{"text":"Clarksville Soccer Club\nContact CSC\nCSC Mission Statement\nCSC Sponsors\nSponsorship Interest\nCSC Club Policies\nIns. Certificates\nManagers Guide\nCSC Board\nRecreational Soccer\nClarksville Soccer Club Names Kean Barclay Director of Coaching & Player Development\n03\/16\/2017, 3:30pm CDT\nBy CSC Board of Directors\nClarksville Soccer Club Names New Director of Coaching\nThe Clarksville Soccer Club is excited to announce Kean Barclay as the club's Director of Coaching and Player Development. Barclay brings a level of coaching experience that ranges from two professional teams in the English Premiership and a university in Scotland to all three NCAA Divisions, high school, club and a state Olympic Development Program.\nA native of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Barclay was the top assistant coach last year at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) responsible for recruitment, trainings, game scheduling, academic oversight, scouting, film sharing and coordination.\n\"The Clarksville Soccer Club is an exciting new challenge for me,\" Barclay said. \"The club has made huge strides in developing their athletes, and I look forward to working with the board of directors, coaches, parents and players to continue that trend.\"\nPrior to his coaching position at NKU, Barclay was the head coach for the men's soccer program at East Central College (ECC) in Union, Missouri for four seasons from 2011 to 2015. During his last two seasons at ECC, the team earned a birth in the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 16 Tournament, where they reached the finals both seasons. In the 2014 campaign, Barclay was named the Missouri Community College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, and ECC captured the MCCAC Conference Championship. Under his direction the program had reached a top 20 national ranking, as high as #11 at one point during his final season.\nIn England, Barclay completed coaching observations with West Ham United in London and with Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he worked closely with Mick McCarthy, former National Team Coach for the Republic of Ireland. During a three year stint of living, studying, and playing in Scotland, Coach Barclay was the head coach of the second team at the University of Abertay-Dundee in 2003-2004, which competed in the Scottish University Division.\nPrior to his appointment as head coach at Abertay, Barclay played for the squad from 2002-2003 and helped the team reach the semi-finals of the European University Soccer Tournament in 2003 in Spain. He also played and trained with Carnoustie Panmure FC (2003-2004) and Lochore Welfare FC (2002-2003) in Scotland.\nBarclay served as assistant coach at NCAA Division 1 Longwood University in Virginia, where the team advanced to the championship game of the Atlantic Soccer Conference in 2007. As an assistant coach at the University of the Ozarks in Arkansas, he helped the NCAA D-III University advance to the championship of the American Southwest Conference in 2008. His NCAA Division II experience includes a coaching internship at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.\nBarclay has been invited to serve as a staff coach at university soccer camps throughout the country, including Old Dominion University in Virginia, Michigan State University, University of Arkansas, Missouri State University, University of Colorado \u2013 Colorado Springs, University of Missouri S&T and the University of New Mexico.\nAt the youth level, Barclay served as co-head coach at Brebeuf High School in Indiana and head coach of the U-15 and U-14 boys in 2009 for Sporting Arkansas, the largest youth club in Arkansas. During that time, he also was a staff coach for the Arkansas Olympic Development Program.\nBarclay holds the Masters of Education degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from Indiana University and a Higher National Diploma in Sport, Heath, and Exercise from the University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland. His coaching credentials include the Director of Coaching certification from the NSCAA, a USSF National 'C' License, a Coaching Endorsement from Indiana University \u2013 Indianapolis and coaching certificates from the Scottish Football (Soccer) Association. He is a member of the U.S. Soccer Federation and National Soccer Coaches Association of America.\nYou will begin seeing Coach Barclay at Heritage Park immediately and will also begin hearing from him soon in future communications from CSC. Please take an opportunity to welcome him to our Club!\nGo CSC!!\nTag(s): News & Photos\n\u00a92019 Clarksville Soccer Club \/ SportsEngine. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Art\tFeb 20, 2018\nThe best pick and mix of modern art\nby John L. Tran\nThe current exhibition at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art could be considered a retrospective of Toshio Hara's career as a collector. Surprisingly, given that the museum was founded in 1979, it's the first time that the director and president has personally curated a ...\nArt\tAug 30, 2016\nThe 'informel' whirlwind that swept across Japan\nby Matthew Larking\nTaro Okamoto's \"Men Aflame\" (1955) is a swirling fusion of figuration, surrealism and abstraction. The content addresses the irradiation of Japanese sailors onboard the Dai-go Fukuryu-maru by fallout from American nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll. The painting is part of the 1950s Japanese art ...\nArt \/ Openings In Tokyo\tFeb 12, 2015\n'Japanese Artists in Paris Part 2: 1950s-60s \u2014 From the Selected Collection'\nby Daisuke Kikuchi\nFeb. 14-March 22 The Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, is holding the second part of its series of exhibitions showcasing Japanese artists who chose to study or do research in Paris. The first exhibition followed the work of artists who studied in the city in ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sign-up for Free Weekly E-Newsletter\nFactory logistics\nMachine Vision & Inspection\nOE Fitments\nSales facilities\nTire Building\nTire handling\nTire Modeling & Digital Tools\nTPMS & Electronics\nAnnual Showcase 2022\n\u5e74\u56fd\u9645\u8f6e\u80ce\u6280\u672f\u5e74\u520a\nIn this Issue \u2013 Annual Showcase 2022\nIn this Issue \u2013 November 2022\nIn this Issue \u2013 October 2022\nYou are at:Home\u00bbOpinion\u00bbPressure points\nPressure points\nBy Peter Tillotson, Business Development Manager of TyrePal 19th May 2016 No Comments\nLinkedIn Tweet Share Email +\nTyrePal's business development manager, Peter Tillotson, discusses the lack of TPMS regulation for alternative vehicles and the impact this is having upon fuel consumption, breakdown costs and driver safety\nWith TPMS now a legal requirement for all new passenger vehicles manufactured in Europe, it is well known that tire inflation is important for both fuel efficiency and tire performance. But this legislation is yet to be extended to commercial vehicles, caravans and trailers. Here, Peter Tillotson, business development manager of TyrePal, discusses the lack of TPMS regulation for alternative vehicles and the impact it is having on fuel consumption, breakdown costs and driver safety.\nFuel economy is a prominent issue for any driver. Low tire pressure means more friction on the road, hence less efficiency. Too much air pressure can create an oval shaped tire and shorten wear time.\nTwenty percent of a car's fuel consumption is used to overcome rolling resistance, but this increases if tires are under-inflated. For commercial vehicles, this figure is even higher, with a fully-loaded HGV using one third of its fuel to overcome rolling resistance. While the current legislation helps reduce fuel consumption for passenger vehicles, HGV drivers and fleet managers are left to do their own research into the products that could help save them money.\nAs of 2015, if a passenger vehicle registered after January 2012 has a faulty TPMS, or the system has been removed, the car will fail its MOT. The UK's MOT test is designed to analyze the safety of a vehicle, which suggests that having a working TPMS is crucial. This asks the following question: why would a TPMS be any less important for a commercial vehicle?\nThe reality is that, if anything, there is more to gain from having a tire pressure monitoring system on a commercial vehicle than a passenger one.\nHighways England estimates that as many as 3,600 accidents and 20% of all breakdowns are directly related to flat tires or low tire pressure. Because of an HGV's size, they have the potential to cause even more serious incidents if the driver loses control of the vehicle.\nUK HGVs are required by law to conduct daily checks before they start their journey, but a puncture can occur at any time. If the legislation was to be extended, drivers would get updates on the pressure and temperature status of their tires while on the road. This would allow drivers to remedy the situation before the low or high pressure causes a serious incident.\nExtending the legislation to commercial vehicles, caravans and trailers has been debated, but it seems there are too many barriers to overcome. For traditional TPMS to work in trailer and caravan applications there needs to be a universal protocol so every make and model of vehicle can communicate with every trailer. The majority of drivers will change their trailer dependent of the load they're transporting. As there is no universal protocol, drivers might need a different TPMS for each trailer and they would have to take the time to change the system before each journey.\nAnother problem with the existing regulation is that currently, TPMS have 60 minutes to alert the driver when tire pressure drops by 20% in more than one tire. If the tire pressure is decreasing rapidly, the alert would come too late for the driver to act. While there are instant alert systems available, such as the TyrePal range, these are not mandatory as part of the legislation.\nUnfortunately, the current legislation is designed specifically for passenger vehicles, so the answer isn't to extend existing rules for HGVs, trailers and caravans. The legislation needs to be adapted, or a new set of requirements created for these alternative vehicles.\nAlthough there are no legal requirements as of yet, fleet managers should take matters into their own hands by installing a TPMS in every vehicle. This will give them peace of mind that drivers and vehicles are safe and they're not wasting huge amounts of fuel or causing unwanted downtime every year.\nPeter Tillotson, Business Development Manager of TyrePal\nRockwell Automation: Developing an energy management platform capable of increasing energy efficiency in manufacturing\nSustainable tire materials\nThe story of Ackermann steering\nNew release agent aids manufacturer and QC processes\nApollo Tyres granted ISO 20400 certification for Sustainable Procurement\nHow to extend the life of curing bladders \u2013 Tire Technology Expo Interview with Volker B\u00f6rger\nYokohama develops tire with sustainable materials for Super Formula Championship\nReceive breaking stories and features in your inbox each week, for free\n\u00a9 2021 UKi Media & Events a division of UKIP Media & Events Ltd\nNotice & Takedown Policy\nAutonomous Vehicle\nProfessional Motorsport","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it.\"\n\u2013 Proverbs 22:6\nOur Lower School students learn in a nurturing community where they are taught a 10-part curriculum that evolves as they grow. Here we will get our hands dirty, utilize the latest technology, and encourage independent thinking and doing. It's our framework for laying a strong spiritual foundation.\nHere at the midpoint of schooling, everything is changing \u2013 making these \"in-between years\" a time worth cherishing.\nMore than just college prep. This is life prep.\nEvery journey has its first steps.\nAll-School Calendar\nAll-School News\nFACTS Login\nFinalForms Login\nParent Podcast\nSupport WC\nEvery student has a deep desire to express themselves.\nWe provide tools, space, and the encouragement so that expression can happen.\nThe arts do far more than help nurture future artists. It is the fulfillment of our students' intellectual capacity \u2013 as they learn to apply both their left-brain and right-brain sensibilities to become the creative problem solvers they're meant to be.\nBut art is more than creativity, more than performance. Art is a natural human expression, a mimicking of our heavenly Father's hands to create and deliver something that previously did not exist. We approach all of the arts with an excitement and anticipation for what's possible from the minds and hands of our students.\nYoung minds are perfectly attuned to learning through creating. Whether it is with crayons or clay, fingerpaint or found objects, kindergartners will get to express their creativity through a variety of mediums while also learning about patterns and shapes, stenciling and collage-making. Hands-on learning through the arts opens up the wonder and possibility we'll continue to nurture in our arts programing as your child grows.\nMusically, kindergartners will discover rhythm and tempo across various notes and beats. And they will get to express themselves through music classes that will culminate in an annual concert for parents. The joyous noise and appreciation for music, singing and performance we foster early will afford greater exploration of the musical arts as they progress through the Lower School.\nImagination. Invention. And the impossibilities borne of small hands. These are the creative desires many children have as they put pen to paper or brush to canvas with delight \u2013 and it's a reminder that every child is an artist in their own way.\nIt is that joy of creating that we foster and encourage across a number of artistic disciplines and activities in Lower School art classes. By shining a light on the great masterworks and contemporary artists, our arts faculty teach not only form and function, but also how art is part of God's grand design and its beauty enriches what it means to be human.\nArt also takes on meaning for all Lower School students through a rich tapestry of music. We help build an awareness of the cultural importance music provides, while also engaging them in vocal worship to glorify God. Through music appreciation and participation, students can find and define their own musical interests. By third grade, students can participate with the string orchestra, and by sixth grade, pursue band and a broader selection of instruments to learn. These are opportunities designed to discover and hone musical talent while also nurturing the discipline and dedication to realize success, which carries over into other aspects of life.\nOur seventh- and eighth-grade students begin learning new forms, tools, and techniques to enhance the work they make, and their overall artistic experience. Here, free-form creativity meets the disciplines of design to open up entirely new worlds for discovery in the visual arts. Style, voice and how to interpret art are all part of a critical evaluation \u2013 and self-evaluation \u2013 of art by our emerging artists. For those with the desire to perform, there's an audition that awaits.\nOur seventh- and eighth-grade produce their own theatre productions, which provides exposure to new artistic disciplines as they learn lines, stage presence, and time management habits that will prove beneficial long after the curtain goes down.\nOur musically and vocally talented students will find their place in one of our grade-based bands, the honors band, orchestra, or choir. All of these musical endeavors provide opportunities for our students to step into the spotlight and discover the chemistry and reward of performing as one.\nWhether the desire is to be a professional artist or simply a one-time participant, our vibrant arts program is a cornerstone of the WC experience that is encouraging and welcoming to all students.\nOur visual arts program hits full throttle in the Upper School, providing our visual artists with the space and tools \u2013 both tactile and digital \u2013 to produce. They experience field trips, art service projects, and recurring student art shows. With faculty guidance, students also contemplate the meaning of art and its purpose in society, how it can communicate, touch people, and convey meaning across every artistic medium.\nOur musical and vocal music programing offers an astounding 15 options for students, ranging from jazz, pep, and concert bands to a number of choirs and ensembles. These performers also compete in statewide competitions and assemble seasonal and special performances for the community.\nFrom bit parts to leading roles, performing in any of the four theatrical productions is open to any student regardless of experience. Produced seasonally means artists, athletes, and students with other commitments can consider a production at a time of year that works for them.\nIt is here, in the arts, that student outcomes surprisingly exceed expectations.Numerous WC alumni have gone on to launch successful and highly visible artistic careers after finding their voice on our stage or felt their calling in our studio space. It is why we don't see the \"extra\" in our co-curriculars, but instead choose to see the potential they offer our students.\nFaculty leading our dramatic arts, musical arts, and visual arts have an average of 20 years of experience in their discipline.\n15 Shows\nStudents have numerous opportunities to showcase their band, choir, orchestra, and visual art talents in front of family, faculty, and friends.\n35% Participate\nOrchestra begins in third grade and an average of 35% of students in grades 3-5 participate.\n4 Productions\nOur 9-12 theatre department produces 4 plays a year, each with multiple showings. Students in grades 6-8 produce a spring play.\nGod doesn't merely speak to us in prayer or His word. He has a plethora of options He uses to speak to us. The music and arts department at Worthington Christian has been one of those ways. Joshua Mitchell\tGraduate, Class of 2018\nEarly Childhood Partner\nPolicies & Positions\nSafer Schools Tip Line\nAges 3-K Parent Blog\nGrades 1-5 Parent Blog\nGrades 9-12 Parent Blog\n\u00a9 Copyright 2021 | Worthington Christian School, Inc.\nSubscribe to WC's e-newsletter\nGet a behind the scenes look at what's happening at WC. ThisWeekWC is emailed each Wednesday during the school year.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"valid design studio\nYour source for Product Design, Prototyping, Visualization, Branding\nBehance Profile\nLittle Einsteins Rocket Exercise\nThe show Little Einsteins was cancelled long ago, but its educational programming was pretty excellent for the developing minds of young children. That said, when my little one found a connection with the characters, I did some googling.\nNo toys are sold new anymore, and while used examples are available on ebay and the like, it appears the originals were not of good quality. Additionally, my son seems most interested in \"Rocket\", the team's sentient, shape-shifting transport. When he said he'd love to have his own Rocket, I really started digging.\nThe problem was really that there were no \"screen accurate\" toy versions made of this primary character! What a missed opportunity. That said\u2026 now, we have a target with a bunch of hard points. Let's get to work.\nLet's get some reliable reference material. As the show is so old\u2013and of only minor popularity\u2013Google and Bing prove to be of limited usefulness. In fact, many still images, old product packaging, and marketing materials portray Rocket differently (and some not at all similar to how he appears in the show). As this is to be a screen-faithful version, we go to the screen.\nScreencaps of the show reveal a very larger range of variation in the geometry of the 'base' configuration of Rocket, so an amalgam of sources must be made, and orthographics synthesized with the 'quintessence' of Rocket in mind.\nDigital Model\nHere's a realtime rendering of the model I put together for this project. It has received the stamp of approval for screen accuracy from those familiar with the work. [click to interact]\nAs you can see, some creative license was required to build real three-dimensional geometry while faithfully portraying the character\/vehicle.\nConsequently, the end result is a blend of accuracy and perception based on screen captures from the show itself.\nWhat good is a digital model of a toy to a 3 year old? Enter the real\u2026\nVALID studio + mikelyden consulting \u00a9 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Owsla\nDancing Astronaut's BIG 100\u2014Top 25 Electronic Labels of the Decade\n2010 may as well have been a lifetime ago. At the breakneck pace by which dance music throttles through the stratosphere, the decade is ending in an entirely unrecognizable place from where it began. For context\u2014ten years ago, Electric Daisy Carnival was held in Los Angeles, not Las Vegas, where the Los Angeles Rams now play. Only 250,000 people were paying for a Swedish music streaming service called Spotify, and Billie Eilish was finishing up second grade. It's been a wild ride through the 10's, largely soundtracked by EDM's global boom into a multi-billion dollar industry. Ten years ago our culture was creeping out of South London basements and New York warehouses, and now we're performing at the Olympics.\nSo now, as the single most important, historic, and certainly memorable decade dance music has ever seen draws to a close, we had to figure out a new way to break down how far the culture has come. One master list couldn't possibly reflect the decade in review. In effort to properly recognize the remarkable collection of events that has brought us here, we're tweaking our typical end-of-the-year model. Instead, we're dividing the decade's most deserving into a handful of unique categories.\nIn review of 2010 \u2013 2019, the most important factors that shaped the decade were Artists of the Decade, Labels of the Decade, Albums of the Decade, and Most Impactful Moments of the Decade. Together, they comprise Dancing Astronaut's decade-end collection. Introducing, The Big 100.\n25. Foreign Family Collective \u2013\nWhile ODESZA's Foreign Family Collective isn't exactly a traditional record label, and likely the youngest inclusion on this list, the artist collective has proven to be one of the premier creative outlets for some of electronic music's current brightest. The imprint has hosted releases from Jai Wolf, Louis Futon, R\u00dcF\u00dcS DU SOL, Robotaki, Kasbo, and more, coming together as an eclectic collection of sonic and visual media. ODESZA's third full length LP, A Moment Apart officially landed on the duo's own Foreign Family Collective in 2017, and would net them two Grammy nominations in 2018. The Collective also managed to move into event curation by the end of the decade with the highly in-demand ODESZA-curated SUNDARA festival that sprang up in the summer of 2019.\n24. Brainfeeder \u2013\nAnother twisted creative brainchild of LA's Flying Lotus, Brainfeeder has commanded its own corner of the experimental sector for more than a decade now. Over the course of the last ten years, the imprint has hosted releases from the likes of Mr. Oizo, TOKiMONSTA, Thundercat, and Kamasi Washington, Lotus' rap alter-ego Captain Murphy, and more. The label has dexterously cemented itself as the authority on the outer fringes of hip-hop and electronic music. Brainfeeder regulars would go on to host one of Southern California's most beloved running parties, Low End Theory, which saw LA's beat scene rise to prominence over the course of Wednesday nights from 2006 to its final club night in 2018.\n23. Ninja Tune \u2013\nNinja Tune has been a pillar in dance music for much longer than just this past decade. In fact, in 2020, the label will celebrate 30 years in business, spanning a myriad of releases and artists from all corners of the musical macrocosm. From 2010 \u2013 2019, Ninja Tune put on the likes of Peggy Gou, Tycho, Bonobo, Bicep, Machinedrum, Helena Hauff, ODESZA, and more. Even Kelis and Diplo have featured on the legendary label's network of brands. Ninja Tune also managed to ink a deal with the aforementioned Brainfeeder, bringing releases from Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and others under the Ninja Tune banner during the '10s.\n22. Sweat It Out!\nThe \"Australian Invasion\" has been a remarkable high point of the past decade, and the late DJ Ajax's Sweat It Out! remains at the helm of this movement. There's nary a superstar from the country that hasn't gotten their start on the label; Yolanda Be Cool, R\u00dcF\u00dcS DU SOL with their career-making Bloom, Emoh Instead (What So Not), Crooked Colours, and Dancing Astronaut's Breakout Artist of the Year Dom Dolla serve as just a few. Be it house, electro pop, or future bass, one thing that remains a constant in Sweat It Out! is its penchant for finding artists that will enamor audiences worldwide with their raw musicianship\u2014and that's why the label can always be trusted as a hub for next generation elite. DJ Ajax's untimely passing will forever be a dark moment on electronic music's timeline, but thankfully his legacy shines permanently in Sweat It Out!.\n21. Future Sound Of Egypt \u2013\nOnce a part of the Armada family, Future Sound Of Egypt (FSOE) separated into its own force to be reckoned with in trance. Since regaining its independence in 2016, it's swiftly grown to rival other known institutions like Black Hole and Anjunabeats. The label is so highly regarded, in fact, that Aly & Fila were granted permission to perform at the Great Pyramids twice in celebration of episodes 400 and 500 of their label's eponymous radio show, joining a small group of other acts that includes Sting, Kylie Minogue, and Jean-Michel Jarre. In a time of intense evolution for trance in multiple sonic directions, FSOE has stayed true to its roots, consistently offering followers top-grade records in uplifting, tech, and progressive.\n20. Night Bass \u2013\nLooking back on decades of dance music, few labels have been as integral in the invention of their own genre as Night Bass. Even more impressive about AC Slater's second imprint is that it accomplished this feat in a very short amount of time. Founded halfway through the decade in 2014, around the time Trouble & Bass closed shop, Night Bass set off on a mission. It has since curated a nationwide community around bass house; a burgeoning soundscape that harkens to the early days of UK garage and two-step but presented in a four-on-the-floor fashion. Slater's done a commendable job of not only curating a solid catalog of releases, but fostering a tightly knit community of like-minded house heads. \u2013 Harry Levin\n19. Crosstown Rebels\nIf there is one word to describe Damian Lazarus' profile as an artist, it's humble. While you may never see him topping bills of international festivals or lending his name to the hottest singles of the year, his ability to curate releases through his legendary imprint, Crosstown Rebels, is unmatched. Even as dance music entered the mainstream this decade, Lazarus was able to sift through the hype and find some of the best tunes in the underground from the likes of Skream, Gorgon City, Denney, Joeski, and a nearly interminable list of both established talents and rising stars in house and techno. \u2013 Harry Levin\n18. Diynamic\nSolomun has cultivated Diynamic into one of the most hyped in the house and techno world\u2014and for good reason. One can't deny its role in propelling melodic shades of the aforementioned to greatness, especially when the label was one of the first to push the sound when minimal reigned supreme. What began as some friends going against the grain for their dreams blossomed into a full-blown movement, and today, thousands of loyal fans filling out Diynamic's showcases, stage takeovers, and residencies all over the globe prove the impact it's had in the dance community at large. Its streak is primed to continue well into the 2020s, as the past year alone has seen Diynamic breed new superstars in ARTBAT whilst continuing to top charts with singles like Maceo Plex's \"Mutant Magic,\" an EP from Boys Noize's ELAX alias, and more.\n17. Deadbeats \u2013\nZeds Dead emerged just as the decade kicked off, and by the end of the early '10s DC and Hooks had firmly established themselves as face-melting bass gods. They spent the first half of the decade developing their signature sound to contort around a variety of electric genres, successfully wading from dub into house, hip-hop, R&B, future bass, and more. By early 2016, Zeds Dead were ready to do more than just produce and release their own music, forming the aptly named Deadbeats\u2014a label which reflects the very ethos of Zeds Dead's refusal to be pinned down by one single genre. In just four years, Deadbeats has stacked a booming catalog of nearly 300 releases including work from newcomers and industry vets alike. Now, Deadbeats roster boasts the likes of Rusko, GRiZ, EPROM, DEVAULT, Delta Heavy, Wuki, Habstrakt, Ducky, and more.\nLook to Deadbeats to continue to be an accurate barometer for what's hot as a new decade unfolds. A decade in, and Zeds Dead has traversed the electronic world twice, expect them to keep up the pace in 2020.\n16. CONFESSION\nThough it's just shy of five years old, CONFESSION has already proven to be one of the most impactful imprints of the 2010s. Tchami does an impeccable job imbuing his spiritually minded ethos into the brand on the visual and audio fronts, matching the label's church-themed parties to otherworldly future house records that garner high praise across the world. Many high pedigree artists have signed records onto CONFESSION, with the highly anticipated REZZ and Malaa collaboration, \"Criminals,\" having just been released in autumn. Of course, this swift success hardly comes as a surprise to those familiar with Tchami's keen ear and resonant vision.\n15. Boysnoize Records (BNR)\nBoys Noize is one of dance music's foremost forward-thinkers, and his namesake label is a manifestation of the cutting edge, rule-bending aesthetic he's become known for. Over the past decade alone, Boysnoize Records (BNR) and its BNR TRAX subsidiary have not only been hubs for groundbreaking releases by the label boss himself\u2014such as the critically acclaimed Out Of The Black and 2016's Mayday\u2014but they've also been instrumental in launching the careers of Jensen Interceptor, Peaches, Raito, and beyond. The label's really grown into its own through the years, and looks to a continued tenure providing dance music's future innovations to the masses.\n14. Spinnin' Records\nSpinnin's legacy stretches back to the turn of the millennium, but the past decade has really seen it becoming a major force in shaping modern dance music. It's widely responsible for introducing the world to, and popularizing, big room house, with perhaps its biggest claim to fame being the discovery of Martin Garrix and kicking off his journey to superstardom with \"Animals.\" Millions of followers, billions of streams amassed, a multi-million dollar merger with Warner, and over 20 noteworthy, artist-led sub-labels later (think Heldeep and Dharma Worldwide), Spinnin' has permanently cemented itself as a pillar of EDM and one of the genre's greatest patrons.\n13. Ultra Music\nBefore Spinnin' asserted its dominance in the EDM world, Ultra was its kingpin. It entered the 2010s on top, with iconic singles like \"Stereo Love\" and Skrillex' remix to Benny Benassi's \"Cinema\" raking in countless plays across all platforms. This streak has continued all through the decade, with the label playing host to multiple platinum records which have included Deorro's 2016 collaborations with Elvis Crespo, \"Bailar,\" and \"Five More Hours\" with Chris Brown, in addition to SNBRN's \"Gangsta Walk,\" \"Just Hold On\" with Steve Aoki and Louis Tomlinson, and Klingade's \"Somewhere New.\" Label darling Kygo even booked an Olympic performance.\n12. UKF\nOne of the earliest entities to realize the power of YouTube as a music platform is UKF, which became one of the first viral channels to flourish as an indie record label. It's hard to believe the brand was created a mere 10 years ago, given its establishment as a prime hub for all things bass from the get-go. In fact, it's safe to say that many of electronic music's younger generation discovered the likes of Zeds Dead, Nero, and even Knife Party during UKF's earliest days. Outside its reputation as a leading curatorial hub, Luke Hood's brainchild is also behind upwards of three billion streams on YouTube alone, a sold-out show at the Alexandria Palace in London, and multiple groundbreaking compilations that have served as barometers of bass culture over the years. It's truly a label of the future.\n11. Monstercat\nFlume might have been future bass' first pioneer, but it's Canadian titan Monstercat that took experimental bass, in all forms, to formerly unfathomable heights. Its founders Mike Darlington and Ari Paunonen can easily be considered some of the music industry's most industrious entrepreneurs, slowly building Monstercat's stock over the years through adopting Twitch streaming early and making their label's name known on a grander scale via festival stage takeovers. By 2014 it'd already sold over a million records, but 2016 is when Monstercat struck gold with Marshmello's breakout single \"Alone.\" This goes to show that grassroots passion mixed with a bit of business savvy pays off in the long run, and as a result, there's no foreseeable end to the label's reign over the bass world.\n10. Big Beat\nWhile most of our picks for Label of the Decade are smaller distributors, we'd be remiss if we left out the behemoth Big Beat from our rankings. A longtime stalwart in house, hip-hop, and now more modern strains of electronica, the Atlantic-housed imprint relaunched in 2010 with Skrillex's Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites\u2014effectively locking it back into the upper echelon of dance music during its second commercial boom. Skrillex's breakout EP, and even his widely frenzied Jack \u00dc project with Diplo are merely drops in Big Beat's bucket, with the label also giving rise to the likes of Galantis, Ekali, Icona Pop, and many more in the years following its relaunch. While trends come and go with increasing speeds, Big Beat always manages to stay ahead of the game, and this attribute is precisely what will keep it thriving for many decades to come.\n09. Fool's Gold Records\nWith A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs at the helm, there is no way Fool's Gold would ever or could ever fold into being just another dance music label, and, of course, it didn't. Few imprints across this decade carved a distinct niche that combined electronic and rap while supporting an art form which has become criminally under-valued in today's music scene: real DJing. Now, Fool's Gold's roster boasts releases from Kid Cudi, Anna Lunoe, Run The Jewels, Brenmar, Oliver, YehMe2, Sleepy Tom, and so many more. Beyond bringing new technically skilled DJs into the fold like KITTENS, Fool's Gold is a primary sponsor of A-Trak's Goldie Awards, an annual DJ competition and beat-battle judged by some of the best in the business including Diplo, Craze, and A-Trak himself. Furthermore, FGR has even dipped into fashion, events production, and more during the 2010s. \u2013 Harry Levin\n08. Armada Music\nArmada's journey runs parallel to its founder Armin van Buuren's rise to the top of the crossover world. It'd already become a top trance label by the aughts, but has silently exploded into one of the biggest imprints in electronic whose power rivals that of Ultra and Spinnin'. From 2011-2015, it took home the IDMA for \"Best Global Dance Music Label,\" additionally expanding its robust sub-label army to during this time while propping up van Buuren's entrance into the pop world through his LPs Intense and Embrace. Today, its repertoire spans records from Detroit legend Kevin Saunderson to Dutch house master Afrojack, showcasing a label built to last and prosper through EDM's cyclical history.\n07. Future Classic \u2013\nThe \"Australian Invasion\" of the last decade was one of the most enjoyable subplots in all of dance music. The talent that emanated from down under over the last ten years went on to be some of the most dominate forces in electronic music, positioning Future Classic as an incubator for Aussie hitmakers. Future Classic wasn't new to the decade, though the label\/management company's story really took off in 2012 with the debut release from Harley Streten, better known as Flume. The rest, as they say, is history. Releases from Anna Lunoe, Touch Sensitive, Chrome Sparks, Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker), Classixx, Flight Facilities, Wave Racer, and others would follow, placing Future Classic among some of the greatest labels of the decade.\n06. Ed Banger Records\nPedro Winter's Ed Banger family built its reputation in the previous decade under the stewardship of Cassius and Justice, and those are the only two names that actually need to be mentioned even though there are plenty of others that could be. However, between 2010 and 2019, Busy P proved that he knew how to keep his record label relevant in the face of changing market with tasty treats from Breakbot, Mr, Oizo, Riton, and Boston Bun. Still, Ed Banger managed to bring home hardware over the course of the decade with Justice's Grammy-winning Woman Worldwide. Ed Banger Records, which celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2018, was never a pure house or even a pure electro imprint, and by leaning into that spirit of exploration, they were able to continue to sign forward-thinking artists that forward-thinking dance fans were eager to discover. \u2013 Harry Levin\n05. Mad Decent\nIt was in this decade that Diplo established himself as both the premier pop producer of our day as well as a paragon of superstar DJ culture\u2014and his label, Mad Decent, was there every step of the way. Diplo entered the EDM explosion with a resum\u00e9 and Rolodex matched by few and immediately established Mad Decent as an open-format trendsetter. Even before he entered his current house kick with his new imprint Higher Ground, Diplo landed modern four-on-the-floor classics like \"Bugatti\" and \"Feel The Volume,\" essentially launching JAUZ's career. He put on early Dillon Francis and Baauer, with Valentino Khan, Party Favor, and so many more in between. Let us not forget one of the biggest hits in history, the light-hearted jam, \"Lean On\" which, on top of breaking numerous records, imbued practically every pop song to follow for the next two years with its bouncing dancehall beat. \u2013 Harry Levin\n04. OWSLA\nSkrillex is such a staple when discussing electronic music that it's almost hard to believe that Sonny Moore started working under that name just this decade. Even harder to believe he only started OWSLA this decade, too. Though, at the end of the decade, looking back its clear OWSLA had a finger on the pulse of electronic music culture right from the jump.\nThis label turned lifestyle brand was launched with the breakout EP from an exciting 19-year-old named Porter Robinson entitled Spitfire. From there on the tone of the label was set to continue breaking boundaries and building new artists. Makes sense, considering the second release from a little known artist who goes by the name of ZEDD. From there, OWSLA went on to push records from every corner of electronic music, from Yogi, Alvin Risk, KOAN Sound, What So Not, Alex Metric, Getter, Vindata, Mija, Ekali, Kill The Noise, and more. \u2013 Harry Levin\n03. Anjunabeats \/ Anjunadeep\nAnjunabeats is a musical movement in itself. The trance label and its deeper, progressive-leaning counterpart Anjunadeep have carved a distinct sonic niche in their respective genre realms, with the latter being a prime motivator in the rise of melodic house as a dominating sect in electronica. Meanwhile, Anjunabeats remains a titan with impeccable curation in its founders Above & Beyond; Seven Lions was discovered and nurtured to the star he is today thanks to the imprint, as have other key players today like Lane 8, Ilan Bluestone, and Andrew Bayer. Not to mention, its fan base remains one of the most dedicated we've seen today.\n02. mau5trap\ndeadmau5 has always commanded a large portion the electronic zeitgeist's collective attention, and regardless of whatever anyone may think of him, he's always diverted a large portion of that attention to his record label mau5trap. Looking back on this decade, it's almost uncanny how many impressive artists came into their own mau5trap. Matt Lange, Eekkoo, ATTLAS, i_o, Rinzen, just to name a few. Many listeners might also be surprised to learn that mau5trap also hosted seminal releases from artists like Skrillex, Excision, Noisia, and Moguai. \u2013 Harry Levin\nPhoto credit: Matt Barnes\n01. DIRTYBIRD\nIn the span of 2010 to 2019, no other label has done a better job of introducing house music to a wider audience than DIRTYBIRD. With a foundational crew of artists maintaining the brand's core values through both its sound and jovial conduct, Claude VonStroke's humble, homemade record imprint has amassed a consistent, reliable force of dancers around the globe. Not only have they curated some of the decade's biggest hits like \"Stop It\" by Fisher and \"OKAY\" by Shiba San, but they continuously groom up-and-coming artists and set new weird and wacky trends as well. The label has successfully moved into events curation over the last decade, inspired by its humble beginnings, hosting beat-laden barbecues in the park. Now, with fledging Campout and BBQ events all over the country, a roster of top-notch artists that proctor some of the best house in the game, DIRTYBIRD Records is a shoe-in for our Top Label of the Decade. \u2013 Harry Levin\nBig 100, confession, Crosstown Rebels, Deadbeats, EDM, END OF THE DECADE, Features, label, Mad Decent, Monstercat, News, OWSLA, sweat it out\tBig 100, confession, Crosstown Rebels, deadbeats, edm, END OF THE DECADE, Features, label, Mad Decent, Monstercat, News, Owsla, sweat it out\nTroyBoi teams up with Adekunle Gold for new single, 'Tranquilizer'\nEclectic producer TroyBoi calls on Nigerian vocalist Adekunle Gold for assistance on his latest single, \"Tranquilizer.\" The mellow track features spacey, reverb-laden production that gives Gold plenty of room for melodic freedom. Its smooth flow paired with simple, yet impactful elements makes the composition a fitting play in a wide array of settings.\n\"Tranquilizer\" adds to TroyBoi's steady flow of tunes he's produced in 2019 since joining OWSLA, highlighted by his V!BEZ, Vol. 3 release and a pair of Skrillex collaborations. \"Tranquilizer\" marks a switch from the tight, sample heavy production that TroyBoi has generally crafted, but a change of pace from an artist with such a wide skill set is anything but unexpected. It will be interesting to see further spaces he explores.\nPhoto credit: Pierre Bourgalt\nadekunle gold, Music, OWSLA, Troyboi\t#Music, adekunle gold, Owsla, Troyboi\nSkrillex and Bridges For Music's production school co-venture opens in South Africa\nSkrillex is for the kids.\nSonny Moore's origin story as an adopted child living in Los Angeles takes a significant turn when he finds music to be his creative outlet. Smash cut to fronting From First to Last and then fast forward a decade and change to 2019, where Moore has become one of the most esteemed producers in the game. Music brought the once confused orphan punk to where he is today, so its a heartwarming full-circle moment to see Skrillex's new music production school open for the children of Langa, South Africa this week.\nThe school is a co-venture with Bridges For Music, which Skrillex and OWSLA have been partnered with since 2012. Across 2013 \u2013 2014, the OWSLA crew hosted meet and greet giveaways to fans in benefit of the school's construction. Then, in 2015, on Skrillex's Full Flex Express outing, the tour donated equipment to Bridges For Music along with a portion of the ticket sales from each show to fund the new educational center.\nNow, seven years after Skrillex and the philanthropy group joined forces, Bridges For Music's new music production school is open in Langa, now promising to help emanate a new generation of music out of Africa.\nIn 2012 we started building a music production school Langa South Africa with @bridgesformusic. its 2019 now and the dream is alive. pic.twitter.com\/NqThAn0I4z\n\u2014 Skrillex (@Skrillex) August 21, 2019\nBridges For Music, News, OWSLA, production, School, skrillex\tbridges for music, News, Owsla, production, school, Skrillex\nSkrillex and TroyBoi share hyped new visual for posse cut 'Malokera' [Watch]\nSkrillex has been on an absolute tear this summer with consistently deliveries on long-awaited new music. Chief among the new cuts the OWSLA boss has dropped off in recent weeks is \"Malokera,\" a certified rump-shaker with TroyBoi, MC Lan, Ludmilla, and Ty Dolla $ign all riding a baile funk-inspired wave. Now, \"Malokera\" has a brand new music video to boot, featuring Skrillex and the rest of the track's posse showing out to the bouncy new hit.\nA green screen, some lights, and a few props are all the team needs to make a hype new visual that matches \"Malokera's\" energy perfectly. The track's heavy Brazilian influence plays strong in the new video, starring Lan and Ludmilla front and center. See the new video for \"Malokera\" below.\nMalokera, Music Video, News, OWSLA, skrillex, Ty Dolla $ign, Videos\tMalokera, Music Video, News, Owsla, Skrillex, Ty Dolla $ign, Videos\nTroyBoi showcases the third installment of his 'V!BEZ' series through OWSLA\nFestival July 30, 2019 0 Comments\nTroyBoi has released the third edition of his extended play set, V!BEZ, via Skrillex's OWSLA imprint. The EP features five tracks, including the the recent heavy-hitting collaboration with the label's head honcho, \"WARLORDZ.\" \"PAPI CHULO\" is the lead single arriving from the project, released in anticipation to the multi-release bundle, while \"Do You?\" is the South East Londoner's hit released in 2015 that highlights his less-is-more attitude and original sound sequencing. \"BAILE\" and \"HIGH\" (feat. YAS) are the two new original singles from the project, as the former further pounds the producer's highly percussive trap leanings while the latter caresses a more celestial feel, allowing the sultry vocalist to shine amidst contrasting percussive ad libs.\nIn a recent press release, Skrillex mentioned some words about the signee: \"TroyBoi is special in that he's always uncompromising and follows his own vision. I went to see him headline the Hollywood Palladium and he had as much crew as you would bring into a nightclub like aerial dancers and violinists. He's his own wave, no one sounds like him. It could be the simplest beat and you know it's TroyBoi right away. He's unique and simple, he makes people move.\"\nMusic, OWSLA, skrillex, Troyboi, V!BEZ, YAS\t#Music, Owsla, Skrillex, Troyboi, V!BEZ, YAS\nSkrillex drops off tour visual to accompany 'Mumbai Power' featuring Kenny Beats, Porter Robinson, and more [Watch]\nFresh off the heels of two ultra-satisfying setlist-tools-turned-official-releases, Skrillex has turned in a new visual feature to accompany one of his new Show Tracks, \"Mumbai Power.\" The video is a collection of clips from the road, from stadiums to street corners, festival stages to plane cabins, with a gang of Skrillex's friends following him on his adventures across the world.\nKenny Beats, Porter Robinson, longtime touring teammate Team EZY, Mija, recent collaborators Kelsey Lu and Troyboi, and even Loki, all make appearances in the new visual cut. Fans and social media followers will surely recognize snippets of the globetrotting superstar and his crew throughout the video, recapping appearances in Japan, Korea, and India to the highly repeatable \"Mumbai Power.\"\nMija, Mumbia Power, Music Video, News, OWSLA, porter robinson, skrillex, Videos\tMija, Mumbia Power, Music Video, News, Owsla, porter robinson, Skrillex, Videos\nEffin flips Chris Lake's 'I Want You' [Stream]\nThose familiar with LA's Icon Collective know that its alumni have made serious noise in the world of dance music. Jauz, NGHTMRE, and Slander are just a few of the heavyweights who got their start at Icon. Another more understated notch in their roster is Effin, who recently executed an out-of-the-box remix of the Chris Lake classic, \"I Want You.\"\nLake is an unequivocal staple in the house music domain, and one of the driving leaders in the genre's global ascension. But one of the reasons he has found such sweeping success is because his music taps into up-to-the-moment sounds and styles and packages them with more classic, subtle nuance. In his explosive rendition, Effin took those subtleties and put them under his serrated microscope lens.\n\"I Want You\" came out on OWSLA in 2017, and because the Skrillex-headed label features cross-genre categories throughout its prolific catalog, its identity pertains more to an all-encompassing energy from a collective vantage point. Effin harnessed the same energy Lake did for dancefloor cut and morphed it into a heavy-hitting bass tune.\nStream the full track below and download it free for a limited time.\nchris lake, effin, I Want You, Jauz, Music, NGHTMRE, OWSLA, Slander\t#Music, chris lake, effin, I Want You, Jauz, NGHTMRE, Owsla, Slander\nTroyBoi unveils that another Skrillex collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign is on the way\nSkrillex can't stay out of the headlines thanks to the sheer volume of music and diverse nature of collaborations he has been releasing as of late. Over the last few weeks, the producer has released music with Ed Sheeran, Ty Dolla $ign, Lykke Li, and TroyBoi. According to a new Instagram post, it would appear Skrillex will not be stopping there.\nTroyBoi took to Instagram to announce a new collaboration with the OWSLA boss that will feature Ty Dolla $ign, Lan, and Ludmilla titled \"Malokera.\" The new collaborative cut comes hot off the heels of Skrillex and TroyBoi's boisterous \"WARLORDZ\" joint from earlier this summer. While TroyBoi did not specify a release date, he did note that the track is \"coming soon,\" giving Skrillex fans their next piece of material to look forward to. This track announcement comes only weeks after news surfaced of TroyBoi's upcoming EP, PAPI CHULO, which will almost certainly feature \"Malokera.\"\nGot together with these incredible artists and made an absolute MADNESS! This summer is gonna be a spicy one, HYPED! #ComingSoon\nA post shared by TroyBoi (@troyboi_music) on Jul 12, 2019 at 11:52am PDT\nPhoto by Santiago Felipe\/Getty Images\nEd Sheeran, LAN, Ludmilla, Lykke Li, Music, News, OWSLA, skrillex, Troyboi, Ty Dolla $ign\t#Music, Ed Sheeran, LAN, Ludmilla, Lykke Li, News, Owsla, Skrillex, Troyboi, Ty Dolla $ign\nTroyBoi has a new OWSLA EP on deck, shares lead single, 'PAPI CHULO'\nTroyBoi is slowing down his relentless release machine for no one. The prolific and ever-worldly producer has remained one of the most enduring presences not only in his chosen trap lane, but on the electronic music highway at large.\nThe London-bred \"Afterhours\" producer set the interwebs ablaze last month when Skrillex summoned him for an explosive, collaborative OWSLA single, \"WARLORDZ.\" But now it seems the single was a harbinger of sorts for TroyBoi's next synergistic, Skrillex-sponsored release. Entitled V!BEZ, Vol. 3, TroyBoi's forthcoming EP will land on the hallowed OWSLA haven July 26.\nIn addition to the full tracklist, Troyboi has also shared a new single, \"PAPI CHULO,\" as a precursor to the impending project. The song is a sexy, sauntering emblem of TroyBoi's wildly texturized, beat-banging brand of experimental trap. The latin-inspired track arrives hand-in-hand with a smoldering new music video, illuminating the underbelly of Miami's nightlife culture.\nep, Music, OWSLA, PAPI CHULO, skrillex, Troyboi, V!BEZ, Videos\t#Music, ep, Owsla, Papi Chulo, Skrillex, Troyboi, V!BEZ, Videos\nSkrillex and TroyBoi coalesce for full-throated battle cry, 'WARLORDZ' [Stream]\nFestival June 20, 2019 0 Comments\nSkrillex has been back in electronic earshot in a big way this past year, vigorously venturing the festival front and continuously churning out high-caliber offerings both under his Boys Noize-assisted Dog Blood masthead, along with a recent Kelsey Lu remix. But he warned that the sun had only begin to rise on his release agenda for the year. Now he's delivering on that promise.\nHe's now taken up arms with worldly and ever-active torrential trap talent, TroyBoi. Their boisterous OWSLA-housed brainchild, \"WARLORDZ,\" is intuitively named for its audacious architects. The track exudes the complexity and dexterity of its creators, oscillating between throaty Asian vocals and tender piano-driven interludes.\nMusic, OWSLA, skrillex, Troyboi, Warlordz\t#Music, Owsla, Skrillex, Troyboi, Warlordz","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Titanic Expedition Research\nSummer 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024\nSt. John's, Newfoundland, Canada\nOur multi-year commitment to studying the wreck on our annual Titanic Expedition will give the scientific and archaeological communities new insight into the wreck's deterioration and its deep-ocean environment.\nFour Subs Project\nSpring 2022, Fall 2023\nWe're supporting a team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island document four historic submarines, including one Nazi Germany U-boat, to preserve this rich history for generations to come.\nHudson Canyon Expedition\nAvailability : Inquire for more information\nWe will train you to actively participate in the oceanographic research affording you the rare opportunity to engage with a renowned research team seeking answers to the great mysteries of this biodiversity hotspot.\nSalish Sea Survey Expedition\nFriday Harbor, Washington\nIn September 2018, OceanGate Expeditions mobilized in Friday Harbor, WA to work with the OceanGate Foundation and SeaDoc Society in support of several research projects focused on understanding deep-dwelling red urchins, observing the rolling sand waves that make Pacific sand lance habitat and the long-term impacts of scientific trawling on the seafloor.\nAndrea Doria Expedition\nNear Nantucket, Massachusetts\nWe captured sonar images of the iconic Andrea Doria shipwreck to establish an accurate and reliable baseline for scientists to study it before it disappears.\nFlower Garden Banks Expedition\nThe primary objective of the expedition was to conduct extensive offshore testing of the company's new Mobile Subsea Launch and Recovery System (MSLARS), to launch OceanGate's manned submersible, Cyclops 1.\nElliot Bay Survey Expedition\nElliot Bay, Seattle, Washington\nWorking in partnership with the OceanGate Foundation and Discovery Channel's Daily Planet, OceanGate dove in Elliott Bay with local musician and ocean advocate, Macklemore. Our objective was to find the elusive sixgill sharks that roam the deep waters in Puget Sound.\nAJ Goddard Expedition\nLake Laberge, Yukon Territory, Canada\nOceanGate and BlueView Technologies helped to produce the first high-resolution, 3D digital model of a perfectly preserved, 100-year-old steamboat, in June 2010.\nCatalina Island Expedition\nCatalina Island, California\nThe team discovered the location of a CIA diver lockout chamber used during the cold war, dove to 747 feet, and filmed and observed a variety of marine life.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vaccines and immunization\nNational Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Statements and publications\nGuidance for influenza vaccine delivery in the presence of COVID-19\nChallenges posed by COVID-19\nRecommendations for influenza immunization programs\nConsider alternate models of influenza vaccine delivery this fall\nAdaptations to usual immunization procedures\nScreening and entry: all venues\nInfection prevention and control (IPC)\nClinic set up and immunization process\nAdditional considerations for other settings\nThe purpose of this document is to provide guidance for the delivery of seasonal influenza vaccine in fall 2020, when ongoing COVID-19 activity may continue to stress public health capacity and affect clinic operations and attendance. This guidance has been developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in consultation with the Canadian Immunization Committee and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).\nReducing the burden of influenza is particularly important this fall and winter to prevent an increase in health care utilization at the same time as there is a potential resurgence of COVID-19 activity. In its seasonal influenza vaccine statement for 2020-2021, NACI advises that priority should be given to providing influenza vaccine to persons at high risk of influenza complications and those capable of transmitting infection to them.\nThe seasonal influenza immunization campaign provides an opportunity to develop and practice approaches that may be used for the anticipated COVID-19 immunization program and to ensure consideration of the diverse needs of population groups based on access to services, vulnerability, ethnicity\/culture, ability status and other socioeconomic and demographic factors. These approaches may also be useful for the provision and catch-up of routine immunization. Additional advice for the provision of routine immunization programs during the COVID-19 pandemic is available from PHAC and from provinces and territories.\nThe COVID-19 pandemic creates a series of challenges for the delivery of the seasonal influenza immunization program, including:\nneed for measures to avoid transmission of COVID-19 to staff, volunteers and clients (many of whom are at increased risk of severe disease from both influenza and COVID-19)\navailability of personnel to provide immunizations, as staff may be deployed to COVID-19 work and cautions apply to the involvement of staff or volunteers who are considered to be at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19\naccess to sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for vaccinators and other staff\naccess to or suitability of usual venues for immunization administration\nrisk of a resurgence of COVID-19 activity concurrently with scheduled influenza immunization delivery\npublic fear of exposure to COVID-19 while accessing immunization services\npotentially increased demand for influenza vaccine starting early in the campaign, as seen in the Southern hemisphere\nProvinces and territories use varying systems for their seasonal influenza program, and local factors also play an important role in the planning and delivery of influenza vaccine. This fall, jurisdictions should consider a wide range of strategies to deliver influenza vaccine, with the goal of reducing crowding while maintaining or increasing vaccine uptake. Alternate models include the use of non-traditional settings as permitted by provincial\/territorial legislation (for example, for immunization by pharmacists or paramedics). If demand is high, potential vaccine supply limitations may affect the decision to use some alternate delivery models.\nApproaches to be considered include:\nholding multiple smaller public clinics instead of large clinics with many attendees\nconsidering extended clinic hours to avoid crowding\nproviding immunization opportunistically to patients and their accompanying persons when they are discharged from hospital or are seen for other reasons\nin primary care settings, designating specific times for immunization clinics to ensure that only well persons are in the area at the time\nfor example, at the start or end of the day\ncooperation between several medical practices to operate a joint influenza vaccine clinic in a dedicated space with dedicated staff\nproviding influenza vaccine during senior shopping hours at pharmacies in grocery stores, or creating special hours for seniors and other vulnerable persons at pharmacies and other venues\nadministering vaccines outdoors (weather permitting)\nfor example, in a provider's parking lot or a drive-through clinic\nestablishing mobile clinics in vans or buses to visit neighbourhoods\ndeveloping an outreach strategy to administer influenza vaccine to vulnerable persons, housebound persons, and seniors who are sheltering in place\nproviding immunization during home care visits\nadministering influenza vaccine at congregate living centres\nstudent residences\nhaving health care organizations, including long-term care facilities provide their own immunization for staff, volunteers and patients\/clients (usual practice)\nencouraging workplaces to organize their own on-site immunization programs\nThe text box below highlights the types of adaptations to usual immunization practices that are recommended in the presence of COVID-19 activity. The sections that follow provide additional details.\nscreening for illness\/exposure to COVID-19\nphysical distancing: may affect the physical layout and number of clients that can be accommodated at any given time\ninfection prevention and control (IPC) requirements, including the need for personal protective equipment (PPE)\nincreased environmental cleaning\npotential need for longer hours and increased staff\nuse of appointment systems to reduce clinic crowding\nuse of technology and other methods to reduce contact\nconsent and recording processes\nvisible and audible communications explaining COVID-19 adaptations to influenza immunization campaigns in accessible formats\nAll persons attending the venue should be passively screened (through signage) and actively screened before entry, even if they were already pre-screened by telephone when the appointment was made. Staff and volunteers should be screened before each shift. There are various options for active screening, for example:\nproviding or linking to an online screening tool to be used the day of immunization\nscreening clients by telephone on arrival before they enter the building\nfor example, while still in their car\nscreening arrivals in person, preferably before entering the building\nSignage at the door should advise visitors not to enter if they are ill, to put on their non-medical mask or face covering (depending on jurisdictional advice), use the hand sanitizer provided on entry, practice respiratory etiquette, and maintain physical distancing. If required, masks should be available for those who come without, preferably at no cost to the client.\nIf any persons are identified with symptoms on arrival at the venue, they should be instructed to perform hand hygiene, put on a medical mask and be redirected for assessment (for example, to a health care provider or COVID-19 assessment site depending on their symptoms).\nProvincial and territorial guidance should be consulted for screening language and tools.\nA two-metre physical distance should be maintained as much as possible, using strategies such as:\nscheduling\/appointments to avoid crowds\nasking people to arrive at their assigned time\nhaving people wait in cars and calling them in when ready (by phone or text)\nusing signage, barriers or floor markings for persons who are waiting\nspacing chairs in waiting areas two metres apart\nincreased space should be allotted for people using wheelchairs, walkers or strollers and for families and accompanying persons\nmonitoring entries and exits, waiting areas and lineups to maintain physical distancing\nIPC measures are needed to prevent transmission of COVID-19 in the immunization setting. These include:\nrequiring ill staff and volunteers to stay at home\nscreening clients as per provincial\/territorial advice and not proceeding if they are ill\nimplementing engineering controls if feasible\nfor example, installing clear plastic barriers at reception areas and between immunization stations in community clinics\nimplementing administrative controls to maintain physical distancing (as described in the Physical distancing and Clinic set-up sections)\nproviding hand sanitizer stations throughout the venue, including entry, immunization stations and exit\nensuring that administration, clinical and patient areas, and washrooms are cleaned and disinfected frequently\nguidance for cleaning and disinfection is available for ambulatory care settings and for public spaces\ncleaning and disinfecting immunization stations between clients (for example, with wipes)\ncarrying out hand hygiene before and after providing immunization\nensuring that all staff are trained in the use of PPE\nConsiderations for PPE selection\nPhysical distancing may be difficult to maintain at immunization venues and the immunization procedure requires close physical proximity between the vaccinator and the client. The following recommendations are based on PHAC IPC guidance for ambulatory care settings and apply in geographical areas where there is known or possible community transmission of COVID-19. Readers should refer to local, provincial or territorial guidance and organizational policies for specific recommendations for use of masks, eye protection and other PPE, PPE conservation strategies, and the use of non-medical masks by the public. These may differ over time based on the changing epidemiology of COVID-19.\nvaccinators should wear a medical mask and eye protection as should other staff who are not able to maintain a two-metre physical distance\nfor example, recovery room monitors and first aid providers\nvaccinators need not wear gloves except when administering intranasal influenza vaccine or oral non-influenza vaccines, because of an increased likelihood of contact with a client's mucous membranes and bodily fluids during these procedures\ngloves should be changed between clients and hand hygiene performed after gloves are removed\nprecautions for aerosol-generating procedures are not necessary for administration of nasal or oral vaccinesFootnote 1\nstaff and volunteers who are able to maintain a two-metre physical distance or will have only transitory closer contact (such as walking by) should wear a medical mask\nstaff who are behind a barrier do not need to use PPE, except for protection between co-workers behind the barrier\nPPE may be used for the full duration of a shift\nextended use of the same mask and eye protection but should be replaced after a break\nsoiled, wet or damaged masks should be replaced\nPPE including medical mask, eye protection, gown and gloves should be immediately available to all personnel who need to provide first aid or respond to a health emergency\nWhen immunization is provided during another health care visit (for example, primary care visit, home care or while in hospital), it is anticipated that the health care professional will already be using PPE appropriate for the situation. In addition to the ambulatory care guidance already cited, IPC guidance is available for home care providers.\nClients and their accompanying persons\nDepending on jurisdictional advice, clients and their accompanying persons should be asked to wear a non-medical mask or face covering. This recommendation may be waived for young children for whom mask use is problematic. In addition, non-medical masks or face coverings should not be placed on children under the age of two years, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unable to remove the mask without assistance.\nPriority clinic modifications for COVID-19 have already been identified in this document (screening for illness, physical distancing, and IPC measures). The following are additional suggestions for modifying the clinic set up and immunization process:\nassessing the physical suitability of the site, including the adequacy of ventilation; however, it is appreciated that ideal sites are not always available\nconsidering the size of the site, physical distancing requirements, and jurisdictional restrictions on the size of gatherings when determining the number of clients that can be scheduled in a given time period\nproviding extra clinic staff and volunteers as needed\nsuch as for\nmonitoring traffic flow and waiting areas\nassistance with registration and consent processes\nusing an appointment system (for example, online or through a call centre) to make\ncollecting registration information\nconduct pre-clinic wellness screening\nminimizing the number of persons coming to the appointment\nfor example, only the client plus a caregiver if necessary; only bringing children if they are being immunized\ninstructing clients to wear accessible clothing (for example, short sleeves) to minimize the need for removal of clothing and possibly the mask to gain access to the arm, and to bring a non-medical mask to wear at the clinic\nadjusting consent and recording processes to reduce contact, making them paperless if possible\nhaving staff complete information forms on behalf of clients\nif a signature is needed for consent, having each client use a separate pen and cleaning pens between use\nminimizing movement through the clinic to avoid clients walking through administrative areas\nfor example, by using a dedicated entrance\/exit (where available) and establishing one-way traffic flow\nensuring that the cold chain is maintained in all settings including outreach and mobile clinics and outdoor clinics\nensuring that clients can be monitored for the recommended observation period following immunization in all settings\nincluding mobile and drive-through clinics\nensuring that the supplies necessary to manage anaphylaxis are readily availableFootnote 2\nmaintaining a list of staff and clients attending each clinic to facilitate contact tracing if needed\nVaccine information can be provided in ways that minimize the use of paper, for example:\nconsidering providing vaccine information online or in advance by mail or email\nat the clinic, providing pre-immunization information on large wall posters or using videos in pre-immunization and post immunization observation areas\nconsidering adding QR codes for additional information\nensuring that information is accessible (for example, available in multiple languages as needed)\nSchool-based clinics\nSchool-based clinics are used to deliver routine immunizations to children and teens, including influenza vaccine in some jurisdictions. These clinics may be affected by the jurisdiction's plans for return to school in fall 2020 (for example, partial or staggered attendance) and public health resource availability.\nConsiderations for delivery of vaccines at school include:\npotential need to hold clinics over several days if student attendance is staggered\nprovision of other needed vaccines in addition to influenza vaccine\naccessibility of sites usually used for immunization such as gyms or cafeterias\nstaggering immunization tables and seating in waiting areas to maintain physical distance\ncalling in students according to classroom cohorts\nOutreach and mobile clinics\nOutreach clinics are an effective way to reach underserved and vulnerable populations and persons unable to attend conventional immunization sites.Footnote 3Footnote 4Footnote 5 It is important to choose the location carefully. The best options are places that are most frequented by the vulnerable population(s) being targeted, for example, food banks, shelters for persons experiencing homelessness, centres providing free meals, centres for immigrants and refugees. Partnering with trusted community leaders is also recommended along with advance clinic promotion to encourage attendance.\nAdditional information can be found in the references provided above and a CDC resource: Checklist of best practices for vaccination clinics held at satellite, temporary or off-site locations.\nOutdoor venues, including drive-through clinics\nDrive-through and parking lot clinics (also called drive-in clinics) have been used successfully in some jurisdictions in past seasons for the seasonal influenza vaccine, and are particularly useful for people with reduced mobility or those who are apprehensive about a clinic setting. In the COVID-19 situation, they provide a way to maintain physical distancing by avoiding waiting rooms and lineups.\nPotential issues for program planners include inclement weather, availability of suitable locales, and occupational health concerns for vaccinators (for example, exposure to auto exhaust or ergonomic issues if they are trying to reach far into a car). There is also potential for shoulder injury in the recipient if the arm is not adequately visualized while they are in the car, resulting in incorrect landmarking of the injection site.Footnote 6\nParking lot clinics: Providing immunization in the parking lot may be a viable option for some primary care practitioners, pharmacies and public health departments. Detailed advice for mounting a parking lot clinic (also called a drive-in clinic) can be found in an Australian resource: NSW guidance for drive-in immunization clinics.\nDrive-through clinics: These clinics are larger-scale operations that may be mounted in fixed or rotating locations. Potential venues should offer shelter for the immunization team and sufficient parking for the required post-immunization observation period. Possibilities include community buildings with a marquee, car washes, warehouses, insurance inspection stations, arena parking lots or drive-through tents erected for the occasion.\nPlanning logistics have been described, including the development of a traffic flow pattern with traffic lanes for the consent and immunization processes and adequate parking spaces for post-immunization monitoring.Footnote 7Footnote 8Footnote 9Footnote 10\nClients should be instructed to wear a non-medical mask and loose-fitting clothes to allow easy access to the deltoid area. Clients should be seated to allow window or door access for the vaccinator, who should not enter the car. Parents may hold their child on their lap for the child's immunization. The entire upper arm (or upper outer thigh in infants) should be exposed to find the correct injection site.\nRemote and isolated communities\nRemote and isolated communities have many years of experience with influenza immunization campaigns. In these settings, many of the adaptations outlined earlier in this document will be applicable; however, additional considerations may be needed. Suggestions include:\nusing fly-in teams as an efficient way to provide influenza immunization in some remote and isolated communities\nsuch teams must be carefully screened according to jurisdictional direction before travel\ncollaboration with trusted community leaders and Community Health Representatives\npromoting the clinics as a way to provide community protection in addition to personal protection\nsetting up in popular locations such as grocery stores, and providing immunization door-to-door later for persons unable to attend the clinic\nproviding immunization at community pharmacies if accessible in the community\nNote that lack of connectivity in many remote and isolated communities may prevent the use of electronic systems for appointments, registration or recording.\nPublic Health Agency of Canada. Infection prevention and control for COVID-19: Interim guidance for outpatient and ambulatory care settings. May 23, 2020. Available from: https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection\/guidance-documents\/interim-guidance-outpatient-ambulatory-care-settings.html\nPublic Health Agency of Canada. Infection prevention and control for COVID-19: Interim guidance for home care settings. 2020-05-01. Available from: https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection\/health-professionals\/infection-prevention-control-covid-19-interim-guidance-home-care-settings.html\nNational Advisory Committee on Immunization. Interim guidance on continuity of immunization programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. May 13, 2020. Available from: https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/immunization\/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci\/interim-guidance-immunization-programs-during-covid-19-pandemic.html\nPublic Health Agency of Canada. Vaccine annex: Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Planning Guidance for the Health Sector. Appendix B - Planning Guidance for Mass Immunization Clinics. Available from: https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/flu-influenza\/canadian-pandemic-influenza-preparedness-planning-guidance-health-sector\/vaccine-annex.html#appb\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim guidance for immunization services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Available from: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/pandemic-guidance\/\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Guidance for pharmacists. May 28, 2020. Available from: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/hcp\/pharmacies.html\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Guidelines for Large-scale influenza vaccination clinic planning. 2015 Dec 16. Available from: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/professionals\/vaccination\/vax_clinic.htm\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Checklist of best practices for vaccination clinics held at satellite, temporary or off-site locations. Available from: https:\/\/www.izsummitpartners.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/off-site-vaccination-clinic-checklist.pdf\nNSW Health. Guidance for drive-in immunization clinics. Advice for Providers During COVID-19. 4 May 2020. Available from: https:\/\/www.cesphn.org.au\/preview\/population-health\/immunisation-1\/3157-drive-in-flu-vaccination-clinics\/file\nWorld Health Organization. Framework for decision-making: implementation of mass vaccination campaigns in the context of COVID-19. 22 May 2020. Available from: https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/332159\nWorld Health Organization. Guiding principles for immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interim guidance 26 March 2020. Available from: https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/guiding-principles-for-immunization-activities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-interim-guidance\nWorld Health Organization. Immunization in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). 16 April 2020. Available from: https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/331818\nCentres for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim guidance for immunization services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Available from: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/pandemic-guidance\/\nNational Advisory Committee on Immunization. Canadian Immunization Guide: Part 2 - Vaccine Safety. Early vaccine reactions including anaphylaxis. June 2013. Available from: https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/publications\/healthy-living\/canadian-immunization-guide-part-2-vaccine-safety\/page-4-early-vaccine-reactions-including-anaphylaxis.html\nWeatherill SA, Buxton JA, Daly PC. Immunization programs in non-traditional settings. Can J Public Health 2004;95(2):133-7.\nKong KL, Chu S, Giles ML. Factors influencing the uptake of influenza vaccine vary among different groups in the hard-to-reach population. Aust NZ Public Health 2020;44:163-8. Doi:10.1111\/1753-6405.12964.\nThomsen R, Smyth W, Gardner a, et al. Centrelink; an innovative urban intervention for improving adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander access to vaccination. Healthcare Infection 2012;17;136-41. Doi: 10.1071\/HI12035\nImran M, Hayley D. Injection-induced axillary nerve injury after a drive-through flu shot. Clinical Geriatrics 2013;21(12). Available from: https:\/\/www.consultant360.com\/index.php\/taxonomy\/term\/7226\nLe N, Charney RL, Gerard J. Feasibility of a Novel Combination of Influenza Vaccinations and Child Passenger Safety Seat Fittings in a Drive-through Clinic Setting. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2017;11(6):647-651. doi: 10.1017\/dmp.2017.3. Epub 2017 May 2\nBanks LL, Crandall C, Esquibel L. Throughput times for adults and children during two drive-through influenza vaccination clinics. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2013;7(2):175-81. doi: 10.1017\/dmp.2013.3.\nGupta A, Evans GW, Heragu SS. Simulation and Optimization Modeling for Drive-Through Mass Vaccination - A Generalized Approach. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 2013;37(September). Available from https:\/\/commons.erau.edu\/ww-management-science\/1\nZenwekh T, McKnight J, Hupert N, et al. Mass medication modelling in response to public health emergencies: outcomes of a drive-through exercise. J Public Health Management Practice 2007;13(1);7-15.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive of 'brain bio-hack' category\nRhodiola for physical and mental performance\ncategories: brain bio-hack, depression, mental performance, physical performance\nby Richard Aiken MD PhD @rcaiken\nA systematic review of numerous randomized placebo-controlled studies of Rhodiola rosea showed beneficial effects on physical performance, mental performance, and in mild to moderate depression[1]. For example, one Swedish phase II randomized placebo-controlled study over a six-week clinical trial concluded[2]:\n\"R. rosea possesses a clear and significant anti-depressive activity in patients suffering from mild to moderate depression. When administered in a dosage of two tablets, each containing 170 mg of extract, daily over a 6-week period, statistical significant reduction in the overall symptom level of depression as well as in specific symptoms of depression, such as insomnia, emotional instability and somatization, could be demonstrated. In higher doses, four tablets per day over a 6-week period, an additional positive effect could be shown. No side-effects resulting from treatment could be detected in any group of the groups\".\nTherefore, doses of about 300 \u2013 600 mg were effective in that study.\nThe mechanism of action may be inhibition of monoamine re-uptake (such as serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline), enhanced binding and sensitization of serotonin receptors, monoamine oxidase inhibition, and neuro-endocrine modulation[3]. Rhodiola is apparently adaptogenic, meaning that it does its good deeds without disturbing normal biologic functions.\nI'm not sure if it is an herb (plant leaf, stem, or flower used for flavoring or medicinal use) or a spice (same as herb but a root). The aerial portion (above ground plant) is used as a food. However, various alternative names for the plant include \"root,\" such as the \"red root\" and the powder is a deep red so I assume that the medicinal part is primarily a root and therefore technically a spice.\nRhodiola Rosea 3% Salidroside Powder (100 grams) costs about $18[4]. I use a little less than one eighth of a teaspoon, about 300 mg (a cost of about ten cents). I'm unsure of where this was harvested although it can grow on cold rocky slopes in the USA; it has been suggested to aid those living in very cold stressful environments where it grows, such as Siberia and Scandinavia. It has a shelf life of three or more years.\n[1] Hung, S. K., Perry, R., & Ernst, E. (2011). The effectiveness and efficacy of Rhodiola rosea L.: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials. Phytomedicine, 18(4), 235-244. doi:10.1016\/ j.phymed. 2010.08.014.\n[2] Darbinyan, V., Aslanyan, G., Amroyan, E., Gabrielyan, E., Malmstr\u00f6m, C., & Panossian, A. (2007). Clinical trial of Rhodiola rosea L. extract SHR-5 in the treatment of mild to moderate depression. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 61(5), 343-348. doi:10.1080\/08039480701643290.\n[3] Kumar, V. (2006). Potential medicinal plants for CNS disorders: An overview.Phytother. Res. Phytotherapy Research, 20(12), 1023-1035. doi:10.1002\/ptr.1970\n[4] My source for this is from Bulk Supplements (www.bulksupplements.com) \u2013 I order from Amazon and guided in my selection in part by happy consumers who have tried it and like it on some basis.\nNootropic Caffeine\ncategories: Anxiety, bio-hack, brain, brain bio-hack, leafy greens, superfood, vitamins\/ supplements\nWhy is it that aqueous extracts of the Tea Plant is the most consumed beverage in the world? It's not the taste \u2013 it's because it's psychoactive.\nThe compound responsible is theanine \u2013 found only in the Tea Plant and a certain fungus (Bay Boleet). Theanine modulates the psychostimulant effect of caffeine, further increasing focus but also with a calming that has been shown to increase alpha waves in the brain \u2013 similar to meditative states (Nobre at al.).\nTherefore there may be cognitive and anxiolytic properties of theanine in the presence of caffeine and possible as an isolated extract.\nA. C. Nobre, A. Rao, and G. N. Owen. L-theanine, a natural constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr, 17(suppl \u2013 1):167-168, 2008.\nSonic seasonings\ncategories: bio-hack, brain bio-hack, Food, taste\n\"Sound is the forgotten flavor sense,\" says experimental psychologist Charles Spence. Manipulating sound can transform our experience of food and drink, making stale potato chips taste fresh, adding the sensation of cream to black coffee, or boosting the savory, peaty notes in whiskey. Chocolate can taste sweeter with high pitched sound. Click photo for more info.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"British court says right-to-die case can proceed\nBy Maria Cheng THE ASSOCIATED PRESS\nIn a case that challenges Britain\ufffds definition of murder, a severely disabled man who says his life has no \ufffdprivacy or dignity\ufffd will be granted a hearing on his request that a doctor be allowed to give him a lethal injection.\nTony Nicklinson suffered a paralyzing stroke in 2005 that left him unable to speak or move below his neck. The former rugby player and corporate manager requires constant care and communicates largely by blinking, although his mind has remained unaffected.\n\ufffdI am fed up with my life and don\ufffdt want to spend the next 20 years or so like this,\ufffd Nicklinson said in a statement.\nIn January, Nicklinson asked the High Court to declare that any doctor who kills him with his consent will not be charged with murder. On Monday, a judge said the request may proceed, making it the first right-to-die case of its kind to get a hearing in a British court.\nThe 57-year-old\ufffds condition is stable, though Nicklinson has refused since 2007 to take any life-prolonging drugs recommended by doctors, including heart medication or blood thinners.\nThe ministry of justice argued that granting Nicklinson\ufffds request would require changing the law on murder and that such changes must be made by Parliament. The government had applied to have the case dismissed.\nIn his ruling, Justice William Charles said Nicklinson was \ufffdnow inviting the court to cross the Rubicon\ufffd and that his case had \ufffdan arguable base.\ufffd\nNicklinson argued that British law hindered his right to \ufffdprivate and family life\ufffd \ufffd guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights \ufffd on the grounds that being able to choose how to die is a matter of personal autonomy.\n\ufffdThe decision to go to a hearing is quite a small step, but what\ufffds tremendously significant is what Tony Nicklinson is asking for,\ufffd said Emily Jackson, a law professor at the London School of Economics. \ufffdNormally, it would be for Parliament to make any change to the law on murder, so it would be a very, very big deal for the court to make a change like this.\ufffd\nNicklinson\ufffds wife, Jane, says the only way to end her husband\ufffds suffering is for him to die.\n\ufffdA life like this is unbearable for him,\ufffd she said. \ufffdWe know there are doctors out there that would do this if it is made legal.\ufffd\nA recent British commission headed by a former justice secretary concluded there was a strong case for allowing assisted suicide under strict criteria. The commission was set up and funded by advocates who want the current law changed.\nAssisted suicide is usually for people who have at least some capacity to kill themselves, perhaps by drinking a lethal beverage or taking a fatal dose of drugs. The report did not support euthanasia, which is when a doctor actively kills a patient.\nThe commission recommended assisted suicide only be allowed for terminally ill people, which would exclude Nicklinson.\nIn 2009, the British government\ufffds top prosecutor said people who helped terminally ill relatives and friends die were unlikely to be charged if they acted out of compassion.\nIn Europe, euthanasia is allowed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland.\nPenney Lewis, a law professor at King\ufffds College London, said the U.K. had become more receptive to allowing assisted suicide in recent years but not euthanasia.\n\ufffdGranting Nicklinson a hearing does not mean euthanasia will be allowed, but it is a big step,\ufffd she said.\nLegalizing euthanasia in the Netherlands began in a similar fashion, with doctors in court cases employing arguments much like those of Nicklinson\ufffds legal team, Lewis said.\nPart of Nicklinson\ufffds argument depends on the \ufffddefense of necessity,\ufffd meaning that in exceptional circumstances, a person must be allowed to break the law. In the Netherlands, doctors on trial for killing their patients argued they had no choice when confronted with dying patients begging for relief.\nIn 2010, Kay Gilderdale was found not guilty of the attempted murder of her severely disabled daughter. Gilderdale admitted she had tried to kill her daughter, who had repeatedly asked to die.\nNicklinson\ufffds hearing could happen as early as this summer. It is expected to take at least five days.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Restore The Democracy in Washington State\nIf I was running against Paul Berendt for state chairman earlier this year, I would have made my campaign all about one thing:\nThe Democratic Party should support the will of the voters of the state of Washington and not sue to overturn the Top Two Primary.\nIn fact, we should embrace it. We shouldn't be in this lawsuit along with the GOP to overturn a popular initiative. Even if its not perfect, it represents what the people of Washington want, not to be driven to choose a party.\nMost Washingtonians, if you asked them, would probably say that they were Democrats. But, it's not as simple as that. Most Washingtonians don't want to be labeled, and as Dino Rossi showed us last fall, we would rather go with the less partisan, less Olympia, less establishment guy.\nThe top two isn't about \"I don't want to be labeled,\" it's about not wanting to be part of the establishment. Democrats used to understand that:\nKnown during the 19th century simply as \"the Democracy,\" it all but invented the repertoire of mass politics with such innovations as storefront offices, precinct captains, and torchlight parades. The party embraced immigrants, Catholics in particular, who were set upon by \"anti-Papist\" mobs and moralists who tried to outlaw their saloons. Most Democratic stalwarts were male, and nearly all were white. But they still proudly considered themselves the bone and sinew of a \"people's party.\"\nSo, why are we joining arm and arm with the Republican Party, to make our party look even more like a bunch of establishment hacks? If the GOP wants to walk that way, fine let them. If our state leadership actually sees some functional good in having a closed primary, then let the Republican Party carry that fight. Every political party in Washington will reap the benefits (by the way, where are the Libertarians now?) but, only the GOP will have to lose that public relations debacle.\nA couple more arguments for supporting the Top Two as a Democrat:\n1) If the primary is all about choosing a party's nominee, why should the taxpayers have to pay for it? There is not a good answer for that.\n2) I had a lot of fun at the Presidential caucuses last year. Tons of people came out, it was invigorating to see so many people involved. And guess what? It wasn't a close primary, it was an open caucus! These things work, and they work great if we're trying to bring people into the party from the grassroots. So, lets have more of these.\nBy embracing the Top Two primary and Washington State's anti establishment feelings towards elections and party affiliation, we can actually help build the Democratic Party in Washington. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but as Joe Trippi once said to Howard Dean,\nWe don't have to be the party of exclusion. We don't have to be the party that tells people, \"We decide who is a Democrat.\" We can be the Democracy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Boynton Beach, Florida is a city in Palm Beach County. At the 2010 census, its population was 68,217. According to the University of Florida, Bureau of Economic and Business Research in 2017, the population had increased to approximately 73,992. Boynton Beach is a main city of the Miami urban region. The city was originally founded as Boynton Settlement in 1895, which was named after Nathan Boynton, an ex-U.S. Civil War major who visited the area a year earlier. In 1920, it was incorporated as the Town of Boynton. Eleven years later, part of the town had split. This part was renamed Ocean Ridge in 1939 while the remainder of the area assumed the name of Boynton Beach two years later.\nWhat Occurs if the Florida Estate's Personal Representation Improperly Provides Notice to Creditors?\nFlorida Statue 733.2121 and Notice to Creditors\nIf you are acting as a Florida estate's personal representative, you must obey Florida statute 733.2121. Thus, as a personal representative, you must appropriately issue Notice to Creditors and make a meticulous examination to verify creditors. To make certain that the Notice to Creditors is appropriately issued, it is imperative to examine the whole, pertinent statute and talk to your Florida estate lawyer.\nOnce the personal representative has delivered Notice to Creditors, a clock starts to tick for the creditors who want to file a claim. Thus, if you think that you have claim against a Florida estate, it is imperative to hurry up. According to Florida Statue 733.702(1), creditors must file any claim statements against the deceased person's estate within three months of the initial publication of the notice to creditors or thirty days of provided with it, whichever comes later.\nPalm Beach probate attorneys understand that any claim not filed within that time is stopped unless the court agrees to an extension according to 733.702(3), Florida Statutes (2012). Extensions can be permitted on the ground of fraud, estoppel, or inadequate notice of the claims period. Thus, if a Florida estate's personal representative fails to appropriately notify a somewhat ascertainable creditor, then that creditor could file a claim even past the deadline.\nLatest Florida Creditor Claim Lawsuit\nCantero v. Estate of Caswell, an October 2, 2019 Third DCA opinion, is an excellent example of a case involving an inopportune creditor claim. In this case, a supposed creditor filed a claim four months after the creditor claim period had expired. He maintained that he was a sound, ascertainable creditor who did not get personal service of Notice to Creditors as he ought to have. Thus, because of the failure of the personal representative to offer him with appropriate notice, his claim ought not to be stopped due to time. This supposed creditor was maintaining that he was permitted all the transaction earnings from the deceased person's property.\nThe trial court decided that the personal representative had obeyed the statue and neither the personal representative nor his lawyer were on definite notice of this supposed creditor's interest in the property or claim. Thus, since it was file inopportunely, the claim of the supposed creditor was stopped. The Florida appellate court upheld the decision.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Milt's File\nA file of links relating to Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg, a talk show on Chicago's WGN Radio.\nTonight on Extension 720 after a Cubs game, we play some recently recorded interviews. More information on this and other programs is available here. You can listen to the program from 9:40 (approximately) to 11 p.m. central time here.\nposted by Milton @ 2:32 PM\nTHE RICE ROUNDUP: The Christian Science Monitor has put together a link-heavy review of press and public reaction to Rice's testimony yesterday. This \"great confrontation\" will rapidly recede from memory--but while you are thinking about it, this review should more than fill your requirements.\nYEAH--BUT DID HE LIKE THE BOOK? Robert Sam Anson's review, in the NY Observer, of the Clarke book reveals that it has been misclassified. It belongs in the fiction section, next to Ludlum (OK) or Proust(??). Anyway, That's Entertainment!!\nHANSON ON THIS WARTIME THAT TRIES MEN'S SOULS: We don't know any commentator on the proper and principled use of American military power who sees things with greater clarity than does Victor Davis Hanson. That's why we have him on our radio program rather frequently---and that's why we commend this article from the National Review to your attention.\nWHAT (AND HOW) DO THEY (ISLAM) REALLY THINK ABOUT US? A strong thesis reflecting civilization incompatibility is advanced in this op-ed that appeared a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal.\nTHE KERRY\/GORE DIFFERENCE ON FREE TRADE AND THE WAR AGAINST POVERTY: Once again, Krauthammer cuts through the disingenuous of present political rhetoric--and gets to the compelling truths that the campaigning Democrats once knew and now obscure.\nTHE \"RACIALLY VICTIMIZED\" COLLEGE PROFESSOR: Michelle Malkin provides the follow-up to the story of Kerri Dunn whom she ranks with Tawana Brawley. Interesting comparison--but, there is no Sharpton-like demagogue\/mountebank to capitalize on the fraud.\nMEMORIES AND (SEVERE) JUDGEMENT OF ALFRED KAZIN....from Hilton Kramer, the Editor of New Criterion. The resonating sound of friendships crashing is still heard in the reminiscences of the New York Intellectuals...as in this inevitably fascinating piece occasioned by the recent publication of Kazin's America.\nWHAT BLOGS ARE DOING (AND WILL DO) TO JOURNALISM: The former editor of Digital Media gets off some strong predictions in this interview from Editor and Publisher.\nWHAT PRICE RADIO DECENCY? The Reuters correspondent seems to think that dumping or curbing the likes of Stern will be bad for business. Hmmmm. Might one suggest that some things are, perhaps, more important than a few percentage points of profit? Naahh!\nNEW FRONTIERS OF CARTOGRAPHY: Great new maps are being drawn--not of mere geography but of intellectual territory. Here, from the National Science Foundation, is an introduction to new material that should be of interest and utility to any working scientist and\/or to any student of the sciences.\nA GREAT ADVANCE IN SEARCH-ENGINE TECHNOLOGY....particularly for long-lost or recently-misplaced esprits. But, do always remember to consider the source of the good tidings that seem to brighten you life.\nGOSPEL TOUCHED BY NASHVILLE: This fine collection features, among others, Patsy Cline, Red Foley, Kat Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Not to be missed: Hank Williams' I Saw the Light.\nTonight on Extension 720, we explore the world of branding (in the marketing sense) and examine some branding successes and failures. More information on this and other programs is available here. You can listen to the program from 9 to 11 p.m. central time here.\nTHE IRAQI UPRISING...SO FAR: This report from the NY Times this morning can only serve as an \"update\" since the game is still afoot. But the call for an end to violence from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani does make clear that al-Sadr is leading a breakaway Shiite movement.\nGETTING TO KNOW MOQTADA: This useful primer on the stirrer-up of the week was provided by the Washington Post yesterday. For a more general account of Shiite history and credo, see the next item.\nMORE THAN ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE SHIA: This semi-official site can be explored for a year. A good and informative beginning is the section on Fundamentals of Islam.\nAND MORE ON MOQTADA: The iraqo-cognoscenti have had their eyes on al-Sadr for a few years. This informative article from the Christian Science Monitor last October places him in the context of religious and political competition.\nHE MAY BE RIGHT...UNFORTUNATELY: In this Newsweek piece Richard Wolffe argues that Iraq may tip the November presidential election. The adversarial tone of this morning's hearings at the 9\/11 Commission and, more particularly, the Rice-Kerrey confrontation, suggest that it may well play out as he worriedly predicts.\nIF DEMOGRAPHY IS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH....the decline and ultimate disappearance of European Christendom is probably predictable. And what will rise in it's place? Islamo-Europe! So says this challenging article by Niall Ferguson from last Sunday's NY Times Magazine.\nOF THE FAKING OF \"HATE CRIMES\" THERE IS NO END! The latest one to be reported--or so the cops are saying--was done by a Professor of Psychology at a prestigious college in California. Go know!!\nTHE UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES OF \"AFFIRMATIVE ACTION\".....in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and the United States are examined in a new book by Tom Sowell. This cogent review from the current issue of Commentary raises the question (as, obviously, does the book) of whether the refusal to perceive \"on-average\" differences between social groups works against the real interests of their members.\nTHE STRANGE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION....in the strange state of California. This is election material put out for a candidate seeking to be returned to the state senate--but, if the facts are as he says, they are crazier (or even more politically beholden to the hispanic sector of the electorate) than we ever suspected.\nTHE LANGUAGES OF THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST....Apparently, Gibson and his advisors got their Aramaic wrong and, furthermore, the Roman soldiers did not speak Latin! This note by a scholar in ancient middle-eastern languages is from an e-mail bulletin issued by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.\nTHE PAGLIA IS HEARD IN THE LAND ONCE AGAIN....and here she notes and complains that the contemporary young \"have become unmoored from the mother ship of culture.\" The further explication of this aggrieved judgment leads her, in this surprising but well-aimed article from Arion, to--of all things--Byzantine icons and Aztec skulls.\nDOCTOR DALRYMPLE'S ENCOUNTERS WITH BURGLARS AND PROSTITUTES......in literature and in \"real life.\" T.D. is one of our favorite modern essayists and has been a welcome guest on our program. This latest piece has just appeared in the New Criterion.\nMORE GREAT CHAMBER MUSIC FROM THE ARGERICH FESTIVAL IN LUGANO: All beautifully performed, but the outstanding item is the Beethoven Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano.\nTonight on Extension 720 after a Cubs game, we talk to military and foreign policy experts to discuss the latest developments in Iraq. More information on this and other programs is available here. You can listen to the program from 9:25 (approximately) to 11 p.m. central time here.\nTHE LATEST WAR REPORT AS WE GO TO PRESS...is from Channel News Asia (based in Singapore) and suggests that \"Vigilant Resolve\" will, indeed, require a lot of resolve.\nTHE \"SHIA REVOLT\" IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: This article from BBC adds a bit of clarity to the nature of the Sadr\/Sistani split..and thus to the motivation for the current uprising.\nAN IRAQI GAME PLAN THAT \"CONFRONTS THE QUAKING QUAGMIRISTS:\" This realistic--and heartening--appraisal of the situation comes from the almost-always level-headed Bill Safire of the NY Times.\nA MESSAGE TO GEORGE AND JOHN: TUNE IN TO CALVIN! The Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette directs the candidates' attention to the wisdom of the taciturn president of the twenties.\nTHERE ARE (AND WILL BE) MORE JOBS....but can American education and parental responsibility rise to produce young people capable of filling those jobs? The data are reviewed and the questions strongly stated in this op-ed from today's Seattle Times.\nALGER HISS WAS GUILTY--UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY....but the myth of his innocence still persists. Why? And how was it fabricated and maintained? These questions are persuasively answered in this fine review, from Commentary, of the newest in the long line of studies of the case.\nWHAT IS A \"LAST-GO-TRADE?\" And how is it connected to an \"Alaskan trade?\" This is one of the many oddities of American speech as clarified in the latest volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English. Something of the story and achievement of the DARE is recounted here in this illuminating article from the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\nCHESS, PLATO, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE COSMOS: Yes, this is an essay that makes the big try--but, at the same time, is unforced, entertaining and provocative of serious thought...in fact, a good example of what, at its best, is sometimes to be found at Jim Glassman's Tech Station.\nGOOGLE IS NOT THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN....and may not be the best. Some wisdom in search of the best searcher and based on empirical investigation is summarized here in an article from First Monday magazine.\nWHAT DOES TV DO TO KIDS' BRAINS? Perhaps nothing...but there is increasing research-based evidence that some \"rewiring\" may be the main effect of sustained TV watching during the early years. Here's some reliable--rather than sensational--coverage from today's Boston Globe.\nSIR ISAIAH BERLIN LOOKS AT THE \"GREATS\" OF SOVIET CULTURE: A new collection of his essays on people like Akhmatova, Pasternak and Shcherbakov has recently appeared and is here reviewed for the Moscow Times by the redoubtable Walter Laqueur.\nPOLITICIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PECULIAR PERSONS....as Aristophanes established at a high level of risibility a long time ago. Sometimes scholarly articles are more fun (and closer to truth) than feverish journalism...as witness this fine essay on the treatment in classic Greek comedy of men of public prominence. The author is a Canadian professor and his article was published a few years ago in Classics Ireland.\nDINNER AT THE RITZ.....even for vegetarians? This wonderfully artless (but not clueless) profile of the restaurant of the Ritz Hotel in London should be kept on file for whenever they are all booked up at Simpsons on the Strand.\nMOZART'S FOURTEENTH PIANO CONCERTO....is performed here not with full orchestra but with a chamber group. The result is a shimmering reading that discloses the \"deep structure\" of the composition.\nTonight on Extension 720, we welcome representatives from Chicago's own AFTRA\/SAG Radio Players, who will perform excerpts from old time radio programs. More information on this and other programs is available here. You can listen to the program from 9 to 11 p.m. central time here.\nTHE NEW OPPOSITION IN IRAQ. Considering the source, this BBC report is not grossly anti-American and it does provide some useful information about the \"militia\" now shooting at our guys on the streets of Baghdad and Fallujah. Do also check out the linked profile of Moqtada al Sadr.\nWHAT, REALLY, HAS GONE WRONG IN IRAQ? There are many views out there in the op-ed-osphere today. This one by John O'Sullivan, in today's Chicago Sun-Times, seems to us to be as accurate a diagnosis as is now available.\nA TOUR OF THE IRAQI HORIZON. This is the sort of thing The Economist of London does quite well--a quick but sophisticated review of the problems, the players, the strategies and the possible outcomes and, always, tempered by the sense that human society is and will remain radically imperfectible.\nTHE WISE DENTIST OF BAGHDAD. Here's the latest blog from Zayed who excels in giving better \"on the ground\" reports than most of the conventional journalists. Who exactly is Moqtada al Sadir and who (and how many) are his followers? Read on...\nANOTHER BAGHDADI BLOGS...and gives a differently nuanced picture of the current \"uprising\" in Baghdad. We know less about this unofficial reporter than about Zayed...but she, too, is young, sharp-eyed and obviously has some experience of the West.\nARE PURGE-TRIAL CONFESSIONS COMING BACK? This report from Moscow--and published in the Moscow Times--carries the scary implication (or reasoned inference) that the Putin bunch have not forgotten their KGB methods--and that some may still secretly enetertain some reverence for Stalin--or at least for his way of handling \"opposition.\"\nTHE EXECUTIONERS' TALES. A Romanian newspaper has recently published an account of the execution of the Ceaucescus. What stands out is the haplessness of the three soldiers who did the shooting. One does wonder why, so many years after the fact, this is still given coverage in a national newspaper. Is someone still working off some guilt or remorse?\nON THE DECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SOLIDARITY. Samuel Huntington of Harvard is worried about how our national identity may be growing more ambiguous and less unifying. And if that is happening (or might begin to happen) says he in this strongly-stated essay from the new issue of The National Interest, here's how and why.\nTHE UNRULY AMERICAN SCHOLAR. When Anne Fadiman replaced our friend Joe Epstein as editor we were \"shocked, do you hear?\" Now she has been rather unceremoniously dumped as well. What's going on? The Chronicle of Higher Education gathers the pieces together in this story.\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES...likes Italian cooking! Actually, he and the \"Italian\" chef in this dialogue do have some quite interesting ideas about the connections between cuisine and culture.\nWE ONCE FROLICKED THERE...that is, on Times Square where a high school student could see a French classic film at the Apollo for just two dollars--and get a good hot dog for fifty cents in the seedy place next door. A new book recounts how everything has changed and this nostalgic review in the New Yorker adds some evocative further detail.\nWHAT TO DO WHEN THE STAR DIES BEFORE THE RELEASE (OR COMPLETION!) OF THE FILM. This truly informative article from USA Today Magazine tells the story behind many srories of post-mortem crisis.\nBECHET AT HIS BEST. The jazzmaster of the soprano saxophone is heard here in some perfect and distinctively punctuated performances in which he is backed by the band of Noble Sissle.\nWHEN THE SOUND OF WAR BLASTS IN OUR EARS. As we \"go to press\" this is the latest story from Baghdad as reported in the Financial Times of London.\nposted by Milton @ 12:17 PM\nAND HOW ABOUT BEEFING UP THE TROOP LEVELS? Both Senators Lugar and Biden agree that the \"handover\" in Iraq will have to be delayed. Right! But what do we do to defuse the rebellion that is now killing Americans in ever- escalating numbers? We will be asking that of some true \"experts\" Wednesday night on Extension 720.\nTHE RWANDAN GENOCIDE BEGAN TEN YEARS AGO. Has anything been learned about how to prevent the recurrent (through all history) lapses into sytematic state murder? Two ranking people at the Brookings Institution have some useful (if not particularly optimistic) things to say in this article from Yale Global Online.\nTHE WAR-FOSTERED EMERGENCE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE. There are now hundreds of blogs up in the sphere that originate from Iraq, Iran and from members of our military. How and why this has happened and what consequences will follow in the reshaping of journalism are examined in this well-informed account from the new issue of The National Interest.\nINSOURCING EXCEEDS OUTSOURCING...by a considerable degree of magnitude. Has anyone yet conveyed this news to the Kerry campaign or--for that matter--to Ms. Garafalo? This interesting bulletin of some corrective value came from Bloomberg News over the weekend but has not yet been noted at campaign central.\nWE STILL LOVE YOU, CHAIRMAN MAO! From Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency comes this charming collection of panegyrics for the man who presided over the \"state killing\" of some 70-80 million Chinese. Is China ready for democracy? For press freedom? For serious political education? Or should their government and press perhaps be turned over to Taiwan?\nTHIS IS HOW THE WORLD BEGINS...according to the latest quantum theoretic thinking. This great article from American Scientist creates the sense--or at least the illusion--that one understands how EVERYTHING followed from a random quantum fluctuation.\nIF WE REALLY TOOK COLLEGE TEACHING SERIOUSLY...here's how we would go about it. As a veteran academic, the proprietor welcomes--and strongly endorses--these wise, and quite practical, comments by the former provost of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.\nFRAUD, SCAM AND MURDER IN THE RARE BOOK TRADE. It isn't all bemused bookmen in somewhat crumpled tweeds trading notes on errata in the first edition of Johnson's Rasselas. This startling examination of the underside of the antiquarian books world appeared recently in Maisonneuve magazine.\nAN AUSTRALIAN DECODES AMERICAN FOOD VOCABULARY...and gets it all wrong which is, of course, the point of the gag. Actually, we too have wondered why they are called \"Clark Bars.\"\nANOTHER GREAT CONCERT FROM LUGANO. 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{"text":"A Tale of Two S&P 500s\nAs a new trading day gets underway, the S&P 500 rests a mere seven points below its all-time high: Last Friday, the index closed at a record 2,439.\nBut is that a reflection of a healthy market overall? Or a mere handful of stocks propping up everything else?\nThat's a crucial question \u2014 because as we said a few weeks ago, most late-stage bull markets share a common trait: The major stock averages look strong only because a few stocks are going bonkers while the vast majority are going nowhere or going down.\nThat's how it went during the late stages of the dot-com bubble: Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Cisco soaring higher, the rest of the market just plodding along. The S&P 500 peaked above 1,500 in early 2000. By late 2002, it was below 800 \u2014 a brutal drop of nearly 50%.\nWhich brings us to the concept of \"the S&P 495.\"\nLast Friday we mentioned how Facebook has rocketed from a $100 million company at the time it went public five years ago\u2026 to No. 5 on the list of the most valuable publicly traded companies in the world. The only companies ahead of it on the list are Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Apple.\n\"Since 2014,\" writes Owen Williams of the research firm Williams Market Analytics, \"the craze for these five tech\/internet companies has increased crescendo to the point that the Big 5 have eclipsed the entire S&P 500.\"\nMr. Williams illustrated the phenomenon last month with a chart showing the performance of the Big 5 relative to the other 495 stocks in the S&P 500\u2026 going back more than four years.\n\"This is just nuts,\" Williams writes. \"Since mid-2013, the S&P 495 has eked out a meager +6.1% gain per annum. The Big 5's stocks have appreciated at a whopping +57.3% per annum over the same period.\"\nAnd so it goes this year: The S&P 495 is up about 4%. The Big 5 are up nearly 25%.\nMr. Williams' inescapable conclusion: \"This market has become a one-trick pony. It has sure been a good trick\u2026 as long as it lasts. But the lack of broad market participation concerns us. A market rally built on the performance of just five stocks is undeniably fragile.\"\nNo, this doesn't mean we're in for an imminent rerun of the dot-com crash. But we know a pivot point is approaching\u2026 and it pays to adopt a new strategy.\nWhich is why we can't stop thinking about our newest contributor's prescient call about Facebook 10 years ago. As we mentioned on Friday, James Altucher was nearly laughed off CNBC one day in July 2007 when he ventured that Facebook would one day be a publicly traded $100 billion company.\nAt that time, it was barely three years after Mark Zuckerberg launched \"Thefacebook\" from his Harvard dorm room. It was already privately valued around $1 billion. But to grow 100-fold from there? Impossible, scoffed the other CNBC talking heads.\nThe rest is history: When FB went public in May 2012, it was a $100 billion company.\nWith his hedge fund and private-equity background, James knew exactly what to do when he made that prognostication in 2007: He invested via the back door.\nFacebook? Uh-uh.\n\"I invested in every marketing company I could find that was working on products related to Facebook marketing,\" he says. \"I made a killing.\n\"There are 8,000-plus public companies out there in the public markets,\" James explains. Newspapers like The Wall Street Journal maybe focus on 10 of those companies. We're talking the giants like Apple, Google, Tesla, etc.\n\"But those aren't where the big money is being made.\n\"It's all about the other 8,000 companies. The backdoor plays.\"\nNow recall the context in which James made that Facebook forecast, and his subsequent \"backdoor\" investments.\nIt was July 25, 2007. The earliest tremors of the housing\/credit earthquake were already reverberating through the markets. Only nine days later, Jim Cramer had a meltdown on CNBC, tearfully begging Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to \"stop acting like an academic and do something!\" The S&P 500 reached its peak in October\u2026 and took a sickening 57% plunge over the next 17 months.\nBut there was James, plowing his money into \"backdoor\" plays on Facebook\u2026 and making a \"killing.\"\nThat's right\u2026 Backdoor investing can help you survive and even thrive during a vicious market downturn \u2014 like the one the \"S&P 495\" phenomenon is foreshadowing.\nIn less than 24 hours, James will host an exclusive event for Agora Financial readers, revealing the secrets of \"the 1,000% backdoor play.\" Play it right, and he says you could make 10 times your money before the end of this year.\nThis online briefing is tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. EDT. If you have a lunch appointment, we urge you to reschedule. If you have work obligations, get them out of the way early. This is an event for which James ordinarily charges $525\u2026 but because he's joining forces with us, we're making it available FREE. All we ask is that you sign up in advance at this link.\nAs noted before, stocks are little moved today\u2026 and so it goes with most other asset classes. With one notable exception.\nCrude is down more than 4%. The Energy Department delivered its weekly oil inventory report this morning. It showed a surprise 3.3 million barrel increase in U.S. crude stockpiles.\nAt last check, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate is a few pennies over $46.\nThat's a 10% drop in barely two weeks. Jim Rickards' forecast in this space last week of a drop toward $40 is unfolding even faster than we were anticipating\u2026\nWhich isn't necessarily a bad thing for U.S. oil producers.\nAs Jim explained last week, many deep-pocketed investors were able to buy drilling rights and equipment at fire-sale prices during the worst of the shakeout in the U.S. shale patch last year.\nBetween that and the fact that U.S. producers are becoming ever more efficient at squeezing oil out of shale rock\u2026 these U.S. shale plays can be profitable even if crude tumbles below $40.\nAnd all this at a time when OPEC just extended their production cuts for another nine months: \"With OPEC pumping less crude oil,\" says our income specialist Zach Scheidt, \"the door is open for U.S. drillers to increase production and take market share away from OPEC. And that's exactly what is happening.\"\nBut at this time, Zach says the real beneficiaries of this trend will be the companies moving this oil from place to place. \"The more crude oil is produced in the U.S., the more profit pipeline companies who transport this oil will generate.\"\nZach suggested a way to play it this week in his premium advisory Income on Demand. If you haven't tried his \"perpetual income strategy\" yet, you need to see how easy it can be.\nWe're now one day out from former FBI chief James Comey's testimony to Congress\u2026 and one week out from another Federal Reserve interest rate increase. Neither bodes well for the stock market, says Jim Rickards.\n\"Much of the stock rally this year, \" he says, \"is in anticipation of Trump policies on tax cuts, fiscal stimulus, infrastructure spending, health care reform and deregulation. Unfortunately, almost none of the Trump agenda has come to pass, and much of it may never see the light of day.\n\"There is no consensus in the Congress on health care or taxes. There is no money to pay for tax cuts or infrastructure spending. Meanwhile, Congress wastes time on debt ceiling debates and irreconcilable fights over spending priorities such as Planned Parenthood, the Wall and sanctuary cities that will probably lead to a government shutdown by October. Throw in the Russia investigations and a fight over a new FBI director and you can see why nothing will get done.\"\nMeanwhile, \"Janet Yellen and the Fed are throwing a double dose of cold water on Trump's plans,\" Jim goes on.\n\"The Fed will definitely raise interest rates next Wednesday and indicate plans for at least one more rate hike, maybe two, later this year that markets will have to factor in. In addition, next Wednesday the Fed will provide more explicit guidance about plans to reduce the money supply in order to normalize its balance sheet. This quantitative tightening, 'QT,' is the opposite of QE and will have the same effect as raising interest rates even further.\n\"With this Fed double dose of tightening into weakness, and Trump's policies dead on arrival, we're set up for a recession and stock market crash by this summer.\"\n\"Gentlemen, your silence is deafening!\" says an email from a reader. (We'll spare you the ALL CAPS in which it was written.)\n\"Has no one read Ted Butler's article on silver manipulation? Where are Jim Rickards and the rest of the gold and silver bugs who should be interested in such happenings? Let's hear from you!!!\"\nThe 5: We addressed this question with Jim Rickards' help less than three weeks ago.\nManipulation of the precious metals market is real\u2026 but we feel genuinely sorry for the crowd of everyday investors who find meaning in their lives by identifying every anomaly in the weekly Commitments of Traders reports, convinced this time they've found the smoking gun that will send precious metals prices skyrocketing and send a bunch of banksters to jail.\nSorry, that's not how we're going to get to $10,000-an-ounce gold.\nA search of The 5's voluminous archives reveals it's been six months since we ran the following quotation from the inimitable Marc Faber (who tipped us off to the \"S&P 495\" research spotlighted here today). We turned it into a meme. It's as valid now as when Faber said it seven years ago\u2026\nOh, but we're not done with the reader accusations we're suppressing the truth!\nJames Altucher's remarks this week about Bitcoin (\"I think Bitcoin has about a 1 in 100 chance of being a survivor\") prompted the following outburst: \"Why do you folks continue shooting yourself in the foot with TOTALLY bogus info?\n\"Please come clean about why you so vociferously keep bashing Bitcoin, all the while it is rising like gangbusters.\n\"Your information is promoted as being Very Accurate, and now is becoming nothing more than another mouthpiece of the Mainstream Media Propaganda Fake News.\"\nThe 5: *Sigh*\nWe're guessing the reader took exception to the Bitcoin remarks of our Ray Blanco and Matt Insley in a couple of other Agora Financial publications last month\u2026 and now he's spoiling for a fight, misinterpreting James' remarks.\nNote that James said it's unlikely Bitcoin will be \"a survivor\" among the many cryptocurrencies out there. That doesn't mean its price can't leap another four or five times higher in the meantime.\nBut is that because of Bitcoin's unique advantages? Or is it, as DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach recently averred, a function of hot money from China looking for anything it perceives as safe? He says it's no coincidence Bitcoin has doubled at the same time the Shanghai Composite Index has corrected 10%.\nGee, guess all the good condos in Vancouver are taken now. Bitcoin's all that's left\u2026\nNow for the final installment of James Altucher's \"ultimate cheat sheet\" for investing all your money.\nWe pick it up with the letter \"P\" and the concept of investing in yourself. One last time, James' obligatory disclaimer: \"Don't follow any of my advice. This is advice that I do and follow and it works for me.\"\nThe Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Investing All of Your Money \u2014 Part 5\nP) What does that mean, \"invest in myself?\"\nIt costs almost nothing to start a business. Find something people want and start posting information about it on a blog and then upsell your services on the blog.Or write 1000 small books about different topics and publish them on Amazon. You can do this on the side while you learn and have a full time job and then when you are ready, you can jump to your other passive streams of income. I have a podcast coming up soon with a guy who makes $25,000 a month doing this. Note: It takes a lot of work to find \"passive\" income but when it happens, it's worth it. These are some ideas. There are many others.\nInvest in experiences rather than possessions. Figure out interesting and unique experiences you can have or places you can go to (but they don't always have to be places). Experiences pay much higher dividends than an extra TV or a nicer car.\nBooks. Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life.But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!\nQ) Should I save money with each paycheck?\nNo. Just try to make more money. That is easier than saving money. I find that whenever I try to save money I end up spending more. I don't know why that is. I'm a horrible spender, which is probably why I've gone broke so many times.\nBetter to just make more with many streams of income so you don't have to worry about going broke. And then saving will come naturally as you make more money.\nDon't forget that a salary will never make you money. After taxes and the daily grind, and your exhaustion and the feelings of \"I hate my job,\" and then inflation and then new expenses (kids), you will never be able to save. Avoiding Starbucks every day won't make you a millionaire, that's a fact.\nI say it glibly, \"try to make more money.\" I know it's not that easy. But in the long run, if you have a constant focus on alternative ways to make more money, then you will.\nR) What else should I do with my money?\nForget about it.\nMoney is just a side effect of health.\nI talk a lot about the daily practice I started doing when I was at my lowest point.\nI know now after years of doing it that it has worked. I've done very well with it, and I started doing it when I was dead broke, lonely, angry, depressed, and suicidal.\nI didn't start it from a position of privilege.\nHere's the whole thing: stay physically healthy in whatever way you know how (sleep well, eat well, exercise). Be around good people who love you and respect you and who you love and respect, and be grateful every day.\nThink of new things each day (or all day) to be grateful for. \"Gratitude\" is another word for \"Abundance\" because the things you are most grateful for, become abundant in your life.\nAnd finally, write down 10-20 bad ideas a day. Or good ideas. It doesn't matter. After exercising my idea muscle for six months, I felt like an idea machine. It was like a super power that just wouldn't stop. More on this in another post.\nMoney and abundance in your life is a natural side effect of the above. I know this for myself but now since writing about it for almost four years I can tell you from the letters I get that it works for others.\nS) What's in it for you?\nI don't know. I used to write about money stuff because I wanted investors in my hedge fund, or I wanted to sell books, or get speaking engagements. Now I want none of that.\nI hate writing about finance now. Because it's almost all bull**** and I don't want to be like the other BS.\nBut I get worried that in a world of increasing economic uncertainty that more and more people are getting \"stuck\" and getting lied to and are scared about what is happening.\nMost people will think I am giving bad advice. That's fine. I just am trying to avoid the BS and I hope you do also.\nToo many people I know are nervous and depressed.\nThere's nothing else to know about investing your money. If your bank tries to give you any advice just say, \"thanks but I'm OK.\"\nIf they want you to put your money in a savings account, even \"so you can get the interest\" I would politely decline. There's a reason they are asking you to do this and I have no idea what it is but it's not good for you.\nYou won't get rich investing your money but you can do very well. And if you combine that with investing in yourself, you will get wealthy.\nBut only if you remember that financial wealth is a side effect of real inner wealth.\nThis is the most powerful investment you can do with your time and your life.\nYou can always make money back when you've lost it.\nBut one single split moment of stress and anxiety you will never make back again.\nInvesting in the future will never bring back the past.\nTo be able to sit and not have a million stressful thoughts racing through your head. To be able to appreciate everything around you for the abundance it is.\nMost people think they need to say \"thank you\" to the world.\nBut the world is constantly saying \"thank you\" to you for being alive, for creating new things, new energies, new experiences.\nEvery day give the world at least one more reason to whisper \"thank you\" to you.\nIf you can hear that whisper, everything else, every gift in life, becomes expected. You earned it.\nJust take it.\nFor The 5 Min. Forecast\nEd. note: Much as James dislikes writing about finance, he is eager to tell everyday readers like you how to invest via \"the 1,000% back door.\"\nUsing this strategy \u2014 he's used it in his own portfolio \u2014 James says it's entirely possible to make 10 times your money between now and the time the calendar flips to 2018. That's less than seven months.\nTomorrow at 1:00 p.m. EDT James takes the wraps off this strategy during a live online event exclusively for Agora Financial readers like you. The cost of entry is FREE\u2026 but we do ask that you RSVP so we know how many people to expect and our servers won't crash. Here's the signup page.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"E3 2009: New Super Mario Bros. Wii details and screens\nMarc Normandin\nWe promised more details, and now we have them for you, along with some artwork and screenshots. The new Super Mario Bros. Wii is a four-player side-scrolling platformer with a balance of co-op and competitive elements to it. You can choose to save your friend from danger by picking him up, or toss him into a pit of spikes or an incoming fireball. Why? Because it's hilarious, that's why.\nMario and Luigi are both playable characters, as are two Toad characters. Nintendo promises that many of our other favorites from the Mushroom Kingdom will make appearances in the game, which makes me wonder if any of them are secret playable characters, or if Nintendo is just keeping a lid on who is playable besides the Bros. and Toads for now.\nThe game will have some motion control, and it can be used for both co-op and competitive purposes. For example, you have seesaws in the game that can be used to get to hard to reach areas on the screen; if you're the first character on it, you can either help your friend out, or be a jerk and mess with the incline to stall your friend. This is also important, because the game tallies your score at the end of each level to see which one of you is the highest scorer.\nThe game has sold me on the concept of competitive multiplayer, as well as Penguin Mario. He turns into a freakin' penguin! That's the most adorable thing I've seen since\u2026 well, Bee Mario.\ne3E3 2009New Super Mario Bros. Wiinintendovideo gamesWii\nMarc Normandin was gaming editor of Blast from 2008 to mid-2010. You can reach him via e-mail at marcnormandin@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter @Marc_Normandin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Walt Disney Pictures Launched New Trailer of \"TANGLED\"\nWalt Disney Pictures has just released the latest trailer of the 3D animated feature Tangled, which is billed as one of the most hilarious, hair-raising tales ever told! In the film, when the kingdom's most wanted\u2014and most charming\u2014bandit Flynn Rider (voice of Zachary Levi) hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel (voice of Mandy Moore), a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair.\nFlynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.\nIn Philippine theaters soon in Disney Digital 3D\u2122 and regular format, Tangled is a story of adventure, heart, humor and hair\u2014lots of hair.\nMandy Moore Movies Zachary Levi\nRyan Kwanten, from \"True Blood\" to \"LEGEND OF THE ...\n\"DUE DATE\" Character Posters\n\"THE SOCIAL NETWORK\" Reveals The Controversial Ori...\nLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Movi...\nJosh Duhamel is the Reluctant Daddy in \"LIFE AS WE...\nWalt Disney Pictures Launched New Trailer of \"TANG...\nJavier Bardem is Not Your Usual Latin Lover in \"EA...\nJim Sturgess is the Voice Behind Soren in \"LEGEND ...\nDwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson in \"THE OTHER...\nShia LaBeouf Balances Millions & Ideals in \"WAL...\nJulia Roberts Shines in \"EAT PRAY LOVE\"\nBad First Date Leads to Instant Parenthood in \"LIF...\nDenzel Washington and Chris Pine are \"UNSTOPPABLE\"\nBen Affleck is the Brooding Antihero in \"THE TOWN\"\n\"Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole\" Ta...\n\"STONE\", Exclusive at Ayala Malls Cinemas\nWill Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are \"THE OTHER GUYS\"\nThe American: George Clooney\nJames Franco Rekindles Julia's Passions in \"EAT PR...\n'Going The Distance' Movie Review\nNewport Cinemas at Newport Mall in Resorts World M...\nAuthor Kathryn Lasky Talks About The \"LEGEND OF TH...\nJeremy Renner, Jon Hamm on Opposite Sides of the L...\nSneak Peek: \"The Other Guys\" Starring Mark Wahlber...\nVampires Suck Movie Review\nPredators Movie Review\n\"LIFE AS WE KNOW IT\" Movie Poster\nMichael Douglas & Shia LaBeouf in \"Wall Street 2: ...\nBen Affleck in \"THE TOWN\"\nDirector Ryan Murphy Talks About \"EAT PRAY LOVE\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Join the movement,\ntransform local government\nWe envision a world where excellence and the best service are synonymous with government and advanced by leaders, community members, and residents. Help transform local government by bringing the best public innovation tools and research to cities around the world.\nJoin our movement,\nBCPI | Communications Practice, Jobs, Jobs - Open\nThe Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation (BCPI) at Johns Hopkins University seeks a seasoned Executive Assistant to provide expert administrative support to the Executive Director and members of her executive team, and to manage the Executive Director's schedule and...\nResearch Data Analyst\nJohns Hopkins University (Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation) seeks a Research Data Analyst to join the Communications Practice. The first of its kind in the world, the Center aims to advance the field of public sector innovation by marrying cutting-edge practice...\nProgram Coordinator, Student Engagement\nBCPI | Academic Practice, Jobs, Jobs - Open\nAs part of its expanding team, the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University (the Center) is seeking an experienced Program Administrator of Student Engagement who will support the management of the Center's growing student engagement...\nSenior Advisor, Public Innovation\nBCPI | Innovation Practice, Jobs, Jobs - Open\nThe Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University (the Center) seeks a Senior Advisor to join the Innovation Practice. The first of its kind in the world, the Center aims to advance the field of public sector innovation by marrying cutting-edge...\nBCPI | Digital Practice, Jobs, Jobs - Open\nJohns Hopkins University seeks a Service Designer for its newly launched Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation (BCPI) focused on public sector innovation, government transformation, and civic engagement. BCPI will become a globally recognized organization focused on...\nJohns Hopkins University seeks a Communications Associate for the News & Content Unit of the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation (the Center). The Center is quickly becoming a globally recognized organization focused on advancing the art and science of public sector innovation, especially among local governments. The Center works to increase awareness of the impact of local government innovation with a special emphasis on the ways in which residents contribute to the design, development, and delivery of new services and policy approaches.\nGet alerts on funding opportunities, new resources, and news from the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation.\nThank you for connecting with the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins. For more news and updates from the center follow @PublicInno on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.\nI agree to receive communications from JHU and Bloomberg Philanthropies I agree to receive communications from JHU and Bloomberg Philanthropies\nUpcoming Opportunities\nVisit the Bloomberg Cities Network\nThe Bloomberg Cities website both spotlights best-in-class efforts in cities and provides access to cutting-edge resources and support for city leaders.\nJoin the Local Infrastructure Hub Community\nThe Local Infrastructure Hub helps local leaders navigate and understand the nearly 400 federal funding opportunities available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Heather Booth\nAmerican Civil Rights Activist, Feminist & Political Strategist\nHeather Booth is an American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist who has been frequently cited for her effective activism in progressive causes. During her student years, she was committed to both the civil rights movement and feminist causes. Since then she has devoted her career to feminism, community organization, and progressive politics.\nShe has been an organizer starting in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war and women's movements of the 1960s and continuing through today. She created JANE, an underground abortion service started before Roe.\nBooth was the founding Director and is now President of the Midwest Academy, training social change leaders and organizers. She has been involved in and managed political campaigns and was the Training Director of the Democratic National Committee. In 2000, she was the Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund, which helped to increase African American election turnout by nearly 2 million voters. She was the lead consultant, directing the founding of the Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2005.\nIn 2008, Booth was the director of the Health Care Campaign for the AFL-CIO. In 2009, she directed the campaign passing President Obama's first budget. In 2010 she was the founding director of Americans for Financial Reform, fighting to regulate the financial industry. She was the national coordinator for the coalition around marriage equality and the 2013 Supreme Court decision. She was strategic advisor to the Alliance for Citizenship (the largest coalition of the immigration reform campaign). She was Field Director for Americans for Tax Fairness to stop the tax cuts for millionaires that may lead to cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, education. She is a member of the consulting group Democracy Partners.\nBooth was the subject of the film Heather Booth: Changing the World, directed, written, and produced by Lilly Rivlin and released in 2016, which explores Booth's life as an organizer. Booth is also the subject of the HBO Documentary, The Janes which details her work as founder of the Jane Collective, an underground network of young women who provided safe abortions in pre\u2013Roe v. Wade Chicago.\nDuring the Biden\/Harris presidential campaign of 2020, Booth served as director of senior and progressive engagement and on December 15 of that year was quoted as saying \"President-elect Joe Biden's team has always focused on older voters and their concerns will be top-of-mind in his upcoming term.\"\nThe Janes with Heather Booth | Embrace Ambition Summit\nHeather Booth: Changing the World - Trailer\nIf We Organize, We Can Change the World | Heather Booth | TEDx\nActivists, Social Activism, Feminism Social Justice, Law, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Political, Reproductive Rights, Influential Women, Women's Health, Women Empowerment, Pro-Choice, Women, Women in Society, Women's History Month,\nThe abortion underground and what lessons can be learned from the Jane Collective\nIn the likelihood that Roe v. Wade is overturned, Heather Booth, the founder of the Jane Collective, has two pieces of advice: \"We need to come together. We need to organize.\"\nJennifer Weiss-Wolf\nWomen & Democracy Fellow at the Brennan Center for J...\nGloria Feldt\nLeading Activist & Best-Selling Author\nLoretta Ross\nFounder, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Heal...\nAward-Winning Racial Justice & Civil Rights Activist...\nExecutive Director of \"Equality for HER\", Activist &...\nRoberta Brandes Gratz\nAward-Winning Journalist, Urban Critic, Lecturer & A...\nRobin Morgan\nAward-Winning Poet, Author, Activist & Leader of Con...\nDorothy Roberts\nScholar & Social Justice Advocate\nAlezandra Russell\nMother Teresa Award Winner, Anti-Trafficking Expert ...\nMaya L. Harris\nInfluential Voice at the Intersection of Politics, P...\nLawyer, Social Justice Advocate, Women's Health Expert\nCo-Founder of the United Farm Workers of America; Fi...\nS. Lee Merritt\nAttorney & Activist Dubbed \"The People's Lawyer;\" Fo...\nRebecca Walker\nBestselling Author & Founder of the Third Wave Femin...\nActress, Feminist, Author, Political Activist, Forme...\nThe Sis Official\nPublic Academic, Feminist & Criminal Justice Scholar...\nDeja Foxx\nActivist, Influencer & Organizer; Founder of @GenZGi...\nTamika D. Mallory\nSocial Justice Leader & Movement Strategist\nFormer Democratic Senator of California\nGloria Allred\nRenowned Women's Rights Attorney; Subject of Netflix...\nMore like Heather","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Palo Alto \/ Palo Alto's Stanford Theatre\nPalo Alto's Stanford Theatre\nDecember 20, 2019 \/in Palo Alto \/by The Dawn Thomas Team\nPhoto by Charles Russo\nLocated on University Avenue in Palo Alto's charming downtown is the Stanford Theatre, a mainstay for almost a century. This independent movie house immortalizes the golden age of Hollywood by screening black and white classic films made between the 1920s and 1960s.\nThe theatre opened on June 9, 1925 and premiered I'll Show You The Town, a comedy starring Reginald Denny and Marian Nixon. The Stanford as its lovingly called, served as Palo Alto's leading film house for decades, with most classic movies debuting on its screen.\nIn 1988, the theatre was lackluster and showing its 63 years. Attendance was down and a For Sale sign appeared in its window. David Wooley Packard, son of David (Hewlett Packard co-founder) and Lucile Packard, decided to rent the venue and held a Fred Astaire Film Festival in honor of the actor's recent passing. The theatre held 1,175 people and was sold out nightly. Upon the conclusion of the festival, Packard convinced his parents to purchase the theatre through the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The venue was restored to its original splendor and today, it is operated by the Stanford Theatre Foundation, led by President David Wooley Packard and managed by Cyndi Mortensen.\nIn a 2018 feature article about the movie house, Mortensen explains that she'd read an article about the venue being purchased by the Foundation. Her lifelong passion for classical films had her contacting David in 1988 and volunteering for him in 1990. \"He invited me to come and work full time for him and I have worked for him since then. I have always been incredibly interested in and passionate about classic films and the importance of film preservation, because film doesn't last forever. I am very lucky\u2014I get to work with the UCLA Film Archive, the Library of Congress, the George Eastman Museum, the Academe Film Archive. It's particularly important now because everyone is going digital. We are committed to the 35mm experience as some of these films become increasingly rare. Sometimes you can't get them from the studios or the studio vaults. I am very fortunate to be able to get these films from the archives. We are very blessed\u2014very lucky\u2014that we are able to do that.\"\nThe Stanford's refurbished Persian and Moorish grand neoclassical architecture dates back to an age when movie-going was truly an experience. Originally costing $300,000 to build, (which translates to well over $4 million today) the perfectly preserved theatre welcomes visitors in its palatial lobby and is adorned in reds and golds, including the quintessential red velvet curtain and plush seating. A Wurlitzer organ plays during intermissions before and after the 7:30pm show as well as provides a musical complement to all silent films.\nIts illustrious legacy as a cinematic treasure restored, The Stanford attracts 25% of all classic film attendance in the United States. More people watched the 1992 50th anniversary showing of Casablanca at The Stanford than at any other film house in the US.\nSince the theatre reopened its doors, David Wooley Packard has been intimately involved in all of the theatre's programming, having his finger firmly on the pulse of what the viewing public will appreciate. The films he chooses often feature a specific genre, director, timeframe or theme. During the holiday season, classics like It's a Wonderful Life (showing on December 24th) and Miracle on 34th Street may grace the screen. Currently, The Stanford is featuring the Films of 1939, which include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.\nIf you are a classic film aficionado, a visit to the Stanford Theatre provides the glitz and glamour of old time Hollywood. Enjoy popcorn and a soda as you sink into your seat, waiting for the velvet curtain to part and transport you back in time.\nThe Dawn Thomas Team guides nice people through Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz County real estate matters. Our mission is to help everyone find their place in this world. Contact us today and we can assist you in selling or buying your home.\nStanford Theatre\n221 University Avenue, Palo Alto\nTickets are available at the box office on the day of the show.\n$7 for adults, $5 for senior and under 18.\nCash and checks only-no debit or credit cards (neither are very Golden Age)\nTags: David and Lucille Packard Foundation, David Wooley Packard, Golden Age of Cinema, movie house, Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre\nhttps:\/\/www.siliconvalleyandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-_I8MgRUjSE-uwCC5fF-PLw.jpg 1111 1728 The Dawn Thomas Team https:\/\/www.siliconvalleyandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SVAB_Compass_new-1.png The Dawn Thomas Team2019-12-20 08:05:432019-12-18 11:48:55Palo Alto's Stanford Theatre\n5 Reasons Why It Pays to Sell Your Home Right Now\nSocietal Shift Caused by Self-Driving Cars\nNeighborhood Spoofing: What It Is & How to Stop It\nPalo Alto Eichler Guidelines\nA New Real Estate Trend in Silicon Valley: Condemned Homes\nAnother New Los Gatos Eatery Opens What to Expect from 2020 Mortgage Rates","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fort Lee, New Jersey Civil Procedure\nFort Lee, New Jersey Civil Procedures\nFind the right Litigation attorney in Fort Lee, NJ\nLitigation Lawyers in Fort Lee\nIn Fort Lee, New Jersey, \"civil procedure\" is a broad term that refers to all of the rules that govern the process of civil litigation. Procedural law (such as civil procedure) is distinguished from substantive law, which governs the rights and obligations that the civil justice system is designed to safeguard.\nLike all laws, the rules of civil procedure in Fort Lee, New Jersey reflect certain values that society, through its elected representatives, wants to promote. So, the rules of civil procedure have the stated goal of ensuring that the justice system is fair, cost effective, efficient, and accessible to everyone who has a legitimate legal grievance.\nFort Lee, New Jersey's civil procedure rules can get pretty perplexing, however. They govern every aspect of a civil action, from the filing of the complaint, to discovery, and all the way through trial and appeals.\nMajor Fort Lee, New Jersey Civil Procedure Issues\nComplaint: The initial, and perhaps most significant, part of filing a lawsuit in Fort Lee, New Jersey is the complaint. The complaint is filed with the court in Fort Lee, New Jersey that's responsible for handling civil trials. It lists everything that the plaintiff (the person who is suing) alleges against the defendant (the person the plaintiff is suing). Usually, but not always, the end of the complaint will contain a \"prayer for relief.\" The prayer for relief is just a statement of what the plaintiff is asking the court to do to remedy the harm that the defendant allegedly caused.\nAnswer: Once the complaint is filed, the ball is in the defendant's court, so to speak. In the answer, the defendant has an chance to respond to all of the factual allegations made by the plaintiff, usually by denying them. The defendant might also raise affirmative defenses, which could keep the defendant from being held liable. For instance, if the defendant is accused of battery, and he did, in fact, batter the plaintiff, he might admit to that fact, but claim that the plaintiff was the aggressor, and he acted purely in self-defense. If he can prove that he acted in self-defense, he likely will not be held liable.\nDiscovery: Once the complaint and answer have been filed in a Fort Lee, New Jersey court, the next major civil procedure issue comes up. Discovery is the procedure in which both sides of the lawsuit are obligated to disclose obligated evidence to one another. The lawyers for each side can submit written questions, which the other party is required to answer under oath, unless the information is privileged. Each side can also request any relevant documents, physical evidence, and can conduct depositions of witnesses and parties to the lawsuit.\nTrial: it's actually very uncommon for lawsuits to go trial in Fort Lee, New Jersey, because the rules of civil procedure in Fort Lee, and nearly everywhere else, encourage speedy resolution of legal disputes, before they ever see the inside of a courtroom. This is largely done by judges dismissing cases that clearly have no merit, or the parties settling out of court. Nonetheless, when neither of these things is possible, both sides of the lawsuit will have to hash it out in a trial, which can be the most stressful and expensive step in the process. It involves both sides of the case presenting their evidence and arguments to a jury and judge, and letting them determine the issues.\nHow Can a Fort Lee, New Jersey Lawyer Help?\nIf you're facing a lawsuit in Fort Lee, New Jersey whether as the plaintiff or defendant, you will have to interact with your jurisdiction's civil procedure rules.\nIn Fort Lee, New Jersey, procedural pitfalls can derail an otherwise-valid case. They can also be some of the most obtuse and convoluted issues in the whole case. Therefore, you should not go into something like this without the counsel of an attorney.\nFort Lee Civil Depositions Attorneys\nFort Lee Courts Lawyers\nFort Lee Punitive Damages Attorneys\nFort Lee Commercial Litigation Lawyer\nFort Lee Filing a Lawsuit Attorney\nFort Lee Tort Lawyers Lawyer\nLitigation Lawyers in Piscataway\nLitigation Lawyers in Blairstown\nLitigation Lawyers in Glassboro\nLitigation Lawyers in Dunellen\nLitigation Lawyers in Montclair\nLitigation Lawyers in North Wildwood\nLitigation Lawyers in Neptune\nLitigation Lawyers in Nutley","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Convicted Sex Offender Owen Labrie Released Early from Jail for Good Behavior, Attorneys Say\nOwen Labrie, the former New Hampshire prep school student convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, is out of Merrimack County's jail, his legal team said Monday.\n\"Owen is happy to be home with his family,\" his attorneys told ABC News. \"He will be settling in and working on rebuilding his life. He'd like to thank the friends and family that have stood by him and supported him all these years.\"\nLabrie served almost six months of the remaining 10 months of a year-long sentence, and was let go early based on good behavior, his attorneys said.\nProsecutors said that Labrie, now 23, sexually assaulted 15-year-old female student at St. Paul's School when he was 18. This was part of a ritual among seniors\u2013the \"Senior Salute\"\u2013to collect as many sexual encounters as possible with freshmen.\nLabrie was convicted in 2015 of misdemeanor statutory rape, misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child, and felony solicitation of a sex from a minor over a computer. Labrie had to register as a sex offender. His defense tried to argue the encounter was consensual, but prosecutors won out.\nThe defendant appealed his conviction, and was allowed to be out on bond until a judge determined that he violated his court-ordered curfew; he spent two months in jail. Labrie's defense continued to attempt to shorten his sentence, arguing that he had been punished enough. The judge didn't see it this way, and ordered him to begin serving the rest of the sentence.\nStatement from victim's parents: \"Today, the perpetrator who sexually assaulted our then 15 year old daughter will finally be held accountable for his crime and sent to jail to serve his sentence. To date, he has shown no remorse nor accepted any responsibility for his actions.\"\n\u2014 Kim Lucey (@KimLucey) December 26, 2018\nOwen Labrie","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OALib Journal\nOALib PrePrints\nMy Lib\nFollow Us+\nBiomedical & Life Sciences\nChemistry & Materials Science\nComputer Science & Communications\nLinkedIn (OALib Journal)\nLinkedIn (Open Access Library)\nTitle Keywords Abstract Author All\nRelative Articles\nSearch Results: 1 - 10 of 100 matches for \" \"\nAll listed articles are free for downloading (OA Articles)\nPage 1 \/100\nDisplay every page 5 10 20 Item\nCorrelation and prediction of gene expression level from amino acid and dipeptide composition of its protein\nGajendra PS Raghava, Joon H Han\nBMC Bioinformatics , 2005, DOI: 10.1186\/1471-2105-6-59\nAbstract: We compute the correlation between expression of a gene and amino acid composition of its protein. It was observed that some residues (like Ala, Gly, Arg and Val) have significant positive correlation (r > 0.20) and some other residues (Like Asp, Leu, Asn and Ser) have negative correlation (r < -0.15) with the expression of genes. A significant negative correlation (r = -0.18) was also found between length and gene expression. These observations indicate the relationship between percent composition and gene expression level. Thus, attempts have been made to develop a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based method for predicting the expression level of genes from its protein sequence. In this method the SVM is trained with proteins whose gene expression data is known in a given condition. Then trained SVM is used to predict the gene expression of other proteins of the same organism in the same condition. A correlation coefficient r = 0.70 was obtained between predicted and experimentally determined expression of genes, which improves from r = 0.70 to 0.72 when dipeptide composition was used instead of residue composition. The method was evaluated using 5-fold cross validation test. We also demonstrate that amino acid composition information along with gene expression data can be used for improving the function classification of proteins.There is a correlation between gene expression and amino acid composition that can be used to predict the expression level of genes up to a certain extent. A web server based on the above strategy has been developed for calculating the correlation between amino acid composition and gene expression and prediction of expression level http:\/\/kiwi.postech.ac.kr\/raghava\/lgepred\/ webcite. This server will allow users to study the evolution from expression data.The use of microarray technologies to monitor gene expression in model organisms, cell lines and tissues has become an important part of biological research over the last several years. Ev\nSave Related Articles\nThe Feasibility of Enzyme Targeted Activation for Amino Acid\/Dipeptide Monoester Prodrugs of Floxuridine; Cathepsin D as a Potential Targeted Enzyme [PDF]\nYasuhiro Tsume,Gordon L. Amidon\nMolecules , 2012, DOI: 10.3390\/molecules17043672\nAbstract: The improvement of therapeutic efficacy for cancer agents has been a big challenge which includes the increase of tumor selectivity and the reduction of adverse effects at non-tumor sites. In order to achieve those goals, prodrug approaches have been extensively investigated. In this report, the potential activation enzymes for 5\u00a2-amino acid\/dipeptide monoester floxuridine prodrugs in pancreatic cancer cells were selected and the feasibility of enzyme specific activation of prodrugs was evaluated. All prodrugs exhibited the range of 3.0\u2013105.7 min of half life in Capan-2 cell homogenate with the presence and the absence of selective enzyme inhibitors. 5\u00a2-O-L-Phenylalanyl-L-tyrosyl-floxuridine exhibited longer half life only with the presence of pepstatin A. Human cathepsin B and D selectively hydrolized 5\u00a2-O-L-phenylalanyl-L-tyrosylfloxuridine and 5\u00a2-O-L-phenylalanyl-L-glycylfloxuridine compared to the other tested prodrugs. The wide range of growth inhibitory effect by floxuridine prodrugs in Capan-2 cells was observed due to the different affinities of prodrug promoieties to enyzmes. In conclusion, it is feasible to design prodrugs which are activated by specific enzymes. Cathepsin D might be a good candidate as a target enzyme for prodrug activation and 5\u00a2-O-L-phenylalanyl-L-tyrosylfloxuridine may be the best candidate among the tested floxuridine prodrugs.\nAmino Acid Properties Conserved in Molecular Evolution [PDF]\nWitold R. Rudnicki, Teresa Mroczek, Pawe? Cudek\nPLOS ONE , 2014, DOI: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0098983\nAbstract: That amino acid properties are responsible for the way protein molecules evolve is natural and is also reasonably well supported both by the structure of the genetic code and, to a large extent, by the experimental measures of the amino acid similarity. Nevertheless, there remains a significant gap between observed similarity matrices and their reconstructions from amino acid properties. Therefore, we introduce a simple theoretical model of amino acid similarity matrices, which allows splitting the matrix into two parts \u2013 one that depends only on mutabilities of amino acids and another that depends on pairwise similarities between them. Then the new synthetic amino acid properties are derived from the pairwise similarities and used to reconstruct similarity matrices covering a wide range of information entropies. Our model allows us to explain up to 94% of the variability in the BLOSUM family of the amino acids similarity matrices in terms of amino acid properties. The new properties derived from amino acid similarity matrices correlate highly with properties known to be important for molecular evolution such as hydrophobicity, size, shape and charge of amino acids. This result closes the gap in our understanding of the influence of amino acids on evolution at the molecular level. The methods were applied to the single family of similarity matrices used often in general sequence homology searches, but it is general and can be used also for more specific matrices. The new synthetic properties can be used in analyzes of protein sequences in various biological applications.\nInvestigation of Chiral Molecular Micelles by NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulation [PDF]\nKevin F. Morris, Eugene J. Billiot, Fereshteh H. Billiot, Kenny B. Lipkowitz, William M. Southerland, Yayin Fang\nOpen Journal of Physical Chemistry (OJPC) , 2012, DOI: 10.4236\/ojpc.2012.24032\nAbstract: NMR spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation analyses of the chiral molecular micelles poly-(Sodium Undecyl-(L,L)-Leucine-Valine) (poly-SULV) and poly-(Sodium Undecyl-(L,L)-Valine-Leucine) (poly-(SUVL)) are reported. Both molecular micelles are used as chiral selectors in electrokinetic chromatography and each consists of covalently linked surfactant chains with chiral dipeptide headgroups. To provide experimental support for the structures from MD simulations, NOESY spectra were used to identify protons in close spatial proximity. Results from the NOESY analyses were then compared to radial distribution functions from MD simulations. In addition, the hydrodynamic radii of both molecular micelles were calculated from NMR-derived diffusion coefficients. Corresponding radii from the MD simulations were found to be in agreement with these experimental results. NMR diffusion experiments were also used to measure association constants for polar and non-polar binaphthyl analytes binding to both molecular micelles. Poly (SUVL) was found to bind the non-polar analyte enantiomers more strongly, while the more polar analyte enantiomers interacted more strongly with poly(SULV). MD simulations in turn showed that poly(SULV) had a more open structure that gave greater access for water molecules to the dipeptide headgroup region.\nMolecular Evolution of Plant AAP and LHT Amino Acid Transporters [PDF]\nMechthild Tegeder,John M. Ward\nFrontiers in Plant Science , 2012, DOI: 10.3389\/fpls.2012.00021\nAbstract: Nitrogen is an essential mineral nutrient and it is often transported within living organisms in its reduced form, as amino acids. Transport of amino acids across cellular membranes requires proteins, and here we report the phylogenetic analysis across taxa of two amino acid transporter families, the amino acid permeases (AAPs) and the lysine\u2013histidine-like transporters (LHTs). We found that the two transporter families form two distinct groups in plants supporting the concept that both are essential. AAP transporters seem to be restricted to land plants. They were found in Selaginella moellendorffii and Physcomitrella patens but not in Chlorophyte, Charophyte, or Rhodophyte algae. AAPs were strongly represented in vascular plants, consistent with their major function in phloem (vascular tissue) loading of amino acids for sink nitrogen supply. LHTs on the other hand appeared prior to land plants. LHTs were not found in chlorophyte algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Volvox carterii. However, the characean alga Klebsormidium flaccidum encodes KfLHT13 and phylogenetic analysis indicates that it is basal to land plant LHTs. This is consistent with the hypothesis that characean algae are ancestral to land plants. LHTs were also found in both S. moellendorffii and P. patens as well as in monocots and eudicots. To date, AAPs and LHTs have mainly been characterized in Arabidopsis (eudicots) and these studies provide clues to the functions of the newly identified homologs.\nSCMCRYS: Predicting Protein Crystallization Using an Ensemble Scoring Card Method with Estimating Propensity Scores of P-Collocated Amino Acid Pairs [PDF]\nPhasit Charoenkwan, Watshara Shoombuatong, Hua-Chin Lee, Jeerayut Chaijaruwanich, Hui-Ling Huang, Shinn-Ying Ho\nAbstract: Existing methods for predicting protein crystallization obtain high accuracy using various types of complemented features and complex ensemble classifiers, such as support vector machine (SVM) and Random Forest classifiers. It is desirable to develop a simple and easily interpretable prediction method with informative sequence features to provide insights into protein crystallization. This study proposes an ensemble method, SCMCRYS, to predict protein crystallization, for which each classifier is built by using a scoring card method (SCM) with estimating propensity scores of p-collocated amino acid (AA) pairs (p = 0 for a dipeptide). The SCM classifier determines the crystallization of a sequence according to a weighted-sum score. The weights are the composition of the p-collocated AA pairs, and the propensity scores of these AA pairs are estimated using a statistic with optimization approach. SCMCRYS predicts the crystallization using a simple voting method from a number of SCM classifiers. The experimental results show that the single SCM classifier utilizing dipeptide composition with accuracy of 73.90% is comparable to the best previously-developed SVM-based classifier, SVM_POLY (74.6%), and our proposed SVM-based classifier utilizing the same dipeptide composition (77.55%). The SCMCRYS method with accuracy of 76.1% is comparable to the state-of-the-art ensemble methods PPCpred (76.8%) and RFCRYS (80.0%), which used the SVM and Random Forest classifiers, respectively. This study also investigates mutagenesis analysis based on SCM and the result reveals the hypothesis that the mutagenesis of surface residues Ala and Cys has large and small probabilities of enhancing protein crystallizability considering the estimated scores of crystallizability and solubility, melting point, molecular weight and conformational entropy of amino acids in a generalized condition. The propensity scores of amino acids and dipeptides for estimating the protein crystallizability can aid biologists in designing mutation of surface residues to enhance protein crystallizability. The source code of SCMCRYS is available at http:\/\/iclab.life.nctu.edu.tw\/SCMCRYS\/.\nExtreme genetic code optimality from a molecular dynamics calculation of amino acid polar requirement [PDF]\nThomas Butler,Nigel Goldenfeld,Damien Mathew,Zaida Luthey-Schulten\nQuantitative Biology , 2007,\nAbstract: A molecular dynamics calculation of the amino acid polar requirement is presented and used to score the canonical genetic code. Monte Carlo simulation shows that this computational polar requirement has been optimized by the canonical genetic code more than any previously-known measure. These results strongly support the idea that the genetic code evolved from a communal state of life prior to the root of the modern ribosomal tree of life.\nMiddle Molecular Weight Heparinyl Amino Acid Derivatives (MHADs) Function as Indirect Radical Scavengers in Vitro [PDF]\nSeiichi Takeda, Takao Toda, Kazuki Nakamura\nPharmacology & Pharmacy (PP) , 2016, DOI: 10.4236\/pp.2016.73015\nAbstract: We conducted the novel synthesis of middle molecular weight heparinyl amino acid derivatives (MHADs) to reduce the adverse effect of heparin (HE) based on its anticoagulant activity. Subsequently, we investigated the radical scavenging effects of 12 kinds of MHAD on cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUV-ECs) damaged by oxygen free radicals using xanthine and xanthine oxidase in vitro. As a result, middle molecular weight heparinyl phenylalanine, middle molecular weight heparinyl leucine, and middle molecular weight heparinyl tyrosine showed significant protective effects on HUV-ECs. In conclusion, these three HE derivatives might be candidates for therapeutic agents to treat diseases attributed to peroxidation.\nAmino Acid Composition, Molecular Weight Distribution and Antioxidant Stability of Shrimp Processing Byproduct Hydrolysate [PDF]\nJ. Zhao,G.R. Huang,M.N. Zhang,W.W. Chen\nAmerican Journal of Food Technology , 2011,\nAbstract: Protein hydrolysate have many practical applications in a various of industries due to the bioactive peptides related to their amino acid composition, sequence and molecular weight. The amino acid composition, molecular weight distribution and antioxidant stability of alcalase hydrolysate were investigated in this study. The hydrolysate was separated into five fractions by ultra filtration system with different molecular weight cutoff with 10, 5, 3 and 1 kDa, respectively. The protein content, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging activity and molecular weight of each fraction were determined. In addition, the antioxidant stability of the hydrolysate under several operating conditions was studied. The results showed that the hydrolysate was composed with high amounts of hydrophobic amino acids (40.4%) which might contribute to the high antioxidant activity. The fraction with molecular weight lower than 1 kDa exhibited the highest antioxidative activity among the five fractions. The antioxidant stability experiments showed that the hydrolysate was stable when it was heated up to 100C and the relative antioxidative activity could be maintained nearly 70% at very low pH of 2.0. Glucose and sucrose had negative effects on the antioxidative activity, in which the relative activity of about 80% was retained. Sodium chloride and sodium benzoate had little or no effects on the antioxidative activity of the hydrolysate. The effects of Zn2+ and Cu2+ on the antioxidative activity were significant and dependent on metal concentration. The shrimp processing byproduct hydrolysate may be a potential natural food antioxidant in the future.\nSingle amino acid substitution in important hemoglobinopathies does not disturb molecular function and biological process [cached]\nInternational Journal of Nanomedicine , 2008,\nAbstract: Viroj WiwanitkitDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandAbstract: Hemoglobin is an important protein found in the red cells of many animals. In humans, the hemoglobin is mainly distributed in the red blood cell. Single amino acid substitution is the main pathogenesis of most hemoglobin disorders. Here, the author used a new gene ontology technology to predict the molecular function and biological process of four important hemoglobin disorders with single substitution. The four studied important abnormal hemoglobins (Hb) with single substitution included Hb S, Hb E, Hb C, and Hb J-Baltimore. Using the GoFigure server, the molecular function and biological process in normal and abnormal hemoglobins was predicted. Compared with normal hemoglobin, all studied abnormal hemoglobins had the same function and biological process. This indicated that the overall function of oxygen transportation is not disturbed in the studied hemoglobin disorders. Clinical findings of oxygen depletion in abnormal hemoglobin should therefore be due to the other processes rather than genomics, proteomics, and expression levels.Keywords: hemoglobin, amino acid, substitution, function\nCopyright \u00a9 2008-2017 Open Access Library. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"VigRX Supplement Testing Center\nWe Test VigRX Male Enhancement Products and Report Results To You.\nPeyronie's Disease\npeyronie's disease from injury\nPost By Schneider\nSexual intercourse. adequate postinjury\nProspective cohort study comprised 68 men\nBundles (nvbs) occurs\nProstatectomy erectile dysfunction\nThis problem may be caused by a urinary tract infection, a neurologic disorder (multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, cerebrovascular accident), or the origin may be unknown. There are several.\nThe PD plaques are actually hardened scar tissue. It's widely believed that the disease is triggered by an injury to the erect penis-often one that goes unnoticed.\nPenis Trauma: How it Happens. Penile Injury \u2013 or trauma \u2013 is one of the leading causes of penis curvature which can lead to Peyronie's Disease. In the case of.\nIn Peyronie disease, the tunica albuginea may initially undergo microvascular trauma during sexual intercourse. adequate postinjury fibrinolysis.\npeyronie's disease review peyronie's disease without bend announced Friday an additional $8 million in Centers for Disease Control funding to support. start getting back to some variation of normal without widespread testing and robust contact tracing.A health overhaul promises to give greater health care options, increase prevention support and listen to Mori.\nSome studies show the plaque begins to build up after some kind of trauma to the penis (most often during sex). Often the patient doesn't know right away that the.\nThis plaque may result from injury to the penis and\/or genetic factors; however, the exact cause of Peyronie's disease is unknown. In a small percentage of men,\nmild peyronie's disease pictures peyronie's disease patient information The patients in this prospective cohort study comprised 68 men with end-stage liver disease who were scheduled. and associated information was presented to each participant before LDLT.Peyronie's disease is the name for a sharp curve in the penis. In some men, Peyronie's disease is a mild problem without symptoms.mild case of peyronie's disease Symptoms can vary, but sometimes resemble toxic shock syndrome or Kawasaki disease. In some cases the affected children only had very mild COVID-19 before developing the inflammatory syndrome.\nNonetheless, whether it is one specific injury during sexual activity or repeated minor injuries, the inflamed tissue results in the formation of plaque (scar tissue).\nHowever, it appears that injury to the neurovascular bundles (nvbs) occurs secondary to one or more factors such as excessive traction, use of thermal energy or direct damage during its dissection.\nWhen scar tissue develops under the skin of the penis due to trauma or minor injury, Peyronie's disease may occur. As the scar tissue forms in the penis may.\nAtherosclerosis is a disease with higher levels of mortality. and related diseases (e.g., aortic stenosis and ischemic injury). Using 2DE analysis was the first separation technique applied.\npeyronie's disease in tamil peyronie's disease surgery before and after pictures Peyronie's disease is a disorder in which the penis bends or curves because of fibrotic scar, or plaque, that has formed within the penis. Depending on where the plaque is located, the penis will bend up,15 2020. How To Treat Peyronie's Disease with ESWT (Bent or Curved Penis)?. Explained in Tamil I Patient.\nSome type of minor injury to the penis is likely what causes Peyronie's Disease. Such an injury could occur during vigorous sex, athletic activities,\nRisk factors for vascular diseases include hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and coronary artery disease. Medications are also a very common cause of ED. Drugs that can cause erectile dysfunction include.\nWith younger and healthier men being diagnosed and treated for localized prostate cancer, postradical prostatectomy erectile dysfunction has become an ever more important matter of debate. However.\npeyronie's disease percentage One of the most commonly used tests to distinguish psychogenic from organic erectile dysfunction (ED) is to monitor nocturnal penile tumescence using the RigiScan device and its new software.\nPrevious Previous post: yohimbe and erectile dysfunction\nNext Next post: premature ejaculation hypnotherapy\nhow many people suffer premature ejaculation\nlow testosterone and depression\npremature ejaculation when watching porn and having sex\nways to treat premature-ejaculation naturally\npremature ejaculation hypnosis mp3\nWeak Erection\nIs VigRX effective for male enhancement?\nHow much is the price of VigRX pills?\nWhat are some common side effects from VigRX?\nWhat male enhancement pills work best?\nVigRX pill advice\nMale Enhancement FAQ\nWhat Is The Best Male Enhancement Store Online?\n809 E Jefferson Ave Lot 8E\nVigRX Supplement Testing Center | Designed by: Theme Freesia \u00a9 2021 WordPress","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The influence of high defibration temperature on the properties of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) made from laccase-treated softwood fibers\nP. Widsten (Corresponding Author), S. Tuominen, Pia Qvintus-Leino, J.E. Laine\nHelsinki University of Technology\nOrion Oyj\nThis study was carried out to elucidate the effect of defibration temperature in the range 171\u2013202\u00b0C on the properties of 12-mm thick MDF boards made without synthetic resins from softwood fibers activated by laccase treatment for the generation of phenoxy radicals on the fiber surfaces. Laccase treatment generated radicals in the fibers. An increase in defibration temperature improved the reactivity of fibers during laccase-catalyzed oxidation. The number of radicals detected in the fibers after laccase treatment in water suspension and the fiber oxygen consumption during the treatments increased with an increase in defibration temperature, while a concurrent improvement was observed in the mechanical strength and thickness swell of dry-process MDF boards made from fibers refined at different temperatures and treated with laccase in the refiner blowline. The different fiber reactivities or board properties were not due to a presence of different amounts of lignin remaining on the fiber surfaces after acetone extraction. The probable reason for them was the fact that the amount of low-molecular weight lignin, a reactive substrate for laccase, increases with increasing defibration temperature. The adhesion occurring during pressing is thus likely to involve coupling or other reactions of radicals located on adjacent fibers, whereby interfiber covalent bonds are formed.\nWood Science and Technology\nfiberboards\ndefibration\nDive into the research topics of 'The influence of high defibration temperature on the properties of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) made from laccase-treated softwood fibers'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nFiber Engineering 100%\nFibers Physics 100%\nMedium Density Fiberboard Engineering 37%\nProperties Engineering 37%\nSoftwood Engineering 25%\nReactivity Engineering 25%\nWidsten, P., Tuominen, S., Qvintus-Leino, P., & Laine, J. E. (2004). The influence of high defibration temperature on the properties of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) made from laccase-treated softwood fibers. Wood Science and Technology, 38(7), 521 - 528. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00226-003-0206-4\nWidsten, P. ; Tuominen, S. ; Qvintus-Leino, Pia et al. \/ The influence of high defibration temperature on the properties of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) made from laccase-treated softwood fibers. In: Wood Science and Technology. 2004 ; Vol. 38, No. 7. pp. 521 - 528.\n@article{4ebb3e2e91e542ce9223b33be96be06d,\ntitle = \"The influence of high defibration temperature on the properties of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) made from laccase-treated softwood fibers\",\nabstract = \"This study was carried out to elucidate the effect of defibration temperature in the range 171\u2013202\u00b0C on the properties of 12-mm thick MDF boards made without synthetic resins from softwood fibers activated by laccase treatment for the generation of phenoxy radicals on the fiber surfaces. Laccase treatment generated radicals in the fibers. An increase in defibration temperature improved the reactivity of fibers during laccase-catalyzed oxidation. The number of radicals detected in the fibers after laccase treatment in water suspension and the fiber oxygen consumption during the treatments increased with an increase in defibration temperature, while a concurrent improvement was observed in the mechanical strength and thickness swell of dry-process MDF boards made from fibers refined at different temperatures and treated with laccase in the refiner blowline. The different fiber reactivities or board properties were not due to a presence of different amounts of lignin remaining on the fiber surfaces after acetone extraction. The probable reason for them was the fact that the amount of low-molecular weight lignin, a reactive substrate for laccase, increases with increasing defibration temperature. 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(Corresponding Author); Tuominen, S.; Qvintus-Leino, Pia et al.\nIn: Wood Science and Technology, Vol. 38, No. 7, 2004, p. 521 - 528.\nT1 - The influence of high defibration temperature on the properties of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) made from laccase-treated softwood fibers\nAU - Widsten, P.\nAU - Tuominen, S.\nAU - Qvintus-Leino, Pia\nAU - Laine, J.E.\nN2 - This study was carried out to elucidate the effect of defibration temperature in the range 171\u2013202\u00b0C on the properties of 12-mm thick MDF boards made without synthetic resins from softwood fibers activated by laccase treatment for the generation of phenoxy radicals on the fiber surfaces. Laccase treatment generated radicals in the fibers. An increase in defibration temperature improved the reactivity of fibers during laccase-catalyzed oxidation. The number of radicals detected in the fibers after laccase treatment in water suspension and the fiber oxygen consumption during the treatments increased with an increase in defibration temperature, while a concurrent improvement was observed in the mechanical strength and thickness swell of dry-process MDF boards made from fibers refined at different temperatures and treated with laccase in the refiner blowline. The different fiber reactivities or board properties were not due to a presence of different amounts of lignin remaining on the fiber surfaces after acetone extraction. The probable reason for them was the fact that the amount of low-molecular weight lignin, a reactive substrate for laccase, increases with increasing defibration temperature. 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The number of radicals detected in the fibers after laccase treatment in water suspension and the fiber oxygen consumption during the treatments increased with an increase in defibration temperature, while a concurrent improvement was observed in the mechanical strength and thickness swell of dry-process MDF boards made from fibers refined at different temperatures and treated with laccase in the refiner blowline. The different fiber reactivities or board properties were not due to a presence of different amounts of lignin remaining on the fiber surfaces after acetone extraction. The probable reason for them was the fact that the amount of low-molecular weight lignin, a reactive substrate for laccase, increases with increasing defibration temperature. 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{"text":"Paradise Warriors\nMark Huxley and Ryan Huxley\nTheir synced vocal harmonies, elegant songwriting style,\nand diverse musical palette, create a unique world of music.\nRock, Top 40, and the Californian Sound are comparable genres to the varied textures of PARADISE WARRIORS\nPARADISE WARRIORS have come a long way in the past 20 years.\nBrothers, Mark and Ryan Huxley, have performed to crowds of 3, all the way to 20,000 people.\nWith performances broadcasted on Commercial Television across the entire state of Western Australia,\nthe Warriors have also performed alongside Australian Idol runner up, Anthony Callea.\nMark and Ryan have had recordings broadcast on Nova 93.7FM on 'Nathan and Nat's Breakfast Show'.\nCountless Corporate engagements have developed their stage presence and chemistry.\nFrom their roots in Rock 'n' Roll, Disney, and Pop, PARADISE WARRIORS delved into Classical Music, and the musical stage and film.\nSinging The Beach Boys, and The Everly Brothers' harmonies, would shape their vocal blend.\nTheir debut album, There's a Place, is a long time in the making, and arrival.\n'There's A Place' is now available.\n\u00a9 2017 by Paradise Warriors Proudly created with Wix.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2008 Paris Auto Show (38)\n2008.Electric Car (3)\n2009 Chicago Auto Show (21)\n2009 Frankfurt Motor Show (61)\n2009 Geneva Motor Show (59)\n2009 Gumball 3000 (3)\n2009 New York Auto Show (31)\n2009 Shanghai Motor Show (21)\n2009 Tokyo Motor Show (24)\n2010 AmericanMuscle Car Show (1)\n2010 Beijing Motor Show (21)\n2010 Detroit Auto Show (33)\n2010 Paris Motor Show (59)\n2010 SEMA Show (20)\n2011 Detroit Auto Show (5)\n2011.cars (1)\n2011Frankfurt Motor Show (1)\n3 wheels car (1)\nA1GP (2)\nAgila (1)\namerican muscle show (2)\nAquatic Car (1)\nBatman's Lamborghini (2)\nBizzarrini (1)\nComparison (34)\nConcept Cars (328)\nCorvette ZR1 (29)\nCUV (1)\nDaimler (1)\nDetroit 2009 Auto Show (32)\nDongdeng (1)\nE-Rod (2)\nExagon Motors (1)\nFisker Surf (1)\nHongQi (1)\nHybird (1)\nHyndai (70)\nKSU Gazal (1)\nLA 2008 (25)\nLightning GT (3)\nLocal Motors (1)\nLusoMotors (1)\nMastretta (2)\nMcLaren F1 (14)\nMG TF (1)\nMoto GP (15)\nmotorsports (106)\nnews cars (1)\nPerana (1)\nRossin-Bertin (1)\nSeat lbe (1)\nSEMA 2008 (66)\nsports cars (1177)\nVortex F1 (1)\nWorld Car of the Year (2)\nWorld Cheapest Car (21)\nReview: 2011 Chrysler 300 V6\n, Posted by Sports Cars Fans at 4:00 PM\nOf the many hurtful similes one can hurl at a vehicle, few are more insidious than drawing design or driving parallels to the oft-maligned American sedan. Thanks to the dark days of the '70s and '80s, once proud nameplates like Imperial, Impala and Galaxie were either completely forgotten or bastardized into models with about as much personality as a tube sock. Whether you blame it on oil prices, safety standards or the popularity of disco and cocaine, there's no denying that the domestic four-door suffered a major fall from grace.\nNow, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are all fighting tooth and nail to establish their products as capable of besting metal from Japan, Germany and Korea. While that's largely translated into a fleet of mid-sized sedans with soap-bar aesthetics and front-wheel-drive architectures, the 2011 Chrysler 300 is hell-bent on continuing to buck that trend.\nWith its rear-wheel-drive configuration and stylish lines, the four-door strives to draw connections to the Pentastar's more successful past \u2013 to an era long before corporate take-overs and the K-car. Is it successful?\nWhen the 300 first bowed in 2005, it brought a new-found element of menacing appeal to the full-size segment thanks to its high shoulder line, chopped roof and vertical grille. The design may have borrowed more than a few cues from the Bentley stable, but buyers were more than happy to embrace the high-dollar association. For 2011, Chrysler insists the 300 is all-new from tires to taillights, though much of that same look has held on for the new generation. The company's designers have given the big beast a more mature nose with LED-trimmed projection headlamps, touches of chrome and a more subdued grille.\nFrom the profile view, it's difficult to discern the new-generation 300 from its predecessor, though careful examination will reveal more pronounced fender arches fore and aft, as well as new detailing behind the rear wheel. The tail of the sedan has received much more aggressive updating, with a new valance that integrates smoothly into the upper and lower portions of the 300's posterior, allowing for muscular-looking exhaust outlets \u2013 even on our V6 tester. The LED taillights are both bright and beautiful at night, and although we don't mind the chrome detailing on the lamps themselves, the shiny trim along the trunk sill is a bit much.\nWhile the 2011 Chrysler 300 may still wear its older sibling's hand-me-down skirt outside, its cockpit has benefited fully from the Pentastar's interior renaissance. A single piece, soft-touch dash stretches between both A-pillars and integrates flawlessly with the front door panels. Compared to the clunky center stack and cheap plastics of the old machine, the new cabin has been improved by several orders of magnitude. The centerpiece of the dash is the same 8.4-inch LCD touchscreen interface found elsewhere in the Chrysler lineup. As massive as it is quick, the new piece of kit puts most other infotainment systems to shame, at least in the graphics department.\nThe interface is a little cumbersome when it comes to actually managing mobile media players, but climate, radio and navigation settings are intuitive and blisteringly quick.\nIn addition, the driver is treated to attractive and easy-to-read gauges highlighted by bright blue accent lighting. These pieces do much to give the cabin a much classier look compared to the white-faced gauges found on the previous generation. A new, well-sculpted leather-wrapped steering wheel has has replaced the chunky tiller of old.\nOur tester arrived with black cloth seats that must have been lifted straight from the Lay-Z-Boy factory. The front buckets are ludicrously huge and envelop passengers in a loving embrace of foam and high-quality cloth that's perfect for a vehicle of this size. The rear seats afford the kind of space that only a full-size sedan can deliver, too. For quick trips, there's ample room for three full-grown adults on the back bench.\nThe trunk offers up a cavernous 16.3 cubic feet of cargo room, which means that there's enough storage area for everyone's luggage should you decide to pack the family in for a trip cross-country.\nWe were fortunate enough to sample the 2011 Chrysler 300 with the base 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 behind its headlights. In this application, the engine delivers 292 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque and is mated to the same old five-speed automatic transmission found in the previous-generation model. According to the EPA, the 300 should see 18 miles per gallon in the city and 27 mpg highway, which fits pretty closely with the 23 mpg we saw over five days of mixed driving.\nDespite the fact that the new six-cylinder weighs in with 70 fewer ponies and 134 fewer pound-feet of torque than the optional 5.7-liter V8, the V6-equipped 300 never really seems out of breath. In fact, the V6 feels pretty quick on the way to 60 miles per hour, though its torque deficit is readily apparent. As we've found in other applications, this Pentastar engine is happy to rev, making the majority of its power at a high 6,350 rpm. For buyers used to the early-pull of the big V8, the V6 may take some getting used to. Even so, after a week with the vehicle, we'd have a hard time paying more for the bigger displacement mill.\nUnfortunately, the 3.6-liter engine is handicapped by its aging five-speed automatic transmission. We've rarely taken issue with the gearbox when paired with the larger 5.7-liter V8, but in this application, the automatic seemed easily confused. That was especially true under hard-acceleration passes as it struggled to drop a gear or two to put the engine in its lofty power sweet spot. We can't wait for Chrysler to grace this engine with its upcoming new generation of eight-speed transmissions.\nChrysler describes the redesigned suspension at work in the 300 as built for grand touring duty, which is surprisingly accurate for PR-speak. While clearly engineered to consume mile after mile of interstate asphalt, the springs and dampers do a stand-up job under more athletic driving circumstances. There is some body roll, to be sure, but it doesn't translate into traditional understeer as readily. Really get the V6 singing in its upper octaves and saw on the wheel, and you'll actually be rewarded with some rotation before the traction control quietly steps in to contain the chaos. This beast drives incredibly well for its size.\nUnfortunately, the 2011 300 is cursed with comically light steering. That beautiful leather-wrapped wheel seems to be only casually associated with hardworking hardware out front, and as a result, piloting the vehicle takes some adjustment. Trying to command the big sedan through aggressive maneuvers is like attempting to pluck a stuffed animal from one of those infuriating claw games. Despite being able to see what needs to happen, you're constantly flummoxed by a layer of machinery seemingly designed to misinterpret your every input.\nThe good news is that the vehicle's brakes don't suffer from the same impotence. Despite the fact that the 300 weighs in at 3,961 pounds, its 12.6-inch vented rotors up front and 12.6-inch solid rotors out back do an outstanding job of bringing the beast down from speed.\nChrysler has really done its homework in the noise, vibration and harshness department, too. The 2011 300 is quiet at most sane speeds and there's very little engine vibration at idle. The single-piece piece dash has done away with any squeaks and rattles that could arise from plastic-on-plastic action, and the result is a cabin that could allow eight hours of driving in a day to be comfortably covered without making you want to guillotine yourself with the auto-up driver's window.\nBut there are still a few ghosts of Chrysler past bumping around the big sedan. While the interior fit and finish is top notch, it's apparent that the company could still use some work in the detail department outside. Our tester wore an excess of structural adhesive along the trunk rail (see it here) that looks to have been haphazardly slathered on. To us, it's the kind of \"good enough\" thinking that got Chrysler into its most recent Chapter 11 mess.\nAt the end of the day, the 2011 Chrysler 300 is a vehicle you can't help but want to drive. It looks as good as it feels, offers decent fuel economy for a full-size and won't break the bank. Prices get going at $27,170, not including the $825 destination fee. That figure is fairly close to what our tester commanded, and includes niceties like the big LCD screen and Uconnect telematics system.\nUnfortunately, nearly $28,000 is a lot of money to pay for a thirsty sedan these days. As vehicles like the Honda Accord and Volkswagen Passat grow to full-size territory, buyers may be less inclined to shop bigger. That's especially true as fuel prices continue to creep up. While the ballyhooed eight-speed automatic transmission that's coming to Chrysler will likely increase the Pentastar's fuel economy, the engine will never be able to effectively lock horns with the four-cylinder, diesel and hybrid options available in the mid-size segment.\nStill, as with most of the vehicles crafted from the Chrysler renaissance, the 2011 300 is yet another big step in the right direction. It ought to be a giant leap when we can finally get our hands on the SRT8 version.\n[Source: autoblog]\nLamborghini Insecta concept\nHyundai i30 - Australian Car of the Year\nMercedes-Benz ML 63 AMG v\/s BMW X6-M v\/s BMW X5-M v\/s Porsche Cayenne Turbo S v\/s Audi Q7 V12 TDI\nFerrari SUV - more info\nSaleen to launch \"Dark Horse\" Mustang\n2010 Toyota Avensis\nSSC Ultimate Aero vs Bugatti Veyron 16\/4\nNew Hyundai Coupe (Tiburon) coming to Frankfurt in '09\nAccord vs. Camry\nAudi A7 four-door hard-top cabrio\nSports Cars Fans\nwebmaster[@]sportscarsfans{.}com\nCopyright 2010 - Sports Cars Fans","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Did you know Chandrachur Singh is a trained classical singer?\nBefore his debut in Tere Mere Sapne (1996), Chandrachur Singh used to teach music at Doon School in Dehradun\nChandrachur Singh\nThe '90s actor Chandrachur Singh has resurfaced yet again with Yadvi \u2014 The Dignified Princess, which is now set to release in the US. The Maachis (1996) and Josh (2000) actor has also rendered a track, Rangreza, in New York-based Jyoti Singh's directorial venture.\nNot many know that Chandrachur is a trained classical singer. Before his debut in Tere Mere Sapne (1996), he used to teach music at Doon School in Dehradun.\nHe breezed into Bollywood in 1996 with two successful films \u2013 'Maachis' and 'Tere Mere Sapne'. He proved his versatility by playing a militant in off-beat serious drama 'Maachis', about militancy in Punjab, and an NRI who falls in love with a desi girl in romantic comedy 'Tere Mere Sapne'. Later in 'Josh' and 'Kya Kehna' he was seen romancing Aishwarya Rai and Preeti Zinta respectively.\nAfter 2001 release 'Aamdani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiyaa' Chandrachur Singh suffered health problems and has been out of action.\nAlso View Gallery: Forgotten Bollywood heroes and how they look now\nCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates\nPosted by entertainment Add comments\nRishi Kapoor's tweet triggers Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor's dating rumours again There is no one better than Jacqueline Fernandez in this current generation: Salman Khan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Assessment of acquired hemophilia patient demographics in the United States: The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Registry\nCraig M. Kessler, Alice D. Ma, Hamid A.B. Al-Mondhiry, Robert Z. Gut, David L. Cooper\nDivision of Hematology and Oncology\nPenn State Cancer Institute\nThe Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society (HTRS) Registry was used to monitor the postapproval use of recombinant factor VIIa. The objective of this manuscript is to provide key insights onthe demographics of patients with acquired hemophilia in the HTRS Registry. Acquired hemophilia patient registration in HTRS captured age; sex; comorbidities and predisposing conditions; first bleeding location; laboratory parameters; exposure to blood products, factor, and bypassing agents; and initiation of immune suppression\/tolerance therapy. Overall, 166 patients with acquired hemophilia were registered in HTRS (83 women, 73 men, median age 70 years); the majority were non-Hispanic whites (61.4%). The most common comorbidities were autoimmune disease (28.4%) and malignancy (14.5%). The most common first site of bleeding was subcutaneous (27.1%); this was more common in whites (29.1%) than blacks (12.5%) and in non-Hispanics (26.4%) than Hispanics (11.8%). Blood product exposure was reported for 33.1% of patients; the most commonly reported product was packed red blood cells (28%). Of the 57 patients with outcome data available for immune tolerance therapy, 26 patients (46%) reported successful treatment, 13 reported unsuccessful treatment (23%), and 18 (32%) were receiving active treatment at the time of registration. The HTRS Registry final analysis provides the only current comprehensive look at acquired hemophilia in the US population, including details on underlying autoimmune diseases and malignancies. Pertinent to recognition and diagnosis of the disease, subcutaneous bleeding as a presenting bleeding symptom was more common in white and non-Hispanic individuals.\nBlood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/MBC.0000000000000582\n10.1097\/MBC.0000000000000582\nDive into the research topics of 'Assessment of acquired hemophilia patient demographics in the United States: The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Registry'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nHemophilia A Medicine & Life Sciences 100%\nHemostasis Medicine & Life Sciences 88%\nRegistries Medicine & Life Sciences 69%\nThrombosis Medicine & Life Sciences 68%\nDemography Medicine & Life Sciences 57%\nHemorrhage Medicine & Life Sciences 38%\nImmune Tolerance Medicine & Life Sciences 35%\nEuropean Continental Ancestry Group Medicine & Life Sciences 27%\nKessler, C. M., Ma, A. D., Al-Mondhiry, H. A. B., Gut, R. Z., & Cooper, D. L. (2016). Assessment of acquired hemophilia patient demographics in the United States: The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Registry. Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis, 27(7), 761-769. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/MBC.0000000000000582\nKessler, Craig M. ; Ma, Alice D. ; Al-Mondhiry, Hamid A.B. et al. \/ Assessment of acquired hemophilia patient demographics in the United States : The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Registry. In: Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis. 2016 ; Vol. 27, No. 7. pp. 761-769.\n@article{87c95fd6741c4d74ad190fa67795fa26,\ntitle = \"Assessment of acquired hemophilia patient demographics in the United States: The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Registry\",\nabstract = \"The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society (HTRS) Registry was used to monitor the postapproval use of recombinant factor VIIa. The objective of this manuscript is to provide key insights onthe demographics of patients with acquired hemophilia in the HTRS Registry. Acquired hemophilia patient registration in HTRS captured age; sex; comorbidities and predisposing conditions; first bleeding location; laboratory parameters; exposure to blood products, factor, and bypassing agents; and initiation of immune suppression\/tolerance therapy. Overall, 166 patients with acquired hemophilia were registered in HTRS (83 women, 73 men, median age 70 years); the majority were non-Hispanic whites (61.4%). The most common comorbidities were autoimmune disease (28.4%) and malignancy (14.5%). The most common first site of bleeding was subcutaneous (27.1%); this was more common in whites (29.1%) than blacks (12.5%) and in non-Hispanics (26.4%) than Hispanics (11.8%). Blood product exposure was reported for 33.1% of patients; the most commonly reported product was packed red blood cells (28%). Of the 57 patients with outcome data available for immune tolerance therapy, 26 patients (46%) reported successful treatment, 13 reported unsuccessful treatment (23%), and 18 (32%) were receiving active treatment at the time of registration. The HTRS Registry final analysis provides the only current comprehensive look at acquired hemophilia in the US population, including details on underlying autoimmune diseases and malignancies. 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The objective of this manuscript is to provide key insights onthe demographics of patients with acquired hemophilia in the HTRS Registry. Acquired hemophilia patient registration in HTRS captured age; sex; comorbidities and predisposing conditions; first bleeding location; laboratory parameters; exposure to blood products, factor, and bypassing agents; and initiation of immune suppression\/tolerance therapy. Overall, 166 patients with acquired hemophilia were registered in HTRS (83 women, 73 men, median age 70 years); the majority were non-Hispanic whites (61.4%). The most common comorbidities were autoimmune disease (28.4%) and malignancy (14.5%). The most common first site of bleeding was subcutaneous (27.1%); this was more common in whites (29.1%) than blacks (12.5%) and in non-Hispanics (26.4%) than Hispanics (11.8%). Blood product exposure was reported for 33.1% of patients; the most commonly reported product was packed red blood cells (28%). Of the 57 patients with outcome data available for immune tolerance therapy, 26 patients (46%) reported successful treatment, 13 reported unsuccessful treatment (23%), and 18 (32%) were receiving active treatment at the time of registration. The HTRS Registry final analysis provides the only current comprehensive look at acquired hemophilia in the US population, including details on underlying autoimmune diseases and malignancies. Pertinent to recognition and diagnosis of the disease, subcutaneous bleeding as a presenting bleeding symptom was more common in white and non-Hispanic individuals.\nAB - The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society (HTRS) Registry was used to monitor the postapproval use of recombinant factor VIIa. The objective of this manuscript is to provide key insights onthe demographics of patients with acquired hemophilia in the HTRS Registry. Acquired hemophilia patient registration in HTRS captured age; sex; comorbidities and predisposing conditions; first bleeding location; laboratory parameters; exposure to blood products, factor, and bypassing agents; and initiation of immune suppression\/tolerance therapy. Overall, 166 patients with acquired hemophilia were registered in HTRS (83 women, 73 men, median age 70 years); the majority were non-Hispanic whites (61.4%). The most common comorbidities were autoimmune disease (28.4%) and malignancy (14.5%). The most common first site of bleeding was subcutaneous (27.1%); this was more common in whites (29.1%) than blacks (12.5%) and in non-Hispanics (26.4%) than Hispanics (11.8%). Blood product exposure was reported for 33.1% of patients; the most commonly reported product was packed red blood cells (28%). Of the 57 patients with outcome data available for immune tolerance therapy, 26 patients (46%) reported successful treatment, 13 reported unsuccessful treatment (23%), and 18 (32%) were receiving active treatment at the time of registration. The HTRS Registry final analysis provides the only current comprehensive look at acquired hemophilia in the US population, including details on underlying autoimmune diseases and malignancies. Pertinent to recognition and diagnosis of the disease, subcutaneous bleeding as a presenting bleeding symptom was more common in white and non-Hispanic individuals.\nU2 - 10.1097\/MBC.0000000000000582\nDO - 10.1097\/MBC.0000000000000582\nJO - Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis\nJF - Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis\nKessler CM, Ma AD, Al-Mondhiry HAB, Gut RZ, Cooper DL. Assessment of acquired hemophilia patient demographics in the United States: The Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Registry. 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{"text":"RECOMMENDED COLLECTIONS\nDiscover 36 collections\n+ 241 artworks\nItaly - Florence\n+ 95 artworks\nBasilica of Santa Croce in Florence\nChiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine\nBargello National Museum\nBasilica di San Lorenzo\nPalatine Gallery\nMilu Hotel\nHospital of Innocents\nChurch of Santa Felicita\nAbout Florence\nThe City of Florence\nAs a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Florence exudes class and style in both city's architecture and invaluable artworks hosted in Florence's galleries and museums. As the 'cradle of the Renaissance' movement in Italy, the city is hailed by many as one of, if not the best, cities for renaissance art in the world. The Palazzo Vecchio which overlooks the Piazza della Signoria, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Flore (which is amongst the largest churches in Italy) and the Ponte Vecchio (a bridge noted for having shops upon it) are only a few gems of Italian architectures to be mentioned.\nFlorence and History at its Core\nYet Florence's offerings do not stop at art. Established by Julius Cesar, this city has survived multiple occupations, flooding, and bombings. Although the city managed to protect only one bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, during the German occupation, it still retains its Renaissance essence, with a sprinkling of influence from the Medieval and Baroque eras, for example.\nBuilt between two rivers, Florence provides a constant flow of culture, art, and history.\nFlorence and its Galeries and Museums\nThe main point on Florence's art map is the Uffizi Gallery. Home to works from Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael and Botticelli, this gallery has a special focus on Italian Renaissance pieces - apt for a city so central to the period. Other notable locations include the Bargello National Museum, found in one of the oldest buildings in Florence and home to an impressive selection of classic Renaissance work, and the Museo Novecento which displays 20th century Italian artwork.\nArt Hotels in Florence\nFlorence also offers a total art immersion for visitors. Art hotels such as the Lungarno Hotel which is located on the Arno River (with views of the Ponte Vecchioand a collection of over 400 pieces carefully selected by Michele Bonan).\nAlso conviced Art should come out of the closet?\nJoin the Art sharing movement now!\nHome \u00b7 About \u00b7 How it Works \u00b7 Blog \u00b7 Register \u00b7 Terms \u00b7 Contact\nUart \u00a9 2018\nAbout UartUart is a community platform to share corporate and private art collections. Benefit from enhanced visibility to showcase your collection's beauty and value.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Climate Change Could Influence Obesity Rates\nBy Vaughn Judd on October 20, 2021\nAccording to the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, climate change could add to higher Obesity rates and related health risks. The researchers said that with increasing temperature people may become less physically active and will burn less fat. This could put the people at an increased risk of becoming obese or overweight. This in turn could lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions as obese people consume burn fossil fuels in the form of transportation rather than any physical activity like walking or cycling. The researchers said Obesity could also lead to higher risk of cancer.\nThe researchers say, Obesity is associated with various malignancies. It could lead to cancer of breast, esophagus, colon, rectum, endometrial cancers, and other. They say, number of reasons contribute to cancer in obese people such as high insulin levels, and many more. In women fat tissue can produce estrogens leading to cancer of ovary or breast.\nTo address these problems and prevent from Obesity one should follow a good quality diet that gives a healthy life. The researchers said that the source of diet is also important. They said, Mediterranean diet and others lower in meat diets reduce green-house gas emissions, land use and energy consumption.\nThe researchers said that with increasing temperature people may become less physically active and will burn less fat. The study was conducted to show the relationship between climate change and health and to determine the importance of how the both interact.\nPublished in News and Science\nclimate change and health\nendometrial cancers\nincreasing temperature people\nland use and energy consumption\nVaughn Judd\nVaughn is the Sub-Editor at Fresno California. He is known for his pickiness in writing gripping headlines. He also has a degree in law and has pursued it as a profession for a brief period. However, his love for writing motivated him to change the track of his profession. He also is an ardent writer of tabletop games. Game reviews and instructional posts are his forte, and he loves guiding his dedicated team members in attempting technical writing.\nMore from ScienceMore posts in Science \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Underwood debuts in second\nSunday, November 1, 2015 \u2013 Carrie Underwood has the second best selling CD in the U.S. this past week with \"Storyteller,\" according to Billboard.\n5 Seconds of Summer led the chart with \"Sounds Good Feels Good,\" selling 194,000 units.\n\"Storyteller\" sold 177,000 units, 164,000 in pure album sales). This continued Underwood's mark of having all five of her albums in the top two.\nBlake Shelton was fifth with \"Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits,\" selling 40,000 units. The disc contains 20 hits and his new single \"Gonna.\"\nUnderwood, of course, will lead the Country Albums chart when it is out on Tuesday.\nMore news for Carrie Underwood\n12\/30\/19: Underwood leaves as CMA host\n08\/20\/19: Underwood opens NFL Sunday Night Football with help from Jett\n08\/19\/19: Underwood hosts CMAs with Reba, Dolly aboard\n05\/02\/19: Underwood opens tour\n01\/23\/19: Underwood gives birth\n09\/27\/18: Underwood tops charts\n09\/17\/18: Underwood discloses miscarriages\n09\/14\/18: Underwood, Nelson release new albums\nCD reviews for Carrie Underwood\nCry Pretty\nCarrie Underwood's life was reading straight from the storybooks: one of the few American Idol Winners with ongoing success; a professional athlete for a husband; a beautiful baby boy. The string of great fortune turned sharply in 2017, when Underwood began the unfathomable experience of three consecutive lost pregnancies. This was atop a frightening fall at her home that ended with her face in nearly 50 stitches. Sharing these moments with her fans makes the beamingly-beautiful singer \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nCarrie Underwood's powerful voice has been her calling card throughout her career, and that is no different on her latest. She has always possessed a voice that can be chameleon-like and work with the material at hand. Underwood does that again on these 13 songs, 6 of which she helped pen. Underwood knows a thing or two about writing or finding material that fits her commercial orientation as almost all 13 could conceivably be picked as singles. They are big sounding, big voiced and radio ready. \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nGreatest Hits: Decade #1\nGreatest hits albums are often derided as creative placeholders, or worse yet, contractual obligations. In Carrie Underwood's case, the album subtitled \"Decade #1\" is a chance to take a somewhat awe inspired look at what a successful career this American Idol alumnus has already had to date. One of its two new songs, the single \"Something in the Water,\" is a wonderfully gutsy move on Underwood's part. Country is one of the rare genres where a Christian can sing of \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nEditorial: Walking the talk \u2013 When names like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon and the Hag are invoked, you're talking hard core country. These are the touchstones of country , the guys who made country music what it was and still is (or maybe can be). When these folks would sing about being down-and-out and the rough-and-tumble, they knew of what they were singing about. Fast forward a few years to the country singers of today. \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nConcert Review: With or without band, Isbell satisfies \u2013 Usually, when an artist performs without his regular backing band, it becomes about mathematics of subtraction. That artist is armed with far fewer artistic weapons at his\/her disposal, after all. In Jason Isbell's case, though, when he performed with just his wife and fiddler Amanda Shires, it was more about substitution than subtraction.... \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nConcert Review: Grammy nominations aside, Yola, Kiah are the real deal \u2013 Grammy nominations do not make the artist, but Yola and opener Amythyst Kiah underscored time and again on this night that the honors were well deserved. In fact, Yola and Kiah's other group, Our Native Daughters, are nominated in the same category - Best American Roots. Yola has three other nominations as well. The clear winners... \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nFollow Country Standard Time\nElsewhere in the news\nStuart releases \"The Pilgrim\" as a book\nSony signs Ellis\nSinger David Olney dies at 71\nMacBryde announces April release date\nLynch, Little Big Town drop new discs\nBryan slates new album, tour\nWe Are Old Dominion Tour announced\nDoc on Van Zandt, Clarks debuts at SXSW 2020\nCurrently at the CST blogs\nA musical journey with George Strait\nA unique show with The Trishas...\nGeorge Strait, country's greatest singer, to ride away in Houston\nLike A Rose highlights Ashley Monroe as a solo artist\nRaelynn's got a great sound!\nHappy New Year, Country Music fans!\nA Good Night for Country Music, past and present\nWomen of Texas Country\nThe Mavericks \"Play the Hits\"\nWhen recording its album \"Play the Hits,\" The Mavericks approached this covers album in much the same way the band creates any of its other studio albums. \"Above all, we're always trying to reach a certain musical bar that we... \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nLarue moves \"Onward\"\nThe release of \"Onward,\" his eighth studio album, finds veteran Texas Music\/Red Dirt artist Stoney Larue at a crossroads. After almost two decades on the road, playing 200 shows a year across America and abroad, he has had success... \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nWillis, Robison spin \"Beautiful Lie\"\nEleven years ago, Kelly stepped away from music. She had just finished touring on 2007's exquisite \"Translated From Love\" and felt the angst of being a travelling musician with family at home. At that point, Willis and her husband, musician\/producer Bruce Robison,... \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nLittle Big Town gets billed as a country music vocal group, but \"Nightfall\" plays out more like a four-headed singer-songwriter effort. Many of these songs hearken back to some of the best '70s introspective songwriter efforts. \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nHawktail features some of the finest players of a generation in traditional American acoustic music. The product of their collaboration, \"Formations,\" is a testament to the musical milieu in which they create. \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nFully Loaded: God's Country\nBlake Shelton has been openly critical of the traditional album format. \"Fully Loaded: God's Country\" is his fourth greatest hits album and third in the \"Loaded\" series. In an effort to release music more often, he packages five new songs \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\nHollywood may be pushing a broadminded agenda where there are more genders than one can even count, but in Jason Aldean's world, there are only two: tough guys, and the women that love them. There's no confusion \u00bb\u00bb\u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Fiesta 13\nCapitali$m $uck$\nInception (2010) Review\nJuly 27, 2010 September 4, 2010 gebryan\nI think Christopher Nolan considers himself some kind of meticulous watch maker. Inception has shot after shot of clocks. In the movie it's to remind you of the warping of time that makes the story trippy. Subtly, the clocks, along with the idea as the mind and world as just a function of architecture, reinforce the notion of machine. Machine, like The Matrix was a machine; machine like the body as a watch as in his first big film, Memento.\nAnd as with all machines, Nolan seems to think the machine can be fucked with which is opposite the notion of many Sci-fi movies with their notions as machine as overlord and future master. Even the dream state can be manufactured, manipulated, spindled, changed and corrupted. Our brain as the watch the watch maker can tinker with.\nThis is all fine and good, except Christopher Nolan breaks his own premise and his own rules which is where his finely crafted watch starts to break down.\nSPOILERS AHEAD! DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE!\nEvery one will eventually see Inception. It's like his two biggest movies, The Dark Night and Memento. Every one will see it just to see what the fuss is all about. While I'd watch Memento again, I don't think I need to see Inception or The Dark Night. Both movies suffer from the same flaw: they over reach their Philosophy 101 premises. That's not to say both movies weren't great rides filled with technical craft and breath taking moments, but the more I think about each film, the less I like them.\nThere's a lot of buy-in to Inception, much to accept as a premise. That's fine. The first half of the movie is a mix of setting up the rules and then getting the crew together a la Ocean's Eleven. The action sequences that fill the second half of the movie are a mixed bag with the anti-gravity stuff being the best and the retread James Bond snow scenes the slowest. The problem is the second half breaks the rules in the first half. For example, if you die, you wake up. Not so in the second half, you go to limbo\u2013 a place that doesn't have an architect which the movie goes out of the way to say is needed. The while process of jumping out of the dream seems convoluted and made up compared to the first half. Plus, at the end of the day, emotional reality, that is what a person feels is true, trumps actual reality. So much so, a man being able to see his kids is more moral than worldwide global crisis this merry band of criminals create by planting an idea in in the unwitting mark's head.\nWhile I did enjoy the movie, here's a short list of pet peeves about Inception:\nShowing the last scene of a movie first is now a cliche. More often than not, it fails to build interest and instead ruins many plot points. I knew right away not only would Leonardo hook up with the 'bad guy,' but that he would die in a dream.\nNo more anonymous guys in jumpsuits and masks shooting at the heros who are also in jumpsuit and masks. Bleh. We know they'll get out ok and it's just confusing figuring out which character is being shot or shot at.\nWhile the last shot was neat, man did I see that coming.\nHow do you go into a dream inside of a dream. The more I think about it the more it's dumb.\nA character as audience surrogate. I love Ellen Page and she did great, but 80% of her dialog was just asking questions about how it all worked. For those that found the movie confusing, did you ignore all of her dialogue? I actually wanted more ambiguity. It's like hiring an inquisitive kindergardener to help rob a bank.\nThis was the most complex, least thought out plan in the history of the big scam. Go inside a man's head three layers deep to get him to think about a vague idea. Uh-huh. Oh, and once you get there, have no idea what to do or tell the other members about the dangers. Seriously, if I was the French dude I would have kicked Leo's ass. It's like walking into a bank on stilts, then deciding to rob it with little or no escape plan.\nOne of the problems with big, event movies is, man, they look great. Yea, I know that's not a problem, but the great acting, design, editing, well-defined emotional arcs, cinematography, snappy dialogue, and firm direction often leaves me feeling more empty than a smaller movie with messier, grander and looser problems.\nI guess what I'm saying is a pretty action picture with some off the shelf philosophy and dream iconography is still mostly a pretty action picture.\nBut the effects were great.\nPrevious Article Retribution (2006) review\nNext Article Revanche (2008) Review\ntaxonomy_4\ngebryan (1)\nThe Fiesta 13 (143)\nThe Year of Fun (142)\nNoir Art (33)\nCapitali$m $uck$ (28)\nNetflix Streaming (18)\n\u00ab Mar Aug \u00bb\nTweets by TheFiesta13\nThe Fiesta 13 YouTube Channel\nFollow The Fiesta 13 on WordPress.com\nThe Fiesta 13 Facebook Page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[ARCHIVED] Update: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration\nUPDATE: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CELEBRATION\nMartin Luther King, Jr. in-person celebration will be held virtually\nDAVIE, Fla. \u2013 With public health concerns related to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the Town of Davie has elected to transition the in-person Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration scheduled for Jan. 16, 2022, to a virtual celebration on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022.\nThe virtual event will begin at 10 a.m. on the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Facebook page at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavieParksRec.\nThis celebration will feature music and video messages from Mayor Judy Paul, Town Councilmembers and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.\nDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Poetry Contest\nThe Town of Davie will continue to accept entries from Davie students for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. poetry contest. Winners will be announced online at www.facebook.com\/DavieParksRec.\nTo participate, poems must feature Dr. King's values of peace, love, unity, concern for humanity and non-violence.\nAll entries must be submitted to the Town of Davie via the online registration form at www.davie-fl.gov\/poetrycontest by Jan. 10, 2022, at 4 p.m.\nFor more information regarding the event and poetry contest, please contact the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department at 954-797-1181 or email [email protected].\nTown of Davie Closures\nIn observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Town of Davie municipal offices will be closed on Jan. 17, 2022. Municipal offices will resume regular operations on Jan. 18, 2022.\nPlease take note of the following Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts facility hours below.\nPine Island Fitness Center will open from 5 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.\nPine Island Aquatic Center will open from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.\nPine Island Multipurpose Center will be closed.\nProgrammed sports activities will not be performed on this day.\nTown parks will be open from 9 a.m. to sunset. With the exception of:\nDriftwood, Shenandoah, Waterford and Waverly Park will close at 9 p.m.\nPine Island Park\/Bamford Sports Complex will close at 10 p.m.\nFor information regarding COVID-19, please visit www.davie-fl.gov\/coronavirus.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Four Libyan soldiers die in first clash of force's southward push\nBENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - At least four Libyan soldiers were killed on Friday when forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar fought with a local armed group as they sought to expand south, military officials said, with the World Health Organization putting the overall death toll at 14.\nLibya has been in turmoil since the NATO-backed toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with parallel administrations and armed groups carving the nation into swathes of control.\nFriday's clashes were the first real resistance the Libyan National Army (LNA) faction faced since arriving in the south two weeks ago from its main eastern stronghold of Benghazi.\nAn official at the WHO said the fighting had killed 14 and wounded 64, mostly from the LNA's opponents. No more information was immediately available.\nLNA officials said clashes began when soldiers left the main southern city of Sabha and arrived in the nearby town of Ghudduwah. It backed troops with air strikes on the \"terrorists\" and \"Chadian mercenaries\", the officials said, using a pejorative for Chadian opposition groups active in south Libya.\nAs well as the four LNA fatalities, several of its soldiers were wounded, the officials said.\nA WHO official said on Twitter the organisation had delivered emergency supplies to a local hospital.\nThe LNA spent the last two weeks securing Sabha, which had been nominally under the control of the internationally-recognised government in Tripoli but was in practice run by local groups including tribes.\nThe LNA says its campaign is intended to combat Islamic militants and secure oil facilities in the south, which include El Sharara oilfield, Libya's biggest. It has been closed since December when tribesmen and state guards seized it.\nThe LNA, whose commander Haftar dominates eastern Libya, is allied to a parallel government in Benghazi that opposes the Tripoli administration.\nReporting by Ayman al-Warfalli and Ulf Laessing; writing by Ulf Laessing; editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Rosalba O'Brien","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Honest Trailers Presents Disney's 'Moana'\nBy Dr. Zaius | @ | March 7th, 2017 at 5:18 pm\nIt's always great when the gang at Screen Junkies takes on Disney films in their Honest Trailers series. Not only do we get quality comedy, but Weird Al-style parodies of classic Disney songs. This time, it's the newest Disney animated film with strong female characters, no forced romance, and a celebration of Polynesian culture\u2026 Lilo and Stitch\u2026 wait no\u2026 Moana. Narrator Jon Bailey is hilarious as usual, and since the songs are literally implanted in my head at this point, I'm sure this HT will do me no favors.\nTopics: Humor, Movies, News, Videos\nTags: Disney, Honest Trailer, Honest Trailers, Moana, Walt Disney Animation Studios\nBlu-ray Review: Moana\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | March 7th, 2017 at 3:45 pm\nBlu-ray l DVD l Collector's Edition\nDirector: Ron Clements and John Musker\nScreenwriter: Jared Bush\nCast: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, Rachel House, Jemaine Clement\nDistributor: Walt Disney Studios\nRated PG | 113 minutes\nLast year, Disney released two Oscar-nominated animated films: Zootopia and Moana. Choosing a favorite between the two was no easy decision. Both had gorgeous animation and both and beautiful stories to tell. The former had themes of inclusion and welcoming diversity, while the latter focused on a spirited young girl who strived for independence but also wanted to pay respect to her family's history and culture. In the end, Zootopia came out the winner, but you can make an argument for Moana being the better film.\nNow you'll be able to make a comparison with Moana hitting Blu-ray shelves this week. The film, of course, comes chalk full of bonus feature goodies which include deleted scenes, an animated short, and the Polynesian culture that helped inspire the film in more ways than one. Check out the full review below.\nTopics: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Review, DVDs, Movies, Reviews\nTags: Alan Tudyk, Auli'i Cravalho, Disney, Dwayne Johnson, Jared Bush, Jemaine Clement, John Musker, Moana, Nicole Scherzinger, Rachel House, Ron Clements, Temuera Morrison, Walt Disney Studios\n'Moana' Sing-Along Coming Soon To A Theater Near You\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | January 11th, 2017 at 1:00 pm\nDisney re-releasing current films as sing-alongs are quickly becoming a staple. Because it was such a hit with Frozen a few years back, the studio decided to bring it back again, this time for their current hit film Moana.\nFind out more about it below.\nTopics: Movies, News\nTags: Auli'i Cravalho, Disney, Dwayne Johnson, John Musker, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Mancina, Moana, Opetaia Foa'i, Ron Clements, Walt Disney Studios\nDisney In Depth: 2016 Animation Battle: 'Moana' v. 'Finding Dory' v. 'Zootopia'\nBy Brett Nachman | @ | December 1st, 2016 at 8:00 pm\nThe Walt Disney Studios released three critically\/viewer acclaimed films in 2016 that also were major financial hits \u2013 Moana still pending, but early signs look favorable; Finding Dory; and Zootopia.\nWhich of the three films, though, is the best? That's like picking a favorite child, considering each movie's unique strengths. To help determine the winner \u2013 in my book, at least \u2013 I have established a bunch of categories that apply to all of the films. Let the battle commence!\nLeave a comment: 1 Comment \u00bb\nTopics: Animated, Disney In Depth, Features, Movies\nTags: Disney, Disney In Depth, Finding Dory, Moana, Pixar, The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Pictures, Zootopia\n'Moana': Watch Dwayne Johnson Sing \"You're Welcome\" In Its Entirety\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | November 29th, 2016 at 2:00 pm\nLast weekend, many turned to the movie theaters to get away from families or crazed shoppers. While there was a lot to offer, Moana ended up being the number one film of the weekend, taking in $82 million in its debut.\nIf you haven't seen it yet, well then you're missing out on one of the greatest Disney movies ever (check out our review here). And to prove it, Disney has released a full music sequence from the film that sees Dwayne Johnson singing his song \"You're Welcome.\" Check it out below.\nTopics: Animated, Movies, Music, News, Videos\nLin-Manuel Miranda On Creating The Music For 'Moana' and Finding Dwayne Johnson's Vocal Range\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | November 23rd, 2016 at 1:51 pm\nMusic was a huge part of making Moana great, and none of that would have been accomplished without the collaboration of Grammy-award winner Opetaia Foa'i, Disney alum Mark Mancina, and (soon to be) EGOT Lin-Manuel Miranda. Each one of them brought in their own personalities to the film, with Foa'i bringing the music of the Polynesian culture, Mancina with his Disney experience, and Miranda, who really needs no reference unless you haven't heard of the Tony Award-winning Hamilton. The songs are a celebration of culture and finding one's identity, and they are so much fun that they don't feel overly preachy.\nWe were recently invited to sit down with our fellow journalists to talk to Miranda and Foa'i about the music of Disney Moana, their inspiration, working together, and discovering Dwayne Johnson's vocal range. Check out all of that below.\nTopics: Features, Interviews, Movies\nTags: Dwayne Johnson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moana, Opetaia Foa'i, Osnat Shurer, Ron Clements, Walt Disney Studios\nDisney's 'Moana': Dwayne Johnson & Auli'i Cravalho On The Spirit Of Aloha\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | November 23rd, 2016 at 11:45 am\nDwyane Johnson stars as Maui, a boisterous demi-god who is a trickster and can morph into any animal he chooses, in Disney's latest animated feature Moana. While the character can let some of his godly acts and heroism feed his ego, it is Moana (voice of Auli'i Cravalho), the 16-year-old daughter of a chief, who teaches him a lesson in modesty and helps him find his lost identity as she searches for her own. Together, they voyage across the ocean to return the Heart of Tefiti to its rightful place in hopes that it will restore all life to what it once was.\nWe were recently invited to sit down with fellow journalists at the press conference for the film, where Johnson and Cravalho talked about bringing the spirit of Aloha to Moana and what it meant for them to share their Polynesian culture with the world. Check out what they had to say below.\nTags: Auli'i Cravalho, Disney, Dwayne Johnson, Moana, Walt Disney Studios\nMovie Review: Disney's 'Moana'\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | November 16th, 2016 at 12:26 pm\nThese are trying times. With an unknown future ahead of us, there is no doubt in my mind that we will need more movies like Moana. Not in terms of just needing more animated features, even though I really do love those, but in terms of delivering a powerful message of searching for identity, female empowerment, never forgetting where you come from, and remembering that not only do princesses come in just more than one color and they too can do a man's job as well.\nMoana reminds us just how far Disney Animation has come, and with a great voice cast and some catchy tunes, it will be a film that is recognized for more than just its animation, but also for celebrating and honoring a culture. Just don't forget to bring idiotic chicken along with you, because they are good for more than just a few laughs. My full review below.\nTopics: Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews\n'Moana' Interview: Jared Bush and Dave Pimentel Talk Disney's Polynesian Princess Tale\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | November 2nd, 2016 at 12:00 pm\nBack in September, we shared what we learned from watching an early preview of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Moana. John Musker and Ron Clements return to collaborate for their seventh film together, and their first CGI film which follows the title character as she goes on a journey of self-discovery and saving her people. A five-year long process in development, the movie will be released in theaters in just a few short weeks, and now we can give you our final piece from that presentation that we were invited to (along with our fellow journalists) back in August.\nIn this exclusive one-on-one interview, we talk to Moana writers Jared Bush and Dave Pimentel about collaborating with the Oceanic Story Trust to develop the story, finding out what a movie wants to say, avoiding being too preachy, the 12 screening process, and much more. Check out the full interview below.\nTags: Auli'i Cravalho, Dave Pimentel, Disney, Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson, Dwayne Johnson, Jared Bush, John Musker, Moana, Ron Clements, Walt Disney Studio Animation, Walt Disney Studios\nDwayne Johnson Sings \"You're Welcome\" From Disney's 'Moana'\nBy eelyajekiM | @ | October 25th, 2016 at 11:00 am\nBased on our coverage of Moana, we know that Maui (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) is a rather arrogant demi-god who needs a lesson in humility. Enter Moana (voiced by Auli'i Cravalho), a natural born navigator who is on a quest to save her native home island of Motonui.\nIt will be very interesting to see how a young teenager will put up with someone who is as obnoxious and confident as Maui, and we start to see just a little bit of the chemistry between the two in two new clips from the film. One which will showcase Johnson's talents as a singer, and the other when the two meet each other for the first time. Check it out below.\nTopics: Animated, Movies, News, Videos\nTags: Alan Tudyk, Auli'i Cravalho, Dave Pimentel, Disney, Dwayne Johnson, Eric Goldman, Jared Bush, Jemaine Clement, John Musker, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Mancina, Moana, Nicole Scherzinger, Opetaia Foa'i, Osnat Shurer, Rachel House, Ron Clements, Temuera Morrison, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios\n\u00ab Previous Articles","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Close Research Overview\nCenter for Nuclear Research\nAdvanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute\nClose People Overview\nRecent MS\/PhD Graduates\nAward-Winning Instructors\nPh.D. Physics Alumni\nDiversity in Our Department\nClose Undergraduate Programs Overview\nCredit by Examination\nSeven Ideas that Shook the Universe\nCombined BS\/MA Program\nPhysics Minor\nScholarships for Physics Majors\nUndergraduate Research in Physics\nClose Graduate Programs Overview\nSample Candidacy Exams\nGraduate-level Applicants FAQs\nGraduate Program Applicants\nInformation and Policy Guide\nDepartmental Graduate Awards\nClose General Information Overview\nDepartmental News\nCharter for the Center for Nuclear Research\nThe purpose of the Charter for the Center for Nuclear Research (CNR) is to outline the structure and operation of the CNR as it affects faculty and students. This Charter shall become effective upon its approval by the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Physics and the establishment of the CNR by the University.\nThe policies, regulations, and procedures outlined in this Charter shall apply in all cases where Departmental, Collegial, or University policies, regulations, or procedures do not apply. Should a conflict arise, Department, Collegial, and University policies, regulations, and procedures shall take precedence over policies, relations, and procedures of the CNR. Department, Collegial and University policies, relations, and procedures are included in, but not limited to, the University Register, College policy documents, the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), and the Physics Department Handbook.\nThe purpose of the Center for Nuclear Research shall be to support, enhance, and promote the academic activities in the Nuclear Physics program conducted by the faculty, staff, research associates, and graduate students of the Kent State University Physics Department. The objectives of the CNR are:\na. To enhance the visibility of the Nuclear Physics program on a national and international level;\nb. To attract quality graduate students in sufficient numbers;\nc. To strengthen the academic environment through a visiting scholars program in Nuclear Physics;\nd. To coordinate and strengthen collaborations with scientists at institutions throughout the world;\ne. To foster extramurally sponsored research.\n2. Membership\nMembership in the CNR shall be open to faculty, staff, research associates, graduate students, and visitors at Kent State University who are engaged in research in Nuclear Physics.\n3. Executive Committee\nThe CNR shall be governed by an Executive Committee consisting of all members of the CNR who are regular, full-time, Kent Campus faculty members in the Kent State Physics Department with the Department Chair serving, ex-officio, without vote. The Executive Committee may enlarge its membership to include additional members of the CNR if two-thirds of the current members of the Executive Committee are in agreement; the status of these additional members of the Executive Committee shall be reviewed annually.\nThe Executive Committee shall determine and review policy and budget for the CNR and shall make all decisions regarding staff for the CNR.\n4. Director\nThe CNR shall be managed by a Director, selected by the Executive Committee from among its tenured members; this selection must be approved by the Department Chair, the Collegial Dean, and the Vice President and Provost. The Director shall serve for a two-year term beginning in an even-numbered year. The Director is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the CNR including management of the staff of the CNR.\nThe Director shall be accountable to the Executive Committee for his management decisions. The Director shall bring all major management decisions to the Executive Committee for approval and shall make recommendations regarding staff to the Executive Committee. The Director will normally preside over meetings of the Executive Committee.\nWith the concurrence of the Executive Committee, the Director may appoint a member of the Executive Committee as an Associate Director to act in the Director's absence from campus and to assist with the management of the activities of the Center including preparation of reports and proposals, and monitoring of budgets. The Associate Director appointment must be approved by the Department Chair.\nTo facilitate professional management and conduct of the activities of the CNR, a work load equivalency of up to 3 credit hours per semester will normally be assigned by the Department Chair to the Director and may be shared with the Associate Director.\n5. Meetings\nMeetings of the Executive Committee may be called by either the Director or his designate.\n6. Reviews\nThe performance of the Director may be reviewed annually, or more often should circumstances warrant.\n7. Vacancies\nShould the Director be unable to complete the two-year term of service due to illness, retirement, sabbatical, leave of absence, or other reasons, the Executive Committee shall select a replacement to serve the remainder of the two-year term.\nAmendments to this Charter may be adopted by action of the Executive Committee. Such action normally requires a reading of the proposed amendment at one meeting followed by a two-thirds vote at a subsequent meeting. The Graduate Faculty of the Department of Physics are to be consulted on such amendments at a Graduate Faculty meeting before endorsement is sought from the Department Chair, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Vice President and Provost.\nThe initial Charter was approved at the establishment of the Center by resolution of the Board of Trustees, June 22, 1988. The Charter above is the amended version approved by the Department Chair, the Collegial Dean, and the Provost, May 14, 1999.\n103 Smith Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242\n330-672-2246 physics-web@kent.edu","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Author and Crocheter\nEileen Troemel\nDefenders Series\nDragon Descendants\nMoments in\u2026 Series\nMoon Affirmations\nWayfarer Series\nWild Magic Series\nAfghans \/ Blankets \/ Throws\nHats, Bandanas & Headbands\nHat & Scarf Sets\nHome Decor \/ Kitchen\nDragon's Den Blog\nTips for Authors\nARC Readers\nTag: Kyle Shoop\nOctober 13, 2020 October 11, 2020 by eileentroemel, posted in Book Tour\nSenses of Love Book 3\nby Kyle Shoop\nDashing. Funny. Confident. Empathetic.\nTwo different men share these traits. Which one will Nikki pick?\nNikki had two goals in life: to become a famous wedding chef and to find love. She always felt that only one of these goals was realistic, while the other seemed like a dream influenced by her years of being a server at other people's weddings in downtown New York City. But which goal would it be? Would it ever be her turn to wear the wedding dress?\nNikki wasn't just trying to find a husband, she was looking for love. Or, rather, she was interviewing to find it \u2013 on first dates, twice a week. At the same restaurant. At the same table. With the same rehearsed lines and questions. But with different men. After a year, she was a pro at first dates and judging which men were right for her: none.\nBut then it happened. Nikki actually asked a guy out on a second date. Was she finally on the path to love? He was, after all, dashing, funny, confident, and empathetic \u2013 easily checking all of her boxes.\nBut then it happened \u2026 again. This time by happenstance. A second date with a different guy. He, too, was dashing, funny, confident, and empathetic \u2013 but in a different way. Nikki was in trouble. That lofty goal of finding love had backfired. Now, she was in love with two different men.\nLove is the sweetest adventure. One with more ingredients than just check-boxes. But when faced with two different recipes for love, which one will Nikki choose?\nExperience the new book in the compelling \"Senses of Love\" romance anthology series. The first two books, The Sound of Love and The Sight of Love, are also available. The books in the series may be read in any order.\nGoodreads * Amazon\nThe Sight of Love\nKyle Shoop is a multi-genre author of compelling stories. His new \"Senses of Love\" series is a romance series that provides rewarding and inspirational stories.\nKyle is also the author of the Acea Bishop Trilogy, which is an action-packed fantasy series. All books in that series are now available, with Acea and the Animal Kingdom being the first book.\nAt a young age, Kyle was recognized for his storytelling by being awarded the first-place Gold Key award for fiction writing in Washington State. After spending several years volunteering in his wife's elementary classrooms, he was inspired to write the Acea Bishop Trilogy. He is now motivated to finish his the new romance series. In addition to writing novels, Kyle is also a practicing attorney.\nKyle and is wife and two children are currently living in Utah.\nWebsite * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * Bookbub * Goodreads\nTagged A Taste of Love, Kyle ShoopLeave a comment\nThe Senses of Love\nFebruary 5, 2020 January 20, 2020 by eileentroemel, posted in Book Tour\nWords than can't be spoken can still be sung.\nSometimes the most beautiful relationships between two individuals blossom from moments of tragedy.\nCharlotte and John grew up as young orphans in the secluded outskirts of a rural town. Each day, they'd sneak out to the nearby forest to escape the cold grasp of the orphanage's tyrant-ruler, by creating an imaginary kingdom together. However, their worlds, and the safety that came from their friendship, were suddenly ripped apart when they got caught.\nYears later, Charlotte conquered the marketing world in downtown Portland. Having gained normalcy in her life since her days in the orphanage, Charlotte never expected her world to be turned upside down by John abruptly being thrust back into her life.\nHowever, the years since the orphanage had not at all been kind to John, leaving him unable to open up to Charlotte about the details. So, she reignites John's love for playing music, finding that his songwriting is the only way to help him express what he otherwise has difficulty saying. But in doing so, the reunited couple discovers that John's love for music may not have been the only fire waiting to be rekindled.\nWould what began as two children playing in the woods in the heart of tragedy blossom into long-awaited, and much desired, love?\nDoes love at first sight exist when love is blind?\nEthan was born to paint. His pursuit of beauty and meaning through art was the only thing his heart desired above all else. Until he met Rose.\nIt was love at first sight. A love which was as inspiring and captivating as the delicate life which radiated from a fresh rose. Her sight intoxicating. Her personality angelic. Her love instantaneous and unselfish.\nBut was that love enough to last a lifetime? Art often requires sacrifice. But Ethan's life wasn't just full of sacrifice for his passion, it would become marked with significant loss. An unforeseeable loss beyond his control and undercutting all which he sought in life.\nEach moment of life is just a brush stroke in a larger painting. Would the love between Ethan and Rose be just the first brush stroke, or instead the reason to keep painting?\nExperience the second book in the compelling \"Senses of Love\" series.\nAt a young age, Kyle was recognized for his storytelling by being awarded the first-place Gold Key award for fiction writing in Washington State. After spending several years volunteering in his wife's elementary classrooms, he was inspired to write the Acea Bishop Trilogy. He is now motivated to finish his the new romance series. In addition to writing novels, Kyle is also a practicing attorney. Kyle and is wife and two children are currently living in Utah.\nA digital copy of the music soundtrack written specifically for The Sound of Love \u2013 all written, performed and recorded by the author Kyle Shoop\nTagged contemporary romance, Kyle Shoop, Senses of Love, The Sound of LoveLeave a comment\nMasterton Brothers\nClean Slate: Diva's Ink\nOverseer's Fierce Mate\nTiger Dragon Forbidden Mate\nSusan Horsnell on Masterton Brothers\nJoy on Christine Cazaly\nDenise on Dark Sun\nCat Savage Sarno on Dark Sun\neileentroemel on Phoenix Flames: A Conspiracy of Ravens Book Two\nDragon's Den is hidden in the mystical realms. It's a deluxe cave with all the mod cons including the internet. Please use the link above to get in touch.\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Eileen Troemel\nAll photos and articles on this web site belong to the people noted on them. 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{"text":"Tiny Raises $4M from BlueRun Ventures to Advance Rich-Text Editing\nOctober 2, 2018 By Technologies.org Leave a Comment\nTiny, the rich-text editing platform that helped launch and scale successful brands including Atlassian, Medium, Evernote, Zendesk, Drift, and WordPress, announced today that it raised $4M in Series A funding led by BlueRun Ventures. Additionally, the company introduced a cloud file management system, Tiny Drive, and a preview of a new user interface in the upcoming version 5 of TinyMCE. Tiny is also introducing three new partners as the start of an expanded app directory.\nTiny's extended platform of premium plugins, cloud services, and support has attracted more than 1,000 paying customers and OEM partners including IBM, Adobe, Boeing, NASDAQ, VISA, and Ubisoft. With the support of its large open-source community, TinyMCE has become synonymous with rich text editing and is used by millions of people each day.\n\"Writing long-form content is as popular as ever, particularly in the workplace,\" said Andrew Roberts, co-founder and CEO of Tiny. \"Businesses today will only succeed if they remove obstacles to how content is captured, shaped, shared and published.\"\n\"Over the past fourteen years, Tiny has delivered truly great writing experiences to millions. Developers appreciate the seamlessness of Tiny, its laser-focused functionality and the incomparable value it delivers,\" said Jeff Tannenbaum, Partner at BlueRun Ventures. \"I'm thrilled to partner with Andrew and the team as they build the next phase of rich-text editing and unlock tremendous opportunities for companies of all sizes.\"\nIn addition to today's funding, Tiny announced two new product releases and a partner program to help its paying customers and open source community continue to build great writing experiences.\nTiny Drive \u2013 Available today for developers to easily add asset management to their applications. With Tiny Drive, end users can easily upload and manage images and files using Tiny Cloud. It is integrated with the TinyMCE UI and is the fastest way for developers to add rich media capabilities to their applications. Start using Tiny Drive here.\nTinyMCE 5 \u2013 The next major release of TinyMCE is now in developer preview. It introduces a new library of UI components, a CSS framework to integrate the UI into custom design systems, and a new set of APIs that make it easier to build custom plugins. Learn more and access the developer preview for Tiny's blog post here.\nTiny App Directory \u2013 Tiny has many third-party developers building plugins on its platform. This ecosystem offers developers a large set of possibilities when integrating TinyMCE into their applications. Today, the company announced a new program for customers to easily connect with top extensions. Tiny's inaugural partners include:\nHighcharts \u2013 Insert SVG-based, multi-platform charts into content.\nCodox \u2013 Enable real-time co-editing.\nNifty Images \u2013 Insert personalized images, countdown timers and live social feeds.\nToday's funding, product releases, and partnership announcements are paving the way for Tiny to be the platform of choice for embedding content creation capabilities in applications.\nAbout Tiny Technologies, Inc\nTiny is the rich text editing platform that helped launch and scale the adoption of WordPress, Medium, Marketo, Zendesk, Atlassian and many more. More than 1M developers and 1,000 paying customers count on the TinyMCE open-source core and the extended platform of premium plugins, cloud services, and support. Using Tiny, companies quickly deploy capabilities that enable their end users to create quality content and increase productivity. Tiny is a private company with series A funding from BlueRun Ventures. To learn more about Tiny, please visit www.tiny.cloud.\nSOURCE Tiny Technologies\nhttp:\/\/www.tiny.cloud\nCloudflare Registers Trademark for The Network is the Computer\u00ae: Former Sun Microsystems phrase highlights Cloudflare's leadership in serverless edge computing\nIBM Unveils World's First Multicloud Management Technology\nHere's What You Can't Miss at CES 2019\nMapR Chief Application Architect Examines Best Practices for Maximizing Data-Driven Applications","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About the Author GDS Investments\nGlenn started GDS Investments in 2012. From 2001 to 2012, he worked for Alsin Capital Management, Inc. as an equity research analyst (2001-2003), co-portfolio manager (2003-2008), and most recently as portfolio manager (2008-2012). Before joining ACM, Glenn worked for Enron Corp. as a derivatives structuring manager, and for Commerce Bancorp (now TD Bank) as a commercial real estate credit analyst. Since inception (December 2008), client portfolios are up more than 24% annually (through 6.30.2013). He serves as an advisory board member of Value Conferences, an online-only conference featuring some of the most prestigious value investors across the globe. Glenn has a BA in Management (Accounting concentration) from Gettysburg College and an MBA (Finance concentration) from Southern Methodist University. He graduated in the top 10% of his MBA class and participated in study abroad programs both as an undergraduate (Seville, Spain) and graduate student (Melbourne, Australia). His hobbies include running, cycling, golfing and youth coaching.\nTop 5 For 2015, Part 3\nGDS Investments- February 8, 2015, 8:20 AM EDT\nIn my first two Top 5 columns, I recommended Fairway Group (NASDAQ:FWM), Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) and Chicago Bridge & Iron (NYSE:CBI). To get things started for my final Top 5 column, I pose this question: \"Has the Internet been a net benefit or a net cost to the average investor?\" Before I begin, I'd like to first tell a brief story about an investor conference I recently participated in. As is customary, before diving into the heart of the presentation, I provided some background about my firm, its investment philosophy, performance results, etc. In the middle of talking about special situations investing, finding top quartile stocks (in terms of quality) with bottom quartile valuations (Magic Formula Investing) and other core tenets of my investing philosophy, a parallel picture began to emerge. A picture of two long, winding roads that intersect\u2026one named \"preparation\" and the other \"patience.\" To be a great investor, one needs to be at the intersection of preparation and patience. Being exceptional at one and not the other is a recipe for underperformance.\nI know, I know, I know\u2026how does this tie into my original question about the Internet? Well let's address this question through the impact it has had on the two variables that drive investment success. I would argue that its impact on investment \"preparation\" is negligible at best. Certainly, it is much easier to access raw data for a particular company today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Every public company has a website with convenient access to SEC filings, press releases, conference calls and investor presentations. Clearly, this is an example of a positive byproduct of the web; but it is rare for humans to cherry-pick the good without consuming the bad. Very few investors stop their research at company websites. Most carry on to a murkier world of internet journalism that includes recycled research [sourced from the same person(s)] and, lazy and\/or incomplete analysis (quantity over quality mentality). In addition, there is an overemphasis on today's events while simultaneously providing investment advice on companies that are discounting future ones. Investors should tread carefully when incorporating information into investment decisions that stray from the original source.\nHowever, between the two, patience is where the Internet has done the greatest harm to the average investor. Just to be clear, I define patience as what happens after a stock is purchased (the \"ownership\" phase). Cheap commissions, a constant flurry of quotes, the news and other distractions have turned stock \"owners\" into \"renters.\" The Internet, and all of the noise that accompanies it, is directly responsible for the increase in investor turnover over the last 15 years. One \"law\" of behavioral finance is that more information and greater attention to your investments actually leads to higher turnover \u2013 the enemy of long-term performance. Furthermore, \"renting\" stocks invalidates everything that went into the preparation stage. It has been my experience that the investment mind is much more rational during the preparation stage than the patience (ownership) stage simply because investment losses become real during the latter stage. For the average investor, losses lead to stress which leads to shorter investment horizons and an increase in emotionally-guided decision making.\nMany stock \"renters\" would be wise to embrace the lyrics of Jerry Garcia who sang:\n\"Check my pulse, it don't change. Stay seventy-two come shine or rain.\"\nWith that, I present to you my last two picks for 2015.\nRayonier Advanced Materials (NYSE:RYAM) is the leading producer of high-purity, cellulose specialties natural polymers for the chemical industry. RYAM spun out of Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) in June 2014 and is the undisputed market leader with 38 percent share and more than three times the volume as the next three largest suppliers combined. This is important to note for the following reasons:\nFirstly, dominant market share creates economies of scale which produces high return on invested capital (for example, in the last 10 years, Rayonier has averaged 30 percent EBITDA and 20 percent return on invested capital).\nSecondly, excess capacity in industries with a handful of larger players can be absorbed more quickly and with better price integrity than in industries with fragmented supply. Since Rayonier's two largest competitors represent approximately two-thirds of total industry supply, the industry can quickly adjust capacity in difficult pricing environments. Industry capacity went up 15 percent in 2013, the majority of which came from Rayonier's decision several years ago to convert 240k tons of commodity-grade to specialty-grade capacity. Although this $385M project has put pressure on industry margins today, it should enhance profitability in the long-term.\nThe spin-off and near-term pricing pressure has created an opportunity for investors to own a dominant number one in a consolidated industry with substantial barriers to entry, at less than half of fair value. As excess capacity rationalizes and margins improve, Rayonier should trade at much higher prices.\nMy last pick is General Motors (NYSE:GM) or GM B Warrants. General Motors continues to work through recall issues over faulty ignitions that began last year. I still believe that General Motors will eventually get through this unfortunate period and come out the other side as a much stronger company \u2013 but it will take time.\nLast October, General Motors rolled out its long-term strategic plan, which included the following initiatives:\no Grow Cadillac: General Motors will separate this business unit and have it headquartered in NYC. It will introduce four new vehicles in 2015 and nine new models over the next five years in China.\no Grow in China: To support expected sales of 5 million vehicles annually, General Motors and related joint ventures will open five additional manufacturing plants over next four years. China is forecasted to become the largest luxury car market by the end of this decade.\no Grow GM Financial: General Motors expects to grow this segment to support growth in its core auto segments and is expected to enter China in early 2015.\no Deliver Greater Operating Efficiencies: Through improved relationships with suppliers and fewer vehicle architectures, General Motors is well-positioned to lower material costs and enhance profitability over the next half decade or more.\nIn addition, General Motors reaffirmed previously announced profitability targets, which include a 10 percent EBIT target for North America in 2016, a 9 to 10 percent net income target for its joint ventures in China, and a return to profitability in Europe. At a recent price of $34\/share, General Motors remains one of the more compelling large-cap investments.\nGM's B warrants gives investors wider return possibilities (both on the upside and downside) than the underlying common stock. It has the same general mechanics as most of the other warrants created from investments made under TARP. Note, I recommended Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) \"A\" warrants in April of 2012 at $2 (now trading at $6). I believe GM's warrants have similar upside. They expire on July 10, 2019, and carry a strike price of $18.33. At a recent quote of $17, the warrants carry very little premium to their \"in the money\" value, despite another four and a half years till expiration.\nEvercore Continues to Hold a Bullish View on Bank of America (BAC) Stock\nJon Hadad, July 19, 2019\nAnalyst InsightsFinancial StocksTop StoriesYahooFinance\nHere's What This Top Analyst Is Saying About Bank of America's (BAC) Earnings Report\nJon Hadad, April 18, 2019\nAnalyst InsightsFinancial StocksMost PopularTop-Rated AnalystsYahooFinance\nIs Now the Time to Buy Bank of America (BAC) Stock?\nJon Hadad, March 27, 2019\nAnalyst InsightsFinancial StocksYahooFinance","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TAMANA INTECH PARK\nHOTEL ASSETS\nCSR Policies\nCommunity Relations Policy\nPhilanthropy Policy\nCorporate Philanthropy Checklist\nAgriculture Stakeholders Meeting\nCommunity Outreach Programmes\nPhilanthropy & Sponsorship\nSponsorship of Students to Seminar\ne TecK Sponsors Youth Parang\ne TecK supports 2010 Read-A-Ton in Cumuto\nThe Aripo Savannas Children's Calendar\nPARK DIRECTORY\nContact e TecK\ne TecK turns the sod for its first Agro-Processing Park in Moruga\nIn keeping with the Government's mandate to diversify the economy and to provide economic spaces for businesses to grow, the Ministry of Trade and Industry through Evolving TecKnologies and Enterprise Development Company Limited (e TecK) has commenced the development of an Agro-Processing and Light Industrial Park in Moruga in collaboration with Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (UDeCOTT). The sod turning ceremony was held on Wednesday 9th May, 2018 at Saunders Trace, Moruga and e TecK's line Minister the Honourable Paula Gopee-Scoon, Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI); Senator the Honourable, Clarence Rhambahrat, Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries; Dr. the Honourable Lovell Francis, Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Member of Parliament for Moruga\/Tableland; Mr. Imtiaz Ahamad, Chairman, e TecK and Mr. Noel Garcia, Chairman of UDECOTT were all present to turn the sod.\nOnce completed, the 18.83 acres facility, e TecK first Agro-Processing Park will feature facilities for the processing of raw materials and intermediate products within the sectors of agriculture and fisheries as well as it provide business facilitation services to individuals, start-ups and established companies within the Agro-processing sector.\nThe development of this new Economic Zone in Moruga is in keeping with e TecK's strategic initiative \"Real Estate Asset Development\". In May 2017, e TecK together with the MTI shared the findings of a Feasibility Study which was conducted for the park, at its first stakeholder engagement meeting. After which, the Master Plan for the Park was rolled out at a second Stakeholder Engagement meeting held in November 2017.\nMr. Ahamad in his remarks stated, \"There is a great opportunity for the agricultural sector to flourish in Moruga which has a long tradition of diverse agricultural commodity production. Some of the initial benefits of the park are seen as convenience, cost savings and sustainable employment to farmers and the community at large.\"\nSenator the Honourable Paula Gopee-Scoon tours e TecK's Moruga Agro-Processing Park currently under construction\ne TecK hosts Focus Group Meeting with Residents of its Fence-line Community of Phoenix Park Industrial Estate\ne TecK hosts Community Meeting with Cumuto Residents for Alutech Project\nTenants' Hotline: (868) 224-1970\nE-mail: info@eteck.co.tt\ne TecK- Head Office\nFlagship Complex,\n9-15 e TecK Blvd.,\nTamana InTech Park, Wallerfield\nTrinidad and Tobago, W.I.\ne TecK Tenants Portal\ninvesTT Limited\n\u00a9 2017 e TecK Evolving TecKnologies and Enterprise Development Company Limited","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What is the advantage of a multimodal transport over a conventional truck-only approach when it comes to sustainability?\nKS: In addition to advantages such as relieving the road and being very easy to plan, emissions are clearly in the foreground here. Each train can transport as many containers as approx. 54 trucks. This way a lot of emissions can be avoided, especially with existing overhead lines. About 190 containers can be transported on a barge. Due to the large capacity, the greatest CO2 savings are currently being achieved by shifting to waterways and rail. This way, it is possible to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 63 percent compared to direct trucks.\nMr Weddrin, what advantages does transporting heavy or oversized items via waterway have over truck transport?\nSW: First of all, it opens possibilities that you don't have with trucks. There are certain areas that you cannot reach using trucks only. Second of all, waterway transport is more efficient since you are able to combine large quantities of cargo on the same barge or vessel. This way the overall emissions per ton of cargo can be reduced significantly, as Mrs. Schmidt has already mentioned.\nPicture: Kristiane Schmidt\nSustainability is often associated with higher costs. Is that also true for multimodal transport?\nKS: The best way to tell whether sustainability is expensive or not is to look at the total costs. For example, in one project we calculated the actual cost of printed paper. In addition to rent, maintenance and electricity for the printer, there are also the costs for the material and the working hours of the employees. By reducing our paper consumption, we were able to save EUR 200,000 in 2019 compared to 2018. If you take such a comprehensive look at the costs in multimodal transport, it is simply cheaper than transport by truck and will remain so thanks to its sustainability.\nRegarding project logistics, there are a lot of costs that can be minimised when switching transport means, but also digitising transport papers and more. Mr. Weddrin, what efforts has your division made to support this aspect of sustainability?\nSW: Becoming a paper-free company over the last few years has definitely contributed to improving our environmental footprint and therefore lowering our monetary and non-monetary costs. However, we see the biggest reduction in costs when it comes to optimising supply chains. While switching to renewable and carbon-free fuels can have high monetary entry barriers, simply optimising the way customers transport their cargo can lower the monetary costs and the CO2 emissions of their transports at the time.\nMrs. Schmidt, the data in your study is based on containerised cargo, but are your findings also applicable to other cargo types?\nKS: The calculation also works for other types of cargo. Barges don't get stuck in traffic on the way to the seaport and are far less restricted in size and weight than trucks. This means that even bulky goods can be transported fully assembled. Instead of laboriously transporting the project with several trucks, the barge offers an easier, CO2-saving solution.\nPicture: Stephan Weddrin\nWhat do you both think the future of logistics will look like, when it comes to sustainability?\nKS: The future of logistics clearly lies in multimodal transport. The flow of goods will continue to increase and so will the number of transports, despite further increases in efficiency. Switching to alternatives to trucking is essential for both the transport capacities and the emissions. Combined transport can already save considerable amounts of CO2. The next step is decarbonisation, which we are already tackling. The distances that are covered by truck in the pre leg can already be done by electric truck. For this reason, four 44-ton e-trucks are already driving for us, two will follow in the next quarter. The overhead line (trucks attach to them like trains) is also an option, which is why we are participating in the testing on the A5 in Hessen with our El Fondo overhead line truck. Of course, this is also a good choice for the truck on long hauls. By switching to green electricity, the railway can quickly become a climate saver. Those routes without overhead lines can be bridged with hydrogen. But inland waterways are in no way inferior to these modes of transport. It is already possible to convert to electric motors today. The energy for the engine will still be provided by Euro 6 truck engines, but in the future, these can easily be exchanged for a hydrogen or methanol fuel cells, for example.\nSW: While new types of sustainable fuels and carbon-free transports will be the long-term future of logistics, the near future is definitely defined by the options that are already available. The key is to use these wisely and efficiently. That's why we as Rhenus Project Logistics strive to offer our customer the most efficient ways of transports for their projects.\nWhat would you recommend to a company looking to reduce its emission for its project cargo transports?\nKS: Think outside the box and consider trains and barges. Even today, this is not only the most climate-friendly solution, but together we can meet the Paris climate targets.\nSW: Do not hesitate to start thinking of ways to improve your environmental footprint. There are ways that are already available to you today. If you need help with that, contact us. Together we can find a way to become more sustainable. Together with passion!\nFind out more about our project logistics services\n\"We can already conduct low-carbon transports today\"\nThe goods reach the port and are handled by a fully electric crane.\nOn-carriage transport is carried out by inland waterway or rail.\nThe Rhenus warehouse is accessed by electric truck or overhead hybrid truck.\nMany Rhenus warehouses, such as the one in Tilburg, are built and equipped in a sustainable manner.\nSome employees reach their workplace by job bike.\nSome of the goods are brought to the airport by CEP service providers who ship climate-neutrally.\nConsignments can be sent by an aircraft whose route has been determined to be particularly climate-friendly on the basis of RHEGREEN.\nEditor: Finally, the question of the integration of the acquired companies and locations. How will they fit into the overall picture of the Rhenus Group in the future?\nThilo Streck: The Rhenus Group basically follows the approach of the local entrepreneur. This means that Rhenus sites are managed by strong site managers or managing directors, as they have been in the past. Rhenus thus offers LOXX employees long-term employment prospects. For the foreseeable future, both the independence of the LOXX Group and the name will remain. Possible cross-location optimisation potentials will be examined in the course of the next period or will automatically result from the cooperation between the locations and their employees in day-to-day business.\nKontakt\u00dcber uns\nMehrgesch\u00e4ft\nchevron_right 404\nSorry, the page you have called up does not seem to exist (anymore).\nAbout Rhenus Group","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A BRIGHT POSITIVE NEW LOOK FOR AMPLIFY IN 2020\nWhat a year 2020 has been so far! This year will be remembered in history for the unprecedented events of a global pandemic. It meant for the first time in our history we had to implement full-time remote working for our team, ensuring the situation did not affect our ability to deliver projects and we were able to support our clients at a time when they needed us the most.\nTime away from the office gave us an opportunity to reflect on the past twelve years, how much we have grown as individuals and as a team and how marketing and the digital landscape have changed significantly (even more so than ever in 2020). Our key objective was to make sure that when we returned back to the office, we came back with a bang! Prior to the lockdown, we had moved to a studio in the heart of Dubai Marina \/ JLT with beautiful panoramic views of the city including the prestigious 7* Hotel, Burj Al Arab. We had originally planned to mark the occasion with a brand refresh to communicate some of our new services, recent projects, and 12 years of success in the market, so used this time as a great opportunity to reflect and bring our ideas to life.\nThe rationale behind the rebrand was to show how Amplify has grown and evolved since its inception. The fresh new color pops perfectly on paper and digital screens, making the logo stand out, but without losing the identity that our clients, partners, and colleagues have come to love over the last decade. The typography has been designed to reflect and stand out in the new digital world, where online marketing platforms are more important than ever. Amplify was originally launched in 2008\u2026. two years before Instagram. At that time Mark Zuckerberg was that odd Facebook friend that you didn't add?! Apps were in their infancy and launched an entirely new industry and platform.\nWe hope you like our new identity and would love to hear your feedback.\nWe wish you all the very best of health, keep the faith, stay strong, and be positive we can all grow again together into a bright new future!\nWhy not follow us on Instagram or Facebook, we offer some great free marketing tips and advice and hopefully make you smile too!\nRAMADAN KAREEM WITH ROCKIT\u2122 APPLE\nFIJI Water Sponsors Spinneys Dubai 92 Cycle Challenge 2022\nAmplify upgrades to a new office in JLT\nFIJI Water appoint Amplify for the third year in a row","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sis Dolly\nThis is why Khuli Chana now goes by Khuli Yano \u2013 'Hip-hop wasn't fun for me anymore'\nBonolo Sekudu\nKhuli Yano rides the amapiano wave with a new single, Buyile.\nUniversal Music Group\/Nic Burger\nHis name is synonymous with Motswako rap. He's been called one of the best to ever do it and his flow had music fans swooning all over the country.\nThen he took some time and restrategized his career. Now he's back and has re-invented himself.\nKhulani Morule was Khuli Chana to his fans for years. He now goes by Khuli Yano and he's made the switch from Motswako rap to amapiano with ease.\nWe chat to the musician about what brought on the change.\n\"I think as a musician you need to be free and open minded and to be fun. What I found was that hip-hop was not fun for me anymore. The culture of politics, always competing, competition that is not healthy. Who has got more money than who to egos,\" he says.\nSomething in hip-hop is not the same, the Hape le Hape hitmaker says.\nRead more | 'I am definitely a different person' \u2013 Kwesta is dropping new music\n\"Khuli Yano is the rebirth,\" he tells Drum.\nNow, he is riding the amapiano wave and loving it. His new single on people's lips is Buyile and it has done exactly what he thought it would.\n\"So, people should not shiver at thought of me doing amapiano, they talk about amapiano like it is a place,\" he says with a laugh.\n\"I needed a street anthem. I wanted a comeback song,\" he says.\nHe missed being on the charts and Buyile featuring Tyler ICU, Lady Du and Stino LeThwenny has hit the spot.\nHe has been quite booked and busy. Khuli has been seen performing with his wife, DJ Lamiez Holworthy. During her sets, she sneaks in her husband's new song to the crowd's delight.\n\"Every time I have done something that is authentically South African, I have always won. Always. That means that is what people love about me. That is what they love about the music like its home brewed, kea mo gae (it is home),\" he says.\nRead more | Lady Du on making Amapiano hits and her engagement to Andile Mxakaza\nWhatever sound that becomes popular, Khuli says there is absolutely nothing wrong with an artists experimenting with it.\nHe admits though that there was a period in his music career when he became a bit of island.\n\"I have learnt to never make music in a bubble,\" he explains.\n\"Collaboration is a major key. It is how we come stronger and how we grow.\"\n\"Collaboration is a major key. It is how we come stronger and how we grow. As someone who is considered an 'OG', I really do draw a lot of inspiration from the young ones. They are hungry, they also take me back to a time when I was that hungry.\n\"What keeps you in the game is learning to humble yourself and remember you are a student in the game,\" he adds.\nFor those who keep asking about how he has been able to keep at it for this long, he says the journey of success is for those willing to walk it.\n\"It is the road less travelled. People only measure success by the hit song, the cars, the money. I think the successful people are those who have survived the drought in this game, if you can survive the drought and stand on your own two feet 10 or 20 years later, that is a real 'OG'. And when you have created a reputable brand and solid name for yourself,\" he adds.\nkhuli yanomusicamapianohits","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This is really interesting. I didn't get any tingling from any of theses videos and there were a few videos on YouTube that said they would trigger the sensation too but nothing, although, most of them were extremely annoying and irritating like the whispering ones, they were not pleasant at all :( . I was looking for the reason I get a full body tingling when I hear certain singing voices. Its like a flushing from my feet to my head of tiny bubbles at least I know it isnt called ASMR I looked into Frisson also and it isn't that either..... the search continues.\nFinally something to explain my \"photocopier man\" feeling which has been a standard joke in our family. I first discovered this feeling when I was a teenager working in an office where a repair man would come regularly to maintain the photocopier and I would experience this sensation of well-being while he was working. It was in a fairly small office and usually he would clean the screen with an acetone base cleaner so I always thought that the fumes from that created a mini \"high\". I have had it at various times usually when there is someone repairing something in the office eg putting data cables, fixing sockets etc. I now work in a research lab and have had it when participants are in another room being tested with senors on their heads and I have no visual or auditory input from them just the sense of them being there. I have had it to a lesser extent from acupuncture and find massage of any kind extremely unpleasant. It's nice to find out that it's not just me that has this strange feeling for no apparent reason.\nI'm not sure if I have asmr or not but I've never felt this feeling or some thing similar to this at all but I felt it 8times while playing battlefield hardline today but I know it not from that. When it happens I get a small tingly sensation and it's warm and fuzzey and feels nice but not strong enough to make me really relaxed. I don't know why but when ever I feel this and close my eyes and relax my muscles, it seems to last a little longer then if I move around. I know this isn't frission because I don't get energized by it but it makes me want to sleep.also I have aspergers, ADD and ADHD. I'm not sure if this makes it so I can or can't feel this or not. can some one please reply?\nAd Advertisement Agnieszka Janik McErlean Anxiety Art ASMR asmr-research.org ASMR ad ASMR artist ASMR book ASMR experiences ASMR film ASMR inspired commercial ASMR movie ASMR Research ASMR survey ASMR testimonials ASMRtist ASMR triggers ASMR University ASMR videos Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response Beverley Fredborg Biology Bob Ross Brain Bryson Lochte Celebrities Commercial Data Depression Dissertation Dove Dove chocolate Emma Barratt Film Flow fMRI Graeme Cole Highly Sensitive Person History of ASMR Ilse Blansert Insomnia interview Jennifer Allen Jim Clark Julie Young live ASMR Melatonin Michael Banissy Mike Reed Misophonia Movie Murmurs Musical frisson Neuroscience Neurotransmitters Nick Davis Oxytocin Peer-reviewed PeerJ Pepsi Personality Podcast Polls publication Research Science Sleep Spa Stephen Smith Survey Voices of ASMR WhisperingLife WhispersRed\nKelly knows that she inspires other kids to take up ASMR \u2013 children at school ask for advice on how to make popular YouTube videos. At one football game recently, kids swamped Kelly for photos. \"It was like\u2026 crazy,\" Kelly whispers dramatically. \"I went with friends and we walked past this group of cheerleaders and they all got quiet. They came up one after another and were like, 'Let's take a picture.'\"\nSmith speculates that ASMR may be similar to synesthesia, the fascinating neurological condition in which people see numbers in color and \"taste\" shapes. \"In synesthesia,\" he says, \"there have been some studies that show there's slightly atypical wiring in the brain that leads to slightly different sensory associations, and I think that may be the same thing we have here.\"\nI have repeatedly tried listening to ASMR YT videos, however, I have found them actually highly irritating and not calming. The whispering (extreme soft speaking) cause me great annoyance. You are right in that not all people respond to ASMR videos in the same manner. However, a back massage with calming music, listening to powerful worship music, dialogue of a spiritual nature, sitting by water and meditation on Scripture are triggers for this sensation.\nASMR can vary from person to person because it's all about perception, licensed clinical psychologist John Mayer, Ph.D., author of Family Fit: Find Your Balance in Life, tells SELF. \"We all perceive experience in a different way even though it is the same experience,\" he explains. For example, while one person may find the sound of someone typing comforting (if, say, they had a parent who worked on a computer at home), others may associate the sound with office work and become more stressed when they hear it.\nOf course, Kelly \u2014 who was named one of Teen Vogue's \"21 under 21\" in November 2018 \u2014 is not the only star in the ASMR internet community. The current largest ASMR artist, or \"ASMRtist\", on YouTube, Taylor Darling, aka ASMR Darling, has two million subscribers and earns an estimated $1,000 a day in advertising revenue. Global megabrands such as IKEA, Sony, McDonald's and Toyota have now all created ASMR-inspired adverts, and in October 2018, platinum rapper Cardi B made an ASMR video that went on to be viewed nearly 10,000,000 times. It's no longer surprising that 75 per cent of children want to be YouTubers, but these kids don't want to be the next beauty-blogging Zoella or game-streaming PewDiePie. They want to be the next brain-tingling ASMR Darling.\n\"One of our main aims is to try to draw attention to ASMR as a topic worthy (and capable) of scientific research, in the hope that it might galvanise future research efforts,\" they explain. Of the group, three of them (Emma, Giulia and Tom) experience ASMR, whereas Theresa doesn't. The study is still in an early stage \u2013 data collection has just finished \u2013 but this diversity in experience, they believe, is a critical component to their research. \"So we starting thinking about how we might first and foremost investigate this phenomenon at the most basic level: what might it take to convince someone who doesn't experience ASMR that it is a genuine and consistent experience for some people?\" they explain. \"Theresa doesn't experience ASMR, and has valuable scepticism of the experience. It adds to the diversity of our research group and the questioning of our approach from a non-ASMR perspective,\" they add.\nCannot understand this phenomenon making someone \"Feel good\". The only information here is frustrating to say the least. All speculation and zero facts. I have had this ever since I can remember and it has been nothing but torment. The only thing I have learned is that more people get this than me, people experience it on different levels and with different noises. Other than that this is just people talking about nothing. People say they learned something here. Like what? What's the cause? Can you treat it? Absolute speculation and it was frustrating to read and only walk away with \"oh, other people go through this as Well\". Name it whatever you want and throw letters behind it, but the fact is you guys know nothing. Congratulations to those who experience this on a pleasurable level, (honestly, that's great) but many of us are tortured by this. If anyone can provide facts and\/or science to explain this, PLEASE let me know. It's horrifying and I just want it to go away. It interferes with my love life and all around quality of life and I just want it to stop :\/. I don't mean to be rude, it's just a horrible experience and was very disappointed with all the spiritual nonsense and speculation. Just a waste of time so far. Someone Help please\nThe ASMR videos are easy to laugh at if you're a casual observer\u2013when I recently played one on my iPhone for guests at a dinner party, everyone cracked up within five seconds of watching the video. The videos usually include an attractive woman in a role-play scenario: She's pretending to be an eye doctor, a makeup artist, or even checking hair for head lice. All videos are shot in first person, so the viewer appears to be alone in the room with the woman. And she's usually whispering or speaking softly to you.\u00a0It's this combination of voice and the sounds from object interaction that the viewer hopes will trigger an ASMR experience.\nSatisfying Slime ASMR: With close to 1.5 million subscribers, this is the go-to channel for crunchy slime videos. They post multiple videos a day, all related to slime, games, and toys. Their videos fit into several series related to food slimes, DIY (do it yourself) slimes, cutting stress balls open, and ASMR-specific slimes. Their most popular video about rainbow slime has over 45 million views!\nWow similar and different from me. I listened to ASMR every night for about 6 months when I felt tingles for the first time. It was for probably less than 2 seconds, then a month or two passes before it happens again. But it is happening more often but still randomly. Some weeks I do not get the feeling, other times it is multiple times a week. But every time it is for less than 3 seconds. I am questioning if it is just pins and needles but feels nice because the asmr is so soothing. But you are the first person I have found who had a \"delayed\" experience. My brain might just be making this up due to my repeated listening and intense research into the subject.\nOne part of that forage into \"Deep Baby Brain\" involves introducing you to 'YouTuber' CuteKid4950, and his tub of Strange Creatures goo. He starts off with the usual setup, doing his piece to camera before getting out the gunk. But then\u2026 things get weird. \"Expanding upon the YouTube infotainment vlog format,\" Drenge said, \"CuteKid4950 takes us from kitchen to basement to warehouse to cave and emerges unscathed and enlightened. We can see the time and space properties of the real world crumble into insignificance. Unusual patterns emerge. Colours and shapes of forgotten solar systems reveal themselves amid the paint and the goo. This is more than something to keep you lightly amused. People will tell you that you are mad. They will try to denounce you. Ignore them. Let history be the judge.\"\nYes. Mostly cognitive for me as well. I've experienced it hundreds of times while watching movies during particularly tender, deeply emotional, or intellectually stimulating scenes when the actors\/narrators speak thoughts that resonate with me. I have also experienced this at church when someone reads scripture or teaches on a subject that suddenly triggers an \"aha moment\" for me; a feeling of revelation and connection to what I perceive is the spirit of God. Your comment was made a year ago, but I hope you read my response.\nASMR is usually precipitated by stimuli referred to as 'triggers'.[11] ASMR triggers, which are most commonly auditory and visual, may be encountered through the interpersonal interactions of daily life. Additionally, ASMR is often triggered by exposure to specific audio and video. Such media may be specially made with the specific purpose of triggering ASMR or originally created for other purposes and later discovered to be effective as a trigger of the experience.[4]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Virus-Cell Interactions\nApoptosis of Bystander T Cells Induced by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 with Increased Envelope\/Receptor Affinity and Coreceptor Binding Site Exposure\nGeoffrey H. Holm, Chengsheng Zhang, Paul R. Gorry, Keith Peden, Dominique Schols, Erik De Clercq, Dana Gabuzda\nGeoffrey H. Holm\n1Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115\n2Department of Pathology\nChengsheng Zhang\nPaul R. Gorry\nKeith Peden\n3Laboratory of Retrovirus Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892\nDominique Schols\n4Laboratory of Experimental Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium\nErik De Clercq\nDana Gabuzda\nFor correspondence: dana_gabuzda@dfci.harvard.edu\nDOI: 10.1128\/JVI.78.9.4541-4551.2004\nApoptosis of uninfected bystander CD4+ T cells contributes to T-cell depletion during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pathogenesis. The viral and host mechanisms that lead to bystander apoptosis are not well understood. To investigate properties of the viral envelope glycoproteins (Env proteins) that influence the ability of HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis, we used molecularly cloned viruses that differ only in specific amino acids in Env. The ability of these strains to induce bystander apoptosis was tested in herpesvirus saimiri-immortalized primary CD4+ T cells (CD4\/HVS), which resemble activated primary T cells. Changes in Env that increase affinity for CD4 or CCR5 or increase coreceptor binding site exposure enhanced the capacity of HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis following viral infection or exposure to nonreplicating virions. Apoptosis induced by HIV-1 virions was inhibited by CD4, CXCR4, and CCR5 antibodies or by the CXCR4 inhibitor AMD3100, but not the fusion inhibitor T20. HIV-1 virions with mutant Envs that bind CXCR4 but are defective for CD4 binding or membrane fusion induced apoptosis, whereas CXCR4 binding-defective mutants did not. These results demonstrate that HIV-1 virions induce apoptosis through a CXCR4- or CCR5-dependent pathway that does not require Env\/CD4 signaling or membrane fusion and suggest that HIV-1 variants with increased envelope\/receptor affinity or coreceptor binding site exposure may promote T-cell depletion in vivo by accelerating bystander cell death.\nHuman immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection causes functional impairment and progressive loss of CD4+ T cells, leading to immunodeficiency and AIDS (19, 61). The mechanisms of CD4+-T-cell depletion are poorly understood. Direct lysis of infected CD4+ T cells and apoptosis of bystander cells occur during HIV-1 replication in vitro (15, 36, 39, 41, 44). The relative importance of direct cytopathic effects compared to apoptosis of uninfected bystander cells remains a subject of controversy (36, 39, 41, 44, 52, 53). Most of the apoptotic CD4+ T cells in the peripheral blood and lymph nodes of HIV-1-infected patients are uninfected (4, 17, 30, 45, 62, 64). Increased apoptosis of other types of uninfected cells (i.e., CD8+ T cells, B cells, thymocytes, and neurons) is also detected in AIDS patients (42, 71, 73, 75). These findings suggest that apoptosis of uninfected bystander cells plays an important role in AIDS pathogenesis.\nHIV-1 infection can induce cell death in infected and uninfected CD4+ T cells by several different mechanisms. Several HIV-1 proteins, including Tat, Vpr, and Nef, have cytotoxic effects in tissue culture (33, 58, 74, 80). However, the major direct cytopathic effects of HIV-1 are mediated by the viral envelope glycoproteins gp120 and gp41 (Env) (15, 55, 59). The HIV-1 Env can cause direct lysis of infected cells via a mechanism that is dependent on membrane fusion (15, 52, 53). Syncytia formed by the fusion of infected cells also undergo lysis or apoptosis (55). In addition to causing direct cytopathic effects, the HIV-1 Env has been implicated in bystander cell death (28, 42, 44, 65, 78). Soluble, virion-associated, or cell-associated gp120 can prime uninfected T cells for activation-induced or Fas\/FasL-mediated apoptosis (5, 21, 29, 42, 80). Alternatively, the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins can induce proapoptotic signaling via interactions with their receptors (1, 9, 18, 28, 42, 78).\nThe HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins bind to CD4 and the CCR5 or CXCR4 coreceptors to mediate membrane fusion and virus entry (7, 25). CD4 binding induces exposure of the coreceptor binding site in gp120, which enables binding to a coreceptor. CCR5-tropic isolates (R5 strains) predominate in the early stages of infection, whereas isolates that use both CCR5 and CXCR4 (R5X4 strains) or CXCR4 alone (X4 strains) emerge during the later stages. The emergence of R5X4 or X4 strains frequently correlates with high levels of CD4+-T-cell depletion (20, 46), suggesting that R5X4 and X4 viruses may be more cytopathic than R5 viruses. The higher levels of T-cell depletion induced by R5X4 and X4 viruses compared to R5 viruses is at least partly due to the higher percentage of CD4+ T cells expressing CXCR4 (90 to 100%) compared to CCR5 (15 to 30%) (11, 40), since R5 viruses or soluble R5 gp120 can be highly cytopathic for CCR5-expressing cells (39, 51, 78, 82).\nThe interactions between the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins and CD4, CXCR4, and\/or CCR5 play an important role in direct and indirect viral cytopathicity (1, 5, 8, 9, 15, 36, 37, 42, 44, 49, 53, 78). These interactions are influenced by properties of the Env that include coreceptor tropism, fusogenicity, and envelope\/receptor affinity and by host cell molecules incorporated into the viral envelope (7, 14, 25, 31). HIV-1 isolates differ in their capacities to induce cell death in uninfected and infected cells (36, 38, 44, 49, 51, 65). Determinants of HIV-1 cytopathicity are located in the env gene (15, 37, 44, 53, 65, 78), but properties of the Env that influence bystander cell death have not been defined.\nIn this study, we investigated properties of the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins that influence the ability of HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis in CD4+ T cells and define the requirements for receptor binding and membrane fusion in the generation of a proapoptotic signal. We demonstrate that HIV-1 variants with increased envelope\/receptor affinity or increased exposure of the coreceptor binding site have an enhanced capacity to induce apoptosis in uninfected CD4+ T cells. The induction of bystander apoptosis requires coreceptor binding but not CD4 binding or membrane fusion. These results suggest that HIV-1 virions induce a proapoptotic signal through a CXCR4- or CCR5-dependent pathway that does not require Env\/CD4 signaling, membrane fusion, or virus entry and suggest that HIV-1 variants with increased envelope\/receptor affinity or coreceptor binding site exposure may promote T-cell depletion in vivo by accelerating bystander cell death.\nCells.293T cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium supplemented with 10% (vol\/vol) bovine calf serum (Sigma Chemical, St. Louis, Mo.) and 100 \u03bcg of penicillin and streptomycin\/ml. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were purified from the blood of healthy HIV-1-negative donors by Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient centrifugation and cultured in lymphocyte culture medium (1:1 volume of RPMI 1640 and AIM-V medium [Sigma] supplemented with 10% [vol\/vol] fetal bovine serum and 100 \u03bcg of penicillin and streptomycin\/ml). PBMC were stimulated with 2 \u03bcg of phytohemagglutinin (Sigma)\/ml for 3 days. The T-cell fraction was isolated by negative selection using a pan-T-cell isolation kit (Miltenyi Biotech, Auburn, Calif.) and cultured in the presence of 10 U of interleukin-2 (Roche Molecular Biochemicals, Indianapolis, Ind.)\/ml.\nHVS transformation of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells.The herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) subgroup C strain 488 (HVS-C488) was kindly provided by R. Desrosiers. For HVS transformation, primary CD4+ or CD8+ T cells were positively selected using CD4 or CD8 magnetic beads (Miltenyi Biotech) and infected with HVS-C488 as described previously (10). Briefly, 2 \u00d7 106 cells were infected with 0.5 ml of HVS-C488 viral stock and incubated at 37\u00b0C for 2 h. The cells were then transferred to a T-25 flask and cultured in lymphocyte culture medium supplemented with 10 U of interleukin-2\/ml.\nViruses.Plasmids encoding the HIV-1 ELI1, ELI6, and SG3 proviruses have been described previously (32, 34, 67, 81). Plasmids encoding the green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing proviruses 89.6-GFP and NL4-3-GFP were generously provided by G. Herbein (60) and C. Aiken, respectively. NL4-3-GFP expresses GFP in place of the nef gene. 89.6-GFP expresses both GFP and a reconstituted nef gene under the control of an internal ribosomal entry site in the nef position. 293T cells were transfected by the calcium phosphate method with 20 \u03bcg of provirus plasmid DNA. The medium was replaced after 16 h, and supernatants were harvested after 72 h. Reverse transcriptase (RT) activity in the supernatants was measured using [3H]dTTP incorporation as described previously (70). To generate virus stocks for apoptosis assays, virus produced in 293T cells was used to infect HVS-immortalized CD4+ T cells (CD4\/HVS) and infection was monitored by RT assays. After clarification by low-speed centrifugation (200 \u00d7 g for 5 min), the virus stock supernatants were stored at \u221280\u00b0C. Plasmids containing the HxB, 8x, HxB(V3BaL), and 8x(V3BaL) envelopes (43) and the Hx-IIIB, 8x-IIIB, and 8xD368R-IIIB viruses were generously provided by J. Hoxie. To construct proviruses, the KpnI-BamHI fragment of the envelope plasmids was cloned into pNL4-3, which encodes the NL4-3 provirus, to generate HxB-NL4-3, 8x-NL4-3, HxB(V3BaL)-NL4-3, and 8x(V3BaL)-NL4-3. 293T cells were transfected with 20 \u03bcg of provirus plasmid DNA. The medium was replaced after 16 h, and transfected cells were cocultured with SupT1 cells for 12 h. SupT1 cells were then monitored for virus production by RT assay, and virus stock supernatants were harvested as described above. Plasmids expressing the Hx, Hx F522Y, Hx R308A, and Hx R315A envelopes were generously provided by J. Sodroski (6, 53). To generate virus stocks, 293T cells were transfected with 16 \u03bcg of the pSVCAT\u0394Bgl provirus plasmid (65), 3 \u03bcg of envelope plasmid, 4 \u03bcg of plasmid expressing HLA-DR\u03b1, and 4 \u03bcg of plasmid expressing HLA-DR\u03b27. The medium was replaced after 16 h, and supernatants were harvested after 72 h.\nInfections.A total of 3 \u00d7 106 cells were incubated with 5 \u00d7 104 RT cpm of virus stock for 3 h in 1 ml at 37\u00b0C. The cells were washed once and plated in a 6-well tissue culture plate in 3 ml of medium. Twice weekly, the cells were split to keep the total cell density at 106 cells\/ml. At these time points, culture supernatant was removed for RT assays and cells were removed for flow cytometric staining.\nFlow cytometry.Briefly, 106 cells were washed twice in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and stained with 7-aminoactinomycin D (7AAD; Via-Probe; PharMingen) for 15 min at room temperature. For intracellular p24 staining, cells were washed twice in PBS and fixed and permeabilized using a Cytofix\/Cytoperm kit (Pharmingen). The cells were resuspended in 50 \u03bcl of Perm\/Wash buffer and incubated with a 1:200 dilution of the KC57-RD1 \u03b1-p24 monoclonal antibody or mouse IgG1-RD1 isotype control (Coulter, Fullerton, Calif.) for 20 min at 4\u00b0C. For staining of apoptotic cells, the cells were washed twice with Perm\/Wash buffer and then stained using a terminal dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) kit (In Situ Cell Death Detection kit; Roche) as directed by the manufacturer. The cells were then washed twice with PBS and analyzed using a FACScan flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, Calif.) or an Epics XL flow cytometer (Coulter). Data were analyzed using Cell Quest (Becton Dickinson) and Expo32 (Coulter) software.\nCD4 affinity.A total of 3 \u00d7 106 CD4\/HVS T cells were infected with 105 RT cpm of ELI1 and ELI6 as described above. Five days postinfection, 2 \u00d7 106 cells were washed twice with PBS containing 2% bovine serum albumin and 0.02% sodium azide. Then, 106 cells were incubated with increasing concentrations of soluble CD4-immunoglobulin (Ig) (6) for 45 min at 37\u00b0C, while the remaining 106 cells were incubated with 10 \u03bcg of a human anti-gp120 antibody (ImmunoDiagnostics [Woburn, Mass.] no. 2501)\/ml for 45 min at 4\u00b0C. Both sets of cells were then washed twice and incubated with a goat anti-human Ig-phycoerythrin (PE) antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch, West Grove, Pa.) for 45 min at 4\u00b0C. The cells were washed twice and analyzed using an Epics XL flow cytometer. Data were analyzed using Expo32 (Coulter) and Prism (GraphPad, San Diego, Calif.) software.\nApoptosis induced by nonreplicating virions.To determine the ability of HIV-1 to induce apoptosis in the absence of virus replication, 106 CD4+ HVS T cells were preincubated in lymphocyte medium with 1 \u03bc\u039c 3\u2032-azido-3\u2032-deoxythymidine (AZT; Sigma) for 1 h at 37\u00b0C prior to incubation with virus stocks produced in CD4\/HVS T cells or SupT1 cells, unless otherwise indicated. Alternatively, virions were UV inactivated for 45 min. Some samples were also preincubated for 1 h with 10 \u03bcg of anti-CD4 antibody (QS4120 [Calbiochem, San Diego, Calif.] and RPA-T4 [Pharmingen])\/ml, 10 \u03bcg of anti-CXCR4 antibody (12G5; PharMingen)\/ml, 10 \u03bcg of anti-CCR5 antibody (2D7; Pharmingen)\/ml, 5 \u03bcg of anti-gp120 antibody (1b12; kindly provided by J. Sodroski and D. Burton)\/ml; cross-reactive anti-gp120 (ImmunoDiagnostics no. 1121), 1.2 \u03bcM AMD3100 (26, 72), or 1 \u03bcg of T20 (American Peptide Co., Sunnyvale, Calif.)\/ml. One hundred thousand RT units of virus, or an equivalent volume of supernatant from uninfected control CD4+ HVS T cell or SupT1 cultures, were added to the cells. As an additional control, some samples were incubated with virus stock supernatant that had been cleared of pelletable components, including virions, by centrifugation at 15,000 \u00d7 g for 1 h. The cells were incubated for 72 h, stained with 7AAD, \u03b1-p24-RD1, and TUNEL-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) as described above and analyzed by flow cytometry.\nHIV-1 infection induces bystander apoptosis in CD4\/HVS cells.To investigate the ability of HIV-1 to induce apoptosis in uninfected bystander T cells, we used HVS-immortalized CD4+- and CD8+-T-cell lines derived from the peripheral blood T lymphocytes of an HIV-negative healthy donor. These cell lines resemble activated mature human CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes (10), as indicated by high expression of activation markers such as CD25, HLA-DR, and CD95\/Fas (Table 1). These cell lines express high levels of CXCR4 and CCR5 (Table 1) and were derived from one donor, eliminating confounding effects of donor variability. Furthermore, HVS-immortalized T cells have been shown to be susceptible to apoptosis (48).\nCharacterization of immortalized CD4+ and CD8+ T cells\nCD4\/HVS cells were infected with the highly fusogenic X4 HIV-1 isolate SG3 (34), which has been shown to induce high levels of bystander apoptosis in primary brain cultures (65). SG3 replicated to high levels, peaking on days 7 to 11 (data not shown). On days 7 (Fig. 1) and 14 (data not shown), cells were stained with 7AAD, anti-p24-PE, and TUNEL-FITC and analyzed by flow cytometry. 7AAD was used to exclude necrotic cells, including cells killed by single-cell lysis, and debris from the p24\/TUNEL analysis. On day 7, approximately 8% of cells in SG3-infected cultures were 7AAD positive, compared to 3% of the cells in control cultures. Approximately 1.5% of the cells were 7AAD-p24 double positive, representing cells undergoing single-cell lysis. SG3 infection induced high levels of apoptosis (26 to 31%), which were up to 25-fold higher than those observed in uninfected control cultures. Approximately 18 to 27% of the cells in cultures infected with SG3 stained positive for p24. However, only 2 to 6% were TUNEL-p24 double positive. Thus, up to 80% of the apoptotic cells were not productively infected.\nFlow cytometric analysis of apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells infected with SG3. Cells were infected with SG3 as described in Materials and Methods and stained on day 7 with TUNEL-FITC, anti-p24-PE, and 7AAD and analyzed by flow cytometry. 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the TUNEL\/p24 analysis.\nThe ELI6 variant induces higher levels of bystander apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells than the parental primary X4 isolate ELI1.To determine whether changes in the viral Env that increase affinity for CD4 also enhance the capacity of HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis, we used the primary X4 HIV-1 isolate ELI1 and the variant ELI6, which was derived by adapting ELI1 to growth in T-cell lines. The resulting envelope mutations in the adapted virus were cloned back into ELI1 to create ELI6, which is isogenic to ELI1 except for the point mutations G427R, in the C4 domain of gp120 near the CD4 binding site, and M7V, in the fusion domain of gp41 (32, 67, 81). Previous studies have shown that ELI6 has an increased ability to bind to CD4, enhanced fusogenicity on cells expressing low levels of CD4, and increased susceptibility to sCD4-induced gp120 shedding compared to ELI1 (32, 47, 67, 81), suggesting an increase in viral affinity for CD4.\nTo investigate the ability of ELI1 and ELI6 to induce apoptosis during infection of CD4+ T cells, CD4\/HVS cells were infected with these viruses. Cells infected with SG3 were used as a positive control. All of the viruses replicated to high levels and exhibited similar replication kinetics, with replication peaking on day 7 (data not shown). On days 7 and 11, cells were stained with 7AAD, anti-p24-PE, and TUNEL-FITC and analyzed by flow cytometry. Approximately 21 to 24% of cells in infected cultures were p24 positive on day 7, and 12 to 20% were p24 positive on day 11 (Fig. 2). The amount of p24 staining varied among cultures infected with different viruses and did not always correlate directly with RT levels. This discrepancy might reflect the measurement of RT values at discrete time points, which may not accurately reflect daily variations in replication kinetics. On days 7 and 11, high levels of apoptosis above background (29 to 54%) were seen in infected cultures (Fig. 2) and less than 10% of the cells were TUNEL-p24 double positive. Up to 47% of the cells were TUNEL positive and p24 negative, representing bystander cells that were not productively infected. On days 7 and 11, ELI6 induced apoptosis in a greater total number of cells and in more p24-negative cells than ELI1. Levels of cells that were TUNEL-7AAD double positive were similar among the infected cell cultures (not shown). Thus, an adapted variant with increased ability to bind to CD4 and increased fusogenicity had a greater capacity to induce bystander apoptosis than the parental virus.\nFlow cytometric analysis of apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells infected with X4 HIV-1 viruses. Cells were infected with equivalent amounts of SG3, ELI1, or ELI6 as described in Materials and Methods and cultured for 2 weeks. On days 7 and 11, cells were stained with TUNEL-FITC and anti-p24-PE and analyzed by flow cytometry. 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the TUNEL\/p24 analysis. Results are representative of six independent experiments.\nIn the preceding experiment, we could not exclude the possibility that some TUNEL-positive, p24-negative cells may have been recently infected and therefore may not produce detectable levels of p24. To verify that HIV-1 infection induces apoptosis in uninfected bystander CD4\/HVS T cells, we performed additional experiments using recombinant viruses that contain a gene for GFP either in place of the nef gene (NL4-3-GFP) or under the control of an internal ribosomal entry site in tandem with nef gene expression (89.6-GFP) (41). Because GFP is expressed as an early viral gene product, GFP expression is a sensitive marker for infected cells (41). CD4\/HVS cells were infected with the R5X4 89.6-GFP virus or X4 NL4-3-GFP virus and stained on days 7, 10, and 14 with 7AAD and annexin-V-PE. GFP expression was used to detect infected cells, and annexin-V was used to detect apoptotic cells. 7AAD-positive cells were excluded from the GFP and annexin-V analysis. The infection peaked on day 10, with approximately 5% of the cells in the 89.6-infected culture and 8% of the cells in the NL4-3-infected culture being positive for GFP expression (Fig. 3). Annexin-V staining increased over time in the infected cultures, from approximately 5% on day 7 to approximately 12% on day 10 and 30 to 45% on day 14. At all time points, the fraction of GFP-annexin-V double-positive cells was only a small percentage (5 to 8%) of the total annexin-V-positive fraction, suggesting that the majority of apoptotic cells were uninfected (Fig. 3). Staining with anti-p24-PE showed that all of the GFP-positive cells were p24 positive (data not shown), indicating that staining with the anti-p24 antibody labeled all of the productively infected cells. Furthermore, over 97% of syncytia in CEMx174 T-cell cultures infected with serial dilutions of the GFP-expressing viruses were GFP positive (data not shown), indicating that the viruses were capable of expressing GFP in all productively infected cells and did not delete the exogenous gene. Collectively, these results indicate that HIV-1 infection induces apoptosis in uninfected CD4\/HVS T cells.\nFlow cytometric analysis of apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells infected with GFP-expressing HIV-1 viruses. Cells were infected with equivalent amounts of 89.6-GFP and NL4-3-GFP as described in Materials and Methods and stained with annexin-V-PE and 7AAD on days 7, 10, and 14. 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the analysis of annexin-V-positive cells (white columns), GFP-positive cells (gray columns), or annexin-V-GFP double-positive cells (black columns). Results are representative of two independent experiments.\nELI6 has increased affinity for CD4 compared to ELI1.To verify that ELI6 has a higher affinity for CD4 compared to ELI1, we measured the binding of a range of concentrations of sCD4-IgG to Env expressed on the surface of CD4\/HVS T cells infected with these viruses. Five days postinfection, cells were incubated with increasing concentrations of sCD4-IgG, stained with a PE-conjugated anti-human IgG antibody, and analyzed by flow cytometry. Matched cells were incubated with a human anti-gp120 antibody and stained with PE anti-human IgG, and the sCD4-IgG binding data were normalized for relative gp120 expression on the cell surface and for background sCD4-IgG binding to uninfected control cells. Nonlinear regression analysis was used to generate a binding curve and calculate the CD4 dissociation constants for the two viruses (Fig. 4). These studies demonstrated that ELI6 has an increased affinity for sCD4-IgG compared to ELI1, with dissociation constants of 21 versus 127 nM, respectively.\nELI6 has a higher affinity for CD4 than does ELI1. CD4\/HVS T cells were infected with ELI1 or ELI6. Five days postinfection, cells were incubated with sCD4-IgG and stained with an anti-human IgG-PE antibody as described in Materials and Methods. Matched cells were incubated with a human anti-gp120 antibody and stained with an anti-human IgG-PE antibody. Cells were analyzed by flow cytometry, and the sCD4-IgG binding data were normalized for relative gp120 expression on the cell surface and for background sCD4-IgG binding to uninfected control cells. MFI, mean fluorescence intensity. The quantitation represents means and standard deviations (error bars) of duplicate samples. Results are representative of two independent experiments.\nNonreplicating HIV-1 virions induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS cells.The preceding experiments demonstrated distinct differences in the levels of bystander apoptosis induced by viruses that differ in their affinities for CD4. However, we could not control for effects that might be caused by differences in replication kinetics. Therefore, we developed assays to examine T-cell apoptosis in the absence of viral replication. CD4\/HVS cells were preincubated with 1 \u03bcM AZT to inhibit reverse transcription and prevent productive virus replication and were then incubated with HIV-1 virions. Alternatively, virions were UV inactivated for 45 min prior to incubation with CD4\/HVS cells. Cultures were monitored for p24-positive cells for 7 days to confirm the absence of virus replication. No p24-positive cells were detected (data not shown), indicating that virus replication did not occur. Following 72 h of incubation with SG3, ELI1, or ELI6, TUNEL staining was performed to detect apoptotic cells. HIV-1 virions induced apoptosis in approximately two- to fourfold more cells than did control supernatants (11 to 20% versus 5%) (Fig. 5A). ELI6 induced apoptosis in twofold more cells than did ELI1 (20 versus 11%). In contrast to the results observed in CD4\/HVS cells, none of the viruses induced apoptosis in CD8\/HVS cells (Fig. 5B). These results suggest that increased viral affinity for CD4 and\/or increased fusogenicity can enhance the ability of HIV-1 virions to induce bystander apoptosis in CD4+ T cells.\nHIV-1 virions induce apoptosis in CD4+ T cells in the absence of virus replication. CD4\/HVS T cells (A and C) and CD8\/HVS T cells (B) were preincubated with 1 \u03bcM AZT and then incubated with control supernatants or HIV-1 virions or with the nonpelletable fraction (S15) of control or viral stock supernatants (C) as described in Materials and Methods. After 72 h, cells were stained with TUNEL-FITC (black columns) and 7AAD (data not shown). 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the TUNEL analysis. The quantitation represents means and standard deviations (error bars) of triplicate samples. *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.005 versus control by Student's two-tailed t test. Results are representative of six independent experiments.\nThe virus stocks used in the preceding experiments were produced in CD4\/HVS cells, raising the possibility that soluble factors in the virus stock, such as inflammatory cytokines or soluble gp120, may have contributed to the induction of apoptosis. In particular, ELI6 was shown to be highly susceptible to soluble CD4-induced gp120 shedding (47, 81), raising the possibility that soluble gp120 could have contributed to the induction of bystander apoptosis. To address these questions, virions were removed from the virus stock by centrifugation and CD4\/HVS cells were incubated with the nonpelletable (S15) fraction for 72 h. In contrast to ELI6 virus stock, the S15 fraction did not induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells (Fig. 5C). These results indicate that CD4\/HVS T-cell apoptosis is induced primarily by HIV-1 virions rather than by soluble gp120 or other soluble factors present in the virus stocks.\nApoptosis induced by nonreplicating HIV-1 virions is inhibited by anti-CD4, -CXCR4, and -gp120 monoclonal antibodies and by the CXCR4 inhibitor AMD3100, but not by the fusion inhibitor T20.To determine whether CD4\/HVS T-cell apoptosis induced by HIV-1 virions can be inhibited by blocking the interaction between gp120 and its receptors or preventing virus-cell fusion, we used monoclonal antibodies against CD4, CXCR4, or gp120, the CXCR4 inhibitor AMD3100, and T20, an HIV-1 fusion inhibitor (56). The CD4 antibodies QS4120 and RPA-T4 bind to domain 1 of CD4 and prevent binding to gp120. The CXCR4 antibody 12G5 binds to the first and second extracellular loops of CXCR4 and blocks infection by X4 HIV-1 strains. The gp120 antibodies 1b12 and ImmunoDiagnostics no. 1121 neutralize HIV-1 infection and syncytium formation. CD4\/HVS cells were incubated for 1 h with 1 \u03bcM AZT and an antibody or inhibitor and then with ELI6 virions for 72 h. Apoptosis induced by HIV-1 virions was significantly reduced by preincubation with CD4, CXCR4, or gp120 antibodies (Fig. 6A) or AMD3100 (Fig. 6B) (P < 0.05). QS4120 and RPA-T4 inhibited apoptosis induced by ELI6 by 40 to 50%, whereas 12G5 and the gp120 antibodies inhibited apoptosis by 60 to 65%. AMD3100 had the most potent inhibitory effect, inhibiting apoptosis by approximately 80%. In contrast, concentrations of the fusion inhibitor T20 that completely blocked virus infection (data not shown) did not inhibit apoptosis induced by ELI6. Thus, virions induce a proapoptotic signal through a CD4- or CXCR4-dependent pathway that does not require membrane fusion or virus entry.\nInhibition of apoptosis by CD4, CXCR4, and gp120 antibodies and AMD3100. CD4\/HVS T cells (A and B) or primary T cells (C) were preincubated for 1 h with 1 \u03bcM AZT and antibodies against CD4 (QS4120 and RPA-T4), CXCR4 (12G5), or gp120 (1B12 or Immunodx [ImmunoDiagnostics no. 1121]), the CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100, or the fusion inhibitor T20 as indicated and then incubated with ELI6 virions as described for Fig. 5. After 72 h, cells were stained with TUNEL-FITC (black columns) and 7AAD (data not shown). 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the TUNEL analysis. The quantitation represents means and standard deviations (error bars) of triplicate samples. *, P < 0.05 versus ELI6 alone; **, P < 0.05 versus control by Student's two-tailed t test. Results are representative of two independent experiments.\nWe then examined the ability of ELI6 virions to induce apoptosis in primary T cells. Primary CD4+ and CD8+ T cells were negatively selected from phytohemagglutinin-stimulated PBMC and incubated with 105 RT counts of UV-inactivated ELI6 for 72 h. Cultures were then stained to detect apoptotic cells. ELI6 virions induced twofold higher levels of apoptosis over background (Fig. 6C). The absence of viral replication was confirmed by p24 staining and by RT assay of the culture supernatant. The monoclonal antibody 12G5 and CXCR4-inhibitor AMD3100 inhibited apoptosis induced by ELI6 by up to 77% (P < 0.05). Thus, binding of the Env to CXCR4 is required for apoptosis induced by nonreplicating X4 HIV-1 virions in primary T cells.\nApoptosis induced by nonreplicating HIV-1 virions requires CXCR4 binding but not CD4 binding or membrane fusion.Previous studies have suggested that X4 HIV-1 virions induce a proapoptotic signal through CD4 and\/or CXCR4 (13, 44, 69). However, whether CD4 binding and membrane fusion are required for the generation of the proapoptotic signal are unclear. To address this issue, we used mutant Envs that are defective for binding to CD4 or CXCR4 or for fusion with target cells. Virions were pseudotyped with the wild-type HxBc2 Env (Hx), an Hx Env with a mutation in the fusion peptide, F522Y, which abolishes the ability of the Env to fuse (53), or an Hx Env with a mutation in the V3 loop, either R308A or R315A, which abolishes CXCR4 binding (6).\nDuring initial experiments, we found that pseudotyped virions produced by transient transfection of 293T cells did not induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells (data not shown). One possible explanation for this unexpected result is that 293T cells do not express certain proteins such as major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II and ICAM-1, which are expressed on T cells, become incorporated into the HIV-1 envelope, and enhance the ability of virions to induce apoptosis (2, 12, 14, 27, 28). Consistent with the results of previous studies (27, 28), we found that virions produced from 293T cells cotransfected with MHC class II isoforms HLA-DR\u03b1\/\u03b21 or HLA-DR\u03b1\/\u03b27 had the capacity to induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells at levels similar to those induced by virions produced in T cells (data not shown). Therefore, virions for subsequent experiments were produced in 293T cells by cotransfecting an env\u2212 provirus plasmid with a plasmid expressing an HIV-1 envelope and plasmids expressing MHC class II DR\u03b1\/\u03b27.\nUV-inactivated virions pseudotyped with wild-type or mutant Hx Envs were incubated with CD4\/HVS T cells for 72 h. Virions pseudotyped with the wild-type Hx Env induced significantly higher levels of apoptosis compared to control supernatants (P < 0.05) (Fig. 7A). Virions pseudotyped with a fusion-defective Env containing the F522Y mutation induced similar levels of apoptosis compared to virions pseudotyped with the Hx Env, as did virions in cultures incubated with T20 (Fig. 7A). In contrast, virions pseudotyped with Envs defective for binding to CXCR4 (R308A or R315A) did not induce significant levels of apoptosis (Fig. 7A). These data suggest that CXCR4 binding, but not membrane fusion or virus entry, is required for HIV-1 virions to induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells.\nCXCR4 binding, but not CD4 binding or membrane fusion, is required for induction of apoptosis by HIV-1 virions. CD4\/HVS T cells were incubated with equivalent amounts of UV-inactivated HIV-1 virions pseudotyped with wild-type or mutant (A and C) Env or were preincubated with 1 \u03bcM AZT for 1 h and then incubated with equivalent amounts of ELI6 virions or NL4-3 virions containing the HxB, 8x, HxB(V3BaL), or 8x(V3BaL) envelopes (B). CD4\/HVS T cells were preincubated with AMD3100 for 1 h prior to incubation with virions where indicated (C). After 72 h, cells were stained with TUNEL-FITC and 7AAD (data not shown). 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the analysis. The quantitation represents means and standard deviations (error bars) of triplicate samples. *, P < 0.05 versus control by Student's two-tailed t test. Results are representative of two independent experiments.\nTo further explore the relationship between CD4 binding, coreceptor binding, and apoptosis, we used viruses with envelope glycoproteins that interact with coreceptors independently of CD4. 8x and 8x(V3BaL) are CD4-independent HIV-1 viruses that can utilize CXCR4 or CCR5, respectively, in the absence of CD4 to mediate fusion and virus entry (43, 54). However, these viruses retain the ability to bind to CD4 and the efficiency of these strains is enhanced when CD4 is present (43). The 8x virus, derived by passage on cells lacking CD4, contains point mutations in the Env that increase exposure of the coreceptor binding site and allow coreceptor binding in the absence of CD4. These conformational changes are also associated with increased fusogenicity (43, 54). The 8x(V3BaL) virus was derived by replacing the V3 loop of 8x with the V3 loop from BaL, conferring R5 tropism to the virus. To determine whether increased exposure of the coreceptor binding site is associated with an increased ability of these variants to induce bystander cell death compared to the parental viruses, we cloned the 8x and 8x(V3BaL) envelopes and their parental envelopes, HxB and HxB(V3BaL), respectively, into the NL4-3 provirus and then tested the ability of these viruses to induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS cells in the absence of virus replication. 8x-NL4-3 and 8x(V3BaL)-NL4-3 virions induced twofold higher levels of apoptosis compared with the HxB-NL4-3 and HxB(V3BaL)-NL4-3 parental controls (P < 0.05) (Fig. 7B). These results suggest that increased exposure of the coreceptor binding site is associated with an enhanced capacity of X4 and R5 HIV-1 virions to induce bystander apoptosis.\nThe 8x envelope glycoprotein does not require CD4 expression on target cells in order to bind CXCR4 and trigger membrane fusion but retains the ability to bind to CD4 when it is present on the target cell surface. To determine the requirement for CD4 binding in the generation of a proapoptotic signal by HIV-1 virions, we used a mutant of 8x, 8xD368R, that cannot bind to CD4 while retaining the ability to bind CXCR4 directly. Virions pseudotyped with either the 8x or 8xD368R envelope induced significantly higher levels of apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells than control supernatants (P < 0.05) (Fig. 7C). 8x virions induced slightly higher levels of apoptosis than did 8xD368R, but this difference was not statistically significant, suggesting that CD4 binding is not required for HIV-1 virions to induce apoptosis. Blocking the interaction between Env and CXCR4 with AMD3100 inhibited the induction of apoptosis by 8x and 8xD368R virions (Fig. 7C). Thus, HIV-1 virions induce a proapoptotic signal through CXCR4. In contrast, Env signaling through CD4 is not required for virion-induced apoptosis. SDF-1, the natural ligand of CXCR4, can induce both survival and apoptotic signaling in primary CD4+ T cells (79). At concentration ranges of 1 to 10 \u03bcg\/ml, we found that SDF-1 treatment for 72 h induced low levels of apoptosis over background in CD4\/HVS T cells (data not shown). Thus, CXCR4-mediated signaling induced by the physiological ligand at high concentrations can induce apoptotic signaling in CD4\/HVS T cells.\nAffinity for CCR5 influences the ability of nonreplicating R5 virions to induce apoptosis.To investigate whether the ability of HIV-1 virions to induce apoptosis is influenced by changes in Env that increase affinity for a coreceptor, we used viruses adapted to growth in the presence of the small-molecule CCR5 inhibitor AD101 (77). These viruses were derived by serial passage of the parental primary R5 virus CC1\/85 under the selection of AD101 to generate CC101.6 and CC101.19, selected after 6 and 19 weeks of passage, respectively. CCCon19 is a control virus passaged for 19 weeks without selection. UV-inactivated CC101.19, and to a lesser extent CC101.6, virions induced higher levels of apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells than the parental virus or the passaged control virus (Fig. 8A). 25-3, which contains the CC101.19 envelope gene cloned into NL4-3, induced significantly higher levels of apoptosis than 9-8, which contains the cloned CC1\/85 parental envelope (50) (P < 0.05) (Fig. 8A). Apoptosis induced by 25-3 was inhibited by the CCR5 antibody 2D7, a gp120 antibody, and the small-molecule CCR5 inhibitor TAK-779 and was partially blocked by a CD4 antibody (Fig. 8B and data not shown). These findings suggest that changes in the Env that increase viral affinity for CCR5 can also enhance the capacity of HIV-1 virions to induce bystander apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells.\nApoptosis induced by HIV-1 virions with increased affinity for CCR5. CD4\/HVS T cells were incubated with equivalent amounts of UV-inactivated CC1\/85, CC101.6, CC101.19, CCCon19, 9-8, or 25-3 HIV-1 virions (A) or were preincubated with antibodies against CCR5 (2D7), gp120 (1b12), or CD4 (QS4120) or control IgG for 1 h and then incubated with equivalent amounts of 25-3 (B). After 72 h, cells were stained with TUNEL-FITC and 7AAD (data not shown). 7AAD-positive cells were gated out of the analysis. The quantitation represents means and standard deviations (error bars) of triplicate samples. *, P < 0.05 versus control (A and B); **, P < 0.05 versus 25-3 alone (B) by Student's two-tailed t test. Results are representative of two independent experiments.\nThe immunologic and virologic mechanisms that lead to bystander CD4+-T-cell death during HIV-1 infection remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigated HIV-1-induced bystander apoptosis in HVS-immortalized CD4+ T cells, which resemble activated mature primary CD4+ T cells (10). We found that infection of CD4\/HVS T cells with X4 or R5X4 strains caused high levels of bystander apoptosis. Furthermore, exposure of CD4\/HVS T cells to HIV-1 virions induced apoptosis in the absence of productive infection. Changes in the Env that increase envelope\/receptor affinity or coreceptor binding site exposure enhanced the capacity of HIV-1 virions to induce bystander apoptosis. These results suggest that HIV-1 variants with increased envelope\/receptor affinity and\/or enhanced coreceptor binding site exposure may promote T-cell depletion in vivo by accelerating bystander CD4+-T-cell death\nThe relative importance of direct cytopathicity versus bystander apoptosis during HIV-1 infection in vitro and in vivo has been the subject of much debate (15, 16, 28, 37, 40, 42, 44, 52, 53). Direct cytopathic effects are the predominant cause of CD4+-T-cell death in T-cell lines infected with lab-adapted HIV-1 strains (15, 52, 53, 55, 57), whereas apoptosis of both infected and uninfected CD4+ T cells occurs in lymphoid tissue explants infected with lab-adapted or primary strains (37, 44). Several groups have reported that HIV-1-induced bystander apoptosis in primary T cells is highly dependent on the presence of monocytes\/macrophages (3, 21, 41, 42, 66), which can prime T cells to undergo apoptosis induced by Fas, tumor necrosis factor alpha, or gp120 (3, 21, 42, 66) and are present in human lymphoid tissue explants (35, 37, 44). Remarkably, we found that high levels of bystander apoptosis are induced by infection of CD4\/HVS T cells with primary X4 HIV-1 isolates (SG3 and ELI1), or GFP-expressing X4 and R5X4 recombinant strains (NL4-3-GFP and 89.6-GFP), in the absence of monocytes\/macrophages and other antigen-presenting cells. CD4\/HVS T cells are highly activated (10) and therefore may not require priming by antigen-presenting cells to undergo bystander apoptosis. Thus, apparent discrepancies in the literature on HIV-1-mediated killing of infected versus uninfected cells may in part reflect differences between experimental systems, such as the level of T-cell activation and the cell culture microenvironment.\nThe fusion inhibitor T20 prevented virus entry but did not inhibit the induction of apoptosis by HIV-1 virions. Moreover, the levels of apoptosis induced by HIV-1 virions pseudotyped with a fusion-defective mutant Env were similar to those induced by virions with wild-type Env. These results imply that membrane fusion is not required for HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis and argue against a \"fusion from without\" mechanism in which HIV-1 particles induce massive cell membrane fusion leading to membrane permeability and cell death. We used flow cytometric analysis to detect p24 antigen or GFP as a marker for productively infected cells. One concern is whether all of the presumed bystander cells are truly uninfected, since this method may not detect infected cells in the early stages of the replication cycle. A similar concern applies to studies using cultures treated with AZT where viruses enter cells but replication is blocked during reverse transcription. However, our experiments using T20 and a fusion-defective mutant indicate that virus entry and the early steps of infection are not required for HIV-1-induced bystander apoptosis and suggest a critical role for events prior to membrane fusion.\nHIV-1 virions with Envs defective for CXCR4 binding were also defective for inducing apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells. Furthermore, AMD3100 and an anti-CXCR4 monoclonal antibody inhibited apoptosis induced by X4 HIV-1 virions. Likewise, TAK-779 and an anti-CCR5 monoclonal antibody inhibited apoptosis induced by R5 HIV-1 virions. These findings suggest that binding of the Env to CXCR4 or CCR5 is required for the induction of bystander apoptosis. CXCR4- and CCR5-dependent signal transduction pathways include activation of G proteins and the focal adhesion tyrosine kinases Pyk2 and FAK along with the proapoptotic p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (22, 23, 63, 69). To test whether the proapoptotic signal is G\u03b1i-dependent, we incubated CD4\/HVS T cells with pertussis toxin (1 \u03bcg\/ml) prior to the addition of HIV-1 virions (G.H.H. and D.G., unpublished observation). However, the results could not be interpreted because pertussis toxin treatment caused high background levels of apoptosis. Further studies are required to determine the role of specific signaling pathways in bystander apoptosis induced by HIV-1 virions.\nIn contrast to the requirement for coreceptor binding, CD4 binding was not intrinsically required for HIV-1-induced bystander apoptosis. In particular, HIV-1 virions with envelope glycoproteins that interact directly with CXCR4 but are defective for CD4 binding retained the ability to induce apoptosis. Furthermore, bystander apoptosis was inhibited by AMD3100 and an anti-CXCR4 monoclonal antibody, which do not interfere with the binding of gp120 to CD4. These results contrast with previous studies, which suggested that the HIV-1 Env induces proapoptotic signals through CD4 (1, 5, 8). However, Env binding to CD4 leads to subsequent Env-coreceptor binding by triggering exposure of the coreceptor binding site (25). Thus, Env binding to CD4 indirectly leads to coreceptor engagement. CD4-mediated signaling can prime T cells for activation-induced apoptosis and\/or enhance coreceptor-mediated signaling pathways (5, 21, 66, 76). However, our studies suggest that Env-CD4 binding is not sufficient to induce apoptosis in the absence of Env-coreceptor binding.\nChanges in the envelope glycoproteins that increase envelope\/receptor affinity or coreceptor binding site exposure enhanced the capacity of HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis. These strain-dependent differences were independent of effects on replication efficiency, as they were also observed in experiments using nonreplicating virions. Mechanistically, these properties of the envelope glycoproteins can impact bystander apoptosis by enhancing Env-coreceptor interactions and thereby increasing the intensity of coreceptor-mediated proapoptotic signaling. To this end, increased viral affinity for CD4 could indirectly enhance coreceptor-mediated signaling by increasing virion attachment and coreceptor binding site exposure (25). Alternatively, HIV-1 virions with increased affinity for CD4 may have a greater capacity to induce apoptosis in cells that express CD4 at low levels (25, 38, 47). Bystander apoptosis can also be influenced by certain host cell proteins, such as MHC class II and ICAM-1, which are incorporated into HIV-1 virions (12, 27, 28; G.H.H. and D.G., unpublished results). Consistent with these findings, we found that virions produced in 293T cells did not induce apoptosis in CD4\/HVS T cells unless provirus plasmids were cotransfected with MHC class II isoforms. Incorporation of MHC class II molecules into HIV-1 virions may enhance binding to target cells via interactions with CD4 and\/or induce signaling events that prime T cells to undergo apoptosis.\nIn summary, our experiments suggest that HIV-1 virions induce a proapoptotic signal in CD4+ T cells through a CXCR4- or CCR5-mediated pathway that does not require CD4 signaling or membrane fusion. The ability of HIV-1 to induce bystander apoptosis is influenced by properties of the Env that enhance envelope\/coreceptor interactions, including envelope\/receptor affinity, exposure of the coreceptor binding site, and host cell membrane proteins on the virion surface. Previous studies have estimated that only 0.00001 to 0.01% of HIV-1 virions are infectious in vitro and in vivo (24, 68). Thus, noninfectious virions may contribute to HIV-1 pathogenicity in vivo by inducing bystander apoptosis mediated by Env-coreceptor interactions. Therapeutic strategies to block these interactions may reduce CD4+-cell depletion in AIDS patients.\nWe thank J. Sodroski, J. LaBonte, J. Hoxie, and J. Wang for helpful discussions. We are also grateful to J. Sodroski for providing the Hx, Hx F522Y, Hx R308A, and Hx R315A envelopes, J. Sodroski and D. Burton for providing the 1b12 antibody, J. Hoxie for providing the HxB, HxB(V3BaL), 8x, 8x(V3BaL), and 8xD368R envelopes, J. Moore and S. Kuhmann for providing the CC1\/85, CC101.6, CC101.19, CCCon.19, 25-3, and 9-8 viruses, R. Desrosiers for providing owl monkey kidney cells and HVS-C488, G. Herbein for providing 89.6-GFP, C. Aiken for providing NL4-3-GFP, and ImmunoDiagnostics, Inc., for providing the cross-reactive anti-gp120.\nThis work was supported by NIH NS35734 to D.G. Core facilities were supported by Center for AIDS Research grants (AI28691) and a DFCI\/Harvard Center for Cancer Research grant. 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{"text":"Super Dimensional Analysis\nAn academic examination of Robotech, Macross, and other original source materials\nLoving the Alien, Hating the Hybrid: A Cultural Study of Robotech by Chris Mich\nBelow is a brief synopsis and peer review of an article titled \"Loving the Alien, Hating the Hybrid: A Cultural Study of Robotech\" published in the Academic peer reviewed MOSF (Museum of Science Fiction) Journal of Science Fiction Volume 2, Issue 1, September 2017 ISSN 2472-0837 (International Standard Serial Number). The article was written by Christopher H. Mich. It was published in September of 2017. The author's twitter is @ChrisMich1.\nThis 9 page article is available for free here, here, here, and here.\nAbstract 1. Taken from Mr. Mich's article and reprinted here.\nIn 1985, young science fiction fans were starving for entertainment to fill the void left with the 1983 conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy. These fans suffered through poorly produced television series and films that did not capture the emotion, drama and mythos of the Star Wars trilogy. Enter Robotech \u2013 the brainchild of Writer\/Producer Carl Macek. A fan of Japanese Animation (also known as \"anime\" or \"Japanimation\"), Macek acquired the rights to three separate anime television programs. With each series deemed too short to run as individual series on American television, Macek melded all three series into one overall series under the Robotech title. The series focus isn't limited to the universal war unfolding but to how the war affects individual characters' personal relationships. In Macek's own words, Robotech is more \"soap opera\" than space opera (Macek, VIII, 1985). Yet, a textual analysis of Robotech reveals that the franchise actually promotes the supposed need for racial purity\/isolationism and that the hybrid is truly something to be feared. And, as the documentary Otaku Unite announced, Robotech is one of the most controversial anime series of all-time (Bresler 2004). This stems from the fact that from the moment Macek shared his process of altering the original Japanese animated series into one American-released series, several fans issued verbal and written threats against his life. This essay explores this phenomenon of life imitating art via the fear\/rejection of the hybrid of Japanese art and American rewriting by its own fan base.\nDana Sterling\nAriel\/Marlene\nIn 1980s Japan, a struggle between the old guard, harmonious collective mentality and the idealism of the new breed of independent, rebellious youngsters became illustrated in anime. Three examples of Japanese animated series that televised this struggle were acquired, repackaged, rewritten, and rebroadcast in America by Carl Macek under the one name \u2014 Robotech. Robotech, the American TV series, is a hybrid in and of itself with its Japanese-created visuals married to an American-rewritten storyline. In addition to the show's own mixed heritage, Robotech contains multiple interracial and interspecies (human and alien) couples and hybrid offspring. This paper explores the hybrid nature of the American Robotech animated TV series and how the Eighties' generational struggle in Japan manifests itself through two hybrid, interspecies characters: Dana Sterling and Marlene\/Ariel.\nSynopsis written by Super Dimensional Analysis\nThis article proposes Robotech promotes interracial and interspecies breeding but rejects the offspring created from these unions. The article proposes the relationships of Max and Miriya and Bowie and Musica are evidence of promoting mixed marriages. It also points out a movement in 1980s Japanese culture of Shinjinrui which translates as new beings. While Japan is traditionally a homogeneous island nation with individuals working together collectively, the new generation living in 1982 rebelliously desired individuality. The article also references a change in 1980s Japanese youth culture of celebrating the gaijin or outsider as opposed to historically shunning this lifestyle. The first Robotech war worships Minmei as a culturally Chinese girl living in a Japanese society while Dana and Ariel are central hybrid characters of the second and third Robotech wars. This article suggests Lancer is also a gaijin of Shinjinrui culture. Another theme of Robotech proposed by this article is the concept of the middle generation which is defined as a child of parents from different races or cultures. The racially mixed child must balance the struggles between their two cultures. The middle generation is sometimes rejected by the culture of each parent as the offspring from their union is not purely one or the other but a combination of the two. Dana and Ariel are examples of this struggle.\nPost-publication Peer Review by Super Dimensional Analysis\nInterestingly, the paradigm Mr. Mich utilizes to explore the gaijin of Shinjinrui culture at the microcosm level of individual characters can also be applied to the macrocosm overview of Robotech and its three original Japanese source materials. Mr. Mich's proposed concept can be applied to individuals as well as the fictional societies they inhabit. In the first Robotech war, or Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the multicultural forces of Earth defeat the monocultural gender segregated enemy clone antagonists. In the second Robotech war, or Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, the multicultural forces of Earth (Glorie) defeat the monocultural hive-mind enemy clone antagonists. In the third Robotech war, or Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, a collection of misfits defeat the monocultural hive-mind enemy clone antagonists. The protagonists of each of these series can be viewed as the gaijin of Shinjinrui culture proving victorious over antagonists which are thinly veiled analogies for the traditional Japanese cooperative collective old guard. Returning to the microcosm level of the individual, the societies of the antagonists also contain rebellious characters. These rebellious characters are some Zentreadi, Musica, Zor Prime, Sera, and Ariel. They all abandon their societies and choose micronian culture.\nZoom enabled\nA blog titled Spores, Molds, and Fungus posted a somewhat related essay written by username Incisivis on 11\/26\/2011. The essay is titled \"A Discussion of Post-Super Dimension Fortress Macross Zentradi and Peace Children Characters.\" However, it relates to the entire Macross franchise and not Robotech. The essay is linked to below. The link was active as of 11\/19\/2019.\nhttps:\/\/incisivis.livejournal.com\/484259.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"A Week 'til SharePoint 2010\nPublished: September 23rd, 2010\n- David Rubinstein\nSeven days until SharePoint 2010 makes its official debut. Despite so many having already seen so much of the new software, there is still plenty of excitement surrounding it. But hey, a launch can only mean one thing: It's party time!!\nI, for one, will be thrilled when SharePoint 2010 makes it into wide release. I've been covering software launches of all types for more than 10 years, and can't recall as much hype surrounding a release as we've seen around SharePoint 2010. Perhaps it's just that this is a very vocal community of users, and that it's exciting for folks to be on board with software that's still on an upward curve. (It's become fashionable for folks in the community to note that they've been working with SharePoint since it was Site Server, or to say they began with Tahoe.)\nSharePoint 2010, from all appearances, is a major improvement over MOSS 2007. But few think it's as significant an upgrade as MOSS 2007 was over the 2003 edition. The wide release will also mark the end of speculation about migration to 2010; we'll actually get to see how many folks move off their 2007 implementations, and how many don't.\nThe \"SharePoint Shepherd\" Robert Bogue reports he's well on his way to creating the next version of his seminal book, \"The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users,\" with a target release date of mid June. To make the version even better, he's soliciting community input.\nIn a note, he wrote: \"We'd love to hear about either the SharePoint 2007 tasks that you or the users you work with are commonly needing to remember. Or, if you've had time to spend with SharePoint 2010, we'd love to hear about key tasks, concepts or areas that you believe will be critical to users being able to effectively use the 2010 version of SharePoint. Any thoughts that you can share about the challenges you've been having with getting your users to be effective are welcome as well.\"\nRobert says he'll send a complimentary copy of the 2007 book\u2014or the 2010 book when available\u2014to the 10 best responses. Send your input to me at drubinstein@bzmedia.com; we'll forward them to Robert and publish the best ones here as well!\nAbout David Rubinstein\nDavid Rubinstein is editor-in-chief of SD Times.\nView all posts by David Rubinstein","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"get involved Donate\nOur model of change\nVision and History\nCurrent Startups and Programs\nEmpowering Survivors of Sexual Violence in Mali\nSoap Training\nTailoring Training\nEmbroidery Training\nEnding Tribal Conflict in Kenya\nEnding Child Labor in the Brick Kilns of Nepal\nInstalling Accessible Toilets at Schools in Uganda\nRemembering the Disappeared in Nepal\nSupporting Agent Orange Caregivers in Vietnam\nImpacts and Outcomes\nPeace Fellows\n2019 Training\n2019 Fellowships\nFellowship #1: GDPU\nFellowship #2: CPI\nFellowship #3: WAP\nFellowship #4: AEPD\nFellowship #5: CAED\nImpact on Fellows\nFellow Facts\nQuilts by Topic\nQuilt Exhibitions\nAmerican Quilters\nsister artists\nJacob Cohn is a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he is studying for a master's degree in human security and conflict resolution, with a particular focus on migration and human rights protection. Before coming to Fletcher, Jacob served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at the International Institute of Minnesota, a refugee resettlement agency in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he managed an adult education program for refugees and recent immigrants and tutored refugee students in writing. Jacob previously worked as an intern for the US Department of State, the office of US Representative Eliot Engel, and the National Security Network, and his writing has been published in local and regional news outlets. Jacob grew up in New York and California and received his B.A. in international relations from Carleton College in 2013. Jacob spent his 10-week Peace Fellowship in partnership with families impacted by Agent Orange. Upon returning, Jacob reflected, \"I came into this fellowship knowing almost nothing about Vietnam or Agent Orange, and getting to learn about both firsthand, and to hear firsthand the stories of those most affected, was a deeply moving experience. I know I'll carry the lessons I learned as an AP fellow throughout my professional and personal life, and I'm incredibly grateful to Iain and everyone at AP for giving me this opportunity\".\nA Path Forward for Duong Thi An\nFrom left to right: Duong Thi An, her daughter Hoa, and her son Huong.\nDuong Thi An lives with two of her children in a village in Le Thuy district, located near the Pacific coast around an hour's drive south of Dong Hoi. A rural area, the district is perhaps best known for producing Vo Nguyen Giap, a celebrated North Vietnamese general during the country's wars with France and the United States. Mrs. An's modest wooden house lies on a dirt road, with a pond visible on the other side. The occasional motorcycle or bicycle passes by as we speak with Mrs. An, but overall the neighborhood is quiet; once again I'm joined by Mr. Thuan the outreach worker, my translator Ngoc and our AP associate Dat for this visit.\nAs we sit down with Mrs. An in her living room, we're joined by her son Huong and her daughter Hoa, adults who still require their mother's care due to the effects of Agent Orange. Mrs. An herself is in her sixties and seems melancholy and withdrawn\u2014she speaks in a quiet voice I might struggle to follow even if I understood Vietnamese. It takes her a few minutes to respond to my first question about her first experience with Agent Orange, and as I wait for the translation I look around the living room; it's dark and fairly spartan, with a prominently displayed certificate honoring the military service of Mrs. An's late husband, Le Quoc Hung.\nFrom left: Mrs. Duong Thi An, Hoa, and Huong in their living room.\nMrs. An tells me that her first exposure to Agent Orange occurred when her son Hoi, the first of three children, was born in 1976. Hoi's father, Mrs. An's husband Le Quoc Hung, had served in the North Vietnamese military during the American War and was exposed to Agent Orange in the late 1960s, while stationed in the forest around what was then the border between North and South Vietnam. As a result, Hoi was born with limited mental capacity, but he grew up to be functional enough to marry and start his own family; he now lives nearby, but a couple of his children scamper around the house during our talk. At one point, one of Hoi's daughters brings another kid to gawk at the strange visitors\u2014they peek at us over the fence as we continue our conversation.\nMrs. An and Mr. Hung would have two more children before Mr. Hung's death in 1981. The first, Huong (now 38), was born normal, but at age 9 his eyesight suddenly began to weaken, forcing doctors to remove his right eye. The youngest child and only daughter, Hoa (now 35) was born with Down syndrome, and has never been able to go to school or grow into a functional adult. Mrs. An says that Hoa can only do simple household chores, but Huong was able to get a job as a masseur at a nearby massage parlor. However, his eyesight has been getting progressively worse since 2012 when he developed a detached retina in his remaining eye, forcing him to stop working.\nMrs. An's children, Hoa and Huong.\nHuong tells me that he can now only see \"big things\"; his left eye functions at around 10% of normal sight. He's had four operations in the last five years to prevent from going blind, which has been a major expense for the family, but the retina becomes more easily broken after each reattachment, and Huong's has since become detached again. He and his mother are hopeful that another operation could stabilize his vision, but the cost is more than they can afford. Mrs. An has a small farm where she raises rice, sweet potatoes and other vegetables, and she also raises, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, but she tells me that the family has still struggled to make ends meet. There have been periods where Mrs. An's family hasn't had enough to eat, which is particularly damaging for Hoa; without nourishment she can suffer serious fevers.\nThe solution we've developed with Mrs. An's help is to buy her family a buffalo, which Hoi and Huong will care for together. Mrs. An hopes to breed the buffalo and produce a calf that she can raise and sell\u2014she can also use the buffalo for farm work, to generate fertilizer, and to rent out to other farmers in her area. Mrs. An seems dispirited for much of our visit, but she is noticeably optimistic about the possibility of improving her family's status with a buffalo. She's owned a buffalo in the past, she says, but had to sell it to pay for treatment for Huong; breeding her buffalo will allow her to build a more sustainable income, which she will use to buy much-needed food and medicine for Huong and Hoa.\nMrs. An's longer-term goal, she says, is a surgical procedure for Huong that could stop the decline of his vision. But this would involve a trip to the eye hospital in Hanoi (over 300 miles away) and a long-term stay so that doctors can monitor him; it would end up costing 50 to 70 million Vietnamese dong (around $2200 to $3000), which even with the buffalo is too much for them to afford. Mrs. An says that selling the calf, and possibly breeding the buffalo again, would help her eventually save enough money to afford the surgery for Huong. I ask Huong if there's a deadline for the surgery, and he responds that he isn't sure\u2014but sooner would surely be better, while he still has eyesight left to preserve.\nDat will eventually talk with me about some of the nuances of this part of the conversation that don't get translated. As he will report, Mrs. An says that she's offered to give Huong one of her own eyes in order to repair his sight, only to be told by doctors that this wasn't possible. She then quotes a proverb that Dat has difficulty translating, but summarizes by saying that when you have a goal and there's a 99% chance of failure, that still leaves a 1% chance of success. In other words, as long as there's any chance at all of improving her children's lives, she'll sacrifice anything for them.\nWhen Huong's eyes began to fail at age 9, Mrs. An recalls, she had to carry her son into the hospital and up a long flight of stairs for his operation. Thinking about this now, Mrs. An despairs. She wondered then, and wonders now, why none of her children were spared from the effects of the poison.\nI ask about Hoa and whether there's anything that can be done for her\u2014Mrs. An tells me that there is no cure for her condition, but that medicine can at least make her life more bearable, and a buffalo would bring in the income necessary to buy the medicine Hoa needs. At this point, Huong adds that his ultimate dream, assuming he can retain some of his sight, is to open his own massage parlor and use his training to support himself and his family. This is well out of reach for them even with the buffalo, though, and medicine for Hoa and surgery for Huong is a much more immediate priority. Ngoc adds that this may eventually be something AEPD could help with, however.\nMrs. An feeding her birds.\nAt this point we all go outside to look at the animals Mrs. An has now. Next to the house is a wooden barn, which will be the home of the buffalo once it's purchased, and the backyard includes a pond where dozens of ducks and geese live. It's feeding time, and Mrs. An gently calls the birds to her. As she scatters food for them to eat, she tells me that her larger fear is that nobody will be able to take care of her children when she's too old to provide for them, and that she hopes someone can help her find a place for them after she dies. 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{"text":"Home Edu News FB knows it has 270 mn fake accounts\nNovember 04, 2017 Saturday 03:35:25 PM IST\nFB knows it has 270 mn fake accounts\nLondon : Already under lens for its role in Russia's meddling into the 2016 US eelction, Facebook has admitted that up to 270 million accounts on the platform are either fake or duplicate.\nThe social media giant this week released its third quarter earning and buried in those results, it disclosed that there are tens of millions more fake and duplicate accounts than it had previously thought, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.\nAround two-to-three per cent of its 2.1 billion monthly users in the third quarter of 2017 were \"user-misclassified and undesirable accounts\", Facebook said, adding the number were up from the one per cent it had estimated in July.\nAnother 10 per cent of its accounts are duplicates of real users, almost doubling its estimate of six per cent from last quarter's results, suggesting that in total, up to 13 per cent of its 2.1 billion monthly users (almost 270 million accounts) are \"illegitimate\".\nThe company said that improvements to the data used to identify fake accounts was behind the increase, rather than a sudden surge in fake users, the report pointed out. The disclosure could lead to increased scrutiny of the social network that is already under scrutiny after it revealed that the Russian content on its platforms reached more users than reported earlier.\nAccording to a report in The Washington Post in October, Facebook was planning to tell lawmakers that 126 million of its users might have seen content produced and circulated by Russian operatives -- many times more than the company had previously disclosed about their reach. Facebook had previously reported that nearly 10 million users had seen those ads.\nLow-Cost Tissue Freezing Device to Hel...\nStudents of John Hopkins University have created a new low-cost device that will become a boon for women suffering from breast cancer in low-income countr...\nMIT Develops Artificial 'Muscles' Base...\nMIT researchers have come up with a fiber based artificial 'muscle' system that can be used for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and biomedic...\nDNA Data Storage, Social Robots to Met...\nBioplastics for a circular economy: The use of cellulose or lignin from plant waste in production of plastic can increase the strength of biodegradable pl...\nGoogle Game Builder to create new game...\nGoogle has announced the availability of Game Builder, which lets you create simple Minecraft-style 3D games for you and others to play. The game lets you dra...\nIntentonomy-New Way to Study in Realti...\nSergie Belongie, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech, is thinking of how a new machine learning system might find out the intentions behind an F...\nStanford Univ Develops Regent, a New P...\nStanford University has developed a new computer program named Regent which is considered ideal of the much complex supercomputers of today. According to...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arrival Debut Album\nGeneral News, Media Appearances, Music Releases \/ October 19, 2020 October 4, 2022\nNEW YORK, NY, USA, October 16, 2020 \/EINPresswire.com\/ \u2014 When do you know that it's time to go full speed ahead? When does it stop being something you do on a small scale and start playing for keeps? When do you know that it's good enough to let everyone else experience it too? For Aliens Don't Ring Doorbells, and their forthcoming album ARRIVAL (which was released today), they know that time is right now.\nAliens Don't Ring Doorbells convey an undeniable ear for melody and a keen eye for the mainstream with their effortlessly timeless sound. When it comes to music, the band cites OneRepublic, Maroon 5, and Weezer amongst their influences. Their sound is an amalgamation of pop, rock, jazz, prog, and swing. Nowhere is this melting pot of influences more apparent, or more successful, than on the album's second single, \"It's Your Night,\" which has been heating up the Top 40 radio charts. The perfectly themed video\u2013set in space, of course\u2013can be seen now on their official YouTube page.\nToday also marked the release of their latest single, \"Slipping Away,\" and an accompanying video which can be seen on the band's official YouTube page.\nThe trio (singer\/guitarist Dorian Foyil, singer Adam King and singer\/keyboardist Christian Pearl) originally hail from the U.S. and U.K. but are now living in Spain and the Bahamas. They connected years ago in the Costa Blanca region of Spain, and it wasn't long before they realized they had more in common than the love of an outrageous band name.\nIn the summer of 2019, they took their shared passion for music and songwriting into the acclaimed Sanctuary Studios in the Bahamas, laying down demos to attract the attention of top-notch producers. Attract they did, with Jeff Kanan (Kelly Clarkson, No Doubt, Sting), Matthew Tryba (One Republic, Maroon 5, Taylor Swift) and Dan Konopka (drummer of OKGO) stepping up to the plate. After spending three weeks at The Keep Studios in Denver, CO, these pros had 12 songs written and recorded, some were crafted pre-aliens, some written together and some on the fly. They all had one thing in common though: they were uncommonly good.\nWith the help of drummer Kevin Dean and bassist Earl Forbes, studio musicians from The Bahamas and former bandmates of Foyil, ARRIVAL is a stellar tour through the highs and lows of just living life. Infused with sincerity and an emotional wallop, aliensdontringdoorbells deliver lyrics that are philosophical without being sentimental, along with a musical dexterity that can only come from playing your whole life. Their songs serve as an edgy musical package that gives a nod to their influences while still sounding completely original, resulting in an auditory party that fans and newcomers alike won't be able to stop listening to.\nTheir breakout first single, \"Story,\" which quickly gained an impressive 15,000 streams on Spotify in one month, was released July 17 and has also garnered radio airplay and press around the world. It can also be heard on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon. A poignant video can be seen now on the band's YouTube page.\nIn an early review of ARRIVAL, the Record-Journal (CT), declared, \"The album is just filled with hit singles (\"Important\" and \"Blind To See\"), which are waiting to be uncovered.\" While Phil's Picks praised, \"aliensontringdoorbells' debut album ARRIVAL is an interesting presentation from the up-and-coming independent pop-rock band. That is proven through its musical and lyrical content alike, which largely takes audiences back to the late 80s and early 90s\u2026 is a presentation that rock fans, in general, will find a good way to make \"first contact\" with the band.\"\nThese are exciting and early days for this international three-piece team of singer\/songwriters, but the quest for building a solid fanbase is well underway. Proving that rock 'n' roll is alive and truly kicking, Aliens Don't Ring Doorbells are here to stake their claim on the territory which is rightfully theirs which is on every fan's playlist.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'I'm not ranting and raving,' Trump attacks the press at wild news conference\nIn a freewheeling White House press conference, Trump also said he asked the Justice Department to look into the intelligence leaks. \"The leaks are real. The news is fake,\" he said.\nBy Darlene Superville\nKen ThomasThe Associated Press\nThu., Feb. 16, 2017timer3 min. read\nWASHINGTON\u2014U.S. President Donald Trump mounted a vigorous defence of his presidency Thursday, pushing back against media reports that his campaign advisers had inappropriate contact with Russian officials and vowing to crack down on the leaking of classified information.\nNearly a month into his presidency, Trump said in a freewheeling White House news conference that his new administration had made \"significant progress\" and took credit for an optimistic business climate and a soaring stock market.\nThe president reserved his harshest language for attacks on members of the media present for the news conference.\n\"Tomorrow they will say 'Donald Trump rants and raves at the press,' \" Trump said at one point. \"I'm not ranting and raving, you're just dishonest people.\"\nTrump denounced reports of a chaotic start to his administration marked by a contentious executive order \u2014 now tied up in a legal fight \u2014 to place a ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.\nRead the latest on U.S. President Donald Trump\n\"This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine,\" Trump declared. He said he would announce a \"new and very comprehensive order to protect our people.\"\nThroughout the news conference in the East Room of the White House, the new president delivered repeated criticism of the news media, accusing it of being \"out of control\" and promising to take his message \"straight to the people.\"\nHe dismissed recent reports in The New York Times and CNN that Trump campaign aides had been in contact with Russian officials before his election. Trump called Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who has ties to Ukraine and Russia, a \"respected man.\"\nTrump called the reports a \"ruse\" and said he had \"nothing to do with Russia.\" Trump added, \"Russia is fake news. This is fake news put out by the media.\"\nAmid reports of widespread leaks within his administration, Trump also warned that he would clamp down on the dissemination of sensitive information, saying he had asked the Justice Department to look into the leaks. \"Those are criminal leaks,\" adding, \"The leaks are real. The news is fake.\"\nThe president announced that Alexander Acosta, the dean of the Florida International University law school, would be his nominee for Labor secretary. It came a day after fast-food executive Andrew Puzder withdrew his nomination for Labor after losing support among Republican senators.\nTrump, a reality television star and real estate mogul who was elected as an outsider intent on change, opened the hastily arranged news conference to bash coverage by the news media. He accused reporters of not telling the truth and only serving special interests.\nTrump, angry at leaks revealing his team's contacts with Russia, wants an ally to lead a sweeping review of U.S. spy agencies\nTrump says he will introduce a new travel ban next weekend\nDonald Trump says Michael Flynn was 'just doing his job'\n\"The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people,\" Trump said.\nThe president said his ousted national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was \"just doing his job,\" but said he was \"not happy\" with how information about Flynn's phone call to a Russian diplomat was relayed to Vice-President Mike Pence.\nBut Trump said what Flynn did \"wasn't wrong\" and said he had identified a strong replacement for Flynn, which made the decision to let him go easier.\nTrump is said to favour Vice-Admiral Robert Harward, a former Navy SEAL, as his next national security adviser, according to a White House official. Harward met with top White House officials last week and has the backing of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. He is slated to meet with officials later Thursday.\nEarlier in the day, Trump had a breakfast meeting with some of his staunchest House supporters.\nThe White House has said Trump asked for Flynn's resignation because he had misled Vice-President Mike Pence over his dealings with Russia and whether he had discussed sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. before Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration. Flynn previously had denied those conversations to Pence and other top officials.\nOn Thursday, he warned in a pair of tweets that \"low-life leakers\" of classified information will be caught. As journalists were being escorted out of the breakfast meeting, Trump responded to a reporter's question on the subject by saying: \"We're going to find the leakers\" and \"they're going to pay a big price.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ceramic plates for tourists at San Gimignano, Italy. Enough already!\nLittle Esther Phillips: Hound Dog (1953)\nGraham Reid | Dec 12, 2011 | 1 min read\nAlthough Big Mama Thornton was the first out of the block with Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog -- subsequently a hit for Elvis Presley -- Thornton wasn't the only one to hear its bluesy potential.\nEsther Phillips -- later to find fame in the disco era with her cover of Dinah Washington's What a Diff'rence A Day Makes (see here) -- almost got it to the charts before her.\nLittle Esther as she as billed -- born Esther Mae Jones in Texas -- was just 17 when she recorded this raw and incisive version in early 1953 with Johnny Otis' band, many of the same players who had been on Thornton's version recorded about six months previous.\nThornton's version wasn't released immediately but took off in early '53, not long after Phillips went in to cover it. Thornton's version sounds slow, earthy and menacingly mature in its quiet fury, whereas Phillips brings a snarl, youthful anger and a sense of vitriol -- unfortunately undercut by the hound dog howls of the band.\nPhillips had some minor hits in the Fifties but heroin addiction claimed her until the early Sixties when she was discovered by, of all people, Kenny Rogers who got a record deal. She slowly climbed back until that cracking hit What a Diff'rence although her habit always lurked in the background.\nShe died in '84 at the age of 48, her body debilitated by drug use.\nPhillips version of Hound Dog is found on the excellent compilation I Smell A Rat, a collection of early black rock'n'roll.\nInteresting to speculate how Elvis' version of the song might have turned out if he'd only heard Little Esther Phillips and not Big Mama Thornton's version.\nFor more oddities, one-offs or songs with an interesting backstory use the RSS feed for daily updates, and check the massive back-catalogue at From the Vaults.\nMore from this section From the Vaults articles index\nLaVern Baker: Voodoo Voodoo (1961)\nThe sudden revival of Wanda Jackson's career - courtesy of Jack White and the album The Party Ain't Over in early 2011 -- has singled her out as a great female rock'n'roller at a time (the... > Read more\nGary Lewis and the Playboys: This Diamond Ring (1965)\nThe offspring of Hollywood were just as swept up in Beatlemania as anyone. The two sons of comedian Soupy Sales -- Hunt and Tony, drums and bass respectively -- were in Tony and the Tigers who... > Read more\nVarious Artists: The Rough Guide to Voodoo (Rough Guide\/Southbound)\nNo one would deny Dr John being on this voodoo collection (more correctly \"vodou\" in Haiti, the country it is most associated with), but the Night Tripper is here with his... > Read more\n10 ALBUM COVER PARODIES: It looks familiar but . . .\nThere are any number of books dedicated to the art of the album cover, and at Elsewhere we've indulged ourselves in articles about 10 Shameful Record Covers I'm Proud to Own (four columns, see... > Read more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Doctor Strange' Fans Are Convinced Rachel McAdams Will Have a Bigger Role in the Sequel\nOne of the installments to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Doctor Strange. The next phase of the MCU will offer interesting developments for the characters. With a sequel in the works, some people question if Benedict Cumberbatch will leave the franchise.\nHis co-star, Rachel McAdams, will be coming back. In the first Doctor Strange film, the actress played a minor role. However, fans expect her to have more screen time.\nRachel McAdams plays a surgeon in 'Doctor Strange'\nDoctor Strange is a superhero film about a neurosurgeon who learns magic after injuring his hands. The movie stars Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton. Another star is none other than McAdams, and she plays a minor character.\nIn the film, the actress takes on the role of Dr. Christine Palmer. Christine is a fellow surgeon who supports Stephen Strange after he survives a car accident. Not only does Christine help Strange with his injuries, but she also aids him during the latter half of the film.\nWhile Christine momentarily leaves his side after he says hurtful things, she continues to be loyal. Initially, she was going to be his love interest. Instead, Christine and Strange used to date until she broke up with him prior to the start of the movie.\nSome fans felt that McAdams' character was underwhelming. Those who have seen the actress in other films view the role as a waste of her talent. A few fans were disappointed with the lack of a character arc and hope Marvel does more with Christine.\nWhat Rachel McAdams has done so far\nMcAdams has been in a few popular films, such as The Notebook and Sherlock. In 2016, McAdams debuted in the MCU franchise as Dr. Strange's colleague. Since then, the actress has landed roles in several movies.\nRecently, she acted in Netflix's Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. McAdams stars alongside Will Ferrell, and the two of them play a pair of Icelandic singers. In the film, the characters use the competition as an opportunity to show off their band.\nIn 2017, McAdams landed a part in the movie Disobedience. The film is a romantic drama about a strict Orthodox Jewish community. Her character is the love interest of the main protagonist. The actress also was in Game Night along with Jason Bateman. She plays the wife who partakes in a role-playing game that goes wrong.\nThere have been rumors that McAdams will return to play Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes 3. However, not much is known about the upcoming film.\nFans hope Rachel McAdams will have a bigger role\nFans have anticipated for a Doctor Strange sequel since the first movie came out. Currently, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is going to arrive in theaters in 2022. Sam Raimi, the man behind Spider-Man, is directing this installment.\nAs evident by the name, the plot will be dealing with the multiverse. Fans will likely see different characters, which has led to rumors about who will star in the film. Reportedly, Emma Watson and Cillian Murphy might be joining the cast.\nMcAdams will be reprising her role, and fans wonder if her character will have a larger presence in the story.\nOn Reddit, users discussed the actress returning to Doctor Strange. Some of them mentioned they were glad to hear the news that she is in the movie. Other users hoped that the character gets the same treatment as Jane from Thor.\n\"I can't imagine she'd sign up without something more to do,\" one user wrote. Several have voiced that they think she is a talented actress and are convinced she will get a more prominent role.\nTags MARVEL movies\nGordon Ramsay hits out at fans who blasted his \u00a319 English fry up\nHow Margot Robbie Really Feels About Tonya Harding","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ben Affleck comments on directing his own Batman movie\nBen Affleck is open to directing his own Batman movie, if he can get the script right. Luckily, it's rumored that Ben Affleck will have some help on the script from Geoff Johns, the Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics. In the December issue of Total Film, Affleck and producer Charles Roven spoke about the movie that's currently being referred to as The Batman online.\nRoven wouldn't directly confirm that the movie is in the works, but did say it all depends on Ben Affleck's schedule.\n\"He's about to start a movie now [Live By Night]. And he's also got obligations to be in the Justice League movies. The calendar is a little bit tricky\".\n\"Of course, the script obviously has to be worth of him wanting to direct it. And once that happens, it's still got to fit into the calendar. We're hoping we can make it happen. We're just at the beginning of the question\".\nTotal Film also got Ben Affleck's take on the project, and it sounds like if they can come up with a good script, he's all for it:\n\"Look, if I could make it work, yeah. Obviously it would be like a dream. The trick is, as to any movie, is to make sure that you \u2014 if you're going to direct it \u2014 that you can make it good. You've got to have the right idea and the right take on it. Broadly speaking, it's something I'd be open to, for sure. It's a very exciting idea.\"\nHopefully Affleck and Johns can come up with a good script, and Affleck's schedule will allow him to make his very own Batman movie. Stay tune to Batman News for all the latest on that project, and check back later for more from the December issue of Total Film.\nSOURCE: Total Film (December 2015)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kudulis Reisinger Price\nIndustry expertise with unmatched value.\nA valuable legal partner for\nfinancial institutions.\nWhen it comes to legal counsel, experience matters. But at Kudulis, Reisinger, and Price, we believe understanding is even more important. Industry understanding. Operational understanding. Procedural understanding. Because when your legal team truly understands your business, you get the right advice quickly and efficiently.\nOur attorneys have spent their entire careers working with credit unions and financial institutions. In fact, we represent more credit unions than any other firm in the country. We are in financial institutions every week. We know the industry from the inside out.\nBut what does that mean to our clients? It means we don't have to spend a lot of time researching or getting up to speed. There's no learning curve. No \"we'll get back to you on that.\" In the words of one of our attorneys, \"we know your questions before you ask them.\" And we know the answers, too.\nAll this adds up to something very important to any business: value. Because when you work with Kudulis, Reisinger, and Price, you get a legal partner you can trust to give you the right advice in an expeditious manner. And you get an outstanding return on your legal dollar.\nBond\/Insurance\nGovernance and Litigation\nCondominium\/Homeowner's Associations\nTrademark\/Copyright\nWe Provide Trademark, Service Mark and Copyright Services for All Types of Entities\nYou hear the word relationship all the time in all kinds of industries. But when it comes to legal services, having a strong, enduring relationship with a firm is essential. Again, it's about understanding. Working knowledge. We understand the risks you face. We're aware of your strengths and weaknesses. So all it takes is a phone call or email and we'll get to work. Answering your question, providing an opinion, revising a document \u2014 with little or no effort on your part whatsoever. That's a relationship.\nWithout Exception\nWhen it comes right down to it, we're service providers. Our job is to be available to you to provide quality legal services when you need them. And because it's difficult to anticipate when you might need our advice, we simply make ourselves available to you. Always. In other words, you have unfettered access to a trusted legal partner who understands your business whenever you need it. We are at your service. Period.\nWe can negotiate a retainer, or fixed annual fee, which is the preferred financial arrangement for many of our clients. That's because with a retainer comes comprehensive, unlimited legal services for a year. Unlimited. For one year. No surprises. No crazy bills. Just simplified budgeting and the confidence of knowing our attorneys are at your disposal whenever you need them. Every institution has different legal needs. Some require regular, ongoing access to legal services, while others might only need them periodically to support internal compliance or legal departments. What's more, budgets for legal services vary greatly from institution to institution. For these reasons, we offer real flexibility when it comes to financial arrangements.\nJonathan Kudulis\nJonathan's practice involves supervision of civil litigation for the firm's representative clients, as well as general regulatory and operational guidance. Jonathan handles a wide assortment of cases, in both federal and state courts, including vendor (contract) disputes, construction disputes, regulatory issues and bond claims.\nJonathan is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law. He is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Florida State Bar, Louisiana State Bar, Mississippi State Bar, State Bar of Texas and Virginia State Bar. Jonathan has been recognized as a \"Top 40 under 40\" and \"Rising Star\" attorney by multiple publications.\nEdward Reisinger\nEdward has a comprehensive understanding of the consumer financial industry's operations, processes, and procedures. His practice focuses upon employment matters, real estate and consumer lending, electronic and digital banking, mergers and acquisitions, creditor rights, and regulatory liability. Edward is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law and the Florida State University. At the University of Alabama Edward was the President of the Student Bar Association and the Edward M. Friend Scholarship Award Recipient. He is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Florida State Bar, and Tennessee State Bar.\nShannonPrice\nShannon received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1990 and his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1997. Prior to attending law school, he worked for four years as an operations officer with Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans. Shannon has provided general counsel services to financial institutions in the southeast since 1999 and he specializes in the areas of financial institution compliance and regulatory law. He is a member of the Alabama State Bar and the Louisiana State Bar.\ncls@krpfirm.com\nKudulis Reisinger Price \u00a9 2016 - All rights reserved. | Website by Brand Neue Co.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gay, Bi, Transgender: The 85 Most Powerful Comings Out of 2014\nDecember 22, 2014 by Kyler Geoffroy\nUPDATED!!!\nDue to four notable December announcements \u2013 from a Spanish television host, an 'ex-gay' survivor of Michele and Marcus Bachmann's conversion therapy clinic, a national champion swimmer, and a high school all-state soccer goalie, we've updated this list to provide a more complete look back at those who decided to come out in 2014. We've also added a professional strongman that we unfortunately overlooked in our first post. Enjoy these new additions to the list.\n\"I think coming out\u2026is really about coming out as your authentic self, coming out as the person you always knew you were but no one else may have known, and now you're sharing that honestly with people for the first time.\"\nSuch is how Rodrigo Lehtinen, the trans son of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, explained to CBS Miami last month what it meant for him to now be open about who he is.\nIt's as simple as that, whether you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or some fluid combination of any of them. But it's certainly an act of courage in a world where LGBTQ people face obstacles in marriage, employment, and even basic acceptance. In many places, the status of being 'out' about one's sexual orientation or gender identity is dangerous, even life-threatening.\nIn 2014 thousands, perhaps millions of people came out all over the world. They all made a difference. The folks featured here are just a few who happened to make a big difference and caught our eye on Towleroad this year. Some are well-known, some are little-known: the CEO of the largest corporation in the world, an NFL player, a Kenyan literary figure, fashion models, the foreign minister of a Baltic state, country singers, Mormon pop stars, a few of the stars of your favorite television shows, and unknowns from the world of YouTube.\nWhen it comes to coming out, 2014 was certainly the year of the athlete.\nOf the 80 people on our list this year, more than 1\/3 come from the sports world \u2014 football, baseball, boxing, tennis, long distance running, hurling, basketball, rowing, and diving. Many of these athletes are making a name for themselves in college sports, many in conservative places. Twenty-one come from the entertainment world. And they are from all over the world \u2014 Japan, Peru, Ireland, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, Australia, Finland, Canada, Spain, Chile, and more\u2026 Also, the leader of a company worth more than all the world's airlines combined, worth more than the entire Russian stock market.\nIt's quite an impressive group of folks. We're proud of all of you. By choosing to come out as L, G, B, T, queer, or whatever label your sexual orientation or gender identity is telling you is yours, you've made life easier for all those who haven't come out yet, and all those who are currently struggling for their civil and human rights.\nPlease enjoy reading their stories. And share this post with your friends, family, and anyone in the closet to whom you'd like to offer a bit of courage or support.\nRead on, AFTER THE JUMP\u2026\nContributions to this post were made earlier this year by Kyler Geoffroy, Sean Mandell, Joseph Ehrman-Dupre, Steve Pep, Brian Sloan, Daniel Villareal, Anthony Costello, Jim Redmond, Charles Pulliam-Moore, Christian Walters, John Wright, and Jake Folsom.\nMake sure not to miss a Towleroad headline by following @TLRD on Twitter.\n1 and 2. ASAP Science vloggers Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffitt\nGregory Brown and Mitchell Moffitt, the guys behind the wildly popular ASAP Science videos we feature on Towleroad and a real-life couple for seven years, never officially came out of the closet online, until June.\nThey said they felt the need to come out because of the trolling, homophobic comments they receive on some of their videos.\nFollow them on: Twitter, YouTube, Facebook.\n3. Sandra Barneda, Spanish television host\nSpanish author and television personality Sandra Barneda revealed on-air in December that she's in a relationship with another woman. Barneda, who is a co-host on the Telecinco political show Un Tiempo Nuevo (A New Time) and talk show Hable Con Ellas (Talk With Women), was asked the question \"If there was a nuclear holocaust, what couple, man and woman, would you choose to preserve and multiply the human species?\nBarneda replied:\n\"My partner, who is a woman and I won't tell you her name, and the most handsome and fertile guy on Earth.\"\nFollow her on: Twitter.\n4. Vicky Beeching, Christian rocker\nSpurred by the onset of an autoimmune disease she felt was triggered by the years of stress caused by being in the closet, Christian rocker and songwriter Vicky Beeching rejected the years of desolation the church had subjected her to, and decided to live her own truth. Beeching, the UK star of the American Christian rock scene, whose music is sung at megachurches across the heartland, had had enough.\nIn August, Beeching described the isolation she began to feel as a teen as she realized she was gay to the UK's Independent:\n\"I increasingly began to feel like I was living behind an invisible wall. The inner secrecy of holding that inside was divorcing me from reality \u2013 I was living in my own head. Anybody I was in a friendship with, or anything I was doing in the church, was accompanied by an internal mantra: 'What if they knew?' It felt like all of my relationships were built on this ice that would break if I stepped out on to it.\"\n\"When I [told a priest] that I had feelings for the same sex he prayed the prayer of absolution, for me to be forgiven. And that was it\u2026.I felt there was something really wrong with me, that maybe I was so sinful and awful I couldn't be healed.\"\n\"I felt like it was ripping me in half. I knew I couldn't carry on. I was trying to align the loving God I knew and believed in with this horrendous reality of what was going on inside me\u2026.I remember kneeling down and absolutely sobbing into the carpet. I said to God, 'You have to either take my life or take this attraction away because I cannot do both.'\"\nBeeching says she has made it her mission to be \"part of the change\" to a more accepting Christian religion.\nFollow her on: Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, her site.\n5. Carlos Bruce, Peruvian congressman\nCongressman Carlos Bruce came out of the closet in May in an interview with Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, saying, \"Yes, I am gay and I am proud to belong to this group of people who are so valuable to Per\u00fa.\"\nBruce is Peru's first openly gay congressman and the sponsor of that country's bill that would legalize civil unions for same-sex couples and ban discrimination against LGBT people.\nFollow him on Twitter, Facebook.\n6. Pete Cahall, Wilson High School Principal, Washington DC\nPete Cahall, the principal of Wilson High School in Washington D.C., gave students and staff the shock of their lives in June when he presided over a planned school LGBT Pride event \u2014 and came out of the closet! Video here.\nCahall, 50, was flanked by Mayor Vincent C. Gray and David Catania, the D.C. Council's first openly gay member and said that he would have felt like a hypocrite as a closet gay man presiding over a Pride event. Cahall said he took comfort in the recent comings out of NBA player Jason Collins and NFL player Michael Sam.\n7. Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, U.S. Snowboarder\nCallan Chythlook-Sifsof, a U.S. snowboarder who missed the cut for Team USA, came out of the closet in February on ESPN's Outside the Lines, one of several athletes who did so as a protest against Russia's anti-LGBT laws.\nSaid Chythlook-Sifsof: \"I realized coming out publicly isn't just about yourself but it's also about realizing the greater scope of what's going on and becoming a voice against something. It's important to come out and take a stand and show the world that it's not OK to be a bigot.\"\nFollow her on: Instagram.\n8. Tim Cook, Apple CEO\nTim Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc., the largest publicly traded company in the world and maker of the iPhone, iPad, and Macintosh computer, broke historic barriers in October by becoming the first openly gay CEO in the Fortune 500, or Fortune 1000 for that matter.\nWrote Cook, who had long been rumored to be gay, in a piece at Bloomberg Businessweek:\nWhile I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.\nBeing gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day. It's made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer life. It's been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my own path, and to rise above adversity and bigotry. It's also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you're the CEO of Apple.\nThe world has changed so much since I was a kid. America is moving toward marriage equality, and the public figures who have bravely come out have helped change perceptions and made our culture more tolerant. Still, there are laws on the books in a majority of states that allow employers to fire people based solely on their sexual orientation. There are many places where landlords can evict tenants for being gay, or where we can be barred from visiting sick partners and sharing in their legacies. Countless people, particularly kids, face fear and abuse every day because of their sexual orientation.\nI don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy.\nPrior to coming out, Cook made powerful statements about LGBT rights and the need for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) protecting LGBT workers from being fired over their sexual orientation.\nFollow him on Twitter.\n9. Ivan Cruz and his Dachshund Thor, Creative Vloggers\nAmong those comings out we deem to be significant are non-famous folks who create a stir on social media, broadcasting a powerful message about being open, and living truth.\nIncluded in that group this year is Ivan Cruz, a young man with a very adorable dachshund named Thor. Back in January, Cruz summoned his creativity and shot a video in which Thor helps him come out.\nWrote Cruz in the clip, which has been viewed nearly 100,000 times.\nI never imagined the day I'd come out. For a long time, I lived in the same fear that many others currently live in. With the help of my best-four-legged-friend, Thor, I decided to make this video and share my coming out story. A big thanks to all the brave people on here who have taken the time to share their own coming out stories and that have inspired me to do the same.\nThis is my story. Enjoy.\nFollow him on: YouTube.\n10. Conor Cusack, Irish Hurler\nIrish hurler Conor Cusack came out of the closet in a lengthy blog post published in January. Cusack played the Gaelic sport of hurling with the Cork senior inter-county team in 2006 and now plays with the local club in Cloyne. He has made national headlines in Ireland for his devotion to helping others battle depression, which he has battled his whole life.\nWrote Cusack:\nI've known for a good while now that I have been sexually attracted to men. In that time, I've had relationships with women, and enjoyed them immensely but I've always had more fulfilment from being with a man. I'm not sure what label society would categorise me under. I remember a doctor one time telling me I was a bi-polar depressive and a different guy a few weeks later telling me I was a manic depressive. Go figure that one out! Life for me is never black or white (though I know a lot about the blackness) but more about different shades of grey\u2026.\n\u2026I have been comfortable with this area of my life and I never felt the need to discuss it with anyone. That is until recently. As I crossed the border from Galway into Clare and then back home to Cork and through the towns of Buttevant, Charleville and Mallow, I thought strongly about the current Mental Health work I am involved with. I thought about all the different people that I have spoken to and about all the upcoming events that I have committed to. I asked myself the question 'Do I need to talk and discuss this aspect and area of my life?\nCusack is the brother of hurler Donal Og Cusack, who came out as gay in 2009. Hurling is an outdoor game of Gaelic origin, in which players use a wooden stick to maneuver a ball into an opposing team's goal.\nFollow him on Twitter, YouTube.\n11 and 12. Cynic Bandmates Paul Masidal and Sean Reinert\nOne of the more unusual comings out of the year was a disclosure by two members of the progressive rock band Cynic, who decided to come out in an article in the L.A. Times in May.\nWrote the paper:\n\u2026there's one thing that Masvidal and Reinert have stayed quiet about in their public lives, until now.\nBoth men are gay and stars in a music scene where bands can wear corpse-paint makeup and leather S&M garb while singing about Satan and dismemberment \u2014 yet genuinely nonconforming sexuality hasn't always been welcome.\nThough they've been comfortably out for years in their private lives, the two haven't yet spoken about their sexuality in the context of their music.\nAs artists, they've pushed the edges of heavy metal music for most of their lives. Now they're ready to challenge old stereotypes about sexuality in one of music's most aggressively masculine genres.\nThe two came out in their personal lives at separate times, one before the other:\nMasvidal had come out to friends and family in 1991, and later began exploring drag bars and gay nightclubs while on tour. Reinert a bit took longer to come out. (And, they stress, they've never been attracted to each other.)\n\"I knew that, secretly, I wanted to go to those clubs too,\" Reinert, 42, said. \"But back then, my stereotype of how to be gay was wearing dresses and tank tops. I didn't have any masculine, metal role models who were gay.\"\nFollow Cynic on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter.\n13. Tom Daley, British Diver (for the second time)\nBritish Olympian Tom Daley (above right, with actor and host Joe Swash) makes this list for a second time.\nWhile the diminutive diver came out of the closet famously in a YouTube video in 2013, at that time he declared that he \"still fancied girls\".\nDaley clearly sought to clarify that statement in a TV appearance he made in April on UK network ITV's Celebrity Juice.\nDeclared Daley during an interview: \"I am a gay man now.\"\nDaley is the squeeze of screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.\nFollow him on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram.\n14. Suzette Davenport, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, UK\nSuzette Davenport, the Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, UK, came out of the closet in June at the county's LGBT Pride festival to huge cheers and applause.\nSaid Davenport:\n\"It is not tattooed on my forehead but I don't hide it either. I could have stood up and talked about facts and figures but people would have switched off. Instead I thought it would be better to talk about something more personal to me. The police have made significant progress on these issues and we are much better than some public sector organisations but there is still some room to improve. We have low levels of hate crime in Gloucestershire too. They are significantly below the national average. But I want people to understand hate crime. I know what it feels like having been through it myself.\"\nFollow her on Twitter.\n15. Liam Davis, Semi-Pro UK Footballer\nUK semi-pro footballer Liam Davis, a winger for Gainsborough Trinity, came out of the closet in January, inspired by a similar disclosure from retired Premier League footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger.\nSaid Davis in an interview:\n\"I personally hope that over the next 10 years I'm not the only gay footballer out there. Nobody wants to be forced out, but I hope they can look and see there is someone out there who has done it. I hope we can get to a stage where it is not a bad thing, that there is no problem and people just get on with it.\"\nHe added:\n\"My partner and I work in the same place and it will probably come across that we are a couple. But people do not walk out of our restaurant because of that. They come in for some good food and good service. It should be the same in football. I should be able to picked, or not picked, on merit, not because of my sexuality. You are there to play and do a good job for your team.\"\n16. Nick Deutsch, Singer\nSinger-songwriter Nick Deutsch came out of the closet via a music video called \"Run\" in October.\nSaid Deutsch:\nI believe that regardless of career, being open is still very much a big deal, although I do appreciate and empathize with the over-arching view that \"it's no longer a big deal to be gay.\" Even with Sam Smith sitting tall at the billboard top ten, we are sorely in need of supportive voices to counter the awful statistics and narratives that have historically plagued the LGBTQ community. It feels ridiculous to consider portraying myself as anything but confident with who I am as a gay man, especially within the wider context of the enormous social changes that have occurred.\nBecause I'm blessed to be in a position to have a voice, I consider it an honor to be different. The deeply understood reality of this quick, short life has resolved me to live it on my terms and not be ignorant to the reality that most of human suffering is tied to flexible beliefs. I'm not pushing my sexuality in anyone's face as much as I'm being who I am. I'm not a gay songwriter as much as I'm a songwriter who happens to be gay. In regards to \"Run,\" I put a male actor in my video because the song was written about one. I fell in love with a boy and got my heart broken, so that's what you'll see.\nFollow him on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter.\nHere's the video:\n17. Federico Diaz, Uruguayan Actor and Model\nFederico D\u00edaz, an Uruguayan soap opera and entertainment heartthrob, came out as gay via Twitter in May.\nSaid D\u00edaz:\n\"The day has come! Only God knows when and how. I only let myself be guided. I feel that God has awarded me with homosexuality, the sensation of confusion that I had and the uncertainty throughout the years of knowing who I really am has been left behind. Today I am starting to walk a new life, with no ties, no lies, no annoyances or pain, due to the fact that these feelings only depress and generate anguish in the heart. I came to this Earth to be HAPPY, to hug, to realize dreams, to take care of my loved ones and to leave a positive footprint in life. I am gay and I am sharing this with respect, love and gratitude to everyone that gives meaning to my life. Thank you for everything and together we will achieve more. I love you all very much.\"\nD\u00edaz was linked romantically with Ricky Martin in February, in a report alleging that he was partially responsible for Martin's break-up with his longtime partner. D\u00edaz has flatly denied those allegations.\n18. Ryan Dolan, Singer, Eurovision Star\nRyan Dolan, who became internationally known as Ireland's contestant in Eurovision's Song Contest last year, came out of the closet in February in an interview with Ireland's Radio One.\nSaid Dolan:\n\"In school I was confused about who I was, and it was really hard for me growing up because of that. It was hard to deal with because I knew that I was gay, but I couldn't get the courage to talk to someone about it\u2026My father was the last person to find out because I was afraid of what he would think. I think he actually took it the better than anyone I told. I couldn't ask for better parents, they've been great to me my whole life. My whole life I built it up in my head. The more I thought about it the harder it got. Telling my father was the main thing because me and my father would be very close\u2026It's not a big deal anymore. Things have changed compared to even when I was in school. Young people are coming out now at 15 or 16 which would never have happened when I was at school\u2026Thinking back now I wish I would have came out about it a long time ago. I think my youth was wasted worrying all the time about it. If I had been more open back then I would have been happier.\"\nShortly after coming out, Dolan released a video for his track \"Start Again\". The clip focuses on two gay teens who know they're gay and the issues they're faced with from unaccepting peers.\nFollow him on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook.\n19. Matt Dooley, Varsity Tennis Player, Notre Dame University\nNotre Dame varsity tennis player Matt Dooley made a big splash at the deeply Catholic university when he came out of the closet in a powerful self-penned article on Outsports in March.\nWrote Dooley of a suicide attempt he had made:\nOn September 16, 2011, early in my sophomore year at Notre Dame, I attempted to take my own life. That day I wanted nothing more than to escape the anguish of coming out to my family, my friends, and, in a way, myself. Death was better than accepting \u2013 or revealing \u2013 that I was gay.\nAwakening in my hospital bed to the aftermath, my very first thoughts were of my family \u2013 I didn't want them to know I was gay or that I tried to kill myself. Fr. Dan Nolan assured me that they didn't know, and that the events of the previous night would remain confidential should I so wish. Even he was oblivious to my sexual orientation \u2013 that secret remained buried.\nWhen I was led out of the hospital to the designated psychiatric ward, I was in handcuffs like a criminal. I felt the part. For the next 36 hours I shared a room with a schizophrenic. I was 19 years old, more lost than I'd ever been, and I was scared. I remember thinking: There is no way back from this.\nDooley found his way back, eventually finding acceptance among his teammates at Notre Dame. The school released a powerful video in March.\nIn the clip, Dooley speaks about the struggles he faced being in the closet and also some emotional interviews with his teammate Greg Andrews and head coach about what it means to them to share the experience of his coming out.\nSays Dooley: \"I started to realize obviously that a lot of it was a problem with me. That I wasn't allowing myself to be successful, and to accept myself, and accept the trust and love of my parents.\"\n20. Simon Dunn, Australian Bobsledder, Olympic Hopeful\nAustralian bobsledder Simon Dunn came out publicly as gay in November to Australian gay website Same Same.\nSaid Dunn:\n\"I'm the brakemen for Lucas Mata who was Heath Spence's brakemen at the Sochi Olympics. I love competing in bobsleigh. The adrenaline rush. Using my strengths from rugby and excelling in a different sport. I love representing my country. And I'm also proud of the fact that I'm the first out gay man in the sport to do so!\"\nDunn also plays for the Sydney Convicts gay rugby team. \"My years playing rugby for the Sydney Convicts in Sydney definitely helped my conditioning to be ready for the sport.\"\nIt's that conditioning that has also helped him attract a large following on Instagram, where he keeps excellent track of it.\nFollow him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.\n21. Mitch Eby, NCAA Football Player\nMitch Eby, a junior defensive end on the Chapman University Football team, came out as gay at the end of March aided by the help of a conversation with Willamette University kicker Connor Mertens, who also came out this year, in January.\nMertens' support helped Eby get the courage to write a speech which he recited to his team in the locker room:\nI am ready to share with you all that I am gay.\n\"It has taken me years to accept myself for who I truly am, so it's irrational to expect everybody to unconditionally accept me right away. However, the one thing that I hope that I can count on from each of you, my teammates, is your respect. Your respect as a friend, your respect as a teammate, and your respect as a man.\n\"Being gay may be something that defines me, but it does not limit me. It is such a small part of who I am. I am the same person you all know, no different than before. I'm still the kid that is obsessed with pretty much anything having to do with sports, I'm still the kid that some of you love to call stupid nicknames like 'mom' and 'hot dog,' and I'm still someone who will continue to go out there every day and push myself and push my teammates to be the best football team around. I am your teammate, I am your classmate and I am your brother. And I know that my brothers will continue to stand by my side, no matter what.\"\nEby's announcement was met, to his surprise, with cheers and applause.\n22 and 23. Ana Laura \"La Monita\" Esteche + Johanna \"Yoki\" Gim\u00e9nez, professional boxers\nArgentinian boxer Ana Laura \"La Monita\" Esteche came out publicly in January immediately after winning the light welterweight championship for the World Boxing Association. In the interview directly after the bout, Esteche thanked \"her woman\".\n\"Her woman\" is Johanna \"Yoki\" Gim\u00e9nez, another WBA professional boxer.\nAdded Esteche, of coming out: \"It's that it's something that you should not hide, after all happiness is not something you should hide, it's something to be shared and I \u2013 we \u2013 are happy.\"\nPhoto below courtesy of Mart\u00edn Canevaro and the 100% Diversity & Rights collective.\n24. John Fennell, Canadian Luger, Olympian\nJohn Fennell, who competed in luge for Team Canada at the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi, came out as gay in May saying he was tired of keeping secrets, in an interview with the Calgary Herald.\nSaid Fennell:\n\"[The closet is] suffocating. You have to play this game of, 'who knows?' You can't let off any vibes or secrets. You have to act super macho. You have to be hyper aware of your mannerisms and to not let off any vibes that could get detected. It's very exhausting. It's an all-consuming paranoia of who could find out through what means.\"\nPart of what prompted his coming out, Fennell says, is the sense of isolation he felt at Sochi:\n\"I was a little distraught over the lack of leadership going into Sochi. There were a few out girls, but to my knowledge there weren't any out guys, and I know they're there\u2026.I'm an athlete. Realistically, I put on a spandex suit and slide down a mountain. I'm no message board for political movements. But we need to have leaders in our sport community. If it takes a 19 year old to step up and to that, I'm more than willing to use my voice or the platform that I've been given to give a figurehead to gay youth in sport.\"\n25. Jim Ferlo, Pennsylvania State Senator\nA horrific mob attack on a gay couple in Philadelphia's City Center in September set in motion a string of events that soon had prominent Pennsylvania lawmakers including out Rep. Brian Sims calling for the state to pass LGBT-inclusive hate crime laws.\nState Senator Jim Ferlo came out of the closet at a press conference in Harrisburg calling for the legislation:\nSaid Ferlo:\n\"As many of us in the gay community say, don't fight the feeling. Well I've never fought the feeling and I've had great friendships and relationships and I am gay\u2026Hundreds of people know I'm gay. I just never made an official declaration. I never felt I had to wear a billboard on my forehead. But I'm gay. Get over it. I love it. It's a great life.\"\n26. Connor Franta, YouTube Star\nConnor Franta, a 22-year-old YouTube vlogger with more than 3.6 million subscribers, came out as gay in December saying he was tired of the charade:\n\"In just one year I've honestly felt like I'm so happy with who I am. And I'm making this video because I was sick of having to think constantly about what I was doing, what I was saying, what I was wearing. I don't want to have to think about everything I do. I just want to be able to be me and not be afraid. I'm sick of censoring myself. This is just one little part of who I am. And I'm not going to let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.\"\nFollow him on: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook.\n27. Daniel Franzese, Actor (Mean Girls, Looking)\nActor Daniel Franzese, best known for his role as Damian in the classic 2004 Tina Fey film Mean Girls, came out in April by writing a letter to his cinematic alter ego.\nWrote Franzese in his letter to Damian:\n\"There were industry people who had seen me play you in Mean Girls but never seen me read in an audition but still denied me to be seen for 'masculine' roles\u2026Damian, you had ruined my life and I was really pissed at you. I became celibate for a year and a half. I didn't go to any gay bars, have any flings and I lied to anyone who asked if I was gay. I even brought a girl to the 'Mean Girls' premiere and kissed her on the red carpet, making her my unwitting beard. Meanwhile, I was still in the closet. Deleting tweets that asked if I was gay, scrubbing IMDB Message Boards for any indication.\"\n\"My friends and family all knew the truth but now it's time everyone does. Perhaps this will help someone else. I'm not afraid anymore. Of Hollywood, the closet or mean girls. Thank you for that, Damian. (And Tina.). \u2026 P.S. I hate it when people say I'm 'too gay to function.' I know you do, too. Those people are part of the problem. They should refrain from using that phrase. It really is ONLY okay when Janis says it.\"\nFranzese will be appearing soon in a major multi-episode arc as a love interest in the second season of HBO's Looking.\nFollow him on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.\n28. Billy Gilman, Country Music Star\nBilly Gilman, a country star since the age of 12 when he became the youngest artist to score a Billboard Top 40 country hit with 2000's \"One Voice\", came out of the closet in November after being inspired by a similar same-day disclosure from fellow country star Ty Herndon.\nSaid Gilman in a video posted to YouTube:\n\"You know, it's difficult for me to make this video not because I'm ashamed of being a gay male artist or a gay artist or a gay person. But it's pretty silly to know that I'm ashamed of doing this knowing that because I'm in a genre and industry that is ashamed of me for being me. That said, I want to say that all of the country artists that literally I grew up with \u2013 Keith Urban, Vince, LeAnn Rimes and all of these wonderful friends of mine have been nothing but supportive. Not that they knew but they've just been such wonderful people.\"\n29. Tyler Glenn, Lead Singer, Neon Trees\nTyler Glenn, the lead singer of the rock band Neon Trees and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, came out as gay in March in an article in Rolling Stone magazine.\n\"I had my crushes on guys throughout high school, but it was never an overwhelming thing until my twenties. Then I'd be dating girls and in love with my straight friend and it was the worst feeling in the world.\"\nGlenn also tweeted on the day the article was published: \"Yes. I am a happy and healthy Mormon gay pop star. I don't know what it all means, but I'm ok with it. \"\nIn the Rolling Stone article, he also commented on his religion and his Church's role in funding the Proposition 8 campaign in California:\n\"We were always taught, and I hate this word, 'tolerance.' The only time that felt different was when the Prop 8 thing came up.\"\nFollow him on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.\n30. Derrick Gordon, Basketball Player, UMass\nDerrick Gordon, a shooting guard at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, made basketball history twice this year \u2013 first when he became the first active male NCAA Division 1 basketball player to come out publicly in April, and second in November when he became the first openly gay player in a NCAA Division 1 game.\nGordon, who says being in the closet began to consume him, told his story to Outsports in April. He said his coming out process began after teammates began teasing him about a photo that he had posted and 'liked' on Instagram which showed him at a gay bar.\nSaid Gordon:\n\"That was probably the lowest point I was ever at. I didn't want to play basketball anymore. I just wanted to run and hide somewhere. I used to go back to my room and I'd just cry. There were nights when I would cry myself to sleep\u2026.Nobody should ever feel that way.\"\nIn an emotional locker room meeting, Gordon revealed to his teammates that what they had been speculating and teasing him about was true. It was a confession that drove many of his teammates to tears, according to accounts, when they realized that he had nearly left the team.\nGordon said recently he was also inspired by NBA player Jason Collins, who came out in 2013:\n\"Everything leads to the NBA for me, and I didn't want my dreams to be shattered because of my sexuality\u2026So when I saw him come out, that inspired me. I said, 'If he's in the NBA and he's openly gay then maybe I can be the same way.' And when he played for Brooklyn, I saw a YouTube video of him coming into the game and the whole crowd stood up and applauded. It was, like, man, he has a lot of people supporting him. That did it for me.\"\n31. Van Hansis, Actor (As The World Turns, Eastsiders)\nVan Hansis, an actor who starred on As The World Turns from 2005 to 2010 but became better known to LGBT audiences recently via the popular web series Eastsiders, began speaking publicly for the first time about being gay this year.\nHe told The Fight magazine why in October:\nI guess it was a combination of a lot of things\u2014It was my first job, it was a different time back then in regards to LGBT stories being told\u2014I mean, the Luke story was groundbreaking at the time. Now, I think every remaining soap has a gay storyline. I was completely green, fresh out of college, and honestly, I was scared.\nI think this is part of the reason I connect with a show like \"Eastsiders\" so much. It, along with so many other really remarkable shows\u2014whether LGBT focused, or just including some really great LGBT characters- are changing the narrative on preconceived notions. While for decades LGBT characters in cinema could be the villain, victim, or asexual comedic relief\u2014shows like what you have created have characters so well rounded that you can be all three, and so much more. As we all are, often in the same day.\n32. Deborah Harry, Musician, Icon\nDeborah Harry, post-punk icon and lead singer of the pop group Blondie, revealed she is bisexual in a German interview in April:\nWhen asked whether long-standing rumours of her affairs with girls were true, she said, 'Yeah,' adding: 'Let's say women are more sensual.'\nHarry, who enjoyed a long-term relationship with fellow band member Chris Stein, did not name any of her female lovers. She also insisted that her most enduring relationships had been with men and that she longed to fall in love again. 'I don't know if I have any specific requirements,' she said. 'Just somebody nice, who has a good sense of humour and loves to have sex. What more could you ask for?'\n33. Don Harwin, Australian MP\nAustralian Liberal MP Don Harwin came out to colleagues in an emotional speech delivered on the last sitting day of Parliament in November.\nSaid Harwin:\n\"Life is so different for [young gay and lesbian people today] than it was for me. Much has been achieved since then, and perhaps my travails in less happy times gave me the determination I needed to pursue this role\u2026It is remarkable how quickly public opinion has shifted and, indeed, our house has voted to support marriage equality in principle. I hope that my many friends who are waiting for the opportunity to marry will not have to wait too much longer for the Commonwealth Parliament to reform the law.\"\nHarwin said he had been out privately for two decades. Australia fights on for marriage equality.\nFollow him on: Facebook.\n34. Ty Herndon, Country Music Star\nTy Herndon, a country singer charting on Billboard for more than two decades, came out of the closet as gay in November with an interview in People magazine and an accompanying interview on Entertainment Tonight.\nHerndon, twice married to women, said his ex-wives \"absolutely\" knew about his sexual orientation. His longtime partner Matt helped him come out, he told the magazine:\n\"During an Anthony Robbins seminar, I realized I had an incredible story that could possibly help someone's son or daughter or grandchild's life not be as difficult as mine has been. Maybe they wouldn't have to go through as much pain and suffering. It's time to tell my truth\u2026I'm an out, proud and happy gay man\u2026\"\nHerndon said he had no problem reconciling his sexual orientation with his Christian faith:\n\"I sit on the tailgate of my pickup truck, and I meditate, and I talk to God\u2026That's really all I need to know. I have a connection to something bigger than myself, and no one's going to tell me that I can't have it. We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and he loves us back\u2026[Gay Christian kids] can be loved by God, they can be married one day, they can have a family, they can give their parents grandkids. And they're not broken, they're not sinners and they're perfectly beautiful.\"\nWatch Herndon's ET interview HERE.\n35. Thomas Hitzlsperger, German Footballer\nRetired 31-year-old German footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger became the most high-profile European footballer to come out of the closet in January, telling German newspaper Die Zeit that he's gay and wanted to go public to raise awareness about homosexuality among professional athletes.\nSaid Hitzlsperger:\n\"It's been a long and difficult process. Only in the last few years have I realised that I preferred living together with a man\u2026In England, Italy and Germany being a homosexual is no big thing, at least not in the dressing room\u2026I was never ashamed of being who I am but it was not always easy to sit on a table with 20 young men and listen to jokes about gays. You let them get on with it as long as the jokes are somewhat funny and not too insulting\u2026Being gay is topic that is 'ignored' in football and not 'a serious topic in the changing room'. Fighting spirit, passion and winning mentality are intrinsically linked, that doesn't fit the clich\u00e9: 'Gays are soft'.\"\nHitzlsperger played on the German national team 52 times, including in the World Cup, and retired in late 2013.\nFollow him on Twitter, and his site.\n36. Unknown Japanese Student\nEarlier we mentioned that this year's coming out list features several notable entries that made a splash on social media over the past year. In March we featured a video of a 17-year-old unidentified Japanese student's entry in the Hokkaido Prefectural English Speech Contest, held in Sapporo, Japan.\nThe student chose to give his speech on LGBT rights and came out while doing so.\nThe speech in full:\nThis summer, shocking news ran through the world. The Russian president Vladimir Putin issued a law to restrict the rights of gay people. Many western countries are quite offended by this idea and some people believe that we should boycott the Olympics which will be held in Sochi next winter. The Charter of the Olympics declares that the spirit of Olympics is to act against any form of discrimination affecting the Olympic movement. According to this policy, we have to say this law is totally against the spirit of the Olympics.\nWhy do gay people have to face discrimination? Is it because they are not heterosexual? Is it a sin to love somebody of the same gender? The law cannot control love or people's feelings.\nDiscrimination is the practice of treating one person or group differently from another in an unfair way. In a sense, human history has been repeating itself, one kind of discrimination after another. Racial, sexual, religious discrimination and so on.\nThis year the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of the \"I have a dream\" speech made by Martin Luther King. In his speech he was dreaming of the world without any discrimination where his children are living happily with different races. His speech has encouraged African Americans, Native Americans as well as minorities all over the world to move forward for civil rights.\nI have faced discrimination too. I am gay. I realized this when I was a junior high-school student, although I never told anybody somehow my classmates guessed that I was. They rejected me and treated me like I was not a human being; one girl said to me \"I can't believe someone like you exists\". It made me feel like I was completely alone. In high school I decided to keep my secret safe and never tell anyone about who I really am on the inside. But this year I wanted to stop hiding that part of myself.\nIn western countries such as the States and in Europe gay people are seen as a normal part of society just as the difference of white and black, man and woman, Christian and Muslim. Although there are problems, the gay community is visible and is trying to make changes.\nIn Japan, we are afraid of being different, but we don't show our hate so openly. It is silent discrimination. If nobody talks about the problem then it doesn't exist. Many gay people in Japan hide who they really are because they are afraid of being rejected, not with angry words or threats of violence, but with isolation. Being gay in Japan is a very lonely existence.\nMaybe it will be difficult for me to live my life just like other people. But this is my life. I'm going to live it no matter what people say. Martin Luther King once said \"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.\" When I feel scared I often think of this quote. Making this speech was my first step, I never thought that I could tell people that I am gay.\nI too have a dream. One day down in the meadows of Hokkaido, gay people and straight people are chatting together and eating BBQ in the sunshine. I have a dream of a world without any prejudice, hate or ignorance which causes blind discrimination against what we can't understand. I can see the road ahead will be difficult, but I must be brave. Not just for myself, but for other young people like me.\nWell said, in every way.\n37. Adam Joseph, Philadelphia Meteorologist\nAdam Joseph (left), meteorologist for Channel 6ABC Philadelphia, came out via Facebook in August after he and his partner Karl, welcomed a baby into their family. While the baby announcement was big, it was the first time that Joseph had publicly revealed that he is gay. Above, a more recent Thanksgiving photo of the family.\nSaid Joseph in a Facebook post: \"The action news team has grown again! I am ecstatic to introduce Jacob, the newest love of our lives. My partner Karl and I welcomed him into our world on August 5th at 1:41am. He tipped the scales at 9lbs 1oz and was over 21 inches long! He was a bit stubborn to arrive, but once he did he's been mellow, attentive, and constantly looking around. We are simply overjoyed and ready to spoil him with unconditional love!\"\nPost by Adam Joseph.\nFollow him on: Twitter, Facebook.\n38. Marcus Juhlin, Swedish Football Player\nMarcus Juhlin, a wide receiver for the Swedish (American-style) football team Carlstad Crusaders, came out of the closet at the end of March inspired by fellow gridiron gay Michael Sam.\nThe 22-year-old made the announcement in the April issue of the European gay magazine QX.\nOUT reported:\nHe's the first American football player in Sweden to come out, and according to the QX team, the reaction from his team mates and from the other teams in the league have been amazing. \"They all support and respect him,\"QX editor in chief Anders \u00d6hrmantold us. Marcus sent an email to QX in December stating: \"Please help me come out from the closet and close that door once and for all.\" And they did. Juhlin lives in the city of Karlstad and is playing for Carlstad Crusaders. Oh, and in case you're curious, he is single.\nFollow him on: Twitter.\n39. Rob Kearney, professional strongman\nRob Kearney, the 2nd strongest middleweight champion in the world, became the first openly gay man to be actively competing in a professional level strongman competition.\nKearney made the announcement via Facebook late October, writing:\nPost by Rob Kearney.\nFollow him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter\n40. Jay Kelly, Son of R&B Star R. Kelly\nR. Kelly's youngest child, 13 and named Jaya at birth but now goes by Jay, came out as transgender in June on his Ask.fm page, a social platform that allows users to answer anonymously submitted questions.\nWrote Kelly:\n\"[My mom] was like, 'Baby, you know I love you if you were bi, gay, [lesbian], you name it and I would still love you so much\u2026She was very proud of me, I was like, 'Thank you mum for accepting the fact that I'm a transgender.' \u2026 And same with my sister, she told me that she was proud of me, and respects me by calling me handsome and calling me her little brother now, and I love her for that, so you know it was great for me.\"\nThe news was first reported by celebrity magazine InTouch.\nR. Kelly later commented on the news by saying, \"No matter what they are or who they are, they still your kids, you love them, you know but you've got to support them,\u2026At the end of the day, it's not about me no more [than] it's about three lovely, lovely kids that I'm in love with and that's in love with me.\"\n41. Charlie King, British Reality Television Star (TOWIE)\nBritish reality TV series The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE, as it's familiarly called), had already caught gay America's attention because Tom Daley had featured one of its stars, Dan Osborne, on the UK version of his reality diving competition Splash.\nIn October, another of its stars, Charlie King, made headlines that reverberated across the pond when he came out of the closet during a live interview on ITV's talk show This Morning.\nSaid King:\n\"I feel that I'm ready now. I know that the time is now. Anybody that knows me knows that I've come off of The Only Way is Essex, and on that show they followed my storyline which was very much about that subject because I never really knew where I belonged and never really knew where I fitted in and it was something I had to address and it's taken me a good few years to really get here now and be able to say I'm Charlie, I'm 29 years old, I'm a gay man, and I'm very comfortable with that.\"\n42. Kristen Kish, Top Chef Winner\nKristin Kish (left), the 2012 winner of Bravo's Top Chef and the second female winner in the show's history, came out as gay via an Instagram photo in late March.\nThe photo featured her girlfriend Jacqueline Westbrook, with the caption: \"Helicopter ride over Charleston. Happy 1 year love. You've made me incredibly happy\"\nOn the following Sunday, a New York Times article about female chefs also mentioned Kish's partner.\nFollow her on: Twitter, Facebook.\n43. Jamie Lambert, Britain's Got Talent winner\nBoyband Collabro won this year's Britain's Got Talent competition and soon thereafter it was revealed that the band has a gay member, Jamie Lambert (center).\nSaid Lambert to UK tabloid The Sun:\n\"No one asked \u2014 I have nothing to hide from anybody. I think it's really important that all gay people in the public eye just talk about it. The more that happens, the more normal it becomes\u2026I remember when Stephen Gately from Boyzone came out and it was a really massive deal\u2026But I think nowadays it's about being comfortable in your own skin and comfortable with who you fall in love with. It doesn't make a difference whether it's with a man or a woman\u2026It's only an aspect of me, just like it's only an aspect of [his Collabro bandmates] that they're straight. It's not all of who I am. I would hate for people to see me as 'the gay one', rather than the one who sings that line.\"\n44. Rodrigo Lehtinen, LGBT Rights Advocate, Son of U.S. Congresswoman\nRodrigo Lehtinen, the son of Republican Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen came out publicly as trans in an interview which aired on CBS Miami in November. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen also appeared in the interview and said that her views on LGBT people have been influenced by the process of coming to terms with her son's gender identity.\nSaid Rodrigo:\n\"I think coming out as transgender is really about coming out as your authentic self, coming out as the person you always knew you were but no one else may have known, and now you're sharing that honestly with people for the first time.\"\nCongresswoman Ros-Lehtinen voted for DOMA in 1996 but is the only Republican co-sponsor of the bill to repeal it today. She also supports LGBT-inclusive hate crime laws, was one of 15 Republicans to vote for DADT repeal, and was the first Republican in the House to fully support marriage equality.\nSaid Ros-Lehtinen of Rodrigo:\n\"As parents we wanted to make sure Rigo understood we were totally fine with it. We wanted to make sure he was safe. Our society is sometimes not inviting and not caring enough and there is no mystery that LGBT kids when they are younger are bullied.\"\nSaid her son:\n\"I think she's genuinely a good person, she may be Republican and I may not be, but she cares about people enough and the tide of history is going so much in that direction.\"\nTheir interview below:\n45. Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, Finnish Swimmer, Olympian\nFinnish Olympic swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen came out of the closet in February in an effort to raise awareness about Russia's anti-gay laws ahead of the Sochi Games.\nSaid Liukkonen:\n\"I wanted to start a broader discussion in connection with Sochi, because it's sad that the legislation in Russia restricts the human rights of young people and others..In the future I would hope that elite athletes and other people will not find homosexuality to be any kind of news\u2026As the matter wasn't discussed, I tried to forget about it, but during high school I began to accept that I am made this way. Acceptance hasn't necessarily been easy, but it hasn't been horribly difficult either. This has been a long, slow process for me, but now I'm there.\"\n(image via Instagram)\n46. Matt Llano, Arizona Professional Distance Runner\nIn October, professional distance runner Matt Llano came out as gay in a video for his team, the Northern Arizona Elite, based out of Flagstaff.\nLlano, who was an All-American in cross country for the University of Richmond in college and finished 10th in the 2012 U.S. 15k championship and 5th in the 2014 U.S. half-marathon championship, talked about \"feeling different\" and what it was like growing up gay and coming out to his parents.\nLlano's parents and friends join him in the video and talk about what a wonderful guy he is.\n(image instagram)\n47. Tom Luchsinger, national champion swimmer\nTom Luchsinger, who in 2013 won the 200m butterfly at the World Aquatics Championship in Barcelona, came out as gay in a deeply emotional letter published over at Outsports in December.\nWrote Luchsinger:\nFor as long as I can remember I tried to repress my feelings through athletics. I tried to hide who I was through medals and accomplishments. I tried to pray away my sexuality. I tried to shower it off. Nothing ever worked. After years of stress, hate, and disgust toward myself, I have come to accept who I am. I am a proud gay man living my life the best way I know how, surrounded by people who love and support me!\nFor years, my sexuality was the quality I was most ashamed of about myself. But now it seems that being gay is one of the characteristics I'm most proud of. I have accomplishments linked to my name that most heterosexual men will never have. I've overcome the fear of being rejected from the people I love the most.\nFollow him on: Twitter, Instagram\n48. Kellie Maloney, Legendary British Boxing Manager and Promoter\nKellie Maloney (formerly Frank), the legendary British boxing manager and promoter who guided Lennox Lewis's career as he ascended to grab the title of World Heavyweight Champ, announced in August that she is trans and was then beginning gender reassignment surgery.\nSaid Maloney to the UK publication The Mirror:\n\"I was born in the wrong body and I have always known I was a woman\u2026I can't keep living in the shadows, that is why I am doing what I am today. Living with the burden any longer would have killed me\u2026What was wrong at birth is now being medically corrected. I have a female brain. I knew I was different from the minute I could compare myself to other children. I wasn't in the right body. I was jealous of girls. The feeling of wanting to be like and dress like a woman has always been there. I consciously made the decision that I wouldn't dress like a woman but it was a constant urge. But I have never been able to tell anyone in boxing. Can you imagine me walking into a boxing hall dressed as a woman and putting an event on? I can imagine what they would scream at me. But if I had been in the theatre or arts world nobody would blink an eye about this transition.\"\nMaloney has since said she has been \"overwhelmed\" by the support she has received since announcing her transition.\n49. Robbie Manson, New Zealand Rower, Olympian\nNew Zealand Olympic rower Robbie Manson came out as a gay in November in a post published on Outsports.\nSaid Manson:\n\"Although it hasn't always been in the forefront of my mind, deep down I was terrified of anyone finding out that I was gay, especially my teammates. I seriously thought that if anyone found out I wouldn't be able to row anymore. The thought of coming out, in my mind, felt so limiting and terrifying. Also, in a strange way, I looked down on other people who were gay, and to a degree felt sorry for them, thinking to be gay was to be \"less than.\" I knew I was gay too, and I hated myself because of it.\"\nManson added that he hoped his story would help younger athletes:\n\"There are already a lot of great gay sporting role models, and a lot who have achieved far more than I have, but I hope that my story can add something to what is already out there. To show other people who might be struggling with their sexuality, not only that it's ok to be gay, but it's a good thing, and it won't change who you are or limit what you can achieve. At the end of the day, it's only one of the many things that define me as a person. It's how hard you're prepared to work for something and your talent that determines what you can achieve, not your sexuality.\"\n50. Michael Martin, High school all-state soccer goalie\nMichael Martin (above left), an all-state soccer goalie for Musselman High School in rural West Virginia, came out of the closet to his classmates at their homecoming dance by dancing with another guy \u2014 his boyfriend Jem \u2014 who happened to be the Homecoming King from another school. Two weeks earlier they had done the same thing at Jem's school.\nMartin wrote about it at Outsports:\nMy homecoming dance at Musselman \u2014 two weeks after the dance at Jem's school \u2014 was the big moment I revealed being gay to my school. Jem was the date of girl at Musselman and her outside guest for the dance, while I went \"alone.\" The girl knew Jem and I were together. I was on the homecoming court, which was a big honor and something I never thought would happen. Only some people knew about me before the homecoming, so it was a shocker for some seeing me dance with another guy.\nJem and I danced all night to the most popular pop songs. But it was the slow dance that I most remember that night at the school cafeteria \u2014 \"Remember When\" by Alan Jackson. It was the best night ever. Jem and I got asked a lot if we were together and we said yes. \"That is so cute!\" some girls said. It made us felt accepted.\nMartin says he was inspired by L.A. Galaxy star Robbie Rogers (\"He gave me hope and confidence to be true to myself. Once he came out I started to contemplate doing the same myself and being proud of who I am.\"). He graduates this spring.\n51. Ian Matos, Top Brazilian Diver\nShortly after Tom Daley declared he was interested in men, top Brazilian diver Ian Matos cited his British counterpart as the reason he decided to tell the world he's gay.\nSaid Matos: \"From a young age, I knew I was gay, but it was here (in Rio de Janeiro) that I got to live my sexuality.\"\nAccording to Outsports, \"He said a friend advised him to stay closeted until after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, but Matos said the pressure of hiding boyfriends, avoiding gay parties and not being himself proved too much. He said he hoped that coming out would not impact his ability to be a successful diver and not cost him any potential sponsorship.\"\n52. Mark McAdam, British Sports Commentator\nMark McAdam, a reporter on British network Sky Sports, came out as gay in the September issue of Gay Times magazine.\nSaid McAdam to the magazine:\n\"I don't know of any other gay sports reporters. There's nothing to compare this to. I battled with my sexuality for years and years. Only gay people will ever understand the trauma you go through about accepting your sexuality.\"\nMcAdam said that gay men are no different than straight men. They like football too. McAdam added that like any straight guy he likes to \"sit around and scratch my bollocks and piss on the toilet seat.\"\nThe story also included a racy photo which McAdam posted to his Twitter account.\n53. Connor Mertens, College Football Player\nIn January, Connor Mertens, a kicker on Willamette University's football team, came out as bisexual, making him the first active bi college football player to come out.\nMertens' coming out was received with open arms by coaches, players, and his parents (above).\nMertens came out to his team via a letter which he also tweeted to his hometown (click to enlarge):\nMertens had been worried about how some of his teammates would respond, Outsports reported, but all it took was for one of the more intimidating players to stand up and offer support for Mertens to feel reassured.\nSaid the player: \"If anyone has a problem with Conner, I'll kick your ass.\"\nMertens said, after coming out, \"It's been insanely incredible. I'm speechless. That is the only word I can use to describe this. Even a lot of the guys on the football team I was most scared of are the ones who have been the most amazing.\"\nCaptioning the Instagram photo posted above, Mertens added: \"Last night I was blessed enough to play in my first collegiate football game. It's crazy\u2013growing up, we have a lot of hopes and dreams that often times get abandoned for reasons unforeseen. Again, I am beyond blessed to be able to fulfill one of those childhood dreams as my college football career starts. Big shout out to my parents for supporting me every step of the way and being there to share in my dream.\"\n54 and 55. Adam and Luke Monastero, Gay Twins, Vloggers\nEarlier this year, fraternal twins Adam and Luke Monastero told each other they were gay. Though both of them had known for many years, it was the first time the two had acknowledged it to each other.\nThough most gay kids must go it alone when coming out to their parents, the Monastero twins decided to do something very 2014: film the coming out and put it on YouTube. The pair recorded a diaryroom-style video before and after sharing the big news. They also secretly recorded the coming out itself including their parents' reactions. As Adam and Luke sat Mom and Dad down, Adam warned his parents that he and Luke have some \"shocking news\" for them.\nFollow them on YouTube, Twitter here and here, Facebook.\nWatch as the boys open up to their folks and later bask in the freedom of being out and proud:\n56 and 57. Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley, Lead Writer and Actress, Orange is the New Black\nIn one of the most stunning revelations of the year, Orange is the New Black lead writer Lauren Morelli, who back in May wrote an article for Policy Mic describing how working on the Netflix series helped her come to terms with her sexual orientation.\nMorelli realized she had feelings for women just months into her first marriage to Steve Basilone, whom she had dated for six years.\nIn September, TMZ published divorce documents showing the couple's break-up was amicable. About the same time, Morelli appeared hand-in-hand at the Emmy Awards with Samira Wiley, who plays Poussey Washington on the show.\nMorelli had alluded to the romance months before in the letter: \"I went through it all on set: I fell in love with a woman, and I watched my life play out on screen\u2026.And now, as we are gearing up for the release of season 2, it feels liberating and appropriate to live my life in front of you.\"\nFollow Morelli on Twitter; Follow Wiley on Twitter.\n58. Kristian Nairn, Actor, Game of Thrones\nKristian Nairn, who plays the beloved character Hodor on HBO's Game of Thrones, came out as gay in March in an interview at fansite Winter is Coming:\n\"Well, in all honesty, when you talk about \"the gay community,\" you are talking about MY community, haha. I AM aware of it yeah, and I think it's really lovely. There's not a day that I don't get a few messages, but 99% or more are super sweet and nothing smutty at all! Again, it's a privilege, and I really mean that. I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone, my whole life in fact, and I've been waiting for someone to ask about it in an interview, cos it's not something you just blurt out. I've tried to lead the questions a few times, to no avail!\"\nNairn later clarified to the Wall Street Journal:\n\"I kind of had been waiting for it to come up in an interview question. But I sort of thought that people knew, because all you had to do\u2014I started out doing a drag queen [act]. I DJ at a gay bar. Learn to Google, people. That's all it is\u2026\n\"I don't want to make light of it either because people have been in touch with me and they've been really\u2026 nice about it, and I'm really grateful. And also people said it inspired them. Because even within the gay community, there's a stereotype even when you're a gay person. You have to look a certain way. You have to be thin. You have to be tanned. You have to have small eyebrows. You have to look pretty. And that's never been me.\n\"I just think it's important to show the world that we are varied people, as everybody else. You don't have to be any way. I think that's really important, and people said that to me. And that's when I started to realize it's not a small thing. It's kind of a big thing. And if I can help somebody\u2014you know, I've got my family behind me. I've got my friends behind me. If you have that, that's all you need. It doesn't matter about people on the Internet. And I'm really lucky to have that. And so if I can help one person, I'm happy.\"\n59. Alex Obendorf, NCAA Diver, Olympic Hopeful\nAlex Obendorf, a freshman diver at West Virginia University, an NCAA post-season qualifier who hopes to one day qualify for the Olympics, came out of the closet earlier this year and in November in an interview with The Missourian.\nHis coming out was offered up in the answer to a question about his admiration for Olympicans Tom Daley and Matthew Mitcham:\n\"I like their form and everything. I'm pretty proud of them because I know that it's a hard thing to open up about, especially to the public as an Olympian. I am openly gay. I know where they come from.\"\nObendorf suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car wreck last year that left him unable to compete for nine months. He got back on the board in May and his coach is pushing him to make the NCAA champtionships.\n60. Ellen Page, Actress, Juno\nActress Ellen Page, best known for her critically-acclaimed role as a pregnant teen in Juno, came out as gay during a speech at Human Rights Campaign 'Time to Thrive' youth conference in February.\nSaid Page to the crowd:\n\"I am here today because I am gay\u2026 and because maybe I can make a difference to help others have an easier and more hopeful time. Regardless for me I feel a personal obligation and a personal responsibility. I also do it selfishly because I'm tired of hiding and I'm tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered, and my relationship suffered. And I'm standing here today with all of you on the other side of that pain.\"\nPage added:\n\"I am young yes. But what I have learned is that love \u2014 the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes even the pain of it \u2014 is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love, fully, equally, without shame and without compromise. There are too many kids out there suffering from bullying, rejection or simply being mistreated for who they are. Too many dropouts. Too much abuse. Too many homeless. Too many suicides. You can change that and you are changing it. But you never needed me to tell you that.\"\nHer speech:\n61. Zoie Palmer, Canadian Actress\nCanadian actress Zoie Palmer revealed for the first time publicly that she is gay at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards in March when she thanked her partner Alex Lalonde as she accepted her \"Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Screen Star\".\nPalmer plays Dr. Lauren Lewis in the Showcase Canadian TV supernatural drama Lost Girl.\n62. Curtis Paradis, Vlogger\nPopular video gaming and news vlogger Curtis Paradis came out shortly after the start of 2014 in a three and a half minute video called \"My Story\".\nSaid Paradis: \"For the past 22 years of my life, I've been living a lie\u2026I think I'm finally ready to say it. I am Curtis Paradis. And I'm gay.\"\nIn a letter accompanying the clip, Paradis wrote:\nThis is something I have wanted to share with you all for a very long time and it wasn't until recently that I had the confidence to really do it. A big thanks to my Parents for being super supportive during this time, I often worried how they would respond to this, but they have been very supportive and I love them so much for it. My friends, its you who gave me to strength to do this, and express who I really was. Thanks for the years of support of me being me, I love you all.\nAnd to all the people online. I say this often but its so true. You the viewers have been the biggest influence in my entire life. You changed my life in a way that I never would have imagined. Today is the beginning of a brand new me, and I have all of you to thank. You accepted me for me, and it means the world to me that you did. You are all amazing people, and I hope this video expresses what I was thinking, and maybe helps others going through similar events to myself.\nFollow him on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook.\n63. Pat Patterson, Wrestling Legend\nDisclosing what many industry insiders said at the time was an open secret, WWE legend Pat Patterson came out as gay officially on an episode fo the WWE reality show Legends' House that aired in June.\nSaid Patterson: \"For once in my life I'm going to be me now. I survived all this being gay. I lived with that for 50 some years. I had a friend with me for 40 years and I lost him\u2026it was tough guys. It was tough.\"\nThe episode was filmed in 2012 but the announcement didn't become public until the show aired.\nWatch the moment:\n64. Andreja Pejic, Model\nAndreja Pejic (formerly Andrej) told People magazine in September that she is transgender. In the interview Pejic says she began the transition process early in 2014.\n\"I want to share my story with the world because I think I have a social responsibility. I hope that by being open about this, it becomes less of an issue\u2026I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.\"\nPejic says that almost two years ago she \"reevaluated things\", adding, \"I have to be true to myself and the career is just going to have to fit around that.\"\nBorn in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pejic was discovered while working at McDonald's and began walking shows for Jean-Paul Gaultier and Marc Jacobs, who were drawn to her gender nonconforming look.\nPejic is currently producing a crodfunded documentary about her reassignement surgery and life as a trans woman.\nSaid Pejic on Facebook at the time of her coming out:\n\"I think we all evolve as we get older and that's normal but I like to think that my recent transition hasn't made me into a different individual. Same person, no difference at all just a different sex I hope you can all understand that. I would also like to to reach out to all young gender non-conforming youth out there: I know it's hard, I've been there, but remember it's your right to be accepted as what you identify with\u2014you deserve the same respect as any other human being on this planet. As a transgender woman I hope to show that after transition (a life-saving process) one can be happy and successful in their new chapter without having to alienate their past. Most importantly differences should not equal divisions, let's all stand together in union.\"\nFollow her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.\n65. Daniel Pierce, Survivor\nIn perhaps the most alarming and disturbing coming out story of the year, a gay teen in Kennesaw, Georgia surreptitiously made a recording with his phone as his family gathered for a \"pray the gay away\" intervention. He had told his mother that he was gay months before, but the video graphically illustrates how bad some kids have it..\n19-year-old Daniel Pierce's clip went viral (7 million views and counting) because of the horrific events that unfolded. Pierce's family decided on a confrontational, violent approach to handling the teen's sexual orientation, eventually disowning him.\nSaid the video's description:\nA perfect example of how much hate and intolerance still exists today. This family gave a young man two options: attend a pray the gay away intervention, or face being disowned by the very people who are supposed to love him unconditionally.\nDisclaimer: This is a 19 year old friend of mine who is currently staying with very supportive friends. He is safe and removed from the situation. I am posting this on his behalf per his request. I was not witness to the events that transpired, but was present immediately after to help him relocate.\nPierce has not spoken to them since. A GoFundMe page set up for him raised nearly $100,000 in three days.\nHere is the disturbing video and a follow-up interview:\n66. Eric Radford, Canadian Figure Skater\nThis month, Eric Radford, a Canadian figure skater, did something no other figure skater at the height of his or her career has ever done: he came out as gay.\nRadford and his partner, Meagan Duhamel, are three-time defending Canadian pairs champions who won bronze at the World Championships in 2013 and 2014. They are currently training for the 2018 Olympics in South Korea.\nRadford had considered coming out as the controversy over Russia's anti-gay laws heated up before the Sochi Games, although he did come out to a reporter at Sochi who neglected to include the information that his boyfriend was there to support him in her report.\nSaid Radford to Outsports:\n\"My concern was that I would be known as 'the gay athlete' if I came out at the Olympics, rather than Eric the medalling figure skater who happens to be gay. And I felt uncomfortable with that title.\"\nRadford has been with his boyfriend Normand for four years. They live together with Normand's daughter:\n\"I'm proud of our whole situation, how we're basically a gay family. We function great, we get along so well. We have become a family. I was only 25 when I met Normand. I don't know many gay guys that age who would take on that responsibility. But I jumped right in. It's been fun and fulfilling and has broadened my perspective on so many things.\"\nRadford and Normand doing the ALS ice bucket challenge:\nPost by Eric Radford.\n67. Monica Raymund, Actress, Chicago Fire\nMonica Raymund, who plays paramedic\/firefighter-in-training Gabriela Dawson on Chicago Fire and played Dana Lodge on The Good Wife, came out publicly as bisexual via a tweet in January in support of efforts to protest Russia's anti-gay laws during the Olympic Games.\nhttp:\/\/t.co\/BtaoPaW46s via @skarskarskar \/\/ so proud to be Bi and excited about this movement during Olympics #BePowerful #proud\n\u2014 Monica Raymund (@monicaraymund) February 9, 2014\nRaymund later clarified, saying that she had been out for 10 years.\nNope I didn't just come out \u2013 you just late to the party. But I have drinks for all y'all. #BiAndProud#10YearsOut&Proud Cheers, Family!\n\u2014 Monica Raymund (@monicaraymund) February 10, 2014\nCan one claim to be \"out\" if nobody knows about it? Raymund's disclosure was applauded by fans.\n68. James Richardson, Former Republican National Committee Spokesman\nJames Richardson, a former spokesman and adviser for the RNC, former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, came out as gay in an op-ed in the Washington Post in September.\nIn the essay, Richardson lamented the inequality faced by more than 20,000 estimated gay couples that call his state of Georgia home.\nWrote Richardson:\nI'm one-half of one of those aggrieved couples \u2014 denied, for more than five years, the social stability and legal protections of marriage. And, as a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee and adviser to prominent party figures, I'm also a professional political operative who's helped install in government those who perpetuate marriage bias in America.\nThroughout my career I've publicly advocated for the freedom to marry, urging the party for which I work to allow gay men and women to wed even as I never openly disclosed my personal stake. I've preached the small-government virtues of equal marriage, echoing a conservative case that had been made many times before by thinkers more eloquent and far brighter than myself. Never once did I write that I am gay.\nHe pointed out the more-boring-than-Normal Rockwell-ness of his life, one in which he is committed to community, church, and football (the University of Georgia Bulldogs), adding:\nBut even if we failed, or refused on principle, to cross straight America's bourgeois threshold for normalcy, gay people deserve the same the legal and moral considerations \u2014 and rights \u2014 enjoyed by all others. They are Americans whose rights were granted by God and the grit of their forbearers, yet they are forced to defend their love, and the various planes on which it may be judged (constitutional, cultural and economic), to distressing and revolting ends. [\u2026]\nOn the foundational question of marriage's value, to individuals and society, gay couples and the institution's cultural conservative gatekeepers agree: marriage is deeply special. We wish to participate in earnest, to strengthen the institution that our straight peers are abandoning. Gay couples don't want to rock the marriage boat \u2014 they only want a ticket for two to ride.\n69. Edgar Rinkevics, Foreign Minister of Latvia\nEdgar Rinkevics, the foreign minister of Latvia, made international headlines in November when, one day after his confirmation, he tweeted out:\nI proudly announce I'am gay\u2026 Good luck all of you\u2026\n\u2014 Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds (@edgarsrinkevics) November 6, 2014\nRinkevics told media that he was prompted to come out because Latvia is preparing to consider legal recognition of same-sex relationships, and is now the only out official in Latvia's government.\nRinkevics' revelation did not come without controversy. Pro-Russian activist Vladimir Linderman attacked Rinkevics, claiming he was \"propagandizing a certain ideology.\"\n70. Geena Rocero, Model and Activist\nModel and activist Geena Rocero came out as trans in March in what was billed as the first TED talk about transgender issues on the program's main stage.\nRocero, born in Manila, Philippines, began competing in beauty pageants at the age of 15, immigrated to San Francisco at 17, and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. She was discovered by a photographer in New York City when she was 21 and signed by a modeling agency, working as a swimsuit and editorial model.\nShe told the crowd at TED that for the past nine years many of her friends and her agent did not know she was assigned a male gender at birth and she hadn't told anyone because of fear for how she would be treated.\nSaid Rocero during her \"Why I Must Come Out\" talk at TED:\n\"All of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion, by our society \u2014 our moment in history, even our own bodies. Some people have the courage to breathe free, not to accept the limitations imposed by the color of their skin or the beliefs of those who surround them. Those people are always a threat to the status quo, to what is considered acceptable.\"\nRocero is the founder of Gender Proud, an organization working to change the global perception and conversation about trans individuals.\nFollow her on Twitter, Facebook.\nWatch Rocero's powerful talk here:\n71. Mauricio Ruiz, Chilean Navy Officer\n24-year-old naval officer Mario Ruiz appeared before news cameras in August to make a special announcement: He is gay. In doing so, Ruiz became the first official openly gay member of the Chilean military, and did it with the full backing of the country's armed forces.\nSaid Ruiz before a phalanx of cameras and microphones:\n\"We can do anything, be marines or in any branch (of the military). We can do whatever profession, and we deserve as much respect as anyone else\u2026In life there's nothing better than to be yourself, to be authentic, to look at people in the eye and for those people to know who you are.\"\nRolando Jimenez, president of Chile's Movement for Integration and Homosexual Liberation (MOVILH), praised the military: \"(The Navy is) telling the country and the members of the institution particularly that it is possible for gays and lesbians to be part of the armed forces and that they aren't going to suffer discrimination because of their sexual orientation within these institutions.\"\n72. Michael Sam, NFL Free Agent\nFor years we've waited for a gay athlete brave enough, talented enough, and confident enough to tackle one of professional sports' toughest barriers: the NFL. In February, that player finally made himself known.\nMichael Sam, a first-team all-American and the defensive player of the year in the Southeastern Conference, as well as Missouri's MVP (as voted by the players), said he was gay in a studiously-planned announcement which included interviews by the New York Times and ESPN.\nSam was likely to be drafted come May, and was, but just barely.\nSam was chosen by the St. Louis Rams late in the 7th round, as the 249th pick overall. Sam's reaction to being drafted, which was broadcast on national TV, was to grab and kiss his boyfriend Vito Cammisano. It was a kiss equivalent to an atomic culture bomb, something that American football fans had never seen before, and it revealed just how significant and challenging Sam's role as the first out gay player would be. And not just culturally.\nIn late August, Sam was cut from the Rams and went unclaimed by any of the 31 NFL teams. A few days later, hopes were lifted when the Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad. In late October, Sam was cut from the Cowboys as well. He remains a free agent.\nIt's unclear why Sam has gone undrafted. Some will say not one specific thing is responsible. Others will say he isn't good enough to play. But the evidence, laid out clearly in this piece by Outsports' Cyd Zeigler, leaves little other explanation than \"NFL team front offices are not treating Michael Sam equally simply because he's openly gay.\"\n73. Edward 'Chip' Sarafin, Football Player, Arizona State\nAnother football barrier was broken by Arizona State linebacker Edward \"Chip\" Sarafin, who became the first college football player to publicly come out as gay while still an active player in major college football.\nSarafin spoke about his sexual orientation with Compete magazine, and spoke about seeing bullying in school while growing up:\n\"I went to school at Highland High, and it is definitely not the most diverse school. It's probably 80 percent Mormon and 80 percent Caucasian. So there is definitely a disparity there in the types of people that you meet. I know a lot of times a lot of people who were bullied because they were different were actually bullied by athletes, and that made me really angry \u2026 the athletes are supposed to be the role models, the heroes of the community\u2026\"\nSarafin also said, of coming out to his teammates:\n\"It was really personal to me, and it benefited my peace of mind greatly.\"\nAnd received some support from another football player:\nCongratulations Chip Sarafin for having the courage to be yourself. Wishing you and your teammates much success this season. #courage2014\n\u2014 Michael Sam (@MichaelSamNFL) August 13, 2014\n74. Christian Schizzel, Michele and Marcus Bachmann's 'ex-gay' poster boy\nChristian Schizzel, a survivor of Michele and Marcus Bachmann's conversion counseling services who for seven years served as a poster boy for the 'ex-gay' movement, decided to reclaim his identity in a powerful interview with Religion News Service in December.\nSaid Schizzel:\nTo those who still promote reparative therapy or hope it could work for them or a family member, I hope they realize this path leads to a horrid dead end. It's harmful and excruciatingly painful. There's no academic or spiritual basis for its promotion. I wouldn't wish this upon anyone, not even the ones who harmed me the most in this life. In the end, my sexuality is a beautiful gift from God, and every day, I have found, I have to make a choice to honor it in the straight man's world.\nWatch a segment of Schizzel's 2011 interview with Lisa Ling, back when he was still struggling through the harmful therapy.\nFollow him on Instagram\n75. Matt Schulte, Kansas City Royals Marketing Executive\nMatt Schulte, marketing coordinator for the Kansas City Royals, came out as gay in November in an interview with Outsports. Schulte said he had been thinking about coming out for a while but wasn't sure how or when to do so.\n\"To walk into my boss's office, how do I set it up? Do I give them a warning? Do I spring it on them? I'm still not even totally comfortable with saying the words, 'I'm gay.'\"\nSchulte said as the Royals' success grew this season (to Game 7 of the World Series) so did his confidence, and he decided to make his sexual orientation public via a media interview.\nSaid Schulte:\n\"I had family at all of the home games. I got to spend time with them. It was an awesome experience. We've all been Royals fans all of our lives. To go through the connections with the team, the city and my family, it made me realize it's time to take a step forward myself and put myself out there. I had been in a rut, with the Royals and all of their difficult seasons and what I was struggling with inside. The Royals' success just made me decide to be proud and just own it, to just be who I am.\"\n76. Dale Scott, Major League Baseball Umpire\nDale Scott, a Major League Baseball umpire for the last 29 seasons, came out of the closet in the \"quietest way possible\" this month in an issue of the subscription-only Referee magazine, Outsports reports.\nAstonishingly, Scott is \"the first Major League Baseball umpire to publicly say he is gay while active (and the first out active male official in the NBA, NHL, NFL or MLB).\"\nScott's coming out was a photo of he and his partner of 28-years Michael Rausch aboard a plane traveling to the season opener between the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers, Outsports adds:\nAfter consulting with his partner, Michael Rausch, Scott decided to send the photo \u2026 of the two of them\u2026\n\"My thought process was,\" Scott told Outsports in his first interview on the subject, \"is that there's a story about my career and how I got started in umpiring and they're talking to people I have known since junior high and it didn't seem right to have a whole story and pictures without a picture of Mike and I, someone who's been with me through this entire process. We met the October after my first year in the big leagues.\n\"Obviously, when I sent that picture to Jeff, I knew exactly what it meant. In a small way, this was opening that door in a publication that wasn't going to be circulated nationwide. It could be picked up, but it's not Time magazine. I made that decision to go ahead and do it because I felt it was the right thing to do.\nScott said the photo would not be a surprise to the MLB organization or the umpire staff and said he's not seeking attention for his story, though he got it, from ESPN and other sports outlets.\nScott was able to add Rausch as his domestic partner in his contract with the umpires union in 2010 (the two have been legally married since 2013) and says that people began offering his support after that, noting how baseball has changed:\n\"The first 10 years of my Major League umpire career, I would have been horrified if a story had come out that I was gay,\" he said. \"But guys unprovoked started to approach me and say, 'I just want you to know that I would walk on the field with you any day, you're a great guy, a great umpire and I couldn't care less about your personal life.' Basically what they were saying without me provoking it was 'I know and I don't care.' That meant a lot to me because it surprised me since I had not brought it up. At first I was uncomfortable because I had spent my whole life hiding that fact from people even though I wasn't hiding it from myself or my friends.\"\nScott has worked three World Series, three All-Star Games, two no-hitters and numerous playoff games, according to OS. He adds:\n\"People scream at me because I'm an umpire. The last thing I want is people screaming at me because I'm gay. I'm an umpire who happens to be gay. I'm not trying to be some gay person who happens to be an umpire.\"\n77. Bryan Singer, Director\nBryan Singer never had to make an announcement about his sexual orientation before he was anointed \"openly gay Bryan Singer,\" he told OUT magazine in May.\nWhat thereafter became a known quantity was incorrect, he said:\n\"I'm quite bisexual. In the last five years, I've had two girlfriends \u2014 one for two years, one for eight months\u2026.Talking about human sexuality is like talking about the second World War.\"\nSinger was fighting another battle this year, however, a sex abuse case that tore through the tabloids.\nIn October, he announced that he and longtime friend, actress Michelle Clunie, were expecting a baby together in early 2015 and planned to co-parent the child.\nFollow him on Facebook, Twitter.\n78. Sam Smith, British Singer\nIn May this year, British singing sensation and six-time Grammy nominee Sam Smith dropped a video that seemed to suggest he was coming out of the closet. The clip for \"Leave Your Lover\" featured a love triangle with a gay twist at the end.\nA few days later, an interview with Fader magazine was published in which he said that his internationally-acclaimed debut album In the Lonely Hour is about a guy he had fallen in love with.\nSaid Smith:\n\"I am comfortable with myself, and my life is amazing in that respect. I'm very comfortable and happy with everything. I just wanted to talk about him and have it out there. It's about a guy and that's what I wanted people to know\u2014I want to be clear that that's what it's about. I've been treated as normal as anyone in my life; I've had no issues. I do know that some people have issues in life, but I haven't, and it's as normal as my right arm. I want to make it a normality because this is a non-issue. People wouldn't ask a straight person these questions.\"\n(image via Facebook)\n79. Casey Stoney, British Professional Football Captain\nIt was footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger and Tom Daley who inspired Casey Stoney, a defensive player for both the England women's football and Arsenal Ladies teams, to say she is gay after years of speculation by fans.\nSaid Stoney:\n\"I've never hidden it within football circles because it is accepted. But to the outside world, I've never spoken about my sexuality I feel it's really important for me to speak out as a gay player because there are so many young people struggling with being gay. You hear about people taking their own lives because they're homosexual, now that should never happen. They should never feel those pressures. How can I expect other people to come out and speak about themselves if I'm not willing to do that myself?\"\n80. Ian Thorpe, Australian Swimmer, Olympian\nIan Thorpe's sexual orientation has been the focus of the media for more than a decade, and in July of this year he decided to come out of the closet in an interview on Australian TV:\n\"I've thought about this for a long time. I'm not straight. Um, and this is only something that only very recently \u2013 we're talking in the last two weeks \u2013 I've felt comfortable telling the closest people around me. Exactly that\u2026I'm comfortable saying I'm a gay man. And I don't want people to feel the same way I did. You can grow up, you can be comfortable and you can be gay\u2026I'm pleased to say that in telling [my friends and family], and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there, know that that's usually what the answer is.\"\nThorpe has won five Olympic gold medals, the most of any Australian, and eleven World Championship golds.\n81. Brad Thorson, Former College Football Player and NFL Prospect\nBrad Thorson, a former college football player who played as an offensive lineman for both Wisconsin and Kansas and was briefly with the Arizona Cardinals, came out as gay in a blog post in July:\nI've been told many times that the process of coming out is cathartic. Yet since coming to terms with my sexuality, I found it arduous and unnecessary. At least that's what I kept telling myself. So today, I'm putting it in writing and not looking back.\nI'm gay.\nI'm also an athlete. For years, I struggled to unite these two identities in my own mind. Not until after my professional athletic career came to an end did I allow myself to understand my sexuality. Now, three years later, I'm finally ready to share that with people.\nThorson retired from football after playing for a brief period in the Canadian football league and now lives in San Francisco and plays with the Fog rugby team, 9\/11 hero Mark Bingham's former team.\n82. Djuan Trent, Former Miss Kentucky\nDjuan Trent, Miss Kentucky 2010, came out of the closet in March shortly after a federal judge ruled that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages from other states.\nWrote Trent in a blog post:\nFor months, I have been contemplating how I would write this post, how I would position it, when would be the right time to post it. Should I make it funny? Should I make it mysterious? Should I make it serious? Should I pick a special date to do it? Should I build some kind of anticipation around it? Hmmm\u2026ain't nobody got time for that. I have written and re-written and deleted and restarted this post more times than I care to share, and after all of that I have finally realized: \"There ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.\" So, here we go folks\u2026\nI am queer.\nAdded Trent:\nI could write about what it was like to come out to my mom for the third and final time at the age of 26 (the first time was when I was in the 4th grade and the second time was in college). I could write about the years I spent praying to a God whom I wanted so badly to serve with all of my heart, but couldn't understand why this God made me \"wrong\". I could write about all the times that people have asked me if I have a boyfriend and I've purposely chosen to just say \"no\" with no further explanation. I could write about all the reasons I have been told I shouldn't be gay (that's an interesting list). I could write about all the times I talked about how gross it was when a girl had a crush on me, even though I may have secretly liked her too. I could write about how scared I have felt that I would have to watch friends and family members walk out of my life if I ever decided to come out. I could write about how disappointed I have been in myself for being an open supporter by day, and living it up in the safety of the closet by night. I could write books about all of those things\u2026but what has really fueled my passion in writing today, has been this\u2026\nLast week, U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled that Kentucky's prohibition violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law by treating queer folks \"differently in a way that demeans them.\" You can imagine the conversation that this ruling has sparked amongst Kentuckians- those who support as well as those who oppose. I have listened to people talk about \"the abomination of our nation\" and \"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.\" I am not surprised that some people would react this way\u2026I mean, if people didn't react that way, then there would be no need for a movement, no need to fight for OUR rights (ooh, \"our\"\u2026that felt good). This is not to say that I approve of the commentary, it's just to say that I am not surprised. But what has prompted my writing today has been my questioning people's constant assumption that a) I am hetero and b) I concur with their views and opinion.\nNow there's a queen with real beauty.\nFollow her on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook.\n83. Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Writer\nKenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, one of Africa's most well-known modern writers, came out as gay in January amid increased persecution of gays in Kenya and other African countries. Wainaina made the statement in a piece published on two African websites.\nSaid Wainaina to GlobalPost: \"Of course my friends knew, but I had been toying with how useful it would be to make a public statement for close to eight months.\"\nWainaina said he had been traveling internationally for quite some time and after returning home began to feel \"a certain falsity in the way I lived my life.\"\nHe spoke of the increased persecution of gays in Africa:\n\"There was the anti-gay bill in Uganda first, but the Nigeria one! Nigeria is a country I go to \u2014 I was there three times last year \u2014 it is a place I love, it's like a second home to me. It's hard to imagine any more repressive law of any kind anywhere in the world. It's just the most terrible thing\u2026It seems like doom and gloom but my feeling is that the law is a reaction to a thing that they know has traction. And that's a good thing. There's no way to put that s\u2013t back in the box.\"\nHe added: \"I want to be part of a generation of people in Kenya and Africa who change [Africa] to be accountable to itself.\"\n(image wikimedia commons nightstream \u2013 Writer Binyavanga Wainaina at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.)\nFollow him and thank him on Twitter, Facebook.\n84. Maria Walsh, Rose of Tralee\nThe Rose of Tralee is an international competition started in 1959 and open to women of Irish descent from all over the world. It's held in Kerry County, Ireland and each year a woman who best matches the attributes \"lovely and fair\" as described in the nineteenth century ballad.\nThis year, the winner was Philadelphia Rose Maria Walsh, and she's gay, a fact she revealed shortly after winning in August:\n\"I'm confident in who I am as a person. The Rose of Tralee is about celebrating women's intelligence, careers, their volunteer work. The question of sexuality never came up. To me, being gay is normal. It's natural.\"\n85. Patricia Yurena, Miss Spain\nReigning Miss Spain Patricia Yurena came out of the closet via an intimate photo of her and her girlfriend Vanesa Cortes which she posted to Instagram.\nSaid Yurena in a follow-up message: \"I published the picture completely spontaneously and in an impulsive manner. Thank you for all your support.\"\nYurena is the first openly gay national pageant queen.\nIf you enjoyed this, please SHARE on your social networks!\nAs with all lists, it's hard to hit everyone, and every individual's coming out is a victory. 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However, if you want to single out one country for their enthusiasm in festivity,...\nHogmanay: New Year's Eve in Edinburgh, Scotland \u2013 Everything You need to know!\nHogmanay is the Scots meaning of New Year's Eve. Edinburgh's Hogmanay is the observance of Scottish celebration of New Year. It has...\nJust for Laughs 2020, The Largest International Comedy Festival, Quebec, Canada: Everything You Need to Know!\nMd. Aminur Rahman - September 4, 2020 0\nNeed a pleasant way to pass your day? Comedy is more than this. For our everyday existence we need comedy; even the...\nHome Museum Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong: Opening Hours, How To Get...\nHong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong: Opening Hours, How To Get There, Map!\nThe 7000 square meter long Hong Kong Museum has been preserving and covering historical and cultural heritages of about 400 million years. The historical relics are highly helpful for researchers, students and people with the thirst to history. Among the countless collections, most of them belong to Hong Kong and South China and are related to natural history, ethnography, archaeology etc. The museum authority also organizes thematic exhibitions for the visitors frequently.\nHistory of Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong:\nLocated beside the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of History preserves the heritages of Hong Kong and China. The Museum was established in 1975 by Urban Council as the City Museum and Art Gallery was divided into two parts \u2013 Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Museum of History. In the beginning the museum was moved to a temporary location and came to present location in 1998.\nThe permanent place was built spending HK$ 390 million and was sponsored by the Hong Kong Government. Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong manages the museum. Hong Kong Museum has five branches in five different locations. The branches are named as Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum. The museum is a worth of visit for the foreign nationals to know about the past history of Hong Kong.\nDifferent types of replicas are available inside the museum to give you a comprehending knowledge about how the local territories were formed and boomed. You will also found replicas of older streets (of about 1881), film footage of World War II, dummies of villages, traditional costumes and more. Periodicals, reference books, audio-visual materials are also available there to learn more about the museum. Educational and other activities are occasionally arranged to spread knowledge among the visitors.\nHong Kong Museum of History Travel Guide information:\nLocated at the 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (next to the Hong Kong Science Museum), it is a short-way from the MTR Hung Hom Station. You can take a walk to the museum from the Hung Hom Station. It remains closed on Tuesday except the public holidays. You may also take a foot walk or take a taxi to go to the museum.\nSome Tips when you visit on Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong:\nIf you want to visit the museum, keep in mind that it is opened on 10 am and closed on 6pm from Monday and Wednesday to Saturday. In the public holidays and Sunday, the museum is kept open from 10 am to 7 pm. Its standard admission fee is HK$10, and free admission is on Wednesday and for children under 4 years. Keep silence inside the building and noises are disallowed. You can also have a free guided tour in English language in the museum at 11 pm.\nCulture & Customs of Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong:\nThe museum is a must visiting place for all visitors and tourists travelling in Hong Kong. Although you are to pay HK$10, the knowledge and amusement you will have will surplus your entry fee. Do not hasten inside the museum building as if you walk faster, there are chances to miss collections you wanted to see. It is a perfect place to know about the formulation of Hong Kong city, geology of the surrounding locations, relevant Chinese cultures related with the locality formulation etc. You can also watch the short \u2013films related with the local cultures. You can also donate historical elements or objects (if you have any or if you want), and in that case, you are to inform the museum authority with your detail contact information.\nTransport\/ Getting Around in Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong:\nBy MTR:\nTake the West Rail Line and get off at East Tsim Sha Tsui Station. Get out from Exit J or L6.\n1) Take the bus no. 1A, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8A, 8P, or 9, and get off at Cultural Center.\n2) Take the bus no. H1, 203C, 208, 219X, 270A, 270S, 271, N216, N271, or N281and get off at the Peninsula Hotel. Then walk toward south around 5 minutes to the Art Museum.\nBy Ferry:\nTake the Star Ferry from Central or Wan Chai to Tsim Sha Tsui. Then walk for 10 minutes to the art museum.\nOpening Hours of Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong:\nMonday to Wednesday, Friday: 10:00am \u2013 5:00pm\nSaturday, Sunday and public holiday: 10:00am \u2013 5:00pm\nChristmas Eve and Chinese New Year's Eve: 10:00am \u2013 5:00pm\nClosed on Thursdays (except public holiday) and the first two days of the Chinese New Year\nFree entry to Permanent Exhibition 'The Hong Kong Story'; various fees for Special Exhibitions.\nHong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong Information Summery:\nChinese: \u9999\u6e2f\u6b77\u53f2\u535a\u7269\u9928\nAddress: Hong Kong Museum of Art,\n10 Salisbury Road,\nTsimshatsui, Kowloon,\nPrevious articleHollywood Road, Hong Kong: Best Tourist Attractions & Famous Destinations in Macau, China\nNext articleLan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong: Travel Tips You Need To Know Before Visiting.\nMd. Aminur Rahman\nhttp:\/\/www.bookingmentor.com\nFounder & CEO \ud83d\udcbc @ bookingMentor.com. I am a #travel #entrepreneur. My passion is #photography & #traveling \u2708 around the world. Love: \ud83d\udd4b \u26f5\ud83c\udf27\nThings To Do71\nFestivals & Events45\nArchaeology15\nShopping Center4\nMost Popular Festivals & Events in the World\nMd. Aminur Rahman - December 24, 2020\nMd. Aminur Rahman - September 23, 2020\nbookingMentor\u2122 Founded in 2011, To help leisure and travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy the world's best places to stay.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Student Organizations Student Scientific Societies \u2013 Business Environment Unit | Warsaw School of Economics\nYou're here: Collegia SGH > English > Collegium of Business Administration > structure > Institute of Enterprise > structure > Business Environment Unit > Cooperation > Student Organizations\nStudent OrganizationsCurrently selected\nStudent Scientific Societies\nAcceleration Student Scientific Group\nThe Institute of Enterprise takes care of Acceleration Student Scientific Group.\nFrom the beginning the leader of the Club are Prof. PhD Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska and MA Magdalena Typa.\nThe first meetings were held during the autumn of 2008. Formal registration of the Club was made in January 2009. The first president was Konrad Zawodzi\u0144ski, now a graduate of the Master School in Warsaw School of Economics. In the academic year 2011\/2012 chairman was Mariusz Czernecki, graduate in Warsaw School of Economics, currently a doctoral student of the College of Business School. In the academic years 2012\/2013-2013\/2014 this position was held by bachelor Maciej Bonc\u0142awek \u2013 now master student. Since 2014\/2015 Pawe\u0142 Kasprowicz is the chairman of the Club.\nClub takes part in the statutory research of Institute of Enterprise, participates in Fair of Scientific Clubs, conducts its own research and is represented at conferences. In its ranks there are present PhD students of Warsaw School of Economics, graduate and undergraduate students.\nThe Club's pride is a contest \"Community on 5!\". It is dedicated to searching for best practices among local government municipal level, to support the development of entrepreneurial activities through websites and customer service using e-mail. This competition is the result of evolution of scientific research conducted since 2009. Initially, the group gained experience studying selected Polish regions. Their result were the first studies of customer service in the municipalities of Lower Silesia. The scope of research was progressively extended, gaining protection and patronage of institutions such as the Agency for Development of Mazovia SA or the Polish Agency for Information and Foreign Investment.\nFeel invited!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Georgia Wrongful Death Laws\nGeorgia Wrongful Death Laws: Questions and Answers\nDealing with the loss of a loved one is difficult to understand until you experience it. Death is hard to come to terms with when it is natural but when it happens as the result of the carelessness of others, our clients often speak of a profound sense of unfairness and injustice.\nThat is where the wrongful death laws in Georgia comes into play. The law in Georgia was designed to punish people when they act carelessly and it results in a fatality. We will discuss some basic tenets of the law and give you an understanding of the legal issues involved.\nThe Basics of Georgia Wrongful Death Law\nWrongful death cases are serious and can have a value in the millions of dollars in certain circumstances. These are the key things to know:\nThe law identifies the person allowed to make the claim, first the spouse, then the kids, then the parents, then it's up to the Court.\nThe statute of limitations is two years from the date of the death in most cases.\nYou can sue for the economic value (earnings) and the value of the person's life as seen from the deceased's perspective. Did they live a life rich in happiness and experience?\nSometimes you can sue for pain and suffering before death and the fear of death.\nMost lawyers will give you a free, in-person consultation, so the first thing to know is; don't make any snap decisions. Interview a number of lawyers.\nBefore you go to these meetings, you should have a working understanding of the law. Georgia law creates two separate and distinct claims that may be brought; the \"statutory wrongful death\" claim by the family members and the claim of the estate of the deceased.\nThe Statutory Wrongful Death Claim\nTraditionally, the claim that carries the most weight and commands higher verdicts is the statutory claim for the value of the human life.\nThere are strict rules about which family members hold the right to bring the claim and choose the lawyer. The first holder is always the spouse of the deceased, if there is one, and then the children.\nO.C.G.A. \u00a751-4-2.\nIf there are a spouse and children, the spouse holds the claim but must share any proceeds with the children pursuant to the statute.\nIf there is no wife or child then the statutory claim goes to the parents of the deceased. O.C.G.A. \u00a719-7-1.\nFinally, if there is no spouse, child or parent, then a personal representative may be appointed pursuant to O.C.G.A. \u00a751-4-5 to file on behalf of the \"next of kin.\" It is only in this circumstance that the siblings of the deceased would have the claim. For example, we handled a case where the only living relatives were nephews and the girlfriend of the deceased wanted to be the representative. In that situation, the Court needs to appoint the girlfriend as the representative and then the nephews need to consent. Any money recovered would flow to the heirs.\nThe analysis who decides is determined by Georgia's rules on next of kin analyzing the degrees of relation with the decedent.\nThe value of the life has two aspects; the economic value and the value of the victim's life to themselves. Georgia is unique in giving the jury the ability to weigh and consider the true value of a person's life. It is almost a weighing of the human soul.\nIn a case involving a family from Smyrna Georgia, Mr. Simon collected over 200 photos of the deceased from childhood through his 50's, when he passed. He scoured family videos and spent days getting to know the family folklore so that the jury would know this man like a brother when it came time to assign a dollar value to his life. Anyone can hire an economist to value the economics on a life but an experienced lawyer is a storyteller that can explain the highlights and dreams of a human life to the jury. That is the only way that a jury can fairly evaluate the value of a needless loss of life.\nThe Estate's Claims\nThe second part of the wrongful death case is the estate's claim. The Estate holds the claim for any medical bills, pain and suffering and funeral expenses. In cases where the deceased survived for a period of time after the injury, this can be a valuable component of the claim.\nOne heart-wrenching aspect of the estate's claim arises when the deceased could tell before the injury that they were in mortal danger. Juries understand that if a decedent could tell they were going to die, that time \"stretches\" and the agony of knowing that death is approaching is horrible. A skilled lawyer will know how to explore these non-obvious issues to ensure that the survivors make a fair recovery.\nShould I Even Hire a Lawyer to Handle the Wrongful Death Case?\nAlthough you are in the grieving process, you should not wait to hire an attorney if the death resulted from the kind of accident where evidence can disappear or if there is limited insurance and multiple claimants. Here are a few of the warning signs that should alert you to the fact that swift action is important:\nEvidence and Witnesses Disappear Quickly\nFor example, it only takes one good rain to wash away skid marks. When you hire an Atlanta wrongful death lawyer to represent your family, they will analyze the facts of the collision to determine whether it makes sense to deploy an expert collision reconstructionist to the scene and they will take photos to lock down evidence. Typically we also send letters warning the at-fault parties not to allow evidence to \"disappear\", which protects the client in case it later does.\nIf the Accident Involved Multiple Injured People, You are in a Race to Access the Available Insurance\nIf there are multiple people hurt in the wreck, you also need to move quickly. For example, in a case involving a Georgia student killed in a DUI crash at the end of 2010, there were three insurance policies in play and two wrongful death claims and four serious orthopedic injuries. The crash involved two drunk drivers who collided and then crossed the centerline, killing our client.\nFortunately, the client hired our law firm on the wrongful death claim within one week of the client's passing. We sent an immediate demand for the policy limits on each policy and were able to beat the other claimants to the punch. Fair or not, it is the law in Georgia that an insurance company can choose which claimant to pay without regard for \"fairness\" to the other claimants. The other half of the case is focused on a Dramshop case against the Duluth bar that over-served the drunk drivers when it was obvious they would soon be driving at 3:00 in the morning.\nExamples of Wrongful Death Cases our Firm Has Handled or is Handling.\nMotorcycle rider killed when a tractor-trailer turned left from the right lane across his path. Trucking company refused to offer anything as evidence showed motorcycle was speeding. Going to trial in 2013.\nTrash truck backs into lumber stack, knocking it over and crushing the client to death. The case was complicated by the immigration status of the victim and a strong apportionment of liability argument on the victim's employer. Case settled in litigation for well in excess of $1,000,000.\nHigh impact collision with tractor-trailer driving below the minimum speed limit kills passenger in a van. Going to trial in Federal Court in 2013 due to complex collision reconstruction issues.\nGentleman with undiagnosed plasma cancer is in a car wreck and sustains compression fracture and spiral arm fracture. Is hospitalized after the wreck and never checks out of the hospital. He dies 30 days later in the hospital. Because of his fragile state, the car accident injuries were the precipitating cause of the death. $500,000 offered but on track for trial in 2014.\nMinor collision on the interstate leads to the driver getting out of his car where he is struck by another driver and killed. Policy limits from all involved vehicles were paid out.\n5-year-old girl killed when struck by an 82-year-old senile driver as she gets off the school bus. The firm's expertise in analyzing UM coverages resulted in a doubling of all available insurance to maximize settlement in a case with no assets.\n5 separate Pedestrian fatality cases where police officers made no investigation of the car's speed and wrote up the pedestrian for not being in the crosswalk.\nMother killed by a careless driver in North Georgia. The insurance company wanted to dispute the economic value of her life because she did not draw a paycheck. The case eventually settled for the $1,000,000 policy limits.\nSwift Action Means the difference between coming to peace with a loss and a profound sense of unfairness.\nDO NOT MAKE A SNAP DECISION ON WHICH LAWYER TO HIRE.\nYou should interview at least three lawyers in person before you make a decision. Ask the lawyer bluntly whether they have actually filed and litigated wrongful death cases and what the results were. Ask about their current cases and in what phase they are. Ask to speak to their clients. These cases can lead to significant jury awards and unfortunately, some lawyers will be less than honest in an attempt to get your business.\nFeel free to call Mr. Simon at 404-259-7635 and ask questions about the merits of the case. The Firm's attorneys make the painful process of dealing with a death in the family less confusing and he can explain how best to protect the family's rights.\nRecent Wrongful Death Case Law Decisions\nAlthough motor vehicle accidents typically involve more than one vehicle, a somewhat unexpected object can occasionally be at issue. In a recent decision, Williams v. Pauley, the Georgia Court of Appeals addressed a peculiar car accident involving a stray horse and needed to determine whether a responding police officer could be held liable for the death of a motorist who collided with the horse.\nAs noted above, this case arose from an accident involving a stray horse. The horse had strayed onto Highway 27 in Floyd County, Georgia. The principal defendant is a police officer employed by the Floyd County Police Department who responded to a 911 call reporting the stray horse. The officer met the horse at 4:30, left briefly, and returned to the scene at about 5:00 am. The horse apparently took off every time the officer got close. Eventually, the officer approached the horse by foot and was able to grab its halter. The officer led the horse back to his cruiser and called police dispatch to report his difficulties controlling the horse and to get advice. The officer's supervisor told him to lead the horse as far off the road as possible if he decided to leave the scene. The officer did so, but the officer's dashboard camera shows that the horse followed him as he returned to the cruiser. The officer went to a nearby gas station to retrieve rope, but within 30 minutes of his departure, a motorist driving along Highway 27 struck the horse, leading to the motorist's death.\nThe motorist's spouse brought a wrongful death action against the officer in his individual capacity, alleging that the officer was negligent in failing to remove the horse from the highway. Following discovery, the officer moved for summary judgment, which the trial court denied. The officer then brought the current appeal.\nAlthough negligence is at the heart of this suit, the focus of this appeal was the applicability of qualified immunity, which was the principal ground of the officer's motion for summary judgment. \"Qualified immunity protects individual public agents from personal liability for discretionary actions taken within the scope of their official authority, and done without wilfulness, malice, or corruption\" and limits liability \"for ministerial acts negligently performed or acts performed with malice or an intent to injure.\" Cameron v. Lang, 274 Ga. 122, 123 (2001) (citations and punctuation omitted) (emphasis added).\nGiven that there is a difference in liability depending on whether an act is discretionary or ministerial, the court's task was to determine the nature of the officer's conduct at the moment. Reviewing the record, the Court of Appeals determined that the officer's \"actions in attempting to take control of and remove the stray horse \u2026 were discretionary because they called for the officer to exercise personal deliberation and judgment to reach reasoned conclusions about how to accomplish a task\u2026.\"\nImportant to this conclusion is the oddity of the situation. Indeed, there are no particular protocols that officers are to apply when dealing with stray animals on roadways. Although O.C.G.A. \u00a7 4-3-4 (a) provides that \"[i]t shall be the duty of \u2026 county law enforcement officer to impound livestock found to be running at large or straying,\" the court noted that this statute did not delineate even general instructions or procedures for accomplishing this task. Accordingly, the officer in this situation was still required to utilize personal deliberation and judgment, which distinguishes discretionary acts from ministerial acts. Indeed, ministerial acts are defined as \"simple, absolute, and definite, \u2026 and requiring merely the execution of a specific duty.\" Banks v. Happoldt, 271 Ga. App. 146, 149 (2004).\nAlthough it may seem reasonable to apply official immunity under these circumstances, considering the peculiarity of the event, official immunity bars suits in many situations when public officials' actions seem more straightforward. Indeed, injury suits against the government present many difficulties, from notice of suit provisions to various forms of immunity. Accordingly, anyone considering taking legal action to redress injuries resulting from the acts of a government official should consider finding competent counsel with experience dealing with these hurdles. The Atlanta truck accident attorneys at Christopher Simon Attorney at Law have this experience and are ready to help you with your possible case. Feel free to contact us for a complimentary case consultation if you are interested in learning more about what difficulties you may encounter and what options you may have.\nThe attorney-client relationship and layers of complexity involved with wrongful death cases have lead to several decisions that attorneys should know.\nCases where a law firm represents the surviving spouse of a decedent but there are adult children who are at odds with the spouse. The questions arise; what duties does the spouse owe to the adult children and what duties does the attorney owe?\n\"[i]n a wrongful death case, the surviving spouse acts as the children's representative and owes them the duty to act prudently in asserting, prosecuting and settling the claim and to act in the utmost good faith.\" Home Ins. Co. v. Wynn, 229 Ga.App. 220, 222(1), 493 S.E.2d 622 (1997).\nWhere a lawyer represents the surviving spouse in a wrongful death claim, they are also representing the claims of the children as third party beneficiaries of that relationship. The lawyer has an attorney-client relationship with the children and cannot act to hurt their interests. An example would be funneling money into the loss of consortium claim or Estate claim where the spouse might benefit more than the children.\nIn another case, lawyers represented the mother of a deceased who settled a wrongful death case and did share the proceeds with the father, who she was no longer married to. The Father tried to sue the lawyers and the mother claiming malpractice and breach of fiduciary duties.\nThe Court found that the lawyers represented only the mother and that here interests were antagonistic to the fathers. Therefore there was no third-party beneficiary concern and no attorney-client relationship.\nBoth parents have a right to share in the recovery for the wrongful death of an unmarried child with no children. OCGA \u00a7 19-7-1(c)(2). Under OCGA \u00a7 19-7-1(c)(2), one parent can hire a lawyer for both parents and the parents are to share equally in the proceeds. Pursuant to OCGA \u00a7 19-7-1(c)(2)(C), one parent may move to apportion the award, and the judge ruling on the motion considers each parent's relationship with the deceased child. OCGA \u00a7 19-7-1(c)(6). Rhone v. Bolden, 270 Ga.App. 712 (Ga. App., 2004).\nWhat about where the lawyer represents the executor of the Estate? The executor of an estate owes a fiduciary duty to family members with an interest in the estate and that relationship also requires the utmost good faith. Liner v. North, 188 Ga.App. 677, 678(2) (1988). But Courts have said that the lawyer represents the Administrator and not the heirs. Inherent in that duty would be the duty not to put more money into the statutory death claim versus into the Estate, if that would hurt the heirs because that would violate the lawyer's duty to the Administrator to marshal the assets of the Estate. The existence of a duty by the administrator to the heirs does not translate into a duty by the administrator's lawyers to the heirs. Rhone v. Bolden, 270 Ga.App. 712, (Ga. App., 2004).\nWrongful Death and Sovereign Immunity\nWrongful Death Shootings and Apportionment Law\nWrongful Death of Children and Parents are Not Together\nDamages Available in a Georgia Wrongful Death Claim\nDoes Georgia Allow a Wrongful Death Claim for an Unborn Child?\nValuing a Wrongful Death Claim\nWhat's the Difference Between a Wrongful Death Claim and an Estate Claim in Georgia?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review: Shadows of Swanford Abbey by Julie Klassen\nStars: 3.5\nSynopsis: Rebecca Lane returned to her hometown only for a short visit with her brother John...but when he ropes her into his scheme to get his novel published and sends her to the local convent-turned-hotel Swanford Abbey, she ends up confronting the unexpected, including lost love, ghosts, and murder.\nI've held off on reading anything by Julie Klassen for years now, despite all the good things I've heard about her novels, and for the longest time I didn't have a reason to\u2026until now.\nOf course, I probably ought to read another of her works before I swear her off forever (The Painter's Daughter, perhaps, as it seems to be one of her most popular), but suffice to say that I'm not pleased enough to go out and immediately buy one. I did read the whole thing and it did keep my attention, but it wasn't until the murder took place that I was really invested enough in it to keep on going.\n(This is not an uncommon occurrence, though. It's like, you done tol' me somebody was dyin', woman! Why ain't they dead yet? And I can be impatient, so\u2026)\nFrom the perspective of a mystery, I do think Klassen pulled it off and, yeah, Christie would be proud. The slow beginning had its merits, as all the suspects were properly developed and defined (more so than the main characters, in fact) and the circumstances were set up well. I do think it was a little too long, though, because I was about to lose interest before Oliver was killed.\nAs for red herrings? *chef's kiss * Perfecto! I was kept guessing the whole time, and although I did have my own bias as to who it could've been (or at least who was donning the habit and running about), I never did come up with a firm conclusion for fear of being wrong. (I was wrong. Ish.)\nThe perpetrator was revealed and dealt with in true Christie fashion\u2014although I'd say no one was quite as malicious as a Christie murderer\u2014and at the end, I was rather satisfied with the turn of events concerning Oliver's murder.\nBut that was the end of my satisfaction.\nAs for the romance thread, I think it was subtle enough, only that the culmination of it was a bit rushed. (Is it just me, or are the endings in which either the hero or the heroine suddenly decides to fight for their beloved, dashes up to them and declares their undying affection, and then they live happily ever after for the last two sentences too...cliche?) I will admit, though, that the scene modeled after (or, rather, the exact opposite of) Lady Catherine's speech in Pride and Prejudice was just too good. I loved that part.\nOn that note, although the entire secondary cast\u2014from John, Rose, and Lady Fitzhoward, to Thomas, Selina, and Mr. George\u2014were vibrant and developed, I felt that Rebecca and Frederick were lacking that same definition. Frederick seemed to have very little purpose or much of an arc except for interviewing suspects. All he needed, really, was a bit of pain or heartache over the circumstances of his wife's death that he needed to overcome, as well as some personality. Otherwise, he reminded me of Christie's Hastings, I guess, detached and distant, I mean. Not romance hero quality, although he was fine for the mystery plot.\nAs for Rebecca...she wasn't annoying or obnoxious or unpleasant. She wasn't really anything, actually. She had very little personality or will, and not much of an arc either, which, as I said, would be fine if this were just a mystery. The romance\/drama side just seemed a little lacking on the characters' parts. Also, as strong of a premise as the mystery was, I didn't like how it all hinged on Rebecca's lying. She did repent for her deception, but at times she seemed like more of a villain than a heroine in some ways.\nWith how long and drawn-out the beginning was, I feel like Klassen could have developed Rebecca and Frederick more and made their personal romantic storyline more defined, rather than the characterization being so unbalanced.\nLastly, I'm sorry to say that I just couldn't get into Klassen's writing! I feel like this story and its setting had all the makings of a deep, immersive novel, and I could tell that Klassen was attempting to bring that about; however, she did more showing than telling and her descriptions were limited and awkward at best. I simply couldn't connect with or enjoy her writing style, which is a shame, for I do so love good prose.\nThe style of her narrative leaked a bit into her dialogue, for there were several lines that, to me, seemed out-of-place and awkward. I'd pause and lift my eyebrows wondering to myself, \"Where did that come from? Whatever was that doing there?\" Otherwise, there was at times a rather delightful flavor to her dialogue that I longed for more of in her narrative.\nLong story short, I wasn't able to connect with the writing, the characters, or even really the romance, due to a lack of development and definition. I did, however, enjoy the mystery itself, but I don't think I'll be picking up another Klassen novel just yet.\nJulie Klassen loves all things Jane\u2014Jane Eyre and Jane Austen. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Julie worked in publishing for sixteen years and now writes full time. Three of her books, The Silent Governess, The Girl in the Gatehouse, and The Maid of Fairbourne Hall, have won the Christy Award for Historical Romance. She has also won the Midwest Book Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and Christian Retailing's BEST Award, and been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America's RITA Awards and ACFW's Carol Awards. She blogs at http:\/\/www.inspiredbylifeandfiction.com.\nJulie and her husband have two sons and live in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota.\n#bookreview #review #historicalromance #mystery #christianfiction #historicalfiction\nYours in spirit and script,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are at:Home\u00bbCategory: \"Western Europe\"\nBrowsing: Western Europe\n32% of Millennials and 27% of all adults surveyed said they did not know Anne\u2026\n\"The German Foreign Ministry is pretending that there are legal obstacles to proscribing Iran's Revolutionary\u2026\nAlready home to a substantial number of Russian-speaking Jews before the invasion of Ukraine, the\u2026\nSecretary at Nazi concentration camp guilty of complicity in over 10,500 killings\nIrmgard Furchner, who worked as a typist at the Stutthof camp in Danzig in 1943-1945,\u2026\nFrance calls eastern Jerusalem 'occupied' after Israel deports Palestinian-French terrorist\nIsrael's Interior Ministry expelled Salah Hamouri, who served time for a plot to murder former\u2026\nBerlinale to honour Steven Spielberg for his life's work\nBy Oliver Bradley in Berlin Spielberg, a three-time Oscar winner, is considered one of the\u2026\nJewish students demand Portugal 'never again' harass Oporto community\nThe students urged the country's parliament to never again allow a chief rabbi to be\u2026\nNew Italian PM Meloni and World Jewish Congress head discuss fight against growing antisemitism\nGiorgia Meloni, who took office as Italy's new Prime Minister last month, stressed the indispensable\u2026\nIsrael's ambassador to Belgium, Jewish groups urge withdrawal of anti-Israeli exhibit in Belgian parliament\nIsrael's ambassador to Belgium and two Jewish organizations have called on the Speaker of the\u2026\nMain pro-Israel group in Spain denounces pro-Palestinian event organized at the Spanish parliament, 'a hate-fest and an attack against the Jewish People'\n\"This event is nothing but an exercise in spreading hatred and slander against the State\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rohan Sinha\nBy thelancerscience20 on November 18, 2021 \u2022 ( Leave a comment )\nRohan Sinha ('23) is currently the Vol. 59 News Editor for The Lancer. He was a Staff Writer for Vol. 58.\nHackers target overlooked group of small businesses\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | November 18, 2022 The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack in May 2021 was a wake-up call to many government and corporate officials. DarkSide, a criminal hacking group, had conducted a ransomware attack on a pipeline transporting gasoline, shutting down a major source of fuel along the East Coast. To many experts, the\u2026\nThe fallout from the Pentagon's clandestine social media operations\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | October 7, 2022 In September 2022, news outlets reported the White House's concern about social media operations launched by the Pentagon promoting pro-American content abroad. After the White House voiced its worries about this conduct to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon began auditing its own clandestine social media\u2026\nConnection Days offer Class of 2026 a preview of student life\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | October 7, 2022 From August 8 to 9, Saint Francis faculty and students gathered on campus for the first-ever Freshman Connection Days, an event to welcome the Class of 2026. This new addition to freshman programming enabled the newest members of the Lancer community to explore campus opportunities before the\u2026\nMedia coverage of Ukraine-Russia conflict highlights double standard\nBy Rohan Sinha ('23) | April 8, 2022 When Russian forces began their invasion of Ukraine in late February, the international community hastened to demonstrate solidarity with the Ukrainian people. The day after Russia began its invasion, Paris's Eiffel Tower was lit with Ukraine's national colors. Protesters around the world, from Buenos Aires to Istanbul,\u2026\nScientists uncover the damaging carbon footprint of astronomy research\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | April 8, 2022 In a study recently published in Nature Astronomy, scientists have revealed astronomical research's contribution to climate change\u2014also called its carbon footprint. According to their findings, the carbon footprint of research in the field of astronomy stands out from that of research in other fields. Lead author of\u2026\nBig Tech intervenes in Russian-Ukrainian conflict\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | March 21, 2022 On February 24, on the orders of President Putin, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since the invasion, Russia has found itself increasingly isolated: the international community has imposed sanctions on the country, with the United States and European Union even sanctioning Putin himself. With Russia already receiving nearly universal\u2026\nIndonesia's capital falls below sea level\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | February 14, 2022 The capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, is swiftly being submerged by surrounding waters. While the megacity has been sinking at an average rate of half an inch per year, some areas are descending by more than eight inches in the same amount of time. Nearly half of the\u2026\nWho's to blame for the crisis at the EU-Belarus border?\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | February 14, 2022 Last July, a crisis emerged at the border between Belarus and the European Union (EU), when thousands of migrants, many from the Middle East, sought to arrive in the EU by crossing from Belarus into three EU member states\u2014Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland. Polish border guards used tear\u2026\n\"A dystopian metaverse\": what does \"Meta\" rebranding mean for Facebook?\nby Rohan Sinha ('23) | November 19, 2021 The futuristic concept of a \"metaverse\" is not new; it comes from Neal Stephenson's 30-year-old novel Snow Crash, where a digital universe allows for a perilous escape from a dystopian world. On October 28th, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg potentially made fiction reality when he announced that his\u2026\nThe Policy Proposition: the gritty reality behind America's opioid crisis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BrewDog sets up shares scheme encouraging customers to recycle\nBy Kiran Bose\nMultinational brewery BrewDog has announced a new initiative called 'Cans for Equity', which involves customers returning used beer cans in exchange for shares in the business.\nThe company is aiming to incentivise recycling and sustainable business practices through the scheme and hopes other breweries can follow suit.\nCustomers that trade in 50 empty BrewDog aluminium cans at any of its UK bars can become a shareholder.\nThe brewery has partnered with First Mile Recycling to return the cans to industry, save energy and reduce carbon emissions, as well as preventing the cans from ending up in landfill, where they can take up to 500 years to decompose.\nJames Watt, CEO of BrewDog, said: \"Ever since BrewDog was founded in 2007, our business practices have always challenged the norm.\n\"Our ground-breaking 'Equity for Punks' programme has been vital in helping us to accelerate our growth and build a community of 130,000 passionate shareholders in the process.\"\nPosted in Food & Waste, Retail & Leisure, Videos\nA Dorset-based brewery has used lockdown to turn its beer into green energy, generating enough electricity to power close to 17,000 average homes for one day. With pubs closed across the UK during...\nCanadian bakery aims to slice its carbon footprint with two renewable PPAs\nBimbo Canada has signed two virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) with Renewable Energy Systems (RES) to procure green electricity and help the bakery reduce its carbon footprint. The 15-year...\nMars launches coalition to drive industry-wide climate action through supply chains\nMars, Incorporated, has announced the formation of a new coalition aimed at driving industry-wide action on climate change through global supply chains. The Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition...\nUK Government pours \u00a39m into low carbon distilleries in Scotland\nThe UK Government has announced nearly \u00a39 million in funding to help whisky distilleries in Scotland get into the spirit of going green. The funding will enable Scotch whisky producers from Orkney...\nPrevious: Citi banks on green future with 2050 net zero commitment\nNext: Hidden costs of energy and transport sectors 'sit at a staggering $25 trillion'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Anime \/ Anime & Manga \/ Shonen\nREVIEW: 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean' Takes The Franchise to New Heights\n12\/02\/2021 12\/02\/2021 - by Kyle Foley\nNetflix has consistently hit it out of the park with their Netflix Original Anime selections, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean, is no exception. Produced and animated by David Production, the first 12 episodes released worldwide. The series is an adaptation of the hit manga series by Hirohiko Araki.\nStone Ocean introduces the latest JoJo, Jolyne Cujoh, the first female protagonist in the JoJo's series. The story starts when Jolyne is arrested and framed for murder. She is sentenced to 15 years in prison at the Green Dolphin Street Jail, which is located in Florida. Jolyne is the daughter of series mainstay Jotaro Kujo, who also makes his return in Stone Ocean. Jolyne develops a Stand power like her father after she is pricked by a gift her father sent to her. The setup is fairly straightforward, but it works very well. The English language performance by Kira Buckland truly brings Jolyne to life, and from the start she makes for one of my personal favorite JoJo's protagonists.\nThe character development for Jolyne is incredibly well done, as we see her struggle to learn how to use her Stand while also dealing with the dangers presented by other Stand users. She also is faced with confronting her father Jotaro, who has been absent throughout most of her life. While she is initially very cold towards Jotaro, she realizes he is the only person close to her that can truly help her learn to navigate the world of being a Stand user. The development hits a whole new level when Jotaro is attacked by the season's villain Whitesnake and his Stand, Star Platinum, is stolen and he is left on the brink of death. The stakes are unbelievably high for both Joylne and the viewers, since Jotaro has been a fan favorite since his introduction.\nIt wouldn't be a season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure if DIO didn't play a part, and we soon find out that Whitesnake is the Stand of a Catholic priest known as Enrico Pucci who worshiped DIO. Father Pucci is a very interesting villain, and the concept of stealing the Stands of others with his own Stand is equally so. Father Pucci feels like a genuine threat all throughout the season, with Yong Yea putting in an excellent English language performance.\nIt's not just the villains that are well done, as the rest of the Stand users that appear in the season are as well. The names are all based on musicians and bands, in keeping with tradition for the show, with names like Foo Fighters and Weather Report playing vital roles in supporting Jolyne in her mission to get her father's Stand and memories back. There is also Emporio Alnino, a boy who was born in Green Dolphin Street Jail and has the mysterious ability to travel throughout the prison without being seen. Each character feels unique and the pacing of their introductions is perfect. The only real negative associated with the cool Stand names is that they are only fully pronounced in the Japanese language version of the show. For legal reasons, the names are slightly modified when translated to English. It makes sense, but also removes some of the coolest parts of JoJo's.\nThe first 12 episodes of Stone Ocean that were released are only the first part of the season, with Episode 12 leaving off on a suspenseful cliffhanger. The pacing of the story so far feels very organic, with nothing feeling too rushed or too drawn out. I was a little skeptical when I saw there were only 12 episodes releasing, but I'm very glad to see the season is not done yet. The stakes are extremely high, and the writing keeps the suspense building with every passing minute.\nThe other massive highlight of the season is the immaculate visuals that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has become known for. The colors used are varied, and the art design is out of this world. Not only does every character feel and look unique, but the different locations also have their own distinct feels. The battle animations are immaculate as well, with the Stand powers truly coming to life in a very impressive way. The opening theme \"Stone Ocean\" also brings back 3D character animations that some of the previous intros were famous for, and it makes for arguably one of the best anime openings in recent memory.\nOverall, Stone Ocean is off to an excellent start. The series is quickly rocketing to the next level, with some of the most intriguing personal stakes of the series so far. I can't wait to see the rest of Jolyne's adventure come to life on screen when the next part of the hit Netflix Original Anime launches in 2022.\nJoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean is streaming now on Netflix.\nJoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean\nRating - 9\/10\nMStone Ocean is off to an incredible start. The series is quickly rocketing to the next level, with some of the most intriguing personal stakes of the series so far\nKyle Foley\nKyle is an editor, writer, and musician from Orlando, FL with a history of covering video games, technology, and sports. He also believes mayonnaise is the best condiment for hot dogs, which are sandwiches.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Return to Blogs\nScammers Impersonate IRS and FBI in New Ransomware Attack\nThe IRS and the FBI are warning consumers about a new phishing campaign that impersonates both of those agencies in an effort to collect victims' personal information through a fake questionnaire.\nThe phishing attack uses an email template that includes the seals of both the FBI and the IRS and it plays on people's fear of law enforcement to scare victims into giving up sensitive data. The email talks about some changes in the United States tax code that require people to fill out a new form. The message uses quasi-legal language but has some telltale grammatical mistakes that should tip victims off that it's a scam.\n\"Owing to changes of tax laws of United States of America of June 21, 2017 (Federal tex regulations ref. no. 13-44876478) any business activity of resident or the non-resident citizens of the United States of America abroad, in particular the belonging of offshore companies, equity participation and offshore capitals, is transferred under the special control of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,\" the email says.\n\"FBI requires a completed questionnaire here with absolutely reliable information.\"\nThe link in the email directs victims to a page where they would supposedly download the fake FBI form. What they actually get, however, is a ransomware variant. The agencies haven't disclosed what kind of ransomware the phishing campaign installs, but reminded victims not to pay the ransom if they're infected.\n\"This is a new twist on an old scheme,\" said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. \"People should stay vigilant against email scams that try to impersonate the IRS and other agencies that try to lure you into clicking a link or opening an attachment. People with a tax issue won't get their first contact from the IRS with a threatening email or phone call.\"\nCybercriminals often try to legitimize their phishing emails and other scams by using logos, seals, and other indicators from government agencies. The IRS is a favorite for these scammers, mainly because people tend to be afraid of the agency and the ramifications of having unpaid taxes. IRS phone scams are an offshoot of this, and have proliferated in recent years as fraudsters have branched out from traditional online crime.\nPindrop's Record Breaking Year: Patents in 2022\nBanking Fraud Investigations \u2013 How Do Banks Detect Fraud?\nEmerging AI Bots in your Contact Center \u2013 Deepfakes Are Next\nSelf-Service: A Double-Edged Sword | How IVR Monitoring Can Help\nPindrop's Latest Technology Changes the Game for Caller Authentication","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Muhammad Taqi ud-Din\nPrevious Article Discussions Regarding the Wiping of the Face with the Hands After the Du'a\nNext Article Everyday Issues\nThe reader should note that this article concerns an issue over which there is legitimate difference of opinion. For example, a counter-opinion can be found in Haitham al-Haddad's The Designated Times for the Isha' and Fajr Prayers in the UK and other similar Countries During the Summer Season.\nIf you are in doubt about any of these issues, you are encouraged to speak with those of knowledge who you trust.\nWith the name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful.\nContents[Hide]\nSome Ahadith from the Jami' of Imam At-Tirmidhi, with its explanation by our Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, rahimahullah\nThe Sunan of Abu Dawud and its Explanation\nAll praise be to Allah, the one who made happiness in this life and in the Hereafter, specifically for those who follow His straight path, clinging to His book and the Sunnah of his honourable Prophet. May Allah send salutations upon him, his family, his companions and those who follow him. O Allah, Lord of the Worlds, make us among them as well!\nThe most desperate slave in need of the mercy of the Greatest and Ever High, Muhammad Taqi ud-Din, the son of 'Abdul-Qadir al-Hilali says:\nI spent my youth and the time after, including some of my old age, in the East and when I returned to Morocco because of the trouble that took place in Iraq in the year 1379H (1958CE), I discovered after a lot of research, checking and repeated observations from those who have good eyesight (and I was with them at that time and able to see the dawn without hardship in those days) that the Moroccan timing for the Fajr Adhan did not agree with the correct Islamic timing. That is because the Mu'adhdhin calls to prayer before the true Islamic dawn. His call at that time does not make Fajr prayer permissible and also does not prohibit eating for the fasting person.\nI began giving fatwa according to this and still act upon it to this day. In Ramadhan from this year 1394H (1974CE), some of our brothers fell into confusion. The reason for this was because a brother \u2013 who is a preacher \u2013 visited Morocco in Ramadhan. Some people from those who accompanied him claimed that he said the Islamic dawn was in agreement with the Moroccan dawn timing; but a trustworthy brother known to me told me that the preacher actually found that the difference between the Islamic dawn that can be seen with the eyes and the Moroccan time (observed outside the city, in an open field) was about 13 or 15 minutes (the doubt is from the brother I know).\nSo this narration is clearly contradictory. If what they said is correct \u2013 that the Islamic dawn and the Moroccan dawn are in agreement \u2013 then this is a mistake that can be identified by everyone who knows the Islamic dawn and he has eyes that he can see with (it is obvious that in countries where there are a lot of clouds and fog, that the people do not know the dawn, which also includes those who live in the desert but are not keen in such matters).\nIf one wants to know the Islamic dawn, then he must do two things:\nFirstly he must study the Prophet's (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) statements which differentiate between the false dawn and the true dawn, and then the statements of his companions, the second generation and the great Imams.\nSecondly, he has to be from those people who are used to seeing the dawn, such as a Mu'adhdhin or a person who travels a lot in the desert.\nTo explain the first part, I am writing this book and calling it the explanation of the true dawn and distinguishing it from the false dawn through evidences.\nTo begin, we must explain what Allah Almighty said in Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 187:\n\"Eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct from the black.\"\nIbn Kathir explained this ayah using different statements of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam):\nThe first hadith has been narrated in the two authentic books (Bukhari and Muslim) from the narration of Al-Qasim from 'A'ishah that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: \"Let the Adhan of Bilal not prevent you from your Suhur (pre-dawn meal) because he calls it in the night, so eat and drink until you hear the Adhan of ibn Umm Maktum because he doesn't call the Adhan until the Fajr starts.\" This is the narration of Bukhari.\nWe understand from this narration and other narrations with similar meanings that the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) used to have two people giving the Adhan during Ramadhan: one of them who could see, which was Bilal, and the other was a blind man known as ibn Umm Maktum. The Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) had appointed the Mu'adhdhin who could see to alert the people that the dawn was close and it used to be done at night, i.e. before the start of the Fajr, whereas he appointed the blind Mu'adhdhin to call for Fajr after the Fajr began. So what was the intention of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)?\nIf we think about this with deficient minds it would seem apparent to us that the Mu'adhdhin that can see (i.e. Bilal) should do the last Adhan. He has more right to do so than the blind Mu'adhdhin, because he can see the beginning of dawn with his eyes and call the Adhan on time in order that the people will stop eating and drinking from the beginning of Fajr. The blind Mu'adhdhin should be the one who calls the people during the night so that they will know simply when the dawn is close by.\nBut the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) did the opposite; he appointed the blindman as the caller of the Adhan to prohibit food and drink and the start of the Salah. He therefore intended \u2013 without doubt \u2013 to make things easier for his nation and not harder. So whoever makes things restricted and difficult when Allah and His Messenger have made then easy and spacious, then he is in the wrong.\nThe statement of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala: \"Until it becomes distinct\", is in agreement with the statement of the Prophet because He did not say until the dawn comes out, but He said until you people can see it clearly in a way that no one has doubt about it and the explanation of that will come shortly, insha'Allah.\nIn a narration by Bukhari and Muslim, it states: \"' ... so eat and drink until ibn Umm Maktum calls the Adhan,' and he was blind, and would not call the Adhan until it was said to him 'It's morning! It's morning!'\", so reflect upon this meaning if you are among those of understanding.\nThe second hadith: ibn Kathir said: Imam Ahmad said: and he mentioned the chain from Qays ibn Talq from his father that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: \"The dawn is not that which is vertical in the sky but it is that which is red and horizontal\". This is also narrated by At-Tirmidhi. His narration states: \"Eat and drink and don't worry about the clear vertical (dawn), but eat and drink until you see the red and horizontal (dawn\/light).\" Then ibn Kathir mentioned different narrations from ibn Jarir (the Imam of the scholars of Tafsir), for this hadith:\nThe first narration is from Samurah ibn Jundub that he said that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: \"Do not be deceived by the call of Bilal, wait until the dawn 'explodes'.\"\nThe second narration from him is that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: \"Do not be deceived by the call of Bilal and do not be deceived by the white column of dawn, until it spreads (across the horizon).\"\nThe third narration is narrated by Muslim in the same way it was narrated by ibn Jarir.\nThe fourth narration which was also from ibn Jarir is from Muhammad ibn Thawban who said that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: \"The dawn is of two types \u2013 one that is like the tail of the Sirhan which does not prohibit anything, and then the one that spreads across and covers the horizon. This (latter) is the one which permits the prayer and prohibits food.\" This is a good Mursal hadith.\n(Muhammad Taqi ud-Din said:) The tail of the Sirhan means the tail of a wolf because it lifts up and becomes vertical, similar to the false dawn.\nAnother narration from 'Abdur-Razzaq with his chain of narration mentions from ibn 'Abbas that he said: \"There are two dawns. As for the one which is clear in the sky, that doesn't permit or prohibit anything. But the dawn that lights the top of the mountains is the one that prohibits drinking.\"\n'Ata' said: \"As for that dawn that is clear and its light goes vertically to the sky, it does not prohibit drinking for the person, and the Salah is not allowed based on it and the Hajj is not missed because of it. But if it is spread across the top of the mountains, then drinking is prohibited and the Hajj is missed.\" These are authentic chains to ibn 'Abbas and 'Ata', and are similar to other narrations from more than one of the Salaf, may Allah be merciful to them.\n(Muhammad Taqi ud-Din said) The meaning of 'the Hajj being missed' is that the person who is doing Hajj but misses standing at 'Arafah during the 9th day of Dhu'l-Hijjah and he stands during the night before the true Fajr, then his Hajj is correct. But if he reaches 'Arafah after the true dawn then there is no Hajj for him in that year.\"\nThe first hadith: At-Tirmidhi said, with his chain from Zayd ibn Thabit who said: \"We had our Suhur with the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and then we stood up for Salah. I asked, 'How long was that?' He said, 'About 50 verses.' \"\n(Muhammad Taqi ud-Din al-Hilali said) The Salafi scholar Abu 'Ali al-Habib ibn 'Ali al-'Alawi said that he recited 50 verses in two minutes. According to this, the time between the Suhur of the Prophet and the Fajr prayer used to be two minutes, or could perhaps be five minutes, but those ignorant of the Sunnah consider eating five minutes before Salah time as invalidating the fast. This issue will soon increase in clarity, insha'Allah .\nAt-Tirmidhi then said: \"There are other narrations in this subject from Hudhayfah.\"\nAbu 'Isa (at-Tirmidhi) said: \"The hadith of Zayd ibn Thabit is sound and authentic, and is acted upon by Ash-Shafi'i, Ahmad and Ishaq. They recommended the delaying of the Suhur.\"\nThe second hadith: At-Tirmidhi said with his chain to Talq ibn Ali, that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: \"Eat and drink and don't worry about the clear and vertical, but eat and drink until you see the red horizontal.\"\n(Muhammad Taqi ud-Din said) We understand from this hadith that the false dawn that precedes the true dawn, is pure white and it is goes from the earth to the sky and that does not prohibit eating for a fasting person, nor does it permit the Fajr prayer. The true dawn, which is horizontal across the horizon, with redness, comes before the sunrise and this is the one which prohibits food and permits the prayer.\nOur Shaykh explained fifty verses as being medium, not long and not short, and the recitation is also medium, not fast and not slow. He attributed that to Al-Hafidh (Ibn Hajar).\nThe third hadith: our Shaykh said the hadith of Hudhayfah is narrated by At-Tahawi, in his book Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar, from the narration of Zirr ibn Hubaysh who said: \"I had my Suhur, and I rushed to the mosque; I passed by the house of Hudhayfah, and I entered it. He commanded that his she-camel be milked and a pan to be heated, and he told me, 'Eat.' I replied, 'I want to fast.' He said, 'And I also want to fast.' We ate, and then we drank and then we came to the mosque and offered the prayer that had just started. Hudhayfah said, 'That's how the Messenger of Allah did with me [or 'That's how I did with the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)].' I asked, 'After the dawn?' He said, 'After dawn, but the sun hadn't risen yet.'\" This is also narrated by An-Nasa'i and Ahmad.\n(Muhammad Taqi'l-Din said) We say to the amateur and careless people, what do you say about the fasting of Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)? Was it valid or invalid? If you say it was valid then it is now clear that what you previously said is wrong i.e. that it is compulsory to make up your fast if you eat after the Moroccan whistle, although it whistles at night, before the true and even the false Fajr!\nMa'mar, Sulayman al-A'mash, Abu Mijlaz, and Al-Hakam ibn 'Utaybah all said that it is permissible to have Suhur as long as the sun doesn't rise. Their evidence was the hadith of Hudhayfah as mentioned by Imam At-Tirmidhi.\nIt is narrated from Ibn Jurayj: I said to 'Ata', \"Is it disliked to drink whilst I am at home and I don't know if the Fajr has started?\" He said, \"That isn't a problem, it is a doubt.\" Ibn Abi Shaybah said, \"Abu Mu'awiyah told us from Al-A'mash from Muslim that he said, 'They did not used to consider the dawn as your dawn; they used to consider the dawn which filled the houses and roads.'\"\nMa'mar used to delay his Suhur so much that the ignorant claimed his fast was invalid. Sa'id ibn Mansur, Ibn Abi Shaybah and Ibn Al-Mundhir narrated from Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, with numerous chains, that he ordered the door to be closed so that he did not see the dawn. Ibn Al-Mundhir narrated with an authentic chain from 'Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, that he prayed Fajr, then he said, \"Now is the time when the black and white threads are distinguished.\"\nThis led Ibn Al-Mundhir to say: \"Some of them said that the meaning of the whiteness and the blackness of the dawn is when the whiteness spreads in the roads, streets, and houses.\" He narrated with an authentic chain from Salim ibn 'Ubayd al-Ashja'i (one of the companions of the Prophet) that Abu Bakr said to him, \"Go out and see if the dawn has begun.\" I looked and then came to him and told him, \"It has become white and clear.\" Then he said, \"Go out and see if the dawn has begun.\" I looked and replied, \"It has become horizontal.\" Then Abu Bakr said, \"Now give me my drink.\"\nHe narrated from Waki' from Al-A'mash, who said, \"If I was not afraid that I would become famous, I would pray Fajr then have my Suhur.\" This is in (the books) 'Umdat ul-Qari and Fath al-Bari.\nIbn Hazm in Al-Muhalla said: It is not obligatory, neither in Ramadhan, nor at any other time except when the second dawn becomes clear, and as long as it doesn't become clear then eating and drinking and intercourse is permissible. This is all in the case of the one who is in doubt that the dawn hasn't begun, or if he is sure that it has not begun. Then he mentioned the verse of Surah Al-Baqarah that we mentioned earlier. He said after that, and I quote:\n\"Because Allah Almighty made it permissible to have intercourse, eat and drink until we see clearly the dawn, Allah Almighty didn't say until the Fajr begins, and he didn't say until you have doubts about the Fajr. So it is not permissible for anyone to say or obligate the fast unless it becomes clear to that person.\"\nThen Abu Muhammad (Ibn Hazm) said:\n\"It is narrated with an authentic chain, that eating after the beginning of the dawn is permissible as long as the person who intends to fast has not clearly seen it.\"\nThen he mentioned with a chain to Zirr ibn Hubaysh that he said to Hudhayfah, \"What time did you have your Suhur with the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)?\" He replied, \"It was during the day but the sun had not come out yet.\"\nHe also narrated, with his chain to Abu Hurayrah that he said, \"The Messenger of Allah peace be upon him said, 'If any of you hear the call to Salah and the cup in his hand, he should not put it down until he is full from it.'\" Then Ibn Hazm narrated with his chain from Abu Bakr as-Siddiq that he said, \"If two men look at the dawn and one of them has doubt, they should both eat until both of them clearly see it.\"\nHe also narrated with his chain, to Salim ibn 'Ubayd that he said, \"Abu Bakr used to say to me, 'Stand up between me and the dawn until I have my Suhur.'\"\nSalim ibn 'Ubayd is Al-Ashja'i from the city of Al-Kufah and from the companions of the Messenger (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam), and this is one of the most authentic chains possible.\nThen he (Ibn Hazm) narrated, with his chain from Abu Qilabah that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq used to say, \"Close the door until we have our Suhur.\" Then he narrated from Hammad ibn Salamah from Abu Hurayrah, that he heard the call to the prayer whilst a cup was in his hand and he said, \"I acquired it by the Lord of the Ka'bah.\"\nHe then narrated from Ibn Jarir, from Ibn 'Abbas, that he said, \"Allah permits drinking as long as you have doubts.\" Then Ibn Hazm narrated from 'Ikrimah that Ibn 'Abbas said, \"I have doubts by Allah, give me something to drink.\" And he drank. Then he narrated with his chain from Makhul al-Azdi, that he said, \"Ibn 'Umar took a container of Zamzam and said to two men, 'Has the dawn begun?' One of them said, 'It has began,' and the other said, 'No it hasn't,' so Ibn 'Umar drank.\"\nHe narrated with his chain, from Habban ibn Al-Harith that he had his Suhur with 'Ali ibn Abi Talib and both of them intended to fast, and after he finished he told the Mu'adhdhin to do the Iqamah for the Salah.\nHe also narrated with his chain from Ibn Abi Shaybah from 'Amir ibn Matar that he said, \"I came to 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, in his house, and he took out for us his leftover Suhur. We had our Suhur with him and the Salah started. We came out and we prayed with him.\"\nAlso from Khubayb ibn 'Abdur-Rahman that he said, \"I heard from my aunty that she accompanied the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and that he said, 'Ibn Umm Maktum used to call to the Salah at night, so eat and drink until Bilal calls it. And Bilal sometimes calls at night so eat and drink until ibn Umm Maktum calls it.' One of them used to come down and the other used to come up, and she said, 'We used to hold on to him asking him to wait until we had eaten our Suhur.'\"\nIt is narrated from Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Al-Husayn: \"Eat until the Fajr become clear to you.\"\nIt is narrated from Al-Hasan: \"Continue to eat as long as you are in doubt.\"\nIt is narrated from Ibn Mijlaz: \"The high (light in the sky) is the false dawn but the true one is clear and horizontal.\"\nIt is narrated from Ibrahim an-Nakha'i: \"The horizontal and red (light) permits the prayer and forbids food.\"\nIt is narrated from Ibn Jurayj that he said to 'Ata', \"Do you dislike it if I drink whilst I am at home and I am not sure if the Fajr has begun?\" He said, \"There is no problem with that. This is a matter of doubt.\"\nOn the authority of Ibn Abi Shayba who said, \"Abu Mu'awiyah told us while we were with Al-A'mash, on the authority of Muslim, that he said, 'They were not considering the Fajr as your Fajr; they consider the Fajr when it fills the houses and streets.'\"\nIt is narrated from Abu Wa'il, that he had his Suhur and he went to the mosque and the Salah has started.\nIt is narrated from Ma'mar, that he delayed the Suhur so much, that the ignorant would say that his fast was invalid.\n'Ali (ibn Hazm) said, \"We have mentioned in this subject those who had their Suhur thinking it is night but it was day and they did not believe that they had to make it up.\"\nAbu Bakr, 'Umar, 'Ali, Ibn 'Umar, Ibn 'Abbas, Abu Hurayrah, Ibn Mas'ud, Hudhayfah, the Aunt of Khubayb, Zayd ibn Thabit and Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas are eleven Companions \u2013 it is not known from any other of the Companions that they differed with them on this, may Allah be pleased with all of them. The only thing we see is a weak narration on the authority of Makhul from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri but they never met one another (thus the narration is weak), and also on the authority of Yahya al-Jazari from Ibn Mas'ud but they also never met one another.\nFrom the Tabi'in (the second successive generation after the Prophet) in support of the above: Muhammad ibn 'Ali, Abu Majliz, Ibrahim, Muslim, the students of Ibn Mas'ud, 'Ata', Al-Hasan al-Basri, Al-Hakam ibn 'Utaybah, Mujahid, 'Urwah ibn Az-Zubayr and Jabir ibn Zayd.\nAbu Dawud reported, on the authority of 'Abdullah ibn Sawadah al-Qushayri, from his father who said that he heard Samurah ibn Jundub giving a speech saying, \"The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:\n'Let the Adhan of Bilal not prevent you from your Suhur, nor the whiteness of the horizon which is like this i.e. vertical, until it spreads across everywhere (yastatir).' \"\nThis was also narrated by Muslim and An-Nasa'i. Al-Khattabi said, \"The meaning of yastatir is when the dawn covers the horizon and its light spreads there.\"\nThe poet said, \"It was easy to the sons of Lu'ay \u2026 a mustatir (spread) flame in Al-Buwayrah.\"\nAbu Dawud also narrated from 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud that he reported that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:\n\"Let not the Adhan of Bilal prevent you from your Suhur because he calls the Adhan in order that those of you who are awake (and praying) can now rest and those who are asleep can wake up; and the dawn is not like this.\" Yahya al-Qattan put his hands together and he pointed with his two fingers. This is narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim.\n'Adiyy ibn Hatim narrated that when this ayah was revealed: \"Eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct from the black,\" he said, \"I took black and white threads, and I put them under my pillow, and I looked and I couldn't distinguish between them. I mentioned that to the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and he laughed, and said, 'Your pillow must be so wide and long then! This is referring to the night and the day.'\"\n'Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah said, \"It is the darkness of the night, and whiteness of the day.\" This is narrated by Al-Bukhari, Muslim, At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa'i.\nShaykh Shams ud-Din ibn Al-Qayyim rahimahullahsaid:\nThis hadith was criticised by Ibn Al-Qattan who he said that there is some doubt in the continuity of its chain. He said that because Ibn Dawud said that 'Abdul-A'la ibn Al-Hammal, said, I think, \"On the authority of Hammad, from Muhammad ibn 'Amr from Abu Hurayrah and then he mentioned the hadith.\"\nAn-Nasa'i narrated from Zirr that he said: We said to Hudhayfah, \"What time did you have your Suhur with the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)?\" He said, \"It was daytime but the sun had not come out yet.\"\nThere are different opinions in this matter:\nThe first opinion has been articulated by Ishaq ibn Rahway who narrated from Waki' that he heard Al-A'mash say, \"If I was not afraid of becoming famous, I would pray Fajr then have my Suhur.\" Then Ishaq mentioned from Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and Hudhayfah similar to that, and then he said, \"They did not used to see any difference between the time for eating and the time for the obligatory prayer.\" This is the end of Ishaq's statement. This has also been narrated from Ibn Mas'ud. (So in summary, the first opinion is that one can eat and drink until just after Fajr has actually started, and not just that the time has \"begun\", but after the adhan and iqamah etc.)\nThe second opinion: most of the scholars are of the opinion that one is to stop the Suhur by the beginning of Fajr, and this is the opinion of the four Imams and most of the scholars of different countries and something of similar meaning has been narrated by 'Umar and Ibn 'Abbas.\nThe people with the first opinion have used the statement of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam), \"And eat and drink until ibn Umm Maktum gives the Adhan.\" It is known that he was not giving the Adhan until Fajr had already begun. That is in Al-Bukhari and in some narrations it states: \"He was a blind man and he was not giving the Adhan until it was said to him that, 'The Fajr has begun! The Fajr has begun!'\"\nThese people say the day begins when the sun rises (meaning that one can eat into the Fajr time).\nThe majority on the other hand used the verse: \"Eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct from the black.\" Also the statement of Muhammad (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam), \"Eat and drink until Ibn Umm Maktum gives the Adhan,\" and his statement, \"There are two Fajrs: the first one does not prohibit food and does not permit the prayer and the second prohibits food and permits the prayer.\" Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in his Sunan.\nThey also said that the hadith of Hudhayfah is faulty and that the fault is that it is Mawquf (a statement of a Companion alone), and that is Zirr is the one who had his Suhur with Hudhayfah. This was mentioned by An-Nasa'i.\n(Muhammad Taqi ud-Din said) I don't agree with that, because Hudhayfah said, \"That's how I did it with the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam),\" and this is Marfu' (a statement\/event elevated to the Prophet).\nOut of all these ahadith, we give Fatwa based on the middle opinion: that the true dawn which prohibits food on the fasting person and permits the prayer is as the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: the red dawn, the one that whose whiteness is mixed with some redness and is horizontal in the horizon. It is the one which fills the houses and streets and the people do not differ between them about it, and all people can identify it. Any other dawn such as the one identified by the Moroccans is false, it doesn't prohibit food on the fasting person and doesn't permit the Fajr prayer.\nWe usually delay our Fajr prayer more than half an hour after the Moroccan time, until we can see the true dawn. This is what we worship Allah with and Allah says the truth and He guides us to the straight path. We ask Allah to show us the truth as truth and to help us to follow it and to show us the falsehood as falsehood and to help us to avoid it.\nAnd all praise is due to the Lord of the Worlds.\nI finished writing this before noon, Saturday the 4th of Shawwal 1394 (1974CE) after the migration of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam).\nTranslated by Kehlan Al-Jubury, Manchester, Monday 25 June 2012CE\nStraightening the Rows and Joining the Feet\nExplanation of What Should be Present in the Heart During Every Pillar and Moment from the Actions of the Prayer\n'Eid Prayer Described, The\nProphet's Manner of Performing Prayers, The\nLearn what you will, but know that so long as you do not implement what you learn, Allah will give you no reward for it.\nMu'adh ibn Jabal (d. 18H), may Allah be pleased with him\nBenefit of the Worshipper Standing Before his Lord, The\nDesignated Times for the Isha' and Fajr Prayers in the UK and other similar Countries During the Summer Season, The\nSimple Guides: The Witr Prayer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TITLE 25 - INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE\nCHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE 1 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS\n25-1-104.\tCreation of department of corrections; duties; inspections of state institutions; regulation of prisoner produced goods.\n(a)\tThe department of corrections is created.\tThe department consists of the director who is the chief administrative officer and such divisions as the director may create.\n(b)\tThe department of corrections has general supervision, control and custody of all penal institutions, and responsibility for the maintenance and repair of all buildings and grounds utilized by the institutions. Specifically the department has general supervision and control of, and shall provide for the care and maintenance of all inmates in the following state institutions:\n(i)\tWyoming state penitentiary;\n(ii)\tWyoming honor farms and camps;\n(iii)\tWyoming women's center;\n(iv)\tWyoming medium correctional institution;\n(v)\tAdult community correctional facilities defined by W.S. 7-18-102(a)(i).\n(c)\tThe department of corrections has general supervisory authority over state parolees and, subject to the order of the sentencing court, over probationers for whom the sentencing court requests supervision under W.S. 7-13-410(b).\n(d)\tThe director shall:\n(i)\tPersonally inspect all state institutions under the department's supervision and control at least once every year;\n(ii)\tDirect the general management of all state penal institutions enumerated in W.S. 25-1-104(b) and be responsible for the proper disbursement of all funds appropriated for their maintenance;\n(iii)\tDirect the general management of the state probation and parole program; and\n(iv)\tAppoint, prescribe the duties of, and remove at will the following officers:\n(A)\tWardens of the Wyoming state penitentiary, medium correctional institution, women's center and Wyoming honor farms and camps;\n(D)\tThe state probation and parole officer.\n(e)\tThe officers provided for under W.S. 25-1-104(d)(iv)(A) and (D) shall:\n(i)\tServe as administrator of and manage the institutions to which they are appointed subject to the supervision of the director;\n(ii)\tEmploy personnel necessary and approved by the director and the Wyoming legislature;\n(iii)\tReport to the director as required.\n(f)\tThe director may appoint and may remove at will a deputy director and division administrators.\n(g)\tThe department shall establish rules and regulations regarding the provision of services and the production of goods by prisoners at all state corrections institutions including but not limited to labor requirements, wage rates, use of goods within the institution of origin, sales price and method of distribution to other institutions or the general public. In promulgating rules relating to correctional industries programs\nauthorized by W.S. 25-13-101 through 25-13-107, the department shall adhere to the requirements of the private sector prison industry enhancement certification program of the federal bureau of justice assistance. Rules and regulations promulgated under this subsection shall place limitations on competition with the private sector and will ensure that no contract entered into under W.S. 25-13-101 through 25-13-107 will result in the displacement of employed workers in the state in excess of limitations established by the correctional industries advisory board created by W.S. 25-13-102.\n(h)\tThe department of corrections has general supervision and control of, and shall provide for the care and maintenance of all inmates who have been placed in institutions of other jurisdictions or private entities pursuant to contracts or agreements under W.S. 25-1-105(e).\n(j)\tThe director may order returned to the custody of the department any person under the department's jurisdiction. The written order of the director shall be sufficient warrant for any peace officer to return to actual custody any escaped state prisoner or any state prisoner released prior to his scheduled release date or who is about to be released by another jurisdiction prior to his scheduled release date in Wyoming. It is the duty of all peace officers to execute the order of the director issued under this subsection in like manner as ordinary criminal process. A person taken into custody under the order of the director is not subject to release on bail. Consistent with\nW.S. 7-3-201 through 7-3-227, the director may apply to the governor to seek the extradition of an inmate apprehended in another state pursuant to an order of the director issued under this subsection.\n(k)\tThe department of corrections shall issue certificates of restoration of voting rights pursuant to W.S. 7-13-105(b) and (c).\n25-1-105.\tPowers of department; care of persons committed outside of state.\n(a)\tThe department of corrections shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out its functions. The promulgation of substantive rules by the department, the conduct of its hearings and its final decisions are specifically exempt from all provisions of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act including the provisions for judicial review under W.S. 16-3-114\nand 16-3-115. The department's rules shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.\n(b)\tThe department may enter into contracts with the federal government or other states for the care of persons committed outside of Wyoming.\n(c)\tSubject to subsection (d) of this section, the department may, to obtain demonstrable cost savings or better quality of services, contract with private service providers or with other agencies for any of the following services to be provided for inmates of any state adult penal institution:\n(i)\tEducation, training and jobs programs;\n(ii)\tRecreational and religious activities;\n(iii)\tDevelopment and implementation assistance for classification, management information systems or other information systems or services;\n(iv)\tMedical services;\n(v)\tFood services, commissary, transportation, sanitation or other ancillary services; and\n(vi)\tCounseling, special treatment programs or other programs for special needs.\n(d)\tThe department shall by rule and regulation impose upon services contracted pursuant to paragraph (c)(i) of this section limitations on competition with the private sector and ensure contracted services do not significantly displace employed workers within the community.\n(e)\tThe department of corrections may enter into contracts and agreements with any county for the confinement and maintenance in county jails of persons sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections to serve a term of imprisonment in a state penal institution.\tThe department may enter into contracts and agreements with other states, including those which are not party to the Western Interstate Corrections Compact, with the federal government, with other governmental entities and with private owners and operators of correctional facilities in other states, for the confinement and maintenance of persons sentenced to the custody of the department to serve a term of imprisonment in a state penal institution.\tThe\ndepartment shall establish rules and regulations regarding the minimum standards for such facilities and standards for the care and treatment of department of correction's inmates incarcerated therein.\n25-1-107.\tRepealed\tby\tLaws\t1987,\tch.\t127,\t\u00a7\t2.\nARTICLE 2 - STATE INSTITUTIONS\n25-1-201.\tEstablishment of state institutions.\n(a)\tThe following state institutions are established:\n(i)\tThe Wyoming state penitentiary at Rawlins,\nWyoming;\n(ii)\tThe Wyoming boys' school at Worland, Wyoming;\n(iii)\tThe Wyoming girls' school at Sheridan, Wyoming;\n(iv)\tThe Wyoming life resource center at Lander,\nWyoming; Wyoming;\n(v)\tRepealed By Laws 1998, ch. 7, \u00a7 2.\n(vi)\tThe Wyoming pioneer home at Thermopolis,\n(vii)\tThe veterans' home of Wyoming at Buffalo,\n(viii)\tThe Wyoming retirement center at Basin,\n(ix)\tThe Wyoming women's center at Lusk, Wyoming;\n(x)\tThe Wyoming state hospital at Evanston, Wyoming;\n(xi)\tThe Wyoming medium correctional institution at Torrington, Wyoming;\n(xii)\tThe Wyoming school for the deaf at Casper,\n(xiii)\tThe Wyoming honor farm at Riverton, Wyoming;\n(xiv)\tThe Wyoming honor conservation camp at Newcastle, Wyoming.\nCHAPTER 2 - STATE PENITENTIARY\n25-2-101.\tSeal of warden; copies of papers displaying seal received as evidence.\n(a)\tThe warden of the penitentiary shall have an official seal bearing the words \"Warden of the Penitentiary of the State of Wyoming\" of which the courts of this state shall take judicial notice.\n(b)\tWhen the official seal of the warden is affixed to copies of papers, books and records kept in his office, the copies are competent evidence in the courts and have the same force and effect as the originals.\n25-2-102.\tAuthority to establish and maintain penitentiary farms; disposition of funds from sales or services; supervision.\n(a)\tThe state may establish, maintain and operate one (1) or more penitentiary farms and camps as needed to provide a place of confinement and employment of convicted felons sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections to serve a term of imprisonment in a state penal institution.\n(b)\tAll funds received from the sale of products or services produced on penitentiary farms and camps shall be credited to a separate account.\n(c)\tAll penitentiary farms and camps established shall be operated and maintained under the general supervision of the department of corrections.\n25-2-103.\tWyoming women's center; establishment; purpose; supervision.\n(a)\tThe Wyoming women's center is established at Lusk, Wyoming, to provide a place of confinement, employment and training for convicted female felons sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections to serve a term of imprisonment in a state penal institution.\n(b)\tThe Wyoming women's center shall be operated and maintained under the general supervision of the department of corrections.\n25-2-104.\tWyoming correctional facility; establishment; purpose; supervision.\n(a)\tThe Wyoming correctional facility is established at Torrington, Wyoming, to provide a place of confinement, employment and training for convicted felons sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections to serve a term of imprisonment in a state penal institution.\n(b)\tThe Wyoming correctional facility shall be operated and maintained under the general supervision of the department of corrections.\nCHAPTER 3 - WYOMING BOYS' SCHOOL\n25-3-101.\tPersons to be confined; notice; transportation to school.\n(a)\tAny boy who has attained the age of twelve (12) years and who has been ordered committed in compliance with W.S.\n14-6-229 may be committed to the Wyoming boys' school. The term of any boy committed shall be determined by the department of family services.\n(b)\tAny person may be sentenced or transferred to the boys' school pursuant to W.S. 7-13-101.\n(c)\tAfter a person is committed or sentenced to the Wyoming boys' school the clerk of court shall notify the department of family services and the superintendent of the\ninstitution. The department of family services shall arrange for transportation.\n25-3-103.\tDiscipline to be reformatory; employment of residents; sale of products for public use or in open market; disposition of proceeds.\n(a)\tThe discipline in the Wyoming boys' school shall be reformatory. Residents of the school may be employed as a means of their support and reformation.\n(b)\tAll articles manufactured and produced, or all agricultural products grown by or through the labor of residents of the\tschool not required for use of the school, may be furnished to:\n(i)\tThe state;\n(ii)\tAny public institution owned, managed or controlled by the state;\n(iii)\tThe transportation commission for use on any roads or highways;\n(iv)\tThe county authorities of any county.\n(c)\tThe department of family services shall fix the prices of the articles and products which shall be paid upon requisition of the proper officials. The department may sell in the open market or any other manner any or all products grown or produced by residents within or without the boys' school that are not sold for public use.\n(d)\tAll monies received by the department from the sale of products manufactured, produced or grown by the residents of the boys' school shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the general fund.\n25-3-104.\tTransfer of residents to state hospital; rules and regulations governing residents.\n(a)\tThe department of family services may, with the approval of the department of health, transfer any resident who becomes mentally incompetent to any appropriate acute placement facility based on a psychiatric evaluation.\n(b)\tThe department shall make all rules and regulations necessary and proper for:\n(i)\tEmployment, discipline, instruction and education of residents;\n(ii)\tMental and physical health and welfare of residents;\n(iii)\tTransfer and return of residents; and\n(iv)\tWork release for residents who are not subject to home visitation or temporary residence outside the school enclosure.\n25-3-105.\tControl over residents; preparation of personal record; rehabilitation plan and periodic reviews thereof; contents of record.\nThe department of family services shall maintain control over all persons committed to the boys' school to prevent the persons from committing crime, best secure their self-support and accomplish their reformation. When a person is admitted to the school, the superintendent shall prepare a record of the personal history of the resident, including his age, family and social background, education and prior training and employment. Based upon all pertinent information available, the superintendent shall prepare an individualized rehabilitation plan which shall be part of the resident's record. Periodic reviews of the resident's progress and appropriate modifications of his rehabilitation plan shall be made by the superintendent and entered on the resident's record. The status of each resident shall be reported to him periodically. All orders affecting the resident, the circumstance of his final release and any new developments concerning his personal history shall be included in his record.\n25-3-106.\tRelease of resident.\nAfter the department of family services has made a finding that a boy should be released from the Wyoming boys' school, it shall give advance notification of the pending release to the court which ordered commitment. Upon the boy's release the department shall issue him an administrative discharge.\nCHAPTER 4 - WYOMING GIRLS' SCHOOL\n25-4-101.\tGirls to be committed; terms; notification of superintendent; transportation to school.\n(a)\tAny girl who has attained the age of twelve (12) years and who has been ordered committed in compliance with W.S.\n14-6-229 may be committed to the Wyoming girls' school. The term of any girl committed shall be determined by the department of family services.\n(b)\tAfter a girl is committed to the girls' school the clerk of court shall notify the superintendent of the institution. The superintendent shall arrange for the transportation of the girl to the girls' school.\n25-4-102.\tNature of program and discipline; rules and regulations for work release, home visitation or temporary residence.\nThe program and discipline at the Wyoming girls' school shall be educational, vocational and rehabilitative. For these purposes the department of family services shall adopt rules and regulations for work release for residents who are not subject to home visitation or temporary residence outside the school enclosure.\n25-4-103.\tPersonal record to be prepared; rehabilitation plan; periodic review; additional contents of record; release from custody.\n(a)\tWhen a girl is admitted to the girls' school, the superintendent shall prepare a record of the personal history of the resident, including her age, family and social background, education and prior training and employment. Based upon all pertinent information available, the superintendent shall prepare an individualized rehabilitation plan which shall be part of the resident's record. Periodic reviews of the resident's progress and appropriate modifications of her rehabilitation plan shall be made by the superintendent and entered on the resident's record. The status of each resident shall be reported to her periodically. All orders affecting the resident, the circumstances of her final release and any new developments concerning her personal history shall be included in her record.\n(b)\tAfter the department of family services has made a finding that a girl should be released from the girls' school,\nit shall give advance notification of the pending release to the court which ordered commitment.\tUpon the girl's release the department shall issue her an administrative discharge.\nCHAPTER 5 - LIFE RESOURCE CENTER\n25-5-101.\tShort title.\nThis act may be cited as the \"Life Resource Center Act\".\n25-5-102.\tDefinitions.\n(a)\tRepealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 70, \u00a7 2, Ch. 85, \u00a7 2.\n(b)\tAs used in this act:\n(i)\t\"Acquired brain injury\" means any combination of focal and diffuse central nervous system dysfunction, at the brain stem level and above, acquired after birth through the interaction of any external forces and the body, oxygen deprivation, infection, toxicity, surgery or vascular disorders not associated with aging;\n(ii)\t\"Active treatment\" means a program which includes aggressive, consistent implementation of a program of specialized and generic training, treatment, health services and related services that is directed toward:\n(A)\tThe acquisition of the behaviors necessary for the client to function with as much self determination and independence as possible; and\n(B)\tThe prevention or deceleration of regression or loss of current optimal functional status.\n(iii)\t\"Adaptive behavior\" means the collection of conceptual, social and practical skills that have been learned by people in order to function in their everyday lives;\n(iv)\t\"Administrator\" means the administrator of the\ndivision;\n(v)\t\"Assistive technology device\" and \"assistive technology service\" mean as defined in 42 U.S.C. 15002;\n(vi)\t\"Center\" means the Wyoming life resource center at Lander, Wyoming;\n(vii)\t\"Child\" means any person under the age of eighteen (18);\n(viii)\t\"Client\" means a person who has a disability and has been determined eligible, pursuant to department rules and regulation, and is receiving services from one (1) of the center's programs;\n(ix)\t\"Client services\" means diagnosis, education, training and care of persons who have been admitted to the center;\n(x)\t\"Conservator\" means as defined in W.S. 3-1-101(a)(iii);\nhealth;\n(xi)\t\"Department\" means the state department of\n(xii)\t\"Director\" means the director of the department\nof health;\n(xiii)\t\"Disability\" means a developmental disability as defined in 42 U.S.C. 15002 or a disability resulting from an acquired brain injury;\n(xiv)\t\"Division\" means the behavioral health division of the department of health;\n(xv)\t\"Guardian\" means as defined in W.S. 3-1-101(a)(v);\n(xvi)\t\"Guardian ad litem\" means as defined in W.S. 3-1-101(a)(vi);\n(xvii)\t\"Incompetent person\" means adjudicated as meeting the definition in W.S. 3-1-101(a)(ix);\n(xviii)\t\"Individual program plan\" means a written statement of long-term and short-term goals and strategies for providing specially designed services to meet each client's individual educational, physical, emotional and training needs;\n(xix)\t\"Informed choice\" means making a decision based on adequate information.\tAs appropriate, such information may include consideration regarding providers, methods, costs,\nduration, accessibility, customer satisfaction, probabilities, sources and consequences;\n(xx)\t\"Intellectual disability\" means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning with concurrent deficits in adaptive behavior manifested during the developmental period.\t\"Intellectually disabled\" means a person with an intellectual disability;\n(xxi)\t\"Interdisciplinary team\" means a group that represents the person, the person's family or guardian, or the professions, disciplines or service areas that are relevant to identifying the client's needs, as described in the comprehensive functional assessments and program design. The department shall provide by rule and regulation for the composition of interdisciplinary teams;\n(xxii)\t\"Intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability\" means an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF\/IID), as this phrase is used in applicable federal statutes, rules and regulations;\n(xxiii)\t\"Least restrictive environment\" means the program, service and location which least inhibits a person's freedom of movement, informed decision making and participation in community life while achieving the purposes of habilitation and treatment which best meet the needs of the person.\tThe determination of least restrictive environment shall be individualized, based on a person's need for medical, therapeutic, rehabilitative and developmental services and as a result of informed choice of the person or, if the person is a minor or a ward, his parent or guardian;\n(xxiv)\t\"Most appropriate\" means an individualized determination of a person's need for medical, therapeutic, rehabilitative and developmental services, based upon professional assessment and the informed choice of the person or, if the person is a minor or ward, his parent or guardian;\n(xxv)\t\"Most integrated\" means the setting that enables a person with a disability to have access to the same opportunities as a person without a disability to the fullest extent possible, including opportunities to live, learn, work, recreate and participate in family and community activities. Determinations of most integrated shall be individualized and based upon professional assessment and the informed choice of\nthe person or, if the person is a minor or ward, his parent or guardian;\n(xxvi)\t\"Program manager\" means the on-site supervisor and manager of the center;\n(xxvii)\t\"Screening team\" means a group of appropriate professionals, appointed by the director pursuant to rules and regulations of the department, and assigned by the administrator to perform preliminary testing and assessment of persons for purposes of determining eligibility for services at the center;\n(xxviii)\t\"Ward\" means as defined in W.S. 3-1-101(a)(xv);\n(xxix)\t\"This act\" means W.S. 25 5 101 through 25 5\n(xxx)\t\"Domiciliary care\" means the domiciliary care\nprogram, as defined by applicable federal statutes, rules and regulations;\n(xxxi)\t\"Exceptionally difficult behaviors\" means a high level of assaultive or self-injurious behavior in a person with an intellectual disability or organic brain syndrome. These behaviors may include aggression and violent behavior, wandering, sexually inappropriate behavior, self-endangering behaviors or medication noncompliance. The level of behaviors shall be measured by a standardized assessment and pursuant to criteria established by the department under W.S.\n25-5-105(a)(i);\n(xxxii)\t\"Hard to place\" means a person who is:\n(A)\tEligible for skilled nursing facility services pursuant to the long-term care assessment defined in W.S. 42-6-102(a)(vii);\n(B)\tDoes not meet the criteria of paragraph (xxxi), (xxxiii) or (xxxiv) of this subsection; and\n(C)\tFor whom no community skilled nursing facility service provider has been identified in the state within a time period defined by the department.\n(xxxiii)\t\"High medical need\" means a person who is:\n(A)\tEligible for skilled nursing facility services pursuant to the long term care assessment defined in W.S. 42-6-102(a)(vii);\n(B)\tDoes not meet the criteria of paragraph\n(xxxi)\tor (xxxiv) of this subsection; and\n(C)\tWould qualify for the extraordinary care nursing facility reimbursement rate, as defined by the department.\n(xxxiv)\t\"Organic brain syndrome\" means a decrease in mental function due to a medical disease, other than mental illness, as defined by the department.\tOrganic brain syndrome may be the result of an acquired brain injury or the result of dementia caused by trauma, hypoxia, cardiovascular conditions including thrombotic and embolic events or degenerative, infectious, alcohol and drug related or metabolic disorders;\n(xxxv)\t\"Skilled nursing facility services\" means skilled nursing facility services as defined by applicable federal statutes, rules and regulations.\n25-5-103.\tWyoming life resource center established; purpose.\n(a)\tExcept as otherwise authorized by rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with W.S. 9-2-106(d), the Wyoming life resource center is established to provide the following residential, active treatment, assistive technology, medical and therapy services only to individuals for whom an interdisciplinary team has determined the center is the most appropriate, least restrictive and most integrated environment for delivery of the services as specified below:\n(i)\tIntermediate care facilities for people with intellectual disability in accordance with federal Medicare and Medicaid regulations;\n(ii)\tSkilled nursing facility services to the following:\n(A)\tPersons with organic brain syndrome who manifest exceptionally difficult behaviors;\n(B)\tPersons with high medical need;\n(C)\tPersons who are hard to place.\n(iii)\tDisability, therapeutic and assistive technology services for persons with a disability;\n(iv)\tTraining for state employees, other service providers and caregivers on disability, medical, developmental and therapy services;\n(v)\tCare provided under authority of the director pursuant to W.S. 9-2-106(d).\n(b)\tThe Wyoming life resource center may provide technical assistance and assistive technology outreach services to persons made eligible pursuant to rules adopted by the department.\n(c)\tAny person residing at the Wyoming life resource center on April 1, 2016 pursuant to the requirements of this section prior to April 1, 2016 shall have the right to remain at the life resource center without regard to his continued qualification to remain at the center under this section, provided the center continues to have adequate resources to safely care for the person.\n25-5-104.\tAdministration and management of center.\nThe administration and management of the center is vested in the department.\n25-5-105.\tRules and regulations; reports.\n(a)\tThe department shall adopt rules and regulations which are in compliance with both federal regulations for intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disability and federal regulations for skilled nursing facilities, and which:\n(i)\tEstablish standards for admission for residential services and discharge of clients receiving services in all programs administered by the center;\n(ii)\tEstablish standards for client services;\n(iii)\tProvide for the administration of the center under the management of the division;\n(iv)\tPrescribe professional standards for personnel employed at the center;\n(v)\tImplement this act;\n(vi)\tEstablish data reporting processes and report monthly to the director the number of persons served by the center, identified by service category, and the services provided to those persons.\n25-5-106.\tDonations for benefit of center; control and disposition thereof.\nMoney, personal property or real estate donated for the benefit of the center shall be held, controlled and distributed by the department according to the conditions of the donation. If there are no conditions of the donation, it shall be disposed of as provided in W.S. 25-5-107.\n25-5-107.\tDisposition of monies received from sale of products or as compensation.\nExcept as provided by W.S. 25-5-106, all monies received by the department for the clients in the center from the sale of products produced or grown by the center or as compensation from any source shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the general fund.\n25-5-108.\tAppointment of program manager; duties; removal.\n(a)\tThe director shall appoint a program manager of the center.\n(b)\tThe program manager shall administer the center as directed by the administrator.\n(c)\tThe director may remove the program manager in his discretion.\n25-5-109.\tInability or refusal to pay for services.\n(c)\tNo person shall be denied admission to or services by the center because of the inability of the person, his parent or guardian to pay the cost of the services received.\n(d)\tClients of the center who are not eligible under the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act shall be responsible for the cost of services and treatment as provided in title 25, chapter 11, article 1. However, no person who was a client of the center as of June 30, 2008 shall be denied admission to or services by the center because of the refusal of the client's parent or guardian to pay the cost of the services received.\n25-5-110.\tSpecial education for minors and costs thereof.\n(c)\tClients who are between the ages of five (5) and twenty-one (21) years of age shall be provided special education and related services through the clients' resident school districts. This subsection does not relieve an insurer or similar third party from an otherwise valid obligation to pay for services provided to the client.\n25-5-114.\tEligibility for admission; appropriateness of services.\n(a)\tExcept as otherwise authorized by rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with W.S. 9-2-106(d), a person shall be admitted to the center only if he is an individual qualifying for services under W.S. 25-5-103(a) and his preadmission evaluation and screening does not indicate that he would be more appropriately served by the Wyoming state hospital, a community program or a public school program.\n25-5-115.\tPreadmission screening for residential services; preparation and supervision thereof; disposition of findings.\n(a)\tAdmission to the center shall be upon written application to the division and shall be based upon the preadmission screening and assessment:\n(i)\tThe preadmission screening and assessment shall be made by a screening team under the supervision of the administrator or his designee, using appropriate professionals and screening and assessment methods as provided in department rules and regulations;\n(ii)\tThe preadmission screening and assessment shall be completed not more than thirty (30) days after an application for admission;\n(iv)\tAs part of the application process, division staff shall provide prospective clients and their families or guardians information about center services and similar services available in the client's community or elsewhere in the state.\n(b)\tWithin ten (10) days of completion of the preadmission screening and assessment, the findings shall be given to the applicant. If ordered by the court, the preadmission screening and assessment shall also be filed with the court.\n25-5-116.\tIndividual program plan; preparation and supervision thereof; review.\nEach client admitted to the center shall have on file at the center an individual program plan. The individual program plans shall be prepared by an interdisciplinary team within thirty\n(30)\tdays of admission for residential services under the supervision of the program manager. The plan shall be reviewed by the interdisciplinary team for appropriateness and feasibility of discharge or transition to another level of service thirty (30) days after implementation of the plan, at the end of each quarter for the first year and annually thereafter.\n25-5-117.\tAdmission for residential services; application and contents thereof; written copy of rights; appeal of denied admissions.\n(a)\tA person determined by the preadmission screening and assessment to be eligible for admission to the center for residential services may be admitted as a client under one (1) of the following procedures:\n(i)\tAn adult who has sufficient insight or capacity to make responsible application for admission for residential services may be admitted on his own application;\n(ii)\tA minor or ward may be admitted upon application of his parent or guardian.\n(c)\tAt the time of admission for residential services, the program manager shall give a written copy of the rights provided in W.S. 25-5-132 to the client, his parent or guardian.\n(d)\tA person who is denied admission may appeal the decision to the department, in writing.\n25-5-118.\tRelease of voluntary client upon request; exceptions.\n(a)\tA voluntary client may be discharged by the administrator at any time within twenty (20) days of receipt of a written request for the release by the client, his parent or guardian, and the administrator shall arrange for appropriate transition services, except:\n(i)\tIf the client was admitted on his own application and the request for discharge is made by a person other than the client, release shall be conditioned upon the client's consent;\n(ii)\tIf the client is a minor or ward, his discharge shall be conditioned upon the consent of his parent or guardian;\n(iii)\tIf the administrator has probable cause to believe release of the client will endanger the life, health or safety of the client or others and he incorporates a written statement of the facts supporting his belief in the client's file, he may apply for involuntary admission pursuant to W.S. 25-5-119. The administrator, as a mandatory reporter, shall contact adult protective services for appropriate proceedings.\n25-5-119.\tInvoluntary admissions; application to district court; representation of proposed client; preadmission screening; notice; hearing; independent screening; admissibility.\n(a)\tA person may be an involuntary client of the center if admitted pursuant to this section. Application for involuntary admission may be made by a parent, a guardian, the administrator or a social service agency. The application shall be filed with the district court in the county where the proposed client, his parent or his guardian resides.\n(b)\tWhen an application for involuntary admission is filed, the court shall appoint an attorney to represent the proposed client unless he retains counsel of his own choice. An attorney shall represent the proposed client at all hearings. The county shall compensate an appointed attorney in an amount fixed by the court as a reasonable fee.\n(c)\tThe court shall order the center to conduct a preadmission screening and assessment of the proposed client. Notice of the order shall be served on the proposed client, his attorney and his parent or guardian. The order and the application for admission shall be served on the center and the department. If the preadmission screening and assessment report finds the center would be an appropriate placement, the court shall order a hearing. The proposed client shall have a right to seek an independent screening and assessment of his eligibility for admission at the state's expense. The screening and assessment shall be admissible as evidence at the hearing as provided by W.S. 25-5-121(d).\n25-5-120.\tCourt order setting hearing on involuntary application; service of notice; waiver.\n(a)\tThe court shall fix a date for hearing on the application.\n(b)\tThe order setting the hearing shall contain:\n(i)\tThe date, time and place of the hearing;\n(ii)\tThe name and address of the applicant, the proposed client's parent or guardian, and the attorney retained by the proposed client or appointed by the court;\n(iii)\tThe grounds alleged for the commitment of the proposed client;\n(iv)\tThe consequences of a finding that a person shall be admitted to the center for client services.\n(c)\tThe court shall direct the clerk of the district court to give notice to each person named in the order:\n(i)\tBy delivering a copy of the notice to the person being notified personally, not less than fourteen (14) days before the time set for hearing unless time is shortened by the court for good cause shown; or\n(ii)\tBy mailing a copy of the notice to the address of each person given in the application by certified mail, return receipt requested, not less than fourteen (14) days before the time set for hearing, unless the time is shortened by the court for good cause shown.\n(d)\tThe court may order that notice be given to other persons. Notice may be waived in writing by any party except the proposed client's attorney.\n25-5-121. Rights of proposed client and notified persons; confidentiality of hearing; admissibility of screening reports; findings by court or jury; amendment of admission order.\n(a)\tThe proposed client has the right to appear, to be heard and to participate in every stage of the hearing unless the court finds that it would not be in the best interests of the proposed client. The court shall not exclude the proposed client from the hearing unless the application is accompanied by a written statement from a licensed physician and a court designated examiner, appointed at the time of the application, who is in no other manner involved in the proceedings, that attendance at the hearing would injure the proposed client's health and well-being and describing his medical condition.\n(b)\tThe proposed client is entitled, upon request, to a jury trial on the issue of his admission. The jury shall be selected pursuant to W.S. 1-11-101 through 1-11-129.\n(c)\tThe court shall exclude all persons not having an interest in the application. Unless the court orders an open hearing or the proposed client requests a jury trial, the hearing is confidential and shall be held in closed court.\n(d)\tAny person to whom notice is required to be given by\nW.S. 25-5-120 may testify and may present and cross-examine witnesses. The court may receive the testimony of other persons in its discretion. The screening and assessment report required by W.S. 25-5-115, and any independent screening and assessment made under W.S. 25-5-119, may be admitted as evidence and shall not be excluded on the ground of hearsay alone.\n(e)\tIf the court or jury finds that specific care, treatment and service alternatives are available which are more appropriate than the center for the proposed client, the application shall be denied. If the court or jury finds by clear and convincing evidence that admission to the center would provide the most appropriate services for the proposed client, the court shall order the admission. In case of a nonjury hearing, the court shall enter findings of fact with the order of admission.\n(f)\tThe proposed client or if a minor or ward, his parents or guardian or the center may petition the court to amend its order of admission on the grounds that appropriate and necessary services to the proposed client are available in a less restrictive environment than the center. The court may amend its order after notice and hearing pursuant to this act.\n25-5-122.\tAppeals to supreme court; rules governing.\nAny person aggrieved by any order entered under this act may appeal to the Wyoming supreme court. The appeal shall conform with the rules of civil procedure.\n25-5-124.\tDischarge of clients by administrator or by court; appeals to department.\n(a)\tAn interdisciplinary team may recommend to the administrator discharge of a client with an appropriate transition plan from the center when placement at home, with another service provider or another program is appropriate for the client's needs and abilities. The transition plan shall identify any recommended discharge conditions in the client's best interest, including type of residence facility, supervision and any continuing medical, therapeutic, rehabilitative or developmental services. Based on the recommendations of the team, and with the consent of the client, or his parent or\nguardian if he is a minor or ward, the administrator shall place the client in the alternative setting. The administrator shall discharge the client when the client has been appropriately placed in an alternative program. If the client was admitted under a court order, the administrator shall petition the court, pursuant to W.S. 25-5-121(f).\n(b)\tIf the client, or his parent or guardian if he is a minor or incompetent, disagrees with the decision of the administrator and the interdisciplinary team, the client, parent or guardian may appeal the decision to the director in writing. The department shall provide the client, parent or guardian with a decision in writing within thirty (30) days.\n25-5-125.\tTransfer of clients for temporary care and treatment; consent; costs to be paid by center; third-party obligations not limited.\nIf the program manager determines it is appropriate for the welfare of a client, the client may be placed for temporary care and treatment in any public or private hospital, institution or residence in the state which provides services which will benefit the client. The transfer shall not be made without the consent of the client and his parents or guardian, or in the case of an involuntary client, without leave of the court, except in cases of medical emergency. During and after the transfer, the client remains a client of the center. The cost of the transfer and of the temporary treatment, care and training provided shall be borne by the center. This section does not limit the responsibility of third parties to pay for medical and other expenses incurred by contract or law.\n25-5-126.\tContracts with other states for interstate transfer of clients; payment of expenses therefor.\n(a)\tThe department may enter into contracts with other states to provide for:\n(i)\tThe admission to facilities, schools or hospitals in other states of persons admitted to or entitled to admission for residential services in the center, when it can be shown that admission to a facility in another state is in the best interests of the person and the state of Wyoming;\n(ii)\tThe admission to the center of residents of other states when it can be shown that admission to the center for residential services is in the best interests of the person\nand the state of Wyoming, and that the person's need for services has been determined in accordance with this act.\n(b)\tThe expense of transferring persons from the center to other states shall be paid by the center. The expense of transferring persons from other states to the center shall be paid by the state making the transfer to the center.\n25-5-129.\tAdmittance for temporary services; excepted provisions; limited duration.\nThe administrator may admit individuals for services temporarily pursuant to rules promulgated under W.S. 25-5-105(a) if the administrator determines a less restrictive environment is appropriate but unavailable. A client admitted for\tservices temporarily is not subject to W.S. 25-5-114, 25-5-115 and\n25-5-121(e). No individual shall be admitted temporarily for services for more than seventy-five (75) days.\n25-5-130.\tConsent and notice required before major surgery; exceptions.\n(a)\tExcept as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no client shall undergo major surgery until the superintendent:\n(i)\tObtains the prior consent of the client, or if his consent cannot be given knowingly, he shall obtain the prior consent of the resident's parent or guardian; and\n(ii)\tNotifies the parent or guardian of the nature, date and place of the surgery and the name of the surgeon. A copy of the notice shall be placed in the patient's records.\n(b)\tPrior consent need not be obtained nor prior notice given when the parent or guardian cannot be located or when an emergency requires immediate surgery to prevent serious consequences or death. The parent or guardian shall be notified as soon as possible after emergency surgery.\n25-5-131.\tConfidentiality of records; exceptions; penalties for violations.\n(a)\tAll records of clients, former clients and proposed clients of the center are confidential except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, when disclosure is required by state or federal law or when disclosure is necessary to prevent imminent risk of harm to the person who is the subject of the records or others.\n(b)\tThe administrator may provide access to the records of a client, former client or proposed client by:\n(i)\tThe person who is the subject of the records or his guardian, guardian ad litem or attorney;\n(ii)\tThe physician or surgeon for the person who is the subject of the records;\n(iii)\tA person authorized by the person who is the subject of the records, or by his parent or guardian if he is a minor or ward, to evaluate the person's eligibility for admission to the center for residential services or to determine whether his residence is the most appropriate and therapeutic environment for the person;\n(iv)\tA court, upon a showing that access to the records is necessary for the determination of an issue before it. Access under this paragraph is limited to an in camera inspection unless the court finds public disclosure is necessary;\n(v)\tQualified employees of the department and the center and professional persons while in the performance of their official duties;\n(vi)\tA person as required by law, including the Wyoming Hospital Records and Information Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Medicaid program.\n25-5-132. No determination of incompetency; notification of rights; deniable rights and conditions therefor; undeniable rights.\n(a)\tThe determination that a person is eligible for admission to the center is not a determination or adjudication that the person is incompetent.\n(b)\tUpon admission to the center for residential services, a client shall be informed orally and in writing of his rights under this section. If the client is a minor, or ward, his parents, guardian or guardian ad litem shall be informed orally and in writing of his rights under this section.\n(c)\tThe following rights of a client may be denied or limited only as a part of his individual program plan for purposes of safety and health. The client or if the client is a minor or ward, his parents, guardian or guardian ad litem shall be informed in writing and orally of the grounds for the denial or limitation. The grounds for denial or limitation shall be entered in the individual program plan:\n(i)\tThe right to send and receive unopened mail;\n(ii)\tThe right to choose and wear his own clothing;\n(iii)\tThe right to keep and use his own personal possessions including his toilet articles;\n(iv)\tThe right to keep and spend his own money;\n(v)\tThe right to be free from physical restraints and chemical restraints that substitute for active treatment or behavior modification programs, except in emergency situations as necessary to protect the client or others;\n(vi)\tThe right to privacy in matters such as toileting and bathing;\n(vii)\tThe right to make and receive telephone calls;\n(viii)\tThe right to receive visitors daily;\n(ix)\tThe right to an appropriate personal space that provides privacy and personal safety;\n(x)\tThe right to be free from abuse;\nlive;\n(xi)\tThe right to vote;\n(xii)\tThe right to choose where and with whom to\n(xiii)\tThe right to present grievances and complaints or to request changes in policies and services without restraint, interference, coercion, discrimination or reprisal;\n(xiv)\tThe right to participate or refuse to participate in religious worship;\n(xv)\tThe right to the least restrictive environment.\n(d)\tA client may not be denied the following rights unless the denial is authorized by a court, the client or, if the client is a minor or ward, his parent or guardian:\n(i)\tThe right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication;\n(ii)\tThe right to refuse to be subjected to experimental medical or psychological research without the express and informed consent of the client or his parent or guardian if he is a minor or ward. The client or his parent or guardian may consult with independent medical or psychological specialists and his attorney before consenting or refusing;\n(iii)\tThe right to refuse to be subjected to drastic treatment procedures without the express and informed consent of the client and his parent or guardian if he is a minor or ward.\n(iv)\tRepealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 85, \u00a7 2.\n25-5-133.\tRestraint; conditions for use; strict administration of medication; prohibited uses.\n(a)\tIsolation or seclusion procedures in which a person is placed alone in a locked room or in an area from which the person is physically prevented from leaving are prohibited. Restraint of a client shall be used only when less restrictive measures are ineffective for the welfare of the client or others and only when necessary to ensure the immediate physical safety of the client or others. Restraint shall be used in a manner which ensures that the dignity and safety of the person restrained are protected and shall be regularly monitored by trained staff. The reason for restrictive measures shall be reported in the client's records and shall be reviewed by the interdisciplinary team and program manager.\tIn addition, the client's individual program plan shall address active treatment\nor less restrictive measures to manage or eliminate the behaviors for which restraint was used.\n(b)\tMedication shall be administered to a client only pursuant to the order of a medical professional acting within the scope of his license. A record of the medication, the dosage administered, the date and the person administering the medication to each client shall be kept in each client's treatment record. Medication shall not be used as punishment, for the convenience of staff or in quantities that interfere with a client's treatment program.\n25-5-134.\tEmployment of clients within institution; wages; duties; discharge for cause.\nClients who are employed within the center shall be paid a reasonable wage based upon commensurate wages under special certificate as authorized by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act at 21 U.S.C. 214(c). The program manager shall prescribe for each position a written job description with wages, benefits and job duties clearly defined.\tThe employment relationship pursuant to this section shall be at will.\n25-5-135.\tMedications aides.\nAny person trained and qualified as a medication aide may administer medications in basic client care situations at the center. The center shall develop curricula, certification criteria and protocols concerning administration of medications and use of medication aides. Every medication aide shall perform the duties authorized under this section under the direction of a person licensed by the laws of this state to administer medications. The direction of medication aides shall not constitute an unlawful delegation of professional duties by the licensed nurse or other professional licensed to administer medications.\nCHAPTER 6 - GIFTS FOR THE BLIND\n25-6-101.\tAuthority of state to receive property; maintenance; sale and investment of proceeds.\n(a)\tThe state may receive gifts, devises, bequests, deeds and other conveyances of property of any kind for the benefit of the blind citizens of Wyoming.\n(b)\tThe property received shall be cared for and may be sold and the proceeds invested for the benefit of the visually handicapped citizens of Wyoming.\tThe state department of education shall act for the state as the custodian of all property received under this section and shall promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of the property and all proceeds for the benefit of the visually handicapped citizens of Wyoming.\nCHAPTER 7 - WYOMING YOUTH TREATMENT CENTER\nCHAPTER 8 - WYOMING PIONEER HOME AND WYOMING RETIREMENT CENTER\n25-8-101.\tPurpose.\nExcept as otherwise authorized by rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with W.S. 9-2-106(d), the purpose of the pioneer home and the Wyoming retirement center is to provide a place for the care and maintenance of residents of this state who are afflicted with the infirmities of old age.\n25-8-102.\tPowers and duties of department of health.\n(a)\tThe department of health may:\n(i)\tConstruct, maintain, equip, operate and manage the pioneer home and\tthe Wyoming retirement center;\n(ii)\tPurchase, rent or otherwise provide the equipment, materials or supplies necessary to carry out the purposes hereof;\n(iii)\tDispose of equipment, materials and supplies no longer required in the operations of the pioneer home or the Wyoming retirement center;\n(iv)\tAdopt rules and regulations for the admission, conduct and discharge of residents;\n(v)\tAccept gifts on behalf of the state for the use of the pioneer home and the Wyoming retirement center;\n(vi)\tProvide medical care for residents of the Wyoming retirement center.\n25-8-103.\tConditions for admission; charges for care.\nAdmission to the pioneer home and\tthe Wyoming retirement center shall be voluntary and only upon prior approval by the department of health. Indigent aged persons may be cared for without charge. Nonindigent aged persons may be cared for under terms and conditions fixed by the department pursuant to W.S.\n25-11-101 through 25-11-108.\n25-8-104.\tReceipt and disposition of revenues and gifts.\n(a)\tAll revenues received from the operation of the pioneer home and from gifts given for the general purpose of the pioneer home shall be paid over to the state treasurer and deposited in the general fund. Gifts given for a specific purpose shall be kept in a separate account to be expended by the department of health for the specific purpose.\n(b)\tThe department shall deposit all funds received, collected by or donated to the Wyoming retirement center for care of patients into the special revenue fund. The funds collected are appropriated to the department and shall only be expended to fund the operation of the Wyoming retirement center and shall be disbursed pursuant to W.S. 9-4-304.\nCHAPTER 9 - VETERANS' HOME OF WYOMING\n25-9-101.\tPurpose; admission of veterans and veterans' dependents.\n(a)\tExcept as otherwise authorized by rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with W.S. 9-2-106(d), the veterans' home of Wyoming shall provide domiciliary level care and, if appropriate facilities are completed, may provide skilled nursing facility level care to:\n(i)\tHonorably discharged veterans of the armed forces of the United States; and\n(ii)\tMembers of the state national guard disabled while on duty.\n(b)\tPersons qualifying under subsection (a) of this section shall also be persons who:\n(i)\tBy reason of wounds, disease, old age or other infirmities are unable to earn their living and have no adequate means of support; and\n(ii)\tHave been domiciled in this state for at least five (5) years next preceding their application for admission to the home.\n(c)\tThe department of health may admit dependents of soldiers, sailors or disabled members of the national guard, if it deems admission proper.\n(d)\tThere is created an account for use by the veterans' home of Wyoming for the general benefit of residents of the veterans' home.\tProfits from the sale\tof commodities at the veterans' home canteen after provision for increased inventories and servicing of the canteen facility and the interest earned from those profits shall be transferred to the account created by this subsection and are continuously appropriated to the department of health to be expended solely for the benefit of the veterans' home.\n25-9-102.\tWhen nonveterans permitted admission; preference to veterans and veterans' dependents.\n(a)\tThe department of health may admit persons who are not veterans or dependents of veterans for care and treatment at the veterans' home of Wyoming if:\n(i)\tThe home is not filled to ninety percent (90%) of capacity and there are pending no applications of veterans or veterans' dependents;\n(ii)\tThe applicants are unable to earn their living and have no adequate means of support because of disease, old age or other infirmities;\n(iii)\tThe applicants have been domiciled in this state for at least five (5) years next preceding their application for admission to the home;\n(iv)\tThe persons are admitted pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with W.S. 9-2-106(d).\n(b)\tIn all cases veterans and dependents of veterans shall be given preference of admission.\n25-9-103.\tAcceptance of donations.\nThe department of health on behalf of the state may accept donations of lands, money or other property.\n25-9-104.\tMedical care of residents; burial of deceased residents.\n(a)\tThe department of health shall:\n(i)\tFurnish medical care for all residents of the\nhome;\n(ii)\tProvide a place of burial; and\n(iii)\tBury deceased residents.\n25-9-105.\tDisposition of monies received from national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.\nMoney received from the board of managers of the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers shall be deposited in a separate account. The money shall be expended by the department of health for the veterans' home of Wyoming.\n25-9-106.\tChaplain; appointment; term; duties.\nThe department of health may appoint a chaplain of the veterans' home of Wyoming who shall hold his office for a period of one\n(1)\tyear from date of his appointment unless removed for cause. He shall have charge of the moral and intellectual welfare of the residents of the home. He shall visit the home at least twice a month and provide services therein as he desires.\nCHAPTER 10 - HOSPITALIZATION OF MENTALLY ILL PERSONS ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS\n(a)\tAs used in this act:\n(i)\t\"Court\" means the district court which ordered detention, directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization of the person pursuant to this act, or the\ndistrict court in the county where the person resides, is found or is hospitalized;\n(ii)\t\"Dangerous to himself or others\" means that, as a result of mental illness, a person:\n(A)\tEvidences a substantial probability of physical harm to himself as manifested by evidence of recent threats of or attempts at suicide or serious bodily harm; or\n(B)\tEvidences a substantial probability of physical harm to other individuals as manifested by a recent overt homicidal act, attempt or threat or other violent act, attempt or threat which places others in reasonable fear of serious physical harm to them; or\n(C)\tEvidences behavior manifested by recent acts or omissions that, due to mental illness, he is unable to satisfy basic needs for nourishment, essential medical care, shelter or safety so that a substantial probability exists that death, serious physical injury, serious physical debilitation, serious mental debilitation, destabilization from lack of or refusal to take prescribed psychotropic medications for a diagnosed condition or serious physical disease will imminently ensue, unless the individual receives prompt and adequate treatment for this mental illness.\tNo person, however, shall be deemed to be unable to satisfy his need for nourishment, essential medical care, shelter or safety if he is able to satisfy those needs with the supervision and assistance of others who are willing and available;\n(D)\tWhile this definition requires evidence of recent acts or omissions of endangerment, either to self or others, a court may consider a person's mental health history in determining whether directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization is warranted.\n(iii)\t\"Department\" means the state department of\n(iv)\t\"Examiner\" means a licensed psychiatrist, a\nlicensed physician, a licensed advanced practice registered nurse, a licensed physician assistant, a licensed psychologist, a licensed professional counselor, a licensed addictions therapist, a licensed clinical social worker or a licensed marriage and family therapist;\n(v)\t\"Head of hospital\" means the individual in charge of a hospital or his designee. When this act requires or authorizes the head of a hospital to perform an act which involves the practice of medicine, the act shall be performed by a physician;\n(vi)\t\"Hospital\" means a facility designated pursuant to W.S. 25-10-104 or the state hospital;\n(vii)\t\"Mental health center\" means a community human services program for the prevention, treatment and amelioration of mental illness under W.S. 35-1-611 through 35-1-627 or an equivalently staffed and equipped student health service;\n(ix)\t\"Mental illness\" and \"mentally ill\"\tmean a physical, emotional, mental or behavioral disorder which causes a person to be dangerous to himself or others and which requires treatment, but do not include addiction to drugs or alcohol, drug or alcohol intoxication or developmental disabilities, except when one (1) or more of those conditions co-occurs as a secondary diagnosis with a mental illness;\n(x)\t\"Patient\" means an individual receiving treatment pursuant to this act;\n(xi)\t\"Physician\" means an individual licensed under the laws of this state to practice medicine, or a physician in the service of the United States government while in this state in the performance of his official duties;\n(xii)\t\"State hospital\" means the Wyoming state hospital at Evanston, Wyoming;\n(xiii)\t\"Treatment\" means diagnosis, evaluation, intervention, which may include psychiatric medication, individual and group mental health counseling, illness management diversion services such as immediate linkages to mental health services in the community and discharge planning. Treatment shall begin at the time of detention, if the person knowingly and voluntarily consents, and shall continue throughout involuntary hospitalization or directed outpatient commitment.\tTreatment may be given without the consent of the detained person or his parent or guardian when treatment is limited to diagnosis or evaluation or when treatment is necessary to prevent immediate and serious physical harm to the\nperson or others.\t\"Treatment\" does not include observation or supervision;\n(xiv)\t\"Treatment center\" or \"treatment provider\" means as defined by department rule;\n(xv)\t\"Resident\" means a United States citizen who has been a resident of and domiciled in Wyoming for not less than ninety (90) days and who has not claimed residency elsewhere for the purpose of obtaining medical or psychiatric services during that ninety (90) day period immediately preceding the date when services under this act were sought or imposed.\t\"Resident\" also includes any alien who has resided continuously in Wyoming for at least ninety (90) days immediately prior to the date when services under this act were sought or imposed.\t\"Resident\" also includes any active duty member, the spouse or minor child of any active duty member of the armed forces of the United States who is stationed in Wyoming;\n(xvi)\t\"Gatekeeper\" means the single point of responsibility which may be designated by the department pursuant to W.S. 25-10-112(g);\n(xvii)\t\"This act\" means W.S. 25-10-101 through 25-10-305.\n25-10-102.\tAdmittees subject to rules and regulations of state hospital.\nAll persons admitted to the state hospital shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the state hospital.\n25-10-103.\tAdmission of persons with mental illness to hospital or treatment center.\nSubject to the rules and regulations of the department, a hospital or any other treatment provider providing treatment under this act may admit persons who have symptoms of mental illness for treatment in their hospital or treatment center.\n25-10-104.\tDuties of department of health as to hospitals other than state hospital.\n(a)\tThe department, with respect to hospitals or other treatment providers other than the state hospital, shall:\n(i)\tAdopt standards for the designation of hospitals or other licensed treatment providers as qualified to accept patients and provide treatment under this act;\n(ii)\tDesignate hospitals or other treatment providers which qualify to provide services under this act;\n(iii)\tEnter into contracts or agreements with designated hospitals or other treatment providers for the treatment of patients with mental illness;\n(iv)\tRequire information from designated hospitals and other treatment providers concerning the services rendered to patients under the provisions of this act;\n(vi)\tInvestigate complaints made by or on behalf of patients with mental illness; and\n(vii)\tPromulgate rules and regulations for the administration of this act, including rules regarding reimbursement under W.S. 25-10-112.\n25-10-105.\tDuties of department of health as to state hospital.\n(a)\tThe department shall:\n(i)\tAdopt standards governing the state hospital;\n(ii)\tVisit the state hospital to review methods of treatment of patients; and\n(iii)\tInvestigate complaints made by or on behalf of state hospital patients.\n25-10-106.\tVoluntary applications for admission.\n(a)\tThe head of a hospital may admit for treatment any adult who has symptoms of mental illness but who has sufficient insight or capacity to make responsible, voluntary application for admission and who applies for admission.\n(b)\tA person who has symptoms of mental illness but because of minority or incompetency is not capable of making a responsible, voluntary application for admission may be admitted\nfor treatment upon application by a parent or guardian if the application:\n(i)\tIs accompanied by a statement of an examiner that the person is mentally ill; and\n(ii)\tAn examiner at the hospital, based on a personal interview, determines that the person is mentally ill.\n25-10-107.\tWhen voluntary patients shall be discharged.\nThe head of a hospital shall discharge any patient admitted pursuant to W.S. 25-10-106(a) or (b) who no longer needs hospital treatment.\n25-10-108.\tRelease upon request; exceptions; discharge plan.\n(a)\tA patient admitted pursuant to W.S. 25-10-106 who requests his release in writing or whose release is requested in writing by the person responsible for his care or custody, shall be released within twenty-four (24) hours after receipt of the request except:\n(i)\tIf the patient was admitted on his own application and the request for release is made by a person other than the patient, release may be conditioned upon the consent of the patient; or\n(ii)\tIf the patient is a minor or incompetent, his release may be conditioned upon the consent of his parent or guardian.\n(b)\tThe hospital shall prepare a discharge plan in accordance with policies, rules and regulations of the department.\n25-10-109.\tEmergency detention.\n(a)\tA person may be detained when:\n(i)\tA law enforcement officer or examiner has reasonable cause to believe a person is mentally ill pursuant to W.S. 25-10-101;\n(ii)\tA court has entered an ex parte order for immediate detention of a person pursuant to W.S. 25-10-110.1(h);\n(iii)\tA hospital revokes convalescent status release of a person pursuant to W.S. 25-10-127(b) based on a previous or current determination of mental illness.\n(b)\tImmediately after detaining the person, the officer shall contact an examiner. A preliminary examination of the person shall be conducted by an examiner within twenty-four (24) hours after the detention. If a preliminary examination is not conducted within twenty-four (24) hours the detained person shall be released. If the person is detained following the preliminary examination, an examiner shall reexamine the person not less than every forty-eight (48) hours until the hearing under subsections (h) through (k) of this section. If the examiner giving the preliminary examination, or any reexamination as required by this subsection, finds that the person:\n(i)\tIs not mentally ill, the person shall be released immediately;\n(ii)\tWas mentally ill, but is no longer\tdangerous to himself or others, the examiner shall, with patient consent, arrange follow up mental health care and the person shall be released immediately; or\n(iii)\tIs mentally ill,\tthe person may be detained for seventy-two (72)\thours excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.\n(c)\tNo person shall be detained for more than seventy-two\n(72) hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, without a hearing under subsections (h) through (k) of this section.\n(d)\tA person taken into custody under this section may be detained in a hospital or other care setting which is appropriate under the circumstances and which complies with subsection (n) of this section. The person shall not be detained in a nonmedical facility used for detention of persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses except in extreme emergency or if there are no other reasonable alternatives.\tThe law enforcement officer or examiner who detained the person shall immediately notify the person responsible for the care and custody of the detained person, if known, of the time and place of detention.\n(e)\tThe law enforcement officer or examiner who initially detained the person shall make a written statement of the facts of the emergency detention. A copy of the statement shall be given to the detained person, his parent or guardian, to any attorney representing the person, to the county attorney in the county where the person is detained, to any gatekeeper designated by the department and to any subsequent examiner.\n(f)\tWhen a person is detained under emergency circumstances, treatment may be given during the emergency detention period if the person voluntarily and knowingly consents. The parent or guardian of a minor or incompetent person may consent to treatment. If the parent or guardian of a minor patient does not consent to treatment, a petition may be filed under the Child Protection Act.\tTreatment may be given without the consent of the detained person or his parent or guardian when treatment is limited to diagnosis or evaluation or when treatment is necessary to prevent immediate and serious physical harm to the person or others. Prior to treatment, the person shall be fully advised of the scope of treatment, and a report of the treatment shall be provided to the county attorney, to any gatekeeper designated by the department and shall be filed with the court if continued detention is sought, or if directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization proceedings are commenced. An examiner or a physician who provides treatment in good faith pursuant to this subsection shall be immune from civil liability for the treatment except there shall be no immunity from liability for negligent acts or deliberate misconduct.\n(g)\tAt the time of emergency detention the person shall be informed orally and in writing of his right to contact his family and an attorney, of his right to appointed counsel if he is indigent, of his right to remain silent and that his statements may be used as a basis for continued detention, directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization.\n(h)\tWhen a person is detained in emergency detention and continued detention is sought, or an application for directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization is filed by the county attorney, the court shall appoint an attorney to represent the detained person unless he has his own attorney. The court shall conduct a hearing within seventy-two (72) hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, of the initial detention to determine whether continued detention is required pending directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization proceedings. The county attorney of the county\nwhere the application is filed shall appear on behalf of the state at the hearing. Any gatekeeper designated by the department pursuant to W.S. 25-10-112(g) shall appear at the hearing and provide testimony concerning continued detention and, if applicable, the issues outlined in subsection (m) of this section. Notice of the preliminary hearing shall be given to the county attorney, any gatekeeper designated by the department, the detained person and his parent, guardian and attorney. The court may delay the hearing only at the request of the detained person or his parent, guardian or his attorney.\nThe hearing for continued detention may be waived at the request of the detained person or the detained person's parent, guardian or attorney. If a hearing for continued detention has been waived, the court may immediately conduct the directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization hearing.\n(j)\tAt the hearing the court shall advise the detained person and his parent, guardian or attorney of the contents of the written statement of emergency detention required in subsection (e) of this section and the application for directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization.\n(k)\tThe standard of proof in an emergency detention hearing shall be by a preponderance of the evidence.\tIf the court finds at an emergency detention hearing that:\n(i)\tThe person is not mentally ill, the court shall order the person released;\n(ii)\tThe person is mentally ill and has applied for and received voluntary admission, the court may dismiss the proceedings; or\n(iii)\tThe person is mentally ill, it shall order continued detention of the person for not more than ten (10) days. The court may extend the detention period at the request of the proposed patient or his attorney.\n(m)\tIf the court finds the person is mentally ill pursuant to paragraph (k)(iii) of this section, the court shall make findings as to the person's competence to make informed choices regarding treatment and the person's need for prescribed psychotropic medication.\tIf the court finds the person incompetent to make an informed decision, the court may order the administration of prescribed psychotropic medication for the period of the emergency detention for restabilization of the person's mental health.\n(n)\tTreatment provided as a result of an emergency or continued detention pursuant to this section shall be provided in the least restrictive and most therapeutic setting available with consideration given to requests of the detained person, his parent, guardian or attorney, and recommendations of any gatekeeper.\tTreatment may include the treatment options outlined in W.S. 25-10-110.1(d).\n25-10-110.\tInvoluntary hospitalization proceedings.\n(a)\tProceedings for the involuntary hospitalization of a person may be commenced by the filing of a written application with the court in the county in which the person is initially detained.\tProceedings may also be initiated in the county in which there is a designated hospital if there is a written agreement executed by the county in which the person resides and the designated hospital stating that the county in which the person resides will be responsible for costs of treatment under\nW.S.\t25-10-112(e) that are not covered by the state. The application shall be accompanied by either:\n(i)\tA certificate of an examiner stating:\n(A)\tThat he has examined the proposed patient not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the date that the application was filed under this subsection;\n(B)\tHis findings and the proposed patient's\nhistory; and\n(C)\tHis opinion that the proposed patient is mentally ill; or\n(ii)\tA written statement by the applicant\tand by an examiner that the proposed patient has refused to submit to examination by an examiner, together with a statement of the facts and circumstances supporting the application.\n(b)\tUnless the proposed patient is represented by counsel, the court shall appoint an attorney to represent him.\n(c)\tProceedings under this section shall be entitled \"In the Interest of ....\". The county attorney of the county where the application is filed shall appear in the public interest. The court shall expedite the proceedings.\n(d)\tUpon receipt of an application, the court shall issue notice thereof to the proposed patient, the person responsible for the care or custody of the proposed patient, any gatekeeper designated by the department and other persons designated by the court. The notice shall be served as provided by the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure. The notice shall apprise the proposed patient:\n(i)\tOf the purpose of the proceeding;\n(ii)\tOf the identity of the appointed examiner, and his authority to conduct an examination;\n(iii)\tOf his right to counsel, the identity of counsel appointed by the court to represent him and his right to counsel of his own selection;\n(iv)\tOf the requirements for an involuntary hospitalization order under subsection (j) of this section;\n(v)\tOf the basis for the proposed hospitalization, including a detailed statement of the facts and supporting testimony;\n(vi)\tThat a hearing will be held if warranted by the report of the examination of the proposed patient; and\n(vii)\tOf the identity of any gatekeeper designated by the department pursuant to W.S. 25-10-112(g).\n(e)\tThe court shall appoint one (1) or more examiners to examine the proposed patient and to make a written report to the court of the findings as to the history and mental illness of the proposed patient. The court may order the proposed patient to appear for examination and if the proposed patient does not appear the court may compel his appearance. The examination shall be held at a hospital, a medical facility, the home of the proposed patient or any other suitable place which will not have a harmful effect on his health. The examination shall be conducted no later than seven (7) days from the date of the notice.\tIf the examination is conducted by an examiner other than a licensed physician, licensed psychiatrist or licensed psychologist, the court shall appoint a licensed physician, licensed psychiatrist or licensed psychologist to review the findings of the examiner and conduct a further examination, if indicated, and to report to the court.\n(f)\tIf the examiner reports the proposed patient is not mentally ill, the court shall terminate the proceedings. If the examiner reports the proposed patient is mentally ill, the court shall fix a date for and give notice of a hearing to be held as soon as possible. The notice shall satisfy the requirements of paragraphs (d)(i) through (vii) of this section.\n(g)\tWithin five (5) days of receipt of the notice of hearing, the proposed patient or his counsel may request a hearing before a jury. If upon the basis of the appointed examiner's report or from other information available to the court, the court concludes that the proposed patient does not understand his rights, the court may call a jury upon its own motion or upon the request of the person responsible for the care and custody of the proposed patient. A jury shall be selected pursuant to W.S. 1-11-101 through 1-11-129, and the proceedings shall follow the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure.\n(h)\tThe proposed patient, the applicant, and all others to whom notice is required may appear at the hearing to testify and may present witnesses. The court shall consider the testimony of any gatekeeper designated by the department and may receive the testimony of other persons. The proposed patient shall be present at the hearing unless he waives his right to appear. All persons not necessary to protect the rights of the parties shall be excluded from the hearing. The hearing shall be conducted in as informal a manner as is consistent with orderly procedure and in a physical setting which will not have a harmful effect on the mental health of the proposed patient. Any hearing conducted under this subsection shall be recorded by the court reporter or by electronic, mechanical or other appropriate means.\n(j)\tIf, upon completion of the hearing and consideration of the record, the court or the jury finds by clear and convincing evidence that the proposed patient is mentally ill the court shall consider the least restrictive and most therapeutic alternatives, give consideration to any recommendations by the gatekeeper and shall:\n(i)\tOrder his hospitalization, assign him to a hospital, and:\n(A)\tSend to the hospital, with the patient a certified copy of the findings of fact and order and a copy of the examiner's report;\n(B)\tSpecify where he will be detained pending transportation to the hospital. No person shall be detained in a nonmedical facility used for detention of persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses except during an extreme emergency;\n(C)\tOrder his transportation to the hospital with proper clothing and personal effects;\n(D)\tNotify his next of kin or the person responsible for his care and custody and the proposed treatment provider or hospital of the court's order;\n(E)\tMake findings as to his competence to make informed choices regarding treatment and his need for prescribed psychotropic medication.\tIf the court finds the person incompetent to make an informed decision, the court may order the administration of prescribed psychotropic medication.\tThe order for medication shall be reviewed by a physician upon commitment and by a psychiatrist upon admission to the hospital. The prescribed medication shall be continued if found medically appropriate by the investigation review committee of the hospital or institution, subject to review by the medical director of the hospital or institution.\tAny action by the medical director of the hospital or institution shall be reviewable pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. All orders for prescribed medication or a summary of all orders shall be provided to the gatekeeper designated by the department under W.S. 25-10-112(g).\n(iii)\tOrder the proposed patient be treated in a directed outpatient commitment pursuant to W.S. 25 10 110.1 if the court finds continuous inpatient hospitalization is not required and the proposed patient would be more appropriately treated in a directed outpatient commitment; or\n(iv)\tOrder any disposition for which private resources are available and which is consistent with the best interests of the proposed patient and with public safety.\n(k)\tThe court is authorized to appoint a special commissioner to assist in the conduct of hospitalization proceedings. In proceedings under this act, regularly appointed court commissioners may exercise the authority granted by W.S.\n5-3-307. In any case in which the court refers an application to\nthe commissioner, the commissioner shall conduct the directed outpatient commitment under W.S. 25-10-110.1 or the involuntary hospitalization proceedings under this section and on the basis thereof shall either recommend dismissal of the application or hold a hearing as provided in this section and make recommendations to the court regarding the disposition of the proposed patient and of the proceedings.\n(m)\tAn appointed examiner shall receive for his services in each court ordered examination a reasonable fee fixed by the court.\n(n)\tThe court shall inquire into the medical condition of every patient found to be mentally ill. If the court determines based upon the advice of a physician or other qualified professional, and in consultation with any gatekeeper designated by the department pursuant to W.S. 25-10-112(g), that the patient's present primary need is for medical treatment or care and whose need for psychiatric care is secondary, the court may delay ordering directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization of the patient until such time as the patient receives medical care and the patient's need for psychiatric care is primary.\n(o)\tIn proceedings under this section involving a minor, the court shall, to the extent feasible, consult with the minor's parents or legal guardian.\n25-10-110.1.\tDirected outpatient commitment proceedings.\n(a)\tIf the court finds based upon the recommendation of an examiner or on its own determination that the proposed patient is mentally ill but does not require inpatient hospitalization, the court shall consider issuing a directed outpatient commitment order. The court shall require directed outpatient commitment for the proposed patient for a period of time as determined appropriate by the court, not to exceed two (2) years with review by the court at least every six (6) months. The court may designate an outpatient care provider that will provide care to the proposed patient.\n(b)\tIn considering whether directed outpatient commitment is appropriate, the court may consider one (1) or more of the following:\n(i)\tThe proposed patient is diagnosed as having a mental illness;\n(ii)\tWithout directed outpatient treatment, the proposed patient is likely to be dangerous to himself or others based upon noncompliance with prior medical directives;\n(iii)\tThe proposed patient is likely to suffer substantial medical or mental deterioration or become seriously disabled;\n(iv)\tThe proposed patient lacks present ability to make an informed decision concerning his need for treatment; or\n(v)\tAny other information concerning the proposed patient's need for outpatient care.\n(c)\tThe terms and conditions of the treatment plan shall be established by an examiner in consultation with any gatekeeper designated by the department and approved by the court. In preparing the plan, the examiner shall consult with the county attorney, treating health care providers and the patient or the person responsible for the care and custody of the patient, if known.\n(d)\tThe treatment plan may require:\n(i)\tPeriodic reporting;\ntesting;\n(ii)\tContinuation of medication and submission to\n(iii)\tRestrictions on travel;\n(iv)\tRestrictions on consumption of alcoholic beverages and drugs with requirements for any necessary testing;\n(v)\tUse of community based group homes, crisis assistance centers or other available community based support services;\n(vi)\tTemporary inpatient or residential treatment for stabilization;\n(vii)\tOther conditions as agreed upon by the respective parties or as otherwise directed by the court.\n(e)\tTreatment shall be provided by a treatment center or a court approved treatment provider.\n(f)\tThe treatment center or treatment provider or any other person identified in the treatment plan shall report to the county attorney and any gatekeeper designated by the department any material noncompliance by the patient with the treatment plan.\n(g)\tBy motion of an interested party or on its own motion, the court may revoke or modify the directed outpatient commitment if, after a hearing, the court finds by a preponderance of evidence that the patient violated any condition of the directed outpatient commitment order. If there has been a violation of the order, the court may modify the conditions of directed outpatient commitment, schedule an involuntary commitment hearing pursuant to W.S. 25-10-110, order any disposition for which private resources are available or order any disposition which is consistent with the best interests of the proposed patient and public safety.\n(h)\tIf a motion has been filed to modify or revoke the directed outpatient commitment, the court may enter an ex parte order for immediate detention of the patient if the court finds that the patient is a danger to himself or others. If the court enters an ex parte order of detention, the matter shall be set for hearing within seventy-two (72) hours. Notice of a hearing on a motion to modify or revoke the order for directed outpatient commitment shall be as provided in W.S. 25-10-110(d).\n(j) The county attorney of the county where the directed outpatient commitment order is filed shall appear on behalf of the state at any hearing pursuant to this section.\n25-10-111. Commitment or transfer to federal hospital; effect of orders by courts of other jurisdictions; powers of federal facility.\n(a)\tThe court, when ordering involuntary hospitalization pursuant to W.S. 25-10-110(j), may order a person hospitalized in a hospital or facility operated by the veterans' administration or another federal agency, if the court has received a certificate from the agency showing that facilities are available and that the patient is eligible for treatment therein.\n(b)\tAn order of a court of competent jurisdiction of another state or of the District of Columbia, authorizing hospitalization of a person by an agency of the United States,\nhas the same force and effect as to the person while in this state as in the jurisdiction in which the order was made.\n(c)\tUpon receipt of a certificate from the veterans' administration or another federal agency that facilities are available for treatment of a patient involuntarily hospitalized under W.S. 25-10-110 and that the patient is eligible for treatment therein, the head of a hospital may transfer the patient to the veterans' administration or other federal agency for treatment. The court which ordered involuntary hospitalization shall be notified of the transfer by the hospital. No person shall be transferred if he is confined pursuant to a conviction for a crime or if he has been acquitted of a criminal charge solely on the ground of mental illness or deficiency, unless, prior to the transfer, the court which committed the person enters an order for the transfer after appropriate motion and hearing.\n(d)\tUpon admission to a federal facility pursuant to this section, the patient is subject to the rules and regulations of the veterans' administration or other federal agency. The chief officer of the federal facility in which the patient is hospitalized has the same powers as the head of the state hospital with respect to retention, transfer, release and discharge of patients.\n25-10-112.\tLiability for costs of detention, involuntary hospitalization and proceedings therefor.\n(a)\tSubject to the provisions of subsections (d) and (e) of this section, the county in which a person is detained or in which involuntary hospitalization proceedings are brought shall pay the costs of:\n(i)\tThe first seventy-two (72) hours of detention, in addition to any Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday that falls within the seventy-two (72) hours, pursuant to W.S. 25-10-109, including costs of medical treatment for those conditions:\n(A)\tThat resulted in the emergency detention of\nthe person; or\n(B)\tThat are attributable to affirmative actions taken by the person that have placed the person in danger of suicide or serious bodily harm and require immediate medical attention.\n(ii)\tProceedings for detention or involuntary hospitalization pursuant to W.S. 25-10-109 or 25-10-110.\tThe costs of these proceedings include the cost of appointed counsel and examiners;\n(iii)\tClothing, if the person does not have and cannot afford to purchase adequate clothing; and\n(iv)\tCosts incurred under W.S. 25-10-125(b).\n(b)\tSubject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, when a detained person or proposed patient is not a resident of Wyoming, the department shall pay the costs listed in paragraphs (a)(i) through (iii) of this section.\n(c)\tThe county shall pay for the first seventy-two (72) hours as provided in subsection (a) of this section even if the patient waives the hearing required under W.S. 25-10-109 and proceeds to voluntary outpatient treatment, directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization proceedings. Subject to the provisions of subsections (d) and (e) of this section, if continued emergency detention is ordered pursuant to W.S.\n25-10-109(k)(iii), the county's liability for any costs of detention, treatment or transportation shall terminate after the first seventy-two (72) hours of detention, in addition to any Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. The department shall be responsible for those costs after the expiration of the county's responsibility for payments of the costs. All costs of treatment, transportation and continued emergency detention incurred after the first seventy-two (72) hours of detention, in addition to any Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, shall be paid by:\n(i)\tThe department for persons hospitalized in the state hospital; and\n(ii)\tThe department for persons hospitalized in other hospitals, consistent with W.S. 25-10-110(j) and 25-10-104.\n(d)\tThe hospital or other treatment provider shall attempt to recover all costs of treatment from public and private health insurance and from government benefit programs, including the veterans' administration, the Indian health service of the United States department of health and human services and any other federal agency that may be responsible for the costs of treatment, prior to seeking payment from the county or the department.\tThe hospital or other treatment provider shall have\ndischarged its obligation to recover costs under this subsection if it:\n(ii)\tCertifies to the county or the department that:\n(A)\tThe patient has no public or private health\ninsurance;\n(B)\tThere are no other government benefit programs from which it can recover the costs of treatment; and\n(C)\tIf the patient might qualify for benefits, payment has been denied after submitting a written demand for payment to all federal agencies that may be responsible for the costs of treatment, including the veterans' administration and the Indian health service of the United States department of health and human services.\tPayment shall be deemed denied if a written demand for payment is made and no response is received within three (3) months of being properly submitted. If a demand is paid after having been deemed denied under this subparagraph, and after the county or department has paid the hospital or other treatment provider, the amount of the demand payment shall be remitted to the county or department, whichever entity paid the hospital or other treatment provider. If a county or the department has paid a hospital or other treatment provider, the county or the department shall have a subrogation right against any entity to whom the hospital or provider sent a written demand.\n(e)\tWhen a person is detained under W.S. 25-10-109, the county in which the person resided shall be liable for costs of treatment for the first seventy-two (72) hours of detention, in addition to any Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday that falls within the seventy-two (72) hours. If the person remains in detention after the hearing pursuant to W.S. 25-10-109(k)(iii), the department shall directly, or under contract with local providers, provide treatment for those conditions specified in paragraph (a)(i) of this section until the person is released from detention or involuntary commitment is ordered, subject to payment of costs as provided in this subsection or subsection\n(c)\tof this section.\n(f)\tFor purposes of this section, \"costs\" shall not include the expenses for any medical procedures that are not:\n(i)\tRelated to the assessment of or necessary treatment for the suspected mental illness; or\n(ii)\tOtherwise specified in paragraph (a)(i) of this\n(g)\tThe department in consultation with each board of county commissioners may establish a single point of responsibility or gatekeeper.\tGatekeeper duties shall include, but are not limited to, providing guidance on issues of detention and involuntary treatment and monitoring and coordinating timely, efficient and effective patient treatment prior to, during and after any emergency detention or involuntary treatment under this act.\tNo gatekeeper designated under this subsection shall provide inpatient psychiatric treatment to patients under this act, unless the gatekeeper has been approved by the department of health to provide these services.\n(h)\tThe county attorney shall notify the department and any gatekeeper of any detention, continued emergency detention order, directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization order within twenty-four (24) hours.\n(j)\tThe department, boards of county commissioners, designated hospitals, gatekeepers and other treatment providers may, upon contract or agreement, coordinate and monitor the services and payments required for the treatment of persons with mental illness as provided under this section.\tPursuant to contract or agreement, the department may assume any part of the expenses associated with a gatekeeper which expenses would otherwise be the responsibility of a county under this act, including expenses for the transportation of patients to appropriate care settings.\n25-10-113.\tDuties of head of hospital upon admission; treatment of patients primarily needing medical care.\n(a)\tAs soon as possible but not later than seven (7) days after a patient is admitted to a hospital under this act, the head of the hospital shall:\n(i)\tReview the patient's record;\n(ii)\tExamine the patient; and\n(iii)\tDevelop an initial plan of treatment for the\npatient.\n(b)\tIf the medical staff of the state hospital determines that a patient's primary need for care is medical as opposed to psychiatric, the head of the state hospital may refuse to admit the patient if the state hospital has limited medical facilities or staff to provide for the necessary medical needs of the patient.\tIf admittance is refused, the patient shall be transported to a medical facility that is qualified to meet the medical needs of the patient.\n25-10-114.\tTransfer of inmates of penal institutions to state hospital; notice.\n(a)\tThe department of corrections may transfer an inmate of a state penal institution\twho is mentally ill to the state hospital, subject to the rules of admission of the state hospital, if adequate treatment cannot be provided at a state penal institution.\n(b)\tNot less than five (5) days before an inmate is transferred pursuant to this section, the department of corrections shall give written notice to the court which ordered imprisonment, the inmate and the person responsible for his care or custody. The notice shall include:\n(i)\tThe grounds for the transfer;\n(ii)\tThe inmate's right to contest the transfer;\n(iii)\tThe inmate's right to a hearing before he is transferred; and\n(iv)\tThe inmate's right to counsel.\n(c)\tThe transfer of an inmate of a state penal institution to the state hospital shall not exceed the term of imprisonment imposed by the sentencing court unless proceedings for involuntary hospitalization are instituted under W.S. 25-10-110.\n25-10-115.\tTransfer of patients to another hospital; notice.\n(a)\tA hospital may transfer a patient hospitalized under this act to another hospital if the transfer is in the best interest of the patient.\tAn involuntarily hospitalized patient\nwho is so transferred retains the status of an involuntarily hospitalized patient under W.S. 25-10-110.\n(b)\tNot less than five (5) days before a patient is transferred, the head of the hospital shall give written notice to the court, the patient, and the person responsible for his care or custody. The notice shall include:\n(ii)\tThe patient's right to contest the transfer;\n(iii)\tThe patient's right to a hearing before he is transferred; and\n(iv)\tThe patient's right to counsel.\n25-10-116.\tPeriodic examinations of patients; determination of discharge or continued hospitalization; notice; hearing.\n(a)\tThree (3) months after each patient's admission to the hospital, the head of the hospital shall evaluate the progress of each patient and shall reevaluate the treatment and progress every six (6) months thereafter. The evaluation shall consider whether directed outpatient commitment is appropriate.\n(b)\tWhen the head of a hospital determines after the examination required by subsection (a) of this section or by\nW.S. 25-10-113 that the conditions justifying hospitalization of involuntary patients no longer exist, he shall report his determination to the court, the county attorney, the district attorney, family members and the mental health center which were involved in the initial proceedings. Unless, within three (3) days after the notice is sent, the court upon motion orders a hearing on continuing the patient's hospitalization, the head of the hospital shall discharge the patient. The hearing shall be held as soon as practicable and shall follow the procedures in\nW.S. 25-10-118.\tNotice of the hearing shall conform with W.S. 25-10-116(c).\n(c)\tWhen the head of a hospital determines after an evaluation required by subsection (a) of this section or by W.S. 25-10-113 that the conditions justifying hospitalization continue to exist, he shall send to the court notice of his determination and a detailed statement of the factual basis for the determination. The court may order a hearing to review the\ndetermination. The head of the hospital shall also send notice of his determination to the patient and the person responsible for his care or custody. The notice shall include:\n(i)\tThe patient's right to contest the determination;\n(ii)\tThe patient's right to a hearing; and\n(iii)\tThe patient's right to counsel.\n25-10-117.\tRepealed by Laws 1989, ch. 147, \u00a7 2.\n25-10-118.\tObjections to proposed transfer or continued hospitalization; notice; hearing; options of court.\n(a)\tA hearing shall be conducted in accordance with this section when a patient contests one (1) of the following actions:\n(i)\tTransfer pursuant to W.S. 25-10-114 or 25-10-115;\n(ii)\tContinuing hospitalization pursuant to W.S. 25-10-116; or\n(iv)\tRevocation of convalescent status release pursuant to W.S. 25-10-127.\n(b)\tUnless otherwise provided, an objection shall be filed with the court within five (5) days of receipt of notice of the intended action. The court shall set a hearing date which shall be within fourteen (14) days of receipt of the objection. If an objection is not filed within five (5) days, or if the patient consents to the action, the court may enter an ex parte order authorizing the action.\n(c)\tThe hearing shall be before the court, without a jury. If the court\tfinds by clear and convincing evidence that:\n(i)\tThe transfer or continuing hospitalization is justified, the court shall enter an order authorizing the transfer or continuing hospitalization; or\n(ii)\tThe transfer or continuing hospitalization is not justified, the court shall enter an order prohibiting the transfer or continuing hospitalization.\n25-10-119.\tMechanical restraints; uses and reasons therefor recorded.\nMechanical restraints shall not be applied to any patient, unless the head of the hospital determines that the medical needs of the patient require them. The head of the hospital shall record every use of a mechanical restraint and the reasons for its use in the clinical record of the patient and sign the record.\n25-10-120.\tRights of patients; commitment and treatment of persons being treated by prayer.\n(a)\tThe department shall adopt rules and regulations creating a bill of patient rights and establishing the procedures by which those rights may be enforced, limited or denied.\n(c)\tRepealed by Laws 1989, ch. 147, \u00a7 2.\n(d)\tNo person who is being treated in good faith by spiritual means alone, through prayer, by a duly accredited practitioner in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination may be detained, hospitalized or ordered to receive treatment under this act unless:\n(i)\tA court finds by clear and convincing evidence that he is mentally ill; or\n(ii)\tIf the person\tis a minor or is incompetent his parent or guardian consents to detention, hospitalization or treatment.\n25-10-121.\tAdmission not to create presumption as to competency nor ground for guardianship.\nAdmission to a hospital under this act shall not create any presumption with respect to the patient's mental or legal competency to exercise civil, contractual or other rights for which a legal standard of competency exists. Admission to a hospital under this act is not sufficient cause for guardianship of the person or estate of any patient.\n25-10-122.\tRecords to be kept confidential; exceptions.\n(a)\tRecords and reports made under this act which directly or indirectly identify a patient, a former patient or an individual for whom an application for directed outpatient commitment or involuntary hospitalization has been filed, shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person unless:\n(i)\tThe patient or, if he is a minor or incompetent, his parent or guardian, consents;\n(ii)\tDisclosure is necessary to carry out this act;\n(iii)\tA court determines disclosure is necessary for the conduct of proceedings before it and failure to disclose would be contrary to the public interest.\n(b)\tPatient records identified in subsection (a) of this section may be provided without consent of the patient, parent or guardian by and between a mental health center, the state hospital and hospitals designated under W.S. 25-10-104, only for the purpose of facilitating referral treatment, admission, readmission or transfer of the patient under this act.\n25-10-123.\tDischarge of patient held on order in action arising out of criminal offense.\nA patient held on order of a court having criminal jurisdiction in any action or proceeding arising out of a criminal offense shall not be discharged except upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction.\tAt any time the head of the hospital is of the opinion that the person is no longer affected by mental illness or deficiency, or that he no longer presents a substantial risk of danger to himself or others, the head of the hospital shall apply to the court which committed the person for an order of discharge.\tThe court having criminal jurisdiction in the matter shall conduct a hearing not less than once each year to determine whether the continued hospitalization of the patient is necessary, based on the reports required under W.S.\n25-10-116\tand any other information provided to the court by the state hospital or the federal hospital under W.S. 25-10-111, as appropriate, or the patient's counsel.\tAfter a hearing, the court shall make its findings and enter an order as provided in W.S. 25-10-118(c).\n25-10-124.\tTransfer of patients between states.\n(d)\tTransfer of patients between states shall be governed by the Interstate Compact on Mental Health, W.S. 25-10-301.\n25-10-125.\tClothing and transportation upon discharge.\n(a)\tThe department, pursuant to W.S. 25-10-112 shall insure that a patient discharged from the state's custody possesses suitable clothing and adequate means to insure his arrival at the home from which he was admitted or another place within the state, which is in the best interests of the state and of the patient.\n(b)\tThe county responsible for payment of costs pursuant to W.S. 25-10-112(a) shall insure that a patient discharged from emergency detention within seventy-two (72) hours, or upon expiration of emergency detention after seventy-two (72) hours without a court order for hospitalization under W.S. 25-10-110, possesses suitable clothing and adequate means to insure his arrival at the home from which he was admitted or another place, which is in the best interests of the county and of the patient.\n25-10-126.\tPenalties for unwarranted hospitalization or denial of rights.\n(a)\tA person who willfully causes the unwarranted hospitalization of any individual under this act is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.\n(b)\tA person who willfully denies any individual any of the rights accorded to him under this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or both.\n25-10-127.\tConvalescent status; discharge; readmittance.\n(a)\tAfter providing notice to the court, the county attorney who initiated involuntary hospitalization procedures, any gatekeeper designated by the department and all interested parties, the hospital may release an improved patient on convalescent leave subject to the following:\n(i)\tThe hospital has determined that the patient is likely to follow the conditions the hospital determines necessary for the patient;\n(ii)\tThe hospital has determined that the patient will not likely be a danger to himself or others during convalescent leave; and\n(iii)\tRelease on convalescent leave shall include a plan of treatment on an outpatient or nonhospital basis and other provisions for continuing responsibility of the patient by the hospital.\tPrior to the end of one (1) year on convalescent leave, and not less than annually thereafter, the hospital shall reexamine the facts relating to the hospitalization of the patient on convalescent leave and if the hospital determines hospitalization is no longer anticipated, the hospital shall discharge the patient and make a report of discharge to the court, to any gatekeeper designated by the department and to the county attorney who initiated procedures for the involuntary hospitalization.\n(b)\tThe hospital from which the patient is given convalescent leave may readmit to the hospital the involuntary hospitalized patient who has been released on convalescent leave if the hospital reasonably believes that it is in the best interests of the patient.\tThe patient readmitted shall have all the rights he had upon admission to the hospital. Upon readmission he shall be given notice of his rights pursuant to\nW.S. 25-10-116. It is the responsibility of the hospital to provide or pay for any transportation or other services in connection with any revocation of a convalescent status.\n(c)\tThe hospital shall discharge any patient who has remained on convalescent leave for a period of two (2) continuous years.\n(d)\tThis section shall not apply to a person who has been committed to the hospital pursuant to a criminal proceeding.\n25-10-128.\tAccess to patient information.\nAny disclosure of patient information required by this article shall be subject to limitations imposed by state and federal law. The department shall promulgate rules facilitating the exchange of information required by this article to the maximum extent allowed by state and federal law.\tAt the discretion of the court considering a matter under this article, the court may order the disclosure of information required by this article.\nThe court also may designate and direct the actions of a gatekeeper otherwise designated by the department under W.S. 25-10-112(g) for the purpose of allowing the gatekeeper access to patient information.\n25-10-129.\tReceipt and disposition of revenues and gifts.\nThe department is authorized to deposit all monies and income received and collected by the Wyoming state hospital into a special revenue account. The department shall expend this revenue to correct life safety code problems, pay for the cost of emergency detentions pursuant to W.S. 25-10-109, pay for the costs of involuntary hospitalizations pursuant to W.S.\n25-10-110\t, and remediate conditions at the state hospital as identified in settlement agreements which are approved by the director and reported to the governor. If any single capital project is anticipated to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00), it shall be approved by the state building commission. The department shall report to the joint appropriations committee not later than November 1 of each year detailing expenditures under this section.\nARTICLE 2 - FISCAL PROVISIONS\n25-10-201.\tRepealed\tby\tLaws\t1989,\tch.\t50,\t\u00a7\t4.\n25-10-209.\tRepealed by Laws 1989, ch. 50, \u00a7 4.\nARTICLE 3 - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH\n25-10-301.\tEnactment into law; form.\nThe Interstate Compact on Mental Health is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:\nArticle I\nThe party states find that the proper and expeditious treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient can be facilitated by cooperative action, to the benefit of the patients, their families, and society as a whole. Further, the party states find that the necessity of and desirability for furnishing such care and treatment bears no primary relation to the residence or citizenship of the patient but that, on the contrary, the controlling factors of community safety and humanitarianism require that facilities and services be made available for all who are in need of them. Consequently, it is the purpose of this compact and of the party states to provide the necessary legal basis for the institutionalization or other appropriate care and treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient under a system that recognizes the paramount importance of patient welfare and to establish the responsibilities of the party states in terms of such welfare.\nArticle II\n(a)\tAs used in this compact:\n(i)\t\"Sending state\" shall mean a party state from which a patient is transported pursuant to the provisions of the compact or from which it is contemplated that a patient may be so sent;\n(ii)\t\"Receiving state\" shall mean a party state to which a patient is transported pursuant to the provisions of the compact or to which it is contemplated that a patient may be so sent;\n(iii)\t\"Institution\" shall mean any hospital or other facility maintained by a party state or political subdivision thereof for the care and treatment of mental illness or mental deficiency;\n(iv)\t\"Patient\" shall mean any person subject to or eligible as determined by the laws of the sending state, for institutionalization or other care, treatment, or supervision pursuant to the provisions of this compact;\n(v)\t\"Aftercare\" shall mean care, treatment and services provided a patient, as defined herein, on convalescent status or conditional release;\n(vi)\t\"Mental illness\" shall mean mental disease to such extent that a person so afflicted requires care and treatment for his own welfare, or the welfare of others, or of the community;\n(vii)\t\"Mental deficiency\" shall mean mental deficiency as defined by appropriate clinical authorities to such extent that a person so afflicted is incapable of managing himself and his affairs, but shall not include mental illness as defined herein;\n(viii)\t\"State\" shall mean any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\nArticle III\n(a)\tWhenever a person physically present in any party state shall be in need of institutionalization by reason of mental illness or mental deficiency, he shall be eligible for care and treatment in an institution in that state irrespective of his residence, settlement or citizenship qualifications.\n(b)\tThe provisions of paragraph (a) of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, any patient may be transferred to an institution in another state whenever there are factors based upon clinical determinations indicating that the care and\ntreatment of the patient would be facilitated or improved. Any institutionalization may be for the entire period of care and treatment or for any portion or portions thereof. The factors referred to in this paragraph shall include the patient's full record with due regard for the location of the patient's family, character of the illness and probable duration and other factors as shall be considered appropriate.\n(c)\tNo state shall be obliged to receive any patient pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this article unless the sending state has given advance notice of its intention to send the patient; furnished all available medical and other pertinent records concerning the patient; given the qualified medical or other appropriate clinical authorities of the receiving state an opportunity to examine the patient if said authorities so wish; and unless the receiving state shall agree to accept the patient.\n(d)\tIn the event that the laws of the receiving state establish a system of priorities for the admission of patients, an interstate patient under this compact shall receive the same priority as a local patient and shall be taken in the same order and at the same time that he would be taken if he were a local patient.\n(e)\tPursuant to this compact, the determination as to the suitable place of institutionalization for a patient may be reviewed at any time and further transfer of the patient may be made as seems likely to be in the best interest of the patient.\nArticle IV\n(a)\tWhenever, pursuant to the laws of the state in which a patient is physically present, it shall be determined that the patient should receive aftercare or supervision, such care or supervision may be provided in a receiving state. If the medical or other appropriate clinical authorities having responsibility for the care and treatment of the patient in the sending state shall have reason to believe that aftercare in another state would be in the best interest of the patient and would not jeopardize the public safety, they shall request the appropriate authorities in the receiving state to investigate the desirability of affording the patient aftercare in the receiving state, and an investigation shall be made with all reasonable speed. The request for investigation shall be accompanied by complete information concerning the patient's intended place of residence and the identity of the person in whose charge it is\nproposed to place the patient, the complete medical history of the patient, and any other documents as may be pertinent.\n(b)\tIf the medical or other appropriate clinical authorities having responsibility for the care and treatment of the patient in the sending state and the appropriate authorities in the receiving state find that the best interest of the patient would be served and if the public safety would not be jeopardized the patient may receive aftercare or supervision in the receiving state.\n(c)\tIn supervising, treating, or caring for a patient on aftercare pursuant to the terms of this article, a receiving state shall employ the same standards of visitation, examination, care, and treatment that it employs for similar local patients.\nArticle V\nWhenever a dangerous or potentially dangerous patient escapes from an institution in any party state, that state shall promptly notify all appropriate authorities within and without the jurisdiction of the escape in a manner reasonably calculated to facilitate the speedy apprehension of the escapee.\nImmediately upon the apprehension and identification of any dangerous or potentially dangerous patient, he shall be detained, in the state where found pending disposition in accordance with law.\nArticle VI\nThe duly accredited officers of any state party to this compact, upon the establishment of their authority and the identity of the patient, shall be permitted to transport any patient being moved pursuant to this compact through any and all states party to this compact, without interference.\nArticle VII\n(a)\tNo person shall be deemed a patient of more than one\n(1) institution at any given time. Completion of transfer of any patient to an institution in a receiving state shall have the effect of making the person a patient of the institution in the receiving state.\n(b)\tThe sending state shall pay all costs of and incidental to the transportation of any patient pursuant to this\ncompact, but any two (2) or more party states may, by making a specific agreement for that purpose, arrange for a different allocation of costs as among themselves.\n(c)\tNo provision of this compact shall be construed to alter or affect any internal relationships among the departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of a party state, or between a party state and its subdivisions, as to the payment of costs, or responsibilities.\n(d)\tNothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent any party state or subdivision from asserting any right against any person, agency or other entity in regard to costs for which the party state or subdivision may be responsible pursuant to any provision of this compact.\n(e)\tNothing in this compact shall be construed to invalidate any reciprocal agreement between a party state and a nonparty state relating to institutionalization, care or treatment of the mentally ill or mentally deficient, or any statutory authority pursuant to which the agreements may be made.\nArticle VIII\n(a)\tNothing in this compact shall be construed to abridge, diminish, or in any way impair the rights, duties, and responsibilities of any patient's guardian on his own behalf or in respect of any patient for whom he may serve, except that where the transfer of any patient to another jurisdiction makes advisable the appointment of a supplemental or substitute guardian, any court of competent jurisdiction in the receiving state may make a supplemental or substitute appointment and the court which appointed the previous guardian shall upon being duly advised of the new appointment, and upon the satisfactory completion of the accounting and other acts as the court may by law require, relieve the previous guardian of power and responsibility to whatever extent shall be appropriate in the circumstances; provided, however, that in the case of any patient having settlement in the sending state, the court of competent jurisdiction in the sending state shall have the sole discretion to relieve a guardian appointed by it or continue his power and responsibility, whichever it shall deem advisable. The court in the receiving state may, in its discretion, confirm or reappoint the person or persons previously serving as guardian in the sending state in lieu of making a supplemental or substitute appointment.\n(b)\tThe term \"guardian\" as used in paragraph (a) of this article shall include any guardian, trustee, legal committee, conservator, or other person or agency however denominated who is charged by law with power to act for or responsibility for the person or property of a patient.\nArticle IX\n(a)\tNo provision of this compact except article V shall apply to any person institutionalized while under sentence in a penal or correctional institution or while subject to trial on a criminal charge, or whose institutionalization is due to the commission of an offense for which, in the absence of mental illness or mental deficiency, said person would be subject to incarceration in a penal or correctional institution.\n(b)\tTo every extent possible, it shall be the policy of the states party to this compact that no patient shall be placed or detained in any prison, jail or lockup, but the patient shall, with all expedition, be taken to a suitable institutional facility for mental illness or mental deficiency.\n(a)\tEach party state shall appoint a \"compact administrator\" who, on behalf of his state, shall act as general coordinator of activities under the compact in his state and who shall receive copies of all reports, correspondence, and other documents relating to any patient processed under the compact by his state either in the capacity of sending or receiving state. The compact administrator or his duly designated representative shall be the official with whom other party states shall deal in any matter relating to the compact or any patient processed.\n(b)\tThe compact administrators of the respective party states shall have power to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact.\nArticle XI\nThe duly constituted administrative authorities of any two (2) or more party states may enter into supplementary agreements for the provision of any service or facility or for the maintenance of any institution on a joint or cooperative basis whenever the states concerned shall find that agreements will improve\nservices, facilities, or institutional care and treatment in the field of mental illness or mental deficiency. No supplementary agreement shall be construed so as to relieve any party state of any obligation which it otherwise would have under other provisions of this compact.\nArticle XII\nThis compact shall enter into full force and effect as to any state when enacted by it into law and the state shall be a party with any and all states legally joining.\nArticle XIII\n(a)\tA state party to this compact may withdraw therefrom by enacting a statute repealing the same. Such withdrawal shall take effect one (1) year after notice thereof has been communicated officially and in writing to the governors and compact administrators of all other party states. However, the withdrawal of any state shall not change the status of any patient who has been sent to said state or sent out of said state pursuant to the provisions of the compact.\n(b)\tWithdrawal from any agreement permitted by article VII(b) as to costs or from any supplementary agreement made pursuant to article XI shall be in accordance with the terms of the agreement.\nThis compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state party, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.\n25-10-302.\tDesignation, powers and duties of compact administrator.\nPursuant to the compact, the director of the department of health is authorized and empowered to designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. The compact administrator is authorized, empowered and directed to cooperate with all departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact or any supplementary agreement or agreements entered into by this state.\n25-10-303.\tSupplementary agreements; approval required for full force and effect.\nThe compact administrator is authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to articles VII and XI of the compact. In the event that the supplementary agreements shall require or contemplate the use of any institution or facility of this state or require or contemplate the provision of any service by this state, no agreement shall have force or effect until approved by the head of the department or agency under whose jurisdiction the institution or facility is operated or whose department or agency will be charged with the rendering of the service.\n25-10-304.\tDischarge of financial obligations with director's approval.\nThe compact administrator, subject to the approval of the director, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder.\n25-10-305.\tConsultation with family of proposed transferee; court approval of final action.\nThe compact administrator is directed to consult with the immediate family of any proposed transferee and, in the case of a proposed transferee from an institution in this state to an institution in another party state, to take no final action without approval of an appropriate state district court.\nARTICLE 4 - JUVENILE TREATMENT PROGRAM\nCHAPTER 11 - FISCAL PROVISIONS\n(a)\tAs used in this chapter:\n(i)\t\"Actual cost\" means the cost of providing treatment or services for a resident in a state institution including minimum costs, as set by the department having the direct authority and control of the institution, of maintaining the resident;\n(iii)\t\"Established charge\" means that part of the actual cost for which the resident, the resident's estate and legally responsible persons are liable.\tThe established charge may equal but not exceed the actual cost;\n(iv)\t\"Legally responsible person\" means the resident, a responsible relative or the conservator of the resident's property as defined by W.S. 3-1-101(a)(iii);\n(v)\t\"Resident\" means a patient or resident voluntarily admitted or involuntarily committed to a state institution;\n(vi)\t\"Responsible relative\" means a resident's spouse or a resident's parents if the resident is an unemancipated minor;\n(vii)\t\"State institution\" means any institution in title 25 under the direct authority and control of the department of health.\n25-11-102.\tDepartment to adopt schedule of costs for services and treatments; residents' accounts.\n(a)\tThe department of health shall promulgate on or before October 1 of each year a schedule of actual costs for services\nand treatment rendered residents at each state institution under the direct authority and control of the department.\n(b)\tIn determining actual costs the department may subtract from operation costs capital outlay and real property repair and maintenance to determine the immediate benefit to the resident.\n(c)\tAn account for each resident shall record the actual costs and established charge for each month or fraction thereof. The established charge shall be paid in the manner provided in this article and credited to the account of the resident.\n25-11-103.\tDetermining financial ability and established charges; special funds considered as part of resident's assets.\n(a)\tEstablished charges shall be determined using a sliding scale promulgated by the department of health or the department of family services for each state institution under its direct authority and control.\tThe sliding scale shall be based upon the ability of the resident or other legally responsible person to pay and shall be designed to provide that the resident or legally responsible person shall not be deprived of income necessary to maintain a reasonable standard of living for that person and his dependents.\n(b)\tUpon completion of a resident questionnaire form provided by the department, the director of the department shall determine the established charge to be assessed in each case using the sliding scale promulgated by the department. Any payor may protest his established charge through the head of the institution to the department exercising direct authority and control over the institution if still dissatisfied. The department may affirm the established charge or set a different established charge.\tThe decision of the department may be appealed pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.\n(c)\tAny available income and special funds, including but not limited to hospitalization insurance, social security benefits, disability compensation, pensions, retirement benefits and veterans' benefits shall be considered part of the total assets of a resident in determining an established charge.\n(d)\tNothing in this chapter limits any obligation created by law or contract for third parties to pay for services provided to a resident admitted to a state institution.\n25-11-104.\tReimbursement of general fund for payments.\nPayments for services provided to a resident admitted to a state institution either voluntarily or involuntarily shall be reimbursed to the state general fund.\n25-11-105.\tLimitation on liability of responsible relatives; liability of relatives, patient and estate after release or death; exception.\n(a)\tThe liability of a parent or spouse of a resident for payment of established charges shall not exceed two (2) years of cumulative care at the state institution.\tVoluntary payments for care in excess of the two (2) year limitation may be accepted.\tThis section does not limit the obligation, created by contract or law, of third party payments for resident or temporary services.\n(b)\tSubject to the limitation in subsection (a) of this section, the resident, his estate and other legally responsible persons are liable after release of the resident for the payment of any unpaid established charge.\tIf a resident or a released resident dies, his estate is liable for all unpaid established charges unless the department exercising direct authority and control over the institution determines that no claim or a lesser claim should be filed against the estate due to the need for support from the proceeds of the estate of the legal dependents of the resident who are the beneficiaries of his estate.\n25-11-106.\tBillings; assignment of insurance; collection or waiver of arrearages.\n(a)\tThe department of health shall establish procedures requiring state institutions under its direct authority and control to provide monthly billings to each resident of the state institution and to each legally responsible person. Billings under this subsection for the state hospital shall provide for an itemization, including at a minimum, the daily established charge.\n(b)\tThe department shall obtain an assignment of benefits from any resident under its care and supervision who has insurance that may cover services provided.\n(c)\tAn account for established charges which is not paid within ninety (90) days after the end of the month in which the\ncharges accrue is in arrears and shall be referred to the respective department for collection.\tThe department may contract with a private person or agency for collection of accounts under this subsection.\n(d)\tThe department may adjust, compromise or waive collection of charges from the legally responsible person if the department determines that the person is without financial means or that collection would constitute a hardship.\tIf the department decides to waive collection of charges, no future billing will be sent to a resident or legally responsible person.\n25-11-107.\tState to bear costs of those unable to pay.\nIf a resident or legally responsible person has no available assets at the time of or during the resident's stay at a state institution to pay an established charge, all costs of treatment and transportation shall be borne by the state.\n25-11-108.\tDepartment to promulgate rules; forms.\nThe department of health shall promulgate reasonable rules and regulations and shall approve and provide forms necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.\nCHAPTER 12 - WYOMING SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF\n25-12-101.\tWyoming school for the deaf; establishment; purpose; supervision.\n(a)\tThe Wyoming school for the deaf is established at Casper, Wyoming, to provide to every child of school age in the state of Wyoming who is hearing impaired and for whom no lesser restrictive placement can be provided by the local school district a free and appropriate education in accordance with the child's capabilities.\n(b)\tThe Wyoming school for the deaf shall be operated and maintained under the general supervision of the superintendent of public instruction pursuant to W.S. 21-2-202.\tThe superintendent shall promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of the program and shall facilitate continued cooperation with Natrona county school district number 1.\tThe school shall be staffed as follows:\n(i)\tExcept for substitute teachers who shall hold a substitute teaching permit, teachers at the school shall hold a Wyoming standard teaching certificate, including an endorsement for deaf education;\n(ii)\tThe administrator at the school shall hold a Wyoming standard teaching certificate, including endorsements for deaf education and school principal;\n(iii)\tInterpreters at the school shall be qualified under rules promulgated by the department of education;\n(iv)\tAncillary staff shall be qualified for the positions they hold.\n(c)\tThe program may serve as a repository for equipment and materials to assist local agencies serving individuals with hearing impairments.\nCHAPTER 13 - CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES PROGRAM\n(i)\t\"Advisory board\" or \"board\" means the correctional industries advisory board created by W.S. 25-13-102;\n(ii)\t\"Department\" means the department of corrections;\n(iii)\t\"Inmate\" means a person serving a felony sentence in a state correctional facility;\n(iv)\t\"State correctional facility\" means the Wyoming state penitentiary, the Wyoming women's center or any penitentiary honor farm or camp;\n(v)\t\"This act\" means W.S. 25-13-101 through 25-13-107.\n25-13-102.\tCorrectional industries advisory board.\n(a)\tThere is created the correctional industries advisory board.\tThe board shall consist of seven (7) members appointed by the governor. Members shall serve a three (3) year term\nprovided that of the initial board, two (2) members shall be appointed for a one (1) year term, two (2) members for two (2) year terms and three (3) members for three (3) year terms.\nMembership on the board shall include representatives of organized labor, business, the criminal justice system and the educational community.\tThe director of the department of corrections and the director of the department of workforce services, or their designees, shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members of the board.\n(b)\tThe governor may remove any member of the board as provided by W.S. 9-1-202.\n(c)\tVacancies on the advisory board shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.\n(d)\tMembers of the advisory board shall not receive compensation for their services, but when actually engaged in the performance of their duties shall receive travel expenses, per diem and mileage expenses in the same manner and amount as employees of the state.\n(e)\tThe department shall provide staff services as the advisory board requires to carry out its duties.\n(f)\tThe advisory board shall recommend to the governor and to the department policies for correctional industries programs designed to:\n(i)\tOffer inmates meaningful employment, work experience and training in vocations that are specifically designed to reduce recidivism and thereby enhance public safety by providing opportunities for legitimate means of livelihood upon the inmate's release from custody;\n(ii)\tProvide industries which will reduce the tax burden of corrections and save taxpayers money through production of goods and services for sale and use;\n(iii)\tProvide for the effective and efficient operation of correctional work programs which are as similar as possible to those provided by the private sector;\n(iv)\tEncourage the development of and provide for the selection of, contracting for, and supervision of work programs with participating private enterprise firms; and\n(v)\tProvide advice regarding the use of available funds in correctional industries enterprises and meaningful work programs that will not result in the displacement of employed workers, be applied in skills, crafts or trades in which there is adequate gainful labor in the locality or impair existing contracts for services.\n(g)\tThe advisory board shall annually review and report to the governor and joint judiciary interim committee the performance of the correctional industries program within the department.\n25-13-103.\tCorrectional industries account.\n(a)\tThere is created the correctional industries account. The department shall deposit in the account all monies collected under W.S. 25-13-107(b)(iii) and all other revenues or profits that accrue from the operation of the correctional industries program created by this act until the account balance reaches five million dollars ($5,000,000.00). Annually, on July 1, monies within the account in excess of five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) shall be credited to the general fund as reimbursement to the state for costs of incarceration. Interest on funds in the account shall remain in the account.\n(b)\tMonies in the account shall be appropriated only for expenses related to the establishment, operation and enhancement of the correctional industries program and vocational programs at state correctional facilities.\n25-13-104.\tAgreements with private employers; leases.\n(a)\tThe department, in consultation with the correctional industries advisory board, may establish programs for the employment of inmates by private employers and enter into agreements with private employers under which the employer owns, constructs, leases to or from the department or otherwise establishes facilities to manufacture or process goods, provide services or conduct any other business, commercial or agricultural enterprise and employ inmates from a correctional facility. Facilities established under this section may be located within or outside the exterior boundaries of a state correctional facility property.\tConstruction of facilities by private employers under this section shall not be subject to competitive bid requirements applicable to construction by the state. Inmate labor may be used pursuant to W.S. 7-16-202 for construction of facilities that occurs within the exterior\nboundaries of a state correctional facility property under this section.\n(b)\tIf any state correctional facility operates a program involving the use, purchase, training or sale of wild horses, the program shall not use any wild horse which was not initially captured or found within the boundaries of the state or within the boundaries of a bureau of land management herd management area contiguous to the state. There shall be a brand and ownership inspection under W.S. 11-20-203 at the time of transfer of a wild horse to or from any state correctional facility. Not later than November 1 of each year, the department shall report to the joint agriculture, state and public lands and water resources interim committee on any use of or other transactions involving wild horses at correctional facilities in this state. As used in this section, \"wild horse\" means as defined in W.S. 11-30-115(a).\n25-13-105.\tVoluntary employment.\nAn inmate may be employed under this act only on a voluntary basis and only after the inmate has been informed of all conditions of employment.\n25-13-106.\tApplication of other laws.\n(a)\tThe employer shall contribute to the state worker's compensation fund at the appropriate rate calculated by the worker's compensation division for the work being performed.\n(b)\tA nongovernmental enterprise operating on any correctional facility premises under this act is subject to all laws and rules otherwise governing the operation of similar private enterprises in this state.\n25-13-107.\tCompensation of employed inmates; payment and disposition.\n(a)\tAny agreement entered into between the department and a private employer under this act shall provide that an employed inmate shall be paid wages at a rate which is not less than that paid for work of a similar nature in the locality in which the work is performed.\n(b)\tThe compensation of an inmate employed under this act shall be surrendered to the department and shall be distributed in the following order:\n(i)\tFifteen percent (15%) of the inmate's gross compensation under the program to the inmate's personal savings account within the correctional facility's trust and agency account, until the inmate's account has a balance of up to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00). Once the inmate's personal savings account balance reaches two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), this fifteen percent (15%) shall be distributed to the inmate as provided by W.S. 7-16-205(a). Funds in the inmate's personal savings account shall be paid to the inmate upon parole or final discharge;\n(ii)\tTwenty percent (20%) of the inmate's gross compensation under the program to be distributed to the inmate as provided by W.S. 7-16-205(a);\n(iii)\tDeduction for federal income taxes, medicare and social security appropriate to the gross amount of the inmate's compensation under the program;\n(iv)\tFifteen percent (15%) of the remaining amount to the crime victims compensation account created by W.S. 1-40-114;\n(v)\tIf the inmate is not obligated to pay child support, the remaining amount to the correctional industries account pursuant to W.S. 25-13-103(a), to reduce the cost otherwise associated with providing the inmate with room and board;\n(vi)\tIf the inmate is obligated for existing child support obligations, pursuant to state statute or court order, including all support obligations issued pursuant to W.S.\n20-2-102, the remainder of the inmate's compensation under the program, shall be distributed toward the child support obligation up to the amount ordered.\tIf the existing child support obligation is less than the remainder of the inmate's compensation under the program, the difference between the actual amount of the child support obligation and the remainder of the inmate's compensation under the program shall be distributed to the correctional industries account pursuant to\nW.S. 25-13-103(a), to reduce the cost otherwise associated with providing the inmate with room and board;\n(vii)\tThe department shall provide all inmates employed under this act with the forms necessary for the filing of a petition for support under W.S. 20-2-102 and shall honor new or existing court orders for support up to the amount\nordered, including those orders issued pursuant to a petition for support filed under W.S. 20-2-102.\n(c)\tThe department shall develop the necessary administrative structure to recover inmates' wages and keep records of the amount inmates pay for the costs of incarceration.\n(d)\tThe earnings of inmates under this act are not subject to garnishment, attachment or execution either in the hands of the employer, the department or any agent authorized to hold and transmit the earnings.\n(e)\tIf a provision of this act relating to the payment or disbursement of compensation to inmates employed in a correctional industries program conflicts with any other provision of title 27 of the Wyoming Statutes, the provision of this act controls.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to add sling mounts to airsoft gun?\nIn order to add sling mounts to an airsoft gun, you will need the following items: a pair of needle-nose pliers, a hammer, and a pin punch. First, use the needle-nose pliers to remove the sling mount from the airsoft gun. Next, use the hammer to tap the pin punch through the center of the sling mount. Finally, use the needle-nose pliers to press the sling mount back onto the airsoft gun.\nThere are a few ways to add sling mounts to an airsoft gun. The most common method is to add loops or hooks to the front and rear of the gun, which the sling can then be looped through. Another option is to add a rail system to the gun, which will allow you to attach a sling mount directly to the gun.\nHow do gun slings attach?\nThere are different ways to hold a gun depending on the situation. The most common way to hold a gun is in the firing position, which is when you grip the gun with both hands and point it at your target. However, there are other positions you can take, such as the resting position, which is when you hang the gun down at your side with your finger off the trigger.\nA two-point sling is a sling that attaches to a weapon at two separate points of contact. One point is usually toward the front of the weapon somewhere in front of the trigger. The second point usually attaches behind the trigger near or on the stock. This allows for a more secure grip on the weapon and keeps it from moving around as much when in use.\nWhat sling does special forces use\nThe Vickers sling is a great option for anyone looking for a high-quality sling for their rifle or machine gun. The sling is comfortable and easy to adjust, making it perfect for use in any situation. The sling is also durable and built to last, making it a great investment for anyone looking for a long-term solution.\nOne point slings and two point slings refer to the amount of attachment points of the sling to your gun. A one point sling will have one attachment point, typically at the rear of the gun, while a two point sling will have two attachment points, typically at the rear and front of the gun. The advantage of a two point sling is that it is more stable and secure, while a one point sling is more versatile and can be used with a variety of different guns.\nWhat is a sling for a gun called?\nA sling is a device used to support and stabilize a rifle. It is typically worn over the shoulder and across the body, and can be adjusted to different lengths to accommodate the user. The sling can be used to help carry the rifle, or to keep it secure and ready to use.\nA single-point sling is a type of sling that is typically mounted to the top rail or buffer tube of an AR15, just behind and\/or above the pistol grip. This type of sling allows for quick and easy transitions between shoulders, and can be used for both carrying and shooting purposes.\nWhat is the safest sling angle?\nIt is most desirable for a sling to have a larger angle of lift, approaching 90\u00b0. Lifts with angles of less than 30\u00b0 from horizontal are not recommended. If you can measure the angle of lift or the length and height of the sling as rigged, you can determine the properly rated sling for your lift.\nA single point sling is perfect if you are planning on doing a lot of moving around and shooting. The two point sling is the traditional method of carrying guns and most firearms are set up for the two point sling. This sling will attach at two points of your weapon and provide you with excellent stability.\nWhat is the correct order to attach the sling loops\nIt is essential that shoulder loops are always attached before leg loops when using a patient lift. If the leg loops are attached first, there is a risk of the patient sliding out if the lifting process is started before all the straps are secure. This could result in serious injury.\nREAD What is the most powerful airsoft gun?\nMany servicemen stationed in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War began buying Rolex watches at the PX's (post exchanges) and at jewelers across the Pacific Rim. Rolex watches were seen as a way to quickly spend their hard-earned combat pay. This trend became a tradition, and for good reason. Rolex watches are known for their durability and accuracy, making them an excellent choice for servicemen who needed a dependable watch while stationed in a combat zone.\nDo Special Forces use Glock?\nThe Glock 19 has become the official sidearm of numerous special operations forces Army Special Forces, Delta Force, Rangers, and even the CIA and FBI use it.\nThis is because the Glock 19 is an incredibly reliable and customizable weapon that can be adapted to almost any situation. In addition, the Glock 19 is also lightweight and easy to carry, making it an ideal choice for special ops forces that need to be able to move quickly and quietly.\nA sling is a projectile weapon typically used to throw stones at a target. In the hands of an expert, a sling can reach speeds of up to 100 mph. This makes the sling a deadly weapon in the right hands.\nWhat are the 3 types of slings\nWeb slings are made of woven fabric, and they're confessions for lifting lighter loads. Wire rope slings are made with a wire rope core and a fabric or plastic cover, and they're great for medium to heavy lifting. Chain slings have a metal chain as their core, and they're best for heavy lifting.\nThe staff sling is a powerful weapon because it can be made as long as two meters. This creates a powerful lever which can be used to throw objects with great force. Ancient art shows slingers holding staff slings by one end, with the pocket behind them, and using both hands to throw the staves forward over their heads.\nWhat are the 4 types of sling?\nThe four main types of slings are: Wire Rope, Chain, Mesh, and Synthetic.\nEach type of sling has its own advantages and disadvantages, so it's important to choose the right sling for the job at hand. Wire rope is the most commonly used sling, and is known for its strength and durability. Chain slings are easier to handle than wire rope, but are not as strong. Mesh slings are a combination of wire and chain, and are therefore stronger than chain slings but not as durable. Synthetic slings are made from webbing or Roundsling, and are used when loads must be protected from damage.\nThe experiments conducted in Germany revealed that a 50-gram Roman bullet has only slightly less stopping power than a 44 magnum cartridge. Other tests showed that a trained slinger could hit a target smaller than a human being from 130 yards away. These results indicate that the Roman slinger was a highly effective military tool and could have had a significant impact on ancient battles.\nHow fast is a speeding bullet\nIt's amazing to think that bullets can travel over twice the speed of sound! That's impressive considering how fast bullets already travel. It just goes to show that when it comes to bullets, speed is everything.\nThe sling is a simple weapon, but it is surprisingly effective. Slingers can achieve faster velocities than archers, and their projectiles suffer less air resistance during flight. This means that they conserve more kinetic energy until impact, making them more deadly.\nHow tight should a 2 point sling be\nWhen adjusting your sling length, you want it as tight as you can get it to bring your gun up close to your body. This will help you stabilize your gun and make it easier to aim.\nTheslings are mainly used to support and immobilize the arm and hand following an injury or surgery. There are two main types of sling: the arm sling and the elevation sling. The arm sling is the most common type and is used for the majority of arm and upper limb injuries. The elevation sling can be used to elevate fingers, for example after a crush injury.\nWhat shoulder does single point sling go on\nStep 1: The first step is to put on the sling so that it rests on your dominant shoulder. The sling should be tight enough that it doesn't move around, but not so tight that it's uncomfortable.\nREAD How to lubricate airsoft gun?\nStep 2: Take the other end of the sling and put it under the arm of your other shoulder. Again, it should be tight enough to stay in place but not so tight that it's uncomfortable.\nStep 3: You're now ready to attach the single-point to your rifle. The easiest way to do this is to thread the sling through the rear sling loop on your rifle. If your rifle doesn't have a rear sling loop, you can attach the sling to the front sling loop and run it through the rear loop on your body armor.\nStep 4: Once the sling is attached to the rifle, you can adjust it for length. The sling should be tight enough that the rifle is secure but not so tight that it's uncomfortable.\nAnd that's it! You're now ready to use your single-point sling.\nYou just take the 10-inch roof And if the rigging is hanging at an angle to the load You would have to increase the size of the plate To compensate for the load. The other way would be to put a block under the load To equalize the load on the plate.\nCan you choke a sling\nA choker hitch is a type of knot used to secure a rope or chain around an object. It is important to pull the choker hitch tight before making the lift, as it can be dangerous if it is not secure. Additionally, the choker hitch should never be pulled down during the lift, as this can cause the object to become unsecured.\nIf you must join two slings, the best way to do it is with a symmetrical knot like the Strop Bend or Climber's Hitch. This will give the best performance and keep the sling materials from slipping.\nWhich is more powerful sling or slingshot\nA sling is a weapon that uses momentum to hurl a projectile at a target. A slingshot, on the other hand, uses elastic energy to launch a projectile. If we assume that the user can impart the same amount of muscular force to either weapon and is equally skilled in using both, then the sling wins because that final motion of the arm is imparting energy to a projectile that is already in motion and therefore already has stored energy. A slingshot requires the user to generate all of the kinetic energy of the projectile, so it is at a disadvantage.\nThe biggest advantage of the three-point sling is that it provides a high degree of security for your rifle while still allowing you to move around relatively freely. It also allows you to transition to different carry positions quickly and easily, which can be a big advantage in a dynamic situation.\nWhat is the smallest recommended sling angle\nIn the lifting and rigging industry, it is generally accepted that 30\u00b0 angles are the minimum safe angle to use. However, many specialists prefer to use angles of 60\u00b0 or more to be extra safe. When a multi-leg sling is tagged, it is typically tagged for use at 60\u00b0 angles.\nTo make a sling, first find a long, thin piece of cloth or rope. Fold the ends over to make a loop, and tie them together. Then, tie the loop around the person's neck so that the cloth hangs down over their shoulder and arm. Finally, arrange the cloth so that it forms a cup shape, and tie it in place around the person's waist.\nCan a sling be too big\nThe size of a hoisting sling is very important for both comfort and safety during transfers. If the sling is too small, it could be tight in certain areas. If the sling is too big, the person could quite simply slide out of it.\nThere are five steps that you can take to help ensure that your patient's sling is safe to use:\n1. Check your risk assessment: Ensure that the patient's risk assessment is up-to-date and that all risks have been identified.\n2. Check the sling fabric: Inspect the sling for any tears, rips or holes.\nREAD Where can i get my airsoft gun repaired dexter mi area mi?\n3. Check the sling loops: Ensure that the sling loops are secure and that the safe working load label is correct.\n4. Fit the sling correctly: Make sure that the patient is securely positioned in the sling.\n5. Always follow the manufacturer's instructions: Read the manufacturer's instructions carefully and make sure that you follow them correctly.\nWhy do special forces grow beards\nIt is interesting to note that Special Operations Forces are allowed to have beards and long hair so that they can blend in with the communities they work in. This is likely due to the fact that beards are quite common in Afghanistan, and thus these troops would be less likely to stand out if they sported facial hair. This sheds some light on the importance of cultural sensitivity and awareness in the military, and how even small details like this can be crucial in ensuring the success of a mission.\nThe Military allows the special forces \"relaxed grooming standards\" not because of folliculaphilia but because of the Jobs they do. For instance, Showing up to the Middle East without a beard can put a soldier at a disadvantage.\nWhat do Marines call watches\nA fire watch is a type of security guard that is stationed at a building or site to monitor for fires. These guards are usually trained in fire safety and have a strong understanding of evacuation procedures. Fire watches are typically scheduled in advance and may be posted during business hours or overnight.\nThe FBI's SWAT team is known to use a variety of different weapons, including the M4 carbine, Heckler & Koch MP5\/10, Remington 870, Remington 700, various Glock models (17 Gen4, 19M, 20), SIG Sauer P226, and Springfield Armory 1911 Professional Custom. Each of these weapons has its own strengths and weaknesses, so it's important for SWAT teams to be familiar with all of them in order to be able to choose the best one for any given situation.\nWhat handgun does the CIA use\nThe SAC-46 is a single-shot pistol that was used by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. The pistol was designed by Samuel Cummings, who was the president of SAC International. The company was based in New York City.\nThe FBI has relied on Glock handguns for many years, and the Glock 19 Gen 5 and Glock 17 Gen 5 are the most recent models of these handguns. These handguns are 9 mm models and offer a variety of features that make them ideal for law enforcement use. The Glock 19 Gen 5, for example, has a 15-round magazine capacity, making it ideal for use in situations where a higher magazine capacity is needed. The Glock 17 Gen 5 is a full-size handgun that has a 17-round magazine capacity. Both of these handguns have a variety of safety features, including a recessed trigger that prevents accidental discharge, and aSafe Action trigger that provides a consistent trigger pull.\nHow many FPS is a slingshot\nA sling shot is a slingshot that uses a rubber band to propel projectiles.\nThe Slingshot Signature LE is a powerful machine that can go up to 125 mph. It is powered by a Prostar 20L 4-cylinder engine that delivers 178 hp at 8,500 rpm and 120 lb-ft of torque at 5,500 rpm. Polaris claims a power-to-weight ratio of 81 lbs per horsepower, and a 0-60 mph time of 49 seconds.\nThere is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best way to add sling mounts to an airsoft gun may vary depending on the specific model and make of gun. However, some general tips on how to do this include:\n-First, identify the locations on the gun where you want to add the sling mounts. This will likely be at the front and rear of the gun, near the barrel and stock respectively.\n-Next, using a drill or other appropriate tool, make holes at those locations.\n-Finally, screw in the sling mounts (often available at sporting goods stores) to the holes.\nThe above tutorial provides a very detailed and easy to follow guide on how to add sling mounts to your airsoft gun. By following the steps in the tutorial, you will be able to add sling mounts to your gun in no time.\nAirsoft gun shoots when the selector switch is moved?\nHow long do you charge a gfm4 airsoft gun?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GNU Astronomy Utilities\nNext: Tutorials, Previous: Top, Up: Top [Contents][Index]\nGNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is an official GNU package consisting of separate programs and libraries for the manipulation and analysis of astronomical data. All the programs share the same basic command-line user interface for the comfort of both the users and developers. Gnuastro is written to comply fully with the GNU coding standards so it integrates finely with the GNU\/Linux operating system. This also enables astronomers to expect a fully familiar experience in the source code, building, installing and command-line user interaction that they have seen in all the other GNU software that they use. The official and always up to date version of this book (or manual) is freely available under GNU Free Doc. License in various formats (PDF, HTML, plain text, info, and as its Texinfo source) at http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gnuastro\/manual\/.\nFor users who are new to the GNU\/Linux environment, unless otherwise specified most of the topics in Installation and Common program behavior are common to all GNU software, for example installation, managing command-line options or getting help (also see New to GNU\/Linux?). So if you are new to this empowering environment, we encourage you to go through these chapters carefully. They can be a starting point from which you can continue to learn more from each program's own manual and fully benefit from and enjoy this wonderful environment. Gnuastro also comes with a large set of libraries, so you can write your own programs using Gnuastro's building blocks, see Review of library fundamentals for an introduction.\nIn Gnuastro, no change to any program or library will be committed to its history, before it has been fully documented here first. As discussed in Science and its tools this is a founding principle of the Gnuastro.\n\u2022 Quick start A quick start to installation.\n\u2022 Science and its tools Some philosophy and history.\n\u2022 Your rights User rights.\n\u2022 Naming convention About names of programs in Gnuastro.\n\u2022 Version numbering Understanding version numbers.\n\u2022 New to GNU\/Linux? Suggested GNU\/Linux distribution.\n\u2022 Report a bug Search and report the bug you found.\n\u2022 Suggest new feature How to suggest a new feature.\n\u2022 Announcements How to stay up to date with Gnuastro.\n\u2022 Conventions Conventions used in this book.\n\u2022 Acknowledgments People who helped in the production.\nRead in other formats.\nGNU Astronomy Utilities 0.9 manual, April 2019.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1st Alabama Infantry Regiment Flag Coming Home After 145 Years of Missing in Action\nOn Wednesday, a flag carried by the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War Between the States was presented to the Alabama delegation by the Nebraska delegation. In a ceremony outside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., Congressman\nTVA Recommends Repair\/Rebuild Option for Bear Creek Dam: Congressman Aderholt Praises Decision as Best for Franklin County, Residents\nCongressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) praised the expected release of a study by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that recommends that the leaking Bear Creek Dam be repaired or rebuilt by TVA at a potential cost of $35 million.\nNo Amnesty. Congressman Aderholt Opposes Senate \"Compromise\" on Immigration Reform\nCongressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) announced today his strong opposition to the amnesty provision that is included in the new Border Security and Immigration Reform Agreement that was announced on Friday by Members of the United States Senate.\nHate Crimes or Thought Crimes? Aderholt Opposes Unnecessary Bill That Threatens Equal Justice, Freedom of Speech\nMay 3, 2007 Press Release\nCongressman Aderholt voted today in opposition to H.R. 1592, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, a bill that undermines the constitutional principle of equal justice under the law as well as freedom of speech. The bill passed the\nCongressman Aderholt Encourages Alabamians to Recognize the 56th Annual National Day of Prayer Tomorrow\nCongressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) will join millions of Americans tomorrow in recognizing the 56th celebration of the National Day of Prayer (NDP). The National Day of Prayer tradition predates the founding of the United States of America, eviden\nAderholt Statement on War Supplemental Bill Veto\nWith President Bush vetoing the War Supplemental Spending bill, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) offered the following statement on the veto and what it means for additional spending programs that were included in the measure.\nAderholt Announces Traveling District Office Hours\nCongressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) announced today that District Field Director Paul Housel will be traveling through the district in the next several weeks to provide assistance to those who may need help with federal issues or casework.\nAderholt Discusses Bear Creek Dam with TVA Chief Executive: Seeks Update on Status of TVA Actions\nOn Tuesday, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) met with Tom Kilgore, chief executive officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to discuss Bear Creek Dam in Franklin County. Bear Creek dam has had problems with leaking and is in need of repai\n.newsdiv { width: 510px;border: 1px solid #5C7A97;background-color:#C6B78C;padding:5px; margin-top:-10px; display: inline; margin-bottom:30px;margin-right:60px; margin-top:10px;}.newsMonth ul { list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }.newsMonth li {display: inline; padding:5px}div.newsYear { width: 70px; float: left; }.newsdiv ul { margin: 2px\nCongressman Aderholt Supports Increased Funding for NASA Exploration\nCongressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) today offered the following statement regarding NASA funding for FY07 and FY08 and what it means for the future of the Robotic Lunar Program.\n2002 State of the Union Reaction\nFebruary 5, 2002 In The News\nPerhaps never before in modern times has a nation been as focused on its leadership as it is today. We are a nation unified in our efforts in the new: our war on terrorism. We are also unified in the old: our efforts to return to normal after the horror of September 11th.\nA Look Back on 2001\n2001 has been a year that has changed the lives of each of us. Nearly nothing is as it was just twelve months ago, nothing except our values. That was seen again and again in 2001. We reached out to our nation in need, offering our support and our prayers. It is a response that has, thankfully, been joined by a focused response from Washington.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Earth's Land Surface: Landforms and Process...\nVisualizing the land surface explains and explores the composition of the land surface and outlines how it has been studied. Dynamics of the land surface considers the dynamics affecting the earth's land surface including its influences, processes and the changes that have occurred. Environments of the land surface looks to understand the land surface in major world regions highlighting differences between the areas. Management of the land surface is an examination of the current and future prospects of the management of the earth's land surface.\nFuture Land Surfaces - Management of Change\nKenneth J. Gregory\nIn:The Earth's Land Surface: Landforms and Processes in Geomorphology\nSubject:Physical Geography (general), Geology\/Earth Sciences\nKeywords:channel management; dams; geomorphology; hydrology; land; landforms; rivers\nMany books on geomorphology devote their final chapter to applications or management; it is very beguiling to think of saving the land surface of the Earth but what can be managed and what are the management issues that interest the geomorphologist? Some pointers for urban areas were given at the end of the previous chapter, but to answer these questions we can focus on past, present and future. Past, because it draws our attention to what was perceived to be required and what has already been done; present, for the knowledge of what is now being done and how; and future so that we might learn from past and present imperatives and ...\nUrban Landscapes\nGregory, K. J. (2010). Future land surfaces - management of change. SAGE Publications Ltd, https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446251621\nGregory, Kenneth J. The Earth's Land Surface: Landforms and Processes in Geomorphology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446251621.\nGregory, K. J., 2010. The Earth's Land Surface: Landforms and Processes in Geomorphology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Available at: <https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446251621> [Accessed 31 Jan 2023].\nGregory, Kenneth J. The Earth's Land Surface: Landforms and Processes in Geomorphology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. SAGE Knowledge, 31 Jan 2023, doi: https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4135\/9781446251621.\nGregory, Kenneth J.. The Earth's Land Surface: Landforms and Processes in Geomorphology London: SAGE Publications Ltd; 2010. doi:10.4135\/9781446251621\nhttps:\/\/sk.sagepub.com\/books\/the-earths-land-surface\/n12.xml","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"info@sportfisher.mu\nSportfisher is renowned on the Island of Mauritius as the establishement that has caught the most Granders.\nIn fishing circles the term is fondly used to describe Marlin that weigh over 1000 pounds.\nThis page will give anglers an idea of what they can expect to catch and the rarity of each fish during different times of the year.\nBlue Marlin:\nThe blue marlin of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are more widely pursued by sport fishermen than any other marlin species. Their wide distribution in tropical oceanic waters and seasonally into temperate zones makes them available to many anglers, and their potential to reach great sizes and spectacular fighting ability makes them a highly desired catch to anglers who are sure to be in for a fight in order to reel them in.\nBlack Marlin:\nThe black marlin (Istiompax indica) is a species of marlin found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[2] With a maximum published length of 4.65 m (15.3 ft) and weight of 750 kg (1,650 lb),[2] it is one of the largest marlins and also one of the largest bony fish. It is one of the fastest fish species as well, having been recorded unwinding fishing line at 129 km\/h (80 mph).[3]\nSail Fish:\nA sailfish is a fish of the genus Istiophorus of billfish living in colder areas of all the seas of the earth. They are predominantly blue to gray in colour and have a characteristic erectile dorsal fin known as a sail, which often stretches the entire length of the back. Another notable characteristic is the elongated bill, resembling that of the swordfish and other marlins. They are therefore described as billfish in sport-fishing circles.\nIn Mauritius we are lucky to have one of the two Sail Fish Species,\nnamely the istiophorus platypterus.\nStriped Marlin:\nThe striped marlin, Kajikia audax, is a species of marlin found in tropical to temperate Indo-Pacific oceans not far from the surface. It is a desirable commercial and game fish with a record weight (in 1982) of 190 kg (420 lb) and a maximum length of 4.2 m (13.8 ft). The striped marlin is a predator that hunts during the day in the top 100 metres or so of the water column, often near the surface. One of their chief prey is sardines.\nSpear Fish:\nThe shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris) is a species of marlin native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with occasional records from the Atlantic Ocean. This species occurs in open waters not far from the surface. This species can reach a length of 230 cm (91 in), though most do not exceed 190 cm (75 in). The maximum recorded weight for this species is 52 kg (115 lb). It is of minor importance to commercial fisheries and is also a game fish.[2]\nDorado:\nThe mahi-mahi (\/\u02c8m\u0251\u02d0hi\u02d0\u02c8m\u0251\u02d0hi\u02d0\/)[2] or common dolphinfish[3] (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. It is one of two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the pompano dolphinfish.\nMahi-mahi are highly sought for sport fishing and commercial purposes. Sport fishermen seek them due to their beauty, size, food quality, and healthy population.\nWahoo:\nWahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is best known to sports fishermen, as its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish.The flesh of the wahoo is white to grey, delicate to dense, and highly regarded by many gourmets. The taste has been said to be similar to mackerel.[6] This has created some demand for the wahoo as a premium-priced commercial food fish.\nSpecimens have been recorded at up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in length, and weighing up to 83 kg (183 lb).[7][8] Growth can be rapid.[8] Wahoo can swim up to 60 mph (97 km\/h).[9] They are some of the fastest fish in the sea.\nYellow Fin Tuna:\nThe yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) is a species of tuna found in pelagic waters of tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.\nThe yellowfin tuna is among the larger tuna species, reaching weights over 180 kg (400 lb), but is significantly smaller than the Atlantic and Pacific bluefintunas, which can reach over 450 kg (990 lb).\nThe second dorsal fin and the anal fin, as well as the finlets between those fins and the tail, are bright yellow, giving this fish its common name. The second dorsal and anal fins can be very long in mature specimens, reaching almost as far back as the tail and giving the appearance of sickles or scimitars.\nSkipjack Tuna:\nThe skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, is a medium-sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Scombridae. It is otherwise known as the aku, arctic bonito, mushmouth, oceanic bonito, striped tuna, or victor fish. It grows up to 1 m (3 ft) in length. It is a cosmopolitan pelagic fish found in tropical and warm-temperate waters. It is a very important species for fisheries.[2]\nDogtooth Tuna:\nGymnosarda unicolor, commonly known as the dogtooth tuna or white tuna, is a species of pelagic marine fish which belongs to the family Scombridae.\nThey can reach a length of 190\u2013248 centimetres (75\u201398 in) in males.[3][4] and a weight of 130 kg.[5] The average size commonly observed is around 40 to 120 cm.\nThey are always swimming with open jaws. The upper jaw of the large mouth reaches the eye.[3]\nQuick Guide:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The pros and cons of switching to Windows 7\nTop eight reasons to jump in with both feet to upgrade to Windows 7\nI'll also tell you three possible reasons for keeping the new OS on the shelf \u2014 for a while, at least.\nI find a solid core of real improvements in the new release. There are many aspects of Windows 7 that cry out for adopting it and just a few that suggest sticking with Vista or XP.\nWindows 7 is easier on the eyes\nWindows 7's a stunner. From wallpaper that changes itself to the tightly controlled group of icons in the area near the clock, Win7 puts the things you need most where you need them. The OS also moves the flotsam out of the way.\nSince there's no Sidebar in Windows 7 \u2014 good riddance, I say \u2014 Win7's gadgets move to the high-rent district of the desktop, where you can move, resize, and snap them together neatly.\nThe Action Center puts all the nags in one place\nWindows XP and Vista are notorious for scattering important information all over creation. At the same time \u2014 and quite perversely \u2014 every two-bit application you install on an XP or Vista PC can pop up annoying messages, distracting your attention while you're trying to get some work done.\nWin7 reduces the shrill impositions to a minimum by funneling almost all interactions through the Action Center. Yes, the Action Center has its roots in the old Security Center, but it's all grown up now.\nThe Action Center serves as traffic cop for announcements that inform, warn, and often annoy. But rather than a pop-up window, the only alert you'll see is a flag in the notification area (near the clock) that turns yellow or red as needs dictate.\nWin7's security is stronger and less intrusive\nSecurity stuff gets complicated very quickly. Suffice it to say that Windows 7 is significantly more difficult to crack than Vista, which in turn was an order or magnitude tougher to break into than XP. (Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework are noteworthy exceptions.)\nCompared to Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the equivalent in Windows 7 is clipped and reined in. You can get to the settings easily. For most people, security won't be nearly so difficult in Win7 as it was in Vista.\nYou can make a movie of what ails your PC\nIf you haven't seen Windows 7's new Problem Steps Recorder (PSR), you owe it to yourself to try it. Click Start, type psr, and hit Enter. This little utility lets you record everything on the screen \u2014 except the stuff you type \u2014 as it happens. When you're done, PSR spits out an MHTML file that can be opened and played back in Internet Explorer\nLike the Snipping Tool in Vista (also available in Win7), once you try PSR, you won't know how you ever lived without it.\nSearch works \u2014 finally!\nWindows XP's built-in search feature is a slow, painful, buggy joke. In Vista, search is a little less labored, occasionally usable, but still unreliable.\nIn Windows 7, Microsoft has, at long last, woven search into the operating system itself. There's no noticeable system overhead, searches proceed fairly quickly, and \u2014 most important of all \u2014 the results are accurate.\nYou get better control of your devices\nWindows 7 centralizes control of all devices: printers, MP3 players, phones, keyboards, mice, fax machines, and anything else you plug into your computer. The controls all appear in a place called Device Stage.\nIf you're tired of having 10 different programs in 10 different places to control your attached hardware, those days are rapidly drawing to a close. The junky little programs that go with the devices will disappear, too. At least I hope they will. So long, commercial driver-update utilities!\nWin7 Libraries beat out My Documents any day\nWhile Libraries don't do away with the need to organize your files, they make it much, much simpler to track files and put them in the right locations.\n\"A place for everything, and everything in its place,\" With Windows 7 Libraries, file management is easier than ever.\nHomeGroup makes sharing safe, fast, and fun\nA stroke of pure design genius, Windows 7 HomeGroup bundles all the sharing options you'd likely want in order to make files, printers, and media accessible to any other Windows 7 PC on your network.\nThree reasons why Windows 7 isn't for everybody\nDespite these and other Win7 positives, there are at least three good reasons for Windows XP and Vista users to stick with their current OS:\nIf your PC isn't up to snuff, fuhgeddaboutit!\nWhile Windows 7's hardware demands are less stringent than Vista's, there are zillions of PCs that simply can't handle Win7. However, if you have a desktop machine or laptop that's more than a few years old, upgrading its hardware to support Windows 7 is likely more trouble than it's worth. Don't bother.\nIf your hardware or software demands XP, stick with that OS\nThe XP Mode built into Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate is a Virtual PC\u2013based implementation of XP. XP Mode makes sense for large companies that want to get the benefits of Windows 7 but have to put up with hardware or software that runs only under Windows XP.\nDon't try to fix what ain't broke\nBy far the most-compelling argument for staying with Windows XP or Vista is this: The Windows you have now does everything you need, and you aren't overly concerned about rootkits or other nearly invisible malware hosing your machine. In this case, there's no compelling reason to go out on a limb with Win7.\nReplacing your operating system is slightly simpler than performing a self-administered brain transplant, but it's still no walk in the park. In the vast majority of cases, upgrades to Windows 7 go in smoothly, with a few minor irritations \u2014 maybe you can't find the install CD for an old program, for example, or you forgot to write down a password.\nBut in a small percentage of cases, the Windows 7 installation doesn't go well at all. As they say, stuff happens. Any upgrade could potentially become calamitous, and Windows 7 isn't immune.\nPosted by Shoaib Yousuf at 10:25 AM\nLabels: Information Systems, Information Technology, Microsoft, Security Advice, Security Review, Windows 7\nATM Fraud: New Skimming Scheme Hits Banks\nSecond Windows 7 activation hack appears\nSpam targets financial transfers\n8 Hackers Indicted in $9 Million ATM Theft\nFirefox Tops Vulnerability List\nAES - Cracked or Broken?\nJailbroken iPhones fall victim to Australian virus\nSmishing Attack is New Variation of Classic Fraud\nRogue Security Software Still Top Threat","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Verizon's CEO on Peak Traffic, Cybersecurity, and Leading a Team from Home\nA conversation between Hans Vestberg and HBR Editor-in-Chief Adi Ignatius.\nAdi Ignatius\nHBR Staff\/Matthias Oesterle\/Getty Images\nLike many people, Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg is working from home during this extraordinary Covid-19 pandemic. He says he's using \"all the technology\" to run his company as normally as possible. During this crisis, the traffic on Verizon's mobile and broadband networks in the U.S. has blown way past the peak records. Vestberg says he's communicating daily with his employees and executive team. While handling the huge surge in demand for communications, the company is upping data limits and waiving fees for stressed customers. Vestberg says it's too soon to know the financial impact of the crisis on his company.\nIn these difficult times, we've made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers. To get all of HBR's content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter.\nHans Vestberg is running a $132 billion multinational company at the front lines of Internet and voice connectivity during this extraordinary Covid-19 pandemic, and he's working from home like the rest of us. \"We're camping out here,\" says the CEO of Verizon Communications from his New York City area home with his wife and two children, who are now attending school online. The Swedish national has been at Verizon for three years, previously serving as CTO. Before that, Vestberg was CEO at the big Swedish telecom Ericsson.\nWhen I spoke to him by phone this week, he said he's using \"all the technology\" to run his company as normally as possible during these times. In the United States alone, the traffic on Verizon's mobile and broadband networks has blown way past the peak records set before social distancing was in effect. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.\nThis is a challenging time. How's your team holding up?\nSpirits are pretty good, despite the tough situation. We know that we serve a mission, first to see that our employees are safe and healthy, and secondly, to see that all the connectivity and networks are up. Our infrastructure is one of the most important in these times of crisis. There are hundreds of millions of people relying on our network across the globe, and here in the U.S. of course.\nHow are you adapting your leadership style during these difficult times?\nMy leadership philosophy is just accentuated in a crisis like this. I talk to all 135,000 employees at noon every day on a live webcast. Usually, some 40,000 to 50,000 people tune in live. We need to have transparency and communication in these times. So we go over everything that's happening in the company, all the new rules, all the guidelines we're giving out.\nI talk to my leadership team every day between eight and nine for one hour. I also keep on me the names of some 45 people that are totally crucial for the success of Verizon. I see that I talk to them every week. And then, of course, I have my board that also needs this same attention with higher frequency in times of uncertainty. I had two virtual meetings with them last week.\nCan the infrastructure handle this surge of communications and Internet usage?\nRight now in the U.S., Verizon customers are making 800 million calls a day. That's double the amount of the highest peak during a typical year, which is Mother's Day. Secondly, the duration of the calls is 33% longer. We also have roughly 9 billion messages on our network in the U.S. each day. That's the same as New Year's Eve. And this is constant.\nCoronavirus: Leadership and Recovery\nOn top of that, the applications people are using have changed dramatically. On our networks, gaming is up 100%. People connecting from home to their company's office over a virtual private network is up almost 50%. Web browsing is up 20%.\nAnd finally, we can see on our mobile network when people go between different radio towers. That has gone down roughly 27%, meaning that people are moving around much less.\nWe have seen no major impact from a network point of view, the wireless, the wireline, or the fiber network. That's very important. The network is robust. We are prepared for it.\nHas anything surprised you?\nIt hasn't surprised us how well the network is working. I have to say it surprised us how quickly it moved. All of this dramatic change happened in weeks or maybe less than a week. Clearly, this pandemic is an enormous crisis that we have in front of us and are in the middle of.\nYou talked about how Verizon is responding for its employees. How is your company responding to consumers? There's that balance many of us face between when do you charge for your content and services and when do you not charge, because we're in a difficult situation?\nYeah, it's a very delicate balance. But I have to say, you need to support the most vulnerable in our society in these times, especially if you're the size of company we are. We are waiving all late fees and suspending terminations for nonpayment in order to keep our small business, enterprise, and residential consumers running. For our wireless consumers, we have automatically increased data limits by 15 gigabytes per month. You don't need to apply. We just give them more. We're also prioritizing data and communication of first responders and hospitals.\nOn the content side, we are giving away free education on the network. We are giving away premium movies. We're trying to do whatever we can do to make this moment less complicated.\nA lot of us have noticed in our video communications that sometimes it works really well, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes there's lag. Do you have any advice for those of us who are now living basically on video conferencing?\nYeah, you're right. Peak hours have changed dramatically. Today, peak hours for home broadband and the wireless network are in the mornings and during the day. That wasn't the case before. And network usage is now going down on weekends when it has usually gone up.\nThe other thing to think about if you work from home is that many meetings always start on the clock, on the hour. More companies are now starting their meetings at 10:15 or 11:20 to avoid the congestion getting into the network at the same time. But so far, again, our network is robust and it's working in this environment.\nWith the heightened and urgent dependency on our communications infrastructure, what is the risk of disruption due to security threats, particularly as we're pushing toward peak capacity?\nTo be honest, I think the peak mode is not the security risk here. All the risk is in the changed patterns. Much of corporate traffic, for example, has been at the office in the past. Now many company employees work from home or even on unknown Wi-Fi networks. That is posing a bigger cyberthreat at this moment.\nWe serve 98% of the Fortune 500. That is a constant discussion I have with many of the corporations about how you secure that.\nI think a lot of leaders now in this difficult economic time are trying to balance keeping their core business healthy and employment up to the extent that they can, versus doing R&D and investing for the future. At Verizon, how are you handling that balance? Have you had to derail some long-term projects just to get through this crisis?\nNo, we actually have done the opposite. We had guidance for 2020 to spend $17.5 billion on our networks during 2020. Two weeks ago, we decide to increase that to $18.5 billion. I think it's very different for different industries. In our case, we felt we can invest more at this time. And we think it's good for employment and for people, and we have that responsibility.\nIn terms of revenue growth, how do you think this epidemic will impact Verizon overall?\nIt's too early to judge. We are three or four weeks into this. Remember, we're different businesses, all the way from Verizon Media Group with all the Yahoo! assets to Verizon Business Group, serving large corporations, small and medium businesses, and well as the government, to the consumer business. Each may see a different impact. We saw in the first unemployment numbers out last week that clearly this will have an impact on our economy and the future of several countries and on the whole world. But it's too early to say anything about the impact on Verizon.\nWhat are the biggest changes or trends that you expect to see from consumers, both individual and corporate, post-pandemic? Are there things happening right now during this crisis that might hasten permanent trends?\nOne of the biggest societal impacts we will see is that people will find new ways to work. They actually found out you can work from home. You can be more flexible. But it also requires another way of communicating, because you don't have that direct physical contact with people.\nOf course, that change will not happen for everyone. Some work cannot be done from home. But that will be a long-lasting change. People will reassess their given core ideas about how to live their lives.\nI also think people will be much more cautious about viruses in the future. Because this is such a big crisis, and it's going to impact so many people, it is going to sit in people's heads for generations. That's going to change our behavior, for sure.\nIf our content helps you to contend with coronavirus and other challenges, please consider subscribing to HBR. A subscription purchase is the best way to support the creation of these resources.\nRead more on Crisis management or related topics Web-based technologies, Mobile and wireless technology and Telecom\nAdi Ignatius is the editor in chief of Harvard Business Review.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"November 17, 2020 | Community Finance\nLISC taps capital markets with $150 million in \"impact notes\"\nImpactAlpha, Nov. 16 \u2013 The notes from Local Initiatives Support Corp. are the latest example of the public market's appetite for debt from community development financial institutions, or CDFIs.\nThe S&P 'AA-' rated LISC Impact Notes notes will be issued monthly to retail and institutional investors in denominations as low as $1,000. The proceeds will support LISC's work in affordable housing, small businesses, health care, and other community investment. The notes are similar to those issued by Capital Impact Partners, an Arlington, Va.-based CDFI, which have raised more than $160 million since 2017. LISC issued a $100 million institutional bond the same year.\n\"The field of community development might be relatively new to the capital markets, but it is not new to meeting investor expectations for performance,\" said LISC's Maurice Jones. Diversification.\nMaurice Jones, Local Initiatives Support Corp.\nThe public markets offer a way for larger CDFIs to diversify their sources of capital and tap growing investor interest in social impact. Another impetus: A key bank regulator in June finalized Community Reinvestment Act rules that could reduce incentives for banks to finance community development. LISC, with a 40-year track record, has been on a fundraising tear, attracting investment from Kaiser Permanente, Netflix, MacKenzie Scott and others\nThe public markets offer a way for CDFIs large enough to absorb the costs to diversify their capital sources and tap into a growing investor interest in social impact. Another impetus: A key bank regulator in June finalized a Community Reinvestment Act rule that could reduce incentives for banks to finance community development.\nInnovative CDFIs scale up to help underserved communities move from relief to recovery\nLISC's 40-year track record has attracted support in recent months from organizations ranging from Kaiser Permanente to Netflix.\nLISC's Impact Notes align with the Social Bond Principles and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as verified by global rating and research firm Vigeo Eiris.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sahil Jawa\nJanuary\/February 2017 Fighting back against the engineering skills crisis Getting the measure of emissions Rapid Respo\nViews 136 Downloads 8 File size 8MB\nhttp:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/08\/addressing\/anonymous https:\/\/nodeD1.production.webservices.amadeus.com\/1ASIWMNIMNE http:\/\/we\nRapidex English Speaking Course (Telugu) 1 of 21 Visit: www.BookGanga.com http:\/\/www.bookganga.com\/Preview\/BookPrevie\nFORM 3-SCC REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURT OF SOCORRO Province of Oriental Mindoro JOVITA R. MONTEALE\n3 0 176KB Read more\nRapid Escalation\nKino escalationFull description\nRapid Survey\nSurvei cepat adalah salah satu bentuk survey alternative yang banyak digunakan karena timbulnya pertanyaan mendasar di l\nComputer-Assisted Rapid Surveys in Developing Countries RALPH R. FRERICHS, DVM, DrPH KHIN TAR TAR, MD, MPH Dr. Frerichs\nSOP Rapid\nSOP RAPID TEST COVID-19 SPO PUSKESMAS GATAK 1. Pengertian No.Dokumen : No. Revisi Tanggal Terbit :0 : Halaman : 1\n97 15 393KB Read more\nRapid Package\nRAPID PACKAGE SUMMARY Five of the contracts are for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) fo\nRapid-Escalation\n47 15 3MB Read more\nFighting back against the engineering skills crisis Getting the measure of emissions\nRapid Response How this prototype stays firmly grounded\nContacts Institution of Engineering Designers Courtleigh, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3TA Telephone: +44 (0)1373 822801 Fax: +44 (0)1373 858085 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ied.org.uk\n@InstEngDes\nInstitution of Engineering Designers\nFighting back against the engineering skills crisis\nPresident Ms Maggie Philbin Immediate Past President Sir George Cox HonFIED Chair Dr Tania Humphries-Smith BSc PGDip MPhil EdD CTPD CEng MIED FHEA FRSA Immediate Past Chair Simon Benfield CTPD CEng CEnv FIED(PCh) Vice Chairs EurIng C Ledsome BEng MEng CEng FIMechE FIED MCMI FBIS MDS Eurlng Professor SP Vaitkevicius BEng(Hons) MSc CEng FIED Ordinary Councillors PKR Bateman EngTech MIED Professor GN Blount BSc MSc PhD CEng FIMechE FIED(PCh) EurIng Dr L Buck BSc(Hons) MA PhD CTPD CEng FIED FHEA FRSA DTH Castle IEng RCADMan FIED MBCS CITP CMC Dowlen BTech CTPD CEng FIMechE REngDes FIED FRSA PFHEA D Farrell BSc(Hons) MTech CEng CTPD FIED Dr DJB Maffin PhD BEng CEng MRINA MIED(PCh) MAPM N Phelps IEng MIED Dr C J Simcock MEng&Man(Hons) EngD CTPD CEng FIMechE FIED Dr GAL Tizzard BSc MPhil DIC PhD MIEEE CEng MIED FHEA I Treacy BA MSc IEng MIED MIET Dr B Watson MDes(Hons) PhD LCGI CEng CEnv CTPD MIED Dr K Winning BEng(Hons) MEng MSc PhD CEng MIMechE CEnv FIED CGeog FRGS R Yuen MEng CEng MIED Note: (PP) \u2013 Past President, (PCh) \u2013 Past Chairman Honorary Treasurer ATA Keegan CEng FIED(PCh) Chief Executive EK Meyrick BSc(Hons) FRSA Managing Editor Libby Meyrick Editorial Committee SJ Benfield, MK Chowdhree, KL Edwards, PC Hills, GJ Jeffery, KW Kempson, C Ledsome, LJ Meaton, EK Meyrick, JD Poole\nGetting the measure of emissions\nEngineering Designer needs good articles on matters important to design. 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Engineering Designer is the Institution's bi-monthly journal sent to all Members, as well as design professionals and opinion formers in industry, schools, colleges and universities. Annual subscription rates for non-Members UK: Single issue: Overseas airmail: Schools and colleges:\nDisclaimer \u00a9 Copyright The Institution of Engineering Designers 2016 Unless otherwise indicated, views expressed are those of the editorial staff, contributors and correspondents. They are not necessarily the views of the Institution of Engineering Designers, its officers, or Council. The publication of an advertisement or editorial does not imply that a product\nor service is recommended or endorsed by the Institution. Material may only be reproduced in any form by prior arrangement and with due acknowledgement to Engineering Designer. 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We regret that we cannot accept responsibility for more than ONE INCORRECT insertion and that no republication or discount will be granted in the case of typographical or minor changes which do not affect the value of the advertisement.\nView from the Chair 4\nTackling the skills crisis\nEverywhere, design thinking is making its mark. But what role should the IED play?\nPost-Brexit, a renewed focus on industrial strategy is key to the UK's competitiveness, warns the engineering industry\nEmbracing the O-shaped designer Solving a sticky problem!\nColin Ledsome's latest 'Aside' tackles those plastic carrier bags you can't prise open\nBrexit: skills shortages and the future\nIED News\nSpotlight on council member Keith Winning, plus a round-up of all the latest Elections & Registrations\nGust of change\n42 Technology and Briton EMS have joined forces to develop a control system for a pioneering new gust generator, capable of simulating gusts at transonic, or cruising, speeds typically experienced by aircraft\n11 Your industry needs YOU!\nA full-size replica of a Spitfire fighter has been completed, in all of the splendour that made it so celebrated\nCOVER STORY Aerodynamic drive\nWomen make up around 8% of the workforce, so how can diversity and STEM careers be addressed in your local community?\nWhen designing its lightweight sports car, Elemental's starting point was performance and then styling had to fit around that, whatever the cost\nWith a commitment on the UK to achieve an 80% cut in carbon emissions by 2050, an update to Highways England's carbon accounting framework was much overdue\nIs it time to move away from the traditional 'T-shaped designer' with a broad set of skills and specialisation in one sector, towards one that is 'O-shaped', with a circular and systemic mind-set?\nGlory days relived Wright Hassall\nBeyond carbon counting\nAn enterprising researcher has upgraded the traditional white cane, used as a mobility tool for centuries, by adding a low-cost embedded computer\nVIEW FROM THE CHAIR\nn the Sept\/Oct 2016 issue, Ben Watson wrote about 'Design Thinking as Strategy' (p18) \u2013 essentially about applying the methodology used by designers to business and strategy development. Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, has also spoken about using design thinking for business strategy. Design thinking is something in which I have a personal interest and an area from which I believe the IED, going forward, should seek members \u2013 I wrote about this in my second 'View' in the Nov\/Dec 2015 issue. I have just read an article published a few days ago by Bradford Goldense on design thinking for the Internet of Things, which considers how design thinking has affected the product development process, producing 'Generation 8', according to Goldense. Gen 8 From primary ovarian insufficiency to improving suggests: \"Right now, the value of the product psychological interventions, design thinking is making is largely about the product itself. In the its mark. IED Chair Tania Humphries-Smith future, the value of the product will also be its information content, and its ability to aggregate takes up the story vertically and horizontally in the cloud.\" This is, of course, of particular interest to engineering and product designers. However, precisely where design thinking is now being applied is much broader than that considered by Ben Watson in his article. A quick trawl on Google Scholar produced academic papers reporting on design thinking surfacing in a diverse range of subject areas \u2013 from primary ovarian insufficiency to improving psychological interventions . And before you all say it's not the same kind of design thinking, 'Oh, yes, it is!' (well we are in panto season!). To quote: \"Most clinicians are not prepared to provide integrated personal care to address all the clinical needs of women with primary ovarian insufficiency. Design thinking is an engineering methodology used to develop and evaluate novel concepts for systems.\" (Martin L.A.et al). However, it is noteworthy that virtually all the publications are from the US. So, what is happening in the UK? How broadly is design thinking being adopted and how broadly should the IED embrace it? Have your say on this matter by voting in our new poll on the IED website. Dr Tania Humphries-Smith CEng CTPD MIED FHEA FRSA ([email protected])\nDesign thinking \u2013 everybody is doing it!\nBrown, T. (2016) Design Thinking: thoughts by Tim Brown. Accessed on 7 Dec 2016 at https:\/\/designthinking.ideo.com\/ Goldense, B. (2016) Design Thinking for IoT in the Product Development Process, MachineDesign. Accessed on 5 Dec 2016 at: http:\/\/machinedesign.com\/contributing-technical-experts\/design-thinking-iot-product-development-process Martin, L.A. et al (2016) A design thinking approach to primary ovarian insufficiency, US National Library of Medicine. Accessed on 6 Dec 2016 at https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27827529 Yeager, D.S.et al (2016) Using design thinking to improve psychological interventions: The case of the growth mindset during the transition to high school. Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 108(3), Apr 2016, 374-391. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/edu0000098\nIf you would like to contribute to any discussions, write to: Dr Tania Humphries-Smith CTPD CEng MIED FHEA FRSA, Chair, at: The Institution of Engineering Designers, Courtleigh, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire BA13 3TA. Or email: [email protected]\nwww.ied.org.uk\nSolving a sticky problem! M\nost people going to a supermarket buy fruit or vegetables and put them in a plastic bag \u2013 hopefully, bags they've brought from home for reuse, of course. Sometimes, they are obliged to purchase new ones, though, and here comes the challenge: trying to get the things open. The same happens with all the endless rolls of sandwich, rubbish, freezer, storage and other bags of all sizes that we buy and use to fill our cupboards and drawers. Add up all the time and we probably spend several hours a year trying to open plastic bags. If you wet your fingertips, they tend to stick to the plastic and help to slide one side over the other until air gets in. But it still takes a while to get the job done. So, how did we get into such a sticky situation? It's all to do with the manufacturing process.\nThe bags are made from a continuous plastic tube, which passes through guides and rollers to produce a symmetrical pleat down opposite sides as it is flattened. A series of cutting (or perforating) and heat-sealing operations produces a sealed bottom and a pair of handles for each bag, but also flattens all of the air out of them. And here's the rub, if you'll forgive the pun. It's this vacuum between the sides of the bag that makes them difficult to open. A cross-section of a typical bag is shown below, with the pleated section allowing the handles to have more material to give them strength: However, only a slight adjustment to the guides could make the pleats asymmetric, like so:\nThis is enough to leave a single fold protruding down each side. Grasp these with a finger and thumb of each hand, pull apart and the two sides will slide across each other, admitting air and allowing the bag to be easily opened. So, it isn't perfectly symmetrical anymore! If the pleats are deeper, the total width can still be the same. If it saves a few seconds a bag, that's hours of frustration saved for thousands of customers in a year at every supermarket and countless other retail outlets. And, after all, keeping your customers happy is the basis of any successful business. Roll on next Christmas?\nColin Ledsome CEng FIED, on how customers might be saved thousands of hours of frustration when trying to open up unused plastic bags\nINDUSTRIAL STRATEGY\nTackling the engineering\nskills crisis\nIn the wake of the Brexit vote, a renewed focus on industrial strategy is key to the UK's global competitiveness outside the EU, warns the engineering industry\nhe government's renewed focus on industrial strategy is a major opportunity to help the UK compete on the world stage \u2013 but Brexit must not restrict access to the engineering skills from across Europe that our economy relies on. That is the findings of a new report, 'Engineering a future outside the EU: securing the best outcome for the UK', published by the UK engineering profession. Compiled by an alliance of the UK's professional engineering organisations, including the IED, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering and representing over 450,000 engineers, the report draws on wide-ranging consultation with engineers from all corners of the profession, including from academia, industry and the public sector. With engineering contributing at least \u00a3280 billion in gross value added to\nLibby Meyrick: IED is actively engaged in seeking to lessen the Brexit impact\nthe economy \u2013 20% of the total \u2013 the report aims to inform government of the key issues that impact on the UK's engineering performance as it forms its position on leaving the EU. Highlighted is the challenge that Brexit could present to the supply of skilled engineers from the EU, who are essential to maintaining the world-class quality and success of UK engineering companies and universities. In academia, engineering has proportionally more staff originating from the EU (15%) than across all subjects as a whole. The report findings emphasise that uncertainty about the status of EU workers in the UK and further risks to the supply of skilled engineers are likely to result in delays to major infrastructure projects such as HS2, Thames Tideway and Hinkley Point C, which will face recruitment difficulties and increasing costs, if demand for labour outstrips supply. In response to these potential challenges, the report calls on government and the engineering community to work together to take decisive action on the engineering skills crisis, as well as to develop a 'Shortage Occupation List' for engineering positions that cannot be filled domestically in the short term. It advocates straightforward solutions, such as temporary visas for skilled engineers from EU countries with the specialist skills that the UK lacks. The report also calls on the UK government to extend procedures for intracompany transfers to cover EU citizens, as many companies require their engineers to move freely to support and fulfil contracts.\nIMPACT ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Innovation is critical to the UK's economy and productivity , the engineering industry points out, as sectors with high concentrations of graduate engineers report greater than average levels of innovation activity and innovation-related income alongside greater productivity . The UK has a globally excellent and highly productive research and innovation base, to which EU support and collaboration has significantly contributed. The report warns, however, that losing access to EU research and innovation funding programmes would pose a considerable risk to the quality and quantity of UK research and innovation, and, in turn, to UK GDP. Evidence suggests that EU collaboration with UK researchers is already been put on hold or has been scaled back since the referendum and, if European project funding becomes less available, the UK is likely to become a less attractive destination for the brightest and best students and researchers. In recognition of the importance of European funding streams and collaboration frameworks to UK research and innovation, a key recommendation is that government seeks the closest\nachievable association with relevant EU programmes, and develops long-term funding streams that complement current funding by encouraging international mobility and collaboration, particularly between industry and academia.\nOPPORTUNITY FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP Throughout the consultation process, one opportunity was pointed to repeatedly: the development of a new industrial strategy, in partnership with academia and industry, as a route to enabling engineering to maintain and increase its contribution to economic development and social progress after the UK leaves the EU. Engineering a future outside the EU highlights the UK's strengths in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), including a relatively open attitude to foreign ownership of assets and a flexible labour market. It calls on the government to continue to create the conditions for the UK to attract a high level of FDI by developing policies and frameworks that are designed to lower the costs of doing business and that make the UK an attractive place to invest in. Standards and legislation are recognised in the findings as non-tariff\nbarriers that are crucial to strong trade relations, with the UK's continued leading role in developing European and global standards seen as being particularly important. The report emphasises, for example, that it will be necessary for data protection and cyber security laws to be closely comparable to EU law, in order to avoid barriers to trade, and that frameworks need to be put in place that allow the UK to continue to collaborate in the digital single market. The internet economy contributes 8% of the UK's GDP, a greater contribution than in any other G20 country, and policy changes that limit ongoing collaboration in the sector would undermine the UK's leadership.\nENORMOUS CONTRIBUTION Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FREng FRS HonFIED, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, comments: \"Engineering makes an enormous contribution to economic and social progress in the UK, and we have heard from a significant cross-section of the engineering profession that leaving the EU poses a real challenge to this contribution. \"For many we have consulted over the last two months, plans to trigger Article 50 raise questions about our ability to\nProfessor Dame Ann Dowling HonFIED: questions raised about our ability to train enough skilled engineers train enough skilled engineers to meet the country's needs, to attract the brightest and best international talent to the UK to address specific skills shortages, and to collaborate with colleagues in non-UK European Union countries in a way that accelerates innovation that is of value to wider society,\" she adds. Libby Meyrick, CEO of the IED, comments: \"A poll of IED membership taken before the EU vote showed that 65% of members thought that Brexit would be detrimental to their industry. The work by the IED and others within the community to create this paper, which has been widely welcomed by government, aims to lessen that impact and ensure the best deal for engineers and engineering in a post-EU industry.\"\nGreat expectations for the\n-shaped designer\nEconomic and environmental considerations are putting more responsibilities on engineering and design students, academics and professionals to explore, create, try out and implement innovative solutions for a sustainable future. Here, Francesco Mazzarella and Clare Brass ponder this massive challenge\nof students in the transition towards sustainability. Within this context, education plays a key role in shaping a new kind of professional as driver of a sustainable future, able to accelerate the transition from a consumerist economy, towards a sharing and circular economy, shifting from material consumption to collaborative consumption. If we accept Einstein's view that 'we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them', it is clear that a new ecology of engineering and design culture Einstein: 'we cannot solve our problems with the is needed, challenging many of their same thinking we used when we created them' traditional paradigms. innovative solutions for a sustainable With this in mind, we believe it is future. Here, the co-authors share with time to move away from the traditional Engineering Designer their insights on 'T-shaped designer', who has a broad set what informed that paper: of skills and specialisation in one sector, In the face of complex challenges towards one that is 'O-shaped', with a such as climate change, biodiversity circular and systemic mind-set. Such a loss, ageing population, austerity, professional focuses on the processes mass migration (to name but a few), and services necessary to drive new engineering and design students are ecosystems that go beyond the design of broadening their skills sets to address physical things. issues outside of the traditional remit of However, if we want engineering and their discipline. design to be part of the solution, are At the same time, academics are we asking the right questions? Both in finding ways to integrate new methods to postgraduate engineering and design satisfy the changing needs and interests education and businesses, briefs tend MARKA \/ Alamy Stock Photo\nhe 2015 and 17th Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE) conference was an impressive affair, providing an international panel of representatives from education, research and industry with a forum for discussing current issues in the disciplines of engineering and design, and shaping new approaches for education. E&PDE was hosted by Loughborough Design School, in partnership with the Design Education Special Interest Group of the Design Society and the IED. 'Great Expectations: Design Teaching, Research & Enterprise' was that conference theme, articulated in a rich programme of strands, ranging from pedagogy to learning paradigms and environments, to research into problemand project- based learning, including social and ethical issues, innovation and technology transfer. Under the 'Exploring Design Education' track, a paper by Clare Brass and Francesco Mazzarella, titled 'Are we asking the right questions?', reflected on how the current economic and environmental crisis is creating growing expectations on engineering and design students, academics and professionals to explore experiment and implement\nto focus on products, market and on economic growth, following a linear problem solving approach. Instead, we \u2013 as citizens, policy makers, businesses and educators \u2013 should pose more suitable briefs, which incorporate strategies, services and systems, addressing holistic sustainability.\nDRIVING SUSTAINABILITY The reframing of questions has been embedded into teaching practice at the Royal College of Art, largely thanks to SustainRCA, an independent research unit set up in 2011. SustainRCA has been fundamental in driving sustainability as one of the core learning objectives and assessment criterion across the college, with a particular focus on Innovation Design Engineering (IDE), a two-year\npostgraduate programme, with students from a variety of backgrounds. SustainRCA provides tutorials, workshops, talks, exhibitions and a network of experts to encourage students to address sustainability challenges in innovative and entrepreneurial ways, following a rigorous double-diamond process. The broad brief given in the initial phase stimulates deep research into a specific issue and stretches the emphasis from products to include systems, stakeholders and the relationships between them. A detailed brief is generated during the next phase and ideas that are viable in the real world are explored, with a focus on economic models and the potential of technology to scale up their innovative ideas within future scenarios. After mapping and imagining possible futures, students are encouraged to zoom in, exploring users and their journeys, in order to define the product and service needs of the system, and pursue lifecycle analysis, using specialist tools. Finally, to develop and assess their concepts, students are asked to zoom out again to the real world and generate compelling stories to explain their ideas. Continued\nABOUT THE AUTHORS Francesco Mazzarella is a PhD researcher at Loughborough University (UK), within the Sustainable Design Research Group, funded by the AHRC Design Star CDT. His research project aims to explore how the service designer can contribute to identifying pathways for transitioning textile artisans' communities towards a sustainable future. He has international experiences as a design researcher, teaching assistant and practitioner. His work has been published in international peer-reviewed conference proceedings, presented at PhD symposia and included in academic poster competitions. Clare Brass is founder and head of SustainRCA, a cross-departmental research centre for sustainability at the Royal College of Art, and cofounder of Department 22, an educational and training organisation for sustainability and circular economy. She coaches in various design and business schools, helping participants use their creative skills to find circular economy responses to social and environmental issues through tutorials, as well as national and international workshops. She is also senior design tutor for Sustainability and Enterprise in IDE (Innovation Design Engineering) and a mentor for the Ellen McArthur Foundation. Ooho!, designed by a group of IDE graduates, is an open-source, doit-yourself, cradle-to-cradle water 'packaging' concept.\n(photo: Coral3, Nell Bennett [MA\/MSc Innovation Design Engineering] 2014)\nSocial entrepreneur Nell Bennett's project, Coral3, is a 3D printed rock whose alkaline structure is designed to allow water flow to dissolve it over time, increasing the pH value of the ocean water surrounding endangered coral reefs\nBRIEFING RADICAL INNOVATIONS This teaching practice has led to the development of new tools and methods, as well as some innovative outcomes. A research project funded by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Plan) in 2016 was set up to develop new service design-led business models, tackling the environmental impacts of clothing. The project brought in students from two business schools to work together with MA Service Design and MA Fashion Design students, not only with the aim of addressing the end-of-life recycling of fashion and textiles, but also to explore circular business models for the sector, encouraging extended use, maintenance, care, reuse and repair. Repeatedly in this kind of process, the most successful ideas were those that started with goalfocused questions, provoking radical innovations that reimagine lifestyles and behaviours in the future. Another project, 'Ooho!', designed by a group of IDE graduates, is an open-source, do-it-yourself, cradle-tocradle water 'packaging' concept. This started not from the brief of 'designing a sustainable water bottle', but from the question: 'How can we carry water with us on the move and have a net-positive impact on the environment?' By mimicking the way nature encapsulates liquids using membranes, 'Ooho!' is an edible\ngelatinous structure made of brown algae and calcium chloride, grown around a sphere of frozen water; the disposal of the membrane into the biosphere would provide a nutrient to the soil. By asking students to consider a different question at the start of a project, cutting-edge ideas can be brought into discussion. The idea that nature is 'a mechanical artefact open to scientific investigation in the pursuit of rational progress, to be dominated by humans' has driven our world-view since Elizabethan times and has pervaded our training as designers and engineers. In this universal mind-set, humans are positioned at the centre of the universe and all other living beings are evaluated in relation to their usefulness to us. Instead, we believe in a new narrative of bio-centrism, acknowledging humans as one species amongst many, all with intrinsic and instrumental values, and focusing on the sustainable interdependence between diverse ecosystems. This bio-centric framework was applied by SustainRCA, for example, in the Chicken Run project, with the aim to improve the environmental impact of the poultry industry and enhance the welfare conditions in modern chicken production facilities. In all, 25 students worked in groups together with a leading team of scientists to holistically explore the world of poultry. A series of personas\nand user maps were created, following the journey of a chicken from egg to plate, that focused on three main stakeholders: farmers, consumers and chickens. Finally, a good example of a young social entrepreneur tackling environmental issues is Nell Bennett, MA\/MSc Innovation Design Engineering. Her project, Coral3, is a 3D printed rock, whose alkaline structure is designed using a natural algorithm that allows water flow to dissolve the structure over time, increasing the pH value of the ocean water surrounding endangered coral reefs. This project is envisioned as a largescale social enterprise involving many stakeholders, providing local communities with economic and environmental benefits, as well as increased awareness.\nCRITICAL JUNCTURE In conclusion, we believe that engineering and design education are at a critical point, opening up the opportunity to nurture cross-disciplinary collaborations between academia and the outside world, and reframe a mindful agenda. New briefs are being set, asking students to explore 'wicked problems' through a palette of new tools, and assessing the viability and scalability of projects according to sustainability criteria. Reframing the brief through asking the right questions is a critical element for creating the new narratives of a sustainable future.\nREPLICA SPITFIRE\nThe finished FRP composite replica Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB.\nGlory days RELIVED An exact full-size replica of a Spitfire fighter has been completed, in all its glory. Here is the story behind this remarkable achievement\nesigned by Reginald Mitchell \u2013 and produced from 19381948 at Supermarine Aviation where he was employed as an engineer \u2013 the original Spitfire fighter-interceptor was the first 'all-metal' stressed-skin aircraft. Now the Spitfire Heritage Trust has built from scratch an exact full size 'all fibreglass' replica of the iconic WWII 'Battle of Britain' Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB. Moreover, every single one of the glass reinforced plastic (GRP) aircraft body parts that has been manufactured for this replica plane was moulded using laminating resins and structural adhesive materials supplied by the project's principal sponsor Scott Bader, which donated the majority of the composite materials used to construct the Lesotho replica Spitfire.\nGIFT OF WAR TRIBUTE This remarkable GRP replica Spitfire was specially built in the UK for the Kingdom of Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) in southern Africa by a dedicated team of volunteers from The Spitfire Heritage Trust. The driving force was to recognise and pay tribute to the generous 'Gift of War' given in June 1940 by the people of Basutoland, which at the time boasted a population of only 400,000. The response to the war funds appeal was overwhelming, raising sufficient money from donations to pay for the (then) costs of manufacturing 24 Spitfires, so providing much needed new fighter-aircraft for two full-strength Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfire fighter squadrons. From this 'Gift of War', No. 72 (Basutoland) Squadron was born in 1940 and continues today as an active RAF training squadron, in which trainee pilots\nnow fly the RAF's advanced trainer, the Tucano T1, built under licence by Shorts of Belfast, before going on to fast\u2013jet training.\nREPLICA PRODUCTION TEAM The Lesotho replica Spitfire was manufactured in Victoria, close to St Austell, Cornwall, in the south west of England, using factory space, facilities and GRP expertise provided by Paul Ching, managing director of Evolution Boats. Ching is a master mould designer and keen Spitfire enthusiast, who brought invaluable experience to the team, having previously built a FRP replica Spitfire IIa for the RAF, which is still on permanent display at RAF High Wycombe [http:\/\/ www.raf.mod.uk\/rafhighwycombe\/]. Being a volunteer-manned project, it took a little over four years for the\nsmall production team to finish the replica, which had to be completed and supplied this year to tie in with the 50th Anniversary of Lesotho's Independence from Great Britain. Working alongside Ching, and the mainstay of the Spitfire Heritage Trust Lesotho project production team, was replica manufacturing veteran Patrick J. Mitchell, who has been involved in many similar projects, including previously building four other replica Spitfires; while not related to the famous Spitfire designer R.J Mitchell, with whom he shares the same surname, Pat (P.J. Mitchell) feels connected 'in spirit', given his passion for the aircraft. The team started from scratch, with the key first stage of the project being to fabricate the individual patterns and plugs. New moulds were produced for each of the GRP parts required to produce the replica propeller, and the monocoque composite sections that make up the fuselage, wings and tail sections; exact dimensions were achieved at this critical mould-making stage by copying off an existing original aircraft. Once all the moulds had been produced and checked, the next stage of the project was to start laminating the FRP parts, section by section.\nTECHNICAL CHALLENGES For this static display replica aircraft, using hand lay-up glass fibre-UPR resin-based laminate systems was technically sufficient for moulding the GRP parts. However, there were still a number of technical performance-in-use considerations to ensure the correct choice of laminate system for specific sections of the aircraft, so that key areas would have the necessary mechanical and physical properties needed to cope with being exposed long-term to the elements. Annual climatic conditions in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho where the Spitfire is destined as a permanent outdoor display showpiece, typically have seasonal wet and very dry conditions, high winds, extensive periods of intense sunlight and a range of extremes in the ambient temperature, from as low as -10\u00b0C (14\u00b0F) at night in winter up to an average daytime of 28\u00b0C (82.4\u00b0F) in high summer, with maximum temperatures sometimes\nReplica Spitfire 'BAHLABANI' on display in Lesotho\nexceeding 35\u00b0C (95\u00b0F). To cope with these extreme outdoor conditions, after taking advice from Scott Bader's technical support team, two different Crystic polyester back-up resin grades were specified. For the wings, given the dark paint colours used to camouflage the upper sides, along with prolonged periods in direct sunlight, the upper surface temperature was expected to regularly exceed 30\u00b0C (86\u00b0F) in high summer. Meanwhile, to ensure the wing sections maintained stiffness, did not warp or twist and could support their own weight in these high ambient temperatures, Crystic 489PA isophthalic unsaturated polyester (UP) resin was specified, due to its elevated temperature performance, providing excellent strength retention up to 40\u00b0C (104\u00b0F). In addition to the upper and lower GRP wing sections and inner cross stays, the inner 'I' beam-shaped GRP main spars (one for each wing), which run the length of the wing and fit into a rectangular 'carry-through' tube via the lower fuselage section in front of the cockpit, were also laminated, using glass reinforced Crystic 489PA resin on the primary structural bulkhead immediately after the engine nose section. Crystic 489PA is, in fact,a Lloyd's approved marine resin grade, with proven long-term performance in composite boatbuilding for both deck and hull applications. According to published Scott Bader technical data, performance values for fully cured laminate test pieces made using Crystic 489PA back-up resin,\nThe bare FRP mouldings in early 2015\nwith four layers of 450 g\/sq.m PB CSM (31.8% glass content), include tensile strength figures of 128 MPa, with a flexural modulus of 7400 MPa and flexural strength of 212 MPa. For the main fuselage sections and the tail, Crystic 2.414PA, a low styrene, low exotherm, rapid hardening orthophthalic resin (also a Lloyd's approved marine grade resin) was recommended, being an easy to use, high productivity hand lay-up laminating resin.\nSTRUCTURAL BONDING BENEFITS The wing sections were also bonded together, using Scott Bader's primerless MMA Crestabond M1-30 structural adhesive, especially in high stress areas. Crestabond M1-30 was used to join the upper and lower FRP wing sections together, the internal FRP spars in the tail and fuselage, as well as for bonding in metal inserts where needed. A critical stress area where Crestabond M1-30 was used was to secure the underside rigid mountings on which the replica is permanently secured in its display\nprovided by the Spitfire Heritage as a legacy for future generations, in the hope that this will stimulate interest and help to foster stronger social and economic connections with Great Britain in the future. The legacy includes the creation and provision of a new composites apprentice training programme for a number of young adults working in SMEs in Lesotho. Scott Bader South Africa, which has its main chemical production plant located in Hammersdale, some 215 km from the border with neighbouring Lesotho, has also agreed to provide technical support, including the use of its laboratories\nThe stressed wing skins, supported by rib and I-beam spar components\nposition; the mounting must be able to withstand the very high stress loading coming through the wings, in particular during high winds. David Spencer Evans, chairman of The Spitfire Trust and replica expert, explains: \"It is less well known that replica aircraft wings and mountings can come under higher loads than in flight during high winds. This is one of the reasons that the project team spent the time we did evaluating all of the technical requirements with Scott Bader, selecting the most suitable laminating resins and level of glass fibre reinforcement for each FRP part, and pinpointing where it was advantageous to use a structural adhesive,\" he explains.\nWork in progress - closing the wings and camouflage\nfor projects and advice regarding the programme. Today, there is only a very limited number of surviving original airworthy Spitfire fighter aircraft, totalling around 60 worldwide, with only half that number typically airworthy at any given time; sadly, so few planes simply cannot meet the huge annual demand for 'Battle of Britain' aircraft appearances at air shows around the UK and in Commonwealth countries across the world. To address this issue, the Spitfire Heritage Trust team has, over the past six years, been developing an airworthy full-scale replica two-seater\nSpitfire that can be cost effectively produced in small to medium numbers. A prototype is planned to be ready for airtesting in 2019. The full size, airworthy, near-identical replica, known as a Spitfire Type 2K, is aerodynamically very similar to the original Mk I Spitfire, but will be just over half the weight, due to having a carbon fibre technology-based monocoque airframe. As part of the critical design stage, all of the structural elements are being developed and optimised using finiteelement-analysis software. Preliminary discussions have taken place between the Spitfire Trust's project team and technical experts in Scott Bader to evaluate the use of an advanced carbon fibre reinforced composite vacuum infusion laminate system, using the high performance Crestapol 1251PA urethane acrylate resin; in the USA, Crestapol 1250LV has already been used in a replica aircraft development project, in combination with carbon\/Innegra hybrid woven fabric reinforcements, cores and other reinforcements to vacuum infuse outer composite skin CFRP fuselage halves that attach to the steel fuselage frame of a replica American WW2 fighter aircraft. The Spitfire Heritage Trust intends to replicate the Tribute program across the Commonwealth, offering both static and airworthy replicas. The aim for the trust, given sufficient funding, is to enable many more people and future generations to experience the thrill of seeing a Spitfire flying in the skies across the UK and all over the world, and to remember and pay tribute to those from the Commonwealth countries who gave so much during the Second World War.\nOFFICIAL HANDOVER CEREMONY The finished replica Spitfire was shipped to Lesotho, reassembled and formerly handed over on Remembrance Sunday, 13 November 2016, as part of the official Armistice Day events this year in the capital Maseru. This long overdue WW2 tribute to the people of Lesotho has been\nLeft wing being attached to the fuselage\nLaid-back approach to\nAERODYNAMIC DRIVE\nDesigning a sports car starts with making it look good. Or does it? Elemental started with aerodynamics and it resulted in a fundamental shift in the driving position. Tim Fryer reports\nlemental kicked off in 2012 when former McLaren engineer John Begley set out on a quest to design and build the ultimate lightweight track day car that would also be road legal. It was a notion that came to Begley when he was trying to buy himself a track day car and found during his test drives that every car was a compromise \u2013 there was always something in the design, the performance or the functionality that could be done better. And so he set out to try to do better himself. His goal was to design a car that would be capable of driving to Le Mans, a car designed with F1\/LMP inspired aerodynamics, cutting edge materials, modern powertrains and built to the highest production standards. LMP (Le Mans Prototypes) require all the mechanics to be covered and are regarded as the fastest closed wheel cars. Peter Kent, another ex-McLaren engineer who built up experience of composites working on the P1, has had a critical input into the design of the car. However, the use of advanced materials was always going to be a given. The fundamental design was not. \"It's all derived from the aerodynamics,\" he says. \"The aerodynamics has defined the seating position of this car and it turns out that it's incredibly comfortable. So it actually made it quite hard for Guy [Colbourne], who's done all the styling on the vehicle, because a lot of the time styling dictates and it can have a detrimental effect on the aerodynamics or the performance. But not with this one; performance comes first and then styling has to fit around that, whatever the cost.\" Mark Fowler, who is the co-founder of Elemental, brought his F1 experience of aerodynamics to the company. Introducing the novel seating position, otherwise only used in motorsport, needed some hard evidence, if it was to become the starting point for the design. \"I think the most\nelegant way to generate downforce is with the floor,\" comments Fowler. \"You don't have any wings and aerofoils sticking out. It's also very efficient, because you've got a very large surface. The air's going to go into the car anyway, so all we wanted to do was use it. So, by putting the feet up, you can fit in a front diffuser and, by packaging the engine longitudinally, we can fit in a large rear diffuser.\" More importantly, it means the path the air takes can be started early and use the full length of the car, so the maximum amount of 'work' can be extracted from the air. This aerodynamic work is essential, because the vehicle is so light (either 540kg or 580kg, depending on the engine) and therefore not supplying enough intrinsic load on the tyres to provide grip while cornering at high speed would result in poor handling. Essentially, he says, it operates like an upside down wing with a splitter at the front of the car sending as much air as possible under the vehicle. \"The more air you put under there, the lower the pressure you get. Then, once you have that air, you want the big diffusers to extract work from it. By giving those diffusers as much air as possible, you maximise the amount of downforce they can generate. So that's why it was conceived right from the start.\" More complex analysis was to follow, as iterations of the concept developed. Such analysis required more sophisticated software and for this Elemental turned to LCS, a consultancy specialising in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for high-end customers. Its CFD package, Fast, was used to refine the design of the RP1 \u2013 the name of the launch vehicle. This is authentic, high-end technology,\" says LCS's CEO Mark Taylor. \"Freeware was a useful tool initially, but no use if you want to get the type of performance these guys want. They have twice the downforce of any of their competitors.\nThey definitely do have that, although some of their competitors are not so sure how. So, as soon as you want to push the boundaries like that, you need the higher end tools to be sure of the accuracy, which is where we came in. \"The first thing we did was take the concept car to a wind tunnel to verify our CFD was right. Because CFD is a mathematical model, it has assumptions about turbulence. So the initial step that's involved is make sure that your mathematical model is correct. Having established that with data from the wind tunnel, we can do the next design with confidence,\" he adds. Using this tool, it was possible to tune the aero balance on the front and\nRp1 Vital Statistics WIDTH 1775 mm LENGTH 3740 mm HEIGHT 1070 mm GROUND CLEARANCE 110 mm (adjustable) TURNING CIRCLE 10.2 m\n1.0l Ecoboost MAX SPEED || 145 mph 0 \u2013 60MPH || 3.2 sec 0 \u2013 100MPH || 7.8 sec POWER 180 bhp WEIGHT 540 kg\n2.0l Ecoboost MAX SPEED 65 mph 0 \u2013 60MPH 2.8 sec 0 \u2013 100MPH 6.4 sec POWER 320 bhp WEIGHT 580 kg\nrear axles, ensuring that the car behaved properly \u2013 no understeer or oversteer when it was operating at its limit. Taylor continues: \"We can refine that based on what Mark [Fowler] understands from the mechanical side. From the vehicle dynamics side, you get the aero integrated with mechanical and the driver gets the optimum car behaviour. So, before Elemental spent any money making carvings or designing the tooling, they know it's going to work.\"\nMATERIAL MATTERS The original plan had been to build an aluminium frame and clad it with carbon or glass fibre bodywork. It took a long time to build, so the company pulled on its experience of composites in Formula One and aerospace, and decided to make the central tub of carbon and bolt the front and rear chassis on to that. As Kent comments: \"We were really pleased with the results on that and the torsional stiffness is phenomenal.\" The material is a prepreg carbon fibre material that is well proven in F1 and aerospace, but it comes at a cost. However, when Kent looked further into the reason why it cost so much, it emerged that the material itself is not expensive at all. The costs come from the labour-intensive methods in which parts are made. He describes how Elemental tackled the problem: \"We developed processes that completely minimise that labour time. That's how we've got the cost out of it, but still use the very high-tech material.\"\nThat process was developed with a Portuguese company called Optimal Structural Solutions (OSS), which manufactures the tubs and all the composite bodywork. OSS is run by another McLaren associate, Antonio Reis, who became involved when Elemental started to gear up towards production. Kent was delighted to have him fully involved. \"He's known about this project from day one and he's always done the stress analysis on the vehicle. He's set up a tooling and composite manufacturing business in Portugal \u2212 he wanted to be part of this and we were really happy for him to be manufacturing the parts for us. It just seemed perfect.\" Taking the cost out of the moulding process essentially came down to making it very quick and easy to produce by designing it in manageable pieces. Rather than try to use a single sheet to make an entire moulding, a kit of plies in easy shapes is created. \"If you're clever about the way you split it up, it becomes incredibly easy to laminate a part,\" says Kent. There are actually four composite parts now in the tub \u2013 two side pods, the dash panel and the centre console \u2013 along with the aluminium floor and bulkheads. Just about everything else on the vehicle is made within a 20-mile radius of the Elemental base in rural Hampshire. Even the engine comes from the Ford dealership in Portsmouth. One departure in the material regime is the rear wheel arch, where Elemental is trialling a new carbon fibre composite from Coats Industrial. Processing it is a two part drill, different from the other moulding techniques. \"It's not complicated once you've got the tooling,\" he states. \"There are initial tooling costs for this, but part cost is\nminimal. Because it's a brand new process, we would look to start using it in other areas of the car. And also, unlike a lot of other new materials out there, you can keep 99% of the properties of the material. You can align the fibres in exactly the direction, and orientation, that you want them. It's called tailored fibre placements. \"When we designed the tub, this material didn't exist. We were approached by Coats and Shape Machining, which carries out work with us on this car. They approached us and said, 'We'd like to trial a part on the car'. So we had a look around the vehicle and thought, right, what can we start with? This [the rear wheel arch] actually seemed perfect, because it's going to get a whole load of stuff thrown at it by the tyre and it's got to be fairly stiff, because it's linking one of the 200L luggage pods to the rear structure,\" he confirms. The balance is delicate. Higher tooling costs against lower piece costs on account of the reduced manufacturing time. Potentially the material could be rolled out to all the other body parts of the car. The pre-production car made a successful debut in June doing the hill climb at the Goodwood 2016 Festival of Speed and the first production models have rolled off the assembly line since. But has it satisfied Begley's original vision \u2013 a road\/track high performance car with no compromises? His response is cautiously confident. \"It looks like it's going to be unnerving to get in, but the controls, and the feel of the car, just seem right. The performance is extreme, but you can work within that. It's not hit the pedal and you go at a million miles an hour; it's controllable.\" Article appears courtesy of Eureka magazine\nBeyond Carbon Counting With a legally binding commitment on the UK to achieve an 80% cut in carbon emissions by 2050, an update to Highways England's previous carbon accounting framework was much overdue. Bram Miller PIEMA and Mike Pantling CEnv C.WEM MCIWEM report\neading engineering, design and consultancy company Ramboll was commissioned by Highways England (formerly the Highways Agency) to create a new carbon framework (ie, for infrastructure or construction, not a general tool) that would give Highways England the means to record more accurately the sources of their construction and maintenance supply chain carbon emissions. The project team delivered a sophisticated and robust carbon accounting tool, using VBA excel coding and interactive guidance documents. The new tool and documents provided a\nframework that gives Highways England the tools to facilitate carbon reductions in construction and maintenance activities, and provides them with the future ability for \"carbon accounting\". Highways England has been collecting data on its construction and maintenance suppliers' carbon emissions since 2009. Suppliers provide data in an Excel spreadsheet where they record the materials, fuels and energy used during each quarter of their contract. The spreadsheet then calculates the emissions these inputs generate and this is provided back to Highways England to record in a central database.\nThe previous tool, which was used to collect this data, allowed Highways England to report on its carbon emissions as part of the corporate reporting processes in its annual reports and accounts, in accordance with HM Treasury requirements. \"The UK has a legally binding commitment to achieve an 80% reduction in its carbon emissions by 2050. The Government has also committed to halving UK emissions during the 2023 to 2027 carbon budget period, relative to 1990. Although there are no sectorspecific targets, the infrastructure sector does have control over almost one sixth\nABOUT THE AUTHORS Bram Miller CEnv C.WEM MCIWEM has very wideranging experience as a sustainability professional as a director with Ramboll Environ (Gifford, prior to acquisition by Ramboll), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ghana and as an advisor to the Cambodian government. He has significant experience of embedding sustainability into engineering projects and processes, in sectors such as waste management, transport infrastructure, commercial and residential buildings and energy. Recently, he has led various tasks for Highways England aimed at optimising its sustainability performance, such as developing designs for innovative environmental barriers and investigating opportunities for minimising water use in highways operations and construction. Michael Pantling PIEMA is a consultant in environmental planning and sustainability at Ramboll Environ. He has deep experience in strategic level sustainability, most notably for Highways England, as well as project level environmental planning. Projects in which he has played a key role include sports stadium waste management design, highway noise barrier innovation and urban development.\nof total emissions and therefore has a key role to play in contributing to the national reduction.\" (HMT, Nov 2013). In the context of these targets, the previous carbon accounting framework, which had been in operation for several years, needed to be updated. Through both internal and external Highways England audits, opportunities became apparent to improve the tool. These included increasing robustness of data, improving performance management (ie, shifting to carbon accounting, as opposed to carbon 'counting') and improving the usability.\nUNDERSTANDING CARBON ACCOUNTING Carbon accounting is an evolving discipline, which Ramboll's clients are often required to consider, to fulfil requirements placed upon them by government or to show their customers and stakeholders that they are aware of, and are trying to reduce, their carbon footprint. Genuine carbon accounting is more than just measuring carbon: it is the measurement of carbon in a way which facilitates management and reductions. Therefore, the objective of this project was to provide a tool that was sufficiently robust for Highways England to base future carbon management decisions on. This required a tool that captured a greater level of detail in a more systematic way. Furthermore, the new carbon framework also needed to include the capability for suppliers to provide a forecast of their emissions for the next month or quarter. This provides a first step towards future forecasting, as opposed to retrospective measurement, with the aim of facilitating future reductions, similar to financial accounting.\nTHE NEW TOOL It was decided that the new tool would continue to use an Excel platform. This allowed Ramboll to utilise a full range of Excel VBA coding capabilities and provide a familiar platform for users. In line with guidance, Publically Available Standard PAS2050 and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the tool needed to aim to capture at least 95% of all carbon emissions produced by a supplier for a given project. This required a detailed analysis of the most carbon intensive and critical aspects of the construction and maintenance process to ensure they were sufficiently captured. The tool also needed to provide flexibility. Therefore the emissions factors used are displayed within the carbon tool to allow suppliers to understand how their data has been converted into tCO2e. Through stakeholder engagement, it became clear that suppliers wanted to be able to demonstrate proactive carbon reduction decisions in the tool. For example, if they have sourced a lower\nOff-site fabrication in progress\ncarbon steel. As such, the framework has built in functionality for suppliers to enter bespoke emissions factors, backed up by evidence, if they consider this to be appropriate.\nINTUITIVE LIST OF MATERIALS Ensuring that the new tool would be intuitive to use was one of the biggest priorities. The first step to achieving this was to provide the user with a list of materials they could understand instantly, without needing to perform calculations to enter the necessary data. To make the process more intuitive, research was conducted to ascertain the materials, fuels and energy used on site, and the most convenient unit for a supplier to record this in. Essentially, this is the unit in which they purchase it. For example, pipework is ordered by length (m) and gravel by weight (t), so these are the units included in the tool. The flow chart, above right, shows the process that the contractor would have to go through in the previous carbon tool to enter data, compared to our new carbon tool, using the example of plastic pipework. The complex calculation step is\ndocument. These are all readily available online: https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/ publications\/carbon-tool By providing these different formats, Ramboll's aim was to ensure that all users, which includes people working on site or in head office locations, would understand the tool and be able to access guidance when they needed it.\nENGAGEMENT WITH END USERS Integral to the success of the project was a focus on the needs of the end user, Highways England's construction and maintenance supply chain. This provided Ramboll with a unique opportunity to engage with several key players in the highway construction and maintenance\nSTORING ALL DATA IN THE SAME FILE Within the new tool, all the months or quarters they record data for are stored in the one Excel file. This has numerous advantages: \u25cf The supplier can see and compare the data for the duration of their project, providing them with the data they need to act and reduce their emissions \u25cf The supplier can amend their previous entries, if better data becomes available or corrections are needed \u25cf A new file is not required each reporting period; this simplifies the audit process and data storage for projects that can span several years \u25cf It enables data to be packaged and sent to Highways England in a dedicated export file to be uploaded automatically into the central database.\nFULLY AUTOMATED PROCESS One of the key benefits of the new carbon management framework is that it provides a fully automated process,\nPrevious Tool no longer required by the contractor, as the tool does this itself.\n100 meters of 150mm diameter HDPE pipe arrives on site\nNew Tool\nFlow chart of data entry - cutting out unnecessary steps\nSupplier has to calculate the weight of plastic using their own formula\nSupplier enters value into tool. Tool requires weight of plastic in the pipe\nTool calculates carbon emissions\nSupplier enters value into tool. Tool requires length and diameter of plastic\nmeaning that no manual data entry is required by Highways England. This has been achieved by providing an intelligent 'master', which uploads data from the users' export files at the click of a button. The master spreadsheet then provides Highways England with a series of summary tables and graphics that can be used to focus carbon management efforts going forward.\nindustry. These meetings included running through a draft version of the tool and allowing them to have real influence over its development. Feedback was received by these organisations, which highlighted the appreciation and importance of engagement. Furthermore, several solutions were raised in these meetings that contributed to the overall success of this project.\nCOMPREHENSIVE GUIDANCE\nThe guidance for the previous carbon tool was extremely lengthy and unlikely to be read by all the tools users. To ensure that the new guidance was read by all users of the tool, and to make it accessible and engaging to all the various suppliers that would use it, a variety of versions and formats was created, including within tool guidance, an e-learning programme and a full guidance\nHighways England now has a framework at its disposal to help contribute to the governments ambitious long-term targets for carbon emission reductions. The carbon tool at the heart of this new framework is more user-friendly, robust, and provides outputs that will help Highways England to reduce the carbon intensity of their construction and maintenance supply chain activities.\nGust of 42 Technology and Briton EMS have joined forces to develop a control system for a pioneering new gust generator, capable of simulating gusts at transonic, or cruising, speeds typically experienced by aircraft\nigh-speed wind tunnel testing presents several significant challenges in the simulation of an aircraft flying close to the speed of sound, and the accurate measurement of the forces, moments and pressures associated with that. For example, the resolution of small differences in drag of a few Newtons, vital for the reduction of fuel burn in the cruise, needs to be done while the model simultaneously experiences thousands of Newtons of lift force. Normally, the wind tunnel aims to have the most uniform, lowest turbulence flow possible, in order\nto make these measurements. However, as most passengers know, real flying is not always super smooth like the tunnel. Now, though, 42 Technology and electronics manufacturer Briton EMS, along with other UK companies, have joined forces to help the Aircraft Research Association (ARA) develop and launch an innovative new research tool for use within its high-speed wind tunnel in Bedford. The two companies have developed a sophisticated control system for ARA's new gust generator, the first of its kind in the world capable of simulating gusts at transonic, or cruising,\nA scale model of a wing coated in pressure-sensitive paint was used to test the operation of ARA's new gust generator during its installation\nspeeds that are typically experienced by aircraft.\nAIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE The new generator will help drive new research into improving understanding of how turbulence affects aircraft performance and is part of an investment at ARA in new systems and services, funded to the order of \u00a39 million by the Aerospace Technology Institute. The tool could help manufacturers to optimise their aircraft designs or to develop systems to compensate for gusts, leading to smoother flights and lower operating costs. 42 Technology and Briton EMS \u2013 who have frequently worked together for industrial and consumer electronics clients \u2013 teamed up with ARA's in-house engineering team to design, manufacture and install the control system for the new generator. 42 Technology designed the system to link the generator's control desk with a network of 1,800 solenoid valves, each of which needs to be opened and closed within 20 milliseconds to deliver the required gust profiles. The control system is housed in four two-metre high electronics cabinets and was completed from initial design to installation in less than two months.\nideal pulse widths and voltages,\" he says. \"As a result, the team was able to demonstrate optimised turn-on\/turnoff times of one to two milliseconds, compared with ARA's previous levels of 10-15 ms. Reservoir capacitors were proposed as a practical way to deliver up to 72 kW of pulse power during a turn-on pulse and to avoid the need for expensive and large-scale power supplies, plus associated cabling.\"\nDETAILED DESIGN GO-AHEAD\nA 1\/30th scale model of an Airbus A350 fabricated in high grade steel and ready for a series of wind tunnel tests\nKEY OBJECTIVES Tolga Aydemir, the electronics engineer at 42 Technology who was responsible for designing and developing the control electronics from idea creation through to design for manufacturing, describes the design process involved. \"ARA had already defined the mechanical construction and proposed use of monostable solenoids to create the required gust profiles when they appointed 42 Technology and Briton EMS to help design and develop the control system,\" he explains. \"The use of monostable valves is unusual for this application, because they offer fast turn-on times, but slower springreturned closures. The project's three key objectives were: to develop a control system that could drive the solenoids as fast as possible, to provide the same shape of turn-on and turn-off signals, and to have the system manufactured and installed within two months.\" ARA had already successfully developed a prototype control unit to switch 10 valves during proof-of-principle studies, but recognised the need for a more efficient approach. \"Assuming each solenoid draws 200 mA at 24 V, then driving 1,800 of them could potentially cause significant thermal issues and\nTolga Aydemir, 42 Technology\na peak current demand of 350 A from a 24 V rail,\" points out Aydemir. \"In addition, ARA planned to install the new control system within the basement of its transonic wind tunnel building, which could limit turn-on\/turn-off times with cable lengths of around 25 metres between the solenoids and their driver electronics.\" One of the principal challenges for 42 Technology was to find a faster and more controlled way to switch the solenoids. \"The design team identified several options before recommending a pulsed switching topology, and then carried out detailed simulations to determine\nWithin a month of being appointed, 42 Technology had produced a proofof-principle demonstrator unit from off-the-shelf parts and components that allowed ARA to carry out further testing before giving the go-ahead for detailed design. At the same time, 42 Technology and Briton EMS started work on the PCB designs and layouts, and were looking for opportunities within the system design to speed up manufacturing, in order to meet ARA's challenging installation deadline. Kevin Williams, chief engineer at ARA, adds: \"Briton EMS and 42 Technology were instrumental in helping to develop ARA's new gust generator and to meet the demanding delivery deadlines for this large-scale project. Their engineers worked well alongside our in-house team to recommend the ideal switching topology, to develop and integrate the control system, and to help us launch a world first for aerospace research.\" As Peter Curtis, chief technical officer, ARA, points out, the company's new gust generator was principally developed to help organisations validate\nThe new control system links the generator's control desk, housed in the wind tunnel control room, with a network of 1,800 solenoid valves\nEach vane contains 900 solenoid valves with pressure reservoirs for the air supplies to the valves, associated electronics and other components\nKevin Williams, chief engineer, ARA their computational models, although aircraft manufacturers and ARA's other clients are now showing considerable interest in using it to help with aircraft certification. \"Aircraft need to be designed to withstand a vertical gust loading in transonic cruise, but designers typically need to make conservative assumptions: there is limited understanding on the size of gusts, how they affect an aeroplane and almost no tools available to validate through physical testing. Taking a conservative approach means, for example, that the wings are potentially stronger and heavier than they need to be, which impacts fuel efficiency.\" So, what makes ARA's new gust generator special? Curtis points to three key elements: two removable vanes, located in the high speed\/transonic wind tunnel (TWT), which use the physical amplification of trailing edge blowing to make fast changes to the tunnel flow direction; the large numbers of control valves that enable fine tuning of the gust shape; and the complex control system for all these valves. \"The shape of the gust is defined within the certification requirements,\nPeter Curtis, chief technical officer, ARA although the control system for the new gust generator provides the capability to alter the duration, magnitude and shape of the gust as required,\" he explains. \"Each vane comprises a steel spar with an aluminium skin, weighs around 1 tonne, and contains 900 solenoid valves, pressure reservoirs for air supply to the valves, associated electronics and other components.\"\nSINGLE MAJOR EVENTS Moreover, the use of solenoid valves in this application is unusual. \"Most rigs tend to work in low speed tunnels where oscillating vanes can be used to study the effects of turbulence,\" he adds. \"The ARA gust generator is designed to work in a high-speed environment where the valves and associated control system are used to generate much shorter, high magnitude gusts; in other words, single major events typically lasting from 4 to 100 ms. The magnitude of gust is such that the angle of attack of the aircraft changes in the order of a couple of degrees. This might not sound much, but at high speed it can effectively double the lift generated by the wing for an up-gust, or reduce it\nThe gust generator's two vanes each weigh around one tonne and are installed in the transonic\/high speed wind tunnel to virtually zero for a down-gust, both of which are possible with this new rig.\" To verify the gust rig's capability, ARA is using dynamic pressure sensitive paint (PSP) for the first time, alongside more traditional wind tunnel data acquisition systems. \"Dynamic PSP, from US company Innovative Scientific Solutions, has a response time that is significantly faster than the expected pressure change and is 'visualised' using high-power illumination and sensitive cameras with high frame rates and fast exposures. The system can be used to acquire up to 10,000 samples per second,\" states Curtis. ARA's in-house team of specialists, with help from selected external partners, took around 18 months to develop the gust rig from first concepts through to initial tests in the TWT. \"Following the initial tests some detailed re-design has proved necessary to reduce air leakage in the system and make some other refinements. Further work is also needed to fully characterise the performance of the rig,\" he adds. ARA is on track to complete both the re-work and the performance assessment within the next six months.\nEngineers: your industry\nneeds YOU!\nWith the engineering industry facing a massive skills gap by 2020, and women only making up around 8% of the total workforce, what can your company do to promote diversity and STEM careers in your local community? Tom Austin-Morgan finds out\nccording to a survey by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, despite the engineering sector contributing around 27% of the UK's GDP in 2014, more than 55,000 engineering jobs go unfilled every year. This trend is projected to cost the economy \u00a327 billion by 2020.\nWith UK companies reportedly faring better than expected after Brexit, how is it that the skills gap isn't being closed and what can be done about it? \"It's no secret that one of the key issues we need to address in engineering is the low proportion of women entering the industry,\" ponts out Paul Jackson, chief executive of EngineeringUK. \"We\nneed 1.82 million people with engineering skills by 2022, in order to keep up with demand,\" he states. To its credit, the engineering community is working to create a more diverse workforce and to boost the numbers of girls joining engineering. There are many national programmes and events held across the country promoting STEM subjects and careers to young people, including Tomorrow's Engineers Week, which was last staged in November last year. \"Tomorrow's Engineers Week highlights the amazing work produced by female engineers who play a pivotal role in our everyday lives. We want girls to understand they have the same\nopportunities as boys in this exciting and creative industry,\" adds Jackson. Tomorrow's Engineers Week is run by EngineeringUK and The Royal Academy of Engineering, with support from many other organisations across the country. Schools, universities, companies and institutions come together to find creative ways to highlight the huge range of careers that engineering encompasses through hands-on events, as well as online content. The ultimate aim of the initiative is to double the number of graduates and apprentices entering the industry. \"We need more work experience and summer placements,\" says Helen Cavill, manufacturing engineer at TTP Labtech.\nHELEN CAVILL Helen Cavill always had an interest in maths, science and how things worked. That interest was reinforced when, while at school, she went on a week's work experience at Siemens Gas Turbines. Seeing engineering up close convinced her that this was what she wanted to do as a career. During A-levels, she took part in the Engineering Development Trust's (EDT) Head Start scheme, attending engineering lectures and practical sessions. She then signed up for the EDT's year in industry scheme, making automotive body casings in an iron foundry. In 2009, she graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering. She then spent six years working at plastic bottle manufacturer M&H Plastics and has just started in a new role at TTP Labtech. In 2015, Cavill won the IET's Women's Engineering Society Prize, which has provided her with many more opportunities to spread the word through her work and involvement as a STEM ambassador.\nJULIET MURRAY Juliet Murray hadn't considered engineering while at school in Australia, but signed up to a summer course that offered subjects enabling her to apply for a degree in civil engineering. Her first job was with a small engineering consultancy where she felt she was giving something back to the community through the projects on which she worked. She moved to the UK in 2013 and worked for Balfour Beatty in the London Underground. For the last 18 months, she has worked as a track field engineer on the Crossrail project where she splits her time between the office and being on-site. Murray is involved with the Young Crossrail programme, showing groups of school children around the sites where they get to see exactly what engineers do, while at the same time promoting the idea that engineering is as much a job for women as it is for men.\nMONYA ALKHALISI Monya Alkhalisi grew up in Morocco where she enjoyed subjects such as physics and chemistry. She was encouraged into pursuing a career in STEM by her parents. She graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from King's College London in 2006 and has worked at Bechtel since then, starting out on its graduate programme, in oil and gas, mining and infrastructure, working in Italy and Canada, as well as the UK. Alkhalisi became a chartered mechanical engineer in 2010 and moved into engineering and design management roles, including working on the Crossrail project. She is now a project manager at Gatwick Airport.\n\"It's really important for companies to put the time and effort in to have someone come in and see what the job's about. I've had several work for me and it's really rewarding when you hear that they have chosen to study engineering subjects at university, because of the time they spent with you. It's getting that practical experience that really helps.\" The Crossrail project in London set a target to recruit 400 apprentices over the lifetime of the project. This included the contractor companies working on the project employing a certain number of apprentices, depending on their budget. Andrew Dempsey, media relations manager at Crossrail, explains: \"That was the first time that kind of model was used in industry and we've smashed our target. We're now at over 600 apprentices. 27% of those who joined in the last year were women, which is far higher than the industry average.\" The government will apply this model to future projects, including Tideway, HS2 and Hinkley, and aims to reach gender parity in the construction industry by 2030. Another barrier against attracting women into engineering is the prevailing stereotype of what an engineer is and does. Typing 'engineer' into a search engine brings up countless images of people, predominantly men, in hard hats. Juliet Murray, track field engineer at Crossrail, says: \"I have seen diversity improve massively. The first company I worked with was a very small consultancy where I was one female engineer in a team of twenty. Now, within our Crossrail team, there's five female engineers in a\nteam of around twenty. Some of the health and safety boards on our sites show women in safety glasses and you just feel like you belong. I think it's important that Crossrail is promoting the women on the project, especially women in senior management positions.\" Monya Alkhalisi was a design engineer with Bechtel and has progressed over the last 10 years to become manager of a project at Gatwick Airport. \"I'm a member of the IMechE and some of their events have female engineers presenting,\" she comments. \"It's important for 15- and 16-year-old girls to see themselves represented and think that it could be them in 10 years doing well in their career and deeing engineering is a cool industry to be involved in.\" Tomorrow's Engineers Week, as well as all the other national events and programmes, needs help to carry out its agenda in a wide variety of support roles. All it takes is to send an email to get the ball rolling. Alkhalisi, Cavill and Murray all work for companies that have some form of social engagement: apprenticeship schemes, visits to schools or having children visit their places of work. These programmes not only raise the profile of their companies, but also help to close the skills gap. \"I just like being an engineer,\" says Cavill. \"The fact that I'm female is kind of irrelevant to me, but if that inspires more young girls into this exciting industry, then I'm happy.\" Article appears courtesy of Eureka magazine\nSmart cane could transform lives A n enterprising researcher from The University of Manchester has developed a prototype tool that could prove a massive boon to those who are blind or visually impaired. Vasileios Tsormpatzoudis has upgraded the white cane \u2013 which has been used as a mobility tool for centuries \u2013 by adding a low-cost embedded computer that functions in a similar way to a car parking sensor. PhD student Vasileios, from the University's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, was inspired to develop mySmartCane after witnessing the struggles of his mother who has a hereditary eye disorder that affects the retina.\"mySmartCane allows visual impaired people to sense their environment beyond the physical length of their cane,\" says Tsormpatzoudis, who is researching energy storage and power network integration. \"The user is alerted to approaching objects using gentle audio, rather than waiting for the cane to physically bump into the object. Navigation is therefore easier and much faster,\" he points out.\"My main inspiration was my mother, who has retinis pigmentosa. I have seen first-hand the struggle visual impaired people have to put up with when they try to navigate with the traditional white cane. This project was my opportunity to give this traditional device a 21st century upgrade.\" First, he conducted many conversations with existing white cane users. \"The key takeaway was that my modernised white cane had to be simple and low cost, so I used 3D printing and cheap sensors to create an ultrasonic sensory ball, which attaches to the bottom of most existing white-canes.\"\nMySmartCane was developed during his industrial placement at National Instruments. The ultrasonic ball wirelessly measures the distance to approaching objects and converts this data into an audio signal \u2013 much like a common car parking sensor does. The visually impaired user can gauge the object distance from the frequency of the sound. The user can hear the sounds, using either a single headphone or a pair of bone-conducting headphones, so they can listen to their external environment without losing their freedom. Tsormpatzoudis' prototype is still at an early stage. \"I do have many ideas to refine the design further. For example, I want to add an additional sensor to detect overhead obstacles, such as signposts or doorways that could cause injury and are impossible to detect with a normal white cane. Another innovation could be using vibration, rather than sound.\" Says Richard Roberts, Tsormpatzoudis' project supervisor at National Instruments: \"I was blown away by Vasileios' invention. It's an inspiring example of the life-changing impact that young engineers can have. It's also a testament to practical engineering skills taught at The University of Manchester, the power of National Instruments' technologies and, of course, Vasileios' unbounded creativity.\" Readers of Engineering Designer may have ideas on how the design of the smart cane might be advanced. Take a look first at 'mySmartCane' being put to the test \u2013 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E1uFdXlTrqY \u2013 and then email me your thoughts at: [email protected]\nBrexit: skills shortages and the future \u2013 the immigration question Matthew Davies, Partner and business immigration lawyer at Wright Hassall, considers how a post-EU immigration policy might impact the design and engineering sectors\nnce Britain was the workshop of the world, but our post-war manufacturing sector has declined from 41% to less than 14% of the economy. The service sector has ballooned to 80%. Concern that the UK is drifting to a low-skilled, lowpay economic model is nothing new. Nor are arguments that investment in high-end design and manufacturing stimulates growth in international markets where we can compete and win. Many businesses in the sector identify skills' shortages as a block to that growth and competitiveness, and generally view the prospect of tighter restrictions on skilled migrants, postBrexit, with dismay. Two contrasting BBC news stories from the West Midlands illustrate this. First, a report showing that manufacturing has shrunk to less than 12% of output in a region whose economy was built on it. The fastest growth sector is low-skilled temporary work \u2013 typically associated with EEA migrants currently exempt from\nMatthew Davies: Brexit may bring many opportunities for sectors needing to import highly skilled migrants \u2013 design and engineering in particular\nlabour market immigration controls and, the Government implies, responsible for displacement of resident workers. More promising news comes from the 'motor city' of Coventry, whose once world-leading automotive industry almost vanished when the last traditional car factory, the Peugeot plant at Ryton, closed a decade ago. Now, engineering company RDM Group, which once produced routine parts for JLR and Rolls-Royce, is at the cutting edge of automotive software technology for selfparking and driverless cars \u2013 on the site\nof the old Humber factory. Penso Group, from a standing start in 2000, is now a 200-strong engineering and design-driven manufacturer \u2013 with a Union Jack logo at the heart of its branding. Coventryheadquartered JLR itself, which already makes the most cars in the UK, has earmarked the city (where it is already the sixth largest employer) as its \"global centre of excellence\" for electric vehicle research, and announced plans both to double production and also create thousands of jobs in the region. Many other high-end automotive businesses are expanding, supported locally by two research and developmentled universities. More aerospace companies operate in the region than in any other in the world. They need land, infrastructure \u2013 and specialist, skilled engineers. And the UK is still not producing enough of them. Which brings us back to immigration. As Home Secretary, Theresa May declared that \"we just don't need\" migrants at current levels. As Prime Minister, she has cheerfully asserted that those who voted for Brexit did so because they wanted less immigration \u2013 and now she has to deliver. The Coalition Government, elected\nin May 2010, adopted the Conservative commitment to reduce net migration from hundreds to tens of thousands a year; and that commitment continues. Despite a tightening of the economic migration system \u2013 the Points Based System (PBS) introduced by the last Labour Government purportedly to bring objectivity and control \u2013 numbers are still close to record levels. About half of the annual total \u2013 equivalent to the entire population of Coventry \u2013 are EEA nationals whose free movement rights may not be available for much longer. So, what can we expect? Brexit, and the political climate in its wake, may contain more opportunity and less threat than first appears for sectors needing to import highly skilled migrants in specialist sectors \u2013 design and engineering, in particular. Here are the main areas to watch:\nDesignated Shortage Occupations These have existed for many years for skilled roles. They still offer enhanced access to the Points Based System for the small and medium-sized licensed sponsor of skilled migrants (see PBS\nbelow). In the carefree dot-com boom era anything loosely classified as 'IT related' fell in the shortage criteria, but now the list is heavily prescriptive. Its latest iteration is largely industryspecific: from production managers in nuclear waste management to engineers in various industries involving construction, transportation, energy and automotive. The Government is careful, through the commissioned work of the Migration Advisory Committee, to apply rigour; but it understands the potential cost to industry and fears any loss of competitive edge resulting from immigration policy. There is no serious threat to the Shortage Occupation List. More likely that, as the brakes are applied to EEA migration, further occupations and sub-sectors will join the list.\nThe Points Based System Enthusiastic Brexiteers called for an 'Australian Style Points Based System' in the heat of the Referendum campaign. Some still do. Yet this is exactly how the current PBS was hailed on its introduction \u2013 in 2008. The five-tiered PBS caters mostly for skilled sponsored migrants from outside the EEA and is built to accommodate adjustment of skills, salary and qualification thresholds to respond to labour market needs. The technology underpinning it, although workmanlike, was expensive. It is inconceivable that the Government can find the resource and political justification to dismantle this flagship and put another in its place. This year's modest salary hikes and Immigration Health Surcharge of \u00a3200 per migrant per year are a manageable cost for the businesses that really need to bring them in; but there is more.\nThe Immigration Skills Charge From April 2017, an Immigration Skills Charge levy will be imposed on all Tier 2 sponsors at a headline level of \u00a31,000 per migrant per year. This reflects the PBS philosophy that those who benefit\nmost from immigration must fund it: the employers who use overseas-trained skilled workers should contribute to the training of a home-grown generation of skilled workers.\nThe EEA And, finally, the European Economic Area nationals who already enjoy free movement and labour market access for themselves and their families can expect to keep them beyond Brexit \u2013 and their employers need not fear losing their skills. The clamour for an absolute guarantee is constant, but the Government has indicated that it will, despite a determination not to reveal a pre-negotiation hand, respect the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties which protects these 'acquired rights'. The challenge is around those yet to come. New immigration rules will set out a new regime for EEA nationals who have not already started to exercise Treaty Rights by working here lawfully when we leave the EU. The Government has ruled out using the existing PBS. The first blueprint by the think tank British Future\nposited a three-tiered preferential system. Market need, rather than individual rights, will drive it: \u25cf Temporary permits for low-skilled seasonal work \u2013 eg, in agriculture \u25cf Long-term permits for those with advanced, in-demand skills in engineering and technology \u25cf Reciprocal free movement for EEA nationals who meet an agreed (high) income, skills and qualification level. There will be more proposals, but the end result can be expected along these lines. As always, the challenge for employers is complying with a 'simplified' system whose inherent complexity is a challenge for all concerned \u2013 the Government included. It can still deliver essential skills for those who plan ahead and work within its limitations.\nInstitution News\nSpotlight on IED council members: Keith Winning BEng(Hons) MEng CEng MIMechE CEnv FIED CGeog FRGS\neith Winning is a principal pipeline & geomatics engineer at CB&I Limited, based in its London offices. He has over 25 years' experience in the field of onshore pipeline design and has been involved in all aspects of the project lifecycle. This has embraced projects in the UK, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. He is currently the lead pipeline and geomatics engineer on an upgrade of an existing gas pipeline in Azerbaijan and Georgia, involving the addition of 480km of 48\" diameter pipe and two new 60MW compressor stations; this project is currently in construction. In addition to being a Chartered Engineer, The winners of the 2014 British Engineering he is also a Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Excellence Awards (BEEAs) were revealed at a lunch Geographer. event held in London on 9 October, hosted by IED He started his engineering career in 1983 as a technical president Maggie Philbin, with the IED sponsoring the clerk and trainee draughtsman with John Brown in the 'Consultancy of the Year' award. The winner of this design of offshore structures. In 1989, he moved into the prestigious award was Romax, as it has on average field of pipelines as a draughtsman, eventually becoming grown by 30% each year over the last five years, but the chief draughtsman for Pipeline Systems at John Brown\nalso because it has developed a reputation, that 14 of the world's top 15 automotive manufacturers use its specialist engineering consultancy, software and services. Romax claims a thriving engineering consulting business, covering design and development issues for gearbox and transmission. Typically, it handles more Registration as Chartered Engineer Transfer to Member than 100 projects a year for a similar number of UK and Charlie Irving Bristol Nathan Lawson McLean international clients. This aspect of its business has Andrew Gabriel-Reed grown threefold since 2009. Registration as Chartered Automotive is the company's strongest sector, with Technological Product Designer Election to Member a rapid increase in the number of consultancy projects Kristof Farrell Windsor Kristof Farrell analysing problems such as gear whine and gear Dirk Schaefer Bath Tejas Mamtora rattle. It has also gained a reputation for the predictive Jeremy Mason analysis of noise, vibration and harshness of vehicle Transfer to Fellow Siddharth Odedra transmissions and for the development of the next Jason Conrad Leinster Kingston Blount Daniel Thomas generation of 9 and 10 speed automatic gearboxes, as Malcolm Robins well as continuously\nin 1996. John Brown was acquired by CB&I in 2003. To further his career, he studied part-time for a BEng(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering Design. A quintessential opsimath, he continued his part-time studies, gaining a Masters in Mechanical Engineering \u2013 winning the IED Group Project Prize \u2013 a Masters in Geographical Information Science (GISc) and a PhD in the 'Application and Development of Advanced Engineering Geographical Information Systems for Pipeline Design'. He has authored a number of peer-reviewed journal and international conference papers, and also acts as a reviewer of technical papers. He became a member of the IED with Engineering Council registration as IEng in 2010 and transferred to Fellow in 2013. He has been the industrial liaison officer at CB&I since 2010. In this role, he was instrumental in developing and promoting a new career path for engineering designers for all disciplines, linked to Engineering Council registration and IED membership. A passionate advocate for professional registration, he has undertaken over 30 professional review interviews on behalf of the IED and IMechE, has acted as a Technical Report Option (TRO) mentor and conducted course accreditations. As part of the knowledge transfer requirements, he was responsible for setting up and teaching the first accredited City and Guilds course to local engineering designers in Baku (Azerbaijan) in 1997. In his spare time, he has given lectures at universities in mechanical engineering and postgraduate research methods, and represented the IED at student open days and prize-giving events. 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{"text":"(Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence\nChris Segrin, James Price Dillard\nWeiner's (1986) theory of attribution and affect was juxtaposed with the literature on depression in order to develop hypotheses about the attributional and emotional reactions of depressed and nondepressed persons to three different outcomes of an interpersonal interaction. An experiment was conducted in which depressed and nondepressed participants, who attempted to exert interpersonal influence, met with success, ambiguity, or failure. The results showed that depressed persons reacted to success and ambiguity in a way that was both attributionally and affectively similar to the nondepressed. However, interpersonal failure provoked considerably more negative affect in persons who were depressed than those who were not depressed.\nCommunication Monographs\nFingerprint Dive into the research topics of '(Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nAffective Arts & Humanities\nPerson Arts & Humanities\nhuman being Social Sciences\nInterpersonal Interaction Arts & Humanities\nExperiments Engineering & Materials Science\nAttribution Arts & Humanities\nattribution Social Sciences\nExperiment Arts & Humanities\nSegrin, C., & Dillard, J. P. (1991). (Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence. Communication Monographs, 58(2), 115-134. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03637759109376218\n(Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence. \/ Segrin, Chris; Dillard, James Price.\nIn: Communication Monographs, Vol. 58, No. 2, 06.1991, p. 115-134.\nSegrin, C & Dillard, JP 1991, '(Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence', Communication Monographs, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 115-134. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03637759109376218\nSegrin C, Dillard JP. (Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence. Communication Monographs. 1991 Jun;58(2):115-134. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03637759109376218\nSegrin, Chris ; Dillard, James Price. \/ (Non)Depressed Persons' Cognitive And Affective Reactions To (Un)Successful Interpersonal Influence. 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{"text":"5 ways HR can better equip leaders to navigate a crisis\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to the most radical societal and economic disruption that many of us are ever likely to face \u2013 and employers have inevitably been at different states of readiness to respond. But key to navigating the changes effectively are its leaders and managers, who have a crucial role to play in reassuring, motivating, and steering their workforce through today's choppy waters onto the other side.\nHere are five suggestions for how HR can offer support in doing just that by encouraging leaders to:\n1. Award people matters equal status to financial ones\nWhile for years, many leaders have attested to 'putting people first', in reality their focus has been on ensuring the financial health of the business. But says Joe Dettmann, partner at EY's People Advisory Services, the situation should not be an either\/or one. Instead it is now the time to assign people leadership the same status as operational and financial leadership \u2013 \"but for real this time\".\n\"Of all the crises we've seen, this one is the most human at the centre, so it's about how to get people through it - and HR obviously plays a key role in that,\" he explains.\nPut another way, HR has a key advisory role in helping leaders understand that, for the organisation to be sustainable into the long-term, people-related matters must be taken equally as seriously as financial ones. On the one hand, this involves HR acting as a conduit to ensure executives understand everything from the impact of change on the workforce to employee concerns and how best to address them.\nOn the other hand, it is about supporting managers at all levels in striking the right tone, not least because many employees feel uncertain and fearful, which makes them highly sensitised to their leaders' responses.\nA further challenge here is that when executives feel under stress, they tend to go into command-and-control management mode, says Professor Jane Turner, pro vice chancellor for enterprise and business engagement at Teesside University. But the problem with this kind of approach is that it can \"disengage staff and damage trust when the aim is, in fact, to build trust and support innovation\", she explains.\n2. Participate in self-development activities\nIn order to help equip leaders and managers with the people skills they now require more than ever to instil feelings of confidence and resilience in their teams, HR has a key role to play in delivering leadership development at the point of need.\nBut according to Hagit Jekobson, vice president of HR at Cloudinary, which provides cloud-based image and video management services, when doing so it is vital not to overload people with too much information but instead to offer them \"targeted support based on their situation\". To this end, she has divided her company's forty leaders and managers into three teams, who get together every two weeks for two hours using Zoom.\nThe first part of the meeting involves either members of the HR team or other experts providing attendees with guidance in areas ranging from how to support staff wellbeing to how to manage video meetings effectively. Online tools and information are also made available to reinforce this development activity.\nThe second part of the meeting takes the shape of a peer support group, in which managers can discuss any issues they face and how best to address them. Functional leaders are also encouraged to hold weekly or fortnightly team meetings to check on progress, while members of the HR function offer one-to-one coaching for any leaders and managers identified as having specific needs.\n3. Keep what matters most at the forefront\nThrough difficult times we are tested against our purpose and values. People seek measured, pragmatic direction rather than false hope or grand visions, says Mr Dettmann.\n\"Grand visions of the future are hyperbole and are dangerous right now, but that's quite different from purpose and values.\" He adds, \"it's about bringing it back to what matters most - the blueprint of your purpose to your values, lived through everyday behaviours.\"\nPut another way, because most of the prevalent information around at the moment is \"pretty dark\", the role of HR, and the leaders they are advising, is to act as a \"signal through the noise to what really matters\", Mr Dettmann explains.\nTo this end, Ms Jekobson believes it is crucial that leaders are encouraged to be transparent with the workforce, share the reasons behind their decisions and acknowledge that they do not necessarily have all the answers.\nShe explains: \"Transparency creates trust and connection with others, which helps improve individual and company resilience. When you have information about what is going on, you feel more in control, which means your resilience is higher and your contribution to the company will be higher too.\"\n4. Recognise how understanding staff sentiment informs the critical decisions needed today\nIf leaders are to make informed decisions around workforce-related challenges, it is imperative they have insights into what their employees are thinking and feeling. To gain access to such insights, HR helps to keep their \"finger on the pulse of the employee experience\", points out Mr Dettmann.\nIn a situation, such as today's COVID-19 crisis, however, he does not believe that simply relying on numbers or an annual employee survey will cut it.\nInstead Mr Dettmann says: \"Now is the time for qualitative listening and drawing out real stories as quantitative numbers don't tell the full story. The downside is that qualitative input takes more time to analyse, but it's in such narratives where you get the real substance and meaning.\"\nOther helpful tools include employee sentiment analysis as well as people analytics software, which makes it easier to understand wider workforce trends within company data. Leaders can then use this information to encourage and promote difficult discussions and respond more empathetically to their workforce.\nAs Professor Turner says: \"HR's job is to get in amongst it and understand the mood music. By gauging mood in this way and feeding it back to leaders, they're acting as a vital bridge.\"\n5. Work together in planning for a post-crisis world\nAs life and work settle down into a new pace, leaders' eyes will inevitably start looking towards the future. But while the focus for senior executives will be on operational matters, HR has a significant role to play in planning for how best to handle the people side of the equation in order to feed such insights into the overall business strategy.\nTo do so involves exploring the \"now, next and beyond\" and evaluating which old and new ways of working the organisation wants to keep and which it wants to discard, says Mr Dettmann.\nMs Jekobson agrees. She is already in the process of creating a plan based on \"building blocks\" that consist of three layers: how a gradual transition to the 'new normal' will work, what the first day of a new normal will look like and what has been learned from this current situation.\n\"One thing that's clear is it's acting as a great magnifier for all the things that are working well and not so well,\" she says. \"So, it's helping us see what needs to be changed, what we should do differently and what we should take off the table, so it's been a valuable experience in that sense.\"\nThe COVID-19 crisis is accelerating change for HR leaders by pushing professionals towards adopting an ever-more strategic, 'business partner' approach. By having their fingers on the pulse of the workforce, they are in a prime position to act as key advisors and influencers to business leaders in all things people-related.\nAs such, they now have an opportunity to affect real change by ensuring people matters are at the heart of the organisation - perhaps for the first time \u2013 to ensure it survives and thrives into the future.\nHow leaders should respond to a crisis\nSubscribe to The Hive\nWhy the right remote working tech-stack is so crucial [infographic]\n5 key challenges for global HR and payroll to overcome in 2020\nThe remote working tech-stack [infographic]\nCOVID-19: What should your rewards response be in a crisis?\nCOVID-19 HR pulse: w\/c 22nd June","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"US records 20 mass killings so far in 2019, including 1 in Oregon\nA memorial of candles, flowers and teddy bears was set upside outside a house where authorities say a man killed four members of his family - including his infant daughter - at the Oregon home they shared. (Photo by Beth Nakamura\/ The Oregonian)\nBy The Oregonian staff and wire reports\nBy MARTHA BELLISLE and MEGHAN HOYER Associated Press\nThe U.S. has recorded 20 mass killings so far this year, the majority of them domestic violence attacks that receive scant national attention compared to high-profile public shootings in recent years at schools, churches and concerts.\nAmong them: An Oregon man whose rampage with an ax left his mother, stepfather, girlfriend and baby daughter dead.\nA database compiled by The Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today shows that the number of mass killings has held steady in 2019 compared with past years. But if the trend continues, the year could end with a lower death count because there have been fewer mass-casualty attacks such as those in Las Vegas, Parkland, Florida, and the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.\nFour mass shootings happened in public places so far this year, compared with 10 in 2018 and seven in 2017. But 2019 saw a big increase in the number of mass killings in domestic disputes, helping to keep this year's overall numbers similar to past years.\nThere have been 11 family mass killings this year; there were 10 during all of 2017.\nIn July alone, 13 people were slain in three killings involving domestic violence or drugs in Missouri, Wisconsin and Washington state, but those stories drew little attention. Meanwhile, a gunman killed three people and wounded 12 at a garlic festival in California, with smartphones and social media quickly spreading the word.\n\"There were more people killed in Wisconsin than in California,\" said Northeastern University professor James Alan Fox, referring to five family members killed Sunday in Wisconsin. \"Three of the four were family members, so it doesn't get the same attention because people don't feel at risk.\"\nThe same was true of the grisly ax attack by Mark Gago in January at his parents' home near Woodburn. Gago killed his mother, Pamela Denise Bremer, 64, his stepfather, Jerry Bremer, 66, his girlfriend, Shaina Sweitzer, 31, and their 9-month-old daughter, Olivia Lynn Rose Gago at the family's rural home.\nMan who went on fatal rampage near Woodburn was high on meth, alcohol, tests show\nMark Leo Gago, 42, was fatally shot at the scene by Clackamas County sheriff's deputies.\nStill, the database compiled by the AP, Northeastern and USA Today did not include those deaths, which constitute a family mass killing by those entities' definition, until The Oregonian\/OregonLive called the fatal attack to their attention Thursday.\nThe database's creators claim it examines every mass killing dating back to 2006 and tracks a number of variables for each. It counts killings involving four or more fatalities, not including the killer, the same standard used by the FBI.\nPart of the problem with determining whether there are trends in mass shootings is \"everyone has a different way of counting the data,\" said Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.\nWhile the FBI defines a mass shooting as four or more dead, others use a standard of three dead, and some count injuries, he said.\n\"It's hard to imagine that you can shoot 12 people but it's not considered a mass shooting,\" Winkler said, referring to the attack Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival that left three dead, not including the shooter, and 12 people wounded. That shooting is not included in the AP database.\nSeven months into 2019, there have been 20 mass killings in the U.S., all but four carried out with guns.\nThe deadliest attack occurred May 31 at a government office in Virginia Beach, where a 40-year-old city employee walked through his office building with two .45-caliber pistols, killing 12 people before being fatally shot by police.\nMany other shootings occurred under the radar.\nA 26-year-old man went on a shooting spree in Southern California last week, killing his father, brother, a former girlfriend and a man at a gas station.\nA man in Port Angeles, Washington, was charged with murder and arson after killing his wife and three children ages 9, 6 and 5 on July 6. He then set fire to their home.\nAnd federal prosecutors say four suspects are responsible for the shooting deaths of five people near Yakima, Washington.\nSeventy-seven people have died this year in mass shootings that include family violence and other events, while 26 people were killed in mass shootings in public places, the data show.\nThat compares to previous years that were marked by killings with large victim counts but similar numbers of overall shootings. Forty-nine people were killed in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in 2016 in Orlando. Fifty-nine people were killed at a country music concert in 2017 in Las Vegas.\nThose shootings shocked the nation \u2014 especially in an era of social media and cellphone video that instantly captured the panic and mayhem.\n\"The ready availability of video does make mass shootings more poignant and powerful,\" said Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. \"We are much more attuned to these mass shootings. They seem more prevalent.\"\nFox said the public mass shootings do not happen \"all that often, but they certainly do shock us.\"\n\"The sound of gunfire replayed over and over has an impact,\" Fox said. \"There hasn't been an increase except in fear.\"\nThe Oregonian\/OregonLive contributed to this report.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Architecture | 14 Jan 2016 | By Stephanie Murg\nDesign Awards 2016: Best Reboot \u2013 The Met Breuer\nPictured right: the trapezoidal window and stepped-back facade of The Met Breuer, whose modern art department is headed up by Sheena Wagstaff (pictured left)\nMost buildings cannot escape the awkwardness of transition. Stripped roughly on moving day, they are typically left echoing and vulnerable, littered with vestiges of past relevance and then made freshly chaotic by renovation. Marcel Breuer's inverted pyramid, on the corner of New York's Madison Avenue and 75th Street, takes change in its stride. Even bustling with workers, studded with ladders and tarpaulin, and free of its modular internal walls, the five-storey, flame-treated grey granite structure retains a friendly, beautifully proportioned readiness. On 18 March, the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art will reopen to the public as The Met Breuer \u2013 earning the accolade of Best Reboot in Wallpaper's 2016 Design Awards in the process.\n'Everyone has always likened this building to a fort, with a moat \u2013 defensive, and with an aggressive relationship to the street,' says Sheena Wagstaff, chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary art department. 'In fact, it's the opposite.' She points to the lower level, which is being returned to its original purpose as a 'sunken garden', and the glass that spans the lower floors, interrupted only by the concrete bridge leading to the entrance. 'It's a sculptural form above, but it has this transparency below.'\nWith fond memories of the building from her time as a fellow in the Whitney's Independent Study Program in 1982, Wagstaff, formerly chief curator of Tate Modern in London, is savouring the opportunity to reveal not only lost details of the structure but also Breuer's design intentions. The Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained architect described the stepped-back fa\u00e7ade as 'a surprise in the cityscape', with its overhanging galleries meant to be inviting rather than forbidding. 'Outside, it is expression; inside, only proportion,' Breuer told a reporter at the 1966 opening. 'It stands back and lets you see the pictures.'\nWagstaff and her team at the Met, which has custody of the Whitney-owned building for the next eight years (with the possibility of extending the agreement in 2023), are both standing back and leaning forward. 'All we're really doing is cleaning up the space \u2013 being as sincere as we can, and as meticulous,' says Wagstaff of the restoration work overseen by Beyer Blinder Belle. The original clock has been reset into the lobby wall and concrete benches have been uncovered, bronze is being restored of its glow without sacrificing patina, and the flagstone floors are being unvarnished. 'What you end up seeing is a building that has an unbelievable array of different types of textures and colours. It's a very sensual building,' she explains. 'This gives the lie to brutalism. So we're having fun with this.'\nAnd come March, they'll be more than pictures to see. With some 28,000 sq ft of display space, the Met Breuer will be home to a new series of exhibitions, performances, artist commissions, residencies, and educational initiatives, all led by Wagstaff as part of her charge to invigorate and globalise the museum's approach to art of the 20th and 21st centuries. (Meanwhile, David Chipperfield is developing a new design for the Met's wing for modern and contemporary art on Fifth Avenue.) 'The Breuer building allows us to explore the possibilities of what we as the Met can do that no other museum of modern and contemporary art can do,' she says, 'which is to provide the true historic context for artistic practice nowadays.'\nThe two inaugural exhibitions will be: a major thematic survey of 190 unfinished works of art, entitled 'Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible', spanning Titian to Twombly, Rembrandt to Rauschenberg; and the more intimately scaled monographic exhibition (but the largest-to-date) of the work of Indian modernist artist Nasreen Mohamedi, who died in 1990 at the age of 53. Her drawings and photographs will occupy opposing axes, in line with the building's coffered concrete ceiling. 'It's a simple but clear installation that responds to the building, because her work is full of grids and also dynamic diagonals that come out of a number of different sources, including Lissitzky and Malevich, but also Islamic patterning,' says Wagstaff. 'So it's a combination of East and West.'\nThe Met's first resident artist, composer and pianist Vijay Iyer, will occupy the lobby gallery for the month of March, performing solo and with collaborators. 'We'll get a broad cross-section of unsuspecting people wandering in \u2013 tourists, students, families,' he predicts. 'So we'll have to constantly reestablish and reactivate the relationship between performer and observer.' Iyer has also been commissioned to create a piece inspired by the work of Mohamedi, whose work he lauds for its 'economy of means, mysterious lines, spaces and patterns, focus, clarity, and elegance'.\nAs Breuer's building prepares to welcome new generations of visitors and artists under new institutional auspices, Wagstaff has an idea as to how it has managed to deftly integrate expression and proportion, public and private, vitality and profundity. 'No matter how experimental his buildings became when he was in the US, Marcel Breuer cleaved to the essential Bauhaus principles of good design,' she says, 'and to the idea that art is embedded in life.'\nAs originally featured in the February 2016 issue of Wallpaper* (W*203)\nSee the Design Awards 2016 in full \u2013 including our extra-special Judges' Awards - here\nBreuer described his building, completed in 1966, as a 'surprise in the cityscape'\nPictured left: Wagstaff on the concrete bridge leading to the entrance. Right: another view of the famous trapezoidal window\nFor more information, visit The Met Breuer's website\nPhotography: Adrian Gaut\nThe Met Breuer\nView Google Maps\nMUSEUMS THE MET BREUER","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Home\tNewsWorld & Society\tTo discuss about suicide in liberty\nby Francis Beno\u00eet Coust\u00e9 16 September 2020\nDeath is undoubtedly the only last great taboo in our society. And, at the very heart of this taboo, suicide \u2013 an object of repulsion and, at the same time, of fascination \u2026 A fascinating subject, moreover, which concerns us all \u2013 and not only sociologists, psychologists or other ethnologists \u2026 Action of \"the\" man against himself \"\u2026 Act of despair, cowardice or heroism \u2013 whereby a man, at any given moment, prefers chosen death to death suffered.\nBut, paradoxically, this subject which so scares our society \u2013 French in particular (to the point that it is systematically banned from any conversation of good company) \u2013 has been continuously studied, in our country, by a multitude of specialists: more than 10,000 titles listed, to date \u2026\nThe nightmare (1790-1791) Johann Heinrich F\u00fcssli (1741-1825)\nHuile sur toile 77cm?64cm. Goethehaus (Francfort)\nWho commits suicide today in our society?\nAlthough no age group is spared, it is predominantly older people and young people (13 to 25 years old) \u2026\nSince suicidal behavior presupposes access to consciousness, it is now established that animals do not commit suicide. The touching examples that we are sometimes given never stand up to scrutiny: thus, after the death of its master, a pet refuses to feed only when it has been conditioned \u2013 Pavlovian reflex \u2013 not to receive food only from the hand of it.\nLikewise, very young children do not commit suicide: the youngest suicide, known and recognized, was 7 years old \u2013 and still he was exceptionally mature of mind (Hopital Necker-Enfants malades. Paris). Suicides are very rare between the ages of 7 and 12 \u2013 the average age of puberty today \u2026 Each year, on the other hand, just over 40,000 French teenagers try to take action. A little over 1,000 succeed, but 63% reoffend\u2026 Currently, suicide is the leading cause of death among young people aged 13 to 17. Then, from 17 to 25 years old, it is the second cause \u2013 after road accidents (among which there is, no doubt, a high rate of unaccounted for suicides) \u2026\nIn young people, the most common reason for suicide is a lack of dialogue. A period of all the anxieties and all the frailties, adolescence requires, on the part of parents, a great capacity for listening and attention. In teens, a suicide attempt is most often a cry for help. If you don't hear it, it's a recurrence \u2026\nHead of a skeleton with a burning cigarette\nVincent Van Gogh. (1885-1888).\nPeinture \u00e0 l'huile, 32cm\/24,5cm. Mus\u00e9e Van Gogh. Amsterdam\nIn Western countries, the suicide rate is three to four times higher in men than in women: \u00be of men succeed in their suicide (15 out of 20 men) compared to less than \u00bc in women (4 out of 20 women ). Note, however, that in China, these proportions are opposite \u2026 Note also that the suicide rate is four times higher in Switzerland than in Haiti: the more comfortable we live, the more we become \u2013 it seems \u2013 cozy and fragile \u2026 This is why it is necessary, it is healthy to talk about suicide, and especially to the most vulnerable: it is never the speech that encourages the passage to the act, it is silence! So I will dedicate my remarks to those who dread hearing it.\nCertainly the means of self-destruction are varied! It is also surprising that these are not always the most painless or speedy procedures that suicides retain. So this forty-something who locked himself in a freezer \u2026 Need a certain atonement or thanatoscopic willingness to \"live\" his own agony? \"I want to die alive,\" said the philosopher Paul Ricoeur \u2026 The choice of one's own death is never, in any case, neutral or insignificant. Whether by Fire, Air, Water or Earth \u2026\n\u2022 by fire immolation (such as Jan Palach, history student, on January 16, 1969, in Prague, to denounce the Soviet occupation or, in November 2019, in Lyons, this student who immolated himself to denounce economic problems), firearm or electrocution (such, in 1998, the musicologist Philippe Autexier\n\u2022 by water : drowning\n\u2022 by air : suffocation, asphyxiant gas or hanging (such as Eva\u00eblle, an 11-year-old girl subject to harassment from her comrades, who was found hanging from her bed, on June 21, 2019, in Herblay), \u2026\n\u2022 by land : leaving the road, crushing, defenestration\u2026\nBut also by ingestion of lethal products: poisons, pesticides, even \u2013 in high doses \u2013 euphoric products: barbiturates, drugs, alcohols \u2013 or even food\u2026 No one is unaware, in fact, that when eating , we are no longer alone! And thus digging his grave with his teeth\u2026 Until the borderline case illustrated by the film by Marco Ferreri \"La Grande Bouffe\" (1973), a truly horrific spectacle, on which our consumer society has today cast a modest veil\u2026 Suicide by ingestion, but also by evacuation: hara-kiri \u8179\u5207\u308a, disembowelment, opening of the veins, throat cut, etc. As well as by non-ingestion: anorexia nervosa (among teen-agers in particular): thus the case of Solenn Poivre d\u00b4Arvor who, in Neuilly, threw himself under a metro train. Hence the creation of \"La Maison de Solenn\", an annex to Cochin Hospital in Paris, dedicated to young anorexics \u2026 But this list is not intended, alas! not exhaustive \u2026\nFrom the point of view that is ours here (which, once again, cannot be confused with that of the sociologist, moralist, theologian or therapist), is it possible to envisage a classification, a nosology of suicidal behavior? ? Which would make it possible to distinguish:\n\u2022 motivations \"because \u2026\" (retrospective)\n\u2022 motivations \"with a view to \u2026\" (prospective)\nThere are, in my opinion, 4 types of suicide:\n\u2022 Suicide-flight, flight from a situation judged \u2013 rightly or wrongly \u2013 intolerable and hopeless. It is \"escapist\" suicide: the subject breaks free from a dead end\n\u2022 the Suicide-interpellation, which can sometimes be \"aggressive\". It has a finality, it wishes to reach someone with shame. This suicide screams \u00ab Revenge !\" \"\n\u2022 Suicide-giving of oneself, which I will call \"oblative\", which aims to satisfy the desires of others before their own\n\u2022 the Suicide-game, or \"playful\" suicide.\nArthur Koestler. 1978.\n\u00a9 estate of Fay Godwin \/ British Library \/ National Portrait Gallery, London\nFor the Suicide escapist, there are sometimes real (objective), sometimes imaginary (subjective) motivations. Among the real motivations, there is, of course, the incurable suffering and illness, old age and its infirmities: the Stoic lucidity and serenity of a Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972), who had become blind and totally dependent, or even of a Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) and his wife Cynthia, freely deciding to end their life (leukemic, Arthur Koestler also suffered from Parkinson's).\nIn ancient times, did the Stoics not consider incurable suffering, dismemberment or disease, even military defeat, as reasonable grounds for suicide? Believing that killing oneself can, at times, become a duty \u2026 Thus Cato of Utica refusing to \"survive freedom\".\nBorderline case: \"Why not kill yourself, as long as the present happiness is not diminished and would not increase if it lasted longer?\" Comment evoking the case of these two young people, rich and perfectly happy, taking their own life so as not to experience the inevitable degradation of their happiness in the future \u2026 [In truth, \"happiness in itself\" is not it not to work \u2013 taking this word in the broadest sense?]\nBut moral suffering can also be a reason for suicide: observation of a tragic disparity between \"real self\" and \"dreamed self\" [the ego and the superego]. Let us quote Kierkegaard : \"The desperate is nailed to his ego; he is forced to be the me he does not want to be \". Thus, suicide is, therefore, the expression of an ideal or of a ridiculed pride, the refusal of a situation or an unworthy reality \u2026\nLet us remember here the proud sentence of this man of the Enlightenment Charles de Montesquieu : \"Honor is less what we owe to others than what we owe to ourselves\".\nCarr\u00e9 blanc sur fond blanc (1918). Kasimir Malevitch\nMuseum of Modern Art. New-York\nAbout euthanasia\nBut back to physical suffering! This is where the problem of euthanasia naturally comes in. Should we help someone kill themselves?\nMore than 85% of French people are in favor of recognizing the right of any patient struck by a serious, degrading or incurable illness to be helped to commit suicide \u2013 the right to a dignified death, the right to \"die standing\"!\nSo the cyanide capsule included in the package for cosmonauts and submariners, or even palliative care clinics. Thus, in the Benelux, where the assistance of health professionals can be requested to end this; as is the case in Switzerland, where this aid is considered good, as long as his motive is not selfish (more than 1,300 suicides are assisted there each year). In the Preamble to the Swiss Constitution, is it not written: \"The strength of the community is measured by the well-being of the weakest of its members\"?\nIn 2020, active euthanasia is legal in Germany, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Colombia and ten American states: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Washington DC.\nEven practicing Catholics are now participating in the movement: 45% of them say they are in favor of the principle of active euthanasia. The Church now admits (art. 1185 of \"Canon Law of 1983\") that suicides are granted to ecclesiastical funerals \u2013 whereas it was formerly decreed that \"whoever committed suicide deserves the death penalty\": thus a drowned man was fished out to hang him, hands cut off, by the feet \u2026 [Although, from the 5th century, one deplored in the monasteries an upsurge of \"acedia\", a spiritual revulsion at the origin of many suicides. But that is not the point \u2026\nGloomy horizons\nSubjective dead ends can also lead to suicide: a false lack of hope, when the subject gives an absolute character to what is only relative, an infinite character to what is finite. And this, by narrowing the field of consciousness, due to anxieties of all kinds and the inability to take into account the totality of existence \u2013 neurotic repression \u2026\nInability, eg to imagine the world in the absence of the loved one: love-passions of Isolde for Tristan , of Othello for Desdemona , of Br\u00fcnnhilde for Siegfried, of A\u00efda or Radam\u00e8s, of Juliette for Romeo\u2026 Theme certainly operatic!\nSuicide, eg in 1942, of Stephan Zweig and his wife, desperate by the rise of Nazism \u2013 while, refugees in Brazil, they had nothing for themselves. fear\u2026 Thus, one of our greatest thinkers was touched by this narrowing of consciousness which made him judge irresistible what (the continuation proved it\u2026) was perfectly resistible, to consider temporary difficulties as irremediable.\nExamples of small or large bosses who cannot stand the eclipse, sometimes quite relative, of their business \u2026\nExaggeratedly whole, absolute character of a Pierre B\u00e9r\u00e9govoy (1925-1993), (ex-French Prime minister) a man of the people who did not acquire that sense of the relativity of public affairs conferred by passing through the seraglio of the Grandes \u00e9coles or of the great bodies of the State. The same fragility, in the face of public opinion, of Roger Salengro (1890-1936), while an Captain Dreyfus, just as innocent, does not crack \u2013 in conditions, however, otherwise difficult \u2026\nLe suicid\u00e9. Vers 1877. \u00c9douard Manet. Huile sur toile, 38cm\/46cm\nFondation et Collection Emil G. B\u00fchrle\nSo if there is a common element in suicides by love-passion, monomania or manic-depressive illness, it is the loss of a crucial element of the life plan or of the personality.\nBut there is another form of escapist suicide, that which aims at self-punishment. There is therefore, in this case, an original fault (a motive) that must be expiated (a finality). Thus of Judas Iscariot who, taken with remorse for having delivered Jesus, hanged himself [although, from a strictly Christian point of view, not having faith in divine mercy, Judas aggravated there his case]. Did not the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) write: \"Sin is despair before God\"?\nIf I have dwelled on Suicide-Leak, it is by far the most common!\n\u2022 Suicide-injunction (or unprovoked assault of Others) can take various forms\n\u2022 Suicide-crime, when one threatens one's own life by dragging others into death;\n\u2022 Suicide-revenge, when we want to make others responsible for this act;\n\u2022 Suicide-blackmail (or call for help) which is, most often, that of women and teenagers. But who, alas! don't always miss \u2026\nAn edifying example of Suicide-Injunction is that of this Venetian shoemaker who \u2013 after being crucified in his room \u2013 had himself thrown out of the window (by means of a clever system of pulleys) overlooking the Grand Canal! Ditto, live suicide (I dare not say \"live \u00bb), of this Texan entrepreneur in front of the television cameras! Ditto, self-hanging live, on Facebook, of a 12-year-old American \u2026\nThe oblate- Suicide-Oblatif (or Selflessness) is also classified in the category of suicides \"with a view to \u2026\". By the sacrifice of life, it aims for access to a higher self, to an ideal! It is the expression of a super-me \u2026\nAll \"martyrologies\" abound in examples of people giving their lives (along with that of other people \u2026) to reach a state considered infinitely more delectable. Thus jihadists no longer wishing to make the 72 virgins that the Koran promises them languish \u2026 Thus the Preacher Jim Jones leading to death, in Guyana, some 900 followers of his sect \"The Peoples Temple \"\nJapan. Suicide by sepppuku \u5207\u8179 (Hara-kiri \u8179\u5207\u308a)\nSuicides \"for the honor\" of defeated generals ( Saul, Hannibal, Rommel \u2026), of captains choosing to sink with their ship, of samurais (such as the writer Yukio Mishima making himself \" seppuku \u5207\u8179 , according to the Bushid\u00f4 Code), suicide bombers giving their lives for the Fatherland.\nDidn't our own fathers sing in the past: \"Mourir pour la Patrie est le sort le plus beau, le plus digne d'envie (To die for the Fatherland is the most beautiful fate, the most deserving of envy)\"?\nLet us specify, however, that, for a Japanese, our personalism is meaningless: each individual being comparable to a tree leaf, no matter how it falls! \u82b1\u898b \/ \u306f\u306a\u307f. Only the tree counts \u2026\nSubjects giving their lives to save the lives of others \u2013 whether a spouse, a child, a father, a friend \u2026\nExample of Prague, Jan Palach (1948-1969) setting himself on fire, Wenceslas Square, to protest against the Soviet occupation \u2026\nWriters wishing to magnify their image for posterity [what C\u00e9line named \"making a speech to the maggots\": image of a modern Stoic for Henry de Montherlant, of a samurai for Yukio Mishima\u2026\nL\u00e9on Spilliaert. (1881-1946)\nAutoportrait au miroir, 1908\nStranger, however, is the case of these two young people \u2013 at the height of their bliss \u2013 taking their own lives so that \"their love remains intact forever.\" Radical aestheticism?\nLet us recognize that it can sometimes be difficult \u2013 in the case of oblative suicides \u2013 to distinguish between idealism and masochism \u2026\nLast major type of suicide:The Suicide-Game (or ludic suicide). I will distinguish here the Ordeal and the Game itself.\nThe ordeal or \"Judgment of God\" was, in the Middle Ages, a test by which the Lord was put to the wall \u2013 forcing him, in a way, to pronounce on the innocence or the guilt of an accused. Happy times!\u2026 Failing to seek God's judgment, ordeal is, for modern man, the fact of risking his life to prove something to himself\u2026 Who can deny this ordeal character in a G\u00e9rard d'Aboville (\u00b0 1945), paddling the South Pacific, or at a Maud Fontenoy (\u00b0 1977) crossing the North Atlantic still paddling! While waiting for the one who will try the adventure with a snorkel and fins \u2026 The same goes for those who support mountaineering, aerobatics, car racing or stunts \u2026\nThe real player, on the other hand, has nothing to prove \u2013 neither to himself nor to others! He loves danger for the excitement it provides. Whether this danger arises from competition, chance, simulacrum or vertigo \u2026\n\u2022 The game-competition derives from the taste for war, always present in humans. This is called agonistic (from the Greek ag\u00f4n \u1f00\u03b3\u03ce\u03bd, game-fight). Is there any more exciting action than risking everything \u2013 and your life?\n\u2022 The game of chance or random game, the paroxysmal form of which is Russian roulette. Although those who survive it, like a Graham Greene, readily plead, not the attraction of death, but simply boredom \u2026\n\u2022 The simulacrum game or mimetic game naturally includes theater games that allow everyone to become an illusory character. They range from role playing games to happening (invented by composer John Cage ), which sometimes gave rise to such excesses, in the area of \u200b\u200bsexuality, violence or death, that the US government had to ban it \u2013 at least in its hard form. Suicidal mimesis also occurs within the family: reproduction in particular of the suicide of a parent \u2026\nLe pendu. Georges Rouault. 1871-1958 . Huile sur papier, maroufl\u00e9e sur toile (1944)\n64,7cm\/46cm. Centre Pompidou. MNAM. ADAGP. Paris\nEpidemics of mimetic suicides (suicide clusters): such as the \"Werther effect\", following the publication of Goethe 's novel \"The Sorrows of Young Werther\"; or even the \"Copycat Effect\" (named after an American thriller), after the suicide of a personality invested with a strong emotional charge \u2026\nAnother borderline case: there are secret societies in London, Paris, Berlin and New York, called \"Suicide clubs\", where \u2013 at the end of certain games \u2013 the \"winner\" must commit suicide (or be committed suicide). Such is the rule of these clubs, my God! very elitist \u2026\nAristocratic and warlike societies [they were originally the same] have they not always established their scales of value according to the dangerousness of the pleasures or the games they play? Pleasure \u2013 and especially dangerous pleasure \u2013 has it not always been, for the aristocracy, the transcendent value par excellence? However, the value of efficiency was, for its part, left to the scoundrel \u2013 to accountants, economists, merchants \u2013 who usually despise heroic or playful values \u200b\u200b\u2026 Let us remember, in this regard, the formula of Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969): \"The idol of the vulgar is utility. The idol of the aristocracy is pleasure \"[in Journal, 1957-1960].\nWolke-Nuage. Gerhardt Richter\n1976. 200 cm x 300 cm Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9: 413. Huile sur toile\n[A little semantic parenthesis: the English people are lucky enough to have two words to translate the word \"game\": \"Game\" for the meaning that interests us today (Dangerous Games) and \"Play\" for purely fun activities for children \u2013 even adults: Playboy \/ Playgirl.]\nI will distinguish a last type of game with a more or less suicidal tendency:\n\u2022 The vertigo game which is an attempt to access trance, spasm, voluptuous panic, dizziness, loss of consciousness, thanks to the fall, slide, rapid rotation, acceleration \u2013 all actions likely to make you dizzy, even death.\nIn certain very specific cases, suicide can be considered as the act of freedom by excellence, supreme, absolute \u2013 the man thus remaining, until the end, conscious and master of his trajectory, of his destiny: \"Only a flower that falls is a total flower, \"says a Japanese proverb.\nGrandeur \u2013 and sometimes heroism \u2013 of the man who, like Pierre Brossolette, member of the French resistance, freely chose to take leave to save the men of his network\u2026 No less heroic was Jean Moulin (French civil servant who served as the first President of the National Council of the Resistance) who died under the torture of the Nazis without having spoken\u2026 There can be, in fact, as much courage in throwing up one's cross as in refusing to throw it down!\nIn reaction against the moron anathemas of fundamentalists of all stripes, various intellectuals have been able to plead (sometimes exaggeratedly) in favor of suicide. Let us quote, of course, Emil Cioran (1911-1995) \u2013 such a braggadocio: \"Die for a comma\" he went so far as to utter. But rest assured: Cioran died quietly in his bed.\nLet us quote another great author, the Czech novellist Ivan Kl\u00edma (\u00b0 1931): \"The man who respects himself leaves his life when he wants. The good people are all waiting, as in the bistro, for them to be kicked out. \" That's very well said! But, there too, rest assured: the excellent Kl\u00edma is (as far as I know \u2026) still leaning on the bar!\nAlso [knowing how rare are suicides resulting from a serene and lucid analysis, from a genuinely free decision] I would say, by way of conclusion, the impossibility that there is to pass an unequivocal judgment on suicide \u2013 as certain fundamentalists persist in doing, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, for whom it is always (fors cases of madness) a crime.\nSuicide is no more to advocate than to condemn! This act deserves, in any case, consideration and reflection, for it is undoubtedly the most terrible, the most serious and the most absolute that a man can ever accomplish \u2026\nAnd forgive me for repeating myself: it is necessary and healthy (s-a-i-n = healthy) to talk about it,\nIt's not the word that incites suicide, it's silence!\nFrancis Beno\u00eet Coust\u00e9\nOld age, out!\nCes articles peuvent aussi vous int\u00e9resser\nMusic, globalized and colourful cocktail or soul of...\nUnlikely destinies (5)Marc Simoncini, a stupendous French business...\nUnlikely destinies (2) James Brooke Sarawak's white raja\nThe mysteries of finance \u2026 or Deng Xiao...\nThe mystery of the Big Bang\u2026 of finance...\nThe public debt (part 2)\nA brief survey of Epidemics from Prehistoric period...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Red Star over Russia : A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin\n[{\"id\":31058775769161,\"title\":\"Default Title\",\"option1\":\"Default Title\",\"option2\":null,\"option3\":null,\"sku\":\"9781854379351\",\"requires_shipping\":true,\"taxable\":false,\"featured_image\":null,\"available\":true,\"name\":\"Red Star over Russia : A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin\",\"public_title\":null,\"options\":[\"Default Title\"],\"price\":2995,\"weight\":1888,\"compare_at_price\":null,\"inventory_quantity\":-2,\"inventory_management\":null,\"inventory_policy\":\"deny\",\"barcode\":\"9781854379351\",\"requires_selling_plan\":false,\"selling_plan_allocations\":[]}]\nA richly illustrated book telling the story of the Soviet Union\nThrough an amazing array of posters, photographs, paintings, magazines, book jackets, advertisements, pamphlets and other rare ephemera, \"Red Star Over Russia\" tells the story of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution to the death of Stalin. During this period Soviet citizens endured revolutionary upheavals, civil war, Nazi invasion, famine and appalling oppression. For countless millions, revolutionary dreams were transformed into unspeakable tragedy.\nYet it was also a time of intense creativity, in which the hopes, aspirations and revolutionary fervour of a people were captured in an extraordinary outpouring of visual material. Universally acclaimed on its publication in 2009, David King's masterful book is the fruit of over 40 years of research. In it, he rescues many of the unsung heroes of the epic struggles that shaped the Soviet Union from obscurity and commemorates the talent of some of the most brilliant artists, photographers and designers of the twentieth century.\nAuthor: David King","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man Charged Over a Year Later For Fatal Florida Crash\nHome \u00bb News \u00bb Car Accidents \u00bb Man Charged Over a Year Later For Fatal Florida Crash\nFlorida is a \"no-fault\" insurance state as it pertains to auto insurance liability. What this means is that every driver in Florida is required to carry a minimum of $10,000 in Personal Injury Protection (PIP) that they must turn to in case of personal injury in an accident. There are exceptions to this law; such as when the accident causes permanent injury, scarring or disfigurement, or death. In cases where the injuries cause serious or permanent impairment or death, those affected may be able to bring a claim for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering against the \"at-fault\" driver. Another exception is where the medical bills related to an accident total more than the $10,000 covered by PIP insurance.\nThe Tampa Bay Times reports on a man charged with driving while on methamphetamines in a 2018 crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old Florida girl.\n55-year-old Roy Wayne Rimmer was arrested on February 22nd in connection with the accident that happened nine months earlier.\nAuthorities say that Rimmer was high on methamphetamine when he ran a red light and crashed into the driver's side of 17-year-old Lillia Norris' SUV. The crash, which took place in April, also injured Rimmer. He was taken to the hospital where blood was drawn to determine if Rimmer was intoxicated at the time of the crash.\nAuthorities say that the arrest took so long because they had to await the results of the toxicology report and closing the case was left up to the trooper who was investigating the crash.\nRimmer was arrested and is being held in Pasco County Jail, where he is being held in lieu of $100,500 bail. He is facing charges of vehicular homicide, DUI accident involving death, and DUI involving property damage.\nTwo Killed In Titusville Traffic Accident\nThe Orlando Sentinel reported on a 3-car accident in the Titusville area that killed two people Monday night in a tragic accident. The crash took place around 8:20 pm on State Road 407, just south of Interstate 95, according to a spokesperson from the Florida Highway Patrol. A 27-year\u2013old Debary resident was traveling west on...\nOne Driver Dies In Wrong-Way Crash and the Victim Suffered Significant Injuries But Is Expected to Survive\nAccording to the National Transportation Safety Board, although wrong-way collisions are rare, especially when compared to other accidents, including head-on crashes, they tend to be fatal. Wrong-way collisions occur most often at night, on weekends, and in the lanes closest to the median. The fatality rate in wrong-way collisions has remained unchanged for several years....\nTwo People Were Injured In A Four-Vehicle Accident On Interstate 75\nFlorida, like many states, follows a rear-end rule where a driver is legally negligent for following another vehicle too closely and crashing into it. In these cases, the front vehicle does not necessarily have to prove that the vehicle which crashed into it committed an unsafe act. Following too closely is a common cause of...\nTwo Police Cruisers Collide While Pursuing Suspect In Putnam County\nTwo police offers are facing a long recovery time after their cruisers hit each other at the start of a police chase. News 4 Jax reported on the incident. They were responding to a domestic incident call that started at a convenience store. The call stated that the suspect stole the victim's car with the...\nThe Financial Responsibility Law in Florida\nAnytime you go out on the road, you are at risk for an accident. In Florida, car accidents happen more frequently than almost any other place in the United States. It is important that you know how to protect yourself and what you need to do if you get in any kind of accident...\nCommuting To Work Increases Risks of Vehicle Accidents\nNobody likes a long drive to work or back home, especially in traffic on congested freeways. Commuting can affect a drivers' physical, mental, and emotional state. 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However, sometimes insurance companies try to deny claims or say they are not liable for...\nWhat Should You Look for After a Rear-End Collision?\nAfter a rear\u2013end collision, you should look for prompt medical care and a place to repair your car. Not only are these services important for your health, but they can provide critical documentation of your accident that can be helpful in the future. Evidence of your injuries and the damage to your car is essential...\nWhat Are Some Typical Car Accident Injuries You Can Seek Compensation for In Florida?\nCar accidents injuries vary as widely as the specific circumstances that cause them. Although scrapes and cuts commonly result from items being strewn about the car amidst a collision, other injuries\u2014from moderate, to severe, and even fatal\u2014present themselves with alarming frequency. Some of these more serious injuries might not be immediately apparent to the accident...\nWhat Is the Most Common Cause of Rear-End Collisions?\nThe most common cause of vehicle crashes (such as rear-end collisions) is driver error, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Driver error accounts for about 94 percent of all traffic accidents. If you were hurt in a rear-end collision, fault depends on who acted negligently. For instance, if you were rear-ended by...\nHow Is Pain and Suffering Calculated in Florida?\nWhat Is a PIP Suit in Florida?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Even the Bond King Can't Escape Reality\nBy Vic Lederman\nBill Gross \u2013 who folks in finance know as the \"Bond King\" \u2013 isn't a fan of how his estranged son Nick turned out.\nAccording to Gross, Nick is a \"disappointment.\" The 31-year-old millennial is covered in tattoos. And he wants nothing to do with the Bond King...\nThe tattoos are a big problem for Gross. Nick even has the name \"Gross\" tattooed on the inside of his lip. His father calls it \"revenge by tattoo.\" And he has no control over it.\nThe market, according to Gross, has been tattooed too. And he says it has ruined our shot at making money. But here's what's surprising...\nGross is dead wrong.\nToday, I'll show you why...\nGross, if you don't know already, founded and managed the investment firm PIMCO. It managed the world's largest bond fund at its peak. And Gross was labeled \"the nation's most important bond investor\" by the New York Times.\nSo, \"Bond King\" might sound a little grandiose. But Bill Gross is the real deal.\nThat makes his latest investment outlook letter \u2013 where he covers the global economy's \"tattoos\" \u2013 incredibly compelling. And the financial media has had a field day with it.\n\"There is little money to be made almost anywhere in the world \u2013 COVID-19 vaccine or no,\" Gross writes.\nThat, as I'm sure you can guess, is the headline the media latched on to. But in doing so, they missed the larger point.\nWe live in a zero-rate world.\nFor a bond guy like Gross, this observation is obvious. He spends a lot of the letter talking about yields, rates, and central banks.\nHe knows that we're playing by a new set of rules now. And that's true. You need to make sure your investments are designed to work with this new zero-rate rule book.\nAs an individual investor, you need to understand the new rule book if you're going to succeed. And the most important thing to know is that returns are being concentrated into a handful of highly specific market segments.\nThis means it's more important than ever that you put your money to work in the right places. If you don't, you'll fall right into the pit that Gross is warning investors about.\nIf you're focused on bonds like Gross, then sure... there's little money to be made in the world. But if you open your mind to other opportunities, the reality is much different.\nOur zero-rate world means the stock market has no competition. You might think stocks are expensive. But compared to what? Bonds that pay nothing?\nThe reality is that in this new world, stocks are the winner. They're the obvious place dollars will move into... because those dollars can't earn interest anywhere else.\nThe rules have changed. We live in a zero-rate world. We can't change it... just like Gross can't change the tattoos on his son's body.\nMake sure that your investments align with this reality.\nVic Lederman\n\"Staying long might feel uncomfortable right now,\" Chris Igou says. The markets are frightening right now. But we're seeing signs that stocks have big upside potential over the coming years... Read more here: What to Make of the Market's Best Quarter in a Decade.\n\"The Fed has lit the coals of the next great asset boom,\" Steve writes. Just like it had during the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed has slashed rates down to near zero. And just like back then, it means we could see outsized gains in the days ahead... Get the full story here: Today's Surprising Echo From the Global Financial Crisis.\nNEW HIGHS OF NOTE LAST WEEK\nBoston Beer (SAM)\u2026 beer\nDollar General (DG)\u2026 discount retail\nNike (NKE)\u2026 athletic apparel\nLennar (LEN)\u2026 homebuilder\nGuardant Health (GH)\u2026 health care\nNEW LOWS OF NOTE LAST WEEK\nHSBC (HSBC)\u2026 untrustworthy bank\nNordstrom (JWN)\u2026 \"death of retail\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"China's Organ Harvesting\nA study calling for the retraction of Chinese scientific papers on organ transplantation because of unethical procurement of organs was published last week in the medical journal BMJ Open. Many newspapers reported this as reflecting longstanding concerns that China takes organs from executed prisoners who could not consent freely. This long-standing concern misses an even more horrifying dimension to the atrocities of which China is now suspected. The evidence is powerful, the conclusions almost too unpleasant to commit to paper. China is not accused only of using organs from executed prisoners, but of harvesting organs of still-living prisoners of conscience \u2013 in other words, the removal of their organs is both the purpose to and the cause of their death.\nHuang Jiefu, head of China's transplantation programme, and a regular attendee at global transplant conference, denies it all, insisting that donors are deceased volunteers from intensive care. It seems impossible that he believes this, but China's impenetrable secrecy has made his words difficult to disprove. Claims of such gravity need independent verification before they can be voiced, but several groups have been investigating for years. They include the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China, David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State, David Matas, a human rights lawyer, Ethan Gutmann, an investigative writer, the organisation 'Stop Organ Harvesting in China', and the China Organ Harvest Research Centre Investigation. The latter, which reported last year, included an undercover investigation inside China by a South Korean TV station, and added the concern that the Uyghurs of Xinjiang may be following the Falun Gong to their doom.\nEye has already detailed the huge discrepancy between official Chinese transplant figures and the numbers hospitals report, which suggest 60,000 to 100,000 organs transplanted each year despite a small donor register, a reluctant populace and no organised system of allocations. It has reported that this gap, once made up of convicted felons is now believed made up by prisoners of conscience. Evidence of donation-to-order comes from waiting times of weeks, scheduling of surgery days in advance, and assurances that multiple back-up organs are on site. Evidence that victims go into surgery alive come from claims by Chinese witnesses, and taped calls with senior Chinese doctors in transplant centres explicitly stating that available Falun Gong organs are from still-living donors. The UN Committee Against Torture observed in 2008, 'the Special Rapporteur on Torture\u2026 has noted that an increase in organ transplant operations coincides with \"the beginning of the persecution of [Falun Gong practitioners].\nRemoval of hearts, lungs and livers is not compatible with survival, but it greatly improves the viability of the organ being taken. To be very clear a living organ source (Dr Grim cannot use the word donor) is one with a beating heart, is someone's son or daughter, is not dead. We should do more than delist publications. It's over 100 years since Wilfred Owen wrote, 'what passing bells for these that die as cattle?' It's time we answered the question.\nChina, transplant abuse, United nations","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?\nby Randall McNeely | Jan 18, 2019 | Randall McNeely: Pure Testimony | 0 comments\nHow I love reading the Book of Mormon and asking questions based on verses I'm reading!\nThis morning I've been reading in 1 Nephi 3 when Lehi tells Nephi that the Lord wants him and his brothers to go back to Jerusalem and get the brass plates. When speaking to Nephi, Lehi mentions that Laman and Lemuel complained, saying \"it [was] a hard thing\" that he was requiring of them. Then Lehi explains that it wasn't a requirement from him, but from the Lord.\nAs I read this, a question popped immediately into my mind: \"Is anything too hard for the Lord?\" As I read Nephi's response to his father, Lehi, the answer \"No\" came to my mind just as quickly.\n\"I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know he giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them\" (1 Nephi 3:7).\nWhen obtaining the brass plates seemed impossible, and Laman and Lamuel wanted to abandon their efforts, Nephi and Sam exercised faith. As commanded, Nephi went forward\u2014and because of his faith, the Lord opened the way for him to get the brass plates.\nThe Lord opened up the way for Lehi and his family many more times as they journeyed to the promised land. To give them direction through the wilderness and lead them to the more fertile parts of the land where they could find food and water, the Lord prepared the Liahona. This miraculous tool led Lehi's family to where they needed to go to hunt for food. Later, when they needed to cross the ocean, the Lord instructed Nephi on how to build a ship.\nHow to Accomplish Hard Things\nHowever, there is a key in all these things: as with the obtaining of the brass plates, faith proceeded the miracle. The Liahona only worked as the Nephites were faithful. When they allowed themselves to complain or turn from the Lord in any way, they were delayed in their journey, unable to obtain food, and tossed back and forth on the waves of the sea. As soon as they humbled themselves, however, they were once again blessed with guidance and direction and progressed forward in their journey.\nLike Lehi and his family, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we too are called upon to do hard things. Each week when we partake of the sacrament, we witness to God that we are willing to take Christ's name upon us, to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments. In doing so, we accept His invitation to take His yoke upon us. Elder Neal A. Maxwell, in speaking to BYU students in October 1986, gave the following explanation of what that means for \"serious disciples\":\nSerious disciples are not only urged to do good but also to avoid growing weary of doing good (see Galatians 6:9 and Helaman 10:5).\nThey are not only urged to speak the truth but also to speak the truth in love (see Ephesians 4:15).\nThey are not only urged to endure all things but also to endure them well (see D&C 121:8).\nThey are not only urged to be devoted to God's cause but also to be prepared to sacrifice all things, giving, if necessary, the last full measure of devotion (see Lectures on Faith 6:7).\nThey are not only to do many things of worth but are also to focus on the weightier matters, the things of most worth (see Matthew 23:23).\nThey are not only urged to forgive but also to forgive seventy times seven (see Matthew 18:21\u201322).\nThey are not only to be engaged in good causes, but also, they are to be \"anxiously engaged\" (see D&C 58:27).\nThey are not only to do right but also to do right for the right reasons.\nThey are told to get on the strait and narrow path, but then are told that this is only the beginning, not the end (see 2 Nephi 31:19\u201320).\nThey are not only to endure enemies but also to pray for them and to love them (see Matthew 5:44).\nThey are urged not only to worship God but, astoundingly, they are instructed to strive to become like him! (See Matthew 5:48; 3 Nephi 12:48, 27:27.)\nIn the midst of all these things,\" they are given a Sabbath day for rest, during which they do the sweetest but often the hardest work of all.\n(Neal A. Maxwell, \"Meek and Lowly,\" Brigham Young University Devotional, October 21, 1986.)\nLooking at this list and contemplating what it implies may seem overwhelming, even daunting. Yet, like Nephi, we can know that the Lord never gives us any commandment, or sets any expectation for us, without preparing a way for our success. He always provides a way for us to be successful in completing any set task He requires of us.\nThe formula for success is straightforward. Nephi showed us the way.\nFirst, receive the Lord's direction as given by living prophets and apostles, the scriptures, and through direct revelation from the Holy Ghost\u2014just as Nephi did.\nSecond, make the best plans we can with the understanding we have\u2014just as Nephi did.\nThird, move forward in faith, trusting in God to open the way before us\u2014just as Nephi did.\nThat list may seem simple and trite, yet it is applicable to each of the experiences laid out above. It is not meant to trivialize the challenges and difficulties we can and will face in our efforts to apply it. Just like Nephi, we may have to travel through our own wilderness for a while and experience tremendous challenges which greatly try our faith. But like Nephi, as we persevere and trust in God, we can know the way will always open before us. It can take time\u2014the Lord's time\u2014but the way will always open up.\nThe Lord Always Opens the Way For Us\nI know from personal experience that this is true. I grew up in a home where the gospel was taught. However, my father, though he taught the gospel in word, did not live it in deed. He was very abusive verbally and in other ways that not only affected me and my siblings, but others outside my family. He made some very serious mistakes that finally led to his being tried and going to prison for a time.\nI was a teenager at the time. As you might imagine, it was a very difficult challenge to deal with. My father's issues were on the nightly news and in the local newspaper. I suffered from soul-deep feelings of embarrassment and shame. I constantly worried about what my friends were thinking\u2014and I felt all-the-way-to-the-core anger toward my father.\nFortunately for me, my friends rallied around me and buoyed me up rather than rejecting me as they could have. Good teachers and kind leaders helped me carry on. Most importantly, however, the Lord carried me as I strove to move forward with faith.\nTo read more of Randall's articles, click here.\nWith the Lord's help, I made it through that time, but the anger toward my father festered inside of me for years. I knew I needed to forgive him and let it go. But I couldn't do it on my own.\nFinally, I followed Nephi's formula. I accepted the direction to forgive. I then moved forward with faith, trusting that the Lord could open the way. I humbled myself, sought counseling, and fasted and prayed over several months with all my heart and soul. At last, after what for me was one of the greatest struggles of my life, through the grace of Jesus Christ, I was able to forgive past mistakes and let the anger go. For the first time in many years, that immense weight was lifted\u2014I was free.\nThe Lord loves us. Because He loves us, He allows us (and even expects us) to do hard things, for, as He said to the prophet Joseph Smith, \"all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good\" (D&C 122:7).\nAbout Randall McNeely\nRandall McNeely is a husband, father of five, and author. He is also a singer\/songwriter and has written several patriotic songs, children's songs, and multiple religious hymns. The best known is 'Oh Jesus, Savior of Mankind', which won a Special Recognition award in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 2008 Music Submission contest. He and two of his daughters have also recorded and released the children's song Everybody Speaks Smile! Randy has a firm testimony of Jesus Christ. He is the light and the life of the world. It is said and written of Him that \"He went about doing good.\" In doing so, He weaved light into the hearts and souls of all with whom He came in contact, both in word and deed. Randy's desire is to have the same said of him. He wants to have the words and lyrics he writes uplift, inspire, and bless others. To read more articles by Randy visit his Pure Testimony website at www.puretestimony.org.\nTimes Square Epiphany A Love Story for Eternity A Letter to My Brother on the Priesthood It Works","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Day and Night: Thursday\nYour guide to the performances, events and talks taking place at Frieze London and Frieze Masters\nThis year Frieze London brings together over 160 of the world's leading galleries from New York to Berlin and Shanghai to S\u00e3o Paulo, to showcase works by newly discovered artists alongside some of the most respected names in contemporary art. For information of this year's highlights, including a new gallery section, The Nineties, which will recreate seminal exhibitions from the decade, click here.\nTake a short walk through the Frieze Sculpture Park to visit the 2016 edition of Frieze Masters to see and buy art from 134 of the world's leading galleries specializing in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and postwar art, Old Masters and 19th Century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer. For highlights, including new galleries, innovative gallery collaborations, and rare presentations of 20th century artists, click here.\nGetting to the fairs\nMake sure you've booked your tickets!\nThe fairs are open from 12.00pm \u2013 7.00pm today.\nFrieze London is located in the south end of The Regent's Park, near to the entrance off Park Square West. The postcode is NW1 4NR (Google Maps).\nFrieze Masters is approximately 15 minutes walk from Frieze London at the north-east corner of The Regent's Park, near the London Zoo. The postcode is NW1 4HA (Google Maps).\nBy tube: Frieze London is around 5 minutes walk from Regent's Park tube station, with Baker Street and Great Portland Street stations also close by. If you're going directly to Frieze Masters, Camden Town and Mornington Crescent tube stations are a 10 minute walk away.\nBy bus: 2, 13, 18, 27, 30, 74, 82, 88, 113, 139, 189, 205, 274, 453 & C2.\nFor more Frieze London travel information, including bike racks and cab numbers, click here; for Frieze Masters, click here.\nPhotograph: Mark Blower\nAt the fairs\nFamiliarize yourself with our fair maps for Frieze London and Frieze Masters in advance.\nAs well as the main gallery sections, make sure to visit Focus at Frieze London, a section advised by Jacob Proctor and Fabian Sch\u00f6neich that features 37 galleries under 12 years of age, and Spotlight at Frieze Masters, curated for the first time by Toby Kamps (The Menil Collection, Houston), a section dedicated to solo presentations of 20th century pioneers.\nAt 7.00pm, make sure to catch the UK premiere of Projects artist Coco Fusco's Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira in the auditorium. Entry is free, but booking is required. Click here for tickets.\nWander to P5 to see the 'Big Board' screens of Yuri Pattison, the winner of the 2016 Frieze Artist Award.\nThis year's Frieze London Talks will kick off at 1.00pm in the auditorium with Borderlands \/ The Social, a conversation between artist and writer Hannah Black, artist Erik van Lieshout, and performer Jonny Woo, about the social and communal aspects of borders. Moderating this opening session is Sarah McCrory, director of the acclaimed biennial Glasgow International.\nThe Frieze Masters Talks programme starts today. At 12pm see Philippe Parreno, the creator of the current Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission, in conversaton with Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Brooklyn Museum). And at 3pm join frieze magazine co-editor Jennifer Higgie; Okwui Enwezor (Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich), Hou Hanru (Artistic Director, MAXXI, Rome) and Sheena Wagstaff (Leonard A. Lauder Chairman for Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met, New York) to discuss what place contemporary art has in historical museums, and vice versa. You can view the full schedule of talks here.\nThere are seven events in the Reading Room today, including artist Wolfgang Tillmans in conversation with artforum.com editor David Velasco (1.30pm), Stephanie Bailey in conversation with Sophia Al-Maria and Lawrence Lek for LEAP (2.30pm), and Pablo Larios in conversation with Professor Britta Peters and John Beeson on the publication series Out Of, which has been released in the run-up to Skulptur Projekte M\u00fcnster 2017 (4.30pm). For the full schedule, click here.\nFor lunch and a quick drink, why not visit some of London's best-loved restaurants, bars and caf\u00e9s, which are brought under the same two roofs at this year's fairs. For the full list, click here.\nGrayson Perry at Frieze London, 2016. Photograph: Linda Nyland\nWest End Night: 40 galleries in the west of the city are opening their doors tonight, with exhibitions from the likes of Shezad Dawood, Tacita Dean, Paula Rego, Ed Ruscha and Richard Serra. Don't know which to visit? Scroll through the full list here, and keep an eye out for our Critic's Guide, which will be posted later today.\nAt 8.30pm, Frieze Music, The Vinyl Factory & Hayward Gallery present an unique evening at The Store, 180 The Strand, in collaboration with Jeremy Deller, featuring live performances by Cecilia Bengolea, with DJs The Heatwave and special guests. A limited number of tickets to the performance will be available on a first-come-first-served basis. More details here.\nFrieze London 2016\nFrieze Masters 2016\nFrieze Talks 2016\nFrieze Projects London\nFrieze Tate Fund acquisitions on view in London\nFrieze Film 2017\nFrieze Projects 2017: Artists Announced\nkurimanzutto donate Stand Prize to migrant charity\nSculpture Park: In Pictures\nThe Collections Fund at Frieze\nFrieze Artist Award 2017: Call for Applications\nHow can cultural differences be 'articulated, mediated and enjoyed'?\n'Time does not exist'\nFrieze Masters \u2013 in Pictures\nDay and Night: Saturday\nDay and Night: Friday","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"in Five of the Best, Opinion\/Features, World Cup, World Cup nostalgia\nFive of the most iconic players from the 2018 World Cup\nThe 2018 World Cup saw the tournament hosted in Eastern Europe for the first time, with Russia the setting for the 21st edition of world football's biggest spectacle.\nFrance were crowned as world champions for a second time in Moscow, defeating Croatia in the highest scoring World Cup final since 1966.\nThere was misery for Germany however, who joined an unwanted list of defending champions to have exited the World Cup at the group stage.\nElsewhere, it was a tournament which also saw VAR introduced on the global stage, becoming the first competition to use the technology at each venue and in every game.\nAhead of the World Cup, we remember five of the most iconic players from the 2018 edition.\nLuka Modric was officially named as the best player at the 2018 World Cup, having captained Croatia through to a first ever final.\nModric was in magnificent form throughout the summer, oozing class as he controlled the midfield and delivering at crucial moments for his side.\nThe midfielder led the tournament for recoveries (56), whilst his numbers for chances created (18) and take-ons completed (15) were leading totals in the Croatia side.\nON THIS DAY: In 2012, Luka Modri\u0107 joined Real Madrid from Tottenham for \u00a330m.\nIn 2018, he became the first player in history to be awarded the World Cup Golden Ball, UEFA Men's Player, FIFA Best Men's Player and Ballon d'Or in the same year. pic.twitter.com\/cYbn0jxEML\n\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) August 27, 2021\nHe produced a masterclass of a performance as Argentina were thrashed 3-0 in the group stage, before becoming the first Croatian to win the Golden Ball.\nThat accolade was followed with the Ballon d'Or, as Modric became the first player outside of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to win the award in more than a decade.\nKylian Mbappe's first major tournament ended with the ultimate success and continued his ascent towards the finest footballers in the game.\nMbappe was electric on occasion for eventual champions France, scoring four goals including becoming just the second teenager, after Pele, to score in a World Cup final.\n\u23ea 3 years ago today 1.12 billion people watched the #WorldCup final. They witnessed Kylian Mbappe become the 1st teenager in 60 years to score in the fixture and make France the 1st side to net over 3 goals in it since 1970 \ud83d\udd25@KMbappe | @FrenchTeampic.twitter.com\/yzFrRXR6VE\n\u2014 FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) July 15, 2021\nHis performance in the last-16 win over Argentina was sublime, as the South Americans struggled to cope with his speed and movement, with Mbappe scoring twice and winning a penalty in a thrilling 4-3 win for Les Bleus.\nThe forward was a fitting recipient of the FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award, becoming the second successive Frenchman to win the accolade after Paul Pogba in 2014.\nBelgium's 'Golden Generation' failed in their bid to end the nation's wait for a major tournament, though not for the want of trying from their biggest names.\nEden Hazard was in brilliant form in Russia, scoring three goals and providing two assists to finish as runner-up to Modric for the Golden Ball award.\nThe winger was at his evasive best with defenders doing their utmost to stop his dangerous dribbles, with Hazard ending the tournament as the most fouled player.\n\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea A historic moment for Belgian football \ud83d\ude4c\n\u23ea Three years ago today, captain Eden Hazard was on target as the Red Devils beat England to achieve their best #WorldCup finish \ud83e\udd49#OnThisDay | @BelRedDevils | @hazardeden10 pic.twitter.com\/N3yizwi4iY\nHe scored twice as Tunisia were thrashed 5-2 in the group stage and added his third of the tournament in the third-place play-off, as Belgium beat England to secure their best ever World Cup finish.\nN'Golo Kante's remarkable career reached new heights with World Cup success in Russia, concluding an incredible rise for the midfielder.\nThe World Cup saw Kante add football's biggest prize to an ever-increasing collection of honours, having won back-to-back Premier League titles at different clubs, the FA Cup and a PFA Player of the Year award since arriving as an unknown quantity at Leicester three years earlier.\n2014 Debut in Ligue 1 with Caen.\n2015 Joins Leicester for \u00a39m.\n2016 Premier League winner with Leicester.\n2017 Premier League winner with Chelsea.\n2018 World Cup winner with France.\n2019 Europa League winner with Chelsea.\n2021 UCL winner with Chelsea.\nN'golo Kant\u00e9!!! pic.twitter.com\/eCS9jzw4nA\n\u2014 talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) May 29, 2021\nKante was at his brilliant best during France's victorious campaign, making a joint-high of 20 interceptions in Russia and providing the defensive security that allowed the likes of Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann to flourish further forward.\nAn all-action driving force at the heart of Les Bleus' side, Kante reaffirmed his status as one of the world's best defensive midfielders.\nKevin De Bruyne was among the stars of Belgium's run to the semi-final, creating more chances from open play (15) than any other player in the tournament.\nHis brilliant driving run led to the Red Devils' late winner against Japan in the last 16, as Belgium came from two goals down to snatch a stoppage-time win in one of the games of the finals.\nDe Bruyne then scored one of the 2018 World Cup's best goals with a rifled strike in the quarter-final win over Brazil, with Roberto Martinez's side eliminating the record five-time winners to reach the last four.\nThat finish from @DeBruyneKev \ud83d\udc4c\n\ud83d\udc40 TV listings \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/xliHcye6wm\n\ud83d\udcfa Highlights \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/LOdKDXkdnV #WorldCup pic.twitter.com\/obhv28Mbd1\n\u2014 FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) July 6, 2018\nOperating in a deeper midfield position than he would perhaps have liked, he nonetheless exerted his influence on several games for Belgium to shine as one of the stars of the tournament.\nRead \u2013 Remembering the last five winners of the World Cup Golden Ball\nRead Also \u2013 Remembering the last five winners of the World Cup Golden Boot\nMore From: Five of the Best\nRanking the five favourites to sign Josko Gvardiol\nRemembering five of Gareth Bale's greatest goals\nFive times Liverpool beat Man United to transfer targets\nRanking the five players with most Premier League goals after 300 appearances\nFive of the biggest FA Cup third round upsets\nin Opinion\/Features, World Cup\nWorld Cup Awards: Messi magic lifts Argentina\nin World Cup\nWorld Cup \u2013 Group F Preview\nPicking a best XI of players at the 2022 World Cup\nWorld Cup 2022 \u2013 Team of the quarter-finals\nin Opinion\/Features, World Cup, World Cup nostalgia\nFive games that defined the 2022 World Cup\nin Five of the Best, Opinion\/Features, World Cup\nFive talking points from the second round of World Cup fixtures\nArsenalAston VillaBelgiumBournemouthBrentfordBrightonChelseaCroatiaCrystal PalaceEden HazardEvertonFranceFulhamKevin De BruyneKylian MbappeLeeds UnitedLeicester CityLiverpoolLuka ModricManchester CityManchester UnitedN'Golo KanteNewcastle UnitedNottingham ForestSouthamptonTottenham HotspurWest Ham UnitedWolvesWorld Cup","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hilltown Families\nValentine Swap\nSuggested Events for February 11th \u2013 17th, 2017\nPosted on February 9, 2017 By\n\"Just wanted to let you know that my two sons have really enjoyed the Valentine Swap! They are delighted each day to run to the mailbox and find a little surprise waiting for them! We made a Valentine tree and put all of the valentines from our new friends on it! They also loved creating their own valentines, so much so that they chose to forgo the usual store bought ones in favor of making their own for their school parties! Thanks so much for including us! This was a wonderful community outreach project!\" \u2013 The Allen Family\nIf you have a community event, educational program or service opportunity for youth\/families happening in Western Massachusetts that you'd like to let us know about, self-post your event at any time on our Suggest An Event bulletin board. The events below are \"suggested.\" Please take the time to confirm that these events are happening, along with time, place, age appropriateness, and costs before attending.\nServing Western Massachusetts since 2005, Hilltown Families supports development and enhancement of our local economy and community. Local businesses, individuals, schools and non-profits are encouraged to partner with Hilltown Families through sponsorship and advertising. Let us help get the word out about your after-school\/homeschool class, event, camp, workshop, fundraiser, business\/school, service, open house, volunteer opportunity or general announcement. Deliver your message to thousands of families living throughout the four counties of Western MA while supporting the community development work of Hilltown Families! Click HERE to find out more.\nAs part of its Four Sundays in February Series, the Northampton Arts Council presents Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child (2\/19 @ 2pm), the nationally syndicated radio show for kids and their adults, live on stage featuring Grammy Award Winner Dan Zanes plus other special guests; KidsBestFest & YouthFilm (2\/20-24 @1:30pm), a weeklong FREE kids film festival; and The Really Big Show (2\/26, 2pm), the Pioneer Valley's own variety show showcasing local talent. All events take place at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Mass. More info and tickets at hamparts.org.\nFeb 20-24th\nFebruary school vacation week activities at New England Air Museum! Monday, February 20th through Friday February 24th, in Windsor Locks, CT . Explore three giant exhibit hangars filled with over sixty historic aircraft, and experience the wonders of flight through hands-on activities including hands-on Build & Fly Challenges, interactive Flight Science Demonstrations, computerized Flight Simulators, and Open Cockpit Experiences in historic aircraft. Visitors can also take to the skies at the museum's Virtual Flight Center using advanced, three screen yoke and pedal flight simulators. The Virtual Flight Center is open to visitors ages 10 and older. For updated information and more special events, visit: www.neam.org.\nMontessori Comes to Forbes Library: On Friday, February 10, at 11am, bring your child to a visit with Montessori School of Northampton educator Laura Frogameni. The hour will include time to explore Montessori materials, circle time and a story. The Forbes Library is located at 20 West Street in Northampton. Free; all families of children 0-6 are invited to attend. For more information, call Laura at 413-586-4538 x103 or visit www.northamptonmontessori.org.\nFebruary vacation at Amherst Archery! Picture spending all day at the archery range immersed in a wide variety of kid and teen-accessible archery activities! Besides Olympic-style target archery and plenty of archery games, kids will also engage in archery art projects, make their own arm guards from recycled materials, explore archery history, anatomy of archery, and even learn some fun physics through hands-on archery experiences. Each day will provide different surprises. All archery and art supplies provided. Families provide lunch and snacks. The now famous \"ARTchery\" project will be included! Programs taught by certified USA Archery coaches at the range in Florence. Enroll for the entire week or by the day. Ages 7 and up. www.amherstarchery.com.\nAccepting applications for fall 2017. The Bement School founded in 1925 and located in Deerfield is a co-educational junior boarding and day school serving 210 students in kindergarten through grade 9. Bement's rich, traditional curriculum motivates and challenges students with strong academics, a renowned fine arts program, and a diverse athletic program. Students participate in athletics and fine arts every day. The pervasive atmosphere at Bement is that of a family, learning and living together. Bement actively seeks an academically diverse, international, and multi-cultural student body. For information on how to apply, financial aid, or to arrange a visit to campus, call 413-774-4209 www.bement.org.\nFMC Ice Sports offers a fun and unique learning environment for all ages. Participants in their Step 1 Learn to Skate programs are taught the basics of ice skating. Students graduate to their Step 2 and Step 3 programs that focus on the more sport specific skills required in hockey and figure skating. FMC Ice Sports programs can be found at the Smead Arena in Springfield and the Collins Moylan Arena in Greenfield. Class information and registration are available online at www.fmcicesports.com or by calling 1-888-74-SKATE. Use promo code HTF201617 and receive $10 OFF your entire purchase of any instructional program!\nADVERTISE HERE: Reach thousands of families in Western MA while supporting the community development work of Hilltown Families! See your summer camp, class, community event, school, open house, audition, homeschool program, workshop, volunteer opportunity, wellness program, local business, after-school class, or non-profit featured here in the Bulletin Board section of our list of Weekly Suggested Events and in our weekly eNewsletter, reaching thousands of families living throughout the four counties of Western MA while supporting the community development work of Hilltown Families! Find out more about our advertising options and how you can partner with Hilltown Families in your online marketing by emailing us at info@hilltownfamilies.org.\nJOIN OUR TEAM OF CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Interested in becoming a Contributing or Guest Writer for Hilltown Families? We welcome writings that reflect the community-building and educational efforts parents, teens, teachers, artists, activists and community leaders work towards and accomplish, and how that affects, supports and empowers our families. All writing styles welcomed, including local reviews, DIY posts, seasonal cooking\/local food, and community-based educational & community service learning opportunities\/resources. Send your query to info@hilltownfamilies.org.\nFeatured Winter & Spring Classes in Western MA\nAre you looking for a preschool that fits your child's personality and reflects your family's values? Check out our growing Preschool Directory, covering all four counties in Western Massachusetts, and find the perfect place for your young one! \u2014 Have a school you'd like to include in this list? Click here to find out how to have it added.\nWhat are your child's interests? What are your interests? This fall there are a number of after-school, homeschool, evening, and weekend classes to choose from to supplement and support the interests of your family! Check out our growing list of classes, programs, open houses and even auditions for this fall in our dedicated post, 2017 Winter & Spring Classes, Auditions & Open Houses in Western MA, and find the perfect activity for your child, teen, and even lifelong learners! \u2014 Have a class you'd like to add to this list? Click here to find out how to have your class, lessons, program, auditions, and open house included.\nLIST OF WEEKLY SUGGESTED EVENTS\nFebruary 11th-17th, 2017\nSaturday \u2022 Sunday\nMonday \u2022 Tuesday \u2022 Wednesday \u2022 Thursday \u2022 Friday\nSuggest an Event | Cultural Itineraries | Forecast | Museum Passes | Weekly eNewsletter | Farmers' Markets | Storyhour & Playgroups| Berkshire Family Fun | Advertise\/Sponsorship | en Espa\u00f1ol\nEvents Happening in the Hilltowns\n9-10am \u2013 HILLTOWN FAMILY VARIETY SHOW: Tune in on your FM dial, or listen live via streaming audio at www.valleyfreeradio.org. Join us this week for the Hilltown Family Variety Show's Valentine's Day Episode with Guest DJ, Charity Kahn. Encore of Saturday's broadcast airs Sunday morning from 7-8am and podcast is posted here on Hilltown Families immediately following Sunday's broadcast. Listen to the Hilltown Family Variety Show podcasts anytime. Click here to choose from over 9 years!\nSaturday, February 11, 8am-5pm\nPLACEMAKING\/WINTERFEST\nConnect with Easthampton of the past and present at the fourth annual Easthampton Winterfest! Among many other activities, there will be opportunities to learn about New England history through an ice harvesting demonstration. You can also learn about local history by attending a film screening of The Story of Nashawannuck Pond. Other activities include wagon rides, a craft and vendor fair, community meals, a nature hike, a bonfire and much more. Meet local families with ties to Easthampton and ward off the winter blues! Visit the Nashawannuck Pond website for a full schedule and other details. Various locations. Easthampton, MA. (FREE \u2013 $$)\nSaturday, February 11, 9am-12pm\nCOMMUNITY MEAL\/VALENTINE'S DAY\nCelebrate Valentine's Day with all your loved ones Community Action Family Center! They will be hosting a community breakfast for families. The event will also include a craft activity, and strawberries dipped in chocolate! There will be games for children of all ages. 413-475-1555. 90 Federal Street. Greenfield, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 10am\nFILM STUDIES\/FAMILY FILM\nThe family-friendly romantic comedy The Princess Bride (rated PG) has been entertaining audiences since it first came out in 1987. This film, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by William Goldman, has humorous elements which appeal to both parents and children. Older kids and adults can compare this film to the original book, or think about how the story functions as a \"frame narrative\" (a story within a story). The film is also educational in that the famous sword fighting scene contains accurate references to historical sword fighting techniques. Screening this film can be a fun introduction to the history of sword fighting, with references to significant fencers such as Rocco Bonetti, Agrippa, and Capo Ferro. Screen this film at Amherst Cinema as part of the Family First series. 413- 253-2547. 28 Amity Street. Amherst, MA. (<$)\nART STUDIES\/PASTELS\nDo you like working with pastels? Unlike paint, pastel is mixed and blended on the canvas. There are more than a dozen different artistic techniques for using pastels. You can improve your pastel artwork, or try it out for the first time, by attending a step-by-step workshop run by the classically trained artist Greg Maichack. Maichack will be running this workshop at the Grace Hall Memorial Library. Register by calling the library prior to February 8. 413-862-3894. 161 Main Road. Montgomery, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 10am-11am\nSTEM\/CHEMISTRY\nSnow opens up a world of scientific learning for kids. Studying snow and snowflakes is a fun way of learning about chemistry, meteorology, and geometry. Snowflakes are a beautiful form of crystals, each one showing off a microscopic symmetrical design of spears, points, indents, and cutouts. As part of the Second Saturday Science program at the Hitchcock Center, children and their parents are invited to learn more about the science of snow! Other nature science topics will be explored on the second Saturday of the month through June 10. 413-256-6006. 845 West Street. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 10am-12pm\nMYCOLOGY\/WILD EDIBLE PLANTS\nMushrooms are a fascinating type of fungi. Some are poisonous, some are delicious! Learning to identify mushrooms can teach you about local ecology, while giving you the practical ability to forage food. Paul Lagreze, owner of New England Wild Edibles, will be running a workshop: \"Getting to Know Your Local Mushrooms: Where, Why, and How They Grow,\" at Green Fields Market. The workshop will cover mushroom cultivation and shiitake inoculation.144 Main Street. Greenfield, MA. (DONATION)\nANIMAL TRACKING\/CONSERVATION\nAnimal tracking is essential to assessing the status of certain species and habitats. Tracking helps naturalists and zoologists to focus their conservation efforts. You can learn more about both animal tracking and conservation at Bullitt Reservation. Join Laura Marx from the Nature Conservancy for a talk, followed by a guided outdoor tracking walk to apply what you've learned. Registration required: email Tamsin Flanders at hltlandsteward@thetrustees.org or call 413-628-4485 ex 4 and leave a message with your name, phone number, email address, and the number in your party. Bullitt Road. Ashfield, MA. (Members <$; Non members $; children under 13 FREE)\nENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP\/NATURE STUDIES\n\"Leave No Trace\" is a term referring to a set of principles for conserving natural lands. Nature lovers can use these principles to learn how they can spend time outdoors without negatively impacting the environment. Some basic tenets include taking your trash with you and minimizing the impact of campfires. You can introduce the next generation to these important principles by bringing your elementary school aged children to a workshop at Sheep Hill farm. For more information, please email: ruraland@wrlf.org. 413-458-2494. 671 Cold Spring Road. Williamstown, MA. (FREE)\nGUIDED NATURE HIKE\/TRACKING\nDo you like solving riddles, puzzles, or mysteries? You might enjoy tracking wildlife! Come to Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary for a two hour adventure outdoors and learn how to look for visual clues of animal behavior. This event is suitable for ages six and up. Time spent in nature is an opportunity to learn through observation, once you know what to look for. Dress warmly and in layers. Snowshoes will be provided if the conditions warrant. Registration is not required. Call 413-637-0320 for more information. Holmes Road. Pittsfield, MA. (<$)\nSaturday, February 11, 10am-3pm\nWinter Trails is a national annual event that offers children and adults new to snowshoeing and nordic skiing the chance to try out snowshoes and cross-country skis on local trails while showcasing the health benefits of these two outdoor winter activities. These low-impact aerobic sports incorporate strength and endurance training, and can help people stay active and healthy throughout the winter months when other sports are more difficult to pursue. Notchview will be participating, offing half priced and free 2-hour snowshoe & ski equipment rentals on a first-come, first-served basis. 413-684-0148 . 83 Old Route 9. Windsor, MA. (<$)\nThe Five Love Languages is a theory proposed by author Gary Chapman, in his 1995 book of the same name. In the book he outlines five different ways that people can demonstrate their love for another person: gift giving, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service (devotion), and physical touch (The Five Love Languages Wikipedia page. Whether you are naturally a gift-giver or not, making Valentine's Day cards or crafts is a simple and inexpensive way to show someone you care. Bring your kids to the Goodwin Memorial Library to make Valentine's cards with other community members. Drop in anytime. 413-584-7451. 50 Middle Street. Hadley, MA. (FREE)\nDoes the winter weather have you feeling down? \"WinterFest\" at Mill 180 Park is a twist on your typical winter festival. The Mill 180 indoor park, complete with plants, turf grass, and games of cornhole, invites you to \"Summer in the City!\" There will be summer-themed food, beverages, sports, and movies all day at this indoor green space. Meet other local families and play summer-themed games. 413-203-1259. 180 Pleasant Street. Easthampton, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 10:30am-11:30am\nSTEM\/HORTICULTURE\nRed Gate Farm is teaming up with local libraries to provide programs to get young children interested in science, technology, engineering, and math. On February 11, participants will be learning the science of seeds! Children up to age seven will be investigating seeds at the Buckland Public Library. Planting seeds at home can help kids become interested in plant and soil science and horticulture by watching their seeds grow into beautiful plants. Teaching kids about horticulture can also help instill important values by teaching them about sources of healthy, local foods. 413-625-9412. 30 Upper Street. Buckland, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 10:30am-12pm\nVALENTINE'S DAY\/STEAM\nAt the Meekins Library, you can drop by to celebrate Valentine's Day and have fun with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). Participants will build heart structures, learn about chemistry by dissolving candy hearts, and have fun with physics by playing with magnetic hearts. There will be other craft and science activities. Drop in anytime during the event. 413-268-7472. 2 Williams Street. Williamsburg, MA. (FREE)\nVALENTINE'S DAY\/CRAFTS\nThe Granby Library will be providing stampers, stickers, laces, ribbons and flowers for all your Valentine making needs! Kids of all ages are invited to make Valentine's Day cards for friends, grandparents and other loved ones. What a simple way to show someone you care! Registration is required. Call the library during open hours: (T,W,F 10:30am-5:30pm, Th. 1-8pm, Sat.10:30am.-1:30pm). 413-467-3320. 297 East State Street. Granby, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 12pm-2pm\nFASHION DESIGN\/SCREEN PRINTING\nLearning how to print your own designs on clothing is a creative activity which can also connect you to learning about the history and chemistry of the printing process. The process of screen printing is both an art and a science (learn in this article: Ink Chemistry). Springfield residents ages fourteen to nineteen can learn every step of the screen printing process from conceptualization to printing, at a Make It Springfield workshop. Participants must register and commit to attending all 4 workshops in the series: February 11th, February 18, February 25, March 4.. The workshop will take place at the Paper City Clothing Company. 358 Dwight Street. Holyoke, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 1pm-2pm\nANIMAL STUDIES\/ZOOLOGY\nYou don't have to look further than your own backyard to study animals in their habitats. The Creature Teachers will teach you how, in their presentation: Nature of My Backyard at Great Falls Discovery Center. A lot can be learned about biology and ecology by studying the animals we encounter every day, such as porcupines, gray foxes, woodchucks, flying squirrels, snapping turtles, milk snakes, and more. 413-863-3221. 2 Avenue A. Turners Falls, MA. (FREE)\nSaturday, February 11, 1pm-2:30pm\nANIMAL STUDIES\/CRAFTS\nBy putting a bat house on your property, you are helping bats who may not have a safe place to live due to deforestation. Attracting bats near your home also allows you to observe them. In this workshop at the Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary you will be taught how to build a bat box and where to put it in order to attract bats. You will also learn about various species in your area and their natural history. Ages five and up. Bat houses may be donated to Mass Audubon if you don't have a suitable location. All materials and equipment are included in the program fee. Call 413-637-0320 to register. 472 West Mountain Road. Lenox, MA. (Adult $$; Child FREE)\nWinter is the time of year to connect with your community through the sharing of warm meals and winter activities. You can find both, and much more, at WinterFest Amherst! Physical activities include mountain bike rides, baseball toss, sledding, and disc golf. The whole family can enjoy community meals, performances, demonstrations, and wagon rides while connecting with local businesses and community members of Amherst. Cherry Hill Golf Course. 325 Montague Road. Amherst, MA. (<$)\nPUPPETRY\/COMMUNITY MEAL\nThe Northampton Parents Center provides programs and services to children birth through kindergarten age and their families and caregivers. The parents center invites these families, as well as siblings and alumni, to playtime and a family puppet show with Tom Knight Puppets. There will also be an optional potluck supper prior to the puppet show. Puppetry performances appeal to children's love of stories, and their desire to animate objects, bringing the world around them to life. If your kids love these puppet shows, they may want to create puppets of their own. Puppets can be very open ended and offer children of all ages the opportunity to re-create favorite stories and often inspire new tales. Read more in our post, Let's Play: Puppets and Creative Free Play. 297 Main Street. Northampton, MA. (FREE)\nPLACEMAKING\/ICE SKATING\nThe earliest form of ice skating is thought to date back to about 3,000 years ago in Finland. The original skates used were constructed with lengths of animal bone strapped to the bottom of boots. Bring your skates to \"Fire and Ice,\" a community skating party, or simply enjoy the bonfire and games. There will be music and s'mores! For full details visit the Burgy Ice Rink Facebook page. To learn more about the history of this sport and locations of rinks near you, check out our post Ice Skating in Western MA. Helen E. James Building Lawn. 16 Main Street. Williamsburg, MA. (FREE)\nOUTDOOR ADVENTURES\/SNOWSHOE\nDid you know that snowshoeing was practiced 6,000 years ago? The world's oldest known snowshoe was discovered in September 2016 at an altitude of 10,280 ft on the Gurgler Eisjoch glacier close to the Italian-Austrian border. Learn more by reading our post, History of Snowshoeing. You can engage in this 6,000-year-old sport, and learn about ornithology, by participating in a guided hike at Notchview. Participants will learn to look for the sights and sounds of owls, and enjoy pizza in the visitor's center after the hike. Registration is required. Bring your own snowshoes! Snowshoe rentals available on first come first served basis. For more information call The Trustees at 413-628-4485 x3. 83 Old Route 9. Windsor, MA. (Member <$; Non member $)\nSaturday, February 11, 7pm\nGUIDED NATURE HIKE\nGet some exercise and time spent outdoors for your weekend by joining a group for a guided hike. All are welcome to a moonlight hike through the woodland property of Phil and Diane Merritt. The route begins at Big View trailhead. There will be a campfire for roasting marshmallows and relaxed conversation after the hike. Carpool if possible as parking is limited. Bring snowshoes if you prefer, as well as a water bottle and a flashlight. In the event of inclement weather the event will be cancelled. Check Williamsburg Woodland Trails website for cancellation information. Call 413-268-3372 with questions. Unquomonk Road. Williamsburg, MA. (FREE)\nPete Seeger was an influential American folk singer as well as an important social and political activist. You can celebrate his music and introduce your children to classic folk songs at the Pete Seeger sing-along! All are invited to the Ashfield Congregational Church to sing some favorite tunes, or hear them for the first time. This is also an opportunity to get together with other fans of folk music, and teach your children about the connection between American folk music and political activism. Wheelchair accessible from the front door. For more information call 413-625-2355. 429 Main Street. Ashfield, MA. (FREE\/DONATION optional)\nSaturday, February 11, 7pm-10pm\nPuppetry isn't just for kids! The 2017 Holyoke Winter Festival continues on February 11 with the Paper City Puppet Slam, featuring performers from all over New England. This puppet show for grown-ups won't shy away from complex topics, but will approach them through the fun and entertaining art of puppetry (7pm-8:30pm). Following the puppet show, the art celebration continues with a lip-sync contest! Check the Gateway City Arts website for a full schedule of programs and performances taking place through February 12. 413-650-2670. Race Street. Holyoke, MA. ($)\nSaturday, February 11, 7:30pm\nMUSIC STUDIES\/CHAMBER CHOIR\nFor four years, the Illuminati Vocal Arts ensemble has been performing under the direction of Dr. Tony Thornton. Composer Clifton Noble Jr. has said of this group: \"Performances at the level of Illuminati's give the listener a clear window into the composer's soul.\" Get a glimpse into the souls of composers such as Gjeilo, Brahms, E\u0161envalds, Handel, and Hella Johnson, at this choral concert \"Luminous Night.\" Helen Hills Hills Chapel. 123 Elm Street. Northampton, MA. ($; Student <$)\n\u2022 Return to Top\nSunday, February 12th, 2017\n7-8am \u2013 FAMILY RADIO: Valley Free Radio (WXOJ-LP 103.3FM Northampton, MA) airs encores of the Hilltown Family Variety Show every Sunday morning. commercial-free family radio. Tune in on your FM dial, or listen live via streaming audio at www.valleyfreeradio.org, to hear a rebroadcast of a favorite Valentine's Day episode with Guest DJ Charity Kahn. Listen to the Hilltown Family Variety Show podcast anytime \u2013 click here to see over 9 years of archived shows.\nSunday, February 12, 11am-2pm\nVALENTINE'S DAY\/ANIMAL STUDIES\nThis year for Valentine's Day show your love\u2026for wildlife! Great Falls Discovery Center invites families and community members of all ages to the Great Hall to make Valentines. Make one for yourself, give one to a friend or family member, or give to your favorite wildlife biologist in honor of your favorite animal. Participants are invited to learn about their favorite animals and how they can help to protect wildlife. 413-863-3221. 2 Avenue A. Turners Falls, MA. (FREE)\nSunday, February 12, 2pm\nJEWISH CULTURE\/FILM STUDIES\nSolomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-97) was a groundbreaking American photographer and artist. He studied portrait photography with the daguerreotype method. He was also an observant Sephardic Jew. Learn more about this artistic figure, and the real-life western adventure story of his life, by viewing the 2015 film Carvalho's Journey at the Yiddish Book Center. 413-256-4900. 1021 West Street. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nECOLOGY\/HYDROLOGY\nWestern Massachusetts is home to one of the largest man-made, public water supplies in the country: the beautiful Quabbin Reservoir. The reservoir is also a rich local resource for learning about ecology and habitat. All ages are welcome to an educational presentation on water sources: \"The Influence of Weather Patterns, Forest Ecosystems, and Human Use on Water Supplies.\" Call 413-323-7221 for more information. Quabbin Visitor's Center. 485 Ware Road. Ware, MA. (FREE)\nSunday, February 12, 2pm-4pm\nPLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE\/BIOLOGY\nThis year, you can make Valentine's Day a learning opportunity. Expand your biological knowledge by learning about plant reproduction, in this talk at Bartholomew's Cobble. Plants differ greatly in their reproduction, from asexual plants to self-pollinating ones. For more information please call 413-298-3239 ex 3013. 117 Cooper Hill Road. Sheffield, MA. (Members <$; Non members $)\nSunday, February 12, 2pm-4:30pm\nTHEATER\/COMEDY\nActing and improvisation and two impressive feats, one involving the memorization of specific lines and stage directions, the other requiring creative, on-the-spot thinking. New Century Theater and Happier Valley Comedy will be incorporating both acting and improvisation in their performance, Making Up Love (Rated PG-13). New Century Theater actors will provide the scripted acting, while Happier Valley Comedy will mix things up with their unscripted whimsy. Celebrate Valentine's Day early by seeing the show at the Academy of Music Theatre. 413-584-9032. 274 Main Street. Northampton, MA. (General admission $$; Senior\/child\/veteran <$)\nSunday, February 12, 5:30pm-7pm\nCOMMUNITY SING\nIt's no secret that music is good for your brain. In addition to the learning-based benefits of playing or reading music, singing has the added benefit of warding off chemicals that can cause depression and loneliness. The act of singing increases the natural production of endorphins and oxytocin (a chemical that decreases stress and anxiety). Parents may be interested in these findings. A singing child is likely to be calm and happy more often than not thanks to the chemicals that choral singing helps to release in their bodies. You and your family can participating in a casual, community sing at Earthdance. The group will sing tunes such as \"Honey in the Rock,\" \"Don't Give Up,\" Deep Peace,\" \"When Love had No Road We Built It,\" plus some love-themed songs in celebration of Valentine's Day. Bring a dish to share and stick around after the sing for a potluck supper. 413-634-5678. 252 Prospect Street. Plainfield, MA. (FREE)\nStoryhour & Playgroups: East Longmeadow, Pelham & Whately\nMonday, February 13, 10am\nTHEATER\/SHAKESPEARE\nA Midsummer Night's Dream is a great introductory play for students beginning to learn about Shakespeare. This comedy has a relatively simple plot compared to other Shakespeare plays and as a comedy, it has a happy ending. More advanced students can use this play to contrast a Shakespearean comedy with one of his tragedies, such as the also popular Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare permanently reshaped the English language as we know it today, inventing hundreds of words and phrases in his writing which are now commonly used. Young actors and fans of literature are invited to a performance of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and Company. This performance is for student audiences. Homeschooled parents are invited to bring their homeschoolers. Performances run for 90 minutes, and are followed by an optional 15-minute talkback with the actors. 413-637-3353. 70 Kemble Street. Lenox, MA. (Student <$; Chaperone FREE)\nMonday, February 13, 3pm-3:45pm\nMINDFULNESS\/CLIMATE ACTION\nIt can be a difficult balance to be politically aware and active while not allowing global concerns to take an unnecessary toll on your mind. Mindfulness teaches people to be aware and present moment-to-moment. Practicing mindfulness can help you to be active in the moment, without letting your activism spiral into anxiety about the future. As part of a climate change event series, \"Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis,\" you are invited to participate in a Mindful Climate Action workshop every Monday through May 8th. Attendees will be guided through a thirty minute mindfulness practice, followed by a discuss on resources, action-based opportunities, and ideas. W.E.B. DuBois Library at UMass Amherst. Room 1638. 154 Hicks Way. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nMonday, February 13, 7pm\nFILM STUDIES\/FRENCH STUDIES\nThe 2015 drama La Belle Saison (Summertime) (not rated) paints a picture of rural France in 1971, and tells the story of a young woman's struggle against homophobia and class divisions. The main character Delphine moves from her family's farm in Limousin, to Paris, where she falls in love with political activist, Carole. She returns to home a changed woman, and brings Carole with her. This authentic love story provides educational insight into the feminist movement in France, while carefully depicting the powerful dramas which occur within the family dynamic. You can screen this film at Images Cinema as part of Williams College's ongoing series, \"School Stories: Diversity and Adversity in New French Film.\" 50 Spring Street. 413-458-5612. Williamstown, MA. (<$)\nStoryhour & Playgroups: Agawam, Amherst, Belchertown, Cheshire, Easthampton, Florence, Gill, Great Barrington, Greenfield, Hatfiled, Huntington, Lanesborough, Lee, Ludlow, New Salem, North Adams, Sheffield, Sunderland, Turners Falls, Ware & West Springfield.\nTuesday, February 14, 10am-11am\nPARENTING\/CULTURAL STUDIES\nEarly childhood is the best time to introduce languages to your child. As part of their Puzzle of Parenting series, the Collaborative for Educational Services is providing a bilingual story, music, and games session for families. Participants will engage their children with both English and Spanish, and learn about Spanish and Latin American culture. This could be a great way to connect your child to their own heritage, or to introduce other cultures for a more global understanding. This program is intended for children ages birth to five years, and their caregivers. Register on the Collaborative for Educational Services website. For more information, call the Collaborative at 413-586-4900. Choose the location best for you. This session will take place at the South Hadley Family Center. 7 Woodbridge Street. South Hadley, MA. (FREE)\nTuesday, February 14, 11:30am-1:30pm\nOne benefit to homeschooling your children is that the schedule can sometimes allow greater flexibility for your child to explore their interests during school hours. The Mullins Center at UMass Amherst invites homeschooling families to skate at discounted prices. All children school age and younger are invited. Adults must be accompanied by children. Parents receive free admission and skate rental when accompanying children. Cash only. Commonwealth Avenue. Amherst, MA. (<$)\nTuesday, February 14, 4pm\nThe term \"poetry\" comes from the Greek term, \"poiesis,\" which translates to \"making.\" How do you make poetry? Typically by applying literary techniques such as rhythm and rhyme to your writing. Some scholars argue that poetry actually predates the written word. Due to the often rhythmic and rhyming nature of poems, poetry can be easier to remember than prose, and poetry can be used as a mnemonic device. If you're interested in learning more about poetry, keep in mind that it is a deeply historic and global art form. You can hear poetry from a Kenyan writer, Wambui Mwangi and South African poet, Malika Ndlovu in this reading at the Smith College Poetry Center. Wright Hall. 5 Chapin Drive. Northampton, MA. (FREE)\nTuesday, February 14, 7pm-9pm\nVALENTINE'S DAY\/PARENTS' NIGHT OUT\nSnowshoes, Beer and Chocolate \u2013 Oh my! Spend the holiday at Notchview and enjoy a night time self-guided snowshoe on the beautiful woodland trails. Snowshoeing will be followed by a cozy evening in the warmth of the visitor center, with a tasting of beer and chocolate! There will be a chocolate fountain too! Registration is preferred. Snowshoe rentals available on a first come, first served basis. Bring a headlamp! For more information: acaluori@thetrustees.org or call 413-684-0148. 83 Old Route 9. Windsor, MA. ($)\nStoryhour & Playgroups: Amherst, Athol, Becket, Belchertown, Bernardston, Cummington, Deerfield, East Longmeadow, Erving, Granby, Greenfield, Huntington, Leverett, Monson, New Marlborough, North Adams, Northampton, Sheffield, Shelburne Falls, South Deerfield, Springfield, Turners Falls, Wendell, West Springfield, and Williamsburg.\nWednesday, Wednesday, February 15, 10am-11am\nEarly childhood is the best time to introduce languages to your child. As part of their Puzzle of Parenting series, the Collaborative for Educational Services is providing a bilingual story, music, and games session for families. Participants will engage their children with both English and Spanish, and learn about Spanish and Latin American culture. This could be a great way to connect your child to their own heritage, or to introduce other cultures for a more global understanding. This program is intended for children ages birth to five years, and their caregivers. Register on the Collaborative for Educational Services website. For more information, call the Collaborative at 413-586-4900. Choose the location best for you. This session will take place at the Amherst Family Center. 1200 N Pleasant Street. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nWednesday, February 15, 10am-5pm\nSTEM\/MUSEUM ADVENTURES\nScience fairs ask young people to demonstrate their scientific knowledge through practically applying it in a creative way. Science projects can encourage outside-the-box, innovative thinking. The Berkshire Museum brings top-notch, high school science projects to the public at their annual Science and Innovation Fair, featuring approximately 100 students from Pittsfield's public high schools. Teens will likely be inspired by the work of their peers. People of all ages can use this fair as inspiration for their own scientific ideas. Museum admission is free for the day of the science fair. 413-443-7171. 39 South Street. Route 7. Pittsfield, MA. (FREE)\nWednesday, February 15, 6pm-9pm\nWRITING\/ZINE MAKING\nYou don't need a publisher to get your stories, poems, or drawings out to be the public. If you want to share your work with the community, you can always make a zine. Zines are small magazines, made inexpensively and often distributed for free. Since zines don't usually travel far in their distribution, zine collections can give you an idea about the culture of your community and connect you with local writers. Zine making is also a great way to collaborate with other artists. Come to the Forbes Library Zine Club to talk about and creat zines. 413-587-1011. 20 West Street. Northampton, MA. (FREE)\nWednesday, February 15, 6:30pm-8pm\nCULINARY ARTS\/NUTRITION\nWhen you eat locally sourced foods you support local farmers while supplying your diet with fresh foods. Leslie Cerier, of The Organic Gourmet will be at River Valley Co Op teaching people how to eat like \"localvores.\" She'll teach you about seasonal veggies great for snacking, discuss local, seasonal produce and dairy, and tell you about recipes for meals such as hot soups, risottos, salads, and casseroles. 413-584-2665. 330 North King Street. Northampton, MA. (FREE)\nStoryhour & Playgroups: Agawam, Amherst, Athol, Belchertown, East Longmeadow, Florence, Gill, Greenfield, Hatfield, Huntington, Lee, Lenox, Millers Falls, Montague, Northampton, Sheffield, South Hadley, and Turners Falls.\nThursday, February 16, 12:15pm-1pm\nOPERA\/HISTORY\nLeontyne Price is one of the most respected Soprano opera singers worldwide. She studied at Berkshire Music Center and the Julliard School, and was the first African American to perform with New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Fans of opera and history- come to the Springfield Museums to learn more about this pivotal American musician. You are welcome to bring a lunch to enjoy during the discussion and lecture. 413-263-6800. 21 Edwards Street. Springfield, MA. (<$)\nThursday, February 16, 2pm-8pm\nPLACEMAKING\/ART STUDIES\nPittsfield's 10\u00d710 Upstreet Arts Festival offers ten days of community-based cultural events that showcase music, theater, art, local food, play and creativity. This annual event celebrates the rich arts and culture found in the communities of the Berkshires. Theatrical performances include the New Play Festival, showcasing ten new, ten-minute plays with small ensembles of just six actors (7:30pm). There will be educational learning opportunities in the form of art lectures and discussions. Visit the festival website for a full schedule of events. Various locations. Pittsfield, MA. (FREE \u2013 $$)\nThursday, February 16, 5pm\nLITERACY\/WOMEN'S STUDIES\nHow would you describe your relationship with money? Between 2009 and 2014, author Christian McEwen interviewed more than fifty women in an attempt to answer that question, eliciting a wide range of money-themed stories and information. This research culminated in a play entitled: Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money. McEwen will be discussing this research process and his discoveries in a talk at Smith College. Poetry Center. Wright Hall. 5 Chapin Drive. Northampton, MA. (FREE)\nThursday, February 16, 5:30pm\nIMMIGRATION STUDIES\/REFUGEES\nThe first step towards political involvement and social transformation is education. You can become more informed about the current, global refugee crisis, and gain an understanding of current immigration issues in the United States at an educational forum. Norman Rockwell Museum's Four Freedoms Forum speakers will include: Asma Abbas, Associate Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bard College at Simon's Rock; Hilary Greene, Director of Berkshire Immigrant Center; and Dr. Charles Park, Director of Berkshire Immigrant Stories Project. Come with questions and ideas to contribute, or simply listen. 413-298-4100. 9 Glendale Road. Stockbridge, MA. (FREE)\nORNITHOLOGY\/CRAFT\nMaking birdfeeders for your backyard can help attract feathered friends for you to study and observe. Birdfeeders can also be a big help to birds in the difficult winter months. Participants ages three and up, and their caregivers, will be making nut-free pinecone birdfeeders at the Hubbard Memorial Library. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn about the Great Backyard Bird Count, a citizen science opportunity to help researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. All supplies will be provided. Please register on the library website or by calling the children's department: 413-583-3408. 24 Center Street. Ludlow, MA.\nLINGUISTICS\/ANTHROPOLOGY\nDid you know that many Native American languages are endangered or have gone extinct? For example, of the 170,000 Lakota tribal members, only 6,000 of them speak Lakota today. With the average age of a Lakota speaker being 70, effort is needed in order to save this dying language. Culture is interwoven with language in countless ways; language preservation is therefore crucial for cultural preservation. Learn more at the Meekins Library by screening the film, Rising Voices\/H\u00f3t\u021fa\u014bi\u014bpi, followed by a discussion. This film, which was five years in the making, documents the ongoing efforts of Language Conservancy to preserve endangered languages. 413-268-7472. 2 Williams Street. Williamsburg, MA. (FREE)\nBIODIVERSITY\/EARTH SCIENCE\nDid you know that 98% of all the species that have ever lived are extinct?! Our planet has experienced 5 mass extinctions, including the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event (think dinosaurs). So what is the sixth extinction? As author Elizabeth Kolbert writes, the sixth extinction is our current biodiversity crisis and startlingly, it is man-made. In this book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Kolbert outlines the species who have been extinguished as a direct result of human behaviors and inventions. What can you do to make a positive impact on biodiversity? The first step is education. You are invited to join others in a discussion of this book, led by a Jones Library librarian and an environmental educator from the Hitchcock Center. Jones Library. 413-259-3090. 43 Amity Street. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nDANCE STUDIES\/FILM STUDIES\nAre you inspired by the flexibility, strength, and poise of dancers? The 2016 documentary film Storyboard P: A Stranger In Sweden follows an amazing and talented dancer who has yet to achieve his big break. At this special screening of the film, the documentary subject Storyboard P will be present at Amherst Cinema! Learn about the day-to-day life of a talented, contemporary dancer. 413- 253-2547. 28 Amity Street. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nIMMIGRATION STUDIES\/FILM STUDIES\nIn the United States, unless you are a Native American, you are a descendant of immigrants. Immigration is a political issue which affects all communities in various seen and unseen ways. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Vargas is a journalist whose life story exemplifies this fact. He lived and worked in the United States for some time before revealing his status as an undocumented person. After revealing this fact, he was on the cover of Time magazine and continued to work and live here. Come to the Jones Library to view his TedX talk: \"Actions are Illegal, Never People,\" followed by a discussion. The post-screening discussion will include information about local anti-racism action projects. 413-259-3090. 43 Amity Street. Amherst, MA. (FREE)\nStoryhour & Playgroups: Amherst, Belchertown, Cummington, East Longmeadow, Easthampton, Florence, Granby, Great Barrington, Greenfield, Hadley, Housatonic, Longmeadow, Monson, Northampton, Pelham, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Stockbridge, and Sunderland.\nFriday, February 17, 10:30am-11:30am\nChildren who come to understand and value nature often carry that perspective into adulthood. Give the children in your life a strong, early connection to the world around them through activities like Kidleidoscope Tuesdays at the Great Falls Discovery Center! Children ages 3-6 and their caregivers are invited to visit for a story, game, and craft related to the natural world. Today's topic will be porcupines! Siblings and friends welcome. 413-863-3221. 2 Avenue A. Turners Falls, MA. (FREE)\nFriday, February 17, 11:30am-1:30pm\nFriday, February 17, 5:30pm-7:30pm\nCREATIVE FREE PLAY\/MUSEUM ADVENTURES\nPlay is the work of childhood. Creative, self-directed play teaches children physical, mental, social, and emotional skills- all while they're having a great time. Ten Days of Play at the Berkshire Museum encourages youth to experiment, improvise, create, and learn while they play. Friday, February 17, the event kicks off with Free Community Night. Visit the brand new Curiosity Incubator, as well as a LEGO\u00ae station, Tegu magnetic block station, and the Imagination Playground. These open-ended, child-directed stations are bound to bring out your child's natural instinct for creative free play. 413-443-7171. 39 South Street. Route 7. Pittsfield, MA. (FREE)\nPHYSICS\/PLAY\nThe yo-yo has enjoyed consistent use in hundreds of cultures for nearly three millennia. Seemingly moved by magic, the yo-yo is a toy as well as a well-designed tool for demonstrating basic principles of physics. Yo-Yo-ers of all ages can trade tricks and show off their skills at Mill 180 Park. Players from the A2Z Science & Learning Store will be running this informal Yo-Yo session. 413-203-1259. 180 Pleasant Street. Easthampton, MA. (FREE)\nFriday, February 17, 7pm\nMUSIC STUDIES\/AFRICAN DRUMMING\nMusic generated in Sub Saharan Africa is highly influenced by rhythm and percussive sounds. Many percussion instruments now used across cultures were originally invented in Africa, including the jembe, the shekere (shaker), and the marimba. Learning about African drumming can connect you to music history and anthropology, while participating in African drumming can expand your musical abilities- and dance skills! All are welcome to see and hear the WOFA African Drum and Company Show perform \"Kakilamb\u00e9 in the Harvest!\" at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts. All tickets will be sold at the door. 413-552-1580. 15 Mulligan Drive. South Hadley, MA. (<$)\nAstronomy is a natural science which applies mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Astronomers use various mathematical and scientific methods to answer questions such as the distance between celestial bodies, their physical movements, and even their origins. Studying astronomy formally can appeal to people with strong mathematical and scientific inclinations. At the same time, nearly anyone can appreciate the beauty and wonder of the night sky. Whether your interest is scientific, artistic, or spiritual in nature, you can learn about astronomy by attending free shows for the public held at the Milham Planetarium, located inside the Old Hopkins Observatory at Williams College. Astronomy students will use the Zeiss Skymaster to demonstrate phenomena such as retrograde motions of planets, phases of the moon, and locations of neighboring galaxies. They will teach audiences about mythological figures and zodiacal signs ascribed to constellations, artificial satellites, and much more. Shows run Fridays through through May 12, with the exception of March 17, 24, and 31. 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{"text":"Formula will be financed by the country's former minister of defence and founding member of the former ruling United National Movement party \" \/>\nKarabakh stories\nLetters from prison\nFrom far and near\nUnheard Voices\nNew Georgian opposition TV channel announced \u2013 'Formula' to launch in October\nFormula will be financed by the country's former minister of defence and founding member of the former ruling United National Movement party\nThe recent verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the ownership dispute over opposition-minded TV channel Rustavi 2 has given rise to a new opposition outlet \u2013 Formula.\nIn pursuing the ownership dispute, it is highly likely that instead of creating problems for just one opposition channel, the authorities will now have to tango with two \u2013 and possibly even three.\nIn Georgia, 70 per cent of the population receives daily news from the television: thus any developments in the medium are noteworthy, particularly given that Georgia is getting ready for the October 2020 elections, the winner of which will rule the country.\nIn addition to the creation of a TV channel announced by Nika Gvaramia \u2013 the former head of Rustavi 2 \u2013 another outlet will appear in October.\nFormula will be created by video and TV show production company Formula Creative, with David Kezerashvili, the former minister of defence and a close ally of ex president Mikheil Saakashvili, as the main investor.\nFormula Creative has released a number of well-known TV shows in Georgia, including the wildly popular series My Wife's Girlfriends, which runs on Rustavi 2.\nHowever, after ownership of Rustavi 2 was transferred to its former owner Kiber Khalvashi \u2013 a close ally of the current authorities \u2013 the company announced it would be pursuing the creation of its own channel.\nFormula Creative says that the change of ownership of the channel will entail a drastic change in the editorial policy of Rustavi 2, which will be suited to the needs of the authorities. The company also notes that the concentration of media outlets in the hands of the current government is dangerous.\nOne of the main pursuits of the new channel will be to counter the growing effects of Russian propaganda in the country.\nCompany executive Zika Gumbaridze has noted that in addition to Kezerashvili, the company is holding negotiations with other investors.\nIs Kezerashvili returning to Georgian politics?\nKezerashvili was one of the first former officials against whom criminal cases were launched immediately after the new government came to power.\nHe left Georgia in 2012 and has not returned since.\nAuthorities earlier accused him of illegally selling TV channel Imedia, 'smuggling alcohol', and taking a 13 million lari bribe, as well as embezzling almost six million euros during his tenure as defence minister.\nNot a single guilty verdict was handed down in any of the cases.\nJust two days ago he was acquitted of the bribery accusations against him: in Israel, a lawsuit had been filed against IDF general Gal Hirsch, allegedly for giving a bribe to the former minister of defence of Georgia \u2013 Kezerashvili \u2013 in exchange for a lucrative contract with the ministry.\nThe general was acquitted.\nIn the past few years, the Georgian Prosecutor's Office has twice requested the extradition of Kezerashvili from France, but not a single request has been granted.\nKezerashvili's name also appeared in the Panama Papers, which state that in 2008, 10 days after his resignation as minister of defence, Kezerashvili's attorney registered three offshore companies.\nFormula has already appealed for permission to broadcast from the National Communications Commission.\nThe application asks for permission to broadcast across the country, and will be available via cable, satellite and antenna.\nThe channel is likely to attract a number of journalists that have left Rustavi 2, and will host one of Georgia's most popular TV shows \u2013 My Wife's Girlfriends, which has been on the air for eight years in a row on Rustavi 2.\nRussia's nuclear incident and the evacuation that never was\nFour children drown in unguarded waters near Baku \u2013 who's to blame?\nGeorgia pauses flights with China\nTurkey proposes law allowing rapists to avoid criminal persecution if they marry victim\nAbkhazia: higher energy tariffs or blackout if electricity consumption isn't reduced\nAbkhaz opposition leader on Georgia: \"For those who don't know geography, we're neighbors\"\nHow Abkhazia is trying to restore its historic archive which burned down 27 years ago during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict\nFailed in Abkhazia or in Ukraine? Why Putin's influential assistant is leaving\nUPDATE: investigation uncovers reason for suicide of ex head of Armenian National Security Council of Armenia\nSeven Azerbaijani students unable to leave quarantined Wuhan, China due to virus\nVIDEO: What you can and can't do in Azerbaijan \u2013 HRW's 2019 report\nFinal destination \u2013 Borjomi. 35 photos capturing life in Georgia's main resort town\nDeported from the EU \u2013 how Armenians try to stay abroad\nGeorgian policeman says he lost job because he detained ex-defence minister's brother\nCurtain closes on opera scandal involving Azerbaijani tenor, Armenian singer\nAmerican congressmen write letter to Georgian PM detailing eight main problems in Georgia\nRussia is using South Ossetia to finance self-proclaimed republics in Eastern Ukraine\nHuman Rights in the South Caucasus: 2019 victories and losses\nFollow @JAMnewsCaucasus\nToponyms and terminology used in the publications, and views, opinions and strategies they contain do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of JAMnews or any employees thereof. 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{"text":"Congo faces 'very high' risk from Ebola outbreak: WHO\nDelhi, IndiaUpdated: May 18, 2018, 03:38 PM IST\nThe risk to countries in the region was now 'high', raised from 'moderate'\nDemocratic Republic of Congo faces a \"very high\" public health risk from Ebola because the disease has been confirmed in a patient in a big city, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, raising its assessment from \"high\" previously.\nThe risk to countries in the region was now \"high\", raised from \"moderate\", but the global risk remained \"low\", the WHO said.\nThe reassessment came after the first confirmed case in Mbandaka, a city of around 1.5 million in the northwest. Previous reports of the disease had all been in remote areas where Ebola might spread be more easily contained.\n\"The confirmed case in Mbandaka, a large urban centre located on major national and international river, road and domestic air routes, increases the risk of spread within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to neighbouring countries,\" the WHO said.\nWHO Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response Peter Salama had told reporters on Thursday that the risk assessment was being reviewed.\n\"We're certainly not trying to cause any panic in the national or international community,\" he said.\n\"What we're saying though is that urban Ebola is very different phenomenon to rural Ebola because we know that people in urban areas can have far more contacts so that means that urban Ebola can result in an exponential increase in cases in a way that rural Ebola struggles to do.\"\nLater on Friday, the WHO will convene an Emergency Committee of experts to advise on the international response to the outbreak, and decide whether it constitutes a \"public health emergency of international concern\".\nThe nightmare scenario is an outbreak in Kinshasa, a crowded city where millions live in unsanitary slums not connected to a sewer system.\nJeremy Farrar, an infectious disease expert and director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity, said the outbreak had \"all the features of something that could turn really nasty\".\n\"As more evidence comes in of the separation of cases in space and time, and healthcare workers getting infected, and people attending funerals and then travelling quite big distances - it's got everything we would worry about,\" he told Reuters.\nThe WHO statement said there had been 21 suspected, 20 probable and 3 confirmed cases of Ebola between April 4 and May 15, a total of 44 cases, including 15 deaths. Mbandaka had three suspected cases in addition to the confirmed case.\nThe WHO is sending 7,540 doses of an experimental vaccine to try to stop the outbreak in its tracks, and 4,300 doses have already arrived in Kinshasa. It will be used to protect healthworkers and \"rings\" of contacts around each case.\nThe vaccine supplies will be enough to vaccinate 50 rings of 150 people, the WHO said. As of 15 May, 527 contacts had been identified and were being followed up and monitored.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"15 International Series to Binge-Watch Over the Holiday Season\nAn Italian mafia drama, a look inside the lives of Jewish people in 1950s Turkey and the best new Korean series to stream over the holiday season.\nBy Scott Roxborough\nScott Roxborough\nEurope Bureau Chief\nPlus Icon sroxborough\nMore Stories by Scott\nPaddy Considine, Mena Massoud to Star in Prince Naseem Boxing Drama 'Giant'\nLouis Garrel's Heist Comedy 'The Innocent,' Procedural 'The Night of the 12th' Lead France's Cesar Awards Nominations\nOscars Make a Lot of Noise for Germany's 'All Quiet on the Western Front'\nMarie Reuther in 'Kamikaze.' HBO Max\nThe closing act of a modern Italian mafia classic, a look at the lives of Jewish people in 1950s Turkey and a few Korean series to help you and your loved ones suffering from a case of Squid Game withdrawal.\nAs it has done in recent years, The Hollywood Reporter has looked far and wide for international shows to cram into your downtime over this holiday season.\nGOMORRAH\n'Gomorrah' Sky Italia\nWith the fifth and final season of this ground-breaking Italian mafia drama set to bow in early 2022, now is the time to catch up on the show critics have compared favorably to The Wire, The Sopranos and Breaking Bad. But while those shows occasionally featured an exemplary member of law enforcement or a criminal with an ethical code of honor, Gomorrah focuses entirely on the very not-nice gangsters who run the Neapolitan crime syndicate known as the Camorra. Epic in scope and relentlessly authentic (most of the dialog is in Neapolitan, meaning that even most Italian viewers need subtitles to watch), Gomorrah hits the system like a shot of strong espresso. (Streaming on: HBO Max)\n'Victim\/Suspect' Review: A Sobering Documentary Exposes the Ways Many Sexual Assault Accusers Are Railroaded\nNetflix Offloads Two Completed Films, Filmmakers Shop Projects Elsewhere\n'The Club' Netflix\nThe stand-out in Netflix's new slate of Turkish-language originals, The Club is part family drama, part crime mystery, part history lesson and a full-on deep dive into a world \u2014 the cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic society of 1950s Istanbul \u2014 never before seen on TV. G\u00f6kce Bahadir plays Matilda, a member of Turkey's Sephardic Jewish community, who is released from prison for a murder she committed as a teenager. Struggling to reconnect with her estranged daughter, she begins work at a new, taboo-breaking nightclub in the city. An intoxicating mix of genres, cultures and languages (including Ladino, the historical language of Sephardic Jewry), The Club is the perfect gateway drug to Turkish TV.\n(Streaming on: Netflix)\n'Dr. Brain' AppleTV+\nComing hot off Netflix's mega-success with Squid Game, Apple's Korean series premiere is similarly high-concept and dives deep into genre storytelling with a horror twist. The plot sees the titular Dr. Brain, a neuroscientist with autism (played by Parasite's Lee Sun-kyun) who invents a machine that can sync brain waves, enabling a recipient to absorb the memories of a deceased donor. Struggling to cope with the death of his young son, and already perplexed by the world of emotion, Dr. Brain tries his invention out on himself, setting off a Frankenstein-style noir horror story in which Dr. Brain is both scientist and monster.\n(Streaming on: AppleTV+)\nMarie Reuther in 'Kamikaze' HBO Max\nHBO Max knocks it out of the park with its first-ever Danish original series: a drama about Julie, a rich, privileged 18-year-old Instagram influencer whose life is torn asunder when her family dies in a plane crash. Next big thing Marie Reuther plays Julie with searing, full-on intensity in a story that leans into the extremes, but still manages to be a thoughtful personal exploration.\n(Streaming on: HBO Max)\n'D.P.' Netflix\nAnother socially aware Korean series from Netflix, D.P. focuses on the country's system of compulsory military service. South Korean males have to perform at least 18 months of military service between the ages of 18 and 28, enduring spartan living conditions, poverty-level wages and frequent violent hazing. Jung Hae-in stars as a soldier assigned to track down and bring back military deserters (the D.P. of the show's title is short for \"Deserter Pursuit\"). While the action can be over-the-top and the emotional scenes tipping into the sentimental, the show, an adaptation of a popular Korean webtoon, is a forthright and realistic look at the country's problematic military culture.\nWE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO\n'We Children from Bahnhof Zoo' Constantin Television\nThis series-length take on the groundbreaking, and truly horrifying, memoirs of Christiane F., a teenage heroin addict in 1980s West Berlin whose story was the basis of Uli Edel's 1981 feature classic, We Children From Bahnhof Zoo expands the story to take in the journey of Christiane's fellow travelers. Packed with period style and music cues that span the past 30 years \u2014 David Bowie mixes with tracks from Santigold and De La Soul \u2014 the series provides an intoxicating high before addiction and abuse bring the whole thing crashing down.\n(Streaming on: Amazon Prime)\nThierry Godard and Caroline Proust in 'Spiral'. Canal+\nFans of gritty crime procedurals should check out this French series, which ended its eight-season, 15-year run this year. Some have called the show a French Law & Order, but a more apt comparison is The Wire, as the show's two central cops, Gilou and Laure (Thierry Godard and Caroline Proust) bend and break the rules to catch the bad guys. What The Wire did for Baltimore, Spiral does for Paris, taking the viewer beyond the tourist postcards to the city's working-class neighborhoods and their residents, those who often find themselves on the sharp end of the criminal justice system.\n(Streaming on: MHz Choice)\n'My Name' Netflix\nWith a $500 million investment this year on original Korean TV content \u2014 a number certain to rise in 2022 thanks to the global success of Squid Game \u2014 Netflix already has a deep bench of series from the country. One of the best of the new crop is this martial arts crime drama about Ji-Woo (Han So-hee), a bullied high-school student turned vengeful angel after her drug-dealing father is gunned down before her eyes. Taking a page from the Infernal Affairs franchise (adapted by Martin Scorsese as The Departed), Ji-Woo joins her dad's crime organization only to be placed as a mole in the local police force. Working as an undercover agent, she hopes to find out the truth about her father's death. The main appeal of the series, however, is its general kickassery, with phenomenal action sequences and a full-on performance by Han So-hee as a boiling cauldron of barely-contained rage.\nNO FUE MI CULPA: MEXICO\n'No fue mi culpa Mexico' Hulu\nA harrowing look at the crisis of femicide in Mexico adapted from some of the hundreds of real-life cases of Mexican women killed by their partners, male family members and strangers, this series focuses on the victims and their loved ones left behind, as well as diving into the system that facilitates and supports gender violence. Not an easy watch, but an essential one.\n(Streaming on: Hulu)\nCOUNTRYMEN\n'Countrymen' BanijayRights\nInstead of trying to avoid Islamo-phobe stereotypes, this Norwegian comedy doubles down in order to subvert them. The set-up involves a terrorist sleeper cell that sets up a bomb-building plant on a picturesque farm in rural Norway. Their cover story: they are converting the goat farm to a Halal cheese factory. But when the cheese business takes off and they find themselves embraced by the local community, the would-be terrorists begin to question their career choices.\n(Streaming on: Viaplay)\nFORBYDELSEN (THE KILLING)\n'Forbrydelsen' DR, NRK, SVT\nThe original Nordic noir, the Danish series, which ran for three seasons from 2007 until 2012 launched a genre and created a rabid fan base for slow-paced, in-depth storytelling, influencing everything from Broadchurch to True Detective (as well as getting a U.S. remake, The Killing, courtesy of AMC.) It also made a star out of Sofie Grabol, who became a global TV icon for her performance as the doggedly persistent, if emotionally distant, detective Sarah Lund (and briefly launched a craze for her style of Nordic knitwear). Now that Topic has made all three seasons available, U.S. viewers can, for the first time, see what all the fuss was about.\n(Streaming on: Topic)\nPARA \u2013 WE ARE KING\n'Para We are King' WarnerMedia\nFrom the makers of break-out German crime drama 4 Blocks comes this coming-of-age tale set in the mean streets of Berlin following four young women whose brand of you-go-girl feminism includes snatching a bag of drugs from a local dealer to make some \"Para\" (quick cash) for themselves. The charismatic quartet, played by sparkling newcomers Jeanne Goursaud, Jobel Mokonzi, Soma Pysall and Roxana Samadi, make this a compelling watch, and its depiction of a proudly multi-cultural Berlin is a revelation.\nMALAYERBA\n'MalaYerba' Pantaya\nA welcome corrective to the much-propagated image of Colombia as a crime-and-coke fueled dystopia, this new series on Spanish-language service Pantaya focuses on the world of medical marijuana (the series title is popular Colombian slang for \"wacky tobacky\"), following a trio of start-up entrepreneurs determined to profit from the legalization of weed in the country. Less Narcos and more More Halt and Catch Fire for dope.\n(Streaming on: Pantaya)\nGOLDEN LIFE\n'Golden Life' HBO Nordic\nA Sopranos\/Ozark-style family crime drama set in Hungary, this HBO Europe series has been a critical favorite since its 2015 debut. The show, which follows the misadventures of Attila Miklosi, a successful con man who tries to go straight \u2014 against the objections of his demanding wife and family, who have become accustomed to the luxuries of their illicit lifestyle \u2014 wrapped its third, and final season in 2018, making it an ideal binge-watch over the holidays.\nCALL MY AGENT!\n'Call My Agent!' Courtesy of Netflix\nFrancophiles' favorite insider tip went mainstream during lockdown as audiences checked out this comedic gem, a melodramatic comedy set at a Parisian talent agency, which combines the A-list self-parody cameos of Extras \u2014 Sigourney Weaver, Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci and Jean Reno are just some of the boldfaced names who gleefully tear into their public image \u2014 with a healthy dose of genuine sentiment. However conniving and self-serving the agents at ASK appear, in the end, they really do care. Now that the show has been extended for a fifth season, with a film spin-off on the way, there's no better time to dive in.\nStreaming Wars","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive for date: July, 2017\nA state broadcaster is an anachronism\nPublished on: Monday, 31 July, 2017\nThe justifications for the BBC licence fee have gone away\nMy Times column on the BBC:\nThe revelation that disc jockeys and football presenters are paid millions for topping and tailing segments of rehashed music or rebroadcast football, especially if they are male, will almost certainly lead to more pay inflation at the BBC \u2014 to correct the gender imbalance. Here's another gender imbalance: television licence fee evasion accounted for 36 per cent of all prosecutions of women in 2015 and 6 per cent of men.\nAre there any arguments left for funding one broadcaster through a compulsory and regressive poll tax? The original argument was that broadcasting was a natural monopoly and the airwaves a limited space. Well, that's long gone. In the digital world, I can watch or listen to one of many thousands of channels through cable, satellite or the internet.\nBy: Matt Ridley | Tagged: rational-optimist, the-times\nFifty Things That Made The Modern Economy\nReview of a book by Tim Harford\nA review of Tim Harford's book, Fifty things that made the modern economy.\nIn 2006 the historian David Edgerton wrote a book called The Shock of the Old in which he argued that the 20th century was not really all about space travel and atom bombs, but humdrum things such as corrugated iron and refrigeration. In this enjoyable book Tim Harford makes much the same point: \"An alien engineer visiting from Alpha Centauri might suggest it would be good if the enthusiasm we had for flashy new things was equally expressed for fitting more S-bends and pouring more concrete floors.\"\nHow the electric car revolution could backfire\nPublished on: Thursday, 20 July, 2017\nThe state risks locking in the wrong technology too early\nMy recent column for The Times on the arithmetic behind electric cars:\nThe British government is under pressure to follow France and Volvo in promising to set a date by which to ban diesel and petrol engines in cars and replace them with electric motors. It should resist the temptation, not because the ambition is wrong but because coercion could backfire.\nThe deep divergence in African genomes\nPublished on: Wednesday, 05 July, 2017\nModern human beings took a third of a million years to emerge\nMy column in the Times on recent sensational discoveries relating to human evolution in Africa:\nNews is dominated by sudden things \u2014 bombs, fires, election results \u2014 and so gradual news sometimes get left out. The past month has seen three discoveries in Africa that radically change our understanding of a crucial phase in human evolution. For those interested in the common history of all humanity, this should really be among the biggest news of the year.\nThe first of these discoveries is genetic. Swedish and South African scientists have made the origin of us \u2014 modern human beings \u2014 an even more mind-bogglingly gradual phenomenon than we used to think. Here is what they found. A skeleton of a boy who died 2,000 years ago at a place called Ballito Bay has yielded a good sample of preserved DNA. He was a Khoe-San, that is to say an indigenous native of southern Africa of the kind once called \"bushmen\", who still live in the Kalahari desert.\nThe Sixth Genesis: a man-made, mass-speciation event\nA book on how human beings are also increasing biodiversity\nMy review of Chris Thomas's fine book, Inheritors of the Earth:\nIf human beings were to vanish from the Earth, what would their effect on wildlife have been? A rash of extinctions, a lot of mixing up so that wallabies and parakeets live in England and rabbits and sparrows in Australia, but also \u2014 according to Chris Thomas \u2014 an eventual doubling in the number of species on the planet: a \"sixth genesis\", as he calls it in reference to the five previous times that biodiversity has expanded rapidly after a mass extinction. We are causing a mass speciation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Adventures off the beaten path in NOLA\nby Sarah in Photography Tags: Fort Macomb, Fort Pike, louisiana, Luling Mansion, new orleans, St. Roch, Third System, True Detective, Venetian Isles\nEarlier this month, a friend of mine realized a long-deferred dream and moved from Wisconsin to New Orleans. We had Good Friday off from work, and I drove to the city to both take her to a \"welcome to Louisiana\" lunch and to photograph a couple of things on my list.\nFort Macomb is in the Venetian Isles neighborhood, and although it looks like the country it is in fact within the city limits. (You may remember it from the last episode of the first season of True Detective, where it stood in for Carcosa, the mystical\/cursed city of the King in Yellow.) I've been there before, but only shot the outside from the adjacent marina dock. While I was able to get around a couple of chain link fences this time, alas, the front entrance had been padlocked and it would take someone a lot more athletic than I to actually get inside.\nIt probably doesn't look much different inside than Fort Pike, which is only a couple of miles away. More overgrown, probably. I was fortunate enough to get inside of Pike during one of the brief periods it was open to the public\u2014it's always getting shut down due to hurricane damage and\/or budget cuts. It's the only Third System fort in Louisiana that's even sometimes open to the public, and a perfect example of one of the things that makes me deeply angry about this state: they view \"lock it up to keep out anyone who might be interested and then ignore it\" as the depth of their responsibility to the historic places in their care.\nANYWAY. So then we went to the Luling Mansion, built for a cotton merchant just after the Civil War and somehow managing to survive into the present day, the former grounds surrounded by modern development and the house itself carved up into apartments inside.\nOh, and we also made a quick stop at the St. Roch shrine, because that place is awesome.\nIf you like my work, please consider supporting more of it.\nby Sarah in Teevee Tags: Frank's Place, HBO, Trem\u00e9, True Detective\nAnyone else watching this new HBO show? It takes place in my corner of Louisiana, Cajun country\/Louisiana prairie. (Yes, south Louisiana has prairie. It's not all gator-infested bayou.) It's always nice when Hollywood remembers that the state isn't entirely made up of just New Orleans, much as I love the city. In fact, the murder victim in the pilot is found in Erath, which is literally down the road from me: if you go to the end of my street and cross LA-14 (which is a rural highway, so probably not what most of you think of when you think of a highway), you'd be in Erath.\nVisually, I'd say it's entirely an accurate representation of south Louisiana, which makes sense because they filmed it here. The rustling cane fields, the sugar and natural gas refineries spewing white smoke, the murmuration (seriously, that's what it's called) of starlings swirling through the air, the single huge oak standing out in a flat field. And of course, the abandoned church. I'm sure it was a set built for the show, but things like that exist here; I've photographed a bunch of them. When something in Louisiana burns down or gets wrecked in a hurricane or just abandoned, it doesn't always get torn down and tidied up.\nAnd the writing and acting is good, too. The storyline is more of a slow burn, but I prefer that to car chases and explosions every 30 seconds. Admittedly, the popular notion of Louisiana as (to use the A.V. Club's words) \"a lawless, hothouse trouble spot populated by weirdoes, freaks, perverts, vampires, hoodoo wimmen, and gangsters plotting to assassinate the president\" sometimes gets old to those of us that live here. The only show to ever realistically portray Louisiana as a place where (mostly) normal people live (mostly) normal lives remains Trem\u00e9; perhaps not coincidentally, that show had dismal ratings. (Also\u2013sort of\u2013the '80s sitcom Frank's Place. Which lasted a single season. And also the premise was that Frank had to run the family business and stay in NOLA rather than sell it and move back to New England because of a Voodoo curse. So that's really kind of a wash.)\nBut you know, I'll take weird religious serial killers and creepy abandoned churches and matriarchal brothels out in the wilderness over the current \"reality\" TV portrayal of Louisianans as a bunch of mouth-breathing, gator-wrasslin', drunken hillbillies.\nOh, and if you saw the photo of Dora Lange as a child surrounded by men on horseback wearing pointed hoods and thought OMG KKK, no. Those were Courir de Mardi Gras:\nThe pointed hat is a traditional part of the local Mardi Gras costume and has been around much longer than the Klan. Wearing cheap plastic beads and flashing your boobs and\/or dressing like a demented streetwalker is a New Orleans thing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > News > News Releases > 2018 > November\nBCSC releases annual report on compliance\nVancouver \u2013 The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is finding more deficiencies among portfolio managers, investment fund managers and exempt market dealers, as the commission becomes increasingly precise in choosing which firms to closely scrutinize.\nIn 2018, the BCSC conducted 23 compliance reviews and found 151 deficiencies, averaging 6.57 deficiencies per review, according to the Annual ComplianceReport Card issued today. That compares with 6.58 per review in 2017, 4.29 in 2016, and 4.64 in 2015.\nThe BCSC uses a predictive risk model in deciding which firms to review. The formula, adopted in 2013, identifies firms that would be most likely to have compliance problems, using data collected through previous compliance reviews as well as a risk questionnaire distributed every two years. The likelihood of compliance problems is one of several criteria used by the BCSC in deciding where to focus its energies.\n\"We are getting better each year in picking our spots,\" said Mark Wang, the BCSC's Director of Capital Markets Regulation. \"Our predictive risk model gives us a good starting point. Then we use real-time knowledge of firms to fine-tune our examination decisions.\"\nInadequate policies and procedures \u2013 including questionable risk management, outdated manuals, and weak cybersecurity policies and procedures \u2013 were the single most common category of deficiencies. Other common problems included inadequate disclosure, especially about the registrant-client relationship, and patchy efforts to ensure the suitability of investments for each client.\nAs a result of the compliance exams, the BCSC imposed extra restrictions on two firms, one of which decided to surrender its registration as a result. Two other firms chose to give up their registrations while still being examined.\nThe BCSC is increasingly referring the most egregious cases of non-compliance to its enforcement team for further investigation and possible penalties, including suspension or bans from the capital markets, as well as fines. In 2018, the BCSC opened investigations into four cases that began as compliance reviews.\n\"When we find lapses that are systemic or particularly harmful to investors, we won't hesitate to use our powers of enforcement,\" said Peter Brady, the BCSC's Executive Director. \"When warranted, we want to make such lapses a matter of public record, to deter such behaviour by other firms. Ultimately, we think that our compliance reviews and enforcement actions will drive the small portion of registrants that have not focused on compliance to bring their efforts in line with the vast majority of registrants that work hard to comply with all their obligations.\"\nAbout the British Columbia Securities Commission ( www.bcsc.bc.ca )\nThe British Columbia Securities Commission is the independent provincial government agency responsible for regulating capital markets in British Columbia through the administration of the Securities Act. Our mission is to protect and promote the public interest by fostering:\nA securities market that is fair and warrants public confidence\nA dynamic and competitive securities industry that provides investment opportunities and access to capital\nBrian Kladko\nPublic inquiries:\n604-899-6854 or 1-800-373-6393 (toll free)\ninquiries@bcsc.bc.ca\nLearn how to protect yourself and become a more informed investor at www.investright.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"on July 23, 2020 at 03:04 PM\n\u00a9 Courtesy of stARCH Design Spectrum, Vadodara \/ Pics: Tejas Shah, Vadodara\nWrinkles mean you laughed, grey hairs mean you cared, and scars mean you lived. A life well lived deserves a calm, restful, and tranquil home to spend the sunset years. It is this vision that led to the creation of a luxurious old-age home just about 22 kms from Vadodara.\nThe dream dreamt by Mr. J.C. Kathrani was then given the shape of reality by Vadodara-based stARCH Design Spectrum co-owned by architects Tanuj and Sonali Desai.\nThe project of this old-age home was commissioned to stARCH, quite by a stroke of destiny. \"My father Mr. Tapasvi Desai had visited a school for disabled children, which is run by Mr. Kathrani,\" recalls Tanuj. \"They both got talking, and that is when the idea of the old-age home came up. The concept was to create a home where seniors could 'rewind life', a place where they would spend their days with like-minded people who would provide them with social and emotional support necessary at that stage of life.\"\nThe concept was initiated in 2014 by Mallikarjun Mahadev Charitable Trust, and it was decided that the old-age facility would come up in the same premises where the ISO-certified Anmol Residential School for the Mentally Challenged is located.\n\"The client brief was succinct: they wanted a luxurious, care-free and comfortable living environment for all the senior citizens who chose to make their home with them. We were very keen to help convert this noble dream into a reality, and ideated extensively on the plans and landscape,\" says Tanuj. \"Our clients were thrilled when we presented them with seven alternate ideas that kept in mind all the minute requirements that had been listed down,\" adds Sonali.\nThe clients \u2013 Mr. J C Kathrani and his wife Hansa - immediately shortlisted the layout and ideas they liked, and got the designing duo to tweak them to suitably fit the plot that spanned 1 lakh square feet. Work kicked off in earnest in the first quarter of 2016. With all the requirements in mind, the total plinth area came up to 28,000 square feet, with the superstructure coming up in just one year \u2013 by the beginning of 2017.\n\"By then, the client had new requirements; they wanted us to add four staff quarters to accommodate people who would be stationed on the site 24X7 and would take care of all the amenities while providing support,\" Sonali details.\nThe structure includes living areas such as furnished deluxe and standard rooms, and also has a series of shared amenities that foster the spirit of community living. Recreational facilities include a games room with indoor games such as chess, cards, and darts, a well-stocked library, and an audio-visual hall. Fitness areas include a badminton court, a gymnasium, massage room, and physiotherapy room.\n\"We, as designers, were clear that the layout should encourage the senior residents to bond together, and not be isolated. That is why we decided on a common audio-visual areaas opposed to a TV set in every room, which is the norm these days,\" Tanuj says.\n\u00a9 Courtesy of stARCH Design Spectrum, Vadodara\nSonali agrees, stating that the intent was always to promote camaraderie among people who were staying away from their families, to ensure that they create a new family here. \"We have a huge dining room, which is common and accessible to all the people. Prayer and meditation rooms are also designed into the premises,\" she says. The state-of-the-art kitchen is where all the meals and snacks are prepared; they are served in the adjoining dining room. \"The kitchen can, apart from the residents, also cater to their family and friends.\nThe main courtyard \u2013 with the badminton court on one side and the sit out on the other \u2013 offers ample open space for them to spend time in the open,\" Tanuj says. There are three other courtyards and a small sit out carved out for each room (facing the main courtyard). \"Seasonal trees create the perfect outdoor space that invites people to spend time outdoors in all weathers,\" Sonali says.\nCare has been taken to ensure that the design and execution are senior-friendly. The building only has a ground floor, ruling out the difficulties of maneuvering staircases. Every square inch of the floor area is anti-skid; there are plenty of grab bars, and adequate ramps to take care of wheelchair movement.\n\"There's a doctor's room with examination facilities to ensure that medical help is always at hand,\" the designers say, adding that they were given a free hand by the client, be it for the design elements, the selection, the processes or the finishes. \"We had total freedom, and that made it a bigger responsibility to deliver a product that matched the client's vision,' says Tanuj.\nThe project was completed in 2018, and Tanuj and Sonali are glad that they could \u2013 through their design skills \u2013 turn an empty space into a welcoming home for the people in the sunset of their life.\nmore from Decor \/ LifeStyle\nDetected! 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{"text":"Limo Employee Faces 40 Criminal Counts After Crash Killed 20 People\nPosted 12:59 PM, April 6, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 12:58PM, April 6, 2019\nSix months after a catastrophic limo crash killed 20 people in upstate New York, a son of the limo company's owner faces a litany of charges.\nNauman Hussain has been indicted on 20 counts of second-degree manslaughter and 20 counts negligent homicide, Schoharie District Attorney Susan Mallery said. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.\nPolice have described Hussain as an \"operator\" for Prestige Limousine Chauffer Service, which was owned by his father Shahed Hussain.\nA felony complaint said the younger Hussain hired driver Scott Lisinicchia, despite knowing Lisinicchia didn't have the appropriate license to drive the limo.\nThe complaint also said Nauman Hussain knew or should have known the modified Ford Excursion had mechanical and safety deficiencies, including some that would have affected the brakes.\nThe limo had failed inspection just a month before the October 2018 crash and \"was not supposed to be on the road,\" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.\nBut Hussain's attorney Lee Kindlon said \"Mr. Hussain is not guilty of criminal wrongdoing, and we will fight for him every step of the way.\"\nKindlon has said Nauman Hussain had \"very little involvement\" in the company, handling some marketing and booking and answering the phone.\nHow the crash happened\nLisinicchia was driving 17 guests to a birthday party in upstate New York when the modified Ford Excursion plowed through a stop sign and struck a parked SUV, officials said.\nThe driver and 17 passengers were killed, along with two pedestrians. The victims included newlyweds and four sisters.\nThe National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report in February, saying the \"original 137-inch-long wheelbase for the 2001 Ford Excursion had been lengthened by 180 inches to increase the seating capacity to 18 occupants (including the driver).\"\n\"All aspects of the Schoharie, New York, crash remain under investigation as the NTSB focuses on determining the probable cause, with the intent of issuing safety recommendations to prevent similar crashes,\" the report states.\nFiled in: National and World News, News\nHelicopter Crashes on Roof of NYC Skyscraper, Killing Pilot\nA Truck Driver is Charged with 4 Counts of Vehicular Homicide and 36 Other Counts in a Fatal Pileup Near Denver\nPilot Killed in Manhattan Crash Wasn't Certified to Fly in Bad Weather\nBusiness National and World News\nCEO: Boeing Made Mistake in Handling Warning-System Problem\nDozens of Animals, Alive and Dead, Discovered in Lodi Home; Man Arrested\nSome Victims in a New Hampshire Crash That Killed 7 Were Members of a Marine Veterans Motorcycle Club\nTruck Driver in Deadly Motorcycle Crash Faces 7 Counts of Negligent Homicide\nCHP: Woman, Two Young Girls Killed after DUI Suspect Crashed Into Modesto Home\nMan Suspected in Sacramento Officer's Killing Appears in Court\nCHP: Two Killed in Fiery Crash Involving 7 Vehicles on I-5, West of Lodi\nAudio Reveals Pilots Angrily Confronting Boeing About 737 Max Feature Before Second Deadly Crash\nAir Canada Reviewing How Crew Left Passenger on Parked Plane","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"THE UTAH THEATRE \u2013 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE USUAL MOVIE EXPERIENCE\nBy Michael Burnham, The Utah Statesman Published: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 The Utah Theatre, Logan's newest \u2014 but third oldest next to the Ellen Eccles and the Caine Lyric \u2014 theater is unique for many reasons. For starters, it houses a mighty Wurlitzer organ, one of the few in the state. It also has one \u2026 Continued\nFARLEY FAMILY MIGHTY WURLITZER EXTRAVAGANZA TAKES STAGE DECEMBER 9-10 AT UTAH THEATRE\nBy Jennifer Steele Christensen, Cache Valley Daily Published: Monday, November 28, 2016 The Utah Theatre welcomes humorist and historian James Arrington to the stage December 9-10 in what Arrington calls \"a great opening for the Christmas Season.\" Showcasing select characters from Arrington's hilarious and locally-beloved Farley Family, the production promises an evening of comedy, music, \u2026 Continued\nUTAH THEATRE WILL START HOSTING SING-ALONGS, BEGINNING WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC THIS WEEKEND\nBy Jennie Christensen, Cache Valley Daily Published: Saturday, September 10, 2016 The fall season opens Saturday at the newly-remodeled and renovated Utah Theatre and Operations Manager Gary Griffin says it promises to be a lot of fun. He says the Utah Theatre will be the home of classic movies starting with the Sound of Music \u2026 Continued\nLOVE SONGS: MARRIED COUPLE ENJOYS TIME ON THE UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA STAGE\nBy Kevin Opsahl, The Herald Journal Published: Thursday, August 4, 2016 As post-graduate students at Boston University, Saundra DeAthos and Harold Meers were trying to get \"on the ground floor\" of the theater arts business, looking for small parts to play in various operas nationwide. They got to know Michael Ballam, the founding general director \u2026 Continued\nUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATRE OFFERS UP FANTASY, HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE IN SUMMER SEASON\nBy Jay Wamsley, Deseret News Published: Monday, August 1, 2016 Audiences can be taken to magical places as well as examine a bit of American history in this season's offerings from the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, now underway in Logan. 'Peter Pan' UFOMT founding director Michael Ballam explained in a previous article that \u2026 Continued\nBALLAM FONDLY REMEMBERS FAMOUS SOPRANO MARNI NIXON\nBy Jennie Christensen, Cache Valley Daily Published: Thursday, July 28, 2016 Michael Ballam says he has lost a dear friend and the world has lost a marvelous musician with very special talents in the death of Marni Nixon. Ballam, who is founder and general director of Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, learned of Nixon's \u2026 Continued\nANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 8th ANNUAL INT'L OPERA COMPETITION\nCongratulations to the winners of the 8th annual Michael Ballam Concorso Lirico International Opera Competition on July 27, 2016. This year two 1st Place Winners were chosen to go to Italy: Errin Brooks Anastasia Talley Thank you to all of the talented artists who gave their best in the competition, and a special thanks to \u2026 Continued\nBENEFIT CONCERT TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SHELTER DOGS\nBy Javier Laboy, The Herald Journal Published: Saturday, July 23, 2016 One dog's impression on its owner led to a small fundraiser, which has turned into a popular musical attraction that lures more people each year. Lisa Shaw is the director of Four Paws, a nonprofit and no-kill shelter dedicated to the rescue of homeless \u2026 Continued\nSOAPBOX: SUMMERS FULL OF ART BRING VALLEY CLOSER TO HEAVEN\nBy F. Ross Peterson, The Herald Journal Published: Saturday, July 23, 2016 On Monday, July 18, we sat with several hundred of our dearest local and summer-citizen friends in the Logan LDS Tabernacle. The Noon Concerts on Mondays are performed by members of the Utah Festival Opera-Musical Theatre Company. Kenneth Overton, a visiting artist with \u2026 Continued\nUTAH THEATRE TO BEGIN SHOWING SILENT MOVIES ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE ORGAN MUSIC\nBy Jennie Christensen, Cache Valley Daily Published: Friday, July 22, 2016 You'll have a chance to go back to the 1920's now at the newly-revamped and remodeled Utah Theatre. Gary Griffin, general operations manager for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre (the organization which now owns the facility), says the theater is now ready to \u2026 Continued\nMUSIC CARRIES THE GERSHWINS' PORGY & BESS\nBy Elise Hanson, Utah Theatre Bloggers Published: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 LOGAN \u2014 When I was a pre-teen, my stepfather used to walk around the house bellowing, \"Bess, you is my woman now; you is\u2013you is,\" in his lovely baritone voice. That, along with the iconic \"Summertime\" were my introduction to America's classic Porgy and \u2026 Continued\nUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA DELIVERS 'PORGY AND BESS'\nBy Charlie Schill, The Herald Journal Published: Thursday, July 14, 2016 If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck. The show now being staged by the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre under the title \"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess\" was adapted in recent years to supposedly make \u2026 Continued\nBALLAM SCORES WITH TRIO OF PUCCINI ONE-ACT OPERAS\nBy Charlie Schill, The Herald Journal Published: Thursday, July 14, 2016 As the opening pitch of a Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre season filled with the promise of on-stage magic, Logan impresario Michael Ballam tossed local audiences a curveball by presenting an operatic oddity. That throw was nevertheless right over the plate for a \u2026 Continued\nLOGAN SUMMER INVASION BEGINS AS SUMMER CITIZENS SEEK TO BEAT THE HEAT\nBy Dan Rascon, KUTV Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Logan, Utah \u2014 (KUTV) Every summer they come by the hundreds across the country to the small northern Utah town of Logan, bringing millions of dollars in revenue and turning the town into a mini-New York City, Broadway-style event. \u2026 Watch Video\nPOWERFUL, EVOCATIVE, IMPORTANT: UFOMT'S \"RAGTIME\" RELEVANT TODAY\nBy Elise Hanson, Utah Theatre Bloggers Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 LOGAN \u2014 At its core, Ragtime is a story about America. Not at its best, but at its most hopeful. Hope that someday\u2014someday\u2014things will change. People will be more kind, the world more gentle, governments more compassionate, and systems more malleable. As I write \u2026 Continued\nYOU'LL HAVE TO MAKE BELIEVE YOU LOVE UFOMT'S SHOW BOAT\nBy C. T. Lewis, Utah Theatre Bloggers Published: Monday, July 11, 2016 LOGAN \u2014 In 1992, I was forced to forego my first opportunity to see a touring Broadway show in Salt Lake City to go to scout camp. To a theatre-obsessed twelve-year-old boy growing up in Brigham City, this was nothing short of an \u2026 Continued\nUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS SHINE LIGHT ON SOCIAL ISSUES\nBy Chuck Nunn, The Herald Journal Published: Thursday, July 7, 2016 From still-relevant messages on race and class presented in theater classics to a fresh, empowering take on one of the stage's oldest controversial portrayals, the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre's 2016 season is addressing a number of social issues that have been front \u2026 Continued\nUTAH THEATRE AWAKENS WITH UFOMT PRODUCTION OF 'PETER PAN'\nBy Chuck Nunn, The Herald Journal Published: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 It's been a long time since the Utah Theatre has been the location of a live performance \u2014 a very long time. \"Eighty-two years it's been, since any live performance took place on that spot,\" said Michael Ballam, director of the Utah Festival Opera \u2026 Continued\n'PETER PAN' TAKES FLIGHT AT THE UTAH THEATRE\nBy Charlie Schill, The Herald Journal Published: Friday, July 1, 2016 It feels entirely appropriate that a new chapter in the life of the historic Utah Theatre in downtown Logan should open with a light-hearted production of the beloved musical \"Peter Pan.\" The delightfully dated show being staged by the Utah Festival Opera & Musical \u2026 Continued\nUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE OPENS NEW VENUE, ADDS TO SUMMER OFFERINGS\nBy Jay Wamsley, Deseret News Published: Friday, June 10, 2016 LOGAN \u2014 The opening of a decadelong refurbishing project to the public and the staging of what founding director Michael Ballam calls the \"most resource-intensive opera\" the company has ever produced are among the highlights of the upcoming season of Utah Festival Opera & Musical \u2026 Continued\nUTAH THEATRE READY TO USHER IN A 'NEW ERA'\nBy Katie Peikes, The Herald Journal Published: Thursday, June 9, 2016 A historic theater stood stationary on Center Street for several months after closing in 2006 until members of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre decided they wanted to reopen it. Built in the 1930s, the Utah Theatre was built as a gorgeous, classy \u2026 Continued\nA SMALL THEATER IN LOGAN PROVES IT'S THE LITTLE THEATER THAT COULD\nBy Melissa Allison, Cache Valley Daily Published: Saturday, June 4, 2016 The Utah Theater came to life Friday night as it welcomed the many benefactors who made the renovation possible. Ben Clawson is a member of the board of directors for the theater. \"It's been 10 years in the waiting,\" Clawson said. \"We're really excited \u2026 Continued\nTHE UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE SHOWS OFF ITS NEWEST ADDITION\nBy Melissa Allison, Cache Valley Daily Published: Friday, June 3, 2016 \"It's like one of those Shakespearean tragedies,\" said Gary Griffin, the managing director of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre (UFOMT). \"'Anything that could go wrong, has gone wrong.' But we've overcome.\" After a decade filled with setbacks, the Utah Theater on Center \u2026 Continued\nMARRIED PERFORMERS RETURN TO UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA FOLLOWING LOCAL ROMANCE\nBy Clayton Gefre, The Herald Journal Published: Friday, June 3, 2016 In the summer of 2007, New York native bass-baritone performer Earl Hazell delayed a planned European tour to perform a creatively challenging repertoire at the Utah Festival Opera. At the same time, Arizona State University vocal graduate student Alexis Davis was recommended by her \u2026 Continued\nUTAH THEATRE TO OPEN AFTER A DECADE OF RESTORATION\nBy Katie Peikes, Utah Public Radio Published: Friday, June 3, 2016 When Michael Ballam, the founding general director of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, came home from sabbatical in Italy 10 years ago, he saw the Utah Theatre at 18 W. Center St. \u2013 closed at the time \u2013 and knew instantly he \u2026 Continued\nLOGAN'S UTAH THEATRE PREPARING TO REOPEN\nABC4 Utah Published: Thursday, June 2, 2016 LOGAN, Utah (ABC4 Utah) After nine years and $11 million in renovations a cultural icon in Cache County is finally ready to reopen. The Utah Theatre in Logan shut down in 2007 when those renovations began. At the time, the iconic movie house had become run down. Now \u2026 Continued\nHISTORIC UTAH THEATRE TO OPEN IN END OF JUNE\nBy Katie Peikes, The Herald Journal Published: Thursday, June 2, 2016 Nine years and $11.5 million later, the Utah Theatre at 18 W. Center St. will finally open to the public June 24. Michael Ballam, the founding general director of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, was on a yearlong sabbatical in Italy over \u2026 Continued\nAFTER NINE YEAR RENOVATION, UTAH THEATRE NEARLY COMPLETE\nBy Jennie Christensen, Cache Valley Daily Published: Saturday, May 14, 2016 Nine years after the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre Company purchased the abandoned Utah Theater in downtown Logan, the theater is almost ready to re-open for cultural events. There were construction complications along the way but Gary Griffin, operations manager, says the public \u2026 Continued\nAREA STUDENTS SNAG 'TONYS' IN MUSICAL THEATER\nBy Rachel J. Trotter, Standard-Examiner Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 OGDEN \u2014 Excitement was in the air Saturday, May 14, at Ogden High School's Spencer Fox Eccles Auditorium as the Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards went into full swing. Students from 26 high schools in Utah were nominated for a range of awards and \u2026 Continued\nBEST OF BEST IN SPOTLIGHT AT 'TONY AWARDS' OF UTAH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICALS\nBy Rachel J. Trotter, Standard-Examiner Published: Friday, April 22, 2016 OGDEN \u2014 Vanessa Ballam had the dream of taking the Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards to different venues around the state and now this year her dream is becoming reality as the show moves to Ogden High School. Ballam is one of the directors \u2026 Continued\nLOGAN'S UTAH THEATRE: RESTORED, RENEWED AND REMODELLED\nBy Brian Fryer, Utah Stories Published: Friday, February 19, 2016 It could be said that the revival of Logan's historic Utah Theatre was made possible by an organ donation. Built in 1936 and originally named the Roxy, the one-screen art deco movie house sat for decades as neighboring theaters such as the Capitol and the \u2026 Continued","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Okay Harlem, Why LVMH Is Taking A Stake In A Sneaker Store In NYC?\nBrand Channel reports that Stadium Goods is not just any sneaker store. It's a purveyor of premium basketball shoes and streetwear, with customers including rappers, athletes and other sneakerheads from Harlem to Harare with money to splash out on multiple pairs of shoes at a time. So it came as no surprise that LVMH has announced it's buying a stake in Stadium Goods.\nThe sneaker consignment store (and still takes in in-demand used shoes) and haute retailer's description:\n\"We are a premium sneaker + streetwear marketplace selling only the most sought after footwear, apparel and other hard-to-find items on behalf of our sellers. We are driven by our principles and committed to providing the best consumer and consignment experience there is.\nWe source, scramble and curate the best selection of sneakers we can find from around the globe. We're here to help you find just the right pair, or if it's streetwear you're looking for, we've got you covered.\"\nLVMH, European owner of premium luxury brands Louis Vuitton, CELINE and Dior, is eager to learn firsthand about the art of supply and demand and the dark art of knowing what's hot and how to tease \"drop\" release-driven retail, as perfected by Supreme, adidas (Yeezy) and Nike (Air Jordan).\nLVMH's Luxury Ventures initiative launched last year to acquire minority stakes in emerging luxury brands is investing in Stadium Goods, an online marketplace for sneakers and apparel with a brick and mortar store in NYC's Soho.\nBeyond learning it may apply to its luxury brands, LVMH's intent with its stake is to help grow the global sneaker and streetwear marketplace.\nStadium Goods was co-founded in 2015 by John McPheters and Jed Stiller along with CMO Yu-Ming Wu, the mind behind the world's biggest sneaker exposition (New York's SneakerCon).\nTheir growth has been consistent and steady. Shortly after opening the 3,000-square-foot space, Stadium Goods announced a partnership with eBay to create exclusive custom sneaker and streetwear content, followed by a deal in 2016 with China's Alibaba and its 11.11 Tmall global shopping spree.\nA $4.6 million round of financing in January 2017 from Forerunner Ventures (Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Jet.com) and The Chernin Group opened the way for further growth, followed by a deal with online retailer Zalando, giving European consumers access to shop its catalog online.\nThe store is the location for the Sneaker Shopping web series on YouTube with Complex, which McPheters calls a major awareness-driver. Featuring 92 celebrities including Eminem, Roger Federer, JB Smoove, Usain Bolt, Gucci Mane, Rita Ora, DJ Khaled, Scott Disick and model Bella Hadid, the series has raised Stadium Goods' profile globally.\nReafd the entire article here.\nHarlemCeline, DJ Khaled, Eminem, Gucci Mane, JB Smoove, Louis Vuitton, LVMH, Rita Ora, Roger Federer, Scott Disick, SneakerCon, Stadium Goods, The Chernin Group, Usain Bolt, Yu-Ming Wu","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Global governance and the role Africa has yet to play\nEdel McCormack\nGreat expectations have often been laid at the doorstep of one of the world's fastest growing regions.\nBy and large, Africa's economic growth rate and its burgeoning youth population have added weight to the \"Africa rising\" argument - a term coined to describe Africa's rapid economic expansion since 2000 - and have shifted the dominant view of a region widely dependant on international aid to one that is engaged in global trade and commerce. However, despite these developments, progress in Sub-Saharan Africa is still patchy and dispersed. Weak structural reforms, corruption and inadequate infrastructure continue to overshadow progression. Low economic growth in 2016 and 2017, largely owing to sluggish external demand and a slowdown in the Chinese economy, has slowed the region's growth prospects for the medium term. Such reduced levels of growth will undoubtedly add to the pressure already felt by national governments in their capacity to cope with job creation and urban development, alongside bigger issues such as climate change and social unrest.\nMeanwhile, Africa's population continues to grow. According to UN estimates, Africa's share of the global population is projected to increase from roughly 17% in 2017 to approximately 26% in 2050. The population of Nigeria alone is projected to exceed that of the US by 2050, at which point it would become the third largest country in the world. Importantly, the size of Africa's future population will be crucial to the size and distribution of the entire global population. With this in mind, it is necessary to consider Africa's current role in global affairs and in particular its representation within international organisations such as the World Bank, IMF, the UN Security Council and international forums such as the G-20. At present the region's ability to play an active role in determining its future on the global stage is curbed by its lack of representation and voice in such organisations. This is despite the fact that a common aim of these organisations is to stimulate sustainable development within the region.\nIs change possible?\nHistorically, the creation of the World Bank and IMF stemmed from the dominance of the US in world affairs after the second world war. And similarly to those early years, present-day representation in these organisations and others consists mainly of the US and other developed nations. At the IMF, the Executive Board is composed of 24 directors, of which only two represent a total of 46 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This compares with countries such as Germany, France, the UK and US that hold one executive director position each. Although the size of a country's economy comes into consideration, the number of countries in both Sub-Saharan African groups contrasts notably with others on the Board. At the World Bank three executive directors represent member countries from the region and within the confines of the G-20 the African Union simply holds an observer status.\nHowever the relationship between the region and the West is beginning to change. The growing presence of China in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with numerous African governments is changing the level of dependence and support that these governments expect and need from the West. For example, China's Belt and Road Initiative, the country's diplomatic trade strategy, has stimulated large scale investment and job creation in the region. A report published in May 2017 by a global consultancy, EY, stated that levels of China-sourced FDI into Africa increased significantly in 2016 with a 106% increase in projects \u2013 making China the third largest investor in the region. Although Sub-Saharan Africa continues to receive a large amount of development aid and investment from Western governments and the likes of the IMF, China's growing influence in the region offers an alternative. According to Niall Duggan, director of the MSc International Public Policy and Diplomacy Department of Government at University College Cork, Ireland: \"Increasingly, China has become a voice for the developing world and has pushed for reforming current bodies of global governance, as well as the creation of new institutions that will allow the developing world to have a greater say in global governance.\" However, he cautions against viewing the nature of Chinese involvement as purely benign. Any major changes to the current global governance system from Chinese led initiatives will likely raise questions as to whether these shifts will \"truly give a voice to the developing world or will it simply create a Sinocentric system of global governance akin to the current US centric system.\"\nDoing it for themselves\nHowever, regardless of the influence of external players, Sub-Saharan Africa is making progress in playing a more proactive role in areas such as regional security and in the battle against climate change. One example of progress in regional security is the recent approval of the G5 Sahel Joint Force that comprises of troops from Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. The Force is charged with the task of fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and human trafficking in the Sahel region. With regards to climate change the establishment of the Conference of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change by the African Union has bolstered the region's ability to take a lead on climate change internationally. Such initiatives will undoubtedly support the region's case for greater representation on the global stage and the need for wider recognition for the role it can play, however shifts in global governance are likely to play out slowly over the coming years.\nThe views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited (EIU) or any other member of The Economist Group. The Economist Group (including the EIU) cannot accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by any person on this article or any of the information, opinions or conclusions set out in the article.\nThe Hinrich Foundation Sustainable Trade Index 2018\nThe Global Illicit Trade Environment Index 2018\nBreaking Barriers: Agricultural trade between GCC and Latin America\nEdel is a deputy editor for The Economist Intelligence Unit's Thought Leadership division in EMEA. She works on bespoke research and thought leadership programmes in the areas of finance, healthcare and sustainability. From 2013 to October 2015 she worked as editorial coordinator supporting the EIU's Country Analysis, Custom Research and Global Forecasting teams. Additionally, she works as a freelance political and economics contributor covering politics, economics and industry trends in Africa. She holds an International BA in English and French, and Masters in Media and International Conflict.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome to the TGS Universe\nCANIS FELIDAE FELIS HYAENIDAE LACERTILIA VULPES\nAVRALIAN FLEET AVRALIAN RECON OPS SPEC OPS SHEZUE GUARD SHEZUE POLICE STANDARK FLEET\nEXCLIO FLORJA GALORA NOXAS SHEZUE\nThe Shezue System Genesis Wars Genesis\nGenesis Wars\nDuring the first years of creation, Horus ruled the living plane, Osiris was given the Underworld, and Anubis, the oldest brother, was to guard the gate in between.\nThrough Osiris' corrupt nature, greed, and jealousy, he assassinated his younger brother Horus out of spite so he could take over the living world. However, Anubis stopped him, and in his rage, casted Osiris back to the Underworld along with his army through a long campaign that lasted many, many years. When the first war was over, Anubis took over Horus' role, and his own, accepting responsibility for not being able to save his younger brother, Horus. In his mourning and greiving, Anubis became corrupt and lost his way, and became evil, and more powerful.\nAfter hundreds of years, Osiris had been secretly building another army, and once again, attempted to overthrow the throne to the living plane. However, just like the first time, Anubis retaliated, and they were met at a stalemate.\nAnubis' general, and daughter, Setko, was persuaded and convinced by Osiris to flee the war and escape her father's reign in hopes he could trick her into giving him her powers, her abilities being much like Anubis', and she fled before the last battle of the second Genesis War. Because of her sudden escape from her father's grasp, Anubis' army was crippled, and Osiris found his advantage. However, after a long and terrible last battle, neither could claim victory, and both brothers lost more than before. In anger, Anubis sent out several of his finest hunters after his daughter for treason. But because she used her ability to travel through time, killing her in the process, she had fled far into the future by thousands of years. Because of this, only few of Anubis' hunters remain to find her.\nAfter Anubis sent out his hunters after his daughter, Osiris too set out a few of his beest soldiers to find her as well to take her powers so Osiris could have the upper hand, and once again, attempt to overthrow the living plane. But because of her time travel, only a few of his soldiers remain.\nBoth of the gods accepted defeat, and both went dormant for many, many years. Because of this, the timeline was corrupted, and many wars have been waged since then. Chaos ensued, which is exactly what Ra, the creator and father, was afraid of.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Interesting facts about surrealism\nSurrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II.\nSurrealists, inspired by Sigmund Freud's theories of dreams and the unconscious\u2014believed insanity was the breaking of the chains of logic, and they represented this idea in their art by creating imagery that was impossible in reality, juxtaposing unlikely forms onto unimaginable landscapes.\nThough it waned as an organized movement, Surrealism has never disappeared as a creative artistic principle.\nSurrealism has been and continues to be one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century. Its worldwide impact has taken force in multiple spheres of life, ranging from art and literature, to philosophy, politics and social theory. Surrealism has also played an integral role in the growth of the feminist art movement.\nSurrealist imagery is probably the most recognizable element of the movement, yet it is also the most elusive to categorize and define. Each artist relied on their own recurring motifs arisen through their dreams or\/and unconscious mind. At its basic, the imagery is outlandish, perplexing, and even uncanny, as it is meant to jolt the viewer out of their comforting assumptions. Nature, however, is the most frequent imagery: Max Ernst was obsessed with birds and had a bird alter ego, Salvador Dal\u00ed's\nworks often include ants or eggs, and Joan Mir\u00f3 relied strongly on vague biomorphic imagery.\nThe word 'surrealism' was first coined in March 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire. He wrote in a letter to Paul Derm\u00e9e: \"All things considered, I think in fact it is better to adopt surrealism than supernaturalism, which I first used\".\nSurrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason \u2013 but Surrealism's emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.\nSurrealism was a movement that began in Paris in the 1920s. It was created in direct response to the horrors of the First World War and to the relatively restrictive conventions of the art world at the time. The point of Surrealism was to bridge the conscious and unconscious mind, to liberate the subconscious, and to get at the heart of what art could truly be when it\nwas not constrained by convention.\nThe movement in the mid-1920s was characterized by meetings in cafes where the Surrealists played collaborative drawing games, discussed the theories of Surrealism, and developed a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing. Breton initially doubted that visual arts could even be useful in the Surrealist movement since they appeared to be less malleable and open to chance and automatism. This caution was overcome by the discovery of such techniques as frottage, grattage and decalcomania.\nSoon more visual artists became involved, including Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Mir\u00f3, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dal\u00ed, Luis Bu\u00f1uel, Alberto Giacometti, Valentine Hugo, M\u00e9ret Oppenheim, Toyen, Kansuke Yamamoto and later after the second war: Enrico Donati. Though Breton admired Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp and courted them to join the movement, they remained peripheral. More writers also joined, including former Dadaist Tristan Tzara, Ren\u00e9 Char, and Georges Sadoul.\nEarly followers of the Surrealism movement were revolutionaries who sought to unleash human creativity. Breton opened a Bureau for Surrealist Research where members conducted interviews and assembled an archive of sociological studies and dream images.\nSurrealism quickly spread from Paris to its surrounding European countries during the late 1920s to early 30s. The International Surrealist Exhibition held in London in 1936 was a defining moment for the movement in Britain, as it brought attention to now prominent surrealist artists, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore.\nBy the 1940s, Surrealism had spread to the United States. As the Second World War caused many to flee Europe, various surrealists who emigrated to America disseminated their ideas and theories to intellectuals and artists there. Joseph Cornell, Man Ray, and Dorothea Tanning were some of the key Surrealist artists who helped propel the avant garde movement in America.\nBorn in Strasbourg, Jean Arp (1886\u20131966) was a Dada pioneer who wrote poetry and experimented with a variety of visual mediums such as torn paper and wooden relief constructions. His interest in organic forms and spontaneous expression aligned with surrealist philosophy. Arp exhibited with Surrealist artists in Paris and became best known for fluid, biomorphic sculptures such as \"T\u00eate et coquille\" (Head and Shell). During the 1930s, Arp transitioned to a non-prescriptive style he called Abstraction-Cr\u00e9ation.\nSpanish Catalan artist Salvador Dal\u00ed (1904\u20131989) was embraced by the Surrealism movement in the late 1920s only to be expelled in 1934. Nevertheless, Dal\u00ed acquired international fame as an innovator who embodied the spirit of Surrealism, both in his art and in his flamboyant and irreverent behavior. Dal\u00ed conducted widely-publicized dream experiments in which he reclined in bed or in a bathtub while sketching his visions. He claimed that the melting watches in his famous painting, \"The Persistence of Memory,\" came from self-induced hallucinations.\nTags: Art, Facts, Fun, Interesting, Surrealism\nInteresting facts about the Terracotta Warriors\nInteresting facts about Girl with a Pearl Earring\nInteresting facts about The Persistence of Memory\nInteresting facts about the Pieta\nInteresting facts about mosaics\nInteresting facts about Christ the Redeemer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"5 Successful Writers Who Received Rejection Letters #BadAssWriterShit\nBy: Alexandra Evans\nhttps:\/\/screencraft.org\/2014\/03\/19\/5-successful-writers-received-rejection-letters\/\nEven the best of the best start from humble beginnings and fail along their journey to stardom. Here are five writers who once received rejection letters, proving we should never let rejection stop us from achieving our goals.\n1. Tim Burton \u2013 Tim Burton is famous for cinematic masterpieces such as \"Edward Scissorhands,\" \"Beetlejuice\" and \"The Nightmare before Christmas.\" The talented producer, artist and director may be well known now for his creative, unique taste, but it wasn't always this way. In fact, the very company that ended up awarding him a fellowship and giving him freedom to pursue his own projects once rejected Burton. A Disney editor, T. Jeanette Kroger, wrote Burton a letter rejecting first children's book, \"The Giant Zlig.\" The editor wrote, \"It may, however, be too derivative of the Seuss works to be marketable \u2013 I just don't know. But I definitely enjoyed reading it.\" A few years later, after honing his skills, he was hired as an animator's apprentice at Disney.\n2. J.K. Rowling \u2013 The famous author was once a struggling writer. She submitted her first Harry Potter novel, \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,\" to twelve publishing houses and was rejected each time until a small publisher in London named Bloomsbury took a chance on the book. After that, the story became so popular that Rowling continued writing the story into several more novels that sparked a film franchise and Harry Potter-themed video games. Rowling has said that \"Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer \u2013 which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer \u2013 maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.\"\n3. Kurt Vonnegut \u2013 In his youth, the famous \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" writer mailed three samples of his work to \"The Atlantic\" and received a rejection letter in 1949 from the editor, Edward Weeks. The editor wrote, \"I am sincerely sorry that no one of them seems to us well adapted to for our purpose. Both the account of the bombing of Dresden and your article, \"What's a Fair Price for Golden Eggs?\" have drawn commendation although neither one is quite compelling enough for final acceptance. Our staff continues fully manned so I cannot hold out the hope of an editorial assignment, but I shall be glad to know that you have found a promising opening elsewhere.\" This famous letter now hangs in the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis.\n4. Sylvia Plath \u2013 Pulitzer-prize winning poet, Sylvia Plath, once had to drastically cut her work for publishers. In a semi-rejection letter to Plath, the New Yorker requested the entire first half of \"Amnesiac\" to be cut. Plath published her first poem at age eight and had published many more by the time she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950. While being a student, she suffered a breakdown that landed her in a mental hospital, and her deep depression unfortunately led her to commit suicide in February 1963, only two weeks after the publication of her autobiographical novel, \"The Bell Jar.\" Since her death, Plath has become a heroine and martyr of the feminist movement. \"I love my rejection slips. They show me I try,\" she once said.\n5. Edgar Rice Burroughs \u2013 In 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs sent his manuscript to The All-Story Magazine for serialization and was initially rejected. The Rand McNally & Company wrote, \"We are returning under separate cover The All-Story magazine (Oct 1912) containing your story, \"Tarzan of the Apes.\" We have given the work careful consideration and while interesting we find it does not fit in with our plans for the present year. Thanking you for submitting the story to us.\" Instead of accepting defeat, Burroughs persisted with the same story and in October the publisher agreed to print the first installment. After that, the author went on to reach fame with \"Tarzan of the Apes\", which has spawned 25 sequels and countless reproductions. A film of the same name is currently in pre-production and set for release in 2016.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"India and Vietnam trade reached US$15 billion in 2022\nVietnam Customs data for the year 2022 reveals that the total merchandize trade between India and Vietnam crossed USD 15 billion registering a growth of 13.92% over last year. India's exports to Vietnam amounted to USD 7.08 billion while exports by Vietnam to India stood at USD 7.96 billion. India became the 8th largest trading partner of Vietnam, the 8th largest exporter to Vietnam and 10th largest importer from Vietnam.\n2. Major export commodities from India were iron and steel, machinery and equipment, ordinary metals, gems and jewellery, seafood, animal feed ingredients, auto-components, pharmaceutical, chemicals, maize, cotton of all kinds and other agricultural commodities. From Vietnam, mobile phones and accessories, computers and electronic hardware, machinery and equipment, ordinary metals, chemicals, footwear, garments and textile materials, rubber and plastic resin, products of steels were key exports to India in 2022.\n3. Agro-commodities with an export value of USD1.3 billion, electric machinery and equipment with USD 549 million, ordinary metals and products with USD 515 million, gems and jewellery with USD400 million, auto-components with USD 365 million, chemicals with USD307 million, pharmaceuticals with USD300 million registered positive growth of export from India to Vietnam. Some commodities such as iron and steel, maize, cotton of all kinds, yarns, pesticides and paper of all kinds declined in their export value to Vietnam in 2022.\n4. Bilateral trade between India and Vietnam has been gradually growing in the last few years and both countries agreed to explore substantive and practical measures to achieve the trade target of USD15 billion at the earliest. The total merchandize trade between India and Vietnam was USD 10.68 billion in 2018 and US$ 11.21 billion in 2019. The total trade declined to USD 9.67 billion in 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak and consequent global disruptions. The bilateral merchandize trade gained momentum and reached USD 13.21 billion in 2021.\n6. Vietnam's total merchandize trade for the year amounted to USD 730 billion with 23% growth over the year 2021 with a surplus of USD 12.4 billion for Vietnam. Vietnam's exports stood at USD 372 billion while it's imports were valued at USD 359 billion.\n7. The year 2022 also witnessed increase in exchanges of business delegations, business to business interactions, easing travel through direct flights, organization and facilitation of participation of companies at each other's trade fairs, exhibitions which contributed to the growth in bilateral trade between the two countries.\nHanoi.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dr. Joshua Lingel\nJoshua Lingel is the President and visionary leader of i2 Ministries. Currently, he is responsible for leading training in Muslim Ministry and Islamic Studies for a network of over 20,000 churches in Asia, Africa and South America. The goal of i2 is to provide each church and Christian the accessibility to all the training they need to finish the Great Commission among Muslims from voices of global Christianity.\nJoshua Lingel was called into Muslim Ministry at age 18 when God spoke to him to study everything he could about Islam and since then train up the global church to target the Muslims in one generation. He has been involved in Muslim evangelism since 1991. Lingel attended six universities in Islamic Studies, including University of Washington, University of London, Harvard and Talbot School of Theology, in Muslim Ministry and Christian Theology, teaching at Biola University & Talbot School of Theology undergrad & graduate students in Christian Apologetics to Islam since 1999.\nFrom 2003-2009 Joshua Lingel was co-founder and director of strategic projects with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM),\nHe is married to Jussara Robert Lingel and together they lead i2 Ministries.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The New Warriors Ground: A Tour of the Chase Center in San Francisco\nThe new 18,064-seat arena is the city's largest indoor venue, bringing commerce, life and traffic to the growing Mission Bay neighborhood\nPublished October 24, 2019 \u2022 Updated on March 13, 2020 at 7:36 pm\nThe Chase Center is the new home of the Golden State Warriors, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood\nThe arena will host concerts and other non-baseketball events throughout the year\nRestaurants and stores will surround the Chase Center's front plaza, where an 85-foot LED screen will show movies and sporting events\nIt's a new season in a new home for the Golden State Warriors, moving across the Bay to the 18,064-seat Chase Center \u2014 a venue whose designers say they wanted to build a better fan experience from the ground up.\nWith test patterns displayed on all of its massive walls of LEDs \u2014 including the largest center-hung scoreboard in the NBA \u2014 the Chase Center smelled more of new carpet and upholstery than the beer and burger aromas more often associated with live sports. Touring the building as workers put the finishing touches on its many bars and clubs, Warriors Senior Vice President John Beaven, who oversees ticket sales, explained some of the design decisions that went into what's now San Francisco's largest indoor entertainment venue.\nThe Plaza & Lobby\nWarriors 5 hours ago\nWarriors Observations: Klay Thompson Scores 13 in Blowout Loss to Timberwolves\n49ers 7 hours ago\n\"This entire district will slowly come to life over the course of the first year,\" Beaven explained, strolling across the sunny plaza that leads to the Chase Center's west entrance. The arena is flanked by glass buildings where stores and restaurants are slated to open during the course of the basketball season. To the left of the main entrance, a 10,000-square-foot Warriors team store will be open 365 days a year.\nTowering above the plaza's realistic artificial turf, an 85-foot LED wall will show movies and playoff games to the public as they pass by or gather on amphitheater-style seats. The colossal, gently curved Samsung display is a familiar sight to those who've traveled to Las Vegas or New York, but it's the first outdoor LED wall of any kind in San Francisco.\nThe Chase Center's lobby is built to feel spacious, with a wide-open box office that resembles an airline ticket counter. Designers wanted a \"high-end hotel concierge\" feel, rather than a fortress of bulletproof glass.\nInside the lobby, where sunlight streams in through windows three stories tall, art hangs from the ceiling and walls, and a box office that resembles an airline ticket counter replaces the usual windows of bulletproof glass.\n\"We really wanted to take the approach of a high-end hotel concierge type feel, where you feel welcome,\" Beaven said. \"It sets the tone.\"\nThe Budweiser Legends Club\nThe Warriors boast that the Chase Center has a bar or club to accommodate every fan in the building \u2014 and some of those spots come with a view of the court. One such club is the Budweiser Legends Club, which looks out into the arena bowl from the top of the lower level.\n\"Fans in this space will actually be able to grab a drink, and they can just hang out here, or they can go back to their seats,\" Beaven said.\nThe arena bowl at the Chase Center is surrounded by bars, clubs and eateries with a view of the action. The Budweiser Legends Club features a full bar and table seating, so fans can grab a drink without missing a thing.\nThough it's not right on the floor, the club somehow feels close to the action \u2014 a feature Beaven attributes to careful design of the Chase Center's sight lines.\n\"We really wanted that intimate feel,\" Beaven said. \"So this building is not configured to be an NHL building, because that would impact your basketball sight lines.\"\nBringing seats closer to the court than they could be if the Warriors left room for a professional hockey rink, Beaven said the building will also be great for concerts \u2014 once the massive LED scoreboard retracts into the rafters.\n\"It's the largest center-hung (scoreboard) in the NBA,\" Beaven said proudly of the glowing behemoth that comprises 9,699 square feet of LEDs \u2014 a square footage nearly equal to that of the Warriors team store.\n\"There'll be opportunities to run highlights, we'll do some unique things when players are checking in and out of the game,\" he said.\nBeaven said multimedia will be an integral part of the Chase Center fan experience, and the scoreboard will be at the center of that.\nThough Oracle's name is no longer on the Warriors' building, it did retain naming rights to the Oracle Suite Level \u2014 a ring of luxury boxes twice the size of those at the team's former venue in Oakland. Beaven said the suites, leased out on an annual basis, are aimed squarely at corporations.\n\"The great thing with live sports is it's one of the last opportunities to really pull people together and enjoy in real time,\" Beaven said. \"So it is a tremendous business tool.\"\nThe Chase Center's luxury suites are twice the size of those in Oracle Arena. The Warriors designed the suites as a business tool for corporations looking to bring clients and partners together around live sports.\nThe suites each feature 12 plush leather seats on a balcony that's cantilevered out over the lower level \u2014 a move designed to bring suite guests closer to the action than the luxury boxes at Oracle Arena. From Golden State Warriors logo embossed on the headrests to the basketball-textured leather covers on the food and drink menus, attention to detail is the name of the game when it comes to the Warriors' highest-paying customers.\nThe seats in the Chase Center's luxury suites are cantilevered out over the lower level, bringing them closer to the court. Giving the venue an intimate feel was a key factor in architectural decisions like this one.\nThe Upper Level\nThere's nothing made to feel cheap about the \"cheap seats\" at the Chase Center. Never mind the parade of San Francisco eateries like Nate's BBQ and Tony G's Pizza that have booths along the extra-wide concourse \u2014 the view is enough to make a trip up to the top deck worthwhile.\n\"We've got a direct line of sight to the Bay,\" Beaven said, gesturing across the water to the Bay Bridge and the Port of Oakland in the distance. \"I think this is gonna be something where fans just come and congregate.\"\nThe Chase Center's wide concourses offer sweeping views of the city and the Bay. Here on the upper level, grab a hot dog while gazing across the water to the Port of Oakland. Below, the silver \"Seeing Spheres\" sculpture is quickly becoming an Instagram magnet.\nAlong with a self-serve soda machine that pours soft drinks into eco-friendly reusable cups, the upstairs concourse provides a view of the Chase Center's new Seeing Spheres sculpture \u2014 a cluster of giant silver orbs with mirrored surfaces that allow visitors to step inside an infinite reflection \u2014 and take selfies there.\nThe Modelo Cantina\nThough the Chase Center's designers strove to give every seat a great view, there's one spot where the view isn't the main attraction. Way up in the rafters, the Modelo Cantina may have the farthest seats from the court, but it might just come with the best perks.\n\"Any fan in the building will have access to this space,\" Beaven said, although the Cantina also has its own ticketed seating section.\nWay up in the nosebleeds, the Modelo Cantina serves a buffet dinner and a complement of cocktails to any fan with a ticket. From here, you can see the gantry where touring concerts will hang lighting and sound equipment. The scoreboard disappears into the ceiling when not in use.\nThe Modelo Cantina serves a dinner buffet and a full cocktail bar, with seating at long tables facing the court. It will be open during basketball games, and for some concerts that are held in-the-round.\nPeering down into the arena bowl from the edge of the Cantina's semicircular balcony, Beaven said with a smile, \"We're pretty confident, based on early reaction, that our fans are gonna love this place.\"\nSan FranciscoOaklandNew YorkfoodInstagram","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Working with government\nInsecure Areas\nCommunity teachers\nGovernment teachers\nEdoBEST\nDevelopment ecosystem\nAdvantages of Guides\nAre you in the 86%?\nAround the world, Book Lovers' Day will be an opportunity for bibliophiles everywhere to rejoice! However, we should spare a thought for the worrying number of children who don't have access to the most basic levels of education, enabling them to participate.\nThe origins of Book Lovers' Day are entirely unknown, however according to Google Trends, searches for 'National Book Lovers Day' began to appear in August 2007, and prior to that, searches for simply 'Book Lovers Day' showed up in November 2004.\nThe United Nations also holds an annual celebration of reading known as World Book and Copyright Day on the 23 April, as well as the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) who host International Children's Book Day every 2 April.\nWith so many annual international events celebrating authors, publishers and readers, this really puts into perspective how essential it is to achieve full literacy around the world.\nHowever, despite working towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (specifically 4.6: achieve literacy and numeracy), a recent UNESCO report on global literacy predicted 30% of adults and 20% of young adults will still be illiterate in low and middle-income countries in the year 2030. We are on track to fail.\nDigging in to the statistics, we can see geographic and gender disparities in levels of literacy. According to a BBC investigatory report in 2017, in Liberia alone, almost two-thirds of primary-age female pupils are not in education at all.\nAcross the globe, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest education exclusion rate of any region. A report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics tells us that, not only are 21% of primary school age pupils incapable of accessing education, 23% of girls are denied education, in comparison to 'only' 19% of boys.\nIt's Time To Talk About Illiteracy\nIf you're reading this, you're one of the 86% of people on the planet who are literate. The remaining 14% are illiterate, and in real terms this equals over one billion people. Literacy rates worldwide range from 100% in Cuba to 22% in Chad. Universally, we need to recognise and celebrate the progress being made, and where rates remain stubborn or are even going backwards (as in Syria) we need to prioritise the solution \u2014 education.\nInnovative responses abound, such as in Liberia where the Learning Links programme connects literate Liberian women with illiterate Liberian girls; a country where one-in-three girls will leave school due to pregnancy and only one-in-five women are literate. Learning Links trains literate women as tutors to illiterate out-of-school girls. One measure of success is the number of girls who return to school.\nLiteracy is a foundational pillar of basic education and as such, it's something that we place a lot of emphasise on in instructional design. It's only when children have grasped core skills such a literacy that they can hope to progress in other subjects. In a recent DFID study 80% of Bridge pupils performed above the sample average in literacy. This compares to 62% of pupils at low-cost private schools and 18% at public schools. In Kenya, an average of 30% and 31% of Bridge pupils passed the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), an examination which tests pupils' reading fluency as well as comprehension. This is in comparison to 16% and 24% of pupils in neighbouring schools.\nNot all children are so lucky. This Book Lovers' Day, spare a thought for those who can't read and the challenges that they face through life as a direct consequence of not being literate.\nHow important is literacy to education and development?\nLiteracy is so fundamental to learning that its importance cannot be overstated \u2014 it is the essential foundation of education. [...]\nA Love of Books Leads to Literacy and Learning\nReading is fundamental to opportunity, prosperity and even better health; it's an education bedrock. Yet, around the world, most children [...]\nMore from Bridge\nRead Reading to learn, after learning to read\nRead The trend of evidence shows the Bridge effect is real\nDiscover our Learning lab\nBridge Brochure","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Care Experienced Students\nStudent AssociationToggle subsection\nGlasgow Clyde College Student Association\nBSL Welcome message\nWhite Ribbon Scotland Status\n\"Not everyone commits violence but everyone has a role in helping prevent it\"\nGCCSA are delighted to say that we achieved White Ribbon Status and were formally presented with the award by White Ribbon Scotland at a small ceremony on Friday 10 December 2021. The College received the award in recognition of the work that it has done, led by GCCSA, to campaign and raise awareness of all forms of gender-based violence. Click here to read the relevant news article\nPresenting the award, Davy Thompson, Campaign Director White Ribbon Scotland said, \"Three student teams in a row building on the work of each other to produce a series of events which together have delivered a sustained commitment to addressing violence against women by engaging men in the conversation. Delivering with the support of the College senior management team and staff and reaching out to the student body and beyond. An effort deserving of the award of White Ribbon Status. The initial Project stage complete, Glasgow Clyde College now moves forward with a sustainable GCCSA Led White Ribbon Campaign. Congratulations on your award and thank you for all your hard work.\"\nThe work hasn't finished now that White Ribbon Status has been achieved, and the team are committed to a range of activities going forward to ensure that the College is a safe community for staff and students. You can show support and sign the White Ribbon Pledge here, make sure that you attach it to Glasgow Clyde College so that you can also support our status campaign.\nYou can find out more or email GCCSA@glasgowclyde.ac.uk with any thoughts or ideas.\nWe are very proud that our Glasgow Clyde College principal Mr Jon Vincent is a White Ribbon Ambassador and will work closely with both GCCSA and White Ribbon Scotland.\nWhite Ribbon Pledge; \"I pledge never to commit, condone or remain silent about men's violence against women in all of its forms\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pink Shirt 2021\nBullying: a significant predictor of poor mental health\nFriday 21st of May, 2021 is Pink Shirt Day. A day to recognise the impact of bullying and to help empower people to speak up against bullying. Bullying is a deliberate act with the intention to cause harm to another. Whilst bullying can be a one-off act, it often involves repetitive acts of harm towards another person. Bullying significantly impacts wellbeing and can increase the risk of suicide through the bullied individual feeling disconnected, ostracised and worthless.\nOrganisationally, a culture of bullying has been associated with suicide [1-7] where being bullied triples the risk of suicide and doubles the risk of depression [4]. Conflict with peers or management has also been found to increase the risk of suicide [8], as does being supervised by someone whom the employee perceives to be bullying or abusive [9].\nAs employers or people who care for others (such as schools and helping agencies), we have a duty to intervene and stop bullying when we are aware that it is occurring. Organisations that successfully manage bullying have zero tolerance for bullying, have policies in place to manage bullying, and supports in place for victims. These strategies are often part of a wider wellbeing programme and are important to support employees and also the overall wellbeing of the organisation.\nSo what is your organisation doing for Pink Shirt Day (https:\/\/www.pinkshirtday.org.nz\/)? The first step might be celebrating Pink Shirt Day to start a conversation about bullying and to raise awareness. Why not run a Pink Shirt Day event? There are lots of resources at the Pink Shirt Day site. But what comes next? How are you supporting your organisation to be bully-free and what is your organisation doing to support staff wellbeing?\nIf you would like to talk more about how to better support your organisational wellbeing, give us a call or send us an email. We are always happy to help and ready to talk.\n1. Leach, L.S., C. Poyser, and P. Butterworth, Workplace bullying and the association with suicidal ideation\/thoughts and behaviour: a systematic review. Occupational and environmental medicine, 2017. 74(1): p. 72-79.\n2. Milner, A., et al., Psychosocial Working Conditions and Suicide Ideation: Evidence From a Cross-Sectional Survey of Working Australians. J Occup Environ Med, 2016. 58(6): p. 584-7.\n3. Nielsen, M.B., et al., Workplace Bullying and Suicidal Ideation: A 3-Wave Longitudinal Norwegian Study. Am J Public Health, 2015. 105(11): p. e23-8.\n4. Miller, P., et al., Bullying in Fly-In-Fly-Out employees in the Australian resources sector: A cross-sectional study. PLoS One, 2020. 15(3): p. e0229970.\n5. Yildirim, D., A. Yildirim, and A. Timucin, Mobbing behaviors encountered by nurse teaching staff. Nurs Ethics, 2007. 14(4): p. 447-63; discussion 463-5.\n6. Balducci, C., V. Alfano, and F. Fraccaroli, Relationships between mobbing at work and MMPI-2 personality profile, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and suicidal ideation and behavior. Violence Vict, 2009. 24(1): p. 52-67.\n7. Nielsen, M.B., et al., Does exposure to bullying behaviors at the workplace contribute to later suicidal ideation? A three-wave longitudinal study. Scand J Work Environ Health, 2016. 42(3): p. 246-50.\n8. Routley, V.H. and J.E. Ozanne-Smith, Work-related suicide in Victoria, Australia: a broad perspective. Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot, 2012. 19(2): p. 131-4.\n9. Liu, Y., et al., Abusive Supervision and Suicidal Ideation: The Potential Role of Meaning in Life. Deviant Behavior, 2020: p. 1-12.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"www.hairbandheaven.rocks\nRAVAGER RECORDS\nPromo World Videos\nLand Of Gypsies, featuring vocalist Terry Ilous (XYZ, ex-Great White) releases self titled album\nKISSIN' DYNAMITE Release New Single \"Yoko Ono\" + Official Music Video!\nGIANT releases new video \"Never Die Young\"\nU.D.O. Inks Deal With Atomic Fire Records; Announces Special Album Release For Spring 2022\nDIRTY HONEY'S BRAND NEW MUSIC VIDEO \"THE WIRE\"\nToxic Rose To Release Sophmore Album IN FOR THE KILL\nJOHN CORABI RELEASES BRAND NEW SINGLE \/ VIDEO\"COSI BELLA (SO BEAUTIFUL)\"\n'Raise Your Fists' from the forthcoming album by KK's Priest, 'Sermons of the Sinner'\nCircus Of Rock release debut album, \"Come One, Come All\"\n\"BROTHERS IN ARMS\" ARE SET TO RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM FEATURING MEMBERS OF SAVATAGE, DIAMOND HEAD,\nMichael Grant & The Assassins unleash new single \"Anthem Of Us\"\nWho's ready for another Michael Grant & The Assassins track? Please enjoy 'Anthem Of Us' from the upcoming debut album \"Always The Villain\" (July 10th). Turn this track from the former EndeverafteR and L.A. GUNS member up LOUD and let us know how you like it... Listen to the song on YouTube: Hear singles and pre-order\/save \"Always The Villain\" here: https:\/\/orcd.co\/alwaysvillain #MichaelGrantTheAssassins #LAGUNS\nL.A. GUNS feat. Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns release new single 'Let You Down'\nL.A. GUNS, featuring Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns, have released a new single, 'Let You Down'. The song was written and recorded this past month while the band is in the midst of work on their next studio album. The band was so struck by the song that they felt the need to release it immediately rather than sit on it for the next studio album. It may or may not appear on said album. Of the song, Phil Lewis says, \"This is our new single, 'Let You Down,' a deep haunting work and\nSteve Riley's L.A. GUNS release new single 'Crawl'\nIf there was a band synonymous with the infamous Sunset Strip it is L.A. GUNS. Born into a scene that will never be replicated, L.A. GUNS rode alongside Motley Crue, Guns n' Roses, Ratt, Poison, Quiet Riot and co. in one of the biggest movements in Music history. L.A. GUNS are without a doubt Hollywood Rock Royalty and their new album Renegades (produced by Steve Riley) will be released later this year. The band was formed in 1986 and signed with Polygram Records in 1987\nSteve Riley's version of L.A. GUNS to release new single 'Crawl' on April 20th\nL.A. GUNS to release new single 'Crawl' on 20th April on Golden Robot Records. Having recently signed to Golden Robot Records part of the Golden Robot Global Entertainment Group, the legendary L.A. Gunsare set to release their new single 'Crawl' on April 20th. 'Crawl' is now available for Pre-Order \/ Save. Pre-Order \/ pre-save 'Crawl': https:\/\/smarturl.it\/LAGuns-Crawl If there was a band synonymous with the infamous Sunset Strip it is L.A. GUNS. Born into a scene tha\nM3 ROCK FESTIVAL Rescheduled For September\nThe 2020 M3 Rock Festival, originally scheduled for May 1-3 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, is being rescheduled to Labor Day Weekend, September 4-6, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic that is spreading across the globe. All tickets will be honored on the new dates. Unfortunately, RATT and TYKETTO will no longer be able to perform, but the organizers are thrilled to announce the addition of WINGER to the lineup. \"We can't wait to rock with you this\nHair Band Heaven's Top 20 Albums of 2019\nAnother year of killer releases from some of the eighties biggest bands and a ton of great new releases from up and coming hard rock\/metal bands. There were some great albums released this year, making this one of the hardest years to narrow it down to the top 20. Check the bottom of the page for our honorable mentions. #20 - Freedom Call \"M.E.T.AL.\" Since their 1999 debut Stairway To Fairyland, the act from southern Germany has been synonymous with anthemic melodic metal, dr\nL.A. GUNS FEAT. PHIL LEWIS & TRACII GUNS RELEASE NEW EP\nJust in time for the holiday season and most importantly, Christmas carolling season, L.A. Guns have released a brand new digital EP, \"Another Xmas In Hell\". Featuring covers of holiday classics by The Damned, Ramones, Slade, and Billy Squier, these tracks will surely liven up your holiday festivities and provide a suitable soundtrack to guzzling down your spiked eggnog. Stream or download it on your preferred digital service HERE: https:\/\/orcd.co\/lagxmasep L.A. Guns, between\nSTEVE RILEY Announces His Version Of L.A. GUNS To Play At M3 ROCK FESTIVAL\nSteve Riley has recruited Orlando, Florida-based guitarist\/vocalist Kurt Frohlich to front his version of L.A. GUNS at next month's M3 Rock Festival. Frohlich's addition to the group was confirmed via a graphic posted on the Facebook page of Riley's L.A. GUNS. In addition to Frohlich and Riley, the L.A. GUNS lineup that will perform at M3 will include bassist Kelly Nickels (a member of L.A. GUNS' \"classic\" incarntion) and guitarist Scott Griffin(who played bass for the band f","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"6364 Library Rd | South Park, PA 15129 | Tel: 412-835-0616\nRaymond P. Doerr\nJanuary 21, 1925 ~ July 31, 2018 (age 93)\nRaymond P. Doerr, of Bethel Park, died on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, age 93, after a long, full life, in the comfort of his home surrounded by family. He served proudly in the Army Air Force in the South Pacific during WWII. Ray was a graduate of Duquesne University. He was preceded in death by infant daughter, Debbie, and a brother Howard. Ray is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Gloria (Davies-Mulholland) Doerr, two children, Julie (Todd Arenson) of Park City, UT and Jeff of Pittsburgh, two step-children, Edward (Beth) Mulholland and Jamie Mulholland-Slappo (Jerry), Pappy Ray to three much loved step-grandchildren Mia Mulholland and Lily and Hayden Slappo, also survived by sister, Loretta \"Susie\" Winstel (Bob) of Winter Haven, FL, and many nieces and nephews. If desired, contributions may be made to Allegheny Health Network Healthcare at Home, 500 Commonwealth Dr., 1st Floor, Warrendale, PA 15086. Family extends special thanks to Ray's caregivers at Allegheny Health Network for their excellent compassionate care of Ray during his final illness, especially Leslie Sullivan, R.N. and Kathy Motor, aide. Entombment Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies with Full Military Honors, 1158 Morgan Rd., Bridgeville, PA 15017. EVERYONE PLEASE MEET AT THE CEMETERY. Arrangements entrusted to David J. Henney Funeral Home, Library. Ray's suffering is over and he is free of pain. Rest in peace Ray Doerr. www.davidhenneyfuneralhome.com\nDavid Henney Funeral Home\n| 6364 Library Rd\n| South Park, PA 15129\n| henney5@hotmail.com\n\u00a9 2019 David Henney Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News: Three special leave grants, two on papers, one oral\nPosted on 23 March 2018 by Jeremy Gans\nThis morning, the High Court ended Eddie Obeid's formal challenge to his conviction for misconduct in public office, refusing the former MP special leave to appeal to the nation's apex court. He wasn't alone in being disappointed. There were just six matters listed for oral hearing today (compared to thirteen a month ago) and only one application was granted) compared to six a month ago. On the other hand, the Court had already granted special leave in two matters on the papers this Wednesday, albeit out of around fifty dealt with without a hearing.)\nThe three cases where the Court will hear appeals some time this year are: Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in News, Opinions\nClone Pty Ltd v Players Pty Ltd (in liq, recs and mgrs apptd)\nPosted on 22 March 2018 by Katy Barnett\nThe High Court unanimously allowed an appeal from a decision of the Full Court of the South Australian Supreme Court regarding the power of a court to set aside one of its own perfected judgments on the basis of misconduct falling short of fraud. It was held that for the equitable power to set aside a judgment required actual fraud by the party who succeeded at trial, and such fraud had not been adequately proven or pleaded in this case. However, it was not necessary for the party seeking to set aside the judgment to exercise reasonable diligence to discover the fraud. Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in Case Pages, Cases Heard, Opinions\nAlley v Gillespie\nThe High Court has answered questions in a stated case brought by a common informer challenge to the capacity of a member of the House of Representatives elected at the July 2016 federal election. Section 3 of the Common Informers (Parliamentary Disqualifications) Act 1975 (Cth) provides that any person who has sat in Parliament 'while he or she was a person declared by the Constitution to be incapable of so sitting' is liable to pay 'any person who sues for it in the High Court' a sum of money. The defendant was declared elected as a member of the House of Representatives on 20 July 2016. On 7 July 2017, the plaintiff commenced proceedings under the Common Informers Act, contending that the defendant was incapable of sitting as an MP because he holds shares in a company that leased premises to Australia Post, contrary to s 44(v) of the Constitution. After a query about whether the High Court has jurisdiction to decide the anterior question of the defendant's eligibility to sit as an MP, Bell J formulated the questions for the Full Court as follows:\n(1) Can and should the High Court decide [in this proceeding] whether the defendant was a person declared by the Constitution to be incapable of sitting as a Member of the House of Representatives for the purposes of section 3 of the [Common Informers Act]?\n(2) If the answer to question (1) is yes, is it the policy of the law that the High Court should not issue subpoenas in this proceeding directed to a forensic purpose of assisting the plaintiff in his attempt to demonstrate that the defendant was a person declared by the Constitution to be incapable of sitting as a Member of the House of Representatives for the purposes of section 3 of the Common Informers Act?\nThe Court unanimously answered Question 1 'no', and consequently it was not necessary to answer Question 2.\nThe joint judges (Kiefel CJ, Bell, Keane and Edelman JJ) held that whether the defendant is incapable of sitting as an MP is a question to be determined by the House of Representatives, unless it resolves to refer the matter to the Court of Disputed Returns. This answer to Question 1 is determined by ss 46 and 47, and their relation to s 44, of the Constitution. Section 46 Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in Case Pages, Opinions, Pending Cases\nRe Kakoschke-Moore\nThe High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, has decided a matter referred to it by the Senate over the eligibility of two South Australian senate nominees. Skye Kakoschke-Moore and Timothy Storer who were third and fourth in the Nick Xenophon Team order of senate candidates for the 2016 federal election. Following that election, on 4 August, Kakoschke-Moore was returned as a senator for South Australia. On 3 November 2017, NXT resolved to expel Storer from the party, and by 6 November he purported to resign from the party. On 22 November, Kakoschke-Moore resigned as a senator after receiving confirmation from the United Kingdom Home Office that she was a British citizen. The Senate then resolved on 27 November to refer to the High Court the question of whether, by reason of s 44(i) of the Constitution, which provides that any person who is a subject or citizen of a foreign power shall be incapable of being chosen as a senator, there was a vacancy in the Senate for the place for which Kakoschke-Moore was returned. On 30 November, Kakoschke-Moore submitted the form to renounce her UK citizenship, and received confirmation on 6 December from the Home Office that her renunciation was effective on that date.\nOn 24 January 2018, Nettle J declared that Kakoschke-Moore was incapable of being chosen or sitting by reason of s 44(i). Nettle J also reserved three further questions for the Full Court's determination, which the Court answered on 13 February (see order below), delivering its reasons on 21 March.\nThe Court unanimously held that the vacancy left by Kakoshcke-Moore should be filled by a special count of the votes cast on 2 July 2016; that Kakoschke-Moore's renunciation of her British citizenship in December 2017 does not render her capable of now being chosen to fill the vacancy; and that Storer should not be excluded from the special count.\nOn questions one and two, the Court rejected Kakoschke-Moore's contentions that the Court should declare her elected because she has now renounced her Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in Case Pages, Decided Cases, Opinions\nCraig v The Queen\nThe High Court has unanimously dismissed appeal against a decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal on a defendant's decision not to testify in the context of a domestic violence murder conviction. Although he told his solicitors that the killing was an accident that occurred after the victim attacked him, his defence at trial instead relied on his police interview that described the killing as a deliberate attack that occurred in the heat of the moment. The defendant's reasons for not testifying were evidenced in the following signed instructions he gave to his solicitor before the trial:\nI am not relying on self defence or provocation as defence for tactical or legal reasons. Firstly, I did not raise these defences in my interview to police and secondly it would require me to give further evidence if such defences were to be raised. I have already given my preliminary view that I do not wish to give evidence as I do not want to be cross-examined about my previous criminal history.\nOn appeal, the defendant's trial counsel explained that the advice was based on a number of contingencies that might arise during the defendant's testimony \u2013 imputations against the police or the victim, assertions of his good character or the substance of his defence that the killing was an accident \u2013 which might allow the introduction of his earlier conviction for a home invasion where a person was fatally stabbed, but admitted that he had not told the defendant that the trial judge would have to give leave for that to occur. The QCA held that the trial counsel's advice was incorrect, but dismissed the defendant's appeal because the decision not to testify was a sound, forensic decision where the wrong advice was merely 'an additional, but inaccurately expressed, reason'.\nA unanimous High Court consisting of all seven judges rejected the defendant's argument that he could not be held to a forensic decision that was informed by incorrect legal advice. Continue reading \u2192\nRe Lambie\nThe High Court, sitting as the Court of Dispute Returns, has answered a question referred to it by the Senate on eligibility of being chosen under s 44 of the Constitution. The reference originally concerned then-Senator Jacqui Lambie's eligibility under s 44(i), but following her resignation it focused on the eligibility of Steven Martin, another Senate candidate who, following a special count, was chosen to fill Lambie's vacancy. The matter then focused on s 44(iv), which provides that '[a]ny person who \u2026 holds any office of profit under the Crown \u2026 shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator'. Martin holds the office of mayor and councillor of Devonport City Council, a local government corporation established under the Local Government Act 1993 (Tas).\nOn 6 February 2018, the Court held that Martin was not incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator by reason of s 44(iv), and delivered its reasons for that answer on 14 March. The joint judges (Kiefel CJ, Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle and Gordon JJ) first emphasised the importance of s 45(i), which provides that if a senator becomes subject to any of the disabilities in s 44, that senator's place 'shall thereupon become vacant' (at [6]). The temporal relationship between ss 44 and 45 is the process of 'being chosen' in s 44 remains incomplete until a person not subject to a s 44 disability is validly returned as elected, whereas s 45 operates to vacate the place of a person validly returned who later becomes subject to a s 44 disability (see [7]). In this matter, there was no dispute that 'the Crown' refers to the executive government of a State, and no dispute that the offices of mayor and councillor in Tasmania are each an 'office of profit' (at [9]). The sole issue was whether those offices are 'under' the executive government of Tasmania (at [10]\u2013[12]).\nThe joint judges then turned to the pre-Federation history of s 44(iv), noting that nothing in that history suggests it had a technical meaning at Federation, and that nothing in the drafting history suggests there was any significance for that choice of words (at [17]). Consequently, the joint judges saw pre-Federation history as 'more enlightening as to the purpose of the disqualification', Continue reading \u2192\nPike v Tighe\nThe High Court has allowed an appeal against a decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal on whether a local council can enforce planning conditions that were agreed by a previous land owner when the land was subdivided. Section 245 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (Qld) provides that\n(1) A development approval (a) attaches to the land the subject of the application to which the approval relates; and (b) binds the owner, the owner's successors in title and any occupier of the land.\n(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) applies even if later development, including reconfiguring a lot, is approved for the land or the land as reconfigured\nIn 2009, the Townsville City Council approved a subdivision on the condition that the then-owner register an easement to allow pedestrian, vehicle and utilities access to the back-lot, which the owner never did. That decision was made under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (Qld), s 3.5.28 of which is substantially reproduced in s 245. When the subdivision was registered and both lots later sold, the Queensland Planning and Environment Court granted the new back-lot owner an 'enforcement order' to prevent the new front-lot owner from committing a 'development offence' by not registering the utilities easement. The QCA unanimously quashed the order on the basis that the Council's subdivision conditions did not attach to the land following the subdivision.\nThe High Court (Kiefel CJ, Bell, Keane, Gordon and Edelman JJ) unanimously allowed the appeal, holding that s 245 obliges a successor to title after a reconfiguartion to comply with the condition of the approval of that recondition even if it was not satisfied by the original owner, and that QPEC may make an enforcement order requiring the successor to fulfil that condition.\nAfter reviewing the facts (at [3]ff), the statutory provisions (at [8]ff), and the decisions of the lower courts (at [15]ff), and the submissions of the parties (at [28]ff), the Court ruled that the appellants' second submission \u2014 that even if the respondents were not a party to the development approval, that does not preclude an enforcement order from being made against them \u2014 Continue reading \u2192\nKalbasi v Western Australia\nThe High Court dismissed, by majority, an appeal against a decision of the Western Australian Court of Appeal on a conviction and sentencing for drug importation. The appellant was convicted for attempted possession of 5kg of methylamphetamine with intent to sell or supply them to another, after police intercepted the drug shipment in two tool cases, substituted salt for the drugs, and then surveilled a Perth man take the cases home and unpack them in front of the appellant. The trial judge directed:\nI'm now going to deal with the fourth element upon the jury aid, that the accused intended to sell or supply the prohibited drug or any part of it to another. Members of the jury, you can give that element a tick. It is not an issue for you in this trial.\nThe WASCA dismissed the appeal, holding that, although this direction was incorrect (as a statutory presumption of intent to sell or supply did not apply to the offence of attempted possession), the so-called 'proviso' to Western Australia's criminal appeal statute (that the Court 'may dismiss the appeal if it considers that no substantial miscarriage of justice has occurred') applied.\nThe High Court formed a bench of seven judges to address the meaning of its 2005 precedent on the 'proviso', Weiss v The Queen, which held:\nNo single universally applicable description of what constitutes \"no substantial miscarriage of justice\" can be given. But one negative proposition may safely be offered. It cannot be said that no substantial miscarriage of justice has actually occurred unless the appellate court is persuaded that the evidence properly admitted at trial proved, beyond reasonable doubt, the accused's guilt of the offence on which the jury returned its verdict of guilty.\nThe appellant argued that the WASCA's approach that regards the 'negative proposition' as determining the application of the proviso unless there was a 'fundamental' error of 'process' either 'misapplies the principles explained in Weiss or, if it does not, Weiss should be qualified or overruled.' The Court unanimously declined to overrule Weiss, but divided on whether the ruling was correctly applied in this case. Continue reading \u2192\nIrwin v The Queen\nThe High Court unanimously dismissed an appeal against a decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal on the defence of accident to a grievous bodily harm conviction. The appellant and his former business partner fell out over business dealings and an adultery claim, leading to a fight in a Gold Coast shopping mall. The jury convicted the appellant of grievous bodily harm for breaking the victim's hip after shoving him over, but acquitted him of another charge that he kicked the victim while he was on the ground. The defence of accident in s23 of Queensland's Crimninal Code states (emphasis added):\n(1) Subject to the express provisions of this Code relating to negligent acts and omissions, a person is not criminally responsible for\u2014\n(b) an event that\u2014 (i) the person does not intend or foresee as a possible consequence; and (ii) an ordinary person would not reasonably foresee as a possible consequence.\nExample: Parliament, in amending subsection (1) (b) by the Criminal Code and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2011 , did not intend to change the circumstances in which a person is criminally responsible.\n(1A) However, under subsection (1) (b), the person is not excused from criminal responsibility for death or grievous bodily harm that results to a victim because of a defect, weakness, or abnormality.\nThe QCA rejected the appellant's claim that the hip fracture fell within s23(1)(b) in the following terms (emphasis added):\nA jury may well have considered that an ordinary person in the position of the appellant could not have reasonably foreseen the complainant would in those circumstances suffer a fractured hip. That, it seems, was the trial judge's view. But that is not the test for this Court. It was equally open to the jury on the evidence to reach the contrary conclusion, that an ordinary person in the position of the appellant could have foreseen that the complainant might suffer a serious injury such as a fractured hip from such a forceful push. The resolution of the issue was a matter for the jury. They had the advantage of seeing the height and build of the 55 year old complainant and appellant. Assuming they were of average build and height, the appellant's push of the complainant, necessarily on the medical evidence forceful, on a slight downward sloped tiled ramp, could foreseeably result in the complainant falling badly and seriously injuring himself, even breaking his hip. Such a result was not theoretical or remote.\nAfter reviewing the whole of the evidence, I am satisfied that the jury verdict of guilty of grievous bodily harm was not unreasonable and against the weight of the evidence. It was open to the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the appellant's guilt. It follows that I would dismiss the appeal against conviction.\nThe High Court (Kiefel CJ, Bell, Gageler, Nettle & Gordon JJ) held (at [44]) that s23(1)(b)'s reference to 'would' 'involves a degree of probability, albeit that it need not be more likely than not, whereas' the QCA's referrence to 'could' 'is a matter more akin to mere possibility' and hence was 'prone to lead to error in the application of s 23(1)(b)(ii)' and 'the practice should not be repeated'.However, the Court noted (at [45]) that the trial judge directed the jury in the correct terms and 'there is no reason to doubt that the jury adhered to those directions, or cause to doubt the reasonableness of the verdict on that basis.'\nThe Court then turned to the particular reasoning of the QCA, Continue reading \u2192\nConstruction contractors beware \u2013 common clauses may now be unenforceable after Maxcon Constructions v Vadasz\nPosted on 1 March 2018 by Opinions on High\nBy Owen Hayford and Hannah Stewart-Weeks\nSenior Fellow in the Melbourne Law Masters and Partner, PwC Legal and Senior Associate, PwC Legal\nProbuild and Maxcon Case Page\nIf you're a construction lawyer or construction industry professional, by now you've probably heard about the recent High Court decision in Maxcon Constructions Pty Ltd v Vadasz [2018] HCA 5 ('Maxcon') (handed down at the same time as the decision in Probuild Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd v Shade Systems Pty Ltd [2018] HCA 4). Most commentators have focused on the judicial review issue which arose in both of those cases. However, the High Court in Maxcon also determined that a provision in a construction agreement which allowed a head contractor to withhold retention moneys under a subcontract until certain events had occurred under the head contract was a 'pay when paid' provision, and was therefore not legally enforceable under the security of payment (SOP) legislation. (See Kiefel CJ, Bell, Keane, Nettle and Gordon JJ at [16]\u2013[29]. Gageler J at [32] and Edelman J at [41] agreed with the conclusions of the plurality regarding the operation of the SOP legislation, but did not consider the issue determinative of the appeal).\nIn this instance, the relevant SOP legislation was the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 (SA) ('SA SOP Act'), but most other States apart from Western Australia and the Northern Territory have similar provisions to the SA SOP Act. Thus, the decision has potentially broad implications for head contractors, not only in relation to retention provisions, but also in relation to other provisions which attempt to make a payment under a subcontract contingent upon an event occurring under the head contract. Head contractors may need to review their subcontracts to ensure that they don't inadvertently contain 'pay when paid' provisions as a result of this decision. Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in Decided Cases, Features, Opinions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tweet Print\nAs the Bahamas reels from the death and destruction Hurricane Dorian caused, the news media continue to exaggerate a connection between hurricanes to climate change.\nClaims ranged from global warming making it \"bigger, wetter \u2014 and more deadly,\" to calling Dorian's stall a \"signal of climate change,\" to insisting climate change is \"worsening\" hurricanes (without proof). CNN, CNBC, The New York Times and other outlets, including agenda-driven publications like InsideClimate News and the left-wing Democracy Now! show all linked the latest hurricane to climate change.\nDemocratic socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also joined the fray calling Dorian \"what climate change looks like.\" CNN's Sept. 4, climate forum with Democratic presidential candidates was chock full of blaming climate change for the hurricane too.\nThe Guardian, which recently co-led an effort for more climate alarmism in the news with Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, published an op-ed from climate scientists Michael Mann and Andrew Dessler. Mann is famous (or perhaps infamous) for his \"hockey stick\" graph of global warming.\n\"Global heating made Hurricane Dorian bigger, wetter \u2014 and more deadly,\" the alarmist headline proclaimed. Mann and Dessler also warned climate change would turn more places into \"nightmarish hellscapes,\" before admitting \"the science has yet to come in\" on how much it worsened Dorian or if it did.\nIn a fevered pitch Mann and Dessler warned, \"the worst part is this is only the beginning. Because unless we confront the climate crisis, warming will turn more and more of our fantastic landscapes, cities we call paradise and other dream destinations into nightmarish hellscapes.\"\nOn Sept. 3, CNBC.com turned to Mann who claimed, \"Human-caused climate change is visibly intensifying hurricanes and increasing the damage they are doing.\" CNBC's headline claimed Dorian was \"a signal of climate change.\"\nMeanwhile Dessler showed up in a Sept. 3, New York Times story that sought to answer the question \"How has climate change affected Hurricane Dorian?\" Dessler claimed there was a \"very strong consensus\" about increased rainfall of these storms. The Times also included other alarmist scientists arguing there is a \"trend\" in stalled hurricanes and that Dorian was what \"we expect to see more often as a response to climate change.\"\nProfessor Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado called Dessler's claim out in a Forbes column as \"simply wrong.\"\n\"Instead of referencing the assessments of the WMO, NOAA or USNCA the Times instead relied on a climate scientist who does not research hurricanes and who apparently invented a fictional consensus on rainfall and hurricanes,\" Pielke wrote.\nThis was a serious charge, especially given that Pielke actually agrees that human-caused climate change is \"real and poses significant risks.\" He's also argued for decarbonization. However, he challenged the media to stop intentionally mixing up climate and weather for political reasons and criticized the selective inclusion scientists on the \"bullish fringe\" of consensus forecasts from government agencies.\nThe Spectator UK noted that NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory reviewed the research on global warming and hurricanes in August and said, \"it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human activity \u2013 and particularly greenhouse warming \u2013 has already caused a detectable change in Atlantic hurricane activity.\"\nWhile those outlets were talking to plenty of alarmist climate scientists, they were ignoring voices like Dr. Roy Spencer, a meteorologist and principal research scientists at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.\nSpencer told Fox News on Sept. 2, \"There's all kinds of statistics you can look at, Martha and the ones I look at are the long-term. Because that's climate. Climate is long-term. And since 1900 out of all of the major hurricanes that have hit Florida there has been no long-term trend in either the intensity or in the number of major hurricanes.\"\n\"Even if Dorian were to hit Florida as a Category 4, which it looks like now is not going to happen. There would still be no long-term trend,\" Spencer continued.\nWhen anchor Martha McCallum asked about the claim that sea surface temperatures Dorian moved through were warmer than normal, Spencer agreed the water has been warming. But still he challenged the assertions being made about it.\nSpencer concluded that, \"If you look at the data going back over a hundred years you really can't support increasing hurricane activity with the increasing sea surface temperatures we are seeing.\"\nHe also told her that \"The seven hurricanes since 1871, the seven hurricanes that went over the most unusually warm water for that time of year and then hit Florida \u2014 all of them occurred before 1950.\"\nEnvironment Global Warming Hurricanes CNBC CNN Forbes Magazine New York Times The Guardian Michael Mann\nJulia A. Seymour\nJulia A. Seymour was the Assistant Managing Editor for the MRC's Business and Media Institute.\nHypocritical 'News' Media Have Done a Complete Flip-Flop on Impeachment\nFLASHBACK: Today's Impeachment Cheerleaders Hated It Back in '98","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Michael Bassett\nFormer Minister of Local Government. Member of the Waitangi Tribunal 1994-2004. Michael Bassett was born in Auckland 1938, and educated at Owairaka School, Dilworth School and Mt Albert Grammar. He completed his BA (1958) and MA degrees in history at the University of Auckland before winning a James B. Duke Fellowship to Duke University in 1961. There he completed a PhD in American history before returning to lecture at the University of Auckland in 1964. He was Senior Lecturer in History when elected to the Auckland City Council in 1971 and to New Zealand's parliament in 1972. He was a backbench MP in the Labour governments of Prime Ministers Norman Kirk and Bill Rowling (1972-5), and then a senior opposition figure before becoming Minister of Health and Local Government (1984-7) in the Labour administration of Prime Minister David Lange. Between 1987 and 1990 he was Minister of Internal Affairs, Local Government, Civil Defence and Arts and Culture. He was Chairman of the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board and of the 1990 Commission that commemorated the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Since retiring from active politics in 1990 Dr Bassett has worked with the New Zealand Expo team in Seville (1991-2), been J.B. Smallman Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario (1992-3, 1994 and 1996), and taught courses at Auckland University Medical School (1997-2000). In 2002 he was Fulbright Professor of New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is the author of ten books on New Zealand History.\nThe Waitangi Industry\nBy Michael Bassett\nThere are few futuristic ideas that have lost their sheen as quickly as the notion that settlements of Maori grievances would improve New Zealand's race relations. Our ancestors were sceptical. There were inquiries into grievances in 1921 and 1927, and Prime Minister Peter Fraser told Maori in the 1940s that he would settle the eleven sets of identifiable grievance that Maori had against the Crown. Several \"full and final settlements\" were made between 1943 and 1947. But most of the money paid to Maori trust boards was wasted.\nInstead of learning from this experience, liberally-inclined politicians gradually convinced themselves that the complaints of those who had missed out on the 1940s settlements ought to be thoroughly investigated. Norman Kirk's Minister of Maori Affairs, Matiu Rata, was opposed; the Waitangi Tribunal erected in 1975 was to look at the Treaty of Waitangi and to ensure that its \"principles\" were applied to future public policy. No provision was made for delving into past history. Young, vocal Maori radicals protested. Eventually they convinced a later Labour deputy leader, Geoffrey Palmer, and a Maori Affairs spokesperson, Koro Wetere, to promise to introduce a mechanism for examining historical grievances. These had expanded in number since the first settlements. The Lange Labour government in which I was a minister was sceptical about whether the exercise would do anything useful for Maori, but in 1985 we allowed the Waitangi Tribunal to be expanded. As in 1975, no effort was made to determine what the so-called \"principles\" of the Treaty were that should guide the investigation process. In 1987 this omission enabled the Court of Appeal to produce a highly coloured version of what the Treaty meant, and before long several Maori radicals sought to drive a horse and cart through government policy. They succeeded, because neither Labour nor National has been prepared to define in legislation what the Treaty meant.\nBy the early 1990s the Waitangi Tribunal employed many people, and its appointed members gradually became advocates for Maori rather than independent assessors on the claims put before them. Money was given to Maori claimants to mount their cases. It came either from the Crown Forest Rental Trust (CFRT) or from Legal Aid funded by the taxpayer. Lawyers started helping themselves to the cash. By the time I joined the Tribunal in 1994 hearings were awash with lawyers, most on Legal Aid, with the claims before us being funded by the CFRT or the Tribunal's taxpayer funded resources. Virtually none of the costly process was paid for upfront by the claimants. They therefore had no incentive to be careful with taxpayers' money, or even with the Maori money that many were eventually to receive from the CFRT. Rorting the Tribunal process has become the name of the game. A whole industry numbering somewhere around 1,000 people gathered around new grievances that keep being dreamt up. Quite small family groups now call themselves tribes; personal disagreements with relatives get blown into major claims. And the taxpayer keeps paying up. A Maori minister in the present Labour government has talked about \"the next generation of grievances\" despite the fact that he and his colleagues have voted in Parliament for \"full and final\" settlements. The starry eyed optimism of 1985 has become a farce because of a lack of political willpower.\nNot surprisingly, the industry doesn't want the Tribunal process ever to end. After 23 years, no decision has yet been made to close off new historical claims. The major parties dither. Labour wants the party vote of Maori; National isn't sure they mightn't need the Maori Party's support after the coming election. Both major political parties know that what is happening is wrong, and that ordinary Maori in whose name the claims are made, aren't getting a cracker out of the money being spent on lawyers, researchers and Tribunal staff. The spinelessness that we have come to expect of politicians in an MMP environment assists the greedy, when it was the needy we set out to help in 1985.\nThe Waitangi Tribunal experiment, unfortunately, has been so badly handled that few \"full and final\" settlements have been made, and only Ngai Tahu. and of late, Tainui, seem to have handled their settlements efficiently. Despite receiving their report 15 years ago, Muriwhenua in the north faces a logjam caused mostly by infighting amongst groups of potential beneficiaries. The Waitangi process has seen few Maori leaders of stature emerge, and the problems bedeviling Maori society continue to expand exponentially. When politicians settled on land grievances as the cause of Maori problems they made a mistake. It would have made better sense to examine welfare and the huge damage it has done to Maori society. The Waitangi Tribunal should be scaled down. The industry is of no use to 99% of the people it's meant to serve.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keywords: cognitive ef... (3 Results)\nKeywords: cognitive efficiency x\nThe Evolution of Cognitive Representational Decision Making\nArmin W. Schulz\nin Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making\nThis chapter develops a new account of the evolution of cognitive representational decision making\u2014i.e. of decision making that relies on representations about the state of the world. The core idea ... More\nThis chapter develops a new account of the evolution of cognitive representational decision making\u2014i.e. of decision making that relies on representations about the state of the world. The core idea behind this account is that cognitive representational decision making can\u2014at times\u2014be more cognitively efficient than non-cognitive representational decision making. In particular, cognitive representational decision making, by being able to draw on the inferential resources of higher-level mental states, can enable organisms to adjust more easily to changes in their environment and to streamline their neural decision making machinery (relative to non-representational decision makers). While these cognitive efficiency gains will sometimes be outweighed by the costs of this way of making decisions\u2014i.e. the fact that representational decision making is generally slower and more concentration- and attention-hungry than non-representational decision making\u2014this will not always be the case. Moreover, it is possible to say in more detail which kinds of circumstances will favor the evolution of cognitive representational decision making, and which do not.Less\nThis chapter develops a new account of the evolution of cognitive representational decision making\u2014i.e. of decision making that relies on representations about the state of the world. The core idea behind this account is that cognitive representational decision making can\u2014at times\u2014be more cognitively efficient than non-cognitive representational decision making. In particular, cognitive representational decision making, by being able to draw on the inferential resources of higher-level mental states, can enable organisms to adjust more easily to changes in their environment and to streamline their neural decision making machinery (relative to non-representational decision makers). While these cognitive efficiency gains will sometimes be outweighed by the costs of this way of making decisions\u2014i.e. the fact that representational decision making is generally slower and more concentration- and attention-hungry than non-representational decision making\u2014this will not always be the case. Moreover, it is possible to say in more detail which kinds of circumstances will favor the evolution of cognitive representational decision making, and which do not.\nKeywords: cognitive efficiency, neural efficiency, pattern, inference, decision making speed, representational decision making, social intelligence hypothesis\nThe Evolution of Conative Representational Decision Making\nThis chapter defends a cognitive-efficiency-based account of the evolution of conative representational decision making. The core idea behind this account is that, similarly to cognitive ... More\nThis chapter defends a cognitive-efficiency-based account of the evolution of conative representational decision making. The core idea behind this account is that, similarly to cognitive representational decision makers, conative representational decision makers can, in some circumstances, adjust more easily to a changed environment and streamline their neural decision making machinery. However, as I also make clearer, the origins of these benefits are different here than in the case of cognitive representational decision making: they center on patterns in the way the organism reacts to the world, and not on patterns in the states of the world that the organism can react to. This has some important implications for the situations in which conative representational decision making is adaptive relative to when cognitive representational decision making is adaptive. The chapter ends by combining the picture laid out here with that laid out in the previous chapter to develop a clearer account of the relationship between the evolution of conative and the evolution of cognitive representational decision making.Less\nThis chapter defends a cognitive-efficiency-based account of the evolution of conative representational decision making. The core idea behind this account is that, similarly to cognitive representational decision makers, conative representational decision makers can, in some circumstances, adjust more easily to a changed environment and streamline their neural decision making machinery. However, as I also make clearer, the origins of these benefits are different here than in the case of cognitive representational decision making: they center on patterns in the way the organism reacts to the world, and not on patterns in the states of the world that the organism can react to. This has some important implications for the situations in which conative representational decision making is adaptive relative to when cognitive representational decision making is adaptive. The chapter ends by combining the picture laid out here with that laid out in the previous chapter to develop a clearer account of the relationship between the evolution of conative and the evolution of cognitive representational decision making.\nKeywords: cognitive efficiency, neural efficiency, goal, rules, rule-following, evolution of mental representation\nEfficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making\nIt is now widely accepted that many organisms (including humans) don't just react to the world using behavioral reflexes, but also, at times, decide what to do by relying on mental representations. ... More\nIt is now widely accepted that many organisms (including humans) don't just react to the world using behavioral reflexes, but also, at times, decide what to do by relying on mental representations. More specifically, the behavior of many organisms is not simply triggered by a perception of the state of their environment, but inferred using higher-level mental states downstream from their perceptual states. What is far less clear is why this is the case: what benefits does representational decision making bring to an organism, and what implications do these benefits have for the exact role that mental representations play in an organism's decision making machinery? In my book, I provide answers to these questions. Specifically, I defend a cognitive-efficiency-based account of the evolution of mental representations, according to which a key driver of the evolution of representational decision making is the fact that mental representations can enable an organism to save a number of cognitive resources and to adjust more easily to changed environments. I then apply this account to a number of open questions in different sciences, including: when should we expect cognition to essentially involve parts of the environment? When should we expect decision making to rely on simple, satisficing heuristics? When should we expect organisms to be altruistically motivated to help others? Along the way, I also respond to concerns about the plausibility of evolutionary psychological projects more generally.Less\nEfficient Cognition : The Evolution of Representational Decision Making\nIt is now widely accepted that many organisms (including humans) don't just react to the world using behavioral reflexes, but also, at times, decide what to do by relying on mental representations. More specifically, the behavior of many organisms is not simply triggered by a perception of the state of their environment, but inferred using higher-level mental states downstream from their perceptual states. What is far less clear is why this is the case: what benefits does representational decision making bring to an organism, and what implications do these benefits have for the exact role that mental representations play in an organism's decision making machinery? In my book, I provide answers to these questions. Specifically, I defend a cognitive-efficiency-based account of the evolution of mental representations, according to which a key driver of the evolution of representational decision making is the fact that mental representations can enable an organism to save a number of cognitive resources and to adjust more easily to changed environments. I then apply this account to a number of open questions in different sciences, including: when should we expect cognition to essentially involve parts of the environment? When should we expect decision making to rely on simple, satisficing heuristics? When should we expect organisms to be altruistically motivated to help others? Along the way, I also respond to concerns about the plausibility of evolutionary psychological projects more generally.\nKeywords: mental representation, evolutionary psychology, cognitive efficiency, decision making","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On Obedience and Dissent Within the Catholic Church (Part I)\n(In too many places, this is the unspoken assumption today)\nOne thing I find especially interesting within the Catholic Church is the tendency to emphasize the teachings, and speak against those teachings we point out\u2026 until we run afoul of those teachings we dislike or disagree with. Then of course, the Church is wrong and we consider ourselves to be justified in our dissent against the Church.\nOf course, in all cases, the dissenter never says, \"To hell with this, I just don't feel like obeying.\" Instead, they always justify their disobedience in some way. Let's look at some of these ways.\nJustification #1: \"The Church is Out of Touch With the Real World\"\nIf I had a dollar for every time I heard someone argue that the Church was \"out of touch\" with the real world or with the laity and therefore we didn't need to heed an unpopular teaching, I'd probably be doing something other than blogging right now. This is an argument which runs as follows:\nIf the Church understood the real world, they wouldn't make [teaching X]\nThe fact that they demand we follow [teaching X] shows they are out of touch with the real world\nAfter all\u2026 [Go to #1]\nThis is arguing in a circle of course. The Church is claimed to be out of touch because they teach such, and if they weren't out of touch, they wouldn't teach this. The argument assumes the teaching is \"out of touch\" and repeats the premise as a conclusion.\nHowever, \"If the Church understood the real world, they wouldn't make this teaching\" is something which needs to be proven. Remember that the \"real world\" is afflicted with sin. We might remember a little something that St. Paul mentioned:\n19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written: \"He catches the wise in their own ruses,\"\n20 and again: \"The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.\" (1 Corinthians 3:17)\nSo the question becomes, \"By whose standard is the Church out of touch? God's standard or Man's standard? According to the wisdom of the world, the cross of Christ is foolishness, while St. Paul tells us in Romans 12:2, \"Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.\"\nSo the question is, On whose authority do we claim the Church teaching is \"out of touch\"? If we claim it is out of touch with God's standard, we are justified in asking what authority one invokes to make that claim. If we claim it is out of touch with man's standard, then the question is, how is the preference of the sinful man a criterion for deciding right and wrong?\nJustification #2: \"The Church is being dominated by Liberals\/Conservatives who are trying to force their agenda\" (OR \"The Church is \"Pro-X or Anti-Y\")\nThis one is similar to the \"Out of touch\" justification. Such a person who makes this argument seeks to cling to the appearance of obedience to the true teaching of the Church, but this Pope or the bishop teaching in communion with him is obviously a sympathizer or trying to hijack the Church to their own agenda, right?\nSuch an argument is in effect the denial of the infallibility of the Magisterium and instead claims that the individual knows better what is the true good of the Church. It too is arguing in a circle:\nThe Church must be dominated by Liberals\/Conservatives because they teach [X]\nThey wouldn't teach [X] if they weren't dominated by Liberals\/Conservatives\nNow of course we have to distinguish between Church teaching, and the dissenting priest or other who does allow his teaching with a political viewpoint, but this is hardly a new thing. 400 years ago, there were accusations of the Church favoring France or Spain against the Holy Roman Empire, and indeed there were people within the Church who did indeed put ideological concerns over the teachings of the Church (Look up Cardinal Richelieu for example). However, such people were acting against the teachings of the Church, and this is quite different than someone alleging that the Catholic teaching on contraception or the reform of the Liturgy means the teaching authority of the Church is controlled by a faction which is contrary to the will of God.\nJustification #3: \"The Church teaching is based on an out of date world view.\"\nWhile I dealt with this one in my article Chronological Snobbery, I think we need to take a look at this in context of dissent and not just in the rejection of religion in general.\nThis argument again, argues in a circle:\nThe Church teaching is based on an out of date world view.\nIf the Church wasn't out of date, they wouldn't be teaching this\nThis is sometimes invoked in the disagreement with a moral issue. St. Thomas Aquinas' comments on morality are considered based on the lack of knowledge at the time, and if he had up to date knowledge he would have made a different decision. The irony of course is when people who make this argument also cite him as permitting abortion within the first 40 days of conception (false: He still considered it a grave sin, but thought it a different sin than after the 40th day). What this argument (which is actually the appeal to newness fallacy) fails to recognize is that the Church has made use of scientific discoveries to deepen the teachings of moral issues.\nIn other situations, this is invoked against doctrines. The argument is that the Catholic belief in Transubstantiation was based on an outdated Aristotelian system of essence and accident, and that studies in the fields of atoms makes it obsolete.\nActually it does not. Transubstantiation is the belief that while the appearance (accident) of bread and wine remain, its essence (substance) is changed to being literally the body and blood of Christ. Appeals to sub-atomic particles are irrelevant, because the essence is not something which cannot be determined by science.\nWe can look at it this way. Science can define the human being biologically as Homo sapiens. It cannot define the essence of the human person which has human rights. In different times, nations have ruled certain human beings to be \"non-persons\" because of melanin in the skin, or gender, or being mentally deficient or possessing certain ethnic traits.\nThe Church would hold, however, that those elements of ethnic differences or differences in ability are merely the appearance (accidents), while the essence (substance) of the human person exists regardless of the difference in the appearances. Any being which holds the essence of being a human person, is a human person regardless of the accidents of the individual.\nJustification #4: \"The Church changed Teachings before. It will do so with this eventually.\"\nThis is the first justification which is not arguing in a circle (though it sometimes bases its assumption on one of the above). However, it does show a gross misunderstanding between things which cannot change and things that can. To understand this, we need to recognize the difference between doctrine and discipline.\nDoctrine are these teachings the Church has no right to reverse, because to do so would be to contradict the God we believe in. We cannot change beliefs about the nature of Christ and the Trinity. We cannot change teachings on morality (the Church will never say it is OK to have premarital sex, for example). We cannot change the substance of the sacraments. The Church cannot ever sanction \"Gay marriage\" or say we can celebrate the Eucharist using Pizza and Coke, or ordain women to the priesthood.\nThe reason we cannot do any of those things listed above is this would be to contradict the teachings and nature of the God we believe in. What God has established to be followed, we do not have the authority to contradict. We may in time deepen our understanding of a doctrine, but we will never go from believing [A] to believing [Not-A].\nDiscipline on the other hand are teachings which the Church can change if they see a good reason for it. The use of Latin vs. the Vernacular in Mass is an accident. Changing the language does not change what the Mass is. The Church could change the discipline on unmarried priests for a serious enough reason. We do recognize it as possible (Eastern Rite Catholics and Eastern Orthodox permits the ordination of married men). The receiving the Eucharist under both species can be permitted or denied depending on the needs of the faithful (for example, when an erroneous belief came up that one had to receive both or it did not count as a valid reception, the Church has restricted the chalice from the laity).\nChanging disciplines are changing of the appearances\/accidents and do not change the essence\/substance of the Church teaching, and this is what makes the justification of \"The Church changed before, and it will eventually change here.\" It confuses the changing of a discipline with the belief that a doctrine can be changed, and thus looks with hope to the election of a new Pope with the assumption of Justifications #1-3 above. The Hope is that this new Pope will \"be in touch,\" will not be \"dominated by liberalism\/conservatism\" or will have an \"up to date world view.\"\nThis is what happened with the hostility to the 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae. The intent of the investigation was over whether the Birth Control Pill was to be considered contraception, because it operated differently than previous forms of contraception (which were largely the \"barrier method.\")\nIn other words, the question was whether the essence of the Pill was different than the essence of contraception, or whether the difference between the Pill and things like the diaphragm and the condom were merely differences of accident.\nOnce it became clear that the \"Pill\" was indeed contraception (that is, they shared the same essence), the Church reiterated its teaching on contraception. Many people, believing the Church was going to change its teaching on contraception itself became angry, and accused the Church of \"being out of touch,\" of \"being dominated by conservatives\" and \"having an out of date world view.\"\nSo the danger of this justification #4 is that it assumes that the Church has the ability to change anything and that it can see the change as a good thing. In reality, if the Church recognizes that to make a change is something she has no right to change or if the Church sees that there is no good which will come from such a change, the person who justifies their own disobedience by saying a change will come eventually is extremely presumptuous.\nJustification #5: \"The Church Leaders are Hypocrites.\"\nThis one is essentially a tu quoque fallacy. It assumes that because some individuals within the hierarchy fail to live up to their obligations, it means that we are not bound to listen to them. However (and this is the flaw of all tu quoque arguments), just because a person fails to live up to their obligations does not prove that the Church teaching itself is false.\nNow, if it was believed the authority of the Church was merely that of a human institution, invoking the piety and right behavior of the leaders as the right to decree behavior one might be able to argue that the evidence of hypocrites within the Church Hierarchy meant there was not obligated to heed their teachings.\nHowever, if we acknowledge that the head of the Church is Christ, and the Pope is merely his Vicar (the term means \"a representative or deputy,\" and we believe that Peter and his successors are established as a representative for Christ, to whom He too must obey), then the authority the Church possesses is given the Church by Christ (See Matt 28:18-20, John 20: 21-23) and the rejection of the authority of the Church is the rejection of the authority of Christ (See Luke 10:16).\nI recognize the non-Catholic will most probably reject this. After all, they do not believe that the Catholic Church was established by Christ, but rather came later. (I reject this view of course, but this is not the topic of discussion).\nHowever, for the Catholic to reject this view is to deny something which we are called to believe as being taught by Christ, and the obvious question is why they remain within if they think the Church is wrong on the teaching of herself.\nIf we believe that the Church had the power to bind and to loose (See Matt 16:19 and 18:18), and that she would be protected from error (see Matt 28:20), then it follows that when the magisterium teaches formally, we do not have the right to loosen what she binds, nor to bind what she loosens.\nJustification #6: \"The Church doesn't understand the real meaning of the Scriptures, and therefore is 'cruel'.\"\nWhile this is one of the \"arguing in a circle\" arguments, it usually follows from #5, so I place it here. This attempt to justify dissent essentially claims:\nthe Church doesn't understand the real meaning of Scripture or it wouldn't be so harsh\nThe Church teaching is harsh because it doesn't understand the meaning of Scripture\nLeft unanswered is on what justification the Church teaching is to be considered \"harsh\" in the official teaching authority compared to the wrong behavior of some of her members. The question is who has the authority to determine what teachings are just and which are unjust.\nUsually, the person invoking this argument looks at half the meaning of Scripture. We have a God who loves and rewards good. However, we also have the unmentioned half of Scripture: The God who commands that we be holy as He is holy (Leviticus 19:2), and warns of Hell for those who fail to heed His words (see Matt 25).\nIndeed, the person who says the Church is cruel probably has an interesting view of Scriptures:\nIn a recent rather hawkish and Inquisitorial outburst, our august liberator Moses was seen smashing a couple of stone tablets and gesticulating furiously as the people gave vent to a little midsummer revelry. Fresh from an extended vacation on Mt. Sinai, the Egyptian blueblood turned theocrat ordered that the whole festival be repressed. Within minutes, the fleshpots had been confiscated, and the couples ordered to re-clothe. This evidently not being enough, Moses then decreed that the Golden Calf (an important part of the new multifaith service) be melted down and put on the Index of Forbidden Items. Witnesses at the scene felt thoroughly oppressed by the apparition, and there was even talk of someone's inner child having bled. One freethinker noted that if a little merry-making after the rigours of the desert were to be forbidden, then \"we might as well all just go and beat ourselves to death in our graves.\"\n\"As a Chosen Person I feel ashamed\" his liberated beau added, \"The destruction of the Golden Calf goes against the values of diversity, tolerance, and inclusivity, which progressive Israelites pride themselves upon.\" A chorus of similar opinions were aired as camp psychologists distributed emergency crying towels. Only a few loyalists supported Moses' actions. \"When we hear that the Lord is a jealous God\" his publicist stated, \"it doesn't mean that He is petty and vindictive, just that He is zealous for His own people's good.\" But 90% of Israelites surveyed agreed that such hairsplitting is hypocritical, and that the Golden Calf should have been placed beside the Ark of the Covenant in celebration of peace, love, and tolerance for all. However, one staunch pre-Calf of the old establishment wagged his beard in disagreement. \"Going to the dogs\" he said, pointing to the youth. \"It's worse than Egypt. At least there we had rods for them.\" Such crusty opinions are representative of the Mosaic Right, and form a largely reactionary response to Goldencalfism.\nThe general consensus in the camp seemed to be that while Moses and conservatives like him are well within their rights to worship the Lord God, it is nothing short of reptilian prudery to demonize people's sexual preferences, and nothing less than crass dogmatism to ban a revered symbol of the Egyptian Faith. As a sweet-voiced orator with a trim goatee and the odd addition of something like red horns (he is not therefore to be discriminated against) so brilliantly put it: \"What is \"idolatry of a graven image\" to one man\" he said, \"might in the final analysis just be the necessary precursor to a pluralistic society founded upon the universal values of tolerance, acceptance, and freedom of conscience for all. Let the spooky old prejudices of a bygone era keel over like a palsied brontosaurus. We have today the opportunity to build a brave New Israel which respects the native spiritualities of the Egyptians, the Canaanites, and the Babylonians, weaving together a rich multicultural tapestry - a land flowing with milk and honey indeed.\"\n(See here and here for more examples)\nEssentially the problem with this justification to dissent is that it assumes that the teachings of the Church are merely manmade and can err, while the person who dissents assumes he or she cannot err. So the question to be asked is On what basis do you claim your personal feelings are not in error? Let's face it. People exploit our emotions all the time. Pity, fear, desire, anger. Politicians do it, we deceive ourselves. Many tragic events of history came to be through a demagogue appealing to our emotions instead of to our reason.\nEssentially, this justification is nothing more than the denial of the authority of the Church to teach in a binding way, which brings up the question, why be Catholic to begin with if you reject they possess the authority they claim?\nWhile in this article, I dealt with some of the justifications used (there are more), next time I would like to look at some of the motives that lead people into dissent. 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{"text":"Q: Do you have a list of items that you are not allowed to bring into the venue?\nA: Yes! See a list of prohibited items here.\nQ: How can I purchase tickets for College Street Music Hall events?\nA: Advance tickets may be purchased through this website. Tickets may also be purchased at Redscroll Records in Wallingford (cash only). The College Street Music Hall box office is open every Friday from 12-5pm, in addition to being open day-of-show (2 hours before doors, typically closing 1 hour into the headliner's set). The box office accepts Cash, VISA, Master Card, American Express and Discover. Service fees apply for online and phone purchases, and a $3 Facility Fee is applied to each ticket purchased, regardless of where the tickets are purchased.\nQ: What is the Facility Fee for?\nA: The Facility Fee added on each ticket goes towards the owner of College Street Music Hall, 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation New Haven Center for Performing Arts. The money is used for the upkeep for the building.\nQ: What is your refund policy?\nA: All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges unless a show is cancelled, or other special circumstances.\nQ: How old do you have to be to attend shows at College Street Music Hall?\nA: Unless otherwise posted, all shows are All Ages.\nQ: Do I need ID to enter the venue?\nA: An ID is only required if you plan on drinking alcohol. In compliance with state laws anyone 21-and-older who plans on drinking alcohol will have to show a valid, non-expired, government-issued photo ID. Anyone without proper ID, regardless of age, will be treated as under 21 and not allowed to buy, hold or drink alcohol. This policy is strictly enforced and any violation will result in immediate ejection from the venue.\nQ: Does College Street Music Hall have seats?\nA: We are a multi-configuration venue: if in use, our Loge and Balcony are always seated. Some shows have a seated floor, and some are General Admission standing-room-only. MOST of our General Admission standing shows will have some chairs available in the back of the room on a first-come, first-served basis, but we cannot guarantee seating. Please contact info@collegestreetmusichall.com or call 203-867-2000 if you are unsure of a show's setup.\nQ: Is the venue handicapped accessible?\nA: Yes. Setup varies depending on room configuration requested by artist. Typical setup for GA floor includes ADA seating in the house left rear platform. For fully seated shows we have ADA seating available in both the Gold Circle section as well as in Section 109. The Loge and Balcony are only accessible by stairs, as we do not have an elevator.\nIf you have any questions or concerns regarding ADA seating\/accessibility, please reach out to info@collegestreetmusichall.com or 203-867-2000.\nQ: Does College Street Music Hall offer food?\nA: Geronimo Tequila Bar & Southwest Grill serves tacos in the lobby before and during shows. We also offer some snacks (such as bags of chips) at our bars.\nQ: How about drinks?\nA: We have numerous full bars throughout the venue with a variety of domestic and craft drafts and cans, liquor, wine, soft drinks, and water.\nQ: Do you have a coat check?\nA: Yes, seasonally as needed. Note that coat check is available on a first-come, first-served basis and is likely to fill up.\nQ: Where can I park?\nA: We offer discounted parking at the Temple Street Garage through ParkWhiz, that can be purchased in advance for any of our shows. Temple Street Garage is only two blocks from the venue, but if you need to park closer there are various other paid lots, garages, and street parking around.\nQ: What are your policies regarding photo\/video\/audio?\nA: Recording and photo policies are on a per show basis and are at the discretion of the band.\nQ: Does College Street Music Hall have an e-mail list? How can I be included?\nA: Yes, there is a form where you can submit your email address towards the top of the right side of this page, next to our social media icons and above our \"Just Announced\" shows.\nQ: Where can I find the most current information about upcoming shows at College Street Music Hall?\nA: In addition to checking our website and signing up for our email list, you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.\nQ: When do you announce new shows?\nA: It varies depending on the tour's schedule, but usually Monday or Tuesday morning.\nQ: Is College Street Music Hall hiring?\nA: We're always accepting applications, you can fill out an application here.\nQ: Where is College Street Music Hall located?\nA: We are at 238 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510.\nQ: I still have a question, where can I get in touch with you?\nA: You can call us at 203-867-2000 or email us at info@collegestreetmusichall.com. We'll try our hardest to get back to you in a timely manner.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Egypt jails Brotherhood head Badie for 10 years over clashes\nAFP December 22, 2015\nEgyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie raises as a judge reads out the verdict sentencing him and more than 100 other defendants, including Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, to death in May 16, 2015 (AFP Photo\/KHALED DESOUKI)\nCairo (AFP) - An Egyptian military court Tuesday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to 10 years in prison over deadly clashes following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, judicial officials said.\nNinety other defendants who were tried in absentia were sentenced to life terms, which in Egypt means 25 years.\nBadie and dozens of others were found guilty of participating in clashes that killed 31 people in the canal city of Suez between August 14 and 16, 2013.\nThe clashes erupted after police brutally broke up two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on August 14 that year.\nThe charges in the military trial included vandalism, inciting violence, murder, assaulting military personnel and setting fire to armoured personnel carriers and two Coptic churches in Suez.\nBadie, the Brotherhood's spiritual guide, was sentenced to 10 years along with fellow Brotherhood leader Mohamed Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, a pro-Brotherhood Islamist, army and judicial officials said.\nForty-one defendants were sentenced to serve between three and seven years, 90 others were handed down life sentences and 59 others were acquitted.\nTuesday's sentences can be appealed.\nBadie is facing several trials and has been sentenced to death in a separate case along with Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.\nThe Brotherhood chief has also been handed life sentences in five other cases.\nHundreds of Morsi supporters were killed on August 14, 2013 when police stormed their camps in Cairo, just weeks after the Islamist president was ousted by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.\nMilitary tribunals in Egypt have faced criticism for their harsh and swift verdicts.\nEgypt's constitution allows military trials of civilians accused of violence against military targets -- which include public infrastructure such as highways and bridges as well as universities.\nSince Morsi's overthrow, the authorities have launched a brutal crackdown against his supporters, leaving hundreds dead and thousands jailed after often speedy mass trials.\nMorsi himself is facing several trials and has already been sentenced to death in one case. The Brotherhood has been outlawed as a \"terrorist organisation\".\nEgypt's 'bent pyramid', a 4,600-year old landmark in ancient construction, opens to visitors\nReport: NBA player laments Chris Paul favoring 'banana-boat crew' as union president\nRussian dissident credits McCain with saving his life\n'I was so livid': Disney heiress visits theme park undercover to see worker conditions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TechLoris Guru\nLatest posts by Shayne\nThe SFC is a built-in system file checker used to scan and fix corrupted system files. Although it comes directly from Windows, there are still some instances when it does not work as intended. If\u2026\nKineMaster is a professional-grade video editing application for Android and iOS devices with many features. KineMaster supports several audio, video, photos, text, and effects layers, and it comes with several tools that allow users to make high-quality\u2026\nHow to Fix the High CPU Usage of \"Antimalware Service Executable\"\nMicrosoft Defender Antivirus, previously known as Windows Defender, is included with Windows 10. Microsoft Defender's background process is called \"Antimalware Service Executable.\" Known as MsMpEng.exe, it is a component of Microsoft's Windows operating system. Most\u2026\nWhat to Do When Steam Won't Open\nSometimes Steam servers are incredibly congested and prevent you from accessing your Steam content, but in most cases, when Steam won't open, the problem is related to your computer. According to widespread reports, quite a\u2026\nHow to Resolve 'VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing' Error on Your PC\nIf you're a Windows PC user, you might come across this weird error when opening a program: \"The program can't start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer.\" This error happens when the program requires\u2026\nTotalAV Antivirus 2022 Review \u2013 Top Features, Pros & Cons\nIt's no secret by now that antivirus software is a necessity for every computer. 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October 2009\nSirt1 contributes critically to the redox-dependent fate of neural progenitors.\nProzorovski, T. and Schulze-Topphoff, U. and Glumm, R. and Baumgart, J. and Schroeter, F. and Ninnemann, O. and Siegert, E. and Bendix, I. and Bruestle, O. and Nitsch, R. and Zipp, F. and Aktas, O.\nNormal brain development in importin-alpha5 deficient-mice.\nShmidt, T. and Hampich, F. and Ridders, M. and Schultrich, S. and Hans, V.H. and Tenner, K. and Vilianovich, L. and Qadri, F. and Alenina, N. and Hartmann, E. and Koehler, M. and Bader, M.\nNature Cell Biology 9 (12): 1337-1338. December 2007\nRing1-mediated ubiquitination of H2A restrains poised RNA polymerase II at bivalent genes in mouse ES cells.\nStock, J.K. and Giadrossi, S. and Casanova, M. and Brookes, E. and Vidal, M. and Koseki, H. and Brockdorff, N. and Fisher, A.G. and Pombo, A.\nProteome analysis of soluble nuclear proteins reveals that HMGB1\/2 suppress genotoxic stress in polyglutamine diseases.\nQi, M.L. and Tagawa, K. and Enokido, Y. and Yoshimura, N. and Wada, Y.I. and Watase, K. and Ishiura, S.I. and Kanazawa, I. and Botas, J. and Saitoe, M. and Wanker, E.E. and Okazawa, H.\nNature Cell Biology 9 (4): 402-414. April 2007\nA complex of Yos9p and the HRD ligase integrates endoplasmic reticulum quality control into the degradation machinery.\nGauss, R. and Jarosch, E. and Sommer, T. and Hirsch, C.\nNature Cell Biology 8 (8): 849-854. August 2006\nChromatin signatures of pluripotent cell lines.\nAzuara, V. and Perry, P. and Sauer, S. and Spivakov, M. and Jorgensen, H.F. and John, R.M. and Gouti, M. and Casanova, M. and Warnes, G. and Merkenschlager, M. and Fisher, A.G.\nNature Cell Biology 8 (5): 532-538. May 2006\nUbx2 links the Cdc48 complex to ER-associated protein degradation.\nNeuber, O. and Jarosch, E. and Volkwein, C. and Walter, J. and Sommer, T.\nNature Cell Biology 7 (10): 993-998. 18 September 2005\nERAD: the long road to destruction.\nMeusser, B. and Hirsch, C. and Jarosch, E. and Sommer, T.\nIon channels: function unravelled by dysfunction.\nJentsch, T.J. and Huebner, C.A. and Fuhrmann, J.C.\nNature Cell Biology 6 (11): 1039-1047. November 2004\nEGFR activation coupled to inhibition of tyrosine phosphatases causes lateral signal propagation.\nReynolds, A.R. and Tischer, C. and Verveer, P.J. and Rocks, O. and Bastiaens, P.I.\nProteasome subunit Rpn1 binds ubiquitin-like protein domains.\nElsasser, S. and Gali, R.R. and Schwickart, M. and Larsen, C.N. and Leggett, D.S. and Mueller, B. and Feng, M.T. and Tuebing, F. and Dittmar, G.A.G. and Finley, D.\nNature Cell Biology 4 : 725-730. 1 September 2002\nHakai, a c-Cbl-like protein, ubiquitinates and induces endocytosis of the E-cadherin complex.\nFujita, Y. and Krause, G. and Scheffner, M. and Zechner, D. and Leddy, H.E.M. and Behrens, J. and Sommer, T. and Birchmeier, W.\nNature Cell Biology 4 (3): 222-231. 1 March 2002\nProtein dislocation from the ER requires polyubiquitination and the AAA-ATPase Cdc48.\nJarosch, E. and Taxis, C. and Volkwein, C. and Bordallo, J. and Finley, D. and Wolf, D.H. and Sommer, T.\nNature Cell Biology 4 (2): 134-139. 1 February 2002\nA regulatory link between ER-associated protein degradation and the unfolded-protein response.\nFriedlander, R. and Jarosch, E. and Urban, J. and Volkwein, C. and Sommer, T.\nNature Cell Biology 2 (7): 379-384. 1 July 2000\nSmooth-muscle contraction without smooth-muscle myosin.\nMorano, I. and Chai, G.X. and Baltas, L.G. and Lamounier-Zepter, V. and Lutsch, G. and Kott, M. and Haase, H. and Bader, M.\nNature Cell Biology 2 (6): 371-375. 1 June 2000\nLipoprotein receptors: new roles for ancient proteins.\nWillnow, T.E. and Nykjaer, A. and Herz, J.\nNature Cell Biology 1 : E157-E162. 1 October 1999\nThe base of the proteasome regulatory particle exhibits chaperone-like activity.\nBraun, B.C. and Glickman, M. and Kraft, R. and Dahlmann, B. and Kloetzel, P.M. and Finley, D. and Schmidt, M.\nNature Cell Biology 1 (4): 221-226. 1 August 1999\nMAPKAP kinase 2 is essential for LPS-induced TNF-alpha biosynthesis.\nKotlyarov, A. and Neininger, A. and Schubert, C. and Eckert, R. and Birchmeier, C. and Volk, H.D. and Gaestel, M.\nNature Cell Biology 1 : 94-97. 1 June 1999\nInvolvement of caveolin-1 in meiotic cell-cycle progression in Caenorhabditis elegans.\nScheel, J. and Srinivasan, J. and Honnert, U. and Henske, A. and Kurzchalia, T.V.\nNature Cell Biology 1 : 127-129. 1 January 1999","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jan Rabaey (SONIC PI \u2013 UC\/Berkeley) wins Aristotle Award at TECHCON 2017\nProfessor Jan Rabaey\nAUSTIN, Texas \u2013 September 12, 2017 \u2013 SRC awarded SONIC PI, Professor Jan Rabaey with the 2017 Aristotle Award.\nThe Aristotle Award was authorized by the SRC Board of Directors in 1995 to recognize professors who best contribute to the development of the industry's most valuable resource, its human resource. This award recognizes SRC-supported faculty whose deep commitment to the educational experience of SRC students has had a profound and continuing impact on their professional performance and, consequently, a significant impact for members over a long period of time.\nProfessor Jan Rabaey of the University of California\/Berkeley is eminently qualified to receive the 2017 Aristotle Award. Jan holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and as served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice.\nProfessor Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including advanced wireless systems, low power integrated circuits, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. His current interests include the conception of the next-generation integrated wireless systems, as well as the exploration of the interaction between the cyber and the biological world.\nFor more information on TECHCON 2017 or the Aristotle Award, please visit https:\/\/www.src.org\/calendar\/e005108\/.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Robert Kirkman Offers An Update For the Invincible Live-Action Movie\nFour years ago, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg signed on to direct an Invincible live-action movie. However, there hasn't been much traction on that progress. But with the Invincible animated series just two months away, co-creator Robert Kirkman has confirmed that the film is still happening.\nWhile speaking with EW, Kirkman said the Invincible movie was still in the \"very early going\" stages. He also reiterated that two projects are not related to each other.\n\"That [film] is still very much in development,\" said Kirkman. \"That hasn't changed. We're just taking a long time. But we've been fortunate enough to have a two-track plan with Invincible. Right now we've got the animated series at Amazon, which is now on the cusp of launching, and then we're also still developing it as a film series with Universal, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg attached. So, those two things are still very much happening concurrently, which is somewhat weird, I guess. But there've been Spider-Man animated series and Spider-Man movies at the same time. So, I think we're in good company.\"\nAdditionally, Kirkman shared his belief that the animated series will deliver a closer adaptation of the comic.\n\"It's a great way for us to stand apart in a crowded landscape,\" noted Kirkman. \"But more than that, I think that it allows us to more properly adapt the Invincible comic. The Invincible comic will have one battle on earth, and then the next scene will be a battle in space, and then there'll be an alien invasion, and then there'll be another guy that attacks after the alien invasion. There's no way that we could keep this level of insanity up in live-action. We would have to do a tremendous amount of bottle episodes to level it all out.\"\nThe Invincible animated series will premiere on Amazon Prime on Friday, March 26.\nAre you looking forward to seeing Invincible in live-action? Let us know in the comment section below!\nRecommended Reading: Invincible: Compendium One Paperback\nWe are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. This affiliate advertising program also provides a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Groundwater Bulletins\nGroundwater Bulletins is a series of 201 reports published from 1950 to 1965. They have all been digitized and published below. Bulletins typically present the results of long-term or extensive investigations, often covering a large region or county. Topics include well records, geology and groundwater resources, but are not limited to groundwater themes. All are out of print but they've been scanned & published here electronically. To find a specific Bulletin on this web page, click inside the Search Table box and enter a keyword or phrase.\nAccessibility note: Many of these reports are in scanned from hard copy and are not fully accessible for users of certain assistive technologies; however, if you need help please contact the webmaster and we will give a text-based copy or otherwise make every effort to help you.\nBulletins listed by Number:\n5001 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Houston District, Texas 1950\n5003 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Walker County, Texas 1950\n5004 Development of Ground Water for Irrigation in the Dell City Area, Hudspeth County, Texas\nGeologic Map Showing Recorded Wells in the Dell City Area, Hudspeth County, Texas 1950\n5101 Water Supply of the Houston Gulf Coast Region 1951\n5102 Summary of the Development of Ground Water for Irrigation in the Lobo Flats Area, Culberson and Jeff Davis Counties, Texas 1951\n5103 Ground-Water Resources of Parker County, Texas 1951\n5104 Development of Wells for Irrigation and Fluctuation of Water Levels in the High Plains of Texas to January 1951 1951\n5201 The Houston District, Texas, Pumpage and Decline of Artesian Pressure During 1950-51 1952\n5202 Summary of Ground-Water Development in the Pecos Area, Reeves and Ward Counties, Texas 1947-51 1952\n5203 Winter Garden District Dimmit and Zavala Counties and Eastern Maverick County, Texas 1952\n5204 Ground-Water Resources in the Vicinity of Kenmore Farms, Kendall County, Texas 1952\n5205 Texas Index of Surface Water Records 1882-1951 Discharge, Sediment, Chemical Quality, Water Temperature 1952\n5206 Results of Artificial Recharge of the Ground-Water Reservoir at El Paso, Texas 1952\n5207 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Lynn County, Texas 1952\n5208 Water Resources of Waller County, Texas 1952\n5209 Groundwater Resources of Starr County, Texas 1952\n5210 Ground-Water Resources of Ector County, Texas 1952\n5301 Ground-Water Resources of the Odell Sand Hills Wilbarger County, Texas 1953\n5302 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Hale County, Texas 1910-1953 1953\n5303 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Lubbock County, Texas 1936-1953 1953\n5304 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Floyd County, Texas 1913-1953 1953\n5305 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Deaf Smith County, Texas 1914-1953 1953\n5306 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Lamb County, Texas, 1914-1953 1953\n5307 Records of Water-level Measurements in Swisher County, Texas 1914-1953 1953\n5401 Pumpage of Ground Water and Decline of Artesian Pressure in the Houston District, Texas, During 1951 and 1952 1954\n5402 Summary of Ground-Water Development in the Southern High Plains, Texas 1954\n5403 Ground-Water Resources of Cameron County, Texas 1954\n5404 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, and Sherman Counties, Texas 1954\n5405 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Martin County, Texas 1936-1953 1954\n5406 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Parmer, Potter, and Randall Counties, Texas 1954\n5407 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Cochran, Crosby, Gaines, Hockley, Lynn, and Terry Counties, Texas 1954\n5408 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Loving and Ward Counties, Texas 1954\n5409 Salt Water and its Relation to Fresh Ground Water in Harris County, Texas 1954\n5410 Ground-Water Development in the Southern High Plains of Texas, 1953 1954\n5411 Groundwater Resources of Tom Green County, Texas 1954\n5412 Ground-Water Resources of the San Antonio Area, Texas 1954\n5413 Records of Wells in Bastrop County, Texas\nMap of Bastrop County, Texas, Showing Location of Water Wells and Springs 1954\n5414 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Reeves County, Texas 1954\n5415 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Culberson, Hudspeth, and Jeff Davis Counties, Texas 1954\n5416 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Atascosa and Frio Counties, Texas 1954\n5417 Records of Water-Level Measurements in El Paso County, Texas 1954\n5418 Ground Water Resources of Jones County, Texas 1954\n5501 Records of Wells in Hays County, Texas\nMap of Hays County, Texas Showing Locations of Wells and Springs 1955\n5502 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Galveston County, Texas 1955\n5503 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Haskell and Knox Counties, Texas 1955\n5601 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Medina County, Texas 1956\n5602 Pumpage of Ground Water and Changes in Artesian Pressure in the Houston District and Baytown-La Porte Area, Texas, 1953-55 1956\n5603 Ground-Water Resources of the El Paso District, Texas 1956\n5604 Ground-Water Resources of the Crane Sandhills, Crane County, Texas 1956\n5605 Basic Data and Summary of Ground-Water Resources of Chambers County, Texas 1956\n5606 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Bexar County, Texas 1956\n5607 Water-Level Decline Maps of 17 Counties in the Southern High Plains, Texas 1956\n5608 Vol 1 Ground-Water Resources of the San Antonio Area, a progress report on current studies 1956\n5608 Vol 2 Part 1 Ground-Water Resources of the San Antonio Area, Records of Wells and Springs 1956\n5608 Vol 2 Part 2 Ground-Water Resources of the San Antonio Area, Texas, Records of Drillers' Logs 1956\n5608 Vol 2 Part 3 Ground-Water Resources of the San Antonio Area, Texas 1956\n5609 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Medina County, Texas 1956\n5610 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Comal and Guadalupe Counties, Texas 1956\n5611 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Kinney, Uvalde and Val Verde Counties, Texas 1929 to March 1956 1956\n5612 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas 1956\n5613 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Childress, Cottle, Hardeman, and King Counties, Texas 1956\n5614 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Foard and Wilbarger Counties, Texas 1956\n5615 Ground-Water Resources of the Hueco Bolson, Northeast of El Paso, Texas 1956\n5617 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Dimmit, Maverick, and Zavala Counties, Texas 1956\n5701 Artificial-Recharge Experiments at McDonald Well Field, Amarillo, Texas 1957\n5702 Records of Water Levels in Bastrop and Caldwell Counties, Texas 1937 through December 1956 1957\n5703 Records of Water Levels in Aransas and San Patricio Counties, Texas 1957\n5704 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Lamb County, Texas 1957\n5705 Water Level Decline Maps, 1956 to 1957, and Water Levels in Observation Wells in 20 Counties in the Southern High Plains, Texas 1957\n5706 The Use of Ground Water for Irrigation in Childress County, Texas 1957\n5707 Water Level Maps and Water Levels in Observation Wells in the North High Plains, Texas 1957\n5708 Records of Wells in Travis County, Texas 1957\n5709 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Tarrant County, Texas 1957\n5710 Groundwater Geology of Wilson County, Texas (Second Printing 1975) 1957\n5711 Ground-Water Resources of Goliad County, Texas 1957\n5712 Ground-Water Geology of the Alpine Area, Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Presidio Counties, Texas 1957\n5801 Ground-Water Geology in the Vicinity of Dove and Croton Creeks, Stonewall, Kent, Dickens, and King Counties, Texas 1958\n5802 Ground-Water Conditions in Carson County, Texas 1958\n5803 Groundwater Geology of Real County, Texas 1958\n5804 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Jackson, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties, Texas, 1934 to April 1958 1958\n5805 Pumpage of Ground Water and Fluctuations of Water Levels in the Houston District and the Baytown-LaPorte Area, Texas, 1955-57 1958\n5806 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Collingsworth, Hemphill, and Wheeler Counties, Texas 1937 through July1958 1958\n5807A Part 1 | Part 2 Compilation of Surface Water Records in Texas through September 1957 1958\n5807 B Index of Surface Water Records 1882- 1957 1958\n5807 C Summary of Peak Flood Flow Measurements and Other Measurements of Stream Discharge in Texas at Points Other than Gaging Stations 1959\n5807 D Channel Gain and Loss Investigations Texas Streams 1918-1958 1960\n5807 E Texas Stream-Gaging Program: Evaluation and Recommendations 1960\n5808 Pumpage of Ground Water and Changes in Water Levels in Galveston County, Texas, 1952-57 1958\n5901 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Chambers, Liberty and Montgomery Counties, Texas, 1931 through April 1958 1959\n5902 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Bell, McLennan, and Somervell Counties, Texas 1930-1957 1959\n5903 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Crockett, Glasscock, Reagan, Upton, and Terrell Counties 1959\n5904 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Waller Counties, Texas 1931 through June 1958 1959\n5905 Chemical Composition of Texas Surface Waters, 1956 1959\n5906 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Crane and Midland Counties, Texas 1937 through 1957 1959\n5907 Records of Water-Level Measurements in Mitchell, Nolan, Sterling, and Tom Green Counties, Texas 1938 through 1957 1959\n5908 Water-Level Measurements and Maps Southern High Plains, Texas 1958 through 1959 1959\n5909 Water-Level Measurements and Maps Northern High Plains, Texas 1958 and 1959 1959\n5910 Water Requirements Survey 1959\n5911 Ground-water Geology for Bexar County, Texas 1959\n5912 Inventory and Use of Sedimentation Data in Texas 1959\n5913 Texas Index of Meteorological Data 1959\n5914 A Study of Droughts in Texas 1959\n5916 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Winkler County, Texas 1959\n6001 Surface Runoff from Texas Watersheds and Sub-basins map 1: Areas of watersheds & major sub-basins\nmap 2: runoff from watersheds & major sub-basins 1960\n6002 Brine Production and Disposal on the Lower Watershed of Chambers and Richland Creeks, Navarro County, Texas 1960\n6003 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Dimmit County, Texas (Second Printing 1975) 1960\n6004 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Hays County, Texas 1960\n6005 Water-Level Measurements in Culberson, Hudspeth, and Jeff Davis Counties, Texas 1960\n6006 Monthly Reservoir Evaporation Rates for Texas 1940-1957 1960\n6007 Ground-Water Geology of Karnes County, Texas 1960\n6008 Water Levels in Observation Wells in Cameron, Hidalgo, and Starr Counties 1950-1959 1960\n6009 Water Levels in Observation Wells in Haskell and Knox Counties, Texas 1956-1960 1960\n6010 Ground-Water Resources of the Hale County, Texas 1960\n6011 Water Levels in Observation Wells Southern High Plains, Texas 1959 and 1960 1960\n6012 Water Levels in Observation Wells Northern High Plains, Texas 1958-1960 1960\n6013 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Grayson County, Texas 1960\n6014 Vol 1 Ground-Water Resources of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Area, Texas 1961\n6015 Water Levels in Observation Wells in Atascosa and Frio Counties, Texas 1955-1960 1960\n6016 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground Water Resources of the Canadian River Basin, Texas 1960\n6017 Ground-Water Geology of the Hickory Sandstone Member of the Riley Formation, McCulloch County, Texas 1961\n6018 Irrigation in Texas in 1958 1960\n6019 Consumptive Use of Water by Major Crops in Texas (Second Printing 1960) 1960\n6102 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Carson County and Part of Gray County, Texas, Progress Report No.1 1961\n6103 Annual Water-Level Measurements in Observation Wells Northern High Plains, Texas 1960 and 1961 1961\n6105 Groundwater Geology of Live Oak County, Texas 1961\n6106 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Pecos County, Texas 1961\n6107 A Summary of the Occurrence and Development of Ground Water in the Southern High Plains of Texas 1961\n6108 Silt Load of Texas Streams: a Compilation Report June 1889-September 1959 1961\n6109 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Northern High Plains of Texas 1961\n6110 Ground-Water Reconnaissance of the Marfa Area, Presidio County, Texas 1961\n6111 A Reconnaissance of the Ground-Water Resources of the Marathon Area, Brewster County, Texas 1961\n6201 Recharge, Discharge, and Changes in Ground-Water Storage in the Edwards and Associated Limestones San Antonio Area, Texas. A Progress Report on Studies, 1955-59 1962\n6202 Ground-Water Resources of Victoria and Calhoun Counties, Texas 1962\n6203 Ground-Water Resources of the Lower Mesilla Valley, Texas and New Mexico plates 1962\n6204 Description of Ground Water in the El Paso District, Texas, 1955-60 1962\n6206 Research in the Problem of Scaling of Electrodialysis Demineralizers 1962\n6207 Water-Level Measurements through 1962 in Selected Observation Wells, Southern High Plains, Texas 1962\n6208 Ground-Water Geology of Edwards County, Texas 1962\n6209 Ground-Water Resources of Haskell and Knox Counties, Texas 1962\n6210 Ground-Water Geology of Bandera County, Texas 1962\n6211 Pumpage of Ground Water and Fluctuation of Water Levels in the Houston District and the Baytown-LaPorte Area, Texas, 1957-61 1962\n6212 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Uvalde County, Texas 1962\n6214 Vol 1 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Reeves County, Texas (Second Printing 1972) 12 oversize Map Plates 1962\n6214 Vol 2 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Reeves County, Texas 1962\n6215 Chemical Composition of Texas Surface Waters, 1960\nMap: Quality-of-Water stations 1960\n6216 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Kinney County, Texas 1962\n6301 Availability of Ground Water from the Goliad Sand in the Alice Area, Texas 1963\n6302 Availability and Quality of Ground Water in Smith County, Texas 1963\nPlate 1 Quality- of- Water stations, 1961 1963\n6305 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Gulf Coast Region, Texas 1963\n6306 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Red River, Sulphur River, and Cypress Creek Basins, Texas 1963\n6307 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Sabine River Basin, Texas 1963\n6308 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Neches River Basin, Texas 1963\n6309 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Trinity River Basin, Texas (Second printing 1973)\nBook of Oversize map plates is being scanned 1963\n6310 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Brazos River Basin, Texas 1973\n6311 Floods in Texas, Magnitude and Frequency of Peak Flows plate 1: Map showing gaging stations and floor-frequency regions\nPlate 2: Map showing gaging stations and hydrologic areas 1963\n6312 Ground-Water Resources for Refugio County, Texas 1963\n6401 Research on Evaporation Retardation in Small Reservoirs 1958-63 1964\n6402 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Carson County and Part of Gray County, Texas 1964\n6403 Fifty Years of Water Development in Texas 1964\n6404 Conservation Storage Reservoirs in Texas Some Aspects and Chronology of Surface-Water Resources Development 1964\n6405 Reconnaissance of the Chemical Quality of Surface waters of the Sabine River Basin Texas and Louisiana 1964\n6406 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Hardin County, Texas 1964\n6407 Base-Flow Studies Pedernales River, Texas 1964\n6408 Dams and Reservoirs in Texas Historical & Descriptive Info 1964\n6409 Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Guadalupe, San Antonio, and Nueces River Basins, Texas 1964\n6410 Suspended-Sediment Load of Texas Streams Compilation Report, October 1959-September 1961 1964\n6411 Chemical Quality of Surface Waters in the Hubbard Creek Watershed, Texas, Progress Report, September 1963 1964\n6412 Occurrence and Quality of Ground Water in Stephens County, Texas 1964\n6413 Water-Supply Limitations on Irrigation from the Rio Grande in Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron, and Willacy Counties, Texas 1964\n6413A Appendices to Bulletin 6413 (Water-Supply Limitations on Irrigation from the Rio Grande in Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron, and Willacy Counties, Texas) 1965\n6414 Analysis of Unit Hydrographs for Small Watersheds in Texas 1964\n6415 Occurrence and Quality of Ground Water in Young County, Texas 1964\n6502 Reconnaissance Investigations of the Ground-Water Resources of the Rio Grande Basin, Texas 1965\n6503 Base-Flow Studies, Guadalupe River Comal County, Texas 1965\n6504 The Current Status of Weather Modification A Summary - 1964 1965\n6505 Base-Flow Studies Llano River, Texas 1965\n6506 Base-Flow Studies Lampasas River, Texas 1965\n6507 Water-Level Data From Observation Wells in Pecos and Reeves Counties, Texas 1965\n6508 Analog Model Study of Ground Water in the Houston District, Texas 1965\n6509 Water-Delivery Study Nueces River, Texas, Quantity and Quality, August 1963 1965\n6510 Base-flow Studies San Gabriel River, Texas, Quantity and Quality, March 16-18, 1964\nPlate 1 Map of the San Gabriel River watershed 1965\n6511 Base-flow Studies Cibolo Creek, Texas, Quantity and Quality, March 5-7, 1963\nplate 1 Map of discharge measurements & river channel geology, Cibolo creek 1963 1965\n6512 Symposium on Consideration of Droughts in Water Planning 1965\n6513 Availability and Quality of Ground Water in Leon County, Texas 1965\n6514 Development of Ground Water in the El Paso District, Texas, 1960-63 1965\n6515 Inventory of Texas Irrigation 1965\n6516 Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Orange County, Texas (Second Printing 1970) 1965\n6517 Ground-Water Resources of Camp, Franklin, Morris and Titus Counties, Texas (Second Printing 1975) 1965\n6518 Ground-Water Resources of DeWitt County, Texas 1965\n6519 Ground-Water Resources of Menard County, Texas (Second Printing 1970) 1965\n6520 Ground-Water Resources of La Salle and McMullen Counties, Texas plates 1965\n6521 Investigation of Ground-Water Contamination, Rhineland Area Knox County, Texas 1965","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Zimmermann 'terrible' in Tigers' 7-3 loss to Sox\nZimmermann gave up three home runs, lifting his total to 16 allowed this season; Tigers' offense wasn't much better for much of the game\nZimmermann 'terrible' in Tigers' 7-3 loss to Sox Zimmermann gave up three home runs, lifting his total to 16 allowed this season; Tigers' offense wasn't much better for much of the game Check out this story on Freep.com: http:\/\/on.freep.com\/2rvqfop\nAnthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press Published 6:47 p.m. ET May 28, 2017 | Updated 8:31 p.m. ET May 28, 2017\nTigers centerfielder Alex Presley can't make the play on a ball hit for a solo home run by the White Sox's Matt Davidson in the fourth inning Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago.(Photo: Nam Y. Huh, AP)\nCHICAGO \u2014 Jordan Zimmermann is healthy.\nThe Detroit Tigers' veteran right-hander has not reported any soreness in his neck that prevented him from pitching like the pitcher the team thought it signed before last season.\nBut his neck might be a little sore after his latest start.\nZimmermann kept turning around to watch baseballs fly over the fence at Guaranteed Rate Field this afternoon, allowing three home runs as the White Sox beat the Tigers, 7-3.\n\"Terrible,\" he said. \"It's frustrating. \u2026 They brought me over here to be a big-time pitcher and I'm not doing that right now.\"\nIt was the continuance of a terrible trend this season: Zimmermann victimized by hard contact and home runs.\nThe Tigers offense didn't do much to back him, though that was a nearly impossible task on this day.\nPhotos: Tigers vs. White Sox series\nTigers shortstop Jose Iglesias throws out a White Sox runner in the second inning on Sunday, May 28, 2017 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago. Brian Cassella, TNS\nAndrew Romine of the Tigers slides safely into third base for a triple as the ball hits the chest of Todd Frazier of the White Sox during the eighth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Jon Durr, Getty Images\nMay 28, 2017; Chicago, IL, USA; Tigers centerfielder Alex Presley misses catching a home run hit by White Sox designated hitter Matt Davidson during the fourth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field. David Banks, USA TODAY Sports\nMay 28, 2017; Chicago, IL, USA; White Sox rightfielder Willy Garcia slides safely into third base with an RBI triple as Tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos takes the throw in the third inning at Guaranteed Rate Field. David Banks, USA TODAY Sports\nMay 28, 2017; Chicago, IL, USA; White Sox starting pitcher Miguel Gonzalez tips his cap as he leaves in the eighth inning against the Tigers at Guaranteed Rate Field. He had a perfect game through six innings. David Banks, USA TODAY Sports\nMay 28, 2017; Chicago, IL, USA; Tigers relief pitcher Arcenio Leon throws the ball against the White Sox during the eighth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field. David Banks, USA TODAY Sports\nWhite Sox leftfielder Melky Cabrera watches his solo home run against the Tigers on Sunday, May 28, 2017 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago. Brian Cassella, TNS\nTigers pitcher Jordan Zimmermann throws against the White Sox on May 28, 2017 in Chicago. MLB players across the league are wearing special uniforms to commemorate Memorial Day. Jon Durr, Getty Images\nTigers centerfielder Alex Presley can't make the play on a ball hit for a solo home run by the White Sox's Matt Davidson in the fourth inning Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nMiguel Cabrera of the Tigers hits an RBI single against the White Sox during the seventh inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Jon Durr, Getty Images\nDetroit Tigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann (27) delivers to the Chicago White Sox in the first inning on Sunday, May 28, 2017 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Ill. (Brian Cassella\/Chicago Tribune\/TNS) Brian Cassella, TNS\nTigers pitcher Jordan Zimmermann reacts while White Sox third baseman Todd Frazier circles the bases with a two-run home run in the fifth inning of the Tigers' 7-3 loss Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Brian Cassella, TNS\nWhite Sox's Willy Garcia scores on a throwing error after hitting an RBI triple as Tigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann looks to the field in the third inning Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nFans leave their seats during a rain delay in the fourth inning between the Tigers and the White Sox on Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers' Victor Martinez reacts after being called out on strikes in the fifth inning against the White Sox, Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nMay 28, 2017; Chicago, IL, USA; The grounds crew puts a tarp on the field in a rain delay during the fourth inning in a game between the White Sox and the Tigers at Guaranteed Rate Field. David Banks, USA TODAY Sports\nTigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann kicks the mound after the White Sox's Yolmer Sanchez hit a double in the fourth inning Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\n\"Almighty\" Christopher Daniels throws out a ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Tigers and the White Sox, Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera, right, celebrates with third baseman Nick Castellanos after the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers manager Brad Ausmus, right, celebrates with pitcher Justin Wilson after the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers leftfielder Justin Upton, left, celebrates with pitcher Justin Wilson, center, and catcher John Hicks after the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers designated hitter Victor Martinez (41) celebrates with manager Brad Ausmus, left, and teammates after hitting a solo home run in the ninth inning of the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera throws a baseball to a fan in the fifth inning the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers manager Brad Ausmus takes pitcher Buck Farmer out of the game in the 7th inning of the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nTigers second baseman Andrew Romine scores a run in the 7th inning of the Tigers' 4-3 win over the White Sox in Game 2 of the doubleheader Saturday in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nJustin Wilson pitches in the 9th inning of a Tigers 4-3 win over the White Sox. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nTigers starting pitcher Buck Farmer throws against the White Sox in the first inning of the second game of a doubleheader Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh, AP\nTigers outfielder Tyler Collins dives unsuccessfully to try and catch a ball hit by the White Sox in the 8th inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nAdam Engel of the White Sox dives safely back to first base ahead of the tag by Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers in the 8th inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nMiguel Cabrera of the Tigers reacts after striking out in the 7th inning against the White Sox on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nAndrew Romine of the Tigers turns a double play in the 5th inning over Omar Narvaez of the White Sox on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nJose Iglesias of the Tigers reacts after striking out in the 8th inning against the White Sox on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nChicago White Sox's Adam Engel dive safely back to first on a pick off attempt by Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Michael Fulmer to first baseman Miguel Cabrera during the eighth inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 27, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast) Charles Rex Arbogast, AP\nThe White Sox celebrate their 3-0 win over the Tigers on Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast, AP\nWhite Sox's Omar Narvaez lays down a bunt single as Tigers catcher Alex Avila and home plate umpire Nic Lentz watch during the fifth inning Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast, AP\nWhite Sox's Tim Anderson beats the throw to Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera in the fifth inning Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast, AP\nWhite Sox's Melky Cabrera catches a ball in foul territory and runs in to the railing during the fifth inning against the Tigers on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast, AP\nTigers pitcher Michael Fulmer delivers against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nTigers starting pitcher Michael Fulmer delivers during the first inning against the White Sox, Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast, AP\nTigers catcher Alex Avila reacts after striking out looking in the 2nd inning in front of White Sox catcher Omar Narvaez at Guaranteed Rate Field on May 27, 2017 in Chicago. Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images\nWhite Sox shortstop Tim Anderson (7) is tagged out by Tigers second baseman Andrew Romine (17) during a run down between second base and first base during the seventh inning of the Tigers' 8-2 loss Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers third baseman Nicholas Castellanos throws out White Sox second baseman Tyler Saladino at first base during the third inning of the Tigers' 8-2 loss Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers third baseman Nicholas Castellanos bobbles a single hit by Chicago White Sox leftfielder Melky Cabrera during the third inning of the Tigers' 8-2 loss Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers leftfielder Justin Upton reacts after striking out during the eighth inning of the Tigers' 8-2 loss Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers designated hitter Victor Martinez. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers second baseman Andrew Romine forces out White Sox rightfielder Avisail Garcia at second base during the seventh inning of the Tigers' 8-2 loss Friday in Chicago. David Banks, Getty Images\nTigers shortstop Jose Iglesias (1) flips the ball to second baseman Andrew Romine (17) as he forces White Sox second baseman Yolmer Sanchez (5) out in the in the fourth inning Friday in Chicago. Matt Marton USA TODAY Sports\nTigers second baseman Andrew Romine reacts after striking out during the second inning Friday in Chicago. David Banks, Getty Images\nTigers leftfielder Justin Upton is greeted by his teammates after scoring during the second inning Friday in Chicago. David Banks, Getty Images\nTigers catcher Alex Avila (31) celebrates with rightfielder J.D. Martinez (41) after he hits a home run in the fifth inning Friday in Chicago. Matt Marton USA TODAY Sports\nTigers starting pitcher Matthew Boyd (48) walks past White Sox players after they score in the third inning Friday in Chicago. Matt Marton USA TODAY Sports\nTigers catcher Alex Avila (31) celebrates with teammates after he hits a home run in the fifth inning Friday in Chicago. Matt Marton USA TODAY Sports\nWhite Sox designated hitter Todd Frazier (21) slides into home plate safely on a Avisail Garcia double while Tigers catcher Alex Avila (31) tries to apply the tag during the third inning Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers second baseman Andrew Romine (17) throws to first base after forcing out White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson (7) at second base during the second inning Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nWhite Sox rightfielder Avisail Garcia watches his three-RBI double during the third inning Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nTigers starter Matthew Boyd delivers a pitch during the first inning Friday in Chicago. Paul Beaty, AP\nThe Tigers struck out 49 times in the four-game series against the White Sox, the most for any four-game series in team history since at least 1913, according to research by Fox Sports Detroit's Austin Drake.\nThe White Sox jumped on Zimmermann in the bottom of the third inning with an RBI triple by Willy Garcia. Garcia scored on the play when Jose Iglesias made an errant throw to third base.\nTwo batters later, the first home run happened: Melky Cabrera to rightfield.\nAfter a 30-minute rain delay, Zimmermann allowed a home run to Matt Davidson to lead off the fourth. After the White Sox scored another, Todd Frazier hit a two-run home run in the fifth.\nTigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann kicks the mound after the White Sox's Yolmer Sanchez hit a double in the fourth inning Sunday, May 28, 2017 in Chicago. (Photo: Nam Y. Huh, AP)\nZimmermann (4-4) has allowed 16 home runs in 55\u2154 innings this season. He allowed 14 in 105\u2153 innings last season.\n\"He's gotta stay away from the home run ball,\" manager Brad Ausmus said. \"The home run balls kill him. He can't continue to pitch and give up home runs like that.\"\nZimmermann's final line: Five innings, eight hits, seven earned runs, one walk and three strikeouts. For the season, he has a 6.47 ERA in 10 starts.\nThe Tigers didn't put their first runner on base until the seventh inning, when Andrew Romine singled to shortstop.\nWhite Sox righty Miguel Gonzalez retired the first 18 men in order before Romine's line drive, initially ruled an error but later changed to a hit.\n\"We're just not swinging the bats well, period,\" Ausmus said. \"Occasionally, a guy hits the ball well here and there but as a group, we're not swinging the bats well.\"\nGonzalez allowed a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth, but as Ausmus said, \"It was too late.\"\nGonzalez, who has struggled in his career against the Tigers, allowed three runs on six hits in 7\u2154 innings, with six strikeouts and no walks.\nThe recently promoted Alex Presley \u2014 taking the roster spot of Tyler Collins, who was designated for assignment earlier in the day \u2014 had an RBI double in the eighth inning. Romine was the only Tiger with multiple hits (two).\nRighty reliever Arcenio Leon made his major league debut in the eighth inning, pitching a perfect inning with one strikeout.\nIt was the lone bright spot in the Tigers' latest loss, which puts them four games under the .500 mark (23-27). They are 2-6 on their 11-game road trip, which now rolls into Kansas City for a three-game series with the Royals beginning tonight.\n\"Probably every year I've been here, we've gone through something like this,\" Ausmus said. \"You go through this at some point \u2014 every team does \u2014 but we gotta find a way to get out of it.\"\nContact Anthony Fenech: afenech@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @anthonyfenech.\nRichard Sherman's hate for Michigan's Jim Harbaugh lives on: 'Nothing to mend'\nMike Vrabel shows Lions what they missed by hiring Matt Patricia\nMichigan football fills both coaching vacancies, lands one star recruiter\nWhy Charlie Strong says Michigan's new LBs coach is a 'great fit'\nPistons appear to be sellers before trade deadline. What else do we know?\nMailbag: Yzerman has tough job to reshape Red Wings at trade deadline","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Connecting Researchers and Research\nORCID Trust\nORCID Board\nORCID Team\nAnnual data files\nMember API\nORCID Registry\nPublic Client Terms of Service\nOpen Source Project License\nPublic Data File Use Policy\nBenefits for Researchers\nResearcher FAQ\nBenefits for Funders\nBenefits for Research Organizations\nBenefits for Research Resources\nORCID Map\nMembership Comparison\nORCID Consortia\nConsortia Agreement\nConsortia Onboarding Checklist\nRoles and Responsibilities of ORCID Consortia\nFunder and Grants\nGetting Started with Your Integration\nSandbox Testing Server\nRegistering a Member API Client\nIntegration and API FAQ\nAPI Tutorials\nGet an Authenticated ORCID iD\nRead Data on a Record\nAdd and Update Data on an ORCID record\nHands On with the ORCID API\nORCID Community\nORCID API Users Group\nHistorical Task Forces, Working Groups, and Steering Groups\nORCID Enabled Systems\nPublishers Open Letter\nFunders Open Letter\nStandard Member Agreement\nRegister a Sandbox API Client\nRegister a Production API Client\nORCID News\nConsortia News\nIntegration News\nORCID Joint Statements launched in Australia\nApril 22, 2015 By Natasha Simons\nAbout the writer: Natasha Simons is a Research Data Management Specialist with the Australian National Data Service, an organisation set up by the Australian Government to enhance the value of data for researchers, research institutions, and the nation as part of its wider National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy. Located at Griffith University in Brisbane, Natasha serves on the Council of Australian University Librarians Research Advisory Committee and is an ORCID Ambassador.\nORCID is continuing to attract a high level of interest and enthusiasm in the Australian research sector, reflected in attendance at two national roundtables and the issuing of an ORCID Joint Statement of Principle endorsed by Universities Australia, the Australasian Research Management Society, the Council of Australian University Librarians and the Australian National Data Service. Australia's two major research funding agencies, the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council, have also issued a joint statement on ORCID and are looking to integrate it into their grant application systems.\nOn 14 April 2015 at an ORCID Implementers Roundtable in Canberra, the Joint Statement of Principle: ORCID \u2013 Connecting Researchers and Research was launched by representatives of Universities Australia (UA), the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS), the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). The statement, which has been endorsed by all four organisations, proposes that Australia's research sector broadly embrace the use of ORCID as a common researcher identifier. It states:\nAs a matter of principle we:\n1. Recognise the value of unique researcher identifiers in reducing red tape, increasing efficiency, improving data quality, integrating disparate data, promoting the reuse of data, and enhancing the online presence of Australian research to the global market; and\n2. Commit to support the use of ORCID as a common researcher identifier.\nOn the same day, Australia's two major research funding agencies \u2013 the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) \u2013 also released a joint statement on ORCID in which they encouraged all researchers applying for funding to have an ORCID identifier.\nIn July 2014 ANDS and CAUL co-hosted a very successful ORCID Roundtable in Canberra to explore institutional perspectives and facilitate discussion around a possible national approach to ORCID adoption. The Roundtable brought together heads of Research Offices and University Libraries from across the country, along with representatives of the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council and government-funded research institutions. Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID, also attended the Roundtable providing the international context of ORCID adoption and enabling a direct line of communication for questions.\nOne of the outcomes of the Roundtable was an action to explore the possibility of a common position\/statement\/principle on researcher identification between CAUL, ARMS, ARC and NHMRC. An example of such a statement was provided in the European Commission H2020 Grantee Guidelines. ANDS therefore co-ordinated a small ORCID working group comprised of representatives from CAUL, ARMS, ARC, NHMRC, and UA. Over a very short period of time, the working group drafted the Joint Statement of Principle and facilitated its path through various executive meetings. CAUL, ARMS, UA and ANDS officially endorsed the Joint Statement. The ARC and NHMRC provided input into the Joint Statement through their participation in the working group and released their own joint statement. Both statements were released on the same day as the ORCID Implementers Roundtable, which was attended by representatives of research institutions from across the country in addition to representatives of the funding agencies, Thomson Reuters, Elsevier and Digital Science. Laurel Haak and Robert Peters, ORCID Technical Developer, also attended the 2015 roundtable.\nThe Joint Statement of Principle acknowledges \"unique identification of researchers is difficult for research institutions, publishers, funding bodies and researchers themselves, making it problematic to accurately link research publications, data and other research activities to the right researcher.\" It recognises that the use of ORCID in Australia will have many tangible benefits, for our researchers, research institutions, funding agencies and the nation overall. The Statement lists the many benefits of ORCID for researchers, for the university\/research institution\/agency, and for the nation. It highlights international and local adoption of ORCID, noting a significant number of Australian institutions have either joined ORCID or are considering membership, and concludes with a consideration of implementation options that identifies key issues as privacy, cost and communication.\nThe NHMRC and ARC joint statement identifies similar benefits, stating, \"The use of ORCID may help streamline research administration and reporting for researchers and administering institutions through facilitating disambiguation of researchers and research outputs and enabling the linking and reuse of high quality, persistent data such as publications and research grants.\" In 2014, the NHMRC enabled the inclusion of researchers' ORCID identifiers when applying for grants and the ARC is considering a similar move.\nLinda O'Brien, who represented the Council of Australian University Librarians on the ORCID working group said, \"This provides an exciting opportunity to increase the visibility, and hence the impact, of the great work of Australia's researchers. I was delighted to be part of a great team who have worked collaboratively to develop, and to garner support from their respective organisations, for the Joint Statement of Principle.\"\nARMS Treasurer, Michelle Duryea, who represented the ARMS Executive Committee on the working group said, \"Several research-leading nations, such as the United Kingdom and Denmark, are in the process of integrating ORCID identifiers into their local systems. The adoption of ORCID across the Australian research sector will position us as a global leader in research management practices and contribute to Australia being viewed favourably as a collaborative partner. I encourage our members in New Zealand and Singapore to also consider similar ORCID adoption initiatives.\"\nRoss Wilkinson, Executive Director of the Australian National Data Service said, \"Addressing national challenges at the global scale requires Australian researchers to be connected into the global research network. ORCID will make these connections easier.\"\nThe two ORCID joint statements signal a significant step forward for the Australian research sector in a relatively short space of time. However, the benefits of ORCID won't be realised by simply stating our support. The challenge ahead is to turn the words \u2013 and the enthusiasm behind them \u2013 into action. To this end, the ORCID working group comprised of representatives from UA, CAUL, ARMS, ANDS, and more recently the Australian Access Federation (AAF), will continue to work with the Universities Australia Deputy Vice Chancellor's Research group, the ARC, NHMRC and other publicly-funded research agencies to progress options for sector-wide adoption of ORCID, including potential joint licensing and implementation approaches.\nWe will only use your email to notify you when we have new blog posts. You can unsubscribe at any time. 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{"text":"Investigative Group\nAttorney Lin Wood Hasn't Voted In Republican Primary Since 2004, Georgia Secretary Of State's Office Confirms\nStephen Chernin\/Getty Images\nAndrew Kerr Investigative Reporter\nDecember 03, 2020 12:19 PM ET\n\"Stop the Steal\" attorney Lin Wood has not voted in a Republican primary since 2004, the Georgia Secretary of State's office told the Daily Caller News Foundation.\nWood said during a rally Wednesday that Republicans ought not to vote in Georgia's runoff elections in January that will determine the fate of the Senate because they'll be rigged.\nWood has a history of donating to Democrats and Republicans, Georgia state and federal election records show.\nAttorney Lin Wood, who said at a rally Wednesday that Georgia Republicans ought not to vote in the state's upcoming runoff elections that will determine whether the GOP holds onto the Senate, hasn't voted in a Republican primary since 2004.\n\"It is accurate that he has not voted in a Republican primary since 2004,\" Georgia Secretary of State spokesman Walter Jones told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.\nCandice Broce, the communications director for Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, tweeted a graphic Wednesday afternoon showing that Wood voted in the state's Democratic primaries in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2018. Broce said the graphic \"has been confirmed accurate by the Georgia Secretary of State's Office.\"\nThis graphic has been confirmed accurate by the Georgia Secretary of State's Office. It is a screenshot of Wood's voter record from the state voter registration system. pic.twitter.com\/a4qcF8X99b\n\u2014 Candice Broce (@candicebroce) December 2, 2020\nWood and former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell called on Georgia Republicans during a \"Stop the Steal\" rally on Wednesday to withhold their votes for GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue in the upcoming Senate runoff elections in January, saying it would be \"another rigged election.\"\n\"They have not earned your vote,\" Wood said at the rally. \"Don't give it to them. Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for God's sake!\"\nHere's Lin Wood telling Georgia Republicans NOT to vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue next month.\n\"They have not earned your vote. Don't you give it to them. Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for god's sake! Fix it! You gotta fix it!\" pic.twitter.com\/Uvj1QIpqFL\n\u2014 Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 2, 2020\nIf Loeffler and Purdue lose to their Democratic challengers in the upcoming elections, Democrats will take control of the Senate.\nWood also accused Kemp of being a foreign agent working for China during the rally. And on Tuesday, Wood called on Trump in a tweet to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law so the military can oversee a national re-vote for the 2020 elections, which he says was rigged.\nRecords first reported by Breitbart News from the Georgia Campaign Finance Commission show that Wood has contributed nearly $40,000 to Democratic candidates and groups since 2006, including a $1,000 contribution to a Georgia-based PAC in 2010 dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women. The records also show that Wood donated $6,600 to Kemp in 2018.\nWood also contributed $100 to Purdue's Democratic challenger in the Georgia 2014 elections, Michelle Nunn, Federal Election Commission records show.\nFEC records show that Wood contributed a combined $2,300 to former President Barack Obama's campaign in 2008 and a total of $500 to former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards in 2004.\nHowever, FEC records also show that Wood has contributed a substantial amount to Republican groups and causes, including $380,000 to the Trump Victory Committee, $251,000 to the Republican National Committee, $10,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and over $15,000 to the Trump campaign.\nProminent supporters of Trump came out against Wood after his comments Wednesday. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Trump Allies Go After Former Democrat 'Con Artists' Lin Wood And Sidney Powell Over Georgia Senate Runoff Comments)\nFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday morning that Wood and Powell are \"totally destructive,\" saying their \"don't vote strategy will cripple America. A Trump campaign-operated Twitter account highlighted Breitbart's report covering Wood's contributions to Democratic candidates.\nWood defended his comments Thursday morning on Twitter, saying the November election in Georgia was \"unlawful & unconstitutional,\" and that the state needs to fix its election system before the January runoffs.\n\"I am not Democrat. I am not Republican. I am an American Patriot who believes it is essential to our freedom that [Trump's] victory be recognized & fraud in voting system be fixed,\" Wood tweeted.\nToday is a good day to make clear that I agree 100% with @EmeraldRobinson.\nI am not Democrat. I am not Republican. I am an American Patriot who believes it is essential to our freedom that @realDonaldTrump victory be recognized & fraud in voting system be fixed. https:\/\/t.co\/dIc7gvCqHj\n\u2014 Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 3, 2020\nWood did not respond to email and phone inquiries directed at his eponymous law firm.\nTags : donald trump georgia lin wood\nAndrew Kerr\nFollow Andrew on Twitter. Contact Andrew securely at AndrewKerrNC@protonmail.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Premier Diet Keto Review\nIs It Just Another Shark Tank Product?\nIf you're considering the purchase of the Premier Diet Keto supplement chances are you're already familiar with the basics of ketosis. But for those that aren't we'll provide a quick refresher.\nUnder normal circumstances, the body uses carbohydrates as fuel. When the body is starved of carbs, the liver begins to produce what are called \"ketone bodies\" which are then used to metabolize fat into energy. When this happens, a person is said to be in \"ketosis.\" Because the body is burning fat as its primary energy source weight loss during ketosis is often dramatic.\nAs awareness of this phenomenon spread in recent years more and more people have taken to using the low-carb \"keto diet,\" to achieve the rapid and sustainable weight loss, they were unable to obtain through other means. But it's not easy. It takes determination and commitment. As such folks have been searching for a way to mimic keto-like effects without having to adhere to a strict low-carb lifestyle for the rest of their lives and products like this Premier Keto Diet, have sprouted up to meet the demand.\nWhat is Premier Diet Keto?\nThis supplement is one of a slew of recently introduced supplements that aim to let people enjoy many of the benefits of the diet without having to change their entire relationship to food in the process.\nInstead, products like this claim to be able to produce keto-like fat burning effects over a short period. But do they? Does it work? Let's take a look.\nWhat are Ingredients in Premier Diet Keto?\nYou might have seen this product by Shark Tank where it was subjected to some pretty intense scrutiny by Mark Cuban and his investor buddies. The product emerged with an endorsement (not all products on the show do), and since then vast numbers of people from coast to coast and beyond have expressed interest in it. But that alone is not proof that it works. To determine the likelihood of that we need first to take a look at the Premier Diet Keto ingredients.\n\u200bHydroxycitric acid - Hydroxycitric acid, commonly referred to as HCA, is known in athletic circles for its ability to enhance both the intensity and duration of the physical performance. Some have claimed that HCA aids in fat burning and is, therefore, a valuable tool in the weight loss toolbox. However, while it seems apparent that HCA helps people lose weight, it's likely that said weight loss is more a function of HCA's ability to suppress appetite rather than burn fat.\n\u200b\u200bGinger - Ginger is one of the wildcards of traditional Chinese medicine used for everything from alleviating headaches to calming the stomach to lowering blood pressure and more. It has also demonstrated an ability to help boost the immune system, provide faster recovery after vigorous workouts and perhaps most importantly, help you feel full faster. Feeling full is essential if one is to control food intake and give ketosis and keto-like effects the best chance to produce positive results.\n\u200bBHB - Beta-hydroxybutyrate or BHB is one of the first ketone bodies the liver produces when it is undergoing the shift to ketosis. Its job is simple: to seek out fat and metabolize it into fuel for the body. The actual chemical and physiological mechanisms underpinning BHB are extraordinarily complex but suffice to say that without it, ketosis would be impossible. Being that it is such a key player in the keto dynamic its inclusion here makes perfect sense.\nAvocado - Avocado is rich in healthy fats, and as such it makes an ideal addition to the ingredient list here. After all, BHB is intended to mimic keto effects and help trick your body into burning fat. Therefore, you need to give it fats to burn, especially if you have already lost much of your body fat to the low-carb lifestyle. So, while some will scratch their heads when seeing this on the ingredient list, it makes perfect sense here from the perspective of creating a well-rounded supplement.\nL-Arginine - There is a mounting body of evidence that L-arginine may help promote weight loss when used in conjunction with a low carb lifestyle. It's also shown promise aiding in the production of lean, strong muscles. Some studies have concluded that L-arginine may help set the stage for fat burning while at the same time helping to minimize the production of new fat cells. When taken together, these abilities to promote weight loss, prevent the generation of new fat cells and build lean, healthy muscle make it an ideal ingredient in a keto-related supplement.\nNone of the above-listed ingredients are known to produce any remarkable side effects when taken as directed with the possible exception of ginger. When taken in excessive amounts ginger may lead to heartburn, diarrhea, easy bruising, bleeding or skin irritation.\nL-arginine too may produce some less than pleasant side effects if taken in excess. Those symptoms may include elevated heart rate, skin rash, dizziness, and coughing. These are based on other Premier Diet Keto reviews as well.\nBear in mind as well that there are some artificial fillers in play here too. So if you're looking for an all-natural experience, you may want to give Premier Keto Diet a pass.\nThe Bottom Line: Is Premier Diet Keto The Best?\nThere's little doubt that the ingredients in this supplement are potentially game changers when it comes to your overall health and well-being.\nThat said, however, Premier Diet Keto reviews reveal a notable number of apparently dissatisfied individuals. Perhaps what the proprietary ingredient list is hiding is the fact that the makers of this product have not included enough of any of the ingredients to make a quantifiable difference when it comes to fat burning.\nAs such, we do not recommend it to our readers but we do have another Shark Tank product that we have also tested and actually proved effective.\nPurefit Keto is a BHB supplement that can actually get you into ketosis. With its effective ingredients, you will be losing weight in no time. With its feature on Shark Tank, there's no doubt why this supplement has gotten so much traction in the world of keto. If you're ready to take the plunge on Purefit Keto, click the button above.\nDon't miss this special holiday deal! Use code: ERYDAY25","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"General Bibliography \u2013 Volume III \u2013 Dictionary of Canadian Biography\nGeneral Bibliography \u2013 Volume III\nAAQ Archives de l'archidioc\u00e8se de Qu\u00e9bec\nACAM Archives de la chancellerie de l'archev\u00each\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\nACND Archives de la Congr\u00e9gation de Notre-Dame, Montr\u00e9al\nAD Archives d\u00e9partementales, France\nAHDQ Archives de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Qu\u00e9bec\nAHGQ Archives de l'H\u00f4pital G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Qu\u00e9bec\nAHSJ Archives g\u00e9n\u00e9rales des Religieuses\nhospitali\u00e8res de Saint-Joseph, Montr\u00e9al\nAJM Archives judiciaires de Montr\u00e9al\nAJQ Archives judiciaires de Qu\u00e9bec\nAJTR Archives judiciaires de Trois-Rivi\u00e8res\nAMUQ Archives du monast\u00e8re des Ursulines de Qu\u00e9bec\nAN Archives nationales, Paris\nANDM Archives paroissiales de Notre-Dame de Montr\u00e9al\nANDQ Archives paroissiales de Notre-Dame de Qu\u00e9bec\nANQ Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec\nANQ-M Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec, d\u00e9p\u00f4t de Montr\u00e9al\nAPQ Archives de la province de Qu\u00e9bec\nAQ Archives du Qu\u00e9bec\nARSI Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Rome\nASGM Archives des s\u0153urs Grises, Montr\u00e9al\nASJCF Archives de la Compagnie de J\u00e9sus, province du Canada fran\u00e7ais\nASQ Archives du s\u00e9minaire de Qu\u00e9bec\nASSM Archives du s\u00e9minaire de Saint-Sulpice, Montr\u00e9al\nBM British Museum, London\nBN Biblioth\u00e8que nationale, Paris\nBRH Le Bulletin des recherches historiques\nCCHA Canadian Catholic Historical Association\nCHA Canadian Historical Association\nCHR Canadian Historical Review\nCTG Comit\u00e9 technique du G\u00e9nie, Paris\nDAB Dictionary of American biography\nDBF Dictionnaire de biographie fran\u00e7aise\nDCB Dictionary of Canadian biography\nDNB Dictionary of national biography\nDPL Detroit Public Library\nHBC Hudson's Bay Company\nHBRS Hudson's Bay Record Society\nIOA L'Inventaire des \u0153uvres d'art, Qu\u00e9bec\nJR Jesuit relations and allied documents\nNYCD Documents relative to the colonial\nhistory of the state of New-York\nPAC Public Archives of Canada\nPANL Public Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador\nPANS Public Archives of Nova Scotia\nPRO Public Record Office, London\nRHAF Revue d'histoire de l'Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise\nRSCT Royal Society of Canada Proceedings\nand Transactions\nRUL La Revue de l'universit\u00e9 Laval\nSCH\u00c9C Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne d'histoire de\nl'\u00c9glise catholique\nSGCF Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9alogique canadienne-fran\u00e7aise\nSHA Service historique de l'Arm\u00e9e, Paris\nSHM Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 historique de Montr\u00e9al\nSHQ Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 historique de Qu\u00e9bec\nSHS Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 historique du Saguenay\nUSPG United Society for the Propagation of\nthe Gospel, London\nThe General Bibliography is based on the sources most frequently cited in individual bibliographies in volume III. It should not be regarded as providing a complete list of background materials for the history of Canada in the 18th century.\nSection i provides a description of the principal archival sources used for this volume and is divided by country. Section ii contains printed primary sources: documents and printed works of the 18th century which may be regarded as contemporary sources. Section iii includes various dictionaries, nominal lists, indexes, and inventories of documents. Section iv contains secondary works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including a number of general histories, and theses. Section v describes the principal journals and the publications of various societies which contain material on the 18th century.\nI. ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT SOURCES\nARCHIVES DE LA CHANCELLERIE DE L'ARCHEV\u00caCH\u00c9 DE MONTR\u00c9AL. This archives, which contains documents dating to 1896 inclusively, consists of photographs, maps, 634 registers in 17 series (including, in particular, the correspondence of the bishops of Montreal), and some 500,000 dossiers containing unbound items relating to dioceses, clergy, laity, institutions, missions, religious communities, etc. For a description of the archives see: RHAF, XIX(1965\u201366), 652\u201355; SCH\u00c9C Rapport, 1963, 69\u201370. There is a detailed inventory of a number of registers and dossiers in RHAF,XIX (1965\u201366), 655\u201364; XX (1966\u201367), 146\u201366, 669\u2013700; XXIV (1970\u201371), 111\u201342.\nARCHIVES DE LA COMPAGNIE DE JESUS, PROVINCE DU CANADA FRAN\u00c7AIS, Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Terrebonne. Founded in 1844 by Father F\u00e9lix Martin*, the archives was originally housed in the Coll\u00e8ge Sainte-Marie, Montreal, and known by the initials ACSM. In 1968 the records were moved to the noviciate of the province of French Canada at Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, and are now identified by the initials ASJCF. Richly endowed in the year of its foundation by a valuable gift from the community of the H\u00f4tel-Dieu of Quebec, which had preserved some of the records (1635\u20131800) of the old Jesuit college in Quebec, the archives contains numerous documents, both originals\nand copies, concerning the history of the Jesuit missions in New France, Canada, and the United States, as well as documents relating to the history of the Catholic Church in Canada [see: ARCHIVES DU COLL\u00c8GE SAINTE-MARIE, DCB, I,686] .\nDocuments from the following sections were used in the preparation of volume III:\nThe section which consists of 140 metal boxes containing approximately 6,800 numbered documents (personal papers and correspondence, both originals and copies) and the Fonds Bernier and Fonds Baraga, which are not yet numbered:\n1\u20135,343: Fonds g\u00e9n\u00e9ral\n5,344\u20135,565: Fonds Gu\u00e9rin\n6,000\u20136,800: Fonds Prud'homme\nFonds Rochemonteix: 28 notebooks of documentation, numbered 4,001 to 4,028, which were used by Camille de Rochemonteix in the preparation of Les J\u00e9suites et la N.-F. au XVIIe si\u00e8cle and Les J\u00e9suites et la N.-F. au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle [see section iv].\nThe section of original manuscripts written by Jesuit missionaries:\nAbb\u00e9 Maillard, \"Livre de pri\u00e8res en langue micmaque avec traduction fran\u00e7aise en regard\"\nS\u00e9ries A-1 \u00e0 20, B-1 \u00e0 24: correspondence, diaries, papers relating to various Jesuit missions, colleges, retreat houses, and residences in Canada\nS\u00e9rie BO: papers left by the Jesuit fathers\nS\u00e9rie D: papers left by the Jesuit fathers at the time of their deaths\nCahier des v\u0153ux\nExtraits des catalogues\nARCHIVES DE LA CONGR\u00c9GATION DE NOTRE-DAME, Montr\u00e9al. In the process of being catalogued.\nThe principal documents used in the preparation of volume III:\nLa Congr\u00e9gation de Notre-Dame: son personnel, 1653\u20131768. 2v.\nFichier g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des s\u0153urs de la Congr\u00e9gation de Notre-Dame\nNominations, la Congr\u00e9gation de Notre-Dame et son personnel\nPlan des lieux de s\u00e9pulture depuis 1681-CND\nRegistre des s\u00e9pultures des s\u0153urs de la Congr\u00e9gation de Notre-Dame\nRegistre g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des s\u0153urs de la Congr\u00e9gation de Notre-Dame de Montr\u00e9al\nARCHIVES DE L'ARCHIDIOC\u00c8SE DE QU\u00c9BEC. Contains about 1,060 feet of documents, an analytical card file for all documents prior to 1930, and a six volume general index to the official registers of the archdiocese from 1659 to the present. There is a guide to this archives in SCH\u00c9C Rapport, 1934\u201335, 65\u201373.\nSeries used in the preparation of volume III:\nA: \u00c9v\u00eaques et archev\u00eaques de Qu\u00e9bec\n12A: Registres des insinuations eccl\u00e9siastiques\n20A: Lettres manuscrites des \u00e9v\u00eaques de Qu\u00e9bec\n22 A: Copies de lettres exp\u00e9di\u00e9es\nB: Chapitre de la cath\u00e9drale de Qu\u00e9bec\n10 B: Registre des d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations\n11 B: Correspondance\nC: Secr\u00e9tairerie et chancellerie\nCB: Structures de direction\n1 CB: Vicaires g\u00e9n\u00e9raux\nCD: Discipline dioc\u00e9saine\n42 CD: Abjurations\n61 CD: Notre-Dame de Qu\u00e9bec\n69 CD: Visites pastorales\nCM: \u00c9glise universelle\n91 CM: France\nCN: \u00c9glise canadienne\n312 CN: Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse\nT: Fonds priv\u00e9s. Manuscrits am\u00e9rindiens\nManuscrits Maillard\nW: Copies d'archives \u00e9trang\u00e8res\n1 W: \u00c9glise du Canada\nARCHIVES DE L'H\u00d4PITAL G\u00c9N\u00c9RAL DE QU\u00c9BEC. The following documents have been used in the preparation of volume III:\nActes capitulaires. 1699\u20131941. (This series also contains the Registre des entr\u00e9es et des dots, 1699\u20131860.)\nActes de profession et contrats de dot. 1717\u20131845.\n\"Annales.\" 3v., 1693\u20131793.\nCahiers divers, notices, \u00e9loges fun\u00e8bres, circulaires, notes diverses. 1v., 1727\u20131952.\nDivers extraits de nos annales et autres notes diverses. 1v., 1686\u20131866.\nLivres de comptes. 4v., 1693\u20131760.\n\"La vie de Mongr. Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevri\u00e8res de St Vallier, second \u00e9v\u00eaque de Qu\u00e9bec.\" (This manuscript dates from about 1850.)\nARCHIVES DE L'H\u00d4TEL-DIEU DE QU\u00c9BEC. This repository contains about 200 feet of documents concerning the establishment, government, and administration of the H\u00f4tel-Dieu of Quebec (hospital and convent). For a description of the archives, now being reorganized, see: Claire Gagnon et Fran\u00e7ois Rousseau, \"Deux inventaires des archives de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Qu\u00e9bec,\" Archives, 73\u20131 (Qu\u00e9bec), 62\u201382.\nRegistre des malades, I\u2013IV. 1689\u20131804.\nRegistre des comptes du monast\u00e8re, I\u2013VIII. 1691\u20131824.\nRegistre des comptes de l'h\u00f4pital, I\u2013IV. 1665\u20131826.\nRegistre d'entr\u00e9es, v\u00eatures, et professions des s\u0153urs de ch\u0153urs et des s\u0153urs converses (in the process of being catalogued). 7v., 1646\u20131825.\nJeanne-Fran\u00e7oise Juchereau de La Fert\u00e9 de Saint-Ignace, \"Histoire abr\u00e9g\u00e9e de l'\u00e9tablissement de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Qu\u00e9bec.\" This manuscript, written by Marie-Andr\u00e9e REGNARD Duplessis de Sainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, has been published under the title Les annales de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Qu\u00e9bec, 1636\u20131716 [see section ii, JUCHEREAU].\nARCHIVES DES FRANCISCAINS, Montr\u00e9al. This repository contains copies of documents concerning the Recollets in Canada, 1615\u20131849. These copies, collected by Fathers Odoric-Marie Jouve and Archange Godbout, are handwritten and not easily legible, and have not been entirely classified. There are two sections where the classification work is more advanced: the biographical dossiers of the Recollets and the dos-\nsiers of the parishes where they worked. The biographical dossiers have been used in the preparation of volume III.\nARCHIVES DES S\u0152URS GRISES, Montr\u00e9al. The documents which were at the H\u00f4pital G\u00e9n\u00e9ral of Montreal when Mme d'Youville [Dufrost*] became administratrix there in 1747 make up the Fonds \"Charon\" and are the source of this archival repository. Subsequently the items necessary for the general administration of the community were added. The classification for this repository is alphabetical for the dossiers and chronological within each dossier. The archives contains thousands of documents, the earliest dating from 1663, and about 300 maps and plans.\nLettres patentes\nMY\/B\n10 [S\u0153ur Baby. Julie Casgrain, 1835\u20131898]\n1741\u20131848 [M\u00e8re McMullen, s.g.m.]\nRecette et d\u00e9pense de juin 1718 \u00e0 septembre 1746\nRecueil des r\u00e8gles et constitutions \u00e0 l' usage des filles s\u00e9culi\u00e8res administratrices de l'H\u00f4pital G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Montr\u00e9al dites S\u0153urs de la Charit\u00e9 recueillies sur les anciens titres et usages de la communaut\u00e9, M. Montgolfier, \u00c9tienne, p.s.s., 1694\u20131796\nRegistre d'admission des pauvres. 1694\u20131796.\nRegistre des bapt\u00eames et s\u00e9pultures de l'H\u00f4pital G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Montr\u00e9al. 1725\u20131776.\nRegistre des bapt\u00eames de la paroisse de Saint-Fran\u00e7ois-du-Lac\nRegistre des s\u00e9pultures. 1725\u20131759.\nRegistre des v\u00eatures, professions, etc. des fr\u00e8res Charon. 1701\u20131748.\nARCHIVES DU MONAST\u00c8RE DES URSULINES DE QU\u00c9BEC. In the process of being catalogued.\nThe following documents were used in the preparation of volume III:\nActes d'\u00e9lection des sup\u00e9rieures. 1788\u20131941.\nActes des assembl\u00e9es capitulaires. 1686\u20131802.\nActes des professions et des s\u00e9pultures. 1688\u20131781.\n\"Annales,\" I. 1639\u20131822.\nCahier du P. Ragueneau, copi\u00e9 par Jacques Bigot, s.j., et d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 M. S.-Beno\u00eet\nCharlotte Daneau de Muy, dite de\nSainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, \"Abr\u00e9g\u00e9 de la vie de Mme la comtesse de Pontbriand\"\nEntr\u00e9es, v\u00eatures, professions et d\u00e9c\u00e8s des religieuses, I. 1647\u20131861.\nFonds des p\u00e8res j\u00e9suites\nLettres du p\u00e8re Charles-Michel M\u00e9saiger\nLettre autographe de M. S.-Pierre, 18 juin 1699\nLivre des entr\u00e9es et sorties des filles fran\u00e7aises et sauvages. 1641\u20131720.\nRegistre de l'examen canonique des novices, I. 1689\u20131807.\nRegistre des entr\u00e9es des pensionnaires. 1704\u20131761,1719\u20131838.\nARCHIVES DU S\u00c9MINAIRE DE QU\u00c9BEC. One of the most important archival repositories in North America. The records date from the founding of the seminary in 1663, but Mgr Thomas-\u00c9tienne Hamel* and Mgr Am\u00e9d\u00e9e Gosselin* may be considered to have founded the ASQ at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. ASQ contains some 1,172 feet of documents (seminary and private papers, the oldest dating from 1636 and the majority from 1675 to 1950), 2,000 maps, and 160 feet of engravings and photographs.\nDocuments used in the preparation of volume III include:\nBrouillard. 2v., 1705\u20131753.\nCarton Laverdi\u00e8re. 1 carton.\nChapitre. 1 carton containing 340 items, 1666\u20131785.\nDocuments Faribault. 1 carton containing 70 items.\n\u00c9v\u00eaques. 1 carton containing 330 items, 1626\u20131860.\nFichier des \u00e9coliers\nFonds Casgrain\nFonds Verreau. Includes the Fonds Viger and is therefore frequently called Viger-Verreau. The collections of Abb\u00e9 H.-A.-J.-B. Verreau* and Jacques Viger* consist in the main of about a hundred cartons, several notebooks, and the series of Viger's manuscript volumes entitled \"Ma Saberdache\" (see: Fernand Ouellet, \"Inventaire de la Saberdache de Jacques Viger,\" APQ Rapport, 1955\u201357, 31\u2013176).\nGrand livre de d\u00e9lib\u00e9ration, 1734\u20131736\nLettres, M, 171 items-, N, 181 items; O, 157 items; P, 100 items; R, 190 items; S, 188 items; T, 156 items\nLivres de comptes, C 8, 1730\u20131747; C 10, 1730\u20131735\nManuscrits, 2, \"Annales du petit s\u00e9minaire\"; 12, Grand Livre, 1730\u20131747; 71\u2013a\u20131, J.-F. Le Sueur, \"Catechismus prolixus de Baptismo et dissertatio christiana de justifica-\ntione . . . apud Uanbanakaeos Nanransuakos, 1730\"; 176, Charles Plante, \"\u00c9loges fun\u00e8bres de Mgr de St-Vallier\" ; 196, Maillard, \"La Religion\" (a poem with explanatory notes); 436\u201337, A.-\u00c9. Gosselin, \"Pr\u00eatres du s\u00e9minaire de Qu\u00e9bec (notices), du d\u00e9but \u00e0 nos jours\"; 457, 466\u201367, \"Annales du petit s\u00e9minaire\"\nMissions. 2 cartons (numbering continuous).\nParoisse de Qu\u00e9bec. 1 carton containing 101 items, 1652\u20131877.\nPlumitif\nPolygraphie. 248 cartons.\nRegistre des copies de tous les titres du s\u00e9minaire de Qu\u00e9bec. 1710\u20131754. [Registre A.]\nSeigneuries, XIII, \u00eele J\u00e9sus\nS\u00e9minaire. 204 cartons.\nARCHIVES DU S\u00c9MINAIRE DE SAINT-SULPICE, Montr\u00e9al. An important archival repository for the history of the Montreal region under the French r\u00e9gime; on his departure in 1665 Paul de Chomedey* de Maisonneuve left there the greater part of his papers, dating from 1642. The repository, divided into 49 sections, contains 190 feet of documents for the years 1586\u20131950, and about 1,200 maps and plans.\nThe following sections were most useful in the preparation of volume III:\nCahiers Faillon. 24 notebooks containing copies of documents (1677\u20131834) made under the direction of \u00c9.-M. Faillon*, with a view to continuing the writing of his Histoire de la colonie fran\u00e7aise en Canada (3v., Villemarie [Montr\u00e9al], 1865\u201366).\nCatalogue historique et chronologique des pr\u00eatres du s\u00e9minaire de Montr\u00e9al. 1 notebook.\nJoseph-Vincent Quiblier, \"Notes sur le s\u00e9minaire de Montr\u00e9al, 1847\" (typescript)\nSection de la correspondance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. 49 cartons, 1670\u20131928.\nSection de la seigneurie du Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. 69 cartons, 1717\u20131936.\nSection des associations et des communaut\u00e9s. 5 drawers and 18 cartons, in part not classified, 1659\u20131900.\nSection des biographies. 88 items arranged in alphabetical order, 1657\u20131926.\nSection des cartes et plans. About 1,200 items.\nSection des concessions de terre et d'emplacement de l'\u00eele de Montr\u00e9al. 25 drawers (5,000 documents), 1648\u20131854.\nSection des manuscrits indiens. 10 cartons, 1660\u20131880.\nSection des titres de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 du s\u00e9minaire de Montr\u00e9al. 1 drawer, 1636\u20131840.\nSection pr\u00e9dication. 8 double drawers, 1724\u20131940.\nARCHIVES G\u00c9N\u00c9RALES DES RELIGIEUSES HOSPITALI\u00c8RES DE SAINT-JOSEPH, Montr\u00e9al. This archival repository contains about 200 feet of manuscripts and 250 maps and plans for the period 1589\u20131900. These documents relate particularly to the administration of the community and of the hospital. There is a well defined system of classification for pre-1760 documents, completed as the preparation of volume III of the DCB was drawing to a close. For a description of the archives see: \"Cadre de classement des documents ant\u00e9rieurs \u00e0 1760\" (manuscript guide available at AHSJ); Jacques Ducharme, \"Historique des archives de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al et des Religieuses hospitali\u00e8res de Saint-Joseph,\" in L'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al (1642\u20131973) (Cahiers du Qu\u00e9bec, 13, Montr\u00e9al, 1973).\nThe principal documents used in volume III of the DCB:\nAnnales de s\u0153ur Marie Morin. 1697\u20131725.\nAnnales de s\u0153ur V\u00e9ronique Cuillerier. 1725\u20131747.\nD\u00e9clarations de nos anciennes m\u00e8res pour constater la profession et le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de nos s\u0153urs\nMarie Morin, \"Histoire simple et v\u00e9ritable de l'\u00e9tablissement des Religieuses hospitali\u00e8res de Saint-Joseph en l'\u00eele de Montr\u00e9al, dite \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent Ville-Marie, en Canada, de l'ann\u00e9e 1659. . . .\" Published as Annales de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al [see section ii, MORIN].\nARCHIVES JUDICIAIRES. The repositories of the judicial archives are to be found in the chief towns of the various judicial districts of Quebec. They preserve the registers of births, deaths, and marriages and numerous documents relating to the judicial affairs of their districts, as well as the greffes of the notaries and surveyors who practised there.\nDocuments from the archives of the following districts were particularly useful in the preparation of volume III:\nBeauce (Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce). (See: \"Inventaire sommaire des archives judiciaires conserv\u00e9es au palais de justice de Saint-Joseph, district de Beauce,\" APQ Rapport, 1921\u201322, 388\u201390.)\nRegistre d'\u00e9tat civil\nMontr\u00e9al. (For pre-1900 documents see section i, ANQ, Montr\u00e9al.)\nQu\u00e9bec. (For the greffes of notaries see section i, ANQ, Qu\u00e9bec.)\nFort Beauharnois-de-la-Pointe-\u00e0-la-Chevelure\nL' Ange-Gardien\nNotre-Dame de Qu\u00e9bec\nNotre-Dame-de-Mis\u00e9ricorde-de- Beau port\nSaint-Jean-Baptiste-des-\u00c9cureuils\nTrois-Rivi\u00e8res. (See: J.-B.-M. Barthe, \"Inventaire sommaire des archives conserv\u00e9es au palais de justice des Trois-Rivi\u00e8res,\" APQ Rapport, 1920\u201321, 328\u201349.)\nGreffes de: J.-B. Badeau, 1770\u20131796\nNicolas Duclos, 1751\u20131769\nLouis Pillard, 1736\u20131767\nA.-B. Pollet, 1730\u20131754\nJ.-B. Pottier, 1699\u20131711\nPierre Poulain, 1711\u20131720\nH.-O. Press\u00e9, 1735\u20131746\nImmacul\u00e9e-Conception de Trois-Rivi\u00e8res\nNotre-Dame de Trois-Rivi\u00e8res\nGrand voyer\nRegistre des proc\u00e8s-verbaux\nARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QU\u00c9BEC. At the conquest, articles 43, 44, and 45 of the capitulation of Montreal \u2013 contrary to the custom of international law at that time \u2013 permitted the administrators of New France to take back to France documents relating to the government of the colony. Only records having a legal value for individuals were to remain in the country, and these were to suffer many misfortunes before the office of the Archives de la province de Qu\u00e9bec \u2013 now the Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec \u2013 was created in 1920 [see: Gilles H\u00e9on, \"Bref historique des Archives du Qu\u00e9bec,\" ANQ Rapport, 1970, 13\u201325]. Some 3,300 feet of documents are preserved there today (official and private papers, originals and copies), the majority for the period 1663\u20131867. In 1968 the ANQ published an \u00c9tat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des archives publiques et priv\u00e9es and established a new system of classification.\nGreffes de: Jacques Barbel, 1703\u20131740\nR.-C. Barolet, 1731\u20131761\nNicolas Boisseau, 1731\u20131744\nGilbert Boucault de Godefus, 1736\u20131756\nLouis Chambalon, 1692\u20131716\nJ.-B. Choret, 1730\u20131755\nAntoine Crespin, 1750\u20131782\nJ.-\u00c9. Dubreuil, 1708\u20131739\nC.-H. Du Laurent, 1734\u20131760\nFran\u00e7ois Genaple de Bellefonds, 1682\u20131709\nHenry Hich\u00e9, 1725\u20131736\nJacques de Horn\u00e9, dit Laneuville, 1701\u20131730\nJacques Imbert, 1740\u20131749\n\u00c9tienne Jeanneau, 1674\u20131743\nFlorent de La Ceti\u00e8re, 1702\u20131728\nP.-A.-F. Lanoullier Des Granges, 1749\u20131760\nJean de Latour, 1736\u20131741\nClaude Louet, 1718\u20131737\nJ.-C. Louet, 1738\u20131767\nAbel Michon, 1709\u20131749\nJ.-C. Panet, 1745\u20131775\nN.-C. Pinguet de Bellevue, 1749\u20131751\nJ.-N. Pinguet de Vaucour, 1726\u20131748\nFran\u00e7ois Rageot, 1709\u20131753\nPierre Rivet Cavelier, 1709\u20131719\nGuillaume Roger, 1694\u20131702\nJ.-A. Saillant, 1750\u20131776\nSimon Sanguinet, 1748\u20131771\nJean Tach\u00e9, 1768\nAP: Archives priv\u00e9es. In the process of being\nclassified according to a numerical system.\nNF: Nouvelle-France\nArr\u00eats du Conseil d'\u00e9tat du roi, 1663\u20131753. 9v.\nAveux et d\u00e9nombrements, 1723\u20131758. 5v.\nCollection de pi\u00e8ces judiciaires et notariales, 1638\u20131759. 125v.\nCours seigneuriales, 1662\u20131760. lv.\nDocuments de la juridiction de Montr\u00e9al, 1675\u20131705. 1 carton.\nDocuments de la juridiction des Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, 1646\u20131759. 20v.\nDocuments de la Pr\u00e9vot\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec, 1668\u20131759. 17v.\nDossiers du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur, 1663\u20131759. 11v.\nFoi et hommage, 1667\u20131759. 5v.\nInsinuations de la Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec, 1667\u20131863. 207 boxes.\nInsinuations du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur, 1663\u20131758. 10v.\nOrdonnances des intendants, 1666\u20131760. 46v.\nProc\u00e8s-verbaux des grands voyers, 1668\u20131780. 9v.\nRegistres de la Pr\u00e9vot\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec, 1666\u20131759. 113v.\nRegistres d'intendance, 1672\u20131759. 4v.\nRegistres divers et pi\u00e8ces d\u00e9tach\u00e9es du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur, 1663\u20131760. 5v.\nRegistres du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur, 1663\u20131760. 69v.\nTaxes de d\u00e9pens du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur, 1703\u20131759. 10 cartons.\nQBC: Qu\u00e9bec et Bas-Canada\nCours de justice, 1760\u20131880. 67v.\nChambres des milices. Montr\u00e9al, 1760\u20131764. 6v.\nConseil militaire. Qu\u00e9bec, 1760\u20131764. 6v.\nCopies d'archives d'autres d\u00e9p\u00f4ts\nParoisses. Saint-Pierre, \u00eele d'Orl\u00e9ans,\n1679\u20131708.\nManuscrits relatifs \u00e0 l'histoire de la\nNouvelle-France. 3e s\u00e9rie: manuscrits relatifs \u00e0 l'histoire de la Nouvelle-France, 1713\u20131731. 7v.\nArchives de la Guerre\n\"Inventaire analytique des Archives de la Guerre concernant le Canada (1755\u20131760),\" compil\u00e9 par Jehan-\u00c9ric Labignette et Louise Dech\u00eane.\nANQ, Montr\u00e9al. On 21 Sept. 1971 the ANQ took possession of a repository in Montreal where it preserves pre-1900 documents formerly kept at AJM. In the individual bibliographies we have used the old AJM system of classification, whose series titles appear here in square brackets. For further information, consult \"\u00c9tat sommaire des Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al,\" ANQ Rapport, 1972, 1\u201329.\nSeries cited in volume III include:\nGreffes de: Antoine Adh\u00e9mar, 1668\u20131714\nJ.-B. Adh\u00e9mar, 1714\u20131754\nGuillaume Barette, 1709\u20131744 B\u00e9nigne Basset Des Lauriers, 1657\u20131699\nHilaire Bourgine, 1685\u20131690\nFran\u00e7ois Comparet, 1736\u20131755\nC.-F. Coron, 1734\u20131767\nFran\u00e7ois Coron, 1721\u20131732\nL.-C. Danr\u00e9 de Blanzy, 1738\u20131760 Jacques David, 1719\u20131726\nAntoine Foucher, 1746\u20131800\nC.-R. Gaudron de Chevremont, 1732\u20131739\nN.-A. Guillet de Chaumont, 1727\u20131752\nF.-M. Lepailleur, 1733\u20131739\nMichel Lepailleur, 1703\u20131732\nAntoine Loiseau, 1730\u20131760\nClaude Maugue, 1677\u20131696\nCyr de Monmerqu\u00e9, 1731\u20131765\nMichel Moreau, 1681\u20131698\nPierre Panet, 1755\u20131778\nJ.-C. Porlier, 1733\u20131744\nJ.-C. Raimbault, 1727\u20131737\nPierre Raimbault, 1697\u20131727\nNicolas Senet, 1704\u20131731\nFran\u00e7ois Simonet, 1737\u20131778\nMarien Tailhandier,ditLa Beaume, 1699\u20131730\nJ.-B. T\u00e9tro, 1712\u20131728\n\u00c9tat civil [Registre d'\u00e9tat civil]\nCatholique:\nLaprairie\nNotre-Dame de Montr\u00e9al\nDocuments judiciaires\nPi\u00e8ces d\u00e9tach\u00e9es de documents surtout \u00e0 caract\u00e8re judiciaire, class\u00e9es par ordre chronologique [Documents judiciaires], 1677\u20131760. 163v.\nDossiers sur divers proc\u00e8s c\u00e9l\u00e8bres [Proc\u00e8s fameux], 1660\u20131756. 5v.\nBailliage. Juridiction de Montr\u00e9al [Registre du bailliage], 1665\u20131687. 2 registers.\nRegistres des audiences, 1687\u20131760. 30 registers.\nProc\u00e8s-verbaux d'arpenteurs\nProc\u00e8s-verbaux divers [Arpentage], 1663\u20131913. 4v.\nInventaires, cl\u00f4tures d'inventaires et successions\nInventaires et cl\u00f4tures d'inventaires [Cl\u00f4tures d'inventaires], 1665\u2013c. 1760. 9v.\nArr\u00eats, ordonnances et mandements\nOrdonnances (especially those of the governors of Montreal; also some ordinances of intendants and certain pastoral letters of bishops) [Documents divers], 1653\u20131765. 7v.\nARCHIVES PAROISSIALES. Contain in particular the registers of births, marriages, and deaths, of which copies are kept in the judicial archives of the district, and the parish account books.\nThe following documents from parish archives have been consulted in the preparation of volume III:\nNotre-Dame-de-Foy (Sainte-Foy, Qu\u00e9bec)\nRegistres des bapt\u00eames, mariages et s\u00e9pultures\nLivres de comptes, 1724\u20131735\nSaint-Ambroise (Loretteville, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSaint-Charles (Charlesbourg, Qu\u00e9bec)\nLivres de comptes, I, 1675\u20131749\nSaint-Charles (Lachenaie, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSainte-Anne (Beaupr\u00e9, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSainte-Anne (La P\u00e9rade, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSainte-Anne (Varennes, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSainte-Genevi\u00e8ve (Berthier, Qu\u00e9bec)\nLivres de comptes, I\u2013II\nSainte-Genevi\u00e8ve (Pierrefonds, Qu\u00e9bec)\nLivres de comptes, I\nSaint-\u00c9tienne (Beaumont, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSaint-Fran\u00e7ois-de-Sales (Laval, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSaint-Fran\u00e7ois-de-Sales (Neuville, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSaint-Fran\u00e7ois-de-Sales (Saint-Fran\u00e7ois, \u00eele d'Orl\u00e9ans)\nSaint-Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier (Verch\u00e8res, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSaint-Louis (Lotbini\u00e8re, Qu\u00e9bec)\nSaint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre, \u00eele d'Orl\u00e9ans)\nLivres de comptes\nL'INVENTAIRE DES \u0152UVRES D'ART, Qu\u00e9bec. In 1940 G\u00e9rard Morisset* established the Service de l'Inventaire des \u0153uvres d'art for the purpose of recording and locating works of art. In taking over responsibility for this work in the same year, the government of Quebec gave recognition to a project which had been conducted personally by Morisset for more than ten years. Aided by a staff which he had trained himself, until 1967 Morisset\nphotographed articles of silver, works of architecture, and paintings, searched parish account books, newspapers, and notarial registers, and accumulated many thousands of documents on artisans and their work. This impressive collection (about 70,000 photographs, 40,000 biographical cards, 20,000 slides, and 5,000 old photographs) had already acquired an archival value as the result of the disappearance of a number of the works of art. The conservation and processing of the collection was undertaken by the Minist\u00e8re des Affaires culturelles in 1970. In collaboration with the Centre de documentation de l'universit\u00e9 Laval, the documents were studied, reclassified according to Geographical location, and described in a manner which allows researchers to identify quickly the title, the symbolic content, and the technical features of each work. The collection is open to all researchers upon application to the Minist\u00e8re des Affaires culturelles.\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES of CANADA, Ottawa. In 1873 the government of Canada commissioned Douglas Brymner and Abb\u00e9 H.-A.-J.-B. Verreau* to investigate the holdings of English and French archives with a view to copying documents concerning the early history of Canada. The work of transcribing and microfilming such manuscripts, and of collecting original materials, has proceeded since that time.\nMany unpublished finding aids are available only in the archives. The following Preliminary inventories and Inventories to manuscript and record groups used in the preparation of volume III have been published by the manuscript division:\nGeneral inventory, manuscripts, I (1971).\nMG 1\u2013MG 10.\nGeneral inventory, manuscripts, IV (1972).\nMG 22\u2013MG 25.\nManuscript group 11, Public Record Office,\nLondon, Colonial Office papers (1961)\nManuscript group 17, religious archives (1967)\nManuscript group 18, pre-conquest papers (1964)\nManuscript group 19, fur trade and Indians, 1763\u20131867 (1954)\nManuscript group 21, transcripts from papers\nin the British Museum (1955)\nManuscript group 30, twentieth century manuscripts (1966)\nRecord group 1, Executive Council, Canada,\n1764\u20131867 (1953)\nRecord group 4, civil and provincial secretaries' offices, Canada East, 1760\u20131867 (1953)\nRecord group 10, Indian affairs (1951)\nUnpublished \"addenda\" for the above inventories are available for consultation at the PAC. Also available is the unpublished provisional inventory, \"Manuscript group 36, finding aids to sources in other archival repositories.\" Revised inventories to record groups 1 and 4 are in preparation.\nSee also: \"Guides to calendars of series and collections in the Public Archives,\" PAC Report, 1949, 451\u201359; H. P. Beers, The French & British in the old Northwest: a bibliographical guide to archive and manuscript sources (Detroit, 1964) and The French in North America: a bibliographical guide to French archives, reproductions, and research missions (Baton Rouge, 1957).\nThe following collections were found useful in the preparation of volume III:\nMG 6: Archives d\u00e9partementales, municipales, maritimes et de biblioth\u00e8ques (France)\nA: Archives d\u00e9partementales\n2: Charente-Maritime (La Rochelle). Transcriptions, 1599\u20131786; microfilm, 1616\u20131787.\nMG 7: Biblioth\u00e8ques de Paris\nI: Biblioth\u00e8que nationale\nA: D\u00e9partement des manuscrits\n3: Nouvelles acquisitions fran\u00e7aises. Transcriptions, 1510\u20131889; microfilm, 1660\u20131889; photocopies, 1619\u201386.\nII: Biblioth\u00e8que de l'Arsenal. Transcriptions, 1673\u20131772.\nV: Biblioth\u00e8que du Mus\u00e9e d'histoire naturelle. Transcriptions, 1749\u201355.\nMG 8: Documents relatifs \u00e0 la Nouvelle-\nFrance et au Qu\u00e9bec (XVIIe\u2013XXe si\u00e8cles)\nA: Documents g\u00e9n\u00e9raux\n2: Jugements et d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur. Transcriptions, 1717\u201359.\n6: Ordonnances des intendants. Transcriptions, 1705\u201360.\n14: Conseil sup\u00e9rieur: mati\u00e8res civiles. Transcriptions, 1682\u20131712.\nB: District de Qu\u00e9bec\n1: Registres de la Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec. Transcriptions, 1666\u20131759.\n3: Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t\u00e9: pi\u00e8ces diverses. Transcriptions, 1689\u20131746.\n6: Successions, tutelles et \u00e9mancipations. Transcriptions, 1639\u20131736.\nC: District de Montr\u00e9al\n3: R\u00e9pertoire de greffes de notaires. Transcriptions, 1648\u20131842; photocopies, 1740\u20131814.\n4: Index des contrats de mariage. Transcriptions, 1650\u20131839.\nE: R\u00e9gime militaire\n6: Chambre de milice de Montr\u00e9al. Transcriptions, 1760\u201364.\nF: Documents relatifs aux seigneuries et autres lieux\n50: Livaudi\u00e8re. Transcriptions, 1733\u201354.\nG: Archives paroissiales\n24: Qu\u00e9bec. Transcriptions, 1621\u20131847.\nMG 9: Provincial, local, and territorial records\nB: Nova Scotia\n8: Church records\n9: Local records\nMG 11: Public Record Office, London: Colonial Office papers\nNova Scotia A: Correspondence. Transcripts and photocopies, 1603\u20131840. Up to 1801 this series is a composite of transcripts from various sources in Great Britain, especially the PRO. By the time that the work of transcription had reached 1802 the PRO had established the CO 217 series. For the period 1802\u201331 Nova Scotia A consists of transcripts from CO 217, and for the period 1831\u201340 of photocopies from the same series. Documents for the period covered by volume III are calendared in PAC Report, 1894.\nNova Scotia B: Minutes of the Executive\nCouncil. Transcripts, 1720\u201385. A composite series taken principally from sources which are now part of PRO, CO 217 or CO 220. Documents for the period covered by volume III are calendared in PAC Report, 1949.\nMG 17: Religious archives\nA: \u00c9glise catholique\n3: S\u00e9minaire des Missions \u00e9trang\u00e8res, Paris. Transcriptions, 1640\u20131851.\nD: Moravian Brethren\n1: Moravian Brethren. Originals, 1827\u20131955; transcripts, 1752, 1770\u201379; microfilm, 1749\u20131944.\nMG 18: Pre-conquest papers\nF: Acadia and Newfoundland\n10: Morris, Charles. Photocopies, [1748].\n12: Pichon, Thomas. Transcripts, 1750\u201362; photocopies, 1754\u201355.\n13: Lawrence, Charles. Photocopies, 1754\u201355; typewritten copies, 1747\u201361.\n20: Chalmers collection. Photocopies, 1755\u20131817.\n23: Holdsworth, Arthur. Originals, 1730\u201373.\n24: Keen, William. Original, 1736.\nH: New France\n13: Denys, famille. Original, 1710; transcriptions, 1655\u20131787; microfilm, 1654\u20131870; photocopies, 1658, 1724.\n17: Taschereau, famille. Originaux, 1707\u20131874.\n28: Morin, Pierre-Louis. Originaux, 1836\u201384; transcriptions, 1504\u20131763.\nJ: Memoirs and travel\n8: Boucault, Nicolas-Gaspard, Originaux, 1754; photocopies, 1728, 1738.\nL: British officers\n1: Colvill(e), Alexander, Baron. Photocopies, 1732\u201364.\n4: Amherst family. Microfilm, 1758\u201363; transcripts, 1758\u20131836; photocopies, 1758\u20131854.\nM: Northcliffe collection [see also section ii]\nSeries 1: Robert Monckton papers. Originals, transcripts, and printed papers, 1742\u20131834.\nSeries 3: Separate items. Originals, transcripts, and printed items, 1683\u20131799.\nN: Military and naval documents\n8: New England troops, muster rolls of. Originals, 1760; transcripts, 1710\u201360.\n13: Beaujeu, Louis Li\u00e9nard de. Photocopie, 1747.\n15: Seven Years' War. Originals, 1758\u201360; transcripts, 1754\u201359.\n16: Louisbourg: 1758 campaign. Originals, 1758; transcripts, 1757.\n30: Hopson, Peregrine Thomas. Originals, 1752\u201358.\nO: Miscellaneous\n6: Couagne, famille. Originaux, 1761\u201369.\n9: Hancock, Thomas and John. Microfilm, 1744\u201383.\nMG 19: Fur trade and Indians\nF: Indians\n1: Claus family. Originals, 1755\u20131886.\nMG 21: Transcripts from papers in the British Museum\nE: Nova Scotia\n5: Add. mss 19069\u201376. Papers relating to Nova Scotia collected by Dr Andrew Brown. Transcripts, Add. mss 19069\u201374; photocopies, Add. mss 19075\u201376.\nH: Military and naval\n10: The King's topographical collection, CXIX, 107B. Report by J. H. Bastide on the fortifications of Newfoundland. Photocopy, 1750.\nMG 23: Late eighteenth century papers\nC: Nova Scotia\n16: How, Edward. Transcripts, 1744\u201390.\nGII: Quebec and Lower Canada: political figures\nl: Murray, James. Originals, 1757\u201378; transcripts, 1734\u201392; photocopies, 1765\u201393.\n2: Collier, John and family. Transcripts, 1723\u201379.\n19: Monk family. Originals, 1735\u20131888.\nGIII: Quebec and Lower Canada: merchants and settlers\n25: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal. Microfilm, 1712\u20131930.\n28: Guy, Pierre, p\u00e8re et fils. Microfilm, 1739\u201379.\nMG 24: Nineteenth century pre-confederation papers\nL: Miscellaneous\n3: Collection Baby. Originaux, 1871, 1879; transcriptions, 1629\u20131907; microfilm, 1691, 1740\u20131836.\nMG 30: Twentieth century manuscripts\nD: Education and cultural development\n58: Roy, Pierre-Georges. Originaux, c.1915\u201323; photocopie, 1917.\n62: Audet, Francis Joseph. Originaux, 1907\u201342.\nRG 1: Executive Council of Canada, 1764\u20131867\nE: State records\n1: Minute books (state matters). Originals, 1764\u20131867; certified typed copies, 1764\u201391.\nRG 4: Civil and provincial secretaries' offices, Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East\nA: Civil secretary's correspondence, 1760\u20131841\n1: S series. Originals, 1760\u20131840.\nRG 10: Indian affairs records\nA: Administration records of the imperial government, 1677\u20131860\n2: Records of the superintendent's office. Originals, 1755\u20131830.\n3: Records of the military. Originals, 1677\u20131841.\nNational Map Collection. A separate division within the PAC since 1908, the National Map Collection has assembled much of the cartographic record of Canada, both archival and current, as well as architectural and engineering drawings of national interest. For the period 1700\u20131800 over 2,000 maps, charts, plans, atlases, drawings, and related cartographical materials have been acquired, touching upon the exploration of the country, the settlement of the land, the evolution of political boundaries, and urban development. These include original and printed items as well as many photocopies of materials, the originals of which are in other archives, mainly French and British.\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA, Halifax. Founded in 1857 when the Nova Scotian government decided to preserve and arrange \"the ancient records and documents illustrative of the History and progress of Society in this province,\" thus establishing the first provincial archives in Canada. The present fireproof building was officially opened on 14 Jan. 1931, and records were transferred from various government departments. The archives also contains court papers, municipal records, family and business papers, collections of societies such as the Nova Scotia Historical Society, community and church records, microfilm copies of deeds and wills from county registries and courts of probate, and a collection of Nova Scotian newspapers. For further information see: C. B. Fergusson, The Public Archives of Nova Scotia (PANS Bull., 19, Halifax, 1963). For a further description of the collections cited in volume III see: Catalogue or list of manuscript documents, arranged, bound and catalogued under the direction of the commissioner of public records . . . (Halifax,1877; 2nd ed., 1886). Available for use at PANS are sections of an \"Inventory of manuscripts\" which is now being compiled for publication in 1975.\nMaterials used in the preparation of volume III include:\nMG 1: Papers of families and individuals\n109\u201311: Winthrop Bell, \"Register of Lunenburg settlers.\" Originals.\n472\u201374: Edward How family. Originals.\nRG 1: Miscellaneous government documents which had been arranged in bound volumes\n7: Annapolis Royal, N. S. \u2013 Letters and other documents from governors Nicholson and Philipps at Annapolis Royal to Secretary of State and Plantations Office, 1712\u201325. Transcripts.\n8: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Letters and orders relating to affairs of Annapolis Royal, 6 June 1711\u2013October 1713, while under the government of Colonel Samuel Vetch. Transcripts.\n9: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Government at Annapolis Royal, including memorials of Captain Paul Mascarene, 1713, 1714, 1720\u201325; private letter book and journal of Governor Paul Mascarene, 1742\u201353; also letters from and to Mascarene, Governor William Shirley, and others, as well as other papers, 1710\u201353. Transcripts.\n12: Nova Scotia \u2013 Documents relating to Nova Scotia and its connection with the government of Massachusetts Bay, 1725\u201344, including journal of proceedings of conference held by governors of Mas-\nsachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York with eastern Indians at Casco Bay, 1725. Transcripts.\n13: Nova Scotia \u2013 Papers from Public Record Office, London, regarding Nova Scotia, 1745\u201350. Transcripts.\n13\u00bd: Nova Scotia \u2013 Papers from Public Record Office, London, regarding Nova Scotia, 1745\u201349. Transcripts.\n14: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Letters written by governors R. Philipps, Paul Mascarene, Lawrence Armstrong, and others to the Board of Trade and Secretary of State, to French deputies and others, 2 Jan. 1719\u20138 June 1742. Contemporary copies. Published in abstract in N.S. Archives, II [see section ii].\n17: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Dispatches from governors of Nova Scotia to Secretary of State, 1720\u201348. Transcripts.\n18: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Dispatches from governors of Nova Scotia to Board of Trade and Plantations, February 1715\/16\u2013April 1749. Transcripts.\n21: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Commission and letter book, 1742\u201349. Original.\n23: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Minutes of H.M. Council at Annapolis Royal, September 1720\u20131732. Transcripts.\n26: Annapolis Royal, N.S. \u2013 Register of baptisms, marriages, and burials at Annapolis Royal, 1702\u201328. Original, in French.\n37: Nova Scotia \u2013 Dispatches from governors of Nova Scotia to Board of Trade and Plantations, 26 Oct. 1760\u201325 Nov. 1781. Transcripts.\n134: Nova Scotia\u2013Dispatches and letters of governors and secretaries of Nova Scotia and other colonies in North America, including several documents relating to the Acadians, and to the French governors of Cape Breton, November 1753\u2013June 1755. Original, known as \"Inland letter-book.\"\n163: Nova Scotia commission and order book, July 1749\u2013Nov. 1759. Original.\n163\/ 1: 14 July 1749\u201323 Sept. 1752\n163\/2: 3 Aug. 1752\u201327 Oct. 1753\n163\/3: 2 Nov. 1753\u201313 Nov. 1759\n164: Nova Scotia commission book, 1749\u201366. Original.\n164\/ 1: May 1749\u201329 July 1752\n164\/2: 4 May 1752\u20134 June 1766\n165: Nova Scotia commission and order book, 1759\u201366. Original.\n206: Nova Scotia minutes of Council concerning intestate and insolvent estates, 4 March 1761\u201319 Feb. 1781. Originals.\n342: Nova Scotia \u2013 Papers connected with crown prosecutions for treason, murder, etc., 1749\u201379, and also concerning the Lunenburg riots of 1753. Originals.\n382: Lunenburg, N.S. \u2013 Documents relative to the settlement of the town, 1751\u201399, 1828. Originals.\n492: Nova Scotia court of vice-admiralty, record of proceedings and some commissions and letters of marque, June 1751\u2013November 1756. Originals.\nRG 3: Minutes of Nova Scotia Council, 1750\u201366. Originals and transcripts.\nARCHIVES D\u00c9PARTEMENTALES. The departmental archives of France contain valuable information on many figures belonging to early Canadian history. For lists of analytical inventories see: France, Direction des Archives, \u00c9tat des inventaires des archives nationales, d\u00e9partementales, communales et hospitali\u00e8res au 1er janvier 1937 (Paris, 1938); Suppl\u00e9ment, 1937\u201354 [by R.-H. Bautier] (Paris, 1955); Catalogue des inventaires, r\u00e9pertoires, guides de recherche et autres instruments de travail des archives d\u00e9partementales, communales et hospitali\u00e8res . . . \u00e0 la date du 31 d\u00e9cembre 1961 (Paris, 1962). For copies of documents in the PAC see: General inventory, manuscripts, I (Ottawa, 1971), 87\u201399. There is a uniform system of classification for all departmental archives. A list of the various series maybe found in DCB, II, 683\u201384.\nSeries cited in volume III:\nB: Cours et juridictions\nE: Titres de famille, \u00e9tats civils, notaires [\u00c9tats civils are often more complete in municipal archives.]\nThe archives of the following departments have been consulted:\nAlpes-Maritimes Loire-Atlantique\nArdennes Maine-et-Loire\nBouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne Nord\nCharente-Maritime Puy-de-D\u00f4me\nC\u00f4te-d'Or Seine-Maritime\nEure Tarn-et-Garonne\nGironde Var\nHaute-Vienne Vend\u00e9e\nHaut-Rhin Vienne\nIlle-et-Vilaine Yonne\nLandes Yvelines\nARCHIVES DU MINIST\u00c8RE DES ARM\u00c9ES, Pans:\nINSPECTION DU G\u00c9NIE. The D\u00e9p\u00f4t des fortifications was for a long time subject to the\nauthority of the Minist\u00e8re de la Guerre; in 1791, however, it was placed under the Direction des officiers du G\u00e9nie, and later the Comit\u00e9 technique du G\u00e9nie. The governing authority is now the Inspection du G\u00e9nie. The aim of the establishment has always been to create a collection illustrating the art of fortification by the accumulation of memoirs, maps and plans, and printed works.\nThere are two repositories:\nArchives du G\u00e9nie. Situated at the Ch\u00e2teau de Vincennes, this archives originally included 23 articles. A certain number have been turned over to other archives, notably article 9 (Colonies fran\u00e7aises), which is now in AN, Section Outre-mer, D\u00e9p\u00f4t des fortifications des colonies, and article 16 (Cartes), which has passed to the BN. There remain, however, several registres or cartons which contain information on former French colonies.\nArticles used in the preparation of volume III include:\nArticle 3: Personnel\nArticle 8: Place fran\u00e7aise\nArticle 14: Places \u00e9trang\u00e8res: Am\u00e9rique septentrionale, possessions anglaises, \u00c9tats-Unis, Louisbourg, \u00eele Royale . . .\nArticle 15: Histoire militaire, campagnes et si\u00e8ges\nBiblioth\u00e8que du G\u00e9nie, 39, rue de Bellechasse. The library contains both manuscript items, dating from the middle of the 17th century, and printed works. The manuscripts are catalogued in France, Minist\u00e8re de la Guerre, Catalogue g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des manuscrits des biblioth\u00e8ques publiques de France: biblioth\u00e8ques de la Guerre (Paris, 1911).\nManuscript items used in the preparation of volume III include:\nmss in 4\u00b0, 66: Collection Lafitte (m\u00e9moires divers sur les si\u00e8ges et campagnes)\nmss in fol., 205b: \"Registres des lettres \u00e9crites de rapport au service des fortifications de l'Isle Royale et du Canada.\" 1750\u201355.\nmss in fol., 208: \"Estat alphab\u00e9tique des ing\u00e9nieurs du Roi en 1743 o\u00f9 sont marqu\u00e9s les apointements qu'ils avoient en 1717 et les grades et augmentations qui leur ont \u00e9t\u00e9 accord\u00e9s depuis.\" The list stops at the letter V, which is incomplete.\nmss in fol., 208c: \u00c9tat des ing\u00e9nieurs du roi. 1683\u20131777.\nmss in fol., 210f: contains a manuscript account of Louis FRANQUET's journey to \u00cele Saint-Jean, Baie-Verte, Beaus\u00e9jour, Fort Gaspereau, and Port-Toulouse in 1751; several letters (with maps and plans) from\nFranquet to No\u00ebl de R\u00e9gemortes, dated from Louisbourg in 1751; and a manuscript account of Fran\u00e7ois-Claude-Victor GRILLOT de Poilly's survey of \u00cele Royale in 1757.\nSERVICE HISTORIQUE DE L'ARMEE. This archival group was officially formed in 1688; the earliest volumes date from 1631. Now housed at the Pavillon du Roi, Ch\u00e2teau de Vincennes, the archives were, before 1919, referred to as the Archives de la Guerre. The organization of the archives is described in Madeleine Lenoir, \"La documentation historique militaire en France,\" Revue de d\u00e9fense nationale (Paris), num\u00e9ro hors s\u00e9rie (d\u00e9cembre 1952); J.-E. Roy, Rapport sur les archives de France [see section iii]. The archives consists of two separate collections, the historical archives and the administrative archives. A manuscript inventory is available at PAC: Louise Dech\u00eane, \"Inventaire analytique des documents relatifs \u00e0 l'histoire du Canada conserv\u00e9s en France au Service historique de l'Arm\u00e9e.\"\nThe following series from the two collections were used in the preparation of volume III:\nA: Archives ant\u00e9rieures \u00e0 1789\nA1: Correspondance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, op\u00e9rations militaires. Inventoried in France, Archives de la Guerre, Inventaire sommaire des archives historiques (archives anciennes: correspondance) . . . ,F\u00e9lix Brun, comp. (Paris, 1898).\nA3: Fonds divers\nM\u00e9moires historiques et reconnaissances militaires. Inventoried in Louis Tuetey, Catalogue g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des manuscrits des biblioth\u00e8ques publiques de France: Archives de la Guerre (3v., Paris, 1910\u201312).\nM\u00e9moires historiques. Comprising diaries of campaigns, accounts of battles and sieges. (The Reconnaissances militaires are mostly documents of a topographic nature. Also included in the series are more than 1,100 articles relating to military administration.)\nArchives administratives\nX: Corps des troupes\nXe: G\u00e9nie: administration des corps et \u00e9coles, b\u00e2timents (\u00e0 l'exclusion des travaux) (1715\u20131870)\nX1: Troupes coloniales (1770\u20131830)\nY: Documents individuels\nYa: M\u00e9moires et projets\nYb: Contr\u00f4les \"officiers.\" Classified only for the years 1715\u201390.\nYd: Dossiers individuels. Not yet classified.\nY4d: Brigadiers\nSub-series Xe, Xi, Yb, and Yd are inventoried in France, Archives de la Guerre, Inventaire des archives conserv\u00e9es au Service historique de l'\u00c9tat-major de l'Arm\u00e9e, ch\u00e2teau de Vincennes (archives modernes) (2e \u00e9d., rev. et compl\u00e9t\u00e9e par M.-A. Fabre et al.,Paris, 1954).\nARCHIVES NATIONALES, Paris. The Archives nationales was founded in 1789 to accommodate the original papers of the Constituent Assembly. The papers of the pre-revolutionary administration were added later. The basic inventories are: France, Direction des Archives, Inventaire sommaire et tableau m\u00e9thodique des fonds conserv\u00e9s aux Archives nationales, lre partie, r\u00e9gime ant\u00e9rieur \u00e0 1789 (Paris, 1871); \u00c9tat sommaire par s\u00e9ries des documents conserv\u00e9s aux Archives nationales (Paris, 1891); Catalogue des manuscrits conserv\u00e9s aux Archives nationales (Paris, 1892). Guides to finding aids are: France, Direction des Archives, \u00c9tat des inventaires des archives nationales, d\u00e9partementales, cornmunales et hospitali\u00e8res au 1er janvier 1937 (Paris, 1938), and Suppl\u00e9ment, 1937\u201354 [by R.-H. Bautier] (Paris, 1955); Gilles H\u00e9on, \"Fonds int\u00e9ressant le Canada conserv\u00e9s en France: quelques instruments de recherche,\" Archives, 73\u20131 (Qu\u00e9bec), 40\u201350. J.-E. Roy, Rapport sur les archives de France [see section iii], and H. P. Beers, The French in North America: a bibliographical guide to French archives, reproductions, and research missions (Baton Rouge, 1957), give sketches of the history and organization of the archives. For copies in the PAC of documents in the Archives nationales see: General inventory, manuscripts, I (Ottawa, 1971), 5\u201348.\nThe basic classification of the Archives nationales is as follows:\nI: Section ancienne (which includes the Fonds des Colonies and the Fonds de la Marine)\nII: Service des Sceaux\nIII: Section moderne\nIV: Section contemporaine\nV : Section Outre-mer\nVI: D\u00e9partement des activit\u00e9s scientifiques, culturelles, et techniques\nThe following material from sections I, V, and VI was used in the preparation of volume III:\nI: Section ancienne\nG: Administration financi\u00e8re, etc.\nG5: Amiraut\u00e9 et conseil des prises, 1675\u20131758\nL: \"Monuments\" eccl\u00e9siastiques\nLL: Registres\nM: M\u00e9langes\nFonds des Colonies. These records date from 1458 and consist largely of pre-1815 documents, although some material up to 1898 is included. Eventually they will be integrated with the Section Outre-mer [q.v.]. Colbert established the distinction between papers relating to the Marine and those concerning the colonies and also laid down the major series in the Fonds des Colonies. These series and the many later sub-divisions of series are described in \u00c9tienne Taillemite, \"Les archives des colonies fran\u00e7aises aux Archives nationales,\" Gazette des Archives (Paris), XLVI (1964), 93\u2013116. For copies of manuscripts in the PAC see: General inventory, manuscripts, I, 5\u201316.\nA: Actes du pouvoir souverain, 1669\u20131782. Royal edicts and ordinances, proclamations of the Conseil d'\u00c9tat, etc.\nB: Correspondance envoy\u00e9e, 1663\u20131815. Dispatches of the king, the minister of Marine, and the Conseil d'\u00c9tat to officials in the colonies. For the 17th and 18th centuries see the following calendars: \u00c9tienne Taillemite, Inventaire analytique de la correspondance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale avec les colonies, depart, s\u00e9rie B (d\u00e9pos\u00e9e aux Archives nationales), I, registres 1 \u00e0 37 (1654\u20131715) (Paris, 1959), and PAC Report, 1899, Supp., 245\u2013548; Report, 1904, App. K, 1\u2013312; Report, 1905, I,pt. vi, 3\u2013446.\nC: Correspondance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, lettres re\u00e7ues. Letters from officials in the colonies to the king and to the minister of Marine and some drafts of documents sent to the colonies.\nC2: Inde, 1664\u20131808\nC8: Martinique\nC8A: 1663\u20131815. For an analysis of this series see: \u00c9tienne Taillemite, Inventaire de la s\u00e9rie Colonies C8A, Martinique (correspondance \u00e0 l'arriv\u00e9e) (2v., Paris, 1967\u201371). [Articles I to 121.]\nC8B: 1635\u20131789\nC9: Saint-Domingue\nC9A : 1664\u20131789\nC11: Canada et colonies d'Am\u00e9rique du Nord\nC11A: Canada, 1458\u20131784. A calendar of documents is published in PAC Report, 1885, xxix\u2013lxxix; Report, 1886, xxxix\u2013cl; Report, 1887, cxl\u2013ccxxxix. See also: Parker, Guide, 227ff [see section iii]. An unpublished index for this series exists at the PAC.\nC11B: \u00cele Royale, 1712\u201362. Volumes 1\u201338 are calendared in Parker, Guide, 241\u201345, and PAC Report, 1887, cclxxxii\u2013cccxciv.\nC11C: Am\u00e9rique du Nord, 1661\u20131898. Papers concerning Newfoundland, \u00celes de la Madeleine, \u00cele Royale, and Gasp\u00e9. Calendared in Parker, Guide, 246, and PAC Report, 1887, cccxiv\u2013cccxcviii. An unpublished index to C11B and C11Cis available at the Fortress of Louisbourg and on microfilm at the PAC.\nC11D: Acadie, 1603\u20131788. Calendared in Parker, Guide, 238\u201340, and PAC Report, 1887, ccxxxix\u2013cclxiii.\nC11E: Canada, divers, 1651\u20131818. Letters etc. dealing with boundary disputes. Calendared in Parker, Guide, 240\u201341, and PAC Report, 1887,cclxiii\u2013cclxxxii.\nC11G: Correspondance Raudot-Pontchartrain, Domaine d'Occident et \u00eele Royale, 1677\u20131758. Calendared in Parker, Guide, 246\u201348, and PAC Report, 1889, Supp.,201\u201344.\nC13: Louisiane\nC13A: 1678\u20131803\nC13B: 1699\u20131803\nC13c: 1673\u20131782\nD: Matricules des troupes\nD2C: Troupes des colonies, 1627\u20131885. Selected volumes are calendared in PAC Report, 1905, 1, pt. vi, 508\u201318.\nThe following volume was particularly useful:\n222: Alphabet Laffilard. Service records of officers who served in the colonies before 1740.\nD2D: Personnel militaire et civil, 1685\u20131789\nE: Personnel individuel\nF: Documents divers\nF1: Commerce aux colonies\nF1A: Fonds des colonies, 1670\u20131789. Financial documents.\nF2B: Commerce des colonies, 1663\u20131790\nF2C:Colonies en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, 1704\u201389\nF3: Collection Moreau de Saint-M\u00e9ry, 1540\u20131806. Seventeenth-, 18th- and 19th-century originals, and copies of documents in the C11A and B series and of others that have since disappeared. Papers relating to Canada, Louisiana, \u00cele Royale, Saint-Pierre, and Miquelon\nhave been copied and microfilmed by the PAC. Calendared in PAC Report, 1899, Supp., 39\u2013191 ;Report, 1905, I, pt. vi, 447\u2013505; Parker, Guide, 249\u201353.\nF5A: Missions religieuses, 1639\u20131808. Inventoried in Albert Mirot, Inventaire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des documents relatifs aux missions religieuses conserv\u00e9s aux Archives nationales (Paris, s.d.), and PAC Report, 1899, Supp., 192\u2013200.\nFonds de la Marine. After the formation of the Marine under Colbert, papers relating to the navy and to colonial affairs were collected in the Fonds de la Marine. In 1884 the Fonds des Colonies were separated from the Marine. The material in the Fonds de la Marine extends to 1870. For descriptions of the archives see: Didier Neuville, \u00c9tat sommaire des Archives de la Marine ant\u00e9rieures \u00e0 la R\u00e9volution (Paris, 1898); J.-E. Roy, Rapport sur les archives de France, 157\u2013243; \u00c9tienne Taillemite, Les archives anciennes de la Marine (Acad\u00e9mie de Marine, Paris, [1961]). For copies of manuscripts in the PAC see: General inventory, manuscripts, I,24\u201330.\nA: Actes du pouvoir souverain, 1558\u20131790\nB: Service g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Inventoried in Didier Neuville et al., Inventaire des Archives de la Marine, s\u00e9rie B: service g\u00e9n\u00e9ral (8v., Paris, 1885\u20131963).\nB1: D\u00e9cisions, 1686\u20131786. Reports prepared for the council of the Marine, the king, the minister of Marine, and the Conseil d'\u00c9tat.\nB2: Correspondance, lettres envoy\u00e9es, 1662\u20131789. The kings' and ministers' orders to the department of the Marine, military commanders, and intendants of the Marine in French ports.\nB3: Correspondance, lettres re\u00e7ues, 1660\u20131789. Correspondence received by the minister from the ports of France and from various authorities. For a name and subject index to this and the two preceding series see: \u00c9tienne Taillemite et al., Tables des noms de lieux, de personnes, de mati\u00e8res et de navires, sous-s\u00e9rie B1, B2 et B3 (Paris, 1969).\nB4: Campagnes, 1640\u20131789. Material relating to naval campaigns.\nC: Personnel\nC1: Officiers militaires de la Marine, 1400\u20131789. \"Revues Laffilard\" and \"Alphabets Laffilard\" are contained in volumes 105\u20137, 151, 153\u201355, 157, 160\u201361.\nC2: Officiers civils de la Marine, 1663\u20131770\nC6: R\u00f4les d'\u00e9quipage, 1668\u20131792\nC7: Personnel individuel, 1651\u20131789\nG: M\u00e9moires et documents divers\nD\u00e9p\u00f4t du service central hydrographique (formerly Archives du service hydrographique)\n1 JJ: Correspondance du directeur du service central hydrographique, 1643\u20131909\n4 JJ: Journaux de bord, [1594]\u20131789, 1815\u201371. For an analysis of this sub-series see: Georges Bourgin et \u00c9tienne Taillemite, Inventaire des archives de la Marine, service hydrographique, sous-s\u00e9rie 4 JJ (journaux de bord) . . .(Paris, 1963).\nV: Section Outre-mer. The Section Outre-mer came into being on 1 Jan. 1961 when the Minist\u00e8re de la France d'Outre-mer ceased to exist. This section preserves post-1815 documents relating to the colonies; pre-1815 material remains in the Section ancienne as the Fonds des Colonies [q.v.]. Two important series dealing with the earlier period are, however, to be found in the Section Outre-mer and were of use in the preparation of volume III. For copies of manuscripts in the PAC see: General inventory, manuscripts, I, 31\u201348.\nD\u00e9p\u00f4t des fortifications des colonies. This series contains technical reports, maps, reports on discoveries, fisheries, commerce, and military campaigns, as well as papers on the Compagnie des Indes. Series Am\u00e9rique septentrionale and Louisiane were used in the preparation of volume III. Another series, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, concerns North America. A manuscript inventory of the various series is available at the AN. See: PAC Report, 1905, I, pt. iii, 3\u201343; J.-E. Roy, Rapport sur les archives de France, 535\u201359.\nG: D\u00e9p\u00f4t des papiers publics des colonies\nG1: Registres d'\u00e9tat civil, recensements et documents divers\n406\u20139: \u00c9tat civil de Louisbourg, 1722\u201358\n410: bat civil de l'\u00eele Royale, 1715\u201357\n411: \u00c9tat civil de l'\u00eele Saint-Jean, 1721\u201344, 1749\u201358\n412: \u00c9tat civil de la Louisiane, 1720\u201334\n413: \u00c9tat civil de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, 1763\u201389\n459: R\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, 1781\u201389. Lists of French inhabitants of North America who took refuge in France or in the French colonies.\n462: Concessions du Canada, de l'\u00eele Royale et de l'\u00eele Saint-Jean, 1670\u20131760\n464: Louisiane, 1706\u201337. General correspondence, lists of passengers who embarked for Louisiana, censuses, etc.\n465: Concessions de la Louisiane, 1696\u20131881\n466: Recensements de l'Acadie, de l'\u00eele Royale et de l'\u00eele Saint-Jean, 1671\u20131758, et des pi\u00e8ces relatives aux concessions de l'\u00eele Royale.\n467: Recensements de Terre-Neuve, de Saint-Pierre et de Miquelon, 1671\u20131784\nG2: Greffes des tribunaux\n178\u201383, 185, 188\u201389, 190\u201393: Conseil sup\u00e9rieur de Louisbourg, 1678, 1711\u201358\n196\u201399, 202\u20137, 209: Bailliage de Louisbourg, 1733\u201358\n212: Bailliage de Louisbourg, 1756\u201357; Conseil de Louisbourg, 1749\u201356\n213, 215: Conseil sup\u00e9rieur et contr\u00f4le de la Marine \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec, 1666\u20131758\nG3: Notariat\n7\u20138, 2037\u201339, 2041\u201347, 2055\u201358: Louisbourg, 1715\u201358\nAQ: Archives d'entreprises. Inventoried in Bertrand Gille, \u00c9tat sommaire des archives d'entreprises conserv\u00e9es aux Archives nationales (s\u00e9rie AQ) (1v.to date, Paris, 1957). [Covering l AQ to 64 AQ.]\n62 AQ: Papiers Du Gard\nMinutier central des notaires de Paris et du d\u00e9partement de la Seine\nBIBLIOTH\u00c8QUE NATIONALE, Paris. The holdings of the BN are based on the collections of the Biblioth\u00e8que du Roi, founded by Charles V; collections seized during the revolution (the libraries of \u00e9migr\u00e9s and Paris convents) were added later. From the time of Fran\u00e7ois I copyright has assured it all works printed or published in French territory.\nSince 1721 the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale has been divided into departments on the basis of the nature of the documents kept: Cartes et plans, Estampes, Imprim\u00e9s, Manuscrits, M\u00e9dailles, Musique, P\u00e9riodiques. For biographical research on Canada the most important is the manuscript department, consisting of documents classified by language as well as independent collections. The French manuscripts are the most numerous and are divided among the Fonds fran\u00e7ais (Fr.), the Nouvelles acquisitions fran\u00e7aises (NAF), and\nthe Clairambault, Colbert (Cinq-cents and M\u00e9langes), Joly de Fleury, and Moreau collections. For a description of the BN see: J.-E. Roy, Rapport sur les archives de France [see section iii]; W. G. Leland et al., Guide to materials for American history in the libraries and archives of Paris . . .(CarnegieInstitution of Washington Pubs., 392, 2v., Washington, 1932\u201343), I: Libraries. See also the following catalogues to the French manuscripts (alphabetical indexes are available): J.-A. Taschereau et al., Catalogue des manuscrits fran\u00e7ais (5v., Paris, 1868\u20131902) [Fr. 1\u20136170]; H.-A. Omont et al., Catalogue g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des manuscrits fran\u00e7ais (13v., Paris, 1895\u20131918) [Fr. 6171\u201333264; NAF 1\u201311353, 20001\u20132811]; BN, D\u00e9p. des mss, Nouvelles acquisitions fran\u00e7aises, 1946\u20131957 (Paris, 1967) [NAF 13005\u20134061, 24219\u20135100]; Philippe Lauer, Catalogue des manuscrits de la collection Clairambault (3v., Paris, 1923\u201332); C.-G.-M. Bourel de La Ronci\u00e8re, Catalogue des manuscrits de la collection des Cinq cents de Colbert (Paris, 1908); C.-G.-M. Bourel de La Ronci\u00e8re et P.-M. Bondois, Catalogue des manuscrits de la collection des M\u00e9langes de Colbert (2v., Paris, 1920\u201322); Auguste Molinier, Inventaire sommaire de la collection Joly de Fleury (Paris, 1881); H.-A. Omont, Inventaire des manuscrits de la collection Moreau (Paris, 1891). For other guides to the Manuscrits and for catalogues to other departments see: Les catalogues imprim\u00e9s de la Biblioth\u00e8que nationale: liste \u00e9tablie en l943 suivie d'un suppl\u00e9ment (1944\u20131952) (Paris, 1953); Catalogues et publications en vente (Paris, 1973). A revised guide to the catalogues is under way; Les catalogues du d\u00e9partement des Imprim\u00e9s appeared in 1970; \"Les catalogues du d\u00e9partement des Manuscrits\" will be published shortly.\nCOMIT\u00c9 TECHNIQUE DU G\u00c9NIE. See ARCHIVES DU MINIST\u00c8RE DES ARM\u00c9ES, INSPECTION DU G\u00c9NIE\nBRITISH MUSEUM, London. In 1753 the British Museum was established as the repository for the Sloane collection of manuscripts, which were numbered from 1 to 4100. Since that time many collections have been acquired and variously designated. Used in the preparation of volume III were the Egerton, Sloane, and Additional manuscripts and the King's topographical collection. For a brief guide to catalogues of the manuscript\ncollections see: T. C. Skeat, \"The catalogues of the British Museum, 2: Manuscripts,\" Journal of Documentation (London), VII (1951), 18\u201360; revised as British Museum: the catalogues of the manuscript collections (London, 1962). For copies in the PAC of documents from the British Museum see: Preliminary inventory, manuscript group 21 . . . (Ottawa, 1955).\nAdd. mss 15955\u201357: Private and official correspondence of George, Lord Anson, 1744 \u201362\nAdd. mss 19069\u201376: Papers relating to Nova Scotia collected by Dr Andrew Brown\n19070: Paul Mascarene papers, 1713\u201346\/47\n19071: Papers relating to Nova Scotia, 1720\u201391\nAdd. mss 21631\u201360: Henry Bouquet papers, 1757\u201365\nAdd. mss 21661\u2013892: Official correspondence and papers of Sir Frederick Haldimand, 1758\u201385\n21661: Correspondence mainly with Sir Jeffery Amherst on military affairs, 1758\u201377\n21662: Correspondence with Thomas Gage on military affairs, I: Three Rivers, in Lower Canada, 1758\u201366\n21670: Correspondence with Sir William Johnson and Guy Johnson, together with other papers relating to Indian affairs, 1759\u201374\n21679: Correspondence mainly with military agents in New York and London, 1765\u201378\n21687: Miscellaneous papers, regimental returns, etc., relating to troops in North America, 1756\u201376\n21728: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1757\u201368\nAdd. mss 23780\u2013830: Original despatches and letters of Thomas Robinson [later Baron Grantham], 1730\u201350\n23830: October 1748\u2013July 1750\nAdd. mss 28126\u201357: Papers of Sir John Norris, 1703\u201346\nAdd. mss 32686\u2013992: Official correspondence of Thomas Lekham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, 1697\u20131768\n32709: Home correspondence, October\u2013December 1746\n32713: Home correspondence, September\u2013December 1747\n32716: Home correspondence, August\u2013September 1748\n32736: Home correspondence, July\u2013September 1754\nAdd. mss 33028\u201330: Papers relating to Ameri-\ncan and West Indian colonies which passed through the Duke of Newcastle's hands, 1701\u201368 (with a few of later date, to 1802)\n33029: 1744\u201358\nAdd. mss 35349\u201336278: Hardwicke papers\n35870: Minutes of cabinet and privy council, 1733\u201366\n35909: Papers relating to the American plantations, 1710\u201358\n35915: Papers relating to Canada and Newfoundland, 1766\u201373\nEgerton mss\n929: Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly addressed to Charles Montagu [later Earl of Halifax]\n3324\u2013508: Leeds papers\n3401\u201397: Papers of Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse\nSloane mss\n3607: Correspondence and orders of Samuel Vetch, 1711\u201313\nThe King's topographical collection comprises the map collection of King George III, purchased in 1828. It includes \"many important contemporary ms surveys of the North American colonies and theatres of war in America.\" The K. Top. collection was supplemented in 1968 by the collection of maps formed by Field Marshal Lord Amherst, many of which relate to the Seven Years' War in North America. The relevant part of it is numbered Add. mss 57701\u201310.\nHUDSON'S BAY COMPANY ARCHIVES, London. The HBC archives comprises over 30,000 volumes and files of records dating from the founding of the company in 1670. The archives as constituted at present was established in 1932, and the work of organization proceeded thereafter [see R. H. G. Leveson Gower, \"The archives of the Hudson's Bay Company,\" Beaver (Winnipeg), outfit 264 (December 1933), 40\u201342, 64; Joan Craig, \"Three hundred years of records,\" Beaver, outfit 301 (autumn 1970), 65\u201370]. A publishing programme was undertaken by the Hudson's Bay Record Society [see section ii], and in 1949 the HBC and PAC arranged jointly to microfilm the records. In 1974 the original records will move to Winnipeg, where they will form part of the Manitoba Provincial Archives. Information on the PAC copies is found in PAC Report, 1950, 13\u201314; 1952, 16\u201318; 1953\u201354, 21\u201322; 1955\u201358, 44\u201346.\nDocuments from the following categories were used in the preparation of volume III:\nSection A: London office records\nA.1\/: Minute books of the governor and committee\nA.2\/: General Court minute books\nA.5\/: London outward correspondence books \u2013 general\nA.6\/: London outward correspondence books \u2013 HBC official\nA.11\/: Correspondence from HBC factories to governor and committee\nA.15\/: Grand journals\nA.16\/: Officers' and servants' ledgers\nA.43\/: Transfer books (books of assignments of stock)\nA.44\/: Register books of wills and administrations\nSection B: North America trading post records\nB.3\/a: Albany journals\nB.3\/b: Albany correspondence\nB.3\/d: Albany account books\nB.42\/a: Churchill records\nB.42\/d: Churchill account books\nB.59\/a: Eastmain journals\nB.68\/a: Flamborough House journals\nB.68\/b: Flamborough House correspondence books\nB.86\/a: Henley journals\nB.135\/a: Moose journals\nB.182\/a: Richmond journals\nB.239\/a: York journals\nB.239\/b: York correspondence books\nSection C: Records of ships owned or chartered by the HBC\nC.1\/: Ships' logs\nC.2\/: Seamen's wages books\nSection E: Records of a varied nature, mainly originating from Canada, which do not be long in sections such as B (post records)\nE.2\/: \"Observations on Hudson's Bay.\" Pieces 1\u20133 are by James Isham, 4\u201313 by Andrew Graham.\nE.18\/1: Parliamentary select committee of enquiry on state and condition of countries adjoining Hudson's Bay, held in 1749 \u2013 miscellaneous papers, 1733\u201349\nE.18\/2: Parliamentary select committee of enquiry on state and condition of countries adjoining Hudson's Bay, held in 1749 \u2013 log of California,1746\u201347\nSection G: Maps, both manuscript and published (not including maps which are attached to journals or other documents)\nG.l\/: Manuscript charts\nPUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, London. For an introduction to the contents and arrangement of these archives see: Guide to the contents of the Public Record Office (3v., London, 1963\u201368). Since\n1969 the holdings of the PRO have been divided between two repositories, Chancery Lane and Portugal Street. Of the series cited in volume III, CO 5, CO 110, CO 194, and CO 217 are to be found at Chancery Lane; the remainder are at Portugal Street. Lists of additions to the archives since 1966 are available at both repositories. For copies of Colonial Office documents available at the PAC see: Preliminary inventory, manuscript group 11 . . . (Ottawa, 1961).\nThe documentary series cited in volume III include:\nAccounting departments\nAdm. 25: Officers, half pay (1693\u20131836)\nShips' musters\nAdm. 36: Series I (1688\u20131808)\nShips' pay books\nAdm. 33: Treasurer's. Series I (1669\u20131778)\nAdmiralty and secretariat\nAdm. 1: Papers (1660\u20131951)\nAdm. 2: Out-letters (1656\u20131859)\nAdm. 3: Minutes (1657\u20131881)\nAdm. 50: Admirals' journals (1702\u20131916)\nAdm. 51: Captains' logs (1669\u20131852)\nAdm. 52: Masters' logs (1672\u20131840)\nRegisters, returns and certificates\nAdm. 6: Various (1673\u20131859)\nAdm. 7: Miscellanea (1563\u20131871)\nAdm. 8: List books (1673\u20131893)\nAdm. 80: Various (1639\u20131957)\nNavy Board\nAdm. 107: Passing certificates (1691\u20131848)\nColonial Office. [See: R. B. Pugh, The records of the Colonial and Dominions offices (PRO handbooks, 3, London, 1964).]\nAmerica and West Indies\nCO 5: Original correspondence ([1606]\u20131807)\nCO 110: Original correspondence, etc. (1758\u20131816)\nCO 194: Original correspondence (1696\u20131922)\nCO 195: Entry books (1623\u20131867)\nNova Scotia and Cape Breton\nCO 217: Original correspondence (1710\/11\u20131867)\nColonies, general\nCO 325: Miscellanea (1744\u20131858)\nCourt of King's (Queen's) Bench\nPlea Side\nKB 122: Plea or judgement rolls (1702\u20131875)\nExchequer and Audit Department\nAO 17: Absorbed departments (1580\u20131867)\nHigh Court of Admiralty\nInstance and prize courts\nHCA 32: Prize papers (1661\u20131855)\nIndex (available for various classes)\nPrerogative Court of Canterbury (formerly held at Somerset House)\nProb. 6: Act books: administrations (1559\u20131858)\nProb. 11: Registered copy, wills (1384\u20131858)\nPrivy Council Office\nPC 2: Registers (1540\u20131957)\nPublic Record Office\nDocuments acquired by gift, deposit or purchase\nPRO 30\/8: Chatham papers\nState Paper Office\nSP 42: Naval (1689\u20131782)\nSP 43: Regencies (1716\u20131760)\nT 38: Departmental (1558\u20131881)\nT 29: Minute books (1667\u20131870)\nWar Office\nWO l: In-letters (1732\u20131868)\nWO 4: Out-letters: secretary-at-war (1684\u20131861)\nWO 12: Muster books and pay lists: general (1732\u20131878)\nWO 25: Registers, various (1660\u20131938)\nWO 34: Amherst papers (1712\u20131784)\nOrdnance Office\nWO 55: Miscellanea (1568\u20131923)\nJudge Advocate General's Office Courts martial\nWO 71: Proceedings (1668\u20131956)\nUNITED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL, London. Formed in 1965, the USPG is responsible for continuing work formerly carried on by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (incorporated by royal char-\nter, 1701) and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (founded, 1857). The archives is in the process of reorganizing and reclassifying some material. Thus classifications used by Canadian archives holding USPG microfilm do not always correspond to those of the archives itself. Indexes are available at USPG, however, and most dated references are easily transferred. For copies of USPG archives documents in the PAC see: Preliminary inventory, manuscript group 17 . . .(Ottawa, 1967).\nDocuments from the following groups were used in preparing this volume:\nA: Contemporary copies of letters received, 1701\u201338\nB: Original letters received from the American colonies, the West Indies, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, 1701\u201386\nJournal of proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Comprises bound and indexed volumes of the proceedings of the general meetings held in London from 1701, and four appendices, A, B, C, D (1701\u20131860) of which the first two cover the eighteenth century.\nDETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit, Mich. Founded on the private library of Clarence Monroe Burton the collection concentrates on the history of Detroit and Michigan from the 17th century to the present. The collection contains personal papers, business records, church records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, pictures, etc. Its holdings are listed in The national union catalog of manuscript collections . . .(Ann Arbor and Washington, 1962\u2013 ) .\nMaterials used in volume III include:\nMacdonald (George Fortune) papers\nPorteous (John) papers\nRegistres des bapt\u00eames, mariages et s\u00e9pultures de Sainte-Anne (Detroit, Mich.), 2 Feb. 1704\u201330 Dec. 1848. 5 vols. in 7. Manuscript copy.\nChristian Denissen. [Genealogy of the French families of Detroit.] 26 vols. Typescript, n.d.\nHARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Cambridge, Mass. Founded in 1638 it now contains more than 8,800,000 volumes. The Canadian history and literature shelflist of its central research collection in the Widener Library, published in 1968\n(Widener Library shelflist, 20 . . .), lists12,712 volumes and 1,078 pamphlets. The library of Francis Parkman* was received by bequest in 1894. Rare books and manuscripts, most of them not listed in the Shelflist, are housed in the Houghton Library, adjacent to the Widener. Manuscripts are traditionally cited under the heading, Harvard College Library.\nThe following collections were used in the preparation of volume III:\nMS Can 1: the Chadenat collection of documents bearing on the history of the French in Canada, 3 boxes\nMS Can 3: alphabetical file of autograph letters and documents\nMS Can 39: \"Reflexions Sur la contestation,\" 1728\nMS Can 45: Robert Stobo's memoirs, 1760\nMS Can 62: documents concerning the British army in Canada, 1744\u201345\nMS Sparks 4: papers of Governor Francis Bernard, 12 vols.\nPepperrell papers\nMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Boston, Mass. Founded in 1791 it is the oldest historical society in the United States. About half the holdings of the society are manuscripts and transcriptions. For further information see: S. T. Riley, The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1791\u20131959 (Boston, 1959); \"The manuscript collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society: a brief listing,\" M.H.S. Miscellany, 5 (December 1958); Catalog of manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society (7v., Boston, 1969).\nBelknap papers\nLouisbourg mss\nMascarene family papers\nMiscellaneous Large collection\nWaldo papers\nWinslow papers\nMASSACHUSETTS, SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S OFFICE, ARCHIVES, Boston, Mass. This archives contains primarily the records of the General Court of Massachusetts from the 17th century until the present day. For copies of documents in the PAC see: Preliminary inventory, manuscript group 18 . . . (Ottawa, 1964) .\nThe following series of documents are of interest for 17th- and 18th-century Canadian history:\n\"Massachusetts Archives.\" This is the title usually given to the 326 volumes of legislative records rearranged in the 19th century by J. B. Felt and his successor according to subject. Excellent name card-indexes have been prepared for about 55 volumes on such subjects as colonial affairs (including letters received and sent to other North American and West Indian colonies), commerce, depositions, foreign affairs, judicial and pecuniary matters, and maritime records.\nExecutive records of the Council (called Council Records), about 150 vols. For the 17th and 18th centuries, the records cover 1650\u201356, 1686\u201387, and 1692 on.\nLegislative records of the Council (called Court Records). These records cover the period 1692\u20131780. The first five volumes of the Court Records (binder's title) are Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (Boston, 1853\u201354), which covers the period 1628\u201386.\nMilitary records. These records consist of petitions, orders, receipts, and muster rolls for the period 1643\u20131788.\nJ. B. Poore's transcripts from French archives, from the discovery of America to 1780, 10 vols. Copies of these copies were published by the Quebec legislature as Coll. de manuscrits relatifs \u00e0 la N.-F. [See section ii; see also H. P. Beers, The French in North America: a bibliographical guide to French archives, reproductions, and research missions (Baton Rouge, 1957), 153\u201356.]\nWILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The Clements Library houses source materials on America from 1493 to 1860. Its manuscript collections are concentrated in the years 1740 to 1840, and several of these collections concern the British side of the American revolution. These items are catalogued, and brief descriptions appear in The national union catalog of manuscript collections . . . (AnnArbor and Washington, 1962\u2013 ), and Guide to the manuscript collections in the William L. Clements Library, comp. W. S. Ewing (2nd ed., Ann Arbor, 1953).\nThe main documents used in volume III include:\nGeorge Clinton papers\nThomas Gage papers:\nAmerican series\nSupplementary accounts\nPeter Warren papers\nLouisbourg papers\nII. PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES\n[AMHERST, JEFFERY.] The journal of Jeffery Amherst, recording the military career of General Amherst in America from 1758 to 1763. Edited with introduction and notes by John Clarence Webster. (Canadian historical studies. . . .) Toronto and Chicago, 1931.\nAnglo\u2013French boundary disputes in the west, 1749\u20131763. Edited with introduction and notes by Theodore Calvin Pease. (Illinois State Historical Library Collections,XXVII, French series, II.) Springfield, Ill., 1937.\nARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QU\u00c9BEC, Qu\u00e9bec et Montr\u00e9al.\nAPQ, AQ, and ANQ Rapports. Documents from the ANQ \u2013 as well as from other archives \u2013 have been published in the Rapport de l'archiviste de la province de Qu\u00e9bec. Volumes correspond to the fiscal years for 1920\u201321 to 1948\u201349 and 1959\u201360; those for the years 1949\u201351 to 1957\u201359 include two years; no volumes were published for 1961 or 1962, but publication was resumed in 1963 as the AQ Rapport;the title ANQ Rapport dates from 1970. There is an index to the contents of the first 42 volumes: Table des mati\u00e8res des rapports des Archives du Qu\u00e9bec, tomes 1 \u00e0 42 (1920\u20131964) (1965).\nL'\u00eele de Montr\u00e9al en 1731 (A. Roy).\nInv. de pi\u00e8ces du Labrador (P.-G. Roy).\nInv. des papiers de L\u00e9ry (P.-G. Roy).\nLettres de noblesse (P.-G. Roy).\nARCHIVES DU S\u00c9MINAIRE DE QU\u00c9BEC, Quebec.\nI: Papiers Contrec\u0153ur (Grenier).\nII: Provost, Le s\u00e9minaire de Qu\u00e9bec: documents et biographies.\n\"Aveu et d\u00e9nombrement de messire Louis Normand, pr\u00eatre du s\u00e9minaire de Saint-Sulpice de Montr\u00e9al, au nom et comme fond\u00e9 de procuration de messire Charles-Maurice Le Pelletier, sup\u00e9rieur du s\u00e9minaire de Saint-Sulpice de Paris, pour la seigneurie de l'\u00eele de Montr\u00e9al (1731),\" APQ Rapport, 1941\u201342,1\u2013163.\nBORNIER, PHILIPPE. Conf\u00e9rences des ordonnances de Louis XIV, roi de France et de Navarre, avec les anciennes ordonnances du royaume, le droit \u00e9crit & les arr\u00eats. . . .\nNouvelle \u00e9dition. 2 vols. Paris, 1737.\nBOSTON, MASS., REGISTRY DEPARTMENT\nRecords relating to the early history of Boston. Edited by William Henry Whitmore et al.39 vols. Boston, 1876\u20131909.\nNumbers used in volume III include:\n[6]: Roxbury land and church records. 1881.\n[12]: Boston records, 1729\u20131742. 1885.\n[13]: Records of Boston selectmen, 1716\u20131736. 1885.\n[19]: Selectmen's minutes, 1754\u20131763. 1887.\n[24]: Boston births, 1700\u20131800. 1894.\n[28]: Boston marriages, 1700\u20131751. 1898.\n[34]: F. S. Drake, The town of Roxbury.1905.\nBoston Evening-Post, Boston, Mass. Published from 18 Aug. 1735 to 24 April 1775. Weekly.\nBoston News-Letter, Boston, Mass. Published from 24 April 1704 to [29 Feb. 1776]. Weekly, except for the last eight months of 1709 when it was not published. Title varies. See: C. S. Brigham, History and bibliography of American newspapers, 1690\u20131820 (American Antiquarian Soc. pub., 2v., Worcester, Mass., 1947) .\n[BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE DE.] Adventure in the wilderness: the American journals of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, 1756\u20131760. Translated and edited by Edward Pierce Hamilton. Norman, Okla., 1964.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 \"Le journal de M. de Bougainville,\" Am\u00e9d\u00e9e Gosselin, \u00e9dit., APQ Rapport, 1923\u201324, 202\u2013393.\n\"Cadillac papers.\" See: Michigan Pioneer Collections.\nCENSUSES. See RECENSEMENTS\nCHAMPLAIN SOCIETY. \"Founded in 1905, with headquarters in Toronto, for the purpose of publishing rare and inaccessible materials relating to the history of Canada. Its publications are issued only to elected members, limited in number. . . .\"\nIII: Documents relating to seigniorial tenure (Munro).\nIV: Logs of the conquest (Wood).\nV: Le Clercq, New relation of Gaspesia (Ganong).\nVIII, IX, X: Knox, Historical journal (Doughty).\nXVI: Journals and letters of La V\u00e9rendrye (Burpee).\nXXXII: Walker expedition (Graham).\nCHAMPLAIN SOCIETY. ONTARIO SERIES. The Champlain Society was invited by the Ontario government to prepare and publish a series of documentary volumes \"to preserve in printed\nform . . . a representative selection of the more interesting and significant records of the past. . . .\" This series is sold through normal publishing channels.\nII: Royal Fort Frontenac (Preston and Lamontagne).\nIV: Windsor border region (Lajeunesse).\nCHARLEVOIX, [PIERRE-FRAN\u00c7OIS-XAVIER] DE.\nHistoire et description g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Am\u00e9rique septentrionnale. 3 vols.; another edition 6 vols. Paris, 1744.\nCHARLEVOIX, PIERRE-FRAN\u00c7OIS-XAVIER DE.\nHistory and general description of New France. Translated and edited, with notes, by John Gilmary Shea. 6 vols. New York, 1866\u201372; reprinted Chicago, 1962.\n[CHAUSSEGROS DE L\u00c9RY, GASPARD-JOSEPH.] \"Journal de Joseph-Gaspard Chaussegros de L\u00e9ry, lieutenant des troupes, 1754\u20131755,\" APQ Rapport, 1926\u201327, 348\u201371; 1927\u201328, 355\u2013429.\n\"Church and state papers for the years 1759 to 1786, being a compendium of documents relating to the establishment of certain churches in the province of Quebec,\" ed. A. R. Kelley, APQ Rapport, 1948\u201349, 293\u2013340.\nCollection de documents in\u00e9dits sur le Canada et l'Am\u00e9rique, publi\u00e9s par \"Le Canada fran\u00e7ais.\"3 vols. Qu\u00e9bec, 1888\u201390,\nCollection de manuscrits contenant lettres, m\u00e9moires, et autres documents historiques relatifs \u00e0 la Nouvelle-France. . . .4 vols. Qu\u00e9bec, 1883\u201385. [See section i, MASSACHUSETTS, SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S OFFICE, ARCHIVES.]\nCollection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. 12 vols. Montr\u00e9al et Qu\u00e9bec, 1889\u201395.\n[I]: Journal des campagnes du chevalier de L\u00e9vis.\n[II]: Lettres du chevalier de L\u00e9vis.\n[III]: Lettres de la cour de Versailles.\n[IV] Lettres et pi\u00e8ces militaires.\n[V]: Lettres de M. de Bourlamaque.\n[VI]: Lettres du marquis de Montcalm.\n[VII]: Journal du marquis de Montcalm.\n[VIII]: Lettres du marquis de Vaudreuil.\n[IX]: Lettres de l'intendant Bigot.\n[X]: Lettres de divers particuliers.\n[XI]: Guerre du Canada: relations et journaux.\n[XII]: Table analytique de la collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis.\nCONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Hartford, Conn.\nCollections. 30 vols., in progress. 1860\u201319\nThe papers of Thomas Fitch, Jonathan Law, William Pitkin, and George Wyllys, governors of Connecticut, have been published in the Collections and were used in the preparation of volume III.\n\"La correspondance de madame B\u00e9gon, 1748\u20131753,\" Claude de Bonnault, \u00e9dit., APQ Rapport, 1934\u201335, 1\u2013277.\n\"Correspondance entre M. de Vaudreuil et la cour,\" APQ Rapport, 1938\u201339, 12\u2013179; 1939\u201340, 355\u2013463; 1942\u201343, 399\u2013443; 1946\u201347, 371\u2013460; 1947\u201348, 135-339.\nCorrespondence of William Pitt, when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval commissioners in America. Edited by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball. 2 vols. New York and London, 1906.\nCorrespondence of William Shirley, governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731\u20131760. Edited by Charles Henry Lincoln. 2 vols. New York, 1912.\nThe critical period, 1763\u20131765. Edited with introduction and notes by Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter. (Illinois State Historical Library Collections, X, British series, I.) Springfield, Ill., 1915.\nD\u00e9couvertes et \u00e9tablissements des Fran\u00e7ais dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Am\u00e9rique septentrionale . . . m\u00e9moires et documents in\u00e9dits. [1614\u20131754.] Pierre Margry, \u00e9diteur. 6 vols. Paris, 1879\u201388. Documents reproduced here should be checked against the originals. Copies of an English translation of this work, completed in 1914, are in the possession of the Burton Historical Collection (Detroit Public Library), the Michigan Historical Commission (Lansing), and the University of Chicago.\nLes derniers jours de l'Acadie (1748\u20131758), correspondances et m\u00e9moires: extraits du portefeuille de M. Le Courtois de Surlaville, lieutenant-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des arm\u00e9es du roi, ancien major des troupes de l'\u00eele Royale. Gaston Du Boscq de Beaumont, \u00e9diteur. Paris, 1899.\nDESROSIERS, LOUIS-AD\u00c9LARD. \"Correspondance de cinq vicaires g\u00e9n\u00e9raux avec les \u00e9v\u00eaques de Qu\u00e9bec, 1761\u20131816,\" APQ Rapport, 1947\u201348, 71\u2013133.\nDOBBS, ARTHUR. Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's defence: wherein his conduct during his late voyage for discovering a passage from Hudson's-Bay to the South-Sea is impartially examin'd. . . .London, 1744.\nDocumentary history of the state of Maine. Edited by William Willis et al. (Maine Historical Society Collections, 2nd series.) 24 vols.\nPortland, Maine, 1869\u20131916. Not to be confused with Maine Historical Society Collections and Proceedings [q.v.].\nThe documentary history of the state of New-York. Edited by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan. 4 vols. Albany, 1850\u201351.\nDocuments relating to Canadian currency, exchange and finance during the French period. Selected and edited with notes and introduction by Adam Shortt. (PAC, Board of historical publications.) 2 vols. Ottawa, 1925.\nDocuments relating to currency, exchange and finance in Nova Scotia, with prefatory documents, 1675\u20131758. Selected by Adam Shortt, completed with an introduction by Victor Kenneth Johnston, and revised and edited by Gustave Lanctot. (PAC, Board of historical publications.) Ottawa, 1933.\nDocuments relating to the constitutional history of Canada. . . .Edited by Adam Shortt, Arthur George Doughty et al. (PAC publication.) 3 vols. Ottawa, 1907\u201335.\nI : 1759\u20131791. 2nd edition. (PAC, Board of historical publications.) 1918.\nDocuments relating to the seigniorial tenure in Canada, 1598\u20131854. Edited with an introduction and notes by William Bennett Munro. (Champlain Society publications, III.) Toronto, 1908.\nDocuments relative to the colonial history of the state of New-York; procured in Holland, England and France, by John Romeyn Brodhead. . . .Edited by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan and Berthold Fernow. 15 vols. Albany, 1856\u201387.\n\u00c9dits, ordonnances royaux, d\u00e9clarations et arr\u00eats du Conseil d'\u00e9tat du roi concernant le Canada. [II]: Arr\u00eats et r\u00e9glements du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur de Qu\u00e9bec, et ordonnances et jugements des intendants du Canada. [III]: Compl\u00e9ment des ordonnances et jugements des gouverneurs et intendants du Canada, pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 des commissions des dits gouverneurs et intendants et des diff\u00e9rents officiers civils et de justice. . . .3vols. Qu\u00e9bec, 1854\u201356.\nExtraits des archives des minist\u00e8res de la Marine et de la Guerre \u00e0 Paris; Canada, correspondance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale: MM. Duquesne et Vaudreuil, gouverneurs-g\u00e9n\u00e9raux, 1755\u20131760. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. Qu\u00e9bec, 1890.\n[FRANQUET, LOUIS.] Voyages et m\u00e9moires sur le Canada par Franquet. (Institut canadien de Qu\u00e9bec publication.) Qu\u00e9bec, 1889. Also published in Institut canadien de Qu\u00e9bec Annuaire, 13 (1889), 31\u2013240.\nThe French regime in Wisconsin: I, 1634\u20131727. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. (Wisconsin\nState Historical Society Collections, XVI.)Madison, 1902.\nThe French regime in Wisconsin: II, 1727\u20131748. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. (Wisconsin State Historical Society Collections, XVII.)Madison, 1906.\n\"The French regime in Wisconsin, 1743\u20131760,\" ed. R. G. Thwaites, Wis. State Hist. Soc. Coll., XVIII (1908), 1\u2013222.\nGAULTIER DE LA V\u00c9RENDRYE. See: Journals and letters. . . .\nGentleman's Magazine: or, monthly intelligencer, London. Published from January 1731 to September 1907. Monthly. Title varies: Gentleman's Magazine: and historical chronicle from 1736 to 1833 and from July 1856 to May 1868. Volume numbering irregular.\nGREAT BRITAIN, PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS. Report from the committee appointed to inquire into the state and condition of the countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, and of the trade carried on there. London, 1749.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Report relating to the finding a north-west passage. London, 1745.\nGuerre du Canada: relations et journaux de diff\u00e9rentes exp\u00e9ditions faites durant les ann\u00e9es 1755\u201356\u201357\u201358\u201359\u201360. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [XI].)Qu\u00e9bec, 1895.\n\"Historical records of the Church of England in the diocese of Quebec,\" ed. A. R. Kelley, APQ Rapport, 1946\u201347,179\u2013298.\nHUDSON'S BAY RECORD SOCIETY. Initiated in 1938 by the Hudson's Bay Company after classification of its London archives, begun in 1932, had progressed to the point where publication was feasible. Membership in the society is limited.\nGeneral editor for vols. I\u2013XXII, Edwin Ernest Rich; for vols. XXIII\u2013XXV, Kenneth Gordon Davies; for vols. XXVI\u2013XXVII, Glyndwr Williams. 27 vols. to date. Vols. I\u2013XII issued in association with the Champlain Society, Toronto.\nXII: James Isham's observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743, and notes and observations on a book entitled \"A voyage to Hudsons Bay in the Dobbs Galley,\" 1749. Edited by Edwin Ernest Rich and Alice Margaret Johnson. London, 1949; reprinted Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1968.\nXXI, XXII: Rich, History of the HBC. [See section iv.]\nXXIV: Northern Quebec and Labrador journals and correspondence, 1819\u201335. Edited by Kenneth Gordon Davies and Alice Mar-\ngaret Johnson, with an introduction by Glyndwr Williams. London, 1963.\nXXV: Letters from Hudson Bay, 1703\u201340. Edited by Kenneth Gordon Davies and Alice Margaret Johnson, with an introduction by Richard Glover. London, 1965.\nXXVII: [Graham, Andrew.] Andrew Graham's observations on Hudson's Bay, 1767\u201391. Edited by Glyndwr Williams, with an introduction by Richard Glover. London, 1969.\nHUTCHINSON, THOMAS. The history of the colony and province of Massachusetts-Bay. Edited from the author's own copies of vols. I and II and his manuscript of vol. III, with a memoir and additional notes, by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1936. [For earlier editions see: DCB,II,692.]\nL'\u00eele de Montr\u00e9al en 1731: aveu et d\u00e9nombrement des messieurs de Saint-Sulpice, seigneurs de Montr\u00e9al. Antoine Roy, \u00e9diteur. (APQ publication.) Qu\u00e9bec, 1943.\nIllinois on the eve of the Seven Years' War, 1747\u20131755. Edited with an introduction and notes by Theodore Calvin Pease and Ernestine Jenison. (Illinois State Historical Library Collections,XXIX, French series, III.) Springfield, Ill., 1936.\nILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY, Springfield, Ill.\nCollections. 35 vols. to date. 1903\u2013\nX: Critical period, 1763\u201365 (Alvord and Carter).\nXI: New r\u00e9gime, 1765\u201367 (Alvord and Carter).\nXVI: Trade and politics, 1767\u201369 (Alvord and Carter).\nXXVII: Anglo-French boundary disputes, 1749\u201363 (Pease).\nXXIX: Illinois on eve of Seven Years' War (Pease and Jenison).\n\"Indian treaties,\" Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st ser., III (1853), 359\u2013447.\nInventaire de pi\u00e8ces sur la c\u00f4te de Labrador conserv\u00e9es aux Archives de la province de Quebec. Pierre-Georges Roy, \u00e9diteur. (APQ publication.) 2 vols. Quebec, 1940\u201342.\nInventaire des papiers de L\u00e9ry conserv\u00e9s aux Archives de la province de Qu\u00e9bec. Pierre-Georges Roy, \u00e9diteur. (APQ publication.) 3 vols. Quebec, 1939\u201340.\nThe Jesuit relations and allied documents: travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610\u20131791, the original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes. . . .Edited by\nReuben Gold Thwaites. 73 vols., including 2 index vols. Cleveland, 1896\u20131901; facsimile reproduction, 73 vols. in 36, New York, 1959. [For a discussion of the Relations see: DCB, I, 455\u201357. ]\nJohnson papers (Sullivan et al). See: The papers of Sir William Johnson.\nJournal des campagnes du chevalier de L\u00e9vis en Canada de 1756 \u00e0 1760. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [I].) Montr\u00e9al, 1889.\nJournal du marquis de Montcalm durant ses campagnes en Canada de 1756 \u00e0 1759. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [VII].)Qu\u00e9bec, 1895.\n\"Journal du si\u00e8ge de Qu\u00e9bec du 10 mai au 18 septembre 1759 . . . ,\" \u00c6gidius Fauteux, \u00e9dit., APQ Rapport, 1920\u201321, 137\u2013241.\nJournals and letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La V\u00e9rendrye and his sons, with correspondence between the governors of Canada and the French court, touching the search for the Western Sea. Edited with introduction and notes by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee. (Champlain Society publications, XVI.) Toronto, 1927.\nJUCHEREAU [DE LA FERT\u00c9] DE SAINT-IGNACE, JEANNE-FRAN\u00c7OISE, ET MARIE-ANDR\u00c9E [REGNARD] DUPLESSIS DE SAINTE-H\u00c9L\u00c8NE. Les annales de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Qu\u00e9bec, 1636\u20131716. Albert Jamet, \u00e9diteur. Qu\u00e9bec et Montr\u00e9al, 1939. The original work was dictated to Mother Duplessis [REGNARD] by Mother Juchereau*, and was printed in Montauban, France, in 1751 by Louis Bertrand* de Latour, as Histoire de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Qu\u00e9bec.\nJugements et d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations du Conseil souverain de la Nouvelle-France. [1663\u20131716.] 6 vols. Qu\u00e9bec, 1885\u201391. Index par Pierre-Georges Roy. (APQ publication.) Qu\u00e9bec, 1940.\nKNOX, JOHN. An historical journal of the campaigns in North America for the years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760. Edited with introduction, appendix, and index by Arthur George Doughty. (Champlain Society publications, VIII, IX, X.) 3 vols. Toronto, 1914\u201316.\nLA V\u00c9RENDRYE, GAULTIER DE. See: Journals and letters. . . .\nLE CLERCQ, CHRESTIEN. New relation of Gaspesia, with the customs and religion of the Gaspesian Indians. Translated and edited, with a reprint of the original, by William Francis Ganong. (Champlain Society publications, V.) Toronto, 1910.\nLettre d'un habitant de Louisbourg. . . . See: Louisbourg in 1745 (Wrong).\nLettres de divers particuliers au chevalier- de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [X].) Qu\u00e9bec, 1895.\n\"Les lettres de Doreil,\" APQ Rapport, 1944\u201345, 1\u2013171.\nLettres de la cour de Versailles au baron de Dieskau, au marquis de Montcalm et au chevalier de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [III].) Qu\u00e9bec, 1890.\nLettres de l'intendant Bigot au chevalier de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [IX].) Qu\u00e9bec, 1895.\nLettres de M. de Bourlamaque au chevalier de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [V].) Qu\u00e9bec, 1891.\nLettres de noblesse, g\u00e9n\u00e9alogies, \u00e9rections de comt\u00e9s et baronnies insinu\u00e9es par le Conseil souverain de la Nouvelle-France. Pierre-Georges Roy, \u00e9diteur. (APQ publication.) 2 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1920.\nLettres du chevalier de L\u00e9vis concernant la guerre du Canada (1756\u20131760). Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [II].)Montr\u00e9al, 1889.\nLettres du marquis de Montcalm au chevalier de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [VI].)Qu\u00e9bec, 1894.\nLettres du marquis de Vaudreuil au chevalier de L\u00e9vis. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [VIII].)Qu\u00e9bec, 1895.\n\"Lettres et m\u00e9moires de l'abb\u00e9 de L'Isle-Dieu,\" APQ Rapport, 1935\u201336, 275\u2013410; 1936\u201337, 331\u2013459; 1937\u201338, 147\u2013253.\nLettres et pi\u00e8ces militaires, instructions, ordres, m\u00e9moires, plans de campagne et de d\u00e9fense, 1756\u20131760. Henri-Raymond Casgrain, \u00e9diteur. (Collection des manuscrits du mar\u00e9chal de L\u00e9vis, [IV].)Qu\u00e9bec, 1891.\nLITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC\/SOCI\u00c9T\u00c9 LITT\u00c9RAIRE ET HISTORIQUE DE QU\u00c9BEC. The oldest historical society in Canada, founded 6 Jan. 1824 in Quebec.\nThe most useful of its publications is its collection, Historical Documents. This collection consists of 12 vols. in 9 series (1838\u20131915), later numbered consecutively by the society D.1, D.2, etc., irrespective of the fact that the first series contains 4 vols. and the remaining 8 series only 1 vol. each. For this and other\ncollections see: Index to the archival publications . . . 1824\u20131924 (Quebec, 1923).\n[D.1]: M\u00e9moires sur le Canada, depuis 1749 jusqu'\u00e0 1760.\n[D.4]: M\u00e9moire du sieur de Ramezay.\nThe logs of the conquest of Canada. Edited with an introduction by William Wood. (Champlain Society publications, IV.) Toronto, 1909.\nLouisbourg in 1745: the anonymous \"Lettre d'un habitant de Louisbourg\" (Cape Breton), containing a narrative by an eye-witness of the siege in 1745. Edited and translated by George McKinnon Wrong. (University of Toronto studies, History, 2nd series, I.) Toronto, 1897; reprinted 1901. The original letter was printed surreptitiously in France in 1745 under the title Lettre d'un habitant de Louisbourg, contenant une relation \u00e9xacte et circonstanci\u00e9e de la prise de l'Isle-Royale, par les Anglais. It bore a fictitious Quebec imprint.\nLouisbourg journals, 1745. Edited by Louis Effingham De Forest. (Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York publications, 44.) New York, 1932.\nMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Portland, Maine\nCollections. 1st series. 9 vols. and index. 1831\u201391.\nCollections and Proceedings. 2nd series. 10 vols. 1890\u201399.\nDocumentary history of the state of Maine.\nProvince and court records of Maine.\nMandements, lettres pastorales et circulaires des \u00e9v\u00eaques de Qu\u00e9bec. 18vols. to date. Qu\u00e9bec, 1887\u201319 . The first six volumes were edited by Henri T\u00eatu and Charles-Octave Gagnon; no editors are given for later volumes. Volume numbering is peculiar: [1re s\u00e9rie], I\u2013IV; nouvelle s\u00e9rie [2e s\u00e9rie], I\u2013V; nouvelle s\u00e9rie [3e s\u00e9rie], I\u2013III; a second set of cumulative volume numbers begins with vol. V of the nouvelle s\u00e9rie [2e s\u00e9rie].\nMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Boston, Mass.\nCollections. 7 series of 10 vols. each plus 10 vols. to date. 1792\u201319\nProceedings. 3 series of 20 vols. each plus index volumes for each series and an additional 23 vols. to date. 1859\u201319\nShipton, Sibley's Harvard graduates. [See section iii.]\nAs a guide to contents and indexes see: Handbook of the publications and photostats, 1792\u20131935 (1937).\n\"M\u00e9moire du Canada,\" APQ Rapport, 1924\u201325, 96\u2013198.\nM\u00e9moire du sieur de Ramezay, commandant \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec, au sujet de la reddition de cette ville le 18e septembre 1759. . . . (Literaryand Historical Society of Quebec, Historical Documents, 1st series, [D.4].) Qu\u00e9bec, 1861. The \"M\u00e9moire du sieur de Ramezay . . . ,\" with accompanying documents, forms the second part of the compilation.\nM\u00e9moires sur le Canada, depuis 1749 jusqu'\u00e0 1760. . . . (Literaryand Historical Society of Quebec, Historical Documents, 1st series, [D.1].) Quebec, 1838; reprinted 1873.\nMichigan Pioneer Collections. 40 vols. 1874\u20131929. To avoid confusion the Michigan Historical Commission, Department of State, Lansing, has standardized the citation for these volumes, which were originally published by various historical agencies and under various titles. Volumes are traditionally cited by their spine dates. The following volumes were particularly useful for volume III:\nXXXIII, XXXIV: containing \"Cadillac papers.\" 1903, 1904.\nMORIN, MARIE. Annales de l'H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al. \u00c6gidius Fauteux et al.,\u00e9diteurs. (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 historique de Montr\u00e9al, M\u00e9moires, XII.) Montr\u00e9al, 1921. An incomplete and inaccurate edition of the manuscript in AHSJ, \"Histoire simple et v\u00e9ritable . . .\" [see section i].\nNAVY RECORDS SOCIETY, London, Eng. Founded in 1893 \"for the purpose of rendering accessible the sources of [Britain's] naval history.\"\nXCIV: Walker expedition (Graham).\nThe new r\u00e9gime, 1765\u20131767. Edited with an introduction and notes by Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter. (Illinois State Historical Library Collections, XI,British series, II.) Springfield, Ill., 1916.\nNEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, New York.\nCollections. 1st series. 5 vols. 1811\u201330.\n2nd series. 4 vols. 1841\u201359.\nJohn Watts de Peyster publication fund series. 82 vols. to date. 1868\u201319 . Subtitle varies: vols. 1\u201335, Publication fund series.\nThe last series was used in volume III.\nThe Northcliffe collection. . . . (PACpublication.) Ottawa, 1926.\n[Nova Scotia Archives, I:] Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia . Edited by Thomas Beamish Akins. (PANS publication.) Halifax, 1869.\nNova Scotia Archives, II: a calendar of two letter-books and one commission-book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713\u20131741. Edited by Archibald McKellar MacMechan. (PANS publication.) Halifax, 1900.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 III: original minutes of His Majesty's council at Annapolis Royal, 1720\u20131739. Edited by Archibald McKellar MacMechan. (PANS publication.) Halifax, 1908.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 IV: minutes of His Majesty's council at Annapolis Royal, 1736\u20131749. Edited by Charles Bruce Fergusson. (PANS publication.) Halifax, 1967.\nNOVA SCOTIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Halifax, N. S.\nCollections. [See also section v. ]\nIII, IV: contain [Winslow], \"Journal.\"\nThe papers of Sir William Johnson. Edited by James Sullivan et al. (New York State, Division of archives and history publication.) 14 vols., including General index. Albany, 1921\u201365.\nPapiers Contrec\u0153ur et autres documents concernant le conflit anglo-fran\u00e7ais sur l'Ohio de 1745 \u00e0 1756. Fernand Grenier, \u00e9diteur. (ASQ publications, I.) Qu\u00e9bec, 1952.\nPENHALLOW, SAMUEL. The history of the wars of New-England, with the eastern Indians. . . .Boston, 1726. Reprinted in 1824 in New Hampshire Historical Society Collections, I,and in 1859, with a memoir and notes, in Cincinnati, Ohio.\nPennsylvania archives. . . .Edited by Samuel Hazard et al. 9 series [with varying subtitles and varying numbers of vols.]. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852\u20131935. As a guide to contents and indexes see: H. H. Eddy, Guide to the published archives of Pennsylvania covering the 138 volumes of colonial records and Pennsylvania archives series I\u2013IX (Harrisburg, 1949).\n[PENNSYLVANIA. Colonial Records.] Minutes of the provincial council of Pennsylvania, from the organization to the termination of the proprietary government. [1683\u20131775.] 10 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1851\u201352.\n[PICHON, THOMAS.] Lettres et m\u00e9moires pour servir \u00e0 l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Cap Breton, depuis son \u00e9tablissement jusqu'\u00e0 la reprise de cette isle par les Anglois en 1758. La Haye, Pays-Bas, 1760. An English translation was published in London in the same year under the title Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the islands of Cape Bre-\nton, and Saint John, from the first settlement there, to the taking of Louisburg by the English, in 1758 . . . ; the original French has been reprinted, [East Ardsley, Eng.] and [New York], 1966.\n\"Proc\u00e8s-verbaux du procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Collet sur le district des paroisses de la Nouvelle-France . . . ,\" Ivanho\u00eb Caron, \u00e9dit., APQ Rapport, 1921\u201322, 262\u2013380.\nProvince and court records of Maine. [1636\u20131718. ] Edited by Charles Thornton Libby et al. (Maine Historical Society publication.) 5 vols., in progress. Portland, Maine, 1928\u2013 .\nPROVOST, HONORIUS. Le s\u00e9minaire de Qu\u00e9bec: documents et biographies. (ASQ publications, II.) Qu\u00e9bec, 1964.\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES OF CANADA, Ottawa.\nBOARD OF HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS\nDocuments relating to Canadian currency during the French period (Shortt).\nDocuments relating to constitutional history, 1759\u201391 (Shortt and Doughty; 1918).\nDocuments relating to currency in Nova Scotia, 1675\u20131758 (Shortt).\nNUMBERED PUBLICATIONS. [See Section iii.]\nOTHER PUBLICATIONS. [See also section iii.]\nDocuments relating to constitutional history, 1759\u201391 (Shortt and Doughty).\nReports and Rapports. 1881\u201319 . Published annually until 1952; irregularly thereafter.\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA, Halifax, N. S.\nN.S. Archives, I.\nN.S. Archives, II.\nN.S. Archives, III.\nN.S. Archives, IV.\nPUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, London, Eng.\nThe following calendars contain information on events in or affecting Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries, and were used in the preparation of volume III:\nActs of the Privy Council of England: colonial series. [1613\u20131783.] Edited by William Lawson Grant and James Munro. 6 vols. Hereford and London, 1908\u201312.\nCalendar of state papers, colonial series, America and West Indies. . . . [1574\u20131738.] Edited by William Noel Sainsbury et al. 44 vols., in progress. London, 1860\u201319\nCalendar of Treasury papers. . . . [ 1556\u20131728.] Edited by Joseph Redington. 6 vols. London, 1868\u201389.\nJournal of the commissioners for Trade and Plantations. . . . [1704\u201382.] 14 vols. London, 1920\u201338.\nQuebec Gazette\/La Gazette de Qu\u00e9bec, Quebec. Published from 21 June 1764 to 30 Oct. 1874. Frequency of publication varies. The paper was originally bilingual; after 30 April 1832 separate French and English editions appeared. With the issue of 29 Oct. 1842 the French edition was discontinued. See: Andr\u00e9 Beaulieu et Jean Hamelin, La presse qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise: des origines \u00e0 nos jours (lv. to date, Qu\u00e9bec, 1973).\nRECENSEMENTS CANADA\n1681: Sulte, Hist. des Can. fr., V, 53\u201392. [See section iv.]\n1716: Recensement de la ville de Qu\u00e9bec pour 1716. Louis Beaudet, \u00e9diteur. Qu\u00e9bec, 1887.\n1739: Census of Canada . . . Recensements du Canada (5v., Ottawa, 1873\u201378), IV, 60.\n1741: \"Un recensement in\u00e9dit de Montr\u00e9al, en 1741,\" \u00c9.-Z. Massicotte, \u00e9dit., RSCT, 3rd ser., XV (1921), sect. i, 1\u201361.\n1744: \"Le recensement de Qu\u00e9bec, en 1744,\" APQ Rapport, 1939\u201340, 1\u2013154.\n1762: \"Le recensement du gouvernement de Qu\u00e9bec en 1762,\" Am\u00e9d\u00e9e Gosselin, \u00e9dit., APQ Rapport, 1925\u201326, 1\u2013143.\nTERRE-NEUVE ET PLAISANCE\n1687, 1691, 1693, 1694, 1704: \"Recensement de Terre-Neuve, 1687 \u00e0 1704,\" F.-D. Thibodeau, \u00e9dit., SGCF M\u00e9moires, XIII (1962), 204\u20138, 244\u201355.\nSee also: Canada, Bureau of Statistics, Demography branch, Chronological list of Canadian censuses (Ottawa, 1942).\nSince the printed versions of the censuses are not always accurate it is preferable to consult the originals. See section i, ARCHIVES NATIONALES, Section Outre-mer, s\u00e9rie G.\nRoyal Fort Frontenac. Texts selected and translated by Richard Arthur Preston; edited with introduction and notes by L\u00e9opold Lamontagne. (Champlain Society publications, Ontario series, II.) Toronto, 1958.\nTrade and politics, 1767\u20131769. Edited with introduction and notes by Clarence Walworth Alvord and Clarence Edwin Carter. (Illinois State Historical Library Collections, XVI, British series, III.) Springfield, Ill., 1921.\nTRUDEL, MARCEL. Atlas historique du Canada fran\u00e7ais: des origines \u00e0 1867. Qu\u00e9bec, 1961.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Atlas de la Nouvelle-France\/An atlas of New France. Qu\u00e9bec, 1968. Described by the author as \"a complete revision of our Atlas historique du Canada fran\u00e7ais. . . .\"\nThe Walker expedition to Quebec, 1711. Edited with an introduction by Gerald Sandford Graham. (Champlain Society publications,\nXXXII; Navy Records Society publications, XCIV.) Toronto and London, 1953.\nThe Windsor border region, Canada's southernmost frontier. . . .Edited with an introduction by Ernest Joseph Lajeunesse. (Champlain Society publications, Ontario series, IV.) Toronto, 1960.\n[WINSLOW, JOHN.] \"Journal of Colonel John Winslow of the provincial troops, while engaged in removing the Acadian French inhabitants from Grand Pr\u00e9, and the neighbouring settlements, in the autumn of the year 1755,\" N.S. Hist. Soc. Coll., III (1883), 71\u2013196;\n\". . . while engaged in the siege of Fort Beaus\u00e9jour, in the summer and autumn of 1755,\" N.S. Hist. Soc. Coll., IV (1885), 113\u2013246.\nWISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Madison, Wis.\nCollections. 31 vols. 1855\u20131931.\nXVI: French regime in Wis., 1634\u20131727 (Thwaites)\nXVII: French regime in Wis., 1727\u201348 (Thwaites)\nXVIII: \"French regime in Wis., 1743\u201360\" (Thwaites)\nIII. REFERENCE WORKS\nALLAIRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE-ARTHUR. Dictionnaire biographique du clerg\u00e9 canadien-francais. 6 vols. Montr\u00e9al, 1910\u201334.\nPUBLICATIONS. [See also section ii.]\nP.-G. 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Ottawa, 1914.\nPlace-names and places of Nova Scotia. With an introduction by Charles Bruce Fergusson. (PANS publication, Nova Scotia series, III.) Halifax,, 1967.\nPUBLIC ARCHIVES OF CANADA\nNUMBERED PUBLICATIONS\n1: Index to reports of Canadian archives from 1872 to 1908. Ottawa, 1909.\n6: J.-E. Roy, Rapport sur les archives de France.\n10: Parker, Guide.\nOTHER PUBLICATIONS [See also section ii.]\nInventories of holdings in the manuscript division. [See section i.]\nUnion list of manuscripts (Gordon et al.).\nROY, JOSEPH-EDMOND. Rapport sur les archives de France relatives \u00e0 l'histoire du Canada. (PAC publications, 6.) Ottawa, 1911.\nROY, PIERRE-GEORGES. Inventaire des concessions en fief et seigneurie, fois et hommages et aveux et d\u00e9nombrements, conserv\u00e9s aux Archives de la province de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 6 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1927\u201329.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des contrats de mariage du r\u00e9gime fran\u00e7ais conserv\u00e9s aux Archives judiciaires de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 6 vols. Qu\u00e9bec, 1937\u201338.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des insinuations de la Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 3 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., et Qu\u00e9bec, 1936\u201339.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des insinuations du Conseil souverain de la Nouvelle-France. (APQ publication.) Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1921.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des jugements et d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations du Conseil sup\u00e9rieur de la Nouvelle-France de 1717 \u00e0 1760. (APQ publication.) 7 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1932\u201335.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des ordonnances des intendants de la Nouvelle-France conserv\u00e9es aux Archives provinciales de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 4 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1919.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des proc\u00e8s-verbaux des grands voyers conserv\u00e9s aux Archives de la province de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 6 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1923\u201332.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire des testaments, donations et inventaires du r\u00e9gime fran\u00e7ais conserv\u00e9s aux Archives judiciaires de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 3 vols. Qu\u00e9bec, 1941.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Inventaire d'une collection de pi\u00e8ces judiciaires, notariales, etc., etc., conserv\u00e9es aux Archives judiciaires de Qu\u00e9bec. (APQ publication.) 2 vols. Beauceville, Qu\u00e9., 1917.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Les officiers d'\u00e9tat-major des gouvernements de Qu\u00e9bec, Montr\u00e9al et Trois-Rivi\u00e8res sous le r\u00e9gime fran\u00e7ais. L\u00e9vis, Qu\u00e9., 1919.\nROY, PIERRE-GEORGES, et al. Inventaire des\ngreffes des notaires du r\u00e9gime fran\u00e7ais. (APQ publication.) 23 vols., in progress. Qu\u00e9bec, 1943\u2013 . 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Quarterly publication of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. Succeeded by the Journal of American History. I(1914\u201315)\u2013L (1963\u201364). Index: I\u2013L.\nNew-England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston. Quarterly publication of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. I (1847)\u2013 . The title New-England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal was used in 1869\u201373. Separate index volumes of places, genealogies and pedigrees, testators, persons, and subjects have been published.\nNova Francia. Paris. Published every two months. Organ of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d'histoire du Canada, founded in France in 1924. I (1925\u201326)\u2013VII (1932).\nNOVA SCOTIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Halifax. Publishes Collections. Issued irregularly. I (1878)\u2013 . The title Report and Collections was used in 1878 and 1882\u201383.\nRevue canadienne. Montr\u00e9al. Monthly. [1re s\u00e9rie]: I (1864)\u2013LIII (1907) (vols. XVII (1881)\u2013XXIII (1887) called nouv. s\u00e9r. [2e s\u00e9r.], I\u2013VII; vols. XXIV (1888)\u2013XXVIII (1892) called 3e s\u00e9r., I\u2013[V]). Nouvelle s\u00e9rie: I (1908)\u2013XXVII (1922). Indexes. The numbering of this journal is imprecise.\nLa Revue de l'universit\u00e9 Laval. Qu\u00e9bec. Monthly. Publication of the university and organ of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du Parler fran\u00e7ais au Canada. I (1946\u201347)\u2013XXI (1966). A continuation of the review Le Canada fran\u00e7ais, it was succeeded in 1968 by \u00c9tudes litt\u00e9raires.\nRevue d'histoire de l'Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise.\nMontr\u00e9al. Quarterly publication of the Institut d'histoire de l'Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise. Founded by Canon Lionel Groulx*. I (1947\u201348)\u2013 .\nIndex: I (1947\u201348)\u2013X (1956\u201357); XI (1957\u201358)\u2013XX (1966\u201367).\nROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA\/SOCI\u00c9T\u00c9 ROYALE DU CANADA, Ottawa. 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I (1944\u201345)\u2013 .\nT\u00caTU, HENRI. \"Le chapitre de la cath\u00e9drale de Qu\u00e9bec et ses d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s en France: lettres des chanoines Pierre Hazeur de L'Orme et Jean-Marie de la Corne, 1723\u20131773,\" BRH, XIII(1907), 225\u201343, 257\u201383, 289\u2013308, 321\u201338, 353\u201361; XIV (1908), 3\u201322, 33\u201340, 65\u201379, 97\u2013109, 129\u201346, 161\u201375, 193\u2013208, 225\u201339, 257\u201370, 289\u201398, 321\u201337, 353\u201364; XV (1909), 3\u201316, 33\u201348, 65\u201379, 97\u2013111, 129\u201342, 161\u201376, 193\u2013211, 225\u201341, 257\u201374, 289\u2013301, 321\u201328, 353\u201360; XVI (1910), 3\u201310, 33\u201344, 65\u201375, 97\u2013109, 129\u201341, 161\u201375, 193\u2013206, 225\u201340, 257\u201374, 289\u2013302, 321\u201330, 353\u201364.\nZOLTVANY, YVES FRAN\u00c7OIS. \"New France and the west, 1701\u20131713,\" CHR,XLVI (1965), 301\u201322.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Boycott Calls Against Israel: The Battle over BDS in South Africa: an Analysis.\nIsrael Academia Monitor 09\/04\/2019\tComments Off on Boycott Calls Against Israel: The Battle over BDS in South Africa: an Analysis. 1,586 Views\nAt a 30 March 2019 meeting, the Council of the University of Cape Town rejected the motion to adopt a BDS resolution and referred the matter back to the Senate. The Council noted that a number of issues required clarification including a full assessment of the sustainability impact of the Senate resolution which was adopted two weeks earlier, and a more consultative process was necessary before the matter could be considered any further. The Senate resolution which required the vote of the Council stated:\n\"UCT will not enter into any formal relationships with Israeli academic institutions operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as other Israeli academic institutions enabling gross human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories\".\ncredit: Israel Hayom.\nBut the BDS activists don't always wait for a vote. A few months ago, BDS activists threatened to \"blow up\" a conference if Israelis took part in it. This threat prompted the conference organizer to ask the Israeli scholars not to participate. To recall, in November 2018, IAM reported on this international conference which disinvited three Israeli scholars due to pressure from the BDS movement. The conference, \"Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation: The Light and Shadow of Historical Trauma\" took place in December 2018 at the University of Stellenbosch. The chair of the organizing committee, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, was responsible for disinviting the Israeli scholars. Prof. Shifra Sagy of Ben Gurion University, whose research deals with the possibilities for promoting understanding and dialogue between groups in conflicts, is one of the three Israeli scholars who was disinvited. She explained that\n\"The organizer of the conference contacted me and told me about the difficulties she was facing. At first, she reported that it had worked out, but later she called to apologize and said it wouldn't be possible for us to appear\u2026 The [BDS] activists sent a letter to the organizers and threatened to 'blow up' the conference if Israelis took part.\"\nSagy also mentioned that a researcher has canceled a scheduled meeting with her due to BDS. Gobodo-Madikizela and Sagy have actually known each other for years as they have both worked extensively in reconciliation and dialogue. Gobodo-Madikizela explained her reasons,\n\"I have been thrown on the horns of an ongoing dilemma. On the one hand, I want to protect Stellenbosch University from protests and ensure that this conference, which I have worked so hard to organize, goes well, and not allow any organization to control how discussions are conducted, and what conversations are permitted. On the other hand, knowing that the flare-up is because of Israeli participation, I wanted my Israeli colleagues to understand the pressure that this imposes.\"\nBut Gobodo-Madikizela has a longstanding connection to Israeli academics, dating back to 1998 when she worked with Dan Bar-On, the late professor of psychology.\n\"I hosted Bar-On the previous year, when he visited South Africa to observe the public process of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And his colleague Sami Adwan, the Palestinian Professor of Education. For Gobodo-Madikizela both Adwan and Bar-On are among the \"leading figures in peace scholarship and activism that seeks an alternative form of engagement to the one that dominates Palestine-Israeli relations\", she said. \"The late Bar-On's book on the children of Nazi perpetrators influenced my own work and became one of the foundational pillars in my scholarly pursuits,\"\nshe added. She never wanted to silence or isolate Israelis \u2013 quite the opposite.\n\"We, of course, believe in academic freedom, and we believe in the right to boycott, given the role that this played in our own struggle against apartheid. But I also know that our conference was not the appropriate vehicle for the application of the boycott\".\nSoon after the incident, Stellenbosch University officials tried to deny capitulating to BDS. In a statement on 30 November, Wim De Villiers, Stellenbosch University's rector and vice-chancellor, presented the disinvitation as a misunderstanding by the Israeli scholars.\n\"When the first statement expressing opposition to the participation of Israeli speakers came to the attention of the organizers, a strategic decision was taken to remove the names of individuals and their institutions from the website as a precautionary measure to prevent academics and their institutions from being targeted, and to prevent the conference from derailing.\"\nThe Israeli scholars were still appearing in the program, he explained, but the\n\"Israeli delegates decide to withdraw their participation as a result of circumstances beyond the control of the university and the conference organizing committee\".\nObviously, Gobodo-Madikizela did not disclose to him that she specifically requested Sagy not to come.\nTo overcome the distrust by the Jewish community, during a meeting in January 2019 between Stellenbosch University and South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies the parties announced that\n\"The University will, as in previous years, continue to welcome Israeli scholars.\"\nThe Israel Academic Boycott is a program of the University of Cape Town Palestinian Solidarity Forum which was founded in 2010 and has promoted an academic boycott of Israeli academia ever since. South Africa is hospitable to BDS for a number of reasons. The Jewish population in South Africa is diminishing, currently numbering less than 80,000, while the Muslim population is increasing amounting to one million. The Palestinian influence is gaining strength. The PA has had strong ties with South Africa, but since 2015 so does Hamas.\nIn a 2015 visit, Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas leader, received red carpet treatment and was introduced to many important players including the South African President Jacob Zuma. Although South Africa's governing political party, the African National Congress (ANC) has had informal liaisons with Hamas for a long time, this visit represented a significant warming up. ANC announced that\n\"There are those who think that by ignoring any of the players it will bring the region closer to a peaceful solution. Our experience in South Africa was that the process of negotiations involved all players irrespective of their views and beliefs.\"\nin December 2018, the ANC signed an agreement with Hamas' Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar. The agreement seeks to\n\"introduce practical steps in mobilizing the international community to pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestine, including working towards the full boycott of all Israeli products\".\nAlso that month, South Africa's National Freedom Party leader, Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam, tabled a draft resolution calling for the unconditional downgrade of the South African Embassy in Tel Aviv.\nThe BDS activists recruited a number of key players. In his recent article \"UCT Must Take 'Moral Stand' And Boycott Israeli Institutions,\" Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestine Territories (2008-2014), and emeritus professor of International Law at Princeton University, wrote in favor of the boycott, a day before the UCT Council voted:\n\"it is important to appreciate that the academic boycott that Palestinians have called for and that your Council is considering boycotts complicit Israeli institutions, but it does not interfere with the activities of individual academics.\"\nContrary to Falk's assertion, as noted earlier, Israeli individual academics were in fact targeted at the University of Stellenbosch conference in December.\nFalk, who is Jewish, has offered some convoluted explanations as to why target Israel alone:\n\"As far as singling out Israel, there exist special justifications for the emphasis on Israeli wrongdoing. It should be remembered that Britain exerted control over Palestine as 'a sacred trust' on behalf of the international society until the establishment of the United Nations. At that point, the UN took over the responsibility to find a solution for Palestine in a manner that existed with respect to no other country in the world. The failure of the UN and international diplomacy to find a solution after seven decades reinforces the positive argument for relying on the role of civil society, which should be a decisive encouragement for the Council to endorse the Senate decision and so move with the flow of history toward freedom, justice, and the protection of basic human rights;\"\nhe wrote. As a long-time professor in international law, he should be aware that the Palestinians and their Arab States allies rejected the 1947 UN Partition proposal and started a war soon after, but he has not mentioned it.\nAnother Jewish activist recruited by the BDS activists is Mitchel Joffe Hunter, member of South African Jews for a Free Palestine. In his article \"Why Jews support academic boycott of Israel\", he claims that Jews who support the calls for Palestinian liberation are not anti-Semitic. That, \"academic boycott is an expression of Jewish ethics.\" While \"Antisemitism is a form of racism against Jews as Jews, [the call for a boycott] is not a targeted attack against Jews or Jewish organizations but against Israeli state sponsored institutions.\"\nNot surprising that Hunter mentioned that,\n\"Jewish Israeli academics also support the academic boycott such as Rachel Giora, a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University and prominent Israeli feminist. Hunter quoted from her letter in 2009 to an academic boycott meeting of British academics stating that \"in fact Israeli academia is no different from any other Israeli institutions, and in many cases it plays an active if not vital role in supporting Israeli apartheid practices against the Palestinians\u2026 the growing number of Israelis who are now supporting cultural and academic boycotts will rejoice in your achievements\".\nOn the other hand, there are some calls opposing the boycott, such as Rhulani Thembi Siweya, member of the ANC who announced that \"BDS-SA undermines South Africans.\" According to her, it is a\n\"reckless manner in which the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement in South Africa (BDS-SA) handles the Israel-Palestine conflict.\"\nThey \"selectively discriminate against entrepreneurial and business opportunities by corporations linked to Israel.\" if this is not challenged, it \"may lead to a huge collapse of the South African economy\". She questions\n\"Why is BDS-SA so willing to sacrifice its fellow South African workers for its own self-serving position\u2026 It is strange that the BDS-SA selectively singles out only the Israeli \"occupation\" \u2014 part of a geographically disputed area still subjected to a two-state peace process \u2014 while South Africa continues to enjoy bilateral trade relations with many other \"occupations\"\".\nBDS-SA has been deafeningly silent about other occupations in the world.\ncredit: Khaled Abu Toameh. Twitter.\n\"Something does not add up here. Closer to home, it's a disgrace that on our own continent, in Libya, we still have slavery\u2026 This is slavery of fellow Africans on our continent. Why is BDS-SA silent on this?\"\nMoreover, she noted,\n\"Israel continues to be the Palestinian Authority's most important trading partner. In fact, Palestinian Authority officials were recently seen at a meeting sitting around a table that has on it, several juice bottles, all products from Israel. How does BDS-SA call on South African companies to boycott Israeli products while Palestinian leaders themselves are not boycotting those same Israeli products?\"\nBut as mentioned earlier, the main concern here is that BDS activists threaten to \"blow up\" conferences hosting Israelis. This should be acknowledged by the universities administrations. IAM will report on the developments in South Africa in due course.\nUniversity of Cape Town Facebook\nUCT Council decision on the resolution of the Senate regarding formal relationships with Israeli academic institutions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories\nThe University of Cape Town Council, at its meeting on 30 March 2019, considered the resolution of the Senate that\nCouncil did not adopt this resolution of the Senate. It was the view of the Council that a number of issues required clarification, including a full assessment of the sustainability impact of the Senate resolution, and a more consultative process was necessary before the matter could be considered any further. Council resolved to refer the matter back to the Senate.\nThe Council separately resolved to:\nReaffirm its commitment to supporting the rights and freedom of all people as universally recognised under international law;\nCondemn any acts that violate those rights and freedoms;\nCondemn the atrocities and human rights violations perpetrated in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and elsewhere in the world;\nCall on all academics and academic institutions to support this resolution;\nReaffirm UCT's commitment to academic freedom but reserves the right to dissociate itself from those academics and academic institutions that support (directly or indirectly) the violation of human rights and \/or enable the violation of human rights.\nRoyston Pillay\nRegistrar and Secretary to Council\nPosted at Israel Academia Monitor whose goal is to present the truth by making the activities of those academics more widely known and challenging their distortions and bias.\nTags antisemitism BDS Jewish Israeli academics also support the academic boycott racism Richard Falk South Africa South African Jews for a Free Palestine the main concern here is that BDS activists threaten to \"blow up\" conferences hosting Israelis. University of Cape Town\nPrevious Rep. Ilhan Omar and The 2001 Durban Racism Conference.\nNext MYTH \u2013 \"Palestine was always an Arab country.\"\nHow Holocaust Education Deceives and Disappoints.\nHolocaust education is sacrosanct in the \"Never Again!\" arsenal among both Jews and non-Jews and \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pickleball Courts Near Me\nPickleball Net Height Vs. Tennis: Here is the Difference.\nLeave a Comment \/ Blog \/ By 585 Pickleball\nAs anyone who has played tennis and pickleball can tell you, the two sports are quite different. Not only are the different court sizes, but the net height is also different. So, what is the difference in pickleball net height vs. tennis?\nIf you're new to pickleball and don't have access to a court, playing on a converted tennis or badminton court is a great way to get started. This post will cover all the information you need about each court type and the net height.\nPickleball Net Vs. Tennis Net Height\nIn This Post You'll Learn\n1 Pickleball Net Vs. Tennis Net Height\n1.1 Can you Play Pickleball on Tennis Courts?\n2 How Was the Pickleball Net Height Determined?\n3 What are the Dimensions of a Pickleball Court vs. a Tennis Court?\n4 How Many Pickleball Courts fit on a Tennis Court?\n5 Pros and Cons of Playing Pickleball on a Tennis Court\n5.1 Some of the cons of playing pickleball on a tennis court include the following:\n6 Can Pickleball Damage Tennis Courts?\n7 In Conclusion\nThere are two net height measurements: one at the posts where the net is connected and one in the middle of the court. Pickleball nets are 36 inches tall at the posts, while tennis nets measure 42 inches in height. A pickleball net drops 2 inches to 34-inch in the middle, whereas a tennis net sags down to 36 inches. This happens because the width of the tennis court net is almost double that of a pickleball court net.\nA temporary court setup usually uses portable pickleball nets with a horizontal bar along the base to keep the net stable, taught, and consistent. Portable nets have a center post or brace to keep them from sagging too much.\nCan you Play Pickleball on Tennis Courts?\nThe answer is yes! Many tennis clubs now offer pickleball as an alternative to tennis, and some even host tournaments. You will need a few things to convert tennis court lines into pickleball lines. (check out this guide on how to play pickleball on a tennis court)\nFirst, the pickleball court is smaller than a tennis court, so you'll need to adjust the lines of the court. The way to do that is by using masking or painter's tape. Second, the pickleball net is also lower than a tennis net, so you'll need to bring your net or lower the tennis court net by 2 inches, although we don't recommend this method.\nLowering the tennis net creates a lack of tension and an uneven height, making it challenging to play on. Also, if you play on a public court, most don't have a tennis net adjuster or are locked at a certain height.\nHow Was the Pickleball Net Height Determined?\nPickleball's unique history started in 1965 on Bainbridge island in Washington state. The game was invented by three fathers wanting to entertain their families. They started playing on an old badminton court and establishing the game's rules. Initially, the founders set the net height to the same as badminton's, but they quickly realized it needed to be lowered.\nAs a result, they eventually settled on the height of one of the father's waist, which was 36-inches. When the net would start to sag, he would adjust the net by walking over and lining it up with his waist. If you want to read about the whole history of the game and the origins of the name, read our post, History of pickleball.\nWhat are the Dimensions of a Pickleball Court vs. a Tennis Court?\nPickleball courts play both singles and doubles on the same size court. Pickleball courts are 20 feet by 44 feet, with seven feet on either side of the net, called the non-volley zone. In this area, players can only hit the ball out of the air with the ball bouncing first. The kitchen rule is designed so players can't stand at the net and smash the ball directly into the opponent's court, giving them an unfair advantage.\nUnlike pickleball, tennis courts have different widths when playing singles vs. doubles. A singles court is 27 feet wide, while a doubles court is 36 feet wide, and the length stays the same at 78 feet long.\nA pickleball court playable area is about 1\/2 the size of a tennis court. The smaller size of the pickleball court means less space for errors and a faster pace.\nHow Many Pickleball Courts fit on a Tennis Court?\nAssuming you are talking about a regulation tennis court, up to four pickleball courts can fit onto one tennis court. A regulation tennis court space is 120 feet long and 60 feet wide, while a pickleball court is only 44 feet by 20 feet. Therefore, four pickleball courts can fit length-wise and width-wise on a tennis court.\nHowever, it depends on the total space a tennis court has. I recommend only putting two pickleball courts on a tennis court, so you have enough room to maneuver and return shots without feeling crowded. The USAPA recommends at least 5 feet around the court surface to play pickleball.\nPros and Cons of Playing Pickleball on a Tennis Court\nAs outlined in the post, you can play pickleball on a tennis court, and there are some advantages and disadvantages.\nIt's a good way for beginners to start playing right away. There are over 200,000 playable tennis courts in the US, making them easy to find.\nPlaying pickleball on a tennis court can help improve your tennis game by forcing you to be more accurate with your shots.\nIt's a great way to start up a conversation at the courts. Tennis players will be curious about the game is an excellent way to introduce new players.\nSome of the cons of playing pickleball on a tennis court include the following:\nThe smaller pickleball court dimensions can be difficult to get used to if you're accustomed to playing on a larger tennis court.\nLowering the tennis net height can be challenging, especially when playing on an old tennis court.\nFinding a spot to set up your pickleball court can be complex if other people use the tennis court.\nTaping off the pickleball lines takes time and can be confusing.\nRemember, all you need is a flat playable surface to play pickleball that is big enough. You can set up a portable pickleball net almost anywhere, including basketball courts, which could help minimize line confusion when playing on established courts.\nCan Pickleball Damage Tennis Courts?\nThe chances that a tennis court has gotten damaged are extremely low, and tennis court construction will withstand lots of use. However, many club owners complain about using the new courts for pickleball instead of tennis. In 2019, Maui News received complaints from tennis players about pickleball taking over their tennis courts. Players complained of damage to the court's surface, shared lines, noise levels, and nets not put back up to regulation height. These complaints are pettier and lack any true damage to a tennis court.\nPickleballs are softer and have a lower bounce than tennis balls, so they should not cause as much damage to the court surface.\nThat said, it is always important to respect court facilities and ask permission before playing pickleball on a tennis court. Always return the net to its original height, and clean up any pickleball court lines you may have taped off.\nPlaying pickleball on a tennis court can have pros and cons. It's a good way for beginners to play right away, but the smaller court dimensions can be difficult. Lowering the tennis net height can also be challenging. However, all you need is a flat playable surface to play pickleball that is big enough.\nSo if you're looking for a place to play pickleball, remember that a tennis court could be an excellent option.\nHey everyone, I'm Graham, an avid pickleball player and designer living in Charlotte, NC! I started this blog to share my insights on pickleball and hopefully learn some things along the way!\nReach out to me at: [email protected]\nWhat Muscles Does Pickleball Work? The best Low-Impact Workout\nPickleball is a fun and fast-paced sport enjoyed by players of all ages and skill levels. However, many pickleball players may wonder what muscles the \u2026\nWhat Muscles Does Pickleball Work? The best Low-Impact Workout Read More \u00bb\nHow To Become a 4.0 Pickleball Player? Uncover the Strategies to Reach 4.0!\nDo you want to know how to become a 4.0 pickleball player? If so, you're in the right place. Becoming a 4.0 pickleball player is \u2026\nHow To Become a 4.0 Pickleball Player? Uncover the Strategies to Reach 4.0! Read More \u00bb\nWhat Is a 3.5 Pickleball Player? And How To Reach 4.0!\nIf you're a seasoned pickleball player, the court action and companionship have likely become second nature. Yet did you ever think about what is a \u2026\nWhat Is a 3.5 Pickleball Player? And How To Reach 4.0! Read More \u00bb\nWhat Is a 3.0 Pickleball Player? Unlock the Secrets Here\nAs a seasoned pickleball player, you're already familiar with pickleball's exciting gameplay and on-court camaraderie. But have you ever wondered what is a 3.0 pickleball \u2026\nWhat Is a 3.0 Pickleball Player? Unlock the Secrets Here Read More \u00bb\nClimb The Ladder League In Pickleball & Be a Better Player\nYou may have seen pickleball ladder leagues advertised at your local recreation center or heard some of your friends talking about them. But what are \u2026\nClimb The Ladder League In Pickleball & Be a Better Player Read More \u00bb\n585pickleball participates in affiliate marketing programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. These programs are designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and other affiliated sites. We may receive a small commission if you make purchases through those links. Importantly, this adds no cost to our readers yet helps us to keep doing what we love.\nIn absolutely no way do these affiliate programs influence our recommendations \u2014 we value and respect our readers and our reputation \u2014 which is why we only provide completely honest and unbiased reviews. No BS, ever.\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 585 Pickleball","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AG: Former NH police officer arrested for falsifying search records\nOwen Boss\nCLAREMONT, N.H. \u2014 A former Claremont police officer was arrested Thursday on criminal charges for his alleged role in the falsification of records detailing a search in February, officials said.\nIan Kibbe, 30, of Springfield, Vermont, was arrested on two counts of unsworn falsification, two counts of obstructing government administration and charges of conspiracy to commit perjury and attempted perjury, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald said in a statement.\nOn March 28, MacDonald announced that he had initiated an investigation into the conduct of Kibbe and fellow Claremont police officer Mark Burch based on information from Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase, who alleged that the falsified records pertaining to a search conducted in late February.\nBoth Kibbe and Burch no longer work for the department.\nKibbe was ordered released on $5,000 cash bail. He will be arraigned in Sullivan County Superior Court on a later date.\nThis is a developing news story, 7News will post more information as it becomes available.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Will 'Star Wars' Find a Way to Represent Gray Areas?\nThe franchise has, for the most part, been comically clear about dividing good and evil. Can 'The Rise of Skywalker' keep the momentum built by its predecessors and break that trend?\nBy Miles Surrey Dec 19, 2019, 5:30am EST\nShare All sharing options for: Will 'Star Wars' Find a Way to Represent Gray Areas?\nWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures\/Ringer illustration\nOne of the more justified criticisms lobbed at The Last Jedi was questioning the timesuck of a side quest Finn and Rose had on the casino-loving, Monte Carlo\u2013esque planet of Canto Bight. Some fans and critics seemed to agree that the detour became an unnecessarily long aside in a film where a lot (too much?) was happening all at once. Finn and Rose's mission to find a codebreaker who could temporarily shut down the First Order's ability to track Resistance ships in hyperspace yielded Benicio del Toro's beguiling \"DJ,\" whose codebreaking skills amounted to nothing of consequence because he double-crossed them.\nNow, DJ is hardly what you'd call a memorable Star Wars character\u2014if anyone has a large stash of DJ memorabilia in their home, can I ask \u2026 why? But DJ does offer Finn and Rose a compelling insight into how the galaxy actually operates. Rose assumes that all the residents of Canto Bight got rich selling weapons and ships to the First Order, which is the main reason she looks at the planet with contempt. However, as DJ later shows Finn, the owner of a ship they've stolen to escape the planet was an arms dealer who sold to the First Order\u2014but who sold to the Resistance, as well. \"It's all a machine, partner,\" DJ tells Finn, like he's taking a hit from an intergalactic bong.\nIt's a little moment, but it embodies one of the biggest takeaways from Rian Johnson's film: On the whole, Star Wars might be a classic tale of good versus evil, but it's naive to think that all the inhabitants of an entire, diverse galaxy fit squarely into that binary. (Plus, everyone isn't going to have the same interpretation of good and evil.) The greedy, unregulated capitalism on display on Canto Bight isn't great, for sure, but it's not exactly Order 66. The Last Jedi might be somewhat divisive in part because it's willing to lean into gray areas and moral ambiguity more than any other film in the franchise.\nTake the return of Luke Skywalker, who'd been elevated to mythical status during his self-exile on Ahch-To. Rather than welcome Rey with open arms and teach her the ways of the Jedi, he's dismissive and scornful toward the Jedi ethos. Luke wasn't presented as a living legend as much as a man with flaws, regrets, and insecurities. (He is also extremely washed and milks giant aliens for sustenance; this is not your father's Skywalker.) It's a more interesting\u2014and difficult-to-square, even to Mark Hamill\u2014character evolution. Even the fateful night when Kylo Ren destroyed Luke's new Jedi temple has multiple retellings courtesy of both characters, suggesting that the real truth\u2014whether Luke was seriously trying to kill his pupil, or having a brief and regrettable moment of weakness\u2014lies somewhere in the middle.\n'The Rise of Skywalker' Might Be the Last Hurrah for Nice Droids\nHow Is It Possible That Emperor Palpatine Is in 'The Rise of Skywalker'?\nAre We Sure the Jedi Are Good?\nWhat Do We Want Out of 'Star Wars'?\nIn fact, to give this new trilogy a little more credit, its new heroes and villains are clever tweaks of some established Star Wars tropes. Finn showed the potential humanity hiding underneath a Stormtrooper helmet. Poe Dameron demonstrated the limits\u2014and still, yes, inherent sex appeal\u2014of Han Solo\u2013esque bravado in the cockpit. The misogynistic backlash to Rey's impressive Force abilities ironically helped display the importance of shifting the franchise's power dynamics. And then there was Kylo Ren, an angsty, perpetually insecure man-child whose petulance made him one of the most fascinating franchise villains of this century.\nIn The Last Jedi, Kylo also provided what could be the new trilogy's mission statement: \"Let the past die; kill it, if you have to.\" The past Kylo's referring to isn't confined to Rey being hung up on her mysterious parentage, but also applies to the basic delineations of Jedi and Sith: a moral and philosophical divide on opposite ends of the Force that feels as old as time itself.\nFlawed as he is, Kylo doesn't want to be a Sith lord like his idol\/grandpapa Darth Vader as much as he wants to establish something new in its place\u2014and at one point, he wants Rey beside him to do it. The relationship between Kylo and Rey\u2014though I don't necessarily mean relationship, apologies to the Reylo shippers out there\u2014is fascinating because it shows the potential nuance that could come from transcending those Jedi-Sith archetypes, which might be a requirement once we get Star Wars movies that go beyond the Skywalker saga.\nAfter all, while we can unanimously agree the Rebel Alliance was good and that the Sith and the Galactic Empire were evil\u2014is there a more entertainingly cartoonish bad guy in pop culture than Emperor Palpatine?\u2014Luke's criticisms of the well-meaning Jedi are well supported. The Jedi of the prequel trilogy, through their buffoonish inability to sniff out Palpatine, were complicit in the Empire's rise to power. The Jedi Masters were so hilariously out of touch, it's only fitting they were perched in an ivory tower while democracy crumbled beneath them and Order 66 was executed. Hubris was their undoing as much as Darth Vader. (Not to mention antiquated rules like Jedi celibacy that inadvertently led to Anakin Skywalker's heel turn in the first place.)\nBut the stuff with the Jedi wasn't the franchise experimenting with moral gray areas; the Jedi weren't bad, just tragicomically incompetent. Since the original trilogy, Star Wars has been pretty clear about who's good and who's evil; Anakin's redemption notwithstanding, the closest thing to ambiguity in the franchise is the ever-evolving debate over whether Han shot first and whether Greedo said \"Maclunkey.\" And that, of course, is more than fine: These movies are timeless classics and, Han-Greedo nonsense aside, most fans wouldn't want to change a thing. This is about where Star Wars is headed, as Disney will be working on more films and TV series on Disney+ for the foreseeable future.\nIt would be interesting if Star Wars became more invested in exploring gray areas, something that has defined Rey, Luke, and Kylo Ren's arcs through The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi\u2014and something we've even seen on The Mandalorian with its eponymous bounty hunter. Rian Johnson is in talks with Lucasfilm to develop a new Star Wars trilogy of his own, and seeing that his film is the main reason we're having this discussion, that bodes well for more moral ambiguity in the franchise's future.\nBefore all that can happen, though, there's still The Rise of Skywalker and how the Skywalker saga ends in the hands of J.J. Abrams. Palpatine is making his grand return to the franchise, though exactly how is unclear. Rey and Kylo Ren are at odds, and the Resistance and First Order remain at war. Poe and Finn need to make out. Leia Organa is probably going to get an emotional sendoff. There's a lot of closure that needs to happen. It's still possible, then, that The Rise of Skywalker will undo some of what The Last Jedi set up\u2014the film's title implies, if not a return of the Jedi way, then something similar taking the order's place to restore peace.\nIdeally, whatever developments come out of Rise of Skywalker will be a natural extension of the nuance that the new trilogy has established thus far. Its flashes of moral ambiguity have been refreshing, and the sort of thing you rarely see these days in blockbuster franchises, which prefer to spoon-feed simple narratives of good and evil to viewers to serve the widest possible audience (see: the Marvel Cinematic Universe). The end of the decades-spanning Skywalker saga could yield something different, and exciting. The past will die, but the future has yet to be written in a galaxy far, far away.\nEverything You Need to Know About 'The Rise of Skywalker'\nThe Alleged Trevorrow Script Would Have Prevented a Lot of the Problems of 'Star Wars: Episode IX'\nNext Up In Star Wars\n'The Mandalorian' Season 3 Trailer Reaction and the Mando Bingo Card\nHouse of R(ecommends): If You Loved These Five Stories, Here's What to Try Next\nTop 10 Moments of 2022\nFive Questions About 'Andor' Season 2\nSix Lessons Lucasfilm Can Learn From the Success of 'Andor'\n'Andor' Episode 12 Deep Dive","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Korean Drama Nothing to Lose Information\nDrama Title: Nothing to Lose\nAlternative Title: \uc774\ud310\uc0ac\ud310 \/ Nothing to Lose \/ Judge vs. Judge\nGenre: Legal, Romance, Comedy\nPublished Date: November , 2017\nCasts: Yun Woo Jin , Park Eun Bin, Dong Ha, Na Hae Ryung, Heo Joon Suk , Jung Yoo Min, Lee Moon Sik, Lee Chang Wook,\nThe story of a female judge who fights to reveal the truth about her older brother who was framed for murder and was himself killed by powers greater than her.\nJudge Lee Jung Joo (Park Eun Bin) presides at the Seoul District Court. She sometimes swears at shameless defendants with unspeakable words. Meanwhile, Judge Sa Ui Hyun (Yun Woo Jin) is assigned to the judgement bench with Judge Lee Jung Joo. He is well known for his excellent use of the law and his conscience to reach verdicts. Now, Lee Jung Joo fights against a huge power who framed her older brother for murder and killed him.\nOnline Video Links: Click Here to Watch Nothing to Lose Online Free\nDownload Links: Click Here to Download Nothing to Lose (DVD quality, always available)\nDownload nothing to lose (premium member only)\nDownload Nothing to Lose Episode 1 0:32:06 High\nDownload Nothing to Lose Episode 2 0:27:32 High Definition\nDownload Nothing to Lose Episode 10 0:32:48 High Definition\nWatch nothing to lose online free\nWatch Nothing to Lose Episode 1 4 in ep1 MixedVDO\nWatch Nothing to Lose Episode 10 4 in ep10 MixedVDO\nKim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter break, but they are gradually murdered one by one as they receive letters from a killer who wants revenge for the death of his mother and sister.......\nThis drama tells the story of a woman who devoted her life to love and a man who had never known nor believed in love. Jang Soo Hyun was a woman who previously believed in sacrificing herself for love, even donating her liver to save her first love, Choi Min Young, but was rewarded by betrayal when her best friend, Oh Sun Ah, seduced Min Young. Since then, she had become jaded and resolved to distance herself from relat......\nWhat Happens to My Family?\nThis is a family drama about happenings when children's daddy sues his selfish children for not being undutiful to parents. The drama wants to talk about the gratitude as a family which we all have taken for granted and the secret of happiness when saying \"Thank you\", \"I am sorry\" and \"I love you\".......\nRebel: Thief Who Stole the People\nSet during the reign of famous tyrant King Yeonsangun, it tells the story of Hong Gil Dong (Yoon Kyun Sang), the illegitimate son of a nobleman who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and his journey in becoming Joseon's first revolutionary activist. ......\nGloria is an intense tale of people who are fiercely devoted to surviving their rough lives, focusing in particular on the life of a nightclub singer, Na Jin Jin, who braves the difficulties of her work to provide for her mentally handicapped younger sister, Jin Joo. She finds an unwavering source of strength and support from her loyal childhood friend, Ha Dong Ah, a talented fighter and gangster. Jin Jin also meets a p......\nBe Melodramatic\nThis drama tells the story of the daily lives of Three 30-year-old best friends.\nIm Jin Joo (Chun Woo Hee) is a scriptwriter for TV drama series. Her literary dreams often encroach on her writing, and her quirky personality often involves her speaking to inanimate objects. Meanwhile, Hwang Han Joo (Han Ji Eun) heads the marketing department of a production company and struggles to keep up with her work \ufffd......","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Correctional Officers\nJune 17th, 2017 in New Mexico Injury Attorney Blog, Work Related Injuries\nMultiple sources have reported that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among correctional officers is double the rate found among military veterans and police officers. Chronic and severe understaffing causing excessive hours and greater risk of violence to both correctional officers and inmates is perhaps the greatest contributor to the stressors of correctional work. However, the officers often do not get proper training, support and stress management before and during employment.\nIn 2011, in an article entitled \"U.S. Correctional Officers Killed or Injured on the Job\" the National Institute of Health reported that they have one of the highest rates of injury on the job in the United States. The rate of work-related injuries or death is four times higher than experienced in the general workforce in the United States. The problem has grown worse since and will likely get even worse in the future as private prison corporations put profits before safety.\nAll in all, the conditions of correctional guard employment create a state of hyper-vigilance to the threat of violence and its aftermath. The results are high rates of mental health issues, including PTSD. Among the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are; re-living traumatic events, nightmares, self-medicating with drugs and\\or alcohol, emotional numbness, tendency to isolate one's self and problems with anger-management. Correctional Officers also suffer very high rates of suicide with suicide a very real and predictable threat to correctional officers and their families.\nNew Mexico's Correctional Facilities Far Short of Staffing Standards\nAlbuquerque local news outlet KQRE ran a piece in March, 2017 called \"Costly Crisis Behind Bars\" which noted that there are multiple problems in the State of New Mexico's correctional facilities. The American Corrections Association (ACA) notes that no facility should have a staff vacancy rate exceeding 10% during any eighteen month period. Only two of New Mexico's prisons even come close to that measure with a number of facilities having staff vacancy rates which exceed one third.\nIn 2015, according to the source, 34% of positions at the facility in Los Lunas went unfilled. At the Western Facility in Grants over half the positions went unfilled while at the Springer Facility in the Northeastern part of the state an astounding 70% of the positions remained vacant.\nBetween 2012 and 2016, private correctional facilities paid almost six million dollars in fines for being under-staffed. That New Mexico's prison facilities are so woefully understaffed contributes to a wide-range of problems for those who work in our prisons and jails. Working in conditions that can be extremely dangerous and where the aftermath of violence is commonplace takes its toll on correctional staff. The impacts can be long-term, egregious and sometimes catastrophic.\nIn May, 2017 an article entitled \"Life Behind Bars: Working as a Correctional Officer\" appeared in the New Mexico News Port. The article interviewed correctional officers working in the State of New Mexico. Officers interviewed noted that the job took an extremely high toll on personal lives, specifically rates of divorce and suicide\u2013noting that the latter is 39% higher than in any other profession. Officers frequently work 70-80 hours per week and feel they do not have lives outside of the job. Currently, the attrition rate for correctional officers stands at 8%, the highest on record in the history of New Mexico.\nCorrectional Guards May Have Personal Injury Claims Against Prisons and Jails for PTSD\nThe law is not well-developed on legal claims related to personal injury lawsuits related to PTSD suffered by correctional guards. The general rule is that if the injuries happened on the job, the injured employee is limited to benefits under the Workers Compensation Act. This means that typically, a correctional officer would not be able to file a personal injury lawsuit but instead would be limited to Workers Compensation. However, based upon prior law in a non-correctional setting, there may be personal claims depending upon the circumstances of the employment and the environment within the prison or jail.\nThe case that would most apply is the 2001 New Mexico Supreme Court case of Delgado v. Phelps Dodge. The facts in that case are extreme but there was no indication that the ruling would be limited to the extremely callous and dangerous conduct of the employer in that case. Delgado set out the requirements for a personal injury claim against an employer for an on the job injury as follows:\n\"[W]illfulness renders a worker's injury non-accidental, and therefore outside the scope of the Act, when: (1) the worker or employer engages in an intentional act or omission, without just cause or excuse, that is reasonably expected to result in the injury suffered by the worker; (2) the worker or employer expects the intentional act or omission to result in the injury, or has utterly disregarded the consequences; and (3) the intentional act or omission proximately causes the injury.\"\nTo be clear, this is a very high standard for the employee to meet but the work conditions in New Mexico jails and prisons may well meet that standard. On the other hand, if this standard can be met, it may be possible to make New Mexico jails and prisons safer for both correctional guards and inmates. After all as they say, \"money talks\u2026.\"\nImportant Deadlines to PTSD Claims Against Jails and Prisons\nThere are two sets of deadlines depending upon whether the jail\/prison is managed by the state, county or municipality, or it is managed by a private corrections company.\nFor governmentally managed jails and prisons, there are 2 very important deadlines:\nTort Claims Notice: there is a 90 day deadline for submitting a Tort Claims Notice to the appropriate governmental agency. DIY Tort Claims Notice instructions and forms can be found on the New Mexico General Services website.\nStatute of Limitations: the statute of limitations is only 2 years on claims against a New Mexico governmental entity.\nMissing either of these will bar your claims completely.\nFor private corrections company's, there is simply a 3 year statute of limitations.\nU.S. Correctional Officers Killed or Injured on the Job\nU.S. Correctional Officers Killed or Injured on the Job In the U.S., approximately half a million correctional officers are responsible for supervising more than two million inmates. Correctional officers are exposed to unique workplace hazards within a controlled prison environment. Of all U.S. workers, correctional officers have one of the highest rates of nonfatal, work-related injuries.1 In 2011, correctional officers experienced 544 work-related injuries or illnesses per 10,000 full-time employees (FTEs), which were serious enough to require that they missed a day of work. This was more than four times greater than the rate for all workers who missed a day of work (117 cases per 10,000 FTEs).2 Also in 2011, correctional officers experienced 254 work-related injuries per 10,000 FTEs due to assaults and violent acts. This is considerably higher than the rate of injuries from assault and violent acts for all workers (seven per 10,000 FTEs).3\nWork Injuries, Contractors and Personal Injury Lawsuits in New Mexico\nContractors are utilized in numerous industries and occupations. In some situations, such as construction, the\u2026\nDIY Tort Claims Notice in New Mexico\nThe New Mexico Tort Claims Act covers all personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits against\u2026\nPotential Excessive Force Claims Against the Albuquerque Police \u2013 State Law Claims\nThe recent Department of Justice report on the Albuquerque Police Department's pattern of excessive and\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The PIPC Blog\nPIPC Members Participate in PCORI Board Meeting\nWASHINGTON D.C. \u2013 Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho today presented before the Board of Governors of the Patient Centered Outcomes and Research Institute (PCORI) in New York City, commending PCORI for its progress to date and recommending next steps to advance patient-centeredness in comparative effectiveness research (CER). \u200b\nNoting PIPC's long-standing support for PCORI, Coelho said that the Institute \"gives patients something they haven't had before: a voice and, more importantly, a vote.\" He added, \"It's easy to say we're being 'patient-centered;' it's much harder to do it.\" Coelho outlined a number of steps he said PCORI could take to ensure that patient needs are considered throughout the research process, such as creating a strong definition of \"patient-centered outcomes research\" and fully engaging patients in the process of setting research priorities.\nIn addition to Coelho, Angela Ostrom, Director of Federal Relations for the National Epilepsy Foundation and a member of PIPC's Steering Committee, spoke on behalf of PIPC. Ostrom described the importance of how individuals with epilepsy must work closely with their physician to optimize their treatment.\n\"We understand that there are often obstacles and difficulties in achieving CER that recognizes unique patient needs and encourages individualized treatment, particularly for small sub-populations within chronic disease and disability populations. PCORI has an opportunity here to incorporate into its structure and mission a CER process that advances a research agenda responsive to these concerns. Doing so starts with the definition of 'patient centered outcomes research' and requires that patients, caregivers and providers can fully participate in the process.\"\nThe Partnership to Improve Patient Care was formed in November 2008 to support proposals to expand the government's role in comparative effectiveness research that are centered on patient and provider needs; raise awareness about the value of well-designed CER; and promote the important role of continued medical innovation as part of the solution to cost and quality challenges in health care. Partnership members include a wide range of health care organizations representing patient, provider and industry advocacy groups.\nTo learn more about PIPC, visit PIPCpatients.org.\nPIPC - NYC PCORI Board Meeting\nPIPC Patient Blog","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u200bThe Importance of Building\u2014Not Just Assuming\u2014Trust\n\u200bThe following is a guest post by Rebecca Hopkins, an American writer, wife to a relief pilot, member of a cross cultural team, and mama to three kids\u2014while living in beautiful, friendly Indonesia.\n\"We have this whole sky to ourselves.\"\nMy husband, Brad, wasn't exaggerating. He was flying a small Cessna 185 float plane in the central Borneo jungle, landing on winding rivers, dodging canoes and gold miners. On that day, he was the only pilot out there, answering medical evacuation calls from remote Indonesian villages, carrying passengers in just one hour to save them a journey that would take hours, even days on rivers and jungle roads.\n\"It's pretty cool where a float plane will take you, isn't it?\" he said.\nWe know, however, that this magic of connecting communities to important resources happens because that one float plane is just one part of a team. That team includes the flight followers in the office, the airstrip agents in the villages that weigh passengers, the donors in other countries, our headquarters that does so much, and other pilots and staff members who've invested many years into this work.\nAnd for our team to be successful in this high-stakes job of relief aviation, we need trust.\nTrust should be built, not assumed\nSometimes trust is assumed, based on a shared foundation of beliefs, goals and purpose. That's a good start. But having a growth mindset with trust\u2014that it's built, not only assumed\u2014creates both a stronger trust and gives a way to deal with broken trust.\n\"Team leaders and members will often want their teams to quickly pour their trust into their latest idea or plan,\" writes\n\"The Teaming Church\" author Robert C. Crosby. \"But it is something that is built and added to with every task accomplished, every promise kept and every concern addressed.\"\nYounger generations less likely to trust\nThis need to build trust seems more urgent now than ever. A 2014 Pew Center survey shows that younger generations are less likely to trust than their older counterparts.\nTo this question: \"Generally, speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people,\" 19 percent of Millennials chose trust. Thirty-one percent of Gen Xers were willing to trust, compared to 40 percent of Boomers.\nAdvice on building trust\nThat caution to trust can provide an opportunity to utilize good building blocks of trust.\nAccountability, vulnerability, forgiveness, grace, open dialogue and prayer are all important, according to Erik Plantenga in a blog post titled \"The Trust Factor in Multicultural Teams.\"\nDavid Sedlacek in Christianity Today's \"Teams in Missions: Are they worth It?\" lists questions teams can ask each other: Mission \u2013 Why are we a team? Goals \u2013 What will we do? Roles \u2013 What do my teammates and I do? Communication \u2013 How do we relate to each other? Decision-Making \u2013 How do we make decisions? Conflict \u2013 How do we handle conflict?\"\nAnother simple one that both leaders and staff members can ask before they act: Is this (policy, decision, etc.) building trust or breaking down trust?\nDifferent cultures, genders and generations require different trust-building blocks\nBut the answers themselves aren't always straightforward and take team discussion to recognize different needs.\n\"Cultural differences play a key role in the creation of trust, since trust is built in different ways, and means different things around the world,\" write Ira Asherman, John W. Bing, Ed. D and Lionel Laroche, Ph.D., P.E. for global consulting firm ITAP international in their article, \"Building Trust Across Cultural Boundaries.\"\nWhen trust is broken\n\"In our 20-plus years of research, we've discovered that 90 percent of the behaviors that break trust are unintentional and subtle,\" write Dennis and Michelle Reina, co-founders of Reina, A Trust-Building Consultancy that has worked for companies like Johnson & Johnson, the U.S. Army and Harvard. \"We've seen that these trust-breaking behaviors occur on a daily basis and are committed by everyone, at every level of responsibility, and within every form of professional relationship. While people know they need trust in their workplaces, most still aren't sure how to restore trust once it's been lost.\"\nIn a Christian organizational context, offering forgiveness might be a response to broken trust. While this is an important piece of moving away from bitterness, it doesn't, alone, rebuild trust.\nThe Reinas list such steps as \"Observe and acknowledge what happened.\" \"Allow feelings to surface.\" \"Get and give support.\" \"Take responsibility,\" in addition to forgiveness, and finally, \"letting go and moving on\" armed with deeper knowledge and growth resulting from the incident.\nVulnerable situations require built trust\nA 2007 Pew report supports that \"people who feel vulnerable or disadvantaged, for whatever reason, tend to find it riskier to trust because they're less well-fortified to deal with the consequences of misplaced trust.\" Organizations can look at times when its members or users are feeling vulnerable to make sure the policies in place build trust. How are transitions handled? How are health concerns dealt with? How are times of changing leadership addressed in a trust-building fashion?\nSome of Brad's passengers could easily fall into the category of \"vulnerable or disadvantaged\" as they're strapped to a stretcher, or step into that plane carrying a sick child. They're entering both a float plane\u2026and trust that has been built over time, through intentional decisions by lots of people. And in many cases, lives are saved.\nI think you could say, it's pretty cool where trust\u2014and not just float planes\u2014can take you.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You have to see Chris Pine lip sync in this SNL RuPaul's Drag Race sketch\nMeka Beresford May 7, 2017\nChris Pine and the cast of SNL have proved themselves to be brilliant potential contestant of RuPaul's Drag Race.\nThe Drag Race themed sketch sees the Star Trek actor play a mechanic on his break with his other work colleagues when they all begin to talk about the show.\nEach pretends to know nothing about Drag Race, but it is revealed that they are all closet fans of the show despite their overly \"masculine\" facades.\n\"I don't care how good Trinity Taylor's tuck is, she's from the pageant circuit, right, those b*tches never win,\" one, played by Bobby Moynihan, exclaimed.\n\"Or at least that's what people who watch the show has said around me I guess,\" he added \u2013 trying to hide his knowledge.\nHowever, one pushed the group of men to reveal how much they love watching the show.\n\"Let's just be honest, we watch RuPaul's Drag Race and we love it,\" they said.\nThe mechanics keep talking about the show when Moynihan's character says he thinks he's be \"pretty great at lip syncing\".\nMoynihan and Pine then launch into a lip sync battle of the song \"Expensive\" by Erika Jayne.\nPine is crowned the winner, while Moynihan is told to sashay away.\nSNL has had a brilliant political revival with the help of Melissa McCarthy doing killer impressions of Sean Spicer, as well as guest Alec Baldwin appearing as Trump.\nKate McKinnon has also done side-splitting impressions of Hillary Clinton at the presidential debates, Kellyanne 'couch legs' Conway and the Attorney General Jeff Sessions.\nYou can watch the brilliantly funny sketch here:\nMore: comedy, drag, LGBT, lip sync, RuPaul's Drag Race, SNL, US\nRatched star Sarah Paulson shares emotional birthday tribute to 'perfect' girlfriend Holland Taylor\nEddie Izzard explains why she changed her pronouns: 'I'm telling people the truth of how my head works'\nWho Wants to Be a Millionaire? player wastes three lifelines on frustrating Tiger King question\nCoronation Street star Kimberly Hart-Simpson just came out as pansexual: 'Gender is completely irrelevant to me'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By Shope Delano\nWritten from: London, UK\nWhat do you do for work?\n\"Oh, I work in insurance\" person B begins to respond, before attempting to wrangle the judgement they assume will be heading their way as soon as they stop talking \"I know it's boring but the pay is pretty decent, and my boss is cool\". Crisis comms refers to this as 'getting ahead of the story'. Jobs that aren't socially recognised as cool are treated like a scandal - something that requires explanation, justification.\nMy response to person B would be hasty, confused, eager to dispel what they think I might be thinking. \"Yeah, ok, cool. But also, who cares. If it works for you, then it's like, not a thing. And if it doesn't, then you're figuring things out. It's fine. We all are. I literally used to cold call uber drivers and sell them cars for a living. It's minor.\"\nOr in short: It doesn't matter.\nIt might feel like it matters, especially for those of us who spend too much time playing status games, or like person B, are constantly subject to judgement from those that do. Having too high a preoccupation with whether a relationship will bear the right kind of fruit, and increase your place in the pecking order is\u2026unadvisable. Status is your ranking in the social hierarchy, and a it's zero-sum game - to win, someone else has to lose. Your place on the inner circle is contingent on someone else being booted out.\n(I have played in the past, and reluctantly still do. I feel they are inescapable at times - and exist in every industry - though that's probably because I'm still in the process of writing\/earning-the-right-to-write the rules of my own game.)\nAnd so I maintain - it doesn't matter. There's no matter here - nothing to hold, or look at, or imbue with meaning. Just the endless reshuffling of whose in 1st place, and who is worth paying attention to.\nBut socials signals are a necessary part of how large groups of people communicate and form tribes, Shope. All relationships are transactional, Shope. What do you expect? I guess I expect more of us to be more drawn to the kind of of transaction that doesn't feel like a finite land-grab. Something that feels a bit more, generative?\nSome loosely related instagram rambles - instagram gets the worst of literary abilities - I'm taking a small personal stance to not overly curate anything I put on that app anymore\nI've always found the what-do-you-do-for-work \/\/ can-you-even-sit-with-us dance to be kind of grotesque. Regardless of whether it's a good tool for professional advancement, accolade-packed bio's make me itch (mine included). Up until reading Zadie Smith's essay called Something To Do in her book Intimations, I didn't have the words to describe why. A few quotes:\n\"Out of an expanse of time, you carve a little area - that nobody asked you to carve - and you do 'something'.\"\n\"There is no great difference between [writing] novels and [baking] banana bread. They are both just something to do.\"\n\"I can't rid myself of the need to do \"something\". To make \"something\", to feel that this new expense of time hasn't been 'wasted.\"\nWork is just one of the many things we do in order to fill our lives, and it may be the thing that gives it meaning, that makes us feel like we're not 'wasting' it, but equally, it may not. It's as important and as interesting as all the other little things we do to fill our little lives. Unlike other things we do, it's not optional, as we exist within capitalist structures. Independently making money is kind of non-negotiable. But to use it as a means to assess someone's character is to suggest you transcend the very base, mundane challenge of human life - filling the time.\nWe all face the somewhat existential challenge of trying to legitimise\/feel at peace with how the hell to pass the days. So, no, I don't care about what you do for work!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Founding and Lifetime Members\nChapters & Partners\nUCA Newsletters\n\u4e2d\u6587\u52a8\u6001\n\u7f8e\u56fd\u534e\u4eba\u5927\u4f1a\n\u4eba\u53e3\u666e\u67e52020\n\u534e\u4eba\u793e\u533a\u65b0\u65f6\u4ee3\n\u6d77\u5916\u5bfb\u4eb2\u516c\u5f00\u4fe1\n\u4eb2\u5b50\u5173\u7cfb\u8bb2\u5ea7\nSpeak Up Community Action\nOppose S.386\nCelebrating Heritage\nCharitable Lunar New Year Initiative\nChinese American Day of Remembrance\nUS-China Relations\nRelevant Media Articles\n2018 Chinese American Convention\nConvention In The News\nPost-Convention Survey\nHighlighted Speakers\n2016 Inaugural Convention\nDonate to UCA\nVolunteer and Engagement Opportunities\nUCA in Action\nUCAWA Initiated Youth Mental Health Program\nUCA-IL Meeting with City of Aurora Mayor\nNevada Voter Education\nNCA Joins UCA\nKick-off Event for UCAWA\nFundraising \/ Development Volunteer Team Member\nLicensed Health Professional Volunteer\nVolunteer Program Team Member\nUCA among Organizations Endorsing Senator Durbin's Bill S.2603\nWelcome to the Chinese American Women in History Conference\nScience and Technology Caught between the United States and China Conference\nUCA Co-Sponsored 2019 National Civic Leadership Forum\nS.386 Blocked by Sen. Durbin\nOrg. Letter on Opposition to H.R.1044 \/ S.386\nUnited Chinese Americans\nServe \u2022 Lead \u2022 Inspire \u670d\u52a1 \u2022 \u5f15\u9886 \u2022 \u6fc0\u52b1\n2016 Convention Speakers\nJ. Stapleton Roy\n5th United States Ambassador to China\nJ. Stapleton Roy (Chinese: \u82ae\u6548\u4fed; Pinyin: Ru\u00ec Xi\u00e0oji\u0103n; born in 1935) was a senior United States diplomat specializing in Asian affairs. A fluent Chinese speaker, Roy spent much of his career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore, and Jakarta. He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Ambassador Roy served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2000.\nBorn in Nanking, China, J. Stapleton Roy attended Mount Hermon School (now Northfield Mount Hermon), and in 1956, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he majored in history. In August 2008, Roy was named director of the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-U.S. Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.\nFrank H. Wu\nProfessor at University of California Hastings College of Law\nFrank H. Wu is currently a Distinguished Professor at University of California Hastings College of Law, having served as Chancellor & Dean at the school. In April 2016, he was elected by the members of Committee of 100 as their Chair. He is a Trustee of Deep Springs College and a member of NACIQI, a United States Department of Education commission that oversees accreditation.\nHe received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment.\nWallace D. Loh\nPresident of the University of Maryland\nWallace D Loh has been President of the University of Maryland since Nov 2010. As the 33rd president, Loh leads the state's flagship institution with 37,000 students, 12 colleges and schools, 9,000 faculty and staff, an annual $1.7 billion operating budget and a $1 billion fundraising campaign.\nCurrently, Loh is chair of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council; a member of the American Council on Education's Committee on Inclusion; and a member of the National Academies' Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.Born in China, raised in Peru, and educated in the US, he embodies the enterprising spirit of immigrants. He received the \"Immigrant Achievement Award\" from the American Immigration Council and the \"Trailblazer Award\" from the National Asian Pacific-American Bar Association.\nYasheng Huang\nAssociate Dean at MIT Sloan School of Management\nYasheng Huang is an associate dean and a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. He has taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard University.\nIn addition to academic journal articles, he has published ten books and numerous articles in media. His work has been profiled in Wall Street Journal, Economist, Foreign Policy, and McKinsey Quarterly. His current research covers corruption and economic development, foreign direct investment, state capitalism, and economic history. He is collaborating with researchers at Tsinghua University to create a complete database on historical technological inventions in China and is co-leading a multidisciplinary research team at MIT on food safety.\nCheng Li\nDirector of the John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution\nCheng Li is director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policyprogram at Brookings. He is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Li focuses on the transformation of political leaders, generational change and technological development in China.\nLi grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In 1985 he came to the United States, where he received a master's in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate in political science from Princeton University. From 1993 to 1995, he worked in China as a fellow sponsored by the Institute of Current World Affairs in the U.S., observing grassroots changes in his native country. Based on this experience, he published a nationally acclaimed book, \"Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform\" (1997).\nMichelle Wu\nPresident of the Boston City Council\nMichelle Wu is the President of the Boston City Council. She is the first Asian American woman to serve on the Boston City Council, as well as the youngest current member. In January of 2016, she was elected as President of the Council.\nBorn in Illinois on January 14, 1985, Michelle Wu graduated from Harvard University in 2007 and Harvard Law School in 2012. Wu worked as the Constituency Director for Elizabeth Warren's 2012 campaign and was elected to Boston City Council At-Large in 2013.\nLeana Wen\nCommissioner of the Baltimore City Health\nDr. Leana Wen is the Baltimore City Health Commissioner. An emergency physician and patient and community advocate, she leads the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD). Dr. Wen has been honored by the Daily Record as one of the 100 most influential Marylanders and by the Baltimore Business Journal's \"40 under 40.\" She is the recipient of the Greater Baltimore Committee's Dr. Elijah Saunders Trailblazers Award and the National Association of Health Services Executives Leadership Award.\nDr. Wen received her medical training from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Brigham & Women's Hospital\/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She also studied public health and health policy at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.\nChung-Ying Cheng\nProfessor of Philosophy at University of Hawaii (Manoa)\nA renowned world philosopher of both Chinese and Western philosophies and a leading representative of Contemporary Neo-Confucianism, Professor Chung-ying Cheng earned his Ph.D. In Philosophy from Harvard University.His publications include over 35 books and over 350 articles in both English and Chinese on diverse philosophical and cultural topics, with the more recent books Age of New Awakening and Toward Recreation of Chinese Philosophy.\nProfessor Cheng is the Founding and Honorary President of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, the Founder of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief since 1973. He holds the title of Honorary Professorship from numerous leading Chinese universities and visiting professor at Yale University, Oxford University, Kings College of London University, University of Paris, and many others.\nMichael Puett\nProfessor of Chinese History at Harvard\nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion. He is also a non-resident long-term fellow for programs in anthropological and historical sciences and the languages and civilizations of East Asia at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala.\nPuett joined the Harvard faculty in 1994 after earning his M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1994) from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His interests focus on the inter-relations between religion, anthropology, history, and philosophy. In his research, Puett aims to bring the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. Since 2012 his General Education course, \"Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory,\" has been the third most enrolled undergraduate course at Harvard.\nJosephine Kim\nLecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education\nDr. Josephine Kim is a lecturer of Harvard Graduate School of Education.She earned a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.\nShe is a National Certified Counselor whose clinical skills and experiences span many contexts including residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.She is USA Today's collegiate case study expert on school violence and has been featured in EBS (Educational Broadcast System) and KBS (Korea Broadcast System) programs in Korea related to developmental and mental health issues of youths.\nShe is also the founding executive director of a nonprofit organization that aims to educate Asian Americans on issues of spirituality, cultural and racial identity, intergenerational conflicts, cross-cultural advocacy, mental health, and career development issues.\nDenise Gitsham\nBorn and raised in California, Denise Gitsham is the only daughter of immigrants, a small business owner, and a leading voice for San Diego's Innovation Economy.\nDenise's mother, a Chinese immigrant who came to the US via Taiwan, and her father a Canadian immigrant who served 20 years in the United States Air Force, instilled in her a deep appreciation of the blessings associated with being American.\nA graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Denise has worked in the US Department of Justice, United States Senate, and White House. She practiced law at the prominent international law firm K&L Gates before joining a San Diego-based renewable energy company in 2009. Today, Denise owns her own small business, and works to promote San Diego's Innovation Economy, which is driving our local economy and creating high-paying jobs for San Deigans.\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 United Chinese Americans. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HS VOLLEYBALL: Adena defeats Huntington 3-1, claims sole possession of second place in SVC\nAdena High School volleyball defeated Huntington 3-1 at Adena High School on Tuesday, improving to 5-2 in Scioto Valley Conference play.\nHS VOLLEYBALL: Adena defeats Huntington 3-1, claims sole possession of second place in SVC Adena High School volleyball defeated Huntington 3-1 at Adena High School on Tuesday, improving to 5-2 in Scioto Valley Conference play. Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: https:\/\/www.chillicothegazette.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2019\/09\/18\/adena-high-school-volleyball-defeats-huntington-claims-sole-possession-second-in-scioto-valley-conf\/2358644001\/\nDavid Wysong, Chillicothe Gazette | Chillicothe | The Chillicothe Gazette Published 11:06 a.m. ET Sept. 18, 2019 | Updated 12:29 p.m. ET Sept. 18, 2019\nVolleyball: Adena vs. Huntington\nAdena High School volleyball defeated Huntington 3-1 at Adena High School in Frankfort, Ohio on Tuesday September 17, 2019. David Wysong\/Gazette\nFRANKFORT \u2013 Right now everyone is chasing Westfall, but the Adena Warriors are doing the best job at it.\nOn Tuesday, Adena volleyball found itself tied for second place in the Scioto Valley Conference, two games behind Westfall, with a 4-2 record against league opponents. The Warriors ultimately improved to 5-2 on Tuesday, though, and claimed sole possession of second place as they defeated Huntington 3-1 at home and Westfall defeated Zane Trace \u2013 the other second-place team coming into the night \u2013 3-0.\nAdena's Jenna Martin and Makenna Lovely go to block a ball during a 3-1 win over Huntington at Adena High School in Frankfort, Ohio on Tuesday September 17, 2019. (Photo: David Wysong\/Gazette)\nIn the Warriors' match against the Huntsmen, Adena defeated Huntington relatively easy in the first set as they jumped out to a 17-12 lead and didn't look back, winning 25-16.\n\"We played better when we communicated and worked as a team,\" said Adena's Jenna Martin.\nHowever, the Huntsmen \u2013 who prior to the match were just one game behind the Warriors with a 3-3 league record \u2013 didn't go down quietly as they bounced back to win the second set 25-17, tying the match 1-1.\n\"They were controlling the ball,\" said Adena head coach Laura Smith. \"They played aggressive, hustling defense, keeping the ball alive and their hitters were doing a good job.\"\nHuntington's Allison Basye and Katie Hirsch go to block a ball during a 3-1 loss to Adena at Adena High School in Frankfort, Ohio on Tuesday September 17, 2019. (Photo: David Wysong\/Gazette)\nIt then looked like Huntington had all the momentum in the beginning of the third set as they jumped out to a 13-9 lead and then eventually led 20-19, but Adena, however, ultimately rallied to win the set 25-22, taking a 2-1 lead in the match.\n\"We was leading the whole third game and I just think real critical moments, they got calls that broke our momentum,\" said Huntington head coach Tina Magill. \"We got stuck in two rotations that I thought we was out of a couple times and fluke things happened. Then when you lose momentum you kind of lose a little bit of heart and that's what happened.\"\nHuntington then wasn't able to take another set from Warriors after that as Adena coasted to victory in the fourth set, winning 25-14, to win the match 3-1.\n\"For the most part, I thought our serve-receive was decent,\" Smith said. \"Our serving was more consistent than it has been. A couple of kids did a really nice job of putting the ball where they needed to at crucial times.\"\nStatistically for Huntington, Alyssa Steele had 37 assists and seven digs while Allison Basye had 22 kills and 11 digs. Megan Steele had 13 kills and 20 digs while Harmony Henneberger had 16 digs.\nWith the first-half of league play concluding on Tuesday, the SVC volleyball standings now look like this: 1. Westfall (7-0) 2. Adena (5-2) 3. Zane Trace (4-3), Unioto (4-3), Southeastern (4-3) 6. Huntington (3-4) 7. Paint Valley (1-6) 8. Piketon (0-7)\nAdena (7-6, 5-2) now prepares for Paint Valley as they host the Bearcats at 6 p.m. on Thursday while Huntington (9-5, 3-4) travels to Piketon at 6 p.m. on Thursday.\nKunz becomes 4th SVC football coach to step down\nSE beats Adena, takes sole possession of second\nDAILY DIGEST: CHS swimming wins local meet\nSCORES: Chillicothe girls bball falls to Logan\nWaverly girls basketball falls to McClain 59-58\nATHLETES OF THE WEEK: ZT, Waverly athletes win","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Reviews Poco X2 review: The comeback smartphone\nPoco X2 review: The comeback smartphone\nShould Poco X2 be your next buy?\nBy Avani Bagga\nXiaomi's spin-off brand Poco recently launched its X2 smartphone in India. The smartphone is available in three variants and falls in the sub-Rs 20,000 category. In this segment, the Poco X2 has a number of competitors. But then, it comes with a massive 4,500mAh battery, is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 730G, and its display has a refresh rate of 120Hz. We spent a few days with the smartphone to find out how good it really is. Check out our review of Poco X2 to know more:\nPoco X2 design and display\nWith Poco X2, Xiaomi is offering a smartphone that will be perfect for you in terms of design (if you like flashy gadgets). The handset has a gradient rear panel that is bright blue in colour and is made up of glass. The back panel of the device also has the vertical camera module that has a circular design around it. There is also the 'Poco' branding towards the bottom of the rear wall. However, it is worth pointing out that the device does not have Xiaomi written on it. Poco X2 is available in Atlantis Blue, Phoenix Red and Matrix Purple colour options and the one that we got for review (like we said) was dressed in blue.\nThe edges of the handset are made up of a plastic-like material. While the right side houses the power and volume rocker keys, the left one has the SIM tray sandwiched in it. The top has the secondary microphone and the bottom edge has the Type-C port, speaker grille and the 3.5mm headphone jack on it. It is worth pointing out that the power button also doubles up as the fingerprint scanner. This reminded us of devices from the Sony XPERIA range that we have reviewed in the past. The device is protected by Corning's Gorilla Glass 5 on the front as well as on the back.\nComing to the front, you will see the 6.67-inch screen of the Poco X2. The display of the smartphone has an aspect ratio of 20:9 and the overall device looks very large. We should mention that one-handed usage is kind of difficult on the smartphone and we often had trouble reaching all the parts of the screen including the volume rocker buttons. A very noticeable thing about the front panel is the dual selfie camera sensors on the top right of the device. Although this did not hinder the viewing experience most of the times, when we watched some videos on YouTube in full screen mode, the black pill was very evident. Poco has also sandwiched the ear speaker of the handset at the top in a very thin slit between the screen and the top edge.\nTo conclude, we would say that the design of Poco X2 has its pros and cons. The device is good looking and those who like flashy gadgets would really like it, but we would have preferred something more subtle, so it is a bit subjective. While the glass back panel makes the smartphone look premium, at the same time makes it slippery too. It is also worth citing that the back panel of the smartphone is prone to getting fingerprints, so it would be advisable to keep a microfiber cloth with you at all times. We would recommend you to go for the device if you like premium looking phones, but then, you would have to take a lot of care of it just like any other premium device.\nComing back to the 6.67-inch 2340\u00d71080-pixel driven display of the smartphone, it was one amongst its key highlights. The display projected bright and vibrant colours at all times, which remained consistent at different viewing angles. The images that were shown on the screen were sharp and clear. We watched a lot of YouTube videos on the device and the quality of the images on the screen remained top-notch even at very high resolutions.\nIt is worth mentioning that the screen of the device comes with 120Hz refresh rate and this pushes up the user experience a couple of notches. The sunlight readability of the smartphone's display was good too, and we always consider this to be a big plus.\nPoco X2 performance and cameras\nBefore we talk about the performance and cameras of Poco X2, we will take a minute to talk about the rest of its specifications. Poco X2 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 730G and it is available in three storage options: 6GB RAM\/64GB storage, 6GB RAM\/128GB storage and 8GB RAM\/256GB storage. While the base variant costs Rs 15,999, the high-end one is priced at Rs 19,999. The device runs Android 10 skinned with MIUI 11.0.3 Poco Launcher and it houses a 4,500mAh battery.\nComing to the software integrations of the handset, the first thing that we noticed was that it comes with a lot of bloatware. Poco X2 has a number of pre-installed apps like Gaana, Helo, Facebook, Opera, Amazon and a lot of Xiaomi's in-house apps too. The device also has the company's own GetApps store and we received an annoying number of notifications asking us to install apps via it during our time with the device. The handset also comes with some 'Special Features' in its Settings app that make tasks like gaming and messaging better.\nSpeaking about the performance of the smartphone, it excelled in most of the tasks that we assigned it with. We launched multiple apps on the device and switched between them, and even used multiple tabs of Chrome together, but we did not see any lag in the performance. Poco X2 could manage multitasking like a cakewalk. We played a number of games on the smartphone and even when we tried graphic-hungry ones like Asphalt 9: Legends, the device did not warm up even once. We even used the smartphone for navigation for over 40 minutes and even then, it did not heat up.\nComing to the battery life of the handset, when our usage was heavy and involved long phone calls, watching YouTube videos, playing games and using social media apps, it lasted an entire day. Which is a great thing to achieve in a mid-segment smartphone.\nThe call quality of the smartphone was decent at most times. We could make and receive calls from any area including basements and elevators and we had no problem hearing the person on the other end of the call either.\nNow, let's talk about the cameras of the smartphone. Poco X2 comes with four cameras on its back and two cameras on its front panel. The device has a 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor that has an f\/1.89 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide camera with an f\/2.2 aperture, a 2MP macro lens with a focal length of 2cm-10cm and a 2MP depth-sensing camera. On the front, there is a 20MP selfie camera along with a 2MP depth sensor.\nWe certainly believe that the camera app of the Poco X2 could become better, especially the UI. If you wish to use the wide-angle camera, you would have to use the zoom control to go to it as there is no toggle button dedicated for it. This became difficult at times. Even selecting various modes of the app wasn't as easy as it is in other apps, some of them from Xiaomi.\nThe primary camera of the smartphone did a great job. The pictures turned out to be very sharp and the colours were accurate and vibrant. A very good thing about the photos was the fact that the details came out really well, particularly in well-lit conditions. In dimly-lit conditions, the quality of images did deteriorate.\nZoomed in shot\nThe wide-angle camera of the handset does not match up to the primary camera in terms of quality. However, this is something that we expected. While they do manage to get a lot more area in the picture, the quality does go for a toss. This is particularly true in dimly lit conditions and however switching over to the night mode helps. The macro lens also had a similar performance in well-lit and and room with less light. The quality of images did fall when we tried to use it in slightly dark areas.\nComing to the selfie cameras of the smartphone, we were happier with them than we were with some of the rear cameras. We clicked a number of pictures using them and all the shots that we got were good and well detailed, even the ones that we took in dimly-lit conditions.\nAt a cost of Rs 19,999, the Poco X2 comes with its own set of pros and cons. The positive points of the smartphone include its display, its smooth performance, front camera and its lasting battery life. The design of the handset has a few issues like it is a bit slippery and its one-handed usage can be troublesome for people with small hands. The UI has a lot of bloatware and the some of the rear cameras gave us mixed results. However, if you want to buy a device that can handle heavy games and can multi-taks well, or if you love to watch videos on your smartphone, you would not be disappointed with Poco X2.\nVibrant display\nLasting battery\nSmooth performance\nUI has bloatware\nThe phone is slippery\nWide-angle camera could have been better\nAvani Baggahttps:\/\/www.gadgetbridge.com\nAvani has an immense love for reading, travelling and food, but not necessarily in the same order. Avani almost started pursuing law, but life had other (better) plans for her and she chose to be a writer instead (luckily!) She previously covered technology at Times Internet and wrote about smartphones, mobile apps and tech startups. When she's not writing, you'll be able to find her in book stores or catching up on her social life.\nSamsung unleashes the stunning Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+ and Galaxy S21 Ultra: Price and specs for India revealed\nSamsung Electronics has officially announced its much-awaited latest flagship devices Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+ and Galaxy S21 Ultra. The new flagship series comes with...\nGarena to kick off first esports tournament of the year, 'Free Fire Titan Invitational' from January 16\nLast month Garena announced its 2021 esports plans for Free Fire in India. This year it will be hosting 4 tournaments across two pro...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News and EventsEvent CalendarTriad Orchid Society's \"Orchids in the Palm Room\"\nTriad Orchid Society's \"Orchids in the Palm Room\"\nAdd to Calendar 3\/10\/2023 12:00:00 AM Triad Orchid Society's \"Orchids in the Palm Room\" The Triad Orchid Society's \"Orchids in the Palm Room\" is being held March 10 - 12, 2023 at the Reynolda Gardens Greenhouse, 100 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem, NC 27106. Reynolda Gardens Greenhouse, 100 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem, NC 27106 MM\/DD\/YYYY\nWill Bottoms\ntriadorchidsociety@gmail.com\nReynolda Gardens Greenhouse, 100 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem, NC 27106\nThe Triad Orchid Society's \"Orchids in the Palm Room\" is being held March 10 - 12, 2023 at the Reynolda Gardens Greenhouse, 100 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem, NC 27106.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dad buries 10-year-old daughter alive because she was a girl (Tripura, India)\nDad is identified as ABDUL HUSSEIN.\nhttp:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/man-buried-10-year-old-daughter-alive-4993935\nMan 'buried 10-year-old daughter alive because she was a girl'\nBy Jessica Best\nAbdul Hussein is accused of gagging and tying up his young daughter before burying her in the ground while his wife was out\nA man has been arrested for trying to bury his 10-year-old daughter alive because she was a girl.\nPolice say the shocking incident in Tripura, India, saw Abdul Hussein dig a pit in his back garden while his wife was out, and then put his daughter in the hole with her hands roped together and her mouth taped up.\nHer dad is then said to have filled up the pit to chest level, with pictures showing the young girl with her arms and head above the dirt floor.\nWhen Abdul's wife returned home he put a bamboo basket over their daughter's head, with the intention of burying her completely later on, NDTV reports.\nBut his wife began to question where the little girl was, and she was soon discovered by neighbours.\nThey are said to have beaten up the dad before calling police.\nAbdul was then arrested, and now faces a charge of attempted murder.\nThe case comes four months after a seven-year-old girl clawed her way to safety after allegedly being strangled and buried alive in the Uttar Pradesh region of India.\nThe youngster was found by shocked villagers after they heard her cries for help.\nThe little girl, named Tanu, told police her aunt and uncle had taken her from her mother's house days earlier and buried her in the field.\nLabels: attempted murder, false imprisonment, India","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hal Willner Producer 'Saturday Night Live' Dies Due Coronavirus Infection\nKareena Kapoor responds to the lockdown report going forward, she...\nCountry Singers Tribute Kenny Rogers in ACM Presents: Our Country...\nCountry Singers Tribute Kenny Rogers in ACM Presents: Our Country Concert\nAt a recent country music concert, late country singer Kenny Rogers was given a tribute by the big singers.\nIn this concert, big country singers like Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie gave him a tribute to sing and remember him in his village.\nAlso Read: Singer Lady Gaga Raises $35 Million to WHO Coronavirus Relief Fund\nThe Country Music Festival has been canceled due to Coronavirus, which has been compensated by ACM Presents: Our Country.\nGiving him a tribute, Singer and his friend Lionel Richie said \"What started out to be a great collaboration between two guys, Kenny Rogers and myself, ended up giving me a surprise.\"\n\"Not only did we have a hit record, but I found one of the greatest friends I ever had in my whole life. The loss of him is tremendous on my heart. \"\nAlso Read: Actor Jay Benedict 'Aliens' Died Due Coronavirus at 68\n\"We lived so much life together, and tonight I want to celebrate his life. And I want to say to all of his fans: He enjoyed the ride. Let us celebrate his life, his legacy, and more importantly, the music. God bless you, Kenny. God bless your family. I love you very much. \"\nLast month, Kenny Rogers died at the age of 81.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A range of make-it-yourself products aimed at children has been recalled after potentially hazardous ingredients were not disclosed.\nby James Hall\n5th Nov 2020 4:02 PM\nA range of children's \"make it on your own\" kits have been pulled from shelves over safety fears after failing to disclose the products' ingredients.\nThe line of DIY items from Brazco International recalled by the consumer watchdog includes Sparkling Modelling Soap, Scented Lip Balm and Science Perfumed Bath Bombs.\nThe kits were sold at Red Dot stores.\nThe products sold nationally in Red Dot stores did not comply with cosmetic trade practice for failing to reveal what ingredients are included, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said.\n\"Users may be exposed to ingredients they are sensitive or allergic to,\" the watchdog said in statement released this week.\nThe kits were sold in August this year.\n\"If a user suffers an adverse reaction they will not be able to check the ingredients list to identify the possible cause and seek appropriate treatment.\"\nThe kits were available for sale between August 1 and August 30 this year and consumers are being urged to return the product to receive a refund or exchange.\nOriginally published as Kids' toys recalled over safety fears\nConsumers are being advised to return the product.\nBlender recalled over 'laceration' fear","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thirteenth Floor, The\nEntry updated 16 February 2017. Tagged: Film.\nFilm (1999). Columbia Pictures presents a Centropolis Entertainment Production. Directed by Josef Rusnak. Written by Rusnak & Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez, based on Simulacron-3 (1964) by Daniel F Galouye. Cast includes Craig Bierko, Vincent d'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Gretchen Mol and Armin Mueller-Stahl. 100 minutes. Colour.\nThe programmers of a Virtual Reality simulation of 1937 Los Angeles discover that their own world is itself a simulation, and that its makers have infiltrated their own creation with sinister designs that must be thwarted from within.\nEmmerich and Rostaf, German expatriates in Hollywood, had grown up on the Fassbinder adaptation of Galouye's novel as Welt Am Draht (1973), which they (rightly) felt superior to the wave of then-fashionable Virtual Reality scripts that were crossing Emmerich's desk in 1994, and secured the rights to a remake. In this version the simulated reality is a recreation of Los Angeles in 1937, itself a reality under construction; thus the pivotal sequence where the hero drives to the edge of his world to find the landscape giving way to raw digital wireframe is echoed within the simulation in a journey to a luxury hotel complex under construction in the middle of the desert. Following test screenings, the ambivalent ending was reshot to show the hero's happy awakening into a sunny future world \u2013 though the final shot hints that this upper reality may itself be a simulation at a higher level. Unlucky enough to hit cinemas two months after The Matrix, the film was more or less dead on arrival with its retro noir stylings, its resistance to high-kicking action, and the stiffness of Rusnak's direction of his American cast. [NL]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PAXTON & MORRIS \u2013 Is It Safe Out There?\nTalking Elephant 2022\nPAXTON & MORRIS \u2013\nIs It Safe Out There?\nBritish rustic duo shake off post-pandemic rust to sculpt a folksy masterpiece out of classic material.\nAs a married couple, Maggie Kenny and Drew Wegg cannot be indifferent to the ways of or world where peril seems to be lurking around every corner, be it a real-life or mythological bend; as amateur artists, the pair feel the urge to express their existential angst in a folk song, making this fear eternal. That's why the title of the first album by PAXTON & MORRIS, the husband and wife's nom de guerre which may remind us of a certain American troubadour and certain English dance, should be perceived on a much larger scale than an after-Covid peeking around the door: through forming a fresh context for a few favorite numbers, Wegg and Kenny take their chosen genre's contemporary paradigm back to the forefront of protest \u2013 a move still relevant today, when wars are raging and guns a-blazing. However, the listener is more likely to latch onto the minstrels' delivery rather than the material selection where moods get shifted from Scottish lore to Appalachian tales and beyond.\nSo while there's a reality check in the punchy opener, \"The Devil's Right Hand\" from Steve Earle's repertoire, which sees Maggie's bass punctuate Drew's strum over honeyed vocal harmonies and Kevin Dempsey's guitar filigree, and a checkout is offered in the countrified finale of Richard Shindell's twangy \"Next Best Western\" whose echoes will linger long after the record's end, Kenny's velvet voice and cello on Sydney Carter's \"Crow On The Cradle\" sound truly mesmeric, and the romantically fatigued \"I Cannot Keep From Cryin' Sometimes\" that's laden with fiddle and harmonica feels possessed of stronger cinematic, Western-tinctured allure. The band's vibrant approach to FAIRPORTS' \"Crazy Man Michael\" and Zoe Lakota-Baldwin's \"Silkie Lullaby\" are a litmus test for any singer, passed by Wegg's supple pipes and the entire ensemble's orchestral prowess with magnificently flying, if fittingly patinated, colors, yet their communal handling of Dylan's \"Se\u00f1or\" comes little short of sensational as well, as do \"The Ballad Of Henry Lee\" and \"Silver Dagger\" \u2013 two traditional tracks revealing the pair's understanding of the idiom's nuances and highlighting an exquisite, and sometimes playful, lace courtesy of former Swarb associate Dempsey.\nThe result of the couple's delving into classics could be breathtaking if it wasn't so unhurriedly paced, but the little collective's next step must appear as soon as possible because their originals have a great beginning to follow.\nTags: folk rock, Paxton & Morris\nNick Fletcher Scrutinizes Ignorance On New Record\nSteve Hillage Issues Document From Glasto Gig Of 1979","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'\"Oliver Rix\"' in Person\nRSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon\nGregory Doran\nLive broadcast of the the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2013 production of Richard II directed by Gregory Doran with David Tennant in the title role.\nVideo recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2013 production of Richard II directed by Gregory Doran with David Tennant in the title role.\nCardenio (2011 Video)\nVideo recording of the 2011 Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Cardenio directed by Gregory Doran. The play Double Falsehood is claimed to be an adaptation of a lost play by Shakespeare, based on...\nYou are currently searching in Shakespeare. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '\"Oliver Rix\"' in All fields.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Categories Newsletters Books Pricing plans\nSimona Grigorova\nConvergeOne Explores Sale\nIn February, the Eagan-based IT services provider merged with special purpose acquisition firm Forum Merger Corporation in a $1.2 billion transaction and became a publicly listed company.\nConvergeone executives celebrate during official bell ringing ceremony\nUS communications, networking, and security technology services provider ConvergeOne is exploring the sale of the company, sources told Reuters.\nThe company is said to have attracted the interest of private equity firms, according to sources familiar with the matter.\nIn February, the Eagan-based IT services provider merged with special purpose acquisition firm Forum Merger Corporation in a $1.2 billion transaction and became a publicly listed company. However, ConvergeOne's shares have been trading mostly flat since its initial public offering, which signals that the company might be vulnerable to takeover attempts.\nConvergeOne is majority-owned by investment firm Clearlake Capital. The controlling shareholder is said to be working with investment bank Raymond James Financial on the sale process, according to people familiar with the situation. However, sources said that a deal might not materialize.\nShares of ConvergeOne were up 15% as media outlets reported that the company is engaged in merger talks, trading 6% at $9.07. As a result, the company's market capitalization reached nearly $700 million. In February, when the company announced its IPO, its total enterprise value, including debt and equity, was $1.3 billion.\nConvergeOne distributes networking and collaboration services from tech companies including San Jose-based IT conglomerate Cisco Systems and Armonk- headquartered technology giant IBM.\nConvergeOne serves over 10,000 clients, including 48% of the Fortune 500 companies in sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, finance, education and energy.\nNearly 63% of ConvergeOne's sales come from the company's unified communications business, which offers software and other services to mid- to large-sized companies allowing them to manage customer contact and call centers.\nWalmart set to roll out its membership service with free delivery, no lines!\nAccenture Completes Acquisition of Consulting Firm Silveo\nIAC\/InterActive Will Spin Off Match Group in 2020\nWALLETALLY CHARLOTTE, NC. USA THE CONTENTS OF THIS SITE ARE \u00a92018 CORVUS INTERACTIVE WEB SERVICES , LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Main \u25be\nWoogisms\nAbout \u2643\nTeam \u25be\nCheers & Songs\nThe Slimmest of Margins: Gophers Lose 4-3 On Disallowed Goal with 5 Seconds Left\nMarch 11, 2016 Chris Eckes 0\nMinnesota Called Offside on Tying Goal, Drop Opener to Wisconsin\nMinneapolis, MN \u2013 \"[The referees] told me he was offsides. I got a chance to look at the replay, and he was offsides.\"\nGopher coach Don Lucia has a gift of keeping an even keel in emotional situations. He's the sort of guy that never gets too high and never gets too low.\nFriday's game between the Minnesota Gophers (18-16-0 Overall, 13-6-0 B1G) and the Wisconsin Badgers (8-17-8, 3-12-4-2) was anything but even keel. A depressed Gopher team sulked in the first period, evened out in the second, and came alive in the third, only to have their comeback bid thwarted by a reviewed offside call with just five seconds left on the clock. The loss means the B1G Regular Season title will go down to the last day, with the Gophers holding a slim one-point edge over the Michigan Wolverines prior to the final game of the season.\nIt's hard to remember after watching this game, but Minnesota actually scored the first goal, a powerplay marker from Leon Bristedt at 9:18 of the first. Wisconsin roared back late in the period, getting a PP tally of their own from Jedd Soleway at 17:49 to tie it at one goal each. Soleway was ejected from the game after taking a five-minute major for Checking From Behind at 19:28 of the period, but Wisconsin's Luke Kunin stole an ill-advised Jake Bischoff pass and walked in all alone to beat Eric Schierhorn with just 19 seconds left in the period to go up 2-1.\nWisconsin padded their lead with a Grant Besse powerplay goal at 11:19 of the second, and although the Gophers started picking up their effort in the middle stanza, they went into the final 20 minutes down 3-1.\nThis is where it got interesting.\nThe Gophers slowly but surely picked up the pace in the third, and started to win puck battles and make crisper zone-outlet passes. The work resulted in a goal, as Taylor Cammarata won the puck in the corner and fired a cross-ice pass to an open Vinni Lettieri at the left circle. Lettieri's one-time slapper beat Wisconsin goalie Matt Jurusik five hole and cut the lead to one with just over nine minutes remaining in the contest.\nMinnesota pressed hard from then on, forcing the Badgers to dump the puck and change whenever they could. Wisconsin was on their heels, and an icing call with 100 seconds left seemed like the perfect opportunity for the Gophers to pull the goalie and press the attack.\nWisconsin read the play perfectly, and Grant Besse scored his second goal of the night on an empty net at 18:44 to ice the game at 4-2.\nThe Gophers again pulled the goalie, and freshman Tommy Novak was able to put home a goal from the low slot at 19:07 to bring Minnesota within one. The Gophers pulled Schierhorn again in the final minute, but Wisconsin won the puck and yet again looked to again seal the game at 5-3.\nSomehow, some way, the referees called Wisconsin's 2-on-0 breakaway on the open net offsides. The Badgers had used their timeout previously in the game, so they could not challenge the referee's call. It turned out after the fact that the players were not offsides. That could have been a pivotal call, based on what happened next:\nOn the ensuing faceoff after the erroneous offsides call, Hudson Fasching took the puck up the left wing, curled around behind the net, and found Tommy Novak again alone in front. Novak put it in to tie the game with just five seconds left, and the crowd went absolutely mad.\nThe referees reviewed the goal, first to determine whether the net had been knocked off prior to the goal going in (it had not), and next to see if Vinni Lettieri was still offside by the time Fasching entered the offensive zone. After a protracted review, the referees waived off the goal, stating that Lettieri was indeed offside on the play. An absolutely crazy end to a crazy game.\nThe loss ended the chances of the Gophers getting an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament \u2013 to get in, they'll need to win the B1G postseason tourney next weekend.\nWho the Gophers face in the tournament will be determined by how Minnesota finishes in the standings \u2013 the Gophers are clinging to first place by just one point over Michigan. A Minnesota win will lock up first place in the B1G, and a shootout win would clinch a tie (with the Gophers owning the tiebreaker). A Michigan loss or shootout loss would also clinch the regular season title for the Gophers. Minnesota and Michigan control the B1G Tournament first round byes, and the rest of the standings are determined: Penn State (3) will face Wisconsin (6), and Ohio State (4) will take on Michigan State (5). The B1G first place team will play the winner of OSU\/MSU, while second place will get the winner of PSU\/UW.\nSaturday's B1G-deciding game will take place at 7:00, on the BTN for TV and 1500ESPN for radio.\nB1G\nBig Ten Hockey\nChris Eckes\nDon Lucia\nEric Schierhorn\nTommy Novak\nVinni Lettieri\nAbout Chris Eckes 93 Articles\nGopher Hockey fan since birth. Avid golfer. Fantasy Sports enthusiast.\nGPL Podcast #91 Bad split with MSU. 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{"text":"PD Dr. Dirk Montag\nE-Mail: Dirk.Montag@lin-magdeburg.de\nMontag D, Pelz L, Rathjen F. 2023. Lack of the Ig cell adhesion molecule BT-IgSF (IgSF11) induced behavioral changes in the open maze, water maze and resident intruder test. PLoS ONE. 18(1):Article e0280133. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0280133\nIlic K, Lin X, Malci A, Stojanovi\u0107 M, Puljko B, Ro\u017eman M, Vukeli\u0107 \u017d, Heffer M, Montag D, Schnaar RL, et al. 2021. Plasma membrane calcium ATPase-neuroplastin complexes are selectively stabilized in GM1-containing lipid rafts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(24):Article 13590. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijms222413590\nMontag D. 2021. Retrograde amnesia - a question of disturbed Calcium levels?. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15:Article 746198. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fncel.2021.746198\nLin X, Brunk MGK, Yuanxiang P, Curran AW, Zhang E, St\u00f6ber F, Goldschmidt J, Gundelfinger ED, Vollmer M, Happel MFK, et al. 2021. Neuroplastin expression is essential for hearing and hair cell PMCA expression. Brain Structure and Function. 226(5):1533-1551. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00429-021-02269-w\nKoch N, Koch D, Krueger S, Tr\u00f6ger J, Sabanov V, Ahmed T, McMillan LE, Wolf D, Montag D, Kessels MM, et al. 2020. Syndapin I Loss-of-Function in Mice Leads to Schizophrenia-Like Symptoms. Cerebral Cortex. 30(8):4306-4324. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cercor\/bhaa013\nBrocka M, Helbing C, Vincenz D, Scherf T, Montag D, Goldschmidt J, Angenstein F, Lippert M. 2018. Contributions of dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic neurons to VTA-stimulation induced neurovascular responses in brain reward circuits. NeuroImage. 177:88-97. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2018.04.059\nLang D, Schott BH, van Ham M, Morton L, Kulikovskaja L, Herrera-Molina R, Pielot R, Klawonn F, Montag D, J\u00e4nsch L, et al. 2018. Chronic Toxoplasma infection is associated with distinct alterations in the synaptic protein composition. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 15(1):Article 216. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12974-018-1242-1\nKorthals M, Langnaese K, Smalla KH, K\u00e4hne T, Herrera-Molina R, Handschuh J, Lehmann AC, Mamula D, Naumann M, Seidenbecher C, et al. 2017. A complex of Neuroplastin and Plasma Membrane Ca2+ ATPase controls T cell activation. Scientific Reports. 7(1):Article 8358. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-017-08519-4\nHerrera-Molina R, Mlinac-Jerkovic K, Ilic K, St\u00f6ber F, Vemula SK, Sandoval M, Milosevic NJ, Simic G, Smalla KH, Goldschmidt J, et al. 2017. Neuroplastin deletion in glutamatergic neurons impairs selective brain functions and calcium regulation: Implication for cognitive deterioration. Scientific Reports. 7(1):Article 7273. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-017-07839-9\nAltm\u00fcller F, Pothula S, Annamneedi A, Nakhei-Rad S, Montenegro-Venegas C, Pina-Fern\u00e1ndez E, Marini C, Santos M, Schanze D, Montag D, et al. 2017. Aberrant neuronal activity-induced signaling and gene expression in a mouse model of RASopathy. PLoS Genetics. 13(3):Article e1006684. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1006684\nBhattacharya S, Herrera-Molina R, Sabanov V, Ahmed T, Iscru E, St\u00f6ber F, Richter K, Fischer KD, Angenstein F, Goldschmidt J, et al. 2017. Genetically induced retrograde amnesia of associative memories after neuroplastin ablation. Biological Psychiatry. 81(2):124-135. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biopsych.2016.03.2107\nArias HR, Ravazzini F, Targowska-Duda KM, Kaczor AA, Feuerbach D, Boffi JC, Draczkowski P, Montag D, Brown BM, Elgoyhen AB, et al. 2016. Positive allosteric modulators of \u03b17 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors affect neither the function of other ligand- and voltage-gated ion channels and acetylcholinesterase, nor \u03b2-amyloid content. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 76:19-30. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biocel.2016.04.015\nM\u00f6hle L, Israel N, Paarmann K, Krohn M, Pietkiewicz S, M\u00fcller A, Lavrik IN, Buguliskis JS, Schott BH, Schl\u00fcter D, et al. 2016. Chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection enhances \u03b2-amyloid phagocytosis and clearance by recruited monocytes. Acta neuropathologica communications. 4:25. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s40478-016-0293-8\nKuhn PH, Colombo AV, Schusser B, Dreymueller D, Wetzel S, Schepers U, Herber J, Ludwig A, Kremmer E, Montag D, et al. 2016. Systematic substrate identification indicates a central role for the metalloprotease ADAM10 in axon targeting and synapse function. eLife. 5(JANUARY2016):Article e12748. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.12748.001\nBhattacharya S, Maelicke A, Montag D. 2015. Nasal application of the galantamine pro-drug memogain slows down plaque deposition and ameliorates behavior in 5X familial Alzheimer's disease mice. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 46(1):123-136. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3233\/JAD-142421\nBhattacharya S, Montag D. 2015. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor modifications: A promising strategy to delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Neural Regeneration Research. 10(1):43-45. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4103\/1673-5374.150648\nHerrera Molina R, Sarto-Jackson I, Montenegro-Venegas C, Heine M, Smalla KH, Seidenbecher CI, Beesley PW, Gundelfinger ED, Montag D. 2014. Structure of excitatory synapses and GABAA receptor localization at inhibitory synapses are regulated by neuroplastin-65. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(13):8973-8988. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1074\/jbc.M113.514992\nBhattacharya S, Haertel C, Maelicke A, Montag D. 2014. Galantamine slows down plaque formation and behavioral decline in the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. PLoS ONE. 9(2):Article e89454. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0089454\nJ\u00fcttner R, Montag D, Craveiro RB, Babich A, Vetter P, Rathjen FG. 2013. Impaired presynaptic function and elimination of synapses at premature stages during postnatal development of the cerebellum in the absence of CALEB (CSPG5\/neuroglycan C). European Journal of Neuroscience. 38(9):3270-3280. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ejn.12313\nVogel H, Montag D, Kanzleiter T, Jonas W, Matzke D, Scherneck S, Chadt A, T\u00f6le J, Kluge R, Joost HG, et al. 2013. An Interval of the Obesity QTL Nob3.38 within a QTL Hotspot on Chromosome 1 Modulates Behavioral Phenotypes. PLoS ONE. 8(1):e53025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0053025\nLegate KR, Montag D, B\u00f6ttcher RT, Takahashi S, F\u00e4ssler R. 2012. Comparative phenotypic analysis of the two major splice isoforms of phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase type I\u03b3 in vivo. Journal of Cell Science. 125(Pt 23):5636-5646. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1242\/jcs.102145\nSchmeisser MJ, Ey E, Wegener S, Bockmann J, Stempel AV, Kuebler A, Janssen AL, Udvardi PT, Shiban E, Spilker C, et al. 2012. Autistic-like behaviours and hyperactivity in mice lacking ProSAP1\/Shank2. Nature. 486(7402):256-260. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature11015\nSchmidt S, Hommel A, Gawlik V, Augustin R, Junicke N, Florian S, Richter M, Walther DJ, Montag D, Joost HG, et al. 2009. Essential role of glucose transporter GLUT3 for post-implantation embryonic development. Journal of Endocrinology. 200(1):23-33. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1677\/JOE-08-0262\nSchmidt S, Richter M, Montag D, Sartorius T, Gawlik V, Hennige AM, Scherneck S, Himmelbauer H, Lutz SZ, Augustin R, et al. 2008. Neuronal functions, feeding behavior, and energy balance in Slc2a3 +\/- mice. American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. 295(5):E1084-94. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1152\/ajpendo.90491.2008\nSchilling S, Zeitschel U, Hoffmann T, Heiser U, Francke M, Kehlen A, Holzer M, Hutter-Paier B, Prokesch M, Windisch M, et al. 2008. Glutaminyl cyclase inhibition attenuates pyroglutamate A\u03b2 and Alzheimer's disease-like pathology. Nature Medicine. 14(10):1106-1111. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nm.1872\nHeyden A, Angenstein F, Sallaz M, Seidenbecher C, Montag D. 2008. Abnormal axonal guidance and brain anatomy in mouse mutants for the cell recognition molecules close homolog of L1 and NgCAM-related cell adhesion molecule. Neuroscience. 155(1):221-233. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuroscience.2008.04.080\nDirks P, Thomas U, Montag D. 2006. The cytoplasmic domain of NrCAM binds to PDZ domains of synapse-associated proteins SAP90\/PSD95 and SAP97. European Journal of Neuroscience. 24(1):25-31. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1460-9568.2006.04899.x\nMontag-Sallaz M, Montag D. 2006. Immediate early genes and sensory maps of olfactory and gustatory function. In Immediate Early Genes in Sensory Processing, Cognitive Performance and Neurological Disorders. Springer New York. pp. 57-72. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-0-387-33604-6_4\nBeglopoulos V, Montag-Sallaz M, Rohlmann A, Piechotta K, Ahmad M, Montag D, Missler M. 2005. Neurexophilin 3 is highly localized in cortical and cerebellar regions and is functionally important for sensorimotor gating and motor coordination. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(16):7278-7288. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/MCB.25.16.7278-7288.2005\nMontag-Sallaz M, Baarke A, Montag D. 2003. Aberrant neuronal connectivity in CHL1-deficient mice is associated with altered information processing-related immediate early gene expression. Journal of Neurobiology. 57(1):67-80. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/neu.10254\nMontag-Sallaz M, Montag D, Schachner M. 2003. Altered processing of novel information in N-CAM-deficient mice. NeuroReport. 14(10):1343-1346. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/01.wnr.0000077549.91466.4c\nMontag-Sallaz M, Montag D. 2003. Learning-induced arg 3.1\/arc mRNA expression in the mouse brain. Learning and Memory. 10(2):99-107. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/lm.53403\nMontag-Sallaz M, Montag D. 2003. Severe cognitive and motor coordination deficits in tenascin-R-deficient mice. Genes, Brain and Behavior. 2(1):20-31. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1034\/j.1601-183X.2003.00003.x\nMontag-Sallaz M, Schachner M, Montag D. 2002. Misguided axonal projections, neural cell adhesion molecule 180 mRNA upregulation, and altered behavior in mice deficient for the close homolog of L1. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22(22):7967-7981. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/MCB.22.22.7967-7981.2002\nBrakebusch C, Seidenbecher CI, Asztely F, Rauch U, Matthies H, Meyer H, Krug M, B\u00f6ckers TM, Zhou X, Kreutz MR, et al. 2002. Brevican-deficient mice display impaired hippocampal CA1 long-term potentiation but show no obvious deficits in learning and memory. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22(21):7417-7427. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/MCB.22.21.7417-7427.2002\nMontag D. 2001. Neurogenetik: Die Bedeutung der Gene f\u00fcr das Gehirn. Bioforum. 10:730-733.\nBiffiger K, Bartsch S, Montag D, Aguzzi A, Schachner M, Bartasch U. 2000. Severe hypomyelination of the murine CNS in the absence of myelin-associated glycoprotein and Fyn tyrosine kinase. Journal of Neuroscience. 20(19):7430-7437. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/jneurosci.20-19-07430.2000\nCarenini S, Montag D, Schachner M, Martini R. 1999. Subtle roles of neural cell adhesion molecule and myelin-associated glycoprotein during schwann cell spiralling in P0-deficient mice. GLIA. 27(3):203-212. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1098-1136(199909)27:3<203::AID-GLIA2>3.0.CO;2-7\nWeber P, Bartsch U, Rasband MN, Czaniera R, Lang Y, Bluethmann H, Margolis RU, Levinson SR, Shrager P, Montag D, et al. 1999. Mice deficient for tenascin-R display alterations of the extracellular matrix and decreased axonal conduction velocities in the CNS. Journal of Neuroscience. 19(11):4245-4262.\nMontag-Sallaz M, Welzl H, Kuhl D, Montag D, Schachner M. 1999. Novelty-induced increased expression of immediate-early genes c-fos and arg 3.1 in the Mouse brain. Journal of Neurobiology. 38(2):234-246. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4695(19990205)38:2<234::AID-NEU6>3.0.CO;2-G\nHillenbrand R, Molthagen M, Montag D, Schachner M. 1999. The close homologue of the neural adhesion molecule L1 (CHL1): Patterns of expression and promotion of neurite outgrowth by heterophilic interactions. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(3):813-826. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1046\/j.1460-9568.1999.00496.x\nWeber P, Bartsch U, Schachner M, Montag D. 1998. Na,K-ATPase subunit \u03b21 knock-in prevents lethality of \u03b22 deficiency in mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 18(22):9192-9203.\nXiao ZC, Revest JM, Laeng P, Rougon G, Schachner M, Montag D. 1998. Defasciculation of neurites is mediated by tenascin-R and its neuronal receptor F3\/11. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 52(4):390-404. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4547(19980515)52:4<390::AID-JNR3>3.0.CO;2-4\nWeber P, Montag D, Schachner M, Bernhardt RR. 1998. Zebrafish tenascin-W, a new member of the tenascin family. Journal of Neurobiology. 35(1):1-16. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4695(199804)35:1<1::AID-NEU1>3.0.CO;2-9\nCarenini S, Montag D, Schachner M, Martini R. 1998. MAG-deficient schwann cells myelinate dorsal root ganglion neurons in culture. GLIA. 22(3):213-220. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1098-1136(199803)22:3<213::AID-GLIA1>3.0.CO;2-6\nXiao ZC, Bartsch U, Margolis RK, Rougon G, Montag D, Schachner M. 1997. Isolation of a tenascin-R binding protein from mouse brain membranes: A phosphacan-related chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(51):32092-32101. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1074\/jbc.272.51.32092\nLahrtz F, Horstkorte R, Cremer H, Schachner M, Montag D. 1997. VASE-encoded peptide modifies NCAM-and L1-mediated neurite outgrowth. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 50(1):62-68. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4547(19971001)50:1<62::AID-JNR7>3.0.CO;2-J\nBartsch S, Montag D, Schachner M, Bartsch U. 1997. Increased number of unmyelinated axons in optic nerves of adult mice deficient in the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). Brain Research. 762(1-2):231-234. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0006-8993(97)00484-8\nLassmann H, Bartsch U, Montag D, Schachner M. 1997. Dying-back oligodendrogliopathy: A late sequel of myelin-associated glycoprotein deficiency. GLIA. 19(2):104-110. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1098-1136(199702)19:2<104::AID-GLIA2>3.0.CO;2-0\nCarenini S, Montag D, Cremer H, Schachner M, Martini R. 1997. Absence of the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) interferes with the maintenance, but not with the formation of peripheral myelin. Cell and Tissue Research. 287(1):3-9. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s004410050727\nGu\u00e9nard V, Montag D, Schachner M, Martini R. 1996. Onion bulb cells in mice deficient for myelin genes share molecular properties with immature, differentiated non-myelinating, and denervated Schwann cells. GLIA. 18(1):27-38. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1098-1136(199609)18:1<27::AID-GLIA3>3.0.CO;2-0\nHolm J, Hillenbrand R, Steuber V, Bartsch U, Moos M, L\u00fcbbert H, Montag D, Schachner M. 1996. Structural features of a close homologue of L1 (CHL1) in the mouse: A new member of the L1 family of neural recognition molecules. European Journal of Neuroscience. 8(8):1613-1629. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01306.x\nSch\u00e4fer M, Fruttiger M, Montag D, Schachner M, Martini R. 1996. Disruption of the gene for the myelin-associated glycoprotein improves axonal regrowth along myelin in C57BL\/WId(s) mice. Neuron. 16(6):1107-1113. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0896-6273(00)80137-3\nD\u00f6rries U, Taylor J, Xiao Z, Lochter A, Montag D, Schachner M. 1996. Distinct effects of recombinant tenascin-C domains on neuronal cell adhesion, growth cone guidance, and neuronal polarity. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 43(4):420-438. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4547(19960215)43:4<420::AID-JNR4>3.3.CO;2-A\nXiao ZC, Taylor J, Montag D, Rougon G, Schachner M. 1996. Distinct effects of recombinant tenascin-R domains in neuronal cell functions and identification of the domain interacting with the neuronal recognition molecule F3\/11. European Journal of Neuroscience. 8(4):766-782. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01262.x\nBartsch U, Bandtlow CE, Schnell L, Bartsch S, Spillmann AA, Rubin BP, Hillenbrand R, Montag D, Schwab ME, Schachner M. 1995. Lack of evidence that myelin-associated glycoprotein is a major inhibitor of axonal regeneration in the CNS. Neuron. 15(6):1375-1381. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/0896-6273(95)90015-2\nProbstmeier R, Montag D, Schachner M. 1995. Galectin-3, a \u03b2-galactoside-binding animal lectin, binds to neural recognition molecules. Journal of Neurochemistry. 64(6):2465-2472. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1046\/j.1471-4159.1995.64062465.x\nBartsch U, Montag D, Bartsch S, Schachner M. 1995. Multiply myelinated axons in the optic nerve of mice deficient for the myelin-associated glycoprotein. GLIA. 14(2):115-122. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/glia.440140206\nFruttiger M, Montag D, Schachner M, Martini R. 1995. Crucial role for the myelin-associated glycoprotein in the maintenance of axon-myelin integrity. European Journal of Neuroscience. 7(3):511-515. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1460-9568.1995.tb00347.x\nHashemolhosseini S, Montag D, Kramer L, Henning U. 1994. Determinants of receptor specificity of coliphages of the T4 family. A chaperone alters the host range. Journal of Molecular Biology. 241(4):524-533. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1006\/jmbi.1994.1529\nMontag D, Giese KP, Bartsch U, Martini R, Lang Y, Bl\u00fcthmann H, Karthigasan J, Kirschner DA, Wintergerst ES, Nave KA, et al. 1994. Mice deficient for the myelin-associated glycoprotein show subtle abnormalities in myelin. Neuron. 13(1):229-246. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/0896-6273(94)90472-3\nKohl A, Giese KP, Mohajeri MH, Montag D, Moos M, Schachner M. 1992. Analysis of promoter activity and 5' genomic structure of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 32(2):167-177. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jnr.490320206\nMontag D, Hashemolhosseini S, Henning U. 1990. Receptor-recognizing proteins of T-even type bacteriophages. The receptor-recognizing area of proteins 37 of phages T4 TuIa and TuIb. Journal of Molecular Biology. 216(2):327-334. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0022-2836(05)80324-9\nMilner RJ, Lai C, Nave KA, Montag D, Farber L, Sutcliffe JG. 1990. Organization of myelin protein genes: Myelin-associated glycoprotein. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 605(1):254-261. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1749-6632.1990.tb42398.x\nMontag D, Schwarz H, Henning U. 1989. A component of the side tail fiber of Escherichia coli bacteriophage lambda can functionally replace the receptor-recognizing part of a long tail fiber protein of the unrelated bacteriophage T4.Journal of Bacteriology. 171(8):4378-4384. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/jb.171.8.4378-4384.1989\nDrexler K, Riede I, Montag D, Eschbach ML, Henning U. 1989. Receptor specificity of the Escherichia coli T-even type phage Ox2. Mutational alterations in host range mutants. Journal of Molecular Biology. 207(4):797-803. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/0022-2836(89)90245-3\nMontag D, Henning U. 1987. An open reading frame in the Escherichia coli bacteriophage \u03bb genome encodes a protein that functions in assembly of the long tail fibers of bacteriophage T4. Journal of Bacteriology. 169(12):5884-5886. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/jb.169.12.5884-5886.1987\nMontag D, Degen M, Henning U. 1987. Nucleotide sequence of gene t (lysis gene) of the E. coli phage T4. Nucleic Acids Research. 15(16):6736. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/nar\/15.16.6736\nMontag D, Riede I, Eschbach ML, Degen M, Henning U. 1987. Receptor-recognizing proteins of T-even type bacteriophages. Constant and hypervariable regions and an unusual case of evolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 196(1):165-174. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/0022-2836(87)90519-5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ukrainian Military Pages\nIn the Ukrainian Navy Command adopted the establishment of a personnel center\nOn April 27, 2018, the Naval Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine introduced the staff of the Personnel Center and initiated measures for its formation. Personnel Center of the Naval Forces will carry out tasks for the implementation of personnel management in the Ukrainian Navy.\nIts main functions will be to create an effective career management system for servicemen, to ensure a transparent and integrity system of selection, placement and appointment of staff to positions.\nThe feature of this unit will be the personalization of work with all categories of servicemen in career planning and service.\nNaval Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine official website\nTags: Armed Forces of Ukraine, Navy, news, personnel\nARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE:\nUkrainian Ground Forces\nUkrainian Air Force\nUkrainian Naval Forces\nUkrainian Airborne Forces\n132 Ukrainian soldiers killed, more than 700 wounded in Donbas over past year\n18.01.20 In 2019-2020, 132 Ukrainian servicemen and women were killed in Donbas, 716 more were wounded, Ukrinform reported.\nThe Ukrainian Army is expecting major reformatting - a plan for 10 years\n11.01.20 Today, on January 11, 2020, the Ukrainian General Staff announced a plan to reform the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the next 10 ye...\nTop 10 Deadliest Sniper Rifles\n26.09.17 In the world of guns, everyone has their unique opinion on which rifle shoots the best. The differences between calibers, bulle...\nUkrainian Fort-28 Pistol cal. 5.7x28 mm\n24.10.18 The Fort-28 pistol is a personal weapon and intended for aimed fire at distances to 100 m.\nUkraine's Special Operations Forces received their own Aviation Squadron\n05.01.20 35th Mixed Aviation Squadron (or Special Operations Aviation Squadron), designed for operational air support of the Special Oper...\nYuzhnoye SDO develops missiles for Tochka-U and the new Sapsan ballistic missile system\n27.12.19 Jointly with the companies of Ukrainian cooperation, a large-scale complex of works on extension of operational lifecycle, modern...\nUkraine's 155mm self-propelled howitzer has begun testing\n25.12.19 At the proving ground in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast are being tested Bohdana 155mm self-propelled howitzer \u2013 the first Ukrainian a...\nThe launcher of the Vilkha MLRS has been redesigned\n21.12.19 The self-propelled launcher of the Vilkha High-precision Multiple Launch Rocket System, which is the Ukrainian modernization of t...\nRada approved ranks of the Ukrainian Army in NATO-style\n18.10.19 After years of delays, the Verkhovna Rada finally approved bill that includes amendments to Ukrainian military regulations on Oc...\nCombat strenghts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\n13.07.18 Command and control system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and their organizational structure according to the yearbook \"White b...\nTweets by ukrmilitary_en\nRUSSIAN AGGRESSION \u00bb\u00bb\nUkrainian \"Crook\" Chassis for Mosin-Nagant Rifles\n29.07.17 Ukrainian company called \"Crook\" (\u041a\u0440\u0443\u043a \u2013 means \"raven\") makes an aluminum chassis for Mosin-Nagant rifles.\nThis Is Your Brain On War\n11.11.17 Task & Purpose teamed up with former West Point psychology professor and author Lt. Col. Dave Grossman to produce this visua...\nThe best army Ukraine has ever had. Changes in Ukraine's armed forces since the Russian aggression\nAndrzej Wilk 14.08.17 Articlle by Poland Centre for Eastern Studies (O\u015brodek Studi\u00f3w Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia).\nThe Top 3 Most-Read Article This Month:\nUkraine will deliver to Turkey engines for combat drones worth more than $600 million\n06.01.20 Zaporizhia Machine-Building Design Bureau Progress State Enterprise will deliver to Turkey engines for unmanned combat aerial veh...\n\u00a9 2014-2020 Ukrainian Military Pages\nCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)\ne-mail: ukrmilitarypages@gmail.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chugar Hung Kuen Kung Fu-Manchester\nNam Siu Lam Hung Kuen Kung Fu-teaching Kung Fu, Weapons, Hei Gung (Chi Kung) Lion and Dragon Dance-The complete Shaolin Martial Art\nMaster Chu\nBranch School Gymnasium\nHei Gung \/ Chi Kung \/ Qigong\nTraining clothes and shoes\nThe front gate of the recently built Southern Shaolin Temple\nChinese historians and archaeologists have spent many years trying to collate information with regard to the actual location of the Southern Shaolin Temple and eventually settled on the above site in Putian. Historical records and hearsay indicate that there may have been more than one Shaolin temple or even sub-temples in the surrounding area. Certainly, artefacts such as large stone baths have been found in various remote places, whose inscriptions indicate a connection to a Shaolin temple. These however are not evidence of the fighting monks associated with the birth and proliferation of kung fu styles such as Wing Chun, Ng Cho and Hung Gar to name only a few. History and folklore certainly indicate that the Southern Shaolin Temple (Nam Siu Lam Gee) existed, wherever it was located and that it was a hot bed of political activity and revolt. The history of many Southern styles is rooted in the existence of this temple. In fact our style, Chu Gar Hung Kuen history locates it's origin in this temple. The name \"Chu Gar\" means \"Chu Family\" and is a direct reference to Chu Hung Mo (a member of the Imperial Family) who is thought to have taken refuge in the Shaolin temple becoming a shaven headed disciple who funded revolutionary activity behind the walls of the temple.\n\"Hung Kuen\" means \"Red Fist\" and the reference is thought to allude to the \"Hung Fa Yee\" or \"Red Flower Pavilion\", where it is said that counter revolutionary forces gathered and trained. It is a Hung Gar system therefore, directly transmitted from the Southern Shaolin Temple, which pays respect( through it's name) to Chu Hung Mo. Many Southern styles chose names that were put together to indicate to each other a reference to such activities or prominent revolutionary figures which would be understood by all involved even if different but connected branches. In some instances a Chinese character was substituted for one with the same sound but a different meaning to create a different reference and subsequently hide their affiliation to the Shaolin Temple. Some styles invented a fictional origin and lineage so as not to arouse suspicion about their true origin and thus invite imprisonment or certain death.\nIt is my considered opinion that at that time martial skills must have been taught very hurriedly ( much like basic armed forces training) because of the urgency and certain styles probably came about by putting together sets of workable techniques possibly involving hand, foot, holding and locking and weapons techniques. which gave a grounding in fighting the military who were of course well trained and well equipped. Besides this some of the military could also be mounted horsemen with long pole arms and also equipped with weapons to enable combat when un- mounted or un-horsed. It is known that persons who normally worked the land or other manual workers would have been comfortable and adept in employing the likes of farming implements, carrying poles and other tools as weapons. This would have solved the problem of securing , financing or making weapons to equip a large number of people. (To this day, training, using many farming implements and everyday objects such as a bench seat is still included). It is quite likely they would probably also have training in building types of barricades which could impale horse and rider. Knowing the landscape better than insurgents was also an advantage in enabling ambushes and guerrilla type tactics. It should be remembered that many of these counter revolutionaries were not soldiers and possibly had no martial training or previously gained fighting skills. Many were possibly patriotic nationalists who wanted to regain freedom from the Ching Dynasty and restore the Ming. Historical inaccuracies, legends and huge differences in the transmission of what is essentially the same \"Mother\" style, indicate that these techniques or styles had an oral rather than a written transmission. Added to this, persons who passed the styles further for necessity or posterity may well have chosen techniques or skills preferred by them personally. Over time, huge differences would be apparent. Some more educated persons may have systemised their techniques, added to or taken away from them and even have made written or pictographic records which have been passed down through generations of families or villages. Whatever the case, most styles were a closely guarded secret and it seems that in later times, many teachers only taught their \"closed door students\" the true Kung Fu. Other students just learned the basics. It also seems quite likely that some foreigners were deliberately taught techniques wrongly to preserve the integrity of the Chinese National Art (Kok Sut).\nI have personally trained and taught this style for over 40 years and I determine after much investigation, information from my Master and much research on the part of others, that the statements above are likely to be correct and that essentially all Hung Kuen (Hung Gar) is from the same origin or \"Mother\" ( Nam Siu Lam Gee) and thus all practitioners are members of the same family despite their recorded lineage or difference in forms etc.\nGRANDMASTER CHU SHIU WOON\nMaster Chu's father originated from Toisan. During warring times in China his father took refuge in Tibet. Here he met and married a Tibetan girl. Master Chu is half Tibetan and half Chinese. When he was a child he was admitted into the Lasa Temple and became a young La Ma. His father was working in the temple and sold Buddhist books and beads etc to earn a living.\nDuring his early years in the temple he learned \"Mud Chung Hei Gung\" which he says, has benefitted him throughout his life.\nWhen he was 13 or 14 years old, both his parents died in quick succession and for the sake of returning his parent's bodies to be buried in his father's village, the young La Ma Monk left the Lasa Temple and returned to the world an orphan. Whilst in Guangdong he met and followed an extremely old Shaolin Monk who had also returned to the world. His name was Go Lo Tin. He was a herbalist and bone-setter and made his living by selling medicine. He taught Master Chu Lion Dance, Dragon Dance, Hung Kuen Kung Fu and the treatment of bones all of which he was very skilled in.\nGo Lo Tin had a brother named Go Tin Yat who taught Master Chu a short hand Kung Fu system called Chu Gar Kuen (surname coincidental). This system only contained a few hand and weapons sets along with some Hei Gung. This has been taught to only a few disciples and in particular to Bob Melia, who now lives in Chang-mai, Thailand.\nMaster Chu now lives in Manchester, England but prior to him arriving here he also lived in Australia and India. He is a prominent figure in Manchester's China Town and still performs the Lion and Dragon Dance particularly through the streets of Manchester at Chinese New year. His senior disciple is John Farrell.\nCatch up with us on Facebook:\nChu Gar Hung Kuen Kung Fu @johnfarrellmasterchuskungfu","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Woman whose death prompted murder probe fell down stairs in 'tragic accident', coroner rules\nA man was arrested on suspicion of murder before ultimately no further action was taken against him\nCharlotte Tobitt\nPolice in Trafalgar Drive after Jacqueline Hansen's body was found (Image: @SurreyRoadCops)\nA Walton woman who died after falling down her stairs was the victim of a \"tragic accident\" a coroner has concluded, despite an initial murder investigation.\nJacqueline Hansen, 56, was found dead at her home in Trafalgar Drive on June 11 2014, after a friend reported a concern for safety having not heard from her.\nIt is believed she died more than a week before, on June 2.\nHer 22-year-old son Sean had left for Croatia on May 27 and although Ms Hansen had known alcohol problems, as well as suffering from arthritis, lupus and a diazepam dependency, he believed she had been doing well before her death and was \"trying to sort herself out\".\nIn a statement read to an inquest held at Woking Coroner's Court on Tuesday (June 16), he said: \"At [that] stage, mum was great and happy for me.\"\nHe added that he had last heard from his mother on June 1.\nMr Hansen received a Facebook message from Surrey Police asking him to contact them and was told the news of her death over the phone on June 12 before flying home the next morning.\nHe was told it \"might be a bit messy in there\" but he still had to clear up some blood and said: \"I felt it could have been handled more sensitively.\"\nNext-door neighbour Kelly Wilkinson did not see anyone coming or going from the house in the time around Ms Hansen's death and last saw her on the weekend of May 31, the court heard.\nMurder arrest\nOn June 9, a man called Jeff Birnie knocked on Ms Wilkinson's door saying he had not seen Ms Hansen for a month or so and that he had a new phone number, so he asked her to write a note from him to post through her door as he was shaking from drinking alcohol.\nMr Birnie and Ms Hansen met at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey earlier in 2014, when she was there for treatment to head injuries after being mugged, and they met up on several subsequent occasions.\nA statement from Mr Birnie said: \"Sean blamed me for getting his mum drunk but she was as much an instigator at drinking as me. Jacqueline knew what she was doing, she tried to hide it from Sean.\"\nAfter Mr Birnie did not receive a phone call from Ms Hansen he called 101 on June 10 and reported a concern for safety, which led to the discovery by police of her body face down at the bottom of the stairs, with a hoover at the top and photo frames knocked off the wall.\nPolice arrested Mr Birnie on suspicion of murder as, according to Detective Constable Angela Sullivan, he implied in his call to them that Ms Hansen may have passed away.\nHe said: \"I knew nothing of her death until the police arrested me and accused me of it.\"\nNo further action was taken against Mr Birnie after police enquiries ultimately found there was no third party involvement in the death, with no sign of forced entry or disturbance at the property.\nConsultant forensic pathologist Dr Robert Chapman said there were signs of decomposition on the body when he examined it on June 12, along with a huge number of injuries both external and internal, and he also found some signs of disease on the lungs, liver and heart.\nThe cause of death was concluded to be a head injury.\nSurrey Police reviewed its own officers' actions in the case\nAssistant coroner for Surrey, Belinda Cheney, said: \"The issue here is ensuring there was no third party involvement in this.\n\"Neighbour Kelly hadn't seen anybody around or heard anything untoward. The injuries were entirely consistent with falling down the stairs.\n\"I make no comment at all about how she came to fall because I cannot determine that.\n\"I have no idea whether she had been drinking or not, whether she had some sort of aneurysm or whether she fell over the vacuum cleaner. I accept what the police say that there was no third party involvement.\"\nMs Cheney therefore concluded that Ms Hansen's death was a \"tragic accident\".\nThe victim's \"alcohol abuse\" was said by her GP to have developed after James Dalrymple, her ex-partner and son's father, was found dead in 2004 after being beaten, kicked and stamped to death in his flat by two teenage girls.\nSoon afterwards, her father also died and her mother developed cancer.\nThe GP report read: \"Since then there were various entries in her notes about alcohol abuse, but she was never one to get specialist help.\"\nHowever, it could not be confirmed whether she had been drinking alcohol before her death as blood samples were thrown away after a property store freezer broke down.\nDC Sullivan said: \"They should have talked to me first. It was raised with the senior investigating officer at the time.\"\nSurrey Police reviewed the actions taken by officers after the initial reports of a concern for safety.\nDC Sullivan said: \"Initially we investigated how we came to be called to the address.\"\nA Surrey Police spokesman said: \"We reviewed the actions taken by officers and staff following the initial reports of concern for safety and referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, who referred it back to the force to be locally investigated.\"\nSurrey Police","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"fought them. Blessed be God for his great goodness! During a long and trying period, he did not wholly pass by the suffering sons of the deep; for while the majority were sinfully exulting over victories, and priding themselves on the brilliant progress of our arms, he made a few poor sailors listen to the still small whisper of his voice, and in the midst of war and desolation, he caused some to rejoice in his mercy and love; mercy that is boundless, and love that passeth all understanding.\nIn the course of time, the religious world was awakened from its sinful lethargy, and individual effort soon became blended with public energy, till the Bethel Society, the British and Foreign Seamen's Society, the Naval Bible Society, and other excellent institutions sprang forth, to lead sailors to God.\nBut although much has been done for them, still the means are not at all commensurate with their wants. The harvest amongst them is very great, but the labourers very few. Here and there, we rejoice to say, that an humble Christian sailor is met with, but they are like the fruit on the topmost boughs, scarcely visible; and while a few are joyfully travelling to Zion, with their faces thitherward, thousands upon thousands are posting \" to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.\"*\nWithin a few years, a great deal has been done by the heads of the naval department, for the melioration of our\nTheir wants are liberally\n* Job x. 21, 22.\nseamen.\nsupplied, and some attention is paid to their moral and religious state. The means of drunkenness are lessened; and Bibles, Prayer Books, and other good works, are distributed amongst them. This is very gratifying, and leads us to hope good things; but we are imperatively called upon to study their immediate good, and not to be blind to their present state. In whatever way the latter is viewed, it is exceedingly painful, and it presents a picture at which the feeling soul shudders. Inebriety, swearing, and other immoral acts, are expressly forbidden by the \" Articles of War,\" and the general regulations of all ships; but the officers and men are not at all scrupulous in breaking them. It is true, that intoxication is generally punished, and comparatively speaking, it only exists to a small extent on board; but the dreadful vice is only smothered, not removed. The fear of punishment, the apprehension of disgrace, and an inability to procure liquor, restrain sailors afloat; but let them go on shore, their first care is to gratify the degrading and disgusting propensity to drunkenness. Swearing is as much interwoven with their speech, as ever; and though the presence of a superior often stops their blasting breath in public, it breaks forth in an awful strain whenever they are in their privacies. Follow a sailor into his retreat, seek him in his berth, and listen to him even in his bed-he utters the most dreadful oaths, cursings, and execrations. He lives in defiance of a merciful God, and delights in reviling his name.\nThis is the character of most sailors\non board, but oh! much more awful is it on shore. No sooner are they at liberty, than they give themselves up to the gratification of all manner of evil. It is a lamentable truth, that a sailor on shore, scarcely lives but for the satisfying of his lusts. Amidst numerous privations, he earns a little money, but rests not till he has squandered it in a course of life, equally destructive to body and soul. His labours and his enjoyments, are a perfect contrast. The sweat of his brow lasts for more years than his joy of heart for days; and what he has been years in gaining, he is frequently only hours in spending. His life is without pleasure, and his death without hope.\nSuch are the poor sailors who buffet the storm, and are the complete sport of the deep. How happy should I be,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hurricane Ike\nA hurricane's structure is visible not only in its clouds in photo-like images, but also in its rain field. This image, captured by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite on September 4, 2008, at 7:35 a.m. EDT shows rainfall in Hurricane Ike. At the time, the storm was a dangerous Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds estimated at 230 kilometers per hour (144 miles per hour or 125 knots), according to the National Hurricane Center. A complete ring of rain circles a calm eye; rain rates around the eye were between 10-20 millimeters per hour (green). Additional bands of heavy rain, as high as 50 millimeters per hour (red), spiral out from the center of the storm. Ike was moving west over the Atlantic towards the Bahamas.\nTRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall.\nNational Hurricane Center. (2008, September 4). Hurricane Ike. NOAA National Weather Service. Accessed September 4, 2008.\nImage courtesy TRMM team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Angela Smith: 'Who's Afraid of a Little Resentment?' University of Surrey School of Law Frank Whittle Building (AB) Fifth Floor, Guildford, GU2 7XH\n20feb4:00 pm6:00 pmAngela Smith: 'Who's Afraid of a Little Resentment?'A Hart Seminar\nIt is my pleasure to invite you to a Hart Seminar featuring Professor Angela Smith: 'Who's Afraid of a Little Resentment?' This is an optional pre-read seminar, and the reading\nIt is my pleasure to invite you to a Hart Seminar featuring Professor Angela Smith: 'Who's Afraid of a Little Resentment?' This is an optional pre-read seminar, and the reading will be circulated to registered attendees one week prior to the event.\nAbstract: It is often argued that in order to be morally accountable for one's behavior, and thus an eligible target of reactive attitudes such as resentment or indignation, an agent must have a \"fair opportunity to avoid\" being subject to these responses. This paper critically examines two common arguments in defense of this view, \"the argument from moral sanction\" and \"the argument from communication.\" It argues that it is a mistake to regard the reactive attitudes as sanctions, and that even psychopaths and those raised in unfortunate formative circumstances have the capacities necessary to give appropriate uptake to the message communicated by the reactive attitudes.\nAngela Smith is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee University. In 2013 she was appointed to be the first Roger Mudd Professor of Ethics and the Founding Director of the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics, a position she held until 2018. Professor Smith's research interests concern the connections between morality, moral agency, and moral responsibility. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press book The Nature of Moral Responsibility (2015), and has published numerous articles exploring whether, and if so in what way, we are morally responsible for our attitudes \u2013 for our desires, emotions, beliefs, and other intentional mental states.\nProfessor Smith's seminar is part of our Hart Seminar Series, which features a diverse group of leading scholars working at the intersection of law and philosophy. Hart Publishing contributes generous support to make the seminar series possible.\nUniversity of Surrey School of Law\nFrank Whittle Building (AB) Fifth Floor, Guildford, GU2 7XH\nSurrey Centre for Law and Philosophy\nCall for interest in law and humanities PhD projects (Oct 2021 entry) Thursday, 10, Dec\nCelebrating World Philosophy Day Thursday, 19, Nov\nProf Giovanni Sartor appointed SCLP Visiting Professor in Law and Artificial Intelligence Monday, 17, Aug\nSurrey Centre for Law & Philosophy\nUniversity of Surrey School of Law Frank Whittle Building, 5th Floor Guildford\nGU2 7XH\nsclp@surrey.ac.uk\n2017 \u00a9 Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man City news and transfers RECAP Blues confirm signing of Ferran Torres from Valencia\nA recap of today's Manchester City transfer rumours, injury latest and breaking news ahead of Real Madrid.\nJoe BrayManchester City writer\nDaniel MurphyFootball writer\nFormer Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has named Manchester City as one of his two favourites for this year's Champions League.\nPep Guardiola's side will meet Real Madrid at the Etihad on Friday in the last-16 tie, having beaten the Spanish giants 2-1 in the first leg in March.\nShould City progress past Madrid on Friday, they will advance to Lisbon for an eight-team knockout tournament. Quarter-final and semi-final ties will take place over one leg ahead of the final on Sunday August 23.\nCity have never won the Champions League, and the club's hierarchy have made no secret of their desperation to pick up the biggest club prize in world football.\nAnd Wenger, who is now FIFA's head of football development, has named Guardiola's side and Paris Saint-Germain as his frontrunners for this year's prize.\n\"When you are playing a match against Atalanta or Atletico Madrid, anything can happen,\" he told Europe 1. \"But for me, Manchester City and PSG are the two favourites in terms of their potential.\"\nA recap of today's City news.\nCity 'make Joao Felix enquiry' 10:04\nBREAKING: City confirm signing of Ferran Torres 20:01\nMan City announce squad for Champions League 15:28\nCity on brink of first signing 11:07\nCity 'to complete Torres signing' today 07:21\nCity 'make Joao Felix enquiry'\nCity have apparently made an enquiry for Atletico Madrid winger Joao Felix, the Athletic report.\nFelix only moved to Atletico last summer for a world record \u00a3113m for a teenager, but he had an inconsistent season at the Wanda Metropolitano.\nSo could City be about to pounce in what the report says will be a \u00a3300m spending spree this summer?\nJoao Felix became one of the world's most expensive players. (Image: Getty Images)\nCity fans delighted with Torres signing\nAll the latest Ferran Torres news\nGet the low down on City's latest signing.\nWatch Ferran Torres' Champions League highlights\nThe shirt numbers Ferran Torres could wear at Man City\nManchester City have completed their first signing of the summer as Ferran Torres has joined the club Valencia for \u00a320.8million.\nThe Spanish winger has been brought in to replace the departed Leroy Sane and comes highly rated after a breakthrough season in La Liga.\nHere are the numbers he could wear at City this season.\nTxiki Begiristain explains why City signed Torres\nCity's director of football Txiki Begiristain has explained why the club have moved to make Ferran Torres their first signing of the summer.\n\"We have followed Ferran's progress closely and have been very impressed,\" Begiristain said.\n\"He is young and still developing, but his technical qualities are exactly what we are looking for in a winger. He is quick, direct, can create space with one movement and is capable of producing match-winning moments.\n\"I feel this is the perfect place for him to develop and with Pep in charge he can take his game to the next level.\"\nFerran Torres reacts to completing City move\nFerran Torres has spoken for the first time after signing a five-year deal at City. He told the club's official site:\n\"I am so happy to be joining City,\" Torres said. \"Every player wants to be involved in attacking teams and Manchester City are one of the most attacking in world football.\n\"Pep encourages a really open, aggressive style, which I love, and he is a manager with a proven track record of improving players. To have him overseeing my development is a dream.\n\"City have won plenty of trophies in the last 10 years and I hope I can play a role in continuing that success.\"\n20:01 KEY EVENT\nBREAKING: City confirm signing of Ferran Torres\nCity to get '\u00a315million from Sancho sale to United'\nIt's as part of their sell on clause on the winger.\nCity teasing supporters\nAntonee Robinson available on the cheap\nCity Women player departs\nLaprote sends warning to Real Madrid\nAymeric Laporte has sent a battle cry to Real Madrid and warned the Spanish giants that City are ready to fight in their Champions League tie.\n\"We are ready to fight and we have to compete,\" he told City's official website.\n\"We are working every day to win this game. It's a big competition.\n\"Hopefully we can win and progress to the next phase.\"\nManchester City's Aymeric Laporte needs help in defence and here are some transfer options. (Image: (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images))\nMan City announce squad for Champions League\nManchester City have included young goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu in their squad for the final stages of the Champions League season.\nCity are back in action on Friday as they play the second leg of their last-16 tie against Real Madrid, with the Blues leading 2-1 from the first leg.\nIf City navigate that tie, they will travel to Lisbon for the quarter-final, against Juventus or Lyon. A semi-final would see them play one of Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Napoli.\nPSG, Atalanta, Atletico Madrid or RB Leipzig would await in the final.\nAhead of the Real Madrid game, City have confirmed their final changes to their 25-man squad, with Leroy Sane dropping out after leaving the club to join Bayern Munich.\nGet the full squad here.\nSergio Aguero of Manchester City (Image: Martin Rickett\/Pool via Getty Images)\n14:32 Joe Bray\nRodri makes Foden and Garcia prediction\nRodri is predicting big things from Phil Foden and Eric Garcia.\n\"I know the talent Phil has and what he can give to the team. Eric came from the Academy and he has proven he can be a centre-back in this team.\n\"It's good news for us that those players are growing because they will be very important.\n\"The good thing is they are so young and they have lots of progression. That is the greatest thing you can say about them.\n\"They are showing this level and they are only 20-years-old. When they get to 25 or 26 I think they can be top level.\"\nEric Garcia and Phil Foden of Manchester City (Image: Tom Flathers\/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)\nRodri's rallying cry\nRodri tells Man City that City need to be at their best to beat Real Madrid on Friday - but the Blues are more than capable of reaching the Champions League quarter final.\n\"I am really confident. They are a great team and they can beat you, because they are Real Madrid, but we have to show them we are a better team.\n\"We showed them at their home, but we need to be ready because you never know what is going to happen. We have to be focused.\n\"They are the greatest team in La Liga and they have shown that this year. We need to do our best to get to the next round.\"\n(Image: Alejandro Rios\/DeFodi Images)\nLeeds 'closing in' on Harrison loan deal\nLeeds are close to sealing another season-long loan for Jack Harrison, according to the Mirror.\nThey say Harrison will spend a third season on loan at the newly-promoted side, rather than make the move permanent this summer.\nThat tallies with what Leeds director Victor Orta sais recently, with the new loan deal said to have an option to make the move permanent at the end of next season.\nJack Harrison of Leeds United looks on during the Sky Bet Championship match between Leeds United and Stoke City at Elland Road on July 09, 2020 in Leeds, England. (Image: George Wood\/Getty Images)\nVote for your City Player of the Season\nTorres signing 'completed'\nFerran Torres' medical has been completed and contracts signed, according to Fabrizio Romano.\nAgent: No offers for Roberto\nSergi Roberto's agent has dismissed any talk of his client leaving Barcelona amid plenty of speculation in Spain that the full-back is wanted by Manchester City.\nHe told Onda Cera (via FootballInside):\n\"Sergi Roberto has no plans to leave Bar\u00e7a.\n\"Now there are no clubs showing interest and Bar\u00e7a has not submitted any proposals for the player to us.\"\nSergi Roberto has been linked with a move to Man City (Image: 2020 Quality Sport Images)\nOne year ago today\nThe 2019\/20 season started one year ago today as City beat Liverpool in the Community Shield on penalties.\nRaheem Sterling opened the scoring, but a Joel Matip goal took the game to penalties, where City prevailed.\n(Image: Manchester City FC via Getty Ima)\nEngagements all round\nCongratulations to City Women and England defender Demi Stokes, who has announced her engagement to her partner.\nAnd a good week for Nathan Ake got better as he got engaged while on holiday, too!\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDcKvD3Hp8V\/\nWhy Barca are 'confident' of signing Garcia\nMore from the Sport report into Barcelona's interest in Eric Garcia, as SportWitness relay the finer details of the story.\nThey say Sport believe signing Garcia will be a simple operation because of his contract situation at City, and that the Blues will 'open the door' to selling him to fund their own signings.\nApparently City want a new right back, with Barca's Sergi Roberto an option. However, Barcelona would instead prefer to sell Nelson Semedo to City in a deal that could also see Joao Cancelo move to Barca.\nYep, we're back to those Cancelo-Semedo rumours again, but this time with Garcia involved in the mix.\nManchester City defender Eric Garcia has been linked with a move to Barcelona (Image: Getty Images)\nCity on brink of first signing\nFerran Torres will have his City medical today, and all going well, will sign his contract with the club.\nNathan Ake is on holiday and is expected to complete his move to City when he returns next week.\nFull details:\n'Nothing true' about Koulibaly move\nCorriere Dello Sport journalist Antonio Giordano (via AreanaNapoli) says City have not made any approach for Kalidou Koulibaly, and the move for Nathan Ake could be in place of Koulibaly.\n\"What is true in the rumors about Kalidou Koulibaly in Manchester City? There is nothing true for now. We have side-polls, but the British have taken Ak\u00e8.\"\nKalidou Koulibaly could be on the move this summer (Image: 2020 SSC NAPOLI)\nLewandowski asked to name his favourite coach\nRobert Lewandowski is one of few players to have played under both Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, and it's the current Liverpool boss who he prefers.\nSpeaking to ESPN, he said:\n\"I think Jurgen Klopp [is my favourite] and after that Pep Guardiola. 100 per cent.\n\"[Klopp] has two faces. You can see that he is kind of like a father, but the second part is like a coach, a manager.\"\nRobert Lewandowski of FC Bayern Munich.\nBarcelona's transfer window objectives\nAccording to Sport, Barcelona have two transfer objectives: Lautaro Martinez and Eric Garcia.\nHowever, the paper says Barca must sell before bringing anyone in.\nCity beaten to signing by... Solihull Moors?\nThat's right, a youngster widely linked with joining the City Football Academy has instead signed for Solihull Moors.\nAnd in fairness to the National League side, they took the transfer coup well!\nClichy: Guardiola has inspired coaching ambitions\nFormer City defender Gael Clichy, still playing for Istanbul Basaksehir, says his time with Pep Guardiola at City has inspired him to take up coaching when he retires from playing.\nHe told BBC Sport:\n\"I think I still have two years in the legs, but the years spent with Pep Guardiola made me want to become a coach. I am going to give it a go because I love the way he conducts himself as manager.\n\"I want my three years here in Turkey, I've liked that I could be important to players around me.\n\"(After that) England is an option and staying in Turkey is an option. England is a place I love, but I call it home and coming back home would be great for my family and me.\"\nMANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MARCH 08: Gael Clichy of Manchester City and Josep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City react after the full time whistle during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Stoke City at Etihad Stadium on March 8, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Shaun Botterill\/Getty Images)\nCity bosses 'will be at Torres medical'\nEl Transistor in Spain say Txiki Begiristain, Omar Berrada and Ferran Soriano will be in Barcelona today for Ferran Torres' medical and to oversee the signing of the Valencia winger.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"41 items matched your search for \"Mount Carmel School\"\nSection All Bay Area & State (9) Business (3) Capital Region (1) Entertainment (1) Home Design, Home Improvement & Garden (3) Letters to the Editor (1) Metro (1) Nation (1) News (30) Real Estate (3) Type All Article (30) Obituary (11)\nJean A. Harrison\nBorn in 1932 to Clarice Cullen & Milton Johnson, lived in Redwood City, she attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Notre Dame Belmont & graduated from University of San Francisco in 1954 with a bachelor of ...\nEdward McTaggart\nFinn Barr Parish, completing elementary school at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School. ... Mitty, and celebrated his First Solemn Mass the following day at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Redwood City.Fr.\nPrescott Ashe\nHe attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel School (Mill Valley) and Tamalpais High School (Mill Valley), succeeded by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and earned the title of ...\nAnn Bernadette Barnes\nShe loved the color purple.The older daughter of Nebraskan parents who moved to California to work for United Airlines in the early days of passenger air travel, Patricia Barnes grew up in San Carlos and ...\nFrom SFChronicle.com\nYour Unlimited Digital Access to Bay Area insider news and analysis\nStudents' art hangs in honored spot\nMay 24, 2002 | Suzanne Herel\nHonored for their work in the theme \"Our California Landscape\" were Jennifer Chinn and Serena Kobe of Burlingame High School; Emily Barrett, Jose Gonzalez and Tommy Mazik of Capuchino High School; Collin ...\nProceeds benefit Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ... Mount Carmel School Auditorium, 17 Buena Vista Ave., Mill Valley. (415) 388-4332.\nNB Mount Carmel Holiday Home Tour Four homes in the Mount Carmel\/Edgewood Park area are decorated for the holidays. With refreshments, entertainment and a gift boutique at Mount Carmel School. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.\nSearch for more stories in www.sfchronicle.com\nGet premium digital and print coverage for as little as $4.00 per week\nJoan White\nJoan grew up in Westlake and attended Westlake School, NDV School, Notre Dame High School, and the University of San Francisco. ... For more than twenty-five years, Joan was called as a teacher in Catholic ...\nNews of the Day From Around the Nation, Dec. 24\nDecember 24, 2019 | Chronicle News Services\nGennaro Bizzarro filed a lawsuit this week claiming the Archdiocese of New York and a New York City Catholic school failed to stop a basketball coach from sexually abusing him in the 1980s. Bizzarro, R-New ...\nCarol Rengstorff\nA native San Franciscan and long time resident of South San Francisco, Carol graduated from Notre Dame High School. ... Rengstorff to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Tuition Assistance Fund, 301 Grand St., Redwood City, CA 94062.\nTimothy McElravy\nHe was the son of Roy and Catherine McElravy, and brother to James McElravy Sr.A Mass Intention Serivce will be held Sunday, March 3rd at 5:00 pm at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School and Parish, located at 300 ...\nSarah Balocco\nSarah grew up in Redwood City where she attended Mount Carmel school and later went on to graduate from Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California.\nRonald Bellatorre\nRon attended St Peter's grammar school before moving to Redwood City where he graduated from Sequoia High School. ... He was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, where he founded the Booster Club, ...\nRoyce Sanders\nIn lieu of flowers donations may be made to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Redwood City or to St.\nFlora Montalto\nGraduated Galileo High School in San Francisco in June 1943, and then accepted a position starting on July 1, with The U.S. ... In lieu of flowers, Flora respectfully requests any memorial contributions be made ...\nJohn was an active and longtime member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish. ... Carmel Church, 300 Fulton St., Redwood City. ... In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations sent to Our Lady of Mount ...\n{} {Holiday events }\nMount Carmel School Auditorium, 17 Buena Vista Ave., Mill Valley. (415) 388-4332.\nCOLLINS, David George\nCarmel Elementary School, Bellarmine and Sequoia High Schools and CSM and San Jose State colleges. ... Carmel; he instituted a street party for his current neighborhood; friends from his early newspaper days were ...\nWALSH, Leo Thomas\nMonica's, Sacred Heart High School, and the University of San Francisco. He raised his family in Redwood City where they are parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. ... In lieu of flowers, memorial ...\nMountain View Students Appreciate the Art They Create\nNovember 19, 1999 | Julie N. Lynem\nThe Whisman School District has started the Art and Architecture program, which places public art pieces on school grounds. ... Nicole Merslich of Mount Carmel School won first place; Raniel Ramil of McKinley ...\nWells Fargo contributes $180,000 to schools\nDecember 23, 2005 | La Tricia Ransom\nLa Tricia Ransom Wells Fargo recently donated $180,000 to help fund educational programs in schools in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. A portion of the total was raised through the bank's \"Adopt a School\" ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Delta Govt lifts ban on public gatherings after mandating face mask\nAkeredolu recommends fiscal policy restructuring for\u2026\nNigeria may battle COVID-19 spike after doctors down tools\nBello advocates Governors participation in constitution\u2026\nMetroNews\nBy The Guild\t Last updated Apr 28, 2020\nBy Temitope Akintoye,\nThe Delta State Government has released new coronavirus prevention guidelines, mandating the use of protective face masks for residents within the state with aim to curb spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic within its borders.\nIt also lifted ban on public gatherings such as wedding ceremonies and burials, saying that such events would be allowed a maximum number of 50 attendees and that social distancing conditions must be upheld by conveners.\nThe State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, said that the relaxed coronavirus preventive directives were aimed at enabling Delta state residents to go about their daily activities while being protected from possible spread of the deadly viral pandemic and that adherence to the regulations would be enforced in order to curb community transmission of the infection.\nOkowa, who released the state's updated coronavirus prevention guidelines through a post made on his social media page on Tuesday, stated that the directives had been instituted according to the state Public Health Law, and that implementation would commence from Thursday, April 30, 2020.\nHe revealed that restaurants, canteens and hotels would be allowed to resume activities in the state while bars and nightclubs would remain indefinitely closed, and that public transportation providers would also restart operations in line with the guideline's provisions.\nOkowa added that schools would, however, remain closed until May 31, 2020, and that the state's airport would be shut down to all air traffic until otherwise decided.\n\"It shall be mandatory for all residents of Delta State to utilize face-masks in public places. 'Public places' include offices, markets, malls, supermarkets, salons, hospitals and health clinics, churches, mosques, and all other 'approved' gatherings. All conferences, sporting activities, gathering of people in convention\/event centers, sports fields, public\/open spaces, as well as recreational and cultural\/communal activities remain banned until 31st May 2020\u2033, he said.\n\"All entertainment centers, including cinemas, bars, and night clubs will remain closed until Sunday, 31st May 2020. All restaurants and canteens are to operate a strict 'take-away only' policy; while hotels will be allowed to open (with in-room dining). Transport services will be allowed to operate. However, they must not exceed the following numbers of passengers: Kekes \u2014 2 passengers at the back; Taxis \u20141 passenger in front and 2 at the back; and 16\/18 Seater Busses \u2014 10 to 12 passengers maximum\".\nThe governor said that though religious gatherings remained banned, discussions were in progress with aim to reach a working consensus among faith leaders resident in Delta state.\nThe Guild 442 posts 0 comments\nJust IN: Buhari, Trump meet on phone, discuss coronavirus, economy\nOsun Govt. inaugurates Joint Taskforce on kidnapping, cultism, other illegal activities\n20 die during terrorist airstrike in Yemen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"environment.gov.au\nWelcome to Your Home\nHow to use Your Home\nAustralian climate zones\nPreliminary research\nBuilding rating tools\nBuying a home off the plan\nBuying and renovating an apartment\nBuying an existing home\nPlanning home improvements\nRenovations and additions\nChoosing a site\nChallenging sites\nDesign for climate\nPassive solar heating\nPassive cooling\nInsulation installation\nThermal mass\nEmbodied energy\nLightweight framing\nBrickwork and blockwork\nCladding systems\nConcrete slab floors\nInsulating concrete forms\nAutoclaved aerated concrete\nMud brick\nRammed earth\nStraw bale\nGreen roofs and walls\nHot water service\nHome entertainment and office equipment\nPhotovoltaic systems\nWind systems\nBatteries and inverters\nSmart meters, displays and appliances\nReducing water demand\nWastewater reuse\nOutdoor water use\nWaterless toilets\nAdapting to climate change\nCarbon zero, carbon positive\nThe livable and adaptable house\nLandscaping and garden design\nSediment control\nSA - Birkenhead\nSA - Parkside\nStar ratings and variations\nplus delivery\nBuy the book from CanPrint\nBirkenhead, South Australia\nBirkenhead, South Australia [pdf 2.1 MB]\nNew build using reverse brick veneer and structural insulated panels\nClimate zone 5, warm temperate\nCarbon positive (operationally)\nBuilding monitoring\nReducing mains water use\nEmbodied energy reduction\nRenewable energy production\nThermal comfort rating\n7.9 stars NatHERS (Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme)\nHeating 21.4MJ\/m2\/year\nCooling 23.4MJ\/m2\/year\nTotal 44.8MJ\/m2\/year\nSustainability features\nSealed building fabric\nReverse brick veneer\nStructural insulated panels (SIPs)\nCeiling fans (no other mechanical heating or cooling)\nLight emitting diode (LED) lighting\nHeat pump hot water system\nSolar photovoltaic (PV) system\nInsulation, R3.2 insulation in all walls and R6 bulk insulation in the ceiling\nMonitoring systems track internal temperature, humidity, energy consumption and solar PV production\nZero volatile organic compound (VOC) paint and floor treatments\nRainwater tanks with a total capacity of 7,000L\nDrought-tolerant garden\nDesigner: SUHOstudio\nBuilder: Owner builder\nSize: 125m2\nSize of land: 330m2\nClad in Zincalume steel, the environmentally responsive, modern design of this portside dwelling ties itself to the area through the use of building materials used in the area historically.\nAfter six years of living in a poorly insulated early 1900s stone villa in Adelaide, where winter temperatures inside the building were colder than outside, the owners were ready to build a more climate-responsive dwelling.\nAlthough at 125m2 the two-bedroom home is small by Australian standards, it is more than sufficient for the occupants. The design embraces the owner's love of entertaining, and features a good-sized open plan kitchen\/living area leading onto a large deck, a much-used indoor\/outdoor living space. The hallway wall doubles as a display area.\nPhoto: Mark Clayton, Sustainability House\nSite, location and climate\nThe two-bedroom dwelling is in Birkenhead on Adelaide's northern beaches. Adelaide has very hot, dry summers with heatwaves often exceeding 40\u00b0C, and cool to cold winters requiring heating. A well-sealed building fabric, insulation and thermal mass are priorities in this climate, to keep heat in during winter and out during summer. It's also important to remember that it's practical to design for the normal conditions rather than the few really hot weeks.\nDesign brief\nThe main objectives of the project was to build a passive-designed house that heats and cools itself on a reasonable budget, situated on a modest-sized block in the Adelaide suburbs. The owners were often told that an 'eco house' is expensive, and were determined to prove it did not have to be. They felt strongly that anyone could achieve good passive design outcomes by thinking about orientation, material selection, local climate and designing to the site location before starting a build.\nWhile designed for two people, the building layout is flexible and can be zoned. Clever location of doors is used to aid zoning so the most used areas of the home receive optimal heating and cooling benefits.\nAs with all builds, some challenges presented themselves. The local council required two off-street parking spaces with at least one under cover. The house was sited at the southern end of the block and the car spaces to the north-east, allowing for future extensions and to maximise solar and winter heat gain. A window was inserted on the northern wall above the carport roof to ensure maximum winter sun.\nThe designer worked hard to maximise the limited space. At 4.2m x 8m, the large, north-facing deck makes the home ideal for entertaining. The size of the home is suitable for a couple, either just starting out or downsizing later in life. The third room is currently being used as a TV room but could be used as a study or guest bedroom.\nThe owner regrets that he wasn't able to install thermally broken windows. 'The window supplier wasn't helpful at all. Even double-glazing was an issue, as the glass had to come from Melbourne. Overall, asking for high-performing windows was difficult\u2014some suppliers wouldn't even give me a quote on it.' This issue may be resolved in the future as the market becomes more interested in high-performing windows.\nSeveral monitoring systems in the building and are tracking internal temperature, humidity, energy consumption and solar energy production.\nA weather station on the roof monitors external temperature, humidity, wind direction, speed and rainfall. Additional data loggers (Hobo MX1011) are located in the kitchen\/living area and bedrooms to track internal temperature and humidity (readings are taken hourly). These simple devices connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth, making downloading data very easy. Data is then plotted in spreadsheet or graph format, allowing easy comparison with the temperature graphs generated by the NatHERS software.\nInternal thermal mass keeps a house warmer in winter and cooler in summer. In this home, a strong emphasis has been placed on passive solar design and thermal mass.\nInternal thermal mass in the form of two recycled brick walls in the kitchen\/living area was created on the western wall. The reverse brick veneer helps the home minimise heat gain in summer. The section (from inside out) is 90mm brick \/ 30mm air gap \/ 11mm OSB \/ 93mm EPS \/ 11mm OSB \/ breathable membrane \/ 15mm air gap \/ Zincalume. By using recycled red bricks with a very subtle American bond pattern worked into it, and cut-and-struck lime mortar, the walls not only add thermal performance but look great.\nThe reverse brick veneer walls provide an extra layer to the building fabric on the western fa\u00e7ade reducing heat build-up during the long summers. Many more temperate areas may only require the SIP to achieve a comfortable home, an issue worth discussing with an experienced accredited NatHERS assessor (www.nathers.gov.au ).\nThe R3.2 insulation in all walls and R6 bulk insulation in the ceilings boosts the home's thermal performance.\nNorth-facing windows in the kitchen\/living area allow passive solar gain in winter while clear-eave calculations keep the sun out in summer. There is no western glazing to the thermally conditioned zones. Bedrooms are in the cooler part of the house, with windows located to the east allowing the occupants to wake up to the sun each day.\nThe windows are double glazed aluminium 6\/12Arg\/6 with the sliding door glass at 6.38mm for easy handling (double glazing can be heavy). This size also helps maintain a higher solar heat gain coefficient, and is a factor in determining whether you are trying to maximise winter warmth or exclude sun from a design.\nWindow location was calculated on the site's prevailing wind patterns in summer to assist with cooling. Breeze paths have been created and window heights allow for stack cooling.\nThe SUHOstudio YouTube channel has a video showing the winter solstice solar gain through the north-facing lounge room doors and windows of the house.\nFloor treatments\nSisal carpet covers the floor in the two bedrooms with exposed concrete floors throughout the rest of the house. These were sealed with a no volatile organic compound (VOC) oil. No VOC, natural paints, primer, undercoats and sealers were used on the ceilings, walls and woodwork to eliminate toxins and maximise air quality.\nWall construction\nThe owners were keen to ensure their new home was built well, reasoning that a well-designed building is irrelevant if it's not built properly.\nThe speed and ease of construction impressed both owners. The structural insulated panels (SIPs) come with a pre-chased hole running horizontally at 300mm, 450mm and 1200mm to run electrical cables. The couple put the panels together themselves, running a chasing string through the holes. This meant that when the electrician arrived on site to install the cabling, all that needed to be done was to tie a wire to the string and pull.\nThermography analysis on the final building fabric and an air-pressure test showed the house achieved 3.6 air changes per hour (ACH) at 50 pascals. Given that the average project home in Australia rates at around 19 ACH, this puts the Birkenhead home in the category of best-sealed houses in the country. However, designers need to be aware that if a house is too well sealed it may require a mechanically forced air system, as in European-style passivehaus designs.\nCeiling fans have been installed in the bedrooms and living area. There is no other mechanical heating or cooling for the house.\nPlans: SUHOstudio\nWith a 3.5kW grid-connected solar photovoltaic array on the roof, the family produces more energy than it uses, making this an energy-positive dwelling.\nA 325L heat pump provides hot water. Choosing not to run gas to the dwelling allows for the possibility of running the whole house on solar storage batteries in the future.\nEnergy-efficient lighting\nLighting was carefully considered at the design stage. There are no downlights as these can compromise the effectiveness of ceiling insulation, and in general, the fewer holes in a building's envelope, the better it will perform. By building the house to maximise good natural light, the need for artificial lighting was kept to a minimum.\nThe homeowners installed two rainwater tanks around the property with a total capacity of 7,000L. The tanks are plumbed together and service the whole of the house and garden. The water supplies for house, garden or both can be manually changed from the tanks to the mains if required. There are also low-flow taps and showerheads along with 4.5 star WELS (Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards) toilets.\nYour Home (YH) asked designer and owner Mark Clayton (Mark) about some of the choices he made on the build:\nYH: Why did you choose SIPs (structural insulated panels)? Were they easy to source, and did you have any concerns about the foam insulation used in them?\nMark: We chose SIPs as they delivered many benefits:\nThey are an air-tight building fabric with a quick build time. As SIPs are pre-fabricated it really is just a job of fitting them together. Completing the full structure took just two weeks work.\nSIPS are structural, so I didn't have to worry about the engineering specs. It's all been pre-calculated, including things like the lintels over openings. This also meant I didn't have to learn the timber framing code on how to build structural stud walls\u2014a timesaver.\nBecause SIPS don't have thermal bridging, the solid state insulation will not fall into cavities or compress on its own weight over time. I knew we were getting something that would last.\nPrice-wise, the product was about the same but the thermal performance was much better.\nThere are several SIP suppliers entering the market, I chose this one as many of the SIPs use metal frames and I prefer to work with timber.\nI have no concerns about the foam insulation.\nThe no VOC oil was supplied by Livos and the slab was burnished. This was done for several reasons:\nWe were after a warehouse feel to the build and I liked the finish the copter leaves on a slab. The concrete team was aware of this and they spent several more hours than normal coptering the slab to make it smoother (seven hours in total, I understand two is normal). A 32MPa (megapascal) mix was used which is harder than concrete used under carpets (this is normal for exposed slabs).\nBy not grinding the slab we made significant cost savings. Slab grinding or polishing costs about $80\u2013$110 per square metre.\nBy leaving the slab as it was and sealing it with oil, there was no need for tiles and a tiler, again reducing costs.\nYH: Did you do anything special or different in the build, like extra sealing tape at the top and bottom of the SIP? Some have suggested that you need forced air once you are below 6 air changes per hour. Did you consider this or is opening windows all you need to do? What about fresh air in winter?\nMark: Most of the benefit was because we used SIP's. I also made sure that when we installed the windows they was installed well and silicon was used to seal up gaps.\nBy not having downlights we minimised ceiling penetrations.\nThe SIPs are pre-chased for the electric ring main and therefore not opening into the cavity as per usual in brick veneer construction. All switches have been located on internal walls (which are insulated) therefore reducing holes in plasterboard that connect to outside or ceiling space.\nIt has been suggested that forced air is required, we leave both bathroom windows open all year round, in winter this helps minimise moisture in the building. As the building heats up the slab and internal thermal mass inside, we find that opening a window or the sliding doors for 10 minutes each day provides effective air change. As the heat is stored in the thermal mass, the fresh air is quickly heated and the internal comfort is not affected. I would agree if no windows were ever opened then indoor air quality could be an issue; again, it's about understanding how to 'drive' the house and using common sense.\nThe owners' focus now is to educate others in what they have done, and how and why they have done it. They are very happy with their home and want to encourage others to learn from their approach and build in keeping with the home's local climate, while showing that outstanding results can be achieved on a small budget.\nTheir main advice for anyone keen to undertake this kind of build would be to plan well, understand the work flow and be prepared. They advise keeping contractors in the loop about where you are heading; the last thing you want is to get too far ahead and make their job harder.\nThe owners also found that recommendations were invaluable. If a good contractor recommends someone, chances are they will share the same quality of work. The owners stated that they were very lucky with the contractors they used and have recommended them to others looking to build.\nMark Clayton, Sustainability House\nyourhome.gov.au is administered by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Americans want steady politics, but expect the next four years will be unpredictable\nLinley SandersSenior Data Journalist\nApril 28, 2021, 4:00 PM GMT+0\nPresident Joe Biden campaigned on a \"return to normalcy\" during his race to the White House \u2014 promising to address the COVID-19 pandemic, restore international alliances, and tweet less than his often-divisive predecessor.\nAs Biden nears 100 days as Commander in Chief, a CBS News\/YouGov poll shows that two in five Americans want the next four years of domestic politics to be what Biden promised: steady (44%) and normal (41%). But only about one-quarter of Americans believe the next four years of government will actually live up to this idea (22% and 25%, respectively, expect politics will be steady and normal).\nRather, 46% of Americans expect that the future of US politics will be unpredictable, though this is something that only 15% of Americans desire.\nAbout one-quarter of adults (22%) want American politics to be shaken up, and three in 10 (29%) believe it will happen. About one in five (17%) crave an exciting political scene, and one in eight Americans (12%) believe that will happen. Only 15% want politics to be boring in the immediate future, something that 11% think could happen.\nDemocrats (53%) are 19 percentage points more likely than Republicans (34%) to desire a steady political climate for the remainder of Biden's first term. They are also 14 points more likely than Republicans to say they want the next four years to be exciting (22% vs 8%). Republicans (26%) are slightly more likely than Democrats (21%) to hope for a political shake-up.\nDemocrats (45%) are only slightly more likely than Republicans (39%) to crave political normalcy for the foreseeable future.\nSee the toplines and crosstabs from this CBS News\/YouGov poll\nRelated: Americans want to take action to shape climate change rather than adapt to what happens\nMethodology: This CBS News survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 2,527 U.S. residents interviewed between April 21-24, 2021. This sample was weighted according to gender, age, race and education based on the American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, as well as the 2020 presidential vote and registration status. The margin of error is \u00b1 2.3 points.\nImage: Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels\nCBS News \/ YouGov polls\nWhat issues do you want President Biden to focus on?\nDo you think Democrats in Congress are more united or divided?\nDo you think Republicans in Congress are more united or divided?\nDemocrats support moving South Carolina ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire for their parties' primaries\nHow Democrats and Republicans view energy sources differently\nFavorability of Republicans \u2013 including Trump and McCarthy \u2013 has risen\nCongressional ballot voting intention\nWould you rather have a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who compromises to get things done or sticks to their principles no matter what?\nRepublican Party ideology\nDemocratic Party ideology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Resolution on Urban Concerns, 1979\nAs a General Assembly we want to affirm what happened at Estes 77 and in the ensuing biennium regarding urban concerns. We acknowledge God's work in calling us forth to greater involvement in urban mission to the larger urban centers.In particular:\nWe are grateful for the Black Caucus and Latino Concilio for their prophetic role in helping the church move forward in urban mission and the growth of these churches. City pastors and workers are in a unique position to contribute to the development of Mennonite Church urban mission strategy.\nWe are grateful for the diligent leadership of Ivan Kauffmann who carried these concerns to district conferences and agencies throughout the church seeking to elicit a genuine brotherhood response.\nWe are grateful for the significant care and response that has been evident in many sectors of the church. In this regard we specifically identify.\nScholarship money given for minority students at Mennonite colleges in Region IV.\nThe development of a Pastoral Leadership Education Program at Goshen College and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries.\nMoney given for leadership training for urban church leaders in Region V.\nMoney and consultation resources given by Ohio Mennonite Conference.\nOther conferences and churchwide agencies and boards who have given special attention to urban concerns.\nWe recognize persons who have been called out in special assignments to give leadership to urban concerns.\nAs an Assembly we see the need for clarification before moving forward constructively with all the items which have been identified regarding urban concerns.\nOur commitment to support the existing inner-city churches which have already been established through Mennonite mission efforts needs to be distinguished from our continued inspired commitment to launch a new broad mission thrust into urban centers. The support of our existing urban churches and the development of strategies to provide good stewardship of investments already made should receive our unswerving commitment.\nThe question of new urban mission efforts needs to be tied into the larger view of a strong Mennonite commitment to be involved in world mission. We believe efforts in world mission also include urban mission at home as well as overseas. We need to commit ourselves to the reality that the Mennonite Church can grow in the city.\nRegarding our support for existing inner-city churches, we commit ourselves to:\nAsk the district conferences to carry major responsibility for identifying what needs to happen and seeing that it gets done in consultation with Black and Latin Councils and all congregations. We suggest that there be a linkage between older established churches and new younger churches in urban areas. As conferences need assistance in this effort we suggest that churchwide boards and agencies resource and facilitate them. We ask that there be urban congregational self-evaluations, goals set by the conferences, and the April 1980 Home Missions Consultation.\nWe ask that both short-term and long-term efforts be given to urban concerns.\nShort-term efforts should include\nPastoral leadership education such as one-year sabbaticals for study, intensive and in-depth one week on campus seminars followed by correspondence courses, and continuing education efforts in the urban context.\nResourcing inner-city congregations to enable them in evangelism, church growth, and other aspects of their ministry.\nLong-term efforts should include\nDeveloping and\/or modifying Christian education literature to meet the needs of persons in our urban churches\nDeveloping Christian schools in urban centers to help educate urban persons.\nResourcing these congregations to enable them in evangelism, church growth, and other aspects of their ministries\nDeveloping new patterns of assistance which encourages full-time workers and keeps up their purchasing power.\nWe affirm the long-term Black-Hispanic Leadership Education Programs at Goshen College and AMBS. We need to explore other long-term leadership training efforts such as extension training programs and scholarships for pastors and studies in schools within the urban communities where our pastors are located.\nThe above examples are suggestive and we would trust the implementation to be worked out by the General Board with broad consultation.\nRegarding new mission efforts, the larger review of Mennonite mission strategy would include:\nA clearer identification of Mennonite gifts and resources.\nMore active patterns for mobilizing and investing these gifts and resources in world mission.\nEducation and exposure of our constituency and leadership regarding various world needs including urban needs (developing short-term grass-roots involvement such as MDS). We urge that urban pastors do deputation work in conjunction with persons carrying out responsibilities of III-A.\nStrategic planning for the most fruitful investment of ourselves in world mission.\nAdequate consultation among various Mennonite mission groups as well as consultation with other world mission leaders and urban church leaders.\nDeveloping the capacity to make strategic decisions about the allocation of resources in a way that is responsive to priorities.\nNew guidelines for facilitating the maturation of mission churches.\nAdopted by Fifth Mennonite Church General Assembly, August 15, 1979, University of Waterloo and Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Proceedings, pp.71-72.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"ARAMCO: The awakening of a sleeping giant\nHome\/Energy Markets, Featured, M\u00b7Blog\/ARAMCO: The awakening of a sleeping giant\nThis year crude oil markets are going through a turbulent process. Nobody seems to be willing to reduce their market share, no matter how low prices get nor how many supports are broken in the charts. In addition, a slow-growing and relatively flat global demand (around 96m barrels per day) is being outgrown by an oversupplied market. For years now there has been an increasing investment in new productive capacity, which meant non-OPEC production has risen between 2-3 mbpd above demand growth. The new fracking techniques carried out in the US resulted in a huge decrease in American oil imports which has come to produce even more than Saudi Arabia by the beginning of 2016. In turn, OPEC surplus capacity rose from 2.6% in 2011 to 6.3% in 2015. Although global economy keeps growing (2.5% GDP), the energy mix is gradually changing and the energy efficiency is growing, meaning less energy is required throughout the value chain. As energy efficiency continues to improve, less will be needed to produce more.\nhttp:\/\/www.iea.org\nThe \"Peak Oil theory\" from the 90's has been discredited by several analysts and sector experts, especially right after the \"discovery\" all over the world of shale oil and gas reserves. Even the former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1978) said in a TV speech that the world was running out of oil. Years later, global oil output increased by more than 35% and known reserves are way higher than they were back then. What now keeps oil producers awake at night is precisely the possibility of an \"Oil Demand Peak\". According to The Telegraph in this article (http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/06\/06\/oil-demand-to-peak-in-2030-as-energy-experts-slash-forecasts\/) , forecasts and research from consulting firm McKinsey point towards a possible peak of 100 million barrels a day around 2030. This is very subjective nevertheless, as many unexpected things can draw a new pattern in the markets from here on out.\nAfter the failed attempt last April 17th (Doha) to reach an agreement in terms of freezing or setting a limit to global oil production (mainly due to a disagreement between Iran, that did not assist, and Saudi Arabia), OPEC and Russia will try again to strike a deal in Algiers soon. Nevertheless, a lot has happened since then, and a success now will not mean as much as it would have meant couple months ago. Oil has rallied since its 30$ low few months ago (now being around the 50$ Brent conversion), and now producers start seeing the silver lining again. Thus, more oil is being pumped since then, ergo the effects of an agreement would be less effective. That being said, many analysts believe major producers are reaching their maximum output levels, so a freeze would not suppose a great sacrifice to them (Iran restored most of the crude output from pre-sanction levels). It is assured though, that Iran will participate in the talks this time, said Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh (Wsj.com). The negative output situations of Nigeria and Venezuela might also be a setback to meet an agreement.\nAramco might be one of the early movers\nIn this scenario, a behemoth of the oil industry is preparing an unprecedented move. Saudi Aramco (ARAMCO) is preparing a likely IPO by 2017-18. This information was disclosed in January early this year by Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, in an interview with Al Arabiya News Channel.\nBut how big is Saudi Aramco to begin with? The state-owned enterprise produces more oil than any other company in the world and manages all of the reserves of Saudi Arabia (top 1 crude oil exporter in the world). We are talking about more than 310 billion barrels, as you can see in the chart below. Though pumping oil from the ground and selling it to market is their main activity, they also develop tasks concerning crude oil exploration, refine crude into oil products such as gasoline and chemicals, and acts as an independent petroleum trader buying and selling other companies' crude.\nSeveral analyses have valued the enterprise between 2 to 3 trillion$ (taking into account its oil reserves of 260 billion barrels at a conservative valuation of 10$\/barrel, 10 times those of Exxon Mobil Corp.). This is currently under hot debate, as the estimations are not exactly accurate and there are many defending a lower or higher valuation amount. For instance, Mohamad al-Sabban (an independent oil analyst and former senior adviser to the Saudi oil ministry) gives ARAMCO's value an estimate of 10 trillion$ dollars.\nTo make ourselves a clearer idea, it would be interesting to analyze the case of Sadara Chemical Co. complex in the city of Jubail. This petrochemicals project will be fully operative in 2017, and it has been built in partnership with Dow Chemical Co. It is due for an IPO this year, that some say would debut at a value of around 20 billion dollars. We can also take a look at SATORP massive refinery project with TOTAL at Jubail.\nAnother \"precedent\" to compare to, is that of one of its domestic downstream facilities, PetroRabigh (refining and petrochemical company). It held an initial public offering of a 25% of its shares in 2008. The complex is co-owned between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (JAP), each holding a 37.5% share. Hence, as it can be seen, Aramco is not new to the business.\nThe public offering would be compounded of a 5% of the total value, not determined if shares in Aramco and\/or some downstream assets. A partial privatization of a 5% of its total value would mean a listing of around 100-150 billion $. This would dwarf all previous massive IPO's we can remember.\nOne problem for data accuracy is the lack of transparency, as specific internal economic details of the company are kept secret to investors. Saudi Arabia never published an audit of the actual reserves, nor were any details unveiled about the size of its giant fields. However, there is no wonder Aramco takes the lead among its state-owned peers. With 10.5m barrels per day, it holds over 10% of pumped oil every day, more than double of Rosneft output, its Russian counterpart.\nThis aggressive, yet conservative (only a 5%), likely privatization brings back some memories from the late 70's. We are referring to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who in 1979 led the privatization of many Gov-run enterprises. More than 50 companies were sold or privatized \u2013 including the dozens from the power and water industries \u2013 raising more than \u00a350bn for the Exchequer.\nMargaret Thatcher in a visit to Saudi Arabia\nSaudi Arabia is not new to privatizations though. Besides the Joint Ventures we have reviewed above, we can go back to several partial sales of Saudi Telecom Company in 2003, the Saudi Arabian Mining Company in 2008 and the recent National Commercial Bank's privatization through an IPO listed 6 billion dollars in 2014. This last IPO was heavily oversubscribed (around 20 times more the shares offered for sale, worth 80 billion dollars). Such IPO was limited to Saudi citizens, though.\nBut why precisely now?\nBut what triggers this reaction on behalf of the Saudi state-owned company? Why now? There are several takes on this.\nThe first and most obvious now, is the current situation of the crude oil market. As the main exporter of crude oil on the planet, Saudi's economy relies heavily on their income that stems from the selling of crude and derivatives. In the low-priced current scenario for that commodity, they are seeing their income dramatically reduced- Not only that, but also the national debt of the Kingdom is at record levels at around a 15% deficit over GDP (98 billion dollars' deficit). This IPO might add some valuable funds to mitigate this.\nTo this we must add the \"Saudi Vision 2030\" program of economic reforms they plan to implement in order to untie their economy from their oil production. Cut expenses and look for further investment opportunities are some of the main guidelines to follow. And to attract investors, privatization must take place. The Prince also believes this IPO will be important to make Aramco more efficient and cost effective, as well as to add a better structure, organization, more transparency and a higher degree of competitiveness.\nAnother reason might be to actually increase their productivity. As some studies we mentioned above, Aramco is certain Demand will slowly decrease as other technologies and energetic alternatives take over. Before the demand is close to being inexistent in the future, they would want to make sure they sell as much oil as possible, now that it does have a monetary value.\nAramco's listing could be the spearhead to future and further privatizations through the program implementation process. Lead by example, they say.\nWhat remains certain for now, is that this move will not go unnoticed for the crude oil markets, and prices will play an important role here. OPEC's main producer and influencer will do what it takes to calm the seas before the IPO is launched, and it is likely they will force stability in the markets (to avoid \"up & downs\" scenarios like the one we just witnessed couple months ago) with all means at their disposal. Or why not, push towards a raise in the prices to increase their value. But at certain levels, since Saudi Arabia might not be interested in a huge rally in oil prices as this would mean a closer approach to the break-even point of production costs of American shale gas and oil operations. In any case, strap yourselves in!\nJavier Palaz\u00f3n Nadal | Energy Consultant\nBy Magnus| 2018-06-12T15:37:18+00:00\tSeptember 12th, 2016|Categories: Energy Markets, Featured, M\u00b7Blog|Tags: Aramco IPO, Crude oil, Saudi Aramco|Comments Off on ARAMCO: The awakening of a sleeping giant","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Acute Myeloid Leukemia Ask the Expert\nWhere Does Transplant Fit Into AML Care?\nTopic Areas: Acute Myeloid Leukemia\nWho is a transplant right for? What factors do doctors consider before treating an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient with a transplant? During this Ask the Expert segment, Dr. Daniel Pollyea, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explains the role of transplant in AML care, how it has changed in recent years, and which patients are good candidates for this type of treatment. Watch now to learn his AML expert knowledge.\nThis program is sponsored by AbbVie, Inc and Genentech, Inc. It is produced by Patient Power in partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and NeedyMeds. These organizations have no editorial control, and Patient Power is solely responsible for program content.\nDaniel Pollyea, MD\nI followed your excellent program and have been fortunate to receive valuable information from your AML program with Dr. Pollyea.\n\u2014 AML Care Partner\nAML Chemo vs. Transplants: What Is the Purpose and Value of Each?\nGwen L. Nichols, MD, Andrew Schorr\nAML Post-Transplant Care: Graft-Versus-Host Disease Treatment\nBeth Kart Probert, Naval G. Daver, MD\nLiving With AML\nAML Patient and Expert Perspectives: What Is Transplant Like?\nDon Armstrong, Uma Borate, MD, MS, Andrew Schorr\nTranscript | Where Does Transplant Fit Into AML Care?\nWhat about transplant? Some people, particularly younger people may have had a transplant, or you have a discussion with them about it. Where does that fit in now?\nDr. Pollyea:\nRight. So, a transplant is still today the only way that for almost all patients with AML that their disease can be cured. There are some caveats there. There are some patients who can't be cured with chemotherapy alone. That's unusually or uncommon. Most patients will need a transplant to be cured.\nThe landscape of transplant has changed dramatically. So, we're not successfully doing lower intensity transplant regimens in patients up to their late 70s really. And so, age is less of a factor in my opinion in transplant patients. And we're getting better and better at that. So, I believe that a transplant it still a reasonable consideration for a patient who may not be a candidate for intensive induction chemotherapy. So, it used to be that if you weren't a candidate for induction chemotherapy, then by extension, that would mean you couldn't get a transplant. I don't believe that's true anymore.\nI think if you're an older patient who can get into a remission with a less intensive regiment, which now we are able to do quite frequently with some of these new weapons in the arsenal, if you can get into a remission, then I think a transplant is not unreasonable, even if you're doctor said, look, you're not a candidate for intensive chemotherapy. So, the pool for transplants in getting bigger and deeper. We're getting better and better at that. And so, I think that's a part of the conversation.\nPersonally, that's a discussion that I begin in people who could be eligible for a transplant on day one. The day they're diagnosed. That's part of the discussion that we start to have even that early on. Now, not everyone is a candidate. Some people are too old or too sick for a transplant. Some people hear about the risks of a transplant, and they say that's not for me. And that is a completely reasonable reaction or response to it.\nAnd so, in those cases, the strategy is more, let's see what we can do to deepen and prolong your remission so that you can live as long as possible, we may not be able to cure your disease without a transplant, but we can still do a much better job now, I believe, than even a few short years ago.\nAdded \"Acute Myeloid Leukemia \" to your saved articles","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Is A US Marine In A Mexican Jail? MARINE CORPS COMBAT VETERAN SGT. ANDREW TAHMOORESSI REMAINS IN MEXICO PRISON NOW FOR 45 DAYS\nTHE 5TH ESTATE CALLS ON THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY RELEASE SGT. TAHMOORESSI ON HUMANITARIAN MEDICAL GROUNDS, ABSENCE OF INTENT\nBOSTON.COM\nBy Zeninjor Enwemeka\nSgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a US marine and Afghanistan war veteran, has be held in a Mexican prison for more than a month. He said he accidentally crossed the border on March 31 with three personal firearms. Mexican authorities jailed him on weapons charges. The case has drawn attention from lawmakers in the US, as Tahmooressi's fate hangs in the balance.\nSgt. Andrew Tahmooressi USMC\nHere's a closer look at Tahmooressi's case:\nWho is Andrew Tahmooressi?\nSgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is a 25-year-old US Marine reservist. He served four years in the Marines and did two tours in Afghanistan before finishing active duty in 2012. He said he was honorably discharged in November 2012, according to the Associated Press.\nHis mother, Jill Tahmooressi, who is from Weston, Fla., said he had recently moved to San Diego to get treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.\nWhy is he in prison?\nTahmooressi is being held at La Mesa State Penitentiary in Tijuana, Mexico for allegedly trying to bring weapons over the US-Mexico border. He faces federal weapons charges, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune:\nThe charges include possession of two firearms meant for exclusive use of the Mexican military; bail is not permitted. If convicted, he faces six to 21 years in a Mexican prison, said his Tijuana attorneys.\nTahmooressi had three weapons, all registered in the US, including a .45 caliber pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun, and an AR-15 rifle.\nTahmooressi attempted to escape after he was taken into custody, the AP reported:\nAfter he was jailed, Tahmooressi tried to escape by climbing over a gate and heading up onto a roof, and then onto another one. He gave up when a guard opened fire, but the incident earned him the nickname \"Spider-Man.\"\nHe later grabbed a light bulb and stabbed himself in the neck. He was taken to the hospital and given stitches.\nWhy was he going to Mexico?\nTahmooressi said he was on his way to meet friends for dinner in San Ysidro on March 31 when he accidently ended up at a border crossing point. He had been in San Diego for two weeks after leaving Dayton Beach, Fla. and driving across the country with everything he owned,The San Diego Union-Tribune reported:\n\"I was going to call them after I drove off the exit, but I never got off the exit, I blew right past it,\" he said. \"I wasn't paying attention, thinking I had way farther to go. I ended up in Mexico with no way to turn around.\"\nTahmooressi said he never intended to leave the country and mistakenly ended up at the border crossing point. San Ysidro is a border town in San Diego County that is a few miles north of Mexico.\nAccording to The San Diego Union-Tribune:\nAt Tijuana's El Chaparral Port of Entry, he tried to stop at the automatic crossing gates, but was waved through, and then guided to an inspection area. \"They say, 'What have you got back there?' I said, 'A whole lot of stuff and three guns.' I said, 'I didn't even mean to be in Mexico.'\"\nMexican authorities found the three guns and Tahmooressi was jailed.\nHas something like this happened before?\nYes, there have been several cases of people jailed after accidentally crossing into Mexico. Tahmooressi's case is not an isolated instance of this, CNN reports:\nIt is difficult for the U.S. State Department to quantify how many arrests are due to accidental crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border, a spokeswoman told CNN, but Andrew Tahmooressi's case is not all that unique.\nAccording to the AP:\nIn 2008, an active-duty Army soldier was jailed in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, for driving into Mexico with guns, knives and ammunition. Former Army Spc. Richard R. Medina Torres also said he was lost and missed the last U.S. exit. He spent a little over a month in jail before being released.\nIn 1999, a Camp Pendleton Marine was detained for two weeks in Tijuana after driving into the country with firearms. The Marine claimed he did so by mistake, and a federal judge ordered his release after the Mexican Attorney General asked that all charges be dropped.\nAccording to a State Department warning, dozens of US citizens are arrested each month for \"unintentionally violating Mexico's strict weapons laws.\" The warning also says, \"claiming not to know about the law will not get you leniency from a police officer or the judicial system.\"\nLawyers for Tahmooressi told The San Diego Union-Tribune that Mexico's federal code allows for the absence of intent to be used as an exception to the penalty, and Tahmooressi did not intend to possess weapons there.\nIs the US government doing anything to help?\nHero: Marine, U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter\nSeveral US lawmakers have petitioned for Tahmooressi's release. US Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and Marine Veteran, sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on May 2 asking for assistance in the case.\nAccording to NBC San Diego, Hunter wrote in his letter that \"Andrew is neither a criminal nor a weapons trafficker, and his incarceration is an extraordinarily unfortunate occurrence.\"\nClick here to read Congressman Hunter's letter to Kerry\nThe State Department has said it is aware of a US citizen being arrested in Mexico, but do not comment on such cases involving private individuals without their permission, the AP reports.\nAccording to CNN, Hunter also wrote a bipartisan congressional letter to Mexico's attorney general on May 8:\n\"Mexico's Attorney General is in a position to deal with Andrew's case and ensure its quick resolution ... it is necessary that the AG intervene and expedite proceedings at the very least. And so far there's been no validation from Mexico that Andrew didn't make a directional mistake at the border.\"\nSince his arrest, Tahmooressi's parents and supporters have worked to bring attention to the case, even protesting outside the Mexican Consulate in Miami. There is also a Facebook page andWhiteHouse.gov petition.\nWhat is next with the case?\nAccording to Voxxi.com, there will be a hearing on May 28, where Mexican border officials will give a statement to the judge handling Tahmooressi's case.\nPosted in: Congress,Marine Corps,Mexican Prisons,PTSD,Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi USMC,U.S. Mexico Border,U.S. State Department,Veterans,Veterans Administration Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook\nWhy Is A US Marine In A Mexican Jail? 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{"text":"Chanukah menorahs of Israel shed light on Jewish people's past, present, future\nBy Deborah Fineblum Schabb\tDecember 10, 2014, 9:04 pm 0 Edit\nYael Scalia Hershberg's Chanukah menorah, in which nine shot glasses filled with olive oil (and each topped with a wick) are placed in a simple box fashioned of brass and tin. The box was purchased from a craftsman in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. (Photo by Yael Scalia Hershberg)\nAs winter arrives and the days grow shorter, outdoor lighting is needed more during the Chanukah season than at any other time of year. This need is taken particularly seriously in Israel, where outdoor menorahs make a nocturnal stroll through city streets a treat for the eyes\u2014and for the spirit.\nThe outdoor Chanukah menorah was one Israeli tradition that painters Israel Hershberg and Yael Scalia Hershberg embraced when they made aliyah from Baltimore more than three decades ago. Each year, they place nine shot glasses filled with olive oil (and each topped with a wick) in a simple box fashioned of brass and tin. The box has glass windows and little chimneys.\n\"It's something of a Yerushalmi (Jerusalemite) artifact since it seems they don't make them anymore,\" Yael said of the box, which was purchased from a craftsman in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. \"It's very old world, and in its authenticity and its simplicity it has real charm.\"\nThe term menorah itself can be cause for confusion, even in Israel. The one used thousands of years ago in the Jewish Temple, which was adopted as a symbol of the nascent state of Israel, has seven branches. But the Chanukah menorah has nine branches \u2014 one for each day the scarce oil burned in the reclaimed temple more than 2,000 years ago, as well as a \"shamash\" to light the rest of the candles and stand guard over them as they burn.\nIn an effort to stem the confusion, in the late 1800s Eliezer ben Yehuda, the father of the modern Hebrew language, coined the term \"chanukiah,\" which is how today's Israelis tend to refer to Chanukah menorahs.\nBut not all chanukiahs are outdoor affairs. Many of the 70-plus chanukiahs in the home of Tel Aviv collector Bill Gross and his wife, Lisa, are just too gorgeous\u2014and too valuable\u2014to expose to the elements.\nGross, however, is intent on \"seeing them returned to their original use,\" which is why he uses a different chanukiah each year. The rotation includes the 1950 Israeli specimen he used growing up in Minneapolis. \"I believe that as soon as you look at them as art objects, it rips them up by their roots. These are objects made for performing a mitzvah, and it's only right to let them do that,\" he said.\nOld chanukiahs also serve as a reminder of those years when the act of lighting them was a risky undertaking. One chanukiah, dating back to pre-World War II times, is on display in the Holocaust History Museum at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem, where visitors can find it in the section dealing with the Nazis' rise to power. Every year, members of the family who donated it \u2014 the Mansbachs \u2014 take it home to Haifa to light it for the holiday.\n\"The thousands of personal items in Yad Vashem's collections help us connect with the experience of Jewish men, women and children during the Shoah,\" said Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev.\nMember of Knesset Rabbi Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid) and his family also use a chanukiah that reminds them of this dark time in Jewish history \u2014 a replica of one constructed of nails in a concentration camp. \"It was a gift for my bar mitzvah,\" said Lipman, a Maryland native who now lives in Beit Shemesh. \"As a people we have always used any means at our disposal to survive and to stay strong, and every year when we light this chanukiah, we and our children are reminded of that.\"\nBut not all menorahs have survived tough times. Many, like the one Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky used in a Soviet internment camp 34 years ago, remain only in the memory of those touched by their light. Back in 1980, Sharansky was one of a group of political prisoners and the only Jew. \"But when I told them Chanukah was coming, everyone was very enthusiastic,\" he said.\nOne friend who worked in the wood shop fashioned a crude menorah of pressed wood from a box for Sharansky. He lit in the barracks on the first night of Chanukah and on several subsequent nights, until a KGB collaborator turned him in and the menorah was confiscated. \"The head of the camp called me in and told me, 'This is not a synagogue; you were brought here for punishment, not for praying,'\" recalled Sharansky, who promptly embarked on a hunger strike.\nThe hunger strike made the camp leaders nervous because a commission from Moscow was expected to arrive shortly. On the last night of Chanukah, Sharansky told the head of the camp, \"You want me to stop the hunger strike? You give me back my menorah and bring me nine candles. I'll say the prayers and you say, 'Amen.'\"\nWhich is exactly what happened. \"I prayed the day would come when we will celebrate our freedom in Jerusalem and that all our enemies will hear our prayer and say, 'Amen,'\" said Sharansky. Since the prayer was in Hebrew, the head of the camp didn't understand a word but just kept saying \"Amen.\" The next day, after the commission had come and gone, Sharansky was sent back to the camp's prison.\nThe light from all the menorahs throughout time continues to shine down through Jewish history, said Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi in charge of the Western Wall and other Israeli holy sites. Every year, after lighting the official Western Wall chanukiah, Rabinowitz returns home to light the small silver one his in-laws gave him for his wedding 25 years ago. \"A little bit of light takes away all the darkness,\" the rabbi said. \"And this year, more than ever, we need the light. As a people we need to be united and together, with no fighting or disagreement. We Jews need to connect through this light to the spirit of Chanukah and to each other.\"\nRabinowitz added: \"At a time of so much darkness, we need to also connect to the power of our Jewish tradition. The light has the power to bring us back to it and to unify us.\"\nThe chanukiah at the home of Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, co-founder and executive director of the Nefesh B'Nefesh aliyah agency, came with his wife Batsheva's grandfather all the way to America from Germany, where he purchased it after the war. \"He had lost everything but gathered whatever he could to buy a semblance of Judaism, which for him was a sign of rebuilding and hope,\" said Fass. \"And now that it has been passed down to the fourth generation in our family, it also reminds us that Jewish history is still being written and Israel is the homeland for tomorrow's generations of our people.\"\n\"Each night when we add a candle and the light grows steadily stronger, we realize once again the importance of being here in Israel, the only place in the world that is truly ours,\" Fass added. \"Like the miracle of Chanukah, this mini miracle of our ability to return home to Israel is something that we want to publicize to the entire Jewish world.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Critical Thinking Paper: Frank Gehry's Dancing House\nOn the banks of Vltava River stands one of the modern architectural masterpieces of the city of Prague. The Dancing House has an undulating fa\u00e7ade with full view of the Prague castle and Charles Bridge. The site lay empty for close to half a century after Americans in the Second World War accidentally bombed the building that preceded it. Admirers of Gehry's architecture see his efforts as peaceful reparation for the wrongs committed. On the hand, lovers of original Prague architecture see it as the second American invasion of their city. Nevertheless, the Dancing House exhibits everything about the evolving Prague society (Pesch,14).\nDuring the communist era, architecture was restricted to large state firms largely designing industrial buildings to house as many people as possible. The emphasis was on ease of construction, efficiency mass production. Aesthetics and individuality were not highly regarded in communist architecture. With the fall of communism, the desire for personal expression took root. The city's young population is needed a departure from the past.\nThe famous American architect Frank Gehry and his Czech co-architect Vladimir Milunic conceptualized The Dancing House. The building portrays a couple dancing. Accordingly, it was named \"Ginger & Fred\", two Hollywood film icons Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.\nThe building stands in stark contrast with its historical setting. The adjacent buildings have strong Baroque, Art Nouveau and Gothic themes typical of Prague City. For an untrained eye, the postmodern Dancing House architecture does not blend well with the older architectural styles. However, the project had the blessing of Vaclav Havel, the former president of the country who rose from dissidence to lead the country. Havel's avid support of the project convinced a skeptical public of the need for a deconstructivist architectural form next to the old and cherished European masterpieces. Havel's idea was to build a cultural centre on the bank of Vltava River.\nFrom one side, the building looks like a two people dancing. Yet, a careful look gives the impression of a collapsing building having already caved in the middle. This alludes to the destruction of the city during the Second World War. At the top of the building is a metal dome resembling the Hiroshima bomb memorial structure. 99 concrete panels support the building, each with a different shape and dimension. The panels are curved uniquely in three dimensions taking up a substantial space of the floor area. There is also large twisted structure on top of the building nicknamed Medusa. The interior has two curved pillars that support a tower of glass half the height of the building.\nThe architects ensured that the building blended well with its location. The windows were the same level as adjacent buildings. In addition, it had a wavy glass molding along the edge resembling the wavelike motion of water in the nearby river. However, the winding moldings on the facade do not blend well with the other buildings and creates a confusing perspective. Most notably, the building avoids use of right angles thus sharply contrasting with the surrounding. It creates a disruptive change from the old and trusted European architecture. In a sense, this disruption is akin to the American destruction of the predecessor building during the Second World War (Pesch, 15).\nDeconstructivist architecture saw a marked departure from the norm. Dancing, in the Puritan tradition was a sinful act. Thus, a Dancing House in such a historically significant city is a true departure from the accepted. The deconstructivist architecture employed in the building signals the quest for change, tolerance for risk and ambiguity and distortion. It was an embrace of diversity in a sea of homogeneity. Deconstructive architectures arose out of the rubble of World War 2. The destruction brought about fragmentation in architecture that resulted in empty facades, steel sculptures and sky windows. This allowed building such as the Dancing House to get free natural lighting. This reduces energy use and maximizes visual comfort (Pesch, 15)\u2026\nWhat do you imagine when you ponder over a critical thinking paper? Do you need to be as smart and unbelievably attentive as Sherlock Holmes to write such a paper, or being an ordinary human would suffice? Actually, critical thinking paper requires a lot of time and mental effort (though not something as complicated as Sherlock does), now you have the ultimate helper\u2014us! Maybe that sounds a little bit arrogant, but first you should scroll through our blog and find out how many useful free information we have collected for you. And, besides, we are always ready to create a great paper\u2014all you need is to ask.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tampa, FL weather in July 1945\nIn July 1945 the average high temperature in Tampa, FL was 89.1\u00b0F, and this was 1.7\u00b0F cooler than the average of 90.8\u00b0F. The hottest day in July 1945 was 7 July when the temperature reached 94.3\u00b0F. Overnight the average temperature in July is 74.9\u00b0F and in 1945 the average overnight temperature was 0.2\u00b0F cooler at 74.7\u00b0F.\nIn July the average monthly rainfall in Tampa, FL is 6.13 inches with rain usually falling on 18 days. In July 1945 there was a total of 0.00 inches of rain, that fell on 20 days.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jimmy Choo's 1st free-standing Canadian store to open at Toronto's Yorkdale\nPHOTO: JIMMY CHOO\nCanada's first free-standing Jimmy Choo store will open at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre. Interestingly, a Jimmy Choo shop-in-store is already located steps away, within the mall's Holt Renfrew store. More Canadian Jimmy Choo locations are expected to follow.\nJimmy Choo will locate next to Yorkdale's Tiffany & Co. store, in part of the retail space formerly occupied by Mexx. We were first alerted to Jimmy Choo's new Yorkdale store by an article in Womenswear Daily. ACT7 of Urban Toronto subsequently confirmed its location via this City of Toronto Building Application.\nIn December of 2013, a Jimmy Choo shop-in-store opened within Yorkdale's Holt Renfrew. As can be seen from the floorplan in this article, the new free-standing Jimmy Choo will be mere steps away from Holt's.\nLondon-based Jimmy Choo is one of the world's most well-known footwear and accessories brands. In Canada, it's carried at selected Holt Renfrew stores. Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue stores will also likely carry Jimmy Choo when they open their Canadian locations. There are 26 Jimmy Choo stores in the United States, including three concessions within Bloomingdale's stores.\nThe shop will be designed and executed by Toronto-based dkstudio inc., which has designed some of Canada's most prestigious stores including several Louis Vuitton location, Prada at Yorkdale's Holt Renfrew, and De Beers in Vancouver. It will also design Canada's first Vince Camuto store, also to be located at Yorkdale.\nJIMMY CHOO SHOP-IN-STORE AT HOLT RENFREW, YORKDALE. PHOTO CREDIT: JENNA MARIE WAKANI FOR TORONTO LIFE MAGAZINE.\nA source familiar with the company informs us that Jimmy Choo will likely open at least two more Canadian stores. A Downtown Vancouver store is foreseeable as well as another Toronto location, either in the Yorkville area or at the Toronto Eaton Centre.\nYorkdale Shopping Centre\nkaren mak April 22, 2014\tAt\t1:48 pm\nBy the way, dkstudio is also the local architect working on the Jimmy Choo Store.\nRetail Insider April 22, 2014\tAt\t5:12 pm\nThank you, Karen. We've just updated the article to include that information.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New Orleans Braces For Possible Harvey Flooding Amid Pump Failures\nMayor Mitch Landrieu will plug any breaches with confederate monuments that have been removed.\nVia Fox News:\nNew Orleans, already bogged down by inches of rain from previous storms, braced for more flooding from Hurricane Harvey on Sunday as the city scrambles to repair its malfunctioning pump system.\nRain from Harvey, which downgraded to a tropical storm a day after making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late Friday, threatens to dump up the 8 inches of rain starting Sunday. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in an update on Saturday the city's contractors are working \"around the clock\" to repair all power and pumps.\"\n\"Yesterday, contractors completed repairs to another large drainage pump at Drainage Pump Station No. 6, which brings the total to four large pumps returned to service since August 6,\" the city said in an update.\nNearly 40 boats and 20 high-water vehicles with rescue supplies were scattered at various fire and police station in preparation. A mandatory evacuation was not put in place since the storm did not directly hit New Orleans, but residents were urged to prepare for a \"shelter in place\" if flooding worsens.\nMike Shields, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Slidell office, told NOLA.com the storm seems to likely shift farther west than previously predicted, but New Orleans is still not completely clear of Harvey's path.\n\"It's looking much better than it was, but we're still not off the hook,\" Shields told the news site.\nDapandico | August 27, 2017 5:02 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Comic-Con 2014: Top 10 things not to miss\u2026\nThings to doBooks\nComic-Con 2014: Top 10 things not to miss Friday at SDCC\nCostumed characters walk outside of the convention center on day 1 of the 2014 Comic-Con International Convention held Thursday, July 24, 2014 in San Diego. (Photo by Denis Poroy\/Invision\/AP)\nBy Sarah Batcha | sbatcha@scng.com |\nPUBLISHED: July 25, 2014 at 12:10 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 7:23 am\nSan Diego >> Friday at Comic-Con International is all about television.\nHeavy-hitters from several critically acclaimed and fan favorite TV series are sure to be crowd pleasers for all those lucky enough to make it into the panels of the day.\nOf course, there are several panels featuring movies that are worthy of being highlighted.\nHere's a quick look at our top 10 picks for day two of the four-day pop culture phenomenon:\n\"Wayward Pines\" World Premiere\nWhat: M. Night Shyamalan is coming to TV and he's bringing some big names with him. FOX's \"Wayward Pines\" panel will feature cast members Matt Dillion, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Carla Gugino, Terrence Howard, Reed Diamond, Shannyn Sossamon, Tim Griffin and Charlie Tahan, along with executives producers M. Night Shyamalan, Donald De Line, Chad Hodge and Ashwin Rajan. The panel will be moderated by TV Guide's Rob Moynihan.\nWhere: Room 5AB, San Diego Convention Center\nInformation: www.fox.com\/wayward-pines\n\"The Originals\" Special Video Presentation\nWhat: \"The Vampire Diaries\" hit spin-off returns for its second year at the convention with all its stars in tow. Along with executive producer Julie Plec and co-executive producer Michael Narducci, series stars Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Leah Pipes and Danielle Campbell will all take the stage to discuss the second season.\nWhere: Ballroom 20, San Diego Convention Center\nInformation: www.cwtv.com\/shows\/the-originals\n\"Archer\" Screening\nWhat: FX's panel for the zany animated comedy \"Archer\" will feature an exclusive screening of an original piece created specifically for Comic-Con, plus the premiere episode of season six. Voice talent on hand will include H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer, Amber Nash and Lucky Yates along with creator Adam Reed and co-executive producer Casey Willis.\nWhere: The Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel\nInformation: www.fxnetworks.com\/archer\nRADiUS-TWC Previews \"Horns\" and \"Everly\"\nWhat: \"Harry Potter\" star Daniel Radcliffe will finally make his Comic-Con debut in this panel for the feature film \"Horns,\" which will also feature co-star Juno Temple, director Alexandre Aja and novelist Joe Hill. The audience will be treated to the world premiere of the trailer for the movie.\nRADiUS also promises Salma Hayek in attendance to introduce footage of her new film \"Everly,\" plus more surprises.\nWhere: Hall H, San Diego Convention Center\nInformation: radiustwc.com\n20th Century FOX Presents\nWhat: While little has been released about what will be featured in this panel, rumors have been circulating that many of the stars from 20th Century FOX's fall line up will be in attendance.\nThis two-hour panel will more than likely have video presentations and Q&A's with the cast from the following films: \"The Maze Runner,\" \"Book of Life,\" \"Let's Be Cops\" and \"Kingsman: The Secret Service.\"\nInformation: www.foxmovies.com\nMarvel Television Presents\nWhat: As Marvel continues to expand its horizons through TV, the company's Head of Television Jeph Loeb will be joined by the casts of \"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\" and the upcoming \"Agent Carter\" for a behind the scenes peek at the two live-action series.\nInformation: www.agentsofshield.com, abc.go.com\/shows\/marvels-agent-carter\nWhat: Even though the second season just wrapped up, the stars and creators of BBC America's \"Orphan Black\" will be on hand to discuss all things Clone Club.\nEntertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross will moderate the fan-favorite panel comprised of Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Evelyne Brochu and Ari Millen as well as co-creators Graeme Manson and John Fawcett.\nWhere: Room 6A, San Diego Convention Center\nInformation: www.bbcamerica.com\/orphan-black\n\"Arrow\" Special Video Presentation\nWhat: Planning to conquer Comic-Con for its third year in a row, DC Comics' \"Arrow\" panel is sure to be one of the most talked about panels of the convention. Series stars Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes, Willa Holland, Paul Blackthorne and John Barrowman will join executive producers Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg to preview the highly anticipated third season of the hit CW show.\nInformation: www.cwtv.com\/shows\/arrow\nAMC's \"The Walking Dead\"\nWhat: Looking forward to season five, the cast and crew of AMC's hit TV show join moderator Chris Hardwick to give audiences a sneak preview of the upcoming season and recap the shocking finale of season four.\nStars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Chad Coleman and Michael Cudlitz will join executive producer and showrunner Scott Gimple, executive producer and graphic novel creator Robert Kirkman, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer Dave Alpert, and special effects makeup supervisor and executive producer Greg Nicotero for the panel.\nWhen: 12:20-1:20 pm.\nInformation: www.amctv.com\/shows\/the-walking-dead\n\"Game of Thrones\" Panel\nWhat: Craig Ferguson will moderate this highly anticipated panel featuring stars Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Natalie Dormer, Gwendoline Christie, Rose Leslie and Pedro Pascal. Executive producers and writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with author George R. R. Martin will also be present for the panel to discuss the filming of the fifth season of the critically acclaimed HBO series.\nInformation: www.hbo.com\/game-of-thrones\nFor a full schedule listing for Friday, visit www.comic-con.org\/cci\/friday\nSarah Batcha\nSarah Batcha is the social media director for Southern California News Group who has been working as a journalist since 2007. During that time, she has primarily worked as a digital or social media editor, but has also been an editor of and covered breaking and community news, as well as travel features, music reviews and international events such as Coachella and San Diego Comic-Con.\nFollow Sarah Batcha\t@SarahBatcha","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DeepStreaks: identifying fast-moving objects in the Zwicky Transient Facility data with deep learning. (arXiv:1904.05920v1 [astro-ph.IM])\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Duev_D\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Dmitry A. Duev<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Mahabal_A\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Ashish Mahabal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Ye_Q\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Quanzhi Ye<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Tirumala_K\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Kushal Tirumala<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Belicki_J\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Justin Belicki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Dekany_R\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Richard Dekany<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Frederick_S\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Sara Frederick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Graham_M\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Matthew J. Graham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Laher_R\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Russ R. Laher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Masci_F\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Frank J. Masci<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Prince_T\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Thomas A. Prince<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Riddle_R\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Reed Riddle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Rosnet_P\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Philippe Rosnet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/astro-ph\/1\/au:+Soumagnac_M\/0\/1\/0\/all\/0\/1\">Maayane T. Soumagnac<\/a>\nWe present DeepStreaks, a convolutional-neural-network, deep-learning system\ndesigned to efficiently identify streaking fast-moving near-Earth objects that\nare detected in the data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a wide-field,\ntime-domain survey using a dedicated 47 sq. deg camera attached to the Samuel\nOschin 48-inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, United\nStates. The system demonstrates a 96-98% true positive rate, depending on the\nnight, while keeping the false positive rate below 1%. The sensitivity of\nDeepStreaks is quantified by the performance on the test data sets as well as\nusing known near-Earth objects observed by ZTF. The system is deployed and\nadapted for usage within the ZTF Solar-System framework and has significantly\nreduced human involvement in the streak identification process, from several\nhours to typically under 10 minutes per day.\n\u00ab Transient processing and analysis using $texttt{AMPEL}$: Alert Management, Photometry and Evaluation of Lightcurves. (arXiv:1904.05922v1 [astro-ph.IM])\nAddressing the [O III]\/Hb{eta} Offset of Dwarf Galaxies in the RESOLVE Survey. (arXiv:1904.05912v1 [astro-ph.GA]) \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab On TV and on the Web, \"The Daily Show\" sports an impressive political guest list\nHuh? Motorola rumored to be planning movie download service for its mobile devices \u00bb\nAnalysts: 3G iPhone to be announced June 9. Why should we care?\nby Daniel Langendorf\nApril 24th, 2008 | Posted in Mobile | One Comment\nIn a completely shocking bit of news, Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee wrote today that the 3G iPhone will be announced most likely on June 9, the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.\nIsn't that pretty much what every analyst and Apple fanboy blogger has been predicting, give or take a week?\nAnd for the record, announced is different than available. Will the 3G iPhone be available for purchase in June?\nShould we care?\n3G is a significant and welcomed upgrade to the iPhone, particularly overseas where 3G networks are faster and more mature than in the U.S. Here, there's a question about how much faster will a 3G iPhone be when compared with a 2.5G device that runs on AT&T's EDGE network.\nAT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., admittedly needs to broaden the rollout of its 3G network, which is says is \"available in most major metropolitan areas\". \"We're working on expanding the network so more people in more places can enjoy it soon,\" AT&T's Web site says.\nA 3G iPhone is certainly, without a doubt, an important evolution for Apple, which hopes to meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008. Once again, for the record, shipping 10 million is a lot different than selling 10 million.\nWhat seems more important than speed, at least at this time, are potential hardware changes that are expected to come along with the 3G iPhone \u2014 a larger screen, the use of OLED vs. LCD displays, the ultra-mobile Intel processor, power-efficient 3G chips, better battery life, an improved camera, GPS capability, and SD card storage.\nThese, and the expected release of the iPhone software developers kit and enterprise support, is what to get excited about come June 9.\nWeekly wrapup, 21-25 April 2008\nZatz Not Funny: Jailbreaking the iPhone 3.0 OS, Palm Pre review, SlingCatcher, and more\nDisney to stream movies online \u2013 for free\nWhat's next? Madonna in my corn flakes?\nOne Response to \"Analysts: 3G iPhone to be announced June 9. Why should we care?\"\nipod Bob says:\nThe larger screen should be cool!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Polk County News - Breakout\nRecycling center hours changing\nFrom Enterprise Staff\nOperating hours for the county's new recycling center are changing this week. Effective Tuesday, the recycling center will be open Tuesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.\nLocated at 10311 Hwy. 146 in Livingston, the recycling center is operated by a group called Polk County Recycling & Beautification which is presently in search of volunteers for two to three-hour shifts every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Volunteers will greet every customer, assist with their sorting questions, help customers unload and lift their recyclables and help keep the center clean.\n\"Volunteering at the recycling center is rewarding, meaningful and fun. Live your commitment to Polk County Recycling & Beautification by signing up at the recycling center or emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,\" Kari Miller said.\nMiller, assistant to Polk County Judge Sydney Murphy, serves as the county's liaison to the Polk County Recycling & Beautification group.\nItems the center can accept include:\n#1 Plastics. These include beverage bottles (rinsed and without lids) and various other clear food containers. You know it's a #1 if it has a triangle stamped in the plastic with a \"1\" inside it.\n#2 Plastics. These are thicker containers, like milk jugs and detergent bottles (rinsed and without lids). You know it's a #2 if it has a triangle stamped in the plastic with a \"2\" inside it.\nCorrugated Cardboard (clean and dry)\nAluminum Cans (empty)\nMixed Paper (envelopes, magazines, newspapers, colored paper, paper-back books, etc.) Paper should be sorted separately from all other materials.\nGiving Back - Local comes through for new recycling center\nBy Emily Banks Wooten\nA local donor will match donations to Polk County's new recycling center\u2014up to $20,000\u2014County Judge Sydney Murphy announced during the informational report section of the regular meeting of the Polk County Commissioners Court Dec. 28.\nThe Court received the rating and recommendations from the court-appointed scoring committee regarding the selection of a grant administrator and engineer for the use of funds allocated to Polk County by the American Rescue Plan Act. \"We did the procurement process on Nov. 9 and the committee scored on Dec. 16,\" Murphy said. Commissioners approved the recommendation of Langford Community Management Services as administrator and Goodwin Lassiter Strong as engineer.\nRegarding the land use agreement of county property located at 1200 FM 62 and 1411 FM 62 in Moscow, Commissioners approved moving forward with discussing a general contract.\nAlthough the Court discussed a policy regarding the use of county buildings, grounds and facilities, the item was tabled so that additional research may be conducted.\nCommissioners approved an order to conform election precincts following the redistricting of the commissioners court precincts pursuant to Chapter 42, Texas Election Code, and any resulting changes that may have an impact upon the justice of the peace\/constable precincts.\nA memorandum of understanding with Piney Wood Lakes Texas Chapter Master Naturalists, the East Texas Electric Cooperative Inc. and Polk County for the beneficial management of natural resources at the East Texas Electric Cooperative Hydroelectric Plant Gazebo was approved.\nCommissioners approved a proposal to extend the concrete pad for the recycling center, to be paid for from the waste management fund, accepting the $6,500 bid from Luis Don Juan.\nThe plats for Rolling Pines Section 2 Subdivision located in Precinct 2 and Caney Pines Subdivision located in Precinct 3 were approved.\nA memorandum of understanding with the Precinct 1 constable regarding the monthly salary of Mario Rosario, to be funded solely from the Precinct 1 constable asset seizures as long as funds are available, was approved. \"This is basically a replacement MOU for the prior MOU that we had in place,\" Murphy said.\nAction on an agreement with Questica for budget management software was tabled.\nCommissioners reviewed and considered personnel action form requests submitted since the last meeting and reviewed three authorized emergency hirings \u2013 one at the tax office, one at the auditor's office and one at the county clerk's office.\nCommissioners approved everything on the consent agenda which included:\nSchedules of bills;\nAn order designating surplus property;\nThe county auditor's monthly report, pursuant to Local Government Code Sec. 114.025;\nThe reappointment of Garvey Jackson to the Workforce Development Board for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1; and\nAcknowledgement of the addition of the City of Corrigan's Flood Mitigation Project No. 22 on page 166 of the Polk County Multi-Jurisdiction Mitigation Plan.\nRev. Jim Mayland of Trinity Lutheran Church opened the meeting with prayer.\nLights and revitalization of downtown Livingston\nBy Debra Jenke\nAC Connections\nIn early Winter, I had an evening meeting in downtown Livingston. Our host, Gary Davis, took us on a \"field trip\" from his beautifully restored office building (the JS Coats Building) to see another beautifully restored building, Ruby Cattle Company (the former Livingston Drug Building). On the way, we stopped at Cakes by Marsha since her lights were on and she graciously opened her doors to us to showcase the renovation there. Downtown was lighting up as the sun was setting.\nAt Ruby Cattle Company, it was a walk down memory lane. My mother worked in that building when it was Livingston Drug. She worked in the back, her desk backed up to the wall that was maybe 10 feet from the railroad tracks. The building shook with every train passing through town. I wrapped gifts there every Christmas for years, at a card table, making Livingston Drug ribbon roses and ribbon leaves\u2014only the best wrapping paper and designs back in the day. On Memory Lane, I could see my mom at her desk and see the old Coke machine at the base of the staircase. That coke machine is where we stopped after getting our throat swabbed with mercurochrome upstairs; after seeing the doctor, you could go downstairs and get a real glass bottle of Coke, so cold it had ice crystals. The icy Coke was to get rid of the taste of the mercurochrome.\nBefore we left Ruby Cattle Company, I stepped outside to look at the changes downtown. From their lovely front doors I could see the lights of Whistlestop Cafe, Good Golly Miss Molly's, Blue Duck and Petalz.\nI ventured around the corner to see the office where I got my first \"real\" job. My first job out of Angelina College, with my associate's degree in secretarial sciences, was for a new law firm\u2014Pace, Moore and McClendon. It was in an old bank building that sits across from the courthouse on the north side. At the time, I just thought it was old\u2014now it looks great. I also looked into the building next door to the old law office. I had never realized it houses a staircase and upstairs. It is amazing what you can see when you take the time to walk downtown.\nAs we left our \"field trip\" meeting, I stopped to look at the windows of what was once H.B. Davis. As I have told Gary Davis and his mother, Sara Poston, there was a coat there in the fall of 1977 that I wanted so badly. It was gray wool with a shawl rabbit collar. I certainly couldn't afford it while working my way through college, and I knew my parents could not buy it. Yet, Christmas morning 1977, it was under the tree in a box. I graduated from AC that December, so maybe they were happy to get me off their payroll and out of the house.\nI was amazed at how beautiful downtown is now. Downtown Livingston, all lit up at night\u2014it was almost magical. Our meeting group that night, consisting of Gary Davis, Kathy Odom, Ralph Jenke and myself, spent the rest of the evening sharing stories of Livingston 50 years ago.\nLights\u2014lights are my first memory of Livingston. That was 50-plus years ago, after my parents dragged me here kicking and screaming\u2014to begin our life as managers of Camp Cho-Yeh. My dad and I came up in December, before we moved in January, to work on the house that came with the new job. We slept on cots and I think it was about 10 degrees. He took me out to eat, a rare treat, and as we came down South Washington toward town (I had never seen anything like it), \"Cemetery Hill\" sloped toward a lighted-up downtown Livingston, with the water tower in the distance and it was like a story book. We didn't have hills where we moved from and we didn't have a Roland's Restaurant, where we ate that night.\nThrough the years, I quit paying attention to the lights or how beautiful our little town is. Change seemed to come slowly. I worked for Dr. Watson at his building which sat somewhere near where Jack in the Box is now. I would walk to the bank to make office deposits, walk to Perry Brothers to buy Cokes and ice cube trays and other various things for his office. I've spent a lot of time walking downtown and not paying attention to the surroundings. On the days I didn't work, I would drive in from Angelina College and meet Mom for pie at the White Kitchen. I always hoped all the parallel parking spots would not be gone and I could pull up right in front. She would walk over from Livingston Drug and I would be waiting with pie and coffee. I am really not that keen on pie\u2014but I loved the ambience, the group of businessmen that gathered there every afternoon with their latest stories. They were loud, smoking and laughing\u2014always laughing. Mom and I eating pie and drinking coffee and listening to the locals\u2014I wish now that I had realized then how special those times were. Sometimes I think of the Toby Keith song, \"I Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then.\"\nSpecial times\u2014dreams of lights, of unexpected gifts, dreams of the old days, dreams of progress\u2014they can exist together. Revitalization. Maybe that is the best word for downtown Livingston today. Like towns, we often need revitalization. Change can be good, progress can be good. If you are thinking of making a change, of getting that GED, of entering college\u2014now is the perfect time. Start the New Year with a pledge to meet those educational goals and dreams! We are ready to welcome you to Angelina College and help you get the New Year started in a great direction.\nColoring Contest Winners\nRenditions must be filed by April 15\nIf you own tangible personal property that is used to produce income, you must file a rendition with the Polk Central Appraisal District by April 15, 2022\nA rendition is a report that lists all the taxable property you owned or controlled on January 1 of this year. Property includes inventory and equipment used by a business. Owners do not have to render exempt property such as church property or an agriculture producer's equipment used for farming.\n\"The appraisal district may use the information submitted in the rendition to set property values,\" Chief Appraiser Chad Hill said.\nYou can also file a report of decreased value to notify the appraisal district of significant depreciation of your property.\n\"For example, if your property was damaged by a storm, flood or fire last year, you should file a report of decreased value. The appraisal district will look at your property before assigning a value,\" Hill said.\nFor most property types, renditions must be filed after January 1 and no later than April 15. Different deadlines apply in certain appraisal districts. A property owner may apply, in writing, for a mandatory extension to May 15.\nDifferent deadlines apply for regulated properties.\nA 10-50% penalty may be imposed if a rendition is filed late, incomplete or not at all. Property owners who need more time to file their renditions may file a written request with the chief appraiser on or before the rendition deadline to receive an automatic extension.\nThe chief appraiser may extend the deadline another 15 days for good cause shown in writing by the property owner for each type of property.\nFor more information about rendering property, deadline extensions, penalties and rendition forms, taxpayers may contact the Polk Central Appraisal District at 114 Mathews St. in Livingston or 936-327-2174. Information is also available at www.polkcad.org. You may also find information on the state comptroller's property tax assistance division's website at comptroller.texas.gov\/taxes\/property-tax\/.\nTop Stories of 2021\nDELIVERING GOOD CHEER\nAstros representative visits local club\nWishing a merry, merry Christmas to everyone","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How do I get in on this?\nNintendo Switch Online: The ultimate guide\nJust what can you get for $20 a year with Nintendo Switch Online? A lot, actually!\nLory Gil\nSource: iMore\/ Rene Ritchie\nNintendo has a special online service that Switch owners can subscribe to for a small fee. It gives us access to game-specific content within the Nintendo Switch Online app, online gameplay for compatible games, access to play classic NES game titles, and special discounts in the eShop. Here's everything you need to know about Nintendo's online subscription service.\nAll the options available\nNintendo Switch Online subscriptions\nThere are a couple of different options available to you if you'd like to dive into Nintendo Switch Online. There's a 3-month subscription, a 12-month individual subscription, and a 12-month family subscription, which gives you and seven other people access to Switch Online.\n$8 for 3-month subscription\n$20 for 12-month subscription\n$35 for 12-month family subscription\nWhat does a subscription get me?\nCan't I just use my Wii U or 3DS account?\nWhich countries are supported?\nHow do I subscribe?\nWhat does not having a subscription get me?\nWith a subscription to Nintendo Online, you'll get five major exclusive features:\nOnline gameplay - You'll have to pay to play with others online in most games. For example, if you're a high-ranking racer in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, you're going to want to protect your rank, and the only way to do that is to pay for online play. This includes co-operative and competitive games.\nAccess to the Nintendo Switch Online app - Nintendo has a special app that is exclusive to Switch and offers special content for specific games. It includes voice chat, leaderboards, a special gear shop, game invites for friends, and more. Without a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you won't be able to get any of this exclusive content.\nGame save data backups - With a subscription, you can back up your game save data to the cloud, so it is significantly less likely that you'll lose those hours and hours of gameplay if something should happen to your Switch. Unfortunately, some games won't support cloud saves, such as Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.\nClassic Game Selection - Nintendo has included a library of classic NES and SNES games you can play alone or with friends on your Switch \u2014 games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Balloon Fight, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Star Fox, and more. We don't have to pay anything extra for these games, but if you cancel your Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you'll lose access to them. Here's a list of the games you can play.\nDiscounts on eShop games - In addition to dropping some classic titles in our laps at no additional charge, Nintendo gives us deals on eShop purchases that non-subscribers don't get.\nExclusive games In addition to the NES and SNES games, you'll also get access to Super Mario Bros. 35 and Tetris 99, two very unique battle royale games exclusive to the service.\nYou can subscribe to an individual Nintendo Switch Online membership for one month, three months, or one year for $3.99, $7.99, or $19.99, respectively. A family membership allows a total of eight people to share one subscription, but it is only available in yearly increments and costs $34.99.\n3-month subscription ($8 at Amazon)\nThis is the quarterly subscription for a single person. Only choose this if you are still not sure after the free trial.\n12-month subscription ($20 at Amazon)\nThis is the yearly subscription for a single person. Perfect for a person on their own.\n12-month family subscription ($35 at Amazon)\nThe family subscription gives you and seven other people access to Switch Online. It is the cheapest way for people to play.\nNope. Sorry. This subscription is exclusive to Nintendo Switch. No sharesies.\nRight now, Nintendo Switch Online is only available in the following countries:\nYou'll need a Nintendo Account to subscribe. Chances are, you've already got one, but just in case you don't, here's how to sign up for one:\nHow to sign up for a Nintendo Account\nOnce you sign up for a Nintendo Account and login, just mosey on over to the Nintendo eShop, go to the Nintendo Switch Online section, choose your membership option, and start your 7-day trial or just sign up fully for the service.\nHow to sign up for Nintendo Switch Online\nJust in case you're faced with the decision to pay for Nintendo Switch Online or go without, here's what you still get to do on your Switch, even without the subscription:\nAccess to the Nintendo Switch eShop - You know, so you can buy all of the great Nintendo Switch games.\nRegister and manage friends - You don't get to talk to them or anything, but you'll know when they're on and what they're playing (if they've got that info turned on).\nShare screenshots to social media - No one gets left out of their social media feeds.\nAccess to Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app - Because Nintendo would be stupid to restrict this behind a paywall.\nThe ability to take screenshots - It doesn't matter if you're online or not; you can still take screenshots to show your friends.\nYou're still able to access YouTube - Despite YouTube being an online app, you don't need Switch Online to use it.\nYou can still connect your Nintendo Switch account to a friend's Switch - It doesn't matter whether you've got online or not; you can still change your primary account on the Nintendo eShop.\nYou can still play free-to-play games - Games like Fortnite, Arena of Valor, Warframe, and Paladins can still be played without an online subscription.\nDo you have any questions about Nintendo's online subscription service? Put them in the comments, and I'll help you out.\nGet More Switch\nHow the new Switch V2 compares to the original model\nBest Nintendo Switch Games\nBest microSD Cards for your Nintendo Switch\nBest Travel Cases for Nintendo Switch\nBest Nintendo Switch Accessories\nTake your shot with the best hunting games for Nintendo Switch 2021\nIf you want to play a hunting game on the Switch, there's quite a few to choose from. Here's a list of the best games you can buy right now!\nLory is a renaissance woman, writing news, reviews, and how-to guides for iMore. She also fancies herself a bit of a rock star in her town and spends too much time reading comic books. If she's not typing away at her keyboard, you can probably find her at Disneyland or watching Star Wars (or both).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News, Projects\n\"Friday the 13th\" \u2013 Part 2\nIt is still unknown if Jared will reprise his role as Clay Miller, though it's rumored at the moment, but New Line Cinema and Warners Bros. announced Friday the 13th Part 2:\nNew Line Cinema and Warner Bros. made it official today. Friday the 13th Part 2, a sequel to this year's Friday the 13th, is slated to hit on August 13, 2010.\nBrad Fuller and Andrew Form tipped us off back in June right here, that if all goes according to plan, that was the date they were looking at. Fuller stresses to us, however, that the sequel still does not have a greenlight.\nDamian Shannon and Mark Swift will return to write. And Derek Mears will absolutely be back to reprise his role as Jason Voorhees, contrary to the many wild rumors running around on the web.\nClip: \"5.08 \u2013 Changing Channels\"\nPromo: \"5.08 \u2013 Changing Channels\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Nation \u00bb\nThe Times Table\nThe sign of the times is: National parties out, alliances in\nState elections are accorded importance in the 'nat\u00adional' media for one primary reason\u2014to be able to discern trends for the next national election. The next Lok Sabha elections is in 2019. In this context, what do the results of the four states (leaving aside Pondicherry) that went to polls recently portend?\nWest Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam account for 115 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, with West Bengal and Tamil Nadu accounting for more than two-\u00adthirds of the 115. Each Lok Sabha constitutency comprises some assembly segments and the Election Commission provides data at the assembly segment level for the Lok Sabha elections too, so it's possible to make comparisons of parties' performance now with that in 2014. En route to its stunning victory in 2014, the BJP had contested in 590 assembly segments in these states and won in 104 of them. In the recently concluded assembly elections, it contested in 661 and won in only 64. In the 2014 elections, similarly, the Congress contested in 749 assembly segments and won in 110; in the recent assembly elections, it contested a mere 344 and still won in 100.\nClearly, both lost more assembly seats to regional parties in these four states between 2014 and 2016. This is perhaps the biggest takeaway for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Notwithstanding the English media's obsession with national parties, it is indubitable that the significance of the national parties continues to wane.\nThe BJP contested in 70 more assembly seats in these four states in 2016 when compared to 2014 and won in far fewer. It may be a great symbolic achievement for the BJP to win Assam as a state but the overall picture vis-a-vis its 2014 performance is not as rosy. In West Bengal, the BJP won 24 assembly segments in the 2014 elections, which is now down to three. In Kerala, it won four assembly segments in 2014, only one this year. In Tamil Nadu, the BJP won seven assembly segments in 2014 versus zero now. The BJP's overall average voteshare in these four states in 2014 was 17 per cent, now down to 13 per cent. So the euphoria over its performance is perhaps misguided. The BJP performance in these four states in 2016 hides more than it reveals.\nThe Congress contested in 55 per cent fewer seats in these state elections compared to 2014, largely driven by its new alliances with the DMK in Tamil Nadu and the Left in West Bengal. Interestingly, it won more seats in three of the four states in 2016 compared to 2014, albeit on the back of these alliances. But bettering an overall abysmal 2014 performance is no creditable achievement. The Congress's overall average voteshare in 2014 was 19 per cent, down to 18 per cent now.\nThe 12 largest states account for more than 80 per cent of Lok Sabha seats and matter most in national elections\u2014UP, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh (united), Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Orissa and Kerala. The BJP's 2014 victory was entirely on the back of six of them. It won 80 per cent of its Lok Sabha seats from the six 'Hindi' states\u2014Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, winning 90 per cent of all seats. In the other six states, the BJP won only 20 per cent of all seats. So it was imp\u00aderative for the BJP to hedge its dependence on the 'Hindi' states for the 2019 election and expand its presence into other large states. In that context, the BJP should be disappointed with its 2016 electoral performance. It has failed to widen its footprint in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, which together account for 100 Lok Sabha seats.\nThis is not about national versus state elections. There is enough evidence to show voters do not differentiate between the two, contrary to the popular narrative that they do. Increasing voter disenchantment with the national parties carries through state and national elections. The question then is not one of Congess-mukt Bharat or BJP-mukt Bharat but an Alliance Bharat.\n(Chakravarty is a Fellow in Political Economy at IDFC Institute, a Mumbai-based think-tank)\nhttps:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/magazine\/story\/the-times-table\/297188","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Signal Profit\nSign In to See\n#Private Placement Closed\n#Trending News\nTCBP\nTCBPW\nTC BioPharm Announces Closing of $7.35 Million Private Placement\nNov 30th, 2022 18:43 EST\nEDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 30, 2022 \/PRNewswire\/ -- TC BioPharm (Holdings) PLC (\"TC BioPharm\" or the \"Company\") (Nasdaq: TCBP) (Nasdaq: TCBPW), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing platform allogeneic gamma-delta T cell therapies for cancer treatment, today announced the closing of its previously announced private placement for the issuance and sale of 1,470,000 American Depositary Shares (the \"ADSs\")(or ADS equivalents in lieu thereof), Series A warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,470,000 ADSs and Series B warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,470,000 ADSs at a purchase price of $5.00 per ADS (or ADS equivalent in lieu thereof) and associated warrants. Each ADS representing one ordinary share of the Company. The Series A warrants are exercisable immediately upon issuance at an exercise price of $5.00 per ADS and will expire five and one-half years following the date of issuance. The Series B warrants are exercisable immediately upon issuance at an exercise price of $5.00 per ADS and will expire thirty months following the date of issuance.\nH.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.\nThe aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from the private placement was $7.35 million before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses. The Company intends to use the net proceeds for general working capital purposes.\nThe securities described above were offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the \"Act\"), and Regulation D promulgated thereunder and have not been registered under the Act or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\") or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements. The securities were offered only to accredited investors. Pursuant to a registration rights agreement with the investors, the Company has agreed to file one or more registration statements with the SEC covering the resale of the ADSs and ADSs issuable upon exercise of warrants.\nThis press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.\nAbout TC BioPharm (Holdings) PLC\nTC BioPharm is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of gamma-delta T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer with human efficacy data in acute myeloid leukemia. Gamma-delta T cells are naturally occurring immune cells that embody properties of both the innate and adaptive immune systems and can intrinsically differentiate between healthy and diseased tissue. TC BioPharm uses an allogeneic approach in both unmodified and CAR modified gamma delta t-cells to effectively identify, target and eradicate both liquid and solid tumors in cancer.\nTC BioPharm is the leader in developing gamma-delta T cell therapies, and the first company to conduct phase II\/pivotal clinical studies in oncology. The Company is conducting two investigator-initiated clinical trials for its unmodified gamma-delta T cell product line - Phase 2b\/3 pivotal trial for OmnImmune\u00ae in treatment of acute myeloid leukemia using the Company's proprietary allogeneic CryoTC technology to provide frozen product to clinics worldwide. TC BioPharm also maintains a robust pipeline for future indications in solid tumors as well as a significant IP\/patent portfolio in the use of CARs with gamma delta t-cells and owns our manufacturing facility to maintain cost and product quality controls.\nThis press release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions and include statements regarding the use of the net proceeds from the private placement; the filing of a registration statement by TC BioPharm with the SEC covering the resale of the securities issued in the private placement. These statements reflect our current beliefs, and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this press release, such as market and other conditions. 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{"text":"Only thought about playing my role, milestones not on mind: Rohit\nLondon:- Indian opener Rohit Sharma has said that he was only thinking about playing the role he had been assigned to play in England conditions on Day 3 of the fourth Test, and that milestones didn't really matter to him.\nSharma recorded his first overseas Test hundred with a magnificent 127 off 256 balls. He also had a 153-run stand with Cheteshwar Pujara, who made 61 off 127 balls.\n\"Honestly speaking, I was not thinking about all the things (milestones) because that doesn't really matter to me. Getting runs is important, yes. All those first milestones and first overseas hundred, all that will happen if it has to happen. That was never in my mind. What was in my mind was to play my role. I am opening for the first time in England. I had a very important role to play,\" Sharma said on Sunday.\n\"I am glad I could play that role. That is the most important thing I was focusing on and making sure I get the job done. When you open the innings, it is always a nice feeling to get that challenge upfront with the new ball, facing some of the quality bowlers as well. So that was what in my mind,\" said Sharma to Pujara in a video released by BCCI on Sunday.\nSharma also talked about how he felt about helping India take a lead of 171 at stumps on day three. He also mentioned about the opening stand of 83 runs with KL Rahul. \"It's a good feeling. As a team, we stand in a very good position at the moment. So, that is a good feeling. We knew we had our work cut off because we were 100 runs behind in the first innings.\n\"So, we knew we have to bat well to get past that and then build on a big lead. I think all the batters, including KL (Rahul) as well, to start off with. We had a good partnership. We know in England how crucial the new ball is. Once we played that out, runs can come by very quickly.\"\nSharma went on to talk about Pujara's quick start to his knock. \"Very happy for you, Puji. Someone just told me you had 35 off 50 balls.\" In reply, Pujara thanked him and Rahul for blunting the new ball.\n\"It's a good start (chuckles). Thanks to you guys, because the ball was old, I could play my shots. It was slightly easier to bat.\"\nSharma remarked that roles had been reversed. \"The role has been reversed a little bit. Normally, I like to play the shots and get off to the scoreboard quickly and you take time, the roles have reversed now. But I am happy, I am happy to play as many balls as possible. That was for me the biggest challenge on this tour because runs and shots will come as long as you spend time in the middle, get a feel of the pitch, bowlers, conditions, runs will come.\"\nTags: milestones not on mind: Rohit, Only thought about playing my role -Rohit Sharma\nRavi Shastri, India support staff put under isolation\nParalympics: Nagar, Yathiraj help India end Tokyo 2020 campaign with 19 medals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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If you step on a nail and haven't had a tetanus booster in the last five years (or if you're a little rusty on when your last booster was), visiting your health care provider to get it checked out is recommended. It's best to seek treatment sooner rather than later (preferably within 48 hours) to increase your chances of treatment if, in fact, you're infected. Even if you're still concerned, despite knowing the date of your last tetanus shot, having your medical provider take a look may provide some peace of mind.\nThere seems to be a misconception about tetanus \u2014 it isn't the rust that causes the infection, rather it's a type of bacteria, Clostridium tetani, that's on the rusty nail that causes the infection. This bacterium is ubiquitous in the natural environment \u2014 spores lurk in soil, dust, and in animal intestines and feces. The rusty nail scenario isn't the only way this disease spreads. Any deep puncture can become infected with Clostridium tetani, as can burns, torn flesh, punctures from needles during drug use, animal bites and scratches, or other wounds contaminated with human and animal feces or saliva.\nOnce the bacterium finds its way into the body, it may produce a toxin that spreads systemically. It also interferes with the central nervous system, producing muscle stiffness, rigidity, or spasms. For those that suspect they've been exposed to tetanus, there are a number of symptoms to watch out for \u2014 the most frequent symptom is a stiff jaw, followed by a stiff neck, and then muscular stiffness and spasms throughout the body. Other symptoms include difficulty swallowing, restlessness and irritability, fever, headache, and sore throat. More serious complications include broken bones (due to involuntary spasms), pneumonia, difficulty breathing, cardiac arrest, and death. Symptoms may be localized, with muscle contractions in the part of the body where the infection began, or they may be generalized, affecting the whole body. Tetanus symptoms appear anywhere from a few days to several weeks after the tetanus bacteria enters the body.\nA diagnosis of tetanus based on a physical exam, looking for tell-tale signs such as muscle spasms, stiffness, and pain. Currently, laboratory tests are unable to diagnose tetanus. Once diagnosed, a treatment plan may consist of medications such as a tetanus antitoxin, which neutralizes any toxin that hasn't yet combined with nerve tissue, or antibiotics, which are used to fight tetanus bacteria in the body. With tetanus mortality rates as high as 25 percent in the United States and 50 percent worldwide, prevention via vaccination is especially critical \u2014 it's easy and close to 100 percent effective. In fact, almost all cases of tetanus have occurred in people who've never been immunized or who haven't had a tetanus booster shot within the preceding ten years.\nThe tetanus vaccination works by causing the body to respond to an inactivated form of the tetanus toxin, thereby developing antibodies. The vaccine is usually given to children as part of the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) shot. After the initial series of shots, it's recommended that adolescents get a booster shot between the ages of 11 and 18, and that adults receive a tetanus booster every ten years. It's best to make sure your booster is up-to-date when traveling internationally, as tetanus may be more common and treatment may be less accessible overseas.\nSo, Reader, if the wound is deep or if a person's vaccination status is at all questionable, it may be worth a visit to a health care provider. 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{"text":"C\u0103t\u0103lin Putineanu, IB Cargo: Retailers are looking to develop their sales channels, which will lead to an increase in the number of new warehouses and distribution spaces\nC\u0103t\u0103lin Putineanu, managing director of IB Cargo: \"The increase in exports and imports also entails the need for transport and logistics services. The automotive industry, FMCG, manufacturing, online commerce are important users of freight forwarding services. Retailers are looking to expand their sales channels, which will lead to an increase in the number of new warehouses and distribution areas, FMCG products have a short storage period and then stocks run out frequently. \"\nThe IB Cargo shipping company, which delivers goods for 2,000 customers, ran a 22 million euro business year, up 16% on the previous year, and for 2017 the company aims to increase %, to over 24 million euros.\nMost of IB Cargo's customers are automotive, then industrial equipment companies, FMCG, chemicals, fashion, agriculture, electronics, pharma. IB Cargo currently has over 2,000 customers, increasing their number by 5-10% annually.\nAlong with electronics, the most important business for IB Cargo is the one with the car industry for which it transports both to Romania and for export.\n\"IB Cargo has customers of all types of companies, from the smallest to the largest with a multinational presence, each with its own specifics to which you have to adapt in order to be able to bring them with you. true added value. The industries are also varied: automotive, industrial equipment, FMCG, chemicals, fashion, agriculture, electronics, pharma. About 27% of the business comes from industries such as automotive, FMCG and fashion, a percentage directly proportional to the order in which they were mentioned \", said C\u0103t\u0103lin Putineanu, shareholder and managing director of the transport company IB Cargo.\nWhen exported by road, the company transported many subassemblies for Renault Talisman from Romanian manufacturers to France. It also imports from Asia and South America elements for exhaust systems produced here and which are subsequently exported to Renault, Nissan, BMW or Volkswagen.\nAlso, among the most important clients of the company is IKEA, for which it transports ceramics, porcelain, fabrics, but also sofas from the north-west of Romania, products that are exported to all continents.\n\"The development of the freight forwarding sector is supported by all manufacturing industries and by the increase of consumption. The increase in exports and imports also entails the need for transport and logistics services. The automotive industry, FMCG, manufacturing, online commerce are important users of freight forwarding services. Retailers are looking to develop their sales channels, which will lead to an increase in the number of new warehouses and distribution spaces, FMCG products have a short storage period and then the stocks run out often \", said C\u0103t\u0103lin Putineanu.\nHe says that the first half of this year, compared to the previous year, brought increases for international road transport, increase groupage and full container: domestic transport 33%, trucking or international road transport 17%, increase groupage 16 %, full sea container 13% and air 22%. Maritime transport has continued to grow as we focus on exports, and road transport is often the mainstay of sea and air transport, growing at the same time.\n\"The growth of the logistics market and the growth of the company were supported last year by exports, both road and sea, especially to the Middle East of oil & gas equipment, but also other FMCG products, mobile, textiles to the Americas or Asia \", said C\u0103t\u0103lin Putineanu.\nLast year the company had over 2,000 customers, organizations from Romania and from all over the world, and carried out over 33,000 road transports, in approximately 17 million kilometers, we shipped by air 1.2 million 2,700 TEUs worldwide (1 TEU \u2013 approximately 32.1 cubic meters and 21,640 kg).\nFor sea and air transport, the company collaborates with lines and agents from each commercial destination, and for road transport it has over 2,000 employees through which it provides any type of equipment necessary for our customers.\n\"We import goods from the fmcg category, parts for the automotive industry, machinery and equipment, electronics, household appliances, chemicals, accessories and fabric rolls for the fa-shion industry and export finished products for the same industries: automotive, fashion, industrial equipment, pharma, electronics \", Putineanu explains.\nIB Cargo has exclusively 130 trucks owned by several carriers that transport on domestic routes in Romania. In addition, the company has a base of about 3,000 carriers from which it accesses according to customer needs about 830","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: DII women's soccer\nNCAA, NCAA Division II\n3 things to know about Ferris State's historic start in the DII Women's Soccer Championship\nNovember 10, 2018 Wayne Cavadi Leave a comment\nFerris State defeated Ohio Valley 1-0 Saturday to advance to the third round of the DII Women's Soccer Championship. The Bulldogs' magical season continues as it picked up the program's second NCAA tournament win in its history.\nThis is the Bulldogs' first trip to the NCAA tournament, and they are certainly making the most of it. They won 2-0 on Thursday against McKendree and now advance to play the winner of No. 1 seed Grand Valley State and No. 4 Walsh. So, who are these history-making Bulldogs?\nMORE: 2018 interactive bracket | Print the bracket | Selection show\nFerris State continues to pile up historic wins\nThe Bulldogs now sit at 17-3-3, rebounding from a 4-0 loss in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship game to Grand Valley State to win their last two in a row. The 17 wins is most in program history, and they hope they aren't done adding to that number just yet.\nFerris State Soccer@FSUWSO\nThe previous record was set in 2015, when Ferris State went 14-5-1, missing out on the NCAA tournament with a GLIAC semifinals one-goal loss to Ashland, 4-3. The Bulldogs set the program record with a 4-1 victory on Oct. 30 against Davenport in the GLIAC quarterfinals.\nWins No. 16 and 17 will also go down in the record books. Win No. 16 was the first NCAA tournament victory for the Bulldogs. Win No. 17 ensures that Ferris State remains perfect in postseason play, an impressive start to what it hopes is the start of a long November run.\nSingle-season goal records continue to fall\nThis Bulldogs offense has been the most dominant in school history. When Pia Nagel scored the first goal in the Bulldogs' NCAA tournament history, it was the team's 47th of the season. That's one more than the record set by the 2006 and 2007 Ferris State teams. The Bulldogs now sit at 49 goals after Saturday's second-round victory.\nMORE: 6 teams to watch in the tournament\nNagel's tally was also her seventh game-winning goal of the season. That adds to her single-season record, which she set with her fifth game-winner back on Oct. 10 against Tiffin. The freshman has had a sensational debut, scoring a team-best 10 goals on the season.\nPostseason heroes\nIt's been the Pia and Tia show on offense thus far for Ferris State this postseason. Nagel scored the first goal against McKendree, while defender Tia VanSuilichem iced it with her first goal of the postseason. Two days later, VanSuilichem played hero, scoring the lone goal in Ferris State's 1-0 victory.\nAnd how about the red-hot play of junior keeper Alison Chesterfield? She entered the postseason with just three shutouts on the season. Chesterfield has now posted consecutive shutouts and worked hard to get them making 14 combined saves. Her nine saves against Ohio Valley matched her season-high set in a Sept. 2 win over Bellarmine.\nMORE: Complete DII women's soccer championship history\nDII women's soccerDivision IIDivision II women's soccerNCAA\nDII Women's Soccer Championship: Here are 6 teams to watch this postseason\n(From NCAA.com, the full story can be read HERE)\nThe DII Women's Soccer Championship bracket was released on Monday and the road to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania officially begins Nov. 8.\nThe bracket is full of regulars that should make their presence felt deep into the tournament. All eight teams from the 2017 quarterfinals \u2014 Central Missouri, Carson-Newman, Mercy, UC-Colorado Springs, West Chester, West Florida, Grand Valley State, and UC San Diego \u2014 return for another run at the national championship. Let's take a look at a few other teams looking to leave their mark.\nThe Huskies return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2010 on the heels of their first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title since 2002. Now, the Huskies are the No. 1 seed in their region, earning a bye while they await the winner of Millersburg and East Stroudsburg. While Bloomsburg defeated East Stroudsburg a second time for the PSAC title, Millersville handed the Huskies one of their two losses this season.\nBloomsburg doesn't have a star scorer, getting it done with a group of players able to put it in the net. Midfielder Allie Barber leads the way with six goals but has plenty on the Bloomsburg attack to help. The spotlight will be on redshirt-sophomore keeper Jenna Hawkins, who led the PSAC in GAA this year with a microscopic 0.41 mark. She hopes to add a few more to her PSAC-best 12 shutouts before it's all said and done.\nHead coach Jonathan Garbar took over last year and the Ravens returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2010. That was a long drought for Franklin Pierce, a team that went to 19-straight postseasons while winning five national championships \u2014tied for the most ever \u2014 between 1992 and 2010. This time, the Ravens are the No. 1 seed and expectations are higher.\nMORE: Programs with the most DII women's soccer championships\nThe Ravens have a pair of prolific scorers to keep tabs on. Veronica Marques and Nathalia Maria da Silva are dangerous, combining for 27 goals in 18 games this season. Marques is versatile, able to dish it out with the best of them, her 10 assists tied for second in the Northeast-10. In net, freshman Casey Kane will have her first postseason run but showed more than capable this season posting eight shutouts in the Ravens 15-win season.\nFor the past eight consecutive seasons, Central Missouri reigned supreme in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. The Bronchos ended that run this year, behind a dominant 20-1 record. You can be sure all eyes will be upon them, as the Bronchos return to the tournament after a down 7-10-2 2017 season.\nThey certainly have plenty of weapons to make a deep run. Katie Killion led the division in scoring with an astounding 27 goals, but she also has Asha Haile on her side, who put in 15 goals herself. Taryn Kedzior \u2014 the MIAA Freshman of the Year \u2014 anchors one of the best defensive lines in DII women's soccer, one that has allowed just seven goals all season. It won't be easy, just to get to the quarterfinals there is a possible matchup with the defending national champions. But this is a Bronchos team that has already had a historic run to its first MIAA title, so why not add some more to the record books in November?\nAngelo State\nWho doesn't like an underdog? The Rambelles made it to the postseason on the heels of an automatic qualifier, winning the program's first-ever Lone Star Conference tournament. They knew the stakes were high then, and they delivered in an NCAA tournament tune-up.\nMORE: Interactive bracket | Printable bracket\n\"This was the only way we were probably going to get in, so we had that in the back of our mind for the last couple of weeks,\" Angelo State head soccer coach Travis McCorkle said. \"The team is playing at a high level right now, and we're excited to have another game.\"\nOffensively, Trenadey Scott leads the way, scoring 17 goals this season. The Belles are the sixth seed in the region and open against a UCCS team that made it to the program's first national semifinals last year. The odds may be against them, but that's what makes the postseason great.\nFirst round game to watch: No. 3 Lander vs. No. 6 Lincoln Memorial\nWhile Rockhurst is one of the feel-good stories of the tournament, reaching the postseason on the heels of its first-ever Great Lakes Valley Conference title in thrilling overtime fashion, it is the Lander\/LMU matchup that gets the final nod.\nLander is making its first NCAA tournament appearance in the history of the program, coming off the best regular-season and conference finish ever. Lincoln Memorial earned its spot in the tournament by capturing its first South Atlantic Conference title since 2007. The Lady Railsplitters had to beat an extremely tough \u2014and reigning national runners-up \u2014 Carson-Newman to do so. Whoever emerges from this match may have Cinderella written all over them.\nMORE: DII women's soccer news | History\nDII women's soccerDivision II women's soccerNCAANCAA Division II","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Member Qualification\nLOTS WHOLESALE STORY\nEstablished in India in January 2017, Lots Wholesale Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siam Makro Public Company Limited, Thailand's leading Cash & Carry operator in wholesale for professional business operators.\nWith 30 years of experience in serving B2B customers in Thailand, the company arrived in India with an aim to meet all the needs of its members by providing them with a range of products \u2013 fresh produce, packaged food, electronics, stationery, apparel and more \u2013 under one roof and in convenient pack sizes. We primarily cater to Retailers, HoReCa (Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers) and Service Providers (Government institutes, medical facilities, educational institutes etc.).\nAs a part of our strategy to provide best quality products at economical prices in India, Lots has launched its private label brands \u2013 Basic Plus and PlusMo in the country. Own brand portfolio includes Cleaning solutions, Bakery and Bakery products. Very soon, there will be the addition of household, personal care, confectionaries, biscuits, snacks and apparel in the categories.\nThe brand currently operates through 3 stores located in Netaji Subhash Place, Akshardham and Noida Sector 62. The three stores, opened within a span of six months of operations, cater to more than 1,40,000 registered customers in Delhi NCR. The plan is to take this number up to 15 stores in the first three years.\nPeople employed in our stores\nOur vision is to be the best food solution provider for professional customers in India.\nOur mission is to deliver superior value to our customers, shareholders, employees and society at large.\nOur values revolve around VICTORY and place our customer at the core of our business.\nThe 7 key values that light our way spell VICTORY.\nABOUT CP GROUP\nFounded in 1921 by Chia Ek Chor, the Charoen Pokphand Group ('CP Group') is Thailand's largest private company and one of the world's largest conglomerates. The company has businesses in several areas including retail, telecommunication, media, e-commerce, property development, plastics, automotive, finance, insurance and pharmaceutical and is recognised as a global leader and innovator in the food business.\nThe company employs over 350,000 people and has investments and presence in over 30 countries around the world.\nTo further CP Group's desire to vertically link their businesses, Siam Makro Public Company Limited was established in 1988 as a retail and distribution company. It became a part of the CP Group in 2013 and is currently headed by Mr. Arsa Sarasin, Chairman and Ms. Suchada Ithijarukul, CEO.\nABOUT Siam Makro\nSiam Makro Public Company Limited is Thailand's largest cash and carry operator, in business since 1988 under the brand name \"Makro\", operating through 131 stores, employing over 15,000 people and catering to over 3 million registered members in the country. Makro follows a customer-centric strategy with a focus on product development. Customers get access to the best prices, along with unmatched quality and hygiene, owing to Makro's emphasis on controlling end-to-end processes. With multiple store formats like Makro Classic stores (for small retailers), Makro Food Service stores (for HoReCa), Siam Frozen (for frozen food needs) and Siam Food service (for premium food products), Makro caters to the diverse needs of its business customers and continuously work towards always upholding their motto of being 'Your Trusted Partner'.\nMakro opens its 1st store in Lardprao.\nGets listed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand.\nRe-models store format to focus on 'Cash and Carry' and expands Fresh Food sales area to create differentiation from other operators.\nOrganizes the 1st 'Makro HoReCa Extravaganza' to provide knowledge of the food service industry to Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers (HoReCa).\nInitiates 'Makro Retailer Alliance' to enrich members with practical know-how and best business practices to help them increase their competitiveness.\nOpens the 1st 'Siam Frozen' shop in Chiang Mai, making it the st pilot store of its kind selling mainly frozen food.\nOpens a pilot Makro Foodservice store in Hua Hin to provide a one-stop solution for Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers (HoReCa).\nOpens 13 new stores- the highest number of new stores opened in a year throughout Makro's 25 year history.\nAwarded Thailand's Top Corporate brand award 'Rising Star' 2014 Award.\n34 Makro stores are awarded the 'Excellent Labor and Welfare award 2016' from the Department of Labor Protection and Welfare.\nExpands to Cambodia.\nExpands to India with the 1st LOTS Wholesale Solutions store in Delhi NCR.\nSiam Makro PLC is established as a retail and distribution company with a registered capital of Baht 750 Million.\nMrs. Suchada\nIthijarukul\nMr. Tanit\nChearavanont\nMr. Nishant\nRayirath\nMrs. Suchada Ithijarukul\nGroup CEO, Siam Makro Public Company Limited\nMrs. Suchada Ithijarukul is the CEO of Siam Makro Public Company Limited. Under her stewardship, Makro has significantly expanded its geographical footprint and shown exponential growth in turnover. With over three decades of experience in the wholesale cash and carry industry, her guidance and advice have guided LOTS Wholesale Solutions' successful growth in India. In addition to her other professional achievements, Mrs. Ithijarukul has received the Thailand Role Model of Professional Women Award from The Federation of Business and Professional Women's Association of Thailand and the Best CEO Award in Service Category from Investment Analysts Association in 2014. Mrs. Ithijarukul holds a bachelor's degree in Accountancy from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and a certificate in Director Accreditation Program from Thai Institute of Directors.\nMr. Tanit Chearavanont\nManaging Director and Member of the Board\nMr. Tanit Chearavanont was appointed the Managing Director of LOTS Wholesale Solutions in November 2017. He also serves as a member on the board of LOTS Wholesale Solutions, in addition to being an Associate Director at Siam Makro Public Company Limited. Mr. Chearavanont successfully lead the clearance process from the legal board, as well as the CP Group approval for market entry into India, starting with Delhi NCR; in addition to receiving clearance for Indian company registration. Mr. Chearavanont's profile in LOTS Wholesale Solutions encompasses responsibility for leading the overall business operations in India. Mr. Chearavanont's brings with him a strong background and multifaceted experience across M&A, corporate finance and consumer & retail industry. In a previous role, Mr. Chearavanont's worked as the Director Operations of CP Wholesale India. He also worked with UBS AG in Hong Kong as an investment banker across different industries. This experience in banking industry was an added advantage to the organisation as it set up operations in India. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Harvard University, in Massachusetts, U.S.\nMr. Nishant Rayirath\nDirector, Commercial\nMr. Nishant Rayirath is the Director, Commercial for LOTS Wholesale Solutions and is a part of the core team that was responsible for setting up LOTS Wholesale Solutions in India. He is responsible for the merchandising strategy and the development of the vendor ecosystem in India.Prior to joining LOTS Wholesale Solutions, Mr. Rayirath worked with Metro Cash & Carry for over a decade and has over 15 years of experience in wholesale cash & carry operations. He has experience of various roles across FMCG, Fashion, Home, Electronics, Private label development, Analytics, Imports and more. In addition to the above, Nishant has also had a valuable stint in contract advertising, having worked with strong brands like Himalaya and Madura Garments. His experience across industries and different sector benefits LOTS Wholesale Solutions' merchandising strategy in India.\nMr. Rayirath holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management from XIM, Bhubhaneswar, and is a Gold Medallist in Mathematics from Lala Lajpat Rai College. He has a proven track record of building teams with diverse backgrounds and is able to bring out the best in them.\n6th Floor, M3M Cosmopolitan Sector 66, Golf Course Extension Road Gurugram, Haryana \u2013 122002\ncontactus@cpwi.in\nThis id can only accept mails upto 9 MB in size.\nLeaders Profile","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ILM To Open A New Facility In London\nAs production begins to move forward for Episode VII, a big announcement was made today regarding Lucasfilm's special effects company ILM, who will of course be handling the special effects for Episode VII as well as other big movies, in that they will be opening up a brand new facility in London later this year.\nThe Hollywood Reporter exclusively had the story about this announcement, where ILM president and general manager Lynwen Brennan shared details about the new facility, as well as how this new division of ILM will be involved with Episode VII.\nRegarding the new facility, Brennan says \"It will be a full service studio. We'll have an art department, previsualization, and an entire end-to-end visual effects and computer graphics pipeline.\"\nBrennan also revealed that for Episode VII, since production for it is planned at London's Pinewood Studios, \"we'll certainly have some art department and previs there, but we're not currently planning on having a large ILM presence at Pinewood. We did consider splitting the facility in two, but we are now focusing on our London facility and having an as-needed facility at Pinewood to be near the production.\"\nThe Hollywood Reporter also states that \"the plan is for the ILM facilities to handle all of the work for the film, not just in the U.K., but also in ILM's San Francisco headquarters, and Singapore and Vancouver locations, as well as at its strategic partner, Base FX in Beijing. The London facility will have a pipeline allowing it to share work with the other ILM offices.\"\nFor the full report about ILM's new London facility, be sure to head on over to The Hollywood Reporter.\nEpisode VII ILM Lucasfilm Lynwen Brennan star wars\nThe Last Jedi TV Spot: \"Tempt\"\nDetails On The Force Awakens 3D Blu-ray Release!\nHighlights Of The Future Filmmakers Panel From Celebration Europe\nJuly 17, 2016 - 0 comment\nTags: Episode VII \/ ILM \/ Lucasfilm \/ Lynwen Brennan \/ star wars","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Blinken meets with top diplomats in bid to end fighting between Armenia, Azerbaijan\nBy Mike Glenn - The Washington Times\nThe United States is urging Armenian and Azerbaijani officials to continue face-to-face meetings before the end of the month to ease tensions following recent border clashes that have killed hundreds of people.\nSecretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday hosted talks between top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan on the sidelines of an annual session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.\n\"Secretary Blinken conveyed condolences for the lives lost and emphasized the need to prevent further hostilities, underscoring the importance of returning to the peace process,\" said State Department spokesman Ned Price.\nThe discussion was believed to be the first in-person meeting between Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayaramov since the start of hostilities a week ago that has resulted in the deaths of almost 300 soldiers on both sides.\nArmenian officials are demanding the withdrawal of Azerbaijani troops from the territory seized during the most recent round of fighting and other conflicts last year.\nMeanwhile, officials in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku blamed the intense fighting on cross-border \"provocations\" from Armenia.\nBaku and Yerevan, Armenia's capital, have been fighting over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh for several years. About 30,000 people are believed to have been killed in the mostly Armenian-populated region during a war in the early 1990s. A six-week war in 2020 resulted in Armenia losing control over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh.\n\"We are encouraged by the fact that the fighting has ceased and there has not been\" a resumption of shelling, said Mr. Blinken.\n\u2022 This article is based in part on wire service reports.\n\u2022 Mike Glenn can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posts in Medicine, Spirituality, Videos, Flower, Drug Testing, People, Research, Entertainment and Dabs\nColorado works to level the playing field for cannabis businesses\nBy Jeanne Davant Gov. Jared Polis signed a landmark bill affecting the cannabis industry on June 29 in f... (more)\nNew administration could provide ideal backdrop for tribes entering cannabis industry\nBy Robert A. Conrad and ... (more)\nRecreational marijuana supporters hope Florida turns green\nBy Jeffrey Schweers Forget about blue waves and red waves. A green wave is surging across the U.S. A mix of red, blue and purple states in November voted to eith... (more)\nFour states where legalizing marijuana will have to wait until 2021 or 2022\nBy Sean Williams Despite all that's gone on in 2020, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that we're now less th... (more)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ANC: Racial tension in DA\nBloom, Maimane\nThe DA's two Gauteng premier candidates indicated racial tension within the party, the ANC in the province said on Wednesday.\n\"The fact that the Democratic Alliance has two premier candidates is a distinctly inauspicious sign that the party is in a state of mess, confusion and leadership squabbles,\" African National Congress Gauteng chairman Dumisa Ntuli claimed.\nHe was responding to the news that the Democratic Alliance's Gauteng leader Jack Bloom and party spokesman Mmusi Maimane would vie for selection as the party's preferred candidate for premier.\n\"It is a clear indication that there are deeper fights taking place between blacks and whites because of greed, factional battles and rupture caused [by] lack of policies and identity. We know that the DA is a white party and always want to hides behind a fa\u00e7ade of a black face.\"\nMaimane dismissed Ntuli's comments as political rhetoric aimed at diverting public attention from the ANC's failings.\n\"They have no delivery record and are losing credibility. All they want to argue is race,\" he said.\nAttempts to portray the DA as a white party contained the implication that the ANC was therefore a black party, Maimane said.\nThe focus on race issues showed the ANC had departed from the non-racial principles of its former president Albert Luthuli, he said. \u2013 Sapa\nAuthor Dan RoodtPosted on August 1, 2013 Categories News, South AfricaTags ANC, DA, Gauteng, Jack Bloom, Mmusi Maimane\nPrevious Previous post: SANDF readies to fight M23\nNext Next post: Mandela on Table Mountain?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Section home\nExpert comment\nContact the PR team\nPR team contacts\nFirst evidence that soot from polluted air may be reaching placenta\nEvidence of tiny particles of carbon, typically created by burning fossil fuels, has been found in placentas for the first time, in early research involving a small number of people, presented today by researchers from Queen Mary University of London.\nPrevious research has indicated links between pregnant mothers' exposure to air pollution and premature birth, low birth weight, infant mortality and childhood respiratory problems.\nThe study, presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress and funded by Barts Charity, adds to existing evidence on the dangers of pollution for unborn babies and suggests that when pregnant women breathe polluted air, sooty particles are able to reach the placenta via the bloodstream.\nThe work was presented by Dr Norrice Liu, a paediatrician and clinical research fellow, and Dr Lisa Miyashita, a post-doctoral researcher, both members of Professor Jonathan Grigg's research group at Queen Mary's Blizard Institute.\nAir pollution affecting foetal development\nDr Miyashita said: \"We've known for a while that air pollution affects foetal development and can continue to affect babies after birth and throughout their lives.\n\"We were interested to see if these effects could be due to pollution particles moving from the mother's lungs to the placenta. Until now, there has been very little evidence that inhaled particles get into the blood from the lung.\"\nThe researchers worked with five pregnant women who were all living in London and due to have planned caesarean section deliveries at the Royal London Hospital. They were all non-smokers with an uncomplicated pregnancy and each one gave birth to a healthy baby. The women all gave permission for researchers to study their placentas after delivery.\nThe team was interested in particular cells called placental macrophages. Macrophages exist in many different parts in the body. They are part of the body's immune system and work by engulfing harmful particles, such as bacteria and pollution particles. In the placenta they also help to protect the foetus.\nFirst evidence that inhaled pollution particles move to the placenta\nThe team studied a total of 3,500 placental macrophage cells from the five placentas and examined them under a high-powered microscope. They found 60 cells that between them contained 72 small black areas that researchers believe were carbon particles.\nThey went on to study the placental macrophages from two placentas in greater details using an electron microscope and again found material that they believe was made up of tiny carbon particles.\nDr Liu added: \"Our results provide the first evidence that inhaled pollution particles can move from the lungs into the circulation and then to the placenta.\n\"We do not know whether the particles we found could also move across into the foetus, but our evidence suggests that this is indeed possible. We also know that the particles do not need to get into the baby's body to have an adverse effect, because if they have an effect on the placenta, this will have a direct impact on the foetus.\"\nProfessor Mina Gaga, President of the European Respiratory Society who was not involved in the study, said: \"This new research suggests a possible mechanism of how babies are affected by pollution while being theoretically protected in the womb. This should raise awareness amongst clinicians and the public regarding the harmful effects of air pollution in pregnant women.\n\"We need stricter policies for cleaner air to reduce the impact of pollution on health worldwide because we are already seeing a new population of young adults with health issues.\"\nResearch: Abstract no: PA360, \"Late Breaking Abstract - Do inhaled carbonaceous particles translocate from the lung to the placenta?\", Norrice Liu et al; Occupational and environmental lung diseases: asthma and the airways, 08:30 hrs CEST, Sunday 16 September, Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.\nFind out more about our postgraduate courses in Public Health at the Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London.\nNews story: Queen Mary students receive first lecture in the metaverse\nNews story: Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam answers Covid-19 questions at Queen Mary event\nNews story: Optimising treatments for high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease could save lives, according to researchers\nFor media information, contact:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, One Tree Hill and More\nGossip Girl won Guiltiest Pleasure and Chuck sleeping with Jenny on Gossip Girl won Moment That Made You Want to Throw Out Your TV in Kristin's Tater Top Awards. The teen dramas lost in all the other categories they were nominated in.\nThe Pretty Reckless, featuring Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl), has a new video for their song Miss Nothing.\nAnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) told MTV that the cast doesn't know which male 90210 character will come out this season.\nMcCord appeared on Double Exposure last night, which looked at a photo shoot she did for Cosmopolitan.\nTiffani Amber Thiessen (Valerie, Beverly Hills 90210) and her new baby, Harper Renn, are featured in the new issue of PEOPLE.\nForbes has a video interview with Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210).\nSophia Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill) has a new blog post on her official site.\nBryan Greenberg (Jake, One Tree Hill) tweeted that he's started filming the film Friends With Benefits. This is not the FWB TV series premiering this fall with Danneel Harris (Rachel, One Tree Hill).\nGossip Cop busted a false Star story about Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) dating Andy Samberg.\nGossip Cop and I busted a false rumor about Katie Holmes (Joey, Dawson's Creek) and hubby Tom Cruise doing a reality show, and a false In Touch story about Holmes feuding with Cruise's ex, Nicole Kidman, over their daughter Isabella.\nAli Larter (Kristy, Dawson's Creek) is pregnant.\nTags: 90210, Ali Larter, Andy Samberg, AnnaLynne McCord, Beverly Hills 90210, Brooke, Bryan Greenberg, Chuck, Cosmopolitan, Danneel Harris, Dawson's Creek, Donna, Double Exposure, Forbes, Friends With Benefits, Gossip Cop, Gossip Girl, Harper Renn Smith, In Touch, Isabella Cruise, Jake, Jenny, Joey, Katie Holmes, Kristin, Kristy, MTV, Naomi, Nicole Kidman, One Tree Hill, PEOPLE, Rachel, Rachel Bilson, Sophia Bush, Star, Summer, Tater Top Awards, Taylor Momsen, The O.C, The Pretty Reckless, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Tom Cruise, Tori Spelling, Valerie\nCategories : 90210, Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The O.C.\nNews Roundup: 90210, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and More\n90210, One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl are all nominated for Show You Cannot Believe Is Still on the Air and Guiltiest Pleasure in Kristin's Tater Top Awards.\nThe next category in The CW Sourcies is Favorite Bad Boy. Among the nominees: Liam (Matt Lanter, 90210), Clay (Robert Buckley, One Tree Hill) and Chuck (Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl).\nAusiello has a huge 90210 spoiler, one that I don't have a good feeling about. At all. Feel free to discuss in the comments below. This is fair warning to those who wish to stay spoiler-free.\nPEOPLE.com spoke to Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) about making a Twitter account for her three-year-old son, Liam.\nStrange: Us Weekly is reporting Vanessa Marcil (Gina, Beverly Hills 90210) just got married to Carmine Giovinazzo last weekend but, if you recall, she used his last name (in addition to hers) at the Daytime Emmys last month.\nOne Tree Hill begins filming season 8 tomorrow.\nGossip Cop busted reports about Chad Michael Murray (Lucas, One Tree Hill) attending a Scientology meeting with Tom Cruise, husband to CMM's former co-star Katie Holmes (Joey, Dawson's Creek), and Will Smith. He was with them, but it wasn't a Scientology event.\nDose.ca has a pretty good interview with Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl).\nChris Pratt (Che, The O.C.) has joined the cast of the film Moneyball.\nTags: 90210, Ausiello, Beverly Hills 90210, Carmine Giovinazzo, Che, Chris Pratt, Chuck, Clay, Daytime Emmys, Donna, Dose.ca, Ed Westwick, Gina, Gossip Girl, Jenny, Kristin, Liam, Matt Lanter, Moneyball, One Tree Hill, PEOPLE.com, Robert Buckley, Tater Top Awards, Taylor Momsen, The CW Sourcies, The O.C, Tori Spelling, Twitter, US Weekly, Vanessa Marcil, Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo\nCategories : 90210, Beverly Hills 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The O.C.\nNews Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill\nI'm pretty sure 90210 has started filming season 3 or will later this week.\nMatt Lanter (Liam, 90210) stars in Vampires Suck, a Scary Movie-style parody of the Twilight-vampire genre, which comes out next month. Check out the trailer.\nThe new issue of PEOPLE has an article on and photos of Brian Austin Green (David, Beverly Hills 90210) and Megan Fox's wedding.\nGossip Cop busted a Star story about Green and Fox getting married because she's pregnant. They're NOT expecting.\nDean McDermott, husband to Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210), was released from the hospital yesterday.\nBlair (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl) is up for Best Bitch in Kristin's Tater Top Awards.\nGossip Cop and I busted a rumor that fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld may guest star on Gossip Girl.\nSoapNet started re-airing One Tree Hill from the beginning today. It will also start over tomorrow at 3pm.\nThe new issue of OK! Magazine has an interview with Jana Kramer (Alex, One Tree Hill) and Johnathon Schaech about their wedding, plus lots of pics\u2013including an adorable one of Kramer, Sophia Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill) and Austin Nichols (Julian, One Tree Hill).\nExaminer.com has more of the interview with Bush and Nichols about the crisis in the Gulf.\nFancast has a pretty great interview with Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) about OTH and her upcoming appearances on White Collar.\nBryan Greenberg (Jake, One Tree Hill) tweeted that he's working on a new album.\nTags: 90210, Alex, Austin Nichols, Beverly Hills 90210, Blair, Brian Austin Green, Brooke, Bryan Greenberg, David, Dean McDermott, Donna, Examiner.com, Fancast, Gossip Cop, Gossip Girl, Gulf Coast, Hilarie Burton, Jake, Jana Kramer, Johnathon Schaech, Julian, Karl Lagerfeld, Kristin, Leighton Meester, Liam, Matt Lanter, Megan Fox, OK! Magazine, One Tree Hill, OTH, PEOPLE, Peyton, Scary Movie, Sophia Bush, Star, Tater Top Awards, Tori Spelling, Twilight, Twitter, Vampires Suck, White Collar\nCategories : 90210, Beverly Hills 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill\nNews Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, The O.C. and Dawson's Creek\nLeighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) and Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl) are nominated for Drama Mama and Drama King, respectively, in Kristin's Tater Top Awards.\nGossip Cop called X17 out for posting an upskirt photo of Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl), who is a minor.\nE! Online spoke to Tristan Wilds (Dixon, 90210) about the divisive season finale.\nThe TV Addict has an interview with Peter Gallagher (Sandy, The O.C.).\nGossip Cop busted a rumor about Katie Holmes (Joey, Dawson's Creek) appearing on Glee.\nTags: 90210, Blair, Chuck, Dawson's Creek, Dixon, E! Online, Ed Westwick, Glee, Gossip Cop, Gossip Girl, Jenny, Katie Holmes, Kristin, Leighton Meester, Peter Gallagher, Sandy, Tater Top Awards, Taylor Momsen, The O.C, The TV Addict, Tristan Wilds, X17\nCategories : 90210, Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girl, The O.C.\nNews Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and More\nThe CW has announced premiere dates for the fall season: 90210 and Gossip Girl will start Monday, September 13. One Tree Hill will start Tuesday, September 14. The rest: America's Next Top Model and Hellcats, featuring Matt Barr (Ian \"Psycho Derek\" Banks, One Tree Hill) and Robbie Jones (Quentin, One Tree Hill), on Wednesday, September 8; Nikita, featuring Melinda Clarke (Julie, The O.C.), and The Vampire Diaries on Thursday, September 9; Life Unexpected, featuring Kerr Smith (Jack, Dawson's Creek) and Shiri Appleby (Rene, Beverly Hills 90210) after OTH; Smallville and Supernatural on Friday, September 24.\nGossip Girl's Dan and Vanessa are nominated for Oddest Couple in Kristin's Tater Top Awards.\nCraig Sheffer (Keith, One Tree Hill) has put his home up for sale. Only really posting this because we so rarely hear about him!\nRachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) has endorsed some Coach pocketbooks and part of the profits from them will benefit The Art of Elysium.\nFreaks and Geeks, a short-lived show starring Busy Philipps (Audrey, Dawson's Creek) and Seth Rogen (Bob, Dawson's Creek), will re-air on IFC beginning Friday.\nTags: 90210, America's Next Top Model, Audrey, Beverly Hills 90210, Bob, Busy Philipps, Coach, Craig Sheffer, Dan, Dawson's Creek, Freaks and Geeks, Gossip Girl, Hellcats, Ian \"Psycho Derek\" Banks, IFC, Jack, Julie, Keith, Kerr Smith, Kristin, Life UneXpected, Matt Barr, Melinda Clarke, Nikita, One Tree Hill, OTH, Quentin, Rachel Bilson, Rene, Robbie Jones, Seth Rogen, Shiri Appleby, Smallville, Summer, Supernatural, Tater Top Awards, The Art of Elysium, The CW, The O.C, The Vampire Diaries, Vanessa\nCategories : 90210, Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The O.C.\nThe next CW Sourcies category is Best Villain, with Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg, Gossip Girl), Jen (Sara Foster, 90210) and Katie (Amanda Schull, One Tree Hill) among the nominees.\nChuck sleeping with Jenny in the Gossip Girl season finale is nominated for Moment That Made You Want to Throw Out Your TV in Kristin's Tater Top Awards.\nPopMatters has a great (but long) piece on the trend of teen dramas showcasing teens in adult-like ways, with a look at the genre but most of the focus on Gossip Girl.\nRadarOnline recorded Trevor Donovan (Teddy, 90210) as he went skydiving.\nKim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian will guest-star on the 90210 season 3 premiere.\nBrian Austin Green (David, Beverly Hills 90210) and Megan Fox were married last week.\nSophia Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill) was on KTLA this morning.\nBush told Zap2it that if she wins at Teen Choice 2010 in August, she will auction off her surfboard to benefit Global Green.\nThere is a contest to win (essentially) an all-expenses paid trip for two to the Everly, featuring Bethany Joy Galeotti (Haley, One Tree Hill), and Enation show at the Corn Palace in August.\nDon't Be Afraid Of The Dark, starring Katie Holmes (Joey, Dawson's Creek), will be released January 21, 2011.\nPEOPLE.com has a \"first look\" photo of Holmes as Jackie Kennedy.\nAuthor Bret Easton Ellis, who has worked with at least two teen drama stars including James Van Der Beek (Dawson, Dawson's Creek), spoke to TVGuide.com about whether he inspired the teen drama genre.\nThe Daily Telegraph has an interview with Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan, The O.C.), where he mentions he is not in touch with Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.).\nTags: 90210, Amanda Schull, Benjamin McKenzie, Bethany Joy Galeotti, Beverly Hills 90210, Bret Easton Ellis, Brian Austin Green, Brooke, Chuck, Corn Palace, David, Dawson, Dawson's Creek, Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, Enation, Everly, Georgina, Global Green, Gossip Girl, Haley, Jackie Kennedy, James Van Der Beek, Jen, Jenny, Joey, Katie, Katie Holme, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kristin, KTLA, Marissa, Megan Fox, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mischa Barton, One Tree Hill, PEOPLE.com, PopMatters, RadarOnline, Ryan, Sara Foster, Sophia Bush, Tater Top Awards, Teddy, Teen Choice 2010, The CW Sourcies, The Daily Telegraph, The O.C, Trevor Donovan, TVGuide.com, Zap2it\nNews Roundup: 90210, One Tree Hill, The O.C and Dawson's Creek\nTeen Choice 2010 has announced additional nominations, with lots more teen drama-related picks. Kellan Lutz (George, 90210) is nominated for Choice Movie Scene Stealer Male for New Moon. Paul Wesley (Donnie, The O.C.) is nominated for Choice TV Breakout Star Male for The Vampire Diaries. Bethany Joy Galeotti (Haley, One Tree Hill), Shenae Grimes (Annie, 90210) and Hilary Duff (Olivia, Gossip Girl) are all nominated for Choice TV Scene Stealer Female while James Lafferty (Nathan, One Tree Hill) is nominated for Choice TV Scene Stealer Male. Together, Galeotti and Lafferty are nominated for Choice TV Parental Unit and Lori Loughlin (Debbie, 90210) and Rob Estes (Harry, 90210) are also nominated.\nThe Miami Herald has a short interview with AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210).\nSeems that Vanessa Marcil (Gina, Beverly Hills 90210) married her old boyfriend, Carmine Giovinazzo, recently, as she was introduced at the Daytime Emmys last night with his last name.\nHighlight of the Emmys for me: a clip of Luke Perry (Dylan, Beverly Hills 90210) from his Loving days being included in the tribute to soap opera maven Agnes Nixon. Bummer, though, that Jonathan Jackson, who appeared on One Tree Hill with his band Enation, and Carolyn Hennesy (Mrs. Valentine, Dawson's Creek) did not win in their respective categories.\nGaleotti has released a song called Shiver in hopes of raising funds to improve the water conditions in Kenya.\nAs a birthday present for Sophia Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill), some fans are organizing a group donation to Global Green.\nZap2it posted pictures of Brittany Daniel (Eve, Dawson's Creek) at last night's BET Awards. One word: wow.\nWesley is nominated for Top Breakout Star Male in Kristin's Tater Top Awards for The Vampire Diaries.\nTags: 90210, Agnes Nixon, AnnaLynne McCord, Annie, BET Awards, Bethany Joy Galeotti, Beverly Hills 90210, Brittany Daniel, Brooke, Carmine Giovinazzo, Carolyn Hennesy, Dawson's Creek, Daytime Emmys, Debbie, Donnie, Dylan, Enation, Eve, George, Gina, Global Green, Gossip Girl, Haley, Harry, Hilary Duff, James Lafferty, Jonathan Jackson, Kellan Lutz, Kenya, Kristin, Lori Loughlin, Loving, Luke Perry, Miami Herald, Mrs. Valentine, Naomi, Nathan, New Moon, Olivia, One Tree Hill, Paul Wesley, Rob Estes, Shenae Grimes, Shiver, Sophia Bush, Tater Top Awards, Teen Choice 2010, Teen Choice Awards, The O.C, The Vampirie Diaries, Vanessa Marcil, Zap2it\nCategories : 90210, Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, The O.C.\nNews Roundup: Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill\nAccording to the Daily News, Target's Gossip Girl-inspired fashion line may be cutting ties with the show. MTV, on the other hand, is reporting that the DN story is false and the partnership is still happening.\nPerez Hilton posted a very cute photo of Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) and Sebastian Stan (Carter, Gossip Girl).\nHilton also posted a pic of Meester and Jessica Szohr (Vanessa, Gossip Girl) being mobbed on their way to filming.\nMeester\/Blair won Best Bitch in the Tater Top Awards. Our teen dramas lost in every other category they were nominated in.\nGawker posted a pic of Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl) on set, and another one of Meester and Blake Lively (Serena, Gossip Girl).\nTaylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl) discussed her music habits with MTV.\nThe second round of the Gossip Girl bracket-tournament has been posted.\nIn the \"Finally! It's About Time\" category of the Sourcies, Blair & Chuck's mutual declaration of love on Gossip Girl and Leyton's wedding on One Tree Hill and are both nominated.\nAccording to the above link, none of our teen dramas won for Best Fight, though Brooke (Sophia Bush, One Tree Hill) was close.\nTheRealOneTreeHill Twitter account posted a very spoilish but very hot picture.\nDaphne Zuniga (Victoria, One Tree Hill), who starred in the original Melrose Place, will guest-star in the spin-off.\nSouthern Gothic Productions will launch its first podcast tomorrow at 10am.\nTags: Blair, Blake Lively, Brooke, Carter, Chuck, Daily News, Daphne Zuniga, Ed Westwick, Gawker, Gossip Girl, Jenny, Jessica Szohr, Leighton Meester, Leyton, Melrose Place, MTV, One Tree Hill, Perez Hilton, Sebastain Stan, Serena, Sophia Bush, Southern Gothic Productions, Target, Tater Top Awards, Taylor Momsen, TheRealOneTreeHill, Twitter, Vanessa, Victoria\nCategories : Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill\nNews Roundup: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, 90210 and More\nHilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) discusses the novel she is working on in a new SoGoPro vlog.\nStatic Multimedia has an article on Joe Manganiello (Owen, One Tree Hill) and his career.\nBlair's \"I love you\" speech to Chuck on Gossip Girl is up for Best Tearjerker in the Tater Top Awards. Blair's attempt at seducing him is nominated for Best Show of Skin. Chuck and Blair are also up for Best Romantic Chemistry and Nate-Blair-Chuck-Vanessa are nominated for the \"godforsaken love polygon you are totally over.\"\nThe O.C.'s Sandy Cohen (played by Peter Gallagher) is included in two photo galleries of TV dads. Matthew Settle (Rufus, Gossip Girl) and Rob Estes (Harry, 90210) are also included in the latter one.\nKatie Holmes (Joey, Dawson's Creek) will reportedly be on on the So You Think You Can Dance finale in August.\nTags: Blair, Chuck, Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girl, Hilarie Burton, Joe Manganiello, Joey, Katie Holmes, Nate, One Tree Hill, Owen, Peyton, Sandy, So You Think You Can Dance, SoGoPro, Static Multimedia, Tater Top Awards, The O.C, Vanessa\nNews Roundup: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, 90210 and More\nLeighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) and Jessica Szohr (Vanessa, Gossip Girl) discussed with MTV the possibility of a GG movie.\nMeester\/Blair is up for Best Bitch in the Tater Top Awards.\nPEOPLE.com has a story on Chace Crawford's (Nate, Gossip Girl) interview with Ryan Seacrest about being chosen as PEOPLE's Hottest Bachelor.\nEW.com has an article analyzing the special PEOPLE issue and Crawford's selection.\nKristin has some more details on the GG\/One Tree Hill time swap.\nAusiello has a short post on the casting of Quinn (Shantel VanSarten) as Haley's sister on OTH.\nHere are some more official OTH cast Twitter accounts: Antwon Tanner (Skills), Colin Fickes (Jimmy), Kate Voegle (Mia), Maria Menounos (Jules) and Tyler Hilton (Chris Keller). Credit goes to OTH Twitter Bugs for the confirmation!\nRyan Eggold (Ryan, 90210) will star in a film called Trophy Kids.\nBrian Austin Green (David, Beverly Hills 90210) will appear in a few episodes of Smallville next season. Coincidentally, Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210\u2013aka, David's wife) appeared on Smallville last season.\nLindsay Price (Janet, Beverly Hills 90210) is dating Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother.\nWayne Coyne, the lead singer for The Flaming Lips, reflected on the band's 1994 appearance on Beverly Hills 90210.\nParental Discretion Advised, one of The CW's planned mid-season replacements starring Kerr Smith (Jack, Dawson's Creek), has changed names again. It's now called Life UneXpected.\nTags: 90210, Antwon Tanner, Ausiello, Beverly Hills 90210, Blair, Brian Austin Green, Chace Crawford, Chris Keller, Colin Fickes, David, Dawson's Creek, Donna, EW.com, GG, Gossip Girl, Haley, Hottest Bachelor, How I Met Your Mother, Jessica Szohr, Jimmy, Josh Radnor, Jules, Kate Voegele, Kerr Smith, Kristin, Leighton Meester, Life UneXpected, Lindsay Price, Maria Menounos, Mia, MTV, Nate, One Tree Hill, OTH, OTH Twitter Bugs, Parental Discretion Advised, PEOPLE, PEOPLE.com, Quinn, Ryan, Ryan Eggold, Ryan Seacret, Shantel VanStarten, Skills, Smallville, Tater Top Awards, The CW, The Flaming Lips, Tori Spelling, Trophy Kids, Twitter, Tyler Hilton, Vanessa, Wayne Coyne","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nintendo Direct E3 2021 recap: Breath of the Wild 2, Metroid Dread and all the big news\nWe got another look at The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, plus other exciting footage from Metroid Dread and other upcoming titles.\nBy Roland Moore-Colyer , Richard Priday published 15 June 21\nNintendo offered a non-stop 40 minutes of announcements at its Nintendo Direct showcase at E3 2021, including new teaser footage from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, and a surprise new 2D Metroid game titled Metroid: Dread.\nOther highlights include several ports of games old and new, such as Life is Strange: Remastered Collection, Danganronpa: Decadence, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania and Mario Party Superstars.\nSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate got its next character, Kazuya Mishima, revealed, while Hyrule Warriors 2: Age of Calamity had two packs of DLC announced, meaning there's still stuff to enjoy if you're not done with these already-launched titles.\nSadly there was nothing to see regarding the much-rumored Nintendo Switch Pro. It seems likely that Nintendo will offer some kind of mid-life upgrade or even replacement for the Switch, which is now entering its fifth year of life. However the live stream was all about the games, not hardware.\nIf you want to see our as-it-happened reactions to the Nintendo presentation, you can read all about it below. Otherwise, why not check out the biggest E3 announcements so far, complete with their respective trailers.\nE3 2021 biggest announcements: All the best trailers, reveals and gameplay\nE3 2021 Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase live blog\nPlus: Xbox Series X timed exclusive The Medium is coming to PS5\nWe've got some four hours to wait before Nintendo Direct kicks off. That feeling? Well, it's excitement; E3 2021 has been rather good so far, so we're hoping Nintendo delivers a stellar show on a par with the E3 2021 Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase.\nThere are murmurs on Twitter that we should temper our expectations for this Nintendo Direct. So perhaps there won't be any huge reveals. We hope that's no the case, but time will tell!\nIf what I'm hearing is true, calm your expectations for the Nintendo Direct tomorrow. It sounds like so long as you don't go in super hyped or expecting huge announcements, you'll have a good time!June 15, 2021\nWhat do you want to see from the Nintendo Direct? Tweet us @tomsguide and let us know.\nThere don't seem to be any last-minute Switch Pro or Breath of the Wild 2 leaks doing the rounds; this may or may not be a sign of what's to come.\nThe last E3 showcase was the Capcom one. While you wait for the Nintendo Direct, why not take a look at our recap of the event.\nHmmm. Given that the placeholder image for the Nintendo livestream mentions that it's \"focussed exclusively on Nintendo Switch software\", perhaps we should temper our hopes of any Switch Pro news. Unless it's a double bluff of course...\n(Image credit: Nintendo)\nIf you need a quick recap of the highlights of what's appeared at E3 this year already, have a read of our E3 2021 biggest announcements story.\nOne thing we will probably see more of today is the sequel to Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle \u2014 Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. You can watch the trailer for this unusual turn-based tactics game below.\nLess than one hour to go! Make sure you're sat down with some popcorn and your Amiibos soon so you don't miss out any of the announcements.\nIt's time! The stream hasn't quite got going yet, but soon we will see what Nintendo has for us today.\nAnd here we have Shinya Takahashi and Yoshiaka Koizumi introducing us to what's going on for the fifth year of the Nintendo Switch's lifespan.\nYou might have hoped that that Ganondorf appearence meant some Legend of Zelda content! It was instead to introduce us to Tekken's Kazuya Mishima, the latest addition to the cast of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,\nAnd now we've got Smash Bros. chief Masahiro Sakurai introducing Kazuya's moves. No doubt all these attacks are quite familiar to anyone who's been a fan of the 3D fighting game franchise in recent years. Ken and Ryu need to watch out!\nNext up, Life is Strange Remastered Collection and Life is Strange: True Colors. The original games are already popular narrative experiences, but have yet to appear on Switch. True Colors is coming on September 10, with the Remastered collection coming \"later this year\".\nA quick flurry of games now! Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Worms Rumble, Astria Ascending and Two Points Campus are all on their way to the Switch.\nSuper Monkey Ball is turning 20 years old this year, and a remastered collection, Banana Mania is coming on October 5th.\nMario Party Superstars, combining 100 mini-games (now all with button controls and online play compatability), is on the way for October 29. You can pre-order from today if you're already keen though.\nMetroid Prime 4 is confirmed as still in development, but another Metroid title, simply called \"Metroid Dread\", has got a brief teaser trailer, featuring not the floaty Metroids we know and love but some kind of scary robot chasing Samus in a traditional 2D map.\nNow we get to see Samus flex her old and new powers. And it's coming October 8!\nJust Dance 2022 is incoming, featuring 40 new tracks, on November 4th.\nCruis'n Blast, an exclusive for the Switch, is coming later this year. As is a port of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, along with some bundled DLC.\n(Image credit: Nintendo direct)\nMario Golf Super Rush's different modes are getting shown off, varying between traditional, \"speed golf\" which involves chasing after your ball as soon as you've hit it, a \"battle golf\" arena mode, plus a golf adventure campaign. DLC courses and characters are on the way too. June 25th is launch day.\nMonster Hunter Stories 2 just got shown off, and now we're onto a new Warioware title: the co-op enabled Get It Together! It's been a minute, Wario!\nThis dramatic-looking trailer turned out to be Shin Megami Tensai V. Overshadowed by its spin-off series, Persona, in recent years, fans of hardcore JRPGs will be glad to see this franchise back.\nDanganronpa, a somewhat indescribable detective game, is getting all three titles ported to the Switch in the form of Danganronpa Decadence. There's also a standalone board game mode, based on the original from Danganronpa V3.\nFeeling spooky? Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water is coming later this year.\nDoom Eternal's Ancient Gods DLC is coming to Switch. So is Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2, Strange Brigade and the already revealed Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope.\nAdvance Wars is back! And in the original cartoony style, not whatever Days of Ruin was trying to do... Anyways, it's great to see this new title, Advance Wars: Re-Boot Camp, which combines the first two games.\nThe final announcement of the day is Legend of Zelda, but maybe not the kind we wanted. It's Hyrule Warriors DLC wave 1 titled \"Pulse of the Ancients\" and \"Guardian of Remembrance\".\nOooh, a hardware announcement! No, not a new Switch, but a Game & Watch celebrating the anniversary of Legend of Zelda, coming November 12. It features the first three games and an extra mini-game. Loving the iPod Nano-style reveal too!\nDevelopment is still carrying on for the Breath of the Wild sequel, and there's new footage!\nSkydiving Link! Floating islands! More magic! A crumbling, floating Hyrule Castle!? This is already got our attention. Alas, this still unnamed sequel won't arrive until next year.\nAnd so ends the presentation. There's more to see during the Nintendo Treehouse portion of the broadcast, but that's all the news we have from Nintendo for the time being.\nApologies to anyone hoping for new hardware, Nintendo kept its promise (unless you count the Game & Watch). However there are exciting things in store for all of Nintendo's biggest franchises, plus lots of third-party releases big and small all on the way. That's a decent consolation prize we reckon.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Guiding Light (CD)\nGuiding Light (CD)\nFor Katherine Jenkins, her latest studio album, GUIDING LIGHT, represents the culmination of a deeply emotional journey which began when her beloved father died and found a new path when she became a mother. It is an album which speaks of life, hope, acceptance and a universal spirituality.\nThis is a collection of songs in which to find meaning and inspiration. Includes the single Jealous of the Angels, Josh Groban's \"To Where you Are\", hymns \"Make Me A Channel of your Peace\" and \"Morning Has Broken\" (with Bryn Terfel), and a moving new version of Stormzy's \"Blinded By Your Grace\" which features Katherine's Daughter Aaliyah.\n\"My voice has changed. This album is the most intimate album I have ever made. It's a mindful collections of songs. I'm not trying to prove anything, I'm not trying to show how many notes I can hit, I just want to take people to a place of emotion and reflection \u2013 to touch hearts and souls.\" \u2013 Katherine Jenkins\nJealous Of The Angels\nRutter: A Gaelic Blessing\nTraditional: Morning Has Broken (feat. Bryn Terfel)\nDros Gymru'n Gwlad (Finlandia)\nBlinded By Your Grace\nTo Where You Are\nMake Me A Channel Of Your Peace\nEternal Father\nXander's Song\nTraditional: Morning Has Broken","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"05\/05\/2018 Cleveland Cavaliers v Toronto Raptors\nEast semifinals Game 3 previews: Raptors, Sixers seek much-needed wins\nThe Raptors and Sixers both look to avoid falling down 0-3 in their respective Eastern Conference semifinals series.\nBy Gilbert McGregor\nCleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James guards DeMar Derozan of the Toronto Raptors (Getty Images) https:\/\/images.daznservices.com\/di\/library\/NBA_Global_CMS_image_storage\/b\/fc\/lebron-james-demar-derozan-050518-ftr_1i2m3ie5zmp4w1b3g0o0cjcqc6.jpg?t=817110763&w=500\nNo. 2 Celtics vs. No. 3 76ers - Boston leads 2-0\nAfter overcoming a 22-point deficit in Game 2 to take a commanding 2-0 series lead over the Sixers, Boston looks to continue its series dominance in Game 3.\nThe series now shifts to the Wells Fargo Center, where the 76ers are 32-12 this year (postseason included). Philadelphia is in need of a win, as it looks to avoid falling into the historically insurmountable series deficit of 0-3.\nSixers rookie Ben Simmons is coming off of one of the worst performances of his young career. He dished out seven assists, but was 0-of-4 from the field, scored one point and committed five turnovers. Despite having a rough night, Simmons' confidence is still high ; the Sixers will need him to return to form to have a chance to win Game 3.\nBoston's two wins have been complete team efforts. In Game 1 , it was Terry Rozier (29), Jayson Tatum (28) and Al Horford (26) combining for 83 points to lead the Celtics to a 16-point win. In Game 2 , Rozier (20 points, nine assists, seven rebounds, 0 turnovers), Horford (13 points, 12 rebounds) and Tatum (21 points) impressed once again while Marcus Smart (19 points) and Jaylen Brown (13 points) made major contributions. Brown's performance was even more impressive considering the hamstring injury he is playing through.\nHorford has been the key for Boston throughout the postseason and it will be able to take 3-0 lead if he continues to lead by example with his composure and play.\nNo. 1 Raptors vs. No. 4 Cavs - Cleveland leads 2-0\nAfter an 18-point home loss to the Cavs in Game 2 , Toronto finds itself in desperate need of a win.\nThe Raptors' Game 2 loss was their eighth consecutive postseason loss to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. They now travel to Cleveland, where they have struggled since LeBron James' return to the Cavs. In 12 regular season and playoff games at Quicken Loans Arena since Nov. 22, 2014, the Raptors are 2-10. In order to have a chance in this series, Toronto must overcome its road woes in Cleveland.\nDeMar DeRozan (24 points) and Kyle Lowry (21 points) led the Raptors offense in Game 2, but struggled in the second half as Toronto was outscored 67-47 by the Cavs. Postgame, the All-Star duo was clear on what the Raptors will need to do in order to get back on track in the series. DeRozan and Lowry must deliver strong performances in both halves to get their team over the hump in Game 3.\nCleveland's All-Star duo of James (43) and Kevin Love (31) combined to score 74 of the Cavs' 128 points in Game 2. The re-emergence of Love spells trouble for the Raptors, as Cleveland becomes extremely dangerous when he and LeBron both put up big numbers. The Cavs also enjoyed scoring from JR Smith (15), Jeff Green (14) and George Hill (13) in the convincing win.\nAs LeBron has averaged 34.4 points, 9.9 rebounds and nine assists this postseason, solid performances from Love, Smith, Green, Hill and Kyle Korver will be the key for the Cavs to take a 3-0 lead.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Larval fishes off Western Australia: Influence of the Leeuwin Current\nBeckley, L.E. and Muhling, B.A. (2009) Larval fishes off Western Australia: Influence of the Leeuwin Current. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 92 (2). pp. 101-109.\nAlthough the poleward flow of the Leeuwin Current off Western Australia is unique among eastern boundary currents in the southern hemisphere, the biological oceanography of this system is comparatively poorly known. In this short review, the findings of the various studies on larval fishes completed off Western Australia are collated, synthesized and related to the influence of the Leeuwin Current. The studies range from light-trap experiments focusing on tropical fish larvae off the north-western coast to studies on larvae of commercially significant temperate clupeiod species in the Great Australian Bight. Larval fish assemblages within the Leeuwin Current appear to be composed of a mixture of oceanic, slope, tropical and temperate coastal species, with strong seasonal variation in species composition. Ichthyoplankton studies in progress off Western Australia are reported on and aim to address gaps in the knowledge about the influence of the Leeuwin Current and its meso-scale features upon larval fishes.\nSchool of Environmental Science\nRoyal Society of Western Australia\n\u00a9 2009 Royal Society of Western Australia.\nPaper presented at Leeuwin Current Symposium 2007","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paul Ryan endorses Kevin McCarthy to be next House speaker\nBy Matt Richardson , | Fox News\nPaul Ryan announces he won't seek re-election\nWho will Republicans pick to replace him? Strategists Jen Kerns and Michael Starr Hopkins debate on 'Fox & Friends First.'\nHouse Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday endorsed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to succeed him as House speaker when Ryan steps down at the end of the year.\nIn an interview with NBC, Ryan said that \"we all think that Kevin is the right person.\"\n\"I fully anticipate handing the gavel over to the next speaker of the House after this term and I think Kevin is the right guy to step up,\" Ryan stated.\nThe endorsement follows Ryan's announcement earlier this week that he would not be seeking re-election.\n\"One of the reasons why I was comfortable making this decision is because we have a very capable leadership team,\" Ryan said. \"I think we'll have a seamless transition.\"\nOn Wednesday, Ryan, R-Wis., announced that he would not be seeking re-election in November, a move that ends a nearly two-decade career in Congress. It also comes as the GOP girds for a tough fight to keep control of the House this year.\n\"If I am here for one more term, my kids will only ever have known me as a weekend dad -- I just can't let that happen,\" he said.\nThe move also ignites the race to potentially succeed Ryan should Republicans hold the House in November. In addition to McCarthy, R-Calif., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., has also been mentioned as a possible Ryan replacement.\nBut in the interview with NBC on Friday, Ryan said he believed that Scalise supported McCarthy as the next speaker. \"Our leadership team, I'm saying,\" Ryan clarified. \"I'm not saying every single person in Congress.\" Asked if it was his understanding that Scalise felt that McCarthy should assume Ryan's role, the curent House speaker said \"that's right.\"\nFox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.\nMatt Richardson is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @MRichardson713.\nNYC Mayor Adams wants more federal cash even after massive infrastructure bill\nNARAL pulls support from Sinema over failure to back filibuster change on voting bill\nMarjorie Taylor Greene posts message comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi 'health pass'\nFormer Obama official rejects Biden's claim that Fox News reporter's question on Putin was 'stupid'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apollo Home\nCentre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities\nVisual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic\nVisual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic Photographic Database\nAll of ApolloCommunities & CollectionsAuthorsTitlesKeywordsTypeThis CollectionAuthorsTitlesKeywordsType\n\"Ulcerated inguinal bubo, woman of Yanakurko - Tomina, 1935\"\nView \/ Open Files\nPhotoID_1966.tif (TIFF image, 14Mb)\nCentre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH, The University of Cambridge)\nUnknown author \"Ulcerated inguinal bubo, woman of Yanakurko - Tomina, 1935\" [digital image]. https:\/\/www.repository.cam.ac.uk\/handle\/1810\/284789\nThe third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between 1894 and 1959. As Yersinia pestis spread from country to country and from continent to continent, it left behind it not only a trail of death and devastation, but also a vast visual archive. It was the first time that plague would reach and establish itself in all inhabited continents. But it was also the first time that any epidemic would be photographed. As plague spread from harbour to harbour, and amongst cities, towns and villages, so did photographs of the pandemic through reproductions in the daily and illustrated press. Rather than forming a homogeneous or linear visual narrative, these photographic documents provided diverse perspectives on the pandemic, which, more often than not, were not simply different from region to region, but in fact conflicting within any single locus of infection. Moreover this photographic production came to establish a new field of vision, what we may call \"epidemic photography\" which continues to inform the way in which we see, depict and imagine epidemics and their social, economic, and political impact in the age of Global Health.\nArriving in Bolivia probably in 1921, plague caused the first significant outbreak in 1928 in Vallegrande. The way in which plague spread so far inland mystified researchers at the time. Plague remains present in some areas of the country today.\nPlague, Bubo, Symptom, Patient, Inguinal, Ulcer, Bolivia, Tomina\nBolivia, Tomina\nHost Item: Felix Veintemillas. La peste Bub\u00f3nica en Bolivia - Trabajo del Instituto Nacional de bacteriologica- Escuela Tipografica Salesiana (La Paz: Esquela Tipografica Salesiana, 1936)\nThe database \"Photographs of the Third Plague Pandemic\" was funded by an European Research Council Starting Grant (under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme\/ERC grant agreement no 336564) for the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic, led by Dr Christos Lynteris (PI) at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge (2018-2019). The project would like to thank its postdoctoral researchers, Drs Lukas Engelmann, Nicholas H. A. Evans, Maurits Meerwijk, Branwyn Poleykett and Abhjit Sarkar, and its administrators Mss Teresa Abaurrea, Emma Hacking and Samantha Peel for their contribution to this database.\n55674\/ BPT.Doc.81 - Lieu : A7\/244-285\nThis record's DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17863\/CAM.32160\n\u00a9 Institut Pasteur\/Archives Emile Brumpt, All Rights Reserved\nLicence URL: https:\/\/www.rioxx.net\/licenses\/all-rights-reserved\/\nRecommended or similar items\nIf you believe that any material held in Apollo infringes copyright please follow the guidance in our 'Notice and Take Down' policy and we will remove the work from the repository and investigate your claim.\n\u00a9 2022 University of Cambridge.\nTerms of Use | Accessibility | Privacy | Admin | Login\nInformation provided by support@repository.cam.ac.uk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AVENUE TENNIS IS OFFICIALLY KENT TENNIS CLUB OF THE YEAR\nIt is official! Avenue Tennis is delighted to announce that we have won the \"Kent Club of the Year\" at the British Tennis Awards!\nThe Oscars of the Kent tennis world took place on the 10th March 2018 at Tudor Park Marriott Hotel and Country Club, Maidstone, Kent. Over 150 guests attended the Kent LTA Annual Awards Dinner where achievements for 2017 where awarded.\nAvenue Tennis were announced as winners of the \"Kent Club of the Year\" (5+ Courts). This comes at a perfect time as we mark our one-year anniversary as Kent's newest and most state of the art tennis club and gym.\nColin Jarvis, Chairman, said: \"We've been open less than a year, and we are delighted that our club has been voted Kent Club of the Year. As a new club, the Kent Club of the Year Award is a great opportunity for us to showcase our unique tennis and fitness centre in Gillingham and this win is a real testament to the team at Avenue Tennis.\"\nSpreading over four acres, Avenue Tennis offers 17 world-class tennis courts both indoor and outdoor across multiple surfaces, badminton courts, the most current Technogym resistance and cardiovascular gym equipment, fitness classes and health suite. Along with fully qualified and friendly tennis coaching for both beginners and experienced players and personal trainers to help members achieve the most from every visit.\nTony Cherry, Head of Tennis: \"We're absolutely delighted to have been announced as the winners, and we are now incredibly excited to be put forward to the regionals.\"\nThe Avenue Tennis, tennis coaching programme has over 200 members coached on a weekly basis and importantly for the future of the game, 250 five to twelve-year-old's as members of the club.\nIf you want to improve your game in time for Wimbledon speak to an Avenue Tennis Tennis Coach. We have something for everyone, from tots to adults, beginner to advanced or why not try cardio tennis a fun, sociable group fitness class suitable people of all ages and abilities.\nGET 1 MONTH FREE!\nRecipe : Custard Tart","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Full-backs Chhuantea Fanai and Reagan Singh join Chennaiyin FC for 2020-21 season\n13 Sep, 2020 ISL Media Team\nChennaiyin FC can confirm the signing of left-back Lalchhuanmawia Fanai and right-back Reagan Singh for the 2020-21 season. 31-year-old Fanai who hails from Mizoram and is better known as 'Chhuantea', along with 29-year-old Reagan from Manipur, join the two-time Hero Indian Super League champions on free transfers.\n\"Chhuantea (Fanai) and Reagan (Singh) are important additions to our squad in the key full- back positions. They bring valuable experience of playing in the Hero ISL and will have a vital role to play in our efforts to push for success in the upcoming season. I welcome both of them to the Chennaiyin family, and look forward to working with them,\" commented CFC Head Coach Csaba L\u00e1szl\u00f3 on the duo's arrival.\n\"I am delighted to join CFC and am really excited about working with the new coach (Csaba L\u00e1szl\u00f3) and achieving his vision for the club. This will be a unique ISL season and I can't wait to meet the boys in Goa and get the ball rolling,\" said Chhuantea on becoming a part of the CFC family.\n\"I am very happy to join one of the most successful clubs in the ISL. CFC are a unique team with a great fanbase, and I promise to contribute to the best of my ability in our efforts to bring a third ISL title to Chennai,\" said Reagan after signing for Chennaiyin.\nTowering left-back Chhuantea made his professional debut for Punjab side JCT in the Hero I- League before playing for Shillong Lajong. He then signed for Bengaluru FC, with whom he won the 2014-15 Federation Cup and 2015-16 Hero I-League. Chhuantea then featured for Mumbai City FC and FC Pune City in the Hero ISL, as both outfits reached the play-offs in the 2016 and 2017-18 campaigns, respectively. He turned out for Odisha FC in the 2019-20 season. Chhuantea is also a former India international and 2015 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship winner.\nReagan began his professional career at Royal Wahingdoh in the I-League in 2012. After spending three years at the Shillong-based club, Reagan signed for NorthEast United FC in the ISL, where he made 69 appearances over the last five seasons. He played in 18 of\nNEUFC's 21 games of the 2018-19 season as they made it to the semi-final stage. Reagan has also had spells at Salgaocar S.C. and Mumbai FC in the I-League.\nChennaiyin FC sign promising Indian midfielder Ninthoi Meetei\nChennaiyin FC complete foreign signings, rope in Hungarian midfielder Vladimir","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About the Town Council\nHistory of the Town\nTown Twinning\nBeaconsfield Library\nHalls to Hire\nBeaconsfield Chambers\nMemory Support Service\nBeaconsfield Forum\nBeaconsfield Town Council\nCouncil Menu\nWelcome to The Beaconsfield Town Council Web Site.\nBeaconsfield Town Hall houses Beaconsfield Town Council and the Police\nBeaconsfield hosts a range of amenities open to all\nBeaconsfield Council Chambers are frequently used for weddings and AGM\nHoltspur Bank, comprising of nearly 20 acres of chalk grassland and ancient woodland\n6:00 pm Resources Committee 18-07-2019 \u2013 A\nResources Committee 18-07-2019 \u2013 A\nThe Agenda for this meeting is available: Agenda\n7:45 pm Town Council 25-07-19\nTown Council 25-07-19\n7:30 pm Planning Committee 08-08-19\nPlanning Committee 08-08-19\nBeaconsfield Town Council meetings are generally held on a Thursday evening starting at 19:45, in the Council Chamber at the Town Hall. Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to come to them.\nBeaconsfield Town Council is a consultee of South Bucks District Council's (SBDC) Planning Committee for Beaconsfield applications.\nFor the latest information on planning and planning application visit SBDC's planning website.\nDigital Updates\nIf you would be interested in receiving a digital update from the website please click the button below to register your interest.\nThe link below has useful numbers for transport, utilities and support services in case you need to get in touch with them\nUseful numbers for transport, utilities and support services.\nWho to contact?\nThe three councils covering Beaconsfield are Beaconsfield Town Council, South Bucks District Council and Buckinghamshire County Council. Each is responsible for different services and amenities.\nFrom Tennis to Rugby, Golf to working out in the Gym, Beaconsfield boasts a wide range of Sports clubs and facilities. If you wish to find out more or give it go click the link below for their contact details.\nBeaconsfield Sporting Facilities\nResponse to Green Belt Preferred Options Consultation\nsummary this is what we said:-\n\"Beaconsfield Town Council believes that growth in the Town is essential in order that the community continues to prosper. Without growth it is likely that there will be decline as the existing population ages and the needs of the next generation continue to be ignored.\nFor the Town Council to support release of Green Belt land it must be demonstrated that exceptional circumstances exist. The development must not only address the key issues of infrastructure but also achieve the maximum amount of affordable housing. In this context the development must seek to include an appropriate volume of housing capped at a maximum of \u00a3350,000. .\nFurther development work will require a detailed framework masterplan, with infrastructure needs such as schools and medical facilities as well as roads and mains, with timing, phasing and so on. These needs should be assessed holistically on a town-wide basis to ensure any complementary enhancements required to the existing town are integrated. We therefore strongly recommend that at least three representatives from the local community including one from the Town Council work with landowners and developers as part of a multi-disciplinary group having responsibility to safeguard the interests of the existing population\".\nRead the full response\nBeaconsfield is served by a range of schools, both public and private from Pre-school to secondary.\nLearn more about Beaconsfield Schools\nPrivacy Policy , Contact Us\nThis website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Reject Privacy Policy\nIf you would be interested in receiving an electronic newsletter, please complete this form to register your interested.\nDo you live in Beaconsfield?*\nWould you be happy for us to contact you further?*","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Federations Magazine Article\nFRENCH PDF DOWNLOAD RUSSIAN PDF DOWNLOAD SPANISH PDF DOWNLOAD\nFrench HTML\nSpanish HTML\nTurnarounds in elections add to debate on Austrian federalism\nTurnaround in elections adds to debate on Austrian federalism BY MELANIE SULLY In an electoral turnaround in April, Heinz Fischer became the first Social Democrat to be directly elected as Federal President in 18 years. Fischer defeated his rival, the ruling conservative People's Party candidate Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who will keep her job as Minister of Foreign Affairs for the time being. And in elections held in March, in two of Austria's nine L\u00e4nder, the Social Democrats won an upset victory in Salzburg while J\u00f6rg Haider's Freedom Party held on to power in Carinthia. The presence of right-wing politician J\u00f6rg Haider dominated the closing stages of the presidential elections. At a meeting with the Freedom Party and Haider, Heinz Fischer endorsed the \"politics of exclusion\" \u2013 he turned down any alliance with the \"Haider\/Freedom Party\" because of Mr. Haider's past comments on the Third Reich. Mr. Fischer earned praise from the Greens but caused Mr. Haider to back the People's Party candidate, Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Political analysts considered Haider's support of her candidacy as dubious. Support from Green voters was a factor in Mr. Fischer's decisive victory. Federalism cropped up briefly in the campaign when Ms. Ferrero-Waldner suggested that some Land legislatures and the national parliament could be smaller. Mr. Fischer opposed the idea saying it was important that deputies from all L\u00e4nder should be represented in parliament. Ms. Ferrero-Waldner also questioned the competence (albeit restricted) of the Federal President to dissolve a Land legislature according to Article 100 of the Federal Constitution. Last year, a founding committee made up of members of the federal government, members of parliament and some governors of the L\u00e4nder established a special Constitutional Convention with 70 members to look at co-operative federalism as well as the role of the Austrian Bundesrat, the second chamber of parliament, and its veto power in limited cases, and other issues. The convention will present its recommendations for federal reform by the end of 2004. People's Party loses in Land elections in Salzburg The Social Democrats also made gains in the Salzburg Land elections and won a large enough share of the vote to seize the Land governorship from the People's Party. In Melanie Sully is a Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna and the author of \"The New Politics of Tony Blair\" and \"The Haider Phenomenon\". Carinthia, where the Social Democrats had high hopes, the Freedom Party retained the governorship. The result in Salzburg meant that for the first time since World War II the post of Land governor was filled by the Social Democrats, a woman named Gabi Burgstaller. (The governor of a Land in Austria is actually the head of the government in the legislature.) Burgstaller's election was a minor sensation in conservative Salzburg and can partly be explained by the decline in popularity of the People's Party governor, Franz Schausberger. The Social Democrats succeeded in mobilising disaffected Freedom Party voters. Yet this new shooting star of the Social Democrats has often voiced criticism of the Vienna party leadership. Ms. Burgstaller is an open advocate of \"great coalition\" politics and as governor is working closely with the People's Party. The importance of the Land governor The upset in Salzburg was only the third time a political party has been ousted from the post of governor of a Land since 1945. In 1964 the People's Party lost the governorship to the Social Democrats in Burgenland and in 1989, in Carinthia, the Freedom Party secured the post at the expense of the Social Democrats. In both cases the change of power was consolidated at subsequent elections. The loss of the governorship in Salzburg is a bitter pill for the People's Party since considerable powers of patronage go with the job (according to the federal constitution the governor is the president of the state council for all schools, which appoints heads of schools). The Land governor attends the regular Governors' Conference meetings which discuss co-ordination of Land interests (Austria's version of co-operative federalism). Governors are represented in the Integration Conference of the L\u00e4nder that represents common interests on European integration issues. The governors represent their states on the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. They also have the right to speak before the second chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat. The right of Land governors to take part in Federations Vol. 4, No. 2, July 2004 the parliamentary process is guaranteed as outlined in Z\u00f6gernitz, the standard parliamentary text. Because every Land elects its own representatives to the Bundesrat by proportional representation, the results in Salzburg meant People's Party losses were reflected in this chamber. The president of the Bundesrat (speaker) rotates among the L\u00e4nder and according to the federal constitution is drawn from the head of the state delegation which for Salzburg will now be a Social Democrat. Haider's party re-elected in Carinthia In Carinthia the Freedom Party managed to repeat its performance from the previous Land election in 1999 defying the pundits who said just months before that the party would collapse. J\u00f6rg Haider's personality plus the lacklustre offerings of the other parties contributed to the Freedom Party success. The result meant that Mr. Haider stayed on as Land governor, ending speculation that he would return to federal politics. Such a move would have strained the People's Party\/Freedom Party coalition and could possibly have led to early national elections. The result was also significant as the Carinthian Social Democrats accepted Mr. Haider as governor, a seeming classic U-turn away from the politics of exclusion. The move provoked intra-party conflict and was rebuked by Socialist parties abroad opposed to integrating Mr. Haider's party. Federations Vol. 4, No. 2, July 2004","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: rock band\nAnimal Welfare, Environment, Featured Lifestyle, Lifestyle, Progressive\nRock band fighting for sea turtles with clothing line\nOctober 31, 2016 Associated Press\tLeave a comment\nMexican rock band Mana is expanding its fight to save endangered sea turtles with a clothing line.\nThe band, known for its environmental activism, is stepping into the fashion industry with Ritos del Sol, a line of ecofriendly jeans and T-shirts for men and women.\nA percentage of each sale will be donated to the group's Selva Negra Foundation, the nonprofit it created in 1995 to raise awareness and take real action to save endangered species and help underserved communities around the world. It offers four lines \u2014 Selva Negra, Cosmos, Laberinto de Concreto and Inframundo \u2014 with designs that go from abstract prints inspired in flora and fauna to skulls and a skeleton's ribs.\nThe musicians said the idea was presented to them a couple years ago by the designers at a Puebla, Mexico clothing factory owned by a cousin of vocalist Fher.\n\"The clothing that he makes uses 25 percent of the water that the factories normally use in Mexico,\" Fher said. \"They are also good to their employees, it's fair trade, and they work in indigenous communities not only in Puebla but in Oaxaca.\"\nDrummer Alex Gonzalez said band members weren't initially convinced because \"it's not that easy to launch a clothing line and we have seen other bands and other artists (doing it) and some of them have done well, other not so much.\n\"But more than a business for the band, we wanted for it to be a positive idea and proposal so that when people would buy the clothes they would know that they are doing something beneficial for the environment,\" he added. \"So Fher came up with this idea of supporting the sea turtles that we have in Mexico.\"\nAll four band members were involved in the designs of the T-shirts.\n\"At the end of the day, it had to be clothing that we wanted to use, both on and offstage,\" Gonzalez said.\nhttps:\/\/ritosdelsol.com\/\nhttp:\/\/www.selvanegra.com.mx\/\nhttp:\/\/www.mana.com.mx\/\nabstract printsanimal welfareapparelclothingendangered speciesfaunafloramanaMexicomusiciansrock bandsea turtles\nRestoration begins at site of 1st R.E.M. show\nApril 7, 2015 Associated Press\tLeave a comment\nWorkers are beginning to restore the steeple of the old church in Athens where Georgia rock band R.E.M. played its first show.\nThe Athens Banner-Herald reports that scaffolding is rising around all that remains of the structure \u2014 its now-iconic steeple.\nLast year, the nonprofit Nu\u00e7i's Space launched a 60-day crowdfunding campaign aimed at restoring the steeple and helping to fund the organization's health care assistance and other services it provides to local musicians. Nu\u00e7i's Space works to prevent suicide.\nThe Athens newspaper reports that R.E.M. performed its first show at the church on April 5, 1980, as Twisted Kites and renamed itself a few weeks later.\nR.E.M. formed in Athens, where all four members were students.\nalternativeAthenscollegeconcertcrowdfundingGeorgiahistoryiconicmusicr.e.m.remrestorationrock bandsteeple\nUrban Ecology Center's community supported agriculture event set for March\nCommunity,\tDining,\tLifestyle,\tNews January 31,2017\nWisconsin grassroots groups to hold water safety event Feb. 8 in Madison\nCommunity,\tEnvironment,\tNews,\tWisconsin January 25,2017\nLocal activists to hold benefit opposing Line 61 pipeline expansion in Wisconsin\nCommunity,\tEnvironment,\tNews,\tWisconsin,\tWisconsin January 24,2017\n'Champions for Change' honors ACLU of Wisconsin's Chris Ahmuty\nCommunity,\tMilwaukee,\tNews,\tProgressive,\tWisconsin January 20,2017\nGimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown win two \"Best of Milwaukee\" awards\nCommunity,\tNews January 19,2017","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News from other CRPs\nLINK methodology\nMajor corporations and multi-national companies have long struggled with how to connect with and include small-scale suppliers. Connecting these two groups \u2013 smallholder farms and emerging markets \u2013 requires creative solutions to allow benefits for both sides. The LINK Methodology has started to close the gap between companies (See the outcome story about Unilever's international buyer guide) and these two groups but has immense room to grow to continue to impact emerging markets.\nThe LINK Methodology was developed as part of the New Business Models for Sustainable Trading Relationships Project, managed by the Sustainable Food Lab in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Rainforest Alliance (RA) with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) has supported further development of the toolkit with international NGOs in Latin America, including CRS, VECO, and Heifer International.\nThis tool is mainly aimed at facilitators who mediate the processes previously mentioned between sellers and buyers. LINK can help your organisation facilitate a systematic learning process between actors from a selected value chain, and discover new opportunities for innovation, based on the application of a participatory toolkit, with four main tools:\n1. The value chain map (used to understand the macro context of markets and the businesses which link rural producers with buyers).\n2. The business model canvas (used to understand in more detail each business which links rural producers with buyers).\n3. The New Business Model principles (used to determine whether each business which links rural producers with buyers is truly inclusive).\n4. The prototype cycle (used to continuously improve the inclusivity of every business which links rural producers with buyers).\nBy the end of the process you will have understood the relationship between specific business models (buyer and seller) and the overall value chain; identified critical areas for improvement; designed, implemented, evaluated and improved on the innovation prototype for the business model you selected; and evaluated the effects of these changes on smallholder farmers and on the business itself.\nDevelopment practitioner\nTool family\nInnovation in business models\nConceptual framework\nActivities on vertical or horizontal coordination\nDocumentation link\nLink methodology version 2\nLundy, M\nMark Lundy\nhubs to apply\nCentral America Hub\nContact our team if you have any questions about value chains\nSubscribe to update news from us\nCGIAR PIM\n1201 Eye St, NW Washington, DC 20005-3915 USA\ntools4valuechains@cgiar.org\nE-learning course\nCGIAR Fund Donors\nUnited Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)\n\u00a9 Copyright IFPRI 2017. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Osmotic Investigations: Studies on Cell Mechanics (1877), by Wilhelm Pfeffer\nBy Sara Parker\nWilhelm Pfeffer published his book Osmotische Untersuchungen: Studien Zur Zellmechanik (Osmotic Investigations: Studies on Cell Mechanics) in 1877 during his time as a professor of botany at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Gordon R. Kepner and Eduard J. Stadelmann translated the book into English in 1985. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Germany, published the original book in German in 1877 and Van Nostrand Reinhold Company in New York, New York, published the English version in 1985.\nA Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1752-1764), by William Smellie\nBy Yvette Tran\nA Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery is a three volume collection of patient accounts that William Smellie published from 1752 to 1764. Smellie, a physician and instructor in obstetrics in Great Britain, published these compilations to share his expertise in reproductive medicine, while also providing his students and colleagues with a source of reference in their own medical practices. Smellie wrote these books to shift obstetrics from a discipline practiced by midwives with limited medical training to one practiced in a medical context by physicians.\nHypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (1978), by Leon Chesley\nBy Sarah Patel\nLeon Chesley published Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in 1978 to outline major and common complications that occur during pregnancy and manifest in abnormally high blood pressures in pregnant women. The book was published by Appleton-Century-Crofts in New York, New York. Chesley compiled his book as a tool for practicing obstetricians and teachers.\nAn Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson\nBy Kevin M. Gleason\nEdmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book presents photographs by photographer Edward Leaming that capture stages of fertilization, the fusion of sperm and egg and early development of sea urchin (Toxopneustes variegatus) ova, or egg cell. Prior to An Atlas, no one photographed of eggcell division in clear detail. Wilson obtained high quality images of egg cells by cutting the cells into thin sections and preserving them throughout different stages of development.\nSubject: Publications, Reproduction\n\"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?\" from The Ants (1990), by Bert H\u00f6lldobler and Edward O. Wilson\nBy Kelle Dhein\nIn \"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?\" Bert H\u00f6lldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin selection theory, a theory about the evolution of social behaviors. As part of H\u00f6lldobler's and Wilson's 1990 book titled The Ants, H\u00f6lldobler and Wilson compared predictions about the reproductive practices of ants to data about the reproductive practices of ants. They showed that the data generally supported the expected behaviors proposed by kin selection theory.\nSubject: Publications, Theories\nAnatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi Tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures) (1774), by William Hunter\nBy Nevada Wagoner\nWilliam Hunter's Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi Tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures), hereafter called The Human Gravid Uterus, is an anatomical atlas depicting the pregnant form through both engravings and descriptions. William Hunter, an anatomist working in England during the eighteenth century, compiled the work based on observations from his dissections of pregnant women.\n\"Health Status of Vietnam Veterans III. Reproductive Outcomes and Child Health\" (1988), by the US Centers for Disease Control\nBy Cecilia Chou\nIn 1988, the US Centers for Disease Control published 'Health Status of Vietnam Veterans III. Reproductive Outcomes and Child Health,' which summarized part of the results of the Vietnam Experience Study commissioned by US Congress to assess the health of US Vietnam veterans. They published the article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The most heavily used herbicide in the Vietnam, Agent Orange, had previously been found to contain a contaminant linked to birth defects in rats.\n\"Adenocarcinoma of the Vagina: Association of Maternal Stilbestrol Therapy with Tumor Appearance in Young Women\" (1971), by Arthur L. Herbst, et al.\nBy Alexis Abboud\nPublished in 1971, Adenocarcinoma of the Vagina: Association of Maternal Stilbestrol Therapy with Tumor Appearance in Young Women, by Arthurs L. Herbst and colleagues, was the first piece of literature connecting maternal use of the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES), also called stilbestrol, with the development of a rare and severe form of vaginal cancer in young women. Diethylstilbestrol was later classified as an endocrine disruptor, a substance that disrupts the hormonal function of the body in those exposed to it during development or later in life.\n\"Conservatism in Obstetrics\" (1916), by Edwin B. Cragin\nBy Sarah Foster\nIn 1916 Edwin B. Cragin in the United States published Conservatism in Obstetrics in which he discussed medical practices and techniques to preserve the vitality of pregnant women and their fetuses. Cragin argued that women who give birth via cesarean section, the surgical act of making an incision through both the abdomen and uterus to remove the fetus from a pregnant woman's womb, must rely on that method for future births. That claim was later coined the Dictum of Cragin.\n\"Veterans and Agent Orange Update 1996: Summary and Research Highlights\" by the US National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine\nIn March 1996, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States released 'Veterans and Agent Orange Update 1996: Summary and Research Highlights,' which summarized research on the health effects of Agent Orange and other herbicides used in the Vietnam War. In their 1996 report, the National Academy connects Agent Orange exposure with two health conditions: spina bifida, a birth defect that occurs when the spinal cord develops improperly, and peripheral neuropathy, a nervous system condition in which the peripheral nerves are damaged.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"High Possibility Classrooms\nTechnology Integration for 21st Century Learning\nResearch & Academic Publications\nEPIC, 3Ai and greater EU & AUS collaboration: An AI conversation\nThe latest OECD report Trends Shap ing Education 2019 cites five 'big picture issues' for the world. The first is a shift in global gravity with the rise of India and China; the second concerns public matters involving citizenship and democracy; the third involves security in an uncertain and unstable world; the fourth suggests the impacts of living longer underpinned by a need for populations to live better; and the fifth notes the rise of individualism and the role of education to equip people with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to thrive in their modern and professional lives (pp.10-11). Link to the full report is here.\nThe role of technology in particular Artificial Intelligence or AI is omnipresent in these five predictions. In a recent forum held at the ANU most of the OECD trends were touched on in discussions around AI. The EPIC project the focus of the forum is an example that speaks to such global movements and illustrates ICT research focused on a collaboration between Europe \u2013 Pacific partners (Australia, Singapore and New Zealand) funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Grant.\nSee this short film about EPIC.\nInterested people from Australia and Europe gathered for a day at the Crawford School of Public Policy to examine how public policy, research and industry are approaching opportunities and risks of AI in international contexts. As the US and China dominant the AI race the forum sought to find ways to move ahead with greater EU-AUS collaboration around AI. With Horizon 2020 coming to an end and Horizon 2021-2027 just around the corner what kind of role could AUS partnering with the EU mean post Brexit? For example: what, if anything, might change?\nIn this quick post I provide a few highlights from the day. I was listening to each speaker with my education lens and pondering what this might mean for schools in Australia. The forum was hosted by the 3Ai (the Autonomy, Agency & Assurance Innovation Institute). It's a strategic priority of ANU. It was terrific to hear Associate Professor Katherine Daniell's update on their interdisciplinary activities and projects. Please note the following details are taken from Katherine's slides shown on the day.\nThe Reimagine Project is a key part of the 3Ai as is its intellectual leadership alongside building a new applied science through the creation of a new body of knowledge, engaging with a diverse community of stakeholders and transmitting what they learn in order to build knowledge in these new arenas.\nFive critical questions underpin the work, they are:\n1.How do we think about the notion of autonomy and how to we build for it?\n2.What degree of 'self' empowerment do we give autonomous systems?\n3.Will these systems be safe?\n4.How might we interface with technologies, systems and each other in this context?\n5.What are the metrics by which we might measure the performance and success of such systems?\nKatherine explained: \"Cyber-physical systems are crucial \u2026 what that means is that the world needs safe ethical and effective design, integration, management and regulation of cyber-physical systems and cyber-physical technologies and this is the work we are doing\". Watch this space.\nElizabeth Kelly, Deputy Secretary from Department of Industry, Innovation and Science outlined the focus of the Department's current work. She conceded that government involvement in the AI space in Australia \"had not been what it should be especially in terms of establishing ethical policies\", while emphasising the need for Australia to be globally competitive citing an overall productivity decline of 3%. Links were made to a recent Data 61 report \u2013 see here. Elizabeth also shared comments about an AI in schools program \u2013 on closer examination this is still under development instead directing me to the Digital Technologies Hub. Again, watch this space.\nBen Reid from New Zealand provided details of strategies for AI and AI-based innovation in New Zealand while consular ambassadors from Italy, Switzerland and Germany emphasised how their countries are making AI a priority. For example: Angela Merkel has signalled the appointment of 100 AI professorial positions in the coming months to 'kick start' their push with \"AI Made in Germany\". Open data is a common issue across Europe. The need to target education and training in AI together with the necessity for regulation, better understanding of AI's labour market implications and the complexity surrounding AI, data ethics and cyber-security.\nAfter lunch Professor Dana Petcu from Romania highlighted the challenges in her country in higher education that involve technical challenges like building the AI-human interface, its current limitations to certain tasks, software malfunctions, features that support new experiences, virtual lecturers who can react like humans and the large scale deployment of learning environments. This will require investment by the Romanian government as well as building trust in AI, having high expectations, changing the role of the teachers, the way of learning and its connection to the academic world. Link to her work here.\nIn my 10 minutes at the forum I was able to refer to recent work at UTS and the 2018 submission to the Human Rights Commission. My main provocation concerned AI in the school education space and the need to hone in on end users \u2013 this is a much needed conversation. Here, I suggest there are four central issues in AI in school education and these are the places where we might problematise the space and start to strategically fix our gaze; and that means, one, consulting the profession at large \u2013 it has commenced; two, understanding what an automated world might mean for school infrastructure and investment; and three, for young children who are entering school now \u2013 what does AI mean for teachers and teaching; and four, how can higher education and industry support schools to be responsive to the rapidly changing world of AI?\nWith great power comes great responsibility \u2013 the tech companies are racing ahead \u2013 reported to be valued at USD362bil this coming year \u2026 the EPIC project is an imaginative, collaborative and creative response.\nAnd finally, EPIC \u2026 it's a space you might want to keep watching.\nNote: Other speakers on the day included Dr Amy McLennan from ANU, Dr Sue Keay from Data 61, Dr Jurgen Leitner from QUT, Lubi Thomas from Ars Electronica Australia and more.\nJHunter 26\/02\/2019 26\/02\/2019 Uncategorised\n\u2190 Artificial Intelligence in School Education: Are you ready?\nArtificial Intelligence in School Education: Are you ready?\nCalling all STEM experts\nSuccess in STEM in primary schools\nBut the future is here: Using scenarios to teach STEM in schools\nThe HPC Blog\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 High Possibility Classrooms. 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{"text":"Integrated Air Defense in the National Capital\nTrident Systems Inc., Fairfax, Virginia, has been awarded a $16,004,207 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the National Capital Region\u2013Integrated Air Defense Systems. This contract provides for follow on sustainment support for the Enhanced Regional Situational Awareness system and the custom developed software. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C.; and in the National Capital Region and is expected to be completed December 4, 2025. This award is the result of a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2023 operations and maintenance fund in the amount of $900,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (FA8730-23-C-0001).\nArmy Poised to Recompete Vantage Data Analytics Program\nThe service may adopt a multivendor approach.\nMissile Launcher Production Increases\nRemote Weapons $1.5 Billion Award","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"At Brit, we believe that the uncertainty of the future should never stand in the way of progress. That's why we exist. To help people and businesses face the future and thrive.\nEvery day, we channel our entrepreneurial expertise to write the most opaque risk that the future holds, embracing the change faced by our clients by delivering a service that's open, honest, and fair. One that invests in the new products and claims delivery they need in a world of complex risk.\nwriting the future\nIf you ask me to sum up the culture at Brit, I'd use one word: collaborative. I truly believe that together we will write the future. It's a message we give our customers, and it's equally relevant to the people who work here.\nMatthew Wilson Group CEO\nOur culture is centred on achievement with four key tenets: delivering on commitments and ensuring the same from others; managing risk actively to optimise reward; focusing efforts to maximise results; living a distinct ethos. In addition, we encourage enthusiasm for improvement, be it changes to process, policy or working practices, we encourage new thinking, and we encourage collective working and open and honest communication.\nAbsolute Precision\nThe pursuit of excellence in every aspect of our business, setting high standards for ourselves and ensuring accuracy of execution. Getting it right the first time.\nBuild and maintain respectful relationships both internally and externally. Treat people the way we'd like to be treated. Behave with integrity with brokers, clients and other stakeholders. Our success depends on their success.\nExceed the expectations of our brokers, clients and other stakeholders through innovation and collaboration. Act with speed and diligence.\nHaving attracted the best talent, take time and effort to recognise success and excellence. Foster a culture of achievement, encourage and instil a sense of pride in everything we do.\nWe are change-makers enabled by a global workforce who collaborate to deliver a risk service. A team empowered not only to survive the risks we face, but to stay on the front foot and keep moving forward. We believe the uncertainty of tomorrow isn't something to fear but to seize; that it's full of potential. Not only for our customers but our employees too.\nEveryone is welcome.\nOur people are valued for the unique perspective they bring to our business, no matter their age, race, religion or background. It's about doing our best work; our passion and dedication.\nOur opportunities are innovative and future-facing\nOur people are forward thinkers, creative thinkers, glass half-fullers, doers, visionaries and people who like to roll up their sleeves.\nIt's not just businesses that we help thrive\nWe talk about 'writing the future'; about helping people and businesses face the future when faced with uncertainty. Our charitable efforts help many people far and wide.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Her legend will live on': Resolution honoring Sylvia La Torre filed in Senate | Inquirer Entertainment\nLATEST ENTERTAINMENT STORIES\nBREAKTIME!\nentertainment \/ Celebrities and Showbiz\nCelebrities and Showbiz\n'Her legend will live on': Resolution honoring Sylvia La Torre filed in Senate\nBy: Maila Ager - Reporter\nINQUIRER.net \/ 01:08 PM December 05, 2022\nSylvia La Torre. Image from hydee pichai \/ goldenglobe.com\nMANILA, Philippines \u2014 A resolution honoring the life of legendary singer and Filipina icon Sylvia La Torre, was filed in the Senate on Monday.\nLa Torre, dubbed the \"First Lady of Philippine Television,\" and the \"Queen of Kundiman,\" died peacefully in her sleep last December 1 in Los Angeles, California, as announced by her granddaughter, Filipino-American actress Ana Maria Perez de Tagle. The noted soprano and actress was 89.\nUnder Resolution No. 338, Lapid sought to have La Torre's legacy live on, citing over 300 songs that she wrote and recorded since starting her career in the 1950s.\n\"Her artistry has transcended through time and has expired fellow artists that we also consider icons today\u2026\" Lapid's resolution stated.\nFilipino couple Power Duo makes it to grand finals of 'America's Got Talent: All-Stars' edition\nLapid also cited some of La Torre's classics, such as \"Waray Waray,\" \"Your Face Sounds Familiar,\" \"Sa Kabukiran,\" and \"Mutya ng Pasig,\" which have been adapted and performed by the likes of Freddie Aguilar and Elizabeth Ramsey.\n\"Sylvia La Torre was not only a musical icon, she was also a cinematic treasure. She made films with Sampaguita Pictures and Seiko Films,\" said Lapid, citing her first starring role in \"Ang Maestra\" in 1941, \"One Two Bato, Three Four Bapor,\" among others. Her fame was further amplified with her hosting of the then popular show \"Oras ng Ligaya.\"\nBecause of these endeavors, La Torre became a household name in the 1950s up to the 1960s.\n\"La Torre was a true artist in every sense of the word, her immeasurable contributions to Philippine folk and popular music are unparalleled\u2026 (She) was a one-of-a-kind multifaceted artist who dedicated her life to her craft, in turn becoming a source of inspiration for the artists of the next generation,\" Lapid said.\n\"The whole nation mourns the passing of one of its icons, whose legacy has given the country pride, her legend will live on and has inspired generations of upcoming singers, composers, and actors,\" his resolution further read. EDV\n'Queen of Kundiman' Sylvia La Torre dies at 89\nSylvia La Torre, soprano with pop culture flair; 89\nThe hottest entertainment news straight to your inbox\nKim Atienza advises volleyball stars over alleged fans snub: 'Catering to fans is a responsibility'\nFollow @MAgerINQ on Twitter\nTAGS: celebrity death, Sylvia La Torre\nSubscribe to our entertainment news","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Infographic: 6 uses for K-12 classroom AR\nAR's potential to increase classroom engagement is expanding.\nBy now, most educators are familiar with augmented reality (AR) and its application in the classroom. And as it grows in popularity, its potential in the classroom grows, too.\nAugmented reality overlays digital information on top of an existing environment, and the AR device market is expected to reach more than $659 million by 2018, according to an infographic that analyzes AR's potential for the classroom.\nFun fact: One of the first commercial applications of AR technology was the yellow first down line that started appearing in televised NFL games in the late 1990s.\nGoogle glass and heads-up displays in car...\nLaura Ascione\nLaura Ascione is the Managing Editor, Content Services at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's prestigious Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Find Laura on Twitter: @eSN_Laura http:\/\/twitter.com\/eSN_Laura","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sestieri\nA travel to discover sestiere San Polo\nDiscover sestiere Castello\nWhat to see in sestiere Dorsoduro\nExploring the streets of Sestiere Cannaregio\nA tour of sestiere Santa Croce\nSestiere San Marco, the heart of Venice\nSkip the queue tickets in Venice\n3 days in Venice\nHomeA travel to discover sestiere San Polo\nIn this post we have tried to gather various suggetions ant tips to guide you inside the calli (the typical narrow streets of Venice) of sestiere San Polo, tryng to make you discover the characteristics and the beautiful attractions of this district.\nFeatures of sestiere San Polo\nSestiere San Polo is the smallest of Venice and it is very loved by the venetian people for the relaxing atmosphere that you feel walking around the streets; in the past, however, it was blended with sestiere Santa Croce.\nIts name derives from the presence of Campo San Polo, the biggest square of Venice after Piazza San Marco , and for the Church with the same name. Although it has always been considered a square of the working class, because public events took place here, this sqaure is surrounded by noble palaces.\nIt is a very characteristic district because of the presence of a lot of \"house and workshop\", that are places where people live and work, and also for the huge variety of typical venetian taverns that are called \"bacari\".\nThe most famous and animated area is Rialto, thanks to the presence of the fish market and fruit and vegetable that makes the area more chaoitc but, at the same time, a typical and very characteristic place of Venice. Rialto's area is one of the most popular for shopping and in the evening it becomes the center of the nightlife for the young people of the district, which met each others around Erbaria (the area of the dock overlooking the Grand Canal).\nPeculiarities about Sestiere San Polo\nIn San Polo we can find Rialto's Market, place where a scene of the film \"The tourist\" was shooted, a film with Angelina Jolie and Jhonny Depp. In the scene the main character (Depp) during an escape through the roofs of Venice, jumps on a tarp of the Market.\nAlso in this sestiere stands Scuola Grande San Rocco, which Hall of Capitolo was the place of a scene of the film \"Casanova\". In this hall was organized a masked ball which also the main character Giacomo Casanova took part in it.\nWhere is sestiere San Polo and how to reach it\nSestiere San Polo is served by both the line 1 and line 2 of the ferry boat service. These two lines traveled all the Grand Canal. The stops for reach San Polo are Rialto's Market, San Silvestro and San Tom\u00e0. Walking from the Station Venezia Santa Lucia takes more or less 15 minutes to reach in the central part of the district.\nAttractions and monuments in sestiere San Polo\nIn sestiere San Polo we can find a lot of attractions, including the \"must\" of Venice and the less famous attractions that deserves a visit if you have enough time.\nUnmissable attractions in San Polo\nThe most important attraction of San Polo is Rialto Bridge, the oldest bridge of Venice that links the two shores of Grand Canal.\nAnother unmissable attraction is also Basilica dei Frari, that has important frescos of Tiziano and Bellini and Scuola Grande San Rocco, decorated by Tintoretto's frescos.\nFinally, another church to visit is Church San Giacomo di Rialto, the oldest of Venice and the heart of the trade of the city in the past and the House of Goldoni, place where probably the famous comedy writer Carlo Goldoni was born, that today is the location of the Museum of Theatre.\nIf you have more time available\nIf you can have a relaxing walking through the streets os sestiere San Polo, it also deserves a visit Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, that was built in a reinassance style, and the Church San Polo, famous for the paintings of Tintoretto and Tiepolo.\nFinally, in this area there is also the Church San Giovanni Elemosinario, located in the area of the market of Rialto and Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, location of a lot of meetings, cultural expositions and events in Venice.\nBest restaurants in San Polo\nIn you want to have a break and, at the same moment, tasting some typical venetian dish, we can suggest you some place where you can eat good food without spendin a lot of money.\nThe first place that we suggest you is \"All'Arco\" in Calle Arco. One of the favourite places of venetian people with its cicheti (typical venetian finger food) with fish like scampi, squid and prawns with toasted bread.\nThe second place is \"Cantina do Mori\", in Calle of Do Mori. Venetian people in this place love \"Francobollo\" (\"Stamp\"), a sandwich with salami, Gorgonzola cheese and radicchio. There are also traditional dishes like Eggplant Parmesan and artichoke with salt.\nFinally, very famous through venetian people, we have \"Osteria al Sacro and Profano\", a little typical tavern, in the area of Rialto, that serves fish dishes, meat and typical dishes of venetian's tradition. There are also very good wines, both red and white.\nYou can go to Pasticceria Rizzardini for a little break close to San Polo Fields and eat one of the pastries and cakes that are exposed in the showcase of the counter.\nWhere to stay in San Polo\nSestiere San Polo is the best place for who wants to stay in a quiet area without the continuous stream of tourists, despite of the position in the center of Venice.\nWe selected the best hotels following the reviews of the tourists who have stayed in Venice, hoping that could be helpful for you to choose the place where sleep and that you are fully satisfied for your choice.\nLocanda Sant'Agostin\nCampo Sant'Agostin, San Polo 2344, Venice\nThis rentrooms is in the center of sestiere in a building of the sixteenth century. The rooms are spacious, furnished in a classic and elegant style with antique furniture and clean. The owners are helpful, kind and welcoming; help is offered for the reservation of tours and for tickets.\nResidenza Ca' Dorin\nCalle Pezzana, San Polo 2165, Venice\nThis little B&B is located in the center of the district, at the fourth floor of a historic building. The rooms and the bathrooms are very clean and spacious. Breakfast is rich and varied, it is served in a hall with a wonderful views. Despite of the very good position, the price is very convenient.\nAl Campaniel\nSan Polo 2889-Calle del Campaniel, Venice\nThis Bed and Breakfast is close to Campo Santa MArgherita and the train station. Breakfast is plentiful and with good products. The rooms are big, furnished in a stylish way and very clean. The owners are very kind and the atmosphere is familiar.\nVideo of Sestiere San Polo\nFor give you an idea of what is waiting for you in this sestiere if you want to visit it, we suggest you to watch this nice video from Youtube:\nE' ora di risparimiare sugli Hotel\nTwo Days in Venice\nA week in Venice\nNew Year's Eve in Venice\nCarnival of Venice\nVenice with children\nVenice in July: the best things to do and see\nVenezia-help.com - Portale informativo su Venezia a cura di M&F snc | San Don\u00e0 di Piave (Venezia) | P.Iva: 02721860274 (\u00a9) 2019 | Privacy policy \u2022 Media Kit","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Did Warner Bros. Date More 'Harry Potter' & 'LEGO Movie' Sequels?\nAlong with yesterday's barrage of dates staked out by Warner Bros. Pictures for their DC Comics cinematic universe plans, there were two other dates reserved, but not for comic book movies. They were each called Untitled WB Event Film, with no indication of what films they might be. But SlashFilm seems to have a good guess because the dates happen to be November 16th, 2018 and November 20th, 2020. Well, you may recall Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spin-off from the Harry Potter franchise, is slated for November 18th, 2016. And it's probably not hard to see where we're going with this. Read on!\nIt has been said that Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them will be the first film in a trilogy following the book's author Newt Scamander, 70s years before the events of the Harry Potter franchise, as he researches various magical creatures of the wizarding world we all know. And it would make sense for there to be two years between each film, just like the individual Marvel superhero franchises have been doing, and just like Disney plans to do with Star Wars. This is just an educated guess at this point, but we're betting that's the plan at Warner Bros.\nAnd that's not the only advance planning Warner Bros. revealed yesterday. Late last night, the studio also staked out May 25th, 2018 and May 24th, 2019 for two untitled animated films. If these films are slated for Memorial Day weekend dates, it's likely that these are big movies, and THR has learned that these two films are likely follow-ups to The LEGO Movie. A sequel to the film from Phil Lord & Chris Miller is already in the works and slated for release on May 26th, 2017 and a spin-off focusing on LEGO Ninjago is also on the way and expected to hit theaters on September 23rd, 2016. So what are these two films?\nWell, the studio might be trying to get a jump start on The LEGO Movie 3 for 2019, which would mean the short two-year turnaround between sequels (that's short for animated films) wouldn't be hard to overcome. And the same could be said if the 2018 date is being reserved for a LEGO Ninjago sequel, which is what THR hypothesizes. This sounds a little too shaky to actually lock down as fact for now though. Maybe Warner Bros. has some other LEGO ideas they're trying to get off the ground. We just hope the studio doesn't ruin what was great about the first film with all these LEGO spin-offs\nFind more posts: Development, Movie News\nAm I the only one around here who thinks The Lego Movie is hugely overrated?\nTuomas Lassila on Aug 7, 2014\nYeah I think you are. Lego movie is almost universally adored.\nion677 on Aug 9, 2014\nRight. It wasn't horrible, but it had many things that ruined the movie for me. But I do have faith in Ninjago since I love the TV show \ud83d\ude00\nTuomas Lassila on Aug 11, 2014\nI'd take more Harry Potter spinoffs too, in different styles. While they (books or movies) had certain faults to certain people, I think one of their strengths was that the imagined world was pretty impressive, and not only the established lore, but the potential lore. There could be a million great stories to write into small film series' or whatever else. This one might be a good start.\nOfficialJab on Aug 7, 2014\nI want a house elves film. Make it super dramatic like THE COLOR PURPLE.\nDAVIDPD on Aug 7, 2014\nThe ninjago movies sounds awful. But I know today's kids love that shit like cotton candy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cinco de Linko\nBy Tanner Steidel May 5, 2010, 1:33pm EDT\nShare All sharing options for: Cinco de Linko\nEsta oraci\u00f3n es escrita en espa\u00f1ol en honor a las vacaciones hoy. Despu\u00e9s de que lea esto, vaya la bebida alguna Corona y el Tequila.\nThe countdown to the draft lottery is now under 2 weeks. Yes, you guessed it folks, just 13 days until we officially find out that John Wall will become the newest member of our most awesomest team on the planet! As Jordan posted earlier, it looks like Jrue Holiday will be the representative at the lottery. Get the cameraman ready, because as John pointed out there will be an epic opportunity to catch Jrue's reaction if the Sixers do receive the coveted number 1 spot.\nHit up them links to get some knowledge bombs dropped on you. Ka-boom!\nSixers Read Jordan's Blueprint for Success, Add Monty Williams to List\nThe 76ers, widening their search for a new coach, are planning an interview with Portland Trail Blazers assistant Monty Williams, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. They have not officially scheduled a meeting, in part because they have yet to get permission from the Blazers.\n\"These opportunities are pretty cool,\" he told Portland's Oregonian, \"but at the same time I try to approach them as I do coaching; never get too high or never get too low. Because I'm still a Blazer, and I'm preparing myself for whatever ways I can help this organization get better.\"\n61.4% of Big Sixers Fans Dissatisfied with Ed Snider\nAdded Peter Luukko, the chief operating officer of parent company Comcast-Spectacor: \"No matter how much success the Sixers might have, Ed will always be viewed as a Flyers guy. That's understandable, because he's been the only face of the team; he has such a history with them. But, this year, we've both worked much harder on the Sixers.\"\nSnider believes the growing lack of interest is more a result of the product being offered. The Sixers have had a total of 10 sellouts in the last four seasons (add one for the nostalgia game last season at the Spectrum).\n\"This year we took a giant step backward [with the Sixers],\" Snider said. \"I'm evaluating why, and I'm not through evaluating. We'll work our butts off to turn it around. We feel we have the ingredients [to be better]. We don't feel as if it's hopeless.\"\nBrian at 'Depressed Fan' Makes a Case for Multi-Positional Players\nThe next time you take a look at the draft, keep in mind the multi-dimensional players on the teams who are still playing meaningful basketball. In today's NBA, especially when you're talking about a lottery pick, I don't think you can simply ask \"Can this guy play the position in the NBA,\" you have to look for the guys who can play that position and more. A small forward who can rebound. A PF who blocks shots. A SG who can guard threes. Extreme specialization is dying a slow death.\nOn the defensive end, they (Iguodala and Holiday) can cover multiple positions and do it well. They both rebound very well for their positions. Iguodala can handle the ball and distribute like a PG when it's needed. I'm not sure anyone else on the roster is really versatile.\nSixers Make Pat Croce 'Nauseous'\nIt got so bad that the Rum Barrel brought down the Sixers banner \u2014 owner's decision. \"I don't even hang the flag out. It's embarrassing,\" Croce said during a recent interview. \"The place is packed with Philly fans. We're proud of our sports teams. And the saddest thing is the complacency (about the Sixers). No one cares.\"\n\"It's tough to watch in two ways,\" Croce said. \"First, as a fan, you're angry. And as far as someone who worked to resurrect the brand, you're nauseous.\" \"We were relevant. There were people getting Sixers tattoos, hanging flags. Now people don't want anything to do with the team.\"\nCompletely Un-Sixer-Related News of the Day: Kobe and His Odd Photos Sneak Into Others (Including \"The Wire\")\nMy favorites from this slideshow: Kobe as Brother Mouzone, Kobe as Stanley Ipkiss aka The Mask, and Kobe as Clayton Bigsby.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"August 19, 2011 March 27, 2019 FotoArtist\nArt History at the Movies: Modigliani\nAmedeo Modigliani [Public domain]\n{{PD-US-expired}}\nProfile courtesy of the Albert R. Knox Gallery.\nWant to purchase this? Click on the photo.\nIMDB Profile\nThe plot itself revolves around the relationship between Amedeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia) and his main model Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zylberstein). I love how when she first encounters him, his ability to control dogs charms her. That love does not last long. Afterwards, the movie turns Modigliani turns into the clich\u00e9 of the self-destructive artist cad who has relations with other women, and drowns himself in drink despite warnings that it could kill him. Jeanne turns into a clich\u00e9 herself as the woman who sacrifices whatever artistic talent she has to promote a man with no business sense and jerks her around.\nAnother odd note, this movie seemed to think that Modigliani had a rivalry with Pablo Picasso (Omid Djalili). It claims that the rivalry went so deep, Picasso pulled a gun on the Italian artist. However, I am reading up on Modigliani's life, and I see no mention of a rivalry between the two. The Albert R. Knox profile has one mention of Picasso, and he praised Modigliani. This article from the Independent discusses the friendship between the pair, the article shows no bad blood, just two people drifting apart the way friends do. In John Richardson's biography A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, I found two mentions of Modigliani via the book's index. The first instance involves Picasso taking a Modigliani painting and creating his own work over it. (1) The second one only talks about Modigliani and his relationships with the art business of Paris. (2) By the way, the whole French art scene Modigliani interacts with in the film felt heavily tacked on and forced (Gertrude Stein and Diego Rivera make appearances). They do not even show Modigliani's real circle of friends.\nAs a whole, the story does not make for the tightest of plots. Modigliani's supporting friends and hallucinations felt so forgettable and forced, I ended not caring about any of them. Even when Jeanne committed suicide while pregnant with Amedeo's second child after Modigliani's death, acts that left their first child an orphan. In fact, Jeanne and Modigliani only proved her anti-Semitic father right when he talked about unfit the two act as parents. Yes, the movie portrayed an anti-Semite as the reasonable one. Furthermore, the movie's use of antisemitism and Modigliani's Jewish heritage comes and goes, but the impact ends up meaningless in the long run. On that, during the scene when Italian authorities kick out Modigliani's family, one anti-Semite looked wholly lifted from Raiders of the Lost Ark. On the hallucinations, they seem to come from the movie's attempt at Surrealism. Furthermore, the painter has this child who follows him around and gives him advice. Except this movie can't decide if he exists only in Modigliani's head or in real life.\nAlso, why the use of a modern version of Ave Maria that comes out of nowhere when Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Andr\u00e9 Derain (?), and Picasso paint? The song just throws a person out of the atmosphere the movie creates.\nThough I have to admit, watching them paint and create and the look of ecstasy on their faces make for entertaining cinema. The actors do well capturing the raw pleasure that comes out of making art. Though I do feel sympathetic for the women who must have ended up sore after staying in one place for so long.\nFurthermore on the actors, Andy Garcia created a delightful Modigliani, all charming and funny, but sleazy and idiotic at the same time. On the actress playing Jeanne, she does resemble a Modigliani woman, as the New York Times article I added a link at the bottom notes.\nOn a final note, I heard that this film has a disclaimer (did not see it while watching this on Netflix Instant) admitting that the story exaggerates a lot, and it shows. While I do not mind some fudging, but could they have made it a little less trite and forced? ETA: And without the Picasso rivalry subplot? Where did they find that? If one reads up on the real Modigliani, it reveals how the director and screenwriters did not really find him all that interesting.\nDisturbing.\nArtist at Work: Modigliani paints Jeanne and others throughout the movie. We also see other artists such as Petrillo, Pablo Picasso, and Chaim Soutine working.\nThis New York Times review also encapsulates everything that went wrong with this film\n1. John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Alfred A. Knopf: New York) 2007, 74.\n2. Ibid., 132.\nETA: Ugh, still not satisfied with this.\nETA: I rewrote this after someone expressed disappointment in this review.\nETA: Added a new link.\nUpdate 1-4-2016: Clarified a sentence to elaborate how I found my information.\nJeanne Hebuterne\nOmid Djalili\nPrevious The Sound Inside-Music and Architecture\nNext Art History at the Movies: The Agony and the Ecstasy\nYeah, I love that they included Petrillo \u2014 another great artist. Such a nice touch.\n(Also great that you were able to use that profile from the Albert R. Knox Gallery.)\nI'm also happy to have that profile as a part of my review as well. Thank you for writing!\nbotticelliswomen says:\nI own this film on DVD because I love Modigliani. Though, I agree with several of your points. There were storylines that felt forced and dramas created that seemed unnecessary. I think it could've been more truthful and still dramatic. But aside from the fact that Modigliani's work can be further celebrated (he didn't have a dealer or heirs to puff up his notoriety like Picasso), I really appreciated Andy Garcia's portrayal of Amedeo. I thought he was able, when the film allowed, to capture the playfulness of 'Modi' and especially in his movement. It looked the way I felt he would move.\nThank you for the post. I agree that Andy Garcia did well with what was given him.\nJenny E says:\nDuring the competition scene, one of the entries was a painting of a girl in a birdcage. Does anyone know who the artist was, and the name of the piece? Thanks!\nI am not sure myself, but if anyone knows, leave a comment.\nArt History Apps | Art History Ramblings says:\n[\u2026] By the way, the intro photograph of the artists shows that when it came to facial features, Andy Garcia had nothing in common with [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On India's invisible entrepreneurs\nMarch 1, 2021 March 4, 2021 Sanjana 0 Comment Research and Impact lead, research and impact\nRia Dutta and Sharon Buteau of LEAD at Krea University share insights on the barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in India's handloom and handicrafts sectors. The piece, published in AVPN Asia, delves into the existing ecosystem for women entrepreneurship and solutions to empower women entrepreneurs. Read the article here.\nAddressing the unpaid childcare crisis for women and girls\nFebruary 16, 2021 February 24, 2021 Sanjana 0 Comment Action Station iwwage, lead\nThe learning session on 'Addressing the unpaid childcare crisis for women and girls: How can we build better after COVID-19?' held in December last year, as part of the learning series started by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at fostering learning, exchanging ideas and establishing connections across partners working on evidence, advocacy, policies, and interventions related to COVID-19's social and economic impacts on women and girls. As part of the larger mandate, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and IWWAGE at LEAD are collaborating to undertake an evidence review of the current childcare crisis and the road for post-COVID recovery and resilience. A paper is underway outlining the different pathways in which COVID-19 is impacting women's care burden, with recommendations for policy solutions and measures that could be explored in different contexts by governments, the private sector, and other key development actors, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).\nAVPN SAICF 21: Reimagining India's Social Protection Architecture\nFebruary 16, 2021 February 24, 2021 Sanjana 0 Comment Action Station ifmr lead, lead\nLEAD at Krea University hosted a session \"Re-building a dynamic and durable blueprint for India's Social Protection Architecture\" at AVPN Asia's South Asia Impact Capital Festival. The panel featured Executive Director Sharon Buteau and Soumya Kapoor Mehta (Head \u2013 Initiative for What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy), and was moderated by Vivek Bhandari (Visiting Professor of History, Krea University). The discussion revolved around reimagining India's social protection architecture in the new normal, using emerging design elements that are research, data, and systems driven.\n#WERiseTwitterChat \u2013 Enabling women entrepreneurship in India\nNovember 30, 2020 December 17, 2020 Sanjana 0 Comment Action Station krea university, lead\nOn the occasion of Women's Entrepreneurship Day (November 19), LEAD at Krea University and IWWAGE hosted a Twitter chat to explore strategies for enhancing women's participation in entrepreneurial activity and strengthening enterprise resilience. The chat explored strategies for addressing restrictive social norms that influence women's participation in aspirations for entrepreneurship, improving skilling programs, and building business acumen, enabling meaningful access to technology and markets. Participants also discussed strategies for collecting better-disaggregated data and integrating a gender lens in entrepreneurship development programs and policies. Read the highlights in this blog.\nIWWAGE launches 'Gender in Focus' Magazine\nAugust 14, 2020 September 2, 2020 Lekshmi Gopinathan 0 Comment Research and Impact, Uncategorized iwwage, lead, research, research magazine, social impact\nIWWAGE, an initiative of LEAD at Krea University, launched the first edition of its quarterly Magazine, Gender in Focus. The digital magazine showcases IWWAGE's work in the intervention, research and advocacy space around key issues emerging as challenges for women's economic empowerment in India. Gender in Focus presents a teaser of some of the work that IWWAGE is involved in, to address some of these challenges and in capturing best practices.\nThe inaugural issue brought voices from the field based on open-ended discussions held with our partner civil society organisations in four states, on how women and their groups have been affected by the pandemic and the lockdown. In addition, the issue provides snapshots of webinars conducted around the theme of COVID-19 and its impacts on women in different domains, and presents a new series of policy notes, to provide timely and actionable recommendations so that policies or programmes announced by governments help build not only a more resilient, but a gender responsive world post COVID. Besides the emphasis on COVID, this Gender in Focus issue presents summaries of the other exciting work that IWWAGE has been engaged in, such as, unpacking state-wise trends in labour force participation in India, the sectors that women work in and wage gaps; a new policy and programme series (also at the state level) to map what programmes exist and are targeted at women, and their effectiveness; women's engagement with the gig economy and the precariousness they face while engaging with such platforms; and digital solutions that IWWAGE is working on with its tech partners in helping women gain information about their rights and entitlements. Gender in Focus can be downloaded from the website with this link- Gender in Focus.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"June 27, 2016 Food 2016\tNo Comments\nFarmers in Alberta use a wide range of best management practices (BMPs) to complete each growing season successfully. Starting with preparations prior to seeding and working through harvest time, farmers have many ways to get from A to B as efficiently as possible.\nAgriculture is vital to every human on Earth. It is the industry that produces the food we eat every day, providing nourishment to the planet's population of more than seven billion people\u2014a figure that increases by 225,000 people each day. It should come as no surprise, then, that in every corner of the globe there are farmers.\nIn today's supermarkets, the contents of the fresh produce section can transport you\u2014and your palate\u2014around the world and through the seasons. For Canadians in particular, it can be easy to take for granted the fact that we have access to warm-weather fare like tomatoes on the vine, avocados and blueberries even when it's -25\u00b0C outside and the ground is covered by two feet of snow. However, it wasn't always this way.e, avocados and blueberries even when it's -25\u00b0C outside and the ground is covered by two feet of snow. However, it wasn't always this way.\nGROCERY STORE AT YOUR DOOR\nKrista Ewert was first inspired to try a grocery delivery service when her first child was born. \"The idea of going to the grocery store with a baby was not appealing to me,\" she said. \"So I started ordering from SPUD.ca.\"\nIf you ask a random person in a grocery store whether he's thought about the farmer who grew the ingredients for the loaf of bread in his hands, you'll likely get a \"no.\" Ask that same consumer what he thinks of gluten, GMOs or Roundup, and you might end up having a conversation about all that's wrong with food production these days.\nPAY DIRT\nYou might just think of it as dirt, or you might not think about it at all. But in the agricultural industry, soil takes on a very different meaning\u2014as one of the building blocks for all the life on Earth.\nGrowing a successful crop is the perennial goal of a farmer. However, that's just one small step in the bigger puzzle of turning a profit. Freight costs\u2014namely trucking and rail\u2014are a fact of life for farmers, the same way farmers must always contend with the weather. Farmers deliver grain to a rural drop-off, then that grain is moved by rail to a port, where it is loaded onto a vessel. Where it goes from there will require a passport.\nTHE BUSINESS OF FARMING MADE FUN\nFood and farming go hand in hand, but in the urbanized 21st century it can be difficult for kids\u2014and even grown-ups\u2014to make the connection. Journey 2050, a farm simulator video game developed by a group of agriculture organizations, helps students in junior and senior high understand the intricacies of producing enough food to sustain a world population that experts predict will swell to nine billion people by 2050.\nOne says \"eat local,\" the other \"eat global\"\u2013who's right?\nIf you are a Calgarian, or have recently lived in the city, people may wonder if you were present when it flooded in 2013. The conversations nowadays almost always lead into the state of the economy and the price of oil. Ironically, while Calgary's troubling times seem to have put the city on the radar, it's also these challenges that unite Calgarians and strengthen their community connections.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bennett completes hat-trick of stage wins at BinckBank Tour\nBy Patrick O'Kane\nIreland's Sam Bennett extended his lead at the International Cycling Union Binckbank Tour in Belgium by completing a hat-trick of stage wins in Aalter.\nThe Bora-Hansgrohe rider made it three wins from three stages on the 166.9 kilometres course with a photo-finish victory.\nBennett is the first rider in the Tour's history to win three stages in a row after pipping Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen from Jumbo-Visma in the closing metres.\nBennett, Groenwegen and UAE Team Emirates rider Jasper Philipsen of Belgium broke clear of the peleton after a crash at the last turn before speeding through to the finish line.\nRussian Viacheslav Kuznetsov of Katusha-Alpecin, Astana rider Laurens De Vreese from Belgium, Roompot-Charles rider Jan-Willem van Schip of The Netherlands and Belgium's Aaron Verwilst of the Sport Vlaanderen\u2013Baloise team broke clear and built a two-minute advantage in the opening 20km.\nThe peleton caught the escapees with 72km to go before several failed attacks failed to make a mark.\n\ud83c\udfa5 Interview with @Sammy_Be after his stage win in Aalter in the third stage of the #BinckBankTour. pic.twitter.com\/cP1Tpx0rY2\n\u2014 BinckBank Tour (@BinckBankTour) August 14, 2019\nWith 50km of the stage remaining, Katusha-Alpecin rider Harry Tanfield of Britain, CCC Team rider Guillaume Van Keirsbulck of Belgium and compatriot Stijn Steels from Roompot-Charles stole a 20-second gap.\nThey were caught with just 3.2km left of the stage before a crash split the peleton and allowed Bennett to capitalise.\nHe crossed the line first in three hours 48min 36sec as Groenwegen and Philipsen finished in the same time.\nBennett's lead over Philipsen in the general classification is 20 seconds, having clocked a total time of 11:16.23.\nPhilipsen and Groenwegen share a time of 11:16.43.\nTomorrow's fourth stage is 96.2km and starts and finishes in Houffalize.\nAugust 2019: Bennett claims second straight stage win at BinckBank Tour\nAugust 2019: Bennett overcomes heavy rain to win opening stage of BinckBank Tour\nAugust 2019: Strong sprinters set to dominate BinckBank Tour as UCI WorldTour continues in Belgium and Netherlands\nAugust 2019: Sivakov claims Tour de Pologne victory as Mohori\u010d wins final stage\nAugust 2019: Denmark's Vingegaard wins stage six to take overall lead at Tour de Pologne\nPatrick O'Kane Junior Reporter\nFollow @@sportingpat\nPatrick O'Kane is a junior reporter at insidethegames.biz. He graduated from the University of Sunderland with a degree in Journalism Studies, and built his experience as a sports reporter at The Westmorland Gazette in Cumbria. Patrick was a flash-quote reporter for LOCOG at the London 2012 Paralympics and has covered the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Heineken Cup rugby as a freelance writer.\nRead more of Patrick's articles\nFollow @@sportingpat on Twitter\nInternational Cycling Union Sam Bennett UCI Binckbank Tour","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Sterling weakness\nSterling weakness\nGBPEUR Exchange Rate: Week in Review August 21st\nThe GBP to EUR exchange rate dropped last week as the pair failed to hold onto the new yearly highs. We said in last week's review for the week that the pair, \"may have seen an important high this week\" and that was the case. The UK economy's GDP that missed the BoE expectations also saw a lower inflation number this week and traders have taken profits on the pound. The GBP to EUR was trading around the 1.1670 level heading into the weekend.\nRate Expectations Cool, Virus Expectations Rise for GBP\nThe pound versus the euro rate has met another perfect storm at the 1.1800 level this month with profit-taking setting in. Despite a strong GDP number, the 4.84% figure was 0.2% less than the Bank of England's forecast in their most recent rate meeting.\nTraders also saw a UK inflation rate that dipped to the bank's 2% target after recent surges and that has taken hopes for an early tightening of policy off the table. The UK saw a stronger employment number on Tuesday, but traders decided to focus on rates and fears of rising virus cases in the UK as Thursday logged over 36,000 cases and 100 fatalities linked to the virus.\nThis has led to government advisers making gloomy statements about the winter months and traders will be worried that they have the ear of the decision makers in Downing Street.\nEuro Boosted by Employment Figures and GDP\nThe euro was boosted by a confirmation of the 2% GDP performance in the second quarter, with data also showing a boost in employment.\nIn a separate release the Eurostat statistics office said that employment had grown 0.5% in the April-June period compared to the previous quarter. The figures helped to provide some clarity on the strength of the European economy, and some will be hoping that the gap can be tightened for the pound versus the euro.\nEuropean Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane also gave an indication this week that Frankfurt is prepared to stomach higher inflation without raising interest rates.\nIn a blog post for the European Central Bank (ECB's) website, Lane talked of the bank's recent changes to its inflation target, where he said the ECB will only tighten policy by reducing stimulus or raising rates if there is strong evidence inflation will hit and stay at 2%\n\"Reaching the inflation target should be lasting and not just be the result of short-lived forces that lead to one-time increases in prices that are unlikely to lead to persistently higher year-over-year inflation,\" he said.\nThe ECB is following other central banks by seeking to push the chances of rate hikes further out to 2023 as traders try to bring them forward into 2022.\nThe GBP to EUR rate is now likely to move lower and look for support, but another rise in virus cases is threatening to stall the recovery for now and that is causing a pullback.\nYou can get in touch to discuss these factors in further detail ahead of your currency exchange using the form below.\nPound to Euro exchange rate forecast: Sterling rates continue to suffer from Brexit uncertainty\nGBP\/EUR exchange rates continue to suffer due to Brexit Uncertainty\nThe pound to euro rate has hit a 23 month low this week. This can largely attributed to the higher probability of a no deal. The more likely a no deal is the potential outcome of Brexit the weaker you would expect sterling to become.\nBoris will now have difficulty passing through any changes in legislation as the Conservatives lost to the Lib Dems in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election. Boris now only has the majority by one seat.\nBoris ramps up preparations for No Deal Brexit\nThe new PM stated recently that he would be 'turbocharging' preparations for a no deal which caused further weakness for sterling. His attempt to use a no deal as ammunition to gain a more favourable deal is a dangerous one and he is adamant the UK will leave with or without a deal. Brussels stance has remained the same, there will be no concessions made to the deal currently on the table. It is not in Brussels best interest to offer the UK a favourable deal, they are trying to avoid a domino effect where other countries would follow suit. Italy for example are currently in huge debt, it now surpasses their GDP. The EU has threatened to impose a \u20ac3bn fine which will not sit well with Rome.\nThe time scale for Brexit does not bode well for sterling. Parliament is currently in recess until 3rd September leaving less than two months to find a Brexit resolution. Keep in mind Theresa May failed to get Brussels to budge in two and a half years. There are also rumours circulating that there could be a general election which would only create more political uncertainty and has the potential to cause further falls for sterling.\nPoor Eurozone economic data\nThe euro is struggling with very poor economic data and inflation still remains a major concern. Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) has stated he will be willing to change monetary policy in order to stimulate growth which did cause weakness against the majority of major currencies. The problems with the UK however do seem to outweigh the problems in the Eurozone at present.\nIf you have a currency requirement, I will be happy to assist. It is crucial to be in touch with an experienced broker when the market is currently so hard to predict. If you let me know the details of your trade, I will endeavour to produce a free trading strategy to suit your individual needs. Have faith knowing you will be dealing with a brokerage in business for over 19yrs, Foreign Currency Direct Plc. We are a no risk entity as we do not speculate on the market and we are authorised with the FCA. If you have a currency provider take a minute to send over the rates they offer and I am confident I can demonstrate a significant saving.\nSterling continues to slide against the Euro: Will the Pound fall below 1.10?\nDaniel Wright\nThe pound to euro rate is now on a 10 week losing streak as the markets await the result of the Conservative party leadership contest and the next movements once the UK has a new Prime Minister in place.\nNo Deal Brexit: Is it a likely to happen?\nWith the chance of a 'no deal' Brexit seemingly increasing over the past few weeks the pound really has started to struggle against all major currencies, most notably hitting a 27 month low against the dollar and closing in on a year low against the euro. The problem is at present that there is no glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, once a new PM is in place MP's are due to head off to summer recess, so it is unlikely that we will see any major progress in the short term.\nNo progress heightens the chance of no deal as we head closer and closer to the deadline on October 31st and no deal is on the horizon, companies are starting to hold back from any vast expenditure, the property market is stagnant and the whole of the UK is pretty much slowing down until there are any firm plans in place.\nWill Pound to Euro rates drop below 1.10?\nWith this in mind it is no surprise that the pound is struggling, investors and speculators alike are staying away from sterling and many analysts believe that we may see this poor run of form continue due to the various reasons above.\nI personally would not be surprised to see sterling euro exchange rates drop below 1.10 in the coming days, so if you are looking to buy euros in the near future it is sensible to consider all of the options available to you.\nShould you be in the position that you need to buy or sell currency in the near future and you need our assistance then we would love to provide you with a quote and I would be surprised if we couldn't save you money, which is exceptionally important in a market like this.\nFeel free to fill in the form below and I will be happy to contact you personally to discuss your particular situation.\nPound to US Dollar forecast: Will Sterling continue its decline against the USD?\nDayle Littlejohn\nFor clients that are selling US dollars to buy sterling, current exchange rates are fantastic in comparison to the last 10 years. As its been heavily documented in recent articles, the pound to US dollar rate continues to devalue due to the ongoing Brexit saga and only up until the last couple of months, the US Federal reserve have been hiking interest rates which has strengthened the greenback.\nBrexit is an issue that is not going away: EU still unwilling to renegotiate Brexit deal\nLooking ahead, quite simply the Brexit problems are not going away. On the 23rd of July we will find out who will take over No10, however my personal opinion is that it's irrelevant. The EU have made it clear they are not prepared to renegotiate and I believe they will stick to this as they know that MPs within the UK will not support a no deal Brexit. In addition, many commentators are suggesting that a snap General election may have to be called and I think this is the most likely option. Therefore for clients that are selling pounds to buy dollars or in fact any foreign currency I don't see the pounds fortune turning anytime soon.\nUS Federal Reserve likely to cut interest rates\nWe now know that the Feds cycle of hiking interest rates is over, and in fact they are likely to start cutting interest rates in the upcoming months. US President Donald Trump has been putting major pressure on the FED stating that high interest rates are having a negative impact on the US economy, however the data doesn't support it. Unemployment remains at record lows and jobs are being created, however there is a need to lift inflation and that's why I think an interest rate cut may occur at the end of the month and once more this year.\nWhen a central bank cuts interest rates the currency tends to devalue. Therefore, for clients that are buying US dollars there is an argument to suggest holding off until the interest rate decision at the end of the month, however you will also in that timescale find out who the next PM is which could cause fluctuations. for clients that are selling US dollars short term, exchange rates are fantastic therefore formulating a plan seems sensible. If you are buying or selling US dollars and would like assistance with currency exchange, feel free to fill in the form below.\nPound to US Dollar forecast: Best time in 2 years to sell US Dollars for Pounds\nJonathan Watson\nPound to US Dollar exchange rate: Investors back the US Dollar\nThe US dollar has been in the ascendancy lately, as investors back the currency against all others. This is especially true of the US dollar against sterling, as the British currency suffers under Brexit uncertainties. GBP\/USD levels had dipped into the 1.25's but have staged a late recovery back over 1.25 in the day, as Jerome Powell, the US Federal Reserve Chairman, lines up the possibility of further interest rate cuts. GBP\/USD levels still remain in the territory of the best time in 2 years to sell US dollars for pounds, what can we expect next?\nFed interest rate cut looks to further support strong US economy: Will USD rates continue to rise?\nOn the US currency side, it might be fair to say that cutting interest rates will weaken the currency, and the possibility of such a trend has been loosely re-established this afternoon, following the Jerome Powell's comments. However, one of the reasons the US dollar has risen so much is that investors have embraced the cuts to the extent that, by cutting interest rates, the US is positioning itself to keep its economy strong and growing in the future. Recent jobs data for the US showed strong employment data which is further supportive of the economy and with the Fed now appearing inclined to cut on the 31st July, when they next meet, the economy should remain resilient and the currency strong.\nUS interest rates are still the highest of the world's leading economies which will I am sure provide confidence for investors to keep backing the US dollar for a higher return on their investments. The future looks like it will prove beneficial for the US currency even with interest rate cuts ahead. Recent uncertainty over the US trade wars with China have even gently subsided, as investors have reasons to be optimistic over the more immediate outlook.\nBrexit uncertainties remain: Sterling weakness likely to continue\nOn the British side, Brexit uncertainties look set to remain which will only keep pressure on the pound. Sterling is unlikely to be rising dramatically until there is some kind of clarity on Brexit which does not appear forthcoming. Having said that, the upcoming Conservative leadership race could provide further confidence for sterling but ultimately, the prospect of no-deal has probably risen as both Hunt and Boris are openly backing a no-deal option, something which has been closely associated with sterling weakness.\nGBP\/USD levels could now remain anchored in the 1.20's according to some commentators, including Lee Hardman of MUFG, a Japanese Bank, who said in the FT yesterday that the recent fall below 1.25 could open the door to the 1.20 level.\nThank you for reading and please contact me directly using the form below to learn more about all of your options and the latest forecasts for GBP\/USD or USD\/GBP exchange rates.\nPound to Euro exchange rates: Will GBP\/EUR rates fall again as Brexit uncertainty increases?\nMatthew Vassallo\nPound to Euro rates struggle\nGBP\/EUR rates have fallen to a low of 1.1121 today, with the pound struggling to make any inroads against the EUR so far this week. In truth, GBP\/EUR have remained extremely rangebound over the past couple of weeks, with no clear trend being defined following the pound's downturn last month.\nWith Boris Johnson now the overwhelming favourite to take up the position in number 10 when the final results are in on July 22, it will be interesting to see how the markets react to his pending appointment. With the PM's Brexit mandate likely to take centre stage, whoever takes up the mantel will be tasked with trying to break the current stalemate in parliament.\nThis will be essential if the UK has a realistic hope of leaving the EU with a deal by the revised deadline of October 31st, a scenario which would ultimately remove a no deal Brexit outcome.\nNo Deal threat: How could this influence Pound to Euro exchange rates?\nHistorically, the threat of no-deal has proved to be of detriment to sterling. If we do see a deal agreed then the pound may have more of a chance to recover some of its losses, but how far it can go is certainly up for debate.\nHowever, the flip side to this is that Boris Johnson has been the most vocal of the candidates when it comes to the UK leaving the EU with no-deal. Chancellor Philip Hammond stated that the UK could lose up to 90 billion from its economy each year if the UK does leave without an agreement, a figure which will likely cause a huge amount of concern amongst investors.\nThe current uncertainty is unlikely to lend itself to a boost in confidence for the pound vs the euro in the short-term and despite the on-going economic issues inside the Eurozone, investors currently seem to be viewing the UK's predicament as the more concerning.\nIf you would like to learn more on current factors influencing current GBP\/EUR exchange rates, or have an upcoming currency transfer, feel free to contact me directly using the form below.\nPound to euro predictions: Forecast for the remainder of 2019\nOver the last 8 weeks, pound to euro exchange rates have dropped 5%. To put this into monetary value a \u20ac250,000 purchase now costs an additional \u00a311,450. The pound has declined in value due to the chances of a no deal Brexit increasing. As it's been highlighted over all media stations, front runner Boris Johnson has made it clear that the UK will be leaving the EU with or without a deal at the end of October.\nNew UK Prime Minister to be announced on 23rd July\nThis month the 160,000 Tory members will vote to decide who they want to be the next Prime Minister and the verdict will be announced on the 23rd July. If the polls are correct and Boris takes over at No. 10, the chances of crashing out of the EU without a deal increases, therefore I expect the pound to face further pressure against the euro. However if Jeremy Hunt manages to beat the odds and win, the pound could recover some of the losses it has seen over the last 8 weeks.\nPound to euro predictions for 2019\nTo forecast Pound to euro rates for the remainder of the year, I am predicting that Boris will become the next Prime Minster. Therefore throughout August we will find out more in regards to how the former Mayor of London wishes to proceed.\nRegardless of who takes over, the EU's position I believe will remain clear and the withdrawal agreement will not be changed. Therefore this could put further pressure on the pound. However come the end of October, I don't believe the UK will crash out of the EU without a deal as MPs within the House of Commons will find a way of blocking it. In fact, the most likely option I believe will be a snap General election which Boris Johnson himself calls.\nFor clients that are buying euros, an uncertain time ahead is on the horizon. Therefore, if you buying property in Europe or have to pay a company invoice, buying euros upfront I believe is your best option. For clients selling euros to buy pounds, you are in a fantastic position. Exchange rates have dropped 5% in 8 weeks and uncertain times lay ahead. If I was in your position I would outline your requirements by filling in the form below, this will send your message directly to me and I will keep you up to date as developments unfold.\nPound to US Dollar predictions: Will the pound fall further against the dollar?\nThe pound has had a torrid time against the US dollar for the last 4 months. GBP\/USD (cable) mid market exchange rates have dropped approximately 5.5%. To put this into monetary value a $250,000 purchase is now just under \u00a311,000 more expensive.\nBrexit continues to hamper Sterling\nIt's been heavily documented in previous articles and mainstream media around the globe, the on going Brexit saga is having a major impact on the value of the pound. Bookmakers are predicting that Brexiteer Boris Johnson will be taking over the Conservative Party and as we know, the former Mayor of London's approach will be extremely different to outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. The closer we get to the end of October and a deal not being in place, I expect the pound could lose further value.\nPositive US China trade talks offer more support to the US Dollar\nLast weekend Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of the USA and China met at the G20 summit and reports are suggesting the talks went well. Mr Trump has announced that talks will begin once more to bring the ongoing trade war to an end, but he did confirm this wouldn't be rushed. In regards to exchange rates, if the leaders of the two largest economies can reach an agreement sure this is a good thing for the US dollar.\nFed interest rate decision this month: How could these affect Pound to US Dollar rates?\nLooking further ahead the major talking point this month will be the US interest rate decision at the end of the month. Mr Trump has made it clear that he believes the strong US dollar is having a major impact on the US economy therefore he wants the Federal reserve to cut interest rates. He even went on to say that he believes President Mario Draghi of the ECB should take over the federal reserve. It looks like the Fed will cut by 25 bps and this may be priced in before the event. However if a surprise cut of 50 bps materalises this could weaken the dollar dramatically.\nIn regards to the UK, the Tory leadership contest is the major talking point. The 160,000 Conservative MPs will vote on who they want to be the next PM. With the pounds fall in value over the last 6 weeks, I believe the market has priced in a Boris victory. However if Jeremy Hunt wins this could have a positive impact on the pounds value as he's not keen on crashing out of the EU without a deal. If you would like to keep up to date on factors influencing GBP\/USD exchange rates, or have an upcoming currency transfer, you can contact me directly using the form below.\nPound Sterling exchange rates remain flat with minimal economic data or Brexit news to feed from\nSo far this week we have not seen a huge amount of volatility for Pound Sterling exchange rates, if anything, against the Euro the Pound dropped ever so slightly.\nNews released this morning indicates that Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England is set to potentially take over the helm at the IMF (International Monetary Fund). This no great surprise as he is due to leave at the start of 2020. He had already agreed to remain longer than his original post was due to end to help steer the UK through the choppy Brexit waters. Hopefully whichever way that the Brexit situation ends up, something will be resolved before his departure.\nPound Sterling exchange rates: Brexit uncertainty continue to hamper the Pound\nOn the Brexit front we still have no new news and it is not a great surprise that the Pound is struggling as political and economic uncertainty can historically be damaging for a currency. Brexit brings both to the table. With no clear ending in sight it is hard to see any dramatic improvement in Sterling exchange rates in the near future.\nEconomic data for next week\nEconomic data is reasonably quiet for the rest of the week, on Wednesday of next week we do have a blockbuster of a day in terms of economic data, with industrial and manufacturing production, growth and trade balance figures all due in the morning, and the NIESR (National Institute of Social and Economic Research) growth estimates due out in the afternoon.\nEuropean economic data is very thin on the ground over the course of next week so it will be more likely that political news will impact the value of Euro exchange rates unless any economic surprises pop up.\nOn that front there is the potential for a number of economies within the Eurozone to hit the headlines as many are struggling. However, with Brexit still being the star of the media show a lot of these issues are being overlooked.\nAll in all it is a tricky period to predict exchange rates and it does look like rates may remain fairly range bound over the coming days. Having worked in the markets for nearly a dozen years surprises can happen so it is always key to keep an eye on the exchange rates on a regular basis.\nIf you are in the process of buying or selling a property overseas and you would like my assistance, then it would be a pleasure to help you with the timing of your transfer and with making the most for your money when the time arises. If you would like to discuss a potential exchange with me personally then feel free to fill in the form below and I will be happy to contact you for a no obligation discussion.\nPound to Dollar forecast: Sterling continues to decline against the US Dollar\nOver the past week the Pound has lost over 1.5% against the Dollar with the pairing witnessing political uncertainty and poor economic for the UK and positive news on trade talks between the US and China.\nPound Sterling forecast: The Pound's value continues to drop\nThe Pound's value has fallen across the board in the past few weeks as investors and speculators alike avoid Sterling until there is a much clearer path and picture ahead. It is quite understandable that Sterling is dropping. Although it does look likely that Boris Johnson will be taking the reins we still do not now what the plan is and how Brexit may work out.\nThe chance of a 'no deal' Brexit is ever so slightly increasing as we head closer to the next deadline of October 31st and this is giving the markets the jitters once more.\nEconomic data has been fairy poor as well over the last few weeks as much of the country appears to be holding back and waiting to see what happens with Brexit. This is leading to fewer business decisions being made, businesses and individuals taking precautions and the housing market and retail sector slowing.\nPositivity for the US \/ China trade deal helps the Dollar\nIf you look at the US and the Dollar, Donald Trump's progress with a possible trade deal with China has been taken positively by the market and the US economy is still performing reasonably well, although overall growth has slowed a little.\nThere had been talks of a possible interest rate cut in recent times which had weakened the Dollar a little. One of the key factors and economic data releases that may impact that decision is Non Farm payroll data which is released on Friday afternoon.\nThis measures the number of people in non-agricultural employment in the US and can be a good measure of economic performance. Analysts can predict this figure incorrectly so the market often moves quite quickly to correct itself, this can cause Dollar volatility.\nIf you are in the position that you need to carry out a currency exchange involving the Dollar or any currency pegged to the Dollar and you would like assistance then we can help you here. Feel free to fill in the form below and I will be happy to get in touch with you personally to discuss your specific situation.\n1.19861 1.19867 0.21 1.19881 1.19345 Set rate alert Request a quote","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GIRLS BASKETBALL: LOWER CAPE MAY AND WILDWOOD CATHOLIC WIN\nCape May County, Local NewsBy 98.7 The Coast March 1, 2016\nIt was a great Tuesday for local teams. Lower Cape May Regional girls won a home game in the Group 2 State Basketball Tournament. The Lady Caper Tigers came away with a 58 to 45 victory on Tuesday night and will visit Cinnaminson on Thursday night. Cinnaminson is the top seed in the group and\u2026\nTHIS WINTER WAS MUCH WARMER THAN AVERAGE\nLocal NewsBy 98.7 The Coast March 1, 2016\nThis winter has certainly been a warm one and it has been much higher than average. The National Weather Service notes that Atlantic City has averaged 5.6 degrees higher this year than average. This winter season averaged 40.7 degrees. The last time it was warmer was in the winter season of 2011-2012. They used the\u2026\nDRIVER MISSES RED LIGHT, CAUSES MULTI-VEHICLE ACCIDENT\nAtlantic County, Egg Harbor Township, Local NewsBy 98.7 The Coast March 1, 2016\nA multi-vehicle accident took place in Egg Harbor Township on Tuesday morning. The incident happened at English Creek Ave. and the Black Horse Pike. Anthony Linda disregarded a red light and struck a vehicle driven by Jason Michaelson and another vehicle operated by Peter Huizar. The impact also caused two other vehicles to become involved\u2026\nBODY FOUND IN SHAWCREST FIRE IDENTIFIED\nThe identity of the body that was found in a fire in Shawcrest has been released. The Cape May County Prosecutor's Office announced that Samuel L. Mathues, was the body found inside the Shawcrest Mobile Home Park on Feb. 22. The cause and manner of death still remain under investigation. Authorities were called to the\u2026\nBURGLARY SUSPECT ARRESTED BY HAMILTON TOWNSHIP POLICE\nAtlantic County, Local NewsBy 98.7 The Coast March 1, 2016\nA Vineland man was arrested for residential burglaries in Hamilton Township. Police there say they took Christopher Meredith into custody on Monday. The burglary in question took place on the 300 block of 3rd Ave. He was charged with burglary, theft, criminal mischief, and possession of burglary tools. Bail was set at $25,000.\nLAWMAKERS BEGIN PROCESS OF ELIMINATING ESTATE TAX\nA first step was taken in eliminating the estate tax. Two bills were passed in a state Senate committee on Monday which would get rid of the estate tax and make other changes to allow people more retirement savings. Democrats are hopefully that they will trade this tax cut with raising the gas tax to\u2026\nNEWSPAPER APOLOGIZES FOR ENDORSING CHRISTIE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY\n\"We were wrong.\" This was the message of a major newspaper in New Hampshire that endorsed Gov. Chris Christie for president. The New Hampshire Union Leader apologized to its readers after Christie announced his endorsement of Donald Trump. The paper endorsed Christie back in Nov. The paper said Christie told the paper he would never\u2026\nWOMAN CHARGED WITH SIGNIFICANT HEROIN POSSESSION\nA woman with 1,000 wax folds of heroin was arrested in Ocean County. Police there say they took Lisa Noumair, of Toms River into custody. Bail was set at $100,000. She was charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute. Authorities say they conducted an investigation into heroin distribution in Toms River.\nFALLEN HEROES PLUNGE RAISES $50K FOR FAMILIES OF FALLEN OFFICERS\nCape May County, Local News, North WildwoodBy 98.7 The Coast February 29, 2016\nA big turnout and a big sum of money came out of the Fallen Heroes Polar Plunge in North Wildwood. Organizer Dennis Dool tells Coastal Broadcasting that the plunge raised $50,000 for the families of fallen police officers in Philadelphia. In total, roughly 1000 people came out of to the plunge. Besides the plunge, money\u2026\nU.S. SUPREME COURT WILL NOT RULE ON STATE'S PENSION FIGHT\nLocal NewsBy 98.7 The Coast February 29, 2016\nGov. Chris Christie got a big win on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court opted to not intervene in a messy pension fight in the Garden State. The decision leaves in place a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that said Christie was not obligated to make the pension payments that were scheduled. 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{"text":"A Shi'ite Creed\nTract on The Beliefs of The Shi'a Imamiya\nThe Belief of The Imamiya Concerning Tawhid\nAttributes Of (His) Essence And Of (His) Actions\nBelief Concerning Taklif (Responsibility)\nThe Belief In Respect Of Human Actions\nRegarding the Denial of Both Constraint And Delegation\nThe Belief Concerning (Allah's) Intention (Irada) And Will (Mashi'a)\nConcerning (qada') Destiny And Decree (qadar)\nConcerning Man's Original Nature (fitra) And His True Guidance (hidaya)\nBelief In The Capacity Of Human Beings (al-istita'a)\nRegarding the Source of Creation (mabda' )\nConcerning Abstention From Disputation (jadal) And Contention About Allah (mira')\nConcerning The Tablet (lawh) And The Pen (qalam)\nRegarding The Chair (Kursi)\nConcerning The Throne\nConcerning Souls (nufus) And Spirits (arwah )\nConcerning Death (mawt )\nConcerning The Questioning In The Grave\nConcerning Resurrection (Raj'a)\nConcerning Return (Ba'th) After Death\nConcerning The Pond (al-Hawd)\nConcerning Intersession (ash-shafa'a)\nConcerning The Promise (al-wa`d) And The Threat (al-wa'id)\nConcerning What is Written Against The Slave\nConcerning Justice (al-'adl)\nConcerning Purgatory (al-A'raf)\nConcerning The Bridge (as-Sirat)\nPasses On the Road to Mahshar\nConcerning The Reckoning (al-hisab) And The Scales (al-mawazin)\nConcerning The Garden (al-janna) And The Fire (an-nar)\nThe Manner Of Descent Of Revelation (nuzulu'l-wahy)\nRevelation Of The Qur'an In The Night Of Power\nThe Belief Concerning The Qur'an\nConcerning the Extent of The Qur'an\nConcerning Prophets Apostles, Imams And Angels\nThe Number of Prophets And Vicegerents\nConcerning Infallibility ('isma)\nThe Denial Of Excess And Delegation\nBelief Concerning Evil Doers\nConcerning Dissimulation (Taqiyya)\nThe Ancestors Of The Prophet\nConcerning The Alids ('alawiya)\nConcerning Reports Detailed And Summary\nConcerning Prohibition And Permission\nConcerning The Reports Regarding Medicine\nConcerning Two Divergent Traditions\nThe Belief Concerning (Allah's) Intention (Irada) And Will (Mashi'a1)\nSays the Shaykh Abu Ja'far: Our belief concerning this is (based upon) the saying of (Imam Ja'far) as-Sadiq: Allah wills (sha'a) and intends (arada); or He does not like (lam yuhibba) and He does not approve (lam yarda).2\nNow by sha'a (He wills) is meant that nothing takes place without His knowledge and arada is synonymous with it; and He does not like (lam yuhibba) it to be said that He is \"the third of the three (cf. 5, 77); and He does not approve of disbelief on the part of His slaves. Says Allah the Mighty and Glorious:\n\"Verily thou (O Muhammad) guidest not whom thou lovest, but Allah guideth whom He will\" (Qur'an 28:56).\nAnd He says, Exalted is He:\n\"And ye will not, unless (it be that) Allah willeth\" (Qur'an 76:30; 81:29).\nAnd He says, the Glorious and Mighty:\n\"And if thy Lord willed, all who are in the earth would have believed together. Wouldst thou (O Muhammad) compel men until they are believers\"3 (Qur'an 10:99).\nAnd He says, Glorious and Mighty is He:\n\"And it is not for any soul to believe save by the permission of Allah\" (Qur'an 10:100).\nAnd as He, the Glorious and Mighty, says:\n\"No soul can ever die except by Allah's leave and at a term appointed \"(Qur'an 3:145).\n\"And they say, had we any chance in the affair we should not have been slain here. Say (O Muhammad): Even if ye had been in your houses those appointed to be slain would surely have gone forth to the places where they were to lie\"4 (Qur'an 3:154).\nAnd as He says:\n\"If thy Lord willed, they would not do it; so leave them alone with their devising \"(Qur'an 6:112).\nAnd He, the most Exalted, says:\n\"Had Allah willed, they would not have been polytheists\" (Qur'an 6:107).\n\"And if We had willed, We could have given every soul its guidance\" (Qur'an 32:13).\n\"And whomsoever Allah wishes to guide, that man's breast will He open to Islam; but whom He wishes to mislead, strait and narrow will He make his breast, as though he were mounting up to the very Heavens!\"5(Qur'an 6: 125).\n\"It is Allah's desire to assign no portion in the Hereafter\" (Qur'an 3:176).\n\"Allah desires to make the burden light for you\" (Qur'an 4:28).\n\"Allah desireth for you ease; He desireth not hardship for you\" (Qur'an 2:185).\n\"And Allah wishes to turn to you in mercy; but those who follow their lusts desire that ye should go greatly astray\" (Qur'an 4:27).\n\"And Allah desireth no injustice for (His) slaves \"(Qur'an 40:31).\nThis is our belief concerning (Allah's) Intention and (His) Will. Our opponents denounce us for this, and say that according to our belief, Allah intends (that man should commit) crimes and that He desired the murder of Husayn bin 'A1i, on whom both be peace.6\nThis is not what we believe. But we say that Allah desired that the sin of the sinners should be contradistinguished from the obedience of those that obey, that He desired that sins, viewed as actions, should not be ascribed to Him, but that the knowledge of these sins may be ascribed to Him, even before the commission thereof.7\nAnd we hold that Allah's wish was that the murder of Husayn should be a sin against Him and the opposite of obedience. And we say that Allah intended that his (Husayn's) murder should be prohibited, and something which was not commanded.\nAnd we say that his murder was something that was disliked and not approved;8 and we say that his murder was the cause of Allah's displeasure and it was not the cause of His approval, and that Allah the Mighty and Glorious did not desire to prevent his murder by means of (His) compulsion or power, but merely by prohibition and word. And if He had prohibited it by (His) compulsion and power, even as he prevented it by prohibition and word, surely he would have escaped being murdered, just as Abraham was saved from the fire, when Allah, the most Exalted, said9 to the fire in which he (Abraham) was thrown:\n\"O fire, be coolness and peace for Abraham\" (Qur'an 21:69).\nAnd we say that Allah always knew that Husayn would be killed by force, and by such death, attain everlasting merit, and his murderer, everlasting wretchedness. We hold that what Allah wills; happens; and what He willeth not, will not happen.10 This is our belief regarding Allah's intention and will, and not that which is ascribed to us by our opponents and for which we are reviled by those who hold heretical views.\n1. Cp. Affifi, 160. According to Ibnu'l-`Arabi, mashi 'a is the divine commonsense, and is an emanation from God, something like Plotinus' First Intellect; whereas irada is the creative will. The distinction between irada and mashi 'a is, according to Affifi, derived by him from Hallaj.\n2. The Imam takes these four expressions and explains and illustrates them one by one.\n3. Qur'an 10, 99 is expl. in Tas. (Mur. iii. 22-23)\n4. \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628\u0627\u064b \u0645\u0624\u062c\u0644\u0627\u064b may also be rendered \"a fixed ordinance\".\n5. Expl. in Tas. (Mur. iii. 21 - 22).\n6. Referring to the believers in extreme predestination. MC, 81,82, discusses the Mu'tazilite view, which is the same as that held here. See further MC, 143, where the Ash'arite view is fully discussed. The doctrine of al-Qummi does not differ in the main from the neo-Ash'arite.\n7. MC, 143,144; BHA, nos. 118 sqq.; FC, nos. 96-89, 95.\n8. The clause \u0645\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0628\u062d\u0627\u064b \u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u0633\u062a\u062d\u0633\u0646\u0627\u064b omitted in D.\n9. N \u0642\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649 \u0644\u0644\u0646\u0651\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0649 \u0641\u064a\u0647\u0627: \u064a\u0627 \u0646\u0627\u0631 \u0643\u0648\u0646\u064a .. \u0627\u0644\u062e; D \u0642\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649 \u0644\u0644\u0646\u0651\u0627\u0631: \u0643\u0648\u0646\u064a.. \u0627\u0644\u062e\n10. This is again difficult to reconcile. The extreme Sunnite view appears to be that everything was caused and willed by God, either directly or by means of His knowledge. The Mu'tazilites however denied ascription of evil to Allah. And the Ithna `Asharis are close upon this view, BHA, nos. 125, 126. The Isma'ilis do not attribute evil to God, FC, p.72 (top). For a philosophical view, see Affifi, 156 sqq. Fuller discussion, Tawhid, 272 -277.\nUyun Akhbar Ar-Ridha Volume 1\nGreat Shi'i Works: 'Man la yahduruh al-Faqih' by Al-Saduq\nKamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni'ma Vol. 1\nAl-Khisal, A Numeric Classification of Traditions on Characteristics\nGod in Islamic Traditions: A Glance at Al-Tawhid by Shaykh Al-Saduq\nBiography of Shaikh Saduq","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Anti-Arms Protesters Shut ITT\nimc-uk-features | 15.10.2008 10:12 | Smash EDO | Anti-militarism | South Coast\nA mass protest against Brighton-based arms manufacturers EDO MBM\/ITT took place on 15 October, 2008. Organised by the Smash EDO campaign, the event was called Shut ITT! and was the third such demonstration this year. Last June, Brighton saw the Carnival Against the Arms Trade, organised by Smash EDO too.\nAs the 400-strong march was prevented by police from reaching the EDO factory, 40 bottles of red paint were thrown over the back fence by a group of protesters who split off. The 'bomb factory' was reportedly shut down for the day. At least 10 people were arrested and some injured from police violence, including a photographer.\nReports: Full timeline | Press releases: 1 | 2 | Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |5 |6\nMore: FITwatchers perspective | Message from Smash EDO\nFull Timeline\n22:00: Houses in Leeds have been searched in connection with the demo. One of the arrestees has been released from custody.\n16:45: Snatch squads are being sent in to the North Road kettle. Several de-arrests have been reported. 10 arrests have been confirmed so far. More are anticipated.\n16:10: 9 arrests have been confirmed so far. The 'criminal damage' to the EDO factory is said to have been 40 bottles of red paint thrown over the back fence.\n16:00: A small group of protesters are 'kettled' by police on North Road, near the Earth and Stars pub. The rest of protesters have 'dispersed'. Earlier, around 15:00, a group tried to break through police lines at the other end of Home Farm Road but were unable to.\n15:45: The march has split up. Police are using dogs at the Level to stop people leaving. A group of about 40 is being pursued by cops near St. Peter's church.\n15:00: About 60 people are in a police 'kettle' on Lewes Road, moving slowly towards the city centre. There are unconfirmed rumours of some damage to the EDO factory after a group of protesters split off into the woods. Most of them have now left, though, and are near the Level (part of the Valley Gardens area) with a loud sound system.\n13:45: The stand-off remains, with the march unable to proceed further up Lewes Road. About half of the protesters have split off and gone into the woods, followed by some 40 cops.\n13:15: Some 8 police vans are blocking the Lewes Road in both directions. Police with batons are trying to force the march up Home Farm Road, but the march is refusing to go. Riot police are also out, hitting protesters over the banners and pepper-spraying the crowd. As reported earlier, a Section 14 is in place, stating that any static demo must be at the bottom of Home Farm Road.\n12:50: The march, with about 400 people, is now on the A27 heading towards the EDO factory in Moulescoomb. Police have blocked both sides of the road. There are lots of whistles and noise. FIT Watchers are reportedly \"very active\".\n12:30: The march has moved off early due to a number of violent arrests taking place. An estimated 250 protesters are heading down the path towards the A27 road, but people are still arriving.\n12:20: More arrests. Police are seizing anyone with a mask on. Cops are now attempting to seize the reinforced banners.\n12:15: One arrest has already been made at the meeting point and police are trying to arrest another person right now. The crowd are attempting to de-arrest him\/her. About 80-90 cops are at the meeting point at the moment.\n11:50: There are some 15 cops on the Falmer Station side of the University underpass conducting stop-and-search. There are also some 25 cops and several police vans at the meeting-up point. A Section 60 is in place and scarves are being removed. There is also a Section 14 in place, which states that any static demo must be at the bottom of Home Farm Road. Police cars are placed at strategic points in the area, including the bus stop and the university entrance.\n11:30: A Forward Intelligence Team (FIT) were seen outside Cowley Club. Minutes later, 8 cops arrived at Falmer station with a FIT team. Another another FIT team was seen outside Moulescoomb primary school on Lewis Road stopping vehicles, but have now left. There is still one police vehicle stationed halfway up the road into Stanner park.\n10:30: A few police cars have been spotted near the Brighton railway station and St Peter's church in the Level (part of the Valley Gardens area). The EDO factory in Moulsecoomb is apparently open, but with skeleton staff.\nimc-uk-features","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brighton i360 Limited\nMAIN CONTRACTOR: Hollandia Infra b.v.\nARCHITECT: Marks Barfield Architects\nKEY TEAM MEMBER: Pomagalski SAS (\"Poma\")\nKEY TEAM MEMBER: J T Mackley & Co Ltd Foundations substructure and beach building\nBritish Airways i360 is the world's tallest moving observation tower. It carries 200 passengers at a time in a circular glass viewing pod, which rises slowly from beach level to a height of 138m. The tower is 162m high and only 3.9m in diameter (awarded the Guinness Record for the \"world's most slender tower\"). The tower was delivered by barge directly to the beach and erected by a novel \"top down\" method without the use of cranes. It features purpose-designed perforated cladding to minimise vortex shedding, and sloshing liquid dampers to limit wind-induced dynamic movements.\nJudge's comment:\nThe steel tower is clad in perforated aluminium Expamet sheet, which cleverly reduces the wind forces on the tower, allowing it to be so slender. To help still further in resisting any dynamic movements when the wind is blowing, the tower has another trick up its sleeve. It hides 78 containers on the inside of the tower, each filled with Australian water, positioned perfectly to help resist movements which the tower might otherwise want to make under wind gusting.\nAnother innovation lies in the manner in which the tower was constructed. It comprises 17 'cans', each weighing between 50 and 100 tonnes, which were jacked up one by one in a top-down method of construction by using a jacking frame. This avoided the use of unfeasibly large cranes, and ensured that all construction occurred safely at ground level. And you'll be happy to know that over 60% of the energy used to lift the pod each time is recovered on its descent. A remarkable feat of engineering.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MUIS Full Scholarships, Macquarie University, Australia, 2014\nMUIS Full Scholarships, Macquarie University, Australia, 2014 is open for . The scholarship allows level programm(s) in the field of taught at . The deadline of the scholarship is .\nMacquarie University, Australia is offering scholarships for international students. The scholarships are available for pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate degree level at university. Students must have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.7 out of 4.0 for postgraduate applications and minimum requirement of an ATAR equivalent of 92 out of 100 for undergraduate applications. The MUIS is available across most courses to cover a range of full international tuition fees for study on campus at North Ryde in an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree. Application should be submitted till 31 October 2013 (for Session 1, 2014).\nStudy Subject(s): Scholarships are provided for courses offered by the Macquarie University in Australia. Course Level: The scholarships are available for pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate degree level at Macquarie University in Australia. Scholarship Provider: Macquarie University, Australia Scholarship can be taken at: Australia\nEligibility: Applicants must: -Be a citizen of a country other than Australia or New Zealand. -Have met the University's academic and English requirements for the course to be considered for a scholarship (must hold a full offer of admission for North Ryde by the application deadline). -Have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.7 out of 4.0 for Postgraduate applications and minimum requirement of an ATAR equivalent of 92 out of 100 for Undergraduate applications.\nScholarship Open for International Students: The international students other then Australia or New Zealand can apply for these scholarships.\nScholarship Description: The MUIS is available across most courses to cover a range of full international tuition fees for study on campus at North Ryde in an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree. The MUIS Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarships do NOT provide financial support in the form of a living allowance, nor does it provide for the cost of visa application, Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC), airfares, accommodation, conferences or other costs associated with study. This scholarship is not available to students studying at Macquarie City Campus or the Sydney Institute of Business & Technology (SIBT). Annual renewal of the MUIS Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarship is subject to satisfactory performance in the Macquarie University degree program.\nNumber of award(s): Not Known\nDuration of award(s): Scholarship is offered for duration of programme. This is indicated on the MUIS offer letter.\nWhat does it cover? The MUIS is available across most courses to cover a range of full international tuition fees for study on campus at North Ryde in an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree.\nNotification: December 2013\nHow to Apply: The mode of applying is online. Applicants must complete an online course application form. Online course application will enable you to select your course and upload scanned copies of the required documents. Once your course application has been processed, you will receive a Macquarie University Student Number which is compulsory to submit the online MUIS application form. -Applicants must complete an online MUIS application form. -Applicants must indicate on the MUIS application form which scholarship they are applying for: -MUIS Undergraduate -MUIS Postgraduate -To apply for the MUIS Undergraduate and Postgraduate, applicants must nominate two referees to complete a Referee Report and applicants must also provide a 'Statement of Purpose' of approximately one page outlining their interest in the scholarship program and indicating how the academic qualification will benefit themselves and their community.\nScholarship Application Deadline: The application deadline is 31 October 2013 (for Session 1, 2014)\nFurther Official Scholarship Information and Application\nMUIS Full Scholarships, Macquarie University, Australia, 2014 is available to undertake level programs at .\nLRF MSc Safety & Reliability Engineering Scholarship, UK, 2013","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PHOTOS: The 2020 White House Christmas Decorations\nWritten by Dan Swartz\n| Published on November 30, 2020\nPlanes, trains, and automobiles line the walls of the East Room, as part of the White House's 2020 holiday decorations, in a salute to America's history of technology and innovation. Photograph by Dan Swartz\nAbout Dan About Town\nParty photographer Dan Swartz's diary of bashes, benefits, and galas.\nMore from Dan About Town\nFirst Lady Melania Trump chose an \"America the Beautiful\" theme for the family's final Christmas at the White House. The 2020 White House Christmas decorations came together over the Thanksgiving weekend thanks to help from more than 125 volunteers from around the country.\nThis year's White House Christmas decorations follow a similar Trump design template\u2014clean topiary displays and bold color schemes, in contrast with the more playful Obama arrangements (Lego displays, Bo and Sunny papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 statues). More than 1,200 feet of garland, 3,200 strands of lights, 17,000 bows, and 62 Christmas Trees were used.\nAs for the traditional Gingerbread House display, the 2020 version is more elaborate than usual. For the first time, the White House's pastry team assembled a confectionary Rose Garden and First Ladies' Garden.\nPhotographer Dan Swartz got an inside look at all the decorations.\nThe official 2020 White House Christmas tree, a Fraser fir, stands more than 18 feet tall.\nThis year's Gingerbread House replicates the West Wing, Executive Residence, East Wing, Rose Garden, and First Ladies' Garden.\nThis is the first time the White House pastry team has featured the gardens in confectionery form.\nThe Cross Hall of the White House connecting the East Room to the State Dining Room.\nAbove the mantel in the Vermeil Room is Alma Thomas's abstract painting \"Resurrection,\" the first work by an African American woman to be acquired for the White House collection.\nA \"White House Express\" model train in the East Room is a nod to America's first transcontinental railroad.\nThe 2020 White House Christmas Tree, in the Blue Room, came from Shepherdstown, West Virginia.\nThe Green Room highlights American wildlife, with bird and butterfly ornaments displayed among the greenery.\nThe China Room, made over to resemble a home kitchen.\nStockings for the First Family, inside the China Room.\nMore than a hundred wreaths are on display throughout the White House this year.\nThe East Colonnade is designed to bring the outdoors inside, with foliage representing the official tree of each state and territory.\nThe official 2020 White House holiday card.\nThe East Room's decor is designed to celebrate American innovation and technology.\nMasked White House staffers inside the building's ground-floor corridor.\nThe Gold Star Family Tree greets guests upon arrival in the East Wing and pays tribute to American military service members and their families.\nThe Seal of the President of the United States* above the doors to the Blue Room, which houses the official White House Christmas Tree.\nA portrait of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who spearheaded a restoration of the White House, hangs in the Vermeil Room.\nModel airplanes, including the Wright Flyer and Air Force One, inside the East Room.\nThe Red Room pays homage to America's first responders and frontline workers this year, with handmade ornaments highlighting the many professionals and volunteers who have served their communities.\nThe entrance to the Blue Room as seen from the White House's Grand Foyer.\nA vignette in the window of the Green Room.\nThe Cross Hall of the White House, as photographed from the State Dining Room.\nGarlands hang inside the entrance hall to the East Wing.\n\"The President's Own\" United States Marine Band plays inside the White House's Grand Foyer.\nIn recognition of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification, the White House Library spotlights women at the forefront of American achievement.\nThe White House's ground floor corridor connecting the Vermeil Room, Library, and China Room.\n*Corrected.\nMore: ChristmasDan About TownMelania TrumpThe White HouseWhite House Christmas Decorations\nDan Swartz\nDan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past November and December\nDan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past October\nBest Things to Do in the DC Area 12\/22-12\/25: Choral Christmas Music, a Richard Avedon Exhibit, and Christmas Eve at a Mansion\nBest Things to Do in the DC Area 12\/19-12\/25: Capitol Hill Menorah Lighting, Bull Run Festival of Lights, and \"Into the Woods\"\nThe 100 Very Best Restaurants in Washington\nWhy Some DC People Are Buying Second Homes as First Homes\nHere Are the DC-Area James Beard Award Semifinalists 2023\nNews & Politics | Things to Do\n100 Very Best Restaurants: #1 \u2013 The Dabney","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The big end of year Digital Content wrap up [Part 2]\nRob Fry\nCategories: blog, dataviz\nWelcome back! In part 1 we took a look at Visual.ONS (this year's biggest highlight for our team) and how it related to some of UKSA aims to make statistics more helpful. We then looked at some of my favourite pieces of content from the course of the year. Let's carry on.\nPart of improving communication can be to reduce the amount of jargon and technical terms used. We strive to do this in anything we create, but sometimes a concept can be inherently difficult to understand and so we've experimented with explainer pieces. It's a format other publishers have experimented with, such as these from the BBC. We can't always rely on other organisations for this though and it's important that we have unbiased content to point people towards when they're having difficulty (on platforms like Twitter).\nOne example of a concept we saw people having trouble with was the UK's debt and deficit and so with the help of the Public Sector finance team we put together a short explainer piece looking at debt and deficit.\nDo you understand the difference between debt and deficit?\nThis is still a content type we continue to grapple with in terms of reaching a wider audience. We've experimented with a number of different format types \u2013 articles\/infographics\/videos. We released this around the time of the Autumn Statement in an effort to help anyone who was struggling to understand the terminology \u2013 it attracted a lot of positive engagement on twitter, a selection of comments below:\nDebt, deficit and lots of other terms flying around today \u2013 this guide from ONS sheds light on the jargon https:\/\/t.co\/MnJIjsRC36\n\u2014 Hugh Pym (@BBCHughPym) November 25, 2015\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/RdKls4z4jp Thank you @ONS for a clear and neutral explanation of public sector debt and the deficit\n\u2014 Hannah Bailey (@digitalhannah23) November 20, 2015\nHurrah for the @ONS \u2014great explainer of (the difference between) public sector debt and deficit https:\/\/t.co\/pnBQ491qkI\n\u2014 Koenfucius (@koenfucius) November 22, 2015\nCharticles [don't like this title but\u2026]\nOne of our most viewed posts this year was a fun look a how popular culture has influenced baby names. Every year the baby names release tops the ONS's most viewed chart. It's a release that divides opinion within ONS. Some people despair at its popularity compared with more critical outputs, while others revel in it.\nDowntown Abbey's influence on baby names?\nHowever, there's no denying that it's a release that could be useful to thousands of expectant parents every year and everyone has that natural curiosity as to how their name compares, so some analysis and promotion of the data seems appropriate.\nIt's a subject that allows more creative freedom compared with a piece on the state of the economy (for example). This post from earlier in the year talks about some of the thinking behind the piece and how it was received, but needless to say that it was incredibly popular and syndicated far and wide. You know it's done well when it makes your Facebook news feed independently!\nWhat next for Visual.ONS?\nIn the short-term it'll be more of the same. The site remains in Beta though and as always we're really keen to hear your feedback \u2013 you can email us via web.comments@ons.gov.uk \u2013 leave a comment below, or via twitter @ONSdigital or @fryford\nIt's not been all Visual.ONS\nWhile a lot of our time has been focused on delivering content for Visual.ONS there are many other activities our team have been leading over the past year.\nWe've been busy continuing to run GSS training on the Introduction to Data Visualisation and earlier this year we launched a data visualisation section on Style.ONS. This is seen as something that complements the training \u2013 the training goes into much more of the reasoning behind data visualisation principles. The reaction has been really positive.\nAn awesome\/useful\/comprehensive\/free quick-start guide to data visualization | Style.ONS https:\/\/t.co\/hP9bJyyajI pic.twitter.com\/aVKxP4FDXm\n\u2014 Evan Sinar, PhD (@EvanSinar) October 26, 2015\nLooks interesting MT @DiegoKuonen: MT @HartlandZoe: Data vis guidance (tables, charts & color) http:\/\/t.co\/g8YSYcofXF pic.twitter.com\/ERGFzcU8Ll\n\u2014 Alberto Cairo (@albertocairo) July 9, 2015\nEssential reading for anyone publishing anything in Whitehall- Chart design | Style.ONS http:\/\/t.co\/2vz5pnk1VY\n\u2014 Audree Fletcher (@avfletcher) July 20, 2015\nWe also had the pleasure of taking part in an AMA on the Data is Beautiful sub-Reddit. It was a fun couple of hours \u2013 take a look.\nOur social media team have been more active on this blog so I won't talk so much about their work but they've been busy with social media reviews, budget and autumn statement among other work.\nGoodbye\/Hello\nThere have been a number of departures for pastures new. Notably Alan Smith, (former head of the digital content team) took up a prominent role as Data Visualisation Editor at the Financial Times in September. Alan had been at ONS for a number of years, launching the Data Visualisation Centre over seven years ago. It's fair to say that his work has been something that ONS has collectively been proud of. He leaves a legacy that we will continue to build upon.\nOver the course of the year we've also welcomed several new additions to the team with varied backgrounds. This has further grown digital content team into a truly multidisciplinary team of researchers, data visualisation developers, graphic designers, editors and social media specialists.\nEarly in 2016 we look forward to welcoming Darren Waters, joining us from the Press Association as our visual journalism lead.\neQ Alpha \u2013 Team Toolkit\neQ Alpha \u2013 Outcomes \u2013 Part 1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The 17 Most Gloriously WTF Looks At The 2017 Met Gala\nThis year honored Comme des Gar\u00e7ons designer Rei Kawakubo.\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Kylie Jenner attends the \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo\/Getty Images For US Weekly)\nLast night was the Met Gala, the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. But more importantly, the event offers the most ogled red carpet this side of the Oscars. This year's gala honored Comme des Gar\u00e7ons founder Rei Kawakubo, at least giving the stars a designer to steer toward.\nBeyond that, all bets were off.\nDimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Rihanna attends the 'Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)\nWe're not gonna shade anyone\u2014what fun would the gala be if everyone played it safe? Instead we're sharing our picks for the most deliciously over-the-top\nlooks. Some were visions of couture beauty\u2014and others looked like they were snatched from the Drag Race main stage.\nWe wish we could rock the painted-bald look so well.\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Jennifer Connelly attends \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - O at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski\/Getty Images)\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Madonna attends the \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo\/Getty Images For US Weekly)\nWe're not sure why Madge went with a camouflage pattern\u2014it's obvious she had no intention of hiding.\nAmy Fine Collins\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Amy Fine Collins attends \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski\/Getty Images)\nAs Gay Star News pointed out, fashion writer Amy Fine Collins' Thom Browne ensemble is suspiciously similar to Violet Chachki's gender-bending runway look from Season 7.\ninstagram\/Logo TV\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Maggie Gyllenhaal attends \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - O at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski\/Getty Images)\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Grace Hartzel attends \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - O at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski\/Getty Images)\nJulianne Moore and Ashton Sanders\nDia Dipasupil\/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Julianne Moore and Ashton Sanders attend the \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly)\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Nicki Minaj is seen departing the Carlyle Hotel to attend \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Rihanna is seen departing the Carlyle Hotel to attend \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Singer Katy Perry attends \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Shearer\/Getty Images)\nFrom California Gurl to the Bride of Dracula.\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Celine Dion attends the 'Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)\nSomeone looks like they're having fun with the whole thing\u2014which is really the point, isn't it?\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Katie Holmes attends the 'Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)\nThis, however, is not what having fun looks like.\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Kendall Jenner attends \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski\/Getty Images)\nNick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra attend the \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly)\nRemi Malek\nDaniel Zuchnik\/Getty Images\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Rami Malek attends the Marc Jacobs afterparty of the Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between Costume Institute Gala at the Boom Boom Room on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik\/Getty Images)\nRemi, you look dreadful in that suit. Take it off immediately\u2014preferably in our bedroom.\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Bella Hadid attends the \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)\nDid she leave part of the dress at home?\nCourtney Love and Francis Bean Cobain\nNEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Frances Bean Cobain (L) and Courtney Love attend the \"Rei Kawakubo\/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)\nNo T, no shade: Best looking mother-daughter combo of the night.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Food and Farm\nAs Rocky Mountain Snow Starts To Melt, Colorado River Forecast Worsens\nBy Luke Runyon \u2022 May 7, 2018\nDrought conditions continue to worsen throughout the desert southwest. More than 68 percent of the Colorado River watershed is experiencing drought conditions classified as severe or worse.\nLuke Runyon \/ KUNC\n2018 wasn't the worst winter on record for the southern Rocky Mountain region, but it was close to it.\n\"It was an extreme year on the dry side, widespread across the Colorado River Basin,\" says Greg Smith, a hydrologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) in Salt Lake City.\nThe river supplies water to about 40 million people in seven states and to the country of Mexico.\nThe Colorado River's tributaries in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico are all projected to flow at below average levels. The San Juan, Animas, Dolores and Duchesne rivers in Colorado and Utah are among the regions worse projections for flows.\n\"These are the really sad basins,\" Smith says, noting that each basin saw snow measurement sites at record low levels, ranging from just 51 to 66 percent of normal. The only river within the watershed projected to flow above average is the Upper Green River in southwestern Wyoming.\nA lack of spring precipitation and winter snowpack have caused widespread drought in the southwest, including the Colorado River watershed.\nCredit Courtesy U.S. Drought Monitor\n\"I've been here over 30 years,\" Smith says. \"It's the second lowest runoff season I've ever seen.\"\nAlready depleted reservoirs along the Colorado River like lakes Powell and Mead are likely to take a hit with low river flows. Lake Powell is expected to see its fifth lowest runoff season in 54 years, according to the CBRFC. The reservoir is forecast to receive 43 percent of average inflow. That's a downgrade from April's forecast when it was projected to record its sixth-lowest runoff.\nSmaller reservoirs within the system will see their supplies drop as well. McPhee Reservoir in southwestern Colorado is expected to have its second lowest runoff on record, and Navajo Reservoir in northern New Mexico is on track to record its third lowest.\n\"There's not much to be positive about,\" Smith says.\nMore than 68 percent of the Colorado River watershed is experiencing drought conditions that are classified as severe or worse. Smith says warm weather throughout the basin could cause many Rocky Mountain rivers and streams to reach their highest seasonal flows within the next week.\nThis story is part of a project covering the Colorado River, produced by KUNC and supported through a Walton Family Foundation grant. KUNC is solely responsible for its editorial content.\nTopic: Western Water Coverage\nColorado River Watershed\nHopes For 'Miracle' Snowpack Recovery Fade; Colorado River Headed For 6th-Driest Year\nBy Luke Runyon \u2022 Apr 4, 2018\nThe Colorado River Basin is likely to see one of its driest spring runoff seasons on record this year, according to federal forecasters.\nScientists at the Salt Lake City-based Colorado Basin River Forecast Center say current snowpack conditions are set to yield the sixth-lowest recorded runoff into Lake Powell since the lake was filled more than 50 years ago.\nAs Arizona Nears Record Low Snowpack, Water Managers Urge Caution, But Not Panic\nBy Casey Kuhn & KJZZ \u2022 Mar 29, 2018\nCasey Kuhn \/ KJZZ\nThe Salt River Project (SRP) puts on an annual water expo, and this year's featured a pile of cold, wet, white powdery stuff on a hot sunny day in Tempe.\nSRP Hydrologist Andrew Volkmer put snowshoes on two young boys while their guardian looked on.\nThis is the first time they've worn snow shoes, they said, and their guardian said someone might need to explain to them first what snow is.\nWestern Water Managers Meet To Relieve Colorado River Tension\nAfter nearly a month of terse exchanges among water managers in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona about Colorado River conservation strategies, representatives from the five states met Monday in Salt Lake City to hash out their differences.\nAt issue is how the Central Arizona Project (CAP) -- the operator of a 336-mile aqueduct that pumps Colorado River water to farmers and cities -- is conserving water in Lake Mead, the river's largest reservoir. The project is managed by the Central Arizona Water Conservancy District (CAWCD) and is the state's largest water provider.\nFive Things To Know About The Latest Colorado River Dust Up\nBy Luke Runyon & Bret Jaspers \u2022 Apr 20, 2018\nA quiet, rising tension over water in the southwest has burst into the public square.\nAgencies that manage and dole out the Colorado River's water in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico are attempting to publicly shame an increasingly isolated water agency in Arizona. The feud has the potential to either upset, or reignite, negotiations over the river's future.\nThe Rocky Mountains Are Dusty, And It's A Problem\nBy Luke Runyon \u2022 Apr 17, 2018\nA menace lurks beneath the snow high up in the southern Rocky Mountains.\nAt first glance it seems innocuous, another piece of a dynamic alpine ecosystem, certainly unable to cause the cascade of problems scientists say it could. How could something so simple undermine our water infrastructure, stress wildlife and lengthen the wildfire season all at once?\nFor most of the winter it stays hidden, buried under blankets of snow. Then, the days grow longer. The sun's rays begin to melt the top layers, causing water to percolate through the snow and ice or evaporate, revealing the villain of this story.\nDust.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A growing, international threat \u2014 Global Issues\nRussia claims 14 killed in attack on hospital in eastern Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war News\nWhy We Must Act Now to Protect Them \u2014 Global Issues\nHome\u00bbOdd News\u00bbConnecticut man arrested after allegedly killing, dismembering infant daughter\nConnecticut man arrested after allegedly killing, dismembering infant daughter\nBy Steinar December 3, 2022 No Comments3 Mins Read\nA Connecticut man accused of murdering and dismembering his 11-month-old daughter was arrested on Friday after two weeks on the run, according to police.\nChristopher Francisquini, 31, was taken into custody around 3 p.m. Friday by Waterbury Police. He is accused of killing his infant daughter Camilla on Nov. 18 in their Naugatuck home.\nHe is charged with murder with special circumstances and risk of injury to a minor, and had his bond set at $5 million.\nAccording to the Naugatuck Police Department, Camilla was choked, stabbed and dismembered in the home.\nFBI TO CONNECTICUT FUGITIVE CHRISTOPHER FRANCISQUINI: 'THE SEARCH WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE FIND YOU'\nChristopher Francisquini, 31, was taken into custody at around 3 p.m. Friday by Waterbury Police. He is accused of killing his baby daughter Camilla on November 18 in their home in Naugatuck.\n(Naugatuck Police Department)\nFrancisquini then got into an argument with the baby's mother, who at the time was unaware that her daughter was dead. Francisquini allegedly destroyed the mother's cellphone, removed a GPS tracking device from his ankle and fled from the residence in a 2006 gray Chevy Impala.\nThe car was later found abandoned on Interstate 91, police said.\nCamilla's body was discovered by a family member. Her cause of death was determined to be from neck compressions and stab wounds.\n\"Francisquini's capture is a clear example of what can be accomplished when community members work with law enforcement to take dangerous individuals off the street,\" the Naugatuck Police Department said in a statement. \"Within 28 hours of asking the public's help, he was taken into custody without incident and will now face justice.\"\nAccording to the Naugatuck Police Department, Camilla was choked, stabbed and dismembered by Francisquini in their home.\nVideo released by Waterbury Police shows Francisquini at a bus stop surrounded by about a dozen officers with their guns drawn. Officers yell at him to get on the ground. He follows the order and is then swarmed and cuffed.\nPolice said the arrest was made after a concerned citizen called the anonymous tip line. The caller told police that Francisquini had changed his appearance, but could still be recognized.\nFBI RELEASES NEW PHOTOS, INCREASES REWARD IN MANHUNT FOR CHRISTOPHER FRANCISQUINI\nFrancisquini is charged with murder with special circumstances and risk of injury to a minor, and had his bond set at $5 million.\nThe FBI was offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.\nNaugatuck police have requested that residents wear pink during the town's tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday night for what would have been Camilla's first birthday.\nPrevious ArticleThis Rare Battle-Sword Just Found in Sweden Is \"An Evolutionary Leap\"\nNext Article US Air Force unveils new B-21 Raider nuclear stealth bomber\nSteinar\nJustice for Tyre Nichols: Where the case should go\u2026 and where it should not\nNorth Carolina bill would force sheriffs to cooperate with ICE to deport illegal immigrants\nAnomalies (930)\nIcebutik Store (271)\nOdd News (1,477)\nUnexplained-mysteries (745)\nUnexplained-phenomena (1,494)\nAccept *\nBy signing up, you agree to the our terms and our\nElephant-sized asteroid passes Earth in extraordinary 'near-miss'\n\u00a9 2023 Designed by icebutik","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Frontiers of Nutrition\nThe Prudent Diet and Life-Style\nby Dallas E. Boggs, RD, PhD\nPublished by Tate Publishing Company in 2014\nis now available online at:\nhttps:\/\/www.tatepublishing.com\/bookstore\/book.php?w=9781631226069\nPosted in Food | No Comments \u00bb\nThe Bible Belt\nThere was a fiddler in our town,\nWho was fiddling around.\nBecause he had faith,\nHe thought it was safe!\nThe Blue Grass Man\nWent to bed with a fan.\nIn the middle of the night,\nThey had a fight.\nThe only thing within reach\nTo hit this peach\u2014\nThe only thing around\u2014\nWas leather bound.\nWithout takin' a look,\nHe picked up the book.\nWith nothing else in mind,\nHe belted her behind.\nWhile the fiddler was at large,\nThe lady filed a charge.\nBut the Judge had both empathy\nAnd sympathy.\nThe aggressor got off light\nFor this fight.\nAnd the moral of the story is:\nIf you're gon'na have fun\nOn th' run,\nTake along a BIBLE\u2014\nInstead of a GUN!\n\u00a9 Dallas E. Boggs, 1996\nOur Web Host\nWe have several sites produced with the help of 1and1 hosts: Copy and paste the following address for more information about them:\nhttp:\/\/www.1and1.com\/?__reuse=1358868260251\nOna Meadows\nThe Family of James Curtis and Sara Elizabeth Estep Boggs by Ona Boggs Meadows\nSarah Elizabeth Estep, the second child of a family of twelve children, daughter of Cornelius Thomas and Ona Frances Turner Estep, was born March 15, 1871, at Mt. Ovis, Kanawha County.\nMt. Ovis was located on the hill near where Campbell's Creek, Kelly's Creek, and Blue Creek head, and the site of this community, if still in existence, would be approached by taking the Indian Creek road from the Elkview-Pinch area. She spent her childhood days there and seemed to have a happy life as I have heard her talk so much of Old Mt. Ovis and the surrounding communities.\nWhen she was yet very young, about the year 1878 or 1879, the family moved to Wallback in Roane County, to the farm of Henry Clay and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Garee Boggs. There were six children in the family at that time, presumably, since the 1880 census of Roane County lists Cornelius and Ona Estep, with their six children, the youngest being two years old, as living in Geary District. The census states that Cornelius works on a farm. Mother used to talk lots about working in the fields hoeing corn and liking to work out while Aunt Lydia helped Grandmother with the housework. At times in later years, when we would be passing through Wallback, she would point out the hillsides where she had hoed corn. Some of these fields were located where Interstate 79 now goes through Wallback.\nJames Curtis Boggs, the eldest child of Henry Clay and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Garee Boggs, was born in Gassaway, Braxton County, March 9, 1866. When he was but a small child and there were only two children in the family, his parents moved to Wallback. They moved to a log cabin where 13 more children were born, and additions were made to the house from time to time. The house was located in the bottomland just below where the Pleasant Hill Cemetery is now.\nHis father, James Anderson Boggs, who owned a large tract of land in Roane and Clay Counties, as well as large acreage in Braxton County, deeded the farm of approximately 700 acres to Henry Clay in the late 1860's. This farm at Wallback was always one of the leading farms of Roane County, even up to the 1970's when it was taken for the construction of I-79.\nHere at Wallback was where Sarah Elizabeth and James Curtis met. The Rev. Jonathan Smith married them April 24, 1890. They set up housekeeping on the farm, their house being situated on the second point down Sandy (Creek) toward Newton from the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Here is where the first four of their sons were born: Alvah Vandal, Guy Burl, Ray Emerson, and Ira Irvin.\nSometime in the 1890's, Henry Clay sold or lost the farm. We are not sure which way it was let go, but it has been rumored that he, being a very liberal and kind hearted man, was taken advantage of by his friends and acquaintances who asked him to sign notes for them. He did sign them, too many times, as the story goes, and the notes were not paid by the men who made the debt, leaving him to pay. Therefore, he lost the farm and home. He bought a farm at Looneyville, Roane County, and moved the family there. While Ira was still a baby, presumably in the spring of 1896 \u2014 our family always moved in the spring \u2013 our father moved the family to Looneyville to live and work on the farm.\nI have heard Mother talk much about her life and that of the family on the farm at Looneyville. It was a very hard life. The house we lived in was built on the hill where the storms hit hard at times, and water for household use had to be carried by pails, buckets, up the steep hill several hundred feet. She talked lots about what a good friend she had in Grandmother Boggs and how kind she was. But oh, those boys! Dad's younger brothers, how they worried her, teasing her boys and causing them to fight one another and to do things they were not allowed to do! This caused Mother to be in despair at times.\nAt Looneyville, the older boys started to school at the Red Knob School. This was quite a distance for little fellows to walk along a path in the woods, but that was the way of life in those days. At Looneyville, five more children were born\u2014Cornelius Thomas, Roy Cecil, Dennis Irl, Ona Izora, and Walter Scott.\nIn the spring of 1903, James Curtis took a job with Grandfather Estep, working in the woods, \"logging\" they called it then. They very likely hauled the logs to Elk River and floated them downstream to Charleston, for I have heard older people talk about making rafts of the logs and floating them to Charleston. Anyway, that spring of 1903 our family moved to Upper King Shoals in Kanawha County to be close to Dad's work. Here we lived in a one-room (a large room) house with a ladder leading to the loft where the older boys slept. The older boys by this time were old enough to do the farming, which wasn't done in any big or easy way. They plowed the fields with one horse and dug the rest with hoes. Most of the fields had to have the timber cut first, and new-ground was very hard to cultivate. Enough corn had to be grown to feed the horse, two or three cows, the chickens, and to fatten two or three hogs for the winter meat. We also took corn to the gristmills to have the corn ground into meal for cornbread the year around. The boys also plowed the gardens, but Mother did most of the garden work, as I remember. She loved working the garden, but I know it must have been very hard at times, although she had help from the boys. Being the only girl, naturally I didn't have to work in the fields. Mother would fill large stone jars with pickled beans, sauerkraut, and pickled corn. She canned lots of berries and fruits, dried apples, made apple butter and pumpkin butter, sweetening them with molasses. Sugar was hard to come by in those days. I remember in later years eating Aunt Julia's apple butter that was made with sugar and I thought it was so good. We always had several chickens, which were hatched by the hens setting on the eggs for three weeks to incubate them. It was fun to watch the eggs start breaking and the chickens little \"biddies\", we called them, come out of the shell. We had very few eggs to eat. They had to be sold to buy the necessities, which couldn't be raised, and to buy most of our clothes. We would have young fryers to eat in the spring sometimes and especially if we had company. Mother would fry the chicken for breakfast and make biscuits. I remember that Lee didn't like biscuits and Mother would make him a little pone of cornbread.This was a hard life, living deep in the country where everyone had to work in the fields, fight snakes, and kill wildcats. It wasn't anything strange to kill rattlers, and they killed some very large ones. The wildcats or bobcats were plentiful and would come within sight of the house and catch the old laying hens. I well remember a big cat being caught in a trap. When the boys went to the trap and saw him, they came running to get Dad to kill him. They brought it to the house and laid it on the front steps and Uncle George came along and saw it. I can still hear his expression, \"Well-a gen-tle-men, what a cat!\", and when our old housecat saw it, he was so scared he made a wet streak across the floor as he ran through the house.We lived quite a distance from school on Upper King, about midway between the King Shoals School and the Pigeon School, which was in Roane County. The boys went to King to school mostly but did attend Pigeon some. I went but very little but do remember walking over the hill to go with Aunt Florence and over another hill and down Pigeon road a half or three fourths of a mile. I remember my first school book, a primer with colored pictures in it. \"The Jones Reader\" which Dad had bought for me. I was so proud of it and learned to read some at home.\nHere on Upper King little Scott died when he was about 18 months old. He was buried in the Big Pigeon Cemetery. And here two more children were born\u2013Clarence Lee and Bernard Waitman.\nOne thing that happened while living at King I do remember a little about. Don't be shocked! Dad and Mother separated. The only thing I can remember about it was Dad saddling the horse and taking me on the horse with him. We went down the road a little ways, as I remember, then turned and went back.Cornelius remembers that we went over to Grandfather Esteps' place on Lower King \u2013 which we would pass on the way to Grandfather Boggs' at Looneyville \u2013 and that Grandfather Estep persuaded Dad to go back, using little Scott's recent death as a point of persuasion. So the separation was of short duration.We didn't have many visitors in those days, but I do recall a visit from Uncle Jim Welch. I am not sure whether or not Aunt Lizzie was with him. Also Uncle Elmer and Aunt Minnie visited us when Howard and Martha were small, and I believe they also had another baby with them. Anyway, we had a lot of fun playing while they were there, but I do wonder where they slept. There always seemed to be room. We didn't have any close neighbors. In the spring of 1908 we moved to Wallback, Clay County. The house was in sight or the farm where Dad and Mother had lived previously but was just across the Clay\nCounty line. We moved into Mike Underwood's house. Mike, Mother's first cousin, was a bachelor and wanted someone to take care of his mother, Aunt Rachel Underwood. She was a dear old lady but very stern.\nHere we had a larger house, still too small for a grow family like ours. This house can still be seen as you drive through Wallback. It is located on the road bank near the filling station, which is near the county line. When we lived there, the house was in the bottom almost on the bank of Sandy Creek. It was moved in later years to make way far Route 36 and now sits where our barn stood. Living here was such a change from our life on Upper King. We had neighbors close by. One or our neighboring families was that of Uncle Fillmore and Aunt Lydia Belcher. They lived just across Sandy and we were together with their girls almost constantly if we were allowed to be. Maybe this is where I learned to be a girl.\nWe were closer to school here at Wallback and could attend more regularly. It really was the first chance I had to go to school on a regular basis. The boys farmed some here at first, but it wasn't long before the older boys went away from home for work. Some of them were sort of \"loaned out\" to relatives. I believe that Ray and Ira spent time with Grandfather Boggs and Uncle Fred and Aunt Gusta Vineyard in Looneyville, working for them. Cornelius spent some time with Uncle Charles and Aunt Julia Foreman at Porter. We attended the White Pilgrim School\u2013we younger ones of the family. We had good teachers, and it was too bad the older boys could not take advantage of that.\nWe attended Sunday School and church at the Rogers Fork schoolhouse which was located down Sandy toward Newton 2 \u00bd or 3 miles. We all walked except Mother. She rode the horse with a baby in her lap and the next smallest riding behind her, clinging to her to hang on. Everyone loved singing in those days and gathering at our home, Aunt Lydia's, and sometimes at other homes as well, especially on Sundays. In the afternoon, after being in Sunday School and church, we would sing for hours. Some of us learned young. That was our entertainment. And how Aunt Lydia and her girls could sing alto! Later we had a very good choir in our family, with Guy singing the lead, Dad, Alvah, Cornelius, and Cecil the tenor; Ray, Ira, and Dennis singing bass. Mother and I came in with the alto.\nIn the summer of 1911 the pleasant Hill Baptist Church was built at Wallback where it still stands. We were so proud of that church, and the dedication was a big affair. People came for miles, the day before the dedication, some walking, and some riding horseback, some in hacks. And where did they stop? A photograph of a large number of friends and relatives who attended the event gives some indication of the number of folk who spent the night at our house. Some in the picture are neighbors who dropped by. I recall that the men slept in the hay at the barn, but I can't remember where the women and girls slept, but I suppose on pallets on the floor. I'm sure we didn't have enough beds. Dad had bought a sheep from Uncle \"C\" Boggs, and the whole sheep was cooked outside on an open fire. That is one thing we had to feed our company and to take to the church the next day for \"dinner on the ground\". Here at Wallback Ina Fay and Victor Clyde were born. Ina was drowned in Sandy Creek when she was about 18 month old and was buried in the Big pigeon Cemetery by the side of our little brother Scott. This was a very sad time as I was old enough to remember well.Some time during the winter of 1911, Dad bought a farm from Enos Matheney on the Left-Hand fork of Porters Creek. He moved the family there in the spring of 1912, in February. This is where Gilmer Glenn, the Youngest of the family, was born April 13, 1913. We had a much larger home here than we were accustomed to. The boys who had been working away began to realize what they had missed by being dropouts at school, although they weren't called that in those days. They all, but Ray, returned home to go to school. He chose to keep on working, as I recall. We all went to Oak Hill School and the older boys who wanted to become teachers attended summer school. Alvah, Guy, Cornelius, and Cecil took state teachers' examinations and earned their certificates to teach.While teaching, they attended night and weekend classes and high school classes at Clay for three months each spring after high school classes at Clay after rural schools had closed, until they graduated from high school. This being a Normal School, they also took teachers training and earned Normal Teachers' Certificates and kept on teaching. We Younger members of the family went directly from receiving our eighth grade diploma into high school. Eight graduated from Clay County High School and seven of us taught school, compiling a total of about 145 years taught. Most of us who taught school had some college classes, but Cornelius was the only one of us to earn a degree, graduating in the summer of 1955 from Morris Harvey College in Charleston (Cum Laude). Alvah and Cecil would have graduated had they lived, for they were still attending classes at the time of their deaths.\nFour of the family served in Uncle Sam's Army during World War I\u2014Guy, Ray, Ira, and Cornelius. Ira served the longest time and had the experience of fighting in the front lines in Germany and knew what it was like to be in the trenches much of the time. Cornelius also was sent overseas, but the war ended while he was still aboard ship. He spent about two months in France, but after the fighting had stopped. Ray developed the awful disease of influenza, which was so prevalent during World War I and was not able to follow his regiment overseas. The disease caused his ill health for the rest of his life. He spent some thirty or more years in Veteran's Hospitals. Ira was in France for some years, and I well remember the day he came home from the war. Transportation being as it was. we didn't know when to expect him until we saw him coming down the hill road. We celebrated quite a bit with neighbors and friends coming in to help us. Guy served his full time in the states, for which we were thankful.In the late teens, members of the family started getting married, others following in the 20's, and the grandchildren began to arrive. The family started having reunions in the late 20's, with each member of the family attending with their children, along with other relatives of both the Estep and the Boggs families and many friends as well. These were big occasions for many people as well as the family and were held annually until World War II was declared and too many sons and grandsons couldn't be excused by Uncle Sam long enough to attend. Therefore the Boggs reunions faded until after the war. They were resumed in 1947 at which time a very large crowd gathered at the home place, with all of the children attending and all the grandchildren except Kent and Clifford who could not get away from their work. After Dad died in 1950, there were no more of the family reunions as we had known them.Waitman and Clyde served in the Second World War along with eight grandsons. Three grandsons served in the Korean War and three (Patrick, Douglas and Earl) served in the Vietnam War. One (Pat) lost his life there.\nThe family has grown almost beyond realization. There were born into the family 45 grandchildren, and at this time (August 1987) we have record of 125 great grandchildren, 121 great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild. Phyllis June is the grandchild who is a great grandmother. Descendants, to date, number 306.And now the life of the Boggs family is very much changed, with only the four of us children living\u2014Cornelius, Dennis, Glenn, and I\u2014and the descendants living in 23 different states. We certainly don't get together like we used to. I believe I can end this by speaking for most of the family by saying that we had a hard life while growing up. But we were a happy group and didn't consider it so hard in those days. We have many happy occasions to remember!\nThe Family of Henry Clay Boggs (August 16, 1987)\nHenry Clay Boggs Sarah Ann ElizabethGareeBorn: 23 Jan., 1845 Born: 6 Jan, 1848Died: 20 Feb, 1919 Died: 1 Feb., 1916Buried: Looneyville, W.Va. Buried: Looneyville, W.Va.\nMarried 18 May, 1865\nSarah Elizabeth Estep James Curtis 9 Mar, 1866\nJohn P. Byne Boggs Susan Estella (Etta) 25 Jul., 1867\n25 Jan, 1938 Harrison Rogers Mary A. 1 Dec., 1868 1941Ann Fields Luther Smith 28 Jul., 187027 Jan, 1952Mary Ellen Arthur Joseph Jenkins 10 Feb., 18724 July 1956Elizabeth Cadle Robert Edward 14 Oct, 1874 (Little Ed) Jun, 1937 Fred Vineyard Nancy Augusta 21 Aug., 1876 28 Sep, 1959Emma Izora Ramsey Isaac Owen 19 Aug., 1878\nRobert Bonnett Margaret Ann 4 Nov., 1879 (twins) 30 Sept., 1972(no marriage) Charlea Martin) 4 Nov., 1879 20 Jan, 1966\n1. Zelphia Carpenter Clarence Clay 16 Mar, 18822. Elsie Daugherty 24 Dec., 1955 Susan Maude Adams Grover Cleveland 9 Mar, 1885 1 Apr., 1962 Thomas Hoyte Lowe Myrtle May 28 Apr., 1887 30 Oct., 1938 Bessie Belle Carpenter Earnest Milton 8 Jan, 1889 9 Dec., 1952Pearl Dye John Garee 22 Sep, 1891 30 May, 1973 FAMILY OF J. CURTIS AND S. ELIZABETH ESTEP BOGGS James Curtis Boggs Sarah Elizabeth Estep\nBorn: 9 March, 1866, Gassaway, W.Va. Born: l5 March, 1871\nDied: 27 December, 1950 Mt. Ovis, Campbell's CreekBuried: Sunset Memorial Park Died: 3 Oct., 1960\nSo. Charleston, W.Va. Buried: Sunset Memorial Park\nOccupation: Farmer\nName Born\nm, Estell Jones Alva Vandal 4 Mar, 189130 May, 1952\nm, Susan Florence Rogers Guy Burl 20 Jul., 1892 Clementine Johnson\n3 Mar, 1977 m, Mariba White Ray Emerson 8 Jan., 1894 m, Nellie McCune Ira Irvin 1 May, 1895 m, Maysel Crouder Cornelius Thomas 3 Sep, 1896 m, Rhoda Paxton Roy Cecil 13 Apr., 18988 July, 1950 m, Lela Mae Calhoun Dennis Irl 9 Sept., 1899 m, David M, Meadows Ona Izora 5 Dec., 1900 Walter Scott 10 Feb., 1902 (no marriage) Clarence Lee 8 May, 1904 18 Mar., 1935 m, l. Emma Cummings Waitman Bernard 30 Mar, 1907 2. Ida VanceIna, Faye 11 May, 1909 26 Sept., 1910\nm, Marie Evans Victor Clyde 28 Nov., 1910\nm, Lucille Ryrm Gilmer Glenn 13 April, 1913 The Family of Ira I. and Nellie McCune Boggs Ira Irvin Boggs Nellie McCuneBorn: 1 May, 1895, Roane Co. Born: 18 April, 1908 Died: 11 Nov., 1983 Died: Buried: Clendenin, W.Va. Buried: Occupation: Hope Natural Gas Co. Employee\nMarried August 14, 1929\nMarried Name Birth Date\nJoan Davis(dec.) Norris Wayne 11 Jul., 1930\nMary McConnell Riley\nBarbara Lee Dallas Ervin 20 Apr., 1932\nClyde Davis Dorothy May 6 Sept., 1934 Edward Harrah Dorcas Fay (twins) 6 Sept., 1934 Joseph Rauner Wilda Jean 23 June, 1936 Ernie Noel Norma Lee 15 Jan, 1938\nGranville Cornelius 17 Jul., 1939\nPatricia D. Mills James Douglas 1 Aug., 1942 Sharon Young Earl Edsel 1 Mar, 1944 Larry Dawson Connie Kay 7 Apr., 1946 Richard CrookeAlpha Hively Arthur Curtis 22 Apr., 1948 The Grandchildren of Ira and Nellie BoggsChildren and Norris Wayne and Joan BoggsGregory Wayne Boggs, born June 10, 1952Jeffrey Allen Boggs, born October 8, 1953Melodie Lynn Boggs, born May 2, 1957Cheryl Kaye Boggs, born March 12, 1959Children of Dallas and Barbara BoggsSusan Ann Boggs, born Jun. 15, 1957Jean Patricia Boggs, born Sept. 14, 1958Gail Elizabeth Boggs, born June 8, 1961Leta Melissa Boggs, born April 24, 1964, Mary Boggs, born in 1967. Children of Clyde and Dorothy Boggs DavisDuane Gale Davis, born February 13, 1958Diane Carol Davis, born October 24, 1961 Lynette Mae Davis, born July , 1968 Linda Nell Davis, born September , 1969\nChildren of Edward and Dorcas Boggs Harrah Edna Fae Harrah, born September 18, 1954Charles Edward Harrah, born August 18, 1957Robert Allen Harrah, born May 31, 1960Children of Ernie and Norma Boggs NoelTheresa Kaye Noel, born August 24, 1957Michael Keith Noel, born October 24, 1960Children of Joe and Wilda Boggs RaunerDrexel Gene Boggs, born December 12, 1955Barbara Ann Boggs, born February 2, 1957Linda Rauner, born March 17, 1959Patty Rauner, born November 23, 1960Marsha Rauner, born October 27, 1962Diane Gail Rauner, born October 26, 1964Edith Rauner, born November 24, 1965Joseph Rauner, Jr., born October 19, 1966 Children of Gravel and Marsha Boggs James Ervin Boggs, born March 1, 1963 Christina Boggs, born April 2, 1964 Stephanie Kaye Boggs, born March 16, 1966 Children of Graville Boggs and Ora Myers Boggs Graville Cornelius, Jr.Nellie JolineLeigha Ann\nChildren of Douglas and Patricia Boggs\nPatricia Carol Boggs, born July 9, 1969\nDonna Michelle Boggs, born December 8, 1970 Jessica Boggs, born 1973\nChildren of Earl and Sharon Boggs\nVictoria Leigh Boggs, born October 7, 1969\nChildren of Earl and Sun\u2014 Park Boggs Audrey Boggs Ashley Boggs\nChildren of Larry and Connie Boggs Dawson\nLarry Allan Dawson, Jr., born May 24, 1967\nChildren of Richard and Connie Crooke Richard Crooke, Jr., born\nChildren of Arthur and Alpha Boggs Anthony Curtis Boggs, born Nov. 25, 1975April Kay-Oma Boggs, born May 31, 1978Angel Dawn Boggs, born Sept. 22, 1981\nTurner Estep\nA story I heard from my father (Ira I. Boggs): Turner Estep (my 2nd Great Grandfather) lived on a farm in VA that had been in the family for two generations when his neighbor came to him and said, \"Get off this land. You don't own it.\" Turner went into his house and came back out with his gun. He shot the neighbor out of his saddle. Turner died in prison in Richmond, VA in 1850. That would have been shortly after the \"Trail of Tears\". Turner was half Cherokee. Native Americans were not allowed to own land in VA. (One conciliation: Apparently nobody else tried to take the land from his family).\nPosted in Biography | No Comments \u00bb\nWho won the Cold War?\nIn the fall semester of 1950, my freshman year in college, I took a required course in history. I don't remember much about it \u2014 except that the professor talked a lot about Napoleon.\nBut one event clear in my mind is as follows:\nOne Monday morning the professor, whose white mustache and a walking stick in hand gave him the appearance of an English aristocrat, walked into the classroom after a weekend visit with his friend Dean Acheson (Sect. of State under Truman) in Washington, D. C., with the following announcement:\n\"Good morning.\" \"The Monster says I have to take a roll call, but you kids don't belong here.\" \"You should be in your rooms studying languages.\" \"If you're an optimist, you should be studying Russian; but if you're a pessimist, you should be studying Chinese.\"\n(The \"Monster\" was an early version of the IBM computer). The rest of the statement speaks for it-self.\nAt that time, of course, we were in the early stages of the Korean war \u2014 which was followed by the long cold war with the Soviet Union.\nPosted in Biography, History | No Comments \u00bb\nThe Battle of Point Pleasant\nHistoric monument in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.\nThe Battle of Point Pleasant occurred on Oct. 10, 1774 (several months before the Battles of Lexington and Concord) and is honored as the first battle of the American Revolution. Known as the Battle of Kanawha in some older accounts, it was the only major battle of Dunmore's War \u2014 primarily between Virginia militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes.\nPosted in History | No Comments \u00bb\nBe careful about the new GM cars! Last weekend, I rented a new Chevy that I thought was on full when I picked it up. I ran out of gas about 40 miles out. On that car, full is to the left, and empty to the right\u2026and it's on hieroglyphics\u2026.eclipse of sun is empty\u2026and full sun is full. My brother, Norris (and he drives cars for an auction company), had a similar experience with a new Oldsmobile.\nI distinctly remember that the check-out agent said. \"Let's do a walk-around\u2026and then sign this to verify there are no scratches or dents..and that the tank is full\" I looked at the gage, and it was almost all the way to the right (To me, that meant an almost full tank). When I returned and complained, they showed me the form I had signed. It was check on 1\/8 full.\nNow, I'm warning people to look out for themselves. I think it's a trick to get you to return with a full tank. It's $40 or $50 extra to them. Next time, I'll read more carefully what I sign!\nCousin Boxley said \"You are absolutely right. It is an underhanded way for them to end up with free gas in the tank that wasn't there when you rented the car. Always tell them you want to leave with a full tank and come back with a full tank; then you don't have to be careful about how much gas to put in the car so that you don't end up giving them free gas when you turn the car in.\"\nMy sweet wife was featured in this mornings Tennessean. When people ask me how I am so healthy at my age, I answer, \"I married well\", \"I owe everything to Grace AND God.\" Grace was my Mother-in-Law, and we also have a granddaughter named \"Grace\".\nPosted in Biography | 1 Comment \u00bb\nWorld War I by Ira I. Boggs (1895-1983)\nThere was war going on in Europe \u2011\u2011 and had been, since 1914. I had been reading about the war for three years, and I felt that Germany was far in the wrong. The war could have been prevented it in the first place, but Germany was ruled by warlords who thought she could conquer the world. They were waging war on France, Italy, Serbia, Belgium and some smaller nations. Austria, Hungry, and, I believe, Romania, were with the German Alliance. Germany expanded the war to take on England \u2011\u2011 and they almost made war on Norway and Sweden (but those countries wouldn't fight back. They let Germany interfere with their rights). Most of the American people were for France, but some were so strong for Germany that they were very unpatriotic toward their own government.\nFrance was our best friend in Europe, or one of our most favored nations, because France had helped us in the Revolutionary War against England. We couldn't afford to stand by and see a War Lord nation takeover France or England, and Germany was making headway toward taking both of them.\nFrance was pretty well prepared for war, but Germany was better armed. Germany was supposed to be neutral with Belgium, but Belgium was in her way, between Germany and France, and the North Sea and the English Channel; so Germany swept through Belgium, brutally murdering women and children. They committed many crimes against helpless nations \u2011\u2011 such brutal deeds that we could hardly believe it.\nIt made my blood boil to read about it. It was hard for me to believe until I saw it with my own eyes \u2011\u2011 as I did later, in the battle of the Argonne and during the Meuse offensive. (They were as brutal as the Japanese were in the death march when Japan took Corregadore in the Second World War.)\nGermany got so brave that she broke international laws as if she owned the world and could do as she pleased with any nation. The U. S. was shipping food and supplies to Europe, mostly to France and England. Our ships were unarmed, and we were helpless to protect our merchant vessels from armed battleships. According to international law, we were at liberty to ship anything we pleased. Germany had the right to capture our ships and take our cargo, as long as she didn't harm our crews or destroy our ships; but, under international law, she was required to turn our ships loose to go home and to pay for our cargo when she did take it.\nGermany sunk a big passenger liner, the Lusitanian, and didn't even try to rescue the passengers; they just let them drown. Some American people were aboard the ship. President Wilson called Congress to Washington. He and the Congress didn't have to declare war on Germany; they just declared that war already existed. We started mobilizing our troops and ships, and our government called all reserves to duty and declared a draft law. We went to war against Germany and her allies (April 6, 1917).\nI helped with the crop until we got it worked over once (June 19, 1917); then I told Mother that I might as well volunteer. I would be called soon, anyway; so I thought I should go while I could choose my organization. Mother said, \"Granddad said you don't know what you are doing.\" (Granddad had been in the Civil War.) I told Mother somebody had to go. We couldn't afford to be ruled by such people as the warlords of Germany. Mother was right; I didn't know what I was doing. Until he has been there, no one knows what war is like. That's for sure! I might try to explain it, but that can't be done either. No one knows until he goes through a war. You take a healthy soldier and train him and drill him to every hardship of battle; but, until he has seen the battlefield, he still won't know what he is getting into. I've said, \"A well trained soldier has more lives than a cat's nine lives.\"\nI went toCharleston and tried to get in the Navy. I had been told that the Navy was a good place to learn a valuable trade, but I didn't pass their physical examination. The recruiting officer said that only one out of ten passed the Navy physical. I went to the Army recruiting office on Summers Street. (They still have a recruiting station there.) The Army rated me l\u2011A. I stayed overnight, at the Washington Hotel. The date was June 19, 1917. The next morning, along with several other recruits, I boarded a train at the C & O Railway station; and we traveled to Columbus, Ohio, where we were sworn in. They issued us our uniforms, and some other recruits and I stayed there for two days. Then, we took a train south.\nThe next day, we arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee. There, we got off the train and hiked ten miles to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. We got there at about three o'clock p.m. That was my first hike in the army. (I had many, many more during the following two years in the service!) Ft. Oglethorp had been an army post since the Civil War. They displayed a lot of old relics such as cannons, wagons and all other guns and material from that war. There, we were assigned to some barracks. The next morning, the old bugle sounded reveille. That was my first time to answer to its duty. They led us to the quartermaster's barracks, where they issued each of us another uniform and some underwear. The quartermaster clerk just looked at us and threw each of us a uniform. He said, \"Take that, and trade amongst yourselves. Make them fit the best you can.\" We traded around until some fit and some didn't fit. \"Well, you're in the Army now. You're in the Army now. You Son\u2011of\u2011a\u2011Gun, you're not behind the plow, you're in the Army now.\"\nThe bugle sounded again, \"What's that call?\" \"That's mess call.\" We went to the mess hall for the first time. It was about two hundred and fifty feet long with a long table on each side. There were board seats on each side of the tables, with an isle in the middle. I went through the chow line, where they filled my tray. Then I carried it to a table, stepped over the wooden bench, and sat down for my first meal in the mess hall. We had pot\u2011roast beef, potatoes, corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes, butter, baked beans, fruit, and a few other vegetables. It was a very hearty meal \u2011\u2011 for people who did hard work.\nAfter dinner, our captain lined us out and gave us a good speech about what it takes to be a good soldier. Then he gave us some manuals containing our general orders about drilling, guard duty and other activities. The next day, our first sergeant lined us up with the tallest of the platoon at the head of the line on down to the shortest at the other end. He selected us for squads of eight. There were three platoons to a company of one hundred and fifty men. The Sergeant took us to the practice field and explained our drill. Then we started practicing. We learned to step off and count time \u2011\u2011 to do squad right and left, to the rear, and forward march. We soon knew how to soldier.\nEach morning, the bugle sounded for reveille, and we hustled out to get our clothes on. We didn't have much time to dress; and if we weren't in line, fully dressed, to account for ourselves, we might have to look out for punishment \u2011\u2011 such as being put on a nasty or hard labor detail. Experienced officers who knew how to command the recruits led my division. They understood how to handle soldiers, and they knew that we would have to be disciplined and well trained.\nSeveral of our officers were direct from West Point. But some of the Lieutenants and Captains didn't know the drills as well as some of the sergeants and lower ranked enlisted men. The old regular divisions had the best soldiers. A lot of them had been in military service for fifteen to twenty years, or longer. They had a lot of arguments with some of the newly trained commissioned officers. They almost fought at times. Often, a commanding officer didn't like to give in, even after he learned where he was wrong.\nMy Company Commander, Captain White, was one of those seasoned regular soldiers. He was very strict. Everything had to be done to the point. I've heard him jeer at those West Point officers until a fly would be afraid to light on one of them. He was a strict, rough\u2011going commander; but he did it in a way that mostly every soldier liked him. We enjoyed listening to him argue with those high headed West Point officers.\nWe drilled hard and long hours through the week. After about six or eight weeks of hard work, we could drill fairly well. Sometimes we passed in review before our general\u2011in\u2011command. After training to march, we got our rifles and soon learned the rifle drills. We were quite awkward at times, and it appeared as though some of the soldiers would never learn the drill. A few of those noncommissioned officers got rough with them. If we didn't drill to the point, they would give us a lot of trouble. If a recruit kept making mistakes, they would put him in the \"awkward squad\" and drill him extra time. Sometimes, they would double\u2011time them until they almost collapsed. The persons who couldn't keep time with the music were the most awkward ones. I don't believe I got put in the awkward squad more than once. It was considered a disgrace.\nWe practiced until we were pretty sharp at the rifle drill and could handle our guns well to the command. The next thing was the bayonet drill. We practiced at that for quite a while. Then they lined us up, facing each other, to thrust our bayonets toward one\u2011another. We used real steel bayonets, not rubber ones. If he made an awkward thrust or got in the way of another soldier's bayonet, a soldier could get stabbed. I've heard of a few being killed at bayonet drill. We learned to thrust our bayonets in all directions \u2011\u2011 up, down, to the left, right, and to the rear. We also learned to use the shoulder end of our rifle to quickly strike the enemy at close range, getting him into a position where we could stab him with our bayonet.\nThe next rifle training was on the range, shooting at targets. Those 30\u201130 Springfield rifles shot with power. If you didn't hold one solid to your shoulder, it would spring up, or back, when it fired, hitting you in the face or bouncing against your shoulder. It could hurt you so badly that your face or shoulder would be sore for a week. I've seen soldiers with bloody faces. Some of them had lived in the cities and had never shot a gun. I was raised on a farm on the edge of a huge forest, and I learned to handle a gun when I was just a boy. I made \"Marksman\" the first and only time that I was on the practice range with a rifle.\nEvery three months, each man had to take his turn, for three days, at K.P. (kitchen police). I didn't mind it; but they always had some rule breakers or some unruly toughs that were into trouble with the mess sergeant, and he was as mean as the outlaws were. We had to peel potatoes for about two hours. It took about two bushels or more for dinner. We had good cooks, and our mess sergeant saw that we had plenty to eat. Some of the other outfits didn't put all of their food allowance on the table. They used some of it for parties and other pleasures.\nOne Saturday morning, the battalion was called to pass in review before one of our commanding officers. I was on kitchen duty; so I didn't get to march that day. The band was on the field, and everyone was marching to the music. I could see them from the kitchen. That was the first large band I ever heard. I realized that their music would be nice to march to. I loved music in general, but I always liked string music the best of all.\nI got sick, with a pretty high fever. I told my mess sergeant that I had a terrible headache. He said, \"You had better go to the infirmary and see the doctor.\" I just walked off without going to the office to get a relief slip. (I thought my sergeant would look after that.) I had the German measles, and my doctor sent me direct to the infirmary. I had to stay there for about two weeks. He wouldn't let me go back to my barracks because I could give it to the others. I had a very bad case of measles. One night, my fever ran so high that I was almost unconscious before I got the orderly to my room. I kept ringing the bell for him and he wouldn't come. There were two more patients in my room at the hospital. One of them was about well enough to leave the hospital, and he went to hunt the orderly. He found him down in the basement playing poker. The orderly came and said, \"My God! You have a terrible fever.\" I asked him how high it was, and he said 104 \u2011\u2011 but I'll say it was higher than that. He hurried around and got me an icecap to put on my head. He put a cloth between the ice cap and my scalp. It didn't seem to do me any good. I took the cloth off and put the bare icecap to my head. (That was dangerous and against the rules, but I was suffering so much that I didn't think of that.) My face broke out so much that it looked almost as red as blood.\nWhen the doctor examined me the next morning, he said, \"This is the first case like this I have had in several thousand patients. Your blood has come to your skin.\" When the orderly came into my room the next morning, the head nurse said, \"I heard the bell ring and ring. Why didn't you answer it?\" I had a notion to tell her that he was down in the basement playing poker. I should have reported him, but I always avoided trouble. If I had told her, he could have been court marshaled. He had made a serious mistake. He could have got a pretty long sentence and I could have died if the other patient had not have been in my room to help me. At that time, measles was a severe disease. (With modern treatments, and now that we have vaccinations to ward it off, the disease doesn't often cause so much trouble.) I said to my nurse, \"If I ever get to Germany, I hope those Germans won't be as hard on me as their measles are.\"\nAfter about two weeks, when I reported back to my company, my first sergeant said, \"I had you marked AWOL for several days before I learned where you were.\" I said, \"My mess sergeant sent me to the doctor. I had the measles, and my doctor sent me on to the hospital. He didn't want me to spread the measles.\" He said, \"You should have come to my office first.\" I said, \"Maybe it's well that I didn't as you might be in the hospital now with the measles.\" He agreed! I had been pretty sick, and I was still so weak that I had to stay in quarters for a few days before I could go back to work. About all I had to do, while convalescing, was to keep my bunk and my surroundings in pretty good shape. I read the news and wrote a few letters, and I fared very well.\nInspection of quarters and equipment was scheduled on Saturday, the day my doctor let me go to work. We were supposed to have all of our possessions laid out in such order that everything could be seen, and they had to be clean and in proper shape for use. If we were short of any article that was required, we were supposed to report it to our superior officer. These were just our personal belongings \u2011\u2011 such as your mess kit, comb, shaving kit and clothing.\nWe had arms inspection at least once a month. All of us had rifles at that time, and we had to take them all apart and clean every particle of dirt or rust from anywhere the company commander knew where he might find it. When we had rifle inspection, we would line out with our rifles; and when the officer came by each soldier, he was required to bring his rifle up in both hands. The officer would grab it and look it over, then slam it back at him; and the soldier had better grab it properly and bring it properly to the ground by his side.\nOne time, I had cleaned my gun in good shape for inspection; but when I put my lock in my gun, I failed to snap it so it wouldn't come off. I jerked my rifle up for inspection and snapped the lock back so the officer might look through the barrel. I jerked the lock back with so much force that it flew out of my hand and hit the soldier next to me. The commanding officer said to my sergeant, \"Take this soldiers name.\" The next Sunday, I didn't get my day of rest. I had to work in the kitchen. That's the only time that I remember of getting punished while in military service.\nWhen war started, there was a big German battleship in or near New York harbor. They were captured. (I remember that its masts were so tall that they had to take them down before they could get them under the Brooklyn Bridge.) The sailors on it were brought to Fort Oglethorp. They worked around the camp and marched by my barracks mostly every evening. There must have been five hundred, or more, of them. They certainly knew how to march. You could hear the sharp cadence of their steps clicking to time.\nI was at Ft. Oglethorp for only about three months. They were building a big camp about two miles from there. We moved to Camp Forest where I soldiered for the rest of the year that I was in Georgia. That was the winter of 1917 and 1918 \u2011\u2011 one of the coldest winters we ever had. About the first of September, the temperature dropped to three above zero, and during January and February, it snowed a lot (for that far south). Camp Forest was named after General Nathan Forrest, a leader of the Confederate forces in the Civil War.\nAfter three months from the time I enlisted, I got a furlough. Three months was the longest I had ever been away from home. I went straight to Chattanooga and caught a train to Louisville, where I had to stay overnight. I caught a train to Charleston the next morning and got home the same day. I was glad to get back. I told my parents that I was very well satisfied with the army. I liked the training and experience of being a soldier. At that time, I was the only one of the family in military service. Cornelius tried to enlist, but was turned down because he did not pass the physical. So he went back home and got married; but, after a few months, he was drafted. He was on the waters, on his way overseas, when the armistice was signed. He went to France and was stationed there for about three months before he was sent back home and discharged.\nI certainly enjoyed seeing all of my friends and relatives, and I had a good time while at home. After about ten days, I started back to training camp. I knew I wouldn\u00c6t return home until after the war was over, but I always felt that I would get back home safely.\nI went back to Camp Forest and was there until the next June. There was only one person in our battalion that I had known back home. Edgar Rogers was from Wallback, and I found him within three buildings of my barrack. Edgar was a good soldier. (After the war, he learned the barber trade. He lived at Miami, near Cabin Creek until he retired. He died in 1963.)\nAbout six months after I entered the service, several members of our division were transferred to units that were sent to France and soon went into battle. I was left at Camp Forrest to help train troops. Later, I was assigned to a machine gun battalion where I stayed until discharged in June 1918. Edgar Rogers was transferred with me. Edgar and I never got separated, and we were close friends clear through the war. Edgar was an orderly for his company commander, and a runner, as they called it at times. When on the front, a runner sometimes had to take some daring adventures to take a message to another officer in active battle. Sometimes, they would have to risk getting into no\u2011man's land. That is between the enemy and our own troops.\nWhile at Camp Forest, Edgar and I attended Sunday school and singing sessions at a little a country church. We would sing with the choir during regular services, but we didn't join them at their singing conventions. Sometimes our chaplain held services at the YMCA, or at movie picture shows. Sometimes he had short services at the library, where we went to do most of our corresponding. I had joined the church while we lived at Wallback, but I hadn't been baptized.\nBefore we went to France, the chaplain gave an invitation for baptism. Another soldier and I responded, and he set a date. We were baptized in the Chickamauga River near Camp Forest.\nThe army included all kinds of characters. Some of them caused trouble at times \u2011\u2011 the same as in any other body of people. They would gamble in playing poker and with other civil games. Sometimes that led to uncivil behavior. If they got into a fight in the barracks, the sergeant would get them a pair of boxing gloves and take them out behind the barracks. He made them fight until one of them gave in. That was exciting for a lot of the soldiers.\nWe were transferred to Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, where there was a range suitable for us to practice firing our machine guns. We went to a little town by the name of Spartanburg (which is now a city). While there, we lived in big tents \u2011\u2011 a squad of eight soldiers to a tent. We lingered there for two or three days, waiting for animals and carts to haul our guns and ammunition to the target range.\nAfter our carts and mules caught up with us, we were given fresh mules from the west. They had never had harnesses on them or a bridle in their mouths, and lots of the soldiers were from the city and had never had a thing to do with animals. That caused a lot of excitement. Some of the mules did very well, but some got scared and balked. Some of them ran away. We followed them out through people's farms, and over fences, until, one by one, we got them back into the road. We eventually got the harnesses on them, loaded our two\u2011wheel carts with ammunition and a machine gun on each cart and started for the machine gun range. We finally got to the range where we had corrals to hold the beasts. The mules survived, and nobody was seriously injured.\nWe stayed on the range for about ten days and learned to fire and take care of our machine guns. We had the Vickers machine gun while on the range. (When we got to France, we had to use a French machine gun, which was a little different from the Vickers gun.)\nWe left Camp Wadsworth on June 29, 1918 and traveled to Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, where we stayed until July 7, 1918. We went from there to Brooklyn, New York and crossed the bay to Jersey City, New Jersey where we loaded onto an English vessel (The Desney Belfast) that had been converted from a cargo carrier to a troop transport ship.\nWe started out through the East River between New York City and Long Island (through the Long Island Sound). We departed from there, on our voyage to France. In order to get out of so much danger from German submarines, we sailed into the Atlantic for a few miles. We got out to sea far enough that we couldn't see land for three days. We sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and stayed there on board the ship right where a spy had blown a shipload of ammunition to bits. (The city was burned, and only tree stubs were left. Several hundred people were killed in that disaster.) We were at the Halifax port for about three days waiting for a fleet of Canadian troops to join our fleet.\nThis was my first voyage on the waters. I got a bit seasick, but not as bad as some of the other soldiers did. At least, I didn't have to vomit. Our ships were loaded with cold storage rations, but we nearly starved for duration of our voyage. We got so hungry that some of the soldiers got very cranky and nearly fought over what we did have to eat.\nWe had twenty\u2011four ships (the largest convoy of the war). It included: one cruiser, two cargo ships and twenty\u2011one transport ships loaded with 90,000 soldiers. For our protection, several destroyers followed us for the first three days. The cruiser could sail from one side of the convoy to the other in just a few minutes. On the second day of our voyage, we began to fire our big guns. They had spied something sticking up out of the water that they thought was a submarine periscope. We fired about twenty\u2011five shots at it. The water was very calm at this time, and a submarine couldn't get within torpedo firing range. To lose the submarine, our ships increased their speed and changed directions every few minutes. While it was submerged under water, the submarine couldn't travel as fast as we did; and it didn't dare to come to the surface where the cruiser guns could get it. If the water had been rough, it could have gotten close enough to fire a torpedo at us.\nI was on was one of our biggest transport vessels. The Germans had sunk her sister ship and were always after the Desney Belfast. We stayed near the middle of the convoy, where we were safer. The sea was very calm for about five days, but then it got very rough for about two days. I had gotten over my sickness before we left Halifax. I felt a little queasy at times, but I didn't suffer any more seasickness for the rest of the voyage. Some soldiers got very ill \u2011\u2011 by the seventh day, some Canadian troops had died. They wrapped them in a white cloth and lowered them into the ocean for burial.\nOn about the ninth day of our voyage, we met ten submarine destroyer boats that had been sent to protect us. They had run into five subs that were after us, and they sank three of them. We went on over to England and France. Some of our division landed in England for a few days. My boat landed at La Harve, France.\nWe were starved and worn out when we got ashore; but we had to hike about four miles to an English camp, where we rested for a few days. We could hear artillery in distance, so we knew that we weren't far from the front lines. After resting for about four day's, we started toward the front. We traveled in a boxcar (or freight car) for about forty\u2011eight hours. It was supposed to hold twenty men per unit, but there were forty men on each of those cars. Some stood up while the others laid down to rest for about four hours each shift. Before that trip was over we were about as tired as we had been when we disembarked from the boats. We got off our train at a little town by the name of Chairvox.\nThe 18th machine gun battalion was about ten hours ahead of us. (They were on a train that wrecked and killed twenty soldiers.) We hiked eight miles to our camp where we could drill and maneuver for battle. We stayed there until August 11, preparing to meet the Hun (German enemy). We were billeted in a small town, Dentenville, where only old people and a few children were living. The women and the old men worked in the fields on the farms.\nOne day, we noticed that they were celebrating \u2011\u2011 drinking and singing. We learned that they were honoring several soldiers from this little town that had been killed. We stayed there until August 27, at ten a.m. We loaded onto trucks and traveled until 11 p.m. We got off and laid down on the ground where we rested until four a.m. We got back on our trucks and traveled until three p.m. We stopped at a little town by the name of Vagna. As we were marching to our billets, we saw an air raid some distance away. We were within about twenty miles of the battle zone.\nHere, we met the first American troops that had come from the front lines. They were a replacement unit from the 42nd Division, the \"Rainbow Division.\" They were in more battles than any other division. When a division had lost a lot of troops, the 42nd Division would replace them.\nWe left Vagna on September 3rd at seven a.m. and marched to a small town by the name of Leholy. Here we stayed in pup tents just large enough for two soldiers to lie down in. There were more air raids near us. On September 4, at noon, we struck tents. We rolled our packs and started for the front lines. This time, we rode in American trucks. They were much more comfortable than the French trucks. We had 27 men on each of them. We traveled about fourteen miles, climbing the Vasgus Mts. We arrived at our camp at about midnight.\nHere we met some strange and miserable company. The French had left us cooties (body lice). We drilled there for a few days and saw some more air battles near us. The chicken\u2011wire mattresses made us feel at home with the cooties. We had to fight them constantly. One soldier caught two to see if they wouldn't fight each other. They had quite a battle. Jeff beat\u2011up Joe pretty badly.\nWe slept in bunk beds, one over the other. This location was on the border between Germany and France, where the war began. We were near the Crown Prince of Germany's summer resort. In the surrounding area, there were pretty forests of big and tall pine trees that surrounded some clean and grassy little fields. There were also a few steep hills and gorges within our view. An enemy plane was shot down while we were there.\nOn September 9, 1918, we ate supper at about four p.m. Then we unloaded the ammunition from our carts and left camp. Each of us picked up and carried 48 lbs. of ammunition, one 24\u2011pound box in each hand. We already had on our full field packs, which weighed 75 lbs. We hiked around a hill in a narrow path and went as fast as we could; but, with that load, we couldn't keep up with the infantry. We would hike for fifty minutes and then rest for ten minutes. I thought my arms would come apart; but, in places, I could drag one box along the bank. That helped some.\nWe got too far behind the infantry to catch up with them; so we laid the ammunition down by the road and waited for the wagons to come and get it. After loading it on the wagons, we hiked along with them until we got to the end of the road. Then we had to unload the ammunition again and carry it about one and a half miles down a steep hill into the narrow valley (about like Porters Creek at Bomont, West Virginia). We got to our trenches at about three o'clock a.m.\nSome of our crew had to go on guard duty on the front lines. I got to rest for about ten hours. Then we relieved a French division, all but a few French gunners. We didn't get our guns until the next day or two. We each had a 45 caliber pistol and a knife, which we kept at all times.\nThe French had driven the Hun back into the mountains about fourteen miles into Lorene State. This was on the southern front, near Mulhouse, France, only a few miles from Switzerland. There didn't seem to be any urgency, for either the enemy or us, to take this place. So the French and Germans almost mingled together there. There was some farming on both sides, and they had to share access to the water. One side would wash their clothes one\u2011day and the other the next day, all in the same place.\nThere wasn't much need to start a battle, but we didn't have any orders not to fight. The Germans didn't know we had shipped in; so they started showing up on their farms, as usual. We scouted around some and did guard duty, but we couldn't consider this a game of friendship or sport. We wanted to get this war over with. So we started something of interest, and we soon had a few close run\u2011ins. We showed them that we came to fight.\nAfter we started war with the Hun, they fired somewhere around us about every day. At intervals, they would open up on our entrenchment lines. The Hun had a one pound cannon near us. (That is a gun that shoots a one\u2011pound shell. It will fire about 75 rounds per minute, and it is very accurate.) They kept this up for a few days, and it caused us some trouble in getting our supplies. We kept firing artillery at it without success because we didn't know its exact location. When we finally noticed a big rock against the hill about five hundred yards from our hideout, we put some artillery on it; and that was the last trouble we had from that cannon.\nWe had to go to our kitchen, about a mile back of the lines, on or near the top of the hill, to get our food and carry it back it in big cans, ten\u2011gallons and larger, to our stationary troops. We would start for that chow at about eleven o'clock, and we didn't usually get more than three hundred yards from our billets before the Hun started shelling the road that we traveled. We usually halted about midway to our kitchen to rest for a few minutes and to wait for the firing to stop. One day, while we waited there, some shells started whizzing close to us. They made a wobbling sound.\nThis must have been poison gas, or mustard gas. We were trained to recognize that sound. The canisters didn't land quite close enough for us to get the gas. So we didn't have to put on our gas masks. We went on to get our rations. When we returned, there was a two hundred pound shell, six inches long, laying under the pine tree where we had stopped to rest. It must have glanced off of the trees without hitting on the front point where the explosive trigger was located. It just didn't explode; but it could have been a time bomb, set to explode at any time, in minutes or hours. We didn't tarry long there. We had been taught what to do in such a case, and it didn't take us much time to get out of range of it. The commander sent an experienced squad of soldiers to examine it, and they determined that it was an old shell that had lost its explosive energy.\nOne day, when we started for our lunch, the Germans started firing about three hundred yards ahead of us. A six\u2011inch shell of TNT landed in the road there and formed a crater about 15 ft. in diameter and 15 ft. deep. We stopped until they cut out the firing. They were trying hard to get us \u2011\u2011 for real! Some infantrymen were billeted in a little village by the name of Paree, close to where that shell hit. One day we heard shells falling there. We soon learned that several soldiers were out in their lawn, playing ball, when the shells landed. The enemy must have spied them. They landed a shell or two on them before the infantrymen had time to take cover. They shot one soldier's legs off, close\u2011up. He said, \"Stop the blood!\" Then he fainted away. He died while they were carrying him to cover. Another soldier lost his \"under arm.\" (We heard from him three days later, and he was still living.) The shell injured six more soldiers, some critically.\nThey continued trying to get us at our lunchtime. Once, we were on our way to get our chow and heard the shells bang at our kitchen. It was near a little dreen, behind a point; but they hit close to it. One soldier was eating his dinner with his mess kit in his lap. The shrapnel knocked a hole, about an inch in diameter, in it. The enemy struck an American flag up from their trench and one of our men let loose at him. In turn, an American soldier put his helmet on a stick and pushed it above our trench. It was hit at once, by a machine gun. (That was dangerous because he could have gotten hit by a slug, or by a bullet bouncing from the helmet.)\nThere was a small cannon on the hill in front of us, about three hundred yards from our billet. We soldiers usually camouflaged our posts; but sometimes, when things had been quiet for a day or two, a few soldiers would get a little careless and the enemy could spy them. (The enemy had previously retreated from these trenches, and, no doubt, they had maps of every foot of them, and of every hideout.) We heard cannons back over the hill about two miles. (We could hear the shells before we heard the gun.) The trees began to blast apart and fall. The soldiers who were in the open jumped into the trench just in time to save themselves. A shell hit their cannon and knocked it into the trench and covered it with dirt.\nOne day the enemy tried his luck on our billet. They were firing six and eight inch cannon shells in rapid session. We were located near the hill where their shells were coming close and landing behind our billet. Some flew only a few feet over us. Our shavetail, Second Lieutenant Harper, was standing in the lawn near our billet. He said, \"Soldiers, get out of here before a shell hits our billet and tears it to pieces.\" We beat it to our trenches.\nWe stayed up late that night and played cards. We joked with each other about getting killed and we talked about where we should be buried. Someone asked who would like to be buried next to our commanding officer. One soldier spoke up and said, \"Not by me! I've already had enough trouble with him here.\" Who was going to be in heaven? They all agreed they had enough hell here, and everyone thought he deserved a place in heaven. I asked, \"Who are you \u2011\u2011 a Jap or a Chink? They believe they are sure for heaven if they die in battle.\"\nThe next night, I was standing guard on our camouflaged line \u2011\u2011 with a rifle. (We rotated positions, with a rifle or a machine gun.) I was posted in a 6 x 8 booth that was sticking out where I could see into no\u2011man's land. It was one or two hundred yards away from any of my soldier friends. The moon wasn't shining and it was very dark and lonely. Some new German troops had taken over the positions opposite us and they were young and venturesome. They were also slick and skillful in their maneuvers and we had been warned to keep a close lookout for them. I kept quiet, listening for any maneuver they might make. They chirped, like birds, to let their comrades know where they were; and we didn't know enough about the local birds to distinguish which sounds were real. I heard plenty of chirping \u2011\u2011 and so did the other guards at their rifle or machine gun posts.\nI had been on guard for almost an hour, and my time was almost up. (On the front lines, they didn't keep us on guard longer than that. A person might get sleepy, and we had to be very alert.) I was suddenly alerted by a rustling noise. A German had slipped up within bayonet reach of me. I suppose I must have moved when he startled me, and that startled him, too. He hurried away from my booth and broke to run. I opened fire on him and emptied my rifle of six shots. I was reloading it when I got relief and was told to quit firing. I still don't know whether or not I hit that Hun; but, if I didn't get him, he must have hit his old mother earth and hugged it closely. Other guards were disturbed that night, and one machine gunner released a burst of fire at the Germans.\nThe Hun was still disturbing us at chow time. They still shelled our road, about every day, at around eleven o'clock. One time, a six\u2011inch shell hit pretty close\u2011by, and the shrapnel sang all around us.\nWe were stationed in the warm part of France before we went into those mountains, and we were stuck with our summer clothing (mostly khakis). The weather in the mountains was very rainy and our raincoats were porous. They leaked and we got wet. At times, it was almost cold enough to snow; and we would almost freeze when we had to stand still. We were supposed to have O.D. or wool clothing; but it never came. Some soldiers caught colds and pneumonia and had to go to the hospital.\nOne of our officers was killed while making a scouting trip across no man's land. He had some important maps and orders on him, and we didn't want them to fall into enemy hands. His body was on the enemy's side of the lines and up against a hill. Several of us machine gunners fired a box barrage around the lieutenant's body while the infantry rescued his remains. We fired over their heads and on each side of them so that the enemy couldn't get to our troops. (We had drilled and trained for all kinds of maneuvers with our machine guns.) By day, we could see his body to protect those maps on it; but we had to level our guns each time we fired a few blasts because they would vibrate off of the target. We couldn't see him at night, so we set up a stakes in front of our guns in direct line of the target and leveled our sights to fire over the stake. We lined our machine guns around the hills and fired around the body at different intervals to keep the Germans from getting to the Lieutenant. To see the enemy after dark, we shot flares high into the air and that made the night bright as day.\nWe got to the officer after he had lain there for eleven days. The detail of soldiers that retrieved the body did not lose even one man. The enemy didn't fire at them. A bobby trap set by the enemy had killed the officer, and the electric line that electrocuted him was still touching his body. A sergeant grabbed the officer and tried to pull him loose, but the soldier got shocked and had to let loose and leave the body there. Another soldier put on a rubber suit and gloves to cut the electric line.\nA few days later, we captured two German soldiers. They told our officer that we were lucky that all of the rescue detail didn't get killed. Those captives said that they had a gag on the engine that charged the line, but our troops didn't cut the live wire \u2011\u2011 and that's what saved them. The enemy had machine guns set on the soldier's body and they intended to open fire when alerted, but our soldiers cut the dead line instead of the live one.\nI had one more venturous experience before we left the Gardarmer sector front. We were expecting trouble that night; and, to prepare for it, we mounted one of our machine guns about one hundred yards back of our billets. The others were deployed in other strategic positions. It was my turn to guard the guns. I took another soldier with me, and we stationed ourselves in a ready position about one hundred yards up the hill from the field where my machine gun was previously deployed. The weather was getting cold in those 5,000\u2011foot mountains, and we were in a drizzling rain \u2011\u2011 still wearing our summer clothing (Our O.D. clothing still hadn't arrived). We got miserably chilly, and we had to keep still while on guard. I told my friend we would have to be very quiet; but we did talk some, in low voice or whispers. We were expecting the enemy at any time.\nWe hadn't been posted long before we heard sticks breaking about thirty feet above us. I cracked one of my grenades and counted five. I threw it and immediately grabbed my buddy. We ran around the hill. I was afraid the grenade might roll back and explode on us. It landed a few yards up the hill, just above where I released it. We waited a few seconds, and then I told my buddy to go and alert our lieutenant. He might want to get around the enemy scouts and capture them. The grenade didn't explode, and the enemy slipped away quietly. I never heard another move from them. We were using some old grenades that the French had kept there for about five years. They had probably gotten wet. (Our munitions experts tried several of them the next day, and just a few exploded.) A French outfit relieved us at about midnight and we moved out the next morning. We had been on the Gardarmer front for thirty\u2011two days \u2011\u2011 but it seemed more like two months. We were the only Americans ever stationed on that sector. We were glad to get out of this miserable, damp and cold place \u2011\u2011 as well as out of the danger. We had experienced many narrow escapes.\nWe went back to the same small town, Vagna, where we had stayed before we left for the front lines. It was great to get back to where we could have a little pleasure and rest in comfort. We drilled some and took time pretty easy for about three weeks. The weather was pretty comfortable down in the valley. (The climate there, and about everywhere else we were stationed during the war, was much like that we have in West Virginia.)\nWe needed a little exercise to keep us in shape for service; so I took my squad and gave them a few right\u2011face, left\u2011face, about\u2011face, forward, and to\u2011the\u2011rear\u2011march commands. We didn\u00c6t expect to be there long because we thought that we would soon be in a real battle \u2011\u2011 but we realized that the war was about to end. We were pressing the enemy on all fronts. General Pershing had been made Commander\u2011in\u2011Chief. He took\u2011over from the French Generals, Touch and Jeffrey. The trouble with the French was that they moved from place to place. They would start a battle on one position and give the enemy time to fortify on another front.\nGeneral Pershing said, \"We'll hit them as hard as we can on all fronts. We will not give them any rest.\" By that time, we had a big army of about one million American troops. After our unit had stayed at Vagna for about three weeks, we were well rested and in good shape to fight again; and we were anxious to get this war over so we could go back to God's country.\nWe never knew for sure just where we were going. That was a secret. The enemy might learn what was coming; and the main idea was to take them by surprise, to catch them off guard as much as possible. When we finally got orders to move out, we supposed we were going to the Meuse\u2011Argonne front; but nobody confirmed our expectations. We left Vagna on October 26 at 2:30 a.m. We marched to ReMurmont \u2011\u2011 got there at five a.m. \u2011\u2011 and loaded our equipment onto the train. We boarded the train and started for the front at about 10:30 a.m. \u2011\u2011 traveling up the Moselle River through Ohnil, Nancy, Toul, Camay, and Lorouville. We got off of the train at four a.m., October 27, and marched about fourteen miles to Barelle Woods. There, we pitched tents on the hillsides. We were several miles from the Hindenburg line, where some of the heaviest fighting of the war was going on. Airplanes battled over our heads. They glided like birds, below and above the clouds, while firing their machine guns. Sometimes one would fall, or sail, to the ground.\nThe next day, October 28, the roads were filled with a string of ambulances carrying wounded Americans from the hard fought battles of the Argonne Forest where the French had fought the enemy for about four years. The Hindenburg line was so strongly fortified that it looked impossible to tear it apart; but navy took their 16\u00f6 guns off their ships and loaded them on heavy freight cars. They moved them within easy striking range of the Hindenburg line. On about the 29th of October, they opened up with them and let the enemy have all they had \u2011\u2011 for about 72 hours. That was the heaviest barrage of the war. The Americans tore those heavy fortifications to riddles.\nThe enemy was losing on every front \u2011\u2011 so badly that they started for the Rhine River. Their men wanted to get back home before their leaders surrendered. General Hindenburg, of the German army, had already told Kaiser Wilhelm (or \"Kaiser Bill\" as we called him) that he thought they were going to lose the war.\nWe were about thirty miles from the main actions, and we could hear the battle of the Hindenburg line. There was a continual roar from the bombardment. On October 29, our unit struck tents and got ready to move to the front. We hiked on to the Argonne Forests, where we halted for a day or so. We stopped right where the German headquarters had been. It looked like a pleasure camp. They even had underground theaters there. We felt comfortably safe; but we had to be very careful about stepping on boardwalks, or anywhere that the Germans could have set explosive death traps for us.\nWe hiked on, along the Argonne Forest, and crossed the Hindenburg line. There weren\u00c6t any trees left there, only a few stumps and snags. Near the lines, the devastation was about a mile wide. They had been bombarded for three or four years. We met several detachments of German prisoners. (We had captured about 5,000). They knew they were whipped; so they surrendered to any American soldier they could. They didn't trust surrendering to any of the other allies. They might not have any mercy on them. (We were good to our prisoners; and, somehow, the German soldiers must have known that.) At the last of the war, they got so they would surrender to us at any chance they had \u2011\u2011 if they could get away from their commanders.\nOn the third of October, we resumed our pursuit of the Hun. At about three p.m., we stopped to rest for a few minutes. During our stop, near Varens, France, close behind the front lines, some of the soldiers became rowdy. Our captain in command got their attention and told them they had better rest while they had a chance. We were liable to go into action at any time; and we could be in battle for two or three days without rest. We hiked until about eleven p.m. We were pretty tired \u2011\u2011 almost worn down, and the rain was falling in a cold drizzle \u2011\u2011 when we stopped for the night. We didn't have to lie down on a soggy wet sod of grass, but we were glad to have the opportunity to rest. We pitched our tents and laid our raincoats on the wet ground. Our raincoats were made of a cheap material; so they didn't keep us from getting wet; but we were tired enough to sleep ? even if we were drenched and cold.\nThe skies were clear, and there was a heavy frost on the ground the next morning. Several of us had rheumatism, from exposure; and some of the soldiers were so disabled that they couldn't go any further. Pvt. Bernard, a Frenchman by decent, was about forty years old. He had to be carried to the ambulance. On November fourth, we continued our daily hike. When we halted for the night, at about nine p.m., we pitched our tents on a hill, near a meadow. The officers made us pitch our tents in formation, saddling around the hill, and we couldn't lie that way in our tents. We were very tired, and we had a lot of angry soldiers! If the officer had let us, we could have pitched our tents in better positions to rest that night. After I lay down for a few minutes, my buddy rolled down against me. That annoyed us, but we were so tired that we still managed to get some sleep.\nWe had just got settled when orders came to break camp and get ready to move at any minute. We struck tents, rolled our packs and loaded them on our backs. Then we fell in line, waiting for orders to move on; but that order didn't come until six o'clock the next morning. I took a chance for court\u2011martial. I broke ranks and tried to find a place to lie down \u2011\u2011 out of the mud and water. I didn't find that place, but I did find a little high ground with a clear area large enough to lie down and rest as best I could. I laid down on my pack, which was on my back, and put my arms over my eyes to keep the cold rain out of my face. I went to sleep, and I didn't hear any complaint about it. There were others who did the same.\nThat day, we crossed the line where the 72\u2011hour barrage had been fired. The earth was so full of craters and ditches that it looked as if there had been an earthquake. We went on through a place named Granpree, where there had been a little town the day before \u2011\u2011 it was torn to shambles. Later, I met a soldier who had fought in that battle after they lifted the barrage. He said, \"When we bayoneted a German, he would squeal like a pig.\" He gushed when he talked about it. This man seemed to love his job.\nWe hiked on to a large field where the whole sixth Division had halted overnight. We built fires; and I don't know, to this day, why the command allowed us to do that. They must have thought the war was over, but it was still going on overhead. The Hun planes began to drop their bombs on us. We threw our blankets over the fires and extinguished them within a few seconds. I jumped to a big tree and hovered close to it. A bomb hit about thirty yards from me. My friend, Edgar Rogers, from Wallback, was lying in a tent when that bomb hit close to him. The shrapnel went over Edgar's tent and killed another soldier four paces away. Edgar jumped up and ran for a sector of woods. We didn't build any more fires that night.\nThe Hun did come back during the night \u2011\u2011 we could hear his plane motoring over us, not knowing what moment a bomb would fall on us and blow us to dust. They bombed the general's place and killed his orderly. It didn't hit our general, but shrapnel from the bomb did wound him some.\nOn November fifth, we hiked further along the road. It was muddy and sloppy, and red with animal and human blood. We halted for a few minutes when we got within a few feet of our advancing front lines. The enemy was getting away as fast as they could, but they left machine gun nests behind their retreating forces, and they would open up and kill a few of our soldiers and animals. They would rather kill our horses than our soldiers. The horses pulled our artillery and machine guns and ammunition. We would joke sometimes and say, \u00f4Our commander would rather lose a soldier as a horse.\u00f6 When we stopped for a minute, some of the soldiers stepped out into the brush and saw a lot of American dead lying there. I didn't want to see it.\nWe went through a little town that the Hun had captured four years back. They had held the old people and women and children as prisoners and used them as slaves \u2011\u2011 and worse! When they left, they took the able\u2011bodied people with them and put the old people and children in a church. From the outskirts of the town, they shelled the church where they had left the helpless people. Some of our soldiers went in and saw the dead and wounded children and old people. I could hear the mourning. To hear it was enough for me! I didn\u00c6t want to see it. I saw a lot of dead enemy soldiers on the roads and on the battle lines, and that was enough for me. (That was fifty years ago, but it still makes me nervous to think of all the horrible things of war that I witnessed.)\nThe mountain roads were mined with time bombs, but we walked over them, leaving our supplies behind. We continued on, after the Hun, to a little village named Stoney, near the town of Artrucke. The Hun had left at about noon that day. We halted there, and we got to sleep in a barn of straw and hay. This was the first and best place we had rested since October 26. We found some money and other things that the Hun had left, as they got out in a hurry. We stayed there until November the sixth.\nOur kitchen and food were lost behind us with the other supplies. Our command sent a detail after them; but it was a few days before they caught up with us. In the meantime, we had some corn beef and a few bites of bacon for rations; but the corn beef was so salty that most of the soldiers couldn't hold it on an empty stomach. We didn't have anything else to eat except a few little potatoes that the Hun had left in the ground. They had dug their crops in a hurry before they moved out. Some of us scraped up a few little potatoes and fried them with our bacon. They were really good! That was all we had eaten within about fifty hours.\nWe slept in the hay barn and waited for our kitchen and our outfit to get together again so we could move on to another front. We scouted around, for a mile or so; but we couldn\u00c6t go too far from our outfit while on duty because we might have to suddenly move on, regardless of our supplies. There was a wrecked airplane in sight of us. We went to see it and there were two dead Frenchmen in it, but we didn't do anything about it. I suppose the French would take care of it.\nThere wasn't any fighting to mention, and we didn't need any second line at this time. The Hun were on the run and trying to get back home before they were captured. If we had captured them, they would have been prisoners of war. They realized that if they got home before surrendering they would be freer \u2011\u2011 but we did seize most of their army and their supplies.\nOur planes blew up the bridge over the Rhine River, at Coblenze; and we captured all of the men and their material \u2011\u2011 about all of a division. The planes that blew the Coblenze Bridge sailed over our heads in formation while going back to base. I counted seventy some of them. That was an exciting view. We had a good idea about what they had done to our enemy before we heard the reports about it a few hours later.\nWe got orders to go on to the Verdun battle, but we were allowed to rest for seventy hours before going any further. That was a welcome must. We couldn't have stood much more of that punishment. We dug about a half\u2011bushel of those little potatoes the Hun had left in the ground when they harvested their crop hurriedly before they shipped out. There were 172 men to eat them. We also found a few sugar beets and cooked them for our breakfast.\nOur kitchen finally caught up with us on November the eighth, at about dark. Our detail had marched back thirty miles and found them and brought them to us. That slumguillian (or beef stew) certainly tasted good! All of the company of war strength (250 men) was together again.\nOur next destination was Verdun, where the hardest fought battle of the war was still being waged. The English and the French were under a continuous siege there for nine months. No Americans that I know of fought at Verdun; but, if our unit had got there before the Armistice was signed we would have had a turn for our first real offensive. Our commanding officer drew a map of the battle area and explained to us how Verdun was nearly lost. If the enemy had taken Verdun, they would have gone right on to Paris. At one time, they had Verdun bottled up, but they just didn't know how to put the stopper or plug in the bottle. If they had known it, the Hun had it in their hands; but this was one of God's plans, just like an Israelite miracle. It wasn't destined to be in the enemy hands.\nVerdun was a city of about 75,000 population and it had a natural fortification. It was behind a half moon hill from the German lines and fortified with line of concrete and armed with heavy artillery. On the German side \u2011\u2011 or no\u2011man's land \u2011\u2011 was a slope of land cleared for several miles. That probably saved France from losing the war before the Americans came. We had about one million men there when we won the war, and we captured most of their army and their supplies.\nWe left for Verdun on November the ninth. On our way out, for a part of the way, we moved back over the same ground we had previously been over. We went to Buzancy and stayed overnight. We aimed to take our time on this five\u2011day hike so we would be in a physical condition to fight and try to take any line that was still held by the enemy. We pitched our tents at Buzancy, but we didn't get much rest. It was cold and damp, and everyone who was inclined to get rheumatism was stiff. We were so sore that we could hardly walk without punishing. Some of our soldiers had to go to the hospital from there. I, too, had it pretty bad; but I didn't intend to drop out \u2011\u2011 not as long as I could keep going. I told my comrades that we had just as well stay with our job and finish it. A number of us felt that we would never again be of much use to ourselves or anyone else, but I wouldn't give up. I wanted to stay with my outfit and finish the war, and we knew it was about over.\nOn November 10, we hiked about 15 miles and pitched tents for the night. On November 11, we moved on toward deadman's hill; and we hiked until night \u2011\u2011 when we heard that the war was over. The Armistice was signed at eleven o'clock that morning \u2011\u2011 on the eleventh month, eleventh day, and eleventh hour.\nWe shouted and sang, shot our pistols, lit flares, and set off loose ammunition that the Germans had left behind on their retreat. We really enjoyed ourselves, even though almost all of us were almost too weak to walk and we still had a five\u2011day hike to get to deadman\u00c6s hill. On November 12, we resumed our hike and continued on the move, eating only two meals, until we caught up with the rest of our division. That night, we pitched tents and stayed at Flevelle for a good, long rest. The weather was cold, but we could now build fires; so we were much more comfortable than we had been before the armistice.\nWe talked about all the narrow escapes that we had experienced, but we felt that we had hardly been in any warfare. We hadn't seen any hand to hand combat like some of the other units had experienced. One of our soldiers shot himself in the leg, and someone accused him of doing it just so he could go home, but I believe it was just another accident. On November 13, we continued our hike and stopped in Granoville. On November 14, after another long day on the move, we camped within sight of Verdun, where we relieved the 26th Division. (We stayed there until November 18.) Some of my outfit went immediately to the battlefield to bury dead soldiers on deadman's hill.\nI wanted to go with them, but I wasn't able to go on that detail until November 17. When we found a dead soldier, we would search his pockets. We found some paper money and a few coins on a few of them. (We kept it for our next party.) The chaplain was with us. He would say a prayer, and we would cover the bodies with a little dirt to protect them until the French could take them to a cemetery. They were mostly French Algerians. They were about as dark as our Colored soldiers. (As I have said, the Americans didn't lose any men nor enter into any battle there.)\nWe scouted around over the battlefield and picked up cartridges, grenades, guns and other battle souvenirs. I got a German officer's spiked helmet, which I later brought home with me. This battlefield had been turned into a mess of holes. They fought so long and had such hard battles that it looked like an earthquake had hit there. I picked up a German boot, and it had a leg bone in it. I didn't want that for a souvenir! On November 18, we started on a hike at three p.m. We went a few miles, pitched our in shelter tents, and stayed overnight. On November 19, we hiked through Verdun and on to Camp Savoryards, where we stayed in some French barracks until November while we got some more needed rest. Here, we got had more of the French company (cooties).\nLieutenant Harper's orderly, a little Filipino, was so short that his pack almost dragged the ground. He got completely exhausted from carrying his gear, and Lt. Harper asked if some soldier wouldn't carry it for him. Lt. Harper was from Florida; and, from appearance, he had been used to ordering Colored people around. He was so overbearing and bigoted that no one in our outfit liked him. We called him a \"shave tail.\" He didn't get further than a Second Lt., and I doubt that his superiors liked him any better than the enlisted soldiers did.\nOn that hike from Verdun to our delousing camp, we had stopped at a little town and bought some limburger cheese; and some of our soldiers got a little too much wine. They could hardly keep up with the rest of us. We sat down to rest; and when we were ready to continue our hike, one of our sergeants refused to get up and go with us. He was pretty drunk, but any disobedience of orders by a soldier in time of war is dangerous. I was sitting near that Sgt. when Lt. Harper asked him to move on with us. Lt. Harper pulled his 45 pistol from his belt and said, \"What do you want to do \u2011\u2011 move on as ordered or lie here?\" The Sgt. said, \"Well, if you are that kind of man, I'll move on.\"They later court\u2011martialed the sergeant. They could have shot him; but the war was in the armistice, and they didn't want to shoot him. They declared it a mistrial and freed him. He had always been a good soldier. This was the first time I had ever been in a court, and I was glad to see the case dismissed. I think all of us had endured enough punishment to free the devil.\nWe got orders to go to central France where we would camp until we could go home. There weren't enough trucks to haul everybody. The division would always look after its own men first, and we were a unit on our own just attached to a division. (The machine gun battalion was just a small unit compared with a division.) That was a sixteen\u2011day hike, but we would have to do the best we could. On November 23, we deloused by bathing and changing clothes (all but our shoes) and then started on our long journey.\nOur officers said 75 per cent of us should be in the hospital instead of starting on a long hike. I started with my company, but I wasn't able to carry my pack. I had arthritis so bad that sometimes my knees would give way. I would nearly fall, but my legs didn't give way both at once. I could catch myself from falling to the ground. I kept up with my company for two days, but I wasn't able to carry my pack. There was a Greek soldier by my side who punished so much that balls of perspiration would burst out on his forehead, but he just kept marching on. I said, \"We had just as well take it as best we can, as we will probably never be fit for anything when we do get home.\"\nWe received an order that a small percent of my company could take a furlough. Naturally, everybody wanted to stay with the company. We were going right on to Brest, where we expected to catch a boat home soon after this hike was finished. We were afraid that, if we were left behind, we might have to stay indefinitely. The number of soldiers who wanted to take the furlough wasn't enough to fill out the quota, but I didn't think I would be able to complete the sixteen\u2011day hike. I was hardly able to walk; so I was glad to have the opportunity to avoid it.\nWe waited there until eleven o'clock that night, when we caught a train going to southern France. We traveled until the next night before reaching our destination (Ax\u2011Les\u2011Bains, France, in the highlands of the Alps). This was a beautiful little tourist city where the kings and other rich people went for their vacations. We got off the train and hiked about six or eight blocks to our hotel where we ate breakfast before we were shown to our rooms. We were all very tired \u2011\u2011 but we had first class accommodations and felt like millionaires. We had a good shower bath and crawled into our beds in the expensive hotel. This was the first time we had had such comforts in the eighteen months that we had been in the army. We slept until about ten o'clock the next morning and got up and ate our breakfast at a high\u2011class restaurant. We had civilian privileges again \u2011\u2011 with all expenses paid!\nWe walked to different tourist attractions, and we saw where the kings and queen had lived and where they had bathed several centuries ago in hued\u2011stone bathtubs. We saw a stone arch, still standing, that had been built in the thirteenth century. The next night, we went to a resort where we heard some good music and saw a show. It was a noted gambling resort. (This was where Harry K. Thaw and Standford White had their trouble, about 1912 or earlier, when White shot and killed Thaw. This crime story attracted about as much attention as some of the murder stories that we have today.)\nThe next day, we took an elevated train to the top of Mt. France. We climbed the hill on a cog railroad. There was a gear in the center of the track and a gear on the locomotive that lifted the train by steam or electric power. It was raining in the valley when we started up the mountain, and we climbed up and up until we went through the clouds. We got off on a 12,000\u2011foot peak that had about six inches of snow on the ground. The air was very clear, and we could look out over the clouds and see peaks of mountains sticking up. They looked like islands on the ocean. We could also see Mt. Blanc, Italy, several miles from us; and we saw the battlegrounds of the Bible days, where warriors rolled stones over the mountains and demolished armies.\nTrouble began the next day. I wasn't well, and that spoiled the pleasures of my remaining furlough. I had influenza and had to go to the hospital. This was a new disease and the doctors didn't understand it, which made it hard to treat; and, from what my doctor said, I had an unusually bad case of it. That was the beginning of the flu epidemic, the kind of epidemic that nearly always occurs in time of war. It was pretty bad in France \u2011\u2011 but not as bad as in the States. Only a very few soldiers died of it, but that was probably due to better care than the civilians received in the States. We soldiers had good hospitals and doctors to take care of us at once.\nMy doctor said to some of my comrades, \"You soldiers may think you've had the flu, but Boggs had a real case of flu.\" I hemorrhaged with it. The flu killed many people in the States. Whole families died with it. My Grandmother Estep died with pneumonia (I suppose, as a complication of the flu) in February 1918, while I was in France. I never got to see her again. Other members of my family at home had it, but I didn't lose any other relatives with it. I got better, after about two weeks in the hospital, and I told my doctor I thought I could make it to my company in central France. He said, \"This is a new disease, and you think you are stronger than you are.\" The next day, he told me to put my clothes on and walk a few blocks. I walked without watching my route very closely, and I got lost for a few blocks. When I got back to the hospital, I was about ready to faint. I stayed another day or two and then started back to rejoin my army unit. There were about five other soldiers with me. We traveled all day and into the night, when we had to change trains. I was almost as tired as I had been on some of those long hikes, even if we didn't have bags to carry. (We shipped our baggage by freight or express from the hospital and didn't have much to carry with us.) One soldier had to go to another hospital. He couldn't make it back to his army unit. I ventured on, and the next day we made it on through the city of Dijon, where we changed trains again. We rode that locomotive about forty miles to Poinsinet, where I rejoined my army comrades.\nWe saw some beautiful country. France was mostly all cleared, except in the rough mountains where they grew their timber. That was pretty, too, with big towering pine forests and sometimes a little green plantation of mostly pastureland with grazing cattle. We traveled along the Marne River for several miles. It had been raining a lot, and the Marne was out of banks. That was a big river. It was still clear, even at high tide. That section was all plantations, mostly grape vineyards and some grassland; and there wasn't any mud to stir up the river.\nI was pretty sick and tired when I got back with my battalion and reported to my sergeant. I wasn't able to stir much the next day and was sent to our infirmary to see my doctor. They checked me over. A soldier was sitting in my room near the door where the doctors were talking, just after I had been examined. The soldier told me that they said my heart was in pretty bad shape and that I ought to be in the hospital. That would get the other doctor into trouble for releasing me too soon, so the doctors marked me for quarters and told me to report back to them again.\nI was ill all winter. I had chest pains while sleeping, and I would wake up screaming. That would awaken my comrades. This \"flu\" was, no doubt, the cause of so much heart trouble thereafter. We were there (instead of going home right away) until late in May (from Dec. 1918 to May 1919). It rained, or snowed, for forty\u2011some days without missing a day. (The elements were about like we have in West Virginia, here around Charleston.) It didn't get very cold, except on a very few days.\nWe kept up drill practice and worked on the French roads, to save our taxpayers money. Quite a bit of the time, we worked in the cold, wet weather. We gathered stone and napped it into the roads. We had to pay the French for every pound of stone that we napped on their roads while we used them. We would discuss it and grumble. Some of the soldiers were so angry that they said some pretty harsh words about the French and about Uncle Sam for making us work on their roads after coming from our peaceful country and saving them from defeat in the war.\nOne day I was working on the road when it started snowing. We were getting wet and I told my corporal that I wasn't able to work and that I was going in out of this miserable weather. He said, \"Well, go on home, but you report to the first sergeant.\" I went in and found the sergeant sitting in the office by a good fire. I told him that I wasn't well and the weather was getting bad and that I didn't think it was a good idea for me to work in that miserable weather. He said, \"It's too bad for anyone to be out.\" He cursed those damn French and said, \"Orderly, you go tell them soldiers to be getting in here to the fire.\" So my coming in saved our whole detail from having to stay a few more hours in that bad weather. We bathed and changed clothes, had a good warm meal and then got ready for our beds.\nConversing, playing cards, and telling stories provided us with about all of the amusements we had. I and an Irishman named Ryan would start a sentence that rhymed. We would continue talking rhymes back and forth until we caused some amusement among the gang. We played cards a lot. Some soldiers would gamble all their pay away if they didn't win a big stake. I never gambled, and I didn't drink the French wine or the cognac. Some would go to the French saloons and get on a drunk. They sometimes fought with the French, or amongst themselves, until our commanding officer would stop them from going to that joint, for a month or so. That hurt the French, from losing business.\nSometimes we received cigarettes and chocolate bars from the Salvation Army or the Red Cross. I didn't smoke, but I liked candy \u2011\u2011 such as it was. It was the best we could get. It was usually Hershey bars, but only about half sweetened. I ate so much of it that I don\u00c6t care about chocolate flavor today.\nI wrote several letters to friends and relatives in the States and some to my Uncle Garee Boggs, who was in France. I also received mail from home nearly every week, usually from Aunt Florence or from a lady friend. Uncle Garee also wrote interesting letters. When they announced mail call, the soldiers rushed out to hear their names called; and when his name was called, the soldier would throw up his hand and yell, \"Here!\" The letter would be passed to him through the crowd. We received a few magazines to read \u2011\u2011 in addition to our army newsletters. All of that reading kept down the monotony, to some extent; but that was a long, lonesome winter \u2011\u2011 so far away from home, hoping every day that we would get orders to go back to the States.\nAn engineering battalion was located about five miles from our camp. Except for some of the commanding officers, they were all Colored men. They kept the Coloreds in a group to themselves. For a time, they were in the fighting forces, but they were poorly trained for combat. When they got into battle, they got so enthused or excited that their commanders couldn't handle them. So they put them into non\u2011combat units. These Colored soldiers organized a show and invited us to see it. We all loaded on our trucks and went to see their performance. This was the only show we saw while there \u2011\u2011 from December until June. They were fantastic. I had never laughed so hard as at their antics. Some dressed in women's clothes. It was astonishing to watch them.\nDuring the winter of 1918, we stayed in French quarters; and we built a few extensions for our kitchen and mess hall. We burned wood, and the French sold us some timber for fuel. It looked like our beech timber. When we cut a tree, we sawed it into blocks and split them. We also cut up the branches and saved every twig for fuel. We even picked up our chips, just as the French did. (They didn't lose a twig.) The ships that transported the soldiers home would bring food on their return trip, now, instead of war supplies; so we were fed very well! We had three meals per day.\nWhile we were in Poinsinet, an order came for us to pass in review before General Pershing. I thought it would be nice for us to see our General of the Allied Forces before leaving the services, and the commander said that everybody that could possibly get there would have to go. I still had rheumatism and wasn't as well as a lot of the other soldiers and I wasn't really able to make a long hike, but I was glad for the opportunity to see him. We had about a week to get ready for the parade and we stayed on the practice field for two or three days to get back into practice. We hadn't drilled much all winter, but it wasn't much trouble to get back into the swing of it.\nThe parade ground was thirty miles from our station and we had to hike the whole distance in one day. We got lined out and started early in the morning on the day before the scheduled event. With full field packs, about 68 lbs., we followed the usual routine \u2011\u2011 fifty minutes of walking followed by ten minutes rests. At about noon, we stopped for an hour or so. Then we loaded our packs and started on with the rest of the division. We got to our destination at about nine o'clock that night. That was another lot of tired soldiers! We rested for about eight hours and then got ready for a big review with the whole division. We lined out in a big field and stood at ease. A few hours passed before the officers got there. Finally, our commanding officer called us to attention; but we still had to stand rigidly for an hour or so before the general and our commanding officer passed within two paces of me. It took them a long time to walk past thirty thousand soldiers. I got to see General Pershing, Commander\u2011in\u2011Chief of the U. S. Forces and the Allied Forces; and I felt that this privilege was well worth all the hardships involved in getting there.\nI was in the sixth division, an old regular division. It had been General Pershing's old division. When I was first inducted into the army, General Wood was our Commander in Chief of the Army. General Pershing took his place a little later. I was with the 17th machine gun battalion, attached to the sixth division with the 51st infantry. At that time, a fully manned, war ready, division required about thirty thousand soldiers. We didn't have as many different kinds of combat troops as they do now. During the First World War, we still used horses in the Calvary Division; but we had some trucks. They used mostly horses to pull their artillery. Machine gun outfits used mules to pull the machine guns and ammunition.\nLike most organizations, my division had its nicknames; but I don't think we were entitled to all of them. Because we were held off of the front lines until the last two months of the war, we were called \"Pershing's Pets\"; but we did furnish as many, or probably more, troops for the war as any other division. (Until we got to France, we were a training division; and we sent troops to other units to replace lost troops.)\nWe were also called the \"Sight Seeing Division.\" That was natural. The first time we were on the front, we were placed where there hadn't been any fighting since the first few days of the war. That was on the border of France, Germany and Switzerland; near Mulhouse and Gardarmer. Gardarmer was our headquarters. (We were there for thirty\u2011one days.) We did raise some trouble there, but I doubt if it was appropriate. We didn't accomplish much by it, just enough to cause uneasiness for the enemy. There wasn't any advantage to taking this section of the country, but we wanted some action to get the war over as soon as we could. We lost very few soldiers there. We didn't intend to make a drive for the place, but we kept some of the enemy troops tied down there. They didn't know our plans, and they had to stay alert for us. That kept them away from the front where they could do more damage to the allies.\nWe got ready and started on that long hike back to Poinsinet, where we stayed all winter; but we got started too late to hike all the way back before nightfall. We stopped at about halfway, pitched our pup tents, camped overnight, and got out early the next day. Our officers lined us up that morning and complimented us, and they told us what General Pershing had to say. We took a little more time on our return trip, and that made our hike easier than when going to the general review.\nIn the spring, after the weather opened up, we played ball. They formed football teams, and they competed between the companies. They had some good games. These were the first football games I had ever seen. It was of some interest to me, but I didn't know much about it. One man in my company got his leg broken. My sergeant said, \"Well, he will get to go home before we do.\" I played some baseball. I had practiced that game before, and I understood the rules. It was a lot of amusement to me while we waited to get on our way home, but we didn't get organized very well before we moved on.\nWe were located at Poinsinet, a small town in central France, about seventy\u2011five miles west of Paris. This was a beautiful country of rolling hills. There were only a few people in that little farming town \u2011\u2011 and very few of them were young. About all of the French woman worked during the war, to relieve the men to go to the army. The people who remained in the village did a lot of farming. They raised mostly small grain such as wheat and oats. I lived upstairs in a house where a family of French people lived downstairs. There were four members of the family at home \u2011\u2011 the father and mother and two girls. One of the girls was about grownup. They were nice people, but they didn't associate much with the American soldiers.\nFrench farmers lived in little villages. They weren't spread out like the American farmers are. Usually, the mayor of the town owned about all the land and the people worked for him. We had by\u2011names for some of the people around us, whom we saw daily. One old farmer, \"Ye Ow\", was always calling to his farm animals. One young woman, who wasn't capable of doing work in a factory, was called \"Cow s \u2014-.\" She was silly, and dirty. We got our straw for our mattresses from a barn, there in town. The old people would send that silly girl to the barn with us soldiers, to help and show us where to get the straw; and about every soldier in town knew her by the by\u2011name that we had given her.\nThe French kept their animals right in town, where they lived, especially their cows and work animals \u2011\u2011 mules, horses and work cattle (yolk or oxen cattle). They usually kept them under their dwellings. They were careless about their backyards, where there was usually a pile of manure; but they kept their barns about as clean as they did some of their homes. In spite of such appearances, the French seemed to be healthy people.\nWe stayed at Poinsinet until May 1919. For a home\u2011sick army of soldiers, life there was very monotonous; but we kept things as interesting as we could. We received official orders to move on, but not to go back home. We had to join the army of occupations. If you ever saw an army of discouraged soldiers, this was it! We got ready and took our hard luck as best we could. That was a soldier's life! Within about a week after we got those orders, our unit moved out. I was left behind to load our mules on a train. (I was raised on a farm, and I had taken care of animals about all my life.)\nWe finally got on our way a day or two after the rest of our division left. We loaded our animals on a train and started to Coblenze, Germany. At times, there was some pleasure in being a soldier, especially for a person who likes to travel and see interesting sights. That was my delight. Coblenze was near a bridgehead that we blew up in the last part of the war. (That action stopped the enemy and allowed us to capture a big portion of the German forces.)\nOn our way to the occupation front, we passed through some of the most beautiful parts of France \u2011\u2011 through level land and low rolling hills. The scenery was beautiful in the springtime, especially in the little farming sections. We stopped at Rheems for a few hours and looked at the town. It was a big city, but it was shot up pretty badly during the war. There was a fierce battle in that city and only a few people remained \u2011\u2011 those who could find buildings, here and there, that weren\u00c6t shot up too much to provide shelter.\nThe French cathedral was one of the interesting sites that we viewed. It had been a beautiful building; but it was torn up pretty badly from the results of the big battles. This building was started in the 13th century, and they were still adding onto it when the war started. It towered high in comparison to the other remaining buildings around it. Before it was shot up so badly, it must have been one of the most beautiful buildings in Europe. At that time, they said that the French didn't intend to repair it. They wanted to leave it as a reminder of their enemy, Germany; but I imagine it was repaired.\nThis was the providence of Flanders. The poppies were in a glow of red, as far as you could see, in all directions. This was a beautiful sight; but the graves of the dead of war were just the opposite \u2011\u2011 no matter how straight, row by row, the crosses were. It made me mourn in grief and to think that I could have been one of those, there among the dead. As the poem by John McCrae, a physician in the Canadian Army, goes:\nIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lie,In Flanders fields.\nTake up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.\nWe moved on toward our place in the occupational forces where we would be guarding the French and German border. (The borders were not entirely safe, even after the armistice was drawn up and peace was declared.) Some of our army stayed there for a few years before we turned it all over to the French and Germans, but about all of the soldiers that had enlisted or were drafted for the duration of the war were back to the states within a year. Some of our soldiers reenlisted, and they stayed until transport ships brought enough newly enlisted men to relieve them after they had replaced the soldiers that were to be released from the service.\nWe halted in a little town not far from Luxembourg or Belgium. There we stayed for a day or two. We didn't know why we had stopped; then, we learned that our orders had changed. We got orders to go to Lemans, France and wait for a boat to sail for the states. After all of our disappointments about it, my battalion didn't have to join the occupational forces. On May 12, we started back the way we had come. We went back through France, following our previous route; and we traveled through Versailles, where the peace conference was going on. President Wilson and some more American dignitaries were still there. Versailles is a beautiful city just on the outskirts of Paris. It seemed more like an American city than any city I had seen in France. We were there for only a few hours, but we had time to see part of the city. Then, we traveled through the outskirts of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower.\nWe stopped in a freight yard, in a little town, for an hour or more. There was a car setting on another track, near our car; and it was loaded with barrels and kegs. Some of our soldiers said, \"If you French are going to treat us like animals, we'll act like animals. Animals help themselves to what they see.\" They stole a ten\u2011gallon keg of wine and hurried it into one of our cars.\nWe moved out and, by the time almost everybody had a drink or two and filled their canteens, the keg was empty. They dumped the empty container, and it rolled over a hill. We didn't see where it went, and we didn't care much. About everyone was pretty tipsy. The keg may have hit a dwelling, but nobody cared. We didn't get along very well with the French after the war was over. Nobody felt very good toward them. It wasn't hard to start a row, especially when the soldiers were drinking wine and felt pretty brave.\nWe stopped in Rennes on our way to Brest, the port where we were to take a boat. Someone yelled, \"THE AMERICANS WON THE WAR.\" The French didn't appreciate that boasting by the American soldiers. It started a riot! Some of our soldiers got hurt pretty badly, and I heard that a Frenchman was killed. We got out of there as soon as we could. The American officers were about as responsible as anyone for this trouble. They got their share of the wine; so no one was unaccountable for our outlawry. We went on, and I never heard what the French did about our actions. They probably couldn't do much, and they were just glad that we were going home and that they were through with us.\nWe landed at Brest and unloaded in a soldier's camp on the outskirts of the city. We stayed there a few days while we rested and got ready to sail for the states. We received official notice that there was a ship waiting for us at the Port of Brest, a ship by the name of the Henry R. Malery. It was considerably smaller than the Desney Belfast, the ship we had sailed to France on. This one was only three hundred feet long, but we were glad to get any kind of a ship back home to God's country. We got to port early the next morning. We got to see the George Washington in the bay there. It was the ship that had brought President Wilson to France for the peace treaty. It was a big beautiful vessel \u2011\u2011 one of the largest on the ocean. The bay was full of ships and small sailing boats, about as far as we could see.\nIt was about dark before we finished loading and got started across the Atlantic that day, June 2. We boarded the ship and found our quarters down in the bottom level. Our bunks were spaced one over the other. I had the middle bunk. There was one under me and one over me. Our vessel finally got underway, and we were soon out of sight of land \u2011\u2011 for the next twenty\u2011one days.\nFor the rest of the story, go to www.dallasboggs.com.\nBlog is proudly powered by WordPress","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Characters, Day 2 characters, Day 2 antagonists,\nWald terrorist militia\nJoe Wald\nRevision as of 05:23, February 15, 2018 by 24.165.26.87 (Talk)\nDied: Day 2: 11:55am\nSuicide by gunshot wound\nStatus: Deceased\nPlayed by: Jon Gries\nSeason(s): 2\nEpisode: \"Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm\"\nJoseph \"Joe\" Wald was an anti-government American terrorist and leader of a militia. His crew, which included Eddie Grant, Chris Jones, Scott Owen, Dave, and Frank, was infiltrated by undercover agent Jack Bauer who used the alias \"Jack Roush\".\nBefore Day 2 Edit\nFive years prior to Day 2, CTU agent Jack Bauer was undercover as Jack Roush with Wald and his crew, including Eddie Grant. (\"Day 2: 9:00am-10:00am\") Wald believed that he was giving the \"power back to the people\" as an American extremist. (\"Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm\") Jack's time undercover led to Wald's arrest and incarceration for a number of years. (\"Day 2: 9:00am-10:00am\") After Wald got out of prison, Nina Myers came to him to contract him to blow up CTU Los Angeles. During his second meeting with her, he was given the schematics to CTU, and Eddie Grant took some pictures of Myers from down the block. Wald never learned her name during their interactions. (\"Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm\")\nShortly prior to Day 2, Wald was again set up for a trial, and the key witness against him was Marshall Goren. In exchange for testifying against Wald, Goren would be cleared of charges of kidnapping, child pornography and murder. (\"Day 2: 8:00am-9:00am\")\nOn the morning of the CTU bombing, Wald stayed in his Simi Valley hideout at 221 Canyon View Road, which was armed with a guard dog, security cameras, and a panic room. He received a call from Eddie, learning that Jack had killed Goren and arrived at Eddie's repair garage. He later learned that Jack would be replacing Dave in Eddie's mission to bomb CTU. (\"9:00am-10:00am\")\nAfter CTU was successfully bombed, Eddie called to say he and the others were coming over. A short while later, Jack arrived at Wald's apartment on his own, saying that Eddie and the rest of the crew were dead. Jack insisted that Wald let him in. When he did, Jack pulled his gun on Wald and told him that he had killed Eddie, Scott and Chris for resisting arrest. He forced Wald to put down his shotgun and made him sit down. Taking Wald's shotgun, Jack asked him who told Wald to attack CTU. He explained that CTU was a secondary target as part of a larger attack to detonate a nuclear weapon somewhere in Los Angeles at some point during the day. Joe thought that Jack was lying, but Jack said that Wald had one last chance to tell the truth.\nBefore Jack could continue, Wald's pitbull jumped and attacked Jack. It viciously bit at his arm, and while Jack was distracted, Wald took the opportunity to run outside. Jack shot the dog, and ran after Wald. Jack followed him out to a shed in the garden, which he found to be a safe room guarded with a metal door. Jack demanded that Wald open the door, but Wald did not respond. Jack found a pickaxe and, as Wald watched via a security feed, began to hack at the wall in the hopes of breaking through. When he did, however, he found a steel wall behind and realized that he would not be able to hack through that. He sat down and told Wald that a tactical team was on its way, and that the people behind the attack wanted to destroy the country, which Jack believed to be opposed to Wald' ideologies. He laughed at the irony of the situation: Joe was opposed to the government because he felt it to be too powerful, but as it stood Joe held all the power. Jack questioned what he was going to do with it.\nAfter about fifteen minutes, Jack became increasingly frustrated. He told Wald that the tac team would be there within two minutes and the situation would end with Joe either dead or in prison. He told Wald that he had one last chance to do the right thing. When Joe didn't respond, Jack attempted to shoot his way in, until he ran out of shotgun shells. Wald, who was listening on Jack's every word, decided to unlock his panic room door. Jack, with his gun trained entered and told him to drop the gun. There, Wald told him that the woman who gave him the plans, only saw him twice with instructions. Seeing no way out of going back to prison, Joseph Wald committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, but not before giving Jack the file. Jack searched through the files and found the contact to be Nina Myers. (\"11:00am-12:00pm\")\nMemorable quotes Edit\nJoseph Wald: Eddie said the job went off without a hitch! What happened between then and now?\nJack Bauer: I killed them. For resisting arrest. (\"Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm\")\nJoseph Wald: (his last words) It's over, Jack. I can't go back to jail. (\"Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm\")\nLive appearances Edit\n\"8:00am-9:00am\" \"9:00am-10:00am\" \"10:00am-11:00am\" \"11:00am-12:00pm\" \"12:00pm-1:00pm\" \"1:00pm-2:00pm\"\n\"2:00pm-3:00pm\" \"3:00pm-4:00pm\" \"4:00pm-5:00pm\" \"5:00pm-6:00pm\" \"6:00pm-7:00pm\" \"7:00pm-8:00pm\"\n\"8:00pm-9:00pm\" \"9:00pm-10:00pm\" \"10:00pm-11:00pm\" \"11:00pm-12:00am\" \"12:00am-1:00am\" \"1:00am-2:00am\"\n\"2:00am-3:00am\" \"3:00am-4:00am\" \"4:00am-5:00am\" \"5:00am-6:00am\" \"6:00am-7:00am\" \"7:00am-8:00am\"\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/24.fandom.com\/wiki\/Joe_Wald?oldid=328822\"\nDay 2 characters\nDay 2 antagonists","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Breaking \u2022 Wakefield \u2022 West Yorkshire\nPCSO Jailed For Possessing, Making and Distributing Indecent Images\nuknip247\nA PCSO has been convicted of offences related to the possession, making and distribution of indecent images.\nJonathan Plummer Jonathan Plummer, 35, a PCSO in Wakefield District, was found guilty today at Leeds Crown Court of three counts of making indecent images of children, one count of distributing indecent images of children, one count of possession of extreme images and one count of possession of prohibited images.\nHe has been sentenced to two years imprisonment. He has also been made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and added to the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years. Plummer was suspended from duty at point of arrest in August 2018 and misconduct proceedings will now be commenced.\nDetective Constable Elkie Gardner, investigating officer in the Professional Standards Directorate, said: \"Plummer was viewing and sharing thousands of indecent images and videos, including some of the most extreme nature.\nAs a Force, we have run safeguarding campaigns highlighting the impact of these crimes on victims, who talk about it feeling like they are being abused all over again every time their image is downloaded and shared.\nColleagues from Wakefield District Safeguarding conducted a comprehensive investigation, which was further progressed by Professional Standards. Plummer refused to admit his guilt, but the evidence against him has ensured he has been convicted of these offences and that he will face the consequences of his actions.\nDetective Chief Superintendent Simon Bottomley, Head of West Yorkshire Police's Professional Standards Directorate, said: The sickening off-duty activities of this PCSO have shocked and appalled his colleagues and completely contradict the values and standards that both the Force and, quite rightly, the public would expect of any police employee.\nWe take the possession and distribution of indecent images extremely seriously. I hope that this conviction demonstrates that no one is above the law and that we will take action against anyone involved in this abhorrent offending.\nPCSO Plummer was suspended from duty immediately on his arrest.\nSwift enquiries were made to confirm that his offending was not connected with his work as a PCSO and ensure that appropriate safeguards were in place.\nIt was found that he had looked at police intelligence files in an attempt to cover up his own offending. Following his conviction, we will now progress with misconduct proceedings.\nWanted man Steven Pinington arrested\nTwo teens charged with Putney murder","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"login register forgot password?\nHOME | ABOUT | MAPS | ADVISORY INFO | A TO Z | RENEWABLES | WATER ALERTS SIGN-UP | LOGIN\nARCTIC REPORT CARD 2017: THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE\nThis story is brought to you by\nBy Cori Marshall\nLast week we reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Arctic Program's Arctic Report Card 2017. Findings in this year's report indicate that the region is changing in a way and at a rate unseen in millennia. We wanted to see what the Canadian perspective on this year's findings and reached out to officials on this side of the border.\nWe spoke with Samantha Bayard, Media Relations Spokesperson Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The department \"agrees with the overall findings of the Arctic Report Card.\" Bayard added that the NOAA report \"is consistent with our understanding of how climate has been changing in the Canadian Arctic.\"\n\"Canada's Arctic is warming at about twice the rate of the rest of Canada, and nearly three times the global average.\"\nSamantha Bayard, Media Relations Spokesperson Environment and Climate Change Canada\nThe trends being observed in the Arctic will continue, \"warming Arctic air temperatures are causing declines in snow cover, sea ice, and permafrost temperature,\" Bayard said. She added that \"precipitation has also increased across Canada's north.\"\nThe report card indicated that there was a cooler spring and summer, and when asked what the response to that finding should be Bayard replied that \"studies indicate that global action on carbon dioxide (CO2) and Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) together is needed to meet the temperature goals in the Paris Agreement.\" She explained that \"SLCP are potent greenhouse gases and air pollutants.\"\nSuccessfully mitigating SLCP has \"the potential to reduce global warming by approximately 0.7\ufffd\ufffdC in the Arctic by 2040,\" Bayard said. ECCC published the Strategy on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants earlier in 2017, and Bayard explained that \"implementation of this strategy will generate reductions from all key SLCP emissions sources.\" The strategy will be coordinated with the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.\n\"Canada's High Arctic is a region where the unprecedented challenge of climate change is most readily visible.\"\nBlack carbon has an additional warming effect when on snow or ice, Canada has set goals to reduce this SLCP \"25% to 33% below 2013 levels,\" Bayard underlined. The goal is to reach this reduction by 2025.\nClimate change is and will affect everyone to some degree, and this is why there are global agreements like Paris to address the changes. Bayard said the agreement \"established a broad and deep consensus on the actions required to overcome the climate change challenge.\" In a world where concrete action is needed on very real problems, \"we should be optimistic that the goals and ambitions of Paris remain very much alive.\"\nAdvisory Maps\nFor articles published before 2017, please email or call us\nHave a question? Give us a call 613-501-0175\nAll rights reserved 2020 - WATERTODAY - This material may not be reproduced in whole or in part and may not be distributed,\npublicly performed, proxy cached or otherwise used, except with express permission.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1920s Cottage Renovation\nPosted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in: Home Envy Before & After\nRenovating a 1920s cottage might sound lovely, with the era famous for features like leadlight windows, jarrah woodwork, picture lines and cozy brick fireplaces.\nBut when the house in question has undergone a makeover in the 70s, when people commonly modernised period homes by stripping or covering up character details, restoring a character home and giving it back its original charm can become a much more difficult task.\nI recently spent a very enjoyable evening at the beautifully renovated home of solicitor Michael Jenkin, his wife Jane and their three gorgeous children, Emma, 15, Hugh, 12, and Kate, 5.\nAbove: The new open-plan kitchen, living and dining is where the family comes together.\nMichael and Jane bought their 1920s house in Mount Hawthorn 19 years ago. Before that, it had been owned for 40 years by an elderly lady who had passed away. Work done to the house in the 70s had seen a lot of the home's original features taken out or painted over.\n\"What did you like about the house when you first saw it?\" I ask Michael and Jane. My question is met with polite smiles before they both look at each other and burst out laughing.\n\"We could see beyond it,\" Jane says diplomatically. \"It was the location we loved.\"\nLeft: A very tiny, very cute Emma in the old front hall with lovely lino. Michael and Jane painstakingly stripped the doorframes of their paint and varnish to show the beauty of the original jarrah. Right: The house as it was when the Jenkins moved in, with 70s brick wall and plastered facade, and a photo of the old former kitchen, with parental help from Jane's mum, who helped scraped off the wallpaper.\nABOVE: A wall of windows and doors to the north-facing garden means the new living area to the rear of the house is filled with light, year-round.\nABOVE: Garden details. I love that the Jenkins grow vegies on their front verge, like quite a few people in Mt Hawthorn do. Such a nice way to use verge space. I wish it was de rigueur throughout Perth.\nI love Mount Hawthorn too. One of the oldest suburbs in Perth, it has many charming 1900s homes, some restored, others untouched for decades, often occupied by elderly owners who have lived in the area for much of their life.\nIn recent times the area has been attracting a lot of couples and young families. This is going to sound crass, but as the elderly home owners 'die off', their cottages are often bought as renovation projects by couples or young families \u2013 like Michael and Jane. It's created a suburb with a charming mix of the old and the restored, the young and the old, with a warm, friendly community feel where neighbours say hi, kids play in front yards and people grow fruit trees and veggies on their front verge. Walking into the Jenkins house, it gives that same warm feeling immediately. But it wasn't always like that, as Michael explains. \"It was very sterile,\" he says of the house, then a two-bedroom cottage, when they moved in. \"There was a lot of lino and all the jarrah doorframes had at one point been varnished and then painted in white gloss. It had high ceilings but it had no character. It was quite bland.\"\nThe classic red brick to the exterior had been covered in shiny, ugly white concrete and the windows covered in awnings. On the roof were decramastic tiles, a 70s trend that some swear is the worst roofing material every invented. One of its faults is that over time the coating and texture wears off, clogging gutters and drains. It also deforms and buckles easily so the Jenkins needed to have it replaced. There was also an unattractive 70s dark brick wall and awnings covered the windows.\nMichael and Jane painstakingly stripped the white gloss and varnish off all the interior doors and door frames and stripped wallpaper. While they did some renovation work over the years as they had their three children, their biggest improvement was finished only recently, a spacious, solar passive extension with an open-plan living, dining and kitchen that opens up onto an alfresco. Designed by Melissa Cox of OzEco Design, the extension also encompasses a study, main suite and laundry.\nThe extension was built by Rob Maughan of Maughan Building Company, who comes along to chat to me. The Jenkins and Rob get along so well, poking fun at each other the way only people comfortable with one another do, that I presume they are old friends, so I am surprised when Michael tells me they only met Rob after Melissa recommended him.\nMichael says Rob was the only builder they approached. \"We just liked him straightaway,\" he says. \"We had him round, showed him what we wanted and he said 'oi, yeeah\" (putting on a broad ocker voice). Rob looks at him resignedly.\nTHE JENKINS WITH ROB (back of table): We tried to get youngest daughter Kate in this pic. But as soon as we said we'd like a family photo, she went from playing Guess Who happily to running away to hide in her room, as a five-year-old is wont to do. Michael went to knock on the bedroom door. \"I DON'T WANT TO HAVE MY PHOTO TAKEN,\" came the tiny angry roar from behind the door. \"Okay,\" said Michael amiably. Fair enough. \"AND I'M NEVER COMING OUT EITHER.\" Wow. Taking it to another level.\nABOVE LEFT: The main suite. RIGHT: Michael's favourite room, his new study. On the wall hangs an original war poster of Belgium. Bookcases made from recycled jarrah floorboards house his vast library.\nWanting to restore the elevation to its traditional 1920s roots, the ugly white concrete render was chipped off and the elevation tuckpointed. The top part of the original house had been done in roughcast render using charcoal. It was painstakingly copied, using blue metal, for the front of the home to give it that traditional textured look again. Ornate white painted-timber windows replaced the drab ones at the front and a red brick front wall was built to tie in with the tuckpointing.\nWhen the time came to extend, Michael and Jane each got something they had always wanted. Michael got a study, now his favourite room, tucked away in a quiet corner of the house away from the kids' bedrooms. The desk overlooks the back garden. On the wall hangs an original war poster of Belgium. Bookcases made from recycled jarrah floorboards house his vast library.\nMeanwhile Jane got her dream kitchen. \"I love the kitchen - I had such a horrible kitchen before!\" she says. Pictured below, with Jane's mum scraping off the wallpaper, the old dark 70s kitchen has now been turned into a lovely family bathroom.\nJane's new kitchen is now the heart of the home, with a big island bench that is home to the family's fish. Contemporary white cabinets are complemented by CaesarStone benchtops and stainless steel appliances. Michael says they had a big debate over whether to get a steam oven or not - Jane wanted one, he did not see the point. I notice that there is a steam oven, a tea towel hanging lethargically from its handlebar. I see Jane won that battle.\n\"Oh, the steam oven is great,\" Michael says. \"We use it to dry teatowels.\"\nJane rolls her eyes and tells me it is used for much more than that. \"We do vegetables, chicken, roasts, baked cheesecake \u2013 it's fantastic.\"\nCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The back garden before (with outdoor dunny), the back garden being excavated for the new living area and alfresco, the back garden now with new deck.\nABOVE LEFT: The family's beautiful 1920s dining table hails from the same era their home was built. It's made of French oak with feature inlay and extensions on two sides - I fell in love with it. When Michael told me they picked it up an auction for only $400, I think I cried a little bit inside. I paid $500 for my nice-enough-but-soulless rubber wood dining table \u2013 plus mine was the cheapest one I could find that I didn't hate (if you've ever gone shopping for a dining table, you'll know that the nice ones are expensive). Auctions are clearly the way to go people! ABOVE RIGHT: An antique chair in the dining room.\nSo beautifully done was the extension that the home was a finalist in the 2010 HIA-NAB Awards in its Renovations & Additions Project category. The certificate now hangs proudly above the toilet in the ensuite. \"We couldn't find the right place to hang it,\" Michael explains. So work is done, an award's been won - how was their renovation experience?\n\"We're very happy,\" Michael says. \"One of the things we like about Rob is that he's a bloke who does things properly. We're still on good terms. I think if you can do a build project and still be friendly at the end of it that says a lot. We've recommended him to lots of people we know.\"\nMichael says all of Rob's tradespeople came to work \"really enthused\" about the project and I thought that was nice \u2013 when people really put energy into a renovation I think you can feel it. For the Jenkins, the sterile shoebox of a house that they never liked in the beginning is now their gorgeous, comfortable, well-loved family home with plenty of space for the five of them.\nAccording to Michael, they plan to stay put. \"I said to Jane I'll be coming out of here in a wooden box,\" he says.\nHOME LOWDOWN\nABOVE: The beautiful new ensuite to Michael and Jane's bedroom.\nSolicitor Michael Jenkin, his wife Jane, and their three children, Emma, 15, Hugh, 12, and Kate, 5\nTHEIR HOME\nA renovated 1920s character cottage with a solar-passive rear extension\nMt Hawthorn, Western Australia\nJarrah floors, timber-framed windows, leadlighting, four bedrooms, study, open-plan living and dining with contemporary kitchen, alfresco area, veggie patch\nRob Maughan of Maughan Building Company, 9335 5632\nMelissa Cox of OzEco Design\nCat Lynn of Catherine Lynn Design\nPosted: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Home Envy , Before & After .\nJane Goldsmith - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9:18AM\nSuch a great read Maya! We bought some land in Mt Hawthorn a few months ago and are looking for a builder and practical ideas to develop the property. Your first article really hit all the bases in being so applicable to us! Thank you :)\nMaya - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4:52PM\nAw thank you Jane! Oh my goodness! A block in Mt Hawthorn - I'm so excited for you two!! That's awesome, congratulations! I'm sure you will build something really homey and beautiful. I want to see pics when you start :-)\nRob Maughan - Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 9:44AM\nsuch a fantastic project & even better clients, thank you for a terrific write up Maya\nBefore & After: Our 70s Bar Turned Walk-in Pantry Renovation\nSaved from Knockdown: A 1970s City Beach Home Given a New Lease of Life\nThe Federation House with a Twist\n10 Tips to Brighten Your Home With Flowers\nHow to Choose a Real Estate Agent Who Will Get Your Home Sold\nThe Contemporary Aussie-Dubai Home\nHiring An Architect\nSaving Le Fanu: From Ruin to Perth's Most Expensive Renovation\nThe North Perth Apartment House\nReady for Summer Entertaining! Our Garden Makeover in a Weekend\nWA Architecture Awards 2016","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Climate Change' Agenda Becomes Clear\nIt's more about politics than saving the planet.\nJim Destefani\n\"\u2026climate change 'solutions' proposed thus far are part of a political game aimed primarily at bringing the U.S. and the world's other large industrialized economies down to a level more closely approximating those of other, less fortunate nations.\"\nThose words appeared in this space just over a year ago (\"Climate Change Craziness,\" March 2008). That column generated a lot of reader response, with a near 50-50 split between those calling me a fool and those in agreement.\nPreventing Anodizing Cathodes from Turning Red\nData Platform Helps Automotive Coatings Run Smoother\nJanuary Issue: Professional Plating and Automotive Coatings\nWe love to hear from readers, regardless of the nature of your comments. But passions on both sides of the issue of anthropogenic global warming run high, so it's not without some trepidation that I once again attempt to tackle the topic of the politics of anthropogenic global warming.\nSkeptics should be encouraged that the notion of anthropogenic global warming as an urgent problem requiring immediate attention has been dealt some setbacks recently. A steady stream of empirical data and scientific analyses are casting doubt on many of the global warming claims.\nPrinceton University physicist Dr. Robert H. Austin, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, summed up the argument of many skeptics quite nicely in recent testimony to staff of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: \"Unfortunately, climate science has become political science\u2026It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best.\"\nLending credence to Austin's assertion that the climate change debate has become politicized is a document distributed to participants in a U.N environmental conclave held in late March. Essentially, the \"information note\" envisions a large-scale, environmentally driven reordering of the world economy.\nAmong the many items considered are a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, \"carbon taxes\" on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, and tariffs based on whether or not goods are considered \"environmentally sound.\"The document largely ignores consequences of implementing such sweeping changes, noting only that some of the schemes espoused \"may induce some industrial relocation\" to \"less regulated host countries.\" Such industrial relocation \"would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment.\"\nI think we can all make a guess as to which country or countries would take the biggest hit employment-wise in the event these schemes were to be implemented. At a time when many manufacturers in the U.S. are struggling just to stay afloat, environmentally driven protectionism and \"industrial relocation\" are the last things we need.\nA better starting point might be for all countries involved to agree up-front that whatever programs are implemented must encourage free trade and minimize wholesale shifts of jobs and even entire industries from one country to another based simply on environmental considerations. I'm not holding my breath.\nVIDEO: On Display at FABTECH, Vol. 2\nGet PF In Your Inbox","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Shiv Kumar Sharma\nborn on 13\/1\/1938 in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India\nBiography Biography\nShivkumar Sharma\nShivkumar Sharma (born January 13, 1938, Jammu, India[1]) is an Indian Santoor player.[2][3] The Santoor is a folk instrument[1][4] from Kashmir[5] and Jammu.[6] Sharma is often referred to by the title Pandit.[3]\nHe was born in Jammu to the singer[7][8] Uma Dutt Sharma[9] and his mother tongue is Dogri. His father started teaching him vocals and tabla when he was just five.[8] Uma Dutt Sharma did \"extensive research\" on the santoor, and decided that Sharma should be the first musician to play Indian classical music on the santoor. So he started learning santoor at the age of thirteen,[8] and made his father's dream come true.[1] He gave his first public performance in Bombay in 1955.\nShivkumar Sharma is the master instrumentalist of the Santoor, after some years as a vocalist. He is credited with making the Santoor a popular Classical Instrument.[4][10] In a 1999 interview to rediff.com, Shivkumar said that it was his father who decided that he should play the Santoor and that he never thought he would be choosing it when he started learning music.[8] He composed the background music for one of the scenes in Shantaram's Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje[11] in 1956. He recorded his first solo album in 1960.[1]\nIn 1967, he teamed up with flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and Brij Bhushan Kabra to produce a concept album, Call of the Valley (1967) which turned out to be one of the greatest hits in Indian Classical Music.[1][10] He has composed music for many Hindi films in collaboration with Hariprasad Chaurasia[12] starting with Silsila[11] (1980). They came to be known as the 'Shiv-Hari' music duo.[11] Some of the movies they composed music for that were big musical hits are Faasle (1985), Chandni (1989), Lamhe (1991) and Darr (1993).\nSharma married Manorama[9][13] and has two sons.[8] His son, Rahul,[14][15] is also a Santoor Player[16][17] and they have performed together since 1996.[8] In a 1999 interview to rediff.com, Shivkumar stated that he chose Rahul as his shishya because he thought he had the \"gift of God\".[8]\nShivkumar is the recipient of national and international awards, including an honorary citizenship of the city of Baltimore, USA, in 1985,[18] the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986,[19] the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.[20]\nAwards (classical and film)\nPlatinum Disc for Call of the Valley\nPlatinum Disc for music of film Silsila\nGold Disc for music of film Faasle\nPlatinum Disc for music of film Chandni\nSpecial Award for outstanding music and sale of film Lamhe\nSpecial Award for outstanding music and sale of film Darr\nShivkumar Sharma - Maestro's Choice, Series 1 (1967)\nCall of the Valley, with Brij Bhushan Kabra and Hariprasad Chaurasia (1967)\nWhen Time Stood Still (Live in Bombay) (1982)\nThe Glory Of Strings - Santoor (1991), T-Series\nRaga Bhopali vol I (1993)\nRaga Kedari vol II (1993)\nVarsh - A Homage to the Rain Gods (1993)\nHundred Strings of Santoor (1994)\nHypnotic Santoor (1994)\nThe Pioneer of Santoor (1994)\nRaag Bilaskhani Todi (1994)\nWorld Network Series, Vol. 1: India- Raga Purya Kalyan, with Zakir Hussain (1995)\nSantoor (Raag Rageshri) (1998)\nSampradaya (1999)\nRasdhara, with Hariprasad Chaurasia (1999)\nThe Valley Recalls - Vol.2, with Hariprasad Chaurasia (2000)\nAnanda Bliss, with Zakir Hussain (2002)\nVibrant Music for Reiki (2003)\nSympatico (Charukeshi - Santoor)(2004)\nThe Inner Path (Kirvani - Santoor) (2004)\nEssential Evening Chants (2007)\nA Morning Raga Gurjari Todi (2010)\nShivkumar Sharma 2 - Maestro's Choice, Series 2 (2011)\nSangeet Sartaj (2011)\nContributing artist\nThe Rough Guide to the Music of India and Pakistan (1996, World Music Network)\n1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A dream fulfilled. Indian Express (2000-04-30). Retrieved on 2009-02-03.\nSantoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma in conversation on Antardhwani, the film based on his life. Indian Express (2008-09-18). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\n3.0 3.1 Santoor strains music to ears of unborn too. Indian Express (2005-11-10). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\n4.0 4.1 Santoor comes of age, courtesy Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Indian Express (2009-01-08). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nThe Healing touch. Screen (2007-12-21). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nSantoor magic, The Hindu, 2005-02-27.\nGilbert, Andrew, Masters of the East come West, Boston Globe, 2007-11-16. URL accessed on 2009-02-07.\n8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 'Music is an expression of human emotions'. rediff.com (1999-08-20). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\n9.0 9.1 Note by note, The Times of India, 2002-10-13. URL accessed on 2009-02-07.\n10.0 10.1 Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, Continuum International Publishing Group.\n11.0 11.1 11.2 Enchantment from Eden valley, The Hindu, 2000-04-06. URL accessed on 2009-02-15.\n'I just pick up the flute and feel the urge to play'. Financial Express (2000-02-19). Retrieved on 2009-02-15.\nSultan of strings: Shivkumar Sharma. DNA (2006-08-18). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nSantoor notes that bind: father- son Jugalbandi. livemint.com (2007-07-01). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nInner Melodies. Indian Express (2008-07-29). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nVirasaat. rediff.com (1998-03-18). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nWhat's Rahul Sharma's Dalai Lama connection?, Times of India, 2006-07-03. URL accessed on 2009-02-07.\nProfile. India Today. Retrieved on 2009-02-07.\nSangeet Natak Akademi Awards - Hindustani Music - Instrumental. Sangeet Natak Akademi. Retrieved on 2009-05-13.\nPadma Awards. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India). Retrieved on 2009-05-13.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to: Shivkumar Sharma\nwww.santoor.com - Official Site\nShivkumar Sharma at All Music Guide\nThis article uses material from the article Shivkumar Sharma from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Recently Cricket South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat led a small delegation of colleagues to Harare to chat with their counterparts at Zimbabwe Cricket about ways in which 'big brother' might be able to help their ailing little brother get back on his feet after a decade and a half of illness.\nZC said they desperately needed fixtures and urged CSA to agree to a series of regular (and lucrative) ODIs between the neighbours in the manner of the ongoing Chappell\/Hadlessseries between Australia and New Zealand.\nNever mind that the Proteas have embarked on their busiest year ever, Lorgat pointed out that arranging fixtures was pointless with a broken infrastructure. Even when Zimbabwe did have regular international fixtures, the money always seemed to disappear before it could find its way into the domestic game.\nLorgat pointed out that CSA now has one of the most efficient and transparent governance structures in any sport and offered to assist ZC in putting their own house in order. Buy they wanted fixtures. Lorgat said there was no point\u2026they asked again. Lorgat said\u2026 you get the point.\nIn the first few years after unity and the formation of the United Cricket Board, \"due process\" meant Dr.Ali Bacher saying 'yes' or 'no'. Committee members were even told what they had agreed to retrospectively when Bacher needed to make a decision quickly. It was undemocratic but efficient, in an arbitrary sort of way.\nThese days there is a process for everything. Everything is done by the book \u2013 ans sometimes it makes no sense. Every cricketing person involved in the \"process\" of debating the merits of forming a new, seventh Franchise team for domestic cricket agreed that it was a good idea. CSA's own Cricket Committee recommended it. And the Board of Directors blocked it. Due process.\nWhen head coach Russell Domingo's contract was first due to expire in April, the same Board of Directors added a six-month extension to it carrying it forward to August, after the tour of England. They justified this decision on the basis of some outstanding results including the Test series win against New Zealand the 5-0 ODI whitewash against Australia.\nSince then the team has beaten Australia in a Test series and whitewashed Sri Lanka. Now, however, \"due process\" means Domingo must send his CV to the Board (again) along with anyone else who wants to apply.\nAt the very least, the timing of the announcement puzzling.\n\u00ab Is it 'the show' that matters?\nA happy glimpse into the Future \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Intel Core i9-7900X 10-core Skylake-X Processor Review\nIntel CEO: India Plays Key Role In Intel's World Ahead Program\nPosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | May 23, 2006 | General Tech | 0\nSource: Intel Press Room\nBANGALORE, India, May 23, 2006 \u2014 Paul Otellini, in his first visit to India as president and chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, today described the pivotal role India plays in Intel's World Ahead Program, which seeks to accelerate access to uncompromised technology and education for people in the world's developing communities. While unveiling new technologies and digital inclusion projects, Otellini said Intel's World Ahead Program elements were key parts of the company's broader investments in India, where US$1 billion is aimed at growing the company's research and development, venture capital activities, and education and community programs in the country during the next five years.\n'India will play a key role in designing and developing computing technologies used worldwide under Intel's World Ahead Program,' Otellini said. 'In India, the program unifies Intel's local efforts to enhance the lives of the vast majority of India's population who would benefit from information technology and education, but have not found it within their reach.\nPreviousIntel's Core Microarchitecture Redefines Computing\nNextSocket AM2 maddness\nA new dimension of sound\nAh Zuck! Reason 50 million not to trust Facebook\nGreater than 20 Percent of Malware Articles Miss the Point\nAre all USB 3.0 hubs made the same?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Katrina Kaif Refuses To Part With Her Favourite Car?\nMumbai News: Katrina Kaif is refusing to part with her favourite car even though top mechanics of the city have asked her to let go of her damaged vehicle by either selling it off or giving it for full body repair. The mechanics have also told her that by riding in the same car she is risking her life. But all this has fallen on deaf ears because Katrina says she is very sentimental to let this car go because it is \"one of her first big cars\".\nA close friend of Katrina reveals: \"Katrina is one sentimental girl. Very few know that Katrina is very possessive of her things. She likes to keep all the things that she uses no matter how old they become or how bad their condition gets. Be it her old wardrobe, music CDs, books and knick-knacks.Katrina always loves to hoard her belongings.\"\nThe informer adds: \"The Audi was one of her first cars and in spite of it being damaged recently, she does not wish to let go of it. The car was badly damaged by some fans of the actress while she was promoting her film. Her fans had damaged the glass and side doors of Katrina's car and though she has the option of buying another, she refuses to.\"\nv\u00e0o l\u00fac 12:07 PM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Manuscript \u2014 VIII\nFlicking through the proofs of this issue prior to it hitting the printing press, I'm thoroughly impressed. Not so much by the issue itself \u2013 I think it's wonderful, of course, but I'm not so narcissistic as to think the work I produce is definitive in its approach \u2013 but by the people in it. We often give Australia's cultural landscape a bad rap, deeming it a cottage industry, lacking in depth, and with a serious case of Tall Poppy Syndrome. It might be small, and certainly we don't like to prop ourselves up too high, but I challenge you to flick through this issue and tell me there's not brilliant talent emerging from our country.\nWhat's interesting about our artistic exports is that the world is beginning to see a different side to our culture as new talent emerges and existing icons stake a return. Case in point: Noah Taylor, a Melbourne rocker who disappeared to Brighton a few years ago only to emerge with a slew of forthcoming film releases and a scary-as-fuck role in hit show Game of Thrones. When I first saw Mr Taylor in that role of Locke, and soon after caught his brilliant sell-out show at Olsen Irwin, I knew we needed him on our cover. I admire the art of reinvention, of examining and rediscovering what it is that drives you to create, and with his many projects on the go, Mr Taylor is an inspiring talent.\nIt's excellent that Mr Taylor returns to the spotlight, adding some diversity and interest to our screens, but simultaneously it's thrilling to see fresh blood, too. In State of the Arts [page 22] we profile some of Australia's brightest emerging talent across the fields of acting, music, dance, design and writing. Included are some familiar faces \u2013 ex-Van She member Tomek Archer and previous Manuscript cover star, Australian Ballet's Rohan Furnell among them \u2013 but also some names that we're certain are to be the next big things. Thomas Cocquerel, a 24-year-old NIDA graduate, left the day after our shoot for Amsterdam, where he's currently filming a part in The Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, a film based on a true story told in its literal title, opposite Anthony Hopkins and fellow Australian Sam Worthington. Movement, meanwhile, is an electronic band to have emerged from Sydney's west and recently signed with hit-after-hit record label Modular People. I'm personally honoured that these very talented men grace our pages, made possible with the support of Dior Homme, whose resort collection is worn throughout.\nEditor-in-Chief & Publisher: Mitchell Oakley Smith\nCover Photograph: Paul Scala","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Olympia Charter for Compassion\nStatement on Black Lives Matter and Recent Events in Olympia\nConcerned Clergy of Olympia is firmly in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the pursuit of racial justice in our community. The death of George Floyd, which sparked the recent demonstrations in Olympia and across the country, is not just an individual tragedy, but further evidence of a long history of systemic violence, oppression, and murder of People of Color in the United States.\nWe are also troubled about the presence of armed militia groups that have begun to appear in Olympia in response to the BLM demonstrations. While everyone has the right to peaceably assemble, rights need to be balanced with responsibilities. The presence of those representing hateful ideologies and openly carrying weapons of violence is destabilizing and threatening, and undermines the important work of peacemaking and the pursuit of justice that is at the heart of the recent BLM protests.\nIn keeping with the spirit of the Olympia Charter for Compassion, we call on city leadership to examine how the City of Olympia can further the cause of racial justice, including how to best pursue matters of public safety. We ask that the city take any and all action that can be taken to limit the presence of armed civilians, and affirm that ideologies of white supremacy, hate, and oppression of those most marginalized are not welcome here.\nConcerned Clergy of Olympia\nRev. Aaron Baughman, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd\nRev. Kathleen Bellefeuille-Rice, Holy Wisdom Inclusive Catholic Community\nRev. Lara Crutsinger-Perry, The United Churches\nRev. Therin Fenner, Westminster Presbyterian Church\nRev. Mary Gear, Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation\nRev. David Gerardot, Emmaus ECC\nRabbi Seth Goldstein, Temple Beth Hatfiloh\nRt. Rev. Kedda Keough, Emmaus ECC\nRev. Amy LaCroix, First Christian Church\nRev. Robert C. Laird, St. John's Episcopal Church\nMeg Martin, Executive Director, Interfaith Works\nRabbah Rona Matlow\nRev. Carol McKinley, Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation\nRev. Terry Murray, Unity of Olympia\nCorey Passons, Interfaith Minister, Community for Interfaith Celebration\nRev. Peter Perry, First United Methodist Church of Olympia\nRev. Tammy Stampfli, The United Churches\nPastor Elizabeth Swenson, Wildwood Gathering\nRev. Dr. Diane S. Whalen, Holy Wisdom Inclusive Catholic Community\nOrganizations are for identification purposes only","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category: Kooks and Scoundrels\nNot all criminals are psychopaths. Some are simply kooks and scoundrels. Their crimes are typically less severe and sometimes even downright amusing. These are the crooks that end up in books about stupid criminals. Some might even be candidates for a Darwin Award.\nIn this category, you might find the guys who tried to pull an ATM out of the bank's wall with a pickup truck. Instead, the truck's bumper came off, and the would-be thieves left it at the scene with the license plate attached. Perhaps you could see the bank robber who handed the teller his gun instead of the bag to put the money in.\nIt may not always be the case, but we can often count on kooks and scoundrels for comic relief.\nSoapy Smith: Big Swindle Leads Man to Murder\nLast week our case was in Kent, England, where we profiled Michael Stone and the horrific Russel murders. This week, we're back in the states, traveling to the Old West. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, a con man made a name for himself in Denver and Alaska. History knows him as Soapy Smith.\nJefferson Randolph \"Soapy\" Smith\nSoapy Smith\nJefferson Randolph Smith was a native of Coweta County, Georgia, born in November 1860 on the eve of the American Civil War. His grandfather owned a plantation, and his father was a lawyer. But the war ruined the family financially, so they moved to Round Rock, Texas to start over. Smith's mother died when he was 17 and he left home shortly thereafter. But while in Round Rock, he witnessed the death of infamous outlaw Sam Bass.\nOutlaw Sam Bass\nFrom Round Rock he traveled to Fort Worth where he soon established a close-knit gang of shills and con men. They specialized in \"short cons\" that needed little setup and assistance. Their method was to run the con for a brief time, then move on to avoid repercussions.\nSoapy Smith Gets His Nickname\nSmith is best known for what the Denver papers called the \"prize soap racket.\" Smith would set up a display case on a busy corner and pile it with bars of soap. While he warmed up the crowd that gathered, he would wrap money around the bar, then wrap the bar in plain paper. The money would range from $1 all the way up to $100.\nNext, Smith would feign mixing the bars with money in with the other bars of soap. He then sold the soap for a dollar a bar (some sources say five dollars). At some point, a shill in the crowd would tear open his bar of soap and loudly proclaim he'd won. This, of course, led to the sale of more soap bars.\nAbout halfway through the stack of soap bars, Smith would announce that the $100 bill remained in the stack. He then auctioned off the remaining bars to the highest bidders. But the only money \"won\" went to his shills.\nSmith didn't always get away with the racket. One time, a policeman named John Holland arrested him on a bunko charge. When he went to write Smith's name in the police logbook, he forgot his first name and wrote \"Soapy\" instead. The sobriquet stuck and Jeff Smith became Soapy Smith.\nSoapy Smith Hits Colorado\nSmith arrived in Denver in 1879. By 1882, he had a grip on vice in that Colorado city. His influence at city hall grew until, by 1887, he was reputed to be involved in most of the city's criminal activities. Soapy opened the Tivoli Club, a combination saloon and gambling house, in 1888. Smith's younger brother, Bascomb, joined the gang and operated a cigar store. It was a front for the dishonest poker games that went on in the back room.\nSoapy Smith's Tivoli Club (at left) at 17th and Market in Denver, Colorado ca. 1890\nSoapy operated in and around the Denver area for several years. In 1892, he moved his operation to the mining boomtown of Creede, Colorado. In Creede, he established the Orleans Club, another saloon and gambling house. At some point, he acquired a mummified body named \"McGinty\" that he exhibited as a \"prehistoric\" human. This was untrue. Twenty-first century tests showed the body had been embalmed using arsenic-based embalming fluid. But that didn't stop Smith from charging people ten cents to look at the \"prehistoric\" relic. While they waited in line, the ultimate con man fleeced his customers with shell games and crooked card games.\nMain Street, Creede, Colorado ca. 1892\nCreede's boom went bust quickly. Smith left town and returned to Denver, taking McGinty with him. His timing was excellent. A huge fire destroyed most of Creede's business district, including the Orleans Club, on June 5, 1892.\nThe Klondike Gold Rush\nGold was discovered in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada on August 16, 1896. When word reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it started the Klondike Gold Rush. This seemed like an excellent opportunity to the seasoned con man, so Soapy Smith went to Alaska.\nSoapy Smith in his bar in Skagway, Alaska Territory\nMuch like he had in Denver and Creede, Smith soon established an empire in Skagway, Alaska. His base of operations there was a saloon he called Jeff Smith's Parlor he opened in March 1898. One of the tactics his gang used was to befriend newcomers and steer them to dishonest businesses or crooked gambling halls.\nThe Soap Gang hangs out in front of Jeff Smith's Parlor in Skagway on July 4, 1898. Four days later, Soapy Smith was dead (University of Washington Library)\nBut Skagway wasn't as compliant as Denver or Creede had been. A vigilance committee called the \"Committee of 101\" threatened to expel Smith and his gang. In response, Smith created his own \"law and order society\" to counteract the vigilantes.\nSoapy Smith Meets His End\nOn July 7, 1898, a miner named John Douglas Stewart returned to Skagway with a sack of gold worth $2,700. Gang members roped Stewart into a game of three-card monte. When Stewart refused to pay his losses, the gang members grabbed his sack of gold and ran.\nThe Committee of 101 got involved. They insisted Smith return the gold, but he refused, saying Stewart had lost it \"fairly.\"\nFrank H. Reid shot Soapy Smith dead, but died himself 12 days after the gun battle\nOn the evening of July 8, the Committee of 101 organized a meeting on the Juneau Wharf. Smith, with a Winchester rifle slung over his shoulder, started arguing with a man named Frank H. Reid. Reid was one of the guards blocking Smith's way to the wharf. Unexpectedly, a gunfight broke out. Soapy Smith fell dead, shot through the heart. Frank Reid suffered severe wounds as well.\nJefferson \"Soapy\" Smith's grave in Gold Rush Cemetery, Skagway, Alaska. The age on the marker is incorrect; Smith was 37 when he died (Wikipedia\/Notyourbroom)\nMost of Smith's gang fled Skagway after his death. Frank Reid died twelve days after the shootout from a bullet in his leg and groin. He was buried in Skagway Cemetery. Jefferson \"Soapy\" Smith lies nearby in Gold Rush Cemetery.\nThere are several books about Soapy Smith. These include Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel, Soapy Smith: The Life and Legacy of the Wild West's Most Infamous Con Artist, and King Con: The Story of Soapy Smith.\nThe Captain of K\u00f6penick Hits the Jackpot\nFrom horrifying workplace violence, this week we look at a crime that is more amusing than serious. This is the case of Wilhelm Voigt, the shoemaker turned robber who gained fame as the Captain of K\u00f6penick.\nMeet Wilhelm Voigt\nFriedrich Wilhelm Voigt was born in Tilsit, Prussia (now part of Russia) in 8149. We don't know much about his early life. We do know that in 1863, at age 14, he served 14 days in prison for theft. Because of that, he was expelled from school. After his expulsion, he learned shoemaking from his father.\nWilhelm Voigt, the Captain of K\u00f6penick, 1906 mugshot (Public Domain)\nBetween 1864 and 1891, Voigt earned sentences totaling 25 years for thefts, forgery, and burglary. Released from prison in February 1906, he went to live with his sister in a Berlin suburb. He worked for a well-regarded shoemaker for a short time. But the police ordered him out of Berlin solely because of his criminal record. Officially he went to Hamburg, but he actually stayed as an unregistered resident in Berlin.\nThe Captain of K\u00f6penick\nUnable to resist a heist, Voigt planned his next escapade. He bought parts of used captain's uniforms from several shops. Assembling the pieces into a complete uniform and put it on. On October 16, 1906, he commandeered four grenadiers and a sergeant and order them to follow him. Such was the respect for the Prussian military that the soldiers obeyed without question. Dismissing the sergeant, he commandeered six more soldiers at a shooting range. He and his impromptu squad then took a train to K\u00f6penick, east of Berlin.\nStatue of Wilhelm Voigt as the Captain of K\u00f6penick at K\u00f6penick city hall by Spartak Babajan (Public Domain)\nAt K\u00f6penick, Voigt led the soldiers to the town hall. There he accused the mayor and treasurer of crooked bookkeeping and placed them under arrest. The mayor wondered why the captain was so old and wore his cap badge upside down, but he complied anyway. Voigt then confiscated 4,002 marks and 37 pfennigs (roughly $60,000 today) from the treasury, giving a receipt in return. Next, he commandeered two carriages and sent two grenadiers with the arrested men to Berlin for questioning. He told the remaining soldiers to stand guard for half an hour, then left for the train station. He changed into civilian clothes and disappeared.\nUniform worn by Wilhelm Voigt as the Captain of K\u00f6penick (Public Domain)\nVoigt might have got away with it but a former cellmate who knew of the plan ratted him out. Police arrested him ten days after the heist on October 26. On December 1, he was sentenced to four years in prison for forgery, impersonating an officer, and wrongful imprisonment.\nThe Captain of K\u00f6penick touched a chord with the German public. Rumor had it that even Kaiser Wilhelm II, who pardoned Voigt in 1908, found the incident amusing. And of course, English writers had a field day lampooning the German reverence for uniforms and military authority.\nGerman postage stamp, 2006\nWilhelm Voigt moved to Luxembourg in 1910 where he worked as a cobbler and a waiter. A rich Berlin dowager set him up with a pension and he lived well for a while. However, he went broke in the recession that followed World War I. He died in Luxembourg in 1922.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"More South Floridians file for bankruptcy\nDonna Gehrke-White\nA sharp increase in South Floridians filing for bankruptcy occurred in October after falling the month before, according to records released Thursday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Miami.\nConsumers' filings jumped nearly 19 percent in October and were even running ahead of August filings. Still, personal bankruptcy filings were down 6 percent in South Florida from a year ago.\nLast month, some strapped families began getting final foreclosure notices -- which prompted them to file for bankruptcy, said South Florida attorney Tim Kingcade.\nLenders had halted foreclosure notices to make sure they were properly filing them after they were accused of \"robo-signing\" and other illegal practices. But, Kingcade said, \"banks are moving forward with foreclosures again.\"\nThat has forced some struggling owners to face reality: Many have numerous other bills -- from credit cards to medical expenses -- on top of their mortgage payments they can't afford, said Kingcade.\nOne couple came to him after they had managed to fend off foreclosure for three years. But after getting a final foreclosure last month and facing huge credit card debt and medical bills, Kingcade said they decided to go ahead with bankruptcy. That will give them six to eight months of being able to live in their home before they are forced out, while the bankruptcy court sorts out their case, he added.\nLast month, Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties all showed increases in bankruptcy filings. Broward shot up to 766 bankruptcies filed in October after it had plunged to 616 in September. The number of Palm Beach County's bankruptcies filed was up to 423 last month after dropping to 323 in September.\nMiami-Dade County, which has the largest population and tends to have a higher number of filings, jumped to 1,298 bankruptcies filed in October. The number had been at 1,155 in September.\nThe three counties' bankruptcies slowdown in September was largely due to parents wanting to get their kids back in school, Kingcade said. But once the kids were settled, some parents felt ready to concentrate on their personal finances -- and file for bankruptcy and face foreclosure, he said.\n\"People have to come to terms with losing their home,\" Kingcade said.\nHe predicted the number of bankruptcies will slow down in the next two months because of people wanting to concentrate on the holidays.\n\"You would expect court activity to slow down as the holiday approaches,\" agreed economist William B. Stronge, professor emeritus at Florida Atlantic University.\nIn the months ahead, however, the improving economy may also further lower the number of bankruptcies -- even more than October's 6 percent decline from last year, Stronge said.\nMore people getting jobs and are able to pay bills, he said. Since the Great Recession, more South Floridians have concentrated on paying debt and saving, Stronge said.\nSome struggling owners may be negotiating with their lenders to keep their homes now that the real estate market is better and prices are up again, he added.\n\"I think the economy has genuinely gotten a little bit better,\" agreed attorney Kingcade.\ndgehrke@tribune.com or Twitter @donnagehrke\nMcDonald's all-day breakfast could be gone for good\n30-story towers and more proposed for Searstown site in Fort Lauderdale\nPeople's Trust Insurance sues dozens of its own policyholders in claims disputes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MT-ND3 gene\nmitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 3\nCore subunit of the mitochondrial membrane respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase (Complex I) that is believed to belong to the minimal assembly required for catalysis. Complex I functions in the transfer of electrons from NADH to the respiratory chain. The immediate electron acceptor for the enzyme is believed to be ubiquinone (By similarity).\nCovered on Genetics Home Reference:\nLeigh syndrome\nMitochondrial complex I deficiency\nMitochondrial complex I deficiency, mitochondrial type 1 (MC1DM1): A form of mitochondrial complex I deficiency, the most common biochemical signature of mitochondrial disorders, a group of highly heterogeneous conditions characterized by defective oxidative phosphorylation, which collectively affects 1 in 5-10000 live births. Clinical disorders have variable severity, ranging from lethal neonatal disease to adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders. Phenotypes include macrocephaly with progressive leukodystrophy, non-specific encephalopathy, cardiomyopathy, myopathy, liver disease, Leigh syndrome, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, and some forms of Parkinson disease. [MIM:500014]\nLeigh syndrome (LS): An early-onset progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of focal, bilateral lesions in one or more areas of the central nervous system including the brainstem, thalamus, basal ganglia, cerebellum and spinal cord. Clinical features depend on which areas of the central nervous system are involved and include subacute onset of psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, ataxia, weakness, vision loss, eye movement abnormalities, seizures, and dysphagia. [MIM:256000]\nMolecular Location: base pairs 10,059 to 10,404 on mitochondrial DNA (Homo sapiens Updated Annotation Release 109.20191205, GRCh38.p13) (NCBI)\nMTND3\nTests of MT-ND3\nCatalog of Genes and Diseases from OMIM (1 link)\nOMIM: COMPLEX I, SUBUNIT ND3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The united lies of the global ruling class\nPosted in Class struggle, Europe, Latin America & The Caribbean, Venezuela\nBy John Catalinotto\nJan. 27 \u2014 The ultra-right media and the mainstream corporate media took a break this week from some months of vicious baiting of each other. They instead joined hands to slander Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\nThis latest assault on sovereign Bolivarian Venezuela exposes the united criminality of the imperialist ruling class. This includes the corporate media, both major U.S. political parties and Washington's allies, which are trying to resurrect their colonial empires.\nHere are two of many media examples: the first from the pro-Trump, ultra-right Fox News; the second from the corporate mainstream, anti-Trump New York Times. Both media's goals are to defame the Maduro government and justify U.S. intervention.\nA Jan. 26 Fox News opinion piece: \"The Trump administration's announcement Wednesday to recognize Venezuelan National Assembly leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 as interim president of Venezuela amid the current popular uprising against the anti-democratic socialist Maduro regime was an act of brilliant statecraft.\"\nA Jan. 24 New York Times editorial: \"That Mr. Maduro must go has been obvious for some time. Since he succeeded the leftist strongman Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in 2013, his mismanagement, cronyism and corruption, exacerbated by the drop in the price of oil, Venezuela's dominant source of revenue, have brought the country to ruin. \u2026 The Trump administration is right to support Mr. Guaid\u00f3.\"\nBoth parties join the slime\nLikewise, the two imperialist political parties, Republican and Democratic, which have been battling over the budget and the government shutdown, united against the Venezuelan people and its elected government.\nThe Trump gang have been agitating for intervention, and of course, they blame Maduro for everything and call him incompetent, brutal and corrupt.\nWith a handful of exceptions, Democratic Party leaders have taken a position like that of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. He blamed Maduro for a \"sham election\" and praised Trump for having \"appropriately recognized National Assembly President Juan Guaid\u00f3 as the constitutionally appropriate leader of Venezuela.\" (Miami Herald, Jan. 25) Even the handful of left Democrats criticized Maduro.\nIn reality, in elections held with international observers who approved them, Maduro won 68 percent of the votes cast and 32 percent of the eligible voters. Trump only won 46 percent of votes cast and 27 percent of eligible voters \u2014 fewer than his opponent.\nGuaid\u00f3 won 0 percent on both counts; he represents nothing. Except the factthat Vice President Mike Pence called Guaid\u00f3 and pledged him U.S. support the night before he named himself interim president. (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 25)\nWorld imperialism's united opinion\nThe U.S. imperialist allies \u2014 which are also rivals \u2014 have joined the festival of slander aimed at Maduro. Canada and Britain bent to the U.S. as usual. Spain, former genocidal conqueror of Latin America; France, former colonial overlord of large swaths of the world; and Germany, which opened two world wars to try to get its share of plunder; all did too. Though theyadded a little twist.\nThe three insisted Maduro set new elections \"within eight days\" or they would recognize Guaid\u00f3. Maduro accused them of kneeling before Washington and said no one can give Venezuela ultimatums.\nWith the British government unable to carry out a Brexit (itself based on anti-immigrant backwardness), the Spanish rulers buried in corruption from the royal family down, the French cops shooting rubber bullets at Yellow Vests, and the German government an unhealthy coalition facing racist opposition gangs, it's a wonder these regimes don't choke on their hypocrisy.\nAs in the period building up to the Vietnam War, to the 1991 war against Iraq, to the bombing and destruction of Yugoslavia in 1999, etc., the media and the governments' near unanimity give the population the false impression that all right-thinking people want \"regime change\" in Venezuela.\nThe truth, however, is that this manufactured public opinion is based on the imperialist oppressors' joint hatred for any nation or people that challenges their rule. If that nation happens to also be sitting on the world's largest oil reserves, the imperialists will repeat any lie and commit any crime to grab it.\nAnyone who believes sovereign peoples have a right to their resources will unite to reject these media lies and the ruling class that orders and buysthem.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cloud over CBD share cars\nBy Shane Scanlan\nThere is doubt over the viability of the share car service within the CBD since the City of Melbourne last year changed the rules and hit the three local operators with new fees.\nWhile six on-street spaces have since been added inside the Hoddle Grid, one operator has not applied for any spaces and intends to boycott the municipality entirely unless the policy is radically relaxed.\nAnother operator says it only applied for the three on-street spaces it was offered to prevent them going to an expanding rival and would not be looking to do more within the CBD for the time being.\nWith a review of the policy expected later this year, the pressure will be on the council's target of 2000 share car spaces within the municipality by 2021.\nGreen Share Car owner Paul Cummaudo says his company would not be applying in Melbourne under the current rules.\n\"We'll probably never again apply to the City of Melbourne under the current policy,\" Mr Cummaudo said. By contrast, he said, neighbouring municipalities had more enlightened policies.\nLast year the council started charging operators thousands of dollars extra for on-street spaces and also stipulated that they needed to source an off-street space before being eligible for every extra on-street space.\nThe council is still charging $3000 for on-street spaces within the Hoddle Grid but introduced a $2000 fee for spaces within a wider-defined \"CBD\" including Southbank.\nBut all operators agree that the on-street fees are only part of the problem. What is worse, they say, is the cost of renting off-street spaces from private operators in order to quality for on-street allocations.\nMr Cummaudo said off-street spaces cost between $400 and $500 per month, which made his business unviable in the CBD. He said Green Share Car was also now charging an extra $10 booking fee in an attempt to recoup losses from its CBD share car spaces.\nMr Cummaudo said, rather than pay $2000 per year, his company had also moved five of its vehicles to the other side of the street in areas bordering the \"CBD\" where the charge was only $25 per annum.\nHe believes that, while the council may be satisfied that the numbers of share cars were increasing, its intervention in the market place could deliver an unsustainable long-term outcome because of a speculative attitude from his rivals.\n\"Out of the three companies, we're the only one investing with real money,\" he said.\nFlexi Car general manager Greg Giraud said his company had reluctantly applied for three Hoddle Grid spaces and five wider \"CBD\" spaces since the introduction of the new policy, as a strategic territorial move.\nHe said the CBD was the \"holy grail\" of share car and the perceived risk of a competitor taking all offered inner-city spaces forced his hand. He said Flexi Car would not apply for any more in the foreseeable future.\nHe said the company's Hoddle Grid spaces were being subsidised by other parts of the company's operation, but it needed to claim territory for its longer-term viability.\nMr Giraud said the rule requiring companies to source off-street parking was the most inhibiting aspect of the council's policy.\nBoth Mr Cummaudo and Mr Giraud acknowledged that their competitor GoGet had been aggressively expanding despite the new restrictions.\nGoGet general manager, Justin Passaportis, said: \"We are continuing to see growth and monitoring this constantly, but for us it's too early to assess the impact of the new policy.\"\n\"Car share is an essential transport option for residents and business in the city.\"\nA City of Melbourne spokesperson said: \"Since council's new car share policy was approved in July 2015, six new on-street spaces have been installed inside the Hoddle Grid precinct and 10 on-street spaces have been installed in the precinct inside the CBD but outside the Hoddle Grid.\"\n\"An additional 15 on-street spaces have been installed outside the CBD,\" the spokesperson said. \"Council's Urban Strategy Transport Branch will be reporting later this year on a one-year review of the car share policy.\"\nTags CBD, City of Melbourne, council, Melbourne, Melbourne CBD, Share cars\nVisitor centre to go?\nMelbourne is the most secretive council","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The History Of Group Email\nEmail got its start in the late 1970's but it wasn't until the mid-1980's and the personal computer revolution that things really took off. Software to manage email lists first appeared in 1986 when Eric Thomas created LISTSERV the first group email software. At this time it ran on wardrobe size mainframe computers. Eric developed LISTERV at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee was creating the world wide web. Over the years LISTSERV was ported over to other operating systems eventually hitting Unix in 1994 and Windows in 1995.\nAs personal computers became more common place in homes and offices programs like Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office emerged with email and the ability to group email addresses together. Even though this type of group email was limited to only grouping people within the same corporate email system its ease of use made it a huge boon to companies who created group email addresses for everything. This was the first exposure to group email for many people.\nIn 1999 the GNU project created its own mailing list manager MailMan. Developed by John Viega and Ken Manheimer this was a free software, open source alternative to LISTSERV matching many features which people came to expected from their group email system; searchable archives, moderators, privacy features, a web Interface, spam filters.\nAs the dot-com bubble grew and burst in the early 2000's the number of email users and people exposed to group email grew exponentially from 10 million email users in 1995 to 500 million in 2000 and 1 billion in 2007. By this time email was a part of everyone's on-line life and using group email was just part of that.\nGmail arrived in 2007 and even though Blackberry had been putting email in people hands since 1999 it wasn't until the iPhone and the smartphone revolution that made email truly mobile for huge numbers of people. Indeed, the mobile revolution made email user number sky rocket even more hitting 2 billion by 2010 and 3 billion only one year later.\nDuring all this time LISTSERV is still going strong being actively developed at L-Soft and running most the biggest and busiest email lists in the world. Within offices and corporations emailing groups of people is second nature; a department, project or team doesn't exist until it has its own email address!\nWith the ubiquity of cloud computing and the rise of SaaS (software as a service) businesses it was inevitable that group email would move with the times and reap the benefits of everything that widely distributed computing can offer.\nSo it is today that Gaggle Mail is further pushing the popularity of group email by not only allowing anyone to be part of a group email list but allowing anyone to setup and run their own group with the most easy to use group email system available.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Northern to be stripped of rail franchise \u2013 Shapps\nTrain operator Northern is to be stripped of its franchise, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said, as fares across Britain rose by an average of 2.7%.\n\"Frustrated commuters will not have to wait long\" before action is taken, he told the PA news agency.\nThe chaotic introduction of new timetables in May 2018 saw up to 310 Northern trains a day cancelled, and punctuality and reliability problems continue to blight the network.\nOffice of Rail and Road figures show just 55.6% of Northern trains arrived at stations within one minute of the timetable in the 12 months to December 7, compared with the average across Britain of 65.3%.\nGerman-based Arriva holds the Northern franchise, which is due to run until March 2025.\nMr Shapps described services on the route as \"really bad\" and claimed passengers have \"had a nightmare on that line\" since 2016.\nAsked if Northern will be stripped of its franchise, he replied: \"The simple answer to the question is yes, it is going to be brought to an end.\n\"It's partially a legal process but frustrated commuters will not have to wait long.\"\nMr Shapps announced in autumn that he had taken the first steps towards potentially taking the franchise away by issuing a \"request for proposals\".\nThe existing agreement with Northern will be replaced by either a new short-term management contract or by nationalising services by putting the Government-controlled Operator of Last Resort in charge.\nNorthern says it has faced unprecedented challenges which were \"outside the direct control of Northern\" such as the late delivery of major infrastructure upgrades and delays in the building and delivery of new trains.\nThousands of long-distance commuters saw the annual cost of getting to work increase by more than \u00a3100 on Thursday as average fares rose by 2.7%.\nFewer than half (47%) of passengers are satisfied with the value for money of train tickets, according to the latest survey by watchdog Transport Focus.\nEmily Yates, co-founder of campaign group the Association of British Commuters, said: \"It feels like Groundhog Day, to be honest, it's a complete charade.\n\"Every year, we ask for a fares freeze, the Government says no and the rail industry defends the decision.\"\nAccountant Andrew Jordan, 24, who was travelling through London Bridge station, described the fares rise as \"quite galling for me as a commuter\".\nHe said: \"The services don't get any better. You'd like to get something for your money.\"\n(PA Graphics)\nRobert Nisbet, director of nations and regions for industry body the Rail Delivery Group, urged passengers to \"bear with us\".\nHe acknowledged there are \"pockets of difficulty around the network\" but insisted \"we're tackling them\".\nHe added: \"By the mid-2020s we should have replaced half the entire rolling stock of Great Britain and added 11,300 services every weekday. That is a significant investment.\"\nAmong the routes where the price of annual season tickets has increased by a three-figure sum are:\n\u2013 Reading to London (up \u00a3132 to \u00a34,736)\n\u2013 Gloucester to Birmingham (up \u00a3118 to \u00a34,356)\n\u2013 Glasgow to Edinburgh via any permitted route (up \u00a3116 to \u00a34,200)\nPassengers buying tickets for day trips have also been hit by the fares rise.\nAn off-peak return ticket from Dundee to Edinburgh has increased in price by 50p to \u00a329.40, while an Anytime return ticket from Gillingham to London via the HS1 route is up \u00a31.20 to \u00a345.40.\nThe increase in around 45% of fares, including season tickets, is regulated by the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments.\nThis is predominantly capped at July's RPI inflation figure, which was 2.8%.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sequim to host community talks on race, equity, inclusion\nFirst virtual event set for Saturday\nby Matthew Nash\nTuesday, March 16, 2021 1:30am\nNewsCity CouncilClallam County\nSEQUIM \u2014 Officials with the City of Sequim look to take what they call the first step in creating a more inclusive Sequim with community conversations.\nVirtual talks on race, equity and inclusion will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 23.\nThe conversations follow the Sequim City Council's resolution from last June that condemned discrimination and racism. The council potentially will use feedback to apply policy changes that may apply to anti-racism and discrimination practices.\nTo participate, residents must register through links at the city's website www.sequimwa.gov or at https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/PDN-sequimconversation.\nBarbara Hanna, Sequim communications and marketing director, said a volunteer team of city staff and community members have worked since August on orchestrating the talks.\n\"We wanted to be thoughtful about how we did this and creating the right environment so people feel comfortable doing this,\" she said.\nCity staff and Sequim community members Miriame Cherbib, Vicki Lowe and Carlos Osorio will host the meetings centered on four questions:\n\u2022 How do you feel Sequim is doing as it relates to equity and inclusion?\n\u2022 What do you envision for our city in 20 years related to equity and inclusion?\n\u2022 How do we create an even more inclusive city?\n\u2022 How does our community want to be involved in this work?\nHanna said they've reached out to various agencies, such as Peninsula College and Sequim School District, in hopes that the meetings will reach a wide range of community members.\nIn the city's press release on the meetings, it states facilitators will \"encourage all participants to be kind and brave, assume good intent, be ready to learn from other people, seek first to understand, acknowledge that everyone has something to contribute to this effort, and to let yourself be OK with being uncomfortable.\"\n\"For some people this is a difficult conversation,\" Hanna said. \"We want people to know it can be uncomfortable and we want them to know it's OK.\"\nCity officials will not record the meeting and plan to only share general themes and thoughts from the meetings with the city council and various organizations.\n\"We want to protect the participants and create a safe environment,\" Hanna said.\nShe said the fourth question, how the community wants to be involved, will be important because it tells the city staff \"where we go from there in a meaningful way.\"\nIn the past year, Sequim has seen marches for Black Lives Matter, rallies and sign holders for various causes, continued contention related to the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's medication-assisted treatment facility and many more social issues.\nIn June, City Council member Brandon Janisse brought the resolution forward to the council at the request of Sequim resident Shenna Younger, who started an online petition with 2,000-plus signatures asking the council to condemn systemic racism. Younger and others previously proposed a resolution in March, which led to the petition.\nCouncil members approved the resolution but agreed in July to hold off on evaluating city code and practices until they've received community feedback.\nFormer City Manager Charlie Bush said in June the discussions would look at policies and procedures to evaluate if anything was embedded in city code and\/or practices that was innately discriminatory.\nHe added that he didn't feel Sequim had obvious issues, but he wanted to make sure the city doesn't.\n\"We don't think we do, but we want to make sure that we don't,\" Bush said.\nFor more information on the conversations, visit www.sequimwa.gov or call 360-683-4139.\nVaccination clinic set for Chimacum High School\nMeasured steps","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chick-fil-A has long been revered as one of the best drive thru experiences, but a new report shows others may be catching up. (Getty)\nThese fast food places, restaurants will be open on Christmas Day 2022\nby: Nexstar Media Wire, Addy Bink\nPosted: Dec 24, 2022 \/ 01:02 AM HST\n(NEXSTAR) \u2013 If you are on the go this Christmas, or simply skipping the traditional at-home feast for something a little quicker, you likely know your options are limited. While many restaurants are closing their doors on December 25, there are some still accepting customers on the holiday.\nTo save you the trouble of searching for those eateries, here is a list of the major fast-food chains and restaurants staying open \u2014 and a few that are closing \u2014 for Christmas 2022.\nGet Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You\nKeep in mind, hours are likely to vary by location.\nParticipating Boston Market locations will be open on Christmas, according to the company's website.\nHours may vary by location, a Burger King representative tells Nexstar. You can check local hours online here.\nKnown for being \"always open,\" Denny's will be open on Christmas.\nBecause Domino's locations are independently owned, they may or may not be open on Christmas, a company representative told Country Living. Some may also close for Christmas Eve. You can view your location's hours online.\nMany Dunkin' locations will be open on Christmas, but hours may vary by store, a representative tells Nexstar. Before visiting, check your Dunkin' location's hours online or in the mobile app.\nGolden Corral\nSome Golden Corral locations will be open for Christmas, but they may have limited hours. They may also have shortened hours on Christmas Eve. You can check your restaurant's hours here.\nThough IHOP locations are listed as being open online, you may want to check with your local restaurant before stopping in.\nCat attacked with blow dart finds new home\nJersey Mike's\nJersey Mike's will have limited hours on Christmas Eve but will be closed for Christmas, according to the company.\nBecause the vast majority of McDonald's locations are independently owned and operated, holiday hours may vary by store, a representative told Country Living. You can check your location's hours online.\nSelect Noodles locations will be open; you can check stores hours here.\nHours can vary by store, according to Panera Bread. You can check your location's hours online.\nSelect locations will be open for dine-in and to-go orders, according to Red Lobster. Participating restaurants and their hours can be found on this list shared by Red Lobster.\nRuth's Chris Steak House\nRuth's Chris Steak House locations will be open on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, according to its website.\nBecause Sonic locations are independently owned, restaurants may be open on Christmas, but with different hours. Location hours can be seen online here.\nUH med students volunteer with Hawai'i H.O.M.E. project\nSome Starbucks locations will be open, but they may have different hours. Location hours can be found online here.\nKnown for being open all day, every day \u2013 and causing headlines when it closes \u2013 Waffle House locations will be open on Christmas. There's even a song about it.\nMany Wendy's locations will be open on Christmas, but hours may vary. You can check the hours of your nearest location online.\nWhile the above restaurant chains plan to be staffed for Christmas, there are a few others that will be taking the holiday off. Because Christmas falls on a Sunday, Chick-fil-A will be closed (though they likely would've closed anyway, like they did last year). Fellow chicken restaurant Raising Cane's, which closes on major holidays, will close on Christmas.\nMove over Chick-fil-A, new drive-thru crowned the fastest\nSome restaurants, like Olive Garden, will not only be closed for Christmas Day but may close early on Christmas Eve depending on the amount of business, according to the company. Christmas Eve hours will vary at Taco Bell restaurants, the company says, but locations will be closed on Christmas Day.\nIn-N-Out locations will be open until 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve, according to a company spokesperson, but will be closed on Christmas.\nMany Buffalo Wild Wings locations will be open Christmas Eve and closed Christmas Day, a representative tells Nexstar. However, hours may vary by location \u2013 you can check the hours of your local Buffalo Wild Wings here. A representative for Firehouse Subs says some of its restaurants will close early on Christmas Eve and may completely close for Christmas. You can check your store's hours here.\nMost KFC restaurants will be closed on Christmas Day, but a representative for the company tells Nexstar they recommend checking with your local KFC for their holiday hours.\nCheck out what's going on around the nation on our National News page\nChipotle, Pizza Hut, Qdoba, and White Castle locations will close early on Christmas Eve and remain closed through Christmas Day, company representatives tell Nexstar.\nBefore heading out, be sure to check with your nearest restaurant for their hours.\nTagovailoa parents express gratitude, optimism\nEddie champion Luke Shepardson goes back to work\n2023 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational final standings\nWisconsin man in critical condition after crash in \u2026\nMultiple power outages across Oahu, weather intensifies\nWeather Blog \/ 9 hours ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Historic Marist Prize-giving\nStudent of the Year\nOn Wednesday St. Mary's College hosted their annual prize-giving ceremony, a night when the students are rewarded for their excellent achievements in various areas of school life. It was a night different to other years \u2013 in his welcome, Principal Mr Con McGinley, reminded all present of the historic occasion they were a part of, as they are the last group to receive their awards based on life in the old school building that is the Marist today. Next year a new school marks a new era for the Marist in Dundalk. Kevin Jennings, director of the Marist Education Authority looked forward with enthusiasm to this great new venture which is not only significant for the students of Dundalk and surrounding areas but also to the Marist Community in Ireland and Europe. Mr PJ \u00d3 N\u00e1raigh, 6th Year Head wisely reminded all on the night that the people and the memories are the foundations of the stone the new school will be built on.\nMEA Award\nOn this special night, the opening address was by special guest speaker Mr Eddie Downey, a former Marist student, current President of the Irish Farmers Association, director of Teagasc and owner of EMD poultry. Mr Downey spoke of the importance of education, ongoing throughout life and to always remember the people that give it to you. He spoke of the uniform, representing a lot more than a straight tie and neat appearance, it was about being part of a team working together. He encouraged students to consider careers in the agriculture and food sectors that are currently generating thousands of jobs. He also urged them to look after each other and to support local jobs and local business.\nAherne Cup\nThere were two new trophies this year. The Fr Ambrose Fay Cup in honour of past pupil Jim Fay from Dundalk. During his time in the college in the 1930s he set records at All-Ireland and Leinster level in the 100 yard sprint. Proud of the Cup throughout his life he expressed the wish that it be returned to the College after he passed away just last year. Fittingly the cup was presented to the most promising Newcomer to Athletics, Evelyn Igharo. Luke Coburn Moran is the worthy first recipient of the Award for the Best 2nd Year student. The Marist Parents' Council also sponsored a number of new awards in recognition of newly introduced subjects that now in their 2nd year: the Junior Music Award was presented to Robert Mee-Lucey and the Junior Technical Graphics Award was presented to Glen Connolly.\nSe\u00e1n Mac Suibhne Award \u2013 Senior Gaeilge\nMany students were rewarded for their work ethic and their resultant success, a number of whom received more than one award. Sixth Year student Bill Wells Kamtchou, Ryan Brodigan and Chanelle McCartney received two awards each. Bill received the Hanaway Cup for Best Leaving Certificate Mathematics & the Lyons Perpetual Cup for Leaving Certificate Chemistry, which was sponsored and presented by recently retired Chemistry teacher, Mr Ger Lyons. Chanelle won the Se\u00e1n MacSuibhne Award for Best Senior Irish student and shared the Senior Art Award with Conor Richardson. Ryan shared the Flanagan Cup for Senior English with Anastasia Metluka and the Senior Science Award with Wiktoria Stazak. Other winners in 6th Year were Beatrice Monciunskaite, Robert Galligan, Adam Martin, Kurt Farrell McKinley, Fergal Sheekey and Aaron Culligan. 5th Year students Jamie Kennedy and Kemi Arahi received two awards as did 3rd Year students Eoghan McGee, Alexis Nwachkwu and Bartek Baran.\nFlanagan Cup \u2013 Senior English\nA number of students excelled in particular competitions this Year. Eoin Corr, won the Home Cook Hero Award. Jake McArdle was the All Ireland winner of the Irish Youth Music Awards. Jade Reddy, Lynn Craven and Sophie Watters were chosen to play on the Irish Soccer team. Transition Year student Shane Durnin won the Gael Linn Abair competition. Rebecca Gorman is a Black Belt Kickboxer Champion, also a Boxer, she has represented Ireland 5 times in International Championships, one of the matches at a Katie Taylor fight night. Sixth Year student Christopher Lennon won a Bronze Medal in the 2014 World Kick-boxing Competition.\nThe Ois\u00edn \u00d3 D\u00e1laigh Perpetual Trophy, for Senior Sportsperson of the Year, was awarded to Sixth Year student, Fergal Sheekey in recognition of his Gaelic and Soccer ability. The highlight of the night was the Student of the Year Award. The Fr. McGeough Perpetual Cup was awarded to Wiktoria Stazak for her outstanding contribution to the academic, social and sporting life of the school.\nCongratulations to all who received awards on the night \u2013 their dedication, enthusiasm and talents are an inspiration to all.\nView more photos from the night in our photo gallery.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spain's News\nSpanish News in English\nCasado asks S\u00e1nchez to resign and call elections to measure citizen support for pardons\nThe president of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado, has gone a step further this Wednesday in his criticism of the government for having promoted the pardons to the prisoners of the proc\u00e9s and has asked the Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, to resign and call early elections. \"If you have any dignity left, you should resign today and submit this decision to the judgment of the Spaniards, because you have misled your electoral word, you have breached your constitutional oath and you are deceiving this House,\" Casado assured during the control session to the Executive, less than 24 hours after the approval of the measure of grace by the Council of Ministers. The leader of the PP has made this request during his second turn to speak in plenary session and S\u00e1nchez has chosen not to respond.\nThe rights cling to some resources of doubtful judicial route as the last way to annul the pardons\nPreviously, the President of the Government had ironic with the \"very constructive interventions\" of Casado. \"I am not going to enter into their provocations,\" the chief executive told the leader of the PP. \"When he feels isolated, the real Casado comes out,\" he reproached him, given the recent \"disqualifications\" of the president of the popular to all those sectors that have supported the pardons.\nAs soon as the session started, the PP leader reproached the PSOE bench for applauding S\u00e1nchez's arrival at the hemicycle: \"They applaud an unfortunate day for the democratic history of Spain.\" Next, Casado recalled that S\u00e1nchez \"promised not to pardon the prisoners of the proc\u00e9s\", so he \"came to power supported by a lie.\" With the pardons, in Casado's opinion, the Government \"cast the fate of Spain on those who want to destroy it\" to \"maintain power even though it is already electorally dead.\"\nThe popular leader has also spoken of the \"arrogant corny rhetoric of the second transition\" that in his opinion they carry out from Moncloa. \"Who do you think you can talk about Spain?\" the leader of the PP has asked himself, who has assured that S\u00e1nchez \"has betrayed his oath to defend national unity and the equality of all Spaniards.\"\n\"Insult everyone,\" S\u00e1nchez later snapped at Casado. \"Is this democracy as it is contemplated?\" \"He says that the PP is due to the Spanish. Those of us who do not think like you, where do we come from, from Mars?\" Afterwards, S\u00e1nchez has described the pardon as a \"courageous, restorative measure in favor of harmony and politics, which will reduce political and territorial discord.\" \"I am not going to enter into their provocations,\" the chief executive told the leader of the PP. \"When the true Casado feels isolated,\" he has reproached him, given the recent \"disqualifications\" of the president of the popular to all those sectors that have supported the pardons.\nRufi\u00e1n appreciates the \"courage\" of the Government\nMinutes later, ERC spokesman Gabriel Rufi\u00e1n took advantage of the government control session to thank Pedro S\u00e1nchez \"personally for his courage in the face of the pack\" in reference to the right. Rufi\u00e1n has reminded him, however, that he appeared in the elections \"speaking of the Prosecutor's Office\" and now \"does politics.\"\n\"Everyone knows what we like to talk about politics so a good understanding few words are enough\", said Rufi\u00e1n, who has made it clear that \"there is a lot to go\" in reference to the \"Court of Accounts, the Constitutional Court and the gag law \":\" They will not be a real left-wing government as long as there is a single person in this country who is threatened, beaten or imprisoned for demonstrating peacefully. \"\nTo the question of what the Government is going to do after the pardons, the president has replied that his approach is that of the \"reunion agenda\" that he led to the dialogue table and that consists of the points that the Generalitat claimed ago years to Mariano Rajoy except for the self-determination referendum. \"Self-determination is no longer just that it is not unconstitutional, it is that we cannot continue to fracture Catalan society, we have to begin to unite Catalan society,\" S\u00e1nchez insisted.\nThe Republican deputy has also used his intervention to make Casado ugly when he talks about the unconstitutionality of the pardons. \"Article 62 of the Constitution is not known. This is what happens when you are given a master's degree, you don't know the lesson,\" he reproached him. And S\u00e1nchez has also used that intervention to respond to the PP's complaint that the Government does not have Congress by reminding him that both this Tuesday and last week proposals were voted on the grace measure in which the theses of the Executive received the support of 190 deputies.\nConfrontation between Calvo and Vox\nThe first vice president, Carmen Calvo, has come out on the attack against Vox, which she has once again placed in \"fascism\". \"How old and dangerous is his speech! You, radical conservatism, fascism, and philosophical fascism in this country have been distributing nation cards for 200 years,\" he snapped at the spokesman, Iv\u00e1n Espinosa de los Monteros, whom he warned of that \"no longer sneaks in\" because the country has had 42 years of \"mature democracy\" and has reproached it for trying to set the bar for \"good and bad Spaniards.\"\nEspinosa de los Monteros, in line with the three rights in recent days, had attacked the Government for pardons during the control session in Congress. \"They are generating disaffection. It is impossible to satisfy those who make dissatisfaction their way of life. It is not enough with pardons they want amnesty, self-determination referendum, where are they going to put the line?\", Asked the Vox spokesman. S\u00e1nchez a few minutes before had reminded Gabriel Rufi\u00e1n that the path of self-determination is not possible because it is \"unconstitutional\" and because it delves into the \"fracture\" in Catalonia.\nTags: asks, citizenship, elections, Married, measure, Pardons, Resign, Sanchez, summon, support for\nPrevious Consult the pardons to the independence leaders published in the BOE\nNext The Supreme Court orders the release of the independentists pardoned\nThe Government 'saves' 468 million to compensate for the moratorium\n7 hours ago Admin\nX-ray of the Spanish politician: sociable, conscientious and imaginative\n2 days ago Admin\nThe Government guarantees that the interests of the Canary Islands will be \"well defended\" at the Rabat summit\nThe President of the Government stresses that the world food program is a unique instrument against hunger\nThe Canary Islands will ask Brussels to extend the tax aid ceiling for audiovisual productions\nThe \"indecorous\" behavior of the deputies will be penalized\n\u00a1Noticia importante!\nTodos los art\u00edculos son traducidos de la fuente original. 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Nuestro servicio ayuda a comprender entre los residentes de habla inglesa y los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol, a la vez que ofrece m\u00e1s visitantes a cada art\u00edculo original.\nSi desea que se elimine un art\u00edculo, puede contactarnos con la URL y la prueba de los derechos de propiedad para eliminar cualquier art\u00edculo de nuestro sistema.\nYul Ballesteros: \u00abWhen I compose I always talk about feelings\u00bb\nThey board a Shell platform in the Canary Islands to protest against the extractions\nJoana Sanz will file for divorce from Dani Alves\n17 hours ago digitateam\nAn App has arrived so that moviegoers can experience their movie journey!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"REVIEWS SUMMARY OF FOUR NEW STAGE PLAYS BY KEVIN FEGAN AS FEATURED IN AN INTERVIEW BY SARA COX ON BBC RADIO 4 \"LOOSE ENDS\" SEPT 2017\n\"THE RUCK\" \u2013 LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE AND TOUR OF YORKSHIRE THEATRES\n\"The Ruck is truly original piece of theatre. It's great to know there are such wonderful plays like this out there celebrating women in sport. Beautifully written with characters who's antics are as colourful off the pitch as on. It's real, honest and funny. These are the kind of women I'd want to spend a night at the theatre with.\" (MAXINE PEAKE)\n\"Something of a highly modern fable that will undoubtedly live on in the minds of those who see it\u2026 this collaboration between a wonderful theatre, skilled writer and excellent performers is a real treat and joy to watch. I can't wait to see where this piece of relevant, enjoyable theatre ends up in the future.\" (ONSTAGE)\n\"THE SHED CREW\" \u2013 RED LADDER PRODUCTION AT ALBION ELECTRIC WAREHOUSE LEEDS\n\"*****outstanding\" (NORTH WEST END)\n\" immersive theatre that has you checking that you've still got your wallet\u2026 an unforgettable ninety minutes of theatre\" (THE CULTURE VULTURES)\n\"this production transcends pure politics through the strength of the characters\" (THE MORNING STAR)\n\"DOWN THE LINE\" \u2013 BARROW HILL ROUNDHOUSE RAILWAY CENTRE\n\"Theatre doesn't get better than this. A world premiere to celebrate Barrow Hill Railway Roundhouse's re-launch and the first opportunity to see the iconic \"Flying Scotsman\" in a theatrical production. The play is amazingly powerful, deeply moving and incredibly atmospheric, bringing north Derbyshire's community heritage and industrial history to life in the best way possible, a beautifully crafted script\" (THE DERBYSHIRE TIMES)\n\"BESS \u2013 THE COMMONER QUEEN\" BY KEVIN FEGAN \u2013 THE GUILDHALL THEATRE DERBY\n\"A tour de force, a one-woman show that requires someone capable of holding the audience's attention throughout. In this Todd succeeds admirably\u2026 A striking, outstanding production which is a triumph for both actress Michelle Todd and playwright Kevin Fegan.\" (BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE)\n\"This production deserves to become an award-winner for the way in which it allows the audience to become enveloped in the real world of Bess\u2026The filming all took place at Hardwick Hall earlier in the month and it oozes the atmosphere of the historic surroundings in a way that could never otherwise have been recreated in the theatre.\" (ARTSBEAT)\nOTHER RECENT PLAYS BY KEVIN FEGAN\n\"OBAMA THE MAMBA \u2013 president of the slums\" (CURVE LEICESTER & THE LOWRY CO-PRODUCTION 2012) NOMINATED BEST NEW PLAY MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARDS 2012\n\"By interweaving their two stories playwright Kevin Fegan has created a clever vehicle through which to explore the contrasts and commonalities of the Brothers Obama and their very different lives in America and Africa\u2026Fegan's script time-shifts skilfully through George's story providing the material for a virtuoso performance by Clifford Samuel\u2026 Where Fegan has been cleverest is in the unforced resonances he highlights between the \"hope out of adversity\" rhetoric of the two men\u2026\" (THE INDEPENDENT ****)\n\"George Obama was in the house to see his life story set on stage\u2026offers a powerful \"yes we can\" message as any on the U.S. presidential campaign trail\u2026 a rallying cry on behalf of the world's dispossessed\u2026 undeniably inspiring\u2026 a commanding performance\u2026heart-stopping, high adrenalin\u2026\" (THE TELEGRAPH ****)\n\"SLAVE\" (FEELGOOD THEATRE AT THE LOWRY & TOUR 2010-11) WINNER BEST PLAY OR FILM HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOUNDATION AWARDS 2011. WINNER BEST NEW PLAY MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARDS 2010\n\"Slave is quite possibly one of the most rewarding theatrical journeys you'll ever make.\" (*****MESSENGER)\nFIREFLIES: a love story waiting to happen\" (THE LOWRY IN ASSOCIATION WITH LION EYES TV) NOMINATED BEST NEW PLAY MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARDS 2010\n\"Fegan's drama, commissioned by The Lowry, is an inner-city romance between two lost souls longing for a second chance in life\u2026 Noreen Kershaw's production skilfully integrates the digital elements, created by Manchester production company Lion Eyes TV, into a seamless montage of live and filmed action. But it's the core components of good writing and fine acting that determine the show's success\u2026It's raw, uncompromising stuff, but ultimately Fireflies leaves you with a warm glow.\" (****THE GUARDIAN)\nEARLIER STAGE PLAYS \u2013 SELECTED PRESS QUOTES\n\"The most unpredictable and innovative voice in British theatre. Fegan has constructed a theatrical framework around the Ecstasy generation.\" UBU, EUROPEAN THEATRE MAGAZINE\n\"Fegan is a poet and playwright with a capacity for sympathetic identification and a taste for tough, complex issues.\" THE GUARDIAN\n\"Kevin Fegan once again confirms himself as Britain's most innovative Playwright\"\n(\"Seven-Tenths\" for Walk the Plank Theatre Ship 1995) PLAYS INTERNATIONAL\n\"Fegan runs ever faster to keep his work at the leading edge of contemporary life\"\n(\"Strange Attractors\" \u2013 Contact Theatre Manchester 1994) THE INDEPENDENT\nThe ethical consequences of virtual reality, in personal and political fields, will be immense. Fegan, a really promising writer, is the first to bring them into the theatre.\"\n(\"Strange Attractors\") THE OBSERVER\n\"Memorable play about the drug Ecstasy and the Manchester rave scene\"\n(\"Excess XS\" \u2013 Contact Theatre Manchester 1992) THE OBSERVER\n\"Miles better than Rock Around the Clock\"\n(\"Excess XS\") THE INDEPENDENT\n\"Black comedy of a kind in which Fegan excels\"\n(\"Excess XS\") THE DAILY TELEGRAPH\n\"The most accurate comment on society today to be seen anywhere in the country\"\n(\"Excess XS\") PLAYS INTERNATIONAL\n\"Could not be more timely. Fegan's idea of a privatised prison that turns out to be owned by two if its long-term inmates is ingenious. So is the use of a prison drama group as a metaphor for the role of the arts in society\"\n(\"Private Times\" for The Library Theatre Manchester 1990) THE SUNDAY TIMES\n\"A savage Swiftian swipe at the new morality, mischevious Shavian paradox\"\n(\"Private Times\") THE FINANCIAL TIMES\n\"It's a lively, funny, serious piece with an emotional poetry of its own\"\n(\"Private Times\") THE GUARDIAN\n\"A superbly engineered grand-scale piece of special effects theatre which expands the imagination, informs and entertains and lifts the spirit\"\n(\"Lord Dynamite\", co-written with John Fox for Welfare State International, L.I.F.T. 1991) THE GUARDIAN\n\"Highly enjoyable piece, the nearest a British audience is likely to get to a homegrown carnival\"\n(\"Lord Dynamite\") THE INDEPENDENT\n\"It is a brilliant conceit to insert a living myth into contemporary Irish history. It is above all a bold ambition to put the play into verse, challenging a number of famous Irish ancestors.\"\n(\"McAlpine's Fusilier\" for Contact Theatre Manchester 1988) THE NEW STATESMAN\n\"A significant contribution to the emergence of Irish writing in Britain. Kevin Fegan is a name we will hear much more of in the future\"\n(\"McAlpine's Fusilier\") THE IRISH POST\n\"An electrifying piece of contemporary theatre. This is the Iron Man for the 90's\"\n(\"The Clayman\" El Inocente Productions, Woolaton Park Nottingham for NewArtsWork and Upper Campfield Market for Manchester City of Drama 1994) PLAYS INTERNATIONAL\n\"Devastating theatre that demands superlatives, I can't praise it enough\"\n(\"Rule 43\" for Cracked Actors' national tours, including British prisons 1989-90) THE STAGE & TELEVISION TODAY\n\"This gripping play is comic and dramatic, intense and real, the play deserves a full house\"\n(\"Rule 43\") MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"Those lucky enough to catch Fegan's skilful delivery on the fringe circuit recently can bear witness to its effectiveness on the stage as well as the page\"\n(\"Matey Boy\", El Inocente Productions for national tour 1991) MANCHESTER CITY LIFE\n\"An epic poem, written and performed by Kevin Fegan, who \"won't apologise for poetry\" and on this showing has no need \u2013 his verse is as tough, topical and streetwise as any disco rap\"\n(\"Matey Boy\") THE GUARDIAN\n\"The definitive theatrical experience for the internet generation. An incomparable web of intense emotion, lyrical beauty and gobsmacking imagery.\"\n(\"Totally Wired\" \u2013 a BIG Theatre production at Contact Manchester 2000) PLAYS INTERNATIONAL\n\"Fegan has never been interested in comfortable theatre \u2013 audiences either love him or hate him.\"\n(\"Totally Wired\") MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"Manchester-based playwright Kevin Fegan has become a cult writer since his drugs-and-dance play, Excess XS. Totally Wired deals with the aftermath of the drug and dance phenomenon.\"\n(Totally Wired\") THE GUARDIAN\n\"A bold, powerful and very moving piece of work that re-examines the Falklands War from the point of view of the ordinary men who took part. Co-written and co-directed by Andy Farrell and Kevin Fegan, 52 Degrees South uses video projection and testimonies by veterans alongside narrative and poetry inside a magnificent exhibition hall.\"\n(\"52 Degrees South\" \u2013 a Big Theatre production at the Imperial War Museum North 2002) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"Lyrical and hard-hitting drama, a powerful mix of video and verse,, the video interviews are full-on, a white-knuckle ride.\"\n(\"52 Degrees South\") CITY LIFE\n\"Kevin Fegan's lyrical dramatisation of the decline of the steel industry is both an education and an elegy. Fegan's rhythmic, colloquial verse neatly melds the elements of water, fire, earth and air into a double narrative about the visceral nature of steel-making and life itself.\"\n(\"Blast\" \u2013 Manchester Poetry Festival at Contact Manchester 2002) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"Freely adapted by writer and lyricist Kevin Fegan, it is touching, funny and full of authentic spirit. A genuine achievement, it all works wonderfully well.\"\n(\"Love on the Dole\" \u2013 The Lowry 2004) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"Fegan is still probably Britain's most underrated playwright. This is a significant adaptation commissioned especially for The Lowry.\"\n(\"Love on the Dole\") CITY LIFE\n\"A company that specialises in weaving fictions from the real stuff and stories of people's lives. Everywhere Quarantine delves, it uncovers the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary and banal. 90 minutes of non-stop energy, offering up these young men exactly as they are. The show manages to be both celebratory and quite extraordinarily moving. The entire evening has a matter-of-fact lyricism about it. You come away with a sense of the fabric and rich emotional texture of their lives that defies all traditional stereotypes of the laddish, emotionally disconnected young man.\"\n(\"White Trash\" \u2013 devised show with Quarantine Theatre at Contact Manchester 2004) THE GUARDIAN\n\"Crime Lake sounds like a fictional American Summer camp \u2013 the sort featured in slasher films like Friday 13th. In fact, it lies somewhere between Oldham and Ashton, and has provided inspiration for the latest community play by one of the North West's most prolific writers, Kevin Fegan. Over 100 young people have worked with Kevin to help shape the piece into an hilarious, surreal and spooky tale.\"\n(\"The Ghosts of Crime Lake\", Oldham Coliseum Theatre 2005) MANCHESTER CITY LIFE\n\"Contemporary themes, neat rap and lots of fun, a real achievement, something special.\"\n(\"The Ghosts of Crime Lake\") MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"What gives this impressive production its heart and soul is the fact that the stories it tells \u2013 each of them powerfully illustrating the impact war has on people's lives \u2013 are all true and drawn from the lives of the participants. Directed by Andy Farrell and written by Kevin Fegan, this is a wonderfully ambitious and life-affirming, whilst instructive and thought-provoking, production.\"\n(\"Oh Wot A Lovely War\" \u2013 brand new version devised for The Lowry Salford 2006) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS\n\"Kevin Fegan is the first ever playwright to be commissioned by Mansfield Palace Theatre. The play is based on his home street and characters within his community, a dramatic interpretation of the lives of local residents affected by the derelict Mansfield General Hospital. The script cleverly uses narrative breaks for stories by spirits of the former hospital, mixing horrific and humorous anecdotes to bring the old building to life. The script manages to capture the perfect balance between drama and humour, allowing the audience to relate to the characters and feel their pain, while also providing classic comic relief throughout.\"\n(\"A Site For Sore Eyes\", Mansfield Palace Theatre 2006) MANSFIELD CHAD","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Obama wins historic US election\nFiled under: Business News, Latest, Politics News \u2014 Tags: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, barack obama, breaking news, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Democrats, District of Columbia, Exit polls, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, john mccain, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and Colorado, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Obama, Obama President, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, presidency, Rhode Island, Senate race, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, US House of Representatives, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming \u2014 expressyoureself @ 7:23 am\nDemocratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States.\n\"It's been a long time coming, but tonight\u2026 change has come to America,\" the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a park in Chicago.\nHis rival John McCain accepted defeat, saying \"I deeply admire and commend\" Mr Obama. He called on his supporters to lend the next president their goodwill.\nThe BBC's Justin Webb said the result would have a profound impact on the US.\n\"On every level America will be changed by this result\u2026 [it] will never be the same,\" he said.\nMr Obama appeared with his family, and his running mate Joe Biden, before a crowd of tens of thousands in Grant Park, Chicago.\n\"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,\" he said.\nHe said he had received an \"extraordinarily gracious\" call from Mr McCain.\nHe praised the former Vietnam prisoner of war as a \"brave and selfless leader\".\n\"He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine,\" the victor said.\nHe had warm words for his family, announcing to his daughters: \"Sasha and Malia, I love you both more than you can imagine, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House.\"\nCongratulations\u2026 You are about to go on one of the great journeys of life\nBut he added: \"Even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime \u2013 two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.\n\"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep\u2026 But America \u2013 I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.\"\nFrom red to blue\nMr Obama captured the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, before breaking through the winning threshold of 270 electoral college votes at 0400 GMT, when projections showed he had also taken California and a slew of other states.\nI find myself strangely emotional about this. I want to go wake up my neighbours and hug them\nAmy Scullane, Boston\nThen came the news that he had also seized Florida, Virginia and Colorado \u2013 all of which voted Republican in 2004 \u2013 turning swathes of the map from red to blue.\nSeveral other key swing states are hanging in the balance.\nIn Indiana and North Carolina, with most of the vote counted, there was less than 0.5% between the two candidates.\nHowever, the popular vote remains close. At 0600 GMT it stood at 51.3% for the Democratic Senator from Illinois, against 47.4% for Arizona Senator McCain.\nThe main developments include:\nMr Obama is projected to have seized Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Colorado and Nevada \u2013 all Republican wins in 2004.\nHe is also projected to have won: Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Delaware, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Maryland, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Rhode Island, California, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon.\nMr McCain is projected to have won: Kentucky, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, Georgia, Louisiana, West Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota.\nTurnout was reported to be extremely high \u2013 in some places \"unprecedented\".\nThe Democrats made gains in the Senate race, seizing seats from the Republicans in Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Colorado. They also increased their majority of the House of Representatives.\nExit polls suggest the economy was the major deciding factor for six out of 10 voters.\nNine out of 10 said the candidates' race was not important to their vote, the Associated Press reported. Almost as many said age did not matter.\nLOSSES AND GAINS\nKey states\nProjected gains for Obama in former Republican states of Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Nevada\nSenate seats\nVirginia: Democrat Mark Warner replaces retiring Republican John Warner\nNew Hampshire: Democrat Jeanne Shaheen unseats Republican John Sununu\nNorth Carolina: Democrat Kay Hagan replaces Republican Elizabeth Dole\nNew Mexico: Democrat Tom Udall replaces retiring Republican Pete Domenici\nSeveral states reported very high turnout. It was predicted 130 million Americans, or more, would vote \u2013 more than for any election since 1960.\nMany people said they felt they had voted in a historic election \u2013 and for many African-Americans the moment was especially poignant.\nJohn Lewis, an activist in the civil rights era who was left beaten on an Alabama bridge 40 years ago, told Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church: \"This is a great night. It is an unbelievable night. It is a night of thanksgiving.\"\nBesides winning the presidency, the Democrats tightened their grip on Congress.\nThe entire US House of Representatives and a third of US Senate seats were up for grabs.\nDemocrats won several Senate seats from the Republicans, but seemed unlikely to to gain the nine extra they wanted to reach the 60-seat \"super-majority\", that could prevent Republicans blocking legislation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Emily Scarratt: 'The Women's Super Series Will Be Awesome'\nRW Staff\nThe world's best will face off in the 2019 Women's Super Series.\nStep Up: Injuries mean Zoe Harrison will come into the fray (Getty Images)\nSince I started playing for England, we've had summer tours, but we've not had the best teams in the world gathering together before. To have us, New Zealand, France, Canada and the USA all in one place, San Diego, for the Women's Super Series is awesome. And it's going to be so competitive, especially as it's like the World Cup with short turnarounds.\nThe World Cup is a tough few weeks so it's good to get the chance to replicate that and give some of the younger players exposure to that. It's a good challenge.\nIt's cool that people will be able to watch on TV too. That's how you grow the game \u2013 you don't want a first-class tournament to take place that only people in the host country can watch.\nFrance will be disappointed about the game they lost to us in the Six Nations, but equally we were a bit disappointed with our second half. I'm sure they will look at that game and perhaps change the way they play against us. They hardly kicked the ball and we kicked a lot.\nFrench Tactician: Bourdon controls the game from the scrum-half position beautifully (Getty Images)\nBy the very nature of being French, their players always offer a bit of flair. Pauline Bourdon, their scrum-half, seems to put her mark on games \u2013 like many French nines, she's as influential as the tens are in the English game.\nAmerica and Canada are definitely better sides than the results they had against us last autumn \u2013 the USA lost 57-5 and Canada lost 27-19. There were a lot of youngsters in those groups and they'll be much more experienced now.\nUSA coach Rob Cain is doing good things over there and we have a couple of Canadians at Loughborough Lightning \u2013 Daleaka Menin and Emily Tuttosi. They came to play club rugby in England to experience a different environment, strengthen their game and ultimately make the national side stronger.\nNew Zealand are New Zealand! They are always strong, have been playing rugby since they were three years old and it's in their blood. They've bolstered their squad with a couple of sevens girls alongside younger girls. Kelly Brazier brings enormous experience.\nI'm really looking forward to playing against them as we don't get to do it often given the geography of the two nations. It's the first time we will have played them since the World Cup final (2017), but our side has changed since then and so has theirs. It's not about looking back; it's about the next cycle and the next World Cup.\nOut For Revenge: Scarratt will be looking to avenge Englands's 2017 Rugby World Cup Final loss to New Zealand (Getty Images)\nFor us, it's very much a continuation of what we've been doing after a successful Six Nations campaign. We're trying to judge ourselves against ourselves as much as we can and are looking at our decision-making in games. It's about being ruthless and taking opportunities; something we might get away with in one game we won't get away with against New Zealand or France as you don't get a second chance.\nWe've lost two incredibly experienced players in Katy Daley-Mclean \u2013 our talismanic playmaker \u2013 and Rachael Burford, as well as Jess Breach, for\nthe tour as they're injured, but it's an opportunity for people like Zoe Harrison, Tatyana Heard and Amber Reed to step up and increase our strength in depth in those areas. We'll definitely miss their leadership, but it's a chance for other people to fill the quiet moments in meetings, to make sure the right messages are being shared.\nI definitely think we can beat New Zealand \u2013 and I'm sure if you asked them they would say the same. It's the nature of the two sides. We'll go with a huge amount of belief that we can get the results we want and beat everybody.\nThe 2019 Women's Super Series begins this Friday with the England Women first facing off against the USA. They follow that with Canada on July 6th and France are their opponents four days later. Their final match will be against New Zealand on the 14th of July. To see all the fixtures click on the Fixtures link below.\nLATEST RUGBY WORLD MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION DEALS\nThis column appeared in Rugby World's August 2019 issue.\nExpand The 100 best players in the world right now!\nThe 100 best players in the world right now!\nFind out who makes the cut in the\u2026\nExpand Fixtures\nUpcoming Rugby Fixtures All kick-off times for UK\u2026\nDon't forget to follow Rugby World on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home News The Pirate Saga: And So It Ends\nThe Pirate Saga: And So It Ends\nWritten by Vitalik Buterin\nAuthors: Vitalik Buterin\nLaying rest to one and a half weeks of suspense, yesterday pirateat40, the pseudonymous operator of the Bitcoin Savings and Trust investment scheme, has officially announced that he is in default1. BST was a high-yield investment scheme that opened in November 20112 and offered its customers interest rates of up to 7% per week, claiming to be able to offer such returns by \"selling BTC to a group of local people\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd \u2013 ie. arbitrage. Since then, the scheme has grown rapidly, and Pirate claims3 (and independent estimates agree) that over 500,000 BTC, or $7 million USD at the time, were deposited in BST at its peak.\nFor months, the main question that has been asked about the scheme is: is it a legitimate investment? Proponents argue that it is, and justify Pirate's pseudonymity and secrecy as being necessary to both protect him and prevent others from replicating and diluting the effctiveness of his business model, while detractors believe that Pirate's unwillingness to further elaborate on the sources of his income is a sign that these underlying sources do not exist at all; in short, that BST is a Ponzi scheme. A third possibility is that BST is itself a pass-through for another Ponzi scheme, such as Sergey Mavrodi's MMM-2011, although that possibility has become a remote one since MMM defaulted in June and BST continued operating for two months afterwards.\nThe first shock to BST came on August 14, when Pirate lowered the maximum interest rate on his accounts from 7% to 5%4. Whether the scheme was legitimate or not, it was clear to everyone that an effective interest rate of 3313% was unsustainable and Pirate would have to reduce interest rates at some point. And, at some point this summer, the time finally came. At first, Pirate tried to continue his prior rate of growth and keep attracting new investors by attempting to increase investors' confidence in himself; he announced on July 25 that he, under a newly disclosed supposed real name of \"Trendon Shavers\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd, would be attending Defcon in person on July 27-29, and invited investors and curious Bitcoin users in general to meet him in public \u2013 \"look at a pirate, eye to eye if you dare\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd, the forum thread read. There have been no confirmed reports that anyone actually saw Pirate at Defcon, but the announcement alone restored confidence at least for a short time. However, even then, BST was simply growing too large and too quickly to last, and on August 14, Pirate was forced to contain his growing debts by shifting down his gears. However, Pirate's measure utterly failed in its intent; as Pirate himself describes6, \"In a perfect world this would allow me to hold more coins in reserve outside the system, but instead it only exponentially increased the amount of withdrawals overnight causing mass panic from many of my lenders.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd And thus, on August 17, Pirate was forced to finally shut down.\nSince then, following the tradition started by the July 11 Bitcoinica thief donating 100 BTC to a claims fund7, Pirate has paid back 106.92 BTC8 to one of his depositors, and has only been claiming to make progress toward repaying any others. At first, Pirate promised that all BST depositors would be paid back including interest up to the last hour \u2013 a promise which many pointed out would be very difficult to fulfill even for a legitimate business, as he would be accruing over $50,000 USD of new debt every day, but many believed that he would be able to manage the feat. On August 28, however, Pirate announced that he would not be able to pay back his depositors after all, and that he was officially in default1. He has nevertheless made vague promises that depositors would be partially paid back, requiring operators of so-called \"Pirate pass-through\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd bonds on the Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange to report a list of their customers9 to Pirate by Friday if they want to be refunded.\nThe consequences of this are far-reaching. Almost immediately after Pirate announced BST's closure, the Bitcoin price ended its three-month long rally after briefly spiking up to a one-year high of $15.4 and began a precipitous decline, losing slightly over half its value over three days9 before recovering to what appears to be a stable level at $10-$11. It is unclear if a Pirate default is good or bad for the Bitcoin price; on the one hand, it reduces confidence in Bitcoin as a whole, while on the other hand, it means that many wealthy depositors suddenly have far fewer bitcoins than they thought they would have, and would thus need to buy more (or sell less) to compensate. Many bets have also been made 10,11 over whether Pirate would pay back; these bets have not yet closed, as the deadline for Pirate to pay in full is still over one week away. In the long term, it remains to be seen how this incident changes both the public attitude on the outside to both Bitcoin itself and the financial freedom that it offers and how the Bitcoin community will perceive any new lucrative Bitcoin investment, legitimate or not, that presents itself in the future. 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{"text":"Campus Reform | TAMU students demand mandatory 'anti-racism' course\nTAMU students demand mandatory 'anti-racism' course\nAnthony Gockowski | Contributing Editor\/Investigative Reporter\nA group of student activists at Texas A&M University is demanding that the school incorporate a mandatory anti-racism class into the core curriculum.\nWhat's more, the group of students, known as \"TAMU Anti-Racism\" is also demanding that the university implement penalties for any sort of racist behavior.\n\"We have three main pillars we want to see accomplished,\" student member Emilio Bernal told The Battalion. \"We want this mandatory class, more minority students and faculty on campus, and for there to be penalties for racist behavior on campus.\"\nThe group has staged several protests on campus in an effort to raise awareness of the issue, and has even met with the university's president on multiple occasions to discuss its demands.\n[RELATED: Illinois college defends 'blacks only' course offerings]\nDuring one protest, student activists had their peers fill out sheets of paper detailing any racist encounters they have experienced on campus, which were then stuffed into a pi\u00f1ata resembling republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.\n\"The purpose of this event is to remind students of the work that we've been doing on campus for the anti-racism movement, so that includes things like denouncing politicians who have kind of used racist rhetoric,\" one protester, Laura Reid, explained at the time.\n[RELATED: TAMU students protest 'historical racism' with Trump pinata]\nThe group's primary objective, though, has been to lobby for a three-credit course on racism awareness that all students would be required to complete before graduating.\nThe group has indicated on its Facebook page that it is working with several university faculty members to nail down the logistics of the course, arguing that the university ought to \"treat this mandatory anti-racism course just as courses are treated in the fields of engineering, business, agriculture, and in the various sciences\" because \"a course in anti-racism is of equal importance as are any of these courses and needs to be treated as such.\"\nBernal reiterated the importance of an anti-racism course when speaking with The Battalion, saying \"racial justice is just as important as mathematics, English, and science.\"\nThe course would ultimately need to be approved by the school's Core Curriculum Council, which is currently consulting with other universities that have similar courses in search of direction.\nIf approved, the course could be introduced as early as next semester, but the group has yet to solidify a \"permanent financial commitment\" from the publicly-funded institution, according to Bernal.\nPresident Michael Young, however, seems to be on board with move, reportedly noting in a private meeting with the group that its demands will be incorporated into the core curriculum in some way, but without mentioning any specifics.\nNotably, Young released a public letter Tuesday, just a short time after TAMU Anti-Racism held a protest on campus, outlining in fairly explicit terms the school's commitment to freedom of expression.\n[RELATED: Mizzou race relations committee debates inclusivity vs free speech]\n\"Engaging and embracing diversity enables us to better meet the challenges and find the opportunities that our society and world present,\" he wrote, without directly mentioning the protest group or its demands. \"At Texas A&M, we are neither fearful of this, nor do we apologize for it. Instead, we infuse our marketplace of ideas with a culture of welcome and respect for all.\"\nTo help students understand the principles underlying the First Amendment, Young cites two documents outlining the school's position on free speech\u2014a White Paper on Freedom of Speech and TAMU's Expressive Activities policy\u2014as well as a University Diversity Plan addressing efforts to promote a \"welcoming campus climate\" within that context.\nCampus Reform reached out to the school for a more explicit statement on the matter and is currently awaiting a response.\nFollow the author of this article on Twitter: @AGockowski\nAnthony Gockowski\nContributing Editor\/Investigative Reporter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PastWord\nThinking about history and memory from a New Zealand perspective\nMust rogues fall? On the mathematics of monuments. Part 3: addition\nEwan\tUncategorized\t 17 January 2020\nHaving considered the capacity of monuments to create division, and the strategy of subtraction (or removal), in this post I turn to addition.\n+ + + + Addition + + + +\nMoving a memorial to a museum can be one way of reinterpreting and recontextualising it, but something similar can also be done while the memorial remains in place. This is the strategy I'll call 'addition': adding to the existing text and imagery to incorporate changed perspectives or new historical scholarship.\nGraffiti and other types of vandalism (such as painting a statue, placing objects on its head, or lopping off body parts) can be unofficial forms of addition. Although it's a kind of iconoclasm aimed at subverting a monument rhetorically, and therefore somewhat akin to efforts to remove the monument physically, graffiti is also a commentary on the messages the monument conveys.\nPortion of the Abel Tasman memorial, Golden Bay, with amendment, 2010\nIn a speech in 2018, following the painting of anti-racist slogans on a statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, public historian Lisa Murray asked the provocative question: should the graffiti have been removed, or should they be considered to form part of the changing meaning of the statue?[1] Leaving graffiti in place, however, could simply encourage tit-for-tat vandalism. It's worth remembering that white supremacists also deface monuments, and that there have been attacks on M\u0101ori carvings in New Zealand and on indigenous memorials in Australia.\nA more official form of addition is the placing of a new plaque or inscription on an existing memorial. In 1994, for example, a new plaque was added to the so-called 'Explorers' Monument' in Fremantle, Western Australia, acknowledging that the original plaque portrayed frontier violence from a white settler viewpoint.[2]\n'Explorers' monument', Fremantle, Western Australia\nAn alternative to a new plaque on the memorial itself is to place information boards nearby, providing additional information and perspectives on the history of the memorial and of the person or event it commemorates. Digital technologies also allow us to add new layers of interpretation without destroying the old ones: websites and apps make it easy to ensure information about memorials and the events they commemorate is accessible and up to date.[3]\nAn issue with the additive approach to contentious monuments is that any new interpretation will itself be only one point of view. Like the original memorial, it will be a product of its time, and can be subject to debate and revision. New Zealand journalist Tim Watkin, though supportive of historical re-evalution, asks, 'where does it stop? Does each generation add a plaque as our views of history twist and turn?'[4] Even if a new plaque itself becomes outdated in time, however, it may be enough to signal that there's more than one perspective on history. And information boards or digital interpretation can be replaced and updated more easily than plaques on the memorial itself.\nA more significant challenge can be reaching consensus about the wording of any new plaque or sign. Debates about proposed new wording can sometimes drag on for years, and may simply provide a new focus for disagreements about history and public memory.[5]\nAnother concern is that new information and interpretation may be insufficient to overcome the impact of the original memorial. This is particularly true if the monument is a dominating presence in the landscape and if its design and symbolism convey a powerful message (perhaps in conjunction with other, similar memorials). In such cases, a new plaque or sign that requires viewers to come close to the memorial and take the time to read the additional information may be inadequate.\n[1] Andrew Taylor, 'Historian Questions Whether Graffiti Should Have Been Left on Captain Cook Statue', Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2018, https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/historian-captain-cook-statue-graffiti-indigenous-20180418-p4zade.html. A video of Lisa Murray's Jim Kerr Address, 'Monuments and Memories: Reassessing Colonial Imperialism', 18 April 2018, can be seen at https:\/\/australia.icomos.org\/events\/jim-kerr-address\/.\n[2] Bruce Scates, 'Monumental Errors: How Australia Can Fix its Racist Colonial Statues', The Conversation, 28 August 2017, https:\/\/theconversation.com\/monumental-errors-how-australia-can-fix-its-racist-colonial-statues-82980; Vanessa Mills and Ben Collins, 'The Controversial Statue that was Added to, not Town Down or Vandalised', ABC News, 29 August 2017, https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-08-29\/explorers-monument-added-to-not-torn-down-or-vandalised\/8853224; Stephen Gilchrist, 'Surfacing Histories: Memorials and Public Art in Perth', Artlink, issue 38:2, June 2018, pp. 42-47.\n[3] See, for example, Hannah Natanson, 'There's a New Way to Deal with Confederate Monuments: Signs that Explain their Racist History', Washington Post, 22 September 2019, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/09\/22\/theres-new-way-deal-with-confederate-monuments-signs-that-explain-their-racist-history\/.\n[4] Tim Watkin, 'Slater Slams History. At Least the Discussion of it', Pundit blog, 3 April 2016, https:\/\/www.pundit.co.nz\/slater-slams-history-at-least-the-discussion-of-it.\n[5] For example, attempts to create new plaques for the memorial to slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England, and to controversial eighteenth-century politician Henry Dundas in Edinburgh, Scotland, have become bogged down in disputes about wording and interpretations of history: Tristan Cork, 'Plaque Rewrite as Row Goes On Over Wording for Colston Statue', Bristol Post, 26 March 2019, https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/bristol-post\/20190326\/281629601617510; Bill Caven, 'Historians Clash in War of Words Over Memorial to Dundas and Slavery Past', Scottish Daily Mail, 28 October 2019, https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/scottish-daily-mail\/20191028\/281668256766086.\nPrevious Post Must rogues fall? On the mathematics of monuments. Part 2: subtraction\nNext Post Must rogues fall? On the mathematics of monuments. 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{"text":"D'Angelo: It's time for the College Football Hall of Fame to open its doors to Howard Schnellenberger\nTom D'Angelo\ntdangelo@pbpost.com\nThe first few lines of Jerry Claiborne's College Football Hall of Fame profile read:\n\"Jerry Claiborne was famous for three things. He was a winner. He took over washed-up programs and gave them new life. And he taught his players to be good students.\"\nClaiborne won 59.1 percent of his games without winning a national championship during a 28-year career, falling short of the requirement set by the National Football Foundation that coaches win 60 percent of their games to be eligible for enshrinement, but qualifying for the \"unique cases\" clause.\nClaiborne, who coached at Virginia Tech, Maryland and Kentucky, is one of 31 coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame who won fewer than 60 percent of their games. But this column is not to diminish what Claiborne, or any others who fell below that threshold, accomplished. Rather to point out that another coach who \"took over washed-up programs and gave them new life,\" perhaps better than any, has yet to be recognized by the hall.\nHoward Schnellenberger's career, as much as any man who roamed the collegiate sidelines, transcends wins and losses. One of the greatest architects when it comes to football programs, Schnellenberger, 86, resurrected two programs in Miami and Louisville and started another from scratch in FAU. On June 16, the College Football Hall of Fame will announce more than 200 names \u2013 including seven FBS coaches \u2013 that will be on the 2021 ballot for induction, a ballot on which Schnellenberger's name never has appeared.\n\"I don't think there can be a College Football Hall of Fame without having Howard Schnellenberger in it,\" current Miami Hurricanes head coach Manny Diaz said Monday.\nSchnellenberger was 158-151-3 for a .511 winning percentage in 27 years as a college head coach. And no, he would not be the coach with the lowest winning percentage if he were inducted. That distinction belongs to Tuss McLaughry, who won 49 percent of his games at Westminster (PA), Amherst, Brown and Dartmouth from 1915 to 1954.\nBut ole Tuss was on the NCAA football rules committee and the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association. And he was the recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award for his service to football and has an award named after him for \"service to mankind.\"\nCertainly deserving as a \"unique case.\"\nBut so, too, is Schnellenberger, who not only resurrected Miami but brought it back from the brink of extinction in the late '70s to a national championship in 1984, his fifth and final season at UM, building the foundation for a program that would win four titles in nine years.\nClaiborne is not the only coach who \"took over washed-up programs and gave them new life.\" And he should not be the only one with that reputation in the hall of fame.\n\"What he did at Miami especially given the state of Miami's program when he arrived, it would be hard to find a similar accomplishment in recent times in college football,\" Diaz said.\n\"He blazed the trail. And he changed the way everybody looks at the University of Miami football program, in a lot of ways, sometimes the entire university as a whole.\"\nSchnellenberger was 41-16 at Miami even after getting off to a 5-6 start after replacing Lou Saban. That's a .719 winning percentage. He once again had to suffer through lean years after taking over Louisville in 1985, going 8-24-1 in his first three years before winning 24 games his next three years, and again after starting up FAU, which meant adding Ls to the resume before getting the Owls to where they became the youngest program in NCAA history to earn a bowl bid.\nOh, he was 6-0 in bowl games in career.\nIn a sense, Howard is being punished by the Hall Gods for leaving UM for the lure of broken promises from the USFL.\nBut if it were up to one of his biggest rivals from the early 1980s, Howard and the Hall would have been synonymous years ago.\n\"If they had to play against him, they would vote for him, I guarantee you,\" former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016, said Monday. \"I played against him and I'd vote for him.\n\"To me, he was just an outstanding coach, outstanding successful coach.\nYou can make exceptions. This is one exception they should make.\"\nHoward's contribution to college football goes beyond his achievements as a head coach. He was an All-America end at Kentucky in 1955, he recruited Joe Namath to Alabama and was the Crimson Tide's offensive coordinator for three national championships (1961, 1964, 1965).\nHoward has been enshrined in five sports halls of fame (including Palm Beach County in 2009), has one field (FAU) and one football complex (Louisville) named in his honor and has a statue sitting at the gateway to that field at FAU.\nBut the one hall that would neatly tie up his entire career has eluded him.\nThe day Willie Taggart was introduced as FAU's next coach, he honored Schnellenberger, who was sitting just to Taggart's left as he spoke from the podium.\n\"I'm looking over here, looking at the greatest coach,\" he said. \"I've got goose bumps. I'm trying not to look at him because I'm getting a little choked up, but coach, thank you for being here.\n\"I can't wait until you go in the Hall of Fame. You should have been in there already.\"\nHoward Schnellenberger does belong there. It's not too late to make that (long overdue) tribute happen.\ntom_dangelo@pbpost.com\n@tomdangelo44","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now?\nIn an interview with WIRED, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explains his decision to stop protecting 8chan\u2014and where the notorious forum goes from here.\nCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced Sunday that his company would stop providing protection for internet for 8chan, after a series of mass shooting manifestos were posted on the forum.David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\nThe internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said it would cut service on Sunday evening to 8chan, the infamous online forum that has housed numerous posts and manifestos linked to horrific mass shootings in the United States and around the world. The move comes nearly two days after a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart left 20 dead and dozens wounded. The alleged gunman appears to have posted his manifesto on 8chan 20 minutes before the shooting. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke with WIRED Sunday night about his decision.\nCloudflare provides infrastructural support, like content delivery services and DDoS protection, to 19 million online properties. Revoking that support can effectively shut a site down, at least until it finds a new provider. But the company has long maintained that it should not serve as an arbiter of speech online, with one notable exception: Cloudflare severed ties with white supremacist site the Daily Stormer two years ago.\nLily Hay Newman covers information security, digital privacy, and hacking for WIRED.\nAs pressure mounted in the wake of the El Paso shooting, Cloudflare at first maintained that it would not drop 8chan. But by Sunday evening, the company had reversed course.\n\"8chan has been on our radar for a long time as a problematic user,\" says Prince. \"But we have a responsibility, which is much beyond 'We terminate sites we don't like.' I'm nervous about whether we've made the right decision, and I'm nervous about how this will set precedent in the future.\"\nPrince argues that, rather than Cloudflare, platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter should decide what belongs on their own sites. Cloudflare shouldn't make those calls any more than asphalt should set speed limits. The major platforms can, and do, moderate their own content and manage violent, destructive trends themselves\u2014even if it's been an imperfect system in practice. But Prince says that he didn't account for platforms like 8chan that are intentionally created as a forum for unregulated expression.\n\"When you have platforms that are effectively lawless like this, then maybe that shifts the responsibility further down the stack,\" Prince says. Looking at Daily Stormer and now 8chan, Prince says that Cloudflare is attempting to find the line where \"a site has shown repeatedly that it is causing active, real harm.\"\nCloudflare gets requests from individuals, institutions, and governments worldwide to take down sites every day, though, because of their alleged real-world harm. It doesn't act on those requests precisely because that allegation is so subjective. As a result, the actual parameters for what merits a takedown remain extremely murky.\nAnd even when Cloudflare takes the step to unilaterally cut service, nothing stops those shunned sites from buying the services they need elsewhere. The Daily Stormer, for example, was back online within a couple of days, albeit harder to find. And though Google stopped indexing the 8chan homepage back in 2015, taking some wind out of its sails, the site has still managed to become a go-to for hate speech of all sorts and, of late, mass shooters spreading their extremist propaganda.\n\"Some of you might've read the @Cloudflare news already,\" a Twitter account associated with the site posted on Sunday evening. \"There might be some downtime in the next 24-48 hours while we find a solution.\"\n\"It solves the problem for us, but it doesn't solve the problem for the internet.\"\nMatthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO\nEven if 8chan itself somehow never reemerges, which seems unlikely, discussions like those hosted on the forum can easily move to another platform. 8chan itself grew out of the forum 4chan in 2013. Meanwhile, the anything-goes social network Gab went down temporarily last fall, because its providers\u2014including the domain registrar GoDaddy and web host Joyent\u2014dropped it after the alleged shooter in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting made threats on the social network. But Gab came back as soon as other companies stepped in to provide services. Cloudflare stuck with Gab throughout.\nInfrastructure providers have the power to let a site go down, and maybe even do it irreparable damage in the process. But the internet was built to be decentralized precisely to protect speech, so regardless of what you think of the precedent Cloudflare is setting, 8chan will likely be back soon, something Prince readily acknowledges.\n\"The real thing that kills me is that, at the end of the day, [dropping 8chan] doesn't actually fix the problem,\" Prince says. \"It solves the problem for us, but it doesn't solve the problem for the internet. It doesn't address the core causes of why hate festers online.\"\nUPDATE 8\/5\/209 10:15 am EST: This story has been updated to reflect that Google removed the 8chan homepage from search results in 2015, but still indexes certain other 8chan pages.\nHow scientists built a \"living drug\" to beat cancer\nHey, Apple! \"Opt out\" is useless. Let people opt in\nBig banks could soon jump on the quantum bandwagon\nThe terrible anxiety of location sharing apps\nNow even funerals are livestreamed\n\ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2640\ufe0f Want the best tools to get healthy? Check out our Gear team's picks for the best fitness trackers, running gear (including shoes and socks), and best headphones.\n\ud83d\udce9 Get even more of our inside scoops with our weekly Backchannel newsletter\nLily Hay Newman is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking. 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{"text":"Subtitles section Play video\nPrint subtitles\nHi again. I'm Adam. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. Today I have a very important lesson, I think,\nfor all of you that will help you very much with your reading, but especially your writing\nskills. Okay?\nToday we're going to look at the sentence. What is a sentence? Now, I know that all of\nyou are saying: \"Well, we know what a sentence is. We've learned this a thousand times before.\"\nRight? I know what you've learned and I know what you haven't learned, many of you; some\nof you have, of course. The sentence has a very basic structure, there's a very basic\ncomponent that must be involved or included in a sentence, and a lot of grammar teachers,\na lot of English teachers don't teach this. Okay? All of you, I'm sure have by now heard\nof \"SVO\", but have you heard of \"SVsC\"? Have you heard of \"SVC\"? Maybe yes, maybe no. But\nI'm sure a lot of you are going: \"What? I've never heard of these things before.\" Well,\nwe're going to talk about this in one second.\nBefore we talk about a sentence, we have to talk about a clause. Now, what is a clause?\nI'm sure you've heard this word before as well, but just in case, a clause is any subject,\nverb combination. It's a group of words that must include a subject and a verb. Now, also\nvery important to remember: it must be a tense verb, meaning that it must take a time; past,\npresent, future. Okay? No base verb, no infinitive verb. So that is a clause. Now, there are\ntwo types of clauses. Okay? We have independent clauses and we have dependent clauses. The...\nThese are sometimes called subordinate clauses. Now, every sentence in English to be a grammatically\ncorrect sentence must have an independent clause. It doesn't need a dependent clause,\nbut it could have one. The independent clause could include a dependent clause as the subject\nor object. We'll talk about that after.\nSo an independent clause has a subject and a verb, and it can stand by itself. It can\ncontain a complete idea by itself. Okay? So, technically, the shortest sentence you can\nhave in English will be a... Will be an independent clause with a subject and verb. What is the\nabsolute shortest sentence that you can think of? Think of a sentence, the shortest you\ncan possibly make it. Okay? Here's an example: \"Go!\" Is this a complete English sentence?\nYes. Why? Because it contains an independent clause. Where? We have the implied subject:\n\"you\" and the tense verb: \"go\", the imperative tense \"go\". So this your basic English sentence.\nNow, we have three other types, three basic types and we can of course play with these\nafter. Subject, verb, object. Some independent clauses must have an object, we'll talk about\nthat in a second. Excuse me. Subject, verb, subject complement. Some sentences must have\na subject complement. Subject, verb, complement. Okay? We're going to talk about each of these\nin a moment. I have the \"A\" here because quite often, this complement is actually an adverb\nphrase or an adverbial. We'll talk about that in a second.\nSo your basic sentence can be any one of these three. Now, the reason we're looking at this...\nAll these structures is because once you understand what must be contained in a sentence, then\nyou can read any English sentence out there that is grammatically correct and be able\nto understand the main idea of that sentence. Okay? So let's start with \"SVO\".\nOkay, let's look at our \"SVO\" type of independent clause: subject, verb, object. Now, first,\nwhat is an object? Well, we have two types of objects to talk about. We have the direct\nobject, we have the indirect object. Now, the thing to understand is that the object\nalways answers a question about the verb, it completes the meaning of the verb by asking\nthe questions: \"What?\" or: \"Who?\" Now, keep in mind that technically, it's: \"Whom?\" But\nif you say: \"Who?\" I'll let it go this time. Okay? Formal academic writing, \"Whom?\", \"Whom?\",\n\"Whom?\" IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, all that - \"Whom?\" not: \"Who?\" In the object position. But the\ndirect object answers: \"What?\" or: \"Who?\" about the verb. Okay? We'll get back to that.\nAn indirect object answers the question: \"To what?\" or: \"For what?\" or: \"Whom?\", \"To what?\",\n\"For what?\", \"To whom?\", \"For whom?\" Usually about the object, about the direct object.\nYou will never see an indirect object without a direct object in the sentence as well. Now,\nagain, before I get back to the objects, let me explain this word: \"transitive verb\". I\ndon't care if you remember this word or not; it's not important, that's just a grammar\nword. Understand the meaning of this situation. A transitive verb must take an object, a direct\nobject. Okay?\nLook at this sentence here: \"I want.\" Is this a complete sentence? I have a subject and\nverb. Right? Should be okay. \"Want\" is a transitive verb. There's no such thing as wanting without\nwanting something. Okay? So this is not a complete sentence. This sentence or this clause\nmust take an object. \"I want candy.\" Now it's complete because it answers the question:\n\"What?\" about want. Not all verbs are transitive. Some are intransitive, means they don't take\nan object. Some are called ambitransitive, means in some situations, they take an object;\nin some situations, they don't take an object. But that's for a different lesson altogether.\nSo we have \"SVO\" must have an object to the verb.\nNow, here: \"She gave Mary a letter.\" We have our subject \"she\", we have our verb, \"gave\",\npast tense. \"Mary\", okay? She gave who? No. She gave what? A letter. We have our direct\nobject to Mary, indirect object. She gave a letter to Mary. She gave Mary a letter.\nOkay? So we have: she gave what? Again, this is a transitive verb, it must take an object,\na direct object. She gave a letter to Mary, our indirect object. This is a complete independent\nclause, a complete idea full of meaning, ready to be added on to.\nNow, what do you put before or what you put after, that's all complements basically. It's\nnot important. You can have a lot more phrases, you can have other clauses, you can have subordinate\nclauses added to this. This is your main idea of the sentence, that's your independent clause.\nLet's look at the other type: the subject, verb, subject complement.\nOkay, so now we're going to look at the other type of sentence, the other type of independent\nclause you can have. Subject, verb, subject complement. Before we look at it, I want you\nto notice very carefully this \"e\" here. Okay? We don't have \"compliment\". \"Compliment\",\n\"complement\". This one means to complete something. This one means to say nice things about someone.\n\"Oh, I look your shirt, it's very nice. It suits you.\" That's a compliment. \"Complement\",\nto complete. So a subject complement completes the meaning of something. Now, we had the\nobject before. The object answered the question about the verb. Right? It completed the meaning\nof the verb. The subject complement completes the meaning or says something about the subject,\nnot the verb. Okay? It also answers the question: \"What?\" about the subject. One way to think\nabout this is think of the verb, the \"be\" verb-and it's always going to be a \"be\" verb-think\nof it as an equal sign. Subject = the subject complement.\nSo, for example... And many students still ask me this, I'll say it again. \"I am Canadian.\"\nSo \"I\" equals \"Canadian\", Canadian completes the meaning of \"I\", same thing. Right? This\nis the completion of me.\nThis sentence looks a little bit more complicated, but it's the exact same thing. \"The weatherman\nmust be wrong about today's forecast.\" I still have the \"be\" verb, this modal, \"must\" only\ntells me something about the degree of the \"be\" verb; it doesn't tell me anything about\nthe subject or the complement. So the weatherman, wrong. The weatherman is wrong \"about today's\nforecast.\" This is just an extra piece of information. It is a complement to \"wrong\".\nWrong about what? That's... We're going to talk about different types of complements\nlike this one. \"Wrong\" is a complement to \"weatherman\". \"About today's forecast\" is\na complement to \"wrong\". A sentence can have many complements. Okay? An independent clause\ncan only have one object, one subject, one verb. However, you can have many clauses in\na sentence, you can only have one independent clause unless, of course, you have two independent\nclause joined by a conjunction; \"and\", \"but\", \"or\", etcetera. We'll talk about that in a\nlittle bit as well. So weatherman must be wrong about today's forecast. So this is your\nsubject, verb... Subject, verb, subject complement. Now we're going to look at the last one: subject,\nverb, complement.\nOkay, let's look at our last one. We have \"SVA\". I put \"A\" because quite often when\nyou have to have it, it's an adverbial, but technically, anything that's not an object\nor a subject complement is just a complement. It is necessary to... For the completion of\nthe sentence. Now, an adverbial. Why do we call it an \"adverbial\"? Because it answers\nthe questions: \"Where?\", \"When?\", \"How?\", \"Why?\" We saw that the object answers: \"What?\"\nor: \"Who?\" Adverbial answers the other questions. About what? About the subject? No. It's about\nthe verb again. Okay?\nSo, for example, if I say: \"I went.\" Is this a complete sentence? No, because \"go\" means\nyou have to go somewhere. Technically, in certain contexts, it could be an answer to\nanother question. But as... By itself, it's not a complete sentence. I need to add something\nto it. \"I went to the store.\" I went where? To the store. \"To the store\" is a complement,\nbut it's acting as an adverb because it answers one of these questions. Remember: a complement,\nand I just want to explain it here, completes the meaning of something. It could... In this case, it\ncompletes the meaning of the verb, but complements can also complete the meanings of something\nelse. We had \"SVsC\" completes the meaning of the subject. We can also have complements\nthat complete the meaning of an object, or a preposition, or many other things. I'll\ngive you a few examples soon.\n\"Bill lives in Hawaii.\" Bill lives where? In Hawaii.\nNow, I want you to also look at this sentence: \"Carl reads.\" Now, could this sent-... Could\nthis clause-I should say, subject, verb-could this be a complete sentence? Sure. What does\nCarl do..? What does Carl do in his spare time? He reads. Now, what he reads, maybe\nnot important; I want the action more than the thing he reads. However, I see Carl, he's\nreading all the time, and I think: \"What? Is he in school?\" No. \"Carl reads for pleasure.\"\nI need this piece of information to complete the idea, to complete the meaning of this\nsentence. \"Carl reads books.\" and: \"Carl reads for pleasure.\" are two completely different\nsentences; they have completely different meanings. If I want to specify a particular\nmeaning, I want to tell you why he reads, then I have to add this complement, I have\nto add this adverbial to complete the meaning of this verb. \"He reads newspapers.\", \"He\nreads comic books.\", \"He reads obituaries.\" Do you know what an \"obituary\" is? In the\nnewspaper, sometimes they put little notices of people who died. Some people like to read\nthese things, I don't know why, but some people do. But Carl, he reads for pleasure; he enjoys\nit, it's fun for him. But this completes the meaning of that.\nSo there you have the three types. Now, the thing to remember is that you can mix all\nof these. You can have \"SVAO\". Well, no, you can't have \"SVA\". You can \"SVOA\", you can\nhave \"SVOC\", you can have \"SVAAC\", etcetera. You can mix them. I'm going to give you a\ncouple of examples here to see what I'm talking about.\nOkay, let's look at some examples here. I want... Keep in mind this is very basic stuff.\nYou're going to see very, very complicated sentences in your readings, especially once\nyou get into academic readings. But: \"I went to the store to buy bread for breakfast this\nmorning.\" Now, this might seem like a bit of a complicated sentence, but it's actually\na simple sentence and it only has \"SV\", lots of \"C's\". Okay? \"I went\", subject, verb. Where?\n\"To the store\". This is an adverbial. Where? \"To buy bread\". Why? Why did I go to the store?\n\"For breakfast\". \"Bread\", for what? At the store, I bought bread. I bought bread for\nbreakfast. When? \"This morning\". This goes back to \"went\". Okay? All of these are complements\nto the... to each other and to the verb: \"went\". You can have many complements. You don't want\nto have too, too many because then your sentence becomes long, and a little bit boring, and\na little bit in danger of being run-on. Okay? But you can add as many as you want. Now,\nthe complements could be anything; could be infinitive phrase, or participle phrase, or\na clause, or a gerund, or noun phrase. Anything. Okay? As long as it's grammatically correct.\nHere's another sentence. Now, this one also looks a little complicated, it's not either.\n\"What Sharon forgot to mention was that her husband was the CEO of Microsoft and makes\na lot of money, which is why she can afford all of her holidays.\" Sorry, I forgot the\ncomma there. Okay. Now you're thinking: \"Oh, wow. I have no idea.\" First thing, remember\nwhat I said: you have to find your independent clause first. Now, keep in mind a subject\ncan be a subordinate clause as well. What is the subject of this entire sentence? Is\nit Sharon? No. Is it CEO, is it her husband, is it Microsoft? No. What we have here is\na noun clause subject. This is your subject, a subject which is an independent clau-...\nA dependent clause-sorry-this is called a noun clause. It has its own subject and verb.\nRemember a dependent clause also has a subject and verb. Forgot what? \"To mention\", it has\nan object to \"forgot\". Now, here's your verb: \"was\". Okay? \"Her husband\", \"that her husband\nwas the CEO of Microsoft and makes a lot of money\". Sharon forg-... This is the subject,\nthis is the subject complement because we have a \"be\" verb. This is also a noun clause\nwith its own subject and verb. \"That her husband was the CEO\" and that he \"makes a lot of money.\"\nOkay? \"Which is why she can afford all of her holidays.\" We were wondering: \"Sharon\ngoes away on holiday all the time, but she doesn't work. How does she do that? She's\nnever told us that she inherited money. Oh, what she forgot to mention last time she explained\nwas that\", blah, blah, blah. Okay? So this is a complement.\nNow, of course, this doesn't look too easy. Remember: a subject could be anything, an\nobject could be anything. Not anything, but there's all kinds of subjects and objects.\nWe'll discuss that another time. Find your subject, your main subject, find your main\nverb, find your object, complement, etcetera.\nNow, remember I said: every sentence must have at least one independent clause. It could\nhave two, it could have three, as long as you have a coordinating conjunction, \"and\",\n\"but\", \"or\". \"John loves Kate\", John loves who? Kate. \"and Kate loves John.\" Subject,\nverb, object. Subject, verb, object. Two independent clauses, one sentence, conjunction. Okay?\nThis might seem a little bit difficult, but there's a quiz on www.engvid.com, go to it,\ncheck it out. And remember: this is all very good for your writing skills and your reading\nskills. But if you need a little bit more help, check out my website: www.writetotop.com,\na lot more information there to help you out. And come again soon.\nRepeat video\nSubtitles and vocabulary\nOperation of videos Adjust the video here to display the subtitles\nA2 BEG US subject clause sentence complement object independent clause\nLearn English Grammar: The Sentence\nLynn posted on 2014\/07\/01\nMore Share\nVideo vocabulary\nAbout Us News Join Us FAQ Contact Us\nChrome Extension Blog Pronunciation Challenge Search Vocabulary\nBusiness & Finance Learning Resources Arts & Entertainment Music Animation News & Current Affairs Kids Leisure & Travel Science & Technology Health & Wellness\nA1 BEG A2 BEG B1 INT B2 H-INT C1 ADV C2 ADV\nVoiceTube's Other Services\nPrivacy \u02d9 Terms \u02d9\n@2021 VoiceTube Corporation. All rights reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Slam Dunk's Lasting Impact on Anime\n2 January 2021 9:43 am\nby Jordan Mulder\nSports anime and manga live in that strange realm of pop culture where typically, most people are incredibly invested or not at all. It feels oddly divisive, where other anime might not. For anime fans who love sports, it's a dream come true.\nBut then it gets tricky. For fans of sports, they might be interested, unless they don't watch anime. If someone is interested in anime but not sports, then why would they even be remotely interested?\nAs with most anime, it's never as simple as it seems. Sure, the shows are about sports but to only classify them as such would be a disservice to the story. Not all sports anime are created equal. In fact, many are solely about the show, and that's where their fan base comes in. If someone is die hard for baseball or rugby, then they might be more inclined to watch a show devoted to that sport.\nBut others frame things like characterization, growth, subtle plot twists through the device of the sport. While the sport is occurring, so are other things. Relationships are evolving, people are growing, and life is changing. The sport might just be a catalyst for such major events.\nAnd sports anime have quite a task in front of them. They have to appeal to both sides of the fan base. They have to spark the interest of anime into sports fans and the interest of sports into anime fans. A few shows do that incredibly well.\nOne such show was Slam Dunk. An anime based on a manga of the same name, it was one of Weekly Sh\u014dnen Jump\u200d\u200a'\u200bs highest selling series. The show is considered one of the pioneers of the genre and for good reason.\nWe follow Hanamichi Sakuragi, a boy with a fiery temper and the red hair to match. He's a rowdy fella, becoming the leader of a gang and subsequently, incredibly unpopular with the ladies.\nTrying to break his record of fifty romantic rejections, Hanamichi desperately wants a girlfriend. After the last rejection, who denied him in favor of a basketball player, he determines it's a worthless sport for losers. Definitely not for him.\nWhen he's approached by a fellow student at Sh\u014dhoku High School, a girl named Haruko Akagi, he falls head over heels. She's everything he's dreamed of, and as a plus, she isn't repulsed by him like the other women he had previously encountered.\nShe recognizes talent in him and asks if he likes basketball. Like all smitten teenagers trying to impress someone new, he says yes without giving it much thought. She challenges him to slam dunk but instead watches as he tries but only manages to slam his head into the backboard of the net.\nStill, she recognizes the athleticism in him and pushes him to join the team. He does because he's madly in love. However, he soon realizes that he genuinely enjoys playing and is pretty damn good at it. The show follows him as he's joined by rivals and other misfits and pushes the team to be one of the best in Japan.\nA Basketball Manga Changed the Game\nWhile it absolutely is about basketball, as the writer and illustrator Takehiko Inoue based it off his own real-life experience and love for the sport, even he mentions that it could have worked with a different sport. But people loved it all the same, for both sport and the characters playing it. The series even managed to push the popularity of basketball to new levels within Japan.\nThe series was even so popular that creator Inoue helped start a scholarship called the 'Slam Dunk Scholarship,' where recipients of the award are given the opportunity to attend a college preparatory school in America, where tuition and costs are paid in full.\nBeyond the popularity of the show when it first was published and the subsequent release of the anime, the series remains a massive hit today. In 2005, TV's Asahi released their Top 100 Anime that was voted by Japanese viewers. The poll reached through multiple age groups and categories.\nSlam Dunk managed to snag a top 10 spot, beating out other heavy hitters such as Sailor Moon and even Pokemon. The show has managed to stay relevant and in the public eye for years now, often landing spots in top lists and ranking high for the viewers' choice in anime being made into a live-action film.\nIn fact, because the novel coronavirus has shut down hundreds of events throughout the world, the NBA suspended the season. That left Taiwan with the heavy task of entertaining thousands of basketball fans. Sure, they could maybe air old matches or commentary.\nInstead, a sports network decided to air Slam Dunk instead, introducing a whole new audience to the anime. And people loved it. Taiwanese social media was ablaze with praise for the show from both those who had already seen it and those who were new to the show.\nThe series will strive even further this year, with Inoue revealing on his official Twitter that 2020 is the year of the Slam Dunk resurgence. This year will feature over a hundred new illustrations that Inoue has been working on, titled 'PLUS\/SLAM DUNK ILLUSTRATIONS 2.'\nThe series pushes hard the idea of redemption, perseverance, and passion. Often these are huge thematic points for sports anime because so often it happens with sports in real life. Those who are deeply intertwined with their passions, sports or not, find that their point of obsession, whether it be basketball or something else, pushes them to be better in their everyday life as well.\nWe see with Hanamichi that it no longer is just about him or his romantic pursuits. It becomes part of something greater. He has to worry not only about his performance but his team as well. With sports anime, that's often where the difference resides.\nSports have the task of not only capturing the attention of viewers and spectators but competition as well. Most sports focus on winning, whether that be as a team or as an individual. It would be easy to leave it at that, but it's never that easy.\nSlam Dunk managed to show the best of everything, even when that meant showing the worst of the sport. It told viewers about the struggles of not only the sport but feeling like you don't belong. That's where a good sports anime story steps in.\nEven if Hanamichi hadn't been amazing and naturally talented at basketball, he still managed to find a passion for something. And it was that passion that helped him to be a better person. Being on the team helped him to see not only how training, working hard and having determination not only helped the team but himself as well.\nOver everything, past becoming one of the best basketball teams in the nation and a stellar player, Hanamichi learned how to be the best person he could be, both in and out of the sport. And that's what a good sports anime does.\nSo it's no wonder that Slam Dunk laid down the foundation for what the genre could be. That's the resiliency in the series, and how it has managed to stay relevant even now. No matter how athletic someone is or their passion (or disdain) for sports, there can be something found in the series for everybody.\nTV Asahi\n7 Must-Watch Sports Comedy Anime Series\nThe 7 Best Basketball Anime Series You Have to Watch\nThe 10 Best Sports Anime to Watch\nDemon Slayer Sales Surpass 150 Million, Overtaking Doraemon\nmanga Jacob Parker-Dalton 11 months ago\nSLAM DUNK Animated Movie Announced\nanime Corey Prasek 1 year ago\nOne Piece Prevails Over Demon Slayer in TV Asahi's Manga General Election\nmanga Jacob Parker-Dalton 1 year ago\nBlue Lock: Transforming Sports Manga for the Better\nTakehiko Inoue Is A Manga Giant Outside The States\nmanga Chris Cimi 2 years ago\n'Elements of Me': Japanese Fans Choose Top 50 Manga That Define Them\ngames Eddie Lehecka 1 day ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Surviving the longest siege in modern history\nThis video can not be played\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\nIn the early 1990s during the break-up of former Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serb forces laid siege to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, for more than four years.\nOver a quarter of a million people were confined to the city which was bombarded from all sides on a regular basis and only sustained by humanitarian aid supplied by the United Nations and supplies brought in via smuggling routes.\nMore than 10,000 people were killed during the siege which officially ended in early 1996 weeks after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement which halted the Bosnian war in December 1995.\nVedrana Seksan, aged 15 when the war broke out in 1992, lived in the city throughout the siege. She told Witness about the experience.\nWitness is a World Service programme of the stories of our times told by the people who were there.\nSurviving the longest siege in modern history. Video, 00:05:00Surviving the longest siege in modern history\nUp Next. The fish that nearly caused a war. Video, 00:04:17The fish that nearly caused a war\nThe 'Queen of Chess' who defeated Kasparov. Video, 00:04:00The 'Queen of Chess' who defeated Kasparov\nShuttle disaster: 'Something didn't look right' Video, 00:04:15Shuttle disaster: 'Something didn't look right'\nWhy did 918 people die because of this man? Video, 00:04:17Why did 918 people die because of this man?\nEditor's recommendations\nRubik's cube fans go head-to-head at 'speedcubing' Video, 00:01:34Rubik's cube fans go head-to-head at 'speedcubing'\nPolice kick and punch Tyre Nichols during arrest. Video, 00:01:57Police kick and punch Tyre Nichols during arrest\nAuckland cleans up after 'unprecedented' floods. Video, 00:00:55Auckland cleans up after 'unprecedented' floods\nCan these rocks really power light bulbs? Video, 00:01:59Can these rocks really power light bulbs?\nDownward dog with some puppy licks. Video, 00:01:01Downward dog with some puppy licks\nAirport flooded and homes swamped in Auckland. Video, 00:00:52Airport flooded and homes swamped in Auckland\nTennessee official 'sickened' by bodycam footage. Video, 00:00:43Tennessee official 'sickened' by bodycam footage\nFires burn as rebel police riot on streets of Haiti. Video, 00:00:59Fires burn as rebel police riot on streets of Haiti\nThousands protest in Australia 'Invasion Day' rallies. Video, 00:01:52Thousands protest in Australia 'Invasion Day' rallies\nWatch: Vehicle smashes into Colorado police station. Video, 00:00:35Watch: Vehicle smashes into Colorado police station","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Catfishes, eels and lampreys\n(-) Long fishes with long snouts\n1-2 feet\n3 inches or less\n5-10 feet\nBig rivers (Missouri and Mississippi)\nClear, rocky rivers, streams and springs\nLowland rivers (southeast Missouri)\nLowland swamps, ditches and sloughs\nPrairie rivers and streams\nReservoirs and lakes\nSpecies Types\nGrass Pickerel\nEsox americanus vermiculatus\nThe grass pickerel is the most common and widely distributed pike in Missouri. It is also the smallest, seldom exceeding 10 or 12 inches in length.\nChain Pickerel\nEsox niger\nThe chain pickerel has an elongated body, a snout shaped like a duck's bill, and a large mouth with many sharp teeth. The back and sides are olive or yellowish brown with a chainlike pattern of dark lines.\nSnakeheads\nChanna argus and other Channa and Parachanna spp.\nSnakeheads are native to Asia and invasive in America. They resemble bowfins and can live in similar habitats. Note the extended anal fin and the pelvic fins located close to the pectoral fins and gills.\nSpotted Gar\nLepisosteus oculatus\nThe spotted gar has many well-defined roundish black spots on top of the head and on the paired fins. Like other gars, it's a long, cylindrical fish with a long snout and numerous prominent teeth. The body is covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales.\nBowfin\nAmia calva\nThe bowfin is a stout-bodied, nearly cylindrical fish. It is most abundant in the Mississippi Lowlands, though it occurs along the entire length of the Mississippi River.\nShovelnose Sturgeon\nScaphirhynchus platorynchus\nThe shovelnose sturgeon's snout is flattened and shovel-shaped; the barbels are fringed, and the bases of the barbels are positioned to form a straight line.\nLongnose Gar\nLepisosteus osseus\nThe longnose gar has a longer, narrower snout than our other three gars and is the most widely distributed gar in Missouri.\nAlligator Gar\nAtractosteus spatula (formerly Lepisosteus spatula)\nThe alligator gar is Missouri's largest gar and has a distinctively short, broad snout. Populations are declining. This fish once occurred in the Mississippi River at least as far upstream as the mouth of the Illinois River and in major tributaries.\nAcipenser fulvescens\nThe lake sturgeon is Missouri's largest sturgeon and is rare and endangered in our state. Note its conical (not shovel-nosed) snout. Despite its name, in Missouri this fish is almost always found in big rivers, not lakes.\nShortnose Gar\nLepisosteus platostomus\nThe shortnose gar is named for its relatively short, broad snout. Like other gars, it's a long, cylindrical fish with a long snout and numerous prominent teeth. The body is covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales.\nThree-Toed Amphiuma\nAmphiuma tridactylum\nThe three-toed amphiuma is an eel-like, completely aquatic salamander. It has very small fore- and hind limbs, each with three very small toes. In Missouri it's found only in the Bootheel region.\nWestern Lesser Siren\nSiren intermedia nettingi\nThe western lesser siren is an eel-like, aquatic salamander with external gills, small eyes, small forelimbs with four toes, and no hind limbs. In Missouri, it's found mostly in the Bootheel and northward in counties near the Mississippi River.\nAbout Fishes in Missouri\nMissouri has more than 200 kinds of fish, more than are found in most neighboring states. Fishes live in water, breathe with gills, and have fins instead of legs. Most are covered with scales. Most fish in Missouri \"look\" like fish and could never be confused with anything else. True, lampreys and eels have snakelike bodies \u2014 but they also have fins and smooth, slimy skin, which snakes do not.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spring 2019 Issue \"21st Century Body\" Go to Issue\nSupport Art21\n\"21st Century Body\"\nThink Through Your Body\nby Simon Wu | Jun 26, 2019\nJes Fan. Systems III, 2018. Silicone, Glass, Epoxy, Melanin, Glass, Estradiol, Wood; 48\u2033x25\u2033x19\u2033. \u00a9 Jes Fan. Courtesy of the artist.\nJes Fan's recent work explores the material bases of identity by working with isolated natural chemicals such as melanin, estrogen, and testosterone. Fan suspends these liquids in blown glass, and the contrast between their innocuous, whimsical appearance and the ideologies of racial and gendered power that they buttress is absurd, almost incomprehensible. Systems III (2018) is emblematic of this series: a fleshy lattice reminiscent of circuitry, scaffolding, or plumbing that evokes the body, with its sags and folds. Fan's work is often couched in discourses of identity and their co-optation within biopolitical capitalism. Here, instead, I offer a personal take on one work, Systems III, by comparing it to three creative forms\u2014a poem, essay, and song\u2014which have stimulated my thinking and helped me to understand Fan's work, toward reshaping the boundaries between what we know and what we fear about ourselves.\nA poem: \"Study of Two Figures (Pasipha\u00eb\/Sado)\" by Monica Youn\nThis poem by Monica Youn considers two mythical figures: Pasipha\u00eb, a princess of Crete who was cursed by Poseidon to climb into a wooden cow in order to have sex with a bull, eventually birthing the Minotaur; and Sado, a Korean prince who is sentenced to death in a rice container. For Youn, the physical containers holding these protagonists pale in comparison to the linguistic containers of identity (female, Asian) that lead them to their fates.\n\"Both works ask us to reconsider what containers hold us into ourselves.\"\nYoun, like Fan, considers the arbitrariness of these containers\u2014nationalism, race, gender\u2014as they have come to restrain and fix certain life trajectories: \"Revealing a racial marker in a poem is like revealing a gun in a story or like revealing a nipple in a dance.\"\u00b9 Both understand that the body is not a container for the ingredients of one's identity; identity exists within the body and extends beyond it. In Fan's Systems III, glass globules contain droplets of testosterone, melanin, and estrogen. However, as these chemicals appear as suspended, whimsical speckles in glass, their significance is not manifested on the surface of their container, as they are when they are contained within a human being. Rather, they persist in a frozen state of interiority, as if replicating the restricting logic of racial and gendered containers: to be no more than the sum of the chemicals that are suspended within. Fan's work visualizes the intractability of this identity model, as Youn's poem does in its relentless logic of entrapment. Both works ask us to reconsider what containers hold us into ourselves.\nJes Fan. Systems III, 2018. Closeup. Silicone, Glass, Epoxy, Melanin, Glass, Estradiol, Wood; 48\u2033x25\u2033x19\u2033. \u00a9 Jes Fan. Courtesy of the artist.\nAn essay: \"The Sucker, the Sucker!\" about the octopus, by Amia Srinivasan\nWith its fleshy scaffolds and the drooping, translucent weight of the glass, Systems III resembles an octopus. The mottled, pale pinks of its surfaces make me think of glossy, wet skin; the blue pipes are like arms extending inside and outside of itself, in alien repose.\nLike humans, they [octopi] have centralised nervous systems, but in their case there is no clear distinction between brain and body. An octopus's neurons are dispersed throughout its body, and two-thirds of them are in its arms: each arm can act intelligently on its own, grasping, manipulating and hunting.\u00b2\n\"What might it be like to think through your body, to communicate to your arms\u2014to all parts of yourself\u2014the way an octopus does?\"\nThe octopus has more neural matter in its arms than in its head. These networks are separate, but they correspond with one another. In a way, an octopus can have conversations with itself. Systems III is a schematic for this sort of self-Othering and mind-body melding. The tubing resembles arms and is like the system of neural pathways encased in dermis. The surfaces ripple as if electric with thoughts and emotions. Systems III encounters a viewer as a proposition: Can you think like this, with your body?\nThis melding of the mental and the physical is a soothing rejoinder to the insistent division of mind and body in Cartesian logic, so beloved by the cerebral space of the gallery. What might it be like to think through your body, to communicate to your arms\u2014to all parts of yourself\u2014the way an octopus does? If the nature of an octopus reveals that, in some ways, we are always an Other to ourselves, it also implies that this othering is not necessarily a cause for despair, but a site of potential, even celebration.\nJes Fan, injecting a silicone filled glass globule with a substance. Production still from the New York Close Up episode, \"Jes Fan In Flux.\" \u00a9 Art21, Inc. 2019.\nA song: \"Chorus\" by Holly Herndon\nHolly Herndon makes music by teaching an artificial neural network (lovingly named Spawn) how to sing. She inputs pop and dance music as well as vocal samples from YouTube, Skype, and other audio sources from the digital landscape, like beeps and dings for email and other notifications. The result of this collaboration between Herndon and her AI network is a slippery, ethereal soundscape.\n\"It's a remix of the body\"\nHerndon and Fan share an outlook toward technology that is measured, a desire to see it as neither the best nor the worst thing ever. Herndon's manipulated voice throbs and whirrs in a way that is both pleasurable and unsettling. Familiar sounds like email alerts and keyboard clatter are loosed from their normal usage, made harmonic. Similarly, Fan collaborates with laboratories to explore the lives of natural chemicals outside of their pharmaceutical administration; Systems III is a body or several bodies, with two flesh-like panels facing away from each other. Flesh, bone, and hormones appear separated, in pink panels, blue tubes, and glass globules. It's a remix of the body, and of the self, with its psychic and physical barriers rearranged.\nAs our bodies and creativities are peppered with adjustments by emerging technologies, Fan, as well as Herndon and Youn (and octopi) are not that interested in shoring up the borders of any single body. Rather, they hope to open those borders toward an increased porousness: the understanding that technology\u2014in the form of nervous systems, animals, consciousness, AI, or natural chemicals\u2014has always been with us and within us, both foreign and familiar.\n\u00b9Monica Youn, \"Study of Two Figures (Pasipha\u00eb\/Sado),\" Poetry Foundation, https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/148962\/study-of-two-figures-pasipha-sado.\n\u00b2Amia Srinivasan, \"The Sucker, the Sucker!\" London Review of Books 39, no. 17 (September 7, 2017): 23\u201325. Accessed at:\nhttps:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v39\/n17\/amia-srinivasan\/the-sucker-the-sucker.\nSimon Wu\nSimon Wu is a New York-based curator and graphic designer involved in collaborative art production and research. He was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program '18-'19 and serves as the Program Coordinator for the Racial Imaginary Institute, a collective of poets, writers and artists dedicated to producing spaces for nuanced conversations around race and identity. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 2017.\nCurrent Issue Features\nJes Fan\n0 Comments | Reply\nTeaching with Contemporary Art\nCultivating Collections\nby Maureen Hergott\nChoice-based Art21 Educator, Maureen Hergott explains how she uses collections in the classroom to inspire creativity in her students.\nby Simon Wu\nCurator Simon Wu parallels the Jes Fan sculpture, Systems III (2018), to an essay, a poem and a song. This reveals how\nElle P\u00e9rez's Search for Intensity\nby Larissa Pham\nLarissa Pham discusses the themes of performance behind the profound photographs by Elle P\u00e9rez. Often mistaken as documentary, P\u00e9rez's work is carefully composed, and a collaborative effort between their subjects, many of whom are peers.\nThe Art21 Magazine\nThe Art21 Blog (2008-2013)\nEducation feed\nGuest Blog feed\n\u00a9 2019 Art21 Magazine\tSite by Trasaterra","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"10,000 Apps in the Odoo App Store\nin Odoo News\nOdoo becomes the biggest enterprise App Store. Only two years after of the launch of the Odoo App Store, 10,000 integrated apps are available to optimize your system. With an average of 12 new apps released every day, our App Store now has more than 10,000 applications! Every month, 80,000 apps are downloaded by Odoo users to add extra features to their Odoo database. Obviously, like all the official Odoo apps, the apps on the App Store are fully integrated with each other in order to automate companies' business flows. But what's even more impressive is that 86% of the apps are open source! Odoo users can use them for free, with just a few clicks. The 1,423 apps that are not open source have a unique price, ranging from $1 to $1,500.\nFitness Management ERP\nusername-admin,password-admin@gym","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Russia is modernizing ten nuclear submarines with new weapons and electronics and building new Arctic and Black sea patrol ships\nRussia is modernizing ten nuclear submarines with new weapons and electronics and building new Arctic and Black sea patrol ships\nRussia's Navy will carry out a profound modernization of about ten nuclear-powered submarines of projects 971 and 949.\n\"Everything will be new there. All the units, mechanisms, radio electronics,\" Viktor Chirkov said, adding the after the modernization Russia's Navy would have practically new nuclear submarines in terms of onboard equipment and weapons.\nThe submarines are being overhauled at the shipyards Zvyozdochka in Severodvinsk and Zvezda in the Far East's Primorsky Territory.\n\"Surface ships and submarines will be built under a technology to make it easier to equip them with new weapons when necessary. Ships of these projects have enormous potential for modernization and we will make use of that,\" Chirkov said.\nProject-971 Shchuka-B (NATO reporting name Akula)\nFifth generation Russian nuclear submrines are being designed.\nRussia will build a new series of six patrol vessels for the Black Sea Fleet and two patrol ships for the Arctic by 2020, Russian Navy commander Viktor Chirkov told journalists on Sunday, APA reports quoting TASS.\nThe said the first of these ships would be handed over to the Black Sea Fleet within the next three years. The ships are being built at the Zelenodolsk and Vyborg shipyards. \"Along with this new series of six ships for the Black Sea Fleet, two more patrol ships of the ice-breaker type will be built for the use in the Arctic zone,\" he said, adding that these two ships would be built in 2019 and 2020. These ships, according to Chirkov, will combine the characteristics of a patrol ship, an ice-breaker and a tugboat. Apart from that, all the new patrol boats will be used to escort civil ships to protect them against pirate attacks, to ensure the Navy's combat stability in the coastal zone and to be part of naval groups in off-shore maritime zones.\n\"The ships will be able of long-term staying at any area of the World Ocean with possible rotation of the crew and shipyard checks at any port, including some foreign ports,\" he said.\nCategories Uncategorized Tags google, military, navy Post navigation\nPluto And Charon: 99.5% of The Way There\nRussia expanding arctic bases and adding antiship and drone batteries","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Where Comic Books and Politics Meet\nAction Lab Entertainment\nAwesome Con\nBaltimore Comic-Con\nGames & RPGs\nThe Comics Are All Right\nDemo-Graphics\nPeople's History of the Marvel Universe\nGP Radio & TV\nFear the Walking Fanboys\nGP Radio\nGP TV\nJonesing for Jessica\nThose Two Geeks\nThe Venture Bros. Podcast\nContact, Tips, Advertise\nSupport Graphic Policy\nTag Archives: xbox one\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is Coming December 15 to Steam\nPosted on December 13, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, the team-based third-person shooter inspired by the epic characters and battles of Hasbro's blockbuster franchise, will be available on PC via Steam on Dec. 15, 2020, for $29.99. Fans get also get the game's Digital Deluxe Edition, which includes a digital art book and soundtrack, the Retro Skins Pack, and the Weapons Pack, all for $39.99. And during its first week of release, you can grab G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout for 20% off! Play as both Team Joe and Team Cobra in this action-packed adventure featuring a local co-op campaign and PvP multiplayer with support for Steam Remote Play Together.\nExperience an original storyline inspired by classic '80s comics, with 17 campaign missions featuring legendary locations like the U.S.S. Flagg and Cobra Headquarters, intense boss battles, and iconic vehicles like the G.I. Joe Persuader and Cobra H.I.S.S. tanks. Play the campaign on your own or with a friend in local split-screen co-op, then keep the fight going in four-player local PvP multiplayer modes like Capture the Flag, Assault, King of The Hill and Deathmatch Arena.\nChoose your favorite heroes and villains with 12 playable characters from both sides, including Duke, Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander, Destro, Roadblock, Storm Shadow and more. Unleash a wide variety of weapons, skins, and devastating ultimate abilities as you mastermind world domination for Team Cobra and restore world peace with Team Joe!\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is also available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is Out Now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One\nPosted on October 14, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, the new team-based third-person shooter inspired by Hasbro's hit franchise, launches today on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Play as both Team Joe and Team Cobra in this action-packed adventure featuring a co-op story campaign and PvP multiplayer.\nExperience an original story inspired by classic '80s-style comics, over 17 campaign missions featuring epic locations like the U.S.S. Flagg and Cobra Headquarters, intense boss battles, and iconic vehicles like the Joes' Persuader and Cobra H.I.S.S. tanks. Play the campaign on your own or with a friend in local split-screen co-op, then keep the fight going in four-player local PvP multiplayer modes like Capture the Flag, Assault, King of The Hill and Deathmatch Arena.\nPlay as your favorite heroes and villains from both sides with 12 playable characters, including Duke, Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander, Destro, Roadblock, Storm Shadow and more. Unleash a wide variety of weapons, skins, and devastating ultimate abilities as you mastermind world domination as Team Cobra and restore world order as Team Joe!\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is published by GameMill Entertainment and is available at major retailers and digital stores for $39.99. G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout \u2014 Gold Deluxe Edition, which includes special character skins for Duke and Cobra Commander, 12 bonus weapon skins, and an exclusive digital art book and soundtrack, is also available today on all platforms (digitally only) for $49.99.\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is Coming October 13 to Consoles and PC\nPosted on August 14, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, a new team-based, third-person shooter based on Hasbro's mega-popular franchise, has been revealed. Play as your favorite heroes and villains from Team Joe and Team Cobra in this action-packed adventure, coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 13, 2020, from GameMill Entertainment.\nTravel to monumental locations like Cobra Headquarters and the U.S.S. Flagg through an original story inspired by 80s-style comics. Take on 18 campaign missions featuring iconic vehicles and boss battles in single-player or local split-screen co-op.\nG.I. Joe: Operation Blackout features 12 playable characters, including Duke, Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander, Destro, Roadblock, Storm Shadow, and more. Each soldier has their own unique powers and can be customized with a variety of weapons and skins. There's also multiplayer with modes such as Capture the Flag, Assault, and King of the Hill.\nTransformers: Battlegrounds Comes to Consoles in October\nPosted on June 11, 2020 by Brett\nWhile everyone was paying attention to the Playstation 5 news, the Playstation 4 teaser trailer for Transformers: Battlegrounds dropped today. The game is also coming to the Nintendo Switch, Steam, and XBox One.\nAs evil Megatron closes in on the Allspark, Bumblebee and the Autobots need a new commander to help save Earth \u2013 you! Assemble your squad and roll out for a battle that will rage from Central City to Cybertron\u2026 and even to the local multiplayer arcade!\nClassic RPGs 'Baldur's Gate I & II,' 'Planescape: Torment' & 'Icewind Dale' Out Now on Consoles\nSkybound Games and Beamdog have announced that enhanced editions of several classic Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing videogames \u2013 including Baldur's Gate, the Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear expansion, Baldur's Gate II, Planescape: Torment, and Icewind Dale \u2013 are now available on modern consoles for the very first time. Available globally, these boxed versions can be purchased at major retailers for $49.99 each on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch:\nBaldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Pack: Celebrating the series' 20th anniversary, the original Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and its sequel, Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, return with all DLC and restored quest content, as well as the Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear expansion, featuring new original content developed by Beamdog to bridge the two games.\nPlanescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition \/ Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition: Two must-play games and all their DLC in one package \u2013 the chilling Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, plus its expansions, and the enhanced edition of 1999's RPG of the Year, Planescape: Torment.\nThese titles are also now available for digital download on the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Xbox One Store, and Nintendo eShop.\nTailored for a natural gameplay experience on consoles, these enhanced editions give longtime fans and newcomers alike the opportunity to play these critically acclaimed adventures from a golden age of RPGs in a whole new way. Beamdog has upgraded each title with support for high-resolution widescreen displays, controls optimized for console controllers, new content, new characters and classes, expanded character creation options, redesigns of the UI and UX, bug fixes, balance changes and more.\nSkybound Games and Beamdog will also release fellow all-time classic RPG Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition on consoles on Dec. 3, 2019. Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is available to pre-order now at major retailers and the Skybound Shop.\nMarvel's Avengers Coming to PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia\nPosted on June 9, 2019 by Brett\nE3 is right around the corner and one of the most anticipated games is Marvel's Avengers by Square Enix. Its been revealed that not only is the game coming to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but also to Google Stadia.\nThe revelation came fromt he game's Twitter account where an image of the poster on the side of a building shows the four platforms.\n#EmbraceYourPowers pic.twitter.com\/yHgARkfUkF\n\u2014 Marvel's Avengers (@PlayAvengers) June 9, 2019\nWe can also assume it won't by coming to the Nintendo Switch based on this.\nThe game is the first of a multi-game partnership between Marvel and Square Enix. We'll learn more about it very soon.\nThe Walking Dead: The Final Season Ep. 4 & Boxed Edition Coming March 26\nPosted on February 4, 2019 by Graphic Policy Team\nIt's hard to believe Clem's journey is coming to an end. Skybound Games has announced that The Walking Dead: The Final Season will launch on March 26. On top of the digital release, a physical boxed edition that includes the entirety of The Walking Dead: The Final Season for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.\nThis version will be available at all major retailers, including in the Skybound Shop. For fans looking for a great gift to give, or to actually hold the final chapters of Clem's story in your hands, you'll soon have that chance!\n'OVERKILL's The Walking Dead' is Playable at gamescom\nStarbreeze, Skybound Entertainment, and 505 Games have announced that OVERKILL's The Walking Dead is now expected to launch on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One on Feb. 6, 2019, in the Americas and Feb. 8, 2019, in Europe and other territories. The game is still expected to release on Windows PC on Nov. 6, 2018, in the Americas and Nov. 8, 2018, in Europe and the rest of the world.\nOVERKILL's The Walking Dead is playable to the public at gamescom this week with an all-new level called Underpass that shows off some of the game's darkest corners. Visitors can get a taste of the action in Hall 9 of the ESL Arena. You can also check out a special gamescom message to fans from developer OVERKILL \u2013 A Starbreeze Studio.\nInspired by Robert Kirkman's original graphic novels, OVERKILL's The Walking Dead is a four-player co-op multiplayer shooter in which players must band together on a variety of missions and raids to find survivors, secure supplies and stay alive. Use stealth to evade enemies tactically, or dismember walkers limb from limb with brute force and firepower. Each of the game's four playable characters has their own special abilities, skill trees, squad roles, play styles and background stories.\nThe Walking Dead's Negan is Coming to Tekken 7\nPosted on August 6, 2018 by Brett\nIf you thought a fighting Panda wasn't the weirdest thing in the Tekken it has been revealed that Negan from The Walking Dead will be joining the cast of characters as part of a new season for the game.\nThe teaser video just shows a silhouete of Negan with a look that's more in line with AMC's version of the character on the television played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan who you can hear recite a line. The design is similar with some differences compared to the comic book version.\nJoining Negan are veteran fighters Anna Williams and Lei Wulong.\nThe announcement was made after the game's grand finals wrapped at Evo 2018.\nThere's six new characters coming to the new season with the three remaining yet to be announced. Could it be more The Walking Dead characters?\nThe Season 2 pass is \"coming soon\" to Playstation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One.\nOVERKILL's The Walking Dead Gets a Gameplay Trailer for E3 and Launches November 6\nPosted on June 12, 2018 by Graphic Policy Team\nStarbreeze, Skybound Entertainment, and 505 Games have released the first official gameplay trailer for OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, the upcoming cooperative multiplayer FPS from developer OVERKILL \u2013 A Starbreeze Studio. The video also reveals the game is expected to launch on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and Windows PC on Nov. 6 in North and South America and Nov. 8 for the rest of the world, including Europe.\nOVERKILL's The Walking Dead is available to pre-order now as a digital title on all platforms and as a physical boxed product for consoles only at most major retailers for $59.99. A steel book deluxe edition of OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, featuring the base game, the \"Night Raid Character Pack\" DLC, a variety of cosmetic skins, a digital art book and more, is also available to pre-order for $79.99. Players who pre-order either version will receive an assortment of in-game cosmetic skins as a bonus. As an homage to its comic book heritage, the physical steel book deluxe edition will also feature four collector cards illustrated by comic book artist Dan Panosian.\nOVERKILL's The Walking Dead's PC-exclusive closed beta will begin later this year. Closed beta access will be available for PC pre-orders only. 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{"text":"Feature music interview: Lucy Dacus at the Basement\nAndy Downing Editor, Columbus Alive @andydowning33\nVirginia musician takes on death with heart, grace\nOn Historian, Lucy Dacus' sophomore album, the Richmond, Virginia-based musician engages in a bit of title-appropriate excavation, digging into her past to examine the ways it continues to shape her present.\nWitness \"Pillar of Truth,\" a slow-building, seven-plus-minute epic that finds the musician revisiting the 2014 death of her grandmother, Mary Jo Olander Dacus, vacillating between her own bedside point of view (\"Your eyes are closing\/Your words are broken\") and that of her grandmother as she takes her final breaths. \"I'm slowly sinking\/Into darkness yet unknown,\" Dacus sings. \"But the fading light around me\/Is full of faces who carry my name.\"\n\"She was a really amazing woman, and watching her pass was really powerful and brought me a lot of insight to both death and life,\" said Dacus, who visits the Basement for a concert on Sunday, April 8, reached on the road en route to Salt Lake City, Utah. \"It was the first death I observed that came through illness and was drawn out a little bit, so that the person had time to reckon with their life. That's such a gift to have a little foresight and invite your whole family from around the country and around the world to see you, and I was happy to be a part of her kind of final scene.\n\"I think there's a lot to be learned from loss, especially in terms of thankfulness and gratefulness \u2014 defeating this impulse of feeling entitled to one's life. Loss is a major way to acknowledge the impermanence of things you care about. \u2026 I feel like all you can do is make decisions and spend your time in ways that feel fulfilling.\"\nMuch of Historian, which Dacus recorded with her band over a single week in Nashville in March 2017, finds the musician wrestling with outsized themes, exploring the finite nature of existence, searching for earthly purpose, and coming to terms with how and why we carry on in the face of loss.\n\"I guess I felt a heightened sense of responsibility on this record, because when you have an audience you really should be sharing things that are worth sharing,\" Dacus said. \"For me, I picked songs that are maybe a little heavier, but they're very close to what matters to me the most.\"\nDacus said there wasn't an \"a ha moment\" that ignited this search, describing it instead as part of a lifelong examination spurred on by her adopted parents, who brought her up with the awareness that life entails numerous turns that remain mercifully out of one's control.\n\"My parents raised me to basically constantly consider what could have been, and not in a regretful way, but in a thankful way, like, my life could have looked really different,\" Dacus said. \"So they raised me with this baseline level of impermanence or chance, and I think that's been a pervasive theme for most of my life.\"\nThough weighty, the album is far from bleak, underscored by a wry humor (\"I am busy doing nothing and you're rudely interrupting,\" Dacus sings on \"The Shell\") and buoyed by graceful arrangements that have a way of drawing the listener in gradually, as if by hand. Take the album-opening \"Night Shift,\" which begins as a dreamy, blue-sky ballad before the storm clouds roll in three-quarters of the way through, fleshing out the sound with a steady downpour of fuzzy guitar.\n\"I feel like it's best to move gracefully into darkness or hardship, and that's what a lot of the songs are about, just difficulty,\" Dacus said. \"I think that was intentional, to sonically ease people into the content. It's easier to receive difficulty with a guiding hand rather than a push from behind.\"\nFittingly, nothing on Historians sounds forced, from the arrangements to Dacus' even-keeled singing to the songwriting itself, which includes reminders to let things unfold as they must. \"Put down the pen\/Don't let it force your hand,\" Dacus sings on \"The Shell.\"\n\"Whenever we feel like we're forcing something, we just stop,\" the musician said. \"You shouldn't be making stuff just to make it, or to reach a deadline, or to fulfill a contract. You should make work because of your personal, sole desire to do it. I think people can tell when it's happening otherwise.\"\nSimilarly homespun reminders surface throughout, arriving almost like tethering posts designed to keep Dacus grounded. Such is the case on \"Next of Kin,\" where she repeats the line, \"I will never be complete,\" her at-peace tone suggesting she's quite all right with this realization.\n\"At times I can be really anxious, and I feel a huge relief when I'm able to understand that [we're always a work in progress],\" said Dacus, who described accepting this reality as an \"active choice,\" one that requires practice. \"But that doesn't mean you stop growing. Even if you'll never be complete, it doesn't mean you give up your interests or let go of things. I'm not going to read every book, but I'm still going to keep reading because it's a valuable experience to me.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Science & ChillHealthShareSubscribe\nWhat Hulu's \"Shrill\" Gets Right About Weight and the Morning-After Pill\nFiled Under Mind & Body, Hulu, Science and Chill, Sex & Spoilers\nIn Hulu's funny and moving new series Shrill, Aidy Bryant of Saturday Night Live fame plays Annie, a writer working toward becoming the person she wants to be while facing daily micro-aggressions and indignities related to her weight. Dealing with forces like her mom, her boss, and the pharmaceutical industry, Shrill stays true to the reality of what it means to be seen as a fat woman.\nMore on that in a moment. First, a warning: Spoilers below for the first episode of Shrill.\nIn the pilot episode released Friday, Annie finds herself in a situation: She had unprotected sex, leading her to take a \"morning-after pill.\" But to her surprise, a subsequent pregnancy test reveals that she's pregnant. She confronts the pharmacist, which you can see in the video at the top, about her \"defective test.\" In turn, the pharmacist asks Annie if she weighs over 175 pounds. When she confirms, the pharmacist bluntly says that the morning-after pill only works for women 175 pounds and under.\nAnnie is astounded, letting out a what-is-this-fresh-bullshit \"What?!\" But as surprising as it may seem, what the pharmacists tells her is based on some real-world truths.\n\"This is a real thing,\" Aaron Lazorwitz, M.D., an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado tells Inverse. \"Studies have shown that overweight and obese women have higher rates of failure with the traditional morning-after pill.\"\nAnnie realizes that her boyfriend isn't worth it.\nThe issue with the existing literature is that the parameters of the data isn't consistent. A woman's weight, her body mass index, and the type of emergency contraception she uses are all factors, but the degree to which they affect a morning-after pill's efficacy changes across studies.\nIn the United States, there are several progestin-only emergency contraceptive products, each which contain a type of hormone that prevents pregnancy called levonorgestrel. Progestin-only pills are available over the counter; some brand names are Plan B One-step, Next Choice, and Take Action. Studies indicate they are most effective taken as soon as possible after sex, and not more than five days afterward.\nLazorwitz says that some data suggest that the progestin-only emergency contraceptive, known more popularly as the morning-after pill, may not work at all for women over 150 pounds. Meanwhile, other data indicate that the method is less effective for women who weigh more than 165 pounds or have a BMI over 25. More consistently than specifying an exact weight, studies conclude that levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception does not prevent pregnancy as efficiently for \"obese women,\" possibly because a single dose of the medication results in lower concentrations of levonorgestrel in this group.\nIt's an area of science that needs more research and leaves manywomen feeling confused. Nowhere on the packaging for Plan B One-Step, the best-known brand of levonorgestrel emergency contraceptives, does it warn women who weigh over a certain amount that it might not work for them.\nThe emergency contraceptive, Plan B One Step.\nIn 2013, a company that sells a European morning-after pill identical in formula to Plan B One-Step announced it would update its packaging to say it's not an effective pill for women over 176 pounds and loses its potency for women over 165 pounds. But that decision was reversed after the pill was reviewed by the European Medicines Agency, which decided the available data were \"too limited and not robust enough to conclude with certainty that the contraceptive effect is reduced with increased body weight.\"\nAnd yet in 2016, while acknowledging that the \"data are limited and poor to fair quality,\" scientists said in the journal Contraception that their \"findings suggest that women with obesity experience an increased risk of pregnancy after use of LNG ECP compared to those normal\/underweight.\"\nDefining \"normal\" is crucial here. According to the CDC, the average weight of an American woman is 168.5 pounds, so a pill marketed to \"normal\" women should work for a woman of that weight. Not much has changed since the pill was first introduced: Plan B was approved by the FDA in 1999, when the average weight of a woman was closer to 160 pounds.\nLazorwitz recommends that women over 150 pounds who need emergency contraceptive not use levonorgestrel pills and instead use pills with ulipristal acetate, another active ingredient that prevents pregnancy. The brand name for this pill in the United States is ella. He also recommends the copper intrauterine device as an emergency contraceptive method, which is 99 percent effective as an emergency contraceptive for all patients, regardless of weight.\nMedia via Allyson Riggs, Mike Mozart\/Flickr\nThe Truth Behind What Intermittent Fasting Does to Y...\n3 Hemp Oil Brands You Need to Try on Amazon\nWhat Are the Best Air Purifiers? Try One of These Gr...\nRen\u00e9 Favaloro: Why the Pioneering Surgeon Is So Mean...\nDrug Researchers Raise Concern Over \"Misleading\" Evi...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cumann Seandalaiochta agus Staire Phort Lairge\nWaterford Archaeological and Historical Society\nC\/O Bishop's Palace,\nThe Mall,\nWaterford,\nUpcoming Talk: Waterford district lunatic asylum 1834-1922\nWaterford district lunatic asylum 1834-1922\nA lecture by Tony Gyves to the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society\nThe Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society lecture season for 2017 and 2018 commences on Friday 29th September with an illustrated lecture at 8 pm in the St Patrick's Gateway Centre, Patrick St. Waterford by Mr. Tony Gyves MA titled 'Waterford district lunatic asylum 1834-1922'.\nInterior of Waterford District Lunatic Asylum (NLI POOLEWP 0131)\nThere is much contemporary discussion about the provision of mental health services in the community. In Ireland organised treatment for people suffering from mental illness was provided in a network of district lunatic asylums established in the early nineteenth century, these were effectively Ireland's first mental hospitals. The Waterford district lunatic asylum was opened in 1834 on a site on the edge of the city, surrounded by orchards, market gardens and farmland in Lower Grange. At the time of its establishment ten staff delivered care to 54 patients, or inmates as they were called, in a purpose-built modern facility. The original asylum building, designed by the leading architect Francis Johnston, still stands in the grounds of St. Otteran's Hospital and is a protected structure.\nTony Gyves has researched the history of the Waterford district lunatic asylum from its opening to Independence in 1922 when a new system for administering mental health services was established in the Free State. In his talk Tony will describe the facilities in which the patients received treatment and the types of care they received in the asylum. His talk will also look at the evolution of medical practices and administrative systems for caring for the mentally ill in Waterford in the 19th century, and the people who were involved in delivering that care.\nMallow-born Tony Gyves started his career in health administration working for Cork County Council, this was followed by periods spent working in the Southern, Midland and South-Eastern Health Boards, before ending his career as a senior administrator in St. Otteran's Hospital. His time spent working in St. Otteran's stimulated an interest in the history of the place and in the little researched area of the provision of services to the mentally ill in 19th century Ireland. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Local History by University College Cork for his ground-breaking research on the history of the Waterford district lunatic asylum.\nThis lecture will appeal to anyone interested in the history of this well-known Waterford institution, the social history of the City and County in the 19th century and the development of medical services in Victorian Ireland. Admission to the lecture is \u20ac5, but is free for members of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society. Details of the full programme of monthly lectures can be found on our Facebook page www.facebook.com\/waterfordhistory\/. New members are always welcome, the membership application form can be downloaded from http:\/\/www.waterford-history.org.\nLabels: 2017, Historical Lectures, St Patrick's Gateway, Waterford\nHistorical Lectures (115)\nsummer outings (50)\nEdmund Rice Heritage and Conference Centre (35)\nSt Patrick's Gateway (33)\nDecies (14)\nAGM (13)\nSouth Kilkenny Historical Society (10)\nAnnual Lunch (8)\nArchaeological Excavations (8)\nMuseum of Treasures (8)\nCoach Trip (7)\nGranville Hotel (7)\nDr Niall Byrne (5)\nOutings (5)\nHeritage Week. (4)\nOgham (4)\nT F Meagher (4)\nLismore (3)\ncounty museum (3)\nCappoquin (2)\nCounty Kilkenny (2)\nDooley's Hotel (2)\nHistory Articles (2)\nMount Sion Project Awards (2)\nPococke (2)\nPortlaw (2)\nRe-enactment (2)\nSuir Valley (2)\nBlackrock College (1)\nCamden Fort (1)\nColm Wallace (1)\nCopper Coast (1)\nHavel (1)\nPlunkett Station (1)\nRobert Boyle (1)\nSpike Island (1)\nStradbally 2018 (1)\nThe Book Centre (1)\nThe History Press (1)\nTurtle Bunbury (1)\nViking Project shipbuilding (1)\nWaterford Crystal (1)\nWorkers Union (1)\nImagine Arts Festival 2017: Decies Journal Launch\nUpcoming Talk: Waterford district lunatic asylum 1...\nThe Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, Ireland.\nWebsite By: Deise Design","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"United Kingdom Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom\nFinland Secularism and atheism Stats\nSecularism and atheism\nBelieves in spirit or life force: Percentage of surveyed respondents who indicated they believed in a spirit or a life force.\nBelieves there is a god: Percentage of surveyed respondents who indicated they believed in God. (Believing in a spirit or life force is another possible response.)\nDoes not believe in spirit, God or life force: Percentage of surveyed respondents who indicated they did not believe in God, a spirit, or a life force of any kind.\nPopulation considering religion important: Percentage of population surveyed in a Gallup Poll who answered the question \"Is religion important in your daily life?\" with \"yes\". (Other possible answers were \"no\", \"don't know\" and \"refuse to answer\").\nPopulation considering religion unimportant: Percentage of population who says religion is not important in their daily lives. The survey was carried out within the Gallup Poll.\nSelect year 2010 2014\nBelieves in spirit or life force 42% 2010 7th out of 27\nBelieves there is a god 33% 2010 20th out of 27\nDoes not believe in spirit, God or life force 22% 2010 12th out of 27\nPopulation considering religion important 28% 2014 134th out of 143\nPopulation considering religion unimportant 70% 2014 10th out of 143\nSOURCES: Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381;\nBiotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381\n; Biotechnology Report, Special Eurobarometer, European Commission, October 2010, p. 381; Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country (Countries)\nFinland categories\nMexico has the most Jehovah's Witnesses per capita in the OECD.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eva Mendes Net Worth 2022: How Actually Rich Is Retired American Actress In 2022?\nEva de la Caridad Mendes was born to Eva P\u00e9rez Su\u00e1rez and Juan Carlos M\u00e9ndez on March 5, 1974 in Miami, Florida. Her Cuban parents separated when she was a little child. Eva's mother raised her in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Eva's family is Roman Catholic, and when she was younger, she considered becoming a nun. She completed her studies at California State University, Northridge after earning her diploma from Hoover High School in Glendale. She left college to seek a career in acting.\nCareer Starts\nChildren of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, a direct-to-video horror movie, featured Mendes' debut performance. She additionally made an appearance in 1998's \"A Night at the Roxbury\" as a bridesmaid. In 1999 and 2000, respectively, she appeared in \"My Brother the Pig\" and \"Urban Legends: Final Cut.\"\nMendes' big break came in 2001 when she was cast with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in \"Training Day.\" She had grown tired of the lighter, more cheesy films she had been cast in up to that time, but this one encouraged her to keep acting. The year after, she made an appearance in \"All About the Benjamins.\"\nIn 2003, she made appearances in the motion pictures \"2 Fast 2 Furious,\" \"Once Upon a Time in Mexico,\" \"Out of Time,\" and \"Stuck on You.\" Then, in 2005, she appeared alongside Will Smith in the romantic comedy \"Hitch.\" Additionally, she made appearances in the films \"Trust the Man\" (2006), \"Ghost Rider\" (2007), and \"We Own the Night\" (2008). Following the release of \"The Women\" and \"The Spirit\" in 2008, \"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans\" in 2009, \"The Other Guys\" in 2010, and \"Last Night\" in 2011.\nAlongside her future husband Ryan Gosling, Mended starred in \"The Place Beyond the Pines,\" \"Girl in Progress,\" and \"Holy Motors\" in 2012. In 2013, she made her HBO debut in \"Clear History,\" and the following year, in \"Lost River,\" she made her debut as a director.\nMendes has modeled in the past. She has appeared in music videos for a variety of artists, including the Pet Shop Boys, Aerosmith, Will Smith, and The Strokes.\nEva Mendes's Net Worth\nEva Mendes' estimated net worth as of this writing is $20 million.\nAmerican actress, model, singer, and former designer of home goods Eva Mendes is now retired.\nRelationships Status\nFrom 2002 through 2010, Eva Mendes and filmmaker George Augusto were a couple.\nIn 2011, she began dating Ryan Gosling, an actor. While making \"The Place Beyond the Pines,\" they became friends. For their first official date, they traveled to Disneyland. Two girls were born to the couple. In 2014, Esmeralda was born, and in 2016, Amanda. Esmeralda is a figure who Ryan and Eva both enjoy in Victor Hugo's \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame.\" Amanda, which in Spanish means \"beloved,\" is Eva's grandmother.\nIn a 2015 interview, Gosling said of Mendes: \"I know I'm with the right woman, Eva Mendes. I have nothing else on my mind.\nRyan and Eva were wed in 2016. They keep to themselves. On social media, Mendes doesn't share any images of Gosling or their kids. She seldom ever appears with her husband in public.\nSince Gosling's \"Lost River\" in 2014, Eva hasn't had a leading role in a movie. She has acknowledged taking a career sabbatical to raise her two children.\nMendes consumes fish. She practices Transcendental Meditation as well.\nHer older brother, Juan Carolos Mendez Jr., passed away from throat cancer in 2016. She has a younger half-brother named Carlos Alberto Mendez and an older sister named Janet on her father's side.\nIn September 2020, there were whispers that Mendes and Gosling's romance was in jeopardy. Mendes reportedly wants a third child, but Gosling reportedly does not. These rumors haven't been verified yet.\nEva received $1.27 million for the sale of her three-bedroom, two-bath home in 2018.\nThe couple lost out on Villa Delle Favole, a 1924 Italian Revival house with six bedrooms and six bathrooms, that same year. In Pasadena, California, it was up for sale for $8 million. The mansion includes a wine cellar, a gym, a pool, a spa, and a library.\nIf Eva Mendes were to act again, she claims she wouldn't take on any roles that involved violence or sexual content.\nEva Mendes stated on \"The View\" that she would only act once she stayed away from sexuality and violence.\nShe last appeared on screen in 2014's \"Lost River,\" Ryan Gosling's first film as a filmmaker.\nGosling and Mendes have been dating since 2011 and have two kids together.\nSince 2014, Eva Mendes hasn't made an appearance in a film or television program; nonetheless, the actress recently said she would have some requirements if she ever did.\nMendes recently admitted on \"The View\" that he had \"such a shortlist of what I would do, with [my] kids\" (via Entertainment Weekly). Ryan Gosling and Mendes have two children together; they have been dating since 2011.\n\"If it was a fun project, that is. However, I'll no longer engage in violence or sexual activity, and the list is short \"Mendes went on.\nSince playing the lead role in Ryan Gosling's breakthrough feature film, \"Lost River,\" in 2014, Mendes has not appeared on the screen. She has since been active in projects related to fashion and beauty.\nShe also provided the voice of a yoga instructor for the popular animated series \"Bluey\" in 2021.\nMendes spoke about her decision to scale back her performing career to USA Today in 2019 after meeting Gosling and having children with him.\nIf I'm being completely honest, I felt lacking in ambition, she remarked. \"I feel more ambitious at home than I do at work right now.\"\n\"I try to make it clear that I don't let them see me draw attention to my appearance. They have never witnessed me getting ready for anything or working \"Mendes went on. \"Which is OK if that's how someone wants to do it, but I maintain my normalcy by not letting people see me in those circumstances. Just Mom here. And I couldn't be happier to be a mom.\"\nCategories: Celebrity, Net Worth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ukraine seeks more arms as U.S. and allies consider new penalties for Russia\nPublished April 7, 2022 at 3:57 AM CDT\nOlivier Matthys\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, walks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as they arrive for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.\nNATO foreign ministers are meeting Thursday as part of a larger effort by the U.S., its allies and Ukraine to bolster Ukrainian defenses and impose new penalties on Russia for invading its neighbor.\nUpon arrival in Brussels Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba made a blunt appeal for more military support. \"My agenda is very simple,\" he said. \"It has only three items on it: it's weapons, weapons and weapons.\"\nU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Brussels to meet with both NATO and G-7 foreign ministers. Blinken had already announced another $100 million of military aid for Ukraine, bringing the U.S. total to $1.7 billion since Russia invaded in February.\nThe Associated Press cited a U.S. defense official speaking on condition of anonymity who said Russia had pulled all of its estimated 24,000 or more troops from the Kyiv and Chernihiv areas in the north, sending them into Belarus or Russia to resupply and reorganize, probably to return to fight in the east.\nThe European Union is expected to take additional measures, including an embargo on coal. Earlier, the U.S. and its allies already announced additional sanctions on Russia that target top Russian officials and family members, including Putin's adult children. Washington also imposed full blocking sanctions on two of Russia's top banks, Sberbank and Alfa Bank.\nAlso on Thursday, a U.S.-initiated resolution to suspend Russia from the U.N.'s human rights body goes before the General Assembly. The resolution is tied to charges that Russian soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, particularly after videos and photos emerged from the town of Bucha of corpses that appeared to be civilians.\nThe 47-member Human Rights Council is based in Geneva, and member countries are voted to the body for three-year terms by the 193-member General Assembly.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The story of one of archaeology's greatest trailblazers, Tatiana Proskouriakoff\nBy Carlos Rosado van der Gracht\nCarlos Rosado van der Gracht\nBorn in M\u00e9rida, Carlos Rosado van der Gracht is a Mexican\/Canadian blogger, photographer and adventure expedition leader. He holds degrees in multimedia, philosophy and translation from universities in Mexico, Canada and Norway. Sign up for the Yucat\u00e1n Roundup, a free newsletter, which delivers the week's top headlines every Monday.\nTatiana Proskouriakoff is remembered for laying the foundation for understanding Mayan historical texts and reconstructing the political history of Mayan city-states. Photo: Courtesy\nTatiana Proskouriakoff was born in 1909 in Russia during the final decade of its grand imperial period. As a child, she moved to the United States with her family in 1916. In 1924 her family was granted American citizenship, and Tatiana would go on to study architecture in Pennsylvania.\nBut Proskouriakof is best remembered not as an architect, but as one of the most influential early Mayanist and epigraphers of the 20 century. While still a student, Proskouriakoff prepared archeological illustrations as a volunteer at the University Museum. Her skills and attention to detail landed her a spot in 1936 to take part in an expedition to Guatemala. During this expedition, she would study and illustrate the remains of the ancient Mayan City of Piedras Negras \u2014 a trip that would shape the rest of her life and career.\nTatiana Proskouriakoff in the ruins of the Mayan city of Piedras Negras. Photo: Courtesy\nIn 1942 she conducted a scholarly analysis of the hieroglyphics at the Takalik Abaj ruins in Guatemala and established that the site was in part Maya, settling what had been an ongoing debate at the time.\nDespite a boom in interest in the Maya civilization in the early 19th century, by the middle of the 20th century, Maya hieroglyphics were still considered to be largely impossible to decipher. Photo: Carlos Rosado van der Gracht\nIntrigued by the almost entirely indecipherable Mayan hieroglyphs she saw in Guatemala, she decided to again travel to Mesoamerica, this time to Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1. In Yucat\u00e1n, she continued her research and began to diligently work towards the goal of coming to understand the beautiful yet mysterious writing system of the Maya.\nIn 1974, Tatiana Proskouriakoff prepared a catalog of 1,000 jade products from the sacred cenote Chichen Itza, kept in the Peabody Museum. Photo: Carlos Rosado van der Gracht\nIn 1940, Proskouriakoff was working for the Carnegie Institute when she developed a method to accurately date Mayan monuments based on the peculiarities of their architectural features. At around the same time she returned to Yucat\u00e1n once again, this time to take part in excavations at Mayap\u00e1n.\nDuring Proskouriakoff's career, archaeology was still dominated by men, many of whom held extremely sexist beliefs. But in the end, her accomplishments spoke for themselves and she went on to be one of the most recognized archaeologists and epigraphers of her time. Photo: Courtesy\nIn the 1960s, Proskouriakoff would shock the international scientific community by publishing a paper detailing her method to decipher the writing system of the classical Maya. Her breakthrough came while researching the chronology of changing styles of Maya sculpture. She discovered that the dates shown on monumental stelae were actually historical and recorded important dates such as births, coronation, and death of important nobles.\nIlustration of Chic\u00e9n Itza, Yucat\u00e1n by Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Photo: Courtesy\nAnalyzing the pattern of dates and hieroglyphs, she was able to demonstrate a sequence of seven rulers over a span of 200 years. Knowing the context of the inscriptions, Maya epigraphers were then able to decipher the hieroglyphs.\nMayan stelae provide epigraphers and archaeologists with a wealth of information about life in the ancient great city. Pictured, stelae 35 of Yaxchil\u00e1n. Photo: Carlos Rosado van der Gracht\nHer discovery landed her a position as honorary curator of Mayan art at the Peabody Museum. She continued to publish her discoveries until her retirement in 1977. Proskouriakoff died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 30, 1985, at the age of 76. For her discoveries, in 1984 she was posthumously awarded the Order of the Quetzal, the most prestigious award granted by the Guatemalan Government.\nIn 1998 her close friend and colleague David Stuart carried Tatiana's ashes to Piedras Negras. There near the banks of the mighty Usumacinta river, her ashes were interred at the summit of the Acropolis, the group of structures in Tania's first and perhaps most famous reconstruction drawing, the same one that launched her career.\nTatiana Proskouriakoff's final resting place in Piedras Negras Guatemala. Photo: Courtesy\nPrevious articleCocktail party fundraiser for children at Caimede shelter\nNext articleNo new timeline given as M\u00e9rida's paso deprimido is delayed yet again","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Author: Ponlop Rinpoche\nFormat: 4 DVD-R \/ NTSC\nDescription About the author\nIn the Bodhicharyavatara, the great Indian scholar, Shantideva presents teachings on the path of the Bodhisattvas in beautifully written verses. In these talks, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche provides profound and engaging commentary on this classic text. Rinpoche begins by teaching about Shantideva and the masters who brought these teachings to the Kagyu lineage. He then explains the special physical and mental support that is the basis for bodhicitta. He intersperses these teachings with Kadampa methods for reducing negative actions. Rinpoche discusses the commitmens of Bodhicitta during the Bodhicitta vow ceremony. In the two concluding talks Rinpoche provides clear and specific practice instructions for working with kleshas (mental afflictions) . Several talks include question and answer sessions. Throughout this series of talks Rinpoche teaches with humore and profound clarity.\nBodhicharyavatara, Ponlop Rinpoche, Vajra Echoes, 4 DVDs, 10 hours, $84.00.\nThe Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars of his generation in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Fluent in English and well-versed in Western culture, Rinpooche has worked to develop and adapt traditional Tibetan education curriculums for Western audiences. Nitartha Institute (www.nitharthainstitute.org), where Rinpoche is the main teacher, provides a focused Buddhist studies program. Rinpoche is a visiting professor of buddhist philosopy at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. In 1997, Rinpoche founded Nalanabodhi to preserve the genuine lineage of the Nyingma and Kagyu Schools of Tibetan Buddhism. There are Nalandabodhi centers in North America and Europe, and curriculum materials are available to people worldwide.\nAudio & Video > Video \/ DVD > Video \/ DVD by Ponlop Rinpoche\nAudio & Video > Video \/ DVD","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Anatomy 101\nBy Doperbo Aug 21, 2007, 10:56pm CDT\nShare All sharing options for: Anatomy 101\nIt isn't that an interest in football and a working knowledge of internal organs can't lend itself to levity, next week I've scheduled a rousing game of Guess the size of Mad Dog's colon, it's simply that for me this particular subject doesn't broach much satire. After listening to a week of conjecture around the water cooler, message boards, television and talk radio I'd like to discuss a few straightforward topics for purely informational purposes. Forewarned.\nThe Spleen\nIt sits just below your diaphragm on the left side, hidden behind your rib cage for protection. It's a soft mushy conglomeration of lymph tissue wrapped in a tough fibrous shell, sort of like a leather bound bag of souffle. Lay articles point out that it's about the size of your fist for reference. It's a fairly important organ, probably the second most important non-paired, non central nervous system organ that you can actually live without, right behind the thyroid. It has several functions, mainly filtering the blood for trash like old red blood cells and other cellular debris. It's also a key part of the bodies defense against certain infections, which why people without one require specific vaccinations every so often. For our purposes it's the filtration aspects that matter.\nThink of it as an oil filter- which isn't a bad comparison structurally or functionally. The entire blood volume from the circulatory system is filtered through the spleen continuously, it handles a lot of blood from a flow standpoint under high pressure. The blood courses through tiny channels called sinusoids which act like the fine mesh of our oil filter. Clean blood passes through and on to the liver while the debris remains behind to be destroyed by specialized cells put there to do just so. Because of it's location and construction it doesn't handle blunt trauma to the side of the ribs very well. If the tough outer capsule tears a bit it's strong enough to hold most of the blood in and repair itself. If it completely ruptures, as happens in motor vehicle accidents or violent athletic collisions, it's possible to have heavy bleeding into the abdominal cavity. Your abdominal cavity can hold quite a bit of blood, and under arterial pressure the spleen can oblige that capacity. The result, untreated, is a lack of volume left in the system causing very low blood pressure, circulatory collapse, and eventually shock. If this situation goes on long enough the major organs like the kidneys, brain, heart, lungs, gut and liver shut down, roughly in that order. The treatment is removal of the thing before you bleed out and replacement of large amounts of volume via IV fluids and blood transfusion.\nThis is your brain's ability to know where your body is in space. Close your eyes and and think about where your left heel is right now. You can probably generate a fairly accurate angle and distance from another any other part of your body to that heel with your eyes closed as well. Special columns of nerves running along the back of your spinal cord relate information to your brain about exactly where any particular body part is in relation to every other part at any given time. Note that proprioception is a building block of coordination, you can have the former without the latter, but not the other way around. The part of the brain that controls coordination, the cerebellum, process this information along with a multitude of other data to allow you to move smoothly in space and accomplish complex tasks. The sheer amount of instantaneous processing required to do this is staggering, and it's the reason my 15 month old toddler can easily negotiate obstacles that multimillion dollar robots cannot.\nSome areas of the brain are either evolved or designed, depending on your preference, to be protected from periods of low blood flow, basic housekeeping functions like breathing and gut motility as well as our more primitive senses like smell fall into this class. Certain parts of the brain are more susceptible to shock, particular fibers in the cerebellum called Purkinje fibers happen to be one of them. Other areas at risk have memory, language, and visual perception implications. It isn't uncommon for someone who has suffered a traumatic event and lost a lot of blood to have any number of variable lingering effects. The degree of impairment varies greatly among individuals, as does the ability to rehabilitate these deficits. The psychological aspects of said trauma are another issue, one I'm not qualified to discuss.\nWhat does this all mean and why do I care? Two reasons I guess. One is a desire to provide some clarity around some of the terms being thrown around of late and attempt to explain them in a way that makes sense. The other is that I am a fan of Chris Simms the person and have tired of some of the office punchlines and shots taken by media outlets who do little or no research into the topics they are covering. I have empathy for someone who is now being labeled a basket case by coaching staff and the media without a great deal of understanding informing that opinion. Note, I have no personal knowledge of his medical condition whatsoever, if I did I would be prevented from even discussing such with a close friend, much less on a public blog, by very strict and rigid ethical and legal guidelines. I am pulling for the guy though. He's handled a great deal of adversity well at a very young age, and has shown a full measure of personal courage when tested. Regardless of his future as an NFL quarterback, perennial backup vs. Pro-bowler, that sort of thing rates very highly with me. In my schema, if one is judging a man integrity and physical courage are important touchstones.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Vice DVD\n4K UHD\/Blu-Ray\/DVD Announcements, Movies, News\nAdam McKay's 'Vice'; Arrives On Digital March 12 & On Blu-ray & DVD April 2, 2019 From Fox Home Ent.\nTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has officially announced and detailed their home entertainment releases of Adam McKay's acclaimed biopic 'Vice' which stars Christian Bale as Dick Cheney. The film will be available to own early on Digital beginning March 12 and will be followed by the Blu-ray and DVD releases on April 2, 2019. Continue after the jump to check out the full announcement for the release including bonus content listings, disc specs and more. Continue reading \"Adam McKay's 'Vice'; Arrives On Digital March 12 & On Blu-ray & DVD April 2, 2019 From Fox Home Ent.\"\nKevin Lovell February 19, 2019 February 20, 2019 Leave a comment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About the Consulate\nConsul General Hazza Alkaabi\nConsulate Services\nServices for UAE Nationals\nLegalization of Documents\nUAE Embassy & Consulates\nUAE-US Relations\nKey Areas of Bilateral Cooperation\nUAE-US Trade\nThe UAE-US Relationship: A Timeline\nPorts & Airports\nExporting to the UAE\nAbout the UAE\nWomen in the UAE\nTolerance & Inclusion\nUAE Videos\nHome \u00bb Consulate \u00bb Consulate News \u00bb California-UAE bilateral trade exceeds $1.5 billion\nCalifornia-UAE bilateral trade exceeds $1.5 billion\nBilateral trade between the United States (US) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has grown significantly \u2013 thanks in part to the booming commercial relationship between the UAE and the State of California.\nIn 2013, total bilateral trade between the US and UAE exceeded a record of more than $26 billion. The UAE continues to be the largest export market for US goods and services in the Middle East and North Africa \u2013 the fifth straight year the UAE has held this distinction. Among US states, California is the UAE's 5th largest trading partner, with exports totaling $1.6 billion in 2013.\nTrade between the UAE and the State of California has jumped almost 750 percent since 1999, when trade valued more than $189 million. In 2013, the UAE ranked 23rd among California's global export markets, even though the UAE's economy is only the 49th largest in the world.\nIn 2013, top exports from California to the UAE included global forage exports, automotive, computers, and nuts. Global corporations such as Apple, Toshiba, Hewlett Packard, Blue Diamond have been major export contributors to the UAE. Transportation companies, such as Boeing, GM, Toyota, and Tesla Motors, have a number of subsidiaries and manufacturing plants throughout California, which are also major contributors to California's exports to the UAE. Furthermore, exports to the UAE alone supported the employment of almost 23,000 individuals in California.\n\"California and the UAE share a very strong and increasingly dynamic commercial and cultural relationship,\" said Abdulla Alsaboosi, Consul General of the UAE. The new Los Angeles Consulate \u2013 the first UAE consulate in the US \u2013 is further evidence of the importance of the State of California to the UAE's close relationship with the US.\nAs part of the strong bilateral trade relationship, California ports handle a substantial amount of trade between the US and UAE. Los Angeles is the eighth largest US port for trade with the UAE, followed by San Francisco, ranked at 15th. Combined, the two ports handled more than $1.5 billion worth of goods in 2013 alone \u2013 more than a 300 percent increase from 1999, when the two ports handled a combined $384 million in goods.\nThe importance of California as a key trading partner to the UAE is further evidenced by the growing number of nonstop flights between the UAE and the state. The UAE's two major international airlines, Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways, operate daily nonstop flights between Los Angeles and Dubai and Abu Dhabi, respectively. San Francisco is also an international departure city for Emirates.\nThe State of California and the UAE continue to explore new areas for future collaboration across a variety of sectors, including technology, clean energy, transportation, manufacturing, and the entertainment industry. As the UAE and California continue to deepen their long-standing economic relationship, UAE investment will continue to play a valuable role in supporting the state's economic development and job creation efforts.\nCorporate & Legal Documents\nPersonal & Education Documents\nVisas & Passports for Travel to the UAE\nCommercial Invoices & Shipping Documents\nUnited For A Better Future\nWith shared interests and common values, the UAE and US are close friends and strong allies. The two countries are working together to promote regional security, create economic prosperity, and address global challenges.\nStay informed on UAE-US relations, Embassy activities and UAE government initiatives.\nPlease use the contact form to send us additional questions. We will respond to you in a timely fashion.\nFollow Us LA\n\u00a9 2019 Embassy of the United Arab Emirates \u00b7 3522 International Court, NW \u00b7 Suite 400 \u00b7 Washington, DC 20008 | Site Map | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer Regarding Solicitations","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All Time Blackhawks\nA First-Look at the Blackhawks' Top Prospects is not Far Away\nBy Jeremiah Lee\nChicago Blackhawks (Photo by Jonathan Daniel\/Getty Images)\nThe Blackhawks' prospects will travel to Minnesota for a pair of scrimmages against the Wild's prospects.\nThe Blackhawks are set to send their top prospects over to Minnesota, where fans will get their first look at names like Lukas Reichel, Colton Dach, and Jakob Galvas. The Rockford IceHogs coaching staff will man the bench. Scrimmages can be found on the Minnesota Wild's YouTube channel, not the Blackhawks', starting on September 17 at 7 pm and September 19 at 1 pm.\nThis is an exciting time for fans to get their first glimpse at the future of the franchise, especially Lukas Reichel, who has a decent shot at a roster spot this training camp. Based on the scouting report, he is a hard-working player who can score from the dirty areas and control the play. Playing against men in Germany, Reichel will have a decent welcome into North American hockey against the best the Minnesota Wild's prospect pool has to offer.\nFans will also get their first look at what Colton Dach is capable of in the small sample size. Dach is a physical player with a great shot, so fans can expect to see him chip in offensively while adding a physical punch to the game. I really think that he has a decent shot at the NHL roster with his skillset, but it is still more likely that he spends more time in juniors or Rockford.\nAlso on this roster is Mike Hardman, which is puzzling (to me). Hardman was in the lineup for 8 games, putting up 3 points, coming into his own as the season ended with all of his points scored in the last four games played. He really should be on the NHL roster as the team now has the players for a checking, energy style for the third and fourth lines, something teams need to win in today's NHL. I'm guessing that Hardman was added to warm him up before training camp in order to get more out of him to start the season.\nThe Blackhawks' prospects have a LOT of physicality, with Hardman, Dach, Evan Barratt, Nolan Allan, and more. They won't be pushed around with a few willing combatants in a potential scrap. It is encouraging to see the type of size and aggressiveness in the prospect pool as the days of Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews contained a lot of pushing around but winning with resilience.\nThe next wave of potential Blackhawks will have a great mix of speed, skill, and grit, something, again, that you need to win. The showcase will show what they have to offer before the preseason, where we will get another look at what these young guns have to offer.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tin t\u1ee9c | 2Sao | Tintuconline | Infonet | ICTNews | Multimedia | Tuy\u1ec3n d\u1ee5ng\nSci-tech & Environment\nVN & World\nMaritime Sovereignty\nParty leader chairs Central Military Commission meeting\nParty General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a Central Military Commission meeting on November 30 to approve a draft resolution on leadership in the implementation of military-defence tasks and Party building in 2021,\nand a report on the realisation of military-defence missions in 2020 and orientations and tasks for 2021.\nParty General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong (standing) addresses the meeting of the Central Military Commission on November 30 (Photo: VNA)\nThe report noted that this year, amid complex developments in the region and the world, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence as well as Party committees at all levels led the military in completing all military-defence tasks set for the year.\nAlong with providing advice on policies and forecasts to the Party and State, the military has also maintained combat readiness and close coordination with other ministries and localities to promote its central role in building a firm all-people defence.\nIt has completed its tasks in production as well as COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control, and joined in activities to protect human lives and property during natural disasters and flooding.\nThe ministry directed the streamlining of organisations to make them elite and strong, while showing progress in completing legal documents relating to military and defence and good performance in external defence relations in the year when Vietnam took up the roles of ASEAN Chair and non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.\nIn 2021, the military aims to implement the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the 11th Congress of the Army's Party Organisation, while focusing on building a pure, strong and model Party Organisation.\nIt will enhance its capacity and competitiveness as well as the efficiency of inspection and supervision and the implementation of Party discipline, while maintaining and promoting the absolute and direct leadership of the Party over all aspects of the military.\nMembers of the Central Military Commission agreed with the tasks and solutions given in the report, while asking Party committees and organisations at all levels to continue to give advice to the Party and State on military-defence affairs while effectively implementing strategies, resolutions, conclusions, projects, and laws, including the Vietnam Border Guard Law and the resolution released by the National Assembly on involvement in UN peacekeeping operations.\nSpeaking at the meeting, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed that the Central Military Commission, the Defence Ministry, and the whole army had a role to play in contributing to the said achievements.\nSaying that the situation in the years to come may see complex and unpredictable developments, the top leader stressed the requirement that the commission and the ministry must proactively grasp the situation so as to provide advice to the Party and the State on national defence policies.\nHe also asked the ministry to proactively prevent and fight corruption and negative phenomena right within itself, and expressed his belief that the Party organisation of the army will continue bringing into play its tradition of solidarity, real transparency, thus setting an example for others.\/.VNA\nCentral Military Commission\nVietnam, Cambodia work to further promote comprehensive cooperation\nPOLITICSicon 23\/12\/2020\nVietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh and Cambodian Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on December 22 co-chaired the 18th meeting\nHCM City: Party official suspended from work\nThe information and education board of the HCM City Party Committee has decided to suspend Tat Thanh Cang, deputy head of the compilation group for the history of the city's Party organisation, from work for three months to serve an investigation.\nHCM City to provide all public services online at level 4 by 2030\nHo Chi Minh City has set a target to provide 100 percent of public services online at level 4 by 2030. Level 4 is the highest level of online public services, which allows users to fill and submit forms, and pay fees online.\nImportant issues of Party Central Committee's 14th session\nImportant issues of the 14th session of the 12th tenure Party Central Committee\nMultiple agreements with New Zealand underpin ties\nVietnam and New Zealand have cemented new ties with the latest signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the strategic partnership between both nations.\nVietnam supports enhanced cooperation between UNSC, Int'l Court of Justice\nVietnamese Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy on December 18 highlighted the country's support for stronger cooperation between the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ)\nVietnam wins trust worldwide: Belgian Ambassador to UN\nVietnam has a strong voice and has won trust worldwide, especially in Asia, Africa, the Europe as well as the US, Ambassador Philippe Kridelka, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the UN has told VNA.\nAll agenda items of 12th Party Central Committee's 14th plenum completed\nThe 14th plenum of the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee wrapped up in Hanoi on December 18 after nearly five days of working, with all agenda items completed.\nGovernment's first draft resolution sets major tasks for 2021\nPermanent Cabinet members on December 18 looked at the Government's draft Resolution No.1, which sets leadership and management orientations for the whole year of 2021.\nPM instructs ways to remove difficulties for localities to accelerate development\nPM Nguyen Xuan Phuc gave instructions on ways to address major problems facing by Tra Vinh, Thua Thien-Hue and Thai Binh provinces to help those localities promote development at working sessions on the past several days.\nPM Phuc to hold virtual summit with Indian counterpart Modi next week\nPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold virtual summit on December 21, Foreign Ministry's Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang told a room of reporters Thursday.\nParty Central Committee reaches high consensus on personnel work\nThe 12th-tenure Party Central Committee (PCC) reached high consensus on personnel work related to the 13th tenure Politburo and PCC Secretariat during the 14th session,\nVietnam reaffirms backing for Afghan-led peace process\nAmbassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam's permanent mission to the United Nations (UN), has reaffirmed the country's backing for Afghan-led peace process, including the engagement of women and youths.\nVietnam consistently ensures freedom of the press: Foreign ministry spokesperson\nVietnam absolutely rejects the untruthful content based on inaccurate and non-objective information about the country in a report released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),\nVietnam, EU enjoy thriving relations over three decades\nVietnam and the EU have experienced fruitful cooperation in various sectors over the course of the last three decades,\nSeminar looks back on Vietnam's role as ASEAN 2020 Chair\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 17 hosted an international seminar to look back on the ASEAN Chairmanship 2020 of Vietnam under the chair of Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung.\nEU leaders wish to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam\nPresident of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen have sent congratulations to President Nguyen Phu Trong and PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc\nVietnamese navy successfully rescues engine-failed Russian ship: Spokesperson\nA submarine of the Vietnamese navy rescued a Russian cargo vessel experiencing engine failure around 120 miles northeast of Cam Ranh Bay in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on December 9,\nVietnam maintaining dialogue with US to handle issues in economic ties\nVietnam is maintaining dialogue and consultation with the US in a constructive spirit to deal with problems in bilateral economic and trade links in a way that is sustainable and harmonises the interests of both sides,\nNine provincial chairs elected last week\nThe provinces of Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Binh Dinh, Da Nang, Dong Thap, Ninh Binh, Thai Nguyen, Tien Giang and Thanh Hoa last week elected their top official - the chair of the local People's Committee.\n. 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{"text":"career financeBusiness\nSure, Amazon's Changed Shopping, But Retailers Can Still Compete\nDave Roos\n\"Amazon launched a local website for Australia on Dec. 5, 2017, one more step on its march to world domination. Quinn Rooney\/Getty Images\nIn his 1997 letter to the first Amazon shareholders, CEO Jeff Bezos laid out the three-word business philosophy that could soon make the online giant the first $1 trillion company in history: \"obsess over customers.\"\nThat simple, customer-centric credo has driven a string of innovations unmatched in American retail:\nAmazon posted some of the first customer reviews next to its products (1995)\n1-Click (1997) eliminated the need for Amazon customers to re-enter billing information with every purchase\nAmazon Prime (2005), a free-shipping loyalty program, has ballooned to become Amazon's all-encompassing shopping and entertainment ecosystem\nAmazon Kindle (2007) basically created the downloadable ebook device market and continues to dominate it\nAmazon Echo (2015), a smart home gadget dismissed as a gimmick, became the top-selling item on Amazon.com for Black Friday 2017\nAnd then there are all the innovations that Amazon's customers don't see, but that allow Amazon to make good on promises like same-day delivery. Scot Wingo, executive chairman and founder of ChannelAdvisor, an ecommerce strategy consultancy, says that Amazon's 116 nationwide fulfillment centers and the \"billions of dollars in investment to make that happen\" all stem from that original shareholder letter.\n\"Bezos said in 1997 that customers won't get tired of low prices, selection and great shipping,\" says Wingo. \"Here we are 20 years later and those are the things that have really differentiated Amazon from everyone.\"\nOnine shopping in the third quarter of 2017 accounted for 9.1 percent of total retail sales in America. That's an increase of 15 percent over 2016, which itself was 15 percent better than the same quarter in 2015, and it's expected to grow at that same rate for the foreseeable future. (Although you might be forgiven for expecting internet shopping to be a higher percent of retail sales by now, few people buy groceries and cars online, two of the biggest retail sectors.)\nIn that small but growing online retail pond, Amazon is by far the biggest fish. Check out some of the latest stats:\nAmazon accounted for 43 percent of all online sales in 2016\nAmazon recorded 45 percent of online sales on Thanksgiving and nearly 55 percent on Black Friday in 2017\n1 in 4 US adults (63 million) are Amazon Prime members\n71 percent of US adults make an Amazon purchase at least once a month\nAmazon's online dominance is a thorn in the side of just about every retailer in America. Consumers accustomed to the low prices and absurdly broad selection of Amazon are often disappointed when they walk into traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. This has led to the growing practice of \"showrooming,\" in which shoppers visit physical retail stores to try on clothes and size up gadgets, then go home and buy them online, often through Amazon.\nBut just when retailers started thinking that brick-and-mortar was a death sentence, Amazon flipped the script. The online-native company recently opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstores, a market it originally helped kill (R.I.P. Borders, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton). Then Amazon bought Whole Foods with its 450 US locations, which may one day have no checkout lines or cash registers, just like the Amazon Go pilot grocery store in Seattle.\nDoes that mean that the Amazon way is the only way to win in retail? Not necessarily, says John Rossman, a former Amazon executive and managing director at the Seattle consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal, who not coincidentally wrote a book called \"The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company.\"\n\"For every company, it's about knowing who your customer is and figuring out different high-value ways to serve them in unique ways that others would have a tough time copying,\" says Rossman. \"Amazon has its own approach to it, but I wouldn't recommend that everyone follows Amazon's playbook.\"\nThe Walmart Way\nWalmart's an excellent example. The big-box chain has definitely ripped a few pages from Amazon's playbook by investing heavily in its online user experience and offering free 2-day shipping on millions of items. As a result, Walmart's online sales have for third quarter 2017 jumped 50 percent over the same quarter in 2016. But Walmart has something that Amazon doesn't have \u2014 physical stores in nearly every community in America.\n\"You have to start saying, 'Those 4,000 stores that I have, I've got to stop treating them as a handicap and start thinking about how they can be an asset to me,'\" says Neil Stern with the retail consultancy McMillanDoolittle. Stern says Walmart has the opportunity to create a robust \"click-and-collect\" network that's seamless between online ordering and in-store inventory.\n\"It's a staggering amount of money that Amazon is spending to subsidize shipping to the home,\" says Stern (he's right Amazon lost $7.2 billion on shipping in 2016). \"Walmart can calculate, 'This item will cost you $22 to ship to your home, but you'll save $5 if you come to the store.' That's one big area where Walmart can do something that Amazon can't do today.\"\nThe counterargument, says ChannelAdvisor's Wingo, is that \"your average Walmart has 100,000 unique SKUs in it and each Amazon fulfillment center has 1 million.\"\nEmphasizing Brick-and-Mortar Strengths\nOther retailers need emphasize unique shopping experiences that online-only retailers can't match, says Stern, like the \"treasure hunt\" pleasure of an off-price clothing store like T.J. Maxx or the immersive brand experience of Lululemon or an Apple store.\nOne of Rossman's favorite case studies is Nordstrom, a traditional retailer that could have faded away as a dinosaur of the mall era. But Nordstrom paid attention to its customer's social media habits and nimbly incorporated in-store shoe displays of top pinned items on Pinterest and the ability to buy items straight from its Instagram feed.\nNordstrom also doubled down on its reputation for excellent customer service with a pilot store called Nordstrom Local that sells no products, just services like stylist appointments, manicures and online shopping pick-up. This is part of a new trend of retailers trying to turn the \"showrooming\" threat on its head. Bonobos Guide Shops are a great example. No clothes are actually sold in the store, but they combine the best of brick-and-mortar \u2014 personalized customer service, immersive brand experience, and discovery \u2014 with the convenience of online ordering and free home shipping.\nNow That's Interesting\nOne of Amazon's keys to success is that it's not afraid to take risks and make expensive bets. Of course, risks are\u2026 risky. The biggest \"black eye\" in recent Amazon history is the Fire Phone, which failed precisely because Amazon's beloved customers just didn't need it.\nDave Rooshttp:\/\/www.uclstyle.com\nPrevious articleHow to Use Activated Charcoal: 10 Uses and Benefits For Health and Beauty\nNext articlePMS and Beyond: 9 Tips and Remedies for Menstrual Cramps\nIs Small Business Saturday Good for Small Businesses?\nNathan Chandler - October 21, 2020\nHow to Answer 'Tell Me About Yourself'\nCherise Threewitt - October 14, 2020\nIndie Bookstores Defied Amazon. Who's Next?\nDave Roos - October 8, 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Blog title?\nLoading sags in homogeneous lithologies?\nPosted by Callan Bentley\nI was out in the field over the weekend, and saw something new. Readers, I'd be eager to hear what you think of it.\nThe feature is what appears to be a series of small \"ball and pillow\" type loading structures (soft sediment deformation), but the thing that's weird about them is rather than being sand sagging into mud, we have instead silt or fine sand sagging into identical sediment. Check it out; in each case I offer a plain photo followed by a version with the base of the \"pillows\" highlighted:\nSome of these have very compelling shapes. It just seems so bizarre that they could exist in sediments where the lower layer appears to have the same grain size (and thus mechanical properties?) as the upper layer. Where's the differential viscosity coming from? Perhaps there was a component of seismicity that induced these structures to form through preferential liquefaction of the lower layer? Does that even make sense? Could it be that there used to be a lot more mud here, but it all got squished out of the outcrop through volume loss, and so doesn't appear in modern cross-sections? The last one I think is most compelling as a traditional case of density inversion, with a slight difference in grain size preserved through the differential weathering profile: beds crisp at the base, then grading slightly upward to the crisp base of the overlying bed. It may be that examination under a microscope would reveal a discernible grain size difference.\nIt may be relevant that this site is very close (just a few meters above) the mass transport deposit I showcased previously.\nThoughts? (Thanks in advance)\nPosted in: primary structures, sandstone, sediment, valley and ridge, west virginia 4 Comments\/Trackbacks \u00bb\nHoward Allen says:\nI wonder if, rather than load structures, they are a type of small scale scour-and-fill feature caused by turbulent (and very turbid\u2014perhaps a slurry) flow onto a slightly consolidated bed of the same sediment. For evidence, I would expect the \"pillows\"\/\"load casts\" to have little or no internal structure (due to chaotic, turbulent turbidity flow), versus the underlying\/scoured bed which might be more conventionally laminated, rippled, cross-bedded, etc. I fancy that I can see such a situation in all the photos, where the \"pillows\" overlie horizontally bedded sandstone. The second and fourth photos, in particular, seem to show a \"pillowed\" bed over- and underlain by horizontally laminated beds.\nAnother possibilty that occurs to me\u2014though in my mind much less likely, is that they are some kind of bioturbation by a large organism (big-ass trilobite?) burrowing through particular beds. Unfortunately, the main evidence for this, I think, would also be structureless sediment overlying structured sediment.\nLynn David Recker says:\nTime for oriented thin sections across what you have identified as the sag boundaries to see if grains have an orientation in some manner or possibly rotated. I would wonder also if what you are seeing in macro is possibly a representation of some diagenic feature. When I first saw your annotated picture, the idea that they represent some sort of 'mini-roll' structure (akin to the larger roll structures that concentrate uranium). Either way (of any hypotheses) the thin sections would be a good first investigation to make.\nBD Gaetz says:\nI am with Howard as far as they look like sediment loading structures to my eye, not bioturbation. They appear to be flame structures, with fluidized fines protruding into the overlying sand bed.\nCallan Bentley says:\nConnect with Callan:\nAbout Callan\nCallan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. 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{"text":"Age of Humans Future of Space Exploration Human Behavior Mind & Body Our Planet Space Wildlife Newsletter Earth Optimism Summit\nHow Advertising Shaped the First Opioid Epidemic\nAnd what it can teach us about the second\nA vintage ad for patent medicines, which usually didn't list their active ingredients. We now know that many contained morphine, cocaine, opium and more. (Public Domain Pictures)\nBy Jon Kelvey\nsmithsonianmag.com\nWhen historians trace back the roots of today's opioid epidemic, they often find themselves returning to the wave of addiction that swept the U.S. in the late 19th century. That was when physicians first got their hands on morphine: a truly effective treatment for pain, delivered first by tablet and then by the newly invented hypodermic syringe. With no criminal regulations on morphine, opium or heroin, many of these drugs became the \"secret ingredient\" in readily available, dubiously effective medicines.\nA Speedy History of America's Addiction to Amphetamine\nIn the 19th century, after all, there was no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the advertising claims of health products. In such a climate, a popular so-called \"patent medicine\" market flourished. Manufacturers of these nostrums often made misleading claims and kept their full ingredients list and formulas proprietary, though we now know they often contained cocaine, opium, morphine, alcohol and other intoxicants or toxins.\nProducts like heroin cough drops and cocaine-laced toothache medicine were sold openly and freely over the counter, using colorful advertisements that can be downright shocking to modern eyes. Take this 1885 print ad for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething Children, for instance, showing a mother and her two children looking suspiciously beatific. The morphine content may have helped.\n1885 advertisement for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. This product was for teething children and contained morphine. (NIH National Library of Medicine)\nPublished in Mumbles Railway Publishing, 19th century. (NIH National Library of Medicine)\nYet while it's easy to blame patent medicines and American negligence for the start of the first opioid epidemic, the real story is more complicated. First, it would be a mistake to assume that Victorian era Americans were just hunky dory with giving infants morphine syrup. The problem was, they just didn't know. It took the work of muckraking journalists such as Samuel Hopkins Adams, whose expos\u00e9 series, \"The Great American Fraud\" appeared in Colliers from 1905 to 1906, to pull back the curtain.\nBut more than that, widespread opiate use in Victorian America didn't start with the patent medicines. It started with doctors.\nThe Origins of Addiction\nPatent medicines typically contained relatively small quantities of morphine and other drugs, says David Herzberg, a professor of history at SUNY-University at Buffalo. \"It's pretty well recognized that none of those products produced any addiction,\" says Herzberg, who is currently writing a history of legal narcotics in America.\nUntil the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, there were no federal laws regulating drugs such as morphine or cocaine. Moreover, even in those states that had regulations on the sale of narcotics beginning in the 1880s, Herzberg notes that \"laws were not part of the criminal code, instead they were part of medical\/pharmacy regulations.\"\nThe laws that existed weren't well-enforced. Unlike today, a person addicted to morphine could take the same \"tattered old prescription\" back to a compliant druggist again and again for a refill, says David Courtwright, a historian of drug use and policy at the University of North Florida.\nAnd for certain ailments, patent medicines could be highly effective, he adds. \"Quite apart from the placebo effect, a patent medicine might contain a drug like opium,\" says Courtwright, whose book Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America, provides much of the original scholarship in this area. \"If buyers took a spoonful because they had, say, a case of the runs, the medicine probably worked.\" (After all, he points out, \"opium is a constipating agent.\")\nPatent medicines may not have been as safe as we would demand today or live up to claims of panacea, but when it came to coughs and diarrhea, they probably got the job done. \"Those drugs are really famous, and they do speak to a time where markets were a little bit out of control,\" Herzberg says. \"But the vast majority of addiction during their heyday was caused by physicians.\"\nFrom handbills and pamphlets advertising glyco-heroin 1900-1920, from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia's collection of medical trade ephemera. (Historical Medical Library, College of Physicians of Philadelphia)\nMarketing to Doctors\nFor 19th century physicians, cures were hard to come by. But beginning in 1805, they were handed a way to reliably make patients feel better. That's the year German pharmacist Friedeich Serturner isolated morphine from opium, the first \"opiate\" (the term opioid once referred to purely synthetic morphine like drugs, Courtwright notes, before becoming a catchall covering even those drugs derived from opium).\nDelivered by tablet, topically and, by mid-century, through the newly invented hypodermic syringe, morphine quickly made itself indispensable. Widespread use by soldiers during the Civil War also helped trigger the epidemic, as Erick Trickey reports in Smithsonian.com. By the 1870s, morphine became something of \"a magic wand [doctors] could wave to make painful symptoms temporarily go away,\" says Courtwright.\nDoctors used morphine liberally to treat everything from the pain of war wounds to menstrual cramps. \"It's clear that that was the primary driver of the epidemic,\" Courtwright says. And 19th century surveys Courtwright studied showed most opiate addicts to be female, white, middle-aged, and of \"respectable social background\"\u2014in other words, precisely the kind of people who might seek out physicians with the latest tools.\nIndustry was quick to make sure physicians knew about the latest tools. Ads for morphine tablets ran in medical trade journals, Courtwright says, and, in a maneuver with echoes today, industry sales people distributed pamphlets to physicians. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library has a collection of such \"medical trade ephemera\" that includes a 1910 pamphlet from The Bayer Company titled, \"The Substitute for the Opiates.\"\nThe substitute? Heroin hydrochloride, at the time a new drug initially believed to be less addictive than morphine. Pamphlets from the Antikamnia Chemical Company, circa 1895 show an easy cheat sheet catalog of the company's wares, from quinine tablets to codeine and heroin tablets.\n(College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Historical Medical Library)\nPhysicians and pharmacists were the key drivers in increasing America's per capita consumption of drugs like morphine by threefold in the 1870s and 80s, Courtwright writes in a 2015 paper for the New England Journal of Medicine. But it was also physicians and pharmacists who ultimately helped bring the crisis back under control.\nIn 1889, Boston physician James Adams estimated that about 150,000 Americans were \"medical addicts\": those addicted through morphine or some other prescribed opiate rather than through recreational use such as smoking opium. Physicians like Adams began encouraging their colleagues to prescribe \"newer, non-opiate analgesics,\" drugs that did not lead to depression, constipation and addiction.\n\"By 1900, doctors had been thoroughly warned and younger, more recently trained doctors were creating fewer addicts than those trained in the mid-nineteenth century,\" writes Courtwright.\nThis was a conversation had between doctors, and between doctors and industry. Unlike today, drug makers did not market directly to the public and took pride in that contrast with the patent medicine manufacturers, Herzberg says. \"They called themselves the ethical drug industry and they would only advertise to physicians.\"\nBut that would begin to change in the early 20th century, driven in part by a backlash to the marketing efforts of the 19th century patent medicine peddlers.\n\"San Diego lynx bares its fangs vigorously when zoo veterinarian is near cage, vet says it acts this way because it fears his hypodermics,\" reads the first photo caption for this Librium advertisement. \"Tranquil as a tabby,\" says the second. (LIFE Magazine)\nMarketing to the Masses\nIn 1906, reporting like Adams' helped drum up support for the Pure Food and Drug Act. That gave rise to what would become the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the notion that food and drug products should be labeled with their ingredients so consumers could make reasoned choices.\nThat idea shapes federal policy right up until today, says Jeremy Greene, a colleague of Herzberg's and a professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: \"That path-dependent story is part of the reason why we are one of the only countries in the world that allows direct-to-consumer advertising,\" he says.\nAt the same time, in the 1950s and 60s, pharmaceutical promotion became more creative, coevolving with the new regulatory landscape, according to Herzberg. As regulators have set out the game, he says, \"Pharma has regularly figured out how to play that game in ways that benefit them.\nThough the tradition of eschewing direct marketing to the public continued, advertising in medical journals increased. So, too, did more unorthodox methods. Companies staged attention-grabbing gimmicks, such as Carter Products commissioning Salvador Dali to make a sculpture promoting its tranquilizer, Miltown, for a conference. Competitor Roche Pharmaceuticals invited reporters to watch as its tranquilizer Librium was used to sedate a wild lynx.\nAlternatively, some began taking their messaging straight to the press.\n\"You would feed one of your friendly journalists the most outlandishly hyped-up promise of what your drug could do,\" Greene says. \"Then there is no peer review. There is no one checking to if see it's true; it's journalism!\" In their article, Greene and Herzberg detail how ostensibly independent freelance science journalists were actually on the industry payroll, penning stories about new wonder drugs for popular magazines long before native advertising became a thing.\nOne prolific writer, Donald Cooley, wrote articles with headlines such as \"Will Wonder Drugs Never Cease!\" for magazines like Better Homes and Garden and Cosmopolitan. \"Don't confuse the new drugs with sedatives, sleeping pills, barbiturates or a cure,\" Cooley wrote in an article titled \"The New Nerve Pills and Your Health.\" \"Do realize they help the average person relax.\"\nAs Herzberg and Greene documented in a 2010 article in the American Journal of Public Health, Cooley was actually one of a stable of writers commissioned by the Medical and Pharmaceutical Information Bureau, a public relations firm, working for the industry. In a discovery Herzberg plans to detail in an upcoming book, it turns out there is \"a rich history of companies knocking at the door, trying to claim that new narcotics are in fact non-addictive\" and running advertisements in medical trade journals that get swatted down by federal authorities.\nA 1932 ad in the Montgomery Advertiser, for instance, teases a new \"pain relieving drug, five times as potent as morphine, as harmless as water and with no habit forming qualities.\" This compound, \"di-hydro-mophinone-hydrochlorid\" is better known by the brand name Dilaudid, and is most definitely habit forming, according to Dr. Caleb Alexander, co-director of the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness at Johns Hopkins.\nAnd while it's not clear if the manufacturer truly believed it was harmless, Alexander says it illustrates the danger credulity presents when it comes to drug development. \"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,\" he says. \"It is this sort of thinking, decades later, that has driven the epidemic.\"\nA selection of contemporary ads for painkillers from www.Adpharm.net.\nIt wasn't until 1995, when Purdue Pharma successfully introduced OxyContin, that one of these attempts was successful, says Herzberg. \"OxyContin passed because it was claimed to be a new, less-addictive type of drug, but the substance itself had been swatted down repeatedly by authorities since the 1940s,\" he says. OxyContin is simply oxycodone, developed in 1917, in a time-release formulation Purdue argued allowed a single dose to last 12 hours, mitigating the potential for addiction.\nAds targeting physicians bore the tagline, \"Remember, effective relief just takes two.\"\n\"If OxyContin had been proposed as a drug in 1957 authorities would have laughed and said no,\" Herzberg says.\nCaptivating the Consumer\nIn 1997, the FDA changed its advertising guidelines to open the door to direct-to-consumer marketing of drugs by the pharmaceutical industry. There were a number of reasons for this reversal of more than a century of practice, Greene and Herzberg say, from the ongoing ripples of the Reagan-era wave of deregulation, to the advent of the \"blockbuster\" pharmaceutical, to advocacy by AIDS patients rights groups.\nThe consequences were profound: a surge of industry spending on print and television advertising describing non-opioid drugs to the public that hit a peak of $3.3 billion in 2006. And while ads for opioid drugs were typically not shown on television, Greene says the cultural and political shifts that made direct-to-consumer advertising possible also changed the reception to the persistent pushing of opioids by industry.\nOnce again, it was not the public, but physicians that were the targets of opioid marketing, and this was often quite aggressive. The advertising campaign for OxyContin, for instance, was in many ways unprecedented.\nPurdue Pharma provided physicians with starter coupons that gave patients a free seven to 30-day supply of the drug . The company's sales force\u2014which more than doubled in size from 1996 to 2000\u2014handed doctors OxyContin-branded swag including fishing hats and plush toys. A music CD was distributed with the title \"Get in the Swing with OxyContin.\" Prescriptions for OxyContin for non-cancer related pain boomed from 670,000 written in 1997, to 6.2 million in 2002.\nBut even this aggressive marketing campaign was in many ways just the smoke. The real fire, Alexander argues, was a behind-the-scenes effort to establish a more lax attitude toward prescribing opioid medications generally, one which made regulators and physicians alike more accepting of OxyContin.\n\"When I was in residency training, we were taught that one needn't worry about the addictive potential of opioids if a patient had true pain,\" he says. Physicians were cultivated to overestimate the effectiveness of opioids for treating chronic, non-cancer pain, while underestimating the risks, and Alexander argues this was no accident.\nPurdue Pharma funded more than 20,000 educational programs designed to promote the use of opioids for chronic pain other than cancer, and provided financial support for groups such as the American Pain Society. That society, in turn, launched a campaign calling pain \"the fifth vital sign,\" which helped contribute to the perception there was a medical consensus that opioids were under, not over-prescribed.\nAre there lessons that can be drawn from all this? Herzberg thinks so, starting with the understanding that \"gray area\" marketing is more problematic than open advertising. People complain about direct-to-consumer advertising, but if there must be drug marketing, \"I say keep those ads and get rid of all the rest,\" he says, \"because at least those ads have to tell the truth, at least so far as we can establish what that is.\"\nEven better, Herzberg says, would be to ban the marketing of controlled narcotics, stimulants and sedatives altogether. \"This could be done administratively with existing drug laws, I believe, based on the DEA's power to license the manufacturers of controlled substances.\" The point, he says, would not be to restrict access to such medications for those who need them, but to subtract \"an evangelical effort to expand their use.\"\nAnother lesson from history, Courtwright says, is that physicians can be retrained. If physicians in the late 19th century learned to be judicious with morphine, physicians today can relearn that lesson with the wide array of opioids now available.\nThat won't fix everything, he notes, especially given the vast black market that did not exist at the turn of the previous century, but it's a proven start. As Courtwright puts it: Addiction is a highway with a lot of on-ramps, and prescription opioids are one of them. If we remove the billboards advertising the exit, maybe we can reduce, if not eliminate the number of travelers.\n\"That's how things work in public health,\" he says. \"Reduction is the name of the game.\"\nAddiction Body Disease Doctors Health History of Science Illegal Drugs Medicine Prescription Drugs\nWho Was Charles Curtis, the First Vice President of Color?\nIn the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol\nWolverine Captured on Yellowstone Trail Cameras for the First Time","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Central New Mexico Audubon Society\nCNMAS Field Trips\nOther Birding Opportunities\nThursday Birders\nAbout Thursday Birders\nRecent Thursday Birder Trips\nThursday Birder Checklist Archive\nCats Indoors\nGatos Adentro!\nThe Rosy-Finch Project\nWindow Collisions\nCentral New Mexico Audubon offers many different events throughout the year from classes, to talks, and more. Scroll down to see what's coming up.\nYou can also view a calendar of events by visiting our \"Calendar\" page.\nCNMAS BOARD MEETINGS\nCHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS\nCNMAS Monthly Programs will be virtual, conducted over Zoom, for the foreseeable future.\n(Recorded past meetings are archived at http:\/\/cnmas.newmexicoaudubon.org\/events\/archived-meetings\/.)\nThe Isleta Reach of the Middle Rio Grande\nQuantina Martine, Audubon SW Water Resource Associate\nPaul Tashjian, Audubon SW Director of Freshwater Conservation\nThursday January 19, 2023 7 \u2013 8:30 pm\nClick here to join the virtual meeting.\nMartine and Paul will provide an overview of the Reach, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District restoration projects and the importance of CNMAS bird surveys. The Isleta Reach contains a remarkable native bosque forest that has developed over the past 10 years amongst a period punctuated by drought conditions and low river flows. Every year the bosque habitat is inundated with many different species of birds during migration as well as nesting songbirds during spring and early summer. Audubon Southwest and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District have partnered to look at irrigation return drains, or \"outfalls\", as a place for habitat restoration for the endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow, and have partnered with CNMAS to collect bird data at these outfalls.\nPhoto credit: Quantina Martine\nBosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program \u2013 Using Community Science to Study the Changing Middle Rio Grande Ecosystem\nDr. Kim Eichhorst, BEMP Science & Research Director\nThursday February 16, 2023 7 \u2013 8:30 pm\nThe Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) combines long-term ecological research with outdoor science education and outreach by involving K-12 students and their teachers in monitoring key indicators of structural and functional change in the Middle Rio Grande riparian forest, or \"bosque.\" Students participate in field data collection, lab processing, classroom activities, and events \u2013 all helping to increase their understanding and appreciation of science and the riparian ecosystem. Data collected from 34 sites along 350 miles of the Rio Grande are used by federal and state agencies to make land management decisions. The current bosque is a remnant of the 1941 flood and the river regulations and manipulations of that time. Restoration of a cottonwood\/willow forest and native mosaic under changing temperature regimes and decreasing water availability will be a challenge. Understanding the history of changes, current constraints, and implications of anthropogenic drivers on the river and its ecosystem can help us develop predictive models to navigate successful management of the senescing cottonwood bosque.\nPhoto credit: Kim Eichhorst\nIf you have any comments, concerns, suggestions, or praise for these programs contact our Programs Chair.\nCNMAS Board Meetings are generally held on the first Wednesday of the month starting at 6pm, and will continue via Zoom until further notice. If you are interested in participating in one of the meetings, please contact the president to get details.\nEvery spring Central New Mexico Audubon Society sponsors the Birdathon as the major fundraiser of the year. The goal of a Birdathon is to see as many bird species as possible in a 24-hour period while raising money for a special cause. Each team member raises money, and other CNMAS members are encouraged to donate money to support the team in its effort to reach the financial goal for the chosen project. Click here for more information.\nAudubon's 123rd Christmas Bird Count will be held from Dec 14, 2022 to January 5, 2023. Sign up at the link below to receive information and results about all of Audubon's community science programs through American Birds, the National Audubon Society's quarterly newsletter by email.\nClick this link from NM Audubon for a spreadsheet of this year's Christmas Bird Counts in our area: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1IjuAkaohwAAbBPFbmUCJe5vVLmPizIE7gbj1bqoxohY\/edit#gid=0.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pulin Gong\nThe University of Sydney, Australia\nChangsong Zhou\nHong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR China\nJames A. Roberts\nQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia\nFront. Comput. Neurosci., 14 October 2020\nVolume 14 - 2020 | https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fncom.2020.571982\nA Neural Network Model With Gap Junction for Topological Detection\nChaoming Wang1,2,3, Risheng Lian1, Xingsi Dong1, Yuanyuan Mi4* and Si Wu1,2*\n1Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, IDG\/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Academy for Advanced Interdisceplinary Studies, Beijing, China\n2Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei, China\n3Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China\n4Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China\nVisual information processing in the brain goes from global to local. A large volume of experimental studies has suggested that among global features, the brain perceives the topological information of an image first. Here, we propose a neural network model to elucidate the underlying computational mechanism. The model consists of two parts. The first part is a neural network in which neurons are coupled through gap junctions, mimicking the neural circuit formed by alpha ganglion cells in the retina. Gap junction plays a key role in the model, which, on one hand, facilitates the synchronized firing of a neuron group covering a connected region of an image, and on the other hand, staggers the firing moments of different neuron groups covering disconnected regions of the image. These two properties endow the network with the capacity of detecting the connectivity and closure of images. The second part of the model is a read-out neuron, which reads out the topological information that has been converted into the number of synchronized firings in the retina network. Our model provides a simple yet effective mechanism for the neural system to detect the topological information of images in ultra-speed.\nIt has been a long-standing debate in the field concerning whether feature analysis in visual information processing goes from local to global, or from global to local (Palmer, 1999; Chen, 2005b). The former claims that the primitives of visual processing are local features of objects. This view has successfully explained a large number of experimental phenomena (Hubel and Wiesel, 1959; Treisman and Gelade, 1980; Marr, 1982; Hubel, 1988; DiCarlo et al., 2012), but failed to account for others where visual systems show superior sensitivity to global features, e.g., the topological perception (Chen, 1982, 2005b), the configural-superiority effect (Weisstein and Harris, 1974; Navon, 1977; Pomerantz et al., 1977), the holistic processing of face and objects (Farah et al., 1998; McKone et al., 2007; Goffaux et al., 2010; Taubert et al., 2011; Bona et al., 2016), and Gestalt psychology (Wagemans et al., 2012). On the other hand, the global-to-local view states that in the visual processing, global features of objects are processed first, which subsequently guide the processing of local features (Hegd\u00e9, 2008).\nIn the framework of global-to-local processing, Chen et al. went one step further to argue that the global nature of visual perception can be described by topological invariants and that the global precedence actually is topological primacy (see review Chen, 2005b). Topology is defined as the geometric properties which are preserved under continuous transformations, such as stretching and bending (Armstrong, 2013), and important topological properties include connectivity and the number of holes. Two shapes are called topologically different, as long as they differ in either the connectivity or the number of holes (Figure 1). Over decades, accumulating evidences on adults, infants and animals have demonstrated that visual systems are highly sensitive to topological features. The pioneering work of Chen (1982) first revealed that in the adult human visual system, the topological perception is prior to perceptions of other geometrical properties. Specifically, under 5-ms stimulus presentation, he found that subjects could discriminate a disc vs. a ring (which are topologically different) with a much higher accuracy than a disc vs. a square or a triangle (which are topologically same but different in other geometrical properties). Later, in other tasks, including multiple-object tracking (Zhou et al., 2010) and long-range apparent motion perception (Zhuo et al., 2003), Chen et al. further confirmed that the human visual perception is indeed sensitive to the connectivity or the hole of stimuli. The studies on infants also support the precedence of topological perception (Piaget and Inhelder, 1956; Darke, 1982; Chien et al., 2012; Kibbe and Leslie, 2016). It was found that newborns, even as young as few days old, display the preference of using the topological information to discriminate objects (Turati et al., 2003). Furthermore, animal studies provide more evidence to support the notion that topological perception is primitive in the visual processing. For example, Chen et al. (2003) found that honey bees with small brains have the ability to distinguish patterns that are topologically different after only a few trials learning, and they could even generalize the learned figure to novel patterns never seen before. Experiments from other researchers also demonstrated that chicks (Versace et al., 2016) and pigeons (Watanabe et al., 2019) use topological features as cues for discriminating objects.\nFigure 1. Key topological properties. (A) Images a and b are topologically different in the property of connectivity. (B) Images a and b are topologically different in the number of holes.\nAltogether, it suffices to say that topological properties are essential for visual perception, and very likely, they are the primitives of visual perception. Computationally, using topological features to represent and characterize objects has advantages, as it provides a relatively stable way to represent objects under transformations like stretching, rotation, or distortion. Although it is coarse, topology discrimination enables animals to detect the presence of objects rapidly without detailed local feature analysis, and this is crucial for animals to survive in natural environments.\nDespite topological perception has been well-documented in the literature, the detail mechanism of how the neural system implements it remains largely unclear. It is a known fact that the conventional artificial feedforward neural network has difficulty to recognize the topology of images (McClelland et al., 1987; Minsky and Papert, 1987; Wang, 2000; Chen, 2005b). Recently, a number of experimental findings indicate that topology perception in the brain is carried out via the subcortical pathway from retina to superior colliculus (SC) and then to higher cortex. First, electrophysiological studies on retinal ganglia cells (RGCs) have revealed that there exists a type of RGCs, called alpha RGCs, which are specialized to encode the global features of stimuli (Neuenschwander and Singer, 1996; Roy et al., 2017). Specifically, they found that the presentation of a contiguous stimulus, rather than disjointed local features, produced long-range synchronization among widely separated alpha RGCs (Neuenschwander and Singer, 1996; Roy et al., 2017), and importantly, the occurrence of this kind of synchronization relies on gap junctions (also called electrical synapses) between neurons (V\u00f6lgyi et al., 2013; Roy et al., 2017). Second, psychophysical and neuroimaging studies on humans have indicated that SC, rather than the primary visual cortex (V1), plays an important role in topological perception. For example, Turati et al. (2003) showed that despite of their immature visual cortex, newborns of 2\u20133 days old were able to detect and discriminate perceptual similarity based on the hole feature. Also, it was found that aging (Meng et al., 2019) and disruption of V1 (Du et al., 2011) significantly reduced human's ability of discriminating local geometric properties, but did not affect their topological discrimination. The neuroimaging study also showed that the neural responses in SC to hole stimuli were greater than that to no-hole stimuli under the low awareness condition (Meng et al., 2018). These findings are consistent with the electrophysiological studies on SC, which unveil that the functional role of neurons in the superficial layers of SC is to encode whether there is a new object in their receptive fields (Rizzolatti et al., 1980; Girman and Lund, 2007; Ito and Feldheim, 2018), and notably, their neuronal responses to visual stimuli are irrelevant to specific features, such as direction, orientation or shape (Marrocco and Li, 1977; White et al., 2017a,b).\nInspired by the above experimental findings, we propose a simple computational model for topological perception in the brain. Specifically, the model consists of two parts. The first part is a neural network in which neurons are connected via gap junctions, and it models the neural circuit formed by alpha RGCs in the retina (Neuenschwander and Singer, 1996; V\u00f6lgyi et al., 2013; Roy et al., 2017). The second part is a read-out neuron, which suggests a way for SC and higher cortical neurons (Marrocco and Li, 1977; Rizzolatti et al., 1980; Girman and Lund, 2007; White et al., 2017a,b; Ito and Feldheim, 2018) to read out the topological information extracted by the retina network. We elucidate the computational properties of the proposed network model, and demonstrate that the model is effective and robust for detecting holes in various visual stimuli as observed in human psychophysical experiments.\nWe consider a two-layer spiking network model (see Figures 2A,B for the network architecture illustration). The first layer is the encoding layer, which is composed of 80 \u00d7 80 encoding neurons (ENs), and the second layer is the read-out layer, which consists of only one read-out neuron (RON). RON receives excitatory projections from all ENs, and hence can read out synchronized activities in the encoding layer.\nFigure 2. The neural network model. (A) The model is composed of two layers. The first layer is the encoding layer which receives external inputs, and its function is to encode the connected regions in an image. The second layer is the read-out layer, whose function is to read-out neuronal activity patterns in the encoding layer. Notably, all neurons in the first layer project excitatory synapses to the neuron in the second layer. (B) Neurons in the encoding layer are uniformly distributed in the space and are coupled with eight nearest neighbors with gap junctions. (C) Simulation of a pair of electrically coupled neurons N0 and N1. The top panel shows the external input I to N0, and the bottom panel presents the voltage dynamics of the neuron pair. N0 exhibits excitation and inhibition effects on N1 at different stages of the neuronal dynamics. At the A \u2192 B0 \u2192 B1 phase, N0 shows an excitatory effect to N1 (see N1 rise phase A \u2192 B2 \u2192 B3); while at B1 \u2192 C0 phase (refractory period), N0 exhibits a strong inhibitory effect to N1 (see N1 decay phase B3 \u2192 C1). (D) A full circle stimulus, containing two connected regions. (E) Parameter-space analysis of response behaviors of the network when the full circle stimulus (D) is presented. The phase plane shows three different spiking patterns which depend on the coupling strength J and spikelet factor \u03b3. For each pair of (\u03b3, J), the result is obtained by averaging over 10 trials. (F) The AF behavior of the network. J = 0.5 and \u03b3 = 0.05. (G) The SPS behavior of the network when the spikelet factor \u03b3 and the coupling strength J are too strong. J = 3.0 and \u03b3 = 0.15. (H) The TPS behavior of the network. J = 6.0 and \u03b3 = 0.25. (F\u2013H) The top panel shows the raster plot of spikes in the encoding layer, while the bottom panel the spikes of RON. The abscissas and ordinates of both panels are time and neuron index, respectively. Colors indicating neurons in different groups. Specifically, coral denotes neurons on the circle, while blue denotes neurons on the background.\n2.1. Neuronal Dynamics\nFor simplicity, all neurons in the model are implemented as leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) models. The encoding layer receives the external inputs, and each neuron is connected to its eight neighboring neurons by electrical synapses (Figure 2B). The dynamics of an encoding neuron is given by\n\u03c4dVi(t)dt=-Vi(t)+\u2211j\u2208NG(i)Iijgap(t)+Iiext(t), (1)\nwhere the subscript i = (1, ..., N) refers to the neuron index, Vi the membrane potential of the neuron, \u03c4 the membrane time constant, Iijgap the current from neuron j transmitted through gap junction, NG(i) the set of neurons which are electrically coupled with the neuron i, and Iext the external current from the image. Whenever Vi(t) reaches a fixed threshold Vth (i.e., Vi(t) \u2265 Vth), the neuron generates a spike and its potential is reset to the rest value Vreset, followed by the refractory period \u03c4arp. At the onset of the simulation, membrane potentials of all neurons are randomly initialized.\nThe current mediated by electrical couplings is decomposed into two parts,\nIijgap(t)=Iijgap,sub(t)+Iijgap,sup(t), (2)\nwhere Iijgap,sub denotes the sub-threshold current, and Iijgap,sup the supra-threshold current, called as spikelet. The sub-threshold current mediated by electrical coupling is given by,\nIijgap,sub(t)=J[Vj(t)-Vi(t)], (3)\nwhere J is the coupling strength. The supra-threshold contribution is assumed to be proportional to the gap junction strength J and scaled by a spikelet factor \u03b3, which is written as,\nIigap,sup(t)=\u03b3J\u03b4(t-tjspike), (4)\nwhere tjspike represents the spiking moment of neuron j and \u03b3 is a parameter controlling the contribution of a spike to the increment of neuronal potential.\nThe external current Iiext, which conveys the luminance level of the image, is modeled as a continuous current with a Gaussian white noise, which is written as,\nIiext(t)=\u03bciext+\u03c32\u03b7i(t), (5)\nwhere \u03bcext is the mean of the external input, \u03c32 the amplitude of input fluctuations, and \u03b7i(t) satisfies \u3008\u03b7i(t)\u3009 = 0 and \u3008\u03b7i(t)\u03b7j(t\u2032)\u3009=\u03b4ij\u03b4(t-t\u2032). Usually, the amplitude \u03c32 in our simulations is set to be a value, so that the noise amplitude is around 10% compared to the mean external input.\nThe second layer in the model is a read-out neuron (RON) (see Figure 2A), which suggests a possible way for SC neurons to read out the topological information of an image that has been extracted by the encoding layer (see more discussions in Discussion section). Specifically, we consider RON receives projections from all neurons in the encoding layer, whose dynamics is given by\n\u03c4RdVR(t)dt=-VR(t)+IRchem(t)+IRnoise(t), (6)\nwhere VR is the potential of RON, \u03c4R the time constant, IRchem the chemical synaptic current from the encoding neurons, and IRnoise the background noise. Specifically, the current transmitted via chemical synapses is given by\nIRchem(t)=\u2211j\u2208NCJR\u03b4(t-tj-D), (7)\nwhere JR denotes the chemical synaptic strength, tj the spiking moment of the presynaptic neuron j, NC the set of neurons in the encoding layer, and D the transmission delay of chemical synapses. For simplicity, we omit the rise and decay phases of post-synaptic currents. Since the function of the read-out layer in our model is coincidence detection, we set \u03c4R to be sufficiently small, such that RON will fire only when a sufficient number of neuronal spikes simultaneously arrive in a short-time window. Additionally, the background noise is set to be\nIRnoise(t)=\u03bcRnoise+\u0394\u03b7i(t), (8)\nwith \u03bcRnoise and \u0394 are, respectively, the mean and the variance of the noise.\n2.2. Simulation Experiments\nIn all simulations, the dynamical equations are integrated by using the Euler\u2013Maruyama method with a fixed time-step dt = 0.01 ms. The network dynamics was simulated using Python, and the corresponding code the corresponding code can be available in the GitHub: https:\/\/github.com\/chaoming0625\/Gap_Junction_and_Topology. Parameters used in numerical simulations are reported in Table 1.\nTable 1. Parameter of neurons, synapses, and simulation protocol.\n3.1. The Neural Network Model With Gap Junction\nIn our proposed model (Figures 2A,B), gap junction plays a key role for topological detection. The neuronal interaction mediated by gap junction exhibits two prominent properties, as illustrated in Figure 2C. Firstly, once a neuron fires, the spike generated by it will increase the potentials of the connected neurons rapidly, and this tends to synchronize coupled neurons in the network. Secondly, after firing, the neuron falls into the refractory period with a deep low potential, which induces strong negative currents to the connected neurons, and this tends to inhibit the firing of coupled neurons [note that Iijgap,sub(t)=-Vi(t), when Vj = 0]. As explained below, these two salient properties give rise to characteristic network responses which are differentiable with respect to connected and non-connected regions in an image.\nAs an example, consider a full black circle as in Figure 2D is presented to the network. The whole image consists of two connected regions, the circle and the background, which have different luminance levels. In our model, neurons covering a connected region (having the same luminance level) receive the same external input. We find that the network exhibits three response behaviors depending on the properties of gap junction (Figure 2E), which are: (1) Asynchronous Firing (AF, Figure 2F), i.e., all ENs fire independently and irregularly. This happens when both the spikelet factor \u03b3 and the coupling strength J are too small, and the neuronal interactions are very weak, leading to that neuronal firings are largely driven by external inputs with independent noises; (2) Single Population Spike (SPS, Figure 2G), i.e., all ENs are synchronized to generate a single population spike. This happens when the spikelet factor \u03b3 and the coupling strength J are both too large. In such a parameter regime, the synchronization effect of gap junction is too strong, leading to that all ENs are synchronized irrespective to the different external inputs they receive. (3) Two Population Spike (TPS, Figure 2H), i.e., ENs are synchronized but meanwhile clustered to generate two population spikes depending on the external inputs they receive. This happens when the spikelet factor \u03b3 and the coupling strength J have appropriate values, so that, on one hand, the synchronization effect of gap junction ensures that neurons covering the same connected region (receiving the same external input) are synchronized, and, on the other hand, the inhibitory effect of gap junction ensures that the synchronized firings of neuron groups covering different regions (having different luminance levels and hence receiving different external inputs) are well-separated in time. Computationally, this is due to that the neuron group receiving the larger external input will generate synchronized firing first; after that the neurons fall into the refractory period, and they will suppress and delay the synchronized firing of the other neuron group. To accomplish the topological detection task, we set the parameters of gap junction in the regime of TPS, such that the network can on one hand, generate synchronous firings to detect connected regions, and on the other hand, stagger synchronous firings of disconnected regions.\nThe synchronized responses of ENs can be easily detected by RON. Due to the small time constant, RON only responds to synchronized inputs from the encoding layer. As shown in Figures 2F\u2013H (see the lower panels), each population spike of ENs generates a single spike of RON.\n3.2. Topological Detection of the Network\nThe topology of an image has two fundamental features, connectivity and closedness (the existence and the number of holes). It is straightforward to understand that our model has the capability of detecting the connectivity of an image. In response to the inputs from a connected region, the responses of the neurons covering the connected region (they receive the similar external inputs) will become highly synchronized due to their electrical couplings (Bennett and Zukin, 2004), which provides a way to encode the connectivity of the image. This is also supported by the experimental evidence, which found that long-range synchronization occurred among widely separated alpha RGCs with electrical couplings in response to a continuous stimulus, rather than to disjointed local features (Neuenschwander and Singer, 1996; Roy et al., 2017).\nTherefore, the focus of the present study is to demonstrate that our network model has the capability of detecting the existence and the number of holes in an image, another key property of topology (Pomerantz et al., 2003; He, 2008; Casati, 2009; Bertamini and Casati, 2015; Zhang et al., 2019). The stimuli we used, as shown in Figures 3A,D,G, are adapted from the materials in the human and animal experiments (Chen, 1982, 2005b; Chen et al., 2003; Chien et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2019), where Figure 3A is a solid disk without hole, Figure 3D a stimulus containing a single hole, and Figure 3G a case of two holes. Figures 3B,E,H are the corresponding network responses to the stimuli, and Figures 3C,F,I are the illustrations of synchronized neuronal responses in ENs.\nFigure 3. Topological detection of the network. (A,D,G) The images with different number of holes. (A) contains no hole, (D) one hole, and (G) two holes. (B,E,H) The evolution of network activity. (B,E,H) Are results when stimuli (A,D,G) are presented, respectively. In each subfigure, the top panel shows the raster plot of the encoding layer, and the bottom the dynamics of the membrane potential of RON. The abscissas of both panels are time, and the ordinates of the top and bottom panel are neuron index and membrane potential, respectively. (C,F,I) The spatial mapping of EN spikes. (C,F,I) corresponds to (B,E,H), respectively. Neurons in the same group are shown in the same color with (B,E,H). Pixels in the white color denote neurons not firing in the whole process. (J\u2013L) The averaged membrane potential traces of neurons inside, on or outside of the ring when stimuli (A,D,G) are presented, respectively. The orange line corresponds to the neurons on the ring, the blue line the neurons on the background, and the coral and orchid lines the neurons on the holes. Parameters: J = 3.0 and \u03b3 = 0.15.\nOverall, we show that the number of holes in an image is encoded by the number of synchronized responses (population spikes) in the encoding layer, which are further readout by the number of spikes of RON. For example, presentation of Figure 3A produces two population spikes of ENs and two spikes of RON (Figures 3B,C), while presentation of Figure 3D produces three population spikes of ENs and three RON spikes (Figures 3E,F). Notably, although the stimulation value (the luminance level) of the hole (inside the ring in Figure 3D) is the same as that of the background (outside the ring in Figure 3D), the synchronized response of the neurons covering the hole (the orange spikes in Figures 3E,F) always lags behind that of the neurons covering the background (the blue spikes in Figures 3E,F). This property comes from that compared to the neurons outside the ring, the neurons inside the ring receive stronger inhibition from the neurons on the ring (see more detailed analysis in the below). Moreover, we observe that presentation of Figure 3G (containing two holes) reliably produces four population spikes of ENs and four RON firings (Figures 3H,I).\nTo reveal the underling mechanism, we look at the dynamics of neurons inside, on, and outside the ring. Results are shown in Figures 3J\u2013L. First, we see that because of receiving a stronger stimulation than those on the background or inside the ring, the neurons on the ring (black pixels) generate the first population spike; afterwards those neurons fall into a deep and relatively long-lasting refractory period (see the voltage trace in khaki color illustrated in Figures 3J\u2013L). Second, during the refractory period of ring neurons, while the neurons inside and outside the ring all receive inhibitions from the ring neurons, inside neurons tend to receive stronger inhibitions than outside ones (see the voltage traces in blue and orange color shown in Figure 3K). Therefore, under the condition of receiving the same level of stimulation, the neurons inside the ring always generate a population spike before the neurons outside the ring. Third, for an image containing two holes having exactly the same size and surroundings, although the neurons inside two holes receive the same external input and lateral inhibition from surrounds, they still tend to fire at different moments due to receiving independent noises (see the average voltage dynamics in orange and orchid color in Figure 3L).\nNotably, because of noises, the network response varies over trials. In the case of discriminating two holes from one hole, we observed a successful rate of 70%. This probabilistic behavior is in agreement with the observation of human psychophysical experiments, which showed that the topological detection of humans is also probabilistic when images are only briefly presented in <10 ms, e.g., the successful rate of discriminating hole from circle is about 64.5% (Chen, 2005b). For visualizing the detailed spatio-temporal voltage dynamics when the stimuli (Figures 3A,D,G) are presented, please refer to Supplementary Videos 1\u20133. Note that, for simplicity, we have only presented the results for images with shape luminance level changes. We check that our model works equally well when the luminance intensity of the image changes smoothly (see Supplementary Figure 1).\nIn summary, we demonstrate that the synchronization and lateral inhibition effects mediated by gap junctions enable the network to encode the number of holes in an image into different numbers of population spikes of ENs, which provides a reliable cue for the neural system to read out the topology information of an image.\n3.3. Topological Detection Is Invariant to Variations of Shape and Spatial Frequency\nTo confirm that our network model can really detect the topological property of closedness, we vary the stimulus to various forms, while keeping their topological property unchanged.\nFrom our intuitive experience, circle, square, triangle, and cross are quite different figures, but from the viewpoint of topology, they are equivalent. Therefore, the characteristic of network responses for topological detection should be the same. We first conduct experiments on a solid (Figure 4A) and a hollow squares (Figure 4D), and find that the network responses are exactly the same as when the disk (Figure 3A) and the ring (Figure 3D) are presented, that is, two population spikes of ENs and two RON spikes are generated for the stimuli without hole (comparing Figures 3B,C with Figures 4B,C), and three population spikes of ENs and three RON spikes are generated for the stimuli with one hole (comparing Figures 3E,F with Figures 4E,F). Furthermore, we perform experiments on a solid triangle (Supplementary Figure 2A), a hollow triangle (Supplementary Figure 2B), and a cross (Supplementary Figure 2C), and get the same result. Overall, these results confirm that the network response varies with the topology, rather than the shape of the stimulus.\nFigure 4. Topological detection with respect to shape variation of images. (A,D) Image of square shape. (A) A solid square. (D) A hollow square. (B,E) Population spikes of ENs (top panels) and the voltage dynamics of RON (bottom panels). (C,F) Spatial activities of EN neurons. Figure legends are the same as in Figure 3. Parameters: J = 3.0 and \u03b3 = 0.15.\nBased on the finding of Carlson et al. (1984) that geometrical illusions are not primarily a consequence of low spatial frequencies and the suggestion of Chen (2005a) that low spatial frequencies are not likely to be critical to perceptual organization in general, we try to figure out whether the spatial frequency will affect the network behavior. Considering that the stimuli used above are all in low spatial frequencies (LSF), we construct new stimuli (Figures 5A,D,G) in high spatial frequencies (HSF), which are adapted from the materials used in human experiments (Carlson et al., 1984; Chen, 2005b). Figures 5A,D are made of exactly the same four line segments, while they are topologically different. We find that the network response doesn't vary with the spatial frequency. Specifically, the stimulus without hole persistently produces two population spikes of ENs and two RON spikes (Figures 5B,C), whereas the stimulus with one hole reliably generates three population spikes of ENs and three RON spikes (Figures 5E,F). We also try stimuli of triangle-shape and obtain the same result, see Supplementary Figure 3. Furthermore, we generate a stimulus composed of discrete dots (Figure 5G), which is similar to the figures in Carlson et al. (1984) and is free of low spatial frequencies. We observe that the network model displays the same response property as when the continuous line is presented (comparing Figures 5H,I with Figures 5E,F). Altogether, these results indicate that the hole detection property of our model is rather robust to the variation of spatial frequencies of images.\nFigure 5. Topological detection with respect to variations of spatial frequency of images. (A,D,G) Images with different spatial frequencies. (A) An image made of four line segments without hole. (D) An image made of the same four line segments as in (A) but containing one hole. (G) An image shaped like (D) but comprised of discrete dots. (B,E,H) Population spikes of ENs (top panels) and the voltage dynamics of RON (bottom panels). (C,F,I) Spatial activity of EN neurons. Figure legends are the same as in Figure 3. Parameters: J = 3.0 and \u03b3 = 0.15.\nIn above, we demonstrate that the topological detection of our network model is rather robust to the variations of shape and spatial frequency of images. It is also straightforwardly understandable that our network model is invariant with respect to the position shift, rotation, and distortion of an image, as they all generate the same number of population spikes of ENs depending only on the number of holes in the image. Thus, our network model does have the capability of detecting the topological property of an image.\n3.4. Sensitivity of Topological Detection\nIn above, we have demonstrated that our network model is able to detect the existence of holes in an image, i.e., the closure of a region. In practice, there always exists a threshold of gap below which we perceive disconnected segments as connected. Therefore, we are going to investigate how our network model is sensitive to the gap size in topological detection. We present incomplete rings with different degrees of breach (Figure 6A) to the network, and observe that with the small size of breach, the network outputs three RON spikes (Figures 6B,C). However, when the breach size \u03b8 gradually increases, the network suddenly \"recognizes\" that the image has no hole (see Figure 6D), i.e., ENs only generate two population spikes (Figures 6E,F). This is straightforwardly understandable, as the breach increases, the activities of the neurons inside and outside the ring become more and more synchronized due to more and more direct interactions between them, and eventually the population spikes they generate merges to a single one (see Figures 6E,F). Interestingly, we find that this transition occurs sharply, which is around the breach size of 50\u00b0 at the current parameter setting (see Figure 6D). We confirm that although the value of the transition point may vary with the parameters, this sharp transition behavior always holds (see Supplementary Figure 4). This property can serve as a prediction of our model testable in human psychophysical experiments.\nFigure 6. Sensitivity of topological detection. (A) An example of a ring with a breach, whose degree is \u03b8. \u03b8 = 40\u00b0 is shown. (B,C) The network activity in response to a ring with a small breach, where ENs generate three population spikes and RON produces three spikes. J = 3.0, \u03b3 = 0.15, \u03b8 = 40\u00b0. (D) The average number of RON spikes vs. the breach size. The transition occurs sharply around 50\u00b0. The results are obtained by averaging over 20 trials. (E,F) The network activity in response to a ring with a big breach, where ENs generate two population spikes and RON produces two pulses. J = 3.0, \u03b3 = 0.15, \u03b8 = 54\u00b0. (G\u2013I) The response properties of the network with a varied coupling range, where each neuron is connected to its four nearest neighbors. (G) The image of Figure 5D is presented. (H,I) The image of Figure 5G is presented. Parameters: J = 3.0, \u03b3 = 0.20. (B,C,E\u2013I) Figure legends are the same as Figure 3.\nFurthermore, we test how the coupling range of gap junction affects the sensitivity of topological detection. We construct a network model in which each neuron is connected with its four nearest neighbors. We first confirm that the model has the capability of detecting a hole in an image, see the network response in Figure 6G when the stimulation of Figure 5D is presented. However, we also observe that when the image composed of dotted lines as shown in Figure 5G is presented, the network is unable to generate synchronous firing, but is rather in the state of irregular firing (see Figure 6H), and the network response can no longer stagger the hole and the background. This result tells us that the coupling range of gap junctions between neurons strongly affects the sensitivity of topological detection in reality.\nIn the present study, we have proposed a spiking neural network with gap junction for topological detection. Our results show that gap junction-coupled neural networks are intrinsically sensitive to the topological properties, such as connectivity, closure (Figures 3\u20135) or semi-closure (Figure 6) of an image. A prominent computational property of gap junction is that it promotes neuron synchronization, which endows the network with the ability of detecting connected regions in an image. Another prominent computational property of gap junction is that it mediates strong lateral inhibition between connected neurons after one of them fires. Together with the fact that neurons within a closure receive much stronger inhibition than neurons outside, the network is able to stagger the moments of neuron firings within and outside a closure, and hence produces different numbers of synchronized firings corresponding to an image having or not having holes. Overall, our model provides a simple yet effective mechanism for topological detection in neural systems. Importantly, our model captures a key behavioral characteristic of object vision, i.e., the ultra-speed object detection (Thorpe et al., 1996; Kirchner and Thorpe, 2006). It has been suggested that the human visual system has the ability of getting \"gist\" of a scene when the stimulus is presented as briefly as 10 ms (Hegd\u00e9, 2008). In the case of topological perception, Chen (1982) demonstrated even the stimulation duration is <10 ms, adult humans are able to discriminate the global topological difference. Our proposed model provides a simple mechanistic explanation for this kind of ultra-speed topological perception: a gap junction-coupled neural network can rapidly group those distant neurons covering the same connected region and meanwhile segregate different neuron groups covering different regions, forming a stable topological visual representation in <10 ms.\n4.1. Biological Plausibility\nOur model uses electrical synapses to synchronize distant neurons corresponding to a connected region. This is consistent with the recent experimental works which found that gap junction is important for long-range synchronization among neurons over long distances (Neuenschwander and Singer, 1996; V\u00f6lgyi et al., 2013; Roy et al., 2017). Particularly, Roy et al. (2017) found that electrical couplings between ON alpha RGCs and polyaxonal amacrine cells are responsible to produce the long-range correlated activity critical for global object perception. Specifically, they found that presentation of large stimuli of various shapes always produced long-range synchronization between distant ON alpha RGC pairs under electrical coupling, whereas presentation of discontinuous stimuli of several segments could not. Moreover, blockade of gap junctions diminished such kind of coherent firing. These results indicate that electrical couplings are essential for the neural representation of the image connectivity.\nWe propose that a retina network with electrical coupling is capable of encoding global topological features. This is in line with the functional roles of ON alpha RGC network (Schmidt et al., 2014; Allen et al., 2019). ON alpha RGCs found by Roy et al. (2017) are actually one type of ipRGCs, i.e., M4 ipRGCs (Schmidt et al., 2011, 2014). Recently, M4 ipRGCs are found essential for full contrast sensitivity in mouse visual functions (Schmidt et al., 2014). Deletion of ON alpha RGCs in mice caused severe deficits in contrast sensitivity. Meanwhile, by constructing special patterns that are distinguishable for cones but contain significant contrast for melanopsin, Allen et al. (2019) found that M4 ipRGCs in human have the capacity to encode coarse patterns and influence the appearance of everyday images. Hence, it is evident that M4 ipRGCs, which are crucial for the coarse pattern encoding and contrast sensitivity, should also be able to encode global topological patterns. However, it was reported that M4 cells have rich dendrites and exhibit non-linear spatial summation (Estevez et al., 2012). The simplified biophysics of our neurons does not capture this effect, and the functional role of dendritic computation in the M4 cells should be investigated in the future work.\nIf retina RGCs are able to encode global topological patterns, where and how these topological information extracted in the retina are further processed? The candidate brain area is SC. It has been long suggested that there is a type of SC neurons which is capable of global visual processing (Rizzolatti et al., 1980; Bender and Davidson, 1986). For example, Rizzolatti et al. (1980) found that some neurons in SC respond very poorly to simple visual stimuli, while produce strong and sustained discharges for all complex stimuli. In the primate, compared with the role of \"feature detector\" of neurons in visual cortex (like V1), this type of SCs neurons is now thought to be a class of \"event detector\" (Ito and Feldheim, 2018), because their responses to the visual stimuli within their receptive fields are irrelevant to the specific stimulus features, such as direction, orientation or shape (Girman and Lund, 2007; White et al., 2017a,b, 2019). One example is the recent study done by White et al. (2017a,b, 2019), in which they found that SC neurons in monkeys are capable of encoding visual saliency in a featureless manner (Marrocco and Li, 1977). Inspired by these neurobiological findings, we used a single neuron to read out each event that ENs produce coherent activity for a connected region in an image. However, our implementation of the read-out mechanism is over-simplified, because despite the existence of wide-field SC cells receiving hundreds of RGC projections (Gabbiani et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2010; Gale and Murphy, 2014), a SC neuron receiving global RGC projections is rare. Future work will consider the detailed connections between retina and SC.\n4.2. Gap Junctions Mediate Retinal Lateral Inhibition\nLateral inhibition in the retina is thought to be crucial for visual perception (Kramer and Davenport, 2015). It has been suggested these inhibition activities are the results of retinal microcircuits which involve two inhibitory interneurons: horizontal cells (HCs) in the outer retina and amacrine cells (ACs) in the inner retina. First synaptic mechanism of lateral inhibition results from the feedback regulation mediated by HCs, which alters the neurotransmitter release in rods and cones (Wu, 1991). Later, lateral inhibition due to AC GABAergic inhibitory feedback to bipolar cells has also been observed (Feigenspan et al., 1993; Dong and Werblin, 1998; Roska et al., 2000). Furthermore, recent works suggested lateral inhibition occurs among RGCs which are indirectly mediated by spiking GABAergic wide-field ACs (Chen et al., 2016; Johnson et al., 2018). Overall, all three levels of lateral inhibition are produced by interneurons and have been shown to be closely involved in various visual processes, such as edge (contrast) enhancement (Campbell and Robson, 1968; Kramer and Davenport, 2015), spatial induction (Cook and McReynolds, 1998; Yeonan-Kim and Bertalm\u00edo, 2016), direction selectivity (Chen et al., 2016), and color processing (Schnaitmann et al., 2018). In this paper, our modeling study suggests that through gap junctions, RGCs can provide direct lateral inhibition to the coupled cells without the involvement of interneurons. This is due to that when a RGC briefly spikes, it will enter into a long refractory period, during which its connected cells via gap junctions will be strongly inhibited. This kind of lateral inhibition has been observed in Golgi cells in the cerebellar input layer (Vervaeke et al., 2010), in which a relatively deep and protracted afterhyperpolarization (one of the processes that contribute to the refractory period) in Golgi cells mediated a robust form of surround depression.\nTo further highlight the crucial role of gap junction-mediated lateral inhibition in topological detection, we carry out experiments by adding local GABAergic AC feedback inhibitions in the model (see Supplementary Figure 5A). Since the chemical transmission is too slow in reality, we set the synapse delay to be 0.1 ms. With such unrealistic fast feedback AC inhibition, we observe that the network behaves similarly to that without AC inhibitions (compare Supplementary Figures 5B,C with Figures 3E,F). Furthermore, to ablate the lateral inhibition of gap junctions while preserve their synchronization effect, we artificially block gap junctions when neurons are in their refractory period (setting J = 0). In such a way, the contribution of local chemical inhibitions is isolated. We find that: (1) when the receptive field of AC is not big enough to cover most of the hole, synchronous firings of neurons on the hole cannot be segregated from that of neurons on the background (Supplementary Figures 5D,E); (2) when the receptive field of AC is big enough to cover most of the hole, synchronous firings of neurons on the hole and the background can be well-segregated in the first 10 ms but are mixed together later on (Supplementary Figures 5F,G). Overall, our ablation study reveals that gap junction-mediated lateral inhibition is the necessary and sufficient requirement for rapid topological detection. Certainly, AC-mediated and other chemical inhibitions are also important for neural information processing, but they tend to work at different time scales and are more likely responsible for non-topological feature analysis, such as edge detection. It will be interesting to explore how different inhibitory mechanisms cooperate together to solve the coarse-to-fine feature analysis.\n4.3. Global-to-Local Visual Processing Starts From Early Topological Detection\nIt is now widely agreed that visual perception takes place in a predominantly global-to-local or coarse-to-fine procedure (Bullier, 2001; Bar, 2004, 2007; Hegd\u00e9, 2008). Supporting evidence comes from the experiments using various materials, ranging from the simple stimuli [like lines, dots, gratings, and letters (Weisstein and Harris, 1974; Navon, 1977; Pomerantz et al., 1977; Watt, 1987; Hughes et al., 1996)] to complex images [such as faces (Farah et al., 1998; McKone et al., 2007; Goffaux et al., 2010; Taubert et al., 2011) and natural scenes (Parker et al., 1992, 1997; Schyns and Oliva, 1994; Lu et al., 2018)]. In this framework, the global and coarse information is processed first and subsequently activates the high-level visual cortex rather than primary visual cortex; whereafter, a feedback signal is generated and further guides the processing of the conventional local feature analysis (Bar, 2003; Bar et al., 2006). The bottom-up local feature analysis has so far been well-established, in which the visual processing begins from extracting the local features in the low visual areas followed by integrating such local features to extract more global features in the higher visual areas (Hubel and Wiesel, 1959; Treisman and Gelade, 1980; Marr, 1982; Hubel, 1988; DiCarlo et al., 2012). Later, more and more researches begin to emphasize the role of top-down facilitation in visual perception (Bar et al., 2006; Gilbert and Li, 2013). However, several questions remain elusive in this framework: how and where is such top-down facilitation ignited (Bar, 2003; Goffaux et al., 2010)? In particular, at the early visual stage, how global features are rapidly extracted?\nIn the case of topological perception, it has been found that the neural substrate of topological perception in humans lies in the final stage of the ventral cortical visual system, i.e., the temporal lobe (Zhuo et al., 2003; Wang et al., 2007). Moreover, on monkeys, a single-unit recording study unveiled there exists a subset of inferior temporal neurons responding selectively to hole patterns with a short latency (<100 ms) (Komatsu and Ideura, 1993). Similarly, how are such topological features extracted? What pathway does it route through to ignite the temporal lobe? Here, we hypothesize that the topological features (like \"holes\") begin to be extracted in the retina. Specifically, we propose that in the retina, the alpha RGC network coupled through electrical couplings is capable of producing the topologically discriminable neural representations in a short time interval of <10 ms. We also demonstrate that such rapid and stable topological representations can be easily read-out by the SC or higher visual cortex. Our hypothesis can be partially supported by earlier two experiments (\u00d6lveczky et al., 2003; Baccus et al., 2008). Specifically, they found that there exists a subset of RGCs specialized to distinguish local motion within the scene from the global retinal image drift due to fixational eye movements. In other words, the global motion detection begins in the retina, which supports the notion of the retinal representation of global information. In future, further detailed investigations should be carried out.\n4.4. Related Works\nThe most relevant work is a pioneering model called LEGION (Wang and Terman, 1995), which was designed using the mechanisms of local excitation and global inhibition. Wang (2000) demonstrated that LEGION exhibits sensitivity to the topological connectivity, but did not investigate the detection of holes. Our model differs from LEGION in two fundamental aspects. First, the computational mechanisms are different. LEGION achieves synchronization via chemical excitatory synapses between nearby oscillators and employs a global chemical inhibitory synapse to deactivate different groups of oscillators, which are not feasible in retina; whereas, our model relies on gap functions which widely exist in the retina to synchronize and differentiate neuron groups. Second, the time courses are different. The time for LEGION to detect the topological connectivity is too slow, as the emergence of stable phase differences between objects needs multiple cycles. In contrary, our model has the ability to detect the topological property rapidly as briefly as <10 ms. Overall, our model better captures the computational nature of the retina.\nAll datasets generated for this study are included in the article\/Supplementary Material. The code of the models is available on GitHub: https:\/\/github.com\/chaoming0625\/Gap_Junction_and_Topology.\nCW, SW, and YM built the model. SW and YM supervised the project. 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Roberts, The University of Queensland, Australia\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Wang, Lian, Dong, Mi and Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.\n*Correspondence: Yuanyuan Mi, miyuanyuan0102@cqu.edu.cn; Si Wu, siwu@pku.edu.cn\nCognitive NeuroIntelligence","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Coronavirus Florida: Sarasota Memorial Hospital to resume elective surgeries\nTimothy Fanning Staff Writer\nSurgeries are expected to begin next week.\nThis content is being provided for free as a public service to our readers during the coronavirus outbreak. Sign up for our daily or breaking newsletters to stay informed. If local news is important to you, consider becoming a digital subscriber to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.\nSarasota Memorial Hospital plans to resume nonemergency procedures on Monday, following an announcement by Gov. Ron DeSantis this week that he will lift surgery restrictions.\n\"I am confident that we have the expertise and infection prevention precautions in place to safely resume operations for all of our patients and team caring for them,\" said SMH CEO David Verinder.\nJust as the coronavirus crisis was ramping up in early April, Sarasota Memorial was forced to furlough some employees, temporarily cut staff hours and institute other cost savings to deal with a steep decline in revenue.\nRevenue had dropped by $16 million in March, just after DeSantis ordered a statewide halt to elective procedures.\nSince March, the hospital has performed nearly 3,000 surgeries, including more than 100 open-heart surgeries and TAVR procedures.\nAll of the hospital's operating rooms, robotic surgery suites, cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, endoscopy\/brochoscopy procedural suites and its Cape Outpatient Surgery Center will resume.\nSarasota Memorial is also scheduling a variety of nonemergency and elective procedures that have been delayed, including joint replacement, minimally invasive spinal surgery, robotic hysterectomies, laparascopic hernia repairs and more.\nA detailed preoperative evaluation has been developed and other protocols are in place to ensure the safety of patients, staff and medical providers.\nThe hospital has already been testing high-risk and medically indicated patients for COVID-19 up to 72 hours before nonelective surgeries, and is expanding pre-admission testing this week to safely resume elective procedures beginning Monday.\n#apolloLink{color:#000;background-color:#F4BE11;text-shadow: none;padding: 8px 15px 10px;font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;font-weight: 600;border-radius:10px;}\nSee our complete coverage of the coronavirus outbreak\nSarasota Memorial can also perform rapid on-site COVID-19 testing so it can obtain results in less than an hour in high-risk or time-sensitive situations.\nPatients who had a procedure postponed or who have other questions should contact their physician for information.\nVisiting restrictions remain unchanged. Patients in surgical, procedural and testing areas may each have one supportive person and access is limited to the first floor.\nIn addition to resuming elective procedures, the hospital also encourages people to follow up on important diagnostic and imaging screenings for cancer, heart conditions and other chronic disease.\nEveryone is required to wear a mask when entering the hospital. Masks will be provided.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}