BEGINS AT PETRIE S.S. \u2013 FINALLY!\n\"Instrumental Music Program commenced with Instructor Graham Boyle.\"\n1994: MUSIC AT PETRIE\n1994: INSTRUMENTAL PROGRAM IN FULL SWING\n\"Selected students may take part in the brass or percussion instrumental music program.\"\n1995: MUSIC IS THE TALK OF THE YEAR\nInstrumental Music Program\nSelected students may take part in the brass or percussion instrumental music program. The program focuses on Years 5 \u2013 7.\n1996: THE SCHOOL MUSICAL\n\"It has been a tradition at Petrie for the Year 7 students to prepare a school musical. Our last musical, in 1996, was \"A City Spectacular\". Many hours of rehearsal and preparation resulted in an outstanding performance. The students excelled and performed to a packed hall.\" [Source???]\n\"Year 7 present the musical City Spectacular.\"\n1997: FULL-TIME MUSIC TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS\n\"Full time Music \u2026 teacher[s] appointed.\"\n1998: STRING ENSEMBLE TUGS AT HEARTSTRINGS\n\"1998 \u2013 Strings program introduced as part of Instrumental Music Program.\"\nLate 1990s: MUSIC UNIFORM IS SEWN WITH LOVE (AND FROGGIES)\nIn the late 1990s, the Parents and Citizen's Association provided a music uniform for the students to wear when in the spotlight. This was considered quite a turning point in professional presentation for performances and the students' gleaned with school pride.\nCOMING SOON: PHOTO OF STUDENTS IN MUSIC UNIFORM\n2001: MUSIC IS THE THING NOW\nSelected students may take part in the Instrumental Music Program learning woodwind, brass, percussion and string instruments.\nChildren begin learning string instruments from Year 3 while the wind and percussion instruments are taught from Year 5. Instrumental lessons are conducted in school time, once a week. Each of these lessons is 30 minutes in length and is conducted on a group basis with 3-8 students learning together.\nThe school has a number of instruments that can be loaned to students. Students allocated a school instrument will need to purchase their own instrument after 12 months with the exception of bass clarinet, French horn, tenor saxophone, euphonium and double bass.\nDuring Term 4 \"Parent Information\" evenings and testing of individual students allows recruitment for each program to take place.\nThere is an expectation that students will take on a 3-4 year commitment to the program, which includes involvement in the String Ensemble or School Band. Rehearsals are held before school.\nStudents from Year 4-7 can audition for a placement in the choir. The choir has a maximum number of 80 students. They perform throughout the year at the school and are often invited to perform at other venues in the local area.\n16 students from Year 6 & 7 are selected each year, through an audition process, to join the Vocal Group. These students must be willing to be a member of the choir as well as rehearse with the Vocal Group. They work more intensely on harmony and movement that the choir. They also perform throughout the year at function and other venues.\nThis school has the services of a full time Music Resource Teacher. All classes benefit from this provision. (See Instrumental Music)\n2012: CLASS MUSIC\nYear 3 \u2013 Recorders\nAs part of the classroom music program the Year 4 students learn how to play the descant recorder. I have made the decision to start recorder with the Year 3 students this term. All year 3 students will require a descant recorder by the start of September. Recorders can be purchased through the school office for a cost of $8.50. Please write the request on an envelope and pay the money through the cashier window.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 13\/12, 9 August 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\n2012: CLASSROOM MUSIC\nEach child from Year 2 \u2013 7 requires a 96 page music book as part of classroom music lessons. This book carries over from year to year, so parents do not need to purchase a new music book. All students will be able to re-use their book from this year.\n\u2013 Wendy Rose, Music Teacher\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 19\/12, 8 November 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\nExtra-Curricular Musical Activities \u2013 an Evolution of Sound\nTHE VOCAL GROUP\nAt one time there was the Choir AND the Vocal Group. The Vocal Group was formed in 1998 and was designed to showcase the most outstanding vocal talent of the seniors. The 16 students chosen to represent the vocal group would need to pass an audition before being accepted, were required to practice for 75 minutes per week and must also be in the school choir. The Vocal Group were the serious singers of the school who were learning more complex group singing techniques such as harmonies and unaccompanied \"a capella\" pieces, at times attempting the addition of choreography.\nThis group, although no longer functioning at Petrie, did obtain some local success winning prizes at the Pine Rivers Show Choir competition and performed frequently at school events, retirement villages. To quote Miss Rose in 1999, \"Despite what you may think, their aim in life is not to try to make the adults cry \u2013 even though they do frequently with their beautiful harmonies. The students love making music and we hope that you will be able to hear them more often in the future.\"\nUnfortunately \u2013 WHY DID THE VOCAL GROUP DECLINE AND WHEN?\nIn the late 1990s the choir was so popular that they needed to place a limit on the intake to 80 students and these students needed to pass an audition before they were 'in'.\n\"Margaret Just started a choir.\"\nBy this time the choir had a busy public performance schedule including singing at the annual ANZAC day parade, school parades\/fetes\/concerts, Carols by the River (which used to be held in Wyllie Park in Petrie), the Pine Rivers Show, the Queensland Youth Music Awards and Tulip Town Choir Competition (which was the old 'Space City' in Kallangur), Kidsing, Prince Charles Hospital fete and also for the VIEW club in Pine Rivers.\nTo the current day, the choir perform in a range of styles and generally add enthusiastic choreography to create and aural visual display that is highly entertaining. They perform extensively and successfully at many of the events above (now long traditions) as well as newer opportunities created by the events and music organisations that support our young choral enthusiasts.\nJRock is the Junior School version of the Rock Eisteddfod challenge. From the Rock Eisteddfod website:\nJ Rock\u2122 is\u2026\nNon competitive\nJ Rock\u2122 is a non competitive event, every school leaves as a winner. Our aim and focus is to teach students to have fun and learn the benefits of eating healthy food and being active. We continue to strive to produce an enjoyable and long-lasting positive experience for all participants.\nJ Rock\u2122 is run by an independent non profit Foundation which has been developing the senior event for 30 years in Australia. Our events have also been embraced in New Zealand, UK, UAE, Germany, Ireland and Japan. J Rock\u2122 utilises the same first class venues and A class production equipment provided for the high school event.\nSource: http:\/\/www.rockchallenge.com.au\/j-rock\/j-rock-research\nPetrie State School consistently participated in the JRock challenge until their defunding and subsequent demise in 2010.\nCREATIVE GENERATION \u2013 STATE SCHOOLS ON STAGE\nFollowing the demise of JRock, Petrie State School found a new creative outlet \u2013 Creative Generation!\nFrom the Creative Generation website:\nCreative Generation \u2013 State Schools Onstage has celebrated its 10th anniversary with four arena-style shows staged at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 July.\nIn 2014, some of the most talented dancers, singers and musicians from Queensland state schools came together to stage one of the state's largest performing arts events. More than 1800 students showcased their talent by starring alongside some of Queensland's leading professional artists, including James Morrison AM and RAW Dance Company.\nCreative Generation \u2013 State Schools Onstage aims to mentor and foster the next generation of performers and provides opportunities for them to work with and learn from professional artists. This annual entertainment event has launched the professional careers of many students who have gone on to star in theatre, television and musical productions.\nThe show featured:\n\u2013 A 600-voice choir;\n\u2013 The student James Morrison Creative Generation Big Band;\n\u2013 A 65-piece student symphony orchestra;\n\u2013 Up to 600 dancers;\n\u2013 And over 30 featured vocalists.\nCreative Generation \u2013 State Schools Onstage 2014 was proudly presented by the Department of Education, Training and Employment, Principal partner Queensland University of Technology, Major partners QSuper and The Courier-Mail, broadcast partner Network Ten, radio partner B105 and venue partner Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.\nSource: http:\/\/education.qld.gov.au\/community\/events\/creativegeneration\/about-cgen.html\n2012: CREATIVE GENERATION\nThe Creative Generation will be involved in workshops over two days this week in our school hall.\nSenior Singers rehearsal has been cancelled for Friday 23 March but will be held on the last day of term \u2013 Friday 30 March.\nSave the date! Tickets for CGEN 2012 will go on sale Monday 2 April at 9.00 am. There will be four performances including a schools' preview.\n1.00 pm \u2013 Schools' Preview (for school groups only)\n7.00 pm \u2013 Evening performance\n1.00 pm \u2013 Matinee performance\nTickets will be available through Ticketek. 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 05\/12, 22 March 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\n2012: CRAZY HAIR DAY (CREATIVE GENERATION)\nCrazy Hair Day will be held on Friday 8 June. This is a fundraiser to help support the Creative Generation team. Please note that hair cannot be sprayed with colour unless we have written permission from parents. More information (including permission forms) will be sent home soon.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 08\/12, 24 May 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\nLast Sunday the Creative Gen team spent the day at the Sleeman Centre at Chandler rehearsing along with 700 other members of the massed choir. It is now only 6 weeks until the performance at the Brisbane Convention Centre.\nTickets for CGEN are now on sale. Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 09\/12, 7 June 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\nThank you so much for supporting Crazy Hair Day. We raised $1116 for the Creative Generation Team.\nLast week we had 39 very excited students and 3 staff who participated in Creative Generation \u2013 State Schools Onstage as part of the massed choir of 600 voices. The students spent three days at the Brisbane Convention Centre rehearsing and then performing in four shows.\nThe highlight for the students was their performance of \"Joyful, Joyful\" when the choir came out of the stands and moved onto the main arena to perform their choreography.\nThe performance will be shown on Channel 10 on Saturday 8 December at 2.30pm.\nI would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the students for their involvement. The shows last week were the culmination of three months of rehearsals. Thank you also to the parents for their support in making sure that students were at rehearsals and also to those who were able to come to the show.\nWe plan to be involved in Creative Generation again in 2013, so let me know if you would like your child to be part of the team.\nOur school has decided to participate once again in the massed choir at Creative Generation in 2013. Students in Year 4 \u2013 7 (in 2013) are welcome to nominate for a place in the team.\nThe commitment is:\n2 before school rehearsals per week \u2013 7.45am start (from March \u2013 July)\n2 full day rehearsals \u2013 Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 March (8am \u2013 3pm)\nMassed choir rehearsal \u2013 either Monday 27 May or Tuesday 28 May\nA full combined school rehearsal \u2013 Sunday 16 June (8am \u2013 5pm)\nRehearsal at Convention Centre \u2013 Thursday 18 July (7am \u2013 5pm)\nRehearsal and Performances \u2013 Friday 19 July (7am \u2013 11.30pm)\nPerformances \u2013 Saturday 20 July (10.30am \u2013 11.30pm)\nApproximate costs based on 2012 prices include:\n$40 \u2013 bus fare (to 4 rehearsals)\n$20 \u2013 costume dress shirt. Parents provide black pants, black shoes and black socks.\nTicket prices: $40 \u2013 $45 (adult) $22 \u2013 $29 (child & concession) It is not compulsory for parents to attend the performances at the Convention Centre.\nPlease let Miss Rose know if you would like your child to be involved in the performance team for 2013. It will be an unforgettable experience!\nOur school has been accepted in the massed choir at Creative Generation. In July, four arena-style stage shows will be held over two days at the Brisbane Convention Centre, South Bank.\nEach year, the most talented dancers, performers, singers and musicians from Queensland state schools come together to stage one of the state's biggest performing arts events. More than 1500 students from across Queensland showcase their talent by starring in the professionally produced show alongside some of Queensland's leading professional artists.\nStudents involved in the Senior Singers are welcome to nominate for a place in the team. Please see Miss Rose for more information. It will be an unforgettable experience!\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 01\/13, 31 January 2013, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\nOur school will be hosting the North Cell Rehearsal for Creative Generation on Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 March. All team members will receive information letters shortly.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 02\/13, 14 February 2013, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\nOur team of 26 choir students have been rehearsing for many months to be a part of Creative Generation. Last Sunday they spent the day at Chandler Theatre rehearsing with the 700 other members of the massed choir.\nBig congratulations to the Creative Generation students. This is such a wonderful opportunity for our students to shine in a great production surrounded by so many other talented students from across Queensland State Schools. Our staff and parents who escorted and supervised our students went above and beyond. Thankyou.\nOur school was involved in Creative Generation at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre over three days last week. Each year, the most talented dancers, performers, singers and musicians from Queensland state schools come together to stage one of the state's biggest performing arts events. More than 1500 students from across Queensland showcase their talent by starring in the professionally produced show alongside some of Queensland's leading professional artists.\nOur students were part of the massed choir of 600 voices. They performed the three hour show five times over the two days for packed audiences, including many of our parents and families.\nLuke Kennedy (runner up \u2013 \"The Voice\" 2013) was a featured artist and we got to meet him backstage where he signed our CD's and programs.\nWhat did you enjoy most about Creative Generation 2013?\nHenry \u2013 I love Creative Gen and I got to dance in front of the massed choir doing Gangnam Style. It was a spectacular feeling.\nEmma \u2013 I liked it when the streamers came down on us while we were dancing on the main arena.\nJack \u2013 I loved watching the different acts. My favourite was the silver people.\nRhiannon \u2013 I loved performing on the stage for a big audience.\nMontana \u2013 I loved the smoke and laser lights.\nJayden \u2013 I loved the dance\nErin \u2013 Seeing all of the performers\nAnika-Rose \u2013 I liked performing for a crowd\nTienna \u2013 I liked the finale when we danced in our seats.\nPaige \u2013 My favourite part was doing the wave at the end.\nFraser \u2013 dancing the choreography\nSariah \u2013 I liked it when the whole cast performed \"I'm a Believer\" for the finale.\nWynter \u2013 I enjoyed making new friends and having my turn dancing.\nTienna \u2013 I like the singing. My favourite song was \"Fireflies\".\nGeorgia \u2013 I loved singing and dancing to \"Song of Joy\".\nTom \u2013 I loved the special effects, the fireworks and the streamers.\n2013 CREATIVE GENERATION TROUPE\n2013 CREATIVE GENERATION\nThe students had a wonderful time performing. We would like our school to be involved again in 2014 for the 10th Anniversary of Creative Generation. If your child will be in Year 4 \u2013 7 next year and would like to be a member of the massed choir, please let me know.\nThe Creative Generation Performance will be shown nationally on Channel 10 on Saturday 5 October at 2.30pm.\nBy the late 1990s there were 80 students enrolled in the instrumental program with a long waiting list. The school possessed 30 instruments for students to borrow with the expectation that after their first year of tuition they would purchase their own instrument. Students could choose to learn flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, alto-saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium and percussion. Most if not all of these instruments are still offered, with the addition too \u2013 of a few more.\nBy 1999 beginner students would join the Junior Band after six months of lessons and by the end of the school year they would have the necessary skills to integrate into the senior band. At this time the Senior Band were performing regularly at local competitions and events such as ANZAC day parades, school events, the Pine Rivers Show, the Australian Academy of Music festival, the Queensland Youth Music Awards, the Ellaways Music competition, Carols by the River, Pine Rivers Combined Bands Concert, Pine Rivers Shire Council Meetings and Fanfare.\nFrom the Collection of Jean Charters.\n1991 Fete. Courtesy Jean Charters.\nSTRINGS ENSEMBLE\nThe Strings program was introduced to Petrie State School in 1998.\nIt began with 17 violins and 2 cellos with students coming from year 3 and 4. With the exception of larger instruments, students generally need to provide their own instruments for this program as particularly with violin, students outgrow their instruments and require larger ones later. After the group had been learning for six months the first ever Petrie State School string ensemble was formed.\nBy 1999 the school had acquired 3 more cellos and a double bass. The String Ensemble had performed on school parades, the school fete, the Pine Rivers Show and the Australian Festival of Music Competition.\n2012: BEGINNER BAND WORKSHOP\nAll students involved in this workshop on Thursday 29 March need to be dropped off at the venue \u2013 Undurba State School Hall. No transport is provided.\n2012: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC STUDENTS HIT THE RIGHT NOTES\nI was impressed with the quality of performances at the instrumental concert last night. The evening was an opportunity for performers to practise items for the upcoming Fanfare festival. Fanfare is the biennial state-wide festival of bands and orchestras from Queensland state schools. Our concert band, junior and senior strings will be participating in Fanfare this year. Congratulations to the performers for a great night. Thank you Maria Jarvela and Timo Jarvela for the wonderful work you do with our students. I wish you well for Fanfare on Monday 21 May.\n\u2013 Kerry Lofgren, Former Acting Principal (Acting), January 2012-June 2013\n2012: INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT\nLast night parents were entertained by the Instrumental and Strings groups. Well done to these students, and to their dedicated teachers. We are proud to be able to offer all these additional activities at Petrie, and to provide students with opportunities to develop their talents and interests outside of their classroom activities.\n\u2013 Linley Greenland, Deputy Principal\n2012: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PROGRAM SUCCESS\nI am pleased to report that our Senior Strings and Concert Band were awarded Gold and our Junior Strings were awarded Silver in Fanfare on Monday afternoon. This is a brilliant achievement and a wonderful acknowledgement of our excellent instrumental music program.\n2012: FANFARE\nIt was an absolute privilege to attend Fanfare on Monday with the Band and Strings students. We have such a strong music program at Petrie, and we are truly blessed to have Timo and Maria Jarvela, and Wendy Rose working with our students. Their absolute commitment to the program ensures that Petrie students have the best. Congratulations to all students who performed. We were very proud of our Junior Strings who received a Silver Award at their first such performance. Our Senior Strings and Concert Band both received well-deserved Gold Awards. Well done to everyone, and thank you to the\nOn Monday, 21st May, our instrumental students competed in Fanfare at Undurba SS. Fanfare, held biannually, is a state-wide competition for school students. It provides the opportunity for students to perform in front of an audience and be adjudicated for their work.\nAll groups performed extremely well. The Junior String Ensemble received a Silver Award while the Senior String Ensemble and the Concert Band each received a Gold Award.\nCongratulations to all performers and Mr Timo Jarvela and Mrs Maria Jarvela!\n2012: FANFARE FINALS\nOn Tuesday next week, the Senior Strings will be competing in the Fanfare Finals at Banksia Beach State School. We are very proud of this group for reaching the finals, and we wish them well.\nLast week we were notified that our Senior String Ensemble has been selected to compete in the North Coast Region Fanfare Final. From 154 groups that competed in our region (from Bundaberg to Strathpine) 8 primary school groups and 7 high school groups have been chosen to perform.\nThe Senior Strings will be travelling to Banksia Beach SS on Tuesday 12 June to compete in the Primary School Final. We wish them all the best as they represent our school.\n2012: FANFARE SUCCESS\nOn Tuesday 12 June the Senior String Ensemble competed in the North Coast Region Fanfare Final. Once again the students performed brilliantly. We were delighted to be awarded first prize for the best String Ensemble. Congratulations once again to Timo Jarvela and all of the String Students.\nMr Jarvela also achieved success with the Narangba Valley SHS Strings being awarded first place in the High School Competition. We wish him all the best as he moves on to the Grand Final next term.\n2012: STRING WORKSHOPS\nThe following students have successfully auditioned for a place in District Instrumental workshops:\nAdvanced String Workshop (23 \u2013 25 July)\nEmma 6A, Sariah 6A, Sophie 6B, Hannah 7B, Connor 7B, Kiana 7B, Taj 7A, Olivia 7A, Yasmine 6B, Emilia 6A & Kate 6A.\nIntermediate String Workshop (26 \u2013 27 July)\nMaddy 5B, Anne 5A & Jasmine 5A\n2012: PINE RIVERS SHOW\nLast week the Senior Choir and the Senior String Ensemble performed at the Pine Rivers Show. As usual, reports were that they were impressive both in the way they performed and the way they behaved. Thank you to the parents who went along and assisted with supervision. Our Strings group received an Encouragement Award, and the Choir won First Place. Congratulations to both groups, and to Miss Rose and Mr Jarvela. We also had some excellent work exhibited by many of our students. We received a number of first, second and third prizes. Congratulations to these students, and to all who entered items for the display. I would also like to thank Mrs Campbell and Mrs Vanstrien who spent time setting up and taking down the display.\n2012: RECRUITMENT FOR INSTRUMENTAL PROGRAM\nAll Year 3 students will receive an information letter in Term 4 regarding recruitment for the Instrumental Program for 2013. Available instruments include: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Euphonium, Bass Guitar and Percussion.\nSelected Year 2 students will be invited to try out for a placement in the String Program. Letters will be sent home to these students in Term 4.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 16\/12, 20 September 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\nAll Year 3 students will receive an information letter this week regarding recruitment for the Instrumental Program for 2013. Available instruments include: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Euphonium, Bass Guitar and Percussion.\nSelected Year 2 students will be invited to try out for a placement in the String Program. Letters will be sent home to these students soon.\nSource: 'Petrie Log' Newsletter, 17\/12, 11 October 2012, Petrie State School, http:\/\/www.petriess.eq.edu.au, Accessed 16 September 2014\n2012: INSTRUMENTAL PROGRAM\nRecruitment for the Instrumental Program for 2013 will take place over the next few weeks. All applicants will receive notification of placements before the end of year.\nIf your child is not continuing in the Choir or Instrumental Program, music uniforms need to be returned to the music room by Monday 3rd December.\n2013: INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS\nInstrumental lessons will commence next week. String Ensemble and Concert Band will commence in Week 3.\nTimo Jarvela teaches string students on Tuesdays. Lessons will commence on 5 February. String Ensemble (Mr Jarvela will let you know who is involved) will commence on 12 February starting at 7.45am.\nMaria Jarvela teaches woodwind, brass and percussion students on Wednesdays. Lessons will commence on 6 February. Concert Band will commence at 7.45am on Wednesday 13 February. All continuing students are required for band rehearsals.\nAn information letter will be sent home to all participants as soon as possible. The Instrumental timetable will be sent home when it is finalised.\nAll participants in the Instrumental Program will receive an invoice very soon. The Instrumental timetable will be sent home as soon as it is finalised.\nThere will be an End of Semester Instrumental Concert on Wednesday 5 June. All Instrumental Students will be involved. The concert will commence at 6.30 pm in our school hall. More details soon!\nThere will be an End of Semester Instrumental Concert on Wednesday 5 June. All Instrumental Students will be involved. The concert will commence at 6.30 pm in our school hall.\nAll Year 3 students will be given an information letter this week about the Multi Instrumental Program. Available instruments include: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium, Bass Guitar and Percussion.\nAll Year 3 students need to return Expression of Interest for the Instrumental Program as soon as possible. Available instruments include: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium, Bass Guitar and Percussion.\nDANCE GROUP\nPerformance in Curriculum \u2013 Exploration of Concept through Drama","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"National SportNational Sport News\nnational-sport, national-sport-news\nParramatta have re-signed teenage half Dylan Brown on a three-year-deal reported to be worth $2 million. One of the most exciting prospects in the game, the Eels have warded off rival NRL clubs by locking down the 19-year-old playmaker until the end of 2023. Brown made his NRL debut in round one this season and played 15 NRL games, scoring four tries and five try-assists. NRL.com is reporting Brown's deal has been upgraded for 2020 and his extension is worth $650,000 per season for the following three years, totalling $2 million. It's a significant pay rise for the young half, who was reportedly offered a $3 million deal by the Warriors as a replacement for Shaun Johnson before he made his NRL debut with the Eels earlier this year. \"The signing of Dylan Brown aligns with our development club philosophy and we're extremely proud of the person and player he has become today,\" said Eels general manager Mark O'Neill in a statement. \"We're excited about the future ahead for our members and fans.\" The young Kiwi joined the Eels at the age of 16 before progressing through the junior grades and into the NRL team. He's the latest player to re-sign as the Eels continue their recruitment and retention for 2020 and beyond. The club has recently re-signed Maika Sivo and David Gower and have recruited Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Ryan Matterson. Australian Associated Press\nhttps:\/\/nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net\/transform\/v1\/crop\/frm\/silverstone-feed-data\/95647503-e891-456b-a86d-de5727854be3.jpg\/r0_74_800_526_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nEels lock in teen half for three years\nPamela Whaley\nDylan Brown has re-signed with the Eels for another three years.\nParramatta have re-signed teenage half Dylan Brown on a three-year-deal reported to be worth $2 million.\nOne of the most exciting prospects in the game, the Eels have warded off rival NRL clubs by locking down the 19-year-old playmaker until the end of 2023.\nBrown made his NRL debut in round one this season and played 15 NRL games, scoring four tries and five try-assists.\nNRL.com is reporting Brown's deal has been upgraded for 2020 and his extension is worth $650,000 per season for the following three years, totalling $2 million.\nIt's a significant pay rise for the young half, who was reportedly offered a $3 million deal by the Warriors as a replacement for Shaun Johnson before he made his NRL debut with the Eels earlier this year.\n\"The signing of Dylan Brown aligns with our development club philosophy and we're extremely proud of the person and player he has become today,\" said Eels general manager Mark O'Neill in a statement.\n\"We're excited about the future ahead for our members and fans.\"\nThe young Kiwi joined the Eels at the age of 16 before progressing through the junior grades and into the NRL team.\nHe's the latest player to re-sign as the Eels continue their recruitment and retention for 2020 and beyond.\nThe club has recently re-signed Maika Sivo and David Gower and have recruited Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Ryan Matterson.\nRAAF visit prompts praise\nAnger as thieves rob burned-down business\nRoad safety advocate Peter Frazer named local Australia Day ambassador\nHistoric Dight Farm could be affected by proposed North Richmond bridge\nRugby club deliver goods down south","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Citi has been in Singapore since 1902 and is represented in nearly every asset class. Citi Singapore is the largest foreign banking employer in Singapore, and it is home to strategically important hubs, Innovation Labs and the Asia Pacific Citi Service Center (CSC).\nWe have businesses with client-focused capabilities, such as the Global Subsidiaries Group (Asia), Citi Private Bank (Global), and International Personal Bank (Global); product focused innovation hubs, such as Global Consumer Bank, the ASEAN Investment Banking Hub, Markets Hub, and the Treasury and Trade Services (TTS) Hub; Innovation Labs, such as the Citi Innovation Lab (TTS) and the Consumer Innovation Lab; and the Asia Pacific Citi Service Centre (CSC) at Changi Business Park.\n'Best Bank \u2013 Global' by The Asset Triple A Country Awards 2017\n'Best International Bank' in Singapore by Asiamoney in 2017\n'Best Bank in Singapore' by Euromoney in 2017\n'Best Foreign Bank in Singapore' for 20th year by FinanceAsia in 2017\nInstitutional Clients Group\nCiti's Institutional Clients Group (ICG) provides the most comprehensive suite of financial services, products and financing solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises, top local and multinational corporations, financial institutions, governments and institutional investors. The ICG businesses include global markets and securities services, treasury and trade solutions, investment research and analysis, as well as corporate and investment banking. The Citi Private Bank (CPB) is also part of ICG, providing high-net-worth clients and their families with access to a unique platform of products and solutions, including investment strategies to personal financial and business needs ranging from bond issuance, M&A transactions and IPOs among other solutions.\nGlobal Consumer Banking\nCiti's Global Consumer Banking (GCB) business in Singapore was incorporated in 2003, and the business was granted a Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2005 and transferred to Citibank Singapore Limited, a locally-incorporated and wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup. Citibank Singapore is built around three key business lines: (1) wealth management products and services, including investments, insurance, deposits and treasury products; (2) unsecured products such as credit cards and personal line of credit, and (3) secured products covering housing loans and share financing.\nWith support from the Citi Foundation, Citi Singapore has served as a strong advocate of financial inclusion and youth development with a commitment of more than S$17 million since 2002. As part of Citi's global Pathways to Progress initiative to enhance youth employability around the world, Citi Singapore partners with key youth agencies in Singapore on: (1) Citi-YMCA Youth for Causes (2) Citi-TOUCH Youth ASPIRE Program and (3) Citi-South East Build Your Tomorrow.\nIn 2018, Citi pledged to support Singapore's Year of Climate Action designated by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources. The organization's pledge included the commitment to maintain 100 percent LEED certification for all office buildings, energy efficiency measures and 2018 environmental footprint goals of 5 percent reduction in energy use, 2 percent reduction in water use and 2 percent reduction in waste generation, from 2017.\nCiti Singapore was also awarded the Best Bank for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Singapore by Asiamoney for 2017.\nLaunched Citi Bot in Singapore \u2013 the first Facebook Messenger banking chatbot for Citi globally\nLaunched Voice Biometrics and Global API Developer Portal\nIdentified by the MAS as a designated Domestic Systemically Important Bank (D-SIBs)\nLaunched CitiDirect Banking Evolution (BESM)\nEstablished two innovation labs in Singapore\nApproved as Bank Clearing Member by SGX\nCitibank Singapore Limited (CSL) operates under a full banking license\nCitibank N.A. Singapore Branch obtains a QFB license from MAS.\nCiti starts its International Personal Bank (IPB) business in Singapore\nCiti starts its Consumer Bank business in Singapore\nCiti starts its Private Banking business in Singapore\nThe International Banking Corporation opens its first premises at Prince Street\nAsia Square Tower 1\n8 Marina View, 16-24F, Singapore 018960\nChangi Business Park\n3\/5 Changi Business Park Crescent, Singapore 486026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Debiopharm International\nDebiopharm Research & Manufacturing\nDebiopharm Innovation Fund\nDebiopharm Investment\nChallenge Debiopharm-Inartis\n\u00a9 2020 Debiopharm Group\nHome Debiopharm International S.A. Press Releases Debiopharm presents results of\u2026\nDebiopharm presents results of a first monthly injectable sustained-release fomulation of ZT-1 for Alzheimer\u00b4s Disease\nLausanne, Switzerland, November 6, 2003 \u2013 Today, at the 4th Neurobiology of Aging Conference in New Orleans, USA, Debiopharm S.A. (Debiopharm) presented the results of an in vivo evaluation in rats of an injectable once-monthly sustained-release formulation of ZT-1. This is the first sustained-release formulation to be developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). After oral or parenteral administration, ZT-1 is progressively hydrolysed into the active compound huperzine A (hup A). Hup A is one of the most potent acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors. One of the current limitations of this therapeutic class of drugs is that the oral route results in variability of exposure, as well as in difficulty of compliance, especially by patients affected with this particular disease. The results of the animal study suggest that, in addition to its action in inhibiting cholinesterases, the sustained-release formulation of ZT-1 could confer advantageous neuroprotective properties to the molecule. The potential for neuroprotection of hup A is documented in different animal models and Debiopharm will evaluate this effect clinically.\nDr. R.-Y. Mauvernay, President and CEO of Debiopharm said, \"It is the first time an injectable sustained-release formulation of a drug is being developed for patients suffering from AD. We have taken on this challenge as it offers a real benefit to AD patients. We believe that improved compliance will actually result in a more efficacious drug. The sustained-release formulation of ZT-1 is produced by Debio RP, a world leader in polylactide-coglycolide (PLGA) platform technology. Debio RP has already developed two other sustained-release PLGA products, both approved by the American FDA and market leaders in their therapeutic area.\"\nDebiopharm is also studying an oral formulation of ZT-1 and will run a Phase II multi-centre trial in France, Belgium and Switzerland with 180 patients suffering from mild to moderate AD.\nAD is characterised by the degeneration of the neurons responsible for the synthesis of acetylcholine (ACh), a neurotransmitter with a central role in memory and other mental functions. Current treatment for AD in most countries consists in the administration of cholinesterase inhibitors, which increase the amount of ACh at the neuronal synaptic cleft by inhibiting AChE, the enzyme responsible for the breakdown of ACh. AD is the most common form of dementia affecting elderly people, with a mean duration of around 8.5 years between the onset of clinical symptoms and death. The incidence of AD increases with age, even in the oldest age groups: from 0.5% at 65, it rises to nearly 8% at 85 years of age. Women probably have a higher risk of developing dementia than men, especially at very old ages. Worldwide, some 12 million individuals have AD and by 2025 that number is expected to increase to 22 million.\nAbout Debiopharm S.A.\nDebiopharm, Debio R.P. and Debioclinic are an established and proven group of three synergistic and complementary companies, that have a successful track record in developing, registering and ensuring that new chemical entities are brought to market both in Europe and in the United States. Products successfully registered and launched include oxaliplatin for advanced colorectal cancer and triptorelin pamoate for prostate cancer, both market leaders in their therapeutic areas. Specialized in oncology, hormonal and niche products for serious medical conditions, Debiopharm is a partner of research institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies who seek to develop and register their drugs. Debio R.P., Debiopharm's sister company, is a leading world player in the research, development and manufacturing of polymer-based controlled release injectable formulations for peptides and proteins, including proprietary technologies suitable for other therapeutic modalities such as soluble polymer cytotoxic-drug conjugates for parenteral administration. Debio R.P. also carries out scale-up under current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) and has an FDA-inspected plant. Debioclinic, the third Debio company, is a contract research organisation fully dedicated to clinical development. For more information, please visit the Debiopharm website at www.debio.com.\n\u2013 end \u2013\nPrinter-friendly version 138 kB - PDF File\n\u00a9 2020 Debiopharm Group Made with passion by Made it with passion","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Misrule\nOn children's books and other things\nHow Diana Wynne Jones Changed My Life\nLaunch speech for John Larkin's Bite Me!\nRE:Views Conference, 11-13 March 2005\nStories to Make Mountains Start Breathing\nBoys of Blood and Bone by David Metzenthen\nDeadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne\nMissing Drafts: Four novels for older children\nNotes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone Howell\nRemote Man by Elizabeth Honey\nSaving Francesca by Melina Marchetta\nSecret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman\nThe Gathering by Isobelle Carmody\nDavid Almond Interview\nEoin Colfer Interview\nGeraldine McCaughrean Interview\nJonathan Harlen Interview\nLauren Child Interview\nLibby Gleeson Interview\nLynne Reid Banks Interview\nMargaret Mahy Interview 1994\nMarkus Zusak Interview\nMelina Marchetta Interview\nPhillip Gwynne Interview\nTerry Pratchett Interview\nMisrule Manuscript Assessment Services\nRemembering Margaret Mahy\nPosted on July 23, 2012 by Judith\nI am so heavy of heart to write this post.\nWe've lost so many people in the children's book community this year\u2014big names like Maurice Sendak, lesser known but well-loved folk like blogger and writer Peter Sieruta, both from the US. Here in Australia, recently, we lost dear Jean Chapman, a writer and champion of children's books and reading (and the only person\u2014so far!\u2014to ever dedicate a book to me!), and illustrator Pamela Lofts.\nAnd now, we've lost Margaret Mahy.\nI'm often asked about my favourite children's and young adult authors, and for years and years now, I've often answered by saying, well, when I grow up, I want to be Margaret Mahy.\nYou know I have other favourite children's authors, most notably Diana Wynne Jones, and now we've lost both her and Margaret. And as I write this, I keep remembering all the connections between their work\u2014Chants and Changeovers and so on.\nI'm more than a little bit heart-broken.\nMargaret was one of the first international authors I heard speak, and I've always remembered (as anyone who heard it can attest) the absolute thrill of hearing her perform her incredible poem (later published as a glorious picture book) Bubble Trouble. (I looked for a video of Margaret performing Bubble Trouble without success\u2014perhaps someone else knows of such a thing out there on line?) Margaret's rhyming picture book texts (see also Down the Back of the Chair) set the highest benchmark possible for that most difficult of arts\u2014poetry for children. (Don't believe me? Read your way through the awful doggerel that passes for rhyming texts for children that make up a good whack of any publisher's slush pile.)\nI have so many favourite Margaret Mahy picture books\u2014Margaret was a friend to cats, and I adore The Three-Legged Cat, but also check out The Great White Man-Eating Shark and so many others. Her junior fiction is also as good as it gets\u2014funny, smart, subversive and about as child-friendly as you could ask for. The Great Piratical Rumbustification and The Very Wicked Headmistress were staples of The School Magazine when I worked there back in the 1990s and early 2000s, and they were also wonderful playgrounds for illustrators.\nBut for many readers, it is Margaret's older children's and young adult fiction that will live with us forever. The Changeover ranks high on the favourite books list of so many readers and writers, and I love it too (one of the great books about nascent teen sexuality ever written, no?), as I loved The Catalogue of the Universe, Memory and Underrunners, but my very favourite of all her novels is The Tricksters.\nIt's quite a long time now since I've read The Tricksters, but so many of its moods and images continue to cast a long, welcome shadow over my reading (and writing) life. Harry's secret novel. Those three creepy brothers. Family secrets. The mysterious Teddy Carnival. The sea\u2026 the sea\u2026\nWe Australians have a habit of claiming New Zealanders as our own, and there has been many a time over the years that my colleagues around the world have assumed Margaret was an Australian. She wasn't\u2014she was essentially a New Zealander, but I think there's a shared colonial, antipodean culture and world view that we share, and it goes some way to explaining why we hold Margaret and her books so dear. Or maybe we just recognise good writing, like anyone.\nBecause we're clearly not alone in our love and reverence for Margaret. Already on child_lit and Twitter and Facebook, friends and colleagues around the world are expressing their great dismay and sorrow at the loss of this incomparable woman and writer.\nAnd yes, I did know her. Not well, but I was so fortunate to have met her several times over the years, and to have published not one, but two interviews with her. She was warm and generous, circumspect and respectful. And funny.\nThe last correspondence I had with Margaret was after the June 2011 Christchurch earthquake, when I fielded many questions about her safety. She was grateful for the enquiries, and asked me to pass on the message that she was safe and well and staying with family.\nAnd now she's gone. How we will miss, and remember her.\nThis entry was posted in Misrule by Judith. Bookmark the permalink.\n6 thoughts on \"Remembering Margaret Mahy\"\nAnna on July 23, 2012 at 11:50 pm said:\nI think what cuts me up the most is the earthquakes and how much has been lost. Life has never gone back to normal and it is so unfair. I think of sitting in Margaret's lounge with its magnificent view down the harbour but Lyttelton is munted and it makes me so sad that a way of life disappeared. It should not happen for people like Margaret.\nJudith on July 24, 2012 at 8:37 pm said:\nHey Anna, I can't imagine how you and Ged are feeling. And it seems so much sadder to think that Margaret wasn't able to spend the last months of her life in her lovely home. Too much loss, in so many ways.\nJonathan on July 24, 2012 at 8:46 am said:\nThis is such sad news. Often when my dog does a particularly streamlined run after a ball I think of her as cutting through the water like a silver arrow, quite inappropriate of course, but it brings back the pleasure of The Great White Man-eating Shark. What a joy that recitation of Bubble Trouble was. If I remember correctly, MM told us that she had left the text of her speech in a taxi and couldn't remember any of it, so she gave us Bubble Trouble instead. And you know, it didn't occur to me until now that the lost speech was a fiction \u2013 and a very funny one.\nOh, yes, Jonathan\u2014the forgotten speech! I wonder if it were a fiction? Hard to believe she'd need notes, she was such a wonderful speaker. It's nice to remember how many people I love shared that night. And of course, all the wonderful School Mag connections. She loved the Magazine; I remember how warmly she wrote about in the email correspondence I had with her for that last interview.\nPingback: RIP Margaret Mahy \u00ab Read alert | State Library of Victoria\nPingback: Margaret Mahy | educating alice","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Giffard Airship, 1852.\nModel (scale 1:50). This dirigible was used in the first succesful application of mechanical power to flight. The power unit was a single cylinder steam engine constructed by the French designer Henri Giffard. On 24th September 1852 Giffard ascended from the Hippodrome in Paris and landed at Trappes some 17 miles away. Although this flight was counted as a succes, the airship lacked the power to navigate a circle against the wind and return to its starting point.\n'100 Years of Progress, 1835-1935', GWR poster, 1935.\nLondon & Edinburgh Shipping Company poster, early 20th century.\n'Cheshire Lines Railway', Cheshire Lines Railway poster, c 1925.\n'To Ireland via Holyhead', LNWR poster, early 20th century.\n'Perfection', LNER poster, c 1930s.\n'Holiday Excursions - Every Dog Has His Day', GNR poster, 1913.\n'The Midland Pullman - the Train of Today', BR poster, c 1960s.\nDiesel Train near Basenthwaite Lake, BR (LMR) poster, c 1950s.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By cactusfruit\nInfoBarrel > Travel & Places > Places\nBeautiful Island of Curacao\nVisiting Cura\u00e7ao\nThe island of Cura\u00e7ao is known in connection with the deep blue liqueur used in cocktails that gives them the bitter flavouring of the orange peel.\nAlthough part of the Netherlands Antilles congregation of islands - and a former Dutch colony itself - Curacao is relatively unknown in North America, compared to St.Maarten or Aruba.\nThe island is located off the coast of Venezuela and boasts a rich and varied history, Dutch and Spanish colonial style architecture and beautiful blue seas of the Southern Caribbean with an amazing underwater life.\nTropical climate of Cura\u00e7ao is a major attraction for tourists. Dry in the months of January to September, and wet season between October and December, the island's temperatures are relatively constant throughout the year. January is the coolest month with the temperature dropping to an average of 26.5 \u00b0C (80\u00b0F). September is the warmest month with an average of 28.9 \u00b0C (84 \u00b0F).\nWhite sandy beaches and azure waters - what more can a tourist want? There is an amazing underwater flora and fauna that attracts scuba divers. Even snorkeling is fun in the crystalline waters of the island. South coast is considered the most calm for those activities. If you've never done snorkelling before, this is the place to start.\nCuracao has a rich history and had been inhabited by Arawak Indians, Spanish colonists, Dutch, Sephardic Jews and many other cultures that contributed to its unique mix of languages, architecture, traditions and food.\nYou can find all sorts of restaurants on the island: Indonesian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian and, of course, traditional \"krioyo\" cuisine of Cura\u00e7ao itself. The staple here is rice, plantains, coconuts, fries and seafood! Sample authentic food at Cura\u00e7ao's famous old market, Marsche Bieuw in Punda.\nTry pastechi for breakfast - pastry with fillings of tuna, cheese, or ground meat with coconut water. Funchi is a cornmeal paste similar to polenta served with main dishes such as stewed goat or freshly caught fish.\nThe locals also like cooking iguana soup that they believe, has aphrodisiac qualities. It looks just like chicken noodle soup albeit with a slightly green tinge to it. It also tastes just like chicken although not as plump - and full of small bones.\nWillemstad is the capital of Cura\u00e7ao. It's a vibrant cosmopolitan city. The island boasts one of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean, and ranks 46th in the world in terms of GDP per capita. It's a bustling financial centre with an amazing historical sites. Visit Punda - one of Willemstad's districts - it has 16th century street protected by UNESCO. Strolling the old street while the sea winds tussle the hair makes the ambiance very special.\nQueen Emma's pontoon bridge connects Punda and Otrobanda districts, swinging open to allow the passage of ships. When it's closed to pedestrians, you can take a small boat across to get some shopping done and gaze at the architecture.\nWillemstad boasts 8 forts built by the Dutch in an attempt to protect the island from the French invasion. There is also the oldest synagogue in the Americas. Simple, beautiful, majestic, it looks somewhat austere from the outside, but full of light and white sand on the floor on the inside. The story has it, that the early worshippers from Spain and Portugal put sand on the floor to muffle their steps, when they went to service, to avoid being caught. There is also a museum in the same courtyard that shows Jewish household items and personal items of the notable Jewish citizen of Curacao.\nCura\u00e7ao has been a major trade center for centuries so it's not surprising that stores are full of goods from all over the world. Since the island is a cultural melting pot, people are bilingual or even tri-lingual. Everyone speaks Dutch, Spanish, Papiamentu, and English.\nHeerenstraat and Madurostraat are open to pedestrians only. Bredestraat and Roodeweg are famous for discount buys. Go to the Plaza Jojo Correa for the small artisanal items and local crafts.\nJust around the corner from Handelskade is a floating market where Venezualan traders display tropical fruits and vegetables in their boats they bring each morning from across the coast.\nCuracao's also renown for its huge Harbour Duty Free Zone. It is the Caribbean's largest trade zone. However, goods purchased there must be shipped directly to your home address or transferred to your flight. You won't get to see them until you get home.\nAs you can see there is plenty to be done on the island, and this description is far from being complete. One can talk at length about the things to do, places to visit, and people to meet. No wonder this place is called \"the best kept secret of the Caribbean\". Hopefully you can visit one day!\nCredit: http:\/\/www.palmislandcarrental.com\/\nNext >> A Punishing Hike to Mt. Ypsilon in Rocky Mountain National Park\ncactusfruit\nThings You Should Know Before Visiting Hong Kong\nNorth Korean Defectors: Their Dangerous Journey to South Korea\nThe Coolest Hostels in Singapore\nMadagascar's North West Islands\nFrom Bobbies to Beefeaters: Meet Eight Iconic Londoners\nWhy Washington DC is a Great Year-Round Vacation Destination","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mitch McConnell Warns He Could Intervene In 2022 GOP Primaries To Boost Establishment Candidates\nOn Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) cautioned that he and those associated with him are ready to intervene in any Republican Senate primaries to defeat candidates he views as \"unelectable.\"\nMcConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he, or a group closely linked to him called the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), would be willing to get involved in any primary race.\nMcConnell replied to Hewitt, \"If necessary. There's no question that in order to win \u2026 you have to appeal to the general election audience. I'll be keeping an eye on that. Hopefully we won't have to intervene, but if we do, we will.\"\nConservatives will no doubt view the comments from the establishment Republican as meaning McConnell will oppose grassroots conservatives or Trump-aligned Republicans.\nRELATED: North Korean Defector Blasts 'Woke' American Universities \u2013 'Even North Korea Was Not This Nuts'\nTrump Candidates Vs. McConnell Candidates\nMitch McConnell and his allies ready to jump into any GOP primary they think needs guidance sets up an interesting dynamic heading into 2022 for Republicans.\nBy all accounts, former President Donald Trump is the head of the party, and an endorsement from him will be sought by most candidates seeking office.\nSo far, the SLF has endorsed one candidate on the opposite side of Trump: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).\nMurkowski, who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment, has picked up a primary challenger \u2013 though Trump has not yet endorsed in that race.\nWill McConnell try to woo candidates with cash? Probably so, but as Trump's popularity shows no signs of letting up, PACs that are associated with him are raising record amounts of cash.\nRELATED: Clinton Emails Reporter Christopher Sign Who 'Committed Suicide' Was Getting Death Threats\nWill McConnell\/SLF Candidates Water Down The GOP?\nBack in February, McConnell stated that the thing he cared about the most was \"electability.\" Americans who want to elect Republicans are also concerned with electability, but at what cost?\nIs it possible that, if McConnell and his friends intervene in enough GOP primaries, would Trump supporters smell a rat, and be suspicious of McConnell of watering down the party until it is full of John McCains and Mitt Romneys?\nJust more establishment RINOs who will cave to every liberal Democrat demand?\nThere is also the problem of McConnell intervention into races where the context of background surrounding candidates figures very heavily in the race. In Missouri for example, former Gov. Eric Greitens has thrown his hat in the ring to replace Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO). Greitens resigned from the governorship after a sex scandal in 2018.\nWhile Greitens may have name recognition which might give him a lead in the polls due to core support from those who don't care about the reasons behind his ouster from the Governor's mansion, and those who just know his name, does not mean he is the most popular with voters with knowledge of his background.\nWould not just Missouri voters, but voters in any state appreciate team McConnell swooping in to take over a primary election?\nRELATED: Fox Reporter Stuns Audience, Says Live On-Air She Will Reveal Information Being Kept Secret\nThe Task Republicans Must Focus On\nThe main task at hand for Republicans is taking both the House and the Senate back in 2022. Republicans must defend 20 seats, while Democrats must only defend 14.\nFour of those seats were won by Democrats in 2020, and the GOP is hoping to flip them red. They are also looking at taking seats from Georgia, Arizona, and New Hampshire.\nJack Pandol, communications director for the SLF says that, \"As has long been SLF's policy, we reserve the right to intervene in cases where a candidate is a clear threat to lose a seat in a general election and to protect our Republican incumbents.\"\nIntervention by Mitch McConnell and friends could be seen as interfering with the will of the people, and nothing more than a power grab on his part.\nPerhaps McConnell and the SLF should find out if the candidate in question is who Mitch McConnell wants or the people want.\nBecky Noble\nBecky Noble, a political blogger and writer for over 10 years, lives by the motto, \"Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.\" Her work has appeared on PolitiChicks, TheBlackSphere, NewsNinja2012.com, Examiner.com, and more. Becky is currently a Journalism student in her senior year at Regent University.\nNext Obama Slams Fox News Fans \u2013 'Perceive A Different Reality' Than Other Americans \u00bb\nPrevious \u00ab Sunny Hostin Defends Ilhan Omar On 'The View' \u2013 Claims GOP Trying To Censure Woman Of Color Is 'Height Of Hypocrisy'\nTags: 2022GOPMitch McConnell","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Roundup: Newham's loan rate revealed, black hole in county finances, Islington's property company\nby Colin Marrs\nin 151 News\nNewham loan rate revealed\nLondon Borough of Newham has revealed the rate at which it converted its controversial Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBO) loans into fixed long term debt. Last year, the council announced that it had fixed the rate on \u00a3248m of its \u00a3563m LOBO portfolio, in a move it said would save \u00a394m. Earlier this year, the council refused to reveal the rate through a Freedom of Information request, claiming it would \"be likely to weaken Newham's bargaining position during future financial and contractual negotiations\". However, documents released by the council this month show that the average rate of the newly fixed loans is 5.93%. This compares to 6.3% the council is currently paying on its remaining LOBOs and 4.29% it is paying on loans from the Public Works Loan Board. The figures show that the move saved the council \u00a35m in 2016\/17.\nCounties face \u00a32.54bn black hole\nThe funding black hole for county authorities will treble to \u00a32.54bn in just four years' time, according to the County Councils Network (CCN). In an analysis prepared for the network's autumn budget submission, it found that each county on average will face an additional average funding gap of \u00a370m by 2021, on top of planned service reductions. Social care accounts for \u00a326m of this per authority, and \u00a322m in implementing the new national living wage. Paul Carter, CCN chairman, said: \"We are reaching a point where we are have to consider difficult, painful and unpopular decisions next year to deliver balanced budgets, which will reduce and remove frontline services highly valued by our residents. The government has said it is in listening mode, and I and my fellow county leaders, will be asking ministers across government that we need additional help and support in this budget or we will all face some very severe consequences in the future. The situation can't go on.\"\nTeething problems for Islington property investment\nA north London authority is facing short-term financial issues due to its commercial property investments. A report to Islington councillors has forecast a gross \u00a31.3m overspend on its commercial property budget in 2017\/18. The council is dealing with the issue by removing its administrative buildings maintenance contingency, limiting repairs to urgent issues, holding posts vacant and increasing income forecasts. The report said: \"Commercial property income is expected to reach the target for it set in the medium-term financial strategy by 2019. However, this income, given the time needed to execute commercial projects, is heavily weighted to 2019 giving a cashflow pressure in 2017\/18.\"\nEnfield creates oversight regime for standalone companies\nLondon Borough of Enfield has created new governance arrangements to ensure proper oversight of its standalone companies. The north London borough currently has five companies and is a partner in a joint venture with Norse Group. A new cabinet subcommittee will take on oversight responsibilities for all companies. A council report said: \"This new structure will provide an overarching single reporting structure for the council to manage its entities and receive formal reporting between the companies (subsidiaries) and the council (parent company). This proposed structure will be more sustainable in the long term and reflect best practice.\"\nThink tank reveals scale of council cuts\nSpending on adult social care services is around 5% below 2009\/10 levels, according to the Institute for Government. The thinktank's annual performance tracker found that real-terms net day-to-day spending on local trading standards services has fallen by a third; on libraries by 31%; on local food safety by 22%; and on waste collection by 19%. The IFG said: \"The lack of data on the scope and quality of these services means that Whitehall\u2014the Treasury, the Department for Communities and Local Government, and the departments which set local authorities' various statutory obligations\u2014is unable to understand the performance of locally delivered services. It cannot be sure how much further efficiency savings can be achieved.\"\nHousing companies create on-lending opportunities\nCouncil-owned local housing companies (LHCs) offer a \"triple dividend\" in the form of much needed extra housing, a greater stewardship role in place-shaping and a financial return, according to new research. A report by the Smith Institute found that most councils expect their LHC to generate a profit, which can be re-invested into the housing company. Councils are also often generating income from 'on-lending' PWLB cash to their LHC, it found. The report said: \"Many councils are clearly taking advantage of on-lending, but we were told by financial advisers that the most critical component is the terms of the loan agreement and the pre-conditions on draw down, as well as how the loan debt fits with other financing (including the terms of council land transfers and the forecast rental\/sale revenue stream).\"\nGet the Room151 Newsletter\n'Insufficient oversight' and 'inadequate controls' exploited by \u00a32m Barnet fraudster 4 Oct, 2018\n'Clarity needed' on LGPS pool arrangements under surprise competition rules 20 Jun, 2019\nPeterborough stadium, HMT consultation, Sheffiled apprentices, Falkirk homes, Welsh waste 9 Aug, 2013\nSouthend development, Essex cloud investment, Norfolk hedging costs, East Lindsey loan\u2026 22 May, 2014\nPrevious story 3% inflation confronts treasurers with investment strategy questions\nNext story David Green: Bank ringfencing \u2014 hope for the best but prepare for the worst","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Meet Britain's finest veg producers: 'The herbs say \"We're ready! Use us now!'\"\nBeccy and Sam Leach at their market garden at Wilding Farm\nPhotograph: Emli Bendixen\/The Observer\nOn plots and farms across the country, these specialists grow beautiful vegetables and herbs for top restaurants\nby Emli Bendixen. Interviews by Allan Jenkins and Holly O'Neill\nMain image: Beccy and Sam Leach at their market garden at Wilding Farm\nSun 14 Jul 2019 06.30 EDT\nWilding Farm\nWhitchurch, Bristol\nSupplies restaurants including Tare, Box-E, Dela and Root, all in Bristol\nYou might be forgiven for thinking there is a restlessness about the careers of Sam and Beccy Leach. Sam planned to be a teacher until he did an actual teaching module. He trained as a butcher and a baker, before becoming an accomplished cook, with stints in London at St John and 40 Maltby St. He and Beccy ran Birch in Bristol garnering cult status and rave reviews from the likes of Marina O'Loughlin before walking away, keeping only the restaurant's vegetable garden and branching out into Somerset cider. Said garden is now geared to producing food for some of Bristol's more interesting places.\nHarry Baker crab apples, Globe artichokes.\nRob Howell at Root is a long-time Leach fan: \"For the first time in my career I can actually say we work the menu around the produce,\" he says. \"Doing it justice is the main thing. The only downside is that sometimes you can create a special dish but due to seasonality and availability we have to take it off the menu.\"\nThe Leaches always intended a shortish life for Birch. \"We always saw it as something to run for a limited time,\" says Sam, \"before thinking about children and moving to the countryside. There wasn't a clear plan for what came next. Perhaps a wine shop or bakery, even making cheese, but ideally less all-consuming than a restaurant where you are always under pressure to perform, always one bad review away from a plunge in reputation. It wasn't a long-term option for a healthy and happy life.\"\nBeccy picking sweet peas.\nWandering around their plot in late June, the healthy happiness shines. The plan for children and moving to the country is near fruition. Beccy is seven months' pregnant and they are weeks away from a move into Somerset with a cottage, more land and their own cider orchard.\n\"The more I got into food, the more interested I was in production,\" says Sam. \"The where and how, what varieties, what soil type. And once we started making cider as a hobby, it seemed the obvious thing to pursue next. All of the orchards are there, crying out for attention and available for rent.\"\nCooking just-dug Nicola potatoes; Early Nantes carrots\nThe two arms of the business complement each other with harvests following on. \"Vegetable-growing fits well alongside cider-making in the flow of the seasons,\" says Sam. \"It is something we both love to do. The garden was originally a way to provide things we couldn't buy locally for the restaurant. The gaps in availability are still there and there are now many more good restaurants in Bristol.\"\nThe couple's growing philosophy, like their cooking, is deceptively simple. \"Broadly speaking, we grow organically, though we aren't certified. We don't spray or use anything other than compost and organic seeds, though we are saving more of our own seed now. We have aphids but also lots of predatory insects. We have pigeons but also sparrowhawks. We have slugs but lots of slow worms and frogs.\"\nDinner in the garden.\nWe end our visit drinking Wilding cider, sitting at the plot while Sam and Beccy cook over a small outdoor stove. Perfect boiled potatoes, just lifted; fresh-picked Oskar peas, Early Nantes carrots, crisp salad leaves and porky sausages from their own pigs. As the sun sets and the starlings chatter, it is easy to see why they quit the stress of restaurants and why their growing is in demand. AJ\nInstagram: @wildingcider\nRyewater Nursery\nSherborne, Dorset\nSupplies and consults for restaurants including Kiln and Smoking Goat, the Begging Bowl, Som Saa and Ikoyi, all in London\nLuke Farrell in the greenhouse.\nWhen Luke Farrell started growing Thai herbs at Ryewater Nursery, the only chef he was interested in supplying was himself. After working in south-east Asia, he became \"addicted to herbs and chillies\", and returned to the UK about 15 years ago with a suitcase of plants and seeds. Luckily, his father, lepidopterist Clive Farrell, had greenhouses at the family home in Dorset. \"The climate was already set up in there,\" says Farrell, \"so I stuffed in my plants and hoped for the best.\"\nHe took a box of his herbs to David Thompson at his Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Nahm. Thompson's response? \"'We need more.' It all spiralled from there.\"\nClockwise from top left: Thai green papayas, trumpet vine, Thai 'prik yuak' chillies, a Chinese painted quail, which eats insects in the greenhouses.\nFarrell now has three tropical greenhouses, complete with a custom jungle soil mix, rain systems and underfloor heating. Inside, he grows gingers and galangals, herbs, papayas, bananas and types of gourds which have leaves and flowers that can be used in soups. \"It's a good one to have because it doesn't travel well from Thailand, the leaves will have turned black,\" Farrell explains. By 2014, the Begging Bowl, Smoking Goat and Som Saa had opened in London, and Farrell's operation became more like a business \u2013 although, even at capacity, he can't always meet the increasing demand. \"I just sent 24kg of green papayas to Som Saa. They've cleared me out.\"\nMost of his work is as a consultant. At Kiln's request, he has just sent three lemongrass plants to another of their suppliers to grow for the restaurant. Recently, he's been researching west African chillies for London restaurant Ikoyi: \"There's one that looks like a scotch bonnet but tastes of apricot, absolutely no heat in it.\"\nA postman butterfly on porterweed.\nIn the cooler months, Farrell puts the greenhouses to sleep and travels to south-east Asia. If what he brings back is a success, he sends samples to kitchens. \"I tell them what they want,\" he says. \"It's kind of backwards.\"\nSome things never make it to restaurants. He won't be sharing the long peppers, used in lots of stir-fries, or the few keffir limes he grows: \"For me they're like truffles.\"\nThai herbs\nThis summer, Farrell will be back behind the stove to cook a series of lunches in the greenhouses. There will be Dorset seafood and locally reared meat, but the rest of the menu is up to the garden. \"I might want to cook one thing but the herbs will suggest something different,\" he explains. \"They say, 'Look, we're ready! You've got to use us now.'\" HO'N\nFollow @lukiefarrell for details of the greenhouse lunches\nNamaYasai farm\nLewes, East Sussex\nSupplies London restaurants Koya, Umu and the Clove Club, and operates a veg box scheme\nRobin Williams and Ikuko Suzuki in the field.\nSummer days are long for Robin Williams and Ikuko Suzuki at NamaYasai farm. Harvest typically begins between 2am and 4am, but sometimes as early as midnight. \"Whatever's necessary to make sure the van is on its way before 8am,\" says Williams, who takes pride in the fact that chefs receive his produce within hours of being picked. Shuko Oda, executive chef and co-founder of Koya in London, notices the difference in quality: \"Robin and Ikuko have a different attitude to farming.\"\nIn 2005, having quit his job in IT, Williams started growing Japanese vegetables based on the practices of \"natural agriculture\", so without any pesticides, with minimal watering and pruning, and letting the weeds grow with the vegetables. \"It's not that I follow it religiously,\" Williams explains, \"but the less work we did the better.\"\nSupplying restaurants was always a core part of the business. \"Some chefs build a menu almost entirely on what we've got available, even if it's only for a few days,\" says Williams. Oda confirms that Koya's blackboard of daily specials is often based on supplies from NamaYasai. She especially looks forward to receiving mugwort (\"really bitter, but reminds me so much of Japan\") and kabocha (Japanese squash). Occasionally Koya will request vegetables and Williams will look into if they're possible to grow. Koya staff also visit to help out with harvest, have a just-picked lunch, and learn more about the produce. It's a nice day out, but for Williams, with just one full-time staff member and six seasonal workers, volunteers can help save a crop.\nKabocha squash seedlings\nWilliams keeps detailed records of what's been planted and sold; he knows that in 2010 Koya bought mainly Japanese ingredients, but by 2013 it started taking alexanders, cuckoo flower, lovage and blackcurrant leaves. Now, about 40% of the crops grown across 15 acres are Japanese ingredients. Williams is always planning, whether adjusting sowing patterns or researching new crops, especially ones that can take them through the lean winter months. Last year's success was purple daikon. He has high hopes that this year Koya and other restaurants including Umu and the Clove Club will like badger-flame beets (\"beautiful colour, good taste, and beetroots have been growing in popularity\"), Turkish rocket (\"strong flavour, resilient in with the weeds\"), any haskap (honeyberries) that escaped the pheasants, and aronia, a tart late-season berry popular in eastern Europe. HO'N\n@Robinsansai\nFern Verrow\nSt Margaret's, Herefordshire\nJane Scotter.\nSupplies Spring at Somerset House, and sells veg boxes and flowers locally and at Spa Terminus, London\nI am walking around Narnia in near biblical rain like only happens here on the edge of the Black Mountains. I am at Fern Verrow, the holy grail of British fruit, flower and vegetable gardens, wandering around the 12 acres Jane Scotter grows for Skye Gyngell's Spring restaurant in London.\nIt is the unique relationship between the two women that defines the farm and the restaurant. \"We've had five years working together,\" says Scotter. \"Skye understands, she gets it. It's not always easy for the chefs, though the upsides far outweigh the downsides.\nClockwise from top left: Planting notes, Waldmann's lettuce, blackcurrants, a bearded iris\n\"I have elderflowers with beautiful flowers and berries, so I net them and we have 50kg for elderberry and pear ice-cream. I'll send 500kg of gooseberries this year. If Skye asks me for things I will always make it happen.\"\nThe respect is mutual. \"My relationship with Jane and Fern Verrow feels incredibly personal,\" says Gyngell. \"Jane is a grower but also an artist. Her energy, enthusiasm and commitment spurs me on.\"\nThe pair share an obsessive attention to detail. Scotter is always researching new flavours for Spring, witness growing liquorice which takes two to three years to reach maturity. Or the puy lentils she is trialling, the suitcase of bean seed she brought back from California, her thoughts about fresh chickpeas.\nGyngell was the right person at the right time. Scotter used to drive her produce from Herefordshire to Spa Terminus in Bermondsey every Friday to sell to a few food devotees. But she had recently been unwell.\n\"We were finishing our cookbook when Skye wrote to me. She said she was opening a restaurant and wanted to work with a farm. I knew her reputation for using produce. At first we'd drop her off a few things on the way to the market. Then we worked on some spreadsheets. We had the book launch and my last day selling at Bermondsey. Two weeks later we were delivering to Spring. I couldn't have driven to London any more. Two days after the last market I was ill, having radiotherapy.\"\nLettice the lurcher in the potting shed.\nThe pair are also working at Heckfield Place in Hampshire on a plan to convert 400 acres into the UK's largest biodynamic farm. This is the slow work of decades. For now, though, there are gardening apprentices to train in the rain, obsessive weeding to do, lurchers to unleash, yet another 72 trays of autumn seed to sow. AJ\nfernverrow.com\nFood (Environment)\nFood (global)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Finance Gearing up for growth with alternative financing solutions\nWhile the pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and disruption to the global business environment, it has also opened up possibilities for companies that position themselves to seize them.\nKey to weathering the disruptions and realising growth plans are strong and agile financial foundations. One way to realise this is through exploring alternative funding solutions.\nSMEhorizon speaks with Achint Bhagat, Director of FortuneX, a Hong Kong based apparel sourcing company, on his company's journey through the pandemic and their plans for future growth. Morgan Terigi, CEO and Co-founder of Incomlend, also weighs in on how his company's alternative working capital solutions has strengthened FortuneX's financial position, and how alternative funding solutions address SMEs' key challenges and financial barriers and position them for growth.\nA shift in the tides\nFortuneX is a a 20-year-old Hong Kong-based apparel sourcing company with operations and two garment manufacturing factories in Bangladesh. \"We source garments from more than 30 factories in the market, and our customers are mainly retailers and apparel trading companies in India and the USA,\" explains Achint.\n\"Before the pandemic, we had a strong business pipeline and an excellent position to sustain our growth. We saw solid demands for apparel worldwide due to trends such as the rise of e-commerce, urbanisation and increased disposable income.\"\nWhile future prospects seemed bright before COVID-19, the shadow thrown by the global pandemic has meant new challenges that had to be overcome.\n\"The closure of brick-and-mortar retail stores and the drop in apparel sales during the pandemic has had significant repercussions across the entire garment supply chain,\" he explains.\n\"Some of our customers, who are apparel trading companies, experienced several cancelled orders during this period that impacted their cash flow. Ultimately, it led to late payment for our receivables and raised the debtor credit risk for us.\"\n\"According to research by trade credit insurer Atradius, late payments in the textile industry in Asia impacted 64% of the total value of B2B invoices. Late payments and credit risk can affect our ability to finance our next production cycle and lead to more revenue losses.\"\nMorgan echoes his sentiments, noting that for SMEs suffering from the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and the recurring clampdowns to curb infections globally, the critical challenges include \"cancelled orders, a drastic drop in demand for their products, greater credit risk and restricted cash flow.\"\n\"They also face greater market volatility and ambiguity in supply-and-demand trends, making it harder to plan for the future,\" he adds.\nSeeking the means of survival\nCompanies seeking financial support to weather the storms of the pandemic often find their avenues limited. This is particularly true for SMEs. Morgan explains that many SMEs often get caught in a cycle where they cannot get the finance they require from larger, traditional banks. \"The main reason this happens is that SMEs sometimes struggle to prove creditworthiness. As many SMEs were placed in weakened financial situations last year due to the ongoing crisis, they might get lesser support from the banks and left unfinanced.\"\n\"Traditionally, banks tend to extend the onboarding process for SMEs, which result in a slower turnaround time. Consequently, some SMEs wind up self-financing, which further limits their ability to grow their business.\nIn these situations, alternative funding solutions can help, a recourse assessed by many SMEs, in Morgan's experience. \"By reducing their reliance on banks and diversifying their access to funding, SMEs are future-proofing their business from any economic impact such as the current pandemic.\n\"Alternative financing solutions can help SMEs liberate their working capital and recover their financial health. These are the foundational elements for SMEs to develop more resilient business operations and have the fiscal agility to seize growth opportunities amid global economic challenges.\n\"With faster access to working capital, SMEs can cover their operational expense and execute planning with greater confidence and certainty. The improved cash flow will also allow them to finance their next production cycle and ramp up their output when the demand for their products increases.\"\nSuch solutions have been a lifeline for FortuneX, which has leveraged Incomlend's Invoicing Finance Programme. Through this, they are able to cash in an invoice quickly following shipment, insulting them from credit risks and safeguards our financial health, especially vital as the retail space and demand for garments remain volatile due to the pandemic.\nBeyond the financial rewards, such alternative solutions also help maintain business relationships, inevitably under strain in the difficult climate. \"The alternative working capital solution allows us to retain our customers by offering more competitive payment terms,\" explains Achint.\n\"Our usual payment terms range from 30 to 60 days post the delivery of our receivables. Now, our customers now have the option of paying for the shipment's invoice value up to 120 days later, alleviating the stress our key customers are facing concerning cash flow and strengthening our partnership.\"\nElaborating on this programme, Morgan notes that these can keep the debt-to-equity ratio low and preserve SMEs' borrowing capacity, allowing them to spread their funding sources further.\n\"With invoice financing, SMEs are effectively selling their invoice and obtaining finance without risk,\" he explains.\n\"SMEs, specifically exporters, can fund their export invoices by selling them at a discount rate in return for receiving early cash for their receivables.\n\"Besides liberating working capital, invoice factoring can also insulate SMEs from debtor credit risk, especially for SMEs in the Asia Pacific. There are about 73% of companies which have endured different levels of unpaid receivables. Additionally, 82% of them suffered from delayed payments over the past three years.\"\nLooking towards clearer skies\nAs the pandemic continues, finding new ways of building financial resiliency will be necessary. Says Morgan \"Although governments worldwide rolled out policies and programmes, such as wage support, to help cushion the impact of the pandemic on SMEs, these measures will start to dwindle over time.\"\n\"SMEs need to find ways to build financial resiliency. The banks will still be pursuing the same path they have been walking for the last few years, reducing their trade finance exposure. Whether it is fintech or other alternative funding sources, the demand among SMEs will only continue to grow stronger.\"\nFor FortuneX, shares Achint, other alternative funding solutions they are looking into include off-balance-sheet financing options, which can provide them with the capital needed to place themselves in a better growth position when the economy recovers without the heavy burden of a loan.\n\"Additionally, by diversifying our access to funding, we are laying a financial foundation that is more resistant to future disruption,\" he added.\n\"Our customers in the USA are already seeing retailers reinstating cancelled orders and placing new ones. With improved access to quick turnaround working capital, we can swiftly act on new orders or even increase our output to meet seasonal demands that allow us to capture new revenue streams and grow our business.\"\nTaking a broader look at the apparel industry in the aftermath of the pandemic, Achint predicts that for buyers, risks will potentially become a vital factor when deciding on sourcing destinations and evaluating suppliers.\n\"Buyers will emphasise manufacturers' production capabilities and efficiencies to mitigate risk and ensure a more reliable supply chain.\"\nHe also foresees a possible acceleration in the industry's technology adoption, leading to faster and more efficient production across the industry. \"Manufacturers will look for opportunities to advance their digitalisation plans to respond better to rapidly evolving consumer demands. Those who succeed will have a substantial competitive advantage over their peers.\"\n\"However, some manufacturers, especially SMEs, might not invest in technology in the near term due to the pandemic's economic uncertainty and financial pressure.\n\"Again, this highlights the importance of having access to working capital and funds to pursue investments and opportunities to make a meaningful impact on their business,\" he concludes.\nPrevious articleSingaporeans overseas purchases nearly double in last year\nNext articleWorldFirst and Alibaba.com partner to lift SMEs' digital presence\nExpat pay packages in Singapore increase: Survey\nDigital transformation: what it means and why change management is crucial\nImproving productivity at home: tips from First Page Digital Singapore\nGoogle Cloud and Axiata partner to advance digital adoption across Asia\nDigital marketing now the top digital skill post-pandemic\nManufacturing opportunity from crisis\nBringing global cuisines to your doorstep\nSingapore FinTech Association and Thomson Reuters join hands to fight cybercrime","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Exposing a University's Hypocrisy [incl. Rabab Abdulhadi]\nby Abraham H. Miller\nhttps:\/\/www.meforum.org\/campus-watch\/58658\/exposing-a-university-hypocrisy-incl-rabab\nOn May 14, 2019, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi gave a guest lecture at the University of California Los Angeles that was laced with distortions of history and anti-Semitic tropes. Abdulhadi characterizes herself as a scholar\/activist, an oxymoron that would have inspired ridicule in the academic world I entered as a student in the late 1950s.\nIf scholarship is the objective search for the truth, how is it possible to be both an ideologue and a scholar? The short answer is the two are visibly incompatible, for a believer will not accept disconfirming evidence of cherished articles of faith.\nNor should they, because the world of faith and the world of evidence are two distinct and different realms. In today's academic world, however, those realms are inseparable.\nAcademia is now a place where one is encouraged to proudly embrace one's commitment to ideology as some sort of badge of honor rather than as a mark of intellectual limitation. That is, of course, if the ideology conforms to the normative standards of leftist\/socialist thought and intersectionality.\nDespite universities being havens for safe spaces and concrete bunkers to prevent students from hearing ideas that might make them uncomfortable, universities can always dust off the First Amendment when it comes to defending speech that transmits an approved agenda.\nIt was no surprise that the UCLA invoked the First Amendment to support Abdulhadi's insufferable and ahistorical nonsense that Israel is a colonial entity based on white supremacy. At a minimum, Abdulhadi should know that more than half of Israelis are the descendants from the Jews of the Middle East that were ethnically cleansed by her kinsman from homelands they lived in for a thousand years before the first Muslim warrior galloped out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century.\nI have no objection for any university to invite anyone to enter the free marketplace of ideas and spout their nonsense. The problem is that some nonsense, like Abdulhadi's, is acceptable while other points of view run up against the trenches of political correctness.\nFreedom of thought is highly prized when it is consonant with popular thought on campus. For example, hardly a faculty member would find a loyalty oath palatable, but UCLA requiring a written commitment to diversity as a condition for promotion is not seen as telling faculty what to think.\nIf a university is going to hide propaganda behind the First Amendment and embrace the objective of freedom of thought, at a minimum it should not make attendance at a propaganda festival compulsory.\nNo one signed up from the class bulletin to hear Abdulhadi, who as a faculty member at San Francisco State University, issued an \"ukase\" that Zionists were not welcome on campus. Her declaration was repudiated by the chancellor the state university system.\nAbdulhadi's behavior toward Jewish students on the SFSU campus has long been a matter of public controversy, and the university, on March 20, 2019, entered into an out-of-court settlement to cease what is widely perceived as its longstanding tolerance of both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.\nTo her credit, Abdulhadi makes no secret of her ideology. Consequently, anyone extending an invitation to her should not be surprised by what they are getting, which raises the additional question of what does her teaching and research have to do with a class in anthropology?\nThis is yet another instance of indoctrination of a captive -- dragooned in this case -- audience of students who pay outrageous tuition to hear the political opinions of leftist activists. It is kind of activity that is producing generations of college graduates that have been told what leftist shibboleths to parrot but not how to think for themselves, which at one time was the function of a college education.\nLest one think UCLA's raising of the First Amendment shows that it is a bastion of free thought removed from concerns with political correctness, consider Abdulhadi's presentation in the context of a momentous decision on the UCLA campus, the gutting of its English major in 2011.\nAs Heather Mac Donald notes, until 2011, UCLA English majors took one course in Chaucer, one in Milton, and two in Shakespeare. These authors represent the foundations of English literature and our connection with Western civilization.\nBut these authors were outed as dead white European males or part of the white, racist, imperialist establishment. So, UCLA expunged them and replaced them with trendy courses in gender, race, ethnicity, and post-colonial studies, etc. (You can fill in the rest of the politically correct buzz words.)\nThanks to the purging of the foundational authors of English literature, a student in English literature can spend four years at UCLA and have substituted \"alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class\" and never have read Shakespeare.\nSo, one wonders, can a UCLA student receive a degree in anthropology and never read Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, or Karl Polanyi but know Rabab Abuldhadi's seminal work in the Islamophobia journal?\nThere was a time when an education in the liberal arts taught one how to think independently, how to grapple with conflicting ideas, and how to understand the work of the luminaries that created intellectual disciplines. That time has passed.\nMore than likely Boas, Sapir, and Polanyi, some of the greatest minds of the last century, have been replaced by \"alternative rubrics\" that are not part of the \"imperialistic establishment.\" After all, they are not only dead white European males but also Jews. Two reasons not to incorporate them in the politically correct curriculum dominated by \"alternative rubrics\" and \"activist scholars.\"\nAbraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science and a distinguished scholar with the Haym Salomon Center.\nRelated Topics: Islamophobia, Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University, University of California, Los Angeles receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free mef mailing list","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Girl power message dominates glitzy Grammys gala\nGrammys red carpet: pantsuits, sex appeal and lots of skin\nUS rapper Cardi B (with on-off husband Offset) wowed on the Grammys red carpet (VALERIE MACON)\nLos Angeles (AFP) \u2013 In 2018, the Grammys red carpet was full of stars wearing white roses in support of gender equality.\nThis year, with women better represented among the nominees on music's biggest night, music's A-list went back to red carpet basics Sunday. That means sex appeal, lots of trouser suits and rock-star glamour.\nAnd for others\u2026 it means pro-Trump attire.\nHere are some takeaways from the red carpet on Grammys night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles:\n\u2013 Red-hot glamour \u2013\nHost (and 15-time Grammy winner) Alicia Keys has promised the \"sickest\" gala ever, with lots of red-hot performances. But there was a lot of red-hot fashion as well.\nThe \"Girl on Fire\" singer brought the heat in a plunging V-neck red Armani gown, with button detailing down the front.\nCountry legend Dolly Parton showcased her signature voluptuous figure in a short red dress with an asymmetrical hemline.\nAnd Bebe Rexha, who went on a social media tirade over designers who refused to dress her because she was \"too big\" \u2014 fluttered onto the carpet in a cloud of red tulle.\n\u2013 Pink princesses \u2013\nRap's woman of the moment, Cardi B, made quite an entrance in a dramatic vintage Thierry Mugler couture gown that erupted from a dark mermaid skirt in a fan of pale pink pleats behind her.\nElbow-length gloves and a cone of pearls atop her head finished the look \u2014 Cardi B brought her fashion A-game.\nSultry Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello, who opened the ceremony with her mega-hit \"Havana,\" went for something simpler \u2014 she glittered in a sparkly high-neck, long-sleeve, but backless, pink Armani gown.\nCountry star Kacey Musgraves, already twice a winner on Sunday in the early portion of the awards ceremony, opted for an ultra-feminine strapless pale pink gown with a fan bodice and a darker sash.\nMen can rock pink as well, as nominated rapper Post Malone showed \u2014 in a full pink suit with glittering stars all over it.\n\u2013 Pants are hot (not hot pants) \u2013\nThe women of music came ready to play \u2014 and for top female nominee Brandi Carlile, pop star Miley Cyrus, Meghan Trainor and others, that means trousers.\nCarlile rocked a smart tuxedo-style suit with a long coat while Trainor opted for a white jumpsuit with a deep neckline.\nFormer first lady Michelle Obama earned a screaming ovation when she made a surprise appearance at the start of the show in a gunmetal pantsuit with a kimono-like jacket.\n\"Music has always helped me tell my story,\" Obama said to cheers alongside Keys, Lady Gaga, actress Jada Pinkett Smith and music mega-star Jennifer Lopez.\n\u2013 Hats! \u2013\nYou don't see too many hats on other showbiz red carpets during awards season at the start of each year, but the Grammys style parade is in a league of its own.\nPop futurist Janelle Monae led the charge with her jaunty angled golden flying saucer hat, while Lopez made a statement in a wide-brimmed hat that for many resembled one worn by First Lady Melania Trump last year.\nOn the men's side, funk legend George Clinton \u2014 who is receiving a lifetime achievement award \u2014 wore a futuristic helmet that made it somewhat hard for him to see.\n\u2013 The Wall (not the one by Pink Floyd) \u2013\nShowbiz is generally unkind to Donald Trump, but a few with Grammys invitations have used the red carpet to show their love for the Republican president \u2014 and boost their social media profiles.\nSinger Joy Villa wore a red, white and blue Make America Great Again gown in 2017. This year, she went for a statement about Trump's plans to build a wall on the border with Mexico: \"BUILD THE WALL\" was scrawled in red on her white gown, with a brick pattern\u2026 like a wall.\nRicky Rebel looked like he had repurposed Villa's gown from two years ago, arriving in a red, white and blue Trump-MAGA jacket.\nDisclaimer: This story is published from a syndicated feed. Siliconeer does not assume any liability for the above story. Validity of the above story is for 7 Days from original date of publishing. Content copyright AFP.\nUS team in Beijing for trade talks\nSweden detains rapper ASAP Rocky after street brawl\nUS rapper ASAP Rocky has been kept in custody by a Swedish court following a\nDosas Made Fresh at Your Home \u2013 Go Chaatzz\nJay Bharat Restaurant: Home of the Gujarati and Kathiyawadi Thali in Newark and Artesia\nCrews assess damage from second big quake in Southern California\nEccentric US millionaire McAfee plans presidential run \u2026 from Cuba","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MMA Thread\nPages: 1 ... 8 9 [10] 11 12 ... 14\nAuthor Topic: MMA Thread (Read 427627 times)\nRe: MMA Thread\nExpound on that please-- what's the story?\nselfcritical\nBefore he got his MT coach, he was literally watching clips off of youtube and trying to pull them off(and succeeding) apparently one of those slips was from Ong Bak.\nWas that the punch to the thigh with a spinning backfist\/elbow? I saw that in his DQ loss on Saturday , , ,\nYes, although I was more impressed with his \"Single leg to spinning elbow\" in the Bonnar fight.\nRarick\nIt is the self taught guys that can be the most interesting, I am waiting to see if some one can make TMNT jitsu work.\nJon Jones has awesome potential, he just needs to learn control. The judges sent a loud and clear message too. If you use an illegal technique, sensibly banned or not, it will cost you the fight.\nAny comments on Kimbo in TUF this past season?\nQuote from: Crafty_Dog on December 10, 2009, 08:22:37 AM\nI am going to have to learn a new dialect of english, other than that he is willing, and he has obviously used the time on the show to get his ground game up to snuff.\nI was surprised at how little answer he had to kicks on his front leg.\nAlso, my eyesight is not what it used to be, but does the man have completely fallen arches?\nQuote from: selfcritical on December 08, 2009, 06:19:47 PM\nNew idea- Conspire to put copies of the KT material in Jon Jones' christmas stocking. I'm highly amused by anyone who manages to pull off moves on pro fighters because they saw tony jaa do them in a movie.\nWhen he came down last year we touched base briefly on some KT type techniques, nothing specific. He is very aware of the outside footwork (Trigg 101). From my experience, he's also very open and has been exposed to Kali footwork via one of my other instructors. We could arrange this if you wanted Guro!\nRyan \"Guard Dog\" Gruhn\nGuro \/ DBMAA Business Director\nDog Brothers Martial Arts Association\n\"Smuggling Concepts Across the Frontiers of Style\"\nryan@dogbrothers.com | www.dogbrothers.com\nIs the Guard dead\nFrom MMATorch.com\nCOLUMN: Death of the Guard - Changes to the MMA game evident at UFC 109, especially in Sonnen vs. Marquardt\nFeb 8, 2010 - 3:32:20 PM\nBy Jason Amadi, MMATorch Columnist\nIn a post-UFC 109 interview done by Mike Straka, Jon Fitch made quite a bold statement. Fitch stated that the closed guard in MMA was \"dead.\" He said that unless you're Shinya Aoki or Demian Maia, if you get taken down by a strong wrestler, you need to get back to feet or suffer a beating.\nWhile that may rattle a few within the jiu jitsu community, he's completely correct. Over the years we've seen MMA evolve many times. While some feel that the sport is largely the same and has been since the institution of the Unified Rules, fans who really look at fights from just a few short years ago, and compare to fights now, will notice quite a few changes.\nFor one, the mount is no longer the most dominant position to finish a fight. I can't remember the last time a fight was finished with strikes from the mount position. Side control seems to be the preferred position to finish off opponents.\nMade famous by Ivan Salavary (as Joe Rogan loves to remind us of this, but I feel Matt Hughes popularized it further), trapping the arms of your opponent in side control, and then raining down blows to the face gives much less space for escape. Even if you don't land significant blows, the referee is forced to stop the fight because you can't escape.\nAt this point, the mount is fairly low percentage. As we saw with Phil Davis and Brian Stann, the trend these days when mounted is to simply give up your back and hang on to the gloves of your opponent, then hope you can explode over into their guard and reverse momentum that way. Sure, Davis didn't have the best mount, but the survival techniques showed by Stann (guy really needs to practice the hip escape, though) are now likely common practice at all the top teams in MMA.\nThe guard is in trouble for sure. I agree completely with Fitch, and feel that unless you are a top submission artist, the caliber of Demian Maia, Ronaldo \"Jacare\" Souza, Shinya Aoki, Dustin Hazelett, or Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, having a top wrestler in your guard is death.\nAt the top level, wrestlers are so good at submission defense, as we saw with Chael Sonnen, they no longer have any fear of the guard. Nate Marquardt is a black belt in jiu jitsu, but could get nothing done against Sonnen from inside his guard and paid the price for it.\nJon Fitch has made a career of being inside a tough BJJ black belt's guard and surviving. Tito Ortiz made a name for himself for punishing guys inside the guard as well, and the list of wrestlers who do so just grows more and more by the day. I don't think I even need to discuss the problems that could arise should you find a monster wrestler like Shane Carwin or Brock Lesnar in your guard (Minotauro Nogueira is a brave, brave man).\nBut the big story of UFC 109 was Nate Marquardt being battered from inside his guard by Chael Sonnen. I think the next evolution in MMA is the rubber guard becoming common practice for everyone involved. We're still seeing 1997 style guards in 2010. It just doesn't work in MMA anymore.\nThe rubber guard was designed to control fighters from within your guard, break down their posture, and look for submissions from unusual places using flexibility. Anyone familiar with Shinya Aoki's handiwork has seen him perform breathtaking submissions (literally) from the rubber guard.\nThe problem is that a lot of fighters, who aren't necessarily raised in the discipline of BJJ from the start, don't necessarily have the flexibility. Dustin Hazelett's submission of Tamdon McCrory at UFC 91 was the last time I saw the rubber guard used effectively in the UFC. Generally, we see fighters feebly attempt to grab their ankles, only after having sustained a beating, and then they realize after a few tries that they haven't practiced this technique nearly enough, so they wind up giving up.\nUnless a meteor hits the UFC, and wipes out all its elite wrestlers, we're going to be in for a long reign of terror by wrestlers. Couture vs. Coleman wasn't the only indication that we're back in 1997, folks, because the guard in MMA has been rendered almost completely ineffective at the top level.\n[Jon Fitch photo credit Wade Keller (c) MMATorch]\n\u00a9 Copyright by MMATorch.com\nCrazyCossack\nRe: Closed Guard\nI don't agree with the closed guard is dead assessment at all. I think the problem is that too many people are being considered good at jiu jitsu when they really aren't. It seems that every single fighter that enters the octagon nowadays is a BJJ blackbelt. While they might have been given these blackbelts there is in my opinion a major difference and major discrepancy in the skills of a fighter (or even wrestler) who becomes a bjj blackbelt, rather than a bjj blackbelt who becomes a fighter.\nThink about all the controversy that Rashad Evan's newly awarded black belt caused, the biggest justification for it was that he wasn't submitted by Thiago Silva, another blackbelt, so he must deserve it. While it's true he won the grappling portion of it, how well do you think Rashad would have done if for whatever reason he was playing guard against thiago silva, he would have likely got smashed, then people would say: \"Closed Guard is dead, Rashad is a black belt and got killed\".\nBut does Rashad have BJJ blackbelt skills from his guard? Does he even have them from the top? I'd say no to both points, do I think he could out grapple people who are bjj blackbelts, yes, I think he could, but thats not his jiu jitsu.\nThe same goes for Nate Marquardt, yes he was awarded a blackbelt in bjj, but do we really know how good his jiu jitsu is? I know BJJ blackbelts that would be blue belts at clubs only hours away from me, when their guards aren't effective against elite wrestlers, will we question the guard? I dont think so.\nI'm kind of rambling here but.... the idea is that theres nothing wrong with the position its that people are being given too much credit for their skills, and therefore their expectations are too high.\nIn my opinion its akin to saying that fighting with sticks in the largo or medio ranges is dead in stickfighting because so many people can crash through that bubble with a roof block and start their clinch\/grappling games. Are those ranges dead? of course not, but you might think so if you saw someone with excellent closing fighting someone with average skills in the longer ranges.\nVery good points.\nI posted this article not because I agree with all of it, but to start a conversation.\nFor example, how does the (closed) guard game differ when the heel kicks to the kidneys, spine, back of neck, back of head are allowed? Ask Renzo Gracie how he felt after Frank Shamrock's knee from bottom to the back of his head.\nI'm not sure how much the kicks to the kidneys would affect closed guard in modern mma, with the fights being 15 minutes, I think they were much more applicable when the fights went until someone got finished, I think they are more effective in a war of attrition strategy, ala the gracies. Recently one of Rorion's sons (Rener I believe) talked about this in an interview, and was saying that closed guard, the war of attrition and defensive mindset is what seperates Gracie Jiu-Jitsu from BJJ, which they say is too focused on the sportive aspect of jiu jitsu. The idea that as the weaker person, closed guard is one of the few ways you can defeat your larger more physically gifted opponents. His example was Brock Lesnar, and that if anyone went into a fight and tried to match him physically and battle him back and forth they would lose, their only chance would be to play closed guard for a long time, defend, defend, defend, and when their opponent (Brock) was worn out, then press their advantage. I think Heel kicks are a big part of this strategy.\nAs for the slaps, smacks, to the back of the head and spine, (cervical shots), I think they would make a major difference in the fights, maybe even knockouts from the bottom? Sweeping someone who has had their brain rattled would likely be alot easier than sweeping a fresh guy.\nOn another note, I think knee's should be allowed on the ground whether from the bottom or top, however I do think that if they were allowed Renzo may have been watching for them and might not have got caught, although admittedly I like Renzo alot more than Shamrock lol. Heck, we would probably have a different winner of the Marquardt\/Sonnen fight if they were allowed.\nJonobos\nWrestling isn't really new to mma. It has been there from pretty early on. Everyone is learning jiujitsu including the wrestlers. The subs are not a secret anymore. What most bjj guys fail to do is dive deeply into wrestling and that is why we see the imbalance. The difference with guys like BJ Penn and Jacare is that they have an amazing standing clinch either in the form of takedowns, or takedown defense. Only the cream of the crop top level wrestlers have the advantage. Hell, Hendo could not even capitalize on Anderson Silva being on his back and that was in half guard... a position that wrestlers are known for laying down some serious damage. My thoughts.\n\u00ab Last Edit: February 11, 2010, 01:54:00 AM by Jonobos \u00bb\nWhen life gives you hemlock, do NOT make hemlockade!\nWhat would someone's wrestling ability have to do with their closed guard subs and sweeps?\nAnd the subs haven't been a secret for a long time, and theres no secret in jiu jitsu academies either, the blue belts to black belts are all doing the same moves, its how well they are done that counts. For me it goes back to whether or not people are actually good at jiu jitsu rather than just being given credit for it if they can avoid armbars. The other thing, in regards to jiu jitsu guys not taking wrestling seriously enough, it's almost impossible for them to reach a level at wrestling where it would compare to the wrestlers already in the UFC, unless your GSP your not going to suddenly outwrestle the wrestlers.\nI think Rickson Gracie explains this point pretty well with this quote from an interview.\nRickson \"I don't look for to knockout someone standing up, I look for to not be in a position to be knocked out myself. I look for the position to take my opponent where I want to be. That is my concept. The day that I think that I have to train kickboxing to beat a kickboxing champion, that will be the day I lose.\n13. So you don't think that by training in kickboxing, that it can in some way help you to neutralize the kickboxer's game?\nRickson: Much to the contrary. Show me a jiu-jitsu fighter who trains kickboxing who has an advantage over a kickboxer standing up.....and then maybe I'll change my opinion. But this never happens. They always end up trying to do the technique wrong., end up clinch anyway) and lose big opportunities.\"\n(I got that from the thread \"rickson predicts the stand and wang phenomenon\" from the mma.tv underground forums)\nWhile I realize the importance of cross training, its often the guys who are masters of one thing that are champions over a bunch of jack of all trades type guys. One of my jiu jitsu instructors explained Demian Maia's strategy (for the nate quarry fight) to me like :\nDemian Maia sweeps world class blackbelts in ADCC and Mundials regularly.\nNo one else in the middle weight division is even close to these world class blackbelts in their half guard top game.\nDemian pulls half guard, gets the sweep easily and is on top, then he will destroy them with his far superior Jiu Jitsu from the top.\nThis is exactly what he did to Nate Quarry, do any of us think Demian Maia would have won if he tried to outwrestle quarry to get on top, or rock him on the feet then take him down? Maia is one of my favourite fighters and if he tried to strike or wrestle with Quarry he would have got killed.\nIf you want your closed guard (or any guard) to be effective in mma, dont train your wrestling (which doesnt have a closed guard) or your kickboxing, train your closed guard.\nJust like I wouldn't expect a wrestler or kickboxer to pull guard.\nMy 2 cents (or maybe thats like 4 cents cause its so long)\nYou bring up some good points, but Chuck survived a loooooooong time with a deep understanding of takedown defense. I didn't say you need to wrestle guys to the ground, or learn the wrestling top game. But learning how to stuff a shot and make them pay for it is something that many fighters have successfully developed.\nI definitely agree that most of these mma black belts are simply not that good. But at the same time the days of Rickson and the one trick pony fighters are gone.\nHowling Dog\nWoof,\nYou bring up some good points, but Chuck survived a loooooooong time with a deep understanding of takedown defense.\nChuck's wrestling is highly under rated. He was a good college wrestler. Cal. poly sci. I beleive.\nHe just likeS to stand and bang.\nMy opinion, Crazy Cossack made many real good points.\nC-HD\nThe point of MMA is TOOLBOX. What do you have in yours? That will determine how the fighting style you choose works. Champions have fighting styles that WORK, and they have the tools to at least defend from styles they do not know. I see Crafty and the other Guros constantly checking Checking their Tools. That is a credit to what is being built.\nI see all the UFC fights, and some of the fighters with a \"good\" ground game, really are \"defense Blackbelts\". They can pull guard and not be submitted, but they cannot do anything from the guard. They can stand and strike without being easy to knock out, but have no knockout ability themselves. Each Fighter has talents either trained or natural and MMA is as much about how those are used as about the base styles.\nThe DBMA stuff I see (am am working on) seems to be pretty eclectic and has moves that I have never seen used in the octogon, I would love to see it work. The same applies to Aikido (which I tried for a while, but their tribal heirarchy demands to the point of oppresion from my point of view,) which lacked \"safe live sparring\" which is why I left.\nOne of the things that is leaving UFC, and other MMA is the \"Testing Spirit\" that was in the original format. Anderson Silva had that belt defense where the other fighter was expecting him to just fall into guard. Anderson failed to keep faith with the \"Real as it Gets\" aspect by not showing the fighter the error of his unrealistic expectations, by not putting on a punishment show.\nThere was another fight beteen a \"defense black belt\"\/ wrestler and \"the Dentist\" Neer. The werestler was able to take Neer down at will, and was able to control the top. Neer was unable to pull the hip escape\/sweep. Neer was expecting the referee to stand the fight up, but the Ref (maybe?) recognized that \"rules exploiting\" was going on, and wanting to be true to \"real\" was not allowing that kind of manipulation. Neer lost a very frustrating fight because he failed to control the octogon, and therefore dominate the other fighter...........\nThat is why I do not necessarily like \"Big Country\", he has the fitness, but he is rules lawyering to win. I hope one of the other heavyweights can fix that.\nI always thought chuck was a much better wrestler than a kickboxer, look at his record, all the guys he has lost too with the exception of jeremy horn were better strikers, Overeem, Rampage twice, Shogun, maybe even Rashad? Although admittedly I should be the last one knocking anyone's kickboxing ability.\nAs far as Josh Neer, and I think the fight you were talking about was against Kurt Pellegrino, IMO he was doing everything to try to get action started in that fight, including punching himself in the face..... (couldnt figure out how to post the gif, so go to this link, its worth it)\nhttp:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/fighting\/neerdumbasssb65374666bv8.gif\nThese are all probably fair assessments. But the question remains whether or not someone can reverse engineer some of the skillsets that make the wrestlers successful? BJJ will certainly help me get up from the ground by understanding the body mechanics of how to move on the bottom. But what happens when I want a little something extra to keep me up off the ground long enough to deal a little punishment of my own, maybe create the necessary opportunity to access an equalizer? I think Rarick has a good point that it is all about a toolbox. I may never be able to achieve the level of collegate wrestlers, but can I get enough experience to make a difference when it really matters?\nIn a related vein, in DBMA \"Kali Tudo\" (tm) we integrate certainly wrestling techniques (e.g. the one we call \"The Rico\" because I learned it from Rico Chiaparelli). What my interaction with Kenny Johnson has brought to KT is, inter alia, a good efficient MMA based version of a wrestling double leg and single leg, who uses his head in a different way than pure sport wrestling. We want to have this not only in its own right (for fights wherein we are sure that no weapons are involved) but also to make sure that we are good training partners for our training partners as we work our standing KT striking game.\nOne of the great temptations for a KT player is to tunnel vision a bit on the structural advantages I believe our there in upper body striking (i.e. kicks present a separate question) and get hit by a good wrestling level change and shoot. Indeed it was my experience with some of my structures getting hit in this fashion by Kenny that led me to focus on bringing the stake (which really is a version of a bolo bunch done to kali footwork), with the idea that as the third beat of a triplet it would be either hitting (uppercut to chin or shovel hook to body) or nailing the incoming face (think Arlovski flying chin first into Fedor's overhand right) of the shooter.\nI would have not known this had I not tested myself against good MMA wrestling skills.\nAlso from Kenny is a good MMA based sprawl.\nThe Adventure continues!\nDon't know anything about Hardy , , ,\ndrammel\nQuote from: Rarick on March 17, 2010, 04:28:44 AM\nHey who is gonna win? GSP or Hardy?\nGSP by anyhting he wants. If Hardy wins it will be ala Serra, just going for broke and throwing bombs.\nGSP is quite impressive, so that sounds about right-- but who is Hardy? Whom has he beat? What are his strengths and weaknesses?\nHardy is gonna get mauled, it wont even be close..... Yes I'm aware Serra had his lightning flash KO, but its not gonna happen twice, GSP by domination.\ntim nelson\nwe were out on a wide creek flat with lots of willow shrubs, some up to wrist diameter, and were cutting the stems\/trunks before the buds opened so the new growth would be long and flexible without any forks and branching for basketry in the future, producing nice basket material,\nwell while swinging the machete around i was experimenting with the stick swinging i was used to, to get the machete to cut effectively took something a little different in the arc, more of a cutting arc than i notice with a stick, and a downward swing made the trunk split more often, so i decided to try the bolo swing and it was quite fun practicing the bolo with a machete cutting stuff while getting a task done, i sure wouldn't want to get hit by a bolo swing, the force with the blade was hitting hard through the wood tim\nWoof Tim:\nGood to hear from you. Good conversation-- May I ask you post in in The Bolo Game thread?\nsurely, seems to have been a brain fart figuring bolo would be housed in mma thread\nSebresos\nQuote from: CrazyCossack on February 12, 2010, 11:51:21 AM\nChuck never lost to Overeem, I think Chuck knocked him out!? Yup back in 03'\n\u00ab Last Edit: March 20, 2010, 02:15:31 PM by Sebresos \u00bb\nIf Mir sticks to a game plan he has a good chance against Carwin. Mir likes to stand and bang, it won't take much for Carwin to knock him out. Carvin vs. Gonzaga for example, Carwin just extended his arm and knocked the man out. It looked like a dingy little punch. It won't take much.\nQuote from: CrazyCossack on March 18, 2010, 01:39:08 PM\nThe brass at the UFC doesn't know who to put in front of this man. GSP has cleaned out his division. I like GSP but this fight barely registers on my radar....yawn!\nhttp:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/articles\/Pros-Pick-Vera-vs-Jones-23289\nNow ths fight makes sense, Vera vs. Jones.\nI was very intrigued to see this fight. The fight was shaping up nicely when that nasty elbow to the temple or occular socket brought it to an immediate close.\nAlso interesting was the response to the punch to the eye in an earlier fight.\nStickgrappler\n\"...grappling happens. It just does.\" - Top Dog\nre: vera x jones - if you are gonna have guard, control that top man's posture... it's raining punches and elbows - one of them is bound to get through.\n\"A good stickgrappler has good stick skills, good grappling, and good stickgrappling and can keep track of all three simultaneously. This is a good trick and can be quite effective.\" - Marc \"Crafty Dog\" Denny\nJon \"Jones\" Bones is good. Machida, Rua or whoever else they put in front of him, will have their hands full.\nI now realize who Carwin is. Whoa!\nIn particular, you'll note that those weren't Greco throws that Jones used to toss the olympic-caliber vera.\nAnd Jones doesn't have a judo coach.\nHe watched some videos on judo, and went to some public classes at cornell.\nAnd then just did it.\nThe guy is good. He was setting up Vera for the left. He reached back acting like he was trying to move Veras right leg, then boom, here comes the left.\nre: jones' throw -- not my gif, found it elsewhere. don't want to kill the bandwidth of the original owner's so i'm not posting the pic. will post the link for it though.\nhttp:\/\/i44.tinypic.com\/14ttwdi.gif\nprops to the gif maker\nre: mir x carwin - OMG!\nWating for the fight I thought Mir too relaxed, and Carsen perhaps too worried I thought Carsen showed excellent knees to the thighs up against the fence.\nWho was that a-hole who kepty applying the heel hook after his opponent tapped and the ref starting pulling him off!? VERY wrong I want to know his name so I can cheer when karma bites him in the ass.\nPS: Good times watching the crowd at the bar here in Toronto cheer its man on.\nDid Mir have any offense in that fight. Every time Mir loses its in the same fashion. He either gets the jump on the guy or the guy gets the jump on him. If his opponent gets the smallest edge Mir seems to lay down.\nPoint Dog\nQuote from: Crafty_Dog on March 28, 2010, 05:35:58 AM\nSaid A-hole has been suspended for 3 months...\nhttp:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/articles\/UFC-111-Analysis-The-Main-Card-23525\nC-PD:\nThanks for the news-- and my disrespect to Sherdog for missing the point.\nWell, what I saw was the opponent vigorously and clearly tapping on the A-hole in submssion, and the A-hole merrily continuing to crank and then not immediately responding to the ref. The man knew exactly what a heel hook is and what it does. His behavior is reprehensible, and the attitude displayed in the Sherdog mini-piece earns disrespect as well.\nSherdog's piece in question:\nWhile it's arguable that the Brazilian Top Team fighter could have released the hold a second earlier, it is questionable why the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board has suspended him for three months for doing his job -- which is fighting until the referee says break. Not unnecessarily injuring your opponent goes without saying, but hindering a fighter's work like that is unheard of.\nJoe Rogan was chastisizing Palhares all the way... Rogan counted how many seconds during one of the replays that Palhares kept the heel hook on. It was 5 secs after the tap and IIRC, the ref came in to yank Palhares off after 2 secs.\nedit: click link for animated gif -- not my link or gif -- props to the gifmaker\nhttp:\/\/img.mixedmartialarts.com\/method=get&s=rousimar-palhares.gif\n\u00ab Last Edit: March 30, 2010, 01:46:51 PM by Stickgrappler \u00bb\nSorry, I do not agree at all.\nI get the bit about risks. That said I prefer a fighter that does not take advantage of any time lag in the referee's arrival after an opponent is KO'd over one who dishes out gratuitous shots to an already unconscious man.\nPulhares's behavior here presents an entirely different question. Submission was clearly made , , , and ignored. THEN the ref sought to break the hold, and was resisted. Palhares has to be held as knowing the lasting damage that a heel hook is intended to do, and he did it. To hold him accountable for what he did IMO has nothing to do with hindsight. Indeed it is precisely the egregiousness of his behavior that eliminates that issue.\nI get some of these guys have \"a mean streak\". That is PRECISELY why they need to be held accountable with a clear violation such as was the case here.\nJust to add my two cents.\nFirst off, he wasn't holding it for nearly as long as Joe Rogan made it out to be, when Joe Rogan counted to 5 seconds he was watching the slow motion replay, which I think he did mention and realize after he did it. Although I definetly think it was held too long.\nThere has also been a few instances in the UFC of people \"fake tapping\" where they tap twice or make like there tapping, then slip out when their opponent momentarily releases their grip, I think CB Dollaway has been accused of this a few times. Although once again, I don't think there is anyone who would consider that close to a fake tap, (I think he tapped nine times).\nI liked Palhares going into this, but I'm not that big of a fan now, I can see the logic in holding it until the ref stops the fight, but in this case it was pretty extreme, especially considering it was a heel hook.\nWhat's also interesting is that he was given a 90 day suspension, but what kind of punishment is that? Most of these guys only fight ever 3 or 4 months anyway, its likely he wouldn't have fought for 90 days anyway, this is in comparison to Babalu who got completely FIRED for holding a choke too long.\nI'd much rather have someone hold a choke for 2 extra seconds on me, than have someone do the same thing with a heelhook.\nI'd be delighted to see a more severe penalty.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"The Grateful American\u2122 Book Prize Honors Children's Books on American History\nA new, one-of-a-kind book award, The Grateful American\u2122 Book Prize, has been established to honor children's books of fiction and non-fiction that feature the events and the people that shaped the history of the U.S. \"Of the more than five dozen literary awards for children's books in the U.S., the Grateful American\u2122 Book Prize [\u2026]\nA new, one-of-a-kind book award, The Grateful American\u2122 Book Prize, has been established to honor children's books of fiction and non-fiction that feature the events and the people that shaped the history of the U.S.\n\"Of the more than five dozen literary awards for children's books in the U.S., the Grateful American\u2122 Book Prize is the only one awarded for excellence in writing, storytelling and illustration in the category of historically accurate works for children. Our aim is to restore the role of history in the education of America's children at a time when the focus in the classroom is on math and science,\" according to author and publisher David Bruce Smith who co-founded the Prize.\nThe Prize consists of a $13,000 cash award in commemoration of the 13 original Colonies. It is believed to be among the highest cash awards among book prizes in general. In addition, the winner will receive a not-yet-revealed work to be created by Smith's mother, the renowned artist Clarice Smith.\nSmith said that it was Dr. Bruce Cole, the former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who inspired the award. Knowledge of our history among young people is essential for them to function as good citizens. Cole and Smith believe that well-written, well-produced story books can engage youngsters between the ages of 9 and 14, and stimulate a lifelong interest in the history of their country.\n\"The Prize is designed to help tap the innate desire in each of us to know about our past. Children, in particular, are curious and interested in how they got here and what it means to be an American. But often their textbooks fail to catch their attention and they can become bored and uninterested. But, give them a good read\u2014a book they can understand and to which they can relate \u2013 and it stirs their interest and a craving for details and context.\"\nSmith said that a distinguished coterie of judges has been assembled to oversee the Prize initiative. In addition to Cole and Smith, the panel includes: Dr. Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, Nick Kotz, Dr. Douglas Bradburn, author, historian and Founding Director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and John Danielson, founder of Chartwell Education Group and former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education.\nSmith said the panel is ready to begin reviewing author\/publisher submissions for the Prize immediately. Forms can be downloaded from the Great American\u2122 Book Prize web site. Deadline for Submission is August 31, 2015. In addition, a broad-based outreach to publishers of children's books will be under way in the coming days. They'll be receiving submission packages directly.\n\u2190 Presentation of the Hedgelawn 2014 KENNY to Mr. John E. Wilson \u2192 Events in April 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"North Carolina house collapses: 'Climate change is a real thing'\nPlaceholder while article actions load\nRalph Patricelli had grand plans for the vacation home at 24235 Ocean Drive in Rodanthe, on a spit of land in the middle of North Carolina's Outer Banks.\nHe and his sister purchased the four-bedroom waterfront home in August for $550,000. With its airy rooms, two levels of decks and stunning Atlantic views, Patricelli envisioned it as an ideal spot to welcome friends and family after two years of an isolating pandemic. After the season's last renters departed, he and his relatives had planned to host a Thanksgiving gathering in the home.\nInstead, Patricelli never spent a night there.\nA November storm affected the septic system, he said, and county officials soon deemed the house unfit to occupy. On Tuesday, less than 300 days after he bought it, the house became one of two along Ocean Drive to collapse into the sea after days of battering from an unnamed coastal storm.\n\"I was so looking forward to having a place where I could entertain and be back to normal,\" Patricelli, a 57-year-old real estate agent in California who grew up on the East Coast, said in an interview.\n\"I didn't realize how vulnerable it was,\" he added.\nThe swift march of climate change in North Carolina's 'ghost forests'\nPatricelli's home was swept away overnight, but video of his neighbor's house succumbing to the ocean went viral this week. That neighbor, who lives in Tennessee, declined to comment when reached by phone. A third nearby home met the same fate in February.\n\"It was a shock,\" Patricelli said of the call he received that his house was gone. He later texted photos from before and after the collapse, writing, \"Now there is absolutely nothing there \u2014 it's all been taken by the sea \u2014 we basically have a vacant lot.\"\nThe precarious nature of homes along the Outer Banks and other barrier islands is nothing new. Nor is the willingness of some Americans to stomach the risks posed by hurricanes and other natural disasters in exchange for homes and investments in desirable locations.\nBut the episode on the Outer Banks this week highlights a problem likely to deepen as climate change worsens.\nFor a variety of reasons, Americans continue to flock to disaster-prone areas of the country, despite growing risks of floods, fires and other catastrophes. And as sea levels rise, storms intensify and heat waves grow hotter, even places that once seemed relatively free of risk could face more serious threats to health and homes.\nFew people were less surprised by the latest house collapses in Rodanthe than David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.\n\"What was surprising to me is that they lasted as long as they did,\" he said in an interview Thursday. \"This is a rapidly eroding area \u2026 [and] I don't have any reason to believe that erosion will stop. If anything, the scientists I've spoken with and publications I've read suggest that erosion will be exacerbated by sea level rise.\"\nExtreme climate change has arrived, washing away homes on America's East Coast\nFindings published this year by scientists at multiple federal agencies project that sea levels will rise along the U.S. coastline up to a foot on average over the next 30 years \u2014 \"as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years.\"\nIn addition, researchers estimate that sea level rise will create \"a profound shift in coastal flooding\" over the coming decades by allowing storm surges and tides to reach further inland. By 2050, they wrote, \"moderate\" flooding is expected to occur 10 times as often as it does today, on average.\nHallac said it's important to understand that barrier islands move and change, and the sands of the Outer Banks have always shifted. Not all houses there face similar risks, and not all risks are attributable to climate change. \"[But] climate change is most likely exacerbating these problems, and it will continue to exacerbate them,\" he said.\nWhat has been striking, Hallac said, is that people have continued to purchase homes along the Outer Banks that stand perilously close to the sea, even as erosion worsens.\nPublic records bear out that reality.\nPatricelli purchased his Ocean Drive home only nine months ago, but he was hardly alone. Along the stretch of beach near where his house stood, at least five other homes sold last year \u2014 and at least two have sold this year \u2014 according to Dare County property records. The other home that collapsed this week was purchased in 2020.\nMatthew Storey, who lives near Raleigh, bought an oceanfront house down the block from Patricelli in November.\nHe said he is confident that his house is among the most secure on the street, in part because it was moved back from the shore in 2018 and supported by new, deeper pilings. \"Not every house on the street is going to fall in,\" he said. But, he added, \"the erosion this year has been almost unbelievable. I certainly do worry about it.\"\nStorey said roughly 60 feet of the beach in front of his home had vanished during storms and other rough weather over the winter and spring. And he said having two of his neighbors' homes collapse affects everyone around them. He is concerned about property values, the environmental impact of debris and public perceptions about the actual hazards.\n\"The whole thing is just gut-wrenching,\" Storey said. \"I've got a wife and two young kids, and I subsidize part of my income with this rental property.\"\nLocal officials have made clear that some nearby houses are at risk of the same fate of those that ended up in the ocean.\nNoah Gillam, the planning director for Dare County, said about a dozen houses along the oceanfront in Rodanthe had been deemed unsafe this year. Homeowners receive such a designation after local officials conduct a \"boots on the ground\" inspection to check for problems with septic systems, structural integrity and other areas, he said.\nIf a property is deemed to be a hazard, Gillam said, officials will have the power turned off to ensure that the home remains unoccupied. They also inform homeowners that they should line up a contractor to remove debris if or when the sea claims their homes.\n\"The erosion rates definitely seem to be on the increase in certain areas,\" Gillam said, adding that even unnamed storms can sometimes cause serious damage to homes unprotected by dunes or close to the water's edge.\nThat trend is likely to continue.\n\"It's important for people to recognize that coastal systems are feeling the effects of sea level rise and climate change today,\" said Reide Corbett, a coastal oceanographer at East Carolina University and executive director at the Coastal Studies Institute. \"It's not something that's a decade off. It's something that is happening.\"\nPostcards from Earth's climate futures\nThe dramatic house collapses this week, while not unexpected, offered the latest reminder of the challenge that low-lying and barrier islands face, Corbett said. The combination of rising sea levels, worsening erosion and more intense and persistent storms is likely to wreak more havoc in the future.\n\"We need to think about how we are developing, and developing in a way that does lead to a more resilient community going forward,\" Corbett said.\nPatricelli knows that some people might consider him unwise for buying a home at the ocean's edge, where erosion is a known problem, hurricanes are an annual threat and sea levels are rising.\nHe said that the sellers disclosed ways they had tried to shore up the house, and that he purchased flood insurance, which appears to be required given the property's location. He said he was not sure how much insurance would pay on his loss.\nUntil the house fell, Patricelli said, he and his sister were in the process of having it relocated farther from the waves, but they ran out of time.\n\"I knew there was some risk living near the water, but I certainly didn't think I'd lose the house within eight or nine months,\" he said, adding, \"I was aware that erosion was happening there. I was not aware of the rate that it was happening. \u2026 We really thought we were going to be able to move the house and save it.\"\nPatricelli said he and his neighbor hired the same contractor to help clear the ruins of their houses.\nBut even that is a complicated task.\nNational Park Service officials said that debris from the incidents had spread along at least 15 miles of coastline. The agency invited the public to help clean up along the beach on Thursday and Friday and said that \"additional volunteer events will be announced in the coming days.\"\nPatricelli said he and other nearby homeowners, many of whom also live out of state, have shared emails of advice and encouragement and bonded over the rising threats. \"It's a really great little community,\" he said, noting that he hopes to rebuild, if farther from the ocean this time.\nPatricelli said he knows some places are riskier than others: \"It was a bet that went wrong.\" But one that went wrong sooner than he imagined.\nWhile it's easy to question why someone would buy a house so near the ocean, he said, climate change is affecting people across the country and the world. In California, for instance, he has seen entire neighborhoods engulfed by wildfire, where such disasters once seemed unlikely.\n\"What I take out of all this is that climate change is a real thing for us all. It doesn't matter if you live on the ocean or in a forest or on a river,\" Patricelli said.\n\"I don't know if there's any place you are really safe from climate change at the moment.\"\nAlice Crites contributed to this report.\nA previous version of this article incorrectly stated that one of the homes that collapsed this week was purchased in late 2019. It was actually purchased in 2020. The article has been corrected.\nSign up for the latest news about climate change, energy and the environment, delivered every Thursday","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Max Goldfarb\nSaturday Morning Serial: Radio National Australia Spotlight Wave Farm: Sep 03, 2016\nA rebroadcast of Radio National Australia's specia...\nMax Goldfarb's Mobile 49, at the Hudson Flag Day Parade.: Jun 12, 2010\nN2-The Secretary with Anthony Yanick and Max Goldfarb: Dec 09, 2017: 4pm - 6pm\nA special Human Machine broadcast live from Wave F...\nMax Goldfarb's Mobile 49, at the Hudson Flag Day Parade.. (Jun 12, 2010)\nMobile 49 (2010\/2015)\nDeep Cycle (2010)\nRegenerator (2015)\nMobile 49 (M49) is an experimental research\/production facility, which served as a central component in Max Goldfarb's body of work in the early 2000s.\nThe Deep Cycle project, was an area-responsive mobile radio program, originating in Hudson, NY, proceeding through a set of designated locations for performance and incidents, and arriving at Wave Farm. The Deep Cycle publication documents the June 2010 procession and features contributions from Goldfarb's collaborating artists, writers, designers and theorists, that address the subject of a post-oil landscape: consumption, waste, transit, energy, transformation, and disaster.\nRegenerator, describes M49 installed at Wave Farm. The vehicle houses a site-specific AM radio station, Wave Farm Radio 1620-AM, and is open to public visitors, both as an performance artifact and as an active studio environment.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By Jeff Burger\nHalf a century's worth of music reviews, interviews, and commentary\nBruce Springsteen Book\nAbout Springsteen on Springsteen\nSpringsteen on Springsteen Contents\nSpringsteen on Springsteen Excerpts\nSpringsteen on Springsteen Purchase Links\nSpringsteen on Springsteen Q&A with the Editor\nSpringsteen on Springsteen Reviews\nLeonard Cohen Book\nAbout Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen\nLeonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen Contents\nLeonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen Preface\nLeonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen Q&A with the Editor\nLeonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen Reviews\nLeonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen Purchase Links\n14 Facts about Leonard Cohen\nJohn Lennon Book\nAbout Lennon on Lennon\nLennon on Lennon Audio Excerpt\nLennon on Lennon Contents\nLennon on Lennon Preface\nLennon on Lennon Purchase Links\nLennon on Lennon Reviews\nBob Dylan Book\nAbout Dylan on Dylan\nDylan on Dylan Contents\nDylan on Dylan Media Inquiries\nDylan on Dylan Preface\nDylan on Dylan Purchase Links\nDylan on Dylan Reviews\nMULTIARTIST\nMore on Music\nCommentary & Lists\nInterviews & Encounters\nQuote Unquote\nBeyond Music\nTV & Film Reviews\nPublicists, Journalists & Artists\nNovember 1, 1997 Album Reviews\nGram Parsons & the Fallen Angels: Live 1973\nPosted by Jeff Burger\nThis live radio broadcast from March 13, 1973 happened just as Gram Parsons's solo career was beginning\u2014and ending. GP, the first of his two studio albums, had been released in January; in September, just six months after this broadcast, he died.\nThe concert\u2014whhich was released previously in edited form and has now been beautifully remastered\u2014is of interest primarily because so little of Parsons's post-Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers days have been preserved on record. The disc is anything but revelatory: half the tunes are from GP, and several of the rest wound up on Grievous Angel; since Parsons was performing to promote new songs, not redefine old ones, what we get are mostly note-for-note copies of what surfaced on the studio LPs. Nor is there much that's revealing in the between-song patter, though it is sort of interesting to hear both Parsons and Emmylou Harris introduced as virtual unknowns.\nThat said, it's still a thrill to hear this great country-rock pioneer in a live setting. The performances and arrangements may be no surprise, but that doesn't mean they're not mostly terrific. The uninitated should start with the two studio albums (now available on one CD), but serious fans will want this as well. 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{"text":"What Sunil Patel learned about writing from John Wick and Mad Max: Fury Road\non Jun 21, 2015 June 21, 2015\nUnlikely Influences is a series of weekly blog posts about how writers can learn the tricks of their trade in odd places. Most are from guest authors, but I'll pop in from time to time too. This week's installment is by Sunil Patel.\nWhat I learned about writing from John Wick and Mad Max: Fury Road\nby Sunil Patel\nI love action movies. I love car chases and shootouts and explosions and ridiculous stunts and larger-than-life villains and explosions and witty comebacks and explosions. While it's true that much of the appeal of action movies is in the spectacle, some of the very best can serve as excellent writing lessons, like broccoli covered in melted cheddar.\nDon't think you can learn about writing from an action movie? Do you know how many writers cite Die Hard when teaching writing? The number is higher than the number of people John McClane kills in that movie, I tell you what.\nThe last year has blessed us with two incredible action movies that excel in both spectacle and narrative because they understand that the two are not mutually exclusive and, in fact, are more effective when combined. I've seen them both twice, and it's a fascinating joy to see such strong writing.\nBuild Your World and Let the Reader Figure It Out\nJohn Wick may not look like a movie that even has worldbuilding, and, in fact, it's not until more than a half hour in that you realize this is more than your standard crime flick. Right after the assault on his house that leaves him with a bunch of dead bodies to dispose of, John calls in the cleaners: \"I'd like to make a dinner reservation for twelve.\" This is only the first of many delightful euphemisms throughout the movie, none of which are specifically defined and all of which are clear through their usage: I did not count the number of people John killed, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's twelve.\nAnd right by the phone we see a stack of gold coins. Are they actual gold coins? Who knows, and who cares. We see John hand Charlie the cleaner a bunch of gold coins as payment, and we understand how they are used. But how are they obtained? Later John asks an old friend for a favor: \"Keen on earning a gold coin?\" Boom. Gold coins are the currency in this world, and although we don't know the exchange rate, that's not important.\nThen there's the Continental itself, with its specialized doctors, secret nightclub\u2014accessible, of course, via a gold coin\u2014and mysterious rules. No one ever comes out and says, \"This is a hotel that is the central focus of the criminal underworld\"\u2014the word \"assassin\" is never used in the movie\u2014but every little detail of the dialogue and every person John interacts with build that picture up. You come away from John Wick wanting a whole spin-off series set in the Continental because you've created a vision of it in your mind.\nMad Max: Fury Road holds the audience's hand even less than John Wick; aside from Max's opening monologue, there is almost no exposition at all. It's a perfect example of show-don't-tell worldbuilding, as you learn everything about the world and culture by experiencing it. The fact that the War Boys worship steering wheels speaks volumes, as does their V8 hand-gesture, formed by interlocking eight fingers in a V. The depth of the design rewards the observant viewer, and the worldbuilding is integrated into the narrative as well. One of my favorite storytelling beats I've seen in a movie recently is the War Boys' death ritual. Similar to the way John Wick explains the gold coins by putting them to use, Fury Road does not waste time explaining why a War Boy is spraying his mouth with chrome paint and yelling at his compatriots to WITNESS HIM right before he makes a suicidal leap. Everything we need to know about it is right there in front of us. It's coded, and it's brilliant, because later when Nux sprays his mouth chrome, we understand what's about to happen. We may not understand the why of the world, but we understand the what, and we can often extrapolate the why from that.\nCharacters Are Defined by How Other People React to Them\nThere are no flashbacks to John Wick's past life, but, like the Continental Hotel, it is formed through bits and pieces. The first twenty-five minutes build to the reveal that John Wick is no ordinary man. When Orelio realizes that Josef has stolen John's car and killed his dog, he punches him in the face\u2014which, given that at this point we know that Josef is violent and reckless, does not seem like the best idea. Viggo asks Orelio why he punched his son, and Orelio explains, and the only thing Viggo can say is: \"Oh.\" The depth of \"We're fucked\" contained in that single word is astounding (it may be the biggest laugh I had in a movie theater last year). This is purportedly the biggest, baddest gangster in the city, and he's terrified. He delivers a beautiful monologue with an all-time great character description: \"He's not exactly the boogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the fuckin' boogeyman.\" Then he becomes more explicit: \"Focus. Committed. Sheer will. I once saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil. With a fuckin' pencil.\" This works because it is the reveal of who John Wick really is\u2014it's intercut with John unearthing his buried arsenal\u2014and the rest of the movie is him living up to that description.\nThroughout the rest of the movie, people recognize John, remarking that it's good to see him again. Since John's arc is about his being pulled back into his former life (people keep asking him if he's back), every single character interaction populates that former life, spawning a history that we must imagine for ourselves. Jimmy the cop, who asks him if he's, uh, working again. The manager at the Continental, who welcomes him back. Winston, who is the only person who calls him \"Jonathan.\" The bartender, who knows his usual drink. Harry, whom John offers a gold coin to for a favor. We don't know a thing about Harry except that he and John must have some sort of past relationship. They don't have to have an actual conversation; the fact that Harry sees John dragging a body out of his hotel room and his reaction is simply, \"Hey, John,\" tells us enough.\nMad Max: Fury Road can do no such thing with Max because no one in the movie knows who Max is (but once Furiosa does get to know him, she calls him \"reliable,\" which is pretty good for a man). The key figure defined by other people's reactions is Immortan Joe, the fearsome patriarch and god. Joe doesn't tell us about himself, but it's clear from the way the War Boys treat him what his role is. For instance, Nux's reaction when he thinks Joe has looked at him (though Slit disagrees). He freaks out! The devotion Joe inspires tells us a great deal about him, as well as those devoted to him.\nCharacters Are Defined by What They Do\nJohn Wick is defined by the fact that when some fiends kill his dog, he goes on an intense rampage. He does eventually give an impassioned monologue wherein he explains his motivations, but they're pretty clear already. The character-defining storytelling in John Wick comes through in his fighting style, which is clever, economical, and utterly ruthless. This is a man who will shoot you in the foot to make you come out of hiding so he can kill you. This is a man who will shoot you in the head when you're down just to make you're dead. This is a man who will hit you with a car and then shoot you through the roof as you tumble over it. No one else in the film fights like this, and we can see why you'd send John to kill the fuckin' boogeyman.\nMad Max: Fury Road has no time for impassioned monologues because too many cars are exploding. This is a movie where absolutely everyone is defined by what they do, and no one epitomizes this more than Nux, whose entire character arc\u2014the strongest and clearest in the film\u2014tracks by his actions. He wears his goals and his motivations on his sleeve (he doesn't have sleeves though). The Wives can be distinguished by the differing ways they react in battle. Max and Furiosa's relationship morphs from antagonism to collaboration without their ever discussing how they feel about each other; it's how they act with each other that tells us.\nTell a Small Story in a Big World\nBoth John Wick and Mad Max: Fury Road teach a lesson that science fiction and fantasy writers really need to hear: the fate of the world doesn't have to be at stake. It can be one man's quest for revenge. It can be one woman's heroic rescue. You can build a complex, fully realized world, but the world is not the story. The world is the setting. Let the audience observe and understand the world: that's their job. Your job is to tell the story. And a smaller story takes less explanation. I can imagine a version of John Wick that is John tracking down Management and taking down the entire Continental Hotel, obliterating all of his former colleagues, but\u2026why would you do that when it's so much more meaningful for him to take on specific characters with whom he has a history, whose interactions carry emotional weight? I can imagine a version of Mad Max: Fury Road where most of the running time is taken up by a massive assault on the Citadel to dethrone Immortan Joe, but\u2026why would you do that when, again, you can focus on specific characters doing specific things to each other? These small stories matter, and we can relate to them on a more personal, visceral level.\nJohn Wick and Mad Max: Fury Road have raised the bar for action movies. They understand that in an action movie the action drives the narrative, and they manage to tell compelling stories with fic-inspiring worldbuilding in under two hours. The tools in their toolbox, though, can be applied to any story, no matter how many explosions are in it.\nBut you should probably add a few explosions anyway. Just in case.\nSunil Patel is a Bay Area fiction writer and playwright who has written about everything from ghostly cows to talking beer. His plays have been performed at San Francisco Theater Pub and San Francisco Olympians Festival, and his fiction has appeared in Fireside Magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Flash Fiction Online, and is forthcoming in The Book Smugglers, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, and Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place. Plus, he reviews books for Lightspeed. His favorite things to consume include nachos, milkshakes, and narrative. Find out more at ghostwritingcow.com, where you can watch his plays, or follow him @ghostwritingcow. His Twitter has been described as \"engaging\", \"exclamatory\", and \"crispy, crunchy, peanut buttery.\"\nUnlikely Influences\nPrevious: In which I recommend a few short books\nNext: What L.S. Johnson learned about writing from sewing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"N500 MILLION LAND GRABBING ALLEGATION: INSIDERS EXORNERATE LAGOS CHIEF OF STAFF ~ 1STELEVEN9JATV\n1stEleven9jaTv August 3, 2022 2 min read\nHighly placed individuals have pooh-pooed the allegation that the Chief of Staff to the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Tayo Ayinde, was involved in a N500 million land grabbing scandal.\nIt will be recalled that some people went to the media recently, alleging that Chief Ayinde was involved in gross impersonation and assault over a landed property belonging to Chief Adetunji Omisore and one Tajudeen Mohammed, at No. 4, Ladoke Akintola Street, GRA Ikeja.\nThe rumour peddlers had claimed \"that Ayinde, in a bid to forcibly obtain the land, worth N500million, destroyed properties worth millions of naira, by using the police and other security forces to assault the landowners.\"\nThe rumour mongers had also alleged that the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LSBCA) served the owner and developer of the said property a seven-day demolition notice on Friday, July 15, 2022, but that without waiting for the 7 day notice to lapse, on Tuesday, July 19, the agency moved caterpillar and Black Maria to the site to begin demolition of the over N500million investment as early as 6am in the morning, barricading the property while the workers were assaulted.\"\nHowever, according to investigation, the complainant only has a letter of accommodation given to him by Federal Government to be a tenant in the said property.\nAgain, the said owner has been accused by the government of \"illegally going into joint venture with a developer to build on the land for which he was paid the sum of N25million.\nInterestingly, when government officials approached the site, he offered money to the officials. The money offered, was rejected because there was already a demolition order on the illegal structure that has no plan nor building approval.\nNot deterred by that, the complainant however found favour with another Agency of government which illegally assured him that he can continue building despite being served demolition notice.\nThis medium was informed that the purpose of the demolition is for road expansion contrary to the allegation that the Chief of Staff was in the know of the matter.\nAccording to our source, \"it was just coincidental that the Chief of Staff lives on the same road as the land in question. That is the man's only involvement on an issue he knows nothing about. What I am telling you can be verified through records. You can find out if the Chief of Staff has anything to do with this issue,\" our source said.\nTags: 1steleven9jatv 1steleven9jatv.com AREMS ENTERTAINMENT CHIEF OF STAFF Lagos state LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT LAND GRABBING TAYO AYINDE\nAlerzo Group CEO Joins Other Founders To Chart Way Forward For Retail Business In Nigeria ~ 1STELEVEN9JATV\nPROPHET ISRAEL OLADELE OGUNDIPE MOURNS WITH CHIEF OBENEZER OBEY ~ 1STELEVEN9JATV","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Corner Checkmate\nThe Corner Mate, also known as the \"Fool's Mate\" or \"Scholar's Mate\" is a chess checkmate pattern that is characterized by the trapping of the enemy king in a corner of the board, typically the h8 or a8 square for black and the h1 or a1 square for white. The pattern is considered one of the simplest checkmates to execute and is often used as a beginner's tactic.\nThe history of the Corner Mate can be traced back to the earliest days of chess, where the trapping of the enemy king in a corner was a common tactic. The Corner Mate is one of the oldest checkmate patterns known and has been a fundamental part of chess strategy for centuries.\nThe key to successfully executing the Corner Mate is to trap the enemy king in a corner and then to attack it with a queen or a rook. The queen is responsible for attacking the enemy king and creating a mating threat, while the rook is responsible for supporting the queen and attacking the enemy's defensive pieces. The queen and rook work together to create a powerful attacking force that can quickly overwhelm the enemy's defenses.\nIn order to set up the Corner Mate, the queen and rook should be placed on the same diagonal or file, with the queen attacking the enemy king and the rook supporting the attack. The queen and rook's position should be such that the king has no other move than to move to a corner, where it can be checkmated by the queen.\nThe Corner Mate is a checkmate pattern that can be executed quickly and effectively, but it's considered a basic tactic in chess. It's particularly effective against an enemy king that is trapped in the corner of the board, as the king has limited escape routes and is vulnerable to attack. It's a simple and easy way to checkmate the king and it's often used as a beginner's tactic.\nHouse of Staunton Drawstring Chess Bag\nSquare Off Pro Rollable Portable Innovative AI Chess Online Board\nUS Chess Federation Quiver Chess Set Triple Weighted (Blue)\nDGT North American Chess Clock Chess Timer\nRADICALn Handmade Oceanic and White Staunton Marble Tournament Chess Game Table Set\nYellow Mountain Imports 10\"X10\" Japanese Shogi Chess Magnetic Travel Game Set","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Include details on scraping when organising your search optimisation strategy\nDate Wed 16 October 2019 Tags legislation \/ process\nOur take on citations is that regardless of whether or not they help with Google rankings, we still unfortunately see Google ingest and trust the data from these services all too often. If the interactive elements on your site are placed too close to each other, it becomes way too easy to press something you didn't actually want to touch. This could cause all sorts of problems. Assigning a keyword-based name to a file increases your chances of getting indexed properly without being penalized for re-using keywords. Appearing in the top 3 results is excellent because almost half of the clicks on any search results page go to those positions.\nSmall but important things to observe about meta tags\nWhen I originally designed my website, I came to learn that the layout was completely wrong. Optimizing meta description correctly can help improve click through rates. In a nutshell, the combination of seamless user experience with quality content can have a very positive impact on your SEO rankings. Google, Yahoo, and Bing are just the ticket.\nEverything you need to know about web 2.0\nWe recommend page titles are between 10 and 60 characters. At one time, it was a factor in rankings; but marketers abused it and over-optimized it to game the system, so today it's not really a ranking factor at all. Start by making the most of your industry connections and relationships. Google absolutely loves internal linking (the act of linking your audience to other areas of your website). The longer a user stays on your website, the more valuable Google will deem your content to be and, therefore, will rank your pages higher on search results.\nMake sure you know exactly what you're doing with SEO\nOn the other hand, open source software frequently has active user mailing lists. Analyze what type of content it was, the topic, who produced it, and when it published. Don't be afraid to try newcontent types as long as you're willing to measure its effectiveness through regular you're willing to measure its effectiveness through regular auditing. Gaz Hall, a Freelance SEO Consultant, commented: \"As a freelancer, it is your responsibility to find work, advertise your skill sets, meet deadlines and set your payment schedule, which many new writers find it challenging to accomplish without on-the-job experience.\"\nFor instance, if you're posting in a forum thread about solar panel installations and that's only one of your service offerings, it's better to link to your \"Solar Panel\" page than it is your homepage. In short, bad content=bad backlinks. There's no objective rule for how many links you can post within a given timeframe, especially when each company has a different budget and a different set of goals. When it comes to getting your website ranked highly then keywords are still an essential part of Google's ranking algorithm, they are the very backbone of search engine (even Yahoo) after all. But keywords aren't what they might always appear to be.\nConsistent doesn't mean identical. when you're discussing user generated content\nWrite Meta Data for Real People\nWrite a description to both inform and interest users taking into account existing keyword research\nThings you most likely didn't know about static pages","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Schalke 04 mark the CAFE Week of Action 2021\nAs longstanding supporters of CAFE and the Week of Action and home to CAFE's very own Ambassador Omar Mascarell, Schalke 04 ensured that they marked this year's celebration appropriately.\nThe German Bundesliga club captured a #TotalAccess themed rendition of the Schalke 04 anthem featuring fans of the Deaf Fanclubs, who performed the song using sign language from the pitch of the Veltins-Arena. See video below:\nThis comes as the most recent example of the Club's efforts to raise awareness around access and inclusion and particularly with regards to their deaf and hard of hearing fanbase. The Club has provided audio-descriptive commentary (ADC) for a number of years and recently made this available via the Schalke 04 app whilst Covid-19 regulations prohibit fans from attending live games.\nFor Schalke's home fixture to Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach on Saturday 20 March, the Club dedicated a section of their matchday programme to the CAFE Week of Action. This featured an interview with a member of the deaf fanclub and a comment from Schalke midfielder and CAFE Ambassador, Omar Mascarell.\nThe programme also included a longer interview with CAFE Project Manager and lifelong Schalke 04 fan, Jochen Kemmer.\nWe would like to extend a huge thank you to Schalke 04 for their support during the CAFE Week of Action 2021, and their continued efforts to improve the experiences of all disabled fans.\nThe CAFE Week of Action 2021 summary report will be published in due course, with information for the 2022 campaign to be published later in the year.\nFor more information regarding the CAFE Week of Action or any of the accessibility services mentioned above, please contact the CAFE team at [email protected].\nAuthor: Josh Emerson","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Arts \/ Spirit Messengers\nArts July 10, 2008\nSpirit Messengers\n\"The wind is the corporeal element most akin to the divine.\"-Socrates, Phaedrus Text: Laurie Sammis Photography: Todd Meier\nOur fascination with raptors travels as far back as Egyptian mythology with Horus, the god of the sky and of light, who was regularly depicted as a falcon. Ancient myths have held eagles, hawks and falcons as creator gods associated with sun and fire and as messengers between heaven and earth, between gods and humans. They captivate and repel, inspire and rouse us with a mystique that reaches well beyond the mythical.\nClocked at speeds of 242 mph, Peregrine falcons are the fastest animal alive, capable of folding their wings in a precise dive posture that literally slices the air in two. Many raptors feature special cone-shaped projections in the center of round nostrils to slow down the air flow and allow for incredibly fast flight without damaging the bird's lungs.\nThere are 330 diurnal raptor species worldwide and 40 species found in North America. Many are territorial and solitary; some, hunt in family units. Some drop through the sky like daggers, others hover above unsuspecting prey. Still others stretch a foot out with lightning speed to catch insects from the air. All are unique and highly evolved for their specific habitat and prey. It is possible that the world they see is so vastly different and unique from ours that we simply cannot comprehend it in any logical manner. With the generous assistance of The Peregrine Fund's World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, the following is a portrait for future contemplation.\nPeregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus): Gus, Male\nWingspan: 38-42 inches\nWeight: 1-3 pounds\nLife Span: 12 to 15 years in the wild\nHabitat\/Range: Found on every continent, except Antarctica. Adaptable, with habitat ranging from tropics and deserts to the tundra.\nStory: Peregrines were placed on the U.S. Endangered Species List in 1970. They were completely wiped out in the Eastern United States and there were only 39 known pairs in the Western U.S. Thanks to the efforts of The Peregrine Fund, they were removed from the Endangered Species List on August 20, 1999. Known for their spectacular high-speed dives, Peregrine falcons typically capture prey in midair after fast pursuit or a rapid dive. The name (peregrinus) translates literally to wanderer, referring to the species-wide distribution.\nGyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus): Sigrid, Female\nWeight: 2-4.5 pounds\nHabitat\/Range: Inhabits circumpolar arctic and subarctic regions, with some individuals moving south into northern temperate zones during fall and winter in response to a lack of prey. The largest member of the falcon family, gyrfalcons are highly adapted to surviving in extremely cold climates\u2014they can acutally cover their feet completely with feathers to help protect them from the elements.\nStory: Known as the \"King's falcon\" during the Middle Ages, since only the king could fly a gyrfalcon. Gyrfalcons nest in the arctic and may even start laying eggs before the temperature rises above zero degrees Fahrenheit. Legend holds that Genghis Khan's future mother-in-law dreamt that a white falcon holding the sun and moon in its talons flew down from the sky to her hand. She took the vision as a sign that her daughter would marry the future conqueror (Falcon by Helen Macdonald, 2006). Gyrfalcons exist in a variety of color morphs from nearly black to white.\nAmerican Kestral (Falco sparverius): Soldier, Male\nLength: 9-12 inches\nWeight: 3.5-5.5 ounces\nLife Span: 8 to 10 years in the wild\nHabitat\/Range: Found throughout most of North, Central and South America. They inhabit tropical lowlands, deserts and urban areas.\nStory: The smallest and most numerous falcon in North America. They are best known for their unique hovering while pursuing prey. Most prey is caught on the ground, but some are taken in flight. Kestrels catch prey with their feet, primarily insects\u2014grasshoppers, dragonflies and crickets; along with mice, voles, lizards and snakes.\nRed-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamiacensiss): Chance, Male\nWeight: 1.5-3.3 pounds\nHabitat\/Range: Found throughout North America and scattered through Central America and the West Indies. They inhabit open fields and deserts that are interspersed with woods or bluffs, mountain forests or tropical rainforests.\nStory: As with many raptors, red-tailed hawks typically mate for life and form a pair bond that is usually maintained until death. They soar on migration and avoid long water crossings that require sustained powered flight. They are, therefore, concentrated along shorelines, peninsulas and other large bodies of water. Like all raptors, red-tailed hawks have three eyelids: top, bottom, plus a third eyelid which closes laterally across the eye\u2014to protect eyes during flight or feeding.\nA Playdate With Anna Skibska\n'Light Bearer and Shadow Player'\nEasy Writer\nActor Scott Glenn and the poet rising from within\nCapturing the Light\nPlein Air artists brave the cold to catch perfect moments\nUnbridled Artist\nJean Richardson's intentional vagueries on canvas liberate the viewer's soul\nA Telling Tale\nFormer Valley writer and editor explores the Bowe Bergdahl story\nRed-Headed Ambition\nThe roots of this country soul singer started with a rock 'n' roll mom\n'State-of-the-Art Everything' By Karen Bossick\nPamela DeTuncq By Karen Bossick\nWhen Breath Becomes Light By Laurie Sammis\nDemystifying the Supreme Court By Adam Tanous\nSun Valley's Most Influential Leaders\nGift Horses BY Meagan Ryan Stasz Photography courtesy Ashley Collins and Gilman Contemporary\nArt as an Adventure Text: Clarence Stilwill Photography: Craig Wolfrom\nSpecial Deliveries Text: Eleanor Jewett Photography: Hillary Maybery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Swinton Estate appoints spa manager\nFam ily-owned UK hotel Swinton Estate has appointed Richard Macklin spa manager for its new country club and spa.\nMacklin joins the North Yorkshire property from Hoar Cross Hall hotel in Staffordshire, where he was spa director, and will oversee Swinton's new build country club and spa \u2013 scheduled to open next month.\nMacklin, who brings more than 25 years' industry experience to the role, previously worked for the German arm of fitness club group Holmes Place as one of its general managers.\nOther past positions include senior director of spa and leisure for day spa Nirvana Spa in Berkshire, and director of Chessgrove Day Spa in Worcestershire, both in the UK.\nCo-owner Felicity Cunliffe-Lister said: \"We are thrilled Richard is joining us.\n\"His wealth of experience will ensure the spa has a flying start, and his impressive track record will help the spa and the team to grow, so we can deliver a very special experience to all our guests.\"\nThe new spa at the 32-room boutique hotel will feature nine treatment rooms, an 18-metre swimming pool, a hydrotherapy pool, steam rooms, and a spa garden with a herbal sauna, hot tub, swimming pool and shower.\nThe spa will also include a \"beauty cottage\" where treatments including manicures, pedicures and hair treatments will be offered. Other facilities will include a gym offering a range of classes, from yoga and pilates to spinning and circuit training.\nThe spa will be working with British skincare brands Elemis and Bamford. The privately owned hotel is surrounded by a 20,000-acre estate.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War - Part 70, Vol. 6, December (Dec.) 21, 1915 - Railways and The War\nBy: Correspondents of The Times\nNumerous black and white photographs. \"...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future.\" - From Preface. Contents: Chapter C - Railways and the War. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact.\nTitle: The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War - Part 70, Vol. 6, December (Dec.) 21, 1915 - Railways and The War\nAuthor: Correspondents of The Times\nCategories: Magazine Back Issues, Military, History,\nPublisher: London, The Times: 1915\nKeywords: The Times History of the War - Part 70, Vol. 6, Dec. 21, 1915 - Railways and The War Brigadier-General Twiss, Director-General of Railway Transport,\nThe Times History of the War - Part 16\nThe Times History of the War - Part 57, Vol. 5, September (Sept.) 21, 1915 - Germany at War\nThe Times History of the War - Part 17, Vol. 2 December (Dec.) 15, 1914\nEmail : [email protected]zines.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Improving' Mandela marks 95th birthday\nA child sings Happy Birthday to former President Nelson Mandela at a township school in Atteridgevile near Pretoria, July 18, 2013. Anti-apartheid hero Mandela is \"steadily improving\", South Africa's government said on Thursday as the former president celebrated his 95th birthday in hospital amid tributes from around the country and the world. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, globally admired as a symbol of struggle against injustice and of racial reconciliation, has been under treatment since June 8 for a recurring lung infection that has led to four hospital stays in the past six months. [Photo\/Agencies]\nMandela making dramatic progress: daughter\nWall of Honor unveiled for Mandela\nSouth African schools to honor Mandela Day\n|<< Previous Page 11 12 13 Next Page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"England and New Zealand battle for Cricket World Cup trophy on Sunday\nLoop Sports Created : 13 July 2019 Sport\nEoin Morgan and Kane Williamson.\nNew Zealand and England will both be aiming to lift the Cricket World Cup for the first time when they meet in the final on Sunday.\nHosts England were the pre-tournament favourites but the Black Caps should not be underestimated by Eoin Morgan's side, having also reached the final four years ago.\nAustralia easily came out on top in a trans-Tasman clash on that occasion but a well-matched clash is expected at Lord's, the home of cricket.\nEngland and New Zealand finished third and fourth respectively in the group stage but each side won their semi-final comfortably, Morgan's men disposing of the holders by eight wickets while Kane Williamson's team beat India by 18 runs.\nWilliamson shoulders the burden of expectation for New Zealand in terms of their batting, the skipper having hit 548 runs at the tournament, over 200 more than any of his team-mates. Opener Martin Guptill has struggled, however, recording two ducks and passing 50 just once.\nTrent Boult and Lockie Ferguson have taken 35 wickets between them, posing a twin pace threat of which England should be wary, though the hosts' batting line-up is packed with explosive power and class.\nJoe Root has outscored Williamson by a single run while Jonny Bairstow has hit two hundreds in his past three games, including 106 in a win over New Zealand in Durham during the group stage.\nBairstow's prolific opening partnership with Jason Roy has been crucial for England, while captain Morgan's remarkable 148 against Afghanistan was one of the most thrilling innings of the tournament.\nEngland's batting has been their strength in the years since a disastrous 2015 World Cup, though in Jofra Archer they have unearthed one of the stars of this year's event.\nThe Barbados-born paceman only made his international debut in May but has taken 19 World Cup wickets, the most for England.\nIf New Zealand are to produce an upset, the battle between Archer and Williamson may well prove to be decisive.\nTOURNAMENT SO FAR\nBoth teams lost three matches during the group stage, with New Zealand squeezing into the semi-finals as the last of the four qualifiers. However, they then produced a brilliant display to down India in a rain-affected semi-final at Old Trafford that spanned two days.\nEngland had a major wobble during the group stage when Roy was injured, but they head into the final on the back of wins against India, New Zealand and Australia - all three of their fellow semi-finalists.\nEngland captain Morgan: \"I think in general throughout the tournament the scores have been a lot lower than they have previously here in the last three or four years. Us adjusting to that has been harder work than it normally is. New Zealand have done it brilliantly and Lord's isn't ever a high-scoring ground so I'd say it will be a bit of a battle.\nBlack Caps skipper Williamson: \"We were in a different part of the world on a different surface against a different opposition [for the 2015 final], and both sides are very different from four years ago, so it's kind of hard to compare those times. Whether having had experience in a final or not is a good thing? Any final you get the opportunity to play in is a really positive thing.\"\nOPTA FACTS\n- Ben Stokes (England) is yet to be hit for a six in the tournament, making him the only one of 59 bowlers to send down more than 30 overs yet to concede a maximum.\n- Kane Williamson has scored more runs (548) 2019 than any other player has managed in an edition of the World Cup for New Zealand, Joe Root has set the same record for England (549 runs).\n- England are trying to emulate the England women's ODI side who lifted the Women's Cricket World Cup in 2017 with a dramatic nine-run victory over India, also at Lord's.\n- Ross Taylor (987 runs) and Martin Guptill (976) are vying to become the second player after Stephen Fleming (1,075) to score 1,000 World Cup runs for New Zealand. Williamson requires 119 to reach the same milestone.\nTrent Boult\nKane Williamson\nEngland fit, relaxed and excited ahead of Cricket World Cup final\nEngland thrash Australia to reach Cricket World Cup final\nNew Zealand stun India to reach World Cup final","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Toy Museum of NY launches Toy Museum TV featuring personal interviews with Inventors of Today's Toys and Games, 2020\nWho invented the classic toy Lincoln Logs? It was the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright's son, John. Who's inventing today's toys? Find out at Toy Museum TV.\nThe Toy Museum of NY announces that viewers of all ages can now watch their new Toy Museum TV channel, with 24-hour streaming of original toy related programming available to viewers everywhere. The new video site's first web series episodes offer 50+ personal interviews of toy and game board inventors and industry experts.\nEver wonder how toys and games were created or how to make it in the business of child's play? For years, the inventors have stayed out of the public eye! But now it's time to meet the new toy inventors on the block. Through this free web series, The Toy Museum of NY and Toy Museum TV is letting the world in on who is behind the newest toys and games of our generation through a set of exclusive interviews conducted at The American International Toy Fair, in February, 2020.\nAdditionally, the purpose of this Toy Museum TV project is to educate and inspire viewers who are interested in learning more about the toy industry or becoming toy inventors themselves. By watching in-depth interviews with industry experts, viewers can discover toy inventors who have made a place for themselves in the billion-dollar toy industry.\nThe talk show host is Marlene Hochman, Founder and President of The Toy Museum of NY and Executive Producer of Toy Museum TV.\nThese 50+ interviews share the personal stories of entrepreneurs, inventors, industry leaders, experts, new brands and start-ups and offer insight into how to make in the billion dollar global toy industry. Viewers will enjoy hearing these stories, learning about their new toys and games, and gaining valuable tips and advice for personal and business success. This series might even inspire people sitting at home social distancing to use their imagination to create the next popular and best-selling toy or game of the future.\nThrough interviews with some of the most creative and inventive people and businesses in the toy industry, Toy Museum TV helps viewers learn trade secrets to success. The Toy Museum of NY warmly invites all interested viewers to visit the new video site for Toy Museum TV.\nHochman extends the following invitation to all:\n\"Join us for some insightful conversations with innovative toy inventors, new brands, start-ups, industry leaders, and pioneers. Learn how their ideas were brought to life, plus what inspires them to create, and tips and advice for those interested in working in this global industry.\"\nAbout Marlene Hochman\nMarlene Hochman is Founder and President of The Toy Museum of NY and the Executive Producer of Toy Museum TV. The Toy Museum of NY was established in 1999 as a non-profit educational museum whose mission is to educate the public about the importance of dolls and toys in culture, history and play. Her work, creating collective activities and exploring historic, classic, and new toys, continues to benefit people of all ages, from the youngest kids to the most experienced seniors. For more information about The Toy Museum of NY visit their website.\nMarlene Hochman\nWebsite: https:\/\/toymuseumtv.org\/, https:\/\/toymuseumny.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What should the Idols sing for 'Latin' music week?\nBy Michael Slezak\nApril 09, 2007 at 07:14 PM EDT\nI love American Idol as ferociously as a mother loves her child. But just like it's a mother's job to be brutally honest \u2014 \"Yes, honey you could stand to lose 10 pounds. It's all about portion control!\" \"Um, thanks, Mom.\" \u2014 I can't help fear this week's Latin music theme is going to be \u00a1muy horrendous! Why so gloomy, you ask? Well, in her recent interview with EW's Jessica Shaw, Gina Glocksen shared that, before she got booted last week, she'd been planning to sing \u2014 drumroll please \u2014 \"Everlasting Love.\" Yes, the thoroughly un-Latin Carl Carlton\/Love Affair number that got covered in thoroughly un-Latin fashion by Gloria Estefan back in the mid-'90s \u2014 and has also been flogged by Scott Savol (uff da!), Jasmine Trias (yikes!), and Clay Aiken in past Idol seasons. In other words, Idol's definition of \"Latin music\" appears to be any song ever recorded by a person of Hispanic descent. So let's put some quotation marks around \"Latin night,\" and perhaps around \"vocal coach\" Jennifer Lopez (pictured), too, and then suggest some song choices that could make the evening a little less painful. And please, for the love of all that's holy, no calls for Christina Aguilera's \"Reflection\"; once per season is enough.\nMelinda Doolittle, Gloria Estefan's \"Oye Mi Canto\"\nBlake Lewis, Santana's \"Evil Ways\"\nJordin Sparks, Lumidee's \"Never Leave You\"\nChris Richardson, Santana and Rob Thomas' \"Smooth\"\nHaley Scarnato, Jennifer Lopez's \"Play\"\nPhil Stacey, Marc Anthony's \"I Need to Know\"\nLaKisha Jones, Nuyorican Soul's \"Runaway\" (If you're not familiar with this one, ch-ch-check it out on YouTube!)\nSanjaya Malakar, Ricky Martin's \"She Bangs\"\naddCredit(\"Jennifer Lopez: Kevin Mazur\/WireImage.com\")\nMiley Cyrus releases music video by her Black Mirror character\nThe Jonas Brothers join Sebastian Yatra, more Latino stars for their first bilingual track \u2014 watch the music video\nMiley Cyrus to release new EP She Is Coming this week\nHear Whitney Houston and Kygo's dance-heavy cover of Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love'\nEvery celebrity in Taylor Swift's 'You Need to Calm Down' music video\nAmerican Idol Top 5 to perform songs of Elton John to celebrate Rocketman release\nMadonna has a lot to say on the Latin pop-influenced Madame X: EW review\nAmerican Idol recap: Adam Lambert mentors for Queen Week, two more contestants go home\nNetflix to release Miley Cyrus Black Mirror music video\nYouTube remasters Lady Gaga, Spice Girls, more classic music videos in HD\nMadonna, Maluma to perform new song 'Medell\u00edn' at 2019 Billboard Music Awards\nThe winner of American Idol is...\nAmerican Idol recap: Come feel the sweet sting of Hollywood Week\nCold, schmold! Watch Katy Perry sing 'Firework' with tissues stuck up her nose\nWatch the music video for Elton John and Taron Egerton duet '(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again'\nExclusive: See which songs American Idol contestants will sing for Queen week with Adam Lambert as mentor\nTaylor Swift says fans should look for clues in her Billboard Music Awards 'Me!' performance\nAmerican Idol recap: Dreams are made and hearts are crushed as Hollywood Week comes to an end\nWatch Taylor Swift's star-studded 'You Need to Calm Down' music video\nWatch Aly & AJ's 'Star Maps' music video featuring stars from Shameless, Drag Race, Silicon Valley, The Goldbergs, and more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How the poll of polls has changed: update\nThis election campaign looks like it's going to tease us right to the end. The poll of polls has reverted almost exactly to the position it was in one month ago. The small Labour lead of a few weeks ago has disappeared. The party is now locked in a numerical dead heat with the Conservatives:\nUkip has edged back up again after seeming to embark on a downward trend in early April. Meanwhile the Lib Dems and the Greens are still hovering around their respective averages of 8% and 5%.\nThe fact that nothing is changing is still significant, of course. All the main parties appear to have flung everything in their armoury at the electorate and at each other, yet as far as the polls are concerned, it's all been to little effect. What \"surges\" there have been in individual polls have only ever been sporadic and are being cancelled out within 24 hours or so by other polls showing movement in the other direction.\nTaking the numbers at face value, it seems there has been no swing back to the governing parties in the lead-up to the election, as predicted by some newspaper commentators and pundits. But the numbers do not reflect what may or may not be happening at a constituency level. And herein lies the biggest tease. Just what is really going on beneath the surface of the poll figures? And how much of a difference will there be compared with the shares of the vote on election night? I suspect the answer to both questions is: more than we think.\nFrom '100 seats' to just four: the measure of Ukip's apparent failure\nThe Lib Dems' collapse could stretch from Shetland to St Ives","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scottish Greens brand early election 'opportunist' amid signs of UK parties split\nJosiah Mortimer 18 April 2017 Scottish Greens brand early election 'opportunist' amid signs of UK parties split2017-06-06T15:39:43+01:00 England & Wales, News, Scotland, UK 1 Comment\nScottish Green Party co-convener Maggie Chapman\nThe Scottish Green Party have condemned Theresa May's calls for an early General Election as 'weak and opportunist' \u2013 while Greens south of the border have welcomed the move.\nThe Scottish Greens have said the motion for a June 8th election shows that Scotland continues to 'suffer at the hands of a hard right Tory party', yet a spokesperson for Caroline Lucas \u2013 the only UK Green MP \u2013 told Bright Green that 'she will' support the plans.\nThe Prime Minister announced plans for a Westminster vote for an early General Election tomorrow, which needs the backing of two thirds of MPs to succeed. With Labour backing the move, it is almost certain to succeed.\nThe Scottish Greens' Co-convener Maggie Chapman said:\n\"This is the sign of a weak and opportunist Prime Minister who, rather than trying to explain the damage she is doing, has resorted to this desperate tactic. There is only reason for Theresa May to hold an election now and it is that she knows that things are going to get worse as Brexit bites.\n\"She should be focusing on trying to undo some of the damage her approach to Brexit has done and enabling us in Scotland to have our voices heard. She has, instead, opted to compound her previous mistakes with this move. When the spotlight falls on her unyielding, racist and hate-filled politics, I am confident that this move will backfire.\"\nHowever, Caroline Lucas MP said:\n\"Britain is at a crossroads \u2013 and today's announcement means that people are rightly given a say over the direction this country is going to take. Only the Green Party offers a bold, positive vision for a different kind of Britain.\n\"At this election we will stand for a economy that works for everyone, not just the privileged few; a Britain that's open to the world and the protection of our precious environment. We will stand up to the politics of hatred and division that is scarring our communities and give people across the country a chance to vote for a better Britain.\"\nThe Green Party of Northern Ireland have yet to release a statement at time of writing.\nBright Green will be publishing an interview with Scottish Green Party Co-convener Patrick Harvie MSP in the coming days.\nCaroline Lucas, early election, election2017, GE2017, General Election, GPEW, Green Party, Maggie Chapman, Scottish Green Party\nThe Green League: Who are the Greens with the biggest social media following? \u2013 January 2023\nThe Green League: Who are the Greens with the biggest social media following? \u2013 December 2022\nMaggie Chapman MSP on transphobia in the Green Party of England and Wales\nAbout Josiah Mortimer\nJosiah Mortimer is a journalist and communications professional.\nView all posts by Josiah Mortimer \u2192\n1 Comment Already\nBarnaby Suttle - April 19th, 2017 at 5:19 pm none Comment author #101052 on Scottish Greens brand early election 'opportunist' amid signs of UK parties split by Bright Green\nI think this piece unfairly sets up a supposed conflict between the Scottish and English & Welsh Greens. Caroline Lucas has also said that May is being an opportunist but that we should use this moment to put forward a Green vision. I haven't see the Scottish Greens explicitly calling for Lucas to vote AGAINST the election.\n\u00ab Confirmed: Caroline Lucas WILL vote for early General Election\nWinning second MP in Bristol West is 'number one' Green priority, says source \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Andre Ellington (foot) undergoes MRI, status unclear\nPublished: Sept. 5, 2014 at 11:32 a.m.\nUpdated: July 8, 2019 at 02:32 p.m.\nThe Arizona Cardinals have another injury to a key player to worry about.\nNFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported that running back Andre Ellington underwent an MRI on Thursday night according to two sources informed of the situation. Ellington will not require surgery, but he won't know his status for Monday night's contest against the Chargers until closer to game time. The running back is hopeful he will play.\nFoot injuries can be tricky and long lasting. If Ellington misses an extended period of time, it would be a devastating loss for the Cardinals on the heels of all their defensive issues. Defensive lineman Darnell Dockett is out for the season with a torn ACL and inside linebacker Daryl Washington is suspended for the season. Last year's No. 7 overall pick Jonathan Cooper is benched to start the season.\nEllington has the ability to be a breakout star if he can stay healthy. He changes the way the Cardinals run their offense because of his impressive receiving skills, and there is a steep drop-off at the running back position. Jonathan Dwyer and Stepfan Taylor are next in line for carries.\nUPDATE: Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic tweeted Saturday that Ellington practiced on a limited basis Saturday and coach Bruce Arians was optimistic afterward that he might be able to play Monday.\nThe latest \"Around The NFL Podcast\" recaps the season opener and previews every Week 1 game.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Javi Marroquin New Girlfriend 2017: Who is Javi Marroquin Dating?\nBy: Caroline John - Published: March 29, 2017 at 2:06 am\nPhoto: Jonathan Leibson \/ Stringer \/ Getty Images\nBeing on a show like Teen Moms can take its toll on any romantic relationship. Kailyn Lowry's ex, Javi Marroquin, has moved on with another reality star. Who is Javi Marroquin dating? We've got the scoop right here.\nTeen Moms 2 star, Kailyn Lowry is pregnant with her third child and is keeping the identity of the baby daddy under wraps. She clarified one thing though, her ex-husband, Javi Marroquin is not the father. Marroquin has moved on with a new girlfriend in 2017, and she's another MTV reality offshoot. Here's what is going on in the Teen Mom alum's dating life.\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BR86kIjD0yO\/?taken-by=madiichanning&hl=en\nTeen Mom and Real World Collide\nAn MTV love story no one imagined came true. Marroquin moved on from Teen Moms and Kailyn Lowry with Madison Channing Walls. Walls is one of the stars from MTV's Real World: Skeletons. She confirmed she's dating the U.S. Air Force sergeant to E! saying, \"Javi and I are definitely together. We are definitely boyfriend and girlfriend.\"\nThe 26-year-old Walls is a former child actress credited with movies like A Numbers Game. She struggled with heroin addiction two years before she made her reality debut. She participated in Real World hoping to get a fresh start in life. Real World: Skeletons made the participants face the skeletons in their closet. Hers were former acquaintances who suffered because of her drug addiction.\nContrary to the turbulent relationships both reality stars have had on reality TV, Marroquin and Walls have the sweetest story of how they met. Fans often messaged both of them on Instagram about how they shared similar stories of exes and babies. Walls then messaged Marroquin directly on social media and what started as friendly conversation, turned into something more.\nThey met face-to-face for the first time at Marroquin's favorite restaurant in Philadelphia. \"We enjoyed a nice bottle of wine and then later I had my friends come out to meet her and we all went out and danced and drank and just had a really good time,\" he told E!.\nAlso Read: Annie Verret: 5 Facts to Know about Jordan Spieth's Girlfriend\nA post shared by Madison Channing Walls (@madiichanning) on Mar 19, 2017 at 8:33am PDT\nBabies and Exes in the Mix\nMarroquin and Walls connected over their similar history of exes and babies. While the 24-year-old is father to Kailyn Lowry's three-year-old son, Lincoln, Walls has a child of her own. She was in a relationship with her Real World costar, Tony Raines and they had one child together. Though they broke up, they continue to raise one-year-old Harper together.\nHe's a power ranger at all times\nA post shared by Javi Marroquin (@javim9) on Mar 26, 2017 at 11:02am PDT\nAlso Read: Lauren Jauregui Girlfriend 2017: Who is Lauren Jauregui Dating?\nLowry has been busy with her delicate pregnancy, but that didn't stop rumors about her thoughts on Walls. Though she hasn't made a public statement, sources close to her have revealed what Lowry thinks to news outlets. Some say she disapproves of Walls' past as a drug addict, and the influence it could have on her son; some claim she's jealous; a few say she's afraid he'll pay more attention to Walls' daughter instead of their own son; while some say she's happy for Javi. Talk about mixed signals!\nTony Raines also gave his take on Marroquin and Walls' relationship. \"I think she deserves a good guy and happiness and all that good stuff. I think with this the sky is the limit for them,\" he said. He added that things were initially rocky when they co-parented Harper, but they have since ironed out the wrinkles in parenting.\nRaines is no stranger to fellow MTV reality stars, having watched Teen Mom 2. \"I've seen Javi a few times on the show and as far as I can tell, you know, he's a military guy and that's awesome,\" he said about the Teen Moms dad. \"I see how he is with his children and that's very commendable.\" What a supportive ex! But Raines draws the line at his daughter's childhood becoming a reality plotline, as is possible when two reality stars from different shows come together.\nJavi Marroquin and Madison Walls have yet to address the issues of their children. While he has plans to visit Austin, Texas to see Walls' hometown, he hasn't met Harper and Walls hasn't been introduced to Lincoln. But that may soon change. \"I haven't introduced [Madison] to Lincoln yet. I learned from my past mistakes where I introduced him way too early on in a relationship, so now I know better,\" Javi explained.\nMadison added, \"I'm really excited for him to come to Austin next month. I'm going to introduce him to my friends and family and [my daughter] Harper and yeah it should just be a really good time and then we are already making plans for this summer together.\"\nWe made it to the beach \u2600\ufe0f?\n[etn-inline-post id=\"63240\u2033]\nWho Is Kyle Baugher: Kelly Reilly's Husband Is a Man of Few Words & Lots of Green Dough!\n\"Crime Junkie\" Host Ashley Flowers Announces She Is Pregnant\nIs Golfer Kyle Westmoreland Related to General William Westmoreland?\nIs Greg Newsome Related to Ozzie Newsome?\nSeattle Anchor, Travis Mayfield Leaving KCPQ\nIs Sherrilyn Ifill Related To Gwen Ifill?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MCPS Football Coaches Push For In-Person Training\nGAITHERSBURG, MD \u2014 As the pandemic drags into its seventh month, a group of high\u2026\nGAITHERSBURG, MD \u2014 As the pandemic drags into its seventh month, a group of high school football coaches is rallying to bring back in-person workouts at Montgomery County Public Schools.\nTwenty-four members of Montgomery County Public School Football Coaches Association sent a letter to County Executive Marc Elrich and the school board, asking them to reinstate conditioning and skills-and-drills workouts for student-athletes.\n\"Football differs from many other sports such as soccer, lacrosse, basketball, and baseball where these sports have opportunities for athletes to participate at the club or (Amateur Athletic Union) level,\" the letter read. \"Athletes who participate in football have essentially been left to fend for themselves as it relates to training and skill development.\"\nDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, MCPS' in-person athletics have been put on hold since Friday, March 13, 2020. Gov. Larry Hogan (R) recently announced that high schools could resume sports practices and competitions in the fall. But MCPS has decided to wait until at least Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.\nThe coaches say that's too long a time-out.\nFor one: not all students can afford to train outside of school.\n\"Some families within the county can afford to pay for personal trainers, gym memberships, and workout equipment, while many other families cannot,\" the letter read. \"Training is becoming 'pay to play.'\"\nThe coaches also wrote that student-athletes are more likely to get injured next year if they go too long without training and conditioning.\nAnd without training and conditioning, according to coaches, student-athletes' mental and emotional health will suffer.\npic.twitter.com\/ZdlMXs9Mrq\n\u2014 MOCO Public School Football Coaches Association (@MocoPublic) October 12, 2020\nGboyinde Onijala, a spokesperson for MCPS, told multiple media outlets that the school district will continue to follow its framework for virtual athletics.\n\"At this time, MCPS Athletics will continue operating virtually, as outlined in the R.A.I.S.E. Reimagined Framework for virtual athletics,\" Onijala said. \"The COVID-19 Task Force for MCPS Athletics will continue planning efforts for the safe return of in-person activities, when health metrics allow and in alignment with MCPS operations.\"\nTags: coaches, Football, inperson, MCPS, Push, Training\nPrevious fit20 U.S. Opens Flagship Studio & National Franchise Training Center in Liberty Place\nNext LATAM LMS-Frontline Worker Training Market (2020 to 2025) \u2013 Featuring Blackboard, Oracle and Kenexa Among Others","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CPS Must Succeed for Region to Thrive\nBy Jordan Vogel, opinion contributor to the Enquirer\nI am filled with hope.\nThis August, Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) launched its three-year strategic plan: A Roadmap to Destination Cincinnati Public Schools. The plan will establish CPS as a district of destination \u2014 for students, families, staff and partners.\n\"A district of destination\u2026\" Can CPS actually achieve that bold vision? Let me provide a window into how the proverbial strategic plan sausage was made.\nIn early 2019, CPS invited me to participate on a Strategic Plan Design Team comprised of a cross-section of community stakeholders. CPS' strategic planning work had already been in progress since the summer of 2018. The work entailed thousands of hours of contribution from hundreds of people across our community over the course of a year. The process was comprehensive, rigorous and eminently inclusive.\nTo get to the final output of a three-year plan, there were two intangibles that were omnipresent and held by all the stakeholders, especially CPS staff: the desire to win and unwavering love for children. Let me explain.\nDuring our full-day work sessions, it was immediately apparent to me there was a competitive spirit in the room. CPS had been intentional about engaging the community in this work, leveraging our influence and passion. All were invested in CPS becoming a school district of destination.\nFor a goal this audacious, winning almost always needs to be fueled by something bigger then ourselves. This intangible element is what I experienced as I went through this process with the team. In a word, it was love.\nWhen someone would recommend a system or curriculum change, it was quickly evident the only litmus test that mattered was whether the student was at the center of our decision-making process.\nSo when things got heated \u2014 which wasn't often, but it happened \u2014 a refrain broke out from CPS staff, \"That's not going to work for my babies.\" This became the central tenet of our work and in fact, the clarion call of our team.\nSome key outcomes of this work are:\nStrategic investments will ensure that Cincinnati Public Schools is the first choice for students, families and staff;\nOpportunities and options for students and families are expanding;\nPlans are being implemented for continuous improvement, strategic growth, and long-range financial planning;\nThis fall, Cincinnati Public Schools will take key steps toward long-term financial and strategic planning for the district \u2014 making smart investments through the budget and asking voters to support a 10-year, $65-million renewal levy on the November ballot.\nSo why does this all matter to me? In my role as vice president of Talent Initiatives at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, I think about talent all day, every day. Expanding and diversifying the region's talent base is our charge, and we intend to win our region's war for talent. This includes attracting talent to the region, retaining the talent we have and creating pipelines of new talent.\nThe ultimate goal of CPS' plan is to see our children become community leaders and influencers \u2014 and CPS is currently developing 36,000 of them. Soon they will join our organizations and have important and far-reaching impact. As they thrive, so will our community. We need CPS to succeed so that our region can grow and thrive.\nMy son is a rising senior at Walnut Hills High School. He is MY baby (even though he is now taller than me). And I know that CPS' staff sees my baby as their baby too. His CPS education has been filled with academic excellence. But it has also been filled with love. He knows that his CPS family cares about him, his academic achievement, his health and safety and his future.\nThe road ahead will inevitably present bumps, detours and obstacles. But I posit that the outlook for our babies and our community has never been higher.\nJordan Vogel is vice president of talent initiatives at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and served as a member of the design team for Cincinnati Public Schools' strategic Plan\nRead Full Article at Cincinnati.com\nGeek Squad Summer Academy Coming to Aiken High School\nNKU Dedicates Five Scholarships to CPS Grads\nCPS' High School Online Lottery Opens January 7\nStudent Exchange Program Seeks Students for Taiwan Trip\nCPS, Organizations Partnership Helps Students Get Jobs in Health Care\nCPS Recent News\nCPS Board Elects Officers, Appoints Committees\nCPS Continues to Grow\nCPS Board Letter to Mayor, City Council\nGo Vibrant Challenge Helping CPS Students Get Active, Healthy\nSuperintendent, Treasurer Thank Supporters, Staff\nMenu - News\nConnect with us and see how students are prepared for life!\nTweets by @IamCPS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Civil aviation minister seeks detailed report on cover-up\nPublished: Nov 07, 2012, 07:41 IST | Bipin Kumar Singh |\nAfter reading MiD DAY article, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh tasks personal secretary with ensuring that concerned officials prepare report to be submitted to him\nAfter MiD DAY's expos\u00e9 on November 5, 2012 titled \"Fake reports tried to hush up near misses at airport\", the ministry of civil aviation for the first time, swung into action to take stock of the issue. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has now asked for a detailed report on the matter.\nTough talking: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh\nSingh said, \"I have read the MID DAY article and have asked for a detailed report on the matter. My personal secretary is following up the issue. However, I will wait for the report before commenting.\" Singh also maintained that if anyone was found guilty, they would be severely punished.\nMeanwhile, former Jet Airways pilot Captain Girish Kaushik said, \"It is understood, from the news report, that a fake inquiry was held just to take punitive action against the pilots. This is not only unethical and shameful, but also detrimental to the safety standards in aviation where safety should be given utmost importance.\nIf the inquiry and the report were fake as mentioned, the DGCA must look into the matter very seriously and take the guilty to task. The reason for holding any inquiry should always be to ascertain the facts behind an incident or accident, so that a similar situation does not arise again, and not to play a blame game or to take punitive action.\"\nKaushik further suggested that Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), upon ordering an investigation, must properly schedule it and follow up. He also maintained that persons involved in such incidents must also be made available to the inquiry, to authenticate incidents emerging in the final report.\nMumbai NewsCivil Aviation MinisterAjit Singh\nWhat happened on the first night of Mumbai 24 x 7?\nMumbai Crime: 47-year-old stabs brother-in-law in front of wife at Agripada, arrested\nKatrina Kaif, Atul Agnihotri with wife Alvira and son Ayaan at event in Juhu\nRohit Sharma blitzkreig helps India beat New Zealand in Super Over drama","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review: Justice League Dark Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic trade paperback (DC Comics)\n1 comments | Tags: Justice League Dark\nThere are aspects of James Tynion's Detective Comics that I thought were very, very good, and it's a significant thing that his Justice League Dark Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic is already starting to look like it might be even better.\nThe six-chapter book feels exceptionally full \u2014 there is three-part super-team origin, two-part fleshing out of past continuity, and a one-off anthology of four horror vignettes; combine that with the five issues of the Wonder Woman\/Justice League Dark \"Witching Hour\" crossover that take place in the middle of this volume, and Tynion's already got almost a year of Dark material done in half a year's time. And like its predecessors, Shadowpact and the first Justice League Dark, Tynion's got this book full of DC's magic denizens well beyond just the core team.\nAgain, Dark is a lot of fun, a great place for Tynion to have landed, and I'm excited for more.\nI might otherwise balk at a first trade that's three issues main story, three issues side plot, were it not again for the fact that there's also Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour. And there's a lot happening \u2014 I faulted Scott Snyder's Justice League for going straight from hyped up No Justice to hyped up The Totality, but Tynion's, I think, is better rooted in character such that it doesn't feel quite so frenetic. And Last Age and Witching Hour work well together \u2014 the villains are not quite the same, but related, and the threat defeated in Last Age factors heavily into the conclusion of Witching Hour.\nTo the question of whether Witching Hour can be set aside and Magic read all the way through (the book collects #1-3, skips Witching Hour tie-in #4, and finishes with #5-7), I'd advise against it. The main story of issues #5-6 turns away from Witching Hour, but the first pages of #5 spoil the end of the crossover almost immediately, and issue #7 is very much tied up in how Witching Hour ended. Get both books and read them interspersed, would be my suggestion.\nAgain, Justice League Dark is just good from the start. It is Zatanna and Wonder Woman, John Constantine, Detective Chimp, a delightfully weird Man-Bat, and Swamp Thing right off the bat, plus Klarion, Zauriel, Phantom Stranger, Deadman, and Andrew \"I, Vampire\" Bennett all in the background. Tynion brings forth some strong horror, too, an often-tough thing to do in superhero comics, with heavy lifting by artist Alvaro Martinez Bueno. And Tynion keeps things at this level throughout, with good use of Doctor Fate's many incarnations and a startling scene of one of the heroes melting to goo.\nGiven continuities, it would have been easy for Tynion to specifically build this Justice League Dark on the legacy of the past New 52 one (which gets a nod in Witching Hour) but leave aside the Infinite Crisis-era Shadowpact, only marginally in continuity. The inclusion of Detective Chimp was a good indication that wouldn't be the case, however, and in issues #5-6, Tynion takes up a Shadowpact-centered conflict \u2014 that Detective Chimp failed to protect former teammate Nightmaster's realm of Myrra after Nightmaster's death, and has instead cursed another teammate, Blue Devil, to do so for him.\nSome of this swords and sorcery-type material wouldn't usually be my cup of tea, but it's hardly traditional fantasy with Wonder Woman, Zatanna, and Man-Bat in tow, and intercut with Constantine, Swamp Thing, and Phantom Stranger battling the rogue Fate. Further, again, Tynion keeps things well grounded in character; that both Chimp and Wonder Woman refer to Blue Devil as \"Dan\" is a nice touch, evoking these characters actual long relationships and subtly reminding us, for instance, that once upon a time Wonder Woman and Blue Devil served on a Justice League together.\nThe book ends with a \"Tales of the Otherkind\" issue, with Man-Bat playing the role of Crypt-Keeper to introduce short tales of the League Dark's new enemies. These stories are a double threat; first, they're genuinely scary from the outset \u2014 I'm not sure I knew that Tynion had these horror chops, but apparently he does. Second, one story prominently uses Andrew Bennett, and another, Frankenstein and his SHADE Creature Commandos. That checks all the boxes \u2014 wide use of the DCU's magic characters and actual horror, and I'm put in mind of the equally successful Sinestro Corps War that put similar spotlight on its bad guys.\nSupport Collected Editions -- Purchase Justice League Dark Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic\nOf the post-Dark Nights: Metal Justice League titles, then, Justice League Dark Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic is clearly the winner. James Tynion proves his Detective Comics work wasn't a fluke, and DC would do well to keep him on team books essentially forever. I'm excited for the next Justice League Dark volume in October, which is fitting timing. The end of this book has Constantine sending Zatanna to \"find Mordru,\" which is brilliant; I can't decide if I'd be more excited for Tynion to find some way to tie this into Legion of Super-Heroes or to Demon Knights.\n[Includes original and variant covers, character designs and sketches]\nJustice League Dark Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic\n4.5 (scale of 1 to 5)\nPosted at 7:02 PM (Permalink) | 1 comments | Tags: Justice League Dark\nBen 8\/17\/2019 12:35:00 AM\nAfter that review I'm really tempted to pick up this collection. 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{"text":"Resort!\nPosted on December 16, 2016 by Paul\nWe don't stay often at resorts.\nIn part this is because we are (sort of) budget travelers, and decent resorts are expensive (and a lower-end resort would probably be more depressing than anything). Not only are room rates at good resorts high, but the seclusion of resort layouts makes it difficult or unappealing to travel outside for drinks or meals, leaving one stuck with international hotel pricing for any food or beverage (unless, as Chinese tourists apparently do in the Maldives, you bring instant noodles to cook in your room electric kettle (but that doesn't seem like a great way to spend your vacation)). Menus and overall atmosphere will also likely be similar to any other resort around the world, if you substitute a few local spices and fruits\u2014possibly great but also sort of bland as any hotel that caters to a wide range of nationalities, ages, and styles must be. Even at a resort with a few different restaurants, dining options can feel boring or limited after a day or two, and the boredom may extend to more than just dining. After you've done the two or three activities that you were most interested in doing, there may not be much left to do other than hanging out in your room or by the beach.\nBut that, of course, is precisely the point.\nInternational travel is hard work. As much as people enjoy it as a vacation option, for the variety and adventure it provides, having to figure out every logistic in an unfamiliar place isn't trivial. The way we travel, every day or two or three brings us to a new city where we have to figure out the lay of the land. We have to know where we are and where we want to go, how to get there, what to see and do, where and what to eat, how to order, where to sleep, etc., etc. Every interaction might have a language challenge and room for miscommunication, or there might be tiresome frustrations, like a thirty-minute walk carrying all your luggage, only to find out that Google maps misplaced your hotel. Negotiating with taxi drivers is exhausting; safety can be a concern. When the weather is hot, as it has been on this trip, each day can feel like a sweaty slog, counting the hours until the next opportunity to shower and let your clothes dry out.\nA resort is a vacation choice without any of these challenges. Temptation to sightsee or to search for outside restaurants is kept at a minimum, by isolating you in a self-contained world. Activities are prearranged (you just sign up), and often child care is even provided, to give adults some real relaxation time. Costs and payments are frictionless, with things simply billed to your room. Air conditioning is always within a few minutes' walk.\nA resort is a vacation choice to minimize choices. Our resort in Mauritius had us park at a parking lot and take a golf cart to our room\u2014it wasn't even clear that walking back to our car was an option, making the choice not to go sightseeing during the day an easy and lazy one. Buffet dinners were included in the room rate, obviating the need to make ordering choices. The biggest choices during our stay were how much appetite to save for which desserts, what to do for lunch, and whether to go for a glass bottom boat ride even though it looked like it might rain. We spent a great deal of time enjoying our (rather impressive) room and sitting by the beach, reading or doing photo work. To us, it wasn't really travel, but a break from our travels.\nFor us, travel isn't really about relaxation\u2014it's about exploring the world. Our curiosity and energy levels, not to mention relative lack of cares (e.g., stress of child rearing), are such that we'd rather spend our free, non-work time out in the wild discovering and learning new things. But knowing that such travel is tiring, something from which we ourselves appreciate a little break every now and then, we can easily understand why others choose resorts\u2014true, simple relaxation\u2014for the duration of a vacation. Yes, the opportunity cost is great, but sometimes one just needs a break.\nPS: Please excuse the privilege\/\"first world problems\" reflected in this article. What can I say\u2014guilty as charged.\nPosted in Mauritius, Uncategorized\t| Leave a reply\nLanguage in Mauritius\nWe first encountered French-speaking people of South Asian descent in Madagascar, in the coastal town of Tulear in 2005. It felt like quite an oddity\u2014similar to when one hears an East Asian person with an southern American accent. I subsequently learned that there's a country basically full of French-speaking Indians: Mauritius.\nSince then, I've been curious to visit Mauritius, largely because of its mixed colonial and ethnic history. Mauritius was controlled by the Dutch, French, and English, before it became an independent country. Uninhabited until colonial times, its population is entirely composed of people who came to settle or work: largely Indians (68%), but also Africans, Chinese, and Europeans. It was hard for me to imagine what a country with such a composition would look or feel like. (I was also intrigued by its beaches and its status as a sort of tax haven for corporations.) Mauritius has proved as interesting as I had hoped.\nThe most obvious remnant of its mixed French and English history (the Dutch period was early and brief) is language. When the British took over Mauritius from France during Napoleonic times, they assured the local population that it could maintain its language, customs and laws. To this day, almost all Mauritians speak a Creole French as their primary language. With outsiders, however, Mauritians seem quite comfortable in both standard French and English\u2014more than, I would say, the typical Quebecois, who probably feels significantly more comfortable in one language than the other. Signs are often bilingual, but many are written in just English or just French, assuming bilingual literacy of consumers and drivers.\nThe occasional advertisement is in Creole.\nA quadrilingual memorial to the nation's founder, located in the botanical garden in Pamplemousses. The Chinese population is small, but concentrated in the capital and economically powerful. Perhaps also due to the economic power of China, there is more signage in Chinese than I would have guessed.\nParts of France\nthe tricolore over a government building in St. Pierre, Reunion\nMost people are from the \"main\" parts of a country. If you're born in mainland United States, it is easy to forget that the \"United States of America\" actually encompasses not only the forty-nine states in North America, Hawaii and the District of Columbia, but also a large number of small territories and possessions scattered around the world, each of which has a somewhat different legal status with respect to the U.S. government. For example, people born in Guam are American citizens, but people living in Guam do not have the right to vote in the U.S. Presidential election (although they do participate in the party primaries). People born in American Samoa are not automatically U.S. citizens, though they have the right to live anywhere in the United States. The story of colonization is far from over, with many places in the world maintaining stronger or weaker legal relationships with the larger nations that once colonized them or won them as spoils of war.\nToday we flew to Reunion, an island in the southern Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mauritius, that is today still a part of its colonial \"owner,\" France. One interesting thing about Reunion, though, is that despite its small size and tremendous distance from France, and the fact that the vast majority of the population is not of white French ancestry but are mostly black or Indian, Reunion is fully a part of France\u2014using the U.S. analogy, it is legally more similar to Hawaii than to Puerto Rico or Guam. People born and living in Reunion are full French citizens, elect representatives to go to Paris, and are also citizens of the European Union. Cars on Reunion have French license plates, the money is the Euro, and both traffic infrastructure (roundabouts included) and bakeries are similar to those you'd expect in European France. Technically, Reunion, Mayotte, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana are referred to as the \"overseas departments,\" but they have the same legal status as the regions and departments within European France.\nMayotte, pictured in Air Austral's route map above, is even more of a demographic outlier, with almost its entire population black and Muslim. It is also the overseas department to attain its status most recently, through a 2011 referendum which yielded a 95% \"yes\" vote. From Mayotte's perspective, it isn't hard to see the advantages of becoming a full part of the motherland. Mayotte is very substantially poorer than \"metropolitan France,\" and becoming a full part of France will over time result in substantial inflows in infrastructure expenditure and social safety programs. The Reunionnaise apparently enjoy nearly a European standard of living, likely largely subsidized by taxpayers in Europe. Whatever loss in autonomy Mayotte will suffer, voters decided, is well worth the financial benefit.\nI do not know the politics of all this, but am tempted to admire France for its inclusion of these territories as full and equal parts of the nation. Puerto Rico, which has a population greater than twenty of the U.S. states, favored statehood in a non-binding election in 2012, but the U.S. Congress did not even acknowledge the request with an up-or-down vote. Even the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, doesn't have equal representation in government\u2014something recognized by the local license plates which include the revolutionary refrain, \"Taxation Without Representation.\" What keeps the U.S. from providing equal rights to all under U.S. jurisdiction? Largely partisan politics. Statehood for the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico would have immediate consequences on federal elections\u2014namely, a benefit for the Democratic Party. As long as voters in D.C. or Puerto Rico remain likely Democrats, the Republicans have a strong incentive keep them from gaining equal representation in government. It is a markedly unjust outcome.\nMight there be other, less overtly political, factors? It is tempting to say that racism and xenophobia play a part. Even Hawaii, America's most recent and least white state, is majority non-hispanic white and asian (the latter being, arguably, the non-white \"race\" least threatening to white American identity, if only because of numbers). D.C. is largely black, and Puerto Rico of course almost entirely hispanic. But I think it also has to do with our country's relationship to colonialism. Americans tend to think of colonialism as \"European colonialism,\" the period of time when Europeans such as British, Spanish, and French gathered territories around the world. But America, despite having started as a colony itself, was also an active participant. The thirteen original states may have been colonies of Britain, but basically every other state is a result of further colonization of the North American continent by the United States. By purchase or invasion, the United States acquired these additional territories, colonized them, and made them states. The land acquisition extended overseas\u2014with some properties that were eventually spun off, such as Cuba, the Philippines, and the Panama Canal Zone, but others retained, such as Puerto Rico and Guam. I think that countries that are more self-aware about their colonial\/imperial history, such as France, may be more likely to recognize the genuine historical connection and responsibility they maintain with their overseas possessions. In American's minds, even Puerto Rico, with its large population and proximity to the mainland, is an afterthought, a strange historical quirk we'd almost like to forget.\nFor a somewhat similar though more detailed post on India, see my post of 20080316 Parts of India. Also, this post has also been inspired by C.G.P. Grey's excellent videos on the American Empire and the European Union.\nPosted in France, Uncategorized\t| 1 Reply\nSince it's been so long since I've had truly substantive posts on this blog, I thought I would highlight for new readers some of my favorites\u2013the entries that I'm most proud of. Below are a series of posts I did on religion:\nThe Reuse of Religious Sites series, in which I explore religious sites that have passed between conquering religions, is one of my favorites: 1, 2, 3\nIn this post, I ponder the difference between the word Islamic and the word Muslim.\nIn this series, I consider how the history and practice of Islam is distinct in certain countries\/regions: Indonesia, Balkans, China, India\nThis is a thought piece on Tibetan Buddhism.\nI did two multipart history series, on Iran and India, which give quite a broad overview of the history of those two nations\/empires:\nIran: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\nIndia: 1, 2, 3\nDelhi QuickTrip: Pushkar\nPosted on March 4, 2013 by Paul\nPushkar's camel fair, which takes place in the fall, is deservedly one of India's most famous festivals. Derek and I went together in 2003, and Derek again, alone, in 2009. Last weekend, we thought we'd try Pushkar sans fair, and found it a very enjoyable getaway.\nTo get to Pushkar, we traveled by the Haridwar Ahmedabad Mail, which is scheduled to leave Old Delhi Railway Station at 10:20 PM and arrive in Ajmer at 6:40 AM, though our train ran a bit late. We traveled via 2AC tickets we bought last minute using the tatkal system. We returned to Delhi on the Ajmer Jat Express, which leaves Ajmer at 2:15 PM and arrives at Delhi Cantonment at 9:13 (and New Delhi Railway Station a bit later). If tickets had been available, we would probably have preferred the Shatabdi, which leaves Ajmer at 3:45 PM and arrives at New Delhi Railway Station at 10:40 PM. Those comfortable taking an overnight train back to Delhi could take the Chetak Express, which leaves Ajmer at 10:45 PM and arrives at Delhi's S Rohilla Station at 5:10 AM.\nIn Ajmer, we took a quick look at Ajmer's most famous site before we headed out to Pushkar. A short autorickshaw ride away from the railway station is the famous shrine of Sufi saint Muinuddin Chisti, which is probably the most significant Muslim religious site in India, if not all of South Asia. A place of pilgrimage for centuries, the Ajmer shrine is in some ways a giant version of the Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi, a huge religious site full of living medieval architecture and hundreds of pilgrims. Bags and photography are not allowed\u2013which is a bit annoying\u2013but the energy is incredibly positive and you are likely to hear a bit of Sufi qawwali music. (Before going to the shrine we also went to the Adhai Din ka Jhonpra, a Jain temple-to-mosque conversion dating from the 12th century\u2013but this is optional. In case you decide to go, it is walking distance from the shrine.) From the shrine, we took an autorickshaw direct to Pushkar, which cost 300 rupees. Cheaper, and probably just as fast, would be to go to the bus station and take a proper bus, although that would also require two short autorickshaw rides to\/from the bus stations. Returning to Ajmer we took a bus, which was fast, and fun. Early for our train, we had lunch at the local\/divey, terrific Medina Hotel across the street from Ajmer's railway station.\nIn Pushkar we stayed at the Paramount Palace, in a lovely room with a small balcony overlooking Pushkar, perhaps slightly overpriced at 1000 rupees. Had we booked in advance, we probably would have stayed at Seventh Heaven, which is the most proper\/professional of the budget hotels in Pushkar. The Bharapur Palace was also tempting, with its lakeside location.\nWhat is there to see or do in Pushkar? Almost nothing, which makes for a very relaxing weekend indeed. We walked over to see the fairgrounds just outside of town, which were almost entirely empty (since the fair was not on), and did one circuit of Pushkar's holy lake, where people were bathing (and some guards\/priests enforcing the \"no shoe\" rule in an annoying manner). Pushkar is a huge destination for both tourists and pilgrims, even when the fair is not on, making for good people watching (everything from very colorful Rajputs in marvelous turbans to Israelis with dreads) and shopping. We had kurtas tailored, with special iPhone-sized pockets. We had cokes and pots of chai on our balcony, overlooking the town. We sat eating terrific falafel wraps and watched folks walk down the main bazaar (the town is entirely veg\u2013not even eggs available for breakfast!). Admittedly, some of the relaxingness of the weekend wore away with the long slog back home (which would have been better, I think, had we been on the Shatabdi), but we will certainly return to Pushkar again, for both the camel fair and for simple relaxation.\nCamel Fair\nPosted in India, QuickTrip, Uncategorized\t| 2 Replies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"E-waste responsibility laws taking country state by state\nMike Verespej\nAlmost overnight, producer responsibility has become a mandate in more than one-third of the United States for manufacturers that sell electronics products. Many experts believe such responsibility will soon be nationwide.\nLast month Illinois became the eighth state to pass such a law this year and the 13th in the past 18 months.\n``It is clear that we are going to producer responsibility,'' said Matt Gobble, environmental manager at Toshiba America Consumer Products in Wayne N.J. ``We are all going to the same place legislatively. State-by-state, we are going to have national producer responsibility for electronics,'' he said at the National Recycling Coalition conference in Pittsburgh.\nThe Illinois law, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2012, prohibits landfill disposal of televisions, printers, computer monitors, laptops, printers, fax machines, MP3 players and other electronics items, most of which have housings made from plastics. The bill also mandates producer responsibility and recycling goals, and incentives, for manufacturers.\nThe amount of e-waste is huge. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 2.6 million tons of electronics waste are created each year, with just over 12 percent of it recycled.\nAccording to environmental group Electronics Takeback Coalition, 400 million televisions, computers, cell phones and other electronics are scrapped each year in the U.S., with 133,000 personal computers discarded daily.\nThat is compounded by ever increasing electronics sales. The U.S. purchased 67 million, or one-fourth, of the 268 million computers sold worldwide in 2007. Digital TV sales in the country are projected to reach 32 million in 2008, and worldwide cell phone sales are projected to exceed 1 billion units in 2009, according to the coalition.\n``It is the fastest-growing waste stream in the industrialized world,'' said Joe Aho, senior manager of eCycling for Waste Management Recycle America LLC, a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc. of Houston. ``If it is not addressed, it can become a problem of crisis proportions because of the rapid rate of obsolescence'' of electronics products, Aho said.\n``We need to keep electronics waste out of landfills.''\nWith electronic take-back laws or bans now approved in 17 states and New York City, the industry has begun to gear up to meet its mandated responsibility.\nIn partnership with WM Recycle America, both Sony Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics USA Inc. have their own corporate programs that take back their brands for free, and others for a slight fee. Samsung Electronics America Inc. has a similar program. Both the Samsung and LG programs were started in the last two months. Sony's program is a year old.\nIn addition, Toshiba, Panasonic Corp. of North America and Sharp Electronics Corp. earlier this year formed Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Co. LLC to manage the collection and recycling of elec- tronic products in the U.S.\nThe firms set up the joint venture in response to the Minnesota law that took effect July 1, 2007, and recycled 10 million pounds of electronics in that state in its first year through 75 collection sites.\n``We want to provide cost-effective recycling services for manufacturers and consumers,'' Gobble said of the joint venture, known as MRM. ``It is our job as manufacturers to take these producer responsibilities and meet sustainability objectives through recycling management.''\nMRM has an executive director in Minnesota and will add more as state-passed laws go into effect.\n``We expect to have state level directors as we expand,'' Gobble said. ``We just added one in Oregon.'' A bill passed by the Oregon Legislature goes into effect Jan. 1.\nGobble said MRM is working to establish programs in other jurisdictions where laws will soon go into effect \u2014 New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Illinois, to name a few.\nThere are also other take-back efforts emerging at retail, said Jason Linnell, executive director of the National Center for Electronics Recycling in Davisville, W.Va. ``Sometimes retailers such as Best Buy will take back TVs,'' he said.\nWith the proliferation of state laws, each with different nuances, manufacturers would prefer a uniform federal law.\n``The biggest issue is whether there will be pre-emption at the federal level,'' Gobble said. ``But the federal government doesn't like to do that. Toshiba is neutral on that, but there is a growing consensus on an industry level to try and come up with some federal language.''\nHowever, Aho thinks that is unlikely: ``For the federal government to do something at this point would be challenging.''","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"General Pype \u2013 Clear Road\n[Music] General Pype \u2013 Clear Road\nby Hem-El Sep 16th, 2022 at 10:24 pm\nby Hem-El Sep 16th, 2022 at 10:24 pm 4 views\nAfro-Reggae crooner, General Pype releases a catchy new hit titled 'Clear Road.'\nWell-known Afro Reggae artist, General Pype, who is incredibly talented in delivering deep lyrics and groovy tunes is back with a new street Amapiano anthem for his lovers and he titled this one \"Clear Road\" upon his return back to the music scene.\nThis singer's newest single was produced by multi-talented producer, Selasi RockSteady under the banner of his own record company, Obalende Records.\nHowever, the singer claims that the new piece of work is a song for the hood and according to him\n\"I wrote this song for my people, I want them to feel and be able to sing along\". This energetic new single is guaranteed to resonate with all music lovers who love to vibe.\nDownload \"Clear Road\" mp3 below and check out our Music page for other similar tracks, also share your thoughts because we really love to hear your take on this.\nArtist Name(s): General Pype\nTitle: Clear Road\nGenre: Amapiano\nReleased Date: September 16, 2022. \u00a9 Obalende Records\nFile Size: Not Available\nProducer: Selasi Rocksteady\nListen, Download, enjoy and Share \"General Pype \u2013 Clear Road\" Mp3 song below:-\nhttps:\/\/www.naijavibes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/General-Pype-Clear-Road.mp3\nDon't forget to rate this post and share your thoughts on this by dropping a comment below, it is essential to us. THANK YOU.\n[Movie] Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)\n[Music] Zlatan \u2013 Jaboti","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: The Grand Tour: an institution and its legacy (in-person or zoom)\n9 October 2022 2:00pm\u20134:00pm\n9 October 2022 2:00pm - 4:00pm\nVenue: Room E302 - Forgan Smith Building, UQ St Lucia\nFrom the 18th-19th century, the education of aristocratic young men included a 'Grand Tour' of key historical, archaeological, and religious sites of Europe. They were exposed to ancient remains that influenced their thoughts about Ancient Greece and Rome and provided opportunities for obtaining antiquities. Many such items in modern museums were initially collected by such travellers.\nProfessor Alastair Blanshard will assess the impact and legacy of these tours on modern scholarship and understandings of the ancient world.\nThe Grand Tour: an institution and its legacy will be preceded by a celebration of the life of Mrs Betty Fletcher and the scholarships in her name. Ms Brianna Sands will give an overview of her experience as a Betty Fletcher scholar.\nMeet the Presenters:\nProfessor Alastair Blanchard\nProfessor Blanshard, the Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics & Ancient History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, and Director, Western Civilisation, Faculty of HASS. He is a Greek historian with a strong interest in the impact that the ancient world has on the modern.\nBrianna Sands\nMs Brianna Sands is an MPhil candidate, Assistant Curator and Museum Engagement Officer, RD Milns Antiquities Museum, and Casual Academic Tutor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry.\nThe event will be held at The University of Queensland Forgan Smith Building, followed by an afternoon tea.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Businessmans\nYou are at:Home\u00bbActors\u00bbHow rich is Jeff Beacher?\nHow rich is Jeff Beacher?\nJune 25, 2019 Actors\nJeff Beacher Net Worth:\nSamuel Eto'o Fils (French pronunciation: ?[sam??l eto fis]; born 10 March 1981) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a striker. Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy. He also holds a Spanish passport, enabling him not to count among the \"foreign players\" working in the European Union.Eto'o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga. In 2010, he became the first player to win two European continental trebles following his back-to-back achievements with Barcelona and Inter Milan. He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa, and Gerard Piqu\u00e9, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams. He is the most decorated African player of all time having won the African Player of the Year award a record four times: in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010. He was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2005.As a member of the Cameroon national team, Eto'o was a part of the squad that won the 2000 Olympic tournament. He has also participated in three World Cups and six Africa Cup of Nations (being champion twice) and is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the Africa Cup of Nations, with 18 goals. He is also Cameroon's all-time leading scorer and third most capped player, with 56 goals from 118 caps.\nBirth place: Douala, Cameroon\nProfession: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew\nMovies: Bachelor Party Vegas\nTwitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email\nHow rich is Don Meredith?\nHow rich is Yasmin Aga Khan?\nHow rich is Paul Burrell?\n$50 Million 1.8 1981-03-10 Actor Cameroon Douala How rich is Jeff Beacher? Jeff Beacher Miscellaneous Crew Producer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Statement by Minister Duncan on Canada's First Gold Medal at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games\nThe Government of Canada congratulates Taylor Ruck on Canada's first gold medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games\nGOLD COAST, Australia, April 5, 2018 \/CNW\/ - On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, I would like to extend my most heartfelt congratulations to Taylor Ruck on winning Canada's first gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games today.\nTaylor Ruck, from Kelowna, British Columbia, earned her gold medal in the swimming event on day one of competition. This is Canada's third medal overall. Not only did Taylor Ruck win the first gold medal for Canada, but she also broke a new world record, making her mark in sport history in Canada and around the world. Today, Canadian athletes made their mark in the pool and showed us what they were capable of doing.\nTaylor Ruck's outstanding performance reminds us that Canada is a leading sport nation. Our Government is proud to provide our athletes with the support they need to compete and win on the international stage.\nToday, Canadians from coast to coast to coast are filled with pride and admiration at Taylor Ruck's incredible talent, drive and strength. I wish our Canadian Team much more success as competition continues in the Gold Coast.\nCommonwealth Games Canada\nSOURCE Canadian Heritage\nFor further information: (media only), please contact: Annabelle Archambault, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Science and Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, 819-934-1122, [email protected]\nhttp:\/\/www.pch.gc.ca\n\/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Government of Canada to make an important announcement on Canada's efforts in the fight against Islamophobia\/\nMedia Advisory - Government of Canada to make an important announcement on Canada's efforts in the fight against Islamophobia\nGovernment of Canada announces financial support for Freestyle Canada\nRelated Organization(s)\nNOTICE TO THE MEDIA - Government of Canada and Government of British Columbia to provide update on implementation of B.C.'s exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.\nGovernment of Canada invests in growth of \u00c0 La D\u00e9rive Brasserie artisanale by supporting its expansion\n\/C O R R E C T I O N from Source -- Employment and Social Development Canada\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Asia >>\nBorneo Tours\nStill with an air of mystery surrounding it, Borneo's jungles are teeming with some of the most endangered and thrilling of wildlife. Its rainforests hang heavy with fruit and mountains tower high over the fields waiting to be climbed. Travel down the waterways by boat as the only way to get through the thick forest while monkeys swing from the canopy.\nSpot turtles on Mantanani island, visit the orangutans at Sepilok and swim in cave systems in Mulu. Ask our Tailor-made team about a tour in Borneo.\nTravel Articles, Inspiration & Information\nWalking on the wild side\nBorneo is just one of many places that are perfect for wildlife-lovers. This blog showcases the best places for seeing nature in all her glory. Read more\nTravelling through Borneo\nDiscover a beautiful photo slide of Becka's adventure in Borneo. Home to huge amounts of wildlife, this digital photo album of Borneo will leave you inspired! Read more\nView all Travel Articles\nGuide to Food\nGeography and weather\nThe temperatures throughout Malaysia are uniformly high throughout the year with high temperatures, high humidity and heavy rainfall. The weather is patterned around the monsoon seasons - the south west monsoon from late May to September, and the north east Monsoon from November to March. The weather can be cooler in the mountains which provides a relief from the hotter cities. Visit www.worldclimate.com to get an idea of what the weather will be like on your tour.\nMost nationalities do not require a visa to enter Malaysia. Please note that visa regulations are subject to change. Please check with your local embassy about the latest visa requirements for your nationality before you leave your home country. You can also visit www.travcour.com for current visa information.\nThe currency for Malaysia is the ringgit (RM). For up to date exchange rates with your own currency visit www.oanda.com or www.xe.com.\nBanks and ATMs can be found almost everywhere in Malaysia. Credit cards are accepted in most shops, restaurants and hotels (with the exception of American Express cards which are not widely accepted). We recommend that you take either US dollars or British pounds and travellers cheques.\nAlthough tipping may not be a custom to you at home, locals here depend on your tips as many of them have families and children to support. Tucan Travel aims to support the local community on every tour by staying in locally operated hotels and employing local guides for many excursions. However tips are one of the most important aspects of our contribution to local communities. We encourage you to tip after most optional excursions and your tour leader will be able to advise you on a reasonable amount. Please make sure to allow enough local currency to tip after meals and excursions.\nGenerally Malaysia is very safe and most people have no problems at all but you should exercise a reasonable degree of caution, just as you would in any destination. Be sensible (NOT paranoid). Don't walk around lonely back streets, especially on your own or at night, don't wear expensive looking jewellery or a classy watch and don't carry a wallet in your back pocket. Don't carry your camera openly - always have it in a small day pack which is firmly attached to your body - preferably in the front in crowded places. Take particular care not to become too relaxed if you have had a few drinks and are returning to your hotel at night \u2013 it is best to always take a taxi. Always wear a money belt or leave your valuables, including your passport, in the hotel security box.\nLocal food and drink\nMeals and drinks are generally not included on our tours in Malaysia.\nIn Malaysia you will find an abundance of tasty dishes. The popular foods are Satay, Nasi Lemak (coconut-flavoured rice meal), grilled or barbequed fish. Thick rice noodles and very spicy foods to burn a hole in your taste buds. Malaysia is particularly famous for its 'pepper crab'. You will be able to buy a wide range of seafood and meats in most medium and upmarket restaurants. You might even feel brave enough to try the local crunchy insects served on sticks! A cheaper option for the more adventurous are the street stalls where you can pick up cheap and tasty food. Remember, if the queue is large, then the food must be good!\nIt is not recommended that you drink the local tap water in Malaysia. However bottled water, soft drinks, and fruit juices are widely available.\nThe time difference in Malaysia is GMT\/UTC + 8. For other time differences please visit www.timeanddate.com\n220-240v, 50 cycles; three square -pin power sockets as in the UK.\nMalaysia\/Borneo Travel Guide\nBlessed with a consistent climate, abundant coastline littered with beautiful beaches and islands and a vibrant and diverse culture, it is little wonder Malaysia makes it on to the list for many travellers. Malaysia is one of the world's megadiverse countries due to the massive number of plant and animal species that call this part of the world home. Natural features such as some of the biggest cave systems in Southeast Asia, dense jungle and colourful coral reefs are another feature of this nation. In addition colonial cities with World Heritage status add a splash of culture and history in a nation that is bursting at the seams with wonders.\nThe currency of Malaysia is the Malaysian ringgit (symbol: RM), which is made up of 100 sen. Bank notes coming in 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100 ringgit denominations and coins come in 5, 10, 20 and 50 sen denominations. If you are travelling outside cities, have plenty of small bills as anything larger than a 10 may not be accepted.\nATMs are plentiful and should accept major international cards such as Visa and Mastercard. The most common ATMs belong to Maybank or Public Bank. Exchanging cash in Malaysia is very easy and foreign exchange booths and commonplace. Most money changers do not charge a fee, but the rates vary so check the exchange rate before you change your money. Major brands of travellers cheques should be accepted in big cities and tourist sites, but not necessarily in more remote locations.\nMalaysia is an inexpensive country to visit and can cater to all budgets. Food is inexpensive and varied and you can usually get a basic meal from a street vendor or local restaurant for US$3 or more. At the other end of the scale, international cuisine is available for much the same prices you would pay in any city in the world. A can of beer is usually around US$2-4 depending on location.\nMajor Cities and Towns in Malaysia\nMalaysia's largest urban area and also its national capital is Kuala Lumpur, located roughly halfway down Peninsular Malaysia near the west coast. North of Kuala Lumpur towards Thailand, Georgetown is a World Heritage listed colonial city and capital of Penang Island. Nestled near the border, the island of Langkawi has luxury resorts and beautiful beaches. On the eastern side of the peninsula near the Thai border, Pulau Perhentian are two white-sand tropical islands famous for their laid-back atmosphere. In the far south, Johor Bahru is the border town before Singapore.\nOn Malaysian Borneo, Kuching is the largest city and the state capital of Sarawak. Kota Kinabalu is the next largest city and the state capital of Sabah. Also in Sabah, Sandakan is a port city with an airport, close to the famed Sepilok Orang-utan Sanctuary as well as the mouth of the Kinabatangan River.\nElectricity supply in Malaysia is 240 volts and the most common plug socket is for three square-prong plugs such as that used in the United Kingdom, they may also accept two round-prong plugs such as those used in Europe. If in doubt, take a universal adaptor to cover your bases.\nEtiquette and Culture\nMalaysia's population is comprised of majority ethnic-Malay and sizable Chinese and Indian minorities. There are significant differences between the business-minded hustle of the cities and the countryside. In rural areas, Malay culture is more prevalent and Islamic faith more noticeable. In Malaysian Borneo there are communal tribes which still exist, living in jungle longhouses.\nMalaysia's national language is Bahasa Malaysia, or Malay. In addition there are Chinese dialects, Hokkein, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tamil and other India languages spoken in the country. English is also spoken, but may be the unfamiliar sounding Malaysian patois known as Manglish.\nMost Malays are Muslim, Chinese usually follow a mix of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism and Indian communities are generally Hindu. Malaysia is a country of religious freedom allowing people to worship as they please.\nWhen eating at a Malay restaurant wash your hands first using water from the teapot on the table over the tray. As in many cultures, Malay people only eat with their right hand, their left is reserved for toilet business. Pork is forbidden for Muslims; do not offer or mention pork to Muslim people and do not offer them alcohol.\nThe country of Malaysia include the Malay peninsula (except Singapore) and the north and north-western part of the island of Borneo (except Brunei) making up a total land mass of 329,758 square kilometres. Peninsular Malaysia is mostly covered by dense jungle, is mountainous in the north and has a long fertile plain running along the west side. Its abundant coast is fringed with sandy beaches and littered with islands, especially along its eastern side.\nThe other half of its land area, comprising over 50% of the country's total size, is on the island of Borneo. There are two Malaysian states on Borneo, Sabah and Sarawak. Both are blanketed in thick jungle fed by large river systems. Sabah is home of the famous Mt Kinabalu which at 4095 metres is Malaysia's highest mountain.\nOne of the earliest kingdoms in the region was Langasuka, believed to be located in the modern state of Kedah in what is now the far north of the country, from around the 2nd century AD. They were eventually absorbed by first the Funan Empire in the north, then the Srivijaya Empire in the south. Between the 7th and 13th centuries, the Buddhist Srivijaya Empire rose to rule the Malacca Straits, Java and south Borneo.\nIn the late 14th century, Parameswara, a renegade Hindu prince from Sumatra, arrived at Melaka and saw it had great potential as a deep water port. Establishing the Melaka Empire, he sent envoys to the Chinese and under their protection Melaka became a major trading port owing to its convenient location halfway between China and India.\nIslam came to the country via Indian Muslim traders and began to take root from the mid-15th century when the third ruler of Melaka converted and his son, Mudzaffar Shah, after him made Islam the state religion and took the title of sultan. The influence of the Melakan sultans expanded and they ruled over the greatest empire in Malaysia's history.\nThe Portuguese, seeking to control the lucrative spice trade, sent a fleet of 18 ships in 1511 with which they defeated Melaka's army. They built a fortress on the site and created a monopoly on trade, ruling for 130 years. Throughout this period there were many wars and skirmishes, such as with the Johor Empire, located in southern Peninsular Malaysia, who held out hope of recapturing Melaka.\nWhen the Dutch arrived, they allied with Johor and based themselves in Batavia (Jakarta) in competition with the Portuguese. Together they attacked Melaka and captured the city in 1641. As reward for their cooperation, the Johor Empire was freed of trade tariffs and restrictions and rose to be one of the most powerful Asian powers in the region.\nThe British too, sought to gain a foothold in the region, establishing their first base in Penang in 1786. When Napoleon took the Netherlands in 1795, the British took control of Melaka and Dutch Java, fearing French influence in the region, before handing the area back to the Dutch when Napoleon was defeated. They then went on to establish Singapore as a major trading post, and in 1824 the Anglo-Dutch treaty was signed, dividing the region between the two powers, with the British controlling the Malay peninsula and Singapore and the Dutch holding Indonesia. This agreement did not include the island of Borneo where British adventurer James Brooke rose to power through negotiation and naval force, becoming the raja of Sarawak where he ruled until the Japanese arrived during World War II.\nThe Japanese arrived in Malaysia in 1941. Within months they had taken the peninsula, followed by the island of Borneo. During their brutal occupation, thousands were executed and many more imprisoned or pressed into harsh labour, before the Japanese surrendered to the British in Singapore in 1945.\nAfter World War II the region fell into turmoil. The British attempted to amalgamate the regional sultans into one Malayan Union, centralising authority. North Borneo and Sarawak became British Borneo. The people did not accept this and the country's first political party was formed. The Malay Union was revoked and the Federation of Malaya declared in 1948. With this the sultans retained their sovereignty and Malay citizens were given special privilege. This angered the Chinese population who turned to the Malay Communist Party in the hope of an equal society. Labelled the Emergency by the British, the rift led to full-blown civil war until the communists were forced out in the north towards the Thai border, with the Emergency declared over in 1960.\nThe British promised independence within two years in 1955, held an election and on August 31 1957 Merdeka (independence) was declared. In July 1963 Malaysia was born by the fusing of Malaya, Singapore and the states of Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo. This was done so that the balance of ethnic Chinese in the new nation did not outnumber the Malaysians. It caused major issues however; the Indonesians tried to claim the entire island of Borneo (unsuccessfully) and the sultanate of Brunei, although originally intending to be part of Malaysia, decided at the last minute to retain independence. Without Brunei, Chinese outnumbered Malaysians due to the high number of Singaporean Chinese and Singapore was ejected from the federation. Ethnic tensions continued in Malaysia with the government attempting to preserve Malay culture and language, while the Chinese population fought to retain their Mandarin-speaking schools. Chinese and foreign companies held much of the country's industry, sparking riots and violence. A policy of positive discrimination began, to shift more of the corporate wealth into the hands of ethnic Malays.\nBest time to travel in Malaysia\nMalaysia is located in the equatorial region which means there is little weather variation throughout the year and is considered to have a tropical climate making it hot and humid year round. You can expect slightly higher rainfall between October and April but there is no marked difference as rain falls year round. When it does, it is usually characterised by brief heavy afternoon downpours, clearing in the early evening and travel can easily be planned around this daily event. The noteworthy exception is the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia which is affected by the Northeast monsoon and receives considerably higher rainfall from November to mid-February.\nWeather aside, there are several events throughout the year that you may wish to aim for or avoid depending on your preferences. The Chinese New Year, Christmas and Hari Raya (the end of Ramadan) are the busiest times of year for local tourists so expect public transport to be congested and booked up in advance.\nChinese New Year and Thaipusam both fall in the first couple of months of the year, the first is celebrated by a large spring clean to sweep clear any bad luck. Lanterns, lights and lion dances may also adorn the street as part of the 15 day celebrations. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival and somewhat more unusual, involving the piercing of cheeks, lips, noses and other body by some worshippers. Pilgrims climb the 272 steps up to the Batu Caves, carrying kavadi, which are physical burdens which may range from brass jugs of milk or small pots with offerings, right up to large, portable alters.\nKa'amatan is the harvest festival held in Sabah on May 30-31 and celebrations involve buffalo racing, dancing and arm wrestling. In neighbouring Sarawak, Gawai festival falls on June 1-2 giving thanks for a bountiful harvest and is marked by the brewing of tuak, a traditional rice wine.\nGuide to Food in Malaysia\nOwing to its history as an intersection for international trade, Malaysia's cuisine is unsurprisingly diverse coming together from a mixture of cultures from around the globe. As it is a tropical country, it has an abundance of ingredients and sweet tropical fruit. Extensive coastline and rivers means that seafood is also a staple in the local diet.\nFlavours you are likely to encounter in Malaysian cooking include chillies, mint, coriander, lemongrass, curry leaves, turmeric, garlic and shallots. Sour is an important flavour with sour soups, curries and sambal, as well as lime and calamansi which are used as a dressing for salads.\nDried shrimp paste called belacan is another popular ingredient. Coconut is another and is used in curries as well as sweets.\nNasi Lemak is considered the national dish of Malaysia and is a rice dish cooked with coconut milk and a leaf called pandan (sometimes nicknamed Southeast Asian vanilla), and served with dried anchovies, peanuts, boiled egg, cucumber and chilli paste.\nAnother famous dish of the area is char kway teow, made from flat rice noodles in a sauce of chillis, soy sauce and shrimp paste, stir-fried with prawns, cockles, eggs and bean sprouts.\nLaksa is a spicy sour noodle soup and there are regional variations throughout the country. Penang Laska or Asam Laksa is a hot and sour fish gravy with round rice noodles, pineapple, cucumber, mint leaves and vegetables. Contrastingly Sarawak Laksa is a spicy coconut soup served with rice vermicelli, strips of cooked egg, chicken and prawns and it is commonly served for breakfast.\nSweets, cakes and pastries are popular and commonly sold by street vendors in all shapes and forms. Kuih are bite-sized desert foods including ketayap which are rice flour pancakes with a sweet coconut filling and pulut panggang, glutinous rice and coconut or shrimp floss wrapped in banana leaves and grilled. Cendol is one of the most popular deserts made green, starchy jelly noodles, shaved ice, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.\nTop Attractions and Highlights in Malaysia\n1. Melaka\nWith Portuguese and Dutch influences, this historic town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is known for its multiculturalism, owing to many years as a major port which has in turn influenced the local cuisine, with a mouth-watering blend of Eurasian flavours.\n2. Cameron Highlands\nHead for the hills to escape the heat and enjoy the misty alpine expanse of the highlands. Rolling tea plantations, small towns, waterfalls and hazy blue peaks characterise the landscape. Trekking and tea-tasting are two popular activities for travellers.\n3. Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre\nBorneo's most famous inhabitants, the orang-utan sanctuary covers 40 square kilometres and is home to 60-80 orang-utans living free in the sanctuary and 25 orphaned young in the nurseries. Twice daily feedings allow the best opportunities to see the majestic primates.\n4. Kinabalu National Park\nThe location of Malaysia's highest mountain, the imposing granite shard that is Mt Kinabalu, Kinabalu National Park offers many hiking opportunities including the multiday summit of the peak. The area is a designated Centre of Plant Diversity and a World Heritage Site owing to the incredible botanical diversity including many different varieties of orchid.\n5. Pulau Langkawi\nAt the heart of a 99-island strong archipelago, Langkawi is an island that epitomises a tropical paradise with swaying palm trees, sandy white beaches, verdant forested hills and deep blue ocean. Relaxing and fun, it's not difficult to get into the rhythm of island life, although you may have trouble leaving.\n6. Gunung Mulu National Park\nLocated in Malaysian Borneo, this national park is a region of vast natural beauty, including some of the largest cave systems in the world. Vast limestone caverns provide habitat for millions of freetail bats and other flora and fauna. Above ground, The Pinnacles are a series of razor-sharp limestone spires and are one of the park's most memorable sights.\n7. Kuala Lumpur\nKuala Lumpur is one of Southeast Asia's youngest capital cities, with British colonial and Islamic influences in its architecture and landmarks. The national museum offers insight into the country's past and the glistening heights of the Petronas Towers perhaps a glimpse into its future. Thirteen kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur, the Batu Caves are an easy day trip from the city.\n8. Taman Negara\nMalaysia's premier national park and described as the green lungs of the Malay peninsula, Taman Negara is a vast expanse of jungle and river systems just waiting to be explored. Beneath its canopy, Asian elephants, tigers and rhinoceros make their home as well as lizards, monkeys, snakes, small deer, tapir and many, many insects.\n9. Sungai Kinabatangan\nPerhaps one of the best chances of seeing orang-utans in the wild, a wildlife cruise up the Kinabatangan River is truly a unique experience. Along the water's edge sightings of elephants, monkeys and birds are possible. Stay a couple of nights on the river's edge as you travel upstream for several days of wildlife viewing.\n10 Interesting Facts about Malaysia\n1. In Malaysian culture, a child's surname is their father's first name. This is why, when addressing people, they will use the title Mr or Miss followed by the person's given name as using a person's surname would in fact be addressing their father.\n2 Silat is a form of martial art indigenous to the Malay people and the area including Malaysia and Indonesia. The sport is included in the Southeast Asia Games and uses a combination of strikes, throws and blade weaponry.\n3. Traditional wooden Malay houses are built to cope with the hot, humid conditions. Built on stilts with high, peaked roofs and floor to ceiling windows, they make the most of even the slightest breeze for ventilation.\n4. Malaysia is considered an area of incredible natural diversity. Its jungle is believed to be 130 million years old and contains around 14,500 species of plants and trees. Malaysian Borneo alone has 23 national parks including marine reserves.\n5. Off the world's seven species of turtle, four are native to Malaysia.\n6. The largest known cave chamber in the world by area is the Sarawak Chamber, located in the Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Borneo. It is so big it could easily accommodate a Boeing 747.\n7. Headhunting was an important part of indigenous Bornean culture for over 500 years. The most valuable heads were those of women and children as they were the most difficult to obtain being hidden and guarded. Once collected, heads would be smoked and strung up and they were worshipped and revered.\n8. During World War II, the invading Japanese pursued the retreating British down the Malay peninsula using government issued bicycles. The bicycles were so efficient at making the most of Malaysia's hard surfaced roads that the invading army arrived in Singapore in less than two months.\n9. In the Malay language many words are pluralised simply by saying them twice. For example, buku is book, buku-buku is books.\n10. Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy with an elected prime minister leading government. Rather than having just one king or queen however, the role is taken in turn by nine hereditary sultans from the different regions, with each taking the ceremonial position for five years before transferring it to the next sultan in line.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Moroccan city has attracted an artistic crowd since the 1960s, when everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Mick Jagger fell for its vibrant sensory landscape. Now the city's cultural scene is being reinvigorated, thanks to two landmark happenings in the world of art and design. First came last October's launch of the YSL Museum \u2014 a striking geometric building next to the Jardin Majorelle, which Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Berg\u00e9, bought and restored in the 1980s. Then, in February, the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair will debut at the storied hotel La Mamounia. Marrakesh has had an art biennial since 2005 \u2014 the next is slated for 2020 \u2014 and the city is home to a number of well-regarded galleries. But the arrival of 1:54, which has editions in London and New York and draws names like Billie Zangewa and William Kentridge, is set to position the city as a hub for African art. There's also hotel news. Oberoi is poised to open its third African property here, a lakeside resort surrounded by citrus orchards. And Royal Mansour has added a 6,450-square-foot pool flanked by seven air-conditioned cabanas.\u2009\u2014Flora Stubbs\nSearch cheap hotels with KAYAK. Use the hotel finder to search for the cheapest hotel deal for all major destinations around the world. KAYAK searches hundreds of hotel booking sites to help you find hotels and book hotels that suit you best. Since KAYAK searches many hotel sites at once, you can find discount hotels quickly. Discover hotel discounts now and make your hotel reservation today.\nThe logo of the red umbrella was created in 1870 when it appeared in a newspaper ad for the young insurance company. It was revived in the early 1960s, when it was given its signature red color by Harry W. Knettell, then the account executive for The Travelers and Vice President at the Charles Brunelle advertising agency. During the late 1960s Charles Brunelle was the largest advertising agency in Hartford, a city known as \"the insurance capital of the world\" due to the many insurance companies in that town. The Travelers was one of their many insurance company clients.[44][better source needed]\nThere is a difference between islands and continents in terms of geology.[8][9] Continents are the largest landmass of a particular continental plate; this holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental lithosphere and tectonic plate (the Australian plate). By contrast, islands are either extensions of the oceanic crust (e.g. volcanic islands), or belong to a continental plate containing a larger landmass; the latter is the case of Greenland, which sits on the North American plate.\nCarly loses custody of her son until the trial. Grace is due to die, so Trevor kidnaps her to save her life. Believing he is insane, she flees and is overwritten despite having avoided the accident that would have killed her. Grace and another newly arrived traveler, Ellis, are computer programmers who have fled an anti-Director faction in the future. Ellis has developed a code that is sought by this faction, and has returned to the 21st century to keep it from them. David and Marcy consummate their relationship. However, her condition worsens and Boyd stabilizes her, but Marcy is near death. In the future, Grace was in charge of social media research and identifying the candidates. She wants to correct Marcy's condition with an experimental overwrite. She offers to redirect Marcy's original transfer into the functional part of her brain, saving her at the cost of her 21st-century memories. MacLaren lets Marcy decide, and she decides to speak to David first. However, her condition becomes critical shortly before David returns home, and she is overwritten by her earlier self. Her team introduces her to David.\nThe word island derives from Middle English iland, from Old English igland (from ig or ieg, similarly meaning 'island' when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch eiland (\"island\"), German Eiland (\"small island\")). However, the spelling of the word was modified in the 15th century because of a false etymology caused by an incorrect association with the etymologically unrelated Old French loanword isle, which itself comes from the Latin word insula.[3][4] Old English ieg is actually a cognate of Swedish \u00f6 and German Aue, and related to Latin aqua (water).[5]\nA third type of volcanic oceanic island is formed over volcanic hotspots. A hotspot is more or less stationary relative to the moving tectonic plate above it, so a chain of islands results as the plate drifts. Over long periods of time, this type of island is eventually \"drowned\" by isostatic adjustment and eroded, becoming a seamount. Plate movement across a hot-spot produces a line of islands oriented in the direction of the plate movement. An example is the Hawaiian Islands, from Hawaii to Kure, which continue beneath the sea surface in a more northerly direction as the Emperor Seamounts. Another chain with similar orientation is the Tuamotu Archipelago; its older, northerly trend is the Line Islands. The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu. Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean. Another hotspot in the Atlantic is the island of Surtsey, which was formed in 1963.\nFor proof of Abu Dhabi's burgeoning status as the cultural capital of the Middle East, look no further than Saadiyat Cultural District, which is quickly becoming a treasure trove of world-class art and groundbreaking architecture. The multibillion-dollar initiative has already resulted in one major project, the Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened in November. Though its construction was controversial, the museum has quickly become the premier creative beacon in the Emirates. Work is under way nearby on the Zayed National Museum, by Norman Foster; the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre, by Zaha Hadid Architects; and the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which when completed will be the largest Guggenheim museum in the world. The city's hotel-building campaign is also in full swing: this year Marriott debuted a 400-room hotel in the Al Forsan sports center, and next year will see the opening of the Abu Dhabi Edition and Saadiyat Rotana Resort & Villas. \u2014Dylan Essertier\nThree high-ranking Travelers are sent back by the Director to put Grace on trial for violating protocols, overwriting a person who was not assigned to be her host, and sabotaging the Grand Plan. Mac and the team must give testimony at the trial that will determine if she should be overwritten or not. Meanwhile, the Faction is trying to replenish its numbers by overwriting people with the stored minds in the Quantum Frame. It transpires the trial was staged by the Director to flush out a Faction member from within the three Travelers judging Grace, which it successfully does, this leading to Mac's team securing the Quantum Frame.\nThe Director can invoke three other protocols in special situations: Protocol Alpha temporarily suspends all other protocols when a critical mission must be completed at all costs, Protocol Epsilon can be invoked when Traveler archives are threatened, and Protocol Omega permanently suspends all other protocols when the Director abandons the Travelers because the future has either been fixed or deemed impossible to fix.\nThe words island and isle are etymologically distinct. Island can be traced back to Old English \u012bgland, composed of two elements \u012bg and land. Land, as we might expect means \"land,\" but \u012bg means \"island\" in Old English. In a sense, then, \u012bgland is \"island-land.\" The English isle, on the other hand, is derived through medieval French from the Latin insula. In the 16th century, under the influence of isle, the letter s was added to iland, the earlier form of island. The verb island did not appear until the 17th century.\nIn 2006, a Travelers commercial titled Snowball was nominated for an Emmy. Snowball featured a man, walking down a steep San Francisco sidewalk, who trips and knocks over a table of items at a garage sale. The man and the items roll down the street, forming a ball which gathers garbage cans, pedestrians, construction materials, motorcycles, light poles, and other items, in a manner very reminiscent of the familiar cartoon \"snowball\" effect or the cult video game Katamari Damacy.[45] The creators of the ad say it is simply based on the snowball effect, they have never heard of the game, and that the resulting similarity was a surprise to them.[46]\nHI Vancouver Central C$ 47+ Budget Inn Patricia Hotel C$ 57+ Barclay Hotel C$ 65+ Kingston Hotel C$ 81+ The Empire Landmark Hotel C$ 83+ Howard Johnson by Wyndham Vancouver Downtown C$ 95+ Ramada by Wyndham Vancouver Downtown C$ 105+ Gec Granville Suites Downtown C$ 105+ Victorian Hotel C$ 115+ Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel C$ 121+ Best Western PLUS Sands C$ 124+\nThe Big Easy turns the Big 3-0-0 this year, and in this city where the good times roll, the parties will be epic \u2014 think citywide art shows, supersized Mardi Gras parades, and a festival of lights using landmark buildings as backdrops. Thirteen years after Hurricane Katrina, there is much to celebrate: The Central Business District, once a dead zone after dark, now crackles at all hours thanks to four new hotels (the Ace, Troubadour, Catahoula, and NOPSI), each with its own rooftop bar. The neighborhood is also home to new restaurants like Maypop \u2014 a Vietnamese-Creole joint from acclaimed chef Michael Gulotta. Another area coming to life is the three-mile riverfront, where a renovated Spanish Plaza will reopen this spring. More riverfront updates, including a new Four Seasons Hotel, will roll out in the next few years. Toast the tricentennial at the Sazerac House, a French Quarter museum dedicated to the official cocktail of New Orleans, opening later this year. \u2014Allison Entrekin\nThe team learns that Traveler 001 is still alive in the body of his former psychologist, Perrow, when the Faction tries to capture him\/her. Perrow dies but they believe 001 had access to a transfer device (since in the future he helped construct one) and as a result they are unsure where his consciousness now resides. Doubts about their loved ones worsen for Kat (suffering hallucinations and suspicions), Jeff (now, not Jeff and trying to make amends) and David, who is concussed.\nWhen historic rainfall pummeled California last February, the damage to Big Sur was severe. Mudslides cut off access to Highway 1, the region's only thoroughfare, from the south; then a crack ripped through the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge, blocking the northern end. Almost overnight, this 90-odd-mile stretch of craggy coastline \u2014 long beloved for its sense of remoteness \u2014 became an island. Nearly a year later, Big Sur is stirring back to life. The bridge has been replaced and a major slide has been cleared. After an elaborate renovation, the 160-acre Ventana Big Sur has reopened as the first Alila property in the U.S. \u2014 and is a luxurious rival to Post Ranch. The place is a stunner, whether you're facing a forested canyon from the pool or enjoying pink and orange sunsets from the terrace. In addition to the plush ocean-view suites, clad in weathered wood, there are now glamping tents nearby that marry rusticity and comfort, with amenities like luxury linens and fire pits. \u2014Jonah Weiner\nA suicide bomber and his victims are set to become travelers, but the bomb explodes and only Donner, the bomber, survives. Devastated by his failure, Donner tries to betray the traveler program to the authorities, but the entire hearing is populated by travelers who hold a trial and convict Donner of treason. Donner is overwritten by a new traveler, who must serve Donner's prison sentence, and reports that things in the future are getting worse despite the changes enacted by Traveler teams in the 21st. Luca approaches Donner in prison, implying that he has lost faith in the Director. Ken, David's boss, believes David's relationship with Marcy is inappropriate. Upon meeting Marcy, he believes she has defrauded the system. Marcy saves David's job by repaying her benefits. Grace, Trevor's guidance counselor, and Jacqueline, Carly's social worker, genuinely care about them, respectively. Grace tries to help Trevor with his academics, and Jacqueline promises that she will not let the system fail Carly and her child. Philip discovers that gambling outcomes are deviating slightly from the historic record.\nIn October 2015, Travelers acquired a majority interest in the property casualty business of its J. Malucelli joint venture in Brazil. J. Malucelli commenced writing property casualty business in 2012.[27] The property casualty business operates under the Travelers brand and focuses on property, general liability, construction and financial insurance products. The business is based in S\u00e3o Paulo.\nCentral Park West Hostel $53+ Broadway Hotel And Hostel $56+ Blue Moon Boutique Hotel $65+ Pod 51 $101+ Hotel Pennsylvania $104+ Club Quarters Hotel, Wall Street $112+ Holiday Inn Manhattan-Financial District $113+ The Watson Hotel $116+ DoubleTree by Hilton New York Times Square West $126+ Night Hotel Times Square $127+ The Gallivant Times Square $127+ DoubleTree by Hilton New York City - Financial District $128+ Row NYC $131+ The Manhattan At Times Square Hotel $131+ Hotel Edison $136+ Hudson New York, Central Park $140+ Paramount Hotel $143+ Empire Hotel $145+ MOXY NYC Times Square $152+ The Roosevelt Hotel $153+ YOTEL New York $156+ Dream Midtown $159+\nHI Vancouver Central C$\u00a047+ Budget Inn Patricia Hotel C$\u00a057+ Barclay Hotel C$\u00a065+ Kingston Hotel C$\u00a081+ The Empire Landmark Hotel C$\u00a083+ Howard Johnson by Wyndham Vancouver Downtown C$\u00a095+ Ramada by Wyndham Vancouver Downtown C$\u00a0105+ Gec Granville Suites Downtown C$\u00a0105+ Victorian Hotel C$\u00a0115+ Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel C$\u00a0121+ Best Western PLUS Sands C$\u00a0124+\nThe band played various shows around the US and Canada throughout mid-late 2005, followed by an opening slot for Metric on their early 2006 tour. After Return to the Sea was released in April 2006, the band embarked on their first full headlining tour, playing small clubs around the US and Canada throughout May. They were joined by Cadence Weapon and Why? on the first half of the tour, and Cadence Weapon and Busdriver on the second. The band generally received critical acclaim for their live shows, which sometimes ended with the band leading the audience out of the venue \"pied piper style\" and onto the surrounding streets.\nAs Bali goes increasingly upmarket, it now offers visitors access to a buzzing food scene in Ubud, its cultural capital, as well as an island-wide luxury-hotel boom. The Ubud Food Festival, which is in its fourth year, showcases the diverse flavors of the Indonesian archipelago in dozens of events, including cook-offs, demos, talks, food tours, and events in new restaurants. Notable newcomers on the town's food scene include Spice, a casual Asian-fusion restaurant from Chris Salans, formerly Bouley Bakery's chef de cuisine and head chef at Thomas Keller's Bouchon; Room4Dessert from Will Goldfarb, whose now-closed avant-garde New York eatery of the same name won him a James Beard nomination; and Moksa, a vegan caf\u00e9, bakery, and organic farm with its own grocery. Heading up the wave of new high-end hotels is luxury Japanese chain Hoshino Resorts, which unveiled Hoshinoya Bali, 30 thatched-roof villas in the rain forest outside Ubud. Capella Ubud will launch 22 ultra-luxury tents, each with an outdoor saltwater Jacuzzi pool, in early 2018. And Jumeirah Bali plans to debut 123 villas surrounded by tropical gardens in upscale Jimbaran in mid 2018. A two-year overhaul at Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay means its villas will now have bigger bedrooms and better ocean views, while at Four Seasons Sayan in the Ubud rain forest, guests are being offered a new activity: being rocked to sleep in a silk hammock in a bamboo hut by an former Buddhist nun, the resort's wellness mentor. \u2014Sharon McDonnell\nMany of Travelers' ancestor companies, such as St. Paul and USF&G, are technically still around today, and still write policies and accept claims in their own names (under the overarching Travelers brand name). As is typical of most insurers in the United States, Travelers never dissolved the various companies it acquired, but simply made them wholly owned subsidiaries and trained its employees to act on behalf of those subsidiaries. This is a common risk management strategy used by U.S. insurance groups. If any one company in the group gets hit with too many claims, the situation can be easily contained to that one company (which is placed in runoff and allowed to run its policies to completion), while the remainder of the group continues to operate normally.\nFlorida vacations can be anything you want them to be. Whether your idea of a great time is camping in a nature preserve, building sand castles, shopping at outlet or boutique malls, trying local cuisine at fine restaurants, tubing down rivers or riding roller coasters, tailoring a trip to your own level of adventure or relaxation is easy when you visit Florida. The state is filled with things to do, people to meet and places to explore, and each region, city and neighborhood has carved out its own identity, suiting a variety of visitors of all ages.\nThe first season of Travelers has a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on nine reviews with an average rating of 8.0\/10.[9] Neil Genzlinger, writing for The New York Times, described the first season as \"tasty\", and \"enjoyable science fiction\", with \"some attention-grabbing flourishes and fine acting\".[10] Hanh Nguyen, writing for IndieWire, describes the series as \"fun and freaky,\" finding the series' appeal \"in how the core group of five travelers adjust to life in our present,\" noting the \"human nature in the travelers\".[11] Lawrence Devoe, of TheaterByte.com, called the series \"tautly paced and suspenseful\" with \"well-developed characters\", declaring that \"Brad Wright has a real knack for creating futuristic series\".[12] Evan Narcisse, reviewing the first five episodes for io9, appreciated the moral dilemmas offered by the series premise and the awkwardness presented by the characters' interactions with their hosts' friends, colleagues, lovers, or caretakers: \"This is a superhero show in double disguise, offering up clever explorations of the secret identity concept that touch on the guilt and contortions that come with living a double life.\"[13] Netflix announced that the series was one of its \"most devoured\" series in 2017.[14]\nLast summer, the museum expanded its artistic footprint by over 130,000 square feet, making it the largest contemporary art space in the country. The new Building 6 houses long-term installations by artists like James Turrell, Louise Bourgeois, and Jenny Holzer. Two new museums are still in the works for North Adams, both spearheaded by former Guggenheim director Thomas Krens. At the Global Contemporary Art Museum, curators will work directly with artists to acquire and commission site-specific pieces, while the Extreme Model Railroad & Contemporary Architecture Museum will showcase works by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, all built in miniature as part of an elaborate model train system. Design is also top-of-mind at Tourists, a modern take on the roadside motel that's set to open this summer. The resort \u2014 situated on 55 acres at the convergence of the Appalachian and Mohawk Trails \u2014 will have 48 rooms, each with floor-to-ceiling windows that put the focus on surrounding vistas. \u2014Fiorella Valdesolo\nTo prevent an explosion that kills thousands, the team steals antimatter from a military convoy. The material's intended recipient is a new traveler who fails to prevent his host's suicide, forcing the team to improvise. After failing to upgrade their containment device, the team returns the antimatter to its origin facility. They form a tenuous alliance with Dr. Delaney, who produced the antimatter; history records her as complicit in the weaponization of antimatter, but she actually opposes Major Gleason's ambitions. MacLaren informs Delaney that they will return soon. Philip retains his host's heroin addiction. MacLaren meets his wife, Kat, but also resumes a preexisting relationship with Carly. Marcy works to build trust with a confused David.\nMake your next trip one to remember by exploring your national parks! Download Happy Trails: 25 Unforgettable National Park Hikes for descriptions and insider recommendations on trails and treks for all ages and ability levels, as well as general hiking tips. Sign up to get this guide, a must-have for planning an unforgettable national park adventure.\nFrom the Northwest Florida's Emerald Coast to the coral-reefed Keys, the state is filled with an array of activities for all ages and tastes. On a Florida vacation, families can plan several days of theme park fun in the Orlando area, or they can ride horses at a secluded ranch in central Florida, ride bikes along nature trails in north Florida, learn about astronauts and rocket science at the Space Coast or take one of the garden tours in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Israeli\/Palestinian ceasefire \u2013 who funds it?\nWITH the announcement of a temporary ceasefire by Palestinian militant groups and the Israeli military's withdrawal from certain parts of the Gaza Strip, this week has bought the first, tentative, reasons to feel optimism about the future in the occupied Palestinian territory.\nHelping bolster that optimism are reports of money for the reconstruction and development of Gaza and the West Bank. The media is bandying around huge figures \u2013 hundreds of millions of dollars, a billion (\u20ac870 million) even, will reportedly flow from the United States and other large aid donors to help keep the peace process on track.\nSuch reconstruction and development funding is of course badly needed. After almost three years of violence, curfews and closures the Palestinian economy is wrecked, its infrastructure has been pounded and its people are exhausted. But it is hard for the largest aid and human development agency in the territories not to read about this coming bonanza without a little chagrin.\nThe United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) cares for 1.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza \u2013 around half of the population. It has provided schools, clinics and social services for 53 years and, during emergencies, has been the primary relief agency in the region.\nSince shortly after the start of the second intifada, UNRWA has been providing food aid to around 230,000 families thrown into dire poverty by the strife \u2013 in comparison, UNRWA was feeding only around 20,000 families before September 2000.\nThe agency has created thousands of work days for unemployed labourers through its emergency job creation scheme and has provided tents, blankets and cash assistance to the more than 12,000 refugees made homeless by the Israeli military's demolition policy.\nIn addition, we have provided remedial education for children who have been unable to reach their classrooms for long periods and counselling for those youngsters traumatized by their exposure to violence. To fund these emergency operations UNRWA has turned to the international community with a series of emergency appeals. At first these appeals were well subscribed to. UNRWA received more than it actually asked for in the first six months of 2001.\nBut progressively, as international attention has drifted to Afghanistan and Iraq and fatigue from a seemingly endless conflict set in, donors have been providing less and less. In the first half of 2003 UNRWA asked for \u20ac82 million and received just one third of that total.\nMost worrying of all is the reaction to UNRWA's latest appeal, launched at the start of June and designed to fund the needs of the refugees until the end of the year. So far, not one dollar has been pledged or donated to that appeal.\nWithout urgent donations the agency will be forced to halt its food deliveries at the end of August. In the West Bank the agency already lacks the funds to sign contracts with new workers for its job creation schemes.\nThe massive shortfall during the first half of the year already means that urgently-needed humanitarian work cannot be carried out \u2013 in particular the repair and rebuilding of the thousands of homes demolished by Israel in order to create security zones near its installations and settlements. Remedial and distance learning programmes have been cut and additional medicines for our clinics and mobile health teams have not been bought.\nSo, while UNRWA undoubtedly welcomes the reports that funding will be available for the rebuilding and redevelopment of the Palestinian territories, it is also concerned that while donors talk about the future they should not forget about the present.\nWith poverty levels reaching 70% and malnutrition affecting 25% of Palestinian children, there simply is not the time to wait for development aid. There is still an ongoing emergency in the West Bank and Gaza, and UNRWA urgently needs the funds to ease the worst of its effects.\nKaren Koning AbuZayd is the deputy commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.\nAfghanistan\tIraq\tIsrael\tUnited States","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Saltar's Point Press\nSharon L. Jansen\nReading Women's Worlds\nThe Monstrous Regiment of Women\nDebating Women, Politics, and Power\nAnne of France: Lessons for My Daughter\nDangerous Talk and Strange Behavior\nPolitical Protest & Prophecy\/The Welles Anthology\nEssays on Women, Food, and Family\nEssays on Gender and Popular Culture\nEssays on Teaching and Writing\nEssays on Women and Politics\nSerious Proposal Introduction\nSerious Proposal Contents\nSome Reflections Contents\nThe Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe\nNow Available in a New Paperback Edition\nOriginally published in 2002, The Monstrous Regiment of Women is now available in an affordable new paperback edition.\nWhen Mary Tudor became queen of England, the succession of a woman to the throne horrified many, including the Protestant reformer John Knox. His blistering condemnation of female rule, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, was followed in print by a series of pamphlets that echoed and expanded his argument that female rule was unnatural, unlawful, and contrary to scripture.\nIn a variation on Knox's \"monstrous regiment,\" The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe contributes to the debate about women and political power, exploring the relationship among the many women whose lives occupy a place in and perpetuate a continuing, though largely unrecognized, tradition of political rule. The \"story\" of early modern European political history looks very different if we focus on successive generations of powerful women and view the shifting political alliances of the period from their perspective.\n\". . . this counternarrative unveils a shrouded history that is enjoyable, thoughtful, and definitely worth the read. Highly recommended.\" \u2013American Library Association, Choice Reviews\n\"Jansen's book is readable and informative. . . . [It] will stimulate students to investigate further the nature of female rule and encourage historians to incorporate the stories of powerful women in their political narratives.\"\u2014Susan Doran, Journal of Early Modern History\n\". . .A superb book, an incredible array of connections, an amazingly new history of the Renaissance.\" --Elizabeth Mazzola, The City College of New York\nClick here to purchase at Amazon.com or to Search Inside.\nThe Monstrous Regiment of Women is now part of the new Queenship and Power series, edited by Carole Levin and Charles Beem. From the publisher: \"This series brings together monographs and edited volumes from scholars specializing in gender analysis, women's studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens\u2014both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents\u2014pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. . . .\"\nClick here to learn more about the Queenship and Power Series from Palgrave Macmillan.\nThe Monstrous Regiment of Women is still available in its original hardbound edition.\nClick here to purchase the hardbound edition of The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe or to Search Inside.\nSharon | 1 Comment | Share Article\nReader Comments (1)\nWhat an incredible book! I am a teacher of English and History with a long standing passion for the lives of Europe's royal women, and I have read around the subject widely. Yet never have I encountered a book that gave such clearly structured and coherent insightful voice to the observations I have clumsily made over the course of the years (with of course many insights and astute observations I have lacked the ability to form). Furthermore, what a relief to find a scholarly and academic work that relies on its own merit rather than unnecessarily pretentious and dense prose in order to convey its arguments. I am completely inspired to order and read your other books - if they are half as worthwhile as this one I will not be disappointed.\nSeptember 10, 2011 | Arina Bosch\nCopyright \u00a9 2014-, Sharon L. Jansen. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Subtitle My First Stephen Hawking\nMaria Isabel Sanchez Vegara\nThis board book version of Stephen Hawking \u2013 from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series \u2013 introduces the youngest dreamers to the incredible life of this genius physicist and author.\nWhen Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. It also led him to make one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20th century: Hawking radiation. Babies and toddlers will love to snuggle as you read to them the engaging story of this fascinating educator and innovator, and will also enjoy exploring the stylish and quirky illustrations of this sturdy board book on their own.\nLittle People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.\nThis empowering series offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardback versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children.\nGo To Subject Area Kids & Teens\nGo To Category Nonfiction\nSeries Little People, BIG DREAMS\nFormat Board Book 24 Pages\nPublished Date February 4th, 2020\nGo To Imprint Frances Lincoln Children's Books\nMatt Hunt\nMatt Hunt is a freelance illustrator living and working in Worcestershire, UK. He works in the world of children's illustration and loves to draw pretty much anything. His clients include Penguin Random House and Walker Books.\nAuthor By Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara\nBuild Your Own Chain Reaction Machines\nAuthor By Mr. Paul Long\nLittle People, BIG DREAMS: Women in Science\nBoy oh Boy\nAuthor By Cliff Leek\nEnergy Lab for Kids\nAuthor By Emily Hawbaker","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Idaho bill won't require gender considerations in state contracts\nKelcie Moseley-Morris\nA bill that would allow contractors in Idaho to disregard a federal executive order barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for certain projects was introduced in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Monday morning.\nSen. Scott Herndon, R-Sagle, sponsored Senate Bill 1003. He explained that former President Barack Obama amended an executive order in 2014 to include sexual orientation and gender identity as factors that could not be discriminated against or granted preferential treatment in federal contracting, along with race, color, religion, sex or national origin.\n\"The net effect is that public works contractors in my district and probably in your own are being asked to sign contracts \u2026 wherein they guarantee that they will not segregate the multi-use restroom facilities or locker facilities for their employees based on gender identity or sexual orientation, or any of the other items listed in the Civil Rights Act,\" Herndon said. \"They are affirming that they would allow a biological male who identifies as a woman to use biological female restroom facilities or changing facilities.\"\nBecause the Idaho Legislature can't change federal law, Herndon's bill would allow projects that only use state and local funding to disregard that provision of contracting and not provide access to multiple-occupancy restrooms, shower facilities or changing rooms on any basis other than biological sex. The bill defines biological sex as the physical condition of being male or female as stated on a birth certificate.\n\"It's not testing someone's biological sex, it's not talking about their claims of gender identity, it's simply saying we're not going to require our public works contractors \u2026 to include this provision regarding segregated facilities on that basis,\" Herndon said.\nSen. Mark Harris, R-Soda Springs, voted to introduce the bill in committee, and no senators dissented. The bill could receive a full hearing in the coming weeks of the session.\nFiled Under: idaho, Out West","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Astronomers confront massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*\nby National Science Foundation\nFour distant stars orbit a black hole 4.3 million times bigger than the sun. Credit: International Gemini Observatory \/ NOIRLab \/ NSF \/ AURA \/ J. da Silva \/( Spaceengine); M. Zamani (NSF's NOIRLab)\nAt the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole, 4.3 million times bigger than the sun, known as Sagittarius A*. Until recently, it was not clear how much of the matter at the heart of the galaxy was Sagittarius A*. Astronomers measured the velocities of four distant stars around the black hole. The movement of the stars indicates the mass at the galaxy's center is composed almost entirely of matter from Sagittarius A*, leaving little room for stars, other black holes, interstellar dust and gas, or dark matter.\n\"The Gemini observatories continue to deliver new insights into the nature of our galaxy and the enormous black hole at its center,\" said Martin Still, Gemini program officer at the U.S. National Science Foundation. \"Further instrument development during the next decade intended for broad use will maintain Gemini's leadership in the characterization of the universe around us.\"\nThe team conducted the research at Gemini North in Hawaii, part of the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NOIRLab funded by NSF. The survey involved using spectroscopy from the Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph to measure the velocity of the stars and the SINFONI instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to map the movement of the stars. Using the data from their observations, the team inferred that Sagittarius A* contains 99.9% of the mass at the galactic center.\nThe next step for astronomers is to learn what remains hidden in the center of the Milky Way. What fills the space that Sagittarius A* hasn't claimed for itself? More will be revealed when astronomers measure fainter, more distant stars with even greater precision.\nWatch stars move around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in deepest images yet\nProvided by National Science Foundation\nCitation: Astronomers confront massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (2022, January 13) retrieved 20 January 2022 from https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-01-astronomers-massive-black-hole-heart.html\nThe James Webb Space Telescope\nBalmer Absorption Examples\nIs the animation\/graphics for NASA's Webb telescope in error?\nBonnar-Ebert model\nGaia vs DESI star map\nPhysics of optical sensors?\nMore from Astronomy and Astrophysics\nBlack hole in the center of the Milky Way unpredictable in the long term\nWhat if the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is actually a mass of dark matter?\nBlack hole at center of Milky Way unpredictable and chaotic\nGemini South telescope captures image of Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula\nDiscovery of the least 'metallic' stellar structure in the Milky Way\nAstronomers find star fuel surrounding galaxies\nActive galactic nucleus in NGC 2992 explored by researchers\nUncovering evidence for an internal ocean in small Saturn moon\nGalaxy evolution: A cosmic romance written in the stars","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Click to view print option\nIntegra Centro de Negocios\nThe new Integra Business Center is located in Pereira, a mountainous city in the coffee-growing region of western Colombia. Situated just three blocks from the commercial area of Circunvalar Avenue, the company's office building is ideally located in the center of town near to public transportation options and services for employees. The six-story building contains 27 offices and features modern design and green features. The building is surrounded by trees and has patios on each floor to allow employees to enjoy a natural environment while at work.\nDeveloped by Contecho S.A.S, Integra's office building has many green features that allow it to minimize operating costs and maintain the owner's commitment to sustainability. Integra's commitment to sustainability extends beyond its decision to operate in a green office building. As a mass transportation provider to the city of Pereira, the company ensures its vehicles are green, including its Megabus fleet of busses.\nContecho S.A.S is a real estate company that builds homes, offices and warehouses in the Pereira area. The company first formed in 1996, when it specialized in roof and deck construction, but has since expanded to providing building and construction management services for larger projects, such as Integra's office building. The Integra Business Center has received a preliminary EDGE certificate from CAMACOL.\nPredicted Savings of EDGE Certification\nEnergy Savings*\nLess Embodied Energy in Materials\nReduced window to wall ratio, external shading devices and energy-saving lighting.\nLow-flow faucets in bathrooms, dual flush water closets and water-efficient kitchen faucets.\nComposite slim slabs with steel I-Beams for flooring and roof construction, steel-clad sandwich panel for the roof, cement fibre boards on metal studs and honeycomb clay blocks with internal and external plaster for external walls, and plasterboards on metal studs and medium weight hollow concrete blocks for internal walls.\n*Part of the energy efficiency percentage may be associated with virtual energy for comfort depending on the presence of heating and cooling systems. Note that virtual energy does not contribute savings to utility bills.\nCalle 13 No. 15-53\nPereira, Risaralda 66003 Colombia\ncontecho.pagegear.co\nStage:\nPreliminary EDGE Certificate\nFloor Space:\n3,672 m2\nTotal CO2 Savings:\n29.82 tCO2\/Year","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posts tagged \"melisma\"\nSeminal Video: Vision of Love\nLike any sane person infected with collective panicrity, I searched for Whitney Houston on Youtube. There's a sobering quality to her mourning, actually. Some of us celebrated Michael Jackson's with a morbid dance party, Amy Winehouse's made us energetically growl.\nI'm not saying there's no energy in Houston's songs \u2013 at her peak, her windpipe can power a small, hippie European country. Besides, during the night when the news spread of her death, the gay clubs reportedly only played \"I Wanna Dance With Somebody\" and moved on because what other choice did they have? And she's one of the cases where drug use or mental duress doesn't cause productivity so her creative output and her troubles were separate. And in her early years she had the most amazing power ballads, making us react in different ways. We could be annoyed at their ubiquity and dated-ness, we could sing them off-key with a bit of humour. Her lyrics might have told us something about the loss of love but they equally celebrated it. And although I'm proud that I'm known as a sap within my new circle of friends, I could never cry to her songs because they weren't downbeat enough. That's also partly because \"I Will Always Love You\" came out when I was five which was too young for me to realize 'influential' and stuff like that.\nOne the latter sections of Houston's page contained a link to another about 'melisma.' What is that, some sort of disease that afflicted her as a child\/this year? No. According to Wikipedia, it's 'the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession.' Anyway, melisma \u2013 click, Mariah Carey's Vision of Love and it's apparently unfortunate influence on the vocal stylings of the American Idol generation \u2013 click, random girls covering the song and sounding so good it has to be auto tune, click \u2013 the official music video, click. Which made me think that was a Rene Magritte music video. The tan walls, the candelabra, the tree in the background that might as well be floating on air. Maybe it's the spare quality of the visuals that make them seem like they don't add up. That video is exactly why I need to sleep now.\nFebruary 19, 2012 | Categories: Music | Tags: 1990, Bojan Bazelli, Mariah Carey, melisma, Tommy Mottola, Whitney Houston | 3 Comments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MOL Backs Floating Carbon Storage Project off Australia\nIllustration courtesy deepC Store\nPublished Sep 13, 2022 3:51 PM by The Maritime Executive\nMOL has decided to back an ambitious project to install a floating offshore carbon storage station of the coast of Australia.\nJapanese startup deepC Store wants to build a floating storage and injection hub off the northern or western coast of Australia, where there are multiple industrial operations that might benefit from carbon capture projects. Like Norway's Northern Lights project, the \"CStore1\" hub would be able to receive liquefied CO2 from multiple producers by seaborne delivery. The carbon would be offloaded onto a floating receiving unit for storage before injection, much like the operations of an FPSO in reverse.\nThe CO2 would ultimately be injected in a subsurface geological formation near the hub. Planned CO2 injection capacity is between 1.5 and 7.5 million tonnes per year, making it approximately the same size as the Northern Lights project.\nThe Australian government has provided an initial tranche of about $3.5 million in seed funding for CStore1, which will go towards pre-FEED engineering studies and an evaluation of the best potential sites for injection. Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has identified many depleted offshore oilfields and aquifers with potential for commercial-scale CCS projects.\nIn a newly-announced LOI, deepC has reached a deal with MOL and Technip Energies (T.EN) for pre-FEED, FEED, EPCI and O&M services related to the project's planning and construction. Technip will design, build and install the plant, while MOL will advise on shipping considerations.\n\"The LOI with MOL and T.EN ensures technical confidence to develop CStore1 as the first offshore floating CCS hub project in Asia Pacific region,\" said Jack Sato, Chairman of deepC Store.\nIn a similar venture, the startup Carbon Collectors is working with mooring specialists Imodco (SBM Offshore) to design a weathervaning carbon receiving terminal for use in the North Sea.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"E15.cz \u2013 AGRO CS acquired peat bogs in Belarus and increased its sales to almost two billion CZK\nAgro CS, based in \u010cesk\u00e1 Skalice near N\u00e1chod, a leading Czech producer of garden substrates, grass seed mixes and fertilizers, increased its sales last year by nine percent to 1.8 billion CZK. The company also acquired a large peat bog in Belarus and its production thus became fully self-sufficient.\nThe entire AGRO CS Group, i.e. all 18 companies from Central and Eastern Europe, achieved a turnover exceeding 2.5 billion CZK last year. The group employs about 700 people, of which 233 work at AGRO CS. Besides peat mining and processing, the company also focuses on production of substrates, fertilizers, seeds, as well as on cultivation of professional turf, services for agricultural companies, engineering production, primary agricultural production, maintenance of golf courses, and operation of its own biogas station. The company supplies substrates and fertilizers to all leading retail chains and garden centres in the Czech Republic.\nLast year, AGRO acquired a Belarusian peat mining and processing company. The mining licence should last for over thirty years.\n\"The new Skuraty peat bog is exceptionally compact and homogenous. It consists of several blocks, which will be gradually mined in order to maintain the quality of the product. The peat from the currently mined block is of the highest quality of the A category, so-called white peat,\" explained production manager David Mic\u00e1k. The peat layer on the new site ranges from 1.5 metres on its edges to 6.5 metres in the central part. Intensive mining extracts about one-metre layer per year from this particular peat bog.\nSources in Lithuania\nThe company plans to mine 75 \u2013 1000 cubic metres of peat from the new bog in 2016, which is about thirty to forty percent of amount annually consumed by the company's production plants. \"We will cover the rest of our needs from other sources in Lithuania. We are fully self-sufficient, covering our peat consumption for twenty years minimum,\" added Mic\u00e1k.\nAGRO CS acquired one other last year \u2013 Engelmann Czech s.r.o., which manages and maintains seven large golf courses in the Czech Republic. In the area of professional turf, AGRO CS annually supplies over 20 hectares of professional turf sod, which are produced on an area of 35 hectares. The company delivers professional turf solutions to most major league clubs in the country.\nSource: http:\/\/zpravy.e15.cz\/byznys\/zemedelstvi\/agro-cs-koupila-beloruska-raseliniste-zvysila-trzby-skoro-na-dve-miliardy-1277313\nCentre Smi\u0159ice\nLoose materials storage.\nNear Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 \u2013 easy to reach for small landscaping projects.\nPotting substrates, plant growing substrate mixes, bark chip mulch.\nThe most popular fertilizers and grass-seed mixtures always in stock.\nGardenboom\nAre you dreaming of the perfect lawn? Your dreams of a beautiful garden will come true easily with our Garden Boom range.\nRecommended by landscape architects and garden professionals\nLawn Rugs\nPerfect lawn in 24 hours.\nYear-round installation.\nGrown by experts.\nAGRO CS\nGrowing substrates, mineral, organic, liquid and crystal organomineral fertilizers, grass-seed mixtures, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and other plant protection agents, mulching bark, wood chip mulch, original Kristalon fertilizers, several types of professional turf, full range of products for environment-friendly gardening.\nAGRO CS a. s.\n\u010d. p. 265\n552 03 \u0158\u00edkov\ninfo@agroprofi.cz\nTo provide you a great experience and for certain functions, we use so-called cookies \ud83c\udf6a. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. For more info and a full list of cookies we use go to our","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Force At Work >\nView Upcoming Events >\nSee Our Resources >\nAmerican Freedom Foundation honors, serves and supports Veterans, military service members, and their families. We aim to help their transition to the civilian workforce through partnerships with military focused organizations.\nAmerican Freedom Foundation offers several resources and partners that help Veterans and their families. Warriors To The Workforce hiring events have helped thousands find civilian employment opportunities. Scholarships valued in excess of $9.2 million have been awarded to date to dependents through the AFF\/Kaplan University Military Family Scholarship Program. The AFF concert series has raised $1.5 million for organizations that directly serve and support our Veterans and their families.\nVeterans Stories\nMeet a few brave Veterans and their families who have made successful transitions to civilian life. See first-hand how AFF resources have had an impact in their story.\nSergeant, Marine Corps\nKendra Villalpando\nNavy Spouse\nRaphael Harris\nSergeant E5, Marine Corps\nWarriors To The Workforce is part of the American Freedom Foundation's nationwide initiative to help our Veterans, transitioning military service members and military spouses find meaningful employment. The event brings together major companies from throughout the country to profile their services and provide employment opportunities for our attendees. Attendees have the chance to talk with employers, submit qualifications, participate in job interviews, have their resumes reviewed and participate in a rotating schedule of professional development workshops led by subject matter experts on transition from military to civilian life. Attendance is free to all military and military families.\nWarriors To The Workforce Huntsville\nCompanies from across the country will profile their services and provide employment opportunities for our Veterans, transitioning service members and military spouses. Held at the Von Braun Center - East Hall #1 in Huntsville, AL in conjunction with the 2019 SMD Symposium.\nWarriors To The Workforce San Antonio\nSan Antonio, TX August 28, 2019\nCompanies from across the country will profile their services and provide employment opportunities for our Veterans, transitioning service members and military spouses. Held at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, TX in conjunction with the Air Force Sergeants Association's (AFSA) 2019 International Convention and Professional Airmen's Conference.\nWarriors To The Workforce\nWashington, DC. October 14 - 16, 2019\nMajor companies from across the country will profile their services and provide employment opportunities for our Veterans, transitioning service members and military spouses. Held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC in conjunction with the AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition 2019.\nWe are one of many\nThere are many partners dedicated to serving those who have served. We are proud to recognize and thank our charitable partners for their ongoing support, assistance and commitment.\nThe US Sending More Marines To Protect Its Embassies As The Middle East Explodes\nExtra Marine Corps security guards have been deployed to U.S. diplomatic posts in light of the protests that have followed President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a Marine Corps official confirmed on Monday.\nTrump Is Eyeing This Double-Amputee Army Veteran To Lead The VA\nPresident Donald Trump is considering Palm City Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Mast for the position of Veterans Affairs secretary, a position still vacant after White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson withdrew his controversial nomination for the post last month.\nIn a statement released Thursday afternoon, Mast said, \"It is an honor to be considered to serve my fellow veterans and their families at the highest possible level.\"\n4 Soldiers Fought To Their Deaths In Niger Ambush, Pentagon Now Says\nStaff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, and Sgt. La David T. Johnson died after their convoy was ambushed by a large force of ISIS fighters, which \"began to envelop\" the U.S. and Nigerien troops near the village of Tongo, according to a new unclassified Pentagon summary of the investigation into the Oct. 4, 2017, ambush in Niger.\nEnlist in the Fight for Veterans\nWe welcome all willing to join us in helping make a difference in the lives of Veterans, military service members, and their families.\nThose who stand with us\nShopping on Amazon and Ebay can benefit the AFF. By using the following links, a percentage of your total amount will be donated directly to the American Freedom Foundation at no extra charge. Thanks for your support.\nSee why the AFF has been recognized as one of the top charities in America.\nSubmit your email for American Freedom Foundation Updates\n\u00a92019 American Freedom Foundation\nConnect with AFF","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Explosions in the Sky: Epic Gorgeousness Aweing the UK this May\nby Sean Adams March 8th, 2004\nA tour for fans of Tortoise, Sigur Ros, Godspeed, A Silver Mount Zion, Mogwai, etc...\nThere's something about the current undercurrent of art-rock that is truly special, not just because its beautiful but because with the sound exploration follow your emotions. And because it winds with symphonies. Breathless. Acheing. Captivating. Etc. You don't need to be a time-signature obsessive muso to come along for the ride.\nEarlier this year Explosions in the Sky came over to the UK from Austin, Texas and left a trail of breathless indie kids in their wake, after two rammed shows, one at the Camden Barfly show and the other blasting the ICA on the Mall into another dimension. The good news is, those not so in the know, get to see the band when they come back for ATP at the start of April and then return to tour throughout May, including a big ole headline in London at the Electric Ballroom.\nThursday 29 April Norwich Arts Centre\nFriday 30 April London The Coronet (with Four Tet, Papa M, Manitoba, Matthew Dear, Fennesz, Dabrye, Soul Jazz Sound System, Warp DJs etc...)\nSaturday 1 May Glasgow The Tramway (Triptych Festival)\nSunday 2 May Edinburgh The Venue (Triptych Festival)\nMonday 3 May Sunderland Bar 36\nTuesday 4 May Sheffield Leadmill\nWednesday 5 May Oxford Zodiac\nThursday 6 May Manchester Academy 3\nMonday 10 May Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms\nTuesday 11 May London Electric Ballroom\nSupports for these shows are still to be confirmed.\nEITS have released the following 3 albums: 'How Strange, Innocence' (2000), 'Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever' (2001) and 'The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place' (2003), read our review of the latter where we gave it 4.5\/5 here.\nDiScuss: What other bands similar to EITS have people-in-the-know been wow'ed by recently? Is post-rock utterly pretentious? Where does the boundary of art-rock end and post-rock begin? Ain't genre's sickening?\nSonic Youth - Nurse\nThe Postal Service - Give Up\nNo Surprises? 15 Classic Albums of 15 Years Ago\nAnother band dies at the discotheque: DiS remem...\nDiScover: Wolf Alice\nSave Drowned in Sound\nColdplay - Ghost Stories\nDiS Launches New Radio Show","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The top 12 password-cracking techniques used by hackers\nSome of the most common, and most effective methods for stealing passwords\nby: Dale Walker\nFor many years, passwords were considered to be an acceptable form of protecting one's privacy when it came to the digital world. However, as cryptography and biometrics started to become more widely available to the public, the flaws in this simple method of authentication became more noticeable.\nThe best passwords are the ones you can't remember\nIf not passwords then what?\nIt's worth taking into account the role of a leaked password in one of the biggest cyber security stories of the last two years, the SolarWinds hack. It was revealed that 'solarwinds123', a password created and leaked by an intern, had been publicly accessible through a private GitHub repository since June 2018, enabling hackers to plan and carry out the massive supply chain attack. Despite this, even if the password hadn't been leaked, it wouldn't have been hard for attackers to guess it. In the words of US politician Katie Porter, most parents utilise a stronger password to stop their children from \"watching too much YouTube on their iPad\".\nPasswords that are weak or easy to guess are more common than you might expect: recent findings from the NCSC found that around one in six people uses the names of their pets as their passwords, making them highly predictable. To make matters worse, these passwords tend to be reused across multiple sites, with one in three people (32%) having the same password to access different accounts.\nIt should come as no surprise that passwords are the worst nightmare of a cyber security expert. To remedy this issue, there are steps worth taking, like implementing robust multi-layer authentication. It is also worthwhile mitigating risks to consider the steps cyber criminals must take to hack your account and \"know your enemy\". We've put together the top 12 password-cracking techniques used by attackers to enable you and your business to be better prepared.\n12 password-cracking techniques used by hackers:\n1. Phishing\nPerhaps the most commonly-used hacking technique today, phishing is the practice of attempting to steal user information by disguising malicious content as a trustworthy communication. Although the term is generally associated with email, and there are terms to describe other mediums - such as 'smishing' (SMS phishing) - phishing can occur across any type of electronic communication.\nPreparing for AI-enabled cyber attacks\nMIT technology review insights\nThe typical tactic is to trick a user into clicking on an embedded link or downloading an attachment. Instead of being directed to a helpful resource, a malicious file is downloaded and executed on the user's machine. What happens next depends entirely on the malware being executed \u2013 some may encrypt files and prevent the user from accessing the machine, while others may attempt to stay hidden in order to act as a backdoor for other malware.\nAs computer literacy has improved over the years, and as users have grown accustomed to online threats, phishing techniques have had to become more sophisticated. Today's phishing usually involves some form of social engineering, where the message will appear to have been sent from a legitimate, often well-known company, informing their customers that they need to take action of some kind. Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook are often used for this purpose, as it's highly likely that the victim will have an account associated with these brands.\nThe days of emails from supposed princes in Nigeria looking for an heir, or firms acting on behalf of wealthy deceased relatives, are few and far between these days, although you can still find the odd, wildly extravagant, claim here and there.\nOur recent favourite is the case of the first Nigerian astronaut who is unfortunately lost in space and needs us to act as a man in the middle for a $3 million dollar transfer to the Russian Space Agency \u2013 which apparently does return flights.\n2. Social engineering\nSpeaking of social engineering, this typically refers to the process of tricking users into believing the hacker is a legitimate agent. A common tactic is for hackers to call a victim and pose as technical support, asking for things like network access passwords in order to provide assistance. This can be just as effective if done in person, using a fake uniform and credentials, although that's far less common these days.\nSuccessful social engineering attacks can be incredibly convincing and highly lucrative, as was the case when the CEO of a UK-based energy company lost \u00a3201,000 to hackers after they tricked him with an AI tool that mimicked his assistant's voice.\n3. Malware\nKeyloggers, screen scrapers, and a host of other malicious tools all fall under the umbrella of malware, malicious software designed to steal personal data. Alongside highly disruptive malicious software like ransomware, which attempts to block access to an entire system, there are also highly specialised malware families that target passwords specifically.\nKeyloggers, and their ilk, record a user's activity, whether that's through keystrokes or screenshots, which is all then shared with a hacker. Some malware will even proactively hunt through a user's system for password dictionaries or data associated with web browsers.\n4. Brute force attack\nBrute force attacks refer to a number of different methods of hacking that all involve guessing passwords in order to access a system.\nA simple example of a brute force attack would be a hacker simply guessing a person's password based on relevant clues, however, they can be more sophisticated than that. Credential recycling, for example, relies on the fact that many people reuse their passwords, some of which will have been exposed by previous data breaches. Reverse brute force attacks involve hackers taking some of the most commonly used passwords and attempting to guess associated usernames.\nMost brute force attacks employ some sort of automated processing, allowing vast quantities of passwords to be fed into a system.\n5. Dictionary attack\nThe dictionary attack is a slightly more sophisticated example of a brute force attack.\nThis uses an automated process of feeding a list of commonly-used passwords and phrases into a computer system until something fits. Most dictionaries will be made up of credentials gained from previous hacks, although they will also contain the most common passwords and word combinations.\nThis technique takes advantage of the fact that many people will use memorable phrases as passwords, which are usually whole words stuck together. This is largely the reason why systems will urge the use of multiple character types when creating a password.\n6. Mask attack\nWhere dictionary attacks use lists of all possible phrase and word combinations, mask attacks are far more specific in their scope, often refining guesses based on characters or numbers \u2013 usually founded in existing knowledge.\nFor example, if a hacker is aware that a password begins with a number, they will be able to tailor the mask to only try those types of passwords. Password length, the arrangement of characters, whether special characters are included, or how many times a single character is repeated are just some of the criteria that can be used to configure the mask.\nThe goal here is to drastically reduce the time it takes to crack a password, and remove any unnecessary processing.\n7. Rainbow table attack\nWhenever a password is stored on a system, it's typically encrypted using a 'hash', or a cryptographic alias, making it impossible to determine the original password without the corresponding hash. In order to bypass this, hackers maintain and share directories that record passwords and their corresponding hashes, often built from previous hacks, reducing the time it takes to break into a system (used in brute force attacks).\nRainbow tables go one step further, as rather than simply providing a password and its hash, these store a precompiled list of all possible plain text versions of encrypted passwords based on a hash algorithm. Hackers are then able to compare these listings with any encrypted passwords they discover in a company's system.\nMuch of the computation is done before the attack takes place, making it far easier and quicker to launch an attack, compared to other methods. The downside for cyber criminals is that the sheer volume of possible combinations means rainbow tables can be enormous, often hundreds of gigabytes in size.\n8. Network analysers\nNetwork analysers are tools that allow hackers to monitor and intercept data packets sent over a network and lift the plain text passwords contained within.\nSuch an attack requires the use of malware or physical access to a network switch, but it can prove highly effective. It doesn't rely on exploiting a system vulnerability or network bug, and as such is applicable to most internal networks. It's also common to use network analysers as part of the first phase of an attack, followed up with brute force attacks.\nOf course, businesses can use these same tools to scan their own networks, which can be especially useful for running diagnostics or for troubleshooting. Using a network analyser, admins can spot what information is being transmitted in plain text, and put policies in place to prevent this from happening.\nThe only way to prevent this attack is to secure the traffic by routing it through a VPN or something similar.\n9. Spidering\nSpidering refers to the process of hackers getting to know their targets intimately in order to acquire credentials based on their activity. The process is very similar to techniques used in phishing and social engineering attacks, but involves a far greater amount of legwork on the part of the hacker - although it's generally more successful as a result.\nHow a hacker might use spidering will depend on the target. For example, if the target is a large company, hackers may attempt to source internal documentation, such as handbooks for new starters, in order to get a sense of the sort of platforms and security the target uses. It's in these that you often find guides on how to access certain services, or notes on office Wi-Fi usage.\nIt's often the case that companies will use passwords that relate to their business activity or branding in some way - mainly because it makes it easier for employees to remember. Hackers are able to exploit this by studying the products that a business creates in order to build a hitlist of possible word combinations, which can be used to support a brute force attack.\nAs is the case with many other techniques on this list, the process of spidering is normally supported by automation.\n10. Offline cracking\nIt's important to remember that not all hacking takes place over an internet connection. In fact, most of the work takes place offline, particularly as most systems place limits on the number of guesses allowed before an account is locked.\nOffline hacking usually involves the process of decrypting passwords by using a list of hashes likely taken from a recent data breach. Without the threat of detection or password form restrictions, hackers are able to take their time.\nOf course, this can only be done once an initial attack has been successfully launched, whether that's a hacker gaining elevated privileges and accessing a database, by using a SQL injection attack, or by stumbling upon an unprotected server.\n11. Shoulder surfing\nYou might think the idea of someone looking over your shoulder to see your password is a product of Hollywood, but this is a genuine threat, even in 2020.\nBrazen examples of this include hackers disguising themselves in order to gain access to company sites and, quite literally, look over the shoulders of employees to grab sensitive documents and passwords. Smaller businesses are perhaps most at risk of this, given that they're unable to police their sites as effectively as a larger organisation.\nSecurity experts recently warned of a vulnerability in the authentication process used by WhatsApp. Users trying to use WhatsApp on a new device must first enter a unique code that's sent via a text message, which can be used to restore a user's account and chat history from a backup. It was found that if a hacker was able to obtain a user's phone number, they are able to download the app to a clean device and issue a prompt for a new code, which, if they are in spying distance, they could copy as it arrives on the user's own device.\n12. Guess\nIf all else fails, a hacker can always try and guess your password. While there are many password managers available that create strings that are impossible to guess, many users still rely on memorable phrases. These are often based on hobbies, pets, or family, much of which is often contained in the very profile pages that the password is trying to protect.\nThe best way to remove this as a potential avenue for criminals is to maintain password hygiene and make use of password managers, many of which are free.\nShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare via Email\nHow virtual desktop infrastructure enables digital transformation\nChallenges and benefits of VDI\nThe Okta digital trust index\nExploring the human edge of trust\nOptimising workload placement in your hybrid cloud\nDeliver increased IT agility with the cloud\nModernise endpoint protection and leave your legacy challenges behind\nThe risk of keeping your legacy endpoint security tools\nRussia's \"politically motivated\" REvil raid could be used as leverage, experts warn\nMeta files lawsuit to uncover hackers targeting Facebook, WhatsApp\nFive things to consider before choosing an MFA solution\nAustralia and US sign CLOUD Act data-sharing deal to support criminal investigations\nHow to move Microsoft's Windows 11 from a hard drive to an SSD\nMicrosoft Exchange servers break thanks to 'Y2K22' bug\nSynology DiskStation DS2422+ review: A cube of great capacity","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Effort: 5 - 8 hours\nCategory: Technology and Project Management\nLevel: All levels - Mid-Career\nOur Digital Citizenship course will give your participants the guidance needed in the ever-changing digital world. As our lives are lived more and more online we all need to translate our social skills into the virtual world. Digital Citizenship allows us to connect, collaborate, and share by using technology appropriately. In person, meetings are on the decline which makes it necessary to engage people digitally. Being a good digital citizen means you have a set of skills to work in the digital world.\nThose looking to learn about Digital and Online use of technology in business.\nThose looking to understand the world of Digital in the environment.\nDefine digital citizenship.\nUse technology appropriately.\nUse social networking to create your brand.\nProtect your reputation online.\nPractice safe use of technology.\nUnderstand digital etiquette.\nWhat Is Digital Citizenship?\nWhat's in it for me: Learn about what Digital Citizenship is and the constant change in digital movements. Engage others and develop the community in Digital.\nBeing a Good Citizen\nWhat's in it for me: What is building up a Good Citizen? Develop skills to built up good citizenship and explore real-world influencers. Learn to use Technology appropriately and the key to the Golden Rule.\nBest Practices for Sharing\nWhat's in it for me: We discuss the best practices in building a digital footprint and the effects on personal and work lives. Gain the learning of what to share and what not to share.\nNetworking and Personal Branding\nWhat's in it for me: Networking & Branding is important in the world of Digital \u2013 Learn about personal branding and social networking and the role of branding as to how the world sees you through Digital exposure.\nNetworking and Your Community\nWhat's in it for me: This session focuses on introducing colleagues and developing a community to work and help others. We look into Blogging and how to guard your reputation.\nDigital Security & Trust\nWhat's in it for me: Digital security is the top priority these days. We focus on the importance of understanding trust in digital and the 2 step verification, the risks with Public Wifi and public computers and how to manage it.\nDigital Security and Safety\nWhat's in it for me: We go further in Digital Security in email and password rules. Learn about the importance and details of back up roles.\nDealing with the Dark side\nWhat's in it for me: Understand how to deal with the negative aspects, what to do when you see uneasy events, deal with bullying and harassment on the digital world, and managing information to retract.\nDigital Etiquette (I)\nWhat's in it for me: Learn about the right etiquette in the digital world, the respect and tone in digital information and topics to avoid.\nDigital Etiquette (II)\nWhat's in it for me: Educate yourself on information processing and internet boldness. Look for permission to share and deal with responses.\nOther courses in Technology and Project Management\nLean Process and Six Sigma\nVirtual Team Building and Management","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"South Whiteness Fibre\nSouth Whiteness\nShetland community is region's top spot for full fibre broadband take-up\nTiny peninsula tops the chart for full fibre take up\nSouth Whiteness is a small community of homes dotted along an idyllic three mile peninsula, a few miles north-west of the Shetland capital Lerwick. With a local school and facilities in Whiteness village, and stunning views across Stromness Voe and Whiteness Voe, it's hardly surprising that it has attracted a range of residents keen to call it home.\nOne aspect of life was trickier for those living there - and that was broadband connectivity. With historic speeds of around 1Mbps download, using mainstream internet for day to day family or business activities was a struggle.\nSo it was a huge relief when near the start of lockdown, the Digital Scotland project laid a fibre optic cable, bringing with it an opportunity for gigabit technology. Local residents who include young families, business folk, teachers and public service workers have jumped at the chance to order. More than 75% of local homes on the Shetland West service have taken it, currently the highest percentage of full fibre take up in the region.\nThe difference is like night and day. I'd say this is the most significant infrastructure investment for our community since the peninsula had water upgraded.\nCatherine Hughson, Councillor, Shetland West\nA few of the locals who are now taking advantage of full fibre connectivity\nCouncillor Catherine Hughson\nCatherine Hughson and her grand-daughter Florrie are pictured here with local Openreach engineer Jack Scobie. He's been a very welcome visitor to the area, socially distanced throughout the pandemic restrictions, connecting local homes to the new broadband services.\nFor Shetland West Councillor Catherine, who has lived in South Whiteness since 1974, better broadband for all island communities is an important issue for economic and social connectivity.\nIts arrival locally has made a huge difference personally. Previously, it was frustrating trying to take part in virtual Council meetings effectively, or downloading the wide range of information she receives. She's been grateful to have the new service during COVID-19 restrictions. As Executive Officer with Voluntary Action Shetland, it helped connect her with all the groups and volunteers as the community organised its response to the lockdown.\n\"Good broadband is vital in keeping people connected, and has allowed our community to keep working and studying from home. I've seen this first hand during the pandemic, including for my grand-daughter Florrie, who can now properly use online education platform 'Glow'. It's vital we continue to do all we can to find solutions for all rural homes and businesses,\" she said.\nThe Smith family in South Whiteness are the perfect advert for anyone thinking about making a life in Shetland. Indeed, having swapped the beaches north of Auckland for the peninsula in 2011, they feature on Shetland.org to help encourage others thinking of a future here.\nShetlander Ross Smith met his wife-to-be be Bronwyn in Scotland, and they moved to her native New Zealand, where Ross took up an opportunity to study Physiotherapy. After over five happy years there, the couple decided the future for their young family lay in Shetland.\nSpotting a gap in the Shetland market, they successfully set up Injury Shetland. With a business, four children and Bronwyn's additional work in teaching, the arrival of fibre broadband is a big deal.\nWhile the practice itself is based in Lerwick, as everyone who runs a business knows, there are a lot of tasks which fall outwith working hours. The new services have brought the busy family flexibility, particularly in the current climate - where working and schooling from home, as well as keeping in touch with colleagues, clients, friends and family is so important.\nLocal services champion welcomes full fibre broadband\nShetland born Harold Massie, who is a retired radio and telecommunications engineer, settled in beautiful South Whiteness when he built a new house here seven years ago.\nHarold is well known in the local community as a patient representative, and as former Chairman, of the NHS Public Partnership Forum. The Partnership is credited with bringing together patients, GPs, staff and management at the Lerwick Health Centre and across wider NHS Shetland to revamp the patient appointment system.\nWith his interest in telecoms, Harold spearheaded an investigation into a radio link network for the community in 2015, but he now has a high speed package with download speeds of up to 100Mbps. It's a far cry from the sub 1Mbps copper service he initially had, although more recently he had upped his speed using a 4G antenna at his home.\nIn addition to allowing him to stay in touch with his family in Canada and York, during the pandemic he has also managed social media accounts for the Shetland Public Engagement Network and Sound Dance Club.\nFind out more about full fibre broadband\nSouth Whiteness has 'Fibre to the Premises' technology. It's also known as Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband. It's the fastest, most reliable broadband as it runs on a pure fibre optic cable right to the home or business.\nFibre to the Premises\nWhat's next for broadband roll-out?\nSouth Whiteness' fibre has been delivered by the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband project. If you don't have superfast speeds yet don't worry. The Scottish Government's \u00a3600m Reaching 100% project is starting in the region soon.\nFind out more on Scotland Superfast\nIf the South Whiteness story has inspired you, find out how we can help you in the Highlands and Islands.\nWe're better connected than ever before. Find out about our \u00a3146m fibre roll-out programme.\nBroadband and digital infrastructure\nHighlands and Islands businesses and organisations can access specialist digital advice online.\nWhere Scotland meets Scandinavia and the North Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean. Island life in perfect balance.\nThe tiny island packing an ultrafast social and economic punch\nGrimsay","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"View A-Z\nHome > Executive Remuneration and Appointment Procedure\nStatus and Details\nAssociated Information\nHistoric Versions\nExecutive Remuneration and Appointment Procedure\nSection 1 - Purpose\nObjectives of Performance Based Remuneration\nSection 2 - Glossary\nSection 3 - Policy\nSection 4 - Procedures\nPart A - Roles and Responsibilities\nVice-Chancellor's Leadership Team Members\nSuccession Planning Committee of Council\nExecutive Director, Human Resources\nPart B - Appointment of Executive and Senior Managers\nRenewal or Non-Renewal of an Appointment\nPart C - Assessment of Probation\nPart D - Performance Management\nAnnual Performance Planning\nAnnual Performance Review\nPerformance Improvement Plan\nPart E - Remuneration\nAnnual Remuneration\nRemuneration on Appointment\nRemuneration Progression to the Mid-Point of a Level\nBonus Payments for Outstanding Performance\nAttraction\/Retention Allowances\nPart F - Reviews of Remuneration Progressions Decisions\nPart G - Flexible Salary Packaging\nPart H - Superannuation\nPart I - Resignation or Retirement\nSection 5 - Guidelines\nThis is the current version of this document. You can provide feedback on this policy to the document author - refer to the Status and Details on the document's navigation bar.\n(1) Through performance based remuneration (PBR) and performance management, Charles Sturt University (the University) aims to promote strong linkages between the University Strategy, performance management and remuneration.\n(2) The objectives of PBR and performance management are to:\nimprove organisational performance and capability by improving individual performance and capability;\nprovide the capacity to recognise and reward high performance or manage unsatisfactory performance;\nestablish clear linkages between the University Strategy , performance agreements and remuneration;\npromote greater supervisor involvement in the remuneration and objective setting process; and\nsupport the development of a performance based culture at Charles Sturt University (the University).\n(3) This Procedure applies to executive and senior managers employed at remuneration levels 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and above.\n(4) Nil.\n(5) This Procedure supports the Executive Remuneration and Appointment Policy and applies to both executive and senior managers of the University (also called 'employees' in this Procedure), except where specific reference is made to only one of these employee categories.\n(6) Probation and performance management require the employee and the supervisor to share responsibility for the planning and review of performance objectives and professional development. To this end, the employee actively participates in the setting of performance objectives and professional development activities, consistent with his\/her accountability statement and the priorities of the University.\n(7) The supervisor is the officer to whom the employee directly reports. In addition to being responsible for initiating and maintaining the remuneration review process, the supervisor:\nin conjunction with the employee, sets performance objectives and professional development activities;\nreviews and rates the performance of the employee in relation to accountabilities, performance objectives and the University<'s key objectives; and\nmakes a recommendation to the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member responsible for the portfolio on remuneration progression or non-progression, payment or non-payment of a performance bonus to the employee, retention or non-retention of a loading, confirmation or termination of a probationary appointment, and\/or the renewal or non-renewal of a fixed-term appointment.\n(8) The Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team comprises the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, Human Resources. Under this procedure each member of the SEC has responsibilities in relation to employees within their portfolio areas.\n(9) The SEC member's role in relation to performance based remuneration for employees within their portfolio is to:\nconsider advice from executive managers on the performance of organisational areas;\nconsider recommendations from supervisors on remuneration progression and performance bonus payments;\nrecommend to the Vice-Chancellor an appropriate percentage for remuneration progression and performance bonus payments for eligible managers; and\nreview decisions regarding remuneration progression as necessary. (See Part F in this Procedure.)\n(10) The Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member normally meets with the Vice-Chancellor and the Executive Director, Human Resources in June each year to consider remuneration progression and performance bonus recommendations for employees within their portfolio taking into account:\nthe executive or senior manager's achievements in the preceding 12 month review period;\nUniversity achievements in the preceding 12 months; and\nparity across all executive and senior managers.\n(11) The Vice-Chancellor is responsible for:\nconsidering recommendations from the supervisor and the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member;\nvarying performance ratings if considered necessary;\ndetermining the payment and amount of remuneration progression and\/or a performance bonus for eligible executive and senior managers;\ndetermining retention or non-retention of a loading; and\ndetermining the renewal or non-renewal of a fixed-term appointment.\n(12) The Executive Director, Human Resources (or nominee) advises each executive and senior manager in writing of the Vice-Chancellor's remuneration decision as soon as practicable after it has been made.\n(13) The Vice-Chancellor's decision is final and not subject to internal appeal or review.\n(14) The Succession Planning Committee of Council determines the remuneration of the Vice-Chancellor and, acting on the advice of the Vice-Chancellor, that of the Deputy Vice-Chancellors.\n(15) Acting on the advice of the Vice-Chancellor, the Succession Planning Committee of Council annually reviews the remuneration rates within the model.\n(16) The Executive Director, Human Resources is responsible for the overall management of the Executive Remuneration and Appointment Procedure and process including:\nadvice to senior managers on the operation of the remuneration model;\noversight of placement of positions and roles within the model;\nproviding data to assist the University to determine appropriate movement in the model;\nproviding advice to various SEC members in relation to remuneration within their portfolio roles;\nproviding advice to the Vice-Chancellor to inform determinations;\nproviding advice to the Succession Planning Committee of Council;\nadvising outcomes of the Vice-Chancellor's decisions regarding remuneration;\noversight of equity of the remuneration outcomes.\n(17) The Vice-Chancellor is responsible for the appointment and renewal of fixed-term appointments, the classification of new positions, and the reclassification of existing positions, for all positions covered by the five level remuneration model, unless otherwise provided for in the Delegations and Authorisations Policy .\n(18) A fixed-term appointment may be renewed at the discretion of the University for a period of up to five years. The process for the renewal or non-renewal of an appointment prior to the conclusion of the fixed-term appointment is as follows:\n(19) Normally not less than nine months prior to the expiration of a fixed-term appointment, the Executive Director, Human Resources (or nominee) writes to each executive or senior manager (the employee) for a response as to whether he\/she wishes to seek renewal of the contract.\n(20) The employee provides a written response to the Executive Director, Human Resources in relation to Step 1 within three weeks.\n(21) The employee's supervisor is asked to confirm the on-going need for the position, or any changes.\n(22) Subject to a positive response from the employee and their supervisor, the employee is asked to prepare a written report, outlining his\/her achievements to date and goals for achievement during a further period in the position.\n(23) The supervisor will consider the report in reviewing the performance of the employee over the period of the current contract and the employee's goals for the future. The supervisor may convene a committee or undertake other suitable processes, such as a 360 feedback process, to inform a recommendation.\n(24) The supervisor makes a recommendation to the Vice-Chancellor or the delegated officer, in accordance with the Delegations and Authorisations Policy , on the renewal or non-renewal of the employee's fixed-term appointment. The recommendation takes into account the needs of the University and the employee's performance.\n(25) Other than for contracts considered by the Succession Planning Committee of Council, the Vice-Chancellor or the delegated officer, in accordance with the Delegations and Authorisations Policy , makes the final decision regarding any offer of a further fixed-term appointment.\n(26) The Executive Director, Human Resources (or nominee) advises the employee of the University's intention to renew or not renew the appointment, normally not less than six months prior to the expiration of the fixed-term appointment.\n(27) The assessment of an employee on probation is conducted by the supervisor stated in the employee's contract of employment.\n(28) An employee on probation is assessed against the accountabilities and performance objectives for the position, and is required to fulfil any special conditions of probation. A final review is conducted prior to the conclusion of the probationary period.\n(29) The outcomes of probationary reviews are documented as part of the performance agreement, with signed copies held by both the supervisor and the employee. Either party may append comments additional to those contained in the performance agreement.\n(30) The probationary reviews and performance agreement are confidential to the supervisor and the employee during the probationary period, but are made available to the Vice-Chancellor for the purposes of taking action in accordance with clause 33 of this Procedure.\n(31) At the time of the final review, the employee's supervisor recommends to the Vice-Chancellor, through his or her supervisor if applicable, that:\nthe employee's continuing appointment be confirmed;\nthe employee's fixed-term appointment be confirmed and continue until its expiration; or\nthe employee's appointment be terminated.\n(32) The supervisor may convene a committee or undertake other suitable processes, such as a 360 feedback process, to inform a recommendation.\n(33) The decision of the Vice-Chancellor on a recommendation made in accordance with clause 33 of this Procedure is final and not subject to internal appeal or review.\n(34) The probationary reviews and performance agreement are forwarded to the Division of Human Resources to be retained on the employee's personal file.\n(35) Details of performance management for executive and senior managers are outlined in this Part.\n(36) Annual performance planning involves employees and their supervisors in:\nsetting performance objectives for the coming year, based on the employee's accountability statement, the University's key objectives, the Generic Responsibilities of University Staff , and\/or feedback from surveys, quality audits and reviews; and\nnegotiating a performance agreement, which includes a professional development plan, to help meet agreed objectives for the coming year.\n(37) Achievements in relation to the performance agreement are reviewed annually. For the purposes of both the annual performance management meeting and performance based remuneration, the period of review is the year from 1 January to 31 December.\n(38) It is expected that all executive and senior managers will strive to exceed individual performance requirements in an effort to maximise the University's performance in line with the University's strategic plans.\n(39) Items to be discussed in any annual performance management meeting between an employee and his\/her supervisor typically include the following:\nthe employee's specific performance achievements in the past twelve months;\nthe employee's and University's priorities for the coming twelve month period and the objectives by which the achievement of these priorities will be measured;\nthe employee's plans for the future (e.g. long service leave, a further appointment, new role, aspirations for their further\/increased leadership role at the University, retirement, return to his\/her substantive position);\ndiscussion and identification of any professional development priorities for the employee, in line with the above expectations; and\nsuccession planning for the employee's position.\n(40) Performance agreements are to be finalised and, for ratings other than 'performs well', submitted to the relevant Deputy Vice-Chancellor or member of the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team by the end on May of each year.\n(41) Achievement of accountabilities, performance objectives and contribution to the achievement of the University's key objectives are required for executive and senior managers to be eligible for rewards such as:\nremuneration progression of up to five per cent towards the mid-point of their level;\na performance bonus of up to five per cent of their current annual remuneration for 'outstanding performance'. This is a one-off, lump sum payment that is determined annually and can be re-earned in subsequent years;\nretention of a loading (if applicable);\nrenewal of their fixed-term appointment; and\/or\nparticipation in the University's professional development schemes.\n(42) In addition to the annual performance management meeting, regular feedback sessions are advised.\n(43) Where the performance of an employee does not meet requirements, then the supervisor and employee develop a performance improvement plan for the employee to implement over the next 12 months, and hold a progress meeting within six months of the annual review to review improvement in performance.\n(44) If the specified elements of performance improve sufficiently to be rated as 'performs well' at the progress meeting, then remuneration progression and eligibility for participation in the University's professional development schemes will recommence from the date of the progress meeting.\n(45) If significant progress has not been made in relation to the performance improvement plan by the next annual performance management meeting, then the provisions relating to unsatisfactory performance in the employee's contract of employment will take effect.\n(46) Where the performance of a Head of School does not meet requirements, an alternative to implementing a performance improvement plan is for the Vice-Chancellor to terminate the Head of School appointment by giving written notice of not less than four weeks or, at the Vice-Chancellor's discretion, payment of salary in lieu of part or all of such notice. If the appointment is terminated by the Vice-Chancellor prior to the specified expiry date, then the employee resumes his or her substantive appointment, effective from the next working day following the termination date.\n(47) Each remuneration level provides a 'minimum', 'mid-point' and 'maximum' total employment cost (TEC). The 'minimum' is calculated at twenty per cent below the mid-point, and the 'maximum' at twenty per cent above the mid-point.\n(48) Acting on the advice of the Vice-Chancellor, the Succession Planning Committee of Council annually reviews the remuneration rates within the model, taking into account remuneration movements in both the higher education sector and the general market, and the University's performance and capacity to pay. The recommendations of the Succession Planning Committee of Council are provided to the full Council for consideration and approval.\n(49) Annual remuneration moves consistently with the annual adjustment of the mid-point. These adjustments are normally effective from 1 July each year.\n(50) The commencing remuneration package (TEC: total employment cost) for a new executive or senior manager within one of the five remuneration levels is determined by the Vice-Chancellor, taking into account factors such as skills, knowledge, experience, internal relativities and\/or attraction\/retention\/market considerations.\n(51) Typically, new executive and senior managers to the University receive an 'entry zone' remuneration package (TEC) of between -10 per cent and -20 per cent of the mid-point for the level.\n(52) Executive and senior managers on continuing appointments, or on fixed-term contracts with an underlying substantive continuing appointment (e.g. Heads of School), do not normally receive a loading in excess of the mid-point of a level, except where provided for by Attraction\/Retention Allowances clauses 67 to 68 in this Procedure.\n(53) Each year an employee is eligible to move up through a level towards the mid-point. This progress is subject to achievement of accountabilities and performance objectives and contribution to the achievement of the University's key objectives over the past twelve months.\n(54) Following the annual performance management meeting, the supervisor may recommend remuneration progression of up to five per cent towards the mid-point, based on the employee meeting or exceeding performance requirements.\n(55) The Vice-Chancellor considers the supervisor's recommendation in consultation with the SEC member responsible for the portfolio.\n(56) The Executive Director, Human Resources (or nominee) notifies the employee of the Vice-Chancellor's decision in writing no later than mid-July.\n(57) Any adjustment to remuneration normally takes effect annually from 1 July in the year that the decision on remuneration progression is made.\n(58) The review mechanism for remuneration movement decisions is set out in Part F of this Procedure.\n(59) To be eligible for a performance bonus, an employee must have worked in the position for at least nine months. Recommendations for a bonus inside this timeframe are only approved in exceptional circumstances. NOTE: All periods of approved paid leave are defined as time worked in the position.\n(60) Progression by bonus payment beyond the mid-point of a remuneration level is approved by the Vice-Chancellor for a period of one year. This bonus can be re-earned in subsequent years.\n(61) Approval of a bonus payment is based on:\nthe employee's individual performance as outlined in the performance agreement for the previous twelve month review period;\nthe relevant organisational area's performance over the same period. NOTE: The organisational area (i.e. the University, Faculty\/Division\/Office or School\/Centre\/Department) is defined as the level above the employee's organisational unit. For example, a Head of School's individual performance is assessed in conjunction with the performance of the School and\/or Faculty; and\nmeeting the University's key performance indicator for staff participation in the Performance Management and Development Scheme.\n(62) The performance of the organisational areas is determined as follows:\nThe University's performance is determined by the Council on the advice of the Vice-Chancellor\nThe performance of all other organisational areas is determined by the Vice-Chancellor on the advice of the appropriate executive manager(s) and with the assistance of the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member responsible for the portfolio.\n(63) Where the supervisor determines that the performance of the employee during this period is outstanding, then the supervisor:\nmakes a recommendation regarding the percentage of bonus payment to be awarded to the employee (up to 5 per cent); and\nforwards the recommendation to the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member, along with the signed performance agreement as evidence of the employee's achievements.\n(64) The Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member considers the recommendation and holds further discussions with the supervisor and\/or employee if required. The Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member then forwards the final recommendation to the Vice-Chancellor for consideration.\n(65) Bonus payments are one-off payments made as a lump sum and may be awarded each year. They are taxable and non-superable, but are able to be salary packaged. There should be no expectation of regular bonus payments.\n(66) An attraction\/retention allowance is available above the mid-point in order for the University to attract or retain the expertise of a particular executive or senior manager.\n(67) Attraction\/retention allowances are ongoing and superable, and the amount may be reviewed as part of the performance management process on an annual basis.\n(68) Where an employee, other than a member of the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team, has concerns regarding the process undertaken by the supervisor to assess performance and\/or perceives bias in the decision on remuneration progression, then the following process applies.\n(69) The employee notifies the supervisor of his\/her concerns, and they attempt to resolve the matter; or\n(70) If an attempt to resolve the matter at the supervisory level has already been made and a resolution has not been achieved, then the matter is referred to the supervisor's manager for resolution.\n(71) If the concerns of the employee remain unresolved following Step 1, then the matter is referred to the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member for consideration and recommendation to the Vice-Chancellor. The employee is required to provide written details of his\/her concerns to the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member.\n(72) After finalising its review, the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member advises all parties involved, including the Vice-Chancellor, in writing of its recommendation(s).\n(73) Where a member of the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team has been involved in the resolution process, then he\/she is not permitted to participate in the review process or the formulation of the recommendation.\n(74) The Vice-Chancellor's decision on the recommendation(s) of the Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Team member is final and not subject to internal appeal or review.\n(75) Flexible salary packaging is available at Charles Sturt University (see Voluntary Packaging Scheme Guidelines).\n(76) The range of benefit options provided are periodically reviewed to ensure relevance. Options include a motor vehicle, University childcare, computer products, corporate uniform, subscriptions to professional associations, tuition fees, and contributions to qualifying superannuation funds. The benefits chosen for inclusion in a salary package may be extended to meet individual circumstances after discussion with an independent financial advisor.\n(77) Executive managers at Levels 3 and above are eligible to package a motor vehicle for business and private use on a percentage basis. Other senior employees may enter into a novated lease arrangement for a motor vehicle (see Motor Vehicle Use and Costing Guidelines).\n(78) To facilitate this flexibility option, eligible executive and senior managers are permitted to salary package up to 100% of their total remuneration package (TEC). The provision of this clause is available to all continuing and fixed-term executive and senior managers, provided that the fixed-term appointment is for a minimum period of twelve months.\n(79) The type of benefit available to an executive or senior manager, e.g. novated lease of a motor vehicle, is dependent upon its suitability to the length of the employee's appointment.\n(80) Flexible salary packaging requires the employee to meet the full cost of the provision of such benefits as well as associated taxation and administration costs.\n(81) Participation in flexible salary packaging is voluntary.\n(82) Executive and senior managers are advised to seek independent financial advice on the implications of flexible salary packaging. It is emphasised that decisions about participation and the best mix of benefits must be made by individual employees in the light of their own circumstances and independent financial advice.\n(83) The University does not accept responsibility for any consequences that may flow from an executive or senior manager's participation in flexible salary packaging.\n(84) The University reserves the right to cease operation of or to review and amend the flexible salary packaging arrangements (subject to the constraints of existing contractual obligations), with reasonable notice.\n(85) The base or 'nominated' salary is the salary rate determined by subtracting the executive or senior manager's statutory employer cost to superannuation from the total remuneration package (TEC).\n(86) For members of UniSuper, this figure is currently 14 per cent plus the 3 per cent Basic Benefit levy. For members of the SSS, the percentage varies according to age at entry to the scheme, and is calculated according to the actuarial chart in Appendix 1 (Superable Salary and Employer Contribution Oncost Calculation) and the Basic Benefit levy. For members of the SASS, the oncost percentage is determined on an individual basis by the fund administrator. The University will request an employer liability cost for each SASS member at the review date each year (April).\n(87) The nominated salary is the 'superable salary' used for notifying the relevant superannuation fund. This is the maximum amount of remuneration that an employee can elect to receive as PAYG salary (where PAYG salary means remuneration by way of regular periodical cash payments subject to PAYG tax).\n(88) For the purposes of clause 87, the following items do not count as superable salary:\nemployer contributions to superannuation;\nother cash payments (e.g. entertainment) made for the benefit of the executive or senior manager;\none-off, lump sum payments for performance bonuses; or\ncash payments made to the employee by way of reimbursement of expenses incurred by the employee (e.g. travel costs).\n(89) Temporary loadings and allowances that are part of the PAYG salary are not included as superable salary for the purposes of the salary package, unless provided for under the rules of the relevant superannuation fund. Examples of temporary loadings and allowances include:\nperformance loadings which are reviewable; and\nhigher duties allowances, including secondments.\n(90) Upon resignation, retirement or movement out of an eligible category of employees, an executive or senior manager's accrued and related leave entitlements are paid at the TEC rate. The unused portion of other benefits is 'cashed out' on a pro rata basis and PAYG deductions made accordingly. For these purposes, the 'package' year is 1 July to 30 June.\n(91) Refer to Motor Vehicles Guidelines - Executive Managers.\n\u00a9 Copyright 2017 Charles Sturt University CRICOS 00005F","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Multiple Marvel Movies, Indiana Jones 5 Delayed\nDoctor Strange 2, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther 2, and more are delayed.\nbyJoe Skrebels\nPosted Oct. 19, 2021, 6:03 a.m.\nDisney has announced delays to multiple Marvel movies, including Doctor Strange 2, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther 2, and more. Indiana Jones 5, meanwhile, has been delayed by almost a full year.\nDisney announced the release date changes (which also involved one untitled Marvel movie moving forward by a week) today, and you can see the full list below:\nMarvel and Indiana Jones Release Date Changes\nDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness \u2013 Delayed from March 25, 2022 to May 6, 2022\nThor: Love and Thunder - Delayed from May 6, 2022 to July 8, 2022\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever - Delayed from July 8, 2022 to November 11, 2022\nIndiana Jones 5 - Delayed from July 29, 2022 to June 30, 2023\nThe Marvels - Delayed from November 11, 2022 to February 17, 2023\nAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - Delayed from February 17, 2023 to July 28, 2023\nUntitled Marvel - Moved forward from November 10, 2023 to November 3, 2023.\nDisney also removed two unannounced Marvel films (originally dated for July 28, 2023, October 6, 2023) from the schedule entirely. Untitled Disney live-action and 20th Century movies were also removed. Removal from the schedule doesn't necessarily mean these releases are cancelled, but more likely means Disney hasn't yet decided on new release dates for them.\nThe changes announced strictly affect Disney's movie slate, and no changes have been announced for Disney+ streaming series. This year's remaining MCU movies, Eternals and Spider-Man: No Way Home, also remain on track for November 5 and December 17 respectively.\nDeadline reports that the timing shifts have come about because, \"Some titles are contending with finishing scenarios while others are in production.\" Disney is not thought to be planning any day-and-date streaming releases, and apparently isn't concerned with the global market after the success of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\nJoe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.\n18 hours, 11 minutes Comments\nAvatar: The Way of Water is Now the Fourth-Highest-Grossing Film of All Time\n1 day, 16 hours Comments\nTomb Raider TV Series in the Works at Amazon from Fleabag Writer\nGlass Onion Breaks Record as the Most-Streamed Movie in One Single Week\nTobey Maguire Says He'd Play Spider-Man Again: 'Why Wouldn't I Want to Do That?'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"COVID-19 disrupts schedule in Southeastern Conference\nCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)Things to watch in week 8 of the Southeastern Conference:\nCOVID CONCERNS\nThe ongoing coronavirus pandemic has hit the SEC hard this week, The league had to postpone four of its seven scheduled games due to outbreaks among league teams. No. 1 Alabama's revenge-seeking visit to LSU \u2013 the Tigers defeated the Crimson Tide a year ago on the way to a national title \u2013 was set to highlight the league schedule. Instead, COVID-19 cases in LSU's program led the league to call off the game. Virus worries for No. 5 Texas A&M led to the postponement Tuesday of the Aggies game at Tennessee. Texas A&M reported two COVID-19 cases following its 48-3 victory over South Carolina last week. Quarantining and contact tracing for Mississippi State led the SEC to postpone its contest with No. 24 Auburn. No. 12 Georgia's game at Missouri was also postponed after the Tigers had a combination of contact tracing, positive tests and quarantines. The lone SEC ranked team still playing is No. 6 Florida, which will take on Arkansas, although Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman won't be on the sideline after testing positive for the virus.\nMATCHUP OF THE WEEK\nIt's got to be Florida facing its old quarterback in Arkansas' Feleipe Franks. The Gators took a huge step forward last week in dispatching \"Cocktail Party\" rival Georgia to move up in the rankings and put themselves within striking distance of the College Football Playoffs. Franks, the Florida transfer, has the Razorbacks program competitive in coach Sam Pittman's first season. By the way, Pittman won't be on the sidelines at Florida Field after testing positive for COVID-19. Former Missouri coach and Razorbacks defensive coordinator Barry Odom will lead the team. Franks has thrown 14 touchdowns with just three interceptions. Florida ranks ninth in SEC pass defense, giving up 10 touchdowns and 262 yards passing this season.\nIMPACT PLAYER\nMississippi's Elijah Moore is the SEC's leading receiver and could have another big day ahead against a South Carolina secondary that's allowed a league-high 14 touchdown passes this season. Moore is a 5-foot-9, 185 pound junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida who is excelling in coach Lane Kiffin's wide-open offense, averaging 138 yards receiving a game and topping the SEC with 61 catches for 829 yards. He had 14 catches and 238 yards in a win over Vanderbilt last week.\nKentucky has just seven pass plays that have gone 20 yards or more \u2013 and only two of those have gained 30-or-more yards. Vanderbilt has given up 278 yards passing a game this season and 13 passing touchdowns. \u2026 The Commodores got throughout October without going on the road. They finish the season with four road trips in their final six games. \u2026 Florida coach Dan Mullen said do-everything tight end Kyle Pitts is questionable against the Razorbacks after his collision in the win over Georgia last week. Pitts has 24 catches for 414 yards and eight touchdowns \u2013 the most scoring passes by a tight end in Gators history.\nMore AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/Collegefootball and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP-Top25\nMore NCAA Football Stories\nCOLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP)The University of Maryland has agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with the parents of football player Jordan McNair, who died of heatstroke following a workout in 2018.\nThe amount was made public on Friday in a meeting agenda released by the Maryland Board of Public Works. It must be approved at the board's meeting on Jan. 27.\nLOS ANGELES (AP)Even after canceling the Tournament of Roses parade during the summer and scaling back the pregame festivities normally associated with the Rose Bowl, David Eads and his staff were still preparing for a College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year's Day to be played at the picturesque stadium in Pasadena, California.\nThat was until the day before the CFP pairings were announced and the game was moved to Dallas due to the coronavirus pandemic.\nOne college football season just ended, and another one starts in just over a month.\nAll but a few teams in the Football Championship Subdivision shut down in the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will play a spring season culminating with the NCAA playoffs in April and May.\nAgreement reached in La Crosse bar homicide","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Photo: Peter Morning\nTim Tollefson\nScotty Sandow 06\/21\/2022\nElite ultrarunner and overall endearing human being Tim Tollefson joins us to share details about the new Mammoth Trail Fest, which promises to be an epic, European-style event, and how the idea came to fruition.\nHe also doles out advice about how to run Western States, where he placed fifth last year and will be running again this year. Tim talks about what he learned about himself, which may pivot how your approach ultras and life, for that matter.\nSubscribe to UltraRunning Magazine\nThanks to our episode sponsor, Arc'teryx\nLearn more about the event at mammothtrailfest.com\nPhoto credit: Peter Morning\niTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher\nScotty Sandow\nScotty has over 20-years of experience in the audio production industry. Career highlights include; executive producer of a top-rated morning talk show, co-founding an influential ultra-running podcast, launching the California Department of Public Health's podcast and co-hosting an award-winning podcast for Placer County; The Placer Life. Scotty also consults with new podcast hosts - sharing his bag of tricks to launch podcasts. He lives in the Sacramento area with his daughter, Emma and dog, Cork.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"July 31, 2015: New York State Bar Honored by American Bar for Promoting Diversity in the Legal Profession\nBy Communications Department\nThe New York State Bar Association has been selected as the winner of a 2015 American Bar Association Partnership Award for promoting diversity in the legal profession.\nThe State Bar's Youth Law Day program, sponsored by the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, was recognized on Friday, July 31 in Chicago during a joint luncheon of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, National Association of Bar Executives and National Conference of Bar Foundations.\n\"The goal of the Youth Law Day program is to introduce diverse high school students to the legal profession,\" said past State Bar President Kenneth G. Standard of New York City (Epstein Becker & Green). He co-chairs of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion with Rosevelie Marquez Morales of New York City (Harris Beach).\nYouth Law Day provides ethnically diverse high school students with sense of the law school experience and aims to alter the notion that law school is unattainable. The centerpiece of Youth Law Day is an interactive classroom experience led by law school faculty, where students apply the law to the facts of a case.\n\"This innovative program would not have been possible without the forward thinking of Ken Standard,\" said State Bar President David P. Miranda. \"We are pleased the ABA has recognized it with a Partnership Award.\"\nMiranda, Past Presidents Standard and Kate Madigan, along with New York Puerto Rican Bar Association President Betty Lugo accepted the award on behalf of the State Bar.\nThe idea for the program that was created by the State Bar in 2004 when then-President Standard convened a special committee on youth outreach to address inequities in available opportunities for diverse youth.\nThe program's first event was held in 2006 at Fordham Law School. Since then, 11 law schools have sponsored 32 programs reaching more than 2,000 students. Programs include such topics as how to apply to law schools, financing education, and what you can do with a law degree. On average, 50 percent of students who complete the program evaluation indicate interest in attending law school.\nToday, a subcommittee with seven members maintain contacts at all 15 New York law schools and works to develop programs at each school.\nThe New York State Bar Association, with 74,000 members, is the largest voluntary state bar association in the country. It was founded in 1876.\nContact: Lise Bang-Jensen\nDirector of Media Services","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tanzanian-Zambian student killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine laid to rest\nHundreds of people attended a memorial service of a Zambian student, Lemekani Nyirenda who died fighting for Russia in Ukraine in September 2022.\nNyirenda, a Tanzanian was laid to rest in Lusaka, the Zambian capital on Tuesday at a Baptist church.\nMSN said the 23-year-old was a regular worshipper of the church that buried him yesterday before he traveled to Russia to study nuclear engineering.\nFamily members broke down as they filed past Nyirenda's coffin.\nHis death in September sparked a diplomatic row, with Zambia demanding an urgent explanation from the Kremlin.\nTanzania on Tuesday meanwhile confirmed that Nemes Tarimo, another student, had been killed after also being recruited in jail by Wagner.\n\"When Tarimo was serving jail, he was given an opportunity to join the Russian army group called Wagner for payment and the promise that he would be freed after the war,\" Tanzanian Foreign Minister Stergomena Tax said.\n\"Tarimo agreed and he was taken to Ukraine where he was killed on October 24.\"\nTarimo, who had been studying in Russia since 2020, was arrested in March 2022 and sentenced to a seven-year jail term for undisclosed reasons.\n\"It's illegal for a Tanzanian national to join any foreign army,\" added the foreign minister.\nOn Tuesday, Nyirenda's father Edwin paid tribute to his son, saying he was a hard worker who helped set up a beehive business for the family.\nTags: Russia, sentenced, fighting, Ukraine, Russian, church\nRelated Topics:churchfightingRussiaRussiansentencedUkraine\nBloke who spent \u00a319k to turn himself into a wolf says 'I am not a monster'\nPutin Made Missile Threat In Pre-War Call\u2013Johnson\nGunmen kill host, others at birthday party in South Africa\nUK Lists Priority Subjects For Immigrating Teachers\nSabalenka Wins Australian Open For First Grand Slam Crown\nJUST IN: Wike Bags Sun Courage And Leadership Award, Promises To Do More\nTags: bad weather, United States, the United States, Aviation, government, Texas\nTags: North East, communities, Boko Haram, government, Africa, community\nTags: winning, State, President, World Cup, left, population","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Elmira man guilty in federal drug case\nThatcher could get life in prison in 'blue pill' plot\nThe Leader staff\nROCHESTER | An Elmira man may face life in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges related to an extensive opioid manufacturing and distribution operation.\nRobert Ian Thatcher, 30, of Elmira, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute U-47700 (a powerful synthetic opioid) and 100 grams or more of furanyl fentanyl.\nThe charge carries a minimum of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum of life.\nFederal officials say Thatcher, along with co-conspirators, \"ran a large-scale opioid manufacturing and trafficking organization in the Southern Tier of New York and northern Pennsylvania between 2015 and May 2017.\"\nThatcher and another man, Maximillian Sams, imported bulk quantities of the two drugs from China by using the so-called \"dark web\" to conduct transactions.\nThey then reportedly purchased equipment they used to produce pills that resembled the legitimate prescription drug Percocet -- though the composition and effects were very different.\n\"This defendant and his co-conspirators may have thought they could elude law enforcement detection by purchasing supplies through the so-called 'dark web,' but as this investigation showed, that is clearly not the case,\" said U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. in a press release. \"Whether these criminals choose to peddle their deadly poison in urban, suburban, or rural areas, we will track you down and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.\"\nOfficials said at least two individuals \u2013 a female identified as B.S., and a male identified as C.H. \u2013 died after ingesting the blue pills containing furanyl fentanyl and U-47700. In addition, at least one individual \u2013 identified as J.M. \u2013 overdosed on more than one occasion after using the blue pills, but survived after being treated by first responders with Narcan.\nAfter manufacturing the pills, Thatcher and Sams reportedly distributed them in large quantities to other co-conspirators \u2013 including Anthony Prettyman, Jesus Rivera, Terrance Washington, and Dwayne Banks, a\/k\/a Fizzle, a\/k\/a Fizz, who would then distribute the pills to various street-level customers in the Elmira area. Pills were also supplied to an individual in the Charlotte, N.C., area.\nThe investigation was a joint effort by the Drug Enforcement Administration; the New York State Police, Community Narcotics Enforcement Team Southern Tier, under the direction of Major Mary Clark and Lieutenant Kevin P. Sucher; the Elmira Police Department, under the direction of Chief Joseph Kane; Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Pennsylvania State Police; the Chemung County Sheriff's Office, under the direction of Christopher J. Moss; the Iredell, N.C., County Sheriff's Office; and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Unit.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Industrial Heating Technology\nNOXMAT is the Expert for Industrial Heating Technology\nWiedemann Burner\nNow at NOXMAT!\nNoxmat GmbH - Your specialist for industrial heating technology\nWe manufacture industrial burners and radiant tubes as well as all accessories related to the heating technology of industrial thermoprocessing systems. Our products are sold in over 30 countries worldwide and used in plants for heat treatment and for heating metals and non-ferrous metals.\nNOXMAT - that\u00b4s us!\nRadiant tubes in various designs\nGas control systems, combustion-air fans and additional equipment for industrial thermoprocessing systems\nDevelopment and construction of tailor-made burners\nRefurbishment of burners and\/or components\nModernization and optimization of industrial heating systems\nComprehensive service for the heating systems of industrial furnaces\nNOXMAT expands product spectrum\nNOXMAT GmbH, specialist for industrial heating technology, expands its product and service spectrum: NOXMAT will now also produce and sell burners specifically for the aluminum industry, under the brand name \"Wiedemann Industriebrenner\". Especially for ma [...]\nSuccessful recertification of NOXMAT according to DIN ISO 9001\nNOXMAT GmbH has again successfully passed the audit for recertification according to DIN ISO 9001. We are very pleased about the confirmation of the performance of our quality management system in the field of \"development, production, sales and service o [...]\nMarch 14, 2023 - March 16, 2023 | Ludwigsburg\n72nd AICHELIN SEMINAR \"BASICS OF HEAT TREATMENT\"\nJune 12, 2023 - June 16, 2023 | D\u00fcsseldorf, Deutschland\nTHERMPROCESS 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spirit of Medicine\nMD Student News\nResearch Updates\nStrategic Voices\nWomen in Medicine\nIU School of Medicine celebrates 2022 highlights\n2022 was a great year at IU School of Medicine!\nRecord NIH Funding\nIndiana University School of Medicine had another record-setting year of National Institutes of Health funding. The school was awarded more than $127 million in fiscal year 2021. The Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Molecular Genetics ranked eighth in the nation, and IU School of Medicine ranked fourth in funding from the National Institute on Aging.\nFaculty named AAAS Fellows\nFour IU School of Medicine faculty members were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).\nWade Clapp, MD, chair, Department of Pediatrics\nHarikrishna Nakshatri, PhD, Marian J. Morrison Professor of Breast Cancer Research\nMark Kelley, PhD, Betty and Earl Herr Professor of Pediatric Oncology Research\nMichael Weiss, MD, PhD, MBA, chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology\nMatch Day Highlights\nAfter two years of virtual celebrations, Match Day took over the IUPUI ballroom on March 18, 2022, as 321 IU School of Medicine students matched with residency programs throughout the United States. Not only did they finish medical school, but they did it during a pandemic, demonstrating tremendous tenacity.\nFrom the IU School of Medicine Class of 2022, 94 future physicians entered residency programs affiliated with IU School of Medicine or IU Health, along with more than 200 additional graduates from other medical schools across the country. These programs include 30 different specialties, including internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, surgery, OB-GYN, emergency medicine and neurology.\nNew Department Leaders\nIU School of Medicine welcomed five new department chairs in 2022.\nDavid Aronoff, MD, Internal Medicine\nKarl Bilimoria, MD, MS, Surgery\nLeslie Hulvershorn, MD, Psychiatry\nDavid Rosmarin, MD, Dermatology\nMichael Feldman, MD, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine\nBreast Cancer Research Funding\nThe Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Research made a $12.5 million gift commitment to IU School of Medicine, bringing the foundation's total commitments in breast cancer research funding to $50 million. The new gift will support research to harness immunotherapy for breast cancer treatment. The foundation's ongoing support led to the 2018 creation of the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, where more than 30 investigators collaborate on breast cancer discoveries.\nThe Class of 2024 transitioned to the clinical phase of their training, commemorated by a White Coat Ceremony on April 18, 2022. This was the first year the ceremony took place at the end of the second year rather than the first semester of medical school. The change was made to emphasize this important transition to patient care.\nGraduation took place in person for the first time since 2019. On May 13, 2022, 455 doctorate and master level degrees were awarded, including 351 MD degrees. In addition, 147 associate and Bachelor of Science degrees were earned by graduates of the IU School of Medicine Health Professions Program.\nEngineering in Medicine\nIndiana University and Purdue University announced a new vision for the Indianapolis campus that would split IUPUI into separate academic organizations. IU owns and operates the campus, but certain programs grant Purdue degrees. IU School of Medicine and Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering will continue collaborating as partners in the new Engineering in Medicine Institute. The goal of these research collaborations is to develop novel technologies and approaches that will lead to innovative approaches and engineered systems for improved patient care in five targeted areas: cardiovascular health, cancer, musculoskeletal health, otolaryngology and pediatrics.\nAdvancing Alzheimer's Research\nIU School of Medicine will receive $48.8 million over the next five years from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the largest branch for Alzheimer's research within the NIH, with renewed funding for the Model Organism Development and Evaluation for Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease (MODEL-AD) initiative. Established in 2016, MODEL-AD is a consortium of experts at IU School of Medicine, Jackson Laboratory, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Sage Bionetworks, which generates and validates new animal models for late-onset Alzheimer's disease and performs rigorous preclinical testing of potential therapeutics.\nPRIME grant enhances care for underserved populations\nThe Primary Care Reaffirmation for Indiana Medical Education Program (PRIME) was awarded an additional $5.4 million grant from the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and has now received a total of $17.6 million. PRIME aims to improve classroom and clinical learning experiences for medical students with a focus on community health and care for underserved populations.\nIU School of Medicine announced Strategic Priorities for 2023-2025:\nFoster the vitality and engagement of our people\nMaximize learner success\nAccelerate discovery and clinical translation\nImprove health and wellness for citizens of Indiana\nAll members of the IU School of Medicine community are asked to review the priorities and outcomes and complete a survey to share feedback.\nIU School of Medicine is committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and justice efforts. Over 1,000 people attended the 2022 LGBTQ+ Health Care Conference. More than 1,000 faculty and staff completed training for Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Decision-Making, and IU School of Medicine created an upstander intervention workshop to address disrespectful and discriminatory behavior. Learn more about diversity programs.\nMedical Education and Research Building\nIU School of Medicine broke ground on a new $230 million medical education and research building on Oct. 19, 2022. At 11 stories and more than 326,000 gross square feet in size, the facility west of Senate Avenue and south of the IU Neurosciences Research Center on 16th Street will address growing instructional and research needs at the school. It is expected to be completed in 2024.\n\"This building will be a place where generations of future healers will begin their journey in medicine,\" said Jay Hess, MD, PhD, MHSA, dean of IU School of Medicine and IU's executive vice president for clinical affairs. \"It's going to be a place where researchers are going to make innovations, they're going to prevent disease, alleviate suffering and save lives, not just here in Indiana, but across the nation and around the world.\"\nFor more 2022 highlights, visit the IU School of Medicine newsroom and IU School of Medicine blogs hub.\nCopy RSS feed URL Copied to clipboard\nCelebrating Winter Holidays: Considerations for community members of diverse faiths\nIU collaborates with Podiatry Associates of Indiana to bring diabetic foot clinical trials to patients\nBilimoria brings energy and excitement to IU Surgery\nIU diabetes center produces big-impact research\nFour Tax-Smart Ways To Make Gifts In 2022\nIU School of Medicine Office of Strategic Communications\n410 W. 10th Street HITS 3080 Indianapolis, IN 46202","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Woman's Day in\u2026 Bethlehem\nMake the most of your time in one of Lehigh Valley's trio cities\nBy Angela Ebron Published: Nov 13, 2010\nTrishia Traub, 39, first fell in love with Bethlehem as a teen. \"One Christmas my high school boyfriend took me here to see the lights on Main Street,\" says Trishia, who grew up nearby but had never visited the city. \"All of downtown seemed to be glowing. It was beautiful.\" After college, she moved to Bethlehem and has lived here ever since. \"The old-world feel makes the city romantic and charming any time of year,\" says Trishia, an insurance agent. \"And the people are super-friendly. A woman I met while walking my dog invited me to her home so our dogs could play. We talked for hours.\" Here, Trishia shares a few other things that make her town, nicknamed Christmas City, so special.\n1. Toast the New Year: Looper's Grille & Bar\nRing in 2011 at this neighborhood bar. \"The martini list includes more than 500 varieties,\" says Trishia, who has a hard time picking a favorite. Two standouts: Starry Night, made with Three Olives vanilla vodka, Blavod black vodka and a few candy stars dropped in the bottom of the glass; and the award-winning Frozen Peanut Butter Cup, made with Jacquin White Creme de Cacao blended with a peanut butter cup. Photo: courtesy of Looper's Grille & Bar\n2. Dinner for Two: Apollo Grill\n\"This is my favorite restaurant,\" says Trishia. \"It has an upscale feel without being too stuffy, and the prices are pretty reasonable. In fact, Emeril Lagasse has been known to have dinner here, even though he has two of his own restaurants in town!\" Two of her fave dishes: the black and white sesame-encrusted salmon and the lobster tacos with corn and chili sauce. For dessert, go for the toasted coconut ice cream cr\u00eapes with bananas foster. \"The homemade ice cream is so good,\" she says. (Reservations are recommended.) Photo: courtesy of Discover Lehigh Valley\n3. To Feel the Spirit of Christmas: Head to Historic Main Street\n\"Ever since I came as a teenager, I've loved walking along Main Street at this time of year, especially at night,\" says Trishia. \"Every tree is covered in twinkling white lights from top to bottom. The brick-and-stone sidewalks are adorned with containers of beautiful evergreen and ribbon. Lit candles sit in many shop windows [a tradition started by members of the Moravian Church, who settled Bethlehem in 1741]. Soft holiday music, piped throughout downtown, fills the air, and the old-style lampposts are lit. It's magical.\" Photo: courtesy of Discover Lehigh Valley\n4. A Cool Piece of Bethlehem History: The Moravian Book Shop\nFounded in 1745, this city landmark is the oldest bookstore in the country. If you stop by, be ready to spend the afternoon since it's like several stores in one. \"You can pick up a good book, find a great gift in the home goods, stationery or gourmet food departments, have lunch in the cafe, buy some Moravian cookies and even get stuff for the holidays \u2014they sell Christmas items year-round,\" says Trishia. One of the biggest sellers: Moravian Stars\u2014from handmade electric glass versions that can be hung in a window to plastic star ornaments for decorating the tree. \"I love coming here because there's so much to choose from.\" Photo: courtesy of Discover Lehigh Valley\n5. If You're In the Mood for a Beer: Bethlehem Brew Works\nThis brewpub, which makes its own beer right in the restaurant, pays homage to Bethlehem's steel industry with its ironwork and exposed brick decor, and signature beers like the Steelworkers' Oatmeal Stout. \"During the holidays, try their award-winning Rude Elf's Reserve,\" recommends Trishia. \"It's a delicious Belgian-style dark ale made with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and clove.\" For a quick bite, have the Christmas City Salad, a spinach salad with candied nuts, cranberries, apples and a cinnamon vinaigrette. \"It's like Christmas in a bowl.\" Photo: courtesy of Discover Lehigh Valley\n6. One Thing You Must See: The Star of Bethlehem on South Mountain\nLocated atop a 100-foot tower at the summit of South Mountain, 10 minutes from downtown, the multipoint star, made by Bethlehem Steel and illuminated by 254 LED lights, is lit from dusk to midnight every day of the year. \"It was put up during the Depression as a symbol of hope,\" says Trishia. But it soon became a symbol of the city itself, and the original wooden star was replaced with a steel one in the late 1930s. \"When it's lit, you can see it for 20 miles.\" Photo: courtesy of Discover Lehigh Valley\n7. Fun Place to Buy Presents: Christkindlmarkt\nModeled after Christmas markets in Germany, this tented outdoor market runs every Thursday through Sunday from November 26 to December 19. \"You'll find artisans from all over the world selling handcrafted nutcrackers, jewelry, ornaments, wooden toys and more,\" says Trishia. There's also live music, a Christmas tree, German food like Bavarian pretzels, strudel and bratwurst, ice sculpting, artists making handblown glass ornaments, and even St. Nicholas for the kids. Photo: courtesy of Discover Lehigh Valley\nWondering about where to stay and how to get around once you are in Portland? Click here to find out.\n50 Best Travel Gifts for Women Who Love to Explore\nThe Best No-Passport-Needed Vacation Spots\nConnect AirPods to Airplane TVs With This Gadget\n10 Short Prayers for Safe Travel and Peace of Mind\n25 Domestic and International Girls' Trip Ideas\n70 Short and Sassy Beach Captions\n20 Best Family Vacation Spots Around the US\nAll the Details of the Disney Wish Cruise\n13 Interesting Easter Traditions Around the World\nThe 40 Best Christmas Towns in the US\n28 Best Ghost Tours Across America\n\"Field Trips\" to Take Your Kids on This Year","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Employment Standards Ministry Under Fire\nRepublished with the permission of Canadian HR Reporter.\nCaller Beware: Ministry Helpline Comes Under Fire\nBy Liz Berner\n(Note: Although this article specifically refers to the Ontario Ministry, it has implications for all provinces).\nIf you rely on the Ministry of Labour's employment standards helpline for advice on Ontario-based employees, you may not be getting the full story. The helpline has come under scrutiny in recent weeks after becoming the target of a lawsuit for allegedly giving negligent advice to callers.\nEmployers that call in to the helpline are advised of the minimum requirements they must meet under the province's Employment Standards Act \u2014 but there may be additional requirements under common law. And if employers rely on incomplete or bad advice, they could leave themselves open to legal action.\nIt's a significant concern, especially for small businesses that may not have the resources for in-house legal counsel, according to Nicole Troster, senior policy analyst at the Ontario branch of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).\n\"It's dangerous because you can have an employer who in good faith is going to the government who puts the policies in place, and asking them, 'What are the requirements?'\" she said. \"The problem is, they're told about employment standards which are minimum requirements but there are common law precedents which could entail additional requirements\u2026 so it can leave the employer in a very precarious situation.\"\nEmployers that rely on advice that turns out to be incomplete or misleading may find themselves liable \u2014 even if they had good intentions.\nRead the full article >>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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For starters, soak in the sculptural effect along the face front and the sleek polished end caps.\nAda Recycling Coalition, Ada, OK. 691 likes \u00b7 5 talking about this \u00b7 42 were here. The Ada Recycling Coalition (ARC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization that was established in 1991 to\nFull-time, temporary, and part-time jobs. Job email alerts.\nAda, OK Real Estate & Homes for Sale Homes for sale in Ada, OK have a median listing price of $133,250. There are 224 active homes for sale in Ada, OK, which spend an average of 67 days on the market. Ada Recycling Coalition, Ada, OK. 691 likes \u00b7 5 talking about this \u00b7 42 were here. The Ada Recycling Coalition (ARC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization that was established in 1991 to Ada woman recovers from COVID-19. Four times. Monday, December 7th 2020, 2:28 PM CST. By Mackailyn Johnson.\nDenice Haraway disappeared without a trace in 1984 in Ada, Oklahoma. The subsequent arrest of Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot for her murder has inspired \"The Innocent Man\" book and Netflix show. Ada, OK (74820). Today. Foggy early with scattered thunderstorms developing late. Areas of patchy fog.\nIt's time for every company to find out. More businesses are asking these questions due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design, which the U.S. Department of Justice released in 2010.These standards require companies to offer and maintain sites that people with disabilities can use and Ada Sunglasses in Forest Green for Women. Ada is a timeless square style packed with sleek design elements. For starters, soak in the sculptural effect along the face front and the sleek polished end caps. This compliance course is designed to provide an individual who is choosing the online course option to gain their certification. - A learning experience to better understand the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards, City of Oklahoma City Specifications for sidewalks and curb ramps and Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) - An opportunity to explore the ADA Law and PROWAG Apartments in Ada, OK (99 Rentals) close. View Me. Sulphur Apartments.\n1109 N Broadway Ave Directions Ada, OK 74820-2038. New Inventory New Inventory. New Vehicles New Trucks New SUVs Featured Vehicles CarFinder Value Your Trade Payment Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,008 at the 2000 census.\nby ListHub. in Ada, OK. November 8, 2020 For information about volunteering in the Ada-area, contact: Bobbie Barajas Volunteer Coordinator 1930 Stonecipher Blvd.\njak z\u00edskat mo\u017enosti 0dte na robinhood\nhodnota australsk\u00e9 mince v hodnot\u011b 1 dolaru v roce 2000\nt\u011b\u017eba cpu ethereum a gpu\ntradingview com\n5 milion\u016f naira v americk\u00fdch dolarech\nzapomn\u011bl jsem sv\u00e9 twitter u\u017eivatelsk\u00e9 jm\u00e9no a heslo\nkolik je 1 milion dolar\u016f v indii\nAIXUP\ntHraQ\nWoHN\nwfcw\nBitcoin se zasekl na 0 potvrzen\u00edch\nTron cena dnes indie\nJak dostanu pen\u00edze z \u00fa\u010dtu paypal\nADA, Oklahoma (KXII) - When feeling peckish in Ada, people pulling into Sonic on Mississippi Avenue can expect to be greeted by a bird of a different feather. For nearly a month and a half, the\n2 Beds \u2022 2 Bath. Contact Property (580) 436-2246. $850. HOME FOR RENT. 18513 County Rd 1516.\nAda, OK 74820. 2 Beds \u2022 2 Bath. Contact Property (580) 436-2246. $850. HOME FOR RENT. 18513 County Rd 1516. Ada, OK 74820. 2 Beds \u2022 2 Bath. Contact Property (580\nOur Ada Store location has got you covered. We're your one-stop shop in Ada, OK. We have phones, tablets, wearables, and more that you'll love. We also offer in-store activation, so you can get your device up and running in no time. 430 N. Monte Vista Street Ada, OK 74820 Phone: (580) 332-2323 Fax: (580) 421-1574. Hours: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Schedule Appointment The Ada Police Department is comprised of 8 full-time and 2 part-time police officers to serve you 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.\nBrush the outer surfaces, the inner surfaces, and the chewing surfaces of the teeth. Specialties: We are a chiropractic office that offers more than chiropractic services, such as Massage Therapy, Cryotherapy, Acupuncture, K-laser Therapy, Celluma Light Therapy and much more. 580-436-2156; 413 N. Monte Vista Ada, OK 74820; Monday 7:00am - 3:00pm Tuesday 8:00am - 5:00pm Wednesday 7:00am - 3:00pm Thursday 8:00am - 5:00 pm The American Dental Association (ADA) is the nation's largest dental association and is the leading source of oral health related information for dentists and their patients.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CONTACT | MAP\nMarshall R. Cole\nThe firm has experience in prosecuting and defending personal injury actions. The firm has successfully handled innumerable contested personal injury actions before juries, courts and arbitrations. Nemecek & Cole has developed a unique approach individually tailored to its clients, which allows these claims to be aggressively defended in a surprisingly cost effective manner.\nThe firm recently succeeded in obtaining a $6,250,000.00 personal injury settlement against the Los Angeles Police Department. Nemecek & Cole's aggressive and innovative litigation tactics are tailored made for the success of prosecution and defending personal injury actions.\nProkop v. City of Los Angeles (2007) 150 Cal.App.4th 1332\n[governmental immunity for biking accident on city property]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DaBaby on Social Media: 'Lost Souls Influenced by Lost Souls'\nImage via Getty\/Prince Williams\/Wireimage\n\"Lost souls influenced by lost souls\" have social media to blame, DaBaby advised fans early Tuesday.\nIn a series of early morning tweets, the Grammy nominee and recent SNL guest said he wouldn't even use social media himself were it not such a \"lucrative tool\" in the music business. \"I hate to see it,\" he said. \"I encourage people to have the courage to find themselves without the false sense of security they search for on the internet.\"\nSocial media, DaBaby said in a subsequent tweet, is not what he considers \"the place\" to share truth. \"But lately I been feeling like it's my calling to say more,\" he added, later criticizing those who take moments of candor and vulnerability on social media as a sign of sadness. \"GOD just moved me to send out a message this morning,\" he told fans. \"Don't send pity where it isn't needed. Just soak up the game for what it's worth. Shit it may not be worth nothing at all.\"\nThe candid tweets arrived the morning after DaBaby shared a message with his Instagram followers urging the public to refrain from continuing to discuss \"that weak ass 48 hours\" spent in jail.\nDaBaby, Ariana Grande, Meek Mill, and More React to Grammy Nominations\nGoldlink Calls out Grammys Over Tyler, the Creator and DaBaby Snubs: 'Its Fuck Grammys Til the Day I Die'\nWatch DaBaby Perform \"Bop\" and \"Suge\" in 'SNL' Debut\n\"Please be reminded that sucka ass situations like these aren't worthy of your time or attention,\" he said.\nAlso on Tuesday, DaBaby was announced as being among the headliners for this year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. His breakthrough 2019 hit \"Suge,\" meanwhile, is up for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song at this year's Grammy Awards.\nNewsSocial MediaTweetsdababy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"graysartschoolaberdeen.com\nStreet Sport Pump Track Project\nIncorporated Trades Award Textiles Students\nArt in online casino games \ud83c\udfb0\nDifferent kind of art in casino \ud83d\udcf7 Tourist guide UK\nThe Influence of Art in Video Games\u2728\nPosted by callumkellie on November 17, 2015\nAn Aberdeen trade body has committed to helping further the careers of students at Gray's School of Art for at least another decade.\nThe Weaver Incorporation, one of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, announced that it will continue to present its annual Career Enhancement Award to students for at least a decade at this year's presentation ceremony at Trinity Hall.\nThe awards have been presented to outstanding students on the Fashion and Textiles degree course at Gray's since 1987 and reflect the commitment of the Weavers Incorporation towards supporting the development of skills and helping prepare students for a career in textiles.\nThe 2015 prize was won by Joanna O'Brien, with Rebecca Moir receiving the runners'-up award.\nIan Dale, Deacon of the Weaver Incorporation, said: \"We are extremely pleased to continue to help nurture and encourage the students at Gray's School of Art through the Career Enhancement Awards, which reflect the principles and practices of the Weavers over the centuries.\n\"The standards and quality that we have seen in this award has risen year on year, and it is fantastic to see the very high level that Gray's School of Art is at.\"\nJosie Steed, Course Leader for Fashion & Textile Design at Gray's School of Art, said: \"The Weaver Incorporation Career Enhancement Award provides a catalyst for our students at all stages of the application process. By writing, presenting and delivering a proposal to the Weavers, our students develop lifelong skills in how to present themselves to others outwith their tutors and peers, and to consider and plan their career journeys.\n\"We are extremely grateful to the Weaver Incorporation for its continued support and look forward to continuing to work with them in the coming years.\"\nJoanna, who is now in the final year of her degree, was presented with the J Gray Kilgour Medal, a certificate of excellence and \u00a3600 while third year student Rebecca took home a certificate of commendation and the runners' up prize of \u00a3300.\nThe awards, which are judged on the basis of a submitted portfolio, go towards helping the students fund either a piece of equipment or a trip that will help them progress towards a rewarding career.\nJoanna, whose portfolio was a collection of knitted samples and garments based around the concept of cocooning the body, said: \"I was inspired by the idea of creating a large scale conceptual piece of knitwear which was based on the shapes of cocoons and the idea of the body being trapped inside the garment.\n\"I applied for the award as I thought it would be a good experience to put together a portfolio and give me the opportunity to present and talk about my work.\n\"Winning the Weaver Career Enhancement award has been a great opportunity for me, from the experience I gained from putting together my portfolio to the benefits of receiving funding for my work. Alongside these benefits, it has also been great to be part of such a significant award, which has been involved with supporting students from my course for many years now.\"\nJoanna has used her winnings to purchase her own domestic knitting machine which will be useful for furthering her skills and knowledge of machine knitting.\n\"I plan to use the rest of the award money to help fund the different yarns and materials that I will be using to create my graduate collection for my final year of study\", she added.\nRebecca submitted a portfolio which was inspired by the adverse effects weather has on the environment.\nShe said: \"I applied for the award because I really wanted to push myself to present my work in a professional manner. I had never done a presentation in front of a professional panel before and felt this would be a very useful experience to me as a designer.\n\"Winning the competition meant a lot to me, it definitely boosted my confidence, and made me feel like all my hard work had paid off. The money was extremely useful to my studies as well.\"\nRebecca purchased a table loom with her prize money and is now trying to get to grips with that as she hopes to use it in her next project.\nShe concluded: \"I would definitely encourage other students to enter the competition not just for the money but to experience what it's like to present your work in a professional manner.\"\nRelease by\nJenny Rush\nCommunications Officer | Design and Technology\n\u00a92022 graysartschoolaberdeen.com\t| Built using WordPress and Responsive Blogily theme by Superb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spaxel Pays $45M for Atlanta Workforce Housing\nBy Adriana Marinescu\nAffordable HousingAtlantaDealsFinance & Investment More NewsSouth\nAvison Young secured an equity partner for the purchase of the 266-unit property in Marietta, Ga.\nThe Hills at East Cobb. Image courtesy of Avison Young\nSpaxel has paid $45 million for The Hills at East Cobb, a 266-unit workforce housing property in Marietta, Ga., with $16.4 million in limited partner equity from Sound Mark Partners.\nAccording to Yardi Matrix data, the previous owner was Aerial Development Group, which purchased the Class B property in 2018 for $35.1 million. Avison Young arranged the joint equity partnership.\nThe acquisition is part of Spaxel's strategy aimed at value-add and new construction multifamily opportunities, with a focus on affordable and moderate-income housing. Managing Partner Granit Gjonbalaj said, in a prepared statement, that this is the first of many transactions in the region.\nThe Hills at East Cobb sold for $125.6 per square foot. Yardi Matrix data shows only two other workforce housing properties changed hands in suburban Atlanta in the first quarter of 2021. The same private owner sold the 128-unit Centerview Terrace in Smyrna, Ga., and the 216-unit Brookview in Douglasville, Ga., for an average $117.7 per square foot.\nA value-add property\nSituated on more than 24 acres at 1716 Terrell Mill Road, the community comprises 11 two-story buildings completed in 1970. The unit mix features one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans averaging 1,342 square feet. Amenities include a swimming pool, dog park, fitness center, picnic area and clubhouse.\nThe property is 14 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta and 6 miles southeast of downtown Marietta, equidistant from Interstate 75 and U.S. Route 41. There are numerous shopping venues nearby and the new Atlanta Braves stadium is roughly 2 miles south.\nJohn Kevill, principal & president of Avison Young U.S. Capital Markets, working with Principals Wes Boatwright, Dean Sands and Casey Keitchen, led the team securing the equity partner for the deal.\nAvison Young, John Kevill, Wes Boatwright","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Gallery - Pesticide\nPhoto: Iona-Skye Wood\nWakefield-based outfit The Gallery waste no time unleashing their latest single Pesticide. Packed with high-fire percussion, brash guitars and angst-driven lyrics the band's immediate effort cranks up the volume to 11 and leaves no stone unturned as it drives through the motions. Citing their influences as far and wide as Joy Division, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley and David Bowie it's clear to see where they get their sound from - I can't wait to hear more. Take a listen for yourselves below.\nThe Gallery are: Joe Anderson-Smith (guitar), Sam Hawcroft (bass), Matthew Rees (vox) and Ben Whiteley (drums).\nf: www.facebook.com\/TheGalleryWakefield\nGenre Alternative, Rock","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Retro Slots\n32 Red Casino\nGrosvenor Casinos\nTop Online Casinos\nBy Casino\n32 Red Slots\nMr Green Slots\nIntercasino Slots\nPaddyPower Slots\nBy Providers\nYggdrasil Slots\nThunderkick Slots\nAmaya Slots\niSoftbet Slots\nPlay'n Go Slots\n& Promotions\nBet365 CEO is UK's Highest-paid Boss, Earning \u00a3323M This Year\nDenise Coates, CEO and founder of gambling company Bet365 is the United Kingdom's highest-paid boss, taking home a total of \u00a3323 million in the fiscal year that ended March 2019. She was paid \u00a3277 million in salary, plus dividends as online gambling in general and their company in particular grew more popular last year.\nPer the firm's records, her salary grew from \u00a3220 million in the previous period. With this increase, she has broken the record of \u00a3265 million she herself set a year earlier. Coates' annual pay equates to \u00a31.3 million for every working day in the past year. This figure is 9,500 times the average salary in the UK, and 2,000 times higher than the amount given to the country's Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.\nThe increase in her salary became a highly talked-about news item primarily because it came in the face of mounting criticism thrown against the gambling industry, including the issue of children getting engaged in gambling activities. Ms. Coates owns the privately-held company jointly with other members of her family. The owners include her brother John, who is joint chief executive, as well as her father, Peter.\nHaving earned a first-class degree in econometrics from Sheffield University, Ms. Coates decided to join her father's high-street betting firm right after graduation. She was the one who recognised the potential of online gambling back in 2000. She made the decision to invest in the domain name Bet365.com as part of a plan to drive their family business towards that direction.\nIn the last fiscal year, Bet365 recorded a profit of \u00a3791 million before tax, a marked increase from the \u00a3661 million they earned the year before. The firm paid total dividends of \u00a392.5 million, and about half of this is believed to have been given to Ms. Coates, as she is the owner of about half of the company's shares.\nThe High Pay Centre, a think tank responsible for monitoring income, called the timing of Bet365's release of annual results \"cynical\" because it came right on the heels of the general election. According to High Pay Centre Executive Director Luke Hildyard, \"This looks like cynical timing, sneaked out straight after a general election campaign where excess wealth, taxes on the rich, and the vast gap between those at the top and everybody else have been key issues.\"\n\"Business success should be incentivised and rewarded,\" he added. \"But a payment a fraction of this size would still afford a lifestyle beyond the wildest dreams of most people.\" Mr. Hildyard went on to say there is \"clearly scope\" for people who accumulate such amounts of money to pay their workers more or at least pay more in taxes.\nIn October of this year, a Cardiff University study suggested that about \u2156 of 11- to 16-year-old kids have engaged in gambling activities in the past year. Study results stated that this was \"particularly concerning, given that across the UK, most forms of commercial gambling are only legal for those aged 18 and over.\"\nIn response to the growing concern regarding problem gambling in general, Bet365 has stated that they have \"an unwavering commitment to deliver industry-leading approaches to player protection,\" which includes the close monitoring of their customers' gambling activities. The company has also stated that they will immediately \"terminate the relationship if it feels the risk of harm is too high.\"\nSporting Solutions Wins Tender with Norsk Tipping\nSporting Solutions has managed to secure a tender with Norwegian state-run operator Norsk Tipping. The supplier will now start supplying the operator with pricing and risk-management services.This offer of tender followed a competitive procurement pr\nKindred to Donate EHF Exposure Rights to Charity\nOnline gambling operator Kindred Group had a fantastic 2019, and it looks like they are determined to start 2020 on a positive note, too. The operator has announced that they will be donating all of their exposure rights for the European Handball Fed\nTop 5 Slot Machine Providers With the Most Number of Games Online\nSlot machines have been around since the eighteenth century, when they were first launched at land-based casinos. Over the years, these games have remained among the most popular casino games all over the world. Their popularity is mostly attributed\nFirst NHS Gambling Addiction Clinic Opens in Sunderland\nAs part of their efforts to tackle problem gambling, the National Health Service (NHS) has opened a new clinic in Sunderland. The clinic will offer services from a consultant psychologist, consultant psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, and a senior\nCopyright \u00a9 2011-2019 https:\/\/www.tuxslots.com | All Right Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About JazWalk Los Angeles\nJazwalk Los Angeles founder Keana Jacobs believes, the beginning of every vision may come from an individual, but for it to reach its full potential its needs the support of many\u2026\nJazWalk founder Keana Jacobs, has over 20 years of experience as a professional dance instructor. A dancer since the age of nine, Ms. Jacobs got her start performing in LA area talent shows, showcasing her passion for dance and choreography at an early age. By age 12, Keana began formal dance training at Hawthorne Dance Academy. In her first year with the program, she received the coveted \"dancer of the year\" award. The passion that led her to participate in shows at 9, grew into a desire to share her gift with others. As a result, she began serving as an instructor at the age of 15. Her warm disposition and high level of energy benefited her in this role, translating as attributes that served her well when teaching others.\nKeana continued her training as a student at Paul Kennedy Dance School in 1996, and later became one of the lead dancers with Zenith Dance Company, where she remained until 2000. With Zenith, Ms. Jacobs had the opportunity to perform in various programs, including competitions and shows for up-and-coming artists. Out of 500 dancers, she was selected as one of the 15 Spotlight Awards semifinalists and was a competitor for the NAACP ACTSO awards held in Atlanta.\nTeach one, Save one. Let dance lead the way\nIn 2000, Ms. Jacobs began training at El Camino College where she studied business management and dance history. She also became a member of El Camino's dance company, Qui Geometer, through which she met professional dancer and choreographer, Katisha Adams. Under Ms. Adams, Keana danced in her first music video, \"Monica Monica\", by recording artists, Before Dark. The partnership with Keana Adams proved productive. While with Ms. Adams, Ms. Jacobs had the opportunity to work with legendary dancer\/choreographer Debbie Allen for two years, performing as the African queen in Ms. Allen's production, the Chocolate Nut Cracker.\nAfter a brief hiatus, Ms. Jacobs returned to the stage to perform at the 2007 BET Awards as part of the opening performance with comedian, Monique. Being relentlessly results orientated and dedicated to achieving the highest possible standards, Keana has a gift to inspire passion in her students. Her comfort level and confidence teaching large groups of children in a classroom setting has enabled her to develop a successful track record of improving students' knowledge and understanding of dance. Keana has experience teaching all age groups and not only understands the needs of students, but also has the ability to quickly engage with them. During her career she has taught in private dance schools, afterschool programs, for church youth groups and has choreographed in high school and college productions. In addition to this she is trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and tap, along with some specialty styles such as African, swing.\nKeana is very passionate about uplifting youth that are victims of environments stricken by substance abuse, parental neglect and violence. She knows how much this affects a child from first hand experience. After losing her parents tragically as a child due to them both suffering from substance abuse lifestyles and her grandmother who raised her passing away from a heart attack all occuring within a 3-year period before the age of 10. Keana is no stranger to pain and loss. Even though she received counseling, dance was the most effective therapy. Dance classes allowed her to be free. Once she realized how much dance helped her, she knew it could help others. She looks forward to extending the same love that dance offered to her to help inspire others. JazWalk Los Angeles will also expose youth to an array of opportunities, while teaching them the importance of giving back to their own communities and getting involved to make a difference.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Battles are resolved using an excellent turn-based tactical game so far removed from usual RPG combat that \"genre-bending\" certainly applies. Though moving your troops to make formations of three or more in a line is the central mechanic of CoH, comparisons to match-3 puzzle games like Puzzle Quest's battles or Bejeweled are less apt than those to lane-based combat like SolForge or even Plants vs. Zombies. In CoH, it's only possible to move the rearmost unit in a row or delete a unit, which is such an unusual limitation that I found my familiarity with match-3s more misleading than helpful. There's also a delay before formations attack, which rewards the planning of programmed movement.\nThough some battles do drag on a bit (especially when two armies with strong healing abilities square off) and there are difficulty spikes during the campaign, there's enough variety in the armies and special goals in different battles to keep the combat enjoyable throughout. Not only are there five factions, each army can be customized with various regular, elite, and champion units, and you can choose an artifact which grants a moderately important special ability. Optional puzzle battles (which must be \"solved\" in a limited number of turns) are particularly enjoyable, often serving as strategic tutorials for advanced techniques.\nFrom a technical standpoint, unfortunately, the translation to iOS is shameful. While I only encountered a few game-stopping bugs, crashes out of the app are from the worst of it. During several battles, I inexplicably lost the ability to remove units. The game ought to shine in multiplayer for many of the same reasons as Pocket Tactics' Game of the Year for 2012, Summoner Wars. Sadly, my several attempts to begin asynchronous online games all failed (crashing the app of those who tried to accept the invitations). CoH also has serious memory management problems. I found that quitting and restarting could increase the speed of battles to a degree approaching comedy, with units seeming to run around like the Keystone Kops in comparison to their previously funereal pace.\nMuch of our dialogue consists of stating the obvious with exclamation points!\nThough these are serious problems, they are at least obviously unintended. By contrast, the overworld movement is terrifically bad by design. Maps are laid out with distinct nodes, and usually, you tap on a node to move there. Sometimes, however, you tap on the character to move away from your current node. Similarly, you tap on yourself in order to interact with whatever's nearest. If you tap on the thing you want to interact with, you usually move away from it; this is quite possibly the wrongest reaction the interface could possibly have. I initially thought this was unintuitive but would grow to become second nature; it didn't. It rarely causes more than a brief waste of time, but it's so obviously wrong that it feels deliberately insulting. I also wouldn't recommend playing on an iPhone or iPod Touch; with no undo feature, the interface is just too cramped to be confident of executing your plans.\nIn fairness, even if the overworld were perfectly translated, it would feel like an obstacle unnecessarily keeping me from the battles, where the interesting decisions live. It's a shame these really quite good tactical affairs come with a bad translation of an unnecessarily involved overworld. Playing Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes feels like eating a sandwich expertly made of quality filling, between two overly thick slices of moldy sourdough.\nReview: Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Auction: February 2018\nLand At Cowling Lane, Leyland, Lancashire, PR25 1XN\nThe land lies approximately 1< miles from Leyland town centre and railway station and 2< miles from Junction 28 of the M6 Motorway. The site is located on the corner of Dever Avenue and Cowling Lane.\nFreehold parcel of land located in an established residential area and currently being used as public open space. The land is offered with vacant possession.\nApprox Site Area\nApproximately 361 sq m (432 sq yds).\nInterested parties should consult direct with the Local Planning Office, South Ribble Borough Council, Civic Centre, West Paddock, Leyland PR25 1DH. Tel: 01772 421491, Fax: 01772 622287.\nLand At Cowling Lane,\nPR25 1XN\nAuction: February 2018 Date: 20th February 2018 Lot Number: 101 Doors Open: 12:00pm Bidding Starts: 12:00pm\nAJ Bell Stadium,\nM30 7EY\nProperty: Land At Cowling Lane, Leyland, Lancashire\nAuction: AJ Bell Stadium, Manchester, M30 7EY 20\/02\/2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ONLINE NEWS PAPER\nTown Crier Publications\nNipmuc Baseball Wins League, Surges to Tourney\nBy Chris Villani Sports Reporter\/Columnist \u00b7 June 04, 2019\nAfter dropping four out of five in a bit of a midseason lull, the Nipmuc baseball team rolled to wins in eight of its final nine games to capture the Dual Valley Conference championship and enter the district tournament on a roll.\n\"We have been playing really well at the right time,\" said head coach Steve Dellarovere. \"We have had some good wins down the stretch and the first goal is always to win the league.\"\nThe Warriors lost just one game in league play, scoring wins over Sutton, Douglas and Hopedale to help lock up the DVC crown. As has been the case all season, the team's trio of pitchers have been instrumental to the squad's success. Jack Tempesta, Brendan Mathieson and Andrew Griswold have taken the mound and kept their team in games.\n\"We have been rolling them out one after another, no matter the opponent, and those guys are up to the task,\" Dellarovere said. \"They are not walking a ton of guys and they are able to go deep in the game. They keep the ball in play and let the defense help them out.\"\nMatt Fraser, a sophomore, has slid into the middle of the Nipmuc lineup and been one of the squad's most consistent hitters,\nresponsible for a number\nof significant hits. Consistency at the plate\nthroughout the lineup has been the primary reason for Nipmuc's sizzling stretch run.\n\"The pitching has been there, but at the\nplate, during the tough stretches, we were a bit inconsistent,\" Dellarovere said. \"We would get a guy on base and not be able to move him along. Now everyone is helping out, one through nine. It's not the same guys, but a few guys each day who are stepping up.\"\nThe Warriors learned their first round district tournament opponent earlier this week. Dellarovere said he expected the Division 3 field to be fairly deep and competitive, but liked the fact that his team is built around strong pitching. The quality\nof pitching around the area, he said, has been very strong.\n\"With the pitching we have, I feel pretty good, when you have the arms you\nfeel like you have a shot against\neverybody,\" Dellarovere said. \"On\nthe flip side, you can always run into a hot pitcher too and have a tough day. I would like to think we can make a run, but every game is going to be tough.\"\nHOME | CALENDAR | NEWS ARCHIVE | EDITORIAL | PHOTO GALLERY | SPORTS | ADVERTISING | ABOUT US\nTown Crier Publications, Inc. \u00b7 48 Mechanic Street, Upton, MA 01568\nPhone: 508-529-7791 \u00b7 E-mail: sales@towncrierpubs.com\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Town Crier Publications, Inc.\nAll rights reserved. \u00b7 Login\nWebsite designed and hosted by Standing Stone Designs.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brown Lecture Series: Dawn Porter\nEvent Image:\nTuesday, November 9, 2021 - 7:00pm\nEvent address:\n400 Cathedral St\nCentral Library, Wheeler Auditorium\nNot Feature Event\nBy the Author:\nDawn Porter will be in conversation about her life and work.\nDawn Porter is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on HBO, PBS, Discovery, and Netflix among others. She is currently directing and executive producing an Apple TV multi-part documentary series with Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, which focuses on both mental illness and mental well-being.\nDawn has been commissioned to create films for the Center for Investigative Reporting, Time and Essence Magazines, The New York Times Op Docs, and Amazon. Her work has received generous support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Film Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures and other esteemed organizations. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Directors Guild of America.\nASL interpretation will be available for attendees.\nParking is free on Park Avenue and Cathedral Street after 6pm. Parking is $5 in the Franklin Street Garage after 5pm.\nThe Brown Lecture Series is supported by the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Foundation.\nEvent | by Dr. Radut","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chrissy Teigen to Donate $200,000 to Help Bail out Protesters\nBy Claudine Varela\nChrissy Teigen committed $200k to bail out hundreds of protesters after originally pledging $100k and thinking it may not be enough.\nChrissy Teigen expressed her commitment to helping jailed protesters by pledging to donate $200k for their release. The fiery supermodel made her generous intentions known in a series of tweets on May 31.\nModel Chrissy Teigen visits \"Extra\" at Universal Studios Hollywood in May 2015. | Photo: Getty Images\nAs thousands flocked to the streets to protest the senseless death of George Floyd, many were arrested for alleged riotous behavior.\nIn response to this, Teigen, one of many stars advocating for justice for Floyd, tweeted that she would donate money to bail them out.\nChrissy Teigen and husband, John Legend at the LA Premiere of Netflix's \"Between Two Ferns: The Movie\" in September 2019. | Photo: Getty Images\nIn her original tweet, Teigen wrote, \"I am committed to donating $100,000.\" She added that it was to help post bail for jailed protesters all over the country. However, she later sent out a second tweet dialing up her donation to $200,000 saying more money may be needed.\nThe growing number of protests has also become alarming with the threat of COVID-19 still at large.\nEarlier, Teigen earned a lot of flak for supporting protesters who turned riotous and violent. Not one to back down, she fired back by slamming those minding her business.\nAs of May 31, Madame Noire reported over 1,600 protest arrests across 22 cities in the US. There were also alleged shootings in Minneapolis where mayhem first erupted after Floyd died in the city while being restrained during an arrest.\nThe growing number of protests has also become alarming with the threat of COVID-19 still at large. In fact, Teigen's husband, John Legend reminded protesters to continue to stay safe, distanced, and protected while out in the streets.\nJohn Legend's Wife Tried to Ignore Pics of Him with Other Women for a Year after Their 1st Night Together\nOld Lady Adopts Lost Little Boy with Note in His Pocket, His Mother Returns after 13 Years \u2013 Story of the Day\nSingle Working Mom of Five Is Jailed for Asking Her Teenage Daughter to Babysit\nThe Grammy-winning crooner also showed his solidarity with his wife when he tweeted his support for those defending the protestors. He named three organizations that will be receiving donations from them. This includes The Bail Project, Movement 4 Black Lives, and the National Lawyers Guild.\nLike Teigen and Legend, many celebrities have also spoken up to express their dismay over the circumstances that led to Floyd's death. Among them were Rihanna, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Diddy, Ciara, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, and Ice Cube.\nWe at news.AmoMama.com do our best to give you the most updated news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, but the situation is constantly changing. We encourage readers to refer to the online updates from CD\u0421, WHO, or Local Health Departments to stay updated.Take care!\n6-Year-Old Schoolboy Is Shamed as Punishment for Being Late, Mom Accidentally Finds Out about This One Day\nWhile Sister Inherits Mansion, Brother Only Gets Abandoned House and Finds a Hidden Floor There \u2013 Story of the Day\nSamuel L Jackson & Wife Are Married for 41 Years & 'Still Love Each Other' Though They Took 10 Years to Wed\nJohn Wayne Welcomed Son at 56 & Knew He Would Miss Him Growing Up \u2014 He Did Not Let Him Go to School\nJon Cryer's 1st Kiss with Wife Was on Set after She Thought He Could Be Her 'New Best Gay Friend'\nAfter Old Man's Death, Granddaughter Who Never Visited Him Inherits Envelope with Several Notes \u2013 Story of the Day\nLoretta Lynn Fought for Her Beloved Husband Though He Called Other Women into Their Bed\nElderly Woman Left Homeless by Tornado Finds Out Stranger Raised $20,000 to Get Her a New House\nRich Girl Mocks Poor Waiter until He Saves Her Father's Life One Day \u2013 Story of the Day\nJon Bon Jovi Has Been Married to His Wife for 33 Years and Is a Proud Father of 4\nWoman Has Spent over 350 Weeks of Her Life Being Pregnant despite People Judging Her All the Time\nJane Fonda Is Not 'Dating Anymore' After 3 Marriages \u2013 She Failed to Find 'the Opposite of Her Father'\nPoor Boy Pays for Old Lady's Groceries, His Granny Gets $230k to Pay for Treatment Days Later \u2013 Story of the Day\n92-Year-Old Was about to Be Evicted by His Daughter from the House He Built 56 Years Before\nMarian Mapother Is Affiliated with Scientology & Has Built a Career as a Realtor\nTamiko Bolton Is George Soros' Third Wife: Everything We Know About Her\nCarrie James Is the Founder of Business Relationship Alliance & Mother of Sean Murray's Kids","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SEE THE CONTROVERSIAL TWIT AISHA BUHARI POSTED CALLING FAYOSE A MAD DOG AND THEN SHE HURRIEDLY DELETED IT AFTER NIGERIANS ATTACKED HER\nMrs. Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has deleted the controversial tweet, labeling one of the state governors as an unchained mad dog. \"Enough is Enough Fayose. A mad dog that isn't chained. I refuse to keep quiet,\" the First Lady posted on her verified Twitter handle on Tuesday's evening.\nHowever, the tweet and its follow-up was deleted hours after Nigerians reacted to them. Earlier, the Presidency has said that Fayose acted so infantile by linking Aisha to US Congressman William Jefferson's bribery scandal for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009. Following the blockage of account of the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, which he operates with Zenith Bank Plc, the governor has vehemently reacted to the development, alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari and his family members are not saints after all.\nAccusing President Muhammadu Buhari and his family of being corrupt, the Governor said in a press release by his Chief Press Secretary Mr Idowu Adelusi, that, \" Even the President cannot claim to be an angel. The estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal. When that American, Jefferson, was being sentenced, the President's wife was mentioned as having wired $170,000 to Jefferson. Her name was on page 25 of the sentencing of Jefferson. We c\nRead more at: http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2016\/06\/mad-dog-outburst-aisha-buhari-deletes-controversial-tweet\/\nCelebrity, Controversy\nSEE HOW MANY BILLIONS NIGERIA BLOWS ANNUALLY ON IMPORTATION OF 'GHANA MUST GO BAGS'\nSEE THE SIXTEEN TOP POLICEMEN, AIGS AND DIGS WHO MAY HAVE TO RETIRE SINCE NEW IG, IDRIS WAS THEIR JUNIOR","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alan J. Tarr\nChair, Tax\natarr@loeb.com\n\u7535\u8bdd +1.212.407.4900\nAlan Tarr's clients include a broad range of companies and individuals. His practice focuses on tax planning for business transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, reorganizations, utilizing partnerships and limited liability companies, tax benefits for renewable energy, sophisticated real estate transactions, executive compensation, state and local taxation and audits and tax controversies.\nStructured Hilltop Private Capital, LLC, a private equity fund, and represented the fund in its acquisition of C. J. Bridges Railroad Contractor, Inc. and American Track Generations, LLC, companies engaged in railroad track construction, renovation and maintenance. Represented NV5 Global, Inc., a professional and technical engineering and consulting solutions provider, in connection with its $36 million acquisition of CALYX Engineers and Consultants, Inc., an infrastructure and transportation firm. Advised Oprah Winfrey in connection with an equity investment in True Food Kitchen, a restaurant and lifestyle brand that has pioneered health-driven dining. Ms. Winfrey will also join the restaurant brand's board of directors, providing strategic insight into its national expansion and collaborating with the leadership team to advance the company's business and marketing objectives. Represented The Bank of New York Mellon, as sublandlord, in connection with the sublease of approximately 324,000 square feet of office space in the building located at 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York. Represented Oprah Winfrey in connection with the partial sale of her equity interest in OWN:The Oprah Winfrey Network.\n\u65b0\u95fb\u4e0e\u89c1\u89e3\nLoeb & Loeb Represents Galen College of Nursing In Its Acquisition By HCA Healthcare\n\u6d88\u606f\/\u65b0\u95fb\u7a3f\nLoeb & Loeb Counsels NV5 Global, Inc. in its Acquisition of the Forensics Engineering Business of GHD Group\nLoeb & Loeb Counsels NV5 Global, Inc. in its Acquisition of Quantum Spatial, Inc.\nLoeb & Loeb Counsels NV5 Global, Inc. in its Acquisition of WHPacific\n\u67e5\u770b\u6240\u6709\u65b0\u95fb \u67e5\u770b\u6240\u6709\u89c1\u89e3\nStrafford Publications Webinar: Choice of Entity After 2017 Tax Reform\n\u6f14\u8bb2\u4eba\nQualified Opportunity Zones: Trust and Estate Planning\nBloomberg Tax Leadership Forum - \"Making the Most of Tax Incentives: Qualified Opportunity Zones and Energy Credits\"\nInsight Exchange Network, Private Equity Tax Practices Conference\nBloomberg Tax Leadership Forum - Preparing Corporate Leaders for 2019\n\u7ebd\u7ea6\u5927\u5b66\u6cd5\u5b66\u9662, \u6cd5\u5b66\u7855\u58eb\nVanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, \u5de5\u5546\u7ba1\u7406\u7855\u58eb, Founders' Medal\n\u8303\u5f97\u6bd4\u5c14\u7279\u5927\u5b66\u6cd5\u5b66\u9662, \u6cd5\u5b66\u535a\u58eb,\nBrown University, \u5b66\u58eb, summa cum laude\n\u6240\u5c5e\u6cd5\u9662\n\u6267\u4e1a\u8d44\u683c\n\u7ebd\u7ea6\u5dde\n\u8363\u8a89\u53ca\u6240\u5c5e\u673a\u6784\n\u627f\u8ba4\nNamed in The Legal 500 US in Domestic Tax, published by Legalease Limited and John Pritchard (2018-2019)\nNamed \"New York Metro Super Lawyer\" in Tax by Thomson Reuters, (2010-2019)\nNamed \"Best Lawyer\" in Tax Law, (2012 and 2015-2020) and Tax Litigation & Controversy, (2013-2014), The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, Inc.\nRecipient, BNA Tax Management Distinguished Author Award\nHighest \"AV Preeminent (5 out of 5)\" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory\nCommittee on the Taxation of Business Entities, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (former Chair)\nMember, Pass-Through Entities Advisory Board, Bloomberg BNA\nFormer Member, Executive Committee, Tax Section, New York State Bar Association\n\u53e6\u89c1\nClient Alerts\/Reports High Net Worth Family Tax Report Vol. 14 No. 1\nExperience Represented Elisabeth Murdoch in Launch of Sister\n\u5a92\u4f53\u62a5\u9053 IRS Could Face More Court Battles After Nonprofit Donor Ruling\nSpeaking Engagements Smithsonian Institution's Legal Issues in Museum Administration 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arctic Ocean Opening for Business: Less Ice Means More Access\n\"Before 2050, we can realistically expect a nearly ice-free summer in the Arctic\"\nBy Edward H. Lundquist\t- October 21, 2013\nMembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy ice rescue team survey an ice sheet before allowing the crew and passengers of the cutter to disembark onto the Arctic Ocean, Sept. 13, 2013. Before conducting ice-based flight operations and holding ice liberty, the crew established a safety zone and briefed all passengers on emergency procedures. As the Arctic ice melts, the U.S. Coast Guard and other government agencies are having to rethink their operating doctrines for that part of the world. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Grant DeVuyst\nWhen experts, scientists, and policy makers met in Washington, D.C., for the 5th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminished Arctic Ocean on Naval and Maritime Operations, held in July at the Naval Heritage Center, the bottom line was this: The ice is receding, and traffic is growing.\n\"There are a lot of academic discussions around the Arctic these days, but for us, this is not an abstract academic discussion,\" said U.S. Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations Vice Adm. Peter V. Neffenger.\n\"Since this symposium was last convened in 2011, NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] has reported a rather startling string of events and milestones that mark an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic,\" said Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., acting under secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and acting NOAA administrator. \"For example, just last year carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in the Arctic reached the historic benchmark level of 400 parts per million. And summer sea ice melted to an historic low, which is the second historic low in just five years. Furthermore, the minimum extent of multiyear sea ice has diminished by 50 percent in area, and 75 percent in volume, compared to 1970s climatology. It is now the normal case that the massive, thick, multiyear ice that once was prevalent is commonly represented as a fragile, seasonal ice cover, Arctic-wide. Before 2050, we can realistically expect a nearly ice-free summer in the Arctic; it's a lot sooner than many earlier estimates had suggested and a so-called ice-free Arctic will bring an expansion of commercial activities and, in turn, increase the demand for NOAA products in the region \u2013 from comprehensive up-to-date nautical charts, to more detailed Arctic weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, better short-term and long-term sea ice forecasts, and integrated environmental impact assessments.\"\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Fairweather conducts hydrographic reconnaissance in the Arctic. As the Arctic has changed, so has the amount of resources NOAA has allotted to that region. NOAA photo\n\"NOAA will continue to bring the best of its resources \u2013 from our ships and satellites, to our scientists and airplanes, and other observational platforms \u2013 to the challenge of keeping pace with rapidly changing conditions in the Arctic,\" Sullivan said.\n\"There are a lot of academic discussions around the Arctic these days, but for us, this is not an abstract academic discussion,\" said U.S. Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations Vice Adm. Peter V. Neffenger. \"As people move into a region where there are challenging operating conditions, difficult lines of supply, lack of shore infrastructure, lack of logistics\u2026 it demands a presence of those agencies like the Coast Guard that are required to govern those areas. So, all of the Coast Guard's authorities and responsibilities in the rest of the country around the coast apply in this new ocean that is opening up.\"\nA chart depicting the Arctic region at minimum sea ice extent, in September, and cargo trans-shipment routes, illustrated by the red and blue lines. U.S. Coast Guard imagery\n\"We look to see an ice-free Arctic in as close as mid-century, then I suspect that that will become a much more attractive route for people to travel,\" Neffenger said. \"There's a great deal of potential resources, and we know that people are interested in finding those resources and extracting those resources, whether that's minerals, gas and oil, or living resources \u2013 fish stocks are tending to move further north as the waters warm up. There's also a significant amount of ecotourism.\"\nBoth of Alaska's senators spoke at the event. Both called for more cooperation among stakeholders, and more capability to respond to emergencies.\nThe 418-foot Coast Guard Cutter Waesche is moored to the Coast Guard Base Kodiak fuel pier on a foggy morning in Kodiak, Alaska, Aug. 19, 2013. The Alameda, Calif., based cutter is the second of eight planned national security cutters and the crew were on their first patrol in Alaska, part of Operation Arctic Shield 2013. Some are calling for the Coast Guard to station a national security cutter in Alaskan waters. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Mooers\n\"We are seeing more water in the Arctic that the Coast Guard is charged with,\" said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. \"What we haven't done as a Congress is step up to that responsibility as an Arctic nation.\"\nMaintaining access for oil and gas shipments through the Arctic is an economic and security issue, and requires more infrastructure to support the Coast Guard, including bases and icebreakers in arctic waters to be able to respond quickly to emergencies.\nSen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, said the Coast Guard must accelerate development of operational requirements for a new icebreaker and ensure the capacity and viability of the industrial base. He also called upon the Coast Guard to homeport a national security cutter in the Arctic.\nU.S. Navy: Arctic is part of our future\nRear Adm. Jonathan White, navigator and oceanographer of the U.S. Navy, said the Navy and the Coast Guard have a growing area of responsibility (AOR) in the Arctic. \"As the Arctic opens up more and more, we believe there is going to be a need for more Navy presence. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert says that the Arctic is part of our future in the Navy, and he has been very adamant about that. We're looking at the environment, the projected activity, the missions of the Coast Guard and the Navy, and determining what are the enablers. From the communication, charting, infrastructure, and the ships I have today, what do we need to be able to operate in the Arctic in 10, 15, 20 years? For example, with the ships we're building, will the overboard discharges and fuel systems work in that environment.\"\nPrev Page 1 2\tNext Page\nBy Edward H. Lundquist\nCapt. Edward H. Lundquist, U.S. Navy (Ret.) is a senior-level communications professional with more than...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NME is supported by you. When you purchase through links, we may earn a commission. HBO Max is not currently available in the UK.\n`; const postContentElem = document.querySelector('.tdb_single_content .tdb-block-inner'); postContentElem.appendChild(elem); } });\nAlbum Releases 2021\nGame Releases 2021\nNewsGaming News\n'Dragon Age 4' is \"built on choices that matter\" says BioWare\nA short update from the BioWare general manager\nBy Jen Allen\nDragon Age 4. Credit: BioWare\nBioWare has updated fans on what to expect from the company in 2022 including some insight into Dragon Age 4.\nREAD MORE: 10 games to look forward to in 2022\nIn a blog post on the BioWare site, general manager of BioWare, Gary McKay, explained plans for forthcoming games. Notably, while keeping vague about the next iterations of Dragon Age and Mass Effect, he did have one thing to offer. \"We are focused on a single-player experience that is built on choices that matter,\" he explained. He also pointed out that the team behind Dragon Age is made up of \"a veteran group of talented developers\".\nDecisions play a crucial role in how Dragon Age and Mass Effect games play out so the idea that such choices will truly matter should delight many people. With many games including multiplayer modes (including Mass Effect 3 at launch), a focus on a single-player experience should also be welcome for Dragon Age 4 fans.\nDragon Age: Inquisition. Credit: Bioware.\nMcKay also focused on the company's mission to \"create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story\". He added that it wanted game launches \"to be seminal moments in the industry\".\nElsewhere in the blog post, McKay explained that Star Wars: The Old Republic will also see a new expansion pack \u2013 Legacy Of The Sith. The DLC will offer more combat style choices, a new storyline, and more when it launches on February 15.\nThe post also discussed how the firm is adding remote positions for employees, marking a considerable change for how it operates.\nElsewhere in gaming, E3's in-person event has been cancelled again due to COVID-19 concerns. It's the third year in a row that the event has not gone ahead, and a digital replacement has not been announced just yet.\nVideo Game Culture\nThe world's defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking what's new and what's next since 1952.\n\u00a9 2021 NME is part of NME Networks.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Edit & Opinions\nUnleashing the populace\nAnalysts observing the working-age population of China surmise that it is a big challenge for a country to avoid a scenario where it grows old before it turns prosperous.\nNEW DELHI: On many metrics, China maintains an economic edge over emerging manufacturing rivals like Vietnam and India.\nBoasting of superior infrastructure, Beijing has long-standing private sector relationships that it can rely on for years to come.\nHowever, India has primed itself to give China a run for its renminbi in terms of human capital or population. India is now set to surpass China and become the most populous nation globally in 2023.\nAs per the World Population Prospects 2022 study compiled by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, India is set to have a population of 1.668 billion by 2050, which is higher than China's expected population of 1.317 billion by the middle of this century.\nChina's population had declined for the first time since 1961, owing to a plunging birth rate. Its demographic crisis deepened in 2022 as population dropped by 8.5 lakh to rest upon the 1.4118 billion mark, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.\nThese developments are transpiring when China's economic growth has also plummeted to its second-lowest in five decades, as it registered a three per cent increase in 2022.\nChina's decline in population is a fallout of its decades-old myopic one-child-policy, implemented in the 1970s and scrapped in 2016. The policy prevented 400 mn additional births. However, China's rapidly ageing population and the demographic transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy also contributed to this decline. As living expenses shot up, people were less inclined to have children.\nApart from the revised third-child policy implemented in May 2021, Beijing has initiated a range of stimulus measures to boost population growth. Several cities, provinces and regions have introduced incentive schemes like issuing subsidies to families with a second or third child.\nHowever, population scientists affirm that the experience drawn from Europe and Japan tells us how hard it is to inspire a shift in mindsets and reverse such declines with fiscal incentives and government campaigns.\nIn terms of age structure, China's working-age population between 16 and 59 is estimated to be 875.56 million, which accounts for 62 per cent of the national population. The population of those aged 60 or more hit 280.04 million, which was 19.8 per cent of the total population. As per estimates, this number is set to rise to 30 per cent, or more than 400 million people by 2035.\nOn the other hand, World Bank data says that India's working age population is 68% as against the global average of 65%. But, there aren't enough people employed in the workforce as just about 46% of India's potential labour force is active in the job market, compared to nations like Indonesia with 68%, and Vietnam with 74% of its eligible population employed in the workforce.\nIndia must take advantage of being one of the youngest nations globally. Making the most of its population dividend requires the administration to tick off many items on the checklist. The creation of a business-friendly milieu that inspires investors to set shop here is imperative to drive employment generation. India must also aspire to improve indices pertaining to the quality of life without which all such mobilisations could falter.\nChina population","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fame10\nFame10 Authors\nHome \u00bb Trending News \u00bb Ellen DeGeneres Explains Trip To Hospital After Wine-Related Accident\nEllen DeGeneres Explains Trip To Hospital After Wine-Related Accident\nTelisa Carter\nSource: Warner Bros.\nIn Memoriam: Stars We Lost in 2022\nOh, Ellen! The beloved talk show host revealed on her show on Tuesday, March 21 that she recently had to make an emergency trip to the hospital after injuring her finger in a wine-related incident.\n\"I have something to show you \u2014 it's that right here. Can you see it?\" she said to the camera showing off a splint on her finger. \"I broke my finger. I know what you're thinking: 'How can you host a show without the tip of my ring finger?' I am not gonna let this beat me. I am not,\" she joked.\nDeGeneres went on to explain the whole incident, stating, \"So, you know how in gymnastics when you do a one-handed cartwheel and you have to spread the weight evenly between all your fingers? Well, I had two glasses of win and fell into a door.\"\nShe and her wife were coming home from a dinner party and were almost to the door when the accident happened. \"The dogs were so excited to see us and I caught the lip of the top step. I was a foot away from the door and I fell into the door and it did something to my finger, I knew something was wrong.\" She then failed to warn her audience before showing a photo of the dislocated finger. \"I should have warned you. Don't look at that. If you're squeamish, don't look at it. I'm sorry,\" she said.\n\"My first thought was, 'No big deal; Obama Care will cover this.' So, Portia drove me to the hospital\u2014to the emergency room\u2014and when I got there, of course, the receptionist had so many things for me to sign: a picture for her nephew, a T-shirt for her,\" DeGeneres joked. \"No, they were wonderful. UCLA, thank you so much\u2026There was a lot of people who were helpful, but Tammy, thank you so much. Tammy was my nurse who was taking care of me.\" DeGeneres then showed an X-ray of her finger. \"Don't worry\u2014this isn't as bad as the last one I showed you,\" she said. On second thought, she said, \"Maybe it is. I was wrong. It's worse. I'm so sorry.\"\nThe beloved host then explained how they fixed the dislocation. \"So, do you know what they do when you dislocate your finger? It's very technical. What they do is they take the part that's dislocated and then they just snap it right back into place. Yeah, you can see why they have to go to eight years of medical school. Before they did it, I was in incredible pain and Tammy said, 'Do you want a shot?' And I said, 'No, I had two glasses of wine\u2014that's what got me into this mess in the first place, Tammy.' She meant a shot to numb my finger. She said, 'You're gonna feel a little prick.' This is a daytime show\u2014you make up your own joke there.\"\nLuckily DeGeneres was okay and even stopped to take a selfie with some patients including one young man who explained he got hit by a bus. \"He won,\" DeGeneres told Stephen \"tWitch\" Boss. \"He won the story.\"\nTelisa enjoys learning and writing about all things entertainment in the world of Hollywood. When she isn't catching up on her favorite TV shows, she likes to read, and obsess over all things football.\nHighly Related\n10 Ellen DeGeneres Pranks That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud\nThings You Might Not Know About Ellen Degeneres\nEllen DeGeneres' Best Celebrity Scares\nSoap Opera Spoilers For Friday, December 16, 2022\nSoap Opera Spoilers For Thursday, December 15, 2022\nSoap Opera Spoilers For Wednesday, December 14, 2022\nRanked: Greatest Female Soap Opera Stars Of 2022\nRanked: Greatest Male Soap Opera Stars Of 2022\nThings You Didn't Know About Soap Star John Aniston\nSoap Opera Couples Who Will Break Up In 2023\nAstonishing Soap Opera Character Returns Of 2022\nRanked: Greatest Soap Opera Couples Of 2022\nSoap Opera Characters Who Need To Be Written Off In 2023\nSoap Opera Couples Who Will Reunite In 2023\nSoap Opera Characters Who Will Come Back To Life In 2023\nRanked: Comatose Soap Opera Romances Of 2022\nStunning Soap Opera Character Exits Of 2022\nIn Memoriam: Soap Opera Stars We Lost In 2022\nHollywood Love","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: joseph barrett\nBrownstone Tombstones\nContinuing my theme of tombstones, I would like to turn to a singular grave marker in Middletown, Connecticut, just across the border from the old brownstone quarries in Portland. I believe this may be the only tombstone with dinosaur tracks on it. It honors Joseph Barrett, an M.D., though judging from the stone, he was equally as proud to be a botanist and geologist. Who wouldn't?\nBarrett was well known in the area for his passion for tracks. His obituary in the New York Times read \"So deeply was he engaged in this work that he neglected his profession and became a monomaniac on the subject of bird tracks. He saw all manner of fossils in city walks which no other eyes were able to see, and in his peregrinations about the town would stop suddenly, look at a stone, bring out a sheet of wrapping paper and, laying it out on the walk, draw upon it whatever his fancy painted, write the place where the stone lay and date its discovery.\" Oh, to be able to see those drawings!\nBarrett also regularly supplied tracks to Edward Hitchcock, who taught at Amherst College and is considered the father of ichnology. Hitchcock never could admit that dinosaurs made the tracks; birds were the track makers.\nWhen Barrett died, according to brownstone historian Alison Guinness, the local quarries donated two slabs of stone. You can find the facts on the smooth face. You can also see how brownstone weathers, peeling off layer by layer like sunburned skin. The back side, though, is the face to explore. Several three-toed tracks can be seen crossing at angles to each other. The most obvious one is just to the left of center, next to a round white lichen. Another one is a few inches down and to left. They have been designated as Grallator formosus and Brontozoum sillimanicum.\nThe back side of Barrett's tombstone. Note the various tracks of three-toed dinosaurs.\nThe second slab, which the first sits on, has two tree casts. In addition, you can see where it says \"The Testimony of the Rocks.\" This book, written by Scottish geologist Hugh Miller and published the year after his death in 1857, is a curious combination of anti-evolution but supportive of a great age for the Earth.\nTogether these two slabs are certainly a wonderful tombstone testimony to the passion of a man for the stone and the fossils he loved.\nPosted on August 13, 2009 March 20, 2015 Categories blog, Stories in Stone BlogTags brownstone, dino tracks, joseph barrettLeave a comment on Brownstone Tombstones","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NDLEA Commander in the state, Mr. Joseph Icha, told the newsmen in Maiduguri on Tuesday that the suspects comprised 500 males and nine females.\nHe said large quantities of Indian hemp, cocaine, heroin, tramadol, Rohypnol, diazepam and other psychotropic substances were recovered from the suspects.\nIcha said 295 persons were counselled against drug abuse, while 27 others were sent to rehabilitation centres.\nHe added that during the period, the Borno office of the NDLEA secured 34 convictions of drug traffickers and users, while 174 cases were still pending in courts.\nThe NDLEA Commander said that the agency was working with relevant security agencies to ensure a drug-free society.\nIcha urged politicians to sensitise their supporters against the use of drugs and engaging in violent campaigns and warned that anyone found culpable would face the full wrath of the law.\nNaira redesign: Jan. 31 deadline for old notes remains \u2013 Emefiele\nPoland asks for German approval to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Parliament home page > Parliamentary business > Publications and records > Business papers > House of Commons business papers > Summary Agenda and Order of Business > Summary Agenda\nHouse of Commons Session 1997-98\nSummary Agendas and Orders of Business\nSummary Agenda Wednesday 17 June 1998\nHere you can browse the House of Commons Summary Agenda for Wednesday 17 June 1998.\n9.30 a.m. Prayers.\nAdjournment Debates:\n9.35 a.m. Mr Archy Kirkwood (Social Security Committee): Disability Living Allowance.\n11.00 a.m. Mr Bruce George (Defence Committee): Peace support operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.\n12.30 p.m. Mr Nigel Evans: The millennium bug and its impact on public services.\n1.00 p.m. Mr Tam Dalyell: Her Majesty's Government's response to the publication of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List of rare plants.\n1.30 p.m. Mr Paul Tyler: Enforcement procedure under the Food Safety Act 1990 (until 2.00 p.m.).\n2.30 p.m. Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.\n3.00 p.m. Oral Questions to the Prime Minister.\n3.30 p.m. Private Notice Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any).\nAfterwards Disposal and Re-use of White Goods--Motion for leave to introduce a Bill under the Ten minute rule (Dr Alan Whitehead) (for up to 20 minutes).\nHuman Rights Bill [Lords]: Committee [2nd allotted day] (for up to 6.5 hours).\nNorthern Ireland (Sentences) Bill: Committee [2nd allotted day] (for up to 3 hours).\nNorthern Ireland Grand Committee (Motion) (no debate after 10.00 p.m.).\nHuman Rights Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2) (Motion) (no debate after 10.00 p.m.).\nAt the end of the sitting Adjournment Debate: Epilepsy (Mr Stephen Twigg) (until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later).\nNote: Main Business is indicated in bold type. Other items may also occur. Timings may change\nContinue to Order of Business\n\u00a9 Parliamentary copyright 1998\nPrepared 17 June 1998","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"He lived to take on Asia's best\nThread: He lived to take on Asia's best\nHe lived to take on Asia's best\nChamp, who cheated death in 1989, to try for a gold medal\nBy Marc Lim\nIN MALAY, 'wira' means a warrior hero. Singapore bodybuilder Nor Perwira Jaya Rahmat will always be one in a very special way, even if he fails to win a gold medal at the Asian Games in Busan next week.\nFor, he already has a gold medal just for being alive.\nHe met with an accident in 1989 that would have killed most men - a car smashing into his motorcycle from the side.\nIt put Perwira into an instant coma and left him with C2-5 cervical damage, a near-fatal neck and spine injury.\nBy the time medical help arrived, he had fluid coming out of his ears and blood flowing freely from his nose.\nThe doctors gave him only a 40 per cent chance of living.\nHis pillion rider, sister Nor Seha, fractured her rib cage and spinal cord. Now, 13 years after that April night, she walks with a permanent hunch.\nDespite the odds, Perwira battled his way back from the brink of death.\n'I was admitted to hospital in April but woke up only in May,' said the 33-year-old national bodybuilder.\n'Even then, the doctors said that I would probably be paralysed. And I feared the worst when I could not feel my legs.'\nHe spent the next nine months in rehabilitation.\n'Because of my injury, my head had to be in a fixed position. I could not move it at all,' he said.\n'I would have conversations with the other patients around me, but I could not see them.'\nHe was finally discharged in December 1989 and, as part of his rehabilitation, started going to the gym.\nHe said: 'My brothers Rano and Rino were just taking up bodybuilding, so I would follow them for their workouts.' Perwira started taking part in bodybuilding competitions in 1993, but never really took it up seriously because of business commitments.\nHe finally found his satay stall too difficult to manage and took a job as a gym instructor at California Fitness Centre in 1997.\nOnly a year later, he won his first major crowns - the bantam-weight and the overall title at the 1998 National Championships.\nHe has since added the 2001 Asian Championships bantam-weight title and this year's South-east Asian lightweight title to his growing trophy cabinet.\nIf there is one person he credits for his amazing recovery, it is his South Korean wife, Mira Park.\nHe said: 'I met her while I was recovering from my injuries. She was a volunteer with a mission and heard of my plight.\n'She has been the one encouraging me all this while, even in bodybuilding.'\nHe dreams of being a world champion but would first like a gold in the lightweight category at the Asian Games.\n'My wife cannot be there. But my in-laws will be there, so at least I have some 'home' support,' he said.\nCopyright @ 2002 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.\n\"It was once written \"To thine own self be true\". But how do we know who we really are? Every man must confront the monster within himself, if he is ever to find peace without. ..\" Outer Limits(Monster)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Security as Playmaker at the World Cup\nSDM TopicsIntegration & Network SolutionsTrends & Industry IssuesVideo Solutions\nSecurity as Playmaker at the World Cup\nThe 2018 World Cup required the involvement of a significant number of service providers and installers, complex integrations, and years of planning to provide physical security to the stadiums. Here's a peek at a slice of that work.\nThere were 12 stadiums in use for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, including Yekaterinburg city stadium, pictured above.\nFans from Russia, Brazil and Switzerland are walking into Rostov-on-Don before the match of the FIFA World Cup 2018.\nLocated on Oktyabrsky Island, Kaliningrad Stadium is also called Arena Baltika. The stadium hosted four of the World Cup games.\nAlexander Nevsky Church sits in the foreground of the stadium built for the World Cup in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.\nMaggie McFadden Shein\nKEYWORDS security industry \/ security integrators \/ security systems\nThe World Cup is one of the biggest international sporting events. Almost half of the world's population tuned in to watch the month-long 2010 World Cup in South Africa, according to FIFA (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association). Russia, the host country for the 2018 men's World Cup, spent billions of dollars in preparation for the occasion. The country reportedly devoted between $11 billion and $14 billion to World Cup expenses, including approximately $3 billion to stadium builds and updates. The hefty bill is on par with other host countries, none of which have spent less than $10 billion in the last decade or so.\nWith around one million people reportedly coming and going from Russia during the 21st World Cup, the physical security and safety of participants, employees and spectators was an enormous undertaking \u2014 and a similarly enormous success as no major incidents were reported. A country hosting such a large event is intently watched by the international community, and negative events or coverage risk damaging a country's reputation.\nFIFA, the organization overseeing the event, says that host countries assume the immense responsibility of ensuring the safety and security at all sites and venues, as well as host city airports and transportation stations.\n\"FIFA places the highest importance on the safety and security of all persons involved in and attending its competitions and events. Russia was excellent in terms of security and we received very positive feedback from all stakeholders,\" a FIFA spokesperson tells SDM about the 2018 World Cup event.\nAnd, it would seem, no news in terms of major security events, is good news to those in the industry. Though the soccer tournament, which takes place every four years, is over and done with within a matter of weeks, the event requires years of planning, infrastructure and investments by its host country. According to FIFA, that planning process begins as soon as the host is announced.\nFor the 2018 World Cup in Russia, planning began on December 2, 2010, as government and design, engineering, construction and IT companies worked in 11 cities across Russia to prepare for the influx of visitors. Security at the stadiums before and during the 64 matches played at the World Cup must adhere to requirements and regulations set out by FIFA. For physical security, this includes a mix of human and electronic security and surveillance, both outside on the perimeter and surrounding areas, and inside the stadiums. FIFA's regulations call for a video surveillance system that must allow personnel to identify incidents or potential problems, assist with the situational assessment and inform courses of action and responses, as well as make recordings that can be used for investigations and evidence.\nDuring the World Cup preparations, the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation, Sportin (the agency responsible for stadium builds), and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, worked with many different contractors, integrators and vendors to accomplish the goal of safety and security and meet the regulations set by FIFA for the 12 World Cup stadiums.\nA Look at a Portion of Stadium Security\nThe following security systems were deployed at these 2018 World Cup stadiums.\nSource: ISS\nOne of those vendors was ISS \u2013 Intelligent Security Systems, a developer of security surveillance and control systems for networked digital video and audio recording, video image pattern processing and digital data transmission. Headquartered in Woodbridge, N.J., ISS has a global base of developers and primarily focuses on the transportation, smart cities and critical infrastructure markets. The company has had its share of large installations, third-party integrations and large-scale systems customization, including for the 2016 Rio Olympics.\nISS deployed the complex video surveillance systems for five of the 12 Russian stadiums, including Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg. Those five stadiums included integration with about 8,000 cameras and well over 100 servers, from a variety of manufacturers.\nThe solution needed to be an independent video management system handled and managed at each stadium location, as well as be completely integrated with each stadium city's existing urban surveillance systems for seamless law enforcement viewing \u2014 all of which were FIFA requirements. The main goal of the surveillance systems was to allow staff the ability to have total situational awareness of each sports complex in its entirety, including perimeter; entrances and exits; parking (both outside and underground); internal territories such as player locker rooms and public gathering spaces; areas of small architectural forms; and more. External cameras for the perimeter and outdoor areas had to be equipped to withstand Russia's harsh weather conditions with waterproof and dustproof functions, along with a solution that prevented data loss in the event of network instability.\nISS became involved after going through the complex certification process within both Sportin, and all the general contractors, which for the five stadiums included the Crocus Group, Sinara Group and Stroytransgaz.\nBecause ISS was already a provider of its SecurOS VMS platform and native analytics for the five Russian city's safe-city urban surveillance systems, it made sense to deploy the same platform in the stadiums for its integration capabilities and scalability, according to Peter Pirogov, director of product management, Intelligent Security Systems.\nAccording to Olga Markevish, head of the system integration department at Vilkom Holding, Russia, one of the integrators for the Nizhny Novgorod stadium, \"One of the major challenges was the necessity to coordinate and approve various project stages with many different entities.... Moreover, we ensured interoperability of the stadium venue and the city video surveillance systems. Thus, [government and city operators] had the opportunity to receive video streams and video events of the situations at the stadium instantly.\"\nPirogov says that while every surveillance system was integrated to pass live and archived video streams to the local offices of the federal agencies and the Federal Monitoring and Control Center, each system was also designed and deployed as a virtually independent system. At the 45,000-seat, five-level Rostov-on-Don stadium, for example, 25 SecurOS IVS video servers integrated with more than 1,500 IDIS IP cameras to transmit video to 30 SecurOS Universal workstations. In Kaliningrad, which seats 35,000 on five levels, 19 SecurOS IVS video servers under the SecurOS VMS needed to process data from more than 1,000 IDIS IP cameras at its 30 workstations within the stadium.\nAside from the necessity for independent surveillance systems at each stadium to be available to both on-site security staff as well as with law enforcement and government officials remotely, FIFA and Sportin had other security needs.\nThe video management platform not only had to be integrated with thousands of cameras from different vendors, including IDIS, TVhelp and Hikvision, but also with fire alarm, perimeter protection and access control systems \u2014 with each stadium specifying systems from different vendors including Bolid, Rusguard, Parsec, Rubezh and Hikvision.\nMost of the hardware and software had already been integrated and tested with the video management platform before deployment, according to Pirogov. \"[But], for the project, we specifically developed three new integrations of perimeter protection, fire alarm and access control systems,\" he adds.\nIn addition, FIFA required that the video management systems be integrated with the organization's \"black list,\" which is the main database of those who are barred from World Cup venues. Additional suspects may be added to the database by federal agencies as needed. ISS' SecurOS Face analytics were used at the Rostov-on-Don and Kaliningrad stadiums for video-analytic face capture and recognition to identify any persons on the no-entry list. The feature also made it possible to determine the exact number of people coming into the stadium through a specific entrance, says Pirogov, thus increasing the efficiency of the access control system at the entrances and exits.\nAnother feature that was implemented at the five stadiums ISS was involved with was SecurOS Auto, a license plate recognition analytics solution that was used to improve efficiency of employees at checkpoints on the perimeter, as well as to ensure the safety of vehicles in the parking areas of the stadiums.\nNot only did the project require complex integration and a significant number of people involved, but it also required a level of adaptation and fluidity that only comes with experience. For example, says Pirogov, special premises within one of the arenas had to be equipped to allow for an increased amount of law enforcement personnel during the event, as the city's control center did not have enough space and capacity to host them at their own facilities.\nISS, along with other vendors, integrators and general contractors, worked together to provide the surveillance needed for situational awareness for all temporary structures within the five stadiums as well, including accreditation centers, fan zones, ticket offices, security facilities, and checkpoints and police facilities at the stadiums.\nThe final result \u2014 according to one of the integrators for the Volgograd Arena, Jury Danilovskiy, deputy director general for construction at Task-T, Russia \u2014 was a high level of surveillance and situational awareness. \"All systems and services operated closely together and proved to be reliable and effective,\" Danilovskiy shares.\nAccording to Pirogov, more than 50 percent of the staff at the ISS regional office in Russia was involved in the project at some point during the process. Due to the size of the project and complexity of integration and systems, the company was heavily involved with the integrators and contractors at almost every stage of the process from design and development to delivery, training and post-deployment technical support.\nISS held training in Moscow for systems integrator engineers for which official certificates were earned. The company also held on-field training conducted by its professional service team during the deployment phase. Integrators then conducted operator training at the stadiums, according to Pirogov.\nWhile FIFA and the Russian government agencies specified a number of security needs for the project, perhaps the biggest challenge was the countless contractors, integrators, manufacturers, staff and law enforcement that needed to work together to provide rock-solid security to fans, players, coaches, staff and citizens.\n\"The success of implementing technologically loaded, large-scale projects depends on the core and functional customers', general contractors' and executors' level of engagement in the process,\" says Aluisio Figueiredo, CEO of ISS. \"While working on the creation of [the] stadiums' safety systems, [we] were completely confident in achieving success, because we saw a high interest of the representatives of the Ministry of Sport (Sportin) and received comprehensive support from the general contractors and the organizations under their control, as well as the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service and the city administrations.\nMore Online\nVisit SDM's and Security Magazines' websites, where you'll find additional articles about securing large, live events:\n\"Entertainment, Stadiums, Arenas: Big Job, Bright Spotlight, Focused Commitment\"\nwww.SDMmag.com\/entertainment-stadiums-arenas\n\"How Are Venues Around the Nation Reacting to the Manchester Bombing?\"\nwww.SDMmag.com\/venues-manchester-bombing\n\"Planning for a Safe and Secure 2014 World Cup\"\nwww.SECURITYmagazine.com\/safe-secure-2014-world-cup\nRecent Articles by Maggie McFadden Shein\nThe 14th Annual Monitoring Center Excellence Awards\nUsing Analytics for Video Monitoring\nArtificial Intelligence in Video Surveillance\n5 Top Network Design Considerations for Security Integrators\nEMERgency24 Celebrates 50 Years of Firsts\nMaggie McFadden Shein is a contributing writer.\nSurveillance Technology at the 2018 World Cup\nThe 'Brave New World' of Cybersecurity (And the Security Integrator's Role in It.)\nGetting to Know the World of Business Intelligence\nStaying Up-To-Date With Security in the Connected World","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Board Directors Elections\nTeam Doncaster\nDoncaster Business Insight\nOpportunities Doncaster\nDoncaster UTC\nPeople campaign\nMember package comparison chart\nWhich member are you?\nMember referral scheme\nMember services and benefits\nMember events (non-Chamber)\nLaunchpad events\nOpportunities Doncaster events\nSupport for exporters\nBrexit helpdesk\nAbout Launchpad\n2018 winners and finalists\nMayor announces draft budget proposals for 2019\/20\nMayor Ros Jones has announced her draft budget proposals for 2019\/20 and whilst the financial challenges are getting harder each year, keeping Doncaster thriving as a place to live, learn, work and invest is still very much part of the future.\nThrough hard work, expertise and the use of one off funding, the proposals set out the plan to balance the books for 2019\/20 but within this it is clear that the focus on finance is never ending and further work is still needed to meet the increasing budget gap for 2020\/21.\nGovernment grant cuts, rising demand for services and an increase in costs, will see Doncaster Council face an estimated \u00a321 million budget gap in 2019\/20, and a further \u00a313 million in 2020\/21 taking into account the impact of using one-off funding in 2019\/20. By 2021 this will take the total budget gap the council has had to bridge to a staggering \u00a3272 million, since Government austerity measures started in 2010\/11.\nMayor Ros Jones said: \"Despite the cuts, Doncaster has amazing initiatives and a promising future. We have delivered some impressive schemes and projects for local people without losing our strong financial grip including securing a University Technical College (UTC), starting work on our new library and museum and completing phase two of Great Yorkshire Way. We have also continued with joining up health and social care and have created the 'Complex Lives Team' to support people who are homeless, along with introducing initiatives that help ensure children get the best start in life.\n\"I firmly believe that despite funding reductions from central government there are exciting times ahead and I am determined to keep this pace to take Doncaster forward. So far we have cushioned the blow as much as we can but further government cuts mean the pain will be felt locally so we have to start planning independently from the Government. Our funding from central Government will have more than halved by the end of this decade compared to what it was at the start and there's more demand than ever before for our services. Austerity is absolutely not over for us, we've got less staff and less money than ever before so the decisions about what we can fund, continue to do or stop doing get tougher every year.\n\"The Government has no plans for 2021 and at the moment it is a guessing game. This is no way to run a government, the NHS has got a 10 year plan and that is what we need for Local Government.\n\"In 2019\/20 we are proposing to meet the increasing costs due to the rising demand for Adults, Health & Wellbeing and Children's Services. This will be challenging to achieve but is a necessity so that we can continue to support our residents who are most in need.\n\"As always we will protect jobs and frontline services where we can, help the vulnerable and wherever possible continue with the services that matter most to our residents but to do this we will have to work together, capitalising on the good work of our local community and voluntary sector.\"\nThe draft proposals would potentially see 76 full time equivalent post reductions over the next two years. The council will initially look to delete vacant posts, then seek voluntary redundancy, then redeployment with compulsory redundancy being the absolute last resort.\nThe budget also includes an increase in council tax of 4.99% in 2019\/20, which will generate \u00a35.3m to help meet the budget gap. This includes a 2.99% council tax increase and a further 2% increase through the government's social care \"precept\" which contributes towards the pressures for adults, health & wellbeing. The overall increase equates to an additional 82p per week for Band A and \u00a31.23 per week for Band D.\nDoncaster will still have one of the lowest council taxes in councils of our size in the country (7th lowest in 2018\/19) and the lowest in South Yorkshire.\nThe reports due to come forward in March also include a one percent reduction in council house rents from April.\nDespite the difficult budget situation, the Mayor has made it clear that the council must remain focused on Doncaster's ambitions with \u00a3330 million capital spend planned over the next four years. Residents across Doncaster will benefit from investment in projects to further improve education, housing, infrastructure, retail, leisure and culture, as well as attracting investors and visitors to the borough. All of these will contribute to growing Doncaster's economy and improving people's ability to access opportunities.\nThe Mayor's draft proposals will be considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee on the 7 February and then Cabinet on 12 February before they are discussed at Full Council on March 4 2019. The proposals can be viewed at www.doncaster.gov.uk\/budget\nDid you know? Members can submit their own news and events to be posted on our website. Log in to get started\nInspiring success in business.\nDoncaster Chamber\nKeepmoat Stadium, Stadium Way, Doncaster, South\nYorkshire, DN4 5JW\nEmail: chamber@doncaster-chamber.co.uk\nBusiness Name (optional)\nDoncaster Chamber is a membership organisation representing the Doncaster business community, and is accredited by the British Chambers of Commerce.\nDoncaster Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise. A company Limited by Guarantee. 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{"text":"Home New York New York County New York City Siobhan Klassen\nSiobhan Klassen\nPhillips & Associates, Attorneys at Law, PLLC\nEmployment Law, Civil Rights, Arbitration & Mediation\nCall (212) 248-7431 Email Lawyer Email Lawyer View Website\nClaimed Lawyer ProfileGoldBlawgsearchSocial Media\nSiobhan Klassen is a New York City employment attorney at Phillips & Associates. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and made the Dean's List. She graduated from Hofstra University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 2013. During law school, she completed the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Trial Techniques Course. She is admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York. She also attended the MBA Institute, INSEEC in Paris, France, which has a curriculum focused on international business and law.\nMs. Klassen is committed to fighting for workers. Whether you have been affected by harassment, discrimination, or another type of misconduct on the job, you can consult her or the other attorneys at our firm. Contact Phillips & Associates at (212) 248-7431 or through our online form to set up a free consultation. We handle employment litigation in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, as well as Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties and the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.\nU.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York\nLaw Office of Andrea Paparella, PLLC\nHofstra Law Access to Justice Incubator\nQueens County Supreme Court\nClinic Participant\nLaw Reform Advocacy Clinic, Hofstra University School of Law\nCraig Stewart Lanza\nLegal Aide Counselor\nCalifornia State University - San Francisco State University\nSuper Lawyer Rising Star\nSiobhan Klassen's Website Profile\nPhillips & Associates, Attorneys at Law, PLLC Website\nNew York Employment Attorney Blog\nNew York City Enacts Law Banning Marijuana Testing During the Hiring Process\nChanges to New York State Human Rights Law Expands Protection from Discrimination\nFormer Domestic Worker Files Lawsuit in New York City Alleging Sexual Harassment by Employer\nNew York Legislators Lower the High Evidentiary Standard in Sexual Harassment Lawsuits\nLawyer Monthly Publishes Article by Phillips & Associates Attorney on Legal Protections for Employees Taking Sick Leave\nPhillips & Associates Lawyers Recognized for $2.3 Million Jury Verdict in Discrimination Case\nNew York's Paid Family Leave Allows Either or Both Parents to Take Time to Care for Newborns\nChampioning the Little Guy: Our Top Ten Legal Movie Picks\nNational Law Journal Names Phillips & Associates as 2019 \"Elite Trial Lawyers\" Finalist in Three Practice Areas\nNew Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog\nPursuing a New Jersey Law Against Discrimination Case Even If You Lived and Worked Outside New Jersey\nHow a South Jersey Police Officer Got a Renewed Chance to Pursue His Race Discrimination Case Based on a Denied Promotion\nIdentifying Flaws in Your Employer's Arbitration Policy Acceptance Process May be a Key to Success in Your New Jersey Discrimination Case\nCan I Have a Viable Disability Discrimination Case in New Jersey, Even Without an 'Adverse Employment Action'?\nDon't Wait Too Long to Pursue Your New Jersey Workplace Discrimination or Harassment Case\nHow a Very Hostile Work Environment Led to One New Jersey Police Officer and Navy Reservist's Receiving a $1.7M Damages Award\nWhat to Do When Your New Jersey Employer Retaliates Against You for Filing a Discrimination Case\nA Group of New Jersey Casino Beverage Servers Get the Green Light to Go After Their Employer's Enforcement of 'Personal Appearance' Rules\nBeware Signing Documents that May Hurt Your New Jersey Disability Discrimination Case Down the Road\nEmail Siobhan Klassen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"243 Hanover Street\nManchester, NH 03104 \u2022 View Phone NumberTel. (603) 625-5777\nObituary for Dorothy Fritz\nAugust 28, 1932 - February 13, 2018\nBedford, New Hampshire | Age 85\nPlay Pause | Print | Email\nDorothy A. Fritz, age 85, of Bedford, NH passed away peacefully on February 13, 2018 at Bedford Hills Center. Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Dorothy has resided in Bedford since 1998 and previously lived in Ridley Park, PA and Houston, TX.\nIn addition to her parents, Howard S. Sr. and Katherine (Gillies) Aurelius, she is preceded in death by her husband, Lewis G. Fritz and brother, Howard S. Aurelius Jr. Dorothy is survived by her two daughters, Karen Haddad (Emile) of Bedford, NH and Leslie Bellingham (Tim) of Goffstown, NH; son, Mark L. Fritz Sr. (Elaine) of Glenolden, PA; grandchildren, Alex and Monica Haddad, Shane and Brian Bellingham, Jacquelyn, Mark L. Jr. (Maggie), and Justin Fritz. Two great-grandchildren, Calypso Haddad and Mark L. \"Tripp\" Fritz III; and brother David Aurelius. Also a special part of life were her brothers-in-law and sisters-in law; Clayt, Margaret, Bud, Marion, Bill and Betty Fritz; Anita, Peggy and Jeanette Aurelius, along with her lifelong best friend, Delores Dreger; JFF ladies, and many nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.\nShe was a dedicated wife, mother, Nana, sister, aunt, and friend. Dot's family was paramount in her life. She loved to cook and bake for friends and family both near and far. An animal lover, she found great comfort in her many pets throughout the years. Dot also enjoyed creating many types of arts and crafts, but will be best remembered for her generous heart and love of family and friends.\nARRANGEMENTS: Her visitation will be held in the narthex of St. Elizabeth Seton Parrish, Meetinghouse Rd., Bedford, on Thursday February 22, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM followed by her Funeral Mass at 11:00 AM. Dot and Lew will be laid to rest in the Mount Calvary Mausoleum Chapel at a later date. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in Dot's memory to the American Heart Association.\nAdd your thoughts, prayers or a condolence to Dorothy's guestbook.\nDonate to American Heart Association\nPlease enhance this tribute to Dot by adding your memories and photos.\nPhaneuf Funeral Homes & Crematorium - Hanover Street\nYour inquiry has been forwarded to Phaneuf Funeral Homes & Crematorium - Hanover Street.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Navigation: Home \/ Forums \/ Nintendo Switch \/ The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3\nTopic: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3\nPosts 1 to 20 of 183\nToy_Link\nTue 3rd Dec 2019\nSubscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube\nLegal threats that have gone nowhere: 1\nRyu_Niiyama\nI'll get the standard edition.\nTaiko is good for the soul, Hoisa!\nJapanese NNID:RyuNiiyamajp\nTeam Cupcake! 11\/15\/14\nTeam Spree! 4\/17\/19\nI'm a Dream Fighter. Perfume is Love, Perfume is Life.\n3DS Friend Code: 3737-9849-8413 | Nintendo Network ID: RyuNiiyama\nDope! It makes me wonder if Switch will get the first two games in the series as well? Although I suppose that's XSEED's decision, not NIS America's. Still, it's awesome to have this on Switch. And it gives me hope that an announcement of a Switch port for Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is a possibility in 2020.\nP.S. - Since I'm a fan of NIS America, of course I preordered the uber-edition for ToCS 3 immediately.\nhttps:\/\/store.nisamerica.com\/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-c...\nEdited on Tue 3rd December, 2019 @ 19:25 by Magician\nSwitch Physical Collection - 695 games (as of January 11th, 2021)\nCurrently playing: Alliance Alive HD (Switch)\nFavorite Quote: \"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\" -Arthur C. Clarke\nBruceCM\nPre-orders go up tomorrow for anyone in Europe ....\nSW-4357-9287-0699\nGamertag: BruceCM\nJaxonH\n@Magician\nJust came here to post that link myself.\nPreordered. Preordered preordered PREORDERED.\nOrdered.\nNS: Monster Hunter Rise demo\nPC: -----\nPS5: -----\nEXCITED FOR\nNS: Monster Hunter Rise\nOh god, the amount of people that are going to jump into this without playing any of the other 7 games (or at the very least, CS1 and 2). I sincerely hope people here won't do that themselves.\nDownload reviewer, Nintendo Life\n3DS Friend Code: 5370-0382-5726 | Nintendo Network ID: Capndrake | Twitter: Capndrake\nSwitchForce\nGlad it is coming for Switch I was watching for this. This only means good signs for the Switch in the future. Developers and Indie are seeing the light that a aka \"underpowered\" Switch can play what the big boys can only says is on their league. I for one am glad for it and will when permitting get the CE edition.\nEdited on Wed 4th December, 2019 @ 01:50 by SwitchForce\nMsJubilee\n@Drake This series has seven other games? My goodness! Newcomers like myself are going to be super confused.\nI don't enjoy suffering alone. However, I don't mind making others suffer alone.\nI'm reading Preacher Book 2, V For Vendetta and The Rape Of Nanking.\nI am playing through The Evil Within 2 and Injustice 2.\nSwitch Friend Code: SW-5827-3728-4676 | 3DS Friend Code: 3738-0822-0742\nMsJubilee wrote:\nMore than seven, the Legend of Heroes series has been running since 1989. But unlike Final Fantasy, the Legend of Heroes series carry one story arc across multiple games. Conversely, most rpg games have a new story with each new entry in a series. The story of LoH: Trails of Cold Steel spans across four games.\nEdited on Wed 4th December, 2019 @ 02:46 by Magician\nDrake wrote:\nI mean, most people aren't going to go play multiple 100+ hour JRPGs on other platforms just as a prerequisite storyline catch-me-up.\nThe game includes an interactive (kind of) plot summary that expounds in great detail the events leading up to the present:\nTrails of Cold Steel Summary\nTrails of Cold Steel 2 Summary\nThors Military Academy - Class VII\nThors Military Academy - Others\nSuspicious Figures\nWorld Introduction\nThe World of Trails\nCountries of Zemuria\nErebonia's 5 Major Cities\nErebonian Organizations\nErebonian History\nAnd each of those topics have menus and submenus, with all people, places, things, events and ideas thoroughly explained. The best part is the story summary though, as it has text with button prompts to continue with various character animations.\nIt's obviously best if someone has played all the games, or at least the previous Cold Steel entries. But I don't think it's a big deal if someone hasn't, given the elaborate summary descriptions included. As long as someone takes 15 or 20 minutes before starting their game to glance over and soak up some info, they'll manage fine. I own the first 2 Cold Steel games on Vita but never played more than a few hours, and I own all three of them on PS4 but again, never played more than a few hours. But what I have played I've managed just fine thanks to the summaries provided.\nAll that being said, I do hope XSEED somehow manages to bring the first two games (though I doubt they will- unlike NIS they don't have the manpower for such an endeavor). But even if they did I would probably start with this one anyways just because the first two are... a little rigid, imo.\nEdited on Wed 4th December, 2019 @ 03:15 by JaxonH\nC-Chakra\nOk, I just lost my freakin mind!! This has been my number 1 most anticipated title for a couple of years now (played them all including the Crossbell fan translations). I've been that desperate to play it that i've been checking the PSNow titles daily (because no pc version). I never even considered that it would come to the Switch!! Falcom has to bring the whole Trails series over now, they are perfect for Switch.\nSwitch Friend Code: SW-8045-4533-8325\nDredlor\n@C-Chakra crossing my fingers would love to play all of this series\n@JaxonH I do know that CS3 is enjoyable enough (gameplay-wise) without playing any previous entries, but man... this is the only game series I know to carry an incredibly intricate world and characters across 9 games (with more to come). It's practically its biggest selling point because there is quite literally nothing else like it.\nDiving into the series with CS3 as your first game is like reading the 6th or 7th Harry Potter book and skipping the rest. 90% of the impact of certain scenes, characters, words, etc. will go completely over your head. Of course, anyone's free to start here anyway, but I think they'd be doing themselves a major disservice by doing so.\nFalcom's other series (like Ys) are totally fine to play in whatever order you want and all you'll miss out on are a couple of minor references, but Trails is way, way more than that and I think it's kind of insulting for NISA to constantly insist that starting here is fine, even if I do understand why they're saying that (they didn't publish any previous games and they don't want to promote a competitor's products).\nAlso, while the in-game summary does summarize CS1 and 2 pretty well, it's got practically nothing about the other games, so you'd still be lacking a lot of information, one example is that characters from Crossbell that are in CS3 but weren't in 1 and 2 (Like Randy and Tio) don't even have character profiles. It's primarily intended as a recap for people who already played 1 and 2 and simply need a refresher before starting 3.\nIdeally I'd recommend everyone to start with Trails in the Sky, but I do also realize playing 500+ hours worth of games in order to play the newest entry is pretty daunting. At the very least I hope people interested in the series will consider starting with CS1 first, and if they enjoy it a lot, consider going back to Sky (and Crossbell) before getting to CS3. You don't NEED to play games as soon as they release, after all.\nEdited on Wed 4th December, 2019 @ 03:48 by Drake\n@Dredlor yep, I really hope they do too because\nthe series is amazing from the start and more people need to play them. Character development and world building is second to none and they never miss a beat in terms continuity right down to small things like the different character's sense of humour. Absolutely epic. Jumping in at Cold Steel 3 seems wrong but it may not be so bad seeing that you CAN start from any of the beginnings of the different arcs. And there is a year or so I believe between 2 and 3 so it MAY be its own arc (3 and 4 that is). not sure.\n@Drake summed it up perfectly. I haven't played 3 yet and by the sound of it, sounds like it kinda ruins 1 and 2 with the recap. I personally wouldn't want them ruined that way. Starting with Cold Steel 1 at least is my advice.\n@Drake\nI'm not disagreeing that's the preferable choice. I completely understand that that is the intended way it should be approached and by not doing so you will not enjoy it as much as you could.\nThat being said.\nBuying and playing through multiple other games with 100+ hours on completely separate systems just as a requisite to play a new game someone has interest in is an immensely big ask for players interested in the title.\nThe summary will do fine for most people. For those who have the ambition to go play multiple other games just to try to properly enjoy this one, I say more power to them, and I truly hope they thoroughly enjoy it. But most people are not going to be willing to do that, and even I myself am not willing to do that.\nMy point being, for people like myself and most others, the summary should more than suffice. It does indeed cover all the important plot points. You won't enjoy reading the summary as much as you would enjoy actually playing the games (should go without saying) but that's not its purpose, which is to get the player up to speed to the extent they comprehend enough of what's going on to enjoy the game without being utterly confounded. And to that end, it should do just fine.\ndarkfenrir\n@Drake I think starting in Sky will make some people drop it tbh, I tried Sky and can't get further than first 2 hours because the fighting system is so... idk how to explain it but I don't enjoy it at all. And it's suuuuuuuuuuuper slow\nEdit because I kind of forgot something.\nEdited on Wed 4th December, 2019 @ 06:12 by darkfenrir\ntimleon\nI'm a little concerned about the success of this given what people have said about the backstory (how would jumping into this be compared to, say, Kingdom Hearts 3?)\nAs JRPG not who have never touched the series, I have done interest in this. What other JRPGs is it comparable to?\nPreviously \"Buizel\" and \"HunterLeon\"\nCurrently playing: Fire Emblem Three Houses (Silver Snow), Uncharted 2, The Simpsons Hit and Run\nSun 29th Mar 2020\nAnyone play the demo yet?\nI'm just starting now.\nRead the story summary for both previous games. And I have to say, the first game ended on a cliffhanger but the second game, it really tied together... like, everything. It feels like the first two games were a duology and this game is just starting a fresh story altogether. I even have different classmates than were in the first two games! I mean sure, knowing the backstory and lore is definitely nice, but this really does feel completely detached from the previous two games.\nSpoke too soon. Rean showed up. Just in the nick of time too, cause I was getting stomped on.\nStarted a new save afterwards, and so far, the quality of the port is top notch. Really high quality port. It runs beautiful, looks gorgeous in handheld mode... I've got no complaints whatsoever.\nI just hope the demo save data transfers into the full game.\nEdited on Sun 29th March, 2020 @ 06:17 by JaxonH\nPlease login or sign up to reply to this topic\nTopic History\nYour recently viewed topics will appear here. Login or Sign Up","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Borja Garc\u00eda plays until 2022\nGirona FC and Borja Garc\u00eda have reached a new agreement until the year 2022.\nBorja, who joined to Girona in 2015 from C\u00f3rdoba, was one of the key players in the promotion of Girona to the 1st Division and also one of best players in the great season of Girona FC this year in LaLiga Santander.\nThe Madrid player was one of the leaders of Mach\u00edn's team and now he will be with Eusebio also. Borja has played 114 games with Girona and has scored 12 goals.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kendall Jenner talks Ben Simmons romance, privacy and more in Vogue Australia\nBy Wonderwall.com Editors Wonderwall 12:06pm PDT, May 19, 2019\nLast fall, amid conflicting reports that Kendall Jenner and NBA star Ben Simmons were either getting more serious or taking a breather as a couple, tabloids in both New Zealand and Ben's native Australia reported an engagement was on the horizon for the two.\nNeil Rasmus\/BFA\/REX\/Shutterstock; Matt Slocum\/AP\/REX\/Shutterstock\nGossipCop debunked the stories at the time. Eight months later, though, things are looking a bit more serious for the supermodel and 76ers player.\nKendall, 23, covers the June edition of Vogue Australia, and the angle of the accompanying feature is pretty heavily tilted towards her romance with Ben, also 23, who grew up in Melbourne (his father, Dave Simmons, is an American who played pro basketball in Australia; Ben has dual citizenship).\n\"I've always been the person to prove [critics] wrong, even when I was younger,\" #KendallJenner tells Vogue's deputy editor Jessica Montague in the June 2019 issue, on sale Monday, May 27. \"I've always been a hard worker: that's in my blood. My parents raised me and my little sister to be that way and the rest of my sisters, too. A lot of people assumed that because I came from a 'name' that it was a lot easier for me to get to where I got, but actually it's the completely opposite.\" Read the interview and see the entire shoot in the link in the bio. Photographed by @charliedenno, styled by @jilliandavison, Vogue Australia, June 2019.\nA post shared by Vogue Australia (@vogueaustralia) on May 16, 2019 at 3:25pm PDT\nAfter noting that Kendall streamed her man's game while getting her hair and makeup done for the cover shoot and FaceTimed Ben before the interview, the Vogue interviewer wonders if she's thinking about marriage when it comes to Ben.\n\"Maybe. Definitely not now, but maybe one day,\" she says.\nKendall also explains why she tends to keep her romantic life to herself.\n. \"I got a glimpse of how my sisters dealt with [the attention] and it's cool to learn from that,\" she says.\n\"For me, a lot of things are very special and very sacred, like my friends and relationships, and I personally think that bringing things into the public makes everything so much messier. I'm very young and right now I feel like relationships aren't always super-certain and I don't want to bring too much attention to something if you don't really know long term [what it's going to be].\"\nJames Devaney\/GC Images\nKendall adds: \"A relationship is only meant to be between two people, and the second you make it the world's business is when it starts messing with the two people mentally. Like once everyone is let in, you're letting all these opinions into your relationships, and I don't think that's fair.\"\nIn spite of having been photographed out on the town with Ben and attending his games for months, Kendall managed to avoid confirming the two were dating for a long while \u2014 until she appeared on \"Ellen\" in February.\nAsked how long they'd been together, she just smiled and said, \"for a bit now,\" leaving the start of their relationship up for debate.\nAnd maybe she wasn't keeping track. As she told Vogue when the question of a timeline for life goals came up, she's not one to force anything like marriage on herself because of age.\n\"I feel like once you do [that], it's just completely ingenuine, and you think that you have to be in a certain place when you don't have to be,\" she says.\n\"Everyone has their own path and their own way of letting the cards fall. Your 20s are for messing up and figuring it out.\"\nHailey Bieber's chic monochromatic workout wear, plus more fashion hits and misses from January 2022 Share Tweet\nGabrielle Union's retired NBA star husband, plus more celebs turning 40 in 2022 Share Tweet\nAhmaud Arbery killers are sentenced: See how Hollywood reacted to their November 2021 guilty verdicts Share Tweet\nArnold Schwarzenegger, Dean Cain, Piers Morgan and more celebs react to Jan. 6 insurrection anniversary Share Tweet","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SlashGear Morning Wrap-up\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/28\/14: Obama Iron Man, Mt Gox, GTA online\nChris Burns | Feb 28, 2014\nWe're coming down off the Mobile World Congress 2014 high to find that things aren't so fantastic here in the real world. Specifically we're referring to the Mt. Gox bankruptcy, this not boding especially well for those working with Bitcoin. Meanwhile things are looking up for California drivers, as they may soon be allowed to look at map apps while they're driving their cars.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/21\/14: Galaxy S5, Xbox update, HTC Desire\nThis morning we're about to head to Mobile World Congress 2014, but not before we grab a bunch of pre-show news blasts, of course. First we're having a peek at some leaked images of the HTC Desire 8, a smartphone that's certainly pre-cursor to the next HTC One. You'll also want to have a peek at Jolla's Sailfish OS before it launches globally - especially in Android launcher form.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/20\/14: Xbox One remote, Facebook buys WhatsApp\nThis morning one of the stories you'll see trampled by bits of information like Facebook's buy of WhatsApp and the new Xbox One remote is the fact that the FCC isn't giving up on Net Neutrality. The solidification of the idea that all web traffic should be created equally - that's what's being fought over. The FCC is writing up some ground rules right now that you really, really should be aware of.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/19\/14: HTC One, Range Rover, Xbox One bug\nThis morning we're ramping up towards Mobile World Congress 2014 with chatter of a brand new LG G2 Mini. This device works with a (surprisingly large for a \"mini\") 4.7-inch display and Android 4.4 KitKat right out of the box - as well as back-facing buttons, of course. Today also marks the first full day we're having with the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer too.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/17\/14: COD Ghosts, Kickstarter hacked, Titanfall Open Beta\nThis weekend has been a big one for the likes of Respawn Entertainment and EA Games as their Titanfall Beta has been a wild success. With so many users asking to play the beta that they decided to change from Closed to Open, it's seeming likely that the game will be doing rather well when it's released in its final form on March 11th. For now have a peek at our Titanfall Beta gameplay first-impressions and let us know what you think!\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/14\/14: Titanfall Beta codes, Halo 5, Netflix binge\nIt's Titanfall Beta day - and also Valentine's Day - but mostly Titanfall Beta day, and you're going to find one whole heck of a lot of people today looking for codes. While there is still a normal sign-up for Titanfall's Beta release out there, there's also a bunch of users in the wild with codes to give out - grab one! While one thing doesn't necessarily have to do with the other, Xbox One and Xbox 360 topped game sales in January.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/13\/14: Moto CEO exit, Comcast TWC buy, NVIDIA booming\nIt was a news-filled night last night in the technology universe, that's for certain. It was suggested on one hand that the CEO of Motorola was on his way out, and on the other hand that Comcast was about to lay down a plan to purchase Time Warner Cable. Then there were Lenovo earnings and NVIDIA earnings and Netflix announced they'd be getting the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions as well - as an exclusive release!\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/12\/14: Sony, Canon cameras and the Titanfall beta\nThere's no doubt that we're in the middle of a new wave of camera releases this week as both Sony and Canon bring on some big guns - and a few small ones, too. With a full range reboot Cyber-shot HX400V, H300, WX350, and W800, Sony is on-point with handheld shooters sporting BIONZ X processors. Canon, meanwhile, continues to roll with the Rebel.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/11\/14: Fiat, BWM, Mercedes, Unpacked\nThere's no doubt now that the personal technology market is running head-first into the automotive universe, with several entries on today's SlashGear Morning Wrap-up coming up car-friendly. This includes a Beats-branded vehicle, a bit of the ol' biturbo V8, and a new set of laser headlamps. Then there's Samsung for Mobile World Congress 2014 too, of course.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/10\/14: HTC low, 2014 Lexus IS F, Flappy Out\nIt's a dark day in the world of ultra-popular apps as we've come to (sarcastically) realize that we'll no longer be seeing any more Flappy Bird updates. The developer of Flappy Bird has decided that it was all too much, speaking on the massive amount of attention he'd received over the game, shutting the app down entirely this weekend. Now we've got to head to eBay to buy iPhones with the game pre-installed - no joke, that's a real thing. Also we've reviewed the 2014 Lexus IS F, if you'd like to get up close and personal with it.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/7\/14: FIFA 14, Apple Shares, Nikon Coolpix\nChris Burns | Feb 7, 2014\nIt would appear that we've hit a camera release pocket this week as brands like Panasonic bring on devices like the Lumix DMC-GH4 DSLM 4K digital camera for the masses. We've seen Nikon release three sets overnight, and there are more accessories coming to he market this season than you can shake a stick at. This begins with a Fitbit Flex collection of accessories by Tory Burch.\nSlashGear Morning Wrap-up 2\/6\/2014: iPhone 4, Outlast, Sony sells VAIO\nThis week we're seeing some rather odd headlines in the world of gadgets, technology, and the people who work in-between. One of the strangest has to be a note from artist Jean Michel Jarre, a fellow who wants $400 for every smartphone made because \"content creators\", as he calls them, are more important (says he) to the industry than the creators of the hardware their bits are served on.\nEditor Voice\nA look back at the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One era\nFoldable laptops: What would you do with two times more screen?\n2020: The year ahead for Samsung Galaxy smartphones\nSmall tweaks we wish these smartphone brands would make\nTech trends in the next decade","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Red Cross Red Crescent\nCrowdfunding and Saga tree\nMy photo was taken in Sudan by Troels Jepsen.\nIn 2013, before I left Denmark, I was given the honor of traveling to every country in the world as goodwill ambassador of the Danish Red Cross.\nThe Red Cross was founded in 1863 and is today the world's largest humanitarian organisation. Amazingly it now exists in 191 countries around the world and always aims to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable people. A national society (NS) is a representation of the Red Cross, Red Crescent or Red Crystal in a country. The Danish Red Cross is the NS of Denmark, the American Red Cross is the NS of the USA, the Syrian Red Crescent is the NS of Syria etc. The headquarters for both the IFRC (International Federation of the Red Cross) and ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) are to be found in Geneva, Switzerland.\nA goodwill ambassador is someone who brings positive attention to a cause, company or organisation. As such I aim to enlighten the world on the humanitarian efforts and inform on how you can take part. You can volunteer your time, make donations or simply share positive stories about the movement to make a difference.\nThe Danish Red Cross was formed in 1876: www.rodekors.dk \/ The Danish Red Cross does not finance this project. Your donations to the Danish Red Cross go to humanitarian work.\nHere below you can find a few chosen pictures and stories from my travels throughout the world.\nHonduras, Central America\nMy friends at the Honduras Red Cross (www.cruzroja.org.hn).\nBarbados, Caribbean region, North America\nMy friends at the Bahamas Red Cross Society honored me with this 'Life Member' pin in March 2015. www.bahamasredcross.com\nNearly all National Societies have pins of various degrees.\nWhen I lost my hat in March 2016 it was temporarily replaced by National Societies from Central and South African countries.\nMozambique, southern Africa\nMy friends at the Mozambique Red Cross honored me with a signed t-shirt (www.redcross.org.mz). April 2016.\nSeychelles, Indian Ocean, East Africa\nI always offer the National Societies the opportunity to use my visit as a way of creating local visibility. Seychelles July 2016.\nMy friends at the Red Cross Society of Seychelles gave me this great honor! www.seychellesredcross.sc\nMauritius, Indian Ocean, East Africa\nOne way you can support National Societies around the world is by donating.\nMy friends at the Mauritius Red Cross Society: www.mauritiusredcross.org August 2016.\nMy friendship and love for you my friends at Mauritius Red Cross Society! :)\nKenya, East Africa\nAfrica is the worlds most diverse continent. It has 54 wonderful countries and to follow the coastline is equal to making a journey once around the planet! (approximately 40,000 km \/ 24,850 mi).\nOn television promoting the incredible work of the Kenya Red Cross Society: www.redcross.or.ke\nMy friends at the Kenya Red Cross Society honored me with this special pin. November 2016.\nEthiopia, East Africa\nMy friends at the Ethiopian Red Cross Society gave me a warm welcome in December 2016: www.redcrosseth.org\nEritrea, East Africa\nIn spite of the rain and setting sun, my friends at the Red Cross Society of Eritrea received me with flowers and applause! :) April 2017.\nSudan, East Africa\nIn April 2017 my friends at the Sudanese Red Crescent Society honored me with this 'Humanitarian Ambassador' medallion! :) www.srcs.sd\nThe 7 fundamental principles are: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality.\nRomania, Europe\nMy friends at the Romanian Red Cross honored me with a medallion commemorating 140 years of humanitarian work. Their national society was formed in 1876. www.crucearosie.ro - I visited in November 2017.\nLebanon, Middle East, Asia\nIn December 2017 the Lebanese Red Cross honored my efforts with this incredible medallion! www.redcross.org.lb\nJordan, Middle East, Asia\nQatar, Gulf region, Middle East, Asia\nWith 191 National Socities around the world it was just a question of time before I would reach one which was established the same year which I was born (1978). But how amazing to think that all which they have accomplished over the years has literally been within my lifetime. Astonishing! You can learn more about the Qatar Red Crescent Society by going to their website. I reached them in July 2018.\nBahrain, Gulf region, Middle East, Asia\nThe Bahrain Red Crescent was founded in 1972 when it became the 116thNational Society out of the 191 which exist today. They are active within Social Services, Health Awareness, Youth, Blood Donations, First Aid, Foreign Aid and Restoring Family Links. They are a very active and kind National Society and proud to have a heritage of the Dilmun Civilization which stretches back more than 5,000 years in Bahrain. The bull's head is a miniature of an archelogical find. In the photo from left to right: Mr. Mubarak Khalifa Al Hadi (Director General), Mr. Iain James Rowe (my companion for the visit), me, and Dr. Fawzi Abdullah Amin (General Secretary).\nIsrael, Middle East, Asia\nMagen David Adom (MDA) is what they call the Red Cross in Israel. It means the Shield of David. I often meet people who think the Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems have religions connotations but in reality they are 100% neutral. The Red David Star is likewise completely neutral. MDA have an end to end blood drive solution in which they collects the blood, processes the blood, stores the blood and delivers the blood. Interestingly nobody ever asks who will get the blood when they donate or who the blood came from when they receive it. That is one of those things in life where politics and religion really plays no role. Isn't that refreshing?\nPalestine, Middle East, Asia\nThe Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) arranged for a solidarity bike ride with me!! They invited Cycling Palestine to join and a large group of us took a tour through the streets of Ramallah with a police escort ahead of us. Real VIP style! The PRCS is a full bodied national society which does phenomenal work!! And they do it in spite of some very crippling circumstances. I find that the RC truly excels in difficult environments and the PRCS is a clear example.\nAzerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia\nThe Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society were formed back in 1920 but really began to come to life after 1991. They've got some really dedicated staffers and volunteers! They have several key programs such as disaster preparedness, disaster response, youth and volunteer programs, dissemination about HIV and AIDS and the promotion of blood donation.\nArmenia, Caucasus, Asia\nI met the Armenian Red Cross (ARCS) during the Francophonie 2018 which is an international festival that takes place every second year and for 2018 it was set in to take place in Yerevan! The ARCS volunteers were busy attending heatstroke, minor injuries and what else the 58 participating member states would throw at them. They do so much more and you can discover it by clicking HERE :)\nTurkmenistan, Central Asia\nThe Turkmenistan Red Crescent Society was established in 1928 and became an independent National Society in 1992 after Turkmenistan gained its independence. Learn more about them HERE :)\nUzbekistan, Central Asia\nThe Red Crescent Society of Uzbekistan deals with tasks such as a rapid response to emergencies and natural disasters, training people to provide first aid, provision of health and social care services, humanitarian assistance, capacity building, implementation of international projects and development of international cooperation in the humanitarian field. I had a good time interacting with volunteers and staff at their HQ in Tashkent. Keep on keeping on my friends!\nKyrgystan, Central Asia\nKyrgyzstan Red Crescent Society have a long proud history of humanitarian work which began already back in 1926 when the Red Cross Society of the Kyrgyz ASSR was established. I had a great time with the volunteers who are always amazing :)\nKazakhstan, Central Asia\nThe Red Crescent Society of Kazakhstan have a long proud history of humanitarian work which began already back in 1936 when the Red Cross Society of the Kazakh ASSR was established. Check them out HERE :)\nPakistan, Central Asia\nThe Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was pretty amazing! I was guided around the Blood Donor Center which is fully equipped to handle donations of blood, plasma and blood platelets. They also have storage facilities and are grateful for all the donations they receive. However in light of the ever increasing demand for safe blood, the PRCS would be grateful for more donations in order to meet the needs. That is you! ;)\nVietnam, South East Asia\nIt was a great pleasure meeting with the management of the Vietnamese Red Cross (VNRC) in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). They are doing an extraordinary good job which warms my heart! I was awarded this pin during my stay in HCMC. The local government gives this as a recognition for individuals who have contributed to the city. The VNRC presented me with it. Thank you! :)\nMy contact book now holds more than 600 Red Cross Red Crescent contacts! Volunteering is a great way of making friends and National Societies can always use more help. You are welcome in the family ;)\nThroughout the first four years of the Saga I managed to visit 140 National Societies. On request of the Danish Red Cross I wrote 'always present stories' about my visits to the Red Cross and Red Crescent. I have written more than 100 such stories and here are a few of those which exist in English:\nAngola:\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/angola\/once-upon-a-saga---angola-72368\/\nZambia (day 1):\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/zambia\/once-upon-a-saga---zambia-72302\/\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/zambia\/once-upon-a-saga---zambia-day-two-72311\/\nMalawi:\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/malawi\/once-upon-a-saga---malawi-72316\/\nComoros:\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/comoros\/once-upon-a-saga--comoros-72381\/\nMadagascar:\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/madagascar\/once-upon-a-saga---madagascar-72404\/\nSeychelles:\nhttp:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/en\/news-and-media\/news-stories\/africa\/seychelles\/in-the-seychelles-the-red-cross-is-always-present-one-mans-journey-to-seychelles-as-part-of-his-quest-to-visit-190-countries-72610\/\nTina Dickow\nTina Dickow is a beloved Danish singer-songwriter who successfully continues to bring joy to millions. Tina has supported the Red Cross on multiple occasions: Wikipedia\nRune Klan is a Danish comedian and world class magician. He's basically a national treasure in Denmark: Wikipedia\nHaf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson\nAlso known as \"The Mountain\" in HBO's Game of Thrones, Haf\u00fe\u00f3r is an Icelandic strongman and actor: Wikipedia\nAdam is an American industrial designer and special effects designer\/fabricator, actor, educator, television personality and TED speaker who's best known for his role on The Discovery Channel's hit series Mythbusters: Wikipedia\nAlick Macheso\nAlick is a popular musical artist from Zimbabwe and Goodwill Ambassador of the Zimbabwe Red Cross: Wikipedia\nGina Din\nGina is a successful businesswoman from Kenya with focus on strategic communication and public relations. Gina is a Goodwill Ambassador of the Kenya Red Cross: Wikipedia\nIuliana Tudor\nIuliana is a well known Romanian journalist and television personality. 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It's a modern world.\nby Thor \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0\ud83e\uddf3\nHey there Twitterlitter!!\ud83d\ude02 I know I've tweeted a lot today but I'm offline for the next ten days. It's our friends\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/QTk19dtVhi\nHi @maersk - if you're playing hide and seek with me out here in the Pacific then I'm winning!!!\ud83d\ude09 Found you in\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/ULgRG36GBS\nHey there @rossengineering & @GeoopDK. My #Geothermal heroes!!\ud83d\ude0d I've brought the banner to #NanMadol today in FSM,\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/dGVVCw4Sby\nThis island nation is sometimes just called Micronesia which can be confusing as Micronesia is also the name of a r\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/ksjZGiRglC\nFollow @onceuponasaga\nOnce Upon a Saga\nMade by Kameli","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Strong quake hits northwest Iran, killing two and wounding 241\nBy Web Desk on\t August 26, 2018 News World View\nA magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the Iranian city of Kermanshah, killing two and wounding 241, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.\nThe majority of casualties were in the city of Tazehabad, northeast of Kermanshah, according to Tasnim. Two aftershocks above 3.0 on the Richter scale were also recorded, according to the Tasnim news agency.\nThe US Geological Survey reported that a shallow, magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck about 55 miles (88 km) west-northwest of Kermanshah. The quake was felt as far away as Baghdad, according to\nIraqi state television, which also said there were no injuries recorded.\nLast November, a 7.3 magnitude quake struck villages and towns in Kermanshah province along the mountainous border with Iraq, killing at least 530 people and injuring thousands of others. It was Iran's deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.\nTags: Earthquake | Iran | Iran earthquake | quake\nPrevious ArticleMuhammad Irfan bowls T20 cricket's most economical spell\nNext Article Pakistani scientists develop arsenic water filter using watermelon rind\nManipur leaders announce independence from India\nChina censures FATF's politicization, counters anti-Pakistan designs\nInternational aviation body dismisses India's complaint against Pakistan\nMore than 700 people injured in Iran 6.4-magnitude earthquake\nMore than 700 people were injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that shook western Iran, state ...read more\nIran: World States Should Abide by ICJ's Ruling against US\nIran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshrou urged the international community ...read more\nIndonesia earthquake, tsunami confirmed death toll rises to 1,234\nJAKARTA: The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia's Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, ...read more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Marketing Turns to Rogue IT\nHint: They want it done fast, and vendors are knocking on their door. Help them resist the temptations.\nBy Minda Zetlin\nContributing writer, CIO\t Jun 8, 2012 8:00 am PDT\nRogue or shadow IT\u2013when business departments make their own arrangements with external vendors without consulting IT\u2013is the bane of many CIOs. But from a marketing department's perspective, it's easy to understand the appeal.\n\"As marketers, we're used to asking: How can I get this done fast, and how can I spend less?\" says Myra Rothfeld, CMO at Genworth Financial Wealth Management. \"If you're working with your own large and complex IT organization, it doesn't feel fast or cheap.\"\nTo make matters worse, many technology vendors have discovered the marketing automation market, Rothfeld says. \"I think it's particularly easy to do these days because there are so many IT vendors, consultants and specialists who find that market very desirable.\" In fact, she says, \"You have to really decide not to do shadow IT.\"\nIt's a decision worth making. \"As marketers, our objective is to build better, faster client experiences,\" Rothfeld says. \"I personally have found that the best way to do that is within the structure of the leadership team, and with marketing staff who have a deep understanding of technology.\"\nIn the end, resisting the temptation to go rogue should pay off for marketing and the company as a whole. \"It's really about competitive advantage,\" says Glen Hartman, global managing director of digital consulting at Accenture. \"Rogue IT systems are usually siloed. Whichever companies can do the hard work of getting the CIO and CMO connected will be able to outpace their competitors.\"\nMinda Zetlin is a business technology writer and co-author of The Geek Gap: Why Business and Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other and Why They Need Each Other to Survive.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fefferman, Charles Louis; Stein, Elias M.\nH\\(^p\\) spaces of several variables. (English) Zbl 0257.46078\nActa Math. 129, 137-193 (1972).\nThis paper is a major contribution to the study of \\(H^p\\) spaces, singular integrals, and harmonic analysis an \\(\\mathbb R^n\\). Classically the theory of \\(H^p\\) spaces arose from analytic function theory. \\(H^p\\) was defined as the space of analytic functions in the upper half plane with boundary values in \\(L^p(\\mathbb R)\\). More recently this definition has been generalised to \\(\\mathbb R^n\\) by introducing generalised conjugate harmonic functions in \\(\\mathbb R_+^{n+1}=\\{(x,t): x\\in\\mathbb R^n\\), \\(t>0\\}\\). The authors present several intrinsic descriptions of \\(H^p\\), of a real variable nature, not involving conjugate functions. These results greatly clarify the meaning of \\(H^p\\), as well as throwing new light on the behaviour of convolution operators an \\(L^p\\). The following is a summary of some of the main results. The first main result is the description of the dual of \\(H^1\\). \\(H^1\\) is the Banach space of all functions \\(f\\) in \\(L^1(\\mathbb R^n)\\) such that \\(R_jf\\in L^1(\\mathbb R^n)\\), \\(j=1,\\dots,n\\), where \\(R_j\\) is the \\(j\\)-th Riesz transform. (In terms of Fourier transforms, \\((R_jf)^\\wedge(y)= y_j\\hat f(y)\/|y|\\). When \\(n=1\\) the definition says that the Hilbert transform of \\(f\\) is in \\(L^1\\), or equivalently \\(\\int f(x)\\,dx=0\\) and \\(f=g+\\bar h\\) where \\(g\\) and \\(h\\) are in the classical \"analytic\" \\(H^1\\)). The authors prove that the dual of \\(H'\\) is the space of all functionals of the form \\(\\varphi\\to\\int f\\varphi\\) (suitably interpreted if \\(f\\varphi\\not\\in L^1\\)), where \\(\\varphi\\) is a function of bounded mean oscillation (BMO), which means that there is a constant \\(C>0\\) (depending an \\(\\varphi\\)) such that \\(\\int_Q |f-f_Q|\\leq C|Q|\\) for any cube \\(Q\\) in \\(\\mathbb R^n\\), where \\(f_Q= |Q|^{-1}\\int_Q f\\). The proof of this remarkable and deep result depends an an inequality of Carleson and some clever manipulations of Littlewood Paley functions. The hard part is to show that a BMO function defines a bounded functional on \\(H^1\\). The essential difficulties are already present in the case \\(n=1\\). This duality leads to a new approach to convolution operators which brings out the usefulness of BMO as a substitute for \\(L^\\infty\\). If \\(T\\) is a convolution operator (i.e. \\(Tf= K*f\\) for some distribution \\(K\\) an \\(\\mathbb R^n\\)) mapping \\(L^\\infty\\) into BMO, then the authors show, using the duality and a description of \\(L^p\\) related to BMO, that \\(T\\) maps \\(H^1\\) into \\(H^1\\), BMO into BMO, and \\(L^p\\) into \\(L^p\\) for \\(1<p<\\infty\\). The condition that \\(T\\) map \\(L^\\infty\\) into BMO is relatively easy to verify for singular integral operators of Calder\u00f3n-Zygmund type. A more refined version of this result, involving Calder\u00f3n's complex method of interpolation, enables the authors to prove new results on \\(L^p\\) multipliers. The authors then turn to \\(H^p\\) spaces for general \\(p\\) \\((0<p<\\infty)\\). They define these first as spaces of harmonic functions an \\(\\mathbb R_+^{n+1}\\), without reference to boundary values. Specifically, a harmonic function \\(u_0\\) is in \\(H^p\\) if there exist harmonic functions \\(u_1,\\dots,u_n\\) satisfying\n\\[ \\partial u_j\/\\partial x_i=0, \\quad \\sum_{i=0}^n \\partial u_i\/\\partial x_i \\quad\\text{and}\\quad \\sup_{t>0} \\int_{\\mathbb R^n}|u(x,t)|^p\\,dx<\\infty, \\]\nwhere \\(|u|^2= \\sum_{i=0}^n |u_i|^2\\). This definition is appropriate if \\(p>(n-1)\/n\\). In general a more elaborate version (here omitted) is needed (the point is that \\(|u|^p\\) is subharmonic only if \\(p\\geq (n-1)\/n\\)). The main result is as follows: let \\(u\\) be harmonic in \\(\\mathbb R_+^{n+1}\\) and define \\(u^*(x)= \\sup_t |u(x,t)|\\). Then \\(u\\in H^p\\) if and only if \\(u^*\\in L^p\\). (For \\(n=1\\) this was proved by Burkholder, Gundy and Silverstein in 1971). Finally the authors consider boundary values. If \\(u\\in H^p\\) then \\(u(x,t)\\to f(x)\\) as \\(t\\to0\\), in the distribution sense, where \\(f\\) is a tempered distribution on \\(\\mathbb R^n\\). Denote the set of such \\(f\\) also by \\(H^p\\). Then \\(H^p= L^p\\) for \\(p>1\\) and for \\(p=1\\) this definition is consistent with the earlier one. The last result above characterises \\(H^p\\) in terms of Poisson integrals (as \\(u\\) is the Poisson integral of \\(f\\)). The authors show that the Poisson kernel can be replaced by any smooth approximate identity \u2013 more precisely, fix a smooth function \\(\\varphi\\) on \\(\\mathbb R^n\\), decreasing rapidly at \\(\\infty\\), with \\(\\int\\varphi=1\\). Put \\(\\varphi_t(x)= t^{-n} \\varphi(x\/t)\\), and for any tempered disribution \\(f\\) write \\(f^*(x)= \\sup_{t>0} |\\varphi_t*f(x)|\\). Then (for \\(0<p<\\infty\\)) \\(f\\in H^p\\) if and only if \\(f^*\\in L^p\\). (\"Non-tangential\" versions of this and the preceding result are also given). This result implies for example that one could define \\(H^p\\) in terms of the wave equation rather than Laplace's and get the same space of functions on \\(\\mathbb R^n\\). The paper concludes with a proof that certain singular integral operators map \\(H^p\\) to itself.\nReviewer: Alexander M. Davie\nCited in 51 Reviews\nCited in 1128 Documents\nMSC:\n46J15 Banach algebras of differentiable or analytic functions, \\(H^p\\)-spaces\n46E30 Spaces of measurable functions (\\(L^p\\)-spaces, Orlicz spaces, K\u00f6the function spaces, Lorentz spaces, rearrangement invariant spaces, ideal spaces, etc.)\n42B25 Maximal functions, Littlewood-Paley theory\n30D55 \\(H^p\\)-classes (MSC2000)\n42A50 Conjugate functions, conjugate series, singular integrals\n44A35 Convolution as an integral transform\n46F10 Operations with distributions and generalized functions\n\\textit{C. L. Fefferman} and \\textit{E. M. Stein}, Acta Math. 129, 137--193 (1972; Zbl 0257.46078)\nFull Text: DOI\n[1] Burkholder, D. L. & Gundy, R. F., Distribution function inequalities for the area integral. To appear in Studia Math. \u00b7 Zbl 0219.31009\n[2] Burkholder, D. L., Gundy, R. 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{"text":"How To Change Timelines RIGHT NOW Through The Ripple Effect\nBy\tIn5D\ton\tMarch 23, 2015\tin\tSpiritual Awakening\nby Gregg Prescott, M.S.\nIf you could go back in time, any choices you make outside of what already occurred in the past would have a ripple effect on future events.\nWhat if you didn't realize you were already time traveling?\nWhat if your dreams played as important of a role as your waking life?\nIs this why the main stream media is constantly throwing negative events at us in order to reinforce their timeline of subservience, control, and conformity, while knowing the importance of how this timeline is being played out?\nThe ripple effect is the successive changing of future timelines after changing present events. Events from the future are transformed to become consistent with the alteration of the timeline and are changed as a result of the ripple effect.\nDid you ever have a dream where you saw the future and down the road, that dream became reality? How is this possible?\nTime is linear and is only relevant to this planet. For example, a 24 hour day on Earth is not the same as a full day on Mars, which is approximately 28 hours long.\nEvery probability for the future exists right now. Only the past and present are fixed in linear time. When we dream about future events, we are basically creating the possibility for that event to occur. When it occurs, we tend to write it off as coincidence, not fully knowing how powerful our thoughts truly are.\nChanging Timelines Through The Law Of Attraction\nThe Law of Attraction works in a similar way. The Law of Attraction will bring you whatever is predominantly on your mind. What if you were able to change future events right now by simply thinking positive thoughts and affirmations? Even the simplest things make a difference, such as letting a car into heavy traffic or opening the door for someone.\nWhen I'm at the beach, I always try to take a \"Walk of Gratitude,\" where I thank the Creator, Universe, my spirit guides and guardian angels, friends and family on both sides of the veil, our galactic neighbors and friends, Mother Earth and my higher self. I express love and gratitude to all and add that I will continue to listen and be guided with an open mind, ears, and heart. I also ask for protection and safety in all areas of life. I never ask for anything materialistic because materialism is what divides us as people.\nWhile walking to my particular spot where I express my gratitude, I envision a \"bubble of love\" that encompasses everything and everyone around me. Sometimes, I'll smile and say, \"Good Morning\" to people who I make eye contact with, but inside, I'm saying, \"I love you.\"\nI also try to incorporate a mantra where I tell myself that my DNA is changing as all of my codons are open, as we only have 22 of our 64 codons open in our DNA. I ask all of those I express gratitude to, to help me open these remaining codons, so I can heal myself and others in the best interests of humanity.\nWithin this Walk of Gratitude, there is a balance of service to self and service to others, all in the highest vibrations of truth and love.\nIf you incorporate a similar routine in your life (feel free to amend anything and make it YOURS), you'll find the world will change around you. I can't express the importance of thinking positive thoughts as each thought is energy that goes out into the aether and exists as a possibility for future events.\nChanging Your Routine\nAnother way to alter timelines is to change your daily routine. According to Dolores Cannon, every decision you make creates a parallel reality. For example, if you decided to wear white socks instead of yellow socks or no socks at all, in a parallel reality, you chose to wear yellow socks and in a different parallel universe, you chose to wear no socks at all. Every possible option is played out in parallel realities and the option that we are all experiencing is only one version of this.\nOur present reality is simply the probability of all parallel universes being played out in present time. In another parallel universe, there is no war, famine, or homelessness. Tesla's free energy has been implemented since the 1800's and we have been traveling throughout space for the past 80 years. Bilocating and teleporting yourself anywhere in the world is a common theme. There are no chemtrails, GMO's, or fluoride in the water. Our air, food and water supplies are pristine! This reality exists right now and we're all living on it in a parallel universe. The more we believe in this alternate reality, the more it comes to fruition. By simply envisioning this as a probability has already changed the outcome!\nAlso see: Nikola Tesla: Time Travel Experiments\nThe matrix we live in is based on expectations and predictive programming, so by altering your routine, you're also altering the present timeline which in turn, affects future timelines. It's as easy as incorporating something positive into your daily routine or doing a random act of kindness for someone whenever the opportunity arises.\nAt this point, the ripple effect takes place and while you're still thinking, \"This is just an ordinary day\", something BIG just happened to create a positive timeline in the future for EVERYONE!\nAffirmations That Will Change Future Timelines\nJust by saying these affirmations out loud, you are altering the timeline in a positive way!\nIn our future timeline:\nthere is no money or need for government.\nwe are all living in abundance and prosperity.\nall health issues are healed, treated and cured holistically without the need for Big Pharma.\nour life span is as long as we desire.\naging, as we know it, no longer exists.\nour water, air and food supplies are pristine.\nthere is no fear, only love.\nall races live in peace and embrace what makes us different from one another.\nwe embrace and peacefully coexist with other star nations and travel back and forth to share our experiences with one another.\nwe are able to teleport anywhere in the world, galaxy, or universe.\nwe have finally left the matrix!\nWe Can Make This Happen!\nThe following is an excerpt from Proof That Group Meditation Can Change The World:\nMeditation has the potential to literally transform the world. In 1978, what is known as the \"Maharishi Effect\" took place when a group of 7000 individuals over the course of 3 weeks were meditating in hopes of positively effecting the surrounding city. They were able to literally transform the collective energy of the city which reduced global crime rates, violence, and casualties during the times of their meditation by an average of 16%. Suicide rates and automobile accidents also were reduced with all variables accounted for. In fact, there was a 72% reduction in terrorist activity during the times at which this group was meditation.\nIf group meditation can change the world, so can positive affirmations! Imagine the ripple effect that occurred in 1978 when this happened? There are many things that have come and gone without coming to fruition, such as the North American Union, Edgar Cayce's prediction of Armageddon in 1999, the New World Order in 2000, etc\u2026 It's very well possible that these events were deterred by the Maharishi Effect in 1978 as well as the Harmonic Convergence that occurred in 1987, where synchronized meditation events from August 16\u201317, 1987 shifted the collective consciousness on the planet.\nIn order for this to change the timelines as quickly as possible, it's important to share this with as many people as possible. The more people who are thinking positive outcomes, the faster they will happen. Now, more than ever, we really need this to come to fruition as those in power are pushing for World War III. In a very near parallel universe, this does not happen and it could boil down to you helping to create this ripple effect!\nTags: Armageddon, change timelines, collective consciousness, dolores cannon, Edgar Cayce, gregg prescott, group meditation, harmonic convergence, how to, Maharishi Effect, meditate, meditation, NEW WORLD ORDER, North American Union, parallel universe, parallel universes, predictions, ripple affect, ripple effect, time line, time lines, time travel, time traveling, timeline, timelines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Batam Girls Register Login Contact Us\nEharmony i love cats\nI Am Wants Vip Sex\nBy Casey Christine Jul 13, Close your eyes. Go back to\nVonni\nCity: Willimantic, Maryland Heights, Grand Junction Regional Airport, Potter County\nRelation Type: !Want To Wank Cocks Right Now!\nCheck out this cat jumping. I just want to hug all of them but I can't 'cause that's crazy. Less than a full minute into the video, \"Debbie\" suddenly hits a wall of emotions and becomes teary-eyed, professing how much she loves cats.\nShe employs a bit of camera trickery to make it look like two identical he attached to one body. I'm nervous but I'm excited at the same time, um, so I'm just going to start talking about what I like and ehadmony I get some replies!\nI can't hug every cat. By Decemberthe video has accrued over 18 million views. I love your nose. She says it's her first attempt at an online dating video and that she's nervous and excited at the dharmony time. In the video, 'they' say: 'We just want to share some of our bedtime rituals, what we do before we go to bed.\nBut instead of stopping there, she pours her heart out over how much she truly loves this animal. Watch the video below. Debbie shares that this is her first time giving online dating a try and she's never created a video like this before. The video has received over 12 million views as of December The video starts with a shot of a laptop playing the original eHarmony bio video before she enters the frame to answer a cellphone and says \"Hello?\nThis is my first attempt at online dating. An eHarmony Video Bio went viral. Um, and I, love to run tears up, pauses um, I'm sorry, I'm thinking about cats again cries I just, I think eharmojy how many don't have a home and how I should have them and how cute they are and their ears earmony the whiskers and the nose. She admits that she's full of excitement and nerves. Her second video, posted on June 4 is entitled Cara And Kara.\nSorry I'm getting emotiona.\nI look nsa sex\nNotable Derivatives. Debbie gets teary eyed and quickly starts to cry saying she wants to hug all of the cats in the world but knows she can't. The video starts off pretty normal with her talking about her degree, then at around seconds, she mentions that she loves cats for the first time. As soon as I saw enarmony picture and a few seconds of this video it all came flooding back to my memory!\nHow the eharmony crazy cat lady tricked the internet\nScroll down for video 'They just too cute': An over-emotional Debbie cries as she talks about cats in her hilarious eHarmony Video Bio After announcing she's an MBA graduate from Villanova university, she says she love cats and then bursts into tears. Want more laughs? Anything particular come to mind?\nI love your eyes Let me refresh your memory. As she wipes away the tears she says: 'Sorry, but I love cats, I just wanna hug all of them but I can't. Think of YouTube. That got nearly 40 million hits and earned him spots on several high-profile talk shows. In fact, it was one of the first things I remember to spread that quickly on the internet!\nIs eharmony viral video from cat obsessed woman real or fake?\nOnly issue? Cara Hartmann recorded the video back in as a joke to put on her younger sister's Facebook wall. Of course you do! These videos are confirmation that the eHarmony bio was also scripted.\nGo back to Transcript Helloooo, my name is Debbie, um, this is my first attempt at an eHarmony video. She captioned the video herself \"I'm Debbie, I love cats and i just want a soulmate! In the video above, The Pet Collective aided by some HuffPost Comedy editors' expert cat knowledge investigates how Hartmann tricked everyone into falling in love with the eyarmony who just really loved cats.\nIt's sure to start your weekend with some laughs! View Comments.\nAbout karen sharp\nHer video for the online dating site went viral and now has almost 28 million views. Cat crazy: For a few seconds Debbie regains her composure, then she starts talking about cats again He started a music career and is in talks to appear in a reality TV show. Posted on June 3 and titled eHarmony Video Bio, it stars a woman calling herself Debbie, who seems shy and a bit ditzy but nevertheless is looking for a soulmate.\nSince then, most people have realized that Debbie was in fact just a character, but she remains one of the most beloved memes on the Internet. I just love them and I want them and I want them in a basket and with little bow ties I want them to be on a rainbow and in my bed and I just want a house, full of them and I just want us to roll around. By Casey Christine Jul 13, Close your eyes.\nIn it, a young, timid woman \"Debbie\" begins her monologue explaining that it is her first attempt at creating an online dating profile video. Authenticity A debate over the authenticity of the video took place in the YouTube comments with many users asserting the video is \"obviously fake.\nWants Vip Sex\nLook Teen Fuck\nLonely Granny Wants Horney Married Men Lonely Older Woman Seeking Mature Dating Sites","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Evangeline Lilly Suits Up In ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Still\nPost author By Nat, the Geek Girl\nNo Comments on Evangeline Lilly Suits Up In ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Still\nThe Wasp actress reveals her movie look for a special birthday celebration!\nIn honor of what would have been Ant-Man creator Jack Kirby's 100th birthday, actress Evangeline Lilly shared a new still from the upcoming Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp on Twitter!\nThe photo shows the actress in The Wasp suit sans helmet, standing in a classroom with a chalkboard and old school projector in the background, looking unamused.\n\"I am honoured to be on set today playing #TheWasp on what would be Jack Kirby's 100th birthday.\" Lily said in the post.\nI am honoured to be on set today playing #TheWasp on what would be Jack Kirby's 100th birthday.\n.#ThankYouJackKirby #AntManAndTheWasp pic.twitter.com\/EBsV8jTK34\n\u2014 Evangeline Lilly (@EvangelineLilly) August 28, 2017\nAnt-Man and The Wasp began filming last month with Peyton Reed returning to helm the project. It is due out in theaters on July 6, 2018. The film also stars Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Pena.\nBy Nat, the Geek Girl\nSouthern California native who likes movies (Star Wars, Marvel, Love Simon), books (Shadowhunter Chronicles, NA, YA fantasy, Red Rising series), TV shows (Supernatural, The 100), food (sushi, seafood, steak, all kinds really), and San Diego Comic-Con. I also like to write, but don't get to do much of that aside from on here.\n\u2190 Watch the new Marvel's INHUMANS Promo with a new look for Medusa \u2192 Video Review for WONDER WOMAN: WARBRINGER by Leigh Bardugo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kansas AG Network\n580 WIBW Farm Profit Seminars\nChiefs All Access\nHigh School Sports News\nAG Issues\nAmerica's First News\n580 Sports Talk\nWIBW Community Calendar\nShawnee County Commission\nTopeka City Council\nSt Jude: Finding Cures, Saving Lives\nWIBW 580\nKilmeade & Friends\nChiefsHeadlinesKansas City ChiefsNFLSports\nKansas City Chiefs knock off Los Angeles Rams 26-10, improve record to 9-2\nNovember 27, 2022 7:41PM CST\nThe Kansas City Chiefs didn't have their most efficient game of the season in Week 12, but they did enough to beat the Los Angeles Rams 26-10, extending their winning streak to five games.\nWhile the game wasn't necessarily a blowout, the Chiefs were in firm control for the majority of the afternoon. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes connected with tight end Travis Kelce for a 39-yard touchdown strike with 5:40 on the clock in the first quarter, giving Kansas City a lead it never relinquished.\nThat was the only touchdown pass of the game for Mahomes, who went 27-of-42 passing for 320 yards with that score and one interception. Mahomes did extend his streak of 300+ yard passing efforts to six games.\nKelce was also his favorite target on Sunday, recording four receptions for 57 yards and the touchdown.\nThe Los Angeles defense did give Kansas City some troubles, even if it didn't always show on the scoreboard. Most notably, the Chiefs had a brutal day in the red zone, scoring just one touchdown on six possessions inside the 20-yard line.\nReid opens with saying the offense was off a tick in the end zone today. When asked if there was anything he could put a finger on, Reid said yes but he wasn't going to say anything with Cincinnati next week.\n\u2014 Matt Derrick (@mattderrick) November 28, 2022\nThe Chiefs also had a hard time running the ball against the Rams' defensive front. Rookie running back Isiah Pacheco led the Chiefs with 69 yards rushing on 22 carries with a touchdown, but he and Ronald Jones, who was active for the first time this season, combined to rush for just 3.1 yards per carry on 26 attempts. Mahomes was the Chiefs' most efficient running threat, scrambling four times for 36 yards.\nKansas City's defense, however, continued its recent hot streak and made things miserable for a floundering Los Angeles offense. The Rams had to start third-string quarterback Bryce Perkins this week, and he was held to just 100 yards passing on 13-of-23, tossing his first-career touchdown pass in the process while also being picked off twice.\nThe Chiefs also got home for three sacks, including one by defensive tackle Chris Jones. He's the only player in the NFL to record at least half a sack in each of the last six games.\nChiefs DT Chris Jones recorded his 10th sack of the season today, earning him a $1.25M incentive \ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcb0\nHe's been dominant all season. pic.twitter.com\/sY2MbePoQC\n\u2014 Field Yates (@FieldYates) November 27, 2022\nThanks to the win, the Chiefs are now 9-2 and maintain their hold on the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoff picture for another week. The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins, who have the next-best record in the AFC at 8-3, also both won this weekend to keep the Chiefs' lead at just one game.\nArguably the most important game remaining on Kansas City's schedule is on tap next week with a road trip to face the Cincinnati Bengals. Cincinnati beat the Tennessee Titans in Week 12 and have won five of their last six games. Next week's contest is scheduled for a 3:25 kickoff.\nFor more reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs' 30-27 win over the Los Angeles Chargers, check out Mic'd Up with Jake and Fulton from noon-3 p.m., and 580 Sports Talk with Brendan and Dan from 3-5:30 p.m. Monday on 580 WIBW.\nKansas Jayhawks suffer second-worst loss ever at Allen Fieldhouse, fall to TCU Horned Frogs\nKansas State Wildcats come up short against Iowa State Cyclones 80-76\nKansas Jayhawks snap losing streak, beat Kentucky Wildcats 77-68\nKansas City Royals trade Michael A. Taylor to Minnesota Twins\n580 Preps Boys Basketball Coaches Club - Jan. 23, 2023\nWIBW Public Inspection File\nWIBW 580 is a part of Alpha Media LLC.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Elaine Arias\nAuthor and blogger\nPop Culture Crap\nArchives Select Month January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 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 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 January 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\nLiberal Hypocrisy: Gaming Edition\nSo I'm gonna have to get a copy of Red Dead Redemption 2, because you can kill feminazis in it. This is according to Vice. Vice is donkey shit, just so you know.\n'Red Dead Redemption 2' Players Are Excited to Kill Feminists in the Game\nContent Warning: This post contains discussion of violence against women. Red Dead Redemption 2 is an open world video game set on the American frontier with an almost subversive dedication to detail and realism.\nArchive link so you don't get donkey shit on your computer.\nBut I remember some shitty games from a few years ago, where you could kill tea partiers and stuff. Funny how Vice didn't go in rage mode when this shitty game was released:\nhttps:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2014\/08\/13\/shoot-racist-tea-partiers-in-battlefield-hardline\/\nThis was from 2014.\nAnd how about this game from 2011, called Tea Party Zombies Must Die. Real subtle, fuckers:\nIn new game, Tea Partiers make \"zombie\" targets\nA new online video game company has come up with a controversial new twist on the traditional zombie-killing gaming concept: the zombies targeted for kill are prominent figures in the Tea Party movement.\nOh, but killing suffragettes is just so awful! Look, I'm glad I have the right to vote (I voted early, and a straight Republican ticket because fuck the Democrats) and the suffragettes weren't that bad, but I bet the ones in this game are probably super obnoxious feminazis. I just hate the double standard.\nIn 2016 a game called Stump the Trump was released in which you could kill Trump. Of course, a game where you can kill Pelosi or whoever is just super bad and wrong, of course.\nYou Can Brutally Kill Donald Trump In A New Video Game. Progressive Outrage Nowhere To Be Found. | Breitbart\nHis death is depicted in bloody, gory, detail. Progressives, liberals, and feminists, who have previously been enraged by video games depicting violence against their own political icons, have so far said nothing. If you're unfortunate enough to have followed progressive-feminist outrage over video games over the past few years, you are likely to have encountered the \"Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian\" game.\nBy the way, that game looks like utter dogshit.\nI wrote about Far Cry 5, but it turns out that the game isn't a \"kill Republicans\" simulator, and the left was super butthurt about it.\nNo, Far Cry 5 Isn't About \"Fighting Trump Supporters\" \u2013 Mandatory\nFar Cry 5 has been revealed by Ubisoft, with new trailers and artwork offering the first look at what appears to be a new direction for the open-world FPS series. However, with the game's first batch of information unveiling the villainous Christian, right-wing extremists that players will be fighting against, it's already been the subject of controversy.\nI still have no real desire to play that game, though.\nWolfenstein II conflated Nazis with Trump supporters.\nNazi-killing video game \"Wolfenstein II\" angers Nazis with 'Make America Nazi-Free Again' slogans\nIt's a hell of a time in America when a video game taking an anti-Nazi stance is considered by some to be too controversial. Yet here we are. The video game Wolfenstein II, the latest iteration of an exercise in killing virtual Nazis, has angered Nazis with an online presence because it is about\u2026\nNewsweek does the same thing. Newsweek is also dogshit. Here's an archive link in case you don't want to give them any hits.\nRosie O'Donnell promotes a game in which you can push Trump off a cliff (must be some shitty Flash 'game' hosted on some random website, because the gameplay sounds nonexistent):\nRosie O'Donnell sparks outrage with Trump-killing game\nCLOSE Actress Rosie O'Donnell certainly knows how to push conservatives' buttons. And now she is drawing their ire by pushing her own button: one that makes President Trump jump off a cliff. \"Push Trump Off A Cliff Again,\" O'Donnell tweeted Saturday in an apparent play on Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" slogan.\nBut if I were to make a game in which you push some stupid leftist asshole off of a cliff and straight into a running meat grinder\u2026ooh, that's violent and disturbing and problematic.\nPeople Are Excited to Kill Republican White Men in Far Cry 5\nUbisoft has been teasing the upcoming Far Cry 5 for over a week and which will end with the reveal of the game tomorrow. However, one particular teaser for the game is its poster which showcases a group of white people with an American flag and are most probably the bad guys.\nThis shitty website also seems gleeful that you might have gotten to kill \"Republican White Men\" in Far Cry 5, and probably got mega butthurt when that wasn't quite the case. See, that's okay. Not disturbing at all, but shoot some fucking suffragettes, and you're evil incarnate.\nOkay, so you're probably wondering what the fuss is all about? So, I haven't played the Red Dead Redemption series, but I watched the infamous video in question and it appears that yes, you can kill a suffragette character in the game, but it's considered a crime in the game world. If you do it in front of witnesses, you incur a bounty that increases over time. You know, like in most open world RPG games. I am such a raging goody-two-shoes in these kinds of games. I don't commit any crimes if I don't absolutely have to, and yet I'd do it just to shut that irritating nag up.\nThe game's interface looks a lot like that of Horizon Zero Dawn, a game I'm currently playing (one I enjoy, even though it's got some lefty crap like most games). I want this game even more now.\nSo here's the video in question. There's others, but this one is what got the poor widdle feminazis all in a tizzy. It's fine to take a chainsaw to zombie Sarah Palin, but feeding some annoying suffragette to an alligator? Perish the thought!\nI thought it was hilarious. Kind of disturbing, but hilarious, and all the more because leftist are so offended by it. Also, the suffragette is really annoying and her reasons for wanting the vote are rather modern. She goes on about how letting women vote would be an end to wars and stuff, and how women would do it better, and that they might even have a woman president. Ugh.\nOh, and in the leftist games above, the whole point is to actually kill Republicans\/Trump\/Tea Partiers. This is just one gamer killing one NPC, and the game pretty much punishes you for it. Or attempts to. The leftist games are much worse, obviously. Yet Vice probably had no qualms about those games.\nSo, I know what I want for Christmas.\nBy Elaine Arias 0 Comments\nGab is back!\nYes, feminists ruin everything\nHogwash is Happening Again\nWordPress Joins the Censorship Game\nBrighteon Social\nCodias\nDaniel Humphreys\nThe Writings of Jon Del Arroz\nDaniella's Den","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Porsche Macan Turbo is a fantastic sporty SUV that can be driven anywhere you want. It has a lot of power and features an all-wheel drive to keep you safe. Read on to learn more about this vehicle, its performance, and its trim.\nThe Macan Turbo is the fastest Porsche SUV, and it is also the sportiest. But how does it stack up against its rivals?\nPorsche's Macan has a rear-biassed all-wheel-drive system, making it an exquisite off-road machine. It has an engine that can rev to 440 hp, which helps it pull from a standing start and reach 60 mph in 4.6 seconds. However, there are some drawbacks.\nIts standard turbocharged V-6 runs out of juice when it gets near the redline, and the cabin feels too cramped. On the plus side, there are plenty of features for off-roading, including adaptive LED headlights, a rear differential lock, and a rear-seat heating system.\nInside, the Macan has a small 4.8-inch digital display that shows one crucial piece of information at a time. There are also three-zone climate control and eight-way power-adjustable heated front seats. Check out the huge inventory of Porsche Macan Turbo\nSome of the other high-tech features include blind-spot monitoring and lane-change assist. You can opt for a Bose premium audio system if you want a more luxurious ride.\nThe Porsche Macan Turbo is one of the most popular compact SUVs on the market. This prestige SUV features a turbocharged 3.6-litre V6 that generates 400 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque. It also has an all-wheel-drive system, which maximises traction.\nThe Macan is built to provide comfort, performance and utility. A twin-turbocharged 3.6-litre V6 engine can propel the car from 0 to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds.\nThere are several optional equipment packages available to enhance the Macan. These include the Sport Chrono package, the COBB Tuning Stage 1 tune, the Carbon Fiber Interior package and the 21-inch 911 Turbo Design wheels.\nThis Macan also has a panoramic roof, front seat venting and a blind spot monitor. Other standard features include a USB port, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, dual-zone climate control and a digital info centre.\nConsidering a Macan, you will want to do your homework before buying. A pre-purchase inspection is an excellent way to identify any mechanical issues that may have arisen. Also, a repair history can help determine where a problem may exist.\nModel;Macan\nThe Porsche Macan Turbo is a sports compact SUV with a twin-turbo 3.6-litre V6 engine, delivering 400 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque. This makes it capable of accelerating to 100 km\/h in 4.6 seconds.\nThe Macan Turbo's sport interior is slightly different from the rest of the Macan lineup. It has a thick dashboard design, sports seats and a high centre console.\nThere are many options available on the Macan Turbo. For example, the Performance package adds a Sport+ mode, more oversized brake pads, a sport exhaust, a sport steering wheel and air suspension.\nAnother option is the Performance Edition, which includes the Sport Chrono Package. It also comes with a unique performance display and launch control.\nWith the optional Macan Performance Package, the turbo-powered Macan is also offered with a Sports Exhaust system, air suspension, a Sport Plus mode, a Bose audio system, and adaptive sports seats.\nThe Macan will deliver a great driving experience regardless of your choice. Although it is an SUV, the Macan has excellent straight-line speed and little body roll while retaining the ability to coast.\nTrim; Turbo\nThe Porsche Macan is an all-wheel-drive compact luxury SUV with an athletic profile. Designed to match Porsche's other vehicles, the Macan offers a sporty, comfortable ride and plenty of standard features.\nIts exterior design is reminiscent of the Porsche Panamera sedan. A low roof line and sharp angles create a sports car look. This SUV is available in three trim levels.\nThe entry-level Macan comes with a 2.0-litre inline-4 engine that generates 248 horsepower. It also has a seven-speed automatic transmission. At the top of the range is the Turbo.\nThe Turbo trim adds adaptive suspension dampers, an Alcantara headliner, and aluminium interior accents. In addition, it includes Bose surround sound, a navigation system, and a unique front fascia.\nPorsche offers a variety of stand-alone options, including a panoramic sunroof, a Burmester 16-speaker sound system, and skid plates. For an even more immersive driving experience, customers can customise their Macan by adding a host of driver-assist systems.\nIf you're interested in purchasing a Porsche Macan, you can get a free price quote from your local dealer. They can also help you determine which trim is best for your needs.\nPorsche has updated its Macan compact SUV, adding new exterior and interior colour choices. The changes also include a more efficient carbon filter to prevent odours and pollen from entering the interior.\nThe Macan S interior has a classic Porsche design, with a central gauge binnacle and a wide array of controls. The sporty interior has firm seats and a well-bolstered centre console. Those who choose the Sport Chrono package can add a dash-mounted stopwatch.\nAll trim levels have bi-xenon headlights and fog lights. On the upper trims, heated sports seats are standard. And Porsche has added a Wi-Fi hotspot, a surround-view camera, and a lane departure warning.\nPorsche's redesigned steering controller and diffuser ensure precise handling. In addition, the Macan has a redesigned front grille, a revised rear fascia, and a restyled taillight. It also has a more athletic roofline.\nPorsche's Macan has all-wheel drive and can reach 60 mph in less than six seconds. For the Turbo model, the 0-60 mph is a mere 4.2 seconds.\nFor the 2022 model year, Porsche has refreshed the styling of the Macan. It gets a new rear diffuser, a body-colour bumper trim, and clear LED tail lights.\nThe new Porsche Macan will feature a new twin-turbo V6 engine. The brand previously offered its entry-level SUV in two different engine trims. One was the S, and the other was the Turbo.\nThe S trim uses a 3.0-litre turbocharged V6. It produces 340 horsepower and 339 pound-feet of torque.\nThis is a significant upgrade from the 2.0-litre turbo-four offered in previous years. Porsche claims the new V6 is faster and generates more power than the previous Macan S engines.\nFor the turbo model, Porsche has also introduced a new 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6. This one produces an additional 15 horsepower compared to the original GTS.\nThe performance package adds a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission, a sport exhaust, a rear-axle differential, and more oversized brake pads. It is expected to add a little power but can improve the shifting and acceleration.\nThe Macan also features a redesigned steering controller, and the instrument cluster displays are updated with new graphics. There is also a new cabin air filter. Unlike the original model, the new Macan will come with Apple CarPlay.\nFuel;Gas\nThe Porsche Macan Turbo is a performance SUV that offers a good deal of power and handling. It's also highly efficient. You can expect up to 19 miles per gallon in the city and on highways. However, you'll need to be careful about your fuel choice. Using the wrong fuel could cost you big money in the long run.\nIf you're driving a high-performance vehicle, you will want to use premium unleaded fuel. The higher octane rating will make your engine burn more efficiently, which means you'll get better mileage. Aside from helping you to get the most bang for your buck, a higher octane level also helps prevent engine knocking, which can lead to costly repairs.\nCheck your owner's manual if you need help determining which fuel you need. You'll find recommendations for regular, mid-grade, and premium.\nFor a luxury brand like Porsche, choosing the right fuel is essential. Premium fuel has detergent additives that help to optimise engine performance and reduce emissions.\nOn the other hand, regular unleaded fuel is usually rated at 87 octane. But it's important to remember that a lower octane level will hurt your engine.\nThe 2018 Porsche Macan TURBO has a turbocharged, 3.6-litre V-6 engine rated at 400 hp. It also has a seven-speed auto dual-clutch transmission. This makes the Macan a very relaxing car to drive.\nThe Macan's interior has an attractive, logical layout, with abundant aluminium trim and top-quality materials. The centre console and gauge binnacle use a classic Porsche design.\nThe Macan S infotainment system is simple and easy to use. There are several options for the Macan's high-tech features, including a surround-view camera and lane-departure warnings.\nSome Macans have an air suspension, which adjusts to the terrain level automatically. Higher Macans can be fitted with adaptive dampers. Depending on the model, the cargo area expands to 53 cubic feet with the second row folded.\nFuel economy is excellent, with the four-cylinder models managing up to 25 mpg on the highway. The Macan's base twin-turbo V-6 delivers an impressive 252 horsepower.\nThe Macan TURBO can travel 815 km on a full gasoline tank when properly equipped. Porsche claims the car will use 9.2 litres per 100km of premium unleaded petrol.\nQ. What type of engine does the Porsche Macan have?\nA. The Porsche Macan has a 3.0-litre turbocharged V6 engine that produces up to 400 hp. It also has a seven-speed auto dual-clutch transmission. Some Macans have an air suspension, which adjusts to the terrain level automatically.\nQ. What type of fuel should I use in my Porsche Macan?\nA. For a luxury brand like Porsche, choosing the right fuel is essential. Premium fuel has detergent additives that help to optimise engine performance and reduce emissions. For the Porsche Macan, you should use premium unleaded fuel for optimal performance.\nQ. What is the estimated range of the Porsche Macan?\nA. The Macan TURBO can travel 815 km on a full gasoline tank when properly equipped. Porsche claims the car will use 9.2 litres per 100km of premium unleaded petrol.\nThe 2018 Porsche Macan TURBO is packed with power, performance and luxury features. With the right fuel, you can enjoy a smooth, efficient ride with impressive fuel economy. So don't forget to fill up with premium unleaded petrol for a truly thrilling drive in the Porsche Macan!\nVisit Champion Porsche\nCall us toll-free at (800)1-877-411-1150 or come visit us at Champion Porsche, 500 West Copans Road, Pompano Beach, FL 33064.\nOur knowledgeable and friendly staff are always happy to answer any questions you may have. So don't hesitate to contact us today and let us help you find your perfect vehicle!\nHours of Operation Monday \u2013 Friday: 8:00am \u2013 6:00pm\nSunday: Closed.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roccat Pyro Review | PC gamer\nIn a world where gaming keyboards incessantly offer lots of flashy lights, analog switches, activation per. key, optical contacts and the like, using Roccat Pyro for a few weeks feels like you've been brought back to Earth for a while. moment. It is a much more robust and simplified mechanical board that needs no theater or special features to cope with, especially for its more pocket-friendly price of $ 130 (\u00a3 90) or so.\nRoccat Pyro specifications\nContact: TTC red\nKeys: ABS, laser etched\nLighting: RGB pr. key\nBuilt-in storage: Up to 3 profiles\nAdditional ports: None\nConnection type: USB Type-A\nCable: 1.8m non-braided cable\nPrice: $ 130 \/ \u00a3 90\nIts construction is a fine blend of durable plastic along with a metal top plate that is both smooth and adds a welcome structural rigidity to the Pyro. There is a good weight on the board with a good build quality, which means that the Pyro should be able to withstand long writing sessions with ease, along with a few desktop mashes if you happen to lose a few rounds of CS: GO (just play with bots , makes life easier).\nOne could argue that its smaller chassis and overall design lead to the Pyro being judged to be a bit indescribable compared to the competition, but I would argue the other way around. Its more minimalist way is a welcome change for the feature-packed crazy boys from Asus, Razer and others who occupy the top positions on the best gaming keyboard lists like ours for example.\nThere is a nice little wrist rest present which clips into place with relative ease, and at this price it is a welcome addition to the Pyro's feature set. It consists of some grooved plastic, the same as the keyboard's own surround and is comfortable in short bursts, but if you use it for too long, it may end up leaving a few marks on your wrists, so just be careful.\nThe Pyro's real party piece, however, comes in the form of its sumptuous RGB lighting.\nYou get some handy media controls in the top right of the Pyro with a nicely screwed volume knob, which is the eye-catching feature along with some other smarter keys for actual media playback. All the buttons feel quite tactile to the touch and not like pressing down on a wet sponge, making a welcome change to many of the other, more expensive 'boards out there.\nHowever, the Pyro will have to run out of talent at some point. There are no extra macro keys, nor is there a USB 2.0 passthrough, which, although not expected for the money, may have been a good addition.\nThe switches here are unfortunately not full-fat Cherry MXs, and they come instead in the form of some red clones from TTC. As clones go, they feel pretty good with the finger with a consistent brightness that makes them ideal and quite smart for FPS games.\nI've always been more of a tactile switch fan, as shown by the Unicomp Model M review I wrote a few months ago, and therefore something with a little more feedback would have been preferable with the Pyro, but for the overall gaming- audience if you just want a light keystroke, you will all be lucky here and be pwning noobs while going in no time at all.\nFull N-Key Rollover and anti-ghosting are present with Pyro, which gives its gaming chops more pedigree and just helps ensure no risky input is detected, so you can focus on beating the competition instead of worrying you about whether you press the wrong key.\nThe Pyro's real feast, however, comes in the form of its sumptuous RGB lighting. Although I've never really been the biggest fan of RGB point, the Pyros are certainly sleek to look at and are distinctly sharp and vibrant unlike other keyboards at this price. This goes hand in hand with the decently crafted keyboards that, with their two-shot casting, allow the RGB lighting to be displayed clearly.\nDo you want to tinker with the effects? Well, Roccat's included Swarm software will have you covered not only on this front, but also the simple point that you will be able to remap features and program macros in an intuitive way. It's all also wrapped up in a pretty sharp interface, which ties in pretty well with Roccat's own branding and makes you feel like you're getting the complete experience.\nIt does not take the form of any useless bloatware that other peripheral manufacturers choose to assemble with their products, or it takes an age to install so you can easily\nAll in all, the Roccat Pyro is a great all-round gaming keyboard that not only ticks in the right fields, but also makes it at a price that most people can afford. If you are looking for a down-to-earth keyboard that is well-built with smart switches and delicious RGB, then this is what you should go for, as long as you do not mind not having great statement features.\nTonga Volcano: What you need to know about the eruption and the tsunami","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tina Turner opens up about losing son to suicide, career\nTina Turner opened up about losing her son to suicide last year, as well as her tumultuous relationship with Ike Turner and life with husband Edwin Bach, in a new interview that aired Sunday.\nThe legendary singer spoke with CBS News' Gayle King about her memoir \"My Love Story\" and the years since her retirement in 2007, including about her son Craig, who fatally shot himself last July at age 59.\n\"I think Craig was lonely, that's what I think really got him more than anything else,\" said Turner, 79. \"I have pictures all around of him smiling, and I think I'm sensing that he's in a good place. I really do.\"\nThe Queen of Rock 'n' Roll has also endured a stroke, intestinal cancer and kidney failure.\nShe revealed that her 63-year-old husband Erwin offered to donate one of his kidneys to her when she needed it. She said that at first, she told him: \" 'Yes, but darling, you're young, and I'm already old. And I don't mind. '\nThen, the rock legend\u2026\nRami Malek supports girlfriend Lucy Boynton at Netflix party","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Discovery invests in Property Bros shop\nUS home and lifestyle network HGTV and parent company Discovery have invested in an online shopping platform created by the stars of HGTV's Property Brothers.\nProperty Brothers is a real estate and home renovation series through which twin brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott help families find, buy and transform houses into their dream homes. In 2018 the brothers launched Casaza.com, an interiors and homewares shopping site. HGTV and Discovery have now invested in the platform and entered into a deal through which the site will feature specially curated collections designed to appeal to HGTV viewers.\nThe news comes after HGTV and Discovery signed a multi-year talent deal extension with the brothers in December.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"US Stamps Prices Scott 3X4: 1845 10c Baltimore Postmasters Provisional. Page 1\nBaltimore Md., 10c Black on Bluish (Scott 3X4). Type I, Position 7, large margins to just in, tied on piece by blue \"10\" in oval handstamp and also matching smudge at left, trace of \"PAID\" on piece at lower left, stamp expertly repaired at left with part of printed design inked in VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 10-CENT BLACK PROVISIONAL STAMP ON BLUISH PAPER. AN IMPORTANT CLASSIC UNITED STATES RARITY. The earliest discoveries of the Baltimore 10c provisional adhesive stamp were made in 1895 and 1896-97. Based on reports published by various writers, it appears that the 10c on Bluish paper offered here, which is tied on piece and repaired (3X4-PCE-02), was the first 10c denominated Baltimore adhesive found. It was discovered in 1895 by Dr. Arlo Bates and sold to W. Elliot Woodward, an early dealer in coins and stamps. Woodward offered the stamp at auction on March 11, 1896, but it failed to reach the reserve price of $1,500 (L. N. Williams, Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps: The Biographies, page 174). Sometime after the 1896 auction, the piece was sold to the New England Stamp Company, and it was presumably sold by them to Henry J. Duveen. After Duveen died in December 1919, the estate consigned the United States collection to Charles J. Phillips for private sale in 1922. The Baltimore 10c piece was listed by Phillips as one of the rarities in the Duveen collection. The Williams book reports that Arthur Hind acquired all of the Duveen United States material, but this piece was not in the 1933 Hind sale (the 10c on White and on Bluish were each represented by full covers in the Hind collection). Based on the year of sale (1922), it is far more likely that the piece was acquired by Henry G. Lapham, who displayed it at the Collectors Club of New York on April 4, 1928, along with the Baltimore 10c on White cover recently sold in our auction of the Frelinghuysen collection. When Lapham's collection was sold privately by Warren H. Colson, after Lapham's death in 1939, the 10c on Bluish was not sold to Frelinghuysen, but neither was it in the Colson stock when he died in 1963, as reported by John R. Boker Jr. (Warren H. Colson of Boston \u2014 His Stamps, With Extensive Notes on the Henry G. Lapham Collections and 'Asides' About Alfred H. Caspary,\" 1989 Congress Book). It does not appear again until the sale of the T. Cullen Davis collection of Postmasters' Provisionals (Part II, Siegel Sale 278, November 19, 1964, lot 8). It was acquired by Dr. Laurence and Muriel Hayes, and was later sold in the 1977 Rarities sale. Our census of the 10c Baltimore provisionals is available at our website at http:\/\/www.siegelauctions.com\/dynamic\/census\/3X2-3X4\/3X2-3X4.pdf. We record only two examples of the 10c Baltimore on bluish paper, and five on white paper. Census No. 3X4-PCE-02. Ex Duveen, Lapham, T. Cullen Davis and Hayes. W.H.C.\" (Warren H. Colson) handstamp at lower right. Offered to the market for the first time since 1977 History of the Baltimore provisionals: http:\/\/siegelauctions.com\/enc\/pdf\/Baltimore.pdf\nRobert Siegel Auction Galleries, Jun 2012, Sale 1025, Lot 15\nUS Scott 3X1 US Scott 3X3 US Scott 3X4","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"As Time Goes By wins second straight in Santa Maria S. (G2)\nAs Time Goes By scored a narrow victory in Saturday's $200,000 Santa Maria S. (G2) to give the 4-year-old her second consecutive graded stakes win of the Santa Anita meet.\nThe win did not come easy, as This Tea closed resolutely in the final furlong, but As Time Goes By, under Mike Smith, dug in very gamely to win by a nose in 1:43.77 for the 1 1\/16-miles on the fast track.\n\"I told Mike, we've been going easy on her, not too hard for this race,\" said Baffert, who registered his meet-leading 14th stakes victory. \"This is the first time she's come back really blowing. That filly that ran second, ran a big race. As Time Goes By's heart and true grit made her hang in there. We knew Miss Stormy D was quick, and you could tell turning for home that my filly wasn't doing it that easily.\"\nAs Time Goes By has won four of her five past starts, including the April 24 Santa Margarita S. (G2). Her earnings now stand at $380,600 for co-owners Tabor, Magnier and Smith.\nAs Time Goes By is a daughter of Baffert's 2015 Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year American Pharoah and is out of the champion Take Charge Lady, making her a half-sister to Grade 1 winners Will Take Charge and Take Charge Indy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pilots Down\nCanada's most up-to-date aircraft in 1939 was the Northrop Delta, manufactured under licence by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal. It was about the size of a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter\u2014a large, single-engine, low-wing monoplane, powerful and fast. Although noisy and said to be nose-heavy, the Delta was a versatile aircraft and pilots generally spoke...\nVintage warbirds\nMarch 9, 2019 by Stephen J. Thorne\nAt their most essential, they are wooden or tubular alloy skeletons wrapped in paper-thin fabric or sheet-metal skins\u2014riveted tin cans powered by internal combustion engines, driven by propellers and flown on a wing and a prayer. Belching fire and smoke, coughing and kicking as if in...\nRadar wars\nDecember 18, 2018 by Hugh A. Halliday\nA daring mission by a Canadian-crewed Wellington bomber raised the stakes in the Allies' battle for air supremacy They called it the Wizard War, a battle of scientists and technicians\u2014American, British, Canadian\u2014striving to stay ahead of their German counterparts waging the first electronic war in...\nOur first Air Force\nOctober 5, 2018 by Tom MacGregor\nFormed, disbanded and resurrected, 401 Squadron has been at the heart of Canada's air defences for a century. Much of the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force's 401 Squadron can be seen in a quick glance around Klersy's, the unit's lounge in its hangar...\nMystery of the lucky Lancaster\nFebruary 13, 2018 by Sharon Adams\nIt was just six weeks before the end of the Second World War when the telegram arrived for the Lee family in Winnipeg, all capital letters, like someone shouting to be heard above a rising internal wail: REGRET TO ADVISE THAT YOUR SON FLYING OFFICER...\nAirman on set\nSeptember 7, 2017 by Hugh A. Halliday\nThe film Captains of the Clouds often runs on TV movie channels. It is a favourite of those who like aviation movies. Where else can you find Billy Bishop playing himself? In 1940-41, the United States was neutral, but Hollywood was anti-Nazi and pro-British. Britain,...\nAir support for the Canadian Corps at Vimy\nApril 1, 2017 by Hugh A. Halliday\nAs the Canadian Corps prepared for the attack on Vimy Ridge, it was assisted by I Brigade, Royal Flying Corps. Four squadrons of Corps (army co-operation) aircraft mapped the German defences and located enemy artillery batteries; by April 9, 1917, 180 of 212 hostile batteries...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RAMAPO COLLEGE CAMPUS MAP PDF\nVudocage Registration will not be allowed at the door. Ramapo College of New Jersey. Take a Virtual Tour of the Campus Below. We will only have the agenda printed for all conference attendees. Defining events and characteristics that are shaping the generation Practical ways to ramapo college campus map the iGeneration into the workforce How the iGeneration will transform the workplace. Limited Parking is available in the College Park Apartment lots Barrier gates require access cards at the information booth.\nAuthor: Dagal Samujin\nUploader: Tedal\nOrganized into thematic learning communities, Ramapo College provides academic excellence through its interdisciplinary curriculum, international education, intercultural understanding, and experiential learning opportunities. Ramapo College provides students with individual academic attention and social support within a caring, sensitive and intellectually vigorous community.\nThe College provides service and leadership opportunities for students and faculty through a combination of internships, field placements, community service, study abroad, and cooperative education. These opportunities allow students, faculty, and staff to encounter the world beyond the campus. Cover photo: Laurel Hall 3 Ramapo College is committed to maintaining strength and opportunity through diversity of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and economic background among faculty, staff, and students.\nRamapo College is a selective institution committed to providing equal access to under-represented populations. Barrier-free, the College maintains a continuing commitment to persons with disabilities.\nRamapo College provides a rich living and learning environment through almost student organizations, intramural sports, and intercollegiate athletics.\nThe College maintains a strong positive and economic impact on the surrounding communities by partnering with area communities, corporations, schools, service organizations, and governmental entities, while sharing its intellectual and cultural resources and its facilities. Ramapo College of New Jersey is committed to providing service and ethical leadership through international understanding and the creation of 21st century partnerships.\nTwo main student restaurants, conveniently located near residence halls, in the Robert A. Scott Student Center and Trustees Pavilion, provide variety and convenience. In addition, numerous fast food, casual and fine dining restaurants are located close to campus.\nThe Marketplace, Scott Student Center 2. Student restaurant, Trustees Pavilion 3. The Atrium, Scott Student Center 4.\nThe C-Store, Trustees Pavilion 5. The Atrium, Scott Student Center 7. The following information is provided annually to every employee and student of Ramapo College of New Jersey out of concern for their welfare and in compliance with federal laws: The Ramapo College annual security booklet includes statistics for the previous three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by Ramapo College of New Jersey; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus.\nThe booklet also includes institutional policies concerning campus security, such as policies concerning alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes, sexual assault, and other matters. You can obtain a hard copy of this booklet by contacting the offices of Student Affairs, C, The booklet is currently accessible via the Web at www.\nATWOOD WATER HEATER G6A-8E PDF\nOrganized into thematic learning communities, Ramapo College provides academic excellence through its interdisciplinary curriculum, international education, intercultural understanding, and experiential learning opportunities. Ramapo College provides students with individual academic attention and social support within a caring, sensitive and intellectually vigorous community. The College provides service and leadership opportunities for students and faculty through a combination of internships, field placements, community service, study abroad, and cooperative education. These opportunities allow students, faculty, and staff to encounter the world beyond the campus.\nLECUONA MALAGUENA PDF\nTrends in career preparation? Major shopping malls, movie theaters and restaurants are also close at hand. 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{"text":"Verizon Media's new ad transparency tool provides reach, cost insights, forecasting capabilities\nIts DSP users will have a full view of the programmatic ad environment broken down by channel, ad format and exchange.\nAmy Gesenhues on June 13, 2019 at 10:10 am\nVerizon Media has rolled out a new tool for its DSP users to offer more transparency into the programmatic ad platform. The tool, said Verizon Media, is designed to give advertisers a comprehensive view of the programmatic landscape \u2014 showing reach and cost analysis by channel (display, CTV, DOOH, audio, etc.), ad format and exchange. It also provides forecasting insights.\n\"With today's announcement, we are continuing to take a leadership role, bringing our DSP customers granular omnichannel intelligence at the auction level, giving them everything they need to understand how and where to best allocate budgets,\" said Verizon Media's chief business officer Iv\u00e1n Markman.\nWhy we should care\nAdvertisers have long been calling for more transparency from programmatic platforms and exchanges. With this feature, media buyers see granular reach and cost analysis for each channel, format and exchange and then forecasts based on those insights to inform their campaign strategy, creative and targeting optimizations.\n\"Adding Verizon Media's capability to our own transparency tools allows us to understand deeper bidding insights at the auction level, ensuring that we are accessing the inventory through the optimal path. This level of DSP supply path flexibility should be the expectation moving forward,\" said Omnicom Media Group's EVP of global partnerships Steve Katelman.\nMore on the news\nVerizon Media said future versions of its new transparency tool will include the ability to segment by device, video duration, video placement and domain.\nBrand safety and ad fraud was the third biggest concern for advertisers (following data privacy and consistent measurement capabilities) according to a January report from Integral Ad Science.\nEarlier this year, Verizon Media rolled out native mobile ad features for e-commerce advertisers and replaced its Flurry Ads platform with new Verizon Ads SDK.\nAmy Gesenhues\nAmy Gesenhues is a senior editor for Third Door Media, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land, Search Engine Land and MarTech Today. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed to a variety of traditional and online publications, including MarketingProfs, SoftwareCEO, and Sales and Marketing Management Magazine. Read more of Amy's articles.\nAOLChannel: Display AdvertisingDisplay AdvertisingMachine Learning & Artificial IntelligenceMarketing ToolsProgrammatic Advertising & Media Buying","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Yanks and more\nA New York Yankees and baseball blog first and then other sports.\nMadison Bumgarner leads the San Francisco Giants to their third title in five years\nThe San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. The game took place at Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri and the final score was 3-2. Tim Hudson started for the Giants but the story was Madison Bumgarner who pitched five innings in relief on two days rest. Jeremy Guthrie started for the Royals and pitched pretty well, their big guys in the bullpen also came in to the game early. Pablo Sandoval led the Giants offense once again.\nHudson pitched 1 2\/3 innings giving up three hits and two runs. He walked one and struck out one. Jeremy Affeldt pitched 2 1\/3 innings giving up a hit and Bumgarner pitched five innings giving up two hits and no runs with four strikeouts. He earned his third win of the World Series and is 5-0 career in the World Series.\nGuthrie lost the game pitching 3 1\/3 innings and giving up four hits and three runs. He walked none and struck out three. Kelvin Herrera pitched 2 2\/3 innings giving up three hits and he struck out four, Wade Davis pitched two innings giving up a hit and struck out three and Greg Holland pitched an inning and he struck out two.\nSandoval had three hits, Hunter Pence had two hits and Brandon Belt had two hits. Michael Morse had ahit and two RBI, Brandon Crawford had an RBI and Sandoval hit a double. The Giants were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. Blanco committed an error.\nAlcides Escobar had a hit, Nori Aoki drew a walk and Lorenzo Cain had a hit. Billy Butler had a hit, Alex Gordon had two hits and an RBI and Omar Infante had a hit and an RBI. Gordon hit a double and the Royals were 0-5 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.\nIn the second Morse hit a sacrifice fly to give the Giants a 1-0 lead and then Crawford hit a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0. In the bottom of the second Gordon hit an RBI double to make it a 2-1 game. Infante hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game at two. Morse hit an RBI single in the fourth to make it 3-2 Giants and that would be the final score. The San Francisco Giants won their third World Series in five years and the MVP was Bumgarner.\nPosted by gmarchesej at 12:35\u202fAM No comments:\nLabels: game seven, kansas City Royals, Madison Bumgarner, Michael Morse, MLB, offense, Pablo Sandoval, Pitching, San Francisco Giants\nThe Kansas City Royals win game six to force a game seven\nThe Kansas City Royals defeated the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night. The game took place at Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri and the final score was 10-0. The series is even at three games each with game seven to be played on Wednesday night. Jake Peavy started for the Giants and he wasn't good at all, Yordano Ventura started for the Royals and was very good. Every player in the Royals starting lineup had a hit and six of them had two hits.\nPeavy pitched 1 1\/3 innings giving up six hits and five runs with a walk and two strikeouts. He lost his second game of the series. Yusmeiro Petit pitched 2\/3 of an inning giving up three hits and two runs, Jean Machi pitched three innings giving up five hits and two runs with a walk and two strikeouts and Hunter Strickland pitched two innings giving up one hit and one run with a walk. Ryan Vogelsong pitched an inning with a walk and a strikeout.\nVentura picked up the win and pitched seven innings giving up three hits and no runs. He walked five and struck out four. Jason Frasor pitched an inning giving up two hits and no runs with a strikeout and Tim Collins pitched an inning giving up a hit and struck out two.\nGregor Blanco drew a walk, Joe Panik had a hit and drew a walk and Pablo Sandoval had a hit and drew a walk. Hunter Pence had a hit, Brandon Belt had a hit and Travis Ishikawa drew a walk. Juan Perez had a hit, Brandon Crawford had a hit and drew a walk and Pence hit a double. The Giants were 0-6 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base.\nAlcides Escobar had two hits and an RBI, Nori Aoki had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Lorenzo Cain had two hits, three RBI and drew two walks. Eric Hosmer had two hits and two RBI, Billy Butler had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Alex Gordon had a hit. Salvador Perez had two hits, Mike Moustakas had two hits and two RBI and Omar Infante had two hits. Moustakas, Hosmer, Butler, Infante, Cain and Escobar each hit a double. Moustakas hit a homerun and the Royals were 7-16 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.\nThe Royals scored seven runs in the second inning. Moustakas hit an RBI double, Aoki hit an RBI single, Cain hit a two run single and Hosmer hit a two run double. The inning was capped off with a Butler RBI double. In the third Cain hit an RBI double to make it 8-0 Royals. Escobar hit an RBI double in the fifth to make it 9-0 and they capped off the scoring with a run in the seventh. Moustakas hit a solo homerun. The series is tied 3-3 and the Royals have the game at home in game seven on Wednesday night.\nLabels: kansas City Royals, MLB, offense, Pitching, San Francisco Giants, Yordano Ventura\nThe San Francisco Giants even the World Series with a 11-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals\nThe San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals 11-4 on Saturday night. The game took place at AT+T Park in San Francisco, California. Ryan Vogelson started for the Giants and wasn't very good and Jason Vargas was ok but not great either for the Royals. Hunter Pence, Pablo Sandoval and Joe Panik led the Giants offensive attack. Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez led the Royals with three hits each.\nVogelson pitched 2 2\/3 innings for the Giants giving up seven hits and four runs with a walk and two strikeouts. Jean Machi pitched 1\/3 of an inning giving up a walk and a strikeout, Yusmeiro Petit pitched three innings giving up two hits and struck out two and earned the win. Jeremy Affeldt pitched an inning giving up a hit, Sergio Romo pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out one and Hunter Strickland pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out one.\nVargas pitched four innings giving up six hits and three runs. He walked two and struck out three. Jason Frasor pitched 1\/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run, Danny Duffy pitched 2\/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and Brandon Finnegan took the loss pitching an inning and giving up five hits and five runs. He walked two batters and Tim Collins pitched two innings giving up three hits and two runs with a walk and two strikeouts.\nGregor Blanco had two hits and drew a walk, Panik had two hits and two RBI and Buster Posey had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks. Pence had three hits and three RBI, Sandoval had two hits and two RBI and Brandon Belt had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks. Juan Perez had a hit and an RBI, Brandon Crawford had a hit and Duffy had a hit. Petit had a hit, Arias had a hit and Michael Morse drew a walk. Panik hit two doubles and Pence hit a double. The Giants were 7-19 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base. Blanco had a stolen base.\nAlcides Escobar had a hit, Alex Gordon had a hit and Lorenzo Cain had two hits. Hosmer had three hits and an RBI, Mike Moustakas drew a walk and Omar Infante had a hit and two RBI. Perez had three hits and an RBI, Jarrod Dyson had a hit and drew a walk and Hosmer and Gordon each hit a double. The Royals were 4-11 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. Gordon had a stolen base and Collins committed an error.\nIn the first Pence grounded into a forceout scoring a run and giving the Giants a 1-0 lead. In the third Hosmer hit an RBI single, Infante hit a two run single and Perez hit an RBI single. The Royals took a 4-1 lead. Posey hit an RBI single in the third to cut the lead to 4-2. In the fifth Pence hit an RBI single and Perez hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game at four. In the sixth Sandoval hit a two run single and Belt hit an RBI single giving the Giants a 7-4 lead. In the seventh Blanco hit an RBI bunt single, Panik hit a two run double and Pence hit an RBI double. The Giants had a 11-4 lead and that was the final score. 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{"text":"Tag Archives for #claimsconference\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 29, September 18: Inner Ear\nThe shofar is not sounded on the final day of Elul but, in the silence, I looked inward and heard one in my mind's ear. I have reached the end of my Elul pilgrimage, but not the end of my exploration. L'Shana Tova.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 28, September 17: Gates of Awe\n\"Open the gates of righteousness for me so I may enter them and praise the Eternal.\" Psalms 118:19\n\u05e4\u05b4\u05bc\u05ea\u05b0\u05d7\u05d5\u05bc\u05be\u05dc\u05b4\u05a5\u05d9 \u05e9\u05b7\u05c1\u05e2\u05b2\u05e8\u05b5\u05d9\u05be\u05e6\u05b6\u0591\u05d3\u05b6\u05e7 \u05d0\u05b8\u05bd\u05d1\u05b9\u05d0\u05be\u05d1\u05b8\u059d\u05dd \u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05d3\u05b6\u05a5\u05d4 \u05d9\u05b8\u05bd\u05d4\u05bc\nToday is the final day the shofar is sounded until we welcome the new year. As we approach the open gates at the threshold of Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Awe, we have an opportunity to turn to the innovative spirit and resilience of our ancestors to find meaning and hope. My prayer is that this year, 5781, we discover new Gates of Awe to guide us.\nComing up On September by Marge Piercy\nThe New Year is a great door\nthat stands across the evening\nand Yom Kippur is the second door. Between them\nare song and silence, stone and clay pot\nto be filled from within myself.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 27, September 16: Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial.\nToday, I am standing at the Holocaust Memorial which honors those lost, and is also a tribute for Rhode Island's remaining Holocaust Survivors. The Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial was created in response to all that we have lost and all that we have learned. By honoring the dead and celebrating the living, the mission of this memorial is to build a bridge from the past for young people and for all who seek insight, peace and solace. By providing a place for meaningful reflection, and by sharing the lessons of the Holocaust, we can only hope that the Memorial will help create a kinder world.\nAlso today, the Claims Conference, which coordinates restitution and reparations payments for Holocaust survivors and sponsors Holocaust education, published a survey. Trying to gauge Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Generation Z, a cohort ranging in age from 18 to 39, the survey determined that of 1,000 respondents across all 50 states, more than one in 10 American adults under 40 believes that Jews caused the Holocaust. 11% of the respondents believed the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust, 15% said they thought the Holocaust was a myth or has been exaggerated, and 20% said people talk about it too much. \"If anything can, it is memory that can save humanity.\" Elie Weisel\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 26, September 15: Black Lives Matter, downtown Providence. Today my pilgrimage intersects with art birthed in response to George Floyd's murder, which launched this\nsummer's series of Black Lives Matter marches of resistance, rage and grief. The shofar is indeed a call to action; let it be heard far and wide, and may Their Names reverberate in our collective consciousness.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 25, September 14: Temple Beth-El Providence. \"Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.\" Like other synagogues, Beth-El is closed for in-person services. But a bonus of sounding shofar outdoors was the chance to really look at this striking column, by artist Jonathan Bonner: \"Strength comes from the column's cross-section, the Star of David.\"\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 24, September 13: Sons of Jacob. I imagine it has been a long time since the shofar was sounded here, certainly not by a woman, but I did so today, in honor of this synagogue, constructed in 1906- the surviving remnant of what was once a large Jewish community in the Smith Hill neighborhood of Providence. The congregation which built it was formed in 1896 by Orthodox Jews who immigrated from Russia. During that same era nearly two dozen synagogues were chartered in the city, and this building is the last one standing. The Providence Journal reported in 1906 that thousands of people had lined the streets to cheer on the procession, led by a marching band and nearly 300 Hebrew school children, when Torah scrolls were transferred into the newly erected building. May efforts succeed to restore it to its former glory.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 23, September 12: The shofar is not sounded on Shabbat, but I looked over and saw one.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 22, September 11: 9\/11 8:46 a.m. The 19th anniversary of the moment the first World Trade Center tower was hit. Living in New York then, the smell, sounds and sights of that day are forever branded on my soul. Today, in Providence, I am at the Wall of Hope, memorial tiles displayed outside the Convention Center, adjacent to a Covid testing center protected by uniformed Air Force, Army and an armored truck. The staff sergeant and his men stood when I sounded the shofar and saluted. They thanked me for my service.\nShofar Pilgrimage Elul 21, September 10: Sic Transit, Kennedy Plaza Transportation Hub, Providence. Teresa, a health-care worker who was \"killing time anyway\" waiting for her bus, offered to film this video when she saw me setting up my tripod.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 20, September 9: Transparency. Brown University campus. Monument by Martin Puryear, 2014. \"This memorial recognizes Brown University's connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the work of Africans and African Americans, enslaved and free, who helped build our university, Rhode Island and the nation.\"\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 19, September 8: Ten Thousand Suns, Providence. This public art installation affirms the the transformative and regenerative power of art. It is one of the many charms we encounter living in the Creative Capital. Ten Thousand Suns is a summer-long botanical performance started in the Summer of 2016 in which over 10,000 sunflower seeds were planted and nurtured over the course of the summer months on land that until recently sat under a highway, with high compaction, low-organic material, and embedded with toxicity.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 18, September 7: Miriam Hospital, Labor Day. Every single day is a day of awe and gratitude for the front-line workers everywhere who care for us.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 17, September 6: Masjid Al-Kareem Mosque, Rhode Island Council for Muslim Advancement, Providence. \"In the Name of God, Most Widely Merciful, Most Deeply Merciful.\" There is an unimaginable amount of work to do, and we must join hands to do it.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 16, September 5: On Shabbat, the shofar is not sounded but I looked across and saw one.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 15, September 4: JCS Kosher Nutrition, Jewish Alliance. Concluding the second week of my Elul pilgrimage sounding shofar for older adults arriving for lunch, vegan ice cream and connection provided generously by Kosher Nutrition Service, Neal Drobnis, JCS Kosher Nutrition Coordinator.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE 14, September 3: First Baptist Church of America, Providence. Today's fog is slowly clearing, externally and internally. Sounding the shofar on the lawn of the spectacular First Baptist Church, founded in 1638 by Roger Williams. It remains a living monument to religious freedom.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 13, September 2: VOTE, Avenue Concept Mural, Ship Street, PVD Rain didn't even come close to stopping me as I walked, with my shofar, to see the splendid new mural, just unveiled downtown. And rain must not stop any of you from voting on election day, whatever it takes. Four Rhode Island BIPOC artists, Angela Gonzalez, Kendel Joseph, Jessica Brown and ABOVE designed this powerful new work of public art that promotes civic engagement and citizenship. A lovely and inquisitive passerby ended up offering to record today's sounding. I didn't recognize his masked face at first, but my new friend turned out to be the remarkable Arnell Milhouse, Brown University's Nelson Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence. See what can happen when you take a walk in the rain?\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 12, September 1: Underground passage, Providence Place. The subterranean spiritual work of Elul is uphill, crooked and disorienting. Twelve days in, without a map, other than my heart.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 11, August 31: The Potato Famine. \"This Memorial is dedicated to the victims and survivors of the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1851. It also pays tribute to their immigrant descendants who, generation after generation, have so greatly enriched the life of America in general and of Rhode Island in particular.\" Bound for America, in the wake of the Great Famine, thousands of sick, hungry and dispossessed people boarded \"coffin ships\" and embarked on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean, the Bowl of Tears. Off of Dyer Street, at the intersection with Friendship Street is an alcove devoted to this period in human history, as is today's sounding. #rhodeislandirishfaminememorial\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 10, August 30: And the Temple shall be restored. Temple Emanu-El Providence, RI. Covid-19 has temporarily closed the doors of many religious institutions. The synagogue of today is an active, meaningful virtual space, although we all long for the in-person. In the meantime, although the grand sanctuary is empty, I felt like paying a visit to Emanu-El, to check in on the progress of its transformation, and to sound the shofar for phantom minyans.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 9, August 29: On the Sabbath, the shofar is not sounded but I looked out and saw one on the rocks.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 8, August 28: Swan Point Cemetery, Temple Emanu-el of Providence section. When I was a child, and frightened of a cemetery we'd drive by on weekly trips for dinner at my grandmother's house, my father said, \"There is nothing to be afraid of in there; it's the living you need to worry about.\" Today, unafraid, I sounded the shofar for those no longer with us, and anyone else within earshot. Maimonides heard this message in the shofar's notes: \"Awaken, ye sleepers, from your slumber, and ponder over your deeds; remember your Creator and return in penitence.\"\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 7, August 27: Rush hour, Providence Amtrak Station. No one to be seen upstairs in the waiting area, or on the train platforms below. Taped, static announcements repeat on timer\/loop reminding the requisite masks, and the arrival and departure times of empty trains no one is going to board.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 6, August 26: Water Place Park Basin. A young man came running toward me after I sounded the shofar today. He had heard it all the way over at Kennedy Plaza, where he had just gotten off the bus. When he heard the sound, he thought is was a call to him, a call to prophetic revelation. Kevin and I had a long talk about holiness and awe. He said the shofar inspired him to proselytize, which was what he had taken the bus here to do. I wished him well in his ministry.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 5, August 25: Prospect Terrace: Standing at the feet of Roger Williams the statue and above his remains buried in the ground below, today's shofar sounding resonated with the past and the present. From Providence's early days, this hilltop has been a strategic location. First the site of a beacon to communicate between settlements along the Narragansett Bay, it later became part of the fortification and defense of the area during the Revolutionary War. After I sounded the calls, a young woman thanked me, saying it was the first time she'd gotten to hear the shofar this season, and it had meant a lot to her. As my pilgrimage continues, I seek to connect, with those of all faiths, in shared moments of holiness, in the spirit of the founder of our state, and his devotion to tolerance and justice. Prospect Terrace Park\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE Elul 4, August 24: R.I. Statehouse, under the watchful eye of the Independent Man, and numerous masked tourists from Azerbaijan, and assorted picnickers. \"To hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernment.\"\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE: Elul 3, August 23: Pedestrian Bridge over the Providence River. Sun, sweat, gulls, gondolas, strong breeze, masked community.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE: ELUL 2, August 22: On Shabbat, the shofar is not sounded. But I looked up, and saw one in the sky. Downtown Providence.\nSHOFAR PILGRIMAGE: Elul 1, August 21: Courtyard, Stillman Street. Embarking on a new project today, the first day of the month of Elul. During this month on the Hebrew calendar, leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the shofar is sounded in synagogues daily, except on the Sabbath. This practice serves as a 'wake up call' encouraging the spiritual reflection and inner work of preparation for transformation and renewal. This season, in the era of Covid 19, the synagogue venue is not possible. My Shofar Pilgrimage will entail a walk to a different location daily, in and around Providence, where I will sound the traditional calls of the shofar. It is considered a blessing to hear the shofar, and I hope it's sound reaches people I encounter along my way, seen and unseen.\nAugust 25, 2020 by amyartcohen\t| Tags: #amtrakprovidencestation, #avenueconcept, #blacklivesmatter, #claimsconference, #covid spirituality, #creativecapital, #designundersky, #firstbaptistchurchofamerica, #georgefloyd, #harrymarshak, #hopemural, #jcskoshernutrition, #jewishallianceofrhodeisland, #jonathanbonner, #masjidal-kareemmosque, #miriamhospital, #prospectterracepark, #providencepedestrianbridge, #rhodeislandholocaustmemorial, #rhodeislandirishfaminememorial, #ricouncilformuslimadvancement, #ristatehouse, #rogerwilliams, #roshhashonah, #saytheirnames, #September11, #sonsofjacobprovidence, #sonsofjacobsynagogue, #spirituality, #swanpointcemetery, #temple emanu-el providence, #templebeth-el, #wallofhope, #waterplacepark, #willgreen, 10000suns, anniversary9\/11, Elul, Shofar, temple beth-el providence | Leave a comment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rams vs. Seahawks\nRams defensive tackle Aaron Donald (99) sacks Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) in the second half at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\n(Gina Ferazzi \/ Gina Ferazzi)\nRams wide receiver Brandin Cooks (12) suffered a concussion after being hit by Seattle Seahawks defensive back Tedric Thompson (33) on this play at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams cornerback Troy Hill (32) blocks a pass intended for Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15) in the first half at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams running back Todd Gurley gets ready to spike the ball after scoring one of his three rushing touchdowns against the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth quarter at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nSeattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll reacts after Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was called for intentional grounding against the Rams at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams wide receiver Robert Woods (17) breaks through midfield tackle attempts by Seattle Seahawks defensive back Tedric Thompson (33) and linebacker Bobby Wagner (54) in the first half at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams coach Sean McVay celebrates a Rams touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams wide receiver Robert Woods (17) breaks free from the outstretched grab of Seattle Seahawks cornerback Shaquill Griffin (26) in the second half at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams cornerback Troy Hill (32) upends Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Carson (32) in the second half at CenturyLink Field on Sunday in Seattle.\nRams cornerback Troy Hill (32) blocks a pass intended for Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Animation msn sex\nAdvertisement Advertisement There are parts of Bojack Horseman which make it sound like the kind of goofy animation you could happily plonk your kids in front of for an entire afternoon. Rick and Morty The breakout hit from cult US cable network Adult Swim, Rick and Morty inadvertently found itself at the centre of a bizarre fast food scandal involving Szechuan sauce back in October. Tower An animation with a difference, Tower uses a mixture of rotoscopic animation tracing over recorded footage and archival clips to tell the story of an American tragedy. Indeed, it boasts a stellar voice cast and array of well-defined characters, manages to balance the poignant and the profane with aplomb, and overall has far more depth than its shock value premise would suggest. Paste the code below into your site. 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{"text":"Arsenal make Real Madrid transfer contact over Martin Odegaard loan with player keen | Football | Sport\n\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629\/\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629\/Another New Year's Day Hangover\n\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629\nAnother New Year's Day Hangover\n2 6 \u062f\u0642\u0627\u0626\u0642\nEverton 0 \u2013 1 West Ham\nIt's all very \"Everton\" that this team exploded into a seven-match winning start to the season, took just a single point from matches against Southampton, Newcastle, Leeds and Burnley and then won four on the bounce in December, a month in which they were expected to struggle mightily as injuries to vital players bit and the fixtures began to pile up. Then, having won another four straight and with the chance to pull within one point of the top of the table, they go and lose at home to a David Moyes team for the first time.\nIt's absolutely maddening but, just like the Carabao Cup quarter-final against Manchester United \u2014 and, indeed the League game against the same team in November, this defeat exposed the shortcomings in quality and consistency with this Everton squad. It also didn't help that it was New Year's Day \u2014 Everton have now lost their last five matches played on the first of the year. Different managers, different players, seemingly the same mindset.\nOne of these sides was playing its third match in the space of six days; the other had had a fixture scheduled for Monday postponed, giving them a six-day period for recuperation and, you would have thought, the energy to go all out in search of three points that would have represented a fifth League victory in a row. It wasn't so much that you couldn't tell which was which \u2014 Everton didn't necessarily exhibit any more fatigue than West Ham \u2014 but Carlo Ancelotti's men were frustratingly cagey and unadventurous for long periods and simply inept going forward, a posture that belied the impressive run they were on coming into the game.\nCredit to his progress this season, the loss of Alex Iwobi's drive and unpredictable creativity down the right was a big miss and despite making such a positive impact off the bench at Sheffield United, Bernard wasn't able to match it. The Brazilian had his moments, the best of which yielded one of only two shots on target Everton would manage all evening and a decent save from Darren Randolph at the end of the first half, but on the whole he was representative of a lack of cutting edge that plagued the home side for almost the entire game.\nBernard has never been a model of consistency so it was the ineffectiveness of his compatriot, Richarlison, that was more worrying. The 23-year-old returned after missing the trip to Bramall Lane under the concussion protocol, but after an iffy 50-odd minutes in that cup tie against United, he had another match to forget down the flanks.\nRicharlison has always defied categorisation \u2014 neither an out-and-out striker nor a true winger with genuinely tricky dribbling skills, he's established his career in England as a wide forward using his power and unpredictability to beat opponents but when he is effectively marked or playing without a natural full-back behind him, he cut a very frustrated and unproductive figure. He seems to have fallen into a rut where he believes just running at defenders is enough but over and over he would just end up sloppily giving the ball away.\nWithout either of those wide men able to influence the game against a Moyes team that sat back and deprived them of the space they enjoy hitting teams in transition, Everton found it tough going but they made things immeasurably worse for themselves with painfully slow tempo and a tendency to recycle the ball backwards time and time again. They compounded that with some very sloppy distribution at times \u2014 Mason Holgate, restored to centre-half to accommodate Seamus Coleman's return and to give Michael Keane a rest, was a notable offender in this regard in the first half while Tom Davies's pass accuracy went south in the second.\nPicking up from his own laudable display in south Yorkshire, Davies had a tidy enough first half in the \"Allan role\" but was let down by a lack of movement ahead of him and, like Gylfi Sigurdsson who ran around a lot trying to close down passing avenues for Moyes's team but ultimately offered precious little creativity, it left one pining for the day that Ancelotti is able to select something closer to his first-choice starting XI. The young midfielder didn't play badly but it was another performance that underlined the fact that \u2014 again, like Sigurdsson \u2014 he simply isn't good enough for a side with Champions League aspirations.\nIt's understandable that a side that is still make-shift in places wasn't able to play free-flowing football but the lack of intensity that was so prevalent during that poor run of results between the defeat at St Mary's and the draw at Turf Moor that was so disappointing. Teams can overwhelm their opponents at times by just upping the tempo and putting them under the cosh but apart from some fleeting moments after James Rodriguez and Andr\u00e9 Gomes stepped off the bench to significantly improve things, Everton were the epitome of passive.\nWest Ham had a momentary scare in the sixth minute when Craig Dawson diverted a low Sigurdsson cross towards his own goal, forcing Randolph to reverse direction to pounce on it and one occasion \u2014 it might have been the only time in the game that West Ham's back line didn't repel anything that was delivered aerially into the box, thereby completely negating the Blues' threat at set-pieces \u2014 where Dominic Calvert-Lewin got his head to a corner but it went well over but otherwise there was nothing of note from Ancelotti's side until the 45th minute.\nThat's when Bernard brought a headed clearance from another corner down on his chest and rattled a half-volley towards the bottom corner but Randolph parried it behind to preserve parity going into half-time.\nFor their part, West Ham had shown slightly more penetration, better ability to negotiate the press gone closer to breaking the deadlock in the first period. Jarrod Bowen and Tomas Sou\u010dek had had headed opportunities in front of goal but failed to get enough purchase on the ball while Aaron Cresswell had flashed the ball across Jordan Pickford's goal with half and hour gone.\nThen, after the home side had started the second half with a bit more purpose and energy, the Hammers almost caught them out with a 55th-minute free-kick where Declan Rice found too much space down Everton's right flank and whipped the ball across the six-yard box. Five minutes later, Pickford was forced to bat away a Cresswell free-kick with a strong right hand and Pablo Fornals tested the keeper with another more tame effort and then planted a free header well wide a few minutes after that.\nMoments of incisiveness were all too rare from Everton but Bernard and Coleman combined well in the 63rd minute, although the Irishman's shot didn't unduly test the keeper and it would be the Brazilian's last involvement before he was withdrawn in a double substitution that saw Rodriguez and Gomes come on and Sigurdsson also leave the fray.\nThe positive change was almost ruined by Coleman's ill-advised back-header that gifted the ball to West Ham and their own sub, Michail Antonio, was played in only to be foiled by Pickford but Everton improved markedly after that going forward, albeit without being able to carve their opponents open. The removal of a visibly frustrated Calvert-Lewin who once again fed off scraps in favour of Cenk Tosun was a bizarre move that didn't help and it smacked of \"shop window\" rather than any belief the Turk could win the game.\nThe Blues' forward momentum forced a couple of decent dead-ball situations wide on the left but they came to nothing while West Ham finally made the breakthrough in what had become a disappointingly even contest. Pickford did well to parry away Sou\u010dek's 86th-minute shot but Cresswell fired the rebound back into the box, Yerry Mina dangled a leg back to divert it straight into Sou\u010dek's path and the Czech slammed it past Pickford.\nAs Ancelotti remarked after the match, this represented a point dropped from Everton rather than two because, simply put, his team didn't do nearly enough to win. It was a pretty dreadful performance at a time when they had allowed fans to dare to dream a little again at what kind of surprise the Toffees might be able to pull off this season.\nIn the wider context, sitting four points off the summit on New Year's Day is a lot better than many would have predicted but the congestion at the top of the Premier League table means that Everton are only three points above 11th place and are, therefore, as much in the hunt for Europe as West Ham who moved to 26 points with this victory.\nWhile Ancelotti has significantly played down the possibility of Everton adding to their squad this month, there is hope of better performances on the horizon now that James is regaining fitness, Digne is getting close to a return and Allan should be back by the end of the month. The lesson appears to be, however, that as hard as it it may be, it's pointless getting too high when things are good with this Everton squad the way it is and too low when results aren't going according to plan. Inconsistency remains the watchword until further quality can be added.\nFollow @Everton1an\nNote: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer\nDay hangover years","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Fulham\nFulham finish with a flurry to claim derby bragging rights over QPR\nTwo goals in four second-half minutes swung a pulsating west London derby in Fulham's favour as they overcame QPR 4-1 at Craven Cottage. Aleksandar Mitrovic headed his second goal of the game in the 66th minute before...\nChampionship roundup: Fulham go top while coaches see red in melee at Stoke\nFulham returned to the top of the Championship with a comfortable 4-1 victory over Birmingham at St. Andrew's. Marco Silva's side always looked in charge of the contest and two goals in each half backed up a dominant ...\nMarco Silva aims to stop the yo-yo years and bring Fulham stability\nAfter Fulham's latest attempt to escape Premier League relegation had run its unfulfilling course, Scott Parker identified the trend that has defined their last four years. \"The rollercoaster and the highs and lows [a...\nChelsea close to signing goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli after he leaves Fulham\nChelsea are closing in on the signing of the goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli. The 29-year-old, a free agent after leaving Fulham, is expected to join the European champions on a two-year deal this week. Chelsea need a n...\nMarco Silva agrees to take over at Fulham after turning down Fenerbahce\nMarco Silva has agreed to take over as Fulham manager on a three-year contract, having turned down an offer from Fenerbahce to take over at the Championship club. The former Hull City and Watford manager has been out ...\nFulham relegated as Ashley Westwood and Chris Wood strike for Burnley\nFulham's race is run and, even though they have seen fine margins go against them in recent weeks, there was no hard luck story to tell this time. They were as methodical and controlled as ever but lacked punch and, u...\nFulham denied victory at Arsenal by last-gasp Eddie Nketiah equaliser\nFulham were seconds away from a win that would have made survival appear that little bit more realistic and, perhaps, put the wind back in their sails for a great escape. That prospect seems exceedingly remote now and...\nAdama Traor\u00e9's late Wolves winner leaves Fulham in big relegation trouble\nFulham are running out of lives. This was a devastating defeat, inflicted by a superb injury-time strike by Adama Traor\u00e9, and one about which they can have few complaints. Traor\u00e9 ran on to a smart, round-the-corner pa...\nJohn Stones sparks second-half goal rush for Manchester City at Fulham\nprem\t 10\u304b\u6708 ago\nThe scary thought for the rest of the Premier League is that Manchester City were not even at their best. It made no difference. Pep Guardiola experimented and City took a while to find their groove but the contest wa...\nJ\u00fcrgen Klopp rejects suggestions Fulham players 'wanted it more'\nJ\u00fcrgen Klopp denied Liverpool had lost their hunger after the Premier League champions' embarrassing Anfield run extended to six consecutive defeats against relegation-threatened Fulham. Mario Lemina's first Fulham go...\nFulham midfielder Kevin McDonald to undergo kidney transplant next month\nThe Fulham midfielder Kevin McDonald has revealed he will undergo a kidney transplant next month, having spent his playing career managing chronic kidney disease. McDonald, who is 32, was first diagnosed at the age of...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Blondeseye View\nIn the Kitchen with James\nSport in the Spotlight\nCommittee applications\nAllBreaking NewsEditor's PicksEditorialIn Focus\nUniversity of St Andrews Athletic Union triple Christmas gift donation to\u2026\nCatherine Stihler elected as Senior Lay Member\nLetter to the Editor: University disenfranchises tens of thousands of alumni\nPolice Scotland issue statement on \"violence against students\"\nAllDevil's Advocate\nA treatise on the 20s\nWhy you should vote for the Liberal Democrats\nWhy you should vote for the Conservative Party\nWhy you should vote for the Scottish National Party\nAllA Blondeseye ViewFoodInterviewsLifestyleOtherPoliticsScience & TechnologyTravel\nMy Experience with ADHD: Diagnosed at 21\nMy Coconut Cream Pie: An Edible Adage\nA Real Person's Guide to Effectively Using LinkedIn\nNew Charity Lands in St Andrews\nAllArtBooksEdinburgh FringeFilmFoodIn the Kitchen with JamesGamesMusicOn the RocksOtherStageStyleTV\nInterview with Del Water Gap\nReview: Sketch Force One\nA Guide to Thrift Shopping in St Andrews\nDifficulties of travel in the EU with non-Euro currency\nSimple tips for travel\nUniversal Basic Income: A Debate\nSt Andrews Economists: Dr. Margherita Negri\nThe 2019 Davos Conference\nAllFeatureopinionPreviewsReviews\nA blast from the past: Szentek 2019 fails to disappoint\nFeast Mode: Stuffed Like Thanksgiving Turkeys\nPaw-some or Claw-ful?\nDon't be a Scrooge!\nAllAthleticsBursting the bubble2018 FIFA World CupOlympicsCanoe & KayakCricketDunhillEditor's PicksFootballHockeyLacrosseOther SportsRugbySport in the SpotlightVolleyball\nPochettino \u2013 what to make of his sacking?\nSports for fairer weather?\nCharlotte's Column\nA sit-down with Clay Pigeon Club\nAllPicturesIllustrationsReader SubmissionsWeek In PicturesVideo\nIllustrations Issue 234\nA Trip to the Highlands\nFreeze Frame: Photographer Spotlight\nIssue 208, featuring 2017 print redesign\nWhat is The Saint?\nThe Saint is St Andrews' oldest and largest student publication, both in print and online. Founded in 1997, The Saint publishes a 40-page print newspaper \u2013 the only one of its kind in St Andrews \u2013 every two weeks during term time, which is given out to the students and residents of the town free of charge. Our seven sections; News, Viewpoint, Money, Events, Features, Arts & Culture and Sports, cover everything of importance to the students of St Andrews. They are in supported by our Photography, Illustration, Video and Business teams.\nThe Saint is a nationally recognised publication, and a recipient of accolades from the Herald Student Media Awards and SPA (Student Publication Association) awards. Most recently, we were shortlisted for the SPA's Publication of the Year award, selected from over 90 different student publications across the UK. The Saint is St Andrews' most established and trusted news source.\nWho makes up The Saint's team?\nThe Saint's main team is made up over 50 people. From the most casual writer right up to the editor, they are all full-time students who are also studying for degrees while running the paper. This helps ensure that the paper is run by students, for students.\nThe editor is the person in charge of what appears in the paper, commissioning articles, controlling the vast team of contributors and scheduling each of the 10 issues per year.\nThey are supported by a team of deputy editors who helped to manage the paper, and section editors, who are in charge of all content, both online and in print, for their section. They are supported by deputy section editors, who act as the paper's most regular writers.\nThe Saint's business manager runs the Business team, and is responsible for securing the advertising that ensure we can print the paper.\nWe also have a web editor who coordinates our online team, running our social media coverage and maintaining our website, which recently underwent a major redesign.\nOur paper also depends on the work of our photography, illustration, video and design teams \u2013 who help make sure the presentation of our articles, both online and in print, is maintained to the highest possible standard.\nAny St Andrews student can write for The Saint. You can pitch one piece via email and then never write another article, or you can get involved as a full member of our committee and apply to become a deputy section editor \u2013 and anything in between.\nDuring the semester, each section of the paper holds regular meetings to discuss stories. 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{"text":"PSLS \u2022 News \u2022 PS4 News, Trophies, Reviews, and More \u2022 PS5 News, Rumors, Trophies, Reviews, and More\nCD Projekt RED Announces That Cyberpunk 2077 Has Officially Gone Gold\nBrianna Reeves Monday, October 05, 2020\nYes, you read that headline correctly. CD Projekt RED's long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 has officially gone gold. As such, the title is feature complete and ready to be printed on disc. This no doubt counts as a glorious day for the studio and fans, given that such news seemingly guarantees there are no more delays in store.\nThe developer shared the news earlier this morning in a celebratory post on Twitter. Said post is complete with a photo of Keanu Reeves' Johnny Silverhand holding onto none other than a gold disc. See the tweet in question linked below:\nCyberpunk 2077 has gone gold!\nSee you in Night City on November 19th! pic.twitter.com\/s6U266Y1fp\n\u2014 Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) October 5, 2020\nCD Projekt RED first announced Cyberpunk 2077 all the way back in 2012. For several years thereafter, however, details about the RPG were kept under wraps. But full development on the project didn't begin until after The Witcher 3's Blood and Wine expansion rolled out in 2016. Thus, Cyberpunk 2077 officially resurfaced during E3 2018, wherein the team confirmed the title's first-person details, basic premise, and so on.\nIn the two years since its resurgence, CD Projekt has delayed the title more than once. The first delay pushed Cyberpunk 2077 from April 2020 to September 2020. Another push moved the game to it current November release date, which certainly seems as though it will be met this time around.\nCyberpunk 2077 hits store shelves next month on November 19th on the PS4, PC, and Xbox One. Those who purchase a copy on current-gen will receive access to a free upgrade for their respective next-gen platform.\n[Source: Cyberpunk 2077 on Twitter]\nTags: CD Projekt RED, Cyberpunk 2077","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tee Grizzley taps Lil Durk for new single \"White Lows Off Designer\"\nThe two join forces once again.\nBy Regina Cho\nTee Grizzley has tapped in with Lil Durk once again for their newest collab single \"White Lows Off Designer.\" This is certainly not the first time the two have joined forces, and they even have an entire project together, the Bloodas mixtape from 2017.\nMost recently, Tee Grizzley dropped off a two-part saga with \"Robbery\" and \"Robbery Part Two\" within the last two months. Last year, he liberated his latest body of work The Smartest, which saw 17 tracks and additional assists from Hit-Boy, Big Sean, Meek Mill, Lil Baby, Lil Keed, Queen Naija, and the Detroit Youth Choir. He also released the heartfelt, emotionally charged \"Late Night Calls,\" a message to his recently re-incarcerated brother Baby Grizzley.\nIn 2020, he also made an appearance on Berner's newest project Russ Bufalino: The Quiet Don on the track \"R.I.P., and pulled up for the music video. Additionally, he lobbed an assist to $tupid Young on his track \"Wit A Sticc,\" to Jackboy on \"Married To My Enemies.\"\nJust before Christmas, Lil Durk graced the world with his latest project The Voice, which boasts 16 cuts and additional appearances from 6LACK, Young Thug, Booka600, and King Von. The project went on to land at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 thanks to 57,000 album equivalent units sold during its first week of release. The following month, Durk then liberated a deluxe version of Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 with seven additional cuts.\nThat boost was able to propel the overall body of work to the No. 2 spot via an additional 43,000 album equivalent units sold. More recently, he assisted Coi Leray on the remix of her viral hit \"No More Parties\" and he also recreated the most iconic Kanye West moments in his \"Kanye Krazy\" video.\nBe sure to press play on Tee Grizzley's brand new track with Lil Durk \"White Lows Off Designer\" down below.\nKash Doll and Tee Grizzley connect for \"Bossa Nova\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > News > Risk > In Effort to Restore Confidence, CalPERS Adds Risk Management Officer and Whistleblower Helpline\nRisk September 19, 2010\nIn Effort to Restore Confidence, CalPERS Adds Risk Management Officer and Whistleblower Helpline\nFollowing allegations of influence peddling at the nation's largest public pension fund, CalPERS has revamped its governance policies, and its latest reforms are designed to help better manage risk and restore accountability.\n(September 19, 2010) \u2014 The Sacramento-based $205.5 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) recently announced two significant reforms designed to restore confidence \u2013 the establishment of a Senior Level Enterprise Risk Management Office and Enterprise Chief Risk Officer, and the launch of a new Ethics Helpline to identify fraud and waste.\n\"Recent events on Wall Street, pension fraud in this state, and even allegations of wrongdoing at CalPERS have taught us that managing risk and ensuring accountability across the enterprise are critical to our effectiveness today and tomorrow,\" George Diehr, who served as Acting President of the Board at the pension fund's September Board meeting, said in a statement.\nThose recent events include allegations of influence peddling by placement agents, or middlemen who help money managers get pension-fund business. In May, California's attorney general filed a civil lawsuit alleging the state's pension fund officials Federico Buenrostro Jr. and Alfred R. Villalobos participated in a scheme to obtain business for investment firms, providing pension officials with luxury trips and other gifts.\n\"It's a new day at CalPERS, and these additional tools for managing CalPERS are being added to a very important list of efforts we have undertaken in the last 12 months to restore confidence, integrity, and accountability to all that we do,\" said Diehr.\nUntil a recruitment search is completed for a new chief risk officer, the board has named Larry Jensen, assistant executive officer, to serve as interim. The chief risk officer will report to Anne Stausboll, CalPERS CEO, and the system's board. While the existing investment risk management team will remain separate from the newly created office, they will work in partnership. The existing team is led by Farouki Majeed, senior investment officer for the asset allocation\/risk management unit, and Richard Roth, senior portfolio manager in charge of risk management, who both report to Joseph A. Dear, chief investment officer.\nChief Executive Stausboll added in a statement: \"We strive to be the very best at risk management. We will ensure that we ask the important questions, challenge our own assumptions, and hope to become the best at utilizing this discipline to understand and manage threats that could hamper our ability to deliver the best services to our members and employers.\"\nAccording to a release issued by the largest public employee pension fund in the US, the newly created Helpline will enable the fund to receive tips, concerns, and information regarding possible instances of wrongdoing \u2013 including possible allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, conflicts of interests, safety violations, harassment, or other misdeeds.\nAdditional outlined changed include:\nCo-sponsorship of legislation (AB 1743) that will require placement agents to be subject to strict gift limits, campaign contribution prohibitions, and be prohibited from receiving compensation contingent upon any CalPERS investment decision;\nTough rules for communication between Board Members and staff about investment proposals;\nAuthority to discipline Board Members who violate policy; The pursuit of information and a special review to ensure CalPERS has not been victimized by placements agents; and\nA ban on gifts to employees from business partners and potential business partners\nEarlier this month, investment chief Joe Dear said during a pep talk to more than two dozen colleagues at CalPERS that the only way out of the pension's mess \u2014 the loss of $70 billion in the credit wipeout of 2008 and 2009 and controversy of influence peddling \u2014 is to take more risk. \"We can take control of our destiny,\" said Dear, according to Bloomberg. \"We can make concrete improvements. Let's get to work.\"\nThe news service reported that Dear is embracing investments in private equity, emerging nations, hedge funds and public works projects to achieve market-beating profits, as opposed to investing in safe bets, such as US Treasury bonds. Additionally, he will request the pension's board of administration to trade exchange-traded funds and derivatives more aggressively than it does now.\nTo contact the <em>aiCIO<\/em> editor of this story: Paula Vasan at <a href='mailto:pvasan@assetinternational.com'>pvasan@assetinternational.com<\/a>; 646-308-2742\n\u00ab Fed&#39;s Flow of Funds Report Shows US Corporate Plan Assets Shrank 6.8% in Second Quarter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Illinois volleyball sweeps Rutgers in Big Ten home opener\nIllinois opposite hitter Naya Crittenden gets ready to spike the ball during the match against Arkansas at Huff Hall on August 26. The Illini won 3-0.\nAustin Yattoni\nBy James Boyd, Staff writer\nFiled under Sports, Top Stories, Uncategorized, Volleyball, Women's Sports\nThe Illinois volleyball team returned home after nine games on the road, and the team did not disappoint its home crowd with a win over Rutgers in straight sets.\nThe victory extended the Illini's win streak to seven.\nHead coach Kevin Hambly felt that his team did not play up to the competition, compared to the team's victory against Purdue Wednesday.\n\"'It's disappointing. I just hate when we give in to human nature,\" Hambly said. \"But the fact that we jumped out early, and (Rutgers) was making a bunch of errors, we just saw the team, the whole team just relax and give in just like, 'Oh we can win this.'\"\nRutgers scored the first point of the match because of an attack error by sophomore Ali Bastianelli, but the Illini reeled off eight straight points to take a commanding 9-1 lead. The Scarlet Knights fought back to close the lead down to two points, but that's as close as they would get to victory.\nA kill from senior Naya Crittenden and an attack error by Rutgers' Cole Trimble gave Illinois a 25-18 victory in the first set.\nIn the second, Illinois again jumped out to an early lead, and although the team defeated Rutgers by 10 points, the Illini once more allowed the Scarlet Knights to hang around. Senior Michelle Strizak had three kills in the set.\nThe second set ended with three straight attack errors by Rutgers.\n\"We all learned a lot in the (Purdue) match and that was really good for us,\" Crittenden said. \"Tonight, even for myself personally, this wasn't what we wanted. This wasn't the way we really wanted to play.\"\nThe Scarlet Knights did not let the Illini jump out to an early lead. The set went back and forth with 10 ties, but ultimately, Rutgers would leave Huff Hall with a straight sets loss.\nIllinois squeezed out a four-point victory behind seven kills from freshmen Jacqueline Quade. The outside hitter led the way for the Illini with 12 kills on the night.\n\"The passing wasn't going as fluid as we were hoping,\" Strizak said. \"I think we kind of found it and then we took a break, and then kind of lost it. We kind of lost focus there in the third game.\"\nIllinois is now 2-0 in the Big Ten and will face defending national champion Nebraska at home Wednesday. Hambly said he expects his team to respond to the challenge.\n\"I think they're going to be more fired up,\" Hambly said. \"They know what it takes.\"\n@RomeovilleKid\nSuccess in season sees Illini golfers in summer tournament play\nSeven Illini sign with MLB, tie second-largest draft year\nGrad transfers Imatorbhebhe, Peters commit to Illinois\nTeam to tour Europe during fall semester\nQuinn finishes seventh in NCAA finals, earns All-American honors\nLoya garners All-American accolades\nColorado Rockies draft Yalowitz in 10th round\nKansas City Royals draft Michael Massey\nThomas makes professional debut with Cleveland Comets, Team Mexico\nIllini add Dalevon Campbell to class of 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Guitarist John Frusciante is rejoining the Red Hot Chili Peppers\nHis replacement Josh Klinghoffer is departing\nBy chelsea brimstin Music News 16.12.2019\nMore than ten years after he quit, John Frusciante is rejoining the Red Hot Chili Peppers.\nThe band announced Frusciante's return on Instagram, revealing that his replacement Josh Klinghoffer is departing. \"The Red Hot Chili Peppers announce that we are parting ways with our guitarist of the past ten years, Josh Klinghoffer,\" the statement reads. \"Josh is a beautiful musician who we respect and love. We are deeply grateful for our time with him, and the countless gifts he shared with us.\"\nFrusciante confirmed his departure from the Red Hot Chili Peppers in December of 2009, explaining that he had actually left the group the year prior.\nCheck out the statement in full below.\nA post shared by Red Hot Chili Peppers (@chilipeppers) on Dec 15, 2019 at 12:28pm PST\nLead photo courtesy of Fastback2641.\nArtist: Red Hot Chili Peppers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MUSEUM HOURS: 9 AM - 4 PM, Sept 1 - June 1 (Monday - Friday) & June 1 - Sept 1 (Monday - Saturday)\nLegends Lounge\nInduction Magazine\nRecent Classes\nBrowse Hall of Famers\nWomen in Industry Award\nMidwest Gold Cards\nJoin Tellefsen Society\nBusiness Patronage\n2023 Induction Tickets\nHome \u00bb Hall of Famers \u00bb Devereaux Jennings\nSidebar Include\nTo make changes, the file below must be edited. Email Carl with any questions ([email protected]).\nDevereaux Jennings\nHometown: Salt Lake City, Utah\nTribute Plaque Download\nTribute Bio Download\nHall of Fame Class of 1989\nBio Content\nInformation submitted in a nomination letter to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame by Tom Corcoran in 1989.\nH. Devereaux \"Dev\" Jennings whole life revolved around skiing and the mountains: ski racer, ski official, ski retailer, designed and manufacturer of ski apparel and veteran of the famous 10th Mountain Division.\nH. Devereaux Jennings grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and learned to ski there. From 13 to 18 years of age he was a very promising young racer who was invited to participate and raced in the most prestigious national ski races of the pre-war era (there was no junior class): the National Championships, Harriman Cup, Silver Belt, etc.\nHis promising racing career was interrupted by World War II. When Dev turned 18 in 1942, he enlisted in the 10th Mountain Division, serving first as a ski and rock climbing instructor and later as a combat rifle squad leader through the worst of the Italian fighting. Senator Bob Dole was Dev's platoon leader and their friendship continued after the war, Jennings later becoming an officer of the10th Mountain Division Alumni Association.\nFrom 1946 to 1948, he skied on the Aspen Ski Team, Colorado State University and University of Utah Ski Teams. He skied constantly in the top three places in collegiate and National events. In 1947, Jennings skied well enough to be named to the 1948 U.S. Olympic Team which competed at St. Moritz, Switzerland.\nIn 1948, Jennings founded and was president of Sporthaus in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was the first specialty ski shop in the country. Skiing was still a cult sport where you bought skis without edges, selected the edge you wanted and found a shop that knew how to rout and mount your edges. There were only a handful of shops around the country that really knew what they were doing. Dev's Sporthaus was one of them \u2013 with a national reputation. He later opened another Sporthaus shop in Salt Lake City and one in Westwood Village, California. He remained actively involved with the shops until 1962.\nDuring Dev's 14-year involvement with Sporthaus stores, he was also a ski rep, importer, manufacturer, wholesaler and distributor of many products, some with the Sporthaus label. He manufactured and distributed a number of ski products that he himself designed: the Davos Duster Cap and Sporthaus Pants were great favorites in their day and widely recognized. His Sporthaus checked-gingham, pullover, raglan-sleeved shirt was a classic in its time. He designed the first colored skis, the Blue Mothers, which won a lot of western races and turned a lot of heads. He always donated his ski products generously to the U.S. Ski Team.\nDev was always interested in helping young children become ski racers. He coached divisional teams at a number of Junior Nationals and, in the early 1950s, founded SCATS (Ski Competition and Training Society) in Salt Lake City. Junior racers paid $10 a year and coaching was provided every Saturday by former U.S. Ski Team members and guest coaches. The program produced some of Utah's best racers.\nThe 1950s saw Jennings as Chief of Course for the North American Championships, leading up to Assistant Chief of Course under Willy Schaeffler at the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, California.\nJennings moved to New Hampshire in 1970 to serve as Executive Director of Waterville Valley Associates and is affiliated with the New England Ski Museum at Franconia, New Hampshire.\nAn effective voice and proponent for the sport of skiing, Dev was highly regarded by his peers within the sport and the ski industry. He saw the sport of ski industry grow and mature and was an active participant and influential in almost every aspect of the sport.\nH. Devereaux Jennings was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1989.\nVideo Include\nIf you notice any errors or inconsistencies in Devereaux Jennings's bio, click here to let us know.\nPlease fill out the form to report any errors present on this page. We will correct them as soon as we can. Thanks for taking the time to let us know of any mistakes!\nSkitalk.com is the brainchild of Phil and Tricia Pugliese, two of the industry's most respected and read reviewers and product testers. The PugTalk community is quickly building content and traffic; since its full launch, site traffic has soared, making Skitalk.com one of the most referenced ski sites on the web.\n610 Palms Avenue\nIshpeming, Michigan 49849\nInduction Ceremony\nEnshrinement\nSupport the Hall of Fame\nWe are a U.S. registered 501(c)(3).\nU.S. NATIONAL SKI & SNOWBOARD HALL OF FAME\nSign up to receive updates directly from the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ansel Augustine, D.Min.\nAnsel Augustine, D.Min., is Visiting Professor of Pastoral Leadership and is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the former Director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Previously he served as the Associate Director\/Coordinator of Black Youth & Young Adult Ministry for the CYO Youth & Young Adult Ministry Office. He is on the Faculty of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and his Master of Pastoral Studies from Loyola University, New Orleans. He received his Certification in Youth Ministry from Xavier University of Louisiana's Institute for Black Catholic Studies. Dr. Augustine earned his D.Min from the Graduate Theological Foundation. Dr. Augustine has served on several national boards (NCYAMA \u2013 The National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association and NFCYM \u2013 The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry). He also has worked in Campus Ministry at St. John's University in Queens, NY, Xavier University of Louisiana, and Loyola University New Orleans. He began his career in ministry over 20 years ago when he became the youth minister at his home parish of St. Peter Claver in the Treme area of New Orleans, which he helped to rebuild following hurricane Katrina. He is also a drummer for the Wild Tchoupitoulas (Black Masking) Mardi Gras Indians. Dr. Augustine is a highly sought after speaker and has given keynotes and workshops around the country. He has also written various pieces related to ministry.\nOnline Course Offering\nLDS 501 Building Intercultural Competence\nLDS 502 Effective Youth and Young Adult Ministry\nLDS 505 Ministry with the Margins\nIf there is an Online Course that you would like to take which is not listed, please click here to fill out our Online Course suggestion form for one of our faculty members.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"monkeypox\"\nBrazil confirms 1st monkeypox-related death\nBrasilia: Brazil has confirmed the country's first monkeypox-related death, according to the Health Ministry. The case was reported on Friday in Belo Horizonte, capital of the southeast Minas Gerais state, and the victim was a 41-year-old man, who was undergoing treatment for other serious clinical conditions, including cancer, and whose health deteriorated after getting infected, [\u2026]\nRectal pain, penile swelling more common in current monkeypox outbreak\nLondon: Common symptoms of monkeypox virus such as rectal pain and penile swelling (oedema) differ from those described in previous outbreaks and are more prevalent, according to a study. The study, published by The BMJ, identifies important differences in monkeypox symptoms between the current outbreak and previous outbreaks in endemic regions. For the study, researchers [\u2026]\nMonkeypox hits Europe, Americas hardest: WHO\nGeneva: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Europe and the Americas have been the hardest hit by the global monkeypox outbreak. Addressing reporters here, the WHO chief said these two regions have reported 95 per cent of the diagnosed cases, and warned against stigma and discrimination against people [\u2026]\nOne more suspected case of monkeypox in Telangana\nHyderabad: One more person with suspected symptoms of monkeypox, with recent travel history, has been identified by the local surveillance teams in Khammam and is being admitted to Fever Hospital, the nodal centre identified for treatment of monkeypox positive cases in Telangana. The blood and lesion samples from the suspected monkeypox patient will be collected [\u2026]\nEditorial: New challenge on horizon\nWith the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring monkeypox as a global health emergency, the healthcare administration must gear up to meet the new challenge without spreading panic. India has learnt some hard lessons from the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, scaled up its healthcare infrastructure and response systems and, therefore, is now in a better position to [\u2026]\nMonkeypox non-fatal disease, say experts\nHyderabad: With multiple Indian States including Telangana either reporting confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox, senior public health officials and seasonal disease experts in Hyderabad have urged people not to unnecessarily panic but to make themselves aware about the disease and take precautions accordingly. So far, no one has died of monkeypox infection and to [\u2026]\nExplainer: What is known about monkeypox\nNew Delhi: India has reported four cases of monkeypox so far \u2013 three from Kerala and one from Delhi \u2013 the latest being that of a 34-year-old man in the national capital with no history of foreign travel testing positive for the disease. The patient, who is presently recovering at an isolation centre at the [\u2026]\nSamples from Telangana's 1st suspected Monkeypox case sent to NIV\nHyderabad: Samples collected from a man with suspected symptoms of Monkeypox were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune on Monday. Five types of samples of the 40-year-old man currently in isolation at Fever Hospital in Hyderabad were collected and sent to the lab. The samples include swab from throat, blood, urine, from [\u2026]\nMonkeypox suspect from Kamareddy admitted to Fever Hospital\nHyderabad: A middle-aged man from Kamareddy district with a recent travel history to Kuwait has developed suspected symptoms of monkeypox and has been admitted to Fever Hospital, Nallakunta on Sunday night. The alert local disease surveillance teams at Kamareddy district isolated the individual when he developed fever, headache, muscle aches, accompanied with lesions, which are [\u2026]\nWHO declares monkeypox a global emergency\nNew Delhi: The World Health Organisation on Saturday declared the monkeypox as public health emergency of international concern. The global health body said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an \"extraordinary\" situation that now qualifies as a global emergency. \"WHO's assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and [\u2026]\n\u00ab 1 2 3 4 5 6 \u2026 9 \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Comparing forests across climates and biomes: Qualitative assessments, reference forests and regional intercomparisons\nSalk CF, Frey U, & Rusch H (2014). Comparing forests across climates and biomes: Qualitative assessments, reference forests and regional intercomparisons. PLoS ONE 9 (4): e94800. DOI:10.1371\/journal.pone.0094800.\nComparing forests across climates and biomes.PDF - Published Version\nCommunities, policy actors and conservationists benefit from understanding what institutions and land management regimes promote ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. However, the definition of success depends on local conditions. Forests' potential carbon stock, biodiversity and rate of recovery following disturbance are known to vary with a broad suite of factors including temperature, precipitation, seasonality, species' traits and land use history. Methods like tracking over-time changes within forests, or comparison with \"pristine\" reference forests have been proposed as means to compare the structure and biodiversity of forests in the face of underlying differences. However, data from previous visits or reference forests may be unavailable or costly to obtain. Here, we introduce a new metric of locally weighted forest intercomparison to mitigate the above shortcomings. This method is applied to an international database of nearly 300 community forests and compared with previously published techniques. It is particularly suited to large databases where forests may be compared among one another. Further, it avoids problematic comparisons with old-growth forests which may not resemble the goal of forest management. In most cases, the different methods produce broadly congruent results, suggesting that researchers have the flexibility to compare forest conditions using whatever type of data is available. Forest structure and biodiversity are shown to be independently measurable axes of forest condition, although users' and foresters' estimations of seemingly unrelated attributes are highly correlated, perhaps reflecting an underlying sentiment about forest condition. These findings contribute new tools for large-scale analysis of ecosystem condition and natural resource policy assessment. Although applied here to forestry, these techniques have broader applications to classification and evaluation problems using crowdsourced or repurposed data for which baselines or eternal validations are not available.\nEcosystems Services and Management (ESM)\nPostdoctoral Scholars (PDS)\nBibliographic Reference:\nPLoS ONE; 9(4):e94800 (April 2014)\nhttp:\/\/pure.iiasa.ac.at\/10923","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Bookdog\nBook Review: Hellfire by Leesa Gazi\nApril 21, 2021 April 21, 2021 Deepika5 Comments\nIn my last post \u2014 a review of Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous \u2014 I wrote, \"If the fences are eventually lifted, where will we go from there?\" Strangely, Leesa Gazi's Hellfire, translated from the Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya, starts from there. Lovely gets out of the house for the first time all by herself. She is 40. As the book begins, the narrator tells us, \"Getting out of the house, however, was a task as hard and complicated as crossing the pulserat, that final bridge of the afterlife spanning the fires of hell.\" Hellfire answers the questions \u2014 why did Lovely take 40 years to do something that's as unassuming as stepping out of the house by herself? Does Lovely cross the bridge? Or does the fire engulf her? If Lovely crosses the bridge, is she the same person when she reaches the other end? Or will she be permanently marked by Freedom?\nLeesa Gazi's Hellfire is 198 pages long. The rich, layered story of Farida Khanam and her daughters Lovely and Beauty unfolds like a fast-paced psychological thriller in those measly 198 pages. I keep harking back to the number of pages because despite being ridiculously short, the narrative bursts forth like water that gushes out just after a dam collapses. There is real force in Gazi's storytelling, and Nadiya's translation ensures that the force is not impeded.\nFor 40 years, Farida Khanam has always kept Lovely and Beauty on her watch. For children raised by Asian mothers, being under the constant supervision of their mothers is an everyday thing. But Farida Khanam stalks her own children. For instance, when Lovely and Beauty sit in their classroom, Farida Khanam watches them from their balcony that's right opposite to their school. When they go out, she accompanies them. Every contact with the outside world is severed. The daughters' privacy is limited to their bedrooms. The house is their bubble. They age, arrive well into middle-age, without experiencing the conventional milestones, trials, heartbreaks, joys, and triumphs of life. A golden cage is a cage all the same.\nThe reason why Farida Khanam keeps her daughter under lock and key is the story of what patriarchal societies do to women. We meet the important women in Farida Khanam's life, and how they transfer their trauma to her. We see how they make Farida Khanam a woman of steel and a woman who cannot see the pain and damage she inflicts on her daughters. We meet the not-so-important men in her life, and how they are victims of patriarchy themselves, and how women continue to bear men's cross. Gazi narrates each character's story with the unwavering confidence of a creator who knows about every fibre of her characters' being. But the most fascinating aspect of Gazi's narration is how it's impossible to guess the path the story would take despite knowing the characters and their motivation. In my copy, the last line of the story is the last line in the book itself. There are no acknowledgements, and notes about the author and the translator after the story ends. So, I was left reeling in shock when I read the last line. The punch in the gut was so sudden that I was breathless for a brief moment.\nHellfire is wild and disturbing, and it's incredible and important. What makes it outstanding though is how the horror is omnipresent and surreal. Imagine this \u2014 you are ensconced in your bedroom, but the clouds suddenly become dark, and terrifying thoughts cross your mind. You just can't say what's bothering you, but you can feel a sense of impending doom. The horror that Hellfire holds is quite like what Shirley Jackson wrote in We Have Always Lived In The Castle. Nothing is explicit. In Hellfire, there is no mention of physical violence too. But the terror rises out of the characters' realisation that how seemingly normal things are on the surface, and how just a chink is enough to see how deeply ruined they are.\nBook ReviewsHellfire, Leesa Gazi, Shabnam Nadiya\n\"I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.\"\n-- 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin\nIf You Want To Look Around\u2026\nThe Story of My Reading Life\nBook Review: The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy\nOf Hope And Other Angels\nHello Writing, My Old Friend\nBook Review: What We Know About Her by Krupa Ge\nVishy on The Story of My Reading Life November 30, 2021\nLoved your post, Deepika! Thanks for sharing! Loved that conversation between the two men that you shared in the beginning!\u2026\nDeepika on The Story of My Reading Life November 30, 2021\nSince I wrote this piece, I have been asking myself if I am hard on the system and if I\u2026\nJul\u00e9 Cunningham on The Story of My Reading Life November 30, 2021\nYour story of the cup of coffee reminds me vividly of Nadia Wassef's stories in 'Shelf Life' about the differences\u2026\nJul\u00e9 Cunningham on Book Review: The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy November 30, 2021\nYou've touched on one of my core reading beliefs here Deepika, and it's one that I feel more strongly about\u2026\nDeepika on Book Review: The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy November 29, 2021\nJul\u00e8, thank you for reading, as ever! It feels wonderful to hear from you. 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{"text":"The way we understand energy in B.C. needs to change\nMerran Smith | May 29, 2019\nThere's a good chance that powerful ministers from across the globe are having important conversations in Vancouver as you read this.\nIf that's news to you, it's because the annual Clean Energy Ministerial is not a public event, but it is an influential one, in which the world's energy ministers and clean energy industry leaders gather, share ideas, and make pledges. This year, the conversation is happening in Vancouver, having previously been held in cities such as London, Beijing, and San Francisco.\nIt is, in short, the time of the year when the world comes together to discuss a global clean energy transition that is already well underway.\nAs for housing it in Vancouver, it fits nicely with the city's green brand and climate efforts. It also gives new meaning to the phrase \"fireside chat.\" For a few hundred kilometres north and east of these conversations, fires are literally raging, in Alberta displacing thousands of Canadians from their homes. As of Tuesday, guests of the ministerial could see the smoke on the horizon from the Vancouver Convention Centre.\nIt is still nearly a month before summer officially starts.\nLast year was B.C.'s worst ever for wildfires; 2017, the second worst.\nThe energy transition is happening because it must, as we are feeling firsthand\u2014on the fiery frontlines of climate change.\nBut the way in which that transition will happen\u2014through Canada's clean energy sector\u2014is not well understood. It's not well understood because it isn't like energy as we've known it, energy as a fossil fuel business. The goals and structure of clean energy are fundamentally different.\nAfter all, transitioning our energy system to better fight climate change isn't just about producing more of the clean stuff\u2014like hydro, wind, and solar power. This is especially true in B.C., where nearly all of our electricity is already renewable, thanks to the dozens of dams that power our province with rushing water.\nBut make no mistake: there's still much work to be done in B.C. That's because the transition to clean energy is a system change. For one, it's about moving more things onto that system\u2014electric cars, buses, trucks, equipment, and home heating are topics that are front and centre at this week's ministerial. Just as critically, it's about using electricity less wastefully.\nThe way we've so often talked about energy in the past\u2014in terms of endless expansion, something to be shipped overseas\u2014does not provide a valuable framework for analyzing clean energy.\nSuch was the motivation of Clean Energy Canada's new report, Missing the Bigger Picture, which found that 298,000 Canadians now work in the clean energy sector\u2014with just over 32,000 of those in B.C. The sector's value, meanwhile, has been growing rapidly, by 4.8% a year, well ahead of the rest of the Canadian economy (3.6%).\nIt's jobs in the city too. In 2019, 12 Canadian startups were named on the Global Cleantech 100, a list of the world's 100 most promising cleantech companies. Half of those, six, were in Metro Vancouver. We knew Vancouver is a tech powerhouse\u2014it may also be a cleantech powerhouse.\nThat's a great news story that wasn't making the headlines it should have been. Simply because Canadians didn't know. Simply because no one had thoroughly defined the sector or raised awareness.\nThat said, in defining the clean energy sector with our research partner, Navius Research, we did not invent the wheel. Calgary Economic Development, for example, had commissioned similar work with similar parameters, as have others.\nBut what's clear is that the clean energy sector is not just the fossil fuel sector with a clean coat of paint. It represents a broad range of jobs and businesses helping make our energy system contribute less to climate change. Whether that's switching coal to wind power, making homes waste less heat, building electric cars, or getting people out of traffic jams and onto SkyTrains.\nIt is a sector defined by a goal: preventing climate catastrophe.\nAnd as it continues to grow, Canadians need to see who's benefiting, and where the jobs are. If no one tracks an economic transition and no one tells the story of what's being created, the status quo will always feel safer\u2014even when it's not.\nEven when we're breathing smoke\nThis article was co-authored by Dan Woynillowicz and originally appeared in the Daily Hive.\nHow energy efficiency can upgrade Canada for the future\nJoanna Kyriazis | 4 days ago\nAnybody can have a climate plan, but what makes for an effective one?\nDan Woynillowicz | 1 month ago\nThe Canadian government is making smart investments in electric vehicles\nJoanna Kyriazis | 1 month ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AWID Forum\nYour go-to source for the latest trends impacting gender justice and women's rights around the world\nHow 'efficient' can the HRC really be if it restricts civil society contributions to its work?\nJoint statement for HRC44 virtual meeting of the HRC President with NGOs\nWe acknowledge the challenges confronting OHCHR, member states and CSOs as we attempt to resume critical human rights work while taking seriously health risks associated with COVID-19. We appreciate the efforts made to overcome these challenges, including by increasing remote and online participation. We would like to bring to your attention some of the barriers to participation we have experienced in this session.\n43rd session of the Human Rights Council, 30 June 2020\nDelays in finalising the session dates and modalities, and subsequent changes in the programme of work, reduced the time CSOs had to prepare and engage meaningfully. This has a disproportionate impact on CSOs not based in Geneva, those based in different time zones and those with less capacity to monitor the live proceedings.\nA number of organisations, including ourselves, experienced difficulties in meeting the technical specifications for uploading video statements. Increased technical support from OHCHR and flexibility in video and audio formats, and in allowing CSOs to change between video statements and in person delivery without losing speaking slots, could enable more organisations to make video statements now and for future sessions.\nThe cancelation of general debates this session as an 'efficiency measure' has restricted the few avenues for civil society to raise issues and be certain to get a speaking slot. This is especially problematic for a session in which civil society participation is so affected by COVID-19 measures and modalities. How 'efficient' and human rights-based can the Council really be if it restricts civil society contributions to its work?\nRemote participation in informal negotiations has been another challenge, and dependent on the willingness of the core group to facilitate such participation (e.g. through Zoom as was the case for some informals), and on whether the UNOG phone and listen live systems were operational. Several informals were not live streamed despite being public meetings. Time zone differences also effectively exclude organizations located in Asia, the Pacific and the Americas, especially from informal negotiations which can only be listened to in real time (when possible). In addition, access to the resolution texts was not consistently ensured by core groups for those attending the informals in person and without access to e-delegate, CSOs participating remotely had no possibility of accessing the texts.\nWe call on the Secretariat to consider the following measures:\nEnable speakers to change the mode of statement delivery between video and in-person, after registration, without losing the speaking order.\nProvide technical support and more flexible format requirements for video statements\nProvide CSOs with access to e-delegates to enable access to resolution texts.\nEnsure all informals are live-streamed and allow for remote participation and monitoring by CSOs.\nWe call on Member States to:\n\u25fe\ufe0f Mandate and allocate sufficient funding for the Secretariat to provide closed-captioning, sign language interpretation and other accessibility measures for all video statements and Council meetings as a system-wide measure, as noted in HRC Decision 19\/119;\n\u25fe\ufe0f Reintroduce general debates in June 2021 and all other future HRC sessions.\nHuman rights systems, bodies and instruments\nAWID and other organisations\nHuman Rights Council (HRC)\nAWID currently has over 6,000 members, from over 180 countries. Our members are part of a powerful base of feminist, women's rights and gender justice defenders, activists and allies, connecting, exchanging, learning and acting together for transformative change.\nJoin AWID Now\nYou can also show your support for transformative change by making a donation to AWID. Your valuable contribution will help sustain the work we do across the globe to support feminist movements.\nJoin the conversation and stay connected with the community: Receive a regular selection of feminist analysis, resources and ways to get involved with the movements.\nAll News & Analysis\nSpecial Focus Sections\nResourcing Feminist Movements\nBuilding Feminist Economies\nCo-Creating Feminist Realities","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Constitutional Court Review 2009 - 2\nCategory: Journals\nEdited by Stu Woolman, Theunis Roux and Danie Brand\nPages: vi 448\nThe Constitutional Court Review is a once-a-year journal dedicated to the analysis of the Constitutional Court's decisions of the previous year. Its purpose is to provide a platform for high-level academic engagement with the jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court.\nTo this end, each issue of the Review contains two lead essays exploring broad themes arising from a given year's jurisprudence (each \u00b1 20 000 words), each with its own response (\u00b1 5 000 words); a number of shorter subject-specific articles (each \u00b1 10 000 words); and several case comments that engage more narrowly with a given decision of the Constitutional Court (each \u00b1 5 000 words). Lead essays are solicited by the editors, as are some of the subjectspecific articles and case notes, but for the remainder unsolicited contributions are invited. Such contributions must be sent to the editors at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in MS Word format on or before 31 May of the year following that on which a contribution focuses.\nStu Woolman is Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand\nTheunis Roux is Professor at the University of New South Wales\nDanie Brand is Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria\nLead essays\/responses\n'He had a mandate': The South African Constitutional Court and the African National Congress in a dominant party democracy\nSujit Choudhry\nDominant democracy in South Africa? A response to Choudhry\nJonathan Klaaren\nMarking the path of the law\nStephen Ellmann\nThe role of transboundary dialogue: A response to Stephen Ellmann\nChristopher Mbazira\n'The stubborn persistence of patriarchy'? Gender equality and cultural diversity in South Africa\nCatherine Albertyn\nBack off but back up! Administrative Law rightly yields to Labour Law\nMartin Brassey\nPrincipled calm amidst a shameless storm: Testing the limits of the judicial regulation of legislative and executive power\nHugh Corder\nThe flight from rights: Rule aversion in dealing with the criminal process Molimi, Zuma, Thint (Holdings), Shaik and Zealand\nFrank Snyckers\nVampire or prince? The listening Constitution and Merafong Demarcation Forum & Others v President of the Republic of South Africa & Others\nA new approach to remedies in socio-economic rights adjudication: Occupiers of Olivia Road and Others v City of Johannesburg and Others\nLilian Chenwi\nThe significance of the living customary law for an understanding of law: Does custom allow for a woman to be Hosi?\nDrucilla Cornell\nBetween moral authority and formalism: Nyathi v Member of Executive Council for Dept of Health, Gauteng\nPierre De Vos\nThe decision in Wary Holdings (Pty) Ltd v Stalwo (Pty) Ltd and Another 2009 (1) SA 337 (CC): Be wary of these holdings\nNico Steytler","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trailer >\nPublic Enemies Trailer\nFollow Johnny Depp\nWatch the trailer for Public Enemies.\nPublic Enemies was a name given to bank robbers and some of the most wanted criminals during the 1930's depression. John Herbert Dillinger was arguably the most wanted man in the United States, he learnt his trade from some of the best bank robbers in the country and went on to rob dozens of banks with his newly formed group of bandits 'The Dillinger Gang'.\nDillinger formed an image for himself as one of the quickest bank robbers ever known, known by the state as a trouble maker and a dangerous criminal, some of the public viewed him much differently, as a modern Robin Hood character. The fresh law force called The FBI named Dillinger Public Enemy Number One, and made it their mission to capture him.\nStarring: Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Channing Tatum, Leelee Sobieski, Emilie de Ravin, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff, Rory Cochrane, John Ortiz, Lili Taylor and Stephen Graham.\nReleased on DVD and Blu-Ray on 2nd November 09.\nWallace Chung\nFast Girls\nHey Sexy Lady\nTired As F***\nBlurred Lines (Unrated Version)\nSix (Live)\nBoof Baf\nFleur East\nSax [Live]\nNew Movies and Trailers\nInsidious: The Last Key Trailer\nThe fourth instalment of the 'Insidious' has already hit theatres and is turning out to...\nSherlock Gnomes Trailer\nWhat do you do when you feel like your garden ornaments are in grave danger?...\nThe Commuter Trailer\nEvery working day for the last ten years, insurance salesman Michael MacCauley has gotten the...\nThe Mercy Trailer\nDonald Crowhurst is an amateur sailor whose ambition eclipses his financial woes. When he comes...\n12 Strong Trailer\nOn September 11th 2001, the America was hit by one of the worst tragedies imaginable;...\nAcrimony Trailer\nThey were the picture of a perfect relationship for many years. From a chance encounter...\nIncredibles 2 Trailer\nFollowing events in 'The Incredibles' whereby the Parr family defeated the supervillain Syndrome and his...\nMaze Runner: The Death Cure Trailer\nThomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers have fought their way out of a Griever-infested...\nRampage [2018] Trailer\nDavis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) is passionate about his job at Everglades National Park, particularly with...\nGame Night [2018] Trailer\nWhat kind of idea do you cook up for a social game night when you're...\nThe Laws Of Nature Don't Apply In 'Annihilation' Trailer\nWhen a biologist's husband disappears his wife must undertake a dangerous mission into the unknown...\nThe Avengers Must Unite For Their Biggest Battle Yet In 'Avengers: Infinity War' Trailer\nPhase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe prepares to come to a climax as 'The...\nYeti Or Not 'Smallfoot' Is Coming Trailer\nThe legend of Bigfoot is turned upside down in this animated adventure from Warner Bros,...\nThe Next Generation Of X-Men Are Being Watched In 'The New Mutants' Trailer\nThe 'X-Men' franchise takes a horror turn as a new generation of mutants discover their...\nReady Player One Trailer\nIt's the year 2045 and the only way to survive on Earth is to escape...\nJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Trailer\nThe dinosaurs are under threat in the sequel to 2015's 'Jurassic World', which reunites Bryce...\nParents Become Virginity Vigilantes In Kay Cannon's 'Blockers' Trailer\nThe idea of children become functioning adults is often a terrifying thought for parents, especially...\nPunk Goes Out Of This World In 'How To Talk To Girls At Parties' Trailer\nA curious alien lands in the London suburb of Croydon as punk is sweeping Britain...\nJennifer Lawrence Embarks On A Forbidden Romance In 'Red Sparrow' Trailer\nJennifer Lawrence stars in the intense new spy thriller 'Red Sparrow', about a group of...\nA New Generation Faces Extinction In 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' Trailer\nThe monstrous alien bioweapon Kaiju returns in the forthcoming sequel to 'Pacific Rim', and a...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2020-2021 Yearbook\nRadio Affiliates\n2020-21 COMBINED STATISTICS (PDF)\n2016-17 SEASON IN PHOTOS\n2020-21 GAME NOTES\n2020-21 HISTORY AND RECORDS\nCOMPTON FAMILY ICE ARENA\nHOCKEY CAMPS\nIrish To Play Host To Niagara University For First Time At Compton Family Ice Arena\nNotre Dame, Ind. \u2013\nNotre Dame Hockey Game Notes\nNiagara Hockey Game Notes\nFor the first time, the University of Niagara hockey program will visit the University of Notre Dame when the two teams get together this weekend for a pair of games at the Compton Family Ice Arena.\nThe two programs have met once before, back in the 2000-01 season when they participated in the Maverick Stampede held at Nebraska Omaha. The tournament featured Nebraska Omaha, Boston College, Notre Dame and Niagara. The Irish dropped the opener to Boston College in a 4-1 decision and then met the Purple Eagles in the third-place game. Aaron Gill, Chad Chipchase and David Inman scored for the Irish but Niagara got the equalizer from Chris Sebastian at 9:33 for the tying goal. Jeremiah Kimento stopped 30 of 33 shots in goal as the teams played 65 minutes to tie at 3-3 and share third place.\nThis weekend, the Irish and Purple Eagles will meet at 7:35 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 24 in a game that will be streamed live at NBCSports.com. Saturday's tilt will see the puck drop at 7:05 p.m. with the game televised live by the NBC Sports Network with NHL voice Dave Strader calling the shots and former NHL star Anson Carter handling the analysis \"Inside the Glass.\"\nNotre Dame is off to a 2-2-0 start following last weekend's sweep of Lake Superior State while Niagara is 0-4-0 after dropping a home-and-home series with Robert Morris University.\nNIAGARA 101\nNiagara University is a Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition, located in the town of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York and is run by the Congregation of the Mission. Niagara has 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. Approximately half of the students are residents, while the other half commutes from the surrounding area. The college is known as a liberal arts school, but offers programs in technical and pre-professional disciplines as well.\nOriginally founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1856 as Our Lady of Angels Seminary, the school moved from Buffalo to its current location on May 1, 1857. After 26 years on its new campus, The College and Seminary of Our Lady of Angels officially changed its name to Niagara University on August 7, 1883. The University is still run by the Vincentian Fathers. All of Niagara's 26 presidents, including its current president, Rev. James J. Maher, C.M., have been Vincentian priests.\nUndergraduate students are able to choose an area of study in any of Niagara's four academic colleges. In addition to the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Education, and the College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, NU's Academic Exploration Program allows first and second year students take courses in various departments before deciding on a major.\nThe Niagara University Athletics Department sponsors 18 Division I sports. The Purple Eagles compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in all sports except ice hockey. The men's ice hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey. The men's basketball team won the MAAC Championship in 2005 and in 2007, earning automatic bids to the 2005 and 2007's NCAA tournaments. The Purple Eagles first appearance in the Dance came in 1970, when All-American Calvin Murphy led the Purple Eagles to the Sweet Sixteen.\nThe men's hockey team won the College Hockey America Championship in 2000, 2004 and 2008, appearing in the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship those years. In 2000, Niagara upset the University of New Hampshire to advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals.\nLast season, Niagara was 15-20-5 overall and 11-11-5 in Atlantic Hockey, finishing sixth in the regular-season standings. In the postseason, the Purple Eagles defeated American International two games to none in the first round of the playoffs. In the quarterfinals, Niagara traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., to face Air Force. After dropping game one by a 2-1 margin, the Purple Eagles won games two and three to upset the Falcons and advance to the Atlantic Hockey semifinals where they fell to Robert Morris in overtime by a 5-4 score.\nThis season, coach Dave Burkholder's team is off to a 0-4-0 start and has been outscored by a 22-6 margin in the early going. The Purple Eagles' losses have come at home to Clarkson (3-1), at home to St. Lawrence (10-2), at Robert Morris (5-2) and at home to the Colonials (4-1). After playing the Irish this weekend, Niagara returns home for a pair of Atlantic Hockey games against American International (Oct. 31-Nov.1).\nWith 11 new faces on the Notre Dame roster, the Irish are still trying to find that certain \"chemistry' among new teammates and new linemates. Versus Lake Superior State last weekend, two of Notre Dame's lines looked like they are starting to get a good feel for each other.\nOn Friday night in the 5-3 win over Lake Superior State, the trio of juniors Thomas DiPauli and Steven Fogarty joined freshman Anders Bjork and clicked right away. DiPauli scored once and added three assists for four points while Fogarty scored twice with two assists and Bjork chipped in two helpers as the threesome combined for three goals and seven assists, good for 10 points in the victory.\nOn Saturday, the trip of junior Mario Lucia, sophomore Vince Hinostroza and senior Austin Wuthrich had a five-point night, scoring four goals with one assist. Three of the goals came courtesy of Lucia's first career hat trick.\n\"That was the first one (hat trick) that I have had in a long time,\" said Lucia following Saturday's win.\n\"The last one I had was in tryouts for the World Juniors against Finland. That was my freshman year and it helped me make that team. This one felt good. It helped the team win and with the two wins it gives us something that we can build off of over the next couple of weeks.\"\nLucia, who now has 33 career goals for the Irish in just over two full seasons, added, \"I thought we were moving the puck better and our back pressure was good. I think we are getting some chemistry going between the lines. We are a young team and it's going to take some time with all the new players.\"\nSHARING THE WORKLOAD\nThrough the first four games of the season, Irish goaltenders Chad Katunar and Cal Petersen have split the four starts right down the middle. Don't expect to see that change in the near future.\n\"I thought both of our goaltenders played well last weekend,\" says Jackson.\n\"I thought Cal (Petersen) was a little better on Saturday, but the team played better in front of him too. He made some big saves for us early in the game and then again later. Chad (Katunar) was good on Friday night as well, but the team didn't play as well in front of him. I think we have two good goaltenders so I am going to play both of them for at least another weekend. Once we get to conference play next weekend we may look at something else, but for now I will continue using both of them.\nKatunar, the veteran of the duo, is 1-1-0 in his two starts with a 3.04 goals-against average and a .889 save percentage. For his career, he has appeared in seven games, making five starts. He is 3-2-0 with a 2.63 goals-against average and a .890 save percentage.\nPetersen won his first collegiate game on Oct. 18, a 5-1 win over Lake Superior State. In two starts this season, Petersen is 1-1-0 with a 2.01 goals-against average and a .930 save percentage.\nKEEPING UP WITH FORMER IRISH HOCKEY PLAYERS\nAs of October 23, there are 22 former Notre Dame hockey players playing professional hockey to start the 2014-15 season. Five of them are currently in the National Hockey League with Ian Cole in St. Louis with the Blues, Erik Condra with the Ottawa Senators and Riley Sheahan with the Detroit Red Wings. Kyle Palmieri is with the Anaheim Ducks but was injured in training camp and still not playing. The fifth player in the NHL is Anders Lee with the New York Islanders. He was called up on Oct. 22 from the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the American Hockey League where he started the season. He had three goals and two assists for five points in five games.\nFive former players are playing in the American Hockey League to date and that group is led by Stephen Johns with the Rockford IceHogs, the affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks. Bryan Rust is currently with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, Pittsburgh's AHL franchise with T.J. Tynan currently with the Springfield Falcons, the top farm team of the Columbus Bluejackets. Mark Van Guilder rounds out the AHL members as he returns to the Milwaukee Admirals, the top farm team of the Nashville Predators.\nThere are five former players playing in the East Coast Hockey League this season. Jeff Costello is with the Florida Everblades while Patrick Gaul is a member of the South Carolina Stingrays. Defenseman Kevin Lind is with the Utah Grizzlies while Shayne Taker is with the Cincinnati Cyclones. Steven Summerhays signed with the Alaska Aces but is out of the lineup and has not played this season due to a shoulder injury.\nSeven other players are currently playing in Europe or Asia. Former Irish goaltender David Brown is playing in the British Elite Hockey League with the Hull Stingrays. Nick Larson is playing in Slovakia for HC Banska Bystrica and Dan Kissel is in his fourth season in Norway with the Stavenger Oilers. Evan Rankin has moved from the American Hockey League this season to play in the German Elite League with Cologne and Tim Wallace is in his second season in Sweden where he is a member of the Orebro Hockey Club. Calle Ridderwall also is in his native Sweden where he plays for HV71 Jonkoping. The final former Irish hockey player playing professionally overseas is Ryan Thang who has taken his game to South Korea where he plays for a team called Gangwon High 1 in the Asian Hockey League.\nHOCKEY EAST HAPPENINGS\nThrough the first two weeks of the season, Hockey East has a 10-9 overall lead in the Big Ten\/Hockey East challenge standings as Hockey East teams recorded a pair of road wins as New Hampshire defeated Michigan at Ann Arbor and Massachusetts downed Michigan State in East Lansing last weekend \u2026 several Hockey East players had career bests last weekend \u2013 UMass Lowell defenseman Jake Suter notched a career-high three helpers in a 6-3 win over Quinnipiac; Notre Dame's Steven Fogarty (2g, 2a) and Thomas DiPauli (1g, 3a) had career-high four-point games in the 5-3 win over Lake Superior State \u2026 Freshmen and sophomores scored eleven of 12 points in Massachusetts' 4-3 win against Michigan State, with three-point nights for a trio of players \u2013 Steven Iacobellis, Ray Pigozzi, and Patrick Lee \u2026 while Notre Dame has used eight freshman in its lineup this season, Maine has used seven freshmen to date while Connecticut has nine rookies on its roster \u2026 speaking of Connecticut, the Huskies played their first Hockey East conference game on Oct. 18, dropping a 2-1 decision at Merrimack \u2026 the Warriors are a perfect 11-for-11 on the penalty kill this year, just one of six teams to retain an unblemished penalty-kill percentage to start the season \u2026 UMass forward Steven Iacobellis was named the Hockey East\/Warrior player of the week last week as he had a hand in all four Minutemen goals in a 4-3 come-from-behind win at Michigan State. He scored the game-tying goal late in the third period and then set up the winner with 9.9 seconds left in the contest for the win \u2026 New Hampshire freshman Andrew Poturalski is the Hockey East\/Pro Ambitions rookie of the week after getting a goal and an assist in the Wildcats 5-1 win at Michigan on Oct. 17 \u2026 Boston College defenseman Teddy Doherty is the Hockey East defensive player of the week as he had three points and was plus-four in the Eagles' 6-2 win at RIT \u2026 Boston College opens its home schedule on Friday versus Colorado College at Conte Forum \u2026 Boston University also opens its home schedule this weekend when the Terriers face Michigan State on Friday and Michigan on Saturday at Agganis Arena \u2026 Vermont plays host to Connecticut this weekend in Burlington, Vermont \u2026 the Catamounts have given up just three goals in their first three games and are 3-0-0 to start the season \u2026 Connecticut is coming off a 4-1 win on Tuesday night against 15th-ranked Quinnipiac as sophomore goaltender Rob Nichols kicked out 36 of 37 shots in the win \u2026 Maine will look for its first win this season at home as the Black Bears face the Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves in a weekend series at Alfond Arena \u2026 New Hampshire opens its home schedule on Saturday night with a visit from Colorado College \u2026 the Wildcats are 15-5-1 all-time against the Tigers \u2026 two of the nation's top five teams will get together this weekend in Grand Forks, North Dakota when No. 3 North Dakota faces No. 5 Providence College \u2026 this is the first trip for the Friars to Grand Forks since the 1987-88 season and the first meeting versus North Dakota since the 1988-89 season \u2026 UMass Lowell faces Michigan on Friday night at the Tsongas Center in a Big Ten\/Hockey East Challenge game \u2026 after their first three games, the River Hawks are averaging 4.67 goals per game.\nHockey #16 Irish Return Home To Host #8 Michigan\nHockey Graham Slaggert Honored As Big Ten's First Star of the Week\nHockey Irish Sweep #1 Gophers With 2-1 Win","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pursuers of the Future: Sunderland Culture's New Community Play\nNov 16, 2020 | Arts and Culture, Good vibes, Living, What's Happening\nBig news! Our friends at Sunderland Culture have commissioned North East playwright, Scott Young, to create a new community play.\nFind out more about Pursuers of the Future as it hits our screens this November\u2026\nBack in January, prior to the first Lockdown, Sunderland Culture commissioned north east playwright Scott Young to create a new community play.\nWork on the play, Pursuers of the Future, has continued despite the restrictions imposed during the global pandemic.\nThis exciting new play is based around a mix of myth and folklore, and it features conversations with the people of Sunderland.\nNow the play's producer is ready to share parts of the play to get feedback before completing the production.\nSections of the play will be live-streamed on Sunderland Culture's Facebook page on Sunday (Nov 22) at 7pm. The unique part about it? Actors will be performing from their own homes!\nThe Sunderland Culture commission was for a playwright to work with local residents and community groups to write a new play based on their hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future of the city.\nThe play's premiere was to be an outdoor performance in September, but now it's headed online instead!\nTHE SHOW MUST GO ON >>\nCorinne Kilvington, of Theatre Space North East, who is both producing and directing Pursuers of the Future explained:\n\"We've been developing the script and working with our cast of about 20 community actors and now we're at a stage where we want to share where we're up to and get some feedback to further shape Scott's work,\"\n\"We've been working in twos or threes, but on Sunday, November 22 at 7pm we're putting together sections of the second draft with all of the actors performing from their individual homes and linked online.\n\"We're inviting anyone who would like to join us to do so, and would love to hear their feedback \u2013 what's great and what could be improved. That feedback will help inform the last draft of the play,\" she added.\n\"There are two threads to it: there is an intimate portrayal of a Sunderland family, their thoughts and tribulations, and then there is a more epic tale involving the Lambton Worm.\n\"Obviously we've had to work round some pretty tricky restrictions, but we've managed and the cast have been great. The company we've put together responded to a call-out and is a great mix of people.\"\nTo see the live streaming of sections of Pursuers of the Future, go to Sunderland Culture's Facebook page on Sunday at 7pm.\nCheck us out online at Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.\nPreviousMagical Mackems: Celebrating Dean Matthews\nNextChristmas in Sunderland\nGETTING THERE \u2013 Sunderland Airshow Travel\nCHRISTMAS WITH BELLS ON \u2013 AT THE BRIDGES\nSunderland breakfast show celebrates 20th anniversary\nFame The Musical 30th Anniversary Tour 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Reasons to Stay in Town on City Day\nBy\tAndrei Muchnik\nBritish acid-jazz pioneers The Brand New Heavies will be presenting a new album at the Usadba Jazz Festival.\tManfred Werner\nIf years of City Day celebrations have taught Muscovites anything, it's that this is a day better spent elsewhere, away from the ubiquitous metal detectors scattered all around the city center and the badly organized festivities.\nHowever, all that began to change two years when a new team at the city's culture department revisited the concept of City Day and decided to turn it into a \"festival of festivals\" with better planned activities spread all over the city, not confined to the congested center.\nAmong the reasons one would want to stay in Moscow this weekend is the special edition of the Usadba Jazz Festival, which will take place at the Kuskovo estate instead of the traditional Arkhangelskoye estate. Kuskovo is much more accessible by public transport, so this is good news. Headlining the festival are British acid-jazz pioneers Brand New Heavies, who will present their brand new album Forward.\nAmong other artists who will be performing on the two stages in Kuskovo is Jenia Lubich, a Russian singer-songwriter who first became popular as one of the singers in the French band Nouvelle Vague. Apart from her first hit \"Russian Girl,\" in which she famously sang \"I am just a simple Russian girl, I've got vodka in my blood,\" Lubich has already got an LP and two EPs under her belt. Another artist of notice is Therr Maitz, a Moscow-based band playing a mix of electronica, dance and trip-hop.\nUsadba will not be the only jazz festival taking place this weekend: The Moscow Jazz Festival will be going on simultaneously in Sokolniki Park. Moscow Jazz will feature Plastow from Switzerland, Alexander Sklyar, Markscheider Kunst and many others playing on three stages.\nFor those not interested in jazz, there are plenty of other options: Luzhniki stadium will host a rap festival where some of the leading Russian artists in that genre will perform, including Noize MC, Kasta and Triagrutrika.\nA more hipstery crowd may gravitate to Shestnadtsat Tonn (Ulitsa Presnensky Val 6, Bldg. 1) for Indiushata 2013, which will take place Sept. 8 to 9. An indie-rock festival and competition, Indiushata will feature 11 groups out of more than 300 bands that applied to take part in the festival. Representatives of the media and recording companies will be present to judge the groups over the course of the festival.\nFor those who just want to dance, the most promising party to join is the traditional All Stars Day & Night at Strelka Bar, where 18 DJs will play for 12 hours straight from Saturday afternoon until early Sunday, including the famous juke masters Rashad & Spinn, a double act from Chicago.\nContact the author at artsreporter@imedia.ru\nAndrei Muchnik\n@amuchnik\nTime travel: visit Moscow during the roaring 90s with Robert Stephenson as your guide.\nThis winter has been one of the warmest in Moscow's history. Here's a look back at what a real winter used to look like in Russia's capital.\nImmersive Pushkin-Themed Park to Open in St. Petersburg in 2023\nThe iconic Russian writer's fairy-tale universe will be brought to life in a sprawling new park.\nBelarussian Writer Alexievich Starts All-Women Publishing House\n\"Men, they are everywhere, and women's works are rarely published,\" the writer said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"he:c\u0294a\nWelcome to the Official Site of the Wichita And Affiliated Tribes\nCommissioner Vacancy-Wichita Tribe Industrial Development Commission\nThe Wichita and Affiliated Tribes is seeking three (3) interested individuals to serve as Commissioners for the Wichita Tribe Industrial Development Commission. The individuals will be appointed to terms that end September 30, 2024, September 30, 2025 or September 30, 2027. Please send a letter of interest and resume documenting education and\/or experience related to the position. The applicants may be tribal or non-tribal. The letter and resume must be sent to The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, Attn: Myles Stephenson Jr., Secretary, P.O. Box 729, Anadarko, OK 73005, by fax at (405) 247-2430 or by email at myles.stephenson@wichitatribe.com by Friday, January 27, 2023.\nCommissioner Vacancy-Wichita Gaming Commission\nThe Wichita and Affiliated Tribes is seeking an interested individual to serve as a Commissioner for the Wichita Gaming Commission. The individual will be appointed to an unexpired term that ends May 31, 2023 and will be reappointed to a 4 year term ending May 31, 2027. Please send a letter of interest and resume documenting education and\/or experience related to the position. The letter and resume must be sent to The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, Attn: Myles Stephenson Jr., Secretary, P.O. Box 729, Anadarko, OK 73005, by fax at (405) 247-2430 or by email at myles.stephenson@wichitatribe.com by Friday, January 27, 2023.\nWichita and Affiliated Tribes\nAmerican Rescue Plan (ARPA Department)\nHomeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) Program\nFY-2023\nFOR APPLICATION-CLICK HERE\nARPA Response Household Assistance Program ApplicationGuidelines\nA.R.P.A Response Household Assistance Program is available for any adult Wichita and Affiliated Tribes enrolled tribal member and will be administered under the ARPA Department. The services provided under this program at this time are utility bill relief, rental payment, mortgage payment, temporary housing assistance, direct client services, and incarcerated assistance. All applicants must submit a completed application with all of the required documents listed on application checklist. Applicants are required to submit a statement of explanation as to the circumstances to document a need for assistance. Other documentation may be required to verify eligibility or to verify there has been a negative economic impact endured by the household. Services are for One (1) time assistance per fiscal year October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023.\nYou may apply for assistance under one of the following:\n2023 RHAP Application\n1. Utility Assistance (Bill or Deposit)\nAssistance for utilities includes a maximum up to $500. The payment will be made directly to the vendor. A copy of the bill must be in the tribal members name and the bill must be provided with the application.\n2. Rent Assistance (Bill or Deposit)\nAssistance for rent includes a maximum up to $500. The payment will be paid directly to the landlord or housing office. Must have a lease agreement in place for current residence and provide a copy with the application. In the case of a request for Deposit Assistance then a rental agreement or letter showing the amount of the deposit must be provided.\n3. Mortgage Payment\n**MUST APPLY WITH THE HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE FUND (HAF) PROGRAM PRIOR TO RECEIVING THIS ASSISTANCE**Assistance for mortgage includes a maximum up to $500. The payment will be paid directly to the mortgage company. Must provide house payment agreement or letter from mortgage lender.\n4. Incarceration Assistance\nOnce per fiscal year assistance, not to exceed $100.00 to tribal members who are impacted while being imprisoned or incarcerated and are seeking adequate care assistance. Prison crowding and lack of sanitation measures contribute to the risk of contracting the virus. This assistance does not apply to those tribal members who are currently housed in municipal or county jail.\n5. Natural Disaster Relief\nAssistance for disaster relief is set aside for Tribal Members that are directly affected by a natural disaster. Each request will be assessed case by case and capped off at $500. Anything needed that exceeds $500 has to be approved by the Wichita Executive Committee. (Types of assistance can vary whether it be groceries, clothing, basic necessities, hotel, relocation expenses, etc.) Proper paperwork must be in place to receive assistance and receipts are required for any purchases made with this assistance.\n6. Elder Appliance Repair\nTo assist tribal members with repairs of a household appliance that is not functioning properly. assistance up to $150.00 for repairs. If appliance is unfixable and needs replaced, the program will assist with the purchase of a replacement appliance.\n7. COVID-19 Direct Impact Assistance\nFor Tribal Members who have been directly impacted due to COVID-19. Approval is needed from the Wichita Executive Committee under this assistance and amount will be determined case-by-case.\n8. Referrals-Internal Resources **Pre-eligibility is determined by total household income for referrals**\nLow-Income Home Energy Assistance Program(LIHEAP)\nCommunity Service Block Grant(CSBG)\nLow-Income Household Water Assistance Program(LIHWAP)\nWichita and Affiliated Tribes- General Assistance (OKLAHOMA RESIDENTS)\nGENERAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATION\nThe Wichita and Affiliated Tribes General Assistance program is ongoing until depleted to Wichita tribal members who are not currently employed or unemployed due to COVID. The amount approved will be determined by household size. Those seeking to apply for General Assistance may do so by completing the application and providing the following required information:\nCDIB-Certificate of Indian Blood\nProof of income and resources\nNo land letter from BIA\nApplicant cannot be receiving or eligible for County\/State Public Welfare or Social Security Income.\nMust reside in the Designated Jurisdictions: Caddo, Kiowa, Comanche, Tillman, Cotton NO EXCEPTIONS\nApplications may be accessed online at the tribe's website (www.wichitatribe.com) the program can fax, email, and mail any request for applications. Please give us a call at 405-247-2425 Ext.353 for any questions that you may have or Email- alicia.wheeler@wichitatribe.com.\nQuiz Bowl\nOn Thursday, September 15, the after school program had a quiz bowl over the words and phrases they have learned so far this school year. The youth practice Wichita language daily thanks to the language app that was developed with the help of the late Doris McLemore. Prizes for the winners included backpacks donated by Dane Evans who is a Wichita Tribal member, and also one of Doris' grandchildren. Dane is a former quarterback for the University of Tulsa, and is currently playing for the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Pictured are standing, left to right- Shaylene Courtney, Cailea Williams, Ombria Williams, Skylah Williams. Sitting left to right- Lily Williams, Ethan Puerta, Sasha Torres, Brandon Torres.\nCongratulations to the 2022-2023 Wichita Tribal Princess, Isabella Fridia\nLatest Updates on COVID-19 from the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes:\nThe Wichita and Affiliated Tribes' Tribal Offices are currently open to assist Tribal members with their needs. Please practice social distancing.\nTag Office require that you make an appointment before coming in.\nWalk-ins are not guaranteed but can still be served if an appointment is available.\nPlease call the main number for more information 405-247-2425 or one of the numbers below.\nWe are currently available at the following numbers:\nMaintenance\/Elder Lawn Program 405-247-2425 Ext. 114\nEducation 405-247-2425 Ext. 171\nEPA 405-247-2425 Ext. 141\nTribal Funded Social Services\/LIHEAP 405-247-2425 Ext. 120\nIndian Child Welfare 405-247-2425 Ext. 127\nVOCA\/Victims Advocate 405-247-2425 Ext. 130\nCaregiver Program\/AOA 405-247-2425 Ext. 115\nHealth Programs 405-247-2425 Ext. 157\nFood Distribution 405-247-2425 Ext. 117\nTOR\/Substance Abuse 405-247-2425 Ext. 352\nRISE Prevention 405-247-8824 Ext. 404\nNative Connections 405-247-8817 Ext. 405\nCCDF\/Child Care Assistance 405-648-7095 Ext. 332\nCommunications 405-247-2425 Ext. 165\nOTHER NEWS and INFORMATION:\nDriveway Program - Gravel and Tinhorn Service\nTribe and BIA Sign Hydro, Okla. Trust Land Agreement\nDIGITAL EDITIONS OF WICHITA TRIBAL NEWS\nArchived Home Page Features","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Homepage \/ Cars News \/ 2023 Ford F350: New Ford F-350 Looks Impressive With Trim Changes [Update]\n2023 Ford F350: New Ford F-350 Looks Impressive With Trim Changes [Update]\nBy Cynthia CarnahanPosted on November 30, 2021 December 16, 2021\n2023 Ford F350 The pick-up truck war never ends in Detroit as soon as all sorts of trims have started to appear and the most obvious is the appearance of the modified headlights that seem to be retaining the shape of the current lens.\nat the bottom of the headlights are re-illuminated as daytime running lights or low beam headlights, and this isn't the first time Ford has become obsessed with the Super-duty F350. In past generations, the chord streamlined LED light signature to eliminate the odd dot matrix pattern was introduced at this time.\nBack in the package and trim it appears the 2023 Ford F350 Sports a strange mix of top-run platinum jewelry with the black alloy wheels normally reserved for the aforementioned tremor. Of course, changing the tire package is very easy, you just need to adjust it according to your needs, but platinum equipped with tremors will be an attractive offer.\nAt the rear, we see mostly similar to today's trucks with no changes in the location of the trailer's wiring harness and the backup sensors that pop up in their usual places. The taillights appear to have several clear LEDs stacked vertically rather than the existing lenses, possibly indicating lighting that is unique to a particular team.\nAgain, changing the lighting sign without having to change the physical shape and dimensions of the lamp is a relatively inexpensive way to refresh the vehicle without incurring huge costs.\nOutstanding hauling & towing talent\nMuscular diesel engine options\nTough enough for the weekday, civilized enough for weekends\nThe updated infotainment system in top\nTrim Lariat trim gets Sports Appearance package\nKing Ranch and Platinum models now exclusive to all-wheel-drive\nTrim XLT now qualify for the Appearance Black package\n2023 Ford F350 Preview\n2023 Ford F350 Redesign\n2023 Ford F350 Interior\n2023 Ford F350 Exterior\n2023 Ford F350 Color\nFavorite Features\nULTIMATE TRAILER TOW CAMERA SYSTEM W\/PRO TRAILER BACKUP ASSIST\nOFF-ROAD TREMOR PACKS\n2023 Ford F350 Engine\n2023 Ford F350 Performance\n2023 Ford F350 Towing and Payload Capacity\n2023 Ford F350 Fuel Economy and Real-World MPG\n2023 Ford F350 Price\n2023 Ford F350 Release Date\nAbout the start of the 2023 Ford F350, We feel it will stick with platinum cream based on the chrome accents found on the rear-view mirror covers at the bottom of the windows.\nApart from that the 2023 Ford F350 is also pretty much wrapped in heavy camouflage which in our opinion this packaging hides the new design update, but we still hope that the design is getting better, more attractive and powerful, and of course more stylish with some other variations.\nFor the record using black wheels is the Off-Road Tremor package which has been discontinued for the Super Duty XLT trim but is still offered on the King Ranch and platinum variants so we hope that the offroad tremor will continue to run on the 2023 Ford F350 Super Duty model year.\nAs far as we know the 2023 Ford F350 has been eyed by Matai for a while now it seems that this time it will use black wheels on its newest type.\nThis food prototype 2023 Ford F350 which is often referred to as Super Duty Platinum has all the special features including chrome mirror caps and chrome strips along the bottom of the DLO trim window, but what you need to know is also the black wheels which are not yet available on the current generation type on the Platinum type. , but you can have it with other packages like Tremor of road.\nSince this is still a prototype type it is highly probable that this wheel will be offered in the next generation 2023 Super Duty Platinum and may also be a replacement wheel used in testing and not intended for production models.\nHowever, it is also necessary to know that the 2023 Super Duty SuperCab that Matai saw last week was wearing black wheels with a similar design.\nApart from the interesting tidbits this prototype also sports heavy camouflage on the front and checkered camo elsewhere as seen on all previous pick-ups.\nThen the design of this car is of course still a mystery with the revised styling of the truck which is something new for the next generation. Moreover, the familiar end configuration of this Ford model car shows that a 6.6L v8 Powerstroke turbo diesel engine is on the hood under this prototype.\nIn addition to the most striking exterior changes, the next four generations have also upgraded several revised technological features as well as added features to the Ford F350 by introducing the self-driving feature which is a mainstay feature on the next 2023 Ford F350.\nIn the interior of the Ford Super Duty truck, a horizontally oriented measuring screen was added which made it easy to access the panels on this vehicle.\nRelated: 2023 Mitsubishi L200 First Look, New Barbarian X Trim Revealed\nWe appreciate Ford for his hard work in overhauling the 12-inch screen which has received a lot of positive comments.\nAs far as we know if you want to get that touch screen you have to choose a lariat model or higher with a Ford Sync 4 infotainment system with Apple CarPlay wireless capability and Android auto.\nAnd we expect some more interactive makeovers on the inside of this 2023 Ford F350 vehicle.\nHello, we add the interior design of the dashboard is also sharp and the layout is practical we can judge the Super Duty interior is an ergonomic environment with direct controls and materials that are meant to be messy.\nthe process begins with the lariat trim level which introduces leather upholstery and high-end options such as ambient lighting and seat settings that can be hot and cold and also come with wireless power. But some chintzy parts make even the coolest interior models.\nBuyers can choose two bed sizes the first is 6.75 feet and the second is a city with 8 feet, Cabin crew takes storage a step further with a lockable city under the back seat.\nFor Infotainment sophistication and connectivity the base model XL comes standard with a touchscreen for their infotainment system. The XLT type has an 8.0-inch touch screen with Apple car play, Android auto, and a wi-fi hotspot. As well as some upgrades with the B&O 10 speaker and SiriusXM satellite radio.\nA pair of large volume and tuning buttons complete the dashboard area. As well as other physical buttons on the steering wheel make the whole system feel intuitive. Then the spacious cab can be equipped with enough accessories to run a Guns N' Roses concert including up to two 110 volt power points.\nChanges to the exterior styling complement the chrome exhaust tips and black running boards. Meanwhile, this black display package was previously available on the Lariat type and this time it is available on the XLT type. It has also included a black 20-inch wheel bumper and body-color grille as well as a black running board and Ford Badge.\nThe base XL has 17-inch steel wheels as standard, the XLT uses 18-inch alloy wheels, and gets bigger in the more expensive trims. Due to its standard dual-rear-wheel setup, the F-450 has a wider front track than the rest of the lineup. The length of the bed is 6.75 feet and eight feet.\nThe new Sport Appearance package from the Lariat trim features a grille, mirror housings, and bumper in the same color as the body for those whose tastes tend to be less chrome. In the same vein, the Appearance Black package is now available with a lower XLT trim. Atlas Blue is on the list of exterior paint choices.\nIn the color section, visual changes occur in the new Atlas Blue exterior, the Baja interior color for the Lariat interior, Navy Pier and Light Slate for the Limited model, and several appearance packages for the F-250 and F-350.\nAnything that makes life easier when towing a trailer especially when there's a turn to be made, and everything seems to go wrong is very welcome. This package (standard on King Ranch and up, optional on the lower three trims) provides 360-degree camera shots, reverse guidance, and trailer reverse guidance.\nThe Pro Trailer Backup Assist section means an automatic steering system controlled by a dial. It also works with fifth wheels and gooseneck adapters.\nIn addition to the pretty good FX4 Off-Road package, Super Duty 2022 offers this more extreme Tremor package. It includes special suspension components that increase ride height by two inches, Goodyear 35-inch all-terrain tires, front axle limited-slip differential, locking rear differential, and Trace Control, a sort of cruise control for difficult surfaces.\nThe 33-inch wading depth and rock-crawl mode make the Tremor-equipped Super Duty a true off-road fighter. And it is available in combination with a diesel engine.\nOn the entry-level XL trim, the 2022 Super Duty comes with single-zone air conditioning, vinyl flooring, and coating, remote start\/lock\/unlock, manually extendable side mirrors, trailer sway control, trailer tow package with 7- pin\/4-pin connector, trailer hitch receiver, cargo bed light, and removable tailgate.\nSafety features include automatic on\/off headlights, hill start assists, and an SOS post-crash warning system. The infotainment system features Wi-Fi for up to 10 devices, AM\/FM radio, MP3 player, 4.2-inch display, USB-C port, and four speakers.\nThe 2022 F-450 and F-550 Chassis Cabin models have a dual-rear-wheel setup as standard.\nBeyond the engine, cab, bed length, and driven wheels, the 2022 Super Duty has trim levels starting at the more civilized XLT and then increasing in luxury through Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum, and Limited. The XLT adds carpeting, upholstery, collision avoidance, blind-spot monitoring, 18-inch alloy wheels, 110-volt power outlets, Apple CarPlay\/Android Auto smartphone integration, satellite radio, navigation, and an 8-inch infotainment screen.\nThe Lariat features heated\/powered extendable mirrors, dual-zone automatic temperature control, power-adjustable pedals, power-adjustable front seats, leather seating surfaces, leather-wrapped steering wheel, auto-dimming mirrors, rear parking sensors, and new updated Sync 4 infotainment system with a 12-inch touchscreen, speech voice command recognition, and 10-speaker Bang & Olufsen voice system.\nRelated: 2023 Ford Ranger Plug-in Hybrid Should Debut Later This Year\nKing Ranch only comes as a Crew Cab with all-wheel drive, as well as the Platinum and Limited variants. It also has a themed cabin with leather upholstery and wood trim, heated\/ventilated front seats, memory settings for seats and front pedals, heated\/power-adjusted steering wheel with memory settings, wireless charging, remote start, LED bed lights, 20 -inch alloy wheels, step tailgate, remote tailgate release and Ultimate Trailer Tow Camera System with Pro Trailer Backup Assist.\nThe Platinum features a power-retractable running board, LED fog lamps and taillights, massaging multi-contour front seats, and adaptive cruise control. The Limited tops the list with a dual-panel moonroof, quad-beam LED headlights, dark ash wood trim, expanded leather seats, adaptive steering, heavy-duty 332-amp alternator, and six upfitter switches.\nSome features in higher terms are available in lower trims as options, such as the Ultimate Trailer Tow package. There are plenty of other additions to most of the 2022 Super Duty range, such as snowplow prep pack, FX4 Off-Road pack, Tremor off-road pack, storable loading ramps, five-wheel\/gooseneck hitch preparation pack, liner spray bed, winch The 12,000-pound Warn, transmission power take-off, and aluminum cross-bed toolbox.\nAs you already know, the 2023 Ford F350 has come with a variant version of the 6.2-liter V-8 engine that produces 385 horsepower and 430 lb-ft of torque, although the 7.3-liter 430-hp V-8 engine and 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel A V-8 with 475 horsepower and 1050 lb-ft of torque are both available.\nEither rear or four-wheel drive is available, as is the six or 10-speed automatic transmission. The Super Duty truck can tow up to 24,200 pounds but reaches 37,000 pounds with a fifth-wheel hitch and a gooseneck.\nAll powertrains on the Ford Super Duty are Paired with rear or four-wheel drive and all modern can be equipped with more powerful engine options as well as offering an offroad package called tremor adding lift kits and slimmer tires along with other Road ready upgrades.\nThe 2023 Ford F350's performance was excellent it was able to perform as expected by a large rig pulling up to 19 tons. When unloaded the Ford f350 will feel light but the sensation is very smooth when the trailer is attached.\nThe most luxuriously priced trims perform better of course in terms of reducing wind and road noise on the highway, but this truck is also very responsive in the brake pedal, and maneuverability on the road is more convincing.\nDrivers who have been around heavy-duty pickups for a long time are no doubt familiar with the manufacturer's old approach of calibrating their suspension to work best while the truck is being loaded. Luckily, things have progressed to where Super Tasks are civilized and structured under all circumstances.\nThe Adaptive Steering feature (standard on the top of the Limited trim, optional on the bottom of the bottom) is also an advantage when maneuvering at low speeds, taking a lot of effort.\nBuyers won't have to shell out extra for the larger engine \u2014 the standard 6.2-liter V8 can handle most situations. Super Duty's highest payload capacity of 7,850 pounds is achieved with this engine in an F-350 with dual rear wheels and a Regular cab.\nMost F-Series Super Duty trucks are rated to tow between 15,000 and 18,000 pounds. However, the 7.3-liter petrol V8 does come with a more modern and efficient 10-speed automatic transmission.\nWith various cabin configurations, the 2023 Ford F350 Super Duty has various maximum towing and payload capacities. and We believe Ford fans desperately want the strongest figure capable of carrying a 7850-pound payload.\nThe maximum towing capacity of the Super Duty will be an incredible 37,000 pounds, made possible by the massive 1,050 lb-ft of torque from the 6.7-liter turbodiesel V8 and gooseneck adapter.\nWhen Ford changed powertrain options for its heavy-duty Cup trucks we also evaluated real-world mpg on fuel-efficient routes on the road. The 6.2-liter petrol V-8 with six-speed automatic remains the standard-setting on this model and we delivered 15 mpg on the highway. We hereby sincerely hope that the optional Super Duty power stroke diesel car will be the most fuel-efficient engine in its class.\nThere is no official price range yet, but our speculation is that the 2023 Ford F350 will start at:\nXL $37,895 (Est)\nXLT $42,370 (Est)\nLARIAT $50,030 (Est)\nKing Ranch $65,995 (Est)\nPlatinum $69,310 (Est)\nLimited $89,030 (Est)\nThe generation Ford F350 Super Duty was sold in the summer, however, we are still speculating that the 2023 Ford F350 will arrive next year and may also arrive in the summer.\nPosted in Cars News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Shipping reform threatens jobs in rail\nThe Federal Government's plan to de-regulate coastal shipping will place 300 jobs at risk in Australia's rail freight sector and undermine the proposed Inland Rail project \u2013 according to the Rail, Tram and & Bus Union (RTBU).\nRTBU National Secretary Bob Nanva today said the Abbott Government's coastal shipping reforms would not only decimate the domestic shipping industry \u2013 they would have repercussions right through the transport supply chain.\n\"Our discussions with employers have found that around ten per cent of the volume of containerised freight carried by rail could switch to foreign vessels under the new arrangements,\" Mr Nanva said.\n\"This would lead to around 300 jobs being lost straight off the bat in our industry, and would cause long-term damage to regional communities along major rail freight corridors.\"\nEVEN PLAYING FIELD\nMr Nanva said the Federal Government had abandoned any semblance of competitive neutrality in the freight sector, brazenly gifting a huge competitive advantage to overseas-based shipping services.\n\"It's one thing to have different modes like rail, road and sea freight competing to provide the most efficient service \u2013 but there needs to at least be some sort of even playing field.\n\"Clearly that's not the case when flag of convenience vessels, that do not have to pay Australian wages or meet Australian safety standards, can compete openly in the domestic market.\n\"It's also bizarre that the Federal Government is pursuing a policy which will devalue the worth of its publicly-owned rail infrastructure manager, ARTC, just as it's looking to privatise the company.\n\"Furthermore, the Government is supposedly planning a huge investment in inland rail infrastructure \u2013 an investment which could become a stranded asset before it's even built.\"\nWHERE'S THE STRATEGY?\nMr Nanva said the Abbott Government needed to stop its piece-meal approach to transport policy and start governing in the national interest.\n\"To any fair-minded observer, it looks like the Government's left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.\n\"Australia needs an integrated national freight strategy - one that ensures our transport system works in a cohesive and complementary way, while maximising jobs and securing the future of local industry.\"\nRTBU submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport\nFreight on Rail group's submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jana Rothe\nClownesse\nUniversity of Applied Sciences Europe\nBerlin\/Hamburg, Germany\nContemporary, female* clowning: A niche of feminism. We all know clowns. Do we? Today, the figure is mostly associated with a cliche. Its affiliation to the circus (such as its' characteristic red nose) seems to be inseparable from the character. Additionally, its' scary depiction is gaining in popularity. Often used for racist or sexist behaviour in politics and media, the figure has even become a symbol of toxic masculinity. However, apart from the associated cliche and the clowns' medial representation, there is more to explore about the clown than its' red nose and wide grin: Clowns have been part of society for centuries. In different forms, they appeared to break conventions, live contradiction, defy directives, and cross borders, as they show the absurdity of normality. Being open to failure and playing with the darkest places of their soul, they want to relieve society of social constraints. They teach us to embrace the ridiculous, to drop the masks that we use in society while uncovering social and political structures. The clown figure has been playing a major influential role acting as a mirror of society. How come such a valuable role is mainly occupied by men? Which society is mirrored and who profits from the liberation of the social constraints? Did the lack of perspectives lead to the symbol, the clown has become today? \"CLOWNESSE.\" looks for broader perspectives in the contemporary clownesse \u2013 a theme which the sociologist Delphine C\u00e9zard has been researching since 2015. According to C\u00e9zard, the characteristics of clowns proceed against female stereotypes. This not only leads to associating the term \"clown\" with males but also induces females to stay away from the department of clowning for a long time. A society producing stereotypes, which's thinking patterns are based on a patriarchal, discriminating system, offers the clownesse an opportunity for playing with difference and diversity today. In her being as a fool or an ugly Buffon, she can do what the male medial clown is less and less able to do: confuse, and thus come closer to the origin of the figure. . Inspired by the first clown portraits oft the 19s century, I want to refer to the social status they once enjoyed and pay tribute to their artform again. Analogously photographed and uncut, the portraits depict the clownesses between character and private person, allow the boundaries between role and everyday life to be mixed up and tell their own truth about the world. The photographs were all taken in Germany and are presented in an abandoned villa in an unknown location.\nVIDEO: vimeo.com\/512272866","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Find Info For\nResearch and Partnerships\nGiant Leaps\nGiant Leaps Events\nSTEM Teaching Facility\nFuture Students Home\nStudent Life at Purdue\nSTAR Tasks\nCurrent Students Home\nAcademic &\nRegistration Resources\nCurriculum and\nDegree Enhancements\nScience Recognition\nScience Alumni Board\nScience Dean's Club\nDepartments Home\nEarth, Atmospheric,\nand Planetary Sciences\nand Astronomy\nOutreach Home\nAbout Science K-12 Outreach\nSpring\/Summer 2019 Events\nTeacher Professional\nNews and Past Events\nChecklist for Campus Events\nDepartmental K-12 Outreach\nand Contact Information\nPurdue 150th Anniversary Events at the College of Science\nPurdue College of Science 150th Anniversary Calendar\nWe invite Purdue Science students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends \u2014 and the community \u2014 to join us for Purdue Ideas Festival and other 150th Anniversary events, and for other special events throughout the Purdue 150th Anniversary celebration.\nSee how our groundbreaking footprints in science lead to giant leaps in discovery \u2014 explore 150 Years of Giant Leaps in Science.\n2018\u20132019 EVENTS\nDean's Executive Science Forum\n10:30 to 11:20 a.m.\nStanley Coulter, Room 239\nThe dean's forum is open to the Purdue community. Special guest: College of Science alumna Janice Zdankus, vice president of quality, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Customer Experience and Quality.\nThe dean's forum is open to the Purdue community. Special guest: College of Science alumnus Bob Beideman, director of retirement plans, Southern Company.\nHOMECOMING WEEKEND: FRIDAY\nThe dean's forum is open to the Purdue community. Special guest: College of Science alumnus John Roudebush, chief executive officer, Ecolink Inc.\nIDEAS FESTIVAL EVENT\nBiden Cancer Community Summit: Purdue's Legacy in Cancer Research\n2:30 to 5 p.m.\nHiler Theater, Wilmeth Active Learning Center\nWhat if we cure cancer in 10 years? Biden Cancer Community Summits in Washington, D.C., and across the country will focus national attention on the urgency to build momentum through community-driven action, ideas, and cancer solutions. The Purdue Center for Cancer Research and the College of Science are co-sponsors for this Purdue 150th Ideas Festival event. Join us as we learn how some of Purdue's most prominent leading experts in cancer research are challenging one of the most nuanced health problems of our time.\nGraham Cooks, the Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University\nAndrea Kasinski, assistant professor of biological sciences and 2017 American Cancer Society Research Scholar awardee, Purdue University\nSteve Konieczny, professor and interim head, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University\nPhil S. Low, the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University\nThere is no cost to attend, but registration is required.\nPurdue Science 150th Celebration Tailgate and Purdue Homecoming Parade\nTent on Memorial Mall\nKick off the Purdue Homecoming celebration with the College of Science! Come for the food, fun, and friends, and stay for the annual Homecoming parade, which starts at Memorial Mall.\nHOMECOMING WEEKEND: SATURDAY\nPre-Game Activities\n9 to 11 a.m.\nThe College of Science will host pre-game activities in three locations. Be sure to visit us on Homecoming Row on Stadium Mall, at Boilermaker Crossing next to Mackey Arena, and inside the stadium on the Ross-Ade concourse. Meet Purdue Science students, who will be sharing fun activities for all ages. Pick up your alumni pin at any of these locations!\nHomecoming Football Game: Purdue vs. Boston College\nRoss-Ade Stadium\nThe College of Science is sponsoring the Homecoming football game, which is the official kickoff event of Purdue's sesquicentennial celebration. A special half-time show by Purdue's All-American Marching Band will celebrate Purdue Science.\nTickets can be purchased online or by calling 800-497-7678. For more information about Homecoming activities around campus, visit the Purdue Homecoming website.\nINDY BIG DATA: A Technology Conference\nJW Marriott, Downtown Indianapolis\nBig Data: A Maze of Opportunity is the theme of the 5th annual Indy Big Data conference. Three College of Science faculty members are speakers: Professor of Computer Science Christopher W. Clifton, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Aniket Kate, and Professor of Computer Science David Ebert.\nLearn more about and register for the conference.\nThe dean's forum is open to the Purdue community. Special guest: College of Science alumna Carolyne Gatesy, entrepreneur and owner, Main Street Office Center.\nDialog with Alumni: Diversity and Educational Excellence in Science\nLilly Hall and Lawson Commons\nThe Department of Biological Sciences is hosting this daylong event, which features four outstanding Purdue alumni who will visit and meet with various student and faculty groups for panel discussions. Drs. Carla Little, Debra Murray, Tracie Gibson, and James Simples, all African American, received their PhDs from the Department of Biological Sciences and have gone on to outstanding careers. They bring a unique perspective concerning the challenges our students face as undergraduate and graduate students. During the panel discussions, they will provide key insights that can help all our students succeed in college and in their professional journeys.\nInfo about specific discussion panel groups and times to come.\nALUMNI GUEST PANELISTS\nCarla Little, PhD, Illinois Health Department\nDebra Murray, PhD, Director, Education and Minority Diversity Program, Baylor College of Medicine\nTracie Gibson, PhD, Director, Student Success and Diversity, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\nJames Simples, PhD, Principal Medical Science Liaison, Janssen Scientific Affairs (Johnson & Johnson)\nApproximation Theory and Machine Learning Conference\nLawson, Room 1142\nMachine learning has made a tremendous impact on the world, in applications that include automatic face- and object-recognition in computer vision, self-driving cars, and automatic language translation. 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{"text":"in modern military conflict, weapons\nHello, Atlantico\nThe social media feed for the Marinha do Brasil, Brazil's navy, has been off the hook this week as the country turned out to legit welcome into Rio de Janeiro the current fleet flagship, the brand new (to Brazil) amphibious assault ship NAeL Atl\u00e2ntico (AND 140). Formerly the British amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean (L-12).\nThe 21,500-ton LPH was built at Vickers, commissioning in 1998. In December 2017, the Brazilian Navy confirmed the purchase of the ship for \u00a384.6 million\u2013 a comparative bargain when compared to new construction.\nShe left Royal Navy service on 27 March 2018, with the Brazilians arriving the month before to do a warm transfer. She commissioned in Portsmouth under the green Brazilian banner in June and has been working up in European waters with British advisors for the past several weeks.\nAs noted by Naval Recognition: \"The helicopter carrier package for Brazil includes an Artisan 3D search radar, KH1007 surface surveillance radar system, four 30 mm DS30M Mk 2 remote weapon systems and four Mk 5B landing craft. However, the three original 20 mm Mk 15 Block 1B Phalanx close-in weapon systems, the torpedo defense systems and 7.62 mm M134 machine guns were removed from the ship.\"\nAtlantico was greeted offshore of Brazil by two Super Cougars, two recently modified Sikorsky SH-16 Seahawk multirole helicopter (a local designation for S-70B), and two Bell 206 Jet Rangers (who normally serve as plane guards with divers aboard and fill liaison roles), which were arrayed on her flight deck as she entered Rio (as no one likes to see a brand new carrier with an empty deck.)\nShe is designated a PHM in Brazilain service, standing for Porta-Helic\u00f3pteros Multiprop\u00f3sito or multi-purpose helicopter carrier.\nShe arrived in Rio on 25 August and is expected to be fully operational by 2020.\nNote the fleet behind her on parade\nThe Marinha do Brasil has been continually in the flattop business since they bought the WWII vintage 19,980-ton light carrier HMS Vengeance (R71) from the British in 1956 (a ship nominally smaller than Atl\u00e2ntico). Following a four-year reconstruction in Holland, that ship joined the Brazilian fleet as NAeL Minas Gerais and was the first aircraft carrier purchased by a Latin American nation.\nBrazilian Navy aircraft carrier Minas Gerais in 1966\nGerais gave 40 years of hard service to the Brazilians flying A-4 Skyhawks and S-2 Trackers until she was replaced by the French Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier Foch, which was commissioned as NAeL S\u00e3o Paulo in 2000. However, the 32,000-ton French flattop, now some 54-years young, has been a maintenance nightmare and the Brazilians announced last year that they were moving to condemn her.\nTags: Atl\u00e2ntico, brazil carrier, brazil navy, brazil ocean, Brazilian Marines, Brazilian Navy, HMS Ocean, Mari, Marinha do Brasil, NAeL Atl\u00e2ntico, Porta-Helic\u00f3pteros Multiprop\u00f3sito\nThe Admiralty must love their Brazilian allies right about now | laststandonzombieisland - July 2, 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BAO DAI, FORMER EMPEROR OF VIETNAM, DIES\nOn my list\nBy Richard Pearson\nBao Dai, 83, a former emperor of Annam and Vietnam who spent more than 30 years contending with the demands of powerful foreign overlords and the political divisiveness of his own people before ending his life in exile, died July 31 at a military hospital in Paris. The cause of death was not reported.\nOver the years, Bao Dai attempted to walk the tightrope of being a nominal monarch in a land ruled by others. During World War II, he found himself under the control of the pro-German Vichy French government and then Japanese occupation forces. After the war, he abdicated, served briefly in a communist government, endured a first exile and served briefly as emperor before being exiled again in 1955.\nBao Dai was born under the name Nguyen Vinh Thuy, the son of Khai Dinh, emperor of Annam, a French protectorate that now is the central coastal strip of Vietnam. After his father died in 1926, he took the throne with the name Bao Dai (Keeper of Greatness). He reigned from palaces in Hue and Da Lat.\nBecause of his youth, the new emperor was sent to France to complete his education. After taking up his duties as emperor in 1932, he saw his attempts at reform frustrated by the French opposition. Bao Dai then began spending much of his time vacationing in France or hunting in Vietnam's Central Highlands.\nDuring World War II, Bao Dai cooperated with France's pro-German Vichy government and with Japanese forces that occupied Southeast Asia. After the war, with Vietnamese communist forces inexorably gaining power, Bao Dai abdicated and took a common name. He served briefly in Hanoi as the \"supreme adviser\" to the government of the new Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed by the communist and nationalist leader, Ho Chi Minh.\nAfter Bao Dai endured an exile in Hong Kong and France, the French restored him to an imperial throne as their nominee in 1949. When the 1954 Geneva accords resulted in the division of Vietnam into North and South, Bao Dai made a serious attempt at ruling, as emperor of South Vietnam.\nHe lost his throne for a final time in 1955. His handpicked and militantly anti-communist premier, Ngo Dinh Diem, engineered the downfall in a national referendum.\nThe exiled Bao Dai stood largely aloof from politics and Vietnamese affairs for the rest of his life.\nMany observers said they believed that Bao Dai had been a reluctant ruler who had little real power under any of his overlords and who did not really want power in any case.\nHe seemed to prefer life on the French Riviera to an emperor's residence in Southeast Asia.\nIn his last years as emperor and in his early years of final exile, he led a luxurious lifestyle with interests and pursuits that resulted in much of the world press referring to him as the \"Playboy Emperor.\"\nThe U.S. government had recognized Bao Dai and his government in 1950. It then began to funnel monetary and other aid to the beleaguered developing nation. The aid was intended to help fund the modernization of South Vietnamese society and to enable its government to stand up to communist North Vietnam.\nMuch of the aid money found its way to personal overseas bank accounts of the emperor. That money helped ensure his standard of gracious living after the referendum.\nDuring his years in French exile, Bao Dai converted from Buddhism to Roman Catholicism and lost the greater part of his fortune.\nHis first wife, Nguyen Huu Thi Lan, died in 1968. The next year, he married Monique Baudot. He had six children. CAPTION: BAO DAI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class: 2014 Detroit Auto Show Preview & Live Photos\nThere's a new C-Class coming, and it's beautiful. It's also lighter, more powerful, with standard all-wheel drive, and packing several new high-tech safety features. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class will make its official public debut at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show this Monday. Today, we add to the high-res gallery of studio photos with live images of the car from its private unveiling in Detroit ahead of the 2014 Detroit Auto Show.\nThere are only a few things we don't know about the new C-Class so far. At the top of that short list are price and gas mileage. Whether those figures will materialize upon the car's official unveiling in Detroit next week, or if they'll wait until closer to the car's launch later in the year remains to be seen.\nWhat we do know about the 2015 C-Class is that it looks very, very good--almost like a smaller S-Class, and if you've forgotten how good that car is, go remind yourself.\nInside and out, the new C-Class presents a fresher, more luxurious face, with a bold but still tasteful exterior and a cabin that looks at least one big notch more luxurious than the last car. Of course, final judgment will be reserved until we've laid hands on it ourselves.\nUnder the hood of the new 2015 C-Class, you'll find one of two engines: a 235-horsepower, 273-pound-foot 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder in C300 trim; or a 329-horsepower, 354-pound-foot 3.0-liter turbocharged V-6 in C400 trim. Both engines use direct injection in addition to turbocharging, and both are paired to a 7G-Tronic Plus seven-speed automatic transmission. Mercedes' 4Matic all-wheel-drive system is standard on all U.S.-bound C-Class for the 2015 model year.\nThose power figures should complement the new chassis well, as it loses 220 pounds in total--154 of those pounds from the body structure alone--due to the use of about 40 percent more aluminum in place of steel in its construction. That weight savings has been achieved in spite of a rather significant growth in the car's exterior dimensions; the 2015 C-Class is 3.7 inches longer, 1.6 inches wider, and has 3.0 inches more wheelbase than the previous model.\nThe 2015 C-Class is also the first to offer air suspension in its segment. The base model still comes with standard steel springs, but an upgrade to a comfort-oriented air suspension is available, as is a sporty version of the Airmatic air suspension as part of the Sport package. The Sport package's dynamic air suspension also lowers the car's ride height by 0.6 inches. Models fitted with the adaptive air suspension can choose from Comfort, ECO, Sport, and Sport+ modes via the Agility Select switch.\nBeyond the performance upgrades, the new 2015 C-Class should also be the safest C-Class yet, with a host of safety features that were only recently launched on the S-Class and E-Class arriving in their smaller counterpart. Among the new features are standard-equipment including: Attention Assist; and Collision Prevention Assist Plus, which helps to brake the car if a collision is deemed imminent by the car's sensors, capable of autonomous braking from speeds up to 124 mph, and completely preventing rear-end collisions at speeds up to 25 mph. Optional safety extras include Distronic Plus, BAS Plus Brake Assist System, and Enhanced Active Lane Keeping Assist. Other safety enhancements available include Active Parking Assist; a 360-degree camera; and Traffic Sign Assist, which can read traffic signs to warn of speed limits, no-passing zones, no-entry signs, and more.\nOn the more entertaining side of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class's technology is the COMAND infotainment system, installed in either the standard 7-inch display or the optional 8.4-inch display offered as part of the Multimedia package. Mercedes' mbrace2 apps and connectivity technology is also baked into the COMAND system, with the option to have over twenty Mercedes Benz Apps integrated from the factory.\nLook for more details, including live photos, video, and more, live from the debut of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show this week.\nYou can also see the new 2015 C-Class in action in the official videos below.\nHigh-Res Gallery: 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class live photos, 2014 Detroit Auto Show preview\n2015 Auto Shows Detroit Auto Show Luxury Mercedes-Benz C Class News Mercedes-Benz News Videos youtube\n2014 SRT Viper Gets Mid-Grade GT Model, Stryker Green Color\n2015 Audi A8 And S8 U.S. Specs Announced\nChevy Corvette Stingray And Silverado Named North American Car And Truck Of The Year\nToyota FT-1 concept: Supra successor hinted at Detroit show\nUsed 2020 Mercedes-Benz C Class\nUsed 2020 Audi A4","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Risk of developing autism is mostly caused by genetics\nBy Shaoni Bhattacharya\nGenetic factors may explain most of the risk of developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggests a new analysis.\nIt calculated that ASD has 83 percent heritability - this is a measure of the extent to which a particular trait is inherited within a population.\nThe paper, published in JAMA, is a re-analysis of a previous study by the same researchers in twins and siblings that concluded that ASD was 50 percent heritable. Many studies have attempted to quantify the contributions of genetics and environment to the risk of ASD, and estimates vary widely.\n'We already know that autism has very substantial genetic contributions,' Dr Daniel Geschwind, a geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, told HealthDay News. 'The question is how much is genetic and how much is environmental?'\nThe authors of the new analysis put the findings into context. 'This estimate [83 percent] is slightly lower than the approximately 90 percent estimate reported in earlier twin studies and higher than the 38 percent estimate reported in a California twin study, but was estimated with higher precision,' they wrote. 'Like earlier twin studies, shared environmental factors contributed minimally to the risk of ASD.'\nDr Sven Sandin at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and colleagues used an alternate method to re-analyse their data from a large study of children born in Sweden between 1986 and 2006, which followed them until December 2009. This included approximately 37,600 sets of twins, 2,642,000 full sibling pairs, and about 877,800 half-sibling pairs. Of these, about 14,500 children were diagnosed with ASD.\nAlthough the two analyses produced hugely different results for heritability, the authors of the latest analysis note: 'In both analyses, the heritability of ASD was high and the risk of ASD increased with increasing genetic relatedness.'\nBut Dr Sandin added: 'Even in couples who already have a child with autism, the likelihood that their next child will also develop autism is increased, but still not very high.'\nThe large size of the study supports the validity of the findings, said Dr Geschwind.\nAutism is mostly genetic, suggests study\nThe Independent | 26 September 2017\nFindings Suggest Genetic Factors May Explain Most of the Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder\nJAMA Network (For the Media) | 26 October 2017\nGenetic factors may explain most of risk for autism spectrum disorder\nMedical Xpress | 26 September 2017\nGenetics a Cause of Autism in Most Cases: Study\nHealthDay News | 26 October 2017\nThe Heritability of Autism Spectrum Disorder\nJAMA | 26 September 2017\nLargest US twin study looks at how your postcode affects health\n21 January 2019 - by Dr Rachel Montgomery\nA study attempting to clarify the ongoing 'nature vs nurture debate' has confirmed that the issue is complex - and that most conditions are probably caused by an interaction of both...\nRepetitive behaviours in rare form of autism 'edited out' in mice\n2 July 2018 - by Isobel Steer\nGenome editing technology has been used to edit out autistic traits in mice with a rare form of the condition, according to a new study in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering...\nAutism and smoking during pregnancy - a mitochondrial inheritance\n30 May 2017 - by Professor David Skuse\nIn recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with autism. There is seemingly one in every classroom, most of them boys; some are quiet and nerdy, others may be disruptive and aggressive. Most have normal intelligence, and can be educated in mainstream schools. Parents of such children question why one child is affected...\nAutism linked to cognitive genes\n6 March 2017 - by Jamie Rickman\nResearchers have discovered that genetic variants associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) also correlate with higher intelligence...\nUK twin study shows autism 'largely genetic'\n9 March 2015 - by Sophie McLachlan\nA UK twin study estimates that between 56 and 95 percent of autism spectrum disorder cases are attributable to genetics...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a Herbaceous plants 2023\nRare Perennials In Our Garden (continued)\nPlants for the garden by mail\nShipping experience in Russia since 1995\nTel. 8 (909) 273-78-63\nOnline store on the site\nVideo: Rare Perennials In Our Garden (continued)\nVideo: 15 Perennials Every Garden Should Have! \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udf3f\ud83d\udc9a \/\/ Garden Answer 2023, January\nEnding. The beginning - in the article Rare perennials in our garden\nPodophyllum (Podophyllum) is primarily interesting for the gardener as ornamental plants of unusual appearance. These are herbaceous plants 50-70 cm high with large, beautiful palm leaves. Under favorable conditions, the podophyll forms unusually picturesque dense thickets.\nThe genus podophyllum (Podophyillum) belongs to the barberry family and includes about 10 species, only one of which, the thyroid podophyllum (Podophyillum peltatum), grows in North America, the rest - in the mountains of Central Asia. The presence of plants from the same botanical genus on different continents is a sure evidence of their ancient origin. Indeed, podophylls are the oldest representatives of the barberry family, relics of the Tertiary period.\nPodophyllum thyroid\nThere are two types of podophyll growing in our garden: thyroid podophyll and Podophyllum emodii, an Asian species from Central China. Despite the geographical remoteness of their ranges, these plants are very similar, and differ mainly in the number of lobes on the leaves. The thyroid usually has 5-7, while the Emod has three.\nThyroid podophyllum, fetus\nThe flowers of both podophylls are very large, up to 6 cm in diameter, pinkish-white. But they are so skillfully hidden under the leaves that one may not even guess about their presence. Therefore, the main decorative advantage of both podophylls is undoubtedly the leaves. With a rather insignificant, half-meter height of the plant itself, they look unusually large. In the thyroid podophila, for example, the diameter of the leaf blade sometimes reaches 40 cm; in Emod, it is somewhat more modest - up to 25 cm. There are relatively few leaves in podophiles, but they stick tightly to each other, forming even shields. The thyroid podophyll is especially good in this sense. Its thickets are so dense that they suppress any other vegetation with their shadow. The use of this podophyll in landscaping not only gives the garden a landscape, but to a certain extent eliminates weeding.\nThe podophyll also has another, and for some, perhaps more attractive \"side of the coin\". Thyroid podophyllum is a medicinal plant. It is included in the official pharmacopoeias of several countries. The plant's medicinal raw materials are roots. Podophyllum preparations have antitumor activity and are capable of inhibiting the growth of neoplasms. In folk medicine, podophyllum is also used as an anthelmintic and laxative. However, it should be remembered that all parts of the plant, excluding ripe fruits, are poisonous.\nPodophylls are not at all difficult in agricultural technology. They can grow in full sun, but prefer intermittent, temporary partial shade. They love the soil rich in humus, but at the same time loose and moist. Plants are propagated by dividing rhizomes. The best time for this is early September. The thick cord-like roots of the podophyll are removed with a garden pitchfork and cut into pieces so that there is at least one renewal bud on each plot. Seed propagation is possible, but requires a lot of patience. Seeds must be sown before winter on sufficiently moist fertile soil. They emerge only after two winters and are very uneven. Seedlings grow slowly and need constant attention.\nFragrant rue (Ruta graveolens). To begin with, in ancient times, rue was considered a miraculous medicinal plant, with which it was possible to heal almost all known diseases. The plant was not only respected by doctors, but was also considered one of the most effective means against witchcraft. Ancient literature \"captured\" several cases of the use of rue. But even more popular rue becomes in the Middle Ages, when numerous scholarly \"treatises\" appeared, praising the properties of this plant.\nThe fame of the rue was so great that with the development of botanical science, the rue family was named after her, to which, in addition to her, are much more noticeable and important plants for humans: orange, lemon, mandarin, cork \u2026\nIn essence, the exaltation of the rue was based on \"objective\" reasons. In ancient times, all extraordinary plants were endowed with miraculous properties. And the rue stood out against the general background with at least two qualities. Firstly, the leaves of the rue differ from the leaves of the bulk of plants in their unusual bluish-gray color. Secondly, they have a strong characteristic odor. It is enough to hold a sprig of rue in your hands so that its aroma sticks firmly to your palm.\nRuta is a small, woody in the lower part, half-shrub 50-80 cm high. Leaves are pinnately dissected twice or three times, with obovate lobes. Flowers are medium-sized, greenish-yellow, collected in loose umbellate inflorescences. The natural habitat of rue is in the east of the Mediterranean. But already in the early Middle Ages, the plant spread widely throughout Western Europe and the Middle East.\nRuta is undeservedly considered not a winter-hardy plant. In central Russia, it does chronically freeze, but it rarely freezes completely. In some winters (but not more often than once a decade), the plants freeze so thoroughly that at first they seem lifeless. But thanks to the surviving roots, the bushes quickly recover. Experience shows that elevated places and southern slopes are most favorable for rue. The soil should be simultaneously light, fertile, loose and well-drained, with a pH of 7.0-7.5.\nIt should be noted that rue bushes can be quite durable. On our urban site, several specimens of rue have been growing in one place for over 20 years. The plants served us as uterine testes. We used to collect rue seeds in October and sow straight away. But it happened that they forgot to do this, and then the plant sowed on its own.\nMarsh cinquefoil\nMarsh cinquefoil (Comarum palustre). When one of my not too self-possessed counterparts heard that I was growing saber in an ordinary garden, the first thing I did was scream indignantly: \"Let it lie to you! Sabelnik is a marsh plant. And it will not grow in the garden!\"\nBy this she exposed herself, as a spy would betray himself if he accidentally stumbled and swore in her native language. After all, the cinquefoil has really grown in our garden for a long time, and practically without outside interference. And the specific epithet \"marsh\" does not mean at all that the plant can grow exclusively in water. Our other guests could act as guarantors: iris, marigold, wild rosemary - all \"swamp\", but they grow and prosper in the garden. And despite the fact that our garden is located on a slope, its soil has a sandy loam base and, as a result, it looks more like a dry steppe than a swamp.\nIn what she was right, it is that in nature the cinquefoil most often grows along the shores of oxbows and lakes, and in general all kinds of swampy places. That is, it has a coastal, semi-aquatic ecological niche. The cinquefoil takes the most active part in the process of overgrowing of water bodies, both shallow and deep. He is among the first, along with sedges and the three-leafed watch, settles on rafters - \"floating\" shores of overgrown lakes. But sometimes the cinquefoil settles in swampy meadows and in drying out reeds. And these are already different types of habitat, because no one has canceled the drought yet. Survival science teaches plants to overcome \"temporary\" difficulties. So the sabelnik is taught this.\nIn the garden, the cinquefoil agrees to grow on the usual fertilized soil for years. It does not flourish, of course, but wow - it grows and even blooms. If the soil is \"fertilized\" with large doses of peat - peat and watered more often, then it is quite possible to collect medicinal raw materials from the garden cinquefoil.\nSanguinaria canadensis (Sanguinaria canadensis) is a monotypic perennial herb, endemic to the Atlantic region of North America. Americans call sanguinaria the bloody root, because when injured, it secretes abundantly orange-red juice.\nSanguinaria canadian\nAt first glance, you would never recognize a poppy relative in the sanguinarium. This is a stemless plant - flowers and leaves grow in sanguinaria directly from the rhizome, but separately from each other. The leaves are very large, up to 15 cm in diameter, on erect petioles up to 20 cm high. Flowers grow singly on thin, straight peduncles. Sanguinaria is unusually decorative, and oddly enough, it is completely simple in agricultural technology and unpretentious. Its current rarity is nothing more than a misunderstanding.\nThe main breeding method for sanguinaria is the division of the rhizome. It is desirable to conduct it during a period of relative rest - in late August and early September. The seed method is usually ignored by gardeners as more tedious. The plant grows slowly but reliably. In the absence of competitors, ten years after planting, the sanguine delle grows into a dense \"lawn\" with a diameter of 60-80 cm.\nRead more - in the article Sanguinaria - Queen of the Poppy\nSleep grass, or common lumbago (Pulsatilla vulgaris) - the genus of lumbago of the buttercup family includes about 30 species. All of them are unusually decorative, for which they have long been loved by people. And it goes sideways for them - many of the shots were in the Red Book. Common lumbago is found in Western Europe, but it is grown in gardens far beyond its natural distribution.\nCommon lumbago\nShots are not difficult in agricultural engineering, although they require a certain accuracy. Properly planted, lumbago can grow for decades without any maintenance. On the contrary, he does not like to be disturbed. Transplanting a young seedling is still all right, but adult plants cannot be transplanted at all. This bookish statement is worth hacking down on the nose: the plant must be immediately planted in a permanent place, and then not disturbed.\nIf so, it is very important to choose the right location. First, it must be completely open. As the soil sways, for all its unpretentiousness, lumbago grows better on light, deeply fertile substrates of a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction, pH 7.0-7.5. Last but not least, the soil must have good natural drainage.\nSpring chilomekon, forest poppy (Hylomecon vernalis). Chilomekon is a monotypic genus of the poppy family. The natural area of \u200b\u200bthe plant is the Far East and Japan. It is a short, up to 25-30 cm, stemless perennial herb that develops a dense network of roots - sod. The leaves of Chilomekon are complex, consist of 5-7 irregularly serrate along the edge, oval leaflets pointed on both sides. Flowers develop on separate, growing flush with leaves, flower arrows. Corolla is simple, about 4 cm in diameter, of four golden-yellow petals.\nSpring chilomekon\nThe rarity of chilomekon is not related to the difficulty of its cultivation. Rather, it is not popular with gardeners. It happens. After all, there are many beautiful plants, and all of them simply do not fit in the gardener's head. But if you want to create a natural garden - the garden is not only beautiful, but also environmentally friendly, then you cannot do without such as chilomekon.\nThe biology of chilomekon is specific and closely related to the life of the deciduous forest, under the canopy of which it lives in nature. The rhythm of its seasonal development is subordinated to the growth of leaves on trees. Chilomekon is a half-ephemeral. He wakes up early, rapidly develops a leaf apparatus, blooms and bears fruit among the very first plants. Then the active phase of its annual cycle ends, and it goes into a state of relative rest.\nGrowth processes start in the plant even before the snow melts completely - under the snow. This happens especially early in years when the soil does not freeze in winter, or does not freeze slightly. The first sprouts of chilomekon make their way to the soil surface through the remnants of granular snow, often in March, when it melts intensely during the day and freezes at night. Remarkably, chilomekon seedlings are colored in an unusual orange tint - this is due to the presence of milky sap of the corresponding color in the tissues of the plant.\nTaking advantage of the first, still unstable heat, chilomekon rapidly expels leaves, and immediately proceeds to flowering. It blooms very early, at the same time as the first flowers: crocus, liverwort, spleen, galanthus. Flowering lasts 2-3 weeks and ends with full expansion of leaves on the trees. At this, the active phase of the development of chilomekon ends, it stops developing new leaves, and the old ones begin to thin out and wither gradually. By the beginning of July, the visible life of the plant finally dies down until the next spring.\nChilomekon agrotechnics is simple. It is shade-tolerant, picky about moisture and soil fertility. When choosing soil conditions, it should be remembered that the worst version of the soil is dry sandy, and the most favorable for the plant are medium loamy, constantly moderately moist soils rich in leaf humus. As for the relief, the chilomekon grows better on level places, and will agree to the slope only if it is northern and sufficiently humid.\nWhen looking for a place in the garden for chilomekon, one should remember its biology. It grows best when surrounded by deciduous trees and shrubs under their thin, transparent shade.\nRead more - in the article Chilomekon - forest poppy\nTiled skewer\nSkewer (gladiolus) tiled (Gladiolus imbricatus) is the most real gladiolus. Only wild. In the Russian flora, by the way, there are several species. The tiled one is considered one of the most beautiful. It is a perennial corm plant with a height of 40-70 cm (sometimes up to 100 cm). The leaves characteristic of all gladioli are xiphoid, that is, long and flat. The flowers are rather large, funnel-shaped, lilac-red, purple or pinkish in a one-sided short and dense inflorescence. Blooms in May-June for up to a month.\nSkater is sun-loving, but grows well in lateral or light mesh penumbra, prefers constantly moist fertile soils. It can grow in one place for many years. In favorable conditions, it gives self-seeding.\nWhite ash (Dictamnus albus) and Caucasian ash (Dictamnus caucasicus). An ash tree, even if perceived only as an ornamental plant, is just a godsend for a gardener. It is beautiful, durable and rather unpretentious. In our country garden, a group of several ash trees have been growing in one place since the late 1990s. All of them, in turn, were grown from seeds of their own generation, collected from a mother plant growing in the front garden of a city house. And no one remembers where he came from. In general, the biography of our Yasenets (there are now more than twenty of them) is hidden by a historical fog. And no Investigative Committee will be able to get the truth anymore - even if you interrogate with a polygraph.\nDittany\nCaucasian ash\nI confess that I am not indifferent to the ash tree. And precisely for the reasons mentioned six lines earlier. And how can you not love a flower that, in addition to its attractive appearance, grows in one place for 20 years and does not spread rot at the same time with hard work and worries. If everyone were like that, it would be possible to walk around the garden as a guest, rather than crawl on all fours like now. In general, the ash tree for me is \"persona grata\" and its \"area\" in our garden will only expand. Moreover, there are still many places in the garden where it would be more than appropriate.\nThe genus Dictamnus, or Ash (Dictamnus) belongs to the Rutaceae family and, according to botanists, has 6 species. Ash trees are perennial herbaceous plants, the range of which crosses Eurasia in an intermittent strip from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean at approximately the latitude of the Caspian Sea.\nYasenets received the Russian name because of the similarity of the leaves of the plant with the leaves of the ash. They are imparipinnate, with a total length of 15-25 cm, and consist of 7-13 ovoid glossy leaves. On the lower surface of the leaves, you can see numerous small dots - these are glands through which the plant secretes volatile essential oils.\nThe flowers of ash trees do not spoil either in size (about 4 cm in diameter) or in color variety. They are either white or pinkish lilac; in the latter case, the flower petals are additionally decorated with a network of dark lilac veins. The corolla has five petals, but they are located slightly asymmetrically \"with a twist\", or as they sometimes say - arachnid.\nThe fruits of ash trees look like bristled boxes with short, rigid thorns, each of which contains two shiny black seeds. When ripe, the shutters of the capsules crack, throwing the seeds aside. So for reproduction, the fruit should be harvested as soon as it is full and just starting to dry out. This usually happens at the end of July.\nIn the gardens, more often than others, you can find two similar species - the Caucasian ash tree (D. Caucasicus) - with the Caspian-Siberian range and the white ash tree (D. Albus) - growing in southern Europe. They both grow well in culture.\nWhy is ash-tree so rare, the question arises? Personally, I have no other explanation than the difficulty of its reproduction. The difficulty, by the way, is relative. The easiest way to propagate an ash tree is by seed. But, since one plant produces relatively few seeds, and their real germination is far from 100%, the seed method does not allow the plant to multiply quickly and in large quantities. The ash tree can also be grafted. But this method is even less productive. Cuttings should be cut at the beginning of growth, if you just miss the time - they will not take root. In addition, cutting cuttings significantly weakens the strength of the plant - they hardly bloom, or do not bloom at all.\nWhat does a plant need for well-being? Sufficiently light, permeable soil and full sun. What he does not tolerate is a combination of dryness and sterility of the soil. Ash also does not like strong shade and underground competition with other plants. Based on the foregoing, it is advisable to plant the ash tree in the sun itself, separately from other plants, in a group, and if possible, in an array. The soil substrate can be prepared on the basis of leafy earth, humus and sand: 1: 1: 2. The optimum pH is 7-7.5, so acidic soils should be limed.\nThe ash tree has another attractive feature. He is a prototype of the \"burning bush\" - a burning and unburning thorn bush, from among which God communicated with his chosen one Moses. Some people believe that the ash tree is the very bush. But this is unlikely, although there is one, but a very strong precondition for such a statement.\nAsh trees emit volatile ether compounds, which, under certain conditions (in hot weather), can ignite spontaneously. The burning temperature of ash-tree ethers is not high, and the \"burning\" itself lasts a few seconds, so this does not harm the plant itself. The middle zone of Russia, however, is not the place where you can count on such a miracle. Be that as it may, Christians all over Europe revere the ash tree as a symbol of the biblical \"burning bush\", and as such they plant it in monastic gardens and temples.\nCatalog in your envelope, by e-mail or on the website.\n600028, Vladimir, 24 passage, 12\nSmirnov Alexander Dmitrievich\nwww.vladgarden.ru\nLove, Like A Red Rose, Blooms In My Garden\nIn our time, probably, there is no person who would not know that February 14 is Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day. This holiday has long crossed all state borders and rejected the prohibitions of all religions. Maybe because Love itself stands behind it - the eternal guardian of life?\nFantasy Garden With Caves\nA Garden Full Of Harmony\nLandscaping for a summer cottage, how to decorate your summer cottage for the whole year\nMunich Botanical Garden In Spring And Autumn\nPodium In The Garden\nWooden podiums and decks will make your garden life beautiful, varied and comfortable. It is not difficult to make them, the main thing is to immediately foresee all the nuances of construction so that the structures will serve you for many years","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"After weeks of searching, the NYPD has located the teenager connected to the murder of Tess Majors. This update on the case comes after the NYPD made the unusual action in releasing the pictures of the suspect even though he is a minor. Another allegedly involved individual, a thirteen-year-old, was arrested two weeks ago.\nNYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison confirmed that the teenager has been located via Twitter this morning. It is not specified whether the individual is in custody or where he was located. Bwog reached out this morning and the NYPD refused to comment further as \"this remains an active an[d] ongoing investigation.\"\nUpdate 3:25 PM: According to a recent tweet from NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison, the teenager was released from police custody and is in his attorneys' custody. The investigation is still active.\nBarnard Gates via Bwog Archives\n3 weeks ago at 9:20 pm\n@Anonymous JUSTICE! FOR TESSA.\nplease advocate for the perpetrators to be tried as adults.\nViscous and Heinous crimes have to\nThe same consequences in the punishments for these acts.\nI'm praying for Justice for Tessa.\nThe sad part is she herself might have forgiven them if she survived this senseless and brutal attack.\n3 weeks ago at 9:18 am\n@Anonymous Remember when all the social justice warriors told us \"there was no evidence\" the kid was black? That's the state of the alt left.\n3 weeks ago at 10:34 am\n@Anonymous According to the New York Times:\n\"The authorities believed that the teenager's family was shielding him until a mark on his hand healed, an official briefed on the case said. The official described the mark as consistent with a bite.\"\nRemind me again why the family members aren't being charged with obstruction of justice?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tell me a weird world record?\nWorld's biggest pillow fight. The record currently belongs to a group of 6,261 participants who bashed each other with pillows during a baseball game in St. Paul, Minnesota.\nRazor Edge Resume Service\nTell me a guinness world record?\nWhat is a weird world record?\nTell me a really weird fact?\nTell me something a weird thing to know?\nMiscellaneous \u2022 11 Answers\nTell me something else weird to know?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CEMEX Ventures invests in Energy Vault\nPublished by Lucy Stewardson, Editorial Assistant\nWorld Cement, Monday, 20 May 2019 09:41\nCEMEX Ventures has announced its investment in Energy Vault, an Idealab company that has developed a transformative technology to store energy. The new investment is further reinforced by plans to support rapid market adoption and the deployment of Energy Vault's technology through CEMEX's strategic network.\nEnergy Vault's transformative energy storage technology solves a key challenge for renewables, which have struggled to replace, in a significant way, fossil fuel power due to production unpredictability and the intermittency of wind and sunlight. Consequently, energy storage solutions that can harness energy from renewable sources become vital if cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy are sought.\nIn the absence of longer duration and more cost-effective energy storage, the amount of electricity that can be delivered to the grid from renewable energy sources, even though now widely affordable, has been limited.\nFor the first time, Energy Vault's system enables renewables to deliver baseload power below the cost of fossil fuels, 24 hours\/day.\nThe investment follows a previously announced technology partnership with CEMEX, to provide concrete and other composite material technology for Energy Vault's storage towers.\nThe technology was inspired by pumped hydro plants that rely on the power of gravity and the movement of water to store and discharge electricity. This solution is based on the same well-understood principles of physics and mechanical engineering used in those plants. Energy Vault's system replaces water with custom-made concrete bricks through an innovative use of low-cost materials. The bricks are combined with the company's patented system design and proprietary algorithm-based software to operate a newly designed crane. The crane orchestrates the energy storage tower and electricity charge\/discharge, while accounting for a variety of factors, including energy supply and demand volatility, weather elements, and other variables, such as inertia and system deflection.\nAs a result, the company is able to deliver the benefits of a gravity-based pumped hydro system with a lower price, and higher round-trip efficiency, without the requirement for specific land topographies and negative environmental or wildlife impacts. With longer duration and more cost-effective energy storage, it is possible to deliver electricity from renewables for less than the price of fossil fuels, 24 hours\/day, for the first time.\nIn April 2019, Energy Vault won the World Changing Idea Award from Fast Company in the Energy category. The award was given for the economic and environmental benefits that the technology provides.\n\"Energy storage that enables power to be delivered for less than the cost of fossil fuels is critical as the world shifts away from its reliance on carbon-based fuels to renewable energy,\" said Gonzalo Galindo, CEO of CEMEX Ventures. \"Energy Vault's storage technology is transformational and we are extremely pleased to broaden our relationship and support the company's efforts. The investment is also important because it complements the CEMEX R&D partnership and will accelerate our corporate objectives to achieve a carbon-free industrial footprint.\"\n\"CEMEX is a key strategic partner that adds critical innovations in material science that enhance both the economics and longevity of our economic storage system, and we are thrilled to expand our partnership and welcome CEMEX Ventures as an investor,\" said Robert Piconi, CEO and Co-founder of Energy Vault. \"The combination of CEMEX's smart concrete solutions, significant global infrastructure and now its strategic investment will accelerate our ability to enable renewable energy to replace fossil fuels 24 hours\/day.\"\nRead the article online at: https:\/\/www.worldcement.com\/the-americas\/20052019\/cemex-ventures-invests-in-energy-vault\/\nCemex news US cement news Cement news 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This photo shows a search for political ads that were on Facebook displayed on a computer screen Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, in New York. Twitter's ban on political advertising is ratcheting up the pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit. Richard Drew\/AP Photo\nAs Disinformation Online Grows, Wisconsin Group Hopes To Educate Voters Ahead Of 2020 Election\nNew 2020 Citizens Guide Offers Voters Practical Tips On Asking Candidates About Ethics, Spotting False Information Online\nBy Hope Kirwan\nTuesday, January 1, 2019, 5:55am\nA nonpartisan group based in La Crosse is hoping to help voters elect ethical political leaders in the next election through a new 2020 Citizens Guide.\nLeaderEthics-Wisconsin is a nonprofit organization promoting ethical leadership practices among elected officials.\nLee Rasch, executive director and founder of the nonprofit, said the group wanted to empower more than just its members to ask candidates about their morals ahead of the 2020 election.\n\"We realized that we can do even more if we can get the information into the average citizen's hands,\" Rasch said.\nThe 2020 Citizens Guide details how voters can ask candidates about ethics and practical ways to promote awareness of ethical leadership. The group defines ethical leaders as truthful, transparent with public information, unifiers rather than dividers, and willing to represent their entire constituency.\n\"Those four principles, they're pretty rock solid if you were a senior leader in health care or education or business or the service industry,\" Rasch said. \"It's the irony that that's true in all of those other occupations except the political arena. And so we have to get people to think 'why would we accept that and why can't we raise that bar?'\"\nThe 2020 Citizens Guide also includes tips about how voters can be smart consumers of information, especially on social media. The guide suggests people avoid liking or sharing stories that seem falsified or exaggerated and provides resources on how to spot disinformation.\nKate Olson is library media director for the Bangor School District and a speaker on news literacy. She said the growing amount of misleading information online means adults need better education about the integrity and motivation behind information shared on blogs or social media.\n\"When I was growing up (in the 1980s), my mom could point to say National Enquirer or some other tabloid on the newsstand in the grocery store ... and say, 'OK, that's one kind of publication and it's fine entertainment or whatever. But probably you're not going to use it to make big decisions or trust everything that it says all of the time,'\" Olson said. \"As things have progressed with technology, no one is really talking to people my age about what's going on behind the scenes on the internet.\"\nOlson said people may not understand the difference between online stories from traditional news outlets and websites that use headlines meant to outrage readers into clicking on the article, called clickbait.\nBut she said these misleading stories are impacting voters' ability to elect candidates that represent their priorities.\n\"If you don't have accurate information, you can't make informed decisions. And if you're making decisions based on inaccurate information you're actually hurting people based on what you're trying to achieve with your political agenda or your civic agenda,\" Olson said.\nRasch said he recognizes the problem of disinformation on the internet is widespread. But he said LeaderEthics-Wisconsin is only focusing on the local political environment, reaching out to area lawmakers and political parties.\n\"We have to start there, by the local community, and how that can impact the people who are either state legislators or possibly federal, but that's going to take time,\" Rasch said. \"Superficial change can happen quickly, but substantive change just simply takes time.\"\nThe 2020 Citizens Guide is available on the LeaderEthics website.\nA Look At The Growing Democratic Field For President\nNewsmakers, March 14, 2019\nNewsmakers, August 1, 2019\nRestoring Faith In Common Facts: Experts Say It's Complicated\nThe Fear Of Fake News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New York Marathon Fundraiser Says Thank You\nWhen Michael Pritchard put his name in the hat to win a place in the New York Marathon 2018 he had never run a marathon. Imagine his surprise when his name was one of the four which was chosen! The global draw was organised by his employers New Balance, one of the world's major sports footwear manufacturers, who have a factory in Flimby and sponsor the New York Marathon.\nMichael completed the gruelling 26.2 miles in just over five hours to raise money for Hospice At Home West Cumbria. Not content with just completing the race, he also set himself the ambitious target of raising \u00a3100 for each of the miles he ran. We were thrilled when Michael came in just before Christmas to let us know that combining his Just Giving page and off line sponsorship forms, which allow us to collect gift aid, means he has hit his target!\nMichael says, \"I found myself fortunate to be in this position that working for New Balance they gave me the opportunity to do it. I don't think I would have had the opportunity otherwise or would have even pushed myself to do it. And to be able to give something back to a charity such as Hospice At Home is just amazing. I'd like to say a huge thank you to all the people who have supported me with the training and the sponsorship. It was great that the local papers Times and Star and News and Star featured the story, it certainly help raise awareness of my fundraiser and I know made a difference to the sponsorship\"\nBefore his mother died she needed nurses to care for her in the latter part of her life and he chose us because of the support we offer local families making life a little easier at a very difficult time.\nNew Balance Employee Michael Pritchard Pic Jim Davis.\nMichael, who is an operations manager for New Balance explained how he had won the place. \"We had to say what would inspire us to train for the New York marathon and my daughter Ella Pearl was my inspiration. New Balance pride themselves in being independent and not copying what their competitors are doing. I explained how Ella at two-and-a-half years old is so fiercely independent, she is strong willed and tackles everything head-on \u2013 she's not afraid to fall down. My daughter is one of the most important people in my life and she's my inspiration.\" Having met Michael and followed his adventure we can certainly see where Ella gets her inspiration and determination from!\nThank you Michael and all your supporters for this wonderful donation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Machu Picchu is an ancient Incan city that sits 2000 feet above the Urubamba River Valley; and was built in 1450 in what is now Peru. Aside from any religious concerns, Machu Picchu is a masterpiece of architecture and engineering; with the network of buildings and extensive terraces are literally carved into the side of the mountain. Despite 550 years of wear and tear the ruins seems virtually untouched. This is quite a feat considering that the city was built without the use of animals, and that the bricks are not held together with any mortar. Machu Picchu was abandoned due to the Spanish invasion just over a hundred years after its construction.\nIn 1911, an American scholar by the name of Hiram Bingham \"discovered\" Machu Picchu and shared his findings with the academic community. It is important to note that Bingham came across the \"lost city\" because a local boy took him to it. Furthermore there were already native Quechua people living in the structures at Machu Picchu. Various excavations and investigations were made and Bingham essentially looted the place and took thousands of objects back to the U.S. to be displayed in the Yale Peabody Museum. After the world at large was made aware of the city's existence, it became an increasingly popular destination for academics and travelers. In 1981 the Peruvian government recognized Machu Picchu and a large area around it as a historical sanctuary. In 1983 it was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Today there is a luxury hotel hundreds of yards away from the site itself. There are many more hotels in the nearby town of Aguas Calientes. Environmental degradation due to excessive tourism is a serious problem at Machu Picchu. \"\u2026the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu were getting run-down to a point many feared would soon be beyond repair. The trampling of the shallow dirt, the trail-side deforestation for firewood, human waste and other garbage left on the side of the Inca Trail were major environmental threats facing the famous 'lost city.'\" In response to these concerns the Peruvian government made stricter rules concerning tourism, reducing the number of people allowed on the trail each day to 500, and enforcing a pack-in pack-out policy. The polluting effect of tourism is still a very real problem, particularly from the perspective of the indigenous people.\nMachu Picchu became such a controversial and important site because of its visibility and symbolism. Because of its fame, any serious developments concerning Machu Picchu will be newsworthy and visible; making it a very good way to deliver a message to the world. It is also a symbol of Western cultural appropriation and imperialism. Since knowledge of this sacred site became widespread in 1911, Europeans have been trying to control the site, and the study of the site. Bingham's claim that he had discovered Machu Picchu when there were people living there is reflective of his racism and condescension towards the native people. He's implying that the people living there don't count because they're not \"civilized\" or white. The removal of thousands of artifacts is another indication that Bingham completely failed to understand the importance of the site. Rather than looking at the ruins as a whole, considering the structures, location, culture, and people, Bingham took what he could and went to tell other white people because that's what was important to him. The construction of a hotel and other tourist infrastructure is a further insulting offense. It's comparable to putting a McDonald's in St. Peter's Square. It also encourages superficial cultural tourism. Instead of taking the time to understand, and interact with a culture, people come and stay at luxury resorts where they can avoid anything that's not on the brochure. The message communicated is essentially that \"Machu Picchu is great, only if there weren't so many Peruvians.\"\nApart from the disrespect that Europeans in particular have shown to the site, Machu Picchu has become such an issue because it is incredibly religiously and culturally important. Nature and its power are crucial foundations to indigenous spirituality. The location is breathtakingly in its natural beauty and majesty, and rather than trying to compete with or overwhelm what is already there, the city harmonizes with the landscape perfectly. A beautiful synthesis of technology and nature. Machu Picchu is also important to indigenous cultural heritage. The ancient city might be called the crowning achievement of Incan culture and spirituality. The culture and language of the contemporary indigenous people comes directly from Incas. In a very real sense, Machu Picchu is where these people come from. A local woman expressed her feeling about the state of the ruins. \"Since ancient times, this land has been preserved as sacred. The guardian spirits do not want roadways or industry, or people who pollute the land. These are sacred areas. It was there the deities built the ancient city of Machu Picchu.\" From a native perspective, this is clearly not a small problem or a minor annoyance. People feel that their spirituality and way of life are being trampled on, and they think this because it's true.\nThere are indigenous groups dedicated to preserving not only Machu Picchu, but Peruvian indigenous religious heritage more broadly. One such notable group is Yachay Wasi. Their campaign, called the Inka Challenge, asks this question, \"Will world governments, scientists, nonprofit sponsors and tourists respect Indigenous Peoples' spiritual heritage: religion, burial sites and human remains, and will the international community respect and allow them to protect their sacred sites?\" In short, the answer is no. Indigenous activists aren't asking foreigners to stop coming to Machu Picchu, all they're asking is that visitors respect the sacrality of the site, and recognize that it's not disneyworld. In a country where 45% of the population is Indian, and 37% are part Indian, one might think that the government would take action to satisfy the wishes of so much of their populace. It seems that Western money is more crucial to the government than native support. In 1999, the government approved a plan for the construction of a massive luxury hotel, more restaurants and stores, and a cable car to the ruins. Due to widespread national and international protest and objection, the government suspended the plan, but has not cancelled it. Some fear it may eventually be revived.\nThe previously mentioned artifacts that were removed to a Yale museum are another topic of controversy. In Bingham's diary he specifically states that the artifacts he took were loaned temporarily for a period of eighteen months. A 1912 contract between Peru and Yale also states that Peru has the right to demand return of the objects in question at any time. Indeed, the Peruvian government tried to invoke this right after the end of the First World War, and Yale denied the request. Their official stance is that the artifacts belong solely to them. The museum has also releases statements offering to work out some sort of deal with Peru, but the Peruvian government is so far reluctant to compromise because of, \"Yale's insistence that the University has valid title to the objects and the attitude that any sort of deal with Peru would be a magnanimous step on its part.\" Yale's actions in this matter are in the worst tradition of Western scholasticism, and reinforce the idea that Westerns academics are arrogant and untrustworthy, undermining legitimate attempts at cross cultural communication. We should be ashamed.\nIdeally the foolish, poorly conceived tourist machinery that has been put in place would be removed, but we all know that is unlikely. In all probability money and materialism will prevail and the site will be degraded until it's gone. How crude we are.\n\u2013 Tim Wheeler\n[faculy edit: In a highly publicized decision, Yale University has entered into a partnership with a Peruvian university to return Machu Picchu artifacts.] Yale and Peru Sign Accord\nOne Response to Machu Picchu\nbondeng attractions says:\nWe took a bus, a train, and then a bus again to reach the top of Machu Picchu Mountain where the ruins are. My headache left me, which is fortunate since the first thing I did upon arrival is sprint across the ruins to get my name on the list for the Huaynu Pichu hike. Only 300 visitors are allowed at a time and I wanted to catch up with my classmates who had taken earlier buses than I. The climb forces me to do a solid hour of stair-stepping but rewards me with a majestic view of the Machu Picchu ruins.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2017 INFINITI Q60 : LEADER IN THE PREMIUM SPORT COUPE SEGMENT\nJanuary 26th, 2016 by dealerinspire\nThe all-new 2017 INFINITI Q60 world leader in the premium sports coupe segment combines expressive design with exhilarating performance and dynamics.\nThe INFINITI Q60's bold exterior expresses a powerful elegance through its daring proportions and taut, muscular lines. Dynamic enhancements, including an all-new lightweight and sophisticated 3.0-liter V6 twin-turbo engine, together with new adaptive steering and digital suspension systems, result in a premium sports coupe designed and engineered to perform.\nThe high performance 3.0-liter V6 twin-turbo engine from the new and exclusive \"VR\" powertrain family is born out of the brand's extensive in-house experience of six-cylinder powertrain development. The new engine has been engineered to empower the driver and offer increased power and torque with high levels of efficiency. This new \"VR30\" engine comes in two power ratings: 300 horsepower or 400 horsepower, with the latter offering one of the best power-to-efficiency ratios in the premium sports coupe class.\nA four-cylinder 2.0-liter gasoline engine, turbocharged to produce 208 horsepower, is also available in the INFINITI Q60.\nPower is channeled through the INFINITI Q60's rear wheels for optimal dynamic response and to benefit steering feel. The available rear-biased Intelligent All-Wheel Drive (AWD) system provides enhanced stability and road holding in low-grip conditions.\nThe INFINITI Q60 has been engineered to deliver a truly engaging sports coupe experience, with a unique balance of ride comfort and agile handling. Complementing this position is INFINITI's new Dynamic Digital Suspension, which has been designed to offer best-in-class handling responses and agility, and enhanced ride comfort \u2013 thanks, in part, to a dedicated new set of dampers.\nIn addition, INFINITI's second-generation Direct Adaptive Steering offers high levels of steering feel and feedback, and the Drive Mode Selector gives drivers the option to personalize and tailor the steering's precise levels of response and feel to suit their own preferences.\nPowerful, elegant and daring new design\nThe INFINITI Q60 employs signature INFINITI design cues to communicate dynamism through powerful elegance, representing a daring visual expression of the car's performance potential.\nThe interior is almost directly out of the INFINITI Q50, which means there are two large screens in the center stack and a lot of different textures. There is a smaller steering wheel (sporty!), and the availability of carbon fiber trim.\nIt's also chock-full of tech. Models with the V6 have the second generation of INFINITI's \"direct adaptive steering,\" its digital steering system, which the company says now provides more feel and feedback. INFINITI is also using something that it calls a \"digital suspension,\" which is a fancy name for adjustable suspension with different ride modes.\nThis is all controlled through a rather thorough drive mode selector that allows you to select six modes for the steering, from standard to Sport+. There's also a mode called customize, which allows you to select a mode for the steering and then the response of the steering, it's like the a-la-carte menu of adjustable steering response.\nPosted in INFINITI News, Vehicles\n0 comment(s) so far on 2017 INFINITI Q60 : LEADER IN THE PREMIUM SPORT COUPE SEGMENT\nDriving Tips (1)\nINFINITI News (26)\nPowertrain (2)\nUsed Inventory (1)\n2019 Robert D. Lanphere Sr. Memorial Scholarship\n2019 INFINITI QX50 earns 5-star overall safety rating from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration\n3 Driving Wellness Tips\nOver $1.1 million raised for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society\nLanphere Auto Group Partners With Local Chapter Of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Topics \u00bb Blockchain \u00bb Symantec takes a bite out of bitcoin-mining botnet ZeroAccess\nSymantec takes a bite out of bitcoin-mining botnet ZeroAccess\nby Pete Swabey 1 October 2013\nSecurity firm Symantec says it has taken a chunk out of one of the world's largest known botnets.\nZeroAccess, which comprises 1.9 million infected PCs, is used to earn money for its operators by generating false advertising clicks and 'mining' bitcoins, using infected computers to conducted the algorithmic calculations used to generate the digital currency.\nSee also: Suspected botnet master arrested in Russia\nSymantec estimates that the botnet has a costs its victims a combined $560,887 every day.\nIn April, security company FortiNet identified ZeroAccess as the \"number one threat\" identified by users of its software. At the time, it was seeing 100,000 new infections every days.\nUnlike other botnets which are co-ordinated by a command and control (C&C) server, ZeroAccess is a peer-to-peer network of 1.9 million infected computers, with no central 'brain'.\nThis peer-to-peer nature makes it resilent to disruption, Symantec says, but earlier this year the company began to discover its vulnerabilities.\nSee also: Cyber security \u2013 do you know where you stand?\nIn June, Symantec successfully disrupted the botnet by using a DNS \"sinkhole\", which involves redirected IP traffic from the infected computers to spoof domain name servers. This meant that half a million infected PCs were no longer able to send or receive instructions.\n\"What this exercise has shown is that despite the resilient [peer-to-peer] architecture of the ZeroAccess botnet, we have still been able to sinkhole a large portion of the bots,\" said the company on its blog. \"In the meantime, Symantec have been working together with ISPs and CERTs worldwide to share information and help get infected computers cleaned.\"\nTagged: Bitcoin, Botnets\nPete Swabey\nPete was Editor of Information Age and head of technology research for Vitesse Media (now Bonhill Group plc) from 2005 to 2013, before moving on to be Senior Editor and then Editorial Director at The... More by Pete Swabey","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By Gabe Friedman\nKamala Harris is Biden's VP pick\nTom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images\nSen. Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2020.\n(JTA) - It's official: Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's choice for vice president.\nThe California senator, who made history Tuesday as the first Black woman to join a major party presidential ticket, is still in her first term. But during several years in public office, the 55-year-old lawmaker's outspoken opinions on a range of issues and her presidential run have given Jewish voters plenty to scrutinize.\nShe is also married to Jewish lawyer Douglas Emhoff, who would become the country's first Jewish second husband.\nAs a senator, Harris has been aligned with Biden on Israel: She is seen as a strong supporter with ties to AIPAC, the country's largest pro-Israel lobby, and unlike some Democrats has not broached the idea of conditioning aid to Israel to influence its policies. During her presidential run, Harris separated herself somewhat from the mainstream moderates in the pack, firmly opposing the idea of condemnatory U.N. votes or even strong public criticism aimed at swaying Israeli policy.\nWhile the more liberal pro-Israel group J Street has endorsed the centrist Biden, who also has committed to keeping spats with Israel private and the idea of not allowing any \"daylight\" between the U.S. and Israel in diplomatic terms, it has not backed Harris. J Street, which lobbies for a two-state solution, has endorsed more than half of Senate Democrats.\nHowever, Harris has said that she would rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, an agreement that conservative Jews despise over its aid to Iran, a regime that routinely calls for Israel's destruction. That keeps her aligned with Biden, who was part of the Obama administration that brokered the 2015 agreement over vehement objections by Israel.\n\"This nuclear deal is not perfect, but it is certainly the best existing tool we have to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and avoid a disastrous military conflict in the Middle East,\" Harris wrote in a statement in 2018 after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal. \"As the international community and the Administration's own national security team has confirmed multiple times, Iran remains in compliance with the deal. In the absence of an Iranian violation, it is reckless to break this agreement without presenting any plan on how to move forward.\"\nLike many other Democratic lawmakers, Harris is also against Israel's potential unilateral annexation of parts of the West Bank. She wrote a letter to President Trump in June arguing that annexation would \"harm prospects for a negotiated two-state solution.\" She did not, however, sign onto a letter signed by other senators stating that annexation would fray U.S.-Israel ties.\nHarris, previously the attorney general of California, is a self-described progressive who's also known for being \"tough on crime\" - a quality that has hurt her standing among other progressives but could be seen as a plus by Jewish Americans rattled by a series of historic anti-Semitic attacks during the past few years, including the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 in 2018.\nAs San Francisco's district attorney, Harris created a hate crimes unit, and as attorney general, she reported in 2012 that anti-Jewish hate crimes were the most commonplace religion-based hate crime in California.\nIn the Senate, she has urged better hate crime reporting and helped pass a resolution that named religious institutions as possible targets of hate crimes.\nOutside of politics, Harris' husband, Emhoff, has two Jewish children from a previous marriage - and often cheerleads for his wife on Twitter.\nZOA gala will honor Layishes\nWeekly roundup of world briefs\nChabad North Orlando holds Toy Drive with Sheriff's Office\nHolocaust Center says exhibit does not honor George Floyd\nIsrael opens tenders for construction of 1,257 housing units in Givat Hamatos\nMajor Israeli insuranc...Inon Ben Shushan\nNetanyahu up for Nobel...\nZelensky announces Ukr...\nSix weeks ago, Faceboo...Ben Sales","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"by The Tragically Hip\nPerformed by The Tragically Hip 90\nSetlists featuring Fiddler's Green\n20 Aug 2016 - The Tragically Hip at K-Rock Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada\nMain 1Fifty-Mission Cap, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Wheat Kings, At The Hundredth Meridian, In a World Possessed by the Human Mind, What Blue, Tired as Fuck, Machine\nMain 2My Music at Work, Lake Fever, Toronto #4, Putting Down, Twist My Arm, Three Pistols, Fiddler's Green, Little Bones, The Last of the Unplucked Gems, Something On, Poets, Bobcaygeon, Fireworks\nEncore 1New Orleans is Sinking, Boots or Hearts, Blow at High Dough\nEncore 2Nautical Disaster, Scared, Grace, Too\nEncore 3Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, Gift Shop, Ahead by a Century\n16 Aug 2016 - The Tragically Hip at FirstOntario Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada\nMain 1At The Hundredth Meridian, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Eldorado, Fifty-Mission Cap, In a World Possessed by the Human Mind, What Blue, In Sarnia, Machine\nMain 2The Lonely End of the Rink, Yer Not the Ocean, Family Band, In View, So Hard Done By, Grace, Too, Scared, Daredevil, Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, Something On, Fireworks, Poets\nEncore 1Gift Shop, Don't Wake Daddy, Ahead by a Century\nEncore 2Fiddler's Green, Twist My Arm\n10 Aug 2016 - The Tragically Hip at Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada\nMain 1The Luxury, Little Bones, Fiddler's Green, Three Pistols, In a World Possessed by the Human Mind, Tired as Fuck, What Blue, Machine\nMain 2My Music at Work, Lake Fever, Toronto #4, Putting Down, Gift Shop, Springtime in Vienna, Flamenco, Ahead by a Century, Fully Completely, At The Hundredth Meridian, Wheat Kings, Fifty-Mission Cap\nEncore 1Grace, Too, So Hard Done By, Nautical Disaster\nEncore 2Bobcaygeon, Poets\n8 Aug 2016 - The Tragically Hip at Budweiser Gardens, London, ON, Canada\nMain 1Opiated, Blow at High Dough, Boots or Hearts, New Orleans is Sinking, In a World Possessed by the Human Mind, Ocean Next, What Blue, Machine\nMain 2Summer's Killing Us, Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park, If New Orleans Is Beat, It Can't Be Nashville Every Night, Grace, Too, Scared, So Hard Done By, Daredevil, Something On, Poets, Bobcaygeon, Fireworks\nEncore 1Fully Completely, Pigeon Camera, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)\nEncore 2Fiddler's Green\n1 Aug 2016 - The Tragically Hip at Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB, Canada\nMain 1Three Pistols, Twist My Arm, Fiddler's Green, Little Bones, In a World Possessed by the Human Mind, What Blue, Ocean Next, Machine\nMain 2In View, The Kids Don't Get It, World Container, Yer Not the Ocean, So Hard Done By, Grace, Too, Yawning or Snarling, Daredevil, Something On, Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, Poets, Bobcaygeon\nEncore 1Gift Shop, Flamenco, Ahead by a Century\nEncore 2Boots or Hearts, Blow at High Dough\n26 Jul 2016 - The Tragically Hip at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC, Canada\nMain 1Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Fifty-Mission Cap, We'll Go Too, At The Hundredth Meridian, In a World Possessed by the Human Mind, What Blue, In Sarnia, Machine\nMain 2My Music at Work, Lake Fever, Toronto #4, Putting Down, Greasy Jungle, Grace, Too, Yawning or Snarling, Daredevil, Ahead by a Century, Don't Wake Daddy, Springtime in Vienna, Gift Shop\nEncore 1Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, Bobcaygeon, Poets\nEncore 2Fiddler's Green, Three Pistols\n27 Sep 2015 - The Tragically Hip at Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops, BC, Canada\nMainGrace, Too, My Music at Work, 'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken', So Hard Done By, In View, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pigeon Camera, Lionized, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty-Mission Cap, Wheat Kings, The Wherewithal, Eldorado\nEncoreNew Orleans is Sinking, Fiddler's Green, Poets, Bobcaygeon, Blow at High Dough\n14 Apr 2015 - The Tragically Hip at K-Rock Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada\nMainGrace, Too, My Music at Work, In View, Ahead by a Century, New Orleans is Sinking, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pigeon Camera, Lionized, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty-Mission Cap, Wheat Kings, The Wherewithal, Eldorado\nEncoreAt Transformation, Twist My Arm, Fiddler's Green, Poets, Blow at High Dough\n8 Apr 2015 - The Tragically Hip at Mile One Centre, St. John's, ND, Canada\nMainGrace, Too, My Music at Work, So Hard Done By, In View, At Transformation, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pigeon Camera, Lionized, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty-Mission Cap, Wheat Kings, The Wherewithal, Eldorado\nEncoreFireworks, The Dire Wolf, Fiddler's Green, Nautical Disaster, New Orleans is Sinking\n24 Jan 2015 - The Tragically Hip at House of Blues, Boston, MA, USA\nMainGrace, Too, At Transformation, The Exact Feeling, Fireworks, Ahead by a Century, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pigeon Camera, Lionized, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty-Mission Cap, Wheat Kings, The Wherewithal, Eldorado\nEncoreIn View, Twist My Arm, Fiddler's Green, Nautical Disaster, Little Bones\n29 Jun 2013 - The Tragically Hip at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands\nMainAt Transformation, Grace, Too, Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, Man Machine Poem, Love Is a First, Gift Shop, Ahead by a Century, Streets Ahead, Flamenco, Poets, We Want to Be It, In View, Fully Completely, Bobcaygeon, New Orleans is Sinking + Nautical Disaster, Blow at High Dough\nEncoreMy Music at Work, Fiddler's Green, At The Hundredth Meridian, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Little Bones\n11 Feb 2013 - The Tragically Hip at Sudbury Arena, Sudbury, ON, Canada\nMainAt Transformation, New Orleans is Sinking, Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park, Man Machine Poem, Love Is a First, Gift Shop, Boots or Hearts, Streets Ahead, It Can't Be Nashville Every Night, Ahead by a Century, Poets, We Want to Be It, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), In View, Long Time Running, Fully Completely, At The Hundredth Meridian, Blow at High Dough\nEncoreGrace, Too, Fiddler's Green, My Music at Work, Bobcaygeon, Nautical Disaster\n5 Feb 2013 - The Tragically Hip at Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener, ON, Canada\nMainAt Transformation, Grace, Too, New Orleans is Sinking, Twist My Arm, Man Machine Poem, Gift Shop, Greasy Jungle, Streets Ahead, Ahead by a Century, At The Hundredth Meridian, We Want to Be It, Poets, In View, Wheat Kings, Fireworks, My Music at Work, Fire in the Hole\nEncoreBlow at High Dough, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Fiddler's Green, Bobcaygeon, Fifty-Mission Cap\n2 Feb 2013 - The Tragically Hip at Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada\nMainAt Transformation, New Orleans is Sinking, Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, Man Machine Poem, In View, The Kids Don't Get It, Gift Shop, Titanic Terrarium, Ahead by a Century, Springtime in Vienna, Streets Ahead, At The Hundredth Meridian, Poets, We Want to Be It, Scared, My Music at Work, Fire in the Hole, Blow at High Dough\nEncoreGrace, Too, Fiddler's Green, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Bobcaygeon, Nautical Disaster\n28 Jan 2013 - The Tragically Hip at Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB, Canada\nMainAt Transformation, Love Is a First, New Orleans is Sinking, Man Machine Poem, Bobcaygeon, Boots or Hearts, Poets, Streets Ahead, Gift Shop, The Modern Spirit, Ahead by a Century, Springtime in Vienna, In View, We Want to Be It, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Wheat Kings, Goodnight Attawapiskat, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car\nEncoreGrace, Too, Fiddler's Green, My Music at Work, At The Hundredth Meridian, Blow at High Dough\n20 Jan 2013 - The Tragically Hip at Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops, BC, Canada\nMainAt Transformation, Grace, Too, Gift Shop, Man Machine Poem, At The Hundredth Meridian, Morning Moon, The Lookahead, Blow at High Dough, Greasy Jungle, Ahead by a Century, Streets Ahead, It Can't Be Nashville Every Night, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), We Want to Be It, The Lonely End of the Rink, Bobcaygeon, New Orleans is Sinking, Goodnight Attawapiskat\nEncoreLittle Bones, Fifty-Mission Cap, Fiddler's Green, An Inch an Hour, My Music at Work\n15 Dec 2012 - The Tragically Hip at House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV, USA\nMainAt Transformation, Grace, Too, Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, In View, Ahead by a Century, Man Machine Poem, The Last of the Unplucked Gems, Gift Shop, The Modern Spirit, Poets, Flamenco, Streets Ahead, Bobcaygeon, We Want to Be It, Fully Completely, Fire in the Hole, Goodnight Attawapiskat\nEncoreBlow at High Dough, Lionized, Fiddler's Green, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Little Bones, Springtime in Vienna\n8 Dec 2012 - The Tragically Hip at Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR, USA\nMainAt Transformation, Grace, Too, In View, Man Machine Poem, Ahead by a Century, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Streets Ahead, Eldorado, Poets, Thugs, We Want to Be It, Fully Completely, So Hard Done By, New Orleans is Sinking, Bobcaygeon, Nautical Disaster, Fire in the Hole\nEncoreWheat Kings, At The Hundredth Meridian, Springtime in Vienna, Fiddler's Green, My Music at Work\n5 Dec 2012 - The Tragically Hip at Knitting Factory Concert House, Spokane, WA, USA\nMainAt Transformation, Grace, Too, Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man, The Kids Don't Get It, Man Machine Poem, At The Hundredth Meridian, Flamenco, Poets, Streets Ahead, About This Map, Daredevil, Springtime in Vienna, We Want to Be It, Fully Completely, Blow at High Dough, Fire in the Hole, Goodnight Attawapiskat\nEncoreBobcaygeon, Nautical Disaster, Fiddler's Green, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Little Bones\n30 Nov 2012 - The Tragically Hip at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis, MN, USA\nMainAt Transformation, New Orleans is Sinking, Thompson Girl, Don't Wake Daddy, The Modern Spirit, Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), So Hard Done By, Streets Ahead, Ahead by a Century, It Can't Be Nashville Every Night, Springtime in Vienna, We Want to Be It, Take Forever, Blow at High Dough, Bobcaygeon, Nautical Disaster, Goodnight Attawapiskat\nEncoreGrace, Too, An Inch an Hour, Fiddler's Green, My Music at Work, Little Bones\nIf you know of a concert where \"Fiddler's Green\" was performed which is not on Setlisting you can add the setlist here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Author(s): James Baldwin\nJames Baldwin's electrifying first novel.\n'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'\nDrawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.\n'His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field, Guardian\n'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan\nBorn in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years. Baldwin died in 1987.\nAuthor : James Baldwin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Longbox Junk Reader Request\/ Retro Review - Man-Bat (1975)\n4526 views \u2022 Nov 12, '19 \u2022 (2) Comments\nWelcome back to Longbox Junk, the blog absolutely stuffed full of comic book reviews that nobody asked for! Well. . .at least they USUALLY don't ask for them. That's right, it's another Longbox Junk Reader Request Edition!\nA while back, my comic lovin' daughter challenged me to take on some reader requests. The call went out, a decent list was formed, and now I occasionally draw one randomly from a hat (An actual hat. A set of Micky Mouse Ears monogrammed with my daughter's name from Disney World, to be specific) and then here we are!\nCongratulations goes out to Spector for his fine request for some Man-Bat!\nI WAS originally going to do the 1996 3 issue Man-Bat mini for this entry because I like how it feels like a non-branded Vertigo horror comic. Spector's request was actually for the 1975 two issue Man-Bat \"series\", but between me and my daughter, we only have the first issue of that one, and I usually only like reviewing complete stories.\nBUT. . .\nYou know what? There's no real rules here at Longbox Junk, so I decided to just go ahead and steal my daughter's Man-Bat #1 for a nice single issue combination Retro Review and Reader Request Edition, because why not? Spector wanted Bronze Age Man-Bat, so we're gonna swing this into a Retro Review and get into some Bronze Age Man-Bat!\nA bit of introduction first.\nMan-Bat is one of those characters that's hard to pin down. He's a great supporting character (mostly in Batman-related comics) that's sometimes a hero, sometimes a villain, but is never really able to hold down an ongoing series. He's had several rebooted origins (Let's not even talk about what they did to the poor guy in the New 52), but at the heart of things, Man-Bat is actually a horror character.\nDigging down to the essence of the character, he's sort of a combination of the Hulk and Werewolf by Night. Basically, he's a brilliant scientist named Kirk Langstrom who fell victim to an experiment gone wrong. He transforms into a vicious flying humanoid bat-like creature where he has varying degrees of control over both the transformation and his state of mind once transformed.\nSometimes he has control over himself and is able to work alongside others as sort of a heroic figure (as seen in the recent Justice League Dark comics). Other times (as in the 1996 mini I mentioned above) he's almost completely inhumanly feral and capable of the most brutal and acts.\nSo. . .science gone wrong forcing a man to share his body with a vicious creature he may or may not be able to control. I should have done some Man-Bat for Longbox Junk Halloween!\nIn the comic at hand, Kirk Langstrom is able to control his transformation, retains his intelligence in Man-Bat form and is able to communicate with others. . .in other words, the more heroic version of Man-Bat. Let's take a look!\nMAN-BAT #1\nDC (1975)\nSCRIPT: Gerry Conway\nPENCILS: Steve Ditko\n(His one and only time drawing Batman, by the way)\nINKS: Al Milgrom\nCOVER: Jim Aparo\nAs usual, before we get inside, let's take a quick look at the cover.\nI have to say. . .it's a real eye-catcher! This great Jim Aparo cover is all about the contrast. I love the contrast between the plain dark purple background and the giant bright yellow logo, boldly telling us that this ain't Bat-MAN, this is MAN-Bat! Then there's Batman's cape framing the action in the center, which features a very nicely detailed Man-Bat and his \"victim\". I love the banner at the top as well, which firmly cements this comic in the Bronze Age.\nThis cover is just so well done that I'm not sure that my daughter is getting this comic back when I'm finished with it! It deserves a turn up on my rotating \"Wall O' Covers\" on my office wall at work.\nSo that's the cover. . .here's the story.\nBEWARE THE EYES OF BARON TYME\nWe begin in the home of scientists Kirk and Francine Langstrom, where Kirk is shocked by the sudden and unexpected transformation of Francine into She-Bat! (The origin of She-Bat can be found in Detective Comics #407, if you're interested)\nThe transformed Francine Langstrom attacks Kirk and then flies into the night, helplessly following the mental commands of a mysterious figure (that Francine calls Baron Tyme during her attack on her husband) telling her to track down and kill a man.\nKirk immediately takes his \"Bat Gland Formula\" and transforms into Man-Bat in order to give chase to his wife. As he follows her, Man-Bat encounters several illusions produced by Baron Tyme to stall his pursuit. . .\nMan-Bat finally catches up to Francine\/ She-Bat just in time to stop her from killing her victim. After Man-Bat subdues his transformed wife, he interrogates the man she was hunting and discovers that \"Baron\" Tyme is actually a Professor of Medieval History named Clement Tyme.\nBut before Man-Bat can learn more, his wife regains consciousness and attacks, killing the man! Man-Bat quickly subdues Francine again and flies away from the scene of the crime with her.\nAnd with that, the scene shifts to Wayne Manor, where Batman is preparing to leave for the night, determined to investigate the mysterious killings that have been taking place while he was out of town a few days tracking down the Joker. . .\nSeeing a familiar pattern in the killings, Batman's first stop is the Gotham City Museum to inquire about their resident Bat expert. . .Kirk Langstrom. The museum's director tells Batman that Langstrom no longer works for them since coming into some money (from Batman himself in Brave & Bold #121) and that he's set himself up in a private lab near Antioke University.\nIn the meantime, Man-Bat has taken Francine home and restrained her in order to try an antidote, hoping to transform her back into human form. The antidote is successful, but suddenly, Man-Bat is assaulted with powerful sonar pulses from an unknown attacker!\nAs Langstrom attempts to escape the sonic attack, it's revealed that the attacker is Batman, who has arrived to capture Man-Bat, thinking he is behind the recent murders. As the two of them fight, Batman falls from the skies, only to be rescued by Man-Bat.\nWith their battle finished, Man-Bat explains the situation to Batman, revealing that since he hypnotized Francine to find the cause of mysterious gaps in her memory, he has been aware of her being controlled by Baron Tyme. . .but because of Batman's constant interference in their lives, Langstrom was determined to find Baron Tyme and end the killings without the Dark Knight's assistance. . .something he is still determined to do.\nBatman reluctantly agrees to let Man-Bat take on the challenge of stopping Baron Tyme on his own.\nMan-Bat flies to Antioke University and enters a high tower that Francine described while under hypnosis. Inside, he discovers Baron Tyme waiting for him. The villain quickly captures Man-Bat with powerful energy tentacles, then begins to gloat and monologue about his nefarious plan and how it came to be. . .\nIn his role as a Professor of Medieval History, Tyme discovered ancient books of black magic that he experimented with, managing to combine magic and science together and successfully summon a demon! Tyme made a bargain with the demon. . .in exchange for magical powers, Tyme would supply the demon with human lives.\nThe demon also gave Tyme information about the Langstroms that enabled the would-be sorcerer to use Francine as his tool for killing.\nAfter he's done revealing the details of his evil plot, Tyme begins a ritual to summon the demon, intending to give Man-Bat as a final sacrifice. As the ritual proceeds, Man-Bat realizes the bonds holding him are nothing but powerful illusions controlled by Baron Tyme.\nMan-Bat uses his sonic screech to painfully disorient Tyme, weakening his mental control over the illusions and stopping him from completing the ritual.\nMan-Bat escapes his bonds, determined to bring Tyme to justice. But before he can attack, the sorcerer bursts into flame! Man-Bat escapes the tower just in time to avoid a powerful explosion. There is no longer any sign of Baron Tyme.\nAs Man-Bat flies into the night, he wonders if it was explosive chemicals or demonic forces that caused the explosion. A question that is left unanswered. . .\nWell now. . .that was. . .Bronze Age. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that, like a lot of Bronze Age stories, this one felt extremely rushed and compressed to fit into a single issue.\nFor someone who didn't really come into comic collecting until the early 90's it just seems sort of strange to see a story like this crammed into a single comic book. If this story were to be done today, it would either be a double-sized (and double-priced!) one shot or a 3 issue mini-series.\nBut does that make it a bad story? No it doesn't. This isn't a great story, but it's not bad. Truthfully it's just okay. It sits right in the middle of the road, squarely on the line between good and bad.\nIt moves along quickly and is well written (Gerry Conway is the kind of writer that can polish a potato and make it look good, so there's that) but it also just sort of drops the reader into the world of Man-Bat without any introduction, with the action hitting straight out of the gate with the first story panel.\nIt just sort of assumes that readers will already know Man-Bat from other comics, and indeed, there are several editorial references to Detective, Batman, and Brave & Bold through the story, which sort of hangs the whole thing on the hook of previous Man-Bat appearances and leaves little for new readers to get into the character with.\nTo be fair, there's a full-page summary of Man-Bat's previous appearances at the end of the issue:\nI like that DC included this, but it doesn't really help the story feel less like the first issue of what was supposed to be an ongoing series and more like a story that could have been found in #35 or any other random issue of a Man-Bat series. It just doesn't seem. . .special.\nI'm not sure if it's because of my more modern reading tastes, but this story just doesn't seem like what one would expect in a first issue meant to hook in new readers on the idea of a Batman villain becoming the hero. As I said above, it's not BAD. . .but at the same time, it's not really memorable or remarkable in any way.\nBut the draw here for many who pick this issue up will be the art.\nAs I noted above, this issue features Steve Ditko (Best known more for his Marvel work as the artist and co-creator of Spider-Man & Doctor Strange. . .among others) drawing Batman for his first and only time. That and well. . .it's the legendary Steve Ditko. For some people, that's all that needs to be said.\nSo here's the thing. There are some mighty high pedestals that some creators from the Silver Age are set on. In the minds of many comic fans, Steve Ditko sits up on one of the highest there is. I mean, Spider-Man IS a pretty high bar for other creators to try and hurdle. I won't question that.\nTHAT SAID. . .\nI've never been one for unabashed worship of comic creators. There's not a single one out there, no matter HOW legendary, that hasn't phoned it in at some point. Fortunately, Ditko didn't phone this one in. But to be fair, this also isn't his best work. It seems that the unremarkable nature of the story might have carried over to the artwork as well.\nThere ARE some really good panels scattered throughout this story. . .the aerial battle between Man-Bat and Batman is outstanding, for example. And Ditko's portrayal of Batman is likewise outstanding. I really like the way he keeps Batman's face mostly hidden in the dark, and Batman himself as a dark figure, mostly defined by shadows, often just a silhouette of the distinctive cape and cowl. . .as Batman SHOULD be!\nBased on this issue alone, I would have REALLY liked to see Ditko as a regular Batman artist during his short time at DC! I'd wager it would be considered a defining run among collectors today.\nBut beyond a few standout moments, the art here is generally good, but certainly not the best effort coming from someone as highly-regarded as Steve Ditko. It's not phoned in or bad in any way, but based on other work I've seen from Ditko, it could have been a lot better.\nOverall, this issue is a pretty average effort. The story feels rushed and crammed into too small of a space, but I have to blame the Bronze Age in general for that, and not Gerry Conway. His writing is good here, but not remarkable or memorable in any way. It certainly doesn't feel like the first issue of a series because the story hangs firmly on the hook of previous Man-Bat appearances in other comics.\nAs far as the art goes, the big draw here is Steve Ditko drawing Batman for the first and only time. For a lot of people, that's enough. For me, it's plainly not his best work. Ditko's take on Batman IS the best part of this comic, but the rest of the art (while good) could have been a lot better.\nGood taken with bad, If you're a Batman or Steve Ditko fan I'd recommend picking this one up if you can find it at a decent price. I'm not sure it's worth taking much effort to specifically hunt it down unless you're a Batman, Man-Bat or Ditko completionist. This isn't a bad comic, but it's not a great one either. It's just okay.\nUp Next. . .\nI just picked up a TON of Longbox Junk from a closing comic shop. . .as in two full Longboxes of it! SO MUCH GREAT JUNK! There's a bunch of NOW, Continuity, Acclaim, Malibu, and early \"We wanna be like Marvel!\" Image comics in there. If I have a full run of anything, I'll probably drop that next.\nBe there or be square!\nLongbox Junk Halloween - DCeased #1\n4562 views \u2022 Oct 29, '19 \u2022 (0) Comments\nWelcome back to Longbox Junk. . .the blog packed FULL of comic reviews nobody asked me for!\nEven though the witching hour draws close, we're still having a bit of Halloween fun here at Longbox Junk by taking a look at some of the spooky stuff hiding in the dark corners of my (and my daughter's) comic collection.\nIt's been a pretty nice Halloween season here at Longbox Junk if I DO say so myself. So far we've seen Vampires (Vegetarian and otherwise), Killer Easter Bunnies, A sci-fi take on Jekyll & Hyde, Werewolves, Frankenstein's Monster, Spirits of Vengeance, Prairie Witches, and some generally nasty people doing nasty things (like burying each other alive). So what's missing here?\nZombies. We need some zombies!\nAnd so here's some zombies.\nWhat we have here is a fresh chunk of Longbox Junk that's on the stands even as I write this. I only have the first issue because I basically bought it for the extremely Halloween-y zombie Batman variant cover and somehow have kept missing the following issues. I'm sure I'll spot the whole set eventually in a bargain bin, but for now I just have this first issue, so let's take a look at it!\nSo I bought this thing for the cover. Let's take a look at the cover, shall we?\n*shudders* Now THAT's some creep-tastic cover art right there! Fransesco Mattina outdoes himself with a nightmarish vision of one of DC's greatest heroes gone straight to zombie ! Just look at the detail in things like Batman's nasty teeth and jaundiced eyes. This is NOT the Batman you want to meet in a dark alley. Very well done!\nThat's the cover. Let's get into the story.\nSCRIPT: Tom Taylor\nPENCILS: Trevor Hairsine & Stefano Gaudiano (pgs. 1-6, 15-26)\nJames Harren (pgs. 7-14)\nCOVER: Francesco Mattina (Variant)\nThe story goes like this. . .\nWe begin with the Justice League defeating Darkseid and forcing him to leave after he invades Earth. But as he goes, Darkseid gives the League an ominous farewell that doesn't quite sit right with the heroes. . .\nIndeed, all is not as it seems. Darkseid's invasion was merely a distraction. His true purpose was to capture the hero known as Cyborg. . .now held prisoner on Apokolips. Darkseid's search for the Anti-Life Equation has led him to believe that the second half of the Equation rests in Cyborg's technology. . .\nDarkseid's scientist, Desaad, informs his master that although the combining of the two halves of the Anti-Life Equation is possible, the Equation will be lost entirely if Cyborg dies in the process. To ensure that Cyborg doesn't die, Darkseid summons Death and uses him to slightly alter the Anti-Life Equation to make sure Cyborg survives the process. . .\nThe change that Darkseid makes to the Anti-Life Equation has disastrous effects as the corrupted Equation combining the physical and technological drives Darkseid insane. Desaad quickly transports Cyborg back to Earth to try and stop the spread of the Techo-Organic Virus, but he's too late. An insane Darkseid destroys Apokolips. . .\nCyborg reappears on Earth in Metropolis, and his internal systems immediately connect him to the internet and all surrounding online devices. Cyborg is horrified to see the Techno-Organic Virus he's infected with begin to quickly spread among the people nearby. He is unable to do anything to stop the Virus as people begin to go insane and tear each other apart. . .\nIn the meantime, Superman is putting together a plan with Big Barda and Mister Miracle to rescue Cyborg from Apokolips, not knowing that Cyborg has already been sent back by Desaad. He hears the screams of people from the street and sees the spreading insanity. Realizing that the situation is already out of hand and getting worse, Superman rushes to his wife and son. . .\nWhile Superman is busy saving his family from the spreading madness, the scene shifts to the Batcave, where Batman is monitoring the situation on isolated systems safe from the Techno-Organic Virus. . .and the news isn't good.\nThe computer estimates that there are ALREADY 600 million infected people, and at the current rate of spread BILLIONS will be infected in a matter of days. This is definitely a problem Batman can't punch a solution to!\nBatman quickly sets off an EMP pulse in Wayne Manor above, but he's too late. As the Dark Knight heads upstairs to check on things, he is attacked by an infected Nightwing and Robin (Tim Drake)!\nAfter a brutal battle with his infected partners, Batman orders Alfred to escape and we are left with a cliffhanger scene of Batman being bitten by Nightwing. . .\nOkay then. There it is. It's not a \"Dead Rising Up And Slowly Wantin' To Eat Your Braaaaaains\" sort of zombie apocalypse. More of a \"Virus Driving People Insane Enough To Kill You, So RUN!\" sort of thing. Despite the unique connection to the DC Universe by having the virus originate as a corrupted form of the Anti-Life Equation, it's still. . .well. . .it's just another zombie apocalypse.\nDon't get me wrong. It's not bad. It's actually pretty good and makes me want to pick up the next issue. The idea of a zombie apocalypse in the DC Universe IS an interesting one. It's just that, do we REALLY need more zombies? Okay, sure. There's superheroes in this zombie story. But really, hasn't that also been done before?\nThere's going to be inevitable comparisons between this and Marvel Zombies. . .but from what I've read of Marvel Zombies (which admittedly isn't very much, just a few issues here and there), they are two different things. Sort of like how there's a definite difference between a Corvette and a Pickup Truck even though at the heart of it, they're both basically automobiles. So despite what you may think, DCeased is NOT a copy of Marvel Zombies.\nThe writer does a fine job. I want to see what happens next. There's nothing wrong with the writing. The art is good, but not great. I actually enjoyed the chunkier, darker look of the art during the Apokolips sections. . .it reminds me of the artist everyone else hated on the recent X-Force series that I liked (Dylan Burnett) enough that I pulled out an X-Force issue to see if it was the same guy. I guess I just like that chunky, dark sort of style.\nSo nothing wrong with the writing or art. It's just. . .zombies, I guess. Maybe they could have told the story of a Techno-Organic Virus destroying the world without zombies? Maybe? I think they could have.\nWhat we have here is a well-written story with a DC Universe-specific angle on the extremely well-worn framework of a zombie apocalypse backed up with some good art. It's interesting enough for me to want to get the next issue, but not interesting enough to make me want to order it if my local shop doesn't have the next one sitting there.\nIf you're a fan of zombie stories, then definitely pick this one up. If you're getting a bit tired of zombies then this isn't really something you'll miss out on if you don't read it. If you don't like zombie stories in the first place, then this won't change your mind one bit.\nI think there's still time for at least one more piece of Longbox Junk Halloween fun!\nBe there or be square.\nLONGBOX JUNK #1 SPECIAL COLLECTOR EDITION (Variant G - The Brave and The Bold)\n4825 views \u2022 May 10, '19 \u2022 (2) Comments\nWelcome back to my completely unnecessary reboot and renumbering of the Longbox Junk blog! I'm celebrating my 175th comic review that nobody ever asked me for by doing something else nobody ever asked for. . .reviewing the handful of issue #175 comics in my (and my daughter's) collection!\nOddly enough, I've discovered that it seems nobody really cares about hitting their 175th issue. The Walking Dead started a new (and pretty epic) storyline in #175, but I'm not sure if that was actually planned or if it just worked out that way. Superman #175 was celebrating being the 100th issue since the iconic \"Death of Superman\" finale. . .but I'm not convinced that's an actual celebration of hitting issue #175.\nSo. . .nobody cares about the one-seven-five except me.\nLONGBOX JUNK #1 SPECIAL COLLECTOR EDITION (Variant B - Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight)\n4091 views \u2022 Apr 3, '19 \u2022 (0) Comments\nI'm gonna get this out right off the top. . .As far as I'm concerned, Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight is the best Batman series that has ever been published.\nI know. . .I know. . .that's a mighty hefty claim.\nI'm sure there are many who will disagree with me. But in MY extremely humble opinion (and NO opinion is more humble than mine), LOTDK (as I will be referring to it from here on out, due to basic laziness) was the ultimate perfection of Batman comics.\nRetro Review Christmas Special - The Brave and The Bold #148\n4370 views \u2022 Dec 20, '18 \u2022 (1) Comment\nWe interrupt \"Merry Marvel Mainstream Madness\" for a special DC Christmas edition of Longbox Junk because my daughter and I are both extremely light on Marvel Christmas issues. . .as in, we don't have any.\nWelcome back to another special \"Retro Review\" edition of Longbox Junk, where I step away from my usual dollar box fare and take a look at some of the older or more \"valuable\" comics lurking in my 45 Longboxes.\nSheesh. . .45 boxes? My local comic shops should send me a Christmas card thanking me for clearing out their unwanted inventory.\nLongbox Junk - Batman\/Aliens II\nI wasn't really that impressed with the first Batman\/Alien crossover. It had its moments, but overall it was average at best, with cardboard cutout disposable 80's action movie cliche characters and art that was half and half. . .good on monsters and backgrounds, bad on human characters.\nThere seems to have been enough people who liked the first one to merit Dark Horse and DC getting back together a few years later for a sequel. Is it any better? Let's take a look and find out!\nLongbox Junk - Batman\/Aliens\nAs I've stated before on this blog, I LOVE the Aliens franchise. One of my favorite movies is the much-hated Alien 3. You know anyone who publicly confesses a love for Alien 3 without a single bit of shame is a true Alien fan.\nAND. . .\nWhen it comes to DC comics, Batman is pretty much my favorite character of them all. I have 36 longboxes in my comic collection. 5 of them are nothing but Batman comics. I have more Batman comics in my collection than a lot of people have in their TOTAL collection.\nRetro Reviews - Merry Christmas Special Edition! Batman #219\nI actually do reviews of single issues in my collection that are worth a little more or are considered more \"collectable\" and wouldn't really be called \"Longbox Junk\" for another site and figured that since I'm a sharing kind of guy, I'd bring a few of them here.\nThe main difference between these reviews and Longbox Junk reviews (beyond the value of the comics) is that sometimes you can find other reviews of some of the Longbox Junk. . .with these, I can just about 99.99% guarantee that there has NEVER been a review, simply because most of the non-junk reviews are from the 1950's to the 1970's and comic book reviews weren't even a thing then. Uncharted territory, son!\nANYWAY. . .\nLongbox Junk - A Death In The Family\n6332 views \u2022 Dec 6, '17 \u2022 (0) Comments\n\"A Death In The Family\" is a four issue \"event\" that, although it's pretty much considered a standalone story, ran in the regular ongoing Batman series in late 1988, early 1989 (Issues #426-429). If you skip around the internet a bit, you're going to run across the story on just about any \"Top (insert number here) Batman Stories\" list you find.\nBut is it really any good when a hard look is taken at it? Or are people just knee-jerking it onto \"Best Story\" lists because of the impact on comic book history of the death of a major supporting character (SPOILER: Jason Todd Robin)? Does the story itself hold up under scrutiny, or is it coasting along on the noteriety gained by having comic fans actually call a 900 number (anyone remember those?) and decide if Robin died or not?\nLet's find out!\nLongbox Junk - One Shots: Aliens, The Assasin, Batman, Conan & Predator\nThere's nothing wrong at all with a good ongoing series, but if anyone were to ask me what my favorite form of comic art is, I would immediately answer \"The One Shot\". Within the framework of a single issue, the creative team is challenged to give us everything we need to enjoy a story. They're pretty much forced to swing for the fences. Here are 5 random single issues from my collection read and reviewed for your consideration. Are they home runs or foul ? Let's find out!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jacob Shell | Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with\u2026\nJacob Shell | Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants\nDirect Download: 20190611-jacobsh.mp3\nIn conversation with Nikil Saval, an editor of n+1 and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace\nA professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, Jacob Shell is the author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility, a historical study of the connections between modes of transit and rebellion. Praised as \"fascinating\" by esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal, Shell's latest book explores the millennia-spanning working relationship between humans and elephants, journeying to the rugged and sometimes dangerous Southeast Asian forests where this partnership still exists.\nAuthor Events Business & Economics Environment & Nature General Research Science History Animals and Nature\nJulie Salamon | An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer\nRachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2020 Chrysler Pacifica Richmond VA\nView InventoryContact Us\n2020 Chrysler Pacifica at Pearson Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram\nHaving a growing family is a beautiful thing, but it puts a specific stress on driving arrangements. For that reason, many families end up turning towards the automotive world for a solution to storage problems and entertainment. The top minivan around today is the 2020 Chrysler Pacifica, which has made a name for itself with reliability, safety, and comfort. In the 2020 model year, there are four trim levels to choose from, a new Red S Appearance package is available, and there are a few minor cosmetic changes. The Pacifica has always been easy to transform, it comes with the very best materials around, and it will make your life easier with the latest technologies. Are you interested in finding out more about this minivan? Keep reading for the latest info!\n3.6-liter V6 engine\nNine-speed automatic transmission\nAutomatic high-beams\nBlind-spot monitoring\nDriver-seat memory\nWhat is the trim lineup?\nYou will find four trim levels available with the Chrysler Pacifica. The base trim, Touring, features blind-spot monitoring, a power liftgate, power sliding doors, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, tri-zone climate control, and a 7-inch touchscreen. The Touring L trim includes grocery-bag hooks, a leather interior, driver-seat memory, heated front seats, a heated steering wheel, and a chrome roof rack. Towards the top of the lineup you'll find Touring L Plus, which includes a digital instrument cluster, an 8.4-inch touchscreen, heated second-row seats, and a rear-seat theater. The final available trim is Touring Limited, which adds on a tri-pane panoramic sunroof, a hands-free tailgate, ventilated front seats, a built-in vacuum, and Nappa leather upholstery.\nWhat engine powers the 2020 Pacifica?\nWhile there is a hybrid option for the Pacifica, we are focusing on the standard gasoline engine. This standard engine is a 3.6-liter V6, which comes paired with a nine-speed automatic transmission. Together, this powertrain can output up to 262 pound-feet of torque and around 287 horsepower. When it comes to fuel economy, you'll be getting up to 19 miles per gallon in the city, and around 28 miles per gallon on the highway. One of the many reasons why this system is so successful is thanks to the start\/stop system, which cuts the engine power whenever you don't need it. You can even turn off this system if you aren't a fan, with just the press of a button.\nWhat safety features are available?\nThe safety that the 2020 Pacifica offers you can never be overstated. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given this minivan 5 stars when it comes to the overall crash test rating, along with frontal crash, side barrier, and side crash. But how is this minivan so effective? Well, every single Pacifica model comes with rear cross-traffic alert, and blind-spot monitoring. You will also be able to enjoy other features like automatic high beams, frontal-collision warning, lane-keep assist, lane-departure warning, automatic braking, and adaptive cruise control.\nFinal Thoughts on the 2020 Chrysler Pacifica\nGear up for sports season with the 2020 Chrysler Pacifica. You and your family will enjoy the passenger space, cargo room, technology, and everything else that this minivan has to offer. Stop into our dealership today!\nApply for FinancingSchedule Service","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Academic calendar Teaching staff Modules Additional learning activities Career prospects News Further services Graduation Attendance Career management Student login and resources Erasmus+ and other experiences abroad\nSecondary metabolism and metabolic engineering (2012\/2013)\nLuca Dall'Osto\nBIO\/04 - PLANT PHYSIOLOGY\nII semestre dal Mar 4, 2013 al Jun 14, 2013.\nThe course covers the major groups of secondary metabolites in plants and microorganisms, from the perspectives of biochemistry and biosynthesys, with references to how genetic engineering can be used to manipulate levels of secondary metabolites of economic value, as well as those of importance to health and human diet. The course of secondary metabolism is proposed to provide an integrated view of some basic aspects of secondary metabolism from the relationship between biological function of secondary metabolites in defense against biotic and abiotic stress. In particular it will be treated the reasons why so many plant secondary metabolites possess pharmacological activity. The course defines the main classes of secondary metabolites and their biosynthetic pathways, methods for identification of genes coding stages of the biosynthetic pathways and ultimately the main approaches to the genetic modification of plants and microorganisms in order to obtain a targeted production of secondary metabolites with applicable value, giving the advantages and disadvantages of different methods.\n1. Revision of the main metabolic pathways of primary metabolism, the interconnection of metabolisms, the activation of secondary metabolism.\n2. Definition and systematic of secondary metabolites (MS)\n3. Ecological function of MS and pharmacological effects on mammals and insects.\n4. Terpenoids, the synthesis of IPP (isopentenyl pyrophosphate) in the cytosol and plastid. The role of terpenoids in plant defense. The Rubber: production. Biotechnological applications of terpenoid biosynthetic pathways. Story of a biosynthetic pathway: carotenoids and the defense of photosynthetic apparatus against photo-oxidation stress.\n5. The alkaloids: biosynthesis, functional clusters and biological activity, synthesis of berberine and definition of other metabolic pathways. Biotechnological applications.\n6. The phenylpropanoids: biosynthesis and ecological functions. Phenols, polyphenols and tannins: classification and biosynthesis. Biotechnological applications. Biosynthesis of lignin and suberin.\n7. Flavonoids: biosynthesis, localization, ecological significance. Synthesis and modification of flower color for commercial purposes. Biotechnological applications.\n8. Compounds containing sulfur, biosynthesis of glucosinolates. Environmental and genetic factors that influence the expression of glucosinolates. Metabolism and detoxification of isothiocyanates. Anti-nutritional effects on livestock and humans, beneficial effects of sulfur compounds in human diet. Metabolic engineering.\n9. Psoralens and acetylenes: distribution in plants of food interest, biosynthesis, perspectives in relation to food safety.\n10. Polyketides, secondary metabolites produced by bacteria. Mode of biosynthesis, the possibility of intervention by biotechnology. the \"polyketides\" in plants.\n11. Allelopathy and directed evolution.\n12. Metabolic engineering: chloroplast transformation (plants and algae) and importance of this technique in the expression of secondary products.\n13. Metabolic engineering: genetic resources by non-culturable microorganisms and symbiont; metagenomics, metatranscriptomic, techniques for the identification of new enzymatic activities.\n14. Metabolic engineering: metabolomics, techniques for the identification of enzymes and substrates from data of transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics.\n15. Secondary metabolites in the main foodstuff. Toxicity of natural and artificial products. Ames' test.\n16. Biotechnology of fragrances: aromas produced by yeast in main fermented beverages, and biotechnology interventions, production of vanillin by chemical, enzymatic and biotechnological methods, production of secondary metabolites by plant cell cultures, metabolic engineering of plants of food interest for the modulation of fregrances.\nPresentation of a published researc article, to be chosen from a list provided, and the proposal for continuation of the line of research.\nOral. The student will discuss the main topics of the course, trying to demonstrate critical thought and awareness of the structure of the field of study.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cuomo Misfires, Banning Newsgroups Rather Than Child Porn\nHans Bader \u2022 06\/11\/2008\nNew York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who used the Fair Housing Act as a pretext to restrict speech critical of housing projects back when he was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Housing & Urban Development (something declared unconstitutional in White v. Lee, 227 F.3d 1214 (2000)), is now using the menace of child porn as an excuse to force internet service providers (ISPs) to cut off access to internet newsgroups. Cuomo has reached a \"voluntary\" (read: coerced) settlement with ISPs Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable under which they will cut off access to \"20,000 to 100,000\" newsgroups having nothing to do with child porn, and make a pay-off of $1.25 million, part of which will go to Cuomo's own office.\nAs Ted Frank notes at Overlawyered, the settlement has attracted criticism from legal commentators and those who fight child pornography. \"The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography argues that it is actually counterproductive. Orin Kerr notes that it is of questionable constitutionality. Declan McCullagh suggests, as does David Kravetz, that the ISPs will comply by shutting off customers' access to broad swaths of Usenet well beyond anything alleged to contain illegal material.\"\nAs George Washington University Law Professor Orin Kerr notes, the settlement would conflict with a federal court ruling if it were imposed by a court or government official, rather than being \"voluntary.\" \"When Pennsylvania tried to do something somewhat similar \u2014 albeit with court orders rather than a voluntary agreement \u2014 Pennsylvania's effort was struck down as unconstitutional. . . in CDT v. Pappert.\"\nBut in truth, the settlement blocking access to newsgroups is not really \"voluntary.\" It's the coercive result of threats of litigation from the New York Attorney General's office. Supposedly \"voluntary\" settlements can constitute government regulation that violates the constitution. The Supreme Court has said that even a State's \"contractual condition\" is subject to constitutional scrutiny (See South-Central Timber Dev. Co. v. Wunnicke, 467 U.S. 87, 97 n.10 (1984)), and federal appeals courts have observed that the fact that a state official and a business \"have entered into an agreement does not necessarily insulate it from scrutiny under\" the Constitution. (See Automated Salvage Transport, Inc. v. Wheelabrator Ent'l Sys. Inc., 155 F.3d 59, 78 (2d Cir. 1998)). And a \"voluntary agreement\" incorporated into a consent decree can constitute state regulation that is preempted by federal law, as the Supreme Court observed in 1981. (Ridgway v. Ridgway, 454 U.S. 46, 47, 53 (1981)).\nThus, a federal appeals court struck down enforcement of a settlement agreement that barred a party to it from participating in the political process (see Davies v. Grossmont Union High School, 930 F.2d 1390, 1394 (9th Cir. 1991); see also Cain v. Darby Borough, 7 F.3d 377, 381 (3d Cir. 1993) (striking down waiver of certain First Amendment rights extracted as condition of settling a court case)). Newsgroups similarly address political issues and core political speech that government officials cannot require be restricted as the price of a settlement. Moreover, in First Amendment cases, not only the party bound by a settlement or regulation, but also people whose speech or access to information is affected by it, have the right to challenge its restrictions. (See Korb v. Lehman, 919 F.2d 243 (4th Cir. 1990) (private employee could sue a government official under the First Amendment for pressuring his private employer to fire him for his speech, even though private employers can voluntarily terminate employees for their speech when the employer is not operating under government pressure); Truax v. Raich, 239 U.S. 33 (1916) (Supreme Court holds state government liable under the Constitution for pressuring a private employer to fire a private employee based on his being an alien, even though his employer could have voluntarily dismissed him without violating any law)).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Applications Available for 2023 Missouri Agribusiness Academy\nMissouri Department of Agriculture\nJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. \u2013 The Missouri Department of Agriculture is offering 30 high school students representing 4-H clubs and FFA chapters, as well as farm families, throughout Missouri the opportunity to explore careers in agriculture through the 2023 Missouri Agribusiness Academy (MAbA). MAbA is a competitive program for sophomores interested in pursuing agriculture-related degrees and careers.\n\"Year after year, the Missouri Agribusiness Academy allows some of Missouri's brightest students to gather and collaborate,\" said Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn. \"This program presents high school students the opportunity to learn alongside those with a similar passion for agriculture. Through MAbA, students build leadership skills and gain a better understanding about the career opportunities available throughout the Missouri agriculture industry.\"\nThe students selected will participate in a yearlong program to learn about the unique opportunities for careers in the St. Louis area, volunteer at the Missouri State Fair and learn more about the agriculture industry in Jefferson City. The 2023 schedule will be finalized in the spring and will include visits with industry and agribusiness leaders, as well as tours of their facilities.\nSince 1988, the Missouri Agribusiness Academy has graduated more than 1,060 students through a competitive application and interview process. The first portion of the 2023 MAbA will be held June 5-9, and marks the program's 36th year. Students interested in participating must submit an application by Feb. 1, 2023.\nFor applications and guidelines, as well as more information on the Missouri Department of Agriculture and its programs, visit the Department online at Agriculture.Mo.Gov.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Industry 4.0 \/ IIoT\nTest & Monitoring\nCategory Navigation Capital Equipment Control Design Electrical Equipment Events Industry 4.0 \/ IIoT Machining Materials Components Motors & Drives Pumps & Valves Safety Sensors Test & Monitoring Women in Engineering\nAdvanced Energy's first ever CTO discusses being a woman in tech\nHome > Around the Industry > Advanced Energy's first ever CTO discusses being a woman in tech\nSource: Advanced Energy\nPosted By : Anna Flockett\nAs March is the month in which we celebrate International Women's Day, we wanted to highlight as many women in the engineering and manufacturing industry as possible. Therefore, it seemed perfect to speak with Isabel Yang (pictured below), who last year became Advanced Energy's first ever Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and the first female in the company to hold a high level executive position.\nYang has always been in the technology industry, as she previously served as the vice president of strategy and operations for IBM Research, where she got stuck right into the tech side, working with AI, healthcare solutions and high-performance computing. \"I did a PhD in electrical engineering, and have always worked with tech, just within different aspects of the industry,\" she explained.\n\"This stemmed from always being interested in maths and physics - as a child you know what you are good at, and this area was my happy place.\"\nAll throughout college Yang continued to be interested in science and technology, even though a lot of peers who had also completed an engineering degree went into finance. \"I was always really interested in STEM in general as I think I had a curiosity for it. There is so much that is constantly new, and being discovered \u2013 I think it's great.\"\nThe industry has changed and become more accepting of women Yang explained, but we still have some way to go. \"The challenge is we need to ensure that we are heard.\"\nEven today the challenges are still there. I see it for younger female engineers, and even in the board room at the more senior levels. \"You still have to assert yourself and make sure you are heard in a room full of men. So it shows there are still some changes to be made, and technology is particularly challenging for women.\"\nIn schools there is still an unbalance, it is not yet 50\/50 in the more science and technology subjects. \"We need to encourage more young girls into STEM from a younger age.\"\nOne incident that happened to Yang was midway through her career, she received her first promotion into an executive role at her previous company. \"All of a sudden the people reporting to me were the people who were my peers before and they were all male. Instantly there was a backlash, as once I became their manager I had to engage and ensure that I could lead them and they would follow. But for the first few days it was constant comments such as 'you got the role because you're a woman, and you got promoted because you're a minority'.\"\nWhat was most startling for Yang was this was only about six or seven years ago, in a huge multinational company. \"But it happens, it is still occurring, and I think to succeed as a woman you need to be strong.\"\nYang explained that as a female leader you need to, number one, not get discouraged. \"When team members come to me saying all sorts of stuff I don't get discouraged I move on.\" Secondly she said you need to remember you are capable, you got to where you are from skill and nothing else. \"First you remind yourself of that, and don't let these comments affect you and then you show everyone else that.\"\nYang believes there are a couple of things we can do, one of the first things we need to think about is diversity, in every aspect. \"Women can interpret and vision things differently to men, so everyone needs to be open to listening, we work in different ways so it is never as black and white as you're wrong and this is right.\"\nWe need to be exemplary role models, show these girls not to give up and share our experiences \u2013 good and bad. Make sure they understand the process of what it takes to be in STEM. Yang said: \"I've seen girls at a young age excited about science, and then they get discouraged, so we need to help them in navigating their STEM careers in the right way.\"\nFor very young girls, in Yang's perspective one thing that is very important is making programmes available to accommodate and open up the technology world for girls and again not to discourage them.\nAdding on to this, having the support and encouragement from parents to help push girls into STEM, especially if they show an interest is important. \"Just encouraging them to do school science projects and exploring the subject more. From third grade onwards we have science fairs here in the US, this is one thing schools should encourage.\" But at the same time it is down to parents to help too \u2013 parent partnerships are essential.\nHow did it feel to accomplish something so big within your company?\nWhen I asked Yang how she felt to be the first CTO of Advanced Energy, and additionally as a cherry on top, the first female in a high up position, she said it was a total range of emotions.\nYang elaborated: \"First I felt I was breaking new ground at the company, and when I visit plants and see female employees they high-five me and say why on earth have we only just got one!\"\nBut she added: \"But then I also feel this huge responsibility, to be this exemplary role model for them so that there this path for them in the future to move up and be the leader of the company.\n\"So it's a great feeling, and it's a blank slate that I can make my own, make it what it is, and make a real impact in the company but at the same it comes with huge responsibility.\"\n\"There is a lot of eyes on me to make sure I am successful so people can follow in my footsteps,\" Yang laughed.\nEssentially Yang is the perfect example of a role model that we need more of; in this industry. And she added: \"We certainly do need more! We need to support each other to make sure they don't give up and the ladies keep going!\"\nThe gender gap in STEM subjects\nCelebrating Women in Engineering for INWED\nEngineers identify role models as critical to women's success\nAtkins engineer wins best new female Chartered Engineer\nRole models deemed critical to women's success\nWomen in engineering advocate joins board of AESSEAL\nHow important is diversity in engineering?\nInternational Women in Engineering Day \u2013 the women have their say\nWhere are all the role models at?\nApprentice wins praise from national women in engineering group\nEditing women engineers back onto the map\nWES launches WE50 Awards for 2019\nMore from Advanced Energy\nAdvanced Energy's first ever CTO discusses being a woman in tech 22nd March 2019\nCopyright 2014 Electronic Specifier Ltd","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nasra\nAmbulance staff to hold 24-hour strike next Friday\nMartin Wall\nAmbulance staff are to hold the first of two 24-hour strikes on Friday next in an escalation of a long-running campaign over trade union representatio(...)\nAmbulance staff to consider proposals for 24-hour strikes\nAmbulance staff are to consider proposals for full 24-hour strikes or rolling work stoppages as part of an escalation of their long-running dispute ov(...)\nAbout 500 ambulance staff to go on strike on Thursday and Friday\nAbout 500 ambulance staff are to stage consecutive strikes on Thursday and Friday this week as part of an on-going dispute. They are in dispute with (...)\nNurses' strike called off as Labour Court proposes enhanced pay scale\nPaul Cullen\nA strike by 40,000 nurses over three consecutive days this week has been suspended. The move by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) fol(...)\nAmbulance staff planning to go on strike for two more days\nUp to 500 ambulance service personnel are to go on strike for two more days as part of a dispute over trade union representation rights and the deduct(...)\nUp to 500 ambulance staff on strike in row over rights and union membership\nUp to 500 ambulance service staff are striking in a dispute over trade union representation rights and the deduction of union subscriptions at source.(...)\nAmbulance crews set to strike in row over union membership\nAmbulance crew members are threatening to go on strike later this month in a dispute over union membership. The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) (...)\nIf PNA represent staff in ambulance service deals with Siptu would be undermined \u2013 HSE\nRecognising the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) as a representative body for ambulance personnel would undermine agreements in place with the tra(...)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Timberwolves Fans Should Enjoy This Year's Playoffs\nFiled Under:Andrew Wiggins, Jeff Teague, Jimmy Butler, Karl Anthony Towns, Minnesota Timberwolves, Taj Gibson, Tom Thibodeau\nMINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) \u2013 It's finally over.\nAfter 14 seasons, the Minnesota Timberwolves are back in the NBA Playoffs. It wasn't easy and it often wasn't pretty, but it wouldn't be the Timberwolves way if it was any different.\nBut with the Western Conference playoff race being one of the most competitive in recent years, none of it matters. The Timberwolves are in. Yeah, they are the No. 8 seed and will be tremendous underdogs against the No. 1 seed Houston Rockets. Yeah, they lost games they should have won.\nPlayers suffered through disappointing stretches and others got hurt, but none of it matters now. Players and fans celebrated Wednesday night after the Timberwolves beat the Denver Nuggets 112-106 in overtime, ending Denver's season and propelling Minnesota to the postseason.\nIt's been 14 seasons since we saw the Timberwolves in the playoffs. Not only that, but they haven't even been competitive for the most part since the 2003-04 run to the Western Conference Finals. The trio of Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell probably should've won the NBA title, but Cassell's back injury did the Timberwolves in.\nThe following season, the Timberwolves finished 44-38 and missed the playoffs. Then General Manager Kevin McHale fired Flip Saunders a little more than halfway through the season. Here are the Timberwolves' regular season records since then, excluding this year.\n2005-06: 33-49\nOver those 13 seasons, that's an average of 29.9 wins per season. That's an average of finishing 22 games below .500. That's hard to do.\nIt's also why we should take a moment to embrace this season and celebrate that the playoff drought is over. The Timberwolves had Kurt Rambis as a head coach. Even worse, they had David Kahn as a front office leader. We passed on Stephen Curry not once, but twice.\nThat said, the Timberwolves gave roster spots to players like Marko Jaric, Michael Olowokandi, Rashad McCants, Ndudi Ebi, Craig Smith, Kirk Snyder, Sebastian Telfair, Antoine Walker, Mark Madsen, Brian Cardinal, Darko Milicic, Ramon Sessions, Jonny Flynn, Wayne Ellington, Kosta Koufos and Brad Miller.\nYou get the idea. This season, the core is Jimmy Butler, Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins, Jeff Teague and Taj Gibson. Yes, the Timberwolves likely won't last past the first round. But they're there. After 14 seasons of ineptitude, they're one of eight teams left in the Western Conference.\nEnjoy the ride, even if it's short-lived.\nnonamesplease3333 says:\nYes. I am definitely going to enjoy it.\ngymtruthteller says:\nDon't even mention Antoine Walker's name with your useless franchise. He played like 2 games and when he did well you benched him.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Sports \u00bb India set victory target of 135 runs for South Africa in final T-20\nIndia set victory target of 135 runs for South Africa in final T-20\nin Sports September 22, 2019\t0 174 Views\nBangaluru:22\/9\/19:In Cricket, India set a paltry victory target of 135 runs for South Africa in the Third and final T-20 match, now underway at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.\nEarlier, India won the toss and scored 134 for 9 in the stipulated 20 overs. Protean bowlers used their variations in the death overs and contained the Indian batsmen.\nShikhar Dhawan was the highest scorer for the hosts with 36 runs while Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja contributed 19 runs each. For the visitors, Kagiso Rabada claimed three wickets while Bjorn Fortuin and Beauran Hendricks took two wickets each.\nAfter a comprehensive seven-wicket victory in the second T20 at Mohali on Wednesday, India is seeking a 2-0 series verdict before the Test series gets underway from 2nd of next month. The first T20 at Dharamsala last Sunday was a washout.\nAshok Palit\nPrevious: PM meets CEOs of 17 global energy companies in US\nNext: Advisors to various departments of Odisha government, have decided not to take honorarium\nAbout Ashok Palit\nAshok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.\nOdisha's Dinesh Kumar clinched gold in the U-21 Individual 30 km event at the Khelo India Youth Games\nFirst edition of Khelo India University Games was announced by the Odisha Chief Minister\nIIT BHUBANESWAR STUDENTS SECURE THE FIRST PRIZE AT SMART HACKATHON\nNoida:18\/1\/20:Union Minister of Heavy Industries &Public Enterprises, Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Information & Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar today inaugurated ELECRAMA 2020, at India Expo Mart in Greater Noida, Uttar ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hands on with Google's Nexus 9: This Lollipop tastes like an iPad\nBy Pete Pachal 2014-10-29 23:34:17 UTC\nYou can taste the iPad influence in Google's Nexus 9 tablet. Laying eyes on it for the first time, you'd be forgiven for thinking Apple made it. The slim bezel and the 4:3 aspect ratio screen are very iPad, but the display is slightly smaller \u2014 8.9 inches to Apple's 9.7.\nAt 15 ounces (425 grams), the Nexus 9 just as light as the iPad Air 2. The metallic rim adds the iPad feel, but I noted one important difference: It's easier to hold the Nexus 9 in one hand. I was able to grasp it more or less comfortably with my fingertips on one side and my thumb on the other, but I'm 6'4\" (with what I suspect are normal-sized hands for that height) so your mileage may vary here.\nSee also: Apple iPad Air 2: Thin, Beautiful and Powerful\nEven the Nexus 9's pixel count is identical to the iPad's at 2,048 x 1,536. Clearly, Google and HTC, which built the tablet, have stopped any pretense about differentiating and are going with what works.\nThe Google Nexus 9 with optional keyboard case.\nImage: Mashable, Elizabeth Pierson\nWe'll save the discussion about the merits of imitation for another time, but there's no question the Nexus 9 is a well-made tablet. Powered by the latest Android software \u2014 version 5.0 or \"Lollipop\" \u2014 the Nexus 9 is one of the first devices to pack a Tegra K1 processor. That brings 64-bit processing, which translates into faster performance overall while preserving battery life. Firing up a few apps and websites, I found the tablet to be plenty fast and very good a multitasking.\nLots of people use tablets to watch movies, and the Nexus 9 has something special in that department: Great stereo speakers. Dialing up the latest Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer on YouTube, I could hear the action even in a loud, crowded room.\nWhen you fold the corner of the Nexus 9's \"origami\" case, it automatically launches the camera.\nMy favorite feature of the Nexus 9 is how the camera works with the \"origami\" style case. The case attaches via magnets, but fold over the corner that covers the camera and the camera app automatically launches. People do take photos with tablets after all, and at least this can mean they won't look extra ridiculous with a tablet cover hanging from the bottom.\nIf there's a tablet that will move the needle for Google it's the Nexus 9. Smaller tablets are getting eaten alive by phablets, but Googles latest big-screen mode looks like a winner at first blush. Just don't tell Apple.\nThe camera UI of the Google Nexus 9 tablet.\nTopics: Android, Gadgets, Google, iPad, iPad Air 2, Lollipop, Nexus 9, tablets, Tech","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home|All Artists|African\nDiscover contemporary African artists. Our extensive online collection showcases work from African painters, photographers and print-makers, making it easy for you to discover new art.\u2026\nBegin your journey with the graphic prints of South African artist, Gerhard Human. Gerhard's artworks are reflections and contemplations on human nature. He fills post-apocalyptic settings with isolated figures, and together with his refined palette, creates surreal imaginings of a parallel universe.\nOn the other hand, Kirsten Lilford captures expressive snapshots of the everyday. Kirsten's distinctive style is one that exposes contrast and through her use of composition and detail, creates sinister scenes of stillness. Kirsten's mastery of oils allows her to combine a refined, rich and detailed technique with abstract washes of colour.\nLebohang Kganye's prints and photographs explore the complexities and contractions of family history. She constructs each piece with a performative element, highlighting the lack of clarity in history. Reenacting the past, Lebohang includes herself in past narratives to address the subjective nature of memory and nostalgia. Lebohang is established internationally, and has recently held exhibitions in South Africa, the US and Portugal, as well as winning the 'Sasol New Signatures' award and the 'CAP Prize'.\nAbout African Artists\nAfrican art is famously inter-disciplinary, spanning from pottery, sculpture and jewellery to painting, textiles and decoration. Today, artists take influence from the rich colours, intricate patterns and bold shapes of traditional African art. In recent years, Accra, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos and Marrakech have been hailed as the six emerging art capitals of Africa. Slowly but surely cities in Africa are emerging as hubs of artists and collectors.\nThe presence of African art in Europe during the early 1900's had a vast influence on avant-garde artists. Everyone from Picasso to Matisse studied African sculpture to form a stylised representation of the human body. Whilst post-Impressionist painters were influenced by the flattening of depth, Cubist artists were inspired by the abstraction of the form. African art, particularly African masks were hugely instrumental in forming the faces and characters in Picasso's seminal piece, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.\nNada Baraka\nErik Bendix\nPersi Darukhanawala\nDiadji Diop","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"General Dynamics Mission Systems Donates Mixed Reality Headsets to UCF\nThe headsets will serve students across a range of disciplines, including arts, hospitality, medicine and teaching.\nBy Char Eberly | December 8, 2021\nThe College of Nursing is one of multiple colleges integrating the new Hololens technology into the curriculum. (Photo by Nick Leyva '15)\nStudents and faculty across UCF are benefitting from 250 new mixed reality headsets that will be used for applications ranging from developing robotic sensors to designing interactive backgrounds for special events.\nThe headsets are a gift from General Dynamics Mission Systems and are fully self-contained computers that allow wearers to operate untethered in a hologram-enhanced physical environment. General Dynamics Mission Systems is a provider of mission-critical solutions to defense, civil, intelligence, government and cyber-security customers.\nWhile mixed reality technology is perhaps best known for its use in gaming and interactive entertainment, it has a wide variety of applications in education, training, design, and product prototyping. Merging the real and virtual worlds, mixed reality creates new environments in which users can visualize digital objects in the physical space they choose, allowing them to work in 3D to create, test, and scale designs and programs.\nThe headsets, which are Microsoft Hololens, are being distributed to the College of Engineering and Computer Science; Rosen College of Hospitality Management; College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL); College of Arts and Humanities; College of Medicine; College of Nursing; College of Community Innovation and Education; Burnett Honors College; and the School of Modeling, Simulation and Training.\nThe College of Arts and Humanities, which received 51 headsets, offers a theatre MFA with a track in themed experience and launched a new master's in themed experience for the first time this fall. Courses in the new graduate program teach students a range of skills, including show set design, show writing, production management, and producing for themed experiences, such as theme parks, zoos, museums, retail, exhibitions, immersive hotels, dining, and virtual worlds.\n\"Mixed and virtual reality are frequently used for the design and simulation of themed environments. Our themed experience graduate students can use the HoloLens systems to see 3D worlds and rapidly prototype their ideas and designs,\" says Peter Weishar, director of the UCF themed experience program. \"We are excited to incorporate this technology into our production pipeline.\"\nThe headsets are being deployed for colleges to implement into classes, labs and other student learning experiences. They could be used in activities like visualizing big data, tracking targets in sensor network testbeds, developing robotics sensors, creating simulated teaching environments for education majors, adding a gamification element to physical therapy training, designing theatrical sets and creating 3D interactive themed environments.\n\"Given our long-term commitment to the Central Florida region and our deep ties to UCF, General Dynamics Mission Systems is pleased to be able to support UCF's mission as a leading research university and center of innovation for the region's economy,\" says Roger McNicholas, vice president of General Dynamics Mission Systems' Orlando facility. \"We look forward to seeing how the students at UCF utilize the Hololens headsets in their research.\"\nThe headsets were released commercially in 2016 and retail for $5,000 each.\nCollege of Engineering and Computer Science College of Medicine Rosen College of Hospitality Management College of Arts and Humanities College of Community Innovation and Education\n29 Gilman Scholarships Awarded to UCF Students \u2014 Setting a University Record\n3 UCF Students Selected for 2022 Astronaut Scholarship\nFirst-gen Immigrant Reflects on Contributions to Local Community Before Graduation\nUCF Podcast: Season 3 Launches with a New Host\nUCF Student to Conduct Research at Mayo Clinic After Graduation\n10 UCF Students Recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program\nStudent Research Week: The Power of TikTok in Self-expression\n26 Exemplary Students Awarded 2022 Order of Pegasus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Heritage Sutton Historical Society\nHistory sketchbooks\nVirtual files\nCatalogs and research reports\nDocuments bank\nCemeteries fonds\nIndividual fonds\nH\u00e9ritage Sutton\nLaunching of the 31st historical journal\nAt the end of the Annual Meeting the 31st Sketchbook will be launched featuring among other things two articles emanating from our oral heritage. The first one presents European women who married Canadian military serving overseas during World War II (1939-1945) and who later followed their husbands to Sutton. We know of about ten of them, two of which are still living. The second article focuses on a ninety-year-old woman who still runs the small dairy farm established by her father in 1927. This is a story of determination and solidarity.\nThen, after selling their Sutton dwelling, the Hepburn family left behind a number of boxes the content of which allowed us to retrace the family members' sometimes tragic life.\nFinally, some 40 years ago, private property owners as well as conservation organizations joined efforts to protect the Sutton mountain range without depriving the population of this exceptionnal natural environment. A beautiful story about commitment.\n\u2190 Call for volunteers !\n2019 Annual Meeting \u2192\nThe Historical Society H\u00e9ritage Sutton\nThe historical society\n11 Principale S.\nSutton (QC) J0E 2K0\nheritagesutton@gmail.com\nThe mission of the H\u00e9ritage Sutton Historical Society is to preserve the history of the area in and around Sutton, placing special emphasis on the individuals and families who have contributed to it.\n\u00a9 2020 Heritage Sutton Historical Society. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"University Expansion\nRowan Radio News Minute\nProfile of The Week\nGut Reaction\nPROFcast\nMen's Swimming\nWomen's Swimming\nMen's Track and Field (Indoor)\nWomen's Track and Field (Indoor)\nWomen's Lacrosse\nMen's Track and Field (Outdoor)\nWomen's Track and Field (Outdoor)\nIce Hockey (DII)\nThe Whit Online Rowan University's Campus Newspaper - Since 1938\nHome Arts & Entertainment Creative Glassboro committee conceptualizes Arts District Town Square\nCreative Glassboro committee conceptualizes Arts District Town Square\nTara Lonsdorf\nGloucester County Freeholder Heather Simmons discusses options for the Glassboro Town Square at the Creative Glassboro committee meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at the Rowan Art Gallery. -Photo Editor\/Nicole Mingo\nOn March 22 at 6 p.m., members of the Glassboro community gathered in the Rowan University Art Gallery to participate in Creative Glassboro's open meeting to discuss the emerging Glassboro Arts District. Creative Glassboro, now an official town committee, seeks to integrate arts and culture into the downtown area. This initiative will have an immediate impact on Rowan University students, as the area in question, a spacious grassy field right off of Rowan Boulevard, is adjacent to university housing and structures.\nAmong those attending the event was Sanford Tweedie, dean of the College of Communications and Creative Arts.\n\"I was at the last event in the 'Boro,\" Tweedie said. \"I think it's a good opportunity for people from multiple areas including the university and the community to make a contribution to [Glassboro].\"\nHe noted that since Rowan has a large impact on the local population, projects such as these have a large impact on the future of the university.\nAfter a briefing on the goals of Creative Glassboro, attendees broke into groups to conceptualize their ideal usage of the park area. Using pre-drawn maps of the area and printed images of potential uses of the space, some groups suggested fountains, while others suggested that a stage be installed for public performances. One imagined a bike-share program using the park as its headquarters. Most believed that more seating should be added.\nA group of participants make suggestions for the Glassboro Arts District at the Creative Glassboro Committee meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at the Rowan Art Gallery. -Photo Editor\/Nicole Mingo\nHeather Simmons, a Gloucester County freeholder, has a direct stake in the matter. Simmons is a resident of an apartment in Park Place South, directly overlooking the park, and is committed to the future of the space to function as an artistic hub of family-friendly activity.\n\"This is an environment I wanted to live in,\" Simmons said. \"I wanted to be in the middle of the university community and the 'Boro community, and get that vibe. I think it's really just at the very beginning. The construction that's been completed there is really just phase one, so this exercise is an opportunity for the people who live here and work here to say that these are the types of amenities that will make this place come to life.\"\nShe also believes that the park should not install a permanent JumboTron above what is currently utility space, which is one suggestion put forth.\nA map of the expanding Downtown Glassboro highlights possibilities for the Glassboro Arts District at the Creative Glassboro committee meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at the Rowan Art Gallery. -Photo Editor\/Nicole Mingo\nWhether the park space is ultimately to be used for aesthetic, entertainment, leisure or active purposes, it is clear that it will become a focus of community engagement and interaction as the group's most recent meeting has already brought people together to further this aim.\nFor questions\/comments about this story, email arts@thewhitonline.com or tweet @thewhitonline.\nCreative Glassboro\nGlassboro Arts District\nGlassboro Town Square\nHeather Simmons\nSanford Tweedie\nPrevious articleTempsick: Mike Gesicki is a first-round talent, but is biggest sleeper in 2018 NFL Draft\nNext article'Rowan Sings' features various vocal groups and soloists\nKYLE: at Rowan and a crossroads\nREVIEW: 'Detective Pikachu' and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' trailers shed light on what makes live-action adaptations good and bad\nRowan students react to the latest 'Game of Thrones' episode\nCampana: One in twenty-two thousand\nRowan hosts New Jersey state senate budget hearing\n#MeToo founder gives keynote speech at Rowan's feminist symposium\nIndividual has died near Barnes and Noble\nRowan University takes position against Trump's immigration ban\nNoah Weinstein is \"the unofficial mascot of Rowan\"\nArts & Entertainment336\nWinter178\nFall151","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Crook's Corner\nCrook's Corner on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill is \"sacred ground for Southern foodies\" (said the New York Times). A destination for locals and returning alumni, Crook's is known best for its \"sumptuous take on Southern comfort food\" (Garden & Gun).\nEnter a starting location to get directions.\nKenan Stadium\nKenan Memorial Stadium is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is the home field of the North Carolina Tar...\nMama Dips\nIn 1976, Mildred Cotton Council opened Mama Dip's restaurant, named for the childhood nickname given to her by her siblings...\nTop of the Hill Brewery\nTHE SOCIAL CROSSROADS OF CHAPEL HILL\nWhether you live in Chapel Hill, are just visiting or are here to connect...\nAlexander Julian's\nAt Julian's you can expect a warm, relaxed shopping environment. Acquire fashion knowledge, get a lesson on how to tie...\nMorehead Planetarium\nMorehead Planetarium and Science Center is a unit of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The Morehead Building...\nDean Smith Center\nThe Dean Smith Center is a multi-purpose arena in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The arena is home to...\nLocated less than a mile from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus in downtown Carrboro, the Cat's Cradle...\nThe hotel was built in 1924 by UNC alumnus John Sprunt Hill and designed by award-winning architect Arthur C. Nash,...\nAcme Food & Beverage\nAcme Food & Beverage Company has been serving damn good Southern American cuisine, signature cocktails, fine wines, and craft beers...\nHe's Not Here\n\uf000\nHe's Not Here on the Village Green first opened its doors to thirsty customers on a cool day back in...\nWeaver Street Market\nWeaver Street Market is a community-owned food co-op. Community members become owners for a number of reasons. Many people join...\nCarolina Brewery\nYou'll taste only fresh and local ingredients when you bite into the fine dishes at Carolina Brewery. Sip from some...\n\u00ab Acme Food & Beverage\nAll Nearby Locations\nMama Dips \u00bb\nGet Started Today!Contact Us\nThe Villages of Chapel Hill Apartments\n500 Smith Level Road\nCarrboro, NC 27510\nWebsite by TourVistaManager Login\nStart Your Application TodayContact Us","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Drugs\/Therapy\nObese People and Ex-Smokers are more likely to Follow Statin Therapy\nCheri Cheng\nUpdate Date: Jun 23, 2014 12:09 PM EDT\nStatin therapy is prescribed for people with high cholesterol levels who cannot reduce their levels effectively through exercise and diet. Since high cholesterol can be extremely dangerous for one's health, consistently following one's statin therapy treatment is vital. In a new study, researchers examined the relationship between certain lifestyle factors and statin therapy. They found that people who are obese or ex-smokers were more likely to follow recommended statin therapy.\nAccording to the background information provided by the study's researchers, around 10 percent of cardiovascular events that occur could be tied to people's lack of adherence to their prescribed medication. In order to understand the effects of non-adherence on health risks, the researchers examined data on 11,949 people who were a part of the Finnish Pubic Sector Study, which collected information on people's statin therapy use between 1998 and 2010.\nThe researchers focused on the 928 people who completed the survey. They found that women, younger individuals between the ages of 24 and 50, and single people were less likely to stick to their statin therapy. On the other hand, people who were obese and people who were ex-smokers were more likely to take their statin therapy as recommended.\n\"As expected, patients with a history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes had better adherence to statin therapy than those without these comorbidities,\" wrote Dr. Heli Halava, from the Departments of Public Health and Pharmacology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland reported in the press release. \"Because of their increased risk of cardiovascular events, patients with comorbidities likely have a strong perception of the need for statin treatment.\"\nThe researchers added that heavy drinkers were also less likely to follow their statin therapy. The researchers reasoned that heavy and extreme drinkers tend to skip their statin medication because of the risks involved with mixing drugs and alcohol. Being intoxicated could also cause people to forget to take their medications. The researchers stated that by identifying these lifestyle factors, doctors could help their patients stick to their statin therapy more effectively.\nThe study was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.\nTagsstatin therapy, adherence, lifestyle factors, Obese, Overweight, Health, smoker, Comorbidity, Cardiovascular health, risk\nSee Now: What Republicans Don't Want You To Know About Obamacare\nHairless? Arthritis Drugs Could Help\nConsumer Group Demands Hospitals to Stop Unnecessary Health Screenings\nBroken Gene Protects Against Heart Disease: Study\nAntidepressants during Pregnancy do not Harm a Fetus' Heart, Study Finds\nCanola Oil can be Beneficial for Diabetics\nYou have already subscribed. Thank you.\nGet the Most Popular Stories in a Weekly Newsletter\n\u00a9 2017 Counsel & Heal All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keelty report leads to DEC review\npublished by www.margaretrivermail.com.au\nAustralia \u2014 Premier Colin Barnett has immediately suspended all prescribed burns within 5km of residential area after an independent review into last year's Margaret River blaze found a series of mistakes were made that led to 40 properties being destroyed.\nFormer Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty's report details serious shortcomings in the planning and implementation of the Department of Environment and Conservation's prescribed burn that started in September and crossed containment lines on November 24.\nHowever he did not call for any action to be taken against individuals.\nThe bushfire destroyed 34 homes and nine holiday chalets,and damaged another 22 buildings in Kilcarnup, Wallcliffe, Gnarabup, Prevelly and Redgate. It burnt 3400ha from Gracetown to Redgate beach.\nDEC denied culpability despite the fact it added fuel to the burn on November 21 and 22 despite extreme weather forecasts.\nThe inquiry found DEC did not seek 'spot forecasts' relevant to the burning area despite more wind speeds than forecast by the Bureau of Meteorology and witnesses observing high risk fire conditions.\n\"With the benefit of hindsight, planning and operational decisions did not adequately take into account the forecast weather conditions for November 23, 2011,\" the report says.\nDEC also did not full consider the risk of re-ignition through a flare-up or an escape of the fire, and the fuel assessments undertaken in 2006 were based on an area half of the actual ignited area.\nIn a startling revelation, a spotter pilot reported seeing smoke in the south western corner of the Ellenbrook Block and reported it as a matter of \"high concern\" but DEC interpreted and recorded the message as \"no concerns\" and did not deploy any resources to check the ground.\nThe Department also failed to provide resources to monitor the prescribed burn overnight.\n\"A delay in recognising the seriousness of the problem caused a delay in the engagement of the resources to deal with it, including the local bush fire brigades, many of whom attended the fire of their own accord,\" the report says.\nMr Keelty also found the constant turnover of staff, excess working hours and long driving distances between centres and areas of operation during prescribed burns may also have \"a detrimental effect on the judgment and performance of some DEC staff\".\nHe recommended the Department undertake an immediate review of its risk management practices and consider alternatives to burning, as well as improving succession planning, methods to better attract and retain staff and salary levels.\nThe use of volunteer bush fire brigades, particularly as a source of local knowledge, also should be improved.\nAfter tabling the report in State Parliament today, Mr Barnett said the government would implement all of Mr Keelty's 10 recommendations.\nAs well as immediately suspending prescribed burns close to residential areas, any level three bush fire \u2013 the most serious \u2013 would automatically be under the control of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority rather than the DEC.\nChanges to fire districts would be made before next summer and a south west bushfire risk office would be declared, attached to FESA, to oversee authority of all prescribed burns.\nImproved access to some residential areas would also be looked at, after many Margaret River residents were blocked from evacuating because the fire front crossed their only road access.\nAn urgent review of DEC's risk management practices would be a priority.\n\"The systemic failures that Mr Keelty has brought to our attention were unacceptable,\" Mr Barnett said.\n\"[Mr Keelty found] serious shortcomings and errors in the planning and conduct of the prescribed burn. There are [also] serious concerns about the governance and risk management procediures applied by DEC more broadly.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"M\u0101ori Television \uc628\ub77c\uc778 - \uc2e4\uc2dc\uac04\ubc29\uc1a1\ubcf4\uae30\n\uad6d\uac00: \ub274\uc9c8\ub79c\ub4dc\n\ubc94\uc8fc: \uc77c\ubc18\nM\u0101ori Television 3.3 - 5\nNew Zealand's national indigenous broadcaster, M\u0101ori Television has been established as one of a number of important initiatives to promote and revitalise the M\u0101ori language. The aim of our channel is to play a major role in revitalising language and culture that is the birthright of every M\u0101ori and the heritage of every New Zealander.\n\ub274\uc9c8\ub79c\ub4dc - \ub274\uc2a4\nThree is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first privately owned television\n\ub274\uc9c8\ub79c\ub4dc - \uc218\ub3c4\uc790\nNew Zealand-based Christian lifestyle channel, bringing together the best of uplifting international and local content.\n1 News is the news division of New Zealand television network TVNZ. The service is broadcast live from TVNZ Centre in Auckland.\n\ub274\uc9c8\ub79c\ub4dc - \uc77c\ubc18\nThe Southern Region's local television station broadcasting on Freeview|HD Channel 39 in Dunedin and Invercargill and online at\nPrime News TV\nPrime News \u2013 First at 5.30pm is produced by the award-winning MediaWorks news division at their Auckland Flower Street Studios and offers a\n\ub274\uc9c8\ub79c\ub4dc - \uc815\ubd80\nParliament TV (New Zealand), one of the Legislature broadcasters in New Zealand","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1689 \u2013 William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier, is born.\n1721 \u2013 Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet\n, is born.\n1929 \u2013 X. J. Kennedy, American poet, is born.\n1940 \u2013 Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)\n, dies.\n2005 \u2013 Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936), dies.\nRemember you promised to come on the holiday\nOne hour after dark.\nFor my part, I won't keep count of wraths\nOr wrongs till you come.\nAnd you: Don't believe a word I say\nEven when it's wondrous or perverse.\n\u2014from \"Trying\" by Dahlia Ravikovitch\nJamaica Poetry Festival Provides Feast\nThe fittingly tranquil atmosphere of the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre venue was an indicator that there were few other ideal venues for The Jamaica Poetry Festival held on Sunday night. A moderate-size group of poetry lovers from across Jamaica came out to feast their ears and minds on the works of some of the finest literary artists around. \"Good night.\" The opening words from the last performer, the barefooted Mutabaruka. It seemed as if that formal greeting was enough of an introduction as everybody tuned in to his words as soon as he began reading. Read more at the Jamaica-Gleaner.\nThe World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus \u2013 Review\nby Kate Kellaway\nReading Julia Copus's remarkable collection \u2013 her third \u2013 makes one think about the risks involved in writing personal poetry. \"Write about what you know\" is not fail-safe advice because intimate poetry, unless of the highest quality, often comes across as paradoxically anonymous. Or worse, as many of the collections that come my way reveal, it can be as unsavoury and depressing as rummaging through dresses in a secondhand clothes shop. The wonder of Copus's poems is that although they could hardly be more personal \u2013 childhood; the end of an affair; a sequence on IVF treatment \u2013 there is no self-indulgence and no sense, for the reader, of being an intruder. Read more at the Guardian.\nA Hushed and Controlled Beauty\nby Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn\nHarry Clifton's realm has always been somewhere in the distance, or close to the exotic, or it has been a borrowed space, or it is nowhere much. He is content to be out of place. Exile is for him a natural state where his uneasy companions are bemusement, calm watchfulness, restlessness, regret and warm intelligence. His poetry is a hard-won poetry of the self. The self in this instance has a solitary disposition, a well-stocked mind and is capable of a sour philosophy. Read more at the Irish Times.\n\"Embracing Geography\": Does New York City Incubate Poets?\nby Lauren Spiro\nPoet, playwright, and novelist William Packard moderates this 1968 broadcast: Is there a New York poet? Joining Packard are the poets Stephen Stepanchev and Norman Rosten. Originally from Chicago, Stephanchev is the author of a critical survey of American poetry since 1945. Rosten, a native New Yorker and recipient of a Ford Foundation grant, is the author of several books of poetry and the plays \"Come Slowly Eden\" and \"Thrive Upon the Rock.\" Packard himself was considered part of the circle of poets to which the broadcast is devoted, yet he separates himself from them in service of objectively posing the question of the night. Read more at WNYC.\nBlake in the Academe\nby David X. Novak\nIn 1969, Northrop Frye introduced the new edition of his groundbreaking study of the works of the poet William Blake, with some offhand comments about its genesis: \"The doctoral thesis is useful for encouraging intensive reading, but of very little use for gaining literary perspective, which takes years to develop and cannot be hurried. The present book never went through the thesis stage, and my interest in Blake had from the beginning been of the extensive kind.\" Read more at Critical Flame.\nThree Tendencies in English Language Poetry\nby Amit Majmudar\nA broad characterization of three tendencies in English language poetry, by no means exhaustive. Read more at the Kenyon Review.\nWhen Bad Poetry and Basic Computer Graphics Collide\nSeries of 1960s films tried to merge graphics with poetry and freeform jazz.\nFall Poetry Festival Lineups Announced\nPoetry may make nothing happen, as W. H. Auden once wrote. But in October it will bring an unusual number of poets and poetry mavens to the greater New York area. The United States poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winner C. K. Williams, the former New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka and dozens of others will gather in Newark on Oct. 11-14 for the 14th Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, a biennial event that bills itself as North America's largest poetry event. Read more at the New York Times.\nFBI Files on Sylvia Plath's Father Shed New Light on Poet\nWhen FBI officers noted the \"morbid disposition\" of a German-born US suspect called Otto Plath during a first world war investigation, little did they realise how incisive their psychological assessment was, or its significance. Fourteen years later, he fathered Sylvia Plath, one of the 20th century's most influential poets who continually battled against depression. Read more at the Guardian.\nPoetry for Pedestrians\nIf you take your smartphone with a QR decoder along Bucknell University's Poetry Path you'll be able to hear contemporary poets read their work. Each of the 10 markers along the path through the campus and downtown Lewisburg is designed to let your phone link with a recording of the verse, or you can enjoy a printed version of a poem simply by reading it from the marker. Read more at the Standard-Journal.\nThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965\u20132010 by Lucille Clifton\n[Hardcover] BOA Editions Ltd., 720 pp., $35.00\nThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965\u20132010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965\u20131969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize\u2013winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career.\nOn Poetry by Glyn Maxwell\n[Hardcover] Oberon Books, 160 pp., $23.95\nA collection of small essays and chapters each tackling a different element of this enchanting art form, all written by prolific & acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. Each essay illustrates Maxwell's \"take\" on poetry, his inspirations, his favorite writers, and indeed his thoughts on what makes a \"good poem.\"\nElected Friends edited by Matthew Spencer\n[Paperback] Other Press, 258 pp., $17.00\nRobert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the two writers\u2014Frost, an unknown poet who had sold his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary journalist\u2014formed the most important friendship between poets since that of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Their friendship only ended with Thomas' death in Arras, France, a casualty of the First World War. This book presents for the first time the full record, arranged chronologically, of what the poets wrote to, for, and about one another\u2014their letters, poems, and Thomas' review of Frost's first two books.\nPoems: Inside and Out by Omar Pound\n[Hardcover] Stephen F. Austin University Press, 106 pp., $150.00\nPoems: Inside and Out provides a selection of works by the poet Omar S. Pound, son of Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear Pound. The late Omar Pound was a gifted translator, an authority on Persian poetry, and a gifted poet in his own right. 125 copies were hand set in Cloister Old Style type and printed on Somerset and superfine papers. The covers are printed blue book cloth over boards. The images are linoleum cuts by John Daniel and were printed from the original blocks.\nHow Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Wrote Her Father's \"Elegy\"\nby Alex Hoyt\nSix or seven years ago, my father and I were fishing the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. It's a great salmon river. We met a writer friend of his named Dave Richards, a novelist, and Dave hired a guide for us. This was a famous guide who'd taken people like Bill Clinton fishing on the Miramichi. Once we got out there into the river the guide gave us a quick lesson about how to fly-fish, how to cast. We practiced the motions, then we got our rods and started fishing. There was this almost mystical look to the river. It seemed reverent just to be quiet, going through the mist. Read more at The Atlantic.\nAn Interview with Jee Leong Koh\nby Rose Kelleher\nYou're clearly a well-rounded poet with a wide range of interests, but this being the Fetish issue I want to start by asking you about your racier poems. (Does anyone still say \"racy\"?) Many formal poetry journals tend to be somewhat conservative in their tastes, and I don't see many of those on your book's acknowledgments page. At the same time, many other journals aren't terribly receptive to formal verse. So where do you submit a poem like \"Chapter Six: Anal Sex\" that's sexually explicit as well as rhymed and metered? Read more at the Shit Creek Review.\nAn English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Poetry\nby Emily Temple\nSo like everyone else, you love Emily Dickinson's poems \u2014 but have you ever wished they were a little, well, shorter? No? They're already generally quite short, you say? Well, hear us out. In The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems, published this week, Paul Legault \"translates\" each of Dickinson's 1,789 poems into pithy, irreverent, and often insightful modern missives. There's still just as much death, despair, flowers, and sexiness, but in a new streamlined form perfect for cocktail parties. Read more at Flavorwire.\nPerfect for cocktail parties? I remember my parents having novelty cocktail napkins with drawings and jokes on them; maybe something like that would work. As much as I try to understand the purpose of publishing this (might it take people back to the originals and give them a fresh look at them?), I just can't. It's clever after a fashion, but finally, it is a novelty. How many times, after the first, would you go to it on the shelf? Maybe there's more to it than can be gleaned from the review above. But it reminds me of a more ambitious novelty: The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry, a parody of the [Burnt] Norton, which covers the whole of English poetry from the Middle-Aged [sic] to the Twentieth Century (which begins with Ezra Pound issuing the \"Harriet Monroe Doctrine\"). Seriously funny. But there were many hands at work in providing the parodies including Henry Taylor, Kenneth Koch, Michael Heffernan, and many others. Speaking of translating Emily into contemporary English, Robert Frost in the Brand-X Anthology is quoted as saying \"Writing free verse is like playing tennis without a hairnet.\" Who could disgree with that? I can heartily recommend this novelty for all students of English poetry.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Related Gene(s)\nRelated Condition(s)\nQuick links to this topic\nGenetic and Rare Diseases Information Center\nInformation about genetic conditions and rare diseases\nAdditional NIH Resources\nGene Reviews\nClinical summary\nGene Tests\nGenetic disorder catalog\nGenetic Conditions >\nGenetic changes\nGlossary definitions\nReviewed December 2008\nWhat is Alzheimer disease?\nAlzheimer disease is a degenerative disease of the brain that causes dementia, which is a gradual loss of memory, judgment, and ability to function. This disorder usually appears in people older than age 65, but less common forms of the disease appear earlier in adulthood.\nMemory loss is the most common sign of Alzheimer disease. Forgetfulness may be subtle at first, but the loss of memory worsens over time until it interferes with most aspects of daily living. Even in familiar settings, a person with Alzheimer disease may get lost or become confused. Routine tasks such as preparing meals, doing laundry, and performing other household chores can be challenging. Additionally, it may become difficult to recognize people and name objects. Affected people increasingly require help with dressing, eating, and personal care.\nAs the disorder progresses, some people with Alzheimer disease experience personality and behavioral changes and have trouble interacting in a socially appropriate manner. Other common symptoms include agitation, restlessness, withdrawal, and loss of language skills. People with this disease usually require total care during the advanced stages of the disease. Affected individuals usually survive 8 to 10 years after the appearance of symptoms, but the course of the disease can range from 1 to 25 years. Death usually results from pneumonia, malnutrition, or general body wasting (inanition).\nAlzheimer disease can be classified as early-onset or late-onset. The signs and symptoms of the early-onset form appear before age 65, while the late-onset form appears after age 65. The early-onset form is much less common than the late-onset form, accounting for less than 5 percent of all cases of Alzheimer disease.\nHow common is Alzheimer disease?\nAlzheimer disease currently affects an estimated 2.4 million to 4.5 million Americans. Because the risk of developing Alzheimer disease increases with age and more people are living longer, the number of people with this disease is expected to increase significantly in coming decades.\nWhat genes are related to Alzheimer disease?\nMost cases of early-onset Alzheimer disease are caused by gene mutations that can be passed from parent to child. Researchers have found that this form of the disorder can result from mutations in one of three genes: APP, PSEN1, or PSEN2. When any of these genes is altered, large amounts of a toxic protein fragment called amyloid beta peptide are produced in the brain. This peptide can build up in the brain to form clumps called amyloid plaques, which are characteristic of Alzheimer disease. A buildup of toxic amyloid beta peptide and amyloid plaques may lead to the death of nerve cells and the progressive signs and symptoms of this disorder.\nSome evidence indicates that people with Down syndrome have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer disease. Down syndrome, a condition characterized by intellectual disability and other health problems, occurs when a person is born with an extra copy of chromosome 21 in each cell. As a result, people with Down syndrome have three copies of many genes in each cell, including the APP gene, instead of the usual two copies. Although the connection between Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease is unclear, the production of excess amyloid beta peptide in cells may account for the increased risk. People with Down syndrome account for less than 1 percent of all cases of Alzheimer disease.\nThe causes of late-onset Alzheimer disease are less clear. The late-onset form does not clearly run in families, although clusters of cases have been reported in some families. This disorder is probably related to variations in one or more genes in combination with lifestyle and environmental factors. A gene called APOE has been studied extensively as a risk factor for the disease. In particular, a variant of this gene called the e4 allele seems to increase an individual's risk for developing late-onset Alzheimer disease. Researchers are investigating many additional genes that may play a role in Alzheimer disease risk.\nRead more about the APOE, APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 genes.\nRead more about Down syndrome.\nHow do people inherit Alzheimer disease?\nThe early-onset form of Alzheimer disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder. In most cases, an affected person inherits the altered gene from one affected parent.\nThe inheritance pattern of late-onset Alzheimer disease is uncertain. People who inherit one copy of the APOE e4 allele have an increased chance of developing the disease; those who inherit two copies of the allele are at even greater risk. It is important to note that people with the APOE e4 allele inherit an increased risk of developing Alzheimer disease, not the disease itself. Not all people with Alzheimer disease have the e4 allele, and not all people who have the e4 allele will develop the disease.\nWhere can I find information about diagnosis or management of Alzheimer disease?\nThese resources address the diagnosis or management of Alzheimer disease and may include treatment providers.\nAlzheimer's Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine\nGene Review: Alzheimer Disease\nGene Review: Early-Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease\nGene Tests: Alzheimer Disease Risk Factor (APOE Genotype)\nGene Tests: Alzheimer Disease Type 1\nMedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Alzheimer's Disease\nMichigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center\nUniversity of California Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center\nYou might also find information on the diagnosis or management of Alzheimer disease in Educational resources and Patient support.\nGeneral information about the diagnosis and management of genetic conditions is available in the Handbook.\nTo locate a healthcare provider, see How can I find a genetics professional in my area? in the Handbook.\nWhere can I find additional information about Alzheimer disease?\nYou may find the following resources about Alzheimer disease helpful. These materials are written for the general public.\nMedlinePlus - Health information (3 links)\nGenetic and Rare Diseases Information Center - Information about genetic conditions and rare diseases (5 links)\nAdditional NIH Resources - National Institutes of Health (5 links)\nEducational resources - Information pages (8 links)\nPatient support - For patients and families (6 links)\nYou may also be interested in these resources, which are designed for healthcare professionals and researchers.\nGene Reviews - Clinical summary (2 links)\nGene Tests - Genetic tests ordered by healthcare professionals (4 links)\nClinicalTrials.gov - Linking patients to medical research\nPubMed - Recent literature\nOMIM - Genetic disorder catalog (4 links)\nWhat other names do people use for Alzheimer disease?\nAlzheimer dementia (AD)\nAlzheimer sclerosis\nAlzheimer syndrome\nAlzheimer-type dementia (ATD)\nfamilial Alzheimer disease (FAD)\nPresenile and senile dementia\nPrimary Senile Degenerative Dementia\nFor more information about naming genetic conditions, see the Genetics Home Reference Condition Naming Guidelines and How are genetic conditions and genes named? in the Handbook.\nWhat if I still have specific questions about Alzheimer disease?\nAsk the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center .\nWhere can I find general information about genetic conditions?\nThe Handbook provides basic information about genetics in clear language.\nWhat does it mean if a disorder seems to run in my family?\nWhat are the different ways in which a genetic condition can be inherited?\nIf a genetic disorder runs in my family, what are the chances that my children will have the condition?\nWhy are some genetic conditions more common in particular ethnic groups?\nThese links provide additional genetics resources that may be useful.\nResources for Patients and Families\nWhat glossary definitions help with understanding Alzheimer disease?\nallele ; amyloid ; amyloid plaque ; autosomal ; autosomal dominant ; cell ; chromosome ; degenerative ; dementia ; familial ; gene ; inanition ; inheritance ; inheritance pattern ; mutation ; nerve cell ; neurofibrillary tangles ; parkinsonism ; peptide ; plaque ; pneumonia ; protein ; risk factors ; sclerosis ; sign ; stage ; symptom ; syndrome ; tau proteins ; toxic ; wasting\nYou may find definitions for these and many other terms in the Genetics Home Reference Glossary.\nSee also Understanding Medical Terminology.\nReferences (16 links)\nThe resources on this site should not be used as a substitute for professional medical care or advice. Users seeking information about a personal genetic disease, syndrome, or condition should consult with a qualified healthcare professional. See How can I find a genetics professional in my area? in the Handbook.\nReviewed: December 2008","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Devil is a Part-Timer!! episode 6\nPosted bytheronm4 August 20, 2022 Posted inUncategorized\nRating: B\nLast episode ended with the not-so-vague impression that something was out in the fog, and the more vague impression that Amane had more of a sense of something genuinely supernatural in that fog than she was letting on. This episode not only confirms both of those suspicions but also further suggests that there's something inhuman (or at least not ordinarily human) about Mikitty and her family. In the process, however, the episode also raises a whole batch of new questions.\nFirst, the creature seemingly out in the fog is revealed to be a demon, and not just one. Why demons are popping up in the fog, seemingly without being aware of the presence of Satan, Alciel, and Lucifer is a mystery almost as big as the fog manipulation that's terrorizing them (with the intent of driving them off, it would seem), but at least the latter mystery gets revealed by the end of the episode. Why Satan's adjutant and regent, the bird-themed Camio, has also appeared is also still a mystery, as one would think that he'd be too busy to be out and about personally when problems exist in the demon realm. Looks like we'll have to wait until next episode to find out about that. At least Camio reverting to a bird is easy enough to surmise: that's his natural form when he lacks sufficient demonic power for his more humanoid form.\nEven based on anime-only content, though, some reasonable speculation can be made about Amane, the one Camio acknowledges as defeating him. She lives at the farthest eastern point on Japan's main island, which would be a natural place to be if one were a guardian against portals and\/or other supernatural phenomena that might appear out at sea. (Or the fact the that beach restaurant was in such decrepit shape might mean that she doesn't always live out her but came out at this time because she sensed trouble in the area.) If she does, indeed, play that role, then Mikitty also in some way being a protector of Earth would logically follow, which would then mean that neither the new \"Devil King's Castle\" being where it is nor the devils having been invited out to work here were coincidences.\nBeyond this, the episode otherwise involves the ladies around Maou helping out when Maou and crew get overwhelmed by business, which could also be looked at as an excuse to have the ladies traipsing around in swimsuits (albeit remarkably tasteful ones). Lucifer also has an interesting talk with Emilia and some background details about how Camio fits into the picture also get elaborated on, helping to fill out the story's background a little more. However, all of that is far less interesting than what's going on with the main plot. Whatever the mysteries at hand turn out to be, next episode (which could well conclude the adaptation of the fourth novel at the pace that the story is progressing) should be a much more intense one.\nIs It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why We Should Care About 4,000th Ichiro Pro Hit\nWhy We Should Care About 4,000th Ichiro Pro Hit \u2014 Daily Intelligencer:\nBut in at least one way, it doesn't matter whether 4,000 professional hits is exactly as impressive as we're trained to think it is because a lot of them came in Japan. Sports fans love round numbers, and we especially love large round numbers \u2014 the kind that take a career to accumulate. We make a big deal when a pitcher gets to 300 wins, or a slugger hits his 500th home run, or a hitter gets his 3,000th (or 4,000th) hit, and the main reason we do so is because it allows us a natural opportunity to reflect on the player's career, which almost by definition is an impressive one. All-time greats like Ichiro deserve this sort of treatment; he and players like him ought to be celebrated as their careers wind down. New York fans have been through this a lot lately, with future Hall of Famers Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera reaching significant milestones in recent years. The prime of Ichiro's career happened outside of New York, of course, but he's in that class of player.\nAnd so too much debate about the legitimacy of Ichiro's 4,000 hits would obscure what should be (and for the most part is) happening now: a celebration of one of the most iconic baseball players ever. Yankee fans are watching an Ichiro whose best days are behind him, but even if we focus just on his American career, his time in Seattle was incredible. (At least his unorthodox-but-effective slap-swing \u2014 the one that helped him pick up an insane 262 hits in 2004 \u2014 still remains.) Ichiro's American numbers are plenty good enough for induction into Cooperstown \u2014 he has a .320 career average thanks to a steady stream of singles \u2014 but it's possible he won't reach any major round-number milestones. (He's 278 major-league hits away from 3,000, but he turns 40 this fall.) Which means this might be our best opportunity to collectively celebrate his career before it ends. Let's be sure to take it.\n[Let's not forget this article that says a lot about how he went about this. With the recent debate over 10,000 hours (genetics vs. practice) let's not forget that there's always a practice component. There's always relentless, focused, efficient practice involved.]\nSource: Gruber","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rights group says China detains legal activist\nAugust 28, 2013 Comments Off on Rights group says China detains legal activist\nOriginally published by LAS VEGAS SUN on August 18, 2013\nChinese authorities have detained Yang Maodong, a leading member of the country's loose New Citizens campaign that promotes democratic rights, his friend and an international human rights advocacy group said Saturday.\nIt is the second such detention of a leader of the group after Xu Zhiyong was detained several weeks ago in Beijing.\nJournalist Xiao Shu said that a sister of Yang was notified by the Tianhe branch of the Guangzhou police in southern China that Yang, who writes under the alias Guo Feixiong, was detained on Aug. 8 on the criminal charge of disrupting public order.\nThe Chinese Human Rights Defenders also reported Yang's detention on Saturday. A woman at a local police office referred questions to a detention center, but the detention center refused to comment.\n\"Guo is the leading figure in southern China for the New Citizens movement, and Xu is the movement's leading figure in northern China,\" Xiao Shu said. \"The way the authorities handle Guo's case is exactly how they have been handling Xu.\"\nXu is considered a moderate but outspoken voice in China's beleaguered rights movement, campaigning for issues that include equal rights to education, and for officials to declare their assets.\nWhile behind bars, Xu last week urged citizens to unite in pursuing democratic freedoms in a taped video that was posted online.\nYang, 47, is a legal activist and dissident writer. He had served a five-year jail sentence between 2006 and 2011, and the writer's advocacy group, International PEN, has said Yang was targeted for his book that allegedly exposed official corruption in a northeastern Chinese city.\nSince his release, Yang continued to work on rights issues, his wife Zhang Qing said.\nZhang said she last spoke to Yang on Aug. 7 and detected no sign of trouble. But he was out of contact from the next day.\nHis friends and supporters learned his fate only on Saturday when the official notification to his sister confirmed his detention.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Domino's lover was saved after he hadn't ordered in 11 days\nKirk Alexander, 47, of Salem, Oregon, was found on the ground of his home on Sunday after staff at a Salem Domino's Pizza called 911 when he wouldn't answer his door.\nThis is the Oregon man whose life was saved by Domino's Pizza staff after they realized their favorite customer hasn't ordered food in 11 days.\nKirk Alexander, 47, was found on the ground of his home on Sunday after staff at a Salem Domino's Pizza called 911 when he wouldn't answer his door.\nEmployees at the Salem shop became worried after Alexander - who has been a regular customer for seven years - hadn't called in to the store in nearly two weeks, so they sent a delivery driver to his home to check up on him.\nTracey Hamblen, an employee, knocked on Alexander's door on Sunday, just after midnight, but he didn't respond. She could see lights and a television on inside.\nKirk Alexander, 47, was found on the ground of his Salem, Oregon, home on Sunday after staff at a Salem Domino's Pizza called 911\nSarah Fuller, a general manager at a Domino's Pizza in Salem, Oregon, says her staff helped save the well-known customer after becoming worried that he hadn't ordered from the store in 11 days\nA delivery driver was sent to Alexander's home (pictured) for a wellness check just after midnight on Sunday, and after he didn't answer the door, she called 911. Marion County sheriff's deputies found Alexander suffering medical problems that could have ended his life\nHamblen tried to call the customer, but it went straight to voicemail.\nAfter not hearing from Alexander, Hamblen called 911, while Jenny Seiber, a Domino's assistant manager, called authorities' non-emergency line, according to Oregon Live.\nMarion County sheriff's deputies arrived and heard a man calling for help from inside the home.\nThey found Alexander suffering medical problems that could have ended his life, Marion County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt Chris Baldridge said.\nHe was taken to the hospital and was in stable condition as of Monday morning, the sheriff's office said in a statement.\nThe office would not reveal what medical problems Alexander was experiencing, but said he suffers from severe health problems.\nParamedics told KOIN, however, that Alexander was on the ground of his home when they arrived, and that they believed he had a stroke. It is unknown when he suffered the medical problems.\nSeiber said that Alexander is a very well-known customer, but he doesn't have a regular order - he'll order anything from pasta or pizza to sandwiches or wings.\n'It's never the same thing every time,' she said.\nShe added that Alexander is quiet, but friendly and nice, saying employees at the restaurant were 'worried a little bit' after not hearing from him for 11 days.\nStaff said Alexander is a very well-known customer at the restaurant (pictured), but he doesn't have a regular order - he'll order anything from pasta or pizza to sandwiches or wings\nGeneral manager Sarah Fuller told KOIN that Alexander has been ordering from the restaurant since 2009.\n'He orders every day, every other day,' Fuller said. 'His order pops up on the screen because he orders online. So we see it come across the screen and we're like, \"Oh, Kirk's order\".'\nShe added that Alexander is 'just an important customer that's part of our family here at Domino's.\n'He orders all the time, so we know him. I think we were just doing our job checking in on someone we know who orders a lot. We felt like we needed to do something.'\nJenny Fouracre, director of public relations at Domino's headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, told the Statesman Journal that the store's efforts were consistent with the company's customer service standards.\nShe said: 'We are proud of our team members who took the initiative to reach out and help a regular customer who was in distress.\n'There are thousands of Domino's stores across the country, but every store is really a part of their neighborhood, delivering to people in their homes, which means we often get to know our customers well.\n'We have many stories of how our stores have helped regular customers in ways that are big and small over the years, which is a level of customer service and commitment to our communities that we hope everyone will emulate.'\nFuller told the Statesman Journal that she agreed with Fouracre's statement.\n'We're like a family here, and we were glad we were able to do something to help,' she said. 'We hope he's able to fully recover from this.'\nJenny Fouracre, director of public relations at Domino's headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that the store's (pictured) efforts were consistent with the company's customer service standards\nThat post exemplifies the root of the problem - a historical legacy of centuries of propaganda based on the premise of European racial supremacy. It portrays the white colonial master that is the savior to the ever thankful poor black slave. Thank God, I'm an emancipated African - and I don't worship at the feet of white gods - the Queen or the Governor, who are simply relics of outmoded colonialism built on the tenets of racist institutions of white supremacy that colonized and enslaved Africans for centuries.\nAs Bob Marley said, \"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,\" because sometimes, \"shit is just shit!\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Middle East Chapter Hosts Golf Tournament, Annual Meeting\nIn November, the Council's Middle East Chapter hosted its first sold-out golf tournament, as well as its annual meeting during the ADIPEC Conference.\nThe tournament, sponsored by Cummins Arabia, NOV and SPM Oil & Gas, was an opportunity for peers and customers to connect after months of remote events. In 2022, the Chapter plans to further grow the tournament as a cornerstone of the Chapter's activities, similar to its annual meeting.\nDuring the ADIPEC Technical Conference, the Chapter hosted its annual meeting at the USA Pavilion inside the Expo 2020 Dubai. Erick Kish, U.S. Commercial Service Abu Dhabi, opened the meeting, discussing what his company is hearing from energy companies in the region, the support that U.S. Commercial Services can provide to U.S. firms, and how U.S. businesses are engaging in the Middle East.\nShahin Shamsabadi, FTI Consulting, and Michael Carstensen, DSV Air and Sea, shared keynote remarks to attendees. Carstensen's insights on the current global trade disruptions focused on the mix of events at ports and the unequal recovery of air trade routes following COVID-19, with the message that old strategies do not work in a post-COVID world. Striking the right balance between cost, flexibility and resilience is not easy but the need to prepare for the unexpected, minimize vulnerability and manage risk is not to be ignored, he said.\nShamsabadi, who also addressed the group in 2018, shared thoughts on how the Gulf reacted to COVID-19 from a political and business perspective and how it is adapting to new markets. Overall, he said, the energy industries are concerned about potential variant resistant strain and how this affects future planning. Other important factors he discussed were ESG and sustainability developments, as well as growing concerns about securing financing.\nIn 2022, newly elected Chapter Chair Daniel Watson, Energy Alloys, plans to continue to grow the Chapter's best practice and networking events.\nThe Executive Leadership Program's Middle East cohort is now open for registration. For more information, contact Council Vice President Programs & Events Peggy Helfert.\nParticipants Share Key Takeaways, Best Practices as Council Programs Draw to a Close\nHigh-Performer Spotlight: Orleth Bryan-Tortolero, Vallourec","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Leran Hadar\nEstates Agent\nE: leran(at)aaronkirman(dotted)com\nBorn and raised in Los Angeles, Leran Hadar knows L.A. inside and out. After studying abroad for a few years, including boarding school in Switzerland and colleges in both Rome, Italy and London, England, he came back to his home to begin working on his career. Beginning in the fashion retail industry, he quickly worked his way up and served as general brand manager at legendary fashion retailer, H. Lorenzo for 8 years. Through his work there, he has built an impressive network of L.A.'s most celebrated and renowned clients from both the entertainment and music industries.\nCapitalizing on his experience, people skills and work ethic, Leran soon after opened his own chain of retail concept stores with his now wife, Marine Azria. The stores are called The Piece Collective and together they own several locations including one on Abbot Kinney and The Glen Centre in Bel Air.\nWith a strong drive and passion, Leran Hadar is dedicated to his clients as a real-estate agent with Aaron Kirman Team (John Arrow Group). He continues to pursue his career with the same passion, integrity and commitment to his clients as he has throughout his career. As he often likes to say, \"without integrity, nothing works\". Inquire","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Artificial intelligence \u00bb AI will create millions more jobs than are lost because of economic growth\nAI will create millions more jobs than are lost because of economic growth\nOctober 6, 2018 by Brian Wang\nAI and related technologies such as robots, drones and autonomous vehicles could provide a net boost to employment in China of around 12% over the next two decades, equating to around 90 million additional jobs.\nAround 26% of existing jobs in China could be automated over the next 20 years, but this is projected to be more than offset by job creation of 38%, giving an estimated net gain of 12%.\nServices (+29%) and construction (+23%) could see the largest net increases in jobs by 2037 in China, offset by estimated net job losses of around 10% in agriculture.\nPwC estimates that the boost from AI and related technologies to economic growth in China could create millions of new jobs, more than offsetting displacement of existing jobs. But the report argues there is no room for complacency given the projected scale of disruption to the labor market from these technologies.\nThis new analysis for China contrasts with PwC's earlier research suggesting a broadly neutral net impact of AI and related technologies on jobs in the UK. In that analysis, PwC found that these technologies could displace around 20% of existing UK jobs by 2037, but could create a similar number of additional jobs by boosting economic growth. Based on previous research, PwC judges that results for the UK are likely to be broadly similar to the average across OECD countries.\nMost of the new jobs created will have nothing directly to do with AI or robots, but will simply be the product of a richer society with consequent increased demand for goods and services of all kinds.\nBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.\nKnown for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.\nA frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.\nCategories Artificial intelligence, Science, Technology, World Tags artificial intellgence, future, jobs, predictions, world Post navigation\nTop 100 companies worth over $20 trillion\nHypersonic weapons are the top US military research priority\n163 thoughts on \"AI will create millions more jobs than are lost because of economic growth\"\nMarkStewart\nI don't think it is as complicated as that. Keynes's problem is that he pointed out that the economy won't fix itself in a timely manner, which meant that the government might have to interfere with the economy to expedite its recovery. Many capitalist prefer the concept of laissez-faire because it gives them a free hand to rip people off. We must always remember that no manner how painful a Depression or a Recession is there are people who will profit quite well from it and these people won't be happy with a quick recovery. Vultures always eat quite well during a drought or a famine.\nI don't think it is as complicated as that. Keynes's problem is that he pointed out that the economy won't fix itself in a timely manner which meant that the government might have to interfere with the economy to expedite its recovery. Many capitalist prefer the concept of laissez-faire because it gives them a free hand to rip people off. We must always remember that no manner how painful a Depression or a Recession is there are people who will profit quite well from it and these people won't be happy with a quick recovery. Vultures always eat quite well during a drought or a famine.\ndoctorpat\nYou've missed the point of UBI. Not your fault; most people who go on about UBI also miss the point, which is why their arguments don't make sense, the math doesn't work, and various trials around the world have all failed. UBI is not a solution to current problems (if any), because, as you point out, it's just too expensive. UBI is a solution to a future (possible) problem of \"AIs are so productive that (30%? 50% 90%??) of humans are unemployable\". Under those circumstances, the government CAN grab say 5% of GDP and use it to give everyone a payment that gives them a decent life as part of the leisure class. Of course people read this, think it sounds idyllic, think that it would be cool NOW, and then can't work out why it can't be paid for without the advanced AI and robotics that the idea is based on.\nYou've missed the point of UBI.Not your fault; most people who go on about UBI also miss the point which is why their arguments don't make sense the math doesn't work and various trials around the world have all failed.UBI is not a solution to current problems (if any) because as you point out it's just too expensive.UBI is a solution to a future (possible) problem of AIs are so productive that (30{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12}? 50{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} 90{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12}??) of humans are unemployable\"\".Under those circumstances\"\" the government CAN grab say 5{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} of GDP and use it to give everyone a payment that gives them a decent life as part of the leisure class.Of course people read this think it sounds idyllic think that it would be cool NOW\"\" and then can't work out why it can't be paid for without the advanced AI and robotics that the idea is based on.\"\"\"\nWarrenTheApe\nWhat secret code? You know what wu mau means. You are one, after all.\nNextBigAsshole\nWhat secret code? You know what wu mau means. You are one after all.\nMore clever than you are, wu mau.\nMore clever than you are wu mau.\nWhat ignorance? You claimed I think you are leftist when I said no such thing. I called you for what you are\u2026a wu mau. And you fully know what that term means. You just don't want to admit it. So you play games. Everyone on here knows you are wu mau. You didn't exactly hide yourself well.\nWhat ignorance? You claimed I think you are leftist when I said no such thing. I called you for what you are\u2026a wu mau.And you fully know what that term means. You just don't want to admit it. So you play games.Everyone on here knows you are wu mau. You didn't exactly hide yourself well.\nTominPuertoRico\nKeynesiantardism.. gee aren't you clever?\nTom in\nYou must like your secret code. Did it come with your magic decoder ring?\nYour ignorance is on full display. Learn some english.\nIt's comical that you think i'm a leftist.\" I said you were a wu mau. Learn to read.\nIt's comical that you think i'm a leftist.\"\"I said you were a wu mau. Learn to read.\"\"\"\nSTFU, Wu Mau.\nSTFU Wu Mau.\nBrendanLu\nI hope the robots take over everything one day, it's be nice not lacking for anything and just enjoy life. Of course, life will get dull very quickly unless there's a new focus on what \"living\" actually entails once we're not preoccupied with bringing in the paychecks as we do now.\nBrendan Lu\nI hope the robots take over everything one day it's be nice not lacking for anything and just enjoy life. Of course life will get dull very quickly unless there's a new focus on what living\"\" actually entails once we're not preoccupied with bringing in the paychecks as we do now.\"\"\"\nAlanFraser\nWhat nonsense. A new job is created, do you hire the human who works 8 hrs a day, and costs $8\/hr, or do you buy a AI enabled android who costs 40K, but works 23 hrs a day, spends a hr recharging, and does so for less then $1\/hr? Or do you rent one for $3\/hr? Theres NOTHING humans will be better at eventually. And once that occurs those newly created jobs will not be filled by them. PERIOD.\nWhat nonsense. A new job is created do you hire the human who works 8 hrs a day and costs $8\/hr or do you buy a AI enabled android who costs 40K but works 23 hrs a day spends a hr recharging and does so for less then $1\/hr? Or do you rent one for $3\/hr?Theres NOTHING humans will be better at eventually. And once that occurs those newly created jobs will not be filled by them. PERIOD.\nMostly the lost of jobs hype. What normally happens when there is an improvement in productivity in a particular type of job there is a lost of jobs in that field. But the workers eventually migrate to other types of jobs. The same thing will happen as it had happened time and time again. The consumers will pay less for the product produced thru improved productivity which will leave them money to buy other products and services. And the increased demand for these products and services will generated new jobs.\nWanna bet that you can't 'shut' me up? You can't see through anything. You're too ignorant. It's comical that you think i'm a leftist. You just don't know how far to the left YOU are! And as is usual for leftists, you attack the person and ignore the argument when you don't have a convincing argument.\nWanna bet that you can't 'shut' me up?You can't see through anything. You're too ignorant. It's comical that you think i'm a leftist. You just don't know how far to the left YOU are! And as is usual for leftists you attack the person and ignore the argument when you don't have a convincing argument.\n+1 Jan\nSTFU, wu mau sc\u00fbm! The rest of us see right through your b\u00fbllsh!t. Tell Beijing that during your next status update meeting.\nSTFU wu mau sc\u00fbm!The rest of us see right through your b\u00fbllsh!t. Tell Beijing that during your next status update meeting.\"\nYou've missed the point of UBI.\nNot your fault; most people who go on about UBI also miss the point, which is why their arguments don't make sense, the math doesn't work, and various trials around the world have all failed.\nUBI is not a solution to current problems (if any), because, as you point out, it's just too expensive.\nUBI is a solution to a future (possible) problem of \"AIs are so productive that (30%? 50% 90%??) of humans are unemployable\".\nUnder those circumstances, the government CAN grab say 5% of GDP and use it to give everyone a payment that gives them a decent life as part of the leisure class.\nOf course people read this, think it sounds idyllic, think that it would be cool NOW, and then can't work out why it can't be paid for without the advanced AI and robotics that the idea is based on.\nYou are correct Brian. Don't listen to the naysayers. Their arguments are infantile.\nWe're ALWAYS living in 'unprecedented times'.\nWhat secret code?\nYou know what wu mau means. You are one, after all.\nWhat ignorance? You claimed I think you are leftist when I said no such thing. I called you for what you are\u2026a wu mau.\nAnd you fully know what that term means. You just don't want to admit it. So you play games.\nEveryone on here knows you are wu mau. You didn't exactly hide yourself well.\nTom in Puerto Rico\n\"It's comical that you think i'm a leftist.\"\nI said you were a wu mau.\nLearn to read.\nglockman\nYou are right, AI will help China be more productive as their population decreases. Same goes for Japan, for example. that might be good for the productivity of the country (or company) but not necessarily for the individual. It all depends on where the workers are and timing. China may lose about 150m-180m in their working population between now and 2050 (aging demos). They have currently about 120m manufacturing workers. You could argue that if automation reduces the number of factory employees at the rate they retire, then no problems. But automation labor-displacement is much, much faster. HonHai can reduce their labor force in China by about 900k-1m and replace it with a force of 10-20k in various regions around the world. So they are doing this. Modern automation is sudden. Demographics is gradual.\nYou are right AI will help China be more productive as their population decreases. Same goes for Japan for example. that might be good for the productivity of the country (or company) but not necessarily for the individual. It all depends on where the workers are and timing.China may lose about 150m-180m in their working population between now and 2050 (aging demos). They have currently about 120m manufacturing workers. You could argue that if automation reduces the number of factory employees at the rate they retire then no problems. But automation labor-displacement is much much faster. HonHai can reduce their labor force in China by about 900k-1m and replace it with a force of 10-20k in various regions around the world. So they are doing this. Modern automation is sudden. Demographics is gradual.\nWhat nonsense. A new job is created, do you hire the human who works 8 hrs a day, and costs $8\/hr, or do you buy a AI enabled android who costs 40K, but works 23 hrs a day, spends a hr recharging, and does so for less then $1\/hr? Or do you rent one for $3\/hr?\nTheres NOTHING humans will be better at eventually. And once that occurs those newly created jobs will not be filled by them. PERIOD.\nMostly the lost of jobs hype. What normally happens when there is an improvement in productivity in a particular type of job there is a lost of jobs in that field. But the workers eventually migrate to other types of jobs. The same thing will happen as it had happened time and time again.\nThe consumers will pay less for the product produced thru improved productivity which will leave them money to buy other products and services. And the increased demand for these products and services will generated new jobs.\nWanna bet that you can't 'shut' me up?\nYou can't see through anything. You're too ignorant. It's comical that you think i'm a leftist. You just don't know how far to the left YOU are! And as is usual for leftists, you attack the person and ignore the argument when you don't have a convincing argument.\nA limit of how many of everything, but no limit on the number of things. In other words, the author is right and you're wrong.\nA limit of how many of everything but no limit on the number of things. In other words the author is right and you're wrong.\nSTFU, wu mau sc\u00fbm!\nThe rest of us see right through your b\u00fbllsh!t. Tell Beijing that during your next status update meeting.\nYou are right, AI will help China be more productive as their population decreases. Same goes for Japan, for example. that might be good for the productivity of the country (or company) but not necessarily for the individual. It all depends on where the workers are and timing.\nChina may lose about 150m-180m in their working population between now and 2050 (aging demos). They have currently about 120m manufacturing workers. You could argue that if automation reduces the number of factory employees at the rate they retire, then no problems. But automation labor-displacement is much, much faster. HonHai can reduce their labor force in China by about 900k-1m and replace it with a force of 10-20k in various regions around the world. So they are doing this.\nModern automation is sudden. Demographics is gradual.\nwestcoastdog\nIn Japan there are as many job openings as unemployed, who do not have the qualifications for the positions. Similarly, many manufacturers in the Midwest cannot find workers to fill their technical positions and are forced to use robots or train workers. Disregard any projections beyond a few years. The employment situation now is a good indication of future prospects and problems.\nIn Japan there are as many job openings as unemployed who do not have the qualifications for the positions. Similarly many manufacturers in the Midwest cannot find workers to fill their technical positions and are forced to use robots or train workers.Disregard any projections beyond a few years. The employment situation now is a good indication of future prospects and problems.\nUBI is nonsensical. To fund UBI, Uncle Sam would have to confiscate wealth (the real rich don't have much income, it's in wealth). That means nationalizing Musk's Tesla shares, Bezos' Amazon shares, Brin's Google shares, liquidating Buffett's empire, etc for instance. Then what? To convert it into cash (to pay for UBI) they have to find a buyer. But buyers are nowhere because the government has taken their money. And some assets, like Musk, bleed cash. I guess you can simply print money and give it to people. That will last about as long as the stuff people want to buy is no longer being produced because the companies that make the stuff no longer have any money. You can confiscate all the income of the top 1%. They make about $500k a year in median income and account for about 21% of all adjusted gross income. Is 21% of ALL income enough to spread out to the mass unemployed? No. Then what do you do in year 2? The 1% are probably not that keen to work much because whatever they make will be taken. Where will you take the money from then? I guess you can go full retard and do a Mao or Lenin and go communist. Then rest assured having UBI is the least of your worries. The UBI debate is a great example of how people can't think ahead, or unable to. I don't expect a bloodbath. Humans are fairly complacent. The richest of the rich can give everyone VR helmets and let them play Fortnite and put Xanax in the food chain. Oh wait\u2026..\nUBI is nonsensical. To fund UBI Uncle Sam would have to confiscate wealth (the real rich don't have much income it's in wealth). That means nationalizing Musk's Tesla shares Bezos' Amazon shares Brin's Google shares liquidating Buffett's empire etc for instance. Then what? To convert it into cash (to pay for UBI) they have to find a buyer. But buyers are nowhere because the government has taken their money. And some assets like Musk bleed cash. I guess you can simply print money and give it to people. That will last about as long as the stuff people want to buy is no longer being produced because the companies that make the stuff no longer have any money.You can confiscate all the income of the top 1{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12}. They make about $500k a year in median income and account for about 21{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} of all adjusted gross income. Is 21{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} of ALL income enough to spread out to the mass unemployed? No. Then what do you do in year 2? The 1{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} are probably not that keen to work much because whatever they make will be taken. Where will you take the money from then?I guess you can go full retard and do a Mao or Lenin and go communist. Then rest assured having UBI is the least of your worries. The UBI debate is a great example of how people can't think ahead or unable to. I don't expect a bloodbath. Humans are fairly complacent. The richest of the rich can give everyone VR helmets and let them play Fortnite and put Xanax in the food chain. Oh wait\u2026..\nTomCraver\nA couple of points: \u2013 China is still around 40% rural and that will decline. So they've likely got a lot of economic growth that can create new urban jobs, even as agriculture gets more automated. \u2013 In 20 years, China's population will have peaked, but will have only declined back close to where it is now. Total working age population will be only about 1.5% smaller. But since the working age population will be about the same size, they'd currently have to have over 12% unemployed to take on the 12% excess new jobs. I guess if many jobs are only part time in 20 years, the 12% figure could work out numerically\u2026\nTom Craver\nA couple of points: \u2013 China is still around 40{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} rural and that will decline. So they've likely got a lot of economic growth that can create new urban jobs even as agriculture gets more automated.- In 20 years China's population will have peaked but will have only declined back close to where it is now. Total working age population will be only about 1.5{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} smaller.But since the working age population will be about the same size they'd currently have to have over 12{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} unemployed to take on the 12{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} excess new jobs. I guess if many jobs are only part time in 20 years the 12{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} figure could work out numerically\u2026\nJanJansson\nDo you think it is a meaningful state for humans to have no other purpose than to consume goods? I think that it is a terrible idea for people to loose the one thing that anchors them to normal behavior: work. I see a lot of people being able to wage social wars, and nobody busy with normal chores\u2026.\nJan Jansson\nDo you think it is a meaningful state for humans to have no other purpose than to consume goods? I think that it is a terrible idea for people to loose the one thing that anchors them to normal behavior: work. I see a lot of people being able to wage social wars and nobody busy with normal chores\u2026.\nAnd you don't think an AI could do that cheaper and faster than a human?\ngaryoblock\nWell, China has demographic issues that were going to cause labor shortages in the future so maybe it's true that the impact of AI won't be as sharp there but the same is not true here in the US.\ngary oblock\nWell China has demographic issues that were going to cause labor shortages in the future so maybe it's true that the impact of AI won't be as sharp there but the same is not true here in the US.\nIn Japan there are as many job openings as unemployed, who do not have the qualifications for the positions. Similarly, many manufacturers in the Midwest cannot find workers to fill their technical positions and are forced to use robots or train workers.\nDisregard any projections beyond a few years. The employment situation now is a good indication of future prospects and problems.\nIn defense of Keynes\u2026and I say this even though I trash Keynesiantardism whenever I get the chance \u2026he had no idea that the rise of debt-consumerism would occur when he wrote that. And you are correct how modern Keynesiantardism has bastardized what he stood for.\nIn defense of Keynes\u2026and I say this even though I trash Keynesiantardism whenever I get the chance \u2026he had no idea that the rise of debt-consumerism would occur when he wrote that.And you are correct how modern Keynesiantardism has bastardized what he stood for.\nIt is really sad when Brian goes full metal wu mau with NBF.\nNew jobs will be something like posting bullsh!t blog posts that propagandize what our AI Overlords want propagandized, I would imagine.\nNew jobs will be something like posting bullsh!t blog posts that propagandize what our AI Overlords want propagandized I would imagine.\nHoly Krap! Everyone on here seems to have zeroed in on the same thing, despite the fact that we don't agree on a lot. Even Shiggity piped up. Same thing! You Mark, Goatguy\u2026and of course you can count me in, as well.\nHoly Krap!Everyone on here seems to have zeroed in on the same thing despite the fact that we don't agree on a lot.Even Shiggity piped up. Same thing!You Mark Goatguy\u2026and of course you can count me in as well.\nMost of the new jobs created will have nothing directly to do with AI or robots, but will simply be the product of a richer society with consequent increased demand for goods and services of all kinds.\" BS. There is an upper limit on how many cars people own, how many homes, how many of everything. Services, not so much but still there's an upper limit to most of those also. This is why building infrastructure in the US doesn't deliver the same ROI than it does in poorer nations. Law of Diminishing Returns.\nMost of the new jobs created will have nothing directly to do with AI or robots\" but will simply be the product of a richer society with consequent increased demand for goods and services of all kinds.\"\"BS. There is an upper limit on how many cars people own\"\" how many homes how many of everything. Services\"\" not so much but still there's an upper limit to most of those also.This is why building infrastructure in the US doesn't deliver the same ROI than it does in poorer nations. Law of Diminishing Returns.\"\"\"\nShigg! You back? Oh, and you beat me to what I wanted to post. Good for you!\nShigg! You back?Oh and you beat me to what I wanted to post. Good for you!\nUBI is nonsensical. To fund UBI, Uncle Sam would have to confiscate wealth (the real rich don't have much income, it's in wealth). That means nationalizing Musk's Tesla shares, Bezos' Amazon shares, Brin's Google shares, liquidating Buffett's empire, etc for instance. Then what? To convert it into cash (to pay for UBI) they have to find a buyer. But buyers are nowhere because the government has taken their money. And some assets, like Musk, bleed cash. I guess you can simply print money and give it to people. That will last about as long as the stuff people want to buy is no longer being produced because the companies that make the stuff no longer have any money.\nYou can confiscate all the income of the top 1%. They make about $500k a year in median income and account for about 21% of all adjusted gross income. Is 21% of ALL income enough to spread out to the mass unemployed? No. Then what do you do in year 2? The 1% are probably not that keen to work much because whatever they make will be taken. Where will you take the money from then?\nI guess you can go full retard and do a Mao or Lenin and go communist. Then rest assured having UBI is the least of your worries.\nThe UBI debate is a great example of how people can't think ahead, or unable to.\nI don't expect a bloodbath. Humans are fairly complacent. The richest of the rich can give everyone VR helmets and let them play Fortnite and put Xanax in the food chain. Oh wait\u2026..\n\u2013 China is still around 40% rural and that will decline. So they've likely got a lot of economic growth that can create new urban jobs, even as agriculture gets more automated.\n\u2013 In 20 years, China's population will have peaked, but will have only declined back close to where it is now. Total working age population will be only about 1.5% smaller.\nBut since the working age population will be about the same size, they'd currently have to have over 12% unemployed to take on the 12% excess new jobs. I guess if many jobs are only part time in 20 years, the 12% figure could work out numerically\u2026\nShigg\nIt was the best of times it was the worst of times.\nLol who are you trying to convince Brian, us or yourself?\nLol who are you trying to convince Brian us or yourself?\ngoatguy\nMyself, I kind of wonder what all the new jobs will be. I think about the AI-are-coming sentiment and wonder, what exactly are ordinary people going to do? AIs will by definition have no particular form. They're like brains compared to bodies. AIs likewise will have a (likely bewildering) array of waldos\u00b9 at their behest. Some mobile, some on wheels, some bipedal, some quadrapedal. Some bugforms, some like eels, fish; some attached to walls, to factory floors with bolts. Or with large magnets for operational stability AND ease of repositioning. If \u2014 as my favorite example \u2014 one were to AI-ize a McDonald's eatery kitchen, what would the 'bots look like? Well\u2026 many changes to the machines (but not too many so that humans could assist at first), but also mobile waldos\u00b9 that could unload bags of fries, burgers, buns into refrigerated bins; other assembly-line permanently mounted arms, cameras, claspers and actuators, to roast things, fry things, make burgers, fill bags with orders. If it takes at least 3 people to competently staff a low-demand McDonald's kitchen today, it probably will take 10 or more 'bots of various forms to produce the same product line. But the difference couldn't be clearer: once \"the bugs\" are worked out, the 'bot + AI powered McDonald's fry kitchen will easily be a 24-hour-a-day operation. So long as the orders are competently entered in, the output won't have missing items, or with tired employees, slovenly presentation. Oh, the kitchen, like most, will definitely need to be end-to-end cleaned at least a couple of times a day. And people will initially be better at this than 'bots. After awhile though, will people be needed at all? Even for the frozen goods, taking out trash, cleaning shop? People will still be desired for the public-facing side of the operation. People to clean the dining room. People to refill the catsup, mustard and napkins. People to service the beverage machine, its cups and unfailingly quirky\nMyself I kind of wonder what all the new jobs will be. I think about the AI-are-coming sentiment and wonder what exactly are ordinary people going to do? AIs will by definition have no particular form. They're like brains compared to bodies.AIs likewise will have a (likely bewildering) array of waldos\u00b9 at their behest. Some mobile some on wheels some bipedal some quadrapedal. Some bugforms some like eels fish; some attached to walls to factory floors with bolts. Or with large magnets for operational stability AND ease of repositioning. If \u2014 as my favorite example \u2014 one were to AI-ize a McDonald's eatery kitchen what would the 'bots look like? Well\u2026 many changes to the machines (but not too many so that humans could assist at first) but also mobile waldos\u00b9 that could unload bags of fries burgers buns into refrigerated bins; other assembly-line permanently mounted arms cameras claspers and actuators to roast things fry things make burgers fill bags with orders. If it takes at least 3 people to competently staff a low-demand McDonald's kitchen today it probably will take 10 or more 'bots of various forms to produce the same product line. But the difference couldn't be clearer: once \"the bugs\" are worked out the 'bot + AI powered McDonald's fry kitchen will easily be a 24-hour-a-day operation. So long as the orders are competently entered in the output won't have missing items or with tired employees slovenly presentation. Oh the kitchen like most will definitely need to be end-to-end cleaned at least a couple of times a day. And people will initially be better at this than 'bots. After awhile though will people be needed at all?Even for the frozen goods taking out trash cleaning shop? People will still be desired for the public-facing side of the operation. People to clean the dining room. People to refill the catsup mustard and napkins. People to service the beverage machine its cups and unfailingly quirky ice mak\n+1 \u2026 mmm \u2026 but WHICH hype? The AI-will-be-great hype, or the AI-will-be-a-disaster hype? \u2026 doesn't matter which, still +1 GoatGuy\n+1\u2026 mmm \u2026 but WHICH hype? The AI-will-be-great hype or the AI-will-be-a-disaster hype?\u2026 doesn't matter which still +1GoatGuy\"\nCould you explain how Keynes is responsible for this.\nDon't believe the hype.\nWhenever I read articles like this I have to wonder what the authors are thinking. Why won't the AI and robotics simply replace the \"new jobs\"? Given the exponential nature of computation, science, information processing, robotics, and progress in general, we will reach a point where the \"new\" jobs can't be created fast enough to replace the ones lost to automation. In the past, society had plenty of time to adapt to changes from automation. That's becoming less and less the case.\nWhenever I read articles like this I have to wonder what the authors are thinking. Why won't the AI and robotics simply replace the ew jobs\"\"? Given the exponential nature of computation\"\" science information processing robotics and progress in general\"\" we will reach a point where the \"\"\"\"new\"\"\"\" jobs can't be created fast enough to replace the ones lost to automation. In the past\"\"\"\" society had plenty of time to adapt to changes from automation. That's becoming less and less the case.\"\"\"\nyeah. Two words: Jeff and Bezos.\nHas nothing to do with Keynes and everything to do with political corruption. Exhibit A: https:\/\/youtu.be\/5tu32CCA_Ig\nHas nothing to do with Keynes and everything to do with political corruption. Exhibit A:https:\/\/youtu.be\/5tu32CCA_Ig\nHas nothing to do with Keynes and everything to do with corporatism. Keynesian economics isn't the reason we have virtual monopolies in cable, ISP, social, etc., for example. This is the result of a corrupt political system that favors the wealthy and ignores everyone else. https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-echochambers-27074746 https:\/\/youtu.be\/5tu32CCA_Ig\nHas nothing to do with Keynes and everything to do with corporatism. Keynesian economics isn't the reason we have virtual monopolies in cable ISP social etc. for example. This is the result of a corrupt political system that favors the wealthy and ignores everyone else. https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-echochambers-27074746https:\/\/youtu.be\/5tu32CCA_Ig\nI was wondering the same thing. Not sure what planet Sanjay lives on. But productivity gains from automation will simply be used to increase stock price and line the pockets of the already rich. In the absence of laws to prevent it, capital tends to accumulate in the hands of a few. The numbers speak for themselves. Just look at the immense wealth\/income disparity that exists today.\nI was wondering the same thing. Not sure what planet Sanjay lives on. But productivity gains from automation will simply be used to increase stock price and line the pockets of the already rich. In the absence of laws to prevent it capital tends to accumulate in the hands of a few. The numbers speak for themselves. Just look at the immense wealth\/income disparity that exists today.\nIn defense of Keynes\u2026and I say this even though I trash Keynesiantardism whenever I get the chance \u2026he had no idea that the rise of debt-consumerism would occur when he wrote that.\nAnd you are correct how modern Keynesiantardism has bastardized what he stood for.\nlaws will redistribute the fruits of that productivity to the masses\". You really believe that? Hasn't happened so far so why would it happen in the future (outside of fascist totalitarians like Stalin and Mao)? Democracies are not democratic.\nI don't believe PWC's report for a second when it comes to job creation. They took their \"sizing the prize\" methodology and tried to fit it into the official PRC situation. They basically said \"lots of jobs lost but the Communist Party says there will be an open tech-based society that will create jobs so we'll use their assumptions\". IE this is just another paid piece of moronic analysis to fit the 5-year plan. PWC doesn't consider that China's working population is decreasing (at an accelerated rate), nor that the \"service\" sector (which supposedly will be the biggest net winners in an automated world) are precisely those jobs that can be automated! Garbage analysis. Generally, PWC makes a very big error regarding the topic of automation (sizing the prize) when they fail to take into account that automation and productivity doesn't stand still. The jobs of tomorrow as PWC likes to call them, can very well become redundant with the technologies being developed today. Automation is out-running job creation. Sure, the \"economy\" will grow, but the spoils will only be for the very few (who have jobs and\/or own the production).\nI don't believe PWC's report for a second when it comes to job creation. They took their sizing the prize\"\" methodology and tried to fit it into the official PRC situation. They basically said \"\"\"\"lots of jobs lost but the Communist Party says there will be an open tech-based society that will create jobs so we'll use their assumptions\"\"\"\".IE this is just another paid piece of moronic analysis to fit the 5-year plan.PWC doesn't consider that China's working population is decreasing (at an accelerated rate)\"\"\"\" nor that the \"\"\"\"service\"\"\"\" sector (which supposedly will be the biggest net winners in an automated world) are precisely those jobs that can be automated!Garbage analysis. Generally\"\" PWC makes a very big error regarding the topic of automation (sizing the prize) when they fail to take into account that automation and productivity doesn't stand still. The jobs of tomorrow as PWC likes to call them can very well become redundant with the technologies being developed today. Automation is out-running job creation. Sure\"\" the \"\"\"\"economy\"\"\"\" will grow\"\"\"\" but the spoils will only be for the very few (who have jobs and\/or own the production).\"\"\"\nHoly Krap!\nEveryone on here seems to have zeroed in on the same thing, despite the fact that we don't agree on a lot.\nEven Shiggity piped up. Same thing!\nYou Mark, Goatguy\u2026and of course you can count me in, as well.\nBS. There is an upper limit on how many cars people own, how many homes, how many of everything. Services, not so much but still there's an upper limit to most of those also.\nThis is why building infrastructure in the US doesn't deliver the same ROI than it does in poorer nations. Law of Diminishing Returns.\nShigg! You back?\nOh, and you beat me to what I wanted to post. Good for you!\nAI can do more than just replace jobs in offices, warehouses, factories and fields. AI robots can do work for us at the bottom of the sea, or in outer space, on the Moon, Mars, or the asteroid belt, etc. AI could help us to tame every environment that's hostile to human beings. AI will take care of productivity, while laws will redistribute the fruits of that productivity to the masses. Our job will simply be to choose which fruits to consume. We humans will be reduced to our most salient distinguishing attribute \u2013 our power of choice that comes from our free will.\nAI can do more than just replace jobs in offices warehouses factories and fields. AI robots can do work for us at the bottom of the sea or in outer space on the Moon Mars or the asteroid belt etc. AI could help us to tame every environment that's hostile to human beings. AI will take care of productivity while laws will redistribute the fruits of that productivity to the masses. Our job will simply be to choose which fruits to consume. We humans will be reduced to our most salient distinguishing attribute \u2013 our power of choice that comes from our free will.\nKeynes, the source of the always wrong so far yet commonly instituted economic theory, once claimed there would be such efficiency due to standard industrialization that people would work 15 hour weeks for the mere purpose of having something to do. Modern Keynesian economics have conspired to take all those productive gains from the worker, mostly in the form of inflation and laws that prohibit competition. Until this stops every non truly free society (including the US) will continue to see the workers produce more and earn less.\nKeynes the source of the always wrong so far yet commonly instituted economic theory once claimed there would be such efficiency due to standard industrialization that people would work 15 hour weeks for the mere purpose of having something to do. Modern Keynesian economics have conspired to take all those productive gains from the worker mostly in the form of inflation and laws that prohibit competition. Until this stops every non truly free society (including the US) will continue to see the workers produce more and earn less.\nMyself, I kind of wonder what all the new jobs will be. I think about the AI-are-coming sentiment and wonder, what exactly are ordinary people going to do?\nAIs will by definition have no particular form. They're like brains compared to bodies.\nAIs likewise will have a (likely bewildering) array of waldos\u00b9 at their behest. Some mobile, some on wheels, some bipedal, some quadrapedal. Some bugforms, some like eels, fish; some attached to walls, to factory floors with bolts. Or with large magnets for operational stability AND ease of repositioning.\nIf \u2014 as my favorite example \u2014 one were to AI-ize a McDonald's eatery kitchen, what would the 'bots look like? Well\u2026 many changes to the machines (but not too many so that humans could assist at first), but also mobile waldos\u00b9 that could unload bags of fries, burgers, buns into refrigerated bins; other assembly-line permanently mounted arms, cameras, claspers and actuators, to roast things, fry things, make burgers, fill bags with orders. If it takes at least 3 people to competently staff a low-demand McDonald's kitchen today, it probably will take 10 or more 'bots of various forms to produce the same product line.\nBut the difference couldn't be clearer: once \"the bugs\" are worked out, the 'bot + AI powered McDonald's fry kitchen will easily be a 24-hour-a-day operation. So long as the orders are competently entered in, the output won't have missing items, or with tired employees, slovenly presentation. Oh, the kitchen, like most, will definitely need to be end-to-end cleaned at least a couple of times a day. And people will initially be better at this than 'bots.\nAfter awhile though, will people be needed at all?\nEven for the frozen goods, taking out trash, cleaning shop? People will still be desired for the public-facing side of the operation. People to clean the dining room. People to refill the catsup, mustard and napkins. People to service the beverage machine, its cups and unfailingly quirky ice maker.\nBut with some significant (and ultimately cosmetic) rearrangement of things, all these subsystems \u2014 except cleaning the dining room floor and tables \u2014 could be processed by AI waldos\u00b9 behind the counter. And, people these days being entirely comfortable with their smart phones, perhaps even the ubiquitous tired order-clerk position would mostly go away. Bring in your phone or tablet, and order up what you want, confirm it, pay for it \u2026 in advance of having it in hand.\nSo this is what causes me to wonder.\nWhat all the new jobs will be.\nJust saying,\n^waldo \u2013 remote controlled arm typically, but can be any remote controlled humaniform device.\n\u2026 mmm \u2026 but WHICH hype? The AI-will-be-great hype, or the AI-will-be-a-disaster hype?\n\u2026 doesn't matter which, still +1\nHas nothing to do with Keynes and everything to do with political corruption.\nExhibit A:\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/5tu32CCA_Ig\nHas nothing to do with Keynes and everything to do with corporatism. Keynesian economics isn't the reason we have virtual monopolies in cable, ISP, social, etc., for example. This is the result of a corrupt political system that favors the wealthy and ignores everyone else.\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-echochambers-27074746\nI don't believe PWC's report for a second when it comes to job creation. They took their \"sizing the prize\" methodology and tried to fit it into the official PRC situation. They basically said \"lots of jobs lost but the Communist Party says there will be an open tech-based society that will create jobs so we'll use their assumptions\".\nIE this is just another paid piece of moronic analysis to fit the 5-year plan.\nPWC doesn't consider that China's working population is decreasing (at an accelerated rate), nor that the \"service\" sector (which supposedly will be the biggest net winners in an automated world) are precisely those jobs that can be automated!\nGarbage analysis. Generally, PWC makes a very big error regarding the topic of automation (sizing the prize) when they fail to take into account that automation and productivity doesn't stand still. The jobs of tomorrow as PWC likes to call them, can very well become redundant with the technologies being developed today. Automation is out-running job creation. 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{"text":"Fairy Tail 2 \u2013 22-23\nOpinions (B):\nIts been about two weeks since I saw Fairy Tail, and now that I'm back the latest arc of the series is finally wrapping up. More so than any other arc, I have very mixed feelings about how this one ended, and where we're at when everything's said and done.\nWith episode 23, the battle is, for all intents and purposes over. In many ways, the ending of the arc and the state of the battle field kind of mirror each other. The battle is over, and technically the good guys won, but it feels very much like a hollow victory.\nI think the one part of the final act of this arc that resonated well with me was Ultear and her ultimate end. If there were a climax in this arc, the moment where Ultear decided to give her life was it.\nI must admit, I hadn't thought that the Ultear thing would work for me, but the way it was used wasn't bad. The major reason for the sort of dues ex machine plot device actually working, was that it wasn't a complete dues ex machina. It wasn't a complete reset, much as Ultear had hoped. The Magic spell she used, Arc of Time \u2013 Last Ages was the ultimate double edged sword, and I can't help but marvel at how effective and balanced of a plot device it is.\nThe first major element of Last Ages is the fact that it carries a heavy price. Ultear has to use up her life to turn back time, that's a given. The thing that really hit me was how little a life is worth.\nI think the most gutt wrenching and painful moment was when Ultear gave her life and managed to turn back time\u2026 but only for a minute.\nAnd poor Ultear, as she died thinking that her entire life and her sacrifice had been in vain. Of course, Ultear's ultimate sacrifice helped save everyone that died, especially the people she cares about like Gray. That one minute is all that is needed to save everyone, and it kind of makes sense.\nIf there was a way to reverse all that death, this would probably be it. In the end, the reason this all works so bad is because the heroes do indeed have to pay a price. The price is Ultear's life, and the gain is a simple minute to get back and keep going.\nAnother reason why this worked so well, at least for me, is that it doesn't automatically fix everything. No, Ultear's life and magic paves the way for the good guys to get a second chance, and win.\nIts like an extra life or a continue if this were a video game, and not much else. The fact that Ultear's final magic is used as a way to extend the battle rather than something that's a \"stop gap fix\" for everything is what makes it believable. It also makes it powerful and downright tragic.\nUltear's character arc is one of the few achievements for this arc. I legit felt a sense of loss at losing Ultear, and unlike say Gray, I'm not so sure she's coming back. Looking at Ultear's life as a whole. its been nothing but painful. She lost her mother at a young age, probably thinking she was abandoned. Then she ran into Purehito and got mixed up in his plans. Then she became Zeref and began manipulating and hurting people. Then she ended up running into Gray and seeing the error of her ways, and then had to atone for them.\nIf I were in Ultear's shoes, I'd like to think I'd do the same thing, but I doubt it. It takes real strength of character to just sacrifice yourself for everyone. Added to that, at this point, no one really knows that it was Ultear that ended up saving the day, at the cost of her own life. That's a rather bitter pill to swallow, but it gives Ultear a fitting, unsung hero like place.\nDoes Ultear's sacrifice make up for what she had done? That's still debatable. Maybe nothing she can ever do will atone for the crimes she committed, but then again, there was nothing more to do after this, I suppose.\nI'm not sure how Mashima-sensei went about planning this ending, but its clear that he sacrificed one of his characters to make this ending believable and palatable. As I've mentioned often, there's rarely death in Shounen series, and when it, its either reversed or some kind of trick. This is hopefully, one of those rare moments where the death sticks. If nothing else, this death has real purpose and impact.\nUltear's big sacrifice aside, the rest of the resolution wasn't all that impressive. The next big part, for instance, is Lucy finding out that her future self left a note stating that destroying the Eclipse Gate would fix everything. Okay, I'm with you in terms of simple time travel logic. What bothers me about this is how exceedingly absurd this sounds.\nSo you're telling me that Future Lucy was running around, trying to warn everyone and she didn't mention this rather important \"solution\" to the problem? Yes I know you could argue that this particular method would erase her existence too, but at the point she was at, having lost everyone, I doubt self preservation was at the top of her list of priorities. Its an absurd oversight, and one that really sticks out.\nAnd honestly, this whole plot point didn't even need to be explained via future Lucy. In the end, Natsu ends up smacking both Future Rogue and an entire Dragon into the gate anyway, without anyone telling him to.\nSo all in all, once Ultear had turned back time, everything was set. Its not like Mashima-sensei to make such mistakes, and I think I'm inclined to agree with some of the past comments here on AE, and assume that at this point, the arc just needed to end.\nI did like how some of that apparent frustration of not being able to find a satisfying ending made it into the actual story. The fact that, as Mavis points out, none of the Dragon Slayers were able to take down even one dragon, puts our heroes in quite a bad place. If push comes to shove, Arcnologia could wipe the face off the planet with everyone. It really was Ultear's sacrifice that bailed everyone out of the worst jam yet.\nThe other thing that did add something interesting to the mix was Future Rogue's final words to Natsu. I have to say, I felt a little cheated by the fact that we didn't learn the actual identity of Frosche's killer, but I suppose that's something for the later. Whatever that knowledge is, combined with what all the Dragon Slayers learned because of this battle, is probably enough to fix\/change the future though.\nAs Future Lucy returns to her own time, its shown that she ends up going to a place where Natsu and the rest of Fairy Tail is still around. I'm not exactly sure if this is a symbolic place, i.e something along the lines of Heaven, where Future Lucy is reunited with the rest of her comrades, or if its actually in the future.\nThe golden fields and pure blue clouds, plus the fact that we aren't able to see most of Fairy Tail's faces, means that its probably the after life, or the series' version of it. Its a bittersweet ending, but at least Future Lucy gets to get a somewhat happy ending as well.\nAnd yes, I'll give the series props, they end with a gigantic Natsu x Lucy scene to cap off everything:\nSo with that, I suppose this arc is over. In the end, this wasn't Fairy Tail's best work, but it had some good moments near the end, that kind of at least made it decent. I'm interested to see where Fairy Tail goes from here, and given the comments from manga readers, the series only gets better from here. Here's hoping we don't get stuck in Filler land for too long before the next big bit of awesome.\nSeems like its celebration time at the Castle. I guess we'll find out next week if we're going into a new arc or a filler arc. See ya all next week!\nPosted on September 8, 2014 at 12:11 am\nin Fairy Tail\nTags: Fairy Tail, fairy tail 2 episode 22, fairy tail 2 episode 23, fairy tail anime blog, fairy tail anime screencaps, fairy tail episode review, fairy tail episode summary, fairy tail images, fairy tail series 2, ultear's death, Ultear's past","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ News & Events \/ News\nAll News & Events Items\nSeeing and hearing deeper on the RV Celtic Explorer for Galway 2020's Aerial\/Sparks project\nAs part of Galway 2020's Aerial\/Sparks project, artist Robertina \u0160ebjani\u010d joined scientists on board the Marine Institute's RV Celtic Explorer for a biodiversity survey exploring shelf sea habitats from 27th April to 12th May 2019.\nRobertina \u0160ebjani\u010d, a Slovenian artist based in Ljubljana, is one of seven international artists taking part in Aerial\/Sparks, a Galway 2020 project by artist Louise Manifold taking place in collaboration with the Marine Institute. Aerial\/Sparks explores connections between the ocean wilderness, marine science and radio communication, and how art might contribute to current scientific debates. The commissioned artists will create compelling stand-alone art works for radio broadcast in Ireland and Europe in 2020.\nRobertina joined scientists on the Marine Institute's RV Celtic Explorer for a 15-day research voyage in the shelf seas around the north coast of Ireland as part of the Backscatter and Biodiversity on Shelf Sea Habitats (BaBioSSH) Survey. Led by Dr. Chris McGonigle of Ulster University with a team of multidisciplinary scientists from institutions across the UK and Northern Ireland, the survey focused on the use of emerging and novel technologies to improve knowledge of species diversity in marine ecosystems, particularly in marine protected areas and special areas of conservation. The survey included the deployment of Baited Remote Underwater Video Cameras at sampling sites, and collecting video footage using the Marine Institute's ROV Holland 1.\nFor Robertina, she didn't think twice when she was invited to be part of Aerial\/Sparks as she admits, \"I'm just obsessed with bodies of waters, oceans, seas, rivers, everything that is water-related.\" Robertina's research-based artworks are predominantly concerned with the cultural, (bio)political and ecological realities of human imprint on the aquatic environment, its consequences and challenges.\n\"In my work in general, I combine arts and science, and technology also. What I think is very important to bring out, especially in these kinds of art-science combinations, is that the artistic part is not just an interpretation of scientific data, we're not simply illustrating what we're getting, but we are trying to bring together the artistic philosophy also,\" Robertina said.\nThis is Robertina's first time on a research vessel on seas bordering the Northern Atlantic, and the longest time she has spent at sea. She was particularly keen to join the BaBioSSH survey because some of the research merged with her own areas of interests, including the study of sediment communities and the use of the latest sonar technology to map the seabed. Robertina felt it was important to approach the residency without preconceived aims and to be open to the new knowledge, experiences and sounds that would be coming her way: \"It's like scientific research, you know what you are looking for but you don't know what the result will be. And it's the same with art also. If you have a particular idea, you block yourself to everything new that you will experience.\"\nThe survey employed non-invasive remote sensory technology to gain a better understanding of species diversity which has given Robertina a new perspective on aquatic life: \"I'm grateful to the science team for letting me be part of this work. I have had the amazing opportunity to 'see and hear' deeper - to the seabed and marine life that is there through remote sensory technology such as the Multibeam EchoSounder (MBES), drop down video cameras and the ROV Holland 1 (remotely operated underwater vehicle).\"\nDuring her residency, Robertina spent the days recording sounds, reading, writing, watching basking sharks, gannets, seagulls, and the jellyfish encountered on the surface of the ocean. She found the survey team, which included engineers, the drivers of the ROV Holland I and a marine technician from 2G Robotics, both supportive of her work and great company. She in turn helped with water filtering for future analysis in the lab and investigated water samples.\nFollowing the residency, Robertina is taking time to reflect on her research and exploring the possibilities of building a collaboration with the scientists from Ulster University.\nKate Howard, Cultural Producer of the Aerial\/Sparks project for Galway 2020, remarked: \"The Aerial\/Sparks project created by artist Louise Manifold is using the medium of radio to explore ocean landscapes. Having renowned artists such as Robertina begin their residencies on the vessel is a significant step in the development of this project. We are excited to see the outcomes of these residencies and ultimately the series of acoustic projects that will be produced next year.\"\nTo learn more about the research undertaken as part of the BaBioSSH survey visit https:\/\/scientistsatsea.blogspot.com\/\nRobertina \u0160ebjani\u010d is a Slovenian artist based in Ljubljana. Her art-research focus for the last several years has been on cultural, (bio)political, chemical and biological realities of aquatic environments, which serves as a starting point to investigate and tackle philosophical questions on the intersection of art, technology and science. Her ideas and concepts are often realized in collaboration with others, through interdisciplinary and informal integration in her work.\n\u0160ebjani\u010d is a member of Hackteria Network and Theremidi Orchestra. She was awarded Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2016, and has been nominated for the STARTS Prize 2016 and the White Aphroid Award. She was the SHAPE platform 2017 artist and a resident artist at Ars Electronica (EMARE \/ EMAP) in 2018.\n\u0160ebjani\u010d has exhibited \/ performed at solo and group exhibitions as well as in galleries and festivals including Ars Electronica Linz; Kosmica Festival; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; La Ga\u00eet\u00e9 Lyrique, Paris; Le Cube, Paris; Art Laboratory, Berlin; ZKM, Karlsruhe; re:publica, Berlin; Mladi Levi, Ljubljana; Centro de Cultura Digita, Mexico City; Piksel, Bergen; OSMO\/ZA, Ljubljana; Device art 5.015 at Klovi\u010devi dvori, Zagreb; Eastern Bloc, Montreal; Eyebeam, New York; PORTIZMIR#3, Izmir; Kiblix Festival, Maribor; Spektrum, Berlin; KIKK festival, Namur; +MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova), Ljubljana. http:\/\/robertina.net\/\nAerial\/Sparks\nCreated by artist Louise Manifold for Galway's European Capital of Culture programme, Aerial\/Sparks is an interdisciplinary art collaboration with the Marine Institute that explores radio connectivity and its relationship to ocean space.\nAs part of the project, European artists are developing work based on their experience of time spent at sea with the Marine Institute's research vessel RV Celtic Explorer, one of the few marine research vessels with sonic capabilities. The commissioned artists will create compelling stand-alone art works for radio broadcast in Ireland and Europe.\nThe collaboration has opened up exceptional opportunities to foster connections between art and science as the artists work side-by-side with the scientists who are undertaking the surveys.\nIn September 2020, Aerial\/Sparks will present a series of broadcasting experiments that will inspire, arrest, and fascinate audiences on both a grand and intimate level. It will invite us to engage with wireless imagination to reconnect to our ocean wilderness - one of the last remaining unknowns.\nAerial\/Sparks is funded by the Galway European Capital of Culture 2020 programme and previously received funding through an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2017.\nhttps:\/\/www.aerialsparks.org\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Zombie television\nNetflix confirms casting for Korean high school zombie series, 'All of us are Dead'\nBy Chris Post on February 11, 2021 \u2022 ( Leave a comment )\n[L to R, T to B : Yoon Chan-yeong, Park Ji-hu, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon, Yoo In-soo | Photos courtesy of each talent management]\nNetflix has confirmed the casting of Yoon Chan-yeong, Park Ji-hu, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon and Yoo In-soo for All of Us Are Dead, an upcoming original series that follows a group of students trapped in a high school who find themselves in dire situations as they seek to be rescued from a zombie invasion of their school.\nYoon Chan-yeong will play Cheong-san, an ordinary student at Hyosan High School who tries to save On-jo, a girl he likes, from the rampant zombie virus. Yoon made a strong impression with his performance in the drama series Mama. Since then he has performed in a wide variety of shows, including Six Flying Dragons, Still 17 and Doctor John. He also starred in the films Birthday and The Fault is Not Yours.\nPark Ji-hu will play the cheerful and down-to-earth On-jo, the most popular girl at Hyosan High School. Park has gained a following since her 2019 debut in House of Hummingbird, which won her the Best Actress in an International Narrative Feature Film Award at the 18th Tribeca Film Festival.\nCho Yi-hyun will play Nam-ra, the class president and the school's top-ranked student. Cho has shown exceptional acting skills through her performances in the 2019 film Metamorphosis and in the recent drama series Hospital Playlist.\nLomon will play Su-hyeok, a student who has recently decided to focus on his studies with the dreams of becoming a soldier. Park first gained attention through his performance in the drama Bleak Night. He also played the lead role in Lookism, a Chinese series based on a popular Korean webtoon.\nYoo In-soo will play Gwi-nam, a returning student who may be even more dangerous than the zombie invasion. Yoo debuted in the drama series Strong Girl Bong-soon and has built a filmography through several shows, including School 2017, Avengers Social Club, My ID is Gangnam Beauty, and Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter.\nAll of Us Are Dead, which is based on the highly popular webtoon Now at Our School, will be directed by Lee JQ (Beethoven Virus, The Legendary Police Woman, Intimate Strangers) and written by Chun Sung-il (The Slave Hunters, 7th Grade Civil Servant).\nAll of Us Are Dead, produced by Film Monster by JTBC Studio, will be available exclusively on Netflix.\nCategories: Zombie television\nTagged as: All of Us Are Dead, Korean zombie, Netflix\nWalking Dead season 10c trailer and art revealed\nZombie Reddy makes way to global theaters","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"From the Frustration & Chaos a New UFT Group Emerges\nBy Francesco Portelos September 20, 2014 September 17, 2015 Uncategorized\nThere are roughly 200,000 members in the United Federation of Teachers. If you were to ask those members what a \"caucus\" in their union is, I bet 90% would not know or not be able to name them. I know I certainly didn't just threeyears ago. In fact, not only did I not know what a UFT caucus was, but I didn't know what a District RepandBorough Rep was and I routinely missed UFT meetings in my school entirely.\n\"Am I going to the union meeting You mean that where everyone complains about the administration early Friday morning No thanks. I'm going to sleep in a little later. Besides, I'm a great teacher and theadministration loves me. The union can keep taking care of my dental and medicine. That's what the union can do for me.\" \u2013A very naive Francesco Portelos circa February 2011\nI first learned about caucuses in March 2012, after I was targeted and when Edu-blogger activist Norm Scott of ednotesonline.com first heard of my story. We started speaking about it at a robotics competition. His question wassomething like \"Is Chapter Leader Rich Candia, who threw you under the bus, fromUnitycaucus\" I had no idea and I was the chapter delegate at the time. I laterfound he was Unity even though he ran on the New Action Caucus slate in the 2010 elections.\n<PAUSE!> At this point the 90% of readers, not involved in union politics, might be asking\"Unity New Action What is Francescotalking about\"\nWell, it turns out that the United Federation of Teachers is not asunited as it should be. It is comprised of several caucuses, but most of the members areindependents, with no caucus affiliation.\nCaucus Definition:a group of people with shared concerns within a political party or larger organization.\nNow you would think that we should all have the same \"shared concerns,\" so there should be no need for internal factions or caucuses. That's whatI thought, but apparently thatis now how the world works. Egos and ideology play a major role here.\nSince then I learned that Unity caucus (Mulgrew\/Weingarten) runs the UFT and several other caucuses have unsuccessfully attempted to usurp Unity's 50 year control. At some point there was a riff and members of New Action decided to back Unity's Weingarten and Mulgrew even though there were major givebacks and attacks on our members.From that riff othercaucuses and groups formed, such as ICE, theIndependent Community of Educators.\nAgainst the recommendation of some of its founders, ICElaterform a new caucus in 2012. The new caucus was called MORE.\nAre you following with all the acronyms\nIn May 2012 I attended a meeting at a coffee shop with some members of this new caucus called MORE or theMovement of Rank-and-file Educators. MORE is the group I joined afterI was aware of thepolitics and thefight for public education. Again, things I didn't know existed before. As I sat in the rubber room then I researched and even emailed New Action, but never received a response. You'll come to find that New Action is actually pretty bad when it comes to technology.\nWhile a member ofMORE Idecided to run for chapter leader of my school even though I was exiled and banished to a basement two boroughs away.\nI wound up winning the election.\nExiled teacher elected to be union chapterchair\u2013 Staten Island Advance\nRubber-room teacher voted in as union rep\u2013 NY Post\nNot bad for a guy who couldn't care less about the UFT a year before. I also wound up surviving several recall attempts through the next two years of educator exile. Thus my new passion emerged..unionism. I have never looked back since then. Moving forward.\nSince 2012 I wasvery active in helping build and spread MORE, especially since my Unity caucus lead union had continued to leave me for dead and to rot in the rubber room. My activism within MORE fluctuated as I continued to be attacked and had hearings and was arrested blah blah blah\u2026. you know the story. As I watched and helped MORE grow I also spoke to New Action caucus here and there thinking that bipartisan coalitions were theway to go. Jonathan Halabi, Mike Shulman and Greg Distefano attempted to intervene and assist me. I spoke at the UFT Executive Board and New Action told me they tried to follow-up with theleadership. New Action had asked about rallying outside my school whereas MORE members told me Staten Island is \"too far.\" I thanked them for trying as I continued to be left for dead by the UFT.\nThe issue that MORE and ICE members hadwith New Action is that although they say that are very critical ofUnity, since the union has been going down hill, when it comes to elections they endorse Michael Mulgrew and other Unity leaders. I can see where this isa problem and can also see where this is a strategic political move for New Action to acquire executive board seats. Strong critics of New Action should rent House of Cards from Netflix.\nThe UFT has a governing body that has about 82 members. That is theExecutive Boardof theUFT. Unity caucus holds about 83 seats and New Action holds 8. How many seats does MORE hold MORE actually holds zero seats on the board despite some large votes in the last election and a lot of attempts at organizing.\nBack to MORE and I.\nAs I continued to increase my fight back and hone in on skills and methods I was acquiring to do so, I continued to share and learn with MORE. I was active on several of their email groups, ran on their slate for middle school executive board seats in 2013 and the NYS United Teachers election in 2014. My online Dropbox file storage has a folder called MORE that is chock full of documents, videos and pictures I helped work on to promote MORE.\nWhat was I really promoting though What was MORE\nThere was something missing from themovement.MORE continued to grow in Twitter followers, Facebook \"likes\" and email subscribers, but so what What was that doing for the member who needed help and was left for dead by the UFT There is a very large void of representation left by the UFT and MORE was not really filling it. My email box was full of educators asking for help and in almost each one they wrote \"the union has not helped.\" As far as social justice issues, that is a different story. MOREworks hard on those issues. MORE calls themselves \"The social justice caucus of the UFT\", but what is social justice\nSocial Justice is defined as \"justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.\"\nSo this growing group continued to focus mostly on social justice, but what about Tenured Teacher A, B, C, ATR J and Probationary Teacher K What about Teacher Q who spends hours on lesson plan templates she doesn't agree with and doesn't have the required curriculum for MORE wasn't and still does not fight for the UFT member in trouble.\nI decided to run for the steering committee of MORE in thefall of 2013. The steering committee is a group that is elected to make quick decisions for thecaucus that would require too much time to get a vote from the larger membership. It turns out there was no real election that took place for steering as all members who were nominated got in.\nI joined the \"steering\" committee to literally try to \"steer\" the caucus in a direction that better served the UFT members. I found that it was like pulling a boulder with shoelaces. They just would not budge.\nI'm going to summarize what I experienced that caused concern for me :\nMORE members, like Peter Zucker, would start calling me telling me \"We need to create our own caucus.\"or \"They are not in touch with theday to day plight of theaverage educator and too distracted with social justice. We are a trade union.\" I ignored these comments for over a year and thought they can be steered back to themembers here.\nI would propose things like Educator Defense (DTOE.org) to steering and it would get tabled at meetings to instead be replaced with agenda items like \"Teaching members about caucus history.\"\nI would raise concerns about upcoming chapter leader elections and general elections two years away and that would get tabled as well.\nIn March 2014 I was on steering and a MORE candidate for the New York State United Teachers election. That month I was also falsely arrested by the NYPD based on false claims by the NYC DOE. After a few days of not hearing my \"social justice caucus\" make a peepover my wrongful imprisonment by our employer I sent this email out:\nSubject: MORE and Social Justice\nTo: MORE <more-discussion@googlegroups.com>\nI'm concerned about MORE. That's why I got on the steering committee.\nA member of MORE\u2026.a steering committee member\u2026a NYSUT candidate was falsely accused and imprisoned and the Social Justice caucus he belongs to is silent Not a tweet\u2026not a discussion\u2026.not a mobilizing of anything\nI know some bloggers wrote, but what is MORE really Just talk\u2026no walk\nThis isn't about me\u2026this is bigger.\nDOE's Workplace Bullying Continues \u2013 My 33 Hrs Behind Bars \u2013 http:\/\/wp.me\/p31ecs-Tm\nFrancesco Portelos\nThen there was some discussion and apologies and we found that another teacher was wrongfully arrested the week before at thesame 84th precinct. MORE thencalled for a resolution to defend members against abusive administrators. It was voted down by Unity and that was that. MORE alsodidn't want to name abusive administrators on their website and nothing about it was ever mentioned again.\nI continued to build my other group, Don't Tread on Educators (DTOE.org), to defend educators under attack since UFT and MORE were not doing enough in that aspect. I and other MORE members spoke about not really sending attacked members to MORE meetings, because we weren't convinced that it would get them anywhere. MORE has a low retention rate and although they might get 60 people to a meeting, it isn't the same as before. Several UFT members told me they \"\u2026will never waste time at another MORE meeting again.\" Edu-blogger Arthur Goldstein shared thesame sentiments here in his blog postNYC Educator: MORE and the Mission from God\nWe continued to try to steer MORE in a direction many of us believed was needed. It was tough and they were not budging. Social Justice First and nothing else.\nIn May 2014 they were very involved in criticizing the new proposed contract. I joined in that as did many others. I tried to create a forum for all issues on thecontract called www.uftcontract.com. I gave it the MORE logo and it was approved by steering in a democratic way, but undemocratically vetoed by a non steering member Mike Shirtzer. No one said a word about the veto. What do the MORE bylaws say about that Wait, it was two years and MOREhad no governing bylaws Mike Shirtzer could ignore the whole steering committee You call this organizing\nIn June steering was up for reelection and despite a busy schedule I decided to take another crack and getting MORE to defend and represent the membership. Again, no election was had. Not enough were interested.\nAs my name continued to be spread in a synonymous way to fighting back, the emails from members coming in increased. Many non-tenured teachers, who were discontinued and terminated, were contacting me and I tried to help. I saw that New Action also had this issue on their agenda whereas MORE did not. I reached out to New Action caucus to try for a bipartisan push to the DOE and UFT and possibly help these over 600 terminated teachers. Thereaction from some MORE members was ridiculous. You would think I threw a burlap sack of kittens into theriver.Julie Cavanaugh responded: \"Our caucus, our members, have made it very clear their feelings and policy about collaborating with NAC [New Action Caucus]. This was an official outcome after the last meeting with them, discussed at general and sent to discussion where several folks weighed in.\"Normechoed the others' sentiments with: \"I am very disturbed that you took it upon yourself to take this action. It is one thing as an individual \u2013 but when you are part of steering you give up some of that individuality as a MORE official. Thus you have no right to take unilateral action and reach out to New Action as a MORE rep (and as a member of Steering that makes you a MORE rep). I think you cause a good deal of harm in doing that. That is counter to basic MORE policy and to decisions we have made to not reach out to New Action- in essence undoing a lot of work we have done to isolate NA. In essence you allow them to use that against us in the elections next year. We have gone through the political scenario numerous times.\"\nI was really blown away but these responses. Reaching out for support on a common cause was frowned upon by MORE. I researched the meeting Julie wrote about. Basically MORE and New Action met in October 2013 to discuss possibly working together. Julie shared her notes from the meeting with the MORE membership and a few chimed in to say in sum and substance \"forget New Action.\" That was that. No vote and no more discussion.\nThis crazy \"What was I thinking\" outreach to New Action caused a behind the scenes discussion by non steering members and a phone call to me that invited me for a \"chat\" this past August. The chat was supposed to be about me constantly bringing up working with New Action, yet thesteering members were unaware of said \"issue.\" Then who was Who is that select group in MORE that makes decisions and vetoes the steering committee\nThis chat request overlapped with the Al Sharpton March for Justice in Staten Island against police brutality. Being on MORE's steering I can tell you that in a two week period there was a lot of discussion about endorsing or not endorsing this and posting articles by Julie on our MORE blog. Between August 16 to present day, there was more discussion on the March for Justice than there was on teacher trade union issues combined in thelast two years. Again, please comment below if I'm wrong.\nI was outnumbered on steering and thearticles went out. This despite extreme chaos on the UFT Facebook page where members were against a union endorsement. My own personal stance revolved around thebasic principle of \"Hey! Let's march for teachers and school communities first before we march against police brutality.\" I thought that since it was a heated topic, it was best for MORE to quietly sit this one out. How could they though It was a social justice issue and they jumped in. The outcome was that MORE was too left for the right and not left enough for theleft. MORE won nothing or at the minimum very little new support.\nI became so aggravated that my last weeks of summer vacation were being involved in phone conferences about theMarch for Justice andcountless emails, that I decided to step down from MORE steering.\nThe straw that broke thecamel's back came from Harris Lirtzman, a MORE member and largest donor, and his email to a select few asking that the issue of me speaking against UFT involvement in the March on Facebook be curbed. In addition, I was forwarded a text by someone that was from Harris stating \"He [Portelos] is nothing but trouble for thecaucus and is about self promotion.\" Let me be VERY clear that I am still in this game for whoever needs my help. I have proven time and time again that I will defend myself against any and all attacks and any self promotion is really for promoting that spirit of fighting back.\nThe chat The chat never happened as it appeared useless. I then resigned from steering.\nIn September, New Action had a press conference for discontinued teachers. DTOE.org members were there and a few MORE members, but MORE chose not to promote theevent. Remember, it was a good cause, but again it was from New Action, so MORE was not going to promote their event.\nThere is more, but basically that is where I, and others, started really discussing moving on. We even briefly discussed talking to New Action, but again that Unity endorsement would be a problem for many.\nNow coincidentally, around this time, I was asked to go to lunch with Randi Weingarten, President of theAmerican Federation of Teachers, the end of August. I am going to write the word COINCIDENTALLYagain in bold, capital letters and italicize it. This is because I have integrity and I assure you that it was just\u2026coincidental timing. My decision to step away from MORE had nothing to do with a conversation with Randi, an avocado toast and a cappuccino on Lexington Ave with the president of the largest union in the United States. By the time we met I had already stepped down.\nSharingthe details of my meeting with Randi is not necessary. We had lunch, we spoke about different issues, I explained my criticisms of the union and backed them up with evidence. I called Norm Scott, who she is not a big fan of, my godfather who when all others left me for dead, he pulled me in to teacher activism. Her assistant came in to tell her to check her email as there was an emergency. She pulled out a flip phone and I cracked a joke about it. Since Randi is also part of the Unity caucus, our lunch has caused some speculation, but sharing private conversations doesn'tmake me great lunch company.\nWe have aUFT membership frustrated with its UFT leadership. A membership that feels sold out and unprotected. One needs to go no further than the UFT Facebook page and read thethousands of comments to see that the members are pretty upset.https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uftny\nWe have members in need with no strong enough caucus to support them. Why aren't more ICE members active in MORE. Why aren't there more Badass Teachers in MORE Why aren't there more minorities in MORE What about many NYC edu-bloggersOut there we have countless teacher activists with no real home. We have young members of Unity frustrated with their obligatory voting on agenda's that are against the membership's best interest.\nCan we create a place for all of them\nI personally have a school system that doesn't want me and continues to make attempts to attack me. I have aUFT leadership that left me for dead and won't accept my resume for any job at the union despite my fearless and creative ways tofight back. I had a caucus that ignored me and whose concerns did not echo mine nor that of the rest of the membership.\nSo, taking all this in and assessing the situation, I spoke to a growing number and we created a new caucus. If the UFT won't lower the draw bridge to 52 Broadway then we are going to build a tunnel. We are mobilizing and we are growing since just this past Thursday.\n\"If you lead, they will follow. \"\nNo longer can we sit by as educators are blamed for all of societies problems and are systematically attacked. No longer can we sit by as UFT member after UFT member continues to go home unhappy with thedignity and respect sucked out of their work environment. We CANwork together to improve our profession in solidarity.\nVisit our website and sign up or fill out theform below. We are looking for both active members and retirees that can bring in their experience and support . We are also looking for non-activist members who are looking for support. We will be here for you.\nwww.UFTSolidarity.org\nTwitter: @UFTSolidarity\nFacebook: Facebook.com\/UFTSolidarity\nI wish MORE caucus success in all their endeavors and will work more with them when it aligns more with teacher centered unionism and when they need people for any overlapping social justice issues. Solidarity Caucus will not be void of social justice issues that affect our students, but our profession will be our primary concern.\nJoin The New UFT Caucus \u2013 Solidarity, Where Mainstream Teachers Have A Real Voice.\u2013 Chaz's School Daze\nAbout Francesco Portelos\nParent and Educator fighting for the student and the teacher.\nView all posts by Francesco Portelos \u2192\nTagged 84th Precinct, :, ATR, Betsy Combier, discontinued teachers, doe, DOI, Don't Tread on Educators, DTOE, educator exile, michael mulgrew, more caucus, norm scott, nyc doe, nypd, NYSUT, osi, Portelos, raise, randi Weingarten, recall, rubber room, SCA, tenure, uft, united federation of teachers.\n\u00ab @NYCSchools attacks @UFT and attempted to fire almost 3,000 members \u2013 FOIL Friday Edition\nA Video of the Most Naive Teacher \u00bb\nYou provide every minute detail of every damn thing that's happened to you during the past 2-3 years but you don't want to share any details from your discussion with AFT President and reason for so much union member discontent, Randi Weingarten Come on Francesco, you're kidding right Until I know what was discussed and what role Randi had in the creation of this new caucus I don't want any part of it.\nBut why would anyone want to invite me out if there is nothing private Not really leaving out much.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category: Coming Up\nThursday, July 4, 2019: American Landscapes\nWe travel through American Landscapes on the next Echoes. On this July 4th week we hear the sounds of ambient Americana and music born from the landscapes of the country.\nWednesday, July 3, 2019: New Music London Grammar\nNew music from London Grammar teaming up with electronic producer Flume. We've also got something from Plaid, and their dynamic approach to electronic music from latest album, Polymer.\nTuesday, July 2, 2019: Guitarist William Tyler Live\nGuitarist William Tyler performs the inventive music of his latest album, Goes West. Tyler is a musical child of Takoma and Windham Hill Records guitarists, but he goes in a new direction.\nMonday, July 1, 2019: Lamb CD of the Month\nThe Secret of Letting Go by the electronic duo Lamb is an essential album of dream pop, with occasional blasts into angst, centered on the voice of Lou Rhodes. It's the July CD of the Month.\nWeekend, June 29 & 30, 2019: Best of 2019, So Far\nThis weekend on Echoes we count down The Best of Echoes 2019, So Far as we reach the midway point of the year. We've also got a live performance by the post-rock band, I Think Like Midnight.\nFriday, June 28, 2019: Music from Lamb and \"Roma\"\nIt's music by Lamb, the electronic pop duo from England and their latest album, The Secret of Letting Go. We'll also hear from an album of music inspired by the Netflix film, \"Roma.\"\nThursday, June 27, 2019: Slow Flow Echoes\nOn a Slow Flow Echoes it's music from Brian Eno's, Music for Installations, a 5-CD set of his music for artworks across the years. We'll also hear music from a collection called Maui Chill.\nWednesday, June 26, 2019: Saul Stokes Interview\nSaul Stokes used to make his own electronic instruments and when he plays live, he doesn't use any computers. That's a few of the things that make Stokes a unique musician on the electronic scene.\nTuesday, June 25, 2019: I Think Like Midnight Live\nI Think Like Midnight is enigmatic name of a Philadelphia instrumental rock group that includes members of the punk band, The Dead Milkmen. It's a bitchin' post-rock sound live on Echoes.\nMonday, June 24, 2019: Best of 2019, So Far\nIt's the midway point of the year which means it's time for The Best of Echoes 2019, So Far. I've got our top 25 albums of 2019's first 6 months and you'll hear them counted down.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DECEMBER 7 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY\nGestapo-NKVD Conferences: From December 6 to 7, 1939 the Gestapo and Soviet NKVD held conferences in Krakow, located in the General Gouvernment in central Poland (Nazi-German administrative center). The second round of conferences were held from December 8 to 9, 1939 in Zakopane, a resort town in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland. Top officials from the Gestapo and NKVD met to discuss mutual cooperation the tactics to use for dealing with Polish resistance and the exchange of prisoners of war. There were seven Gestapo-NKVD Conferences; the first was held on September 27, 1939 in Brzesc, and the last in March 1940 in Krakow. The German-Soviet alliance was established with the signing of the Molotov\u2013Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1939. On September 1, Nazi Germany invaded Poland on three fronts, and on September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east.\nNazi German Commander of Chelmno Death Camp. On December 7, 1941, Herbert Lange became the first commandant of the Chelmno, a Nazi German Death Camp. He organized this camp by orders of Himmler and Greiser. According to some sources, it was Lange who selected Chelmno as the location. The Death Camp was situated about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the Polish city of Lodz, which the Nazi Germans renamed Litzmannstadt. It operated from December 8, 1941, coinciding with Operation Reinhard during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, and again from June 23, 1944 to January 18, 1945. Up to 340,000 men, women, and children were gassed at Chelmno. On January 17, 1945 Russian troops captured the town of Che\u0142mno but by then, the Nazi Germans had destroyed evidence of the camp's existence, leaving no prisoners behind.\nPearl Harbor Attack: On December 7, 1941, without any formal declaration of war, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a suprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. Twenty-one American ships were attacked and either lost or damaged during the attack. Of the 402 American aircraft stationed in Hawaii, 188 were destroyed and 159 damaged, 155 of them on the ground. Hardly any aircraft were ready to defend the base except for eight Army Air Forces pilots. They succeeded in getting airborne during the attack and each of them were credited with downing at least one Japanese aircraft during the attack: 1st Lt. Lewis M. Sanders, 2nd Lt. Philip M. Rasmussen, 2nd Lt. Kenneth M. Taylor, 2nd Lt. George S. Welch, 2nd Lt. Harry W. Brown, and 2nd Lt. Gordon H. Sterling Jr. Sterling was shot down by Lt. Fujita over Kaneohe Bay and is listed as Body Not Recovered (not Missing In Action). Lt. John L. Dains was killed by friendly fire returning from a victory over Kaawa. Of 33 PBYs in Hawaii, 24 were destroyed, and six others damaged beyond repair. (The three on patrol returned undamaged.) Friendly fire brought down some U.S. planes on top of that, including five from an inbound flight from Enterprise. Japanese attacks on barracks killed additional personnel. American casualties were 2,335 killed, and 1,143 wounded. The next day the United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan, and the US entered WWII.\nTreaty between West Germany and Poland: On December 7, 1970, the Treaty of Warsaw was signed by Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany and Prime Minister Jozef Cyrankiewicz of the People's Republic of Poland. (It was ratified by the German Bundestag on May 17,1972.) West Germany and Poland agreed to the stipulations of the Warsaw Treaty, that is, the acceptance of the existing border between Germany and Poland - the Oder-Neisse line, which was imposed on Germany by the Allied powers after the end of World War Two at the Potsdam Conference. The subject had been a very sensitive topic since 1945, as Poland was concerned that a German government might attempt to reclaim some of the former eastern territories. Willy Brandt was vehemently criticised by the conservative CDU\/CSU opposition, who preceived his policy as a betrayal of German national interests, but were consoled with the belief that the Treaty was not a final arbiter. According to Article IV of the Warsaw Treaty, it stated that previous treaties, such as the Potsdam Agreement, were not superseded by this latest agreement. Therefore the provisions of this treaty could be changed by a final peace treaty between Germany and the Allies of World War II\u2014as provided for in the Potsdam Agreement.\nWarschauer Kniefall: On December 7, 1970 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visited the monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After Brandt laid a wreath at the monument, he surprised everyone present when he knelt before the monument, and remained silent (for about half a minute). During the Nazi German occupation, Willy Brandt had actively resisted the early Nazi regime, and had been in exile most of the time. Brandt's visit to Poland at the time was for the signing of the Treaty of Warsaw between West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland, guaranteeing German acceptance of the new borders of Poland. The treaty was one of the Brandt-initiated policy steps (the 'Ostpolitik') to ease tensions between West and East during the Cold War. At the time positive reactions may have been limited, but his demonstration of humility was an important step in bridging the gaps World War II had left between Germany and Eastern Europe. Brandt's act was remarkable and thought to be one of the reasons he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.\nLabels: December 7 Daily Chronicles of History, German-Polish Treaty, Gestapo-NKVD Conferences, Nazi German concentration camp, Pearl Harbor Attack, Polish Greatness, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Willy Brandt\nDECEMBER 31 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY\nDECEMBER 25 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY (CHRISTM...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Work \/ the nightmare room \/ projections and ideas\n'The Nightmare Room' is a multi-platform projection work originally commissioned for the 2012 Blinc Digital Arts festival in Conwy.\nIt uses site-specific material, animation and augmented reality to examine ideas of transformation and the power of myth.\nThe 3-channel triptych was projected onto Conwy Castle from 26th to 28th October, 2012.\nThe Nightmare Room: Background ideas\nThe Blinc 2012 festival was dedicated to the centenary of Alan Turing, who is well known as the cracker of the enigma code and for his groundbreaking work in computing and artificial intelligence. Turing also produced an equally seminal body of work concerned with mathematical biology and pattern formation, specifically morphogenesis and the occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in plant structures.\nThese studies provided the initial inspiration for the project, and through research, gradually a narrative emerged that I wanted to explore in the work.\nTuring was also an athlete, nearly qualifying for the 1948 Olympics. Around 1950 he encountered another runner out training (which was fairly uncommon at the time) and the two teamed up to become regular jogging partners, this was the young classical scholar Alan Garner.\nWriting in 2011, Garner recalled how Turing obviously ran to think, talking endlessly about mathematics and biology. As they chatted they discovered a shared common experience; both had been traumatised at an early age by the Witch's transformation scene in Disney's Snow White. The 3-year-old Garner had been dragged screaming from the auditorium, and Turing regularly gave seminars on the psychology of the film at Cambridge.\nGarner remembers Turing's obsession with this story, \"He used to go over the scene in detail, dwelling on the ambiguity of the apple, red on one side, green on the other, one of which gave death\u2026\u2026 We discovered that we had both realized independently that quite often life and death are the same thing, beauty and evil are the same thing.\"\nIn 1952 Turing was found guilty of 'Gross Indecency' i.e. homosexual activity, he lost his security clearance and was forced by the state to undergo a years course of hormone 'treatment' with synthetic oestrogen.He died two years later from cyanide poisoning, ending his life with a half eaten, possibly poisoned, apple by his bedside.\nGarner went on to produce numerous striking works of fiction, rooted in place, myth and language. Among them is 'The Owl Service', a modern updating of the Blodeuwedd myth:\nThe original story from the Mabinogion tells how Gwydion uses the flowers of the Oak, Broom and Meadowsweet to conjure the maiden Blodeuwedd as a wife for Lleu Llaw Gyffes. She falls in love with Gronw Pebwr and they conspire to murder her husband, Gwydion punishes her by transforming her into an Owl.\nIn Garner's work the three protagonists find themselves trapped in a remote Welsh valley and forced to play out roles from the ancient tale.\nCentral to the plot is a dinner service on which the intricate floral pattern can be seen as either owls or flowers, depending on your viewpoint, the chosen perspective determining destruction or salvation. This duality echoes Turing's musings on the apple \u2013 one half giving life and the other death.\nStill from Castle projection\nThe Nightmare Room: Process\nWhile working on 'Lament ' I had reacquainted myself with Garner's work, his psycho-geographic essays about Alderley Edge particularly resonating with the sense of place and belonging I feel for the Shropshire border landscape. And just as Snow White disturbed Turing and Garner, I was equally haunted as a child by the TV dramatisation of The Owl Service. A strange adaptation shot on location in North Wales, Garner himself suffering a breakdown during the filming.\nIt struck me how reoccurring themes of pattern and transformation seem to wind through the narrative arc of Turing and Garner's life and work.\nIn an attempt to make sense of these different ideas I started to combine them in 'The Nightmare Room.' This was Turing's name for the tiny space in his Wilmslow home where he conducted chemical experiments, including the gold electroplating of spoons \u2013 a process that requires a solution of potassium cyanide.\nBryn, Llanymawddwy\nI travelled to Llanymawddwy where Garner wrote the original novel, also used as the filming location for the Owl Service TV series. Here I gathered materials to work in the studio: audio, photos, video and Meadowsweet from the banks of the river.\nInspired by Turings work on phyllotaxis I used a mixture of stop motion and digital animation to breathe life into my found objects. I let shifting patterns evolve, as if mapping out the binding threads that form the narrative fabric of our lives.\nAnimating Meadowsweet in the studio\nWhereas Turing's equations can explain the complex shell patterns generated by molluscs as a chemical memory, this theoretical web of connectedness is too vast and complex for us to describe with current mathematical models. In his paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' Turing pondered how knowing the initial state of the universe could enable us to predict all future events, but cautions \"The displacement of a single electron by a billionth of a centimetre at one moment might make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later, or escaping.\"\nThis proto-chaos theory leads on to his discussion of discrete state machines, and theoretical computing. Again, how things are perceived initially can mean the difference between survival and ruin, or as Huw Halfbacon says in the Owl Service:\n\"She wants to be flowers but you make her owls, you cannot complain then if she goes hunting\"\nThe Nightmare Room: Production\nThe project presented another welcome opportunity for collaboration with Steve Knight, and for us to build on the Augmented Reality work we had produced in Lament.\nWe decided to create a number of site-specific AR interventions that would be visible through a smartphone AR browser. Referencing Garner's and Turing's joint fascination with Snow White, we built giant 'virtual' animated apples, one half green and one half red, all in various states of decay.\nWhile I assembled flowers and feathers frame by frame in the studio, Steve experimented with generative sounds driven by the Fibonacci sequence.\nThese were combined with recordings we'd made of musicians Ceri Rhys Matthews, Ceri Jones and Christine Cooper.\nThe soundtrack was then rearranged so that, together with some clever coding, we could use it to 'drive' parts of the animated stop-motion movements, directly linking them to values in the audio waveform.\nAfter a site visit to Conwy I realized that the subtle images we had been using would be lost when projected onto the rough stone fa\u00e7ade of the castle, so we decided to create a high-contrast monochrome version of the work.\nThis was projected onto the Castle as a triptych and alongside it we placed our site -specific augmented reality intervention, we did the same with our work-in-progress piece at Conwy Chapel. This let the viewer interact with the AR work whilst simultaneously viewing the projection pieces, so that the two elements combined into one.\nAugmented Reality and Castle projection as viewed through smartphone\nThe work was designed so that each element could also be experienced separately, this was essential for accessibility as not all the audience would possess a smartphone or they may have encountered the AR during the daytime when the projection wasn't running.\nThe Nightmare Room: Work in Progress\nThe project has continued to develop and expand and these ideas will be developed into a new moving image work in 2013\nThe Nightmare Room: Work in progress still\nThe Nightmare Room Links\nBBC Arts Blog Alan Turing's Nightmare Room re-imagined\nBBC News report\nblinc digital 2012 festival site\nCeri Rhys Matthews musician and producer\nMission Gallery\nThe Space Video and interview on the BBC \/ Arts Council web channel\n\u00a9 Copyright - Sean Vicary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Submission #5517: Omnigamer's A2600 Dragster in 00:08.49\nJudge : feos Publisher : Fog\nFor Publication Class : Moons\nBizHawk 1.12.1\nFrame Count\nROM Filename\nDragster (1980) (Activision, David Crane) (AG-001) ~.bin\nRerecord Count\nOmnigamer\nSubmitted by Omnigamer on 5\/21\/2017 5:01:36 AM\nDownload Discuss and Vote Back to Queue All by this submitter\nSubmission Comments\nThis movie is a movie for Atari 2600 \"Dragster.\" The game itself is incredibly short and fairly straightforward, but it has some historical significance for gaming and speedruns in general. The primary goal is simple: clear a quarter-mile track by holding your engine in red-line and shifting at opportune times. This was among the first games to emphasize speed as a primary metric for success as opposed to score.\n(Link to video)\nGame objectives\nEmulator used: BizHawk 1.12.1\nAims for fastest in-game time (Player 1, top half)\nSecondary goal: aims for maximum distance\nAims for track completion with fewest input frames (Player 2, bottom half)\nSacrifices time for entertainment\nDoes not early start or blow up (disqualifications)\nInputs should be compatible with all known releases of Dragster\nThere's quite a history for this game. It initially released with a challenge in the manual to beat \"Activision's Best\" by matching or beating a time of 5.74. The actual time an Activision employee achieved prior to launch was a 5.64, but they wanted to advertise a more generally achievable time. In 1982, player Todd Rogers claimed a time of 5.51, which was supposedly verified in front of Activision staff and received wide acclaim. To this day, that time has not been beaten or tied.\nI took interest with the game based on this story and the fairly suspicious fact that nobody beyond Rogers has ever achieved better than 5.61. Clearly there must be some obscure bug that he used to gain such a significant advantage, right?\nThus, I disassembled and reverse engineered the entirety of Dragster. This was key in understanding the major pieces of the speed and distance system, but also gave me a chance to check for what shenanigans you might be able to pull off with oddball inputs or otherwise.\nAnd I came up with nothing. The game has some very strict checks for inputs, and on every reset and boot will completely clear all memory related to any of the interesting values. Checks related to major mechanics are all fairly straightforward, and errant inputs have no sway in most of them. Player 1 and 2 inputs are handled on opposing frames, and they each have their own distinct memory addresses for each mechanic. So there's not a whole lot you can do outside of just playing normally. Mechanics explained in more detail below.\nBased on all this reversing, I built a model of the speed system so that I could easily identify impacts of shifting at certain times. The inputs can be directly used in emulator, and I verified that they give the correct times and behavior.\nThis movie covers both the best solution we've developed so far in terms of in-game time and distance on Player 1, as well as the minimum number of frames of input to reach the finish on Player 2. Both were theorized in the spreadsheet and later verified in BizHawk.\nRelevant Addresses\n0x01 Global frame counter\n0x0D Countdown timer\n0x0F Active player\n0x28 Tachometer value\n0x33 IGT Seconds (BCD)\n0x35 IGT 0.xx digits (BCD)\n0x37 IGT 0.00xx digits (BCD)\n0x3A Distance\n0x40 Speed\n0x42 Subdistance\n0x4C Shift state & current gear\nAdd 1 to any of the above addresses for equivalent Player 2 address.\nYou complete the track as soon as your distance exceeds 0x60. If you shift into first gear before the countdown is 0, you are marked as \"Early\" and disqualified. If you push your tachometer value too far into the red, your engine will blow out, and you'll also be disqualified.\nYou have only two gameplay-related inputs: the gas (button) and clutch (left on stick). You can also reset at any time, but it just starts from the countdown. There is a second mode where you also must steer with up\/down, but that mode isn't used in this movie. You start in gear 0, and every time you engage and then release the clutch the gear value increments by 1, up to a maximum of 4. You can rev your tachometer up to a maximum value of 0x1F; at 0x20 or higher, you will blow out.\nSpeed and Distance Mechanics\nThe game sets up a moving \"speed limit\" of sorts based on your tachometer value and current gear. On every active player frame, the game checks if your current speed is less than the current \"speed limit;\" if the speed is less than, it increases speed by 2. If equal, no change. If the limit is less than your speed though, speed decrements by 1. Additionally, if the clutch is currently engaged, speed does not decrement or increment.\nThe speed limit itself is equal to the tachometer value rotated left by the current gear value minus 1. If the tachometer is in redline condition (value equal or greater than 0x20), an extra 1 is also rotated in, giving you an extra limit overhead of +1 at gear 2, +2 at gear 3, and +4 for gear 4.\nEvery player frame, the current speed is added to the subdistance. If subdistance overflows, the distance value is incremented.\nTachometer and Shifting Mechanics\nSince the tachometer is the lone direct influence on your maximum speed, it's important to maintain as high a value as possible throughout play while avoiding blowouts. However, the game has a fixed acceleration window for the tachometer based on the difference between the current speed and the speed limit. If the current speed is more than 0x10 below the speed limit, the tachometer value is decremented by 1, affecting the speed limit for the next player frame. This mechanic discourages shifting up too quickly.\nThe tachometer value will change based on a frame rule to check whether the gas is currently engaged. As the gear increases, the frame rule for checking whether the gas input is held also increases. At gear 1, it checks every player frame. 2 is every other player frame; 3 every 4th; 4 every 8th. If the gas is held when the frame rule is engaged, the tachometer value increments by 1. If it is not held, the value will decrease by 1. This frame rule occurs based on the global frame counter, which means that the frame counter value itself influences the incrementing pattern of higher gears.\nThe tachometer also behaves differently while the clutch is engaged or in gear 0. In either case, rather than incrementing or decrementing by 1, it will instead change by 3. This is still dependent on whether the gas is also held during the frame that the clutch is engaged. This activity occurs instantly regardless of the frame rule.\nThe general strategy is to maintain as high of a tachometer value for as long as possible, and then shift after reaching the maximum possible speed for your current gear. However, since the distance between your max speed and the current speed affects tachometer increments and decrements, it is sometimes better to shift earlier and maintain a higher entrance value to a particular gear. Additionally, once in gear 4, successive shifts are used to re-raise the tachometer value once speed reaches a point it can no longer increase. This temporary rise in the speed ceiling allows for optimal progression.\nShifting as late as possible without affecting speed is beneficial to the subdistance; for every frame earlier that a shift occurs, 2 subdistance units are lost. Removing a shift entirely would save a lot more than that, but you generally can't remove a shift without losing speed incrementing opportunities elsewhere.\nUntil you reach the speed ceiling, there is no benefit to letting the speed fall by 1 unit during a player frame. The loss of an effective 3 speed cascades throughout the rest of play and makes a huge difference in distance. At the speed ceiling, however, you can briefly lose 1 speed in order to gain 2 and then lock in your max speed of 253 instead of 252. This helps a fair bit as soon as I reach 252 for the first time, but is detrimental any time before that.\nFinally, since the frame counter influences the tachometer increment pattern, it's key to play around with all of the 8 possible seeds to find an optimal shifting pattern. A different seed alone can have a significant influence on end time; getting a 5.57 is not possible under all seeds.\nFor completing the game in the fewest frames, the goal was instead to get to a fast enough speed and rev the tachometer to max before stopping all inputs. This allowed the speed to continue advancing for a dozen or so frames before the tachometer had gone down far enough to force the speed into decreasing. Then it was just enough to have it limp across the finish line under its remaining momentum.\nClosing Comments\nI opened these comments with mentioning Rogers's claimed 5.51. Over the course of this investigation, I've pretty well determined that a 5.51 is not possible according to the available game model. Since there are no details on what actually happened when he claimed it or who might have witnessed it, there's no way to say if it was cheated or a result of a hardware problem or if it even happened at all. Either way, this research and model should be enough to show that it's not possible on normal conditions. Even with some types of cheating (starting in gear 1 without shifting, starting with 2 speed, etc), a 5.51 is not possible.\nAs for the movie itself, this is the best I've been able to find that maximizes the remaining subdistance after crossing the finish line with a 5.57 (this specific solution originally pointed out by Reddit user Kragnir). In this case, you end up with 98 units of \"spare\" subdistance; still about 158 units away from the next best timer value of 5.54. The inputs for this are demonstrated by the Player 1 slot, and the last input frame is 508. Note that there is a delay at the beginning in order to align the correct frame rule.\nAs a secondary goal, I went for the typical TASVideos goal of least frames of input to finish, regardless of in-game time. This is demonstrated by Player 2, and the last input occurs on frame 343. Note that this could be improved by 2 frames but would require a different frame counter value than the IGT goal, so this tradeoff was made to be able to show off both at once.\nThere might be room for improvements, but I've checked all of the obvious alternatives that follow the general strategy rules. Even if improvements are found, I expect that they would only provide small amounts of additional subdistance on the shown 5.57; 5.54 is a long way off, yet. The number of possible positions for 9-10 shifts over the course of all ~250 optimizable frames is tractable, so it is possible to brute-force a true optimal solution. Until then, feel free to toy around with the spreadsheet model and see what you can come up with.\n~Omni\nfeos: Judging...\nfeos: Updated the movie file.\nfeos: This is a great movie in so many aspects.\nFirst, it deconstructs this advertising myth that lived for so long.\nSecond, it includes extremely elaborate research, to the point of full simulation.\nThird, it showcases 2 types of goals in the same run: fastest real time and fastest in-game time.\nFourth, in optimizing in-game time, it uses a special goal: achieving farthest distande and subdistance in the shortest time. So by that it beats the known run by Samsara, who likely hasn't set such a goal, so the runs are probably not very comparable. They are probably also not comparable due to heavy emulation improvements of the A2600 core that has happened since that run was made. Though Samsara's run stops sooner while getting the same in-game time, it doesn't reach the subdistance reached in this run, so basically it's overall speed is lower.\nIf someone reimplements that movie to reach farther subdistance than this run does, in the same amount of time, or to reach the same subdistance sooner, it might obsolete this run. Finding the perfect formula for real time movie length against farthest subdistance might be a challenge, if we default to getting the same in-game time for fair comparison.\nBut since we're not here to make and publish only unbeatable movies, especially when the improvement is only potential, I'm accepting this gem to Moons.\nFog: Processing.\nLast Edited by admin@tasvideos.org on 1\/1\/2022 6:13:40 PM\nPage History Latest diff List Referrers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man who tackled, groped women charged with attempted rape, assault: Salisbury Police\nSalisbury Police say Jonathan Kelechi Mbagwu of Hanover, Maryland faces several charges, including attempted first- and second-degree rape.\nMan who tackled, groped women charged with attempted rape, assault: Salisbury Police Salisbury Police say Jonathan Kelechi Mbagwu of Hanover, Maryland faces several charges, including attempted first- and second-degree rape. Check out this story on delmarvanow.com: https:\/\/www.delmarvanow.com\/story\/news\/local\/maryland\/2019\/10\/29\/salisbury-police-arrest-man-attempted-rape-assault-charges-johnathan-kelechi-mbawgu\/2494771001\/\nRose Velazquez, Salisbury Daily Times Published 10:44 a.m. ET Oct. 29, 2019\nAllen Mitchell of Salisbury, Maryland, a former James M. Bennett High School counselor, pleaded guilty to 4 charges, including sex abuse of a minor. Wochit\nA man who tackled one woman on a Salisbury street in the middle of the night and groped another faces attempted rape, sex offense and assault charges, according to police.\nA Tuesday news release shows Salisbury officers responded to the 200 block of Milford Street just before 3 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, for a report of attempted rape. Individuals involved immediately flagged them down and directed them to a man fleeing the area.\nOfficers then pursued the man on foot. Police said he refused to stop when requested, but was eventually detained and identified as 25-year-old Jonathan Kelechi Mbagwu of Hanover. The subsequent investigation revealed he'd been involved in two separate incidents involving women in the area.\nThe first involved a 21-year-old woman who had been walking in the area of South Salisbury Boulevard, according to police, when Mbagwu approached her and put his hand in her rear pants pocket.\nJonathan Mbagwu (Photo: Salisbury Police Department submitted image)\nThe release states Mbagwu tried to start a conversation with the woman, but because she didn't know him, she stopped walking with him and stayed in a well-lit area. Once he was out of sight, she continued on to her destination.\nBut she spotted Mbagwu again, police said, while walking in the area of South Salisbury Boulevard and Canal Park Drive. He began walking toward her at a fast pace, and she took off running.\nMbagwu tackled the woman in the South Salisbury Boulevard median, according to police, and his statements and actions led the victim to believe he was trying to sexually assault her. A passerby then stopped to help the woman and Mbagwu fled toward Canal Park Drive.\nIn the second incident, police said Mbagwu approached three 18-year-old women in the area of Canal Park Drive shortly after the first assault. He started a conversation with the women while walking them to Milford Street.\nMore crime: In Shore Stop gunpoint robbery, Salisbury man convicted\nDuring this encounter, the release shows Mbagwu took something from one of the women and refused to return it. He also slapped one of the women on her buttocks, grabbed her from behind and groped her outside her clothing.\nThe women started to call 911, according to the release, which prompted Mbagwu to start walking away, but that's when Salisbury officers arrived in the area in response to the first incident. Investigators identified him as the suspect in both incidents.\nMbagwu was arrested and charged with attempted first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense, two counts of fourth-degree sex offense, first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, failure to obey and disorderly conduct.\nOnline case records show he is being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center without bond.\nOngoing investigation: Woman's body found near vehicle at Accomack campground: Sheriff\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.delmarvanow.com\/story\/news\/local\/maryland\/2019\/10\/29\/salisbury-police-arrest-man-attempted-rape-assault-charges-johnathan-kelechi-mbawgu\/2494771001\/\nPerdue's Family Farmhouse to be open for tours\nUpgrade sought for road into Chincoteague","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Nation > Jairam's sos to PC: Release Rs 7,600 crore more for MNREGA, PMGSY\nJairam's sos to PC: Release Rs 7,600 crore more for MNREGA, PMGSY\nSujit Nath16 Jan 2014 12:47 AM GMT\nOn Wednesday, Ramesh, through an official letter to the union finance minister, mentioned that he fully appreciate your concerns regarding the need for fiscal consolidation and optimum utilisation of the limited resources available with the government'.\n'Even though it has proved difficult, we will ensure that the expenditure under the two flagship schemes of Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY) and National Rural Linelihood Mission (NRLM) remain within the approved reallocation,' he said.\nOn the context of fund allocation for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), which is facing severe resource crunch because the budget estimate figures were reduced steeply from Rs 21,700 crore to Rs 9700 crore, he said: 'If additional funds are not made available immediately for PMGSY, the field mobilsation for construction and upgradation of rural roads, particularly in the poorer and backward regions would be adversely impacted and this would have a long-term effect on the GDP. As you are aware the next five-six months are the peak working season for PMGSY.'\nHaving an argument through his letter over Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA), the rural development minister said: 'The coming three months are the peak working season for this scheme and all the states are coming forward with huge demands for additional funds while the fund with the department is meager Rs 1,000 crore. We are demanding an additional Rs 2,000 crore keeping in view the resource constraints.'\nRamesh further wrote, 'I would like to assure that the ministry is fully geared to optimally utilise the available funds in the next few months. It is therefore critical that in order to maintain the physical targets mandated for this department, the budget estimates in respect of MGNREGA be restored and an additional amount of Rs 5,600 crore be made available for PMGSY.'\nRamesh, expressing his annoyance, said: 'The uncertainty on the funds position is hampering the implementation of both MGNREGA and PMGSY and the blame is falling on the UPA government.'\nSujit Nath","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"August 8, 2018 leonard4\nNew Market Wins Valley League Championship\nIt just sounded different.\nBottom of the 7th inning, two outs, bases loaded, Tom Sox desperately clinging to a 5-4 lead while hoping to send the series to a 3rd game. Adan Fernandez at bat. Fernandez took the first Antonio Menendez offering and smoked it out towards right center field, where the ball disappeared into a tree well beyond the outfield fence. With that one loud smack of the bat, the Rebels were 2018 Valley League champions.\nCharlottesville had fought back from a 2-0 deficit with a run in the 3rd when Zac Ching slid around the tag at the plate to score on an error, and tied the game when Nickolas Oar scampered home on a wild pitch. The big blow was later in that same inning, when third baseman Nick Bellafronto drove a three-run home run over the left center field fence.\nThe Rebels got one back with what appeared to be a safety squeeze from Chase Sudduth scored Kobe Lopez, and another run in the 6th when Cris DeGuzman singled home Andrew Kasiski, but Tom Sox center fielder Jack Morris cut down Austin Bogart at the plate, and Menendez came in to stop the threat.\nAnd then Fernandez hit the slam. \"I was just trying to help my team out somehow. I just wanted to make them happy, after all we've been through, the rain and everything,\" Fernandez said after the game, with a huge grin.\nBut if Adan Fernandez was the hitter of the game, Peyton Millirons was the pitcher. Peyton entered the game in the 6th inning with the Rebels down 5-3, and proceeded to strike out an astonishing 8 out the 11 batters he faced. \"Really, I just wanted to go home,\" Millirons said. \"I knew if we could get a lead or tie it up I could hand it to the bullpen and we could take it from there. I just wanted to throw strikes and make them hit it, but obviously they didn't, so I got a little lucky.\" (Didn't look like luck from where I was sitting.)\nThe Rebel bullpen, in relief of starter Nick Cottone, overall did an amazing job. Matthew Mercer, Millirons, and closer Trevin Eubanks collectively struck out 12 batters in 5 2\/3 total innings.\nSo the New Market Rebels won their first Valley League title since the 2002 season- 16 seasons ago. Coach Zac Cole said, \"It'll sink in more tomorrow as I'm driving home. It's an accumulation of a lot of manhours- not just from myself, but from our staff, and the people in New Market, and our players. These guys invested a lot for this to happen\u2026 we challenged them off the field while they were here to get better, and I'm just proud that they bought in\u2026. but right now it's just goosebumps.\"\nYour 2018 Valley League Champions- the New Market Rebels!\nNew Market Rebels\nPrevious All-Valley League Selections\nNext Lest You Think ATVL is Finished (Spoiler: It's Not!)\nTop Ten Most Viewed Articles on ATVL \u2013 All Things Valley League says:\n[\u2026] New Market Wins Valley League Championship: This one should be #1, shouldn't it? Along with an awesome picture and game report, this is the story of New Market's clinching game- the franchise's first title since 2002. [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sorry, only persons over the age of 17 may enter this site\nVerify your age\nRise Up and Strike Back\nHomefront: The Revolution is an open-world first person shooter where you must lead the Resistance movement in guerrilla warfare against a superior military force.\nA living, breathing, open world responds to your actions \u2013 you and your Resistance Cell can inspire a rebellion on the streets and turn Occupation into Revolution, as oppressed civilians take up the fight.\nBut your enemy has the advantage \u2013 superior technology, firepower, heavy armour and air support. You must learn the art of guerrilla warfare \u2013 ambush, sabotage, infiltration, deception \u2013 and fight a running battle through the war-ravaged suburbs of Philadelphia.\nAnd the single player campaign is just the start \u2013 in Co-Op you and your friends can form your own Resistance Cell and become renowned as Heroes of the Revolution\nWindows PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4\nSuggestive Themes\nExplore a living, breathing open world \u2013 experience true open world gameplay in a first person shooter, brought to life with astonishing CRYENGINE-powered visuals\nWage Guerrilla Warfare \u2013 this is no linear shooter; learn the art of guerrilla warfare and use ambush, infiltration and hit and run tactics against your foe in thrilling un-scripted firefights\nBuild the Resistance \u2013 recruit revolutionaries to the cause, establish bases and safehouses, capture and customise a deadly arsenal, and build improvised, homebrew weapons for your Guerrilla Tool Kit\nIgnite the Revolution \u2013 from oppressed citizen to revolutionary leader, an epic single-player campaign tells the story of the second War of Independence. The dynamic, evolving world responds to your actions as an oppressed nation rises up in defiance against the occupation\nOnline Co-Op \u2013 take the battle online, form a Resistance Cell with your friends and earn your reputation as Heroes of the Revolution\nSELECT PLATFORM\nWindows PCPlaystation 4Xbox One\nGAME EDITION\n11\/06\/17 | Homefront: The Revolution\nXBOX ONE X ENHANCED UPDATE\nXbox One X users will benefit from improved visual and performance when playing Homefront: The Revolution. The update includes: The game is rendered in 3200 x 1800 which is a four times increase over the standard Xbox One version. This resolution will provide superior image quality on 4k TVs...\nTHE TIME HAS COME TO GO BEYOND THE WALLS\nThis week, Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios released the Spring Update for Homefront: The Revolution. This includes a generous free Trial version of the game for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, the third and final piece of additional single player content, Beyond The Walls, and a dedicated patch for...\nTHE REBELLION HANGS IN THE BALANCE\nAftermath is set in the days after the Battle for Philadelphia, when the fledgling rebellion hangs in the balance. The inspirational Resistance figurehead Benjamin Walker has been broken by the KPA, and is now broadcasting counter-revolutionary propaganda for the enemy. Support for the embattled...\nINFILTRATE OCCUPIED PHILADELPHIA\nThe Voice of Freedom casts the player as Benjamin Walker, legendary figurehead for the rebellion and the KPA's most wanted man, as he tries to infiltrate Occupied Philadelphia and meet up with Jack Parish's Resistance Cell. This tense, story-driven prologue will test your stealth and combat...\nSTEAM FREE WEEKEND\nThis weekend, we are offering PC players the chance to play Homefront: The Revolution FREE! From 10 AM PT (6PM BST, 7PM CEST) Thursday 08th September until 1PM PT (9PM BST, 10PM CEST) Sunday 11th September, players will be able to download and jump into both the Single Player and Resistance Mode...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Connecting the Local Building Industry\nDB Subscribe\nBEX Events\nJanuary 21, 2020 in Planning & Development: One Hundred Mill Hotel to Bring 237 Rooms\nJanuary 21, 2020 in Planning & Development: Killip School to be Replaced by FUSD\nJanuary 21, 2020 in Local News: Metrocenter: Seeking a Revival\nJanuary 21, 2020 in Budgets & Funding: Gov. Doug Ducey Unveils $12.3B State Spending Plan\nJanuary 21, 2020 in Trends: EFI Leasing Industry Confidence Up\nValley Transportation Planners 'Imagine' Another Sales Tax Extension\nPosted on December 7, 2018 by Amanda Murray in Budgets & Funding, Local News, Local Projects \/\/ 0 Comments\nCourtesy of ADOT\nBy Adrienne St. Clair for Arizona Builder's Exchange\nTransportation planners for Maricopa County are getting an early start on plans to extend Prop. 400 \u2013 a 0.5 percent sales tax increase approved back in 2005. Not only did they unveil their new \"Imagine\" proposition at the December APA\/ASLA Networking Event Wednesday, Dec. 5, but they delivered the preliminary planning presentation nearly seven years before Prop. 400 will actually expire.\nLeading the presentation was Audra Koester Thomas from the Maricopa Association of Governments. She said the deadline for the new extension isn't far away at all, but \"really overnight for us.\"\nThomas is the transportation planning program manager at MAG, the metropolitan Phoenix area planning agency that led the development of Prop. 400 almost fifteen years ago.\nThe upcoming plan to extend the sales tax increase has been informally known as Prop. 500 in keeping with the naming convention of its predecessors Prop. 400 and 300. However, according to Thomas, the name \"Imagine\" is meant to convey the possibilities of the future of transportation in the Valley \u2014and also work around bureaucratic red tape where the name Prop. 500 is concerned.\nThe details of \"Imagine\" are, in every sense, yet to be determined. But Thomas and her team don't actually have until 2025 to figure it out. Federal statutes require agencies like MAG to design regional transportation plans with a 20-year lifespan, but they also require these plans to get on the ballot in an election year. So, while Prop. 400 still has years left in play, Thomas and her team are preparing to get its extension on the November 2022 ballot. And though they've technically got November 2024 if the 2022 vote doesn't go well, Thomas doesn't think of it like that. She's completely focused on what happens four years from now.\n\"If we fail [in 2022], we've failed,\" she said.\nAnd she and her colleagues at MAG don't want to fail. Thomas outlined a four-year plan of research, analysis and development to determine what the Valley needs and what its residents want. Thomas and her colleagues started running focus groups back in October and have set a goal to conduct a survey with more than 50,000 participants.\nShe hopes the resulting \"Imagine\" proposition will be a plan that provides residents with multiple choices for transportation, and said that increasing options is the way to avoid congestion, as new freeway space is limited and the Valley continues to sprawl.\nThere are metropolitan planning organizations all across the country, but Thomas said MAG is the second largest planning organization in geographical size. The area is larger than the state of Maryland, she said.\nThe area's size and continued fast-pace of growth are what inspired the original sales tax increase to fund transportation efforts. In 1985, the area was growing so fast that several mayors realized federal funds alone wouldn't provide for the much needed freeways. As a solution, the county passed a local sales tax increase to provide more money for transportation infrastructure. According to Thomas, Prop. 300 was one of the first local sales tax increases passed in the country to fund transportation, even as it's now a common practice across the U.S.\nWhen Prop. 300 was set to expire in 2005, Prop. 400 was passed in November 2004. Prop. 400 promised to finish the freeways, add transit and improve streets.\nHowever, several projects haven't begun since they were promised in 2005. Thomas blames this on a loss of almost 10 years in revenue during the Great Recession. In 2014, The Arizona Republic reported that revenue was $1B less than expected.\nCarol Ketcherside, deputy director of planning at Valley Metro and one of just more than a dozen attendees Wednesday morning, echoed that, saying, \"Of the things we promised, we lost 40 percent because of the Great Recession.\"\nThomas also said that when the economy finally bounced back, the revival brought unpredictable market conditions. Even as revenue began to increase, costs rose, too \u2014 by 50 to 70 percent in some cases.\n\"We have a really great story to tell in terms of the Great Recession,\" she said.\nThomas can't guarantee that \"Imagine\" will include projects promised in Prop. 400. However, lawmakers just decided to pursue a $68M project on Loop 101, and they will be deciding on two more projects in January. According to Thomas, the plan for what to do with remaining Prop. 400 projects will be completely evaluated by Summer 2019.\nThomas said they will use the next few years as a time to really reevaluate the future of Valley transportation. The Valley has changed since 2005 when Prop. 400 was first passed, and regional planners want to use the money for what the area needs. And according to Thomas, that will be tricky.\n\"I'm telling you right now, we have more needs than funding will allow to support,\" she said.\nThomas anticipates the new \"Imagine\" will have less tangible projects than Prop. 400 and will focus more on public health, economy and safety and include things like operations improvements and maintenance \u2014 things she called \"soft\" measures. Planners may also explore the possibility of regional bus rapid transit or even implementation of a commuter rail to make it easier to travel between Valley cities.\nThomas wonders about who will support the new \"Imagine\" proposition, as Prop. 400 had contractor and developer support largely due to the new freeway construction. She says it's too soon to tell.\n\"Champions will be largely colored by what the plan has in it,\" she guessed.\nBut Imagine's success will ultimately depend on whether Thomas and her colleagues will be able to communicate their vision to Maricopa County voters.\n\"At the end of the day, the public has to vote for this plan,\" she said.\nMaricopa Association of Governments\nGilbert EDV Efforts Foster Continued Growth\nGlendale Light Rail Link Considered\nT2050 Moves Phx Transportation Forward\nArizona $89B Transportation Dollars Short of \"Being There Yet\"\nWV Needs Roundabout Traffic Solution\nArizona Builder's Exchange\n1690 N McClintock Dr.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Senate Republicans Block Equal-pay Measure\nIn a bizarre ruling, a narrow Supreme Court majority decided last year that Americans who face wage discrimination only have 180 days to challenge the\nBy Steve Benen \u2014 April 23, 2008\nIn a bizarre ruling, a narrow Supreme Court majority decided last year that Americans who face wage discrimination only have 180 days to challenge the initial discrimination in court. In other words, if your employer is paying you less money for equal work, and you don't find about the discrepancy until seven months after the problem began, you can't contest this in court.\nThe House already passed a measure to improve workers' rights in this area, and the Senate was poised to do the same. A bipartisan majority supported the legislation, but they couldn't overcome Republican obstructionism.\nSenate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure intended to overturn a Supreme Court decision limiting pay discrimination suits in a politically charged vote certain to be replayed in the presidential and Congressional campaigns.\nBy a vote of 56 to 42, the Senate fell four votes short of the 60 required to begin consideration of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, named for an Alabama woman who lost a case against the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company when the court found she not did file her complaint in time. Ms. Ledbetter had been paid as much as 40 percent less than her male counterparts doing the same job, according to her allies.\nLooking at the final roll call, the measure had the support of 57 senators (Harry Reid switched his vote for procedural reasons, giving him the ability to bring the bill back to the floor before the end of the session). Every Democrat and both independents (Lieberman and Sanders) supported the measure, along with six Republicans, four of whom (Coleman, Collins, Smith, and Sununu) are facing tough re-election fights this year.\nWhat a remarkable coincidence \u2014 Republicans sure do get more moderate on good legislation when they're worried about losing their seats.\nAs for the rest of the Republican caucus, they relied on some pretty ridiculous arguments to oppose the bill.\nThis one was especially striking.\n\u2026Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other Republicans said the bill, which is opposed by the business community and the Bush administration, could create a flood of lawsuits.\n\"We think that this bill is primarily designed to create a massive amount of new litigation in our country,\" said Mr. McConnell, the minority leader.\nWell, actually, yes. But therein lies the point \u2014 if American workers are facing unjust wage discrimination, they should be more lawsuits. Those are worthwhile lawsuits, challenging an injustice. Ideally, employers would stop discriminating, and in turn, there'd be fewer lawsuits. It's about creating an incentive.\nAs for the politics of this, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama came back to the Senate to vote for and speak out on behalf of this legislation. And what about John McCain? He didn't show up for work (again), but he made a point of telling reporters he's against the legislation: \"In New Orleans today, McCain explained his opposition to the bill by claiming it 'opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.' He added that instead of legislation allowing women to fight for equal pay, they simply need 'education and training.'\"\nIt's almost as if he doesn't want women to vote for him.\nOne last thought: was this bill really worth filibustering? Was the legislation so offensive to the Republican minority that they couldn't even allow an up-or-down vote on a measure to protect pay-equality in the workplace?\nOr did a bunch of corporate lobbyists show up at Republican lawmakers' offices, demanding that they shut this down?\nJohn McCain, The Senate\nSenate GOPers Filibuster Equal Pay For Women (Again)\nDave Johnson \u2014 Sep 17th, 2014\nExploring The Data On Hollywood's Gender Pay Gap\nThe Conversation \u2014 Dec 21st, 2019\nPay Transparency Alone Won't Eliminate The Wage Gap Between Men And Women\nThe Conversation \u2014 Mar 31st, 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gravity Rush is the brainchild of Keiichiro Toyama, a director and writer who previously brought us the original Silent Hill on PS1 as well as the unusual horror series Siren. His aim with the new game was to buck the trend for photorealism that most Western developers were going for at the time \u2014 and still are, in most cases \u2014 and instead produce something that evoked the distinctive feeling of French cartoonist Jean Giraud's work and the broader Franco-Belgian bandes dessin\u00e9es tradition.\nToyama's desire to combine European influences with quintessentially Japanese anime and manga styles was an attempt to give Gravity Rush a sense of global appeal and ensure that the characters were \"accepted\" outside of Japan.\nIndeed, the final result of the team's work was so successful in this regard that it's hard to pick fault with it even from the strictest and most unforgiving of modern \"progressive\" perspectives: the game features a protagonist who is not only female but also dark-skinned, and the overall narrative sees her demonstrating her capability in the face of adversity without sacrificing her innate femininity or indeed her most endearing traits and flaws.\nKat, as we'll explore more later, is an immensely appealing heroine, and one of the most compelling reasons to check out Gravity Rush. But let's look a little more generally at the game first.\nGravity Rush began life as a PlayStation 3 project called Gravit\u00e9 \u2014 the original French title and numerous French-inspired aspects of the game's overall aesthetic are almost certainly references to Toyama's desire to produce something evocative of 20th century Franco-Belgian comics \u2014 and actually hasn't changed a huge amount from its original incarnation. Cancelled and prototype game archiving site Unseen64 has a good series of screenshots and scans that show the recognisable figures of central characters Kat and Raven, the distinctive comic-style cutscenes and the game's strong use of signature colours fully intact.\nThe shift to Vita came about partly due to the game's unusual control system and the platform's inherent suitability for Toyama's overall vision for the game. Speaking with Gematsu in 2012, Toyama described the Vita as being perfect for creating \"the impression of a different world existing beyond the screen\" through its motion controls; indeed, the augmented reality-style way in which you can move the game's camera by simply pointing the Vita in different directions made for a surprisingly effective illusion that the device was a \"window\" to another world that continued far beyond the direction in which you happened to be looking at the time.\nThe newer PS4 releases still support motion controls, but the effect is not quite as convincing on a static screen that you're not holding in your hands like a camera viewfinder; it's a shame that the series, at this time, doesn't support PlayStation VR.\nSpeaking with Siliconera in 2011, Toyama noted that Gravity Rush had been a long time coming, with his desire to create a game of this type predating even his work on PS1 classic Silent Hill. Toyama claims that Gravity Rush was actually the first game he wanted to create, but the fact the fledgling survival horror genre had become fashionable at the time thanks to Resident Evil led Konami to suggest he work on a horror game first. \"After that I was labeled as the horror game guy,\" mused Toyama, reflecting on the fact he followed up the original Silent Hill with three titles in the disturbing Siren series. \"Finally, the opportunity to show people I can make something different came up and I got to make Gravity Rush.\"\nIt's clear that Toyama used some of the lessons he learned in producing Silent Hill for Gravity Rush, though. Both games incorporate a semi-open world, for example, though Gravity Rush's greater freedom of movement thanks to protagonist Kat's ability to simply \"fall\" through the air in any direction doubtless made it a much greater challenge to design in a way that will still tax the player and \"gate\" areas of the game until a suitable amount of progress has been made. In Gravity Rush's case, this gating is handled as a plot element; part of Kat's overall quest is to bring back missing segments of town that have been pulled into otherworldly, surreal \"rift planes\", with various areas and challenges being inaccessible until this rescue mission is complete.\nPerhaps a more important lesson learned from Silent Hill, though, is the matter of making the protagonist a very \"human\", relatable sort of character. The whole Silent Hill series has primarily been based around very mundane, non-heroic protagonists with no real special powers and a certain reluctance to get involved with the events unfolding around them, and this makes it easy for the player to relate to them \u2014 \"normal people can be heroes too\", is one message you can take from it, although in the case of Silent Hill's numerous tragically flawed characters from over the years, \"hero\" might not be quite the right word here.\nGravity Rush, meanwhile, adopts a somewhat different approach by making Kat inherently \"special\" thanks to her abilities, but it also humanises her immensely through her distinctly immature, girlish personality and the strong impression that she's neither entirely comfortable with her powers nor sure that she actually wants them.\nRather than gracefully flying through the air like a superhero, she twists, turns and tumbles, arms and legs flailing, and typically lands rather heavily, sometimes even falling flat on her face. Couple this endearing clumsiness with her distinctly upbeat personality (and disproportionate obsession with obtaining approval and validation from everyone around her) and you get the impression of someone who has been suddenly provided with powers that they don't quite understand, but are willing to explore and experiment with.\nKat is a character filled with the optimism of youth and a strong desire to do the \"right\" thing despite not being quite sure of her place in the world, but she never crosses the line into overblown melodrama; she's simply an immensely likeable, relatable young girl who happens to be able to fling herself through the sky in whatever direction she pleases thanks to her magic gravity-shifting cat.\nIn terms of actual gameplay, Gravity Rush and its sequel are both quite challenging to define neatly using established genre descriptors, and this fact is one of the many things that makes them so appealing. They have elements of open-world games, for example, but don't litter their map with excessive amounts of \"theme park\" activities just there to pad out the game length. Similarly, they have elements of role-playing games in that Kat gains in power over the course of her adventure, but they're not games in which you can \"grind\" easily, nor do you need to.\nThere's a bit of character action gameplay in there, too, but combat is relatively infrequent rather than the main focus. And the collectibles and timed challenges scattered around the game world give a feeling of classic platform games ranging from Rare's collectathons of the N64 era to slightly more recent titles such as Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter.\nUltimately, it's probably counter-productive to attempt to define Gravity Rush and its sequel in terms of existing games, because although they both have common elements with many different genres, they're distinctive experiences in their own right \u2014 even from each other. Gravity Rush is Gravity Rush, in other words, and that's what makes these games so interesting: they have a clear vision of what they want to do, even if that happens to be bucking the trends and laughing in the face of gaming's conventions.\nNext time, we'll look in more detail at the various influences on the series' aesthetic, ranging from Jean Giraud's comics to broader cultural influences drawn from both European and Japanese sources.\nIn the meantime, Gravity Rush is available now for both PlayStation 4 and Vita, and Gravity Rush 2 is available for PlayStation 4. Both are eminently worth your time, so if you've been looking for a way to occupy yourself this summer you could do far worse than jumping head-first into this series and promptly forgetting which way is \"up\".\nMore about Gravity Rush\nPrevious PostGranblue Fantasy: Acknowledging a PhenomenonNext PostShmup Essentials: Thunder Force II\nOne thought on \"Gravity Rush: Introduction and History\"\nPingback: Gravity Rush: The Franco-Belgian Tradition, via Japan | MoeGamer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Methods and data\nDiscussion and synthesis\nSummary and Conclusions\nBG | Articles | Volume 15, issue 15\nResearch article 13 Aug 2018\nResearch article | 13 Aug 2018\nImprint of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies on chlorophyll\nImprint of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies on chlorophyll Imprint of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies on chlorophyll Ivy Frenger et al.\nIvy Frenger1,2,3, Matthias M\u00fcnnich2, and Nicolas Gruber2,4 Ivy Frenger et al. Ivy Frenger1,2,3, Matthias M\u00fcnnich2, and Nicolas Gruber2,4\n1GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, 24105, Germany\n2ETH Zurich, Environmental Physics, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland\n3Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, 08544, USA\n4ETH Zurich, Center for Climate Systems Modeling, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland\nCorrespondence: Ivy Frenger (ifrenger@geomar.de)\nReceived: 06 Feb 2018 \u2013 Discussion started: 16 Feb 2018 \u2013 Revised: 14 Jun 2018 \u2013 Accepted: 05 Jul 2018 \u2013 Published: 13 Aug 2018\nAlthough mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous in the Southern Ocean, their average regional and seasonal association with phytoplankton has not been quantified systematically yet. To this end, we identify over 100\u2009000 mesoscale eddies with diameters of 50\u2009km and more in the Southern Ocean and determine the associated phytoplankton biomass anomalies using satellite-based chlorophyll-a (Chl) as a proxy. The mean Chl anomalies, \u03b4Chl, associated with these eddies, comprising the upper echelon of the oceanic mesoscale, exceed \u00b110\u2009% over wide regions. The structure of these anomalies is largely zonal, with cyclonic, thermocline lifted, eddies having positive anomalies in the subtropical waters north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and negative anomalies along its main flow path. The pattern is similar, but reversed for anticyclonic, thermocline deepened eddies. The seasonality of \u03b4Chl is weak in subtropical waters, but pronounced along the ACC, featuring a seasonal sign switch. The spatial structure and seasonality of the mesoscale \u03b4Chl can be explained largely by lateral advection, especially local eddy-stirring. A prominent exception is the ACC region in winter, where \u03b4Chl is consistent with a modulation of phytoplankton light exposure caused by an eddy-induced modification of the mixed layer depth. The clear impact of mesoscale eddies on phytoplankton may implicate a downstream effect on Southern Ocean biogeochemical properties, such as mode water nutrient contents.\nFrenger, I., M\u00fcnnich, M., and Gruber, N.: Imprint of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies on chlorophyll, Biogeosciences, 15, 4781\u20134798, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/bg-15-4781-2018, 2018.\nPhytoplankton account for roughly half of global primary production (Field et al., 1998). They form the base of the oceanic food web (Pomeroy, 1974) and drive the ocean's biological pump, i.e., one of the Earth's largest biogeochemical cycles, with major implications for atmospheric CO2 and climate (Falkowski, 2012; Sarmiento and Gruber, 2006). Yet, our understanding of the processes controlling their spatio-temporal variations is limited, particularly at the oceanic submesoscale to mesoscale, that is at scales of the order of 0.1 to 100\u2009km (L\u00e9vy, 2008; Mahadevan, 2016; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016). In this study we focus on mesoscale eddies, that is vortices with diameters of 50\u2009km or more, and thus leave out the submesoscale variations. This choice is largely driven by the spatial resolution of the data we employ, but it is also motivated by the fact that mesoscale eddies have been shown to dominate the ocean's kinetic energy spectrum (Chelton et al., 2011b; Stammer, 1997), and affect phytoplankton in a major way (L\u00e9vy, 2008; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016). In comparison, the contribution of submesoscale processes to the variance in kinetic energy is smaller, and its role for phytoplankton variability, although potentially large (Mahadevan, 2016) is not well characterized. In contrast, mesoscale eddies have been recognized to be among the most important drivers for the spatio-temporal variance of phytoplankton Doney et al. (2003); Glover et al. (2018), as has been noted already from the analyses of some of the very first ocean color satellite images of chlorophyll (Chl), a proxy for phytoplankton biomass (Gower et al., 1980). Despite decades of work since this discovery, the mechanisms governing the interaction of phytoplankton with mesoscale eddies remain poorly understood, even though there is a broad consensus that different sets of mechanisms dominate in different regions and at different times, and that the different polarity of the mesoscale eddies tends to induce signals of opposite sign (Denman and Gargett, 1995; L\u00e9vy, 2008; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016).\nLateral advection arising from local stirring of eddies has been argued to be a major driver globally. The argument is based on the observed correlation of the magnitude of eddy-associated Chl anomalies (\u03b4Chl) and the larger-scale Chl gradient ambient to eddies (Chelton et al., 2011a; Doney et al., 2003; O'Brien et al., 2013; Uz and Yoder, 2004). Further, it has been suggested that advection of Chl by eddies via trapping, i.e., the enclosing and dragging along of water masses, causes \u03b4Chl (Gaube et al., 2014), particularly in boundary current regions characterized by steep zonal Chl gradients. Numerous other potential mechanisms through which eddies affect phytoplankton have been identified (Bracco et al., 2000; D'Ovidio et al., 2010; Dufois et al., 2016; Gaube et al., 2013, 2014; Gruber et al., 2011; McGillicuddy Jr. et al., 2007; Siegel et al., 2011), including vertical and lateral advection of nutrients, restratification and vertical mixing, and providing spatial niches through isolation of water parcels. These mechanisms modulate the phytoplankton's light exposure, their nutrient availability or their grazing pressure, i.e., they affect their net balance between growth and decay. Thus, in contrast to the physical mechanisms of stirring and trapping where phytoplankton is merely passively being advected, these mechanisms create eddy-associated phytoplankton biomass anomalies by altering their biogeochemical rates.\nIn the Southern Ocean, an area of light and iron limitation of phytoplankton (Boyd, 2002; Venables and Meredith, 2009), with distinct Chl heterogeneity (Comiso et al., 1993), and abundant with mesoscale eddies (Frenger et al., 2015), individual eddies haven been found to modulate Chl through many of the processes described above (Ansorge et al., 2010; Kahru et al., 2007; Lehahn et al., 2011; Strass et al., 2002). Here, we aim (i) to provide a reference estimate of the average seasonal Chl anomalies associated with mesoscale eddies in the different regions of the Southern Ocean, distinguishing anticyclones and cyclones, and (ii) to discuss the mechanisms likely causing the observed average imprint. Previous studies have used eddy kinetic energy as a proxy for eddy activity rather than sea level anomalies (SLA), which does not allow a distinction by polarity of eddies (Comiso et al., 1993; Doney et al., 2003), did not focus on the Southern Ocean (Chelton et al., 2011a; Gaube et al., 2014), or lacked a discussion of the seasonality of the relationship. In this study we show that the imprint of cyclones and anticyclones on Chl is mostly of opposite sign, largely zonal, and features a substantial seasonality along the ACC. Our results indicate that most of this mesoscale imprint can be explained by advection of Chl by mesoscale eddies.\nOur approach is to identify individual eddies based on satellite estimates of SLA and combine those with satellite estimates of Chl (Chelton et al., 2011a; Gaube et al., 2014). We discuss possible mechanisms playing a role based on large-scale Chl gradients (Chelton et al., 2011a; Doney et al., 2003; Gaube et al., 2014) and the local shape of the average imprint of eddies on Chl (Chelton et al., 2011a; Gaube et al., 2014; Siegel et al., 2011).\n2 Methods and data\nWe first introduce our analysis framework before describing the methods and data sources. This allows us to explain the approaches we use to assess the potential mechanisms explaining the \u03b4Chl associated with Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies.\n2.1 Analysis framework\nFundamentally, mesoscale eddies can lead to local phytoplankton biomass anomalies through either advective processes, i.e., the spatial reshaping of existing gradients, or through biogeochemical fluxes and transformations that lead to anomalous growth or losses of biomass. In the following, we present these potential mechanisms in more detail, and how we estimate their importance.\n2.1.1 Causes of \u03b4Chl by advective processes\nMesoscale eddies may cause \u03b4Chl as they laterally move waters (i.e., horizontally advect waters) including their Chl characteristics. This mechanism may lead to \u03b4Chl if (i) a lateral Chl gradient is present that is sufficiently steep at the spatial scale of the eddy-induced advection (Gaube et al., 2014), and (ii) the time scale of advection matches the time scale of phytoplankton biomass changes (Abraham, 1998). The latter time scale is in the order of days to weeks, possibly months, with the lower boundary representing roughly the reactivity time scale of phytoplankton biomass governed largely by the growth rate of the phytoplankton, and the upper boundary the potential sustenance of phytoplankton biomass via recycling of nutrients within the mixed layer. In regard to the spatial scale of advection by eddies, we distinguish two effects, that we have labeled stirring and trapping.\nStirring (Chelton et al., 2011a; Gaube et al., 2014; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016; Siegel et al., 2008) refers to the local distortion of a large-scale Chl gradient due to the rotation of an eddy, as illustrated in Fig. 1a, left column. The turnover time scale associated with the rotation of eddies is in the order of days to a few weeks, matching the time scales of phytoplankton reactivity. The spatial scale of stirring is given by the spatial extent of an eddy and is somewhat larger than the eddy core, as defined based on the Okubo\u2013Weiss parameter (Frenger et al., 2015), that is several tens to several hundreds of kilometers.\nNext to stirring, eddies advect material properties due to their intrinsic lateral propagation (Fig. 1a, right column). We refer to the ability of eddies to transport fluid along their propagation pathway in their core as trapping (Flierl, 1981; Gaube et al., 2014; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016). The upper time scale of trapping is given by the typical lifespan of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies, which is weeks to months (Frenger et al., 2015), it may thus match the longer time scale of phytoplankton biomass changes. Propagation speeds are low (an order of magnitude smaller than rotational speeds), which implies that the majority of eddies tends to die before they can propagate far. Thus, the fraction of very long-lived eddies that propagate over distances exceeding a few hundred kilometers is small (Frenger et al., 2015).\nA necessary condition for trapping to happen is that the eddies' swirl velocity is larger than their propagation speed (Flierl, 1981), a condition generally met for mid- to high-latitude eddies (Chelton et al., 2011b). Indeed, observations of eddies carrying the signature of their origin in their cores support the trapping effect (Ansorge et al., 2010; Bernard et al., 2007; Lehahn et al., 2011), as does the modeling study by Early et al. (2011). Even though the trapping is never perfect (Beron-Vera et al., 2013; Haller, 2015), we expect eddies to be able to drag along some entrained waters for some time, hence displacing these waters for some distance as they propagate. This may be sufficient to displace waters from e.g., the south to the north of an ACC front along an intense Chl gradient, leading to \u03b4Chl through (permeable) trapping.\nFigure 1Schematic illustrating the mechanisms of how eddies may impact chlorophyll (Chl), for anticyclones (top row) and cyclones (bottom row), for the southern hemisphere; (a) shows the effects of advection (lateral displacements) of Chl due to the eddies' rotational speed (stirring, left column) and lateral propagation (trapping, right column); trapping and stirring can cause \u03b4Chl of either sign, depending on environmental Chl gradients; (b) shows multiple potential effects eddies may have on Chl by affecting biogeochemical processes. The local shape of \u03b4Chl is anticipated to look different depending on the mechanism active, i.e., a monopole \u03b4Chl is expected for all eddy-effects except for stirring where an asymmetric dipole is excepted (figure inspired by Siegel et al., 2011, Fig. 1).\n2.1.2 Causes of \u03b4Chl by local biogeochemical processes\nMesoscale eddies affect the biogeochemical and physical properties that control the local rates of growth and loss of phytoplankton (biogeochemical rates) in their interior through many mechanisms. These include the stimulation of phytoplankton growth through enhanced nutrient concentrations or increased average light levels, or the modification of predator\u2013prey encounter rates, affecting the mortality of phytoplankton (Fig. 1b). Even though these effects have been analyzed and discussed for decades (McGillicuddy Jr., 2016), their overall impact on productivity continues to be an issue of debate. The canonical lifelong vertical pumping of nutrients by thermocline lifted cyclones (Falkowski et al., 1991) has been challenged (Gaube et al., 2014; Oschlies, 2002), and multiple other mechanisms have been proposed on how eddies may affect phytoplankton biogeochemical rates. These include a modification of vertical mixing through changes in stratification (wiggly lines in Fig. 1b) and eddy current-wind interactions causing thermocline displacements (eddy swirl currents and winds are indicated as black and thick white arrows in Fig. 1b), resulting in modifications of nutrient supply and light availability to phytoplankton (Boyd et al., 2012; Dufois et al., 2016; Lehahn et al., 2011; Llido, 2005; Mahadevan et al., 2008, 2012; McGillicuddy Jr. et al., 2007; Siegel et al., 2011; Xiu et al., 2011). The prevailing lack of temporally sufficiently highly resolved subsurface observations hampers a systematic large-scale observationally based assessment of the role of effects of mesoscale eddies on the local biogeochemical processes.\n2.1.3 Assessing mechanisms causing \u03b4Chl\nWe employ two sets of approaches to assess the mechanisms causing \u03b4Chl. In the first we diagnose whether the environmental conditions are supporting a major contribution of a particular set of mechanisms. Namely, we assess if lateral Chl gradients sufficiently support advective effects of eddies to explain \u03b4Chl (see Sect. 2.3 for technical detail).\nIn the second set we diagnose the shape of \u03b4Chl associated with eddies as this spatial signature tends to differ between the two major sets of processes, i.e., the advective process stirring and biogeochemical rates Siegel et al. (2011). Eddies that stir are anticipated to have a dipole shaped \u03b4Chl (Fig. 1a, left column), as they distort the underlying gradient field, with the rotation of the eddy determining the orientation of the dipole. In contrast, most mechanisms associated with modifications of the biogeochemical rates cause a monopole shape, irrespective of polarity (Fig. 1b). This is a consequence of the mesoscale \u03b4Chl tending to be caused by anomalies in nutrient supply or light exposure, which are altered inside eddies in a radially symmetric manner. The advective trapping mechanism tends to also cause a monopole shape of \u03b4Chl (Fig. 1a, right column), but rate-based mechanisms can be distinguished from trapping for instance by their history (McGillicuddy Jr., 2016). Here we diagnose these as a residual: Rate-based mechanisms presumably play a role in regions and seasons where advective effects are insufficient to explain the observed eddy-induced \u03b4Chl.\nSome complexity is added to the interpretation of the spatial signature by the fact that the dipole shape arising from stirring tends to be asymmetric (Fig. 1a). Such an asymmetry was suggested by Chelton et al. (2011a) to arise from the westward propagation of eddies and the leading (mostly western) side of an eddy affecting upstream unperturbed waters, resulting in a larger anomaly at the leading compared to the trailing side of an eddy, with the latter stirring already perturbed waters. Also, the eddy may entrain some of the westward upstream waters into its core, labeled here lateral entrainment or permeable trapping (Frenger et al., 2015; Hausmann and Czaja, 2012). Indeed, averaged over an eddy's core, stirring will only cause a net anomaly if the dipole associated with stirring is asymmetric. It is not obvious how to quantify this effect. Independent of the dipole asymmetry, we will assess the potential maximum \u03b4Chl induced by stirring (see Sect. 2.4 for technical detail). We note that advection by an ambient larger-scale flow does not affect the stirring mechanism. For instance, the eastward Antarctic circumpolar flow in the Southern Ocean makes eddies propagate eastward in an Eulerian sense, while still propagating westward in a Lagrangian sense relative to the ACC and ambient Chl.\n2.2 Data\nTo assess the relationship between ocean eddies and Chl anomalies, we use the data set of Southern Ocean eddies and their characteristics as derived and described in detail in Frenger et al. (2015). The data set contains more than 1\u2009000\u2009000 snapshots of mesoscale eddies identified in weekly maps of Aviso SLA (http:\/\/www.aviso.oceanobs.com\/duacs\/ Delayed-Time v3.0.0, reprocessed March 2010, last access: 2 August 2018) and defined based on the Okubo\u2013Weiss parameter. Eddies with positive and negative SLA are defined as anticyclones and cyclones, respectively. We consider here only eddies tracked in the region 30 to 65\u2218\u2009S over at least three weeks in the time period between 1997 and 2010, i.e., the operation time period of the SeaWIFS satellite-based sensor. The resolution capacity of Aviso SLA allows for the analysis of the larger mesoscale eddies with minimum diameters of about 50\u2009km at 65\u2218\u2009S and 100\u2009km at 30\u2218\u2009S (Chelton et al., 2011b; Frenger et al., 2015).\nFor Chl we use the ESA GlobColour Project product (http:\/\/www.globcolour.info, version 2.0a1, last access: 2 August 2018, case-1 waters) which merges several sensors according to Maritorena and Siegel (2005), with a spatial and temporal resolution of 0.25\u2218 and one day, respectively. We choose a merged product for Chl as the merging on average doubles the spatial coverage of the daily data in the Southern Ocean (Maritorena et al., 2010). Of the three available sensors, i.e., SeaWIFS (SeaStar), MODIS (Aqua) and MERIS (Envisat), SeaWIFS generally features the best spatio-temporal coverage, but its contribution drops below 40\u2009% in high latitudes and partly in the western ocean basins of the Southern Hemisphere. For these areas after 2002, SeaWIFS data were complemented with MODIS as well as MERIS data. We average the Chl data to weekly fields to match the temporal resolution of the eddy dataset. The combined eddy\/Chl-dataset is publicly available at http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3929\/ethz-b-000238826.\nTo examine the \u03b4Chl of eddies, we compare the Chl averaged over their core to background fields of Chl. For the latter, a monthly climatology of Chl proved not to be appropriate due to high spatio-temporal variability of Chl unrelated to eddies. Hence, we obtain the background fields the following way. We apply a moving spatio-temporal Gaussian filter (Weierstrass transform, spatial filter similar to Siegel et al. (2008), with 2\u03c3 of 10 boxes\/\u223c200\u2009km at 45\u2218\u2009S, 8 boxes\/\u223c200\u2009km and 1 week in longitudinal, latitudinal and temporal dimensions, respectively) to each of the weekly Chl fields. We then subtract the result from the original fields to produce \u03b4Chl fields. The \u03b4Chl fields are not sensitive to the selected \u03c3. The choice of a rather small spatio-temporal filter makes \u03b4Chl amplitudes smaller compared to the use of a larger filter, producing a conservative estimate of \u03b4Chl. In order to generate spatial maps of \u03b4Chl, we averaged all eddy associated anomalies of the respective eddy polarity into 5\u2218\u00d73\u2218 longitude\/latitude boxes.\nPrior to our analysis we log-transform Chl, due to Chl being lognormally distributed (Campbell, 1995). We frequently give \u03b4Chl in percentage difference relative to the background Chl as\n\u03b4Chl=explog(Chle)-log(Chlbg)-1\u00d7100=ChleChlbg-1\u00d7100,\nwith subscripts e and bg denoting eddy and background, respectively. Where we show absolute Chl on a logarithmic scale, we use the base 10 logarithm.\nFor the spatial analyses we use the positions of the main ACC fronts (Polar Front, PF, and Subantarctic Front, SAF) as determined by Sall\u00e9e et al. (2008) and a climatology of sea surface height (SSH) contours (Maximenko et al., 2009), which are representative of the long-term geostrophic flow in the area. The mean positions of the PF and SAF align approximately with the mean SSH contours of \u221240 and \u221280\u2009cm, respectively. We select the \u221220\u2009cm SSH contour to separate waters of the southern subtropical gyres to the north of the ACC, referred to as subtropical waters from waters in the \"ACC influence area\", referred to as ACC waters. This choice is based on both, a tendency for net eastward propagation of eddies south of this contour (Frenger et al., 2015) indicating advection by the ACC mean flow, and a seasonal sign switch of \u03b4Chl, which will be addressed later in the paper. Waters south of the PF\/\u221280\u2009cm SSH will be referred to as Antarctic waters. Finally, we use mixed layer depths derived from Argo floats, available at http:\/\/www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (last access: 2 August 2018) (Argo, 2000).\n2.3 Analysis of environmental Chl conditions\nUsing the data presented in the previous section, we calculate a monthly Chl climatology. Based on this climatology, we derive the potential \u03b4Chl (\u03b4^Chl) eddies may induce due to lateral advection (Fig. 1a). In order to assess the \u03b4^Chl emerging from stirring in the Southern Ocean (\u03b4^Chlstir), we compute the absolute climatological meridional Chl gradient at the spatial scale of individual eddies, here taken as two eddy radii. We then assign a sign to \u03b4^Chlstir according to the sign of the meridional Chl gradient and the cyclonicity of the eddy, given the intrinsic westward propagation of eddies. That is, we anticipate that, e.g., a southern hemispheric counterclockwise-rotating, i.e., anticyclonic eddy under conditions of northward increasing Chl will be associated with positive \u03b4Chl in its core (Fig. 1a, left column). In contrast, under the same ambient Chl conditions we anticipate negative \u03b4Chl for cyclones.\nTo assess the \u03b4^Chl emerging from trapping (Fig. 1a, right column), we estimate the Chl variation along individual eddies' pathways by computing the difference of the climatological Chl at the origin of an eddy and at its present location (\u03b4^Chltrap). We use for this difference the climatological Chl at the month of the present location of the eddy to consider the effects of the seasonal Chl variations, assuming that potentially trapped Chl would seasonally covary with the Chl at the place of the eddy's origin.\n2.4 Analysis of the local shape of \u03b4Chl\nWe compute the composite spatial pattern of Chl and \u03b4Chl associated with mesoscale eddies the same way as was done by Frenger et al. (2015) for sea surface temperatures. We extract a squared subregion for each individual eddy from the weekly maps of SLA and Chl, centered at the eddy's center. The side lengths of the subregion are 10 eddy radii each, implying an implicit scaling according to the eddy size. We rotate the Chl snapshots according to the ambient Chl gradient and average them over all eddies to produce the eddy composite. Note that the estimate of the magnitudes of the dipole and the average ambient Chl gradient (see below) tend to be slightly weaker without rotation. Nevertheless, as averages are taken over regimes of largely similar orientation of the ambient Chl gradient (see Discussion Sect. 4), our conclusions do not depend on whether we rotate the snapshots or not.\nFurther, we decompose the composite spatial pattern \u03b4Chl into a monopole (MP) and dipole (DP) component by first constructing the monopole by computing radial averages of \u03b4Chl around the eddy's center, i.e., \u03b4Chl(r)MP=\u03b4Chl(r)\u203e, where r is the distance from the eddy's center. In the second step, we calculate \u03b4ChlDP as a residual, i.e., by differencing the monopole pattern from the total signal. Even though this residual approach captures in the dipole structure any non-monopole pattern, experience has shown that the \u03b4ChlDP typically feature dipoles (Frenger et al., 2015). In the final step, we quantify the amplitudes of the monopoles and the dipoles, assess the contribution of the two components to the spatial variance of the total signal based on the sum of variances (var), i.e., var(\u03b4Chl)=var(\u03b4ChlMP)+var(\u03b4ChlDP), and compute the Chl gradient at the scale of two eddy radii, as an estimate of the potential maximum contribution of stirring to \u03b4Chl.\n2.5 Handling of measurement error and data gaps\nAn individual eddy \u03b4Chl signal may be undetectable even with in situ measurements (Siegel et al., 2011), and it may be smaller than the error of the satellite retrieved Chl. The significance of our results, which we test based on t tests, arises from the very large number of analyzed eddies, which totals about 600\u2009000 eddy snapshots across the entire Southern Ocean. This is substantially smaller than our original data set, largely due to the missing Chl data arising from frequent cloud cover in the Southern Ocean. For 33\u2009% of the eddies identified by SLA, the corresponding Chl data was entirely missing, and for 75\u2009% of eddies at least part of the data was missing. The average missing data over eddies due to cloud cover only (leaving aside missing data due to the polar night) increase from 18\u2009% at 30\u2218\u2009S to 63\u2009% at 65\u2218\u2009S. Anticyclones exhibit a higher percentage of data gaps than cyclones (48\u2009% vs. 42\u2009% averaged over the Southern Ocean), which can be explained by the impact of their sea surface temperature anomalies on cloud cover (Frenger et al., 2013; Park et al., 2006; Small et al., 2008).\n3.1 Imprint of mesoscale eddies on Chl\n3.1.1 Mean imprint\nAveraged across the entire Southern Ocean and all seasons, we detect a significant, although small, mean imprint of mesoscale eddies on Chl (Fig. S1 in the Supplement) for both anticyclonic (warm-core, high SLA, and deepened thermocline) and cyclonic (cold-core, low SLA, and lifted thermocline) eddies. The overall mean \u03b4Chl associated with anticyclones is \u22124\u2009%, while that for cyclones is of even smaller magnitude, i.e., +1\u2009%. Though small, both anomalies are actually statistically significant (p<0.05). However, the distributions around these means are very broad, with many anticyclones and cyclones having both positive or negative \u03b4Chl, depending on the region and time of the year. The long tails of the distributions, corroborated by visual inspection of the individual \u03b4Chl of eddies, suggest anomalies that are substantially larger than the mean. Thus, it appears that by averaging the signals in time and space, a substantial amount of information is lost. As a consequence, it is more insightful to disentangle the signals and to examine the regional and seasonal variation of \u03b4Chl.\n3.1.2 Spatial variability of imprint\nThe maps of the annual mean imprint of cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies on Chl clearly support the hypothesis of a strong regional cancellation effect (Fig. 2). First, the regional mean signal associated with eddies is indeed much larger than suggested by the mean \u03b4Chl across the entire Southern Ocean. In fact, around a quarter of the analyzed grid cells have absolute \u03b4Chl larger than 10\u2009%, with the mean absolute \u03b4Chl exceeding several tens of percent in a substantial number of grid cells (Fig. 2b, c). Second, the signals associated with mesoscale eddies of either polarity vary in sign across the different regions with regions of strong enhancements bordering regions with strong reductions (see also Fig. 1 in Gaube et al., 2014). In the broadest sense, the pattern is zonal in nature, reflecting the zonal nature of the climatological Chl distribution (Fig. 2a).\nFigure 2Spatial distribution of chlorophyll anomalies (\u03b4Chl) associated with eddies; (a) logarithm (base 10) of annual climatological Chl for reference, and mean \u03b4Chl of (b) anticyclones and (c) cyclones; \u03b4Chl is the average of anomalies of eddies lasting at least 3 weeks in 5\u2218\u00d73\u2218 longitude\u2013latitude grid boxes; white boxes indicate insufficient data (less than three data points) or anomalies insignificantly different from zero (t test, p=0.05); solid black lines mark the main branches of the ACC (the Subantarctic Front and Polar Front); the dashed black line denotes the \u221220\u2009cm SSH contour and the solid gray line the northernmost extension of sea-ice cover.\nFor anticyclones, \u03b4Chl is clearly negative in subtropical waters, i.e., the waters north of the SSH\u2009=-20\u2009cm, and in the regions around the western boundary currents (Fig. 2b). These prevailing negative \u03b4Chl are contrasted by mostly positive \u03b4Chl along the ACC. Cyclones have a largely similar spatial pattern, but of opposite sign (Fig. 2c). That is, prevailing positive \u03b4Chl in subtropical waters are mirrored by a band of negative, yet weaker anomalies along the ACC. South of the ACC, in Antarctic waters, the pattern of \u03b4Chl is spotty for anticyclones as well as cyclones, with anticyclones and cyclones featuring average positive and negative \u03b4Chl, respectively. In summary, SLA and \u03b4Chl are largely negatively correlated in subtropical waters north of the ACC, and positively correlated along the ACC.\nA few exceptions break the mostly zonal pattern for Chl (Ardyna et al., 2017), and also for \u03b4Chl. An exceptional area of negative \u03b4Chl for cyclones in the subtropical waters of the eastern Indian Ocean disrupts the zonal band of largely positive anomalies. Also, \u03b4Chl in shelf areas often are distinct from open-ocean \u03b4Chl. A clear signal emerges south of the Australian and west of the South American coasts, west of New Zealand, and more subtly, east of the Kerguelen Islands and the Drake Passage (see also Sokolov and Rintoul, 2007; d'Ovidio et al., 2015), where \u03b4Chl tends to be positive for both anticyclones and cyclones.\n3.1.3 Seasonality of imprint\nThe pronounced zonal bands of \u03b4Chl for mesoscale anticyclones and cyclones persist over the year, but tend to migrate meridionally (Fig. 3a\u2013d, middle and right columns), thereby following the pronounced seasonality of Chl (Fig. 3a\u2013d, left column; Ardyna et al., 2017; Sall\u00e9e et al., 2015; Thomalla et al., 2011). The seasonality of \u03b4Chl is larger along the ACC and in Antarctic waters compared to subtropical waters. In the subtropical gyres, \u03b4Chl of anticyclones and cyclones are negative and positive, respectively, i.e., SLA and \u03b4Chl are negatively correlated all year round. Here, \u03b4Chl shows a weak peak in austral summer when climatological Chl is lowest (Fig. 3c). In the ACC regions and in Antarctic waters, a striking feature is the seasonal change in the sign of \u03b4Chl for both cyclones and anticyclones (Fig. 3b\u2013d).\nFigure 3Seasonality of chlorophyll anomalies (\u03b4Chl) associated with eddies; austral (a) winter (JJA), (b) spring (SON), (c) summer (DJF), and (d) autumn (MAM) for anticyclones (middle) and cyclones (right); The logarithm (base 10) of seasonal climatological Chl is shown for reference (left). Otherwise the same as Fig. 2.\nThis becomes even more evident when inspecting the zonally averaged Chl and \u03b4Chl as a function of season and SSH, i.e., plotted in the form of a Hovmoeller diagram (Fig. 4). Along the ACC, anticyclones exhibit negative \u03b4Chl in winter to spring concurrent with deep mixed layers, followed by positive \u03b4Chl from summer to autumn (Fig. 4b). Cyclonic \u03b4Chl shows an opposite pattern, featuring negative \u03b4Chl from summer to autumn, with near to zero to positive \u03b4Chl in winter to spring (Fig. 4c). This implies that SLA and \u03b4Chl are positively correlated summer to autumn, followed by a negative correlation in winter to spring. The sign switch of the correlations shows a seasonal lag towards Antarctic waters, with positive correlations prevailing from autumn to winter, and negative correlations prevailing from spring to summer, resulting in the aforementioned apparent southward migration of the sign switch of the \u03b4Chl over the course of the year.\nFigure 4Seasonality of chlorophyll anomalies (\u03b4Chl) associated with eddies, and potential of eddies to cause \u03b4Chl through lateral advection, i.e., \u03b4^Chlstir for stirring and \u03b4^Chltrap for trapping. (a) Base 10 logarithm of monthly climatological Chl for reference; (b, c) \u03b4Chl related to anticyclones and cyclones, respectively; (d, e) advective potential (Sect. 2.3) due to stirring by anticyclones and cyclones, respectively; (f, g), advective potentials due to trapping by anticyclones and cyclones, respectively. In panels (a)\u2013(c), Chl and \u03b4Chl are the mean of all eddies lasting at least 3 weeks binned in monthly sea surface height (SSH) bins so that boxes roughly cover equal areas; in panels (b, c) white boxes indicate regions R1 to R4 used for composite Figs. 5 and 6. In all subpanels, values that are not significant (t test, p>0.05) are colored in light gray, insufficient data (less than three data points) in white; solid black lines mark the ACC (approximate positions of the Subantarctic Front and Polar Front); the horizontal dashed black line denotes the \u221220\u2009cm SSH contour, the vertical dashed lines seasons; solid black contours show averaged mixed layer depths in meters; note that the seasonal cycle is shown repeatedly to highlight cyclic patterns.\n3.2 Causes for the imprint\n3.2.1 Advection\nTo assess the contribution of advective mechanisms to the observed \u03b4Chl, we contrast it with the potential of eddies to cause \u03b4Chl through Chl advection, that is with the potentials \u03b4^Chlstir associated with stirring and \u03b4^Chltrap, associated with trapping (Fig. 4d\u2013g, Method Sect. 2.3). The closer the observed \u03b4Chl is to these parameters, the more important the respective processes would be in causing this signal.\nIn the northern domain, i.e., in subtropical waters, the sign of \u03b4^Chlstir tends to agree with \u03b4Chl throughout the year for both anticyclones and cyclones (Fig. 4b\u2013e). So does the seasonal variation of the magnitude of \u03b4^Chlstir, with the largest magnitudes found from summer to autumn. Also the regional variations match, such as a weaker \u03b4^Chlstir and \u03b4Chl in the Pacific sector compared to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sectors (Fig. 3, middle and right columns and Supplement Fig. S2, left column).\nFurthermore, along the ACC and its northern flank, \u03b4^Chlstir and \u03b4Chl agree in sign, and are of the same order of magnitude from summer to autumn. Finally, along the southern ACC and in Antarctic waters, \u03b4^Chlstir mirrors the seasonal sign switch of \u03b4Chl, and the apparent seasonal southward migration of the zonal bands of \u03b4Chl (Figs. 3 and 4b\u2013e). Thus, it appears that stirring can already explain a good fraction of the observed \u03b4Chl (i) in subtropical waters outside of those characterized by winter deep mixed layers, (ii) along the ACC and its northern flank from summer to autumn, and (iii) south of the ACC.\nThe reason underlying the strong potential of stirring is the presence of strong lateral gradients of Chl. For instance, averaged over mesoscale eddies in northern subtropical waters from winter to spring (Method Sect. 2.4), the absolute ambient gradient of Chl at scales of two eddy radii is 7\u2009% for both anticyclones and cyclones, compared to the absolute maximum \u03b4Chl of 10\u2009% and 9\u2009%, respectively (Fig. 5a, see numbers at the bottoms of left two panels). A similar correspondence is found along the ACC and its northern flank from summer to autumn (Fig. 6a), and in Antarctic waters during spring (Fig. 5b), supporting that stirring alone may largely explain the observed \u03b4Chl (Fig. 6a; anticyclones: gradient of 9\u2009% and maximum \u03b4Chl of 5\u2009%; cyclones: gradient of 9\u2009% and maximum \u03b4Chl of 11\u2009%; and Fig. 5b; anticyclones: gradient of 5\u2009% and maximum \u03b4Chl of 6\u2009%; cyclones: gradient of 5\u2009% and maximum \u03b4Chl of 5\u2009%).\nFigure 5Attribution of stirring\/trapping components of mesoscale eddy associated Chl; (a) average instantaneous Chl and \u03b4Chl (see Method Sect. 2.4) in region R1 (SSH larger 10\u2009cm, June to November) and (b) in region R4 (SSH \u2212140 to \u2212100\u2009cm, October), indicated as white boxes in Figs. 4b, c and 7. Within each subpanel, the top rows show the results for the anticyclones, and the bottom rows for the cyclones. The left column shows the logarithm (base 10) of Chl, the middle left the \u03b4Chl (stippling marks insignificant anomalies), the middle right one the monopole component, MP, and the right one the residual component (approximately a dipole component, DP; see text for details and cartoon in Fig. 1). The sea level anomaly contours are shown in black (normalized before averaging); the inner and outer white circles indicate the eddy core and area used for the computation of the contribution to the variance of \u03b4Chl of the monopole and the dipole, respectively; text in panels denotes (left) the meridional Chl gradient at two eddy radii, (second left) the maximum or minimum of the anomaly, (second right and right) the contribution to the variance of the anomaly pattern of the monopole and dipole, respectively; before averaging, the individual eddy snapshots are rotated according to the ambient instantaneous Chl gradient.\nFigure 6Attribution of stirring\/trapping components; same as Fig. 5 but for (a) the region R2 (SSH \u221260 to \u221240\u2009cm, January to May) and (b) for region R3 (SSH \u221250 to \u221215\u2009cm, July to September). The regions are indicated with white boxes in Figs. 4b, c and 7.\nThe advective potential for the other lateral advective mechanism, i.e., trapping, \u03b4^Chltrap, partly counteracts and partly enhances \u03b4^Chlstir (Fig. 4d\u2013g). For instance, for cyclones along the ACC from summer to autumn, trapping possibly contributes to a \u03b4Chl signal (11\u2009%) that is slightly larger than the Chl gradient at two eddy radii (9\u2009%), and the contribution of the variance of the monopole is increased compared to anticyclones (Fig. 6a, 96\u2009% versus 87\u2009%). Yet, overall the trapping potential \u03b4^Chltrap is weak compared to \u03b4Chl (Fig. 4b, c, f, g), and outweighed by \u03b4^Chlstir.\n3.2.2 Local biogeochemical rates\nEven though advective processes, and particularly stirring, appear to be the dominant driver for the mesoscale eddy-associated Chl anomalies, there are nevertheless a few places where the magnitudes of the potentials for advective effects are too weak compared to the observed \u03b4Chl or of opposite sign. These are the places where variations in the local growth and loss processes, i.e., variations in the local biogeochemical rates, may be the dominant driver.\nThe most prominent instance is found along the northern ACC, a region associated with the seasonal sign switch of \u03b4Chl (Fig. 4b\u2013g, blue boxes in Fig. 7a). Here, anticyclones switch to negative \u03b4Chl in the presence of deep mixed layers, whereas both \u03b4^Chlstir and \u03b4^Chltrap suggest positive \u03b4Chl. The shape of the local imprint of anticyclones in the respective region and season (Fig. 6b) indicates that the lateral Chl gradient at the scale of eddies (5\u2009%) is small compared to the maximum absolute amplitude of \u03b4Chl (17\u2009%). Further, the decomposition of the local shape of \u03b4Chl into a monopole and a dipole suggests that stirring (dipole) supports an anomaly of the opposite sign compared to the observed \u03b4Chl, consistent with \u03b4^Chlstir (Fig. 4d). Given that trapping would also cause a weak anomaly of the opposite sign (Fig. 4f), we hypothesize that eddy-induced changes in the biogeochemical rates are responsible for the negative \u03b4Chl in winter and spring in the northern ACC.\nFigure 7Hovmoeller diagram of the processes likely controlling the chlorophyll anomalies (\u03b4Chl) in (a) anticyclones and (b) cyclones: trapping (purple), stirring (yellow), a combination of the two (red) or neither of the two (blue), with the latter often interpreted to be the consequence of changes in the local growth or losses (biogeochemical rates). A region is colored if the sign of the potential effect is the same as the observed one, and if \u03b4Chl is significant. See text for details. White boxes indicate regions R1 to R4 used for composite Figs. 5 and 6. The data were binned in monthly sea-surface height bins. Horizontal solid black lines mark the ACC, the horizontal dashed black line denotes the \u221220\u2009cm SSH contour, the vertical dashed lines seasons; solid black contours show averaged mixed layer depths in meters; note that the seasonal cycle is shown repeatedly to highlight cyclic patterns.\nFigure 8Maps of the distribution of the processes likely controlling the chlorophyll anomalies (\u03b4Chl) for austral (a) winter, (b) spring, (c) summer and (d) autumn for anticyclones (left) and cyclones (right). The method and legend is the same as used in Fig. 7. Otherwise the same as Fig. 2.\nSimilarly, the sign switch of \u03b4Chl of cyclones in the same region cannot be explained based on \u03b4^Chlstir (Fig. 4e). The local shape of Chl corroborates that for cyclones stirring of the average ambient Chl gradient also induces an anomaly of the opposite sign (Fig. 6b). In contrast to \u03b4^Chlstir, \u03b4^Chltrap for cyclones is of the same sign as \u03b4Chl (Fig. 4g), indicating a potential contribution of trapping to positive \u03b4Chl under deep mixed layers. Yet, as noted in the previous paragraph, the magnitude of \u03b4^Chltrap is small, hence the contribution by trapping is limited. Further, trapping is not of the same sign as \u03b4Chl for cyclones everywhere in the region either (see blue boxes Fig. 8a,b, right column). Hence, the likely explanation for the \u03b4Chl in cyclones in regions with deep winter mixed layers is that eddies also modify the local biogeochemical rates.\nEffects of eddies on biogeochemical rates also may play a role in other regions or seasons. For instance, the magnitudes of \u03b4^Chlstir and \u03b4^Chltrap appear too weak to explain \u03b4Chl in subtropical waters in winter and spring (Figs. 4d\u2013g and 5a). Further, closed Chl contours are associated with the eddy cores that cannot originate from local lateral entrainment associated with stirring (Figs. 5 and 6, left columns). Also the generally weak potential \u03b4^Chltrap fails to explain the closed Chl contours and the associated strong monopole component of \u03b4Chl that contributes about 70\u2009% to 100\u2009% to the variability of the \u03b4Chl shape (Figs. 4f, g, 5 and 6). These points both indicate that effects on biogeochemical rates enhance the \u03b4Chl monopole.\n4 Discussion and synthesis\nThe zonal pattern of the \u03b4Chl identified here for the Southern Ocean is similar to that described by Gaube et al. (2014) across the world's oceans. Analogous to the results of our analyses, they also found spatial variations in the sign of \u03b4Chl associated with either cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies. Yet, there are also substantial differences, especially along the ACC, where, e.g., the \u03b4Chl is more widespread and more intense than previously acknowledged. Further, the seasonal variations in the Southern Ocean appear to be stronger than elsewhere (Gaube et al., 2014), except, perhaps, for the eastern Indian Ocean and the South China Sea (Gaube et al., 2013; Guo et al., 2017). Possibly, the underappreciated \u03b4Chl along the ACC is due to previous conflation of seasonal anomalies of opposite sign, resulting in a much weaker annual signal. To our knowledge, such seasonal changes in the sign of \u03b4Chl in a particular region have not been reported before. Hence, the strong seasonality accompanied by a change in the sign of \u03b4Chl along the ACC and south of the ACC appears to be rather specific to the Southern Ocean.\nThe spatio-temporal variability of \u03b4Chl may not be that surprising in hindsight, given that the same mechanism, e.g., advection can lead to either positive or negative signs for the same polarity depending on the sign of the lateral gradient. In addition, several mechanisms may be involved simultaneously, so that small differences in their relative importance can lead to substantial differences in the net sign of the response (Gaube et al., 2014; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016; Siegel et al., 2011). Nevertheless, we have demonstrated that most of the eddy induced signatures of \u03b4Chl in the Southern Ocean are likely due to stirring, a mechanism that has been shown to control \u03b4Chl in the low to mid-latitude ocean as well (Chelton et al., 2011a). Stirring is an effective mechanism for eddies to cause \u03b4Chl as eddy rotation is omnidirectional and thus necessarily perpendicular to the ambient Chl isolines. This fact, combined with the steep meridional Chl gradients in the Southern Ocean, favor stirring as the driving mechanism for \u03b4Chl. Stirring in such an environment of meridional Chl gradients supports Chl anomalies of a banded, zonal structure, similar in pattern and magnitude to the actual observed \u03b4Chl, in most regions and seasons. Stirring is also favored compared to trapping by the fact that the majority of the eddies are relatively short lived and also have low translational speeds, such that the average eddy does not get far during its lifetime. This means that the eddy is much more likely to efficiently stir the environmental gradient due to its rotation than to move great distances up or down the gradient.\nNext to stirring, our work elucidated also the importance of the other processes, namely trapping and changes in biogeochemical rates, in certain regions and at certain times. This leads to a relatively complex mosaic of dominance across space and time in the Southern Ocean (Fig. 7). This synthesis figure reveals that stirring as the sole mechanism is limited to the subtropical waters outside of regions with deep winter mixed layers, and for anticyclones along the northern ACC from summer to autumn (Fig. 7, yellow). Our results suggest that trapping contributes to \u03b4Chl for anticyclones along the southern ACC from summer to autumn and in Antarctic waters in autumn and spring. It also adds to the \u03b4Chl of cyclones in most regions and seasons, except for parts of the subtropical waters (see also Fig. 8a, south and southwest of Australia). Yet, the magnitude of the potential of trapping is generally small, with the exception, perhaps, of a few specific regions, such as the eastern boundary currents, and those to the southeast of the Kerguelen Islands, and in the Drake Passage (Fig. S3 in the Supplement, see also Gaube et al., 2014). In these regions, eddies tend to move down intense zonal Chl gradients (Fig. S2 in the Supplement, right column), carrying their high initial Chl with them. This tends to result in positive \u03b4Chl year round for both anticyclones and cyclones (Fig. 3). An additional possible explanation for the positive \u03b4Chl is the offshore advection of iron trapped in the nearshore region by eddies that fuels extra growth in the offshore waters, as suggested e.g., for Haida eddies in the North Pacific (Xiu et al., 2011), or for eddies passing the Kerguelen Plateau (d'Ovidio et al., 2015).\nThe weaker role of trapping relative to stirring can be explained by the inherently westward propagation of mesoscale eddies, meaning a propagation largely along Chl isolines, as zonal Chl gradients typically are much smaller than meridional Chl gradients. An additional reason is the aforementioned short propagation distance of an average eddy. Moreover, the efficiency of trapping is often also reduced owing to the trapped waters from the eddies' origins being diluted along their pathways (Beron-Vera et al., 2013; Haller, 2015; Wang et al., 2015). This dilution effect may help to explain also the puzzling observation that despite stirring being the dominant process overall, the spatial structure of the \u03b4Chl within the eddies is much more monopole than dipole (Figs. 5, 6). This can be resolved by hypothesizing that the lateral entrainment weakens the dipole component of the \u03b4Chl generated by stirring, while strengthening the monopole component (see illustration in Fig. 1a).\nThe clearest case for a substantial contribution of changes in biogeochemical rates on \u03b4Chl was found for the northern ACC region during winter and spring, when the mixed layers are deep (Fig. 7, blue), and correlations of Chl and SLA are negative. The associated negative \u03b4Chl of anticyclones is consistent with the mechanism of an amplification of the prevailing light limitation in the deep mixed layers (Boyd, 2002; Fauchereau et al., 2011; Moore and Abbott, 2002; Venables and Meredith, 2009). As a result of their suppressing of the thermoclines, anticyclones tend to deepen the mixed layer depths by several tens of meters, especially in winter (Dufois et al., 2016; Hausmann et al., 2017; Song et al., 2015). Hence, phytoplankton within the mixed layer will be exposed to reduced mean light levels in anticyclones as compared to ambient waters, leading to lower phytoplankton growth. The opposite is the case for cyclones.\nIn the same region from summer to autumn, the weak trapping potential, the pronounced monopole-shape of \u03b4Chl and the closed Chl contours suggest that the \u03b4Chl is at least partly caused by the effects of eddies on the local biogeochemical rates. Here, the positive correlations of SLA and \u03b4Chl could arise due to eddy-induced modifications of the prevailing iron limitation. Anticyclones could reduce the iron limitation and lead to positive \u03b4Chl owing to their being more weakly stratified, leading to intensified vertical mixing in the high wind conditions of the Southern Ocean, bringing more iron from below to the surface. Vice-versa, the iron limitation could be enhanced by cyclones owing to their weaker vertical mixing (Dufois et al., 2016; Song et al., 2018). Hypothetically, an alleviation of grazing pressure due to reduced predator\u2013prey encounter rates in deepened mixed layers in anticyclones could further favor positive \u03b4Chl, and more shallow mixed layers could increase grazing pressure for cyclones. Thus, we argue that along the northern ACC, the seasonal sign switch of \u03b4Chl could be explained by varying degrees of light and iron limitation and grazing pressure over the course of the year (Carranza and Gille, 2015; Le Qu\u00e9r\u00e9 et al., 2016; Smetacek et al., 2004).\nFinally, along the southern ACC and in Antarctic waters in autumn to spring, the potential of stirring and trapping oftentimes are of the same sign. However, \u03b4Chl associated with eddies is insignificant in these waters in many places (dark gray regions, Fig. 7). Presumably, these situations arise because the eddy effects on the local biogeochemical rates may almost perfectly cancel the advective effects.\nOur analysis is constrained to the surface ocean, hence three caveats need to be kept in mind: (i) one potential issue is non-homogeneous vertical Chl profiles, e.g., the presence of unrecognized subsurface Chl maxima, but subsurface Chl maxima are presumably not prominent in our focus area (Sall\u00e9e et al., 2015), as wind speeds are high and mixed layers deep, promoting well-mixed Chl levels over the upper ocean; further, surface and mixed layer depth integrated analyses provide similar results in terms of SLA-Chl correlations (based on model simulations, Hajoon Song, personal communication, 2017), supporting the assumption that an analysis of surface Chl is representative for the total Chl in the water column. (ii) Modification of mixed layer depths by eddies may result in a surface Chl concentration modification due to a dilution effect. Especially in winter to spring, when the mixed layers are deep, we cannot exclude that this effect contributes to the observed \u03b4Chl. Yet as noted in (i), surface and mixed layer depth integrated analyses provide similar results in a model simulation. (iii) Potential effects of eddies on phytoplankton growth presumably occur mostly in the lower euphotic zone and may thus be expressed more weakly at the surface (McGillicuddy Jr. et al., 2007; Siegel et al., 2011). Therefore, we note that because our study is based on ocean surface data it may underestimate the total effect of mesoscale eddies on biogeochemical rates.\nWe may further underestimate the overall effect of Southern Ocean eddies on Chl, because of additional effects of mesoscale eddies that are not considered in our analysis. Such effects include the impact of smaller mesoscale features, and of submesoscale processes near the edges of eddies (Klein and Lapeyre, 2009; L\u00e9vy, 2003; Martin et al., 2002; Siegel et al., 2011; Strass, 1992; Woods, 1988), e.g., eddy-jet interactions and associated horizontal shear-induced patches of up- and downwelling. Such features are included in our analysis only insofar as they have rectified effects on the larger mesoscale Chl patterns resolved by the data we use. Another effect we do not consider is non-local stirring (d'Ovidio et al., 2015), the contribution of eddies to lateral dispersion outside the eddies' cores in interaction with the ambient flow. This effect, for instance, shapes iron plumes downstream of shelves along the ACC, thus preconditioning Chl blooms (Ardyna et al., 2017). Therefore, we note that the overall effect of mesoscale eddies on biogeochemical rates may be larger than suggested by our analysis of the mesoscale, local, imprint of eddies on Chl. Finally, we note that our analysis does not include the effect of submesoscale processes outside eddies as well as any unstructured turbulence in general.\n5 Summary and Conclusions\nThe prevalent and strong correlations between anomalies in surface Chl and mesoscale variability have triggered substantial research, but many unresolved issues remain, particularly regarding their causes (Gaube et al., 2014; L\u00e9vy, 2008; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016). With this study, we aim to provide an observational reference for the seasonal climatological \u03b4Chl associated with mesoscale eddies across the Southern Ocean, a region where the detailed regional and seasonal relationship of eddies and Chl previously had not been discussed. To this end, we combined satellite estimates of Chl with ocean mesoscale eddies (diameters larger than \u223c50 km) identified based on satellite estimates of SLA. The very large number of collocations of eddies and Chl allowed us to retrieve statistically robust results despite the frequent data gaps and the high spatio-temporal variability of Chl.\nWe found a relatively complex pattern of Chl anomalies (\u03b4Chl) associated with mesoscale eddies, with many anomalies exceeding \u00b110\u2009% of their mean value over wide areas of the Southern Ocean. The \u03b4Chl for cyclones is positive in subtropical waters, but negative along the ACC; anticyclones show a similar pattern, but of opposite sign. A pronounced seasonality of the imprint is apparent especially along the ACC and in Antarctic waters, featuring a sign switch of the anomaly over the course of the year.\nWhile multiple mechanisms may be at play at the same time to cause the observed \u03b4Chl (Gaube et al., 2014; McGillicuddy Jr., 2016), our analyses suggest that lateral advection due to stirring by eddies and associated lateral entrainment and permeable trapping explain a large fraction of the observed \u03b4Chl. This conclusion is based on our analysis of the climatological Chl gradients, eddy rotation and propagation pathways, and the local shape of the \u03b4Chl of eddies.\nA prominent region and season where eddy-induced advection is insufficient to explain \u03b4Chl are the northern ACC characterized by deep mixed layers during winter and spring and a seasonal sign switch of \u03b4Chl. Here, winter to spring negative and positive \u03b4Chl of anticyclones and cyclones, respectively, are consistent with changes in mixed layer depth and the ensuing light regime. The opposite signs of \u03b4Chl from summer to autumn are consistent with an abatement of iron limitation by anticyclones via a relatively weak stratification facilitating vertical mixing, and, possibly, with an abatement of grazing pressure caused by anticyclones through deepened mixed layers; and vice versa for cyclones. In other regions and seasons our analysis does not exclude a modulation of \u03b4Chl by effects of eddies on biogeochemical rates, even though our results suggest that lateral advection is likely the dominant mechanism.\nFuture work may include the investigation of where and when Southern Ocean eddies substantially affect biogeochemical rates, such as through modulation of alternating roles of iron and light limitation as well as grazing pressure along the ACC (Song et al., 2018). The growing number of sub-surface biogeochemical measurements across eddies may be of help here, such as those collected by the increasing number of biogeochemical floats (http:\/\/biogeochemical-argo.org, last access: 2 August 2018). In addition, targeted experiments with numerical ocean-biogeochemical models with the option to alternately switch on and off Chl sources and sinks could be employed to shed light on the questions of what the role of eddy-effects is on Chl sources and sinks relative to advection, for higher trophic levels (God\u00f8 et al., 2012; Nel et al., 2001), or for the magnitude and structure of export (Waite et al., 2016). Furthermore, such models could be used to assess if these effects of eddies on phytoplankton substantially affect Southern Ocean biogeochemistry. Of particular interest are their modifications of the mode waters that originate from the Southern Ocean region with deep winter mixed layers. This is crucial, as these mode waters supply the low latitude ocean with nutrients and sequester a substantial amount of anthropogenic carbon (Sall\u00e9e et al., 2012; Sarmiento et al., 2004). The final thread is the expansion of this work to smaller scales, and perhaps also more ephemeral turbulent structures, such as fronts.\nThe identified eddies we used in this study including their Chl characteristics are publicly available (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3929\/ethz-b-000238826) (Frenger, 2018). Other presented data are available from the corresponding author upon request.\nAuthor contributions.\nIF, NG, and MM conceived the project, IF carried out the analyses, all authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript.\nThe altimeter products used for this study were produced by Ssalto\/Duacs and distributed by Aviso, with support from Cnes. 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Lett., 43, 9791\u20139800, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2015GL066463, 2016.\u2002a\nWang, Y., Olascoaga, M. J., and Al, W. E. T.: Coherent water transport across the South Atlantic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 4072\u20134079, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2015GL064089, 2015.\u2002a\nWoods, J.: Scale upwelling and primary production, in: Toward a theory of biological physical interactions in the World Ocean, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 7\u201338, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-94-009-3023-0_2, 1988.\u2002a\nXiu, P., Palacz, A. P., Chai, F., Roy, E. G., and Wells, M. L.: Iron flux induced by Haida eddies in the Gulf of Alaska, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L13\u2009607, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2011GL047946, 2011.\u2002a, b\nAlthough mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous in the Southern Ocean (SO), their regional and seasonal association with phytoplankton has not been quantified. We identify over 100\u2009000 eddies and determine the associated phytoplankton biomass anomalies using satellite-based chlorophyll (Chl) as a proxy. The emerging Chl anomalies can be explained largely by lateral advection of Chl by eddies. This impact of eddies on phytoplankton may implicate downstream effects on SO biogeochemical properties.\nAlthough mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous in the Southern Ocean (SO), their regional and...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TFRRS Performance List\nFive SAC Schools Ranked in Week Two of USTFCCCA Men's Cross Country Poll and One Named in National Polls\nNEW ORLEANS \u2013 The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced week two of its Southeast Region Men's Cross Country Poll on Tuesday (Sept. 24.) While also releasing week two of the National DII Men's Cross Country Rankings today (Sept. 25.)\nFive teams from the South Atlantic Conference were represented in the poll, including preseason favorite, Queens in the No. 1 spot for the second consecutive week. The Royals didn't stop there, as they jumped from No. 21 to No. 19 in the National Rankings.\nWingate checked in at No. 5, with the No. 7 spot belonging to Anderson and No. 9 going to Catawba.\nRounding out the SAC teams and taking the final spot in the poll is Lenoir-Rhyne at No. 10\nThe SAC cross country season is underway with multiple meets this weekend.\n- #MakeSACYours -","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"House explodes in Schoharie County\nMike Goodwin\nSEWARD \u2014 A home blew up on Route 145 Thursday night but no one was injured, State Police said.\nTroopers said they were called to 5700 Route 145 just before 9 p.m. to investigate.\nNo one was living in the home and troopers said it was unoccupied when it exploded.\nState Police said they are working with the Schoharie County Fire Coordinator's office. No cause for the blast has been found, they said.\nReach Mike on\nMike Goodwin has been a stock broker, garbage man, and a house painter. He has been a journalist since 1995 and the Times Union has been his home since 2002. As a city desk editor, he's on the front lines of newsgathering for the Capital Region's newspaper. Think you have an interesting story? Contact him at mgoodwin@timesunion.com or (518) 454-5465.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield\nClark MacGregor\nJames M. Collins\nRichard K. Cook\nSamuel L. Devine\nWilliam E. Timmons\nAmerican Defense and Security\nJobs and Economy\nWar and Terrorism\nConversation No. 82-1\nLocation: Cabinet Room\nThe President met with Samuel L. Devine, Carleton J. King, Delwin M. Clawson, William L.\nDickinson, John E. Hunt, John H. Kyl, James M. Collins, Robert H. Michel, John Rousselot,\nClark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Richard K. Cook, Alexander P. Butterfield, and John D.\nEhrlichman\n[General conversation]\nVice President Spiro T. Agnew\n-Record as Governor of Maryland\n-White House staff concerns\n-Firing by the President\n-Meeting, September 23, with Congressmen\n-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak column, October 26\n-Statement regarding possible candidacy in 1972\n-Marriott Hotel\n-Attendees\nJohn B. Connally\n-Loyalty\n-Knowledge of economics\n-Spokesman\nTrips to Vietnam and Japan\n[To listen to the segment (27s) declassified on 02\/28\/2002, please refer to RC# E-564.]\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 1m 31s ]\nNIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF\n(rev. 10\/08)\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\nThe President's Supreme Court nominees\n-Constituents' reaction\n-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.\n-Contrasted with William O. Douglas\n-William H. Rehnquist\n-Past statements\n-The President's opponents' reaction\n-Powell\n-Rehnquist\n-Contrasted with Byron R. (\"Whizzer\") White\n-Record\n-Views of counsel of Arizona State Central Committee\n-Views of Justice Department lawyers\n-Handling of Pentagon Papers case\n-Future appointments\n-Supreme Court decision\n-Popular opinion\nOffice of Economic Opportunity [OEO]\n-Money for child care\n-Possible veto\n-Hunt\n-Director\n-Constituents\n-Pending legislation\n-Constituents' view in Camden County, New Jersey\n-Dwight D. Eisenhower\n-The President's conversation with Frank C. Carlucci\n-John N. Mitchell's intervention\n-Texas, Tennessee, and Michigan\n-Possible constitutional amendment\n-Howard H. Baker, Jr. and Robert P. Griffin\n-The President's schedule\n-Mitchell\n-Florida\n-Possible legislation\n-Ehrlichman and Mitchell\n-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.'s amendment\n-Constitutionality\n-Joseph Alioto's election\n-Indictment\n-Stand on busing\n-Griffin's views\n-Ehrlichman's role\n-Options\n-Role of the President\n-Democrats' possible votes\n-California Constitution\n-Ruling of Alabama state court\n-Mitchell's possible action\n-Federal court in Birmingham\nOEO\n-Child development\n-Legal aid\n-Possible statement by the President\n-Justice Department intervention\n-The President's conversation with Mitchell\n-De facto versus de jure segregation\n-Pasadena, California case\n-Possible Supreme Court decision\n-Northern states\n-Pontiac, Michigan decision\nUnited States' role in world\n-Conservative House members' views\n-Foreign aid\n-Senate vote\n-United Nations' vote on Taiwan\n-Robert J. Dole\nUnited Nations vote on Taiwan\n-Delegates' reaction\n-George H. W. Bush\n[Duration: 3s ]\nFOREIGN AID PROGRAM, VIETNAM, JAPAN\n[To listen to the segment (11m20s) declassified on 02\/28\/2002, please refer to RC# E-564.]\n-Importance\n-Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM], Minute Men, Polaris\n-Possible inclusion of military aid in Defense Department budget\n-The President's conversation with Melvin R. Laird\n-Senators' votes\n-Hawks and doves\n-J. William Fulbright\n-Continuing resolution\n-George H. Mahon, Frank T. Bow\n-Rules Committee\n-Cooper-Church Amendment\n-Prisoners of War [POWs]\n-Presidential powers\n-Southern Democrats\n-The President's opponents\n-Edmund S. Muskie and Hubert H. Humphrey\n-Democrats' program contrasted with the President's\n-South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos\n-POWs\n-Possible congressional action\n-Withdrawal\n-The President's handling\n-Cambodia and Laos operations\n-Winston S. Churchill's account of March 21, 1918\n-British commanding general, [Forename unknown] Jackson\n-Erich F. W. Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg's offensive\n-Eisenhower\n-Congressional action\n-Troop withdrawals\n-Strategic reserves\n-William R. Poage\n-Carl B. Albert\n-Possible administration action\n-John C. Whitaker\n-Possible grain sale to the Soviet Union\n-Administration negotiations with maritime unions\n-Loan program\n-Dock strike\n-Henry A. Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin\n-Prices\n-Effects on states\n-Contrasted with wheat states\n-Charles A. Halleck\n-Corn-hog ratio\nDock strike\n-Mobile, Alabama\n-Soybeans\n-Possible Taft-Hartley injunction\n-George P. Shultz\n-National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] injunction\nGrain elevator strike\n-Taft-Hartley injunctions\n-Transportation legislation\n-Mobile\nThe President's forthcoming trips to the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union\n-Taiwan\nTaiwan, the President's Forthcoming Trips to the People's Republic Of China and the\nPresentation of gifts by the President\n-Bella S. Abzug\nCongressmen's voting records\n-White House lists\n-Foreign policy\n[General conversation\/Unintelligible]\nPossible assassination of the President\n-Vice President Agnew\nCorn issue\nThe President, et al. left at 6:23 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab Por la creacion de un Romanestan - Los Gitanos, ?Un problema Hindu-Europeo? | Page d'accueil | La guerre \u00e9conomique a commenc\u00e9 \u00bb\nJack Malebranche's Androphilia: A Manifesto\nJack Malebranche's Androphilia: A Manifesto\nJack Malebranche (Jack Donovan)\nAndrophilia: A Manifesto\nBaltimore, Md.: Scapegoat Publishing, 2006\nNear the end of Androphilia, Jack Donovan writes \"It has always seemed like some profoundly ironic cosmic joke to me that the culture of men who love men is a culture that deifies women and celebrates effeminacy. Wouldn't it make more sense if the culture of men who are sexually fascinated by men actually idolized men and celebrated masculinity?\" (p. 115).\nHe has a point there. As Donovan notes, homosexual porn is almost exclusively focused on hypermasculine archetypes: the lumberjack, the marine, the jock, the cop, etc. (I am going to employ the term \"homosexual,\" despite its problematic history, as a neutral term to denote same-sex desire among men. I am avoiding the term \"gay,\" for reasons that will soon be apparent.) So why are homosexuals, who worship masculine men, so damn queeny? Most straight men (and women too) would offer what they see as the obvious answer: homosexuals are not real men. They are a sort of strange breed of womanly man, and it is precisely the otherness of masculine men that attracts them so. This is, after all, the way things work with straight people: men are attracted to women, and vice versa, because they are other. We want what we are not. Therefore, if a man desires another man then he must not be a real man.\nWhat makes this theory so plausible is that so many self-identified homosexuals do behave in the most excruciatingly effeminate manner. They certainly seem to be not-quite-men. Donovan thinks (and I believe he is correct) that it is this womanish behavior in homosexuals that bothers straight men so much \u2013 more so, actually, than the fact that homosexuals have sex with other men in the privacy of their bedrooms.\nDonovan objects to effeminacy in homosexuals as well, but he sees this effeminacy as a socially-constructed behavior pattern; as a consequence of the flawed logic that claims \"since we're attracted to what's other, if you're a man attracted to a man you must not be a real man.\" Having bought into this way of seeing things, the \"gay community\" actually encourages its members to \"camp it up\" and get in touch with their feminine side. They think they are liberating themselves, but what they don't see is that they have bought into a specific set of cultural assumptions which effectively rob them of their manhood, in their own eyes and in the eyes of society.\nDonovan argues, plausibly, that homosexual attraction should be seen as a \"variation in desire\" among men (p. 21). Homosexuals are men \u2014 men who happen to be attracted to other men. Their sexual desire does not make them into a separate species of quasi-men. This is a point that will be resisted by many, but it is easily defended. One can see this simply by reflecting on how difficult it is to comprehend the homosexuals of yore in the terms we use today to deal with these matters. There was, after all, unlikely to have been anything \"queeny\" (and certainly not cowardly) about the Spartan 300, who were 150 homosexual couples. And the samurai in feudal Japan were doing it too \u2014 just to mention two examples. These are not the sort of people one thinks of as \"sensitive\" and who one would expect to show up at a Lady Gaga concert, were they around today. It is unlikely that Achilles and his \"favorite\" Patroclus would have cruised around with a rainbow flag flying from their chariot. These were manly men, who happened to sexually desire other men. If there can be such men, then there is no necessary disjunction between homosexuality and masculinity. QED.\nIn essential terms, what Donovan argues in Androphilia is that homosexuals should reject the \"gay culture\" of effeminacy and reclaim masculinity for themselves. Ironically, gay culture is really the product of an internalization of the Judeo-Christian demonization of same-sex desire, and its insistence that homosexuality and masculinity are incompatible. Donovan wants gays to become \"androphiles\": men who love men, but who are not defined by that love. \"Gay men\" are men who allow themselves to be defined entirely by their desire, defined into a separate segment of humanity that talks alike, walks alike, dresses alike, thinks alike, votes alike, and has set itself apart from \"breeders\" in fashionable urban ghettos. \"Gay\" really denotes a whole way of life \"that promotes anti-male feminism, victim mentality, and leftist politics\" (p. 18). (This is the reason Donovan often uses \"homo\" instead of \"gay\": gay is a package deal denoting much more than same-sex desire.) He argues that in an effort to promote acceptance of men with same-sex desire, homosexuals encouraged others to regard them as, in effect, a separate sex \u2014 really, almost a separate race. \"Gay,\" Donovan remarks, is really \"sexuality as ethnicity\" (p. 18). As a result, gay men have cut themselves off from the fraternity of men and, arguably, trapped themselves in a lifestyle that stunts them into perpetual adolescence. Donovan asks, reasonably, \"Why should I identify more closely with a lesbian folk singer than with [straight] men my age who share my interests?\"\nMany of those who have made it this far into my review might conclude now that Androphilia is really a book for homosexuals, and doesn't have much to say to the rest of the world. But this is not the case. Donovan's book contains profound reflections on sexuality and its historical construction (yes, there really are some things that are historically constructed), the nature of masculinity, the role of male bonding in the formation of culture, and the connection between masculinity and politics. This book has implications for how men \u2014 all men \u2014 understand themselves.\nDonovan attacks head-on the attempt by gays to set themselves up as an \"oppressed group\" on the model of blacks and women, and to compel all of us to refrain from uttering a critical word about them. He attacks feminism as the anti-male ideology it is. And he zeroes in on the connection, taken for granted by nearly everyone, between gay culture and advocacy of left-wing causes. Androphilia, in short, is a book that belongs squarely on the political right. It should be no surprise to anyone to discover that Donovan has been busy since the publication of Androphilia writing for sites like Alternative Right and Spearhead.\nDonovan himself was a part of the gay community when he was younger, but never really felt like he belonged. He so much as tells us that his desire for men is his religion; that he worships masculinity in men. But it seemed natural to Donovan that since he was a man, he should cultivate in himself the very qualities he admired in others. His desire was decidedly not for an \"other\" but for the very qualities that he saw, proudly, in himself. (He says at one point, \"I experience androphilia not as an attraction to some alien opposite, but as an attraction to variations in sameness,\" p. 49).\nDonovan is certainly not alone. It's natural when we think of homosexuals to visualize effeminate men, because those are the ones that stand out. If I asked you to visualize a Swede you'd probably conjure up a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Nordic exemplar. But, of course, a great many Swedes are brunettes (famous ones, too; e.g., Ingmar Bergman). The effeminate types are merely the most conspicuous homosexuals. But there also exists a silent multitude of masculine men who love men, men whom no one typically pegs as \"gay.\" These men are often referred to as \"straight acting\" \u2014 as if masculinity in a homosexual is necessarily some kind of act. These men are really Donovan's target audience, and they live a tragic predicament. They are masculine men who see their own masculinity as a virtue, thus they cannot identify with what Donovan calls the Gay Party (i.e., \"gay community\") and its celebration of effeminacy. They identify far more closely with straight men, who, of course, will not fully accept them. This is partly due to fear (\"is he going to make a pass at me?\"), and partly, again, due to the prevailing view which equates same-sex desire with lack of manliness. The Jack Donovans out there are lost between two worlds, at home in neither. Loneliness and sexual desire compels such men to live on the periphery of the gay community, hoping always to find someone like themselves. If they have at all internalized the message that their desires make them less-than-men (and most have), then their relationship to masculinity will always be a problematic one. They will always have \"something to prove,\" and always fear, deep down, that perhaps they are inadequate in some fundamental way.\nAndrophilia is therapy for such men, and a call for them to form a new identity and group solidarity quite independent of the \"gay community.\" On the one hand, Donovan asserts that, again, homosexuality should be seen as a \"variation in desire\" among men; that homosexuals should see themselves as men first, and not be defined entirely by their same-sex desire. On the other hand, it is very clear that Donovan also has high hopes that self-identified androphiles will become a force to be reckoned with. He writes at one point, \"While other men struggle to keep food on the table or get new sneakers for Junior, androphiles can use their extra income to fund their endeavors. This is a significant advantage. Androphiles could become leaders of men in virtually any field with comparative ease. By holding personal achievement in high esteem, androphiles could become more than men; they could become great men\" (p. 88).\nIs Jack Donovan \u2014 the androphile Tyler Durden \u2014 building an army? Actually, it looks more like he's building a religion, and this brings us to one of the most interesting aspects of Androphilia. Repeatedly, Donovan tells us that \"masculinity is a religion,\" or words to that effect (see especially pp. 65, 72, 76, 80, 116).\nA first step to understanding what he is talking about is to recognize that masculinity is an ideal, and a virtue. Men strive to cultivate masculinity in themselves, and they admire it in other men. Further, masculinity is something that has to be achieved. Better yet, it has to be won. Femininity, on the other hand, is quite different. Femininity is essentially a state of being that simply comes with being female; it is not an accomplishment. Women are, but men must become. If femininity has anything to do with achievement, the achievement usually consists in artifice: dressing in a certain manner, putting on makeup, learning how to be coy, etc. Femininity is almost exclusively bound up with being attractive to men. If a man's \"masculinity\" consisted in dressing butch and not shaving, he would be laughed at; his \"masculinity\" would be essentially effeminate. (Such is the masculinity, for example, of gay \"bears\" and \"leatherman.\") Similarly, if a man's \"masculinity\" consists entirely in pursuing women and making himself attractive to them, he is scorned by other men. (Ironically, such \"gigolos\" are often far more effeminate mama's boys than many homosexuals.) No, true masculinity is achieved by accomplishing something difficult in the world: by fighting, building something, discovering something, winning a contest, setting a record, etc. In order for it to count, a man has to overcome things like fear and opposition. He has to exhibit such virtues as bravery, perseverance, commitment, consistency, integrity, and, often, loyalty. Masculinity is inextricably tied to virtue (which is no surprise \u2014 given that the root vir-, from which we also get \"virile,\" means \"man\"). A woman can be petty, fickle, dishonest, fearful, inconstant, weak, and unserious \u2014 and still be thought of as 100% feminine.\nA woman can also be the butchest nun, women's lacrosse coach, or dominatrix on the planet and never be in any danger of someone thinking she's \"not a real woman.\" With men, it's completely different. As the example of homosexuals illustrates, it is quite possible to have a y chromosome and be branded \"not a real man.\" Masculinity, again, is an ideal that men are constantly striving to realize. The flip side of this is that they live in constant fear of some kind of failure that might rob them of masculinity in their eyes or the eyes of others. They must \"live up\" to the title of \"man.\" Contrary to the views of modern psychologists and feminists, this does not indicate a \"problem\" with men that they must somehow try to overcome. If men did not feel driven to make their mark on the world and prove themselves worthy of being called men, there would be no science, no philosophy, no art, no music, no technology, no exploration.\n\"But there would also be no war, no conflict, no competition!\" feminists and male geldings will shriek in response. They're right: there would be none of these things. And the world would be colorless and unutterably boring.\nAs Camille Paglia famously said, \"If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.\" She also said \"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.\" What this really means is that given the nature of men, we can't have Mozart without Jack the Ripper. So be it.\nIt should now be a bit clearer why Donovan says that \"masculinity is a religion.\" To quote him more fully, \"masculinity is not just a quality shared by many men, but also an ideal to which men collectively aspire. Masculinity is a religion, one that naturally resonates with the condition of maleness. Worship takes place at sports arenas, during action films, in adventure novels and history books, in frat houses, in hunting lodges\" (p. 65).\nEarlier in the book he writes: \"All men appreciate masculinity in other men. They appreciate men who are manly, who embody what it means to be a man. They admire and look up to men who are powerful, accomplished or assertive. . . . Men respectfully acknowledge another man's impressive size or build, note a fierce handshake, or take a friendly interest in his facial hair. . . . Sportscasters and fans speak lovingly of the bodies and miraculous abilities of their shared heroes. . . . While straight men would rather not discuss it because they don't want to be perceived as latent homosexuals, they do regularly admire one another's bodies at the gym or at sporting events\" (p. 22). None of this is \"gay,\" \"latently gay,\" or \"homoerotic.\" This is just men admiring manliness. One of the sad consequences of \"gay liberation\" (and Freudian psychology) is that straight men must now police their behavior for any signs that might be read as \"latency.\" And gay liberation has destroyed male bonding. Just recently I re-watched Robert Rossen's classic 1961 film The Hustler. In the opening scene, an old man watches a drunken Paul Newman playing pool and remarks to a friend, \"Nice looking boy. Clean cut. Too bad he can't hold his liquor.\" No straight man today would dream of openly admiring another man's appearance and describing him as \"nice looking,\" even though there need be nothing sexual in this at all.\nOf course, there is something decidedly sexual in androphilia. The androphile admires masculinity in other men also, but he has a sexual response to it. An androphile may admire all the same qualities in a man that a straight man would, but the androphile gets turned on by them. Here we must note, however, that although the straight man admires masculinity in men he generally spends a lot less time reflecting on it than an androphile does. And there are innumerable qualities in men (especially physical qualities) which androphiles notice, but which many straight men are completely oblivious to. In fact, one of the characteristics of manly men is a kind of obliviousness to their own masculine attractiveness. Yes, straight men admire masculinity in other men and in themselves \u2014 but this is often not something that is brought fully to consciousness. No matter how attractive he may be, if a man is vain, his attractiveness is undercut \u2014 and so is his masculinity. Men are attractive \u2014 to women and to androphiles \u2014 to the extent that their masculinity is something natural, unselfconscious, unaffected, and seemingly effortless. Oddly, lack of self-consciousness does seem to be a masculine trait. Think of the single-minded warrior, uncorrupted by doubt and introspection, forging ahead without any thought for how he seems to others, unaware of how brightly his virtue and heroism shine.\nWhat all this means is that androphilia is masculinity brought to self-consciousness. To put it another way, the androphile is masculinity brought to awareness of itself. It is in the androphile that all that is good and noble and beautiful in the male comes to be consciously reflected upon and affirmed. It is in androphiles like Jack Donovan that the god of masculinity is consciously thematized as a god, and worshipped. Masculinity is a religion, he tells us again and again.\nNow, I said a few lines earlier that lack of self-consciousness seems to be a masculine trait. If in androphiles a greater self-consciousness of masculinity is achieved, doesn't this mean that androphiles are somehow unmasculine? Actually what it means is that they are potentially hyper-masculine. It is true that we admire unselfconscious figures like Siegfried or Arjuna, because they seem to possess a certain purity. But such men are always ultimately revealed to be merely the plaything of forces over which they have no control. Greater still then a na\u00efve, unselfconscious purity is the power of an awakened man, who consciously recognizes and cultivates his virtues, striving to take control of his destiny and to perfect himself. This is part and parcel of the ideal of spiritual virility Julius Evola spoke of so often.\nThe difference between Siegfried and Arjuna is that the latter had the god Krishna around to awaken him. Krishna taught him that he is indeed a plaything of forces over which he has no control. But Arjuna then affirmed this, affirmed his role in the cosmic scheme as the executioner of men, and became the fiercest warrior that had ever lived.\nMost men unconsciously follow the script of masculinity, pushed along by hormones to realize the masculine ideal \u2014 usually only to find the same hormones putting them in thrall to women and, later, children. Androphiles consciously recognize and affirm masculinity, and because their erotic desires are directed towards other men, they have the potential to achieve far more in the realm of masculine accomplishment than those who, again, have to \"struggle to keep food on the table or get new sneakers for Junior.\" Thus, far from being \"unmasculine,\" androphiles have it within their power to become, well, Overmen. Androphiles have awakened to the god in themselves and other men. There is an old saying on the Left Hand Path: \"There is no god above an awakened man.\" There is also no man above an awakened man. So much for the idea that a man's love for other men is a badge of inferiority.\nImplicit in the above is something I have not remarked on thus far, and that Donovan does not discuss: the duality in the masculine character. It is a rather remarkable thing, as I alluded to earlier, that testosterone both makes a man want to fight, to strive, and to explore \u2014 and also to inseminate a woman and tie himself down to home and family. Of course, without that latter effect the race would die out. But it is nevertheless the case that men are pulled in two directions, just by being men: towards heaven and towards earth. To borrow some terms from Evola again, they have within themselves both uranic and chthonic tendencies. Modern biologists have a way of dealing with this: they insist that all of life is nothing but competition for resources and reproduction. Thus, all of men's uranic striving, all of their quest for the ideal, all of their adventures and accomplishments, are nothing more than ways in which they make themselves more attractive to females. This is sheer nonsense: nothing but the mindset of modern, middle-class, hen-pecked professors projected onto all of nature.\nThe truth is that men strive to realize the ideal of masculinity in ways that not only have nothing to do with the furtherance of the species, but are often positively inimical to it. Perhaps the best and most extreme example of masculine toughness one could give is the willingness of the samurai to disembowel themselves over questions of honor. Men strive for ideals, often at the expense of life. Masculinity has a dimension that can best be described as supernatural \u2014 as above nature. Women are far more tied to nature than men are, and this (and not sexist oppression) is the real reason why it is almost exclusively men who have been philosophers, priests, mystics, scientists, and artists. It is woman's job to pull man back to earth and perpetuate life.\nOne way to look at androphilia is that it is not just the masculine come to consciousness of itself, but the masculine ridding itself of the \"natural.\" This \"natural\" side of the man is not without value (again, without it we would go extinct), but it has almost nothing to do with what makes men great. The androphile is free to cultivate the truly masculine aspects of the male soul, because he is free of the pull of the feminine and of the natural. This has to have something to do with why it is that so many great philosophers, artists, writers, mystics, and others, have tended to be androphiles. In 1913, D. H. Lawrence wrote the following to a correspondent: \"I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality, whether he admits it or not: so that he loves the body of a man better than the body of a woman \u2014 as I believe the Greeks did, sculptors and all, by far. . . . He can always get satisfaction from a man, but it is the hardest thing in life to get one's soul and body satisfied from a woman, so that one is free for oneself. And one is kept by all tradition and instinct from loving a man.\"\nThe androphile, again, is masculinity brought to consciousness of itself \u2014 and in him, it would seem, much else is brought to consciousness as well. For what else are science, philosophy, religion, art, and poetry but the world brought to consciousness of itself? These things \u2014 which are almost exclusively the products of men \u2014 are what set us apart and make us unique as a species. Human beings (again, almost exclusively men), unlike all other species, are capable of reflecting upon and understanding the world. We do this in scientific and philosophical theories, but also in fiction, poetry, and painting. Some of us, of course, are more capable of this than others \u2014 capable of achieving this reflective stance towards existence itself. And it would seem that of those men that are, some carry things even further and become fully aware of the masculine ideal that they themselves represent. And they fall in love with this. Sadly, androphile writers, artists, poets, etc., have often bought into the notion that their desire for other men makes them unmasculine and, like Oscar Wilde, have shoe-horned themselves into the role of the decadent, effeminate aesthete.\nI think that when Donovan describes masculinity as a religion this is not just a desire to be provocative. I think he does experience his admiration for men as sacred. If this is the case, then it is natural for men who feel as he does to insist that such a feeling cannot be indecent or perverse. Further, it is natural for them to wonder why there are men such as themselves. What I have tried to do in the above reflections (which go beyond what Donovan says in his book) is to develop a theory of the \"cosmic role,\" if you will, of the masculine itself, and of the androphile. I believe Donovan is thinking along the same lines I am, though he might not express things the same way. He writes at one point:\nMasculinity is a religion, and I see potential for androphiles to become its priests \u2014 to devote themselves to it and to the gods of men as clergymen devote their lives to the supernatural. What other man can both embody the spirit of manhood and revere it with such perfect devotion? This may sound far-fetched, but is it? If so, then why? Forget about gay culture and everything you associate with male homosexuality. Strip it down to its raw essence \u2014 a man's sexual desire for men \u2014 and reimagine the destiny of that man. Reimagine what this desire focused on masculinity could mean, what it could inspire, and who the men who experience it could become. (p. 116)\nThere is much else in Androphilia that is well-worth discussing, though a review cannot cover everything. Particularly worthy of attention is Donovan's discussion of masculinity in terms of what he calls physical masculinity, essential masculinity, and cultural masculinity. Then there is Donovan's discussion of masculine \"values.\" These really should be called \"virtues\" (especially given the etymology of this word \u2014 mentioned earlier \u2014 Donovan his missed a bit of an opportunity here!). The language of \"values\" is very modern. What he really has in mind is virtues in the Aristotelian sense of excellences of the man. Donovan lists such qualities as self-reliance, independence, personal responsibility, achievement, integrity, etc. He starts to sound a bit like Ayn Rand in this part of the book, but it's hard to quarrel with his message. The book ends with a perceptive discussion of \"gay marriage,\" which Donovan opposes, seeing it as yet another way in which gays are aping straight relationships, yearning narcissistically for society's \"approval.\"\nThis is really a superb book, which all men can profit from, not just androphiles. If one happens to be an androphile, however, one will find this is a liberating and revolutionary work.\n00:15 Publi\u00e9 dans Livre, Psychologie\/psychanalyse | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Tags : etats-unis, livre, masculinit\u00e9, machisme, virilisme, virilit\u00e9, antif\u00e9minisme, psychologie | | del.icio.us | | Digg | Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"White Guilt IV: Auschwitz and Hiroshima\nNo. 316: Saturday, April 23rd, 2005\nThe Second World War was almost certainly the last total war humanity will be able to tolerate. The necessity for restraining maximal violence henceforth links the world in a global community; all wars posterior to WWII are so to speak civil wars. The most urgent problem of the new millennium is how to deal with those who deny their membership in this community to the point of being willing to wreak \"mass destruction\" on it if given the means.\nPrior to 9\/11\/2001, the consequences of WWII were, and residually still are, worked through ethically, politically, and esthetically in what we call postmodernism. The hobbling of the postmodern(ist) subject, which occurs in a number of superficially distinct modes, is the interpersonal equivalent of the hobbling of the national \"subjects\" on the global stage. The deconstruction of central authority, however liberating it may be to those who define themselves as its victims, is an act of ideology, or in other words, of resentment, complicit yet denying its complicity with this authority. The confused nature of this gesture reflects postmodernism's failure to articulate the double lesson of the war epitomized in the title of this Chronicle: Auschwitz, the ultimate act of asymmetric violence, and Hiroshima, the ultimate act of reciprocal violence. In one case, a group of non-combatants was singled out for annihilation; in the other, great violence was inflicted upon the adversary's population in order to force surrender. Although their simultaneity is not altogether coincidental, the two phenomena have very different moral valences. Yet in their mutual implication the role of each has not been easy to sort out. On 9\/11, history performed the task for us.\nFor a number of years I considered \"Auschwitz\" to be the sole point of origin of postmodern ethics, esthetics, and politics. This is not unreasonable as a first approximation, but the characteristic postmodern attitude of white guilt can be understood only by introducing\"Hiroshima\" as a second independent variable.\nI therefore propose the following model:\nAuschwitz makes illegitimate all de jure forms of asymmetry: colonialism, segregation, apartheid; we may call this political egalitarianism.\nHiroshima has two consequences. First, since it makes total war henceforth impossible, it gives rise to strategies of proxy wars, containment, MAD, and the removal of the chief focus of competition from the military to the commercial sphere; we may call this political realism. This strategic phase comes to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989-91. Second, it provokes a sense of guilt toward its victims, despite the fact that Japan was the original aggressor in the war. This is the beginning of the characteristically postmodern phenomenon of white guilt, which becomes the basis of a political movement only when the opposition to the war in Vietnam conflates Auschwitz with Hiroshima, \"excess\" power with asymmetry.\nThat Hiroshima rather than Auschwitz is white guilt's point of departure may not be obvious. Until the end of the Cold War, the \"realist\" heritage of Hiroshima remained dominant; only after Vietnam did its \"guilty\" legacy began the inexorable conquest of its present strongholds: academia, the \"helping organizations,\" the entertainment world, the media. By the time white guilt truly came into its own in the post-USSR world, its link to the end of WWII had been obscured by time.\nThis model makes clearer the split between the two modes of political atonement that emerged from the war. Both egalitarianism and white guilt challenge the legitimacy of asymmetrical relations: the former, the de jure relations encountered in colonialism and racial segregation, the latter, the de facto differences that inspired the more recent trends of affirmative action and political correctness. The differences between the finite, objectivist attitude of political egalitarianism and the open-ended subjectivism of white guilt are traceable to their different historical sources.\nThat the Holocaust would inspire a postwar sense of guilt in Germans and their willing and unwilling WWII allies is understandable enough; the connection of white guilt to Hiroshima requires further explanation. The most prescient and insightful demonstration of this connection is no doubt the 1959 Duras-Resnais film Hiroshima mon amour, one of the indubitable masterpieces of the New Wave. Conceived a little over a decade after the end of WWII, this film poses the esthetic and ethical necessity of transforming the war's aggressors into victims.\nThe film depicts a French actress' brief affair with a Japanese businessman in Hiroshima, where she is making a pacifist film. It begins (after its famous opening of the lovers' bodies in the shower) with a lengthy documentary sequence in both Hiroshima's hospital and its museum, where we witness, presumably through the actress' eyes, both surviving victims and evidence of the bombing, including a filmed Japanese reenactment. As she recounts her visit in voice over, she insists that she has \"seen everything\" in Hiroshima; her lover repeats that she has \"seen nothing,\" implying that only the victims themselves could \"see\" the bombing and its effects. Neither in this sequence nor elsewhere in the film is there any indication that the bombing ended a war between the US and Japan, let alone that this war began with a sneak attack by the Japanese.\nWe also learn in the course of the day that during the war as an adolescent living with her family in the central French city of Nevers (the resemblance to \"never\" is surely not coincidental), the actress had had a love affair with a German soldier, with whom she hoped to return to Germany after the war. But the soldier is killed by French partisans, and the girl finds him dying on arriving at a rendezvous; after the Liberation, her hair is shorn and she is confined in a cellar for several months by her parents as punishment for consorting with the enemy. On her release from the cellar, she leaves Nevers for Paris; since then, she has never returned to Nevers nor told her love story to anyone but the Japanese man, who expresses pride in being the only person to have heard it.\nThe film not only portrays the Japanese as victims of the bomb; the sole representative of Germany too is a victim. Early in the film we are given, in a quick flashback, a glimpse of the soldier's hand lying on the earth, a memory inspired by (and matched to) her Japanese lover's hand in the same position on the bed as he sleeps. Although the actress is now married, we hear nothing of her husband. The German is the one man she has truly loved; the Japanese is so to speak his reincarnation.\nHiroshima mon amour portrays the conversion of the losers of the war into its victims through the eyes of a citizen of a defeated nation that ended up on the winning side. On a number of occasions, lifeless Nevers is contrasted with lively postwar Hiroshima. In the couple's long nocturnal walk that is the climactic sequence of the film, shots of the actress walking through Hiroshima's streets are intercut with shots of Nevers that display the city as a ghost town populated only by dark, empty, sinister buildings. If victorious France has lost its soul, through the sacrifice of Hiroshima, defeated Japan has been reborn. In the film's final sequence, the two lovers meet for the last time in the actress' hotel room the night before her departure from Japan. In the exchange that concludes the film, she tells him \"You are Hiroshima\" and he answers, \"And you are Nevers, in France.\" The characters have no other names in the film. But whereas he takes the name of an injured but reborn city, she continues to bear the name of her native town abandoned long ago, a name chosen for its temporal emptiness.\nAfter making his reputation in 1955 with Nuit et brouillard, the first commercial documentary of the concentration camps\u2013in which the word \"Jew\" is never mentioned, although yellow stars are visible in one or two shots\u2013Alain Resnais became a consecrated artist with a film in which the only representatives of the Axis powers are powerless, innocent victims. Yet Hiroshima mon amour's esthetic power attests to its ethical power as well; this is the beginning of a postwar sense of guilt whose object is not any specific national violence, German or Japanese, but that of the human species\u2013our own. The implicit moral message of Hiroshima is that identification with the defeated adversary-as-victim is the only true road to peace; now that humanity has demonstrated its potential for self-destruction, the self's own violence is the chief danger that must be controlled.\nOmitting the enemy's violence from Hiroshima mon amour is not tantamount to claiming that it did not exist, but simply that it is absent from the life of the (victorious) subject. If we permit ourselves to think beyond the film's historical amnesia to the war itself, the impression we are left with is that, regardless of who began the fighting or of what would have happened had the starters been the winners, the final, victorious act of violence was the only one that has not been part of a reciprocal exchange and must consequently be the unique focus for our guilt. The violence we must avoid above all is the unanswered \"excess\" that defines (real or symbolic) victory, whether in the A-bombed Japanese cities or in firebombed Dresden, scene of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (1969). The bearer of white guilt must even identify with the adversary\u2013a phenomenon clearly in evidence in Hiroshima\u2013as a means of denying complicity with the violence exercised by his own society on his behalf.\nWhite guilt in Hiroshima mon amour is still in its lyric phase, more focused on pitying the adversary-victim than on condemning one's own side\u2013such condemnation is not, however, altogether lacking, notably in the sequence devoted to the heroine's confinement. This guilt remains confined to a personal ethic and cannot inspire a political program other than a generalized pacifism. The first genuine political movement of white guilt was occasioned by the Vietnam war. The educated class, spurred by the military draft, which threatened it with active participation and possible death, condemned the American war effort not merely because we were employing \"excessive\" means of violence as at Hiroshima, but above all because we were now playing the role of the Nazis at Auschwitz. (Remember \"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many children did you kill today?\") The free-floating humanitarian sentiment of Hiroshima mon amour, where the violence of the bomb could be denounced only by forgetting recent history, had mutated into a circumstantial denunciation of our role in this new, \"asymmetric\" war.\nAlthough white guilt as a motivation to political action derives from both Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Hiroshima mon amour suggests the primacy of the latter over the former. No word of allusion to the fate of the Jews could be permitted, lest the German soldier-lover and by extension his Japanese counterpart be implicated in it. Hiroshima mon amour gave narrative form to the legacy of Hiroshima: the divorce of the condemnation of violence from the question of ends, and consequently from history. Once this step had been taken, it was only a matter of time until, in a war less clearly justified than WWII, the opprobrium of Hiroshima would make common cause with that of Auschwitz.\n(To be continued.)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posts published by \"Nicolas Michelon\"\nNicolas is the Founder & Chief Editor of Asia Power Watch. A 20-year veteran of Asia-Pacific business, finance & economics research, he is the Founder & CEO of Asia Intelligence Advisory, an economic & strategic intelligence consulting firm. He is also an Adjunct Professor of strategic & business intelligence and geoeconomics of the Indo-Pacific, and a speaker in various conferences, workshops and seminars.\nPlurilateralism as a weapon of economic hegemony in the Asia-Pacific. The case of RCEP\nBy Nicolas Michelon on 17 March 2021\nOn March 17, 2021, Asia Power Watch founder & editor Nicolas Michelon was invited by Brazil's Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) to give\u2026\nHegemonic transition. A secured world amid the vaccine revolution, digital transformation and economic competition.\nBy Nicolas Michelon on 5 March 2021\nOn March 5, 2021, Asia Power Watch Founder & Editor Nicolas Michelon and Contributor Miljan Radunovic were invited by Dr Chester Cabalza of Philippines' International\u2026\nHong Kong, a city of sorrow\u2026\nOn March 4, 2021, Asia Power Watch founder & editor Nicolas Michelon gave a lecture at the University of Central Lancashire on the economic rationale\u2026\nThe US-Ecuador ODA agreement: a model in economic influence strategy?\nBy Nicolas Michelon on 22 January 2021\nThe final days of the Trump administration were marked by a largely unnoticed announcement which could turn out to be a milestone in the US-China\u2026\nEconomic warfare in 2021: business and economic climate among Asia-Pacific nations\nBy Nicolas Michelon on 11 December 2020\nOn December 11, 2020, Asia Power Watch editor Nicolas Michelon was invited by Dr Chester Cabalza of Philippines' International Development and Security Cooperation (IDSC) to\u2026\nEuropean Union strategy towards China. End of year update\u2026\nBy Nicolas Michelon on 12 November 2020\nOn November 10, 2020, at the invitation of Prof. Sarwar Kashmeri of Norwich University and Foreign Policy Association, Asia Power Watch editor Nicolas Michelon gave\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review: Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews\nPosted October 15, 2015 by Lucy D in Book Reviews, Urban Fantasy \/ 0 Comments\nMagic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, #4) by Ilona Andrews\nSeries: Kate Daniels #4\nPublished by Ace on May 25th 2010\n[box style=\"rounded\" border=\"full\"]A very exciting story. Very powerful forces are finding their way to Atlanta which have the power to bring plagues and make shifters crazy, especially male shifters. Kate will need to fight this danger alone if she wants to protect all her shifter friends. Meanwhile, sexual tensions and hurt feelings between Curran will peak when misunderstandings lead to make up sex. [\/box]\nYou have to admire and fear a writer that will go to darker places with an Urban Fantasy. There will be happenings that will start bringing Kate to the attention of more people who will connect the dots to figure out her lineage. Will friends be willing to turn against Kate for to turn her over to Roland?\nIn Magic Bleeds, we have two pressing storylines. The first being something is bringing plagues to Atlanta and using shifters to get things started. And all the witness give a different description of the person involved. Kate is called out to investigate a bar on the outskirts of town, where a fight has ended in death. When Kate gets there, she realizes the body is quickly breaking down into a plague which is almost sentient in nature. It's trying to spread. She exhausts herself trying to draw magical symbols to keep the plague contained until the Order's technical people can arrive for clean up. No matter how fast she writes the symbols, the plague keeps trying to find a way out of the protection spell.\nAn ancient presence has decided to destroy Atlanta for fun\u2026and for Kate. They are using shifters as both puppets and as plague bringers, and they can control any males. Kate realizes that she needs to keep Curran, Jim and the others away, which doesn't go well with the overprotective, macho shifters.\nThe ancient presence also has focused on Kate and her connection to Roland. Like the People, they can control the undead, but unlike the people, the are controlling undead mages and still using their magical abilities. With centuries of experience over Kate, Kate might just be in over her head against someone she should call \u2014 family.\nMore importantly, in this story the sexual tensions between Kate and Curran will come to a head. Kate lost the bet in the last book when Curran found where she, Jim and his people were hiding out. Kate was supposed to make Curran dinner \u2014 and serve it naked. Kate makes dinner, but Curran never shows. When she call the keep to find out if he is alright, she is told that Curran doesn't wish to speak to her. While her first inclination is to storm the keep and kick some lion butt, she fears she is just setting herself up for further humiliation if she gets tossed out or worse, finds Curran there with another woman. So Kate crushes the fragile dreams she has been weaving about a future with Curran and ignores him for as long as possible. But it is hard to ignore a pissed off Beast Lord, especially when he finds you out with another man. Was the whole thing a misunderstanding or was Curran truly setting Kate up for a long, hard fall?\nI definitely have been enjoying this series more reading it rather than listening to it, but oddly enough, I still hear the narrator in my head as far as Kate's voice. Strange how that works. Kate always gets into a fix during these stories, but in this one there was a lot of nail biting over the plague-bringer and I don't want to give away too much on that for anyone just starting the series.\nKate is also in over her head with this nemesis. They are much more powerful and Kate has to keep most of her friends out of the line of fire or they will be used against her. I really couldn't figure out how she would survive this one.\nThere is a huge connection between them and Kate and Roland. Those around Kate are starting to pick up on Kate's magic and connecting some dots to Roland. She knows her father would be pissed after raising her to keep her head down and don't get close to anyone that she now allows people close and has put herself out there enough to save her friends so they are guessing her connection to Roland. The big question is whether any of those who know will betray Kate or will they stand beside her? I can't wait to read more.\nThe tension here between Kate and Curran is as nail biting as the rest of the story. There was a lot of he said\/she said screaming about whose fault their non-dinner was and finally Kate breaks down and confesses that his attentions made her think she might someday have all those things she never let herself believe in \u2014 home, husband, family, love, and Curran not showing for their date broke her heart. And she wanted nothing more to do with him. They both smart people and eventually started questioning why the other was so vehement that they were there and the other didn't show. But still I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting for somebody to make a move. Come on! These two really made you wait for it.\nI can't wait to get to the next book, but I will have to since I have a huge list of books to review and try as I might to keep the list light for the upcoming holidays, another and another keep getting snuck in. I do want to get back to this at the first opportunity since I am becoming addicted.\n\"So now you dislike me? Ironic, considering you pulled the plug on us.\"\n\"I pulled the plug? You stood me up, you arrogant asshole!\"\n\"You ran away!\" He moved toward me. \"I deserve an explanation.\"\nSlayer left its sheath almost on its own. It was the fastest draw of my life. One moment empty space lay between us and the next my saber jumped into my hand. \"You deserve nothing.\"\nGold rolled over currant's eyes, so briefly that had I blinked, I would've missed it. His face gained a slightly bored expression. \"Do you honestly think your toothpick can hurt me?\"\n\"Let's find out.\"\n\"Let's not.\" Jim stepped between us.\nCurran looked at him. His voice rasped with the beginning of a snarl. \"What are you doing?\"\n\"My job.\"\nHe had lost his mind. Curran was hovering on the verge of violence and Jim had just made himself into a target.\n\"Jim, you want to step back.\"\nJim remained rooted to the floor.\nCurran's gaze fastened on me, the gold burning scaling hot. Like looking into the eyes of a hungry lion and realizing I was food. My body locked, tiny hairs on the back of my neck rose on their ends, and inside me a tiny voice whispered in desperation, \"Don't breathe and he might forget you're there.\"\nI flicked my saber, warming my wrist. \"Your headlights don't scare me.\"\nJim squared his shoulders. \"You can't do this. Not here and not now.\"\nCurran's voice slid into icy calm. \"Be very careful, or I might start thinking you're telling me what to do.\"\nIf Curran ordered him to move, and Jim refused, it would be a challenge. Curran would have to fight his own chief of security and his best friend. They both knew it. That was why I was on the receiving end of Curran's alpha stare. If he leveled it at Jim, there would be a fight.\nI sidestepped. Jim moved with me. I stared at the ceiling and growled.\n\"Cute.\" Curran said.\nDie. \"Why don't you come over here and I'll show you cute.\"\n\"I'd love to, but he's in the way. Besides, you had your chance to show me anything you wanted to. You'd just run away again.\"\nFor the love of God. \"I didn't run away. I made you your damn dinner, but you didn't have the decency to show.\"\nJim's eyebrows crept up. \"Dinner?\"\nCurran's eyes blazed. \"You took off. I smelled you. You were there and then you got cold feet and ran. If you didn't want to do this, all you had to do was pick up the phone and tell me not to show up. Did you actually think I'd make you serve me dinner naked? But you didn't even bother.\"\n\"Hey!\" Jim barked.\n\"What?\" Curran and I said at almost the same time.\nJim looked at me. \"Did you make him dinner?\"\nHe'd find out sooner or later. \"Yes.\"\nJim turned on his foot, went out of the room, and shut the door behind him.\nAlright, then.\n\"He thinks we're mated.\" Curran moved forward, too light on his feet for a man of his size, his gaze locked on me\u2013a predator stalking its prey. \"In the Pack, one doesn't stand between mates. He's being polite. He doesn't realize you broke it off.\"\n\"Oh no. No, I didn't break it off. You had your chance and you blew it.\"\nCurran's mask cracked. \"The hell I did.\"\nAll of the pain and anger of the past month smashed into me. Having him near was like ripping the dressing off a raw wound. Words just came tumbling out and I couldn't stop them.\n\"So it's my fault? I made you your bloody dinner. You didn't show up. Just couldn't pass up a chance to humiliate me, could you?\"\nCurran bit the air as if he had fang. \"I was challenged by two bears. They broke two of my ribs and dislocated my hip. When Doolittle finally finished setting my bones, I was four hours late. I asked if you called and they said no.\"\nHe'd sunk enough gravity into that \"no\" to bring down a building.\n\"If you were late, I would've turned the town inside out looking for you. I called you. You didn't answer. I was so sure something happened to you I dropped everything and dragged myself to your house. I came to check on you with broken bones and you weren't there.\"\n\"You're lying.\"\nCurran snarled. \"I left a note on your door.\"\n\"More lies. I waited for you for three hours. I called the Keep, thinking that something happened to you, and your flunkies told me that the Beast Lord said he was too busy to speak to me.\" I was shaking with rage. \"That in the future I should address all of my concerns to Jim, because His Majesty declared that he didn't want to be bothered with talking to the likes of me anymore.\"\n\"That phone call happened in your head. You're delusional.\"\n\"You stood me up and then rubbed my nose in it.\"\nSomething hissed behind the frosted glass in the main hall.\nCurran lunged toward me. I should've thrust straight through him. Instead I just stood there, like an idiot.\nHe clamped me to him, spinning us so his back faced the glass.\nThe glass wall exploded.\nKate Daniels Series\nReview: Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews\nAudiobook Review: Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews\nAudiobook Review: Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews\nReview: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews\nAudiobook Review: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews\nAudiobook Review: Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews\nReview: Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews\nReview: Deja Who by MaryJanice Davidson\nAudiobook Review: Undead Sublet (Half Moon Hollow 2.5) by Molly Harper\nReview: Vampires Never Cry Wolf by Sara Humphreys\nReview: Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh\nReview: Bound by Blood by Cynthia Eden\n\u00ab Review: Dragos Goes to Washington by Thea Harrison\nAudiobook Review: Undeath and Taxes by Drew Hayes \u00bb\nCurrently Listening\nShow us a little love\u2026\nFollow EBookObsessed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MKKGY\nMerck KGaA (PK) News\nFollow MKKGY\nMerck KGaA to Invest EUR18 Million in Swiss Laboratory\nBy Cecilia Butini\nMerck KGaA said Wednesday that it plans to spend 18 million euros ($20.5 million) to build a new laboratory in Buchs, Switzerland, to expand its reference-materials business and its research-and-development sector.\nThe German pharmaceutical, chemical and life-sciences company said the expansion will create about two dozen new jobs. The laboratory will be finished by the end of 2021 and 40 employees will move into the building at the beginning of 2022, the company said.\nAccording to Merck, the facility will add to an existing production hub in Buchs, where the company already produces reference materials and bioanalytical reagents, among other products, employing 450 people.\nWrite to Cecilia Butini at cecilia.butini@wsj.com\nJuly 15, 2020 09:59 ET (13:59 GMT)\nMerck KGaA (PK) (USOTC:MKKGY)\nLatest MKKGY Messages","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Danny McBride asks $1.85 million for Hollywood penthouse\nThe one-bedroom unit overlooks the Hollywood Sign and Hollywood Hills through a two-story wall of glass.\n(Fred Norris \/ HBO)\nBy Jack FlemmingStaff Writer\nDanny McBride is looking to hightail it out of Hollywood, putting his penthouse loft on the market for $1.85 million.\nThe comedy actor and creator of \"Eastbound & Down\" and \"The Righteous Gemstones\" paid $1.435 million for the place back in 2008. It's not his first time offering the property; five years ago, he put it up for rent at $7,999 a month.\nThe one-bedroom unit sits atop the Broadway Hollywood, a 96-unit building built in 1928. In the bright open floor plan, a two-story wall of glass takes in views of the Hollywood Sign and Capitol Records building.\nDesigned as a live-work space, the 2,149-square-foot condo holds a media room, dining area, stainless steel kitchen and a pair of marble bathrooms. A staircase ascends to a lofted bedroom that expands to an outdoor terrace with a fireplace.\nAtop the building, there's a gym and rooftop pool lined with cabanas. Other amenities include two parking spaces and 24-hour valet service.\nDeedee Howard of the Agency holds the listing.\nMcBride, 43, starred in the comedies \"Hot Rod,\" \"Pineapple Express\" and \"Tropic Thunder\" before creating, producing and starring in three shows for HBO over the last decade: \"Eastbound & Down,\" \"Vice Principals\" and \"The Righteous Gemstones,\" which is currently renewed for a second season.\nThree years ago, he sold a gated compound in Hollywood Hills West for $3.5 million, The Times previously reported.\nJack Flemming\nJack Flemming covers luxury real estate for the Los Angeles Times. A Midwestern boy at heart, he was raised in St. Louis and studied journalism at the University of Missouri. Before joining The Times as an intern in 2017, he wrote for the Columbia Missourian and Politico Europe.\nWhy companies can't quit Jack Welch's much-hated employee-ranking system","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Get SNASM2 on your Saturn too!\nWhy, it's even taller than a Mega Drive\/Mega CD\/32X tower!\nYesterday I mentioned the SNASM2 development kit for the 32X, which I read about on ASSEMbler Games. After further research I found there was a whole range of SNASM kits for many different consoles!\nYou can get the original SNASM kit for the SNES and Mega Drive, and the SNASM2 for the Jaguar, 32X and Saturn. The Saturn version was advertised for $3,000 (\u00a31,885), but you can pick one up here for just $399 (\u00a3250)!\nHere is a news report about the SNASM2 from September 1995, with lots of words I don't understand:\n\"Integrated with Mirage is a new version of the Sega Saturn debugger software called SNASM2.1 - also supplied by Cross Products. SNASM2.1 is the latest version of Cross Products' real-time PC-based debugger.\nNew features include comprehensive search facilities in source, memory, and disassembly windows; symbol completion; support for GNU C++ qualified function names; a SNASM2-to-GNU COFF converter; and a standalone COFF loader utility. Working with Mirage, SNASM2.1 lets programmers debug code on the PC while code is being tested on a production Sega Saturn with real-time CD emulation. The full development environment, including the Mirage CD-ROM Emulator, the CartDev interface, SNASM2.1 software, a PC SCSI card and modified production Sega Saturn, is available now for under $8,000.\"\nThe producer of the SNASM2, Cross Products, was based in Leeds. It was then bought out by Sega in August 1994, and then sold to Imagination Technologies in September 2001.\nUnfortunately I've never had any success programming on old systems. I did manage to program a Matrix computer simulator for the ZX Spectrum in BASIC, however. It had random letters and everything!\nTags: random, retro, saturn","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Art & Artisan\nMore Blog Menu\nHidden Gem: The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College\nBy Kristen\nThe Trout Gallery is a hidden gem located in the Weiss Center for the Arts on the campus of Dickinson College. This fine arts museum houses the college's impressive collection of art, from ancient through contemporary, and features rotating exhibits. It is an excellent resource for the local Carlisle community as well as a great spot for visitors to view art that can't be seen anywhere else.\nSince opening in 1983, Dickinson's collection has grown to over 6,000 works with considerable holdings in works-on-paper. Highlights of its ever-growing collection include prints by a number of major Modernist artists, 19th century American and European prints, European and Asian decorative arts, African ethnographic material, bronze statues, and antique coins and artifacts. The gallery's two exhibition spaces feature changing exhibits throughout the year that range from across the globe in almost every medium imaginable. The entrance level gallery houses selections from the museum's permanent collection while the lower-level gallery features temporary exhibits often on loan from other museums.\nThe Trout Gallery hosts Twilight at the Trout on select Thursday evenings. Guests are invited to stop by for an evening visit where they can enjoy an informal art chat with student educators and experience a highlights tour of the current exhibition.\nThe Trout Gallery actively participates in numerous local community events and also hosts special events throughout the year for students and the public, including opening receptions, tours, and a variety of children's programming in the Mumper-Stuart Education Center located in the lower level. Admission to the Trout Gallery is free and all events are free unless otherwise noted. View upcoming exhibits and programming at www.troutgallery.org.\nCategories: Free Activities, #FoundItInCV, See and Do, Carlisle\nStay in the know about Cumberland Valley PA happenings, including upcoming events, special promotions and insider travel tips by signing up for the monthly newsletter.\nrequest a free\nGet an overview of everything Cumberland Valley has to offer\nVacation ideas, events, and deals - all in your inbox\ntoll free phone (888) 513-5130\naddress 53 W. South Street, Suite #1 , Carlisle, PA 17013\n\u00a9 2023 Cumberland Valley Visitors Bureau. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Bradford Sprint Regatta\nBradford Autumn Regatta\nFixtures Calendar\nLearn to Row\nRiver Safety\nBradford ARC has never been a Club to stand still. The Club operates a 5-year rolling Forward Plan which helps identify, budget and plan for future improvements. This page details some of our recent developments.\nLatest News\u2026..\nThe first phase of work on the weir has now been completed and the Club is now able to use the water. Bradford ARC would like to thank everyone for their supportive messages and the amazing financial assistance to keep rowing in Bradford on the River Aire. The Club was pleased to host its first event of the season \u2013 the War of the Roses \u2013 Veteran scratch event on the 23rd April followed by Bradford Sprint Regatta on the 25th June and Bradford Autumn Regatta on the 10th September.\nAugust 2016 \"I am Team GB\"\nThe Club hosted an open day on Saturday 27th August as part of \"I am Team GB\", our nation's biggest ever sports day. Lots of interested people came and joined our barbeque, and talked to rowers of all ages, and looked round our Club. If you then think that rowing is for you we will give you all the details of our next Learn to Row course. The fun starts at midday. For directions to the Club click on \"Where to Find Us\" on the \"Contact Us\" tab.\n2016 \u2013 Weir Damage\nWeir Collapse Jan 2016\nWhen the water started to recede after the Boxing Day flood it became apparent that the weir had suffered extensive damage and on 15th Jan part of the weir crest collapsed. The Club set in motion the emergency repair process and were very appreciative of the support \u2013 both moral and financial \u2013 received from so many sources.\n2015 \u2013 Boxing Day Floods\nOn Boxing Day the Clubhouse \u2013 for the first time ever \u2013 was flooded with approx 50cms of water inside damaging gym equipment etc and over a metre in the boatsheds causing damage to boats. The Club rallied round and turned out in force so that the gym was back in operation within 3 days.\nInside Barry Wood boatshed 26 Dec 2015\nClubhouse 26 Dec 2015\n2015 \u2013 Club Status\nIn December 2015 the Club received confirmation from the Charities Commission that it had been awarded Charity status.\nDuring the year the Club has undertaken a major reconstruction of itself and its constitution so that it is now owned and run by a company limited by guarantee which is described as a \"parent company\" or simply \"BARC\". This was to enable it to seek charitable status and make it possible for the Club to be run in a more modern way. The parent company now owns and runs a trading subsidiary (Bradford Amateur Rowing Club (Trading) Ltd) (\"BARC Trading\") and also a separate company Hirst Weir Ltd (\"HWL\") which currently owns the weir.\n2014 \u2013 Improving Hirst Weir\nThere has been a weir at Hirst Mill on the River Aire for more than 750 years. Whilst it no longer provides power for a mill it now provides a particularly picturesque length of slack water suitable for the sports of rowing, canoeing, fishing and recreational walking and cycling.\nThe weir is owned by Hirst Weir Limited (HWL) \u2013 a company limited by guarantee with charitable aims of maintaining the weir to support the sport of rowing and other recreational uses.\nIn the July 2012 floods the weir suffered significant damage and emergency repairs carried out.\nHirst Weir now requires improvement works to ensure its continuity.\n2011 \u2013 The Barry Wood Boathouse\nSunday July 30th 2011 saw the official opening of The Barry Wood Boathouse and the naming of all the new boats.\nThe Barry Wood Boathouse honours a man who has dedicated much of his life to Bradford Amateur Rowing Club, both on and off the water, including being Club Secretary and President. He now takes care of all the day to day behind the scenes work as Facilities Manager. Club Captain, Celia Hickson, and Rowing Development Manager, Julia Markham, then proudly named and christened the new boats. As we know, the Sport England grant was offered specifically to fund boats for Women and Juniors. In honour of all the hard work and effort Julia has put in over the last few years, both as RDM and for the countless hours spent working on the grant application, the new Women's Eight now deservingly bears her name. As the man who dedicates so much of his time, enthusiasm and experience to the Club's fast growing Junior Section, Hugh Scott now has a new quad proudly named after him.\nMany other boats were named following suggestions from Club members and it's been an altogether great achievement and occasion in the history of Bradford Amateur Rowing Club!\n2011 \u2013 New Boatshed!\nThe Club is currently working on a project to further increase participation amongst women and girls, and has been awarded grants in excess of \u00a3127,000 towards this. This project will see the building of an additional boatshed and the purchase of boats and oars specifically designed for use by women and juniors. It will also increase the quality and quantity of coaching at the Club by funding members to attend courses to gain coaching qualifications.\n2009 \u2013 New Coxless Quad!\nIn October 2009 Bradford ARC became the first rowing club to benefit from Sport England's new Small Grants funding programme launched in April 2009. The Club received a grant of \u00a38634 to purchase its first coxless quad sculling boat complete with 4 pairs of oars.\nThe Club has a thriving junior membership, which continues to grow year on year thanks to a dedicated coaching team who put in hours each week coaching, planning and attending competitions. The Club takes juniors from age 11 through its links with local schools and taster days.\nThe boat and oars provided by the grant will be used to sustain participation amongst Junior-16's and older in training and competition, and promote excellence at regional level rowing competition.\n2002 \u2013 Essentially New!\nIn 2002 the Club and other river users benefitted from a Community Club Development Programme (CCDP) grant, a government initiative to support community based clubs. The funding provided essential restoration work to Hirst Weir, without which rowing on this stretch of water would no longer have been possible, and refurbishment and enlargement of the Ladies changing rooms which were not compliant with Sport England guidelines.\nYear 2000 \u2013 Project Oarsome!\n2000 saw the Amateur Rowing Association (now British Rowing) launch Project Oarsome, a scheme designed to increase junior participation by linking clubs with local schools. Bradford ARC joined the scheme in 2001 linking with Titus Salt School and bringing in a fleet of boats for junior beginners. The project has been very successful at bringing junior members into the Club, and has developed links with Beckfoot School, Bingley Grammar School and St Joseph's College. As the junior squad has grown both the Club and external funders have contributed to the purchase of additional boats and oars.\n1999 \u2013 Extended Facilities!\nClub members (with some professional help) built an extension to the Clubhouse in order to relocate the men's changing rooms, which also meant that the gym facilities could be extended and improved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GSG Capital Advisors\nVault Login\nWorking With GSG\nFinancial Analysis & Planning\nTerms \/ Disclaimer\nThe GSG Team\nGlenn Goodstein\nAlexandra Gifford\nAnna Cortez\nFounder, President and Portfolio Manager\nEmail Glenn\nGlenn founded GSG Capital Advisors in 1999, and has been a money manager since 1992. He also founded GSG Capital Advisors LLC, the general partner of Mercury Partners LP, in 1997.\nPrior to entering the investment management business, Glenn spent 10 years in various management and executive positions with Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP), a global information services outsourcing provider.\nSince 2003, Glenn has been a Director of the Mexico Equity and Income Fund (NYSE: MXE). He previously served on the board of two other NYSE-traded companies.\nGlenn has a strong commitment to community service. Starting as a \"client\" (Little Brother) of Jewish Big Brothers in 1973, he became a Big Brother himself in the 1980's. In 1990 Glenn joined the Board of Trustees for Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles\/Camp Max Straus, and has held that position continually ever since. Additionally, beginning in 2003, Glenn has served on the Board of Directors of Horses in the Hood, which provides an outdoor week-long horse camp experience (riding & horsemanship) to at-risk youngsters from Watts, and other Los Angeles inner-city areas.\nGlenn earned a B.A. in Economics from UCLA, and also served on the Finance Review committee of the UCLA Alumni Association Board from 2000 through 2002.\nWe are a Registered Investment Advisory Firm, founded in 1999, and based in Southern California. Our approach is to work closely with clients to understand their current financial needs while securing their future financial well-being. Our clients include high net worth families and individuals, as well as trusts, foundations, and closely held businesses. We manage both taxable portfolios and all types of retirement plans and other tax-exempt entities.\nSan Diego(HQ)\n11100 Santa Monica Blvd.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WDM Group\nReceive press releases from WDM Group: By Email PDF Version RSS Feeds:\nThe Best and Worst of Viral Marketing Campaigns Are Named by Tomer Garzberg in Business Review Australia\nSan Diego, CA, May 11, 2011 --(PR.com)-- In the May issue of Business Review Australia, Strongman Digital Marketing Director Tomer Garzberg names the best, the worst and the downright ugly in viral marketing campaigns.\nCompanies like Burger King and Blendtec have struck Viral Marketing gold, while others such as Sony and GM haven't fared as well, Garzberg finds. He also finds that the \"Queensland Tourism: Best Job in the World\" was one of the best. \"An incredible campaign that included the posting of job ads all over the world, for someone to win a role at a job on the Great Barrier Reef. Over $70 million in publicity was generated,\" Garzberg says in the article.\nMeanwhile, GM was an epic fail. Garzberg says, \"Although most of the shreds of evidence are long gone, some websites have preserved the best of GM's campaign backfire. GM wanted people to create their own ads of the company's (then) new car, the Chevy Tahoe. What resulted is a collection of pro-environmental ads, which were naturally anti-SUV.\"\nRead the full article, here.\nAbout Business Review Australia\nBusiness Review Australia is a leading digital media source of news and content for C-level executives focused on business and industry-specific news throughout Australia. Business Review Australia is the territory-dedicated arm of the White Digital Media Group. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur Glen White, White Digital Media retains a diversified portfolio of websites, magazines, daily news feeds and weekly e-newsletters that leverage technology to innovatively deliver high-quality content, analytical data, and industry news. For more information, contact 1-760-827-7800 or visit http:\/\/www.businessreviewaustralia.com\/.\nWhite Digital Media Group\nJen Hoskote\nwww.whitedm.com\nClick here to view the list of recent Press Releases from WDM Group","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"To National ASMP Site\nASMP Atlanta Southeast\nAn Evening with Life Magazine Photographer Bob Gomel, hosted by Filmmaker David Scarborough\nDecember 3, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST Free\nDec. 3, 2020. 7PM EST\nAtlanta ASMP member and former national board member Mark Green will moderate: An evening with Bob Gomel and David Scarborough\nBob Gomel is an icon in our industry, and an ASMP legend. ASMP Life Member Michael Hart says:\n\"Bob was a LIFE Magazine photographer in the '60s, and had numerous covers. His LIFE cover of Eisenhower's casket lying in state, shot remotely from the Capitol dome, is a classic, and was the first time a camera had been mounted in the Capitol Rotunda. He has a photo of Malcolm X taking a photo of Cassius Clay at a lunch counter that is in The Library of Congress. He played football with JFK at Hyannis Port while covering him for goodness sakes! My wife Sharon always refers to him as 'The most interesting man in the world.\"\nHe has been an ASMP member for 57 years, which is likely the longest membership ongoing. He founded the Houston Chapter, and, was active in the early days of the New York chapter.\nThe headline in a recent Albuquerque Journal article read: \"Bob Gomel's Photographs Compel Even after 40 Years.\" The renowned LIFE photographer has documented many of the great moments and personalities of contemporary history. Articles and books have chronicled Bob's adventures, including Art Buckwald's \"Leaving Home\", Yoko Ono's \"Memories of John Lennon\", \"Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey,\" \"Malcolm X\", by Thulani Davis, Dick Stolley's \"Our Century in Pictures\". His work is exhibited at The Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe and the Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta.\nBob will share some of his iconic images and the stories behind them in this meeting done via Zoom.\nDavid Scarborough is a Houston based photographer and entrepreneur. Over dinner one evening he proposed an idea to Bob, to produce a documentary film about some of his iconic images and the stories behind them.\nSays David \"The history Bob witnessed is important. So are the effort and creativity necessary to make extraordinary images of these historic moments. Many of the images are made even more powerful by Bob's perspective on how they were created. I convinced Bob to reflect on his work for LIFE magazine in the 1960s and his subsequent career in a documentary film\".\nThe documentary project came together quickly. David chose to record the videos in 4K on two iPhones in a two-shot setup. The recordings began with a discussion of the Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston fights. The project quickly gained momentum, as David executed his vision for the project, and the stories of more of the epic photos came to life.\nBob says, \"The decade of the 1960s was historically powerful. We witnessed so much \u2014 from the terrific to the terrible. I'm grateful that David remains interested in the history of the 1960s and that his documentary helped share my perspective on the extraordinary events of the decade and on my life as a photographer.\"\nDavid will talk about the technical aspects of the shoot and his vision, and both will take questions.\nhttps:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/83393660780?pwd=QWVnZ2dEbm13ZUROZ0o3a0QyNjlCQT09\nGuest Speaker - Bob Gomel...Life Magazine Photographer\nJohn Slemp\njohn@aerographs.com\nwww.aerographs.com\nAtlanta, GA 30324 United States + Google Map\nTime Until Our Next Event!\nFrom time to time, we wish to showcase member work. Look for this content to be replaced on a recurring basis. This time, we feature Michael Schwarz\u2026\nDick Bailey: WWII Pilot\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/OoiSoYJ8_sg\nHoward Burkholz \u2013 Allstate Insurance Agent\nAperturent\nSearch the Chapter Archives\u2026\nSearch the Chapter Archives\u2026 Select Month April 2019 (1) March 2019 (1) January 2019 (8) May 2018 (1) April 2018 (4)\nASMP Atlanta Southeast Chapter\nContact Chapter\nASMP Atlanta Southeast on Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Information Nigeria\nOkiro Congratulates Abba On Appointment As IG Of Police\nBy daniel\nNational NewsOlayemi Oladotun - January 21, 2020 0\nCAN Reacts As Boko Haram Kills Its Adamawa Chairman, Andimi\nPresident of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle has described the killing of Adamawa State CAN...\nPoliticsEyitemi Majeed - January 21, 2020 0\nPDP Secretly Inciting Imo Lawmakers To Impeach Me, Uzodinma Cries Out\nThe newly sworn-in governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma has cried out that the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) is secretly...\nPoliticsOlayemi Oladotun - January 21, 2020 0\nImo State Deputy Speaker, Okey Onyekanma Resigns\nDeputy Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, has tendered his resignation letter. According to reports, the legislator's...\nEducationVerity Awala - January 21, 2020 0\nOxford Dictionary Adds 'Okada, 'Danfo,' 'Mama Put,' Others To Dictionary (Full list)\nSome popular Nigerian English words have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time. These words are...\nSupreme Court Rules In Favour Of PDP In Adamawa\nThe Supreme Court has on Tuesday affirmed the victory of Ahmadu Fintiri as the elected governor of Adamawa State. The...\nArdent Reader, News Freak, Socio-Political Commentator, Archaeologist & Pro-Democrat.\nThe Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Sir Mike Okiro, has congratulated the new Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba on his appointment.\nUntil his appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, Abba was the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Charge of Zone 7, Abuja.\nOkiro, a former Police IG, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, advised the new police chief to rise up to the challenges of his new appointment.\nHe noted that as a tested officer who had held various Command positions in the Nigeria Police Force, he has no doubt that Abba would bring new perspectives in the search for solutions to the security threats confronting the nation.\ninspector general of police\nMike Okiro\nPolice Service Commission\nSuleiman Abba\nPrevious articleCouncil Boss Walked Out By Edo Lawmakers For 'Improper Dressing'\nNext articleBayelsa: Police Arrest Four In Connection With Kidnap Of Senator's Mother\nBernadette November 1, 2014 At 4:17 am\nNice respond in return of this query with genuine arguments and telling the whole thing concerning that.\n'Mama Boko Haram' Sent To Prison Over 111m Fraud\nMetro News Verity Awala - January 21, 2020 0\nAisha Wakil, known popularly as \"Mama Boko Haram\", was on Monday remanded to a custodial centre by a high court in Maiduguri, Borno state...\n24-Year-Old Gay Pedophile Nabbed After Molesting 4-Year-Old\nMetro News Michael Isaac - January 21, 2020 0\nA 24-year-old gay man, simply nicknamed Bow Berlin, has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 4-year-old with a hearing challenge. The incident happened at Dagbolu...\nI Was Robbed And Nearly Raped \u2013 Female Producer Recounts Her Ordeal\nMetro News Temitope Alabi - January 21, 2020 0\nA female Nigerian producer Anwuli Roseline has taken to Twitter to reveal that she was robbed a couple of hours ago. According to Anwuli, she...\n15-Year-Old Boy Arrests Dad For Beating Mum To Death\nMetro News Valerie Oke - January 21, 2020 0\nA 15-year-old boy named, Ayomide Olanrewaju has arrested his dad, Olanrewaju Bamidele for allegedly beating his mum to death. According to the boy, the dad...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Prophecy Update Blog\nProphecy Update Newsletter\nIN TODAY'S NEWSLETTER...\nFeatured Article: The Feast of Tabernacles\nDespite UNESCO vote on Jerusalem, Israel hails small step forward\nIsrael Knows That Putin Is the Middle East's New Sheriff\nDoes Scripture Reveal Middle East Nuclear Wars Before the Tribulation?\nEuropean Union: Don't Label Muslim Terrorists as Muslim\nNew Obama Executive Order Hints at Devastating Space Event\nDaily Jot: The truth behind positive media for Clinton\nDaily Devotion: Following the Captain\nThe Feast of Tabernacles - A Bible Study by Jack Kelley - https:\/\/gracethrufaith.com\/topical-studies\/holidays-and-holy-days\/the-feast-of-tabernacles\/\nThe Feast of Tabernacles takes place each year beginning five days after Yom Kippur and lasts for over a week. Adherents to tradition make a shelter in their back yard of branches and leaves decorating it with fruit and vegetables to commemorate the time when the Lord dwelt with them in the wilderness. Then they at least take their meals in the shelter and perhaps spend a night or two as well. For this reason, Tabernacles is sometimes called the Feast of Booths.\nBeing a fall feast, Tabernacles also celebrated the harvest in ancient Israel and in fact was the inspiration for the Thanksgiving Day celebrations held in the US and other countries.\nAdditionally, Tabernacles was the crowning event in the series of fall feasts that began with Rosh Hashanah, or New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. As Yom Kippur was a solemn and awe inspiring day, Tabernacles was a time of celebration and thanksgiving. The Lord had freed their forefathers from the bondage of slavery in Egypt, He had given them a bountiful harvest, and He had accepted their annual sacrifice for the sins of the people. It was time for a party. And what a party it was.\nThe Israelites came from all over the nation to Jerusalem to celebrate for an entire week. They built their booths on every available piece of ground and the aroma of delicious foods cooking over open fires permeated the whole city. For seven days where ever you went there was an air of joy and festivity as the people remembered El Shaddai (God our Provider) and gave thanks.\nYou might wonder how they could drop everything and take a whole week off to celebrate. Simple; the Lord picked up the tab. In three passages from Deuteronomy, He explained how He was going to do this, commanding the people to put aside one tenth of their annual production for Him. (Deut. 8:6-18, 12:4-7, 14:22-29). He called it their tithe. Then they were to take the Lord's tithe to Jerusalem each fall after the harvest and use it for a big feast to celebrate His blessings upon them.\nThe reason He commanded them to separate the tithe was that He wanted to remind them it was His. Also if He hadn't required them to do so, most wouldn't have set anything aside for the feast. It would all have been absorbed into their living costs and they would have missed out on the celebration. Obviously, the Lord didn't need their money. He only wanted them to remember Who had blessed them. By celebrating, they were reminded. Further, He commanded that the celebration be at His house, not theirs, so they wouldn't start thinking they had created their own blessings.\nWhat about the Poor?\nEvery third year, instead of celebrating they gave the tithe to the priests in their city to help the poor and indigent, first within the community and then from among their visitors. There was always enough to last until the next contribution three years later.\nBecause it felt good to obey, they learned the joy of giving. When it came time to donate the tithe to the poor, they did so with a generous spirit, knowing that they were giving away the Lord's share not theirs. (It's always easier to be generous with some one else's money.) Because each community helped its own poor directly everyone got the help they needed, and the people could see the effect of their generosity.\nContrast that with the way of giving today. We no longer believe that one tenth is the Lord's and we no longer credit Him for our blessings. We think we're being asked for some of our own money, and we're not clear about the benefit. We're told that the Lord's work will be hindered without our help. He's portrayed as a cash poor beggar in some circles and as an inflexible creditor in others.\nThis approach makes us feel bad. We resent being made to feel guilty so we give only as much as is necessary to ease our guilt. No wonder the joy has gone from our giving.\nSome \"religious\" groups even require 10% of their members' income and conduct periodic audits to make sure they're getting it all. Some even teach that tithing is evidence of salvation. It's the most glaring example of man's religion working at cross-purposes with the intent of God's laws.\nA Blessing or a Curse?\nToday, tithing is thought by many to be a curse for believing rather than a celebration for blessing. People go around looking for a church that \"doesn't talk about money all the time.\" Because they never learn the true purpose of their giving, they are deprived of the blessings of abundance the Lord promises to those who \"bring the whole tithe into the storehouse.\" (Malachi 3:9-10 & Luke 6:38) For its part, the church merely survives when it should thrive. (The church would actually receive more income and their members would be a lot happier doing things the Lord's way) And perhaps most sadly, those in need don't receive the help from the church they could otherwise have ... help that could have come in the name of the Lord, and perhaps prompted a life change in the heart of the recipient. Satan wins again.\nBecause it doesn't rain in Israel from about the end of May till the middle of October, somewhere along the way a Water Libation Ceremony was incorporated into the Feast of Tabernacles celebrations. Each day a contingent of priests all dressed in white would go out from the Temple to the Pool of Siloam and with a silver pitcher would take some water from the pool back to the Temple. There a paving stone beside the altar had been removed just for this event. Arriving at the altar, a priest would pour the water from the silver pitcher upon the ground where the paving stone had been. As the dry ground absorbed the water the priests would pray for rains to moisten the fields in preparation for the fall planting. Thousands of people watching the ceremony would join in, praying and singing praises to God.\nOn the last day of the Feast, the High Priest Himself would officiate in all his finery, and the entire priesthood would follow him to the pool and back, singing and playing their instruments. On this day the pitcher was golden and the whole nation would be in attendance. Compare it to a sports stadium of today, packed to the rafters with spectators, all watching as the High Priest lifted the golden pitcher high over his head to pour the water into the ground near the altar. And then as with one voice they would break into song praising God and praying for rain. Talk about a joyful noise!\nThen one year something happened as the priest was pouring the water that stunned the crowd and literally shocked them into silence. Listen to John's eyewitness account. \"On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ' If anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.' By this He meant the Spirit Whom those who believed were later to receive.\" (John 7:37-39)\nOn hearing His words, some of the people said, \" Surely this man is The Prophet.\" Others said, \"He is the Christ.\" (John 7:40) Even the Temple guards were impressed. Being rebuked for letting Jesus disrupt the ceremony, they declared, \"No one ever spoke the way this man does.\"\nAnd so on the Feast of Tabernacles, it's fitting that we remember Jesus, the God Who dwells within us, the Giver of every good and perfect gift, and the Source of living water. O Lord, save us! O Lord, grant us success. Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord. From the House of the Lord we bless you. (Psalm 118:25-26)\nDespite UNESCO vote on Jerusalem, Israel hails small step forward - By Raoul Wootliff - http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/despite-unesco-vote-on-jerusalem-israel-hails-small-step-forward\/\nPA says decision reminds Israel it is an occupier, after UN cultural arm okays resolution that ignores Jewish, Christian ties to holy city\nThe Palestinian Authority on Tuesday hailed the newly approved UNESCO vote on Jerusalem as a reminder to Israelis \"that they are an occupying power,\" while Israel's envoy attempted to put a positive spin on the widely criticized decision.\nThe resolution, passed Thursday in the committee stage of the United Nations cultural body, referred to the Temple Mount and Western Wall only by their Muslim names and condemned Israel as \"the occupying power\" for various actions taken in both sites.\nThe resolution effectively disregards Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem holy sites, and has led Israel to cut ties with the cultural body.\nIn spite of an Israeli effort to delay a final vote, the UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted the controversial Arab-sponsored resolution, though without the support of Mexico, which changed its \"for\" vote to an abstention in a surprise move.\nThe Palestinian Authority's deputy ambassador to UNESCO, Mounir Anastas, told reporters Tuesday the resolution \"reminds Israel that they are the occupying power in East Jerusalem and it asks them to stop all their violations.\"\nThese violations include archaeological excavations around religious sites, Anastas said.\nIsrael's ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen said that although only Mexico changed its vote between Thursday and Tuesday, Israel is one step closer in its mission \"to dismantle the automatic majority enjoyed by the Palestinians and Arab states.\"\nThe ambassador also praised Brazil for expressing reservations over the language of the resolution, even though Brasilia did not change its vote. Such reservations will make it harder to Brazil to support such motions in future, Hacohen said.\nMexico's changed vote means that 23 nations approved the motion on Tuesday, six voted against (including the US, UK and Germany) and 25 abstained.\nMexico's ambassador Andres Roemer, who walked out of last Thursday's session and considered resigning in protest at his country's initial support for the resolution, was fired from his post on Tuesday.\nAll resolutions passed at this year's General Conference were validated by the UNESCO executive board in a blanket vote.\nDespite Israeli diplomatic missions being closed Tuesday due to the observance of the Sukkot festival around the world, the Foreign Ministry allowed the UNESCO mission in Paris to work in a last-ditch effort to try to prevent the resolution from being adopted, though a bid for a revote after Mexico's Monday night announcement of a change of heart was later withdrawn.\n\"Our [diplomatic] efforts will continue and we expect all countries to support our position on this issue,\" the ministry said in a statement after the resolution was adopted.\nThe resolution Thursday drew widespread Israeli anger, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling the body \"absurd\" and others accusing UNESCO of backing anti-Semitism.\nThe director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, also Friday signaled her dismay and opposition to the motion, saying that efforts to deny history and Jerusalem's complex multi-faith character harm UNESCO.\n\"The heritage of Jerusalem is indivisible, and each of its communities has a right to the explicit recognition of their history and relationship with the city,\" Bokova said in a statement.\nBokova's statement came after Israel announced it was suspending its cooperation with UNESCO over the vote, with Education Minister Naftali Bennett saying the motion was a denial of history that \"gives a boost to terrorism.\"\nIsraelis and many Jews around the world view the move as the latest example of an ingrained anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, where Israel and its allies are far outnumbered by Arab countries and their supporters.\nIsrael Knows That Putin Is the Middle East's New Sheriff - Shmuel Rosner - http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/18\/opinion\/israel-knows-that-putin-is-the-middle-easts-new-sheriff.html?_r=0\nIn 2001, shortly after he was elected prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon traveled to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin.\nAccording to Danny Ayalon, who was an adviser to the Israeli prime minister at the time, Mr. Putin, as is the habit of world leaders, urged Mr. Sharon to hand over territory in the West Bank to the Palestinians. Mr. Sharon, as is the habit of Israeli leaders, got tired of it. Israel, he said, is a tiny place, and for it to give away territory can be dangerous. On the other hand, he said, Russia is such a large country. So it might want to consider giving back the Kurile Islands, which Russia claimed from Japan at the end of World War II. \"Russia never cedes territory,\" Mr. Putin supposedly retorted. \"How else do you think it has gotten so big?\"\nTwo years after that meeting, Mr. Sharon, who grew up speaking Russian, called Mr. Putin \"a true friend of Israel.\" His unmatched humor made it possible for him to say such things with straight face.\nMr. Putin has a similar ability to hide his true feelings. For evidence, see how he was able to string along the Obama administration over a plan for a cease-fire in Syria. For more evidence, see Russia's recent announcement that the Kremlin plans to initiate a summit meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Moscow.\nMr. Netanyahu doesn't speak Russian, yet he still seems to have found a common language with Mr. Putin, one he speaks even more fluently than Mr. Sharon. That should not be a surprise. Necessity breeds friendship. In Israel's case, the Kremlin became a necessity for two very much related reasons: Russia's growing presence in Middle East affairs and the simultaneous American withdrawal from the region. To put it bluntly, Israel trusts Russia's intention to become a key player in the region more than it trusts the United States' intention to stop that from happening.\nIsrael has long been a pawn in the great superpower game, and so we Israelis have occasionally suspected that the Russians have a sturdier backbone than the Americans. When it comes to foreign affairs, Russians often seem less sentimental and always seem more brutal. These aren't necessarily virtues, but they are traits that other countries must keep in mind.\nNonetheless, not that long ago, Israel rarely questioned the United States' basic commitment to contain Russia's influence in the Middle East. The strategic arrangement was simple: Israel deals with the small dogs of the neighborhood, and the United States makes sure that no big dogs interfere to tip the balance against Israel.\nMr. Putin began challenging this arrangement years ago. In 2008, Russia invaded Georgia. In 2014, it invaded Crimea. And it got away with both. For Israel, this was not a sure sign that things were changing. Israel could still hope that the United States was letting Mr. Putin toy around only with those countries that had the misfortune of residing too close to Russia's borders.\nThen, in the summer of 2015, Russia sent its armed forces to Syria. And while President Obama was still contemplating his response, Mr. Netanyahu boarded a flight to Moscow to meet with the Middle East's new sheriff. The two leaders may have disagreed in their meeting, but Mr. Netanyahu was clearly recognizing that he had to deal with the Russians. In daringly supporting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Mr. Putin had sent a strong signal about Russia's intentions. And with Russian warplanes flying not far from its northern border, Israel couldn't ignore it.\nFor the Russian president, intervening in Syria and inviting talks between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas are ways to demonstrate Russia's stature and annoy the United States. What better sign is there of Russia's import when even longtime American allies, like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, consult with Mr. Putin? Secretary of State John Kerry tried to convene the Israeli and Palestinian leaders but failed. Mr. Putin can succeed, because he is the leader whose invitation Mr. Abbas and Mr. Netanyahu will find much harder to decline.\nBut that doesn't mean that the proposal for Russia-backed peace talks is sincere.\nMr. Putin may pretend that he wants to advance peace in the Middle East, but as we have seen in recent months, an unstable region works better for him. He may pretend to want a diplomatic settlement to Syria's civil war or to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but his allies in Syria - Iran and Hezbollah - will do everything in their power to prevent any peaceful arrangement in Syria except for total victory for the Assad government and, likewise, to prevent any peaceful arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians.\nThus, Palestinian leaders are hardly enthusiastic about Mr. Putin's initiative. They understand that Russia's president has little interest in the plight of a people who lack political rights. Mr. Putin has little interest in a people who are irrelevant to making Russia more powerful. Yet they know that they still might have to play along. In the ladder of Middle East concerns, the Palestinians currently occupy the bottom rung.\nMr. Netanyahu is hardly more excited about a meeting with Mr. Abbas in Moscow. His motivations are no less calculated. It is less the Palestinians that he wants to engage by having talks, and more the Russians - and with them the Egyptians and the Saudis, who are also getting closer to Russia and to Israel, and are also wary of and disillusioned with the Obama administration.\nAll of this means that the next American administration will face a unique challenge in the Middle East. Rather than having to maintain American influence, Washington will have to regain it. For the next president, the challenge might be even more daunting: to make the region both more trusting and more fearful of her or him than it is of Mr. Putin.\nDoes Scripture Reveal Middle East Nuclear Wars Before the Tribulation? - By Kit R. Olsen - http:\/\/raptureready.com\/featured\/olsen\/k18.html\nSelect excerpts from Israel's Guaranteed Glory. (First printing June 3, September 2016 distribution, World Bible Society)\nGod's protective angels: Israel is the center of the earth where God's covenant people live and belong. I would not be surprised if right now at this very moment-the LORD God of Israel has His heavenly host holding flaming swords, securely guarding and protecting every inch of Israel's borders in the spiritual realm.\nSome students and commentators of Bible prophecy suggest that there will be a nuclear exchange during the Gog-Magog battle and even attempt to derive a nuclear holocaust from the passages in Ezekiel 39:11-16; pure speculation which cannot be substantiated. We dare not allow any commentators to take away from God the great victory of this battle.\nScripture tells us in no uncertain terms that it is He who will be magnified. Scripture tells us that it is distinctly God who will obliterate the enemy. Radioactive material from the nuclear weapons would affect not only the invading troops, but the Israelis as well. Even if nuclear weapons could be used successfully only against the enemy, then those who would deliver them would receive the credit, and not the Lord.\nIf we stop and think things through carefully, it would become obvious that when anyone takes any particular Scripture and tries to turn it into a massive Middle East nuclear war before the Tribulation, he or she is doing so based on nothing but one's own imagination or a hypothesis determined outside of the Scriptures.\nIf a nuclear war takes place before the Tribulation the radioactive contamination would linger and create so much damage (fallout) that too many areas would be affected and even rendered uninhabitable. The nations prophesied to invade Israel in the Gog-Magog incursion would be greatly affected and could not fulfill Ezekiel's prophecy.\nSome commentators mistakenly believe a nuclear incursion will happen during the battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39 (Gog-Magog), and some go so far out on a nonsensical limb saying a major nuclear event will happen in the Middle East even before the battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39, and before the Tribulation.\nBut does that make sense? ISIS is the most vicious dangerous Hitlerian group on the planet today-frightening. It is true, ISIS is sending out messages that they are planning a nuclear holocaust somewhere. Only God can know where these demonically possessed maniacs would do such a thing.\nWe must trust what Scripture teaches. No one, including ISIS can stand in the way of the fulfillment of God's prophetic Word. Prophecy must be fulfilled as it is written, and the Gog-Magog war is a major prophecy that must take place. It will change the entire dynamics of the Middle East-when God destroys Russia from the North and Islam, \"those who dwell securely in the isles [coastlands] (Ezekiel 39:6).\nWhen God sends fire upon the invaders, the destruction will be far-reaching. If you look on a map you can see that there is a densely populated Islamic ring surrounding the globe. At that point I think God will have had about enough of Allah's terror loving followers who desecrate and blaspheme his holy Name.\nIt makes more sense that if ISIS does fire off nuclear weapons it would be possibly in the U.S., Europe or another part of the world. They are too hell-bent on taking over the world to destroy themselves; the key players of ISIS in the Middle East are not about to become martyrs and lose all the impact they have already made. If ISIS detonates a nuclear bomb in the Middle East, the fallout would affect them too much or even destroy them.\nTwisting the meaning of Scripture to make a case for a nuclear event cannot be claimed as a new discovery revealed by the leading of the Holy Spirit. For example, the verses from Jeremiah 49:34-39 are used by some with over active imaginations to fabricate outlandish suppositions claiming a massive nuclear war will precede the Tribulation and the Gog-Magog war. We have claims for yet another overlooked \"prophecy!\" Biblical scholars of old must have been a dumb old bunch to have missed that one.\nNo doubt, Iran's nuclear program is a major threat. If Israel does have to attack Iran for self-preservation it would make much more sense that she would use bunker buster bombs but even much more likely, subterfuge, such as a Stuxnet type operation. The battle between Israel and Iran is not a battle of brawn which must result in nuclear devastation prior to the Tribulation; it is a battle of moxie and brain power. Israel is clearly superior in those areas.\nAnyone who loves God's chosen people will want to read Israel's Guaranteed Future Glory. Kit R. Olsen's wonderful new book highlights the State of Israel showing that God'sprophetic promises have not been broken, and that He still has a plan for mankind. The history of the Jews proves the validity of His Holy Word; and the geopolitical climate unfolding today falls in line with God's prophetic messages. Kit has been my dedicated editor\/writer for the site for over four years (2012) and I am very pleased to share some of her additional work with our readers and feature her book on the site..\" --Todd Strandberg\nAmazon link to: Israel's Guaranteed Future Glory: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/z5sq6ss\nEuropean Union: Don't Label Muslim Terrorists as Muslim - Todd Strandberg - http:\/\/raptureready.com\/rap16.html\nThe European Union's Brussels headquarters has asked the British government to bar the media from identifying Muslims terrorists as being Muslim. If witnesses recall a terrorist scream \"Allahu akbar!\" or asking people if they're Muslim before opening fire, the press is now expected to play dumb in their reporting.\nThe European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) justified this attack on free speech by saying there has been an increase in hate speech and racist violence over the past seven years. Pointing a finger at the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said, \"It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.\"\nIt's absolutely stunning that leaders in European would think that Islamophobia is a problem. The reason why there is an increase in racial strife is because of Muslims are attacking people. If a follower of Muhammad goes into a restaurant and kills 20 people, it's common sense to identify his religion. He didn't kill those people because he thought the food was bad. His faith is what motivated him to carry out his heinous act.\nWhen I read in the news that Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi is wanted by the FBI for conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, it's all too easy to guess that he's Muslim.\nLast Week, German police units were hunting for a man suspected of planning a bomb attack. I didn't need to know he was Syrian-born, his name was Jaber Albakr, or that he had internet contact with the ISIS to conclude he was Muslim. The words \"bomb attack\" was all I needed to know that there was a connection to a certain Middle East based religion.\nOne common argument for avoiding the Muslim label is that if we don't mention the name of their religion, Islamists won't be inflamed to carry out more acts of terror. Muslims don't murder people because they feel oppressed. They're motivated by the idea that the killing of infidels is a useful way to advance their religion.\nOur unwillingness to link Islam to terrorism only make the problem worse. What we should be doing is condemning Islam every time one of its followers carries out a terrorist act. If a Christian Minister openly endorsed terrorism, the hate crime laws would put him in jail.\nThe practice of banning the link between Islam and terrorism is already at work on the Internet. Several search engines have blocked words that relate to Muslim terrorism. Last week, I was trying to find an article I saw on Drudge Report. I typed in about a dozen different phrases and nothing came up. When I switched to Yahoo, twenty stories instantly popped up.\nThis censorship has even found its way to images of Muslim terrorists. Several French news organizations have said they will no longer publish photographs of people responsible for terrorist killings, to avoid bestowing \"posthumous glorification.\"\nI don't buy this glorification argument. There are thousands of photos of Adolf Hitler, and don't see them giving him glory. He has become the opposite-a symbol of evil. The French papers decided not show images of terrorists because they got into trouble over their coverage of the attack on Nice. Instead of showing photos of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel in his Muslim clothes, they went with alluring images of him working out at the gym.\nI can only wonder what will be the end of this craziness. If we continue along this path, the press will start censoring the coverage of major terrorist attacks. The murder of 49 people at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida shows we are headed in that direction. The attack occurred in June and the media has already dropped all coverage of what was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history.\nI think the reason why the devil has been working so hard to shield Islam from criticism is because of his plans for the Harlot church, where all the major faiths will unite under the leadership of the False Prophet. The extreme measures now being taken to accommodate Islam tells me that the end must be very near.\n\"And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.\nSo he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:\nAnd upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration\" (Rev. 17:1-6).\nMy Review of \"Rapture Ready...Or Not?\"\nOver the last 35 years, I have literally read hundreds of books on Bible Prophecy and End Time signs. I especially enjoy books on the Rapture, and I have read almost every Rapture-related book published. In all those years, devouring thousands of pages, and millions of words, I have not read a better book on the Rapture than, Rapture Ready...Or Not?\nTerry James might be physically blind, but he is spiritually sharp and well discerning beyond most authors. In \"Rapture Ready...Or Not?\" Terry has nailed the pre-trib Rapture, and removed any doubt what so ever about the Church going through the Tribulation. With great insight and Godly discernment, Terry explains with simple, yet profound words, why and how that he has come to believe the ways he does about the Rapture, the Tribulation, and the End Times scenario. I think after reading \"Rapture Ready...Or Not?\" you too will believe as Terry does, and be Ready for the Rapture like never before! - Randy Thomas - Publisher \/ Editor - Prophecy Update\nFor more information and or to get your copy of \"Rapture Ready...Or Not?\" use this link: http:\/\/www.raptureready.com\/terry\/book35.html\nNew Obama Executive Order Hints at Devastating Space Event - By Mac Slavo - http:\/\/www.prophecynewswatch.com\/article.cfm?recent_news_id=727\nOnce considered a fringe conspiracy theory, it appears that the Obama administration is now actively preparing for a massive solar event that could wipe out life as we have come to know it.\nSpace weather events such as solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances have long been believed to pose a significant threat to our technologically advanced society with the ability to not only affect global positioning satellites, but on-earth electronics that include the entire domestic (and global) power grid.\nIn the latest Executive Order signed by Barack Obama, the President calls for coordination between various government agencies including the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland security should a major \"space weather event\" come to pass.\nVia WhiteHouse.Gov\nExecutive Order -- Coordinating Efforts to Prepare the Nation for Space Weather Events\nBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to prepare the Nation for space weather events, it is hereby ordered as follows:\nSection 1. Policy. Space weather events, in the form of solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances, occur regularly, some with measurable effects on critical infrastructure systems and technologies, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite operations and communication, aviation, and the electrical power grid. Extreme space weather events -- those that could significantly degrade critical infrastructure -- could disable large portions of the electrical power grid, resulting in cascading failures that would affect key services such as water supply, healthcare, and transportation.\nSpace weather has the potential to simultaneously affect and disrupt health and safety across entire continents. Successfully preparing for space weather events is an all-of-nation endeavor that requires partnerships across governments, emergency managers, academia, the media, the insurance industry, non-profits, and the private sector.\nThough often dismissed as nothing more than fear mongering, the threat of space weather events is not only possible, it is quite probable, as evidenced by a massive solar flare which narrowly missed earth in 2012.\n\"The speed of this event was as fast or faster than anything that has been seen in the modern space age,\" said Baker.\nHad it hit Earth, the July 2012 event likely would have created a technological disaster by short-circuiting satellites, power grids, ground communication equipment and even threatening the health of astronauts and aircraft crews.\nWe have proposed that the 2012 event be adopted as the best estimate of the worst case space weather scenario...\nIs it possible that the Obama administration has scientific evidence supporting the fact that a space weather event is imminent? One Congresswoman thinks so, having claimed that there is a 100% chance of a crippling event.\nThe Executive Order signed by Obama on October 13, 2016 certainly suggests this may be the case:\nIt is the policy of the United States to prepare for space weather events to minimize the extent of economic loss and human hardship. The Federal Government must have\n(1) the capability to predict and detect a space weather event,\n(2) the plans and programs necessary to alert the public and private sectors to enable mitigating actions for an impending space weather event,\n(3) the protection and mitigation plans, protocols, and standards required to reduce risks to critical infrastructure prior to and during a credible threat, and\n(4) the ability to respond to and recover from the effects of space weather. Executive departments and agencies (agencies) must coordinate their efforts to prepare for the effects of space weather events.\nCoupled with a previous Executive Doomsday Order signed by the President in March of 2012, the federal government now has the ability to take full control of all critical national infrastructure elements including food resources, energy resources, farms, health facilities, water resources and even the nation's workforce.\nWhile millions of people have been preparing for the possibility of a catastrophic event by relocating to rural homesteads or farms, as well as stockpiling food, water, personal defense armaments and other essential supplies with the intention of utilizing these preparations if the worst happens, the latest executive order signed by President Obama on March 16, 2012 makes clear that in the event of a nationally deemed emergency all of these resources will fall under the authority of the United States government.\nRecent projections from a secret Homeland Security report suggest that as many as 100 million Americans could be left without power should a powerful enough solar storm strike earth.\nAnother report paints an even more terrifying picture, indicating that without access to power via our grid, America would literally come to a standstill. Critical supplies including medicine, gas, and food would be undeliverable and within one year as many as 90% of Americans would be dead if the grid were not restored.\nThe problem, according to The Prepper's Blueprint author Tess Pennington is that over 90% of Americans are not only lacking any preparation for such a catastrophic scenario, but even if advance warning was sent to the population 12 hours ahead of time, it would simply be too late:\nUnfortunately, that \"12 hours\" number doesn't tell the whole story. It's probably true that during a worst case scenario, it would take 12 hours for a solar storm to reach Earth. The only question is, can our scientific instruments detect a solar storm in that time frame?\nCurrently, our planet's early warning system consists of a satellite called DSCOVR, which launched in February of this year, and reached its destination between the Earth and the Sun last June. The satellite it replaced could give us a 15 minute warning, but the DSCOVR satellite isn't much of an improvement. It only gives us a 30-45 minute warning.\nPennington warns that a breakdown could happen very quickly and catch most people by surprise:\nThis is the point in this cycle where herds of people go to the grocery stores frantically grabbing supplies. Most grocery stores will not be able to meet the demand of the people's need for supplies, and many could go home empty handed.\nBracing for the disaster, the prepared and unprepared will be hoping for the best outcome. What many do not realize is the hardest part of this event is soon to be upon them. Within days, the descent into the breakdown will begin.\nAnd it is this very descent into breakdown that will require an unprecedented government response and Obama's Doomsday Executive Order has given them the pretext to do so.\nDo government officials know that a life-threatening solar event is becoming increasingly more probable?\nOr is the Obama administration simply taking proactive steps to prepare?\nWhatever the case, it is important to note that Americans are not prepared to deal with the aftermath of such a scenario.\nPerhaps the actions being implemented on the federal level should be a wake up call to all Americans to prepare for disaster now.\nDaily Jot: The truth behind positive media for Clinton - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com\nThe Center for Public Integrity's mission is \"To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism.\" It prides itself as being one of the nations oldest and largest nonpartisan, non-profit Pulitzer Prize winning investigative news organizations. So when it reveals that the vast majority of journalists contributing to the presidential election are supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton, one has to look at the gravity of what is being reported. The Center reports some 430 people who work in journalism have donated about $382,000 to Clinton-that's 96% of all the money donated to both candidates from journalists.\nThe results are as would be expected. One example, reported by the Center says, \"New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster running an \"ugly and xenophobic campaign.\" What Nussbaum didn't disclose in her dispatches: she contributed $250 to Democrat Hillary Clinton in April.\" While $250 doesn't sound like much, it is a statement of tremendous import. In my days of reporting, my personal policy was that I would never show any kind of bias toward a candidate by contributing to the campaign or becoming too cozy with members of a campaign staff.\nWe can see that isn't the case in this election. Even Trump mentioned in the last debate that it was three to one against him, a reference to how the so-called \"impartial moderators\" were favoring Clinton. This comes as no surprise, however, as even a May 2015 poll by Rasmussen suggested that the majority of Americans expect biased coverage. Rasmussen reported, \"When it comes to the 2016 presidential campaign, only 23% believe most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage. Fifty-nine percent (59%) think that coverage will be slanted instead, with 36% who say most reporters will try to help Hillary Clinton during the campaign and 23% who say they will try to hurt her bid for the White House instead.\"\nThere is an old adage that covers just about anything: Follow the money. The money says that journalists favor Clinton by some 96% of the donations they give. And these are just the ones who do not see it as a conflict of interest to give to a political candidate. Those polled thought the media would be slanted, and the contributions by journalists prove it. They wouldn't be giving to Clinton if they didn't support her. That automatically biases anything they would report. As Isaiah 59:14 says, \"And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.\" Truth, indeed, has fallen in the street, and these so-called \"journalists\" don't even try to hide their iniquity.\nDaily Devotion: Following the Captain - Greg Laurie - www.harvest.org\nFor he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken. . . . So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him. -Luke 5:9, 11\nPeter was a seasoned fisherman. He knew all about the movement of fish. He knew the best time to fish. He knew the right moment to pull the nets in. He was an expert. But one day Jesus showed up and said, \"Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch\" (Luke 5:4).\nPeter had been fishing all night without catching anything. Think about it. If you were a sailor and some guy came along who was neither a sailor nor a fisherman and told you what to do, you might think, Do you really know what you are talking about? Peter was the fisherman. Jesus was effectively the landlubber.\nI love Peter's response. He said, \"Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net\" (verse 5). By the way, it is implied in the original language that Peter was using a nautical term with Jesus, as if to say, \"You are the captain of the boat. You are the admiral here. At Your word, we will do it.\"\nYou probably know the rest of the story. 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{"text":"Book Recommendation Missing Presumed\nSome of our suggestions for \"Missing Presumed\" book searches. Get the complete book FREE for you, please register your account. We are happy to welcome you. Easy and Fast.\nMissing Presumed by Susie Steiner\nPublisher : HarperCollins\nFor readers of Kate Atkinson and Tana French comes a page-turning literary mystery that brings to life the complex and wholly relatable Manon Bradshaw, a strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons case. Manon Bradshaw is a devoted and respected member of the Cambridgeshire police force, and though she loves her job, what she longs for is a personal life. One night, after yet another disastrous internet date, she turns on her police radio to help herself fall asleep, but she soon receives an alert that sends her to a serious crime scene. Edith Hind\u2014a beautiful graduate student and daughter of the Royal Family's surgeon\u2014has been missing for nearly twenty-four hours. Her home offers few clues: a smattering of blood in the kitchen, her keys and phone left behind, the front door ajar but with no signs of forced entry. The investigation starts with Edith's loved ones: her attentive boyfriend, her reserved best friend, and her patrician parents. As the search widens and press coverage reaches a frenzied pitch, secrets begin to emerge about Edith's tangled love life and her erratic behavior before her disappearance. With no clear leads, Manon summons every last bit of her skill and intuition to close the case, and what she discovers will have shocking consequences not just for Edith's family but for Manon herself. Suspenseful and keenly observed, Missing, Presumed is a brilliantly twisting novel of how we seek connection, grant forgiveness, reveal the truth about who we are.\nMissing Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist\nCategory : Young Adult Fiction\nWhen eighteen-year-old Lexi foresees the brutal murder of a young woman outside a club in downtown L.A., she is powerless to stop it. But then the girl's ghost appears, seeking vengeance, and Lexi is swept into a dangerous search that could put her directly in the path of a serial killer. From the author of Devils Unto Dust, this fast-paced and literary thriller will haunt fans of Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious and Karen M. McManus's One of Us Is Lying. With a touch, Lexi can sense how and when someone will die. Some say it's a gift. But to Lexi it's a curse\u2014one that keeps her friendless and alone. All that changes when Lexi foresees the violent death of a young woman, Jane, outside a club. Jane doesn't go to the afterlife quietly. Her ghost remains behind, determined to hunt down her murderer, and she needs Lexi's help. In life, Jane was everything Lexi is not\u2014outgoing, happy, popular. But in death, all Jane wants is revenge. Lexi will do anything to help Jane, to make up for the fact that she didn't\u2014couldn't\u2014save Jane's life, and to keep this beautiful ghost of a girl by her side for as long as possible. Emma Berquist's second novel is a haunting and atmospheric murder mystery that tackles themes of depression, loneliness, love, and identity. This high-concept novel is for fans of Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown and Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series.\nMissing Presumed by Alan Bailey\nPublisher : Liberties Press\nCategory : True Crime\nBetween 1993 and 1998, six Irish women, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty eight, disappeared. The area in which these disappearances occurred became publicly referred to as 'The Vanishing Triangle'. To date, none of the missing females have ever been located. These six unsolved cases resulted in the creation of the specialist Garda task force 'Operation Trace', set up in the hope of finding a connection between the missing women. None was found. The task force investigated dozens of unsolved cases of women gone missing in Ireland. Alan Bailey served as the National Coordinator for the task force for thirteen years, and the revealing stories in Missing, Presumedall come from his personal experiences in this role. Missing, Presumed details, and reports on, the Garda investigations into the case studies of fifteen women who disappeared over a time span of twenty years. In almost half of the cases, the women's badly mutilated bodies were recovered, sometimes months later, buried in shallow graves. Each chapter focuses on one woman's story, and details the timeline of events that led to her disappearance, beginning on the day of her disappearance through to the ensuing investigation, and up to - when lucky - a conviction. These stories are haunting, terrifying, and true. 'It is now sixteen years since Trace was established. The families and friends of both the disappeared and those whose bodies were found still await closure.'\nMissing Presumed Dead by Mark Tedeschi\nIt was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families. Such women are hardly ever among the ranks of the missing. They were not hitchhikers, or associates of drug dealers, or unhappy with their family relationships, or suffering from mental health issues. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles, and led completely different lives. They had never met each other, and if they had, they would have had little in common. In fact, Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan had one thing in common \u2013 they both knew Bruce Allan Burrell. The disappearance without trace of these two women caused massive police investigations and resulted in sensational trials that gripped the nation of Australia. This book explores the intricacies of those investigations and delves into the twisted, tortuous processes of the legal proceedings, while exploring the dark recesses of the mind of Bruce Burrell. 'Gripping writing, from an expert on the inside of some of the state's worst murders and disappearances.' Peter FitzSimons\nPersons Unknown by Susie Steiner\nFrom the author of Missing, Presumed, a complicated detective investigates her most personal case yet. Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has given up on finding romantic love. Instead, she is in hot pursuit of work-life balance and parked in a cold case corridor\u2014the price she's had to pay for a transfer back to Cambridgeshire. This is fine, she tells herself. She can devote herself to bringing up her adopted twelve-year-old son, Fly Dent, and the new baby. Fly needed a fresh start anyway\u2014he was always being stopped and searched in London by officers who couldn't see past the color of his skin. Yet when a wealthy businessman is found stabbed close to police headquarters, Manon can't help but sidle in on the briefing. She's horrified to discover that the victim and the prime suspect are more closely linked to her than she could have imagined. And as the Cambridgeshire police force closes ranks against her, Manon is forced to contemplate the unthinkable: How well does she know her loved ones, and are they capable of murder?\nMissing Presumed Dead by Gale St. John\nPublisher : Llewellyn Worldwide\nTake a rare insider's look at a mysterious world most people have only seen on television. Join Gale St. John on her amazing journey as a psychic sleuth who has helped find missing persons from Ohio to Kathmandu, with victims ranging from innocent young children to Mafia bosses. Missing and Presumed Dead shows you how Gale is able to tune in to a missing person, describing what she sees, hears, and feels to detect whether the individual is alive or not. Discover her extensive work with specially trained dogs that search for the missing. Experience high profile cases, including the ones where spirits help Gale save lives. Each extraordinary account\u2014from those that made national headlines to those that are still unsolved\u2014sheds light on the dramatic life of a psychic detective. Praise: \"The heart-pounding suspense will keep you turning pages thinking you know the answers, while realizing nothing is like it seems.\"\u2014Marta Sosa, producer and host of the online radio show \"Missing in America\"\nMissing Presumed Dead by James Hawkins\nPublisher : Dundurn\nShort-listed for the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Detective Inspector David Bliss has been transferred from London, England, to Hampshire in what appears to his new subordinates and superiors as a move down the career ladder. His first day on the job begins with a murder: Jonathan Dauntsey, son of the Major, willingly confesses to murdering his father. It's an open-and-shut case, until the investigation stalls when the police can't find the body. D.I. Bliss follows a trail of clues that lead him back in time to the point where the central presumption of the case - a murdered father - comes into question. Who did Jonathan Dauntsey murder, if anyone at all? As the mystery of the murder begins to resolve itself, so does the mystery of Bliss's transfer from the big city to a small town.\nMissing Presumed Missing by Paul Harris\nPublisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd\nMichael is an anxious twelve-year-old. He is bullied at school and has a strained relationship with his parents. He worries about anything and everything.\nMissing Presumed Alive by Gary Wasson\nDetective Paul Hanley relocated to Chesapeake, Virginia from Connecticut under a dark cloud that cost him his marriage. During a freak snowstorm in Tidewater a young girl is found frozen and brutally murdered. Hanley, while fighting a shattered personal life, must piece together the facts surrounding the murder of Jane Doe. Hanley and his partner find themselves moving through an investigation filled with politics and personal secrets. As local headlines scream for action, Paul turns the investigation into a personal quest for justice in his search for the truth that takes him to Washington and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. His search leads him into a maze of intrigue that goes back seventeen years.\nMissing Presumed Murdered by Dick Kirby\nPublisher : Pen and Sword True Crime\nMurders in any form, and the more gruesome the better, hold a morbid fascination to the British public but never more so than when the bodies of the victims are never found. Aside from the lack of closure for relatives and friends, this factor creates problems for police and prosecutors and has macabre appeal for the public. Muriel McKay, wife of a senior News of the World Executive was kidnapped in 1969. Although her body, believed to have been fed to pigs, was never found, the perpetrators were convicted. The same fate was suffered by the business partner of a Polish farmer. James Camb murdered a glamorous actress feeding her to sharks but this did not stop women flocking to see him in court. John Haigh confessed to disposing of his nine victims in acid. Again, his trial was a sell-out. Dick Kirby, former Scotland Yard detective turned best-selling crime writer has 'unearthed' a fascinating collection of disappearances such as the dismemberment of a gay man's wife who had threatened to expose him in the 1950s. Later, when a woman's head was discovered near his home, he confessed only to find that it dated from Roman times. These and numerous other cases make Missing, Presumed Murdered a riveting, if grisly, read","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nielsen Global Media\nNielsen ONE\nAudio Measurement\nLocal TV Measurement\nNational Out-of-Home TV Measurement\nDigital Ad Ratings\nCampaign Lift\nAdvanced Video Advertising\nMarketing Attribution\nNielsen Global Connect\nNielsen Connect Platform\nRetail Measurement\nE-commerce Measurement\nAssortment and Space Optimization\nSpectra Strategic Insights\nRetail Collaboration\nConnect Partner Network\nNielsen Panels\nResponsibility and Sustainability\nNielsen: GDP, Population and Governance Data Alone are Not Enough to Predict Brand Success in Africa\nNew report shows hard retail data, consumer needs and behavior,\ncombined with macro-economic datasets,\nare better indicators of opportunity and success in African markets\nNew York and Nairobi \u2013 Feb. 25, 2015 \u2013 For brands eager to tap into the growing African markets and the region's estimated 350 million middle class consumers, relying solely on macro-economic data such as GDP growth, population trends and regulatory governance data to identify opportunities and predict success can lead to costly missteps, according to a new report from Nielsen.\nThe findings, which are featured in Africa: How to navigate the retail distribution labyrinth \u2013 a new report released today \u2013 show it is the companies that combine retail data from both modern and traditional trade and consumer shopping behavior with broader macro-environment indicators that are better positioned to identify the right markets, products, marketing and retail execution strategies that lead to sustainable growth and profitability in Africa.\n\"Conventional knowledge has held that where there is growth in population and GDP, and a stable business environment, a brand can succeed by being launched in the market. Those insights alone don't provide a complete picture of Africa's consumer opportunities,\" said Allen Burch, Head of Africa for Nielsen. \"We found that successful consumer brands in Africa understand three key pieces of retail information: who shops where and for what, which retail outlets are the best for the product to generate sales, and how to build demand amongst retailers and consumers.\"\nIn 2013, Nielsen began conducting a quarterly analysis of consumer, retail and business outlook data, as well as macro-economic data across seven Sub-Saharan countries \u2013 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia \u2013 with plans to expand to additional countries over time. Historically, one complaint has been the lack of market data within Africa. Without that insight, even companies with the right products for the right market can fail to get them in the right stores, leading to poor sales growth. By bringing together the standard macro-economic indicators with more granular consumer, retail and business data, it is possible to solve the distribution challenges that are so central to success in Africa.\nUnderstanding the retail habits of Africa's consumers\nCompanies that understand who shops where, for what, and when can use that knowledge to inform resourcing and distribution strategies.\nFor most of Africa, the percentage of sales through modern trade is still small. While international retailers are making investments in modern trade formats, traditional retail, like the kiosk and table top \u2013 a stall set up on the roadside or in a local market area to capture passing trade \u2013 is where the majority of consumer retail transactions occur. Even in South Africa, which has the most modern trade within Sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of sales come from traditional retailers. And while the preferred traditional retail channel varies by country (i.e., table tops, kiosks, market stalls, grocer, etc.), traditional retail outside South Africa accounts for roughly 90% of all consumer goods spending within the region.\nWhat a given retailer stocks, in what quantity, the price, the supplier and how often stocks are replenished, varies by retail format. This also influences the purpose and frequency of consumer visits. Depending on the country or urban area, consumers may shop at grocers or supermarkets less frequently because of transportation challenges, but visit local table tops daily to stock up on day-to-day items.\nUnderstanding the willingness of Africa's consumers to try new products is also essential. There is a strong preference amongst consumers for brands and products they know, have tried before or that have been recommended by a trusted source, but the level of openness differs by country. Nielsen analysis shows that, for example, in Nigeria consumer willingness to try new products increased to 73% in Q3 2014, but decreased in Ghana to 53%.\nIdentifying the right retailers\nEven with an understanding of consumer preferences and shopping behaviors in Africa, brands still have to identify the best retail outlets for a product. In fact, a small proportion of outlets can account for a disproportionate amount of sales.\nFor example, Nielsen's research and analysis of distribution and turnover of particular goods and products shows that in Lagos, laundry detergents are available for sale in 100,000 outlets, but that 80% of all laundry detergent sales come from 35,000 of those outlets, and a full 50% come from just 10,000 retail outlets.\nWith this type of data, companies can not only identify the right channels, store clusters, outlets, product formats and sizes to meet the needs of Africa's consumers, they can also optimize supply chains by improving route-to-market planning, availability, trimming waste and eliminating unnecessary costs to consumers, which can strengthen the whole market.\nCreating retailer and consumer demand\nMany brands have experience working with modern retailers to develop assortment, pricing and promotion strategies that can increase demand at a given location. But applying the same approach to traditional retail won't produce the same results. Understanding the retailer's environment \u2013 how often certain products are replenished, how new products are selected for stocking, use of wholesalers, refrigeration capabilities, etc. \u2013 can help brands drive sales.\nThe vendor makes the ultimate decision on how and when products are introduced to consumers, as well as how an item is presented and priced. In some cases, if a branded package is too expensive, the retailer may open the pack and split it up; there may be no loss in revenue to the manufacturer, but the brand identity and intention is much weaker.\nThat's why matching the flexibility of the vendor in product and pricing strategies is key to increasing demand and sales over time, such as providing branded cooler boxes to table top vendors for items that require refrigeration, or providing free samples appropriate to the time of day and the way a given outlet is used by the consumer.\n\"With six of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world located in Sub-Saharan Africa, and populations that are growing in size and spending power, there is tremendous promise and opportunity for consumer brands in Africa. Companies \u2013 be they global multinationals or the rapidly growing slate of home-grown African brands \u2013 that look beyond macro-environment data will be best positioned to meet the needs of consumers in this important region,\" said Burch.\nNielsen will host a live Twitter Chat about Africa: How to Navigate the Retail Distribution Labyrinth on Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 8 am ET\/11am GMT with Allen Burch (@allenburch) by using the tag #NielsenAfrica. Questions can be submitted in advance by tweeting @Nielsen with #NielsenAfrica included.\nA full copy of the report is available by clicking here.\nNielsen has capabilities in more than 40 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, including major commercial operations in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana. As a strategic partner to several global and local brands, the company has been providing insights into the diversity of Africa's consumers and markets for more than 20 years, with deep expertise and understanding of both traditional and modern trade. Nielsen's trade data provides a comprehensive view of the retail environment in Africa, covering ongoing measurement of retail universes in 14 countries, and store level census data of more than 1.5 million outlets across 30 cities and 10 countries.\nAnne-Taylor Adams: annetaylor.adams@nielsen.com; +1.646.654.5759 (o); +1.646.256.3022 (m)\nDrew Mccaskill: Andrew.mccaskill@nielsen.com; +1.646.654.5577 (o); +1.347.331.5725 (m)\nAilsa Wingfield: Ailsa.wingfield@nielsen.com; +27 760691119 (m)\nhttps:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/us\/en\/press-releases\/2015\/nielsen-gdp-population-and-governance-data-alone-are-not-enough-to-predict-brand-success-in-africa\/\nSEC Disclaimer\nClient Learning\nTop 10 & Trends","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Auto & Gadgets\nFaith | Religion | Spirituality\nYouthspot\nEvents Around\nShardhanjali\nMovietime\nGreater Jammu || The Daily News Paper\nHome Exclusive Opinion Judges Are Not Above Law; Judicial Appointment Process Must Be Made Transparent;...\nJudges Are Not Above Law; Judicial Appointment Process Must Be Made Transparent; holds Supreme Court\nGreater Jammu\nDinesh Singh Chauhan, Advocate\nHigh Court of Judicature, Jammu.\nThe importance of transparency is paramount, and it is identified in the Lilongwe Principles and Guidelines as an overarching principle that should \"permeate every stage\" of the selection and appointment process. As indicated in the explanatory text, transparency is a cross-cutting principle that is necessary for enhancing the integrity of, as well as public confidence in the process.\nThe Supreme Court Collegium's decision to disclose the reasons for its recommendations marks a historic and welcome departure from the entrenched culture of secrecy surrounding judicial appointments. It will provide a window of understanding into the mind of the Collegium. Judicial independence is not a shield to protect wrong. It is not a carte blanche to arbitrary behaviour.\nPenning separate but concurring opinion while dismissing the appeal against Delhi HC Judgment that held Office of Chief Justice of India is under purview of RTI Act, 2005 Justice D. Y Chandrachud observed that the basis for the selection and appointment of Judges to the Higher Judiciary must be defined and placed in the public realm.\nThis would promote confidence in the appointments process, and also would foster a degree of transparency and promote accountability in decision making at all levels within the Judiciary and the Government, observed Justice Chandrachud.\nThe Collegium is a victim of its own birth \u2013 pangs\nThe Collegium owes its birth to judicial interpretation. In significant respects, the Collegium is a victim of its own birth \u2013 pangs. Bereft of information pertaining to both the criteria governing the selection and appointment of Judges to the Higher Judiciary and the application of those criteria in individual cases, citizens have engaged the constitutional right to information, facilitated by the RTI Act.\nThere is a vital element of 'Public Interest' in knowing about the norms\nWhat needs to be emphasised is that the substantive standards which are borne in mind must be formulated and placed in the public realm as a measure that would promote confidence in the appointments process. Due publicity to the norms which have been formulated and are applied would foster a degree of transparency and promote accountability in decision making at all levels within the Judiciary and the Government. The norms may also spell out the criteria followed for assessing the Judges of the district judiciary for higher judicial office. There is a vital public interest in disclosing the basis on which those with judicial experience are evaluated for elevation to higher judicial office particularly having regard to merit, integrity and judicial performance.\nthe criteria followed in making Judicial appointments in the public domain will fulfil the purpose and mandate of Section 4 of the RTI Act, engender public confidence in the process and provides a safeguard against extraneous considerations entering into the process.\nIf the content of right and enforcement of statute are to possess a meaningful dimension in their application to the judiciary \u2013 as it must, certain steps are necessary. Foremost among them is that the basis for the selection and appointment of Judges to the higher judiciary must be defined and placed in public realm. This is the procedure which is followed in making appointments but also in terms of the substantive norms which are adopted while making judicial appointments. There can be no denying the fact that there is a vital element of public interest in knowing about the norms which are taken into consideration in selecting candidates for higher judicial officer and making judicial appointments. Knowledge is a powerful instrument which secures consistency in application and generates the confidence that is essential to the sanctity of the process of judicial appointments. This is essentially because the Collegium system postulates that proposals for appointment of judges are initiated by the judges themselves.\n\"Essential substantial norms in regard to judicial appointments include: (i) The basis on which performance of a member of the Bar is evaluated for the purpose of higher judicial office; (ii) The criteria which are applied in determining whether a member of the Bar fulfils requirements in terms of: a) Experience as reflected in the quantum and nature of the practice; b) Domain specialization in areas which are geared to the evolving nature of litigation and the requirements of each court; c) Income requirements, if any, having regard to the nature of the practice and the circumstances prevailing in the court or region concerned; d) The commitment demonstrated by a candidate under consideration to the development of the law in terms of written work, research and academic qualifications; and e) The social orientation of the candidate, defined in terms of the extent of pro bono or legal aid work; (iii) The need for promoting the role of the judiciary as an inclusive institution and its diversity in terms of gender, representation to minorities and the marginalized, orientation and other relevant factors.\nA batch of three Civil Appeals raised questions of constitutional importance having bearing on 'the right to know', 'the right to privacy' and 'the transparency, accountability and independence of the judiciary'. In one of the appeals (the appointments case), the Central Public Information Officer of the Supreme Court of India challenged an order dated November 24, 2009 of the Central Information Commission, whereby, the CPIO was directed to provide information sought by the respondent in application under the Right to Information Act 2005 with regard to the correspondence exchanged between constitutional authorities together with file notings, relating to the appointment of Justice H. L. Dattu, Justice A. K. Ganguly and Justice R. M. Lodha (superseding the seniority of Justice A. P. Shah, Justice A. K. Patnaik and Justice V. K. Gupta).\nOn November 26, 2010, a two Judge Bench of Supreme Court directed the Registry to place the batch of appeals before Chief Justice of India for constituting a Bench of appropriate strength and framed the following substantial questions of law:\n1. Whether the concept of independence of judiciary requires and demands the prohibition of furnishing of the information sought? Whether the information sought for amounts to interference in the functioning of the judiciary?\n2. Whether the information sought for cannot be furnished to avoid any erosion in the credibility of the decisions and to ensure a free and frank expression of honest opinion by all the constitutional functionaries, which is essential for effective consultation and for taking the right decision?\n3. Whether the information sought for is exempt under Section 8 (1)(j) of the RTI Act?\nOn August 17, 2016, a three Judge Bench referred the Civil Appeals to a Constitution Bench for adjudication.\nJudges are not above law\nJudicial independence is not secured by the secrecy of cloistered halls. It cannot be said that increasing transparency would threaten judicial independence. The need for greater transparency and accountability in the appointment procedure or the lack of the same, has also been highlighted by other eminent retired Judges such as Justice J. S. Verma & Justice Ruma Pal in \"Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v Union of India (NJAC'), 2016 5 SCC 1. In an Article quoted in Justice Lokur's separate concurring opinion in the NJAC decision, Justice Verma while speaking about the Collegium system observed:\n\"546\u2026Have any system you like, it's worth and efficacy will depend on the worth of the people who work it! It is, therefore, the working of the system that must be monitored to ensure transparency and accountability.\"\nFurthermore, Justice Chelameswar, in his dissenting opinion, referred a speech made by Justice Ruma Pal, where she stated thus:\n\"The process by which a judge is appointed to a Superior Court is one of the best kept secrets in this country. The very secrecy of the process leads to an inadequate input of information as to the abilities and suitability of a possible candidate for appointment as a Judge. A chance remark, a rumour or even third-hand information may be sufficient to damn a judge's prospects. Contrariwise a personal friendship or unspoken obligation may colour a recommendation. Consensus within the Collegium is sometimes resolved through a trade-off resulting in dubious appointments with disastrous consequences for the litigants and the credibility of the judicial system. Besides, institutional independence has also been compromised by growing sycophancy and lobbying 'within the system.\"\nThe transparency of criteria and the process is a logical extension of the judicial appointment being 'meritorious', and that doing so would remove the 'arbitrariness' of the process, leading to upholding of Rule of Law. The transparency is necessary to ensure the public perception of the judiciary as independent. In the context of judicial appointments, appointments may happen on a proper, well- justified, substantive understanding of judicial merit. However, in order for the same to be truly independent, they must include within themselves the transparency of the criteria and openness of the process.\n\"56. Judicial independence does not mean the insulation of judges from the rule of law. In a constitutional democracy committed to the rule of law and to the equality of its citizens, it cannot be countenanced that judges are above the law. The notion of a responsible judiciary furthers the ideal for which an independent judiciary was envisaged. It is the exercise of the decision making authority guaranteed by judicial independence in a just and responsible manner, true to the ethos of judicial office that sub-serves the founding vision of the judiciary \u2026\u2026.To be continue \u2026\u2026\u2026.\"\nJudicial Appointment\nPrevious articleIndia Coast guard rescues 264 fishermen\nNext articleJustice Magray visits District Jail Kupwara, stresses on speedy disposal of pending cases\nRam Jethmalani: one of the finest lawyers in India\nWhat rattles Opposition if all citizens lead a life of equality: Brig Gupta\nIconic Dal lake is battling with plastic pollution\nEpaper Link\nToday's Poll\nWhat is the main Reason for Unemployment?\nLack of Jobs\nLack of Proper Education\nJTGC organizes Golf Caddies Republic Cup -2020\nDDC inaugurates cricket tournament\nPoonch Volleyball League gets underway\nFord introduces 2020 Ford EcoSport BSVI\nThe Congress Manifesto 2019-A Charter To Weaken India\nSaving Campuses From Criminalisation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb World News \u00bb Apple defends App Store control in court, saying it doesn't want to be Android\nApple defends App Store control in court, saying it doesn't want to be Android\nEpic Games argued that Apple purposely locks in its customers in the first day of a landmark trial with Apple over the rules of the App Store.\nApple is arguing that it built the App Store and gets to set the rules \u2014 which are designed to ensure that apps are high-quality and secure.\nOn Monday, Apple and Epic's lawyers both made their opening statements, and Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney testified.\nEpic is looking to force Apple to open up iPhone software distribution so it could use its own payment processor, bypassing Apple's customary 30% fee on digital goods. A favorable ruling could even allow Epic to offer its own app store for iPhones.\nApple is arguing that it built the App Store and gets to set the rules, which are designed to ensure that apps are high-quality and secure.\n\"Epic wants us to be Android, but we don't want to be. And our consumers don't want that either. They want the choice,\" Apple lawyer Karen Dunn said.\nEpic's argument is that Apple's App Store is anticompetitive, and that its arguments about quality and security are essentially an excuse to exclude competitors like Epic Games' title Fortnite, which was booted from Apple's store last year after it introduced a direct payment mechanism.\nOn Monday, Apple and Epic's lawyers both made their opening statements, and Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney testified. The trial is expected to last three weeks.\nA core part of the debate centers around the relevant market that Apple allegedly dominates.\nEpic is arguing that the relevant market is is iPhone app distribution. Apple says it is game distribution, and that users can easily switch to other phones and game consoles.\nTo bolster its definition, Epic is trying to show how Apple works to lock users into its products, making it more difficult to switch to Android or other platforms. On Monday, Epic lawyers cited several internal Apple documents, some over a decade old, while arguing that Apple executives built a \"walled garden\" brick by brick.\n\"Getting customers using our stores (iTunes, App, and iBookstore) is one of the best things we can do to get people hooked into the ecosystem,\" current Apple online services senior vice president Eddy Cue wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2013, according to an email revealed by Epic Games.\n\"Who leaves Apple products once they've bought apps, music, movies, etc!\" Cue concluded.\nIn another exchange, Apple executives discussed in 2013 whether releasing a version of iMessage for Android would make it easier to switch phone brands. iMessage is still exclusive to Apple products.\n\"I am concerned that the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,\" Apple software senior vice president Craig Federighi wrote in 2013.\nIn 2016, a customer emailed Apple saying that iMessage amounts to \"serious lock-in.\" As part of an internal conversation about that email, Apple's current head of marketing, Greg Jozwiak, wrote to colleagues, \"we hear this a lot.\"\nMost recently, Federighi wrote to Cook about Apple's sign-in feature which enables users to log into apps with an Apple login, saying that the feature is likely to \"make our platform more sticky\" in 2019.\nEpic also argued that Apple doesn't need the App Store approval process to keep iPhone users safe. Epic argued that because Apple has sometimes approved low-quality apps for the store, its approval process is ineffective and doesn't protect user security.\nIn an email produced as part of proceedings, former Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller wrote in 2012 \"Is no one minding the store? This is insane!!!!!!!\" in response to a report of an \"obvious rip off\" app becoming the top free app on Apple's platform.\nApple doesn't want to be Android\nIn Apple's opening statement, it emphasized that its rules have helped created a vibrant ecosystem that benefits iPhone developers, with over 1.8 million apps in the App Store.\nApple said that Epic made $750 million from the App Store, implying that the trial is merely about money and that Epic wants to use Apple's technology without paying. Apple also said that Epic was looking at the wrong market and cannot show anticompetitive conduct in the gaming market.\nApple also defended its \"walled garden\" without using those terms, citing its App Review department that manually reviews an approves apps and filters out \"obviously malicious apps.\" It said that based on its research, iOS represents only 2% of malware infections among all computing platforms.\n\"Take away from the security particular to the iPhones and the bad actors have a field day. This is why Android security statistics are so much worse,\" Dunn said.\n\"We thought about the fact that the iPhone is a phone that you're carrying around, you need it to work for you as a phone, and we cared deeply about the security of that device so it would be more protected and more reliable than PCs were at the time,\" Apple cited Schiller saying.\nThat's why Apple doesn't allow \"sideloading,\" or manual installation of apps, like Android does, Apple argued. If Epic wins, Apple argued, it would mean a less secure iPhone operating system.\nWhat's the App Store margin?\nIn its opening argument, Epic lawyers said that Apple's App Store generates large profits, with operating margins of 78% in 2019 and 75% in 2018.\nEpic cited Ned Barnes, one of its expert witnesses, who says he used internal Apple documents to come up with the calculation.\nThe profitability of Apple's App Store will be part of Epic's argument that Apple uses its market power to extract excess fees from software developers.\n\"We have documents, long detailed PowerPoints prepared for Apple's senior executive team that lay out the profitability of the App Store in regular presentations given multiple years in a row,\" Epic lawyer Katherine Forrest said.\nApple disputes the accuracy of the number and has said that the company doesn't look at profit and loss for specific units, instead looking at Apple's financials on a higher level.\n\"They're going to pull documents out of context in this case. This is incredibly misleading,\" said Apple lawyer Karen Dunn. She said in court on Monday that Apple doesn't internally allocate to the App Store the costs of building the technology for the store, and that the company has an integrated business model.\n\"Apple is concerned that analysts, investors, reporters, and others in the marketplace could misinterpret the public disclosure of non-public, unaudited financial information,\" Apple lawyers previously wrote in a court filing.\nApple's App Store is part of Apple's services business, which executives have highlighted to investors as a source of growth. Apple reported $53.77 billion in sales in its services line in its fiscal 2020 with a 66% gross margin (its fiscal year ended Sept. 26, 2020). Apple's services sales also includes subscriptions like Apple Music, AppleCare warranties, and licensing fees in addition to the App Store.\nBiden changes position, now says life doesn't begin at conception\nAbby Huntsman says 'The View' has an 'unbearable culture' that rewards 'bad behavior'\nJohn Kerry says Biden's ambitious climate plan is 'not a counter to China'\nI was fined for driving through the 'smallest bus lane in London' that's just 11 metres\n\u00ab Earnings Preview: Barrick, Exelon, GM, SunPower, Stratasys\nWhat you need to know about Greg Abel \u2014 Warren Buffett's successor at Berkshire Hathaway \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How I Met My Mother \u2014 27\nChallenging my Devotion\nPlease click here for part twenty-six.\nOn April 09th at the Yajna Shala, we were told to be at the temple after 8:30 pm, as Guruji would visit the temple the following day to perform the puja. We vacuumed, cleaned, and decorated the temple at night; there was so much love in the temple that night. We were trying to be quiet, as we were all aware that Sri Hari Ji was resting.\nThe next day, Sunday, April 10, was just an ordinary day on the calendar, but it was memorable for all of us. It was Lord Rama's birthday. Ram Navami is celebrated to mark the birth of Lord Ram (the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu) to King Dasharath and Queen Kaushalya. We got up early (4 am) for our Sadhana, then rushed to the temple for Lalita Sahasranama.\nUnfortunately, an alarming incident took place in the temple with me. That shook me from the inside. Yes, it was my pain, but then it was every devotee's pain. That incident triggered that pain; it was always inside, waiting to burst out. During this trip, I hardly (seldom) saw Sri Hari Ji at the time of aarti. I am not tall; if a more elevated person stands in front of me, I can't see (darshan) Sri Hari Ji.\nEvery devotee, just like me, has equal love and devotion in their heart, but they are just patiently and painfully waiting in the back for their chance to bow to the Divine in peace.\nMy chest became heavier. The burden of pain was unbearable. I came here to be with my Bhagwan Sri Hari Ji and Guruji; why am I facing this pain of harsh words?\nYes, darshan can be done in your heart in a larger scheme and a non-duality concept. This is all Maya around us; we shouldn't get caught in it. I get that, understand and accept that too.! But at least one time, a devotee deserves a chance to be a little closer or to see the Divine. Aren't we all here for the Divine?\nIn the middle of Lalita Sahasranama, I ran outside the temple towards the swing. I sat there, and I cried, sobbed, and cried more. I was upset at the Divine; I was upset at myself! He is the one who calls us here; now, why is he ignoring us? I called him, and I called him. I was sobbing for him.\nI took a vow and said to my Guruji, \"I understand you are busy with your work to make the world peaceful. I respect that and support that. I am not someone special, and you need to give up everything and listen to my plea. I am just here for Sri Hari's darshan and you, like every devotee. I guess I am better off in Dallas, where you are always with me, and I don't have to face this pain, humiliation, and agony. If you wish I would come back again, show me a sign, do something, and make a change. Tell me that you are watching everything, what is happening around here.\nCan every devotee ever get a fair chance to be blessed with your darshan face-to-face and in peace? Please, please, show me a sign, my Divine ma, that you are listening to me\". Please open the door for me, my Guruji. I said it out loud, surrendering at his feet, assuring myself that Guruji was listening.\n\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u092a\u093e\u0935\u0928 \u092e\u0928\u093e\u091a\u093e \u0938\u093e\u0939\u0940 \u0905\u092a\u0930\u093e\u0927 \u091c\u0928\u093e\u091a\u093e\n\u0935\u093f\u0936\u094d\u0935 \u092a\u091f \u092c\u094d\u0930\u0939\u094d\u092e\u0926\u093e\u0930\u093e \u0924\u093e\u091f\u0940 \u0909\u0918\u0921\u093e \u091c\u094d\u091e\u093e\u0928\u0947\u0936\u094d\u0935\u0930\u093e\n(A yogi is of clear mind bears the faults of humankind,\nA saint uses words in teaching, \"the world is a cloth and Brahma the thread.\" Open the door, Gyaneshwara!)\nI know that not even the Divine has that much power to shake my faith and trust in my Guruji, the Divine himself. I don't know if it was the test for the Divine or the test of my devotion, trust, and surrender.\nRia Ji and Gunngun Ji came running toward me; they saw me bawling my eyes out. They hugged, consoled, and tried to convince me that I should come inside the temple. It was almost getting close to 7 am. I refused; I couldn't put my step in there anymore. I was disappointed with the situation. I told them, \"Unless Guruji opens the door today, I will never return. It's his turn now; I tried everything\". I was hurt inside, but I put my utmost devotion and love to the test of Guruji.\nGunngun Ji gently reminded me, with so much concern and love, \"One never puts the Divine to the test!\" But I thought I had no choice, I felt I was helpless, plus it was done; I couldn't take it back now. When both girls refused to go to the temple without me for aarti, I had no choice but to go with them. At the temple, I sat away from the negative vibes but a bit close to my Gunngun Ji and Ria Ji. Gunngun Ji, my soul sister, was holding my hand, waiting for the Divine, our Guruji.\nPlease click here for part twenty eight.\nWhich is Your Favourite Discourse by Swamiji?\nSri H asked in Spiritual Wisdom 1mo ago 1136 views 5\nJai Shri Hari!\nMine is Insight on How to Meditate.\nI would love to know your favorites.\nAlso please provide links to the respective video.\nSide Note: As I don't know hindi, please add links to the videos that are available with english subtitles (almost every video of swamiji is present with english CC except few)\nHar Har Mahadev!\najay S replied 1mo ago Goto discussion\nHello Sri ji,\nVery hard question you have asked, to pick favorite video of Swamiji \ud83d\ude42 . I just love his each and every video. I have picked two which i saw quite long back and loved it:\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bEXUBtf2ET0 - Suffering and You\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lp22PH6BUO0 - The Journey of Self-Evolution\n- Jai Shri Hari!!\nWhy do you think Swamiji endured Baba ji's tormenting behavior?\nAparna S asked in Spiritual Wisdom 1mo ago 473 views 15\nLast day of the year and I chose to re-read Swamiji's memoir, because it fills me with inspiration. Somehow I cannot still process and it really makes me upset every time I read, how could someone like Swamiji who was so well sorted in this mind about his goal let Baba ji treat him like that? Or use him and let him do so?\nWas it a sense of surrender ? Was it just the faith that he would take him closer to his goal? In either case, should we not use our mind to analyze at all?\nPS- I am already sorry if I shouldn't derive such meaning out of it, it is what was evidently happening though.\nA replied 1mo ago Goto discussion\nAparna,\nI used to think that way too but I have come to appreciate Swamiji's life story in a new light. As we move along the path one of the changes that occurs in the mind of a sadhak is the ability to take a step back and gaze at the big picture of life more and dwell less on the details. IMO, Swamiji would not be the guru that he is today if Naga Baba had not been the guru he was back in the day. Things people have come to love and revere like Os.me, Sadhana app, Black lotus App, Swamiji's Ashram and all the initiates of Swamiji etc etc ..none of that would exist today as we know it if it weren't for Naga Baba. In a way, all of us owe Naga Baba a huge debt of gratitude if you think about it.\nAll the things we are grateful for with respect to Swamiji came about as fruits of his intense tapas in the Himalayas. However, If Naga Baba was even ever so slightly different in his disposition, Swamiji would never have left the ashram in the first place and his life story would have taken a different trajectory. It eventually might have led to his realization in some other form no doubt, but It would have looked different from the story we have come to love and appreciate right now in our present. Therefore, when you step back and gaze at the totality of it, you will find that all the characters in a story add so much color and beauty to the story. That's why in a movie or a novel, the person playing an antagonist is just as important as the protagonist. Because the role of a villain is to make you fall in love with the Hero and root for him! The character of Ravana makes us fall in love with Rama and Sita and aren't we grateful that he exists in the story?\nWhen you take a step back and reflect on the big picture in its totality, you will start to appreciate the intricacies and nuances in a whole new light and glimpse at the immense beauty contained in it! Beauty is an emergent quality. To give you a music analogy, the high and low notes together is what makes a song so beautiful and melodious :).\nI will also add one final note which is that sometimes great beings go through enormous challenges not necessarily for themselves but to show the world how to handle such situations if the rest of us ever find ourselves in one. Isn't that what inspiration is all about? \ud83d\ude42\nWishing you a brilliant 2023!!!\nOn Death: Choosing How To Die. Ever thought about this?\nAlok S asked in Spiritual Wisdom 2mo ago 440 views 29\nDeath is going to visit us sooner or later. And so many people die everyday on this planet. Have you ever thought about how you would like to die?\nWe can't choose our death. Or can we? And if yes, to how much extent? Should we even choose our death? If you had the choice, how would you like to execute your passing? Let me know in the comments. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udf38\nPromit R replied 2mo ago Goto discussion\n1. Yes, with a smile.\n2. How we live determines how we die. As humans, we have a great degree of freedom in choosing our actions, responses and conditions.\n3. Check out the life of Diogenes the Cynic. Dude just stopped breathing through sheer force of will.\n4. I imagine a beautiful way to die would be to expend every ounce of our life energies in service of this world, then...detachedly watch it merge away. From a no-thing, to nothing.\nJai Sri Hari \ud83d\ude4f\nQuestion Regarding Self Realization.\nSri H asked in Spiritual Awakening 3w ago 364 views 13\nToday I got an uncommon doubt which never arouse within me, I always thought I was capable of becoming more spiritual and Attain Mahadeva within this lifetime, but by looking back at myself I became more emotional and depressed \ud83d\ude14 than ever. (Sorry for this long question)\nCan a normal person like me who is struggling to break the hardened tendencies of mind, who is indisciplined to practice meditation or sadhana, who is less mindful of his thoughts, speech and actions, who is controlled by the mind instead of making it listen to him, who is fallen under the trap of worldy pleasures, who is wasting his precious time, who forgets the wisdom received from his intellect and gets engaged in the guidance of his five senses, who is less compassionate or truthful (finds hard to follow all the virtues of a sadhak), who is bombarded with impure and negative thoughts, who is egoistic and overconfident, who often gets angry to small things, who has no spiritual experiences so far, who is less devotional, who finds it hard to surrender, who isn't even worthy to worship his isht, who isn't even capable of becoming a recipient of Divine's grace: Can become self realised within this lifetime?\nI know it's never late but something inside really haunts me: What if\nNeelam Om replied 3w ago Goto discussion\nCongratulations and I deeply respect your courage to accept your infirmities (I won't call them flaws) as nobody is flawless. It's only those who knows and accept them and start to work on each flaw step by step, one at a time can remove them and replace them with the positive one. That's what spiritual transformation is. Good news is that, there is no age limit to begin with. You can start anywhere and anytime. And of course, Mahadev is purely bhole, innocent. Why not, walk the path, see how Mahadev takes you.\nAnd don't worry about afflictions, if you desire this, then you must have the courage to remove them to walk towards light. All it takes your willingness. Have a happy journey!!\nHow to pray when things are completely out of your control?\nShailu asked in Spiritual Wisdom 2mo ago 305 views 10\nI am talking about situations where you are absolutely helpless and at mercy of others whims and fancies. The only recourse is prayer. How should one pray as there is absolutely no other action that is possible and one is engulfed with worry and anxiety? Also the decisions will take 2-3 months to be made, so very difficult to maintain calm during this time. How to channelise one's fear and worry into prayer?\nKomal Om replied 2mo ago Goto discussion\nI am sorry to hear that you are going through a tough situation, Shailu.\nIt isn't easy but the best way is surrender.\nIn such situations as long as you have done the best you can and things are out of your control, speak your heart out to the Divine and leave the outcome at His feet.\nSurrendering and after telling Him that now it is for Him to handle, you will feel a burden be lifted off your shoulders.\nAdditionally what Anu suggested about relying on a trusted friend is super helpful. If you don't have such a friend, I'd suggest praying for one or life guides if you feel completely overwhelmed.\nMeditationSpiritual AwakeningSpiritual Wisdom\nSona Om\nDallas, US\nI am offering complete surrender and devotion to my beloved Guruji. My existence to my love, Sri Hari Ji, is my Divine Ma in the form of Om Swami! \ud83d\udc93\ud83d\ude4f \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udc93 Feel free to reach out to me at sonasriom@gmail.com\nhttps:\/\/sonaom.medium.com\/\nAre You in Love?\nSpirituality in its truest essence is nothing but universal love.\nOm Swami 278 Love\nThe Six Stages of Awakening\nWhen the floodgates to the stream of consciousness open...\nOm Swami 291 Philosophy of Life\n46.9K views 237 11mo ago\nPerfecting Your Posture in Meditation\nAnd how to vastly improve the quality and length of your meditation\u2026\nOm Swami 237 Meditation\n37.7K views 14 10y ago\nKarma of Four Types\nWhat happens to the ripe apple you don't pick? It falls to the ground. There is no escape.\nOm Swami 14 Karma\nThe Four Noble Truths\nof Om Swami...\nOm Swami 360 Self Discovery\n4 comments on this post. Please login to view member comments and participate in the discussion.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Avril Lavigne teases huge collaborations on new album after signing with Travis Barker\nByMike Francis\nAfter signing with Tr label last year, pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne teased huge collaborations on her new album. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Canadian singer revealed that she was inspired by the recent Travis DTA record. She also confirmed that she is working with Goldfinger. The new album is expected to be released sometime in 2018.\nThe Canadian pop-punk singer revealed on Instagram her new album line-up, which features the rock icons Travis Baker and Blink 182. This is the biggest lineup to date, and the announcement of such an impressive collaboration is sure to make the Canadian star's fans excited. After signing with TR, the pop-punk artist has been busy teasing fans with news of her huge collaborations.\nThe announcement comes as Avril Lavigne celebrates her 20th year in the music industry. The pop-punk singer, who signed with Train 2011, has teased her fans with huge collaborations for her new album. The first single of the album, Bite Me, was released last year and featured the Blink 182 drummer Travis Baker.\nThe new album is expected to be her sixth studio album. After signing with Tr, she also teases huge collaborations with artists like Beyonc\u00e9, Avril, and Skrill. Upon joining Tr, Avril's fans were ecstatic. Avril Lavigne is a Canadian native. She hails from the small town of Napanee, Ontario, Canada, and has been singing since she was a child.\nAlso Read: Sacked-Hollyoaks Star Sarah Jayne Dunn Takes a Sweep at the Soap With Racy Comparison Snaps\nThe Canadian singer signed a two-album deal with Arista Records at age fifteen. Let Go (2002) was her first number one album in the US and peaked at number one in Canada. It was a huge hit, with her skate-punk persona gaining popularity. It sold 10 million copies worldwide. In Canada, she is one of the most popular pop artists in the world.\nAvril Lavigne teases major collaborations on her upcoming album. The Canadian singer has previously teased big collaborations with artists such as Drake and Nicki Minaj, but the new album will feature more of her favorite pop stars. This time, she's focusing on collaborating with artists from various genres and eras. For example, she has collaborated with rappers Yeezy and the rapper Jeremy Iovine.\nTwo new mixes of David Bowie's Shadow Man released\nAdele Shares Another 'Oh My God' Music Video Teaser\nAmerican Duo The Astronomers' Released Their Debut Album The Occasion And Will Head Out on Their First Headlining Tour\nDec 22, 2022 Charles Logan\nPeople Love Chuck Gibbs's Album 'Stay Active Due to its Unique Concepts\nDec 16, 2022 Sergio Cava","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Fitchburg, MA House Fire, Apr 1931\nFitchburg, MA House Fire, Apr 1931\nSubmitted by Linda Horton\nMassachusetts |\nHouse Damaged $300\nDamage estimated at about $300 was caused by a fire at the home of L. D. Taylor, 21 South street, yesterday afternoon. According to the story told Chief Henry J. Hyatt a four-year-old boy was alone on the upper floor of an L connected with the house and a few minutes after the boy came down the fire was discovered.\nRoy Lafleur, a member of Hose 4, was passing and notified the occupants of the house. Box 41 was sounded after Central station had been notified by telephone. Much water was used and the lower floor was damaged by water. Fire broke through on the roof in a few places.\nFitchburg Sentinel, Fitchburg, MA 27 Apr 1931\nMassachusetts Disasters\nMassachusetts Old Photos\nSpringfield, MA Hotel Fire, Dec 1931\nRevere, MA Beachmont Gardens Fire, Apr 1931\nNahant, MA House Fire, Apr 1931\nCambridge, MA Hotel Commander Fire, Apr 1931","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Newsstand Menu\nCSHL In the news\nEmbargo Credentials\nHome \/ Newsstand \/ CSHL Stories and Media\nCSHL's Florin Albeanu, Partha Mitra awarded NSF 'Early Concept' grants for neuroscience\n(left) Assistant Professor Florin Albeanu, Ph.D. and (right) Professor Partha Mitra, Ph.D.\nemail envelop icontwitter icon share buttonfacebook icon share buttonlinkedin icon share button\nCold Spring Harbor, NY \u2014 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to two Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) neuroscientists. The researchers, Assistant Professor Florin Albeanu and Professor Partha Mitra, are working to develop new technologies that will provide insight into the structure and operation of neural circuits and address how complex behaviors emerge from them. The awards are part of President Barack Obama's multi-year BRAIN Initiative, announced last year, which aims to answer fundamental questions about how the brain works.\nAlbeanu joined the CSHL faculty in 2008, with the goal of understanding how the activity patterns of neuronal circuits change during learning. His work explores how the brain interprets sensory information to shape perceptions and trigger complex behaviors in different contexts. Albeanu and his team use olfaction in mice as a model for brain function. They have developed a novel \"patterned illumination\" technique that allows them to reversibly control neuronal activity in select subsets of neurons and, in parallel, to probe how signals are transferred from the nose to different processing areas in the brain.\nMitra is working to develop an integrative picture of brain function, incorporating theory, informatics, and experimental work. He is founder of the Mouse Brain Architecture Project, an experimental effort to develop a brain-wide connectivity map of the mouse brain. The very large volumes of data generated by the project have given rise to new analytical challenges that are now being addressed. Mitra's work extends to the interface of physics, engineering, and biology, where he is developing theories that will allow researchers to extract meaningful information about neural circuit function.\n\"Florin Albeanu and Partha Mitra are working at the edge of the technology limit in neuroscience, and are actively expanding the limits of what we can do to understand the ultimate mysteries of the mammalian brain's structure and operations,\" said CSHL President and CEO Dr. Bruce Stillman. \"On behalf of the faculty I congratulate them on winning EAGER awards, through which the NSF enables them to continue to innovate.\"\nThis year, the NSF funded 36 research projects through EAGER, just one facet of the NSF's support for the BRAIN Initiative. The award provides $300,000 over two years for the development of innovative conceptual and physical tools to advance neuroscience. The awards are intended to fund short-term, proof-of-concept projects with the prospect of high-payoffs.\nWritten by: Jaclyn Jansen, Science Writer | publicaffairs@cshl.edu | 516-367-8455\nStayed informed\nSign up for our newsletter to get the latest discoveries, upcoming events, videos, podcasts, and a news roundup delivered straight to your inbox every month.\nAbout Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory\nFounded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners, the private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,100 people including 600 scientists, students and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program annually hosts more than 12,000 scientists. The Laboratory's education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school and the DNA Learning Center with programs for middle and high school students and teachers. For more information, visit www.cshl.edu\nBRAIN Initiative Faculty Awards Florin Albeanu Neuroscience Partha Mitra\nDISCOVER: Related stories\nLippman wins NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences\nCSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman was awarded the NAS Prize for his work in the field of plant genetics. Read more \u00bb\nNew tool for investigating brain cells, Parkinson's, & more\nResearchers have crafted a compound for targeting specific brain cell receptors, creating new opportunities to study the brain and Parkinson's disease. Read more \u00bb\nAbnormal neuron activity manifests as parental neglect\nWithout the gene Mecp2, mice can't learn to care for crying pups. Knowing when the brain is able to learn may help treat developmental disorders. Read more \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Davis v. U.S. Department of Education: Another law graduate is denied student-loan bankruptcy relief\nFew overburdened student-loan debtors attempt to get their loans discharged in bankruptcy. Most believe their student loans are not dischargeable as a matter of law. But among the small number of people who file for bankruptcy and try to get their student loans forgiven, a fair number are law-school graduates.\nA handful of law-school graduates have been successful in bankruptcy court: the Barrett case out of California, the Hedlund case out of the state of Washington, and, more recently, the Rosenberg decision out of New York are examples of good outcomes for law graduates. But most are unsuccessful.\nDavis v. U.S. Department of Education is the latest in a string of decisions in which a J.D. graduate with crushing debt is denied relief by a federal bankruptcy judge. Jeffrey Michael Davis graduated from John Marshall Law School in 2008, Apparently, Davis \"performed poorly in law school\" (p. 706), but he obtained an LL.M. degree (an advanced law degree) from John Marshall in 2013. At the time his adversary case was decided, he was 41 years old.\nAfter graduating from law school, Davis sought full-time employment but he was not able to find a steady job as a lawyer. After graduation, he worked as a document review attorney on a contract-to-contract basis. In other words, in the 11 years since graduating from John Marshall Law School, he never secured a full-time job in the legal field. His salary in 2018 was approximately $61,000, above the poverty level. Nevertheless, Davis was the father of a young child with disabilities, and his childcare expenses were significant.\nDavis financed his law studies with student loans from both the federal government and a private lender. By the time he arrived in bankruptcy court, his total indebtedness was $351,000. According to Illinois Bankruptcy Judge Timothy Barnes, Davis made some payments on his DOE loans but had made no payments on his federal Stafford loans or his private loans.\nJudge Barnes analyzed Davis's petition for relief under the three-part Brunner test and concluded that Davis did not meet even one of the three parts.\nIn Judge Barnes' opinion, Davis could not meet part one of the Brunner test because he could not show that he would be unable to maintain a minimal standard of living if forced to pay back his student loans. In the judge's view, Davis had not lived frugally enough, noting disapprovingly that Davis subscribed to some streaming services.\nThe judge also pointed out that Davis had not applied for higher-paying jobs over the past four or five years. \"In the absence of efforts to secure a higher-paying position, whether as an attorney or otherwise, and given the lack of other evidence regarding efforts to increase his income, [Davis] has failed to demonstrate that he has maximized or attempted to maximize his income\" (p. 705).\nRegarding part two of the Brunner test, Judge Barnes ruled that Davis \"failed to demonstrate the existence of additional circumstances indicating that [he] will likely be unable to repay the Students Loans for a significant portion of the repayment period \" (p. 707). The judge pointed out that Davis has at least 20 more years of earning potential. The judge indicated that Davis had shown no unusual circumstances that would hinder him from finding a higher paying job.\nFinally, Judge Barnes concluded that Davis had not been able to demonstrate that he had made good faith efforts to repay his loans. The fact that Davis had not made any payments on some of his loans \"weighs against a finding of good faith\" (p. 708). Judge Barnes ruled. And--as the judge had already indicated, he did not think Davis had tried to maximize his income, minimize his expenses, or look for a higher paying job.\nI disagree with Judge Barnes' decision. First, Judge Barnes is a lawyer himself. Surely he knows that the job market for lawyers in the U.S. has been terrible since Davis graduated from law school in 2008. The judge should also know that the job possibilities for people who graduate from undistinguished law schools like John Marshall and who do not have stellar grades face particularly grim job prospects.\nFinally, Judge Barnes should know that an L.L.M. degree from a lackluster law school like John Marshall often does not make a lawyer more marketable. In fact, for many J.D. graduates, an advanced degree in law merely adds to a lawyer's debt load.\nIn my view, the only question Judge Barnes should have considered when evaluating Mr. Davis's case is this: Can Mr. Davis repay $351,000 in student loans?\nThe answer to that question is undoubtedly no. Judge Barnes concluded that Barnes had not looked hard enough for a better job, but who would not look for better wages if a higher paying job was at least a remote possibility.\nI doubt very much whether Davis--who has a law degree and an advanced law degree--likes working on a contract-to-contract basis for $61,000 a year. But I feel sure he is doing the best he can. Apparently, he has worked consistently in the field of law for 11 years. He should get some credit for that.\nIf the Department of Education thinks it achieved something by opposing Mr. Davis's request for student-loan relief, it is deluding itself. I think it is highly likely that Davis will be forced into an income-based repayment plan that will end when he is 66 years old and that accruing interest on his debt will prevent him from ever paying off his loans--now more than a third of a million dollars.\nA compassionate ruling, a sensible ruling, and the right ruling would be for Judge Barnes to forgive all of Davis's crushing debt and give him the fresh start. That is the bankruptcy courts' duty, after all, to give honest but unfortunate debtors a fresh start.\nDavis v. U.S. Department of Education (in re Davis), 608 B.R. 693 (Bkrtcy N.D. Ill. 2019).\nPosted by Richard Fossey at 7:38\u202fAM\nLabels: Brunner, Jeffrey Michael Davis, John Marshall Law School, Judge Timothy Barnes, Rosenberg v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, student loan bankruptcy, undue hardship\nMost Recent Book\nClick to order and learn more on Amazon\nOccupy Wall Street Needs a Clear Objective ...\nDefaulting Student Loan Debtors Have No Place to Hide ...\nBlood from a Turnip...\nFollow by Email!\nRichard Fossey\nRichard Fossey is a professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana. He received his law degree from the University of Texas and his doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is editor of Catholic Southwest, A Journal of History and Culture.\nDavis v. 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{"text":"Lindsey Lomis\nwww.lindseylomis.com\nLindsey Lomis may be a singer, songwriter, performer, and dog-mom, but she most endeavors to be a friend. The 19-year-old Nashville artist relates with a familial intimacy as she unpacks her experiences through eloquent lyricism and artful instrumentation rooted in jazz-y delivery and uplifted by pop palatability. Such honesty has enabled her to build an unshakable bond with a growing and devoted fan base. After amassing millions of streams and earning acclaim from OnesToWatch, American Songwriter, and Idolator, to name a few, she connects more than ever on her Daydreaming EP [Altadena Records\/Warner Records].\n\"I write about my experiences and my friends,\" she explains. \"The EP is a conversation. Relatability is the most important thing to me. I hope you feel like these songs were written about you. I want you to feel like I'm your friend.\"\nAt nine-years-old, she embraced music and never let go. After honing her craft for years, she caught the attention of Brandi Carlile with a cover of \"That Wasn't Me,\" resulting in a duet on stage with the GRAMMY\u00ae Award-winning star. As her independent EP Chapter I gathered millions of streams powered by \"Simple Love\" and \"String of Lights,\" she earned the endorsement of high-profile supporters such as Meghan Trainor, Alessia Cara, Allen Stone, Ryan Tedder, Lennon Stella, AJ Mitchell, Shawn Mendes, Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas, and Justin Bieber who touted her on Instagram Live. Signing to Altadena Records and Warner Records, her 2020 EP In The Madness boasted highlights such as \"Feel\" and \"Slow Motion\" [feat. JoJo]. The day after her high school graduation in 2021, she stole away to Los Angeles to record what would become Daydreaming over the course of a month.\nThis time around, she switched up the process.\n\"That was my first time going to L.A. alone,\" she recalls. \"It gave me a sense of independence. It was an experience I'd never had before. I also went into the EP knowing I wanted to start all of these songs more acoustically. Instead of beginning with the production, every song comes from my guitar, chords, and melodies. The past couple of tours have just been me and my guitar. That's how I always did it growing up. At the same time, all of these songs came from good memories.\"\nShe introduces the EP with \"die with my friends.\" A plucky clean guitar riff and simmering beat underline her soulful intonation on the verses. When the hook hits, she croons a gen-Z ride-or-die proclamation of her own, \"But if we're all gonna die, I might as well die with my friends.\"\n\"I wrote it to my friends before they left for college,\" she explains. \"It was the last summer with these people who I had grown up with, and I was bummed out about that. They're like my sisters. They've given me so much advice. So, I thought of this na\u00efve idea of living our lives together and growing old. It's okay now. Even though they've been at school for a year, we're still close.\"\nThen, there's \"save your breath\". Her voice glides over a slinky beat and energetic guitar as she flexes her range, fluttering towards an infectious refrain.\n\"It's a fun one,\" she goes on. \"You see someone you think is cute. However, when you talk to this person, you realize he has a horrible personality. I noticed this as I went to parties here and there. It's part of being a 19-year-old,\" she laughs.\nOn the other end of the spectrum, \"call me when u get home\" hinges on her dynamic range. It builds into a hypnotic hook punctuated by her high register. \"I wrote it as a check-in for my friends to make sure they get home safely,\" she reveals. \"I always tell them to text me when they get home. I think about it on a regular basis. The world can be dark for women and young girls. However, the song can apply to guys or parents too. It's something I talk about all the time, so why not write and sing about it?\"\nThe title track \"DAYDREAMING\" bottles the butterflies of an unshakable crush into a wistful anthem.\n\"You're thinking of that one person,\" she smiles. \"I was so happy with how it turned out. The production was experimental, but I added guitar to it. I'm daydreaming 90% of the time.\"\nIn the end, Lindsey's music ultimately resembles listening to one of your closest friends tell a story.\n\"I wrote all of these things that feel real to who I am,\" she leaves off. \"The biggest takeaway is you have someone who understands you and gets you. This EP is just about life for someone who is growing up and figuring it out. The music explains it all. You can really hear who I am through the lyrics and messages. Also, you can add my dog looks totally adorable right now. Put that in the bio.\"\nChristine Kane\nMC Saunders\nLauren Azevedo\nMarc Dennis\nJulie Greenberg\nBennett Beckner\nNeptune Theatre\nThe Centre In Vancouver\nRoseland Theater\nThe Complex\nSummit Music Hall\nFillmore Minneapolis\nHouse of Blues Chicago\nSaint Andrews Hall\nPhoenix Concert Theatre\nHammerstein Ballroom\nBig Night Live\nTheatre of Living Arts\nThe Underground - Fillmore Charlotte\nMarathon Music Works\nBuckhead Theatre\nHouse of Blues Houston\nEmos Austin\nHouse of Blues Dallas\nThe Van Buren\nThe Wiltern\nLINDSEY LOMIS DROPS HEARTFELT DAYDREAMING EP\nToday, pop-soul powerhouse Lindsey Lomis releases her new EP Daydreaming. Listen HERE via Altadena\/Warner Records. Alongside the heartfelt five-track collection, which includes recent singles \"call me when u get home\" and \"save your breath,\" Lomis shares a new video for \"die with my friends,\" a\u2026\nLindsey Lomis Shares \"Cheeky\" Single \"Save Your Breath\"\nLINDSEY LOMIS SHARES \"CHEEKY\" SINGLE \"SAVE YOUR BREATH\" \u2013 LISTEN HERE FROM HER FORTHCOMING DAYDREAMING EP OUT AUGUST 19 SUPPORTING JOSHUA BASSETT ON TOUR THIS FALL June 3,\u2026\nLINDSEY LOMIS RETURNS WITH SENTIMENTAL SINGLE \"DIE WITH MY FRIENDS\"\nPop-soul powerhouse Lindsey Lomis returns with the sentimental new single \"die with my friends\" on Altadena\/Warner Records. It's her first new recording since the release of her major-label debut EP,\u2026\n@lindseylomis\n@sourglendale YASSS how bout i give u some new music to stream too ?\n@sourglendale 84 now omg\n@sleeptightkait ONLY referring to you as bakedpotatochips from now on","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dr. Thomas Greaney\nConsultant Radiologist\nDr Thomas Greaney is a Consultant Radiologist at the Bon Secours Hospital Tralee. Graduated from NUI Galway 1990 and completed MRCPI in 1993. Trained in Radiology at St. Vincent's University Hospital from 1993 to 1997 and completed FFR(RCSI) and FRCR in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Po... read more\nDr Thomas Greaney is a Consultant Radiologist at the Bon Secours Hospital Tralee.\nGraduated from NUI Galway 1990 and completed MRCPI in 1993. Trained in Radiology at St. Vincent's University Hospital from 1993 to 1997 and completed FFR(RCSI) and FRCR in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Post-fellowship training At McMaster University Medical Centre and Henderson Hospital, Ontario and at Addenbrookes and Papworth Hospitals, Cambridge, 1997 \u2013 1999.\nConsultant Radiologist at Kerry General Hospital (1999 \u2013 2013) and at Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee (1999 - ).\nDr Greaney has participated in numerous publications and presentations, which includes presenting at the Scientific Exhibit at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna.\nMB, B.C.h, B.A.O (1990)\nM.R.C.P.I (1993)\nF.F.R.R.C.S.I (1996)\nF.R.C.R (1997)\nGold Medal in final fellowship examination of the Faculty of Radiologists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1996.\nScholarship to University College Galway for top ten entrants from city and county of Galway 1984.\nKerry University Hospital\nAddenbrooke's and Papworths Hospitals\nMcMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton\nHenderson Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation\nSt Vincent's Hospital, Dublin\nDaisy Hill Hospital, Newry\nTyrone and Fermanagh Hospital, Omagh\nAltnagelvin Area Hospital, Derry\nPortiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe\nUniversity Hospital Galway\nComparison of an asymmetric screen-film combinations with a conventional screen-film combination for chest radiography in 51 patients.\nT. Greaney, C McCoy, J Masterson. British Journal of Radiology, 70 (1997): 929-932\nUltrasound-guided injection of Recalcitrant Plantar Fasciitis\nD.Kanc, T. Greaney, B. Bresnihan, R. Gibney, O.Fitzgerald\nJournal Article, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. 57(1998): 383-384\nLow dose urography: A comparison of a non-ionic dimer, iodixanol (Visipaque) with a non-ionic monomer, iohexol (Omnipaque)\nS Skehan, F. Rasmussen, R. Gibney, S. Lindequist, S. Moller- Nielsen, M. Svaland, V. By Kampenes, K. Bjartveit, T. Greaney, S. Damgaard, J. Masterson\nJournal atricle, British Journal of Radiology, September 1998.\nMultiple Gastric Polyps in Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy\nT. Greaney, N.Nolan, D.Malone\nAbdominal Imaging, June 1999\nPalliation of Primary and Recurrent Gastric Carcinoma with Explandable Metallic Stents:\n2 Case Reports\nT Greaney, R.Gibney, D.Malone\nJournal of the Canadian Association of Radiologists, June 1999\nThe role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis and management of idiopathic plantar fasciitis\nKane D, Greaney T, Shanahan M, Duffy G, Bresnihan B, Gibney R, Fitzgerald O.\nRheumatology (Oxford) 2001 Sep; 40(9):1002-8.\nValue of double-contrast barium enema performed immediately after incomplete colonoscopy\nBrown AL, Skehan SJ, Greaney T, Rawlinson J, Somers S, Stevenson GW.\nAJR Am J Roentgenol. 2001 Apr, 176(4):943-5.\nUltrasonography in the diagnosis and management of psoriatic dactylitis\nKane D, Greaney T, Bresnihan B, Gibney R, Fitzgerald O.\nJ Rheumatol. 1999 Aug; 26(8):1746-51","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Latest News\u2190 Back\nNew low-cost African airline to sell first tickets next week\nNew low-cost African carrier Fastjet would start selling tickets next week, ahead of its first flight later this month, the company, which is featuring the African Grey Parrot as its logo, said on Monday.\nAim-listed Lonrho, which owns 67.4% of Fastjet, said in a statement that the airline would launch a Website next week, providing information on routes and fare schedules, as well as allowing tickets to be bought using credit\/debit cards.\nTickets, available from as low as $20 one way, excluding taxes and charges, would also be sold through travel agents and the airline's own sales desk, call centre and offices throughout East Africa.\nFastjet would establish its first operating base at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, followed by a second base in Nairobi, Kenya, using three leased Airbus A319 aircraft. It has plans to launch in Accra, Ghana, and Luanda, Angola.\n\"We are excited that the launch is now imminent and that Fastjet will be turning from a concept into a reality. The launch of Fastjet has generated enormous interest in East Africa and we are delighted with the strong partnerships being forged with suppliers and governments across the region,\" Fastjet chairperson David Lenigas stated.\nCommenting on the airline's new branding, Fastjet CEO Ed Winter said the African Grey was renowned for its intelligence and was, therefore, a perfect personification of Fastjet's motto: smart travel.\nEdited by: Mariaan Webb\nCreamer Media Senior Researcher and Deputy Editor Online\nsq:0.325 1.051s - 504pq - 2rq","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Join the Boys & Girls Club team. Check out our open positions here.\nSioux Falls Empower Campus\nSioux Falls 57th Street Learning Center\nBrandon Elementary School\nBrandon Inspiration Elementry School\nBrandon Fred Assam Elementary School\nBrandon Robert Bennis Elementary & Brandon Intermediate\nHarrisburg Journey Elementary School\nHarrisburg Explorer Elementary School\nHarrisburg Adventure Elementary School\nDowntown Community Youth Center\nLacey Village ClubHouse\nInfant - Pre-K\nK - 5 Summer Enrichment\nCharacter & Leadership Programs\nSports & Recreation Programs\nEducation, STEM & Arts Programs\nYouth of the Year\nHome \u25cf\nNews \u25cf\nCamp registrations opening up, what to expect this summer\nApril 21, 2021 \/ By Lisa Verdin\nSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -Summer is just around the corner and registration is opening up for camps across the Sioux Empire. Spaces are already starting to fill up for summer camps at the Washington Pavilion and the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire.\n\"We have seen a really good response to our summer camps. We've been fortunate that we have, you know 70 percent of them are filling up. And so I think we're a little bit surprised about how quickly they've been filling up and the response, but you know, we'll take it any day,\" said Maddy Grogan, Director of Education for the Washington Pavilion.\nIt's recommended families sign up as soon as possible to ensure they get a spot.\nBoth camps were held in person last year, and they are taking what they learned into this summer. Safety protocols will be followed.\n\"Keeping them in the same groups in the event that, you know small things happen. We are ready and able to kind of make some changes and keep everyone safe,\" said Billy Mawhiney, Director of Operations for Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire.\nGroup sizes will also be smaller.\nThis year, the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire are looking at safe ways to get kids out into the community.\n\"One of the big moments I think is really finally getting out and doing some of those field trips that we weren't able to do last year. So swimming I think is top of every kids' list this summer,\" said Mawhiney.\nThe Washington Pavilion is also offering virtual options for families.\nOne is called Experience Your Washington Pavilion at Home.\n\"Those are free options for families. They can browse our website and find different science experiments, art projects, gallery tours, that sort of thing,\" said Grogan.\nThe other is called Pavilion in the Classroom and costs $20.\n\"Videos that have a tour or a science demo and then they are paired with an activity that matches,\" said Grogan.\nIt was created for classes to use in place of a field trip, but families are welcome to try it out as well.\nAfter a difficult year, these organizations are just excited to offer some fun opportunities to kids this summer.\nFor more information on Washington Pavilion summer camps click here.\nFor more information on Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire summer camps click here.\nCopyright 2021 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.\n\u00a9 2022 Boys and Girls Club of the Sioux Empire","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ferrari reveals J50 Based On 488 Spider\nPiecha Mercedes C63 AMG Estate body kit and powerkit\nBest apps for sports car owners\nMcLaren reveales the new 675LT\nPorsche reveales new 911 GTS Club Coupe special edition\nSports Car Zone\nGlobal motoring news\nMotorsport New Models News Sports Cars\nRocketsports Racing's Jaguar XKR GT2\nApril 27, 2009 April 30, 2009 Rudi\t0 Comments american le mans series, Jaguar, Jaguar XKR, racing\nRocketsports Racing officially announced a GT2 program for the American Le Mans Series that will see the East Lansing, Michigan-based team reunite with the Jaguar brand by entering a Jaguar XKR for a partial season in 2009 with a full-season championship effort in 2010.\n\"It has been difficult to be out of competitive racing for nearly a year,\" said RSR team owner Paul Gentilozzi. \"We are most fortunate to be able to return to what we know, winning sportscar championships. In particular, winning them in Jaguars. We haven't spent our time idly; we've focused on engineering and construction of the Jaguar XKR. The luxury of time that we traditionally don't have in this process has been a great asset. We feel like our work with both the ALMS and the ACO will give us a car that is number one: competitive on the track, number two: representative of Jaguar's racing history, and number three: economically viable for customers in the GT2 series around the world.\"\nRSR will be entering the ALMS with Jaguar as a technical and marketing partner. Jaguar has provided vital engineering, information and support to assist the team in the homologation and construction process. Construction of the Jaguar XKR is near completion at the RSR facility. A parallel engine development process is also underway for the new AJ-133 direct injected 5-liter normally aspirated engine. The company's plan is to begin testing and development in June and enter the ALMS series mid-summer. RSR will be building at least three XKR's this year and will have cars available for customer use in 2010.\n\"The addition of Rocketsports Racing and Jaguar XKR speaks volumes about the status of the American Le Mans Series,\" said Scott Atherton, President and CEO of the world's leading sports car series. \"Not only does the Series add another prestigious automobile brand to its already world class lineup of manufacturers, but the fact that this addition occurs during such a challenging time in our industry makes the announcement truly significant. Paul Gentilozzi is one of the most experienced and qualified people in motorsports and his decision to bring Rocketsports and the Jaguar brand into the American Le Mans Series at this time is the best endorsement we could ask for.\"\nLooking back over the decades, I believe Jaguar's finest hours in motorsports have occurred in sportscar racing. The timing of its return couldn't be better. Jaguar can introduce, develop and showcase their technologies and immediately link the DNA of their racecar to the XKR in the showroom in a way that no other form of motorsport can match. We are very proud to be welcoming Paul Gentilozzi, Rocketsports and the Jaguar brand as the newest stakeholders of the American Le Mans Series, and we look forward to seeing them on the track in the very near future\".\nThe XKR racecar is based on the successful Jaguar XKR Aluminum chassis. Combining stampings, forgings, and extrusions, fastened by special rivets and high strength adhesives, the Jaguar designed structure offers an excellent platform on which to build a championship winning racecar. Added to this structure are steel roll cage and reinforcing members providing safety and stiffness in the face 4.17.09_rsr_gt2_launch3of the challenges presented by the demanding circuits and competition in the ALMS. The all-aluminum AJ-133 powerplant breathing through ACO mandated restrictors will be tuned to last 24 grueling hours at Le Mans and power the Jaguar XKR through the historic hills of Road Atlanta during the Petit Le Mans. The carbon fiber body optimizes air flow as permitted in the ACO rules, while also maintaining the design spirit of the beautiful XKR production car.\nRocketsports, Inc.'s previous competition in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) resulted in 17 victories, including a GTS class win at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1992. Running an Oldsmobile Cutlass in 1992, Paul Gentilozzi was the runner up in the Drivers' Championship in the GTS class and the team won the GTO Drivers' Championship and the Manufacturers' Championship (Oldsmobile). In 1993, Rocketsports clinched the GTS Manufacturers' Championship (Oldsmobile). A 1994 effort with Cunningham\/Nissan resulted in an overall victory at the 24 hours of Daytona.\nWhile RSR and Jaguar may be new to the ALMS series competition, they both have a rich history and heritage of performance in the motorsports industry. The same is to be said about their relationship together. Jaguar was re-introduced to the Trans-Am Series by Gentilozzi. In their tenure Rocketsports, Inc. had 66 starts, 31 of those resulted in Rocketsports team wins with an additional 4 victories by chassis\/customer cars. This led to five Manufacturers' and five Drivers' Championships from 2000 \u2013 2006 with Paul Gentilozzi, Scott Pruett and Klaus Graff. Rocketsports also earned a pole and victory (GTS Class) in a Jaguar XKR in 2002 at the famed 24 Hours of Daytona.\nThe Rocketsports\/Jaguar relationship is also significant off track. From 2002 \u2013 2004, Rocketsports, Inc. built two concept cars which included a racier X-Type and the most powerful road-going Jaguar convertible ever \u2013 the 550 horsepower XK-RS. In November 2008, RSR undertook a secret speed trial, taking a 2010 Jaguar XFR to the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The XFR achieved a stunning top speed of 225.675 mph \u2013 making it the fastest production Jaguar ever. In the vein of Rocketsports' work on production Jaguars, RSR is developing high performance aftermarket components for the XKR and newly revealed XFR.\nFurthering this announcement, Rocketsports Racing, Inc. has revealed an innovative look to go with the team's new program and racecar. Rocketsports Racing, Inc. will be identified as RSR, emphasized by a new logo that was unveiled at today's press conference.\nSource: ultimatecarpage. 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{"text":"San Diego Padres look to play spoiler in St. Louis\nBy Jonathan Goehring\nST. LOUIS, MO - JULY 18: Jedd Gyorko \/\nThe San Diego Padres hit the road this week following an off day. Their first stop, St. Louis, to match up with the contending Cardinals.\nAt 14 games under .500, the Padres are 33.5 games back of the first place Dodgers. Even their more likely playoff alternative, one of the National League Wild Cards, is 12.5 games away.\nWhen San Diego travels to St. Louis to take on the Cardinals this week, the contrast will be striking. Both teams are currently out of playoff spots, but the Cards are well within the picture. Every game counts at this point for them, as they sit 4.5 back of the second wild card and 3.5 back of the Cubs in the NL Central.\nTuesday, 5:15 PM: Richard vs. Lynn\nBeginning the series with Clayton Richard should set the tone for the Padres. The 33-year-old has been wildly inconsistent this season, but his last start against the Phillies was a complete game shutout to finish off a sweep. Depending on Richard's start, the Friars could either be off to a fabulous start this series or a troubling one.\nOpposing the San Diego southpaw will be Lance Lynn. Lynn is a seasoned Cardinal, with 153 starts and a career ERA of 3.32. This season has gone even better for the 30-year-old, as he is 10-6 with a 3.05 ERA. It will be a tough matchup for the young Padres but one they must get used to seeing.\nRelated Story: Solarte's versatility undervalued\nWednesday, 5:15 PM: Chacin vs. Weaver\nThe most productive and consistent member of San Diego's rotation is slated to start Wednesday's game, hopefully providing a boost against a tough young opponent. Jhoulys Chacin will be making his 26th start of the year and will be looking for his 12th win. The St. Louis offense certainly won't make matters easy.\nLuke Weaver is 24 and has just 10 career starts. He is a new pitcher to the Cardinals, but hasn't wasted any time making a name for himself. With a 3.31 ERA this season, Weaver hasn't been much off a drop off at all from the star he is filling in for, Adam Wainwright. Still, St. Louis needs to see a lot more than 16 innings from the youngster, and the Padres would be glad to be the cause of his first poor outing.\nThursday, 4:15 PM: Perdomo vs. Martinez\nMore from Friars on Base\nPadres fighting with hated rival to sign quality veteran relief pitcher\nJurickson Profar free agency update likely rules out Padres reunion\nFernando Tatis Jr. may not take to outfield move after Xander Bogaerts addition\nPadres News: Fernando Tatis Jr. trade rumors, Seth Lugo chase, Manny Machado\nPadres barely missed out on high-end veteran starting pitcher\nAnother thriving St. Louis starter who has largely flown under the radar in 2017 takes the mound in the finale of this three game set. Carlos Martinez hasn't missed a start this season, and much like San Diego's Chacin, has performed consistently throughout. He has kept his ERA to a respectable 3.57 and has won ten games for the Cardinals.\nOpposing him will be the up and coming Luis Perdomo, an improving Padre starter with every outing. Perdomo is 6-8 with a 4.93 ERA, and has struggled a bit in August. But the right-hander has shown that he has the tools to make a major league rotation. Putting them all together is his mission for the rest of 2017.\nNext: San Diego Padres: Week #20 recap\nCompeting against a club who is in the playoff race but needs victories late in August is a wonderful opportunity for the young Padres to grow. The sense of urgency the Cardinals will have at their home park will make matters difficult for San Diego, but it will also make keeping them behind their competition all the more rewarding.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Baltimore Art + Justice Project Blog\nDiscussing the intersection of community art, advocacy and justice in Baltimore.\nGet Mapped!\nData Hub : A Place to Play with BA+JP\nTag Archive | music\nby D Hagen\nin Info\nGuest Blogger Devlon Waddell: Music\nI found myself, on an 'empty bucket' day, with the first real chill of the season blowing against me, losing myself. I was on the bus stop and sad for no tangible reason. Then, something happened. My head nodded rhythmically. I tapped my foot in the same time. It was comforting. It was familiar. It was music.\nWhen I consider music, an artform so pervasive in my world, as an advocacy tool, I cannot help but conjure images of a motley crew of young folk who have been paraded in front of a crowd and are desperately in search of something that remotely resembles harmony. Such an image almost always touches my heart. It is, indeed, a beautiful thing to witness. But what of the heart-rending lyrics of Soul music? What of the deeply percussive reverberation of House; the aggression of Jazz; the inevitable uplift offered by Gospel; the audacity of HipHop, Rock and Metal? Where do those independent artists, who, for pennies, bleed their truth on any available stage, fit into this paradigm of advocacy and justice?\nPeter Bruun, in his September 13th post, said this in an attempt to define \"art\": \"I believe the notion of art is itself a construct; a cultural invention to imply certain shared understandings on value, meaning, and status\u2026\". Assuming this construct (art) is indeed about the assignation of value, and there is value in music as a form of entertainment (as evidence by the gross amount of money moving through the mainstream industry), why, then, am I not, often enough, engaged in discourse regarding the spiritually restorative value of music?\nI wonder what happens if we choose to see those things, like popular music, as accessible avenues in our pursuit of justice. If an aggressive song puts me in an aggressive mood, and likewise, a love song is evocative of love, shouldn't I leverage that state of being?\nWhile we are not necessarily creating out of a sense of social consciousness, it still strikes me as appropriate that we might leverage said creations, nonetheless.\nin Artist Profiles\nProfile of the Week: Amorous Ebony\nAmorous Ebony, is a homegrown Baltimore artist and a current theater major at Coppin State University. As a singer, songwriter, poet and actress, Ebony has combined her art and talent with her dedication to serving the community, working with youth, and spreading love.\nEbony is a youth cultural organizer for the Youth Resiliency Institute and aids in the coordination of the annual Youth Arts Harvest Festival.\nEbony leading a march for the Youth Resiliency Institute\nEbony has performed as a part of CrE3sol, Sunshine's Models on Wheels, KIPP academy, and throughout Baltimore.\nCheck out Ebony's Art+Justice profile!\n**If you would like to be featured as our profile of the week just go to artplusjustice.org and put yourself on the map!**\nProfile of the Week: Mosno Al-Moseeki\nMosno Al-Moseeki is an international singer\/songwriter and a native of Sudan. Mosno uses his music to bring a positive image of Sudan to the United States, and a positive image of the U.S. to Sudan. Mosno's music is a pentatonic blend of acoustic rock known as Desert Electric mixed with his own Arab-poetic lyrics.\nHe is currently working on a full length album entitled \"Novella\" which is in part inspired by his cultural migration. His song \"System Down (#SudanRevolts)\" caused his websites to be banned in his home country. Mosno donates the proceeds from the song to Girifna (we are fed up), a non-violent protest movement based in Sudan.\nHe will be performing at Artscape this weekend on Friday AND Saturday!\nFriday July 19th, 2013 performance with Sahffi Lynne of goatfish for the Musicians of Mercy's Conscious Cabaret at Falvey Hall at 5:30pm\nSaturday July 20th, 2013 performance with Spyros as part of the Greek Nubian Collective performance at Falvey Hall at 7pm\n**Want to be featured in our profile of the week? Go to artplusjustice.org and put yourself on the map!**\nby Kalima Young\nListening to the Universe\nBy Lea Gilmore\nI never planned for it to be this way. I was a little round black girl from Baltimore who had dreams and hopes that flew way beyond the stars. For me, that is all they were, dreams and hopes. As an only child, I spent a lot of time in my bedroom with my records (yes, LPs and 45s!), singing the entire soundtracks to A Chorus Line, Cabaret, The Wiz and Jesus Christ Superstar in my room, never thinking that singing professionally was something I could actually do, because I didn't see any little round black girls on album covers or on TV.\nMy mom took me to see \"Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope\" an all-African American musical that starred none other than the amazing Nell Carter. OH\u2026.there I was! Seeing that show at the Morris A Mechanic Theatre at eight years old changed my life! I needed to see what I could be. In my 20s, I performed in 45 musicals and plays, because I had seen what I could be! In me, I hope other young women saw that they could redefine the boundaries, or at least try like heck to do so. I was 'telling him I wasn't going' in \"Dreamgirls,\" I was the voice of the plant, Audrey II, in Little Shop of Horrors (we call it the lesbian version), and in another production of Little Shop of Horrors, I switched it up and I was a member of the Greek chorus (aka 'The Supremes'), singing about a man eating plant, and on and on.\nToday, I have traveled all over the world, singing and lecturing about social justice, peace and nonviolence, but I am still that eight year-old little girl who felt empowered because she saw someone like herself doing what she wanted to do more than anything in the world. Oh sure, I was a policy analyst, directed a few organizations, talked economics\u2026 but I wanted to sing! I wanted to act! I wanted to be a damn spectacle sometimes! And when I didn't, I felt little pieces of my soul die. So, since I am kinda fond of my soul, I do what the universe has called me to do. As should you.\nWill you be that person that small child looks at and says, \"Yes, I see me!\"?\nby Francine Housier\nToni Morrison and Bob Dylan to be Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom\nToni Morrison and Bob Dylan have been named as two of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a statement from the White House last Thursday, President Obama said, \"These extraordinary honorees come from different backgrounds and different walks of life, but each of them has made a lasting contribution to the life of our Nation. They've challenged us, they've inspired us, and they've made the world a better place. I look forward to recognizing them with this award.\" The honorees will be awarded and celebrated in a White House ceremony in the late spring.\nMorrison's 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature marked the first time an African American woman received the award. In her address to the Rutgers class of 2011, she said, \"I know that happiness has been the real, if covert, goal of your labors here. I know that it informs your choice of companions, the profession you will enter, but I urge you, please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course, you deserve it. But if that is all you have in mind\u2014happiness\u2014I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, that's more than a barren life, it is a trivial one. It's looking good instead of doing good.\"\nIn praising Dylan's five decades of music, the White House noted his \"considerable influence on the civil rights movement of the 1960s,\" and highlighted his 11 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award and his 2009 National Medal of Arts.\nThe Baltimore Art + Justice Project\nWhat is art? What is community engagement? What is the impact of art on Baltimore? Where is it? Who gets it? The Baltimore Art +Justice Blog is a place for artists, advocates, researchers, community members and granters to talk about the impact of community art on Baltimore neighborhoods. By sharing resources, ideas and even a few solutions, the Baltimore Art + Justice blog opens a much needed dialogue among our communities that will help us build a Better, More Just Baltimore.\nWhat's the Word? Click to read!\n901 arts activism advocacy agriculture art artists artists within arts Baltimore bob dylan change civil rights collaboration community community art continuum of impact creative class cultural districts culture culture jamming curating dance design devlon waddell dewmore dialogue DREAM Act ecology education event farming feminism funding Fundraiser GBCA grants green health immersion justice literature Lord of the rings map mapping maps music neighborhoods papers photography poster president obama protest protests public justice center queer race racism rape culture research resource social justice student achievement students talks toni morrison tools undocumented immigrant video series visual art white house wide angle youth media women youth youth justice youth resiliency institute\nArtists Within Spotlight: Y-LLEAD \u2013 Healing the Self to Heal the Community\nArtists Within Spotlight: Single Carrot Theatre Arts Integration in an Uprising\nBaltimore Uprising Art Archive Series 4: North and Penn Visual Artists and More\nBaltimore Uprising Art Archive: Series 3 \u2013 Youth Voices\nBaltimore Uprising Art Archive: Series 2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Renderings of 2014 Mazda 3 Kind Of, Sort Of, Maybe Leaked\nRecently, we published a rendering of the 2014 Mazda 3\u2014along with everything we know about next-gen compact\u2014and now digital representations of the car have surfaced online, supposedly from within Mazda. The images (we've included one of them above) were anonymously given to Auto Express, and the outlet was told by Mazda U.K. that the renderings [\u2026]\nAlexander Stoklosa\nRecently, we published a rendering of the 2014 Mazda 3\u2014along with everything we know about next-gen compact\u2014and now digital representations of the car have surfaced online, supposedly from within Mazda. The images (we've included one of them above) were anonymously given to Auto Express, and the outlet was told by Mazda U.K. that the renderings came from the company's design department. It's worth mentioning at this point that Mazda U.K. also says that the images may not be of the next 3, because they merely are conceptual representations of what the next 3 could look like.\nEven though representatives from Mazda U.S.A. wouldn't comment to us on the Auto Express photos or confirm their veracity, we're thinking that the images probably aren't too far off from the real deal. Not only does the car look pretty similar to the rendering we ran, but also it faithfully and realistically translates Mazda's latest Kodo design language worn by the CX-5 crossover and the new Mazda 6 sedan. Of course, the believability of a rendering and the production, in-the-metal feasibility of the styling presented in a rendering are two different things, but given the new 6's impressively sculpted and attractive sheetmetal, we think the 3 could pull this off.\nFirst Drive: 2014 Mazda 6 2.5L \/ 2.2L Diesel\nInstrumented Test: 2012 Mazda 3 i Touring Skyactiv\nInstrumented Test: 2012 Mazda CX-5 Sport Manual\nWe'll find out soon enough whether the next 3 is this good looking, considering the new model likely will debut in its production wrapper sometime next year. For the rest of the renderings, head over to Auto Express.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"brush, frank (1)\ncollyer, frank potanovic, george (1)\ncostain, harold (1)\ngibson, h. (1)\nhoward, frank b. (poughkeepsie, n.y.) (1)\nperry, winston c., 1933- (1)\nscott, john (1)\nunderwood & underwood studios, n.y. (1)\n(1925) (1)\n05-07-16 (1)\nDescription: on 1925\nAlbee dedication, 1925\nCollege buildings--New York (State); Annandale-on-Hudson (N.Y.)\nThe dedication of Albee in 1925. College faculty and administrators stand on a wooden scaffold. Bernard Iddings Bell (Warden of the College from 1919-1933) stands partially hidden on the left-hand side of the entryway.\nErie Rail Road Tie Date Nail \"25\"\nNails & spikes; Railroad ties\nErie Railroad tie date nail. Remnant white paint on face of head. The \"25\" incised in the nail head indicates it was embedded in a tie that was placed into service in 1925. It was extracted by from a discarded American Elm railroad tie at an...\nMargaret Satterly oral history interview\nActivities; Schools; Families; Games; Employment; City & town life\n\"Peg\" Satterly was born in Newburgh, N.Y. on June 24, 1925, but was raised in a section of Cornwall called Firthcliffe. Her parents were Julia Proust and James McCarthy. Peg's father died when she was a baby, so she and her mother lived with her...\nRangeley Lake House, evening meal menu\nRangeley Lake House (Rangeley, Me.)\nSupper menu for Rangeley Lake House, Rangeley, Maine, July 27, 1925.\nRangeley Lake House, morning meal menu\nBreakfast menu for Rangeley Lake House, Rangeley, Maine, July 28, 1925.\nChurchill Hall, dinner menu\nChurchill Hall (Hotel : Stamford, N.Y.)\nDinner menu for Churchill Hall, Stamford, New York, September 14, 1925. Stamped: \"Please return to \/ A. K. Smiley \/ Mohonk Lake, N.Y\" and \"SEP 14 1925.\"\nPartridge Inn, Christmas dinner menu\nPartridge Inn (Augusta, Ga.)\nChristmas dinner menu for Partridge Inn, Augusta, Georgia, December 25, 1925.\nNew York Central Railroad Company, dining service menu\nBeverage and water list for the New York Central Railroad Company Dining Service, New York Central Lines. Noted on top menu in blue pencil: \"Oct or Nov. 1925.\"\nPocono Manor Inn, dinner menu\nPocono Manor Inn (Pocono Manor, Pa.)\nDinner menu for Pocono Manor Inn, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1925. Faint stamp and notations on menu.\nPocono Manor Inn, breakfast menu\nBreakfast menu for Pocono Manor Inn, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1925. Faint stamp and pencil notation on menu.\nBuckwood Inn, dinner menu\nBuckwood Inn (Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa.)\nDinner menu for Buckwood Inn, Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1925. Notation on menu.\nForest Hills, dinner menu\nForest Hills (Hotel : Franconia, N.H.)\nDinner menu for Forest Hills Inn, Franconia, New Hampshire, July 28, 1925.\nForest Hills, breakfast menu\nBreakfast menu for Forest Hills Inn, Franconia, New Hampshire, July 28, 1925. A pencil notation on the menu indicates a mis-printed upside-down \"t\" in saute.\n[Buck Hill Falls], supper menu\nBuck Hill Falls Inn (Buck Hill Falls, Pa.)\nSupper menu for Buck Hill Falls Inn, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1925. Stamped: \"Please return to \/ A. K. Smiley \/ Mohonk Lake, N.Y.\"\n[Buck Hill Falls], dinner menu\nDinner menu for Buck Hill Falls Inn, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1925. Stamped: \"Please return to \/ A. K. Smiley \/ Mohonk Lake, N.Y.\"\n[Buck Hill Falls], breakfast menu\nBreakfast menu for Buck Hill Falls Inn, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1925. Stamped: \"Please return to \/ A. K. Smiley \/ Mohonk Lake, N.Y.\"\nRoosevelt, dinner menu\nRoosevelt (Hotel : New York, N.Y.)\nDinner menu for The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York, October 20, 1925. Specials sheet is attached.\nRoosevelt, breakfast menu\nBreakfast menu for The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York, October 14, 1925. Notations on menu, in blue pencil: \"Oct-'25.\" Specials sheet is attached.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}