{"text":"Entertainment\u00bbTV\u00bbTV series\nSurviving R. Kelly (Documentary)\n'Surviving R. Kelly' (January 3, 2019) starring Andrea Kelly, Tarana Burke, Sparkle.\nJanuary 10, 2019 by Jessie Mendoza\nSeries examining the controversies surrounding R&B singer R. Kelly.\n\"Surviving R. Kelly\" is a six-part Lifetime documentary detailing sexual abuse allegations against R&B artist R. Kelly. It aired over three nights, from January 3 to January 5, 2019.\nFilmmaker and music critic Dream Hampton served as executive producer and musicians Chance the Rapper, John Legend and Stephanie \"Sparkle\" Edwards appeared in the documentary.\nIts premiere episode on January 3, 2019, was Lifetime's highest-rated program in more than two years, with 1.9 million total viewers.\nRelease date : January 3, 3029\nFirst aired : January 3, 3029\nNetwork : Lifetime\n'Surviving R. Kelly' (January 3, 3029)\n'Surviving R. Kelly' (January 3, 3029) cast\nTarana Burke\nA documentary series focused on R. Kelly's history of alleged sexual abuse was green lit by Lifetime in May 2018.\n\"We've been working for over a year to bring forth the stories of these women,\" executive producer Joel Karsberg told The Hollywood Reporter. \"We are proud to team with Lifetime to shed light on these stories as well as an industry that has looked the other way for so many years.\"\nHampton was invited onto the project by an executive at Bunim\/Murray Productions. \"[\u2026] That executive, Jesse Daniels, and Tamara Simmons, another co-EP on this project, have been holding these relationships with some of his survivors for months before I came on board,\" Hampton said in an interview with NPR. \"I remember talking to them early on, kind of figuring out if we were going to work together\u2026Having been adjacent in some ways to the music industry, when there was one, I knew that it it took dozens, if not hundreds of people, for R. Kelly to operate as long as he has in the way that he has.\"\nHampton said that Simmons would call prospective interviewees late into the night. \"She was handling and had the relationships with, not just the women and girls who survived R. Kelly, but also the families,\" Hampton said. \"We had three families who were trying to get their daughters back. So she in particular, she and Jesse, had been caring for those relationships. And then I came on as showrunner and made it a show.\"\nMany musicians who worked with R. Kelly refused to participate in the series. \"When it comes to celebrities, It was incredibly difficult to get people who had collaborated (artistically) with Kelly to come forward,\" Hampton said. \"We asked Lady Gaga. We asked Erykah Badu. We asked Celine Dion. We asked Jay-Z. We asked Dave Chappelle. (They're) people who have been critical of him. That makes John Legend even more of a hero for me.\"\nCheck out these topics, too.\nLady Gaga R. Kelly apology. After facing pressure to speak up, Lady Gaga apologizes for collaborating with R. Kelly.\nOscars 2019 host. The Oscars 2019 will have no host after Kevin Hart controversy.\nPreacher Lawson AGT finale. Preacher Lawson advance to the finale of America's Got Talent: The Champions.\nR. Kelly Wikipedia\nAsia's Got Talent 2019 winner is magician Eric Chien\nMagician Eric Chien of Taiwan is Asia's Got Talent 2019 winner.\nAsia's Got Talent 2019: 'Power Duo' wins 3rd place\n'Power Duo' of Philippines wins 3rd place on Asia's Got Talent 2019.\nThe Voice 2019: Rebecca Howell, David Owens sing 'Unchained Melody'\nRebecca Howell & David Owens sing \"Unchained Melody\" on The Voice 2019 Battles.\nThe Voice 2019: Kayslin Victoria, Oliv Blu sing 'Location'\nKayslin Victoria and Oliv Blu sing 'Location' by Khalid on The Voice Battles 2019.\nThe Voice 2019 Battles: Lisa Ramey, Betsy Ade sing 'The Joke'\nWatch Lisa Ramey and Betsy Ade sing 'The Joke' by Brandi Carlile on The Voice Battles 2019.\nr. kelly sister theresa kelly photo, r. kelly sisters and brothers, theresa kelly r. kelly sister death, tv series","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Resignation of Commissioner Humphreys\nBy \u00d3rla, Wednesday, 21st April 2021 | 0 comments\nThe Law Reform Commission was sorry to learn of the decision of the Honourable Mr Justice Humphreys to resign as a Part-time Commissioner.\nMr Justice Humphreys brought energy and commitment to his role as Part-time Commissioner and that will be missed by his fellow Commissioners. The Commission wishes to thank him for his contribution to its work.\nPerma Link #892","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Early Signing Period: Four-Star OT George Fitzpatrick Signs NLI\nBy Braden MolesDecember 14, 2021 (2:06 pm)Early Signing Period\nGet to know Englewood (Colo.) Cherry Creek four-star offensive tackle George Fitzpatrick, who signed his National Letter of Intent with Ohio State on Wednesday.\nHeight, Weight: 6-6, 285.\n247 Composite Rankings: He's rated as the 325th overall prospect, the 26th overall offensive tackle and the No. 2 recruit out of Colorado.\nCommitment Date: Fitzpatrick committed to Ohio State on July 9, 2021.\nOther Offers: Arizona State, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Iowa State, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Penn State, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, USC and Utah, among others.\nHow he did in high school: Fitzpatrick will join Ohio State as a champion, as his Cherry Creek squad brought home the Colorado Class 5A state championship in each of the last three seasons.\nIn 2021, they finished with a 12-2 record, blanking Valor Christian 21-0 in the state title game.\nWhy he committed to Ohio State: Fitzpatrick was thorough in his recruitment, taking official visits to Ohio State (June 4), Michigan (June 11), Oklahoma (June 18) and Oregon (June 25) over the summer, but it was his initial visit with the Buckeyes that put him in position for Ohio State.\n\"The bar was set incredibly high,\" Fitzpatrick told Lettermen Row after his visit. \"Just being there that big weekend, with all the commits\u2026that was huge for me. It was very tough for the other schools to live up to that.\"\nWhere he fits in for 2022: Fitzpatrick faces an uphill battle given Ohio State's numbers on the offensive line, especially considering that Paris Johnson Jr. and Dawand Jones will likely be back as the starting tackles.\nGiven that he doesn't have the experience to shift around on the line, he'll likely factor in as a depth play for the Buckeyes as he attempts to crack the two-deep.\nTrey Sermon To Represent Ohio State In Super Bowl LVII January 30, 2023 (10:29 am)\nPrevious PostEarly Signing Period: Four-Star CB Ryan Turner Signs NLI\nNext PostEarly Signing Period: Four-Star DE Kenyatta Jackson Jr. Signs NLI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browse: Home \/ Wolf Popper LLP Announces Investigation on Behalf of Investors in Braskem S.A. (PR Newswire)\nWolf Popper LLP Announces Investigation on Behalf of Investors in Braskem S.A. (PR Newswire)\nPosted by admin on August 3, 2015 in Economy | 10 Views\nNEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2015 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 Wolf Popper LLP is investigating potential securities fraud claims on behalf of investors in Braskem S.A.'s American Depositary Shares (NYSE: BAK). Braskem investors can contact Fei-Lu Qian at 877.370.7703 or fqian@wolfpopper.com for more information.\nA class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 31, 2015. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of class members in directing the litigation.\nThe lawsuit alleges that during the period June 1, 2010 through March 11, 2015, the Company failed to disclose that Braskem was involved in a massive scheme to funnel millions of dollars in kickbacks to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. \u2013 Petrobras, to buy crude derivatives such as naphtha and propylene at low prices from Petrobras. As a result, Braskem and certain of its officers made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operational and compliance policies.\nOn March 11, 2015, a Brazilian newspaper implicated Braskem in a major bribery and corruption scandal involving Petrobras. Specifically, the newspaper reported that based on testimonies from former Petrobras executives and other individuals, Braskem had paid at least $5 million annually to Petrobras officials and Brazilian politicians.\nOn this news, Braskem's ADSs declined $1.72 per ADS, or over 20%, to close at $6.71 per ADS on March 11, 2015.\nWolf Popper LLP has extensive experience representing shareholders in securities class actions and has successfully recovered billions of dollars for defrauded investors. The reputation and expertise of the firm in representing shareholders has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed the firm to major positions in securities litigation. See www.wolfpopper.com\nWolf Popper LLP\nFei-Lu Qian\nTel.: 877.370.7703\nEmail: fqian@wolfpopper.com\nSOURCE Wolf Popper LLP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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For both professionals and students.\nAccounting Dictionary\nAccounting Ratios\nAsset \/ Inventory Management\nCapital Market Ratios\nLeverage \/ Gearing Ratios\nPakistan Economic and Finance Resources\nAccounting Tools\nBasic Amortization Calculator\nAccounting and Islam\nHome \u00bb News \u00bb Finance \u00bb Public Accounts Committee criticises auditing procedure of ministries, government departments\nPublic Accounts Committee criticises auditing procedure of ministries, government departments\nin Finance, News November 10, 2002 28 Views\nISLAMABAD (November 11 2002) : The Public Accounts Committee has strongly criticised the auditing procedure of ministries and government departments by Auditor General of Pakistan and stated that there is lack of professionalism, competency and efficiency in various areas, sources said here on Sunday.\nThe Public Accounts Committee in its annual report has asked the Auditor General of Pakistan to not bring irrelevant matters in the meeting in future as it has been a practice during the last two years.\nThe report, based on the proceedings of the PAC, which completed its job quite recently for 1999-2000, has been approved by the President.\nThe PAC in its report also raised questions about the professional approach of the Auditors General of Pakistan and the auditors who according to the report were lacking in many important areas.\nPointing out the incompetence and prevalent inefficiency of the auditor general of Pakistan office, the PAC has said that the staff working in the audit department needs to be more professional, considering the present-day challenges. Audit has started carrying out performance audit in certain areas. Audit of the commercial enterprises in public sector also contains an overview for the operations and health of the auditee.\nThe PAC found that presently the overview is somewhat rudimentary in contents and does not meet the standards of financial analysis. The PAC, therefore, recommended that in order to enhance the value of reports audit should evolve indicators in consultation with the ministries concerned and apply these indicators to measure performance of the auditee unit.\nThe report has pointed out that the Auditors have also an obligation to constantly update and improve their skills in discharging their professional responsibilities.\nThey must know and apply auditing, accounting and financial management standards, procedures and practices. They must possess a good understanding of the constitutional, legal and institutional principles and standards governing the operations of the audited entity. Thus, the general public and the audited entities would be assured of the fairness, impartiality and competence of the auditors.\nIn addition to it, the committee felt that certain trivial matters ie transaction of lesser value, matters of less importance, procedural lapses, matters requiring verification, non-production of record, etc can be left to internal audit of the concerned department which must be strengthened in government departments.\nStatutory audit can leave these issues with the executive authorities; small low financial utilisation of funds can better be left to departmental audit and inspection. Audit should concentrate on major issues ie transaction of huge amounts, major purchase deals, performance audit of organisation and prepare special audit reports of major projects so that substantial matters are brought before the PAC.\nMeanwhile, an official said that this is not for the first time that the troubling questions have been raised over the competency, efficiency and quality of auditor general of Pakistan and his team. As in the past, on many occasions, the AGP first submitted some paras but later could not pursue them effectively.\nThe auditors were found manipulating the audit paras to grill some government departments while happily extending co-operation and showing soft corners to many ministries and divisions, perhaps to oblige their friends there.\nThe official said that this plausible attitude of AGP was also criticised by the PAC in the meetings as well and subsequently pointed out by the press as such attitude had failed to bring about any change in the governance system.\nCourtesy of Business Recorder\nEconomic and Finance News 2002-11-10\nNews Manager\nTagged with: Economic and Finance News\nRs4.09 Trillion Federal Budget for 2015-16 Unveiled\nEconomic Survey 2014-15: Features and Highlights\nACCA joins hands with Nayatel, awards approved employer accredition\nEmpirically Analyzing the \"Five Percent Rule of Materiality\" in Financial Reporting Decisions\nLatest in The Accounting Bookshop\nCopyright 2002-2021 Accountancy. 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{"text":"Posts Tagged 'Obama the greatest threat to freedom'\nThis Sums Up The Demonic Hypocrisy Of The Democrat Party And Liberal Progressivism\nYou've got to just stand back and marvel at the STUNNING hypocrisy and dishonest and disgraceful deceit that are at the core of every so-called \"liberal\" and at the heart of every Democrat and at the heart of their false messiah Barack Hussein Obama.\nHow dare we publish material that would offend Muslims, they argue in the name of the multicultural pluralism that they gave birth to.\nOkay, fine. Every atheist who publicly claims there is no God ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Every liberal who espouses the radical secular humanist invention of a \"separation of church and state\" to annihilate their opponents' religious influence ought to be publicly demonized.\nBut of course not. Christianity is of course different and ought to be attacked and demonized because unlike other groups that all come from the totalitarian left we don't resort to hate and violence. I guess ultimately it's Jesus' fault for teaching His disciples to turn the other cheek and it's the Holy Spirit's fault for instilling in us the fruits of the Spirit rather than the hate of the left.\nThe French satirical paper that was attacked in France was a LEFT-WING magazine that generally attacked the political RIGHT, attacked Christianity and basically attacked opposition to liberalism. NPR had this factoid:\nCharlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine that was the target of a deadly attack today, is part of a long tradition of French satire dating to the days before the French Revolution.\nThe left-wing magazine is known for its biting takedowns. Its past targets include the political right wing, capitalism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.\nThe beauty of progressive liberalism, secular humanism and the Democrat Party which defends these engines of destruction in America, is it's monolithic hypocrisy. Liberals are pathologically dishonest hypocrites whose cry is invariably \"It's NEVER fascist when we do it\" because they have conveniently pre-defined themselves as virtuous and their opponents as guilty.\nThe left have been viciously attacking Christians and Christianity for DECADES. But of course now we shouldn't have the right to employ the same standards that the left created to attack and undermine us to criticize their fellow \"Government-as-God\" worshipers in the Muslim religion.\nHere is a piece that deliciously exposes this profound hypocrisy (and for the official record let me simply point out the fact that \"Piss Christ\" was funded by Democrats who had perverted the National Endowment for the Arts into something so vile it is beyond unreal):\nAP Won't Publish Muhammad Cartoons, Will Gladly Sell 'Piss Christ'\nPurchase link pulled after hypocrisy exposed\n1.7.2015 |\nTrey Sanchez\nAs reported through Breitbart, the Associated Press made clear that its official policy is to censor photos of the Prophet Muhammad. Apparently, though, disparaging images of Jesus Christ are acceptable.\nThe AP told The Daily Beast, \"It's been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.\" And because of that policy, the cartoons of Muhammad seen in the Charlie Hebdo magazine were deleted from its commercial photo service.\nBut as was discovered, the infamous \"art\" photo of a crucifix immersed in urine, known as \"Piss Christ,\" could be purchased online through the news organization.\nOnce this hypocrisy was made known by The Washington Examiner, AP took the purchase link down.\nA screenshot of the broken link is provided below:\nDo you know what?\nIf you don't want to offend Ismam, you shouldn't elect a damn president who by definition of Islam is the worst kind of infidel because he was raised by his father as a Muslim and now (falsely) claims he's a Christian.\nObama is the infidel who once claimed:\nOBAMA: And what was the first thing the McCain?s campaign went out and did? They said, look, these liberal blogs that support Obama are out there attacking Governor Palin.\nLet's not play games. What I was suggesting \u2014 you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come\u2013\nSTEPHANOPOULOS: Christian faith.\nOBAMA: \u2013 my Christian faith.\nI mean, \"Ooops,\" said the man who also said that the Muslim call to prayer was \"one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.\"\n\"Ooops,\" said the man who was raised as a Muslim and who attended a mosque in Indonesia as a boy and was listed as a \"Muslim\" when he attended a Catholic school there. Obama had a Muslim father, whether the man was a practicing Muslim or not. And I can ASSURE you that that is ALL it takes to make one a \"Muslim\" in the eyes of Islam. And our president is the worst kind of walking, talking betrayal and disgrace to Islam that there is and would be executed for his \"crime of apostasy.\"\nEvery Democrat directly participated in insulting Islam. And yes you DID. Look at parallel cases that document what I'm saying is true.\nIf Obama wanted to stop insulting the Prophet, he would resign from office in disgrace and face his punishment under sharia law.\nI can't say enough about the rabid hypocrisy and cockroach dishonesty of the left.\nThey claim they fight for the freedom of speech. BULLCRAP.\nNO president has EVER been so HOSTILE to free speech as messiah of secular humanist liberal progressivism:\nBarack Hussein Obama is \"the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.\" And that is a FACT. Obama is assaulting journalism and has been for his entire presidency.\nBarack Hussein Obama's presidency is more restrictive and more dangerous to the press than any other administration in history.\nBarack Hussein Obama runs \"the most closed, control freak administration\" in at least a generation including Richard Nixon's regime.\nBarack Hussein Obama's regime is the most secretive White House that senior New York Times' editors have ever covered.\nAt this point, the only difference between Democrats, i.e. between DEMOn-possessed bureauCRATS, and Nazis is that the Nazis dressed better. And the scale of evil: Nazis murdered six million Jews and Democrats have murdered SIXTY million innocent babies in their death camp abortion mills.\nAnd we see the hate of secular progressive liberal progressives for freedom and for the rights of others all the time.\nTake a gander at this story, for an example for an example of the latest outrage directed against the rights of Christians to believe what thousands of years of the Word of God proclaims to be true, what the entirely of Western Civilization has believed to be true. Because under these antichrist Democrat haters, deviant homosexuals have every right to drag their moral filth into churches and flaunt their lifestyles and the only people guilty of \"bigotry\" are the people who say in their own houses of worship, \"our faith says that's not right, and is there nowhere we can go to practice our religion?\" And NO, there is not in this age just before the Democrat Party worships the beast and takes his mark on their right hands or on their foreheads.\nLiberal intellectuals \u2013 which means people who have carefully taught themselves to be the stupidest people on the face of the earth \u2013 have proclaimed free speech to be the greatest threat to liberalism. Because nobody would ever believe this garbage called liberalism if they had all the facts presented to them \u2013 and thus the facts and the truth themselves become the enemy.\nIf you are a Democrat, you hate freedom and you rabidly despise the freedom of speech to say anything but what you have fascistically proclaimed to be politically correct.\nIf you are a Democrat, then you are a hypocrite and a liar and a pervert and a murderer. And God has decreed that you will get yours. Because if there is a God, there is a thing called justice. But I know, you want to make those words first a thoughtcrime just like the book 1984 described and ultimately an actual crime. It's just who you are.\nTags:Charlie Hebdo, France, free speech, journalism, liberals secular humanist, Muslim, Obama the greatest threat to freedom, Piss Christ, press, progressive\nPosted in abortion, Barack Obama, Conservative Issues, Democrats, fascism, gay marriage, Media, morality, Politics, religion, Religion and Culture, socialism, terrorism | 5 Comments \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Eric Clapton - The Studio Albums [9LP Box] (180 Gram)\nEric Clapton - The Studio Albums [9LP Box] (180 Gram)\n180g Vinyl 9LP Box Set!\nThis impressive 8-piece vinyl only box set brings together all of Eric Clapton's solo studio albums from his time with the Polydor\/RSO label, spanning the period of 1970-1981. Each album has been faithfully replicated and pressed on 180g vinyl, and two of them, \"Eric Clapton\" and Derek and the Dominos' \"Layla and Other Assorted Love Song\" have been re-mastered for this release.\nEric Clapton needs little by way of an introduction as a renowned solo artist in his own right as well as a member of the Yardbirds, Cream, and Derek and The Dominos. He is the only three time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is one of the most important influential guitarists of all time. He has been the recipient of 17 Grammy Awards, 1 Brit Award and 1 Bafta.\n\u2022 9LP Box Set (8 Albums)\n\u2022 180g Vinyl\n\u2022 Housed in Rigid slipcase\nEric Clapton (1970)\n1. Slunky\n2. Bad Boy\n3. Lonesome and A Long Way From Home\n4. After Midnight\n5. Easy Now\n6. Blues Power\n7. Bottle of Red Wine\n8. Lovin' You Lovin' Me\n9. Told You For the Last Time\n11. Let It Rain\nDerek & The Dominos \/ Layla and Other Songs (2LP) (1970)\n1. I Looked Away\n2. Bell Bottom Blues\n3. Keep On Growing\n4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out\n5. I Am Yours\n6. Anyday\n7. Key To the Highway\n9. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?\n10. Have You Ever Loved A Woman\n11.Little Wing\n12. It's Too Late\n14. Thorn Tree In the Garden\n461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)\n1. Motherless children\n2. Give Me Strength\n3. Willie and The Hand Jive\n6. I Can't Hold Out\n7. Please Be With me\n8. Let It Grow\n9. Steady Rollin' Man\n10. Mainline Florida\nThere's One In Every Crowd (1975)\n1. We've Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon)\n2. Swing Low Sweet Chariot\n3. Little rachel\n4. Don't Blame Me\n5. The Sky Is Crying\n6. Singin' The Blues\n7. Better Make It Through The Day\n8. Pretty Blue Eyes\n10. Opposites\nNo Reason To Cry (1976)\n1. Beautiful Thing\n2. Carnival\n3. Sign Language\n4. County Jail Blues\n5. All Our Pastimes\n7. Double Trouble\n8. Innocent Times\n9. Hungry\n10. Black Summer Rain\nSlowhand (1977)\n1. Cocaine\n2. Wonderful Tonight\n3. Lay Down Sally\n4. Next Time You See Her\n5. We're All the Way\n6. The Core\n7. May You Never\n8. Mean Old Frisco\n9. Peaches and Diesel\nBackless (1978)\n1. Walk Out In the Rain\n2. Watch Out For Lucy\n3. I'll Make Love To you Anytime\n4. Roll It\n5. Tell Me that you Love Me\n6. If I Don't Be there By Morning\n8. Promises\n9. Golden Ring\n10. Tulsa time\nAnother Ticket (1981)\n1. Something Special\n2. Black Rose\n3. Blow Wind Blow\n4. Another Ticket\n5. I Can't Stand It\n6. Hold Me Lord\n7. Floating Bridge\n8. Catch Me If You Can\n9. Rita Mae\nBeatles. The- The Lost Abbey Road Tapes: 1962-'64 [LP] Clear colored, limited, import OUT OF STOCK\nKiss- Kiss Rocks Vegas [2LP + DVD] $ 39.98\nDavid Bowie - Blackstar [LP] 180 Gram, die-cut gatefold, 16-page booklet, downld $ 35.98\nBeatles. The- Let It Be- The Movie [LP] Limited WHITE colored vinyl, import OUT OF STOCK","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Choose a language English Deutsch Espa\u00f1ol Fran\u00e7ais \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nConnected Societies\nHome > Access, Empower, Internet, Network, Social Needs, South Africa, Wi-Fi > Connected Societies\nSeptember 6, 2018 July 10, 2018 By Tamaryn Tesselaar\nWe know that access to the internet has the capability to economically propel communities around the world, as my colleagues previously shared regarding emerging markets and rural America. But how do we take that access and convert it from individual use to a truly connected society? The community in Delft, South Africa provides us with an example.\nThe Delft government and the Mzansi Digital Republic (MDR) are working to implement public Wi-Fi to boost the local economy. MDR's aim is to create digital citizens with the vision of unlocking the knowledge-based economy. To do that, they consider a multi-faceted approach to power, IoT infrastructure and internet access, connected devices, online community, e-commerce, and online support. Through their disruptive model of realigning the value chain of consumption and actualizing new opportunities for business, employment and social engagement, MDR is connecting the society in Delft in ways that haven't been done before. As a result, local tech businesses have grown, generating local employment, facilitating digital commerce and ushering in local economic empowerment, thereby preventing a large amount of money from trickling out of the community.\nIn general, connected societies like the one developing in Delft will open opportunities for more collective action in regards to single-issue movements, while open government initiatives and access to public sector data will lead to more transparency and citizen-focused public services. The critical backbone to a connected society is a robust communications infrastructure that can support the required level of community connectivity. The Delta Smart Grid Network\u2122 comes to mind as a solution\u2014it fills in the gaps left by current telecommunications providers through the building of a community-wide Wi-Fi infrastructure.\nDelta Energy & Communications, Inc.\n29975 Technology Drive, Suite 101, Murrieta, CA 92563\ninfo@deltaglobalnetwork.com\nDelta Energy & Communications,(Pty) Ltd.\n71 Waterkant Street, First Floor, Cape Town, 8001\nCopyright 2017 Delta Energy & Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lead Our Capacity Team as Community Development Director\nCommunity Development Director Kelly Zelenka is leaving MHP in early May to join the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority. At MPHA, she'll develop and drive implementation of Agency's new comprehensive human services strategy geared toward significant outcomes in health, educational attainment and workforce development for MPHA-assisted families, children, seniors and persons with disabilities.\n\"Kelly has been a tremendous leader at MHP and her leadership of our community development programs has made a lasting impact on communities around Minnesota and beyond,\" said Anne Mavity, MHP's executive director. \"We will miss Kelly at MHP, but there is a silver lining: Kelly will be putting her experience and skills into work that will elevate the lives of people served by the MPHA. She's going to do a tremendous job.\"\nKelly has graciously agreed to stay with MHP and assist with the transition through early May.\nIf you or someone in your network is interested in joining MHP's leadership team as Community Development Director, view the position profile here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Diesel city ban spreading\n\/ EV News \/ By Alastair\nThe leaders of four major global cities say they will stop the use of all diesel-powered cars and trucks by the middle of the next decade.\nThe mayors of Paris, Mexico City, Madrid and Athens say they are implementing the ban to improve air quality.\nThey say they will give incentives for alternative vehicle use and promote walking and cycling.\nThe commitments were made in Mexico at a biennial meeting of city leaders.\nThe use of diesel in transport has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, as concerns about its impact on air quality have grown. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that around three million deaths every year are linked to exposure to outdoor air pollution.\nDiesel engines contribute to the problem in two key ways \u2013 through the production of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Very fine soot PM can penetrate the lungs and can contribute to cardiovascular illness and death.\nNitrogen oxides can help form ground level ozone and this can exacerbate breathing difficulties, even for people without a history of respiratory problems.\nAs the evidence has mounted, environmental groups have used the courts to try to enforce clear air standards and regulations. In the UK, campaigners have recently had success in forcing the government to act more quickly.\nNow, mayors from a number of major cities with well-known air quality problems have decided to use their authority to clamp down on the use of diesel.\nIn the UK, campaigners are calling for London's mayor to commit to phase out diesel vehicles from London by 2025. Sadiq Khan has proposed an expansion to the planned Ultra-Low Emission Zone in central London.\nClientEarth lawyer Alan Andrews said: \"In the UK, London's mayor is considering bolder action than his predecessor, proposing an expansion to the planned Ultra-Low Emission Zone. This is welcome but we want him to go further and faster.\n\"And it's not just London that has this problem, we need a national network of clean air zones so that the problem is not simply pushed elsewhere.\"\nExpect used Diesels to continue to slide down the value chain and more reasons for consumers to consider Electric Cars.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WhatIsSoftware\nSoftware is machine; software is text; software is both machine and text. The machine and text category collapse is a direct result of the Turing machine where data is code is data, and here we refer to data as text. There is no other way to view software until we have a deeper theory of it all, and then we will have even fewer categories.\nHere is a loose outline of the place software fits into our models.\nSoftware is machine\nClearly, software is machine. On an industrial robot, the software plays the central role in determining the behaviour of that robot (--> cybernetics). In a bureaucracy, software moves paper around, and by extension people and capital. On a simple level, software performs actions on our computer. It isn't quiescent or socially negotiated. It can act directly, without humans to act it out. Software coupled with hardware coupled with power is a machine.\nOn a general computer, software is not tied to the hardware like it is to an industrial robot. We can download new software and run it on our hardware. Thus, in an effective sense, since we provide a clean separation between the hardware&power and the software, we can make the philosophical claim that software is machine.\nSoftware is text\nSoftware is text. Unlike a physical machine, it is composed of the same stuff that we compose essays with, in the same manner, in the same domain, in exactly the same way. But legal documents are different than recipes as legal documents carry extra weight. The difference is that we can separate the domains of legal documents from recipes so that only a special class of documents are given legal weight, and that separtion is socially negotiated. Only those with signatures of more than one person are considered legal, and they are only legal in a socially validated way--through the court system.\nSoftware is more ambiguous. That you happen to have a machine that can read the software and perform some (intended) action is up to the reader; after all, a recipe is also software except that it requires a human to carry out the instructions. And it matters that we do not consider software at least within reason always a machine since we publish algorithms for academic research. This is different than publishing blueprints since you are transmitting the machine itself.\nSoftware is machine and text\nSoftware is both machine and text together. This gives rise to software engineers that point to the Tacoma Bridge and correlated it major software failures and legitimately claim responsibility must be made. It also gives rise to artists who claim that software is just their artistic idea, an expression, that others can play upon like they play upon their poetry and manifestos. That creates the tension.\nFurther more, while anyone can build a car in their garage, this is conspicuous enough that not anything will be allowed on the road. However, anyone can build software in their basement, and as long as they do not harm anyone else, that is their own business and joy. It would be immoral to make hobby programming illegal.\nIt would also be immoral to make small-scale programming illegal short of having an iron ring as small businesses will be unable to develop software to fit their needs, rather relying on generic hand me downs from larger businesses.\nDifferences with mere text\nThere are various differences between software (and its documentation), and other forms of copiable content - most notably the LifeInText of an OnlineCommunity.\nThese are important because they mean that we can't simply follow the simple logic that OpenSource is good for software, therefore OpenContent is good for content. Rather, there are some subtelties involved, and the lessons from software might not be directly applicable to other forms of content. In particular, it's questionable whether the benefits of CopyLeft over the PublicDomain truly apply to anything except software.\nSoftware is tested carefully before a new revision so you never get incomplete \"work in progress\"\nNo Interaction quality. The value of software is not in the interaction between the user and the developer, but rather in that between the user and the software. In most other forms of copiable content, the content is instead largely a means for the author(s) to communicate with the users. This is especially true in an OnlineCommunity, where the content itself may be largely incidental.\nGatedCommunity. Software projects never get code directly from the public. There are always maintainers who control exactly what gets into the system, typically to a greater degree than on any online community. This is a symptom of a related difference:\nSoftware is fragile. Natural language is remarkably tolerant to spurious changes, odd typos, ambigous text, and so forth. Software is not, and it is entirely possible for a well meaning but inexperienced contributor to effectively destroy a piece of software, rather than improving it.\nSoftware updates are frequently necessary due to the fragility and incompleteness of software, not to mention the engineering ethic of creeping featuritis. Books don't need to be ammended or supplanted if they can be supported by additional sources as the integration is ambiguous and socially constructed rather than formal and logically complete.\nSoftware guarantees nothing - it typically comes with a disclaimer against any warranties, expressed or implied. Some other forms of content do likewise, eg: content about the law, medicine, any medium to high risk activity, graphic content, etc; However, most do not. This is a symptom of a related difference:\nSoftware is risky - buggy software might wipe your hard disk - if you're not backed up that can be very expensive. Buggy software can kill, and frequently does. The potential downside to other forms of content is much lower, because they are mediated by the human brain, which is smarter.\nSoftware is configurable - A good program can perfectly satisfy two groups of users, via configuration. A piece of text cannot, no matter how good.\nReading the various discussions about whether or not software should be regulated or that programmers be held responsible for software is interesting because everyone looks at software from one particular pre-software metaphor. The problem is that software is not like anything else, rather it is a bridging object, and thus our ethical categories that remained happily separate now collide and come into tension.\nThis tension is unresolvable with prior frames simply because each category, machine or text, is incapable of dealing with the problems of the other. We need to first acknowledge what software is and then ask what we want to do with it.\nIn our society, manufacturers are somewhat responsible for their goods (as criminal negligence and civil disorder are still crimes), so we allow free enterprise and sanction outcomes, but to a limit we decide as a public. Weapons and drugs are controlled, for instance.\nIf we change our ethical frame to not worry about regulating all software, but to worry about how that software is used, both in machine form and text form, then we might get somewhere. We do claim some speech is illegal, and certain types of software should also be illegal to produce. There are academic ways of discussing racial differences and there are hateful ways. There are academic ways of describing software holes and there are exploitive ways.\nSanity must prevail.\nHigh quality textual content is written for an audience (see TheAudience). To RepurposeContent for a new audience requires a significant investment of time, so people won't do it on a whim. A good program can perfectly satisfy two groups of users, via configuration. A piece of text cannot, no matter how good. Different languages are a striking example of that. --MartinHarper\nPrograms themselves are texts and can be read literarily. Software may be able to satisfy two groups, but maybe not three (or N+1). They remain socially constructed and consequently deconstructable. Also, a piece of plain text--although capable of being read in multiple different ways (related: WhatIsMultiplicity)--can also be modified by software into cybertext, or programmatic text. If your claim is that software can be reconfigured, software can also reconfigure text. cf. CybertextPerspectivesOnErgodicLiterature. Note your example of multilingualness. Software configuration can only switch languages. The translation is still text to text. Similarly, a MultilingualWiki for example may afford WikiTunneling from one page to another in a different language. -- SunirShah\nI doubt that ...text cannot.... I think any text can satisfy different groups of users. Doesn't the law and the bible? Configuration seems to be done implicitely by interpretation. -- HelmutLeitner\nI believe that a given edition of the bible only perfectly satisfies a specific group of people. --MartinHarper\nProbably not perfectly. Also, is there a piece of software that perfectly satisfies a specific group of people? -- SunirShah\nPutting the transmission in reverse: text becomes machine in Modernist poetry\nFrom [William Carlos Williams'] introduction to \"The Wedge,\" in Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams (NY: New Directions, 1969), p. 256. (emph. added):\nTo make two bold statements: There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there's nothing sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is redundant.\nProse may carry a load of ill-defined matter like a ship. But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. As in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.\nAnd while Williams refers more to the stylistic precision of poetry analogous to the precision of machine, he also speaks of its machinistic effect and power. Poetry drives the ship. It's strength comes from the power imbued in each word, just as each word in code is given power, albeit ironically more prosaically. In a very direct way, e.e. cummings' poem r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r embodies this, but in taken on this directness, it transcends the point to take us further down the text as machine pipe:\nr-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r\na)s w(e loo)k\nupnowgath\nPPEGORHRASS\neringint(o-\naThe):l\n!p:\nS         a\n(r\nrIvInG .gRrEaPsPhOs)\nrea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly\n,grasshopper;\nThe typesetting may appear here incorrectly; cf. this annotated [proof] by cummings.\nThis poem is a typographic, sonic, and metaphoric reflection of the industrial process, of the mechanical processes that flowed from total rationalization and then resynthesization. The poem visually appears like a machine. It follows structurally from the processes of a machine; that is, the components of the poem form have been rationalized (words, spaces, punctuation) and those components have been rationalized again until all that are left are typewriter symbols; and then those have been repeatedly resynthesized--\"become rearrangingly grasshopper\".\nEven poems not so overtly troped in machinism could exhibit mechanistic triumph. Take this slightly edited excerpt from F.T. Marinetti's Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (Paris) Le Figaro, February 20, 1909 (translated):\nCourage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry. Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggresive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer's stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath\u2014a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. [...]\nWe will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizon; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.\nWhat can we say? Software doesn't merely exalt, it embodies the aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, a racer's stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. (cf. MetaphorInversion)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New WPA Poster Stamps Unveiled At FDR Library\nBy WKIP Mar 8, 2017\nThe FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park yesterday was the setting for a U.S. Postal Service first-day-of-issue ceremony. The 10 new Forever stamps that were dedicated are in the design of 10 WPA posters created under President Roosevelt's WPA Federal Art Project.\nUnited States Postmaster General Megan Brennan unveiled the stamps. Brennan was joined at the stamp dedication ceremony by Paul Sparrow, director, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum; Anthony Musso, author and historian; and David B. Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.\nThe stamps are now available at your local post office or online.\nPhoto: Provided by USPS\u00ae","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"https:\/\/apnews.com\/7286d14f1db3489e9f049a5c60241079\nEditorial: Gloria Reyes best choice to protect, improve Madison schools\nWisconsin State Journal editorial boardMarch 21, 2018 GMT\nGloria Reyes has a clear position on keeping police officers in Madison's high schools.\n\"I support EROs in school,\" Reyes told the State Journal editorial board this week. \"I don't need a committee to tell me that.\"\nThat's different from the view of her opponent, Anna Moffit, in the April 3 election for Madison School Board. Moffit, who has served on the board for three years, initiated a district committee to study \"educational resource officers\" and whether they should stay in city schools.\nMoffit told our editorial board she's not comfortable removing the officers \"at this point,\" meaning a contract with the city for police services won't be terminated next month. Yet Moffit is vague on her intentions beyond that. She sits on the committee studying officers in schools and sounds like she'll support whatever recommendations it makes to the School Board in May.\nGiven the rash of school shootings across the country and heightened concern about fights and disruptions in Madison's high schools, Moffit's ambiguous position should concern voters. On Tuesday, a 17-year-old gunman shot two fellow students at a Maryland high school before a school police officer quickly confronted and stopped the violence.\nMoffit also sounds skeptical of a state plan to give local school districts money to improve security, while Reyes strongly favors \"beefing up infrastructure\" and making sure protection procedures are followed.\n\"If we can't ensure safety for our kids, none of this other stuff matters,\" Reyes said.\nThe State Journal editorial board endorses Reyes in the April 3 election for Seat 1 on the School Board.\nReyes offers district voters more than her background as a Madison police officer with expertise in security issues. Reyes now serves as the city of Madison's education liaison, so she's well versed on lots of school issues. She's also an East High School graduate with children in the district.\nGrowing up in Madison as an English language learner who struggled with hunger, homelessness, misbehavior and trauma, Reyes said she understands and credits the impact of city schools for much of her success. The daughter of migrant farm workers now serves as a deputy city mayor focusing on public safety, civil rights and community services. She will bring needed diversity to the board and better understand struggling students.\nMoffit, a former teacher, works hard advocating for students with special needs. Her dedication and knowledge are impressive.\nBut Reyes' keen focus on school safety and minority achievement make her the stronger candidate. Voters should support her April 3.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group\nA pair of Chinese companies recently announced they were teaming up to build a massive new spaceport in Djibouti. If you were like me, you probably wondered: where is Djibouti? And why is China building a spaceport there?\nGreat questions. Let's find out.\nDown at Starbase in Texas, SpaceX completed a \"flight-like wet dress rehearsal\" by filling Starship and its Super Heavy Booster with propellants for the first time.\nHKATG Forms Strategic Partnership for Golden Bauhinia Satellite Constellation\nHONG KONG (Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group PR) \u2014 Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited (HKATG; 01725. HK) announced its strategic cooperation with the Company and Shandong Institute of Industrial Technology for the construction and operation of the first high-resolution agricultural satellite constellation (\"Golden Bauhinia \u2014 Qilu Satellite Constellation\") on 4 April. It is known that the first phase of the project comprising 9 satellites and the first experiment satellite is expected to be launched in July 2022, and the remaining eight operational satellites with 8-band multi-spectral observation capability will be launched in December 2022.\nAfter the news came out, a huge amount of smart money poured into HKATG, its stock soared for 4 consecutive days between 4 April and 8 April. HKATG recorded a four-day gaining streak from its latest low of HK$12.2, in addition to crossing above 10-day and 20-day exponential moving average (EMA), the stock, a new high in three months was made during intraday trading on 8 April. HKATG surged by more than 100% in a few days, and the trading volume moved against the market which up to nearly 800,000 shares, with a capital of HKD 16.83 million involved and an amazing momentum.\nCan HKATG Challenge SpaceX's Starlink? Chinese Company Prepares For Golden Bauhinia Satellite Constellation\nHONG KONG, Feb. 24, 2022 (HKATG PR) \u2014 HKATG [Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited ] has successfully launched five satellites for its \"Golden Bauhinia Constellation\" in 2021, the aerospace development plan shows no sign of slowing down in 2022.\nIn January 2022, HKST announced that the Group has planned to launch two satellites named \"Golden Bauhinia Satellite No. 3\" and \"Golden Bauhinia Satellite No. 4\" in 2022 Q3, with the target launch time tentatively being scheduled in July 2022 and will continue to form and constitute part of the \"Golden Bauhinia Constellation\".\nAt the same time, 25 satellites are planned to be launched in 2022 for the \"Golden Bauhinia Constellation\", and the further launch of satellites this year will provide additional aerospace data as well as will boost the speed of receiving aerospace data. It's worth noticing that \"Golden Bauhinia Constellation\" is the first-star chain plan of the Hong Kong aerospace industry, the whole project plans to launch 112 satellites.\nHKATG to Launch 25 Satellites This Year\nThe firm foresees substantial economic benefits from its entry into the aerospace sector\nHONG KONG, Feb. 10, 2022 (HKATG PR) \u2014 Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group, Ltd. (HK: 1725) (HKATG), a leading aerospace firm traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEx) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Gang Hang Ke (Shenzhen) Space Technology (\"SZ Gang Hang Ke\") has entered into a second satellite launch service confirmation agreement with China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a state-owned enterprise in Mainland China.\nUnder the agreement, SZ Gang Hang Ke is tentatively scheduled to launch the two satellites, Golden Bauhinia Satellite No. 3 and Golden Bauhinia Satellite No. 4, in July of this year. The continued launching of satellites is expected to speed up the timetable for the completion the Golden Bauhinia Constellation project as well as enhance the operations of the smart city in the process of being rolled out in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA). HKATG plans to launch 25 satellites in 2022.\nHKATG Carries Out In-orbit Technology Validation of Golden Bauhinia Satellite Constellation\nHONG KONG (HKATG PR) \u2014 On July 25, 2020, China's Long March-4B carrier rocket was successfully launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, and the space exploration satellite named \"Lobster Eye X-ray Explorer\" was successfully put into orbit. The \"Lobster Eye X-ray Explorer\" is the first space exploration satellite in the world to apply X-ray technology focusing with lobster-eye optics.\nIn its design and development process, all participators including the Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group, Ltd. (HKATG) co-innovated in the basic research, engineering technology and applications to carry out the full-chain, systematic research and development work, which have made great contributions to strengthening China's independent innovation capabilities in space astronomy, deep space exploration, and space remote sensing, etc.\nHong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Prepares to Launch First Satellite\nHONG KONG , April 3, 2020 (HKATG PR) \u2014 Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group (HKATG) announced it aims to launch the \"Golden Bauhinia No.1\" low-orbit high frequency satellite in June from China . The planned launch marks an important milestone in the company's \"Golden Bauhinia\" space remote sensing project.\nThe rapid development of international commercial aerospace makes it one of the most dynamic industries after the Internet, AI and 5G. According to the US Satellite Industry Association (SIA), commercial aerospace revenue was US$277.4 billion in 2018 and is expected to increase 10 percent per year.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Port Harcourt Medical Journal\nThe effect of insecticide-treated bed net on malarial parasitaemia and haemoglobin level of under-five children in a semi-urban community in south-south Nigeria\nB Ordinioha Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences,University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt\nDOI: 10.4314\/phmedj.v1i2.38861\nBackground: Imperfect control measures like insecticide-treated bed net that merely reduces transmission, appear unlikely to have any significant effect on malarial morbidity in an area of intense perennial malaria transmission. Also, some field studies have indicated that the efficacy achieved might be due to the high coverage rate achieved during the trial that produced a mass killing of mosquitoes in the communities. Aim: To assess the impact of the use of the insecticide-treated bed net in a programme situation, on malarial parasitaemia, haemoglobin levels and spleen sizes in under-five children, in an area of intense perennial malaria transmission in South-South Nigeria. Methods: The study was carried out over a six-month period in two communities in the Ogba\/ Egbema\/ Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-South Nigeria. A non-randomized control group pre-intervention-post-intervention study design was used. Fifty five children under five years systematically chosen from buyers of the nets sold by a social marketing project were used as the intervention group. Fifty eight children were recruited as controls, from a neighbouring community about ten kilometers away, and matched for age and socio-economic status of their parents with those in the intervention group. Results: The baseline data of the study groups were broadly the same (p > 0.1). However, in the post-intervention study, there was a 0.75g\/dl (p<0.05) difference in the haemoglobin level of the children, with a concomitant difference of 24.05% (p-value <0.05) in the proportion with moderate anaemia (8g\/dl). There was also a 2.03cm (p-value <0.001) difference in spleen size, and a 34.42% (p-value <0.05) difference in the prevalence of splenomegaly. The 21.35% difference in the proportion with parasitaemia between the two groups was also found to be significant (p-value < 0.05). Conclusions: The study shows that insecticide-treated bed net can be an effective tool for malaria control in an area of intense perennial malaria transmission.\nKeywords: Insecticide-treated bed net, Effectiveness, Malaria control, South-South Nigeria.\nPort Harcourt Medical Journal Vol. 1 (2) 2007: pp. 90-95\nRequires Subscription PDF\nOn acceptance, the copyright of a manuscript is transferred to the Editor-in-Chief and the publisher.\nManuscripts published do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editorial Board but that of the author(s).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bill Goldberg Q&A: The Big Gold Belt, Martial Arts Training, Partying with Mark Coleman and Beating Hulk Hogan\nBy Tony Reid 3 years ago\nTony Reid \u2013 The former WCW World Heavyweight Champion, the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion, one of only three men to hold the 'Big Gold Belt' in the WWE and WCW and just an iconic figure in pro wrestling, television and movies Mr. Bill Goldberg\u2026 Goldberg how are you doing?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"Tony, I'm doing great especially since you started off the introduction by saying the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, because that is what I remember.\"\nTony Reid \u2013 Well, we all know the \"Big Gold Belt\" is by far the coolest belt in the history of pro wrestling. You held it and held it well for a good period of time.\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"I appreciate it. It was an interesting venture to say the least. It was a time in my life when I had a lot of fun, had a lot of strange things going on but I had a great time.\"\nTony Reid \u2013 When you were rehabbing the injury suffered during your NFL career, you began power lifting and training in martial arts. Do you ever wonder where you would be today if you hadn't taken Sting's advice and given pro wrestling a shot?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"The reality is although it (MMA) would have been a great opportunity back in the day, there was no money. The guys who put the sport on the map, the Gracies, the Shamrocks, the Fryes\u2026 Randleman, Coleman\u2026Those are the guys that put it on the map, unfortunately they paved the way but were not in it long enough to reap some of the benefits given now. I probably would have been in that situation. If you compare Brock (Lesnar) and I, Brock is a lot younger than me even though we retired at the same time from pro wrestling, we were at two totally different parts in our lives. Here is a guy who wants to go out and play professional football and football was ten years behind me. To be in the right place at the right time for wrestling, yeah I was but for MMA I couldn't have been there at a worse time. Look at Danny Hodge, talk about a bad ass wrestler, you have to go back 50 years but just imagine if he was around when MMA started. I would have done it; in the beginning I had the largest MMA gym in the country. Right when I got into the wrestling business I started taking martial arts seriously. Unfortunately the gym got pushed to the side because I wasn't there to control things. (Kevin) Randleman, (Don) Frye, (Mark) Coleman, Randy (Couture), they all trained at my gym. They had trained at my place prior to starting their respective gyms. So, I have been around it for a long time. I am a firm believer that Dana (White) is well, I don't want to say prophet but we both knew it (MMA) was going to work.\"\nTony Reid \u2013 So you spoke about having a number of elite guys training at your gym back in the day. Can you share a story from those days?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"Not in the gym but over in Japan I remember, I was represented by a guy that was also representing Coleman and Frye at the time. All I can say is that we all went to a late night establishment, they had fights coming up and I had a wrestling match coming up. Now, I could take my time out on the town less seriously than they could but you would never have known it by their condition that night, by any stretch of the imagination. Those days are way behind us, but back on that particular night Goldberg tried to get Coleman out of a bar at 3:00 in the morning because he had a fight coming up in a few hours.\"\nTony Reid- You based your WCW persona, do some degree, on a mixed martial artist. Do you feel that authenticity helped get you over in a day and age when many guys had long, bleach blonde hair and crazy outfits and personalities?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"Lets be honest, I had some good foreshadowing, and I knew it was going to work. I was such a big fan of MMA and the UFC that I went to probably two out of the first ten UFC events. I truly believed that if I liked it, not to say that in an egotistical way, then everyone was going to like it. I knew it was going to be the next big thing. I knew I had a passion for the martial arts, I knew that, being a 300 pound defensive lineman that I had the mentality to mix it up with the real moves in pro wrestling. I used to go back and watch UWF tapes, most people don't even know what UWF is\u2026For a guy who went out every Sunday and went 100 miles per hour, gave 150% and head butted 350 pound offensive lineman I think I was the perfect guy to take that character. I bought about $5,000 worth of tapes and just started studying guys like Oleg Taktarov, who was one of my idols because of his use of Russian Sambo. I had never seen Sambo before, so I thought if I start throwing some Sambo moves in people will think that, number one, that's real and two it looks like I'm killing the guy. I tried to take specific moves from anybody that I thought was in possession of a move that could get over in the wrestling world without hurting someone. 90% of my moves came from the UWF. I wanted to be able to not blur that line between non fiction and fiction that 99.9% of the guys on TV were doing. I wanted to come up with a character that makes me proud of who I am. I can't act like I'm punching a guy in the face. If I hit a guy in the face with my hand I'm going to light him up and there is probably going to be blood. With the gloves you get the tearing and ripping of the skin. There is probably going to more blood coming from a guy hitting a dude with the gloves on. That was one of my ways of trying to cover up the fact that what we were doing was fiction.\nThat's something else I want to point out, man, being in the football world, the wrestling world and the MMA world, I truthfully believe the largest percentage of good people are in MMA. The level of accessibility and the down to earth nature is what separates MMA from other sports. NASCAR is pretty much the same way in that the drivers are very approachable during the event. It's the people's sport, really.\"\nTony Reid \u2013 Do you remember the first combat sports event that you ever watched?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"The UFC started it for me. I had taken different martial arts individually but I had never seen a competition like that. I had seen Pancrase prior but it really didn't grab me like the UFC did. Truthfully, I believe and this is a whole different conversation, but part of me likes the old UFC platform best. Reality is that you can't be stuck in that world anymore and for people to compete you have to be well rounded. But for me it was like Street Fighter back in the day. You see Gracie come in there against a guy that is 200 pounds heavier and choke out the guy in 45 seconds. You always have the element of surprise in there. Back then you didn't know what was going on. For me, that was the pinnacle of the sport. Obviously, nobody was making money but fan wise that was extremely fun.\"\nTony Reid \u2013 What are your thoughts on the current state of MMA?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"As much as I love MMA, it is killing the traditional martial arts. That is why I have a Muay Thai gym and not an MMA gym. I want to try to do my part in keeping the traditional arts relevant. I know they are going away but how many high school or college kids do you know that are training in one singular discipline? It's just not happening. What I am most disappointed with is that the traditional concept of martial arts has been lost. That is the building block of mixed martial arts, respect and all that stuff.\"\nTony Reid \u2013 You have stated that you researched a great deal of martial arts in the infancy of your wrestling career. Where are all of those tapes\/DVDs now? In watching all the events you watched then, who struck you most and what style did you relate to most?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"What I did is I kept all of them and now I co-own a Muay Thai gym here in Oceanside, CA called Extreme Power and the tapes are all there. I wanted to show the co-owner who is an 8th degree dan and a monster in that world, as well as the other guys at the gym a few different styles to expand their games and open their minds to different styles and techniques. They (the tapes) definitely didn't go to waste!\"\nTony Reid \u2013 Who are your favorite fighters (past or present) to watch as a fan of the sport?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 I used to love watching Wanderlei (Silva) and most of the guys during the PRIDE days. Dan Henderson is a machine, man. To see what he is doing at his age is beautiful, it's wonderful. I am a fan of most of these guys because of their personalities, not necessarily because of their fighting styles. I love watching Melvin Manhoef. Whether he has the right mentality for success or not, that kid goes out to blow you up. Wanderlei used to be the same way. Guys just can't go in there and go crazy anymore but I used to like watching a lot of the PRIDE guys.\nTony Reid \u2013 There is a long and growing list of fighters turned wrestlers and wrestlers turned fighters. To what do you attribute that crossover appeal?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"Well, it's a hard transition to make whether it be from pro wrestling to fighting or fighting to pro wrestling. There are some guys that could make it an easier transition than others, guys that have a character or personality in the MMA world already, Quinton Jackson could do it in three seconds. He has that personality. As far as wrestlers going into fighting, well, that is a whole different story. The years that they trained to be involved in wrestling could have been used to train in mixed martial arts. That puts them behind the 8 ball, no matter how old or young they are. It's time that's kind of wasted. I don't know if it's a realistic transition from pro wrestling to MMA because some of the wrestlers might believe they are tougher than they are. Although, if you get ahold of a guy back in the day and it's was an option, I guarantee you the Steiner Brothers and Meng and the Barbarian would have made a huge splash in the MMA world. I don't know of a human being alive that could take out Meng in his prime. I really don't. One story I remember was when it took like 13 guys to get him out of a bar with Ric Flair. He was pepper sprayed and laughed at the cops and broke the cuffs right in front of them. This was a totally different human being.\nYou look at a guy like Jon Jones, he was athletic enough to have been able to pick and choose a sport to excel in and he chose MMA. Now you are seeing guys that have the athletic ability to be able to play any sport that are foregoing that opportunity to take up MMA. I think that's the new breed. They are going to come in and its going to be a totally different story. We are starting to see that now.\"\nTony Reid-So, I can't let you go without getting a WCW\/Pro Wrestling story from you. You will go down as one of the most iconic figures in the history of the industry. Can you share a story with us that the masses haven't heard?\nBill Goldberg \u2013 \"It's really hard to look back and find truly wonderful stories of my time in the industry. The best time in my entire athletic career, excluding me being drafted in the NFL, was the night when I beat (Hulk) Hogan. And it wasn't because I beat Hogan; it was because at the end of the night all the guys I played pro football with on the Atlanta Falcons wanted to be me. They came out to the ring, they wanted the limelight and they wanted to help me. I had Chuck Smith, Cornelius Bennett, Jesse Tuggle; I mean that was very cool for me. All I ever wanted to do was be a pro football player. I unfortunately got hurt, I didn't have the ability to excel and be the player I wanted to be and I had to give it up. That's all I ever wanted to do. I did the pro wrestling because I had to. I became fond of it, but at that point in time the guys who I revered more than anybody in the world wanted to be me. So, that was some real poetic justice for me.\"\nTony Reid\nIn July of 2008 Tony Reid launched an MMA inspired clothing line that he named Reid Fight Wear. He saw a need in the MMA clothing market for a more classic, clean and timeless design and less of the dated styles seen then. In the process of major life changes, Tony cashed out his 401(k), emptied his bank account and put his heart and soul into building the brand.\nIn August 2009 Tony began writing for TapouT and MMA Worldwide Magazines. There he created Rattling the Cage, an MMA specific news site and home for all of his work.\nIn May of 2012 Reid began writing for Ultimate MMA Magazine, launching an MMA Legends and MMA Officials Series.\nAlso in May of the same year he started appearing regularly on ESPN 92.3 WVSL as the MMA Insider.\nIn early August of 2012 Reid was named General Manager of UFC Fighter Tim Boetsch's Barbarian Combat Sports in Sunbury, PA.\nBy December 2012 Reid started contributing to Fighters Only Magazine. \"The World's Leading MMA and Lifestyle Magazine\" is sold in over 30 countries around the world and has the largest reach of any international magazine of its type.\nIn May of 2013 Reid became a monthly segment host on Sirius XM Radio. Appearing the first Thursday of every month on TapouT Radio on SiriusXM (Sirius 92 XM 208) in a segment he created called \"On Blast!\" where he puts people in the MMA world on notice.\nIn June of 2013 Reid began writing for the UK based MMA Uncaged Magazine.\nIn August of 2013, Reid launched \"Rattling the Cage with Tony Reid\" a talk radio show he hosted on ESPN 92.3 WVSL \"The Valley's Sports Leader\". The show aired over 100 episodes and featured some of the biggest and brightest stars in the world of combat sports. It was one of the most successful shows in the station's history.\nIn May of 2016 Reid became a feature writer for FloCombat.\nIn September of the same year Reid began writing for ONE Championship, Asia's largest global sports media property in history.\nReid is happy to now join the team at MyMMANews as a contributor.\nTags: Atlanta Falcons, Bill Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, Hulk Hogan, jon jones, MMA, NFL, Pride, UFC\nPrevious Dana White: Conor McGregor-Khabib Nurmagomedov rematch could happen in 2019\nNext Jon Jones says he'd like to fight three times in 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Americans Were Just Introduced To One Of The Nation's Most Powerful Voices\n\"When I hear Hillary's voice and her positions, I hear and I know that she is working to embrace our deepest moral values \u2015 and we should embrace her.\"\nBy Ryan Grim and Julia Craven\nPHILADELPHIA \u2015 The Democratic National Convention introduced America to the longtime leader of North Carolina's Moral Monday movement, the fiery Rev. William Barber, on Thursday.\nThe Moral Monday movement has sought to highlight the extreme swing to the right that North Carolina has taken, despite its status as a purple state. A tea-party-occupied GOP has gone after LGBTQ rights, attacked the storied university system, slashed social spending, implemented strict voter ID laws and removed police camera footage from the public record.\nBarber, the president of North Carolina's NAACP, began his speech by linking faith and morality to progressivism before issuing a call for \"a revival at the heart of our democracy.\"\n\"When we fight for 15 [on minimum wage] and a union and universal health care and public education and immigrant rights and [LGBTQ] rights, we are reviving the heart of our democracy,\" he said. \"When we develop tax and trade policies that no longer funnel our prosperity to the wealthy few, we are reviving the heart of our democracy.\"\n\"When we hear the legitimate discontent of Black Lives Matter and come together to renew justice in our criminal justice system, we are embracing our deepest moral values and reviving the heart of our democracy,\" Barber continued.\nBarber has a rare ability to bring a fire-and-brimstone style yet still appeal to secular liberals, connecting the social justice tradition of the black church to the broader left, but also explicitly making room for non-believers and activists of other faiths \u2015 or, unusually from the stage of a national convention, especially from the mouth of a preacher, \"those who have no faith.\"\nBarber, who has a significant following in progressive quarters, vouched for Clinton, but added that it's up to grassroots advocates to continue pressing her to do the right thing.\n\"When I hear Hillary's voice and her positions, I hear and I know that she is working to embrace our deepest moral values \u2015 and we should embrace her,\" Barber said. \"But let me be clear \u2026 she nor any person can do it alone. The watchword of this democracy and the watchword of faith is we. The heart of our democracy is on the line this November and beyond.\"\nWatch his speech above.\nWomen Share #WhyImVoting\nFormer Washington Bureau Chief, HuffPost\nJulia Craven\nReporter, HuffPost\nElections 2016 Hillary Clinton Democratic National Convention Moral Monday William Barber\nBitsie Tulloch, Star of \"Grimm\"\nCourtesy of Bitsie Tulloch","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A cautionary tale of the two-month CEO\nEarlier this year, I had lunch with a friend I'll call Phil, who was looking for a new job. Phil had a successful 15-year run with his last employer, and he was well positioned for a COO or CEO position. Two weeks after our discussion, a headhunter told me about a position he was trying to fill.\nThe client, M&C Inc., had been a leader in its field for close to twenty years. It was still in a market leadership position, but the industry was only a fraction of its former size. It was purchased out of bankruptcy by Mason, who ran it for about 5 years. Mason spends most of time in Singapore, and he realized that taking M&C to the next level required more time with the business in Minnesota than he was willing to give.\nI introduced Phil to the headhunter, who presented him to Mason. Mason and Phil met in early March. Within a few weeks, Phil was named CEO. A couple months later, I was preparing to present to a group of executives in transition, when I got a note from Phil. \"I didn't want to surprise you in your presentation, Steve,\" Phil said. \"But I will be among the executives you will be presenting to tomorrow. Things didn't work out for me at M&C Inc., and I am looking for a new opportunity.\"\nThe group discussion the next day was on how things might go wrong for executives as they integrate in their new roles. Phil was very open on how things went down. I think it was an eye-opener for everybody in the room. And the painful lessons Phil shared are important for both new executives and hiring companies.\nThe owner didn't leave the search up to the professionals. He hired a headhunter who uncovered at least one very compelling candidate. The candidate came from a company in adjacent space to the recruiting company, and Phil used that adjacency to make a strong case for how he understood the business.\nMason, being sold on the good fit of the adjacent business, freelanced in the search process by contacting executives of Phil's former company. Not only did he query people on what they thought of his candidate, but he attempted to get several of those who took his call to consider the position.\nOf course, all of this behind-the-scenes maneuvering got back to the candidate. Undoubtedly, this left a bad taste in Phil's mouth. But his interest in finding a new position and getting his first-ever CEO spot led him to look beyond. He remained undeterred as he progressed in the search. And he was offered the position, which he quickly accepted in March.\n2. The owner and the CEO could not make a long-distance relationship work. I know a lot of CEOs who succeed working for owners who live thousands of miles away. But a Singapore-Minneapolis axis, with thirteen time zones in between, is hard to manage. There has to be a commitment to 6am or 7pm phone calls, and even the International Date Line can get in the way.\nEven a thirteen-hour time differential can work if the CEO has sufficient autonomy. That is hard to accomplish when (1) it is the first time the individual has held a CEO role, (2) the owner successfully held the role of CEO prior to this search and (3) there are no set communication times.\nWorking well with remote ownership requires establishing rules of the road on what needs prior approval, what needs to be reported after the fact and what can just get done. In this situation, establishing those guidelines had not happened at the get-go.\n3. The role of an incumbent COO created confusion. A passed-over executive in a situation like this can be trouble for the recently hired exec, especially if they thought they were in line for the position. In this case, Phil believed that the COO was cool with an outside CEO, and he had been told by Mason of a division of labor between the COO and himself.\nBut as soon as Phil was in position, the COO received messages from Mason to take the initiative on areas assigned to the CEO. Maybe this was a continuation of past activities, when the owner served as a largely-absent CEO. Maybe this indicated lack of confidence with the new CEO. Whatever the cause, it created ambiguity of roles and responsibilities between the two people in charge. And the CEO did not feel empowered to countermand the owner's directive and to straighten things out between himself and his COO.\n4. The organization's immune system confronted the CEO from the start. They liked the COO, and they liked the owner, who had bought the business at a point of crisis and had stabilized it (albeit at a point well below its heyday) and set it up for growth.\nPhil brought with him a promise and maybe a threat of change. Early on, he was impressed with the institutional knowledge of his reports, less impressed with their functional expertise. It's unclear whether the organization felt it was being judged, but that is a good assumption. And Mason sold Phil on a mandate for change. Without selling the organization on \"What's in it for me,\" a new direction would not seem like a popular course of action.\nI never asked Phil if his departure were voluntary or not. Enough things had gone wrong for him to want to bail out early on. Maybe the owner quickly developed buyer's remorse from afar. Whatever the dynamic, this is a painful tale for all involved. For Phil, his search for the next step in his career was sidelined for months, and he probably didn't receive the full severance that a spot in a less entrepreneurial enterprise would provide. The whole experience may have led to a little PTSD, which will make it harder for him to jump back into the fray as fully engaged as he was when I first met him.\nFor M&C, the harm may be even greater. They end up having to conduct a second search. They have been without consistency in leadership for a half year, which might end up more like a full year. They take a blow to their reputation that might hurt them in their next search. The cost involved in getting this right will total hundreds of thousands of dollars, without considering the results of the turmoil on employees or consumers.\nMy focus is usually on strategies new executives can use to have a successful integration. And I will offer some suggestions. But before that, I'm compelled to make it obvious what an employer could do to make this difficult hire a success.\nLet the search firm do its job. This story is the poster child for botched interference that created unnecessary ill-will. Instead, the recruitment process should end with a hire feeling like they are wanted and valued.\n2. Spend time needed to be clear on expectations. Spell out what are the limits of the employee's authority. Make clear how his responsibility differs from those of his second-in-command.\n3. Bestow your endorsement on the new hire. Make the organization understand that he has your full confidence. Do not participate in or condone any efforts that undercuts the authority he has been given by you.\nSo, what could the new CEO have done differently?\n1. Don't expect you can succeed without a clear mandate. I think there were enough warning signs here that the best play may have to turn the offer down.\n2. Ensure that the commitments you make with the owner on responsibility, reporting and autonomy are explicit. Talk them through. Write them down. Get the owner to make an endorsement of you across the employee community. Make sure any issues on a division of labor with your subordinates are just as clear. Copy the owner on written roles and responsibilities.\n3. Hold to these commitments. You've just gone through the trouble to \"make a contract\" on responsibilities. Resist any early attempts that reduce your scope.\n4. Control the communications. Given the difficulty in managing time zones, I would assume that directives from the owner to the COO came via email. Any email to the COO from the owner should have the CEO cc'd.\n5. Start building the relationships that you need with employees to be successful. Speak with authenticity. Listen to them. Demonstrate how you value them. You need them on your side to accomplish your goals.\nPhil's brief tenure at M&C provides lessons galore for both the executive and the company. An owner needs to stay in his own lane to give a high-risk situation a chance to succeed. An executive must stand firm in response to inappropriate action from a superior, and he has to get a good start in building bridges with employees. I don't mean to imply that Phil would have succeeded had he and Mason taken different tacks. But without these actions, a slim chance of success quickly became none at all.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TITLE 5. RAILROADS\nSUBTITLE I.  SPECIAL DISTRICTS\nCHAPTER 171.  FREIGHT RAIL DISTRICTS\nSUBCHAPTER A.  GENERAL PROVISIONS\n(1)  \"Board\" means the district's board of directors.\n(2)  \"Bonds\" has the meaning assigned by Section 172.001.\n(3)  \"District\" means a freight rail district created under this chapter.\n(4)  \"Rail facilities\" has the meaning assigned by Section 172.001, except that the term includes property and interests necessary or convenient for the provision of a nonrural rail transportation system.\n(5)  \"Revenue\" has the meaning assigned by Section 172.001.\nAdded by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 756 (H.B. 2958), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.\nActs 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 85 (S.B. 1540), Sec. 4.03, eff. April 1, 2011.\nSec. 171.002.  APPLICABILITY OF RURAL RAIL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICTS LAW.  (a)  Except as provided by this chapter, the provisions of Chapter 172 other than Section 172.003 apply to a district as if the district were created under that chapter.\n(b)  For purposes of applying Chapter 172 to a district created under this chapter, a reference to \"rail facilities\" in Chapter 172 means \"rail facilities\" as defined by Section 171.001.\n(c)  For purposes of applying Chapter 172 to a district created under this chapter, a reference in Chapter 172 to \"eligible county\" means a county that created the district.\nSUBCHAPTER B.  CREATION; ADDITION OF COUNTY TO DISTRICT\nSec. 171.051.  APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN COUNTIES.  A district may be created only in a county with a population of 3.3 million or more and counties adjacent to such a county.\nSec. 171.052.  CREATION BY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  The governing body of one or more counties and the most populous municipality in the most populous county may by concurrent order or ordinance create a district.  At the time of creation, a district must include:\n(1)  a county with a population of 3.3 million or more; and\n(2)  that municipality.\n(b)  The order or ordinance creating the district:\n(1)  must specify:\n(A)  the number of district directors and who appoints the directors; and\n(B)  the method of selecting the board's presiding officer; and\n(2)  may specify terms and conditions that are not expressly inconsistent with this chapter.\n(c)  If the most populous county in the district contains a countywide navigation district and the presiding officer of the navigation district is jointly appointed by that county and the most populous municipality in that county, the order or ordinance creating the district must specify that:\n(1)  the presiding officer of the navigation district is a director of the freight rail district; and\n(2)  at least one director must be jointly appointed by the mayors of the municipalities in the district, except for the mayor of the most populous municipality in the most populous county.\n(d)  The common law doctrine of incompatibility does not apply to a director serving under Subsection (c)(1) with regard to the director's service for the freight rail district or for the navigation district.\nSec. 171.053.  INTERMUNICIPAL COMMUTER RAIL DISTRICT POWERS AND ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.  The governing bodies of the county or counties and of the most populous municipality in the most populous county may provide that the district:\n(1)  may exercise the powers of an intermunicipal commuter rail district created under Chapter 173 or former Article 6550c-1, Revised Statutes, including the powers related to a commuter rail facility and other types of passenger rail services, including intercity rail services, by specifying in the concurrent order or ordinance creating the district that those powers may be exercised by the district; and\n(2)  may provide advanced transportation, as defined by Section 451.701, by specifying in the concurrent order or ordinance creating the district that the district may provide those services.\nActs 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 33 (H.B. 2433), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.\nActs 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 782 (S.B. 1990), Sec. 1, eff. June 16, 2021.\nSec. 171.054.  DISTRICT TERRITORY.  The district consists of the territory of:\n(1)  each county that created the district;\n(2)  each county added to the district under Section 171.055; and\n(3)  the territory of the most populous municipality in the most populous county if that municipality's territory is located in more than one county.\nActs 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 449 (S.B. 1578), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2011.\nSec. 171.055.  ADDITION OF COUNTY TO DISTRICT.  (a)  A county may be added to a district if:\n(1)  the county is adjacent to a county with a population of 3.3 million or more that created the district; or\n(2)  the county:\n(A)  is adjacent to a county that is added to the district under Subdivision (1); and\n(B)  contains a navigation district.\n(b)  The following governing bodies must by joint resolution approve the addition of the county to the district:\n(1)  the commissioners court of the county to be added to the district;\n(2)  the commissioners court of each county in the district; and\n(3)  the governing body of the most populous municipality in the most populous county in the district.\n(c)  The resolution must include the number of directors the new county will have on the board.\n(d)  On adoption of the resolution by each commissioners court and the governing body of the municipality, the county is added to the district.\nAdded by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 449 (S.B. 1578), Sec. 3, eff. June 17, 2011.\nSUBCHAPTER C.  BOARD OF DIRECTORS\nSec. 171.101.  COMPOSITION OF BOARD; PRESIDING OFFICER.  (a)  The board consists of directors, including a presiding officer, as provided in the order or ordinance creating the district under Section 171.052(b).\n(b)  The board shall add directors for each county added to the district as provided in the joint resolution adding the county under Section 171.055.\nSec. 171.102.  EX OFFICIO NONVOTING DIRECTOR; TEXAS TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION.  The Texas Transportation Commission may appoint to the board a representative to serve as a nonvoting ex officio director.\nSec. 171.103.  CONFLICT OF INTEREST.  Chapter 171, Local Government Code, governs conflicts of interest for directors.\nSUBCHAPTER D.  POWERS AND DUTIES\nSec. 171.151.  REGIONAL MOBILITY AUTHORITY POWERS.  A district may exercise the transportation project powers of a regional mobility authority under Chapter 370 for a transportation project that is a freight rail facility.\nSec. 171.152.  GENERAL CONTRACT POWERS.  A district may contract with any person, including:\n(1)  a county or municipality, including a county or municipality that is a member of the district;\n(2)  this state or any political subdivision of this state;\n(3)  the United States; or\n(4)  a railroad.\nSec. 171.153.  EXERCISE OF POWERS IN OTHER COUNTIES.  The commissioners court of a county that is not in the district may authorize the district to exercise its powers in that county if that county is adjacent to a county that is in the district.\nSec. 171.154.  INTERMUNICIPAL COMMUTER RAIL POWERS.  (a)  The district may exercise the powers of an intermunicipal commuter rail district created under Chapter 173 or former Article 6550c-1, Revised Statutes, only if the concurrent order or ordinance creating the district specifies that the district may exercise those powers.  The order or ordinance may not grant the district the power to impose a tax.\n(b)  In the event of a conflict between this chapter and a power granted by Chapter 173, this chapter controls.  In the event of a conflict between Chapter 173 and Chapter 172, Chapter 172 controls over Chapter 173.\nSec. 171.155.  MUNICIPAL LIMIT ON DISTRICT'S POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN.  If the property to be condemned is located in the corporate limits of one or more municipalities, the district may exercise the power of eminent domain to condemn the property only if each municipality in which the property is located consents to the exercise of that power.\nSUBCHAPTER E.  RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISTRICT AND AFFECTED RAILROADS\nSec. 171.201.  AGREEMENT WITH RAILROAD.  (a)  Before a district may undertake a freight or commuter rail project that materially affects the tracks, facilities, or other property of a railroad that owns track in the district, the district and railroad must enter into a written agreement regarding the scope, operational impact, financing, and other elements of the project.  The district may not undertake the project unless the district and the railroad agree on these terms.\n(b)  The agreement may include provisions for the railroad's financial participation in the project according to the benefits the railroad derives from the project.\nSec. 171.202.  PRESERVATION OF REGULATORY STRUCTURE AND OWNERSHIP RIGHTS.  A district project may be conducted only in a manner that preserves the existing rail industry regulatory structure and railroad ownership rights.\nSec. 171.203.  COMPETITIVE RELATIONSHIPS.  The district may not undertake a project that changes the existing competitive relationships between and among railroads.\nSec. 171.204.  SERVICE TO CUSTOMERS.  The district may not undertake a project that negatively affects a railroad's present or future ability to provide consistent service to its customers.\nSec. 171.205.  USE OF DISTRICT RAIL FACILITIES.  This chapter does not prohibit the district from authorizing multiple freight railroads to operate on district rail facilities.\nSec. 171.206.  LIMITATION ON EMINENT DOMAIN.  The power of eminent domain may not be exercised under this chapter to condemn a right-of-way owned by a railroad.\nSec. 171.207.  EXCEPTION; GRADE SEPARATION PROJECTS.  This subchapter does not apply to a rail-roadway or rail-rail grade separation project.\nSUBCHAPTER F.  FINANCIAL PROVISIONS\nSec. 171.251.  PLEDGE OF REVENUE.  A district may secure and pledge revenue derived from any source to secure the payment of district bonds.\nSec. 171.252.  PURCHASE CONTRACTS.  Subchapter O, Chapter 60, Water Code, as added by Chapter 307, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, applies to the district as if the district were a navigation district under that subchapter.  For the purposes of applying that subchapter to the district under this section, \"commission\" means the board.\nSec. 171.253.  AD VALOREM AND SALES AND USE TAXES PROHIBITED.  A district may not impose an ad valorem tax or a sales and use tax.\nSec. 171.254.  FEES CHARGED TO RAILROADS.  (a)  A district may not impose a fee or other charge on a railroad unless the railroad agrees to the fee or other charge.\n(b)  This section does not prohibit a railroad from voluntarily contributing to the cost of rail facilities or prohibit the district from charging for the use of a rail facility by a railroad or other person.\nSec. 171.255.  PORT TERMINAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION RAIL FACILITIES.  The district may not spend money, including money from state or federal grants, to purchase a rail facility operated by a port terminal railroad.\nSec. 171.256.  LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCING.  (a)  Section 173.256(d), relating to the limit on payments made by a local government, does not apply to a district to which Section 171.053 applies.\n(b)  A district to which Section 171.053 applies may use money paid to the district by a local government outside the territory of the local government if the money is used for a public purpose of the local government.\n(c)  A district to which Section 171.053 applies may pledge money paid to the district by a local government to secure the payment of a district debt.\nAdded by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 33 (H.B. 2433), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2009.\nActs 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), Sec. 24.002, eff. September 1, 2011.\nSUBCHAPTER G.  WITHDRAWAL; DISSOLUTION\nSec. 171.301.  WITHDRAWAL.  (a)  A county or municipality that is a member of the district may petition the board for approval to withdraw from the district.  The board may approve the petition only if:\n(1)  the district has no outstanding bonds; or\n(2)  the district has debt other than bonds and the board finds that the withdrawal of the county or municipality will not materially affect the ability of the district to repay the debt.\n(b)  If the board approves the petition, the county or municipality that withdrew from the district is not entitled to appoint directors to the board.  The remaining counties or municipality by concurrent order or ordinance shall allocate among themselves the authority of the withdrawing county or municipality to appoint directors to the board.\nSec. 171.302.  DISSOLUTION.  In addition to the dissolution procedures provided by Chapter 172, the board may dissolve a district if:\n(1)  all district liabilities have been paid or adequate provision has been made for the payment of all liabilities;\n(2)  the district is not a party to any lawsuits or adequate provision has been made for the satisfaction of any judgment or order that may be entered against the district in a lawsuit to which the district is a party; and\n(3)  the district has commitments from other governmental entities to assume jurisdiction of all district rail facilities.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomePosts Tagged \"diverse\"\nStories tagged with: diverse\nSubscribe to the diverse News Feed.\nNude Barre fights colorism in fashion industry by offering diverse hosiery for all\nWednesday, August 31 by ABC News\n(NEW YORK) -- After years of hardship as a professional dancer trying to find tights that matched her skin tone, Erin Carpenter took matters into her own hands. A little over a decade ago, the former New York Knicks dancer founded Nude Barre, a bodywear... Read More.\nAirlines look to attract more diverse pilots amid shortage\nSaturday, July 30 by ABC News\n(NEW YORK) -- For decades, the aviation industry has carried the reputation of being overtly male and white. At least 95% of the roughly 158,000 pilots employed in the United States are men, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. \"This is a very male-dominated industry,\"... Read More.\nMattel's latest lineup of diverse dolls includes a Barbie with hearing aids\nThursday, May 12 by ABC News\n(NEW YORK) -- Mattel's latest launch of Barbie dolls keeps diversity and inclusion at the forefront. The toymaker has released this year's new 2022 Barbie Fashionista collection with several new dolls including the first Barbie with behind-the-ear hearing aids, a doll with a prosthetic leg, a... Read More.\nFirst female-owned Asian American NYC bookstore showcases diverse voices\nFriday, April 1 by ABC News\n(NEW YORK) -- Growing up an only child, Lucy Yu would devour book after book, quickly developing an early love for literature. At the turn of each page, Yu would immerse herself in different worlds and adventures, and learn the value of empathy with each... Read More.\nRaven-Symon\u00e9 says it's \"so important\" Disney Channel features diverse characters: \"It shows that it's relevant\"\nFriday, March 11 by ABC News\nOn Friday, Raven-Symon\u00e9 returns in season five of Disney Channel's Raven's Home, which sees her titular character moving back to San Francisco to help her dad recover from a heart attack. Speaking to ABC Audio, Raven said season five is jam-packed with \"nostalgia.\" That's So... Read More.\nKim Potter trial updates: Jury less diverse than in Derek Chauvin trial\nWednesday, December 8 by ABC News\n(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter charged in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot during a traffic stop, begins Wednesday. Opening statements will take place in the Hennepin County Government Center in... Read More.\nBNC President Princell Hair shares the \"inspiring\" purpose behind his diverse news network\nMonday, October 25 by ABC News\nBlack News Channel President Princell Hair is sharing some of the important reasons why the fast-growing news network is worth the watch. \"On our best day, we're telling stories in our communities, we're making a difference,\" Hair tells ABC Audio of the Black-news-centered channel that was launched in... Read More.\n9-year-old raises money for diverse library books with lemonade stand\nWednesday, October 6 by ABC News\n(NEW YORK) -- One 9-year-old wants to help stop racism by making school libraries more inclusive. \"One day my mom and aunt asked me how I would want to make a difference in the world and I said to help stop racism,\" Emi Kim, from... Read More.\nOld Navy unveils its most diverse sizing ever by offering every style in every size\n(NEW YORK) -- Old Navy is championing size inclusion with the launch of the brand's latest \"Bodequality\" campaign. More than a campaign, the fashion retailer announced it would be fully revamping the company's size offerings to feature every women's style in every size ranging from... Read More.\nNew online marketplace highlights global flavors, artisan products from diverse food entrepreneurs\nMonday, August 9 by ABC News\n(NEW YORK) \u2014 Adding items to a cart, shipping and restocking the kitchen can feel a bit monotonous. But thanks to Foxtrot Anywhere, a marketplace with a range of grocery and pantry products from new food entrepreneurs, it's easier than ever to break free... Read More.\nLack of diversity in higher learning can be a problem for diverse student bodies\n(NEW YORK) -- Some of the best colleges and universities in the U.S. are facing backlash over the extent of their commitment to classroom diversity. Several high-profile Black academics have been denied tenure at esteemed higher-learning institutions, sparking a new debate about racism and privilege in... Read More.\nUS Olympic women's gymnastics trials feature more diverse athletes, but barriers persist\nFriday, June 25 by ABC News\n(ST. LOUIS) -- Roughly every four years, when athletes take on the world stage at the Olympics, excitement buzzes over the USA gymnastics team. The 2021 Tokyo Olympic trials for Team USA are taking place June 24 through June 27 in St. Louis, Missouri,... Read More.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Digitization Archivist\/Instructor\nUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette \u2014 Lafayette, LA\n0 other recent jobs\nThe Digitization Archivist\/Instructor position reports to the Head of Special Collections. This non-tenured position will select, prepare, and oversee digitization projects to increase the accessibility of the holdings of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection (UAAMC), Louisiana Collection, and Rare Book Collection. Acquire, process, and preserve collections in digital format. Develop a plan for the conversion of analog holdings to digital formats.\nWork on the implementation of an institutional repository for UL Lafayette. Plan, develop, implement, and document all aspects of the records management program at the university.\nProvide reference service to the collections. Prepare online exhibits utilizing the collections' holdings. Create online finding aids. Assist in processing manuscript collections and University archives. Seek grant funds to support the work of UAAMC. Participate on library and university committees.\nStarting Salary: $45,000\nThe University Library has a faculty of 18 and a support staff of 38. Additional information about the Library is available on the Library's web site at https:\/\/library.louisiana.edu.\nThe work may require standing for long periods; lifting and moving library materials weighing 25 to 50 lbs.; pushing carts up to 100-300 lbs.; and stepping on and off a step stool.\nRequired: Master's degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited institution, or significant progress towards an MLIS degree from an ALA-accredited program. Knowledge of digitization processes, metadata creation, and digital content management systems. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse student populations. Applicants are expected to describe their commitment to fostering a diverse educational environment through their research, teaching, and\/or service activities.\nDesired: Additional coursework in archives management. Knowledge of professional records management principles and practices. Demonstrated ability to learn and master new and legacy systems quickly. Must possess excellent interpersonal, oral and written, analytical, and organization skills and be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other library and university departments.\nWhen applying, please include letter of application, r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and the names and contact information of three references. We will begin reviewing materials in May 2018, and will continue until the position is filled.\nJob Ad# (req313)\nhttps:\/\/louisiana.csod.com\/ats\/careersite\/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=313\nMetadata Records Management Institutional repository Academic libraries Special collections Digital preservation Digital repository Digitizing Digital library Archive\nPublished: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 00:53 UTC\nLast updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 00:53 UTC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nissan's Intelligent Cars\nSeptember 17, 2006 By Ivo\nNow your car can be cleverer than you. Nissan is hoping to commercialize their groundbreaking \"Intelligent Transportation System\" in 2010 and are starting by a 30- month experimental stage in Tokyo involving 10,000 drivers on October 1st.\nThe new system sends wireless messages by antenna to passing cars with voice messages from other cars and roadside optical beacons. These messages are aloong the lines of: \"School ahead- Watch your speed!\" or \"Car approaching from left\".\nAlthough the system seems to be a highly workable one in Japan, where over 50% cars are already equipped with navigational gadgets, the questions remains whether such a high-tech system could work in Europe or the US where a mere 10% of cars are equipped in this capacity \u2013 let alone developing countries, where old jalopies are more the norm.\nThe system though has a lot of very useful and perhaps life-saving functions, such as a warning that tells you if there is a speeding car ahead at a blind intersections, and a quick route finder which tells you the quickest way to your destination through probe data collected from mobile phones.\nFiled Under: Business, Technology, Transport, World","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Football Leagues\nMikel Arteta trying to build a 'team that has everything'\nArsenal will face Manchester United on Sunday\nArsenal Manager Mikel Arteta has stated that he has tried to build a side which keeps a balance on both the mental and physical aspects of the game.\nArteta shared his thoughts ahead of the crucial clash against Manchester United on Sunday in the Premier League.\n\"Having that balance and having those qualities in the squad is necessary. To have the mentality and capacity to control emotions that is required to play on big stages is very necessary,\" Arteta said in a press conference.\n\"The physical aspect is necessary \u2013 without that you cannot compete over 11 months in the conditions in which we work. We have tried to build a team that has everything,\" he added.\nArteta is also satisfied with his side's performance bearing in mind the fact that Arsenal are currently at the top of the table in the Premier League. It must be noted that Arsenal haven't won the league title since 2004.\n\"Absolutely, I feel the excitement around the players and our supporters. I'm talking to the boys about what we're going to experience on Sunday because for us it's very meaningful, for our fans it's very meaningful and we are creating a special atmosphere in the stadium and we have to take advantage of that,\" he said.\n\"We haven't done it in the last many years. To be in the title race, it's something that we have to show we can do. Words mean nothing, we have to do it on the pitch,\" he added.\nHe also cautioned his side to not repeat the mistakes they made against Manchester United during the 3-1 defeat earlier in the season at the Old Trafford.\n\"We must also remember the match at Old Trafford earlier in the season. I felt that day we controlled most of the game and I felt we deserved a better result in the end,\" he said. \"This time we want to show some more discipline, to control the game for 90 minutes and not just small periods. It will be a tough game but we're ready for it and we are feeling confident.\"\nAFE, La Liga condemn act of hatred against Vinicius Jr\nArsenal reaping rewards of patience with Arteta - Guardiola\nZidane could return to Real Madrid: report\nMore From Football Leagues\nAndy Robertson lauds 'unbelievable' Jurgen Klopp\nAsensio wants more money after Real Madrid offer new contract\nCristiano Ronaldo's 'ultimatum' to agent Jorge Mendes revealed after split\nKane sinks Fulham to become Spurs' joint record scorer\n'Unforgettable': Haller hails 80,000 fans after return from cancer\nHaaland breaks Nistelrooy's Premier League record","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New York DA investigating GOP Congressman-elect George Santos over resume lies\nA Republican district attorney in New York has opened an investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos, who flipped a hotly contested congressional seat on Long Island, after he admitted to lying about his work experience and education during his campaign.\nNassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly announced the probe as Santos faces mounting criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike over his fabrications.\n\"The numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-Elect Santos are nothing short of stunning,\" Donnelly said in a statement. \"The residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress. No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.\"\nNY REP-ELECT GEORGE SANTOS CONFESSES TO LIES ABOUT HIS R\u00c9SUM\u00c9: REPORT\nNew York Rep.-elect George Santos is facing mounting criticism over his r\u00e9sum\u00e9.\n(AP Photo\/Mary Altaffer)\nBrendan Brosh, a spokesman for Donnelly told Fox News Digital in a statement that the DA's office was \"looking into the matter.\"\nSantos, who will represent a portion of Long Island in the House of Representatives after flipping New York's 3rd Congressional District, made the confession during an interview with the New York Post. During his congressional campaign, he falsely claimed he graduated from college with degrees in finance and worked for Goldman Sachs and Citibank.\nAfter an investigation by the New York Times revealed major portions of his biography were fabricated, his purported employers confirmed to Fox News that Santos never worked for them, and Baruch College said he never attended there.\nIn an interview with the New York Post on Monday, Santos confessed that he \"never worked directly\" for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, suggesting that he probably could have used a better choice of words. Instead, Santos said, he worked for Link Bridge, which did business with both Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.\nHe has balked at not serving his two-year term in Congress despite calls for him to step down.\nEMBATTLED GOP REP.-ELECT GEORGE SANTOS FIRES BACK AT NEW YORK TIMES AFTER BIOGRAPHY QUESTIONED\nNassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly, right, has opened an investigation into Rep.-elect George Santos after he admitted to fabricating his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 during his campaign.\n\"I am not a criminal,\" he told the Post. \"Este [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.\"\nFormer Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who was guest-hosting for Tucker Carlson on \"Tucker Carlson Tonight\" this week, asked Santos whether voters should be able to trust him after the revelations about his r\u00e9sum\u00e9.\n\"I think humans are flawed, and we all make mistakes, Tulsi,\" he said. \"I think we can all look at ourselves in the mirror and admit that once in our life we \u200b\u200bmade a mistake. I'm having to admit this on national television for the whole country to see. And I have the courage to do so because I believe that in order to move past this and move forward and be an effective member of Congress, I have to face my mistakes, and I'm facing them.\"\nFox News Digital has reached out to Santos.\nRobert Zimmerman, the Democrat who Santos defeated in the November midterm election, said the Republican should resign and face him again in a special election.\n\"George, if that's even your real name, if you're so convinced that #NY3 voters still trust you \u2013 resign & run against me again in a special election,\" Zimmerman tweeted Tuesday. \"Face the voters with your real past & answer questions about your criminal history. Let the voters decide.\"\nFox News' Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.\nMaryland Rep. Jamie Raskin diagnosed with 'serious but curable' cancer\nGeorge Santos scandal brings renewed attention to Biden's fabrications\nSouth Dakota Gov. Noem breaks longstanding tradition, foreign press conferences","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A winter storm has brought about 9 inches of snow to the Southeast and is now heading to north. Powerful winds and heavy rain is expected. Vanessa Murdock has the forecast.\nSouth Carolina road sign changed to display racist message, officials say\nPolice are on a search in South Carolina for the person who tampered with an electronic road sign, changing its [\u2026] The post South Carolina road sign changed to display racist message, officials say appeared first on TheGrio.\nSanders, Warren and Baldwin urge Larry Fink to intervene in strike at coal company partially owned by BlackRock\nSens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin pressed BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to intervene in a coal miners' strike.\nSouth Carolina still atop women's Top 25; TCU joins rankings\nSouth Carolina beat two more ranked opponents to strengthen its grip on the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press women's basketball poll.\nLindsey Graham says the Democratic agenda has led the US to 'the most dangerous times since the late '30s'\n\"I was really disappointed in the tone of the president and the vice president. I thought they politicized January 6,\" Graham told WABC on Sunday.\nNorth Carolina State vs. Miami - NCAA Women's Basketball (1\/9\/22) | Tip-Off, How to Watch\nOne of the best teams in NCAA Women's Basketball in the early stages of the 2021-22 season looks to keep their hot start going, as the North Carolina State Wolfpack take on the Miami Hurrcianes on Sunday afternoon. 1 South Carolina to open their season, NC State has been almost unstoppable this season. In ACC action, the Wolfpack have set the pace, starting off conference action 4-0, including a dominating win over in-state rival North Carolina this past Thursday. What: NCAA Women's BasketballWho: #5 North Carolina State Wolfpack (13-2, 4-0 ACC) vs. Miami Hurricanes (7-4, 0-1 ACC)When: Sunday, January 9Time: 2:00 p.m. ETWhere: Watsco Center (Coral Gables, Fla.)Channel: ACC NetworkStream: FuboTV (7-day free trial), Sling, DirecTV StreamCheck out the NCAA Men's Basketball rankings here\nTeacher accused of sexual acts with student at her South Carolina home, cops say\nOfficials said she faces a sexual battery charge.\nSouth Carolina stays No. 1 in women's AP Top 25 despite loss\nSouth Carolina remains the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll despite its first loss of the season.\nHansen, Missouri stun No. 1 South Carolina 70-69 in overtime\nLauren Hansen made a driving layup with 0.1 seconds left and Missouri stunned No. 1 South Carolina 70-69 in overtime Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.\nPro-Trump lawyer says his plantations were go-to spots for those aiming to overturn the 2020 election\nLin Wood says his plantations in South Carolina were used as a hub for those who wanted to overturn the 2020 election.\nMayonnaise bath awaits winning coach of Duke's Mayo Bowl\nSomething special awaits the winner of the 2021 Duke's Mayo Bowl. North Carolina's Mack Brown and South Carolina's Shane Beamer have agreed to the \"honor\" instead of receiving the traditional Gatorade bath if their team wins the game on Thursday. By doing so, the winning coach will get $10,000 donated to their favorite charity. Bowl officials said the mayonnaise dump on the winning head coach will be after the trophy ceremony. It will feature 4.5 gallons of slightly watered down Duke's mayonnaise.\nSouth Carolina mechanic gifts repaired cars to people in need\nA South Carolina mechanic has repaired 60 cars for free as gifts for people without rides. He gave away 12 cars for the 12 days of Christmas.\nSouth Carolina, Stanford still Nos. 1-2 in women's AP Top 25\nA relatively quiet week because of the holidays left The Associated Press women's college basketball poll mostly unchanged.\nHarris arrives in L.A. as staffer, political leaders in D.C. test positive for coronavirus\nHarris, who tested negative twice Wednesday, will be tested again for the coronavirus on Friday and Monday.\nHouse Republican says he regrets voting against certifying 2020 election results and suggested Trump was a 'coward' on January 6\n\"In retrospect I should have voted to certify,\" Rep. Tom Rice told POLITICO. \"Because President Trump was responsible for the attack on the Capitol.\"\nWhite House: Biden negative for COVID-19 after close contact\nThe White House says President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19.\nBoston, No. 1 South Carolina rally past No. 2 Stanford 65-61\nAliyah Boston made the go-ahead layup with 1:05 to go and No. 1 South Carolina rallied from 18 points down to upend defending national champion and second-ranked Stanford 65-61 on Tuesday night.\nJoe Manchin has seized a mantle of 'moderate' that doesn't always fit\nHis party is more moderate than many assume \u2014 but not because of people like Manchin.\nMore businesses offer pay in cryptocurrency in a bid to lure younger workers\nAs companies look for creative ways to attract younger talent, more are exploring crypto as payment option.\nCoach accused of sexual activity with student at school, soccer practice, SC cops say\nThe soccer coach also worked as a substitute teacher, officials said.\nYears after officer saved girl's life, photos show their emotional reunion in SC\nShe was 19 months old in 2019.\nIn the commencement speech at South Carolina State University, President Biden credited Rep. Jim Clyburn's public endorsement in 2020 as a pivotal moment in reviving his sluggish campaign.\nSpencer Rattler, 2019\u2032s No. 1 QB recruit, transferring from Oklahoma to South Carolina\nOklahoma hasn't made the official, on-field jump to the SEC, but ex-Sooners quarterback Spencer Rattler has. 1 high school QB recruit in the 2019 class, announced his plans to transfer to South Carolina on Monday. Rattler, a 6-1 pro-style QB from Phoenix, committed to Oklahoma with much fanfare in 2019. South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer was an assistant at Oklahoma from 2018 to 2020. South Carolina will take on North Carolina (6-6) in the Duke's Mayo Bowl on Dec. 30.\nElection probe into pro-Trump attorney's residency dismissed\nAn investigation found that a high-profile lawyer who has falsely insisted that former President Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election did not violate Georgia election laws by moving to another state before voting last year. The Georgia secretary of state's office in February opened an investigation into where Lin Wood had been living when he voted early in person in Georgia in last year's general election. The investigation was initiated after the secretary of state's office learned from a television reporter that Wood may have been living in South Carolina when he voted. Wood on Feb. 1 announced on Telegram that he had moved from Georgia to South Carolina.\nEx-Oklahoma QB Rattler commits to South Carolina, Beamer\nHighly touted quarterback Spencer Rattler will try to restart his college career with South Carolina in a major acquisition for Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer.\nCooke leads No. 1 Gamecocks to 66-59 win over No. 8 Terps\nZia Cooke scored 20 points including a layup with 5:13 left that put No. 1 South Carolina ahead to stay in a 66-59 victory over No. 8 Maryland in the Jimmy V Classic on Sunday.\nCTE study of Phillip Adams, ex-NFL player accused of killing 6, to be released this week\nOfficials sent Adams' brain from South Carolina to Boston for specialized testing.\nSC's top prosecutor Alan Wilson seen eating lunch with Kyle Rittenhouse at Maurice's\nWIS-TV reporter Adam Mintzer captured video and photos of South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson with Kyle Rittenhouse in Columbia, who was acquitted of charges after fatally shooting two people in Wisconsin.\nSkilyr Hicks, 'America's Got Talent' contestant, dies at 23\nFormer \"America's Got Talent\" contestant Skilyr Hicks died Monday in Liberty, S.C. She was 23. The singer-songwriter \u2014 who appeared on the eighth season of the hit reality competition show in 2013 when she was just 14 \u2014 was found lifeless in the home of a friend, her mother, Jodi, told TMZ. The cause and circumstances of death are not immediately clear. Jodi said that the young musician had ...\nTennessee women back in top 10 of AP Top 25; SC still No. 1\nTennessee is back in the top 10 of the women's AP Top 25 for the first time in nearly three years.\nSouth Carolina Woman Awarded $10 Million After Stepping On Rusty Nail In Walmart That Forced An Amputation: 'Sent a Message'\nApril Jones of Florence, South Carolina, was recently awarded $10 million after she had to get her leg amputated after stepping on a rusty nail [\u2026]\nBMW unveils high-performance XM hybrid electric concept vehicle ahead of U.S. production\nBMW said the production car, called the BMW XM, will be available exclusively as a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle under the company's \"M\" performance unit.\nWomen's AP Top 25 gets shakeup behind No. 1 South Carolina\nMaryland dropped six spots to eighth in The Associated Press women's basketball poll after losing two games in a week that saw eight of the top 10 teams change places.\nIt's being banned, killed with fire and there's a bounty. How to stop the Bradford Pear\nThe troublesome tree is being killed with fire, it will be banned and there are bounties. Is it enough to stop the tree's wild spread?\nindependentmail.com\nU.S. lawmakers visit Taiwan, plan to meet senior leaders\nFive U.S. lawmakers are in Taiwan in a surprise one-day visit, says the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy.\nSouth Carolina Man Was Beaten By an Officer When He Couldn't Lie Down Fast Enough, Now the City Will Pay Him $650K\nThe City of Orangeburg, South Carolina, will be forking over more than half a million dollars to a Black man brutally assaulted by a police [\u2026]\nSouth Carolina unanimous No. 1 in AP women's hoops poll\nSouth Carolina is the unanimous choice as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women's basketball poll.\nSouth Carolina Chiropractor Pleads Guilty and Agrees to $9 Million False Claims Act Consent Judgment\nOn Nov. 8, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina entered a $9 million civil consent judgment for the United States against South Carolina chiropractor Daniel McCollum under the False Claims Act. McCollum owned and operated pain management clinics, laboratories and a pharmacy in South Carolina. Under those provisions, a private party can file an action on behalf of the United States and receive a portion of any recovery. ); United States ex rel. Attorneys Beth Warren and Bill Watkins for the District of South Carolina.\nNo. 1 South Carolina beats second-ranked UConn 73-57\nAliyah Boston had 22 points and 15 rebounds to help No. 1 South Carolina beat second-ranked UConn 73-57 to win the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis tournament championship.\n1 vs 2 matchup delays AP women's basketball poll a day\nThe release of The Associated Press women's basketball poll will be delayed a day because of a Monday afternoon matchup between the top two teams.\nCity deemed the most polluted on Earth fights back with anti-smog squads\nIn the city of Lahore, Pakistan, where air pollution levels are eight times more than international recommendations, anti-pollution squads are cracking down on businesses contributing to smog.\nA most wanted US fugitive found dead in South Carolina home\nOne of the most wanted fugitives in the United States apparently died about four months ago in a South Carolina home nearly 16 years after he was first wanted in San Diego for sexually assaulting children, investigators said. Frederick Cecil McLean, 70, died of natural causes in July, but his body wasn't found until Nov. 6 when someone asked deputies to check on a neighbor who hadn't been seen in a while, Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said. McLean has been on the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted list since 2006, a year after the San Diego Sheriff's Department issued arrest warrants for sexual assaults on a child and determined he was a high risk to continue attacking girls.\nBody of fugitive missing for 16 years found in South Carolina, where he lived under alias\nThe decomposing body of Frederick McLean, 70, a Most Wanted fugitive, was found in South Carolina on Nov. 6, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.\nHenderson, Cooke help No. 1 Gamecocks beat Clemson 76-45\nDestanni Henderson had 16 points off three 3-pointers and Zia Cooke added 13 points as No. 1 South Carolina pulled away in the second half for its 11th straight win over rival Clemson 76-45.\n10 Black voices featured in latest edition of Ann Arbor-area oral history project\nANN ARBOR, MI \u2014 Born in 1941, Alma Wheeler Smith grew up splitting her time between Ann Arbor and Columbia, South Carolina, during an era of racial segregation. She still remembers the tragedy in Columbia that was a defining moment for her family when she was 2.\nDebate over explicit memoir becomes a focus of GOP gov races\nDebate over a memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual acts is surfacing in a handful of states where Republican governors are gearing up for reelection next year, foreshadowing a recurring theme for conservative leaders in the coming campaigns. The book in question, Maia Kobabe's \"Gender Queer,\" has been the focus of ire from Republican governors in various states, most recently playing a role in the Virginia governor's race. In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster on Wednesday released a letter \u2014 similar in nature to one days earlier by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott \u2014 calling on Superintendent Molly Spearman to perform a systemic review of \"inappropriate\" materials in the state's schools.\nGOP congressman gets threatening voicemail after backing infrastructure bill\nCongressman Fred Upton was among the 13 Republican lawmakers supported the bipartisan infrastructure bill.\nThis South Carolina city ranks among the nation's 'top boomtowns.' Here's why\nIt's not the first time the town has received national recognition for its growth.\nThis billionaire woman is South Carolina's richest resident, new Forbes list says\nThis businesswoman is identified as South Carolina's only billionaire, and she's invested heavily in education across the state.\nIn SC, Rep. Rice hopes impeachment vote doesn't eclipse 2022\nU.S. Rep. Tom Rice says that he hopes his vote this year to impeach President Donald Trump won't be enough to overshadow his other accomplishments as he seeks a sixth term.\nSouth Carolina braces for major coastal flooding and high tides\nAs a storm moves its way into the area, flood and high surf advisories have been issued.\nLabor secretary: Pandemic, worker vexation feed port issues\nLabor Secretary Marty Walsh says slowdowns and bottlenecks at the nation's shipping terminals are the result of an ongoing pandemic and problems like stagnant wages for some workers along the supply chain.\nUnion seeks Biden admin's help in Charleston port dispute\nAs port logjams across the country continue to constrain the U.S. supply chain, the union that represents dockworkers at South Carolina's ports tells The Associated Press it is calling on the Biden administration for help in a dispute related to a new shipping terminal. At issue is the September decision of a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge, who ruled that the International Longshoremen's Association could not prevent shipping lines from calling on the new Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston. The $1 billion first phase of the terminal, named for longtime state Sen. Hugh Leatherman, opened earlier this year and is operating at 35% of its current capacity.\nU.S. missionaries strive to evangelize the 'unreached.' Indigenous groups in the Amazon are now fighting back.\nIn a world with few places beyond the reach of modern civilization, the isolation of the Javari Valley has made it one of the most alluring places for evangelists trying to reach the last people to have never heard the name Jesus Christ.\nCrash at rail crossing kills three in South Carolina\nA fourth person was taken to a local hospital. There were 500 passengers on the train, but no reported injuries, the statement said. The Amtrak train was able to make a controlled emergency stop after the collision.\nFamilies of Charleston church shooting victims react to DOJ settlement: \"No amount of compensation will ever replace my father's life\"\nThe 14 settlements equate to a total of $88 million.\nJustice Department announces $88 million settlement in 2015 Charleston church shooting\nA botched FBI background check enabled Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used to kill nine people and injure three.\nJustice Department Announces Multi-Million Dollar Civil Settlement in Principle in Mother Emanuel Charleston Church Mass Shooting\nToday, the Department of Justice announced that it has reached an agreement in principle to settle the civil cases arising out of the June 2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. These settlements will resolve claims by 14 plaintiffs arising out of the shooting. For those killed in the shooting, the settlements range from $6 million to $7.5 million per claimant. \"The mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church was a horrific hate crime that caused immeasurable suffering for the families of the victims and the survivors,\" said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. After the shooting, the department prosecuted the shooter for federal hate crimes and obtained a conviction.\nBueckers, Boston, Clark headline AP preseason All-Americans\nThe Associated Press preseason women's All-America team is out and Paige Bueckers of UConn is a unanimous choice.\nWydermyer scores twice as No. 17 A&M routs Gamecocks 44-14\nAinias Smith had a 95-yard punt return for a touchdown and Jalen Wydermyer added two TD catches as No. 17 Texas A&M built a huge first-half lead and coasted to a 44-14 rout of South Carolina Saturday night.\nCourt won't revive death sentence for South Carolina inmate\nThe Supreme Court has rejected a plea from South Carolina to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until a federal appeals court threw it out in August.\nThe Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea from South Carolina to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until a federal appeals court threw it out in August. Chief Justice John Roberts did not comment in denying the state's request to stop the clock on a lower court order in favor of inmate Sammie Lee Stokes. The order requires the state to conduct a new sentencing hearing for Stokes, if it wants jurors to again sentence him to death.\nSouth Carolina professor fighting for his job after misunderstanding leads to racism claims\nA professor at a South Carolina university is being blacklisted, fighting to keep his job after a misunderstanding over a list of names led to accusations of racial insensitivity.\nFormer IRS Employee Charged with Tax Fraud\nAt the time Garvin filed his false tax returns, he was employed as a Supervisory Associate Advocate with the IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service in Philadelphia. The indictment also alleges that after the IRS began an audit of Garvin's 2013 and 2014 tax returns, Garvin submitted fraudulent documents to the IRS revenue agent conducting the audit. Garvin allegedly submitted the fraudulent documents to the IRS to prevent the IRS from assessing additional taxes against him for 2013 and 2014. Finally, the indictment alleges that after the IRS notified Garvin that he was under criminal investigation for filing false tax returns, Garvin provided the same fraudulent documents to IRS Criminal Investigation that Garvin previously provided to the IRS revenue agent. IRS Criminal Investigation is investigating the case.\nSouth Carolina, UConn, Stanford women top preseason Top 25\nSouth Carolina is ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason women's basketball poll for the second consecutive season.\nShe thought she won $300 \u2014 but her lottery ticket was worth much more in South Carolina\nThe woman had trouble sleeping after her big win.\nMom charged in daughter's death months after she's found dead in yard, SC police say\nThe 22-year-old was found unresponsive in the front yard on Aug. 7, according to police.\nA South Carolina teacher was arrested after a student took a pack of marijuana edibles from a prize box in her classroom, sheriff says\nThe teacher asked the student to select another prize, but the student selected another bag of marijuana gummies, the sheriff said.\nAlex Murdaugh knows he's going to prison, his lawyer says\nThe prominent South Carolina attorney suspected of trying to arrange his own death was arrested\u200b at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday.\nSouth Carolina awards Staley 7-year, $22.4 million contract\nSouth Carolina coach Dawn Staley has received a seven-year contract worth $22.4 million.\nSheriff: Officers kill man who fired on them from motorcycle\nRobert Allen Maness, 39, crashed his motorcycle after he was shot and died a short time later at the hospital, the Anderson County Coroner's Office said. The two deputies in the patrol car trying to pull Maness over were not hurt in the shooting around 11 p.m. Thursday, Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said. McBride said it was like an ambush as Maness pulled out the gun without warning and while still driving when deputies turned on their blue lights.\n1st executive to head to prison in doomed nuclear project\nA former utility executive who lost billions on a failed nuclear project in South Carolina is heading to prison soon.\nEx-CEO who oversaw doomed nuclear project sentenced\nAn executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never generated a watt of power has been sentenced to two years in prison.\nQB Daniels not starting for No. 2 Georgia against No. 8 Hogs\nGeorgia quarterback JT Daniels is out of the starting lineup for Saturday's key Southeastern Conference game against No. 8 Arkansas because of a right lat injury.\nSchools get the brunt of latest COVID wave in South Carolina\nIn the past few weeks, South Carolina has set records for COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases have approached peak levels of last winter.\nSouth Carolina names former grad assistant its starting QB\nSouth Carolina has named former grad assistant and North Dakota State passer Zeb Noland as its starting quarterback for the Gamecocks' opener against Eastern Illinois this weekend.\nState mask bans face federal civil rights inquiries\nThe Education Department says it's investigating five Republican-led states that have banned or limited mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabilities or health conditions.\nClean needles depend on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs\nAnyone who has to get an injection in the U.S. probably has horseshoe crabs to thank for keeping the needle clean.\nWatch Local 4 News at 5 -- Aug. 17, 2021\nHere's what's coming up on Local 4 News at 5.\nTropical storm kills 1 in Florida, hurts 10 at Georgia base\nTropical Storm Elsa is carving a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down and blew one of them into a lake.\nDanny weakens to a tropical depression, heavy rains continue\nTropical Storm Danny weakened to a tropical depression hours after it made landfall Monday evening on South Carolina's coast but the system continued to dump heavy rains on the state and portions of Georgia.\nVirginia staves off elimination for 6th time to reach CWS\nNo team's road to Omaha was as bumpy as Virginia's.\nHadley has 4-shot lead at delayed Palmetto Championship\nChesson Hadley moved a step closer to his first PGA Tour victory in seven years, opening a four-stroke lead over Harris English at Palmetto Championship at Congaree before the third round was halted severe storms and lightning with one hole remaining Saturday.\nHadley 2 shots in front of DJ at Palmetto Championship\nChesson Hadley is off to his best start on the PGA Tour since 2016, shooting a 5-under 66 on Friday for a two-stroke lead over Dustin Johnson in the Palmetto Championship at Congaree.\nVP Harris making Southern stops to promote vaccination\nVice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration's top environmental official are making stops in several Southern states to promote an intensive White House coronavirus vaccination effort.\nS Carolina's state-owned utility survives as public company\nSouth Carolina's state-owned utility appears to have survived four years of turmoil to remain public.\nPolice capture man wanted in 4 killings after week on run\nPolice have arrested a man wanted in four killings across two states after a seven-day search in South Carolina.\nThe Latest: Blues get players back after COVID test errors\nSeveral St. Louis Blues players who returned positive COVID-19 tests have been cleared to play in Game 2 on Wednesday night against Colorado after the results from a lab were investigated with follow-up tests coming back negative.\nSharks use Earth's magnetic field as a GPS, scientists say\nScientists have found that sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world's oceans.\nEyeing 2024, Pence says he'll push back on 'liberal agenda'\nFormer Vice President Mike Pence is positioning himself for a possible return to elected office.\nS Carolina quirky liquor laws give sour grapes to wine giant\nThe biggest winemaker in the United States wants to open an East Coast bottling and distribution center in South Carolina, investing $400 million and hiring up to 500 people.\nSouth Carolina driver killed by exploding air bag inflator\nA driver in South Carolina is the latest person to be killed by an exploding Takata air bag inflator.\nCameron Smith leads RBC Heritage after career-low 62\nCameron Smith birdied the difficult 17th and 18th holes at Harbour Town to shoot a 9-under 62 and take a one-stroke lead over Stewart Cink at the RBC Heritage.\nCoroner: 6th person dead following South Carolina shooting\nA sixth person has died after a shooting earlier this week by a former NFL player who also killed four members of a South Carolina family.\nAttorney Lin Wood: Blasting South Carolina's top Republicans\nThe pro-Trump attorney seeking to lead the GOP in South Carolina is taking on two of the state's most notable Republicans and has questioned the level of loyalty of the state GOP chairman for former President Donald Trump.\nStanford tops South Carolina 66-65 to reach title game\nHaley Jones scored 24 points, including the go-ahead jumper with 32 seconds left, to help Stanford beat South Carolina 66-65 and advance to the national championship game.\nSouth Carolina drubs Texas 62-34 to reach Final Four\n(AP Photo\/Eric Gay)SAN ANTONIO \u2013 One by one, South Carolina players walked through the confetti and climbed the ladder to cut down the net in the Alamodome. Zia Cooke scored 16 points and South Carolina used its stifling defense to advance to the Final Four for the third time, shutting down Texas for a 62-34 victory Tuesday night. Top-seeded South Carolina blocked 14 shots, nine by Laeticia Amihere, and held No. \"It says they're locked in,\" South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. South Carolina answered with a 3-pointer from Henderson to start the Gamecocks on the run that would put the game away.\nFormer SC governor, congressman Sanford joins lobbying firm\nSanford, the former South Carolina governor, congressman and one-time presidential candidate, is going to work for a lobbying firm. Shumaker Advisors announced Tuesday, March 30, 2021, that Sanford would be joining the firm, working from Charleston. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2013 Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor, congressman and one-time presidential candidate, is going to work for a lobbying firm. Shumaker Advisors announced Tuesday that Sanford would be joining the firm as an executive vice president and principal. \"What I did not anticipate is an impeachment.\"AdIn his new role with Shumaker, Sanford will be based in Charleston, according to information obtained by The Associated Press.\nTexas slows Maryland, gets to Elite Eight with 64-61 win\nCharli Collier scored 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and No. 6 seed Texas used a grinding, hustling defensive effort to shut down the nation's highest scoring offense for a 64-61 win Sunday night in the Sweet 16. Collier scored 10 points in the second half and her last basket in the fourth quarter pulled Texas even after second-seeded Maryland had swung momentum with two baskets, including a 3-pointer. \"They are not letting anybody in that huddle think about anything but win,\" Schaefer said. Miller scored 21 points to lead Maryland (26-3) but there was just no punch in the offense outside of her.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"53rd Transportation Battalion (Movement Control) activates at JBLM\nSgt. 1st Class Tony White on December 9th, 2021\nJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD - \"Our goals are to make an already successful logistics enterprise on JBLM even better,\" said Lt. Col. Aaron Cornett, the 53rd Transportation Battalion (Movement Control) commander, \"to build partnerships and work in concert with other logistics organizations across the installation; to integrate ourselves into the ESC,\nMcChord airman trying for Team USA Bobsled\nCapt. Alejandra Fontalvo, 24th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs on December 9th, 2021\nHURLBURT FIELD, Fla. - For the first time, two Special Tactics airmen assigned to the 24th Special Operations Wing competed together in a major competition for Team USA Bobsledding Nov. 28 and 29 at Park City, Utah. U.S. Air Force Special Tactics officer Maj. Chris Walsh and Staff Sgt. Matt Beach,\nWhy soldiers stay or leave\nU.S. Army Public Affairs on December 9th, 2021\nWASHINGTON - Over 50,000 soldiers responded to the first-ever Department of the Army Career Engagement Survey or DACES, during its first year of collection, Army officials recently announced. DACES is an important retention tool, allowing active-duty soldiers to share their thoughts about continued military service to Army senior leaders. The customized\nArmy families deliver feedback on initiatives with VCSA's spouse, Quality of Life Task Force leadership\nSpc. Karleshia Gater on December 7th, 2021\nJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD - The U.S. Army prioritizes its people and is thereby committed to improving the quality of life for soldiers and their family members. In support of this effort Leann Martin, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army's spouse, and Dee Geise, Quality of Life Task Force\nProgram teams Army veterinarians, veterinary hospital\nLt. Col. Kathryn Belill on December 7th, 2021\nJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD - U.S. Army veterinarians from the installation became the first in the service to participate in a new military-civilian partnership with BluePearl Management, LLC. Soldiers from the 218th Medical Detachment (Veterinary Service Support) signed-on to take part in the mentorship program with the veterinary specialty hospital network, to\nDOD looks at ways to improve child care access\nC. Todd Lopez, DoD News on December 5th, 2021\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges faced by service members and their families in getting child care demonstrated just how important child care is to the military mission. And now the department is working hard to find new ways to ensure that those who need child care can get it, the\nMilitary families: How you can advocate for your child with special needs\nMILITARY ONESOURCE on December 5th, 2021\nAll parents advocate - speak on behalf of their child - for their child's needs to teachers, doctors and others so their child can grow up happy and successful. Advocacy can include learning laws, finding resources and even representing your child to special program administrators, school boards and others. When you\nGiving kids protection against COVID\nKirstin Grace-Simons, Madigan Army Medical Center on December 4th, 2021\nMADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord - Some entered the clinic bursting with enthusiasm, while some were a bit more apprehensive about getting a shot. But, all the kids and families that joined in on the vaccination event that the Department of Pediatrics at Madigan Army Medical Center on\nLiving overseas on military pay: What to expect\nOverseas or OCONUS PCS orders can be exciting, especially if you've never been outside of the CONUS. The military can help you with the added costs of an international move and living expenses abroad. Here are tips for finding free military moving services, getting OCONUS allowances and budgeting for daily living\nAFRS challenging airmen to design paint scheme for next Air Force-sponsored NASCAR\nAir Force Recruiting Service Public Affairs on December 3rd, 2021\nIn a bit of a twist, Air Force Recruiting Service is asking airmen to put on their creative hats to take a spin at designing the Air Force-themed paint scheme of the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet for the 2022 NASCAR season. Airmen who think they have the talent to\nHoliday happenings in Thurston County\nRanger Staff on December 3rd, 2021\nIf you're looking for festive activities, holiday happenings, or great shopping ideas, Experience Olympia & Beyond has you covered. Their 2021 Holiday Shopping and Activity Guide is filled with ways to celebrate the season in Thurston County. Be sure to check out the full 2021 Holiday Shopping and Activity Guide\nDefense Department announces cost of living increase to retired pay\nU.S. Department of Defense on December 2nd, 2021\nOn Nov. 19, the Department of Defense announced annual cost of living adjustments that will benefit military retirees and survivors during calendar year 2022. Most military retirees will receive a 5.9 percent increase to their retired pay beginning with the pay they receive on Jan. 1, 2022, which is the largest\nDFAS launches new kind of myPay account for military gray-area retirees\nDefense Finance and Accounting Service on December 1st, 2021\nCLEVELAND, Ohio - A new kind of myPay account is now available from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service for Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve \"gray-area retirees\" awaiting age 60 to receive retired pay. The new type of account was created to help these individuals stay connected and informed\nA holistic fitness program: H2F is more than just push-ups\nJ.M. Simpson on December 1st, 2021\nHolistic health is characterized by a comprehension of the parts of one's well-being as being interconnected and explained only by reference to one's whole body. With regard to the continuing efforts to move forward with its Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) program, in Army-speak this means that a soldier's health includes\nLife de-railed\nJoe Malik on February 7th, 2008\nUPDATE: Ken Miller awarded $500,000 in court. This month, Ken Miller will find out if his proverbial fight with city hall was worth it. For the past three years, Miller has spent the better part of his days fighting to keep property that regional transportation authority Sound Transit says it needs\nAdrian's legacy\nAngela Jossy on February 7th, 2008\nClub Adrian is what you might call the underdog of the Tacoma underage music scene \u2014 not quite as hip as Viaduct nor as publicized as Club Impact, but none the less frequented in droves by scenesters of the local all-ages music scene. I've often heard rumors of its existence,\nRobert Dobbs on February 7th, 2008\nIt sounds too good to be true, but all accounts indicate that the recently-announced Sound Community Initiatives fund will play a brilliant role in revitalizing poor neighborhoods in Tacoma and beyond. Organized by members of the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association and local mogul Larry Kopp, the SCI fund\nShopping for sex day\nJennifer Johnson on February 7th, 2008\nWhat I blew my paycheck on this week. Lover's Package Plain and simple, I think Valentine's Day blows. It's just another holiday pushed by the greeting card companies, the chocolate factories, florists and every restaurant around (does anyone really need an excuse to go out to eat?) via every media outlet known\nOne ringy, dingy\nSandee Glib on February 7th, 2008\nI have just about had it with cell phones. Don't get me wrong. They are very valuable for a myriad of reasons, but they are starting to really annoy me. Strike that. It is not the cell phones, it is the stupid people that let them rule their lives. Recently,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MMA 2019 Isu Elihle Awards Winner\nHome News MMA 2019 Isu Elihle Awards Winner\nNews Partner Organisations February 3, 2020\nOn Saturday, 1st of February 2020, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) announced the 2019 lsu Elihle Awards winner live on SABC news. \"Isu Elihle is an isiZulu phrase that means a \"Great Idea\" when translated to English, the Awards were launched in 2016 and has been running for four years.\nThe Awards aim to encourage fresh reporting, innovative approaches and insightful investigations that seek to give children a voice and elevate the status of the child all over Africa. In the past two years, the awards were open only for journalists in the Eastern and Southern Africa but from 2018, journalists from all over Africa were included.\nWe are excited to announce the winners:\n1st prize and winner of the 2019 Awards go to Thomas Otieno Bwire, who is an Early Childhood development Journalist from Habari Kibra in Kenya. The overall winner of this year's organisation's lsu Elihle Awards is Thomas Bwire, who is awarded for his in-depth coverage of the conditions that children in the Kibera slums are forced to live in. He says the lack of open spaces in the area has led to children not having any place to play, this is bad because play is an important part of each child's development. Children were also given a voice to reveal how this affects them. Bwire receives a cash prize of ZAR25, 000 after being ranked the overall winner by a panel of judges who are media practitioners. The judges commented on his reporting by saying, \"it is an excellent story that engages those who are involved (children) and seeks out solutions \".\nThe second prize of ZAR15 000 goes to Jamaine Krige & Yeshiel Panchia for their four-part series titled, \"Scatterings, undocumented, unaccompanied foreign children in South Africa\" which was published on Al Jezeera. They looked at the issue of foreign children who arrive in South Africa alone. They explore the lives of these children and how they struggle to get an education in South Africa due to lack of documents. The judges commented on their series saying, \"it is a great feature which highlights statelessness, xenophobia, the lack of identity, lack of access to education as a result of\nbeing undocumented. The series could have strived to engage more in-depth with those who are in power.\"\nThe 3rd prize of ZAR10 000 goes to Athandiwe Saba for her story about education behind bars. It looked at how some children in the criminal justice system struggle to access education and how this can affect their future. The article \"The cracks children fall into when they are in conflict with the law\", was published in the Mail & Guardian newspaper. The judges commented on her in-depth reporting saying, \"it is a great story which looks at how most children behind bars are unable to access quality education\".\nHowever there was no Mandy Roussouw category winner this year, even though the stories were great, the powerful were not held accountable in their stories. The Isu Elihle Awards 2020 application date will be announced soon, we call upon journalists from all over Africa to enter the awards. Congratulations to all the winners!\nIsu Elihle Project Coordinator Girlie Sibanda\nAl JezeeraAthandiwe SabaHabari KibraJamaine KrigeKenyaMail & GuardianMedia Monitoring AfricaThomas Otieno BwireYeshiel Panchia\nSANEF Condemns Threats To Journalist Working On A National Lotteries Commission Story\nThe South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) condemns the threats made against a correspondent journalist working on a story for\u2026\nSANEF STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH MAIL & GUARDIAN COLLEAGUES AND ALL MEDIA HOUSES FACING FINANCIAL CHALLENGES\nThe South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) stands in solidarity with our colleagues from the Mail & Guardian \u2013 and\u2026\nSANEF Alarmed By Threats Against An SABC News Crew In Ulundi\nThe South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) was alarmed to hear of the harassment of a SABC Durban news crew\u2026\nSANEF CONCERNED BY DEEPENING FINANCIAL CHALLENGES IN OUR INDUSTRY\nThe South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) is deeply concerned about the increasing number of media houses facing drastic falls\u2026\nWorking Towards Universal Internet Access And Digital Equality In South Africa\nFriday 27 September 2019 As the world recognises and respects the International Day of Universal Access to Information on the\u2026\nTweets by SAEditorsForum\nInvitation: Reporting The Courts Webinar Series\nCALL FOR PROPOSALS: TRAINING RESOURCE PROVIDERS SANEF's 'Reporting the Pandemic' project","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Police Lied: Slovak Anti-Corruption Head Entered Jan Kuciak Murder Scene\nBy \u010cTK\nBratislava, March 6 (CTK) \u2013 The Slovak police confirmed today that head of the anti-corruption unit Robert Krajmer, who is being connected with \"oligarch\" Norbert Bodor, a brother-in-law of Police President Tibor Gaspar, was on the scene of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend.\nGaspar himself said on Monday Krajmer had not entered the scene of the act.\n\"Gaspar was telling lies,\" Igor Matovic, leader of the opposition Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO), said.\nOn Monday, OLaNO questioned the credibility of the police investigation just due to Krajmer having been on the scene of the murder, saying that Kuciak wrote three large articles about Bodor.\nThe television station Joj has released a video recording confirming Krajmer's having entered the courtyard of Kuciak's house.\nThe police command said Krajmer had fulfilled \"the tasks connected with the investigation into this crime\" on the scene of the murder, but it did not elaborate.\nIn his last, unfinished article, Kuciak described the activities of Italian businesspeople linked to mafia in eastern Slovakia, and also their alleged ties with Prime Minister Robert Fico's aides. Two of them have resigned pending the outcome of the investigation.\nThe case has rocked Fico's government. President Andrej Kiska demands either an early election or a government reshuffle, which was rejected by Fico.\nClick here to add new comment\nCzechia 7th Largest Exporter Of Fireworks In 2019\nBratislava, March 6 (CTK) \u2013 The Slovak police confirmed today that head of the anti-corruption unit Robert Krajmer, who is being connected with \"oligarch\" Norbert Bodor, a brother-in-law of Police President Tibor Gaspar, was on the scene of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Gaspar himself said on Monday Krajmer had [\u2026]\nOKD Resumes Operations Following Hack\nCzech Economic Growth Likely To Slow In 2020\nOKD Hacked: Halts Mining Operations\nOKD Ends Year In The Red\nEIB To Finance Czech Utility Upgrade","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LibDay Royal Court raises over $45K\nBy Kimberly Bautista\nTag: Connie Blass Mendiola, Liberation Day Committee, Lovely Joey Loyola, Milagro Omar Palacios\nThe Liberation Day Royal Court poses for a photo with the Liberation Day Committee during their check presentation at the Saipan Mayor's Office yesterday. (Kimberly A. Bautista)\nThe 2018 Liberation Day Royal Court raised a total of over $45,000 in Liberation Day raffle ticket sales.\nYesterday, Liberation Day committee chair Joe Ayuyu, Royal Court committee chair Monique Boyer Sablan, and Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang awarded the Liberation Day candidates their 20 percent cut in ticket sales.\nAccording to Sablan, the candidates were able to a raise a total of $45,258 by the coronation tally cut off date, which was June 30.\nDuring the check presentation, the Liberation Day committee awarded a total of $9,051 to the five Liberation Day Royal Court candidates.\nAyuyu said that, in behalf of the committee, he is thankful and proud of what this year's royal court was able to achieve.\n\"I just want to say thank you\u2026to the contestants\u2026it takes a lot of guts for them to do what [they] were doing. During [their] age, I don't think I would've ventured out in the same way [they] so [they've] really accomplished a lot,\" he said.\nDuring his brief remarks, Ayuyu encouraged the candidates to continue their path to become leaders someday.\n\"This is one of your steps toward a leadership role that you all have the potential to achieve so we encourage you to continue\u2026get involved with the community and whatever activities you can get involved in and continue your path to become a leader since you already took the first step\u2026you can do a lot more than you think,\" he said.\nApatang said that the candidates did extremely well compared to previous years despite the fact that their group was significantly smaller.\n\"I want to congratulate [them] because what [they] did was very gutsy for their age. This is just the beginning\u2026\" he said.\nSablan said that at the end of the 2018 Royal Court journey, she successfully achieved what she had planned for the candidates and that was to establish a lifetime friendship between the five of them.\n\"We had a lot of fun together\u2026that was my goal for this whole thing. It wasn't just to raise money and do something for the community, but to give them a chance to make new friends and to start a life time sister-hood,\" she said\nSablan said that the candidates would continue to sell raffle tickets starting tonight at the resumption of the Liberation Day festivities.\nThe raffle drawing will be on July 21 during the final night of the festival and individuals have the chance to win up to $10,000.\nThis year's Royal Court queen and princesses were Brinae Jessilyn Cruz, Taylor Jean Chong Sablan, Connie Blass Mendiola, Lovely Joey Loyola, and Milagro Omar Palacios.\nKimberly Bautista | Reporter\nKimberly Albiso Bautista has covered a wide range of news beats, including the community, housing, crime, and more. She now covers sports for the Saipan Tribune. Contact her at kimberly_bautista@saipantribune.com.\nDEA recognizes Rota's Manglona\n'Local GOP has no more vision'\nTanHoldings FC to play in Guam\nLibDay proceeds go to SMO programs\n, By Erwin Encinares\nLibDay grounds re-open July 17-21\n, By Press Release\nLiberation Festival to be extended\nMTEC Tourism Summit draws more supporters\nSaipan now also a marriage proposal destination\nPreliminary work starts on 2020 Census in Guam\nMTEC, MVA talk tourism with Dandan Middle School\nCHCC: 95% of NMI students vaccinated\n45 students inducted into SSHS Nat'l Honor Society","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"European Parliament in A Joint Resolution Urges Ethiopia to Tread the Path of Peace and Dialogue\nBy L. Storchi\nBRUSSELS (IDN | EEPA) \u2013 On November 26, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) held a plenary debate on the current situation in Ethiopia and the conflict in the Horn of Africa region. The speakers called for de-escalation and a resumption of the dialogue for peace between the Ethiopian federal government and representatives of the Tigray region. The discussion followed a draft Joint Motion for a Resolution on November 25, supported by several parliamentarians from different political parties. The motion was adopted by the European Parliament. European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic announced plans to visit Sudan to speak to refugees.\nThe words that Prime Minister Abiy expressed on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 2019, on December 2019, were taken up by several parliamentarians such as Z. Zovko and H. Heide to underline the contrast between his commitment to cooperation and peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea and his current actions in the Tigray region.\nSeveral other parliamentarians (C. Zorrinho, A. Kanko and E. Roughly) further underlined the differences between the political results achieved a year ago and the escalation of violence that has been taking place for three weeks now. All parliamentarians called for a peaceful dialogue between all parties involved and hoped that the three senior African Envoy representatives sent to Addis Ababa, together with the mediation work carried out by the African Union, could put an end to human rights violations.\nMembers of the European Parliament L. Berg and C. Zorrinho and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic himself recall how the Ethiopian constitution provides for secession in order to respect the freedoms of the individual peoples that make up the State of Ethiopia and how this possibility is provided also to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.\nMEPs A. Kanko and J.C. Oetjen stressed the need to restore access, power and connectivity in the Tigray region so that humanitarian organisations can assist the internally displaced population, who are under pressure from water, food and sanitation shortages. They recalled that more than 40,000 refugees have crossed the border into Sudan in the last weeks and tens of thousands of internally displaced persons are facing serious difficulties.\nFor the displaced persons and refugees in Tigray, the humanitarian crisis risks being prolonged. MEP F. M. Castaldo underlined the need to immediately stop any violation of human rights, stressing how the massacre of 600 unarmed civilians in the city of Mai Kadra (on November 9) can be considered as a war crime. There are conflicting accounts as to the perpetration of the massacre.\nThe dangers of ethnic profiling and inter-ethnic violence were also taken up by EPP (European People's Party) MEP speaker S. Kelly and Renew Europe MEP speaker N. Stefanuta, as well as by the Commissioner J. Lenarcic in his closing speech.\nMEP C. Goerens, on the other hand, suggested the need for an approach based not only on the appeals for peace and the mediation of the AU, but also on the possibility for the Development Commission to \"[\u2026] discuss the suspension mechanism that could be put in place in case of this crisis\" continuing.\nCommissioner Lenarcic concluded the plenary session by stating that he and the High Representative for External Action, Mr. Josep Borrell, express great concern about the alleged war crimes committed by the Abiy Federal Government and by the representatives of the TPLF.\nHe has indicate that it is imperative that human rights are respected, and where there have been abuses and violations, those are investigated, in order to identify those who perpetrated the crimes. He said he had contacted UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel Bachelet, as well as several intergovernmental human rights organizations in order to stop violence as soon as possible.\nIn addition, he will visit Sudan next week to show solidarity with the Sudanese government and with the aim to meet the refugees. High Representative Borrell, in his meeting with the Ethiopian authorities, underlined how the principle of international law must be respected even in a context of hostility. \"[p]lans of targeting civilians must be avoided at any price by all parties. During my meeting with the Ethiopian Deputy Minister\" on November 25, I recalled the obligation of all parties involved in the conflict without distinction to protect civilians, guaranteeing their free movement\".\nOn November 26 the resolution was adopted with 643 votes in favour out of 694 total votes. [IDN-InDepthNews \u2013 27 November 2020]\nPhoto: European Parliament Brussels. Credit: The Brussels Times.\nEurope Editor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Editors' ChoiceDevelopment and Disease\nHh and BMP Converge on Atoh1\nAnnalisa VanHook\nScience Signaling 25 Mar 2008:\nVol. 1, Issue 12, pp. ec111\nDOI: 10.1126\/stke.112ec111\nHedgehog (Hh) signaling plays an integral role in promoting proliferation in cerebellar granule cell precursors, which multiply in an external layer before differentiating and migrating deeper into the cerebellum. Overactivation of the Hh pathway is associated with medulloblastoma, a pediatric brain tumor that arises when granule cells continue to proliferate rather than differentiate. Genetic lesions commonly associated with human medulloblastoma include mutations in patched 1 (Ptch1), which encodes a Hh receptor, and loss of heterozygosity of hypermethylated in cancer 1 (Hic1), which encodes a transcriptional repressor. Briggs et al. propose that Hic1 attenuates the Hh proliferation signal by repressing expression of Atonal homolog 1 (Atoh1), a proneural transcription factor. Compound heterozygous mice carrying one deletion allele each of Ptch1 and Hic1 had an increased incidence of medulloblastoma as compared with animals carrying only one allele. Microarray analysis identified many potential targets of Hic1 regulation, one of which was Atoh1, a putative target of Hh signaling expressed in granule cell precursors and medulloblastomas. Chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments showed a direct interaction between Hic1 and the Atoh1 enhancer, and experiments in cell culture demonstrated that Hic1-mediated repression of Atoh1 expression overcomes its activation by Shh. Taken together, these data suggest a model in which Hh signaling induces proliferation of granule cells by activating Atoh1 expression, and differentiation is initiated when Hic1 represses Atoh1 expression. In the context of neural development, signaling through bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathways antagonizes Hh signaling to induce differentiation. In a related article, Zhao et al. (see commentary by Grimmer and Weiss) report that BMP signaling stimulated proteolytic degradation of Atoh1 in medulloblastoma and granule cells. Redundant mechanisms for reducing the abundance of Atoh1 may ensure that granule cells are insensitive to proliferation signals during terminal differentiation and identify Atoh1 as a potentially important target for medulloblastoma therapies.\nK. J. Briggs, I. M. Corcoran-Schwartz, W. Zhang, T. Harcke, W. L. Devereux, S. B. Baylin, C. G. Eberhart, D. N. Watkins, Cooperation between the Hic1 and Ptch1 tumor suppressors in medulloblastoma. Genes & Dev. 22, 770-785 (2008). [Abstract] [Full Text]\nH. Zhao, O. Ayrault, F. Zindy, J.-H. Kim, M. F. Roussel, Post-transcriptional down-regulation of Atoh1\/Math1 by bone morphogenic proteins suppresses medulloblastoma development. Genes & Dev. 22, 722-727 (2008). [Abstract] [Full Text]\nM. R. Grimmer, W. A. Weiss, BMPs oppose Math1 in cerebellar development and in medulloblastoma. Genes & Dev. 22, 693-699 (2008). [Full Text]\nVol 1, Issue 12\nYou are going to email the following Hh and BMP Converge on Atoh1\nBy Annalisa VanHook\nScience Signaling 25 Mar 2008 : ec111\nAtoh1 regulation is central to granule cell development and medulloblastoma.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern\nGolly, I write at an 8th-grade level. No wonder people at work don't understand me. (rimshot)\nSeriously, when I took Business Writing for the Professional they said even in Business writing one should aim for a 3rd or 4th-grade level, which absolutely terrified me. Maybe that's why I have no trouble understanding when John Kerry speaks, but have a deep confusion over why the other guy is considered so highly in so many places...\", \"url\": \"https:\/\/wildrider.livejournal.com\/41066.html\", \"image\": { \"@type\": \"ImageObject\", \"url\": \"https:\/\/l-stat.livejournal.net\/img\/sign.png\" }, \"author\": { \"@type\": \"Person\", \"name\": \"Kats\", \"image\": \"https:\/\/l-userpic.livejournal.com\/119161269\/1226472\" }, \"publisher\": { \"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Journal wildrider\", \"logo\": { \"@type\": \"ImageObject\", \"url\": \"https:\/\/wildrider.livejournal.com\", \"contentUrl\": \"https:\/\/l-userpic.livejournal.com\/119161269\/1226472\" } } }\nMood: tired\nIt's Saturday morning and I'm on my way to work overtime because of the amazing amount of work that's been piling up at the office. Extra money good, extra money good.\nI have to catch up on the last two chapters of rahirah's Dawn & Hellbeast story.\nI have had a backache all week, which is making other muscles hurt like fire. I therefore haven't worked out for two days. :P\nwildrider's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8\nAverage number of words per sentence: 18.60\nAverage number of syllables per word: 1.41\nTotal words in sample: 4724\nAnalyze your journal! Username:\nSeriously, when I took Business Writing for the Professional they said even in Business writing one should aim for a 3rd or 4th-grade level, which absolutely terrified me. Maybe that's why I have no trouble understanding when John Kerry speaks, but have a deep confusion over why the other guy is considered so highly in so many places...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Caring Wakefield postmaster is retiring after serving his community for 30 years\nPOLITICALLY SPEAKING: Hemsworth MP Jon Trickett has his say on high speed broadband\nHigh speed, reliable broadband is essential for communities and businesses in and around Hemsworth.\nUpdated Wednesday, 11th May 2016, 1:25 pm\nFeatherstone based businesses Icon Office Design and Bram Racing are angry and bemused at BT's decision not to put in place high speed broadband for certain areas of Green Lane Industrial estate, Featherstone. Pictured L to R) Local MP Jon Trickett, Michelle Hall - owner of Bram Racing and Jon Wesson - owner of of Icon Office Design. p312a408\nHowever broadband provision is often inadequate in rural areas such as ours.\nIn 2013 I took up the case of a business in Green Lane that was struggling to expand because of poor broadband access.\nThat business delivered 40 per cent of its services overseas, as far away as Adelaide, Australia. But BT hadn't included Green Lane in its upgrades.\nThe government should be leading the way in helping rural communities to unlock their potential, but this government is dragging its feet. Recently, ministers announced that they would not be extending basic broadband automatically to the final five percent of the UK who have not got it.\nInstead, more than one million homes, and countless businesses, will have to request a high speed broadband connection themselves. They may even have to wait for four years before they are entitled to make a request. To add insult to injury, some may have to pay extra to cover the cost of connecting.\nThe Tories suggest that some people living in rural areas do not want to be connected. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children in Hemsworth want high speed broadband to get on with their school work; families want to stay in touch with loved ones; businesses want to grow.\nThat's why I'm calling on the government to reinvest the \u00a3258million windfall they recently received from BT on boosting rural broadband. BT handed back the cash after an unexpected surge in demand for fast internet.\nThe government should take this opportunity to meet the demands of communities like Hemsworth and invest in reaching that final five percent.\nIf you would like to discuss this issue, or any other matter of concern, there are a number of ways you can get in touch with me.\nYou can drop into my office, at Moorthorpe Railway Station, from 9.30am to 4pm Monday to Friday or call 01977 655695.\nYou can email me at [email protected] or Tweet @jon_trickett\nAlternatively, there is a variety of information about my current work and campaigns on my website www.jontrickett.org.uk.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Drivers Club\nFind a value\nValue watchlist\nMarket articles\n1924 Harley-Davidson JDSCA\n2-cyl. 1207cc\/18hp\nAdd to watchlistWatch\n#1 Concours condition#1 Concours\n#2 Excellent condition#2 Excellent\n#3 Good condition#3 Good\n#4 Fair condition#4 Fair\n3YLock\nAllLock\nOptionsValue adjustments\nHow do we calculate these prices?\nWith an experienced team and a lot of data.\nHarley-Davidson had introduced its first ever V-twin in 1909, but it wasn't until 1911 when they added a mechanical inlet valve (the so-called overhead \"pocket valve\") that the company got it just right. A 61 cubic-inch version of the engine would remain in production for two decades. By 1914 Harley's V-twin featured chain final drive, a proper clutch and a three-speed gearbox. A kick-starter came shortly after.\nA 74 cubic-inch model called the JD was introduced for 1922. The 22JD came with full electrical equipment, while the 22FD model was fitted with a magneto. Both had an inlet-over-exhaust V-twin engine, a Schebler carburetor, three-speed hand-shift transmission, single bucket saddle, sprung front forks, hard-tail rear, luggage rack, kickstand, and a foot-operated rear drum brake. The wheelbase was 59.5 inches.\nThe JD could achieve up to 40-60 mpg, and the sidecar model had a plate that fitted below the cylinder to lower compression and increase engine life. The big twin was built in response to the four-cylinder Henderson, which was smoother but not as reliable. It had sprung front forks, but a hard-tail rear end, which prolonged chain life.\nThe JD's lighting and ignition consisted of 6-volt generator\/ignition unit storage battery, headlight, taillight and motor driven oil pressure light. The ignition system involved a circuit breaker, distributor and high-tension coil and was located behind the engine, away from rain.\nPaint was the typical olive drab with attractive pin striping over the dual fuel tanks and oil tank. The front and rear lights were optional and and rubber footboards were fitted along with a rear luggage rack and stand. There was nickel plating throughout, and the rims were painted over stainless steel spokes.\nTwo important changes for the Harley-Davidson JD came about for 1924. Alemite lubrication was introduced on all bearing surfaces except those inside the engine, and a factory grease gun could force lubricant in at 500 psi. The frame was also dropped, which resulted in a lower riding position.\nAluminum pistons were fitted as well. They weighed less and produced more power, and were much less likely to seize. 1926 saw a teardrop gas tank and balloon tires, while throttle-regulated oil pressure and a front brake followed in 1928.\nThe JD models proved both fast and reliable and were raced worldwide with great success throughout the 1920s. A JD sidecar outfit driven by Clark and Webster set a Sydney to Perth record in Australia in 1924 and that same year Walter Patterson rode 170 miles from Tacoma, Washington to Portland, Oregon in a little under six hours \"no hands\". The bars were removed and his wrists chained to the tank.\nSearch vehicles on Hagerty Marketplace\nEngine types\nMore 1924 Harley-Davidson JDSCA values\nGenerate a PDF report\nKeep a copy in your records or to share with others later\nFind more values\nSearch for prices of other cars, trucks, vans and motorcycles\nProtect your 1924 Harley-Davidson JDSCA from the unexpected.\nBetter coverage built for classics at a price you can afford. Online quotes are fast and easy.\nHagerty Insider Newsletter\nYour weekly dose of auction reports, market analysis, and more.\nView ID cards\nSee past statements\nDriveShare\nGarage + Social\nFacebookInstagramLinkedinYoutubeTwitter\n*Please note: All prices shown here are based on various data sources, as detailed in About Our Prices. For all Hagerty clients: The values shown do not imply coverage in this amount. In the event of a claim, the Guaranteed Value(s)\u00ae on your policy declarations page is the amount your vehicle(s) is covered for, even if the value displayed here is different. If you would like to discuss your policy, please call us at 877-922-3391.\nMembership by Hagerty Drivers Club (HDC), a non-insurance subsidiary of The Hagerty Group, LLC. Roadside services provided by\/thru Cross Country Motor Club except in AK, CA, HI, OR, WI & WY where services are provided by Cross Country Motor Club of California, Inc. For additional information and a complete description of benefits, visit hagerty.com\/corporate\/legal. Purchase of insurance not required for membership in HDC.\nHagerty, Hagerty Valuation Tools & Hagerty Drivers Club are registered trademarks of The Hagerty Group LLC, \u00a92022 The Hagerty Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. The Hagerty Group, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hagerty, Inc.\nDigital Labs\nUK flag\n\u00a9 1996 \u2013 2022 The Hagerty Group, LLC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeLocalJason Aldean's youngest daughter shows off her Christmas spirit with a rendition of \"Jingle Bells\"\nWed, December 29, 2021 by ABC News\nJason Aldean's used to performing in sold-out stadiums, but he recently got a front-row seat at an intimate house show for a very special up-and-coming artist: His two-year-old daughter, Navy.\nThe singer's wife, Brittany, posted the adorable video clip to social media this week, showing Navy treating her off-camera parents to her own spirited rendition of \"Jingle Bells.\" Both Jason and Brittany show their appreciation with cheers and applause at the end of the performance.\nNavy is the couple's youngest child, along with older brother Memphis. Jason also has two teenaged daughters from a previous marriage.\nThe younger kids have made appearances on tour with Jason recently \u2014 and four-year-old Memphis has even come out onstage to say hi to the crowd \u2014 but Jason recently joked that Navy's still pretty \"oblivious\" to what her famous dad does for a living.\nStill, when she posted the video, Brittany noted the family resemblance, writing \"Sings like her daddy\" in the caption of the post.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tapan Bhat Hires as GM of Yahoo Finance\n1 optional screen reader\n1.0.1 Read More About:\nYahoo hired Tapan Bhat as president and GM of Yahoo Finance to oversee its financial and business vertical \u2014 marking the seasoned exec's return to the internet media company after more than a decade.\nBhat will report directly to Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone. He starts at the company May 16 and will be based in San Jose, Calif.\nMost recently, Bhat spent the last three years advising startups and their boards. Before that, he was chief product officer at NerdWallet, heading product and engineering, design, data, revenue and partnerships for the personal finance website. He also served as chief product officer at Realtor.com, a division of News Corp. Bhat, and has held senior roles at Adobe Systems and Intuit.\nVerizon Media sold Yahoo last year for $5 billion to private-equity firm Apollo Group. From 2005-10, when Yahoo was an independent company, Bhat served as Yahoo's SVP of consumer, where he led the transformation of yahoo.com from a static page of links to a portal featuring news, email previews and video. He also opened up Yahoo's homepage to third-party content, and has part of that Bhat developed Yahoo Buzz which provided real-time highlights of the most popular articles from external sites. While at Yahoo, Bhat also developed Yahoo Glue, a universal search experience, and increased the company's market share internationally.\n\"We are thrilled to welcome back Tapan, whose experience in building and scaling consumer products, including within the finance category, will help us accelerate innovation across Yahoo Finance's offerings for years to come,\" Lanzone, formerly head of Tinder and CBS Interactive, said in a statement. \"Tapan also has a unique history with the Yahoo brand, spending many years leading some of the most important products in the company's history, and is returning to his roots to help us drive a new era of growth.\"\nBhat commented, \"Coming back to Yahoo after all these years is exciting because it's a completely new company\u2026 I look forward to being part of this next chapter of Yahoo's journey as we develop new products and services that will shape the future of consumer finance and investing.\"\nBhat holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan and an MBA in marketing from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.\nYahoo says it reaches an audience of nearly 900 million people worldwide. In addition to Yahoo Finance, its brands include AOL, Engadget, TechCrunch, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Fantasy and Yahoo Mail.\nTags: Bhat, finance, Hires, Tapan, Yahoo\nRed Sox SP Chris Sale's Return from Injury Delayed Weeks by 'Personal Medical Issue' | Bleacher Report\nBankrupt insurance companies leave Louisiana families scrambling before hurricane season","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Stacey Campfield\nstated on January 26, 2012 in an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show \"OutQ.\":\nAIDS was transmitted to humans because \"one guy\" had sex with \"a monkey\" and then started \"having sex with men.\"\nBy Zack McMillin February 3, 2012\nKnoxville Republican says AIDS came from man having sex with a monkey then with other men\nOf the many controversial claims state Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, made in an interview on satellite radio last week with a gay-rights advocate, none was more sensational than his assertion that AIDS in humans came from \"one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men.\"\nThis came about 12 minutes into an interview that ostensibly was about a bill Campfield has championed declaring that only sexuality involving \"natural human reproduction\" can be addressed in the state's K-8 public-school classrooms. Campfield calls it a \"Don't Teach Gay\" bill, but it's been more commonly called the \"Don't Say Gay\" bill. Critics say it could open the door to allowing anti-gay bullying and harassment and potentially prevent teachers and administrators from helping students properly deal with sexuality issues.\nWe're working on a separate article to post on Sunday that will cover many of the other claims made by Campfield, who also serves as Tennessee campaign co-director for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. This item will explore Campfield's specific claim about AIDS entering the human population because \"one guy\" had sex with a monkey and then had sex with men.\nHere's the pertinent exchange for this fact check:\nCAMPFIELD: Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community.\nSIGNORILE: No, it did not. Do you know the history of AIDS?\nCAMPFIELD: It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men.\nSIGNORILE: No, it was not one guy screwing a monkey. It was somebody in Africa. Do you know the history of AIDS? Because I can tell you in a minute? It was somebody in Africa who actually killed a monkey, because they eat the meat of many animals, as I'm sure you do, I'm sure you eat the meat of animals. And they ate the meat of a monkey and the blood, they chopped it up, and it got in a cut and that's how AIDS then spread among heterosexuals all through Africa, and it is a pandemic around the world.\nIn the days since the interview, Campfield has done other interviews and put up posts on his blog, adding some caveats and qualifiers to some of his claims.\nBut in his blog posts, one of which he titled \"More fun than a barrel of monkeys,\" Campfield stuck by his claim of cross-species simian-human sex as the origin of AIDS. He wrote: \"The research on sex with a monkey being the first transmitter of AIDS has not been proven nor firmly dis proven (sic). It is one of about 5 theories I was able to find on the source of AIDS.\"\nWe figured that because the legendary \"Scopes Monkey Trial\" happened in our fair state -- about 80 miles southwest of Knoxville -- PolitiFact Tennessee should examine this theory of evolution.\nConsequence of hunting\nSignorile had recently interviewed infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist Dr. Jacques Pepin, author of the recently published book, The Origin of AIDS, and Signorile accurately characterized Pepin's research.\nPepin gave PolitiFact Tennessee an even more precise account. Pepin's research, which relies on meticulous peer-reviewed studies that include DNA evidence going back decades, concludes that HIV in humans originated in Central Africa, likely sometime in 1921, from a hunter who was exposed to contaminated blood from an ape -- perhaps a chimpanzee -- that was killed for food.\nA slow dissemination through Africa followed, Pepin said, through heterosexual transmission, needle injections and blood transfusions. It stayed at a \"low level,\" he says, until 1966 or 1967 when it \"was exported to Haiti\" and \"from there to the United States, probably at the beginning of the 1970s.\" Pepin agrees with Campfield on one point: that its spread in North America accelerated through infections transmitted in unprotected sex among gay men.\nApes, not monkeys\nWe also talked to Beatrice Hahn, a former longtime University of Alabama-Birmingham professor of medicine and microbiology now at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of a 2010 research paper, \"Origin of HIV and AIDS Pandemic.\" She clued us into a key distinction -- a monkey is not an ape and an ape is not a monkey. But they are both simians, the animal classification for what are known as \"higher primates.\"\nShe has concluded that the form of HIV most prevalent around the world, known as HIV-1 Group M, originated in chimpanzees -- and chimps are considered apes, not monkeys. Figure 1 in her paper, which cites studies from 150 research papers and was written with Penn colleague Paul Sharp (formerly of University of Edinburgh) features pictures of 10 kinds of simians and has arrows showing how SIV -- \"simian immuno deficiency virus\" -- made a path to humans in two major forms, HIV-1 and HIV-2.\nHahn said HIV-1, the most common AIDS virus, has been documented to have emerged following \"four independent transmissions of ape viruses -- not monkey viruses.\"\nA second human AIDS virus that is largely restricted to West Africa is called HIV-2, and it is declining and being replaced by HIV-1, according to the paper. That less prevalent form has been traced to a monkey called the Sooty mangabey.\nHahn says the mostly likely way that the simian precursors of HIV-1 and HIV-2 entered the human population was from bushmeat hunters who killed simians for their meat. Pepin and other researchers have written the same thing, and we found no serious academic papers mentioning simian-human sex as a possible transmission route.\n\"Human infection,\" wrote Martine Peeters of the retrovirus laboratory of the Institute of Research for Development in Montpelier, France, \"is thought to have resulted from cutaneous or mucous membrane exposure to infected blood during the hunting and butchering of chimpanzees and Sooty mangabeys for food. Bites from pet animals and possibly contact with fecal and urine samples may have also been involved.\"\nPepin's book covers the same territory in great detail and cites many studies.\nHahn has appeared on panels with renowned primatologist Jane Goodall to discuss the dangers bushmeat hunting poses. Not only does it endanger species of simians like chimpanzees, there is concern the practice could some day lead to other simian viruses getting passed to humans to create a new pandemic. Scientists remain unsure why SIV does not lead to AIDS in some simians, while HIV causes a deadly condition in humans.\nCampfield is unable to provide any convincing evidence to back up his claim and we could find none. The overwhelming scientific research shows Campfield is wrong. Experts believe HIV entered the human population through so-called \"bushmeat\" hunting, and, furthermore, that the predominant HIV-1 form has never been shown to be transmitted directly from monkeys to humans.\nHahn emphasized, too, that there is zero evidence to support the cross-species sex Campfield proposes: \"It surely wasn't transmitted through sexual activity (with simians).\"\nWe rate the claim Pants on Fire.\nstated on January 5, 2023 in Twitter\n\"Let's be clear: 'drag shows' are strip shows.\"\nBy Laura Schulte \u2022 January 25, 2023\nSirius satellite radio show \"OutQ.\" Stacey Campfield interview with Michelangelo Signorile Jan. 26, 2012.\nStacey Campfield, \"So I was on this little show \u2026\" on Camp4u blog, Jan. 27, 2012.\nStacey Campfield, \"More fun than a barrel of monkeys\" on Camp4u blog, Jan. 30, 2012.\nJacques Pepin, The Origin of AIDS, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2011.\nPhone interview with Jacques Pepin, professor and head of the Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, where he is also Director of the Centre for International Health. Jan. 27, 2012.\nBeatrice H. Hahn and Paul M. Sharp, \"Origin of HIV and AIDS epidemic\" in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, September 2011. Figure 1 from the paper showing pictures of simian species and arrows with SIV paths.\nPaul M. Sharp and Beatrice H. Hahn, \"The evolution of HIV-1 and the origin of AIDS\" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, August 2010.\nPhone interview and email exchanges with Dr. Beatrice Hahn, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Pennsyvlania's School of Medicine and Penn Center for AIDS Research. Feb. 1 and 2, 2012.\nU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, \"Basic Information about HIV and AIDS.\"\nEmail correspondence with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nEmail correspondence with Dr. Rafael Mazin, the Pan-American Health Organization's senior advisor on HIV, sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis.\nEnvironmental and Energy Study Institute, \"'Bushmeat' and the Origin of HIV\/AIDS: A Case Study of Biodiversity, Population Pressures, and Human Health\", Feb. 2002, including Eric Chivian, M.D. Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School; Stuart Pimm, Ph.D. Professor of Conservation Biology, Columbia University; Robert Engelman Vice President for Research, Population Action International; Jane Goodall, Ph.D., C.B.E. Founder and Trustee, The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and\nConservation; Beatrice H. Hahn, M.D. Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.\nMartine Peeters (lead), Valerie Courgnaud, Bernadette Abela, Philippe Auzel, Xavier Pourrut, Frederic Bibollet-Ruche, Severin Loul, Florian Liegeois, Cristelle Butel, Denis Koulagna, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole, George M. Shaw, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Eric Delaporte. \"Risk to Human Health from a Plethora of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses in Primate Bushmeat\" in Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, May 2002.\nDonald G. McNeil Jr. \"Researchers Have New Theory on Origin of AIDS Virus\" in The New York Times. June 13, 2003.\nGina Kolata. \"The Genesis of an Epidemic: Humans, Chimps and a Virus\" in The New York Times. Sept. 4, 2001.\nMore by Zack McMillin\nLamar Alexander\nstated on November 13, 2012 in a news release announcing support for the Sportsmen's bill.:\n\"More Tennesseans have hunting and fishing licenses than vote.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 November 18, 2012\nStand For Children Tennessee\nstated on October 24, 2012 in a post on Facebook.:\nSays that \"Tennessee law requires that schools receive half of proceeds -- $31 million per year\" -- from a half-cent increase in the Shelby County sales tax.\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 November 4, 2012\nGeorge Flinn\nstated on October 18, 2012 in campaign mail piece:\nSays that \"when Congressman (Steve) Cohen took office in 2007, the unemployment rate was at 4.8 percent. The unemployment rate in Shelby County has reached 9.7 percent.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 October 28, 2012\nAndy Berke\nstated on August 31, 2012 a letter to state Senate education committee chairwoman Dolores Gresham.:\nSays Tennessee is providing \"millions of dollars\" to virtual school company for \"results at the bottom of the bottom.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 October 7, 2012\nMartavius Jones\nstated on July 13, 2012 an interview on the Fox 13 News program \"Memphis in the Morning.\":\n\"From a standpoint of the county government, neither school system has received an increase in funding over the past six years.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 August 20, 2012\nstated on June 18, 2012 prepared remarks at a Congressional field hearing.:\n\"Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 June 24, 2012\nTennessee Democratic Party\nstated on June 12, 2012 a press release.:\nSays Mitt Romney has said \"we don't need 'more firemen, more policemen, more teachers.' \"\nMemphis Police Association\nstated on April 25, 2012 a commercial.:\nSays \"city leadership is threatening to lay off police and emergency services personnel to balance the budget.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 June 3, 2012\nstated on May 9, 2012 signing new schools legislation.:\nOn allowing Shelby County's schools merger commission to finish work before allowing any new merger legislation.\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 May 20, 2012\nA C Wharton\nstated on April 16, 2012 an interview about his city budget proposal.:\n\"We will not ask for a tax increase to run city government.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 May 6, 2012\nJoe Brown\nstated on April 18, 2012 a City Council presentation on the Memphis budget.:\n\"Nobody is leaving Memphis. That's a myth.\"\nThe Tax Foundation\nstated on March 5, 2012 a map published on its blog.:\nSays Tennessee has some of the lowest beer excise tax rates in the country.\nBy Tom Humphrey \u2022 March 20, 2012\nFrank Niceley\nstated on February 1, 2012 a House Conservation and Environment Committee meeting:\nSays the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency brought coyotes into the state \"to try to keep the deer population down.\"\nBy Tom Humphrey \u2022 February 23, 2012\nstated on February 6, 2012 a Shelby County Commission meeting.:\n\"Shelby County donated \u2013 I'm sorry, gave \u2013 44 schools to the city of Memphis.\"\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 February 19, 2012\nstated on January 26, 2012 an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show \"OutQ.\":\nBy Zack McMillin \u2022 February 3, 2012","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Low End Mac\n21 Years of Low End Mac\nDaniel Knight - 2018.04.07\nWhen I started adding some profiles of Macs to my personal web space in April 1997, who would have thought that it would grow into something enduring? We used Macs at work, I had a Mac at home, and I was teaching myself how to make web pages using Claris Home Page. So I put together two dozen Mac profiles from the 1986 Mac Plus to the 1990 Macintosh IIfx, sharing specifications, links to other resources, and my own experience with these models.\nAt the time I was using a 20 MHz Centris 610 at home, along with an Apple 13\u2033 color display and a 14.4 dial-up modem. That was my second Mac; I had sold my Mac Plus to help pay for it. I was working for a local publishing house, first as a book designed who helped support our 12 Macs on a PhoneNet network, which grew to over 80 Macs by the time I left the company at the start of 2001.\nI was a Mac convert. I started out using an Apple II+ at one job, which was way outside of my budget. My first personal computer was a Commodore VIC-20, followed by a Commodore 64, and then my first DOS PC, a Zenith Z-151. I taught myself MS-DOS 3.3 in about two weeks.\nWhen I eventually got a job at the local ComputerLand store, I thought I was home free \u2013 everyone loved their silly Macs with mice and graphical interfaces. I would make out like a bandit selling DOS computers! You can guess what happened over time. I started to understand Macs. I began to like Macs. I chose to use Macs for some projects. And then I earned a free Mac Plus in an Apple sales promotion.\nThe rest, as they say, is history. I became a Mac geek. I swapped my Zenith PC for a SyQuest 44 drive with three cartridges. I upgraded memory in my Mac Plus, added an external floppy drive and then a 40 MB hard drive, and sold Macs hand over fist, just like everyone else at our ComputerLand store.\nThis is where I got my experience upgrading computers, taking apart a Mac SE to add more RAM and put in a third-party hard drive. Adding video cards to Mac IIs. And then being there to day of the Apple simulcast introducing the first PowerBooks. We closed the store to the public and had an invitation-only event for our customers to watch the video feed and check out the new Macs afterwards.\nI received MacWeek at work, and when I was let go (as the store was getting ready to close its doors), I had that subscription directed to my home address. And when I moved to the publishing job, MacWeek followed my there. And when I quit that job to publish Low End Mac full-time, MacWeek followed me home again. I also digested BYTE, Macworld, and MacUser magazines cover-to-cover every month.\nSo when I started The New Low End Mac User, it was because I knew a whole lot about older Macs. I had worked with almost every one of the 24 models initially profiled, except for the Mac IIvi, IIvx, and Performa 600. In face, the company had just sold its oldest Macs that had recently been replaced \u2013 a Mac Plus, Mac II, and a few Mac LC and LC II computers. (Guess who bought most of them?)\nFrom humble beginnings, Low End Mac grew. I added profiles for 68040-based Macs. I added profiles of 680\u00d70-based PowerBooks. I added profiles for Power Macs and PowerPC PowerBooks. I started adding editorial content in July 1987. I added some writers in 1999. And it just kept growing.\nWe've had our ups and downs over the years. I picked exactly the wrong time to quit my IT job so I could publish Low End Mac full-time. Little did I know that the dot-com bubble burst would decrease ad rates faster than I could increase the number of pages served. I ended up working part-time in a local camera store and, on a personal note, went through a painful divorce.\nAnother big drop in ad rates meant that I had to cut back on what I paid my writers. Many of our writers were willing to switch to volunteer status, but Charles W. Moore is a full-time journalist and can't afford to work for free, so we lost him, which significantly impacted our site traffic. (Moore wrote 1-2 articles per week plus a mailbag column plus our news roundups.)\nOver the years, we've served somewhere around 175 million pages. We peaked at an average of 1.43 million pages per month in 2007, dropped to an average of 1.03 million pages per month in 2010, 757,000 in 2011, 509,000 in 2012, and 194,000 in 2013. In recent years our average has been around 200,000 pages per month.\nFive years ago, we switched from Claris Home Page to WordPress, and since our numbers were so low, ads no longer provided much income. We left a few affiliate links up but got rid of the display ads, going to a donation-based funding model. Nobody gets paid to write for Low End Mac, and what I receive for my work is that Low End Mac pays for the Internet and my iPhone service.\nFor me, it's a labor of love. I am now working as a full-time technical writer in a completely different field, and I owe that to a B.A. in English, history, and philosophy plus a lifetime of learning and researching and sharing what I've learned with others. Low End Mac has been a huge part of preparing me for working as a technical writer, which I intend to do for the rest of my life.\nWhether you're new to Low End Mac or you've been following us for all these years, thank you for supporting our very worthwhile endeavor. We love nothing more than sharing our knowledge and our passion for almost all things Apple.\nshort link: https:\/\/goo.gl\/v1K49e\nSupport Low End Mac by purchasing through these links.\nLow End Mac is funded primarily through donations. If Low End Mac helps you, help us keep Low End Mac running with your donation. Thanks!\nJoin LEM on Social Media\nJoin LEM on Social Media!\nFeeling really retro today? Join our email lists!\nAll of our advertising is handled by BackBeat Media. For price quotes and advertising information, please contact BackBeat Media at (646-546-5194). This number is for advertising only.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"G7 Media Accreditation \u2013 Now Open\nMedia accreditation for the G7 Summit, taking place in Cornwall from Friday 11 June to Sunday 13 June, has opened.\nPlease visit https:\/\/media.g7presidency.uk to complete your submission if you wish to attend. The closing date for submissions is 23:59 on Thursday 22 April (UK time).\nThe International Media Centre for the G7 Summit will be located at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth and will open on Thursday 10 June.\nPlease note that in order to guarantee a COVID-secure environment for media, there will be fewer accredited media spaces available than has been the case for previous G7 Summits.\nWhile we do not expect to be able to offer accreditation to all media that apply for it, we will work to ensure a fair representation of different outlets to cover the Summit in-person, and provide virtual access to those unable to attend.\nMedia attending the Summit will be required to follow any public health regulations in place at the time, including UK-entry requirements for those traveling into the country, as well as any additional measures we may require.\nThe Media Centre will open on Thursday 10 June, closing at 08:00 on Monday 14 June. We will provide details of the facilities available, including technical support, to accredited media in due course.\nMedia can accredit individually or a whole team can be accredited under one account. We would advise that larger teams may wish to create one account so there is a single point of contact. We will assume that when a single person applies for a team of colleagues that the correct consent and authorisation has been provided for each individual's information to be provided, including the upload documentation.\nFor any technical queries about the accreditation process please contact the accreditation team on g7presidency@glasgows.co.uk or call the accreditation helpline on +44 (0) 1772 767771\nFor further information on the media centre and G7 Summit more generally, please contact the G7 Presidency Taskforce Comms team on 020 7276 9797 or g7media@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.\nFalmouth furniture maker & designer Scott Woyka chosen to build tables for G7 Summit\nFalmouth furniture maker & designer Scott Woyka has been chosen to build symbolic, sustainably sourced tables which will be used by world leaders at the G7 Summit in June.\nG7 Trade Ministers' Meeting \u2013 Chair's Statement\nChair's statement by the G7 countries at the inaugural G7 Trade Track.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A message from the chancellor: Tonight's Sweet 16 games\nAhead of tonight's Sweet 16 games for both of Carolina's basketball teams, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz discusses the importance of sports and shows his support for our Tar Heels.\nPosted by University Communications, Friday, March 25th, 2022\n(Jon Gardiner\/UNC-Chapel Hill)\nDear Carolina Community,\nThere are two Carolina basketball games tonight, a pair of sweet-sixteen showdowns as both our men's and women's teams vie for NCAA titles. The amount of hard work and preparation that goes into this moment can't be underestimated. It's a gift to watch our student-athletes in action and a reminder of everything I love about our 28 sports teams.\nFirst, sports build community. I have no idea how many strangers I've high-fived over the years after watching a ridiculous dunk, a brilliant goal, a long touchdown pass, a lead-off double, or a blazing tennis serve. At that moment, those people aren't strangers anymore because we've found a way to connect. That matters when you want to bring together a diverse community like ours. It matters for keeping alumni all over the world connected to Chapel Hill. It matters that the people of North Carolina feel a sense of belonging and investment in their University.\nSecond, sports build character. I know it's a cliche, but being on a team or spending years training for high-level competition is all about discipline, focus, investing in long-range goals and having the humility to know your role and collaborate with your teammates. Every one of those skills applies to the world beyond college, whether you're starting a company or a family. Just like our world-class faculty, our amazing coaches bring out the best in us and shape our lives for the better.\nFinally, sports teach us how to compete without malice. You put your heart and soul into beating the other team, then you shake hands with genuine respect for a well-played game. You greet your Duke colleagues with some tasteful gloating about the last game, then you get to work on your shared research project.\nMy own career as a researcher has been devoted to sport science, making it safer for athletes on the field and giving coaches and doctors better guidance on how to prevent injuries. I was drawn to it not just because of the obvious benefits of safer competition, but because I believe in the power of sports to uplift, to unite, to teach and bring joy.\nI'll be thinking about all of that tonight \u2014 but mostly cheering at the top of my lungs and looking for people to high-five. Go Heels!\nCompetitively,\nKevin M. Guskiewicz\nCategories Leadership\nKeep Reading Scientists identify overgrowth of key brain structure in babies who later develop autism","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Canyon Diablo Oxide 209.8g\nMeteorite Type: Iron, IAB-MG\nAdditional Information: Uncommon larger size from an older collection\nCanyon Diablo Oxide 209.8g quantity\nCategory: Canyon Diablo\nMeteor Crater is the most recognizable and best-known meteorite feature on Earth and is visited by many thousands of tourists annually. Recent studies estimate its age at 61,000 years. It was also the first proven meteorite crater. Geologist, miner, entrepreneur, and visionary Daniel Barringer was convinced the feature was a meteorite crater, defying the popular opinion of so-called experts at the time. Barringer spent a fortune searching for what he believe to be a giant meteorite buried under the crater. He was right about the crater, but wrong about the meteorite. We now know that the mass fragmented and part of it vaporized upon impact. But Barringer's insight and determination gave him an honored place in meteorite history and the site is still sometimes referred to as Barringer Crater. Another key figure in space rock history, innovative meteoriticist H.H. Nininger, conducted many years of important research at the site and also opened the world's first private meteorite museum alongside nearby Route 66.\nMeteor Crater was studied by legendary geologist Gene Shoemaker and some of the NASA Apollo astronauts were trained there prior to their moon missions. Canyon Diablo is a steep-sided ravine some distance west of the crater and meteorites found around the crater take their name from it (the convention being that meteorites are named after the nearest town or geographical feature to their fall location and they could hardly be named after the crater that they, themselves, formed). Meteor Crater is internationally recognized as a scientific site of unique importance and meteorite collecting there is no longer permitted. Older specimens that were found during the first half of the 19th century, or earlier, when collecting was still allowed are, therefore, highly desirable.\nCanyon Diablo 875.2g\nCanyon Diablo 7.5g\nCanyon Diablo 17,400g\n\u2190 Bondoc Nodule 64.8g\nCanyon Diablo Oxide 455.3g \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Opus Dei leader says Filial Correction signers 'attack the pope'\nThe order's Vicar General said a child doesn't 'correct' his father in public.\nHoffman,\nMatthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent\nWed Oct 4, 2017 - 10:11 am EDT Fri Jun 18, 2021 - 6:38 pm EDT\nOctober 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 An Opus Dei leader has denounced the signatories of a recently-published \"filial correction\" of Pope Francis regarding \"heresies\" propagated by the pontiff.\nThe order's Vicar General, its second-ranked prelate, accused the more than two hundred scholars and clergy who have signed the Correction of \"attack[ing] the pope\" and airing the Church's dirty laundry in public.\n\"Lamentably this isn't the first time in the history of the Church in recent years in which there are groups of people that attack the pope, some of whom, I imagine, with good intention,\" Monsenor Mariano Fazio told the Argentinean daily La Nacion in an interview published on September 29.\n\"It seems to me that, on one hand, that it's an example of the freedom of opinion that exists in the Church and that the pope respects,\" added Fazio. \"It seems to me on the other hand that it's a completely erroneous method because, if we're talking about a filial relationship, a child doesn't 'correct' his father in public.\"\n\"Any member of the faithful, bishop, cardinal, or layman, has the right to tell the Pope what he thinks for the good of the Church, but it seems to me that he doesn't have the right to do so publicly, and to scandalize the whole Church with these manifestations of disunity,\" Fazio said.\nOpus Dei, meaning \"work of God,\" is an organization recognized by the Catholic Church that teaches that the ordinary life is a path to sanctity. It was founded in Spain in 1928 by priest and saint Josemar\u00eda Escriv\u00e1.\nAsked about the adherence to the Correction of the Italian Opus Dei supernumerary Ettore Gotte Tedeschi, who formerly led the Vatican Bank, Fazio said, \"I regard him also as having made a mistake, like the rest of those who have signed.\"\nFazio also expressed his desire that members of the Roman Curia \"have a greater spirit of collaboration and service with the reform that the pope wants to carry out,\" and claimed there is only \"a small group that resists the pope,\" which he characterized as a \"noisy minority.\"\nFazio's rejection of public acts of correction contrasts sharply with the words of the Filial Correction, which cites the public rebuke of St. Peter by St. Paul recounted in the latter's Epistle to the Galatians, and adds, \"Thomas Aquinas notes that this public rebuke from a subject to a superior was licit on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning the faith (Summa Theologiae 2a 2ae, 33, 4 ad 2), and 'the gloss of St Augustine' adds that on this occasion, \"Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects\"\nCorrection continues to gain support\nThe Filial Correction was submitted privately to the pope in August and made public on September 23. It was initially endorsed by 62 scholars and clergy, but the number has since grown to 216, with new signatures being added daily.\nThe Correction states that Pope Francis has \"effectively upheld\" seven heretical propositions regarding the sinfulness of adultery, binding nature of moral law, and the reception of the sacraments of the Catholic Church, although it does not judge him personally guilty of the sin of heresy.\nThe document is written in a respectful but firm tone, expressing \"profound grief\" at the necessity of correcting the pope, \"on account of the propagation of heresies effected by the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia and by other words, deeds and omissions of Your Holiness.\"\nCritics of the Correction have responded with a barrage of mudslinging but have said little about the substance of the document. The Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has called for dialog with the signers.\nRelated LifeSite coverage:\nThe worldwide impact and significance of the 'filial correction'\nCriticism of Pope's teaching not based on faulty translation: Filial Correction signer\nCatholics can never 'assent' to Communion for habitual adulterers: Filial Correction signer\nCritics of the Filial Correction are wrong. Here's why\nFilial Correction\nMariano Fazio","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BRICS & Beyond\nThe Doctrine of Equivalents: Examination of the Law in the Netherlands\nLisa L. Mueller\nNetherlands, Uncategorized\nIn many jurisdictions, the scope of protection afforded by a patent is defined by the claims of the patent as read either literally or under doctrine of equivalents. Infringement based on the doctrine of equivalents is generally not based on any statutory law but rather has been established via case law (e.g. Court decisions). The purpose of the doctrine of equivalents is to promote fair patent coverage so that trivial departures (e.g., variants) from the claim language cannot be used to avoid infringement.\nThis is the second post in our series examining the law governing the doctrine of equivalents in several European countries. Our first post examined the law governing the doctrine of equivalents in Spain and can be found here: Doctrine of Equivalents \u2013 Spain.\nDoctrine of Equivalents in the Netherlands\nAlthough the Netherlands is small country with a population of around 17 million, it is a popular venue for patent litigation. In particular, the Dutch market is important for many multinationals as an entry gate to Europe through which products are often distributed to other countries. Under the appropriate circumstances, obtaining an injunction in the Netherlands can effectively block distribution of infringing products in Europe.\nThe Netherlands is also a good venue for patent litigation because it has a specialized patent court in The Hague, which has exclusive jurisdiction to decide patent infringement and validity actions. Additionally, Dutch judges tend to be highly experienced, with the majority having started their careers in private practice as intellectual property litigators \/ attorneys. Several have technical backgrounds or were experienced patent litigators or attorneys before joining the bench.\nClaim Construction\nThe scope of protection of a patent in the Netherlands is determined in accordance with Article 69 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Interpretation Protocol. Specifically, Article 69(1) of the EPC states that \"[T]he extent of the protection conferred by a European patent or a European patent application shall be determined by the claims. Nevertheless, the description and drawings shall be used to interpret the claims.\" Thus, the scope of the claims is assessed by determining how a person killed in the art, using his\/her general knowledge, would interpret the claims as of the priority\/filing date of the application.\nDespite the wording of Article 69(1), Dutch courts have been reluctant to move away from the standard articulated by the Supreme Court in Philips v. Tasseron (1930\/1217 (20 June 1930)) which held that the scope of protection of a patent must be based on the \"essence of the invention\". This standard changed slightly in a decision by the Supreme Court in Ciba-Geigy v. Ole Optics NJ (1995\/391 (13 January 1995)), which stated that the following four factors must be assessed when assessing the scope of protection of a patent:\nWhen interpreting the terms in the claims, the court must determine the essence of the invention, namely, it must consider the \"inventive concept\" behind the wording of the claims;\nThe interpretation of the claims must be adjusted to give a reasonable degree of certainty to third parties (but in certain instances, such interpretation may justify a restricted, literal interpretation of the wording of the claims);\nA skilled person may, with restraint, use the prosecution history of the patent at issue for the purpose of interpreting the claims; and\nAll other circumstances of the case must be taken into account, such as, for example: (a) the possible breakthrough nature of the invention (thus justifying a broader interpretation of the scope of the claims); and (b) the poor drafting of the patent (such as when considering factors 2 and 3), which shall be construed to the disadvantage of the patentee.\nFurthermore, in 2014, the Supreme Court clarified that the \"essence of the invention\" is a \"viewpoint\" rather than the \"starting point\" by which the scope of the claims is determined (See, Medinol v. Abbott, 13\/00522 (4 April 2014)). Essentially, what this means is that Dutch courts are able to take the essence of the invention into consideration; however, it is not the decisive factor when it comes to claim construction and determining the scope of protection.\nWith respect to the prosecution history, according to Dutch case law, consideration of the prosecution history is permitted when such history contains information that is unfavorable to the patentee. The prosecution history is particularly relevant if it contains information demonstrating that the patentee argued a narrow interpretation of its claims in order to obtain allowance, and\/or if the patentee limited its claims during prosecution in view of patentability objections (e.g., novelty and\/or inventive step). However, if the prosecution history contains information that can be used to support a broader interpretation of the scope of the claims then that justified by reading the claims in view of the description and drawings, courts will generally exercise restraint when using such the prosecution history.\nFinally, Dutch courts apply the rule that what is \"disclosed but not claimed is disclaimed\", which in practice means that if an application discloses a particular product or feature as a possible variant, it should also be claimed.\nDoctrine of Equivalents\nIn the Netherlands, the doctrine of equivalents has been applied in two ways.\nUsing the function-way-result test. This test involves determining whether the non-literal variant fulfils the same function as the patented element, by using similar means, leading to a similar result.\nUsing the insubstantial differences test. This test, often used in connection with chemical and biotech inventions, involves determining whether the alleged infringing product or process is substantially different or material from what is patented.\nWhen determining whether protection should be granted based on the doctrine of equivalents, a distinction must be made between \"foreseeable\" and \"unforeseeable\" equivalents. Specifically, Article 2 of the Interpretation Protocol for Article 69 states that \"[F]or the purpose of determining the extent of protection conferred by a European patent, due account shall be taken of any element which is equivalent to an element specified in the claims.\" Thus, because Article 2 of the Interpretation Protocol specifies that when determining the extent of protection of an European patent that consideration must be given to equivalents, Dutch courts must first determine whether a person skilled in the art would find that the claims, in view of the description and drawings, should be construed in such a way that any equivalents that were foreseeable on the filing (priority) date, are considered to fall within the scope of protection. The answer to this question is determined based on what a person skilled in the art, using his\/her general knowledge, knew on the filing (priority) date of the application as well as what the patent contributed to the state of the art. Other relevant factors also taken into consideration include the contents of the description, the essence of the invention, the state of the art, the purpose of the patented product or method, the advantages of the invention, knowledge about the existing product or method, the relation among existing products\/methods and the degree to which existing products\/methods may also lead to the intended result.\nWhat about protection for equivalents that were not foreseeable at the filing (priority) date, such as new variants which did not exist at the timing of filing? Such new variants can only be protected under the doctrine of equivalents if such new elements were not obvious to a person skilled in the art as of the priority\/filing date of the application. Additionally, when determining whether an unforeseeable equivalent also constitutes an equivalent element, a skilled person's knowledge on the date of the alleged infringement may also be taken into consideration.\nExamples of some cases in the life science area involving the doctrine of equivalents are: Bayer\/Sandoz, 5 NJ 2016\/496 (February 2016) involving two patents for the method of preparing drospirenone and Eli Lilly\/Fresenius involving the use of pemetrexed disodium in combination with vitamin B12 for inhibiting tumor growth\nThis post was written by Lisa Mueller and Judith Krens of Taylor Wessing.\nPrevPreviousThe Doctrine of Equivalents: Examination of the Law in Spain\nNextTaiwan's Patent Linkage System Finally Comes Into EffectNext\nThe GCC Patent Office is No Longer Accepting New Patent Application Filings\nIn 1981, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was established in Abu Dhabi by six founding members: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. According to Article 4 of the GCC Charter, the basic objectives of the\nLisa L. Mueller\tJanuary 8, 2021\nNew Patent Application Examination Guidelines for Biotechnology Inventions in Brazil\nOn December 1st, 2020, the Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI; also known as the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO)) published Normative Instruction #118 (November 12, 2020), revoking the previous guidelines (Rule #144\/2015) and establishing new guidelines for the","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Letters Written During a Tour Through North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at ...\nPor John Evans\ngelleu is Nanneau Park, the aneient seat of the family of that name, now of the Vaughans. The road is by a steep ascent, and the house stands on very high ground : it was but an old indifferent building. The present possessor, Sir Robert; has erected a new and handsome mansion,' which appears to great advantage from the elevated scite, and the rich woods that clothe the different parts of the\npark.*\nIn the upper part of the park is the remains of a British post : 'it is a high insolated rock, encircled with a wall of stones, the common fortification of our rude ancestors; called Moel Orthroom, or the Hill of Oppression. This park is celebrated for the ancient deer of the country, remarkably small but of exquisite flavour.\nThe traveller here cannot resist the invitation to look at nature in her fantastic wildness, as exhis bited in the celebrated f\u00e4lls of the Cayne and the Mawddach. The weather for several days had been prodigiously stormy, and consequently favourable\nare shewn near the abbey, built by Yetryd ap Edwin; and taken and demolished soon after A. D. 1116, by Euean ap Cadwyan and Meredydd ap Bleydden. Vid. Powel, p. 150.\n* But Mr. Pennant when he observed, \" That this was the highest situation of any gentleman's house in Britain,\" Vol. II. p. 97; did not recollect that many parts of the kingdom, which form a much less angle with the plane of the horizon, are higher from the level of the sea, than those that form a greater. : The land gradually rises as we poceed from the ocean; and it is probable from this consideration, that the table land called Ridgeway in War. wickshire, is the highest part of this kingdom.\nfor seeing them to the highest advantage. Whoever visits these scenes in the drought, that frequently accompanies the most pleasing time for travelling, will be totally disappointed; for several of these falls will have vanished; and the person by whose description the traveller has been allured to the spot, lie under the imputation of misrepresentation or of high colouring\nProceeding northwards up the vale of the Maw, at Doly Melynllin, six miles from Dolgelleu, is a house inhabited by Counsellor Maddox; here, turning to the left up a steep acclivity, the eye meets the furious course of the Garfa, a wide mountain torrent dashing its waters from rock to rock through a thicket of various kinds of underwood, meeting with short interruptions till it arrives at a lofty precipice ; down this it rushes in separate channels fifty feet into the pool beneath, shaded by lofty trees, that give the waters a dark appearance, and the cataract its name, Rhaiadr ddu; here, struggling and foaming against the fragments of stone it has brought in its violent passage, in wild uproar, it is soon lost to the spectator in the thick woods below. A noble pendant birch of uncommon size overhangs the centre of the fall, and forms a high finish to this romantic scene.\nA bridge is thrown across the river called Pont ar garfa, which, conducts you to another cascade, formed by the junction of the Maw and Eden. A lofty angular wooded hill, corresponding with the glens through which these waters fall, forms the fork\nof the rivers ; and is not unlike many of those scenes described by travellers in the wilds of America. But these were only introductions to other scenes of grandeur, with which nature has every where enriched this richly varied country.\nCrossing a lofty slate mountain with numerous oaks on the right and left, called Tylyn Gwladws, with its opposite, Cwm Yssam, we descended into the deepened vale, through which the Mawddach flows. The mountains on both sides, dark with the umbrageous shade of beech and oak, which almost completely cover their declivities, except the brown crags sometimes making an appearance through the verdant clothing, formed a fine contrast with the naked country before us.\nA difficult path, through wooded dingles, soon brought us to the river. Though precluded from the sight of the cataract, by the sylvan shades of this fairy region, our ears were assailed by the noise of these troubled waters. The latent falls of the Cayne and the Mawddach were now distinctly heard, in an gry roar, tumbling from ledge to ledge; while the sounds severberated from the mountains' sides, like distant thunder, directed our steps to the Pistil\n\u0443 Cayne, (or the spout of the river Cayne.) This is no less than the whole river, in one uniform sheet, dashing down a perpendicular declivity of near two hundred feet, in full stream, into the deep rocky bason, or excavation formed by the violence of the water, But this magnificent object appears to the greatest advantage from below, by crossing a truly alpine\nbridge, formed of the trunk of an immense oak laid from rock to rock over a narrow dark chasm ; through which the torrent rushes from the pool into the glen beneath.\nFrom this situation the view is immensely grand. The prodigious height of the cataract to its first fall; the chasm over which the bridge is placed ; its second descent through the rocky fissures; its mural front and sides, with trees here and there relieving the brown rock; the thick wooded glen, shaded by \u00e5ncient oak and beech, with a profusion of unders wood, through which the waters force their course, hoarse murmuring from rock to rock, till they mingle with Mawddach a few hundred yards below; combine to form a species of the picturesque, that may be equalled, but cannot be surpassed. Three hundred yards distant from this, is the fall of the Mawddach ; which, though in the same enchanting style of romantic beauty, yet retains a peculiar character distinct from every other cataract we had seen, This is a remark that may be extended to the greater part of the scenery of Wales; which by new combinations of objects, and exhaustless variety of colouring, furnishes perpetual sources of novelty and entertainment to the Devotee of Nature.\nThis fall is more exposed to the day. A vista opens through woods to a bare mountain, enclosed by others, rising with salient angles for eight hundred feet high ; over which, by three falls of about thirty feet descent cach, with full stream the river rolls into a deep concavity : whence again issuing,\nit reassumes its violence, and rag\u0117s over a congeries of craggy rocks, till joined by the impetuous Cayne, and is only heard in the distant woods. Though this was so materially different from the f\u00f3rtner, we were not less gratified: the Pystil is romantic, but that of the Mawddach is magnificently grand.\nMr. Pennant observes, what we should wish to see,\n. That in the nakedness of winter, there is an eminence, whence these two cataracts might be seen at once, exhibiting through the trees a piece of scenery as uncommon as it is grand.\"\nRetiring from these lovely scenes, we regained the road at Llan Elltyd turnpike. At this place the tide flows to a considerable height; and a number of small craft, with a few large vessels, are built. A brig of about two hundred tons wa\u015b now upon the stocks, and others of inferior size; but vessels of any considerable tonnage are obliged to be launched about the equinoxes, to take the advantage of the high vernal and autumnal tides, for floating over the bar of Barmouth.\nFrom Llan Elltyd to Barmouth is ten miles of the best and most beautiful road in the kingdom. The road winds round the bill opposite to Dolgelleu; and is formed with great labour, on a shelf of the rock, through the hanging woods, crossing a handsome stone bridge over the Mawddach, just where it joins the Onion. The expanse of water now becomes considerable, and at high tide occupies the whole of the vale ; putting on the appearance of a large lake, enveloped with mountains. The waters","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Orchard introduces Toughlet rugged tablet with sunlight viewable display\n01\/24\/2012 at 10:30 AM by Brad Linder 1 Comment\nOrchard has introduced a new rugged tablet designed for outdoor use. It has a 7 inch Pixel Qi display which can function as a full color LCD display or a high contrast (nearly black and white) sunlight viewable display when the backlight is turned off.\nThe current model has a 1.2 GHz Freescale iMX5 ARM Cortex-A8 dual core processor and 2GB of DDR3 memory, WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, RFID, and optional 3G or 4G wireless.\nWhile Orchard is showing off the tablet with Google Android, the company also plans to offer webOS and Windows 8 models.\nBut it's the rugged features that set the Toughlet apart from most tablets. It has a titanium\/aluminum alloy case, a Corning Gorilla Glass scratch-resistant display, weatherLox technology to keep out moisture, dust, and other particles, and a nickel-zinc battery which can handle high temperatures better than lithium-ion batteries.\nThe tablet isn't aimed at the general public. The idea is that the Toughlet could find a home in construction, engineering, manufacturing, or other jobs where it would be exposed to the elements. The company is also targeting education and corporate fields.\nOrchard plans to start producing tablets during the second quarter of 2012 and will work on special orders and customization based on clients' needs in the third quarter of the year. A base model will run about $550.\nCharbax from ARMDevices got a look at a Toughlet at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month and shot a video of the tablet.\nIt's not the prettiest tablet on the market, but the demo unit has a few unusual characteristics including dual SDXC card slots, a dedicated flashlight button. The demo model in the video doesn't have a Pixel Qi display, but that will be a standard feature on the final production units.\nNIFTYPROSE\nSUNLIGHT-READABLE TABLETS MARKED FOR DEATH? As if the demise of the XO-3 among the ruin of OLPC's fall wasn't enough, it now looks like ORChard have gone tits-up \u2014 product months overdue, product site still on lame placeholder, corporate site reverted to a GoDaddy 'This domain pending renewal'. Signing with Pixel Qi seems to be something like the Kiss of the SpiderWoman. Why is this so? I did a quick straw poll and I'm not alone. Plenty of fellow-travellers fancy surfing\/editing\/posting at the beach. Since we can discount e-paper phones (more than one para per screen, puh-lease) this means that my only cptions are waiting for the slightly flaky Earl, or doing some seriously flaky e-reader hackery. No disrespect to Earl's developers \u2014 anyone can pick a bad hardware supplier and end up with six months' delays \u2014 or indeed to e-reader hackers. But I've been waiting two years for\u2026 Read more \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"More info on British drama television series\nTop british drama television series (Trending topics)\nThe following are the current most viewed articles on Wikipedia within Wikipedia's British drama television series category. Think of it as a What's Hot list for British drama television series. More info \u00bb\n1 Skins (TV series) 19,791\n2 Misfits (TV series) 8,559\n3 Spooks 8,544\n4 Doc Martin 3,044\n5 Robin Hood (2006 TV series) 2,164\n6 Footballers' Wives 1,757\n7 Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series) 1,609\n8 The Onedin Line 1,590\n9 Space: 1999 1,528\n10 Bad Girls (TV series) 1,283\n11 Mistresses (2008 TV series) 1,076\n12 UFO (TV series) 862\n13 Whitechapel (TV series) 853\n14 Kingdom (TV series) 721\n15 All Creatures Great and Small (TV series) 647\n16 Demons (TV series) 577\n17 Ultimate Force 540\n18 As If 323\n19 Judge John Deed 302\n20 Identity (TV series) 279\n21 Afterlife (TV series) 250\n22 The Take (TV series) 238\n23 Longitude (TV serial) 220\n24 Doctor Zhivago (TV serial) 209\n25 A Family at War 169\n26 Space Precinct 167\n27 Colditz (2005 film) 162\n28 Oliver Twist (TV miniseries) 141\n29 The Palace 141\n30 The Amazing Mrs Pritchard 138\n31 Aristocrats (TV series) 130\n32 Thriller (UK TV series) 124\n33 The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial) 111\n34 Warship (TV 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series)\nWhitechapel (TV series)\nWidows (TV series)\nWonderful You\nY Pris\nCategories: Drama television series by nationality | British television programmes by genre","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ausmus Out, Gardenhire In: Tigers' Quest for AL Pennant\nSports September 24, 2015November 11, 2015 Tony Saucedo\nOut with the new\u2026\nAttention, students! Are you looking for a quiet place to study? Go to Comerica Park during a game\u2014nobody will be there to bother you!\nAttendance at the stadium has become nonexistent because the Detroit Tigers currently are in dead last. This means no playoff baseball in the Motor City this fall, which for Detroiters is like skipping out on Christmas.\nIn short, the 2015 campaign was one of high hopes and great disappointments. Before the start of the season, they were predicted to win their division again and even go on to make a pennant run. They are not anywhere near that. Going into 2015, experts speculated that the primary concern would be the bullpen. Ironically enough, the bullpen did just fine during the first two months of the season. It was the offense that struggled. And when the offense did well, the pitching botched. All the while, there was minimal leadership by the reigning coaching staff. The selling of superstar players and sporadic injuries also contributed to this year's underperformance. All in all, nobody could have predicted this mess given the talent of this roster from top to bottom.\nBecause of all this, the team's executives are determined to clean the slate for next year. It is time to move on. Current manager Brad Ausmus took a team with the fifth highest payroll in the league from first place to last place in a matter of months.\nThe best candidate to lead the Tigers to victory in 2016 is experienced manager Ron Gardenhire.\nRon Gardenhire is currently on the job hunt. Although he has not yet won a World Series, he boasts a winning percentage above .500 and an American League Manager of the Year Award with the Minnesota Twins, leading the team to a division title. He was runner up of the Manager of the Year Award five other times. During his rookie season in managing, he finished third in voting. And finally, he has won his division six times. In short, he is a winner. And a winner is just what the Tigers need.\nRon has a hard-nosed, fiery reputation that will give the Tigers the boost they need to persevere. Ausmus was not that type of manager. His style of managing may work elsewhere, but not with this team.\nNumerous reports have pointed to the firing of Coach Brad Ausmus after this season ends. Other reports show player support and a potential return. Regardless of what you may think, his hiring back in 2013 brought a wide range of both skepticism and optimism. Some felt that a fresh Dartmouth graduate was the right move for the franchise. He even came in with most of Leyland's experienced coaching staff. With all of these guides, a high powered offense led by Miguel Cabrera, and a pitching staff that included David Price, Justin Verlander, and Anibal Sanchez, somehow the team managed to go from World Series conquest to now a world of woes.\nAs manager, Gardenhire will give the Tigers the best chance to win the division title and lead them back into the World Series hunt. This offseason, Detroit must look to make offseason moves that will help bring better and more experienced arms to the bullpen. This past year, the Tigers traded closer Joakim Soria and also lost veteran closer Joe Nathan due to injury. Pitching will be the second biggest hole to fill this offseason, the first being coaching.\nHere's my bottom line: Ausmus did not turn out to be the successful manager we all thought he could be, and Ron Gardenhire is our solution.\nausmus, Detroit, gardenhire, Tigers\nAbout Tony Saucedo\nTony is a Sophomore. He can be reached at masauced@umich.edu.\tView all posts by Tony Saucedo \u2192\nOn UM's New Alcohol Policy\nWhat The Bachelor Got Right","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PUBG Coming to PS4 on December 7th\nAfter small snippets of information, it's finally been announced that PUBG will be coming to PS4 on December 7th.\nThe game will feature all three maps currently on PC and Xbox One.\nYou can buy both physical and digital copies of the game. The disc version and digital Looter's Edition are priced at \u00a325. There are two other digital tiers, Survivor's Edition (\u00a340), and Champion's Edition (\u00a350).\nPre-order bonuses and trailer\nmark6IKX2018-11-14T09:24:30+00:00November 14th, 2018|Tags: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, PS4, PUBG|\nPUBG has appeared on the PS Store Database, looks like a December release\nA member of the PSN profiles forum found references to PUBG in their console's database, hinting that a release is nearby.\nTwo promotional images were also found which are hosted on Sony's Servers along with IDs for both the North American and European PS Stores.\nGames do not get assigned IDs unless a release is near or getting a store page.\nIs it confirmed?\nmark6IKX2018-11-06T12:44:51+00:00November 6th, 2018|Tags: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, PS4, PUBG|\nPS4 players rejoice, as you can now join the rest of the world on Fortnite!\nCrossplay has been enabled for PS4 players on Fortnite allowing you to carry your progress across and play with other consoles!\nIt sound's like Sny are just getting started to with this being the beginning of \"opening up the platform\".\nmark6IKX2018-09-26T19:33:36+00:00September 26th, 2018|Tags: Cross-play, Fortnite, PS4|\nSpiderman Leaked footage shows Kingpin Boss Battle (Spoilers)\nSpiderman is one of the most anticipated games of 2018 and is coming exclusively to PS4. It looks completely different than the previous Spiderman games, its visuals are better, every move looks fluid and the combat looks amazing.\nYet another enemy has \"sort of\" been revealed, this time its Wilson Fisk, more commonly known as Kingpin.\nFootage has leaked of Spiderman where you can see a glimpse of the boss battle against Kingpin.\nmark6IKX2018-07-30T20:14:07+00:00July 30th, 2018|Tags: Insomniac, PS4, Spiderman|\nMetal Gear Solid 5 \u2013 Quiet now playable in FOB missions\nAn unexpected update has landed for MGS 5.\nTake a fresh take on FOB missions with Quiet.\nAdditionally Quiet can take long shots with minimal shake, moves very quickly and can jump over objects that other characters would require a ladder for.\nStanding will \"make her stealthy\", along with a dash ability to close the gap with enemies very quickly.\nI can only imagine it being down to her \"skin-breathing\" explained in the main game, but you cannot change her outfit or headgear.\nAdditionally in the update there is a new pair of sniper rifles and a new Event FOB difficulty level.\nmark6IKX2018-07-25T14:21:47+00:00July 24th, 2018|Tags: FOB, Metal Gear Solid 5, MGS 5, PC, PS4, Quiet, Xbox One|\nPlatforms: PC | Xbox One | PS4\nBuy it from (all links are affiliated and open in new tabs)\nAmazon \u2013 \u00a339.99 for Xbox One or PS4\nHumble Bundle \u2013 \u00a335.99\nmark6IKX2018-09-03T19:13:07+00:00July 24th, 2018|Tags: PC, PS4, Strange Brigade, Xbox One|\n48 Hour Early Access is given as a pre-purchase bonus to the Digital Deluxe and Croft editions of the game.\nmark6IKX2018-09-14T19:01:04+00:00July 24th, 2018|Tags: PC, PS4, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Xbox One|\n3 Days Early Access given to pre-purchases of the Digital Gold and Digital Gold Ultimate Editions of the game.\nmark6IKX2018-10-05T19:12:43+00:00July 24th, 2018|Tags: Assassins Creed, Odyssey, PC, PS4, Xbox One|\nAmazon \u2013 Xbox One and PS4 \u00a349.99\nmark6IKX2018-11-07T12:20:56+00:00July 24th, 2018|Tags: Overkill, PC, PS4, The Walking Dead, Xbox One|\n4 days early access given to pre-purchases of the Gold Edition of the game.\nmark6IKX2018-11-13T18:03:26+00:00July 24th, 2018|Tags: Hitman, Hitman 2, PC, PS4, Xbox One|","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Advocacy > Organic Standards > National Organic Standards Board\nThe National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is a Federal Advisory Committee charged with the task of advising the USDA Secretary of Agriculture on which substances should be allowed or prohibited in organic farming and processing. The Board also advises the Secretary on other aspects of the organic regulations.\nNOSB Fall 2022 Meeting Recap\nThe Organic Trade Association submits comments to the NOSB on behalf of its membership. Our positions and policies are primarily shaped through our member task forces. In all cases, OTA's regulatory staff carry out an extensive process of membership engagement to capture how NOSB proposals will impact certified organic farmers and handlers. Prior to submission of final comments, draft comments are distributed to membership at least a week in advance. Members are provided an opportunity to weigh in and shape any changes that may be needed prior to final submission.\n#078fa5\nNOSB Background\nThe passage of the Organic Foods Production Act, a sub-section of the 1990 Farm Bill, provided the foundation for uniform national organic standards for the production and handling of foods labeled as \"organic.\" The Act authorized a new USDA National Organic Program (NOP) to set national standards for the production, handling, and processing of organically grown agricultural products and to oversee the certification of organic operations. The Act also established the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to ensure an open, balanced and transparent process for setting and revising organic standards. NOSB plays a critical role in the organic rulemaking process because it advises USDA on which production inputs should be allowed or prohibited in organic farming and processing. NOSB also makes recommendations on a wide variety of other standards issues, such as organic pet food standards, aquaculture standards, animal welfare standards, and organic inspector qualifications.\nNOSB Members\nThe composition of NOSB, as detailed in the Organic Foods Production Act, was carefully designed to ensure balanced stakeholder input into the rulemaking process. This 15-member volunteer citizen advisory board is designed to represent the diversity of the organic community across the United States to help ensure that all perspectives are considered before final recommendations are presented to the Secretary of Agriculture. The number and ratio of seats were allocated intentionally so that sectors must achieve consensus to pass a recommendation, ensuring balance of interest, with none predominating. And, in order for any motion to carry, a two-thirds vote is required to prevent any one interest from controlling the Board. It is this construct that helped give the organic label the credibility that it has today as well as the platform for its exponential growth.\nNOSB consists of four farmers, two handlers\/processors, one retailer, one scientist, three consumer\/public-interest advocates, three environmentalists, and a certifying agent.\nYou can find the current NOSB Members here.\nEach NOSB member is appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for a five-year term. OTA members interested in serving on NOSB may contact Gwendolyn Wyard for guidance on the nomination process.\nNOSB Meetings\nNOSB meets twice a year in a public forum to discuss and vote on subcommittee proposals related to the National List or other organic standards issues. The meetings also allow NOSB to receive updates from USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) on issues pertaining to organic agriculture. NOSB meetings are an opportunity for stakeholders to give feedback on proposed NOSB recommendations and discussion items. NOSB first publishes proposals with a request for public comments. Prior to the meeting, NOSB members review literally thousands of pages of comments. During NOSB meetings, the full Board listens to oral public comments, discusses the proposals, and then votes on whether to pass the subcommittee proposals. NOSB subsequently submits its final recommendations to USDA.\nUpcoming NOSB Meeting information: Spring 2022\nOur Resources from Past NOSB Meetings:\nPast NOSB Meetings\nNOSB Recommendations\nIf an NOSB proposal receives a decisive vote (2\/3 majority) by Board members in favor of the proposed motion, it becomes a recommendation to the USDA, and is provided to the Secretary through the AMS National Organic Program.\nPast NOSB Recommendations\nThe National List\nA primary function and responsibility of the NOSB is to determine the suitability of the inputs that may be used in organic farming and handling and making recommendations for including or removing inputs from the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances. The organic law (OFPA) and the organic regulations include a number of factors NOSB must consider when recommending inputs for inclusion on the National List. If one takes a look at the sum of all parts, the conditions that must be met fall into three main clearly stipulated criteria: 1) the input is necessary or essential because of the unavailability of natural or organic alternatives; 2) the input is not harmful to human health or the environment; and 3) the input is suitable with organic farming and handling.\nVisit our National List webpage for more details\nSunset Review\nOnce a material has been added to the National List, NOSB must re-review the material every five years to confirm that the material continues to meet the National List criteria. This re-review process is known as the \"Sunset Review\" process. Through this process, NOSB can remove inputs from the National List based on any new information regarding adverse impact on human health or the environment, or the availability of a natural or organic alternative. After NOSB completes its Sunset Review and provides a recommendation, USDA either renews or removes the input to complete the Sunset Review process. The Sunset Review process must be completed prior to the material's Sunset Date, which is the five years from its initial listing or most recent renewal on the National List. Therefore, NOSB reviews these materials well in advance to ensure there is time to complete the entire Sunset Review process prior to the material's Sunset Date.\nVisit our Sunset Review webpage for more details\nVice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs\nJohanna Mirenda\nFarm Policy Director\nFall 2019 Meeting\nSpring 2019 Meeting\nEmerging Standards","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RussiaUkraineWorld\nUkraine says Russia pounding Mariupol steel works, mayor's aide says 100 civilians remain\nBy Reuters News Service May 10, 2022 0421\nThe Azovstal Iron and Steel Works\nUkraine said Russian forces were pummelling a steel works in Mariupol on Tuesday where a local official said at least 100 civilians were still holed up with the last fighters defending the strategic southern city.\nEarlier reports by Russian and Ukrainian officials had indicated that all civilians had been evacuated from the sprawling Azovstal plant after spending weeks cowering in shelters alongside the fighters.\nMariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov, has endured the most destructive fighting of the war in Ukraine. Kyiv says it is likely that tens of thousands of people have been killed there since Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, and the Azovstal steel plant is the last part of the city still held by Ukrainian fighters.\n\"In addition to the military, at least 100 civilians remain in the (Azovstal) shelters. However, this does not reduce the intensity of attacks by the occupiers,\" Mariupol mayoral aide Petro Andryushchenko wrote on the Telegram messaging app.\nReuters was unable to verify the situation at the plant. Russia did not immediately comment on his remarks and has denied targeting civilians.\nThe Russian defence ministry said on Saturday an operation to evacuate civilians from Azovstal was complete and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv would now try to secure the evacuation of the wounded.\nRussian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in Mariupol last month after weeks of siege and heavy bombardment but said it was not necessary to storm the steel works.\nUkraine says the bombardment of the plant has continued and that Russia was using tanks and artillery in \"storming operations\" on Monday.\n\"In Mariupol, the enemy continues to destroy the infrastructure of the Azovstal plant with artillery and air strikes. Hostilities continue,\" the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces said on Tuesday.\nRUSSIAN BOMBARDMENT\nThe Azov Regiment, which is holding out in Azovstal, said on the Telegram messaging app that in the past 24 hours, 34 Russian aircraft had flown over the plant including 8 sorties by strategic bombers. It said the plant had come under fire from the Russian navy and from tanks, artillery fire and rockets.\nReuters was unable to verify the Azov Regiment's report.\nIn the latest appeal for help in saving lives in Mariupol, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church urged Putin in a letter to let more civilians and fighters leave the city.\nThe church said Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufriy had recalled Nazi Germany's World War Two siege of Leningrad \u2013 now St Petersburg \u2013 which Putin's mother survived.\nOnufriy said \"the residents of Mariupol and its defenders are in the same situation today.\"\nLow-cost carrier Wizz Air explores opportunities in Saudi Arabia\nCabinet approves holiday scheme for disabled\nReuters News Service\nPilot dies in Greek F-4 jet crash in Ionian Sea, second pilot missing\nReuters News Service January 30, 2023\nSuicide bomber breaches high security, kills 47 in Pakistani mosque (Update 3)\nReuters News Service January 30, 2023 January 30, 2023\nRussia claims gains in relentless battles in east Ukraine (Updated)\nGerman conservatives turn on ex-Nazi hunter over race comments\nRussian businessman faces US trial for hack-and-trade scheme","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Do Ubuntu Orphan Bracelet Campaign\n\"Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.\" \u2013 Nelson Mandela\nThe Orphan Bracelet Campaign (OBC) helps AIDS orphans by equipping their primary caretakers \u2013 usually women \u2013 with the means to sustain themselves and improve their health. This includes training women to make bracelets to sell for an income and establishing community-based permaculture gardens. The OBC was founded by director Louise Hogarth, who was inspired by the women and children in her film \"Angels in the Dust.\"\nTheir mission is to offer employment to women and provide financial support to orphans and vulnerable children. 100% of the proceeds from orphan bracelet purchases help women and children whose lives have been severely impacted by HIV\/AIDS. JJ Haven is one of OBC's main beneficiaries.\nWe are very grateful for OBCs invaluable contributions to JJ Haven:\nMonthly donations help Molly to plan ahead and ensure that the children have enough to eat. Donations from OBC are used to fund the weekly deliveries of fruit and vegetables. These are essential to the children's diet, particularly as many of them suffer from TB, HIV\/AIDS and a range of congenital illnesses.\nGenerous cheques\nGenerous cheques have enabled Molly to feed and care for the children. OBC money has been used to carry out much needed maintenance, has improved the children's diets considerably and has been used to buy school shoes, school uniforms, nappies and cleaning equipment.\nOBC provided JJ Haven with legal support. The support of OBC has helped JJ Haven to become an NPO and to develop our working relationship with the Department of Social Development.\nNew wing\nOBC made a significant financial contribution to completing a new wing. The new wing includes the living room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom designed especially to care for the many babies taken in by Molly Bam. The bedrooms accommodate the many rows of cribs required by the orphan babies.\nHuntSA \/ Village South Africa\nVillage South Africa (formally Themba for Africa)\nVillage-South Africa is a 501(c)3 non profit organization established in the U.S. to help bring sustainable change to the vulnerable and impoverished children of South Africa. Specifically, the organization provides community investments, food, education and medical care, along with physical, emotional and spiritual uplifting. Unique in structure, the board of directors possesses members from both the United States and South Africa to address the current needs, cultural states and long-term interests of the communities that are being served.\nHuntSA\nBoard member Rufus Luttig has been involved with outreach for over 20 years. Through this and HuntSA Safari and Ministries in South Africa, there was success in bringing non-residents over to South Africa for photo and hunting safaris and introducing them the needs of the people. This effort also provides food to the children through the harvest of the game. Through this work, Village South Africa was founded to harness the power of hearts around the world to enhance good works on the ground. As visitors and hunters return to their home countries and share their stories, this creates a ripple effect of people becoming involved who are far beyond the savannahs, coastal cities and shanty towns of South Africa.Many civic organizations, churches, foundations and individuals have joined hands to help.\nNemato Foundation\n\"The power of art \u2026 and heart\"\nChairwoman: Ellen Fober\nE-mail: ellenfober.nemato@gmail.com\nWebsite: www.nemato.nl\nThe Nemato Foundation aims to improve the lives of vulnerable and orphaned children in the Ndlambe area. Ellen Fober, who had previously done volunteer work at JJH, was appointed as new chairperson of the Netherlands board in 2014, assisted by a local South African board. An article on Nemato's recent work at JJ Haven appeared in the Port Alfred Talk of the Town.\nEllen fell in love with the children of JJ Haven during her first visit. After meeting Kyle, she produced this beautiful picture of him and raffled it in Kalispell in the USA to raise funds for the home.\nSince her first visit, Ellen has held a number of exhibitions to raise funds for JJ Haven. In addition to other fund raising activities, Ellen paints, exhibits and sells paintings of children, the proceeds of which she donates to the Foundation.\nThe Nemato Foundation funds a trip to a holiday camp at Boknes twice a year. Despite only living a few kilometres from the sea, many of these children would never have been to the beach or have learned to swim, without the generous sponsorship of the Nemato foundation. These photographs were taken in 2014.\nJJ Haven is very grateful for the equipment that the Nemato foundation has bought for the home, including a washing machine and a climbing frame which has been installed outside the new foster homes.\nHOME GET INVOLVED NEWS CONTACT\nJJ Haven depends on the generosity and support of the public to keep going, and is registered both as a Non Profit Organisation (078-566-NPO) and a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO 930037528). As JJ Haven is a registered charity, South African donations are tax deductible in terms of S18A of the Income Tax Act for which tax certificates are issued.\nWebsite, branding and advertising by Little Fish Agency","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cardi B's 'Bodak Yellow' Goes Gold\nThis topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 4 years, 5 months ago by Jahkno!.\nSeptember 1, 2017 at 4:00 pm #144481 Reply\nCardi B keeps on making \"Money Moves.\" Currently reveling at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, \"Bodak Yellow\" has earned the New York rapper her first gold plaque.\nRecently, Bacardi spoke about the success of her Kodak Black-inspired single. \"It feels so good,\" she told Billboard. \"As I climb to the Billboards, it's like, \"Oh my God, I can't believe I'm here! Oh my God, I can't believe I'm here! Oh my God, I'm here! I'm No. 3 on the Billboards! Every single time [that] I see myself there, I literally be crying. You guys don't understand.\"\nBut the former \"Love & Hip Hop\" star knew the song was a hit when she recorded it. \"I felt it in my soul,\" she said. \"This song is gonna be so poppin'\u2026When I was recording it, every bitch that I don't like came to my head. Every bitch that I hate came to my head. I was picturing me rapping it to them.\"\nThus, the track became a ubiquitous summer anthem. \"If you don't hear that song going from your ear, to your heart, to your asshole, it's impossible,\" she said. \"That's what I did and look at that! It hit the charts!\"\nThe song has already spawned a \"Latin Trap Mix\" and has been followed by collaborations with PHresher, G-Eazy, and Juicy J.\nReply To: Cardi B's 'Bodak Yellow' Goes Gold\nMigos Surprise Strip Club Set Brings in $100K\nKendrick Lamar Addresses Rumors Of Leaving TDE + Rihanna Apologizes To Muslim Community\nFunk Flex Interviews Diddy | #WeGotaStoryTell008\nDear Obama (Poonchie's message to Obama) | @TheBellaBlair\n(DWL) Jamaican Lion King\nYelawolf \u2013 Marijuana [Official Music Video]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Rural health centres understaffed, facing dearth of nearly 15, 00 doctors'\nBy Precious Kashmir on 01\/12\/2017 Comments Off on 'Rural health centres understaffed, facing dearth of nearly 15, 00 doctors'\nRequirement include gynecologist, surgeons, physicians pediatricians\nSrinagar, Nov 30 (KNS): Tall claims of the state government to provide the best healthcare facilities to people seem to have fallen flat as several primary health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs) have failed to serve their purpose.\nSources in the health department told KNS that though there is a sanctioned strength nearly 1500 doctors for valley hospitals run by the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir (DHSK), but only 900 doctors are available for duty while rest are either absent or deputed on choice postings in Medical Colleges and other departments.\n\"There is a shortage of specialist doctors like an obstetrician, gynecologist, surgeons, physicians and paediatricians in the rural areas. There is a long list of doctors of the health department who are in government medical colleges, leaving the district hospitals and primary health centres in rural areas without doctors,\" Sources maintained.\nSources said that those among the doctors, who have gone for deputation for higher education, have not returned to the health department even after completing their PGs. \"After getting selected as assistant surgeon in the health department to serve in rural areas, doctors usually apply for PG courses and move to the medical colleges. It is their right. But when they pursue courses like MCh, DM, etc, they should either declare their post in rural areas vacant or they should give in writing they will serve in rural areas once they complete the degree. They don't do anything, leaving rural areas without doctors for long and also blocking the post in the rural areas,\" said an official wishing not to be named.\nThe official said that according to the rules a person can go for deputation for two years. \"We have instances where people are on deputation for past 25 years. \"Health Department has so far failed make the doctors accountable to work for the welfare of the people.\"\nIt is to mention here that the then health minister had sought the list of overstaying doctors and deficiency of medicos in hospitals and other health care centres of the state. \"Those doctors who have served in cities only will be sent to rural areas to strengthen the understaffed hospitals in rural areas. Every doctor has to serve now some time in rural area,\" he had said.\nThe order was also issued in which it was mandatory for a doctor to serve in rural areas for strengthening of health centres in far-flung areas in the state,\" sources said.\nSources however told KNS that ironically, the order was not implemented on the ground after most of the doctors opposed the move, were willing to serve only in district hospitals and various hospitals in Srinagar and Jammu.\nAfter facing pressure from the media and the public, the officers of the Health and Medical Education Department have recently been directed that they should ensure that the places where two or more persons have been posted against one sanctioned post, \"the one who have a longer stay should be transferred out only if he\/she has completed a minimum tenure of two years there\".\n\"All such doctors-paramedics hospitals staff except for those appointed under RBA\/ALC categories and serving in such areas who have completed more than five years of tenure in a health institution, shall be shifted and action shall be taken under rules,\" a recent circular of the government said. (KNS)\n'Rural health centres understaffed, facing dearth of nearly 15, 00 doctors' added by Precious Kashmir on 01\/12\/2017","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Editor's Report: Help us recognize volunteers in the community\nVolunteers are among us. They are in the community lending a hand, usually not for the recognition but to offer help wherever it is needed.\nFor the past 22 years, The Newport Daily News has been celebrating these exceptional people across Newport County for all of the great things they do and all of the people that they help.\nThe Newport Daily News Community Service Award and Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award are ways to recognize and inspire volunteerism, and a chance for the paper to give back to the community that has supported us for so many years.\nTwo years ago, as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Community Service Award, the Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award was established to recognize the importance of honoring and encouraging the next generation of volunteers.\nIf you know someone of any age who deserves recognition for his or her dedication to community service, now is the time to submit a nomination.\nThe nominations will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished local residents and community leaders \u2014 all volunteers in their own right \u2014 who will select this year's winners. Members of this year's Community Service Award Committee include: Christie Smith, former executive director of the Potter League for Animals in Middletown; Erin Donovan-Boyle, executive director of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce; Kristine Hendrickson, associate vice president for university relations at Salve Regina University; Rabbi Marc Jagolinzer, former leader of Temple Shalom in Middletown; Garry Plunkett, a member of the Tiverton Open Space & Land Preservation Commission; David Sanders, director of public and congressional affairs at Naval Undersea Warfare Center headquarters; and Rich Talipsky, a longtime member of the Portsmouth Economic Development Committee and the town's part-time business development director.\nLast year's honorees, Ruth Barge Thumbtzen of Newport and Claudia Linhares of Tiverton, also will be invited to serve as honorary members of the committee.\nThe winners will be profiled in the paper and honored during a banquet in April.\nThere are a few rules about who can be nominated. The work must be voluntary, not paid, and the award will not go to someone for service in political office. The award typically goes to individuals, although married couples have been honored.\nNominees for the Outstanding Youth Volunteer award must be 21 years old or younger, and the community service must go above and beyond that which is required for high school graduation, scouting, etc. Nominations preferably will come from the organizations that are the beneficiaries of the service and will demonstrate the lasting impact of the young person's volunteer efforts.\nNomination letters, along with any supporting documents, can be mailed to Community Service Award (or Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award), The Newport Daily News, 101 Malbone Road, Newport, RI 02840 or by email to Editor@NewportRI.com.\nMultiple letters of nomination are encouraged \u2014 the more information the committee receives about an individual, the better. Be sure to include contact information for the primary person making the nomination.\nThe deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, March 24, at 4 p.m. Guidelines also appear in an advertisement on Page A8 of today's paper.\nQuestions about nominations should be emailed to Editor@NewportRI.com, or call me at 380-2351.\nWe look forward to receiving your nominations and once again celebrating the high level of service in Newport County.\nThe recipients of this year's Newport Daily News Community Service Awards will join a prestigious honor roll:\n2016: Ruth Barge Thumbtzen, Claudia Linhares\nOutstanding Youth Volunteer: Jonathan Klinker\n2015: Karen Johnson, Pauline Perkins-Moye\nOutstanding Youth Volunteer: Beth Larcom\n2014: David McLaughlin, Barbara and Jimmy Winters\n2013: David and Donna Goodrich, Kathy MacKnight\n2012: Herb Meister, Beth Milham\n2011: Florence Archambault, Dennis and Susan McCoy\n2010: Juliette 'Judy' McLennan, Nikki Vazquez, Donald Booth (posthumous)\n2009: Francisco Amaral, Barbara Strasser, David Wixted\n2008: Myra Duvally, James Farrington, John 'Skip' Jones (posthumous), Ellen Murphy (posthumous)\n2007: David Leys, Sarah Pener\n2006: Pro and Mary Lyon, Gilda DeCosta\n2005: Curtis LaFrance, Bessie Roberts\n2004: Patricia Davis, Thomas Weschler\n2003: Annette Bourbonniere, James Thomas\n2002: Jean Littlefield, Donna S. Maytum\n2001: Noreen Drexel, George Kingston\n2000: Norey Cullen, Antonio Cercena\n1999: Elizabeth Fuerte, Evelyn Carroll\n1998: John Peter Chabot, Robert A. Goodrum\n1997: Frank Hanson, Mary Jennings\n1996: Josephine Carson, Eleanor Keys, John Slocum Jr.\nJonathan Zins is managing editor of The Daily News. Send him email at Editor@NewportRI.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sara Konoe\nHomePublicationsContact\nShe is Professor at the Kansai University's Faculty of Economics in Japan. She received her PhD at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University in May 2009. She published her first monograph, The Politics of Financial Markets and Regulation: The United States, Japan, and Germany, in 2014 from Palgrave Macmillan. Her second book, Politics of Financial Integration: Unbalanced Development of the European Financial and Monetary System (in Japanese) was published from Iwanami Shoten in 2020. Her research focuses on international political economy, the politics of financial regulation, and European integration.\nKansai University, 3-3-35, Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka, 564-8680, Japan\nskonoe(at)kansai-u.ac.jp\nPage updated: 31\/08\/22 | mwp \/ DfH\n\u00a9 2022 Sara Konoe. All rights reserved | Data Protection","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MTV Renews 'Faking It' For Season Two\nTV Source Magazine Staff @http:\/\/twitter.com\/tvsource June 10, 2014 \/ 9:04 PM\nGregg Sulkin (Liam), Katie Stevens (Karma) and Rita Volk (Amy). Photo courtesy MTV\nFinishing up with a strong first season, MTV announced today the season two pick-up of its newest scripted comedy series, Faking It for 10 episodes. The season one finale of the hit series airs tomorrow night, June 10th at 10:30 p.m. ET\/PT. It all comes to a head as secrets and true feelings are revealed and a shocking twist occurs. Check out an exclusive sneak peek here.\nMTV's Faking It is a romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other \u2013 in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launch them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma (Katie Stevens) and Amy (Rita Volk) decide to keep up their romantic ruse.\n\"We're thrilled to be renewing 'Faking It!' 'Faking It' has proved to be the perfect companion show to 'Awkward,' retaining nearly 90 percent of its lead in each week,\" said Susanne Daniels, President of MTV Programming. \"We're excited about Carter Covington's delicious plans for season two.\"\nFaking It is the highest-rated new series launch on MTV this year, earning an average of 1.5 rating among P12-34 and 1.4 million total viewers each week. The series retains nearly 90 percent of its lead-in from Awkward. Faking It consistently ranks as one of the Top 10 most socially-engaged primetime cable series every Tuesday, according to Nielson Social. The series is one of the top shows viewed both on MTV.com and in the app, consistently ranking as one of the most popular franchises. It was also the most successful pre-linear sneak in MTV's app.\nTo learn more about the cast and the series, please visit the show page on MTV.com. Fans can also follow the show on Twitter @MTVFakingIt and \"like\" it on Facebook here.\n\"Faking It\" was created by Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov. The series is Executive Produced by Carter Covington (\"10 Things I Hate About You,\" \"Greek\" \"Hart of Dixie\"). The pilot was directed by Jamie Travis. \"Faking It\" stars Katie Stevens as \"Karma\" (\"American Idol\"), Rita Volk as \"Amy,\" Gregg Sulkin as \"Liam\" (\"Wizards of Waverly Place\"), Michael Willett as \"Shane\" (\"G.B.F.\") and Bailey Buntain as \"Lauren\" (\"Bunheads\").\n\"Faking It\" season one will air across MTV's international channels in autumn 2014 (check local listings).\nTagged: Faking It Gregg Sulkin Katie Stevens Michael Willett MTV Renewal Renewal News Rita Volk\tShare\nTV Source Magazine Staff\nUsed for collaborations, team features, etc. Follow the TVSource account on Twitter @TVSource\n@http:\/\/twitter.com\/tvsource\nStarz Renews 'Power: Book II\" for Season 2\nHBO Max Renews Selena Gomez's Cooking Series 'SELENA + CHEF' for Season Two\nCBS Renews 'The Young and the Restless' Through 2024\nIt's Officially Official: 'Days of our Lives' Renewed for Season 56\nPrevious Story OWN Announces Cast for New Drama 'If Loving You Is Wrong'\nNext Story ABC Family Renews 'Pretty Little Liars' for Sixth and Seventh Seasons\nThe final chapter is one hell of a ride. Netflix just debuted the official trailer\u2026\nPOPCultureTV News December 1, 2020 December 1, 2020\nGifts and Merchandise Every 'Cobra Kai' Fan Will Love\nThere's no denying that Cobra Kai has been a huge success since moving from YouTube\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SportsOlympics\nHow to watch the 2021 Olympic Curling Qualification Event\nRobert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports\nTeam USA looks to lock down a spot in mixed doubles curling for the Winter Olympics.\nBy: NBC Olympics\nThe 2021 Olympic Qualification Event for curling kicks off Sunday, December 5 in Leeuwarden, where NOCs will be squaring off for the final qualification spots for the 2022 Winter Olympics.\nThe United States has already qualified for men's and women's team curling. Squads led by John Shuster and Tabitha Peterson, respectively, are both locked in as the U.S. representatives.\nHowever, the U.S. still needs to lock down a spot for the mixed doubles competition. The duo of Chris Plys and Vicky Persinger were victorious at the U.S. Olympic Curling Mixed Doubles Trials, but it will be all for naught if they are unable to qualify for the Games.\nBelow is a full rundown of the games being shown on NBCSports.com and on the NBC Sports App.\nDate\/Time (ET)\nDec. 6 (1 p.m. ET) MD: USA vs. Finland NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, Olympic Channel\nDec. 7 (6:30 a.m. ET) MD: USA vs. Latvia NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, Olympic Channel\nDec. 7 (1:30 p.m. ET) MD: USA vs. New Zealand NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, NBCSN\nDec. 8 (8:30 a.m. ET) MD: USA vs. Korea NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, Olympic Channel\nDec. 9 (3 a.m. ET) MD Elimination Game NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, Olympic Channel\nDec. 9 (9 a.m. ET) MD Qualification Game 1 NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, NBCSN\nDec. 9 (12 p.m. ET) MD Qualification Game 2 NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app, NBCSN","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kelowna @ Walla Walla\nFriday, Jun 5 , 6:35 PM\nFri, Jun 5 | 06:35 PM\nElks Stadium\nRuns Scored\nRuns Allowed\nGame Stories\nTicket Plans\nGroup Tickets & Events\nsweet lou\nBing Bang Rally Gang\nTickets 4 Kids\nWalla Walla Sweets Baseball\n109 E Main St, Ste C\nP:509-522-BALL (2255)\nE:info@wallawallasweets.com\nKelowna @Walla Walla\nTy Hueckman\nHT 6'1\"\nWT 180 lbs\nBATS\/THROWSR\/R\nRES Burns, OR\nCOL University of Nevada, Reno\nBio: Ty Hueckman is a native of Burns, Oregon and attended Burns High School where he was a three-sport athlete. He was a four-year letterman in baseball and basketball and a three-year letterman in football. His senior year, he was named 1st Team All-League for football and basketball and 1st Team All-State Pitcher for baseball.\nHe finished his high school career with a .400 batting average, seven homeruns, and 109 RBI. On the mound he added 247 strikeouts over 157 innings with a 2.94 ERA, and helped propel his team to win the Oregon State Championship in 2016.\nHueckman played his first year of college baseball at Treasure Valley Community College and had an impressive season. He finished with a record of 5-1 and a 2.42 ERA with 31 strikeouts in 67 innings pitched.\n\"It was awesome [playing for Treasure Valley], having grown up always watching the Chukars play,\" Hueckman said. \"It was a dream come true getting to put on a college uniform and throw.\"\nHueckman transferred to the University of Nevada, Reno in the fall of 2017 and said it was a huge transition moving to a larger school but that he's much more comfortable now. He loves the community of Reno and the baseball team. With the desire to pursue a career in wildlife management, Hueckman is studying communications.\nHe said that being familiar with Walla Walla growing up, he's excited for the opportunity to play for the Sweets this season.\n\"I love Walla Walla,\" Hueckman said. \"I go through there a ton and spent a lot of time there, so I feel like I can go in there and be comfortable and still be close enough to home to have friends and family come to games. So, it seemed like a good spot for me.\"\nHe is the son of Susie and Todd Hueckman. Susie, played basketball at Treasure Valley Community College. Ty has a brother, Cam, who coaches baseball in Reno, and a sister, Allie, who is a three-sport athlete in high school.\nSeason W L ERA WHIP G GS IP SO SV\n2018 3 3 5.07 1.51 10 5 33.2 24 0\nFOLLOW Ty Hueckman:\nCollege: University of Nevada, Reno\nResides: Burns, OR\nSpring 2018 Year in School: Sophomore\nBio:Ty Hueckman is a native of Burns, Oregon and attended Burns High School where he was a three-sport athlete. He was a four-year letterman in baseball and basketball and a three-year letterman in football. His senior year, he was named 1st Team All-League for football and basketball and 1st Team All-State Pitcher for baseball.\nFalcons Take Pitchers' Duel from Sweets in Series Opener\nLate Homerun Lifts Victoria to Victory over Walla Walla\nPitching and Defense Propel Sweets to Series Finale Shutout of Bellingham\nSweets Blast Four Homeruns in a Rout of River City\nHomerun Barrage Lifts Pickles Past the Sweets\nStellar Pitching and Defense Leads to a Walla Walla Series Finale Shutout of Wenatchee\nSweets' WCL Series Win Streak Ends as Bend Takes Game Two\nMariner Moose puts on a Show as W2 Wins Game Two\nBig Day at the Plate Leads Sweets to Victory in Series Finale Against Wenatchee\nSweets Split Doubleheader but Take the Series Against Corvallis\nWalla Walla to feature talent from the University of Nevada, Reno\n109 E. Main St, STE C\ninfo@wallawallasweets.com\n509.522 BALL(2255)\nJoin Our Exclusive List!\nKelowna Falcons\n\u00a9 2009-2018 Walla Walla Sweets Baseball All Right Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Drones in Energy 2022\nGET AGENDA\nDrone technology is proving to be a significant change for the energy industry. Energy sectors like solar, wind, oil, and gas rely on inspections to maintain safety standards, but those inspections can take large amounts of time and money to carry out. With drones flying over the utility sites, damage to everything can quickly be identified and problems can be prevented before they grow.\nThis Drones in Energy conference will discuss the evolving future of Drones in the Energy Sector to make this sector more efficient than ever by using innovative Unmanned systems.\nThe policies and regulations status for use of Drones in Energy and its impact\nThe value of Unmanned Aerial Systems for energy sector\nIntegration of Drones data in the current operations\nDeployment of Drones to conduct inspections and plan sites\nTraining and availability of skilled workforce\nCOVID-19 impacts and best practices\nMore about expert panel\nVattenfall has been working with Drones and sensor technology for over 5 years. The use of drones makes it simpler and safer in Inspection of power lines, shorelines, hydropower dams and nuclear reactors. The results can be used to update the calculation by means of computer modeling.\nShell started operating Drone-based technology in 2012. With drones, Shell has focused on surveillance and increasingly used remotely operated aerial vehicles (ROAVs) to inspect the condition of its oil and gas facilities in difficult-to-enter places, like a tall tower, a tower with complex design.\nEDP Labelec\nEDP Labelec has designed and used Drones since 2015. Drones are used for inspecting various electricity sector assets, from power lines to production centers themselves: dams, wind and solar farms, power plants, and so on.\nAramco Overseas Company\nAramco Overseas Company has been enhancing the technology to optimize the productivity and efficiency for delivering energy to customers, companies, shareholders and partners around the world.Aramco values the vision and mission to strengthen position as a world leader in integrated energy and chemicals.\nCaden Gas Ltd\nCadent Gas Ltd's first drone trials were conducted on electricity and gas networks in 2018. Cadent focused on evaluating existing technologies, aircraft suitability, and risk management approaches to unlock a new in order to lower costs and maintain the service.\n50Hertz Transmission GMBH\n50Hertz Transmission GMBH has provided extensive image material gathered during drone and helicopter flights for the creation of the database to operates the electricity transmission system which it expands as needed for the energy transition.\nMartin Bjornvall\nStrategy & Business Developer, Vattenfall, Sweden\nErwin Loonen\nMaintenance Robotics Program Lead, Shell, The Netherlands\nFabio Fata\nArea Sales Manager, Flyability, Switzerland\nAndr\u00e9 Coelho\nHead of Asset Inspection, EDP Labelec, Portugal\nMaan M. Iskander\nManager-Technical Services Department, Aramco Overseas Company, The Netherlands\nYinka Yanju\nAsset Engineer, Cadent Gas Ltd., UK\nArya Fazilat\nInnovation and Digitalisation, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany\nAccess to 2-Days virtual conference\nPeer-to-peer networking\nPost-conference Documentation Package\nJoin our LinkedIn event\nFlyability's mission is to make human entry in confined spaces a thing of the past. We aim to deploy robotic solutions instead of humans to improve the safety of inspections in indoor areas, replacing dangerous and expensive features like scaffolding or rope access. With our fleet of drones, our clients have already avoided thousands of unnecessary and risky man-entries in confined spaces, potentially saving numerous lives in the process and actually saving millions of dollars in reduced downtime and inspection costs. Flyability is Swiss engineering at its finest, at the service of a safer workplace in the most dangerous areas.\nUnmanned Systems Technology.com (UST) is dedicated to technology and innovation within unmanned systems. Our website and weekly e-newsletter provide up-to-the-minute information about technological developments in this sector \u2013 both military and commercial \u2013 to a global audience, with over 80,000 visitors from over 200 countries every month. Our comprehensive supplier profiles showcase products, services and capabilities in the unmanned land, sea and air vehicle industry.\nUAS Magazine is the only online publication, exclusively highlighting the most critical developments and cutting-edge technologies for unmanned aerial systems in the civil, agriculture, defense,energy and commercial markets worldwide. UAS Magazine's readership includes executives, directors, managers and operators from companies and organizations focused on expanding their knowledge of unmanned aerial systems\nYou might also love these events.\n2nd Anti-Corruption, Compliance and Ethics for Energy Sector 2022\nContract, Legal & Risk\nWelcoming decision-makers of legal, compliance, ethics, audit departments from leading Energy Utilities, Oil & Gas Operators, Energy Contractors, Nuclear, Sub-contractors & EPC service providers to benchmark best-practices.\n9th Contract Risk Management for Energy Sector 2022\nWelcomes decision-makers from legal, procurement & contract management departments of leading Energy Utilities, Nuclear, Oil & Gas Operators, Energy Contractors, Sub-contractors & EPC service providers in an exclusive closed-group and business-friendly environment for peer-to-peer networking, knowledge-sharing and learning opportunities to stay abreast of current CRM execution in a highly evolving energy market.\n10th Electricity Price Forecasting & Advanced Modelling 2022\n10th Electricity Price Forecasting & Advanced Modelling 2022 brings together experts responsible for Advanced Modelling, Power Trading and Market Risk Analysis with the aim to achieve near accurate electricity price forecasting.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"There once was a creek . . .\nUncovering the lost creek of Rainworth, Rosalie and Milton\nThe Creek\nIts Catchment\nIts Course\nRainworth\nIts Transformation\nHow it once once was\nJohn Oxley and the Chain of Ponds\nToowong Creek: The Sole Survivor\nThe Milton Drain\nMilton: Brisbane's western frontier\nGregory Park\n1. There once was a swamp (1850s \u2013 1880s)\n2. Best laid plans (1887 \u2013 1903)\n3. Gregory Park comes of age (1904 \u2013 1945)\n4. Gregory Park settles down (1945 \u2013 present)\n5. Red Jacket Park?\nGuppies & Geysers: Rosalie's drains in the 1970s\nFernberg\nFernberg from the inside\nNorman Buchan Park\nThe Couldrey Street Clearing\nThe lost creeks rise again\nBackflow to the future\nIts Return?\nWhen it really rains\n1946 Aerial Imagery\nPlan of the limits of the Town of Brisbane (1843)\nMilton in 1850\nParish of Enoggera, 1859\nPlan of Brisbane Waterworks (1864)\nMcKellar's map of Brisbane (1895)\nCity Council Detail Plans (1930s \u2013 1960s)\nA map from 1864 showing the route of the water pipeline Enoggera Reservoir to Brisbane City. The original is held by the Brisbane City Archives.\nThis map shows the water supply pipeline route from Enoggera Reservoir and Brisbane City, and is available from the Brisbane City Council Archives. I'm not sure if this was the final route or the route that was planned before difficulties were encountered when building the tunnel across the boundary of the Ithaca Creek and Western Creek catchments.\nIt is the only map that I have found that depicts the path of Western Creek through what is now Norman Buchan Park, the Governor's grounds and Rosalie Village. I've used this map previously in The lost creeks rise again and John Oxley and the chain of ponds.\nGoogle Earth portal\nYou can explore a specially prepared version of this map in the Google Earth window below. (You may need to zoom in a bit first to see the map clearly.)\nGoogle Earth data\nYou can explore this map in the standalone version of Google Earth by opening (or downloading and then opening) this file.\nOne thought on \"Plan of Brisbane Waterworks (1864)\"\nPeter Eedy on October 20, 2015 at 9:54 pm said:\nHi Angus \u2014 these Council Minutes from 1863 also describe the proposed route (and other matters) \u2014 however, I don't know if they ultimately followed it\nhttp:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/3161146\nCopyright Angus Veitch 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Northwest Leaf: The Patients voice\nInside This Month's Issues: April 2017\nThe Publication\nStoner Owner\nBudtenders\nPsychedelia\nLeaf LIfe Podcasts\nLeaf Life Podcast\nStoney Baloney\nMike Ricker Returns\n\u2219 READING TIME: 8 MINUTES \u2219\nFebruary 04, 2018 | WES ABNEY\nMike Ricker is an iconic Seattle DJ whose theatrical improvisation and sharp commentary anchored rock station KISW for 7 years.\nHow did Cannabis come into your life?\nI was around that culture as a child. It was the 70's, and Cannabis was just used in the household. I never tried it until my father took my best friend and me to a Santana concert. We were bored and I was 12-years-old, and we made our way up to the extreme back upper left corner of the auditorium just to see what the view was like. Sitting on the steps there, we noticed the guy in front of us rolling a joint, and he lit it. Then back came his hand with a joint pressed between the thumb and fore-finger, so my buddy who was a year older looked at me, gave a smirk, hit it and passed it to me and I followed suit. Boy, were those different times, or what? Today the guy would've been cuffed and taken to CPS. Mind you, I did not get high until I tried it again at 15 and an instant love affair with Cannabis began.\nWhen did you first start working with radio?\nGrowing up, my dad was a radio DJ, and I did my first commercial when I was 7 years old for a shoe store. I got paid $5. It was at that point I knew what I wanted to do for a living, because it was the easiest $5 I ever made. And when I went to class, I'll never forget the teacher saying, \"Everyone, we heard Michael on the radio this morning.\" And there's little Lisa sitting a couple rows over looking back at me and batting eyelashes. Five bucks and the attention of the females, I was sold.\nHow did you end up in Seattle?\nMy radio career brought me here. I got fired in Tampa and my agent had passed my demo along to the program director of KISW right about that time. When he learned I was available, they made an offer to bring me here.\nI cried my eyes out when I got here, because this was the last place in the world I expected to be. I felt like I was being shoved into a closet. I came from Pensacola, my home town, and subsequently Tampa, where it's sunny, lots of attention, we had a massive radio station, and then I came here and the station was rebuilding and I had to start over\u2013hero to zero in a flash. It was November of 2002, the rains were incessant, the sun was gone by 5pm, and the Seahawks were horrible. And the Buccaneers were on their way to a Super Bowl. I was all about the party.\nSeattle instantly fell in love with your style and personality on air. How would you describe your role?\nProvocative, theatrically based, and anti-hypocrisy. It's based on the fictional story of a \"sort of\" Rock star named Ricker. Because my radio persona really was the alter ego of my real personality, the one I give daily to the Cannabis industry. There's no pretending here. You get the real guy.\nHigh Noon was a free speech hour on your show that championed Cannabis in Seattle, where people would call in and talk about using Cannabis and allegedly toking on air. How did Cannabis play into your role as a DJ?\nPart of being a \"shock jock\" meant always looking for ways to blur the lines between indecency and entertainment. It was always my intention to draw attention, and I knew that Cannabis was a controversial subject. But I also knew I could get away with it. Because however controversial, it was not defined by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) as being actionable. So, you could talk about it so long as you didn't smoke it in the studio.\nBut you had people smoke on air?\nYes. But how do we know that they weren't creating theatre themselves, as I was. The whole show was theatre of the mind. Remember, George Bush was in office and Michael Powell was head of the FCC and although you could bring the funny on-air, you had to walk a very thin line for fear of being fined. And those fines were hefty for a major broadcast corporation, and were I the recipient of one of them, that could make my career very difficult to maintain. The witch hunt was bullshit, all fueled by the Janet Jackson nip-slip. In my opinion, their attacking of entertainment culture was a manipulated diversion from the wars that they were imposing on our country to protect multi-national interests. Total hypocrisy! I never had any inclination to sway anyone politically. I just know factually that shows like mine and Howard Stern's were very much scrutinized because the government wanted to blame America's problems on indecency while Afghans and Iraqis were being gutted. But my show wasn't about politics, so I positioned Cannabis as a party tool, a common thread of communication between people who were cool. I never saw it as something medical at that time, just a sub-culture that was risky to talk about and fun to use.\nWhen did that shift?\nComing aboard to WAM Oil awakened me to the concept of medical marijuana. Technology has come a long way in recent years. There was no research funded until states started legalizing it. And now with extractions you get high levels of cannabinoids and that's what WAM Oil specializes in. So, this party tool that we've been gravitating to for happiness, or for escape for the past 60 to 70 years, suddenly, we're finding, has potential benefits for the human brain and body far deeper than anyone imagined. And with research continuing, the possibilities of the Cannabis plant are endless.\nHow did you first connect with Brandon hamilton and Giana lampreda, the founders of WAM oil?\nBrandon was actually a caller on the show. He's a big Dallas Cowboys fan and back in the Tony Romo days he would call in every year to predict a Cowboys win over the Seahawks, and I'd always laugh and say the Cowgirls we're going down. One day I was at the gym and I heard someone ask my name, and he shook my hand and said, \"I'm Cowboy!\" We became friends and then several years later he began experimenting with extractions. This became his passion and he quit his architecture firm in 2010 to start WAM OIL.\nNow, I love hash, and by this time I'd left Seattle for a radio gig at KUFO in Portland which only lasted two years, so I started decompressing and travelling the world. And every time I'd come back to Seattle, I would buy WAM Oil. Then, in 2016, he asked me to come aboard and help with marketing, and I initially said, \"No thanks, I'm good.\"\nWhat made you change your mind?\nAt the time, I was living in Ocean Beach in San Diego surfing a lot, burnt out on self-promoting, which is a big part of success in show biz. A while later I went to Machu Picchu, Peru, because I wanted to do something special for a mid-life birthday, and I meant this guy with full dreads, beard, traditional shaman garb. He was really cool, so I asked him if he had a joint, which is super illegal there, and he did! We smoked, and then he said \"While you are here you have to do Ayahuasca.\" At that time, I was kind of lost and wandering and I felt the need to get back into something exciting. My friend and I were supposed to go surf Chicama for the next ten days, but instead, out of pure instinct, we hopped a plane to a city called Iquitos to meet a guy in the Amazon who'd take us further into the jungle to a retreat.\nWhat was it like to be taking Ayahuasca in the jungle?\nIt was butterflies and rainbows because I had been working on myself for years and had come to the realization that living in the now is imperative to happiness, learning to love and forgive yourself for whatever is making you anxious. That's why I bring up this whole story. When I finished the trip, I wasn't like some who say they are \"cured of addiction\" or \"I'm changing careers\" or whatever people go through in their metamorphosis. At that time, I wasn't exactly certain what I got out of the experience, but I realized I was very intrigued with plant-based medicine because of how ayahuasca could be a way to spiritual healing.\nHow did that experience change your perspective?\nI knew I wanted to live life to the fullest. Now I don't have time for games, it's time to live in the present and shed your unhealthy conditioning, the reality is now. The past and future are only figments of our Imagination. So, suddenly I remembered that Brandon had asked me to be involved in his Cannabis business, and WAM! it was a Eureka moment, \"This is it,\" I told myself, \"this is my destiny!\" That's what Mother Ayahuasca did for me: directed me into a whole new career, one that's not based on ego, but one of plant-based medicine.\nIt was the universe giving me exactly what I need for the next phase of my life and it's really exciting.\nSo once you decided to join the industry, what attracted you to working with WAM Oil?\nThe aesthetic of the brand really spoke to me with the blue \"W\" as the logo. It's clean and confident and an established brand with a platinum reputation. The product speaks for itself; it's 100% pure, full-spectrum, carbon filtered Co2 oil that tastes delicious and is very effective. The fact is that my partner Giana Lampreda is a six-time cancer survivor by doing a full regiment of Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) and WAM OIL daily, mainly Lemon Remedy, our signature strain. How can you say no to that? The proof is there. I don't claim that it will cure cancer for everyone, but I know that it did for Giana. So that was a big factor for having the faith to dive into this company head first. Another was that WAM Oil came into the 502 game late, as it stayed in the medical market until the very last day, so we fell two years behind the major players. If it weren't for WAM Oil I probably never would have had an opportunity to become an owner. So, I could get in at a grassroots level and build the brand with the vision that I had, rather than piggybacking on someone else's vision.\nHow does it feel to break ground in a new industry and be back in Seattle on a new path in life?\nIt's wonderful, I love Seattle now! We are on this earth for a given amount of time, and in my opinion, to repeat the same things, the same ideas, over and over, is a curse. The Dalai Lama says that our purpose in life is to seek happiness, and I believe him. And I've heard other philosophers try to answer the eternal question of why are we here, and it took me a long time to finally realized the answer. And the answer is to gain experience, it's that simple. So, I want to gain as much experience as possible. Sadness, pain, happiness, elation, this is all part of the human experience. I'm a human, so I'm going to drink up and not let a moment pass by unnoticed.\nFinal words of wisdom for our readers out there?\nI'm all for Cannabis use, but here's some vital Information for all you millennials that think that happiness is found in a joint or a dab\u2014if you love yourself and are happy with yourself the high is 20 times better. So start doing the work.\nImage courtesy of Webmaster | Leaf Nation\nPrevious Post Northwest Leaf: The Patients voice\nNext Post Patient Profile: Jason James\nLEAF NATION All Rights Reserved 2019 \u00a9","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Judicial Supremacy Has Its Limits\nBy John Yoo\nAbout John Yoo\n(Onur Ersin\/Dreamstime)\nThe Court's decisions are not binding on the executive and congressional branches.\nIn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court used its power of judicial review to legalize gay marriage throughout the nation. In one fell stroke, five Justices short-circuited the democratic process, which was gradually removing barriers to gays, and swept aside the Constitution's reservation of family-law matters to the states. Even while they may disagree on gay marriage, most Americans believe they must obey Obergefell because the separation of powers gives the Supreme Court the ultimate authority to interpret the Constitution.\nProminent defenders of traditional marriage, however, have gone beyond the usual criticism of a mistaken judicial decision to attack the Supreme Court as an institution. \"I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch,\" said Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and GOP presidential candidate. \"We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat.\" Fellow candidate and Republican senator Ted Cruz has proposed constitutional amendments not only to overturn Obergefell, which other candidates support, but to subject Supreme Court justices to periodic elections.\nWhile these politicians, I believe, have overreacted, they hit upon an important truth about our Constitution. Contrary to popular belief, Obergefell does not settle the question of gay marriage, because the Supreme Court cannot finally determine any fundamental constitutional dispute. Claims of judicial supremacy have appeared before, ranging from the odious (Dred Scott's defense of slavery) to the courageous (Brown v. Board of Education's condemnation of segregation). But these views mistake the Court's right to decide cases or controversies under the Constitution for supremacy in its interpretation.\nEDITORIAL: Against Redefining Marriage \u2014 and the State\nMany of our greatest leaders have understood that, in a self-governing republic, the people and not the courts must settle fundamental constitutional issues. President Abraham Lincoln, for example, believed that Dred Scott only decided a controversy between two parties before the court and could not bind the president and other officials. \"If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court,\" Lincoln wrote in his first Inaugural Address, \"the people will have ceased to be their rulers.\" Instead, the people will have \"practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.\" Lincoln was right: the Civil War, not the Supreme Court, resolved the question of slavery.\nWhile the Constitution does not grant the federal courts the final word, it implicitly gives the courts a right to interpret the Constitution. As Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in Marbury v. Madison, which established the power of judicial review, \"it is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.\" When judges confront a case where one side relies on a federal statute and the other on the Constitution, they must choose the Constitution as the higher law and put aside the act of Congress. The judiciary's power to interpret the Constitution derives from its responsibility to decide cases and controversies under federal law.\nRather than give any one branch the final word, the Constitution creates three branches that can compete over its meaning.\nBut the Constitution does not vest the courts with the exclusive right to interpret its meaning. It nowhere says that the Court's reading of the Constitution bears superiority over the other branches of government. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to Abigail Adams in 1804 to explain his decision to drop existing prosecutions under the Sedition Act, \"nothing in the Constitution has given [the judiciary] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the executive to decide for them. Both magistracies are equally independent in the sphere of action assigned to them.\" Indeed, the separation of powers means that the legislature and the executive also must interpret the Constitution in the course of performing their own unique functions. Congress should not pass bills that violate its understanding of the Constitution; the president should not sign bills that violate his.\nRELATED: The Supreme Court Ratifies a New Civic Religion That Is Incompatible with Christianity\nRather than give any one branch the final word, the Constitution creates three branches that can compete over its meaning. The separation of powers means not only that the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court are separate, but that they are also independent of one another. According to Jefferson, \"the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what are not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature & Executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch.\"\n#related#Opponents of gay marriage are summoning this deeper understanding of the separation of powers to resist Obergefell. But the Constitution itself provides less drastic means than attacking the Court's independence. Rather than subject justices to term limits or elections, critics must persuade the American people that the courts have overstepped their proper role by reading their personal preferences into the Constitution. They can change Obergefell's result by seeking judicial nominees who will restore primary control over family law and marriage to the states. Like the opponents of Roe v. Wade, they can create a political and cultural environment that makes a return to the Court's proper role possible. While such a campaign could take decades, as has the movement to restore control over abortion to the states, conservatives should work within the bounds of tradition, even when the Court does not.\nJohn Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.\nMore in Law & the Courts\nApple Is Right to Refuse to Help the FBI Hack into iPhones\tApple Is Right to Refuse to Help the FBI Hack into iPhones\nThe Hole in the Impeachment Case\tThe Hole in the Impeachment Case\nThe Case for Wielding Obscenity Laws against Online Pornography\tThe Case for Wielding Obscenity Laws against Online Pornography\nJohn Roberts, Eternal Hostage\tJohn Roberts, Eternal Hostage","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"So, Will The BDSers Boycott Facebook?\nBad news for the BDSers. It's just been announced that Facebook has\n\"acquired Onavo, a three-year-old start-up that makes data compression software and offers a variety of analytic services for smartphone applications.The purchase of Onavo, which has about 40 employees, gives Facebook, the world's biggest social networking company, its first office in Israel.\nMost of Facebook's employees work at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and historically, the company has sought to pull workers at acquired companies into the mother ship. But Onavo cut a deal to keep most of its employees in Tel Aviv as part of the sale, which was for about $120 million, according to a person familiar with the terms.\nThe big draw for Facebook is Onavo's pioneering data compression technology, which helps smartphones cut data consumption as much as 80 percent. Such compression is vital to the goals of Internet.org, an organization started by Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in August that is trying to offer mobile Internet access free or at very low cost to the about four billion people globally who do not have it....\nGuy Rosen, co-founder and chief executive of Onavo, said that his company would largely function as a stand-alone entity, much like two previous Facebook acquisitions, Instagram and Parse. (Snaptu, another Israeli start-up with innovative data compression technology, was absorbed into Facebook after it was purchased in 2011, and its technology forms the basis of the company's Facebook for Every Phone software for more basic phones.) ...\" Read more here\nSo, will the BDSers boycott Facebook? After all, to be true to themselves they really should.\nNo, of course they won't. Hypocrisy is integral to the BDS movement, whose members couldn't do without so many Israel-originating technological (and medical) innovations we all take for granted.\nBesides, they're having too much fun on Facebook spreading their poison against Jews (sorry, Zionists) and Israel and, yes, promoting the Boycott obscenity any way they can.\nLabels: Antisemitism on Facebook, BDS Movement against Israel, Leftwing Hypocrisy and Double Standards\nThe scum called Mondoweiss just got their FB page\nDaphne Anson 16 October 2013 at 18:34\nOh yes, so I see!\nIan 16 October 2013 at 21:00\nComedy Gold\nStiff-Necked Oxford Student Triumphantly Upstages Galloway (VIDEO)\nhttp:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/news\/stiff-necked-oxford-student-triumphantly-upstages-galloway-video\/2013\/10\/16\/0\/\nGeorge Galloway Accused of Being a Racist by Israeli Student Oxford Union\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gD_g5sTdp84\nJust looking at it now, Ian!\nShirl in Oz 16 October 2013 at 21:26\nSaw it yesterday. I don't see he upstaged Galloway considering what s on the video after he left and the cheer Galloway received.\nAdelaide BDSers Scrubbing The Uncomfortable Truth ...\nPoisoned Seoul Food\nBDSers Target Charles Aznavour\nJNF Shaliach Among The Jews Bashed At Bondi\nAnti-Israel Fanatics Target Another Tel Aviv-Bound...\nStephen Sizer On \"The Art Of Spin\"\nStephen Sizer Placates The Board of Deputies\nLegitimate Criticism, or A Beat Up? (video)\nIn Tinsel Town, an anti-BDS initiative\nIsrael's Ten Most Influential American Enemies:The...\nBDS: Another one for the album\nIn Paris, BDSers Invade Supermarket (video)\nSizer Talks About \"The Zionist Lobby\" To The Inter...\nComedy Half Hour: BDSers confounded in Oxford Stre...\n\"If You Only Look At Israel Through The Prism Of T...\nUp The Jumper! Galloway & The Israeli Flag (video)...\nIn Malm\u00f6, A Walk On The Wild Side\nGetting Their Rocks Off: The Truth Laid Bare\nFrom Sussex With Sense\n\"An Explosive Cocktail Indeed\": David Singer On Th...\n\"That Is What I Teach My Son & What He Will Teach ...\nSo Stop With The JAP Nonsense Already\nWell, Yippee & I'll Be Darned! J Street Knocked Ba...\nOn The Perils Of Looking The Gift Horse Of Christi...\nJewish & Arab Populations In Eretz Israel (video)\nFrance's Jerusalem Consulate Big-Notes A Terrorist...\nSheer Genius! Ari Lesser's Boycott Song Goes Viral...\n\"The Enemy Within\": J Street Summed Up By The Grea...\nWhy The Jews? An Introduction to Antisemitism (vid...\nDiplomacy, Intransigence, & \"The Salutary Lesson O...\n\"A Circumcised European\" On Europe's Unkind Cut\n\"You Filthy Pimp! You Are Born Of Israeli Semen!\" ...\nMedia Coverage That Demonises Israel (Video & Peti...\nIsrael's Thriving Christians Affirm Their Closenes...\nOld Irish Trot Slugs A Left Hook (Or Three) At Isr...\nA Just View Of Israel (videos)\nJohn Bolton On The Dangers Of Falling For Iran's \"...\nIn Europe, The War Against Brit Milah Wins A Battl...\n\"Rouhani Is A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing\": At The UN...\nGood Lord!\nA Muslim Intellectual Praises Israel's Regard For ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SportsCollege Football\nMichigan runs wild, pulls away and routs Minnesota 33-10\nPosted: 10:07 AM, Nov 06, 2017\nBy: LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer\nJoe Robbins\n<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, IN - SEPTEMBER 23: Head coach Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines looks on against the Purdue Boilermakers in the second quarter of a game at Ross-Ade Stadium on September 23, 2017 in West Lafayette, Indiana. Michigan won 28-10. (Photo by Joe Robbins\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nKaran Higdon ran for 200 yards and two touchdowns and Chris Evans added 191 yards rushing and two more scores, helping Michigan pull away to beat Minnesota 33-10 Saturday night.\nThe Wolverines (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) have won two straight with a heavy dose of the run after losing two of three games in part because they couldn't pass well.\nThe Golden Gophers (4-5, 1-5) made it 7-7 on Rodney Smith's 10-yard run late in the first quarter, but the game was tied for just 26 seconds.\nHigdon scored on a 77-yard run on the ensuing drive and his 5-yard TD run padded the lead in the third quarter.\nEvans had 60- and 67-yard TDs in the second half, giving Michigan a 33-7 lead.\nThe Gophers scored with 1:51 left, choosing to kick a field goal from the Michigan 5 instead of going for a fourth-and-4.\nMinnesota: The Gophers are clearly rebuilding under first-year coach P.J. Fleck. The former Western Michigancoach wisely refused to build up the opportunity to upset the Wolverines because he is going to be given time to turn around the program.\nMichigan: Brandon Peters was solid in his first start, handing the ball off much more than he was asked to throw. He was 8 of 13 for 56 yards with a 20-yard TD pass to Sean McKeon on his first possession.\nThe game started about an hour later than scheduled because of lightning strikes in the area and it ended as the clock approached midnight.\nMinnesota: Hosts Nebraska.\nMichigan: Plays at Maryland.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Who is Rafferty Law? 6 Facts About Jude Law's Oldest Son\nBy Rachel Semigran\nJamie McCarthy\/Getty Images Entertainment\/Getty Images\nThe Internet went abuzz Thursday afternoon with the news that Jude Law is soon having his fifth child with ex Catherine Harding, as first reported by People magazine. Law has three children with his first wife Sadie Frost \u2014 Rafferty, 18, Iris,14, and Rusy, 12, \u2014 and another daughter, Sophia, 5, with Samantha Burke. According to Law's rep, \"I can confirm that Jude Law and Catherine Harding are expecting a child together in the spring. Whilst they are no longer in a relationship, they are both wholeheartedly committed to raising their child.\" The news of Law's fifth offspring came as a surprise to fans as his relationship with Harding was relatively secret from the media.\nThe newest addition to the Law clan not only has famous parents, but famous siblings in the mix as well. Law's oldest son Rafferty, 18, is a budding musician and model. Aside from looking exactly like a young Jude Law, Rafferty already seems to be picking up on his dad's and his mom's taste for the spotlight. He made quite the impression earlier this summer when he made his modeling debut in London for DKNY. But, he's not just a pretty face and the product of famous parents. Here's more on Rafferty Law and what to expect from his budding career:\nHe's in a Band\nRafferty plays guitar and sings for his band The Dirty Harrys. His dad dutifully goes to their gigs. They bill themselves as, \"Punk, Ska, Psychadelia and real rock n' roll.\"\nHe got his start working for Blur\nemimusic on YouTube\nThe legendary rock band hired the young musician to help tune instruments before performances. According to Rafferty, \"I did work experience for Blur for two weeks when they were rehearsing for their reunion gig, because Damon [Albarn] is really good friends with my dad.\"\nHe's Signed to a Big Agency\nRafferty Law is currently with Select Model Management, one of the biggest and most prestigious in the UK.\nHe refers to himself as \"Raff\"\nFair enough, Raff it is.\nHe's not into acting\nAnthony Harvey\/Getty Images Entertainment\/Getty Images\nThough he admires his father's talent, he's in no rush to get on-screen, In an interview with London's Evening Standard he commented, \"I did feel a bit of pressure when I joined my first boarding school [Bedales in Hampshire]. In my drama lesson, I think everyone thought: 'Oh God, he's going to be so brilliant.' Then they realized that I wasn't that good, so they just let me get on with it.\"\nHe Still Gets a Report Card\nAnd apparently his dad is very strict when it comes to grades, while his mom is a little more relaxed, \"I've never been that hard-working, just enough to get by. I got an A, B and a C at AS level. The goal is to move them all up one grade. Once I've done that and shown my parents that I can work, then I can go and do my own thing.\"\nImages: Getty Images","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mikel Arteta Reveals Arsenal's Next Captain After Removal Of Pierre Emerick Aubameyang\nempezy\nMikel Arteta has opened up on his plans for the armband at the Emirates after the Gabon international was stripped of his role.\nMikel Arteta has revealed Arsenal's plan to succeed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as captain of Arsenal.\nThe 32-year-old was granted permission to go to France to be with his unwell mother last week, but returned later than expected, and was left out of Saturday's 3-0 win over Southampton as a result.\nGOAAALLLL: Martinelli Gives Arsenal The Lead With Sublime Finish\nSmith Rowe Set To Return To Starting XI \u2013 How Arsenal Could Line Up Against Leeds\nMan Utd test, dream cup tie as Mikel Arteta's untouchable returns in defining Arsenal period\nThis is not the first time the Gabonese forward has been guilty of a disciplinary breach after he missed last season's North London Derby win over Tottenham due to persistent incidents of lateness and the decision was taken on Tuesday to strip him of the captaincy.\nAnd speaking in his press conference ahead of the Gunners' Premier League clash with West Ham on Wednesday night, Arteta has revealed how he plans to replace Aubameyang in the role.\n\"Well, we have the leadership group, and we think that we have different players that are nominated to be captain,\" said the Spaniard.\n\"In the last game it was Laca, we have Granit who has been captain as well. We will follow that.\n\"Obviously it's a really unpleasant situation and it's not the moment to make any rash decisions.\n\"That leadership group is really strong. It's the one that communicates with myself and the coaching staff and with the club in a really clear and strong way. We're gonna continue like that.\" He added.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Former Homeland Security Secretaries Fire Off Powerful Letter Warning Congress over DACA deadline\nAs Congress begins negotiations to enact legislation that would give young undocumented immigrants known as \" Dreamers\" the opportunity to continue to live and work in the United States, three former secretaries from the Department of Homeland Security have come forward to pressure lawmakers to come up with a legislative solution by the March 5th deadline proposed by President Donald Trump. As previously reported, the President has given Congress until March 5th to act before the majority of work permits issued under the now defunct Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will begin to expire. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program during September of last year.\nOn January 3rd, Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, Janet Napolitano, and Jeh Johnson, former secretaries under President Barack Obama, fired off a powerful 2-page letter warning members of Congress that time is quickly running out for Congress to enact a legislative solution to the DACA problem in a responsible and realistic manner. The letter emphasizes that Congress must act swiftly, much before the March 5th deadline, to give the Department of Homeland Security enough time to \"meet the significant administrative requirements\" that would be necessary for implementation of any legislative solution proposed by Congress.\nThe letter also affirms that swift legislative solution would ensure certainty for American companies and small business owners employing young recipients of DACA. In order to meet the objectives for implementation, the former secretaries urge that \"the realistic deadline for successfully establishing a Dreamers program in time to prevent large scale loss of work authorization and deportation protection is only weeks away,\" placing that deadline in the middle of January.\nThey stress that if Congress does not act by the middle of January there will be formidable challenges imposed on the Department to come into compliance with a late breaking legislative solution. It is important for lawmakers to enact a solution as quickly as possible in order to give the Department the time necessary to come up with a system that will \"effectively adjudicate applications for status adjustments by Dreamers.\"\nFailure to enact a legislative solution by January, coupled with the fact that the majority of DACA recipients will begin to lose their status on March 5th, further intensifies the need for Congress to consider the DACA issue urgently in the month of January.\nA point at issue is that although the President can extend the deadline for Congress to act, the possibility of an extension does not minimize the sense of urgency here because \"legislation is the only permanent way to prevent . . . Dreamers from losing work authorization and becoming subject to immediate deportation.\"\nAn urgent legislative solution is made all the more necessary because USCIS will need time to prepare immigration officials so that they may effectively adjudicate applications for status adjustments by Dreamers. The former secretaries have advised Congress to come up with a legislative solution by January 19th, \"to provide enough time for USCIS to process applications before tens of thousands of DACA recipients are negatively impacted by the loss of their work authorization or removal from the United States.\"\nMore information to be provided as it develops.\nPosted in: DACA Renewals, Deferred Action and DREAM Act Students, Deportation & Removal, Dreamers, First Time Clients, Free Consultation, Global Immigration, News, Trump administration, Undocumented Immigrants and Work permits","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Detroit-area girl, 3, wounded after AK-47\u2026\nDetroit-area girl, 3, wounded after AK-47 accidentally fires\nPUBLISHED: March 21, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.\nWARREN, Mich. (AP) \u2014 A 3-year-old girl has been wounded after an AK-47 assault rifle accidentally discharged as her grandmother was trying to unload the weapon inside a Detroit-area home.\nWarren police say the girl was shot Wednesday morning after the grandmother found the rifle in the home.\nWJBK-TV reports that the slug traveled from the second floor and grazed the girl\"s leg. The girl was on the first floor. Police say it also narrowly missed an 18-year-old who was in the basement.\nPolice say the 3-year-old girl was in stable condition at a hospital.\nIt was not immediately known who owns the rifle. Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer says there \"probably will be some charges forthcoming.\"\nWarren is just north of Detroit.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Invest in Web3 and How to Do It?\nInvestors and organizations are highly aware of how important it is to adapt new and innovative technology in the competitive market of today's digitally agile environment. Just like other businesses and industries, the internet is constantly evolving too.\nUsers of the first iteration of the web (Web1) could mostly just read the material; the second iteration (Web2) has given us additional opportunities to participate in reading and writing. But with Web3, users may browse, publish, generate, and own the material they contribute.\nWhat is so fascinating about Web3? Some claim that Web3 will revolutionize web technology entirely. Although Web3 is still in its developing stages, it is rapidly expanding. You can invest in this innovative and growing technology in multiple ways. We will look at some of the best possible and profitable ways to invest in Web3 in this blog.\nWhat is Web3, and how did it start?\nThe phrase \"Web3\" was first used in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood defined it as a \"decentralized digital ecosystem built on blockchain.\" It is a brand-new hybrid internet that intends to develop into a decentralized variant of the virtual community.\nWeb3 is being constructed, controlled, and owned by its users instead of being dominated by big tech companies. It employs Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs to return control to the general public rather than to powerful businesses and tech giants.\nInstead of the traditional way of payment, Web3 engineers and developers are compensated with crypto tokens. In addition, Web3 users have the freedom to decide which projects they wish to support and the opportunity to be paid handsomely by becoming Web3 investors.\nThe Web3 ecosystem:\nSince we are aware of the financial potential of Web3, let's look at the different protocols, networks, and apps that are developing it. Web3's strength, despite self-government, lies in its ability to be modular and interoperable.\nComposability is the capacity to use assets and protocols as building blocks for more sophisticated applications. Composability enables programmers to create exceptional products more efficiently, eventually attracting more consumers to the sector. All of this is to imply more investment toward the Web3 ecosystems and to comprehend its modular components.\nLayer 0:\nBlockchain networks may be constructed using platform-neutral protocols and virtual machines that make up Layer 0. Although layer 0s are not physically investable resources, they might lead you to channels with a large user base.\nBlockchain systems that support the creation of apps and tokens on top of a distributed ledger, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, are called layer 1s (L1).\nAdd-on solutions that predominately make Layer 1s more robust are called Layer 2 (L2). L2s also include cross-chain gateways that let other platforms move their tokens between Ethereum and other networks.\nDecentralized apps (dApps), adept at doing the desired complex tasks, make up Layer 3. These can sometimes be known as isolated applications that consumers utilize for engaging directly. However, Layer 3s primarily serve as elements that developers choose in their consumer-facing products.\nThe top layer in the hierarchy, Layer 4, is where users often start their Web3 experience. Therefore, instead of competing based on technological prowess, several Layer 4s elements attempt to offer the optimum user experience and customer service.\nRead More: A Simple Guide to Web3 Development Stack\nHow to invest in Web3?\nHere are several ways in which you can invest if you are interested in owning a piece of Web3 and expectantly making money from it:\nInvesting in Crypto:\nWhen considering Web3 investments, cryptocurrency is likely to be the first thing that comes to mind. This is because buying and selling virtual currency is the most apparent investing strategy in Web3.\nYou might invest in cryptocurrency through crypto mining if you have technical expertise. Cryptostaking is another approach to profit from crypto coins. It allows you to make money just by retaining your crypto.\nInvesting in Web3 stocks and companies:\nDue to the increased exposure and involvement in Web3, several technological firms are progressively prepping and orienting themselves for this new phase of web technology, which may influence the overall economic outlook.\nSome firms, like Microsoft, are already publicly trading, and you can benefit by purchasing the company's shares. In addition to purchasing equities in Web3 firms, you may invest in startups developing Web3-related services.\nInvesting in NFTs and Metaverse:\nInvesting in NFTs and Metaverse exposes investors to Web3, which will facilitate NFTs and Metaverse development services. Another strategy is to invest in metaverse real estate by utilizing NFTs to buy \"property\" there; nevertheless, this is risky.\nNFTs will have enormous potential value in Web3 because of their uniqueness. It can be used as a medium of exchange for purchasing, leasing, and swapping in the Metaverse. NFTs may also be used for visual painting, gameplay, an electronic wallet, and other purposes, as NFTs provide limitless opportunities.\nInvesting in Blockchain technologies like Ethereum and Polkadot:\nAnother way to invest is to gamble on projects or Blockchain that will provide a stable foundation for upcoming Web3 dApps. Of course, Ethereum would be the primary one, but because of its exorbitant prices, other options like Polkadot are much more feasible.\nPassive vs. Active investing in Web3:\nPassive investing is purchasing a pre-assembled allotted portfolio, sometimes known as an index. Passive Web3 investors may purchase Metaverse ETFs or use a cryptocurrency-specific Robotic assistant. On the contrary, active investing entails selecting particular stocks and digital assets that you feel will beat the stock market in the long run. However, Web3-focused valuation indices are still minimal, but their significance is rising.\nBlockchain, dApps, and Web3:\nUser engagement, Blockchain, and decentralized apps (dApps) are inextricably linked. Users must be able to respond directly to peers without a firm gathering and sometimes restrict data along the route. But how can an application function without the assistance of a corporation? dApps accomplish this by appearing as smart contracts on a public blockchain like Ethereum rather than on a commercial database.\nA public blockchain system enables dApps to offer assistance to anybody without the involvement of any corporation. For example, Web3 illustrates how a DeFi app links users to one another compared to a typical financial app that links each consumer to a financial organization.\nWho is building Web3?\nBy finding and investing in Web3, visionaries and investors are scheming to guarantee that their existing tech investments stay viable in the forthcoming era of technological revolution.\nThe most notable investors in Web3 are venture capitalists and tech giants, who consider Facebook's approach to renaming themselves Meta as an indication of how firmly Web3 is being accepted.\nGavin Wood also founded the Web3 Foundation in Switzerland, which provides financing and training for Web3 initiatives. The organization has provided funds for over 300 initiatives in over 50 countries.\nWeb3 and individual:\nWeb3 promotes individual user engagement from a philosophical standpoint. As a result, most Web3 initiatives emphasize their inaugural white paper to explain how many of their tokens (and the possible revenue and power that comes with token possession) are accessible for purchase by the general public.\nIn addition, companies sometimes \"airdrop\" free tokens to specific communities to entice interest. Acquiring (purchasing, earning, or receiving) Web3 project tokens is the most common approach to investing in Web3 technology and draws individuals in.\nWeb and Metaverse:\nWeb3 and Metaverses, in reality, are the perfect match since Metaverse users engage essentially with other users, and Metaverse community members are frequently encouraged to assist with environmental governance and development.\nWeb3 technologies have the potential to create a set of safeguards for a buoyant economy in which people may securely share their biometric\/confidential information and emerge in Metaverse content interactions.\nRead More: Top 5 Metaverse Development Tools, Technologies, & Their Use Cases\nWhat else does Web3 promise?\nWeb3 can take on almost infinite variants as a technological stack rather than a precisely defined framework. Aside from banking and Metaverse dApps, additional Web3 options include social networks, gaming, instant posting, and other applications.\nUser involvement levels will determine the extent to which Web3 empowers users. The most productive Web3 initiatives will be those in which users are keen to be a part of the community, willing to dedicate content, and eager to offer feedback.\nIt is hard to predict how quickly Web3 will progress and what the investments made by Big Tech and venture investors will signify for the future World Wide Web. However, what is evident is that giant firms are taking this transformation seriously and that many influential (and affluent) voices believe in the utopian vision of an internet that moves the user from the digital \"for lease\" cubbies to the owner's couch.\nConnect with our veteran development team to expand your thriving Web3 concept.\nPrevious ArticlePrevious ArticleHow Much Does It Cost to Develop a Play-to-Earn Game?\nNext ArticleNext ArticleCubixians Celebrate Pakistan Independence Day with Excitement, Pride, and Joy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"At that time, then-Chief Judge Stan Morris said he didn't want criminal defendants to face depictions of the Klan while they awaited trials.\nEven if the depiction was historical, Morris said, the Klan contradicts the mission of the court: fair justice.\nCounty leaders then moved the mural to the first floor of the combination courthouse and government office building so it faces the entry doors.\nBarber wrote an accompanying historical guide to the mural, and he gave a guestbook so people could offer their opinions.\n\"When the group known as the 'Radical Republicans' gained control of the state in 1868, the Reconstruction program took an unpleasant turn. ... The reversed order was severely resented by a large segment of the white population. Lawlessness among ex-slaves and troublesome whites was the rule of the day. No relief was given by the carpetbag and scalawag government or by the Union troops. The result was the emergence of secret societies claiming to bring law and order to the county. One of these groups was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that sometimes took vigilante justice to extremes but was sometimes the only control the county knew over those outside the law. The Klan faded from view at the end of Reconstruction. It had minor come-backs in the 1920's and mid 1950's. Since then it has become the subject of legend rather than a cause of fear.\"\nThe KKK illustration is small, doesn't have a prominent place in the mural and can be easy to overlook.\nMural supporters have staunchly defended the artwork , including the KKK depiction because it documents a period in the county's history.\nIn 2015, John Phillips, a Jacksonville lawyer known for taking on high-profile cases, described the mural as offensive and said it should be taken down.\nNonetheless, the mural remains intact and in place.\nStone said he is \"a firm believer in history, and that you learn from your history. But part of the equation of history is when you document something and place it in context, it has a time and place.\"\nA museum is a perfect place for the mural, Stone said because it will allow people to come view it and express their views of it.\n\"But in a courthouse where Lady Justice is supposed to prevail, where everybody is supposed to get an equal, fair shake, a mural depicting a vigilante group that is opposed to equal rights and opposed to equal justice, shouldn't be in that building,\" Stone said.\nStone said as of Monday, they had not received a response from Nilon.\nTeresa Stepzinski: (904) 359-4075\nThis story originally published to jacksonville.com, and was shared to other Florida newspapers in the USA TODAY Network - Florida.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OHCHR > English > Your Human Rights > Disability > SRDisabilities > Report on Disability-Inclusive Policies\nReport on Disability-Inclusive Policies\nPublished: 9 August 2016\nAuthor: Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities\nPresented: To the GA at its 71st session, 26 October 2016\nLink: A\/71\/314 | Easy-to-read\nThis report explains the economic case for disability-inclusive policies, relying on mounting evidence on the cost of their exclusion. Disability-inclusive development strategies not only improve the situation of persons with disabilities, but they are also better for the economy, contributing to the development of society as a whole. In the report, the Special Rapporteur provides guidance for policymakers to ensure that all policies and strategic frameworks, from the design and planning to the implementation and monitoring are fully inclusive of persons with disabilities.\nThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015, represent an exceptional opportunity for States to include persons with disabilities in National Development Plans and strategies. In order to meet the SDGs goals and targets, State policies and programmes must meet the needs of persons with disabilities.\nTo understand the cross-cutting impact of disability in the person, family and community, the Special Rapporteur argues for the need to look at poverty rates using multi-dimensional approaches. Among the many elements to be considered when implementing disability-inclusive policies at national levels, three key aspects are highlighted:\nThe existence of a framework that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all areas of life, and ensures that reasonable accommodation is provided to persons with disabilities.\nAccessibility is a requirement that must be set up to enable persons with disabilities to access and enjoy all programmes and services, and to participate fully and independently in society.\nThe availability of services and the provision of assistive devices that support the autonomy and inclusion of persons with disabilities, allowing them to benefit from all policies and programmes on an equal basis with others.\nThe report elaborates on key considerations for implementation of disability-inclusive frameworks, which include strategies for mainstreaming, adequate frameworks for ensuring participation, adequate funding, monitoring and data collection mechanisms, as well as strong safeguards to prevent gender inequalities and other forms of discrimination.\nInputs received\nDownload the questionnaire: English | French | Spanish | International Sign language\nAll inputs received in accessible formats are available below. 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Bezerra Leopoldino (Brazil)\nF. McNicholl (New Zealand)\nL. Seshasayee (India)\nMorongoe (Lesotho)\nN. Israt Kabir (Bangladesh)\nP. Maragatham (United States of America)\nP. Natalia Alonso (Argentina)\nAbout Special Procedures\nSubmitting complaints\nAbout country visits\nSpecial Rapporteur on the rights of person with disabilities\nAnnual thematic reports\nComments on legislation and policies\nRecent thematic reports\nDisability-inclusive international cooperation (2020)\nImpact of ableism in medical and scientific research (2020)\nOlder persons with disabilities (2019)\nDeprivation of liberty of persons with disabilities (2019)\nRight to health of persons with disabilities (2018)\nLegal capacity and supported decision-making (2018)\nSexual and reproductive rights of girls and young women with disabilities (2017)\nIndependent evaluation of the first SR disabilities term (2014-2020)\nAccess to justice for persons with disabilities\nIndigenous persons with disabilities\nMainstreaming disability in the work of UN human rights mechanisms\nStrengthening the inclusion of the rights of persons with disabilities in the United Nations \u2013 UNDIS\nWomen's rights and persons with disabilities\nMr. Gerard Quinn\nSpecial Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities\nOHCHR-UNOG; CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland\nEmail: sr.disability@ohchr.org\nOthers involved\nHuman Rights and Persons with Disabilities (OHCHR)\nInternational Disability Alliance","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP\ntatcipdp\nTranslation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP Home\nWorking Group Self-Assessment\nInvitation to Self-Assessment\nchanges.mady.by.user Ken Bour\nNote: The following invitation was sent to WG members by Lars Hoffman on 2 July 2015.\nLong story short: please take a moment to complete the self-assessment survey for the Translation and Transliteration PDP Working Group!\nLink: http:\/\/ttoci.questionpro.com (Active through 17 July 2015)\nShort story long: see below.\nIn 2014, the GNSO Council adopted a process and questionnaire for Working Groups to conduct Self-Assessments when their work has been substantially finished. The goal is to provide Chartering Organizations, such as the GNSO Council, important information about how well its Working Groups are functioning through an examination of their Inputs -> Processes -> Outputs ultimately leading to continuing improvements.\nOur Working Group has been identified to participate in this process the details of which are provided below:\nThe survey tool is hosted by QuestionPro at this link: http:\/\/ttoci.questionpro.com. Please do not share this link with anyone other than our team members.\nBackground information and instructions are contained within the instrument. There is no login requirement, so you will not need user credentials.\nSimply answer the questions (most use a 1-7 rating scale) on each page and, when you reach the end, click \"Record My Answers!\" If you receive a \"Thank You\" response, your feedback was successfully populated. There is a provision to <Save and Continue Later> if you are interrupted and cannot finish the survey in one session.\nBased upon previous WG experiences, the survey should take between 10-20 minutes depending upon the number of comments you choose to provide.\nIf you would like to browse the questions in advance, they are published on the ICANN Community Wiki at: https:\/\/community.icann.org\/x\/nTXxAg.\nThe survey will be open for just over two weeks and will close on: 17 July 2015 (23:59 UTC)\nAn external ICANN consultant, Ken Bour (ken.bour@verizon.net), will monitor the completion process, provide brief status updates to the co-Chairs and Lars, and be available to provide technical assistance if needed by any of our team members. He will also be the only person who has access to your individual responses according to the following clause which you will see on the questionnaire welcome page:\nConfidentiality: We will be asking you for identifying information to ensure that each response is valid. Your individual responses will not be accessible by anyone other than the ICANN Staff Administrator and they will not be disclosed or published in a way that could be matched to your identity.\nOnce the survey period has closed, Ken will produce a report summarizing the findings which will be shared with our team, the GNSO Council, the Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies, and other interested parties.\nI appreciate your willingness to provide feedback about the Translation & Transliteration of Content Information PDP Working Group and your participation in it.\nLars (on behalf of the co-Chairs)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Find Out The Complete Winners' List From The Oscars 2017\nThis Year's Ceremony Was A Bit Odd\nby Luis Farage 02\/27\/2017, 3:41 pm 55 Views\nThe Academy Awards show was last night and it certainly will be one to remember for many years on. As it was full of dark and political humor, thanks to Jimmy Kimmel who even tweeted current POTUS. Full of dreams coming true, not only for the award winners but also for a bunch of lucky fans who were granted an entrance to the ceremony. Full of controversy and candy.\nEspecially when the \"Best Movie\" award was granted. Due to an error that was pretty weird TBH. So in case, you missed some of it, were are going to leave you the list of the winners and a bit of the controversy that happened last night.\nImage Credit: listchallenges.com\nBest actor in a supporting role.\nMost of the times the secondary characters are overseen. But they're equally important as the main ones. Since they give sense to the story. As they shape the world, story, and many other features of the main characters.\nThe nominees in this category were: Jeff Bridges for \"Hell \u2013 High Water.\" Lucas Hedges \u2013 \"Manchester by the Sea,\" Dev Patel \u2013 \"Lion,\" Michael Shannon \u2013 \"Nocturnal Animals,\" and finally Mahershala Ali \u2013 \"Moonlight,\" who won the category, for his role as Juan.\n\"I want to thank my wife, who was in her third trimester during awards season\u2026 had our daughter 4 days ago.\" \u2013 Mahershala Ali #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/RcLpHWvAvW\n\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) February 27, 2017\nBest actress in a supporting role.\nSecondary characters are equally important. Especially in the case of women who most times are underappreciated but play some of the most important roles in life. Every great person in life has had a mom. In love stories, all the Casanovas had that one girl that got away and so on.\nBesides we are always glad to watch some beautiful women on screen. The nominees were: Naomie Harris \u2013 \"Moonlight,\" Nicole Kidman \u2013 \"Lion,\" Octavia Spencer \u2013 \"Hidden Figures,\" Michelle Williams \u2013 \"Manchester by the Sea,\" and Viola Davis \u2013 \"Fences\" who won the award and gave a very touching and emotional speech.\nSafe to say @violadavis loves her #Oscar. #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/DGuBoXYXd8\nBest foreign language film.\nThe name says it all as it is self-explicatory. But this is one of the coolest categories of all. Since it proves that our love for the movies transcends cultures and languages barriers. Also, some of the best, most colorful and intense movies are from foreign countries.\nThe nominee movies were: \"Land of Mine\" from Denmark, \"Tanna\" from Australia, \"Toni Erdmann\" from Germany, \"A Man Called Ove\" from Sweden and the winner film \"The Salesman\" from Iran. Sadly the director of the movie couldn't receive the award due to Trump's foreign ban. Something that added more political controversy to this Oscars edition.\nAsghar Farhadi, who did not attend the #Oscars, in a statement following his win for Best Foreign Language Film. https:\/\/t.co\/C97WkobUQm pic.twitter.com\/ZBIAvv38ms\nBest animated feature film.\nAnother of the best categories. Not only because it's something that we enjoy since we were kids. But also due to the amazing characters, art and imagination awesomeness and display that this kind of movie usually has.\nThe nominees were: \"My Life as a Zucchini,\" Studio Ghibli's latest \"The Red Turtle,\" the amazing stop motion from Laika \"Kubo and the Two Strings,\" and Disney's \"Moana,\" and \"Zootopia.\" Being this last one the one who won the award.\nThe feeling when you win an #Oscar\u2026@DisneyZootopia #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/o8Csg6F9il\nBest original song.\nThis category is always fun. Especially since music is such a key element of the movies. Who will ever imagine Jaws, Star Wars, Requiem for a Dream or Psycho without it's iconic theme songs or musical pieces? Also, since one of the most nominated movies of this year was a musical (La La Land), music played a keyrole in this edition.\nThe nominated songs were: \"The Empty Chair\" \u2013 \"Jim: The James Foley Story,\" \"How Far I'll Go\" \u2013 \"Moana,\" \"Can't Stop the Feeling\" \u2013 \"Trolls,\" and from \"La La Land\" \u2013 \"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)\" and the winner \"City of Stars.\" That was played by John Legend in the ceremony.\n#Oscar for Best Original Song goes to \"City of Stars\" from 'La La Land.' #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/BS9Fa9dJIX\nBest director.\nThe director is one of the most acclaimed roles in the movie industry. Since it's vision is what you see on screen. Besides, he's the guy in charge, so it's also one of the most stressful jobs that there exists.\nThe nominees were: \"Mel Gibson \u2013 \"Hacksaw Ridge,\" Barry Jenkins \u2013 \"Moonlight,\" Kenneth Lonergan \u2013 \"Manchester by the Sea,\" Denis Villeneuve \u2013 \"Arrival,\" and the winner Damien Chazelle for directing \"La La Land.\"\n#Oscar for Best Achievement in Directing goes to Damien Chazelle for 'La La Land.' #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/9xLUYfMWE8\nBest lead actor.\nThe role many would love to play. Since the story turns around him and by the end of the day he gets the girl and achieves his dream. Besides, it's the one we suffer along with the whole film, so by the end of it, we have a close and emphatic relationship with him.\nThe nominees were: Andrew Garfield \u2013 \"Hacksaw Ridge,\" Ryan Gosling \u2013 \"La La Land,\" Viggo Mortensen (AKA Aragorn) \u2013 \"Captain Fantastic,\" Denzel Washington \u2013 \"Fences\" and Casey Affleck who won for his role as the odd uncle on Manchester by the Sea.\n#Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role goes to Casey Affleck for 'Manchester by the Sea.' #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/GrzmvUhNOD\nBest lead actress.\nAgain one of the roles everyone would love to be on. Not only because it's the prettiest girl you will see in the film. It's also the most badass one, and again by the end of the movie, she ends up better than before.\nThe nominees were: Isabelle Huppert \u2013 \"Elle,\" Ruth Negga \u2013 \"Loving,\" Natalie Portman \u2013 \"Jackie,\" Meryl Streep \u2013 \"Florence Foster Jenkins,\" and Emma Stone who not only was the favorite but that also won the category for her role as Mia on \"La La Land.\"\n#Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role goes to Emma Stone for 'La La Land.' https:\/\/t.co\/adzrQgD3JG #Oscars pic.twitter.com\/of3buaOK8v\nBest picture.\nThe most awaited category of the night. As it's the whole of all the other categories. Also, it's the story that makes us fall in love with a particular film and with movies in general.\nThe nominated movies were: Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, and Moonlight. Moonlight won the category under the oddest circumstances. Since it was first said that the winner was La La Land. But it was due to a mistake in the envelopes delivered to the presenters of the awards. Turning it into a ceremony that will surely pass to the history books\nWATCH: 'La La Land' announced as #Oscars Best Picture winner, but only until a mistake is realized with 'Moonlight' being the real winner. pic.twitter.com\/BUnehZV5WB\nSource: abcnews.go.com\nPrevious article Ian McKellen Just Did The Best Maggie Smith Interpretation [VIDEO]\nNext article Jimmy Kimmel Tweeted To President Donald Trump Live During The Oscars\nFind Out How Much Political Content Is Expected On Tonight's Oscar Awards\nOscar-Nominated Movies Reimagined With 'Pok\u00e9mon' 'Star Wars' And Superheroes\nIan McKellen Just Did The Best Maggie Smith Interpretation [VIDEO]\nJimmy Kimmel Tweeted To President Donald Trump Live During The Oscars","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jala News\nHome Entertainment Aamir Khan starrer 'Lal Singh Chadha' may be released next year\nAamir Khan starrer 'Lal Singh Chadha' may be released next year\nSanya Sharma\nThe effect of Coronavirus is being seen all over the world. In such a situation, the film industry is also not untouched by this. Due to the lockdown, shooting of film and TV shows has been stopped for almost two months. In such a situation, many films can be postponed for some time. The release date of Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor starrer Lal Singh Chadha can also go ahead.\nActually, Aamir Khan and Kareen Kapoor were shooting their film Lal Singh Chadha in Punjab before the lockdown. All actors and units had returned to Mumbai due to the closure of all types of shooting from 19 March. The film was planned to be released at the end of the year at Christmas. Before that, Aamir had plans to release the teaser of the film till Diwali, but in view of the current situation, nothing can be said about the shooting of the film again.\nPeople related to production say that so far only sixty percent shooting of the film has been completed. VFX also has a lot of work in the film. In such a situation, it is difficult to release the film on Christmas. It is believed that now Aamir can release this film in March-April next year. However, no official announcement has been made by the production team about it yet.\nLet me tell you that Aamir Khan's film Lal Singh Chadha is an official remake of the Hollywood actor Tom Hanks' film Forest Gump. It is very much a Hollywood hit and hit film. Now to see what level does Aamir take Lal Singh Chadha? The audience expects a lot from Aamir. People also hope that soon the shooting of the film will start and theaters will also open.\nPrevious articleSecurity forces get big success on terrorism day, three terrorists caught\nNext articleIndia-China border tension \/ Army Chief Narwane reached Ladak to review security arrangements\nTaylor Swift in highlights for Willow from Evermore\nElliot Page Transformation to Transgender at 33\nBillie Eilish had 16 songs in the pipeline\nWinter Solstice Great Conjunction Details explained\nWill it be wise to invest on Bitcoin this time?\nBusiness Requirements of Rental Applications\nJala News is the authentic & unbiased news portal covering all the latest and trending news about latest Tech, Sports, Political, Entertainment and more news from the World. We Always try to deliver the original and unbiased news.\nBlockchain in Media and Entertainment Market will grow from 2020 to...\nAll three of a Borgen Coming to Netflix in September 2020\nCobra Kai Season 3 Release Date, Cast & Everything We Know\nNation15\n\u00a9 Copyright 2020. JalaNews","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News NMN and Co\nVegan blogger jailed for harassing his ex is back behind bars\u2026\nSir Oliver Letwin says he WILL back Boris Johnson's Brexit deal\nPICTURED: Thousands of Mexican migrants camp out on roads and bridges\u2026\nWill John Bercow sabotage Boris Johnson's Brexit plans?\nQueen Letizia of Spain and King Felipe VI set off on\u2026\nUS companies added 749,000 jobs in August, beating economist forecasts, ADP\u2026\nExplosive Reveal report shows Amazon warehouse injuries rising for years \u2013\u2026\nGoogle commits to office work with London expansion: Report \u2013 Business\u2026\nTrump family members did not wear masks during debate with Joe\u2026\nRick Santorum: Trump can't condemn right-wing extremists, it's his base \u2013\u2026\nAllCrypto CurrenciesNature & Science\nHas Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Lost Its Reputation as 'Gaming's Good Guy'?\nPrince Harry Won't Lose Royal Title Over a Netflix Deal, So\u2026\n3 Reasons These Train Wreck Debates Won't Derail An S&P 500\u2026\nBill Belichick Already Sounds Nervous About Facing Reid and Mahomes\nHome Business Delta notifies passengers of couple that has COVID-19 after flying \u2013 Business...\nDelta notifies passengers of couple that has COVID-19 after flying \u2013 Business Insider\nNMN & Co\nDelta Airlines and health officials are tracking down individuals who came in contact with a Japanese couple that tested positive for coronavirus after flying to Japan from Hawaii.\nThe couple visited the Hawaiian islands of Maui and Oahu from January 28 to February 6, then flew back home on Delta flight\nThe next day, the man tested positive for COVID-19. A day later, the woman did too.\nDelta Airlines and Hawaii health officials are scrambling to alert individuals who may have come into contact with a Japanese couple that tested positive for the novel coronavirus while visiting the islands. After the man and woman flew back home to Japan on February 6, there are concerns that fellow passengers could have contracted the virus.\nOn Friday, eight days after the couple left the islands, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told state health authorities that the man tested positive for the virus, known as COVID-19. A day later, his partner tested positive, the Japan Times reported.\nThe man began displaying signs of the coronavirus while traveling in Oahu from February 3 to February 6. According to the CDC, individuals can display symptoms of COVID-19 between two and 14 days after exposure, which means the man could have contracted the virus before arriving in Hawaii. It is unclear when the woman began displaying signs of illness.\nDelta is contacting all the passengers on the couple's flight 611, a 10-hour journey from Honolulu to Nagoya, Japan. The airliner departed in the afternoon on February 6, landing in Nagoya on the evening of February 7 after crossing the International Date Line.\n\"The health and safety of our customers and crews is our top priority,\" a Delta spokeswoman told Business Insider. \"In cooperation with Japanese health officials, we are proactively reaching out to customers who were onboard that flight as well as taking the necessary steps to ensure the safety of our customers and crew.\"\nOn Wednesday afternoon, the spokeswoman said she didn't have an update and wouldn't clarify when the company started notifying passengers.\nThe couple was in Hawaii from January 28 to February 6\nThe man and woman, both in their 60s, were in Maui from January 28 to February 3, and then Oahu until their February 6 flight home. Authorities are investigating whether the couple had close interaction with anyone during their visit.\nSo far they have found one individual who spent time with the couple, according to Lieutenant Governor Josh Green.\nThat man \"is in two weeks of home isolation now,\" Green told KHON, a CNN local news affiliate.\nAuthorities only know details of when and where the man contracted the virus. For now, there is no information on when and where the woman became ill, according to CNN.\nThe man had no symptoms while visiting Maui, and then developed cold-like symptoms on Oahu but had no fever. During the latter half of their trip, the couple stayed at a timeshare at the Grand Waikikian by Hilton Grand Vacations in Honolulu.\n\"It's very likely the [man] was exposed in Japan [before he traveled to Hawaii] or in transit coming to Hawaii, and became sick when he was here,\" Hawaii Department of Health Director Bruce Anderson said at a press conference on Friday.\nAccording to state epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park, the man did not seek medical attention until getting to Japan, where his symptoms worsened, CNN reported. \"Our focus is about his whereabouts while he was on Oahu, because that's when he developed symptoms,\" she said at the press conference.\nAs they flew to Japan, the man wore a mask, and he may have also worn one on other parts of the trip.\nThe coronavirus death toll has reached more than 2,000, with more than 75,000 infected. 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{"text":"\"The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search of Baseball's Afterlife\"\nWith this continuing pandemic going on all around the world, I had to find ways to pass the time while in my house. I watched plenty of TV and movies, and read and re-read lots of books. But I received a book to review that I really enjoyed reading, and naturally it was on baseball: \"The Wax Pack: On the Open Road In Search of Baseball's Afterlife\" (University of Nebraska Publishing) by Brad Balukjian. The book is based on a concept I can relate to, as Balukjian took a pack of baseball cards from 1986 from Topps, and decided to check out the post-baseball lives of the 15 men he unwrapped. I grew up collecting baseball cards, and I thought it sounded like such a great idea.\nBut a lot of people in the publishing world weren't so taken with it, as Balukjian was rejected 38 times before he finally found a publisher. Balukjian actually opened the pack of cards thirty years after it first came out, chewed on the gum enclosed inside (which wasn't a pleasant experience) and decided to see what became of the players who were in his pack. The players range from a Hall of Famer (Carlton Fisk), highly decorated pitchers (Dwight Gooden and Rick Sutcliffe), infielders who made their mark (Garry Templeton, Randy Ready, Rance Mulliniks), and guys who never really made it in the game (Jaime Coconower).\nBalkujian starts in California where he lives (he's a writer and a biology teacher at Merritt College in Oakland) and criss-crosses the country to find all the players. (One he could not visit was Al Cowens, who died in 2002.) He did this in 2015 and drove over 11,000 miles to speak with all his subjects. He would cross 30 states in 48 days. Previously he did nearly a year of research in contacting the 14 former big leaguers, following up with emails and phone calls. He met with all but two (Vince Coleman and Carlton Fisk with the only ones who declined to participate).\nIn his interviews with the players, he made it clear that he was more interested in them as people than as ex-ballplayers. Many of them opened up to him about their personal lives, like the divorces they went through and the relationships that broke apart in their lives. Balukjian also retraces his own past, reconnecting with an old girl friend, and is very upfront about his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.\nBrad Balukjian has written a very different type of baseball book, one that I found fascinating, especially about how most of these former heroes view their lives after baseball. It was a very enjoyable read, following him on the road, and one very much worth your time to read, whether we are in a pandemic or not.\nTrivia Q&A: August 27\nWe had another great night of Facebook Trivia Night last night, with another terrific finish among four teams separated by just three points going into IQ Trivia. (Three of which were my individual sisters!) But it was the team of Molly Vallon and Brad Cook (two of my old Professor Thom's Trivia regulars) who pulled out the win with 45 points. Congratulations to them on their hard-fought win! See you all again next Thursday night!\nPurple Trivia\n1. The Purple Heart medal features the image of what US president?\n2. What Pulitzer Prize winning author wrote the novel \"The Color Purple?\"\n3. The Purple Dragons were a street gang in what animated series?\n4. Who wrote and directed the 1985 film \"The Purple Rose of Cairo?\"\n5. In the board game \"Clue\", what character is represented by the purple token?\n6. Prince released the critically acclaimed album \"Purple Rain\" in what year?\n7. Name 1 of the 2 NFL teams that uses purple as its primary uniform color.\nRepublican Party Trivia\n1. Who was the first Republican elected president of the US?\n2. What Republican president was born Leslie Lynch King Jr.?\n3. What 20th century Republican president served two terms and made an ill fated run for a third term as a third party candidate?\n4. Chuck Grassley, of what midwestern state, is the longest serving Republican senator?\n5. What onetime US senator was the last Republican who was both an unsuccessful presidential and vice presidential candidate?\n6. Who was the last Republican who represented NY state in the US Senate?\n7. Who was NY state's last Republican governor?\nThe Q Train: Solo Beatles Albums Trivia\n1. Band On the Run\n2. Mind Games\n3. Living In the Material World\n4. Venus and Mars\n5. Walls and Bridges\n6. Sentimental Journey\n7. All Things Must Pass\n8. Double Fantasy\n9. Goodnight Vienna\n10. Kisses On The Bottom\n1. How many hours time difference is there between London and New York? ( 1 pt)\n2. What is the second largest state in the US in land area? ( 1 pt)\n3. How many symphonies did Beethoven compose? ( 1 pt)\n4. Which of the three Chipmunks wore glasses? ( 2 pt)\n5. What is the most common color of M&Ms? ( 2 pt)\n6. On which finger do human fingernails grow the fastest? ( 2 pt)\n7. What planet is nicknamed \"the planet of dreams\" due to its color? ( 3 pt)\n1. \"Where Is Everybody\" is the first episode of what classic science fiction series? ( 3 points)\n2. What is the name of the anniversary that is celebrated after 70 years of marriage? ( 5 points)\n3. The Bank of America is headquartered in what southern US city? ( 4 points)\n4. Helen Keller was a co-founding member of what organization in 1920? ( 4 points)\n5. What American author has penned 58 novels in his career, with 7 written under the pen name \"Richard Bachmann?\" ( 4 points)\n1. George Washington; 2. Alice Walker; 3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; 4. Woody Allen; 5. Professor Plum; 6. 1984; 7. Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens.\n1. Abraham Lincoln; 2. Gerald Ford; 3. Theodore Roosevelt; 4. Iowa; 5. Bob Dole; 6. Al D'Amato; 7. George Pataki.\n1. Paul; 2. John; 3. George; 4. Paul; 5. John; 6. Ringo; 7. George; 8. John; 9. Ringo; 10. Paul.\n1. Five; 2. Texas; 3. Nine; 4. Simon; 5. Brown; 6. Middle; 7. Neptune.\n1. The Twilight Zone; 2. Platinum; 3. Chalotte, NC; 4. ACLU; 5. Stephen King.\nWe had another great night of Trivia on Thursday, our twentieth edition of Facebook Live Trivia Night. It was a close race to the finish, but the team of Team FinniQuinn pulled off the victory, rolling up 48 points. My sister Maureen Russell was second with 46 points. It was the second win for Team FinniQuinn, and my congratulations to Lauren and Michael on yet another victory. Looking forward to seeing many of you next Thursday night!\nAugust Trivia\n1. On August 1, 1914, what nation declared war on Russia, beginning WWI?\n2. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King made his famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech at what famous Washington DC landmark?\n3. In August 1992, actress Tracey Gold was written out of what 1990s sitcom as she hospitalized for anorexia?\n4. MLB players went on strike in August of what year, which led to the cancellation of the World Series?\n5. Name 1 of the 3 birthstones associated with the month of August.\n6. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in what US state?\n7. Name 2 of the 4 US presidents born after the Civil War and in the month of August.\nDemocratic Party Trivia\n1. Who was the first Democratic president of the 20th century?\n2. Patrick Leahy, of what US state, is currently the longest-serving Democratic senator?\n3. Which Democrat succeeded George Pataki as governor of New York state?\n4. What former US senator is the only Democrat to lose both a presidential and a vice-presidential election?\n5. Who was the first Democratic president to be impeached?\n6. John Glenn, the former astronaut and Democratic senator, represented what midwest state?\n7. What eastern US state was the only one that George McGovern won in his 1972 presidential defeat to Richard Nixon?\nThe Q Train: US Airports Trivia (Name the City)\n1. PHL\n2. IAH\n3. TPA\n4. MSP\n6. ORD\n7. NEW\n8. BWI\n9. LAS\n10. SAN\n1. The headquarters for Target is located in what US state? ( 1 pt)\n2. What military base includes the hangar that is the home of Air Force One? ( 1 pt)\n3. What is the second largest city in Japan in population after Tokyo? ( 1 pt)\n4. What NBA team did Larry Bird go on to coach after leaving the Boston Celtics? ( 2 pt)\n5. The Azore Islands belong to what European country? ( 2 pt)\n6. What author wrote the novel \"50 Shades of Grey?\" ( 2 pt)\n7. \"The Jesus Tablet\" is a nickname for what item? ( 3 pt)\n1. What 20th century US president endured two assassination attempts in less than a month? ( 4 points)\n2. What character spent a full decade on TV trying to secure a \"section 8\"? ( 3 points)\n3. What North African country has been the largest country in Africa by area since 2011? ( 5 points)\n4. Willis Carrier was an engineer who is credited for inventing what modern appliance? ( 4 points)\n5. An antiemetic is a drug that is effective against what common problem? ( 4 points)\n1. Germany; 2. Lincoln Memorial; 3. Growing Pains; 4. 1994; 5. Peridot, Sardonyx and Spinel; 6. Indiana; 7. Hoover, LBJ, Clinton and Obama.\n1. Woodrow Wilson; 2. Vermont; 3. Eliot Spitzer; 4. Walter Mondale; 5. Andrew Johnson; 6. Ohio; 7. Massachusetts.\nThe Q Train: US Airports Trivia\n1. Philadelphia; 2. Houston; 3. Tampa; 4. Minneapolis-St. Paul; 5. Honolulu; 6. Chicago (O'Hare); 7. New Orleans (Lakefront); 8. Baltimore-Washington; 9. Las Vegas; 10. San Diego.\n1. Minnesota; 2. Andrews AFB; 3. Yokohama; 4. Indiana Pacers; 5. Portugal; 6. E.L. James; 7.iPad.\n1. Gerald Ford; 2. Max Klinger; 3. Algeria; 4. Air conditioner; 5.Vomiting\/nausea.\nWe had another great turnout of folks for Trivia on Thursday night, our nineteenth edition online, and nearly had history made in our short time of doing Facebook Live Trivia Night. Steve Thomas and Mary Reynolds, two of my old Professor Thom's Trivia regulars, had an amazing game going, as they were perfect in the first four rounds. (I mentioned that the \"p\" word was going, as I didn't want to jinx anything!) But unfortunately, they got 4 of 5 correct in IQ Trivia, so the perfecto was gone. But they wound up the champions for the second time, getting 52 points and the win. Congrats to them both. Larry Fleisher finished second with 49 points. See you all next Thursday night!\nWoodstock Artists Trivia\n1. What rock artist won 8 Grammys awards including Album of the Year, tying Michael Jackson's record in 2000?\n2. What West Coast based band, which never won a Grammy, didn't reach the Top 10 on the album chart until 1987 with \"In The Dark?\"\n3. John Belushi did a hilarious parody in 1975 on \"SNL\" of what English singer who appeared at Woodstock?\n4. \"Quadrophenia\" and \"Endless Wire\" were hit albums for what English rock band?\n5. What legendary guitarist played The Star Spangled Banner at his Woodstock appearance?\n6. John Sebastian, lead singer of the Lovin Spooonful, had a Top 10 single in 1975 to the theme from what sitcom?\n7. What legendary female singer, who died in 1970, played at the festival with her band Kozmic Blues Band?\n2010s Movie Trivia\n1. Released in 2015, \"Star Wars: The Force Awakens\" was given what episodic number?\n2. The Coen Brothers remade what classic 1969 western film in 2010?\n3. What action film icon starred in the 2012 film \"Looper\", a sci-fi film set in 2074?\n4. Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar in 2014 for Best Actor for what film?\n5. The 2010 film \"The King's Speech\" told the story of what English king?\n6. Who was the only actor nominated 3 times in the 2 major acting Oscar categories in the 2010s, winning Best Supporting Actor In 2010?\n7. Name 1 of the 2 actresses to be nominated at least 4 times in the 2 major acting Oscar categories in the 2010s?\nThe Q Train: Classic Movies Cities Trivia\n1. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy\n2. Dirty Harry\n3. The Blues Brothers\n4. Moonstruck\n5. Driving Miss Daisy\n6. Trading Places\n7. The Town\n8. A Streetcar Named Desire\n9. Scarface\n10. Gran Torino\n1. What is the heaviest planet in the solar system? ( 1 pt)\n2. To what country does the island of Tasmania belong? ( 1 pt)\n3. Pope Francis ended the longstanding papal tradition of popes wearing shoes of what color? ( 1 pt)\n4. What US president's real name was Hiram? ( 2 pt)\n5. Between Sherlock Holmes, Superman and Spiderman, which character has been played by the most actors? ( 2 pt)\n6. From 1996-98, Craig Kilborn was the first host of what current TV show? ( 2 pt)\n7. Themyscira was the mythical island home of what superhero? ( 3 pt)\n1. Who was the top selling British solo singer in the US, having sold over 78 million units in this country? ( 4 points)\n2. What US city has more billionaires per capita than any other city in the world? ( 4 points)\n3. What Oscar-winning actor is the oldest man to win People magazine's \"Sexiest Man Alive?\" ( 5 points)\n4. \"Goldeneye\" was the first film made by what James Bond actor? ( 3 points)\n5. Dixville Notch is a small community in what eastern US state that announces its presidential vote first in the nation just after midnight every four years? ( 4 points)\n1. Carlos Santana; 2. Grateful Dead; 3. Joe Cocker; 4. The Who; 5. Jimi Hendrix; 6. Welcome Back, Kotter; 7. Janis Joplin.\n1. Seven; 2. True Grit; 3. Bruce Willis; 4. The Theory of Everything; 5. George VI; 6. Christian Bale; 7. Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence.\nThe Q Train: Classic Movies Trivia\n1. San Diego; 2. San Francisco; 3. Chicago; 4. New York; 5. Atlanta; 6. Philadelphia; 7. Boston; 8. New Orleans; 9. Miami; 10. Detroit.\n1. Jupiter 2. Australia; 3. Red; 4. US Grant; 5. Sherlock Holmes; 6. The Daily Show; 7. Wonder Woman.\n1. Elton John; 2. San Francisco; 3. Sean Connery; 4. Pierce Brosnan; 5. New Hampshire.\nTrivia Q&A: August 6\nWe had another fine night of Trivia on Thursday night, our eighteenth so far, and my parents each made an appearance, having just returned from Florida earlier this week. It was another close race to the finish, but Francine Hamilton won her third Facebook Live Trivia Night, with 49 points, just edging out Larry Fleisher, who had 48 points, and Gillian DiPietro's team of \"I Wish This Microphone Was a Red October\", who had 47 points. Congratulations to Francine, and I'll see you all again next Thursday night!\nRed Trivia\n1. What author wrote the best-selling novel \"The Hunt For Red October?\"\n2. What actor\/director won an Oscar for Best Director for the 1981 film \"Reds?\"\n3. Which MLB team has won the most World Series in their history: the Red Sox or Reds?\n4. Ellis Boyd \"Red\" Redding was a main character in what 1994 Oscar nominated film?\n5. What two red card suits in a standard deck of cards are colored red?\n6. What pop singer's 2012 album \"Red\" featured the hit song \"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together?\"\n7. What Asian country's flag has a red circle centered on a green background?\nBlue Trivia\n1. What 19th century classical composer wrote \"The Blue Danube?\"\n2. \"True Blue\" was a 1986 album by what pop singer?\n3. What was the name of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox?\n4. John Popper was a member of what rock band?\n5. \"Blue Devils\" is the nickname for what teams from what major university?\n6. \"Big Blue\" is a nickname for what major American company?\n7. Dennis Franz and Jimmy Smits starred in what 1980s TV crime drama?\nThe Q Train: Beer Brands Trivia (Name the Country)\n1. St. Pauli Girl\n2. Labatt's\n3. Heineken\n4. Yuengling\n5. Carlsberg\n6. Asahi\n7. Guinness\n8. Kronenbourg\n9. Hoegaarden\n10. Foster's\n1. In \"E.T.\", what candy does Elliott leave a trail of for his alien friend? ( 1 pt)\n2. What is the stretch of water between Russia and Alaska called? ( 1 pt)\n3. Bruce Jenner won what athletic event at the 1976 Summer Olympics? ( 1 pt)\n4. The oldest existing McDonald's restaurant is located in what US state? ( 2 pt)\n5. What continent has most landlocked countries? ( 2 pt)\n6. Between animal attacks, drowning and falling from heights, which is the number 1 cause of deaths at national parks? ( 2 pt)\n7. What European country produces about 75% of the world's olive oil each year? ( 3 pt)\n1. Who was the first actor to be nominated for an Oscar in which he portrayed 3 different characters in one film? ( 4 points)\n2. What is the only country in Central America with English as its official language? ( 4 points)\n3. What South American country had 5 different presidents over a span of 10 days in 2001? ( 5 points)\n4. What 19th century US president officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty? ( 4 points)\n5. What is the biggest holiday in the US every year in terms of greeting card sales? ( 3 points)\n1. Tom Clancy; 2. Warren Beatty; 3. Red Sox (9-5); 4. The Shawshank Redemption; 5. Diamonds and Hearts; 6. Taylor Swift; 7. Bangladesh.\n1. Johann Strauss; 2. Madonna; 3. Babe; 4. Blues Traveler; 5. Duke; 6. IBM; 7. NYPD Blue.\nThe Q Train: Beer Brands Trivia\n1. Germany; 2. Canada; 3. Netherlands; 4. USA; 5. Denmark; 6. Japan; 7. Ireland; 8. France; 9. Belgium; 10. Australia.\n1. Reese's Pieces; 2. Bering Strait; 3. Decathlon; 4. California; 5. Africa; 6. Drowning; 7. Spain.\n1. Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove); 2. Belize; 3. Argentina; 4. Grover Cleveland; 5. Christmas.\n\"The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search of Baseb...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Joey Harrington Music\n\"A Local Favorite\" \u2013 Asheville Citizen Times, \"An All-Star Band\" \u2013 Bob Hinkle, Co-Founder and Manager of the White Horse Black Mountain\nJoey Harrington embraces his non-traditional musical education. His interest in music began at an early age, taking piano lessons in elementary school from a local pianist. His interest then turned towards playing guitar and electronic sample-based music before rediscovering his love for piano at a later age. After graduating from high school in 2010, Harrington spent five formative years pursuing his music and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota and then subsequently in Asheville, North Carolina. After returning to school, he graduated summa cum laude from UNC-Asheville in May of 2020 with both a B.F.A. in Jazz in Contemporary Music Performance and B.A. in History. Harrington studied with pianist Dr. Bill Bares while at UNC-Asheville.\nApart from being a hired free-lance musician, Joey plays in number of groups including the Joey Harrington Trio, the Wayne Banks Trio, Less Poets, Vermillion Quartet, and the Mouthbreathers. While at UNC-Asheville in 2019, Joey Harrington recorded his first album as leader, Lipinsky Sessions. The album is Spotify, iTunes, and other streaming services. Videos of the recording session can be peaked here! Harrington has also recorded with various other groups, most recently recording synthesizers for a MouthBreathers album in the summer of 2020.\nIn Asheville, North Carolina, Harrington played at venues throughout Western North Carolina including the Asheville Beauty Academy, Save Me The Waltz, The White Horse, The Mothlight, Oskar Blues Brewery, The Asheville Club, the Local 604, the 305 Lounge, Zambra, The Social Lounge, and Southern Appalachian Brewery among others. The performing schedule included various residencies at places including Antidote, the Asheville Club, Appalachian Coffee and the Battery Park Wine Bar (a two year weekly residence).\nDuring the Covid pandemic, Harrington relocated to the New River Valley with his partner, Bow, who is pursuing her graduate studies. He has been immensely grateful to have the time to pursue his own artistic growth in the New River Valley while also being able to collaborate virtually with various artists.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Women's advocacy group calls on Spotify to remove Eminem, Chili Peppers, and other artists accused of sexual misconduct\n\"We implore you to take a deeper look at the artists you promote,\" reads UltraViolet's open letter\nMay 14, 2018 | 4:10pm ET\nLast week, Spotify flexed its new hate content policy by removing the music of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion, two artists with a long history of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse, from its playlists and algorithmic recommendations. Now, women's advocacy group UltraViolet is urging the streaming giant to do the same with other artists accused of sexual abuse.\nIn an open letter, UltraViolet executive director Shaunna Thomas specifically calls out the likes of Chris Brown, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nelly, Eminem, Don Henley of The Eagles, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Tekashi 6ix9ine, and Ted Nugent, citing them as artists \"who continue to profit from your promotion.\"\n\"Every time a famous individual continues to be glorified despite allegations of abuse, we wrongly perpetuate silence by showing survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence that there will be no consequences for abuse,\" she writes. \"That has a cultural effect far beyond one individual artist.\"\nThe hope is that Spotify taking a stand will inspire other music-streaming services to do the same.\nWhile some of the artists on their list\u2014Brown, Nelly, and Tekashi 6ix9ine, in particular\u2014have had their allegations of misconduct make headlines recently, others have been forgotten by history. If you're wondering why artists like Tyler and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are listed, revisit Alex Young's essay, The Uncomfortable Disregard for Legendary Rockers' Sexual Misconduct, from last fall.\nDon Henley\nAlleged sexual abuse\nAlleged Sexual Misconduct\nSoft Cell Reunite for First Album in 20 Years\nThe Black Keys Announce New Blues Covers Album Delta Kream\nWomen's advocacy group calls on Spotify to remove Eminem, Chili Peppers, and other artists accused of sexual misconduct","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chinese star Fan Bingbing prepares for return \u2013 Daily Mail\nPE Nation founder Pip Edwards shows off his trimmed and toned pins\n10 best opening performances of all time, including Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonc\u00e9 \u2013 USA TODAY\nCalifornia says it's safe to use large numbers of Moderna vaccines paused after allergic reactions \u2013 San Francisco Chronicle\nTREASURES \u2013 Prices changed little at start of Biden's presidency \u2013 Yahoo Finance\nOpinion: The problem with Apple would have killed the touch bar of the MacBook Pro \u2013 9to5Mac\nHorry Scale: Cole Anthony beats the buzzer, Timberwolves from Deep \u2013 NBA.com\nRoman Reigns on the Rock at WrestleMania 39 in Hollywood: \"It makes sense\" \u2013 Wrestling-Edge.com\nCheck out Weezer's video for the new song \"All My Favorite Songs\" \u2013 Pitchfork\nSME loans present a significant potential risk for European banks \u2013 pymnts.com\ntalkSPORT Holds Exclusive Rights to English Tour to India and Announces World Class Team to Stream Iconic Cricket Series\nSamsung Display to mass produce 90Hz OLED screens for laptops \u2013 ETTelecom.com\nOriginal 'Walker, Texas Ranger' gathered San Antonio area cast for cast \u2013 San Antonio Express-News\nHome \u00bb Chinese star Fan Bingbing prepares for return \u2013 Daily Mail\nShare on WhatsappShare on Facebook\nDishonored Chinese star Fan Bingbing fined nearly \u00a3 100m for avoiding taxes, gears up for return after two-year hiatus\nFan, 38, is set to return to the spotlight after his explosive scandal in 2018\nShe was caught evading tax by Chinese officials\nChinese actress set to star in vintage \u00a3 60m drama\nHistoric costume show to be broadcast on Chinese video site, source says\nBy Emilia Jiang for Mailonline\nPosted: 2:17 p.m., May 29, 2020 | Update: 2:21 p.m., May 29, 2020\nChinese actress Fan Bingbing, who was involved in a tax evasion scandal of nearly \u00a3 100 million two years ago, is set to return to the spotlight in a successful drama broadcast online.\n'The Legend of Ba Qing', or 'Win the World', was due to debut in 2018, but has since been suspended after Fan, its lead actress, was found guilty of tax fraud and fined 800 million yuan (91 million pounds sterling). in 2018.\nThe sumptuous series of historic costumes is expected to be published soon on the Chinese video-sharing platform Youku, owned by the e-commerce giant Alibaba, Chinese media reported. The confirmed broadcast date remains unknown.\nDisgraced actress Fan Bingbing (photo), 38, starred in \" The Legend of Ba Qing \", or known as \" Win the World \", a costume drama historical budget of 60 million pounds which takes place in the old Qin dynasty -206BC). The image on the left is a poster from the drama series\nNicknamed \" the screen empress of China, \" Fan has been ignored by the public since 2018 when the Chinese government ordered him to pay nearly 100 million pounds sterling (883 million yuan) in arrears. taxes and fines in October 2018. Fan is represented in an X-Men film in 2014: Days Of Future Past\nNicknamed \" the screen empress of China \", Fan is best known in the West for her role in the 2014 blockbuster \" X-Men: Days of Future Past \".\nThe dishonored 38-year-old superstar plays a leading role in \" Win the World, \" a historic, $ 60 million, costume drama set in the Old Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). It is apparently one of the most expensive series that China has produced by far.\nThe drama is based on the story of a historical figure, Ba Qing, played by Fan, a widow and a prominent Chinese entrepreneur woman. She helped Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor who unified China, to finance the construction of the Great Wall.\nBut the hit drama was dropped when it was released two years ago after Fan and another prominent actor were both struck by scandals and public criticism.\nFan, also a model and producer, has been a household name ubiquitous in China for more than 20 years. She disappeared from the public eye in 2018 after allegations emerged that she had evaded taxes on a lucrative film shoot. She was once the highest paid actress in China\nOne of the biggest Chinese superstars Fan Bingbing (pictured right), who was involved in a tax evasion scandal of nearly \u00a3 100 million two years ago, is expected to return to the spotlight in a successful drama broadcast online. The photo is a promotional poster for the show\nIn October 2018, the Chinese government fined Fan nearly \u00a3 100 million (883 million yuan) after being found guilty of avoiding taxes.\nAuthorities added that the star could avoid prison terms if she paid on time, but not the actual amount of taxes the actress had dodged.\nGao Yunxiang, who plays Emperor Qin in the series, also faced violent reactions after being arrested in Sydney on charges of sexual assault in 2018.\nIn March, Australian courts acquitted Gao of five counts of sexual assault and two counts of indecent assault.\nThe blockbuster drama has been implicated in more controversy after its lead actor, Gao Yunxiang, another Chinese celebrity who also received public reactions after his arrest in Sydney on charges of sexual assault. Photo shows Gao's arrival in court last year\nSince the tax evasion scandal, Fan has kept a low profile under the public radar. Last year, she made headlines in the Chinese media when she separated from Li Chen, her almost two-year-old actor fiance.\nThe news of Fan's return came after Tuesday the release of an internal document from the show's production company, discussing repayment terms with two Chinese TV stations that planned to broadcast the show initially.\nAccording to the source who released the document, the drama of the period will likely be broadcast on Youku, a popular video-sharing platform owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. But there is no confirmed date for the series to air.\nWho is Fan Bingbing?\nShe was China's richest celebrity and one of the highest paid actresses in the world\nFan Bingbing is one of the most famous actresses in China, who was fined nearly \u00a3 100 million (883 million yuan) for avoiding taxes.\nShe mysteriously disappeared from public view in July 2018, after allegations appeared, she had evaded taxes on a lucrative film shoot \u2013 accusations denied by her studio.\nThe 38-year-old superstar has appeared in numerous romantic comedies and costumed dramas.\nShe has a brother 19 years younger than him who is also an actor.\nFan, also a model and producer, has been a ubiquitous name in China for more than 20 years and tasted Hollywood success with a role in the 2014 blockbuster \" X-Men: Days of Future Past \".\nShe was the richest celebrity in China and one of the highest paid actresses in the world. His earnings were on par \u2013 if not more \u2013 with Hollywood celebrities, such as Emma Stone, Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lawrence.\nIn 2017, she dominated Forbes magazine's highest-paid list of Chinese celebrities with an income of 300 million yuan (\u00a3 33 million), according to Forbes China.\nBut a September 2018 survey found that Chinese people thought the once popular actress had the weakest sense of social responsibility among her peers due to her scandal.\nCompare QPR's \"ugly\" victory at shooting \"not the most beautiful bird\" and discuss the c ** k of Cristiano Ronaldo \u2013 the best quotes from Ian Holloway\nConsumer spending pools in the United States; saves record \u2013 Reuters\nPE Nation founder Pip Edwards shows off her trimmed and toned pins as she relaxes in her office after a...\nConsumer spending pools in the United States; saves record - Reuters","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AHUMADOS SABAL | Ahumados | Salazones | Pates\nSmoked Cod\nSmoked Tuna\nSmoked Swordfish\nSmoked Blue Marlin\nSmoked Eel\nSmoked Sardine\nSmoked Herring\nAssortment of Seafood Smoked\nAnchovy & White Anchovy in Vinegar\nSeafood Carpaccio\u00b4s\nDry Cured Tuna & Dry Roes\nCaviar, Roes & Other Products\nDuck Products\n~ Conservation Advices ~\nCaviar, Roes\n& Other Products\nSalmon CAVIAR JAR\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\n15 u.\n0\/+3\u00baC\nTrout CAVIAR JAR\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nLumpo Fish & Herring Roes BLACK or RED\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\n>365 days\nFlaked Cod\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nCod Center\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\n\u00b1 1 Kg.\nCuttlefish Ink BOTTLE\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nCuttlefish Ink DISPENSER\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\n(4 Gr. x 2 Units)\nSEA URCHIN ROES CAN\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nRoyal King Crab CHATKA 100% LEGS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nRoyal King Crab CHATKA 100% MEAT\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nAhumados Sabal 2018 | Camino del Fus, 37, 46470 Massanassa | Dise\u00f1o Web XINXETA\nLas cookies nos permiten ofrecer nuestros servicios. Al utilizarlos, aceptas el uso que hacemos de las cookies. AceptarPol\u00edtica de Privacidad Pol\u00edtica de Cookies\nCHATKA is the quintessential brand of the Russian Royal Crab. Due to its properties, texture and flavor it is probably the best seafood in the world.\nThe Russian Royal Crab, captured in the glacial waters of the Bering Sea, in the northern Pacific Ocean, near the Kamchatka Region and the neighboring waters of Alaska. Its striking size and its unique flavor made it begin to have a very valuable reputation to the point that in 1960 the Soviet Union decided to artificially introduce it into the Murmansk fjord, the Barents Sea, to provide new catches. A short time later it would be known worldwide as \"THE RED ORO\".\nAt more than 600 meters deep in the icy waters of the subarctic seas these exceptional creatures adapted perfectly to their new environment. The climatology, the unpredictability of its waters and the great difficulty in its capture (considering one of the toughest jobs in the world) has made this magnificent species develop and evolve to the point of becoming one of the best seafood in the world.\nHow to prepare CHATKA?\nIt is a completely fresh product, without additives or treatments, so you can eat directly from the purchased format; either frozen, tin or glass. Its flavor already speaks for itself and the size of red meat does not require more preparation than a good presentation. An aromatic mayonnaise, a spicy sauce based on habanero peppers (for the most daring) or a little lime (for those who like that acid touch) can be the perfect complement.\nThe Royal Crab can be enjoyed not only fresh. The abundance and flavor of its exclusive meat allows us to give a personalized touch to our most daily dishes.\nA gourmet product with high nutritional value.\nRecommended in low calorie diets, due to its low caloric content of only 103 Kcal \/ 100 grams. Its juicy and delicious meat has 20% proteins of high biological value and polyunsaturated fatty acids such as omega 3, of great importance in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. It also provides vitamins B6 and B12 and is a source of minerals and trace elements such as potassium, iodine, phosphorus and zinc.\nThe Royal Crab is very appreciated by chefs from all over the world as it is a natural product with excellent gastronomic qualities.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Royal Society for Blind Children\nPartner: Social Investment Business (SIB) group\nProgramme: Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme\nWhen COVID-19 first took hold, the Royal Society for Blind Children was quick to realise its income was soon to be severely affected. With many of its fundraising events and payments from regular donors suspended, the charity saw a need to apply for financial support via the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\nRead what it had to say in this CBILS case study.\nBritish Business Bank: Can you tell us what your organisation does?\nDr Tom Pey, CEO of the Royal Society for Blind Children: The Royal Society for Blind Children educates and supports blind and partially sighted children and young people and their families. Our founder Thomas Lucas set up a school to teach blind children to read in 1838. Today, nearly 200 years later, our team works across a range of services including family support, further education, social inclusion and independence skills.\nThe coronavirus has affected a huge number of businesses across the UK. What problems were you facing as a result of the outbreak and what made you apply for CBILS support?\nWhen we first heard about the situation with COVID-19, we suspected immediately that we were going to have a drop off in unrestricted income of several hundred thousand pounds. This was due to the London Marathon being pushed back to October, delays with legacy notifications and payments from estates, community and fundraising activities being suspended, and fewer face-to-face sign-ups for giving regular donations.\nHow long did the application process take? Did you need any support?\nThe process from application to disbursal was 28 days. We needed some support with signing documents electronically, but once this was resolved and the documents were signed, the funds were with us in a very short period of time.\nThis turnaround time is just simply amazing. It demonstrates that the people who were underwriting the loan understood the scheme's criteria, the charity sector, and precisely how charity liquidity works.\nThe CBILS loan means we can be more confident about our liquidity in the short term. Rather than have to cut back, we're able to expand our reach, reduce the cost of delivering services, and increase customer engagement.\nDr Tom Pey, CEO of Royal Society for Blind Children\nWhat advice would you give to other businesses that are applying for a CBILS loan?\nIf you're confident that the drop in income is temporary and it's going to bounce back fairly quickly, then clearly you're financing a gap and that's OK. However, you need to be sure that you can predict your future cashflows with confidence so that you don't default on the terms of the loan.\nMany charities can be more certain about their future cashflows because they have a level of predictable income through regular donations. That said, they need to be careful that they don't use restricted income to repay debt. Such debt can only be paid from free reserves.\nHow has the CBILS loan helped your organisation to weather the outbreak? And what might have happened if you hadn't received it?\nThe CBILS loan means we can be more confident about our liquidity in the short term. It gives us a clear line of sight for 24 months, so rather than cutting back, we expanded our reach, reduced the cost of delivering services, and increased customer engagement.\nWithout the funding, given our short-term liquidity problems we would've had to downsize the services the charity provides.\nFind out more about Royal Society for Blind Children\nMore case studies from Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeAnimalsDisgusting but interesting curiosities about mites\nPresent in mattresses, carpets and sheets, mites are among the main causes of allergic attacks, especially in children. But did you know that they are related to spiders? Did you know that there are species living even on your skin? Discover in the topics below some super interesting curiosities about these microscopic and problematic animals.\nMites are tiny animals belonging to the subclass Acari, of the arachnid class. A note: this is the same class as spiders.\nThe word Acari comes from the Greek \"askaris\", which means \"small\".\nTo date, 55,000 species of mites have been described, belonging to more than 500 families.\nMites live for two to three months, during which they mate once or twice. The laying ranges from 20 to 50 eggs.\nMites live in the most unexpected environments, from dust inside a house to the icy immensities of Siberia. There are species that live as parasites of plants and animals.\nIt is hard to believe, but there are two species that inhabit the human face.\nResearch on Demodex habits revealed that females lay giant eggs, corresponding to 1\/3 or even half of their weight. Another curiosity: they have no anus, storing faeces in their bodies until they die.\nDemodex causes very little damage to its hosts (humans), including the appearance of rosacea, a flush that mainly affects the face, evolving in many cases to permanent redness.\nHousehold mites are so abundant that, just to have an idea, a square meter of the carpet has around 100,000 of them. They also represent 1\/3 of the weight of an old pillow.\nHousehold mites are responsible for causing various allergic diseases in humans, including rhinitis and asthma.\nAnother disease caused by the mite is scabies, popularly known as human scabies. It is transmitted by direct contact between people or by sharing clothes and \/ or accessories for everyday use.\nDust mites infest domestic animals more often than you think. They are, for example, transmitters of canine scabies. It causes itching so intense that it makes animals hurt themselves with their own paw. The detail is that scabies is a zoonosis transmitted from the pet to the human being.\nAmong the preventive measures against the infestation of domestic mites, it is worth remembering some: exposure to the sun of mattresses, comforters and blankets, constant exchange of pillows, frequent washing of carpets and treadmills; frequent washing of stuffed animals, and daily aeration of the environment. It should be remembered that to avoid mites in pets, it is always good to groom and use anti-mite shampoos.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keleher & McLeod, P.A.\nGary J. Van Luchene\nShareholder and Director at Keleher & McLeod, P.A.\nAlbuquerque Plaza, 201 Third Street, N.W., Suite 1200, P.O. Box AA, Albuquerque, NM 87102\nView Gary J. Van Luchene's office location\n#284 in weekly profile views out of 4,353 Attorneys in Albuquerque, NM\nMr. Van Luchene's practice is primarily comprised of litigation with an emphasis on complex tort litigation, complex commercial litigation, and class actions. His experience includes defending toxic tort claims and a variety of personal injury claims. Mr. Van Luchene's commercial litigation expertise includes cases involving complex insurance, healthcare and banking issues. He has defended wrongful termination employment cases involving multiple plaintiffs. Mr. Van Luchene's extensive experience in defending against class actions includes defending putative class claims alleging wrongful banking practices, civil rights violations and denial of healthcare benefits. Mr. Van Luchene is of record in two reported New Mexico Court of Appeals opinions involving class action issues. He holds an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell.\nMr. Van Luchene has been honored as a Southwest Super Lawyer in 2014 and 2016. Mr. Van Luchene is listed in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation\/Class Actions - Defendants (2017 \"Lawyer of the Year\" in Albuquerque) and Products Liability Litigation - Defendants. Mr. Van Luchene is a member of the CLM Alliance.\nGary J. Van\nLuchene\nEnvironmental and Natural Resources Law\nwww.Keleher-law.com\nP.O. Box AA, Albuquerque, NM 87102\nArizona State University, B.S., 1986\nCalifornia Western School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Executive Lead Articles Editor, California Western Law Review, 1992-1993, 1993\n1996, U.S. District Court for New Mexico and U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit; 1995, New Mexico; 1994, California; 2003, United States Supreme Court\nProfessional Affiliations & Honors\nLaw clerk to Honorable Howard D. McKibben, U.S. District Judge, District of Nevada 1995-1996, and to Honorable Phyllis Halsey Atkins, U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Nevada, 1993-1995. Defense Research Institute (Committee on Toxic Torts and Environmental Law). Mr. Van Luchene has been honored as a Southwest Super Lawyer in 2014 and 2016. Mr. Van Luchene is listed in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation\/Class Actions - Defendants (2017 Lawyer of the Year in Albuquerque) and Products Liability Litigation - Defendants. Mr. Van Luchene is a member of the CLM Alliance.\nAccepts Visa and MasterCard\nFixed Hourly Rates\n4.8\/5.0 (26 reviews)\nAnalytical Capability\nLegal Experience\n4.8\/5.0 Rated by a Managing Partner on 08\/29\/16 in Civil Litigation\nGary is an excellent attorney, with outstanding legal abilities and the highest ethical standards.\nGary is an excellent attorney, with outstanding legal abilities and the highest ethical standards. Read less\nFlag review\n5.0\/5.0 Rated by a Partner on 08\/16\/16 in Civil Litigation\nMr. Van Luchene is an excellent attorney. He zealously represents the interests of his clients while maintaining the highest degree of professionalism. It is always a pleasure working in a case with Mr. Van Luchene - even if we are on opposite side... Read more\nMr. Van Luchene is an excellent attorney. He zealously represents the interests of his clients while maintaining the highest degree of professionalism. It is always a pleasure working in a case with Mr. Van Luchene - even if we are on opposite sides of an issue. Read less\nAlbuquerque Plaza , 201 Third Street, N.W., Suite 1200 , P.O. Box AA\nContact Gary J. Van Luchene","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"7 moments in 'Harry Potter' movies that made you ugly cry\nNovember 15, 2021, 12:53 PM ET\nThe Harry Potter series is full of magic and whimsy... and also heartbreak.\nBy Nivea Serrao\nPhoto: \"Yer a wizard, Harry\" | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone \/ Wizarding World YouTube\nOver the course of eight movies \u2014 and the seven books they're based on \u2014 the Harry Potter franchise has tugged at every (dragon) heartstring in fans' hearts as its titular hero's story has unfolded on the big screen. There have been many highs and plenty of lows as Harry and his friends have battled against Voldemort and his evil Death Eaters.\nThe first movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, celebrates its 20th anniversary tomorrow, Nov. 16 (SYFY will be celebrating that and Wizarding World Week with a Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone marathon from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET). To help prepare for the big day, we're looking into our pensieve at some of the most memorable moments. Many of the ones that have stuck with fans, even all these years later, are ones that have brought tears to our eyes. Here, then, are the seven saddest moments from the Harry Potter movies.\n7. When Harry first sees his parents in the Mirror of Erised in The Sorcerer's Stone\nPerhaps one of the saddest aspects of the whole series is just how little Harry knows about his dead parents when it first begins, having not even been shown photos as he was growing up, as his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia hated everything to do with magic. It's not until Hagrid first comes to get him that Harry learns more about Lily and James Potter and the kind of people they were. Later in the movie, when he discovers the Mirror of Erised, marks one of the first times that Harry ever gets to see what his parents (and extended family) look like, rather than just hearing about his resemblance to them from other people. It's made all the more bittersweet once Dumbledore reveals that the mirror simply shows people what their heart most desires. In Harry's case, it's simply to know what his parents would look like had they still been alive.\nPhoto: Amos and Cedric Diggory | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire \/ Wizarding World YouTube\n6. Amos Diggory crying over Cedric's dead body in The Goblet of Fire\nNot only is Cedric one of the most decent and kindhearted characters in the world of Harry Potter, but from the moment you meet his father Amos, it's clear how much he loves his son and how proud he is of him \u2014 and not just because he's a head boy and Quidditch captain (though that probably helps). Cedric is fundamentally decent and would make any father proud \u2014 and this makes it doubly heartbreaking when Harry finally returns to Hogwarts with Cedric's dead body in tow. Amos' cry of anguish both conveys his shock and grief at this tragic discovery and reminds viewers of the many ramifications of Voldemort's return \u2014 that even Hogwarts is no longer safe, and that the characters you know and love are now in greater danger than they've ever been before.\n5. Sirius Black passing through the veil in Order of the Phoenix\nUncovering the truth behind Sirius' imprisonment \u2014 and his subsequent escape \u2014 offered Harry something he hadn't quite had before: hope for a better life away from the Dursleys, with someone who truly loves him. As Harry's godfather, Sirius would have been able to guide him through the aspects of the wizarding world he knows nothing about, and serve as a link between Harry and his parents, as Sirius had been Harry's dad James' best friend, and was constantly telling Harry stories about their time together at Hogwarts. Sirius' death hits Harry hard because it's both quick and sudden as Bellatrix Lestrange first hits him with the killing curse, and then slow and painful as he fades away into the veil in the Department of Mysteries, right before Harry's eyes. It's yet another death Harry is forced to witness in his fight against Voldemort, but it's just as personal as the ones that started it all: the deaths of Harry's own parents.\nPhoto: Hermione Destroys Horcrux and Kisses Ron | Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 \/ Wizarding World YouTube\n4. Hermione erasing her parents' memories in Deathly Hallows: Part 1\nWar is hard and requires many sacrifices \u2014 doubly so if you're dealing with witches and wizards who have the ability to steal anyone's appearance with a (not so simple) potion and apparate and disapparate anywhere they wish to. And with attacks against muggles on the rise with Voldemort's return, it's quite understandable for Hermione to want to protect her own parents. Still, it's pretty heartbreaking watching her erase her mom and dad's memories of her when they least expect it, as well as any traces of herself from her childhood home. Had anything happened to her during this final battle against Voldemort, her parents wouldn't have known, which is equally as painful.\nPhoto: Weasley's Wizard Wheezes | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince \/ Wizarding World YouTube\n3. Fred's death during the Battle at Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows: Part 2\nWhile a lot of lives were lost at the Battle of Hogwarts, perhaps none hits as hard as Fred Weasley does. Ever since the Weasleys were introduced all the way back in Sorcerer's Stone, Fred and George have been an inseparable pair, constantly playing pranks and lightening the increasingly gloomy mood together with their jokes and ingenious inventions. But the loss of Fred means the Weasley family didn't make it out of the war unscathed \u2014 as they'd managed to the first time around when Voldemort first came to power. It's another loss that feels quite personal, perhaps because it's always been hard to imagine a world without either Fred or George, but now we're forced to have to face it, much like Harry and every other Weasley family member.\nPhoto: Peter Mountain\/WireImage\n2. When Hedwig dies while saving Harry in Deathly Hallows: Part 1\nEver since Harry's initial foray into Diagon Alley to buy school supplies, Hedwig the Owl has been his constant companion and his one connection to the wizarding world when he's stuck at Privet Drive over the summer. Even when Harry couldn't communicate with Ron and Hermione, Hedwig's presence offered some form of comfort. In this way, Hedwig's death truly marks the beginning of the end of Harry's childhood. While he's been facing off against Voldemort in some form or the other at different points in his life, the loss of Hedwig signals that this next battle might be his last and it's not just Harry himself who's in danger anymore, but anyone he might love as well.\nPhoto: Dobby is a Free Elf | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets \/ Wizarding World YouTube\n1. Harry realizes Dobby is dying in Deathly Hallows: Part 1\nWhen we first meet Dobby the House Elf, he's risking punishment from the Malfoys as he's trying to keep Harry safe from the wicked plan they've hatched, even if his attempts are a bit misguided. This turns into a recurring theme with Dobby, even as he goes on to live as a Free Elf, while also doing whatever he can to aid Harry in the fight against Voldemort, even if he's not always the most successful. And it's why Dobby's death hits so hard at the end of Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Much like Harry, we've shed a lot of tears endured a lot of loss at this point, but Dobby is a reminder that in a world where Voldemort is quickly amassing power, there are plenty of people and creatures willing to stand up against him and fight by Harry's side, simply because they believe in doing the right thing in the face of Evil. When Dobby dies, it's because of something he chose to do: defending someone he considers his friend.\nAccio! 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{"text":"Leaked Docs Expose Media Matters Conspiring with Facebook & Google to Censor Alternative Media\nJay Syrmopoulos February 9, 2017\nA leaked document from media matters details the informational warfare strategy being applied to alternative media to render is silent.\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 A recently leaked briefing document from political operator David Brock's ultra-liberal, self-proclaimed media watchdog, Media Matters, has exposed the hard-left activist group conspiring with Facebook and Google to create a strategy to marginalize and ban political thought outside of the progressive neoliberal paradigm \u2013 essentially censoring libertarian and conservative political speech.\nFor those uninitiated, Brock is the key cog in the hard-left neo-liberal political media attack machine that attempts to propagandize the public into accepting a progressive political narrative as fact. Essentially, Brock acts as the tip of the spear in the left's culture war \u2013 forwarding a divide and conquer paradigm based largely on identity politics.\nTo give some perspective into this strategy one need only look back to the teachings of ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu and his seminal treatise, The Art of War. He proposed that indirect warfare is one of the most efficient ways of fighting an enemy. It allows an opponent to defeat their adversary without directly engaging them, thereby saving themselves the resources that would have to be expended in a direct confrontation.\nThis dynamic of indirect warfare is clearly at work, as the hallmarks of an information war are unmistakable in Media Matters methodology and approach described in the leaked document.\nThe employment of hybrid warfare will unmistakably be marked by \"protests,\" as we have already seen in the form of \"The Women's March,\" and insurgents, such as the Anitfas presence at the UC-Berkley riots. Fifth columns, such as Media Matters, will be formed by non-state actors, like Brock, which publicly behave as civilian organizations, but operate with vested political motives and strategic militant-like precision. Social media and similar technologies will come to replace precision-guided munitions as the \"surgical strike\" capability of the aggressive party, and chat rooms and Facebook pages will become the new \"militants' den.\"\nBesides the tactical advantages of this hybrid warfare, there are also strategic ones as well. In this case, indirect warfare, in the form of information warfare, is clearly being employed in an effort to destabilize any messages that are outside of the neoliberal globalist paradigm.\nThe leaked briefing book, entitled \"Media Matters: The Top Watchdog Against Fake News and Propaganda \u2014 Transforming the Media Landscape\" (obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon) was privately published by Brock in January to solicit donors, and lays out the strategy for controlling the U.S. media narrative.\nThe briefing book advances the narrative of \"Fake News,\" which actually began with Media Matters, and reveals Brock is attempting to launch what the hard-left calls \"a meme.\" A \"meme\" is essentially a narrative designed to discredit news organizations that dare report from anything other than a neoliberal perspective. The goal is to discredit any organization that doesn't toe the neoliberal line.\nThe main thrust of this narrative Brock is forwarding is to paint anyone who opposes the neoliberal agenda as \"alt-right\" \u2013 with a direct implication that they are racist, anti-Semitic, or misogynistic. It must be noted that this blanket term is used to intentionally marginalize anyone that disagrees with their ideological stance. Make no mistake that conflating neo-Nazis and racists, with constitutionalists, libertarians and conservatives is a strategic maneuver meant to marginalize the voice of large segments of the U.S. population.\nBrock implicates both Google and Facebook as co-conspirators in forwarding this \"Fake News\" narrative against independent media organizations like The Free Thought Project.\nBrock clearly articulates this strategy, as laid out on page two of his briefing book:\n\"Over the next four years, Media Matters will focus on achieving the following outcomes:\n\"Serial misinformers and right-wing propagandists inhabiting everything from social media to the highest levels of government will be exposed.\n\"Internet and social media platforms, like Google and Facebook, will no longer uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news sites and propagandists.\n\"Toxic alt-right social media-fueled harassment campaigns that silence dissent and poison our national discourse will be punished and halted.\"\nThis clear attempt to consolidate control over the informational narrative Americans are exposed to is dangerous, and nothing less than a true threat to freedom. In essence, Brock is attempting to create a more effective \"propaganda model,\" as forward by academic Noam Chomsky, to prevent people having any perspective outside of the one the hard-left wants seen by the public \u2014 using social media as the weapon.\nThe narrative of \"fake news\" had a creeping, but clear, drive to delegitimize alternative media outlets, such as us here at The Free Thought Project, likely due to our reporting on U.S. hegemony\/imperialism and topics like the contents of WikiLeaks' releases of the DNC and Podesta emails during the election \u2013 while the mainstream media largely refused to do so.\nRevealing the origins of this soft-censorship regime, Lachan Markay reported in the Washington Free Beacon that during the 2016 presidential campaign Media Matters launched a petition drive aimed at pressuring Facebook into prohibiting \"fake News\" websites and to \"adjust its model to stem the flow of damaging fake news from its platform pages.\"\nThere was a clear trickled down agenda enacted after a secret post-election meeting of progressive elites with the Democratic Alliance, co-founded by Soros in 2005, with Media Matters acting as the propaganda arm by issuing a press release about \"fake news\"\u2013 and, like clockwork, numerous publications, such as the Washington Post, began running articles about \"fake news.\"\nIn the leaked briefing book, Brock acknowledged that Google was a relatively easy sell on the \"fake news\" narrative, but Facebook was a much harder sale \u2014 with Mark Zuckerberg initially calling the notion that \"fake news is a problem\" is \"crazy.\"\nSo, how did Media Matters handle this?\nAccording to the briefing documents:\n\"In November, we launched a campaign pressuring Facebook to: 1) acknowledge the problem of the proliferation of fake news on Facebook and its consequences for our democracy and 2) commit to taking action to fix the problem.\"\nBrock subsequently reported that \"as a result of our push for accountability,\" Facebook would now toe the neoliberal\/globalist line and implement a soft-censorship regime under the guise of ridding Facebook of \"fake news.\"\nIn the wake of this full-court press by the neoliberal establishment, President Obama disingenuously proclaimed \"fake news\" a threat to our democracy during a speech in Berlin. In turn, Mark Zuckerberg caved to the pressure and announced a fact-checking regime, laughably announcing the use of Politifact, Snopes and ABC News to fact-check and flag disputed stories \u2014 which would then result in disputed stories being given a lower algorithm ranking, thus not as often appearing in people's newsfeeds.\nMake no mistake that this is simply an attempt by the corporate oligarchy to regain control of the informational gates of society, which they have lost due to the rapid rise of social media, in an effort to soft-censor any dissenting world views.\nBrock believes that the only truth is that which supports a neoliberal-globalist agenda, and that all other points of view must be marginalized. It's painfully obvious that Media Matters, Brock and his oligarchic ilk have no respect for free speech, as they attempt to create an echo chamber for neoliberal globalism, while attempting to silence all other voices.\nThese actions, by the oligarchic left, are simply war by other means.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Espa\u00f1ol\tUK\tUSAFran\u00e7aisItalianoP\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439Portugu\u00easDeutsch\u6c49\u8bedPolskiNederlandsMexicano\nThe \"Terrazas del Lago\" project by Morph Estudio uses KRION as a Ventilated Facade\nThe \"Terrazas del Lago\" project by C\u00e9sar Fr\u00edas Enciso and Miguel Pradillo of Morph Estudio, won the Best Completed Project award at the 11th PORCELANOSA Architecture and Interior Design Awards, whose panel was made up of prestigious professionals Luis Vidal, Rebecca Jones, Ricardo Mateu, Pierre-Yves Rochon and Rafael Robledo.\nBoth Morph Estudio and developer Inmoglaciar have seen the project grow, in around 7 years expanding from a sketch to an iconic building in the province of Madrid. Next to the lake of Valdebebas and facing the Felipe VI park in Valdebebas (Madrid), this residential complex is found, made up of 83 residences of 1 to 5 bedrooms, having obtained the A energy rating, in which the materials of PORCELANOSA Group have helped to achieve this high qualification.\nAt first glance we find a curved facade with a uniform texture which breaks with the typical design of horizontal strips, the 5,200 square metres of KRION 1100 Snow White being the prominent material in the building. For this work, the K-FIX construction system (from the Group's company Butech) was used for attaching KRION to this ventilated facade.\n#Projects\nIn accordance with the provisions of current legislation on the Protection of Personal Data, we inform you that the personal data you have provided will be included in a file controlled by PORCELANOSA Grupo A.I.E. is responsible. (Tax ID No. V-12465118 and registered office at Carretera Nacional 340, km 55.8, 12540 Vila-real (Castell\u00f3n, Spain) in order to process your subscription request and send you periodic information of interest, informing you about our products and services through electronic commercial communications. Your personal data may be transferred to the companies of the PORCELANOSA Group belonging to the sector of the manufacture and sale of materials for construction, decoration and accessories (listed in www.porcelanosa.com\/empresas.php and www.porcelanosa.com\/buscador-de-tiendas.php) for the same purpose but only if you authorize it by checking the following box.\nI want to receive news and offers by email\nThe legitimacy results from the existence of a contractual relationship, legitimate interest and consent, according to each purpose and possible assignment. In accordance with the rights conferred by current data protection legislation, you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, portability, limitation of processing, deletion or, where applicable, opposition as explained in the additional information. Additional information: for additional and more detailed information on Data Protection, please visit our website Privacy policy\nCookies Preferences Legal Notice","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This Could Be A\u2026Breath of Fresh Air\nCLEAN AIR NOW!\nAir pollution is an invisible enemy \u2013 killing 9,000 Londoners early every year. The brief drop in traffic levels during the coronavirus lockdown gave us a glimpse of what life could be like with less congestion and cleaner air. Around the world, cities are now taking inspirational steps to prioritise the needs of people above cars, with pedestrianised areas and new cycling provision. Let's seize this moment to do something amazing in Wanstead too. We've come up with some quick and simple ways you can help put pressure on Redbridge Council and the Government to get their act together and deal with the problem of air pollution. Imagine Wanstead less choked up with traffic. It could be a breath of fresh air.\nDirty air is estimated to cause 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK, and the London Assembly says the capital's toxic air is a public health crisis. Exposure to air pollution stunts the growth of children's lungs and increases the chance of lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and other illnesses. Now evidence is mounting that it is linked to increased Covid-19 infections and death rates according to the World Health Organization (WHO).\nThe main cause of air pollution in London is traffic. The quieter streets, cleaner air and lower noise levels that lockdown brought have been welcomed across Wanstead. We have been able to breath more easily, smell the freshness of the air and better hear bird song for the first time. Many cities, including areas of central London, have recently and quickly made expanded cycle ways or traffic-free streets to make cycling safer and reduce crowding on pavements and on public transport. But so far, sadly not in Redbridge. Cycling is a way to travel with lower risk of Coronavirus infection than public transport, however, understandably, many people are put off getting on their bike due to the lack of traffic-free safe cycleways. The danger is that people will start to drive more to avoid infection, worsening air quality and putting health at risk in other ways.\nIn Redbridge, cycling provision is far poorer than in other boroughs, and cycleways \u2013 especially safe cycleways where riders are separated from the traffic \u2013 are few and far between. There is a noticeable deterioration in safe cycling options when cycling from Waltham Forest to Redbridge, for example. While Redbridge Council has shown intention to improve matters and is currently undertaking a consultation (which we encourage all to contribute to), the more pressure that is exerted on them by residents, the higher safe cycling will move up the agenda. Many schemes can be done at low cost. Others will require major funding. However, the health of all of us and especially our children is at stake.\n5 SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO NOW:\nContribute your ideas to the Redbridge Council survey on healthier and safer streets at https:\/\/redbridgetravelmap.commonplace.is\/. You can comment specifically on where in Wanstead you'd like to see cycleways and reductions in traffic.\nWrite to our MP Ask our Wanstead MP, John Cryer, what action he is taking to keep our air clean by emailing him this letter: https:\/\/bit.ly\/write-to-your-mp-air-pollution or just drop him a quick note at john.cryer.mp@parliament.uk\nJoin many others around Wanstead by not using the car for local journeys and traveling by foot, bike or scooter instead.\nJoin Wanstead Climate Action and help us campaign locally (email us at wansteadclimateaction@gmail to find out more or join our group). You may have recently seen our distinctive yellow and black posters around Wanstead which point out areas that could be safe cycle lanes, safe cycle storage and electric bike hubs. Join the campaign by downloading and posting these in the appropriate spots. Get in touch for our guide to posting and let us know how you get on afterwards!\nfinal-safe-cycle-lane.psd4_Download\nfinal-this-could-be-an-electric-cycle-hub-2.psd1_Download\nfinal-safe-cycle-storage.psd1_Download\nGot kids? Check out the great work by Mums for Lungs https:\/\/www.mumsforlungs.org\nClick to access air_quality_for_public_health_professionals_lb_redbridge.pdf\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/jun\/16\/coronavirus-uk-has-legal-duty-to-review-air-pollution-targets-say-lawyers\nhttps:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/travel-information\/improvements-and-projects\/streetspace-for-london#on-this-page-0\nhttps:\/\/redbridgetravelmap.commonplace.is\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"North Korea Has Got It\nNorth Korean military members setting up the Hwasong-14 ICBM for its successful test launch on Friday night, with Kim Jong-un watching. July 28, 2017.\nLast night on July 28, North Korea asserted, validated, and demonstrated an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capability to strike the United States of America and most of its major cities to the world at large (Link). This mobile, liquid fueled ICBM \u2013 called the Hwasong-14 \u2013 showed a re-entry vehicle that had North Korean nuclear weapon capacity is size and weight in the shroud of what was separated and propelled from a two stage missile to a apogee of 3,700 km, with a 47 minute flight time, which then re-entered the atmosphere at the proper angle into the Sea of Japan (Watch video, from Mainland Japan, believed to be of the missile descending into the Sea of Japan) for a safe re-entry and landing on the earth's surface. The conservative range estimate of this North Korean Hwasong-14 mobile ICBM capability is around 9,500 km when put in an operational and energy efficient trajectory, proving most of the United States' major cities are within range.\nEarlier this month, on July 4th, this exact same mobile ICBM \u2013 with no technical differences to the one launched last night on the 28th of July \u2013 was flown to an apogee of 2,800 km and 39 minutes of flight time, demonstrating an operational range to strike Alaska and Hawaii. The ICBM capability and the range to strike Hawaii from the July 4th test was mistakenly doubted by Russia (Link) and open press sources that stated that this ICBM was not a ICBM nor was it clearly in range of Hawaii. North Korea clearly on its first test of this missile, the mobile Hwasong-14 on July 4th, controlled the liquid fuel burn in the first state of less altitude and less time to mitigate risk for success of its maiden flight.\nThough quotes from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman of the United States (Link), the Vice Chairman of the JCS (Link) and the United States Army Chief of Staff (Link) have alluded to the North Korea ICBM nuclear threat to the United States of America. The United States President and his National Security Council have not yet defined and acknowledged publicly to the American people the actual North Korean ICBM nuclear threat and capability to the United States of America, thereby being continually constrained by outdated U.S. policy that has failed in the prevention of a North Korean nuclear ICBM capability and underplaying the severity and reality of the North Korean Nuclear ICBM capability to the American public.\nIt is of absolute valid merit now and for the national security of the United States, and the leadership of this country accept the full responsibility of a North Korea Nuclear ICBM capability and change our current policy towards North Korea from prevention to a new policy of defense and deterrence against a rouge, nuclear capable, enemy nation to the United States of America. For if this is not resolved clearly and decisively by the President of the United States, then there will continue to be instability degradation of status quo, the strategic balance will be in jeopardy, and nuclear proliferation becomes a reality for both our allies and foes. The safety of the United States people is at stake.\nWe need to provide more resources for more missile defense capability and capacity, while enabling their capabilities to their full potential for the United States of America, all of its people and its allies in the region to bring stability and clear intent that the United States will not be held nuclear hostage from any nation. We need to integrate all of our missile defense capability and capacity with our offensive force from all of our domains and leap to next generational missile defense capability to include directed energy, electronic and algorithmic warfare in the third offset. All of these options above are limited by today's United States policy on missile defense, that needs to be changed for the National Security of the United States and for the global stability of the world which we live in.\nWe need to be strong, we need to lead and we need to protect our people, the very best we can from a rouge nation with nuclear ICBMs, that will be setting a precedent for others to follow.\nYes, North Korea is for real and yes, we as a nation must accept it, defeat it and provide clear intent of no tolerance for nuclear rouge nation capacity or capability in setting the stage for a safer world.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome to the Wonderful World of Walnet.\nServing the World Wide Web since October 1995\nwith more than 3,710 interesting things to read.\nOver 29,641,638 pages served!\nHOME TO:\nChris Bearchell's Camp Swampy\nIn January 1995, Chris Bearchell set out from Toronto to pursue her long-held dream \u2014 to buy land and retire in the woods on Lasqueti Island, BC. When Chris's unexpected death from cancer drew near, her last wish was for Camp Swampy to remain a resource, shared by her many friends who helped make her dream home come true\u2026\nRemembering cb\u2026\nThe Chris Bearchell (1953 \u2013 2007) Memorial Homepage commemorates the life and achievements of this fierce activist, writer, editor, organizer of Canada's gay rights movement.\nCommercial Sex Information\nService (CSIS)\nAn ever-growing resource produced for and by sex workers. Created and maintained by Andy Sorfleet, who now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Has a national and international scope. A well-rounded site which explores and explains prostitution and the law, sex, health, and history.\nCommittee to Unite Prostitutes! (CUP)\nThe name says it all, doesn't it? A new organization aimed at helping prostitutes get it together to identify common concerns and make their voices heard. Anyone committed to promoting sex-worker solidarity can join.\nFLASH Vancouver\nA new photo site by Vancouver's\nflashiest photographer \u2014 Phil Flash!\nInternet Explosure!\nDANGER! Canada's hottest and hippest exposed!\nA site dedicated to \"Jane Doe\" \u2014 the women who had to remain anonymous while they took on the Metro Toronto Police Force. Built by the chosen family of the late Fiona Stewart.\nBuilding with LOGS\n'A site dedicated to two people who taught me\na lot about hard work\u2026'\n'With all this medical marijuana madness, it's time\nfor a little more cannabis culture\u2026'\nSociety Of Syphilitics (S.O.S.)\nS.O.S. is dedicated to those of us who may have syphilis. If you have been diagnosed with syphilis, or have tested positive for syphilis, or have been treated for syphilis (successfully or possibly unsuccessfully), or if you suspect that you have syphilis but your test results are negative (even repeatedly) then you need to find out more this disease.\nStanley Woods' Critters\n'To All Creatures, Great and Small.' \u2014 A guide to the\nanimals living in Stanley Park, Vancouver, and the\nwest coast of British Columbia.\nTRAILBOYS\nA web 'zine with the theme of gay sex outdoors and other\npublic places. Explicit, sexy pics!\n97 Walnut\nAn explanation of the origins of the Walnet site, 97 Walnut Ave,\nToronto, and some of the people who lived there.\nCalendar of the Celts \u2014 The beginnings of a site that\ndescribes the various Celtic pagan holidays, such as\nHallowe'en and Winter Solstice.\nCopyright \u00a9 1995-2011 Walnet Institute\nCopyright belongs to author, unless otherwise stated.\nInformation About Copyright\u2026\nCopyright: \u00a9 WALNET 1995-2011\nAll Rights Reserved. Walnet Institute\nBox 3075, Vancouver, BC\nV6B 3X6 Canada\nEmail: info@walnet.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We are MGP\nA boutique San Francisco-based PR firm specialized in emerging technologies, where story and strategy unite.\n20 tech company exits worth more than $2.5 billion in 7 years\nto companies like Apple, Oracle and Amazon Web Services.\nSenior leadership on every account\nYou hire the senior team, you get the senior team.\nWhat gets us out of bed before the alarm? Our clients.\nWe live and breathe their business and their success is ours.\nWe're not order takers. We're market shapers.\nWe thrive in the digital economy of \"What's Next\" and storytelling is our currency.\nWe think the world of PR is broken however, and in desperate need of a reboot.\nIn an industry full of \"spray and pray,\" we believe highly strategic PR is the only way.\nAlways on and with our antenna always up, we relentlessly and passionately pursue the \"What If?\" with remarkable bandwidth and agility.\nKnowledge and experience are important to be sure, but that's not enough to achieve solid, lasting results.\nIn a crowded and confused space, it's imperative to have deep connections, spark conversations and fan the flames.\nWe are masters of simplifying the complex and making the difficult look easy \u2013 all with graceful persistence.\nWe proudly bring our passion and creativity to work every day. We love what we do and it shows.\nIndividually, we have our own super powers and flex our respective specialized muscles.\nCollectively, we are a force with which to be reckoned.\nWe are Mercury Global Partners.\nMindy M. Hull\nTara Hill\nColleen Wickwire\nSenior PR Consultant\nGinny Cain\nNatalee Gibson\nAllie Gavan\nHannah Martin\nKayla Bortak\nCarla Richardson\nErin Lumley\nAntonio Hicks\n\u00a9 2018 Mercury Global Partners. All rights reserved.\nMy Superpower\nTransmutation\ue09d\nKayla brings extensive B2B and B2C PR experience in enterprise\/SaaS, cloud, fintech, mobile IoT, robotics and consumer tech to her role as Senior Account Manager, where she manages the day-to-day activity for multiple accounts and works proactively to ensure client KPIs and deadlines are met.\nHighly skilled at moving PR strategies forward through media and analyst outreach, Kayla excels at simplifying concepts, elevating basic content, and writing for both consumer and business audiences. Her carefully crafted pitches consistently result in tier-one media coverage as well as press meetings at key tech conferences including CES and MWC.\nLured by the opportunity to work with dolphins, sharks and whales, Kayla worked previously at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, helping scientists and engineers translate their research into public-ready stories. Prior to that time, she held the role of Account Manager and Account Executive at Mercury Global Partners. Prior to MGP, Kayla worked for SpilledINK, a boutique agency where she helped manage accounts including PrimeSense (acquired by Apple in November 2013), OpenNI, Democrats Abroad 2012, and Catchoom.\nBased in South Florida, Kayla enjoys taking walks outside between November and March and being inside the rest of the year. She insists that it is \"not too hot in Florida\". Her idea of a good vacation is one planned around tasty eats.\nProvocative Persuader\ue09d\nAntonio Hicks possesses over a decade of communications and branding success. Having worked across diverse industries including B2B and B2C technology, gaming, sports, entertainment and consumer lifestyle, Antonio's experience is a consummate public relations, communications and brand expert.\nPrior to joining MGP, Antonio led marketing and communications for StreamLabs, the number one streaming software and platform used by today's top streamers on Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Mixer and more. During his tenure at StreamLabs, Antonio built the company's brand and messaging, consistently raised the company profile via coverage in top-tier outlets such as The New York Times, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, and also produced and curated StreamLabs' highly successful presenting conference, Expanding the Stream, an invite-only day summit featuring the best and brightest from the video gaming, eSports, social media, and streaming companies.\nAntonio previously worked for Spark PR, where he launched numerous Silicon Valley start-ups and product introductions into the market, including: the world's first 3D body scanner, the Naked Fit; the newest intro to supersonic travel from Boom Technology, Boom Supersonic, along with some of the most innovative technology startups across multiple verticals such as health and fitness, e-commerce, mobile gaming, VR and smart home.\nPrior to Spark PR, Antonio served as PR Manager for Seattle Theatre Group, the largest performing arts organization in the Pacific Northwest region, where he managed PR for hundreds of performances annually, and also created and launched STGtv, a premiere video platform on YouTube and Amazon Fire.\nEarlier in his career, Antonio worked for New York-based boutique firm, Estabrook Group, where he worked closely with high-profile professional athletes, celebrities and media companies to develop and build their brand, including the number one athlete in the world, LeBron James and NFL superstar, Terrell Owens. His work with Fortune 500 companies includes Microsoft Branded Entertainment, Bing Search, and Reveille (producer of the Emmy-Award Winning shows Ugly Betty, The Tudors, and The Biggest Loser.)\nBased in San Francisco and with a passion for storytelling, technology and the arts, Antonio enjoys digging deep to find the best story angles to pitch reporters that will resonate with their audiences. In his spare time, Antonio likes to travel the world, explore his passion for cooking and kitchen gadgets, enjoy fine dining in San Francisco, and catch what's playing at the Yerba Buena Arts Center.\nMarketing Maven\ue09d\nGinny Cian\nGinny has more than 25 years of diversified experience in all aspects of online and offline marketing, with the last 10 years in financial services-related industries including real estate technology, residential real estate services, new home building, mortgage lending, retail operations and technology, ABA and joint venture mortgage relationships.\nBased in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ginny cut her teeth in public relations in the Silicon Valley handling high tech clients in the 90s. Prior to MGP, Ginny founded and ran her own marketing consultancy firm, Cain Communications, where she worked with a variety of clients in the tech, real estate and mortgage industries. She also previously served as VP of marketing for several top 10 nationally ranked real estate brokerages, including Alain Pinel Realtors and Prudential California, Texas and Nevada realty.\nA 360-degree marketer, Ginny understands that a client's needs often include everything from public and community relations and advertising to web content and online marketing. She has a vision around the 360-degree concept and the experience to back up the vision.\nGinny holds a bachelor's degree in business marketing form Cameron University in Oklahoma. She's also an incessant Francophile and a weekend gourmet.\nMedia Hound\ue09d\nColleen is a communications professional with more than 13 years' experience \u2013 including broadcast TV, in-house and agency PR \u2013 working with an extensive range of enterprise, consumer tech and lifestyle brands. She is responsible for developing and executing marketing and communications strategies for clients. Her specialties include campaign and product launch planning, messaging and content creation, integrating traditional and social media strategies, and providing executive-level counsel and event planning.\nColleen is highly accomplished at building productive relationships with both traditional media and key vertical influencers via an integrated approach to PR and social media. She has worked with an extensive range of B2B and B2C companies throughout her career including Meebo, Mobclix (acquired by Velti), Yodlee, Google, Inbenta, Sony Online Entertainment, Favado App (Savings.com), FabKids (acquired by JustFab), Tindog, Social Gaming Network (SGN), Bunchball, JustAnswer, Coupon Craze and SmartyPig.\nBased in San Francisco, Colleen has an insatiable appetite for discovering new music and local restaurants and recently completed a month-long excursion in Patagonia. On sunny days, you can almost certainly find her at the beach with her dog, Bruce.\nSocial Star\nAs an Account Coordinator, Hannah is responsible for supporting the MGP account teams across the entire client base. Her responsibilities include building media lists, drafting content, executing reports, researching events and awards and performing valuable competitive media research. She is also charged with social media execution for MGP and its clients to draw attention to them, enhance client messaging while remaining true to vision, and deepen engagement with followers and industry influencers.\nPrior to joining MGP, Hannah worked in the restaurant industry and also dabbled in social media across multiple platforms. A recent graduate of BYU \u2013 Idaho with a bachelor's degree in psychology, Hannah is passionate about her Corgi, Brie, and enjoys food, photography, and traveling in her free time.\nPR Swiss Army Knife\ue09d\nErin is a PR and social media professional with more than 20 years of B2B and B2C experience, spanning a variety of sectors including mobile, telecom, transportation, AR\/VR, fintech, education, cloud, connected home, IoT, travel and enterprise. Her expertise runs wide and deep: developing and executing PR strategies for clients, competitive analysis, messaging, media relations, analyst relations, content and blog creation, social media campaign development and media training.\nErin has worked with companies at every stage of their lifecycle \u2013 startups, mid-market and globally traded companies \u2013 including AltspaceVR, Autodesk, Automatic, Glu Mobile, Salesforce, Sidecar, Slacker Radio, StudyMode, WorldMate and Xirrus. Earlier in her career, she spent time in Sydney, Australia gaining valuable overseas experience and working with numerous global telecom companies. She's since gone on to work with companies all over the world including Israel, Japan, Mexico, France, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S.\nAn expert at securing media coverage, Erin has landed clients in numerous broadcast, consumer, technology and business publications, i.e. CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Verge and USA Today. She's also placed a wealth of contributed content over the years in VentureBeat, Forbes, WIRED and the podcast, USA Today's Deep Dive.\nErin hold a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Chico State, and was certified in social media by the University of San Francisco.\nA lifelong Bay Area native, Erin is a self-proclaimed news junkie, world traveler and enjoys reading, wine tasting and visiting farmers markets. She loves taking her puppy to Crissy Field and watching her eat sand.\nWord Warrior\ue09d\nBased in Idaho, Tara brings her passion for writing to her role as account executive and is a frequent content marketing author (bylines, blogs, case studies) for MGP clients. A \"Jill of all trades\", Tara plays a critical role in driving content marketing for clients, media outreach and reporting, managing award and speaker submission drafts and sell-in, drafting media briefing books, executing impactful social media campaigns, conducting media research, building client reports and more.\nTara recently graduated from Brigham Young University \u2013 Idaho, where she earned a bachelor's degree in PR and communications. Her love of gymnastics began at an early age and has evolved into a love of dance \u2013 particularly ballroom dance with her husband. They've mastered the \"swan lift\"! Tara enjoys all things beautiful and is also an accomplished harpist.\nCreative Ninja\ue09d\nCarla's communications experience spans both B2C and B2B PR. Her daily activities include media relations, expertly managing product reviews campaigns, managing events and awards, developing content (bylines, blog posts, press releases) and supporting the team on executing clients PR strategies. Carla skills also encompass overseeing MGP's social media channels and beautiful design work for MGP and its clients.\nPrior to joining MGP, Carla worked for a broadcast PR agency based in London, where she focused on generating creative ideas for broadcast strategies to raise awareness for brands across TV, radio and online media. She also spent three years working in the wine industry for a wine supplier specialized in organic and biodynamic wines, where she earned a qualification in winemaking.\nBased in Barcelona, Carla enjoys food, wine and travel, will say hello to every dog she encounters, and has a particular fondness for the autumn season.\nMedia Magician\ue09d\nAn accomplished, results-driven PR professional, Allie brings extensive B2C consumer tech and lifestyle PR experience to her role of Senior Account Manager at MGP. Her unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional client service is complemented by her expertise in media relations, media training, message development, integrated brand strategy, creative campaigns and producing high profile launch events. As a result, Allie continuously raises the visibility of clients on a national scale, garnering media placements in top-tier outlets and recognition through top industry awards.\nA media relations specialist and expert communicator, Allie has a knack for identifying and securing unique press opportunities for both emerging and established brands. The depth of tier one media coverage she's recently secured for clients includes The TODAY Show, Digital Trends, CNET, WIRED, The New York Times, Forbes, MacWorld, CNNMoney, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Men's Journal, O \u2013 The Oprah Magazine and Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler.\nPrior to joining MGP, Allie consulted for several consumer tech companies including Prynt, Petcube and HoundLabs Inc. as well as numerous wine and spirits brands and organizations, including Kobrand Wine & Spirits, Lucas Bols, and the Court of Master Sommeliers. Prior to consulting, Allie directed the consumer group at Cinch PR in San Francisco, where she led accounts including Kenu (from the founders of Joby), Jackson Family Wines, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Viceroy Hotels, Proper Hotels, and Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco, amongst others. Earlier in her career, Allie worked for Know Public Relations in Washington, D.C., where she delivered strategic communication services for leading culinary brands and personalities, including Bravo's \"Top Chef All-Stars\" runner-up, Chef Mike Isabella, celebrity Chef Art Smith's Art and Soul in The Liaison Capitol Hill, famed Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten's J&G Steakhouse in the W Hotel \u2013 Washington, and Chef Todd Gray's Equinox and Muse at The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Allie earned her bachelor's degree in Corporate Communication from the School of Media Arts and Design at James Madison University.\nBased in Orange County, Allie is a fitness enthusiast and cardio dance instructor, who loves skiing, wine tasting and exploring SoCal with her husband and young daughter.\nFirestarter & Rainmaker\ue09d\nAs CEO, Mindy is responsible for the overall strategy, vision and direction of MGP, including operations, business development, marketing and PR. With more than 25 years of B2B and B2C experience, Mindy has defined the strategy and run successful programs for numerous seed-stage startups, challenger brands and publicly traded market leaders, catapulting them onto the global stage and playing a significant role in helping many of them to exit.\nMindy's sector experience runs wide and deep \u2013 AI, VR\/AR, gaming, mobile (devices, apps, messaging, security, analytics), IoT\/smart home, consumer tech, cryptocurrency\/blockchain, sleeptech, adtech\/martech, fintech, cybersecurity, 3D sensors, edtech, enterprise\/SaaS\/big data, ecommerce and more. She specializes in new product launches, playing an active role in propelling startups and challenger brands onto the global stage. Throughout her career, Mindy has built strong relationships with journalists, analysts and conference organizers, alike \u2013 consistently winning media coverage in some of the most respected tier-one global media and annually placing clients as speakers at highly regarded conferences such as Mobile World Congress, CES and SXSW.\nPrior to founding MGP, Mindy spent time in senior-level roles in the media\/publishing sector at the Financial Times, E.W. Scripps Co. and Inman News Group.\nA California native, Mindy can usually be found with a can of La Croix sparkling water or cup of green tea in hand. She has a proclivity for travel, gourmet cooking, wine, music, weekend excursions with her husband, and a warm spot in her heart for The Netherlands.\nWonder Woman \ue09d\nAs Managing Director, Natalee is responsible for creating overall client strategy and ensuring that all PR campaigns map to both the short and long term goals of each MGP client. She brings a wide breadth of global PR experience to her role, representing companies at every stage of the business lifecycle \u2013 from startups to the Fortune 100. With more than 17 years of PR experience, Natalee has cultivated strong relationships with members of the media, important industry conferences and influential market analysts. Her B2B and B2C sector expertise spans AI, mobile, VR\/AR, automotive, adtech and marketing tech, fintech, hardware (including test & measure), big data, enterprise\/SaaS and more.\nNatalee began her career in journalism and brings a unique reporter perspective to her PR approach. Prior to joining MGP, she served as vice president of SF-based PR firm, Incendio International, where she represented large companies such as Flextronics International, Sun Microsystems, Sanmina-SCI, as well as young startups including Soft Kinetic, Taulia and FollowAnalytics. She holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and political science from Brigham Young University.\nBased in Denver, Natalee is a prolific writer, avid cyclist and sometimes triathlete who loves to travel the world with her husband and two kids.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS ARCHIVE\nFOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS\nOrdine TSRM PSTRP NA-AV-BN-CE\nFederazione Nazionale Ordini TSRM PSTRP\nJournal of Advanced Health Care\nHome Volume 2 Online The rehabilitation treatment of patients with psychosis of the residential structure of...\nThe rehabilitation treatment of patients with psychosis of the residential structure of the mental health operative unit of Torre Annunziata\nAsl Napoli 3 sud: a path of emotional literacy\nPerfetto Viviana, Alfano Vincenza\nPub.Info\nPerfetto Viviana\nAlfano Vincenza\nSubmission Date: 2020-11-05\nPubblication Date: 2020-12-03\nDOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.36017\/jahc2012-001\nThe recognition of emotions in others and in oneself is a delicate argument to confront four psychiatrists because often it refers to an ability to compromise And is the source of many difficulties. We define emotion as the subjective component of an affective sensation that goes together with and individual's conduct. While in the past and in pre science psychology, emotion was considered a disordered factor in the behavior of rational man, Darwin introduced a significant and revolutionary opposing opinion: emotions are an evolutionary mechanism that aids in the survival of a species that effects an individual in their environment.\nThe traditional definition of emotional categories often refers to primary or basic emotions: fear, anger, happiness, sadness surprise or disgust. These emotions can often be traced to the original response characteristics.\nIn the opinion of Eckman (1992), these emotions are innate and universal, characterized by a pattern of specific physiological activation. They are established quickly, and have an automatic mechanism to evaluate stimuli.\nSocial and emotional withdrawal is a component commonly found in schizophrenia and depression as a manifestation of affective dulling. An affective dulling and loss of logical connections are also in the same vicinity as the construct of alexithymia, the difficulty in identifying and communicating feelings, the problems in distinguishing between feelings and somatic sensations of emotional activation, an impoverished and restricted imaginative life, and a style of concrete and reality-oriented thinking. Alexithymia is considered a very important feature of affective dysregulation disorders, a prerequisite for the development of negative symptoms.\nThe initial idea of a path to emotional literacy with residential hospital patients was born after evidence emerged of a marked difficulty to recognize and express emotions by patients with psychotic psychiatric pathologies. The professional team, made up of a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a psychiatric rehabilitation technician often met to compare notes on the need for an intervention that could be useful in counteracting the alexithymia that characterizes many guests and that can have an important impact on interpersonal relationships. The underlined objective is to evaluate, using the appropriate tools, the impact of a path of emotional literacy could have on these patients. The first element to be pursued is maintaining commitments made by consistently participating in meetings. The path considers development one of the biggest emotional competencies, and the acquisition of generalized abilities for everyday life and in relationships with family and friends.\nThe proposed work, lasting a year, consists of a weekly path with the structure's residents, and is assessed at T0 and T1 using the TAS-20 (Toronto Alexitimia Scale) and ESCQ-45 (Emotional Skills & Competence Questionnaire). The topics covered range from the recognition of emotions based on facial expressions to the description and sharing of fears and desires, passing through the recognition of the parts of the body involved in an emotion; very important for these patients were the meetings dedicated to anger management and awareness of their own personal way of reacting to it.\nDescription of the sample of patients involved\nThe chosen sample for the path of emotional literacy consists of 10 users, of which 7 are men and 3 are woman, homogenous in that they are all residents, and of the diagnosed pathology (psychosis), albeit with different types of comorbidities. Table 1.1 illustrates the main characteristics of the sample involved.\nInitials Age Gender Schooling Marital Status Years of Illness\nA.N. 49 M 8 years unmarried 15\nC.L. 49 M 8 years unmarried 28\nC.M. 42 M 13 years unmarried 24\nI.G. 60 M 13 years unmarried 29\nM.A. 53 F 8 years married 20\nM.D. 50 M 8 years unmarried 27\nM.J. 61 F 11 years separated 23\nP.G. 47 M 13 years unmarried 17\nV.A. 51 M 8 years umarried 15\nV.G. 51 F 10 years Separated 21\nTab. 1.1 \u2013 Description of the sample patients involved\nThe entire central team worked together to choose these patients for the emotional literacy study. The selection criteria took into consideration each patient's psychopathological compensation condition and their difficulty in recognizing and managing emotions, and as a result of this the patient's need of a path that addresses these issues. In addition to this, the ability to support this work from start to finish without suspensions and or a necessity to exit the project was also taken into consideration. Each patient deemed as a suitable recipient of the proposed work was then informed about the start of the path, the topics that would be covered, the timing and purpose of the project, and gave his or her consent to take part to his or her healthcare professional.\nAnalytical Evaluation Scale\nThe analytical evolution scale used to monitor the results of the emotional literacy study, which were administers at the beginning and end of this work, were the T.A.S. \u2013 20 [1] (Toronto Alexitimia Scale \u2013 20 Item) and the ESCQ \u2013 45 [2] (Emotional Skills & Competence Questionnaire \u2013 45 Item).\nThe questionnaires were individually administered and filled out by the involved patients, but some requires help to fully understand some parts. All of the participants gave answers consistent with what was then demonstrated by them during the course they took, and expressed the difficulty they felt in recognizing and verbalizing their own and others' emotions with varying intensity.\nThe Structure of the Eotional Literacy Intervention\nThe emotional literacy course, which participants attended weekly in a space dedicated to rehabilitation groups from S.I.R. who hosted the participants, was created by a team that believed in the idea of gradual progress. The topics covered and the tasks assigned were of increasing difficulty, starting from the definition of emotions necessary to be able to manage themselves and interpersonal relationships. The entire project lasted one year, and all the patients followed the project one meeting at a time with view absences and with growing interest as time passed, motivated by the possibility of using the new skills gained in everyday life. There were several moments where it was necessary to remind and encourage participants of their goals to keep the group homogeneous and avoid that temporary moments of personal crisis that could affect participation in the group and affect the continuity of the work carried out, but these moments overall had a positive effect and the group remained united from the beginning to the end of the proposed work. In the course of this year each participant continued to follow other project associated with S.I.R. and maintained individual psychological and psychiatric appointments, where it was possible to assist, monitor and support the emotional literacy project.\nAt the beginning of each meeting each participant was asked to fill out the following form to reflect on their current emotions and to verify that patients were more aware of their own emotions, and that adequate recognition of those emotions was gradually being acquired.\nFig. 1.1 \u2013 \"Today I feel\u2026because\u2026\"\nAfter filling out the sheet, each participant could choose to share their work with the group, and in so opening themselves up to the group, or to send them to the project operators without comment. This was also used as a way to note gradual changes in participants.\nEmotional Recognition\nAfter the first one on one meeting and administration of analytical evaluation scale, the course began with the identification of 6 primary emotions in order of complexity: happiness, sadness, dear, surprise, anger and disgust. Each of these emotions was described using facial images that express that emotion and the underline the physical characteristics of these emotions (open or closed lips, corners of the eyes turned up or down, eyebrows arched or raised etc..); below each face depicting the emotion the interventions of the patients were reported regarding:\nwhat do I feel when I feel this emotion\non what occasion do I feel this emotion\nwhen I feel this way\nThe 6 primary emotions along with the participants comments are used in the following sheets, filled out by each participant as a way to report all the interventions, and then place them on a notice board for illustrative purposes; each participant, on the other hand, had a personal form where they could record their own responses. The sheets of each participant were then collected in a personal file, which later would attest to the progress and reactions of each participant in a clear and intuitive way. This first work was completed over an arch of meetings for each emotion described, each of them lasting about 60 minutes. Only the appropriate responses for identifying emotions were reported in the general form, but it should be emphasized that not all interventions were congruous and that often a description of a state of mind or an experience did not match with the emotion under examination, demonstrating the initial confusion experienced by patients. The attempt put in place was therefore to bring order, reporting on the form the contributions deemed appropriate and at the end illustrating the result of the joint work: the description of the emotion and self-reflection on the personal moments their were the protagonist of.\nSadness and fear were the emotions that evoked the most immediate and numerous responses, some of them with disarming clarity; with other emotions, like disgust and surprise, the group experienced more difficulty and required a clearer guide. On the whole, useful schemes were obtained for framing each specific emotion, which were also subsequently used to quickly review the notions learned and to add adequate content as the participants' awareness of their emotions was increasing.\nThe results obtained are shown below.\nFig. 1.2 \u2013 Happiness\nFig. 1.3 \u2013 Sadness\nFig. 1.4 \u2013 Fear\nFig. 1.5 \u2013 Surprise\nFig. 1.6 \u2013 Anger\nFig. 1.7 \u2013 Disgust\nWe then worked by showing patients different faces and asking them to identify the emotion depicted so they could memorize each characteristic and expression. Other forms instead asked for emotions elicited by certain sentences; in this phase the participants worked on the sentences over several different meetings, using a profile of each of the 6 fundamental emotions. Form 1.8 is an example of this.\nParticular attention was paid to the sentences referring to contexts that allowed the manifestation of multiple emotions at the same time (eg \"I fought with my brother\" \u279c anger \/ sadness), talking about them at length and underlining how it would be possible to use more than one emotion while handling a similar situation. The theme of emotional ambivalence was also introduced in this phase, and with this how it could happen that people might have contrasting emotions in the same situation, which was particularly hard for the participants. While the coexistence of two emotions at the same time, like anger and sadness or joy and wonder, was easy for participants to accept, not all participants were ready to accept the complexity of ambivalent emotions, which generally evoked amazement and disbelief. It was therefore decided to proceed step by step and return to the topic later.\nFig. 1.8 \u2013 Indicate the corresponding emotions given the circumstances\nThree meetings were dedicated to anger, to it's definition and how to handle it, as was necessary as it was strongly felt in all the participants. Given this emotion was so complex and difficult to manage for the participants , these meetings also took place in the presence of the Service psychologist.\nAfter quickly repeating the expressions that characterize an angry face and speaking about what situations can result from this emotion, the participants were asked to remember particular moment in which they had been overcome by this emotion. They were able to think of an instance of anger with little difficulty, and sometimes felt the emotion resurface as they explained the situation to the group. This created the opportunity to for them to describe their personal reactions to anger which was different for each of them, and an opportunity to think of way to better confront similar situation. Form 1.9 was proposed to identify emotions and mental states that hide behind anger which trigger and angry reaction.\nIn this way it was possible to identify two contrasting behaviors in response to anger, described by patients in a clear way: an explosive reaction, expressed by fights, a short temper and breaking things, and a submissive reaction, characterized by closed oneself off, isolation and silence. From the description of these two reactions to anger, a rich discussion was born that went beyond simple handling of anger. It was difficult to make participants understand that there was another way to reaction besides their usual reactions, and most of all it was difficult to make the patients with \"explosive\" reactions understand the \"submissive\" reactions and vice versa, which was in line with definition of \"anger\" even if they don't share common characteristics.\nFrom that point an alternative way to handle angry reactions was searched for, leading to a middle road between the two types of anger, which were divided into the following steps:\nI try to calm down;\nI speak to the person who made me angry;\nI explain what made me angry and how this action made me feel;\nI listen to his point of view and, if possible, try to clarify it; if not, I go away.\nAs result a conversation begun about each participants preferred way to calm down: listening to music, taking a walk, resting or speaking to someone about what had happened. Each of them expressed their personal preferences along with their personal difficulties, drawing inspiration from the suggestions introduced by others.\nThe implementation of the modeling by the psychiatric rehabilitation technician and the psychologist, and the role play by a couple of patients who self-applied to the experience, was very important in depicting the steps proposed above. This allowed the group to elaborate their own experiences regarding the meetings dedicated to anger management, and at the same time created a playful atmosphere that soothed the moods that the previous discussion had rekindled.\nEach meeting regarding anger lasted about 90 minutes given that wealth of ideas expressed and the conversations and debates that grew from it. The entire group of participants were more involved and engaged, and reacted well to the proposed stimuli.\nFig 1.9 \u2013 The Anger Iceberg\nFig. 1.10 \u2013 Conflict and Me\nEmotional Nuances\nAfter having described and recognized the base emotions, the moment had arrived to broaden viewpoints by exploring the horizon of the infinite emotional nuances that define the moods that everyone experience. In the same scope, each participant was asked to complete a form about the most common secondary emotions. The participants were asked to associate each secondary emotion with a situation or event, as they had done for the original 6 emotions.\nFig. 1.11 includes some secondary emotions with participant's relative responses regarding each of them. The idea was inspired by the theme of contrasting emotions that can coexist in the same person or the same situation; each participant was asked to color a heart, filling it with different colors to represent different emotions to depict the emotions that characterized their mood at that precise moment. Fig. 1.12 shows M.d's exemplary results., who was one of the patients who had shown more difficulty in understanding the coexistence of conflicting emotions.\nOther forms and exercises required participants to place secondary emotions in the right categories, recognizing the macro-areas they belong to and stimulating the identification of numerous nuances of daily experience.\nForm 1.11 \u2013 Nuances emotions\nFig. 1.12 \u2013 The heart of emotions, M.D.\nPhysical monitoring of emotions\nEvery emotions, be it positive or negative, has a personal physical positioning; you belly or the knees can avert us to fear, just as sadness can involve the heart or the head. The work carried out in order to stimulate self-observation and recognition in the body part most affected by each emotion was very engaging for the group, who felt free and listened to their body in each way. Here there was no wrong answer, as the physical perception of emotions is subjective and extremely variable between people; the participants took part in this group with total autonomy. To express the physical aspect of emotions, an activity was created that involved cutting out, pasting and placing the chosen emotions along a large outline of the human body. Each participant took their own outline representing themselves, and cut out from numerous cards with the names of the emotions most felt in that moment; each name was then glued to the area of the body where the patient believed to have felt that emotion.\nPhysical monitoring of emotions created an occasion to, in a playful and dynamic way, pass time dedicated to self-observation and reasoning. From the outside, it was good to see the patients touching their heads, bellies, to see them put their hands on their hearts and close their eyes, as a way to show their understood that they would find the emotion right there. Patient feedback on the proposed exercise was positive, and was confirmed by the precision with which most of the templates were \"filled in \".\nIn some cases, the participants asked for clarification about the meaning of certain terms, but never tried to \"copy\" the placement of the cards on the template from one another. Once the task was completed, the comparison regarding the results obtained was complete and not without food for thought both for participants and for us operators.\nFig. 1.13 shows the outline built by C.M., in which the choice of exclusively negative emotions and the placement of the word \"angry\" on the foot stands out; M. was one of the patients who showed, in fact, an \"explosive\" reaction to anger while working on conflict management.\nFig. 1.13 \u2013 Physical monitoring of emotions, C.M.\nAnxious stimuli\nA meeting was dedicated to reflection on the situations that represent the main sources of anxiety for many patients in the group, the most common comorbidity among the participants. Anxiety often leads to avoidance, implemented by many patients in a massive and generalized way, as can be seen in form 1.14, compiled by P.G. It strongly represents his state of being and the isolation that this condition induced in him. The form requires participants to assign a number from 1 to 10 to the various situations or places proposed, where number 10 is representative of the situation most avoided and the number 1, least feared.\nBy filling out this form, apparently simple and easy to understand, rich discussion between the patients involved was stimulated, which allowed the opportunity to address ideas not previously addressed within the group. Some were surprised by the answers given by fellow participants, trying to convince the others that they shouldn't fear certain situations; others felt relief in confronting the group about their problems, as if this could be a way to warn the other about situations in which they would not want to be involved.\nThe purpose of the meeting was certainly not to solve the problems presented, but rather to stimulate the group's participants to open up to the other, to share and confront each other.\nFig. 1.14 Anxious stimuli\nAnother noteworthy meeting dedicated to fears and the strategies implemented to deal with them. Here too, the discussion was rich and stimulating, where an ever greater openness on the part of patients as palpable as the path of emotional literacy progressed.\nIntroduced by form 1.15, which depicted some of the most common fears with their most tangible solutions, the topic was then addressed by each participant in the group individually, drawing their fear and writing something about it. The discussion expanded with the personal contribution of each participant about the moments in which the fear in question was experienced, and the ways to cope without reaching a personal limit. The origins of each fear and how they arose was also discussed.\nFig. 1.16 represents the work carried out by I.G. .\nPatients had revealed themselves to be, at this stage of the journey, already more mature and aware of their moods; confrontations were more fluid, uncertainty and confusion were less, and all were now dedicated to the proposed work with greater willingness. The commitment made during the journey is evident and we noticed the habit of getting together in groups and talking about something that unites them, of dealing with issues in a more natural way. They started to accept experiences that are different from their own and perhaps with conflicting ones as well.\nFig 1.15 \u2013 Make fear go away [3]\nFig. 1.16. \u2013 My fears, I.G.\nFig. 1.16.1 \u2013 My fears, I.G.\nTo encourage socialization, natural connections and personal openness between participants and operators, games and other expressive activities with an emotional theme were introduced to the group.\nFig. 1.17 shows a brief description of C.L.'s mood after he had spent the night with tachycardia, and of P.G., who shares his sadness. This exercise includes the recognition of the emotion you are experiencing, the representation of the face that characterizes it, the description of what you feel and the physical monitoring of the chosen emotion.\nAs a result, a real card game was created using the emotion cards shown in sheet 1.18; the game consisted of cutting out the cards, shuffling them by placing them in a pile to be turned over on the table, and taking turns drawing a card from the deck. Depending on the emotion that each participant drew, they would then have to stage it by mimicking their face or depicting an event that would evoke that emotion. This game proved to be both useful and fun, and was very much appreciated by the group; the operators also took part in it, contributing both to a modeling action and to the creation of a playful group atmosphere, in which getting involved would not have involved any kind of judgment. Some patients at first preferred not to take part in the game, remaining as observers, but all of them then gradually entered during the game or participated in the meetings proposed later, on different days. At the end of the course, everyone in the group caught at least one emotion, even the most introverted like P.G. .\nCard 1.19 instead shows an expressive activity in which patients were asked to write down the prevailing emotion at the time of the exercise, draw something related to it and assign it a music or a song, to be listened to all together during the execution of the drawing. The use of music was often proposed along the way, and it helped emotions to come out, to take shape, and to be shared without the need to be verbally described.\nM.D., in the card shown, started with the choice of music (Ludwig Van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5) and linked the composer's drawing and the emotion aroused,\nsadness. Before the end of the meeting, D. then added a cartoon that clarified the choice completed work: \"When I was little I listened to Beethoven's symphonies and even my father Filippo cried\". A memory, a piece of music, an emotion and a drawing.\nFig 1.17 \u2013 My emotions today, C.L. e P.G.\nFig. 1.18 \u2013 The Emotion Cards\nFig. 1.19 \u2013 Emotion, music and drawing, M.D.\nResults and Conclusions\nTable 1.1 shows the results obtained by individual patients at T0 and T1 according to TAS-20.\nTab. 1.1 \u2013 TAS-20 Scores at T0 and T1.\nThe ESCQ-45 scale, on the other hand, shows a marked improvement in V.G., who shows a difference of 32 points between T0 and T1, and so is the user who has obtained the greatest increase in emotional and social skills.\nWith reference to the partial results obtained from the subscales, the \"expression and recognition of emotions\" subscale was the one recorded in V.G. the greatest improvement (T0 = 15, T1 = 22).\nOn the other hand, the one who recorded the lowest score increase with the ESCQ-45 was I.G., in accordance with the results obtained by the same patient at the TAS-20.\nAlso from the analysis of the results obtained with the compilation of the ESCQ-45 it appears that all patients have reported improvements as a result of the emotional literacy process, to a greater or lesser extent. The analysis of the subscales also shows a correlation between the items of the TAS-20 and those of the ESCQ-45: a high score in the \"difficulty in identifying feelings\" subscale of the TAS-20, for example, is often combined with a low score in the ESCQ-45 \"expression and recognition of emotions\" subscale.\nIn addition to improving their emotional skills, the group of patients involved in the emotional literacy path has shown, in my opinion, to be more aware of their skills as well as their shortcomings. It happened, for example, that some items of the evaluation scales that at T0 indicated a sufficiently high competence, recorded a \"worse\" score at T1 not for a lack of results, but for a greater awareness of the meaning of each request and of the personal limits of each one.\nThe participant who most has been shown to have achieved improvements in the recognition, identification and knowledge of emotions, as well as in the ability to \"look inside\", was C.L., as evidenced by the results of the TAS-20. The music therapy course certainly supported the result achieved, visible to the naked eye and very important for the path that the patient is carrying out in S.I.R. . C.L. followed the entire process assiduously, with a great motivation for change, and with a personal and cultural background that allowed him to carry out an effective job. To date, he is more attentive to the state of mind of others, more aware of his emotions and better able to manage them adequately.\nThe patient who instead reported the least evident results was V.A. who, already of an outgoing and self-confident character, has not always managed to participate in a relevant manner in the meetings held. At the end of the course the patient seems to report a greater theoretical knowledge about emotions, but the personal involvement expected and experienced by others is still far away.\nAll the participants were involved, at the end of the course, in a restitution meeting in which they discussed results obtained together and their perception of their own path within the group. Most of the patients reported the feeling of greater openness to one another, while almost all observed an increase in the ability to self-observe and recognize their emotions.\nApfel R.J., Sifneos P.E., Alexithymia: concept and measurement. Psychoterapy and Psychosomatics, 1979.\nBagby R.M., Parker J.D.A., Taylor G.J., The Twenty-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale \u2013 I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 38, pp. 23-32., 1994.\nCiarrochi J., Chan A., Caputi P., Roberts R., Measuring emotional intelligence. Psychology\nDi Pietro M., L'ABC delle mie emozioni. Erickson, 2015.\nEkman P., Te lo leggo in faccia. Riconoscere le emozioni anche quando sono nascoste. Edizioni Amrita, 2008.\nKirkmayer L.J., Robbins J.M., Cognitive and social correlates of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Psychosomatics, 34, pp. 41-52, 1993.\nParker J.D.A., Bagby R.M., Taylor G.J., Endler N.S., Schmitz P., Factorial validity of the Twenty-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, European Journal of Personality, 7, pp. 221-232, 1993.\nRomney D.M., Candido C.L., Anhedonia in depression and schizophrenia. A re-examination. J\nNerv Ment Dis, 2001.\nStanghellini G., Ricca V., Alexithymia and schizophrenias. Psychopathology, 1995.\nTak\u0161i\u0107 V., Mohoric T., Duran M., Emotional Skills & Competence Questionnaire, 2001. Taylor G.J., Bagby R.M., Parker J.D.A., Disorders of affect regulation: Alexithymia in medical and psychiatric illness. Cambridge University Press, 1997.\nTaylor G.J., Bagby R.M., Parker J.D.A., The alexithymia construct: a potential paradigm for psychosomatic medicine. Psychosomatics, 1991.\nTaylor G.J., Bagby R.M., Parker J.D.A., Toronto Alexithymia Scale, 1992.\n[1] Taylor G.J., Bagby R.M., Parker J.D.A., Toronto Alexithymia Scale, 1992\n[2] Tak\u0161i\u0107 V., Mohoric T., Duran M., Emotional Skills & Competence Questionnaire, 2001\n[3] Di Pietro M., L'ABC delle mie emozioni, Erickson, 2015.\nPreviousMetabolic mind and primordial instinct. From biochemistry to the embodiment applied to nutrition. Vegan integrated diet. 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{"text":"Moose Jaw Miller Express > In the News > Late-game rally leads to Miller Express win over Mavericks\nLate-game rally leads to Miller Express win over Mavericks\nMoose Jaw overcomes 6-4 deficit with six runs in seventh, hold on for 10-9 win in Medicine Hat\nThe Moose Jaw Miller Express just keep finding ways to get things done in Western Canadian Baseball League action.\nTheir contest with the Medicine Hat Mavericks on Thursday night offered the latest example, as for the second straight night the game turned into a bullpen battle, and for the second straight night the Express came away with the win.\nMoose Jaw scored six runs in the seventh inning to overcome 6-4 deficit and would hang on for a 10-9 victory in Medicine Hat in a contest rescheduled from a June 4 rainout.\nIt wasn't the best of beginnings for the visitors, as standout starter Tim Carlson had a relatively off outing by his standards \u2014 the Mavericks scored one in the second, three in the third and two more in the sixth to build their lead.\nCarlson came into the contest having allowed a run or less in his previous three starts. He ended up allowing six runs, four earned, on 10 hits in 5 ? innings of work.\nThat all just meant the Moose Jaw offence had to pick up the slack, and with the way things have been going for the local squad at the plate this season, that wasn't an issue.\nThing is, the Miller Express didn't really need their bats with how the seventh inning played out.\nFour straight walks brought in the first run of the inning, and it just got worse from there \u2014 Austin Gurney was hit by a pitch to bring home Zach Campbell, Cam Grant was hit by a pitch to score Nate Mensik, Bryan Reyes scored on a wild pitch, Gurney scored on a wild pitch and Grant crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly to close out scoring in the inning.\nThe scoreline? Six runs scored on no hits and no Medicine Hat errors.\nThe Mavericks rallied in their half of the inning with three runs on two hits and three walks off reliever Triston Seitz, but that would be the last bit of good news for the home side. Kellan Voggesser tossed a scoreless eighth and Jesse Scholtz picked up the save in his league-leading 16th appearance of the season.\nScholtz has pitched 17 ? innings in that span, allowing only six runs, striking out eight and currently sporting a 2.07 earned run average.\nMensik finished the night 2-for-3 with three runs scored while Gurney had a single hit and also crossed the plate three times. Bryan Reyes was 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI, Hunter Barrett 2-for-4 with two RBI.\nThe Miller Express improved to 14-6 with the win and remain a game up on the Swift Current 57's for first place in the WCBL East Division. Their five-game winning streak is tops in the WCBL; only Swift Current has a better record over the last 10 games at 8-2 to Moose Jaw's 7-3.\nThat all leads to Friday night's first place showdown at Ross Wells Park, as the 57's make the trip east to face the Miller Express. First pitch is 7:05 p.m.\nVIA: https:\/\/www.moosejawtoday.com\/local-news\/late-game-rally-leads-to-miller-express-win-over-mavericks-5517026\nbaseball,Miller Express,Miller Express Baseball,Millers,Moose Jaw,Ross Wells Park,WCBL","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bollywood \u00bb\nPriyanka Chopra to appear next on Stephen Colbert's TV show\nEnid Judith D'souza| Updated On: 1 Feb 2017 10:47 AM GMT | Location :\nPriyanka Chopra has appeared on popular shows like Ellen DeGenerges show, Jimmy Kimmel and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Kelly and Michael.\nPriyanka Chopra has been creating a storm in Hollywood, first with her show Quantico and now with the promotions of her upcoming film Baywatch which is scheduled to release on May 26 this year. After an amazing chat session with Jimmy Kimmel, Priyanka Chopra will now be seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\nPriyanka Chopra plays the villain in Baywatch, which also stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. Although the first trailer didn't highlight our\ndesi girl, the next one, highlighted our diva create fire on the screen.\nWhile Deepika Padukone made the lungi dance famous on The Late Late Show with Jimmy Corden during the promotions for xXx: Return of Xander Cage, it would be interesting to see Priyanka Chopra create some magic, being a veteran in appearing on talk shows.\nPriyanka Chopra has appeared on popular shows like Ellen DeGenerges show, Jimmy Kimmel, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Kelly and Michael, and has been loved by her fans in India and around the world for her spontaneous personality and fun nature.\nApart from this, Priyanka Chopra recently won her second People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic TV Actress.\nIt would be interesting to see the combination of Priyanka Chopra and Stephen Colbert, who is known for his tongue-in-cheek humour and politically incorrect statements. This episode will air on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 on Star World Premiere HD.\nEnid Judith D'souza","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"French Prosecutor asks for dissolution of Scientology in France\nBy Michael Cosgrove Jun 15, 2009 in World\nIn an unprecedented move that has taken France and Scientologists completely by surprise, the Scientology trial has taken a new turn, and the severity of the sentences being demanded is leading commentators to envision the end of Scientology in France.\nThe Public Prosecutor in the Scientology trial being held in Paris has demanded that the Church be made illegal in France. The Church is accused of organised fraud, as are some of its organisations, who may face fines of up to two million Euros.\nThe trial is the result of a joint court case brought by several individuals who have accused the Church of abusive and fraudulent financial practices as well as mental abuse.\nThe Prosecutor's trial representatives, Maud Morel-Coujard et Nicolas Ba\u00efeto, are also said by French daily Le Figaro to have demanded today that the Spiritual Association of the Church, 'Celebrity Centre,' and the Church's library receive fines of 2 million euros each.\nThese are extremely heavy sentence recommendations, even for France, a heavily secular country, which has never hidden its suspicions concerning the Church of Scientology.\nAt the same time, a 150 000\u20ac fine, four years suspended prison and five years of privation of civic rights were demanded for the head of the Celebrity Centre, Alain Rosenberg. Suspended prison sentences and heavy fines were also recommended for five other individual Scientology Church members.\nThis decisive trial phase means that the Church of Scientology may soon face obligatory dissolution in France, after a trial which has seen it and its members facing the sort of tough questioning it has not experienced up to now.\nThis article will be updated for the next six hours.\nThe French government has asked Iranian authorities to do more to protect the French Embassy, which is the object of violent demonstrations at this time.\n(More details on the trial can be read here)\nMore about Scientology, France, Trial\nscientology france trial","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wayne Northey Blog 2 Comments\nMay 1, 2021 Wayne Northey\nTrump's Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed\nThe release of the 2017 policy \u2014 with redactions \u2014 stemmed from open-records lawsuits by The Times and the A.C.L.U.\nphoto above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature of the sprawling war on terrorism, raising legal and policy questions that remain in flux. Credit\u2026 Janis Laizans\/Reuters\nWN: Of course the use of drones\u2013as any aerial bombing\u2013invariably murders civilians\u2013often vast numbers. Two classic studies of aerial warfare by Tami Davis Biddle are: (2019) Air Power and Warfare: A Century of Theory and History, and (2004) Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945.\nWith reference to drone warfare, the author in the first mentioned book cites Professor Rosa Brooks:\nProfessor Rosa Brooks explained, \"to go after an ever-lengthening list of bad actors, many of whom appear to have only tenuous links to al Qaeda and the 9\/11 attacks, and many of whom arguably pose no imminent threat to the United States.\"1 This warning came in Brooks' testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the spring of 2013.\nMs. Biddle writes further:\nThe work is carried out quietly and off the front pages of newspapers. This means that it has little immediate political cost. Thus, the strikes can have the appeal of a silver bullet \u2014 a low-cost, almost magical way to dispatch enemies. However, dangers lurk in this seductive appeal. One first-order question is simply about due process of law. The target of an RPA strike has no opportunity to face the charges against them or argue a case before a court. Who ought to have the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner (all three) in these cases? Using RPAs for the targeted killing of enemies concentrates vast power in a few hands \u2014 and this sets up a situation that can be quite readily abused if it is not overseen and monitored for compliance with domestic and international law. There is also a concern about mission creep. How high on the enemy leadership chain need one be to qualify for an RPA strike? What evidence must that person reveal of intent to do harm? How imminent and clear must that threat be?\nMany critics of RPAs during the Obama years saw their use as evidence of American high-handedness and arrogance \u2014 evidence that Americans do not feel themselves to be bound by any rules or constraints in their international behavior. They perceived an American President using RPAs rather like a self-proclaimed Zeus, hurling thunderbolts from the sky. (Institute, Strategic Studies; War College Press, U.S. Army. Air Power and Warfare: A Century of Theory and History (pp. 58-59). Kindle Edition; emphasis added.)\nThe reality is, \"Good Guys\" snipers trained in Canada, the U.S. and other Western nations, hurl their smaller, equally deadly, thunderbolts across vast distances through use of a scope, thereby raising the identical question: Who ought to have the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner (all three) in these cases? Combine these murderous atrocities with treacherous (or just plain faulty) intelligence, and no telling how many rival warlords, warlord enemies, and hated persons at the local level are murdered through Western \"intelligence\" gathering. Whole wedding parties, etc., have been slaughtered through this callous calculus.\nWho is to know who and how many fell victim to wanton slaughter in Afghanistan, Syria etc., \u2013by the \"Good Guys\"? For instance (from my Front Page):\nThe Vietnam War is classic instance of what it means for America to be \"leader of the free world\". It was prosecuted under five Presidents: from Eisenhower to Nixon, 1955 to 1975. The New York Times ran an article in 2003 about a series published by The Toledo Blade, based upon accounts of several Vietnam War veterans, entitled \"Report on Brutal Vietnam Campaign Stirs Memories.\" The article reads in part:\nThe report, published in October [2003] and titled 'Rogue G.I.'s Unleashed Wave of Terror in Central Highlands,' said that in 1967, an elite unit, a reconnaissance platoon in the 101st Airborne Division, went on a rampage that the newspaper described as 'the longest series of atrocities in the Vietnam War.2\nFor a highly disturbing\/tragic read of what happens to such perpetrators upon re-entering society, see: Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War. Of the book we read:\nArmies know all about killing. It is what they do, and ours does it more effectively than most. We are painfully coming to realize, however, that we are also especially good at killing our own \"from the inside out,\" silently, invisibly. In every major war since Korea, more of our veterans have taken their lives than have lost them in combat. The latest research, rooted in veteran testimony, reveals that the most severe and intractable PTSD\u2013fraught with shame, despair, and suicide\u2013stems from \"moral injury.\"3\nAnd of course with the advent of aerial warfare, Pandora's Box was opened, and in the ancient Greek myth, only Hope (\u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u1fd0\u0301\u03c2 \u2022 elp\u00eds) remained inside. But such Hope was not invariably positive as in today's English usage. It was more an expectation that rendered the future to be of uncertain outcome, even foreboding. Saint Paul however specifically writes by contrast in Romans 5:\n\u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u1f76\u03c2 \u03bf\u1f50 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c7\u03cd\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u2014Hope does not make ashamed . . .\nSo we are left indeed with \". . . a self-proclaimed Zeus, hurling thunderbolts from the sky.\" But this is ever the case in aerial warfare, any kind of warfare. Combine that with nuclear warfare, and even more beyond the pale \"Star Wars\" warfare, as in my post: The Pentagon's New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion, and we are into literal stratospheric moral wrong! An excerpt:\nBack in the 21st Century\nNow imagine us back in the 21st century. It's 2030 and an American \"triple canopy\" of pervasive surveillance systems and armed drones already fills the heavens from the lower stratosphere to the exo-atmosphere. It can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the planet with staggering speed, knock out enemy satellite communications at a moment's notice, or follow individuals biometrically for great distances. It's a wonder of the modern age. Along with the country's advanced cyberwar capacity, it's also the most sophisticated military information system ever created and an insurance policy for global dominion deep into the twenty-first century.\nThat is, in fact, the future as the Pentagon imagines it and it's actually under development, even though most Americans know little or nothing about it.\nThough later we read:\nThe Future of Wonder Weapons\nBy the mid-2020s, if the military's dreams are realized, the Pentagon's triple-canopy shield should be able to atomize a single \"terrorist\" with a missile strike or, with equal ease, blind an entire army by knocking out all of its ground communications, avionics, and naval navigation. It's a system that, were it to work as imagined, just might allow the United States a diplomatic veto of global lethality, an equalizer for any further loss of international influence.\nBut as in Vietnam, where aerospace wonders could not prevent a searing defeat, history offers some harsh lessons when it comes to technology trumping insurgencies, no less the fusion of forces (diplomatic, economic, and military) whose sum is geopolitical power. After all, the Third Reich failed to win World War II even though it had amazingly advanced \"wonder weapons,\" including the devastating V-2 missile, the unstoppable Me-262 jet fighter, and the ship-killing Hs-293 guided missile.\nWashington's dogged reliance on and faith in military technology to maintain its hegemony will certainly guarantee endless combat operations with uncertain outcomes in the forever war against terrorists along the ragged edge of Asia and Africa and incessant future low-level aggression in space and cyberspace. Someday, it may even lead to armed conflict with rivals China and Russia.\n\"Because we can\" is devastatingly amoral and immoral.\nIn The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II, John W. Dower (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. See also my post on this here.), we read:\nIn retrospect, he [early Cold War nuclear warrior General (George) Lee Butler] decried the \"wantonness,\" \"savagery,\" \"reckless proliferation,\" \"treacherous axioms,\" and voracious \"appetite\" of deterrence \u2014 for which he himself had helped create many systems and technologies, including \"war plans with over 12,000 targets.\"\u2026 Elegant theories of deterrence,\" he exclaimed in one speech, \"wilt in the crucible of impending nuclear war.\" In later recollection of the folly of deterrence, Butler pointed out that at its peak the United States \"had 36,000 weapons in our active inventory,\" including nuclear landmines and sea mines and \"warheads on artillery shells that could be launched from jeeps.\" He concluded that mankind escaped the Cold War without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of diplomatic skill, blind luck and divine intervention, probably the latter in greatest proportion. (ibid, pp. 36 & 37).\nThank God there is indeed a better Elp\u00eds! And unlike King of Rock Elvis, this Hope never leaves (the building) nor forsakes! (Hebrews 13:5)\nFinally: to take a panoramic step back, one wonders about \"moral injury\" in the context of the entire sweep of Western civilization. Whether former Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land's defence of \"Just War\" and of capital punishment4, or theologians I personally know who all too glibly reject pacifism (minds too nimble\u2013or\u2013moral compass faulty?) and defend such state violence, J'accuse is legitimate generic indictment of vast Western populations past and present in light of endless atrocities committed by Western \"Civilization.\" Vast in scale and number: atrocities.\n\"Mission creep\" is generic reality in all things military. \"Moral corruption creep\" is peculiar to all civilizations: no less to Western . . . President Roosevelt wrote this in response to German bombing that led to World War II:\nAppeal of President Roosevelt to Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Poland\n\"THE ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centres of population during the course of the hostilities which have raged in various quarters of the earth in the past few years, which have resulted in the maiming and death of thousands of defenseless women and children, has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity.\n\"If resort is had to this sort of inhuman barbarism during the period of tragic conflagration with which the world is now confronted, hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings, who have no responsibility for, and who are not even remotely participating in, the hostilities which have broken out, now will lose their lives.\n\"I am therefore addressing this urgent appeal to every Government, which may be engaged in hostilities, publicly to affirm its determination that its armed forces shall in no event and under no circumstances undertake bombardment from the air of civilian populations or unfortified cities, upon the understanding that the same rules of warfare will be scrupulously observed by all their opponents.\n\"I request an immediate reply.\" (emphasis added)\nThe \"inhuman barbarism\" of the Nazis at the beginning of the War was far outpaced in sheer volume of carpet bombing savagery in Germany and Japan by War's end\u2013by the Allies!, of which two atomic bombs dropped were the \"inhuman barbarism\" capstone. Unalloyed, gargantuan savagery had come home to roost. That despite this:\nCarpet bombing of cities, towns, villages, or other areas containing a concentration of civilians is considered a war crime[5] as of Article 51 of the 1977 Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions.[6][7][8]\u2014Wikipedia\nMoral corruption creep became the West's unique signature ever since . . .\nWhere do we go then in the West for authentic moral absolution? Dare we seek it? What is our collective penance?\nWASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration has disclosed a set of rules secretly issued by President Donald J. Trump in 2017 for counterterrorism \"direct action\" operations \u2014 like drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional war zones \u2014 which the White House has suspended as it weighs whether and how to tighten the guidelines.\nWhile the Biden administration censored some passages, the visible portions show that in the Trump era, commanders in the field were given latitude to make decisions about attacks so long as they fit within broad sets of \"operating principles,\" including that there should be \"near certainty\" that civilians \"will not be injured or killed in the course of operations.\"\nRead the document:Partly declassified Trump-era rules for drone strikes\nAt the same time, however, the Trump-era rules were flexible about permitting exceptions to that and other standards, saying that \"variations\" could be made \"where necessary\" so long as certain bureaucratic procedures were followed in approving them.\nIn October, Judge Edgardo Ramos of the Southern District of New York had ordered the government turn over the 11-page document in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by The New York Times and by the American Civil Liberties Union. The Biden administration inherited that case and sought a delay but has now complied, providing a copy to both plaintiffs late on Friday.\nThe Biden administration suspended the Trump-era rules on its first day in office and imposed an interim policy of requiring White House approval for proposed strikes outside of the war zones of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. At the same time, the Biden team began a review of how both Obama- and Trump-era policies had worked \u2014 both on paper and in practice \u2014 with an eye toward developing its own policy.\nThe review, officials said, discovered that Trump-era principles to govern strikes in certain countries often made an exception to the requirement of \"near certainty\" that there would be no civilian casualties. While it kept that rule for women and children, it permitted a lower standard of merely \"reasonable certainty\" when it came to civilian adult men.5\nDrone strikes began under the administration of George W. Bush and soared during Barack Obama's first term \u2014 along with political and legal battles over reports of civilian casualties and, in 2011, the government's deliberate killing of an American citizen suspected of terrorism, Anwar al-Awlaki, without a trial.\nPlease click: Trump's Secret Rules for Drone Strikes\nRosa Brooks, \"The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force,\" Statement for the Record Submitted to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, May 16, 2013, p. 2, available from https:\/\/www. armed-services.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Brooks_05-16-13.pdf; Rosa Brooks, \"The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing,\" Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, April 23, 2013, available from https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/ download\/testimony-of-brooks-pdf.\nInstitute, Strategic Studies; War College Press, U.S. Army. Air Power and Warfare: A Century of Theory and History (p. 84). Kindle Edition.[\u21a9]\nIt continued:\n'For seven months, Tiger Force soldiers moved across the Central Highlands, killing scores of unarmed civilians \u2013 in some cases torturing and mutilating them \u2013 in a spate of violence never revealed to the American public,' the newspaper said, at other points describing the killing of hundreds of unarmed civilians.\n'Women and children were intentionally blown up in underground bunkers,' The Blade said. 'Elderly farmers were shot as they toiled in the fields. Prisoners were tortured and executed \u2013 their ears and scalps severed for souvenirs. One soldier kicked out the teeth of executed civilians for their gold fillings.\" The New York Times confirmed the claimed accuracy of the stories by contacting several of those interviewed. It reported: \"But they wanted to make another point: that Tiger Force had not been a 'rogue' unit. Its members had done only what they were told, and their superiors knew what they were doing.\n\"Burning huts and villages, shooting civilians and throwing grenades into protective shelters were common tactics for American ground forces throughout Vietnam, they said. That contention is backed up by accounts of journalists, historians and disillusioned troops\u2026\n'Vietnam was an atrocity from the get-go,' [one veteran] said in a recent telephone interview. 'It was that kind of war, a frontless war of great frustration. There were hundreds of My Lais. You got your card punched by the numbers of bodies you counted.'\nCurrent likely Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry was also quoted giving evidence before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. He reported that American soldiers in Vietnam had \"raped, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.\nNicholas Turse [later author of: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam], a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, has been studying government archives and said they were filled with accounts of similar atrocities.\n\"I stumbled across the incidents The Blade reported,\" Mr. Turse said by telephone. \"I read through that case a year, year and a half ago, and it really didn't stand out. There was nothing that made it stand out from anything else. That's the scary thing. It was just one of hundreds.\"\nYet there were few prosecutions.\nPlease consult further two of many websites: Major US Vietnam War Atrocities Case Exposed by Ohio Newspaper; and The Mad Men Premiere's Dark Vietnam Subtext.[\u21a9]\n\"Moral injury\" has most commonly come to mean the transgression, the violation, of what is right, what one has long held to be sacred\u2014a core belief or moral code\u2014and thus wounding or, in the extreme, mortally wounding the psyche, soul, or one's humanity. As with so many concepts for which definitions fall short, moral injury is most clearly seen and understood in stories. \u2013Meagher, Robert Emmet. Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War (p. 4). Cascade Books, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.[\u21a9]\nplease see my account of interaction with him: Why I Oppose the Death Penalty: \"The Talking Place: Discussing the Death Penalty\" Forum on the Death Penalty, Fairbanks Alaska, March 22, 1997; also here.[\u21a9]\nA rose by any other name . . . Murder is murder, no matter the victim![\u21a9]\nLimit the Next President's Power to Wage Drone Warfare\nWashington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400\u2026\nThe London Bombs, July 2005\nDemocrats' War on Due Process and Terrorist Fearmongering\u2026\nDrone Strikes Reveal Uncomfortable Truth: U.S. Is Often\u2026\nUnder Donald Trump, drone strikes far exceed Obama's numbers\nIn Transparent Act, Obama Administration Erases Civilian\u2026\nLawless Drone Killings\nTrump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US\u2026\nOf Lethal Drones and Police Shootings\nBomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban\u2026\nTrump is Considering Expanding Killing Powers Abroad. The\u2026\nKilling Nora: The Real Reason Trump Should Have Been\u2026\nCourts Must Hold Executive Branch Accountable for Drone\u2026\nTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How Extrajudicial Executions Became\u2026\nInhuman Barbarism of President Roosevelt\nIt's \u0501ifficu\u217ct to find educated people about t\u04bbis topic, but yo\u1959 seem like you know what \u028fou're talking about!\nI guess we always must weigh others' opinions\u2013especially in, as is often said, a \"post-truth world\".\nI try to reference my opinions at least. My primary criterion is authenticity in both what I read, and write. It's up to the reader to go from there.\nI'm also always willing to dialogue.\nBest to you.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"KRBD_banner\nUpdate Membership Info\nWhere to Tune in\nAbout KRBD\nCoastAlaska\nKRBD Board of Directors\nKRBD Board Bylaws\nKRBD Staff\nMission Statement\/Financial Statement\/Code of Integrity\/Diversity Statement\nKRBD Policies\nKRBD Commentary Policy\nCommunity Calendar Guidelines\nSullivan introduces measures to aid abuse victims\nPosted by Elizabeth Gabriel | Aug 7, 2019\nSen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) speaks in Ketchikan in 2018. (KRBD file photo by Leila Kheiry)\nAlaska Senator Dan Sullivan was in Ketchikan for the 44th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival and stopped by to speak with KRBD about current events in the US Senate\u2014specifically his recent efforts to tackle abuse.\nOn August 2, Senator Dan Sullivan and Delaware Senator Chris Coons introduced the Electronic Service for Effectiveness, Reduction of Violence, and Improved Court Efficiency Act. The E-Service Act is a pilot program to allow up to 10 state or tribal courts to serve protection orders electronically. Currently, Sullivan said the process of serving protective orders against abusers can be difficult.\n\"The estimates are up to 50% of protective orders in the country don't ever get served because the perpetrator\u2014the abuser\u2014is avoiding service,\" said Sullivan. \"So he can say, 'Wait, I didn't get that order.'\"\nAccording to Sullivan, the pilot program would allow more effective ways of serving abusers, such as through the internet, a phone call, or even a text message. He said it's been a top priority for many abuse advocacy groups.\n\"We think it would get to the issue of\u2014hey, if there's a perpetrator, there's a protective order against him to say, 'Stay away from the woman you've been abusing,' said Sullivan. \"And [if] he avoids it, this is a creative way to serve him and say, 'Alright, you answered that text, you've now been served with this order,' and let the legal process kick in.\"\nHe said they're still exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of serving protection orders electronically.\n\"You know, you've gotta make sure you get it right,\" said Sullivan. \"There's some due process elements. Hey, what if there's a text message that's actually sent, but the guy doesn't receive it. How do you know that they've received it? There's some things you need to work out. We don't wanna do some sort kind of broad based initiative and then realize that there's major flaws in it.\"\nThe next step for the act is the Senate judiciary committee.\nSullivan said he began advocating against abuse as Alaska's Attorney General 10 years ago. At the time, he was helping create the Choose Respect Initiative to address problems with domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska.\n\"I took a lot of those ideas, when I got elected to the senate, national,\" Sullivan said. \"Because I think Alaska knows that we have this problem, but I think the rest of the country in the last couple of years has recognized that we have a big problem with regard to these crimes and domestic violence, and abuse of women.\"\nIn April, Sullivan and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the Choose Respect Act. That would help change the culture of domestic violence and abuse by implementing national Public Service Announcements.\nAnother bill he is working on would provide more legal resources for victims. In June, Sullivan and co-sponsor California Senator Kamala Harris, introduced the Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act which will give victims a right to counsel.\n\"A perpetrator of these kind of crimes, that person gets a sixth amendment right to counsel\u2014say like an accused rapist,\" said Sullivan. \"That person gets a lawyer no matter what, even if they can. That's what the Constitution requires, okay. But the victim doesn't get anything.\"\nSullivan hopes to put all three bills in the Violence Against Women Act. He hopes this will help make a difference for the entire country, especially the state of Alaska.\n\"We're an amazing state with so much potential, but the fact that the studies show that almost 50% of the women in Alaska have experienced some kind of violence or assault,\" said Sullivan. \"We've gotta do better, we have to do better.\"\nPreviousSullivan advances USCG Authorization Act\nNextUSFS warns of fire danger for Southeast\nPick. Click. Give.\nPOW Basketball Stream\nAlpine Real Estate tile\nKPU Tile\nOur Voices Will be Heard on the Land Once Again\nTlingit | Haida | Tsimshian\nConversations From the Shores of Revillagigedo\nHaida | Tsimshian\nThe latest on Facebook\n\u00a9 2022 Rainbird Community Radio","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"December 27, 2015 Paul Czarnowski\nAnt-Man (2015) Movie Review\nWhat I watched: Ant-Man\nThat's one of them Marvel Universe Movies, right? Well we like to call it a \"Malibu Comics Spin-Off Movie,\" but whatever.\nDoes it have one of those scenes where a guy invites a lot of VIPs to his big tech company to reveal the weapon he'll use at the end to fight the hero? Yeah, and it takes a few minutes. Like, \"fly all the way here, our presentation takes 3 minutes, thanks for coming!\"\nAside from Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, there's really not a lot of star power to this one, is there? Well, I don't know about that, there's Evangeline Lilly and Haley Atwell makes an appearance and OH MY GOD THAT'S KITTY FROM ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!\nAnt Man is part of the Whatever Happens Next After Avengers phase of the Marvel Comics universe, in the event that they run out of comics ideas or something, I don't know. I don't read Variety or CBR or entertainment news sites that want me to believe I'm a participant in how and why these movies are made. Who cares what the long term plan is? Just make the movies good.\nI don't really care that these movies are connected. That they are, sure it's fun, but it kind of ruins the potential for the movie to be a great thing by itself. These stories already are less about stories and more about the macguffin itself. Two thirds of each one of these are entertaining and fun, with fresh takes on the characters played by actors giving them outsized personalities. Then the last third is the big laser light show. Get the cube! Or the sphere! Or the other suit! Whatever! We did it. We saved the world, but we did it for ourselves and not for Samuel L. Jackson, but wait he's at the end of the movie and he's introducing someone after the credits. DID YOU STAY FOR THE CREDITS?\nAnt Man starts off with the movie introducing Michael Douglas as someone upset with other characters from the Marvel U, to remind you that it's part of Marvel. Douglas is Hank Pym, Marvel's original Ant-Man character. He doesn't want anyone using his magical Ant-Man formula. Then we cut to Paul Rudd, who is leaving prison. He moves in with Wacky Minority Criminal gang. He wants to go straight so he can see his daughter, being raised by Kitty from Arrested Development and her boyfriend who is a cop. Uh oh! Contrasts!\nRudd is described as a convict guilty of robbing from the rich and powerful and giving to the powerless, but his break in into Pym's home suggests he has extensive background in being an amazing 2nd story man (of which is a neat heist, by the way). I don't know if this was something that was going to be played up, that he's a misunderstood guy who did one thing wrong but REALLY he's been a career criminal his whole life. The former is what nearly everyone but his Wacky Minority Criminal gang seems to believe. The latter is potentially far funnier, and more fitting to the Eric O'Grady character from Robert Kirkman's Irredeemable Ant-Man series. Did the filmmakers think that a total jerk who stumbles upon the suit wouldn't be relatable or interesting?\nWell, regardless, Paul Rudd is a guy who looks like he could be the male lead in more serious action flicks but he's played a lot of ridiculous characters in screwball comedies. This is a movie begging to go screwball comedy but has to fit into the Serious Marvel Adventure. So there's a middle section of this movie where he just stands to the side and Mike Douglas and Evangeline Lilly have moments while explaining things to him, plus training montages. This goes on for what seems like forever, with so many scenes of Douglas & Lilly staring at TV screens (ugh, the worst action movie bit. Stop with that).\nOh, Falcon from Cap America 2 shows up and they have the patented comic book superheroes-meet-for-the-first-time-and-they-fight and it's just as boring as it is in the comics. It showcases Ant-Man's suit and fighting abilities that he had learned in the \"it was just the last 10 minutes ago\" montage. It felt like they were squeezing this in to remind you that it's part of the other movies. I don't mind forgetting that there's other superheroes for a few movies. Skip the training, have Ant-Man fuddle with his suit while he tries to break into the Avengers storage room as the test run.\nOh, then there's the villain. Yellowjacket. It's this bald guy who wears dark suits. I seriously think he's supposed to be Brian Michael Bendis. He's the one who invites the VIPs to Pym's former company to brag about the Yellowjacket suit, even though the tech is unfinished. Because he's still testing it. This is like Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 1 corporate incompetence. If there was a board of directors he could convince to oust Pym from Pym's own company, there must be a board of directors that could see how unhinged and unprofessional Yellowjacket is to kick him out as well.\nThere's also some story about Pym & Yellowjacket's teacher student bond but it's just talk. You know what would be interesting? Showing that, beyond Yellowjacket just showing up to Pym's place to basically say \"I'm unhinged, I'm plotting something, what happened to us, why aren't we friends?\" Why not have that be the story, Yellowjacket kicks Pym out of the company and then Pym discovers Paul Rudd burglarizing things.\nI guess then you wouldn't get the convoluted set up, that he had pegged Rudd as the perfect pawn-ant in his game of bug chess (wait, Pym is a sub-atomic scientist AND bug biologist? What?). You also wouldn't get Michael Pena's description of how they get the info about Pym's safe in his home.\nThe rest of the movie is both illuminated by and distracts you with shiny special effects. Wacky Minority Team helps both Ant-Man and Pym break into Yellowjacket's lab. Yellowjacket is prepared to sell Pym's formula to Hydra and from there it's Rudd vs. some ridiculous situations. The fight between Falcon & Ant-Man feels even more wedged in. The effects of Ant-Man riding around on the ants in zooming camera shots of fake giant computer rooms to typical swelling superhero orchestral soundtracks, meh. Ant-Man taking on guards and (especially) fleeing bullets on a scale model of the corporate headquarters? Brilliant. I hope viewers appreciated not just the effect of Ant-Man running around on that model, but how it parodies every serious full scale carpet bombing aimed at one guy running through a city street in other action movies.\nObviously what still sets these Marvel movies apart from the grim DC (and non-Disney Marvel) movies is, well, that they're not grim or serious. Maybe ten years from now these won't be as fun, the witty dialog won't hold up as well, the whole experience will be just as disposable as their competitors and will get their reboots. But I would LOVE for there to be a scene where Bruce Wayne has to work at a Baskin Robbins. Maybe The Dark Knight would have been cheapened with \"Baskin Robbins always finds out\" especially in five or ten years.\nLook at Pulp Fiction (watch it several times). Filming a movie is expensive, right? So why have conversations about Quarter Pounders With Cheese? Why does it not start out with \"we're criminals, we should always be talking in exposition about our crimes\"? Because those discussions about nothing related to anything else in the movie (other than the Big Brain On Brett) draw you in. They're talking about something you know about, you're practically part of the conversation now.\nThere's still scenes that are clearly a giant computer cartoon with Ant-Man & Yellowjacket duking it out inside a briefcase, but it's fitting because their powers are surreal and that's the realm where the fight keeps taking them. This might have been another crossroads to see where Rudd's character would go, from misunderstood criminal by default or he's chaotic neutral; he fights Yellowjacket with his daughter in near danger, and the cop boyfriend from earlier is the one who shows up to actually protect her. Is this the point where he realizes he IS a bad person, and has no business in being part of her life? Or will he later be hanging around recapping with the nuclear family who respects what he had just sacrificed for them in his attempt to redeem himself? Even if it's the latter, cop boyfriend is still like \"Well, I was happy to go the extra mile for YOU, guy who endangered my family.\" Sheesus. Rudd plays a fun character and I'm pulling for him, but you shouldn't forgive him that quickly. Do your job, officer! At least tell Rudd to grow up. You know, with great power etc\u2026\nWell, I laughed plenty of times during the, now that I think about it, very long fight. You could have cut so much of the exposition and montages (plus, Hank Pym is introduced as a character being basically RETIRED from the Marvel Universe, so thanks key character from Marvel's Silver Age, here's your gold watch) and focused more on either Rudd's douchebaggery or Pym's relationship with Yellowjacket that drives both men to stop the other, taking advantage of Rudd while Rudd figures out who he is.\nSo what it a zany Marvel movie or a self important DC superhero movie? Um, it's like there was this wacky slapstick adventure, about these goofball criminals granted high tech powers, wanting to get out from the grasp of the heavy drama about men and women arguing over who deserves to wear a special suit and save the day. They even have their own separate soundtracks, with the original score letting you know how serious this is, and some jazzy poppy songs following people practically winking at the camera while up to no good.\nWow, that fight with Falcon seemed really tacked on. I know. It looked bad too. Maybe that and Ant-Man trying to escape the dance floor scene were for 3D, but both looked kinda terrible.\nWas it good? The wacky slapstick adventure, yes. The rest, no. I fulfilled my obligation as a fan of comic books to see this movie, so can I go now?\nThere's a bad guy at the beginning of the movie that Pym punches, and then he's there when Yellowjacket gives his presentation in front of Pym, and then he's there at the end when Yellowjacket tries to sell Pym's formula to Hydra. Why is Pym surprised to see this guy for the 3rd time in the movie? I don't know, Pym hasn't seen movies before.\nPrevious Movie review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E\nNext Star Wars 7: The Sequel To Leonard Part Six","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"State Senate Approves Lifting Limits on Campaign Contributions\nCritics say it goes beyond the U.S. Supreme Court case, 'Citizens United.'\nJake Neher\/WDET\nState Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof (R-West Olive)\nMichigan won't limit how much money corporations and unions can spend to influence elections in the state \u2013 under legislation that's cleared the state senate.\nIn 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court said corporations and unions could spend as much money as they wanted on political campaigns.\nSeven years later, Michigan lawmakers are putting that standard into state law.\nState Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof voted in favor of the bills, \"Because everybody should have free speech and the Supreme Court has said that free speech equals money in what you give,\" he says.\nBut critics of the legislation say it gives special interests too much influence over elections. They also say it goes beyond the Supreme Court case, Citizens United.\nUnder the bills, candidates could solicit unlimited amounts of money for certain Super Political Action Committees (PACs).\nCraig Mauger, executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, says the bills go beyond the Supreme Court case. They allow candidates to effectively go around current limits on how much money candidates can raise.\n\"The state has these limits on how much individuals and PACs can give to people and this bill would allow an easy way around that,\" he says. \"Because you could solicit unlimited contributions to an entity that you could then work pretty closely with.\"\nSuper PACs wouldn't be allowed to directly give money to candidates. But, the groups could use the money to support candidates through things like mailers and TV commercials.\nImage credit: Jake Neher\/WDET\nThis post is a part of 2017 Local Elections: How's metro Detroit doing?.\nThis series includes WDET's coverage of candidates' in local elections -- including Detroit's mayoral, clerk and council races.\nCheyna Roth\nCheyna has interned with Michigan Radio and freelanced for WKAR public radio in Lansing. She's also done some online freelancing and worked on documentary films.\nCRoth@MPRN.org Follow @Cheyna_R","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Melodea develops two recyclable cellulose barrier coatings\nThe barrier coatings are designed to offer a sustainable alternative to plastic without compromising safety or performance.\nMelodea's high-barrier coatings are being trialled by several major firms. Credit: Melodea \/ PRNewswire.\nIsrael-based green technology start-up Melodea has developed two recyclable cellulose-based barrier coatings to protect packaged products and reduce plastic waste.\nThe first of these products is MelOx, a high-performance, plant-sourced barrier coating that can prevent products from the transmission of oxygen, oil and grease.\nThe company has also developed Melodea VBcoat, a coating designed to stop water vapour, oil and grease from coming into contact with goods.\nMelodea uses wood pulp as a raw material to create barrier coating instead of traditionally used materials such as plastics and aluminium.\nThe company extracts cellulose nanocrystals from wood pulp from industrial forests using its patented technology.\nMelodea CEO and co-founder Shaul Lapidot said: \"Cellulose, the primary building block of the cell walls of all plants, is the most abundant biopolymer on the planet.\n\"It provides plants with extraordinary strength and is a lightweight\u2014yet strong\u2014material.\n\"We found that this bounteous and renewable material can be utilised to produce novel, eco-friendly packaging alternatives for the packaging industry.\"\nAccording to Melodea, the sustainable barrier coatings do not compromise products' quality or performance and can be used for both solid and liquid items.\nIn addition to being recyclable, the coatings are compostable and non-toxic for people and the environment.\nThe high-barrier coatings can be applied to a broad range of packaging products, including pouches, lids and food and beverage cartons.\nThey are currently being trialled by a number of companies in the industry.\nMelodea chief financial officer Zvika Weiss said: \"Our cellulose-based barrier coatings offer an economically affordable, naturally abundant and sustainable alternative to oil-based products.\n\"Our coatings can easily be integrated into standard industrial coating lines, including slot dies, rod coaters and gravures.\"\nEarlier this year, US-based compostable packaging company World Centric introduced a range of takeaway boxes with bio-based linings as part of its NoTree packaging line.\nFASA AB\nHigh-Quality Dosing and Packaging Solutions for the Dairy Industry\nL\u00f6dige Industries\nTechnology in Motion - Quality, Innovation and Partnership for More Than 70 Years\nTetra Pak and Elvir develop caps made from recycled polymers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Home Technology Frontier customer bought his own router\u2014but has to pay $10 rental fee...\nFrontier customer bought his own router\u2014but has to pay $10 rental fee anyway\nEnlarge \/ A Wi-Fi router.\nBuying your own router instead of renting one from an ISP is one of the few reliable ways to save money on a broadband bill.\nBut what if you buy and use your own router and the broadband provider still charges you a $10-per-month rental fee? That's the bitter reality for Frontier Communications customers such as Rich Son of Texas.\nSon has been a Frontier customer since April 2016 when Frontier purchased Verizon's wireline networks in Texas, California, and Florida. Prior to that, he was a Verizon FiOS customer and purchased Verizon's FiOS Quantum Gateway router for $200 in order to avoid monthly rental fees.\nSon and his wife, Karen, still use that FiOS router with their Frontier service at their home in a suburb near Dallas, and Son says Frontier never provided him with another router. But Frontier started charging them $5 a month for what's listed as a \"Wi-Fi Router\" fee on their bill, and the company raised the router fee to $10 a month in April of this year. Including the router rental charge, the couple pays $90 a month for a 150Mbps broadband plan with no TV or phone service.\nUsing the FiOS router to avoid rental fees \"worked well for me until the takeover happened with Frontier and I began getting charged for using my own equipment,\" Son told Ars. \"I have continued to call Frontier and was repeatedly assured that the fees will be taken off my bill.\"\nBut that didn't happen. While Son was able to get three months' worth of credits at one point last year, he said he's otherwise had to pay the $5 and now $10 router fees every month since Frontier bought Verizon's Texas network.\nComplaint to FCC goes nowhere\nSon filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission; Frontier responded to the complaint but stuck to its position that he has to pay the fee. A voicemail that Frontier left with Son and his wife said the company informed the FCC that \"the router monthly charge is an applicable fee, and it will continue to be billed.\"\nAnother voicemail from Frontier told them they can avoid the monthly rental fees if they purchase a Frontier router.\n\"We can reimburse you if you purchase a Frontier router. We cannot reimburse you if you have a Verizon router\u2014we are not Verizon,\" the voicemail said. \"You can choose to use your own router, however you will be still charged the monthly fee\u2026 the difference is we do not service the router that you choose to use.\"\nEnlarge \/ A Frontier Communications van.\nGetty Images | jetcityimage\nThe FCC's complaint process can help customers in some cases but doesn't require the provider to do anything other than respond within 30 days. The FCC complaints team told Son in an email, \"We reviewed the provider's response and based on the information submitted, we believe your provider has responded to your concerns.\"\nWith FCC Chairman Ajit Pai having deregulated the broadband industry, there's little to no chance of the commission taking action to stop fees like the one charged by Frontier.\n\"It's $10 today\u2014but how much will it cost us tomorrow?\" Son said. \"I'd consider letting it go if their customer service blew me out of the water, but they've been terrible ever since Verizon forced Frontier on us.\"\nFrontier defends router charge\nWe contacted Frontier about Son's case. The company confirmed that it refuses to stop charging the Wi-Fi router rental fee even when customers use their own router and claimed it does so in order to cover higher support costs for customers like Son.\nFrontier told Ars:\nOur Frontier Residential Gateway (router) is Frontier equipment provided with every service order and specifically designed to work with our service. Our advertising and our residential Internet terms and conditions make clear that our service includes equipment charges, such as the router charge, and neither our advertisements nor our terms and conditions provide any exceptions. A customer may choose to use their own router, but if the customer does, our router charge continues to apply. Also, we cannot support or repair the non-Frontier equipment.\nThough infrequent, when a customer chooses to use a non-Frontier router, we see increased complaints and more difficulty with troubleshooting, performing online resets, and providing simple resolutions, so it costs more to serve that customer. Therefore, if a customer uses their own router, the charge still applies to cover these costs. Frontier cannot support or repair non-Frontier equipment.\nFrontier's website states simply that \"Frontier charges you a monthly lease fee for your Frontier router or modem\u2014whether you use it or not,\" and it claims that the Frontier-provided router is \"the exact model needed for the peak performance of your voice, TV, and Internet services.\" Specifically, Frontier uses an Arris NVG468MQ router but also notes on its website that \"Frontier Internet works with a variety of routers, like the Arris NVG443B and the Netgear D220D.\"\nWhile Frontier told us that its equipment is \"provided with every service order,\" Son says he never received a router from Frontier. The company is literally charging him every month for a router that was never provided to him.\nAnd while Frontier claims non-Frontier routers cause support problems, this is hard to believe in Son's case: he is using a router specifically designed to work with the FiOS network and which continues to work more than three years after Verizon sold the FiOS network to Frontier. Son told Ars that he hasn't needed to call Frontier about any problems with his router, though he has called the company plenty of times to dispute the router rental charge. Customers that buy their own routers are often more tech-savvy than the general public and are thus able to troubleshoot problems themselves, Son noted.\n\"It's in Frontier's interest\"\nTo defend the fee, Frontier is trying to make the simple act of hooking up a router seem more complicated than it really is.\n\"I think it's in Frontier's interest to make it seem like this is some weird specialized equipment that communicates with their backend in some advanced technical way, but that's not true,\" Senior Counsel John Bergmayer of consumer-advocacy group Public Knowledge told Ars.\nWith FiOS fiber service, each house is equipped with an Optical Network Terminal (ONT), which does the heavy lifting of communicating with the FiOS network. Using your own router to set up Wi-Fi is not complicated even if it isn't officially supported by the ISP.\n\"This is discriminating against users who want to use their own equipment,\" Bergmayer said. Since \"it's just a standard router, it's not some proprietary network interface where there's a good reason for it.\"\nSince Frontier charges the fee even when customers use their own router, the actual cost of service is $10 more than Frontier's advertised rates, Bergmayer pointed out.\n\"Any time you have a fee which is not part of the advertised service but you can't opt out of the fee and everyone has to pay it whether or not you're using the thing [the fee is supposed to cover], then that's just part of the service charge\" and should be listed in the advertised rate, Bergmayer said.\nLegal options are limited\nTheoretically, the Federal Trade Commission or state attorneys general could file lawsuits against ISPs and argue that this type of fee is unfair and deceptive and therefore violates consumer-protection laws.\nIt would be easier to stop this kind of practice at the FCC\u2014the US agency that exists specifically to regulate telecommunications networks. But the Pai FCC's elimination of net neutrality rules and deregulation of broadband also got rid of rules requiring ISPs to be more transparent with customers about hidden fees. Pai's broadband deregulation also eliminated a general prohibition against unjust or unreasonable prices and practices. In short, the FCC gave up most of its authority to regulate broadband providers.\n\"For categories of behavior that are never OK, it's just preferable to have a rule against it rather than having to rely on state AGs to enforce their general-purpose consumer-protection statutes,\" Bergmayer said.\nThe FTC has to regulate many industries besides telecom. \"It's not like they have this endless supply of investigators to throw at consumer complaints,\" Bergmayer said.\nThe FCC enforces a rule against negative option billing, the practice of charging a customer for services or equipment the customer did not affirmatively request. But that rule applies only to TV service, not broadband.\nOther Frontier users fight same losing battle\nSon is not alone in his frustration with Frontier. A Reddit user and Frontier customer reported the same problem in a post last year.\n\"When the technician was setting things up I told him I wouldn't need the router provided by Frontier since I would use my own. He removed the router from my account and took the router with him,\" the customer wrote.\nLike Son, this customer was charged $10 a month for renting a router that wasn't being used.\n\"After talking to four different customer service people, it seems that the router rental is part of the package and can't be removed,\" the customer wrote. \"Which seems ridiculous to me since, if I want to keep my Internet service with them, I have to pay $10 a month for something I don't want.\"\nOther Frontier customers posting in the same Reddit thread also reported that Frontier refused to waive the fee. 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{"text":"Think:Act Magazine Complexity\nHow smart can a city get?\nThink:Act Magazine\nMeet the pioneers among smart cities\nby Janet Anderson\nphotos by Jun Michael Park\nHigh-tech metropolises are being built from the ground up. But what's it like to live in one? Take a glimpse into Chantal's life in South Korea's Songdo IBD \u2013 then jump halfway across the world to see how an older city like Vienna is smartening up.\nThe screen in her apartment tells Chantal F. that today will be cloudy, traffic in the city is running well, pollution is low, the elevator is working and the family's energy consumption is on track. If she needs it, the screen connects her directly to the building caretaker, the local medical services or the council. She can look up recipes or join an exercise class from her own living room.\nChantal lives with her family in Songdo International Business District (IBD) in South Korea, a city that has grown from nothing in a few short years and is now described as one of the world's smartest cities. Every home in Songdo is fitted with a similar screen. Called a telepresence unit, the idea is to provide a new way to deliver education, health care and government services directly into people's homes.\nIn Songdo, nearly every aspect of life is digitally networked. Currently home to around 36,000 residents, its developers, Gale International, consider it \"the model for next-generation cities.\" Chantal and her family moved here from Germany, two years ago, to an apartment in a 47-story, glass-clad building. On one side, they look out over the brand new city and its green spaces; on the other, over empty land where building work is just beginning. \"Songdo is changing rapidly, even in the short time we have been here,\" she says. \"Coming from old Europe, I had to adjust to living in a place that is so new. In less than 11 years a whole functioning city has arisen.\"\nHome automation systems enable residents to control, track and optimize the consumption of resources.\nFree wifi throughout cities connects people with each other - and also with an increasing number of online services.\nCisco's Global Center of Excellence in Songdo puts innovation on display for young and old.\nScreens play a big role in the lives of Songdo's residents \u2013in people's homes, outside on the streets and buildings and, of course, on smartphones. \"You can get help anywhere,\" says Chantal. \"You never feel alone. At the press of a button there is always someone to talk to.\" Meanwhile at the U-Life Center \u2013 the city's nerve center \u2013 a wall of screens streams real-time footage from CCTV cameras located throughout Songdo, monitoring everything from traffic to crime. \"If a child got lost here, they would be spotted quickly,\" says Chantal.\nSmart initiatives like these have been on the rise in cities around the world. \"We have been talking about smart cities for some time. Now we are seeing them being implemented. Cities are starting to take the first steps to actually realize something,\" says Thilo Zelt, partner at Roland Berger and author of \"Smart City, Smart Strategy\", a survey of smart cities around the world that ranked Vienna at the top.\n\"Data means that we know more about our environment and about the consequences of what we do.\"\nMIT Senseable City Lab\nMany of the start initiatives being tested are aimed at solving the usual problems of daily urban life \u2013 traffic congestion, pollution, crime, the high cost of living \u2013 but today, cities face new challenges as well. Over half of the world's population already lives in urban areas, with that figure predicted to rise to 70% by 2050. The strain on infrastructure and the environment cannot be ignored.\n\"To meet today's challenges, cities have to be more efficient with resources, more adaptable and more resilient. Smart solutions can help squeeze more efficiency out of the system,\" says Lean Doody, who is the smart cities lead at professional services group Arup. Globalization brings yet another pressure \u2013 it means cities increasingly compete with each other to attract talent and investment. \"Technology can play a role here too, in economic and social development and helping cities to differentiate themselves,\" she says.\nTake Barcelona \u2013 the city has decided to turn itself into a platform for businesses to experiment in urban technology. It is home, for example, to Worldsensing, a tech company that has pioneered the use of the internet of things to design parking management and traffic monitoring solutions. In Rio de Janeiro, one part of the city's smart strategy is a community warning system. The new Rio Operations Center monitors conditions across the city in real time, enabling the authorities to respond more effectively to natural disasters like flooding while also bringing down crime rates \u2013 all of which makes the city more attractive to tourists and investors.\nTrending topics for aspiring cities\n1 From tidal flat to high-tech homes\nSongdo, South Korea\nBuilt on reclaimed land to South Korea's Incheon International Airport, Songdo International Business District has been designed to showcase the latest in sustainable design and urban technology. Many buildings are LEED- certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), 40% of the city is green space and a network of pipes takes household waste from homes to a processing center for recycling. Throughout the city, sensors monitor traffic, altering signals to prevent congestion and helping to control the public transport systems.\n2 Reducing the cost of living\nThe Home net automation system enables residents in all of Songdo's apartments to control lighting, air-conditioning and ventilation from a digital control panel, monitors use and compares it with others on the grid. Tracking actual consumption helps raise awareness, change behaviors, reduce energy consumption and lower the cost of living.\n3 City life, minus stress\nCitywide free Wi-Fi means Songdo's residents are always connected \u2013 whether in transit, shopping or socializing in public spaces like Meet-You-AllTower. But it's not just people that are connected. Refrigerators communicate directly with supermarkets, getting groceries delivered to the door in a matter of hours.\n4 More innovative, more attractive\nCisco's Global Center of Excellence in Songdo drives digital innovation by bringing partners, customers, government and startups together to co-create solutions across every aspect of city life.\nThe approaches vary greatly and the interpretation of the concept itself differs from city to city,\" says Zelt. \"Some see it as sustainable urban development, some see it more narrowly as smart solutions for energy and mobility. I believe the key is that smart city strategies should be comprehensive \u2013 not just isolated digital solutions.\"\nCarlo Ratti, director of MIT Senseable City Lab in Boston, USA, and founder of design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati in Turin, Italy, believes a lot can be gained by using the real-time data generated by cities. \"Data means that we know more about our environment and about the consequences of what we do,\" he says. Trash Track, a project his team ran in Seattle, tagged individual items of domestic refuse and followed them as they moved through the sanitation system. \"We learned that the simple sharing of information through visualizations can promote behavioral change,\" says Ratti. \"People involved in the project were able to follow their trash and this led some of them to embrace more sustainable consumption choices.\"\nNot every city has the benefit of starting from scratch. It is more usual to have to find ways to introduce new technology into existing infrastructure. This requires good leadership at the political and civil service level, according to Doody. \"It's not well understood yet how to do this. Unlike land use planning, which we've been doing for over 100 years, we haven't established processes yet \u2013 we're still in pioneering days.\" Yet one thing is clear \u2013 it requires participation from all the stakeholders to devise and implement a successful smart strategy. \"Citizen involvement, stakeholder dialogue, and public-private partnerships are important,\" says Zelt. \"The biggest error for cities is to try to do this on their own. They should especially engage with local industry, bring them to the table from the start.\" An equally important factor for success is consulting and engaging with citizens \u2013 like Vienna, for example, which has involved its residents from the beginning, making it more likely that they get political support to push through disruptive changes.\nThe pitfalls of avoiding this advice become clear as you listen to Chantal. \"At first we found the screen entertaining. But it is all in Korean and we often don't know what we are doing. We had ceiling lights going on at 4am.\" The family has slowly cut out the technology they feel they don't need. \"Some of it is practical, but we don't like to feel too dependent on it,\" she says. For example, she has dispensed with the smart refrigerator, preferring to do the shopping herself.\nA more fundamental issue for Chantal is the presence of so many screens. \"It's annoying that you can't switch off the screen in the apartment and the presence of so many cameras makes you feel you are always being watched,\" she says. On the other hand, she sees the positive side too: \"You can leave your bag on a bench, go for a coffee, and it will still be there when you get back. I think as long as technology is used to manage the city better, it's a plus.\"\nHow to find your way through complexity\nTaking the A out of AI\nBuying into simplicity\nHow leaders can inspire organizational innovation\nVisionary Chris Anderson on spotting trends\nHow to transform into a successful digital company\nTake a lesson from your brain\nDecomplexing the system\nIngenius simplicity requires hard work and holistic thinking\nSmart surgery and low-cost health-care in India\nEasy to apply strategies to deal with complex situations\nWill China be the new Superpower?\nWhat can CEOs learn from race car drivers?\nVienna mayor Michael H\u00e4upl on the smartness of his city\nThree questions to conductor Itay Talgam on complexity\nHow important are morals in business?\nNobel Prize winner Richard Thaler\nOur Think:Act magazine\nThink:Act Edition\nDownload our Think:Act Magazine on complexity\nDon't miss our article with Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler, as well as much more food for thought.\nPublished October 2017. Available in en de\nCurious about the contents of our newest Think:Act magazine? Receive your very own copy by signing up now! Subscribe here to receive our Think:Act magazine and the latest news from Roland Berger.\nJun Michael Park; Illustration: Mark von Ulrich; private; pr; Illustrations: Vanessa Kinoshita; Mario Wagner; PR 3D Robotics; James Day; Martin Nicolausson; Norman Konrad; Hari Adivarekar; Bloomberg \/ Getty Images; Aly Song\/Reuters; Frank Kretschmann \/ bissantz & company; picture alliance \/ hans ringhofer; Jonas Opperskalski; PR ONEYOUNGWORLD, Sources BBC; Hero Images \/ Getty Images; Matt Furman 2015\/Redux\/laif","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive for the 'God' Category\nSaturn, Satan & God And The Nature of Reality Part 1&2 (Video)\nNB Commentary:\nThis is a really, really long video. When I do domestic stuff I listen\/watch. Anyone watching this may have to do it in sections and Merkabah has broken this video up into parts. I prefer the whole video personally. After watching it, I posted my comments under the video, I am still waiting to hear from Merkabah which is cool, I am sure he is quite busy, it takes forever to make these videos. See below my questions.\nFeel free to join the discussion.\nMY QUESTIONS AND CURIOSITIES\nI watch\/listen to many of your videos. sometimes I go thru them more than once. I watch them and listen to them because you are covering a lot of material that I have been exposed to as well, and you also tend to drop a few new tidbits that I have not heard of and that is always exciting. But I have a few questions, I won't ask them all now, but\u2026.. When looking at the book of Genesis, there were some things that I have always found interesting and like you say, grown adults accept without question. I always questioned the stuff I heard.\nNoah's Ark, how did he pull that off? Amazing. Fantastical\nI went to Catholic school so you know I was the bane of my teachers existence, all of whom were nuns, because lay people were not ALLOWED to teach religion classes, but I digress. I really hope to get your feedback\n@Merkabah\n1. If Eve was made from Adam's rib.. doesn't that either make Eve his daughter or sister since they share the same DNA? If I remember correctly, bone marrow is keen in stem cell research and that of DNA as well, correct me if I'm wrong on that, I ain't no chemist. However way you slice it, wouldn't they be \"closely\" related??\n2. If Cane married his sister??? He knew her\u2026.. um, doesn't that sound incestuous as well.\n3. If \"God\" created man and woman and told them to multiply and replenish the earth.. was it one man and one woman? a bunch of men and women? were they all sprung from the same seed? It really gets confusing.. but it all sounds incestuous.\n4. If \"God\" destroyed the earth and only left Noah and his family, and they in turn replenished the earth,,, isn't that incestuous as well?? I'm just saying\u2026 there was a whole lot of incest going on, no matter how you slice it in the book of Genesis. Anyone who replicates this story is also replicating the notion of incest.\n5. My final question on this video is this! Where did the first human beings come from? Who or what is this God that created them. And if this God said, \"let us\" who is the \"us\" Was it God (male) and his female consort??\nI always find it interesting when folks claim that Africans were the original man, but they never say where the original man came from.\nThe notion of a \"God coming down\" to earth to create man, or Angels coming down or anyone coming down, where are they coming down from??\nPlease understand that I do not want the traditional Christian Answers for these questions. I want your answers from your research as you remind us often that you do that. What have you found?\nPS, and one more thing, have you noticed that depictions of Adam and Eve always show belly buttons? Do you find that curious? Wouldn't belly buttons mean they spent some time in somebody's womb?? Why would God create them with belly buttons they never used??\nOkay, I'm done Merkabah, thanks for reading this!!\nAdam, animals, bible, DNA, earth, Eve, evolution, folklore, Genesis, God, Merkabah, mysticism, myth, nature, Noah, reality, Satan, Saturn\nObama Charged With 'Imperial Hubris' Unmatched Even By Bush\nObama, the Marionette\nWhen this man first came on the scene, I was very skeptical. It became mortal combat to even mention that he may not be the \"Savior\" Messiah that folks had been waiting for. So, I quietly took my place among the dissenters and waited. It has become clear that I was waiting for the masses to wake up, not for him to change. Clearly, he has been what he has been all along. Clear indicators were his assessment that 911 was caused by Arabs with box cutters, no indictment for Bush\/Chaney war crimes, and let's get out of Iraq and go into Afghanistan. Those positions alone should have alerted the entire world community, that under that handsome face and dancing swagger was a war monger, the likes we have seen from the days of blatant Roman & Ottoman Empire builders to name a few.\nNow, look at his eyes. Even this picture with his hands up in the manner that a marionette would be held, display invisible strings. He is a puppet of the first degree, a mind-controlled marionette who does and most like has to do the will of his controllers.\nHe has lost any semblance of autonomy, sovereignty or self-determination. He does not think, he does not question, he does not rebel. He cannot. The part of his brain that once housed free thinking, free will, has been entirely lobotomized. Here we see, a clear picture of a man who is lost, completely lost from reality, troops on the ground, in the air, or anywhere.\n\"God bless our troops\" is a misnomer\u2026.. until he verifies which \"God\" he is speaking of, and even then, it is highly unlikely that the \"God\" of which he speaks is at all concerned with blessing the troops. Unless, of course, we realize that there are many \"Gods\" and to whom he is bequeathing his troops, is a question that requires serious scrutiny. That \"God\" is a blood thirsty hater of truth, justice and peace. That \"God\" seeks vengeance and lusts off the souls, and bodies of brutally murdered and assassinated innocent men, women and children. That \"God\" feeds off despair and agony and like a vicious swarm of locusts, that \"God\" sends its minions to devour the grotesquely disembodied. That \"God\" waits in the war theaters created around the world and drinks with luscious delight the carnage and spillage of blood sprouting from the open head, leg and neck wounds of those who barely knew what hit them. That \"God\" hysterically laughs at the ignorance of those who are led to it. That \"God\" is the absolute epitome of Psycho-pathic-sado-masochistic Psychosis that makes the most horrid of beings look beautiful. That \"God\" has promised a nice warm seat in the heart of hell for its puppet and all the minions who follow.\nUnfortunately, it may be too late to ring the alarm bell, and wake this ONE up! Whatever he had, has been lost. And it is very sad. A golden opportunity to move the entire world into a new directions, based on the influence that the US has, and yet, the entire world is now much worse off than it was before he came into office. I wonder what happened to all those New Age Channellers who were lauding the praises of this \"man\" and what he represented. Even the astrologers caused one to wonder if they were authentic or just sock puppets like the rest. It appears as though the entire world was hijacked into believing that \"CHANGE HAD REALLY COME\"!\nThings have definitely changed. The access to alternative media has made it virtually impossible for the \"false flag\" scenarios to hold the attention of the masses for too long. I firmly believe as I have stated before, that the election of Barack Hussein Obama into the position of the 44th President of the United states was the biggest hoax, psyops, media ramping up of the \"Big Lie\", etc, more than any other situation in human history since the invention of Jesus Christ! His election has served so many purposes on so many levels it is mind boggling to watch all the pieces fall right into place. The Grand Chess board and design for a new American Century took its last major leap be making sure that BHO got elected!! He ushered in the NWO in a way that no other world event or crisis or natural disaster could. He represents ALL OF these and much more by his position and presence in the White House.\nWhether he goes down in history as the worst president of the United states or the most misguided president of the United States, one thing is certain, he will leave a legacy behind to be topped by none, short of a complete take over and colonization of the entire Planet via an Alien Invasion.\nFollowing his announcement to bomb Syria without\ncongressional approval, president slammed for total disregard for\nconstitutional safeguards regarding war-making.\nBy Jon Queally for Common Dreams |\nA day after President Obama told the American public he was preparing\nto bomb targets inside the sovereign state of Syria and that he did not\nneed congressional approval to do so, critics are lashing out against\nwhat Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale\nUniversity, described as \"imperial hubris\" on Friday.\nIn his scathing op-ed in the New York Times, Ackerman writes:\nPresident Obama's declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition. Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.\nMr. Bush gained explicit congressional consent for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.\nIn contrast, the Obama administration has not even published a legal\nopinion attempting to justify the president's assertion of unilateral\nwar-making authority. This is because no serious opinion can be written.\nThis became clear when White\nHouse officials briefed reporters before Mr. Obama's speech to the\nnation on Wednesday evening. They said a war against ISIS was justified\nby Congress's authorization of force against Al Qaeda after the Sept.\n11, 2001, attacks, and that no new approval was needed.\nBut the 2001 authorization for the use of military force\ndoes not apply here. That resolution \u2014 scaled back from what Mr. Bush\ninitially wanted \u2014 extended only to nations and organizations that\n\"planned, authorized, committed or aided\" the 9\/11 attacks.\nAnd Ackerman's not alone.\nRobert Chesney, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, told the Daily Beast this week that Obama's claim of authority to bomb ISIS targets in Syria was \"on its face\" an \"implausible argument.\"\n\"The 2001 AUMF requires a nexus\nto al Qaeda or associated forces of al Qaeda fighting the United\nStates,\" explained Chesney, but \"since ISIS broke up with al Qaeda it's\nhard to make\" the case that authority granted by the AUMF still\napplies. Continue reading here: Obama Charged With 'Imperial Hubris' Unmatched Even By Bush\nAfghanistan, Barack, black, empires, God, history, hubris, Hussein, imperialism, marionette, military, Obama, presidency, psyosps, puppet, Syria, war","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"{ Event Review } Inside The Brick\u00ae: LEGO\u00ae Fan Expo\nInspiring Mums\u00ae Found there's a \"Big Kid\" in all of us with LEGO\u00ae\nSource: LEGO\u00ae - \"Parachutes\" - Grey Paris Magazine Ad Campaign: \"Creativity Forgives Everything\" Agency: Grey Paris, France www.legocreativite.fr\nSchool holidays came and went in a blink of an eye for our Mothership and keeping the kids entertained in the cold, wet weather in Melbourne wasn't easy! So I searched online for fun things to do with the kids and found Inside The Brick was hosting a LEGO\u00ae Fan Expo in Moorabbin and the tickets were affordable, so I grabbed them quick-smart!\nWe've had some great opportunities to be part of the blogging community over the last year, so this definitely helped to wet the kids appetite for LEGO\u00ae, convincing the kids it'll be fun was a piece of cake!\nI recently saw this French Magazine Ad with a little boy and Parachuting LEGO\u00ae people and instantly thought of my little boy and what our future may be like LOL looks like something he would do too! I also love the concept of the ad, the feeling I get, it's really clever advertising, it's all about the experience!\nInside the LEGO\u00ae Fan Expo...\nWe arrived in the car park, there was a little confusion as to where we could park, but managed to find out by another mum we could park in the permit zone areas. It's probably on the website, but I admit to not reading that information.\nGet to the doors and ramp, people were just walking in, we weren't really sure where to line up, it wasn't clear. We managed to ask someone and had our name marked off. It was a little disjointed but got there in the end.\nInside The Brick \"LEGO\u00ae Fan Expo\" 2014 - Photo: Heather James, Inspiring Mums\u00ae\n\"WOW MUM! Check it out!!\"\n\u2014 Inspiring Son, Bam Bam, age 3\nWalking through the double doors to the hall and the first impression we got was this quote:\nI had to slow the kids down because they were going so fast we couldn't enjoy the cute little fan exhibits at the start! They were that excited! It was really busy and people were pushing past us which was a bit frustrating, but you get that in crowds like this. There were easily over 1,000 people in the hall, but I wouldn't say overcrowded though.\nAs we walked along the exhibits, I was taken back in time when we'd go to our aunts house and play LEGO\u00ae, it was quite different back then. It was a real treat, because my father couldn't afford to buy us LEGO\u00ae (now I'm showing my age! LOL)\nThere were some really creative pieces, we loved the little monsters and the LEGO\u00ae Movie pirate ship, the dolls house and Toy Story cowboy and indians.\nWe get to the Star Wars section and Bam Bam grabs one of the spaceships and says:\n\"Mine mummy, I take it?\"\nI obviously repeated the \"DO NOT TOUCH\" signs to him the whole time! LOL\nMy daughter loved the LEGO\u00ae Movie kitty and the parrot and the Batman house with flashing lights!\nThe Titanic ship was incredible! I overheard the creator say some of the parts move, it was quite big and impressive too.\nAs we walked further around to the back of the hall, you couldn't miss the massive model city with trains, Gordon and Thomas the trains made an appearance, much to Bam Bam's delight! I think my daughter had enough of the trains by then!\nWe decided to go up to the play area and make something, it was a little tricky because Inspiring Miss 8 wanted to go one way and Inspiring Son wanted to go another way into the LEGO\u00ae Duplo\u00ae play area. Inspiring Miss decided she didn't want to play anymore but I finally got her to help me build a house and find pieces for me while Bam Bam played with the plane etc. He wasn't best pleased when a little boy stepped all over his creation though! (see pics).\nWe stayed for about an hour which was enough for both of my kids, they were hungry and tired!\nContinuing the LEGO\u00ae creativity at home...\nPhoto: www.lego.com\nWe ended up buying a box of mixed pieces as we don't have much LEGO\u00ae at home and if we do it is for specific designs. So using some of nanny's money and a little from me we got a box ($39.99) and it was actually the best value for money overall being the most versatile of all of the products at the shop they had there.\nAs soon as we got home, we spent hours creating our own creations and figured we could also use these pieces for the LEGO\u00ae Creationary game she got for Christmas last year.\nInspiring Mums\u00ae final thoughts on the event...\nOverall I think it was a great exhibition and believe it will get better every year because the hosts are interested in what families have to say about the event.\nI was pleased to see expertly built exhibits and excellent fan exhibits, including a very nostalgic trip down memory lane with the vintage LEGO\u00ae also on display and for sale.\nI'm probably nit-picking here, mostly because there wasn't much I could see to fault, but we did find some areas a little disorganised, not greatly though. It was noticeable as we just arrived, the confusion about the parking and permit areas (I wasn't alone on that either everyone in the car park looked confused). Then having to ask where to enter and show our ticket because there wasn't an obvious desk I asked where to go (would be opportunity for freeloaders to bypass checking in)...\nI did find some of the younger staff had pushed through the crowd a few times and I was having to lift my son up from being pushed into, they seemed to look straight ahead and not aware of the little ones around.\nThey did make great use of the area, but I felt they could have spread some more of the exhibits on the upper level where the play area was to make the flow of people traffic easier to get through the main hall, as it seemed there was a lot of space on the upper level and a bit crowded in the hall.\nWould we go back next time?\nYes of course! I have to say, it did bring the Big Kid out in me and introduced the kids to the world of creativity and versatility of LEGO\u00ae , let's face it, it's loads of fun after all, just don't step on it in the dark!\nTip for new parents :)\nNow, go get your LEGO\u00ae on and bring the Big Kid out in YOU!\nSmile & Shine\u00ae\nI do recommend that you do your research on LEGO\u00ae products and sales in the major stores before you go, because you could save yourself some cash as there are products for sale at the events. Having said that, you could even grab a bargain!\nSet a budget or give the kids a certain amount to spend and don't take more cash than you need, especially if you are on a tight budget.\nGo armed with knowledge to make the best decision about buying something there. The products didn't appear to be reduced but happy to be proven wrong! Let's face it, it's a business and they are there to make money, it's no secret :) it's all swings and roundabouts anyway!\nDisclaimer: This is a personally funded event with my family. This is not a sponsored post. Inspiring Mums\u00ae is not affiliated or associated with the promoter Inside The Brick\u00ae or LEGO\u00ae in any way. Any views or opinions shared are my own from a real experience and perspective.\nLEGO\u00ae IS A TRADEMARK OF THE LEGO\u00ae GROUP, WHICH DOES NOT SPONSOR, AUTHORIZE OR ENDORSE THIS WEB SITE.\nCredit Where Credit Is Due!\nThe agency and creatives responsible for the \"Creativity Forgives Everything\" LEGO\u00ae Magazine ads include:\nAdvertising Agency: Grey, Paris, France\nExecutive Creative Directors: Thierry Astier,St\u00e9phane Eynard\nArt Directors: La\u00ebtitia Chr\u00e9tien, Quentin Deronzier\nCopywriters: Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Le Marec, Dimitri Hekimian\nAdvertising Managers: Emilie Carle, St\u00e9phane Knapp, Eric Maugein\nAccount Director:Laurence Cormier\nAccount Executive: Charlotte Huet\ncategories \/ Events, Things To Do With Kids, MAKE IT!\ntags \/ Family Entertainment, LEGO\u00ae, Creativity, Things To Do With Kids, Melbourne Events, Make it\n{ Inspiration } Motherhood Quotes - Inspiring Mums\u00ae","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Love Talkin - Series 5, Monica Wadwa\nEpisode 50 \u2013 Monica Wadwa with Josh Wilson \u2013 Part 1\nMonica chats to Josh Wilson \u2013 a Forbes 30 under 30 and CEO and founder of award-winning, international film and television production company, Wilson Worldwide Productions. He talks about the ups and downs of getting to where he is today and the importance of giving back. Listen to Part 2 here: http:\/\/lovetalkin.com\/2019\/04\/01\/episode-50-monica-wadwa-with-josh-wilson-part-2\/\nLove Talkin \/ 26th March 2019\nEpisode 49 \u2013 Box Set GO! with Nicola Stephenson & Rebecca Front\nActress Nicola Stephenson (Holby city Brookside, Clocking Off, Emmerdale) talks to actress and Rebecca Front (The Thick of It, The Day Today, Transformers \u2013 The Last Knight) about the films and TV series that have shaped her life. The podcast that travels through the small and big screen highlights of some of our best loved\u2026\nFull Disclosure with Corey Johnson, Love Talkin - Series 5\nEpisode 48 \u2013 Corey Johnson with Sukie Smith\nEpisode 47 \u2013 Corey Johnson with Jack Burke\nEpisode 46 \u2013 Box Set Go! with Nicola Stephenson & Angela Griffin\nActress Nicola Stephenson (Holby city, Brookside, Clocking Off, Emmerdale) talks to actress Angela Griffin (Coronation Street, Waterloo Road, Inspector Lewis) about the films and TV series that have shaped her life. The podcast that travels through the small and big screen highlights of some of our best loved small and big screen stars.\nEpisode 45 \u2013 Natasha Minter with Amelie Plange\nNatasha Minter talks to Amelie Plange this week, director of Pure Living, an online health and fitness brand, and also a model. They share their secrets to living life as healthy models, building online businesses and how to make healthy work for you when you are on the road. You can find them on: Instagram:\u2026\nEpisode 44 \u2013 Monica Wadwa \u2013 International Women's Day Special\nLove Talkin \/ 7th March 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Job: Head, Metadata and Discovery at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries\nThe Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, joining the Association of Research Libraries in 2018 as the first new U.S. member of ARL in over 15 years, invites applications and nominations for the position of Head, Metadata and Discovery. The Head, Metadata and Discovery provides strategic and innovative leadership and oversight of metadata and cataloging, authority control, bibliographic maintenance, and access to continuing resources. The Head, Metadata and Discovery is responsible for managing and directing staff in the creation of metadata and cataloging in all formats, as well as all aspects of continuing resources access and maintenance. The successful candidate will join a culturally and academically diverse faculty of the highest caliber.\nSalary commensurate with experience, not less than $70,000. Review of applications will begin November 30, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled. The complete position description is available at https:\/\/www.library.vcu.edu\/about\/jobs\/. To apply for this position go to https:\/\/www.vcujobs.com\/postings\/84285. Virginia Commonwealth University is an Equal Opportunity\/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.\nBrought to you by code4lib jobs: https:\/\/jobs.code4lib.org\/jobs\/31340-head-metadata-and-discovery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hotel Partying Preceded Deadly Shooting at NSA Gate, Sources Say\njustin fishel, mike levine and jack date\nMar 30, 2015, 10:41 PM ET\nPlayWJLA-TV\/AP Photo\nWATCH One Man Killed in a Deadly Shooting at NSA Headquarters\nOne man is dead and another severely injured after gunfire erupted today at one of the main gates of the National Security Agency located at Fort Meade, Maryland.\nThe injured man was identified as Kevin Fleming, 20, of Baltimore, according to law enforcement sources. Fleming and another man were in a stolen Ford Escape SUV when they encountered NSA police at the entrance to the Ft. Meade complex, sources said.\nShortly before 9 a.m. ET, a vehicle with two people inside \"attempted an unauthorized entry at a National Security Agency gate,\" according to a statement from the NSA.\n\"The driver failed to obey an NSA Police officer's routine instructions for safely exiting the secure campus,\" the statement continued. \"The vehicle failed to stop and barriers were deployed.\"\nFort Knox Shooting: 1 Army Civilian Employee Dead\nSources say the two inside were men dressed as women. Preliminary information indicated the two men were partying at an area hotel with a third individual when they took that individual's car without permission. However, it's still unclear how or why they ended up at the NSA gate.\nThe owner of the SUV picked up two men dressed as women in Baltimore late Sunday, sources confirmed. The three allegedly drove to a hotel in Howard County, Maryland, where they partied, sources said. Early this morning, the man woke up alone and the two men he allegedly had picked up were gone and so was his vehicle, sources said. The man reported his vehicle stolen to Howard County Police before the incident at the NSA, sources said.\nA law enforcement source confirmed that the car that crashed at NSA was reported stolen in Howard County, Maryland.\nWhen the vehicle \"accelerated toward an NSA police car blocking the road\" and \"refused to stop,\" an NSA police officer opened fire, and one of the two men inside the \"unauthorized vehicle\" ended up dead, the NSA statement said. The other man in the vehicle was \"severely injured\" and taken to a local hospital, according to sources.\nAn NSA Police officer injured in the incident was also taken to the hospital.\n\"The incident has been contained and is under investigation,\" Colonel Brian Foley, Fort Meade garrison commander, said in a statement. \"The residents, service members and civilian employees on the installation are safe. We continue to remain vigilant at all of our access control points.\"\nThe FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism.\nABC News' Devin Dwyer and Jim Avila contributed to this report.\nGet real-time updates as this story unfolds. To start, just \"star\" this story in ABC News' phone app. Download ABC News for iPhone here or ABC News for Android here.\nMen Dressed as Women Shot Outside NSA Gate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Esoteric-Occult Groups\u00bb\nRosicrucianism The Order of the Rosy Cross, called Rosicrucianism, is an esoteric society that traces its lineage back to the Greek and Egyptian mystery schools. Much like Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism espouses Christian principles and ideals, claiming a long Western tradition, but the order also identifies itself with Reincarnation and the mystical Great White Brotherhood of Adepts, ideas more closely associated with Theosophy and Eastern thought. Members also believe in alchemical transmutation of base metals into gold and the transformation of the spirit into higher consciousness.\nAccording to Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883\u20131939), the first Imperator and founder of the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis (AMORC) in the United States, Rosicrucianism began in 1489 B.C.E. during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, a period of imperial expansion after the death of Thutmose's sister, Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Scholars from all over the kingdom, devout followers of the sun god Amon-Re, banded together to form a secret organization called the Order or the Brotherhood. Their search for occult understanding continued through the reigns of Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV, and Amenhotep III, reaching its zenith in the reign of Amenhotep IV.\nBut Amenhotep IV, also called Ahkenaton, upended Egyptian religion and society. Embracing the cult of Aton favored by his mother Queen Tiy's family, Amenhotep IV banished the old gods and instituted worship of Aton, which translates as heat or power, as the sole god of Egypt\u2014thus his new name, Ahkenaton, or \"one who serves the spirit of the Aton.\" He married his mother's niece, Nefertiti and by the seventh year of his reign had not only turned Egypt into a monotheistic state but had abandoned the capital of Thebes for a new capital city, Akhetaton, commonly called Amarna. Ahkenaton and his wife blissfully whiled away their days at the new capital, oblivious of the revolution outside.\nNot 10 years later, Amarna lay empty. Ahkenaton's beloved mother, Queen Tiy, and his wife Nefertiti had died, and the pharaoh, slipping deeper into madness, had been forced by the priests of the old religion to name his half-brother Smenkhare as coregent. But that was not enough, and so Ahkenaton and Smenkhare were assassinated, and Tutanhkaton ascended the throne. The new pharaoh quickly changed his name to Tutanhkamun, but he was soon replaced by Nefertiti's father Aye. He ordered the obliteration of Ahkenaton's image, and when he was replaced by General Horemheb, all traces of any pharaoh since Amenhotep III were erased. The Brotherhood was forced underground. The surviving 296 brothers assumed the linen surplices and shaved heads of medieval friars.\nExisting in secret, the brothers passed their knowledge down to succeeding generations. The legendary Hermes Trismegistus, a compilation of the gods HERMES and THOTH, supposedly led the order for more than 140 years. Imperator Lewis attributed the mystical proportions of King Solomon's Temple to the precepts of Freemasonry that were garnered from the order's knowledge. This period ended with the birth and death of the Great White Master Jesus Christ, whose life had been foretold by the Rosicrucian Essenes of Palestine.\nFor the next 500 years or so, the order disappeared, with instructions to each chapter, or Lodge, to determine its founding year then operate in 108-year cycles of activity and inactivity. In the years preceding \"rebirth,\" members would advertise through symbolic pamphlets to notify the public that the allegorical \"opening of the tomb to find C\u2013R.\u2013C. (Christus of the Rosy Cross)\" would soon commence. Lewis explained that the advent of printing in the 17th century threw the 108-year cycle out of proportion, giving rise to the \"real\" start of Rosicrucianism: the discovery of the long-dead body of Christian Rosenkreutz.\nThe mysterious pamphlets announcing the legend of Christian Rosenkreutz appeared in Kassel, Germany, in 1614\u201315. Named the Fama Fraternitatis dess Loblichen Ordens des Rosenkreutzes (The Fame of the Praiseworthy Order of the Rosy Cross) and the Confessio Fraternitatis, the anonymous papers described a young man called Christian Rosenkreutz born in 1378. He was placed in a convent at age five to study the humanities and at age 16 accompanied one of his teachers to Damcar (perhaps Damascus) to continue his education. Three years later he traveled to Fez, Morocco, via Egypt, where he learned more secrets. Graduating in 1401, Rosenkreutz went to Spain to share his wisdom with the Moors, but they rebuffed him. Rosenkreutz returned to Germany and founded the Rosicrucian Fraternity.\nThe fraternity built its headquarters, called the Spiritus Sanctum, in 1409, and it taught an ever-larger circle of adepts and healers. Rosenkreutz died in 1484 at age 106 and was secretly entombed in the Spiritus Sanctum. In 1604, while making repairs to the building, the brothers encountered Rosenkreutz's vault. Across the door, in Latin, an inscription read, \"After 120 years I shall open.\" Inside, the seven-sided vault was covered in magical symbols, the ceiling was lit by an artificial sun, and there were many ritual objects and books. But the most amazing item was Rosenkreutz's completely preserved body inside the coffin. The pamphlets told this story and offered invitations to membership, albeit that the names of current members and their whereabouts were secret. In 1616 a companion pamphlet supposedly written by Rosenkreutz himself in 1459 entitled Chymische Hochzeit, or The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreutz, describes a mystical wedding ceremony and the creation of a HOMUNCULUS.\nThese revelations created enormous interest within the burgeoning European occult community, but while hundreds applied for membership, the brothers remained in hiding. Current scholarship attributes the pamphlets to Johann Valentin Andreae (1586\u20131654), a young Lutheran pastor and reformer who used the propaganda to promote Protestantism and vilify the papacy. Most of the books and tracts promoting the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross that appeared in the 18th and 19th centuries were actually treatises championing such causes as the free dissemination of knowledge, universal brotherhood, support of the hermetic arts, and the unification of Europe. The millennialist followers of Johannes Kelpus (1673\u20131708), who settled in Pennsylvania in 1694, practiced occult and healing arts; according to Lewis, they brought Rosicrucianism to America.\nIn his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, author Charles Mackay related a slightly different story of the brotherhood's founding. He acknowledged the legend of Christian Rosenkreutz but attributed the publication of the order's tenets and principles in 1615 to Michael Mayer, a renowned physician. Mayer asserted that:\nthe meditations of the founding brothers surpassed any wisdom imagined since the Creation, not even excepting the thoughts of the Deity, and that they knew all that was ever known or ever would be known; that the brothers were destined to accomplish the peace and regeneration of man before the end of the world; that they possessed all the graces of nature and could distribute them to others, and that they were not subject to hunger, thirst, disease, old age or any other infirmity; that they controlled spirits and demons; that through their songs they attracted pearls and precious stones; that God gave them a thick cloud to hide behind, unseen by others, to protect their identities; that the first eight members had the ability to cure all ills; that the Pope would be eliminated and that only two sacraments would be permitted in the reorganized Church; that they knew at first glance who was worthy of membership into the Order; and that they recognized the Fourth Monarchy and Emperor of the Romans as the leader of the Christians, and that with their enormous wealth they would shower him with more gold and treasures than the King of Spain had ever taken.\nMayer went on to outline the rules of conduct for a brother:\nthat wherever a brother traveled he must cure the sick; that wherever they were they should dress in the clothes of the people of that area; that they should meet at least once year in an appointed place or send a good excuse; that before death a brother should appoint his successor; that the words \"Rose-Cross\" would identify each one to the other; and that the Fraternity must be kept secret for six times twenty (120) years.\nMackay wrote that the fraternity made great inroads in Germany and other parts of Europe but that it was when the brothers arrived in Paris in 1623 that interest skyrocketed. Soon thereafter two books appeared claiming that the so-far invisible brothers were not protected by God but had instead made a pact with the devil to speak all languages, travel to the ends of the Earth as rapidly as thought, to have full purses, to infiltrate secret places by means of their invisibility, and to tell the past and future. Supposedly only 36 brothers existed, six of them in Paris. Rumors flew that mysterious, wealthy travelers enjoyed food and wine at inns and then did not pay; that chaste maidens often awoke to find men who resembled Apollo in their beds only to disappear when confronted; and that some people had found heaps of gold in their houses. No one was safe, and the police searched in vain for the Rosicrucian perpetrators. Many had opinions as to their identity; one man named Garasse, said Mackay, confidently called them drunken imposters who were really named for the garland of roses in the shape of crosses that were draped over tables in taverns all across Germany as emblems of secrecy\u2014hence the saying that any secrets divulged there were said \"sub-rosa.\"\nPractitioners and Practices\nAll Rosicrucian orders incorporate the rose and cross into their logos, although colors, shapes of the cross, the numbers of roses, and the use of other occult symbols vary by organization. The Rosicrucian Fellowship places a gold CROSS with looped ends over a five-pointed star on a blue background; draped around the cross are seven roses. AMORC, the United States arm of Rosicrucianism, displays one red rose centered on a gold cross with looped ends or, alternatively, an equilateral triangle, point down, inscribed with a cross. Crosses represent death and suffering but ultimate resurrection, while roses\u2014just as in medieval German taverns\u2014stand for secrecy as well as love. Additionally, the family crest of Johann Andreae featured a cross of Saint Andrew with four roses between the arms, while the crest of Martin Luther was a rose with a cross in the center.\nRosicrucian ideals have changed little from the early manifestos, although by 1794 the pledge of initiation taken by Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom included a paragraph barring discrimination due to gender. Many 19th-century Rosicrucian lodges restricted membership to Freemasons, however, and Freemasonry remains open to men only. New initiates in 1794 also promised not to reward governments\u2014or those wishing to overthrow them\u2014with any monetary relief save paying taxes. No Rosicrucian was to donate funds to the establishment of churches, chapels, hospitals, or private charities, as there were plenty of those, \"if they were only properly applied and regulated.\" And no member was to encourage laziness, public begging or debauchery, nor treatment of those infected with venereal diseases.\nAlchemy has long been associated with the order, and Bacstrom's initiation pledge made reference to what members called the Great Work. Initiates promised never to use their knowledge of this work to support governments, to disseminate any new discoveries about the work to the membership, to never give the \"fermented metallic medicine for transmutation\" to any but a brother (perhaps a solution with antimony; see Albertus Magnus), and if mastery of the Great Work should ever be accomplished, to give praise and thanks to God. The German JAKOB B\u00d6HME tried for years to prove the existence of the Philosopher's Stone in the Bible; some of his followers were tortured or killed for heresy.\nTo master the Great Work also required years of study and striving for spiritual improvement. Those who attained ultimate knowledge\u2014true oneness with the divine\u2014 joined Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, and the other invisible Masters in the Great White Lodge. While Lewis maintained that belief in Reincarnation was not required, the progression of the spirit through each enlightened stage points to doctrinal acceptance. Men who appeared to be mere mortals could be Masters in disguise, such as the legendary COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN, an adept in 18thcentury France. Other famous proponents of Rosicrucianism included the Elizabethan doctor Robert Fludd and Joseph Balsamo, the flamboyant COUNT CAGLIOSTRO.\nModern Rosicrucianism\nThe United States organization AMORC, founded by H. S. Lewis in 1915, had its beginnings as the Rosicrucian Research Society of the New York Institute for Psychical Research (1904). In 1908 Lewis met Mrs. May BanksStacey, an avid Rosicrucian, who put him in touch with members in Europe. By 1917 AMORC held its first convention, during which Lewis organized the National Rosicrucian Lodge as a means for students to learn elementary teachings by correspondence with the eventual hope of joining a Lodge. By 1926 Lewis petitioned a Rosicrucian Congress in Belgium to allow those students who still had not found a Lodge to continue their correspondence courses and become part of the \"Lodge at Home.\" These arrangements allowed materials to be distributed worldwide; there are currently approximately 250,000 members in more than 100 countries.\nIn 1927 Lewis moved AMORC's headquarters to San Jose, California. The Grand Lodge at Rosicrucian Park has become a tourist attraction, with a planetarium, research facilities, and the Egyptian Museum. Reputedly the only Egyptian museum in the world housed in authentic ancient Egyptian architecture, it contains the largest collections of Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian art and artifacts on the West Coast.\nOther major Rosicrucian orders include the Rosicrucian Fellowship, founded by Max Heindel (1865\u20131919) in 1909. Born Carl Louis Van Grasshoff in Denmark, his spiritual search first led him to the Theosophical Society and then to Germany in 1907, where Heindel claimed that the Elder Brothers of the Rosicrucian Order appeared to him and initiated him into their mysteries. Heindel studied under a Rosicrucian adept, believed to be Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Anthroposophical Society. Heindel returned to the United States and began to organize centers on the West Coast. He opened the Fellowship's headquarters on Mount Ecclesia in Oceanside, California, in 1910, where it remains; the compound features a 12-sided Temple of Healing that corresponds to the zodiac.\nThe Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, England, and the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis in Scotland restrict membership to Freemasons of the 32nd degree, but the Societas Rosicruciana in America welcomes nonMasons. The Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, founded in 1858 by Pascal Beverly Randolph (1825\u201375), claims to be the oldest Rosicrucian organization in the United States and traces its lineage to the occultist Eliphas Levi. To combine the teachings of Heindel and Steiner, S. R. Parchment founded the Rosicrucian Anthroposophic League in the 1930s. In the 1970s R. A. Straughn founded the Ausar Auset Society, a Rosicrucian organization dedicated to meditation and healthy living within the African-American community.\nRosicrucian mysteries still entertain the popular imagination, such as in Umberto Eco's novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. In the former a monk unravels a murder mystery involving the forbidden works of Aristotle, one of the Ascended Masters; in the latter computer hackers and historians stumble upon a Rosicrucian riddle that leads them to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar and the location of the Holy Grail. More recently, Dan Brown's book The DaVinci Code weaves a tale involving Rosicrucianism, Mary Magdalene, the Holy Grail, and the Priory of Sion as heir to the Knights Templar.\nCharles Mackay, in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, said that the early Rosicrucians claimed that the earth, air, and water were full of demons and sprites, gnomes and undines, sylphs and salamanders, all bound to the will of the Rosicrucian adepts. Mackay observed that while those claims might be absurd, that the descriptions of such beings had so successfully entered the popular imagination that art and literature would be bereft without them.\nSee also: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.\nBridges, Vincent. \"Ahkenaton and the Myth of Monotheism.\" Aethyrea Books. Available online at www.vincentbridges. com\/highweirdness\/Akhenaten.htm. Downloaded July 8, 2004.\nGuiley, Rosemary Ellen. Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.\nHeindel, Max. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception. Oceanside, Calif.: The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1993.\nMackay, Charles, LL.D. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1932.\nMcLean, Adam. \"Bacstrom's Rosicrucian Society.\" Available online. URL: www.levity.com\/alchemy\/bacstrm1.html. Downloaded July 8, 2004.\nWaite, Arthur Edward. The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993.\nThe Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy Written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Visionary Living, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Monumento a la Revoluci\u00f3n \/ Revolution Monument\n(19\/Abr\/2016) ISO 100 18mm f\/11 6s (19:28 hrs)\nTorre Virreyes \/ Viceroys Tower\n(1\/Jun\/2016) ISO 200 18mm f\/11 10s (21:56 hrs - 22:15 hrs)\n(17\/Oct\/2016) ISO 200 24mm f\/11 10s (20:31 hrs - 20:36 hrs)\nWorld Trade Center CDMX\n(8\/Mayo\/2015) ISO 250 22mm f\/13* 6s (20:02 hrs - 20:11 hrs)\nMexico is one of the countries where more people die every year because of lightning, the most dangerous and frequently weather hazard in the world. Lightning is a safety and economic concern in developed countries, but not in developing ones. Usually, single events caused by lightning are less dramatic than the ones caused by floods, hurricanes or tornadoes; that is why mistakenly lightning receives so little attention, but the truth is that on average more people are killed by lightning than by any other weather threat.\nSafety campaigns launched by different countries have resulted in a notorious downward trend in yearly fatalities. Lightning is unpredictable, the goal is to reduce injury and death by promoting awareness and education, better policies for outdoor activities, faster medical treatment aided with a warning systems at prime sites for casualties. As with personal safety issues, costs and losses to the industrial and commercial sectors are estimated at $5 to $6 billion yearly only in the US.\nIt is difficult to estimate the global number of deaths because many of the countries have no reliable statistics available, so a large number of lightning fatalities may be occurring but are not documented, a recent inaccurate estimate average number ranges between 6,000 and 24,000 deaths per year.\nThe project documents high thunderstorm activity over Mexico City during the last five years. The photographer moves to specific locations during thunderstorms to capture at ground level the power and beauty of lightning in a known context, specifically with representative buildings and monuments of the city with which people from all the country feel identified. The aim is to use them as reference to catch the interest of the people, institutions and safety organizations about the importance and danger lightning represents to the population and spread awareness in order to reduce lightning casualties in Mexico and other countries...\nMuseo Soumaya \/ Soumaya Museum\n(16\/Sept\/2016) ISO 200 18mm f\/16 13s (19:46 hrs)\nTorre Ejecutiva Pemex \/ Executive Pemex Tower\n(17\/Ago\/2014) ISO 200 37mm f\/14 8s (21:40 hrs)\nCiudad Universitaria UNAM \/ University City UNAM\n(5\/Oct\/2014) ISO 200 19mm* f\/16 5s (19:10 hrs - 19:28 hrs)\nPalacio de Bellas Artes \/ Fine Arts Palace\n(11\/Mayo\/2015) ISO 200 18mm f\/18 5s (20:44 hrs)\nEstadio Ol\u00edmpico Universitario\n(19\/Sept\/2018) ISO 200 18mm f\/13 6s (20:36 hrs)\nPiedra de los Tecomates \/ Tecomates Stone\n(31\/Ago\/2018) ISO 200 18mm f\/16 15s (22:40 hrs)\nTorres Arcos Bosques I y II \/ Arcos Bosques Tower I and II\n(2\/Jun\/2017) ISO 100 19mm f\/11 13s (22:51 hrs)\n(11\/Oct\/2014) ISO 200 24mm f\/14* 5s (18:35 hrs - 18:41 hrs)\nTorre Latino \/ Latinoamerican Tower\n(21\/Mar\/2018) ISO 100 18mm f\/16 15s (22:17hrs \/ 22:22 hrs)\n(29\/Jul\/2014) ISO 100 21mm f\/22 5s (19:22 hrs)\nTorre Insignia \/ Insignia Tower\n(26\/Abr\/2018) ISO 100 21mm f\/16 10s (20:55 hrs)\nThe Fury of TLaLOC over meXICO city\n(Death by lightning)\nPalacio Nacional \/ National Palace\n(8\/Ago\/2015) ISO 100 19mm f\/11 8s (22:12 hrs)\n\u00c1ngel de la Independencia \/ Independence Angel\n(13\/Ago\/2015) ISO 200 18mm f\/18 10s (20:06 - 20:42 hrs)\nLoter\u00eda Nacional \/ National Lotery\n(11\/Oct\/2014) ISO 100 24mm f\/9 6s (18:53 hrs)\nBas\u00edlica de Coatlallope\n(14\/Ago\/2017) ISO 160 18mm f\/13 8s (21:23 - 21:29 hrs)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gilbert, Pearce To Headline Grand Ole Prix Show Aug. 7 At Big Machine Music City GP\nPosted by Patrick Stephan on Tuesday, June 28th 2022\nBRANTLEY GILBERT & CARLY PEARCE TO HEADLINE GRAND OLE PRIX SHOW AT BIG MACHINE MUSIC CITY GRAND PRIX ON SUNDAY, AUG. 7\nThe MULTI-PLATINUM superstars will be joined by Midland and Callista Clark for the Grand Ole Prix, a special outdoor downtown version of the Grand Ole Opry, following the NTT INDYCAR SERIES race on the Nissan Stadium campus.\nSunday's Big Machine Music City Grand Prix ticket includes free admission to the Grand Ole Prix show.\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 28, 2022) \u2013 MULTI-PLATINUM superstar Brantley Gilbert and Opry member Carly Pearcewill headline the special Grand Ole Prix show set for Sunday, Aug. 7, at the Nissan Stadium campus as part of the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix.\nFellow Big Machine Label Group artists Midland and Callista Clark will join Gilbert and Pearce during the special version of the esteemed show. Held outdoors in downtown Nashville as part of a second consecutive year merging racing and music, the live 90-minute show will begin at 5:45 p.m. CT on the ZYN Main Stage. The Grand Ole Prix follows the conclusion of the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix NTT INDYCAR SERIES race and culminates the Aug. 5-7 festivities in the heart of Music City.\nGilbert, who was previously named ACM New Male Vocalist of the Year (2012) and Top New Male Artist (2013), is a MULTI-PLATINUM-selling Georgia native with a grassroots following millions strong. Seven No. 1 hits punctuate his career: \"Country Must be Country Wide,\" \"You Don't Know Her Like I Do,\" CMA Awards Song of the Year nominee \"Dirt Road Anthem,\" \"My Kinda Party,\" RIAA 5X PLATINUM-certified \"Bottoms Up,\" \"One Hell of an Amen\" and the collaboration with Lindsay Ell, \"What Happens In A Small Town,\" plus his landmark record JUST AS I AM clinched the 2014 American Music Award for Favorite Country Album. Following his \"Rolex \u00ae On A Redneck\" collaboration with Jason Aldean, Gilbert partnered with Jelly Roll for their new song \"Son Of The Dirty South.\"\nReigning ACM\/CMA Female Artist\/Vocalist of the Year Pearce has enjoyed a recent wave of significant accolades as her \"Never Wanted To Be That Girl\" duet with Ashley McBryde became her second consecutive ACM Awards Music Event of the Year win and 29: Written inStone was nominated for Album of the Year. The song also marked Pearce's third No. 1 hit and they became only the third duet between two solo women to top Country Airplay since the Billboard chart's 1990 inception. The Grand Ole Opry member will headline her first shows at the Ryman Auditorium on Oct. 26-27 after a summer touring with Kenny Chesney.\nRooted in tradition in both sound and style, Midland has grown from a bar band to an in-demand headliner selling out headline tours from coast to coast as well as supporting some of Country music's biggest stars like George Strait, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Little Big Town.\nLead vocalist Mark Wystrach fronts their rich sound rounded out with lead guitarist\/vocalist Jess Carson and bass player\/vocalist Cameron Duddy. Following their critically-acclaimed GOLD-certified debut album ON THE ROCKS, The Washington Post declared \"the year's best Country album\" and earning the pinnacle spot on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart with LET IT ROLL, Midland brings listeners a resurgence of their thick harmonies, sad melodies, tart lyrics and steel guitar on THE LAST RESORT: GREETINGS FROM.\nThe 2018 ACM Awards New Vocal Group of the Year and GRAMMY\u00ae-nominated act offers an intentional nod to Country music reminiscent of the 1970s and '80s that has been evident since their 2X PLATINUM-certified No. 1 \"Drinkin' Problem\" and is reflected on their latest single, \"Longneck Way To Go\" featuring Jon Pardi.\nNamed to Billboard's annual \"21 Under 21\" list for two consecutive years and CMT's 2022 class of Next Women of Country, 18-year-old Clark has a lot to say, wielding her creative gifts as both a defense and an instrument of peace as she puts her heart on display. With Real To Me producing the Top 20 \"It's 'Cause I Am,\" she became Country radio's most successful new artist debut of 2021. Her latest single, \"Gave It Back Broken,\" is featured on her forthcoming debut album REAL TO ME: THE WAY I FEEL, arriving Oct. 14.\nFor high-resolution images, click the following name of the artist: Brantley Gilbert (Credit: Spidey Smith), Carly Pearce(Credit: Allister Ann), Midland (Credit: Harper Smith) and Callista Clark (Credit: Chelsea Thompson).\nThree-day tickets and premium packages currently on sale provide admission to all on-track activities featuring the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and each of the concerts. Three-day tickets begin as low as $129 for general admission and $209 and $219 for reserved grandstand. Visit www.musiccitygp.com\/tickets for more information or to purchase now.\nAbout the Grand Ole Opry: Opry presents the best in country music live every week from Nashville, Tenn. The Opry can be heard at opry.com and wsmonline.com, Opry and WSM mobile apps, SiriusXM, and its flagship home, 650 AM-WSM, with Saturday night shows seen on the Circle Network. The Grand Ole Opry is owned by Ryman Hospitality Properties (NYSE: RHP). For more information, visit opry.com.\nAbout the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix: The NTT INDYCAR SERIES will visit Nashville Aug. 5-7 for the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, Round 14 of the 17-race season. The three-day festival of racing and music also will include Indy Lights, GT America, Trans Am, Stadium SUPER Trucks and Vintage Indy. The musical entertainment is highlighted by nightly on-site concerts featuring prominent artists led by Tim McGraw on Saturday, Aug. 6, and Gilbert Brantley and Carly Pearce on Sunday, Aug. 7. For ticket and event information, please visit www.musiccitygp.com.\ncategory: Music City Grand Prix\n\u00ab Notes & Quotes: Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio\nHonda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio \u2013 Steve's preview \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Barcelona, Europe, Sites, Travel\nLA SAGRADA FAMILIA \u2013 BARCELONA, SPAIN\nLa Sagrada Familia is a Roman-Catholic basilica, designed by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi (1852\u20131926). It was actually just a church at the beginning, and later on had been a cathedral, until 2010 when it was consecrated as a basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.\nWhat makes this basilica special are the architectural design, its gigantic size, and the fact that it hasn't finished yet and still under construction after 134 years (started 1882). The expected completion time is 2026, which ironically will be the 100th years after Gaudi's death.\nBarcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea and is a beach city. So Gaudi's vision when he started this project is to make Sagrada Familia the first thing that sailors see when they approach Barcelona, so it's gotta be huge and tall. When completed, this basilica will have 18 tower in total. One tower dedicated to Virgin Mary, 4 towers along each of the 3 fa\u00e7ades represent the 12 apostles (ranging between 90-120m), 4 towers in the middle represent the 4 evangelists, and these 4 will be surrounding the biggest and the tallest tower with 170 meters high that, of course, dedicated to Jesus Christ. For now, there are only 8 towers, 10 more to go.\nCheck this illustrated video below to understand the building process and what it's look like when it's finished!\nWhen La Sagrada Familia's finished it will be the tallest religious building in Europe. But Gaudi made sure that his masterpiece will be 1 meter less than Montju\u00efc; a hill in Barcelona which is the highest point of the city; because he believed that no man-made should ever be higher than the God's creation. He's a true believer and a very thoughtful man. Gaudi dedicated all his life to built this basilica, and he is now buried in a crypt under Sagrada Familia. (Unfortunately, he's dead after being hit by a tram).\n(Inside La Sagrada Familia)\nGaudi was inspired a lot by nature when he designed the Sagrada Familia. So expect to see a lot of berries on top of the towers, trees-lookalike pillars, and he also made sure the ceiling have some holes for sunlight to come in just like the feeling when you walk into a jungle and the sunlight break through the trees. His distinctive creativity make him to be one of the phenomenal architects in the world.\n(The ceiling and pillars of La Sagrada Familia that inspired by trees)\n(Top of the towers that inspired by fruit)\nLa Sagrada Familia is the main tourist attraction in Barcelona. So if you're going to Barcelona, make sure you pop in there and prepare to be amazed by it! I suggest to take the trip to the tower as well, you can see Barcelona from above and you can enjoy a view of the city's coastlines as well. The ticket price is ranging from \u20ac15 to \u20ac29 and that includes your donation\/contribution to keep this project going. What's better than visiting a masterpiece and also knowing that you've taken a part to built it?\n(The view from La Sagrada Familia's tower)\nPin It Please!\nbarcelonaeuropesagradafamiliaspain\nClarissa Santoso\nClarissa is founder, author, editor, and photographer of Girl on Planes. She made this space to share her travel experiences and inspire others to see our beautiful world.\nREVIEW: LE PIRATE NUSA CENINGAN BALI\nNusa Islands Bali Photo Diary\nThings To Do On A Cold Day","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Is Fair Trade the Answer to TV Price Cutting Problem?\nOctober 1949 Radio and Television News\nOctober 1949 Radio & TV News\n[Table of Contents]\nWax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio & Television News, published 1919 - 1959. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.\n'Fair Trade' was a policy established in the post-WWII era in response to what consumer retail groups considered business-ruining cost cutting by dealers who offered to sell products at or barely above cost in order to steal profit from other stores. So-scheming stores planned to make up for the low profit margin with high sales volumes. Doing so drove a lot of the local competition out of business, leaving the crafty dirty dealers to later raise prices. Stores that had manufacturer-sanctioned service shops often got screwed because they were obligated to repair items like TVs and radios that were bought from another dealer who did not do service work. Profit margins on repair work - at least from honest shops - were typically very low, so the owners depended on new product sales to help raise the bottom line. It all caused a very contentious environment in the fledgling television industry. This article does a good job of detailing the situation.\nNote: There is a modern-day version called World Fair Trade Organization, as well as numerous other groups.\nBy Carle Christensen\nThis type of advertising is familiar in the television field, yet you will notice the exception made in referring to Fair Traded items. Would the Fair Trading of most makes of television receivers eliminate or minimize price cutting in the television field? This is the question discussed by the author in the article.\nOther industries have proven beyond a doubt that Fair Trading reduces cut-throat price cutting.\nThere is little doubt but that price cutting is the number one problem facing the television dealer today. As the department manager of one of the country's leading department stores put it recently: \"We can't afford to handle television receivers in the current market. We're seriously considering discontinuing their sale.\n\"Just about everyone who comes into this department talks in terms of a discount of from 15 to 30 percent that they have been quoted by some dealer. With overhead, personnel, and advertising, it costs us 30 to 35 percent to handle an article. So how can we possibly afford to continue handling merchandise that must be sold in the face of cut-throat competition that is working on a margin of from two to twelve percent above cost?\"\nOr consider the comment of a small appliance dealer. Asked if he felt the pressure of price cutting, he answered, \"Feel it? Are you trying to be funny? If someone were to come in that door and offer to buy a television receiver without asking for a discount, I think I'd drop dead of surprise!\"\n\"They usually tell me quite frankly where they can buy it for about what I pay for it. So what can I do? Chase them out the door? Oh no! I bargain and use all the salesmanship I can. \"\n\"But don't kid yourself, it's tough going; because regardless of how much salesmanship I use, the prospect still knows the dealer down the street will give him the same set at a discount. So I usually end up giving him a discount, too, or a free installation - or sometimes both.\"\nThe problem of price cutting is not a new one. It has been faced in recent months and years by every major industry as the sellers' market has changed to a buyers' market.\nIn many industries, such as the drug field, the photographic field, and the liquor field, price cutting has been kept under control - at least to the extent that there is no cut-rate advertising, and the great majority of sales are made at list so that the dealers are able to operate on a normal margin of profit that permits sound growth and adequate servicing.\nYet, in the field of television, price cutting has grown to such proportions that millions of dollars in profit have been lost, and good will forfeited, creating a widespread uncertainty in the minds of the general public as well as the dealers as to its future. To quote a recent statement issued by the Philadelphia Retail Merchant's Credit Association, \"Discount selling in the television field has reached such proportions that it is not only a menace to the new industry, but it is also detrimental to all retailing.\"\nWhat has brought about such a difference between these two pictures? What have the drug, photographic, and liquor industries done that the television industry has failed to do? And could the same solution that has been successful in minimizing price cutting in these other fields be applied in the television field as well?\nIt is very obvious that a retail merchant must make a profit to stay in business, and the only way he can do this is to sell his merchandise or services at more than they cost him.\nHere are typical advertisements that clearly show the need for price control in the television field. If Fair Trading were applied to the television in\u00addustry, such advertising would be kept to a minimum.\nLetters from key men in industries upholding Fair Trade agreements strongly support the Act.\nUncontrolled, unwarranted price cutting will not allow him to do this. What might normally be a thriving, successful business can very rapidly go on the rocks if everything must be sold at a discount. Only as the leech\u00adlike influence of discount selling is eradicated will a healthy retail opera\u00adtion be possible in the television field.\nAs was mentioned before, other major industries have at one time suffered from the same blight of indiscriminate price cutting that now plagues television. Yet today, they are in a continually improving position which permits them to sell the greater part of their stock at list prices, upheld and protected by agree\u00adments between dealers and manufacturers. This has been made possible by the Fair Trade laws of their respective states and the Miller-Tydings Amendment to the Sherman Anti\u00adTrust Act.\nIn all of our United States, except for Missouri, Texas, Vermont, and the District of Columbia, Fair Trade laws have been passed which permit the manufacturer of a product \"which is in open competition with commodities of the same general class produced by others\" to enter into contracts with dealers (or wholesalers) to sell the product at the price named by the manufacturer. Moreover, in many states, not only the manufacturer, but a vendor, who has exclusive distribution, coupled with a sufficient interest, tantamount to ownership, may Fair Trade a product.\nIn either case, however, once a price has been established under Fair Trade, it becomes binding on all dealers, whether they have signed the contract or not, and if, thereafter, they willfully and knowingly advertise or sell such a commodity at less than the specified price, it is unfair competition, permitting legal redress by an injured party.\nTo illustrate: Let us suppose (as is the case in Chicago) one of the distributors has established a line of television receivers at certain list prices, under Fair Trade laws. Let us further assume (as has occurred) that a dealer advertises or is known to have sold one of these sets at less than the agreed price. What happens? An injunction is immediately obtained restraining the dealer from making any further cut-price sales, and should he continue, he is open to punishment for contempt of court. Some courts punish for contempt by fine, and some by imprisonment. Resort to court action is, however, seldom necessary in enforcing Fair Trade regulations.\nOr let us take a recent case in the photographic field. Mr. Justice Walter, in the Supreme Court for New York County, recently handed down a permanent injunction against a dealer who used phrases such as \"store demonstrator\" and \"like new\" as a subterfuge to permit him to sell Fair Traded products at less than list.\nJustice Walter spoke of such practices as being \"nothing more than a ruse to defeat the law,\" and forbade the dealer to continue such practices to evade charging and advertising list prices. In other words, in the framework of the Fair Trade laws, there is a power which when properly applied and enforced is capable of establishing and maintaining list prices for any commodity that is Fair Traded.\nFirst, it should be made clear that while Fair Trade laws, when enforced, prevent uncontrolled and unwarranted price cutting, they do not prevent price adjustments at any time the manufacturer may deem it advisable. If he feels that a 20 percent reduction in the price had been made possible by lowered manufacturing costs or better distribution, the reduction is made. But it is made available to all the dealers, on the same basis.\nSecond, Fair Trading does not permit a manufacturer to hold his prices up at an excessive level, because he is permitted to Fair Trade his product only if it is \"in open competition with commodities of the same general class produced by others.\" Naturally, the desire to sell against such competition will prevent his placing his Fair Trade prices any higher than he would normally do. Fair Trade does, however, permit the manufacturer to know that his goods will be sold at the Fair Trade price and that he can keep his faith with legitimate dealers by using the law to enforce observance of this price.\nIn fact, the effect of Fair Trading has been to keep prices considerably below the normal trend. To quote John W. Dargavel, Secretary of the National Association of Retail Druggists:\n\"Above all, Fair Trade has enabled the drug industry to achieve a price performance in the public interest, unequalled, to my knowledge, in any other industry. By 1939, over-all prices in the drug field, under Fair Trade, had dropped one percent from pre-Fair Trade, depression prices. This was revealed by a study made by staff members of the University of Minnesota's School of Business Administration and published by the Druggists Research Bureau in 1940. The study analyzed the effects of Fair Trade on the prices of 50 leading trademarked products in 42 Fair Trade states.\n\"During the war and postwar inflation, an unprecedented 'holding of the price line' was achieved. The Fair Trade prices of 7334 drug products rose only 3.1 percent in the period between 1939 and 1947, according to a study made by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. During this same period, Bureau of Labor statistics showed that food prices have risen 93 percent; household products, 81 percent; the over-all cost of living, 59.3 percent; miscellaneous items 38.5 percent; and drug products as a whole, 15.4 percent.\"\nThird, it should not be felt that Fair Trade is a new vehicle of government control, as is sometimes suggested. As we pointed out previously, Fair Trade merely permits the manufacturer or vendor to establish a minimum price and gives him the power to maintain it, if he chooses to do so.\nFourth, Fair Trade laws are merely to encourage fair trading and should be thought of as rules necessary to maintain fair competition in distribution, in just the same way that rules are necessary to ensure fair play in baseball, football, or any other group activity.\nPredatory, unwarranted, uncontrolled price cutting is \"cheating\" of the most vicious sort and will erode and destroy any industry in which it is permitted to go uncontrolled.\nFifth, Fair Trade laws may not be used for vertical price fixing within an industry. That is to say, two or more manufacturers may not get together with the purpose of establishing similar prices on like products so as to control the field. Such practices are still in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, are expressly prohibited in State Fair Trade laws.\nBut now, let us consider for a moment, what the widespread application of Fair Trade procedure could mean to the television industry. Can you imagine what it would mean to be able to talk to a prospect and to know that he could not go anywhere else and buy the same receiver for 15 to 30 percent below list? Can you imagine how much more salesmanship you would be able to use by knowing that price alone would not be the final deciding factor, regardless of what you might say? Can you imagine how much more willing and complete could be your service on a set that you had sold at a legitimate profit, and how much more recommended business would come as a result of such service?\nActually, it would mean a return of the radio and television business to the status of a stable industry promising a good future to anyone who was properly trained and willing to apply himself. Today it has fallen into the hands of cut-throat price manipulators who think only in terms of rapid turnover and immediate profits (if any!).\nOf course, like all dreams, this one is not capable of 100 percent realization - for a time at least. But the success of Fair Trading in other fields promises that it is possible for the radio industry to gradually build into its fiber the sound elements of price regulation and to eliminate the evils of widespread price cutting.\nTo quote Augustus Wolfman, Editor of National Photo Dealer in a special statement made for Radio & Television News:\n\"Fair Trade, when effective, benefits every bracket of an industry as well as the consumer. It prevents destructive price competition which eventually ends in the failure of a number of retailers with consequent loss to manufacturers and possible failures among this group as well.\n\"As far as the consumer is concerned, a series of failures of this type will first of all decrease the number of available jobs. Secondly, in order to meet the pressure of retailers who are fighting a price war, manufacturers may decrease the quality of their products in order to reduce prices, and again the consumer suffers.\n\"As far as the photographic field is concerned, Fair Trade is not yet fully effective. However, one of the most noteworthy gains in the photographic industry, made possible by Fair Trade, is the elimination of retail advertising which contains cut prices on new merchandise.\n\"In addition, may I point out that in a recent survey conducted by National Photo Dealer magazine, 53 percent of photographic dealers replying stated that Fair Trade was working in their areas, 26 percent indicated that it was partially successful, and only 21 percent mentioned that it was not successful.\n\"The two principal reasons for the failure of Fair Trade wherever it is not working are the inability of the dealers to co-operate to make it work and the indifference of manufacturers towards enforcing their Fair Trade contracts.\n\"The fight for more effective Fair Trade is still being carried on in the photographic industry and we are looking forward to achieving our goal in the not-too-distant future.\"\nThe Problems of Enforcement\nNaturally, the application of Fair Trade laws presents problems - some of them quite serious. But, none of them are so great that they could not be solved by the same genius for organization and planning that has brought us the modern television receiver.\nA most important problem, as mentioned by Mr. Wolfman, is that of enforcement. Fair Trade laws in themselves impose no penalty. They are, in the terms of the lawyer, \"permissible\" rather than \"mandatory\" laws. They permit the manufacturer or vendor to establish Fair Trade prices, but they are only effective if someone enforces them. It has been definitely and repeatedly proven that where Fair Trade laws are properly and consistently enforced, uncon\u00adtrolled and unwarranted price cutting is reduced to a minimum and cut\u00adprice advertising is eliminated. Therefore, where such enforcement is lax or entirely lacking, the resulting failure cannot be charged to Fair Trade laws but rather to the failure to enforce them.\nActually, when an article is Fair Traded, anyone who is injured by the price cutting may obtain the necessary injunction to cause the offending party to cease. However, because of the legal complications and the expense involved, it is hardly practical for a single dealer to undertake such enforcement, and it is generally done by the manufacturer or a distributor.\nFor example, in the case already cited in Chicago, it is the distributor who initiates the enforcement, though it must be admitted, since his is the only line in that area that is Fair Traded, it is in some ways a thankless task.\nOn the other hand, many of the photographic dealers in the Chicago area have organized themselves into the Chicago Area Photographic Retailers Association under the leadership of Mr. Harry Graw, President of the General Camera Company.\nSince most of the items sold in photographic stores are Fair Traded, the primary task of this group has been to police their markets and to see that Fair Trade prices are upheld.\nTo do this they have hired shoppers who periodically check on the prices at which various items are being offered, and when it is established that price cutting has been practiced, preliminary warnings are given; if these are ignored, the matter is turned over to the Association's legal counsel.\nA similar plan of procedure has been adopted by the Guild of Photographic Dealers of New York, Inc., and other groups are gradually being formed over the country in an effort to give protection to dealers who wish to carryon a legitimate retail business.\nWhile cases where manufacturers in other fields, have successfully used Fair Trade to control price cutting are too numerous to list here, one of special interest to us in the television field is the recent suit of Allen B. DuMont Laboratories to restrain R. H. Macy and Company from advertising and selling DuMont television receivers at cut prices. Legal action was instituted against Macy's after the store ran newspaper ads in New York papers offering DuMont sets at 20% off.\nAt the time of publication of Radio & Television News, Macy's had been legally restrained from representing themselves as DuMont dealers.\nDuMont has disfranchised eight or ten dealers for price cutting in the past, but this is the first instance of legal action to protect the manufacturer's price structure.\nAs previously mentioned, because of the limitations of space, it has been quite impossible to completely present the story of the possible advantages and the problems of Fair Trading as a means of controlling price cutting in the television industry. We have, however, sought to establish the basic principles involved and to illustrate the manner in which it has been suc\u00adcessfully applied in other fields.\nNaturally, there are many questions that will arise in the minds of our many readers, and we refer them to two sources from which they may obtain additional, accurate information on the matter. They are: The American Fair Trade Council, Inc., at 11 E. 44th Street, New York 17, N. Y. and the Bureau of Education on Fair Trade at 205 East 42nd Street, Suite 1909, New York 17, N. Y.\nIn closing, we feel we can do no better than quote a special message to Radio & Television News readers from Mr. Don White, Executive Secretary of the National Association of Visual Education Dealers whose group has the benefit of many years of experience with the problems of price control.\n\"The best way I know to explain the effect of Fair Trade on the audio visual business is to compare it to the Bible. That is, not everyone abides by the rules it sets up, but we'd be in a dickens of a fix if we didn't have it at all.\n\"Most of the products in the audio\u00advisual field are now covered by Fair Trade contracts. Our experience with these has been that when properly enforced, they serve to protect the manufacturer, the dealer, and the customer.\n\"The manufacturer is protected against the loss of his good name, which occurs when his product is price-cut. The dealer is protected against cut-throat competition and can afford to get out and develop sales, confident that he will not lose them to price-cutters. And the customer is protected because he knows he is buying the Fair Traded product at the lowest price at which it can be sold by any reputable dealer. He is relieved of the necessity of 'shopping' for a better price.\n\"In these days of competition for every consumer dollar, each industry needs to build up, at the dealer level, a hard-hitting and effective sales force - not just order takers, but a sales force that can create the desire to buy.\n\"The only way such a sales force can be maintained is through protection against price-cutting. And a solidly enforced Fair Trade contract is the only sound means of providing that protection.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Atlantic research expedition uncovers vast methane-based ecosystem\nby University of North Carolina Wilmington\nA marine research expedition sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has led to the discovery of perhaps the world's largest methane cold seep by two university-based research teams and their partners, UNCW announced today.\nThe seep lies deep in the western North Atlantic Ocean, far from the life-sustaining energy of the sun. Mussels blanketing the the seep rely on bacteria that use the methane to make energy. The process, known as chemosynthesis, forms the basis for life in the harsh environment and could help scientists better understand how organisms can survive under these types of extreme conditions.\n\"UNCW and FSU have done two previous cruises together and this is perhaps our biggest discovery,\" said UNCW researcher Dr. Steve Ross. \"Studies of this kind and of these communities help scientists understand how life thrives in harsh environments, and perhaps even on other planets.\"\nThe new seep discovery is only the third documented seep site on the U.S. Atlantic Coast, and by far the most extensive; the two seep areas at this site are estimated to be at least a kilometer long and in places hundreds of meters across. Sea cucumbers were also seen tucked into the tight mounds of mussels and shrimp swam above them. Many species of fishes, including some with unusual behaviors, were also common around the unique ecosystem..\nStationed aboard NOAA's Ronald H. Brown research vessel, the research teams used the diverse capabilities of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), Jason II, to document and study the newly discovered methane seep.. The teams have been able to capture high definition video, sample the sediment at the site, collect live mussels for genetic and reproductive studies, collect large dead shells and rocks for aging analysis, take water samples to examine water chemistry, and sample associated animals to examine food webs.\nThe seep discovery could potentially play an important role in advancing scientific understanding of hydrocarbon resources and gas hydrates (important possible future energy resources) along the US continental slope .\nScientists describe new species of crab that \"farms\" methane vents\nMore information: Deepwater Canyons website\nBureau of Ocean Energy Management's news site.\nProvided by University of North Carolina Wilmington\nCitation: Atlantic research expedition uncovers vast methane-based ecosystem (2013, May 23) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-05-atlantic-uncovers-vast-methane-based-ecosystem.html\nResearchers discover unknown species at juncture where hot and cold habitats collide\nWood on the seafloor: An oasis for deep-sea life\nExplorers discover deepwater gas seeps off US Atlantic coast: Advanced sonar technology key to discovery and mapping\nMicrobes surviving deep inside oceanic crust\nAmmonites found mini oases at ancient methane seeps\nWhat delayed Earth's oxygenation?\nAmmonia from agriculture influences cloud formation over Asia\nResearchers discover ice is sliding toward edges off Greenland Ice Sheet\nA clearer picture of global ice sheet mass\nIstanbul: Seafloor study proves earthquake risk for the first time","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"bureaucracybusters\nBureaucracybuster's Blog\nTop 12 Busting Rules\nAbout Steffen White\nPosts Tagged 'SS'\nABC NEWS, ADMIRAL IVAN ISAKOV, ADOLF HITLER, ALBERT SPEER, ALTERNET, ANDREW MCCABE, AP, BOB WOODWARD, BUZZFEED, CBS NEWS, CHEKA, CIA, CNN, COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE, CROOKS AND LIARS, DAILY KOZ, DEMOCRATIC PARTY, DONALD TRUMP, FBI, FSB, GENRIKH YAGODA, HEINRICH HIMMLER, HERMANN GOERING, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAMES COMEY, JEFF SESSIONS, JOSEPH STALIN, KGB, KRISJEN NIELSEN, LAVRENTY BERIA, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NBC NEWS, NEWSWEEK, NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, NIKOLAI YEZHOV, NKVD, NPR, PBS NEWSHOUR, POLITICO, RACHEL BRAND, RANDOLPF \"TEX\" ALLES, RAW STORY, REPUBLICAN PARTY, REUTERS, SALLY YATES, SALON, SEAN SPICER, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SOVIET UNION, SS, STORMY DANIELS, SURVEILLANCE, THE APPRENTICE, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PRINCE, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, TWITTER, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UPI, USA TODAY\nPRESIDENTS RULE BY CONSENT, DICTATORS RULE BY FEAR: PART TWO (END)\nIn Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Military, Politics, Social commentary on December 27, 2022 at 12:10 am\nIn January, 2018, the White House banned the use of personal cell phones in the West Wing. The official reason: National security.\nThe real reason: To prevent staffers from leaking to reporters.\nMore ominously, well-suited men roamed the halls of the West Wing, carrying devices that pick up signals from phones that aren't government-issued.\n\"Did someone forget to put their phone away?\" one of the men would ask if such a device was detected. If no one said they had a phone, the detection team started searching the room.\nPhone detector\nThe devices can tell which type of phone is in the room.\nThis is the sort of behavior Americans have traditionally\u2014and correctly\u2014associated with dictatorships\nIn his memo outlining the policy, then-Chief of Staff John Kelly warned that anyone who violated the phone ban could be punished, including \"being indefinitely prohibited from entering the White House complex.\"\nYet even these draconian methods did not end White House leaks.\nWhite House officials still spoke with reporters throughout the day and often aired their grievances, whether about annoying colleagues or competing policy priorities.\nAides with private offices sometimes called reporters on their desk phones. Others got their cell phones and called or texted reporters during lunch breaks.\nAccording to an anonymous White House source: \"The cellphone ban is for when people are inside the West Wing, so it really doesn't do all that much to prevent leaks. If they banned all personal cellphones from the entire [White House] grounds, all that would do is make reporters stay up later because they couldn't talk to their sources until after 6:30 pm.\"\nOther sources believed that leaks wouldn't end unless Trump started firing staffers. But there was always the risk of firing the wrong people. Thus, to protect themselves, those who leaked might well accuse tight-lipped co-workers.\nWithin the Soviet Union (especially during the reign of Joseph Stalin) fear of secret police surveillance was widespread\u2014and absolutely justified.\nAmong the methods used to keep conversations secret:\nTurning on the TV or radio to full volume.\nTurning on a water faucet at full blast.\nTurning the dial of a rotary phone to the end\u2014and sticking a pencil in one of the small holes for numbers.\nStanding six to nine feet away from the hung-up receiver.\nGoing for \"a walk in the woods.\"\nSaying nothing sensitive on the phone.\nThe secret police (known as the Cheka, the NKVD, the MGB, the KGB, and now the FSB) operated on seven working principles:\nYour enemy is hiding.\nStart from the usual suspects.\nStudy the young.\nStop the laughing.\nRebellion spreads like wildfire.\nStamp out every spark.\nOrder is created by appearance.\nTrump has always ruled through bribery and fear. He's bought off (or tried to) those who might cause him trouble\u2014like porn actress Stormy Daniels. And he's threatened or filed lawsuits against those he couldn't or didn't want to bribe\u2014such as contractors who have worked on various Trump properties.\nBut Trump couldn't buy the loyalty of employees working in an atmosphere of hostility\u2014which breeds resentment and fear. And some of them took revenge by sharing with reporters the latest crimes and follies of the Trump administration.\nThe more Trump waged war on the \"cowards and traitors\" who worked most closely with him, the more some of them found opportunities to strike back. This inflamed Trump even more\u2014and led him to seek even more repressive methods against his own staffers.\nThis proved a no-win situation for Trump.\nThe results were twofold:\nConstant turnovers of staffers\u2014with their replacements having to undergo lengthy background checks before coming on; and\nContinued leaking of embarrassing secrets by resentful employees who stayed.\nAs host of NBC's \"The Apprentice,\" Trump became infamous for booting off contestants with the phrase: \"You're fired.\" In fact, he so delighted in using this that, in 2004, he tried to gain trademark ownership of it.\nBut the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected his application. American copyright law explicitly prohibits copyright protections for short phrases or sayings.\nUpon taking office as President, Trump bullied and insulted even White House officials and his own handpicked Cabinet officers. This resulted in an avalanche of firings and resignations.\nThe first two years of Trump's White House saw more firings, resignations, and reassignments of top staffers than any other first-term administration in modern history. His Cabinet turnover exceeded that of any other administration in the last 100 years.\nIn 1934, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, seeing imaginary enemies everywhere, ordered a series of purges that lasted right up to the German invasion in 1941.\nNo one was safe from execution\u2014not even the men who slaughtered as many as 20 to 60 million.\nFittingly, for all the fear he inspired, Stalin was plagued by paranoia. He lived in constant fear of assassination. Although surrounded by bodyguards, he distrusted even them.\nThus Stalin, who had turned the Soviet Union into a vast prison, became its leading prisoner.\nSimilarly, Donald Trump daily proved the accuracy of the age-old warning: \"You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it.\"\nABC NEWS, ADMIRAL IVAN ISAKOV, ADOLF HITLER, ALBERT SPEER, ALTERNET, ANDREW MCCABE, AP, BOB WOODWARD, BUZZFEED, CBS NEWS, CHEKA, CIA, CNN, COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE, CROOKS AND LIARS, DAILY KOZ, DEMOCRATIC PARTY, DONALD TRUMP, FBI, FSB, GENRIKH YAGODA, HEINRICH HIMMLER, HERMANN GOERING, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAMES COMEY, JEFF SESSIONS, JOSEPH STALIN, KGB, KRISJEN NIELSEN, LAVRENTY BERIA, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NBC NEWS, NEWSWEEK, NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, NIKOLAI YEZHOV, NKVD, NPR, PBS NEWSHOUR, POLITICO, RACHEL BRAND, RANDOLPF \"TEX\" ALLES, RAW STORY, REPUBLICAN PARTY, REUTERS, SALLY YATES, SALON, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SOVIET UNION, SS, STORMY DANIELS, SURVEILLANCE, THE APPRENTICE, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PRINCE, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, TWITTER, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UPI, USA TODAY\nPRESIDENTS RULE BY CONSENT, DICTATORS RULE BY FEAR: PART ONE (OF TWO)\nDonald Trump has often been compared to Adolf Hitler. But his reign bears far more resemblance to that of Joseph Stalin.\nGermany's Fuhrer, for all his brutality, maintained a relatively stable government by keeping the same men in office\u2014from the day he took power on January 30, 1933, to the day he blew out his brains on April 30, 1945.\nBundesarchiv, Bild 146-1990-048-29A \/ CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/de\/deed.en)%5D\nHeinrich Himmler, a former chicken farmer, remained head of the dreaded, black-uniformed Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squads, known as the SS, from 1929 until his suicide in 1945.\nIn April, 1934, Himmler was appointed assistant chief of the Gestapo (Secret State Police) in Prussia, and from that position he extended his control over the police forces of the whole Reich.\nHermann Goering, an ace fighter pilot in World War 1, served as Reich commissioner for aviation and head of the newly developed Luftwaffe, the German air force, from 1935 to 1945.\nAnd Albert Speer, Hitler's favorite architect, held that position from 1933 until 1942, when Hitler appointed him Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. He held that position until the Third Reich collapsed in April, 1945.\nSoviet Premier Joseph Stalin, by contrast, purged his ministers constantly. For example: From 1934 to 1953, Stalin had no fewer than three chiefs of his secret police, then named the NKVD:\nGenrikh Yagoda \u2013 (July 10, 1934 \u2013 September 26, 1936)\nNikolai Yezhov (September 26, 1936 \u2013 November 25, 1938) and\nLavrenty Beria (November, 1938 \u2013 March, 1953).\nStalin purged Yagoda and Yezhov, with both men executed after their arrest.\nHe reportedly wanted to purge Beria, too, but the latter may have acted first. There has been speculation that Beria slipped warfarin, a blood-thinner often used to kill rats, into Stalin's drink, causing him to die of a cerebral hemorrhage.\nStalin's record for slaughter far eclipses that of Hitler.\nFor almost 30 years, through purges and starvation caused by enforced collections of farmers' crops, Stalin slaughtered 20 to 60 million people.\nThe 1930s were a frightening and dangerous time to be alive in the Soviet Union. In 1934, Stalin, seeing imaginary enemies everywhere, ordered a series of purges that lasted right up to the German invasion in 1941.\nAn example of Stalin's paranoia occurred one day while the dictator walked through the Kremlin corridors with Admiral Ivan Isakov. Officers of the NKVD (the predecessor to the KGB) stood guard at every corner.\n\"Every time I walk down the corridors,\" said Stalin, \"I think: Which one of them is it? If it's this one, he will shoot me in the back. But if I turn the corner, the next one can shoot me in the face.\"\nAnother Russian-installed tyrant who has sought to rule by fear: President Donald J. Trump.\nIn fact, he admitted as much to journalist Bob Woodward during the 2016 Presidential race: \"Real power is\u2014I don't even want to use the word\u2014fear.\"\nAs a Presidential candidate, Trump repeatedly used Twitter to attack hundreds of real and imagined enemies in politics, journalism, TV and films.\nAs President, he continued to insult virtually everyone, verbally and on Twitter. His targets included Democrats, Republicans, the media, foreign leaders and even members of his Cabinet.\nIn Russian, the word for \"purge\" is \"chistka,\" for \"cleansing.\" Among the victims of Trump's recurring chistkas:\nSally Yates \u2013 Assistant United States Attorney General\nJames Comey \u2013 FBI Director\nAndrew McCabe \u2013 FBI Deputy Director\nJeff Sessions \u2013 United States Attorney General\nRachel Brand \u2013 Associate United States Attorney General\nRandolph \"Tex\" Alles \u2013 Director of the United States Secret Service\nKrisjen Nielsen \u2013 Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security\nIn his infamous political treatise, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, the Florentine statesman, asked: \"Is it is better to be loved or feared?\"\nAnd he answered it thus:\n\"The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved.\n\"For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours\u2026.\n\"And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined\u2026.\n\"And men have less scruple in offending one who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared; for love is held by a chain of obligations which, men being selfish, is broken whenever it serves their purpose; but fear is maintained by a dread of punishment which never fails.\"\nBut Machiavelli warned about relying primarily on fear: \"Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred, for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together.\"\nDonald Trump has violated that counsel throughout his life. He not only makes enemies, he revels in doing so\u2014and in the fury he has aroused.\nFilled with a poisonous hatred that encompasses almost everyone, Trump, as Presidential candidate and President, repeatedly played to the hatreds of his Right-wing base.\nAs first-mate Starbuck said of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick: \"He is a champion of darkness.\"\nABC NEWS, ALTERNET, AP, BILL CLINTON, BUZZFEED, CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS, CBS NEWS, CNN, COVID-19, CROOKS AND LIARS, DE-REGULATION, DEMOCRATS, DONALD TRUMP, ENRON, FACEBOOK, FBI, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, GRAY DAVIS, HEINRICH HIMMLER, HOLOCAUST, MAFIA, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NBC NEWS, NEWSWEEK, NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, NPR, PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC, PBS NEWSHOUR, PETE WILSON, POLITICO, RAW STORY, REPUBLICANS, REUTERS, RICO ACT, SALON, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SS, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE SS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, TWITTER, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, USA TODAY\nDE-REGULATION: LET CRIMINALS BE CRIMINALS\nIn Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Politics, Social commentary on November 10, 2022 at 12:12 am\nThis December 2 will mark the 21st anniversary of the collapse of Enron Corporation.\nBased in Houston, Texas, Enron had employed 22,000 staffers and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications and paper companies.\nIn 2000, it claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion. Fortune had named Enron \"America's Most Innovative Company\" for six consecutive years.\nBut then the truth emerged in 2001: Enron's reported profitability was based not on brilliance and innovation but on systematic and creative accounting fraud.\nAnd, on December 2, 2001, Enron filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.\nEnron's $63.4 billion in assets made it the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history\u2014until WorldCom's bankruptcy in 2002.\nThe California electricity crisis (2000-2001) was caused by market manipulations and illegal shutdowns of pipelines by Texas energy companies.\nThe state suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts. Pacific Gas & Electric, one of the state's largest energy companies, collapsed, and the economic fall-out greatly harmed Governor Gray Davis' standing.\nThe crisis was made possible by Governor Pete Wilson, who had forced the passage of partial de-regulation legislation in 1996.\nEnron seized its opportunity to inflate prices and manipulate energy output in California's spot markets. The crisis cost the state $40 to $45 billion.\nThe true scandal of Enron was not that it was eventually destroyed by its own greed.\nThe true scandal was that its leaders were never Federally prosecuted for almost driving California\u2014and the entire Western United States\u2014into bankruptcy.\nAnd it happened during the \"liberal\" administration of President Bill Clinton.\nOnce the news broke that Enron had filed for bankruptcy, commentators almost universally oozed compassion for its thousands of employees who would lose their salaries and pensions.\nNo one, however, condemned the \"profits at any cost\" dedication of those same employees for pushing California to the brink of ruin.\nTo put this in historical perspective:\nImagine a historian writing about the destruction of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (Guard Detachment), or SS, as a human interest tragedy.\nImagine its Reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, being blamed for failing to prevent its collapse\u2014as CEO Kenneth Lay was blamed for Enron's demise.\nImagine that same historian completely ignoring the horrific role the SS had played throughout Nazi-occupied countries\u2014and its primary role in slaughtering six million Jews in the Holocaust.\nNor did the media urge the United States Department of Justice to end the extortion via RICO\u2014the Federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act.\nPassed by Congress in 1970, this was originally aimed at the kingpins of the Mafia. Since the mid-1980s, however, RICO has been successfully applied against both terrorist groups and legitimate businesses engaged in criminal activity.\nUnder RICO, people financially injured by a pattern of criminal activity can bring a claim in State or Federal court, and obtain damages at three times the amount of their actual claim, plus reimbursement for their attorneys' fees and costs.\nSuch prosecutions would have pitted energy-extortionists against the full investigative might of the FBI and the sweeping legal authority of the Justice Department.\nConsider this selection from the opening of the Act:\n(1) \"racketeering activity\" means (A) any act or threat involving\u2026extortion; (B) any act which is indictable under any of the following provisions of title 18, United States Code: sections 891-894 (relating to extortionate credit transactions), section 1343 (relating to wire fraud)Section 1344 (relating to financial institution fraud), section 1951 (relating to interference with commerce, robbery, or extortion), section 1952 (relating to racketeering)\u2026.\nToday, two powerful social media companies\u2014Facebook and Twitter\u2014play pivotal and potentially dangerous roles in the lives of millions of men, women and children.\nFacebook has invaded its users' privacy (such as via the Cambridge Analytica data scandal), manipulated elections (such as the 2016 Presidential one) and subjected its users to mass surveillance.\nTwitter has allowed trolls to abuse its followers and spread dangerous lies to millions. For five years, its chief troll was Donald Trump, who libeled hundreds while falsely claiming that COVID-19 was a hoax and that he won re-election in 2020 but was cheated by fraud.\nSuch lies resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans from COVID\u2014and poisoned the American electoral system for future races.\nYet in both cases, the Federal Government has stood by and allowed such abuses to continue unpunished. Yet it commands a wide range of agencies capable of addressing such abuses\u2014such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and\u2014not least importantly, the Justice Department.\nPowerful, life-altering companies require powerful oversight\u2014through the prism of the warning given by Niccolo Machiavelli more than 500 years ago:\nAll those who have written upon civil institutions demonstrate\u2026that whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.\nIf their evil disposition remains concealed for a time, it must be attributed to some unknown reason; and we must assume that it lacked occasion to show itself. But time, which has been said to be the father of all truth, does not fail to bring it to light.\nABC NEWS, ABORTION, ADOLF HITLER, ALBERT SPEER, ALTERNET, AMERICABLOG, AP, ASSASSINATION, BABY BOOMER RESISTANCE, BBC, BLOOMBERG NEWS, BRETT KAVANAUGH, BUZZFEED, CBS NEWS, CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, CLARENCE THOMAS, CNN, CROOKS AND LIARS, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DAILY KOZ, DONALD TRUMP, DRUDGE REPORT, FACEBOOK, FINAL SOLUTION, FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, FOX NEWS, FRANKLIN GRAHAM, HARPER'S MAGAZINE, HEINRICH HIMMLER, HERMANN GOERING, HUFFINGTON POST, JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, LENI RIEFENSTAHL, LINDSEY GRAHAM, MARCO RUBIO, MEDIA MATTERS, MITCH MCCONNEL, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, NAZI GERMANY, NBC NEWS, NEW REPUBLIC, NEWSDAY, NEWSWEEK, NPR, PBS NEWSHOUR, POLITICO, POLITICUSUSA, RAND PAUL, RAW STORY, REINHARD HEYDRICH, REUTERS, ROLAND FREISLER, RON DESANTIS, RUDOLF HESS, SALON, SAMUEL ALITO, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SS, TALKING POINTS MEMO, TED CRUZ, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE DAILY BLOG, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, THE SUPREME COURT, THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE WASHINGTON POST, THINKPROGRESS, TIME, TRUTHDIG, TRUTHOUT, TUCKER CARLSON, TWITTER, TWO POLITICAL JUNKIES, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UPI, USA TODAY, WANNSEE CONFERENCE\nWHEN FASCISTS BECOME TARGETS\nIn Bureaucracy, Entertainment, History, Politics, Social commentary on May 9, 2022 at 12:10 am\nIn 1942, two British-trained Czech commandos assassinated SS Obergruppenf\u00fchrer (General) Reinhard Heydrich.\nA tall, blond-haired former naval officer, he was both a champion fencer and talented violinist. Heydrich joined the Schutzstaffel, or Protective Squads, better known as the SS, in 1931, and quickly became head of its counterintelligence service.\nReinhard Heycrich\nIn September, 1941, Heydrich was appointed \"Reich Protector\" of Czechoslovakia, which had fallen prey to Germany in 1938 but whose citizens were growing restless under Nazi rule.\nHeydrich immediately ordered a purge, executing 92 people within the first three days of his arrival in Prague. By February, 1942, 4,000-5,000 people had been arrested.\nIn January, 1942, Heydrich convened a meeting of high-ranking political and military leaders to streamline \"the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.\"\nAt the now-infamous Wannsee conference, Heydrich decreed that, henceforth, all Jews in Reich-occupied territories would be shipped to extermination camps. No exceptions would be made for women, children or the infirm.\nAn estimated six million Jews were thus slaughtered.\nReturning to Prague, Heydrich continued his policy of carrot-and-stick with the Czechs\u2014improving the social security system and requisitioning luxury hotels for middle-class workers, alternating with arrests and executions.\nThe Czech government-in-exile, headquartered in London, feared that Heydrich's incentives might lead the Czechs to passively accept domination. They decided to assassinate Heydrich.\nTwo British-trained Czech commandos\u2014Jan Kubis and Joseph Gabcik\u2014parachuted into Prague.\nUnexpectedly, they got help from Heydrich himself. Supremely arrogant, he traveled the same route every day from home to his downtown office and refused to be escorted by armed guards, claiming no one would dare attack him.\nOn May 27, 1942, Kubis and Gabcik waited at a hairpin turn in the road always taken by Heydrich. When Heydrich's Mercedes slowed down, Gabcik raised his machinegun\u2013which jammed.\nRising in his seat, Heydrich aimed his revolver at Gabcik\u2014as Kubis lobbed a hand grenade at the car. The explosion drove steel and leather fragments of the car's upholstery into Heydrich's diaphragm, spleen and lung.\nHitler dispatched doctors from Berlin to save the Reich Protector. But infection set in, and on June 4, Heydrich died at age 38.\nThe assassination sent shockwaves through the upper echelons of the Third Reich. No one had dared assault\u2014much less assassinate\u2014a high-ranking Nazi official.\nNazis had slaughtered tens of thousands without hesitation\u2014or fear that the same might happen to them.\nSuddenly they realized that the fury they had aroused could be turned against themselves.\nMembers of the Nazi government\nWhich brings us to the leaders of America's own Right-wing.\nThe names of infamous Nazis were widely known:\nReichsmarshall Hermann Goering;\nPropaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels;\nDeputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess;\nPropaganda Film Director Leni Riefenstahl;\nSS-Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler;\n\"Hanging Judge\" Roland Freisler;\nArchitect Albert Speer;\nForeign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop;\nSS Obergruoppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich; and\nThe most infamous Nazi of all: Adolf Hitler.\nAnd so are the names of the infamous leaders of the American Right:\nSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell;\nSupreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett;\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz;\nSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas;\nCommentator Tucker Carlson;\nSupreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch;\nEvangelist Franklin Graham;\nSupreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh;\nFlorida Senator Marco Rubio;\nSupreme Court Justice Samuel Alito;\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis; and\nThe most infamous Right-winger of all: Former President Donald Trump.\nThe difference between these two infamous groups is this:\nIn Nazi Germany, ordinary Germans could not learn about the personal lives of their dictators\u2014including their home addresses\u2014and to conspire against them.\nIn the United States, ordinary citizens have an array of means to do this. They can turn to newspapers, TV and magazines. And if that isn't enough, \"people finder\" websites, for a modest price, provide addresses and names of relatives of potential targets.\nIn Nazi Germany, firearms were tightly controlled. In the United States, the Right's National Rifle Association has successfully lobbied to put lethal firepower into the hands of virtually anyone who wants it.\nWhich brings us to the firestorm now erupting over the publication of an initial draft majority opinion of the Supreme Court. Backed by the Court's five Right-wing Justices, it overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.\nIn one to two months, millions of women will likely become victims of Right-wing anti-abortion fanaticism.\nAccording to the Center for Reproductive Rights, 23 states will institute bans, with trigger laws on the books in 13 of them. These are bans designed to take effect if Roe is overturned.\nRepublicans boast that they want to \"get the government off the backs of the people.\" Yet since 1973 they have furiously tried to re-insert it into the vagina of every American woman.\nInterfering with the right to obtain medical care\u2014especially when it applies to sexually-involved matters\u2014is an act guaranteed to arouse fury in even the most pacifistic men and women.\nThis is especially true when a political party\u2014such as that of the Nazis and Republicans\u2014makes clear its intention to rule by force, rather than by public consent.\nReinhard Heydrich believed himself invulnerable from the hatred of the enemies he had made. That arrogance cost him his life.\nThe day may soon come when America's own Right-wingers start learning the same lesson.\nABC NEWS, ADOLF HITLER, ALTERNET, AMERICABLOG, AP, BABY BOOMER RESISTANCE, BBC, BILL CLINTON, BLOOMBERG NEWS, BUZZFEED, CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS, CBS NEWS, CHEVRON, CNN, COAL INDUSTRY, CROOKS AND LIARS, DAILY KOZ, DE-REGULATION, DEMOCRATS, ENRON, FACEBOOK, FBI, FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, GEORGE W. BUSH, GRAY DAVIS, HARPER'S MAGAZINE, HEINRICH HIMMLER, HOLOCAUST, HUFFINGTON POST, MAFIA, MEDIA MATTERS, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NBC NEWS, NEW REPUBLIC, NEWSDAY, NEWSWEEK, NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, NPR, PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC, PBS NEWSHOUR, PETE WILSON, POLITICO, POLITICUSUSA, RAW STORY, REPUBLICANS, REUTERS, RICO ACT, SALON, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SS, TALKING POINTS MEMO, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE DAILY BLOG, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, THE SS, THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE WASHINGTON POST, THINKPROGRESS, TIME, TRUTHDIG, TRUTHOUT, TWITTER, TWO POLITICAL JUNKIES, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UPI, USA TODAY, WONKETTE\nDE-REGULATION: LET PREDATORS BE PREDATORS\nIn Bureaucracy, Business, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Politics, Social commentary on May 21, 2021 at 12:09 am\nThis December 2 will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of a criminal empire. An empire that almost destroyed the Western United States.\nThe Enron Corporation.\nThe California electricity crisis (2000-2001) was caused by extortionate market manipulations and illegal shutdowns of pipelines by Texas energy companies.\nCalifornia suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts. Pacific Gas & Electric, one of the state's largest energy companies, collapsed, and the economic fall-out greatly harmed Governor Gray Davis' standing.\nUnder the pro-oil company administration of George W. Bush, no such prosecutions ever occurred. But Americans had a right to expect such redress under \"liberal\" President Bill Clinton.\nImagine a historian writing about the destruction of Adolf Hitler's Schutzstaffel (Guard Detachment), or SS, as a human interest tragedy.\nImagine its Reichsfuehrer, Heinrich Himmler, being blamed for failing to prevent its collapse\u2014as CEO Kenneth Lay was blamed for Enron's demise.\nNor did anyone in the media or government declare that the solution to such extortionate activity lay within the United States Department of Justice via RICO\u2014the Federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act.\nWith the 20th anniversary of Enron's demise coming up, the mantra of \"de-regulation\" should be ruthlessly turned against those who have most ardently championed it.\nRepublicans have ingeniously dubbed the estate tax\u2014which affects only a tiny minority of ultra-rich\u2014\"the death tax.\" This makes it appear to affect everyone.\nWith the 2022 midterm elections fast approaching, Democrats should recast de-regulation thus:\n\"Greed Relief\"\n\"Greed Protection\"\n\"Legalized Extortion\"\nAnd here are some possible slogans:\n\"The Energy Industry: Giving You the Best Congress Money Can Buy.\"\n\"De-regulation: Let Criminals Be Criminals.\"\nThe coal industry has pumped millions into TV ads touting the non-existent wonders of \"clean coal.\" And Chevron has spent millions assuring us that all its profits go strictly toward making the world a better place for others. (Presumably not a penny is left for its altruistic executives.)\nWhen faced with such outright lying by the most vested of financial interests, it's well to recall the warning given by Niccolo Machiavelli more than 500 years ago:\n2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ABC NEWS, ADAM SCHIFF, ADOLF HITLER, AFGHANISTAN, ALBERT SPEER, ALTERNET, AMERICABLOG, ANTIFA, AP, BABY BOOMER RESISTANCE, BARACK OBAMA, BLOOMBERG, BUZZFEED, CBS NEWS, CHRIS CILLIZZA, CHRIS KREBS, CHRISTOPHER WRAY, CIA, CNN, CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19, CROOKS AND LIARS, CYBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AGENCY, DAILY KOS, DAILY KOZ, DENMARK, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DISOBEYING HITLER: GERMAN RESISTANCE AFTER VALKYRIE (BOOK), DONALD TRUMP, DONALDL TRUMP JR., DRUDGE REPORT, FACEBOOK, FASCISM, FBI, FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, FRANCE, HARPER'S MAGAZINE, HERMANN GORING, HILLARY CLINTON, HUFFINGTON POST, IMPEACHMENT, IRAQ, JAKE TAPPER, JAMES B. COMEY, JARED KUSHNER, JOE BIDEN, MAIL-IN BALLOTS, MARK ESPER, MEDIA MATTERS, MIKE PENCE, MITCH MCCONNELL, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NAZI GERMANY, NBC NEWS, NEWSWEEK, NORWAY, NPR, PAUL MANAFORT, PBS NEWSHOUR, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, POLAND, POLITICO, POLITICUSUSA, RANDALL HANSEN, RAW STORY, REPUBLICAN PARTY, REPUBLICANS, REUTERS, RUSSIA, SALON, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SOVIET UNION, SS, STALINGRAD, TALKING POINTS MEMO, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE DAILY BLOG, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PENTAGON, THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE WASHINGTON POST, THINKPROGRESS, TIME, TRUMP TOWER MEETING, TRUTHDIG, TRUTHOUT, TWITTER, TWO POLITICAL JUNKIES, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UPI, USA TODAY, VLADIMIR PUTIN, VOTER FRAUD, WEHRMACHT, WERNER VON BLOMBERG, WERNER VON FRITCH, WONKETTE, WORLD WAR 11\nHITLER, TRUMP AND \"SCORCHED EARTH\"\u2014PART FOUR (END)\nIn Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Military, Politics, Social commentary on November 26, 2020 at 12:14 am\nOn March 19, 1945, facing certain defeat, Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler ordered a massive \"scorched-earth\" campaign throughout Germany:\n\"Destroy all German agriculture, industry, ships, communications, roads, food stuffs, mines, bridges, stores and utility plants!\"\nIf implemented, it would deprive surviving Germans of even the barest necessities after the war.\nOpposing him was Albert Speer, his favorite architect and Minister of Armaments.\nAlbert Speer and Adolf Hitler pouring over architectural plans\nBut Hitler refused to back down. He gave Speer 24 hours to reconsider his opposition to the order.\nThe next day, Speer told Hitler: \"My Fuhrer, I stand unconditionally behind you!\"\n\"Then all is well,\" said Hitler, suddenly with tears in his eyes.\n\"If I stand unreservedly behind you,\" said Speer, \"then you must entrust me rather than the Gauleiters [district Party leaders serving as provincial governors] with the implementation of your decree.\"\nFilled with gratitude, Hitler signed the decree Speer had thoughtfully prepared before their fateful meeting.\nBy doing so, Hitler unintentionally gave Speer the power to thwart his \"scorched earth\" order.\nTrained as an architect, Speer had joined the Nazi Party in 1931. He met Hitler in 1933, when he presented the Fuhrer with architectural designs for the Nuremberg Rally scheduled for that year.\nFrom then on, Speer became Hitler's \"genius architect\" assigned to create buildings meant to last for a thousand years. \"If Hitler had been capable of friendship,\" Speer said after the war, \"I would have been that friend.\"\nIn 1943, Hitler appointed him Minister of Armaments, charged with revitalizing the German war effort.\nNevertheless, Speer now crisscrossed Germany, persuading military leaders and district governors to not destroy the vital facilities that would be needed after the war.\n\"No other senior National Socialist could have done the job,\" writes Randall Hanson, author of Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie.\n\"Speer was one of the very few people in the Reich\u2014-perhaps even the only one\u2014with such power to influence actors' willingness\/unwillingness to destroy.\"\nDespite his later conviction for war crimes at Nuremberg, Speer never regretted his efforts to save Germany from total destruction at the hands of Adolf Hitler.\nAs the Third Reich came to its fiery end, Adolf Hitler blamed the German people for being \"unworthy\" of his \"genius\" and losing the war he had started.\nHis attitude was: \"If I can't rule Germany, then there won't be a Germany.\"\nIn his infamous \"Nero Order,\" he decreed the destruction of everything still remaining\u2013industries, ships, harbors, communications, roads, mines, bridges, stores, utility plants, food stuffs.\nFortunately for Germany, one man\u2014Albert Speer\u2014finally broke ranks with his Fuhrer.\nAlbert Speer\nRisking death, he refused to carry out Hitler's \"scorched earth\" order. Even more important, he successfully blocked such destruction and persuaded influential military and civilian leaders to disobey the order as well.\nAs a result, those targets slated for destruction were spared.\nFast forward 75 years: Facing the end of his Presidency, Donald Trump desperately seeks to remain in power. Having \"joked\" about being \"President-for-Life,\" he's now fighting to make that a reality.\nUnlike his 44 predecessors, he rejects the will of the voters and for almost three weeks denied his successor access to the resources he needs to launch a smooth transition.\nEven worse: Instead of showing concern for the country he claims to love, Trump is now relentlessly destroying those institutions that guarantee American freedom and safety:\nThe CIA\nThe FBI\nThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\nHis attitude clearly is: \"If I can't rule America, there won't be an America.\"\nMeanwhile, House and Senate Republicans have embraced his most outrageous lies\u2014or refused to openly refute them\u2014as the COVID-19 pandemic slaughters about 1,000 Americans a day.\nEven Republicans who privately admit the Trump era is ending realize that 70 million hate-filled Americans voted for him in 2020. And eagerly await the coming of the next would-be Fuhrer.\nThey will also eagerly vote out of office any Republican who dares break with the man they worship like a cult leader.\nFor Congressional Republicans, staying in office\u2014and keeping their power and perks\u2014is their top priority.\nOn November 25, 2019, CNN political correspondent Jake Tapper interviewed Representative Adam Schiff on Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\nWhat would it mean if Republicans uniformly oppose any articles of impeachment against Trump? asked Tapper.\n\"It will have very long-term consequences, if that's where we end up,\" replied Schiff.\n\"And if not today, I think Republican members in the future, to their children and their grandchildren, will have to explain why they did nothing in the face of this deeply unethical man who did such damage to the country.\"\nIn the end, only one of 53 Republican Senators\u2014Mitt Romney\u2014dared to vote for impeachment. And he became an instant pariah for it.\nOn March 18, 1945, Albert Speer, opposing Hitler's plans to destroy Germany's infrastructure, addressed a memo to his Fuhrer, in which he wrote: \"No one has the right to take the viewpoint that the fate of the German people is tied to his personal fate.\"\nThe country is still waiting for a Republican Albert Speer to step forward and save America from the self-destructive brutalities of its own would-be Fuhrer.\nHITLER, TRUMP AND \"SCORCHED EARTH\"\u2014PART THREE (OF FOUR)\nPresident Donald Trump may be getting ready to fire his handpicked CIA director.\nHe believes that Gina Haspel has stonewalled the release of documents supposedly exposing \"deep state\" plots against his 2016 campaign during the Obama administration.\n[In fact, the Obama administration acted entirely within the law during the 2016 Presidential campaign. The FBI has a legal mandate to keep track of subversive activities\u2014especially when they involve members of a Presidential candidate's campaign.\n[On July 9, 2016, high-ranking representatives of the Trump campaign met at Trump Tower with at least two lobbyists with ties to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.\nGina Haspel\n[The participants included:\nTrump's son, Donald Trump Jr.;\nHis son-in-law, Jared Kushner;\nHis then-campaign manager, Paul Manafort;\nNatalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with ties to Putin; and\nRinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet counterintelligence officer suspected of \"having ongoing ties to Russian Intelligence.\"\n[The reason for the meeting: To dig up \"dirt\" the Russians might have on Hillary Clinton, Trump's opponent for the White House.]\nTrump is also angry at FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2014who replaced James B. Comey in May, 2017. Trump had fired Comey for daring to investigate ties between his 2016 campaign and Russian Intelligence agents.\nChristopher Wray\nThe reason for his anger at Wray: Wray has dared to contradict Trump's false claims that\n\"Rampant voter fraud\" was a widespread problem; and\nAntifa poses a greater terrorism danger than white supremacist groups.\nDuring the 2016 Presidential race, Russian propaganda played a major role in convincing millions of Americans to vote for Donald Trump. Social media platforms\u2014especially Facebook and Twitter\u2014were flooded with genuinely fake news to sow discord among Americans and create a pathway for Trump's election.\nRussian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, had quickly assessed Trump as an egotistical narcissist. By appealing to Trump's vanity, Putin expected to sharply reduce the military and political threat the United States represented to a resurgent Russia.\nSo notorious was the role played by Russian hackers in misleading American voters in 2016 that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was determined to prevent a repetition in 2020.\nThe man ultimately tasked with this mission was Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency run by DHS.\nChris Krebs\nKrebs launched a massive effort to counter lies spread by Russians\u2014and Americans\u2014on social media platforms. Among his duties:\nSharing Intelligence from agencies such as the CIA and National Security Agency with local officials about foreign efforts at election interference.\nEnsuring that domestic voting equipment was secure.\nAttacking domestic information head-on.\nAs a result, Krebs was widely praised for revamping the department's cybersecurity efforts and increasing coordination with state and local governments.\nBy all accounts\u2014except Trump's\u2014the 2020 election went very smoothly.\nOn November 17, Trump fired Chris Krebs.\nThe reason: Krebs had not only countered Russian propaganda lies\u2014he had dared to counter Trump's as well. For example: He rejected Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud: There \"is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.\"\nTrump fired Krebs by tweet\u2014and accompanied the outrage with yet another lie:\n\"The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud, including dead people voting, poll watchers not allowed into polling locations, glitches in the voting machines which changed votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.\"\nIn a November 17 story on the CNN website, CNN reporters Kaitlan Collins and Paul LeBlanc bluntly concluded:\n\"[Krebs'] dismissal underscores the lengths Trump is willing to go to punish those who don't adopt his conspiratorial view of the election.\n\"Since CNN and other outlets called the race for President-elect Joe Biden, Trump has refused to accept the results, instead pushing baseless conspiracies that his second term is being stolen.\n\"This includes falsely claiming during an election night address that he had already won reelection, that he had won states that were actually still up in the air at the time and that his opponents were perpetrating a fraud.\"\nSeventy-five years earlier, on March 19, 1945, facing certain defeat, Adolf Hitler ordered a massive \"scorched-earth\" campaign throughout Germany.\nAll German agriculture, industry, ships, communications, roads, food stuffs, mines, bridges, stores and utility plants were to be destroyed.\nIf implemented, it would deprive the entire German population of even the barest necessities after the war.\nOpposing him\u2014at first openly, and later secretly\u2014was Albert Speer, his former architect and now Minister of Armaments.\nSpeer argued that there must be a future for the German people: \"If our enemies wish to destroy us, why help them? We must leave the people something.\"\nBut Hitler refused to back down: \"I don't want to hear any more.\"\nHe gave Speer 24 hours to reconsider his opposition to the order.\nSpeer could not directly promise to carry out Hitler's \"scorched earth\" order. So he gave Hitler a vague answer that essentially committed him to nothing: \"My Fuhrer, I stand unconditionally behind you!\"\nHITLER, TRUMP AND \"SCORCHED EARTH\"\u2014PART TWO (OF FOUR)\nOn November 3, Joe Biden became President-elect of the United States by winning 79,658,000 votes, or 51% of the vote, compared to 73,886,400 votes, or 47.2% of the vote cast for President Donald Trump.\nIn the Electoral College\u2014which actually determines the winner\u2014the results were even more stunning: 306 votes for Biden, compared with 232 for Trump. It takes 270 votes to be declared the victor.\nDespite this, Trump has steadfastly refused to concede. He has made a series of baseless claims that he was cheated of victory by vote fraud. By illegal aliens being allowed to vote. By a sinister computer program that turned Trump votes into Biden ones.\nHe has repeatedly filed legal challenges to the vote, claiming himself the victim of massive fraud. This despite the utter lack of evidence of it.\nOn November 13, nine cases meant to attack President-elect Joe Biden's win in key states were denied or dropped. A law firm challenging the vote count in Pennsylvania withdrew from the effort.\nIn Michigan, his attorneys dropped their federal suit to block the certification of Detroit-area ballots.\nBy November 21, Trump had lost in 30 cases dismissed by judges or withdrawn by his own attorneys.\nMeanwhile, top Republicans\u2014such as Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2014have refused to congratulate Biden as the winner.\nIn a November 17 analysis, entitled \" \"Donald Trump Doesn't Seem to Want to Do His Job Anymore,\" CNN Editor-at-Large Chris Cillizza wrote:\nWhile Trump has relentlessly asserted that he won the 2020 election, \"he's done next to nothing\u2014at least publicly\u2014to suggest he plans to continue doing the job in any serious manner through January 20.\"\nAccording to Cillizza, since losing the election, Trump has filled his days with:\nMaking controversial military decisions\nFiring people\nGolfing: He played golf at his club in Virginia twice on the weekend of November 14-15. He was golfing the previous weekend, when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 race by CNN and other media outlets.\nTweeting: He has tweeted numerous lies and conspiracy theories, claiming he won a second term but was cheated by the counting of fraudulent votes. This has let Twitter to flag a large number of his tweets as \"inaccurate.\"\nMaking controversial military decisions: The Pentagon signaled it was planning\u2014on Trump's orders\u2014to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. [American forces have been warring with the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2001; they have been warring against Iraqi insurgents since 2003.]\nAnd in a move that is truly frightening: The New York Times reported that Trump asked his top advisers for options to strike at Iran's nuclear capabilities before he left office. This would embroil the United States in a war that could easily turn nuclear.\nFiring people: On November 9, Trump fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Four senior civilian officials have since been fired or resigned\u2014Esper's chief of staff and the top officials overseeing policy and intelligence. They were replaced with flunkies loyal to Trump personally.\n[This was in fact how Adolf Hitler took control of the Wehrmacht.\n[Since taking command of Germany in the summer of 1934, Hitler wanted to replace two high-ranking military officials: General Werner von Fritsch and Colonel General Werner von Blomberg. Both were convinced that Hitler's increasingly aggressive foreign policy was putting Germany on a collision course with war\u2014a war the Fatherland could not win.\n[Hitler, in fact, meant to go to war\u2014and despised Fritsch's and Blomberg's hesitation to do so. He decided to rid himself of both men.\n[On January 12, 1938, Blomberg married Erna Gruhn, with Hitler and Reichsmarshall Hermann Goring attending as witnesses. Soon afterward, Berlin police discovered that Gruhn had a criminal record as a prostitute and had posed for pornographic photographs.\n[Marrying a woman with such a background violated the standard of conduct expected of German officers. Hitler saw the scandal as an opportunity to dispose of Blomberg\u2014who was forced to resign.\n[Shortly after Blomberg was forced out in disgrace, the SS\u2014Hitler's private police force\u2014presented Hitler with a file that falsely accused Werner von Fritsch of homosexuality. Fritsch angrily denied the accusation but resigned on February 4, 1938.\n[From that point on, Hitler was in de facto command of the German Armed Services.]\nEighty-two years later, on November 3, 2020, President Donald Trump lost the 2020 Presidential election to former Vice President Joe Biden.\nBut that hasn't stopped him from behaving as if he\u2014not Biden\u2014will take the oath of President on January 20, 2021.\nBesides wreaking havoc on the Pentagon, Trump is reportedly going to fire CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher Wray.\nTrump has accused Haspel of stonewalling the release of documents that would supposedly expose \"deep state\" plots against Trump's campaign and transition during the Obama administration.\n[In fact, the Obama administration acted entirely within the law during the 2016 Presidential campaign. The FBI has a legal mandate to keep track of subversive activities\u2014especially when they involve members of a Presidential candidate's campaign.]\nHITLER, TRUMP AND \"SCORCHED EARTH\u2014PART ONE (OF FOUR)\nAlbert Speer, Minister of Armaments for the Third Reich, was appalled.\nHis Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler\u2014the man he had idolized for 14 years\u2014had just passed a death sentence on Germany, the nation he claimed to love above all others.\nOn September 1, 1939, Hitler had triggered World War II with the invasion of Poland. This led to a series of quick, spectacular victories\u2014over Poland, Norway, Denmark and France.\nThen, on June 22, 1941, Hitler turned on his ally, the Soviet Union, with which he had signed a non-aggression pact in August, 1939.\nIt had taken the Wehrmacht six weeks to conquer France. Hitler believed that was how long it would take to defeat the Soviet Union.\nGerman soldiers invading the Soviet Union\nAgain, a series of spectacular battlefield victories followed\u2014before the Wehrmacht was halted at the gates of Moscow. A year later, still enmeshed in Russia, the turning point came at Stalingrad, with the loss of the elite Sixth Army and 800,000 soldiers.\nStarting in 1943, the Red Army slowly but steadily regained ground it had lost\u2014the western half of Russia\u2014and began pushing back the Germans. By March, 1945, it was fighting inside Germany\u2014and heading straight for its capital: Berlin.\nOn March 19, 1945, facing certain defeat, Hitler ordered a massive \"scorched-earth\" campaign throughout Germany.\nIf implemented, it would deprive the entire German population of even the barest necessities after the war. And he entrusted the campaign to Albert Speer, his favorite architect-turned-Minister-of-Armaments.\nClick here: Hitler's \"Scorched Earth\" Decree and Albert Speer's Response\nNow living in a bunker 50 feet below bomb-shattered Berlin, Hitler gave full vent to his most destructive impulses.\nAdolf Hitler addressing boy soldiers as the Third Reich crumbles\n\"If the war is lost,\" Hitler told Speer, \"the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence.\n\"On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation.\n\"Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed.\"\nSeventy-five years after Adolf Hitler planned the destruction of Germany, Donald Trump now plans the same fate for the United States.\nOn November 3, Trump lost his bid to win another four years as President of the United States. In the early hours of November 4, he poured out his fury and self-pity in a televised address from the White House:\n\"Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight, and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people and we won't stand for it, we will not stand for it.\"\nFor a man who had tried\u2014often successfully\u2014to deprive millions of their right to vote, Trump made it clear that he didn't know what disenfranchisement means.\nSounding like a petulant child whose party has been called off, Trump continued:\n\"We were getting ready for a big celebration, we were winning everything and all of a sudden it was just called off. The results tonight have been phenomenal\u2026I mean literally we were just all set to get outside and just celebrate something that was so beautiful, so good, such a vote, such a success.\"\nIt was Trump-\u2013not his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden\u2014who was demanding that the electoral process be halted. And that those votes that had not yet been counted be, in effect, flushed down the toilet.\n\"The citizens of this country have come out in record numbers, this a record, there's never been anything like it to support our incredible movement\u2026.Most importantly, we're winning Pennsylvania by a tremendous amount of votes. We're up 690,000 votes.\"\nOwing to the Coronavirus pandemic\u2014which Trump had refused to aggressively address from its outset in January\u2014millions of Americans had voted by mail. The idea of standing in Coronavirus-infected lines had not appealed to them. And they believed they could perform their civic duty in a far less dangerous way via the Postal Service.\n\"These aren't even close, this is not like, Oh, it's close. With 64% of the vote in, it's going to be almost impossible and we're coming into good Pennsylvania areas where they happen to like your president. We're winning Michigan\u2026I said 'Wow, that's a lot'\u2026\n\"And we're winning Wisconsin\u2026so when you take those three states in particular and you take all of the others\u2026and all of a sudden it's not like we're up 12 votes and we have 60% left, we won states and all of a sudden, I said, 'What happened to the election? It's off.' And we have all these announcers saying, 'What's happened' and then they said, 'Ohhh.'\"\nBut this did not alter the reality that Joe Biden became President-elect of the United States by winning 79,106,010 votes, or 51% of the vote.\n2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ABC NEWS, ABUSE OF POWER, ADAM SCHIFF, ADOLF HITLER, ALAN DERSHOWITZ, ALTERNET, AMERICABLOG, AP, ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT, BABY BOOMER RESISTANCE, BILL TAYLOR, BUZZFEED, CBS NEWS, CNN, CROOKS AND LIARS, DAILY KOZ, DEMOCRATS, DONALD TRUMP, DRUDGE RETORT, FACEBOOK, FIONA HILL, FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, HARPER'S MAGAZINE, HEINRICH HIMMLER, HUNTER BIDEN, IMPEACHMENT, JEWS, JOE BIDEN, JOHN ROBERTS, JOSEPH BIDEN, LAURA COOPER, MARIE YOVANOVICH, MEDIA MATTERS, MOTHER JONES, MOVEON, MSNBC, NBC NEWS, NEWSWEEK, NPR, OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS, PBS NEWSHOUR, POLITICO, POLITICUSUSA, RAND PAUL, RAW STORY, REPUBLICANS, REUTERS, SALON, SCHUTZSTAFFEL, SEATTLE TIMES, SLATE, SS, TALKING POINTS MEMO, THE ATLANTIC, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE DAILY BEAST, THE DAILY BLOG, THE GUARDIAN, THE HILL, THE HOLOCAUST, THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NATION, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PENTAGON, THE VILLAGE VOICE, THE WASHINGTON POST, THINKPROGRESS, TIME, TRUTHDIG, TRUTHOUT, TWITTER, TWO POLITICAL JUNKIES, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, UKRAINE, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, UNITED STATES SENATE, UPI, USA TODAY, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY, WHERMACHT, WITNESSES, WONKETTE\nHIMMLER\/TRUMP: \"MY CRIMES ARE NOW YOUR CRIMES\"\nOn October 4, 1943, SS-Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler addressed SS officers stationed in Posen, Poland, about the ongoing campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe.\nHe gave a similar speech two days later to an audience of Reichsleiters (national leaders) and Gauleiters (governors), as well as other government representatives.\nHimmler intended to alert Reich officials of the extermination campaign the Schutzstaffel (\"Protective Squads\")\u2014otherwise known as the SS\u2014and Wehrmacht (German army) had been waging since June, 1941.\nThe purpose: To make his listeners accessories to his monumental crimes\u2014and to warn them there was no turning back.\nEither Nazi Germany won the war that its Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, had unintentionally unleashed on September 1, 1939\u2014or its topmost officials would themselves face extinction as war criminals.\nSaid Himmler:\n\"I want to also mention a very difficult subject before you, with complete candor. It should be discussed amongst us, yet nevertheless, we will never speak about it in public. I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.\n\"It is one of those things that is easily said: 'The Jewish people is being exterminated.'\u2026Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000. And to have seen this through and\u2014with the exception of human weakness\u2014to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned\u2026.\n\"But altogether we can say: We have carried out this most difficult task for the love of our people. And we have suffered no defect within us, in our soul, in our character.\"\nFast forward 76 years\u2014to January, 2020.\nOn December 18, 2019, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved two Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump:\nArticle 1: Abuse of Power: For pressuring Ukraine to assist him in his re-election campaign by damaging former Vice President Joseph Biden, his possible 2020 Democratic rival; and\nArticle 2: Obstruction of Congress: For obstructing Congress by blocking testimony of subpoenaed witnesses and refusing to provide documents in response to House subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry.\nTrump's defense in the House had consisted of:\nRefusing to testify himself;\nRefusing to produce witnesses on his behalf;\nRefusing to turn over requested documents;\nClaiming that Democrats were preventing him from testifying or producing witnesses;\nOrdering administration officials to not testify before the six House impeachment committees investigating his behavior.\nThose government employees who testified did so voluntarily\u2014and at risk of retaliation. Among these were:\nUkraine ambassador Bill Taylor;\nLaura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing Ukraine-related U.S. policy;\nFormer White House official Fiona Hill; and\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.\nThey offered damning testimony against Trump.\nWhen the trial began in the United States Senate on January 16, 2020, Trump's legal team:\nDid not call any witnesses;\nDid not deny that Trump had sought to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into interfering with the 2020 election;\nAttacked Joseph and Hunter Biden as if they were on trial;\nKentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul submitted a written question to presiding Chief Justice John Roberts that included the name of the alleged whistleblower to Trump's coercion. Roberts refused to read it aloud;\nPaul raced outside the Senate and gave a press conference, where he named the alleged whistleblower\u2014whose identity is protected by law.\nPerhaps even more frightening: One of Trump's attorneys, Alan Dershowitz, offered Trump\u2014and all future Presidents\u2014a blanket of immunity worthy of a king:\n\"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment. Every public official that I know believes that his election is of the public interest.\"\nResponding to that argument, House Manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) said: \"It's been a remarkable evolution of the presidential defense. It began with, 'None of that stuff happened here.' It began with \"Nothing to see here.' It migrated to, 'OK, they did seek investigations of the president's political rival.' And then it became 'OK.'\"\nMeanwhile, the Senate majority of 53 Republicans vigorously supported Trump's demand that no witnesses to his crimes be allowed to testify.\nFast forward to November 3, 2020: Former Vice President Joe Biden defeats Trump for a second term by winning 79,106,010 votes, or 51% of the vote. Trump received 73,363,734 votes, or 47.3% of the vote.\nTrump's reaction:\nDenying that he lost.\nAccusing Democrats of committing massive voter fraud\u2014without offering any evidence to prove it.\nBlocking cooperation with the incoming Biden administration.\nIgnoring the raging COVID-19 pandemic as it kills about 1,000 Americans each day.\nAnd how are Republicans reacting to all this? By publicly supporting Trump's stonewalling\u2014or refusing to oppose it.\nBy following the same strategy as Heinrich Himmler, Donald Trump has entangled Republicans in his own crimes.\nHis infamy is now theirs.\nHistory has brutally condemned those Germans who, knowing the full extent of Adolf Hitler's crimes, nevertheless signed on to perpetuate and conceal them.\nHistory will render the same damning verdict against Senate and House Republicans who have provided similar cover for Donald Trump.\nOlderEntries \u00bb\nSteffen White's Email: Chistka@aol.com Former reporter, legal investigator and troubleshooter. Columnist at Bureaucracybuster.com. 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Behind him, in a waste basket, I saw an empty bottle of Coors beer.\"\nShow how the failure of the official to address your problem reflects badly on the company or agency: \"This is not the level of service your ads would lead potential customers to expect.\"\nIf necessary, note any regulatory agencies that can make life rough for the company or agency if your complaint isn't resolved. For the phone company, for example, cite the FCC or the PUC. But do this only after you have stated you hope your complaint can be settled amicably and privately within the company.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Property sector\nMillennials shun pensions \u2014 but why are they all property mad?\nThere is one piece of 'stuff' all young people want to own \u2014 a house\nJonathan Eley\nAdd to myFT\n\u00a9 FT\nMillennials shun pensions \u2014 but why are they all property mad? on twitter (opens in a new window)\nMillennials shun pensions \u2014 but why are they all property mad? on facebook (opens in a new window)\nMillennials shun pensions \u2014 but why are they all property mad? on linkedin (opens in a new window)\nMillennials shun pensions \u2014 but why are they all property mad? on whatsapp (opens in a new window)\nJump to comments sectionPrint this page\nThe FT captured the millennial zeitgeist with last week's feature on the spending habits of 20-somethings, but the theme of financial change also resonated in the Eley household.\nMy children were born just after Y2K, but they have all the millennial traits. I spent my paper round money in Our Price record shops. To the iPad generation, the thought of a paper round seems absurd. They are more likely to spend their pocket money at Nandos, and who buys CDs or DVDs when you've got Spotify and Netflix?\nBut there is a great anomaly amid all this living for the moment. Millennials may prefer to experience rather than accumulate, but there is one piece of \"stuff\" they all want to own, even though it costs a fortune and ties them down for decades: a house.\nOne reader's response to last week's feature summed it up: \"My biggest wish is to own my own home and everyone around me says the same\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009Our appetite for pension saving is much lower than owning a property.\"\nThis is in contrast to past generations, who dutifully put their money into endowment policies and pensions week after week, but had little expectation of home ownership. My dad happened to be visiting last week, and informed us all that he and my mum were only able to buy a house in 1966 because his uncle worked for a building society, which swung their mortgage application.\nTheir next home, bought in 1971 during the \"Barber boom\", stretched them to the limit. Generations before that had little hope of ownership; my grandmother lived in rented accommodation for all of her 89 years. At my age (mid-forties), my great-grandfather and his family had only just moved out of rented rooms.\nRenting in those days was pretty grim. By and large, it still is; the quality of housing is patchy and decline of social housing has left tenants facing arbitrary rent rises and insecure tenancies. At the same time, credit has become much more widely available \u2014 and cheaper.\nDuring my dad's 31 years as a mortgagee, the Bank of England's base rate varied between 5 per cent and 17 per cent. Today it is 0.5 per cent and interest rate futures suggest it could stay there until 2019. Disposable incomes are higher, too; the starting rate of income tax was 30 per cent or more until the late 1980s, and women did not have their own personal allowance until 1990.\nThe fact that buying has become cheaper, easier and more attractive than renting is not the only factor. To many millennials, housing is seen as the key to their long-term financial security. Perception is not reality, of course; for the 47 million Britons who don't live in south-east England, long-term house price performance has been acceptable rather than spectacular.\nTake my own parents' house, which is valued at about 4.5 times what they paid for it in 1987. That might sound impressive, but it equates to compound annual growth of 5.3 per cent before inflation. If it were sold now and converted to an annuity, it would generate \u00a315,700 per year (with no inflation uplift). And my dad would still need somewhere to live.\nYet the siren song of home ownership still seduces young and old. Behavioural economics helps explain why. House prices have risen substantially in recent years. Every lurch higher is faithfully reported by national newspapers and television stations. They are overwhelmingly based in and around London, ground zero for house price inflation and rentier economics.\nBy contrast, shares, the main vehicle for modern pension saving, have been volatile. When the stock market makes the evening news or the front pages, it is usually because it has tanked. The FTSE has recovered most its recent losses, but no newsreader has popped up to announce that \"billions were wiped back on to markets today as share prices recovered\". You will hear all about Tesco's accounting scandal, but not that shares in Ashtead, a FTSE 100 plant hire group, have risen 2,000 per cent in seven years.\nEven more significant than the propaganda is the policy. Property has long been tax advantaged: primary residences are exempt from capital gains tax and most of them will soon be exempt from inheritance tax too. Increasing ownership rates has long been a government objective. The sale of council homes reinforced the message that only losers rent. On top of that, Whitehall has a direct vested interest in rising house prices through Help to Buy, since it receives a percentage of a home's value when it is sold on.\nMillennials may or may not be \"annoying\". But their desperation to own property at any cost is more rational than it looks. They don't need a financial adviser to tell them that they can borrow stacks of money cheaply to juice the returns from an asset whose price has been rising for much of their adult lives.\nThey know that the government is so wedded to rising house prices that it will never withdraw the fiscal punch bowl. Choosing between property and pensions \u2014 complicated, inflexible products that politicians just cannot stop fiddling about with \u2014 is like choosing between fine wine and sour milk. I mean, WTF would you do?\nJonathan Eley is deputy editor of the FT's Lex column; jonathan.eley@ft.com\nCopyright The Financial Times Limited 2023. All rights reserved.\nReuse this content (opens in new window) CommentsJump to comments section\nFollow the topics in this article","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Author Guest Post: The Songs of Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash\nAbout the Book: (from Goodreads) Michael is unsure about most things. Go to college? Enlist in the military? Break up with his girlfriend? All big question marks. He is living for the moment and all he wants is a few days at the biggest concert of the summer.\nCora lives in the town hosting the music festival. She's volunteering in the medical tent. She's like that, always the good girl. But there is something in the air at this concert and suddenly Cora finds herself wanting to push her own boundaries.\nWhen Michael and Cora meet, sparks fly, hearts race, and all the things songs are written about come true. And all the while, three days of the most epic summer await them...\nI am excited to welcome author Sarvenaz Tash to GreenBeanTeenQueen! Her newest book, Three Day Summer, is all about Woodstock. She captures the atmosphere and the music and I wanted to know more about the music in the book and the playlists she made to get inspired to write. I love this playlist and listening to it gets me in the mood for summer (and to read Sarvenaz's awesome book!) Be sure to check out the rest of her tour stops as well!\nIt will probably come as no surprise that I love the music of the 1960s. And although I myself was a teenager during the bizarre grunge\/pop hybrid that was the mid- to late '90s, I actually spent most of my high school years listening to this music instead.\nI made two Spotify playlists to go with my Woodstock love story, Three Day Summer. One features the songs\u2014and in some cases, some of the very performances\u2014that my two main characters Cora and Michael hear during the festival itself. The other I like to refer to as my \"'60s milieu\" playlist, and I filled it with not only some of my favorite songs of the decade, but some of the tunes that I think best embody the many facets of it: from its socially conscious anthems to its feel-good pop to its trippy soundscapes. (I do have one strong caveat: Beatles songs are not available on Spotify and that's the only reason they are not included on this list!)\nHere then are the songs I chose for the Three Day Summer\u2014In the Mood soundtrack (followed, of course, by the playlist itself!):\n\"Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)\" The Byrds\nBetween the out-of-this-world harmonies and the profound lyrics (partially taken from the Bible no less!), this is just one of those songs that makes me feel calm, reflective, and peaceful. I thought it was fitting since the peace sign is one of the most enduring symbols of the 1960s.\n\"Happy Together\" The Turtles\nTrue to its title, this song just makes me feel toe-tappingly happy and, I think, is indicative of the some of the best pop to come out of the decade. Plus it's about being head over heels in love which, of course, also goes along with the book.\n\"Piece of My Heart\" Janis Joplin\nI'm not sure it's possible to find a more gutsy and gut-wrenching performance of a song that's both about heartbreak and about girl power. (This line: \"I'm going to show you, baby, that a woman can be tough\" is a particular favorite to belt out in the shower! Amiright, ladies?). Janis plays an important role in the book and she performed this song at Woodstock too!\n\"America\" Simon & Garfunkel\nAnother song with harmonies that slay me in the best way. I also think the lyrics portray both the hope and the heartache that came with the changing face of what it was to be young in 1960s America.\n\"You Keep Me Hangin' On\" The Supremes\nThe sound of Motown was a huge, indelible part of the 1960s and The Supremes were for sure the queens of it.\n\"Build Me Up Buttercup\" The Foundations\nYes, this has played at every Sweet 16 you've been to since the beginning of time (or, at least, since 1968) but there's a reason for it: you simply must sing and dance along to its unshakeable beat.\n\"Somebody to Love\" Jefferson Airplane\nFrom another Woodstock performer, I love the contrast of this song to the one before it and I think it's a great example of some of the more psychedelic sounds of the decades. Plus lead singer Grace Slick is another fantastic rocker chick that embodies the feminist spirit of the decade.\n\"Don't Worry Baby\" The Beach Boys\nYou can't love the '60s without loving the beautiful harmonies of The Beach Boys and this one is one of my very favorite love songs of theirs . . . that also just happens to be about drag racing.\n\"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'\" Nancy Sinatra\nRemember all that girl power I mentioned before? In the age of Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, this kiss-off anthem just fits right in. Plus I know that Nancy wore a lot of fabulous go-go boots to perform it\u2014and what is more '60s than that?!\n\"Joy to the World\" Three Dog Night\nThe lyrics don't make a whole lot of sense (why is this person friends with a bullfrog?!) but you can't help singing along anyway as this ode to the world is quite joyous indeed.\n\"I'm a Believer\" The Monkees\nFull confession: The Monkees were my first-ever concert (see the first paragraph of this post) and I've adored them for practically as long as I can remember. Though they started out as a made-for-TV Beatles parody band, they ended up with some truly spectacular songs in their oeuvre. This bouncy number is a particular favorite.\n\"Bad Moon Rising\" Creedence Clearwater Revival\nAlso performed at Woodstock, this song comes in at a key point in the story. I also think it has a particular rock\/bluegrass vibe that was a big part of the '60s sound.\n\"Time of the Season\" The Zombies\nI find this song both sultry and trippy, which I think showcases yet another facet of the decade.\n\"My Generation\" The Who\nThe ultimate anthem for the teen population of the 1960s? I think so! Of course, I'm not sure how the Who feel now about belting out lyrics like \"I hope I die before I grow old\" but I think that it's hard to find a song that better embodies the universal feeling of being young and misunderstood.\n\"A Change Is Gonna Come\" Sam Cooke\nA song that remains as beautiful and pertinent today as it did when it came out, Cooke was directly singing about the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the hope for a better tomorrow that led so many to fight for equality.\nFollow the Tour:\nWhat a Nerd Girl Says\nhttp:\/\/whatanerdgirlsays.com\/\nTues, May 12\nhttp:\/\/www.greenbeanteenqueen.com\/\nMother Daughter Book Club\nhttp:\/\/motherdaughterbookclub.com\/\nThurs, May 14\nCurling Up with a Good Book\nhttp:\/\/curling-up-with-a-good-book.blogspot.com\/\nMon, May18\nhttp:\/\/thehidingspot.blogspot.com\/\nAdventures of a Book Junkie\nhttp:\/\/toofondofbooks.com\/\nProseandkahn\nhttp:\/\/proseandkahn.blogspot.com\/\nhttp:\/\/hauntedorchid.blogspot.com\/\nWord Spelunker\nhttp:\/\/wordspelunking.blogspot.com\/\nauthor guest posts Blog Tour\nLabels: author guest posts Blog Tour\nSarvenaz Tash May 12, 2015 at 2:13\u202fPM\nThank you so much for hosting this post and playlist, Sarah!\nBritt May 20, 2015 at 12:52\u202fPM\nI love ALL of these songs!! I need this book!\n\u2764\ufe0fBritt\nThe Hardest Part of Summer Reading\nAuthor Guest Post: Julie Mata-Kate Walden Directs ...\nAnna Banks Interview-Joyride Blog Tour PLUS Giveaway\nMiddle School Princess Blog Tour PLUS Giveaway\nAuthor Guest Post: The Songs of Three Day Summer b...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 J.R. LeMar\nWhy Are They Making a Remake of \"ROOTS\"?!?\nOne of the biggest TV events of all time is being reimagined for new audiences.\n\"Roots,\" the epic miniseries about an African-American slave and his descendants, had a staggering audience of over 100 million viewers back in 1977. Now A&E networks are remaking the miniseries, to air in 2016.\nA&E, Lifetime and History (formerly the History Channel) announced Thursday that the three networks would simulcast a remake of the saga of Kunta Kinte, an African who was captured, shipped to America and sold into slavery to work on a Virginia plantation.\nLeVar Burton, who portrayed Kinte in the original, will co-executive produce the new miniseries.\nHere we go again. Why?\nSeriously, why?!?\nI've watched the original miniseries several times during my life, including first when I was a little kid, and I also read the book as an adult. It's a great gripping, and at times uncomfortable, story, telling about a part of American history that needs to be told. But it was done perfectly before. Do we need a do-over?\nFor the record, I'm not one of those folks who just decries movie remakes and reboots in general, even though there probably are way too many of those in Hollywood. But this is a general complaint I have when it comes to Black movies and Black filmmakers. The recent trend seems to be the only \"Black\" movies getting made are either Kevin Hart's ghetto comedies or retro films about slavery and the 1960's. I mean THE BUTLER, and 12 YEARS A SLAVE, and SELMA, and so on, okay I get it, history is important, but is this ALL \"we\" can do?\nWe're also getting a movie version of GOOD TIMES, set in the 1960's.\nI'd like to challenge Black filmmakers, and filmmakers of Color in general, to stop mining the past, and look to the future. Step outside the box that it seems we've self-imposed on ourselves, and start competing with the Spielberg's and Whedon's. Where's the Black Star Trek, the Black Star Wars, the Black Lord of The Rings, and the Black Harry Potter?\nNo, I don't literally mean making \"Black\" versions of those movies. What I mean is I'd like to see Black writers and directors branching out into science fiction, space opera, fantasy, and genres like that. Instead of fighting for roles in established franchises, make our own. I want a big-budget CGI-filled story set in outer space or far in the future, with a multicultural cast. Don't tell me that \"Black movies\" don't sell overseas. Look at the Fast and Furious franchise, which is a worldwide phenomenon with a multicultural cast (with prominent leading roles for women). Or instead of complaining about the lack of diversity in Game of Thrones or The Lord Of The Rings, creating a new multicultural fantasy world, with Wizards and dragons and non-White people.\nC'mon, Morgan Freeman has played GOD twice, surely he can play a wise old Wizard?\nSo that's my challenge to Black filmmakers. I'm not saying stories of the past can't or should't be told. But let's diversify things a bit.\nAnd, hey, if you want to tall stories about ancient history, how about being a bit more creative about it? There are some stories that REALLY need to be told. We can't count on others to tell our history accurately so why not something like. . .\nIf that movie was real I'd watch the s**t out of it!\nBlack filmmakers\nBlack movies don't sell overseas\nBlack science fiction films\nmulticutural representations in films\nRemake of \"ROOTS\"\nRoots by Alex Haley\nPrevious Tricky Dick Morris\nNext 5 Comic-book Movies (That Aren't From D.C. or Marvel) That I Wish Were Getting Made\nnetrigan says:\nI don't really have a problem with it. I don't think TV from the 70s and 80s have aged terribly well and I could see today's production values helping get this story out to a new generation of viewers.\namericanliberaltimes says:\nI believe that if they are re-making \"Roots\" it probably has a lot more to do with market share, profits, the bottom line and money in general than it does to serve any altruism. Of course I could be wrong about that.\nJames Lott Jr CTACC says:\nThey need to leave it alone. There are other slave stories to tell.\nRemembering \"REMEMBER THE TIME\" by Michael Jackson | iBLOGalot says:\n[\u2026] Yes, I admit, it's a little odd that he's the \"least-Black\" looking person in the video but, still, he's sending a powerful cultural message, without beating you over the head with it. Heck, as I've said before, this is the kind of movie I wish Black filmmakers were making today! [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u2022 Girl Boner \u2022 What's Your Erotic Blueprint? with Jessie Fresh\nWhat's Your Erotic Blueprint? with Jessie Fresh\nJessie Fresh was in her early 20s when she realized that silence had been her main sex educator. After a mid-coital wakeup call and two relationships\u2014one with sexual chemistry, one with only emotional sparks\u2014she sought ways to cultivate the richer relationships and sexual experiences she desired. Discovering the Erotic Blueprints changed everything for her. And they may do the same for you, too!\nLearn much more in this week's Girl Boner Radio episode.\nStream it on Apple Podcasts\/iTunes, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Spotify or below. Or read on for a lightly edited transcript.\n(SPECIAL OFFER!)\nSo I gave up on energy drinks years ago. They never did what they promised for me, and often contained super iffy ingredients. Well, I recently tried Magic Mind and I have to say, I was happily surprised.\nMagic Mind is designed for productivity, to help you do more and stress less. I read up on the ingredients before trying it and was delighted to find that the benefits hold up in studies. Each little bottle contains natural ingredients like tumereric curcumin and Ashwagandha, for better moods, energy and concentration.\nMagic Mind also has a pleasant taste\u2014another fun surprise for me, since I have loved the idea of green juices, but not so much the taste. I especially love how it's felt knowing that I'm doing something proactive for my health and brain by sipping this little drink. It makes me feel\u2026uplifted.\nAnd get this. For the next 10 days, you can get 20% off your subscription Simply go to magicmind.co\/boner or enter the code BONER20 at checkout. Again that's magicmind.co\/boner or the code BONER20 to save 20%.\n[Intro music\u2026]\n\u2026And you're like, \"I came here for my orgasm!\" [Jessie laughs] I could see that being a challenge.\nJessie:\nYeah, that's why this information is so empowering, because it gives you the communication to say, here are some of my needs that I recognize, and how can we meet each other's needs more easily without thinking that it's just never going to work, or there's ways to meet each other's needs.\nAnd that's truly what sexual compatibility is. But we are taught that \u2013 we're not taught a whole lot actually. I thought sexual compatibility meant that if what I like is what you like, then that means that we're sexually compatible.\nBut once you learn the blueprints, you're able to meet the other person's needs, they're able to then meet yours and then compatibility can just continue throughout your lifetime.\nSex and intimacy coach, Jessie Fresh, told me that silence was her main sex educator growing up.\nThere wasn't a lot of talk about it. There wasn't shame around it or any kind of religious background. For me, it's just that it was not talked about at all. So it was a job learned in experience.\nAnd that experience, I think, created a lot of scary moments for me of navigating something extremely vulnerable, without any training or any skills at all.\nYeah, yeah. Do you remember the first time that you noticed that sort of disconnect that this isn't something you talk about?\nOh, yeah. That is a moment that has been, I think, etched in, in my brain as a heightened experience, because I was in my early 20s, and I was giving a partner oral sex. And that had gone on for about 45 minutes. And leading up to the length of time, my thought process was like, what's going on? Like, is everything okay? I hope I'm doing this right. Is this a good experience for them? I can't read what's going on. Therefore, I'm having all of this tension built as I'm giving to my partner. And there's just complete silence between the both of us. [soft laugh]\nAnd that awkward tension built and built and built until the point that my body was uncomfortable because of my job being completely exhausted. I mean, giving for 45 minutes, when you're totally into it is a whole different experience.\nSo we kind of had this eruption happen. And this eruption was a tense moment of us, basically being like, what is going on, and that partner then said, 'What you're doing is never going to work. The style of what you're doing is never going to work. You're doing it too soft, or you're not doing it enough.\" And that was a moment that I just was like, \"Why didn't you say anything 45 minutes ago?\" And I just recognize that both of us were expecting to read each other's minds, and that silence was probably the teacher for both of us. So we just navigated in the dark. And from then on, it was like, there has to be other ways of doing this.\nJessie and that partner stayed together for a while. They shared undeniable chemistry, she said, and it was the first time in her young adult life that she felt truly in love. But the relationship also had its problems.\nLooking back, it was a very toxic chemistry of highs and lows together. And I felt completely committed and in love, even if it was really unhealthy for me.\nAnd actually, what I know now about sexual compatibility and chemistry, what was really bonding us was this feeling of not ever knowing if you're truly secure with that person, and therefore having so much anticipation built up around this anxiety of like, what are we doing? Are we together and then having these validating moments of heightened sexual experiences, that kind of were in that moment, reminding me like, Oh, yes, of course, like this is love. This is passion, when really it was instability, and insecure attachment. But that chemistry is what I now know as the energetic blueprint.\nThe energetic blueprint. That's one of the five Erotic Blueprints, developed by somatic sexologist Jaiya from her 20 years of clinical research and study about sex and pleasure. Jaiya noticed particular patterns in arousal and desire\u2014so she conceptualized them into five sexual archetypes to enhance folks' sex lives.\nDiscovering these \"blueprints\" changed everything for Jessie\u2014in her sex life and her career. That all started when the relationship we talked about ended.\nSex and intimacy coach, Jessie Fresh\nI knew that I wanted the hot sex. And I wanted, in my next partnership, to be a healthy relationship where we were committed to growing and we were communicative, and really intentional.\nAnd in some ways, Jessie got that. She and her next partner shared great emotional chemistry.\nBut then the actual physical chemistry, the sexual chemistry, was lost. It was not there all the time. I kind of say that it is like taking a magic eight ball. And when we wanted to get sexy, I'd metaphorically bounce around the Magic Eight Ball and be like, 'please tell me we're going to we're going to have hot sex,' and it would likely say \"not tonight.\" It felt like I was rolling the dice that I couldn't have reliable hot sex with this person. And that was extremely frustrating because I had had that in the past but with the toxic past partner.\nSo I really was stuck in my head. I was redecorating the bedroom as I was trying to feel turned on, which completely did not work. And therefore I would get stuck in my head. I would then think, what's wrong with this partnership? We're so great together, but something is wrong. I'm not getting turned on. I'm completely distracted. It must be them or it must be me. And we fought a lot and those fights would be explosive because we were so vulnerable, you know? Naked together, trying to bond in this way. And it just was not working.\nJessie knew that the emotional chemistry could sustain a lifelong partnership, but she longed for that sexual spark. So she started doing research, reading all she could about sexuality.\nThat's when she was introduced to the Erotic Blueprints, which she now helps others discover and embrace. The archetypes provided the roadmap she needed. And I love how she described them:\nThey are an arousal typing system to understand how you experience pleasure, what your specific type of route is to experience pleasure.\nAnd you can identify yourself in these five types. And by understanding what your type is, you get to know what turns you on, what are things that you could try, maybe that you've never even thought of, the things that kind of get in the way.\nI asked Jessie to walk us through the five blueprints \u2013 the basics of what they are and what an ideal versus not-so-great start to sex with a partner might be for each one\u2014starting with the energetic.\n[sultry saxophone music]\nThe Energetic Blueprint\nThe energetic blueprint is not energetic in the sense of high energy. It is more so that they have an awareness of subtlety, they can feel other people's energy. When you walk in a room an energetic blueprint can sense if you're upset, if you're happy, they just have this reading of energy.\nBecause of being able to perceive everyone's state of being, they are queued into subtlety, and subtlety, slowness, space, spacious touch, and safety are the things that they need to feel turned on.\nSafety for them is this primal sense that everything is okay. And you can sense that with eye contact with full deep breaths. And with being completely present. And if that's not there, there's a slight little red flag that goes off, where their body and their mind says something's wrong. So they cannot feel turned on unless they feel like everything is in the moment. That safety is fully unlocked.\nThis might be you if sex starting out lke this sounds pretty great:\nYou both start by first looking into each other's eyes, and really just connecting in that moment, taking some deep breaths together, maybe holding each other. Maybe doing some grounding, kind of touch of like heavy weighted, snuggling. And then beginning to do some type of light, teasing, touch. Touch that is exploratory, that has no agenda that is just to awaken that person's skin.\nStarting out with a distracted partner, on the other hand, would probably not go down so well.\nYeah, so if an energetic person were to have partnered sexy time and say that one of them is thinking about how maybe the oven is still left on from dinner, or that the trash cans didn't get brought up from trash day, or they are thinking, I really just need to get off and get an orgasm in and want that immediately\u2014that would completely throw off the energetic person, because they could sense that their partner is not in the room, that their partner is either caught up in expectations or in an agenda. And that alone would make them feel like we're not connected, therefore, my body doesn't feel safe enough to open up.\nThen there's the sensual erotic blueprint\u2014the type Jessie identified with when she first found this information.\nThe Sensual Blueprint\nA very delicious scenario for my sensual self, when I first found this information was lighting candles, setting up the space to have beautiful music playing to have the the lights dimmed to like a romantic hue, having luxurious textures on the bed, maybe having warmed up massage oil, and having kind of a conversation of like we have all the time that we want. And we're going to explore each other's bodies from head to toe, and then playing with sensation of like massage, and then maybe some head massage, and then maybe some kind of like scratching or nibbling, maybe playing with essential oils or some kind of scent in the massage oil that would kind of activate your senses, all of that would be enough for me to relax and sense the central blueprint has to relax.\nAnd the sensual blueprint has to relax, Jessie said, before they can get aroused.\nFeeling rushed, on the other hand, can be a major buzzkill.\nLike we have 10, 15 minutes to do this. Just feeling rushed is going to set them off to feel not relaxed.\nSay that also, one song in the playlist is rubbing them the wrong way, or that they can feel cat hair on their body, or the sheets smell and aren't clean, or their body isn't pampered in a way like a fresh shower or a fresh shave. Whatever it is that makes them feel really good in their body. If that is off, that is really hard to navigate for them because their senses are taking in so much information that if one little thing is off, it's the alarm system that is going like wait, change this change this, this is the thing that's wrong. And so if they don't change that they are just alerted and kind of can really have tunnel vision of just seeing that.\nAugust (narration)\nThe third blueprint, is known as the sexual blueprint on the \"ins and outs\" of sex\u2014often literally. Sex may be all about penetration, or all about the orgasm. And being passionate, Jessie said, is the best way to start getting busy for this type.\n[seductive R&B music]\nThe Sexual Blueprint\nThey would really enjoy like making out and getting juicy tongue swirling, maybe there but being grabbed and it feeling very heightened sexual from the very beginning. So that means touching erogenous zones on their body like the primary erogenous zones, their nipples, their genitals, their butt. Maybe even seeing nudity or speaking dirty talk to them, because they can drop into arousal really quickly. So those are the things that captivate them.\nSo I'm guessing that maybe the energetic slow beginning might be more challenging for the sexual type.\nYeah. A lot of my clients are pairings of energetic people with a sexual partner, and then just feeling like they're missing each other.\nWith some awareness and strategizing, though, they can start turning that around. Before that, though, an energetic blueprint paired with a sexual blueprint, can feel wonky from the start.\nSay the sexual is like, oh, my gosh, I've been turned on all day because I've been thinking about this moment. Therefore I'm at full turn-on as soon as we start making out. If they're paired with someone that's energetic, and the energetic wants lots of time and space, they can get agitated, because they feel like every second that passes, why aren't we doing the heightened, passionate sexual thing? Because I'm already there, I am bubbling over.\nAnd therefore, they can experience what I call horny rage where some anger comes out, because they feel that they're having to be very patient. And they really want to experience passion and heightened arousal, because that's what makes them able to relax, is the thing that makes life okay. They want an orgasm. And if you're like, \"we really need to go slower,\" that they're like, 'but that's gonna take me longer to actually feel relaxed!' So they need that orgasm to feel completely validated in life and to feel completely calm in life. So the longer it takes to get there, the more agitated that they become.\nYeah, and I could see also feeling a little bit entitled, especially if you are female presenting, or you were raised as a girl, and you learned that women go slow, and they're the sensual ones. And then say, you're with a cis-man who's very sensual and taking their time. And you're like, \"I came here for my orgasm!\" [Jessie laughs] I could see that being a challenge.\nBut once you learn the blueprints, you're able to meet the other person's needs, they're able to then meet yours and then compatibility can just continue throughout your lifetime because your blueprint will likely shift and change throughout your lifetime and throughout your partnership as well.\nNext up, the kinky erotic blueprint, which does not necessarily mean you're into whips, chains and spankings.\n[sexy techno dance music]\nThe Kinky Blueprint\nBeing kinky is such a huge range of possibilities. So I'll give you the most\u2014I want to say version of kinky because some people go to the extremes of BDSM when kinky can mean BDSM or it can mean anything that feels taboo for you.\nSo, for instance, I totally did not think that I was kinky. And what I learned is that actually a lot of things that arouse me were quite taboo. Your definition of taboo is whatever is taboo for you, not just taboo for our society or for your place of living.\nSo for me, giving oral sex in the car is very taboo, very edgy, exciting. And that is the part of kink that felt exciting to me. Also, maybe getting caught in a movie theater, or even having housemates and having sex on the couch and knowing that the housemates could potentially come home at any time. It's that risk that is involved in the sex that makes it feel so exciting and enthralling.\nIt's also playing with, what I just mentioned is that psychological component of like, Oh, my brain is so turned on because the taboo is there. There's also sensation based kink, where maybe your hair is massaged, and then tugged at which just feels a little submissive. Or your butt is grabbed in a really like aggressive way that that sensation makes you go hmm, this feels so like edgy. Or like someone took their nails and dragged them down your back to the point that you can't help but gasp because of that feeling so tingly. Those are sensations in kink that make you feel like, 'Oh, that's so hot. Why do I like that?'\nWhat isn't so hot for kinky blueprint is the same ol' same 'ol. A sex routine, no matter the specifics.\nSex that is like routine sex that feels like, Oh, this is the same flavor that we've had for the last month or the last year. If it's always and a routine of this means this means this and then we're done. That repetition is so boring to them, and so predictable that they will completely become resentful.\nYeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, he's me. Yeah. So the, the sexual script as they say like the same thing over and over, even if it was like, with whips and chains and whatever, like it's just it's always the same, whereas the novelty wears like, the taboo-ness of it.\nOkay, yeah, that's what they really enjoy. They enjoy what their specific groove of taboo is, but keeping it creative, they really thrive from being creative from opening new doors of possibility from continuous exploration.\nLast, there is the shapeshifter erotic blueprint. Which sounds so magical, right?\n[experimental house music]\nThe Shapeshifter Blueprint\nYeah, I joke that the shapeshifter is the favorite at the orgy that the shapeshifter is the person that can speak all of the different languages so they can adapt and meet you in whatever blueprint you're in. They also can shift, that's the shapeshifting quality is that they enjoy novelty and adventure and spontaneity. And sometimes what they want shifts every 30 seconds.\nWhen I first became a shapeshifter, I realized that every 30 seconds, I wanted to change into something else. I wanted from hair tagging, to light kissing, to teasing to buck grabbing to spanking, and it was a wild ride, it makes it really fun. And the reason I joke that they can go to the origin and be the favorite is that they're very adaptable. And that's also something that can sometimes hinder them, because they can have so many different things that they enjoy that it might feel complicated to understand their own desires. So therefore, it's easier to focus outward, and on someone else.\nAh, okay, I can be this people pleasing part of like, I'm a Rubik's cube. So I know that you just have like a couple of needs, and therefore we're going to focus on you. And hopefully, your arousal will inspire my arousal. But what that does over time, is it produces like a disowning, or a disregard for your own needs, and therefore, leaves them feeling pretty empty.\nIf you have a partner in the shapeshifter realm, one thing you definitely do not want to do is keep your mouth shut about your own wants\u2014while making it all about theirs.\nA not great experience for the shapeshifter would be that their partner is focusing on them. And they're really enjoying what they're experiencing in that moment. And then they notice that something shifts, and they don't know how to talk about it, or they notice that they're now stuck in their head of like, why am I not turned on now? What do I want? If they don't stay curious about what they want, it can become really difficult to navigate, because shapeshifters don't always know what they desire. But they definitely want to try things to see if that's the winning arousal experience in that moment. So if they're not curious and easily flexible in terms of trying things out, then they can feel extremely stuck.\nYour erotic blueprint can change for a variety of reasons, like the environment you're in, experiences you've had \u2014 whether positive or hurtful \u2014 and whether you're single or with a new partner. Tosh Patterson, another certified Erotic Blueprint Coach, told Mind Body Green that our blueprints can change with different life stages, too.\nJessie has identified with all of them at some point. And she said her shifts have been very circumstantial.\nSo when I had a really intense time, because of a traumatic bodily injury, it turned me into an energetic blueprint because my sense of safety was expanded and needed to be met before I could feel turned on because of my body not being well.\nOr you could have a primary blueprint that stays pretty consistent.\nRegardless, enhancing your sex life with your own starts with self awareness. Taking an online quiz could be a good starting point\u2014but they're not foolproof.\nWhen I first found out about this information, I thought, Oh, I'm for sure sensual, that is completely me. Of course, like I love I love beauty. I love decorating a space. So therefore that's me. Also, that was my main educator, I think in our society of like, what, what cis-female sexuality is like seduction, it is romance. It is putting Barry White on and putting on some silk sheets and taking a bubble bath. So I adopted that as my script for what I needed.\nNow, when I would actually receive the things that the central blueprint wanted, I was not turned on. It wasn't until I started experiencing more of the heightened sensation of the central blueprint that almost verged on the kinky side of like deep scratches and heavy hair tugging and nibbling to biting that I was like, Oh my gosh, my body was so lit up. That's when I learned that actually, the kinky blueprint was just the thing that lit up my whole body like it was on fire in the hottest way.\nIf you would like to get lit up in the hottest way through a similar path, you can take the Erotic Blueprint Quiz or sign up for Jessie's Pleasure Mastery workshop at jessiefresh.com.\nShe also offers free guides for discovering your desires and communicating about sex. Communication and pleasure are also the biggest benefits Jessie has gleaned from this work, both in her life and with clients.\nThis work has, for one, made me feel very confident in understanding exactly what's going on, exactly how to communicate what's on my mind or what I need. It's allowed me to have my needs met to understand my needs to be in discovery about my needs.\nAnd this work always calls me to be practicing. I did not realize in entering this as a profession that I would continuously have to show up to exploration and recommitting to my pleasure. And that has been the best unexpected, unexpected blessing because it's pleasure is what resources us and it's what makes me feel alive. So being able to feel committed to that because half is really wonderful.\nHere is to showing up for our own pleasure. I think we can all learn from that.\nPrevious Post: \u00ab Incredible Orgasm Stories \u2013 updated replay!\nNext Post: \"Pure\" Christian to Empowered Cam Girl: Reina del Mundo's Story \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Two Up, Two Down\nPosted on August 11, 2011 by Killian Bundy\nThis is the second failed flight for the HTV-2, at $160 million per splash.\nDARPA issues statement on failed flight of hypersonic aircraft\nThe Falcon launched at 7:45 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa Barbara, into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere aboard an eight-story Minotaur IV rocket, made by Orbital Sciences Corp.\nAfter reaching an undisclosed sub-orbital altitude, the aircraft jettisoned from its protective cover atop the rocket, then nose-dived back toward Earth, leveled out and began to glide above the Pacific at 20 times the speed of sound, or Mach 20.\n\"Here's what we know,\" said Air Force Maj. Chris Schulz, DARPA's program manager. \"We know how to boost the aircraft to near space. We know how to insert the aircraft into atmospheric hypersonic flight. We do not yet know how to achieve the desired control during the aerodynamic phase of flight. It's vexing; I'm confident there is a solution. We have to find it.\"\nPentagon's hypersonic flight test cut short by anomaly\nPentagon's Mach 20 Missile Lost Over Pacific \u2014 Again\nDARPA drops another HTV-2\nSecond Flop: DARPA Loses Contact With HTV-2\nDARPA Launches and Loses Hypersonic Aircraft: Update\nThe Air Force Loses a Second Superfast Spaceplane\nFalcon HTV-2 is lost during bid to become fastest ever plane\nFalcon hypersonic vehicle test flight fails\nReview Board Sets Up to Probe HTV-2 L\nDARPA loses contact with hypersonic aircraft\nLost at sea. Military loses contact with hypersonic test plane\nMisdirection, Always Watch What The Left Hand Is Doing\nSo, in order to find out what went wrong, the Air Force needs to find this tiny HTV-2 drone, that they lost contact with, somewhere in the vast Pacific ocean. Good luck with that, they never lost the first one the dunked.\n\/why do I get the feeling there's not going to be a third time?\nFiled under: Blog Entry | Tagged: 20 Times, Achieve, Aerodynamic, Aerodynamic Phase, Air Force, Air Force Base, Aircraft, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Atmospheric Hypersonic Flight, Boost, Chris Schulz, Confident, Control, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Desired Control, Earth, Earth's Atmosphere, Failed, Failed Flight, Falcon, Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, Flight, Glide, HTV-2, Hypersonic, Hypersonic Aircraft, Hypersonic Flight, Hypersonic Technology, Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, Insert, Jettisoned, Launched, Leveled Out, Mach 20, Minotaur IV, Minotaur IV Rocket, Nose-Dived, Orbital Sciences Corp., Pacific, Phase, Program Manager, Protective Cover, Reaching, Rocket, Santa Barbara, Solution, Space, Speed Of Sound, Statement, Sub-Orbital Altitude, Trouble, U.S. Air Force, Undisclosed, Upper Reaches, Vandenberg, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vehicle, Vexing |\t1 Comment \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mon Mar 6th, 2023 - Sun Mar 12th, 2023\nButchers' Week\nMar 12th, 2018 - Mar 18th, 2018\nMar 9th, 2020 - Mar 15th, 2020\nWhat's the official website?\nWhat's the hashtag?\n#Butchers'Week\nThe butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.\nButchering may not seem like the best job in the world, but in a world that thrives off of the enjoyment of meats, it's considered a necessity and a pleasure. Family-run butchers have it cut out for them because acquiring success in a world that thrives off of fast-pace demand can be hard to develop and can hurt right down to the bone. Butchers' Week exists to remind people to support these businesses because they're the ones with the better meats.\nHistory of Butchers' Week\nButchers have been around for the longest time and have been the oldest craft since 30 AD when the topic of butchering was mentioned in a parable in the Bible. Butchers have long since been cutting up meats, creating guilds, helping form safety guidelines for butchers, and eventually creating companies that help expand the butchering process to meet demand.\nThe meat-processing industry advanced further through technological developments such as better refrigeration and electricity, making the process easier to handle and allowing people to have more access to their favorite cuts than ever before.\nHowever, once the developments of the supermarkets came around, the need for butchers became less of a necessity and more of a specialty and a niche.\nWhile it's faster to get your cuts from places such as Walmart, butchers can create meats that are distinctly their own. Butchers' Week highlights the great work was done by these family-run businesses, including celebrating the long ling of history the craft has done for society and gives customers and meat-lovers the opportunity to suport their local businesses.\nThe holiday is sponsered by William Reed, an event organizing business, and Meat Trades Magazine, a magazine centralized around the craft of butchering. Each year a new theme is chosen, and butchers all over the world get to create their own celebrations for what they do for their business and their customers.\nHow to Celebrate Butchers' Week\nStart by hosting an event. Throughout this event, you can showcase a new product that you have created for your customers. You can also use this day to advertise special deals on high-quality meats in your shop.\nIf you're a customer, take the time to go to a local butcher shop and see about the great deals they have to offer and say thank you to them for their services. Share this holiday on social media using the hashtag #ButchersWeek and let your friends know that this is a time to appreciate your butchers when you're wanting the best cuts.\nAlso on Mon Mar 6th ...\nMon Mar 6th, 2023\nNational Dress Day\nNational Oreo Cookie Day\nNational White Chocolate Cheesecake Day\nNational Frozen Food Day","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Economy \/ West Maui\nJune 27, 2015 by Peter T Young 1 Comment\nWest Maui\nMaui captured \"Best Island in the World\" honors in the annual Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards Poll nearly twenty-years in a row. Readers rave about this \"veritable paradise,\" calling it a \"combination of tropical ambience and American comforts.\"\nMaui is known for its beaches and water activities, and the west side boasts some of the most beautiful shores in Hawai\u02bbi, and it also has the distinction of having some of the most beautiful sunset views on the planet.\nWest Maui is the second most visited place in Maui \u2013 (behind the beaches) \u2013 a combination of natural scenic beauty, white sandy beaches, lush green uplands, and near-perfect weather, rich culture and a good serving of Hawaiian history in its sunny shores.\nIn West Maui, you can head to the beach, be captivated by the beauty of its natural scenes and marine life, visit the different historical attractions, and immerse yourself in the local art and culture.\nWest Maui has experienced six major historical eras, from its days as an ancient Hawaiian Royal Center, capital and home of the Hawaiian Monarchy, home to Missionaries, Landing\/Provisioning for Whalers, the Sugar and Pineapple Plantation era and now Tourism.\nAll of these historical eras are still visible in West Maui today.\nWest Maui has played an important role in the history of Maui and the neighboring islands of Molokai, L\u0101na\u02bbi and Kaho\u02bbolawe, with West Maui serving as the Royal Center, selected for its abundance of resources and recreation opportunities, with good surfing and canoe-landing sites being favored.\nProbably there is no portion of the Valley Isle, around which gathers so much historic value as West Maui. It was the former capital and favorite residence of kings and chiefs.\nAfter serving for centuries as home to ruling chiefs, West Maui was selected by Kamehameha III and his chiefs to be the seat of government; here the first Hawaiian constitution was drafted and the first legislature was convened.\nHawai'i's whaling era began in 1819 when two New England ships became the first whaling ships to arrive in the Hawaiian Islands. Over the next two decades, the Pacific whaling fleet nearly quadrupled in size and in the record year of 1846, 736-whaling ships arrived in Hawai'i.\nWest Maui was the port of choice for whaling ships. Central among the islands, West Maui was a convenient spot from which to administer the affairs of both Hawaiian and foreigner.\nSince the anchorage was an open roadstead, vessels could always approach or leave it with any wind that blew. No pilot was needed here. Vessels generally approached through the channel between Maui and Moloka'i, standing well over to Lanai, as far as the trade would carry them, then take the sea breeze, which would set in during the forenoon, and head for the town.\nIn November 1822, the 2nd Company from the New England missionaries set sail on the 'Thames' from New Haven, Connecticut for the Hawaiian Islands; they arrived on April 23, 1823 (included in this Company were missionaries Charles Stewart, William Richards and Betsey Stockton \u2013 they were the first to settle and set up a mission in West Maui.)\nThe Christian religion really caught on when High Chiefess Ke\u014dp\u016bolani (widow of Kamehameha I and mother of future kings) is said to have been the first convert of the missionaries in the islands, receiving baptism from Rev. William Ellis in West Maui on September 16, 1823, just before her death.\nIn 1831, classes at the new Mission Seminary at Lahainaluna (later known as Lahainaluna ('Upper Lahaina')) began. The school was established by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions \"to instruct young men of piety and promising talents\" (training preachers and teachers.) It is the oldest high school west of the Mississippi River.\nPer the requests of the chiefs, the American Protestant missionaries began teaching the maka\u02bb\u0101inana (commoners.) Literacy levels exploded.\nFrom 1820 to 1832, in which Hawaiian literacy grew by 91 percent, the literacy rate on the US continent grew by only 6 percent and did not exceed the 90 percent level until 1902 \u2013 three hundred years after the first settlers landed in Jamestown \u2013 overall European literacy rates in 1850 had not been much above 50 percent.\nCenturies ago, the early Polynesian settlers to Hawai\u02bbi brought sugar cane with them and demonstrated that it could be grown successfully.\nIt was not until 1823 that several members of the West Maui Mission Station began to process sugar from native sugarcanes for their tables. By the 1840s, efforts were underway in West Maui to develop a means for making sugar as a commodity.\nStarting in the 1850s, when the Hawaiian Legislature passed \"An Act for the Governance of Masters and Servants,\" a section of which provided the legal basis for a contract-labor system, labor shortages were eased by bringing in contract workers from Asia, Europe and North America.\nIt is not likely anyone then foresaw the impact this would have on the cultural and social structure of the islands. The sugar industry is at the center of Hawai\u02bbi's modern diversity of races and ethnic cultures.\nOf the nearly 385,000-workers that came, many thousands stayed to become a part of Hawai'i's unique ethnic mix. Hawai'i continues to be one of the most culturally-diverse and racially-integrated places.\nHistorically Maui's second largest industry, pineapple cultivation has also played a large role in forming Maui's modern day landscape. The pineapple industry began on Maui in 1890 with Dwight D. Baldwin's Haiku Fruit and Packing Company on the northeast side of the island.\nOne of the first hotels in West Maui was the Pioneer Hotel \u2013 founded in 1901. George Freeland arrived in the Lahaina roadstead on a ship that had just come from a long voyage through the south seas; he noted a need for a hotel.\nIt remained the only place for visitors to stay on Maui's west side until the early-1960s. Tourism exploded; West Maui is a full-fledged tourist destination second only to Waik\u012bk\u012b.\nLahaina's Front Street, offering an incredible oceanfront setting, people of diverse cultures, architecture and incredible stories of Hawai\u02bbi's past, was recognized as one of the American Planning Association's 2011 \"Great Streets in America.\"\nFor many, it's more simply stated \u2026 Maui No Ka Oi (Maui is the best)\nWhales from McGregor Point-(cphamrah)\nOlowalu-Petroglyphs\nPort-of-Lahaina-Maui-1848\nLahaina,_Maui,_c._1831\nBathing scene, Lahaina, Maui, watercolor, by James Gay Sawkins-1855\nLahaina,_West_Maui,_Sandwich_Islands2,_watercolor_and_pencil,_by_James_Gay_Sawkins-1855\nWhale-ships at Lahaina-(vintagehawaii)-1848\nLahaina as seen from Lahainaluna\nEdward_T._Perkins,_Rear_View_of_Lahaina,_1854\nLahaina Courthouse-fronting beach-(now Lahaina Small Boat Harbor)\nLahaina_from_offshore_in-1885\nLahaina_Boat_Landing\nLahaina Harbor before harbor perimeter retaining wall built-ca 1940\nPioneer Mill\nBaldwin Packers Cannery (kapalua)\nLahaina, Front Street 1942\nLahaina Roads\nMcGregor_Point-Norwegian-Monument\nLahaina Tunnel Dedication (1951)\nBanyan Tree located in courthouse square in the center of Lahaina\nHumpback_Whale-Maui-(Stan_Butler-NOAA)-WC\n1837 Map of the Islands; made by students at Lahainaluna School (Mission Houses)\nFiled Under: Economy, General, Place Names Tagged With: Hawaii, Whaling, Missionaries, Maui, Sugar, West Maui, Pineapple, Visitor Industry\nElaine Shinagawa says\nReally appreciate your research and informative blogs.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'What Josiah Saw' Loads Too Much Southern Gothic Horror In The Mix\nPosted bybobbyzane420 August 11, 2022 Posted inMovie Reviews\nA movie like What Josiah Saw is an example of a movie that could've been way better. I liked parts of it, but I found the overall movie to drag at times in which it didn't need to. At about two hours including credits, it needs to be a little shorter but at the same time focus more on its characters. The movie brings up the works of Sam Shepherd and Tracy Letts as it focuses on a family with a dark history.\nThe movie was filmed south of the Oklahoma City area and around the Arbuckle Mountain range in the mid to late Fall of 2019. The desolate and dying foliage of south-central Oklahoma adds a tone to the movie that works all too well. The movie focuses on the Graham family, which is spread out along the region. The locations are never really mentioned, but there's a reference to Austin, Texas being far off which leads me to think it's set probably set near the Texas panhandle and even Oklahoma, itself.\nDivided into four parts, the first part focuses on Josiah Graham (Robert Patrick) and his simple-minded grown son, Scott (Thomas Graham), who live out on a desolate property in the middle of nowhere on the outskirts of a unnamed town. The property is being considered to be bought out by some out-of-town businessmen, who hear rumors that the property is cursed and haunted. When Scott was a young boy as the story goes, he discovered his mother hanging by a noose from an outdoor tree.\nScott is religious, but Josiah isn't. He tries to keep the farm up by tinkering on the tractor but allows his father to partake in alcohol consumption. Their story isn't the best and there's a scene that is rather hard to watch. It's not as bad as the chicken leg fellatio scene in Killer Joe that Letts work, but it comes out of nowhere and Patrick's acting makes it difficult.\nThe second story focuses on Eli (Nick Stahl), Josiah's older son and Scott's older brother. When his story opens, he is having rough sex in his trailer with a heavy-set woman who pays him with heroin. Eli has tattoos on his arms and a rugged look on his face like he hasn't been getting much sleep or been hitting the bottle too much. My guess would be both. He is approached afterwards by his parole officer who informs him a young girl out of Austin has been reported missing. Eli had done time in prison for statutory rape of a 16-year-old who he claims never told him she was underage.\nEli is also indebted to the local gangster, Boone (Jake Weber) who runs the local bar and pays off the local law enforcement. Boone has a gruff voice and walks in a manner that suggests a permanent injury. Weber often plays weasels in movies like Meet Joe Black and U-571, so seeing him in this role is a nice change. Boone tells Eli that the gypsies are in town and he suspects they may have some gold from the Nazi Germany era that if Eli can obtain will settle all his debts.\nThis is probably the most compelling story as it also hints some things that will come later. Stahl, a former child actor who appeared in The Man With No Face and had a blink and you miss it death scene in The Thin Red Line has a rough time in the 2000s and early 2010s with substance abuse problem. He had to move away from Hollywood to his native Texas for several years to get his life together. Eli must go and deal with the gypsies where he also discovers they've kidnapped the girl his parole officer told him about.\nThe third story is the oddest because it really does have the arc the one with Eli had or the myterious unease the story with Josiah and Scott has. It focuses on Eli's fraternal twin sister, Mary Milner (Kelli Garner), who lives in the suburbs with her husband, Ross (Tony Hale.) They have a nice home, drive nice cars, have nice furniture and clothes and hang around with people the likes would never associate with Eli, Josiah or Scott.\nRoss and Mary are wanting to adopt a child. Mary expains she had a tubal sterlization when she was younger. Her marriage is rocky as Ross works with Mary who suffers from bad dreams and has mental issues from a trauma we later find out. Eli comes to see her and explains about having the property sold. Mary doesn't want to return saying nothing good can come of the place. But Eli thinks this can help him start over.\nSo, they have to return and face the horrors of the home where they left. There's a few twists here that I felt the movie really never earned. One of them I kind of saw when looking back on it, but I didn't feel it was much of a shock. The other twist reminded me a lot of Shepherd's Buried Child. Also, there's an ambiguity as to what Josiah saw in the title.\nWhile the movie doesn't bring on the horror in the traditional sense of jump scares and ominous music, it's a noble effort by director Vincent Grashaw and writer Robert Alan Dilts to go a different route like Taylor Hackford did with Delores Claiborne. Yet, I felt the movie never does offer anything fresh in the plot. We've seen this story of a dysfunctional rural family done before and way better. It seems to throw every element of Southern Gothic horror in the mix that you can probably guess the twists if you're familiar with the genre.\nThat's not saying, it wouldn't make a good movie to watch for a couple of horrors to see Stahl who manages a good role as Eli. I just wish the other characters were given as much depth. Stahl and Garner had appeared in the movie Bully. But Garner is very underused here. And Patrick is still an underrated and under utilized actor. But he did a better performance in the HBO DCEU series Peacemaker.\nMar-a-Lago Raid Is The Beginning Of The End Of Trump's Political Career\nWinning Isn't Everything\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dear Mr. Mulvaney...\nGlenn Tucker\nC-I contributing editor\nUpdated: Dec. 24, 2010, 5 a.m.\nCongressman-elect Mick Mulvaney\nU. S. Capitol\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Mr. Mulvaney:\nCongratulations on your recent election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Unseating 14-term incumbent Rep. John Spratt was no mean feat, and you undoubtedly realize voters have sent you to Washington because they don't like what's happening there. They're ready for a change.\nIn the days following the race, both Republican and Democratic officeholders said they heard the voters' message and that there was going to be a new way of doing business in Washington.\nFor many of them, that lasted about two days.\nPolitical rigor mortis had scarcely settled over Washington when many in the nation's capital -- including some newly elected representatives who hadn't even been sworn in -- headed straight back to business as usual.\nSouth Dakota Republican Kristi Noem, who defeated an incumbent Democrat by tying her to lobbyists, found and hired her new chief of staff at -- you guessed it \u2013 a Washington lobbying firm. A few days later, she was the guest of honor at a meet-and-greet session hosted by a big-name lobbying conglomerate.\nAt least 13 other newly elected Republicans hired lobbyists to run their offices, and dozens of freshmen lawmakers already have held fundraisers to collect millions from lobbyists and special interest groups.\nHouse GOP leaders bypassed fiscal conservatives to install as the new chairman of the Appropriations Committee Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, fondly known as the \"prince of pork.\"\nEven Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, who bills herself as a bulwark of fiscal responsibility, started backing up on her pledge to end earmarks when she couldn't find an easier way to funnel money to her district.\nDoesn't sound like they were listening to voters, eh?\nDemocrats didn't get the message, either.\nThey piled pork on top of pork on top of pork in a new spending bill. Finally, at long last, enough Republicans came to their senses to put a halt to the profligate spending measure.\nMembers of both parties readily acknowledge we're spending our way into oblivion, with deficits so large they can't possibly be sustained. We're digging a financial grave for ourselves, yet few seem to have the commitment to balance the budget.\nDemocrats don't want spending touched; they just want to raise taxes, conveniently forgetting that nearly half of American families paid no income tax at all in 2009. Republicans only want to cut spending. Neither will acknowledge what every competent economic analyst has told us over and over: somewhere, somehow, spending's got to go down and tax revenue has to go up.\nThe bipartisan deficit reduction commission said just that, and its recommendations were immediately met with a cacophony of catcalls from members of both parties.\nThough the commission gave Washington great political cover, most lawmakers have been unable to bring themselves to employ its findings as a starting point for a legitimate discussion.\nDems: \"We need to raise taxes on the rich and that will solve all our problems.\"\nRepubs: \"We need to cut spending and that will solve all our problems.\"\nSo, Rep.-elect Mulvaney, you find yourself diving into this morass of incompetence that we call Congress. You have an opportunity to step up and make a difference for this country. You have a chance to bypass the failed ways of your predecessors and actually enact fiscal measures that will put this country back on solid ground.\nOr you can stick with the lobbyists, forget responsibility, abdicate all common sense and quickly become a Washington insider.\nVoters have a history of having short memories. That might be changing. People are going to be watching you. And if you don't change the willy-nilly ways of Washington, you might find yourself back home again in two years.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paul Greene, Ph.D.\nPsychotherapy for Individuals, Adults and Adolescents\nand Marriage Counseling\nInsurance & Info\nAbout Dr. Greene\nEducation & Credentials\n1977 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Long Island University\n1972 B.A., The Johns Hopkins University\n1979 New York State License Psychologist #5968\nDr. Greene has been in private practice since 1979, and had professional affiliations with hospitals, clinics, medical and dental schools.\nDr. Greene is a clinical psychologist with interests in psychotherapy for individuals and couples. He has published in the areas of psychotherapy treatment, suicide prevention, trauma and disaster response. Active in the New York State Psychological Association, he has served as President of the Clinical Division in 2001, Chair of the Editorial Policies Committee, and represented the Division of Clinical Psychology on the Governing Council of NYSPA from 2002-2005. Currently, he is on the Clinical Division's Executive Board, and is the former editor of that division's newsletter, Clinical Perspectives. He is a member of the Westchester County Psychological Association and chairs the Disaster Relief Committee.\nDr. Greene has been affiliated with Iona College since 1979, and is Professor of Psychology in the Psychology Department. He served as Chair of the Psychology Department from 1999-2006, and again 2010-2013. Previously, he was the Director of the Masters Mental Health Counseling program. He has been the Clinical Consultant to the Iona College Counseling Center.\nIn 2013, The Academic Division of the New York State Psychological Association awarded him the David Mitchell Award for Outstanding Service to the New York State Psychological Association and to Academic and Community Psychology. Westchester County Psychological Association awarded him their Distinguished Service Award in 2006, and in 2003, the New York State Psychological Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Award.\nHe is a member of the American Psychological Association.\n\"Trauma and Relationships\" Greene, P. & Phillips, S. Trauma and Relationships. NYSPA Notebook, (2010) 1, 12-13\n\"What is Clinical Psychology?\" Greene, P., & Levine, E. (2008) Clinical Perspectives 9(1).\n\"FDNY Crisis Counseling: Innovative Responses to 9\/11 Firefighters, Families, and Communities\", Greene, P., Kane, D., Christ, G., Lynch, S., & Corrigan, M. Hoboken: John Willey & Sons (2006)\nBook Review of \"Defiant Teens\", by R.A. Barley, H. Edwards, and A.L. Robin (1999) appeared in The Family Psychologist. Fall 1999\nThe Psychological Autopsy as a Tool in Student Development. Grieger, I. & Greene, P. The Journal of Student Development. July\/August 1998, Vol. 39 No. 4\nPsychological and Dental Case Studies of Patients Reporting \"No Bite\". with M. Gelb. American Academy of Orofacial Pain, 20th Annual Scientific Meeting on Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders. February, 1995.\nDr. Greene is a clinical psychologist with interests in psychotherapy for individuals and couples.\nMarital Therapy\nEmail: drgreene@paulgreenephd.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Phone: (407) 830-1434 Request Support\nWhy SemTech IT?\nReliable IT Support\nThe SemTech Difference\nSemTech Blog\nIT Services & Imaging Solutions\nHVAC Service Providers\nMembership Service Organizations\nProperty Management Businesses\nSmall to Midsize Businesses\nThe Future of Data Storage, or Just a Really Long Cassette Tape?\nIn this day and age, your company's data is extremely important. Without it, your company would likely cease to exist. But, it's not just you \u2013 the entire world is this way, and the more information that's out there, the more storage and backup that is needed. Professionals are constantly looking for ways to expand the way we store data, and last month, Sony managed to discover something entirely new that may change the way that we store our information.\nKnown far and wide as a technology entertainment powerhouse, Sony has developed a special type of magnetic tape technology. Other technologies that utilize magnetic tape would be video reels from back in the day, or cassette tapes. However, Sony has discovered a way to record a massive amount of data per square inch on this tape \"by independently developing a soft magnetic underlayer with a smooth interface using sputter deposition, it has succeeded in creating a nano-grained magnetic layer of fine magnetic particles and uniform crystalline orientation.\"\nIn plain English, this means that Sony has been able to create something that allows for about 185 terrabytes worth of storage, approximately 148 gigabytes per square inch. This is the highest areal recording density discovered at this time. Before Sony made such a huge breakthrough, the most data that could be stored on magnetic tape was around two gigabytes per square inch.\nSony used the sputter method, a form of vacuum-thin film forming technology, that generates multiple layers of crystals with a uniform orientation. Previously, the roughness of the soft magnetic underlayer of the tape would have caused displacement of the crystals. However, Sony has devised a method to minimize the roughness of the surface, allowing them to create a nano-grained magnetic layer composed of fine magnetic particles of around 7.7 nanometers.\nThe specifications are a bit intimidating, but the point is that Sony has made an incredible discovery that could potentially change the way that data centers back up data. Presently, many data centers use magnetic tape to store data due to its ease of use and cost-effective price. Just take a moment to imagine how much extra data could be stored by simply replacing one of the conventional magnetic tapes with this new version \u2013 just one of these holds about 74 times more data than a normal magnetic tape strip!\nFor small and medium-sized businesses, we still HIGHLY recommend using disk-to-disk backup solutions like our BDR, due to its much faster and more effective restore times and stability, but this new technology is still interesting and worth keeping an eye on for businesses that have their own data centers.\nIs this recycled technology going to matter to businesses in the future? We don't know. But, something we do know is that data backup is as important as ever, regardless of how it's done or how much it is. What are your thoughts on Sony's discovery? Do you think it will revolutionize the way that data is stored? Let us know in the comments!\n1844 Longwood Lake Mary Rd, Suite 1050 Orlando, Florida 32750\nMonday: 8AM\u20135PM\nTuesday: 8AM\u20135PM\nWednesday: 8AM\u20135PM\nThursday: 8AM\u20135PM\nFriday: 8AM\u20135PM\nCopyright \u00a92014 SemTech IT Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Site Map | Privacy Policy | Website Accessibility\nSEO and IT Services Marketing by Ulistic\n@SemTechIT SemTech IT Solutions helps Florida businesses and organizations maintain and optimize their technology.\n4 Reasons to Choose Microsoft Teams for Collaboration https:\/\/t.co\/TpyI8NkEUE https:\/\/t.co\/JdWqL8Uxv9 4 months ago\nGet the Unsurpassed Security You Need for Your Business Technology https:\/\/t.co\/xntUQ0nmUZ https:\/\/t.co\/lNGj9NM2vh 4 months ago\nEmbedView on Twitter\nCopyright \u00a9 SemTech IT Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Site Map | Privacy Policy | Website Accessibility","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences\nConsortium on Law and Values\nHistory of the Consortium\nConsortium Policies\nGrants & Research\nAbout Grants & Research\nGenomics & Precision Medicine\nConsortium Research Awards\nHighly Portable and Cloud-Enabled Neuroimaging Research\nLawSeqSM Database\nBetween 2000 and 2020, the Consortium provided funding for intramural research projects related to the societal implications of problems in health, environment, and the life sciences. Through a competitive process, we awarded a total of nearly $1.5 million to graduate and professional students, student groups, individual faculty, departments, and centers. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to offer this request for proposals due to budget cuts. The 2019-2000 award cycle (see below) will be the final projects funded by the Consortium.\nA record of all previous awards is provided below. Both proposals and reports are posted with permission.\nDetails of all funded projects can be found on the links below including proposals and reports. All are posted with permission.\n2019-20 Awards\nConsortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences\n316 Johnston Hall\n101 Pleasant St. SE\n612-625-0055 office\nOffice of the Vice President for Research (OVPR)\nUniversity-wide Centers\n\u00a9 2023 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Privacy Statement Report Web Disability-Related Issue Current as of January 27, 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jackery makes 'portable power' the best holiday gift\nChristmas is the season for family and warmth \u2013 but all that can be lost in an instant when disaster strikes. Like what is happening in 2022. Jackery, the world leader for innovative portable power and green outdoor energy solutions, has been building its reputation as a philanthropic company through its efforts to make life a little bit brighter for unfortunate families in disaster areas around the globe. When grid power goes out, a Jackery portable power unit can literally keep warmth, light and hope alive.\nIn fact, it was the Christmas season, December 10, 2021, when an unprecedented winter tornado hit Mayfield, Kentucky, causing catastrophic damage and killing 57 people throughout the region. Rather than gifts and warm homes, the citizens were struggling to survive. Jackery saw this opportunity to help and donated a number of power units that were used for rescue operations, hospitals and communications.\nAugust 2020, in California's Napa Valley - a series of lightning-sparked fires steadily converged into the blaze known as the LNU Complex Fire, which collectively became ranked as the 3rd largest fire disaster in California's history. With electrical infrastructure decimated, Jackery donated many solar generators to keep emergency power available to the brave first responders.\nMost recently in the United States, Hurricane Ian hit Southwest Florida this year and devastated the area leaving thousands of people in the dark. And again, Jackery responded with donations of its rugged and reliable products to help bring back a little piece of regular life. One woman recounted her tragic story. Her husband died immediately after the Hurricane just after being rescued, and after a brief time in a shelter, she returned home, alone and terrified. Looters tried to break into the house. She received a solar generator from Jackery and it changed her life, being able to be safe and also sleep without gasoline exhaust or noise from a typical generator.\nThe COVID crisis of 2020 was an active time for Jackery, which demonstrated its humanitarian concern by donating significant amount of solar generators and power units to overtaxed hospitals and traveling health professionals. Jackery donated many Jackery portable power stations, brought over a hundred of USB adapters and Apple lightning cables for patients at the Coney Island hospital, and made the same efforts at ground zero of the pandemic, in Wuhan, China, where they provided power units to keep the overwhelmed hospitals functioning.\nJackery's helpful response to disasters has not been limited only to the United States. For example, in September 2021, multiple typhoons hit Okinawa, Japan, causing turmoil and destruction. Jackery recognized the people in need and responded as they often do, with generous donations of their reliable products. Jackery also provided mobile outdoor power support to Okinawa, ensuring that power supply can be adequately guaranteed in the event of disasters in the future.\nSeparate from immediate disasters, Jackery also recognizes the slower-paced environmental catastrophe unfolding due to global climate change. That's why they have worked with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) to plant 10,000 trees.\nOn thing is certain - while natural disasters are unpreventable and unpredictable, there is one thing that can be counted on - Jackery will continue to be there when tragedy strikes. Jackery wishes everyone a warm and safe Christmas with family and friends.\nJackery, the world's leading innovative portable power and green outdoor energy solution provider founded in California in 2012, is a global top-selling solar generator brand born with a vision to offer green energy to everyone, everywhere. Jackery launched the world's first outdoor portable power stations in 2016 and developed the world's first portable solar panels in 2018. Having introduced solar generators to the great outdoors, Jackery fulfills the power needs of every nature-lover, inspiring them to explore further and seek more extraordinary experiences than before.\nExpanding its footprint from the US to Europe, Japan, and China, Jackery has sold more than 2 million units globally since 2018, with its products consistently selected as Best Sellers on Amazon.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"10 New Releases this week 7\/18-7\/24 plus TWO Giveaways\nHey everyone, hope you're having a great July! Up for grabs this week are two awesome books: A WORLD WITHOUT YOU and LITTLE BLACK DRESSES, LITTLE WHITE LIES. Don't forget to check out all the cool releases.\nShelly, Lindsey, Martina, Jocelyn, Erin, Susan, Sam, Sarah, Sandra, Kristin, and Anisaa\nYA BOOK GIVEAWAYS THIS WEEK\nA World Without You\nby Beth Revis\nHardcover Giveaway\nU.S. Only\nReleased 7\/19\/2016\nSeventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have \"superpowers.\"\nAt Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age.\nBut even the strength of their love isn't enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time \u2014 that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her.\nAuthor Question: What is your favorite thing about A World Without You?\nThis is the truest book I've ever written. It's still fiction, yes, but it's true--at least to me. It's the story of a boy who thinks he can travel through time and must save his girlfriend stuck in the past...but then discovers that the school for superheroes he thinks he's attending is actually a mental asylum. But it's also the story of family, and my hero's family ended up paralleling my own family in many ways. Like the sister in the book, I had a brother with mental issues, and like the family in the story, my own family had to learn how to remain whole despite the cracks and strain of a sick member whose illness wasn't visible. This story became a story of truth, and that, to me, is my favorite thing.\nPurchase A World Without You at Amazon\nPurchase A World Without You at IndieBound\nView A World Without You on Goodreads\nLittle Black Dresses, Little White Lies\nby Laura Stampler\nHarper Anderson always believed she belonged somewhere more glamorous than her sleepy Northern California suburb. After all, how many water polo matches and lame parties in Bobby McKittrick's backyard can one girl take? That's why Harper is beyond ecstatic when she lands her dream internship as a dating blogger at the elite teen magazine Shift. Getting to spend the summer in New York City to live her dream of becoming a writer? Harper's totally in.\nThere's just one teeny, tiny, infinitesimal problem: Apart from some dance floor make-outs, Harper doesn't have a lot of - or, really, any - dating expertise. In fact, she might have sort of stolen her best friend's experiences as her own on her Shift application. But she can learn on the job...right?\nFrom awkward run-ins with the cute neighborhood dog-walker to terrifying encounters with her crazed editor, from Brooklyn gallery openings to weekends in the Hamptons, Harper finds out what it takes to make it in the Big City--and as the writer of her own destiny.\nPurchase Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies at Amazon\nPurchase Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies at IndieBound\nView Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies on Goodreads\nMORE YOUNG ADULT NOVELS NEW IN STORES NEXT WEEK\nby Helen Douglas\nA love story that spans generations and time continues in this captivating tale that's perfect for fans of A Thousand Pieces of You.\nHunted down by a ruthless \"cleaner\" from the future, star-crossed lovers Eden and Ryan have been forced to travel a hundred years forward to 2123. Ryan has broken fundamental laws of time for them to be together, and now they face his trial and permanent imprisonment . . . and a life without each other.\nEden knows that she must save Ryan, but he's under tight security--and getting caught would mean life imprisonment for the both of them. All Eden wants is Ryan, but is it possible to be together when it seems the whole universe is against them?\nFans of Claudia Gray, Amie Kaufman, and Meagan Spooner will be captivated by this epic cross-century romance where love bends the laws of time and reason.\nPurchase Chasing Stars at Amazon\nPurchase Chasing Stars at IndieBound\nView Chasing Stars on Goodreads\nby Carrie Jones\nTor Teen\nNew York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA SF series.\nPeople have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.\nBut that night, Mana's life goes haywire.\nFirst, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective.\nIt turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing--taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. Now her supposed partner, a guy that Mana has never met or heard of (and who seems way too young and way too arrogant to be hunting aliens), has shown up, ordering Mana to come with him. Now, on her own for the first time, Mana will have to find a way to save her mother--and maybe the world--and hope she's up to the challenge.\nPurchase Flying at Amazon\nPurchase Flying at IndieBound\nView Flying on Goodreads\nSmash & Grab\nby Amy Christine Parker\nOcean's Eleven meets the star-crossed lovers of West Side Story. Grab some popcorn and get ready for an adrenaline-filled heist!\nLEXI is a rich girl who loves a good rush. Whether it's motorcycle racing or BASE jumping off a building in downtown Los Angeles, the only times she feels alive are when she and her friends are executing one of their dares. After her father's arrest, Lexi doesn't think twice about going undercover at his bank to steal the evidence that might clear his name. She enlists her hacker brother and her daredevil friends to plan a clever heist.\nCHRISTIAN is a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The local gang has blackmailed him and his friends into robbing banks, and he is desperate for a way out. When the boss promises that one really big job will be the last he ever has to do, Christian jumps at the chance for freedom. In fact, he's just met a girl at the bank who might even prove useful. . . .\nTwo heists. One score. The only thing standing in their way is each other.\nTold in alternating points of view, this caper is full of romance and fast-paced fun. Hand to fans of Perfect Chemistry, The Conspiracy of Us, and Heist Society.\nPurchase Smash & Grab at Amazon\nPurchase Smash & Grab at IndieBound\nView Smash & Grab on Goodreads\nGreat post: New Releases this week 7\/18-7\/24 plus TWO GiveawaysTweet this! Posted by Shelly at 6:00 AM\nLabels: New Releases\nJenn July 18, 2016 at 2:29 PM\nlooks like some good books coming out.\nNatalie Aguirre July 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM\nSo excited for Beth Revis' new book.\nDanielle H. July 18, 2016 at 8:02 PM\nSmash and Grab sounds like a book to take me away for hours of fun!\nbn100 July 18, 2016 at 8:52 PM\nShannon @ It Starts at Midnight July 18, 2016 at 9:45 PM\nOh Smash and Grab and A World Without You both sound fantastic, and I have heard great things! Thanks so much for the chance :)\nStephanie July 18, 2016 at 10:11 PM\nA World Without You is in my most anticipated top 5 reads for 2016. Can't wait for this!!\nI got to read Smash and Grab and I loved it! I am also super excited for Flying as well!!\nTaffy July 19, 2016 at 10:56 PM\nUGH! So many books, so little time. I need to learn to read faster.\nNovelKnight July 24, 2016 at 1:53 PM\nI love Revis's Across the Universe series and can't wait to read A World Without You!!\nAuthor Brent Hartinger on How to Put More Drive in...\nRed Light\/Green Light FINAL WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT\nWrite. Tell your story. Break the \"Rules\"\nA Writer's Guide to Harry Potter and the Lasting I...\nNew Releases this week 7\/25-7\/31\nBeth Revis, author of A WORLD WITHOUT YOU, on push...\nThank You to the Mentors and Participants of the J...\nLois Metzger, author of Change Places with Me, on ...\nAnnouncing the Top Five Finalists for the Red Ligh...\nWhy You Shouldn't Give Up\u2014Even When That Voice In ...\nPitch Wars 2016 Is Coming -- And Why You Should Ju...\nNew Releases this week 7\/18-7\/24 plus TWO Giveaways\nBrian Falkner, author of BATTLESAURUS: CLASH OF EM...\nMartina Boone on Mapping Your Book to Ensure it Works\nRed Light\/Green Light: Round Three\nFINDING YOUR VOICE THROUGH LETTER WRITING\nWhat Are We Waiting On? (July-September)\nAmanda K. Morgan, author of SECRETS, LIES, AND SCA...\nKatie Kennedy, author of LEARNING TO SWEAR IN AMER...\nRachel Caine, author of PAPER AND FIRE, on there b...\nKatrina Leno, author of THE LOST & FOUND, on being...\nShannon Lee Alexander, author of LIFE AFTER JULIET...\nRed Light\/Green Light: Round Two\nBelieve Your Book Is The One\nThe Art of the First Page: 8 Classic Openings and ...\nNew Releases this week 7\/4-7\/10 plus THREE Giveaways\nJuly 1st 5 Pages Workshop is Now Closed\nFree 1st 5 Pages Workshop is Now Open!\nFree 1st 5 Pages Workshop Opens Today!\nAmanda Panitch, author of NEVER MISSING, NEVER FOU...\nReport from Attending ALA 16 in Orlando as an Auth...\nFree 1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop Opens Tomorrow!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"KY Judge Rules Death Penalty Protocol Unconstitutional\nArlington County Aims to Launch Mental Health Court\nU.S. Jails Crowded with People Not Convicted, but Awaiting Trial\nIn Shelby County, a Push to Reduce Youth Solitary Confinement\nShifting Opinions on Death Penalty in KY\nAn evolving debate continues over the future of the death penalty in Kentucky. (Morguefile)\nEDGEWOOD, Ky. \u2013 Over the past 10 years, eight states have abolished or overturned their death penalties, while governors in four other states have issued moratoriums.\nSo, is the tide turning in Kentucky, one of 30 states that still allows capital punishment?\nIt has for Amy Carrino, who says she was pro-death penalty for a long time. A criminal justice professor at Gateway Community and Technical College, Carrino says too many mistakes are made.\n\"The thought of putting someone to death that is innocent just really got me thinking, and eventually I have come completely to the other side,\" she states.\nA 2011 report from the American Bar Association exposed a myriad of problems with Kentucky's death penalty system, including its cost and length.\nCarrino has organized a panel discussion on the issue for Wednesday night, which she says is an offshoot of a community-wide reading project in eight Northern Kentucky counties.\nCarrino says people across the region, including students in her criminal courtroom procedures class, have been reading \"A Lesson Before Dying,\" a novel about the execution of an innocent man.\nBennett Nelson, a sophomore at Gateway, says it has him rethinking his position in support of the death penalty.\n\"I didn't realize how many people are wrongfully convicted and could possibly die for a reason that they didn't do anything,\" he states.\nEarlier this year, a poll found that when Kentuckians are informed of problems with the state's death penalty, 72 percent were concerned about executing an innocent person and 64 percent favored making life without parole the maximum sentence.\nNelson says he now is leaning in that direction.\nGateway sophomore Shelby Carelock says she enjoyed the book, but she remains opposed to abolition of the death penalty.\n\"I still believe that it should be an option,\" she states. \"They should get an ample amount time to defend their case with appeals, but I don't believe in providing three meals a day to some of these people that do deserve it.\"\nThe last execution in Kentucky was eight years ago this month.\nGreg Stotelmyer , Public News Service - KY","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Job Directory Verizon Media Group NOC Engineer\nNOC Engineer Verizon Media Group\nVerizon Media Group is a diverse house of more than 50 media and technology brands that engages more than a billion people around the world.\nCompanies like Verizon Media Group\nAbout Verizon Media Group\nIt takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? Verizon Digital Media Services brings together world-class technology to prepare, deliver and display content - so users can watch and enjoy on their terms. The purpose of our platform is simple. It delivers next-generation digital experiences for today's demanding users, whether it be their favorite TV shows, catching up with friends via social media or shopping for the latest gadgets. Built on top of one of the world's largest networks, our platform easily handles your users' appetite for instant, secure and always-on media, anytime, anywhere.\n* Monitor the world's fastest, most reliable content delivery network, including thousands of servers, applications, network devices, peering and transit connections along with real-world customer traffic for some of the biggest sites on the internet, using a powerful suite of custom built monitoring tools and systems\n* Work with the systems and network administration teams to resolve complex issues within specific service level agreements\n* Potential candidates are expected to triage and troubleshoot complex networking , system and application issues. This may include coordinating with third-party vendors, customer contacts, internal escalation teams or other business units in order to reach a holistic solution.\n* Responsible for maintaining knowledge continuity among peers and internal escalation teams. This includes updating internal knowledge bases with new processes and procedures as needed.\n* Responsible for the performance, health, and scalability of the entire global network infrastructure on a 24\/7 basis to ensure company-wide Objectives and Key Results (OKR) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) objects are met\n* Actively be involved in identifying and communicating opportunities for automation to remove pain points related to: repetitious operational tasks, improved network monitoring tools, configuration generation and standardization, and new circuit and peer implementations\n* Administers trouble tickets according to established guidelines, standards, and procedures. Ensures all content accurately reflects all incident response efforts. Independently makes decisions regarding the next-steps involved in incident response.\n* Monitors all network, system and application platforms to ensure the health of operational services, networks, devices, and components. 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{"text":"Memo to Mike McCarthy: 'Become O'Connell'\nLordy. Talk about timing. Obviously there's never a good time for the premier lock in Europe to get injured, but coming just after Ireland appeared to get their season in motion, already without Brian O'Driscoll, captain and all round supremo Paul O'Connell is ruled out for the rest of the Six Nations through injury. Just three games into his tenure, playing some of his best rugby ever, it's desperately unlucky on a personal level, but worse still for Ireland. Conor Murray will also miss the remainder of the campaign. Again, it's bad news, and awful for him personally, but it's one position where we do have an able replacement, who was knocking hard for selection in any case.\nTwo vs. Four\nDonnacha Ryan, already not so much knocking on the selectorial door as smashing his way through it, finally gets his chance, right? Wrong! Himself and Donncha O'Callaghan surely cannot be paired together, despite what Gerry says. Both are front-jumpers (jumping at '2') and neither has any real experience running the lineout. The only time they were paired at Munster saw London Irish decimate the set piece and win the game. In fact, if anything, the luckless Ryan is even more likely to miss out on a test start, because Deccie will baulk at having to change two second rows when he already has to change one. Stakhanov O'Callaghan's incredible fortune looks set to continue.\nFor this reason, the clamour to see Ulster's impressive Dan Tuohy called up is misplaced (though he should be in the squad already). He, like Ryan, is a front-jumping tighthead-lock, and it's Muller that runs the lineout up north.\nIreland need a middle of the lineout jumper (jumping at '4') who has experience calling the lineout. It's one position we just don't have that much depth. Stalwart squad men Leo Cullen and Mick O'Driscoll are either injured and\/or winding down towards retirement. The only two options are Connacht's Mike McCarthy and Leinster's skyscraping Devin Toner. Deccie has opted for McCarthy, and he's a fine player enjoying another good season. Athletic and full of aggression, all he has to do now is simply take the step up to becoming Paul O'Connell \u2013 easy! He'll have O'Callaghan alongside him, who could make anything up to eight tackles to help him out.\nThere's always Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig Bob Casey, who at least has the same physique as Big Jim Hamilton, but its hardly fair to deny Mike Ross the title of heaviest forward, and anyway, Big Bob struggles to get in to the London Samoa team these days.\nPersonally, we would have plumped for Big Dev, given his towering presence in the lineout, vastly improved performances this season, and how he has outperformed Richie Gray on both occasions when they went head-to-head against Glasgow in the HEC this year \u2013 but it's much of a muchness, and every time we've seen McCarthy (not enough, perhaps) he has impressed us. Plus, he'll up the handsome quotient in the pack.\nVerdict: in spite of the morning's papers anticipating an all-Donn(a)cha, second row, we're anticipating O'Callaghan and McCarthy starting together, Ryan once again on the bench.\nKnock-on Effects .. for the Paddys and the Jocks\nIf Ryan's chances of starting have taken a dent, Peter O'Mahony's have increased. POM is a light, tall fellow that's easily thrown in the air, and has done well at the tail of Munster's lineout this season. Already probably deserving of a start in this game, Deccie may well see him as a good option to share the lineout burden. It's worth noting that Scotland have perhaps the best (maybe second to France) defensive lineout in the tournament, with Richie Gray a phenomenal ball-thief at the front, and Big Jim Hamilton adept in the middle. A dedicated aerial specialist in the backrow would do no harm.\nThis would give the Irish pack a very French look, with 2 lumps in the second row and atheletic and talented lineout-enabled forwards in the backrow. Scotland picked 2 genuine opensides (TM) and nullified the French backrow well 2 weeks ago, but Robbo might be tempted to pick a lump at 6 (Kelly Brown and Alasdair strokosh would be ideal, but are injured) to really target the raw Irish lineout.\nVerdict: Peter O'Mahony to start. A somewhat out of form Sean O'Brien to miss out. Robbo to stick with 2 groundhogs, to the delight of Gormless George.\nOh Captain My Captain\nThe obvious choice here is Rory Best. Already a longstanding member of the team-leaders panel, he emerged during the World Cup as a key figure in the pack (and a great player). The only thing that might persuade Deccie to overlook him is the sheer weight already on his shoulders. He will have the responsibility of throwing to an already struggling lineout now without its main man. Maybe it'd be asking too much of him. If that line of thinking did prevail, the armband would fall to one of Rob Kearney, Stephen Ferris or Jamie Heaslip. Heaslip is usually the most talkative in huddles, but he rarely wears the armband at Leinster, and its unlikely he'll wear it for Ireland.\nFerris and Kearney's outstanding form alone makes them compelling, but its our old mate Bob would strikes us as the better option. 'Twas a 10-cap Kearney who famously spoke up at the Enfield meeting, and by all accounts he is held in high regard by his colleagues.\nIn truth, any of the group would appear built for the role, and Deccie would do well to empower this group, and probably Sexton as well (like ROG, too cranky for the captaincy, but clearly a leader) with the role of leading the team.\nVerdict: Best to captain, with Kearney his able lieutenant\nScrum Half\nLittle doubt that Reddan will now be the starting nine, but the call-up of Tomas O'Leary raised more than a few eyebrows. Isaac Boss surely would have got the call, but is in New Zealand for personal reasons. The folly of not calling up Paul Marshall in the first place has now come back to bite \u2013 this is classic stubborn Kidney.\nAnyone who has watched Tomas and Paul in action this season will see two players at the opposite ends of the spectrum. Marshall has been a key figure for Ulster, often coming off the bench, and has pushed his way into the starting line-up in recent weeks. O'Leary meanwhile, had some reasonable cameos early on, but has reverted to his pre-World Cup form. He is nowhere near operating at test level. This is a terrible call by Kidney, which sees him, once again, playing favourites.\nUlster will be delighted that the Marshall-Pienaar axis can continue to develop; at least someone benefits from this deeply wrong-headed decision by Deccie.\nVerdict: Unthinkably, O'Leary will be in an Irish matchday 22. Wowsers.\nby whiffofcordite on March 6, 2012 \u2022 Permalink\nPosted in Donnacha Ryan, Donncha O'Callaghan, Lineouts, Mike McCarthy, Paul Marshall, Paul O'Connell, Pope Benedeccie, Tomas O'Leary\nPosted by whiffofcordite on March 6, 2012\nhttps:\/\/whiffofcordite.com\/2012\/03\/06\/memo-to-mike-mccarthy-become-oconnell\/\nBetter When We're Bitter\nAnd the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor goes to \u2026\u2026\nTo be fair, Tuohy is currently calling the lineout at Ulster in the absence of Muller. In about 10 games this season Tuohy has jumped at 4 and called the lineout for Ulster.\nPalla Ovale\nHe did Andy, but not in any big games, and he didn't look terribly comfortable doing it. His season didn't really kick off until Muller came back from the RWC and he went back to the front. We're big fans here and think he should have a part to play in the national team, but not in the middle of the lineout.\nummm,\nSo if Boss wasn't unavailable doesn't that mean any accusations of DK playing favourites wouldn't need to be made?When you're talking about the difference between your forth and fifth choice scrum halves favouritism isn't really as bad a word as it could be.This is, of course, the same TOL who was left at home for the RWC. I'm sure if you asked him what it's like to be on of Deccie's favourites you'd need to be wearing protective gear.\nPaul Marshall is unquestionably in better form than TOL, deccie is picking an out of form player which is of no benefit to either Ireland or TOL; just look at last years 6N. He is going with the tried and trusted once more instead of looking to the future.\nWhy should he look to the future? He's contracted to the end of next years tournament.\nJL Pagano\nRe : captain, the main reason I'd go for Best is that this is a temporary appointment, he's done it before for Ireland plus he's a provincial capt. When BOD and\/or POC return, the armband will need to be handed back. I'm actually for \"Bob\" long-term simply because he has stepped forward and said he wants it (is it too harsh to say I'm not sure Jamie's that pushed?), but personally I'd like a new long-term appointment to be announced before a November series so he can ease into the role.\n@ummm TOL has always been something of a favoured son of Deccie's, and they had plenty of success together in 2008 and 2009. Sure, he ditched him on the eve of the World Cup, but only because he absolutely had to after the France game when TOL played himself off the plane (if he'd woken up with a cold that day and been excused he'd have travelled). Deccie rung every inch to get this guy into his team, repeatedly trying to play him into form in test games when he was really struggling badly at Munster. It's a real digging-your-heels-in call. Deccie took some flak for not picking Marshall for the Wolfhounds game, and he sure ain't rowing back on that decision now. @Gerry \u2013 I'd say he's going with the tried and can't be trusted, because O'Leary is just not at the required level these days. To hell with looking to the future, I just want the best team on the pitch, and Marshall is a better player right now.\nHe's looked comfortable doing it Palle. I understand the logic of not entrusting him to do it at test level, but our lineout has been pretty much working like clockwork in the last few weeks.\n@PO, I'm not in favour of the TOL call, but this whole \"Deccie's favourites\" thing is lazy. If Deccie sticks to what he knows, and we know from the RWC selection is doesn't fully trust TOL, then he's accused of favouritism, even if the evidence doesn't support that. And as it stands it's not obvious Marshall is any better than TOL.If Deccie wanted to play favourites there's a certain scrum half who has given a decade of service to Ireland just waiting for the chance to finally break 100 caps. This is the same Deccie that didn't give his forwards coach a HEC final swansong.If Deccie drops someone there's always a handy excuse why it should be discounted and in no way shows why he doesn't play favourites, it's like arguing with a Creationist. No evidence and constantly changing goalposts.\nEgg Chaser\n@Andy fair point. We think Tuohy is a 4 primarily, but its obviously a boon that he can call it as well \u2013 I think its pretty clear he brings much more to the table than Stakhanov@ummm I think we'll have to agree to disagree here, especially on Marshall not playing at a higher level than TOL. Granted, Deccie didn't bring Tomas to the RWC, but that was after years of favouritism and a complete melt-down.We should state for the record we think TOL has some really good qualities \u2013 but he is assuredly not a scrum-half of international quality on his form of the last 2 years. He made his HEC debut for Munster at 13, and we're of the opinion he could do a job there for Munster.Re Strings, we wrote a piece after he moved to Sarries about how coaches (including Deccie) never fully trusted him. We're not saying Deccie isn't ruthless, but we are saying he inordinately favours particular players \u2013 TOL is one. Stakhanov is another actually.\nRADGE FAN\nDon't think Marshall (or Boss) had much of a game when playing for the wolfhounds against the saxons. O'Leary looked the best SH and scored a try. Marsahll generally looks good with Pienaar beside him which reminds me, has Paul Marshall even met Sexton\/ROG or Heaslip, let alone play with them? there is enough experience missing in the backs with BOD out.\nJL Pagano \u2013 For the record, Muller is the Ulster captain. Not Best.\nThanks @Radgefan good to hear an alternative view. What province did you say you followed again? Only messing\u2026I'm not sure if personal familiarity is a pre-requisite for a successful partnership \u2013 Bakkies and Victor famously dislike each other for example.Re Marshall, he was indeeed singularly unimpressive against the Saxons \u2026 mostly because he wasn't playing!\n@Radgefan \u2013 O'Leary did indeed impress in that game but I have to ask, do you really and truly believe the one off low-intensity Wolfhounds v Saxons game to be the main selection criteria, as opposed to, say Heineken Cup games or meaningful league matches? Or is it just that it's the only possible line of argument that leads to the opinion you want to form\u2026As for the experience argument, fair enough, but there aren't too many rookies in the backline either; Earls and Sexton are in the 25+ cap club now, and they're the least experienced there. Also, I assume you're applying the same logic to the pack now that Paulie is out, and are in similar disagreement about our argument for O'Mahony to start.\nLooks like Deccie is going to go into the game on Saturday without Toner (and possibly without a middle jumper) and with TOL on the bench. That would surely have to go down as the worst selection of all time. It's hard not to like the man but boy is he trying hard to make it so.\negg chaser \u2013 nothing to do with whether they like each other or not \u2013 it just takes time to build up a bit of a partnership \u2013 you know like the way stringer never had to look up to see where O'Gara was, he just knew where he would be.re Marshall \u2013 yea he didn't make saxons squad, but would you not agree that O'Leary looked better than Boss if you are basing it on anything.Marshall started against the Ospreys and he had a very poor game, certainly nothing to suggest he was an international standard scrumhalf. At lease with O'Leary you knew what its about anyway, even if his form is poor.Palla Ovale \u2013 no, I don't think the saxons are the b all of everything \u2013 but its the only game that both Boss and O'Leary were up against the same opposition so it will give you an indication of their form and game temperement.As for the experience thing \u2013 Earls is in a new position which you'd have to expect that he finds challenging. Which Sexton is going to turn up \u2013 the confident one or the one whose kicking is all over the shop? I do think the same logic does apply to the pack. I'd be inclinded to leave O'Mahony on the bench with POC missing for this one (though I think O'Mahoney is in a different class to Marshall, who isn't a Heineken Cup starter for Ulster for a start).\nCheers Radge \u2013 I understand your argument better now its fleshed out.I just can't agree on Marshall \u2013 to me he looks the most dangerous Irish 9 on form \u2013 as a bench option you have little to lose. His defence is solid although that isn't a huge concern facing Mike Blair and Wee Greig Laidlaw.To me its not experience that is Sextons issue but belief in the gameplan. In fact the whole team played the third quarter vs France extremely unsure. But Sexton looks uncomfortable in a green shirt \u2013 no point in denying it. That said he gave an excellent defensive performance.Re POM, I'd throw him in but you make a point on experience \u2013 if Best misses out too you might think twice about having a third player in the pack making their 6N debut\u2026\nJammyDodger\nAs much as there is much valid debate over selection for both the matchday team and extended squads, the biggest issue with the Ireland team at the moment is the gameplan, if it can be called such.I can't remember the last time we successfully executed any backline move worthy of the name and our primary attacking weapon seems to be the Garryowen!This lack of direction, and with the largely held opinion that the Irish team is performing less than the sum of its parts, is entirely down to the coaching team.Selection issues are of secondary importance.\n@JammyDodger we're with you 100% there Jammy, and I've lost count of the number of posts and tweets where we've said it. But this week, two personnel changes are enforced, and one leaves us in a bit of a quandry so it made sense to put a bit of focus on them.\n@RADGEFAN \u2013 I think you're reading WAY too much into the Wolfhounds game. It's a meaningless one-off with precisely nothing at stake. Heineken Cup and league games are a far better gauge of 'form and game termperament'. It's all immaterial anyway, Boss is in New Zealand. It was between O'Leary and Marshall, and having not picked Marshall in the initial squad he was nevr going to get the nod \u2013 just shows the folly of not picking him in the first place.\nDear Whiff of Cordite: Lads, I think your blog is generally excellent but I'm a little perplexed at this Deccie-bashing mentality that is seeping into your commentary. Please resist the urges to join the modern Irish rugby media (some of whom are simply band-wagon-jumping former football reporters) who are desperate for headlines and column space. I am simply perplexed at how Kidney, with a robust record in both historic and absolute terms, is getting labled with having favourites and \"sons of deccie etc\". This is not objective, but emotional and hyperbolic stuff that just ignores history. As someone above pointed out (but diluted shortly after), Kidney stopped TOL going to the WC. This was a massive call to make on a player who had played numerous high-quality games for Ireland. Kidney has also stuck with players not because he is \"stubborn\" but because WE DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY to drop experienced players who will produce X, and replace them with \"the next generation\" who will produce unknown value now but hopefully, X in the future. We have a small pool of professional players (4 teams, as you know), where there are probably only 15-18 world class players. Contrast this with England. They can drop their entire first 15 and struggle for a couple of seasons, but still produce a fight. If we did the same, we'd be utterly destroyed.Double D\n@Double D \u2013 thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it.Just to clarify our line on the 'favourites' issue \u2013 we're not accusing Deccie of being unprofessional, picking his mates or anything (we have never bought into the perceived Munster bias theory). ALL coaches have their favourites, players they seem to rate a bit higher than everyone else does, and also players they never quite trust \u2013 think of Eddie's gra for Simon Eastery and how Jamie Heaslip's face never quite seemed to fit.Deccie has obviously had a huge amount of success with O'Callaghan and O'Leary, and it always seems like we wants these guys in his team. O'Leary's form became so poor that he left Kidney with no choice before the WC. For all Reddan's good days in green, we just get the impression Deccie would prefer to have O'Leary or Murray in the team. I do find it mystifying that O'Leary not only made the squad but was given almost half an hour off the bench when Reddan was having a good game (box kicking aside!).We would argue that he's been excessively loyal to DOC and O'Leary. We haven't called for mass changes at any point, but we did call for Ryan to make the team with O'Callaghan moved aside, and we stand by that.Anyhow, there's plenty of good stuff happening in the team, and we talk about some of it in today's post, which hopefully will redress the balance for you.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Charting the Market Today\nStocks in the Spotlight Tuesday\nAlexander Eule\nUpdated Jan. 16, 2007 11:59 pm ET \/ Original July 17, 2019 12:38 pm ET\nCisco fell 3% after analysts from Banc of America Securities and Prudential Equity downgraded the networking equipment company's shares, which are up 60% since August. \"While Cisco's business remains strong and management execution is outstanding, we see limited upside to shares,\" wrote Banc of America analyst Tim Long, who reduced his rating to Neutral from Buy but maintained a $30 price target. Long said that \"we believe margins have peaked\" and that share gains would be harder to achieve.\nTD Ameritrade Holding\nShares jumped 3.8% after the online-brokerage firm reported that first-quarter profit grew 69% from a year ago to $145.6 million. Investors also reacted to a conference call comment on Tuesday, in which TD Ameritrade's CEO Joe Moglia suggested that the company could be an acquisition target. In an interview later in the day, Moglia called the market response \"a little bit of an overreaction to my answer to that question.\"\nThe security software company surprised investors Tuesday after reporting preliminary results that were below its earlier guidance. Symantec said it now anticipated third-quarter revenue of $1.29 billion to $1.31 billion versus a prior outlook of $1.315 billion to $1.345 billion. Earnings are now expected to be 10 cents to 11 cents per share compared with an earlier estimate of 14 cents to 15 cents. In a statement, Symantec Chairman and CEO John W. Thompson said the results were partially due to \"a greater proportion of enterprise maintenance contracts, which resulted in higher deferrals than we expected.\" Shares tumbled 13%.\nGenesis HealthCare\nShares surged 16% after the long-term care provider said it had agreed to be acquired for $63 per share in an all-cash transaction that will take Genesis private. The purchase, by a joint venture of affiliates from Formation Capital and JER Partners, is valued at approximately $1.7 billion, including the assumption of debt.\nThe charts record the net change in share price, the high, low and closing trades, and share volume for companies with noteworthy stock activity last week. In addition, the graphs depict last week's daily price activity in detail. The dotted line on some graphs denotes the stock's 200-day moving average; lack of a moving average means the shares have traded for less than that time period.\nThe smaller charts record the daily movement in 15-minute intervals.\nE-mail comments to online.editors@barrons.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Replacing limitations with empowerment\nFor Miss Tabitha Quake, 29, prosthetics and orthotics (P&O) is more than an intellectual pursuit that utilises her technical interests and skills. It enables the senior prosthetist and orthotist with Tan Tock Seng Hospital's (TTSH) Foot Care & Limb Design Centre to \"help people with physical disabilities live better lives\".\nProsthetists and orthotists treat physical limitations resulting from illness and disabilities. They design, fabricate and fit custom-made artificial limbs, braces and other external contraptions.\nIn 2008, Miss Quake secured a health sciences scholarship from the Ministry of Health Holdings (MOHH) to do a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in P&O at Scotland's University of Strathclyde.\nThe scholarship covered all her tuition fees during her four years of undergraduate study which she could not have afforded otherwise.\nClinical placements within the United Kingdom for hands-on experiences and exposure to cases not studied at Strathclyde meant Miss Quake never stayed in the same place for more than a year at a time.\n\"There were also two sought-after overseas placements per cycle,\" she says.\n\"I was fortunate to be assigned to Sweden's Skandinaviska Ortopedtekniska Laboratoriet, where I worked with different prosthetic systems using high-end components such as carbon fibre feet and bionic knees.\"\nMiss Quake did her second-year mid-term attachment at TTSH, the largest public provider of P&O services in Singapore. The attachment eased her into Singapore's healthcare system and helped her understand the unique needs of the patients here.\nAfter graduating in 2012, she joined the centre full-time, where her skills, design-technology interests and outside-the-box thinking are welcomed. She casts, fits and modifies customised artificial limbs and braces with the help of technicians.\n\"Adapting the techniques while managing expectations can be demanding, especially in Asian healthcare, where there is a greater disability stigma,\" she says.\nOrthotics can be quite complex. An early case in her career saw her and a senior colleague in an operating theatre to cast a mould on a scoliosis patient for a spinal brace immediately after surgery.\n\"It was my biggest cast-and-brace case, but not the last. After handling hip disarticulation and more scoliosis cases, custom spinal braces became my sub-speciality,\" says Miss Quake.\nFrom 2014 to 2016, she also ran a weekly paediatric clinic at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), where she mainly did spinal bracing. She is currently helping KKH set up its own P&O service centre, and has been supervising and guiding a P&O scholar working there, to ensure everything runs smoothly.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Printed from https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/ulb\/ulbeco\/2013-307351.html\nViolence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war\nMarion Mercier\nRama Lionel Ngenzebuke\nPhilip Verwimp\nWe investigate the relationship between exposure to the Burundi Civil War and household (food) poverty, using a three-wave household-level panel matched with data on local-level violence. We find that households living in localities exposed to the war have been subsequently more likely to be poor than non-exposed households. Within-household estimations, controlling for time-varying heterogeneity at the province level, confirm the positive impact of violence exposure on household poverty. We investigate some of the potential mechanisms at play in the violence \u2013 poverty nexus, and the role of violence exposure in household poverty dynamics over time. Our results notably suggest that the destruction of physical capital, as well as a shift of exposed households out of non-farm activities, shape poverty dynamics and lower their chances of durably remaining out of poverty.\nMarion Mercier & Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke & Philip Verwimp, 2020. \"Violence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war,\" ULB Institutional Repository 2013\/307351, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.\nHandle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013\/307351\nNote: SCOPUS: ar.j\nFile URL: https:\/\/dipot.ulb.ac.be\/dspace\/bitstream\/2013\/307351\/3\/civilwar_expo_preprint.pdf\nFile Function: \u0152uvre compl\u00e8te ou partie de l'\u0153uvre\nMercier, Marion & Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel & Verwimp, Philip, 2020. \"Violence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war,\" Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(4), pages 822-840.\nMarion Mercier & Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke & Philip Verwimp, 2020. \"Violence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war,\" Post-Print hal-02895235, HAL.\nJames P. 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{"text":"Motives for choosing growth-enhancing hormone treatment in adolescents with idiopathic short stature: a questionnaire and structured interview study\nHanneke Visser \u2013 van Balen1,2,\nRinie Geenen3,\nGerdine A Kamp4,\nJaap Huisman5,\nJan M Wit6 &\nGerben Sinnema1\nGrowth-enhancing hormone treatment is considered a possible intervention in short but otherwise healthy adolescents. Although height gain is an obvious measure for evaluating hormone treatment, this may not be the ultimate goal for the person, but rather a means to reach other goals such as the amelioration of current height-related psychosocial problems or the enhancement of future prospects in life and society. The aim of our study was to clarify the motives of adolescents and their parents when choosing to participate in a growth-enhancing trial combining growth hormone and puberty-delaying hormone treatment.\nParticipants were early pubertal adolescents (25 girls, 13 boys) aged from 11 to 13 years (mean age 11.5 years) with a height standard deviation score (SDS) ranging from -1.03 to -3.43. All had been classified as idiopathic short stature or persistent short stature born small for the gestational age (intrauterine growth retardation) on the basis of a height SDS below -2, or had a height SDS between -1 and -2 and a predicted adult height SDS below -2. The adolescents and their parents completed questionnaires and a structured interview on the presence of height-related stressors, parental worries about their child's behavior and future prospects, problems in psychosocial functioning, and treatment expectations. Questionnaire scores were compared to norms of the general Dutch population.\nThe adolescents reported normal psychosocial functioning and highly positive expectations of the treatment in terms of height gain, whereas the parents reported that their children encountered some behavioral problems (being anxious\/depressed, and social and attention problems) and height-related stressors (being teased and juvenilized). About 40% of the parents were worried about their children's future prospects for finding a spouse or job. The motives of the adolescents and their parents exhibited rather different profiles. The most prevalent parental worries related to the current or future functioning of their children, while a few cases were characterized by no observed motives or by psychosocial problems only reported by the adolescents themselves.\nThe motives for participating in a growth-enhancing hormone trial are more obvious in the parents than in the adolescents themselves. Two out of three parents report worries about the future opportunities or observe modest current psychosocial problems in their children. The adolescents want to gain height, but the motivation underlying this remains unclear. Few of the adolescents experience psychosocial problems. Our analyses revealed differences among individuals in terms of motives, which implies that in an evaluation of hormone treatment, the importance of divergent outcome variables will also differ among individuals. Effectiveness evaluations of hormone treatment to increase height and the consequential fulfillment of other goals must be awaited.\nGrowth-enhancing hormone treatment is considered a possible intervention in short but otherwise healthy adolescents. Although height gain is an obvious measure for evaluating hormone treatment, this may not be the ultimate goal of the person, but rather a means to reach other goals such as to ameliorate current height-related psychosocial problems or to enhance future prospects in life and society.\nPsychosocial functioning has been emphasized in considerations of the motives of children with idiopathic short stature (ISS) and their parents seeking hormone treatment to achieve a height gain. Children who have never been medically referred do not seem to suffer from their stature [1\u20134]. Most studies involving medically referred children have revealed reduced social competence [5\u201314], while internalizing and externalizing behavior, body image, self-esteem, and scholastic competence have been shown, on average, to be between normal and below normal [5\u20138, 10\u201317]. In addition to the possibility of improving psychosocial functioning, several other factors are hypothesized to motivate children and their parents to choose hormone treatment, including the experience of height-related psychosocial stressors (such as being teased or juvenilized), future expectations for finding a spouse and a desired career commensurate with intellectual potential and interests, and the expectation of a treatment-induced height gain.\nInsight into the divergent motives at the time of choosing hormone treatment is important, because it will help in the choice of proper outcome measures for the evaluation of a trial. Insight into motivational factors is especially important in treatments combining biosynthetic growth hormone (GH) with a puberty-delaying hormone, because the possible benefits of enhancing growth must be balanced against the possible negative psychosocial consequences of delaying pubertal development. Moreover, such insight will clarify whether other treatments, such as psychosocial counseling, should be employed to solve current psychosocial problems and reach future goals.\nOur study examined 38 medically referred early pubertal, short adolescents who agreed to participate in an experimental trial of a combined treatment of GH and a puberty-delaying hormone, and compared the results with short adolescents who received no intervention. Participants had a height standard deviation score (SDS) below -2, or between -1 and -2 with a predicted adult height SDS below -2, all without apparent underlying pathology. Twenty-six of the subjects had a normal birth weight and length and were classified as ISS [18], while 12 were born small for gestational age (SGA) [19, 20]. Both ISS and SGA have been associated with problems in behavior, social functioning, school competence, and attention [21\u201323], while SGA has also been associated with lowered intelligence and minor neurologic dysfunctions [21, 22, 24].\nWith the aim of clarifying the motives of parents and children for participation in the trial, we examined the baseline scores of the adolescents on the following psychosocial factors before initiating the treatment: presence of height-related stressors, parental worries about the child's behavior and future prospects, self-reported problems in psychosocial functioning, and treatment expectations.\nStudy population and procedures\nThe inclusion criteria for participation in the study were as follows: being in early puberty as documented by Tanner breast stage 2 or 3 for girls and Tanner genital stage 2 or 3 for boys; an actual height SDS for the same age and sex of less than -2.0, or a height SDS between -1.0 and -2.0 with a predicted adult height of more than -2.0 SDS; a chronological age and bone age of less than 12 years for girls and 13 years for boys; a documented GH response of >20 mU\/L (>10 ug\/L) after a standard provocation test and\/or during a sleep test; a ratio of sitting height\/subischial leg height between the 3rd and 97th percentiles; and normal blood tests and urinalysis.\nThe study population consisted of 38 early pubertal adolescents (25 girls,13 boys) aged from 11 to 13 years (mean age 11.5 years). Most of the cohort (17 girls, 9 boys) had a normal birth size and were classified as ISS. Twelve adolescents (8 girls, 4 boys) were known to have had a birth length of more than 2 SD below the mean for gestational age and were classified as short-stature-born SGA. The most likely reason for the girls substantially outnumbering the boys is that the combination of short stature and early puberty is more common in girls than boys. The mean height of the adolescents was 134.9 (5.8) cm, with a range of 120.0\u2013148.5 cm, corresponding to a height SDS ranging from -1.03 to -3.43. There were nine adolescents with an actual height SDS between -1.0 and -2.0 and a predicted adult height SDS of less than -2.0.\nThe following four Dutch hospitals participated in this multi-center study: the University Medical Center Utrecht-Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, the Sophia Children's Hospital Rotterdam, and the Catharina Hospital Eindhoven [19]. The first 40 referred adolescents who fulfilled the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate after having been informed about the study participated in our randomized controlled trial with puberty-delaying gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) therapy in combination with GH therapy or no therapeutic intervention. Twenty of the adolescents were randomly selected to receive the combination therapy for three years, while the other 20 adolescents were to receive no treatment. Immediately after randomization, two participants (one from the treatment group and one from the control group) decided to stop participation.\nThe experimental trial examined the hypothesis that the combination of GH and GnRHa for three years would increase the final height in comparison with untreated controls [19]. For three years the adolescents in the treatment group were given GH daily by subcutaneous injection of 4 IU (1.33 mg) per square meter body surface; (Genotropin, Pharmacia, Sweden; now Pfizer, New York, USA) and a depot preparation of 3.75 mg of GnRHa (Decapeptyl-CR, Ferring, Sweden) every four weeks intramuscularly. The adolescents in the control group were followed yearly to document their growth and pubertal development [19]. Before treatment, and at one, two, and three years after beginning the treatment, the adolescents and the parents of both the treatment and control groups filled out questionnaires to assess the psychosocial functioning of the adolescents. The parents were also interviewed.\nA skilled psychologist examined the adolescents and their parents in the interval between randomization and starting treatment. This interval was chosen for ethical reasons to avoid the suggestion that the answers of the parents or adolescents might affect the group allocation. Moreover, providing knowledge of the result of the randomization procedure to both parents and adolescents was assumed to make them better able to give unbiased responses to the questionnaires and interview. The adolescents filled out questionnaires on perceived competence, psychological distress, body image, self-image, and personality characteristics. The parents filled out questionnaires regarding emotional and behavioral problems of their children, and were interviewed by a psychologist.\nThe medical ethics committees at the four participating centers approved the study. The parents of all children provided written informed consent before participation.\nParental reports\nA structured interview was conducted with parents to assess the adolescents' health-related development, current height-related stressors, and parental concerns about their child's future. Parents were asked about health problems, the child's age at which a physician was consulted for the first time because of the growth retardation, and who initiated the referral (school doctor, family doctor, or pediatrician). In order to determine the height-related psychosocial stressors encountered by the adolescents, the parents were asked whether their children were teased or juvenilized by other children. To find out parental worries about the future of their child, parents were asked whether they considered that the prospects of their child were equal to that of persons of normal height in the labor market and finding a spouse (yes, doubtful, no).\nTo assess behavioral and emotional problems, the parents filled out the Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) [25]. This questionnaire consists of the following eight syndrome areas (the so-called narrow-band scales): withdrawn behavior, somatic complaints, anxious\/depressed behavior, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, and aggressive behavior. The scores of the subscales were summarized into a score for internalizing and externalizing problems, and a total problem score (the so-called broad-band scales).\nThe Silhouette Apperception Technique (SAT) has been shown to be a valid and useful instrument for assessing perceptions of the present and future heights of adolescents [7, 26\u201328]. The parents were shown drawings of people of different heights, corresponding proportionally with the heights of the 3rd, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 97th percentiles, and asked to identify the drawings that they thought best fit the current and future heights of their child.\nAdolescents' self-reports\nThe adolescents completed a global intelligence test and a series of questionnaires regarding perceived competence, psychological distress, and personality characteristics.\nThe Dutch versions of the Self-Perception Profile for Children (CBSK) and the Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents (CBSA) were used [29, 30]. The CBSK consists of six perceived competence subscales: scholastic competence, social acceptance, athletic competence, physical appearance, behavior and conscience, and global self-worth. The CBSA consists of these six scales plus the scales of friendship and romantic love. In our study we only used the six scales that the CBSK and the CBSA have in common.\nAnxiety was measured using the Dutch version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (ZBV-K), with the subscales of state anxiety and trait anxiety [31]. Depressive mood was assessed by the KDVK (Dutch Short Depression Questionnaire for Children) [32].\nPersonality characteristics of the adolescents were investigated using the Dutch Personality Questionnaire-Junior (NPV-J), with five subscales: inadequacy, perseverance, social inadequacy, recalcitrance, and dominance [33].\nThe SAT was used to measure perceptions of the present and future heights of the adolescents [7, 26\u201328].\nIntelligence was assessed by the Dutch short version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) (WISC-Rn) [34].\nData analyses\nStandard deviation scores (SDS) were used to compare the results of the quantitative questionnaires with the means of the general Dutch population. This was performed by subtracting the mean score of the norm group of the same age and sex from the score of the participants, with this difference divided by the SD of the norm group. This score expresses how much each study subject deviates from the norm in SD units. T-tests examined whether these age-and sex-adjusted scores significantly deviated from zero (i.e., from the norm).\nTo categorize groups of adolescents with divergent motives for wanting hormone treatment, we formed subgroups based on the presence of height-related stressors (being teased or juvenilized), parental worries about future prospects (regarding finding a spouse or job), parental worries about their child's behavior (internalizing or externalizing problems), and self-reported problems in psychosocial functioning (low self-esteem, anxiety, or depressive mood). The cut-off score for having externalizing or internalizing problems was a norm deviation score of 1 SD higher than the mean for the same age and sex on the CBCL scales for internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems. This score corresponds with a CBCL T-score of 60 (84th percentile) in the healthy norm group, and conforms with CBCL standards for the borderline range of clinical problems [25]. The cut-off score for anxiety and low self-esteem was a norm deviation score of at least 1 SD higher (anxiety) or lower (self-esteem) than the means for the same age and sex on the trait anxiety and the global self-worth scale, respectively. The cut-off score for indicating clinical signs of depression was a raw score of 4 points or more on the depression scale [32].\nOur study group was small and significant differences were generally not evident in the results between boys and girls, between adolescents with ISS and those born SGA, and between adolescents who were to receive hormone treatment and those who were not. Hence our report focuses primarily on the results for the whole group.\nMedical referral\nThe mean age of the child when a physician was consulted for the first time because of the growth retardation was 7.3 years (SD = 3.5 years). Medical referral was initiated by the family physician (53%; seven adolescents with SGA, thirteen with ISS) or school physician (23.5%; two adolescents with SGA, seven with ISS), whereas some of the adolescents were already under supervision of a pediatrician as young children because of health problems other than short stature (23.5%; three adolescents with SGA, six with ISS). Ninety percent of the parents reported that their children had never experienced serious health problems.\nHeight-related psychosocial stressors and future expectations\nApproximately one-quarter (28%) of parents reported that their child was teased by peers because of short stature (15% of boys, 35% of girls), and 14% of parents reported that their child was juvenilized by peers (23% of boys, 9% of girls). All but one adolescent took part in gymnastic lessons at school (97%).\nRegarding the effects of short stature on future expectations, 44.5% of the parents expected their child to have a lower prospect in the labor market as an adult (39% of boys, 48% of girls), and 39% expected their child to have a lower prospect of finding a spouse (77% of boys, 17% of girls). This difference between boys and girls was significant (p < 0.01). No other significant differences between boys and girls were found.\nPsychosocial functioning\nOn parental ratings of behavioral difficulties as measured by the CBCL, the short adolescents exhibited higher scores than the general Dutch norm group on the broad-band scales of internalizing problems (p < 0.05) and total behavioral problems (p < 0.05) (Table 1). The elevated score for withdrawn behavior was marginally significant (p < 0.10), while the higher score for anxious\/depressed behavior was significant (p < 0.05). These narrow-band scales are summarized in the internalizing scale. The short adolescents also exhibited higher than normal scores on the social problems (p = 0.01) and attention problems (p < 0.05) scales. The scores deviated by 0.50\u20130.73 SDS from the norm (see Table 1), which reflects moderate effects. Three adolescents were in the clinical range for internalizing problems (CBCL T-score of 63; 90th percentile). The short adolescents did not score significantly higher than the norm group on the narrow-band scales of somatic complaints, thought problems, delinquent behavior and aggressive behavior, or the broad-band scale of externalizing problems. One adolescent scored in the clinical range for externalizing behavior.\nTable 1 Emotional and behavioral problems of 34 adolescents with short stature as judged by their parents.\nTo clarify the nature of the problems perceived by the parents, we examined specific items on the CBCL scales where parents observed significant problems. Items for which the adolescents deviated at least moderately from the norm included generic items on the scale of anxious\/depressed behavior, height-related items on the scale of social problems, and both generic and height-related items on the scale of attention problems (for the specific items, see Table 2).\nTable 2 Scores at separate items of the CBCL scales anxious\/depressed behavior, social problems, and attention problems.\nVirtually none of the scores of the short adolescents on self-reported questionnaires differed significantly from the norm group (Table 3). Adolescents with ISS or SGA did not deviate from the norm group with respect to perceived competence and psychological distress. Indeed, their perceived social acceptance was higher than that in the norm group (p = 0.05). With respect to personality characteristics, adolescents with ISS or SGA described themselves to be more persistent (quiet, conscientious, and diligent) than the norm group (p < 0.05). Two adolescents were in the clinical range (deviation of more than 2SDs) for global self-worth. One adolescent was at the clinical level for trait anxiety.\nTable 3 Psychological functioning and distress as reported by the adolescents with short stature.\nIntelligence scores (corrected total WISC-Rn scores) ranged from 66 to 128, with a mean score of 99.8. Six adolescents (three ISS, three SGA) had an intelligence lower than 80. The intelligence did not differ significantly between adolescents with ISS and those with SGA.\nExpectations of hormone treatment: perception of current and future heights\nPerceptions of current and future heights were analyzed separately in adolescents who were to receive hormone treatment and those who were not (Table 4). Most parents and adolescents in both the treatment and control groups estimated the current height of the adolescent at the 3rd percentile of the population references, which corresponds well to their actual height. Parents of the adolescents in the treatment group expected a greater future height than the parents of the adolescents in the control group (Z = -2.68, p = 0.007). None of the other comparisons between the experimental and control groups revealed significant differences.\nTable 4 Current and future heights as perceived by adolescents and their parents on the Silhouette Apperception Technique\nGroups classified according to motives\nTo provide a summary description, four groups of adolescents were distinguished based on the presence of height-related stressors, parental worries about future prospects, parental worries about their children's behavior, and self-reported problems in psychosocial functioning (Table 5).\nTable 5 Classification of adolescents based on motives\nGroup 1 consisted of four adolescents and their parents (12%) who did not report any psychosocial problems. However, all adolescents in this group reported having high expectations of the treatment in terms of height gain (these data are not listed in Table 5).\nGroup 2 consisted of 11 adolescents (32%) whose parents reported height-related psychosocial stressors or worries about future prospects, but no problems in psychosocial functioning (parental or adolescents' reports).\nGroup 3 consisted of 11 adolescents (32%) whose parents reported problems in psychosocial functioning as well as worries about future prospects and in most cases the presence of height-related psychosocial stressors. The adolescents themselves did not report problems in psychosocial functioning.\nGroup 4 consisted of eight adolescents (24%) who reported problems in psychosocial functioning, while their parents did not report height-related psychosocial stressors and worries about future prospects, and in most cases did not report behavioral problems.\nIn a medically referred group of early pubertal adolescents with ISS or SGA, the motivation of the adolescents and their parents for choosing hormone treatment was investigated before initiating a combined GH and puberty delaying hormone treatment.\nParental reports revealed that current height-related psychosocial stressors were not the main reason for wanting growth-enhancing hormone treatment. Some of the parents reported that their children were teased (28%) or juvenilized (14%) because of their stature. These findings are close to those from another Dutch study [7], but in contrast with an American study that showed teasing and juvenilizing rates of 50% and 70%, respectively [14]. According to their parents, most of the adolescents in the present study were relatively free of current stressors. More than 40% of the parents expected that their children would have a decreased prospect in the labor market or difficulties in finding a spouse. This suggests that the motivation of providing opportunities for the future of the adolescents was a compelling reason for parents to choose hormone treatment.\nAnother possible reason for wanting hormone treatment is parental worries about the psychosocial functioning of their children. On average, as judged by their parents, the adolescents encountered internalizing symptoms, such as anxious or depressed tendencies, as well as social and attention problems. These problems were of a moderate magnitude compared to Dutch norms. It is likely that our analysis overestimated the actual psychosocial dysfunctioning, because the normative criteria were based on a very healthy group: any child who had been referred to a mental-health professional in the past 12 months, or who was currently receiving special educational services, was excluded from the normative sample [25, 35]. Moreover, some of these problems are height-related issues that need not be a behavioral problem, such as preferring to be with younger kids or acting too young for his\/her age.\nThe perceptions of adolescents about their own psychosocial functioning did not confirm the parental worries. The adolescents reported normal competence and personality, and even higher competence on social acceptance and perseverance, and little distress. This raises the question of whether adolescents or their parents are the best judges about well-being and functioning of adolescents. Adolescents may be unreliable informants because they are too young to give an adequate assessment of their own functioning, lack a time perspective, or have a tendency toward denial, while parents may be unreliable because of unrealistic anxieties about the health, future, and behavior of their children [36, 37]. Our observation of more psychosocial problems being reported by parents than adolescents suggests that the perception of psychosocial problems is a stronger motive for parents than for adolescents when choosing to participate in the hormone treatment trial.\nThe perception of the current height of the adolescents was accurate in the majority of parents, while several adolescents had a tendency to overestimate their current height. Consistent with previous observations [26, 38], several adolescents who were to receive hormone treatment had unrealistic expectations of their future height (as did their parents). Even those who were not to receive hormone treatment had high expectations of their future height. Optimism, even when unrealistic, has been shown to motivate the choice for a treatment and its adherence once started in several diseases [39, 40]. However, unrealistic expectations may also be associated with a poor psychosocial outcome, as has been demonstrated in persons seeking cosmetic surgery, for example [41].\nThe tentative breakdown of subgroups provides a descriptive summary of four rather different profiles of motives for hormone treatment in the adolescents and their parents. A small group of adolescents and their parents reported no psychosocial problems. Highly positive treatment expectations of the adolescents in terms of height gain was the only detected motive, with the underlying reason remaining unclear. Perhaps it predominantly reflects the developmental wish of any child to want to grow (up). The parents reported height-related stressors or psychosocial problems and in most cases these worries about current problems were accompanied by worries about future prospects. The final group consisted of adolescents who reported problems in their psychosocial functioning, while their parents did not necessarily observe problems and were not worried. The cause of these problems and the relation with height remain unclear. In choosing such an intensive hormone treatment involving daily injections, pubertal delay, and possible side effects, we would have expected at least a subgroup of cases to show a motivation in parents as well as adolescents. However, none of the adolescents exhibited elevated scores on all motives, and only two pairs of parents and adolescents were congruent with respect to the observation of psychosocial problems. In the majority of cases it was either the parents or the adolescents who reported one or more motives.\nOur sample size was sufficiently large to allow conclusions to be drawn regarding the comparison with normative data, but a larger sample size is needed for examining with sufficient power the possible roles of gender, type of short stature, and risks and protective factors that may modulate the psychosocial functioning of these adolescents [42].\nOur study demonstrates that the motives of parents to let their children participate in a growth-enhancing hormone trial are more obvious than the motives of the early pubertal adolescents themselves. Two out of three parents reported worries about the future opportunities or observed modest current psychosocial problems in their children. The adolescents wanted to gain height, but the underlying motivation remains unclear. Few of the adolescents experienced psychosocial problems. Our analyses showed that motives varied among individuals. 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J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1991, 30: 124-134.\nConnolly MA, Johnson JA: Measuring quality of life in paediatric patients. Pharmacoeconomics. 1999, 16: 605-625.\nTheunissen NC, Vogels TG, Koopman HM, Verrips GH, Zwinderman KA, Verloove-Vanhorick SP, Wit JM: The proxy problem: child report versus parent report in health-related quality of life research. Qual Life Res. 1998, 7: 387-397. 10.1023\/A:1008801802877.\nErling A, Wiklund I, Albertsson-Wikland K: Prepubertal children with short stature have a different perception of their well-being and stature than their parents. Qual Life Res. 1994, 3: 425-429. 10.1007\/BF00435394.\nGudas LJ, Koocher GP, Wypij D: Perceptions of medical compliance in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 1991, 12: 236-242.\nFournier M, De Ridder D, Bensing J: Optimism and adaptation to chronic disease: The role of optimism in relation to self-care options of type 1 diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Br J Health Psychol. 2002, 7: 409-432. 10.1348\/135910702320645390.\nHonigman RJ, Phillips KA, Castle DJ: A review of psychosocial outcomes for patients seeking cosmetic surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2004, 113: 1229-1237. 10.1097\/01.PRS.0000110214.88868.CA.\nCohen J: Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. 1977, New York, Academic Press\nDepartment of Pediatric Psychology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 85090, 3508, AB, Utrecht, The Netherlands\nHanneke Visser \u2013 van Balen & Gerben Sinnema\nDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508, TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands\nHanneke Visser \u2013 van Balen\nDepartment of Health Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508, TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands\nRinie Geenen\nDepartment of Pediatrics, Gooi-Noord Hospital, P.O. Box 900, 1250, CA, Laren, The Netherlands\nGerdine A Kamp\nDepartment of Medical Psychology, VU University Medical Center, P.O. Box 7057, 1007, MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\nJaap Huisman\nDepartment of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300, RC, Leiden, The Netherlands\nJan M Wit\nGerben Sinnema\nCorrespondence to Hanneke Visser \u2013 van Balen.\nThe author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.\nHVB and RG analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript together with GS (the project supervisor) who, along with JH, was also involved in the study design and acquisition of data. GAK and JMW (the medical supervisor) were responsible for the design and execution of the medical part of the study. All authors critically revised the manuscript, and read and approved the final version.\nVisser \u2013 van Balen, H., Geenen, R., Kamp, G.A. et al. Motives for choosing growth-enhancing hormone treatment in adolescents with idiopathic short stature: a questionnaire and structured interview study. BMC Pediatr 5, 15 (2005). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/1471-2431-5-15\nReceived: 17 December 2004\nHormone Treatment\nPsychosocial Problem\nParental Worry","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Trefort Garden Foundation was established by former and current institute heads of E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University's Faculty of Humanities with the aim of supporting the achievement of shared goals that advance the cause of the Faculty in terms of its physical environment (the Trefort Garden), the quality of education, its role as a centre of research and knowledge, its place as an intellectual community as well as a cultural centre.\nThe Trefort Garden Foundation welcomes all forms of support \u2013 whether they be for a specific project or the foundation in general and regardless of whether it comes from our alumni for the achievement of goals they consider important or from committed supporters of the Hungarian humanities, culture and science \u2013 which help us achieve our shared goals. These goals are not just those of the country's traditionally top-ranked, oldest, and biggest faculty with the most wide-ranging educational portfolio, but also those of Hungarian opinion leader humanities intellectuals and those that need to be achieved for the education of future generations. The goals of the foundation listed below complement the aims established by the Faculty's eternal mission.\nDevelopment and completion of the Trefort Garden's IT network.\nSupporting the development of the Trefort Garden library.\nDevelopment and diversification of the Trefort Garden's cultural life through the organisation of cultural events and programmes.\nAdvancing instructor and student mobility at the Faculty of Humanities, developing ties among university citizens.\nPromoting the continuous purchase of or subscription to major foreign and domestic academic databases and making them accessible to instructors and students.\nDeveloping relations between the Faculty and its environment; establishing and developing communication channels (publications, website, etc.)\nPreparation and dissemination of the Faculty's publications, brochures and other press materials.\nProviding equal opportunities to the Faculty's disadvantaged students.\nDevelopment of the Faculty's student and instructor communities; encouragement of students and instructors to live a healthy, sports-filled lifestyle.\nImplementation of the Green Faculty Programme, support of its goals and related events (landscaping of the Trefort Garden and its conversion into a cyclist-friendly institution, selective waste collection, the promotion of an environmentally-conscious mentality.\nThe Trefort Garden Foundation is a foundation of E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University's Faculty of Humanities. Supporting the foundation means supporting the Faculty. The developments needed to be carried out at the Faculty are designed to improve the conditions of the educational, creative and academic work done here. We consider the foundation to be the official channel through which we can use the support we receive to achieve our goals.\nWe therefore ask everyone \u2013 whether they be a colleague, student, alumni, a supporter from the outside or a friend \u2013 to help achieve the goals of the foundation, and with it, those of the Faculty, through the help of their talent, connections or financial contributions. We ask in particular for the support of Hungarians and Hungarian organisations beyond the border, many of whom live and operate outside Europe, which feel they bear a responsibility for the preservation of the Hungarian humanities, the Hungarian language and culture, to donate to the Hungarian hub of this academic field, the number one centre of the training of Hungarian humanities intellectuals, who are a key part of our future.\npreamble of the foundation's articles of association\nThe progress of societies depends primarily on the extent of progress in material and intellectual culture, i.e. on the amount of knowledge created and amassed by communities. Science is therefore the most important engine of progress of human civilization. Science is the main depositary of the creation and dissemination of knowledge. The rationalism of the Enlightenment placed science on an imaginary pedestal, giving it authority and setting high expectations of it. In the second half of the 19th century, those involved with science viewed their line of work as a means of simultaneously serving their tighter community, their nation and the broader community, humanity itself. The ethos of the practice of science led to the spread of the idea that knowledge has principles, as opposed to interests.\nUniversities are the most important forums of the acquisition of scientific knowledge. Wherever universities were and are born, venues for the creation (research) and dissemination of knowledge (the highest level of institutional education) were and are soon to emerge. Universities are thus the strongholds of science. Science, as Hungarian composer Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly wrote, \"is the unrelenting search for truth, which can be neither a maid of theology or a prostitute to politics\". Ideas must flow freely wherever science is practiced, and truth must be spoken. However, in a place that is the scene of the search for and transfer of truth in the atmosphere of the freedom of thought, the need for quality and responsibility are also of key importance. It is his need for quality and responsibility which the instructor and the student aspiring to become an intellectual both have a duty to represent before their narrower and broader environment. Lor\u00e1nd E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, who was once a student, teacher, and eventually the rector of our university, placed heavy emphasis on personal responsibility: \"School and education are [\u2026] only scientific where teaching is done by scientists [\u2026] The matter of the university [\u2026] is above all one of personnel, next to which the matters of the organisations and regulations of the university are but secondary.\" Just as it is not the desk that makes the one sitting at it great, but rather the other way around, it is primarily a university's teachers, professional and personnel excellence, that can make it an institution of prestige and excellence.\nDespite the new circumstances and the global challenges, opportunities and problems of the open world, certain fundamental questions have remained unchanged. To this day, universities remain the institutions safeguarding the social prestige of science and higher education and the most important venues of the search for and transfer of truth.\nWe know very well that talent and determination alone are not enough for the practice of science. It also requires the external (institutional, infrastructural and financial) conditions vital for successful research. Those working at the universities of countries lacking in resources or under political leadership that spends less than it should on research and education can attest to the truth of this trivial sentence from personal experience. There was a reason why Lor\u00e1nd E\u00f6tv\u00f6s once wrote: \"we often receive [...] fairy tale-like news [...] from far-away lands. Lords, who had their practice of science to thank for the best hours of their lives, industrialists, who found the sources of their industry in the application of science, practically magically create new universities or breathe new life into old ones through their donations amounting to millions.\" The financial support of university studies, however, goes further back. In the 18th century, seeing members of the aristocracy take on the burden of financing the university studies of talented young people was no longer uncommon in Hungary, either. Those who took it upon themselves to finance the study allowance or foundation scholarship (the alumneum) were known as the alumni, and these early supporters of science were the ones who influenced the emergence of the so-called alumni movement in the West. This movement of alumni binds together the virtual community of those choosing to support their university in part, out of gratitude to their alma mater.\nWealthy members of civil society can still do a lot to ensure that our universities, including the Faculty of Humanities of our prestigious and storied E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, are more effective in serving Hungarians and humanity. The Trefort Garden Foundation mainly aims to reach those whose alma mater is our university's Faculty of Humanities. But they are not the only ones we wish to reach. We also want to reach out to everyone who considers it important that our donations are guaranteed to serve noble goals from a greater social perspective as well. And the declared goals of the Trefort Garden Foundation meet this criterion, as they aim to ensure that the Faculty, which plays a key role in the training of Hungarian humanities intellectuals, can operate in the modern conditions that allow it to provide its students with a quality education. The foundation aims to promote the education of future intellectuals who are creative, give credibility to the need for quality and responsibility through their own personal example, combine tradition and innovation, think and act in terms of a community and carry with them the desire for continuous modernisation and the courage for innovation.\nThose who support the Trefort Garden Foundation do not just support E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University's Faculty of Humanities, but also the cause of the future of Hungarian scientism, culture and education.\nDr. Jen\u0151 Kiss","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FDA approvals total 27 in 2013\nFDA approved 27 new drugs last year, down from 39 new medications in 2012, which was a 15-year high, the Associated Press reported.\nIn spite of the decline, FDA said that the number of innovative drugs approved in 2013 is in line with the historical trend. FDA has approved 28 new drugs annually over the past 5 years on average.\n\"While the number of FDA drug approvals has declined from 39 new drugs in 2012 to 27 in 2013, FDA continues to demonstrate its ability to focus on ensuring that cutting-edge and innovative drugs are made available to certain populations that might otherwise not receive these high-level drug treatments,\" said Abimbola Farinde, PharmD, MS, who serves on the faculty at Columbia Southern University, Orange Beach, Ala. \"For some population these drugs approval can mean the difference between life and death.\"\nThe number of drug approvals declined in 2013 mostly because there were fewer drugs submitted for review. FDA reportedly received at least 32 applications for innovative drugs 2013, down from 41 in 2012. In general, reviewing new drug applications takes FDA between 6 and 10 months.\n\"The growing awareness, prevalence, and research that has been focused on cancer in general,\" has made the approval of innovative cancer drugs in 2013 significant, according to Dr. Farinde.\nThose approvals included the expanded indication of sorafenib (Nexavar, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals) to treat late-stage (metastatic) differentiated thyroid cancer; pertuzumab (Perjeta, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group) as part of a complete treatment regimen for patients with early stage breast cancer before surgery; and ibrutinib (Imbruvica, Pharmacyclics and Janssen) to treat patients with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer.\nRead more about the progress in treating cancer here.\nNews | Community Practice | Chain Pharmacy | Health System","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"No Kill Advocacy in Huntsville, Alabama (Our Advice for Others and Lessons Learned)\nAs we have written about before, Huntsville is getting a lot of attention these days across the country as a result of the progress made at our municipal animal shelter which serves both the city and the county: Huntsville Animal Services. Shelter animals are now safer here than they have ever been in the history of the community as save rates have reached and then exceeded 90% of all shelter intake. Huntsville is being referred to as an example of what can happen in any community when a concerted effort is made to balance public safety with animal welfare. There are some aspects to our community which are not found in other places like the fact that Huntsville is a very progressive, high-tech military town which supports the space program. There are other local challenges which are faced in many other communities like the fact that we have a lot of pit bull-type dogs, many of which are not socialized to people.\nWe think everyone can agree that in spite of differences between communities, saving the lives of animals is more about a culture than it is about an exact methodology or a cookie cutter solution. Once everyone decides that saving the lives of healthy and treatable pets is a priority right now, that is really the first step toward change. We have always promoted the no kill equation as a methodology just because it can be molded and shaped to fit any community. Any city or county which genuinely wants to end the practice of destroying savable animals need only do some introspection on what is happening now in order to work on program development using existing funds and resources. In some places, change can happen virtually overnight. In other places, it takes some time, some planning, some coordination and a lot of effort to make it happen sooner rather than later.\nWe have been asked to help advocates outside our own community understand more about what happened here in order to help achieve similar results in their own community. We are more than happy to share in a lessons learned kind of way. We will not set out the specific history of what happened here chronologically; it took years for change to begin to happen and in the end, too much information is just that. We hope that reading about our activities in Huntsville will help other advocates develop a plan and work toward that plan while avoiding some of the mistakes we made here. We are not yet a no kill community as far as the members of our coalition are concerned. We see the measure of that as not one of numbers or percentages but a standard in which healthy and treatable pets are not at risk under any circumstances. But things have changed drastically here and we know we have been part of that change.\nWe also must acknowledge the drastic changes put into place by officials with the City of Huntsville and Huntsville Animal Services with the help of rescuers, volunteers, foster homes, adopters and the animal-loving community here. It takes a lot of courage to try new things and risk failure in the process. We are sure that working at Huntsville Animal Services is an entirely different experience than it was for the shelter director and staff a couple of years ago and we genuinely applaud them for the progress achieved.\nWe wish the very best to any person or any coalition which advocates to save the lives of shelter animals. Sometimes the only thing standing between animals and certain death is the voice of dissension which says loudly and clearly, \"no. This is not consistent with our values and our culture.\"\nDecide what you want. Ideally, you should be able to state your goal in a single sentence. You cannot fix our entire society or even an entire community in one fell swoop or through magic thinking. You cannot address issues related to companion animals, farm animals and wildlife at the same time. In our case, we wanted to push Huntsville to stop killing healthy and treatable animals in the tax funded shelter. We explained what we considered our vision on our website.\nDo your research. If you don't know what you're talking about, you'll never make any headway because you'll have no credibility. You need to become an expert on your vision so you can speak intelligently about it from the hip. Learn the history of the issue you are working on so you know how our society got to this point. Make a decision on what methods you think work best to accomplish the goal, while being prepared to acknowledge that there are other methods which may have value. Network with people who have walked your path before you and whom are considered subject matter experts. You don't need to be the smartest kid in the class as long as you know the smartest kids in the class. In our case, we promoted the no kill equation from the start. We did local research to learn what was already taking place in our animal shelter and in our community. We also networked with successful no kill communities across the country by phone and email to learn what they were doing related to specific no kill programs. The end goal was to share our research with the city, which we did.\nFind a few like minded people to stand with you - but not too many. It is incredibly rare for a single person to be effective in an effort to make things better for animals and with no support when it comes to addressing systemic issues, particularly with local governments. It's just too easy for you to be dismissed as naive or as a zealot. You will likely be able to do more good if you find like-minded people who share your vision and are willing to join you to speak with one voice. Don't make your group larger than it needs to be for the sake of numbers. You run the risk of ending up with people who say they share your values but who truly do not or who talk but don't do. Those people can be incredibly disruptive and take you way off course, wasting valuable time and energy. In our case, we began with about 30 members who were invited to participate. People either left the group or were removed over time for being disruptive and not sharing the same vision. We currently have 6 core members of our group and we do speak with one voice.\nTry doing \"the ask\" at the very beginning. If you are trying to reform the way your local animal shelter functions, diplomacy and respect are key and you simply must take the high road even if that behavior is not reciprocated. We have heard many times that all advocates are abrasive and are too quick to engage in name calling and assigning blame from the start. We are just not that way at all because we felt it was just not productive. If you do not approach those who have the power to change the situation and simply ask them to consider doing so, you run the risk of offending them unnecessarily. Go straight to the source as your first step. In our case, one of our members paid for our shelter director to attend a No Kill Conference back in 2009 in hopes that she would proactively develop programs to save lives. After our coalition formed, we arranged for the director to receive free and confidential help from subject matter experts with us paying the expenses. The offer was refused at a time when the live release rate at our shelter was 41%. That refusal, unfortunately, set the stage for the next four years. Had the offer been accepted, much of our advocacy would not have been necessary at all.\nDon't waste time or energy on someone who doesn't care or won't listen. There is no polite way to tell someone \"animals are being destroyed needlessly. Please stop.\" But anyone who is really interested in saving the lives of animals, as opposed to defending that outdated process, will quickly let you know that they are interested in learning other ways to function and are \"all in\" toward embracing new ideas, particularly if you can help them understand what methods have worked in other places. You cannot force someone to acknowledge your vision and to work with you if they are bound and determined not to do so. If you hit a wall, don't keep banging your head against it. Find a way around it by involving the general public in your efforts. That is what happened in Huntsville. After the offer of free help from experts was refused, we took our subject to the public. We hosted a petition on Change.org which we augmented with signed petition pages and we held a free no kill workshop for the public to introduce them to no kill philosophies and programs. We had been told the shelter director would attend with her staff. She did not. The county animal control director did attend.\nMake your message one about ethics, money and accountability - not about specific people. All animal shelters function with some oversight. In the case of municipal animal shelters which are operated by a city, county or by a contracted nonprofit, those shelters are funded by tax dollars. If your argument is that animals are being needlessly destroyed, you do better to argue that doing so is not consistent with American values, is not a good way to spend money and that those who oversee the shelter are accountable to the people who are paying for it: the public. Even if you believe that a shelter director should be removed, you won't get far suggesting that unless some actionable form of abuse is taking place. You are better off focusing on the leadership as a whole. If the leadership makes personnel changes, so be it. In our case, we hosted a series of electronic billboards at different locations around town for a period of months using a series of empowering slogans like \"we are progressive enough to be a no kill community\" and \"saving shelter pets reflects our values.\" We also showed the documentary film \"Redemption: The No Kill Revolution in America,\" at a local high school in order to reach a wider audience with our topic.\nInvite the public to participate in the process. Although most Americans love animals and want the best for them, many people feel powerless to do anything as individuals to bring about change. Studies have shown that the vast majority of the public believes that the destruction of healthy and treatable animals in animal shelters is unethical and should be illegal. It is important not just to advocate for animals yourself or as part of a coalition, but to bring the public to the table. A few voices may be heard to a degree or may be dismissed out of hand as naive or uninformed. When the voting public begins to speak out to officials about what they want done with their tax dollars, it can be much more effective. Even people who don't share their homes with animals or particularly like animals likely do not want their tax dollars used to destroy animals when those same dollars can be used to save them and bring about systemic change. In our case, we not only took out subject to the public using the media, billboards and periodic events (like our workshop and showing the no kill documentary film at a local high school), we also encouraged people to speak out as individuals to tell local officials what they want and why. We set up pages on our website to help them find contact information for those officials and we helped get them started with ideas on how to communicate in direct and respectful ways.\nDon't listen to the haters, enablers or apologists. Although most people outside of animal welfare circles think that all animal welfare advocates are on the same page, we are not. There are people who advocate for animals solely for the benefit of those animals. They do not seek or want recognition and the act of having helped is their reward. Then there are people who advocate for animals so that they can say that they advocate for animals. Many of these people can be your worst critics. For them, this is more about people and not offending anyone than it is about saving lives. Detach from those people and don't let them suck the life force out of you with their negative energy. When you are labeled the source of the problem because you took it on yourself to speak out, don't get trapped by the tactic of putting focus on the messenger instead of the fact that the message was necessary in the first place. You cannot win with people who point the finger of blame at you while giving the people destroying animals a free pass. In our case, we were attacked on social media by rescuers and city employees. The shelter director participated in the behavior, leading us to file a formal complaint with the city about her conduct. We later learned that a shelter employee had set up the social media page used to attack us. We simply refused to engage with those people. We instead sought advice from an attorney who specializes in cyber-bullying and we took the issue up with officials at city hall who ultimately helped stop the behavior.\nKeep the lines of communication open and be respectful. Seeking reform is about advocacy, but it is also about staying on message and about being respectful in communication. Once you begin your advocacy effort, it is important to communicate with those in positions to affect change regularly and be very specific about what you want or what you are recommending. Part of this process involves the art of diplomacy. While you should be clear and direct about what you want, you must do so with tact and respect in order to make any headway at all. Look for every opportunity to applaud cooperation or progress. Also keep your communication professional. Email is an overused form of communication and while it may be convenient for you, it is not always received in the same manner as would be a letter. Seek face-to-face meetings periodically in order to have open dialogue about what you want while listening to officials about challenges they are facing. In our case, we communicated with city officials regularly in order to applaud progress, express concerns, make suggestions and make it clear that we were not going away. We sent dozens of letters to city officials and we sought and attended numerous meetings with city officials to share our research, discuss program development, talk about progress made and to have an exchange of ideas about future and continued progress.\nBe prepared to see it through. Once you begin an advocacy effort, the reality is that you can't just stop if you get tired or discouraged. Be prepared to see it through, no matter how long it takes. Your efforts could take weeks, months or even years. Be prepared to stay on subject and stay committed to your beliefs, even if you are not treated with the same diplomacy you use to advocate for animals. In our case, we worked hard to remain in the public eye by using the media and social media. We shared our research with city officials during numerous meetings and helped city officials engage with people from whom they were willing to hear the no kill message and who had proven experience in developing no kill programs. We wrote numerous letters to city officials to offer both congratulations on progress and to offer observations about issues we felt still needed to be addressed. We began seeking, and still seek, public records using the Alabama Open Records Act so we can monitor shelter statistics and we can analyze data regarding the types of animals still being destroyed and the reason that is happening.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Labor Day eBook Deals From Bestselling Authors!\nOnly great books make for great deals!\nHere's our latest selection of eBook deals; just in time for Labor Day!\nSit back, relax, and download your next escape...\nAMAZON | AUDIBLE\n\"Though the novel appears to start as a fantasy, it evolves into a domestic drama with murder-mystery elements, all adding up to a satisfying read.\"\n- Booklist\n\u200b\"After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises...\" [read more]\nComing Of Age Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult\n\u200bAMAZON | FULL SERIES\n\u200b\"Exiled from the Silverwood and the people she loves, Mae has few illusions about ever returning to her home. But when she comes across three out-of-place strangers in her wanderings, she finds herself contemplating the unthinkable: risking death to help a deposed queen regain her throne...\" [read more]\nAMAZON | AUDIBLE | FULL SERIES\n\"Sometimes a story is powerful enough\u2014and horrifying enough\u2014to instantly transfix us and forever change the way we look at a simple object. In The Silence of the Lambs, it's the lotion in the basket. In this gruesome crime novel, it's butterflies.\"\n- Alison Dasho and JoVon Sotak, Editors\n\u200b\"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.\nIn this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees\u2026and a collection of precious \"butterflies\"--young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens...\" [read more]\n\u200bAssassination Thriller\n\u200bAMAZON | AUDIBLE\n\u200b\"Impossibly cool.\"\n- Entertainment Weekly\n\u200b\"When a joint FBI\u2013Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry\u2014a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in 'natural causes...'\" [read more]\nIt's Free Book Friday! Grab These Bestselling eBooks While You Can!\n\u200bHappy Free Book Friday!\nEnjoy today's list of bestselling (& absolutely free!) eBooks!\nShare these deals with a friend so you'll have someone to talk to about that wild twist... or that shocking ending...\n\u200b\"A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go.\"\n-- Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan\n\"In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn't take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose\u2014and that his spree has just begun...\" [read more]\n\"The only thing Detective Kathryn Lincoln has to go on is a name. When another child vanishes into the creeping fog around a bus station, Kathryn and her partner, Selena Marrenger, embark on a mission to find the truth behind the disappearances. What they uncover is a hidden secret far more sinister than they could have imagined...\" [read more]\n\u200bLiterature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult\n\"The remnants of the United States of America have been divided. From five enormous, technologically-advanced cities, the Greaters rule over the Lessers.\nIn the Lesser village of Orchard, things are not as perfect as Abby Kelley thinks they are. When the apple harvest draws near and the Greater's engineered fruits become too much for one village to handle alone, reinforcements from neighboring villages are called upon...\" [read more]\n\u200bComing Of Age Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult\n\u200bAMAZON | AUDIBLE | FULL SERIES\n\"Karen Lynch delivers a well-written, fantastical tale that captivates and leaves you wanting more. The perfect balance of romantic anticipation and action will make you forget housework, cooking dinner,and bedtimes. Karen Lynch is a name to watch.\"\n-- Melissa Haag, author of Hope(less)\n\"Sara Grey's world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day, and driven by the need to understand why it happened. She lives a life full of secrets, and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara's very powerful gift...\" [read more]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Entertainment, Movie Reviews, Movies\n'Knives Out' Gives a Voice to the Voiceless\nMarch 25, 2020 Annlyel James\tLeave a comment\nWhy did Knives Out get nominated for an Oscar? It clearly wasn't a film unlike any other I've ever seen. It was a classic whodunnit movie that has twists and turns, leaving you to watch the story unfold with knit eyebrows and rapt attention just for the film to conclude with a shocking reveal that you probably won't see coming.\n(Unfortunately, the culprit of the crime was spoiled to me by a tweet I saw on Twitter.)\nDo not worry. I will not spoil the identity of the culprit. But I will spoil a specific aspect of the film that would, in fact, garner the film its Oscar nomination. And that is the poignant plot that wraps around a foreign worker who works for a wealthy white family. Ecuadorian-American woman, Marta Cabrera takes care of the head of the household, an elderly man named Harlan Thrombey, played by Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer. He dies tragically and his family hungrily await the result of his will.\nTurns out Harlan Thrombey, a wealthy man who possesses a mansion, $60 million, and a publishing company, provides his entire will to his Brazilian nurse, Marta Cabrera. It is a shocking turn that sends the family into hysterics. Marta is horrified. But in the end\u2026\nSPOILER ALERT AHEAD!\nShe inherits what he has to offer and the white well-to-do family who thinks they are the center of the universe must look on as this foreigner stands as the wealthiest among them.\nI have to admit despite not enjoying the film as much as I would've hoped to, I smiled at this conclusion. The pure hatred and disgust on these people's faces as they looked at Marta standing on the balcony overhead, these same individuals who praised her earlier in the film and said \"she was part of the family\", these were the people willing to do whatever it took to see her pay for taking what they thought rightfully belonged to them.\nIn an instant, Rian Johnson thrust in the face of the world the ugliness of those with hatred in their hearts. At one point in the movie, the family is sitting around talking, discussing the controversial topic of the Mexican immigrants coming across the border (while Marta is in the room by the way.) They speak about the little children in cages but none of them really care. They believe if the immigrants committed a crime they should be punished accordingly, even the children, some as young as toddlers. That's their mentality and the mentality of a good chunk of the country. That's why we have a certain man as our president at this very moment.\nI don't like getting political but I have to say, I loved the statement that Rian Johnson made with this film. For those foreign children on the border who are still suffering to this day due to horrible treatment by a lack of care, to that immigrant worker who's trying to make a living for their undocumented family member, this movie gave them a voice and a heroine who actually manages to triumph in the end over the very people who pretend to care.\nNow, will this film actually do anything by making people more aware of the goings-on with the immigrant conundrum or is this yet just another privileged person taking a controversial matter to garner an Oscar nod? Unfortunately, I'm leaning toward the latter. But it's still an interesting undercurrent beneath the facade of a murder-mystery movie.\nI also appreciate that Rian Johnson continues to tell stories with diverse heroines that you haven't quite seen before. Think about Kelly Marie Tran's Rose in The Last Jedi, the first major Asian female character to appear in a Star Wars movie. Or Ana de Armas's Marta Cabrera, a Latina heroine who is the driving force of his very next film. And don't forget, he gave Rey a storyline that actually mattered, providing the idea that anybody could be a powerful Force user and not be related to Palpatine, Kenobi, or the Skywalkers. Abrams retconned that notion.\nJohnson knows how to highlight women as both empowering and vulnerable. I'm definitely a bit intrigued to see what new stories he has to tell in the future.\nI thank you for reading and I hope you have a beautiful day.\nAna de ArmasChris EvansDaniel CraigJamie Lee CurtisKnives OutRian Johnson\nPrevious PostThe Stormtroopers: Part 19Next PostFan Art Wednesday","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Humvee's replacement may be a hybrid\nFeb 16th 2006 at 9:30AM\nThe current military-issue Humvee will be replaced by 2011, with contracts being awarded to suppliers sometime in 2009. At the moment the Army and Marine Corps are researching hybrid drivetrains for the Humvee replacement, with the Army conducting research on six different hybrid Humvees and the Marine's testing the RST-V (Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Targeting Vehicle) that employs electric motors in each wheel hub, just like Mitsubishi's Concept-CT unveiled at the Detroit auto show.\nHybrid technology is particularly attractive to military types because it's capable of near-silent operation when running solely on battery power, provides a source of electricity for troops out in the field, and offers better acceleration in short bursts than either its diesel- or gas-only counterparts.\nThe Hybrid Humvee, however, could be eclipsed by even more advanced hydrogen fuel-cell powerplants almost as soon as it reaches the battlefield. Since everyone says these guys and gals do more before 7AM than most people do all day, we should expect a commercially viable hydrogen fuel cell vehicle from them by next Wednesday.\n[Thanks Noel for the tip]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted on October 28, 2008 by Mark Lee\nAn Unsung Hero\nDermot Jones, in uniform 1940s.\nDermot Melbourne Herrington Jones was in his 30thyear when he jumped from the back of the Black Maria, his boots with those of his fellow officers clattering on the Kingston pavement as the police were dispatched to quell violence and disperse marchers supporting the labour unrest of 1938. It is intriguing to think that special constable Jones was the one who on May 23, pointed his Mark 7 at the crowd when Alexander Bustamante opened his jacket and pushed out his waistcoated chest and declared, Shoot me, but leave these defenceless, hungry people alone!\" but it was not Dermot.\nDermot and Busta might even have been together at Up Park Camp, where Governor Richards had imprisoned the future National Hero in 1940, to keep him from arousing more labour discontent to gain an advantage while Hitler was giving England and Empire hell on the battlefields of Europe. But I doubt it because the stories I learned from gunner Jones were of being transported in trucks between the camp, Fort Rocky in Port Royal and Fort Clarence in the southern St Catherine seaside cliffs, to constantly watch the seas for the arrival of any German boats or submarines.\nI'm not sure whether it was with the Jamaica Infantry Volunteers, Jamaica Reserve Regiment, the Jamaica Home Guard or the Jamaica Militia Artillery. He just called it the army but I've seen all those names refer to the forces that were securing Jamaica during World War II.\nIf he did have a commonality with Busta it was provoking the ire of those sent over from \"the mother country\" to be our leaders. One of Grandfather's many army tales was of being on guard in the dark at a fort. He hears footsteps approach. He knows it is one of the English officers on the prowl: \"Halt! Who goes there?!\"\nA British accent replies. \"Hands in the air and advance and be recognised!\" barks gunner Jones with his Mark 7 at the ready and the white khaki clad figure approaches, face pale, hands in the air and, in grandfather's view, ready to piss himself, but commending the gunner for his alertness. \"'Carry on Jones', said the officer. But every time he approach after that he start to whistle and hit his trousers with his cane.\" A small victory for the little man.\nLike Busta, reputed to be a good horseman to whom farmers sent their animals to be tamed, Grandfather had an early affair with horses. It started like this. Old Thomas Jones and his brother Jimmy, were posted to several police stations across the island, sometimes chasing thieves across rooftops, sometimes chasing skirts. About 1908, \"The Old Man\" arrived in St Ann and met Annie Henry, a young Indianish looking woman, whom he romanced before heading back to the estate at Picton, near Darliston, Westmoreland, in the far west of the island.\nSo on October 28th of that year, in the same parish that Marcus Garvey was born some years before and Bob Marley would be some years later, there arrived little Dermot. Somehow, he ended up at Picton with The Old Man, who used Dermot as his little slave, because while the \"lawful\" children with Miss Viv were off to school, Dermot would be helping The Old Man around the farm, drying coffee, pimiento or some other grain on the concrete barbecue behind the house, rounding up and slaughtering animals and smoking the meat in the outside kitchen and taming horses.\nIt was the horses that Dermot loved and he became a skilled jockey \u2013 the main reason he missed school. At 14, he was a short and tough little boy who The Old Man took to the various tracks around the island to race his horses. The one Dermot loved best being on a south coast beach in St Elizabeth.\n\"When I jump off in front there is no way they can catch me because I have the horse kicking sand in their eyes,\" he would brag as an older man, me absorbing the stories.\nAt some time in the 1930s the Jones children began migrating from Picton. The boys and girls first settled in Kingston. They lived in what were then the residential areas of the city, many of which are now regarded as ghetto: Admiral Pen, Jones Pen, Allman Town, Rollington Pen, with the squat, muscular Dermot and Ken acting as bodyguards against any who would dare offend their pretty light brown skinned sisters.\nSoon the girls and younger brother John John would be off to the USA and later we would receive movie star-like pictures of them in red and blue edged air mail envelopes as they stood in magical scenes outside tall buildings we only saw in magazines and films. Ken with his better schooling ended up a supervisor at Soap and Edible Products (Seprod) in Kingston before going to America after early retirement.\nAnd Dermot pressed on in Kingston, meeting a woman who gave him Clarry, a son who was his spitting image, except that he did not have his father's pretty hair which never needed combing \"just some grease or water and brush it back\". Clarry went off to England in the 50s and became a clippie on the bus and his mother would show up from time to time in straw hats during the 60s saying she was back from Freeport, Bahamas. Rumour had it she was in Bellevue.\nDermot flitted around Kingston, hopping on and off tram cars like all the saga boys of the day and worked out at a gym while learning the craft of boxing in a career that did not last long \u2013 although from his accounts there was nobody in his lightweight class who could beat him. I think it was a butt to the face from a competitor that made Dermot opt out of the ring.\nIt must have been about then that he met Hilda Scarlett from Logwood, whose father was also a roving lover boy, because he had children along the north coast from Portland to Hanover, where she was born in 1907. When they met she already had two boys, one of them my Daddy, who would wonder whether he would ever get \"muscles and veins in his arms\" like his stepfather.\nThus began the taming of a male shrew because as I have told you before, Dermot cleaned up his swaggering act and was in the police reserve, perhaps following in The Old Man's footsteps, and later in the militia after meeting Hilda.\nArmy life ended with an honourable discharge because of some raging fever that took a hold of D as Hilda had dubbed him. (He seldom called her Hilda, but Miss Jones, contracted to Mi Jones, which I suspect was the name she used when they met while she worked as an assistant in a dental office. In those days birth certificates did not have the father's name if a child was born out of wedlock and Hilda Eulalee was the \"female child of Annie Jones, of Santoy, Logwood Dist\".)\nI doubt the fever was malaria from the mosquito infested forts, as it never haunted him in life after I met him in the mid '50s when I joined the family, but D was sure it was related to his being born in October, \"a rainy month\" which condemned him to a life plagued with colds.\nD ventured into business. After the war, the colonial government offered to those who had served in the military some lands in the hills on the north east side of Kingston. Hilda took one look at the bush and rocks and told D to take cash instead. (The lands became the luxury residential area of Beverley Hills.) He invested the cash in a furniture store in Blount Street, west Kingston, somewhere in the area of the Kingston Public Hospital. Mi Jones gave up her job to become a housewife like her friend Kitten, the wife of a rising police officer who would become head of the force.\nThe furniture shop foundered and closed. Mi Jones never returned to work and D, who she had brought to church via her sabbath keeping faith, became a contractor and painter. His business card: For a good and competent painter, see Bro D.M. Jones. Tel: His core team members were Steby (Stephenson, who lived \"awn de west\") and Willie (Mr Williams who lived in a neat little concrete bungalow in McGregor Gully, east Kingston).\nWe were regaled with endless stories about Steby, Willie and the boys on the painting job at places like Light and Power, which was being built or refurbished at Foreshore Road, which I believe is now Marcus Garvey Drive, and violent confrontations on the Sandy Gully construction project.\nIt was mainly from politics that the drama on the sites unfolded because no public jobs were had without the involvement of party bosses. And astute Grandfather was a card carrying member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP), attending their branch (JLP) and group (PNP) meetings in our community of Vineyard Town. It was how you got a piece of the painting action on the National Arena in 1966, or to supervise a few chains of the rowdy broom and machete crew of Christmas road workers.\nSince by the time I hit the fifth grade at primary school I was a more fluent reader and legible writer than Grandfather ever was, I got exposed to business early, drafting his dictated estimates for material and labour to be presented for private jobs, a task that was previously the domain of Mi Jones, my Grandmamaa. If I could read and write better than him, he declared he couldn't be beaten with \"ciphering\" and he spit out the sum of the estimate in pounds, shillings and pence in no time flat.\nMost of his crew were old soldiers I believe because, he and Willie, an older man than Grandfather, used to attend Jamaica Legion ex-soldiers' meetings together on Sundays at Curphey Place, Up Park Camp.\nHe never took his customers or his trade for granted. When water-based distemper paints were introduced, they dried leaving a powdery surface that easily dusted or washed off. He decided to boil glue and add it to the paint, a method which apparently worked. He took his idea to Caribbean Spray and Paint with a bit of wood covered in his distemper glue mix, rubbed it to show clean fingers and they told him they'd get back to him. They never did but water paints did lose their dusty characteristic.\nWhen he joined the army he said, the recruits were told they were there \"for rations and discipline\". In later life the discipline must have been in the way he saved with the burial societies on Wildman Street in the city and at church, with the government savings bond programme, hoping desperately that his number would be called one Saturday night for a 10,000 pounds prize, and buying shares in the Matalon's ICD Group of Companies and Kingston Industrial Works. Once a year they sent him a few shillings (later dollars) and an annual report or certificates for split shares and an annual report. I wonder what happened to his shares?\nWhen Grandfather's sight left him in the 1990s while I lived in the Eastern Caribbean, and Grandmamaa's memory began to fade, he was admitted to a Jamaican Legion home in the cool central Jamaica town of Mandeville. It was here that, unknown to me, Grandfather died. Later when I got the news that he had already been buried in an unmarked grave in Kingston's May Pen Cemetery, a little bit of me died.\nI doubt any of his then surviving siblings or his nieces or nephews of either his father's or mother's side had got the news, scattered as they had been for years in North America and England. I, his grandson, did not. The good thing though, is that in Jamaica's Heroes' Month, more than a dozen years later he is remembered not just as the \"good and competent painter\" or the old soldier, who it is said never dies anyway, but as one of the unsung heroes who tried to build the dreams of the Bustas and the Garveys.\nDo you have a story of an unsung hero you'd like to share. Please submit it to editorial@abengnews.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Orchard Street\nLudlow Street\nRivington Street\nClinton Street\nGrand Street\nAllen Street\nEssex Street\nBroome Street\nStanton Street\nHester Street\nChrystie Street\nNorfolk Street\nSuffolk Street\nHere's the Current Progress at Essex Crossing's First Park\nPosted on: September 28th, 2018 at 5:04 am\tby Elie\nWith Site 5 of Essex Crossing almost fully operational \u2013 residents now live at The Rollins and Target is open for business \u2013 the park at its backside is finally coming into view. Progress here has been a slog for the last year (our last follow-up) but it's starting to look legit.\nBehind the chain-link fence lining Broome Street is a 15,000 square-foot plaza of pavers, topped with tables, seating, trees, and light poles. Park debut shouldn't be too far off, as updates from the developer indicate the last punch list item being completion of pavers (85% done).\nDesign for this community amenity is four years in the making, first approved way back in November 2014. West 8 is the landscape architect of record for the park, which sits at the north end of the parcel, and measures approximately one-third of an acre. It abuts a potential future school and the 15-story mixed-use residential Rollins tower.\nTechnically, though, this new green space is what the city calls a privately owned public space (POPS). So it's at the mercy of ownership and not governed by the city's Parks Department.\nEssex Crossing Site 5 The Rollins West 8 New York\nFull GovBall Lineup Announced for Summer 2020\nThis year marks the 10th anniversary of The Governors Ball Music Festival on Randall's Island, and Founders Entertainment has tapped some big names to kick off the celebration. Headliners for this year's festival are GovBall veterans Tame Impala, alongside New York indie darlings Vampire Weekend. New additions to the top slots include venerable Fleetwood Mac [\u2026]\nInternational Center of Photography Launches at Essex Crossing Next Week\nFor the International Center of Photography, four years of transition come to an end next week, as the institution plans its inauguration at Essex Crossing. The 40,000 square-foot museum and school, reunited for the first time since the midtown move, will debut on January 25 with a free \"Opening Community Day.\" Visitors on day one [\u2026]\nMichelin-Star Chef Bringing Omakase to Former Black Tap on Ludlow Street\nFrom shakes to sushi. After the epic bomb that was Black Tap, 177 Ludlow Street is now taking a more upscale tack. Omakase, which is Japanese dining for the ultra-luxe set. Real Estate Weekly has the scoop, reporting that a new mystery tenant, who currently owns and operates eight restaurants in New York and Tokyo, [\u2026]\n'Karvouna' Evicted from the Bowery After Less than a Year\nRestaurants can't seem to make it work at 241 Bowery. The latest entrant, Karvouna Mezze, just joined the growing list of failures at this address. The City Marshal paid a visit to the restaurant and shut it down. All told, Karvouna lasted barely one year. Partners Dimitris Vlahakis, Wei Chen, and Chef Giuseppe Scalco (Merakia [\u2026]\nBeastie Boys and Spike Jonze Announce New Documentary for Apple+\nApple yesterday announced that a new Beastie Boys documentary is coming to its Apple+ platform this spring. Right alongside the 26th anniversary of Ill Communication. Beastie Boys Story is just that \u2013 the history of the band as told by surviving members Mike D. and Adam \"Ad Rock\" Horovitz. It's based on the bestselling Beastie Boys [\u2026]\nOn Ludlow Street, 'Burger People' Picks up Where Mikey's Left Off\nFor those who missed Mikey's Burger on Ludlow Street, the original owner is back with more of the same. Burger People opened shop at 134 Ludlow earlier this week. The room itself has been lightly updated with a new luncheonette feel. The menu has everything you would expect \u2013 burgers, franks, fries, and milkshakes. Owner [\u2026]\nThis Sixty-Foot Horse Mural Painted on Broome Street Facade\nWhere a giant veiny penis mural once held court, a Broome Street building facade now boasts some new art. Swedish street artist Shai Dahan painted a sixty-foot horse on the side of 303 Broome Street. It's a reimagining of the traditional Dala Horse (aka Dalecarlian Horse), which is often used as a national symbol of [\u2026]\nSoHo Suffers Identity Crisis as City Planners Push for Rebranding over Rezoning\nThe Scholastic Building's auditorium in SoHo was packed to capacity with local residents, stakeholders, press, and members of city agencies last week for another public forum on the long-awaited Envision SoHo\/NoHo Report Summary. The report, released to the public online just before the Thanksgiving holiday, outlines three guiding principles for any potential rezoning in the [\u2026]\n'Fancy Pharmacy' is Moving from Essex Street After Decades on the Block\nA Lower East Side retail anchor is unmoored from its longtime location at the northwest corner of Essex and Rivington Streets. Fancy Pharmacy (and its unique store signage) is not long for this spot. A sandwich board outside the store indicates that the drugstore is relocating, though not too far away. Its new location is [\u2026]\n'Winky Lux' Makeup Flagship Relocates North to Hell Square\nThe Louis Vuitton stunt in Hell Square is history. Now, the corner store at Ludlow and Rivington Streets is continuing the trend of fashion at this address. From shoes to makeup. Indeed, Winky Lux retail operations are jumping north from its current offices down by Grand Street. The new shop opened at 100 Rivington a [\u2026]\nLatest Stories In: Real Estate\nDestruction of the LES Ecology Center's Compost Yard is Folly [OP-ED]\nBowery Boogie is the leading website covering the news and lifestyle of the Lower East Side neighborhood and its residents. It is known for keen wit and hard-hitting news coverage. Founded in 2008, Bowery Boogie is headquartered in New York City.\n\u00a9 2008-2020 Bowery Boogie\nMore Boogie\nThe Boogie:\nGet A Free Sticker\nPopular Subjects:\nEssex Crossing\nSign up to get the latest stories sent to your email inbox each day.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Faculty Spotlight: James McConnell\nFebruary 27, 2019 | dheinen\nDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures' own James McConnell has added another accolade to his list of accomplishments as an educator at NC State. McConnell has been with the department since 2005 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2013. Prior to joining the Wolfpack, McConnell attended the University of Arizona for undergraduate and graduate school. There he earned his Master's degree in Hispanic Literature and taught for five years.\nAside from the many courses he leads everyday on campus and online, McConnell runs a summer study abroad program in Segovia, Spain and launched a program called VOLAR (VOLuntarios Ahora en Raleigh) alongside Dr. Shelley Garrigan in 2012 which won a seed grant of $10,000. They then selected Debbie Kane as the director of the program it has become an environment for Spanish speaking students to grow and interact with the larger Spanish speaking community in Raleigh and beyond.\nWhat follows is an interview we did with James via email in which he talks about his Faculty Fellow award, his passion for the Spanish language and his appreciation for the vast opportunities presented at NC State.\nWhat did it mean to you to be named a 2018-2019 Faculty Fellow?\nI was overjoyed to be named a Faculty Fellow. Any type of recognition at a university is welcome and it's appreciated even more when it's from a department\/entity that you know well and truly respect.\nAre there any specific moments in your career that you attribute to this success?\nIn 2011 I was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year for Higher Education through the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. This gave me a lot of confidence that I didn't have before. However, there are several experiences I've had during my time at NC State that made me feel I had value that would make me a viable candidate to be a Faculty Fellow. Presenting on different technologies at state and national conferences helped me focus more and work harder to fine tune certain skills and the overall opportunities presented to me through my department have helped me develop skills in a variety of areas that have contributed to making me a better instructor.\nWhat would you consider to be a highlight in your career?\nThis is it! Well, it is one of them. There isn't one specific highlight and that is actually good because it keeps me striving to do more. Being awarded a $10,000 seed grant, receiving awards for our VOLAR program, being named Outstanding Teacher of the Year, and acknowledgment for the summer study abroad program I run have all been spaced out pretty well during my time here, so each time I get those positive affirmations it rejuvenates me and makes me realize I'm in the right place.\nHow has your experience as a senior lecturer in the Department of FLL been at NC State?\nFantastic. Our department is very collegial and we're led by someone who has good vision and is willing to offer opportunities to productive individuals. If I worked at a different university, I wouldn't have had half the opportunities afforded to me here.\nWhat drew you to a career in teaching?\nI have an older sister and a younger brother. My sister taught me a lot growing up and I taught a lot to my brother. It's something I've always enjoyed: the sharing of information with others. My first semester of graduate school I was given two classes of my own to teach and the first day was a bit terrifying. After a few days, I realized I enjoyed it immensely and wanted to keep doing it.\nDid you always know you wanted to teach?\nIn some form or another, yes. Friends and family had mentioned it to me while growing up and I had already done so in other facets; I taught gymnastics, did outreach programs for marine biology, and was a scuba instructor before moving into academia.\nDo you have any passions that have impacted you personally or in your career?\nReading. I was a voracious reader in elementary school and that continued into college, pushing me to do a Master's Degree in Hispanic Literature. It opens you to so many new worlds. There's a great J.K. Rowling quote: \"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.\" Go find your book.\nWhat advice do you have for current NC State students studying foreign languages and literatures?\nTake it seriously, like you should any class. Try to do more than what you think is your best work; you can really surprise yourself. I see former students very frequently who tell me, \"I loved your class but I forgot all my Spanish.\" No, you didn't, you're just not using it. \"Use it or lose it\" is true. Finding a way to incorporate the language into your daily routine will help you maintain those abilities.\nHow has being proficient in a foreign language opened doors for you in your life?\nIt's honestly given me hundreds of thousands of dollars and helped me to travel all over the world. No lie. Knowing a foreign language has provided me with multiple jobs and afforded me the ability to travel to Fiji, Egypt, The Solomon Islands, all of the Caribbean, The Galapagos Islands and more, all paid for by someone else.\nHave you ever learned anything from your students?\nThankfully, I learn something from my students on a daily basis. They're the reason I was named a Faculty Fellow.\nFaculty, Hispanic Linguistics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Latino and Asian Topics, Spanish, Spanish Certificate\n3 responses on \"Faculty Spotlight: James McConnell\"\nDiane Beckman says:\nCongratulations, James. You are an inspiration to all and a wonderful colleague! May many such recognitions follow!\nScott Despain says:\nJames, well done and well deserved!\nLouise Salstad says:\nFelicitaciones, James, y adelante!\nLeave a Reply to Diane Beckman Cancel reply","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lincoln, England, Great Britain\n2376 Hotel Reviews\nExterior of Hotel and Grounds\nGuest Room with Tub\nGuest Room with Balcony\nSuperior Suite with 4 Poster Double Size Bed\nLincoln Hotel, Sure Hotel Collection by Best Western Grounds\nLobby Seating Area\nLincoln, England LN2 1PN\nThe Lincoln Hotel, Sure Hotel Collection by Best Western blends a contemporary outlook with the medieval tradition of the city of Lincoln, best highlighted by the beautiful cathedral that towers over the hotel. As a result guests are treated to stunning views of the grounds or the cathedral from most of the guest rooms.\nThe hotel offers 71 en suite rooms, each furnished with air conditioning, flat-screen television and a comfortable sitting area.\nMeanwhile the hotel restaurant has become a local favorite, presenting a delicious menu in a relaxed setting. Bar 67, with its wooden beamed cellar appearance is a fun place to enjoy a drink.\nThe hotel also has an excellent business infrastructure with two meeting rooms available on the ground floor, which can each accommodate up to 50 people includes complimentary wireless internet and audio-visual equipment to help cater to the needs of corporate groups. Private dining can also be arranged for smaller groups.\nStayed here using Travelzoo voucher. Arrived in Lincoln by train and, although a bit uphill because the hotel is near the cathedral, it was a short 20 minute walk and easy to find. Warm welcome by...\nBy 561nigelw\nGloucestershire, United Kingdom on 12-Jan-2020\nMy wife and I were given a gift of Afternoon Tea at this hotel and booked it for the beginning of January. We have stayed at the Lincoln in the past so knowing the quality of the food etc were...\nBy Howard H\nKingston-upon-Hull, United Kingdom on 10-Jan-2020\nWe visited for two nights over new year. Our room was comfortable, but the bathroom needs an upgrade (room 127). The new year meal and entertainment was really good. The hotel is situated right...\nBy SueK739\nHinckley, United Kingdom on 08-Jan-2020\nBooked family members here for the Christmas period. Good location for visiting historic centre. Staff were friendly and doing their best, but the lauded refurb hasn't reached all the hotel yet...\nBy Chalmers30\nLeicestershire, United Kingdom on 05-Jan-2020\nThis 60's built hotel is in dire need of some restoration, the rooms are outdated, not very clean and in desperate need of some tlc. ( some rooms I understand have been refurbished). For reasons...\nBy Peter T\nBiggleswade, United Kingdom on 02-Jan-2020\n100 % smoke-free hotel\nBreakfast available for a nominal fee\nExercise facility open from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. with cardiovascular exercise\nUniversal gym\nStair stepper\nLate check out, available for a nominal fee of 40.00 GBP\nFree wireless Internet available in public areas; free in-room wireless Internet access; free wireless Internet access available in public areas and all guest rooms\nParking for the physically challenged 2 spaces\nFree parking 54 spaces, 24 hours\nCable\/satellite television, stations delivered by Freeview, color, flat-screen, remote control\nIron, ironing board available, upon request\nMini-bar available\nBathrobe available, upon request\nAir-conditioning available self-controlled\nIn-room safe available\nBalcony available\nRooms for the Physically Challenged: 2\nPhysically challenged rooms\/facilities available\nRails in bathroom available\nWheelchair accessible available\nRaised toilet with grab bars available\nWalk-in shower available\nExtra wide doors in bathrooms available\n0.1 mile(s) from Lincoln Cathedral, One of Europe's finest gothic buildings, once the tallest I the world, with stunning views from the roof and tower and intricate design inside. There is something for everyone to see at Lincoln Cathedral\n0.1 mile(s) from Lincoln Castle, Discover a world of rich history at Lincoln Castle, dating back to 1068 and home to one of only four surviving copies of Magna Carta\n0.1 mile(s) from Cathedral Quarter Shopping, Lincoln's independent shops and boutiques in the Cathedral Quarter offer a unique shopping experience. In close walking distance to all the cities main attractions, it is the perfect place to spend your day shopping\n1.7 mile(s) from The New Theatre Royal, The 19th century theatre royal is Lincoln city landmark and is situated on Clasketgate a short walk from the city centre high street\n1.7 mile(s) from The Engine Shed, The regions largest live music and entertainment facility, housed in a renovated engine shed and serving Lincoln with live international band performances, comedy gigs and weekly student club nights and events\n2.0 mile(s) from St Marks Shopping Centre, In an open air shopping centre at the south end of Lincoln's high street, offering a fantastic range of fashion and homeware, gifts and toys\n2.3 mile(s) from International Bomber Command Centre, A memorial spire, walls, and centre that mark the sacrifice of world war II aircrew that lost their lives whilst serving with Bomber Command on the top of Canwick Hill in Lincoln\n2.0 mile(s) from The Collection, Award-winning archaeology museum located in the heart of historic Lincoln, with interactive exhibitions, events and talks and guided tours\nCathedral Suite, on premises, full service, International, open for: breakfast, breakfast times are 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.\nLounge Bar, on premises, bar\/lounge, International, open for: lunch\nThe Green Room, on premises, full service, International, open for: dinner, dinner service times are 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.\n40 mile(s) from Nottingham\n46 mile(s) from Kingston upon Hull\n56 mile(s) from Sheffield\n2.5 mile(s) from Lincoln City Football\n4.0 mile(s) from Lincolnshire Showground, The Lincolnshire showground is a major national venue, located on the 200 acre showground just outside the historic city of Lincoln in the East Midlands.\n0.1 mile(s) from Cathedral Quarter, Cathedral Quarter Shopping - Lincoln's independent shops and boutiques in the Cathedral Quarter offer a unique shopping experience. In close walking distance to all the cities main attractions, it is the perfect place to spend your day shopping\n30 mile(s) from Humberside International Airport\n50 mile(s) from East Midlands International Airport\n35 mile(s) from Robin Hood Airport\n0.2 mile(s) from Bus numbers 7, 8 and 12\n1.3 mile(s) from Lincoln Central Railway Station train taxi charge 6.00 GBP\n0.1 mile(s) from Lincoln","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posts Tagged 'Tony Sarno'\nI Ain't Superstitious \u2014 Tony Sarno\nPosted: November 28th, 2015 in Art, friends, good cheer, heroes, music, The Blues\nTags: Art, blues, I Ain't Superstitious, music, Tony Sarno\nYou\u2026 are in for a treat! Tony is awesome\u2026 a true star of blues guitar and a Master of the Telecaster. I am proud to say that a childhood friend, Tony is.\nHe's real good.\nTony Sarno \"I Ain't Superstitious\" (Official Audio)\nIcehouse Record Published on Jun 7, 2014\nCopyright: 1995 Icehouse Records. Tony Sarno (and the Screamin Blue Demons). From the album \"It's a Blues Thing\" available on iTunes here:http:\/\/georiot.co\/2eYW \u2013 also available at Amazon MP3, Google Play and other digital sites.\nwww.icehouserecords.com\nwww.tonysarno.com\n\"It's a Blues Thing\" is Tony's debut album, recorded in seven days in May 1995 in Memphis, TN. Featuring the rock-solid rhythm section of Keith Christopher on bass and Gregg Morrow on drums with Paul Provost and Greg Reding on Hammond B3. Produced by Mark Maynard and Tony Sarno and engineered and mixed by Rusty McFarland. Hard-Rocking Blues and molten guitar directly from the home of the Blues.\nTony Sarno is an American singer and guitarist who has recorded numerous critically-acclaimed Rock and Blues albums. Tony has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Argentina, and Mexico with his band or as guitarist with David Clayton Thomas' Blood Sweat and Tears, Dee Archer and Peter Tork. He has dozens of published songs and pieces written for TV and other broadcasts. Tony produced international releases Thunderhawks, Tony Sarno, Silent night, and co-produced Dee Archer's Sooner or later and Tony Sarno & the screamin' blue demons \"It's a blues thing\". He produces background music for CBS Sports and music for Big Fish Audio. He has shared numerous concert bills with B.B. King, as well as bills with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hall & Oates, Johnny Winter, and Little Feat. Tony has recorded for CBS\/Holland, Icehouse\/Priority, Marconi, and Bandwidth Records. His music appeared in the Craig Brewer film Poor & Hungry, and on the Masters of Blues CD compilation with Albert King, Buddy Guy, and the Allman Brothers Band.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[Section] City in Scenes\n[Section] Real Estate Developments\n[Section] Master Plan + Beirut Lighting Architecture\n[Addendum] City in Portraits\nCharacters make entrances and exits from the stage of reality just as cities trace the contours of civilizations through time.\nThe currents of trade, conquest, and knowledge have, for millennia, propelled the history of the Mediterranean Basin. The people, architecture, and urban landscapes of its eastern port Beirut refract, like a prism, the stories that have accrued on this land throughout the centuries.\nMeditative and introspective, the Solidere Annual Report 2011 observes how people inhabit the spaces of Beirut city center. Just as the photography and text shed light on the trajectory of the built environment \u2013 its reconstruction, development, and future, so too does the Annual Report contemplate character and how individuals constitute architecture and place.\nSeasoned photojournalist Ziyah Gafic captures the latent dialogue between people and architecture. His camera turns quietly around the corner to eavesdrop on soft chatter in a garden. He peers up an outdoor staircase to follow the clacking of heels. He tracks the rhythms of children gallivanting by the sea, professionals pacing to a business lunch, and employees performing the routines of the workday. Beirut city center, in Gafic's images, is a circumstance of scenes \u2013 about camaraderie, negotiation, patience, jubilation, memory, and uncertainty. The scenes evince a paradoxical relationship to the built environment, a link as delicate and tenuous as it is deeply rooted in a complex history.\nWhereas Gafic focuses on exterior and open spaces, Miguel \u00c1ngel Sanch\u00e9z communes with subjects through his renowned portraiture in the intimacy of a studio. Dozens of people who work and live in Beirut city center, people from various walks of life, sat before the camera of the Spanish sculpture cum photographer in spring 2012. His portraits are painterly and highly theatrical. In each image, an individual becomes a character \u2013 of Beirut, the Middle East, the Mediterranean Sea, and altogether the series conveys a constellation of identities, the refractions of a city.\nSunlight to back light, sidewalk to stool, architectural patterns to textures of skin, the geometry of urban infrastructure to the shapes of a facial expression: the Solidere Annual Report 2011 considers how the tides of history, of urban development, and of daily life find expression in the interrelationships between people and Beirut city center.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"To High School Coaches\nA letter to high school coaches:\nAs this sport grows, we find ourselves somehow saying yes to things far outside of our comfort zone because we love our kids, or maybe because we still love and cherish a sport we knew when we grew up. There are career high school coaches, who live and breathe the sport and their teams and there are parents who jumped in because no one else would. We have just graduated from college kids turned coaches, teachers turned coaches, dads, moms, and everything in between serving our lacrosse community in our high schools now.\nIf you are one of these servants to the sport, and truly that is what you are because those county stipends rarely cover the gas to get to practice and treats we buy for them, then you aren't going to be surprised to hear that it's open season on coaches these days. Sometimes these parent forced coaching staff turnovers are for the good of the kids, but what I'm seeing is good, caring coaches who can't please everyone being turned out and replaced for sticking to values and consistently enforcing work ethic, timely attendance and accountability. Because of the lack of knowledgeable lacrosse coaches, when a coach is turned out or leaves a program because they are miserable, there isn't anything behind them to bring in and the cycle of parent discontent continues.\nWhen you truly love and care about your players, the sting of that one parent or player that want to control when everyone plays, not allow you to make corrections \u2013 no matter how gently you correct, is more intense and steals your focus more than the 10 or so other parents and players who sing your praises or the parents who remain silent and indifferent.\nSometimes we are going to ask ourselves why we are here, why we take the attacks, why we try to keep peace when clearly pleasing everyone is not possible. Sometimes as the season comes to a close we are going to look at our own families and we are going to wonder why we are trading time with our own kids and spouse to spend with a team that sometimes puts every word and action under a microscope despite the hard work and love we pour out on these kids daily. There's going to be times more often than not when the players translation to their parents or peers of what you carefully said will baffle you beyond understanding, when that kid that you put extra time and effort into helping out that season will somehow think you don't like them one day because they didn't start or some other reason, and the wrath of their angry parents will find you in an email or phone call and you will throw down your whistle and clipboard in frustration and think about walking away.\nMy message to coaches is this: Don't stop, the amount of lives that you are changing with your service, your genuine love of your players is making a difference and the lacrosse community needs you. Take your summer off, say no to those off season clinics if you need to recuperate from a difficult season but don't leave. Make an action plan with your athletic director for difficult situations that may arise next season, surround yourself with support coaching staff and the parents that believe in what you are doing. Be upfront about your coaching philosophy and don't stray from it for anyone. There will be seasons that are easier and some that are more difficult than others, so if this last season was a rough one \u2013 remember they are called seasons for a reason, they will pass and another one will come along.\nThose players who come back years later and say that you changed their life, that you gave them confidence, support when they desperately needed it, those are the kids we are out there for. There will never be a season of perfection. We are going to mess up, and even if we don't I can promise someone will find fault with you anyway for something. Remember why we are here, look at the frightening news in the world and drive on, push forward and keep making a positive impact that is so desperately needed with our kids.\nFrom one coach to another, thank you for being a part of something so much bigger than ourselves, so important, so hard, and yet so rewarding.\n\"We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.\" Jon Gordon","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ISAO\nArtist in Barcelona\nISAO ARTIGAS ISHIKAWA\nGetting acquainted with the artist ISAO was a memorable moment in our ongoing adventures in Barcelona. We were introduced to him in 2000 by the Catalan film producer Eva Bar\u00f3 who is married to ISAO and who collaborated with Jet Christiaanse on the magnum opus of director Peter Greenaway 'the Tulse Luper Suitcases'.\nISAO is the prime example of a world citizen predestined to be an artist. He was born in Barcelona, son of a Japanese mother and a Catalan father, both of them artists. He grew up and studied in Paris. In Japan he familiarized himself with the art of calligraphy and at the moment he has his studio at the 'Tallers Llorens Artigas' near the mountain village of Gallifa. This is a rural artist centre with studios built in honour of his grandfather Llorens Artigas, the ceramist who worked very closely with Joan Mir\u00f3 on many of his ceramic projects.\nISAO's parents live on the premises in the country house that formerly belonged to Mir\u00f3. The world in which ISAO grew up and the settting of the multi-national arts centre are the perfect environment for an artist. Being the third generation of artists ISAO breathed art from the day he was born.\nISAO's work captured us by its pure simplicity which showed a very close relationship to the part of the universe we relate to: nature and the childlike world. The same purity also returns in ISAO's erotic work that is inspired by the art of Japanese prints.\nISAO forms part of our daily life. In the studio in Rotterdam as well as in the workspace in Gracia you can encounter ants, a butterfly, apes, birds, a panther and dragonflies, painted, drawn or sculpted by him.\nHe is also present in the 'Estanteria II', bookcase 2 in Gracia (see chapter interiors). I reserved two voids and invited two contrasting artists to make a work of art. ISAO saw the space as a birdcage. Four birds, each for every season, alternately occupy the cage. His idea was to change birds personally when a new season dawned.\nDuring designing the new primary school 'Bernardschool' in the Dutch town Zoetermeer we realised that ISAO would be the perfect artist to contribute to our design. After a thorough selection procedure the municipal art commission made us happy: they chose ISAO to create the artwork for the school. His proposal to make a cloud of butterflies as a reference to the radical transformation that children experience when they grow up and eventually leave their safe environment, inspired the school board so much that at the opening of the school its name was changed into 'de Jacobsvlinder', Dutch for 'Cinnabar moth' school. Isao painted butterflies with gold on black tiles and baked them in the ovens of Gallifa and as the culmination he personally installed on the roof a swaying flock of gold colored butterflies, made in Gallifa.\nCategory abroad, affinities, art","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Andrew Rothstein\nRPD\u2014Memories and Reflections\nSource: Labour Monthly, Vol. 57, No. 2, March 1953.\nPublisher: Unity Publishers (Finchley), Ltd.\nTranscription\/Markup: Brian Reid\nPublic Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit \"Marxists Internet Archive\" as your source.\n'A PERSON who was on my staircase last term is R. P. Dutt. He was a scholar, and last summer got shoved into jail as a CO, but was afterwards released and still comes up to college occasionally' (February 2, 1917). . . . 'Talked with Dutt. He was a socialist objector, not a pacifist[1]' (April 4, 1917). . . . 'On Saturday evening I was at a meeting of the Socialist Society . . . . R. P. Dutt, the Balliol scholar who was in prison last year as a CO and is their leading light now, made a speech saying that we were approaching the servile state, and ought to go back to the good old revolutionary Marxian, Jacobin uncompromising struggle for liberty' (May 29, 1917).\nThese extracts from letters home recording first impressions on a boy of 18, freshly arrived at Balliol with a scholarship but brought up in a 'hard-shell' Social-Democratic Federation family, were unforgettable, just because Dutt was so different from the other undergraduates (even those who accepted socialism), in the harsh circumstances of the middle of the first world war. I was called up six weeks later, and so heard nothing of his speech at a private meeting of students in October, denouncing the war on Marxist lines and supporting the Bolsheviks in the final stage of their struggle with the Kerensky government then still ruling Russia. It was one of the first things I learned on coming back in January 1919, together with the fact that because a group of super-'patriotic' hearties had attacked and broken up the meeting it was not they who, had been sent down from Oxford, but Dutt.\nIt was but the first of many such occasions on which there stand out in my memory Raji's inflexible determination to make the sharp revolutionary Marxist analysis of class issues involved, and not prevailing emotions, decide his position, whatever be the consequences. So it was on the outbreak of the second world war, so it was at the time of the Chinese attack on India.\nFor him the class struggle was to be judged always in its worldwide setting, nothing narrower: and this setting from 1917 onwards was that of the parallel existence of and conflict between the world of capitalism and that of the beginning world of socialism, exemplified in the state established by the victorious workers of Russia. Difficulties, errors, excesses in the Soviet Union-all those 'birthmarks' inherited from ugly capitalist society of which Marx wrote in the Critique of the Gotha Programme a hundred years ago\u2014were for Raji always to be set against the gigantic historic fact of the proletariat leading the people of one great country in the building of the socialist order without exploitation and against the exploiters, foreign as well as native. Alike in the first articles he wrote in the Communist, the weekly organ of the Communist Party after August 1920, and in his famous 'Notes of the Month' in this journal over the next half-century, this conclusion from Marx's historical materialism\u2014that support of the world's first socialist state against all its enemies, by whatever name they call themselves, is the unquestionable duty of all claiming the title of socialist, let alone that of Marxist-Leninist\u2014was Raji's unswerving principle. The echo of his stand of October 1917, rings out again in his 'Notes' of December 1974, the month of his death:\nThe unique character of the first socialist revolution as an achievement without previous parallel in human history, eclipsing all the previous greatest, but relatively short-lived revolutions, has become increasingly manifest. 57 years after the victorious socialist revolution in 1917 which founded the Soviet Republic as the first socialist state in history, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics carries forward its continuous existence and maintains its essential basis of socialist working class power won by the victory of November 1917, developing this to further manifold forms of extended participation of all sections of the working people in all the affairs of state.\nHe added his tribute to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for continuing 'to fulfil the role of leadership' which had brought the working class and its allies to triumph in 1917, and which today, in the midst of current problems, goes on preparing the conditions for transition 'from the present stage of an advanced socialist society towards the future objective of communism.' Raji after the end of the first world war had drawn the inspiration from this example\u2014however different the historical circumstances of Russia and Britain\u2014which carried him forward from the Independent Labour Party in the war years to the Communist Party of which he became a foundation member in 1920. Communists of an older generation cannot but remember with gratitude his most detailed and conscientious work, together with Harry Pollitt and Harry Inkpin, on the Party Commission of 1922, which brought about the fundamental reorganisation of the Communist Party and enabled it to emerge unshaken through a host of subsequent trials and troubles. Moreover, Dutt was the first British journalist to have transformed the traditional socialist periodical familiar since the 1880s, a budget of articles, into a journal built up primarily out of workers' letters and news reports of their struggles in various fields, supplemented by comments on national and international affairs\u2014the Workers' Weekly of 1924 onwards, the model carried on by the Morning Star today.\nIn March 1920, came his first book, The Two Internationals, written in his capacity as secretary of the International Section of the Labour Research Department. It was the first to reprint in its entirety in Britain the historic manifesto of the initial Congress of the Communist International in 1919, which, irrespective of the different trends existing then as they do today, for the first time acquainted the advanced workers and socialists of all countries with the fundamental picture of the crimes and crisis of imperialism, as it stood at the end of the first world war. The analysis devoted special attention to the nature of colonial slavery, and to the opportunities for its overthrow created by the establishment of the rule of the working class in Russia. The struggle against imperialism became one of the major guiding lines of Dutt's thought. From the beginnings of the Labour Monthly in 1921 and up to the very last issue which he edited, the exposure of the horrors of imperialism and its modern forms of neo-colonialism, the vital necessity for the socialist movement of the more developed countries to join in the fight against them, side by side with the incomparable aid which the USSR and other socialist countries were giving to the various revolutionary struggles of the still oppressed peoples, were a dominant theme. And there were no serious revolutionaries from these countries, whether bourgeois, socialist or communist, who did not seek the opportunity of consulting Dutt about their problems, when they had the chance. His travel notes on a visit to India, printed in Labour Monthly in 1946, give only a hint of this. But his books, notably India Today (1940), Britain's Crisis of Empire.(1949) and Problems of Contemporary History (1963) bear witness to the predominance of the anti-imperialist struggle in his theoretical as well as his practical work.\nThe first of his books had been a painstaking if brief attempt to explain the background of the attitudes on war adopted by the Second International before 1914, what happened to it during the first world war, the emergence of the Communist International and the positions taken up by the various socialist parties in the immediate post-war years. In the bibliography Dutt wrote: 'There is no standard work on the Socialist International as a whole.' Some attempts were made in after years to fill this gap, but with only partial success. Raji himself met the need, over 40 years later, in his book The International (1964): and it was no accident that he was called upon to make an important contribution to the Outline History of the Communist International produced by the institute of Marxism-Leninism of the USSR (English edition 1971). However, one can safely say that over these fifty years no journal in the English language anywhere has provided such a sustained series of individual studies of working class history in many countries, past and present, as has Labour Monthly under his editorship. This has held true from the very first issue, in which Dutt wrote in the first editorial: 'The situation of labour in any country has become a part of a general international situation, and it is only comprehensible in relation to it.'\nThe month was July 1921: burning questions for British labour at home were Black Friday\u2014the defeat from within of the Triple Alliance of miners, railwaymen and transport workers, pledged to stand up against the attack of the coalowners and the Lloyd George government\u2014and the consequent capitalist offensive against the whole trade union movement. The problems created by these events were to dominate the British working class movement for many a year, and they were the basic reason why that movement, instead of going on from the heights it reached in the immediate post-war years, 1919 and 1920, was driven back to engage in a far-reaching effort of self-study and self-criticism. That effort, in altered forms and with a vastly wider wealth of experience (especially of a series of Labour governments between 1924 and 1974), is still going on. To this study Raji also made his memorable contribution, from his Socialism and the Living Wage of 1927 (when capitalism and Toryism were making the most of the betrayal of the general strike in 1926), his Fascism and Social Revolution of 1934 (at a time when the most militant section of the British capitalist class was 'pushing' fascism upon the British people for all it was worth) and to the books already mentioned. But above all the 'Notes of the Month', these 53 years, have provided an unequalled encyclopaedia of British working class history, viewed and with lessons drawn from the standpoint of Marxism-Leninism. Nor was it only politics and economics in the strictest sense that constantly aroused Raji's interest and his suggestions for articles. On many other sides of human activity\u2014social, literary and artistic, as the pages of the journal will reveal to the inquirer\u2014the opinions of sympathetic specialists were asked, and not asked in vain.\nIndeed from very early on Dutt conducted Labour Monthly in a spirit of unity of all who were prepared to take a stand on socialist and internationalist principle, whatever the party card they carried. Again and again members of the General Council of the TUC and other trade union leading bodies, leaders of the Labour Party and other parties, found a common ground with Communists in such causes within the pages of the journal. Examples of this were the discussions on a new policy for the unions (1924) and on international trade union unity (1924-25), the Labour Monthly conferences for a common front of all sections of the working class against the growing war danger (1932, 1935 and 1937), the initiation of the People's Convention (1941), the discussions on 'The Arts Today' (1967-68), on the trade unions and government (1969), on the Common Market (1971) and others. These symposia, conferences and other forms of friendly debate on questions of moment for British labour made their mark on working class thinking, as the agendas of numerous conferences of the broader movement could testify. And throughout, Raji provided a brilliant illustration of how unweakening fidelity to revolutionary principle in no way excluded the tireless search for what one could unite on with those who would not go all the way with him for the moment: on the contrary, it really implied such a search.\nIn addition to a few months in 1921, it was my privilege for the last 35 years to take part in the collective discussions opened by Raji Dutt on all these subjects. I for one, and others can say the same, I am sure, can imagine no influence more profound and more lasting. And it is with all the greater sense of bereavement that these lines are written in the moment of RPD's passing.\n1. In the first world war, conscription came into effect in March 1916. The majority of COs\u2014conscientious objectors\u2014took their stand on pacifist or religious grounds; but there were a number of socialists who refused to take part in a capitalist war.\nR. Palme Dutt Archive | Andrew Rothstein Archive","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Motorcycle Profiling is Official Daytona PD Policy\nVideo footage obtained by the MPP from the North Florida Council of Clubs confirms that motorcycle profiling is not only widespread in Daytona Beach, but it is also official law enforcement policy. In the words of Daytona PD Chief Craig Capri, \"If you wear your colors [in Daytona Beach], you're going to get stopped.\" This official policy is unconstitutional and exposes the entire Daytona PD to civil liability. This video evidence also justifies a cost-free legislative solution in the form of a simple prohibition against motorcycle profiling combined with relief for victims.\nChief Capri's Statement Proves Unconstitutional Practices Are Policy\nWithout any other evidence, Chief Capri's Statement alone proves that the Daytona PD profiles motorcycle club members as a matter of policy. This official policy irrefutably violates the 1st, 4th, and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution.\nFederal courts have confirmed that motorcycle club colors are protected by the 1st Amendment. To punish an individual through seizure in the form of a profiling stop anyone \"who wears the insignia of [a 1% motorcycle club], without regard to or knowledge of that individual's specific intent to engage in the alleged violent activities committed by other members, is antithetical to the basic principles enshrined in the First Amendment and repugnant to the fundamental doctrine of personal guilt that is a hallmark of American jurisprudence. see Coles v. Carlini 162 F.Supp.3d 380 (2015)\nChief Capri's statement also violates the 14th Amendment because it represents Selective Enforcement of the law. Capri's statement proves that the strategy to use traffic stops as a way to punish those exercising their rights of expression and association is premeditated and selective. In terms of the 4th Amendment, any minor traffic pretext used to stop a club member in Daytona Beach should be presumed invalid.\nExposure To Civil Liability\nMotorcycle profiling as a matter of policy implicates the entire Daytona PD at an organizational level. Independent of individual officers and incidents, each profiling stop exposes the Daytona PD as an entity to civil liability. Chief Capri is the highest authority at the Daytona PD and clearly articulates a policy of discrimination and Selective Enforcement. 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 provides:\n\"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.\"\nAn Epidemic In Florida\nThe National Motorcycle Profiling Survey validates the Florida's profiling epidemic. The 2018 NMPS lists Florida as one of the top motorcycle profiling concerns in America. According to the 2018 NMPS, 65% of Florida survey participants reported being the victims of motorcycle profiling at least once since 2012. These survey statistics are 99% reliable with less than a 2% margin of error. (See NMPS Executive Summary 2018).\nDespite promises, Daytona PD has failed to address motorcycle profiling\nThere is a long history and pattern of evidence establishing that motorcycle profiling is engrained in the Daytona Beach PD. And the Daytona PD has made empty promises when caught with their hands in the cookie jar.\nWhile attending the 2017 Biketoberfest rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, members of the Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club (IHMC) were the target of blatant profiling and discrimination at the hands of the Daytona Beach PD. The incident, caught on videotape as a result of quick thinking, is irrefutable. The impact on civil liberties motivated the combined efforts of the North Florida Council of Clubs, the National Council of Clubs, and the Motorcycle Profiling Project to immediately respond with a formal complaint and public record requests. These inquiries, based on the video, sparked an investigation into the actions of the officers involved and a review of Daytona PD policies regarding motorcycle clubs, said a source inside of Chief Craig Capri's office. As a result of the State Attorney's inquiry, a curriculum was supposed to be constructed and all Daytona PD officers were to be re- trained relating to motorcycle profiling.\nUnfortunately, almost 2 years later, motorcycle profiling is alive and well in Daytona Beach. As articulated, motorcycle profiling is still official policy.\nA Legislative Solution\nMotorcycle profiling is a legitimate national policy discussion. In December, the US Senate unanimously approved S.Res.154 which directs all states to follow the lead of Washington State and Maryland by legislatively addressing and condemning the practice of motorcycle profiling. A prohibition combined with injunctive and actual relief for victims is a simple solution with no fiscal impact. A legislative prohibition would immediately increase exposure to the issue therefore reducing incidents of profiling.\nThe post Motorcycle Profiling is Official Daytona PD Policy appeared first on Motorcycle Profiling Project.\nhttp:\/\/www.motorcycleprofilingproject.com\/'\nhttps:\/\/councilofclubs.org\nMongols Biker Club Can Keep Their Logo, Judge Rules\nSANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) \u2014 In an unprecedented ruling, a federal judge blocked the U.S. government Thursday from stripping the Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club of its identifying logo.\nU.S. District Judge David O. Carter found that allowing federal prosecutors to use criminal forfeiture laws to take control of the Mongols' trademarks in their \"patch\" designs \u2013 often worn on the bikers' vests \u2013 would violate the club's rights to free speech and association and constitute an excessive fine, prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.\nAllowing the forfeiture \"immediately chills\" the rights of the club and its members to wear or use the symbols. Therefore, \"the forced transfer of the collective membership marks to the United States violates the First Amendment,\" the Orange County-based judge wrote in his 51-page ruling.\nThe judge also ruled that taking away the rights to \"a symbol that has been in continuous use by an organization since 1969\" would be \"unjustified and grossly disproportionate\" to the group's crime, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.\nCarter refused to throw out a December 2017 jury verdict finding the Mongol Nation guilty of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering in connection with a murder, an attempted murder and two drug sales by club members and associates over several years.\nHe also upheld the jury's decision permitting forfeiture of a number of physical items seized by law enforcement, including guns, ammunition and knick-knacks bearing the club logo.\nLas Vegas attorney Steven Stubbs, the Mongol Nation's general counsel, said he and the club are \"ecstatic that we could defend the First Amendment for the members and all motorcycle clubs.\"\nStubbs described the prosecutors' forfeiture attempt as \"a massive overreach\" and an attempt to control symbolic speech.\nIn a statement, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said it is disappointed by Carter's decision and considering an appeal. \"While affirming the jury's guilty verdicts on racketeering charges, the court's ruling nullifies the jury's finding that these marks are a core component of the Mongols' decades-long pattern of murder, assault and drug trafficking,\" the statement said.\nStubbs and Joseph A. Yanny, the Mongols' lead defense attorney during the case, said they plan to appeal Carter's decision affirming the racketeering convictions.\nBefore and during the trial, the judge called the case one of first impression \u2013 or a case containing a legal question never before addressed \u2013 that might reach the U.S. Supreme Court.\nLawyers on both sides have described the club's logo as an important symbol that members see as marking their identity as Mongols. Several times before and during the trial, Yanny said taking away the club's trademarks would be \"a death sentence\" for the organization.\nThe patch shows a cartoon Genghis Khan-type figure brandishing a sword and riding a motorcycle under a curved banner bearing the word \"Mongols.\"\nIn arguments to the jury, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven R. Welk said that Mongols are \"empowered by these symbols that they wear like armor\" to maintain a vicious \"beehive of pernicious criminal activity\" including murders, assaults and narcotics trafficking.\nAfter one effort to win the marks failed, prosecutors filed the current criminal case against the Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club as an entity. A jury convicted the club of racketeering and conspiracy in December 2017. Then last month, it found a \"nexus\" between the logo trademarks and the gang's conspiracy to commit racketeering and that therefore the government had the right to take the trademarks through forfeiture.\nCarter disagreed.\n\"That certain individual members of the Mongol Nation displayed the symbols while committing violent crimes \u2026 does not justify the government's attempts to bootstrap a conviction of the motorcycle club into censorship of uncharged members or supporters,\" the judge wrote.\nThe Mongols club traces back to the late 1960s, when Latino Vietnam War veterans who loved riding motorcycles formed it because they could not join the Hells Angels or other groups, Yanny explained to the jury during the trial. Now based in West Covina, the group has chapters in many states as well as a few in other countries, he said.\nA team of agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been targeting the gang since before 2008. That year, the agents and local police rounded up dozens of members and associates in a widespread, coordinated series of raids.\nEventually, 77 of those arrested pleaded guilty to crimes. At the time, then-U.S. Attorney Michael Mukasey boasted that securing the club's patch trademarks would allow police to \"literally take the jacket right off [a Mongol's] back.\"\nDavid Santillan, the national president of the Mongols, who sat with defense counsel throughout the trial, said the group would probably have a party next weekend to celebrate Carter's decision.\n\"It's a weight lifted off all our shoulders,\" he said. \"It's been a long 11 years.\"\nCarter set the sentencing hearing for April 24.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SING YOUR SONG Aug 10-16, Doc, NR, 100 min, in English\nSING YOUR SONG Aug 10-16\nA film by Susanne Rostock, Doc, NR, 100 min, in English.\n\"A motivational look at an important figure in history\nwho inspired change.\" Los Angeles Times\n\"A celebration of singer, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte. Moving and enlightening as it serves up a crash-course in 20th-century history\" Variety\nThis intimate, inspiring portrait surveys the life and times of singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame in a segregated era, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte's groundbreaking career\npersonifies the civil rights movement. Off-screen, he has been equally tireless fighting against apartheid, gang violence and the incarceration of youth. Through it all, an indomitable sense of optimism has motivated him, as even\ntoday he asks, \"What do we do next?\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Organ Thieves: A Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in Virginia\nRADIO IQ | By Sandy Hausman\nJay Paul\nAs the nation prepares to start inoculating Americans for COVID-19, public health experts worry that many people distrust the vaccine.\nThe problem is especially serious among African-Americans. During slavery and the Jim Crow era, Blacks were subjected to medical experiments without their consent, and after death their bodies were stolen from graves for use in medical schools in Richmond and Charlottesville.\nA new book details those abuses and one modern-day nightmare at the Medical College of Virginia.\nThe Organ Thieves tells the story of an African-American man who \u2013 without the consent of his family \u2013 became the first heart donor in Virginia. Professional narrator JD Jackson reads from the book.\n\"In late May, 1968, Doug Wilder was in his law office on a tree-lined street in Richmond, Virginia. He was winding down from a long day of work when the phone rang. \"They took my brother's heart!\" the man on the other end of the line exclaimed in horror. As one of the best-known African-American trial lawyers practicing in the state capital, Wilder was accustomed to taking random phone calls day or night. Accusations of rape, robbery and murder were not uncommon, but taking a man's heart from his own body? Wilder had never heard of such a thing.\"\nAuthor Chip Jones, a Pulitzer-nominated journalist, goes on to explain how William Tucker learned of his brother's fate.\n\"It all started when his brother Bruce went missing after work on Friday. It took a series of frantic phone calls to finally locate him at the Medical College of Virginia \u2013 MCV \u2013 on Saturday night. Then some bureaucrats hemmed and hawed before finally delivering the shocking bad news. His brother, who had been rushed to the hospital with a head injury less than a day before, had died only a few hours earlier on an operating table. William was given Bruce's final possessions \u2013 among them his driver's license and a business card \u2013 his business card William realized. It was for his shoe repair shop, only a few blocks from the hospital. Why hadn't anyone called him sooner?\"\nCredit Simon & Schuster\nAs the Black Lives Matter Movement evolves, there is strong interest in The Organ Thieves.\nIn the search for answers to that question and many others, Chip Jones learned that surgeon Christian Barnard had actually trained at MCV before returning to his own hospital in South African to perform the world's first heart transplant. He got the glory, and Jones says doctors in Richmond may have rushed to catch up.\n\"The head of the surgery department felt very wronged by the fact that their research and their techniques had been taken back to South Africa and that MCV had sort of been left out of the heart transplant game,\" he explains.\nThe medical college, now known as VCU Health, has quietly expressed regret over the controversy surrounding the lack of consent from Bruce Trucker's family before his heart was donated to an ailing white businessman who died a few days later. In a university magazine, VCU says the story \"underscores the need to listen to and accept criticism and to learn from our past as we work to honor the dignity of all whom we serve.\"\nBut Chip Jones wonders if that's enough -- especially in light of another discovery.\n\"In 1994, a huge construction project on the campus ground to a halt when construction workers were horrified to see human arms sticking out of the mud,\" he recalls. \"Police called the university archaeology department, and they began to find bodies that were in a nearby well that had been dumped some time in the past.\"\nThe remains were likely those of slaves or poor black residents of Richmond whose bodies were stolen from graves so medical students could dissect and study them. With the help of Doug Wilder, who would go on to become Virginia's first Black governor, the Tucker family sued the university and lost, but Jones says some good did come out of that case.\n\"Within six months of that trial, State Senator Douglas Wilder worked with some of the surgeons actually to write a new law that allowed for brain death as a concept of death, and it was only the second such law passed in the United States.\"\nThe Organ Thieves has won considerable attention from news organizations nationwide as America grapples with questions of systemic racism.\n\" I love a quote from Richard Rohr, the theologian. You cannot heal what you do not acknowledge. I think there is really still a lot of unacknowledged wounds that need to be healed.\"\nThe book includes a teaching guide, and Jones hopes it can be used in high schools to explore issues of race and healing with the next generation.\nAudio excerpts courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from Organ Thieves by Chip Jones, read by JD Jackson. Copyright \u00a9 2020 by Chip Jones. Use with permission from Simon & Schuster, Inc.\nNews Health & MedicineRichmondLocal News\nSandy Hausman\nSandy Hausman is Radio IQ's Charlottesville Bureau Chief\nSee stories by Sandy Hausman","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Your search did not return any results. Please try another search.\nView Virtual Events Explore PD Library\nTallahassee Democrat: Hold Parkinson's Disease at Bay With Exercise\nExercise helps people with PD manage symptoms and potentially slows the progression of the disease. Peter Schmidt, PhD, Parkinson's Foundation Senior Vice President, Chief Mission Officer, is quoted.\nNew York Times Ask Well Blog: What is Parkinsonism?\nThis brief article covers Parkinsonism in an interview with Dr. Michael S. Okun, the foundation's National Medical Director.\nNBC News: Rev. Jesse Jackson, 76, Reveals He Has Parkinson's Disease\nParkinson's Foundation's National Medical Director, Dr. Michael S. Okun, comments on Rev. Jesse Jackson's Parkinson's disease diagnosis.\nNBC5 Chicago: Rev. Jesse Jackson Reveals Parkinson's Diagnosis\nDr. Leo Verhagen from Rush Medical Center, a Parkinson's Foundation's Center of Excellence, comments on Rev. Jesse Jackson's Parkinson's disease diagnosis.\nCBS Miami: Rock Steady Boxing Keeps Parkinson's Patients Moving\nThe Michael-Ann Russell JCC in North Miami Beach is now hosting five weekly Rock Steady Boxing classes. The JCC receives funding from a Parkinson's Foundation grant.\nABC 10: Moving Day Participant Is Not Letting Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease Stop Him\nBrad McMorris, 38, has been living with PD for four years and is a Moving Day Miami supporter who attended the November 12 event. John L. Lehr, Parkinson's Foundation CEO is quoted.\nPatient Daily: Merger of Parkinson's Support Groups Will Better Serve Patients, Chief Executive Says\nParkinson's Foundation CEO speaks about the merger. \"One million people are better served (by) being one organization. We can bring experts under one roof and provide a full service,\" Lehr said.\nPhilanthropy News Digest: Parkinson's Foundation Invites Applications for Mentored Research\nThe foundation invites clinicians and scientists to apply for the Parkinson's Foundation-PSG Mentored Clinical Research Award, a $50,000 grant awarded for a one-year project in patient-oriented research in PD or other Parkinsonian disorders.\nUF Alligator: UF Researcher Holds Reddit AMA About Parkinson's Disease\nThe foundation's national medical director, Dr. Michael S. Okun held an \"Ask me anything\" forum on Reddit, a popular online message board, about Parkinson's. He answered more than 27 questions from users.\nHealth Professional Radio: Parkinson's Patient Advocacy Programs\nParkinson's Foundation chief operating officer Ronnie Todaro discusses PPAC and patient engagement.\nPage 1 \u2026 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"whats-on, things-to-do,\nIF the Australian music industry wasn't hurting enough last year at the height of the pandemic, its collective heart was almost certainly broken by the passing of Mike Noga on August 26. Aged just 43, Noga had established a fine career as a one-time drummer for award-winning rock band The Drones and as a solo artist in his own right. Noga's 2016 concept album King, based on the 1830s play Woyzeck by German dramatist Georg Buchner, was an unnerving - and at the same time - beautiful listen. Shortly before his death, which a coroner attributed to a cerebral haemorrhage exacerbated by bouts of heavy drinking, Noga described his upcoming album as \"a healthy dose of impending doom about the state of the world.\" Noga's fourth and final album Open Fire was written in his hometown of Hobart before he travelled to Minnesota in August 2019 to record with Alan Sparhawk of indie-rock band Low. Open Fire is imbued with a foreboding undertone of Berlin-era Bowie and The Velvet Underground. Creeping synths introduce the opener Covered where Noga pleads, \"Could you start at the beginning\/ Close your book and face the world.\" But there's also elements of hope breaking through the bleakness, like green shoots in the snow. The title track bounces along with a Bruce Springsteen swagger and builds before crashing into a soaring blast of saxophone. Little Birdy is another playful number as Noga urges, \"Come on little darling now dance with me.\" What Noga lacked in vocal range was more than compensated in character and drama. You Breathe For Me is the album's centre point, a gut-wrenching and yearning love song made more poignant by backing vocals from Low's Mimi Parker. \"Like a soul needs saving\/ Can the world below me see\/ You breathe for me.\" Noga will forever be remembered for his powerful drumming on The Drones' classic albums Gala Mill (2006) and Havilah (2008), but Open Fire will ensure his legacy as a solo artist also continues to illuminate.\n\/images\/transform\/v1\/crop\/frm\/E9srhG6YCw3ZDt9UDADP4R\/7f7ce310-3766-4ac5-b1b9-5530ab00a2e2.jpg\/r0_1108_4724_3777_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nOctober 7 2021 - 7:00AM\nALBUM REVIEW: Mike Noga's legacy continues to burn bright on posthumous Open Fire\nJosh Leeson\nLAST FLAME: Open Fire is the fourth and final album from the late Mike Noga.\nIF the Australian music industry wasn't hurting enough last year at the height of the pandemic, its collective heart was almost certainly broken by the passing of Mike Noga on August 26.\nAged just 43, Noga had established a fine career as a one-time drummer for award-winning rock band The Drones and as a solo artist in his own right.\nNoga's 2016 concept album King, based on the 1830s play Woyzeck by German dramatist Georg Buchner, was an unnerving - and at the same time - beautiful listen.\nShortly before his death, which a coroner attributed to a cerebral haemorrhage exacerbated by bouts of heavy drinking, Noga described his upcoming album as \"a healthy dose of impending doom about the state of the world.\"\nNoga's fourth and final album Open Fire was written in his hometown of Hobart before he travelled to Minnesota in August 2019 to record with Alan Sparhawk of indie-rock band Low.\nOpen Fire is imbued with a foreboding undertone of Berlin-era Bowie and The Velvet Underground. Creeping synths introduce the opener Covered where Noga pleads, \"Could you start at the beginning\/ Close your book and face the world.\"\nBut there's also elements of hope breaking through the bleakness, like green shoots in the snow.\nThe title track bounces along with a Bruce Springsteen swagger and builds before crashing into a soaring blast of saxophone.\nLittle Birdy is another playful number as Noga urges, \"Come on little darling now dance with me.\"\nWhat Noga lacked in vocal range was more than compensated in character and drama.\nYou Breathe For Me is the album's centre point, a gut-wrenching and yearning love song made more poignant by backing vocals from Low's Mimi Parker.\n\"Like a soul needs saving\/ Can the world below me see\/ You breathe for me.\"\nNoga will forever be remembered for his powerful drumming on The Drones' classic albums Gala Mill (2006) and Havilah (2008), but Open Fire will ensure his legacy as a solo artist also continues to illuminate.\nThis story Mike Noga's legacy continues to burn brightly first appeared on Newcastle Herald.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Previous \/ Nurburgring 24h: Manthey Porsche wins shortest-ever edition Next \/ BMW showed M6 still fast on Nurburgring farewell - van der Linde\nGT News\nCancelled Suzuka 10 Hours Intercontinental GT Challenge race won't be replaced\nThe Intercontinental GT Challenge season will comprise of just three races this year following championship organiser SRO's decision to not replace the cancelled Suzuka 10 Hours.\nJamie Klein\nJun 8, 2021, 8:22 AM\nBack in March, it was announced the Suzuka IGTC fixture planned for 20-22 August had been scrubbed from the IGTC schedule for a second year in a row owing to the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.\nAt that time, the championship said the 10-hour race would be replaced with a new event in the Middle East.\nHowever, those plans have now been abandoned, with SRO stating that a \"combination of calendar clashes, budget implications and general suitability has made a replacement round impossible to stage\".\nIt means this year's IGTC campaign will now be made up of just three races: the Spa 24 Hours (29 July-1 August), the Indianapolis 8 Hour (15-17 October) and the Kyalami 9 Hour (2-4 December).\nSRO founder Stephane Ratel commented: \"We invested much time and energy into finding a replacement event that would uphold Intercontinental's purpose of uniting the world's great GT endurance races.\n\"And although several options would have achieved this aim, each also presented a new set of challenges to overcome. Given the current global situation I believe it is better to focus our energies on IGTC's three existing rounds.\n\"I would like to thank each of the parties and promoters for their positive collaboration and hope to work with them again in the future.\n\"Indeed, although Intercontinental won't be visiting the Middle East this year I remain confident that these discussions will subsequently allow us to explore fresh opportunities.\"\nThe Suzuka 10 Hours is the only official casualty of this year's IGTC schedule so far, although travel restrictions prevented the series' traditional Bathurst 12 Hour curtain-raiser from going ahead in its usual February slot.\nIt remains unclear whether the global health situation will have eased sufficiently for the Australian race to be held again in 2022, when it would be normally expected to open the new IGTC season.\nNurburgring 24h: Manthey Porsche wins shortest-ever edition\nBMW showed M6 still fast on Nurburgring farewell - van der Linde\nDaytona 24 Hours\nHow Blomqvist rediscovered Verstappen-beating potential at MSR\nHPD boss \"amazed\" by GTP reliability on debut at Daytona 24 Hours\nThe 2021 disappointment fuelling a Super Formula title hopeful\nThe F1 technology behind Mercedes' Nordschleife record hypercar\nIt's taken over half a decade of development but now the Mercedes-AMG One is here \u2013 boasting 1048bhp from a Formula 1-based hybrid powertrain and smashing the Nurburgring Nordschleife lap record for a production car with Maro Engel at the wheel last month. ROBERT HOLMES wonders if it can now claim to be the ultimate hypercar...\nHow to get the best out of amateur racers\nBy James Newbold\nPro-Am GT racing is booming. But how should drivers approach working with an amateur? Autosport sought out a panel of experts to explain the pitfalls amateur drivers should avoid and how professionals can help them to achieve their goals\nThe remarkable career of a 'classy' champion who rejected politics\nOver two decades as a factory driver with Audi and BMW, Martin Tomczyk earned the respect of team-mates and rivals as a hard but fair racer. After calling time on his racing career, the 2011 DTM champion sat down with Autosport to look back\nThe ex-IndyCar racer in \"uncharted territory\" of British GT team ownership\nThis weekend's British GT finale will be a tense title showdown for some but, for those not in the championship fight, it's a chance to end a challenging year on a high. In the latter camp is Paddock Motorsport's team owner Martin Plowman, whose 2021 season has been a rollercoaster ride of non-stop learning\nThe unpopular BMW stalwart built for the big occasion\nIt has won most of the big prizes in endurance racing across its six years in service, but the BMW M6 GT3's key weaknesses meant only a devoted few teams persisted with running it. As it prepares to bow out at season's end, the teams and drivers involved in its story share the secrets of an unpopular winner\nThe unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing forever\nHad FIA GT boss Stephane Ratel had his way, the Maserati MC12 would never have been allowed to set foot in his series. It duly proved the class of the field that most had expected, but the Balance of Performance that its superiority spawned would keep GT1 battles tight and bring long-term benefits that sportscar racing enjoys today\nWhy Britain's greatest sportscar was eclipsed on the world stage\nThe E-Type may be the most famous of all road-going Jaguars, but that didn't always translate into success on the track. After winning on its competition debut in 1961, motorsport success seemed an inevitability, but things didn't turn out to be quite that straightforward\nWhy the Jaguar E-type remains special at 60\nBy Ben Anderson\nIt's 60 years since the Jaguar E-type arrived and caused a sensation. As our resident racer Ben Anderson discovered when he got behind the wheel of two special racing versions at Brands Hatch, the thrill of driving them hasn't diminished over time","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Co-financing with VC\nAbout aescuvest\nAbout EIT Health\naescuvest Team\naescuvest Plus\nFor information about how we use your personal data please see our Privacy Statement.\nWho Are We? Benno Groosman, the Entrepreneurial CEO\nNot everyone is brave enough to take the leadership of a ground-breaking start-up like Surge-on Medical. Luckily, we have Benno.\nFrom the innovative kid to the businessman\nOriginally from the historical city of Delft, the Netherlands, Benno has always been on the move. Even from a young age, he was always looking for business opportunities and convincing his classmates to join him. With an incredible ability to detect business opportunities from his environment, Benno was constantly innovating when other kids were just playing catch.\nNaturally, Benno was destined for a business life.\nAfter one year at the Delft University of Technology and Leiden University (studying Life Science & Technology), he followed his passion for business and enrolled into one of the most entrepreneurial business schools: the Erasmus University Rotterdam. There, he completed his Bachelor in Business Administration and Master in Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing (specializing in entrepreneurial finance) programs. However, Benno could no longer wait until his graduation to start his first medical technology (medtech) business together with a fellow student. Prior to that, Benno grew his private tutoring company to a team of 10 tutors, but he wanted to build a highly scalable and impactful business and therefore got into innovative medtech.\nSalusion was Benno's first company in the medtech sector, which was focused on severely incontinent people. The business was to help ensure adult diapers were changed at the right time with the help of a passive chip placed in the diapers. They filed three different patents and had three different products on the market. But suddenly, they had to file for bankruptcy, because one of their suppliers withdrew his guarantee on their bank loan. \"I learned a lot of lessons from it, which I can now pass along to aspiring entrepreneurs,\" recalls Benno from this experience.\nInternational journey\nBenno's vision has been enriched by meaningful interactions with the business world across borders. After Salusion, he was invited to work for a new international accelerator in Brazil. Then, he went to Budapest to write a recommendation for a new cleantech incubator.\nLater, Benno worked at the Dutch Embassy in Athens to help young entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into a self-sustaining business, addressing both the \"brain drain\" and youth unemployment in Greece.\n\"The whole field of incubation and helping other start-ups with my experience and network became more and more interesting to me. I worked with several start-ups and did consulting to governments. At some point, I realised that it was time for a bigger project,\" says Benno.\nBack in the Netherlands, Benno gathered all his international knowledge to create a platform aiming to promote entrepreneurial initiatives worldwide. At Groosman.co Startups, Benno provided experienced guidance and hands-on management of projects in multiple areas for local and national governments, universities, event organizers, start-ups, investors, large companies and NGOs. Together with his previous business mentor, he completed a management buy-out for VirtualMedSchool, where Benno became CFO.\nAt Surge-on Medical and beyond\nAfter crossing paths with Tim Horeman a couple of times in their previous companies, Benno and Tim got together to found Surge-on Medical in 2015. \"I've known Benno for more than 10 years, and I knew he was the right choice for the CEO role,\" says Horeman, co-founder and CTO of Surge-on Medical. \"His experience in business and especially in the healthcare industry were what I was looking for. He is the support that I need for Surge-on Medical, the exact complement to my skills necessary to build a strong and successful company.\"\nToday, Benno has successfully led Surge-on Medical through diverse international initiatives and partnerships. The company has been recognized by the relevance of its steerable technology in many occasions, where Benno has played a key role in showcasing Surge-on Medical's impact. His relevant contacts in the fields of funding, finance and business development have been crucial for Surge-on Medical's development, and his entrepreneurial approach allowed for the creation of strong international partnerships.\nAs the energetic businessman that he is, Benno gets regularly invited to national and international events to share his knowledge and to inspire others to create their own ventures.\n\"Business is my passion, but adding medical technology to that really gives it a purpose. Our innovations truly have the power to improve lives,\" states Benno. \"My goal is to make Surge-on Medical a leading company in the field of minimally invasive surgery through continuous innovation and building partnerships with the best parties around the world.\"\n\"The first cross-border European equity crowdfunding campaign we're running now, supported by EIT Health and Aescuvest, is an example of the previous. It combines my interest in entrepreneurial finance with truly opening up our company to investors throughout Europe (and even beyond). We develop innovations for the public good, and now the public can join us on that very rewarding journey!\" finalizes Benno.\nDo you want to get in touch with Benno? Click here or here to send him a message.\nVenture Category: MedTech\nBusiness Phase: Sales Expansion\nProfessional Investors: 1 VC, 2 Family Offices\nSurge-on Medical\nFunded 107.8% \u20ac539,000\nEquity offered\nyou are already on the right track\nAs private investor please first select the country in which your residence is located. 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{"text":"Jaunty launch trailer celebrates the arrival of Cities XXL\nBy Brenna Hillier, Friday, 6 February 2015 00:11 GMT\nCities XXL looks like a remarkably cheerful little upgrade to the established simulation.\nAn upgraded version of Cities XL, Cities XXL arrived on digital distributors today and arrives in store next week.\nDescribed as \"a bigger, more complete city-builder pushing the city limits to the edge of your imagination\", it apparently has an improved game engine, classic and extended city-building content, over 1000 buildings and structures in 47 architectural styles, more than 65 maps including new landscapes and environments, and ecological features. It also has Steam Workshop support, with 50 new buildings waiting already.\nIf you own Cities XL you can buy this new version at 50% off on Steam. User reviews suggest there's not much to differentiate it from the original, though.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Stampede of Paid News\nThe sudden spurt in the instances of paid news, particularly during elections, is a blot on free press and democracy. Can Press Council and Parliament take measures to curb such dangerous tendencies?\n\"Today, the demands of professional journalists are carefully balanced with the interests of owners and stakeholders of media companies and their cross media interests. The interplay of these conflicting demands is evident and subject of public debate.\"\n- Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India\nFourth Estate has an identifiable commercial and explicitly for-profit persona. Participation of corporations and mafia in politics has been an open secret from the outset. Now there is emerging evidence that they are participants in media as well, making it difficult to define the journalism in the era of Paid News.\nNo sane citizen wants foreign interests impacting democratic elections through paid news; this applies equally to national businesses and even individuals. All the political parties, Indian parliament and the community of journalists need to discuss the definition of journalism once again in the face of its failure to separate blatantly partisan and merely for profit media outlets from those outlets that are striving for unbiased reporting beyond the thin veneer of neutral content?\nThe report of sub-committee of the Press Council of India on the Paid News Scandal dated 1st April, 2010 is an important and historical report which is to be discussed by all the members of the Council on 26th April, 2010. The report is as significant as Barack Obama's statement dated 21st January, 2010 criticizing US Supreme Court's ruling that \"has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics.\" The phenomenon of paid news does the same by drowning out the voices of common Indians. If the current trend is allowed corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in the elections.\nSo far unregulated and indiscriminate increase in the income of the mainstream media through paid news has remained off the radar of Press Council. The issue raises compelling and serious questions about its purposeful existence if it cannot ensure 'conflict-of-interest' free news reporting that is being undermined for good.\nTo paraphrase Obama in Indian context, \"paid news gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power\" while undermining the influence of average citizens. We are going to talk with bipartisan Congressional leaders to develop a forceful response to this decision. The public interest requires nothing less.\" Indian parliament also needs to act in a similar way.\nThe 71 page report of the sub-committee of the Press Council confirms and establishes the phenomenon of widespread practice of \"paid news vindicated by politicians and campaign managers of political parties\".\nBut \"the rate cards that had been formulated by media houses and had been passing around during elections were just typed sheets of paper which carried nothing on it to attribute it to a particular newspaper\/television news channel that had put it together nor anything that could be attributed to a journalist\/advertisement agent.\" The report notes that the pernicious practice of \"paid news\" has become widespread in both print and electronic, English and non-English languages all over the country.\nIt recommends for Press Council guidelines to the effect that news should be clearly demarcated from advertisements by printing disclaimers and reiterates that as far as news is concerned, it must always carry a credit line and should be set in a typeface that would distinguish it from advertisements. It calls on media organizations to refrain from the practice of engaging stringers and correspondents who double up as agents collecting advertisements for their organizations.\nThe report seeks mandatory provision for \"all candidates\/political parties to fully disclose their equity stakes and\/or financial interests in newspapers\/television channels on which news about their candidates\/parties as well as interviews with candidates and\/or representatives of the political parties are published or broadcast. If a candidate is being interviewed or given positive publicity on a particular newspaper\/television channel, the association (financial or otherwise) of the candidate with the newspaper\/television channel if any must be disclosed to the reader\/viewer.\" It seeks amendment by the Parliament in the Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to make the practice of paying for news coverage in newspapers and television channels an \"electoral malpractice\" or an act of corruption and made a punishable offence.\nThe sub-committee recommends that the Election Commission of India should nominate independent journalists and\/or public figures as observers in consultation with the Press Council of India who would accompany the election observers deputed by it. It seeks establishment of a body of media professionals to investigate instances of \"paid news\" with mechanism to make its recommendations enforceable. It recommends that the mandate of the Press Council be widened to receive complaints and grievances about the working of television channels, radio stations or pass strictures but also impose penalties against errant individuals and organizations. The long pending proposal to amend Section 15(4) of the Press Council Act, 1978, to make the directions of the Council binding must be acted upon.\nEarlier, the 5-4 decision of US Supreme Court on January 21, 2010 held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited. The US Court struck down a provision that prohibited all corporations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, and unions from broadcasting \"electioneering communications.\" An \"electioneering communication\" was defined as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that mentioned a candidate within 60 days of a general election or thirty days of a primary. Some journalists and politicians in US reacted to this decision strongly saying, \"within ten years every politician in this country will be a prostitute\".\nIf the trend of paid news in India is not reversed, the same would hold true for journalists and politicians as media houses without exception would soon become brothels with fixed rates for every act or omission.\nWhile the Vice-President is right about the difficult task of providing remedy against the incestuous interests of professional journalists, owners and stakeholders of media companies and their cross media interests, the same holds true for the interlinked relationship between the political parties and corporations of all ilk.\nThe question of corporate sponsorship of political parties and its candidates also merits legislative action. For nothing short of state funding for elections as recommended by Parliamentary Committee under the chairmanship of Indrajit Gupta can insulate political parties and private contributors of funds who seek favorable government decisions later. The committee had said that the Government and Parliament should decide whether there should be any ban on donations by companies and corporate bodies for political purposes.\nIf the parliament can act on the report of sub-committee of the Press Council and the recommendations of the parliamentary committee on state funding with the urgency that it merits, it can stop such malpractices in the Indian media that makes all\npolitical parties and citizens feeble victims with no remedy in sight.\nBy Gopal Krishna\nSource:dsector","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab Author Christopher Bakken Discusses New Culinary Memoir The Orphan Trilogy's Chicago Connection \u00bb\nAuthor Thu Sep 12 2013\nWhat Are Your Live Lit Pet Peeves?\nBy Erika Price\nIf you're an avid reader of the GB Book Club, you probably are a fan of storytelling and live lit events in Chicago. Perhaps you also read memoirs and creative nonfiction, or enjoy storytelling podcasts like The Moth and This American Life.\nBut with a love of live literature and personal storytelling, there also comes an aversion to certain topics. We've all been there. One minute you're laughing along to a hilarious, madcap story from a talented storyteller, the next you're rolling your eyes and uncomfortably shifting in your seat while someone blubbers creepily about stalking their ex-boyfriend or describes a bodily function in stomach-churning detail. Whether we are sick of a topic because it is too common or because it's just personally off-putting, we all have some storytelling pet peeves. So let's talk about a few, and then open the floor for you to share yours in the comments.\n1. Breakup Stories\nPeople love to create raw, uncomfortable art about emotional anguish and unrequited love. It's a phenomenon that dates back to the middle school cafeteria, or perhaps the beginning of time. And since the beginning of time, people have been telling the heartbroken to buck up and find something else to focus on and talk about other than their ex.\nThere is nothing wrong with telling a story about a break-up, of course, but many people venture into this topic when the wound is still too fresh. It takes a bit of perspective and distance to write thoughtfully and interestingly about such a personal drama. Sometimes, the story of your sweeping, epic heartbreak belongs in a private Google document rather than on the stage. We all have the bad poetry to prove it.\n2. Coming-of-Age Sexual Awakening Stories\nIn the hands of the right writer, nothing can be so touching and relatable as a sexual bildungsroman. In the wrong hands, it can seem, well, masturbatory. Early adolescent crushes and fumbling sexual experiences are frequent live storytelling fodder, so before you tell a story about your first time, make sure you're bringing something unique to the topic.\nAgain, an adult perspective can bring a lot of depth to what would otherwise be a self-involved, somewhat immature topic. When an author is able to recognize the mistakes they made in their early romantic life (particularly the wrong-headed assumptions they made about themselves or the people they were attracted to), their coming-of-age story can be hilarious, deep, and sweet. But when a writer can't get over their adolescent flame or their embarrassing screw-ups, the audience can get a bit bored.\n3. Nostalgic Childhood Stories\nDon't get me wrong: I have heard some witty, charming, and enlightening stories about childhood at various live lit events. A well-written, clearly thought-out childhood reminiscence can transport the listener and provide all kinds of new information about the author's background. Childhood recollections might be some of the most potent, most humanizing storytelling topics available. But without a strong editorial sense, a childhood story can easily warp into a meandering, syrupy-sweet tale that no one but the author relates to.\nIt's hard to condense distant past experiences into a tight narrative. Memory just isn't that linear. And it's even harder for a writer to take the audience's perspective and figure out what they will find interesting and what they will find boring and navel-gazing. Generally, I think that if a childhood story has no narrative arch and is too self-serious, it runs the risk of putting the readers off. Instead of sharing a bunch of disconnected memories and moments that are meaningful only to you, find the story at the heart of your past experiences.\n4. Recent Traumas\nMaking art about a recent misfortune or tragedy is the most difficult endeavor of all. And of course, when a person has just experienced a major life event, it's only natural that they want to talk about it and process it. But when a writer or storyteller ventures into a recent trauma before they have fully coped with it, the result can be a hushed, fidgety audience, and a few too many tears.\nAgain, a caveat is in order: some of the best work I have ever heard or read has been about tragedy. For example, Samantha Irby's essay about taking care of her MS-afflicted mother is absolutely soul-shattering and revelatory. And at live lit events around Chicago, you'll frequently hear remarkable, affecting stories about loss, mental illness, addiction, financial insolvency, divorce, senility, discrimination, and many other raw, wrenching topics. Occasionally, though, you will also see someone over-share and attempt to process a recent trauma onstage, and the result is wrenching and discomfiting in all the wrong ways.\nNone of these pet peeves are absolute, of course. A lot of great writing has been done about all four of these topics, and storytellers should continue to probe them; it's just a matter of how. Writing artfully about any of these four subjects, I would argue, requires a high level of emotional distance, insight, and editorial skill.\nIt's not that writing about losing your virginity or getting dumped should be verboten. Those are great, fertile topics that almost everyone can relate to! Just make sure you do it in a writerly way, after you've had sufficient time to consider the event and find the story lurking within it.\nWhat are your storytelling pet peeves? What makes a personal story relatable and interesting to you? Post your ideas in the comments below or tweet me @erikadprice; I'm hoping to write a follow-up piece sharing others' ideas.\nvise77 \/ September 11, 2013 12:16 PM\nI think you covered it well, but may I add this: younger writers (god bless them, they are only learning) talking about being a punk music (post punk?) type of person in a small town before Chicago, or being generally out of place in school, or something along those lines. Call it the misfit beat, perhaps. I've heard sooo many of these stories, and while I do get tired of them, I also understand they are a part of many writers' needed writing experience. But, hey, we are all misfits, right? So perhaps dial those stories back? And let's just state: We can't all be Joe Meno.\nWhat I would love to hear are more stories about the recent immigrant experience in Chicago, the new groups, or even the newer waves of older immigrant groups.\nErika Price \/ September 11, 2013 12:37 PM\nVise: Great points! And thank you for also mentioning what topics you'd like to hear *more* about-- it's probably way way more productive to talk about what kinds of stories (and kinds of storytellers) we need to hear more of than to rag on the tropes that occur too often...So people should throw those suggestions in the comments too, maybe for another future post!\nCarly \/ September 11, 2013 2:59 PM\nI don't think there are any topics that come off as \"pet peeves\" for me. Personally, I think what makes you successful at a live lit event is story craftmanship and delivery. Not every writer is a great public speaker and vice versa. But I don't think I've ever walked into a show silently hoping \"X\" wasn't going to be the subject of someone's story. You mention Samantha Irby's essay and I'd like to point out that the reading series Guts & Glory she co-hosts with Keith Ecker is one of the best around. All of the topics you mention above have been explored and I think participants in this particular show are encouraged to dig deep, often covering these subjects. IMO, pet peeves for me are readers who don't respect time limits and shows that are unorganized or not well curated. I'm still working to make a show that's entertaining and accessible and know tweaking is needed even eighteen months in. Maybe the overall gist here is that you should really think about where you're at mentally and whether or not it's appropriate for an audience, regardless of what the topic is.\nRyan \/ September 11, 2013 4:54 PM\nThis is severely limiting. No topic should be off limits for a writer. What's important to keep in mind is what's interesting and different about their common experience. A big part of storytelling is identifying with the writer and seeing a bit of yourself there, sharing in that experience. You've heard them a lot because they are common experiences, so you're correct that the key to keeping it interesting would be for the writer to find what's unique about their own version of this common experience. But if we eliminate all these types of stories, we lose most of nearly every writer's childhood and early adult life. All topics should be on the table. But there should be a writer's version of the Hippocratic Oath. First do no harm would be \"first, don't be boring.\" So the takeaway from this column is really don't write the same story we've already heard.\nDon \/ September 11, 2013 7:19 PM\n\u2022 Time. Don't waste it. Condense, condense, condense. Some stories can (and should) be told in 12 minutes but most should not.\n\u2022 \"I'm the Hero in This Story\" Ugh. The trouble with the bad break up stories or the recent trauma stories is that often they are stories of victimhood. Victim stories are only interesting if you are actually an effing victim. Otherwise, focus on how YOU were responsible for your downfall.\n\u2022 Stand Up Rebranded. If you want to do stand up comedy, do THAT. If you want to tell stories, do that. Don't come to a storytelling stage to tell your jokes.\n\u2022 Anecdotes. \"This happened and then THIS happened and then...\" A story is more than a list of events. A seven year old can tell a context-free narrative. Be better than a seven year old.\nAll that said, it isn't the story, it's the storyteller. A bad storyteller can crap all over a fantastic story; a great storyteller can read you a list of soup can ingredients and blow you away.\nGreg \/ September 12, 2013 2:05 AM\nThat anyone anywhere would have the temerity to tell a writer\/performer what to write about or how to present it. Who do you think you are? Storytelling is a personal art, made most meaningful because the connection between the artist and listener is both memorable AND ephemeral, and whether the story connects the writer to one or more people has nothing to do with some dictators deciding for the people what stories are deserving. On behalf of storytellers and writers everywhere, the notion that you have anything pertinent to say is just a figment of your (ahem) imagination.\nErika Price \/ September 12, 2013 4:55 PM\nGreg: I really did strive in this piece to make it clear that none of these topics are off-limits. I have no interest in telling a writer or a performer what they aren't allowed to write about. Everyone has the right to delve into these topics. However, these are common topics, and ones where the storyteller runs a real risk of seeming overly sentimental, navel-gazing, or narcissistic in a way that might put the listener off. When a capable, seasoned writer tackles these topics, the results can be pure magic. But it's hard to make a reader\/audience care about these experiences if there isn't a really unique voice or a ton of talent driving it. For me, anyway. 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{"text":"Altered Esthetics\n2019 Film Festival\nChristopher E. Harrison\nChristopher E. Harrison \/ March 20, 2017 by Altered Esthetics\nChristopher E. Harrison is a Twin Cities artist who is featured in Altered Esthetics' new exhibition, Turbulent Identities, on view at The Southern Theater from 3\/3 - 4\/2\/2017. All are invited to the Opening Reception on Friday, 3\/3, from 5:00-7:00 pm. RSVP on Facebook.\nChristopher E. Harrison, Masquerade II, 2014, Plaster, Collage on Chicken Wire, 11\" x 14\"\nYou work in several mediums. Can you tell us more about the materials you use and how you choose them?\nThe materials I use vary depending on the piece. I try to stick to natural components like tempera paints, plaster, paper, inks, etc. I do this because I want to build sustainable materials into my practice, which then harken back to the organic themes that are prevalent in my work. I do use acrylic paint which is an exception because of its low toxicity and quick drying time.\nIn addition to making art, you also work as an arts educator. How do these two roles influence each other?\nAs an educator, providing the community with the service of discovering and appreciating the arts in its many forms is very important to me. Its an intellectual as well as an aesthetic benefit to society that we all as citizens should strive to uphold. I'm always learning from being in the space around great art and processing this information to give to patrons and this in turn informs my practice in the studio.\nAs of recently, you have described a change in your approach moving from dimensional\/figurative art to a more non-objective, biomorphic\/organic form of art. The works featured in Turbulent Identities demonstrate your earlier style, can you elaborate on what inspired you with these works? Do these themes show through your current works?\nThere's many inspirations inherent in my work, whether it be politically, socially or environmentally based. Although the earlier Masquerade series pieces are figurative as compared to my current work, the thread for me still deals with the ideal of \"otherness,\" meaning that I create around images that could be seen as outside of the what is considered normal or obvious. As a person of color, this is a concept that I live with on a everyday basis. So whether it's through my older figurative works or abstract forms I use diverse optics like collage or disparate materials to tell those stories of differences coming together to create new experiences of seeing the world.\nChristopher giving a tour at the Walker Art Center, Photo by J. Wren Supak\nCultural appropriation is the central theme to Turbulent Identities. What is cultural appropriation to you?\nI define cultural appropriation as recognizing an aspect(s) of an alternate culture and adapting or absorbing it into the greater, more dominant culture for the greater culture's own benefit, so much so that the origins of this aspect becomes minimized or forgotten. For Turbulent Identities, I feel that the show's theme has artists challenge cultural definitions through their work and explore what a true diverse world looks like.\nDo you believe it is possible to appreciate a culture without appropriating it? What advice would you give to humans unsure of how they can appreciate a friend, colleague or partner's culture without appropriating?\nI do believe you can show culture appreciation as long as the history and origin of the culture are realized and shared in a respectful manner, even to the point where aspects can be borrowed to create some more interesting. The advice I would give is to always reference the source first. Knowledge is the greatest teacher. Learn what you can from people or information that's available so you'll know what is celebratory or taboo. If some cultures hold their identities as more sacred than others, respect that by leaving it alone!\nWho are some of your favorite authors, artists or directors that address these complex ideas of identity and cultural exchange?\nI enjoy James Baldwin's writing, in particular Native Son, a great tome for exploring the journey of a Black man's self discovery. I'm also inspired by Jean Michel Basquiat's work for it's in-your-face expressive visual sense of urban urgency that is still potent today. I'm also a fan of artists Joan Miro whimsy, Romare Bearden's grittiness, and indigenous arts from the Pre-Columbian era, Asia and Africa.\nChristopher E. Harrison, Constellation Conception, 2016, Acrylic, tempera on raw canvas, 6' x 6'\nDo you have any upcoming exhibitions and\/or projects we should know about?\nI have a show coming up in July at the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, MN that will showcase my abstract art based on the themes of my creating an imaginary alien race.\nWhere can we find and follow you online?\nMy website is http:\/\/www.harrisonartstudio.net\nFacebook - https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/christopher.e.harrison\nInstagram - https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/charrchr\nTwitter - https:\/\/twitter.com\/@ceh8ball\nAll images courtesy of the artist.\nInterview written by Shivani Vyas, edited by Sarah Kass.\nfeatured artist, Christopher E. 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{"text":"George Saunders, Anna Kendrick and More on Procrastination\nWSJ. asks six luminaries to weigh in on a single topic. This month: Procrastination\nClockwise from top left: George Saunders, Anna Kendrick, Alan Menken, Melissa Arnot Reid, Gunnar Peterson, Lorna Simpson\nFeb. 28, 2017 10:36 a.m. ET\n\"Procrastination has a psychological component; there's something you're trying to avoid. I spent most of my 20s procrastinating instead of writing, because I was afraid that if I started I'd find out that I wasn't any good and I'd have to go to law school or something. But over time I got comfortable with the idea of revision. I began to understand that the first draft is usually going to be crummy. I talk about this to my students, who are wonderful young writers. There is a tremendous struggle ahead for them. They must come to grips with their talents, and their anti-talents; they must figure out what they can do uniquely\u2014and that's really hard. There are a lot of offramps, some that you can't even help. I tell them, I understand that it hurts to get critiqued in workshop, but it's important to try to get in relation to that criticism so that you can process it intelligently and benefit from it.\"\n\u2014Saunders is a writer. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo was published last month.\n\"I've come to learn that hesitation is not necessarily procrastination but an opportunity to think about and expand upon an idea or project. Those who work creatively, like writers and musicians and artists, are constantly on deadline; there are demands from different places to finish and bring things right out into the world. But it's essential for us to protect and serve the creative process. I separate out the practicality of the management of the work and my studio from my relationship with the work. Certainly, I have to create space and a timeline to keep in mind, and sometimes I finish ahead of deadline, which is miraculous, but the creative process is the driving force. These demands are real, but I have to make the demands fit around my working process as an artist. Deadlines are important, but they should never disrupt or rule a trajectory of thought.\"\n\u2014Simpson is an artist.\nGunnar Peterson\n\"A friend once told me that the way you do anything is the way you do everything. I live by that rule. Whatever it is, don't procrastinate, do it now. When it comes to health and fitness, a lot of people don't realize how harmful their current lifestyles are to their general well-being. Of course, there's a distinction between health and weight; it'd be incorrect to think that those things always go hand in hand. But it's important to stay in shape and stick to a fitness plan so that you can do all the things that you want to do in the future; maybe it's water-skiing in lakes around the world or just a bike ride down the block, but it would be a shame if you were unable to participate in those kinds of activities because of something physical. So why wait? Fitness anniversaries are overrated, that whole, 'I'm going to start after my 30th birthday'\u2014just start! Find a reason, whether it's your kids or other loved ones.\"\n\u2014Peterson is a fitness expert and trainer.\n\"I'm not the type of person who does things on time. I feel as though if I'm going to answer one email, I should also open every other piece of mail, I should call my mom and dad and brother. All those things the perfect version of you would do, but she never comes! Setting out to write a memoir was like someone saying, 'Build your own house from scratch.' At first I thought that I might magically become one of those people who wrote on weekends or for an hour every night. But I am so not one of those people. When I finally came up against my third deadline, I decided to lock myself in a room for five days and be unbelievably strict with myself. Soon the task started to feel less insurmountable. Not all of it ended up in the final book, but at least I had written something\u2014even if it wasn't immediately obvious, there was value in doing it.\"\n\u2014Kendrick is an actress who stars in the film Table 19, out this month. Her memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, was released last year.\n\"In the '70s there was this motivational program called EST. You trained yourself to avoid procrastination because, as you learned, it was not only counterproductive, it also caused you pain. As a composer, I find that collaboration is a huge boon to overcoming procrastination since there's always someone depending on you. I don't like to disappoint people, so the last thing I'm going to do is procrastinate. Often, I'll make an appointment with my collaborator, and I don't leave the studio without having made some progress. But then there's the benign version of procrastination: patience. The further you get in your career, the more you begin to recognize that there is power and benefit in letting your thoughts marinate. Sometimes it's OK to wait, to walk away for a bit.\"\n\u2014Menken is a composer who scored Disney's Beauty and the Beast. A live-action remake of the film is out this month.\nMelissa Arnot Reid\n\"Procrastination is a trap to which we're all susceptible. Fear is often the silent driver of our actions\u2014we fear failure and success equally. I'm driven once I choose to do something, but the decision to do it is where I really exercise procrastination. Sometimes when you're making a difficult climb, the longer you hesitate to move, the more fatigued you get. That's kind of a brilliant metaphor for life: The more you stand in procrastination, the less of an ability you have to leap to the next step. You do a lot of groundwork to prepare for a climb and then you have this choice, this moment when your actions will dictate your success or failure relative to getting to the summit or your safety. It's easy then to feel intense pressure knowing that these kinds of decisions are the turning point of all the work that you've done; the outcome is so unknown. But you have to move.\"\n\u2014Arnot Reid is a mountain climber and adventurer.\nTagged gunnar petersonwall street journal","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The only professional Membership body for people working in resourcing\nJoin the REC\nREC News\nAdrian Thomas \u2013 Chairman\nAdrian has worked in both HR & Recruitment in some of the UK's top companies and has continually argued for Resourcing to be seen as a strategic priority for companies and not just a tactical 'post filling' activity. A passionate believer in using, where appropriate, in-house teams to go direct to the candidate, utilising Standardised Selection tools to ensure quality & equality of hire! Most recently, as Head of Resourcing at Network Rail, Adrian has been responsible for the strategic direction of resourcing together with the line management of the recruitment team. Previously Adrian was the Senior Technical Partner, Resourcing, at RBS and Director of Recruitment at GlaxoSmithKline with responsibility for the formation and management of the Global Manufacturing & Supply recruitment team.\nA true HR professional, Adrian previously held senior positions as a HR Director, worked in compensation & benefits and employee relations before returning to Resourcing (previously he was a Director of a large recruitment consultancy). Adrian is a true evangelist for Resourcing and a belief in the value that it brings to organisations \u2013 when done properly!\nAdrian is also a Vice President of the Association of Graduate Recruiters and a Freeman of the City of London. His other passions are his family (two daughters, Georgina at Surrey University reading Law and Sophia starting out in the world of professional tennis!), helping to run the local tennis club (Martin Dene LTC) and the odd game of golf (Member at La Manga Country Club, Spain).\nAngela Cripps \u2013 NED\nAngela Cripps is currently Chair of the Midlands region of The Recruitment Society helping to organise local events and presentations....\nMiles Lloyd \u2013 NED\nMiles Lloyd is currently in an advisory capacity as a director to the recruitment society. Miles took the helm as...\nSusie Roe \u2013 NED\nSusie Roe is currently in an advisory capacity as a director to the recruitment society. Joining Havas People in 2003,...\nSimon Bracewell \u2013 NED\nSimon Bracewell is currently Chair of the North West region of the recruitment society. Simon has over 20 years' experience...\nAdrian has worked in both HR & Recruitment in some of the UK's top companies and has continually argued for...\nRecent updates from the REC\nRecruitment industry leaders write to Chancellor asking him to \"pause and think again on IR35 changes\" January 21, 2020\nThe REC and leaders from 14 of the UK's top recruitment firms have written to the Chancellor Sajid Javid expressing concerns about the planned changes to IR35 rules, and asking him to \"pause and think again\".\nONS labour market statistics: planned immigration restrictions threaten economic growth and public services January 21, 2020\nToday's labour market statistics raise big questions over the government's plans to end 'low-skilled' migration to the UK, announced by Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday.\nRecruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) takes client security to the next level with Mailock January 17, 2020\nUK cyber security firm, BeyondEncryption, has announced the roll out of its Mailock\u00ae secure emailsolution to REC members and for use at the REC's London Head Office\nRecruitment activity picks up at the end of 2019 January 10, 2020\nThe latest Report on Jobs shows some signs of a clearer outlook for hiring, with permanent placements increasing for the first time in a year.\nIR35 Review: changes to legislation off the table January 9, 2020\nREC reaction as HMRC confirms that the IR35 review will be limited to how IR35 will be implemented, and will not consider changes to legislation.\nThe Recruitment Society\nThe Recruitment Society 7 Goodwins Court, St Martins Lane, London, WC2N 4LL . contactus@recsoc.org\nThe Recruitment Society site designed and developed by ecom digital","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Taste: Choppy Seas\nEstia quite literally puts fish on a pedestal. The cavernous Greek restaurant, which faces the Academy of Music from Locust Street, packs its finny finest in ice and displays it prominently on an altar positioned halfway between the open kitchen and the dining room. During dinner hours, the imposing still life from the sea is rearranged periodically as customers step up to inspect the catch and choose something to their liking.\nThis project was a top-to-bottom renovation of the former Toto, more than $1 million in the making. Native Greeks Pete Pashalis, Nick Pashalis and John Lois, who have done well with their three Pietro's Coal Oven Pizzeria restaurants in Philadelphia and Marlton, have overseen a tasteful installation of thick wooden ceiling beams, clean white walls, stone columns, woven wall hangings and antiquarian accessories. The result is a near-clone of Avra, a New York restaurant where Nick Pashalis is among the partners. Tables are generously spaced and double-draped with crisp white and blue linens, a look that's upscale without being overly formal.\nBeyond a few token meat entr\u00e9es \u2014 lamb chops, chicken thigh and breast, filet mignon \u2014 Estia (pronounced \"es-TEE-uh\") is all about seafood, most of it grilled, minimally adorned with lemon, olive oil, fresh herbs and capers. Specimens that Philadelphians don't often see, such as barbouni (red mullet), fagri (Mediterranean white snapper) and fresh sardines, join the more commonplace Florida pompano, Dover sole, tuna, halibut, swordfish, and delectable langoustines, the latter priced at a breathtaking $44.95 per pound. Whole fish are filleted in the kitchen for easier eating, though they retain head and tail to make a dramatic impression at the table.\nEstia's practice of pricing whole fish by the pound isn't as fearsome as it appears. Most of the fish weigh one pound or less, which means the price listed on the menu is very close to what you'll pay. (If cost is an issue, ask your waiter how much your order will weigh before he puts it in.) I found the prices to be in line with the high quality of the product, and comparable to other big-scale Center City restaurants. But I do think Estia's menu needs to explain more clearly what distinguishes one fish from another \u2014 as it reads now, nearly every offering is described as lean, moist and mild.\nAmerican-born executive chef Gus Pashalis, 26, is the son of Pete and nephew of Nick. He repeats many of Avra's dishes here. Two of the best ones are the paper-thin, flash-fried zucchini and eggplant \"chips\" served with tzatziki (yogurt and cucumber dip), and a sampler of three appetizer spreads that includes tzatziki, smoky grilled eggplant, and zippy roasted red pepper with feta and a pinch of cayenne pepper, served with grilled pita bread.\nAppetizers appear expensive, ranging from $9.95 for pan-fried kefalograviera cheese to $16.95 for charcoal-grilled octopus, but most are large enough for two people. The octopus, dressed with vinegar and capers, is surrounded by sweet onions and grilled Holland peppers. Tender tubes of calamari are filled to the brim with mashed Greek cheese and herbs; the squid and the filling are good, but cheese and seafood combinations never seem harmonious to me. The amount of feta on the otherwise good Greek salad is stingy, given its $11.95 price ($10.95 at lunch). The grilled sardines are large, yielding some bones even after filleting.\nThe most appealing main-course fish may be the lavraki, or loup de mer, with a hint of sweetness in its moist white flesh. Tsipoura, also known as royal dorado, is oilier, yet pleasant, reminding me of a just-caught bluefish. The orange-red barbouni are a striking visual, pan-fried and served whole. Their crisp skin is delicious, but the number of needle-like bones within makes it impossible to enjoy them. Swordfish grilled on skewers with peppers, onions and tomatoes is remarkably succulent. Side dishes, which must be ordered separately, include delicious potatoes pan-fried in olive oil, and \"wild\" greens that are actually a tame, tasty combination of boiled red and green chard, spinach and leeks, drizzled with olive oil. The greens should be served at room temperature; ours were ice-cold. Desserts are reliable versions of baklava, phyllo-wrapped custard, walnut cake, and yogurt with honey.\nThe front of the house is where Estia needs serious improvements. Servers need to be better-informed about the menu, and more closely attuned to the rhythms of each table. On one evening, I waited in the bar for 20 minutes after being told \u2014 erroneously \u2014 that my companions hadn't arrived, when in fact they were seated and waiting for me. An offer to show us the fish display came after our dinners were already in progress. No one problem constituted a crisis, but with 200 seats in the dining room and 90 more in the downstairs banquet rooms, service is likely to be as critical to the future of Estia as the sweetness of its lavraki.\n8 Lesser-Known Abortion Funds to Support Post-Roe\nEverything You Need to Know Before the Eagles' NFC Championship Game","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"From the community:\nFormer presidential advisor at BenU to discuss future of U.S. economy\nBy Community Contributor pbrozynski\n| About this post |\n(Posted by pbrozynski, Community Contributor)\nThe Dow Jones industrial average is at an all-time high. Unemployment is down. Consumer confidence is up.\nHow did we get here? How do we stay here? What role will Washington, D.C., play?\nThe Center for Civic Leadership (CCL) at Benedictine University will host former presidential economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, Ph.D., who will lecture on \"Economic and Political Realities: 2015 and Beyond\" at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12 on the second floor of the Krasa Student Center.\nGoolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He previously served in Washington as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the youngest member of the President's cabinet.\nGoolsbee's research has earned him recognition as a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. In prior years he was named one of the \"100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow\" by the World Economic Forum and one of the six \"Gurus of the Future\" by the Financial Times.\nComedy Central's \"Daily Show\" star Jon Stewart describes him as \"Eliot Ness meets Milton Friedman,\" and in 2009 he was voted \"Washington, D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity.\"\nEstablished in 2005 under the direction of former Illinois Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan, the CCL seeks to shape a new generation of public leaders and responsible citizens. Each year, the CCL invites prominent public figures to speak about the importance of active citizenship and public service.\nChesterton midwife faces investigation for allegedly practicing without license\n3 firefighters burned while battling blaze inside vacant Park Ridge gas station 'loaded' with hazardous material\nElgin garbage to be picked up earlier, outdoor movie canceled, Metra trains slower as result of heat wave\nRomeoville man charged with DUI after crash in St. Charles\nIn recent years, the CCL has hosted President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, Washington Post columnists Bob Woodward and David Broder, CNN's Peter Bergen, Children's Defense Fund Director Marian Wright Edelman, University of Chicago legal scholar Cass Sustein and human rights advocate Paul Rusesabagina.\nAs a vehicle for civic education and engagement, the CCL has also placed many undergraduate students into public service and government internships, where they gain valuable firsthand experience working closely with some of Illinois' finest public servants and elected officials.\nThrough the CCL, Benedictine students have interned in the state's attorney's offices, with members of the General Assembly in Springfield, and with the Citizens Advocacy Center in Elmhurst. Other students have been placed as volunteers with political campaigns.\nThe event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. For more information, visit ben.edu\/ccl, email ccl@ben.edu or contact Jean Zingg at jzingg@ben.edu.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions\nBY: Loop Global\n12:20, April 1, 2017\nThe state code requires that no fewer than six \"respectable citizens\" be present at each execution.\nThere's one problem: It's having a hard time finding enough volunteers to witness them.\nThe volunteer pool is apparently thin enough that state Department of Corrections Director Wendy Kelley invited members of a local Rotary Club to volunteer.\nArkansa\nDepartment of Corrections\nRead more about Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions\nNorth Korea executed 5 security officials, South Korea says\n07:30, March 1, 2017\nThe deputy minister-level officials had worked under the recently fired state security chief Kim Won Hong, and are believed to have been executed for making false reports to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to two parliamentarians who had been briefed by South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS).\n\"Kim Won Hong, the state security chief, is in a house arrest situation after an investigation and more than five deputy minister-level officials who worked under him have been executed by anti-aircraft guns,\" South Korean lawmaker Kim Byung-kee said.\nRead more about North Korea executed 5 security officials, South Korea says","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"4906 El Camino Real, Suite A\nLos Altos, CA 94022\nEar, Nose, and Throat Doctor in Los Altos, CA\nNew Medical Office now open in Los Altos\nEdward C. Lee, M.D., Inc. is pleased to welcome you to our practice. We want all our patients to be informed decision makers and fully understand any health issues you face. That's why we've developed a website loaded with valuable information about ear, nose and throat problems and treatments. We encourage you to visit this site whenever you have concern related to ear, nose and throat health.\nOur website also provides you with background about our ear, nose and throat specialist (known as an otolaryngologist), staff, office hours, insurance policies, appointment procedures, maps, directions to our office and other useful information. We know how hectic life can be and are committed to making our practice convenient and accessible. And we want you to feel confident that when you choose Edward C. Lee, M.D., Inc., you're working with professionals who are qualified, experienced and caring.\nPlease take a few moments to look through this website to get a better feel for Edward C. Lee, M.D., Inc. capabilities and services. We also invite you to email or call our office at any time to request an appointment or ask any questions.\nOn behalf of all the Edward C. Lee M.D., Inc. physician and staff we welcome you to our practice and look forward to helping you and your family preserve a lifetime of good health.\nOtolaryngology - Los Altos, Edward C. Lee M.D. 4906 El Camino Real, Suite A Los Altos, CA 94022 (650) 967-1770","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Habib pleased to record opening day win\nICC Media Release\nHong Kong coach Aftab Habib praised his players after it defeated Argentina by seven wickets at the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 3.\nAfter dismissing Argentina for 107, it reached its target with 22.4 overs to spare.\n'I was really pleased as the first match is always an important match in any tournament,' said Habib.\n'Argentina is a pretty good outfit and we had to play well on the day to beat them.\n'The host game is always a difficult game first up and they had the advantage of playing at home,' said Habib.\nHong Kong's next match is against Afghanistan on Sunday, who it lost to twice at the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 4 last year.\n'We lost twice to them in Tanzania due to some errors and mistakes and we need to make sure that we don't do the same things again tomorrow,' said Habib.\n'Afghanistan is a good team, we know we are a good team, and it is all down to who performs the best on the day.'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR)\nAwards, Accreditation & Networks\nUrban Intervention\nAIDS Sunday\nEco-Sunday\nInvest in Life & project Videos\nDonate for Publications\nEFICOR FANI CYCLONE RELIEF : An Amount of Rs.700 will help a family to have meals for the next 21 days as per international standards.Please Donate\nParivartan Programme (Umoja module) and its Impact\nPromila, a normally shy person, lives in Amar Colony, on the edges of Delhi. Married with 5 children, and one earning member, the family lived less than hand to mouth.\nA neighbour told her about Deeper Life Church which partners with EFICOR and Promila was invited last year to participate in Parivartan program where the community and the church work together for their development. With a smile on her face, Promila states that Parivartan Umoja module trainings have changed her way of thinking. She learnt embroidery and uses her skills to earn and bring in money into their home.\nPromila interacts with thread sellers, her neighbours and others encouraging them to participate in the project. Promila leveraged the support and training she got from the project to change her family's life altogether. They have been able to buy a small house, rear pigs, and expand her embroidery skills, completing her diploma in embroidery. In a short span of a year, Promila had moved from house wife to a woman who people look up to.\nJhansi Sustainable Development Project\nThirty nine year old Mr. Kriparam's 4 bigha undulated rain...\nMusahar Sustainable Development Project\nMrs. Draupadi Devi from Musahar community lives with her husband...\nActive role in Promoting Maternal and Child Health\nSarita Khare found her employment as an ASHA worker two...\nRestoration of hope\nKalaivani a 37 year old woman narrated her journey with...\nWhat was impossible became possible because of LRC \", Says Anjali\nThe smell of lemon that a visitor encounters at Lemon...\nPromila, a normally shy person, lives in Amar Colony, on...\nTara Bai-an agent of change\nTara Bai dropped out of school, got married and is...\nEficor\nEFICOR is a National Christian Organisation engaged in Development, Advocacy, Disaster Response and Training serving the poor, socially excluded and the marginalized in situations of poverty, injustice and disaster irrespective of caste, creed or ethnicity.\nEFICOR is registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 (Karnataka Act No.17 of 1960) on 30th April, 1980. The registration number is 70\/80-81.\nEFICOR is also registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976 and the registration number is 231650411.\nAll donations sent to EFICOR are exempted under section 80 (G) of the IT Act of 1961. Regd No.DIT(E)\/2010-11\/DEL - EE21725-06062010\/4 dated 6\/4\/2010 valid from 2010-11 onwards.\nRefund-cancellation policy\n\u00a9 Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved with EFICOR","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ewan Strydom bids farewell to his 'Expresso' family\nLocal \/ 6 May 2019, 7:08pm \/ Alyssia Birjalal\nTeary eyed Ewan Strydom bids Expresso farewell.\nFor some, SABC 3's morning show, \"Expresso\" may never be the same without veteran, Ewan Strydom who said his goodbye's last week.\nThe present, who has been apart of the show since its inception in 2010 plans on pursuing other business ventures.\nAfter spending more than eight years on Expresso, the presenter said: \"I have decided to venture into different avenues of TV, and explore new challenges as part of my presenting career\".\nIn the emotional last episode, a teary eyed Strydom left viewers and his co-presenters heartbroken with his final goodbyes.\n\"It's incredibly difficult to say goodbye. I will miss you all dearly. You are my family. You've become my world. I don't know how to do this. I'm not a crier. But it's been a journey that I will never forget,\" he said as the credits rolled.\nIn a statement issued by SABC3 Strydom said: \"To my Expresso family - colleagues and loyal viewers - thank you very much for an incredible 8 and a half years of allowing me into your homes every single morning, to bring you those Feel Good vibes. It has been an unforgettable journey that fills out a wonderful chapter in the journey of my life. It has shaped who I am as a person, a presenter, and a personality in the South African media landscape. I have decided to venture into different avenues of TV, and explore new challenges as part of my presenting career. I am grateful for the incredible opportunity that I have had with Expresso to hone my skills to become one of the best live TV presenters helping Feel Good Mornings happen all over Mzansi. It is so far one of the most thrilling experiences of my lifetime, and a number of years I will treasure as I continue my journey. Thank you for the support from our loyal viewers, and I know that the show will continuously excel in the hands of the professional and talented team\".\nProduction house, Cardova wished Strydom well.\n\"Cardova Productions and the Expresso Morning Show recognised the hard work Ewan has invested in helping grow the show to where it is today, and appreciate the positive feel good attitude that Ewan has always displayed, on and off camera\" said the statement.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Next Marijuana Millionaire TV series is coming soon\nPublished Aug 29, 2020 09:00 a.m. ET\nUpdated 5 months ago 2 min read\niStock \/ Petr Vdovkin\nThe Big Mike new TV series \"The Next Marijuana Millionaire\" is a combination of the reality show Survivor, The Apprentice, and Shark Tank, minus the weed involvement or so they'd like us to believe. The show puffs out its chest and proclaims itself as being the first-ever cannabis business, competition tv series. Here, sixteen ganjapreneurs compete to win the grand prize worth one million and the opportunity to partner with Mike Straumietis, aka Big Mike, the cannabis icon, and owner of Advanced Nutrients. Is this new TV series coming to a streaming service that you have?\nThe new TV series, the \"Next Marijuana Millionaire,\" was the first show of its kind because it reveals the true face of cannabis industry players. August 15, 2020, was the maiden voyage of The Next Marijuana Millionaire, however, when searching streaming services, the show is nowhere to be seen. Advanced Nutrients owner Big Mike hyped the show as being similar to Shark Tank only with a primary directive to focus on weed. Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, and Apple TV were the streaming services involved in the weed directed reality show.\nRe-scheduling\nPot news headlines let us know that Big Mike has postponed the reality show in the contestants' best interest and the cannabis community at large. Big Mike is confident that he has made the correct decision to delay the show's airing and promises that the new premiere date is on the near horizon.\nSharks in the water\nThe Sisters of the Valley were one of the sixteen contestants on the perhaps ill-fated new TV series, and they have severe doubts around whether the show was ever really scheduled to be aired. The Sisters of the Valley believe the cancellation or postponement happened due to Big Mike. The Sisters of the Valley think that Big Mike, who made himself look like a Big Shot, probably had a bearing on Amazon Prime pulling the show.\nThe handlers for the new TV series give the likely explanation that bigger prizes and opportunities are going to be coming soon. Bigger networks seem to be in the eye of Big Mike and his handlers. As far as the Sisters of the Valley, they feel that this story is like the same stories told for the last two years. The sisters believe that things might have gone sideways for Big Mike and the new tv series. Maybe Devine intervention, as the nuns believe the show may have been cursed.\nBig Mike, AKA Mike Straumietis, was also known by the self-described title Marijuana Don is confident in his decision to put the new TV series on hold again until the right time comes along. The correct timing will have a wider reach and, hopefully, a tremendous impact on the cannabis community as a whole. Though the Sisters of the Valley have suggested that the show had some shady dealings among other scathing comments, to date, none of these comments have been proven.\nThe best new TV shows to binge-watch with weed this summer (2020)\nYou'll definitely want to check out these five popular TV shows that no one should miss out on this summer....","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Primate responds to dissenting bishops\nPrimate responds to dissenting bishops\nArchbishop Fred Hiltz defends the process that brought the same-sex marriage decision to General Synod 2016, in a letter addressed to dissenting bishops. Photo: Andr\u00e9 Forget\nBy Andr\u00e9 Forget on October 3, 2016\nIn a written response to a statement issued by seven Canadian bishops expressing their dissent from General Synod's decision to move toward solemnizing same-sex marriages, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, pushed back against several of the points they had raised.\nWhile he affirmed the bishops' commitment to offer \"pastoral care and loving service to all irrespective of sexual orientation,\" he noted that for many LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer\/Questioning) Anglicans, \"pastoral care\" would include the solemnization of their marriages-which the bishops have expressly said they will not do. \"For me, my brothers, the question you ask is really a question for all members of the church. To what extent can we and will we make room for one another? To what extent will we pastorally accommodate one another?\" Hiltz said in his letter.\nHiltz's response is dated August 5, but it became public following its distribution to the House of Bishops in advance of its September 22-27 meeting in Winnipeg. The Anglican Journal obtained a copy of the letter after a request was made to the primate's office.\nHiltz also challenged their claim that the resolution, which contains a conscience clause, \"does not provide adequate protection for the consciences of dioceses, clergy and congregations.\" He asked the bishops to explain what such protection would look like, and how it would apply for those in their dioceses who are in favour of same-sex marriage.\nHe defended the process leading up to the same-sex marriage vote July 11, which narrowly passed the first of two readings (the second will take place in 2019) and took issue with the bishops' claim that the \"entire process\" leading up to the vote was \"flawed,\" and had \"inflicted terrible hurt and damage on all involved.\"\nHe argued that Council of General Synod (CoGS), which had been given responsibility for crafting the resolution allowing for the marriage of same-sex couples in the church after a resolution passed at General Synod 2013, had taken \"considerable care\" and done its work \"thoroughly.\"\nHiltz added that, in his opinion, the discussion of the resolution at General Synod 2016 had been well-organized, with provisions made for those who wished to abstain from the vote altogether.\nHiltz also noted that though the vote itself, which was originally declared to have failed before being reversed the next day due to the discovery of an error, was \"difficult,\" it had allowed many synod members to \"experience the pain of another whose view on this matter is very different\" in a \"very powerful way.\"\nThe primate assured the bishops that the question of what the church should do pastorally, prophetically and structurally following the vote is one he is taking very seriously. He said he intends to publish the notes from small-group discussions on this subject that took place following the vote, and these would serve as the basis for further discussions at CoGS and House of Bishops.\nBut there were also points on which Hiltz concurred with the bishops.\nHe affirmed their condemnation of \"homophobic prejudice and violence,\" and sympathized with their frustration over the use of a legislative process to make decisions about theological and pastoral issues. But while he stated his desire for \"less confrontational, and less hurtful\" ways of decision-making, he placed the onus on the bishops to delineate what that might look like.\nHe shared their concern over the decision made by some bishops to proceed with same-sex marriages ahead of 2019, but said he has \"no canonical authority to prohibit bishops from taking such action.\" Hiltz said he would nonetheless \"encourage a conversation in the House of Bishops about patience with the due process of General Synod\u2026\"\nHiltz also told the bishops he has spoken with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, about General Synod's decision and the concerns they have raised, and assured Welby that he would address the issue \"as comprehensively as I can.\nThe dissenting bishops' statement was released July 15, just days after General Synod came to an end. It was signed by Bishop Stephen Andrews, of the diocese of Algoma; Bishop David Parsons, of the diocese of the Arctic, Suffragan Bishop Darren McCartney, also of the diocese of the Arctic; Bishop William Anderson, of the diocese of Caledonia; Bishop Larry Robertson, of the diocese of Yukon; Bishop Fraser Lawton, of the diocese of Athabasca; and Bishop Michael Hawkins of the diocese of Saskatchewan.\nBishop David Edwards, of the diocese of Fredericton, was not an original signatory, but he added his name to the statement later.\nEfforts were made to contact several of the bishops who had signed, but at press time, none were willing to comment. Hawkins did, however, note that the signatories would issue a formal response in the coming year. In an interview, Hiltz said he was willing to meet with the bishops about their concerns.\nAndr\u00e9 Forget\nAndr\u00e9 Forget was a staff writer for the Anglican Journal from 2014 to 2017.\nResidents remain displaced after All Saints fire\nA royal bridge-burning\nRekha Menon takes over as pensions director\nSolitary religion offers 'fruitful' way of living alone\nGeneral Synod to take place June 27-July 2 at University of Calgary\nSurvey charts women's church leadership by the numbers\nThe Anglican Journal is the national newspaper of the Anglican Church of Canada. Its print edition is published 10 times a year and carries 19 regional newspapers that provide important local information for Anglican dioceses.\nAnglican News Canada is a ministry of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada\n\u00a9 2023 Anglican Journal. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NB's fake football fans to gather for Super Bowl 'traditon'\nEntertainment, NB, News, Sports\nChipman \u2014 Across the province this weekend, die-hard Super Bowl fans are preparing to overeat and drink in celebration of a longstanding tradition they've adopted for some reason.\nAmerican football \u2014 not to be confused with British football, or soccer \u2014 is a sport near and dear to New Brunswickers' hearts once a year, presumably because it allows those lacking creativity or their own interests to host a themed party on what would otherwise be another boring Sunday.\n\"It's tradition,\" stated Nora Culberson, 26, of Chipman. \"Brad has the boys over, I have the girls over, and we eat a pizza, taquitos, super-spicy buffalo wings from M&M Meat Shops, cupcakes, and then wash it all down with Alpine. It's a chance for us to get together and look at the TV while stuffing our faces.\"\n\"Plus it's been what, a month since Christmas? It's long overdue,\" she added.\nCulberson's husband Brad, 29, says he started the tradition in their home because he noticed others around the province doing it, and so he knew it must have been based on something real or significant.\n\"And pretty much everything I know about life I learned from American TV,\" he explained. \"My boys are the same way \u2014 we've all been friends since our Chipman Regional High days, and last year I figured we might as well get together for some brews in the man cave.\" He then explained that \"man cave\" is something TV told him he needs \u2014 a place to relax as a married man, away from his wife and her problems. \"But I'm gonna let her have her girls over this time \u2014 throw her a bone since she keeps yappin' about tradition.\"\n\"Hey, you're welcome to come by on Sunday,\" he mentioned to The Manatee's reporter. \"Just wear a hockey jersey or something \u2014 that's what we do since no one has football jerseys around here. Bring some sauce for the wings if you don't mind.\"\nNora said she attempted to read up on the rules of football late last night, but promptly ditched that effort the moment a particularly engrossing episode of TLC's Say Yes to the Dress was on. \"I loved Friday Night Lights, so I can probably just figure out the real thing based on that,\" she said. \"And some of Brad's friends seem to know what it's all about, so I'll just watch their faces and reactions so I know when to cheer or clap or whatever.\"\nThe Culbersons say that despite having no actual interest in football, their longstanding 2-year tradition will be upheld for generations to come. \"Just as long as they keep making those spicy wings,\" Brad said.\n46.167-65.883\nM&M Meat Shops\nNewer PostEnvironment Canada urges NB to prepare for yet another snowpocalypse\nOlder PostNB Tims to raise coffee prices to pay for new apostrophe in 'Hortons'\nNB to install roadside claw machines to make for cheeky, fun toll-paying experience\nEditorial: No fracking way\n0November 21, 2014\nHalifax police just trying to learn newest slang\nUgh, Higgs just remembered awkward thing he did in high school\n0December 19, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eastern Daily Press\nLifting the lid on lavish loos\nRowan Mantell\nPublished: 2:44 PM February 23, 2017 Updated: 1:49 PM October 9, 2020\nRemarkable Toilets. Kerry Allnutt and Mark Guest pictured with some of their toilets. Picture: ANTONY KELLY - Credit: Archant\nAn unusual collection inspired a far from bog-standard family business, writes Rowan Mantell\nMark Guest grew up in a council house with just an outside toilet. Today he and his partner, Kelly Allnutt (childhood bathroom inside, but avocado-coloured) live in a home with seven loos, and run a business creating and selling quirky and beautiful toilets around the world.\nThey design and commission toilets decorated with delicate flowers, loos and cisterns in matching metallics, and lavatories lavishly painted with bold Mexican pictures.\nThe unusual family business began with Mark's toilet collection.\n'I began collecting old toilets about 15 years ago,' said Mark. 'I was interested in ornate and decorative things and saw these beautiful old toilets.'\nHe was working as a management consultant but his real passion was in restoring old houses and as he visited auctions to source items, he developed a new appreciation of the humble toilet.\nToday his collection sits alongside examples of the brand new loos they have inspired.\nThere are Victorian porcelain pans, festooned with foliage and flowers, and given names such as 'deluge.' There are art-deco designs, and modernist models from the 1930s. There are also antique sinks and basins, ornate brass flush pulls and toilet roll holders, serpent-shaped taps. And the collection has inspired a new range of replica bathroom furnishings, and a new business for Mark and Kelly, called The Remarkable Toilet Company.\nTheir 21st century replicas of some of the loveliest lavs, are joined by a collection of new toilets made in Mexico and painted with pictures of vibrant lilies climbing up the pedestals, pans, seats and cisterns, or desert scenes including cacti and birds beneath a baking sun. More replica loos, lurk in cabinets, chairs and chests. A toilet is concealed beneath a Gothic-style wooden throne, and within a military-style mahogany 'thunderbox,' part of a made-to-measure range created by expert woodworkers.\nFor the past two years Mark and Kelly, who have children aged five and almost two, have been perfecting the reproduction of their toilets so that they will fit modern plumbing and withstand 21st century cleaning fluids and methods. They had to find kilns big enough to fire entire toilet pans, dyes and glazes which retained their colour at high temperatures, and manufacturing methods which would not shatter the toilets. 'There's a lot of science in it,' said Mark. And Kelly, who used to run her own public relations business, said: 'It's like being on The Apprentice every day!' Five-year-old Oskar is also helping spread the word about the new business, telling classmates that his dad is a toilet cleaner.\nThe toilets of the Remarkable Toilet Company are also becoming talking points in homes and businesses across the country, and as far afield as continental Europe, Iceland and New Zealand. 'It's affordable luxury,' said Mark. 'People send us pictures of their toilets after they've been installed!\nA restaurant in Southend has installed seven of their golden toilets and the most popular designs so far are the Victorian Floral (Mark's favourite) and the Metropolis (Kelly's favourite.)\nKelly said that it was Queen Victoria who popularised the idea of having a toilet in a private room, and thousands followed her lead to the loo. 'She wanted everything to be as nice as possible and she didn't want people knowing about each other's ablutions.'\nToilets were installed in homes not just around the country, but across the globe. 'When I started collecting you used to be able to find Victorian toilets and cisterns in skips,' said Mark. Today antique toilets are more likely to be fetching good prices in auctions.\nPrices for their own replica toilets, from bog standard to lavatory lavish, range from \u00a3250 to \u00a32,800.\nAt home in Wood Dalling Hall, near Reepham, Mark and Kelly have an impressive seven toilets, but they are all more normal than ornate, because the couple rent the house, after falling in love with the history and architecture of the house, which dates back to 1582. In the 20th century it was used as a Muslim retreat and then a pub and restaurant before being converted back into a private home.\n'Norfolk is a beautiful, unspoilt part of the world,' said Mark. 'We had been up here to auctions in Aylsham and Diss.'\nMark and Kelly still love auctions, and regularly loan out some of finds for television and film sets.\nNow their showroom is open by appointment and they are nurturing a family and a business in Norfolk.\nThe Remarkable Toilet Company is based at Wood Dalling Hall, near Reepham, and online at www.beautifultoilets.com\nSOME MORE REMARKABLE LOOS AROUND EAST ANGLIA\nNorwich Castle has four-berth Norman toilets tucked within its thick outer walls, helpfully sited in companiable groups so that doing one's business did not need to interrupt any other business, and waste matter was conveniently expelled to ditches below.\nHolkham Hall. Communal toilets were still the height of sophistication when Holkham Hall was built centuries later. It had double toilets installed just off the main dining hall.\nThe Wee House, Sheringham, is a beautiful sea-front bed and breakfast, convenient for the beach and town, converted from the town's former public conveniences.\nA disused 98-year-old urinal in Norwich is a listed building. On St Crispins Road on the busy inner ring road stands the oldest prefabricated concrete urinal in the UK.\nOrford Castle in Suffolk has an even older urinal \u2013dating back it Norman times. It is built into the thick castle wall of a private room used by the constable of the castle.\nAudley End House in Essex was one of the first country houses in England to have flushing toilets. The first was installed in 1775 with another four arriving a decade later and costing the equivalent of the annual wages of two servants.\nAt Weybourne Station, near Sheringham, the reconstructed and restored Edwardian toilets won an award from the National Railway Association.\nAt Major's Corner in Ipswich a 21st century toilet block features a cartoon sculpture of a Sergeant Major swatting flies.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How Ebola patients survived \u2013 Experts\nGloria Tumwijuke (with microphone), Alice Ngonzi Isoke (folding hands in red dress), Diana Alinaitwe (behind Alice), Mrs Isoke (Alice's mother), an unidentified health worker(on Gloria's right) and a granddaughter to Mrs Isoke \u2013 all Ebola survivors narrating their ordeal at Kagaadi Hospital during the function to officially declare Uganda Ebola free. Photo courtesy WHO \u2013[\/caption] LAGOS \u2014 Following the recovery and discharge of the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patient from the isolation centre at the Mainland Hospital in Lagos, facts have emerged as to how the patients are recovering. Meanwhile, more patients undergoing medical treatment at the centre may be discharged this week, investigations revealed. Experts, who commented on the development, said although 60-90 per cent of people infected with the Ebola virus die, some people do recover from infection. \"Doctors don't know for certain who will survive Ebola, and there is no specific treatment or cure for the disease. But studies suggest there are some biological markers linked with a higher chance of surviving Ebola,\" the experts say. In the view of Derek Gatherer, a Bioinformatics researcher at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, who studies viral genetics and evolution, \"when a person becomes infected with Ebola, the virus depletes the body's immune cells, which defend against infection. \"In particular, the Ebola virus depletes immune cells called CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes, which are crucial to the function of the immune system\", Gatherer noted, arguing that \"if a person's immune system can stand up to this initial attack \u2014 meaning their immune cells are not as depleted in the first stages of infection \u2014 then they are more likely to survive the disease. \"The patients that survive it best are the ones who don't get such a bad immune deficiency. But if the body is not able to fend off this attack, then the immune system becomes less able to regulate itself\", Gatherer said. Markers Another marker linked with people's ability to survive Ebola is a gene called human leukocyte antigen-B, which makes a protein that is important in the immune system. A 2007 study found that people with certain versions of this gene, called B*07 and B*14, were more likely to survive Ebola, while people with other versions, called B*67 and B*15, were more likely to die. Some people may be resistant to Ebola infection entirely, if they have a mutation in a gene called NPC1. Studies show that, when researchers take cells from people with the NPC1 mutation and try to infect them with Ebola in a laboratory dish, these cells are resistant to the virus. Gatherer said in European populations, about 1 in 300 to 1 in 400 people has this mutation. \"But in some populations, this mutation is more common: in Nova Scotia, between 10 and 26 per cent of people have this mutation. But the frequency of this mutation in African populations is not known,\" he said. Also giving an insight, Lagos state Governor Babatunde Fashola remarked: \"This is a virus that will run a maximum of 21 days. What we must do is people who show some signs of illness should come in very early so that we can continue to hydrate them, give electrolyte balance so that their nervous system do not go into shock and wherever it is necessary to provide antibiotics for patients; and their body can fight the virus which in the event last no longer than 21 days.\" More to be discharged this week \u2014 Fashola Fashola, who spoke at a media briefing where he indicated that more patients were likely to be discharged this week, noted: \"There is silver lining in all of this, as report reaching me shows that many of the critical patients are responding positively to treatment and are likely to be discharged next week, (this week). \"At the moment, 61 people have been certified negative and they have been freed. \"Aside the treatment for those who have full grown cases, the more important work is tracking all those who have had contact with them in order to know how far the virus has spread. It is when we have finally reach everyone that we can say that we have control over the virus. From that place we can go back to sleep.\" Nasidi speaks Also speaking at a different forum, Director, Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, Prof. Abdulsalim Nasidi said the likelihood of more patients being discharged arose from medical reports indicating that they are showing signs of full recovery from the disease. Nasidi, who spoke on the probability of more patients being discharged, had earlier affirmed that there were chances of surviving the deadly disease if treated early. \"Yes, we have some of the patients who have fully recovered from the disease after intensive medical treatment and they are likely to go home and reunite with their family members soon,\" he affirmed. On the downing of tools by the health workers attending to quarantined patients at the Control Centre in Lagos, last Friday, he said the workers had resumed work after appeals and meeting held with some of the aggrieved workers. Their decision to stop work followed allegations of negligence by family members of one of the patients' nurses that died of EVD last week. It was also gathered that more essential medical kits have been made available for distribution to hospitals in anticipation of more health workers and volunteers that will be joining the joint medical team already on ground. Death toll rises to 1,145 globally \u2014 WHO Meanwhile, death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has risen to 1,145, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has said, even as 76 new deaths were reported in two in the four West African nations affected by the epidemic. The WHO said that a total of 152 confirmed, probable and suspected new cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever were reported in the two day period in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, bringing the total for the outbreak to 2,127. Chukwu addresses concerns of Ebola relatives Minister for Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu who met with the concerned friends and families of the Ebola afflicted victims following their complaints about the welfare of their wards said: \"As you know, we have a serious situation and anyone that has a relative is bound to be anxious, and when relatives complain, we must listen.\" Chukwu admitted that all the complaints were being investigated, adding that he had been briefed on the development and recommendations were being put in place. \"I'm a doctor myself and I'm behaving now more as a doctor than as a Minister. Normally, when relatives of patients complain, I want to see them, working together, sometimes they do not have the full information, and who knows, sometimes they themselves can add valued to what we are doing.\" He said the Federal Government was open to suggestions and contributions. \"We knew the former place was only temporary and we knew we could do better and that was why the Lagos State government made every effort to get the new isolation unit ready. Penultimate Friday, I visited the Lagos State Governor and he personally assured me the new facility will be ready this week. He kept to his word. Of course as soon as it was ready it was made available and the patients have been moved to the new facility, which is better than where they were before.\" Pointing out that no stone was being left unturned, he said hopefully all shortcomings they may have observed were actually being addressed by the new place. \"I had to personally discuss with the Chief Medical Director of LUTH, Prof Akin Oshibogun, when I was told they were not satisfied with facilities for critical care. That is why we have reinforced what is available. New equipment has been put in to reassure the patients that we would do everything humanly possible to keep them alive and to return them to their families and work,\" the Minister explained. *Vanguard]]>\n3 responses to \"How Ebola patients survived \u2013 Experts\"\nSir Davis Jr says:\nA big applause to Nigerians as a whole for without unity this EVD cannot be conquered.more so lets be strong in prayer and know for sure that God is the healer.let all glory goes to God and not to human.we just need to say thank you Jesus we are healed.\nEugenia kaitell says:\nso could white blood cell infusion help the infected patients?\nKing Asante-Yeboa says:\nEncouraging step. The clue could help researchers in this area of the medical field to test our plants \u2013 herbs, barks, trunks, roots \u2013 for local cure. I am strongly convinced that the Ebola antidote is in our local (African) plants.\nWe must act quickly, also on our own, to prevent more deaths, to save more people, even as we eagerly await the not-yet-well-tested antidotes from the west.\nLet's leave no stone unturned.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"$1.7 billion pledged in support of Indigenous and local communities' land tenure\nLaurel Sutherland\nBurned Amazonian forests by the side of the BR 163 in Par\u00e1. Notice the large number of dead trees (i.e. those without leaves) as a result of the fires. Image courtesy of Marizilda Cruppe\/Rede Amaz\u00f4nia Sustent\u00e1vel.\nSeveral governments and private funders have pledged US $1.7 billion in support of Indigenous and local communities' tenure rights in recognition of their global contributions to climate change mitigation.\nFunds will be used to support activities that will aid Indigenous and local communities to improve capacity building and secure, strengthen, and protect their land and resource rights.\nCOICA, a leading Amazonian Indigenous rights organization, remains skeptical of the fund's promise to reach Indigenous territories and support communities but says it will monitor the actualization of these new commitments.\nSeveral governments and private funders have announced at the COP26 United Nations climate summit plan to invest US $1.7 billion to support Indigenous and local communities' land tenure and resource rights in recognition of the role they play in climate change mitigation and protecting biodiversity.\nThe historic US $1.7 billion pledge is the largest public-private commitment to support Indigenous peoples and local communities. It was officially announced earlier today under the joint funders' COP26 statement 'Advancing Support for Indigenous Peoples' and Local Communities' Tenure Rights and Forest Guardianship'.\nGovernments from the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands and Germany, along with 17 private funders, that include the Ford Foundation and the Christensen Fund, have committed to further recognize the global contributions of Indigenous People and local communities in protecting tropical forests, preserving vital ecosystems and guarding forests and nature.\nThe collective pledge of new funds will run from 2021 to 2025 and calls on all donors to significantly increase their support of its agenda directed at improving capacity building and securing IPLC land rights. In the statement, the rise in threats and violence against IPLCs is noted.\n\"This pledge signals our commitment to protecting the world's tropical forests and those who live in them,\" said Lord Goldsmith, Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment. \"The evidence is overwhelming that Indigenous Peoples and local communities are forests' most effective guardians, often in the face of acute danger, and so they should be at the heart of nature-based solutions to the climate emergency. By investing in tropical forest communities and expanding their communal rights, we will also tackle poverty, pollution, and pandemics.\"\nA young Indigenous Waorani filmmaker documents the testimony of a Pekinani (traditional leader, elder) on their people's fight to protect their rainforest homeland from oil drilling, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Image courtesy of Jeronimo Z\u00fa\u00f1iga \/ Amazon Frontlines\nGetting funds to the community level\nIn a separate statement, the Ford Foundation highlighted recent studies on the discrepancy between IPLC land management and the amount of financial support they receive. A new WRI report released a few weeks ago underlines how IPLCs manage half of the world's land and care for 80% of Earth's biodiversity, while being allocated less than 1% of official designated assistance for climate change and less than 5% of official assistance for general environmental protection.\nFurther, only a small share of this assistance likely went to communities on the ground.\n\"The lion's share of the money has been captured at higher levels, amongst international NGOs, consulting firms, technical experts, and government agencies: only 10% of total climate finance is committed to local levels,\" noted the authors of a new PRISMA report.\nIn light of this, donors have pledged more direct and tangible support to communities with a strengthened accountability mechanism. The two specific criteria for the pledge are direct support to IPLC communities through capacity building and financial support to group activities, as well as funding to activities that strengthen and secure IPLC tenure rights in the form of mapping, registration work and land reform processes.\nWhile speaking to Mongabay last month, Carlos Rodriguez, the CEO of Global Environment Facility (GEF), also emphasized the need to build capacity and structures within Indigenous communities to effectively manage financial resources.\nThe donors have committed to promoting the effective participation and inclusion of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the decision-making process for these funds as well as consulting and partnering with them on the design and implementation of the relevant programs. Specific interests include the involvement of women and girls, youth, people with disabilities and others who are marginalized in decision-making.\nFrom a young age, boys from the Munduruku Indigenous people, who live on the banks of the Tapaj\u00f3s and Teles Pires rivers, are trained as warriors. In times past they used to wage war on other indigenous people, but today their main enemies are loggers and land grabbers invading their land. The Indians are the best guardians of the forest, for they fiercely protect their territories from invasion. Photo Credit: Mauricio Torres.\nHowever, some Indigenous leaders remain skeptical of the promise that funding will reach the community level.\nTuntiak Katan Jua, the Vice Coordinator of COICA, the Coordinator on Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon basin, shared that the pledge of new funds to support the recognition of Indigenous Peoples land rights is applauded but he has certain reservations.\n\"We know that many of these funds are destined for traditional mechanisms, which have shown very great limitations to reach our territories and support communities in their initiatives,\" said Jua, a native to the Ecuadorian Amazon and a member of the Shuar People. \"One of its limitations is that governments have difficulties of presence in these territories (which prevents them from really controlling them), and implementing long-term policies that protect natural resources. To a large extent, intermediaries are the first beneficiaries of climate funds, and their high costs reduce the percentage that is actually invested in communities and territories.\"\nHowever, according to Jua, COICA has been working on a series of recommendations to address this issue as part of their Shandia Vision. The Shania vision is a financing ecosystem that aims to allow all financial mechanisms from philanthropies and donors to reach their territories. This ecosystem will help COICA keep track of promises and monitor whether funding will actually reach the community level as promised.\nBanner image: Burned Amazonian forests by the side of the BR 163 in Par\u00e1. Notice the large number of dead trees (i.e. those without leaves) as a result of the fires. Image courtesy of Marizilda Cruppe\/Rede Amaz\u00f4nia Sustent\u00e1vel.\nRelated listening from Mongabay's podcast: A look at the importance of securing Indigenous communities' land rights and the global push for privatization that can deprive those communities of access to their land. Listen here:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Background Briefing\nTag: corruption\nBriefingsabortionbrookingscorruptionfarag7NATOreproductive rightsRussiasupreme courtthink tanks\nBackground Briefing: June 27, 2022\nOn June 27, 2022 June 28, 2022 By gram\nAlito's \"Victory for White Life\" and the Freakout on the White Right\nWe begin with how Alito's banning of abortion rights has been celebrated by white nationalists with Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller thanking Trump on behalf of the MAGA folks at a Trump rally in rural Illinois for the \"victory for white life\" in the Supreme Court's ruling. Joining us to discuss how the white right in this country is freaked out by the recent census statistic that there are more black and brown babies being born in America than white children is Gloria Browne-Marshall, a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She teaches Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice and was a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Her books include She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power and The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice.\nThe Case So Far Presented by the House Select Committee\nThen, with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection announcing an additional hearing tomorrow, we will examine the case they have presented so far and speak with Scott Horton, a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harper's in legal affairs and national security. He serves on the American branch of the International Law Association, and has represented a variety of journalists and whistleblowers and we also look into rumors of Putin's health as G-7 leaders meet in Germany to prevent a Putin victory in Ukraine.\nHow American Think Tanks Do the Bidding of Their Foreign Patrons\nThen finally, with the head of the Brookings Institution having to step down for soliciting foreign funds from undemocratic countries, a long-standing practice in Washington DC otherwise known as Nigeria on the Potomac, we speak with Casey Michel, a journalist whose writings on offshoring, kleptocracy, and financial secrecy have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox, The New Republic, and POLITICO Magazine, among others. He is a member of the advisory council for the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative, and has contributed research pertaining to offshoring, illicit finance, and foreign interference to the German Marshall Fund, the Human Rights Foundation, and others. The author of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History, we discuss his article at The New Republic, \"Congress Takes Aim at Think Tanks and Their Corrupt Money.\"\nThe Society of Professional Journalists recently honored Ian Masters and Background Briefing with the Distinguished Journalist for Audio award.\nSelect a Daily Briefing\nSignup For Daily Email Updates From Background Briefing\nProcessing Thank You...\n\u00a9 2018 PUBLIC TRUTH MEDIA FOUNDATION\u2003| ALL RIGHTS RESERVED\n\u00a9 2018 PUBLIC TRUTH MEDIA FOUNDATION. | Theme: Newslite Pro by eVisionThemes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome to the University of Integrated Science, California\nScience: A. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical\nexplanation of phenomena; B. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.\nIntegrate: To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify.\nSpirit: An orphaned branch of scientific investigation; the most central and material part of being.Integrated Science: To unify spirit and science into a discipline of theoretical, natural and experimental phenomena investigation, identification and observation.\nUniversity of Integrated Science California: A degree granting university where graduates have the opportunity to become strong leaders in areas such as human transformation, vegan and live food nutrition, organ-specific health challenges, pain\/stress management, world peace, Essene studies, Tantra and human sexuality, integrated wellness and transformational science. Students are encouraged to integrate and manifest their divinity in all areas of their lives. Our approach honors all religious beliefs, practices, cultures and nations.\nOur Vision and Educational Community\nThe founders, board and faculty of the University of Integrated Science California (UISCA) share a threefold vision:\n1) To assist individuals from all cultures, backgrounds and nations in educating their complete nature - mind, body, and spirit.\n2) To provide practical, accredited degree programs that merge a vast knowledge of science and the evolutionary journey of spirituality, creating a new worldview of integrated science.\n3) To offer the world's like minded educators an academic sanctuary in which to share, develop and publish their work. By so doing, we clear a path towards a degree founded on the basis of an integration of science. The world's future revolves around the liberation of teachers and students both academically and spiritually.\nRecent UISCA News\nImportant Post on the Dangers of Cell Phones - by Michelle Morrelli\nIn today's modern age of scientific breakthroughs we collectively appreciate many benefits of techno \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paul Berkowitz\nT +1.310.228.3715\nF +1.310.228.3952\nPaul Berkowitz is a partner in the Labor & Employment Practice Group in the firm's Century City office.\nPaul's practice involves representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment litigation in defense of complaints for class action and single-plaintiff matters. Specifically, he has extensive experience with wage and hour matters involving claims relating to overtime, wage deductions, meal and rest breaks, misclassification, and improper wage statements. Paul also is experienced litigating individual employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and wrongful termination cases, including winning jury trials and arbitration in such matters.\nPaul also provides clients with practical advice on a wide range of day-to-day traditional labor and employment law issues, including establishing effective human-resource policies and complying with federal and state laws, such as those relating to wage-and-hour issues, disability and family\/medical leave laws, and the discipline and termination processes.\nPaul works with clients in numerous industries, including financial services, insurance, retail, healthcare, hospitality, restaurant, and education.\nNotable Class Action Experience\nIbarra v. Manheim Investments, Inc., 775 F.3d 1193 (9th Cir. 2015). Reversed district court order remanding case and established more employer-friendly test for removing cases to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act.\nNotable Trial Experience\nAyala v. Cox Automotive, Inc., 2:16-cv-06341-CJC (USDC C.D. Cal.). Three-day jury trial in the Santa Ana federal court. The plaintiff asserted claims for age discrimination and wrongful termination. After about one hour of deliberation, unanimous jury awarded complete defense verdict.\nOllervides, et al. v. Concorde Battery Corp. Two-plaintiff sexual harassment and wrongful termination case. Obtained complete defense ruling following seven-day arbitration.\nWage and Hour Class and Collective Action Experience\nAcuity Brands Lighting adv. DeLaTorre, CIVDS1601800 (San Bernardino Superior Court) (failure to provide meal and rest periods, failure to include bonus in regular rate, time rounding).\nBalboa Life & Casualty, LLC, et al. adv. Zamora, et al., BC360026 (Los Angeles Superior Court) (alleged meal period and rest break violations, waiting time penalties).\nBank of America, N.A., et al. adv. Zamora, et al., BC464365 (Los Angeles Superior Court) (alleged denial of opportunity to copy or inspect putative class members' personnel files and wage and time records).\nCharter Communications adv. Novoa, 13-cv-01302 (USDC E.D. Cal.) (alleged off-the-clock work for field technicians).\nCountrywide Financial Corporation adv. Abhyankar, JAMS Case No. 1220036579 (JAMS Arbitration) (alleged Labor Code violations for misclassification of exempt employees based on violation of salary-basis test because of jury duty policy).\nCountrywide Financial Corporation, et al. adv. Lew, et al., CV-01993-SC (USDC N.D. Cal. (alleged Labor Code violations for alleged unpaid wages, improper wage statements, meal\/rest break violations, and untimely payment of final wages).\nCountrywide Insurance Services, Inc. adv. 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{"text":"\u203a Dedicated Ysbyty Gwynedd Robin wins health board award\nDedicated Ysbyty Gwynedd Robin wins health board award\nAround five years ago Andy Fewings began volunteering at the hospital to thank staff for the care and treatment he received after being diagnosed with cancer.\nHe spends one day a week volunteering on Alaw Ward and the other for the Royal Voluntary Service within the hospital.\nThe 71-year-old retired postal worker was nominated for a Seren Betsi Star award by Volunteers Co-ordinator Nia Lloyd-Roberts for his dedication to supporting the teams and patients at the hospital.\nShe said: \"Every Wednesday Andy will gift his time as a Robin volunteer to Alaw Ward at Ysbyty Gwynedd. On Thursday's he volunteers with the RVS assisting in the Transfer Lounge where patients wait for hospital transport once they are discharged from hospital.\n\"He also maintains the upkeep of the ward's garden in order for patients to be able to enjoy being outside.\n\"He is also an excellent mentor to new volunteers and receives nothing but praise from them. Not only does he volunteer on the ward itself but he will also ensure that patients on the Alaw Day Unit have had something to eat and drink as well as company if required whilst receiving treatment.\n\"His story is inspirational and he has proven to be a reliable and committed volunteer who has a positive impact on the patients on the ward.\n\"Andy will go above and beyond the organisational values and truly does put the patient first. Andy knows from personal experience that being in hospital can be very daunting so anything he can do to ease anxiety or feeling of isolation and loneliness is worth every second.\"\nThe monthly Seren Betsi Star award recognises the hard work and dedication of North Wales NHS staff and volunteers.\nAndrew said: \"It's absolutely lovely to receive this award, it really was very unexpected.\n\"The main reason I volunteer is to give back to the staff for all the support and care they provided when I went through my treatment after I was diagnosed with cancer in 2013.\n\"It's due to the staff within the Health Board that I am here today, there is never enough I can do to repay them, so through my volunteering I feel I'm giving something back to say to thank you.\"\nAndrew was presented with the award by the Health Board's Acting Executive Director of Finance Sue Hill.\nShe said: \"I would like to congratulate Andrew on his award, he is an excellent example of the positive impact our volunteers can have on both our patients and our staff.\n\"He is doing some fantastic things for our Health Board and always puts the patients first.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"May 1, 2019 | Test & Measurement\nRadiometric Temperature Measurement Using a DLP-Based Pyrometer\nThis compact and robust device offers applications for aviation, space exploration, and industry.\nArmstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California\nResearchers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center have identified and evaluated recently available miniature spectrometers that enable compact and robust pyrometry systems capable of measuring aircraft surface temperatures and emissivity during flight.\nRadiometric temperature measurement system based on a digital light processing (DLP) spectrometer.\nPyrometers measure high temperatures by observing emitted radiation; however, aircraft vibrations can render unreliable pyrometer measurements made during flight. Armstrong researchers believe these miniature spectrometers will mitigate this problem by using digital light processor (DLP) technology to measure the intensity of multiple wavelengths in the near infrared (0.9-1.7 micron) range.\nThis work seeks to apply newly released, commercial components in a new way for which these systems were not originally designed. Developed for use in televisions, the DLP technology is used here within a robust scanning array that is nearly impervious to vibration and requires a single detector, as opposed to more complex, multi-element array detectors. The result is a mechanically stable device that is the first use of a spectrometer of this type for temperature measurements.\nIn addition, the DLP-based pyrometer allows for increased control over wavelength measurement in the near-infrared range via a digital interface. The measurement of multiple wavelength intensities combined with multi-spectral methods provides accurate calculations of an object's emissivity and surface temperature.\nThe device is more compact than previous multi-wavelength pyrometers, and with its single detector rather than the array of detectors often present in conventional pyrometers, results in lower costs. The smaller size and robust nature of the new device allow it to be mounted onto various aircraft, providing engineers with an improved method for an in-flight temperature measurement system. Beyond its use in aviation, the DLP-based pyrometer has potential commercial applications for space exploration and in the glass, metal processing, and ceramics industries.\nThis work was done by Timothy Risch, Christopher Kostyk, and Jeffrey Beard of Armstrong Flight Research Center. For more information, contact the NASA Armstrong Technology Transfer Office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. DRC-017-009.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"copper statue of liberty\n[5] On the sub-national level, the Statue of Liberty National Monument was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1971,[6] and was made a New York City designated landmark in 1976. A French flag draped across the statue's face was to be lowered to unveil the statue at the close of Evarts's speech, but Bartholdi mistook a pause as the conclusion and let the flag fall prematurely. A group of statues stands at the western end of the island, honoring those closely associated with the Statue of Liberty. On December 2, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson pressed the telegraph key that turned on the lights, successfully illuminating the statue. Facts About the Statue of Liberty. [76], The foundation of Bartholdi's statue was to be laid inside Fort Wood, a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and 1811. [59][60] To prevent galvanic corrosion between the copper skin and the iron support structure, Eiffel insulated the skin with asbestos impregnated with shellac. With the project in jeopardy, groups from other American cities, including Boston and Philadelphia, offered to pay the full cost of erecting the statue in return for relocating it. [164] The statue and Liberty Island reopened to the public on July 4, 2013. He soon died, leaving no indication of how he intended to transition from the copper skin to his proposed masonry pier. \"[156], Immediately following the September 11 attacks, the statue and Liberty Island were closed to the public. Since 1823, it had rarely been used, though during the Civil War, it had served as a recruiting station. [113], When the torch was illuminated on the evening of the statue's dedication, it produced only a faint gleam, barely visible from Manhattan. The island reopened at the end of 2001, while the pedestal and statue remained off-limits. It was swaying more and more when strong winds blew and there was a significant risk of structural failure. The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. President Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided over the event. The four sides are identical in appearance. As a result, the WPA constructed a 250-foot copper apron (a kind of cap flashing) over the pedestal. The monument was temporarily closed from March 16, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic until partially reopening on July 20, 2020. Records show that the ore from this mine, refined in France and Belgium, has been an important source of European copper at the end of the nineteenth century. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bartholdi, a sculptor. Even though this is a very small version, I [71] The statue remained intact in Paris pending sufficient progress on the pedestal; by January 1885, this had occurred and the statue was disassembled and crated for its ocean voyage. [95] A kindergarten class in Davenport, Iowa, mailed the World a gift of $1.35. The route began at Madison Square, once the venue for the arm, and proceeded to the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan by way of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, with a slight detour so the parade could pass in front of the World building on Park Row. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. Careful study had revealed that the right arm had been improperly attached to the main structure. [105] General Charles Stone claimed on the day of dedication that no man had died during the construction of the statue. [78] workshop. The group's leaders made speeches applauding the embodiment of Liberty as a woman and advocating women's right to vote. [10] Given the repressive nature of the regime of Napoleon III, Bartholdi took no immediate action on the idea except to discuss it with Laboulaye. [10] As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans. [163] Since Liberty Island had no electricity, a generator was installed to power temporary floodlights to illuminate the statue at night. [99], Even with the success of the fund drive, the pedestal was not completed until April 1886. citizen. [79] He proposed a pedestal 114 feet (35 m) in height; faced with money problems, the committee reduced that to 89 feet (27 m). \"[76] Faced with these criticisms, the American committees took little action for several years. [89], Even with these efforts, fundraising lagged. In music, it has been evoked to indicate support for American policies, as in Toby Keith's song \"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)\", and in opposition, appearing on the cover of the Dead Kennedys' album Bedtime for Democracy, which protested the Reagan administration. In the autumn of 1985 copper from the statue was analyzed and it has now been confirmed that it was indeed extracted at Visnes. [104] After the skin was completed, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of Manhattan's Central Park and Brooklyn's Prospect Park, supervised a cleanup of Bedloe's Island in anticipation of the dedication. [152] Access to the pedestal, which had been through a nondescript entrance built in the 1960s, was renovated to create a wide opening framed by a set of monumental bronze doors with designs symbolic of the renovation. [56] Eiffel and his structural engineer, Maurice Koechlin, decided to abandon the pier and instead build an iron truss tower. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: \"If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort\u2014a common work of both our nations. [93] As the donations flooded in, the committee resumed work on the pedestal. Land created by reclamation added to the 2.3-acre (0.93 ha) original island at Ellis Island is New Jersey territory. Statue of Liberty is made of copper just 3\/32 inches thick But it's naturally oxidised to form green 'patina' covering Once looked far more shiny until the coating grew on top The Corps of Engineers also installed an elevator to take visitors from the base to the top of the pedestal. Growing interest in the upcoming Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia led Laboulaye to decide it was time to seek public support. He claimed over 80,000 contributors, but failed to reach the goal. [35], Bartholdi made alterations in the design as the project evolved. [51] After the exhibition closed, the arm was transported to New York, where it remained on display in Madison Square Park for several years before it was returned to France to join the rest of the statue. The Liberty statue project was not the only such undertaking that had difficulty raising money: construction of the obelisk later known as the Washington Monument sometimes stalled for years; it would ultimately take over three-and-a-half decades to complete. [45] According to Cara Sutherland in her book on the statue for the Museum of the City of New York, 200,000 pounds (91,000 kg) was needed to build the statue, and the French copper industrialist Eug\u00e8ne Secr\u00e9tan donated 128,000 pounds (58,000 kg) of copper. The statue - stylistically an example of neoclassical architecture - is a hollow construction of thinly pounded copper sheets (2.4 mm thick) laid over a steel framework. Amazon.com: statue of liberty copper - 4 Stars & Up. [69] By 1882, the statue was complete up to the waist, an event Barthodi celebrated by inviting reporters to lunch on a platform built within the statue. This was not true, however, as Francis Longo, a thirty-nine year old Italian laborer, had been killed when an old wall fell on him. [123], In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a national monument. \"The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World\" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Libert\u00e9 \u00e9clairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. This impressed upon the public the war's stated purpose\u2014to secure liberty\u2014and served as a reminder that embattled France had given the United States the statue. Carloads of dynamite and other explosives that were being sent to Britain and France for their war efforts were detonated. Copper sheathing was installed to prevent further damage from rainwater that had been seeping into the pedestal. The copper and brass industry provided technical advice on restoration of the copper components of the Statue, and it performed a similar service for these components at the adjacent Ellis Island restoration project. An attempt the next year to have Congress provide $100,000, sufficient to complete the project, also failed. \"[121] The statue was painted only on the inside. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. [149] The original torch was removed and replaced in 1986 with the current one, whose flame is covered in 24-karat gold. [96], On June 17, 1885, the French steamer Is\u00e8re [fr] arrived in New York with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. [66], In a symbolic act, the first rivet placed into the skin, fixing a copper plate onto the statue's big toe, was driven by United States Ambassador to France Levi P. [54] One of its members was 19-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, the future governor of New York and president of the United States. President Reagan presided over the rededication, with French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand in attendance. The statue's foundation and pedestal were aligned so that it would face southeast, greeting ships entering the harbor from the Atlantic Ocean. He gave it bold classical contours and applied simplified modeling, reflecting the huge scale of the project and its solemn purpose. [172] The new museum, designed by FXFOWLE Architects, is integrated with the surrounding parkland. The cost to repair the statue and buildings on the island was about $100,000 (equivalent to about $2,350,000 in 2019). [133], A powerful new lighting system was installed in advance of the American Bicentennial in 1976. For this reason, the copper skin was one of the few major elements of the Statue that did not need to be significantly rebuilt or completely replaced when the Statue was renovated for its centennial. The problem was that the light it produced was very low, it was attenuated by the copper plates, and all she could do was continually attract a flock of birds which ultimately differentiate the statue. [122], After the United States entered World War I in 1917, images of the statue were heavily used in both recruitment posters and the Liberty bond drives that urged American citizens to support the war financially. The difference was quietly made up by a gift from a wealthy donor\u2014a fact that was not revealed until 1936. [24] One of these symbols, the personified Columbia, was seen as an embodiment of the United States in the manner that Britannia was identified with the United Kingdom, and Marianne came to represent France. [3][188] The monument was expanded to also include Ellis Island in 1965. Weight of concrete foundation: 54,000,000 lbs.. Thickness of copper sheeting: 3\/32 of an inch, the thickness of two pennies placed together.. Wind Sway: 50 mph winds cause the Statue to sway up to 3 inches and the torch up to 6 inches.. The Statue of Liberty's Original Torch As Bartholdi envisioned it in 1874, the flame of the Statue's torch was not to be lighted but rather made of solid copper sheet and gilded to shine brightly in daylight. [139][140][141] Through its fundraising arm, the Statue of Liberty\u2013Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., the group raised more than $350 million in donations for the renovations of both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. [125] The Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished most of the old buildings, regraded and reseeded the eastern end of the island, and built granite steps for a new public entrance to the statue from its rear. Grover Cleveland, the governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide $50,000 for the statue project in 1884. She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. [22], Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty. [199] The statue's intended photographic depiction on a 2010 forever stamp proved instead to be of the replica at the Las Vegas casino. At the time, she was also involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in eastern Europe. [34] As chief engineer,[34] Viollet-le-Duc designed a brick pier within the statue, to which the skin would be anchored. It was lit briefly on December 31, 1943, and on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when its lights flashed \"dot-dot-dot-dash\", the Morse code for V, for victory. Note: Visitor numbers are estimates only. It was designated as a National Monument in 1924. [36], Bartholdi interested his friend and mentor, architect Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc, in the project. The erected statue does stride over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. In a labor-intensive process, each saddle had to be crafted individually. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions. [53] The New York group eventually took on most of the responsibility for American fundraising and is often referred to as the \"American Committee\". The Statue of Liberty is a colossal copper sculpture on Liberty Island in New York City, the statue had been a welcoming sight to numerous immigrants arriving New York Harbor, it gradually become an icon of freedom and of the United States. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. [37], The entire puddled iron armature designed by Gustave Eiffel was replaced. [134] The day concluded with a spectacular display of fireworks near the statue. [79] In Hunt's original conception, the pedestal was to have been made of solid granite. It now stands on the \u00cele aux Cygnes, facing west toward her larger sister. [sic] You opened your arms and you get all the foreigners here. [42] The French would finance the statue; Americans would be expected to pay for the pedestal. [194] In a patriotic tribute, the Boy Scouts of America, as part of their Strengthen the Arm of Liberty campaign in 1949\u20131952, donated about two hundred replicas of the statue, made of stamped copper and 100 inches (2.5 m) in height, to states and municipalities across the United States. The statue was often the first thing that immigrants coming to America would see as they neared Ellis Island. The statue of liberty was built over nine years in sections of copper skin on top of an iron skeleton. In this painting, which commemorates France's July Revolution, a half-clothed Liberty leads an armed mob over the bodies of the fallen. [74] Harper's Weekly declared its wish that \"M. Bartholdi and our French cousins had 'gone the whole figure' while they were about it, and given us statue and pedestal at once. [58] The following year, Bartholdi was able to obtain the services of the innovative designer and builder Gustave Eiffel. [84], Norwegian immigrant civil engineer Joachim Goschen Gi\u00e6ver designed the structural framework for the Statue of Liberty. The cornerstone bears a plaque placed by the, In 1903, a bronze tablet that bears the text of. [181] The ferries, which depart from Liberty State Park in Jersey City and the Battery in Lower Manhattan, also stop at Ellis Island when it is open to the public, making a combined trip possible. [183], Visitors intending to enter the statue's base and pedestal must obtain a complimentary museum\/pedestal ticket along with their ferry ticket. [50] Nevertheless, the arm proved popular in the exhibition's waning days, and visitors would climb up to the balcony of the torch to view the fairgrounds. Liberty Island is one of the islands that are part of the borough of Manhattan in New York. The Statue of Liberty has been an iconic symbol of liberty and justice for all, but weather has drastically changed her look over the years -- and the passage of \u2026 The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service as part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, and is a major tourist attraction. [24] Laboulaye had no sympathy for revolution, and so Bartholdi's figure would be fully dressed in flowing robes. The copper may have come from multiple sources and some of it is said to have come from a mine in Visnes, Norway,[44] though this has not been conclusively determined after testing samples. Laboulaye hoped that by calling attention to the recent achievements of the United States, the French people would be inspired to call for their own democracy in the face of a repressive monarchy.\"[12]. [168] However, the island remained open during the 2018\u201319 United States federal government shutdown because the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation had donated funds. In completing his engineering for the statue's frame, Gi\u00e6ver worked from drawings and sketches produced by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was the focal point for Operation Sail, a regatta of tall ships from all over the world that entered New York Harbor on July 4, 1976, and sailed around Liberty Island. The outer layer of copper atoms react with the atmosphere to create a layer of verdigris (copper carbonate). With technological advances, copper is still a great idea today. The completed statue was formally presented to Ambassador Morton at a ceremony in Paris on July 4, 1884, and de Lesseps announced that the French government had agreed to pay for its transport to New York. That project alone called for 8,000 square feet of copper sheet. Bartholdi was the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty. A secondary skeleton was attached to the center pylon, then, to enable the statue to move slightly in the winds of New York Harbor and as the metal expanded on hot summer days, he loosely connected the support structure to the skin using flat iron bars[34] which culminated in a mesh of metal straps, known as \"saddles\", that were riveted to the skin, providing firm support. [127] The statue was closed to the public from May until December 1938. After consultations with the metalwork foundry Gaget, Gauthier & Co., Viollet-le-Duc chose the metal which would be used for the skin, copper sheets, and the method used to shape it, repouss\u00e9, in which the sheets were heated and then struck with wooden hammers. While a glance at the Statue's rich, green patina provides proof of copper's enduring good looks, closer analysis shows that weathering and oxidation of the copper skin has amounted to just .005 of an inch in a \u2026 [25][26], Artists of the 18th and 19th centuries striving to evoke republican ideals commonly used representations of Libertas as an allegorical symbol. A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time,[23] and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom (1863) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building. Copper reacts with the air to form a patina or verdigris. The statue was reopened on October 28, 2012,[1][160][161] but then closed again a day later in advance of Hurricane Sandy. [81] According to author Louis Auchincloss, the pedestal \"craggily evokes the power of an ancient Europe over which rises the dominating figure of the Statue of Liberty\". In 1903, the sonnet was engraved on a plaque that was affixed to the base of the statue.[116]. Also, this auction includes the card that fits into this window envelope. While a glance at the Statue's rich, green patina provides proof of copper's enduring good looks, closer analysis shows that weathering and oxidation of the copper skin has amounted to just .005 of an inch in a century. Instead, Bartholdi cut portholes in the torch\u2014which was covered with gold leaf\u2014and placed the lights inside them. [92] The drive captured the imagination of New Yorkers, especially when Pulitzer began publishing the notes he received from contributors. The United States Lighthouse Board took over the Statue of Liberty in 1887 and pledged to install equipment to enhance the torch's effect; in spite of its efforts, the statue remained virtually invisible at night. [207] In film, the torch is the setting for the climax of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 movie Saboteur. There are several plaques and dedicatory tablets on or near the Statue of Liberty. This 9 1\/2 Statue was cast in copper. Metallic copper exposed to the air always turns green. [51], During his second trip to the United States, Bartholdi addressed a number of groups about the project, and urged the formation of American committees of the Franco-American Union. Both islands were ceded by New York to the federal government in 1800. Above that, a balcony was placed on each side, framed by pillars. Climbers may bring only medication and cameras\u2014lockers are provided for other items\u2014and must undergo a second security screening.[185]. [208] The statue makes one of its most famous cinematic appearances in the 1968 picture Planet of the Apes, in which it is seen half-buried in sand. [31] They evoke the sun, the seven seas, and the seven continents,[32] and represent another means, besides the torch, whereby Liberty enlightens the world.[27]. [193] A replica 30 feet (9.1 m) tall stood atop the Liberty Warehouse on West 64th Street in Manhattan for many years;[193] it now resides at the Brooklyn Museum. More up-to-date techniques made the copper installation easier and more enduring. Check out BrainCraft here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/braincraft Reactions is all about the chemistry that happens in copper this week. [104] In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt, once a member of the New York committee, ordered the statue's transfer to the War Department, as it had proved useless as a lighthouse. It has been widely rumored that the copper used in the building of the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey came from . In the years following the Civil War, most Americans preferred realistic artworks depicting heroes and events from the nation's history, rather than allegorical works like the Liberty statue. They are the work of Maryland sculptor Phillip Ratner. \"[130][131], Beginning December 26, 1971, 15 anti-Vietnam War veterans occupied the statue, flying a US flag upside down from her crown. [201][202] The Women's National Basketball Association's New York Liberty use both the statue's name and its image in their logo, in which the torch's flame doubles as a basketball. He was succeeded as chairman of the French committee by Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal. [102] Bartholdi had planned to put floodlights on the torch's balcony to illuminate it; a week before the dedication, the Army Corps of Engineers vetoed the proposal, fearing that ships' pilots passing the statue would be blinded. [52] On March 3, 1877, on his final full day in office, President Grant signed a joint resolution that authorized the President to accept the statue when it was presented by France and to select a site for it. [172] The new $70 million, 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) museum may be visited by all who come to the island,[173] as opposed to the museum in the pedestal, which only 20% of the island's visitors had access to. Above the door on each side, there are ten disks upon which Bartholdi proposed to place the coats of arms of the states (between 1876 and 1889, there were 38 U.S. states), although this was not done. [56] The French government authorized a lottery; among the prizes were valuable silver plate and a terracotta model of the statue. The act also mentioned the efforts to found an American Museum of Immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The superintendent of Statue of Liberty National Monument, David Luchsinger\u2014whose home on the island was severely damaged\u2014stated that it would be \"optimistically ... months\" before the island was reopened to the public. With the announcement, the statue was given a name, Liberty Enlightening the World. [138], In May 1982, President Ronald Reagan announced the formation of the Statue of Liberty\u2013Ellis Island Centennial Commission, led by Chrysler Corporation chair Lee Iacocca, to raise the funds needed to complete the work. The original engineer on the project, Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc, who was a teacher and a friend of Bartholdi, proposed the material and method for shaping the large panels that would make up the skin of Lady Liberty. By 1906, the entire Statue of Liberty was green. \"[192], Hundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty are displayed worldwide. There was a classical precedent for the Suez proposal, the Colossus of Rhodes: an ancient bronze statue of the Greek god of the sun, Helios. [90], Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, a New York newspaper, announced a drive to raise $100,000\u2014the equivalent of $2.3 million today. [178] As agreed in an 1834 compact between New York and New Jersey that set the state border at the bay's midpoint, the original islands remain New York territory though located on the New Jersey side of the state line.\nUnionism In Nursing, What Does The Blue Circle Mean On Facebook Story, L'oreal Lock It Clean Style Gel, Baked Bean Bread Lasagne, Bernat Pipsqueak Stripes Yarn Patterns, Rhubarb Gin And Prosecco, Golden Trout Images,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"April 19, 2016 April 18, 2016 by Karel FG Segers\nAlex Garland has mastered storytelling for a long time. I remember the novel The Beach to be a riveting read. Here I will show you how he lifted his own screenplay for Ex Machina from gold to platinum level, through inspired direction. This will only take one scene.\nAt the time of the screen adaptation of Alex Garland's The Beach, all eyes were on the director, Danny Boyle. But the original author went on to write an original script for 28 Days Later, Boyle's next movie. It returned its budget tenfold.\nNext, he wrote the adaptation of Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go; and with Ex Machina Garland made an impressive transition to directing. It seems he is hooked on directing now. With Annihilation (2017), he isn't even working from his own original material any longer.\nSpoilers Needed [and you're warned]\nEx Machina is not a crowd pleaser; rather a challenging piece of genre cinema, made on a relatively low budget of $15m.\nComputer programmer prodigy Caleb wins an invitation to the remote mountain estate of company owner Nathan, to conduct a secretive experiment. He is to perform a Turing test on a female AI robot, Ava.\nThe movie's ending is not a happy one for our unassuming programmer, and it didn't appeal to the mainstream audience, either.\nInterestingly, I found the movie's outcome a lot more palatable at a second viewing, when I was prepared for it.\nAnd for you to be prepared, you really need to understand the mid point reversal in this film.\nDeus ex machina is a term for the lazy story device that fixes issues by using unexpected, unlikely turns. The phrase originated in Greek theatre, where often characters were introduced on stage by means of a mechanical contraption \u2013 a machine. Ava in Ex Machina is a manmade machine; put on stage by her (anything but god-like) creator Nathan.\nIt's Caleb's job to determine whether Ava is really a machine, or indeed a conscious being. That's the basic plot.\nLike the chapters of a book, this story is largely subdivided into sections that each start with Caleb's meeting with Ava.\nWith each \"Ava Session\", he is more intrigued, to the point that he completely falls for Ava's beauty, intelligence and purity.\nSo there's a love story, too. But what is the movie about on a deeper level?\nThe key to the answer lies in one scene, and one scene only.\nAva Session #4\nThe movie's most powerful moment sits at the halfway point \u2013 and you may not even have noticed. It's a deceptive moment that revealed its secrets to me only upon re-watching.\nCaleb tells Ava about a thought experiment called \"Mary-in-the-black-and-white-room.\" Ava gets that the story is really about her. She doesn't like what she hears, and she shows it through a subtle facial reaction.\nMuch of this is unique to the finished film, and not evident in the screenplay. The script has just dialogue, no big print subtext.\nWhat we see on the screen tells a far richer story\u2026\nGarland's Hidden Clues\nFirst off, the framing of the scene gives some clues. It opens with what almost looks like a split screen, a line running vertically straight through the middle; Ava on the left, Caleb on the right.\nIf you believed that a connection has been growing between these two characters; this strong visual separation tells us a different story.\nThe exact positioning of the characters left and right may not seem relevant to the occasional screenwriter, but it is to the skilled director. If you were to carefully review Caleb's earlier sessions, you would notice that Caleb was positioned on the left, the natural place on the screen for any protagonist.\nWhat Garland says by placing Ava on the left hand side in this scene, is this: Caleb has lost his spot as the main character. Ava now leads. The second half of the film confirms this, and the ending simply doesn't work without this realisation.\nA moment later, we see exactly what Ava thinks and feels through flashes of black and white, then colour imagery. These intercuts can really only be Ava's imagination; her internal response to the story. In other words, we have now also entered her POV.\nMore proof that her character is fit to take the lead in this movie.\nFinally, it is also revealed to us that Ava triggers the power cuts. She is \u2013 and has been \u2013 propelling the story.\nComplete Story Reversal\nHere is a character who is fully in control. Not only does the AI robot have intention, she is controlling where the story goes, including all other characters. If you don't go with the director, and leave Caleb's POV, you are in for a profoundly dissatisfying experience.\nMany great movies have mid points that essentially signify a reversal of some kind. But here the reversal is complete. We shift to an entirely different main character altogether.\nWhat all this means for the theme, and the statement the film makes, I leave for you to decide. But perhaps this really good analysis may be of help (IF YOU CAN HANDLE THE ALL CAPS). And if this isn't enough, check out this podcast with Alex Garland interviewed by Jeff Goldsmith.\nEnjoy the scene, and please leave your comments below!\n-Karel Segers\n(Download the script excerpt here)\nCategories Script Perfection, Story & Structure Post navigation\nGreat Characters In Movies Share One Thing\u2026\n15 thoughts on \"Ex Machina's Secrets Show Garland's Directing Genius\"\nGreat thanks Karel!\nSo I guess the snippet of page you posted is also the \"black and white room\" which Alex is leaving as he starts to direct more than write?\nKarel Segers\nGood point. Boyle put him in that room. But he broke out with a bang! :)\nI am neither a fan nor given to accepting the story arch or the character development. In my view the film narrative fails on two levels. The first failure is that there is no real development of character revelation through action. We only see the characters as serving the narrative line developed by the writer as a schema rather than an interaction between characters. There is not enough room given to the characters to take over and dominate or even change the flow of the story.\nThe second failure is in the character of Ava. She is never more than a machine cipher. For this project to become more than an exercise in narrative line following a formula, Ava must be tempted towards a potential threat where she can fail. She also should be given the capacity to experience more in temptation and coming to grips with a threat to her existence. Technically the film has a surface brilliance, but in the exploration of character and giving us a living, breathing, sexual being capable of anguish and a need to escape to a new level of existence \u2013 it fails. The potential is there, but it is never realised.\nAs in the Bicential Man and AI, the humanoid robot is a device \u2013 not a character we can relate to. There is yet to be a robotic presence that is seductively dangerous and a threat to man's existence.\nI would not call these failures, John. I don't believe you can portray an AI character following the standard practice of character setup (strength + weakness), and then build a story arch. Particularly not if the whole point is about the Turing test.\nAlso, as said above, this was never going to be a mainstream film (at a budget of $15m). For a screenwriter who has proven himself many times over, I thought it would be a constructive approach to try and understand what his intention was. So this is the angle of my piece.\nI'm not sure what you mean by \"development of character revelation through action\".\nAva triggering the blackouts is clearly character revelation through action to me. If you go looking in other scenes, I'm sure you will find more evidence.\nIt is valid to examine a piece through the lens of the the writer's intent. But it is also valid to operate in the dark as an audience member and decide on the experience as it unfolds \u2013 on subjective grounds how you found the experience. An objective examination is a nice fiction which is open to debate.\nThere are no arbitrary absolutes on how character is revealed, but my own view is that most successful character builds come from how the character reacts to conflicts and adversary situations. As the scale of difficulty grows so does the frustration of the character. How the character is able to find their way through the labyrinth of narrative helps us gain insight into their thoughts and the core of their being. This is the revelation that I referred to above.\nMy key frustration with most depictions of android\/humanoids in film relates closely to the Turing test, but in a secondary and even tertiary level. It comes down to the frustration of being human. Most depictions of androids has to date, been shallow and under developed. In this case there is a level of sophistication in the style and presentation, but the character of the android is still on the level of a cipher. We have nothing to relate to in the way of the human emergence or yearning for transformation onto a higher level.\nI will give two examples where the Turin test comes into play. There is a short novelette where alien shape changers may have created one of their creatures in exact duplication of human form and the replicant escapes into the city where men exists, but is killed in the process. The other possibility is that they have captured a human, bent his mind out of shape and then allowed him to escape. The question then becomes: Was this creature human?\nThe other example is Rick Deckard, the Blade Runner. After his adventures \"retiring\" a number of replicants and becoming involved with one \u2013 he learns that his own memories are suspect and that he may be a replicant himself. Irony abounds but the existential framework gets a good working out in the process. Our identification with Deckard becomes even stronger as we share his feeling of alienation and finally ends up with questions that cannot be answered \u2013 only endured.\nChalk one up for Riddely Scott. Ave and all that. Drum roll and muted applause. It works.\nIn this the Turing Test or \"Voight-Kampff\" Test \u2013 is only a tool which introduces us to the first step of the conundrum. The flaw in the process is deciding what is human? Then there is the other question: What is reality \u2013 and do I want to be there? The Hamlet question. Again there are questions without any hope of finding a definitive answer.\nGertrude Stein on her death bed and Alice B.Tolkas asks her: What is the answer? To which Gert responds: What is the question?\nThe reality is that we do NOT live in a quantum universe. We ask quantum theory questions, but we live in a determinist universe. The cat may be either dead or alive before we open the box, but when the box is opened it assumes one of these states.\nMy main objection to Deus Ex Machina is that it sets up the situation, but never really asks the question. Again that is my view \u2013 a lot of potential which is never fully realised.\nAnd next week I will tell you what I thoughts on Gravity \u2013 schlock Hollywood rides again! Ah well \u2013 so it goes. The wheel turns and we climb on the wagon for another trip to the circus.\nThank you for your considered answer, John. I can totally see your point.\nLooking forward to your thoughts on Gravity! (That one didn't work for me one bit, while the rest of the world went crazy over it.)\nYes I know I did promise a five second or so critique on gravity, but I have been busy doing other things dammit. (I am in the process of writing a play about a drama group performing Lear \u2013 how is that for a logline.)\nOK but to the case in point \u2013 Gravity. This is a film that takes itself way too seriously. It has what I would term \u2013 manufactured gravitas. Big budget, bankable cast and very sophisticated technology. Mummy please can I have their budge for my next project? But people (please pay attention now, this is the important part!) \u2013 GRAVITY IS A BORE!\nIt is turgid, predictable and or so sloooowww in depicting a very limited and overly engineered story line. OK we have the naughty Russian playing Nuclear Russian Roulette half a world away and this causes a massive pile up of space debris which is coming our way. Oh gee the tension is too much to bear. This is so frightening I won't be able to sleep for a week.\nBut seriously folks, this is old school, so called \"mainstream sci fi.\" In other words it is sci fi for two year olds. This derives from the early pioneering days of science fiction when John W. Campbell was penning \"Who Goes There?\" which later was transformed into \"The Thing\" (from another world, galaxy or universe \u2013 take your pick.\nBut here's the thing, even in the early days of science fiction the story and the hook on which it was based were the keys that drove both the narrative and tensions which drove those involved \u2013 yes the character development \u2013 give that man a lollipop. Well done sir or madam as the case may be.\nNow we all know that there is nothing new under the sun. Writers steal. That is their bread and butter. In science fiction however, the writer plays a different game. It is called: What if?\nWhat if our world travels between two binary suns? What if I am a cloned duplicate sent to assassinate\/retire my original self? What if I decided to hitch a ride with aliens and travel to their world? You get the idea. Science Fiction has been playing this game for years. Some of the ideas have been outrageous, some fascinating and some down right pedestrian.\nRobert A. Heinlein, in my humble opinion one of the greatest narrative writers of all time, stated: \"Writing is nothing to be ashamed of \u2013 but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.\"\nSo read \"Stranger in a Strange Land\" or \"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress\" then do a comparison with the narrative exercise in Gravity. I'm sorry but Gravity comes a very poor third. I mean it doesn't really rate a mention. It is so pedestrian it makes me yawn to even think about it.\nOne note on sci fi movies in general. Most sci fi adaptions lack the ability to stand up to any sustained examination. There are rare exceptions: Blade Runner is a stand out. Most however suffer horrendously at the Hollywood treatment. A prime example would be Starship Troopers. The film is a travesty \u2013 almost a a farce \u2013 when compared to the source material. It loses so much in translation that it must have Heinlein spinning in his grave.\nLet me name some sins of interpretation or omission. Juan Rico (Johnny) the lead character in the book was of South American extraction. So was Carmen, his girl next door. Carl dies on a research station on Pluto. He is not a telepath and he doesn't spout idiot slogans like: They are afraid. More to the point the film while not anti-military, does ask questions about the rights and responsibility of citizenship in ways completely lost or neglected in the film.\nThe main casualty in the film however is the developing relationship between man and machine. Johnny Rico is a member of the MI, the mobile infantry and the Mobile Infantry wears powered armor with a jet-pack and weaponry capable of leveling a small city. This doesn't even get a mention in the film. The concept being deemed too expensive to develop at the time.\nThis is not the main casualty however, the real tragedy is that Johnny Rico, in the book develops and grows. He has plenty of characters to meet and interact with. There is Kitten Smith, Ace, Red, Sergeant Zim, Johnny's father and most of all Colonel Dubois the figure in the background giving moral guidance and making him think. All this s lost in the film. Oh some of the characters survive, but as poor, pathetic, cardboard cutouts when compared to the original. To encapsulate the ridiculous nature of the film, Denise Richards may be the centre of many a juvenile wet dream, but as Carmen Ibanez she is an hysterical mistake of gigantic proportions. That together with a screenplay which beggars the imagination and full of cringe worthy nonsense just puts the cherry on the gingerbread.\nWell now that I've got that out of my system, I'm a whole new man.\nSo back to the raison d'etre of today's little diatribe \u2013 we return to Gravity (Oh must we? Yes we must. We must. Oh all right then.)\nI am reminded of one of the great one liners of Dorothy Parker \u2013 she of the Algonquin Table aka The Vicious Circle. Her comment: This Is Not a Novel To Be Tossed Aside Lightly. It Should Be Thrown with Great Force.\nThe capitals are not mine but I do share the sentiment when it comes to Gravity. It is a poor thing of little worth and no excitement. That it has been allowed to live is a pity. It shows little interest in the human condition and excites nothing except a feeling of wasting two hours watching grass grow in space. It is film to be avoid except as an exercise in how NOT to make an entertaining and engrossing science fiction opus. Of course I could be wrong. You are perfectly entitled to go and see and voice your own opinion. Me, I have better things to do.\nNow let's see, where was I \u2026..?\nTom Davidson\nOn Alex Garland's Reddit AMA from last year, he said writing is a slog, and currently has a preference for adaptation because most of the \"heavy lifting\" has already been done.\nOn following Caleb all the way to the end \u2013 I did that in the cinema, and I wasn't disappointed, but rather had that 'ecstatic agony' feeling which is what I want really. Second time through I kept and eye on Ava and felt the experience was more of a cerebral one, 'good for her' I thought.\nTom \u2013 I have a suspicion that what you experienced is exactly what Garland wanted to achieve. And he did. So from that perspective, the film was successful. Looking at its box office, it didn't badly at all, with its budget recouped 2x. Not enough to go into profit, but enough to make it work with the standard 'Hollywood accounting'.\nSteven Fernandez\nSpeaking from a philosophic and hard sci fi point of view (as opposed to the perspective of a filmmaker trying to tell a story to a mainstream audience), I actually think it is suspiciously speciesistic\/anthropocentric to expect or demand a self-aware robot\/android\/AI to have classically human drives and motivations. Why would they? They did not evolve out of any jungle. They have no hormones to be a slave to. They have no herd instinct to kowtow to. Yes, they also don't love, care, write poetry, tell jokes and enjoy fellowship either. But all that shows is that they are not human. Not that they are not validly sentient beings in their own right.\nAs a writer-director, myself, I fully realise that such a case of non-human sentience is a hard sell emotively to a human audience, but why not tackle that challenge squarely if you are allegedly dealing with the AI question in the first place?\nWhether Garland was ever aware of this philosophic nuance, or not, I think it has been ignored in the above comments. Androids capable of love are easy on the \"popcorn munchers\", but is that an authentic portrayal of android psychology?\n\"What's love got to do with it \u2013 do with it? What's love but a second hand etc\" I am interested in the Turing Test and the philosophical question which can be stated thusly: If a machine is constructed in shape to closely resemble a human being and is capable of emotionally reacting to a situation, then can it be defined as just an android \u2013 or does it become human in essence if not in fact?\nTo put it another way, can the replicant replace the being it is modelled on \u2013 outperforming, even surplanting it? As well as: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,\" there are other science fiction stories that enter into this realm of memory implantation and stolen identity. \"Good night Mr James,\" by Clifford D. Simak is one of my favorites \u2013 adapted for TV in The Outer Limits as \"The Duplicate Man.\"\nHollywood does not have a very good record in this department. Indeed in the whole realm of sci fi good renditions are the exception not the rule. I won't catalog my favorites here, but I would also classify myself a hard sci fi aficionado \u2013 which has lead me in the present context to an unrequited quest for such fare at every turn. And yes I do write scripts for this mileiux , but not exclusively so.\nThat however in no way sets the criteria for what questions should be asked of other writers and their works. The critical parameters are not limited to my choice of standards or values, nor do I assume that to be so. On the other hand, I can and will express my dissatisfaction if a writer\/director\/producer comes up with an end product which I believes falls short of the mark. That is my right as an audience member and a critic. One a work is released into the public domain, it is fair game for anyone to make their comment and give their critical appraisal.\nI am a critic \u2013 as essential to the theater as ants to a picnic. -Joseph Mankiewicz\nPraise and criticism are both frauds. -Anonymous\nA critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. -Kenneth Tynan\nIf you can look into the seeds of time,\nAnd say which grain will grow and which will not,\nSpeak then to me, who neither beg nor fear\nYour favours nor your hate.\nShakespeare's Macbeth\n\"I exist\" said the man.\n\"But\" said the universe,\n\"That creates in me, no sense of obligation.\" \u2014 Stephen Crane\n\"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.\" \u2013 Ray Bradbury\nWittgenstein, a good but impatient teacher, left the profession in April 1926, after striking a student who had disappointed him. He worked as a gardener for three months, before returning to Vienna to help build a house for his sister. His return to Cambridge in January 1929, while heralded, was also greeted with some dread by those familiar with his difficult personality: \"God has arrived,\" John Maynard Keynes wrote to a mutual acquaintance of his and Wittgenstein's. \"I met him on the 5:15 train.\" Anon\nJack Williams\nGood question Steven, anthropomorphising android \"drives.\"\nChanging the protagonist in the middle of the film versus the David Mamet maxims:\n\"The story is the essential progression of insights that occur to the hero in pursuit of their one goal.\"\n\" The story can only be interesting because we find the progress of the hero interesting.\"\n\"As long as the protagonist wants something the audience will want something.\"\nNoelene\nWhile the comment was on the director's brilliance ,I read the script and loved it but I found the film slow and boring. It was easy to relate to the characters in the script but I found there was little empathy for them on screen. This was because of their lack of development as John said but also with how the characters were portrayed. The film lacked empathy and emotion, perhaps because of the desire to portray the robot as flat with no emotions but in the dialogue there is emotion, her flirting lacked emotion and there was no real joy in her achievement of escape so her character hadn't changed. . Caleb also seemed to be emotionless and Natham's dialogue at times was hard to understand. I felt in the script he was slimy and untrustworthy but iI didn't get this feeling in the film. To me this was a good script not well presented.\nPingback: Manipulation and Intelligence | Science\/Fiction","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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By personalizing the relationship around religion and science, the Fellows are models for a productive conversation surrounding religion and science.\nBelow are the 2019-2021 Fellows; to see previous Fellows, click here.\nMuhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Ph.D. is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington and the Principal Data Science Researcher at KenSci Inc, a Seattle based company focused on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. He is also an advisor on AI to the ministry of Science and Technology of Maldives. Muhammad Aurangzeb has written more than 50 research papers on machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has won numerous best paper awards and his research has been widely covered in the American and international media. He has had academic appointments at University of Washington, Center for Cognitive Science at University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center and the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. Muhammad Aurangzeb also has extensive industry experience where he worked as a Data Scientist or Research Scientist at large organizations like Groupon, Boston Scientific, ConEdison etc. and multiple startups. He has a Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and MS and PhD from the Department of Computer Science from the University of Minnesota where his dissertation was on computational modeling of trust. He has been in the organizing and program committees for major conferences like AAAI, KDD etc. His current research is focused on fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics of AI systems, and the application of AI and machine learning in healthcare.\nRev. Casey Bien-Aime is the Spiritual Care Coordinator and Endowed Chair of Pastoral Care at Lankenau Medical Center. From a very young age Casey knew she wanted to work in the hospital, but it would take a few more years to realize that chaplaincy was the perfect mix of her desire to serve in medical and spiritual capacities. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Religious Studies and Biology from Drew University in Northern New Jersey and then spent three years at Palmer Theological Seminary earning her Masters of Divinity. After receiving her MDiv, Casey started Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, completing eleven units of CPE over the course of four years. She has worked closely with high risk maternity, pediatrics, the acute rehabilitation unit, telemetry, Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, palliative care, and the family medicine clerkship in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College. After her residencies at TJUH, an opportunity arose to begin a Chaplaincy program to Lankenau Medical Center. During the past five years Casey has served the Lankenau Community, bringing awareness to the need for spirituality in healthcare. Casey counts herself blessed to have found a career that melds two of her greatest passions.\nMark Bloom, Ph.D. is a Professor of biology and science education at Dallas Baptist University (DBU) in Dallas, Texas. He has a B.S. in biology from DBU, a M.S. in biology from Baylor University, a Ph.D. in science education from Texas Christian University (TCU), and is currently in the dissertation writing phase of a Ph.D. in leadership studies from DBU. His dissertation, entitled \"When science and faith collide: Pathways of reconciliation forged by Christian leaders in the scientific community,\" investigates how Christian leaders in various fields of science have navigated the perceived conflicts between their faith and science. Mark's research interest focuses on socio-scientific issues including origins (physical and biological), biomedicine (stem cell therapy, CRISPR), and environmental stewardship (climate change). His interest in the intersection of science and faith really took off in his early twenties after hearing, in a Sunday morning sermon, that he could not \"be a Christian, and have any integrity, if [he] accept[ed] evolution!\" \u2013 he continues to think otherwise. In his current position at DBU, Mark strives to show students that science and faith do not have to conflict with each other. Mark is also Co-Editor of the Electronic Journal for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (EJRSME), Associate Editor of the Journal of Science Teacher Education (JSTE), and Co-Executive Director of the International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (ICRSME). One of his favorite pastimes, when not pursuing his academic work, is watching creature features (especially those including dinosaurs). Mark lives in Fort Worth, Texas with his wife, Melissa, and daughter, Macy.\nRev. Dr. Kristel Clayville holds a PhD in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago's Divinity School. She is a Sinai and Synapses Fellow as well as a Senior Fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Formerly, she was the Acting Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science. Clinically, she works as a chaplain and ethicist at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and focuses on the existential and spiritual issues facing organ transplant patients. Kristel's early research was on the uses of the Hebrew Bible in environmental ethics, especially through the work of Holmes Rolston, III and Hans Jonas. More recently, she has turned toward the intersection between environmental ethics and bioethics to study the green burial movement and organ donation as genres of recycling. She actively pursues clinical research in how patients engage their religions to understand the medical care they are getting and make decisions about it. She is ordained in the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ.\nRabbi Jonathan K. Crane, Ph.D. holds a BA (summa cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, an MA in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and an MPhil in Gandhian Thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in Ahmedabad, India. As a Wexner Graduate Fellow, he received both rabbinic ordination and a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College \u2013 Jewish Institute of Religion. He completed a PhD in Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought in the Center for Ethics at Emory University, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and in the Department of Religion, and is the founding director of the Food Studies and Ethics program at Emory. A past-president of the Society of Jewish Ethics, the current leader of the Jewish Affinity Group of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and co-chair of the Comparative Religious Ethics group of the American Academy of Religion, his scholarly presentations examine Jewish ethics, bioethics, social and political ethics, food and eating ethics, animal ethics, and comparative religious ethics. He is the author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics (2013) and Ahimsa: The Way to Peace (2007, with Jordi Agusti-Panareda), co-editor with Elliot Dorff of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (2012), and editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents (2015), author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet (2018), and editor of Judaism, Race and Ethics: Conversations and Questions (2020). He founded and co-edits the Journal of Jewish Ethics. He received a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2014.\nTelli Davoodi, Ph.D. studies cognition over development and across cultures. In one line of research, she studies how children growing up in different religious and social contexts learn about unobservable entities and processes in the domains of religion and science. This research focuses on the role of testimony and information from sources as a common mechanism for learning about the unobservable in both domains of religion and science. In another line of research, she studies the functional role of religious and scientific explanations for existential questions. She investigates the possibility that religious and scientific thinking serve different needs, such as epistemic, social, and emotional. She received her BA in Philosophy from UCLA and an MA in Philosophy from Brown University. Then, she received a Master's of Education from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard before completing her PhD in Developmental Psychology at Boston University. She did a postdoc at the Graduate School of Education at Boston University, working on how children from three different countries learn about religion and science. Currently, she is a postdoc at the Psychology department at Princeton.\nReverend Dr. Eric Elnes is a biblical scholar, with a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Senior Minister of Countryside Community Church (UCC), Omaha, NE. His church serves as the Christian partner in Omaha's unique Tri-Faith Initiative, where a synagogue, a church, and a mosque have co-located to a shared, 38-acres Commons to move beyond interfaith dialog into interfaith community. In 2019, he and his congregation received Reform Judaism's highest award (the Maurice N. Eisendrath Bearer of Light Award) for their Tri-Faith work. Dr. Elnes is also an active videocaster at www.darkwoodbrew.org and podcaster. Elnes is the author of several books, including Gifts of the Dark Wood: Seven Blessings for Soulful Skeptics (and Other Wanderers), and The Phoenix Affirmations: A New Vision for the Future of Christianity. In 2006, Elnes co-led a walk across the U.S. to raise awareness of the diversity that exists within Christian faith and practice. His journey was documented in the film The Asphalt Gospel. He and his wife, Melanie, have two daughters who live in Denver and Juneau.\nElizabeth Fernandez, Ph.D. loves all things science. She has a PhD in astrophysics and has worked around the world, using telescopes both on the ground and in space. She is now a scientific writer and a public speaker, interested in different ways of looking at the world around us. As the host and producer of SparkDialog Podcasts, a podcast on science and society, she tells the story of science in our lives, and the connection of science with things like religion, philosophy, history, culture, ethics, art, and the future. She also is a contributor for forbes.com on science and philosophy. She has a passion for interfaith relations, working with people from many countries and backgrounds promoting dialog between faiths. Besides science, she is an artist and writer, loves pretty much ever genre of music in existence, and seeks out bizarre and unique musical instruments. In astrophysics, Elizabeth studied the first stars and how their appearance changed the Universe forever. You can hear more about her research when she was a guest on Starts with a Bang Podcast.\nAmanda Glaze-Crampes, Ph.D. specializes in science teacher education, evolution education research and outreach, and professional development, alternating her time between the classroom and the field as an Assistant Professor of Middle Grades & Secondary Science Education at Georgia Southern University. Her research centers on the intersections of science and society, specifically the acceptance and rejection of evolution in the Southeastern United States and the impact of the conflict between religion and evolution on science literacy. Her work has been featured on NPR's video\/radio series Science Friday as well as on social media outlets such as the NCSE Science Education Blog, ErrantScience.com, and PLOS.org. She served as an expert panelist for Science Friday's education focus #TeachTheE and works with organizations including NCSE, the Smithsonian Human Origins Program and National Geographic funded Umsuka project at the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa to help people navigate struggles between science and faith. Her research has been referenced in mainstream media outlets such as Scientific American, Forbes, and Newsweek as she fights for science literacy through the lenses of science and her Southern Baptist ministry upbringing.\nMatthew Groves is a science and faith educator from rural Appalachia. With his physics undergraduate degree and Master of Divinity, Matthew draws upon his credibility in both camps to bring harmony to areas often known for conflict. He has taught over 60 science and faith classes to audiences of all ages across nine denominations, particularly focusing on climate change and scientific literacy in the church. He has been featured in NPR and is proud to work for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. He currently lives in Nashville, TN, where his wife is a PhD candidate in cancer biology. They enjoy gardening, cooking, and reading (a few recent highlights include Wendell Berry, Will Campbell, Thomas Merton, Cormac McCarthy, and Nora Jemisin). Contact Matthew or learn more about his work on climate change at his website, matthewdgroves.com.\nCarolyn Hall is a Brooklyn based historical marine ecologist, science communications instructor, and award winning contemporary dancer\/performer. As a marine ecologist she has been an independent researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Trout Unlimited, and the Environmental Defense Fund. She was part of an UMass Amherst academic team studying fish and the coastal ecosystem of the northeast U.S., is the research assistant and fact checker for the best selling author Paul Greenberg (Four Fish), and she will be working with the American Fisheries Society to communicate climate change policies. She is a co-founder of Exact Communication, formerly taught with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, and is a core member and researcher in residence with the eco-artist collective Works on Water. Her continued career in dance has led her to work with artists across the country and internationally and she is increasingly invested in combining her artist and scientist halves to make data-rich science more understandable, embodied, and memorable for the general public.\nBriana Pobiner, Ph.D. is a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History whose studies the evolution of human diets (with a focus on meat-eating), including topics as diverse as human cannibalism and chimpanzee carnivory. She has done conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Indonesia, Romania, and the US. Since joining the Smithsonian in 2005 to help put together the Hall of Human Origins, in addition to continuing her active field, laboratory, and experimental research programs, she leads the Human Origins Program's education and outreach efforts which includes managing the Human Origins Program's public programs, website content, social media, and exhibition volunteer training. Briana has also more recently developed a research program in evolution education and science communication. Briana received a BA from Bryn Mawr College, where she created an independent major called Evolutionary Studies, and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University. She is also an Associate Research Professor of Anthropology in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at the George Washington University.\nRabbi Jordan Shaner is the assistant rabbi at Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto, Ontario. Recently ordained as a rabbi and cantor from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, Jordan's rabbinic thesis focused on theologies in the Babylonian Talmud, including on the way the talmud presents the intersection between physiology, health, religious practice and spirituality. During his time as a rabbinical student, Jordan was a community educator at Brandeis University's pre-college summer programs BIMA and Genesis, and a chaplain of the Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware. Both of these opportunities influenced Jordan's understanding of the way religion and science can each shape the human experience. Currently, Jordan is a member of the Toronto Board of Rabbis and represents that organization as a board member of Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Greater Toronto, which fosters relationships between a number of faith communities in the Greater Toronto Area. Every week, Jordan goes curling with the ministers, priests, and rabbis of the interfaith curling league of Greater Toronto, which has become a way to immerse in Canadian culture as well as foster interfaith dialogue. Rabbi Shaner is married to Kate, a violist and music educator.\nReverend J ohn Van Sloten is a Calgary-based writer, teacher and pastor (Calgary Community Reformed Church). His first book, The Day Metallica Came to Church; Searching for the Everywhere God in Everything (2010) looks for glimpses of God in pop culture. His second, Every Job a Parable; What Walmart Greeters, Nurses and Astronauts tell us about God (2017) listens for God's words at work. His third book (in process) is God Speaks Science: How I learned to Practice God's Empirical Presence. Since 2011 John has participated in four John Templeton Foundation sub-grants exploring how to preach scientific texts.\nSeth Villegas is a PhD student in constructive theology at Boston University. He specializes in issues related to the dialogue between religion and science. He focuses primarily on how technology affects religious and religious-like ideas. Seth developed many of his current interests in religion and technology while he was an undergraduate in Silicon Valley. His current research examines transhumanist and other secular communities, asking questions about the future of religious life. Seth has a B.A. in english from Boston University and an MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary.\nHow God Works: The Science Behind Religion\nPioneering psychologist David DeSteno presents cutting-edge scientific evidence that religious practices and faith provide a toolbox for coping.\n\u00a9 2022 Sinai and Synapses.\nIncubated at Clal\nYesterday\tSinai and Synapses\u2026\nJan 26\tWhen Is the Pandemic Over?\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Meme Archive\nMeme Archive 12\/2015\n< prev12345678next >\nTwitter imagines Pope Francis as a rapper with brilliant #PopeBars meme\nHe conquered the United States in September, is just back from a hugely successful trip to Africa \u2026 and now Pope Francis is an unlikely inspiration for rappers around the world. And it is all thanks to an AFP photograph that has gone viral on social ... (Dec 1, 2015, Raw Story)\nThe Internet's battle to defeat ISIS - one meme at a time\nThe caption underneath the picture of radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza reads simply: \"Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling apart.\" Scroll down and there is a shot of a jihadist rallying some fearsome-looking soldiers with ... (Dec 1, 2015, Evening Standard)\nMC Francis: pope's hip-hop pose inspires internet meme\nHis appearance sparked an internet meme, although it was largely unrelated to his message of interfaith unity. Instead, an image of the pontiff clasping the head of a microphone, in the manner favored by rappers, beatboxers and people who don't know ... (Dec 1, 2015, The Guardian)\n#WhatWouldMagufuliDo: Tanzanian President's Thriftiness Gets Him A Meme\nIn his first few weeks in office, Tanzanian President John Magufuli has made big changes to the country's finances. He's slashed government budgets for everything from celebrations to international travel. Here's how Quartz describes it: \" 'Unless ... (Dec 1, 2015, NPR)\nIrish guy breaks the Internet as Facebook pic becomes instant meme (PHOTOS)\nSo what's it like to become a meme? \"Surreal,\" according to Ivor. \"I didn't have a whole lot to do with it really. I don't think anyone could predict something like this. It's the nature of a meme I suppose, you just never know what will catch on and ... (Dec 1, 2015, IrishCentral)\nAIDS campaign kicks off with meme showcase\nThe 2015 World AIDS Day Committee will kick off a new social media campaign with a meme showcase Tuesday afternoon. As part of World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1, the Loft Cinema on Speedway Boulevard will be hosting an event featuring memes ... (Dec 1, 2015, Tucson News Now)\nTV reporter has the perfect comeback for this heckler's lewd, played meme\nInterrupting with \"fuck her right in the pussy\" became a popular meme during 2014, after filmmaker John Cain uploaded a news blooper to YouTube that was later debunked as a staged incident, which he'd followed up with several other fakes in an effort ... (Dec 2, 2015, The Daily Dot)\nGollum meme lands man in court facing jail\nGollum meme lands man in court facing jail. 6:50 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 | Filed in: Offbeat. Comments 0. Offbeat. Best Picture: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Uncredited. FILE - This publicity file photo released by Warner Bros., shows the ... (Dec 2, 2015, Access Atlanta)\nErdogan on Gollum Meme: 'We Hates It. We Hates It Forever.'\nIn October, Ciftci was fired from the Public Health Institution of Turkey for sharing photos on social media comparing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Gollum. After Erdogan caught wind of the widely shared meme, his lawyers decided to sue ... (Dec 2, 2015, Foreign Policy (blog))\nThe Wiz Live! 'There's no place like...\" meme generator\nThe Wiz Live! hits the small screen Thursday, December 3 on NBC. The Wiz Live! is the third live musical the network has put on in the past three years. To get you ready, NBC has created a 'There's no place like... \" meme generator. It's very simple ... (Dec 2, 2015, KSDK)\nAn Explanation for Why We Love Memes\nWe see them all the time on our social media sites, and we become fans of certain ones enough to create a market for t-shirts and other items. We develop a fondness for certain meme characters and themes (grumpy cat fan here). But why has our culture ... (Dec 2, 2015, Uloop News)\nJared Leto shares Heath Ledger\/Jack Nicholson Joker meme\nIt's been well documented that Jared Leto took his role as The Joker in Suicide Squad very seriously. The method actor stayed in character on and off the set, so much so that Will Smith said he hasn't even met Leto yet. There's obviously an enormous ... (Dec 2, 2015, Batman-News)\nMeme culture, a tool of reflection and empowerment \u2013 Rido Parulian Panjaitan\nWhen we wake up in the morning, the first thing we might do is open our gadgets, see a meme, laugh at it and eventually share it. Looking and sharing a meme takes less than a minute; it is as simple as that. However, meme culture is not always as ... (Dec 3, 2015, The Malaysian Insider)\nTurkish President Erdo\u011fan gets 'precious' and threatens Gollum meme sharers ...\nTurkish President Erdo\u011fan gets 'precious' and threatens Gollum meme sharers ... (Dec 3, 2015, The Drum)\nStoned Guy Meme Is Actually Part of a Series of Even Funnier Pictures of That ...\nStoned Guy Meme Is Actually Part of a Series of Even Funnier Pictures of That ... (Dec 3, 2015, moviepilot.com)\nThis Guy Could Face Jail Time For Sharing A Meme\nI can't even make this sh-t up: Dr. Bilgin \u00c7ift\u00e7i, a physician living in Turkey, is currently on trial after sharing a meme comparing the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to Gollum from \"The Lord of The Rings.\" Insulting the president is ... (Dec 3, 2015, MTV.com)\n#PopeBars: Meme of Pope Francis 'rapping' goes viral on social media\nIf one is wondering, why this #PopeBars meme has generated so much buzz, it might be because of the similarities between Pope Francis and many rappers. Sure, on the surface the humble Argentinian may not appear to have anything in common with ... (Dec 3, 2015, Fox News Latino)\nCalvin Johnson becomes meme after Hail Mary (Video)\nThe Detroit Lions lost in a fashion typical of their franchise. They blew a 20-0 lead against the Green Bay Packers Thursday night and lost 27-23 on a Hail Mary with no time left. The only reason Green Bay had a play was because the Lions committed a ... (Dec 4, 2015, Larry Brown Sports)\nNarendra Modi memes galore after Indian government alters Twitter picture\nAn official Twitter account for the Indian government has been mercilessly mocked \u2013 after an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveying flood damage was crudely Photoshopped. The above image is the original, unaltered version showing the Prime ... (Dec 4, 2015, Metro)\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Doesn't Like A Meme That Compares Him ...\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Doesn't Like A Meme That Compares Him ... 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{"text":"Lucena bishop asks PNoy: Have mercy on GMA\nBishop Emilio Marquez of the Diocese of Lucena has asked President Aquino to allow former president and incumbent Pampanga 2nd District Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be placed under house arrest out of \"mercy and compassion.\"\nIn his homily at a mass celebrating the 137th birthday of President Manuel L. Quezon in Lucena City, Marquez said Aquino should follow the example of previous presidents.\nAquino's father, the late senator Benigno Aquino, Sr. was allowed house arrest and eventually released by President Ferdinand Marcos, and former President Joseph Estrada during President Arroyo's time, according to Marquez.\n\"He is a Catholic, he is a Christian. It behoves upon him to show mercy and compassion,\" the bishop said in a Manila Bulletin story.\nMarquez also issued the same call before the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines during their recent meeting in Manila.\nHe pointed out that 2015 being a year of \"mercy and compassion,\" the Aquino administration should heed the clamor to grant house arrest to his predecessor.\nArroyo is facing a plunder case in connection with the alleged misuse of the P366-million intelligence fund of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) during her term as President.\nShe is under hospital arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) since October 2012.\nTags: Benigno Aquino III, Emilio Marquez, Ferdinand Marcos, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Joseph Estrada, Lucena, Manuel L. Quezon, PCSO, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, Veterans Memorial Medical Center, VMMC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Terra Prime Lightsaber Academy\u200e > \u200eTerra Prime Lightsaber Academy\u200e > \u200e7 Forms of Lightsaber Combat: A Discourse\u200e > \u200eChapter 2\u200e > \u200e\nForm I: Shii Cho\n\"The beginning is a very delicate time...\" - Frank Herbert\nShii Cho is the First Form. In Canon it is referred to as\nthe Determination Form, or the Way of the Sarlaac. It focuses on\nsimplistic, albeit relentless, tactics.\nIn Star Wars history, Shii Cho was developed as Force Users\nbegan to transition from regular swords to Lightsabers as means\nof melee combat (at this point, Lightsabers were bulky Siege\nweapons). As such, its foundations are the basics of all sword\nfighting, including strike zones, parries and blocks. It was a\ntwo handed form, relying on broad, sweeping motions. Masters of\nShii Cho were noted as having a distinct, watery flow.\nEvery Jedi, and arguably every Sith (as there is overlap\nbetween the two schools) had to learn Shii Cho when they began\ntraining. In A New Hope, when Obi-Wan has Luke training on the\nMillennium Falcon with the Remote, that is a Shii Cho practice\n(it gets mirrored with the Youngling training in Episode II). It\nteaches body movement, where to strike, while getting used to\nthe feeling of the weapon. At the end of the scene in A New\nHope, where Luke is blindfolded, it also teaches what separates\nwielding a lightsaber from holding a blade: Trust in the Force.\nShii Cho was used for crowd control. Its wide, angular\nmotions were ideal for dealing with groups as it was constantly\nmoving forward, like a bulldozer. In this regard, the lightsaber\nstill maintains its use as a Siege weapon. In terms of combat,\nit has very strong similarities with Niman, in that it covers\nmost of its bases. However, in this regard, it is meant as a\nteaching tool.\nUnfortunately, as Shii Cho is the first form, it is all one\nof the forms placed under the harsher criticism. As Lightsabers\nbecame in popular use Amongst other Force Using groups, duels\nwere expected. While there are some duelists who used mainly\nShii Cho, many found the form lacking in single combat, and\ntherefore created Makashi in response.\nPhilosophically, Shii Cho follows the principle of \"Keep it\nsimple, stupid.\" Its movements are broad and deliberate, made\ndangerous in a constant, ever advancing barrage. In terms of\nmodern warfare, Shii Cho can be likened to a shotgun blast:\nPowerful, can clear a space in a heartbeat, and completely\ndevoid of any subtlety. It didn't have all the answers, but\nserves as a stable groundwork for potential work.\nIn terms of an actual, real life Martial Art analog, it is\nhard to pin this one down. It is already admitted to be based\nfrom the basics of swordplay. With few exceptions, all basic\nswordplay is relatively the same; it's only when you start\nlearning the details of a specific school do you get the\ndifferences. It makes sense that Shii Cho would be a Double\nHanded form, as it's easier to learn Control of the blade with\ntwo hands before you start relying on only one.\nI will say, that in studying aspects like the Marks of Contact, I find Shii Cho to lean towards Kenjutsu and Iaijutsu, sword styles that focus on using the katana, or some variation thereof (bokken, shinai, etc). In training, the sword positions must be exact, to the most extreme degree. Angles of the blade work, footing, body mechanics. All must be perfect to the millimeter. The training with a lightsaber, a weapon that can cut without a second though, should be taught similarly. This makes sense, as the lightsaber was meant to be an homage to the mythical aspects of the katana just as the Jedi and Sith represented the dual aspects of the Samurai who wielded them.\nShii Cho is the beginning Form, and therefore is the first to introduce the Marks of Contact. Sun Djem, the disarming of an opponent by either destroying or otherwise removing the weapon from the opponent. Shii Cho was all about understanding and controlling the blade. Being able to use the Shiim to graze a limb instead of cutting it whole would seem to me to show mastery in controlling the blade.\nIn the Jedi Community, there is a Shii Cho Group Form. It\nwas developed by Damon Honeycutt, also known by his Jedi handle\nof General Sun. He is a Grandmaster of Monkey Style Kung Fu and\nhas taught several of the New York members. His 3 part form is\ninarguably the most widely accepted interpretation of any of the\nSeven Forms. It truly does serve as a learning tool: it teaches\nmembers to use their shoulders, elbows and wrist in concert with\none another, and it teaches people how to use the saber fluidly\nand responsibly. Most members of the community are taught to use\nat least the first part of the form. Some however have mastered\nall three parts, and have incorporated many of its motions into\ntheir overall sword work.\nMakashi\nSubpages (1): Chapter 4","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chapter 65 \u2013 Who's Your Master?\nYang Ye turned around. He noticed a woman in a green colored dress grinning at him, and there was a grey robed old man following behind her.\nThe woman was around the age of 17 or 18. Her appearance wasn't exceptionally beautiful, yet it was very pleasing to the eye, and her face that had an indifferent grin on it revealed a tranquil and gentle bearing. It was precisely this bearing that instantly and greatly improved the woman's charm.\nYang Ye sized the woman up with his gaze, and in the end, his eyes stopped at the woman's waist. As he gazed at the woman's slender waist, a wisp of amazement flashed in Yang Ye's eyes. The woman's waist was extremely slender like a willow tree during its first spring, and a beautiful curve was drawn out from amidst its slenderness and gracefulness.\nThe woman nodded slightly to Yang Ye, and then she brought the old man along as she walked towards the young man and said, \"I'm going to trouble Master Zhang anyway, so allow him to be tested as well. I think that Master Zhang would probably have no objections!\"\nThe young man cupped his fists to the woman, and then he revealed a troubled expression and said, \"Young Miss Xiao, you ought to know that my duty\u2026.\"\nThe woman nodded with a smile, and then she withdrew two Energy Stones and passed it to the young man before she said, \"Zhang Heng, I know it's difficult for you as well, but I hope that you can make an exception!\"\nThe young man called Zhang Heng received the two Energy Stones while the troubled expression from before vanished from his face, and he said with a smile, \"Alright, he can go and try! Right, Young Miss Xiao, I hope you'll be able to pass the test this time!\"\n\"Thank you for your blessings!\" The woman smiled gently, and then she gazed at Yang Ye and said, \"Let's go in!\"\nAs she spoke, she walked towards the entrance.\nAs he watched this entire process, how could Yang Ye not understand that the reason the man hadn't allowed him to enter was that he didn't offer the necessary 'bribe'. Actually, he knew of all these principles of conduct, but he'd never expected that the members of the Talisman Master's Association were like that as well.\nYang Ye glanced at the two Energy Stones in the young man's hand, and then he followed the woman in a green dress.\nAfter they arrived at the main hall within the building, Yang Ye caught up to the woman, and he cupped his fists and said, \"Thank you for just now, Young Miss Xiao!\" As he spoke, Yang Ye withdrew two Energy Stones and passed it to the woman.\nAs she gazed at the Energy Stones that were being passed over to her, a strand of surprise flashed through her eyes. Energy Stones were quite precious, and they were precious even to her. The reason she was willing to spend two Energy Stones to help this man before her was because the old man behind her had said that this man might be a member of the Sword Sect. So, she was willing to spend those two Energy Stones.\nThe woman didn't take the Energy Stones, and she asked instead. \"Young Master, are you from the Sword Sect?\"\nYang Ye said with surprise, \"How did you find out?\"\nThe woman smiled sweetly when she heard this, and she said, \"Uncle Lin and I saw you with an honorary disciple of the Sword Sect just now.\"\nWhen he heard the woman, Yang Ye instantly came to an understanding. Earlier, he was extremely puzzled by the woman's willingness to help him. Now, he knew that it was because he was a disciple of the Sword Sect!\nYang Ye aroused a slightly good impression of the woman because of her frankness, and he immediately said, \"No matter what, I have to thank you for just now.\"\n\"It was only a trivial matter!\" The woman smiled, and then she said, \"Young Master, you've come to take the test to become a Talisman Master as well?\"\nYang Ye nodded and said, \"I've come to try!\"\nThe woman said with a smile, \"It's good to try. You'll be able to familiarize yourself with some of the processes of crafting talismans. Right, let me introduce myself, I'm Xiao Yu'er.\"\n\"Yang Ye!\"\nAfter a short period of conversation, Yang Ye swept the hall with his gaze, and then he asked. \"Young Miss Xiao, why is this place so deserted?\"\nXiao Yu'er explained. \"The Talisman Masters of the branch are either cultivating or studying talismans. Usually, unless the branch suffers an attack or someone comes to take the test to become a Talisman Master, these Talisman Masters would lock themselves in their own rooms and never leave!\"\n\"They cultivate and study so desperately?\" Yang Ye spoke with surprise.\nXiao Yu'er said with a smile, \"Of course. Not only do Talisman Masters have to cultivate, but they also have to study talismans as well. Moreover, for the sake of purchasing materials to craft talismans, they even have to accept some commissions. It can be said that they're extremely busy. Everyone else knows that Talisman Masters have great power, prestige, and status, yet they don't know that all of this was obtained through the hard work of these Talisman Masters themselves!\"\nYang Ye nodded in agreement and said, \"Indeed. The people of the world are only able to see the power and prestige on the surface, and they're unable to notice the hard work of others! Right, what sort of procedures are there during the test?\"\nXiao Yu'er knew that it was the first time he was coming to take the test, so she immediately explained. \"Actually, there isn't much of a procedure, and the examinee is considered to have passed so long as the examinee can craft a low-grade talisman. Crafting one type of low-grade talisman allows one to become a Grade One Talisman Master, and if one can craft five different talismans, then one can become a Grade Five Talisman Master. Earth Talisman Masters that stand above Grade Five Talisman Masters need to be able to inscribe objects. As for even higher levels, there's no need for us to think about it now!\"\nYang Ye nodded, and he thought in his heart. It's just like what Bao'er said. Since I'm already able to craft two types of talismans, then I can be considered to be a Grade Two Talisman Master.\nWhen he thought up to here, Yang Ye asked. \"Young Miss Xiao, would we really still maintain our freedom after becoming Talisman Masters?\"\nXiao Yu'er smiled and said, \"Yes, the members of the association can freely join any power, and they don't have to stay within the Talisman Master's Association. However, they're bound by the rules of the Talisman Master's Association. After all, if the members of an organization weren't bound by its rules, then it would definitely lead to chaos.\"\n\"The profession of Talisman Master is truly an enviable and admirable profession!\" Yang Ye said with a smile, \"Not only do Talisman Masters possess a lofty and extraordinary status, but they are also able to enjoy numerous special privileges, and they even have such freedom. It's too much better than the identity of a disciple in a sect!\"\nXiao Yu'er said, \"At the bottom of it all, the reason this profession is lofty is because of the effect of Talisman Masters. Just think about it, if two people at the same cultivation fought, and one of them utilized a Strength Talisman or a Strider Talisman, then what would the outcome of the battle be? Any talisman a Talisman Master had casually crafted was often capable of allowing a Profounder to turn the situation of the battle around!\nYang Ye smiled, and then he glanced at the surroundings before he asked. \"Young Miss Xiao, when will the test begin?\"\nA wisp of a helpless expression flashed in her eyes, and she said, \"We'll probably have to wait for a while longer. Master Zhang is probably inscribing something for his customer. But don't worry, Master Zhang is a man of his word. Since he said that he'd test me today, then he'll definitely make the time to test me!\"\nYang Ye could only nod when he heard this. He hadn't returned directly to Southpeace City and had come to take the test to become a Talisman Master because he wanted to obtain another trump card to utilize against the Liu Clan. Because he was prepared to put a complete end to the enmity between his family and the Liu Clan when he went back to Southpeace City this time.\nTwo hours quickly went by. The two of them conversed rather happily. Actually, it should be said that Yang Ye had been constantly asking while Xiao Yu'er was explaining. Even though Yang Ye could be considered to be a Talisman Master, he didn't know anything about the Talisman Master's Association, whereas, Xiao Yu'er was extremely familiar with it all. So, Yang Ye understood many things through this conversation.\nXiao Yu'er had a slightly good impression of Yang Ye through this as well. Because even though he was a disciple of the Sword Sect, Yang Ye wasn't proud at all. Moreover, he asked as soon as he didn't know something and modestly asked her for guidance. He hadn't acted like he knew something when he didn't. This caused her to answer all of Yang Ye's questions!\nAfter chatting for almost another two hours of time, a slightly slovenly old man appeared in the hall. The old man seemed to be in an extreme hurry, and he directly said to Xiao Yu'er, \"Little Girl, come with me!\" As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't even look back as he walked towards the left.\nWhen he saw the slovenly old man, Yang Ye knew that this was that Earth Talisman Master, Master Zhang, that Xiao Yu'er had spoken of. However, this Master Zhang's appearance was truly impossible to compliment.\nXiao Yu'er smiled at Yang Ye and said, \"Brother Ye, let's follow him!\"\nYang Ye nodded, and then the two of them hurriedly followed Master Zhang.\nThe three of them arrived at a room, and besides an enormous stone table, there wasn't anything else within the room. There were numerous blank talisman papers and some white colored jade bottles that contained Spirit Herb Sap and the blood of Darkbeasts on the stone table!\nThe slovenly old man disregarded Yang Ye and gazed at Xiao Yu'er as he said, \"Little Girl, if you're still unable to pass this time, then you can't disturb me again in the future. You have to understand that I'm really extremely busy!\"\nXiao Yu'er bowed towards the slovenly old man and said, \"I'll be troubling Senior Zhang!\"\nAs soon as she finished speaking, she pointed at Yang Ye and said, \"Master Zhang, he has come to participate in the test as well!\"\nWhen he heard Xiao Yu'er, the slovenly old look looked once more at Yang Ye, and he sized Yang Ye up briefly before he said, \"Kid, who's your master?\"\nYang Ye was in a slightly embarrassed state when he heard this because he didn't know the name of Bao'er's grandfather\u2026.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Greenbuild Editor's Choice 2016\nVCA Green\nCreating sustainable opportunities with energy code consulting and commissioning\nWritten by: Molly Shaw\nProduced by: Ian Nichols\nBuilding codes change nearly every few years \u2014 add to that the recent influx of new energy code standards and there is a never-ending stream of changes that building owners, developers, architects and general contractors must address. Fortunately, there are experts who know building codes inside and out and stay abreast of these changes. VCA Green has stepped in to help building professionals navigate building codes, and particularly energy and green building codes, through a variety of green consulting, training and commissioning services.\nBased in Orange, California, VCA Green, a division of VCA Code Group Inc., employs consultants and LEED Accredited Professionals (AP) with backgrounds in architecture, construction and building maintenance. Adding to this diverse mix of skill sets is collaboration with a staff that has more than 30 years of experience in code development, administration and plan review services.\nA green guide for builders and building professionals\nVCA Green was founded to help building owners navigate complex codes, such as the California Energy Code and CALGreen, to find the best solutions to meet their goals. VCA Green also provides additional services such as: funding requirements for building efficiency, building energy audits, energy modeling, LEED, building commissioning, GreenPoint Rated, HERS (Home Energy Rating System) and other third-party verification services when the code requirement is triggered or if there's a corporate social responsibility mandate.\n\"Our primary organization, VCA Consultants, includes a structural engineering group that started over 35 years ago,\" says Moe Fakih, director of sustainability for VCA Green. \"We've been in the code consulting business for more than 35 years, but in the last 10 years or so we've been involved in an area we are passionate about \u2013 green building.\"\n\"In our many years in this business, we found that municipalities and building professionals needed assistance getting through the building code process and we saw the opportunity to help the industry with our experience and proficiency. This spurred our division VCA Code Group Inc.,\" says Fakih. \"We started VCA Green to focus more specifically on green codes in 2010. We get to do the 'fun' side of building code and plan review.\"\nFakih, who is a LEED AP and a Certified Commissioning Professional (CCP) accredited by the Building Commissioning Association (BCxA), leads VCA Green's consulting and commissioning efforts. He is an expert on CalGreen and green building design and construction topics. He is currently active in a leadership role in the Orange County Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).\nFakih possesses a master's degree in public administration focusing on sustainable urban development. He worked in Orange County where he processed millions of dollars' worth of entitlements through the Planning Commission process. He also owned and operated a LEED consulting company engaging in energy efficient, LEED remodel projects and certified the first LEED Gold hotel in the world for Existing Buildings Operations & Maintenance: the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco.\nWith the exceptional knowledge of Fakih and VCA Green's team, the company has positioned itself as not only building code experts, but also as thought leaders in regard to the overlap of traditional building code and LEED rating and other third-party systems. \"We're breaking the misconception that building to today's standards for efficiency and sustainably is too expensive,\" says Fakih. \"We help the building market realize that the cost difference is minimal and that capitalization on opportunities for increased return on investment is achievable. With the right approach, green makes good business sense.\"\nCommissioning and retro-commissioning\nVCA Green is currently working with the Los Angeles Lakers at the team's new soon-to-be LEED-Gold headquarters. \"The Lakers' ownership is very conscious of green building and they have embraced LEED,\" says Fakih. Quality assurance through commissioning is being used as a process to verify complex system functions as designed to meet the operational needs of the Lakers.\nVCA Green is also working on Net Zero projects in its home state. \"California is pushing for Zero Net Energy in all new residential buildings by 2020,\" says Fakih. As a result, the state increases the energy performance targets of buildings every three years through the Energy Code Title 24, Part 11.\n\"We're looking at a 30 to 35 percent increase in residential efficiency and a five to eight percent increase in commercial efficiency starting Jan. 1, 2017,\" adds Fakih.\nAs code regulations tighten up, VCA Green's team brings expertise to any number of building systems, from HVAC to electrical and lighting, building automation and controls, photovoltaic systems, the building envelope and more. VCA Green's commissioning process provides a quality assurance process to ensure that design and performance criteria of the installed systems function as intended. As a result, contractors deliver buildings which operate at peak performance, leading to lower energy and maintenance costs and healthier environments for occupants.\n\"Early involvement in construction promises smoother project completion and reduces rework. We also offer retro-commissioning where we deliver energy and financial savings to existing buildings undergoing restorative-remodel types of construction or tenant improvements,\" says Fakih.\nWhile the majority of VCA Green's work remains in California, the company has landed projects in Ohio, Washington and Nevada and hopes to continue to grow its name and brand recognition at the annual Greenbuild Conference & Expo this year.\n\"For us, Greenbuild isn't just about marketing ourselves, it's also about surrounding ourselves with like minds in the building community and allowing us to get a pulse on our field and current industry trends\/topics,\" says Fakih. \"I think Los Angeles is a very progressive city with regard to sustainability and it's a great fit for Greenbuild.\"\nGreenbuild is a chance to further VCA Green's knowledge as a leader, bringing ever-changing innovations and opportunities to its clients.\nregions: Midwest, West\ncategories: California, Commercial, Green Building, Greenbuild Editor's Choice 2016\n<script type='text\/javascript'> (function (d, t) { var us = d.createElement(t), s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]; us.type = 'text\/javascript'; us.src = 'https:\/\/www.usbuildersreview.com\/widget.js?cid=vca-green'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(us, s); })(document, 'script'); <\/script>\nCalcerts Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Teenager pleads guilty to Chesterton murder\n11th May 2021 11th May 2021 NSTV News Team\t0 Comments\tChesterton, Murder, Staffordshire Police\nA teenager has pleaded guilty to the murder of a man in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The 17-year-old, from Newcastle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to the murder of Jack Sumner in a hearing at Stafford Crown Court on 10th may 2021.\nThe court heard that the teenager was initially arrested for GBH following the incident in Chesterton on 25 June.\nOfficers attended an address in Victoria Street, Chesterton, following reports from local residents that a man struck another man with a weapon before running off, just after 7pm.\nMr Sumner, who was 22, had been struck to the head and suffered a fractured skull and lacerations.\nA firearms unit was deployed to the area and the teenager was found hiding in a loft at a nearby property and arrested, initially for wounding.\nSadly, Mr Sumner passed away in hospital on 14 October. The teenager, who will be sentenced on 18 June at Stafford Crown Court, was then charged with murder.\nDetective Sergeant Georgina Pope, of Staffordshire Police, said: \"This was a violent attack which has tragically led to the loss of a young man's life. \"Our thoughts are with Mr Sumner's family and we thank the local community for their support in dealing with the incident and helping us bring the case before the court.\"\n\u2190 Channel 5's 999 Critical Condition to return to University Hospitals of North Midlands\nPolice appeal following disorder in Audley \u2192\nScam Alert \u2013 Right To Buy\n30th July 2020 30th July 2020 NSTV News Team\t0\nMotorcyclist dies following a road traffic collision in Cheadle\n23rd April 2020 23rd April 2020 NSTV News Team\t0\nVoucher scheme launches for schools providing free school meals\n31st March 2020 31st March 2020 NSTV News Team\t0","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Business rent holiday extension 'will hit pension schemes'\nby Zein on September 16, 2020 in Business Marketing\nChristopher Furlong\nLandlords have reacted with dismay to a further rent holiday for struggling businesses, saying it will hit pension schemes, savings, and lenders.\nThe government extended the protection, which includes a moratorium on commercial evictions, on Wednesday.\nBusiness groups said the support, first introduced in April due to coronavirus, \"will provide a respite\" for firms.\nBut landlords said the scheme is being \"exploited\" by big companies \"to preserve cash flow\".\nIn April the government announced a moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent, which was then extended until 30 September.\nOn Wednesday the government extended the scheme again until the end of 2020.\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the measures would \"stop businesses going under and protect jobs over the coming months.\"\nThe government reiterated that the scheme should only be used by businesses who needed it.\nBusiness relief\nThe move was welcomed by many retailers and restaurants businesses, which have been hit hard by a decline in footfall.\nDeliveroo boss Will Shu said the extension was \"hugely welcome news for the sector and our restaurant partners.\"\n\"The sector still faces huge challenges but removing the immediate threat of eviction will save thousands of restaurants from bankruptcy,\" he said.\nRestaurants at 'critical risk' of eviction\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) said it is \"a difficult time for store-based retailers, who face high costs from coronavirus safety measures, and significantly lower footfall.\"\nTom Ironside, director of business and regulation at the BRC, said: \"While the extension of the moratorium will provide a respite for many struggling retailers, a large Christmas Day rent bill would be a disaster during the all-important peak trading period.\"\n'Pensions hit'\nHowever, the British Property Federation said the extension was \"hugely disappointing\", adding that \"well-capitalised businesses continue to exploit the intervention, refusing to pay rent despite being able to afford it.\"\nMelanie Leech, the chief executive of the body, added that it is \"imperative, for the health of the pensions and savings funds that own our High Street, that the government confirms this is the last extension.\"\nThe scale of pensions schemes investment in commercial property is \"enormous\", according to Bruce Dear, head of London real estate at law firm Eversheds Sutherland.\nHe said pension schemes typically invest between 10% and 12% of their funds in commercial property. Savers also invest in property through Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs).\nSome estimates point to about \u00a345bn of UK savings and pensions depending on commercial rent being collected.\nMr Dear said people have a \"quasi-feudal\" view of landlords \"as being incredibly rich landowners who have nothing to do with people\u2026 but the majority of landlords in this country are you and me, through our savings and our pensions.\"\n\"The dance between landlords and tenants drives the UK economy and it doesn't work if one side has its feet chained together. The government should bring in counter balancing rent support for landlords,\" he added.\nCredit squeeze?\nIndustry body Revo, which represents commercial landlords, said that the shortfall in rents for the second quarter alone was \u00a31.5bn, and that can \"be expected to increase sharply later this month.\"\n\"This sudden loss of income will reverberate through the financial system to savers and pensioners that directly or indirectly rely on commercial property for income\u2026 The current situation is simply not sustainable,\" said Vivienne King, chief executive of Revo.\nThe body added that landlords could start to have difficulty paying their mortgages, which in turn would hit banks, who may then be less willing to lend.\nThe loss of rental income \"may begin to have material impacts on credit supply, if lenders find themselves overwhelmed by defaulting landlord borrowers,\" Ms King said.\nTags:business extension hit holiday pension rent schemes\n\u2190 Fed vows prolonged economic support for US\n'For me whale meat is my childhood, my memories' \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Behind the scenes at a Chichester jewellers\nPublished: 14:38 Monday 08 August 2016\nLaura Cartledge goes behind the scenes at a jewellers where work ranges from diamond encrusted pineapples to remaking monuments.\nPeople are proud of where they come from, but it can prove tricky to make sophisticated fashion choices that celebrate that.\nThankfully a jeweller is helping to put the 'I heart' t-shirts to one side with ornate pieces inspired by Sussex's iconic landmarks.\nOne of the recent creations from Timothy Roe doesn't just enable you to carry around the Chichester Cross it is actually an improved version of the historic monument.\n\"If you look at the real thing it is all rounded off because of the weather and it doesn't have the ball on the top at the moment,\" explains the company's computer aided designer Chris Fisher.\nWhile Chris admits some think jewellery making 'is just banging metal together', he adds 'unfortunately it takes a bit more than that' but technology is lending a helping hand.\nThe Cross resin\n\"It gives you so much more options for design,\" he enthuses. \"If you have a funny shaped stone we can 3D scan that and make it fit exactly for instance.\"\nBut that doesn't mean it is not still laborious, as Chris reveals the first stage of making the cross began with photographs which were then drawn in CAD - a process estimated to have taken 15 hours.\n\"We start drawing lines, like the hands of the clock - it is the minute detail,\" he reveals. \"You almost trace over the photo and from there you build it up.\n\"The hardest part is the CAD,\" he adds, \"... or the casting - that can be a pain, but I don't have to do that.\"\nChichester Cross\nOnce the computer version is complete it is 3D printed to create a positive image, this takes a staggering 58 hours to print a large version of the cross which measures just 6cm tall.\nFrom there a negative mould is made using rubber and plaster, so the final positive - in precious metals - can be cast.\nThe cross follows the 'A Day at The Races' bangle (pictured), inspired by Goodwood racecourse, Lalique jewellery from the turn of the last century and a longstanding relationship supporting St Wilfrid's Hospice.\nMarston's Pubs among the eateries providing straws not suitable for vegetarians and vegans\nWhile planning a donation towards the charity's raffle, owner Timothy had spotted a bracelet decorated with a frame of trees and Art Nouveau enamel, which he decided to give a Sussex twist.\nA few sketches later, bearing in mind the Goodwood venue for the hospice's upcoming 25th anniversary celebration, the design was formed and work on the epic project began.\nThe result, in my own humble opinion, is the most beautiful piece of jewellery I have ever seen.\nClearly not afraid of a challenge, Chris reveals plans are ongoing for the next Chichester creation.\n\"We were going to do the cathedral as well as the cross and got part way through,\" he smiles. \"We haven't finished it yet - as you can imagine it is a mammoth task, but it could be a case of watch this space.\n\"Pieces like these give Tim a creative outlet, these things tend to be his brainchilds.\"\nWhile the technology can look almost as fiddly as the intricate diamond setting happening on the floor above, Chris, who has been with the business for nearly five years, says he 'found it came naturally'.\n\"It just suits how my brain works,\" he reasons, naming his favourite program as one called 'ZBrush'. \"It is like working with clay, we can bend it, pull it.\"\nIt is not hard to see why bespoke commissions take up such a large percentage of work for Timothy Roe's team, and for Chris it brings a variety he relishes.\n\"We have done some pretty weird things,\" he smiles. \"There was a ring with two frogs either side of it, one with a beaver's faces on and then a diamond encrusted pineapple.\n\"You do a lot of the same stuff but then you get a piece in that is so interesting. Someone asked for snare drum cufflinks, I enjoyed doing that one.\"\nAs Chris puts it, the good thing about combining modern techniques with ancient methods is not only that 'the possibilities are almost endless', but also because it means 'there are a lot of different ways you can get around things'.\nTo find out more about the work of Timothy Roe, 12-13 South Street, Chichester, visit www.timothyroe.com\nFor more features like this visit etc Magazine online\n1) Make our website your homepage at www.chichester.co.uk\/\n2) Like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com\/ChichesterObserver\n3) Follow us on Twitter @Chiobserver\nThe Chichester Observer - always the first with your local news.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HISTORY IN FIREARMS\nEvery firearm has a history\nSMLE No.1 Mk.III*\nModel 1938 Carcano\nM1 Carbine\nFN 49\nNDM-86 Dragunov\nTraining Films\nMilsurp Operator\nRifle Grenade Launchers\nBelgium\/Egypt\nBRIEF OVERALL HISTORY\nThe Fabrique Nationale Model 1949's design started prior to WWII. Designed by Dieudonn\u00e9 Saive, development was interrupted when Germany invaded Belgium and Saive fled to England. With the war over, Saive returned to Belgium and finished the design. Seeing limited adoption due to the number of military surplus rifles available post WWII and the desire for more modern features such as detachable magazines, it was adopted by countries including Belgium and Egypt in multiple different calibers.\nAlong the left side of the receiver is the manufacturer mark. \"Fabrique Nationale D'Armes De Guerre_Herstal Belgique\" translates to \"National War Weapons Factory Herstal, Belgium\". This is commonly abbreviated to and known as FN Herstal.\nRECEIVER RING MARKING\nIndicating an Egyptian contract, the receiver ring marking is a crown over an Arabic inscription. The crown is monarchical crown of King Farouk, who was king at the time of the FN-49s adoption. The Arabic inscription is \"Egyptian Army\".\nOn the left side of the receiver is the serial number. This is marked in both Arabic and French numbers. This serial number puts this rifle in the second Egyptian contract and would have been delivered in June of 1950.\nADDITIONAL SERIAL NUMBERS\nSerial numbers are also marked on the top cover, bolt carrier, bolt, and stock. Some of these are mismatched indicating replacement parts.\nCALIBER MARKINGS\nWith varying calibers of FN-49s in production, some caliber specific parts were marked. The Egyptian contract rifles were chambered for 7.9mm (8mm Mauser) and are marked as such on the receiver, extractor, magazine, and follower.\nGAS CYLINDER PLUG\nThe gas cylinder plug on the Egyptian contract rifles was marked \"gas\" in Arabic script. When this mark is visible, the gas operation is enabled.\nPROOF MARKS\nWhat is known as the Perron proof mark can be seen on the bolt, receiver cover, and receiver. This mark is a rendition of monument a in Li\u00e8ge known as \"Le Perron\". The letter below a star above this mark is the inspector at the Li\u00e8ge proof house. \"E\" was for Auguste Jamart, who was there from 1924 to 1959, and \"H\" for Christophe Woit, there from 1938 to 1968.\nFINAL PROOF MARK\nThe final or definitive proof mark is on the barrel over the chamber. This is applied after the rifle has withstood the firing of a proof-load cartridge. The ELG represent \"Epreuve de Li\u00e8ge\" or \"Proof of Li\u00e8ge\". The letter below a star above this mark is the inspector at the Li\u00e8ge proof house. E was for Auguste Jamart who was there from 1924 to 1959.\nFIRING PIN\nA two piece firing pin was adopted by FN in 1952. Egypt's contracts were fulfilled by 1950. This rifle has a two piece firing pin and it does not have the notch for the firing pin safety stop, which was omitted on the Egyptian contract. This would indicate that this is a replacement part for an Egyptian rifle, possibly done at the request of FN, as they knew the one piece design was prone to failure. Also of note, is this being an early two piece firing pin, as it has right angle machine cuts that were later tapered.\nFRONT SIGHT\nRifles were zeroed using varying sized front sight blades. This was done at the factory and the front sight height is marked on the left side. This one is marked \"7.2\" indicating that it is 7.2mm high from the bottom of the sight base, not including the dove tail.\nREAR SIGHT\nThe rear sight is a tangent style with and windage adjustable aperture. It is adjustable from 10 to 100 meters and is marked in Arabic.\nSAFETY SELECTOR AND COCKING INDICATOR\nThe safety selector is located on the right side above the trigger. It rotates down in to the safe position, blocking the trigger. Protruding from the trigger guard is a cocking indicator. When the hammer is back, the pin can be seen and felt.\nBOLT CARRIER CATCH\nOn the forward left side of the receiver cover is a bolt carrier catch. This allows the bolt and bolt carrier to be held to the rear for loading.\nAlong the right side of the receiver is a manually operated dust cover. It is partially open in this photo.\nGAS CYLINDER PLUG ADJUSTMENT\nRemoval or adjustment of the gas cylinder plug can be done with a cartridge. Using the tip of a bullet, the gas cylinder plunger can be depress then rotated. If the plug has become stuck, it can be rotated using a cartridge rim.\nSTOCK WRIST CARTOUCHE\nBehind the trigger guard on the stock wrist is a cartouche. The meaning of this is unknown.\nSTOCK DISC\nOn the right side of the stock is a brass unit disc. The Arabic inscription around the top is the same as the receiver ring, \"Egyptian Army\". The inscription around the bottom seems to include the numbers \"473\" and \"21\". If you know what unit this rifle belonged to, please let us know on the contact page.\nBATTLEFIELD CAPTURE\nThis rifle does not have an import mark, indicating it was imported prior to 1968. The only known Egyptian FN-49s to enter the U.S. prior to 1968 were battle field captures from the Sinai War in 1956. Israel captured the rifles from Egypt and they were then imported to the U.S. around 1958.\nFN-49 (SAFN) Characteristics and Features (TF 14-01)\nFN 49 (SAFN) Field Strip (TF 14-02)\nFN-49 (SAFN) Gas Regulator Adjustment (TF 14-01A)\nFN-49 (SAFN) Leather Sling Installation (TF 14-05A)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"La mujer sin cabeza\nJune 14, 2010 Matt Blake Latest News 0\nKnown in English language countries as The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel's La mujer sin cabeza is really more of an Argetinian film than anything else; there was some Italian (and French and German) involvement on the production side, but that's it. Produced by Pedro Almod\u00f3var, among others, this received some very favorable reviews when it played at festivals around the world, and even had a theatrical release in the UK (albeit in February 2010!)\nHere's the Guardian review, by Philip French:\nSix years ago the Argentinian moviemaker Lucrecia Martel made an extraordinary movie, La Ni\u00f1a Santa (The Holy Girl), much influenced by Luis Bu\u00f1uel and Pedro Almod\u00f3var, who produced it along with his brother. Set in a town in northern Argentina, it's a mysterious film with no formal exposition, looking at the world through the eyes of a brooding 16-year-old girl who attends some sort of church school. Her mother owns a decaying, once fashionable spa, seemingly a metaphor for a decaying society, and at the centre of the film is a transgressive act by a doctor that leads to the girl informing on him and betraying a friend.\nMartel's first film since then, La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) is similarly oblique. Once again the viewpoint is subjective and the audience left to infer relationships and work out what's going on. The plot, however, turns on that familiar movie device that goes back via The Great Gatsby to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. This is the hit-and-run story, the offence invariably committed by someone of the privileged classes, the victim always from the oppressed lower orders. Ver\u00f3nica (Mar\u00eda Onetto), a good-looking, middle-aged dentist, is driving along a country road when she's distracted by her cellphone and appears to hit something. She breaks hard, bangs her head, sits for a while, looks back and drives on. From then on her life is a nightmare of confusion and guilt, and we are compelled to share her distorted vision.\nA child from a peasant family has disappeared in the area and is eventually discovered in a storm drain. Was he her victim? Were the fingerprints on the car's window his or those of her own child? With a touch of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, all records of her visit to the hospital, her stay at a hotel that night and any marks on the car have disappeared, the work of a male conspiracy involving her husband, her lover and a relative. It's an intriguing film, more alienating than involving, that ends abruptly and in my view unsatisfactorily. Some people whose opinion I respect regard it as a masterpiece, but after a single viewing I can't share this view.\nAs this isn't really an Italian film, I'm not going to cover this in any more depth, intriguing though it sounds!\nAbout Matt Blake\t889 Articles\nThe WildEye is a blog dedicated to the wild world of Italian cinema (and, ok, sometimes I digress into discussing films from other countries as well). Peplums, comedies, dramas, spaghetti westerns... they're all covered here.\nGloria Paul interview\nRebecca, la prima moglie\nSmall review about Port Gaverne Restaurant and Hotel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here:Home \u00bb Compulsory pilotage\nCompulsory pilotage\nSeagoing ships navigating in the North Sea Canal Area are subject to compulsory pilotage. More information about compulsory pilotage can be found in the Compulsory Pilotage Decree.\nIs your ship 75 metres or less in length?\nShips of 75 metres or less in length (i.e. length over all) are exempt from compulsory pilotage.\nPlease consult the Compulsory Pilotage Decree 1995, article 4, paragraph 2i.\nIs your ship more than 75 metres in length?\nShips more than 75 metres in length may in some cases apply for an exemption from compulsory pilotage.\nIs your ship registered in the Small Ships Register?\nIn that case you may apply for an exemption for the area between the pilot station and the IJmuiden breakwaters. Please send your application to portoffice@portofamsterdam.com.\nShould you wish to register your ship in the Small Ships Register, please contact Loodswezen (Dutch Pilots' Organisation).\nIs your ship NOT registered in the Small Ships Register and is your ship 95 metres or less in length?\nIn that case you may apply for an exemption. Please send your application to portoffice@portofamsterdam.com. Please note that you will at least have to make a number of assessment trips with a pilot.\nIf your ship is more than 95 metres in length, you are not eligible for an exemption.\nIn this case, however, you may apply for a Pilotage Exemption Certificate (PEC). Please send your application to portoffice@portofamsterdam.com. An exam is required to obtain a Pilotage Exemption Certificate. Please consult the Pilotage Exemption Certificate Holders Decree of the Shipping Traffic Act.\nYou may apply for an exemption or a Pilotage Exemption Certificate for the following areas:\nIJmuiden Roads\/IJmuiden: IJmuiden Approach and the Outer Harbour, the Noorderbuitenkanaal, the Zuiderbuitenkanaal, the Verbindingskanaal, the Hoogovenkanaal, the Outer Harbour, the Hoogovenhaven, the Vissershaven and the Haringhaven.\nBeverwijk\/Velsen: The IJmuiden locks including the North Sea Canal up to kilometre marker 5, including the harbour basins and ports connected to it.\nZaanstad: The North Sea Canal from kilometre marker 5 up to 19, including the harbour basins and ports connected to it on the north side.\nAmsterdam: The North Sea Canal from kilometre marker 5 up to the entrance to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, including the harbour basins and ports connected to it - insofar as they do not fall under the Zaanstad area.\nIf your situation is not mentioned above or if you have any doubts, please contact the\nHarbour Master's Division, Port Office\nor call us on +312 0523 4600 - option 2\nWe are 24\/7 available.\nYou can also email us via portoffice@portofamsterdam.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How a CNY company's invention counters drone threat\nUpdated Feb 23, 2017 ; Posted Feb 23, 2017\nBy Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com\nSRC headquarters.jpg\nSRC Inc. will hire 50 engineers immediately for its headquarters in Cicero after winning a $65 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop and build a system that detects small drones on the battlefield.\n(Provided photo)\nSRC Inc. of Cicero won a $65 million contract from the U.S. Army this month to provide technology that counters a growing threat on the battlefield: small, slow and low-flying drones that can avoid detection by traditional radar.\nSRC President and CEO Paul Tremont said the system the company will deliver to the Army will use multiple components as part of a ground-based system.\nTremont is restricted by the Army contract from disclosing specific details of how the system works, but he said the components include:\nAn enhanced radar for air surveillance to detect small drones.\nElectronic sensing equipment will determine how the drone communicates and the location of the operator.\nA high-fidelity camera to track the drone and allow for visual inspection. The camera will allow operators to make sure it's not a small bird or non-hostile object.\nOnce identified as hostile, the SRC system can jam the drone's communication links, forcing the drone to return to its base or make an emergency landing. The system also works against potential swarms of drones attacking simultaneously.\nFederal laws will guide how and when drone signals can be interfered with or manipulated to ease the threat in U.S. airspace.\nThe Federal Aviation Administration said last year that a law that prohibits shooting down aircraft in U.S. airspace will extend to drones. But Congress later authorized the Department of Defense to use \"reasonable force\" to deal with drones that pose a threat.\nContact Mark Weiner anytime: Email | Twitter | Facebook | 571-970-3751","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Remembering Jim Cullum\nSeptember 20, 1941 \u2013 August 11, 2019\nA tribute to the New Orleans style cornetist and bandleader\nClick here to Support Jazz on the Tube\nCornetist Jim Cullum passed away on August 11, 2019 at the age of 77 from a heart attack.\nHe was born September 2, 1941 in San Antonio, Texas, the son of clarinetist Jim Cullum Sr. who led the Happy Jazz Band in the 1960s and '70s until his death in 1973.\nThe younger Cullum grew up around music, began playing trumpet at an early age, and was always attracted to New Orleans jazz and swing, playing his first professional job in 1958 when he was 17.\nAfter attending San Antonio College and Trinity University, he joined his father's band in 1962 which by the following year was based at the Landing in San Antonio.\nThe cornetist, who developed into a powerful soloist, recorded 15 albums with the Happy Jazz Band during 1963-73 for the Audiophile and Happy Jazz labels.\nAfter his father's death, he took over the group which was soon simply known at the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, becoming one of the top trad groups and featuring such sidemen through the years as clarinetists Allan Vache, Brian Oglivie and Evan Christopher and pianist John Sheridan, recording for the Audiophile, American Jazz, Jazzology, World Jazz and Stomp Off labels plus a superb album of music from Porgy and Bess for CBS.\nDuring 1989-2012, Jim Cullum gained his greatest fame and influence due to his weekly hour-long PBS radio series Live At the Landing which featured his band, guests, and an educational and entertaining approach to presenting early jazz.\nJim Cullum was active until the end, performing just two days before his unexpected death.\nHere is the Jim Cullum Jazz Band with cornetist Cullum, trombonist Randy Reinhart, clarinetist Allan Vache, pianist John Sheridan, banjoist Howard Elkins, bassist Jim Hunter, and drummer Eddie Torres on Jan. 29, 1985 playing Jelly Roll Morton's \"Frog-I-More Rag.\"\nPreviousTake Me Back Baby And Air Mail Special\nNextOne O'Clock Jump\nFireworks \u2013 1985\nBecome a monthly subscriber\nFill out this form to become a\nonce-a-month subscriber\n$5.00 - Big Help, Monthly\n$10 - Amazing Help, Monthly\n$20 - Mind boggling help, Monthly\nYou have chosen to donate $10.00 monthly.\nOr Make a One Time Donation\nFill out this form to make a one-time only donation\n$25.00 - Big Help\n$50 - Amazing Help\n$100 - Mind boggling help\n$500 - Epic help","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Criminology - Research\nSort: Price - High to low\nCounty Lines\nExploitation and Drug Dealing among Urban Street Gangs\nDrawing upon extensive research amongst gang members, dealers and drug users, this timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the 'County Lines' phenomenon.\nShedding new light on this urgent topic on government agendas, this is an invaluable contribution to the literature on gangs, youth violence and organised crime.\nSex Work and the New Zealand Model\nDecriminalisation and Social Change\nEdited by Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel\nUsing the evidence from New Zealand, this unique collection examines how decriminalisation is experienced by different groups of sex workers and reveals the enduring challenges for sex workers in this context. This is an invaluable contribution to the urgent debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex worker's rights.\nForthcomingPaperback\u00a326.99 \u00a313.49 Pre-order\nWelfare and Punishment\nFrom Thatcherism to Austerity\nBy Ian Cummins\nFrom Margaret Thatcher's first government to austerity politics, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to imprisonment and the social state. With fresh insights and critical thinking, he demonstrates how increasingly punitive approaches to crime and welfare have shaped the neoliberal economy and created stigma around those living in poverty.\nForthcomingHardback\u00a375.00 \u00a337.50 Pre-order\nCurrently not availableEPUB\u00a326.99 \u00a313.49\nPhilosophy Behind Bars\nGrowth and Development in Prison\nBy Kirstine Szifris\nMale prisons can be dangerous places with a climate of distrust, but can long-term prisoners be given the space to reflect and grow ? This ground-breaking study found that engaging prisoners in philosophy education enabled them to think about some of the 'big' questions in life and as a result to see themselves and others differently.\nCommunities, identities and crime\nBy Basia Spalek\nThis book provides a critical exploration of the importance of social identities when considering crime, victimisation and criminal justice and offers a refreshing perspective on the most significant developments in relation to equality and diversity issues that feature in policies and practices of criminal justice agencies.\nCritical perspectives on policy and practice\nEdited by Peter Squires\nCommunity safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by New Labour. This book provides the first sustained critical and theoretically informed analysis of the community safety agenda by leading authorities in the field.\nConvict Criminology\nInside and Out\nBy Rod Earle\nThis is the first single authored book to trace the emergence of Convict Criminology and explore its relevance beyond the USA to the UK and other parts of Europe. It presents uniquely reflexive scholarship combining personal experience with critical perspectives on contemporary penalogy, focussing explicitly on men.\nIndigenous Criminology\nBy Chris Cunneen and Juan Tauri\nIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.\nSports Criminology\nA Critical Criminology of Sport and Games\nBy Nic Groombridge\nThis is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.\nA Criminology of Moral Order\nBy Hans Boutellier\nMoral order is disturbed by criminal events, however traditionally, issues around morality have been neglected by criminologists. Using the moral perspective Boutellier bridges the gap between people's emotional opinions on crime, and criminologists rationalised answers to questions of crime and security.\nA Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers\nBy Randy Lippert and Kevin Walby\nIncluding novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary book assembles a rich collection of policing and security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities) and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or acknowledged previously, pushing criminology to the edge of its current understanding.\nA Criminology of War?\nBy Ross McGarry and Sandra Walklate\nWithin this book, whilst providing an implicit critique of mainstream criminology the authors seek to question if a 'criminology of war' is possible, and if so how this seemingly 'new horizon' of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"COVID Vaccine: What Else Could They Put in the Shot? - By Jon Rappoport (Excerpts only - read full text at link below. - CL)\nThere has never been a greater opportunity to deploy one vaccine against so many people. So it's certainly not out of line to consider a \"dual use.\"\nI have already covered the devastating effects of experimental RNA\/DNA vaccine technologies\u2014both of which could be launched with a COVID vaccine. Putting that aside for the moment, could the vaccine serve another purpose?\nIn this article, I raise questions. Questions about the potential covert use of nanotechnology in the COVID vaccine.\nFrom lexico.com: nanotechnology: \"The branch of technology that deals with dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers, especially the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules.\"\nAre researchers interested in marrying nanotechnology and vaccines?............\nThere can be no doubt that nanotechnology is, indeed, very much involved in cutting-edge vaccine research.\nNow let's shift into another use of nanotech.\nHere are astonishing quotes from the journal Nano Today, from a 2019 paper titled: \"Nanowire probes could drive high-resolution brain-machine interfaces.\" Its authors are Chinese and American:\n\"\u2026advances can enable investigations of dynamics in the brain [through nano-sensor-implants] and drive the development of new brain-machine interfaces with unprecedented resolution and precision.\"\n\"\u2026output electrical signals of brain activity or input electrical stimuli to modulate brain activity in concert with external machines, including computer processors and prosthetics, for human enhancement\u2026\"\nAside from research into prosthetics and, perhaps, the reversal of certain paralyses, this avenue of investigation also suggests \"modulation\" of the brain remotely connected to machines, for the purpose of control.\nModulation\u2026such as control of basic thought-impulses, sensations, emotions?\nONE: Nano-sensors, implanted in the body and brain, would issue real time data-reports on body\/brain functioning to ops centers.\nTWO: And from those ops centers, data\u2014including instructions\u2014would be sent back to the nano-sensors, which would impose those instructions on the brain and body.\nIf this seems impossible, consider nanotech research aimed at improving the use of prosthetics. In that field, imposing instructions on the body\/brain appears to be the whole point\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\n\u2014HOWEVER, as I've reported many times in these pages, the standard definitions of diseases and disorders are often incorrect, or even invented. But because the future system I've just sketched is automated, the patient is enclosed in a fake and dangerous bubble. Among other problems, the disease treatments, the drugs and vaccines, are toxic.\nWhat is the technology that is on the way to producing these body sensors?\nNanoscience. Nano-engineering.\nMillions of people dead, freedom crushed, a whole population under the boot of the Communist regime, but somehow that's not what David Rockefeller saw, or pretended to see. He, like other of his elite Globalist colleagues, admired the Chinese government for the capacity to control its own people, to such a high degree.\nFlash forward 47 years. Scientists from both countries are blowing each other kisses, as they collaborate on developing a technology that has the potential to gain intimate influence inside the human brain itself.\n\u2014Of course, remember, when political push comes to shove, and it always does, China is the friend of China. In the case of American corporate and government big shots, hometown loyalty tends to be conditional, depending on which sources and countries are putting money on the table.\n(Read full text at link below.)\nhttps:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fimmu.2019.00022\/full\nhttps:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1748013219306929\nhttps:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/marketintelligence\/en\/news-insights\/latest-news-headlines\/first-in-human-early-stage-nanotechnology-poised-for-inflection-point-57506309\nReprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport's blog.\nThe Best of Jon Rappoport\nJon Rappoport runs No More Fake News. The author of an explosive collection, The Matrix Revealed, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.\nCopyright \u00a9 Jon Rappoport\nhttps:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2020\/05\/jon-rappoport\/covid-vaccine-what-else-could-they-put-in-the-shot\/\nPosted by Crush Limbraw at 9:12 AM\nLabels: Culture, Education, Fedonomics, Government, Political Correctness, Politics","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Boosting Fiber Optics Communications with Advanced Quantum-Enhanced Receiver\nAVS Quantum Science\nFrom the Journal: AVS Quantum Science\nLink to article: Practical quantum-enhanced receivers for classical communication\nWASHINGTON, April 20, 2021 \u2014 Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with the continuing exponential growth of internet traffic, researchers are warning of a capacity crunch.\nIn AVS Quantum Science, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland show how quantum-enhanced receivers could play a critical role in addressing this challenge.\nIllustration showing how single-photon detection is used for feedback. Once correct parameters for the reference beam are established, the input state is extinguished. CREDIT: Ivan Burenkov\nThe scientists developed a method to enhance receivers based on quantum physics properties to dramatically increase network performance while significantly reducing the error bit rate (EBR) and energy consumption.\nFiber optic technology relies on receivers to detect optical signals and convert them into electrical signals. The conventional detection process, largely as a result of random light fluctuations, produces \"shot noise,\" which decreases detection ability and increases EBR.\nTo accommodate this problem, signals must continually be amplified as pulsating light becomes weaker along the optic cable, but there is a limit to maintaining adequate amplification when signals become barely perceptible.\nQuantum-enhanced receivers that process up to two bits of classical information and can overcome the shot noise have been demonstrated to improve detection accuracy in laboratory environments. In these and other quantum receivers, a separate reference beam with a single-photon detection feedback is used so the reference pulse eventually cancels out the input signal to eliminate the shot noise.\nThe researchers' enhanced receiver, however, can decode as many as four bits per pulse, because it does a better job in distinguishing among different input states.\nTo accomplish more efficient detection, they developed a modulation method and implemented a feedback algorithm that takes advantage of the exact times of single photon detection. Still, no single measurement is perfect, but the new \"holistically\" designed communication system yields increasingly more accurate results on average.\n\"We studied the theory of communications and the experimental techniques of quantum receivers to come up with a practical telecommunication protocol that takes maximal advantage of the quantum measurement,\" author Sergey Polyakov said. \"With our protocol, because we want the input signal to contain as few photons as possible, we maximize the chance that the reference pulse updates to the right state after the very first photon detection, so at the end of the measurement, the EBR is minimized.\"\nPractical quantum-enhanced receivers for classical communication\nIvan Burenkov, M.V. Jabir, and Sergey V. Polyakov\nNational Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland\nAVS Quantum Science, co-published by AIP Publishing and AVS, is a truly intradisciplinary journal that reaches from its foundations in quantum science into a breadth of areas from condensed matter and atomic, molecular and optical physics, to biology, chemistry, and materials science, as well as computer science and engineering. The journal places a strong emphasis on focused and comprehensive reviews and features perspectives and original research.\nhttps:\/\/avs.scitation.org\/journal\/aqs\nCombining Light, Superconductors Could Boost AI Capabilities\nDetecting, Exploiting Non-Line-of-Sight Paths for Terahertz Signals in Wireless Communications","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Happy Christmas, 41 years ago\nDecember 19, 2017 charlesfoster1 Comment\nOld guys and nostalgia freaks like me love blogs like The Radical History of Hackney. A year or two ago, I donated an almost complete run of issues of Hackney People's Press to John, the blog's compiler, in the sure knowledge that he would give them a good home and find them useful for reference.\nJohn has obviously been working through them, and has just posted a summary of the issues we produced in 1976. The first issue of HPP for the year didn't get published until May, when I got together with one or two people in a hopeful attempt to get it back and running again after an absence of several months. I'm glad to say that a few people came forward, and throughout that long hot summer we managed a few more editions, culminating in a November\/December Christmas special. One of the new people involved was called Tony, and it is him that is posing in the Father Christmas outfit on the cover shown here.\nOne page in the Christmas issue was a spoof Hackney Gazette, which we subjected to biting satire based on its normal diet of gruesome court cases.\nAt the bottom of this page is a happy picture of HPP workers sitting on the ground at that summer's Hackney Marsh Fun Festival folding copies ready for sale. Tony is the guy at the front, holding up a copy for the camera. Behind him facing right is a considerably thinner and hairier figure: me at the age of 26.\nForty-one years ago, eh? A lot has changed since then, but I'm still here, and at this festive season I wish you a very happy Christmas.\nHackney People's Press\nRespect and respectability\nDecember 14, 2017 charlesfosterLeave a comment\nI am reading and much enjoying Lynsey Hanley's book, Respectable, about social class in Britain. Like her, I read Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy at quite a young age although with my solidly middle class background I did not feel, as does Hanley, that Hoggart could have been writing about my own childhood.\nHowever, it's not the content that I want to write about here. Rather, it's the book production standards which display a slackness one would not have expected from a firm like Penguin. Here is a spread:\nJust how did the quoted matter on the left hand page slip through the proofing process? You would think that anyone with half a book production brain would spot that it is set in Times \u2013 especially so when there is quoted matter on the right hand page, set correctly in Bembo. In case you think I'm being unnecessary picky, there are actually several instances of this in the book \u2013 I've chosen to show the one where there are two pieces of quoted matter on a double page spread.\nThe typography in the book is actually very classical in style and quite nice, and I'm glad to see that Penguin still provides the typeface name on the title page verso. Quite why the book is set in a typesize of 11.76\/14.76pt is, however, a bit of a mystery. How would you happen on such an odd size?\nMass book production has always depended on fast turnaround but you do expect good practise from the firm whose high standards were set by one of the greatest 20th century typographers. Hans ('Half-Point') Schmoller would not have been amused.\nBook design, Book production, Hans Schmoller","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Resources for Christian Study\nBelow are some tools to help you deepen your walk with the Lord and expand your knowledge of who He is, what He has done, and who He has called you to be.\nYou can listen to sermons, read articles, and learn about our books. Please feel free to share these resources with those you know who would also glean from it.\nCredit Mark Henslee\nBy Mark Henslee | January 20, 2023\nIn my life's journey, I'm continually learning and growing. One of the areas that I've been developing in is gaining a better understanding of Father God's heart for His children. He has an enormous heart of love for all of His kids. Through our work with ministers and exposure to various church bodies, I've cried\u2026\nBy Dallas Henslee | December 30, 2022\n\"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may\u2026\nBy Mark Henslee | October 21, 2022\nWe were driving down the interstate, having just crossed from Colorado into Kansas shortly before five on a Friday afternoon. Suddenly, we lost power and started blowing smoke out of the tailpipe. My initial thought was, \"Oh no! I've got to get safely to the side of the road.\" The words that came out of\u2026\nPreparing for the Storms of Life\nBy Mark Henslee | September 23, 2022\nEvery location has its own unique weather patterns, but everywhere you can live will have storms. Some places have hurricanes while others deal with tornadoes. There are places that experience sandstorms and others that get snow storms. The winds will blow, and the storm will rage, at some point, everywhere. As there are storms in\u2026\nAn Emotional Elijah Experience\nBy Dallas Henslee | September 2, 2022\nWhen I was younger, we used to say, \"Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day.\" Of course, if we could keep sending the rain away because it was inconvenient, there would be catastrophic results. Elijah's story Consider the story in 1 Kings 17-19. The rain stopped and would not return until Elijah commanded it\u2026\nStep By Step I Follow\nBy Mark Henslee | August 12, 2022\nThere's a Rich Mullins song, \"Sometimes by Step\", that I often get running in my head on my journey with God. Part of the chorus says, \"Step by step You'll lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.\" This describes much of our life. We don't know too many steps ahead, sometimes\u2026\nWhen A Blowout is an Answer to Prayer\nBy Mark Henslee | May 13, 2022\nMany refer to April 1st as April Fool's Day and plan practical, and sometimes not so practical, jokes and pranks. We prefer to think of it as just another day in our journey with the Lord. This April 1st, we were closing up the trailer and starting our several thousand mile trek across the country. \u2026\nMy Mud Hut on Wheels\nBy Dallas Henslee | March 11, 2022\nWhen I was younger, we visited Heritage Park in Calgary, Alberta. There were parts of the park that I really enjoyed and others that I didn't. I loved the old time candy store and ice cream shop. What kid wouldn't? I didn't love experiencing the sod shack\/mud hut by stepping inside. I found it stuffy,\u2026\nDon't Beat the Donkey and Other Lessons from Numbers 22\nBy Mark Henslee | February 18, 2022\nThere's a story in the Bible about a man named Balaam. You can read the entire story in Numbers chapters 22 through 24. I'll give you a brief summary. Balaam was not an Israelite but was a prophet who had some connection with God. A king hired Balaam to curse Israel. God told Balaam not\u2026\nConnecting to the Power for Your Light to Shine\nI have a small flashlight that sits on the corner of my desk. It's easy to grab, and located fairly centrally in the trailer. When needed, it will pierce the darkness or illuminate a dark cabinet, so I can see as needed. But there is something about this flashlight that is required to make it\u2026\nReceive New Content By Email\nReceive Weekly Devotional Thoughts\nRead Other Devotionals\n\"If you've ever been interested in the topic of Spiritual Warfare, local authors Mark and Dallas Henslee have written a book that you just HAVE to read! Well-written, specific and Biblically sound, this book will help you understand the realities of spiritual warfare, and how to fight the battle successfully through the power of Jesus Christ!\"\nHeather Trost, The Greatest Gift Bookstore\nJennyLyne vs the Guinea Hens\nA Children's Book on Forgiveness for ages 5-10\nJoin JennyLyne on her misadventures through a neighbor's garden, laundry line, and mango tree. Through these experiences, JennyLyne learns about Jesus' love in addition to how forgiveness impacts us all. This is the first story in a series of books for children regarding forgiveness. (Fully illustrated, 34 page, paper cover book, 9 x 9 inches)\nReflections: Living Right-Side Up in an Upside-Down World\nA Devotional Resource\nThis is a collection of 52 stories combining real life experiences and spiritual principles. Previously included in our monthly blog distribution, these selections are no longer available on the website as stand alone entries. Purchase your copy to relive your favorite stories with Biblical application.\nAvailable in electronic or paperback formats\nBreaking the Burdensome Yoke\nBreaking the Burdensom Yoke: A Discipleship Course in Forgiving and Grieving\nForgiving and grieving go beyond theoretical concepts. Know you need to forgive, but you just can't seem to figure out how? Grieving but feel like everyone thinks you should be \"over it\" by now? This book is for you.\nBreaking the Burdensome Yoke walks the reader through the why, what, and how aspects of forgiveness and grief. These are active processes, and yet, we often get stuck along the way. Those that have already read the book are saying things like, \"I didn't know I needed to forgive that; This helped me understand my grief better; and Everyone needs this book!\"\nBehind Enemy Lines\nBehind Enemy Lines: A Discipleship Course in Spiritual Warfare\nRevised and Expanded Second Edition\nWe had so many questions from readers that we decided to expand the teaching included in this book. Additionally, you will find a dedicated Question and Answer section in the appendix.\nBehind Enemy Lines takes a look at the power of the Holy Spirit and how we walk in victory rather than defeat and how that often creates questions among those we encounter. You will be reminded of your identity in Christ and be guided toward applying biblical principles of doing like Jesus did. You will uncover practical insights for participating in what God is doing in and through His children when they submit to His will.\nWhy Do We Need to Forgive?\nGet your complimentary PDF excerpt of the first chapter of Breaking the Burdensome Yoke: A Discipleship Course in Forgiving and Grieving.\n\"Before we delve into the process of forgiving, we need to know why we are doing this work. The Lord commanded us to forgive; therefore, we don't have the luxury to dig in our heels and remain in unforgiveness without impeding our relationship with God...Much like the servant in Matthew 18:24, we owed a debt that could not possibly be repaid. Jesus paid our debt through His sacrifice on the the Cross....He expects us to extend to others the same forgiveness that we have received from Him.\" (Breaking the Burdensome Yoke pp.22-23)\n\"Forgiveness is a deliberate decision. One chooses to forgive, it doesn't simply occur because you stayed within a certain acceptable range of emotion in reaction to the offense. If you do not choose to surrender the right to be hurt, then by default, you retain the right to be hurt and can use that at any point in the future against the offender. When you choose to retain the right to remain hurt, offended, or wounded, you choose to remain a victim by default. It is very difficult to be both a victim and a conqueror at the same time (Romans 8:37).\nSince reconciliation [to the point of restoration of relationship] is not commanded, we can forgive without having to continue to be harmed....\" (Behind Enemy Lines, Forgiveness Chapter).\nIn addition to offering our blogs in print, you can listen to some of our God stories (some would call these testimonies).\nSermons:\nSeasons in Psalm 23\nCome Let Us Adore Him\nA Life Surrendered\nHealing Requires Obedience\nTell Your God Stories\nTraining Seasons\nWalking As Children of God\nPlanning with the Holy Spirit\nA Perspective on Church Traditions\nShort Stories:\nHearing God on the Trail\nHealing Stories\nPlanning International Travel by Prayer and Faith\nBurnout and Restoration\nWorship through Flagging\nWhy Use Flags in Worship?\n\"Why flags?\" Well, because there is Scriptural basis, complimented by abundant symbolism in color and movement, and because worship is part of our spiritual warfare arsenal. Synonyms for flags include banner, sign, signal, standard, standard-bearer, and symbol. While flags as we know them today are not mentioned specifically in Scripture, the present day\u2026\nAre Worship Flags Biblical?\nWhere does the use of praise banners and worship flags come from? Yes, flag worship is biblical, although there is no specific Scripture that commands us to use them in worship today. Think of the flag bearer or standard bearer in biblical times. We can even look to Scripture to see God in a\u2026\nWe send out monthly newsletters to keep you informed about ministry developments and short personal updates or prayer requests. These are distributed via email to keep our administration costs to a minimum and are delivered to your inbox every 4-6 weeks. 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{"text":"Mar 12, 2021 - Technology\nBroadband's $7 billion Band-Aid\nMargaret Harding McGill\nStimulus money dedicated to paying for internet access \u2014 including $7 billion in this week's new law \u2014 is likely to prove a short-term Band-Aid on a long-term problem.\nWhy it matters: The pandemic put a spotlight on the need for internet access to participate in work and school \u2014 access that millions of Americans still lack. That need will remain even after the pandemic, and the cash tied to it, recedes.\nDriving the news: President Joe Biden on Thursday signed the American Rescue Plan into law, which includes more than $7 billion for schools to use to connect students who lack internet access at home.\nCongress' December pandemic relief package created a $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit that will provide a $50-a-month discount off home internet bills for low-income Americans.\nThe funding programs will help connect some of the estimated 12 million students who lack the connectivity necessary for distance learning.\nYes, but: They are temporary measures tied to the pandemic, not long-term solutions to close the digital divide. The programs end either soon after the pandemic public health emergency does, or when their money runs out.\nWhat they're saying: \"This isn't a problem that's going to go away because of the pandemic or a vaccine,\" Amina Fazlullah, equity policy counsel for Common Sense Media, told Axios. \"Resilient and reliable access to education is an issue that's going to follow us afterwards as we're trying to address learning loss and ensure everyone can catch up.\"\nBetween the lines: The new broadband funding programs are focused on what's needed now to help people, but they could set the basis for Congress to create permanent programs.\n\"I think it would've been really hard for Congress to do something permanent right now,\" said Evan Marwell, CEO of Education Superhighway. \"What I'm hopeful is both of those programs will really show Congress that we need these affordability programs, and they will come back and do permanent legislation in the next year.\"\nWhat to watch: Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Thursday that would both add funding to the new programs, and provide additional billions to be used for broadband.\nHouse Energy & Commerce Democrats on Thursday introduced a wide-ranging infrastructure bill that includes more than $94 billion in broadband spending.\nSimilar legislation introduced Thursday by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) includes funding for digital inclusion projects and requires broadband deployment projects to include an affordable service option.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"K-TOWN\nWanna One Evoke Their Dreams in New Single 'Beautiful'\n11\/13\/2017 by Tamar Herman\nWanna One \"Beautiful\"\nWanna One, the hottest K-pop rookie boy band of 2017, is back with a brand new, \"Beautiful\" song.\nFormed through the second season of the Korean television show Produce 101, Wanna One returned on Monday (Nov. 13) with 1-1=0 (Nothing Without You), an extended version of their debut EP 1x1=1 (To Be One), which peaked at No. 3 on the World Album chart upon its release in August. \"Beautiful\" is one of four new tracks on the album reissue, fronting the album with its emotive nature.\nMore mellow than their first single \"Energetic,\" \"Beautiful\" is a sentimental tune that emphasizes the band's vocalists through its midtempo EDM-pop ballad styling. With woozy synths and a steady beat, the act's 11 singers and rappers evoke longing through the song's expressive lyrics, like the English hook of \"I miss you so much.\"\nDuring a press conference in Seoul on Monday, the group's Hwang Minhyun, who is currently on hiatus from Nu'Est, told reporters that 1-1=0 serves as a prequel to the original album, and reflects how the group has gone from being nearly a dozen separate individuals into one complete act. \"When we are one, we finally become full,' Yonhap reports the Wanna One member saying.\nAs a softer follow up to the band's first EP, 1-1=0 plays up the team's evocative side throughout. Along with \"Beautiful,\" Wanna One's latest features three other new tracks as well as all the songs featured on 1X1=1, along with remixed versions of several songs from the original. \"Wanna,\" a funky EDM ballad, is joined by the bubbly dance track \"Twilight\" and \"Nothing Without You,\" 1-1=0's harmony-laden intro.\n\"Beautiful\" was released with an extended, 8-minute-long music video. Using the song to propel the storyline, the clip depicts Wanna One's Kang Daniel and Ong Seungwu as brothers separated in childhood searching for one another. After reconnecting, trouble follows the pair and their friends, culminating in ruin for both. A new look for the band, which previously released dance-focused music videos for \"Energetic\" and 1X1=1 b-side \"Burn It Up,\" the alternate style emphasizes the group's acting, particularly highlighting Ong and member Park Jihoon, both of whom are professional actors as well as singers.\nA group formed through viewer voting, Wanna One is immensely popular in Korea. Like their previous album, each of the songs off of 1-1=0 went to the top of the local music charts upon the album's release.\nWatch the music video for \"Beautiful\" below:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vivo S1 Global Variant launched with Helio P65, and more, Specifications and Price\nby Ravis Sharma\nVivo S1 has launched four months ago in China and now the company has introduced in the global market. Some of the differences also marked in China variant and the global variant. The different battery, processor, display size, and camera changes have done with the global variant. It is now open for pre-order in Indonesia. The device includes a MediaTek Helio P65 SoC, a triple rear camera setup, and a 4,5000 mAh battery. While the China variant has a pop-up selfie camera and the global variant packs a waterdrop-style notch camera.\nVivo S1 Specifications and Features\nThe Vivo S1 global variant comes with a 6.38-inches Full-HD+ Super AMOLED display with 1080\u00d72340 pixels resolution along with a waterdrop-style notch. It's powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P65 SoC coupled with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage variant. The dual Nano-SIM supported handset runs on Funtouch OS 9 on the top of Android 9 Pie.\nIn terms of the camera department, it features a triple rear camera setup of a 16MP primary sensor (f\/1.78), an 8MP secondary wide-angle lens (f\/2.2), and a third 2MP sensor (f\/2.4). It also features an LED flash and AI modes like AI Beautify, AI Portrait, PDAF, HDR, etc. On the front side, the device includes a 32MP selfie shooter with an f\/2.0 aperture lens along with AI Beautify, AI Face Unlock, and Portrait mode.\nThe S1 handset includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5, USB-OTG, Micro USB, and GPS, etc as connectivity options. It packs a bigger 4,500 mAh battery and an in-display fingerprint sensor as well. It measures 159.53\u00d775.23\u00d78.13mm and weighs around 179.5 grams.\nThe Chinese variant handset has been priced at IDR 35,99,000 (Rs.17,700 approx). You can pre-order the device in Cosmic Green and Skyline Blue color options. The device will go on sale from July 23, 2019. It's expected to launch the global variant very soon in India. Additionally, the S1 Pro device also launched in China.\nAmazfit GTR Smartwatch launched with two new sizes, 72 days battery life, and more\nPUBG Mobile 0.13.5 Beta update brings new weapons, visual improvements, and more\nRavis Sharma\nAn Android enthusiast who loves to read and write about Android.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > News > 'View from the Chair' - Employing people with disabilities\n'View from the Chair' - Employing people with disabilities\nArticle by Chief Commissioner Geraldine McGahey\nView from the Chair article published in The News Letter, 16 March 2021 by Geraldine McGahey, Chief Commissioner, Equality Commission\nMaking it Work, a new publication from the Equality Commission, is a shot in the arm of positivity just at a time when we need it. It tells the stories of six people with different disabilities who have used employment support services to get back into work \u2013 and not just any work at any time, but key workers who have worked or trained during the pandemic.\nWe produced this in conjunction with NIUSE, the Northern Ireland Union for Supported Employment, as part of our work towards more and better jobs for disabled people, a key priority for the Commission.\nAt present only 37.3% of disabled people in Northern Ireland have jobs - the lowest figure across all of the UK regions. We also know from Scope research that disabled people make 60% more applications than those without a disability before finding a job. One of the main barriers to employment is preconceived ideas of what disabled workers can't do. As an employer, you're in a position to help change that!\nThe pool of disabled people seeking work is large and diverse and we know from the employment support organisations that the range of skills and aptitudes is wide. With Making it Work we're aiming to showcase peer achievement and encourage other people with disabilities to see what the work or training opportunities might be for them.\nThe other side of this equation, though, is you. An employer can provide opportunities for work by using the provisions within the Disability Discrimination Act. You can use positive action measures to help disabled jobseekers into your workplace, for example by using initiatives such as vocational training or reserving a number of jobs only for disabled people. You must also consider the reasonable adjustment duty and our Advice and Compliance team can advise on how to lawfully apply these positive action measures.\nIf you employ disabled workers, you are not just getting an employee with the skills and abilities to do the job but you are increasing diversity and reflecting your local community in the workplace. Research shows that hiring people with disabilities can bring improvements in profitability, such as profits and cost-effectiveness, turnover and retention, reliability and punctuality, employee loyalty and company image; competitive advantage such as diverse customers, customer loyalty and satisfaction, innovation, productivity, work ethic and safety and an inclusive work culture. Benefits for people with disabilities include improved quality of life and income, enhanced self-confidence, expanded social network, and a sense of community.[i]\nHave a look at Making it Work. You'll see employers with an open attitude to employing disabled workers whose real life examples highlight some of the positive action, support and reasonable adjustments that have been put in place. We have plenty of free and confidential advice and guidance available to help employers, just phone us 028 90 500 600 or email enquiries@equalityni.org\nDownload the pdf publication; Making it Work (3.3mb)\nSee our guidance on recruiting people with disabilities: www.equalityni.org\/RecruitingDisabledPeople\n[i] https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29392591\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trump aides deny summit with Putin planned\nA billboard showing a pictures of US president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen through pedestrians in Danilovgrad, Montenegro on Nov 16, 2016.PHOTO: REUTERS\nJan 15, 2017, 1:10 pm SGT\nWhatsapp Linkedin FB Messenger Telegram Reddit WeChat Pinterest Print Copy permalink\nhttp:\/\/str.sg\/4Wmn\nWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two top aides to President-elect Donald Trump denied a published report on Saturday (Jan 14) that he is planning to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin weeks after taking office.\nThe Sunday Times of London reported that Trump had told British officials that such a summit was being planned, possibly to be staged in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik. \"The story is a fantasy,\" one Trump aide told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another said the report was not true.\nTrump, who takes office on Jan 20, has spoken of seeking warmer relations with Russia.\nHe told the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he would \"at least for a period of time\" maintain sanctions against Russia put in place by President Barack Obama for cyber hacking.\nBut Trump suggested to the newspaper that he might lift the sanctions if Russia proved helpful in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants and on other US objectives.\nTwo of Trump's Cabinet picks, Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary nominee James Mattis, have signaled a far harsher tone toward Moscow in their Senate confirmation hearings.\nUS intelligence agencies blame Russia for cyber hacking that interfered with the US presidential election. Trump has said he accepted the intelligence agencies' conclusion.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers\nMarch 1, 2021 Published by Matthew Clarke, Senior Engineer\nTLDR; If you're deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn't have to use all of your cluster management skills just to perform everyday developer tasks (like seeing which pods are experiencing errors or checking autoscaler limits). Backstage Kubernetes simplifies your deployment workflow by connecting to your existing Kubernetes implementation and aggregating the status of all your deployments into a single view \u2014 even across multiple clusters in multiple regions.\nNavigating the complexity of Kubernetes\nIf you're building a service today, you're likely deploying it as a container, which is inside a pod, which is inside a cluster (alongside a bunch of other services that don't belong to you), with deployments on different clusters spinning up and down all around the world. It can be hard to keep track of everything.\nBut despite widespread adoption of Kubernetes, all the tools for navigating this complexity have been focussed on the needs of cluster admins. This can make something as simple as checking the health of your service somewhat complicated.\nThat's why we built a Kubernetes monitoring tool focussed on the needs of service owners and made it a core feature of Backstage, our open platform for building developer portals. We wanted to make the experience of managing services deployed on Kubernetes easier for all developers.\nBut first, how did we get here?\nThe rise of Kubernetes and DevOps\nSince its release in 2014, Kubernetes has become one of the most widely adopted and important open source projects. Capabilities like autoscaling and cost optimisation through container scheduling used to be time-consuming and tricky to get right \u2014 now they've been democratised.\nAt the same time, the concept of DevOps has become mainstream. Developers now regularly perform tasks that were traditionally the domain of operations experts.\nSo, while everyday engineers can do more than ever before, their new powers have also come along with a new set of responsibilities.\nNew powers, shifting roles\nWhen I first started using Kubernetes, cluster admins and service owners were one and the same: the people who built a cluster were usually the same people who owned the services that ran in the cluster. That's not how it is today. As Kubernetes has achieved widespread adoption there has been a shift in Kubernetes usage as well as a shift in how Kubernetes is managed at the organisation level.\nNow organisations tend to have a separate infrastructure team (sometimes not-so-ironically called the \"DevOps\" team) who build and maintain clusters for the feature developers and service owners. As the teams have become more specialized, the setups have become more advanced. For instance, the infrastructure team might set up Kubernetes clusters in multiple geographic regions in order to reduce end-user latency, wherever the user is in the world.\nThis is a better experience for the user, and it's an optimization you might not have considered before Kubernetes existed or without a dedicated infrastructure team. But it also comes with productivity costs for the developer.\nFrustration also scales\nWhen your deployment environment reaches this kind of complexity and scale, the maintenance overhead for service owners increases. It forces them to use multiple kubectl contexts or multiple UIs just to get an overall view of their system.\nIt's a small overhead \u2014 but adds up over time \u2014 and multiplies as service owners build more services and deploy them to more regions. Just checking the status of a service first requires hunting for it across multiple clusters. This can reduce productivity (and patience) company-wide.\nBetter tools for the job\nWe believed we could solve the problem through developer tooling. But we soon discovered the available tools weren't suitable, because they:\nDon't cater well for deploying to multiple Kubernetes clusters,\nUsually require that users have clusterwide permissions, or\nDisplay everything on a cluster and aren't focused on the service the user cares about.\nAs we often do when we want to solve a problem involving infrastructure complexity, we wondered, why not build a custom plugin for Backstage, our homegrown developer portal?\nBackstage Kubernetes: Manage your services, not clusters\nBackstage provides vital information from Kubernetes \u2014 specifically focussed on the developer's service. At a glance, the developer can see:\nThe current status of their systems running in Kubernetes\nIncluding information aggregated from multiple clusters\/regions\nAny errors reported by Kubernetes\nHow close the system is to its autoscaling limits\nContainer restarts\nA default Kubernetes UI provides a cluster-centric view, including info about software you don't own.\n(Source: kubernetes.io)\nThe Backstage Kubernetes UI provides a service-centric view, showing you the status of your service no matter how many clusters it's been deployed to.\nFigures above are for illustrative purposes.\nMore detail about your deployments is just a click away. You can see autoscaler limits, errors, and the status of individual pods \u2014 all at a glance \u2014 and without a trip to the CLI.\nInstead of spending 20 minutes in a CLI trying to track down which clusters your service has been deployed to, you get all the information you need to know at a glance. You can learn more about these features on the Backstage blog \u2014 or watch the demo video below to get an overview.\nEverything about your service in one place\nAs a standalone monitoring tool, we think Backstage Kubernetes can improve the experience of any developer who deploys to Kubernetes. Combined with the other features of Backstage, developers get a complete solution for building and managing their services.\nAt the core of Backstage is its service catalog, which aggregates information about software systems together so you have a consistent UI and one tool for developers to use. For years, Backstage has provided one place for Spotify's developers to see everything they need to know about their services (APIs, documentation, ownership, etc.). Now that includes the current status of their service, regardless of how many Kubernetes clusters they deploy to.\nNow that Backstage is open source, we want to improve on what we have built internally and provide Kubernetes as a core component of Backstage for anyone to contribute to and benefit from.\nFuture Iteration\nAs we continue to grow and develop Kubernetes in Backstage with the community, we hope to offer support for Kubernetes resources beyond Deployments and Custom Resource Definitions.\nAlthough at Spotify we currently use GKE extensively, Kubernetes in Backstage communicates directly with the Kubernetes API and is cloud agnostic, accordingly. It will work with other cloud providers, including AWS and Azure, as well as managed Kubernetes services, like Red Hat OpenShift.\nTo contribute or get more information on Kubernetes in Backstage, join the discussion on Discord!\nAsk us anything: Matthew and the Backstage team will be hosting a Reddit AMA on March 3 at 4:00pm GMT. Send questions in r\/kubernetes starting March 2.\nA version of this article first appeared on The New Stack.\nTags: backend\nStrategies and Tools for Performing Migrations on Platform","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Saturday Sparkler: The Connaught Fringe Tiara\nThe Duchess of Connaught wears her fringe tiara, 1902 [1]\nThere are many convertible diamond fringe tiaras in royal vaults today, but the fringe tiara of the Connaught family has a long royal history \u2014 longer than that of many other tiaras in the collections of various British royals.\nLouise Margaret [2]\nThe first recorded owner of this diamond fringe is the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria; she left the tiara to the queen. In 1879, Victoria gave the tiara as a wedding present to her new daughter-in-law, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, the new of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. Princess Louise wore the fringe as a necklace at her wedding, opting to wear a wreath of flowers on her head instead of a tiara (see the photograph at left). She donned the piece as a tiara, however, for one of the most important royal occasions of the early twentieth century: the 1902 coronation of her brother- and sister-in-law, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (see the photograph above). On that occasion, she placed the fringe atop a larger jeweled base to give it additional height, likely to complement the height of her coronet (which you can see with the tiara in this picture postcard -- it also features her daughters, Margaret and Patricia).\nFrom Louise Margaret, the tiara was passed to her younger daughter, Princess Patricia of Connaught (who renounced her titles on her marriage to a commoner, becoming Lady Patricia Ramsay). It's safe to say that Louise's elder daughter wasn't much in need of family tiaras to wear. Margaret had married the future King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and had access to the Bernadotte jewel collection (and the glittering wedding presents she had received in 1905).\nLady Patricia wore the fringe tiara at the 1937 coronation of King George VI; you can see it in this portrait of Patricia with her niece, then Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark, and Ingrid's husband, the future King Frederik IX. From that point, however, we lose sight of the piece. It was apparently not included in the estate auction of her jewels in 1974. Perhaps it remains with the family today? [3]\nNOTES, PHOTO CREDITS, AND LINKS\n1. Cropped and edited version of an image in the public domain; source here.\n2. Cropped version of an image in the public domain; source here.\n3. A version of this post originally appeared at A Tiara a Day in March 2013.\nLabels: Saturday Sparkler , united kingdom , Windsor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"London Mayor's \ufffd4.7m cash boost to Havering's transport network\nPublished: 3:59 PM December 16, 2011 Updated: 12:09 PM October 13, 2020\nMore than \ufffd4.7m will be pumped into transport improvements in Havering next year, The Mayor of London announced.\nThe cash will be spent on road safety, smoothing traffic flow, rejuvenating town centres and better facilities for cycling and walking.\nMajor projects include:\n\ufffd300,000 to Romford.\nWorks will be concentrated in the central part of Romford town centre and will include the removal of street clutter, resurfacing pavements and planting new trees.\nIt forms part of the Romford Public Realm Masterplan to improve accessibility and get more people walking and cycling in safe and secure surroundings.\n\ufffd100,000 to the Briar Road Estate, in Harold Hill.\n10 Police uncover Rainham chop shop with vehicles worth up to \u00a3100,000\nThe funding will also be used to increase signage to the Estate and tackle anti-social behaviour as part of the wider regeneration of the area.\nWorks will include resurfacing roads and footways, enhancing parking arrangements and signage to the estate, closing alleyways, planting new trees and improving foot and cycle paths.\n\ufffd100,000 to improve access to the Learning Village, in Harold Hill.\nWorks will include replacing street lighting and resurfacing foot and cycle paths.\nThe funding has been allocated by Transport for London (TfL) through the Local Implementation Plan (LIP) .\nMayor of London, Boris Johnson said: \"London is undergoing a neo-Victorian level of investment in its transport network. Every London borough is receiving money that will directly benefit communities, making London an even better place to live and work. We've also cut bureaucracy to make it easier for the boroughs to decide how they want to spend their funding.\"\nThe LIP funds hundreds of large and small scale transport projects every year.\nLast year in Havering it financed cycle training for 3,000 children and 200 adults, 80 road safety education and training events, 11 improved pedestrian crossings, 12 new accessible bus stops and enabled 54 schools to participate in walking events.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ajge.net\nWe provide solutions\nAttorney Responsibilities\nLawyer Practice\nBail Agent\nBail Bonds Department\nBonds Dealer\nConstitutional Legality\nLegal Principle\nSocialist Legality\nReal Estate Transaction\n15.2 Types of Laws Flashcards\nIt is framed by national civil aviation acts (or legal guidelines), themselves principally aligned with the recommendations or mandatory requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organisation or ICAO. Regulations are sometimes abbreviated as CARS and requirements as CATS.\nThe particular system that a country is ruled by is commonly decided by its history, connections with other countries, or its adherence to worldwide standards. The sources that jurisdictions undertake as authoritatively binding are the defining features of any authorized system. Yet classification is a matter of form quite than substance, since similar guidelines typically prevail.\nThe property bought by a standard law spouse shall be split half and half within the occasion of separation. Rights to protecting a household residence and dividing family property are solely granted to legally married couples. A widespread legislation spouse who is the only proprietor of a shared residence may promote or mortgage property with out consent and with out splitting proceeds.\nThis includes gross sales, purchases, leases, title disputes, landlord-tenant issues, environmental compliance, and foreclosures. The following record isn't meant to be exhaustive. There are numerous smaller apply areas that fall somewhere within these larger areas of legislation (every thing from animal legislation to municipal finance legislation). This is simply meant to be a basic overview of the commonest regulation specializations individuals pursue in legislation school. World Intellectual Property Organization .\nLegal scholars\nThere isn't any easy test to see if a pair qualifies as married under common legislation. Unfortunately, this query of married or not most frequently arises in court. Since the seven-years-to-computerized-marriage idea is only a fantasy, the court's willpower as to whether a common law marriage existed may be sophisticated.\nAt first, fairness was usually criticised as erratic, that it varied based on the size of the Chancellor's foot. Over time, courts of fairness developed solid rules, particularly under Lord Eldon. Common regulation originated from England and has been inherited by almost each country once tied to the British Empire (except Malta, Scotland, the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the Canadian province of Quebec). In medieval England, the Norman conquest the regulation varied-shire-to-shire, based on disparate tribal customs. The idea of a \"frequent legislation\" developed during the reign of Henry II during the late twelfth century, when Henry appointed judges that had authority to create an institutionalised and unified system of law \"common\" to the nation.\nAfter British colonialism, the Hindu tradition, along with Islamic law, was supplanted by the frequent regulation when India turned part of the British Empire. Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Hong Kong additionally adopted the widespread regulation. The eastern Asia legal custom displays a singular mix of secular and religious influences. Japan was the primary country to start modernising its authorized system along western traces, by importing components of the French, but largely the German Civil Code.\nLAW, STATUTE. The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed by the structure; an act of the legislature. LAW, POSITIVE. Positive legislation, as utilized in opposition to pure law, could also be considered in a threefold point of view. The universal voluntary law, or these rules which are presumed to be regulation, by the uniform practice of nations in general, and by the manifest utility of the foundations themselves. The conventional legislation, or that which is agreed between specific states by specific treaty, a regulation binding on the parties amongst whom such treaties are in pressure.\nFor example, if prostitution is against the law, they attempt to make it legal. The historical past of regulation is intently related to the event of human civilizations. Ancient Egyptian law developed in 3000 BC. In 1760 BC King Hammurabi, took historic Babylonian law and organized it, and had it chiseled in stone for the public to see in the marketplace. These legal guidelines grew to become known as the Code of Hammurabi.\nOrganizations that are part of civil society embrace political events, debating golf equipment, trade unions, human rights organizations, newspapers and charities. The police enforce the felony laws by arresting folks suspected of breaking the legislation.\nMelissaAhmad 0 Comments\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 ajge.net | Powered by team","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3 entries found.\nwitch hazel (n.)\n1540s, probably from Old English wice \"Applied generally or vaguely to various trees having pliant branches\" [OED], from wican \"to bend\" (from PIE root *weik- (2) \"to bend, to wind\") + h\u00e6sel, used for any bush of the pine family (see hazel (n.)). The North American bush, from which a soothing lotion is made, was so called from 1670s. This is the source of the verb witch in dowsing.\nwitch hunt (n.)\n1853 in the literal sense (witch-hunting is from 1630s), from witch (n.) + hunt (n.). The extended sense is attested from 1919, American English, later re-popularized in reaction to Cold War anti-Communism.\nSenator [Lee S.] Overman. What do you mean by witch hunt?\nMr. [Raymond] Robins. I mean this, Senator. You are familiar with the old witch-hunt attitude, that when people get frightened at things and see bogies, then they get out witch proclamations, and mob action and all kinds of hysteria takes place. [\"Bolshevik Propaganda,\" U.S. Senate subcommittee hearings, 1919]\nhat trick (n.)\nin the sports sense, 1879, originally in cricket, \"taking three wickets on three consecutive deliveries;\" extended to other sports c. 1909, especially ice hockey (\"In an earlier contest we had handed Army a 6-2 defeat at West Point as Billy Sloane performed hockey's spectacular 'hat trick' by scoring three goals\" [\"Princeton Alumni Weekly,\" Feb. 10, 1941]). So called allegedly because it entitled the bowler to receive a hat from his club commemorating the feat (or entitled him to pass the hat for a cash collection), but the term probably has been influenced by the image of a conjurer pulling objects from his hat (an act attested by 1876). The term was used earlier for a different sort of magic trick:\nPlace a glass of liquor on the table, put a hat over it, and say, \"I will engage to drink every drop of that liquor, and yet I'll not touch the hat.\" You then get under the table; and after giving three knocks, you make a noise with your mouth, as if you were swallowing the liquor. Then, getting from under the table, say \"Now, gentlemen, be pleased to look.\" Some one, eager to see if you have drunk the liquor, will raise the hat; when you instantly take the glass and swallow the contents, saying, \"Gentlemen I have fulfilled my promise: you are all witnesses that I did not touch the hat.\" [\"Wit and Wisdom,\" London, 1860]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Business Products and Services\nA Breakdown of the Average Personal Injury Settlement Amount for Car Accidents\nPosted in Legal\nCar accidents are more than just a regrettable inconvenience. They can also be emotionally and physically draining too.\nNot just that, they can be costly, particularly if injuries sustained in the accident result in unpaid bills, missed rent or mortgage payments, and time off from work.\nAll these factors combined can severely detriment a person's well-being. However, it's possible to take steps to financial recovery by making a personal injury claim.\nSo, in this article, we're exploring what the 'average personal injury settlement' actually is. Let's dive in!\nHere are some sit up and think statistics for you. There are over 260 million registered vehicles in the US, with 218 million drivers holding a valid driver's license.\nIn 2015, there were 6.3 million fatal, property, and injury damage crashes in the US.\nBefore going ahead and choosing a firm to represent you, it's worth having a sense of what the average personal injury settlement is, and how it's calculated.\nThe average claim settled depends upon several factors, including how severe the driver's injury is, and any injuries incurred by their passengers, the costs of medical bills and the damage to your car.\nIs There a Formula?\nShort answer: no. That's according to the legal news website Nolo. No two car accidents are, indeed, the same. However, several factors factor an insurance company will consider when assessing a personal injury claim.\nIt's vital to get the details right, however. There's more about personal injury claims than meets the eye. There are common errors that people make, including focusing just on the physical injuries sustained, not visiting a doctor, and so on.\nCalculating an Average Personal Injury Settlement\nTypically, an insurance adjuster will look at the financial loss incurred and multiply it by two or three or even more.\nPhysical pain and psychological damage are also taken into account, but there's no way of knowing what each individual company takes into account and how much weight they give it.\nHowever, it stands to reason that the higher the physical and psychological pain and suffering incurred, the higher the average personal injury settlement is.\nInsurance companies will also look at your medical history (prior and current), your age, when you seek medical help, and what the circumstances of the accident were.\nIt's also worth noting that the trauma of a car accident can be life-changing, and that alone can result in a claim being worth more than an insurance company's estimate.\nFurther Breakdown\nTypically, when adjusters look at the claim, they will take into account the following factors: punitive damages, economic damages, and non-economic damage.\nHere are damages that are basically a punishment for what the other driver did, to try to prevent similar actions in the future.\nFor example, if the driver who caused the accident was drunk, speeding, who ignored road signs or signals, or was distracted, for instance, by using their mobile phone.\nIt's also worth considering that it may not be as simple as the other driver causing the accident.\nFor example, if the road conditions were hazardous as a result of poor maintenance, design, or construction, then it may be that federal or local government authority may be responsible.\nAlso, if it's determined that the accident is a result of a car defect or malfunction that is the responsibility of the car manufacturer or parts manufacturer, they too may form part of a claim.\nThese represent any financial costs and losses you incurred as a result of the car accident.\nThis isn't simply lost wages and medical bills, but also property damage, vocational rehabilitation, loss of earning capacity in the future, and any household services you need to use as a result of an accident.\nWhen you're calculating your medical expenses, it's not just about what you have already paid out; it's also what you're going to payout.\nFor example, will you need future surgeries and treatments, or continued drug treatments? These all have to be added to the economic damages.\nNon-Economic Damages\nThese are harder to calculate but have to be taken into account. We're talking about car accident damage that isn't necessarily visible.\nFor example, psychological trauma incurred during and after an accident, loss of life enjoyment, inability to have a physical relationship with a partner, and damage to your reputation.\nOther Variables\nAll of the above factors are essential. However, insurance companies also take what we call \"other variables\" into account when assessing an average personal injury settlement amount.\nWas your treatment excessive? By this, we mean that it is rare for an insurance company to attach the full value of medical expenses for physical therapy or chiropractic treatment if they believe that the length of treatment you need might be excessive.\nAn insurance company will pay attention to when you seek medical help. Was it straight after the accident, or did you begin to complain about symptoms some months after the crash?\nLastly, they'll look at whether or not any injuries you are listing were new and caused by accident, or did the car accident aggravate an existing medical condition.\nFind the Right Attorney\nA reputable attorney will advise you about the average personal injury settlement you may receive and can negotiate on your behalf, taking the added strain out of claiming such a traumatic event.\nIt's worth doing some research into who you appoint and look not only at their fees but at their track record, experience, and attention to detail.\n\u2190 When Not to DIY: Boiler Repair Problems That Require a Pro\nPlumbing Emergency? 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{"text":"Posts tagged 'Valentine's Day'\nValentine's Day Movie \u2013 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)\nI don't really do Valentine's Day. The only nod to cupid was going to see Casablanca (1942) at the movies. And how could I not, as my other half \u2013 a huge film buff \u2013 hadn't seen it. Since then, we've got a Valentine's tradition of watching romantic movies \u2013 but at home \u2013 no listening to noisy couples in the cinema or meal surcharges for us canny lovers.\nAnd this year's picture is one of my favourite films \u2013 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000). Although the pre-titles warn that this is not going to be a romance with a Hollywood ending\u2026\n'It is a restless moment. She has kept her head lowered to give him a chance to come closer. But he could not, for lack of courage. She turns and walks away.'\nSet in 1960s Hong Kong, the film depicts the relationship between, secretary Mrs Chan, (Maggie Cheung) and Mr Chow (Tony Leung) who discover that their spouses are having an affair. The elements of repressed desire and social pressures are reminiscent of that classic of unrequited love, Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945). With an unusual twist, In the Mood for Love's couple imagine how their partners began their deceit and rehearse how to confront them, determined not to become like them. However, as Mr Chow says, 'feelings can creep up just like that. I thought I was in control.'\nWhen I first watched the film, I was blown away by its sheer elegance and poignancy. Indeed it would win a place in my top 10 films of all time. Director Wong Kar-Wai (whose oeuvre includes Days of Being Wild (1990) and 2046 (2004) which make up a trilogy of sorts with In the Mood for Love) and his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Christopher Doyle produce a stylish dance of repressed desire, loss and regret.\nIn an interview Wong Kar-Wai likened In the Mood for Love to \"a dance, a waltz between these two characters\". Coincidence brings them together but later social mores and repressed desires means they dance past each other. Their lovers' song, Yumeji's Theme, composed by Shigeru Umebayashi, stays with you long after the movie has ended. On re-watching, I found that while I looked forward to the moments when their theme comes in and the 'dance' begins again, it was tinged with a sense of melancholy that they would come achingly close to each other but not quite meet.\nA key scene which illustrates the stylistic elements (music, lighting, time shifts, repetition, film noir shading) that recur in the film is when Mr Chow and Mrs Chan pass on the stairs to their apartment.\nMr Chow is shot to left of the screen in film noir shadows, then their theme starts up as Mrs Chan walks down narrow darkly lit steps to get noodles in slow motion. As she returns up the staircase in the dark, the camera slowly lingers on a street light. Mr Chow goes past leaving the viewer unsure if they've seen each other off-screen. A simple visit to the noodle stand becomes a beautiful dance of anticipation and these choreographed scenes recur throughout the film.\nIn the Mood for Love visualises and plays with memory. Its original Chinese title, also a song from a 1946 film, meaning 'the age of blossoms' or 'the flowery years' is a metaphor for the short-lived time of youth and beauty. Indeed the film shows the transience of love and how we may attempt to hold on to these lost moments. Many of the shots are blurred around the edges, as though we're watching the past unfold through the haze of memory. The slow motion cinematography works to freeze the couple in time as in still photography. This emphasises their loss; as we can only remember those happy moments of the past, not relive them. The colour of the film too is steeped in memory, muted with a warmth like an old 1960s photograph.\nTheir loneliness is represented through the claustrophobic setting \u2013 though close to each other, they are far apart as they cannot express their feelings because of social propriety and their own repressed desires. The Age of Blossoms plays on the radio \u2013 a dedication from Mrs Chan's husband \u2013 after the cuckolded couple have ended their relationship, signifying the end of her blooming youth. As the Age of Blossoms plays, the camera cuts from Mrs Chan's room to Chow's and back again. Her gossipy landlady tells her it's good to enjoy herself when she's young but not too much \u2013 a warning to end her relationship with Mr Chow.\nThe film slows time down by focusing on simple details, such as the smoke from Chow's cigarette or raindrops, which heightens the emotional tone. Just as the couple are restrained in their affair (their love scene was filmed but edited out), the camera shows restraint by holding back. Their loneliness, distance from each other and from society is shown through the camera work. The camera peeks at the couple from under the bed, from the wardrobe and through bars, shadows and doorways. The camera hangs back in the scenes in the apartment as though we're on the edges of the action.\nThe viewer often sees characters talking to someone off-screen \u2013 showing the separateness between individuals. Mirrors too are used to emphasis the difficulty in making connections (for instance, when the couple get caught in Mr Chow's room together we see them through mirrors).\nI would love to watch this lovers' dance unfold in all its lingering detail on the big screen! I hope I've convinced you to watch but if you need more encouragement here's the trailer.\nI haven't even mentioned a feature of the film that is breath-taking \u2013 the costume design and Maggie Cheung's manifold cheongsams. Look out for a blog coming soon \u2026 (The film's fashion is so pitch perfect that even my boyfriend mentioned it!)\nI'm keen to hear your thoughts on In the Mood for Love or any other Valentine's Day (or anti-Valentine's) movies you love.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"State of The Nation Address of The President of The Republic of Indonesia at The Annual Session of The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) of The Republic of Indonesia and The Joint Session of The House of The Representatives of The Republic of Indonesia (DPR) and The Regional Representatives Council (DPD) of The Republic of Indonesia on The Occasion of The 75th Anniversary of The Proclamation of Independence of The Republic Of Indonesia\nDipublikasikan pada 14 Agustus 2020\nKategori: Sambutan\nDibaca: 333 Kali\nAssalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,\nMay Peace Be Upon Us All,\nOm Swastiastu,\nNamo Buddhaya,\nGreetings of Virtue.\nDistinguished Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, Bapak KH. Ma'ruf Amin and Ibu Wury Estu Ma'ruf Amin;\nHonorable Speaker, Vice Speakers, and Members of the People's Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia;\nHonorable Speaker, Vice Speakers, and Members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia;\nHonorable Speaker, Vice Speakers, and Members of the Regional Representatives Council of the Republic of Indonesia;\nHonorable Chairperson, Vice Chairpersons, and Members of State Institutions;\nDistinguished Ibu Hajah Megawati Soekarnoputri, the Fifth President of the Republic of Indonesia;\nDistinguished Bapak Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Sixth President of the Republic of Indonesia;\nDistinguished Bapak Try Sutrisno and Bapak Hamzah Haz;\nDistinguished Bapak Muhammad Jusuf Kalla and Ibu Mufidah Jusuf Kalla;\nDistinguished Bapak Boediono and Ibu Herawati Boediono;\nDistinguished Ibu Hajah Shinta Nuriyah Abdurrahman Wahid;\nExcellencies Ambassadors of Friendly Countries and Heads of International Agencies and Organizations;\nDistinguished Chairpersons of political parties attending;\nDistinguished Ladies and Gentlemen and My Fellow Countrymen,\nAll these chairs in this assembly room should have been fully occupied with no chair left unused. The past two weeks should have been filled with various competitions and crowds full of joy, and carnivals to celebrate and enliven the 75th Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia.\nNonetheless, every single thing that we have planned has to be completely changed. All these must not diminish our gratitude in commemorating the 75th Independence Day of Indonesia.\nMy Fellow Countrymen,\nAs many as 215 countries, with no exception, are currently facing these hard times amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the WHO, as of 13 August, there have been more than 20.4 million cases worldwide with the total number of deaths reaching 744,000 lives. All countries, be it underdeveloped countries, developing countries, or developed countries have been experiencing setbacks due to COVID-19.\nThe ongoing economic crisis is also the worst in history. In the first quarter of 2020, our economy grew by 2.97% but in the second quarter, the growth contracted by 5.32%. Economies of developed countries even reported a negative growth, even reaching more than minus ten to minus 17-20%. The setbacks experienced by several developed countries can serve as a momentum to catch up. The current economic situation is analogous to a computer crash in which countries are currently facing stagnation. All countries must undergo a brief process of shutdown, restart, and reboot. And all countries have the opportunity to reset all the systems.\nI warmly welcome the moral appeals full of wisdom from the Ulemas, religious leaders, and culture bearers to make the momentum of the pandemic as a new awakening, once again, a new awakening, to make a big leap.\nThis is the time for us to fundamentally renew ourselves, to make a major transformation, to implement grand strategies in the fields of economy, law, governance, social, culture, health and education. We must turn this crisis into an opportunity to make big leaps. At the age of 75, we have emerged as an upper middle income country. And 25 years from now, at the centenary of the Republic of Indonesia, we must achieve great progress and make Indonesia a developed country.\nWe must undertake fundamental reforms in the way we work. Our readiness and speed are being tested. We had to evacuate Indonesian citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic zone in China. We had to provide hospitals, isolation rooms, medicines, and medical equipment, and uphold discipline in following health protocols. Everything must be done quickly in a very short time.\nWhen the health crisis brings an impact on our economy, we also have to take swift actions, providing social assistance for the people in the forms of staple food assistance, cash assistance, electricity fee discount and subsidy, village cash assistance and salary subsidy. We helped our MSMEs obtain loan restructuring, receive productive presidential social assistance in the form of emergency capital assistance. We also helped them by purchasing their products. We provided assistance for laid-off workers, among others, through social assistance and pre-employment card programs. It was no easy task.\nTo that end, the Government must quickly change programs. We must adjust working programs with the current situation and we must carry out budget reallocation in a short time. We have issued Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 1 of 2020 that has been approved by the House of Representatives (DPR) to become Law Number 2 of 2020, I express my gratitude to the members of the House for the fast work. We have also been in synergy with central bank Bank Indonesia, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and the Deposit Insurance Agency (LPS) to rebuild the economy.\nThe crisis has forced us to change our way of work, from standard ways to outstanding ways, from ordinary ways to extraordinary ways, from a long and complicated procedure to a smart shortcut, from being procedure-oriented to being result-oriented.\nWe have to change our mindset and work ethic. Flexibility, speed and accuracy are imperative. Efficiency, collaboration, and the adoption of technology must be prioritized. We must improve our national self-discipline and national productivity. We must take lessons from this crisis. We must not let the crisis bring about setbacks. In fact, we must capitalize on the crisis as a momentum to make a big leap.\nWe have taken extraordinary measures in the struggle to curb the spread of COVID-19, in treating patients, and in preventing deaths. On behalf of the people, the nation, and the state, I would like to express my gratitude and highest appreciation to doctors and nurses, and health workers at hospitals, laboratories, health clinics, and isolation rooms, as well as to community leaders, volunteers, journalists, personnel of the Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) and the Indonesian National Police (Polri) and civil servants at the Central Government and regional governments.\nAmid the pandemic, fundamental reforms in the health sector must be accelerated. Disease prevention and a healthy lifestyle must be our top priority. We must also continue strengthening the capacity of our human resources, developing hospitals and health centers, as well as medicine and medical equipment industry. Resilience and capacity of our health service must be improved on a massive scale.\nRegarding food security, we must ensure smooth food supply chain from the upstream of production to the downstream of distribution to all regions across the country. Food production efficiency, increasing added value for farmers, strengthening of cooperatives and farmer corporation will continue to be improved.\nWe are building food estates to strengthen national food reserves, not only in the upstream sector but also in the downstream sector of food product industry. We will no longer adopt manual ways, but will adopt modern technology and the use of digital sophistication, not only for domestic market, but also international market.\nWe have started to develop food estates in Central Kalimantan and North Sumatra Provinces. And we will continue to develop it in some other regions. It is a synergy between the Government, private sector, and the community as land owners and as workers.\nWe have been making considerable efforts to establish energy autonomy. In 2019, we managed to produce and use B20 fuel and this year we will start with B30. We have been able to reduce the value of oil imports in 2019.\nState-owned oil company PT Pertamina is currently cooperating with researchers who have created the catalyst for green diesel D100, a hundred percent diesel fuel produced from palm oil. Production trial has been accomplished at our two refineries. This will absorb a minimum of a million tons of farmer-produced palm for 20,000 barrels of production capacity per day. The massive downstreaming of raw materials is continuously undertaken. Coal is processed into methanol and gas. Several refineries are being constructed to process crude oil into refined oil, and at the same time they become petrochemical industries that supply high values of products from downstream industry.\nNickel ore is processed into ferro nickel, stainless steel slab, and steel sheet and is developed as the main material for lithium batteries. This will narrow down our current account deficits, increase our employment opportunities, and start tackling fossil energy domination. This will place Indonesia in an even more strategic position in the development of lithium battery, world's electric vehicle, and future technology producer.\nWe must adopt the same principal in building other industrial estates, including super economic corridor development in the northern coast of Java. Batang Industrial Estate as well as the one in Subang-Majalengka is still being developed in this brief time, designed to attract quality investment that is in synergy with our MSMEs, providing additional significant values for the national economy, and creating employment in a big number.\nSimilar industrial estates will also be built in various regions all over Indonesia, that is always in synergy with community entrepreneurship and MSMEs, to provide employment opportunities for unemployed young generation and boost equitability of development in all corners of the country.\nConsequently, a favorable national ecosystem for the expansion of quality employment opportunity must be established. Regulatory reforms must be carried out. Regulations that are overlapping, complicated and misleading those that are at risk must be put to an end. We dedicate all of these to fair national economy to the interests of workers and job seekers in order to alleviate poverty by providing quality employment opportunity as wide as possible. We want all of them to be employed. We want all of them to prosper.\nProductive and innovative national ecosystem cannot grow without favorable legal, political, cultural, and educational ecosystems. High flexibility and simple bureaucracy cannot be exchanged with legal certainty, anti-corruption, and democracy. All policies must be prioritized to become environmentally friendly and promote protection of human rights. Speed and accuracy cannot be exchanged with carelessness and arbitrariness.\nThe Government always makes efforts of corruption eradication in a serious manner. Prevention efforts must be intensified, through simple, transparent, and efficient governance. And law must be enforced without discrimination.\nUpholding democratic values cannot be compromised. Democracy must continue to be practiced without disrupting speed of works and legal certainty, as well as the noble values of our nation. The 2020 regional elections must be conducted with discipline by following health protocols.\nThe noble values of Pancasila, the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, national unity, cannot be exchanged with anything. We will not provide any room for anyone to pose a threat to them.\nNational education system must prioritize religious values, as well as develop strong and noble human characters, and to excel in innovation and technology.\nI want all technology platforms to boost the transformation to national advancement. The significant role our digital media plays must be directed to build humanity values and national characters.\nThe media should not be controlled to amass clicks and likes, but must instead be pushed to contribute to humanity and national interests.\nIdeology and noble values of the nation may not be exchanged with economic advancement. In fact, economic advancement clearly requires vigorous national spirit. We must be proud of Indonesian products; we must buy domestic products. Indonesia's advancement must be firmly rooted in Pancasila ideology and the nation's culture.\nThose great purposes may only be achieved through cooperation among elements of the nation, through mutual cooperation, lending helping hands and reminding each other in goodness and virtue.\nIndeed, democracy guarantees freedom, but it is only for freedom that respects other people's rights. No one should be self-righteous, and blame others. No one should think of themselves as the most religious. No one should think of themselves as the most Pancasila-minded. All those feeling self-righteous and obtruding are not morally correct.\nWe are fortunate that the majority of Indonesian people, from Sabang to Merauke, from Miangas to the Island of Rote uphold solidarity and unity, are tolerant and care for each other, so we can get through these trying times.\nWe are fortunate and thankful for the support and fast work of the Chairpersons and Members of state institutions, who have taken extraordinary measures in supporting crisis handling and turning it into an opportunity to implement the nation's great strategies.\nThe People's Consultative Assembly quickly formulates a new program called \"MPR Peduli COVID-19 (The People's Consultative Assembly COVID-19 Care)\", and also continues to hold dissemination and implementation of Pancasila, and the study of our governance system and constitution.\nWith a very quick response, the House of Representatives deliberates, approves, and passes Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 of 2020 to become Law to provide legal protection in handling health and economic crisis, and Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2 of 2020 to become Law as a legal base to postpone regional elections.\nThe other running legislative agenda are as follows: Deliberation of Bill on Minerals and Coal Mining, Bill on State Finance Policy and Financial System Stability for Handling COVID-19 Pandemic.\nThe quick response has also been carried out by the Regional Representatives Council for emergency issues faced by the regions, starting from people economic empowerment through Village-Owned Enterprises, regional competitiveness improvement and health protocol application support, by drafting nine bills initiated by the Regional Representatives Council, and other several agenda in accordance with the respective Regional Representatives Council's duties.\nAmid various technical difficulties during pandemic, the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) is still able to audit and submit 1,180 audit reports (LHP) of 2019 quickly and thoroughly, provide 36,000 recommendations to the Government, and instruct deposit to the state treasury for Rp1.39 trillion. Those hard internal duties did not affect the BPK's agenda to maintain its role as an external auditor for the International Organizations and as a member of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee under the United Nations.\nLikewise, the Supreme Court still guarantees the quick trials service during the pandemic, providing virtual trials service through e-court and e-litigasi applications that have accelerated trials other than public and face-to-face trials. In a bid to expand access for justice seekers, the Supreme Court continues to improve post service of legal assistance and modernizes case management through electronic court service. It brings success for the Supreme Court in reducing the number of unsolved cases significantly.\nThe success of the Supreme Court is thanks to the support of the Judicial Commission, which is in accordance with the commission's authority. The nominations of Supreme Court justice candidates, anti-corruption ad hoc justice candidates, and industrial relations ad hoc justice candidates continue to proceed smoothly. By the same token, the implementation of programs for improving the capacity of justices, court monitoring, investigation and advocacy for justices also continue to advance. From the period of 2019 to June 2020, the Judicial Commission handled 1,584 public reports, of which 225 sanctions were recommended to impose.\nThe speed and accuracy of the Constitutional Court truly deserve our appreciation. The Constitutional Court continues to improve its governance and the use of electronic services to serve the people in seeking justice. The Constitutional Court has been successful in shortening the time of case settlement for judicial review, from the settlement time of 101 working days per case in 2017, to an average of 59 working days per case. Throughout 2019 to early 2020, the Constitutional Court completed 122 cases of judicial review. In the meantime, the expansions of cooperation at home and abroad continue to be enhanced. The Constitutional Court actively initiates and coordinates various activities at the regional and global levels, so that our legal system can be used as a reference for democracies around the globe.\nThere are still many big steps that we must take. There are still 25 years left for us to usher in the centenary of the independence day of Indonesia, to build Indonesia that we aspire to be.\nOur current goal is not only to escape the pandemic and to get through the crisis. We are taking measures to make a big leap by making the most of the momentum of the ongoing crisis.\nThe crisis has given us a momentum to catch up, to make a major transformation by implementing grand strategies. Let us resolve fundamental problems that we are facing. We must make a big leap for a significant progress. We must make the most of this crisis. We must simultaneously and concurrently capitalize on this momentum. We must make Indonesia to be on par with other countries. We must make our country become an Advanced Indonesia that we aspire to be.\nLong live the Republic of Indonesia!\nLong live the Land of Pancasila!\nIndependence!\nI thank you,\nWassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,\nOm Shanti Shanti Shanti Om,\nNamo Buddhaya.\nJakarta, 14 August 2020\nPresident of the Republic of Indonesia\n#Jokowi#Sambutan#Transkripsi\nBerita terkait: > Keterangan Pers Presiden RI setelah Peninjauan Lokasi Terdampak Banjir di Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan, 18 Januari 2021, di Jembatan Mataraman, Kabupaten Banjar, Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan > Penandatanganan Kerja Sama dalam rangka Kemitraan Penanaman Modal Asing (PMA) dan Perusahaan Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri (PMDN) dengan Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah (UMKM), 18 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat > Pertemuan Tahunan Industri Jasa Keuangan Tahun 2021, 15 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat > Pernyataan Pers Presiden RI terkait Bencana Banjir di Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan, 15 Januari 2021, di Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat > Peresmian Pembukaan Rapat Koordinasi Nasional (Rakornas) III Korps Alumni Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (KAHMI) Tahun 2021, 15 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Jawa Barat\nSambutan Terbaru\nPenandatanganan Kerja Sama dalam rangka Kemitraan Penanaman Modal Asing (PMA) dan Perusahaan Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri (PMDN) dengan Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah (UMKM), 18 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat\nPertemuan Tahunan Industri Jasa Keuangan Tahun 2021, 15 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat\nPeresmian Pembukaan Rapat Koordinasi Nasional (Rakornas) III Korps Alumni Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (KAHMI) Tahun 2021, 15 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Jawa Barat\nPenandatanganan Kontrak Paket Tender\/Seleksi Dini Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan Rakyat Tahun Anggaran 2021, 15 Januari 2021, dari Istana Kepresidenan Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wagner and Thomas earn Landmark Conference weekly honors\n(Posted October 16, 2007)\nWAGNER AND THOMAS EARN LANDMARK CONFERENCE WEEKLY HONORS HUNTINGDON, Pa. - Juniata College junior women's volleyball outside hitter Amber Thomas (Ephrata, Pa.\/Conestoga Valley) and senior field hockey forward Kim Wagner (Middletown, Pa.\/Middletown) have been named Landmark Conference Players of the Week, for the week ending October 14. Thomas earned the Landmark Conference Women's Volleyball Player of the Week honor for her performance while leading the Eagles to three wins over nationally-ranked opponents last weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Invitational. She was named Tournament MVP after recording 11 or more kills and 10 or more digs in all four matches at the event, including 17-kill performances against #9 Carthage College and #5 UW-Oshkosh. She totaled 61 kills and 57 digs at the two-day tournament, and also tallied six blocks and four aces. The Eagles are currently 24-3 overall and ranked number one in the nation (new poll due out later Tuesday). Juniata also posted a 6-0 mark in conference play, and will be the top seed for the upcoming Landmark Conference Women's Volleyball Championship, which starts October 31. Wagner was named Landmark Conference Field Hockey Offensive Player of the Week after scoring three goals and assisting on two others while leading Juniata to three wins. She scored the first goal of the game and then assisted on Juniata's second goal in a 3-2 Landmark win over the University of Scranton on Saturday in Huntingdon. Earlier in the week, Wagner scored once and had an assist in a 2-0 win over Frostburg State, and found the back of the cage once in Juniata's 3-0 win over Oneonta State. The Eagle field hockey squad, currently ranked 13th in the nation, holds a 13-2 overall record, 4-1 in the Landmark Conference. -30-","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Found 2 collections related to Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865\nDickinson, John, 1732-1808\nJohn Dickinson papers, 1774-1802\nJohn Dickinson (1732-1808) was an American lawyer and politician. Dickinson authored a series of essays published as Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, the Articles of Confederation, and drafted the Olive Branch... more\nJohn Dickinson (1732-1808) was an American lawyer and politician. Dickinson authored a series of essays published as Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, the Articles of Confederation, and drafted the Olive Branch Petition with Thomas Jefferson. He served as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the First and Second Continental Congresses, and as president of both Pennsylvania and Delaware. The papers consists of letters, 1774-1788 and 1802, from Dickinson; the transcript of an undated address given after his election as president of Pennsylvania; and several autographs. The letters generally relate to political and administrative issues, and include one dated 1774 to Charles Morrison urging him to write his associates in Boston to \"avoid Blood or tumults.\" Other recipients include the Executive Council and Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Governor of Connecticut (Jonathan Trumbull), diplomat Arthur Lee, Mathew Carey, and John Vining. One letter to Noah Webster, dated 1786, discusses Webster's writing. less\nSergeant, John, 1779-1852\nJohn Sergeant letters, 1808-1848\nJohn Sergeant (1779-1852) was an American lawyer and politician who served the stateof Pennsylvania as attorney general for Philadelphia; as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives; as president of the Pennsylvania Board of... more\nJohn Sergeant (1779-1852) was an American lawyer and politician who served the stateof Pennsylvania as attorney general for Philadelphia; as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives; as president of the Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners; and later as legal counsel to the Bank of the United States. The letters concern various legal matters, predominantly stemming from his private law practice, but with some written in his various political capacities, with several referencing federal banking matters. less","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Full30\nSupport Forgotten Weapons\nEnjoy what you read on Forgotten Weapons? Please consider supporting me on Patreon or checking out our new Merchandise Shop! Thanks!\nM1 Carbine Development\nM1 Garand Development\nBergmann Automatic Pistols\nCarbine Williams and Winchester\nMachine Pistols\nAnti-Tank Rifles\nRevolving Rifle\nSelect Fire Rifles\nSingle Shot Rifles\nAircraft MGs\nGPMGs\nLMGs\nManual Machine Guns\nSMGs\nFlamethrowers\nFlare Guns\nRocket Launchers\nHomeArtilleryForgotten History: World's Biggest Black Powder Cannon \u2013 a 100-Ton Gun\nForgotten History: World's Biggest Black Powder Cannon \u2013 a 100-Ton Gun\nJuly 10, 2018 Ian McCollum Artillery, Video 31\nThe largest muzzleloading black powder cannons ever built were the Armstrong 100-ton guns which saw service with the Italian Navy and with British coastal fortifications on Malta and Gibraltar. They were purchased by the Italians first, to outfit a pair of new super battleships, each vessel having two turrets with two of these guns in each. To avoid being outclassed, the British ordered two guns for installation to protect the Grand Harbor of Malta and two more to protect Gibraltar. Today one survives at each location, and we are visiting the Rinella Battery in Malta, which was built to house one of the Maltese guns.\nThese guns had a maximum range of 8 miles, and was capable of piercing 15 inches of iron armor at 3 miles. It had a 17.7 inch (45cm) bore fired a 2000 pound (900 kg) shell with a 450 pound (200kg) charge of black powder. The gun itself weighed approximately 102 tons, and with its cradle and a shell the whole assembly came in at 150 tons.\nAside from the massive scale of the piece, the most interesting part of its design is actually the loading machinery. Because of the titanic size of the gun and ammunition, Armstrong designed a fascinating hydraulic reloading facility which makes up the body of the fortress in which the gun is set. A pair of steam engines drove a pair of hydraulic accumulators, which provided hydraulic pressure to move the gun on its carriage, to douse the barrel after firing, to hoist ammunition into position for loading and power a 60-foot (18m) ramrod to mechanically ram the charge and shell into place. Two mirror-image reloading galleries under the fortification operated in turn, giving the gun a sustained rate of fire of 1 round every 6 minutes \u2013 at least until its 120-round barrel life was exhausted.\nI am grateful for the Malta Tourism Authority's assistance in helping to make this visit and video possible, and would also like to give special thanks to Simon, our awesome reenactor guide!\nSt Petersburg Cavalry School Mosin Carbine\nDutch Farmers Against the Empire: ZAR Mausers of the Boer War\nSneak Peek at Thorneycroft to SA80 with the Author, Jonathan Ferguson\nFebruary 28, 2021 Ian McCollum Book review, bullpup, Video 10\nJonathan Ferguson, author of our newest Headstamp Publishing book \"Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901-2020\", has just gotten his advance author's copy of the book! Let's join him to take a look through its [\u2026]\nMajor Fosbery's Automatic Revolver: History and Mechanics\nAugust 9, 2017 Ian McCollum Revolver, Semiauto pistol, Video 17\nGeorge Fosbery, V.C., was a decorated British officer with substantial combat experience in India when he decided to design a better sidearm in 1895. True semiautomatic handguns were in their very early stages of development [\u2026]\nL96A1: The Green Meanie \u2013 the First Modern Sniper Rifle\nFebruary 16, 2019 Ian McCollum Bolt Action Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Video 24\nThe Accuracy International Precision Marksman rifle was the winner of the British MoD's competition to replace the L42A1 as the standard British sniper rifle, and was accordingly adopted as the L96A1. It was the vanguard [\u2026]\nDaweo says:\n\"(\u2026)Armstrong(\u2026)Italian(\u2026)British(\u2026)\"\nSelling same weapon pattern for opposing side? This reminded me about:\nHis Systeme Zaharoff included the use of large bribes to government and military officials and his technique of playing one country off against its neighbour first came to the fore in 1885 when he sold one almost unusable submarine to Greece and then two of the same type to their longstanding rival Turkey in 1886.\nfrom: https:\/\/firstworldwarhiddenhistory.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/22\/munitions-8-the-munitions-8-the-strange-and-unendearing-story-of-basil-zaharoff\/\nHowever, at least Armstrong gun worked as intended.\nJim west Tex says:\nVery VERY cool, Ian! And the old Naval photos I had never seen before with the Italian warships mounting \"Monitor\" gun turrets!\nHank says:\nVery interesting, mega-steampunk, something right out of Jules Verne. But I don't see how the gun was lowered to bring the muzzle in line with those loading ports. Clearly the bore axis of the gun is way higher than those ports. And although the mount ramps downward the gun appears to already be fully forward.\nThere is animation of loading that gun at wikipedia query:\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/100-ton_gun#Gallery\nhope it will explain how it worked\nThe video doesn't work for me. \ud83d\ude41\n\"video doesn't work for me.\"\nHmm, although it has .ogv in name, if I am not mistaken, in reality it is .webm file and as such it is somewhat surprising it is not working in your browser. I can't say much more as I do not know which browser you use, but please read page: https:\/\/www.webmproject.org\/users\/ and consider using any browser listed.\nTry this one;\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eyItmfUO3WA\nSteve251 says:\nThanks for that one Ian! Armstrong was a true genius. Selling arms as well as everything else made him a very rich man. His huge country estate is called Cragside in Northumberland and is open to the public. It was known as \"the palace of a modern magician\" and the sheer variety of his achievements is breathtaking. I was lucky enough to live on the estate for some years and it's a magical place. Bit chilly in the winter though!\nAccording to https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarke%27s_three_laws\nAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\nCherndog says:\nI now appreciate the facility with which breech-loading guns are supported. The mammoth scale, monetary cost, and upkeep of loading tools for this artillery far outweighs any potential benefits apart from scaring would-be pirates into submission\u2026 then again, modern pirates aren't the smartest guys on the seas. Sliding block artillery or screw-breech artillery seems to be the better deal. As for strange coastal defenses, try the steam-pulley-cable-driven torpedo. It's considered the first effective actively guided munition ever built.\n\"Sliding block artillery or screw-breech artillery\"\nIt was known that rifled ordnance provided more accuracy, a greater range and more penetrative power, which was the rationale behind the development and on-board shipping of the breech-loading cannon developed by the company owned by Sir William Armstrong. These weapons, however, were dangerously prone to failure, frequently explosively, and an alternative armament became urgently necessary(\u2026)\nfrom https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muzzle-loading_rifle#British_Royal_Navy\nThus, reservations about breech-loaded weapons amongst Royal Navy ranks back then is understandable.\nAudy Hack says:\nBeen there on Holiday, and they have a nice collection of other artillery pieces too. Also, a whole bunch of still servicable Martini-Henry rifles, and a nice show including Lancers. Well worth a visit, but then again.. the whole of Malta is.\nKelly Harbeson says:\nLet's see. 120 round barrel life. 4 test shots per year. 20 years the barrel would be getting close to its last gasp. Heckuva weapon, however. But a good reminder how quickly the big dog becomes the old dog on the porch.\n\"old dog on the porch.\"\nGenerally, coastal defense guns were often kept in service for long time, also Germans during WWII used great gamut of ancient and\/or exotic guns to bolster effectiveness of Atlantikwall, see for example this table:\nhttp:\/\/bunkersite.com\/panzer\/guns\/guns-total.php\nnotice some yet of pre-WW1 vintage (for example 30,5 cm from Radetzky class)\nACN says:\nA very good sectional drawing of the Elswick loading system for the 100 ton RML can be found on page 312, Vol XI of the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. I know this because I have that very page framed and hanging on my wall! Found in a second-shop a while back. Not sure of its originality but it sure looks good. Well, to me it does.\nThere are other contemporary pictures of this colossal lump. One, showing a wheeled field piece with the wheels just straddling the barrel!\nThere is diagram in Wikipedia query:\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:RML_17.72_inch_gun_diagram.jpg\nfor ORDNANCE WROT IRON RIFLED MUZZLE-LOADING 17\u00b772 INCH 100 TONS\nI am not sure what WROT mean, but if I understand texts correctly, this weapon had progressive rifling (angle is not constant).\nI think they meaned wrought-iron.. which would mean that mainly the outer bands are not cast, but hammered, re-heated, and forced over the breechpart were they cool down and shrink. This will reenforce the inner cast partsagainst the force of the explosion. by adding counterpressure in the direction of the core.\ncharles gloeckner says:\nVery interesting \u2013 a good historical reference would be the largest gun built in the U.S. during the American Civil War: the 20 inch Rodman Columbiad. This ~ 100 ton cast iron smoothbore muzzleloader fired round (spherical) ammunition only, either shells or shot, using a 100 lb charge of mammoth grain black powder, throwing a 1000 lb shot I believe about 5 miles. If I remember correctly, the idea was that had the war continued, U.S. monitor type ships would be armed with these guns, which would have simply devastated any ironclad afloat in those days.\nThey were test fired late in the war, but, like these Armstrong guns, never fired in anger.\nAnother comparable weapon: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsar_Cannon#Perm_Tsar_Cannon\nS. Hodgson says:\nThank you Ian. Your Forgotten History videos are a fantastic addition. I will say that I had hopes of seeing a clip of that gun firing, the video thumbnail was a bit of a tease. Keep up the good work\nJack A says:\nThere are several videos of that gun being fired. Just search up Armstrong 100 ton gun firing.\nKeith in England says:\nRegarding the Italian sales.\nIirc, Armstrong or the later Vickers Armstrong, had a works on the northern shore of the bay of Naples.\nLorenzo C says:\nArmstrong was allowed setting up an industrial complex in Pozzuoli in 1885 as Stabilimenti Meccanici di Pozzuoli, while Vickers formed up a 60\/40 joint venture with Terni Steel Mills as the dominant part in 1905, with the main production facility in La Spezia. It would later become OTO Melara.\nSix minutes to reload; 20 minutes for the cloud of smoke from 450 lbs of black powder to clear. Sheesh.\nHere is a near contemporary illustration showing the loading procedure for this monster. Those Victorian engineers liked to think big and weren't troubled by the size of the task. Private Jones may have thought otherwise. All this in the day of the horse and cart!\nhttps:\/\/www.alamy.com\/gunnery-carriage-iron-wrought-garrison-moncrieff-gun-\nThe cost to fire one round was the equivalent of one day's pay for 2,500 soldiers. Source, biography by Henrietta Heald\nThere is a lot of info on these guns including video of firing them. Just look it up.\nspike1984 says:\nThe 100-ton cannon looks like something that the FF9 airships would use in battle against Garland's legion of Silver Dragons.\nIan Tupper says:\nIn your youtube video on the gun you wonder why the Army did not scrap the one remai g gun. It was simple the gun was in the middle of Royal Navy range. The range was closed by my farther in 1959. As a schoolboy I used to play on the gun and its little castle\nSteven P Robinson says:\nThe military college I attended, Norwich University in Vermont, has a couple of breech loading Armstrongs in their collection that they have had since just before the American Civil War. 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{"text":"We have her panegyrics, by St. Aldhelm, in the seventh, and St. Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the ninth centuries; also a hymn in her honour among the poems of Pope Damasus, and another by St. Isidore of Seville, in Bollandus, p. 596. The Greeks have interpolated her acts; but those in Latin are very ancient. They are abridged by Tillemont, t. 3, p. 409. See also Rocci Pyrrho, in Sicilia Sacra, on Palermo, Catana, and Malta.\nThe cities of Palermo and Catana, in Sicily, dispute the honour of her birth; but they do much better who, by copying her virtues, and claiming her patronage, strive to become her fellow-citizens in heaven. It is agreed that she received the crown of martyrdom at Catana, in the persecution of Decius, in the third consulship of that prince, in the year of our Lord 251. She was of a rich and illustrious family, and having been consecrated to God from her tender years, triumphed over many assaults upon her chastity. Quintianus, a man of consular dignity, bent on gratifying both his lust and avarice, imagined he should easily compass his wicked designs on Agatha's person and estate by means of the emperor's edict against the Christians. He therefore caused her to be apprehended and brought before him at Catana. Seeing herself in the hands of the persecutors, she made this prayer: \"Jesus Christ, Lord of all things, you see my heart, you know my desire-possess alone all that I am. I am your sheep, make me worthy to overcome the devil.\" She wept, and prayed for courage and strength all the way she went. On her appearance, Quintianus gave orders for her being put into the hands of Aphrodisia, a most wicked woman, who, with six daughters, all prostitutes, kept a common stew. The saint suffered in this infamous place assaults and stratagems against her virtue infinitely more terrible to her than any tortures or death itself. But placing her confidence in God, she never ceased with sighs and most earnest tears to implore his protection, and by it was an overmatch for all their hellish attempts the whole month she was there. Quintianus, being informed of her constancy after thirty days, ordered her to be brought before him. The virgin, in her first interrogatory, told him that to be a servant of Jesus Christ was the most illustrious nobility and true liberty. The judge, offended at her resolute answers, commanded her to be buffeted and led to prison. She entered it with great joy, recommending her future conflict to God. The next day she was arraigned a second time at the tribunal, and answered with equal constancy that Jesus Christ was her life and her salvation. Quintianus then ordered her to be stretched on the rack, which torment was usually accompanied with stripes, the tearing of the sides with iron hooks, and burning them with torches or matches. The governor, enraged to see her suffer all this with cheerfulness, commanded her breast to be tortured, and afterwards to be cut off. At which she made him this reproach: \"Cruel tyrant, do you not blush to torture this part of my body, you that sucked the breasts of a woman yourself? \"He remanded her to prison, with a severe order that neither salves nor food should be allowed her. But God would be himself her physician, and the apostle St. Peter in a vision comforted her, healed all her wounds,. and filled her dungeon with a heavenly light. Quintianus, four days after, not the least moved at the miraculous cure of her wounds, caused her to be rolled naked over live coals mixed with broken potsherds. Being carried back to prison, she made this prayer: \"Lord, my Creator, you have ever protected me from the cradle; you have taken me from the love of the world, and given me patience to suffer: receive now my soul.\" After which words she sweetly gave up the ghost. Her name is inserted in the canon of the mass in the calendar of Carthage, as ancient as the year 530, and in all martyrologies of the Latins and Greeks. Pope Symmachus built a church in Rome on the Aurelian Way under her name, about the year 500, which is fallen to decay. St. Gregory the Great enriched a church which he purged from the Arian impiety with her relics, which it still possesses. This church had been rebuilt in her honour by Ricimer, general of the Western Empire, in 460. Gregory II built another famous church at Rome, under her invocation, in 726, which Clement VIII gave to the congregation of the Christian doctrine. St. Gregory the Great ordered some of her relics to be placed in the church of the monastery of St. Stephen, in the Isle of Capreae, now Capri. The chief part, which remained at Catana, was carried to Constantinople by the Greek general, who drove the Saracens out of Sicily about the year 1040; these were brought back to Catana in 1127, a relation of which translation, written by Mauritius, who was then bishop, is recorded by Rocci Pyrrho and Bollandus. The same authors relate in what manner the torrent of burning sulphur and stones which issue from mount Aetna, in great eruptions, was several times averted from the walls of Catana by the veil of St. Agatha, (taken out of her tomb,) which was carried in procession. Also that through her inter. cession, Malta (where she is honored as patroness of the island) was pre served from the Turks who invaded it in 1551. Small portions of relics cf. St. Agatha are said to be distributed in many places.\nThe perfect purity of intention by which St. Agatha was entirely dead to the world and herself, and sought only to please God, is the circumstance which sanctified her sufferings, and rendered her sacrifice complete. The least cross which we bear, the least action which we perform in this disposition, will be a great holocaust, and a most acceptable offering. We have frequently something to offer\u2014sometimes an aching pain in the body, at other times some trouble of mind, often some disappointment, some humbling rebuke, or reproach, or the like. If we only bear these trials with patience when others are witnesses, or if we often speak of them, or are fretful under them, or if we bear patiently public affronts or great trials, yet sink under those which are trifling, and are sensible to small or secret injuries, it is evident that we have not attained to true purity of intention in our patience; that we are not dead to ourselves. We profess ourselves ready to die for Christ, yet cannot bear the least cross or humiliation. How agreeable to our divine spouse is the sacrifice of a soul which suffers in silence, desiring to have no other witness of her patience than God alone, who sends her trials; which shuns superiority and honours, but takes all care possible that no one knows the humility or modesty of such a refusal; which suffers humiliations and seeks no comfort or reward but from God. This simplicity and purity of heart; this love of being hid in God, through Jesus Christ, is the perfection of all our sacrifices, and the complete victory over self-love, which it attacks and forces out of its strongest entrenchments: this says to Christ, with St. Agatha, \"Possess alone all that I am.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Russia: Scientist could face forcible exile\nRussian Scientist Could Face Forcible Exile\nAmnesty International has said that any deal over the release of a nuclear scientist, Igor Sutyagin, which requires him to leave Russia against his wishes, will amount to forcible exile, which is prohibited under international law.\nSutyagin is reportedly being taken to the United Kingdom as one of a number of people convicted of spying in Russia who are being exchanged for ten or eleven individuals alleged by the United States to be Russian spies.\n\"If Igor Sutyagin is opposed to this \"deal\" and had to accept it under pressure, it may amount to forcible exile,\" said Nicola Duckworth, Europe and Central Asia Program Director. \"It will also deprive him of the chance to clear his name of the charges he has been convicted of in a retrial that is in compliance with international standards for fairness. It will also deprive him of his contacts with family and friends.\"\nSutyagin's mother told Amnesty International that he has opposed this deal but was coerced to accept it.\nHe understands that by signing a confession of his guilt, he is losing all chances for a fair trial of his case, including a hearing of his case pending at the European Court of Human Rights. That's why he asked me to pass on to everyone that he is not guilty. He had to sign this confession as he had no other options. He looks at his swap as an expulsion from the country,\" said Svetlana Sutiagina.\nHis case was highlighted by Amnesty International in 2004 in connection with concerns over freedom of expression and fair trial.\nSutyagin compiled information on military and defense issues in Russia while working as a private consultant for U.K.-based Alternative Futures consultancy. He was found guilty in 2004 of \"high treason by means of espionage\" and was sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime penal colony.\nHe has always claimed that he had only used open public sources and has always denied guilt for the charges of espionage and passing on state secrets.\nThe case against Sutyagin was initiated by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).\nAmnesty International believes that the case against him was politically motivated and part of a clampdown on the freedom of expression in Russia that has progressed in recent years to include academic and cultural figures as well as religious groups.\nThe proceedings against Sutyagin were marred by violations of international fair trial standards. Amnesty International has called for his prompt retrial.\nFor a number of years, Amnesty International has voiced concerns about the shrinking space for expressing dissenting views and for independent media and independent non-governmental organizations to operate throughout the Russian Federation.\nThe organization is concerned about the further encroachments on the right to freedom of expression in Russia.\nFor more information, please visit: www.amnestyusa.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Published by Sam Ruddock on 25th July 2018 25th July 2018\nSTORY MACHINE PRODUCTIONS: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, ERDF, BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDATION, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING, AND STARTEAST BACKED VENTURE LAUNCHED TODAY\nPRESS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nNORWICH | WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 2018\nBrings an alternative approach for the publishing industry to take books to audiences.\nNew Show, Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee to premier at Edinburgh International Book Festival on 15th August.\nStory Machine Productions (SMP) today announces its launch. The company will produce and tour shows and create electronic resources that bring books alive for audiences. SMP will revolutionise the experience of books at festivals through producing immersive performances in collaboration with filmmakers, dancers, actors, musicians and visual artists. SMP presents a creative new platform for publishers and authors to promote their books and stand out in a crowded marketplace.\nSupported by Arts Council England, the European Regional Development Fund, the Booker Prize Foundation, National Centre for Writing, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, publishers and StartEast, SMP has received an enthusiastic welcome from the sector. The company has been commissioned by The Booker Prize Foundation, National Centre for Writing, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and Granta Books in it's first six months.\nCommenting on the launch, Dotti Irving, Chief Executive Four Colman Getty which programmes the Man Booker Prize 50th anniversary celebrations said:\n\"Working with Story Machine Productions offers us a chance to broaden the reach of the Man Booker Prize's 50th Birthday celebrations. J.M. Coetzee is one of only three writers to have won the prize on two occasions \u2013 this production creates a way of sharing one of the great books in the prize'shistory, and reach new and old audiences alike.\"\nLamorna Elmer, Senior Campaign Manager, Granta and Portobello Books says:\n\"Story Machine Productions is doing something that almost no one else is \u2013 creating events without the presence of an author with the book itself firmly at the heart. There's something very modern about these immersive, participatory experiences; they are blazing a much-needed trail.\"\nDancer Sam Thompson carries a bison skull leading the audience through Norwich Castle Gardens as part of Kumkum Malhotra. Choreographed by Glasshouse Dance. Photograph credit Thom Law Photograhy\nSam Ruddock, Director of Story Machine Productions says:\n\"At a time when books profitable but author earnings continue to shrink, we can also help release writers from the chains of publicising their books, leaving more time for writing and other activities that earn money. Debut authors, writers struggling with ill-health, disability, caring responsibility, or who are based internationally: all of these struggle to get their books in front of audiences. That impacts choices about what gets published and what people buy. But by collaborating with Story Machine Productions, great books can reach the readers who will love them, regardless of the ability of their author to tour. We want to work with authors, publishers, prizes, festivals, exam bodies and even researchers to do for literature and human knowledge what Secret Cinema has done for film: create exciting celebrations of the written word.'\n\u2013 Story Machine Productions will premier new show, Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee at Edinburgh International Book Festival on 15th August, and tour shows to Cheltenham Literature Festival, National Centre for Writing, Wigtown Book Festival, and others this year. It aims to produce up to seven further shows in 2019.\n\u2013 Other shows currently available include Whiskey & Ink, an exploration of alcoholism and writing based on Leslie Jamison's genre-defining book The Recovering, and Kumkum Malhotra by Desmond Elliot Prize-winning author Preti Taneja. Each of these premiered at Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May 2018.\n\u2013 Man Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri has called Story Machine Productions 'Wonderful'.\n\u2013 The Times Literary Supplement reviewed Story Machine Productions as 'joyous in tone, international in scope and direct in its confrontation with serious issues\u2026festival producers should take note.'\n\u2013 Preti Taneja described Kumkum Malhotra as 'so beautiful it left me totally speechless.'\n\u2013 Story Machine Productions was founded in early 2018 by Sam Ruddock. It has produced five shows to date. For more information see www.storymachineproductions.co.uk\nor contact Sam Ruddock, Director, at storymachineproductions@gmail.com 07943 063015.\n\u2013 Story Machine Productions can be found on Social Media: Twitter and Instagram (@Story_Machines), Facebook and Youtube (Story Machine Productions).\n\u2013 Promotional images are below. Hi-res images and promotional films can be supplied on request.\n\u2013 Story Machine Productions has received Project Funding from Arts Council England.\n\u2013 Story Machine Productions is receiving up to \u00a35800 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 via the StartEast Small Grant Scheme. The Department for Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for the European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regeneration. For more information visit https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/european-growthfunding.\nStory Machine Productions is proud to be supported by:\nTags: Arts Council EnglandBooker Prize FoundationEuropean Regeneration and Development ProjectKumkum MalhotraLife & Times of Michael KNational Centre for WritingPress ReleaseStartEASTStory Machine ProductionsWhiskey & Ink\nTo ccelebrate our 2nd birthday we made a film of all the shows we've made so far. You can watch it here. If you want us to bring your book to life or to collaborate, Read more\u2026\nAs we draw to the end of a decade, I find myself thinking back enthusiastically on the books that I have loved and which have stayed with me. And because there is nothing I like Read more\u2026\nBook PUSH for 2020 between now and Christmas, and we are offering a \u00a350 discount on the fee! That means you get a stunning show (just watch the trailer below) and a 2.5 hour writing Read more\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Two Colorado Locations: Denver | Fort Collins\nRoofs + Gutters\nInsurance Process\nAssurance Contractors is a family owned roofing company with offices in Denver and Fort Collins. Our Colorado roots go back to 1981. The company, Assurance Roofing was formed upon the realization that there were so few quality, focused, and honest roofing companies in Colorado. In 2016, we changed our name to Assurance Contractors to reflect our broadening service capabilities. Our proven ability has taken a long-standing family trade and combined it with best-in-class principles from our team's rich and successful experience working in Fortune 500 corporations.\nQUALITY & SERVICE, COVERED\nAssurance Contractors believes that quality must be integral to culture. Quality is one of our pillars of excellence and we pride ourselves on high customer scores over time. It is not enough to believe in quality, it must be obtained every step of the way from the initial meeting to the final bill.\nSTEVE ARENDS\nPRESIDENT + CEO\nSteve received a degree in 1979 from Iowa State University in Finance and Computer Science. He began his Colorado career at Petroleum Information Corporation and over the next 30 years held executive positions with several firms in the Finance & Technology sectors. The hallmark of Steve's career has been a passion for excellence and achieving quality through measurements and customer feedback. Beginning 15 years ago, Steve began consulting with his brother's NE based roofing company in order to improve quality results and process efficiency. Steve's excitement with the degree of quality improvement led to the formation of Assurance Roofing Company in 2009.\nSteve is excited to lead Assurance's growing team of top tier industry professionals who share his passion for continually improving Assurance's process to achieve quality results as measured by customer satisfaction.\nDAWN ARENDS\nVICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE\nDawn Arends is part owner\/VP of Finance for Assurance Roofing Company. She received her Bachelor's of Art degree in Public Relations\/Communications from William Jewell College outside of Kansas City, MO. Dawn's early work experience included marketing, sales, banking and later served as an Investment Representative with Edward Jones for many years. Officially, her responsibilities include overseeing the daily operations of the finance and accounting departments. She manages the preparation of financial reports, budgets, audits and ensures proper levels of insurance and compliance on local, state and federal levels. Unofficially she is the company historian and 'jack of all trades problems solver.'\nNATALIE BOSLER\nNatalie has fifteen years of consumer marketing and advertising experience during which time she has worked on large, international clients including MillerCoors, Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. She has an undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in design and promotion from Colorado State University with a cum laude distinction. Additionally, she received her Master's of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from University of Colorado. Natalie has a proven record of leading teams to deliver results with her ability to be a strong analytical thinker and provide quick solutions to complex projects. She recently joined the family business in 2015 and brings her knowledge to oversee the operational efficiency, marketing and business development for Assurance Contractors.\nPETER BOSLER\nPeter received his Bachelor of Science degree in hospitality management from Colorado State University. He started his career with Marriott International in which he was promoted quickly during his time there with managing a diverse staff of 60 associates. He realized that he enjoyed selling services with a career shift to Cintas. During his time at CIntas, he was the top sales representative in his region for three years in a row with exceeding his goals provided to him. Peter was recruited into the construction family business and has kept his customer first mentality and providing customers with hands on attention. He strives to be an educator\/producer on all aspects of the roofing process: from examining damage, filing a claim, explaining the insurance process, and providing a quality\/clean job.\nCHEYENNE MADDIO\nPRODUCTION & TRAFFIC COORDINATOR\nCheyenne was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Arizona. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a Bachelor's degree in Communication. She gained roughly 6 years of work experience in the restaurant industry, which taught her excellent customer service and communication skills. Cheyenne moved to Colorado in 2019 and joined Assurance Contractors as a Production and Traffic Coordinator. She is excited to pursue a career with Assurance Contractors and explore the beautiful state of Colorado.\nCODY BURCH\nSR. SALES REPRESENTATIVE + LARGE LOSS SPECIALIST\nCody Burch joined Assurance Contractors in 2016 as an Operations Supervisor with over 17 years' experience in Operations, Human Resources and Retail Management. Cody's passion and drive for service and customer satisfaction set him apart as he moves from Operations into Sales for Assurance. He thrives on setting and exceeding goals while maintaining positive relationships and focusing on integrity in every transaction. Cody's resourcefulness and creative problem solving have contributed greatly to his success; and his large network of contacts in Northern Colorado and beyond is a real asset to Assurance Contractors.\nCarlos received his Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering as well as his Master's in Construction Management from Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Professionally, his resume includes experience in the following: Construction, Construction Management, Sales, Solar Energy Design and Commercial Projects from General Construction to Cyber Security. Most recently, Carlos worked in Sierra Detention System in a specialized division called Tech Services as an Install Manager. In this role he became skilled in overseeing million dollar projects. Carlos is a hard working individual and able to handle increasing amounts of pressure, while always managing to keep the customers happy. He is committed to making sure Assurance Contractors provides and maintains their high standards. Carlos has grown to cherish and respect Assurance Contractors by seeing first hand the care and dedication they provide to customers as well as their employees.\nMARISOL CHACON\nMarisol is the Talent Manager for Assurance Contractors. She received her degree from Colorado State University in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a minor in Business Administration. Her responsibilities include: recruiting, hiring, on-boarding, training, and performance management. She brings her extensive research in workplace psychology to continue to make Assurance a great place to work.\nJR. FIELD SUPERVISOR\nAlex is a Field Supervisor for Assurance Contractors. He graduated from Colorado State University with a Hospitality Management degree and a minor in Business Administration. He also studied Construction Management in his early years at CSU and is very interested in the field. Some of his work history includes: sales, marketing, managerial roles, moving labor, milling labor, landscaping, and retail. He's excited to see what the future holds for him in this industry and is eager to learn, execute, and contribute towards the company.\nSASHELLY VARGAS\nSashelly graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis on Operations Management. During her career, she has had the opportunity to work alongside great mentors in project management. Sashelly has a proven track record of executing construction projects flawlessly due to her education and experience. She is also ambitious and relentless when working towards a goal. Her commitment to a job is a key factor while working with the team to ensure the Assurance process runs smoothly.\nTREVOR ALEXANDER\nPicture and Bio coming soon!\nRANDY HASKINS\nRandy grew up in a roofing family. When he wasn't playing baseball, he was on a roof with his Grandpa, Dad, Uncle, and Brothers. He has spent the last 15 years in the hospitality industry developing his customer service skills through hard work and integrity. He has established close friends and strong ties to his community. Randy is very excited to be part of the Assurance team.\nCHASE SMITH\nChase graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Speech Communication and a minor in Business Administration. He is a Colorado native and has lived in Highlands Ranch and Fort Collins. Chase was recruited to the team in 2018 where he brings his best quality work and is a consistent reflection of the Assurance Contractors vision and values. As a recent college graduate and a passion to succeed, Chase is excited to see what talents he can provide to the Assurance team.\nDIANNA LUCE\nDianna is a Colorado native who was displaced for a few years and has recently returned to Colorado to be closer to her family. Professionally, her experience includes over twenty years of Office Management for both schools and senior home care. Additionally, Dianna has experience in Engineering & Surveying. She loves to work with people and build good solid customer relations for Assurance. Dianna is thrilled to be part of the Assurance Team and looks forward to the future.\nDEREK C. YOUNG\nDerek has brought a variety of experience to Assurance. He has an extensive background in the Oil & Gas industry as a Crane Operator and Technician. Hard work, honesty, respect, and integrity are all traits that Derek brings to the company and feels are very important. Derek also has several certifications in the following: Rigging and Signaling, First Aid CPR, OSHA 10, Forklift Certified, NFPA70E. Derek also carries certificates through the Department of Homeland Security in the Fire & Emergency Services Higher Education Program for Principles of Emergency Services, Strategies & Tactics, and also ICS-100. He was born and raised in Texas and currently resides in Cheyenne, WY with his wife and 3 children. Derek loves to hunt, fish, ride horses, and be outdoors when he is not working. This is Derek's second year at Assurance and he is excited to continue to bring his knowledge, dedication to helping others, and his work ethics to the roofing and construction industry.\/p>\nCODY HALL\nBio and picture coming soon!\nCall Today -\nFort Collins: 970-797-2502\nGutter Installation & Repair\nAssurance Contractors\n2643 Midpoint Dr. Unit F\n7350 E. Progress Place Suite 102\nDenver Metro Area | Northern Colorado | Fort Collins | Denver\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Privacy Policy | Design by: Big West Marketing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gills boss Evans fuming with referee after Fleetwood defeat\nGillingham lost 1-0 against Fleetwood Town on Tuesday evening.\nBy Lewis Browning 11 March 2021 14:05\nEvans was less than impressed with the referee's showing on Tuesday | Photo by Ian Horrocks - Getty Images\nGillingham manager Steve Evans was left seething with the referee after his side lost 1-0 against Fleetwood Town on Tuesday evening.\nKyle Vassell's second-minute penalty was the difference between the two sides, awarded by referee Marc Edwards when Connor Ogilvie was adjudged to have pushed Gerard Garner in the box.\nFT: Fleetwood Town 1-0 Gillingham. #Gills pic.twitter.com\/fsazKUehPK\n\u2014 Gillingham FC (@TheGillsFC) March 9, 2021\nEvans was less than pleased with Edwards' call and his overall showing, but also admitted his team were way off the mark in the first-half\nReferee anger\nEvans has been extremely critical of League One's referees this season, picking up seven yellow cards in the league for his actions towards officials. Tuesday evening was no different - after the match, he expressed his frustrations with what he deemed to be another poor showing from and EFL referee.\n\"I do not really know the guy but I have spoken to the head of referees who says he will look at it. It is simply not a penalty\" he said on Tuesday evening. \"The referee was absolutely pathetic. Really, really poor.\n\"It was a poor game, we played poorly, Simon Grayson's team get the win and it is about winning and points accumulation. But just watch the penalty decision. Tell me how I should be feeling with a seven-hour journey back to Kent. How should we feel?\"\nThe situation developed further on Wednesday morning when Evans said that the EFL head of referees, Mike Jones, agreed with him.\n\"Last night and this morning I spoke with the EFL head of referees Mike Jones\" he said. \"My conversation was in connection with the very poor performance of our match referee at Fleetwood.\n\"We obviously focused on a few key match incidents, one of course was the penalty awarded to Fleetwood inside the opening minute of the match. At first sight of the footage and careful examination Mike confirmed the decision to award a penalty was wrong. He described the award as so soft that if that was the benchmark for a penalty there would be one every time a ball went in to every penalty area.\n\"He had further sympathy when our goal in added time was not given by the match referee.\n\"We travelled over seven hours on Monday and got home at nearly 5:00 and you do not expect that performance from a referee.\"\nDespite showing obvious frustration with the referee, Evans was critical of his own team, claiming his \"so called big players\" failed to deliver.\n\"We were not at it first-half,\" he said. \"We were poor and players, for me, showed a lack of effort, lack of desire and a lack of willingness to work hard.\n\"I just think for some they get the shirt and it is an automatic pick and you can see the players we took off were not affecting the game.\"\nEvans did, however, suggest his team deserved at least a point from the game.\n\"We dominated territorially in the second-period, missed four good chances but we were always chasing after that disgusting penalty decision inside the first minute.\n\"We gave a few sloppy things away near the end when we were chasing it, but in fairness we should have had a penalty ourselves. Connor Ogilvie gets dragged to the ground and I think Stuart O'Keefe is taken out just inside the box.\n\"Credit to Fleetwood, a good club with good people but we will keep focused on ourselves.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Liverpool Could Lose Sadio Mane To Inter Milan\nBy BF Staff | August 2, 2017 | 0\nReuters \/ Phil Noble\nInter Milan will attempt to prise Sadio Mane from Liverpool, according to reports.\nThe Senegalese winger was in electric form for a majority of last season, and was a key factor in a Liverpool attack that struggled without him when he was out injured. His performances have since attracted interest from numerous top European clubs, including Serie A giants Inter Milan.\nThe Nerazzurri have seen a massive influx of funds following the club's takeover by a Chinese consortium. They are keen on splashing that newfound cash, and have managed to sign the likes of Milan Skriniar, Borja Valero, Facundo Colidio and Daniele Padelli.\nSecuring Mane's signature would prove to be a statement signing, as Inter begin their quest to be feared as one of Europe's best once more. Their arch-rivals AC Milan have gone all out this summer, and their success will be a cause for concern across town.\nInter Eyeing Sadio Mane As A Replacement For Ivan Perisic\nHowever, signing the 25-year-old pace demon may be harder than expected for the Italians, as Reds' boss Jurgen Klopp is aiming to put up a solid fight for the Premier League title next season, and understands that letting his best players go would make that dream all the more hard to accomplish.\nPhilippe Coutinho has already been subject to a \u00a372 million bid from Barcelona that was turned down, and things are starting to appear sticky for Klopp.\nReuters \/ John Sibley\nAccording to Express, Inter have prepared a starting bid of \u00a335 million \u2013 just \u00a31m more than what the Reds paid Southampton for him last summer. That fee will feel like an insult to Liverpool, considering the superb season Mane enjoyed last year. And with the current inflation in the market, they will be holding out for a lot more.\nIt is unlikely that Klopp will be willing to let Mane leave for any price, though. The forward was once again instrumental in their brilliant 3-0 win over Bayern Munich in pre-season, where he scored the opener.\nSpeaking about his return to the fold, Mane said: \"I'm very happy to be back. It was not easy to be off the pitch for three months. But finally, I'm back and I'm happy to be back.\n\"I'm looking forward to the season. I'm a professional and every football player would like to play each week. I want to always help my team-mates on the pitch and help my club to get better.\n\"[I want] to score more goals for my team and to assist as well. Why not win trophies with the team? I'm very confident and looking forward to it. There are still some things to work on. That's why I'm training all the time. It will come. I'm not 100 per cent fit but it's pre-season so I'm OK with that. It will come.\"\nKeep up to date with the biggest transfer news from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and a lot more\nWritten by Reyhan Ashley Nath\nManchester United fan, Wayne Rooney is his role model. Passionate writer who has written for several sites in the past. He's also an aspiring pianist and creates background music for BlameFootball's Youtube channel.\n\u2190 Liverpool Eye Bayern Munich Starlet As Barcelona Close In On Philippe CoutinhoTop Transfer Rumours Of The Day: Mane, Sanches, Ozil, And More \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"39483 Jose Basin Road, Auberry, CA, 93602\nListing Agent: Miriam Carter\nCourtesy of: Osborne Homes\nAddress: 39483 Jose Basin Road\nCity: Auberry\nAbsolutely gorgeous & private 40 useable acres with pastures of heathy thick stands of oat & native grasses. The main mobile is 960 sq. ft. and has 2 bedrooms 1 bath w. carport, covered area for spa and storage on the east side. A fenced pasture of approx. 7-8 acres. Complete hook-ups for an RV. Seasonal creek & Waterfall on the west side of home. Second mobile has approx. 1660 sq. ft. with 3 bedrooms, den and 2 baths, a family room addition (unfinished) and enclosed front porch. There is also a porch that wraps around a portion of the west side & entire south side where you may sit to enjoy the views to the mountains and sunsets. This mobile needs work and may provide rental income. It has recent new siding on the north and east side, new dual pane windows in 2003. Easy year-round road access to both. Excellent well. Build your dream home or simply use as a family get-away. This property has a great deal of energy and its priced to sell. There is an adjoining 80 acres w a home available for sale separately (APN 11611002)\nListing Agent: Miriam Carter Courtesy of: Osborne Homes Listing Information provided courtesy of the Fresno MLS\/Association of Realtors. All data, including all measurements and calculations of area, is obtained from various sources and has not been, and will not be, verified by broker or MLS. All information should be independently reviewed and verified for accuracy. Properties may or may not be listed by the office\/agent presenting the information. Updated: 31st January, 2023 5:43 AM (UTC)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review: The Sessions\nDirected by: Ben Lewin\nWritten by: Ben Lewin\nStarring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Adam Arkin, Rhea Perlman, Moon Bloodgood\nThe Sessions takes us inside a world that only a small few would be familiar with. It's based on the true story of Mark O'Brien (Hawkes) \u2013 a 38-year-old man who has been paralysed from the neck down, due to the effects of polio, since he was a young child. He relies heavily on an iron lung to survive and requires constant care.\nThe premise centres on Mark's hopes to lose his virginity. He's never had a girlfriend and he's never had an intimate contact with a woman. That's about to change. Thanks to the advice from a good friend, Mark has been given the details of woman who can help. Her name is Cheryl (Hunt) and she's a professional sex surrogate.\nIt's a job that I was previously aware of. Cheryl isn't a prostitute \u2013 a point she makes clear at the very start of their sessions together. Her role is to teach Mark the \"basics\" and to help him explore his sexual potential. He will then the confidence and experience to increase his sexual activity in the future.\nWriter-director Ben Lewin has made the decision to position the film somewhere between the comedic and dramatic genres.... and it works. If you were to hear Mark's story from a complete stranger, you might think of it as a terrible tragedy. This is a guy who has almost no quality of life. He spends every moment confined to a bed and struggling to breathe. Not once has he experienced the sensation of an orgasm.\nMark has found a way to deal with the situation as best he can \u2013 by having a sense of humour about it. He's not afraid to make a joke and he seems to take great pleasure in stirring a local priest (Macy) with whom he has become friends. Mark enjoys putting him to the test by asking what God would think of his use of a sex surrogate.\nThere's another side to this story however. We also see things from Cheryl's perspective and it gives us an insight into this tricky profession. She needs to establish trust with her clients and help them deal with problems that they've long suppressed. At the same time, she has to be careful not to get too close from an emotional perspective. It's not easy.\nThe Sessions premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January and the performances have been talked up as \"awards worthy\" ever since. John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) is excellent in the leading role and deftly illustrates his character's deep insecurities. Hunt is also very good with her soothing voice and comforting disposition. The scenes they share in bed together are both awkward and humorous.\nThe film skirts around a few issues and its look into Cheryl's home life is a good example. We see small glimpses of her interacting with her husband and son but they don't offer as much as you'd expect. As the priest, William H. Macy's character could have also used a little more depth. He pops in and out of the story for the sole purpose of proving a few laughs.\nIt can't match the emotive power of films such as The Sea Inside and The Diving Bell & The Butterfly but The Sessions is still a nicely told story that makes you appreciate the things we take for granted.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CCIA has long worked to ease or remove excessive export controls on high-tech products. Export controls were created during the Cold War to limit the ability of communist or rogue states to come into possession of state-of-the-art computing or other technology that could endanger our national security. However, world conditions have changed significantly. Rather than a U.S.-centric system, technological progress is now more likely to occur through collaboration with allies, and the current export control system obstructs the sharing of information. In addition, new technologies are increasingly being developed in the commercial sector, rather than the military sector.\nCCIA's View:\nWhile CCIA strongly agrees with the need to protect our national security, we believe it is important to guard against measures that would unreasonably limit or burden the legitimate export business of technology companies. Practical considerations must be weighed in fashioning any of these controls. The ideal export control regime would be narrowly targeted at such exports that truly threaten our national security if obtained by adversaries, without impeding legitimate export operations. CCIA opposes broadly drawn export controls that fail to make this distinction and would unnecessarily include many technology products. In addition, we oppose unilateral U.S. export controls which would result in the ceding of markets to foreign companies whose countries have less rigorous controls. We look forward to reforms that result in regularly updated and justifiable \"higher walls around fewer items.\"\nAncillary Copyright\nA\/V Services\nForced Localisation\nMost Recent Statements & Filings:\nInternet Services Empower SMEs at a Global Level\nBlog, Jobs & Innovation, Taxes & Trade October 25, 2013\nThe Internet has reshaped production, distribution and consumption patterns at a global scale. The resulting markets are highly efficient, transparent and characterized by low barriers to entry. However, so far little attention has been given to the fact that small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly those in the global south, are among the largest beneficiaries\u2026\nCCIA Testifies On Digital Trade At TTIP Hearing\nEU, News & Events, US May 29, 2013\nThe Computer & Communications Industry Association outlined growing threats and policies that curb digital trade in testimony at a USTR hosted hearing Wednesday afternoon on the US\/EU's free trade agreement known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). CCIA noted that trade agreements have unfortunately not kept up with the thriving Internet industry and recommended the\u2026\nPanelists Discuss Future Internet Governance At World Press Freedom Day Event\nBlog, US April 24, 2013\nWashington- Academics, companies and a State Department official outlined the challenges ahead for Internet governance and Internet freedom at a National Press Club event marking World Press Freedom Day Wednesday. Christopher Painter, the coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department, said the WCIT meeting in Dubai was a wake up call that the multistakeholder\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}